2A - THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS IN BRIEF
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THURSDAY,SEPT.6,2001
CORRECTION
A story in yesterday's Kansan contained an error. The casting call for Stuck on Star Wars is from 1 to 10 p.m. today, not yesterday.
LAWRENCE
Racers to land at local airport on way to Kansas Speedway
As many as eight NASCAR teams will be making a pit stop at Lawrence Municipal Airport Saturday, Sept. 29, and Sunday, Sept. 30. The teams will be on their way to the first NASCAR races at the Kansas Speedway, said Rick Bryant, Aviation Advisory Board member.
Bryant said the speedway was a good way to promote and market the Lawrence airport and the city itself. He said the airport was an ideal place for the teams to touch down because it was the most convenient one in the area, located only 21 minutes from the speedway.
Bryant could not say exactly which teams plan to land in Lawrence because of airport space and team privacy concerns, but he did say the Joe Gibbs Racing Team would be at the airport. Gibbs' team drivers include Bobby Labonte and Tony Stewart in the Winston Cup race and Busch Series driver Mike McLaughlin.
-Jessica Tims
CAMPUS
Project partnership to study technology's role in learning
Two KU departments have teamed up to study and improve the ways people learn with computers.
The e-Learning Design Lab is a one-of-a-kind partnership between the School of Engineering's Information and Telecommunications Technology Center (ITTC) and the School of Education's Center for Research on Learning (CRL).
The laboratory, which started in January, is federally financed.
The project researches online instruction for the military, contracted through the Army. The Army put $100,000 into the project, which started this summer.
The School of Engineering will develop the technology, including software that will be able to sense a student's ability or inability to grasp new information.
Sarah Hill
NATION
Parents arrested for players' party with alcohol, stripper
NEW CASTLE, N.Y. — The parents of a high school football player were arrested for allegedly having a team party with beer, marijuana and a stripper who let students as young as 15 lick whipped cream off her body.
Robert and Rochelle Wien were charged with endangering the welfare of a child and unlawfully dealing with a child. The offenses carry up to a year in jail.
Police said they were responding to a noise complaint Saturday when they found the naked woman on her back performing a lewd act on the Wiens' patio. Pirro said there were 30 to 40 students, including some girls, at the party.
Detective Sgt. James Carroll said the stripper was about halfway through a $325, hour-long act when officers interrupted and told her to get dressed.
Associated Press
NATION&WORLD
European Union assembly says U.S.-backed spy network exists
The Associated Press
BRUSSELS, Belgium—An alleged worldwide spy network dubbed Echelon and led by the United States does exist—and European nations should set up an encryption system to guard against it, the European Parliament said yesterday.
The European Union assembly voted 367 to 159, with 34 abstentions, to adopt 44 recommendations on how to counter Echelon.
The parliament, meeting in Strasbourg, France, also accepted a 140-page report confirming the spy network's existence, despite official U.S. denials.
"There were those who said we would not be able to find sound evidence," said Carlos Coelho, chairman of the investigative committee. "We can say very clearly that Echelon does exist."
The committee released a report in May after seven months of testimony from communications and security experts.
EU committee members went to Washington in May but both the CIA and the National Security Agency, believed responsible for Echelon, refused to meet with them.
The report said Echelon was set up at the beginning of the Cold War for intelligence-gathering and has grown into a network of intercept stations across the globe. Its primary purpose, the report said, was to intercept private communications, not military intelligence.
It said Echelon was run by the United States in cooperation with Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
U. S. officials have refused to acknowledge the system's existence.
The report concluded that only a small portion" of communications were being tapped.
Nichols may face state charges
The parliament's vice president, Gerhard Schmid, said the committee was unable to gather proof that Americans were passing European trade secrets to U.S. businesses.
The Associated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY — The new district attorney in Oklahoma City said Wednesday that he would prosecute bombing conspirator Terry Nichols on state murder charges that could bring the death penalty.
District Attorney Wes Lane had hinted in recent months that he might not pursue the first-degree murder and other state charges filed by his predecessor against Nichols, 46.
He said he wanted to ensure that Nichols was held accountable for the bombing, no matter what happened to Nichols' appeal on his federal conviction.
Some bombing survivors and members of victims' families have expressed concern that Nichols might win his appeal and escape punishment for his role in the bombing that killed 168 people and injured hundreds of others.
Nichols worked with his former Army buddy,
Timothy McVeigh, to steal and purchase bomb ingredients and pack the bomb inside a Ryder truck the day before the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.
He was convicted at a federal trial in Denver of conspiracy and involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of eight federal agents. McVeigh was executed June 11 in Terre Haute, Ind.
Lane, who took over when former District Attorney Bob Macy retired in June, had been considering dismissing the murder charges that Macy filed against Nichols in 1999. He said federal law barred him from dropping the state charges, then refiling them should the federal conviction be overturned.
Doubts were raised about Nichols' conviction in May after the FBI admitted it had not turned over thousands of pages of documents to defense attorneys before the bombing trials.
Rapper Sean Combs wins illegal passing traffic case
MIAMI — Sean "P. Diddy" Combs' traffic stop on South Beach's Ocean Drive during Easter weekend won't cost him any more than the bills from his two lawyers.
Combs' legal team won yesterday of a charge that he passed illegally while riding a motor scooter on April 14 on the two-lane road, which is gridlocked with rubber-necking motorists and pedestrians on a normal weekend.
"The reality is, Puffy didn't pass seven cars, and we had witnesses to prove it." Defense Attorney Jayne Weintraub said outside court afterward, challenging testimony by Miami Beach patrol Officer Mario Rojo.
Judge Sheldon Schwartz decided the less-stringent laws for mopeds, rather than motorcycles, applied to Combs and dropped the charge, which carried a possible $62 fine. Combs, who also goes by the nickname "Puffy," didn't have to be at the court hearing, and wasn't.
Clergy: Mother Teresa had exorcism during illness
CALCUTTA, India—Mother Teresa had an exorcism performed on her during while hospitalized in 1997, the Archbishop of Calcutta said Wednesday.
The disclosure by Archbishop Henry D'Souza came as hundreds of people in this eastern Indian city paid homage to the renowned care giver on the fourth anniversary of her death.
But the Rev. Richard McBrien, a Notre Dame theology professor, called the exorcism and the archbishop's explanation for it "bizarre."
D'Souza said the exorcism would not affect the nun's candidacy for sainthood.
He said the exorcism took place in a hospital where the nun was admitted because of heart trouble before her death on Sept. 5, 1997 at age 87. D'Souza said he was undergoing similar treatment at the same hospital.
Associated Press
ON THE RECORD
A 20-year-old student had a seizure in McCollum Hall at 6 p.m. Tuesday, according to a KU Public Safety Office report. When a KU Public Safety officer arrived the student was conscious but incoherent. Lawrence Douglas County Fire and Medical arrived, and after checking the student's blood level, determined that the student was diabetic. The student was treated at the scene.
A KU Public Safety officer reported to Robinson Gym for a medical emergency at 6:12 p.m. Tuesday, according to a KU Public Safety Office report. While playing basketball, a 21-year-old student heard his right knee pop. After examination by Lawrence Douglas County Fire and Medical, Robinson staff transported the student to Watkins Memorial Health Center.
through the window, Lawrence police said.The cost of the window is estimated at more than $50.
An 18-year-old KU student drove his vehicle in reverse into another vehicle in the Shenk Sports Complex parking lot at 5:55 p.m. Tuesday, according to a KU Public Safety Office report. The student said his cell phone rang as he checked his rearview mirror, but he didn't answer the phone and continued in reverse because he believed the road was clear. The other driver, an 18-year-old KU student, was driving down the parking lot aisle and said he could not stop or swerve in time. There were minor damages to both cars, value unknown. The student was cited for inattentive backing.
A 23-year old KU student reported a broken window at his residence at 1734 Ohio St. yesterday at 11:40 p.m. Two males, ages 19 and 20, are suspected of throwing a rock
A 20-year-old KU student reported that his 1993 Jeep Cherokee Sport was broken into sometime between Monday afternoon and yesterday morning, Lawrence police said. The back window of the locked vehicle was shattered, and a Nokia cell phone worth $150 was stolen. The cost of the back windshield is estimated at more than $300.
A female was arrested after the domestic battery of a 21 year-old female student at Haskell Indian Nations University at 10:50 p.m. yesterday at 523 Fireside Dr., Lawrence police said. An argument proceeded the arrest.
ON CAMPUS
The Pre-Journalism Club will meet at 5 p.m. tonight on the third floor of Templin Residence Hall. Contact Julie Jantzer at ku_pre_j@hotmail.com or Janice Davis at 864-4768.
Campus Crusade will meet at 8 p.m.tonight in 1050 Haworth Hall. Contact John Illiff at 979-6488.
The Taekwondo Club meets from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays at Room 207 in Robinson Center. Call Greg Isaac at 749-4649.
The Vietnam Veterans for Academic Reform will broadcast "Religion and Academic Arpeheid," an interview with the Rev. Ron Goodman from 7:30 to 8 p.m. Monday on Cable Channel 19.
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computing
Register at acwsworkshop@ku.edu or
864-0494.
All classes are FREE for KU students, staff, and faculty and don't require registration UNLESS otherwise noted.
Class descriptions and schedule:
www.ku.edu/ecs/training
Directions & map:
www.ku.edu/acs/
directions.shtml
SPPS Introduction Prerequisite: None. Requires registration for all and a $75 fee for pop-KU, Mon., Sept. 10, 10:00 a.m.-Noon, Budig PC Lab
web Authoring: Foundations Prerequisite: None. No registration or fee. Mon., Sept. 10. 11:00-Noon, Computer Center South Lab
Outlook Message Management Prerequisites: A KU Exchange account and Outlook: Introduction. Requires registration for all. Tues., Sept. 11, 10 a.m.-Noon, Computer Center South Lab
Excel: Introduction Prerequisite: None. Requires registration for all and a $75 fee for non-KU. Mon., Sept. 10, 1:30-4:30 p.m., Computer Center South Lab
Dreamweaver: Introduction Perequisite: None. Requires registration for all and a $75 fee for non-KU. Tues., Sept. 11, 1-5 p.m. Computer Center South Lab
*PSPS: Intermediate Perequisite: PSPS: Introduction. Requires registration for all a and a$75 fee for non-KO, Wed., Sept. 12, 10 a.m.-Noon, Budig PC Lab
ListProc for New List Owners Prerequisite: Owner of a KU ListProc list. Requires registration for all. Thurs., Sept. 13, 9 a.m.-Noon, Budig PC Lab
Web Authoring: Introduction Prerequisite: Web Authoring: Foundations. No registration or fee. Mon., September 10, 4:30 - p.m., Budig PC Lab
Outlook Calendar Management Prerequisites: A KU Exchange account and Outlook: Introduction. Requires registration for all. Thurs., Sept. 13, 10 a.m.-Moon, Computer Center South Lab
Web Authoring: Intermediate Prerequisite: Web Authoring: Introduction. No registration or fee. Wed., Sept. 12, 4:30-7:30 p.m., Budig PC Lab
Access: Intermediate Prerequisite: Access: Introduction. Requires registration for all and a $75 fee for non-KU. Thurs., Sept. 13, 1:30-4:30 p.m., Computer Center South Lab
Ask the Experts Clinic Prerequisite: None. No registration or fee. Thurs., Sept. 13, 5-6 p.m., Computer Center South Lab
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