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The Inside Front
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2002
News briefs
CAMPUS
Diversity education group wants student volunteers
The Diversity Peer Education Team is accepting applications for volunteers next semester. The team's mission since it began in 1996 has been to promote diversity awareness at the University of Kansas.
The team makes presentations on diversity for freshman orientation seminars, Greek organizations and other different groups on campus.
An arm of the Multicultural Resource Center, its members work to promote awareness about the diverse population at the University and Lawrence.
The Diversity Peer Education Team is accepting applications through Tuesday at the Multicultural Resource Center. For more information call Katie Dilks at 864-4350.
Matt Stumpff
STATE
Maximum sentence given to pharmacist
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A federal judge sentenced former pharmacist Robert R. Courtney to the maximum 30 years in prison yesterday, ending the year and a half-long saga of his scheme to dilute cancer drugs for profit.
Courtney, who earlier expressed remorse for his actions, showed no emotion as the judge announced his sentence that also called for him to pay $10.4 million in restitution and a $25,000 fine.
"I have committed a terrible crime that I deeply and severely regret," Courtney told the court in soft, shaky voice before receiving his punishment. "I wish I could change everything."
In a stern statement, U.S. District Judge Ortie Smith told Courtney that he alone had changed the way Americans thought.
"Mr. Courtney your crimes are a shock to the civilized conscience," the judge said. "They are beyond understanding. I believe you when you say that you don't understand them."
Snow and ice storm ravages eastern part of United States
NATION
Millions of people shivered without electricity yesterday in the Carolinas as one of the worst ice and snowstorms in years snapped tree limbs, snarled air travel around the country and kept children home from school in a large part of the East.
At least 18 deaths have been blamed on the storm since it blew across the southern Plains earlier in the week. Up to a foot of snow fell in places from New Mexico to North Carolina.
"It's horrible out there," said Errol Carter, a lawyer from Edison, N.J. "I live less than 10 minutes from the train station, and I almost got in two accidents on the way there."
Schools closed in parts of the Carolinas, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, Delaware, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Maryland, Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky.
WORLD
Hussein encourages weapons inspections
BAGHDAD, Iraq — President Saddam Hussein urged the Iraqi people yesterday to support the new U.N. arms inspections as a welcome opportunity to disprove American allegations that his government still harbors weapons of mass destruction.
The White House quickly rejected those claims. President Bush, asked yesterday if the United States was headed toward war, replied: "That's a question you should ask to Saddam Hussein."
Hussein said he agreed to the inspections, in which one of his own palaces was searched, "to keep our people out of harm's way" in the face of U.S. threats.
The Iraqi president's remarks contrasted sharply with a vice president's harsh words about the inspections late Wednesday.
He denounced an "unjust, arrogant, debased American tyranny." Then, turning to U.S. allegations that Iraq retains chemical and biological weapons, he said Iraqis wanted to disprove those claims after a four-year absence of U.N. weapons inspectors from their country.
-The Associated Press
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Christie Walker, Overland Park freshman, and Gretchen Christenson, Eudora freshman, place frosted pretzels around their gingerbread house. Gertrude Sellars Pearson-Corbin Hall sponsored a gingerbread house building competition yesterday in the dining hall. The women said the house, entitled "The Gnome Dome," took more than three hours to complete.
Small plane crashes into side of Miami building, killing pilot
MIAMI — A small plane crashed into the Federal Reserve Bank Building last night, killing the pilot, authorities said. No one inside the building was injured.
"We have no information that it was an intentional crash," said Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown in Washington. "It appears to be an accident."
More than 100 people were attending a holiday party in the one-story building when the aircraft slammed into the northeast side of the bank, exploded and burst into flames. The building also
houses the Miami bureau of The Associated Press.
Based on communications between the pilot and air traffic controllers, Brown said, the FAA believes the plane was coming from Marathon in the Florida Keys and traveling to New Smyrna Beach on Florida's central east coast.
Another FAA spokeswoman, Kathleen Bergen, called the plane a single-engine aircraft, likely a home-built experimental aircraft.
An FBI agent assigned to Miami International Airport was en route to
the accident and the agency was keeping in close contact with investigators, said FBI Miami spokeswoman Judy Orihuela.
The building is about three miles west of the airport.
Some windows were broken but there appeared to be no structural damage.
The bank building is just north of the U.S. Southern Command, which oversees U.S. military activities in 32 nations and 12 dependencies in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The Associated Press
ON CAMPUS — For more events, go to kucalendar.com
Hall Center for the Humanities will hold the Poetics Seminar with Mike Doudoroff from 3:30 to 5 p.m. today at the Conference Room in the Hall Center, Contact the center at 864-4798.
KU Hillel will hold a Menorah Lighting ceremony at 12:30 p.m. today at the lobby in the Kansas Union. Contact Corey Rittmaster at 749-5397.
KU Karate Kobudo Club will practice at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow in the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center. Contact Hannah Reynolds at 812-3422.
KU KI Alikido Club will meet from 10 a.m. to noon tomorrow at Room 207
in robinson Center. Contact Jason Ziegler at 843-4732.
Spencer Museum of Art will have the Annual Winter Holidays Celebration from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday in the Museum. The event will feature pictures with Santa, music, dancing, and a
KU Tae Kwon Do Club will meet from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.Sunday at Room 207 in Robinson Center,Contact Samantha Nondorf at 218-3544.
Lawrence Life Fellowship will hold a Bible study from 7 to 8:30 tonight at the Oread Room in the Kansas Union. Contact Zach Keatts at 838-9093.
handmade book activity, and refreshments will be served. Contact the museum at 864-4710 for event times.
Student Union Activities will show the film Road to Perdition at 7 and 9:30 tonight at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Tickets are $2 or free with an SUA movie card. Contact the SUA at 864-7469.
St. John Catholic Apostolic Church will hold mass at 6 tomorrow night and noon Sunday in the Ecumenical Christian Ministries building. Contact Father Joseph Tung Dang at 843-4933.
Et Cetera
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