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The Inside Front
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2002
News briefs
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
STATE
Catholic church officials address sex scandal
TOPEKA — Archbishop James P. Keleher of the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas said a meeting he held Tuesday with about 200 people showed that the Catholic church was willing to address the sexual abuse scandal.
The media was asked not to attend the meeting at Holy Name Catholic Church. Keleher and other participants said the meeting occasionally became heated but was mostly positive.
Keleher and the Rev. Charles McGlinn, vicar general for the archdiocese, spent about 80 minutes answering questions and discussing the church's policy on sexual abuse.
After the meeting, Keleher pronounced it a success and said it showed the church was being "transparent" in dealing with a most difficult matter.
Officials predict no rise on Missouri River in 2003
WASHINGTON — There will be no so-called spring rise on the Missouri River in 2003, according to high-ranking Army Corps of Engineers and Fish and Wildlife Service officials.
The corps was poised in June to reveal how it intended to alter the flow of the nation's longest waterway. Instead, the agency yanked the plan and entered open-ended talks with the wildlife service.
The wildlife service has ordered the corps to return the river to a more seasonal surge and ebb by 2003, or risk violating the Endangered Species Act. The service says entire species of birds and fish may disappear without changes that include higher water releases in the spring and low summer flows.
In a letter obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press, the chief of the corps' northwest region asked the wildlife service for a reprieve.
Committee discusses ending 'session creep'
TOPEKA—If Kansans didn't like having their Legislature in session for a record 107 days this year, many law-makers didn't either.
The Legislative Budget Committee on Tuesday discussed how legislators could shorten the session and prevent what one member, Rep. Kenny Wilk, R-Lansing, called "session creep."
The committee didn't agree on any proposals, but its chairman, Sen. Steve Morris, R-Hugoton, said the discussion would continue, and members could make a recommendation before the Legislature convenes Jan. 13.
Wilk said that in talking to his colleagues, "I'm hearing consistently that people are frustrated that we are having session creep."
Tradition dictates that sessions should last 90 calendar days, starting in January.
Rural nursing homes ailing from funding cuts
WICHITA—Medicare cuts are hitting rural nursing homes hard, and could result in staff cuts, reduced services and perhaps even closures, their advocates say.
Among those affected by the 10 percent drop in Medicare funding is the Memorial Home in Moundridge, about 40 miles from Wichita.
With 115 workers, it is one of the Kansas town's biggest employers. When its budget goes down, the whole town notices the effects.
"Very definitely," said Linda Smith, accounts manager for the nonprofit nursing home. Memorial Home "is a big part of this area."
Memorial Home serves about 90 senior citizens. The funding drop is the result of the Medicare payment system established in 1997.
The Associated Press
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B. J. Tooill prepares Kevin Fussell, librarian from Watson library, to give blood yesterday. Fussell says he gives blood once a month because he knows it is always needed.
ON THE RECORD
A 19-year-old KU student told the Lawrence Police Department that someone took a portable stereo, valued at $50, an acoustic guitar, valued at $779, and 64 compact discs, valued at $960 from his home between 8 a.m. Friday and 10 a.m. Saturday in the 1600 block of Tennessee Street, according to Lawrence police reports.
A 21-year-old KU student told Lawrence police someone broke into her home through the front door and took a woman's wedding ring, valued at $115, and a silver man's wedding band, valued at $30, between 7:10 a.m. and 8 p.m. Monday in the 900 block of Rhode Island Street, according to Lawrence
police reports. Damage to the door was estimated at $100.
A 23-year-old KU student told Lawrence police someone broke into his car through the driver's side window and took a Sony Mini-Disc car stereo faceplate, valued at $250, and black Ray-Ban sunglasses, valued at $100, between midnight and 6 a.m. yesterday in the 2100 block of Crossgate Drive, according to Lawrence police reports. Damage to the window was estimated at $200.
An 18-year-old KU student told the KU Public Safety Office someone took a mobile phone, valued at $100, a portable CD player and headphones,
valued at $74, and a CD, valued at $15,
between 11:30 p.m. Sunday and 8:30
a.m. Monday in the east Hashinger Hall
parking lot, according to KU Public
Safety Office reports.
KU Public Safety officers arrested four 18-year-old females Tuesday on charges of soliciting without a permit inside Lewis Hall and Hashinger Hall. All four females were from other states and were employees of Interstate Subscription Services. Two of the four females were also arrested on charges of criminal trespassing. Soliciting is not allowed inside residence halls.
ON CAMPUS — For more events, go to kucalendar.com
African Studies Resource Center will host the Brown Bag lecture Study Abroad and Africa; Challenges and Perspectives from 12:20 to 1:20 p.m. today at Alcove B in the Kansas Union. Contact the center at 864-3745.
Center of Latin American Studies will sponsor the Merienda Brown Bag lecture Home Bias and International Diversification: Private Social Security Pension Funds in Chile at noon today at Room 318 in Bailey Hall. Contact the center at 864-4213.
will present the lecture Genetics and Linguistics: The Possibilities of Cooperation at 3:30 today at the Room 350 in Spencer Research Library. Contact the center at 864-4798.
Multicultural Resource Center will sponsor the Diversity Dialogue Series: One Nation Under Whose God? at 7 tonight at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union. Contact the center at 864-4550.
Preoccupational Therapy Club will meet at 6:30 tonight at the conference room in Watkins Health Center
Et Cetera
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Contact Emily Payne at epayne@ukans.edu.
Spencer Museum of Art will present the lecture "All the Old Familiar Places;" Love Songs of Depression and Warat 7 tonight at the auditorium in the museum. Contact the museum at 864-4710.
University Career and Employment Services and the Center for Community Outreach will conduct a volunteer fair from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the lobby in the Kansas Union. Contact Ann Hartley at 864-3624.
The University Daily Kansan (ISSN 0746-4967) is published daily during the school year except Saturday, Sunday, fall break, spring break and exams. Biweekly during the summer session excluding holidays. Periodical postage is paid in Lawrence, KS 66044. Annual subscriptions by mail are $120. Student subscriptions of $2.33 are paid through the student activity fee.
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free computing workshops
All workshops are FREE for KU students, staff and faculty, but REQUIRE registration for everyone
Register at
register at
www.ku.edu/acs/train or
884-0494.
Workshop descriptions and schedule:
www.ku.edu/acs/calendar
Directions & map:
www.ku.edu/acs/directions
Get help at
question@ku.edu or call the ACS Help Desk at 864-0200.
All ACS Workshops Require Registration.
Register for workshops on the Web at www.ku.edu/acs/train or
tu.phone at 8R4-0494. Please register online at least 24 hours
by phone at 864-0494. Please register online prior to the workshop you wish to attend, or by phone any time. You must be confirmed by phone or online to attend the workshop. To register or to get more information , visit www.ku.edu/acs/train, send email to workshop@ku.edu, or call 864-0494.
Graphics: Foundations Prerequisite: None. Requires registration for all. Tues., Oct 8, 3:30-5:30 p.m., Computer Center Auditorium
NEW! Word: Long Documents Prerequisite: Word: Introduction. Requires registration for all and a $75 fee for non-KU. Wed., Oct. 9, 10 a.m.-Noon,
Buffalo Media Lab
Web Authoring: Intermediate Prerequisites: Web Authoring: Foundations and Web Authoring: Introduction. Requires registration for all. Wed., Oct. 9, 1:30-4:30 p.m., Budig PC Lab
NEW! Outlook: Tips and Tricks Prerequisite: None. Requires registration for all and a $75 fee for non-KU, Thurs., Oct. 10, 11 a.m.-Noon, Computer Center Auditorium
NEW! Outlook: Advanced Prerequisites: Outlook: Introduction and Outlook: Intermediate. Requires registration for all and a $75 fee for non-KU. Thurs., Oct. 10, 2-4:30 p.m., Computer Center Auditorium
Off-Campus Recycling Guide
Newspaper Drop-off Locations
Hobby Lobby *1801 w. 23rd St.
Hillcrest Shopping Center * 9th & Iowa
Checkers Food Store * 2300 Louisiana
Hy-Vee * Both Locations
Lonnie's Recycling * 501 Maple
Westlake's Hardware * 6th & Kasold
Wal-Mart Community Recycling
Center 3300 Iowa * 841-9558
Aluminum, Steel Cans, Cardboard Newspaper, Office Paper, Magazines Plastic Bags, Glass. Plastic #1 (PET) and #2 (HDPE)
Household Hazardous Waste Disposal
Last Household Hazardous Waste Collection Event of the Year! When: Sat., October 19th Where: 711 E. 23rd St. Time: 8 AM to Noon Or call 832-3030 to schedule a drop-off appointment
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