2A • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Inside Front
THURSDAY,AUGUST 22,2002
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CAMPUS
University reopens Memorial Drive
Memorial Drive, the back door for many students who live north of campus, opened to through traffic yesterday.
The street's west side closed for construction in June, said Rita Jordan, field supervisor for the University of Kansas parking department. Jordan said the construction workers finished the work smoothly.
"They worked speedily, and they did a good job," she said.
Jordan said the construction helped strengthen the street's foundation.
Construction workers also repaved the west side of the street and improved its gutters and surrounding walls to help prevent soil erosion.
Nathan Dayani
Chancellor to award prizes surprises to top instructors
Uncanceral Robert Hemenway will lead a "Surprise Purpose" to deliver $5,000 awards to recipients of the 2002 William T. Kemper Awards this morning and tomorrow morning
This is the seventh year for the Kemper Awards, which commend 16 faculty members from the main campus and four from the medical center each year for excellence in teaching and advising. A team of faculty, students and University of Kansas alumni have selected the winners from a pool of faculty nominated by peers last spring.
The William T. Kemper Foundation of Kansas City and the Kansas University Endowment Association jointly pay for the program.
Hiemanay and the patrol will deliver the checks and trophies to six recipients today.
STATE
— Lindsay Hanson
Construction worker killed while building mausoleum
LENEXA — A construction worker was killed after the ground caved in while he was working on a moussoleum.
Mark A. Henry, 48, of Glathea was found Monday after his wife called his employer about 9:15 p.m. Henry had started a 30-minute job at the Resurrection Cemetery that morning and should have been home long before nightfall, said Henry's boss, Dan Haake of Haake Foundations.
Police said an autopsy Tuesday showed Henry died from internal injuries suffered when dirt slammed him against the concrete foundation.
Cement workers had been scheduled to be at the mausoleum on Monday morning, but their job was postponed because the ground was too muddy for their truck to pull up. Hake said.
Plane modifications nearly complete for airborne laser
WICHITA — Boeing Co. has nearly finished modification of a 747-400 freighter to carry the world's first airborne laser, with the
aircraft to leave Kansas this year to be equipped with the futuristic weapon, an Air Force official said Tuesday.
Force dRhythm Costs for the prototype are now projected at $1.7 billion by the time the aircraft is finished and testing completed in 2005, said Col. Ellen Pawikowski, program director for the Airborne Laser Defense program, which is based at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, N.M.
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In 1988, the Air Force awarded a $1.1 billion contract to Boeing, TRW and Lockheed Martin to begin work on a prototype that would detect, track and destroy ballistic missiles.
If the work goes as scheduled, the newest plane in the Air Force's arsenal could be ready for flight testing by 2004.
the aircraft made its maiden flight in July and after seven flights has logged nearly 20 hours as engineers conducted flight tests. It will now be turned it over to Edwards Air Force Base in California — where the laser weapon system will be installed, officials said.
Experimental AIDS drug raises treatment hopes
NEWYORK—A new, experimental drug is raising hopes for AIDS sufferers with strains of the virus that are resistant to existing treatments, but the complex manufacturing process is expected to mean high prices and limited quantities.
Dubbed Fuzon by its developers, Roche Group and Trimeris Inc., the drug won a priority, six-month review from the Food and Drug Administration. The companies hope to be approved and on the market next spring.
approved as the first in a class known as fusion inhibitors, is designed to block HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, from entering blood cells. It acts on the third stage of that entry process, known as fusion.
Roche, based in Switzerland, and Trimeris, of Durham, N.C., won't discuss pricing details until the drug is approved, but say Fuzeon is complicated to produce and will be expensive. Experts predict a cost of between $10,000 and $15,000 a year per patient.
AOL could buy AT&T stake in Time Warner company
NEW YORK—ADL Time Warner Inc. is buying out AT&T & Corp.'s stake in their cable television, moviemaking and programming partnership for an estimated $8.5 billion to
AOL Time Warner Inc.
The deal, announced Wednesday, involves the decade-old Time Warner Entertainment partnership, which includes most of AOL Time Warner's cable TV systems and its Warner Bros. film studio, its Home Box Office pay-TV service and other programming businesses.
billion. The corporation said it may sell a stake in its cable TV operations in an initial public offering as early as next year
The two sides have been in discussions for some time on unwinding the partnership known as TWE. ADL Time Warner owns 72.4 percent of the partnership, and AT&T owns the rest.
Neighbor convicted in kidnapping,murder case
SAN DIEGO — A neighbor was convicted Wednesday of kidnapping 7-year-old Danielle van Dam from her home and killing her in the first of a string of brazen child abductions that have drawn national attention this year.
Danielle's mother burst into tears and a crowd outside the courthouse cheered as the jury convicted self-employed engineer David Westferield of murder, kidnapping and possessing child pornography.
Westerfield looked at the jury but showed no obvious reaction; the 50-year-old faces either life in prison or execution when the trial's penalty phase begins next week.
The parents, jurors and trial attorneys remain under a gag order and couldn't comment on the verdict.
The jury deliberated for about 40 hours over 10 days after a lurid trial in which the defense suggested that the lifestyle of Danielle's parents, including spouse-swapping and marijuana use, put her at risk.
Bush to consult allies before Iraq attack
CRAWFORD, Texas—President Bush, confronting skittish allies overseas and naysayers at home, asserted Wednesday that ousting Iraq's Saddam Hussein "is in the interests of the world" but indicated the United States is in no hurry.
"I'm a patient man." Bush told reporters on his Texas ranch.
At nearby Fort Hood, Defense Secretary Donald, H. Rumsfeld, told soldiers that war with Iraq was not inevitable.
"The president has made no such decision that we should go into a war with Iraq. He's thinking about it," along with economic and diplomatic measures for eliminating any threat from Saddam, Rumsfeld said.
Bush interrupted more than three hours of big-picture military planning with top advisers at his ranch to address questions — the "churning," he called it — about U.S. intentions toward Iraq and growing opposition to any military strike there.
WORLD
Musharraf grants himself broad elections powers
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Despite widespread criticism, President Gen. Pervez Musharraf unilaterally amended the Pakistani constitution Wednesday, granting himself self-sweeping powers — including the right to dissolve parliament — and extending his term in office.
"Pakistan is passing through a very crucial transitional period," Musharraf told reporters in announcing his decision to implement the amendments, which were first unveiled in June. "We are taking Pakistan from democratic dictatorship to elected democracy. I want to introduce a sustainable democratic order."
Critics claimed the 29 amendments were a blow to the very democracy that Musharraf promised to restore by holding elections Oct. 10 for the national parliament and provincial legislatures.
ON THE RECORD
A KU Parking Services employee reported to KU Public Safety Office that a 54-year-old man was causing a disturbance between 8:41 and 8:52 a.m. Monday at 13th Street and Jayhawk Boulevard, according to KU Public Safety
Office reports. After approaching the man, an officer discovered 5 grams of marijuana, rolling papers and a 65-gram mixture of marijuana and tobacco. He was arrested and taken to Douglas County Jail.
ON CAMPUS
Ecumenical Christian Ministries and Environs will have a Vagget Lunch 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. today at the ECM building, 1204 Oread Ave Contact Thad Holcombe at 843-4933.
New Student Orientation will have a Freshman-Sophomore Advising Center Open House from 3 to 5 p.m. today and tomorrow in the rotunda of Strong Hall. Contact New Student Orientation at 864-4270.
KU Ki Akidu Club will meet 5:30 to 7:30 tonight at Room 207 in Robinson Center. Contact Jason Ziegler at 843-4732.
■ New Student Orientation will have a Graduate and Professional Student Information Fair from 5 to 6 p.m. tomorrow at the Ballroom in the Kansas Union. Contact New Student Orientation at 884-4270.
Student Union Activities will sponsor a Totally Awesome 803 Bash from 9 to 11 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas University lobby and plaza. Contact Sailon Farokhi at 864-7469.
■ Organizations and Leadership will have an organizational fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. tomorrow at the lobby in the Kansas Union. Contact the O&L office at 864-4861.
Election loser calls for recount
The Associated Press
Tyannosaurus Rexakeleton while on a dig in South Dakota.
GREAT BEND — A fossil hunter who sought a seat in the state Legislature is seeking a special election, alleging problems with a machine that scans ballots opened the door for possible tampering in the primary election.
Alan Detrich lost his primary bid for the 112th District to GOP incumbent Rep. John Edmonds of Great Bend by a margin of 2 to 1. Detrich, also of Great Bend, wrote to the attorney general and secretary of state Monday with concerns about how ballots were handled on election night.
Detritch attracted national attention in 1992 when he and his brother discovered a
"I have no evidence that any ballots were tampered with, but the fact that the ballot boxes were outside Barton County for approximately five hours in two separate vehicles with unknown occupants raises serious questions." Detrich wrote.
After the optical scanner failed to read some ballots, sealed ballot boxes were loaded into a private vehicle and a prisoner cargo van from the jail and taken to Saline County, the nearest location with the same equipment.
Election workers eventually discovered the problem was with a piece of electronic equipment created to read Barton County's ballots.
Camera on KU
John Nowak/Kansan
Professors and administrators took spoke last night before convocation at the Lied Center. The group of educators joined Chancellor Robert Hemenway on stage to welcome students to the university.
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