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MONDAY,AUGUST 19,2002
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CAMPUS
University sponsors job fair
University Career and Employment Services at the University of Kansas will sponsor a Student Employment Job Fair on Tuesday. Aug. 20.
Approximately 30 KU employers from departments across campus will talk with students at the fourth floor lobby in the Kansas Union from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. Twelve off-campus employers will also participate in the fair.
For more information on University Career and Employment Services and a list of on- and off-campus employment opportunities, visit www.ku.edu/~uces.
Erin Beatty
Additional blue phones to appear on campus
Three new emergency phones will light up campus within a month, said Lt. Schuyler Bailey of the KU Public Safety Office.
Emergency phones, which are illuminated by blue triangles atop utility poles, will be installed at parking lot 300 near the Lied Center, between Dyche Hall and Uppincott Hall, and between Strong Hall and Snow Hall
The three new emergency phones will bring the total number of campus emergency phones to 66.
Emergency phones provide a direct connection to the KU Public Safety Office dispatch, Bailey said. A complete list of all 66 emergency phone locations can be found at KU Public Safety Office's Web site, www.ku.edu/~kucops/security/phone.shtml
Michelle Burhenn
STATE
Officials say wrong man declared election winner
CLAY CENTER — Problems with a voting machine apparently cost a county commission candidate an election he should have won by a 3-to-1 margin.
Jerry Mayo, who narrowly lost to challenger Roy Jennings, filed a written objection to the election results Friday afternoon. Had Mayo missed the deadline of midnight Friday for filing the objection, the count would have become official.
But, as a result of the objection, officials say an "objection board" will be convened Monday and the ballots counted by hand.
After the election, county officials reported Jennings had hedged Mayo out of the Republican nomination for the 2nd Commission District by about 20 votes.
But officials said Friday morning that all votes cast for Jennings in the 2nd Ward, which is part of Clay Center, were recorded by the machine as being for Mayo. And the machine counted all votes cast for Mayo as Jennings votes.
County Clerk Mary Brown said ballots in the townships all contained Roy Jennings name on the top line. In the second ward, Jennings name was shifted, or "rotated," to the bottom line to give both candidates an equal chance to be listed on the top line.
But the vote-counting machine was apparently programmed to recognize the top line on all ballots cast in the district as belonging in the Jennings column, even though in the 2nd District Mayo's name was in the too slot.
Officials now believe Mayo may have beaten Jennings 465 votes to 153.
Wichita man helps veterans beat the summer heat
FORT DODDE — The summer heat is a bit more bearable for a half-dozen residents of the Kansas Soldiers Home, thanks to a drive led by one veteran's brother.
"I'm not a veteran, but I sure respect and admire what they have done for their country, and for them to be without air conditioning, well...," said Gordon Stowe, who owns the Wichita Winnings Co.
Stowe's brother, Gary, lives at the veteran's home. Stowe found out in July that the veterans were sweltering in 100-degree heat without air conditioning in their rooms.
"The more I thought about it, the madder I got," said Stowe, who bought his brother an air conditioner last year.
Stowe called the Wal-Mart store in nearby Dodge City and asked manager Mark Jamison how many window air conditioners he had in stock. He gave Jamison his credit card number and reserved a half-dozen of them.
Hotel and reserved hotel room
The totaltab: $602.45.
Jamison gave Stowe a 10 percent discount and donated one of the units to the Soldiers Home, free of charge. He delivered them himself, on his day off.
When Stove mentioned the plight of the Kansas vets to friends at the Wichita Tips Club, a business organization, many of them stepped up and gave cash to the cause, too.
Anti-abortion demonstrators disrupt PAC's conference
WICHITA - Police had to be called to an abortion rights group's news conference when anti-abortion demonstrators showed up and tried to gain entry.
The half-dozen demonstrators arrived just as the Pro Kan Do political action committee's news conference was about to begin on Thursday morning. They carried signs bearing photos of fetuses and slogans proclaiming Wichita as the nation's abortion capital.
Pro Kan Do was founded by Dr. George Tiller, a Wichita physician who performs abortions. Tiller, who has particularly angered abortion foes by performing later-term procedures, has survived shooting and seen his clinic bombed.
Troy Newman, leader of the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue West, tried to enter the news conference as a journalist, citing articles he's written for conservative papers, Web sites and newspapers.
The committee was formed to be a counterweight to groups such as Kansans for Life, which have organized religious conservatives into a powerful voting bloc favoring mainly Republican candidates.
Pro Kan Do supporters the door shut to keep out Newman, who said his purpose was as much to confront Pro Kan Do members as to cover the event.
After police arrived and talked to the management of the office building where Pro Kan Do is headquartered, they ordered the anti-
abortion protesters off the parking lot and onto nearby public property.
Network airs terror tapes
NATION
NEW WORK (AP) — CNN began airing excerpts Sunday from a cache of videotapes acquired in Afghanistan that portto to show al-Qaida terror training, bomb-making and poison gas experiments on dogs.
The tapes also show al-Qaida operatives appear to be practicing ambushes and kidnapping. Most of the tapes appear to be made before Sept. 11, although some show recorded television coverage of last fall's attacks in New York and Washington.
CNN said its correspondent, Nic Robertson, acquired more than 250 tapes through a longtime source, and he drove 17 hours from Kabul to a remote part of Afghanistan to first see them. CNN did not pay for the tapes, Robertson said.
The network said it showed the tapes to several experts to verify their authenticity.
Spacecraft goes missing
LOS ANGELES (AP) — NASA has not given up the search for a missing $159 million spacecraft and will continue listening for a signal from the comet-chasing probe on Monday, mission officials said.
"No one has said, 'OK, it's over,' said Michael Buckley, a spokesman for Johns Hopkins, which built and manages the spacecraft for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
The Contour spacecraft was programmed to fire its solid-propellant rocket motor early Thursday to leave Earth orbit on a multiyear mission to visit at least two comets.
It was supposed to signal operators at John Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory about 45 minutes later to confirm the burn, but there was no sign of it.
WORLD
Leaders say opium removal fails to detract growers
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) —The new Afghan government has "largely failed" in its 4-month-old effort to eradicate the opium poppy crop in Afghanistan, which in recent years became the world's biggest producer of the raw material for heroin, U.N. crop experts reported Sunday.
Agriculture "That's a big chunk of GDP." said Hector Maletta, a spokesman for the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. This impoverished nation's gross domestic product (GDP) for 1999, the latest estimate available, was put at $21 billion.
Their figures show the 2002 crop, close to the high levels of the late 1990s, could be worth more than $1 billion at the farm level in Afghanistan.
By the late 1990s, Afghanistan was supplying 70 percent of the world's opium. Then, in 2000, the Taliban government banned poppy cultivation, and U.N. and U.S.drug agencies determined that this led to an almost total — 96 percent — reduction in acreage devoted to the crop in the 2001 growing season.
Censors pull Indian war film
The Associated Press
BOMBAY, India — An anti-war film that depicts the euphoria after India's first successful nuclear tests and the horror of Sept. 11 has been deemed too provocative for Indian eyes.
Just weeks after nuclear-armed India and Pakistan pulled back from the threat of war, the film censor board has demanded that veteran documentary filmmaker Anand Patwardhan make 21 cuts to "War and Peace" because of scenes that "may have the effect of desensitizing or dehumanizing people."
Critics charge that the board's decision is part of an effort to muzzle Indian media that challenge the ruling coalition led by Hindu nationalists. Patwardhan says the cuts would ruin the three-hour film, which ends with silent scenes of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
In an interview at his Bombay apartment Saturday, Patwardhan said he will appeal the cuts to the Appellate Tribunal in New Delhi on Monday. He expects to win, as he has each time the board has challenged his other social and political documentaries.
"War and Peace" is about India's celebrations after successful nuclear tests in May 1998. There are chest-thumping scenes of Hindus praising Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vaipayee for the secret tests near the desert town of Pokhran, with fireworks, rallies and cheers of "Atom Bomb Vaipayee," and "Pokhran has ignited every atom of manhood."
"The cuts that they asked for are so ridiculous that they won't hold up in court," Patwardhan said. "But if these cuts do make it, it will be the end of freedom of expression in the Indian media."
The film is also about the consequences of nuclear bombs and the power of the Hindu fundamentalist forces steering Vajpayee's Bharatiya Janata Party. The BJP-led coalition
won re-election in 1999, aided by the national jubilation over joining the club of nuclear nations.
nations. The Central Board of Film Certification demanded the cuts, even after "War and Peace" won top honors at the state-run Bombay International Film Festival in February.
Among the ordered cuts are: Footage of independence leader Mohandas K. Gandhi minutes before he was gunned down by Hindu-nationalist Nathuram Godse in 1948; visuals of Hindus cutting their hands with razors to sign their names in blood on messages of congratulations for the nuclear tests; all scenes with Vajpayee and other political leaders; and a sequence that has leaders of Hinduism's lower Dalit caste, known as "untouchables," lamenting that the nuclear tests were conducted on Buddha's birthday. Many Dalits have converted to Buddhism as a means to escape Hinduism's caste discrimination.
Censor board chairman Arvind Trivedi, an actor and former Hindu-nationalist member of Parliament, did not return calls for comment. Trivedi recently told other journalists that he has not seen the film and denies the board's decision was based on politics or pressure.
sure. Patwardhan, 52, who graduated from Brandeis University in Boston, says if he wins the appeal, the film would open to Indian audiences.
Mahesh Bhatt, one of India's most respected filmmakers, called the censor board's demands "shameful."
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"It is appalling that the land that defies Gandhi makes it so difficult for a man like Pattwardhan, who articulates the same values that Gandhi dreamed for India," Bhatt said in a telephone interview. "The sanity of his film, it just undermines the war hysteria that they've whipped up."
Camera on KU
John Nowak/KANSAN
Enlisting the help of family and friends, the great migration into student housing began this weekend. Lines formed outside residence halls as students moved in.
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