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The Inside Front
Wednesday Octoberber 15,1997
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
STATE
WASHINGTON — Hundreds more people died in highway crashes after higher speed limits took effect in Kansas and 11 other states, according to a new study.
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Janet Reno extended her investigation yesterday into President Clinton's fund-raising telephone calls, giving her task force until Dec. 2 to see if a special prosecutor is needed.
DETROIT — The organization whose lawsuit ended affirmative action at the University of Texas focused on the University of Michigan yesterday, challenging policies that helped the school double its minority enrollment over a 10 year period.
INTERNATIONAL
MOSCOW — Russian President Boris Yeltsin upd the ante on hard-line Russian lawmakers yesterday, pushing them into a showdown over the budget that could lead to parliament's dismissal.
CORRECTION
An advertisement in the "Kansan" for Watkins Memorial Health Center incorrectly stated the days Watkins is closed for holidays. The proper dates are New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Thanksgiving, Dec. 25-28, 1997, and Jan. 2-4, 1998.
CAMPUS
New development center searching for director
Marshall R. Jackson has been named interim director of the Student Development Center.
The center was created when James
Jackson, who has worked for the SAC since 1991, will serve as director until the
Kitchen, dean of student affairs, reorganized the Student Assistance Center this summer.
University completes a national search for a new director. Kitchen said.
Jackson declined to say whether he was being considered for the permanent position.
Lorna Zimmer was the previous director of the Student Assistance Center. As part of the reorganization, she was named director of Services for Students with Disabilities.
As the senior staff member in the SDC, Jackson was the appropriate choice for interim director, Kitchen said.
Kitchen said the office will focus on retention of students.
Jackson said the office will continue to offer study skills workshops in collaboration with the Career Center, the math department, Curriculum and Instruction and the Spanish Department.
Jackson, who has worked for the University for 27 years, said the office would probably see changes when the new director is hired.
He said one possibility for program change would be the expansion of tutorial services for students.
Three sororities face deadline to appeal panhellenic sanctions
The SDC now offers a tutor list, but Jackson said that the SDC might hire tutors to assist students in the future.
Three KU sororites have until 5 p.m. today to appeal sanctions for a series of incidents last month in which strippers and alcohol were sent to a fraternity house.
Members of Chi Omega, Kappa Alpha Theta and Gamma Phi Beta sororities were given sanctions last week by the KU Panhellenic Judicial Board, said Jen Lockwood, president of Chi Omega. Members of the judicial board have not released the details of the sanctions.
The incidents occurred while the sorotities were competing for an invitation to Sigma Nu's Bacchanalia, an annual spring party.
Lockwood said Chi Omega would not appeal the decision. Attempts to reach members of Gamma Phi Beta and Kappa Alpha Theta were unsuccessful.
If the sororites appeal, their cases will be decided by the executive board of the KU Panhellenic Association, said Pam Norris, graduate adviser to the association.
Weapons, other charges land KU student in jail
$2,000 was arrested yesterday on charges including having a concealed weapon.
A University of Kansas police officer stopped the student for a traffic violation at 1:10 a.m. yesterday at the intersection of Jayhawk Boulevard and Sunflower Drive. When the officer approached the vehicle, the officer noticed the smell of marijuana.
The officer found a concealed handgun in the student's car and $2,078 in the student's pocket.
The student was then arrested for operating a vehicle while under the influence, having a concealed weapon, having an amplifier without a serial number and interfering with official duties by being uncooperative with the officer.
A 19-year-old KU student toting more than
The student was taken to Douglas County Jail.
Kansan Staff Report
WASHINGTON — Hundreds more people died in highway crashes after higher speed limits took effect in Kansas and 11 other states, a new study has found.
High speed may raise number of fatalities
STATE
In a dozen states that raised speed limits before April of last year, 500 more people died in highway accidents than would otherwise have been expected, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety reported.
"The current round of speed limit increases — like increases on rural interstates in the 1980s — is costing hundreds of lives per year," said Adrian Lund, the institute's senior vice president. "And the cost could go up in future years because past research shows that actual speeds continue to rise in the years following a change in speed limit."
Researchers at the Arlington, Va.-based institute did not isolate the number of deaths in each state, but in a similar review, the Kansas Department of Transportation recently found 48 more people died last year than in either of the two previous years.
But the Kansas agency noted its records do not attribute deaths to any contributing factors. Increases since the repeal might come from reasons besides higher speeds, including bad weather or higher rates of drunken driving.
"There are so many different scenarios that go into fatality statistics that I don't think you can draw any type of conclusion," said Ken Miller, KDOT representative. "I think it's going to take three to five years of statistics to really get handle on what higher speed limits have meant."
Twenty-eight states have raised limits on at least some highways since Congress repealed the federal speed limit.
**Interstate deaths in Kansas rose from 39 from June 1994 to May 1995 to 47 in 1995-1996 and to 45 in 1996-1997. For all Kansas roads, deaths rose from 403 to 485 and then dropped to 476. The agency began with June because new speed limit signs were not posted until June 1996.
KDOT broke down its numbers two ways:
On all roads, 490 people died in calendar
1996, while 442 died both in 1995 and 1996.
Reno extends inquiry into campaign funds
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Janet Reno extended her investigation into President Clinton's fund-raising telephone cais yesterday, giving her task force until Dec. 2 to see if a special prosecutor is needed.
Reno's decision came a day before the deadline for deciding whether to move from an initial inquiry to a preliminary investigation.
The task force has yet to discover specific and credible evidence that Clinton may have violated a 114-year-old law barring solicitation of campaign contributions in federal office buildings, but it needs more time to analyze evidence, according to off-
claics who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Reno was applying to a special court that picks independent counsels for permission to make a brief public announcement of her decision, the officials said.
She took the same step earlier this month in the investigation of Vice President Al Gore's campaign fund-raising calls from his office.
Affirmative action challenged at University of Michigan
DETROIT — The organization whose lawsuit ended affirmative action at the University of Texas went after the University of Michigan on yesterday, challenging policies that helped the school double its minority enrollment in just 10 years.
The Center for Individual Rights filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court on behalf of two white students denied admission to the highly competitive university at its Ann Arbor campus.
The lawsuit claims the university's affirmative action policies discriminate against qualified whites in favor of unqualified blacks and Hispanics.
Michigan, one of the most selective public universities in the country, has boosted its minority enrollment over the past decade to about 25 percent of the 36,000 students at its flagship Ann Arbor campus
through an aggressive diversity policy.
It said it would not back down.
The Washington-based advo-
ton-based advocacy group filed a lawsuit that led to a federal appeals court ruling striking down affirmative action at the University of
Texas Law School. The U.S. Supreme Court let the ruling stand last year.
The appeals court ruling is directly binding only in Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana, but the precedent could influence courts in other states when affirmative action at public colleges is challenged.
INTERNATIONAL
Threats of resignation push Russian leaders toward brink
A no-confidence vote is a safe way for lawmakers to register strong disapproval in the government — the measure has no legal effect under Russian law unless it is followed by a second vote within 90 days.
MOSCOW — President Boris Yeltsin apped the ante on hard-line Russian law-makers yesterday, pushing them into a showdown over the budget that could lead to parliament's dismissal.
Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin led Yeltsin's charge, threatening to resign if parliament's lower house passes a no-confidence vote scheduled for today.
But if Chernomyrdin resigns after the first vote, the move could backfire on hardliners and force Yeltsin to disband parliament and call new elections. Hardliners now dominate the Duma, but could lose some seats in a
lose some seats in a new election.
The Duma has been moving for weeks toward a showdown with the Yeltsin administration over the 1998 budget. Yeltsin wants to impose austerity measures, cutting the budget deficit and ending subsidies to money-losing state enterprises.
Yellin: wants to cut Russia's budget deficit.
On the record
A KU student's Nation's Bank Visa Credit Card was stolen between 5 and 11:30 p.m. Friday from the Alumi Center, KU police said. The card was valued at $1.
A KU student's KUID with bus pass was stolen between 6:30 and 7:30 p.m. Thursday from room 103 in Robinson Gymnasium, KU police said. The items were valued at $115.
A KU student's $175, wallet, KUID with bus pass and other items were stolen between 1 and 1:05 p.m. Oct. 8 from the lobby of McCullum Hall, KU police said. The items were valued at $305.
■ A KU student's Trek mountain bike and lock were stolen between 10:30 p.m. Oct. 3 and 7:45 a.m. Oct. 6 from the 1500 block of Engel Road, KU police said. The items were valued at $415.
A KU student's Trek 800 Antelope mountain bike, lock and other items were stolen between 10 a.m. Sept. 27 and 5 p.m. Oct. 4 from the 1700 block of Engel Road, KU police said. The items were valued at $516.
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