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The Inside Front
Tuesday September 30,1997
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CAMPUS
The University Council approved a proposal that could lead to faculty involvement in releasing course information.
NATIONAL
TORONTO: Widely heralded new AIDS treatments that seemed to stop the virus' advance and revive patients from near death are now beginning to fail in about half of all those treated, doctors said yesterday.
NEW YORK: Roy Lichtenstein, a pioneer of the pop art movement, best known for his oversized comic book-style images, died yesterday. He was 73.
WASHINGTON: The debate over whether President Clinton should apologize for slavery is evolving into a call to apologize for another wrong: the rigid segregation endured by black Americans under Jim Crow laws.
DENVER: With a promise from the judge that he is starting with a clear page, Oklahoma City bombing defendant Terry Nichols went on trial yesterday in the same courtroom where Timothy McVeigh was convicted and sentenced to die.
INTERNATIONAL
MEDAN, Indonesia: Seconds before an Indonesian jetliner crashed into a jungle, killing all 234 aboard in the country's worst air crash, it appeared no one knew which way the plane was supposed to turn.
NEW YORK: Israel and the Palestinian Authority agreed yesterday to resume negotiations, ending a six-month stalemate and breaking what Secretary of State Madeleine Albright called a downward spiral in the Mideast.
CAMPUS
Course information proposal approved
The University Council approved a proposal last Thursday that could lead to faculty involvement in releasing course information.
Faculty members could communicate essential information about the courses they taught through electronic means, Scott Sullivan, student body president, said.
Professors might include classroom expectations, teaching grade, grading policies, estimated class size and required texts.
Approval of the "Course Content Proposal," by the Council will not end the debate, Laurence Draper, council president and professor of microbiology, said.
SenEx will now consider the proposal's ways to gather and distribute information provided by the faculty. The Council will have the opportunity to approve any new SenEx proposal.
—Kansan staff report
Sullivan, Ed Meyen, professor of special education and Lynn Nelson, professor of history, drafted the proposal.
NATIONAL Aids cocktail losing its fighting flavor
TORONTO — Widely-heralded new AIDS treatments that seemed to stop the virus' advance and revive patients from near death are now beginning to fail in about half of all those treated, doctors said yesterday.
The disappointing reports suggest the tough virus is coming back after being knocked briefly into submission, just as many experts feared it would.
"Over the past year, we had a honeymoon period," said physician Steven Deeks. "The epidemic will likely split in two, and for half the people we will need new therapeutic options."
Deeks presented data from the University of California at San Francisco's large public AIDS clinic at San Francisco General Hospital.
Prescriptions of so-called three-drug cocktails — two older AIDS drugs plus one of the new class of medicines called protease inhibitors — have clearly revolutionized AIDS care. In many places, more than 90 percent of AIDS patients are taking these combinations, and typically people start on them as soon as they learn they are infected, even before they get sick.
Patients whose disease-fighting T cells were ravaged by HIV have gotten out of bed, regained normal lives and even gone back to work. However, many worried from the start that the virus would eventually grow resistant to the protease inhibitors and resume its insidious destruction.
The latest data, presented yesterday at an infectious disease conference sponsored by the American Society of Microbiology, suggests this is indeed happening regularly.
Deeks and colleagues reviewed the records of 136 HIV-infected people who
Most patients responded dramatically. Their virus levels dropped so low they could not be found on standard tests. But since then, the virus has returned to detectable levels in 53 percent of the patients.
NEW YORK — Roy Lichtenstein, a pioneer of the pop art movement best known for his oversized comic book-style images, died yesterday. He was 73.
started on protease inhibitors in March 1996, when Crixivan and Norvir, the first two powerful protease inhibitors, came on the market.
Pioneer of pop art dies of pneumonia at age 73
Lichtenstein had been hospitalized at New York University Medical Center for several weeks with an undisclosed illness and died of pneumonia, said Aryn Lieberman, spokeswoman for Leo Castelli Gallery, which has represented Lichtenstein since 1962.
Prolific and witty, Lichtenstein used his flair for composition to create paintings with poster-like power. His signature touches were his bold black outline and the use of the photoengraver's Ben Day dots.
His work was inspired by commercial art, and commercial art in turn reappropriated his images.
"I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental," Lichtenstein once said. "The difference is often not great, but it is crucial."
Clinton urged to apologize for slavery, Jim Crow laws
WASHINGTON — The debate about whether President Clinton should apologize for slavery is evolving into a call to
apologize for another wrong: the rigid segregation endured by black Americans under Jim Crow laws.
That suggestion was offered in some of the 600 pieces of mail sent to the White House and the offices of Clinton's advisory board on race since June. The board, which Clinton charged with analyzing a slavery apology, will meet for the second time today.
race board chairman John Hope Franklin bolstered the suggestion yesterday in a radio interview when he said that any presidential apology would have to extend beyond slavery and address segregation because the institution of segregation had endured for so many years after slavery ended.
"The most rigid apartheid laws this country has ever seen were passed in this century," Franklin told the American Urban Radio Network. "What are you going to do about all of the examples and practices of degradation and humiliation and segregation practiced in the 20th century? An apology for slavery is not going to do it."
DENVER — With a promise from the judge that he is starting with a clear page, Oklahoma City bombing defendant Terry Nichols went on trial yesterday in the same courtroom where Timothy McVeigh was convicted and sentenced to die.
Oklahoma City trial begins with no McVeigh fanfare
Nichols, 42, smiled and waved to his mother in the front row as he was escorted into the courtroom where the process began to select 12 jurors and six alternates.
Prosecutors said Nichols had been a supporting player in the deadliest act of terrorism on U.S. soil, acquiring fertilizer and other components, robbing a firearms dealer to finance the attack and helping McVeigh build the bomb. They also said Nichols helpedMcVeigh stash the getaway car in Oklahoma City three days before the blast.
U. S. District Judge Richard Matsch noted there were many similarities to McVeigh's trial, including identical charges that could bring the death penalty. But he added: "This a different case. ... It begins with a clear page."
INTERNATIONAL Tower misinformation may have crashed plane
MEDAN, Indonesia — The pilot said right. The control tower thought left. Seconds before an Indonesian jetliner crashed into a jungle, killing all 234 aboard in the country's worst air crash, it appeared that no one knew which way the plane was supposed to turn.
A transcript of the confused exchange between Capt. Rachmo Wiyogo and the controller portrays a distracted pilot getting wrong information in the critical moments before he attempted to land.
An air traffic controller momentarily confused two planes as he gave instructions for a turn, according to a transcript of the plane's final radio conversation obtained yesterday. The controller was handling two other flights at the same time — one arriving and one departing from the two-runway airport.
The conversation ended when Rachmo cried out, "Allahu akbar!" — "God is great!" in Arabic.
As details of the final conversation emerged yesterday, weeping relatives threw flowers into a mass grave of 48 bodies mutilated beyond recognition.
The transcript shows Rachmo and the unidentified air traffic controller confusing the words left and right Friday as the plane approached Medan's Airport through thick haze caused by hundreds of forest fires on the island of Sumatra.
At another point, the air traffic controller emphatically assured Rachmo that the 15-year-old, twin-engine Garuda Airlines Airbus was clear of mountains in the area. Two minutes later, the jetliner slammed into a highland jungle 20 miles south of the airport.
The flight data and cockpit voice recorders — which should indicate what the
crew and plane were doing up to a half hour before the crash — were still missing three days after the disaster.
Government officials had no comment on the transcript. But the official news agency, Antara, quoted sources as saying the crash may have been caused by human error.
Israel and Palestinians to resume negotiations
NEW YORK — Israel and the Palestinian Authority agreed yesterday to resume negotiations, ending a six-month stale
mate and breaking what Secretary of State Madeleine Albright called a downward spiral in the Mideast.
Albright, who announced the agreement after meeting with both sides in New York, called the agreement a medium step toward peace in the region. The months since the last talks were broken off have been marked by
Albright Called agreement a step toward peace
A Palestinian demand for a statement disapproving further Israeli settlement construction on the West Bank was put off until the talks are resumed Oct. 6 in the region.
violence and recrimination.
"We all understand the need to create the right kind of environment." Albright said.
American mediator Dennis Ross will assist in the talks, which will be shifted to Washington on Oct. 13 and address fundamental differences between the two parties including whether Israel should pull back farther.
ON THE RECORD
The Associated Press
A KU employee's Papason chair was stolen between 3 and 7 a.m. Saturday from the 1300 block of Tennessee Street, Lawrence police said. The chair was valued at $175
police said. The chain was valued at $175.
A KU student's Tekken II game, Oddworld game and Korn compact disc were stolen between noon and 2:45 p.m. Sept. 22, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $117.
A KU student's $100, glasses and other items were stolen between 11:55 and 11:58 a.m. Thursday from the parking lot behind Bailey Hall, KU police said. The items were valued at $372.
A KU student's Kansas license plate was damaged between 4:30 p.m. Sept. 21 and 4:25 p.m. Friday in the lot west of Lewis Hall, KU police said. The damage was estimated at $150.
A KU employee's parking permit and trash bag of aluminum cans were stolen between 4:45 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. Sept. 18 from the lot west of Lewis Hall, KU police said. The items were valued at $93.
A stop sign was damaged at 5:25 p.m. Sunday in the 1800 block of Neismith Drive, KU police said. The damage was estimated at $75.
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