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The Inside Front
Thursday January 21, 1999
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Alpha Tau Omega theft may exceed $1,600
Stolen property from a burglary that occurred at the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house during winter break was estimated at $1,600, a Lawrence Police report said.
The burglary was discovered last Thursday afternoon. Officer David Ander son of the Lawrence Police Department said that additional missing property reports from the house were a possibility as students returned home.
While officers were investigating the burglary, devices that could be used to produce fake drivers licenses were discovered. Following a hazing incident that occurred in October 1997, Alpha Tau Omega was suspended.
It is not clear whether that suspension will be affected by the fake ID incident, according to the Lawrence Journal-World. Changes in the terms of the suspension depend on whether or not the chapter's leaders, including the president, had previous knowledge of the operation.
Police believe robbery, cariacking connected
An armed bank robbery occurred Tuesday afternoon at the Midwest Regional Credit Union.
Police suspect the robbery was connected to a carjacking that occurred hours earlier in Overland Park, said Officer David Anderson of the Lawrence Police Department.
Lawrence police were called about 5 p.m. to Midwest Regional Credit Union, 1015 W. Sixth St., where a man had fired a shot into the ceiling with a hand gun. Anderson said.
After obtaining an undetermined amount of cash, the man left and backed out of a driveway in a 1998 silver BMW and headed south on Maine Street.
Federal and local authorities were searching for a suspect described as a muscular white man, about 6-feet tall, in his 20's, wearing a red sweatshirt and sunglasses.
The vehicle matched the description of a car that was taken at gunpoint from a 19-year-old Overland Park man about 1:45 p.m.
Katie Burford
Committee meetings begin next Wednesday
Student Senate did not meet last night, but the first committee meetings of the semester will be next Wednesday.
The finance committee will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Union, graduate affairs committee will meet at 6 p.m. in Alcove D, multicultural affairs committee will
meet at 6 p.m. in the Governors' Room, student rights committee will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the Walnut Room and university affairs committee will meet at 6 p.m. in the Centennial Room.
—Nadia Mustafa
Korb Maxwell, Student Senate legislative director, said the legislative agenda would be set later this week.
Feminists for Life leader to speak about abortion
the president of the Kansas chapter of Feminists for Life will speak about anti-abortion feminism at 7 p.m. tonight in parlers A, B and C on the fifth floor of the Kansas Union.
Lisa Bellicci St. Romaine was active in the National Organization for Women until 1992, when she left the group because of her stance on abortion.
Feminists for life is an advocacy group that fights for women's rights, especially the right to know the dangers of abortion to women.
The event is sponsored by KU Students for Life.
Andrea Vandyke, president of KU Students for Life, said she was impressed by St. Romaine last April when she spoke at another KUSFL-sponsored event.
"She is a very good speaker, actually," Vandyk said.
Dan Curry
STATE
State representatives will say pledge to flag
TOPEKA — The Kansas House plans to do something today that neither it nor the Kansas Senate has ever done; recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag as part of its regular routine.
When House members Tuesday voted 117-1 to approve a new set of rules for the 1999 and 2000 sessions, they added the pledge to their order of business.
There is no record of either legislative house ever saying the pledge as a regular part of business. City councils, school boards and Rotary clubs across Kansas routinely recite the pledge at their meetings.
The only vote against adopting the new rules came from Rep. John Edmonds, R-Great Bend, who opposed the establishment of six new budget committees that will report to the House Appropriations Committee.
Dick Kurtenbach, executive director of the ACLU for Kansas and western Missouri, said having the House recite the pledge is fine because all House members are adults and because anyone who objects does not have to participate.
The American Civil Liberties Union had no complaints about the pledge either.
"I'm just not troubled by it," he said. "I don't think it raises any civil liberties issues."
So far there are no plans in the Senate to add the pledge to its daily sessions.
New 1940s stamp series recalls biq band, GI Bill
NATION
WASHINGTON — Big bands and the jitterbug, the 'baby boom and Slinky, antibiotics and the Gl bill will be included in a new set of postage stamps representing the people and events of the 1940s.
The 1940s stamps are part of the Celebrate the Century series, in which 15 stamps are being issued to commemorate each decade this century.
The stamps will be released Feb.
18 at Dobbins Air Force Base in
Georgia, postal officials said yester-
day.
Stamp subjects for the 1940s will recall abstract expressionism in art, World War II, the use of antibiotics, baseball pioneer Jackie Robinson, President Harry S. Truman and women's support of the war effort, based on Rosie the Riveter.
Other subjects will be Orson Welles' movie Citizen Kane, TV entertains America, postwar baby boom, international style of architecture and the 1947 Broadway hit, "A Streetcar Named Desire."
Ohio judge releases man who stripped for food
CINCINNATI — A male stripper who offered to perform at a party in return for groceries has been cleared of charges he misused food stamps.
Benford Clay, a substitute teacher in Dayton, Ohio attracted the attention of authorities with posters advertising his "Nastmixxx" dance service.
in the posters, Clay offered to dance at baby showers, birthday parties and family reunions — all of which is legal — but he also offered to accept food stamps as payment.
An undercover officer testified that Clay went shopping with her, picked out $300 in groceries and insisted she use her food stamp debit card to pay. In return, he gave her a contract agreeing to perform at her party.
"It's an interesting method of using food stamps," the judge said. "What can you say about this use of public funds, except that maybe some people aren't as hungry as they appear to be?"
But Judge Thomas Crush ruled Tuesday that because Clay himself did not use the cards, he could not be convicted of illegal use of food stamps.
- The Associated Press
A KU student's Kansas license plate was reported missing Sunday from a car parked on University Drive.
A female KU student received a harassing phone call at about 3 p.m. Monday at her apartment in the 3300 block of Iowa Street.
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's car was burglarized around 3 p.m. Monday in the 500 block of Frontier Road. A CD player valued at $350 was stolen.
A KU employee's car was damaged between 7:10 and 8:25 a.m. Jan. 14 near Jayhawk Boulevard and Pallar Lane. Damage was estimated at $5.
- The driver of a Ford Taurus station wagon discovered Monday that the vehicle had been struck over the winter break. The driver of the vehicle who caused the damage left no information.
A license plate was stolen some time between 5 p.m. Jan, 15 and 12:30 p.m. Jan, 18 from Lot 206 near Nichols Hall.
A KU Smart Card machine was damaged between 5 p.m. Jan. 12 and 8 a.m. Jan. 13. The machine was valued at $900.
A mirror was stolen between 4 p.m. Saturday and 8 a.m. Monday from a women's restroom in the Computer Center. The mirror was valued at $100.
A KU student's backpack was stolen between 5 and 5:30 p.m. Monday from the first floor of Wesco Hall. The backpack and its contents were valued at $290.
Today IN HISTORY
1324 - Zen Buddhist religious debate between Tibetan and Shiyuan
1824- Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson is born.
- **Stonewall Jackson's born**
1846 - First edition of Charles Dickens' "Daily News"
1908 - New York City regulation makes it illegal for women to smoke in smoke.
1953 John Foster Dulles appointed as Secretary of State
1966 - Beattie George Harrison marries model Pratti Boud
1973 - Actor Leslie Nielson appears on M*A*S*H in the episode titled "Ring-hanger."
1978 - Bee Gees' album "Saturday Night
Fever" ages No. 1 for 24 weeks.
1994 - Lorenna Bobbit found temporarily insane for chopping off spouse's penis.
Some other card services had failed
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Cash-to-card machines that add value to smartcards have been installed throughout campus. Locations include most libraries, the Kansas and Burge Unions, the Spencer Museum of Art and the Computer Center.
Miles said that cash-to-card machines will also be installed in Strong Hall and at the Edwards Campus.
Miles said the new services, which cost the University about $90,000, have run smoothly so far. She said the University is still pursuing a solution to eliminate the separate bus pass.
Dave Reynoldson, Junction City senior and smartcard implementation team member, said he was discouraged with the failure of the smartcard to serve as a bus pass, but that he was satisfied with the new services.
"The laundry and Coke machines are a good deal for students," he said.
Seth Hoffman, Lenexa junior and implementation team member, also said he was disappointed that some smartcard services promised to students failed.
"The University ran with it too quickly," he said. "But for the most part, it's pretty solid. The new services are on target."
ON CAMPUS
Ecumenical Christian Ministries will have enrollment for "Human Sexuality in Everyday Life" from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. today at ECM.
The Office of Study Abroad will have an information session about study abroad opportunities in Japan and Hong Kong at 4 p.m. today at the Malott Room in the Kansas Union. The session will be presented by staff, students who have previously studied in Hong Kong or Japan, and exchange students from those places currently studying at the University of Kansas. Call Doug Schenkelberg at 854-7812 for more information.
It is a non-credit course, taught by Dennis Dailey, professor of social welfare. Call Thad Holcombe at 843-4983 for more information.
■ KU Students for Life will present "Pro-Life Feminism" at 7 tonight at Parliors A, B, and C in the Kansas Union. Lisa Bellici St. Romaine from the National Feminists for Life Organization will be the featured speaker. Call Andrea Van Dyke at 841-3029 or Scott Wallisch at 843-3060 for more information.
There will be an information table on Alternative Spring Break from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas Union. Call Thad Holcombe at 843-4933 for more information.
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