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The Inside Front
Wednesday January 20,1999
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Wrecks leave dents without serious injuries
A KU student was charged with operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol early Saturday morning.
After running over a barricade, the driver abandoned the vehicle in a field near 17th Street and Watkins Center Drive. Friends of the driver were attempting to move the vehicle when a KU Public Safety officer arrived to the scene.
The officer went in search of the missing driver and located him hiding under a bed in a private residence, according to the KU police report.
The driver was charged with operating a vehicle under the influence, leaving the scene of an accident and not having insurance.
The driver told officers that he fell asleep while driving when the accident occurred.
A blown-out tire was the possible cause of a wreck that backed up traffic on Naismith Drive for nearly an hour Monday morning.
Michael Harris, Lawrence resident, was driving his Chevrolet Astro van north on Naismith Drive, near 23rd Street, when the tire blew. This caused him to swerve, jump the curb, hit a street sign and veer back into the road, where he collided with a Honda Civic.
The driver of the Civic, Victor Sharov, Lawrence resident, was driving south on Naismith Drive.
By Katie Burford
Harris was treated at the scene for a cut on the head.
Man enters guilty plea in sexual battery case
The man who had been charged with attempted rape in an August attack on a 24-year-old female KU student has pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual battery.
Kevin Teeter, 22, had entered the plea of battery during his preliminary hearing Jan. 12 after pleading not guilty to the higher charge of attempted rape.
Teeter will be sentenced on Feb. 24 at the Law Enforcement Center, 111 E. 11th St.
The attack occurred Aug. 20 when Teeter reportedly approached the woman in the 900 block of Tennessee Street, blocked her way and knocked her to the ground. The woman fought back. and TeETER left the scene.
—T.J. Johnson
STATE
TV star joins campaign against death penalty
TOPEKA — M*A*A*S*H* star Mike Farrell is helping to spearhead a new job-bearing effort to get Kansas' five-year-old
capital punishment law repealed.
Three anti-death penalty groups, hoping to bring new visibility to the issue, enlisted Farrell's help. The actor is a well-known activist in California's Death Penalty Focus organization.
"He is a very active opponent of the death penalty. He's committed to the cause," said Bill Lucero of Topeka, state coordinator of Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation.
That group, along with the Kansas Coalition Against the Death Penalty, headed by Sister Therese Bangert of Kansas City, Kan., and the Sisters of Charity Associates of Leavenworth, expects to get a bill introduced this year to repeal the 1994 law that reinstated capital punishment.
Similar bills have failed in the past two years.
Farrell plans to make two appearances in Kansas next week, the first at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 30 at College Hill Methodist Church in Wichita and the second at 2 p.m. Jan. 31 at the Bradbury Thompson Alumni Center at Washburn University in Topeka.
—The Associated Press
NATION
High Court to review Kansas water dispute
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court today agreed to resolve a dispute between Kansas and Nebraska regarding the use of water from the Republican River.
The justices allowed Kansas to "sue" Nebraska in the nation's highest court without first having the dispute heard in any other court. The court on occasion invokes such "original jurisdiction" and serves as a trial court in disputes between states.
In the complaint acted on today, Kansas lawyers accused Nebraska of violating a 1943 interstate compact by allowing Nebraskans to divert more than their legal share of the river's water for their private use.
Nebraska's lawyers responded by contending no such breach of the compact occurred.
The Republican is a tributary of the Kansas River, which joins the Missouri River in Kansas City. The waters of the Republican and its tributaries are impounded by the Harlan County Dam for flood control and irrigation purposes in both states.
WASHINGTON — Pop concertgoers who accuse Ticketmaster of using its dominance in the ticket-sales business to boost service charges lost a Supreme Court appeal today.
Ticketmaster wins Supreme Court appeal
The court, without comment, refused to revive ticket buyers' effort to force Ticketmaster to pay triple damages for alleged overcharges.
The lawsuit accused Ticketmaster of monopolizing the ticket-sales business for large popular music concerts and of using its advantage to charge sales and handling fees as high as $20 per ticket.
The lawsuit accused Ticketmaster of engaging in price-fixing with promoters and concert venues and of boycotting the rock band Pearl Jam, which had a running feud with Ticketmaster about the size of its service charges.
The lawsuit sought triple damages and a court order requiring Ticketmaster to stop such practices.
World Trade Center bomber loses appeal
WASHINGTON — One of four men convicted of the 1993 bombing at the World Trade Center in New York City lost a Supreme Court appeal today.
The justices rejected arguments that Mahmud Abouhalima was denied a fair trial when convicted of helping with explosion that killed six people and injured more than 1,000 more.
Today's action, taken without comment, left intact a ruling in which the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last August said all four militant Muslims had received a fair trial.
While upholding the convictions, the appeals court ordered resentencing because the four did not have lawyers when each was sentenced to 240 years in prison. They had lawyers during their six-month trial.
The four, arrested weeks after the Feb. 26, 1993, bombing of the 110-story twin towers, said they sought to avenge U.S. support for Israel and to protest the U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.
Currency crisis leads Brazil to policy changes
BRASILIA, Brazil — Brazil's decision last week to stop propping up its overvalued currency was a step toward overcoming a financial crisis that has overpowered the economy since August.
The next step comes today when the Brazilian government is expected to say whether it will continue to allow its currency — the real — to trade openly on foreign exchange markets.
The Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper reported that the government will allow the real to float in relation to the dollar on a long-term basis.
On Friday, Brazil announced it would not dip into its cash reserves to prop up its beleaguered currency. The real plunged as low as 1.60 to the dollar before strengthening slightly to 1.43 at the close of trading. That was down from 1.32 at the close of trading Thursday.
The report could not be confirmed. But The Washington Post reported in today's editions that "Brazilian sources" also said the government will allow the real to float.
The Associated Press
A KU police officer discovered marijuana and drug paraphernalia in the room of an Oliver Hall resident Jan. 16.
A KU student's windshield was damaged at 5 p.m., Jan. 14 in lot 123, near Jayhawker Towers.
ON THE RECORD
A false fire alarm occurred Jan. 17 at the Joyhawker Towers.
A window pane at Academic Resource Center was discovered to have been damaged Jan 15. The damage was estimated at $50.
A KU police officer discovered marijuana and drug paraphernalia in the room of a Naismith Hall resident Jan. 17.
- A window was broken in Tower B of the Jayhawker Towers between noon and 2 p.m. on Jan. 17.
Today: IN HISTORY
■ In 1841, the island of Hong Kong was ceded to Great Britain.
In 1887, the U.S. Senate approved an agreement to lease Pearl Harbor on Hawaii as a naval base.
In 1942, Nazi officials held the notorious Wannsee conference, during which they arrived at their "final solution" that called for exterminating Europe's Jews.
In 1986, the United States observed the first federal holiday in honor of slain civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
- Five years ago, Robert B. Fiske Jr. was appointed by Attorney General Janet Reno to investigate President and Mrs. Clinton's Arkansas land deals.
One year ago, a jury was selected in Amarillo,
Texas, to hear a multi-million-dollar lawsuit filed
by Texas cattlemen against talk. show host
Oprah Winfrey because of on-the-air comments
about beef safety.
Task force takes on use of fake IDs
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implement a guaranteed $500 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of a person selling false identification to minors.
Danielle Bluma, Emporia freshman, said,
"I would say it's more likely that no one's going to turn anyone in."
Some students weren't so sure the reward system would produce the desired effect.
"I think that would be awful," said Daniel Bodde, Kansas City, Mo., senior. "I can't imagine anyone doing it. People love fake IDs."
"We hope students out there will turn in those people manufacturing fake IDs," Kennedy said. "We're taking this head-on because we can get this initiated right now and, hopefully, get response from our students who want to help each other out."
Since its formation four and half months ago, the task force has studied student alcohol abuse at the University of Kansas, Haskell and Lawrence public schools. The results paint a picture of citywide student alcohol abuse.
Hemenway said KU would concentrate on four areas: reducing illegal consumption, increasing regulation of alcohol use, educating students about alcohol and cooperating with students.
"We know that we have policies in place, but we have to make sure we know why those policies are there," he said.
Specifically, Hemenway said Saferide was something that he wanted to strengthen with student government's help.
ON CAMPUS
"Part of the attraction of students to Saferide is that it does not presume adult superiority," he said. "Alcohol abuse may or may not be a moral issue, but it is a public safety issue. And public safety is something that everyone has to be a part of."
The task force plans to meet quarterly to monitor progress made in reducing alcohol abuse.
SUA Recreation Committee will meet at p.m. on Wednesday at the Kansas Union. Call the SUA box office at 864-3477 for more information.
■ KU Gamers and Roleplayers meet at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday at the Hawk's Nest in the
University Forum will present "Waiting for the End of the World: Historical Perspectives on Millennialism" at noon today at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries. Tim Miller, professor of religious studies, will be the featured speaker. Call Thad Holcambe at 843-4933 for more information.
Kansas Union. The organization is for people interested in science fiction and fantasy roleplaying. Call Ben Siegon at 865-5759 for more information.
The Office of Study Abroad will have an information session of study abroad opportunities in Japan and Hong Kong at 4 p.m. tomorrow at the Malitou Room in the Kansas Union. The session will be presented by staff and students who previously have studied there and exchange students from those places studying at the University of Kansas. Call Doug Schenkelberg at 864-7812 for more information.
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