Monday, December 7,1998
The University Daily Kansan
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American Rhodes Scholars selected
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Thirty-two American students have been selected as Rhodes scholars, including a cancer survivor and a student-body president who led an effort to discourage the waving of the Confederate flag at school events.
Rhodes scholarships provide two or three years' study at the Oxford University in England. The Rhodes scholarships were created in 1902 by the will of Cecil Rhodes, British philanthropist and colonial pioneer.
The 32 recipients were chosen from 909 applicants. Ninety-six applicants from 67 colleges and universities reached the final stage of the competition, said Elliott Gerson, American secretary of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust.
Here is a list of the 32 new American Photoshes United by district.
Here is a list of the 32 new American Rhodes Scholars, listed by district:
District I
Christopher L. Douglas, Southboro Mass., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cary C. Franklin, Avon, Conn., Yale University; Dena Pedynowski, Succasunna, N.J., Drew University; William R. Polkinghorn, Santa Monica, Calif., Colby College.
District II
Antonio Delgado, Schenected, N.Y., Colgate University: Jonathan Finer.
KU candidate makes finals, misses cut
The University of Kansas student who advanced to the final stage of the Rhodes Scholarship competition was not selected.
Anna VanCleave, Overland Park senior, was in St Paul, Minn., Friday and Saturday to interview for the scholarship that would have allowed her two years at Oxford University in England.
"I think that Anna had all the qualities," said Sandra Wick, associate director of the University Honors program. "It is just that the scholarship is very competitive."
Wick said that it was an honor for any student to represent the district at the scholarship competition. VanCleave was one of two students
representing Kansas. The other student was from Kansas State University.
Wick said that VanCleave had a positive attitude.
The University had appointed two students to compete for the scholarship. The application process starts during the spring semester.
Although the University does not offer any special classes, it helps nominees by looking through their applications and essays.
"It is not the end of the world for her," Wick said. "She will go on to win more awards."
Twenty-three KU students have been named Rhodes Scholars.
Pallavi Agarwal
Norwich, Vt., Harvard College; Slobian K. Peiffer, Southampton, N.Y., Yale University; Erin V. Whelan, Monroe, N.Y., Iola College
District III
Jennifer L. Bumgarner, Hickory, N.C., Wake Forest University; Jeffrey D. Manns, Wynnwood, Pa., University of Virginia; Carla J. Peterman, South
Orange, N.J., Howard University; Jose D. Vargas, Gaithersburg, Md., Loyola College in Maryland.
District IV
Mary Anne Franks, Pearl Bluff, Ark. Loyla University New Orleans, Neil A. Hattangadi, Orlando, Fla., Duke University; Beth A. Shapiro, Lindale, Ga., University of Georgia; Samuel Calvin
Thigpen, Jackson, Miss., University of Mississippi.
District V
District VI
Erin A. Bohula, Park Forest, III, University of Chicago, Walter R. Copper, Carmel, Ind., United States Military Academy; Maureen N. Dunne, Downers Grove, Ill., University of Chicago; Margaret C. Gleason, Louisville, Ky., Saint Louis University.
Jennifer R. Gruber, Omaha, Neb., Boston University; Akash K. Kapur, Minneapolis, Harvard College; Mira Lutgendorf, Iowa City, Iowa, University of Chicago; Antwau L. Smith, St. Joseph, Mo., University of Missouri.
District VII
Bobak Robert Azamian, Boise, Idaho,
Rice University; Sean M. Braswell,
Denton, Texas, University of Texas at
Austin; Manuel-Julian R. Montoya,
Mora, N.M., University of New Mexico;
Navin Narayan, Fort Worth, Texas,
Harvard College
District VIII
Karen Y. Matsouka, Los Angeles,
Stanford University; Lisa A. Poyneer,
Renton, Wash., Massachusetts Institute of
Technology; Ryan M. Rowberry,
Henderson, Nev., Brigham Young University;
Alon Unger, Phoenix, Arizona
State University.
Endeavour's crew proves mission isn't impossible
The Associated Press
SPACE CENTER, Houston — Endeavour and its astronauts closed in yesterday in capturing the first piece of the international space station, the Russiainmade Zarya control module that had to be connected to the Unity chamber aboard the shuttle.
Stacking the two giant cylinders 240 miles above the Earth was considered the most difficult part of the mission. The job fell to Nancy Currie, the shuttle crane operator who hoisted and repositioned Unity in the cargo bay on Saturday.
The two station pieces are so big — 77 feet from the tip of one to the tip of the other with a combined mass of 70,000 pounds that Currie and her crewmates had to rely on a computerized vision system and camera views, rather than direct line of sight. Such a "blind" docking never had been attempted before.
Mission Control gave the astronauts plenty of time for the tasks.
Before beginning their final approach to Zarya — Russian for Sunrise — the shuttle's six astronauts had to steer clear of a chunk of a rocket launched last month from California.
Bob Castle, flight director, said, "The main thing I've tried to do for the last two years working on this flight is make sure we have time."
Mission Control ordered the pilots to fire the shuttle thrusters to put an extra three miles between Endeavour and the space junk, putting Endeavour a total of five miles from the orbiting debris.
The bigger worry, by far, was of Endeavour's pursuit and capture of Zarya and its coupling with Unity.
The shuttle's 50-foot robot arm never before had been assigned to handle an object as massive as the 44,000-pound Zarya, a power and propulsion module that was launched from Kazakhstan on Nov. 20. It will provide all the necessary electricity and steering for the fledgling space station until a permanent control module can be launched next summer.
The 36-foot,25,000-pound Unity will serve as a connecting passageway, or vestibule, for future modules.
In case Zarya and Unity could not be connected with the robot arm, two spacewalking astronauts would have had to manually fit them together.
In all, three spacewalks were planned for Endeavour's 12-day flight.
NASA estimates 43 more launches and 159 more spacewalks will be needed after this mission to assemble the entire orbiting complex.
Once completed, the 16-nation space station will have a mass of 1 million pounds, be longer than a football field and house up to seven astronauts and cosmonauts.
With the Earth pictured in the background, the U.S. space shuttle Endeavour's robot arm lifts the Unity module from the shuttle's cargo bay. The Endeavour and six-person crew are on the first International Space Station assembly mission carrying the U.S. Unity module to orbit for docking with the Russian module already in orbit. AFP PHOTO/NASA VIDEO
House likely to endorse impeachment
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — With hopes of a censure alternative fading, lawmakers said that yesterday the House appeared to be moving inexorably toward impeaching President Clinton.
At the same time, however, the House Judiciary Committee offered a compromise plan to give the White House two days this week to present the president's side in the Monica Lewinsky case.
Clinton's lawyers had requested three or four days, while committee chairman Henry Hyde, R-III., originally proposed a one-day hearing and warned against any effort to delay the committee's work.
House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, R-Texas, the House vote-counter and a chief proponent of impeachment, ruled out a separate censure resolution as unconstitutional. And DeLay said: "If we voted today the president would be impeached."
Other Republicans said on television yesterday
Other Republicans said that Clinton lost ground among those inclined not to impeach him with what were described as legalistic responses to 81 questions posed by the com-
"When the president pretty much stiffed the Congress, then I think a number have said no. I may vote for impeachment now," Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn., said on ABC's "This Week." Shays is among only a few Republicans openly opposing impeachment.
Under the Judiciary Committee's proposal yesterday, the president's lawyers will get a last chance to present his side of the case tomorrow and Wednesday. Committee chief of staff Thomas Mooney, in a letter to White House counsel Charles F.C. Ruff, said Clinton's lawyers would get an extra day but made clear that "the committee will not undermine its goal of resolving the inquiry this year."
"His answers to the 81 questions were outrageous. He still doesn't get it. He still doesn't tell the truth," Shavys said.
The White House had no immediate response.
Regardless, the committee is likely to vote by the end of the week to approve at least one article of impeachment, accusing the president of committing perjury in testimony denying a sexual relationship with Lewinsky.
Rep. Bill McCollum, R-Fla., a strong backer of impeachment, promised to seek other articles, including an allegation of obstruction of justice, when committee Republicans meet today. "I don't think censure is on the table now," he said on ABC.
If the committee approves articles of impeachment, the issue would go to the full House the following week for a vote on whether to send those articles to the Senate, where 67 of the 100 senators would have to vote against Clinton to remove him from office. Lawmakers on both sides say the House vote is now too close to call, but the Senate is almost certain not to vote to remove the president.
McCollum said that the Senate should impeach even knowing the Senate won't convict. "Impeachment is the ultimate censure," he said, and "censure is the ultimate scarlet letter."
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