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The Inside Front
Tuesday November 24,1998
News
from campus, the state. the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Black Student Union recognizes members
Black Student Union recognized some of its outstanding members at its last meeting of the fall semester last night.
sophomore, was named the most outstanding BSU executive board mem-
The meeting was held at 7:30 p.m., at the Frontier Room in the Kansas Union Natalie Lucas, Kansas City, Kan. sophomore, was named the most out-
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BLACK
STUDENT
UNION
ber, said Dion Jones,
BSU president. Angela
Dew, Ahtishon freshman,
was named outstanding
Big 12 delegate. The National
Council of Negro
Women won the award for most active RSU organization.
The first meeting of the Spring 1999 semester will be at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 25 at the Frontier Room.
— Steph Brewer
LAWRENCE
Car stereo ordinance expected to be approved
Lawrence city commissioners will vote to approve an ordinance tonight that would prohibit the operation of car stereos that are audible more than 50 feet from the vehicle.
That night, commissioners voted 4-0 to allow city staff to draft a loud car stereo ordinance. If the commission votes to approve the ordinance tonight, it would take effect on Jan. 1.
On Oct. 27, commissioners received reports from lt. Ray Urbanek of the Lawrence Police Department and Dave Corliss, director of the city's legal services.
Corliss said the minimum fine for violators of the ordinance would be $50. Urbanek said that the ordinance would be enforced in Lawrence Municipal Court, much like a traffic infraction.
Chris Fickett
The commission will meet at 6:35 p.m. at the city commission chamber in City Hall, 6th and Massachusetts streets.
Police arrest woman for embezzling money
Lawrence police arrested a 44-year-old Lawrence woman late Sunday night for embezzling more than $28,000 from her Lawrence employer.
Telegraphics, 2309 Ponderosa Drive, reported to police that from April 1997 to October 1998 the woman wrote more than 50 checks for her own gain on the business" Douglas County Bank account.
Police said some of those checks were written for cash.
According to the police reports, the woman used a computer in her alleged
embezzling, but police would not come on how the computer was used.
Tekgraphics representatives could not be reached for comment.
The woman was arrested at 11:35 p.m. and placed in Douglas County Jail on 54 counts of theft, 38 of those were felony, 54 counts of making a false writing and one count of destruction of a written instrument, jail officials said.
The woman is being held on a $252.000 bond.
Keith Burner
NATION
CIA becomes selective after Gore's rejections
NEW YORK — The CIA is being more selective about reports they send to the White House because Vice President Al Gore's office rejected several alleging corruption by top Russian officials. The New York Times reported yesterday.
One CIA report detailing alleged evidence against former Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin was sent back with a barnyard epithet scrawled across its cover, intelligence officers familiar with the incident told the Times.
The message, they said, was that Gore did not want to hear anything bad about Chemomyrdin, who as prime minister of Russia in 1995 had regular discussions with Gore about U.S.-Russia relations.
As a result, the CIA has become more selective about distributing its information, agency analysts told the Times. They decided not to circulate a report that a German businessman paid $1 million for a meeting with Chernomyrdin, the newspaper said.
Chermomydrina has been accused publicly of enriching himself through his influence over Gazprom, Russia's natural gas monopoly.
Gore would not comment on the reports, the Times said.
"I never discuss top-secret documents," he told the newspaper.
Graduation rate falls among U.S. students
WASHINGTON — As more and more students graduate from high school in other industrialized countries, those in the United States seems to be running in place.
and Development found that during the past six years, 11 countries have over
In its annual study of international education statistics, the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation
taken the United States in high school graduation rates.
"The U.S. has lost its supremacy as the premier educator," said Andres
Schleicher, principal administrator of the organization. He said that had occurred not because the United States was doing worse but because other countries have become better
other countries have become better. Economic troubles, including high unemployment, have motivated young people in many countries to seek higher education so that they can compete in the work force.
The report also found that American eighth-graders continue to lag behind their counterparts in many industrialized countries when it comes to mathematics achievement.
WASHINGTON — Motorists riding without buckling up themselves and their children are at greater risk this week for a traffic ticket.
Seat-belt campaign to begin during holiday
More than 5,000 law enforcement agencies are participating in a national campaign during Thanksgiving week to make sure children and adults are buckled up, said the Air Bag and Seat Belt Safety Campaign, sponsor of the semiannual crackdown.
The safety campaign invited officers from all 50 states to kick off the effort at a ceremony yesterday with Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater.
Car crashes are the leading cause of death for American children. Last year, auto accidents took the lives of 2,087 youngsters up to age 15, according to government data.
Police will issue tickets, check passengers at road blocks or step up patrols.
Six out of 10 of the children who died were unbelted.
WORLD
Illness strikes Yeltsin for third time this fall
MOSCOW — Boris Yeltsin will work out of a hospital room for several days at least after he fell ill with pneumonia — the third time he has been sidelined by sickness in recent weeks.
The latest ailment revived worries about Yeitsin's ability to run a country mired in economic troubles. But his condition was not serious enough to stop him from meeting with Chinese President Jiang Zemin in the Central Clinical Hospital.
The 67-year-old Russian president was rushed to the hospital Sunday with pneumonia and a temperature of 102 degrees, the Kremlin said yesterday. He was being treated with antibiotics.
Yeltsin's condition remains constant, and he still has a slight temperature, presidential spokesman Dmitry Yakushkin said on Russia's NTV television yesterday.
The Associated Press
Two KU students are candidates in Rhodes scholarship competition
By Chad Bettes Kansan staff writer
Two University of Kansas students have won spots in the Kansas finals of the Rhodes scholarship competition to be held on Dec. 1 and 2 in Lawrence.
In the state competition, a Rhodes committee will formally interview Jennifer Kimball. Ulysses senior, and Anna VanCleave, Overland Park senior, as well as get to know them at dinner and breakfast meetings at the KU Alumni Center.
Kimball and VanCleave will compete against about 10 other state finalists for the chance to advance to a seven-
state district competition. Only two Kansas candidates will advance to the district competition on Dec. 4 and 5 in Minneapolis.
Four scholarships will be awarded to students from the central-Plains states district which includes Kansas.
Kimball said that she was excited to find out she had advanced in the competition and that she was looking forward to the interviews.
The University application process took place last spring, and Kimball and VanCleave began the national application process during the summer.
Mary Klayder, assistant director of the KU honors program, said the KU candidates
had a good chance.
"These are two excellent representatives of the University," Klayder said. "They are bright and exciting young women."
The Rhodes scholarship program was founded in 1904 for studies at Oxford University in England. It is a highly competitive program in which candidates are expected to exhibit a high level of academic and leadership abilities.
Kansas candidates must either be residents of the state or attend universities in the state. Twenty-three students from the University of Kansas have been named Rhodes Scholars in the history of the program.
ON CAMPUS
OAKS — Non-Traditional Students Organization will have a brown bag luncheon from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. today at Alcove E in the Kansas Union. Coll Simmie Berroya at 830-0074 for more information.
The Hispanic-American Leadership Organization will meet at 6 p.m. today at the Multicultural Resource Center. Call Janell Avila at 864-HALO for more information.
KU Environs will meet at 6 p.m. today at the International Room in the Kansas Union. Call Matt Dunbar at 864-7325 for more information.
The KU Meditation Club will meet at 6:15 p.m.
today at the Daisy Hill Room in the Burge Union. Call Beng Beh at 864-7754 for more information.
University Christian Fellowship will meet at tonight at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries. Call Tim Watts at 841-3148 for more information.
The Pool Boys and various campus Christian ministries will have an evening of praise and worship music at 8:45 tonight in Danforth Chapel. Call Wendy Brown at 838-3984 for more information.
The KU Ballroom Dance Club will not be giving lessons Sunday because of the Thanksgiving break.
Today: IN HISTORY
1871 - The National Rifle Association was incor
ported
1937 - Music from the Raymor Ballroom in Boston, Massachusetts was beamed const to const on NBC Radio.
1937 - Three lovely ladies, known as The Andrews Sisters, recorded Decca record number 1.562 this day.
1947 - The first Postmaster General of the United States, to be promoted from the rank and file, was named this day.
1947 - The Cleveland Indians renewed the managerial contract of Lou Boudreau for an additional two years.
1950 - The musical comedy, "Guys and Dolls",
from the pen of Frank Loesser, opened this day at the 46th Street Theatre in New York City.
1958 - Jack Wilson's Lonely Teardrops was released this day, as was a disk by Richie Valens, featuring Donna on one side and La Bamba on the other.
1973 - Following more than two years of retirement,
Frank Sinatra went back to work again.
1986 - The American Eagle silver dollar, like its gold counterpart, became all the rage on this, its first day of issue — by selling out. An additional 250,000 coins also were ordered this day by coin dealers.
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NOVEMBER 25, 26, 27
· Buses will resume regular schedules on:
NOVEMBER 30
SAFE RIDE:
· Safe Ride will not run:
NOVEMBER 24-29
· Regular schedule will resume the evening NOVEMBER 30
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