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The Inside Front
Wednesday November 4,1998
News
from campus,the state the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Women to discover why men act the way they do
A program designed to point out gender stereotypes will discuss male-female relationships at 7 tonight at the Frontier Room in the Burge Union.
Robert Page, director of the National Pan-Hellenic Council, and Tamara Lewis, assistant director of minority affairs, will lead a discussion and show a video dealing with gender differences.
The program, "How Stella and Fella Got Their Grove Back," is sponsored by the Black Student Union and is open to the public.
A similar program was given at the Black Leadership Conference in October.
"This program has gotten more public comparison to last time," said Eve Lane, St. Louis, Mo., sophomore. "I'm real interested in seeing more people, hearing more comments."
The presentation will also include a panel discussion and a workshop to talk about relationships.
— By Sarah Hale
Kansas State vandals mark stadium sidewalk
Kansas State fans, or possibly one fan, left their mark on the University's campus during the weekend.
Messages including "K-State is #1" and "KSU's posse was here" were sprayed in purple paint on a sidewalk between Lot 91 and Memorial Stadium, the KU Public Safety Office said.
According to a police report, the vandals painted the graffiti between 2 p.m. Friday and 11 a.m. Monday. Damage from the incidents was estimated at $100 in the report. Sgt. Troy Mailen of the Public Safety Office said that police had no suspects .
LAWRENCE
By Kelli Raybern
Woman found dead after release from jail
The cause of death will not be official until the autopsy is completed. The autopsy began Monday.
The cause of death of a 74-year-old Lawrence woman found Sunday probably was exposure to the elements, said Doug las County Undersheriff Kenny Massey.
The body of Patsy Lesher was discovered at 11:22 a.m. by a sheriff's officer responding to a report of a person in the ditch at the intersection of Highways 59 and 10, said Sgt. Blake McCall, of the Douglas County Sheriff's Office.
Lesher was reported missing by her family to the Lawrence police, who spoke with her the day before her death in the 3400 block of Iowa Street, said Lawrence Police Sgt. George Wheeler.
By Keith Burner
Police said that she had been staying at the Days Inn, 2309 S. Iowa St., since her Oct. 25 release from Douglas County
ball. She had been arrested following an altercation with her sister. A requirement of her bail agreement had been to have no contact with her sister, prompting her to seek residence at the Inn.
STATE
Speedway lawsuit delays construction
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The proposed speedway in Wyandotte County is facing another obstacle.
Another lawsuit filed by homeowners displaced by the Kansas International Speedway has left the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kan., wondering when it will be able to sell bonds to finance the $208-million project.
Local government cannot sell bonds for a project that is being litigated in the courts under Kansas law.
The government and racetrack opponents already were awaiting a judge's decision on one lawsuit from homeowners when another was filed last week. The lawsuit from Margaret and Robert E. Pitts claims there was an illegal price fixing scheme designed to take the Pitts' property for the racetrack and not give them just compensation.
The Pitts' lawsuit is a class-action lawsuit on behalf of the 146 households displaced by the project. Many of those households already have sold their property and moved away.
The lawsuit asked for a judgment against the defendants to halt the property acquisition. It also asked the court to rule that the property acquisition agreement between the government and the ractrack corporation was illegal and unconstitutional.
NATION
Supreme Court hears case on police searches
WASHINGTON — Several Supreme Court justices expressed doubts yesterday about giving police blanket authority to search people's cars when ever they are stopped and ticketed for routine traffic violations.
The court is expected to rule by July whether an Iowa man's rights were violated by a police search of his car that turned up marijuana.
Patrick Knowles argued that the search violated the Constitution's Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches. Iowa courts allowed the marijuana to be used as evidence, and Knowles was convicted and sentenced to 90 days in jail.
The Supreme Court ruled in 1973 that police can search people upon arrest, citing a need to disarm suspects and preserve evidence.
iowa law allows police to either make an arrest or issue a citation for traffic violations. If they issue a citation, they
still can make a search.
The Iowa Supreme Court has interpreted the provision to allow police to conduct a search whenever they could have arrested someone, even if they decide instead to issue a citation.
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy said this interpretation law now allows police to conduct a search prior to arrest.
Drug decreases AIDS in patients, study says
NEW YORK — An experimental drug cut the level of the AIDS virus in patients' blood by as much as 99 percent in two weeks, according to the preliminary results of a study.
That is as potent as approved drugs, which can drive the virus down to undetectable levels when taken longer. The experimental drug, called T-20, showed the 99-percent reductions in the four patients who took the highest dose.
The drug sabotages HIV machinery for penetrating into the body's cells, a different strategy from that used in approved HIV medications.
Unlike the standard medications, T-20 wouldn't work as a pill, and it was given by injection to the 16 patients in the two-week study. Results are reported in the November issue of the journal Nature Medicine by scientists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the drug company Trimeris Inc. of Durham, N.C. Trimeris is developing T-20.
In an accompanying editorial, Douglas Richman, physician, of the University of California, San Diego, cautioned that much more study will be needed to assess the usefulness of T-20.
WORLD
European rights court to handle more cases
BRUSSELS, Belgium — The Council of Europe inaugurated a streamlined European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, that it hopes will deal faster with citizens' complaints.
"Nearly 800 million Europeans will have access to this court," Daniel Tarschys, the secretary-general of the Council of Europe, said at the Inauguration ceremony yesterday.
The new court will work full time, unlike the old one that operated one week every month and handled about 100 cases a year, said council representative Kathy Burton.
"We're hoping the new system will speed up the procedure quite dramatically." Burton said.
The court rules on infringements of the 1950 European Human Rights Convention that was signed by all 40 nations in the Council of Europe. Citizens from those nations can bring cases to the European court after they have exhausted legal options in their home countries.
Under the old court system, rulings often took years.
ON CAMPUS
The Associated Press
All volunteer applications for Alternative Spring Break are due by 5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9, at the Center for Community Outreach in the Kansas Union. Applications and information are available at the CCO office, online at http://www.ukans.edu/~asb or call 864-4073.
- OAKS-Non-Traditional Students Organization will have a brown-bag lunch from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. today at Alcove A in the Kansas Union. Call Simmie Berroya at 830-0074 for more information.
University Forum will present "The Year 2000 Problem" from noon to 1 p.m. today at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries. Allen and Louise Hanson will be the featured speakers. Call Thad Holcombe at 843-4933 for more information.
African and African-American Studies and the Langston Hughes Center will sponsor "Foreign Investment in Africa in the Era of Globalization" from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. today at the Governor's Room in the Kansas Union as part of the Africana Faculty Seminar series. Visiting professor Felix Tane will be the featured speaker, Call Pia Thielmann at 8:4d-3054 for more information.
University Career and Employment Services will have a "DiscoverMe" presentation at 3:30 p.m. today at the Walnut Room in the Kansas Union. DiscoverMe is a cost-free recruiting service to match people to jobs based on their unique personality. Call Gina Eastman at 864-3624 for more information.
- Writing Consulting: Student Resources will present "Cover-Letter and Resume Writing with Your Audience in Mind" at 4 p.m. today at 4057 Wescoe. Call 864-2399 or 864-4232 for more information.
■ Writing Consulting: Student Resources will have an open house to celebrate the grand opening of the Writer's Roosts from 5 to 7 p.m. today at the Sunflower Room in the Burge Union. All faculty, staff and students are welcome.
The SUA Recreation Committee will meet at 6:30 p.m. today. The SUA Live Music Committee will meet at 7 tonight. Both meetings will be in the Kansas Union. Call the SUA box office at 864-3477 or visit http://www.uksan.edu/sua for more information.
http://www.ukans.edu/~sua for more information.
KU Libertarians will meet at 7 tonight at the Governor's Room in the Kansas Union. Call Rodger Woods at 841-6195 for more information.
Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship will meet at 7:30 tonight at the Pioneer Room in the Burgeon Union. Call Wendy Brown at 838-3984 or visit Chi Alpha's site at http://www.ukans.edu/~chilpha for more information
ntp://www.ukans.edu/~chialpha for more information.
Jayhawker Campus Ministry will meet at 8 tonight at the Oread Room in the Kansas Union. Call Dave Diefendorf at 840-9469 for more information.
- Vouchers for a free sneak preview of Waterboy, showing at 8 tonight at Liberty Hall, are available at the SUA box office. SUA will also be showing Spice World at 7 p.m. and midnight Friday and Saturday at Alderson Auditorium, and Jackie Brown at 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday at Alderson Auditorium. Tickets and movie cards are on sale for those shows at the SUA box office window in the Kansas Union. Call 864-3477 for more information.
Holcomb man dies after game while on bus
By Keith Burner
Cansan staff writer
A 49-year-old Holcomb man died following Saturday's Kansas-Kansas State football game after boarding a bus at Memorial Stadium.
The cause of Thomas Maestas' death has not been determined, but authorities said they suspected he died of a heart attack.
Authorities expect the results of an autopsy in about a week.
Maestas died at about 3:15 p.m. at 11th and Mississippi streets aboard a bus owned by Lawrence Bus Co., 837 Pennsylvania St.
The bus had been contracted by the University of Kansas Athletics Department to transfer people parked at the Burge Union and Robinson Gymnasium to the stadium, said Susan Wachter of the KU Athletics Department
Witnesses said that after boarding the bus with family members, Maestas' breathing became labored and then stopped, said Lawrence police Sgt. George Wheeler.
George Whieler.
The bus driver then contacted his supervisor, using the bus radio. The supervisor then called 911.
Police said he was then transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Lawrence-Douglas County Fire and Medical arrived about six minutes following his collapse, said Battalion Chief Brian Lawrence.
Lawrence said paramedics would have reached Maestas sooner, but they had trouble finding the correct bus amid all the other busses and the post-game confusion.
Lawrence police said that they had no suspicion of foul play in the death because the man had a history of medical problems.
Lawrence Bus Co. would not comment
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's dashboard was damaged and a CD player was stolen between 1 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. Sunday in the 200 block of Walden Court, Lawrence police said. The CD player was valued at $160, and the damage to the dashboard was $350.
A KU student's CD player was stolen between 2 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. Monday in the 200 block of Walden Court, Lawrence police said. The CD player was valued at $500.
A KU student's CD player was stolen between 8
p. m. Saturday and 4 a.m. Sunday in the 1800 block of Tennessee Street, Lawrence police said. The property was valued at $150.
A KU student backed into an illegally-parked Environmental Health and Safety Department vehicle at 8:55 a.m. Monday in Lot 18 behind Wescow Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said.
A KU employee's globe was stolen between 9 a.m. Oct, 12 and 10 am. Monday from his office in Wesco Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The item was valued at $50.
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