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The Inside Front
Thursday October 29,1998
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CLARIFICATION
An article on page 3A of Monday's Kansan mistaken the reason for vacant police officer positions in the KU Public Safety Office. Four positions, now filled, were vacant because people had left the department during the last four years to seek work elsewhere.
CAMPUS
Masturbators reported on and near campus
Police are still looking for two men who were seen masturbating on and near campus Tuesday.
One of the men was sighted in Watson Library, the other in front of the Pi Beta Phi sorority house.
Lawrence police were called to the sorority house, 1612 W. 15th St., about 3 p.m. by members who had seen a man masturbating in their front vard.
"The suspect was masturbating with one hand and waving to the girls with the other," said Lawrence Police Sgt. George Wheeler.
Police are investigating the incident as lewd and lascivious behavior, and they have no suspects.
Police are looking for a white man between 25 and 30 years old, last seen wearing blue jeans and a red and brown plaid shirt.
The second man was spotted at about 11:30 p.m. on the second floor lobby of the library, masturbating under a stairwell, said Sgt. Troy Mallen, of the KU Public Safety Office.
The office has no suspects.
Neither the Lawrence police nor the KU Public Safety Office knew if the two incidents were related.
Three suspects named in Haskell burglary
Police have three suspects in a month old burglary that cost Haskell Indian Nations University more than $11,000.
Lawrence police said they suspect three Haskell University students, ages 18, 19 and 21, of breaking into Hiawatha Hall and stealing several pieces of high-tech electronic equipment between Aug. 15 and Sept. 10.
One of the suspects admitted to the burglary when he was being interviewed by police for attempting to obtain money fraudulently from the Douglas County Bank.
The suspect told police that he and the other two students had entered the building with flashlights and had taken a microphone, a television, a CD player and other equipment, Lawrence police said.
The men have not been arrested, but the case has been forwarded to the Douglas County District Attorney's Office. Police expect the office to issue
formal charges in the incident soon. Police have been investigating the incident as a felony theft and burglary.
Escaped prisoners found close to Clinton Lake
Local law enforcement officers arrested three men Tuesday night near Clinton Lake in connection with a recent escape from a western Kansas prison.
A 21-year-old Lawrence man and a 20-year-old Cherryvale man had escaped from Stockton minimum security prison Friday and department of correction officers tracked the men to the Lawrence man's brother's house, said Douglas County Undersheriff Kenny Massey.
The corrections officers, with help from the Douglas County Sheriff's Office, the Lawrence Police Department and the Highway Patrol, went to the brother's house at 3 p.m. to arrest the men, but missed them by about 15 minutes. Massey said.
The officers then learned that the men, along with the brother's 4-year-old son, had gone jet skiing. The officers went to Clinton Lake and found the men.
Officers waited for the men to leave the lake, pulled the 4-year-old from the men's vehicle, and arrested them.
When police searched the car, they said they found a rifle, a handgun, 106 grams of crystal methamphetamines, and scales and plastic baggies.
The two escapees were taken to Lansing prison, and the Lawrence man was placed into the Douglas County jail for aiding a felon, possession of a methamphetamine with intent to sell, possession of drug paraphernalia and endangering a child, the sheriff's office reported.
By Keith Burner
WORLD
23 killed in Caribbean when hurricane strikes
LA CEIBA, Honduras — Hurricane Mitsch paused in its whirl through the western Caribbean yesterday to punish Honduras with 120 mph winds, sweeping away bridges, flooding neighborhoods and killing at least 32 people.
Mitch was drifting west at only 2 mph over the Bay Islands, a Honduras tourist area popular with American scuba divers and beachcombers.
At its peak Tuesday, Mitch was classified as the fourth-stoughest Caribbean hurricane this century with 180 mph winds. By yesterday afternoon, the 350-mile-wide storm still packed a punch, but its sustained winds were down to 120 mph.
The rainfall — up to 25 inches in mountain areas — began to take a toll. More than 50 rivers had overrun their banks, and the government evacuated more than 45,000 people from low-lying
areas, said Col. Guiliorom Pinel, chief of the National Emergency Committee.
President Carlos Flores Facusse declared the Caribbean coast a disaster zone, and officials said 23 people had died in Honduras alone, including 14 on Guanaja.
Despite ailing health, Yeltsin will finish term
MOSCOW — President Boris Yeltsin will serve out the last two years of his term but has turned over day-to-day affairs to his prime minister, a top aide was quoted as saving yesterday.
Yeltsin's deputy chief of staff said
Minier Minister Yevgeniy Primakov
Yelshin: Turns over daily affairs to prime minister.
government was now fully responsible for the economy.
"That doesn't mean, however, that the president can't demand that the government account for its actions in his same stem manner," Oleg Sysuyev was quoted as saying in the newspaper Segodnya.
Yeltsin, exhausted and with high blood pressure, relaxed yesterday at the rest home outside Moscow that he entered Tuesday, the day after doctors ordered him to cancel a one-day trip to Austria.
Yeltsin, 67, has played only a marginal role in dealing with the country's painful economic crisis.
He is expected to stay at the sanitarium until the end of the week and then will go on vacation for an unspecified period of time, Dmitry Yakushkin. Yeltsin's spokesman. He did not say where Yeltsin would spend his time off or elaborate on his condition.
Lightning bolt in Congo kills 11 soccer players
The lightning bolt killed all the players on the home team in the village of Bena Tshadi in the province of Eastern Kasai, the Congoese Press Agency said.
KINSHASA, Congo — Lightning killed 11 players on a Congolese soccer team and injured dozens on the sideline during a weekend game, the Congo news agency reported.
While Tuesday's news report could not be confirmed independently, the news agency said more than 30 people — most of them on the sidelines — were hurt, although none of the injuries was believed to be life-threatening.
Investigators blamed the lightning on witchcraft, because all the opposing players, from the nearby village of Basangana, escaped injury, the agency reported.
The Associated Press
The passenger side window of a KU student's car was damaged, and a planner with its contents was stolen from the car at 3 a.m. yesterday in the 900 block of Misissippi Street, Lawrence police said. The damage was $1.50, and the property was valued at $1.15.
ON THE RECORD
A fire extinguisher was damaged at 11:45 p.m. tuesday on the seventh floor of McCollum Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The damage was estimated at $30.
- The rear window of a KU student's car was shattered between 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and 9 a.m. yesterday in the 1300 block of New Jersey Street, Lawrence police said. The damage was $250.
- Two Oliver Hall residents reported the theft of a bottle of cologne, various clothes, cash, a pair of sandals, food, a lighter and detergent at 8:40 p.m. Tuesday from their room, the KU Public Safety Office said. The students said they suspected a neighbor of the theft. The neighbor's roommate let the students search his room, and the students found the stolen items. The neighbor admitted the theft and said another student also was involved. The students returned the belongings. All parties agreed that the matter would be settled internally by the residence hall system.
A KU student's parking permit was stolen at 7:30 a.m.
Tuesday in the 2000 block of 29th Street Terrace,
Lawrence police said. The permit had no value.
A KU student's backpack, driver's license, KUID, credit cards, cash, seven books, a calendar and a notebook were stolen between 7 and 8:30 p.m. Sunday outside Room 102 in Murphy Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The student's backpack, books, calendar and notebook were later recovered. The value of the items stolen was $45.
A KU student's backpack notebooks, drum pad and highlighters were stolen between 7 and 8:30 p.m. Sunday from outside Room 102 in Murphy Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The student's possessions were all recovered.
A KU student backed into another student's vehicle at 2 a.m. Sunday in Lot 110, east of Jayhawker Towers, the KU Public Safety Office said.
KU police responded to a medical emergency report at 3:15 p.m. Saturday, the KU Public Safety Office said. A KU band member thought he had broken or bruised ribs from pilling on top of other members. Lawrence-Douglas County Fire and Medical examined the student and said his ribs were not bruised or broken. The student returned to band practice.
Fraternities vie for campus spot
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reviewed by the committee
A recommendation will be given to the Interfraternity Council's general assembly to vote for one chapter.
The two fraternities that gave presentations have different backgrounds but similar mottoes.
Simons said that at this time it was not possible for both fraternities to be invited to the University. The two fraternities that gave presentations have differed in how they handled their events.
Delta Sigma Phi, founded in 1899 in New York was at the University of Kansas in 1955 but closed in 1970.
"Our ultimate mission statement promotes three things to pride individuality; a healthy lifestyle, personal development and intellectual growth," he said.
Tom Decker, Delta Sigma Phi national president, said that the fraternity promoted brotherhood and unity, regardless of a person's race or religious beliefs.
Decker and other associates said the headquarters were prepared to do whatever it took to be competitive on campus. This includes an initial recruitment of 50 or more men and a suitable house.
Pi Kappa Phi was founded in South Carolina on Dec. 10, 1940. Although the fraternity has never been represented on the KU campus, it has numerous chapters throughout the Midwest.
Pi Kappa Phi representatives Jeremy Galvin, director of programs, and Thomas Atwood, director of chapter services, promoted the fraternity's dedication to community service.
The national fraternity is involved with Push America, a program that volunteers for people with disabilities. One service project involves chapter members cycling across America and stopping to volunteer on the way. Atwood said.
Both of the presenting fraternities have active chapters established in Kansas State University.
"Which ever way the decision goes, it's going to be great for the KU community and for the KU greek community," Huang said.
ON CAMPUS
Circle K International, a community service club,
will have a recruitment meeting at 6 p.m. today at
1014 Learned Hall. Call Melissa Stein at (785)
776-8044 for more information.
No intrivens, Proponents of Animal Liberation and Ecumenical Christian Ministries will sponsor a vegetarian luncheon from 11 am. to 1 p.m. today at the ECM building, 1204 Oread Ave. Donations
Business and Engineering Career Services will have an interview workshop at 1 p.m. today at 424 Summerfield Hall, Call Cathy Schwabauer at 864-5591 for more information.
- Proponents of Animal Liberation will meet at 6 p.m. today at Alcove F in the Kansas Union. The meeting is open to the public. Call Karl Hardy at 830-9295 for more information.
Amnesty International will meet at 7 tonight at Alcove D in the Kansas Union. Letter writing will follow immediately at the Glass Onion. Call Kyle Browning
at 842-1351 for more information.
■ Queens and Allies will have a general meeting at 7 tonight at the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Union. The Halloween Ball for Saturday was canceled.
Campus Crusade for Christ, an interdenominational Christian student organization, will meet at 7:30 tonight at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union. Call Mike Markley at 834-989 for more information.
**Intervaleary Graduate Christian Fellowship will meet at 7:30 at night at Alcove F in the Kansas Union. Call Steve Swank at 841-5211 for more information.**
Business and Engineering Career Services will have a resume workshop at 1 p.m. tomorrow at 3015 Learned Hall. Call Cathy Schwabauer at 864-5591 for more information.
KU Democrats will present "Day on the Beach" from noon to 1 p.m. Friday in front of Wescae Hall. Paul Feleciano, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, will speak from 12:20 to 12:30 p.m. Call Phil Stevenson at 841-7307 for more information.
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