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The Inside Front
Friday October 23,1998
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Photographers fly high to catch campus beauty
Two photographers will circle the University of Kansas campus in helicopters today and Sunday afternoon.
At 3:30 p.m. today, David McKinney, a University Relations staff member, will photograph the University from a helicopter, trying to capture the beauty of the campus architecture and the colorful leaves on campus trees.
The helicopter will circle the campus for an hour.
"Capturing the beauty of this campus at the peak of its fall beauty is important as we attempt to market the University to students," said Tom Hutton, director of University Relations. "It's one thing to talk about the beauty of Mount Oread. See it to be believe it."
The attractiveness of the University's campus has been cited by National Geographic and the Fiske Guide to Colleges.
At 3 p.m. Sunday, Frank Bartell, University Relations electronic media coordinator, will assist in videotaping the campus as well as Edwards Campus, formerly known as the Regents Center, in Overland Park and the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.
-Kansan staff report
Enrollment to begin for spring semester
Seniors and degree seeking graduate students will begin enrolling today at 151 Strong Hall.
From 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., the Enrollment Center will begin student enrollment for Spring 1999.
Seniors will enroll until Oct. 30, followed by juniors, sophomores and freshmen for the next three weeks, said Kim O'Bryan, public service administrator in enrollment services.
Students should have received a permit to enroll in the mail that lists their assigned appointment.
Appointments are based on rotation and are computer generated.
Once that appointment has passed,
the student could enroll at any time.
Open enrollment and Add/Drop will begin Nov. 19.
By Nov. 23, a $25 fee will go into effect for students who enroll late.
O'Bryon reminded students not to for get about the options table, which is outside the Enrollment Center.
The options table will offer services such as semester bus passes.
Emily Vinzant, a Wichita sophomore who is scheduled to enroll Nov. 9, said enrollment was not a big deal.
"I've never really had any problems with enrollment," she said.
"So I'm not really dreading it. I'm probably the only person on campus who isn't bothered by it," Vinzant said.
— By Sarah Hale
Sunday gains hour during time change
It is almost time to turn back the clock.
At 2 a.m. Sunday, daylight savings time will begin.
In many cases, this extra hour will be a welcome extension for students.
Chris Ward, Columbia, S.C., freshman, said he would use the extra hour to stay out longer after attending the homecoming game.
Another student said she planned to use the additional hour academically.
"I plan to study more," said Shanetta March, Auroa, Colora, freshman.
Although most of the United States will be pushing clocks back one hour, in some states and territories, the time will not change.
Residents of Arizona, Hawaii and parts of Indiana in the Eastern Time Zone choose not to observe daylight savings time. Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and America Somoa also will not be changing.
On April 4, the country will once again spring forward.
- By Julie M. Sachs
KU student robbed outside of dance club
A KU student was robbed early yesterday morning when he was walking out of a local exotic dance club.
The student was in the parking lot of The Outhouse, 1823 E. 1500 Road, and had just pulled his money from his pocket when he was approached by four men, the Douglas County Sheriff's Office reported.
One of the men took $60 out of the student's hand, and the four men then drove back toward Lawrence.
Sheriff's officers said the man had taken the money out of his pocket to make sure it was still there.
The men were last seen driving a Ford sports utility vehicle.
The student said that he did not know any of the men and that they had not used a weapon during the robbery.
There are no suspects.
NATION
An administrative complaint filed Wednesday by the Agriculture Department accuses the Bentonville, Ark-based retailer of 156 counts of violating federal regulations that govern the importation of Mexican avocados. The company will have an opportunity to present its position in an administrative hearing and could be finned up to
$1,000 on each count, officials said.
WASHINGTON — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is accused of transporting hundreds of cartons of Mexican avocados to states that did not have federal approval to sell the avocados.
$1,000 on each count, officials said. Company representative Betsy Reithemeyer said Wal-Mart had been working with the agency since it became aware of the situation in March.
"We would never knowingly or willfully do anything to violate the USDA regulations," she said.
USDA alleges that from late 1997 to early this year Wal-Mart moved 668 cartons of avocados from selected states to unapproved states.
Sudan floods endanger 120,000 starving people
WORLD
The hardest-hit areas were also the worst ones suffering from the famine, said Lindsay Davies, U.N. World Food Program representative.
NAIROBI, Kenya — Heavy rains in war ravaged southern Sudan flooded homes and crops in low-lying areas, endangering more than 120,000 people already suffering from famine, the United Nations said yesterday.
More than 1.5 million people have died in fighting and famine from the 15-year war. Rebels in the mostly Christian and animist south are battling with government troops from the Muslim north.
Davies said the majority of the 46,000 people in the area already receiving food assistance had lost their meager crops to the floods and now were moving to higher ground.
Another 80,000 people were affected by heavy rains in southeastern Sudan.
Renewed fighting between Sudan People's Liberation Army rebels and government forces in the area has made the situation worse.
China refuses to bow to human rights issues
BEIJING - China ended its first human rights conference on a defiant note, signaling it would not embrace Western definitions of civil liberties, state media reported yesterday.
In a speech ending the two-day conference Wednesday, the Chinese government's most senior spokesman, Zhao Qizheng, said Beijing would follow its own interpretations of human rights.
While acknowledging the universality of rights, Zhao said the rights to economic survival and development came first, according to accounts of his speech carried by the Xinhua News Agency and China Daily.
Zhao's speech underscored that China's policies have changed little, despite its greater willingness to discuss human rights problems and sign key U.N. rights treaties.
The human rights conference was the first international academic conference China has sponsored. More than 80 delegates from 27 countries attended, but no known Chinese dissidents were allowed to attend.
The Associated Press
A book of checks, a check book and a credit card were stolen from a KU student between 5:30 and 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in the 900 block of Kentucky Street, Lawrence police said. The property was valued at $245.
A KU student's parking pass was stolen between 12:30 and 12:40 p.m. Wednesday in the 900 block of Iowa Street, Lawrence police said. The pass was valued at $95
ON THE RECORD
A CD player and two CDs were stolen from a KU student's car, and the car's dash was damaged between 10 p.m. Saturday and 2 a.m. Sunday in the 600 block of Massachusetts Street, Lawrence police said. The property was valued at $266, and the damage was estimated at $50.
A window at the Sigma Phi Epius fraternity house, 1645 Tennessee St., was broken between 2 a.m. and noon Sunday, Lawrence police said. The window was valued at $1.5
A KU student's legally parked vehicle was hit by an unknown vehicle that left the scene between 9:30 a.m. and 4:45 p.m. Wednesday in Lot 59, west of Memorial Stadium, the KU Public Safety Office said. Damage to the vehicle was estimated at less than $500.
ON CAMPUS
Le Circle Francis will have a walking tour of campus at 5 p.m. today, starting in front of the Natural History Museum. Call the French and Italian Department at 864-4056 for more information.
Business and Engineering Career Services will present a resume workshop at 10:30 a.m. today at 503 Summerfield Hall. Call Cathy Schwabauer at 864-5591 for more information.
The KU Ballroom Dance Club will give free two-step lessons, taught by professional instructors, from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union. Call Tesi Hostetler at 864-1763 for more information.
Campus Christians will have dinner at 6 p.m. Sunday at 1320 Ohio St. Praise and worship begins at 7 p.m., and dinner costs $1. The Sunday message series is "I'm only human." Call Jason Mead at 331-2361 for more information.
Intervarsity Christian Fellowship meets for prayer at 5 p.m. every weekday at Danforth Chapel. Call Susan Hines at 864-6503 for more information.
KU students, faculty discuss intellectual property policy
By Jason Pearce
Kansan staff writer
University faculty and students discussed the Kansas Board of Regents proposed policy about intellectual property yesterday at the University Senate Meeting.
Intellectual property rights determine what ownership of properties — including software, scholarly and artistic work, and student academic creations — the University retains or leaves with the creator.
The meeting, held in the Kansas Union's Alderson Auditorium, began when Provost David Shulenburger outlined six proposed changes. The Regents will act on the proposal at the November board meeting but gave each of the state's six public universities until Nov. 1 to discuss and suggest any changes.
Bob Basow, University Senate President, said the Regents' policy deliberately was made vague by the Regents so that schools of varying size could make the policy fit school-specific needs.
"We have to come up with our own plan for this University." Bassow said.
Shulenburger said that one of the changes that could be made by an individual university was to alter a $10,000 limit on the projected market value of computer software that a faculty member could retain.
"We are not free to reduce it, but we can set a higher threshold." he said.
Students and faculty members at the meeting raised ideas about the policy such as creating a task force outside of the governance realm to develop the University's extended policy, clarifying the mediated course-related material to exclude lectures from University ownership and clarifying the ownership of adapted or online courses.
Shulenburger said that many of these issues could be dealt with by a local policy, which would be created after the Regents approve a universal policy.
Today: IN HISTORY
1824 - First steam locomotive is introduced.
1941 - Walt Disney's Dumbo is released.
1981 - U.S. national debt hits one trillion.
1921 Green Bay Packers play first NFL game and win 7-6 against Minneapolis.
1963 - Nil Simon's "Barefoot in the Park" premiers in New York City.
1973 - Nixon agrees to turn in White House tape recordings to Judge Sirica.
1945 - Jackie Robinson signs Montreal Royal contract.
1983 - Suicide terrorist truck bomb kills 243 U.S. personnel in Beirut.
1991 "Les Miserables" opens at the Mogedor Theatre in Paris
1991 Dr. Jack Kevorkian's suicide machine kills 2 women
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Academic Computing Services presents:
FREE COMPUTER TRAINING for the KU Community
Week of Oct. 26-30
Web-Database Integration — Create a Web-based interface to a database with an HTML form and CGI scripting. See how to combine a database and CGI script to produce dynamic Web content using mSQL and Perl in the UNIX environment.
Prerequisite: HTML forms and CGI scripts or equivalent skills. Tues., October 27 9 a.m. – noon/Computer Center PC Lab, Room 208
HTML Advanced—Enhance your Web page layout with tables, frames, image maps, and other advanced HTML formats.
Prerequisite: HTML intermediate or equivalent skills. Mon., October 26 1 - 4 p.m.; Budig Hall PC Lab, Room 10
ACS internet classes are FREE, don't require registration, and are open to everyone. Office and statistical soft ware classes are FREE to KU students, staff, and faculty (w/ for others) out DO REQUIRE REGISTRATION.
Register at acsworkshop@ukans.edu or 864-0494. Full ACS class schedule at www.acs.ukans.edu/~acs/training or in Driver's Ed for the information Superhighway at the Computer Center.
Training questions to training@ukans.edu or 864-0494
Access: Forms—Learn to create forms using Access Form Wizard and Design View. Prerequisite: Access: Queries or equivalent skills. Requires registration for all and fee for non University, Wed. October 28 1 - 4 p.m./ Budig Half PC Lab, Room 10
Excel: Introduction —Build a simple worksheet, and learn menu selection, cursor movement, cell addressing, data types.
Help and more. Prerequisite: Experience working in the Windows or Mac OS environment. Requires registration for all and fee for non-University. Thurs. October 29 9 a.m.-noon/ Computer Center PC Lab. Room 208
Access: Introduction—Create, save index, sort, and edit a database table. Prerequisite: Experience in the Windows environment. Requires registration for all and fee for non-University. Fri, October 30 9 a.m.--noon/Budig Hall PC Lab. Room 10
Hispanic Heritage Month
Hispanic American Leadership Organization invites you to enjoy...
An exciting hour of pure Flamenco dancing and guitarist
Calero Group
Friday, October 23
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Kansas Union
The movie
Saturday, October 24
2:00 p.m.,7:00 p.m.,and 9:30 p.m.
Monday, October.26
7:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.
Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union Tickets available at SUA
The University of Kansas Office of Minority Affairs KU Center of Latin American Studies