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The Inside Front
Thursday October 15, 1998
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Four bands to play benefit at Bottleneck
Danger Bob, Sugardaddles, Glitterkicks and Alex Brahl will play a benefit show for the KU Pro-Choice Coalition and The Clothesline project 10 tonight at The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St.
Proceeds from the event will be split between the two groups.
"It's the first fund-raiser we have done in three or four years," said Sarah Page, organizer of the event. "Last year, we wanted to start one, but it didn't work out."
The 18 and-over show will have a $5 admission fee.
Page said that the goal of the show was to raise awareness about certain women's issues and to raise money for their cause.
The Clothesline project is a visual presentation with a collection of T-shirts that represent violence against women and children. It is a national project that has been localized in Lawrence.
"We are pretty poor at this point, and we want to be able to donate money to the Clothesline project," said Sally Puleo, vice-president of the KU ProChoice Coalition.
The project will be on display during "Women Take Back the Night" from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Oct. 22 at South Park. Page said that people would be able to design and display from the clothesline their own T-shirts.
By Keill Raybern
By Augustus Anthony Plazza
Girl, mother reunited after day of searching
A KU student, a professor and the KU Public Safety Office worked together to help a lost girl on campus Monday.
According to a police report, Edward Mitchell, Lawrence graduate student, found the girl, 8-year-old Eva Ross, at the bus stop outside Bailey Hall.
Eva was crying and said she had lost her mother, who she said should have been at the stop.
Mitchell took her to the History Department Office in Wescoe Hall to make some calls and try to find her mother. When several attempts to reach her mother were unsuccessful, Mitchell and Dan Bays, history lecturer, called the KU Public Safety Office.
Eva told University Police Officer Steven Mooney that she had been with her mother at her three-year-old brother's school. She said she had gone to get her backpack from a rock garden and could not find her mother when she returned.
Police dispatch contacted the Dole Child Development Center and were told that Eva's mother, Laura Ross, had not been there since early afternoon.
Then a call came into the history office, and Officer Mooney learned that Laura Ross was looking for her daughter near the Development Center, Laura Ross arrived a
few minutes later and was reunited with her daughter, who was unharmed.
LAWRENCE
Counterfeit bills spent at several businesses
The number of counterfeit $10 bills showing up at local businesses is increasing.
"They're still turning up, some at businesses and some at cafes." I toldald Wheeler.
Thirteen counterfeit bills were spent during the weekend, and the number of reports probably will grow, police said.
So far bids have been received by The Eldridge Hotel, King Arthur's, Milton's coffee shop, Harbour Lights, Jazzhaus, Chill's, the Coco Loco Mexican Cafe and the Granada, police said.
Wheeler said the bills primarily had turned up at bars.
"The reason so many bills turn up in bars is because of the dark and that they are so busy," Wheeler said. "They take the money and don't have time to look at it really close."
Police said that many of the bills were not discovered until they reached the bank in the businesses' deposits the next morning.
"The bank won't take the loss, so they turn them over to the businesses." Wheeler said.
The businesses then take the bills to the police, and the businesses take the loss, police said.
Granada Manager Patrick McDonald said that, hard as it may be, the club was taking steps to avoid being stung by future counterfeiters.
He would not comment further. ___
By Keith Burner
STATE
Dickinson Theatres lays off 17 in Mission
MISSION — About half of Dickinson Theatres corporate staff, including most department heads, have been dismissed as the theater chain continues to look for a buyer for at least part of the company.
The dismissals of 17 of 36 people were announced Monday. The 17 employees were given two weeks severance pay. Those with company cars were told to leave the keys on their desks and were provided rides.
John Hartley, who had been overseeing construction of Dickinson theaters, was named president of the Mission-based company as part of the reorganization.
Chairman Wood Dickinson said the company was talking to three groups that were interested in buying from one-third to one-half of the company. He said he thought his entire market was worth about $55 million. Dickinson declined to identify any of the potential bidders.
Dickinson Theatres operates more than
200 screens in about 30 theaters throughout the Midwest. Dickinson said properties that were not sold would either be closed or would continue to be operated.
Woodlands racetrack auction postponed
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A federal bankrupt judge yesterday posted the auction of The Woodlands dog and horse ractetrack until a court-appointed trustee can develop a new bidding process.
The Woodlands' trustee, attorney Eric Rajala, had requested that Bankruptcy Judge John Flannagan approve the sale at yesterday's hearing. Creditors wanted the auction to be held the same day.
Flannagan agreed that the sale process needed to be restructured and set a new hearing for Nov. 3 to discuss the process.
But attorneys for The Woodlands had objected to the way the auction was structured, saying it was in favor of the creditors.
Rajala had set the minimum opening bid for the racetrack at $3 million for all bidders except creditors who could bid any amount up to what they are owed. He said the track and its assets would be sold as a group, not split up.
NATION
Study suggests AIDS more difficult to treat
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A study found that the AIDS virus can mutate into separate strains in a patient's semen and blood, suggesting the infection may be craftier and harder to treat than previously thought.
The findings challenge the widely held belief that an individual can harbor only one strain of the AIDS virus.
The researchers urged the development of drugs that attack blood- and semen-based viruses separately.
The research involved 1.1 HIV-infected men in North Carolina and Switzerland. Some of those who were treated before the study had AIDS strains that had mutated and developed resistance to antiviral drugs.
in most of the volunteers with these resistant viruses, their sperm and blood were found to contain different viral strains.
Protease inhibitors, a powerful class of AIDS drugs, did not penetrate the male genitalis or did so only with great difficulty.
The researchers, physicians Pietro Vernazza of St. Gall Cantonal Hospital in Switzerland and Joseph J. Eron of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, concluded that the male genitalis and the bloodstream act as separate compartments, which have to be dealt with independently when giving AIDS drugs.
The Associated Press
the Lindley Lecture that featured Christine Korsgaard at 8 tonight has been canceled. The speech by the philosophy department was supposed to be held at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union. Call A.C. Geneva at 864-3976 for more information.
ON CAMPUS
Academic Computing Services will have a Lunch and Learn Video Viewing session from noon to 1 p.m. today at the Computer Center Auditorium. The video will be "Understanding Directory Services: DNS and IDAP." Call Julie Loats at 864-0464.
Proponents of Animal Liberation, KU Environs and Ecumenical Christian Ministries will sponsor a vegetarian luncheon from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at the ECM. Donations will be accepted. Call Laura at 8412588 for more information.
Business and Engineering Career Services will have an interview workshop at 4:30 p.m. today at 3023 Learned Hall, Call Cathy Schwabauer at 864-5591 for more information.
The Latin American Solidarity will present "Students and Violence: How U.S. Taxpayers Fund the Training of Assassins at the School of the Americans," at 6 p.m. today at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries. A free rice and beans dinner will be served. Call Megan Hope at 331-2403 for more information.
The Proponents of Animal Liberation will meet at 6 p.m. today at Alcove F in the Kansas Union. 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 immediately will follow at the Glass Onion. Call Kyle Browning at 1-852-1341 for more information.
Intervarsity Graduate Christian Fellowship will meet at 7:30 tonight at Alcove in the Kansas Union. Call Steve Swank at 841-5211 for more information.
■ Campus Crusade for Christ, an interdenominational Christian student organization, will meet at 7:30 p.m. tonight at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union.
Call Mike Marklev at 838-4909 for more information.
The KU Pro-Choice Coalfusion will have a benefit concert at 9 tonight at the Bottleneck. The cost is $5. Danger Bob, Sugardaddies, Glitterkicks and Alex Brahl will perform. Voter guides, Planned Parenthood and Clothesline Project information will be distributed. Call Sarah Page at 841-5951 for more information.
Business and Engineering Career Services will have a resume workshop at 1 p.m. tomorrow at 503 Summer field Hall. Call Cathy Schwabauer at 864-5591.
University tries to crackdown on harassment
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ton, director of University relations. "So what you're seeing is a crackdown from the top. There's an increased emphasis on letting people know about hazing and making it a public issue."
Tim Nadon, president of Phi Kappa Theta, said he agreed that hazing was wrong. He said that if the allegations against his chapter were proven to be true, then the perpetrators would be punished.
"We have been cooperating with the University and our headquarters 100 percent." Nadon said. "If they are proven true, I would not tolerate that in my house."
While hazing is the official name for any unwanted treatment or force in action, some fraternity members only consider physical beating the definition of hazing.
"Every fraternity has traditional things that they have to do, like when we get our pledge pins," said Matt Graham, St. Louis freshman and new member of Delta Tau Delta. "But I wouldn't say that's hazing because it's not physical abuse."
"It sucked because it started to rain around 5 a.m., but we all stayed because you have to do everything with your pledge class," he said. "That's the tradition."
Ambler said that if tradition was the reason for some hazing incidents, the traditions might need to be altered.
"Slowly but surely we'll work all the hazing out of the system," he said.
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's bicycle was stolen between 5 and b. p. 12. Oct. 12 from a rack in the Jayhawker Towers courtyard, the KU Public Safety Office said. The item was valued at $429.95.
A KU student's vehicle was rear-enclosed by another student's vehicle at 11:05 p.m. Oct. 12 when both vehicles were westbound on Jayhawk Boulevard at the West Campus Road intersection, the KU Public Safety Office said.
intersection, the KU Public Safety Office said.
A brake-light bulb was stolen and a light lens broken from a Facilities and Operations van between 4 p.m. Oct. 8 and 7:30 a.m. Oct. 12 in the lot behind Facilities and Operations, the KU Public Safety Office said. The stolen item was valued at $1. The damage was estimated at $50.
A KU student's legally parked vehicle was struck by another student attempting to parapadent to the vehicle at 7 p.m. Oct. 13 the lot west of Jay-hawker Towers, the KU Public Safety Office said.
A KU employee backed into the vehicle of a KU student at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 13 in the lot east of the Kansas Union, the KU Public Safety Office said. The damage was estimated at less than $500.
A KU police officer was dispatched to Robinson Gymnasium at 8:36 p.m. Oct. 13 in response to a student who had twisted her ankle, the KU Public Safety Office said. Friends of the student drove her to Lawrence Memorial Hospital for X-rays.
- The dashboard of a KU student's car was damaged, and a CD player was stolen from it Monday night in the 1300 block of Crosswinds Court, Lawrence police said. The damage was $100, and the property was valued at $100.
Seventeen CDs and a CD player were stolen from a KU student's car, and one of the car's windows was damaged in the early morning hours of Oct. 7 in the 1600 block of Tennessee Street, Lawrence police said. The damage was $200 and the property was valued at $625.
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