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The Inside Front
Monday October 12,1998
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
Runners up with the sun to raise funds for CASA
About 375 runners and walkers went to the Lied Center at 8 a.m. yesterday to participate in the 15th annual Sun Run, which supported the Court Appointed Special Advocates.
The Sun Run, which was sponsored by the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority,
raised at least $5,000.
"There are many abused and neglected children in Douglas County," said Gayle Gerritz, Kappa Alpha Theta community service chair. "We're hoping to help them with our donation to CASA."
CASA volunteers are trained to speak for children in court to help determine what is best for the child's future.
The 5-kilometer and 10-kilometer races took place on West Campus, and participants received T-shirts and food after the races.
The top three winners in both the female and male categories in five age groups and in each race received medals.
—By Sarah Hale
Two student leaders receive ExCel award
Chancellor Robert Hemenway will present the ExCel Award to two student leaders at halftime of the Oct. 24 homecoming football game.
The award, which stands for excellence in community, education and leadership, will be presented to winners Kevin Yoder, student body president, and Karen Isley, Panhellenic Council vice president.
Applications were judged by a panel of students and
Hemenway; Will present awards on Oct. 24.
The award was sponsored by SUA and the board of class officers. After filling out applications and going through interviews, Yoder and Isley were told that they had won the $500 award Thursday night.
faculty, said Jeff LaCroix, Student Union Activities Vice President for University Relations.
Students used to be nominated for the award, but now students apply and are interviewed.
The award process, including applications and advertisements, costs $2,000, LaCroix, said.
Court sentences man on drug charges Friday
One of two Lawrence residents found guilty of drug-related charges Sept. 8 was sentenced to 36 months probation
Friday in Douglas County District Court.
Lay in Douglas County District Court. Andrew Rileg and Karen Keogh were arrested in 1996 by the Douglas County Drug Enforcement Unit for several drug-related charges including the sale and delivery or distribution of marijuana. Keogh appeared in court Friday but rescheduled her sentencing for Nov. 2.
Riegel could have been sentenced to five to ten years in prison but received probation because of his behavior after the arrest.
Harry Warren, Riegel's attorney, told District Court Judge Jack Murphy that Riegel had gone into drug treatment, didn't do or sell drugs anymore and only had sold drugs to support his own drug habit.
Murphy said that if Riegel discontinued his drug treatment, it would be a violation of his probation terms.
Warren also told Murphy that Riegel had been cooperative with officers at the time of his arrest and had supplied information to police about another investigation.
Through Riegel, officers discovered that he had been buying marijuana from Keogh.
She was found with more than four pounds of marijuana, more than $3,000 and small amounts of crystal methamphenatine and cocaine, said Dan Dunbar, assistant district attorney.
By Keith Burner
Searchers find woman after Brush Creek flood
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Searchers looking for two people still missing after flash flooding in Brush Creek last weekend found a woman's body Saturday afternoon.
A police officer found the body, covered with debris, on the bank of the Blue River late in the afternoon, said Brad Humston, representative for the Kansas City Fire Department.
Brush Creek drains into the Blue River, and searchers had exhausted their search of the creek earlier in the day. Humston said.
The body had not been positively identified, but fire department officials notified the family of Edna McNeal of the discovery. Humston said.
Justin Clark, 18, and the 44-year-old McNeal had been missing since 7 inches of rain on Oct. 4 caused the flooding along the creek.
Three bodies were recovered Monday and two others on Thursday. The death toll from the storm would be 10 in the metropolitan area if the latest body is confirmed to be that of McNeal.
Near St. Joseph, authorities still were searching for Warren L. Akins, 56, whose car was pulled into a raging Buchan County creek.
Government widens focus of meat recall
WASHINGTON — The Agriculture
Department has extended a recall involving about 2 million pounds of meat and poultry used by prisons, hospitals and schools because new testing turned up continued salmonella contamination at a Georgia processing plant.
The recall of cooked patties of beef, pork and chicken took effect Sept. 28 for products shipped by Zartic Inc., of Cedartown, Ga.
The cooked patties went to institutional users and were not sold in stores, USDA representative Linda Swacina said Saturday. There have been no reports of illness caused by contaminated Zartic products, she said.
Tests on two samples from the same plant tested positive for salmonella Oct. 6, and the voluntary recall was extended to cover all products from the company's three production lines.
"The cause is still under investigation," she said.
The recall covers what was produced between Aug. 7 and Oct. 7 and shipped to 34 states.
Assassination attempt causes chaos in Lesotho
Zartic could not be reached for comment.
MASERU, Lesotho — A gunshot and an attempted bombing plunged a ruling-party rally into chaos yesterday, scattering thousands of government supporters and sending Lesotho's premier fleeing to safety.
Angry supporters of the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy reportedly beat one person to death and injured four others when they found them planting a bomb at the rally, the South African Press Association reported.
Police arrested the surviving suspects, police commissioner Bolutu Makoaha said.
An earlier gunshot injured a rally participant and sent Premier Pakalitha Mosisili fleeing.
The shot scattered about 5,000 party supporters, while some members rushed to protect Mosiili and his deputy, Kelibone Maope.
The LCD called the shooting attack an assassination attempt by opposition parties, which have sporadically blockaded the capital of Maseru since early August.
An opposition leader denied the allegation.
"This is absolute trash," said alliance representative Vincent Malebo. "We are not assassins."
Tensions in Lesotho, a small mountainous kingdom surrounded by South Africa, have been running high since the May elections, which opposition groups claim were rigged.
A shooting suspect was arrested and questioned, the South African Press Association reported.
ON THE RECORD
The Associated Press
A KU student's car was scratched and its two front door locks were broken Oct. 5 in the 900 block of Alabama Street, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $150.
A Lied Center employee was assasured at midnight Friday.
Fifth and Massachusetts streets, Lawrence police said.
A television, cassette player and eight other items were stolen Tuesday morning from a KU employee's home in the 900 block of east 11th Street, Lawrence police said. The property was valued at $1,675.
A tow truck struck a concrete beam at 12:10 p.m.
Sept. 30 in the parking garage north of Allen Field
House, the KU Public Safety Office said. Damage to
the garage was estimated at $500.
A KU student's vehicle struck two other vehicles at 10:08 a.m. Oct. 2 in a parking garage north of Allen Field House, the KU Public Safety Office said.
A KU student's yellow parking permit was stolen between 6.pm, Oct. 5 and 10 a.m. Tuesday in a lot south of Robinson Center, the KU Public Safety Office said. The item was valued at $45.
A KU student's book bag, personal check, textbook, notebook and library books were stolen between 12:50 and 1 p.m. Wednesday in the second floor of the Kansas Union, the KU Public Safety Office said. The items were valued at $585.
A KU student's yellow parking permit was stolen between 5 p.m. Oct. 2 and 3 p.m. Oct. 5 in a lot east of Joseph R. Pearson Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The item was valued at $7.5.
A KU student's jacket was stolen between 4:15 and 4:30 p.m. Sept. 30 at the reading room in Summerfield Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The item was valued at $350.
A KU student's wallet and cash were stolen between 4 and 4:05 p.m. Wednesday in the fourth floor of Watson Library, the KU Public Safety Office said. The items were valued at $4.5
A KU student's wallet, driver's license and cash were stolen between 4 and 4:05 p.m. in the fourth floor of the Kansas Union, the KU Public Safety Office said. The items were valued at $60.
Computer equipment was stolen between 5 p.m. Oct.
2 and 4:30 p.m. Tuesday at a room in Summerfield
Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The equipment
was valued at $800.
Minority recruiting strengthens diversity
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The multicultural recruitment plan includes visits to high schools with large minority populations, college fairs, mentoring and campus visit programs such as Diversity Conference Visit Day: Colors of KU.
Page said that in recruiting students, admissions officers were careful to present a realistic portrait of the University.
"We want them to understand at the forefront that KU is predominantly white," he said.
Sherwood Thompson, director of minority affairs, said that although the University was doing a good job in attracting minority students, it had the ability to do more.
"We would like to be at 10 percent," he said.
"I think KU has so much to offer any student."
Page said that he was pleased with the increase but that he wasn't satisfied with the current minority count of 9.8 percent.
"I think that KU has the potential to enhance the excellent job they're doing by increasing their marketing efforts in minority communities in Kansas," he said.
Thompson said that to make KU attractive to potential minority students, the University had take three crucial steps: create an institutionally-based fund for minority scholarships, increase the diversity of the staff and faculty and visit minority communities.
He said that a diverse faculty was needed to provide minority students with an informal support group.
"Literature indicates that colleges doing well in attracting minority students have a critical mass of minority faculty and staff." Thompson said.
He said that by talking to people in the Asian, African American, Hispanic and Native American communities the University could better what minority students wanted from their college experience.
Thompson also said that the University had to look elsewhere, reaching out to students in big cities outside of Kansas.
ON CAMPUS
Intervarsity Christian Fellowship will meet for prayer at 5 p.m. every weekday at Danforth Chapel, Call Susan Hines at 864-6503 for more information.
■ The Multicultural Student Coitation and the First Nations Student Association will hold a rally at 11:45 a.m. today at Wescoe Beach. Speakers from diverse backgrounds will talk about promoting unity among people of different cultures. Call Raven Hervé Runner at 749.3935 for more information.
Le Cercle Francais will meet at 7 tonight at the Massaachusetts Street Delticessen, 941 Massachusetts St. Send questions by e-mail to
frenclub@ciasmain.clas.ukans.edu.
Black Student Union will meet at 7.30 tonight at the Frontier Room in the Bureau Area.
The Christian Science Organization will meet at 7:30 tonight at Alcove A in the Kansas Union. Call Kara Kelly at 865-3658 for more information.
Jayhawker Campus Ministry will meet at 8 tonight
at the Patterson in the Kansas Union. Call Dove
Diefendorf at 840-9469 for more information.
OAKS, a nontraditional student organization, will have a brown bag lunch from 11:45 to 1:15 p.m. tomorrow at Alcove In the Kansas Union and at the same time Wednesday at Alcove A. Call Simmie Berrow at 830.0074 for more information.
■ KU Webmasters will meet from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Computer Center auditorium.
Prisella Adams from the School of Engineering will be the featured speaker. Call Kendall Simmons at 864-4660 for more information.
masters in information technology
The SUA Fine Arts Committee will meet at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow. The SUA Public Relations Committee will meet at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow. The SUA Special Events Committee will meet at 6 p.m. tomorrow. The SUA Forums Committee will meet at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow. The SUA Feature Films Committee will meet at 7 p.m. tomorrow. All meetings will be in the Kansas Union. Call the SUA box office at 864-
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