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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Kansan Weekend Edition
Friday
October 9, 1998
Section:
A
Vol. 109 • No. 34
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
WWW.KANSAN.COM
Wandering the Web
(USPS 650-640)
This week's Web highlights are devoted completely to the non-traditional sites in cyberspace. If you're looking for some variety while online, visit these sites for a crazy cyber experience.
www.benierrv.com
It's never too cold for ice cream. Visit the site to experience all 39 varieties that the California-based ice cream chain offers. Virtual pints can be sent via e-mail to friends in need of a virtual Ben and Jerry's experience. The site also tells how to start a Ben and Jerry's franchise. www.halfcow.com
Follow the adventures of half-a-cow. This site offers a photo gallery of a half-a-cow's worldwide adventures. Follow the cow as he travels to exotic places like Wales and Mexico. Why does this site even exist? Visit half-a-cow to find out.
www.addictedtostuff.com
www.deathclock.com
Watch your life tick away. This site lets you to create your death clock. Enter your date of birth and the death clock gives you an estimated date of death, with the seconds of your life beginning to tick away. Forget the haunted houses, reality can be scary enough.
This site gives all the little facts anyone could ever want to know. Find out the technical word for "contemplating one's own belly button lint" and what the word "pork" means to one man. Also included in the site are favorite pet names and a section devoted to common worries.
www.robocup.org
CONCERTCALENDAR
Enter the world of robot soccer. This Web site is devoted to those interested in the national competition for the RoboCup, the World Cup for robot soccer players. Two University of Kansas students, Isaac Ellis, Overland Park junior, and Michael Turvey, Lawrence sophomore, are creating their own robot team to compete for the vied RoboCup.
Tonight:
Bottleneck: Frank Black, Reid Paley
HiJinx Lounge: Brown Whorenet, Vivius
Jazzhaus: Natty Nation
Milton's Coffee and Wine: Dark Complexion
Tomorrow:
Bottleneck: Sunny Day Real Estate, Gloritone, MK Ultra
Hi-Jinx Lunge: Darktown House band. Black Luna
Jazzhauz: Jesse Jackson Five
Milton's Coffee and Scotts
Tichener, Rick Desco, David Firman
Sunday:
Bottleneck: Swing Set
Index
News .2A
Sports .1B
Reviews .6B
Hill Topics .8A
Game times .2B
Coupons .5B
Classifieds .7B
Movie Listings .5A
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Let the inquiry begin
As the U.S. House of Representatives votes on whether to go ahead with impeachment proceedings, President Bill Clinton waits at the White House to be introduced at a medicare beneficiaries event. KRT photo
House approves impeachment
By Chad Bettes
Kansan staff writer
After more than two hours of heated debate about fairness and Constitutional responsibility, the U.S. House of Representatives voted yesterday to begin a formal impeachment inquiry of President Bill Clinton.
The entire House will examine the charges described as potentially impeachable by Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr. These charges include perjury and obstruction of justice. After an investigation, the House will determine if the evidence warrants an impeachment trial in the Senate.
Members argued passionately for and against the inquiry, and more specifically, the details of how an inquiry should be structured.
During the nationally-televised floor debate about the inquiry, House Judiciary Chairman Henry Hyde, R-111., described his position in support of an open inquiry modeled after the Watergate inquiry.
"Lying under oath either is important, or it's not important." Hyde said. "If the
same law applies to everyone equally, then that's the American tradition."
Hyde expressed his distaste that Congress had been forced into this position. He described the duty before the House as onerous, miserable and rotten.
House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Mo., argued against the Republican inquiry resolution in favor of more limited inquiry.
During the debate, Gephardt said, "This is the time to be bigger than we reali vare."
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas,
explained during floor debate why some
House members wanted to settle this
issue quickly.
"We believe in redemption," Lee said.
"We believe in redemption," Lee said. In a 258-176 vote in which 31 Democrats voted with Republicans, House members decided on the inquiry that was more wide-ranging and open than the one proposed by Democrats.
Most Democrats in the house had hoped to limit the inquiry in time and scope. Their motion limited the investigation to matters related to Monica
See INVESTIGATION on page 2A
Judge lifts gag order in Jones' case against Clinton
The Associated Press
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The deposition behind the impeachment inquiry against President Clinton will be part of the evidence released in less than two weeks by a federal judge as she relaxes her gag order in the Paula Jones case.
U. S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright said yesterday that she will begin releasing evidence from Jones' sexual harassment lawsuit on the court's Internet site Oct. 19.
In the file is Clinton's Jan. 17 deposition that is central to an impeachment inquiry approved in the House yesterday. Clinton allegedly lied in the deposition. He has said his answers were technically correct.
While Wright intends to release a transcript of Clinton's testimony, a videotape of his appearance will remain under seal. Wright said that members of Congress can decide what to do with a copy of the tape she gave the House Judiciary Committee last month.
"This court did not place any restrictions on the Judiciary Committee's utilization of the videotape in its impeachment inquiry and does not do so today." Wright wrote in a footnote to her order.
Wright imposed a gag order last October, because she was worried that the volumes of information being released might taint a poten-
trial jury. After leaked information indicated Clinton might have lied in his deposition, media groups, including The Associated Press, sued for access.
Clinton's lawyers initially objected to Wright lifting the gag order, and said it could jeopardize a fair trial if Jones' lawsuit was reinstated. But, since early September, they have raised no objections to the plan to open the files.
Wright ruled against the media but agreed to reconsider the decision as suggested by a panel of the 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals after tossing out Jones' lawsuit April 1.
The court said it would try to coordinate the release of documents so that detrimental information would be released about both sides at similar times.
Jones claimed that Clinton propositioned her in a Little Rock hotel room May 8,1991, when she was an Arkansas state worker and he was governor.
Wright dismissed Jones' lawsuit, claiming that even if her allegations were true, she could not prove sexual harassment in the workplace and claim damages.
Jones appealed and the 8th Circuit will hear arguments in St. Paul, Minn., Oct.20 on whether to reinstate the case. Lawyers for both Jones and Clinton have discussed settling the case before the hearing.
Lacking emotion
The director-producer team of Howard's End brings us a tale about an American family in Paris. Kansan critic Jeremy Doherty thinks this artsy movie was off the mark.
Seepage 6B
National Coming Out Day is this Sunday. Freshmen struggle to share their sexual orientation with others while trying to assimilate into the college environment.
Coming out
See page 7A
Make or break time
The Kansas football team plays at Baylor Saturday. Neither team has won a Big 12 game this year and hopes for
a trip to a bowl game are dwinding.
See page 1B
Yes, YOU!
This is a University, right? And Universities promote free thinking and rights, don't they? So use your noodle and get out there and vote!
See page 8A
Down and out
Feeling down,
Feeling down, homesick, under the weather, overwhelmed with midterms, dog tired or just plain not motivated? You're not alone.
See page 3A