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The Inside Front
Friday August 21,1998
News
from campus, the state. the nation and the world
The fitness and weight area of Robinson Center has now evening hours for the fall semester.
On CAMPUS:
Smith Hall's burning bush stained glass window will be partially restored tonight.
An E. coli bacteria strain that slicked more than two dozen children who had visited a water park was found in beef recalled by a Florida supplier.
In the NATION:
Holland is haunted anew by the ghosts of a Bosnian massacre.
In the WORLD:
Rivers raging from weeks of rain engulfed parts of China's largest oil field yesterday and smothered farming villages.
Robinson Center changes fitness, weight-area hours
The fitness and weight area of Robinson Center has new evening hours for the fall semester.
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As of yesterday, the fitness and weight area is open for general student use from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m., Monday through Thursday, in contrast to the previous opening time of 5 p.m.
According to Mariann Graham, Robinson facilities secretary, the change was made to accommodate an afternoon class of physical conditioning.
The fitness and weight area also has early-morning and weekend hours, in addition to extended hours on Friday. The natatorium and other areas of Robinson have separate hours of operation.
Graham said students should be aware that there was a mistake on some printed cards being distributed with the center's hours. Because of a class cancellation, the fitness and weight area is open from 6 to 8 a.m., Monday through Friday. The cards indicate the morning hours only apply on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.
-Chad Bettes
Stained-glass window repairs begin at Smith Hali
Smith Hall's burning bush stained-glass window will be partially restored tonight after three vandalism attacks since April caused its removal.
Three of the 16 stained-glass panels and a layer of glass designed to protect the stained glass were shattered by rocks, said Sgt. Troy Mailen of the KU Public Safety office.
Marian O'Dwyer, of the Phoenix Gallery,
919 Massachusetts St., said that one of
the destroyed panels had been repaired
and the remaining two should be restored
within two weeks.
Now, a stronger outer window will replace the one used before to help protect the stained-glass window from shattering again.
"This type of glass is the same one used in cars' windshields," O'Dwyer said. "It has been very expensive to restore the window. It has cost over $10,000 for its renovation, repair and the new outlet."
Mailen said there still were no suspects, but an award of $500 had been offered by the Friends of the Department of Religion Studies to anyone who provides important information about the vandalism acts.
-Mariana Palva
-Kansan staff reports
E. coli strain traced to Florida beef supplier
ATLANTA — The same strain of E. coli bacteria that sickened more than two dozen children who had visited a water park was found in beef recalled by a Florida supplier.
"What this means to us is that this beef could have been the way the organism that caused the outbreak got into Georgia, although we'll never know for sure," Georgia's top epidemiologist, Dr. Paul Blake, said Wednesday.
The outbreak in June apparently was caused when a youngster in diapers had an accident in the kiddie pool at a water park in suburban Atlanta. A 2-year-old died after experiencing kidney failure and other complications.
In May, Bauer Meat Co. recalled 37,500 pounds of patties supplied to Georgia, North Carolina and overseas military installations after a boy became ill from a school cafeteria hamburger. On Aug.13, Max Bauer, the owner of Bauer Meat, com mitted suicide a day after his Ocala, Fl., processing plant was shutdown by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Nancy Bartel, a USDA spokeswoman,
wouldn't comment on whether Bauer had been informed of the water park connection.
Dutch soldiers accused in Bosnian massacre
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — Holland is haunted anew by the ghosts of a Bosnian massacre.
The Serbs are accused of killing thousands of Muslims in July 1995 and bulldozing their bodies into shallow mass graves in the northeastern Bosnia enclave of Srebrenica.
but it is the Dutch who are agonizing over the massacre.
The Netherlands is scandalized by new allegations that its peacekeeping soldiers may have killed Muslims.
The Defense Ministry is investigating reports that Dutch U.N. peacekeepers assigned to protect Srebrenica drove a tank into a crowd of Muslims, mowing down an killing as many as 30 people. The military is also probing allegations that it deliberately destroyed film showing its troops helping Serbs separate Muslim men from women for deportation
Dutch angst over the affair began early in 1996, when the world realized that an area the U.N. designated as a "safe haven" for Muslims had actually become a killing field.
Criticized by the international community for doing little to stop the Serb slaughter, Dutch commanders said their 300 troops were outnumbered and outmusled by the Serbs and restrained by a weak U.N. mandate forbidding them from combat.
At first, those denials were enough. But then four Dutch medics claimed they ordered not to treat wounded Muslim civilians. The military denied it.
"It's a horrible story," said former Defense Minister Joris Voorhoeve, who also is implicated in the affair. "I don't think we'll ever fully cope with it."
Flooded Songhua River threatens Chinese city
HARBIN, China — Rivers raging from
weeks of rain engulfed parts of China's largest oil field yesterday and smothered farming villages outside a key industrial center.
Tens of thousands of soldiers and civilans rushed sandbags to plug leaky dikes — already piled six feet high with the dirt-filled sacks — to keep the Songhua River from flooding Harbin, capital of northeast Heilongjiang province.
On the north bank, opposite the city, the river swallowed dikes and covered fields, leaving only village roofs poking through the waters. Families took shelter in trains parked on sidings atop raised railbeds. One couple, along with their two children and four cows, camped on a garbage heap between the rail beds.
"The lives of a family of four have been saved. All the rest has been tossed away," said farmer Sun Shifa, crouching by a smoldering fire on the garbage-strewn mound.
Surging waters in the Northeast have compounded the misery of China's worst flood season in at least 40 years. Much of the Yangtze River in central China has stood above the emergency stage for three weeks or longer, waterlogging and weakening levees.
The Yangtze's sixth flood crest since early July bore down on Wuhan, a major industrial hub with 7 million people. Flooding has killed more than 2,000 people nationwide, left millions homeless and caused $24 billion in economic losses. Those tallies were expected to increase
The Associated Press
CORRECTION
In a Monday Kansan article about students in the military, all students were either regular U.S. Army or reserve members. Similarly, the number reported for KU students in the military included only students in regular or reserve Army units.
Speech on Civil War highlights the work of African Americans
By Steph Brewer
By Steph Brower
Kansan staff writer
The Kansas Humanities Council invited the public to the Eldridge Hotel last night as a reminder that history was made in Lawrence more than a century ago.
"Just think, in this hotel, 135 years ago tonight, this town was getting ready for the worst disaster it would ever face," said Robert Phillips. Eldridge owner.
Phillips was referring to Quantrill's Raid, a bloody attack that earned the Lawrence its place in the history books.
place in the history books. However, Lawrence wasn't just famous for its conflicts - it also played an important role in the lives of African Americans during the Civil War.
Assistant history professor Eric Love and Spencer Research Library archivist Deborah Dandridge spoke to a small crowd about Lawrence's role in the Civil War era and the African-American experience in the United States at the time. The speech was one of a week-long series called "Civil War on the Western Frontier." History professor Phillip Paludan will speak about Lincoln and the Civil War at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Eldridge.
Last night's talk focused on two important African Americans of the time, Henry Highland Garnet and Maria Stewart. Garnet had escaped from slavery as a child while Stewart had spent her early years as a servant. Both were prominent abolitionists who challenged the oppression forced upon them by the government and citizens of America.
Although both Garnet and Stewart lived on the East coast, their vision was to head out West. Kansas, having been established as a free state, where slavery was not allowed, was especially significant, Love said.
"She (Stewart) was the nation's first native-born woman, black or white... to deliver a speech in public before men and women," Dandrige said.
was especially true. "Freedom and self-determination ultimately meant that the humanity of the African people had to be recognized," he said.
The free status of Kansas was not the only attractive quality. African Americans formed communities in places like Lawrence, starting churches and small schools.
Dandridge described slavery as barbaric and said that the psychological as well as the physical impact was devastating.
"They (Africans) were snatched from their home, taken from their villages, taken from their wives and children," Love said.
For those that escaped, Lawrence provided a haven.
"This was the place, this was the hope...not only for freedom but for liberty, equality," Dandridge said.
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ON CAMPUS
The KU Ballroom Dancing Club will meet from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Kansas Ballroom in the Kansas Union. Swing-dancing lessons will be given. No partner needed. Professional instructors. Open to all. Free. Call Abby at 838-3327 for more information.
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Jayhawker Campus Ministry will have its first weekly campus meeting at 8 p.m. Monday. Call Dave Diefendorf at 840-9469 for more information.
KU Environers will have its first full meeting at 6 p.m.
Tuesday at the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Union.
Call Matt Dunbar at 864-7325 for more information
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The KU Meditation Club will meet at 6:15 p.m.
Tuesdays at the Daisy Hill Room in the Burge
Union. Call Beng Beh at 864-7754 for more
information.
The KU Young Democrats will discuss goals and campaign involvement at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Parly ABC in the Kansas Union. Freshmen leadership opportunities. Call Phil Stevenson at 841-7307 for more information.
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's Mazda RX-7 was damaged and had stereo equipment and a Kansas registration tag stolen between 10 and 11 a.m. Aug. 14 from its parking spot somewhere in Lawrence, police said. The damage was $900.
A KU student found a cellular phone near Potter Lake and turned it in to University police. The police returned the phone to its owner.
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A student's vehicle was damaged between 5:30
am. Monday and noon Tuesday in the parking lot in
front of Lewis Hall. The damage was estimated at
$1,025.
A KU student's vehicle was damaged between 10 p.m. Monday and 4:30 p.m. Tuesday in the parking lot in front of Lewis Hall. The damage was estimated at $700.
A KU student received a threatening phone message on her answering machine Wednesday in Oliver Hall. The student contacted the KU Public Safety Office. Friends of the girl confessed to being responsible for the message. The student did not file charges.
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