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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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SECTION A VOL.103, NO.48
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29. 1996
(USPS 650-640)
No longer a suspect, relieved Jewell cries
Atlanta — For 88 days, Richard Jewell professed his innocence in the July 27 Olympic-park bombing. Finally cleared by prosecutors and freed of the weight of suspicion, he cried.
Yesterday, he also lashed out at reporters and investigators who
that it has now ended, and that you now know what I have known all along. I am an innocent man."
The bomb blast killed one woman was blamed for a cameraman's death, and injured more than 100 people. Jewell was first hailed for alerting authorities to a suspicious knapsack and helping to evacuate the area. Three days after the bombing, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that he was a suspect.
CYANGUGU, Rwanda — Tutsi rebels traded mortar and smallarms fire with troops defending Bukavu, the provincial capital of east Zaire, ignoring the United Nations' pleas to clear a way for the half-million refugees fleeing the fighting.
Sunday's fighting sent thousands of residents streaming west and north as Zairian troops clashed with the Tutsi fighters known as Banyamulenga, positioned only three miles to the south. Near Cyanguyu, soldiers of Rwanda's Tutsi-led army exchanged cross-border fire with Zairian troops.
Fighting in eastern Zaire injures fleeing refugees
The Tutsi fighting force in Zaire emerged in September after attacks on Tutsi by Zairian troops and Hutu militias. The Tutsi uprising had sent more than 300,000 Burundian and Rwandan Hutu refugees fleeing.
About 200,000 more refugees have joined the exodus since Friday and Saturday, when a barrage of artillery and mortar fire hit the Kibumba refugee camp in Zaire's Goma region.
The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Sadak Ogata, said at least four people were killed and 100 wounded.
Yeltsin cancels meetings, fires former close friend
MOSCOW — Boris Yeltsin scratched this week's meetings from his calendar yesterday to rest and be tested for impending heart surgery. He angerly punished an confident who said he was too feeble to govern Russia.
Yeltsin lashed out at Alexander Korzhakov, his bodyguard and close friend for 11 years, accusing him of making slanderous statements and ordering him relieved of his military duties.
Korzhakov has allied himself with ousted chief Alexander Lebed.
Yeltsin had been holding almost daily meetings at a government health resort outside Moscow while awaiting multiple heart bypass surgery. The operation is expected to take place between mid-November and mid-December.
Aides insist Yeltsin is fully in charge. Yeltsin has said that during surgery his powers will be transferred to Prime Minister Viktor Chernovdvri.
Korzhakov has called on Yetsin to resign because of ill health.
Med Center makes changes
The Associated Press
Requirements effective 1997
By Ashleigh Roberts Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas Medical Center ended a month of rumors yesterday. An academic reorganization will begin with the graduating class of 1999, officials said.
Herbert Swick, interim executive dean of medicine, said the new curriculum would better prepare students for the constant and rapid changes facing students entering today's medical field.
The major change is in the structure of the fourth-year academic requirements, which left many students apprehensive about the reorganization and with unanswered questions.
The fourth year will be eight weeks longer and will require a public health section as well as a subinternship. The subinternship was previously an elective, and
Michael Bastasch, Overland Park second year medical student, said students typically used this period to study for their second licensing examination and to find a job. Bastasch said the definition of a public health section was left ambiguous and was a concern.
the public health section did not exist.
Bastasch agreed that the school had been in need of a reorganization for a long time, but was disappointed with the ambiguity of the changes.
"Nobody really knows what that means," he said. "If it's taken them almost a decade to get to this point and they haven't been able to define what public health means, I worry that they won't be successful in the next 18 months."
Allen Rawitch, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology and member of the council, said the administration would be careful not to do anything that would harm students' careers.
"We understand that you will be the first class to graduate under
The new curriculum, which was approved last spring by the education council, has not been finalized but is scheduled to begin in July 1997. The planning committee is still trying to fit the changes into the calendar year.
the new provisions, and we want to hear student concerns," he said. "But it was obvious that this curriculum needed reorganization long ago."
"People are upset that when we read the catalog, that's what we bought into, and now that's not what we're getting," Bastasch said. "We don't know if it will be better or worse."
Held captive
Sara Brooks / KANSAN
The Jayhawk statue in front of Strong Hall is in an unusual spot as students look on. The statue was found taken off its pedestal on Sunday. University workers chained it to a nearby tree in front of the hall to prevent it from being farther.
Jayhawk takes fall from stone pedestal
Damage to'Hawk estimated at $100
By Andrea Albright
Kansan staff writer
The Jayhawk in front of Strong Hall tumbled from its perch sometime during the weekend, but no one noticed for almost a day.
The preventative maintenance staff chained the bird to a tree near where it had fallen, said Bob Porter, associate director of physical plant maintenance, so that it could not be moved any farther.
"We have no idea who did it," said Gayle Reece, KU police officer. "But the bolts on the pedestal were rusted through. Somebody could have knocked it over without much force."
The bird suffered a cracked neck in the fall.
Porter said he thought the bird, a gift from the class of 1956, had been pushed off of its perch.
"I wasn't here, so I can only speculate."
Porter said. "I think somebody got up there and got to rocking him."
neece said police were dispatched to Strong Hall at noon Sunday, after they received a tip from someone at KU Info.
No one had seen the bird on its perch since 3 p.m. Saturday, police said.
"As windy as it was I'm not going to rule anything out," Reece said. "But with how heavy the statue is, it's questionable that the wind knocked it over."
Reece said that although police had no suspects, they were doubtful that the Jayhawk could have fallen down by itself.
"I'll be looking to the Provost to tell me what to do." Porter said. "They'll probably repair it in the sculpture department."
Porter said he would talk to the administrators before deciding how and where to repair the bird's neck.
Facilities and operations workers moved the bird to their shop where it may be rewelded.
Police estimated the damage at $100,
but had no information about when the
repair would be finished.
All that remains on top of the marble pedestal are three rusted bolts that had been holding the Jayhawk statue on.
Sara Brooks / KANSAN
Porter said he didn't know how soon the bird would be back on its perch. He said the Provost's office would determine how quickly the Jayhawk would be back.
TODAY
"I didn't figure it'd ever go anywhere," Porter said. "At least he hadn't since we put him up there in 1956."
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Zeta Beta Tau to reorganize after charges
By Ashlee Roll Kansan staff writer
The Zeta Beta Tau fraternity will reorganize its KU chapter after an investigation into allegations of several fraternity policy violations, said Jonathan Yulish, the national fraternity's judicial officer.
Yulish said the investigation was still going on.
Bobby Schwartz, former president of the KU chapter, said that he was unaware of any reorganization and that he assumed that these actions signified the end of the hazing investigation.
"If we find that hazing is going on, we will deal with it," he said.
Schwartz, Chicago junior, also said that any charges remaining against the fraternity were false.
Yulish has ordered a reorganization of the chapter's executive board. The fraternity's officials stepped down last week after they were informed of the investigation. The election of new chapter officials will take place as soon as possible.
The chapter will also be required to have a live-in house director a soon as possible.
Along with the election of new fraternity officials, the KU chapter is required to form a committee consisting of parents, alumni and undergraduate leaders. This committee will work with the chapter to ensure that the fraternity's policies will be followed.
To retain good standing in the fraternity, each member will be required to sign a relationship statement with the national fraternity agreeing to:
"It's going to be along the line of a house mother," Yulish said. "It hasn't been totally fleshed out yet, but it's going to be some sort of adult."
- Maintain the minimum grade point average of 2.25
Demonstrate agreement with all regulatory obligations.
Abide by the fraternity's non-pledging, non-hazing and risk-management policies.
Yulish said that this action was taken after parents and KU graduate students approached the national fraternity with the desire to improve the KU chapter.
"We can't guarantee its going to work, but we hope it will," he said.
Yulish said the national fraternity chose to impose the restrictions and rebuild the fraternity rather than close the chapter.
"We're not in the business of closing chapters," he said. "We want to make the fraternity experience good for people."
Man in fair condition after 13-feet stair fall
Kansan staff report
A man sitting on a rail at the east end of Wescoe Hall yesterday fell 13 feet and landed on his head at the base of a stairwell.
winners said Joel Barber, a 17-year old Independence, Mo., resident, fell backward to the bottom of the stairway, which leads down to the second floor, at 2:25 p.m. Barber was in fair condition at Lawrence Memorial Hospital last night.
Benjamin Torrico, Salmanca, Spain, graduate teaching assistant, said he saw the man fall from the ledge and tried to help until the paramedics arrived.
"He was having convulsions and blood was coming out of his ear." Tortoise said.
Another witness said Barber was unconscious immediately after the fall and then went into convulsions. The witness also said the man had flipped backward during the fall.
When the Douglas County Ambulance Service arrived at 2:30 p.m., paramedics found the man lying conscious at the bottom of the stairs.
Paramedics put a brace around Barber's neck before placing him on a backboard to transport him to the Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
Barber was given oxygen to prevent brain swelling paramedics said.