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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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FRIDAY OCTOBER 18,1996
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French public employees strike about pay, job cuts
PARIS — Stung by pay freezes and planned job cuts, workers from across France's sprawling state sector staged a one-day strike yesterday, grounding flights and closing schools nationwide.
The walkout by an estimated 1.6 million public employees forced the cancellation of most airline flights and made rail travel difficult. It also shut down government offices and post offices.
Yet only about one in three public employees joined in, the government said, in contrast to the union solidarity that crippled the country with a 3 1/2-week-long strike a year ago.
Union bosses threatened to rekill last year's labor unrest — the worst in France since 1968 — and called for tough action.
"It has to be even stronger," said Louis Vuitton, head of the Communist-led General Labor Confederation, in an interview with Europe 1 radio. "There must be convergence between public and private employees."
WASHINGTON — Reshuffling the genes of an ordinary cold virus turns it into a cancer-killing smart bomb able to seek out and destroy tumor cells, researchers report. The therapy already is being tested on humans.
A mutated version of adenovirus, one of a number of viruses that cause the common cold, was shown in mouse studies to attack and kill human cancer cells that lack a gene called P53.
About half of all human cancers have a defective or missing P53 gene.
"The mutated virus takes over and turns the cancer cell into a factory to make more virus," said Frank McCormick, a researcher at Onxy Pharmaceuticals in Richmond, Calif. "After a day or two, the cell is killed and it releases a whole bunch of new virus, which then infect neighboring cancer cells."
About 60 percent of human tumors grown in laboratory mice melted away after being injected with the mutated adenovirus, said McCormick, lead author of a study to be published today in the journal Science.
Simpson's jury to consist of four minority jurors
SANTA MONICA, CALIF. — A white-mature jury was selected today in the wrongful-death lawsuit against O.J. Simpson after the judge rejected charges that plaintiffs targeted blacks for exclusion from the panel.
The clerk swore in a jury of eight whites, two Blacks, one Hispanic and one man who is half Asian and half Black.
The jury consists of seven women and five men. Two jurors said they considered Simpson probably guilty of murder, while the rest said they were unsure or had no opinion.
The jury was empaneled after nearly a month of jury selection. Attorneys now will focus on choosing eight alternates.
After today's last juror was questioned, plaintiff's attorney Daniel Petrocelli said he would accept the jury panel, shifting the final decision to Simpson's camp.
Simpson huddled with four attorneys for about 30 seconds before lead attorney Robert Baker announced, "We'll accept the jury."
The court clerk then told the jurors to stand and take their oath.
The Associated Press
Regents pass review policy
Tenured faculty with poor records may be dismissed
By Lindsey Henry Kansan staff writer
WICHTA — Three hours of tension and policy review gave way to the Board of Regents approval of four of the six state institutions' policies for faculty evaluations yesterday afternoon.
The University of Kansas' policy was among the policies approved, but only after several rounds of voting by the Board members.
The University's evaluation policy allows for the dismissal of tenured faculty if they receive three consecutive poor evaluations from their peers and students. The question the Regents wanted answered was what constituted the University's grounds for dismissal.
Regent Tom Hammond said he thought the University's policy did not identify where the bottom line would be drawn for faculty who repeatedly failed in the classroom.
EVALUATIONS: The Kansan will be running a three-part series on faculty evaluations starting on Tuesday.
"We have to deal with faculty not performing their jobs." Hammond said.
He said the University's policy would allow faculty members who received two consecutive poor reviews to correct their problem temporarily to prevent three consecutive poor reviews.
"I can't vote for any policy without uniformity," Hammond said. "I question if anyone could ever be legally terminated, ever."
Chancellor Robert Hemenway said he
doubted the Regents could terminate anyone without facing some legal appeal.
"The Board is obligated to vote in a policy for a time frame, and KU would be happy to provide that kind of clarification," Hemenway said. "But I do not believe it's fair to ask KU to provide for that if there is no standard that the Board is holding the universities to."
Hammond proposed that each institution follow Kansas State University's policy of terminating faculty members who received three bad evaluations in five years. His proposal was defeated by three votes.
Chairwoman Phyllis Nolan said although a
Lest we forget...
See REGENTS, Page 2A
Chris Hamilton/KANSAN
ABOVE: Ron Conrad and Jim Rogers, Tonganoxie veterans, and David Matthews, Leavenworth veteran, place a wreath of flowers at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Moving Wall on Thursday. LEFT: Gary Ryther, Lake Placid, N.Y., is responsible for bringing the wall to Tonganoxie. Ryther travels with the wall as it travels from city to city in the United States. See story on 5A.
Biology majors encounter conflict in spring timetable
Kansan staff writer
By Eric Weslander
Kansan staff writer
Biology major Brian Patrick received a surprise when he opened the spring timetable of classes.
Chemistry 188 and Physics 115, both required classes for biology majors, are scheduled at the same time next semester.
"We're still working on finding out the number of people who are affected by this," he said. "The rough estimate is more than 150."
Patrick said he was advised last fall to take Chemistry 188 and Physics 115 simultaneously before taking Chemistry 624, organic chemistry, which is required for biology majors. He said he planned to take the two classes this spring and then graduate in Fall 1997.
Because he cannot take both Chemistry 188 and Physics 115 next semester, he said he would take Physics 115 simultaneously with organic chemistry next fall.
Patrick said he and other students would be enrolled in more than 20 hours while taking organic chemistry, which he
"
... there's no
way to completely eliminate conflict"
Dean Stetler
biology department chairman
"This will pump up the class schedules, which is insane," Patrick said. "I really don't think they understand the scope of the people that this tampers with."
Kristin Bowman-James, chemistry department chairwoman, said her department did not have any control of other departments' schedules.
described as one of the most difficult courses at the University.
Patrick said he had heard the scheduling conflict happened every spring.
place for years." Bowman-James said. "What students need to do is plan ahead when they're taking these courses." James Orr, division of biological sciences chairman, said it was possible for advisers to overlook schedules while advising biology majors.
"I can understand how an adviser might have made the mistake." Orr said. "We often don't go the next step and look in the timetable."
"If you want to finish on time, you had better get the requirements out of the way before you take the electives," he said.
Stetler said that although he did not think Patrick's problem threatened his graduation, he could understand the scheduling complaint.
Dean Stetler, biology department chairman, said it was important for students to complete their requirements as early as possible.
"It just doesn't seem too logical to offer them at the same time," Stetler said. "However, there's no way to completely eliminate conflict."
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A sexually aggressive 13-year-old grabs many local women's attention
By Thursday morning, Lawrence and KU police had received reports of sexual battery from three women on campus and two women off Iowa Street. Employees of Aladdin's Castle, 1601 W. 23rd, called to report a juvenile who was not in school.
By Andrea Albright Kansan staff writer
Kerri Pribyl, Shawnee freshman,
was the fourth victim of the
attacker. She said the suspect came
up behind her as she walked
through parking lot 90 south of
Robinson.
Lawrence police apprehended a 13-year-old male outside Aladdin's Castle yesterday for a string of sexual batteries.
"He was saying things like, 'Hey hot stuff, slow down.' Priblu said.
Pribly said she turned and saw that the person who was talking to her
was a stranger, so she quickly walked toward Haworth Hall.
Pribyl said the suspect grabbed her buttocks, and when she pushed his hand away, he said it was alright if they held hands.
"He was very small, so I wasn't afraid of him." Prib said.
The first reported incident occurred at about 4 p.m. Tuesday in the parking lot of Applebee's in the 2500 block of Iowa. Lawrence police said the suspect approached a woman as she walked to her car and made inappropriate comments to her. When she did not respond to his advances, police said the suspect blocked the woman from getting into her car.
In each report, the women described the suspect as a small, skinny young male.
See BATTERY, Page 2A
Rash of assaults
Five sexual battery incidents were reported between 4 p.m. Tuesday and 11:40 a.m. Wednesday. All of the offenses were allegedly committed by the same 13-year-old male.
Applebee's Parking Lot 2520 Iowa St.
Jayhawk Towers Courtyard 1603 W. 15th St.
In front of Hobbytown USA 2016 W.23rd St.
Parking lot 90 South of Robinson Center
Parking lot 90 South of Robinson Center
SOURCES: Lawrence and KU Police Departments
Andy Rohrback/KANSAN
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