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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
NEWS 864-4810
SECTION A VOL. 103, NO. 25
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1996
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Palestinians outraged by tunnel near holy site
RAMALLAH, WEST BANK — Palestinian police and Israeli troops battled with automatic weapons yesterday, casting Israel and the Palestinians into their biggest crisis in three years. Seven people were reported killed, and more than 350 were wounded.
The exchanges of fire in the West Bank towns of Ramallah and Bethelehem began during stone-throwing protests by thousands of Palestinians angered by Israel's decision to open an archaeological tunnel near Jerusalem's Al Aqsa Mosque compound, Islam's third-holiest site.
Palestinian protesters and Israeli forces also clashed in Arab east Jerusalem and the West Bank town of Hebron. Those scuffles did not involve gunfire, and only minor injuries were reported.
SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco, the city that has made nonconformity practically a civic virtue, is considering broadening municipal employees' insurance to cover sexchange operations.
San Francisco may add sex-change insurance
The idea came from what is known as the "transgender community" in San Francisco, where the Board of Supervisors in recent years has considered such things as legalizing prostitution and legalizing marijuana for the terminally ill.
"People don't choose to be transsexual. They're born that way," said police Sgt. Stephan Thorne, who is undergoing the change from female to male at his own expense.
Computer expert blamed in U.S. security breach
ALEXANDRIA, VA. — A civilian computer expert working for naval intelligence was accused yesterday of passing at least 50 intelligence documents to a South Korean agent. American officials scrambled to determine the scope of the security breach.
Robert Chaegon Kim was ordered held without bail at least until Monday, when a pre-trial detention hearing is scheduled.
The FBI said in an affidavit that it had evidence that Kim, who worked for the Office of Naval Intelligence, passed classified records to Baek Dong-II, a South Korean navy officer, during a five-month period. Officials have not discovered evidence that Kim was paid for his efforts, a senior law enforcement official said.
nurdish faction seeks United States' support
WASHINGTON — The Kurdish faction that formed an alliance with Saddam Hussein now is seeking U.S. backing and consolidating its hold on the region without help from the Iraqi military, a senior administration official said yesterday.
Massoud Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic Party overwhelmingly defeated the rival Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, which is allied with Iran.
Assistant Secretary of State Robert Pelletreau told lawmakers that assertions by some Republican lawmakers that Hussein had regained control of the Kurdish sections of northern Iraq were premature.
"Barzani told me that he and his KDP are consolidating their hold over northern Iraq without Iraq's help," Pelletruea said. "He requested continuing U.S. involvement in the form of our no-fly zone overflights and our involvement with humanitarian efforts."
—The Associated Press
(USPS 650-640)
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The Campus Plan... for the future
The transportation section of The Campus Plan calls for making Jayhawk Boulevard one-way to cut down on bus traffic. It also suggests the creation of lanes specifically for bicycle traffic. The plan will go to Chancellor Hemenway for approval in about a month.
Plan suggests landscape and traffic changes
By Spencer Duncan Kansan staff writer
A 96-page plan proposing campus landscape and infrastructure changes will go to Chancellor Robert Hemenway for approval next month.
The Campus Plan is the first developmental plan the University has commissioned in 20 years, said Thomas Waechter, planning coordinator.
The plan, developed by facilities management, has taken four years to complete. Waechter said it was in its final stages.
"I would say right now 95 percent is not going to change before going to the chancellor," Waechter said. "We will send the plan and our recommendations to the chancellor, and he will approve the parts of it he likes."
What Hemenway approves will be passed on to departments for preparation. What he does not like could go back to the drawing board.
"There are going to be some items the Chancellor isn't going to want," Waechert said. "If there is something not right, then we will either work on it again or it will disappear completely."
The plan outlines recommendations for everything from parking to consolidating administrative services.
to consummate admirations and services.
One idea is to abolish parking on Jayhawk Boulevard and make it
Steve Puppe / KANSAN
See PLAN, Page 2A
Another portion of the plan calls for the creation of more landscaping around parking lots. The addition of trees and grass could help absorb heat that radiates from parking lots. Such heat is increasing the cooling costs of buildings located by large parking lots.
Campus plan protects environment
By Cameron Heeg
Kansan staff writer
Buldozing environmental issues wasn't an option for the proposed remodeling of the University of Kansas in The Campus Plan.
"There were many things considered in the plan and the environment is in there," said Thomas Waechaer, planning coordinator for facilities management. "What we tried to do was consider environmental factors with respect to the layout, landscape and physical development of the campus. The preservation of the campus environment is important."
The plan was originally developed by the Administrative Planning Group to establish steps toward making policy and implementing construction plans at the University during the next several year
"The preservation of the campus environment is important."
The plan's environmental section focuses on transportation, parking and building sites based on lawn areas and health and safety impacts.
Thomas Waechter planning coordinator
The plan's transportation portion will
try to improve air quality by making Jayhawk Boulevard a one-way street to reduce the number of bus trips through campus. It also encourages bicycle use by providing bicycle lanes, routes and parking on campus.
"Bike lanes will be a great benefit," said Matt Caldwell, Lawrence junior and co-coordinator of KU Environs. "It gives people more incentive to get out of their bus or car."
Members of KU Environers originally had reservations about the transportation and landscape parts of the plan, but those have faded and no new environmental problems have developed. Caldwell said
He said that the plans were ongoing and that problems always came up.
in problems the University will build parking lots
See ENVIRONS, Page 2A
More reports of lewd acts could expose one suspect
By Andrea Albright Kansan staff writer
Three incidents of lewd and lascivious behavior have been reported to Lawrence police since Monday, bringing the number of such reports in September to six.
Although descriptions of the suspects in the individual cases are similar, police cannot say whether one suspect has been involved in more than one of the incidents.
"One of the suspects was described as about 10 years older," said Sgt. Susan Hadl of the Lawrence police. "They were similar in race and overall physical specifications, but I don't want to say they are the same person."
Betty Douglas, Lawrence senior, said she thought she was another victim of the man who appeared naked outside a student's window on Monday afternoon.
She said she was walking through the Colony Woods Apartments parking lot at 12:30 p.m. Monday when she realized that a man was following her. When she looked back, she said, she saw a man wearing a red plaid shirt and she assumed he was part of the maintenance personnel.
To reach her apartment, Douglas said she walked down a path next to a wooded area. When she passed the woods, the man behind her stopped and yelled to ask her what time it was.
"His shirt was pulled up and his pants were around his ankles. He was masturbating," Douglas said.
Douglas immediately called Lawrence police, but they were unable to come to the scene for more than an hour. When they arrived, the man was gone.
"It freaked me out that he followed me and pinpointed me." Doulas said.
pioneered Dennis Dalley, professor of social welfare and sexologist, said single incidents of this kind were very rare. Unless it was some kind of prank, most men who exhibit this type of behavior would perform the act more than one time.
"Usually, men who are diagnosed as exhibitionist or voyeuristic have a long history." Dalley said. "They would say they are compulsively driven and have little control over the behavior. This is not something that somebody does once."
A woman in the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority reported to Lawrence police that she had seen a naked man outside the house at 1 Gower Place at 8:15 p.m. Tuesday when she stepped outside to smoke a cigarette. The woman did not want to comment on the case.
The man, who was described as a Caucasian male, 6 feet tall and in his late 30s or early 40s, was last seen running east toward Tennessee Street.
"He shined the flashlight on us, then shined it on himself, and he was going to town," said one of the women, who did not want to be identified.
In another incident, two women walking east on Clinton Parkway at 11:30 p.m. Tuesday said they saw a man in a ditch holding a flashlight.
She said she and the other woman then ran west on Clinton Parkway until they found a pay phone to call police. The man was gone when police arrived
can police. Two hours later, one of the women said she saw the same man walking at 23rd and Iowa streets. She drove past him slowly to get a clear look at him.
"He was carrying his shoes the second time I saw him. When he saw me driving by, he waved the shoes at me," she said.
The woman said the man was in his 30s, had dark hair, wore blue jeans with a white shirt wrapped around the waist and a blue and white striped cap with the brim turned up. He was not wearing a shirt.
Sgt. Kirey Keary of the KU police said his department cooperated with Lawrence police.
Our investigative unit looks at all the reports and can make the connections that indicate if there are similarities in the cases," Keary said.
Hadl said lewd and lascivious behavior often went unreported. The most effective way to catch the offender is to avoid reacting to the crime, she said.
"With exhibitionism, the thrill comes with the horror, shock or fear that the suspect sees in the victims," Hadl said. "The best thing to do is immediately call the police, but try to do so in an unexcited fashion."
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Going to (clay) court...
Men and women for the Kansas tennis teams are in Baltimore to compete for singles and doubles titles today at the National Clay Court Championships.
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