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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
NEWS 864-4810
ADVERTISING 864-4358
WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 25. 1996
SECTION A VOL.103 NO.24
(USPS 650-640)
Dole hopes Florida trip will secure GOP state
MIAMI — Florida should have been tucked safely in the Republican column by now. But the GOP, fearful of losing the state for the first time in 20 years, is struggling to allay senior citizens' worries about Republican plans for Medicare and Social Security.
As a result, Bob Dole will be back again tomorrow, taking precious time from his efforts in states where the Republicans already had expected tough fights with President Clinton.
"We ought to be leading the polls in Florida by 10 to 12 points," said state GOP Chairman Tom Slade, who blames a Democratic "Medicare" campaign. "We can't even afford to blink right now. There's too much at stake."
Tunnel near compound draws Arafat's criticism
JERUSALEM — Asserting its claim to all of Jerusalem, Israel broke through the last stretch of an archaeological tunnel yesterday that runs along the Al Aqsa Mosque compound, Islam's third holiest site.
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat denounced the tunnel work, which was carried out just after midnight under heavy police guard, as a crime against religious and holy places.
Israel claimed the narrow pedestrian tunnel would be a boon to tourism because it links the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, to the Via Dolorosa, where Jesus was said to have walked before his crucifixion.
Mexican reporter taken hostage as cameras roll
"I am just getting over this," said 55-year-old Carlos Cabello Wallace
GUADALAJARA, MEXICO — A Mexican reporter was taken hostage as television cameras filmed, then freed unarmed yesterday after the gunman made his getaway.
After a shootout with police, a gunman hid in a house with four hostages and demanded to speak with a reporter, the official Notimex news agency reported.
Cabello entered the house and interviewed the gunman briefly before the man pointed a gun at the reporter's head.
The gunman threatened to shoot Cabello if police opened fire, according to Mexican media accounts.
President promises UN hard approach to drugs
UNITED NATIONS — President Clinton, criticized by Republicans as being too lax in the war on drugs, chastised U.N. members yesterday for failing to adopt "zero tolerance" policies for narcotics trafficking and terrorism.
The United States will do its part. Clinton promised in an address to the General Assembly:
He said his administration will assign $100 million of surplus defense equipment, services and training to Mexico, Colombia and other South American and Caribbean countries to "help our friends stop the flow of drugs at the source."
Clinton said the message to drug traffickers and terrorists should be: "You have no place to run; you have no place to hide."
The Associated Press
Wescoe task force formed
Committee to look at hall's efficiency
By Eric Weslander
Kansan staff writer
Wescoe Hall will be under scrutiny this semester as a task force examines ways to make its offices and departments more cost efficient.
After a $725,000 base budget cut suffered by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences last semester, Sally Frost-Mason, dean of the college, called for the formation of a task force.
ege, called for the formation of the
The 20-member task force was nominated
by and is composed of faculty and staff who work in Wescoe. It will examine the location, function and staffing of departments in Wescoe and will submit a recommendation to Frost-Mason by July.
One element that will be considered is the use of office equipment such as printers and copiers. The task force will compare Wescoe Hall to the central division of biological sciences in Haworth Hall, which uses one office center for six departments.
center for setting up the people in Wescoe and take a look at their structure," Frost-Mason said. "It's possible that some people would find themselves in different jobs, but hopefully they would be better jobs.
"I know it's got a lot of people concerned over in Wescoe. I'm concerned about being
able to respond to the future needs of the departments in a responsible way."
Frost-Mason said that the office in Haworth Hall was a good model but that it was not her intention to create one office for all of the departments in Wescoe.
department in office.
"Maybe there will be one per floor. Who knows?" she said. "They're going to make the recommendation to me."
recommendation to the College.
The Board of Regents decided in 1995 that the college had to reduce the number of its departments by four, said Erin Spiridigliozzi, assistant to the dean and liaison between the college and the task force.
That decision was another reason for the formation of the task force, she said.
Frost-Mason said she did not agree with the board's decision. She said it was based on examination of other Regents universities
which showed that the University of Kansas had more departments than the others.
Cynthia Hodges, co-chairwoman of the task force and secretary in the department of philosophy, said the group was divided into three subcommittees: one to examine departments' use of space, one to look at the division of biological sciences as a model and one to interview students and take their opinions into consideration.
"We have departments and programs where it makes sense to have them," she said. "Whether we have too many is another issue."
Hodges said it was too early to discuss the proposal of any specific changes.
"We're just gathering information right now," she said. "We're just seeing how things are set up."
A harvest toon
Local musicians play in front of the Johnson Furniture building, 722 Massachusetts St., during last year's Harvest of the Arts. The mural behind them was designed by local artist, Dave Loewenstein, during the third annual Harvest in 1994.
Art festival cultivates local talents
By Liz Musser
Kansan staff writer
There will be a bumper crop of artistic expression in town the next two weeks as Lawrence celebrates its Fifth Annual Harvest of Arts.
The citywide festival, which begins Saturday, is aimed both at showcasing local artists and at giving people a chance to examine their artistic potential.
examine their talents to explore their creative talents in some form," said John Wysocki, program coordinator for Harvest of Arts. "We artists are very passionate about what we do and want to see others get involved."
The Harvest of Arts runs through Oct. 6 and will include more than 25 events. The
festival includes visual arts, dance, song writing, filmmaking, poetry and theater.
A new event to the festival this year is a project called *ebb*+flow. The purpose of the *ebb*+flow project, which will take place on the banks of the Kansas River, is to explore the dominations of time and space and to emphasize the importance of one's environment.
one's environmental
Co-organizer, Diana Dunley, described
ebb+flow as a time-based art project. Participating artists must create something that can be displayed between noon and sundown on Oct. 5, the day of the event. When the event is finished, the site should remain unchanged.
Dunkley said the project would include performance art, such as belly-dancers and drummers.
"It's about creating through concepts rather than creating through material," Dunkley said. "People can do something that lasts one second, 30 minutes or 5 hours, as long as it fits within the time."
The Harvest of Arts will culminate on Oct. 5 and 6 with the Harvest of Arts and Celebration of Cultures Festival at Buford M. Watson Park, Seventh and New Hampshire streets. Local bands will perform, and local artists will sell their work. Interactive projects for both children and adults as well as international food booths will be offered.
TODAY
SCHEDULE: See a list of the specific arts and performers. Page 2A.
INDEX
Features ... 10A
Scoreboard. ... 2B
Horoscopes ... 5B
National News ... 9A
Classifieds ... 9B
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Sidewalk art
Elizabeth Mahin,
Wichita freshman,
looks at the posters
for sale in front of
Wescow Hall. The
sale will continue
until Friday, weather
permitting.
Kathleen Driscoll / KANSAN
Man exposes self to woman; incident is third of month
By Andrea Albright
Kansan staff writer
Joanna Pickering, Overland Park sophomore, said she was sitting in her living room at 4:20 p.m. when she saw a man walk past the sliding glass door in her living room.
The third lewd and lascivious incident in less than a month was reported Monday after a man exposed himself outside a KU student's window.
Pickering said the man was acting suspicious
and looking at her as he walked past her apartment in Malls Ole English Village on Louisiana Street. She had never seen him in the neighborhood.
"He looked kind of weird," Pickering said.
Because the man was watching her through the open door, Pickering went into her kitchen. However, the man continued to watch her through another window.
Pickering then went into her bedroom to get out of the rooms that are visible easily from the outside. Her window blinds were banging against the window because of the wind.
"That night we went around and made sure all the doors and windows were shut and locked."
As Pickering raised the blinds, she discovered that the man stood just outside of her open window. He had his shirt pulled up, his pants pulled down and his penis in his hand.
Joanna Pickering Overland Park sophomore
Pollice said the woman immediately called the police, but they were unable to locate the man.
This is the third incident of exposure this month. The first one occurred early morning Sept. 7, when two women returning to Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall saw a naked man outside of the parking garage west of the residence hall. The suspect was seen by several other women that morning but not found.
other women that had occurred on Sept. 11, when three women in Miller Scholarship Hall were startled in the middle of the night by a man masturbating outside their kitchen window. That suspect also was not found.
Police do not think that the suspect in Monday's incident was the suspect in either of the previous crimes because the body types are different. Victims in the previous incidents described the offender as a tall, thin man between 18 and 24 years old.
Pickering described Monday's exposer as a tall, heavily built Caucasian man who was wearing a red-plaid flannel shirt.
"This guy looked like he was in his late 30s or early 40s," Pickering said.
To prevent this type of crime, police recommend that women try to avoid routine behavior, such as coming home at the same time every day. Pickering said she and her roommate will do that, but they also have shut their windows.
That night we went around and made sure all the doors and windows were shut and locked," Pickering said.
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