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The Inside Front
Friday October 22,1999
News
from campus,the state the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Former curator honored with plaque at museum
Carlyle S. Smith was honored Oct. 15 with a bronze plaque now permanently hanging at the Museum of Anthropology.
Smith was the curator at the museum and a professor of anthropology at the University of Kansas from 1947-81. He died in 1981
Smith researched different areas of the world throughout his life. His early research focused on the coast of New York State and Long Island, where he was born. He also researched the Great Plains, where he particularly studied South Dakota at the prehistoric site, "Talking Crow." This research is documented in his book Talking Crow.
Alfred E. Johnson, director of the anthropology museum, said he remembered Smith fondly.
"He was a kind, generous man who was dedicated to his profession and maintained high scientific standards," Johnson said. "He was also an individual who was outspoken and absolutely opposed any bigotry."
A Carlyle S. Smith fund will be awarded to professors and students for research.
Hilary Evans
KU student's car stolen, recovered next morning
A KU student's car was stolen Wednesday evening from a campus lot and was recovered by police early yesterday morning on Missouri Street.
Sgt. Randy Kern of the KU Public Safety Office said that the car, a 1990 Honda valued at $4,000, was stolen out of lot 102 behind Oliver Hall. It was spotted in the 2900 block of Missouri Street Wednesday night, but the residents living in the area did not report it until early yesterday morning.
Kern said that there were no damage estimates or suspects.
"The residents called the Lawrence Police Department who, after entering plates, realized the car was reported stolen," Kern said. "The LPD contacted our department, and we notified the owner that his vehicle had been recovered."
Michael Terry
LAWRENCE
KLZR ignores petition despite 6,514 names
A petition with 6,514 signatures did not convince the Lazer's manager Wednesday to reinstitute the station's modern rock format.
Hank Booth, KLZR 105,9 general manager, informed a group of people who gave him a copy of the petition
that he respected their conviction, but that their work was done in vain.
Booth said a survey conducted by the station had revealed that modern rock was declining in listenership, a trend occurring across the country.
"The bottom line is the research we did in Douglas County showed there was not a large number of people who would listen to modern rock," Booth said. "It is a format that has eaten itself alive. As soon as we played an alternative song and it became popular, it went Top 40."
Booth said that Top 40 music brought in more listeners and that KLZR had a responsibility to clients and advertisers to play music that would expose them to the most people.
The petition was taken from a Web site on which dissenters could sign it in an attempt to coerce the radio station into abandoning its Top 40 format.
"I appreciate their effort and the fact that they're passionate about the radio station," Booth said.
— Todd Halstead
Haskell student group to have annual powwow
The Kiowa Cultural Organization will have its eighth annual powwow at Haskell Indian Nations University tomorrow.
The show, which is organized by the 10-year-old student group, will feature special guests from Oklahoma, dance contests and arts and crafts from 1 p.m. to midnight at Haskell's Coffin Sports Complex.
"It's another opportunity for people to come out here and see Haskell's Native-American culture," said Freda Tapedo, Haskell's executive assistant to the president.
Admission and parking at the event are free.
- Diana Victor
NATION
Baptists to distribute anti-Hinduism booklets
NEW YORK—The Southern Baptist Convention — the nation's largest Protestant denomination — is urging its members to pray for the millions of Hindus "lost in the hopeless darkness of Hinduism."
Some 30,000 booklets to be issued Monday in time for Divali, the major Hindu festival of lights, calls for the conversion of those "who worship gods which are not God." The booklet says that Hindus have no concept of sin or personal responsibility.
"There is a clearer definition that Hinds are lost," he said, adding: "We're all lost without Jesus Christ."
The denomination previously published booklets soliciting prayers for Muslims and Jews, offending leaders of those faiths.
The language in this publication is harsher, said Louis Moore, the book's editor.
Divali is a major festival, dedicated to Laksmil, goddess of prosperity and goodness.
Umaa Mysorekar, president of the Hindu Temple of Flushing in New York and secretary-treasurer of the Council of Hindu Temples, said the timing of the publication was insulting.
Mysorekar said the thinking contained in the guide was not only absurd but also ignorant.
"I don't think Jesus himself would have said not to respect other religions," Mysekaran said.
Kansas City, Mo., schools to lose accreditation in May
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Loss of accreditation in Kansas City schools was met with anger toward an administration that parents say has failed the city's children and tied the hands of district teachers.
The state Board of Education voted yesterday to revoke Kansas City's accreditation in May 2000 because of the district's failure to meet any of the state standards for student performance. The district had been provisionally accredited since 1993.
The board did not strip accreditation from the St. Louis district.Instead, it voted unanimously to give St. Louis two years to improve its performance on academic standards.
In the last 30 years, the Kansas City has had 19 school superintendents, faced a longrunning desegregation lawsuit and had school board members accused of pursuing politics and personal agendas at the expense of the children.
School field trip ends when bus, truck collide
CENTRAL BRIDGE, N.Y. — A bus transporting elementary school pupils on a Halloween-time field trip collided with a dump truck this morning, injuring dozens of youngsters.
The students were first and second-graders at Albany school No. 118. They were being taken to visit a pumpkin patch in Schoharie County, about 30 miles west of Albany, when the crash happened shortly after 10:30 a.m., school representative David Albert said.
Two students were listed in critical condition after being airlifted to Albany Medical Center, and an adult with grave injuries also was being transported via helicopter for treatment, hospital officials said.
At least 41 other people were taken to hospitals in Albany and elsewhere, authorities said. Two were in stable condition, and two were listed as fair, said hospital officials. The conditions of the rest were not immediately known.
Music-hunting tapers go to concerts wired for sound
The Associated Press
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"Places will sell them for a lot of money," Hoerman said. "It's kind of unethical."
He said that the ethics of boot-legging were complex.
"Sometimes it's just for the love of the music," he said. "Sometimes you're ripping off the band."
Hale agreed, and said he knew about a lot of taping for money that went on in the Kansas City area but not as much in Lawrence.
CD burners and Internet trading posts have given bootlegging a technological boost. Not only can tapers copy large amounts of music onto the most popular medium, they now have a market to approach fans all across the world.
Nick Jekic, an employee at Microtech Computers, 2540 Iowa St., said CD burners just recently had become best-sellers.
A lot more people are interested in them," he said. "And the price is coming down, and that helps."
Jekie said a CD burner sold for about $250.
"A lot of people just want to make
their own CDs or back up their software," he said.
The trading post at www.bootlegs.com offers Nirvana's last show for $14, Pink Floyd concerts for $15 and counterfeit Beatles albums for $20. It also posts pleas from fans who "will pay dearly" for MXPX videos or Elvis recordings.
But Hale said he preferred to tape and trade the old-fashioned way, with cassettes and stamped envelopes. He said he would never make the transition to CDs.
"CDs are really transient," he said. "They aren't archival. I want something that's in it for the long haul. I don't want my recording dying by the wayside because of a low-quality medium."
Eric Mater, manager of 7th Heaven, 1000 Massachusetts St., said his store only sold live-recording CDs.
"That's what people buy," he said.
In March, Johnson County police confiscated 7,800 bootleg CDs from music stores, and charges eventually were filed.
After that episode, Mater said his store tried to liquidate its bootleg stock. He attributed the crackdown on bootlegs to the music industry.
Mater said he would only deal with more well-established dealers.
"Artists don't get royalties; the rich want to get richer." he said. "They complain to their labels, and the labels press law enforcement."
"Some of these guys would pull up in a truck or a car, and have us look through a bunch of stuff in their trunk," he said. "If I buy it from a catalog, I don't feel like I'll get in as much trouble."
In his 12 years taping, Hale has been caught only once — at a recent Natalie Merchant concert. A security guard took his tape and threw him out.
The episode didn't really faze him, though.
"If artists won't let you, who cares? Tape it anyway," he said. "It's so easy to get away with."
— Edited by Mike Loader
ON THE RECORD
A KU staff member's red parking permit was stolen between 8:45 a.m. and 6 p.m. Tuesday from lot 34 southeast of the Computer Service Facility, the KU Public Safety Office said. The permit was valued at $110.
A KU student's car stereo was stolen between 11:40 p.m. Tuesday and 9:23 a.m. Wednesday from a car parked at lot 102 west of Lewis Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The stereo and damage was estimated at $150.
A KU student's car was damaged between 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and 9:23 a.m. Wednesday while it was parked at lot 112 behind Oliver Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The damage was estimated at $250.
A KU student's car stereo and CDs were stolen between 11:30 p.m. Tuesday and 3 p.m.
Wednesday from a car parked at lot 112 behind Oliver Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The items and damage were estimated at $3,000.
A KU student's car stereo was stolen between 7 p.m. Monday and 8 p.m. Tuesday from a car parked at lot 50 east of Joseph R Pearson Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The stereo and damage were estimated at $1,504.
A KU student's sunroof was damaged between midnight and 8 a.m. Tuesday at the parking lot at Brittany Place, Lawrence police said. The sunroof was valued at $150.
ON CAMPUS
KU Badaimnior will practice from 6 to 10:30 p.m.
today and tomorrow at rooms 211 and 212 in
Robinson Center, Call Tee or Kevin at 843-2267.
OAKS, the nontraditional students organization,
will have Friday Morning Coffee from 8:30 to
9:30 a.m. today at Wesco Terrace. Call
Simmie Berroya at 830-0074.
St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will celebrate Mass at 4:45 p.m. tomorrow and at 9 a.m., 11 a.m., 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. Sunday at
the center, 1631 Crescent Road. Call Sister Vicki at 843-0357.
KU Hillie will have its Jewish Grass Coffee House at 8 p.m. tomorrow at Borders Books Music & Cafe, 700 New Hampshire St. Call Mayaan Pase at 749-5397.
■ Jewish Student Council will meet for retreat planning at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Hillel House, 940 Mississippi St. Call Teri Leuch at 840-9221.
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