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The Inside Front
Wednesday October 20,1999
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Professor to discuss good,bad mushrooms
For many, the thought of fungi and mushrooms is about as exciting as taking midterms, but for Richard and Sherry Kay the subject has turned into book deals and vacations.
The Kays will be speaking about "50 Fungi" at noon today as part of the University Forum at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
Richard Kay said he would discuss poisonous and edible mushrooms while showing slides from his travels around the country.
"I will give them an introduction to fungi and mushrooms and give them a general account of how they differ from plants," he said. "They are spectacles of things that are beautiful, colorful, strange and wonderful."
Richard Kay, a professor emeritus of history at the University of Kansas, has published books about mushrooms and has won awards for his photography of mushrooms.
He is also the founding member of the Kaw Valley Mycological Society, a local mushroom club. Kay said he had studied fungi for more than 25 years.
Art students to sell homemade jewelry
The University Forums are free to all members of the University and Lawrence communities.
The KU School of Fine Arts and the Department of Design will offer homemade jewelry and crafts for sale today and tomorrow on the third floor in the Art and Design building.
Lin Stonionis, assistant professor of design, said the sale would feature undergraduate and graduate students' jewelry, ranging from titanium to plastic to sterling silver.
Stanionis said students worked in groups to decide what to make and the prices of their creations.
Items at the sale range from salad servers to bookends to silver jewelry. Prices on the items will range from $7 to $145.
"The actual project is to get experience in design and the business market," she said. "They figure out price based on the cost of the material and the time spent on the object."
Profits from the sale will go toward the 20 students' trip to Chicago to see the Sculpture, Objects, Function and Art exhibit at Navy Pier November 4-6.
Stanionis said the Chicago exhibit
would feature sculptures and art media from 150 international gallery collections.
Amanda Kaschube
The sale runs from 7:30 a.m. to 8
p.m. today and from 7:30 a.m. to 6
p.m. tomorrow.
LAWRENCE
Officer makes first appearance at court
Micah Stegall, the Lawrence police officer charged with battery and driving while intoxicated, made his first appearance in Division 4 court yesterday.
Stegall's charges stem from events Aug. 14, when he drove onto the sidewalk at Eighth and Vermont streets, striking a bicyclist. Stegall was not on duty at the time of the accident.
The case was presided by Judge Adrian Allen, a retired Shawnee County judge from Topeka. The case is not being tried by a Douglas County judge because Stegall's father is employed by court services.
Allen scheduled Stegall's next appearance for 11 a.m. Nov. 8. He is expected to enter a plea.
District Attorney Christine Tonkovich said nothing had been resolved in the case.
"Because he had an attorney and has been involved since the date of the incident, we have been discussing possible dispositions on this case," Tonkovich said.
— Katie Hollar
STATE
Benedictine president denies misusing money
ATCHISON—The president of Benedictine College is denying allegations of misusing funds and illegal and unethical fund-raising practices.
Daniel J. Carey, president of Benedictine College, said the charges contained in a civil lawsuit filed last week by a former employee were false.
"We feel confident the truth will prevail and all the allegations will be shown to be false," Carey said Monday.
The suit alleges the school used gifts issued to the college for purposes other than those specified by donors. It also alleges Carey misappropriated college funds for his own use.
Anthony Gilles, a former Benedictine employee, filed the $1.5 million suit Oct. 12 in the U.S. District Court in Knoxville, Tenn.
Gilles claims in his lawsuit that no one told him before he accepted the job about the case of Don Laney, former professor and chairman of the business department at Redemption
Laney pleaded guilty earlier this year to forgery, stealing and mail fraud charges.
Gilles said he was fired after he asked Carey for information about the Laney case and donors to the college. He said he would not have accepted the job at Benedictine if he had known about the Laney case.
Carey noted that Gilles worked for only 13 days at Benedictine.
"We will do everything we can to protect the good name of the college and verify that these allegations are false," he said.
Gulf War drug possible cause for syndrome
NATION
WASHINGTON—A Pentagon-financed study concludes that a drug given to U.S. troops during the Persian Gulf war to protect against a nerve gas cannot be ruled out as a possible cause for what has come to be known as Gulf War syndrome.
Defense Department officials were presenting the 385-page review of scientific literature on the drug pyristigmine bromide, or PB, at a news conference yesterday.
Prepared By Beatrice Alexandra Golomb of Rand Corp., a California think tank, the study says PB cannot be ruled out as a cause of lingering illnesses in some veterans of the Gulf War.
"This does not imply that it is necessarily a causal factor, only that the possibility cannot be dismissed," she wrote.
White House representative Joe Lockhart declined comment.
Despite the cautious nature of the conclusion, the Rand review of about 1,000 published studies on the drug gives somewhat more credence to the hypothesis that it could cause or contribute to Guif War syndrome, a vague array of symptoms including chronic pain, digestive problems, nausea, skin rashes, fatigue, aching joints, memory loss and concentration problems.
PB was given to an estimated 300,000 soldiers during the war as protection against the nerve gas soman. The Pentagon has earmarked about $20 million, of $133 million spent researching Gulf War syndrome, specifically to study the effects of the drug.
—The Associated Press
Grocery chain opens new location; West Lawrence welcomes Dillons
By Derek Prater
by Derek Prater
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
There may be no better indicator of Lawrence's westward expansion than the newest addition to the growing grocery store population.
The Dillons grocery chain is having a ribbon-cutting ceremony this morning for its new store at 4701 W. Sixth St. The store opens for the first time at 6 a.m., and the ceremony is scheduled for 8 a.m.
Mayor Erv Hodges will represent the city at the ceremony, and he said Dillons would be fulfilling a neighborhood need.
Luisa Perez, Lawrence resident, lives in a neighborhood near the new Dillons and said she was looking forward to the store's opening.
"I'm very happy that this area is growing," she said. "The Dillons is closer, and it's on my way to work."
Larry Bussinger, store manager, said westward growth prompted the new store location.
"Our customers and our community needed a location out here," Bussinger said. "Customers
told us that was what they wanted."
Not only will residents in surrounding neighborhoods have a closer grocery store, but they also will have options. The Hy-Vee chain also is building a new store in the neighborhood. Hy-Vee is scheduled to open in July.
Hodges thought there would be enough demand for both stores to prosper.
"They don't make an investment of this sort without doing their research," he said. "They counted the number of roofs out there, and the number there will be."
Hodges also said that competition between the stores might provide benefits for shoppers in reduced prices.
"Let's just say I'm sure we'll both have our customer base, and things will go well for everybody," he said.
Bussinger said he couldn't comment on possible price wars or promotions that would result from competition between the stores.
Perez said she thought the competition would be good for customers and would give them more choices.
—Edited by Rebecca Sutherland and Katie Holman
ON THE RECORD
A KU staff member reported a fire extinguisher stolen between 11 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. Monday from a hallway at Oliver Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said
A KU student's phone card was stolen between noon April 11 and noon May 6 from her mailbox at Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said.
A KU staff member found graffiti on a Kansas Union truck between 6 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. Saturday behind the Union, the KU Public Safety Office spied.
A KU student was arrested at 1:04 a.m. Monday
for failure to appear on four outstanding municipal warrants. The student had been stopped for driving with a headlight out on Memorial Drive, the KU Public Safety Office said. The student was taken to Douglas County Jail for processing.
A KU student's rear car window was damaged at 2 a.m. Monday at the 1200 block of Ohio Street, Lawrence police said. The window was valued at $150.
A KU student's CDs were stolen between 11:30 p.m. Oct. 14 and 10:19 a.m. Oct. 15 at the 3400 block of Chance Lane, Lawrence police said. The CDs were valued at $1,080.
ON CAMPUS
■ Ecumenical Christian Ministries will have a University Forum from noon to 1 p.m. today at ECM, 1204 Oread Ave. The program will be "50 Funiak." Coll Tdh Holcombe at 843-4933
Student Senate will have a series of meetings today in the Kansas Union. Multicultural Affairs will meet at 6 p.m. at the International Room. University Affairs will meet at 6 p.m. at the Big 12 Room. Graduate Affairs will meet at 6 p.m. at the Pine Room. The Finance Committee will meet at 6:30 p.m. at the parliors. The Rights Committee will meet at 6:30 p.m. at the Jawhawk Room.
Leuch at 840-9221
OAKS, the nontraditional students organization,
will have a brown bag lunch from 11:45 a.m. to
11:15 p.m. today at Alcove in the Kansas
Union. Call Simmie Berrawn at 830-0074.
KU Hilfel and Jewish Student Council will give a tour of Lawrence beginning at 6:30 tonight at Papa Keno's, 1035 Massachusetts St. Call Teri
■ KU Society of Human Resource Management will meet at 7 tonight at 119 Summerfield Hall. Call Julie Seigel at 749-7686.
Pre-Dental Club will meet at 7 oncth at 2001 Malolat Hall, Call Nellie Kim at 749.0398.
The Student Alumni Association will meet at 7 tonight at the Adams Alumni Center. Call 864-9778.
Vietnam Veterans for Academic Reform will present "Media and Campus Lied About Vietnam" from 7 to 8:15 tonight at the Pioneer Room in the Kansas Union. Call Leonard Magruder at 843-3737.
■ Ecumenical Christian Ministries and KU Environs will have a veggie lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. tomorrow at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Call Thad Holcombe at 843-4933.
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SUA WEEKLY CALENDAR OF EVENTS
PICKERS AVAILABLE NEW SUA BOX OFFICE, KANSAS UNION
HALLOWEEN HAINED HOUSE TRIP
Oct. 21
7 p.m. - 1 a.m.
$26 per person (includes bus ride and tickets to
The Beast and the Edge of Hell)
MURDER MYSTERY DOWNER
"Bubba's Killer Sauce"
7 - 9:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 28
Kansas Union Ballroom
$10 with KUID and $15 without includes dinner
STUDENT UNION ACTIVITIES
THE ROCK HORROR PICTURE SHOW WITH DJ BALLS
VIRGINIA RODRIGUES
864-3477 www.ukans.edu/suu
7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 24 in the Lied Center
Tickets available at the Lied Center Box Office,
SUA Box Office and Ticketmaster.
Submit art by 5 p.m. Oct. 20 to the SUA Box Office.
HALLOWEEN ART CONTEST
Tamiko Kariyasu
Oct. 13 - 20
Kansas Union Gallerv
GALLERY SHOW: INNERSCAPE
8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 20, Woodruff Auditorium
SNEAK PREVIEW - THRICE TO TANGO
Movies
All movies in Woodruff Auditorium
ORGAZMQ
7 and 9:30 p.m., Oct.19, 21
SIXTH PARK, BAGER, ENGER AND UNCIRCLE
7 and 9:30 p.m., Oct. 20, 22, 23
DELICATESEN
Midnight, Oct. 22, 23
UNION WEEKLY SPECIALS
864-4596
www.jayhawks.com/unions
Level 3, Kansas Union
STUDENT DISCOUNT DAY! MONDAYS IN THE PRAIRIE ROOM
union
Students with KUID receive 20% off on Mondays in the Prairie Room! Come visit us for a great meal!
union
technology
center
LATE NIGHT T-SHIRTS AVAILABLE IN THE KN BOKSTORES
Don't miss out! Late Night With Roy Williams T-Shirts and other great KU merchandise is available in the KU Bookstores, conveniently located in the Kansas and Burge Unions.
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Bursa Union • Level 1 • 785-942-5800
COMPUTER REPAIR SERVICES AVAILABLE
If you need computer repair services, a computer or computer supplies stop by the Union Technology Center located In the Burge Union, Level 3.
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