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The Inside Front
Thursday October 7,1999
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Students should expect campus directories soon
University of Kansas phone books are making their way into offices across campus.
The directories are longer this year with a more comprehensive list of University of Kansas Medical Center numbers and e-mail addresses for faculty and staff.
Julie Swords, publications coordinator for University Relations, said it took facilities operations a couple of weeks to deliver the phone books.
"They are still delivering, but I don't know where they are at," Swords said. "It takes a couple of weeks because they have to do it around other duties."
Laura Sellers, physical plant supervisor for facilities operations, said that 500 phone books were delivered to Jayhawker Towers on Tuesday and that 1,908 phone books would be dropped off at residence halls yesterday and today.
Sellers said that offices on campus were the first to receive phone books while residence halls were the last.
Swords said the phone books were available ahead of schedule this year because they arrived seven days earlier than contracted.
— Todd Halstead
LAWRENCE Pugh signs diversion agreement for charge
Former Kansas basketball player T.J. Pugh signed a diversion agreement for his driving under the influence charge Tuesday, the Douglas
Pugh: signs diversion agreement for DUI citation
County District Attorney's Office said.
Pugh received the DUI citation Aug. 27.
missed.
If Pugh complies with the rules of his diversion, which can include community service and fines, for a set period of time, the citation will be dis-
— Katie Hollar
NATION
Famous women begin gun safety campaign
Kennedy yesterday began a public education campaign to encourage adults to keep any guns at home unloaded, locked and away from children.
"We hope to make unloading, locking and storing guns properly as automatic as buckling a safety belt," said Kennedy, the mother of two teenagers, wife of Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and co-founder of the nonprofit Common Sense About Kids and Guns.
WASHINGTON — Taking the microphone while her famous husband sat in the audience, Victoria Reigie
The group plans to start running public service advertisements soon.
"If it just saves one life, that's a life worth saved," said actress Michael Learned, who portrayed mother Olivia Walton on the 1970s TV series The Waltons. She said her own son, when he was 10 or 11, could have been hurt or killed when a friend found a loaded gun, cocked it and pointed it at him.
"You have to, as an adult, be responsible," said Ann Marie Crowell of Saugus, Mass., whose youngest child, 12-year-old Brian, was shot and killed on Dec. 24, 1997. An unlocked, loaded revolver went off after a friend pulled it out of his mother's dresser drawer.
Weight-loss worries linked to child smoking
CHICAGO — Children who want to lose weight are more likely to experiment with cigarettes, researchers reported in this month's issue of the journal Pediatrics.
"In both boys and girls we found children who thought about (smoking) were more likely to be concerned about their weight," said one of the study's authors, Alison Field of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. "And those who were doing something to lose weight were more likely to smoke than those who were not." The study looked at more than
The study looked at more than 16,000 children, ages 9 to 14.
"Girls who were unhappy with their appearance were twice as likely to think about using tobacco." Field said Monday.
In 1993, the Journal of Clinical Investigation published a study that found moderate smoking helps the body burn fat. But the researchers also warned that smoking shouldn't be considered a substitute for dieting because it was a greater health risk than the added weight.
VATICAN CITY — Despite the first signs of objection from Iraq, Pope John Paul II still hopes to visit there, a Vatican official said yesterday.
Pope ignores criticism still plans to visit Iraq
sites in the Middle East also has raised concern in Washington and London. The U.S. government and Iraq opposition groups say a papal visit would lend credibility to Saddam Hussein's government and help break the international isolation imposed on Iraq since its 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
WORLD
The proposed trip to pilgrimage
The official Iraqi News Agency last
week quoted a letter from seven Iraqi scholars saying John Paul should not expect Muslims to line the streets and cheer his visit. The group accused the pope of using the trip as a means to acquit the West of crimes against Arabs.
John Paul: Wants to go to Iraq to visit biblical city of Ur
The pope wants to visit the biblical city of Ur, believed to be the birthplace of Abraham. No date has been set, but reports from Iraq have said the visit could take place in December.
Reports in the Italian press have said that a visit to Iraq by a Vatican advance team was put on hold because of the Iraqi criticism.
But papal representative Joaquin Navarro-Valls denied that, saying an advance team is hoping to leave next week.
Nigerian floodwaters submerge 400 villages
LAGOS, Nigeria—Overwhelmed by rising waters on the Niger River, officials have opened floodgates of two major dams, submerging 400 villages and leaving more than 300,000 homeless, Nigeria's state power authority said.
Several hundred people were thought to have drowned after the waters were unleashed in recent days from the Jebba and Shiriro dams, some 300 miles north of Lagos, the Lagos Vanguard newspaper reported yesterday.
The state-controlled News Agency of Nigeria estimated the toll at over 500 dead, citing unnamed officials. That number could not be independently confirmed.
The floods are the result of heavy seasonal rains in neighboring countries, the power company said.
The National Electric Power Authority was forced to release the surge of water to prevent Shiriro Lake on the Niger River from overflowing its banks, the company said in a letter dated Oct. 3.
More flooding was expected as the river continues to rise.
ON THE RECORD
The Associated Press
A KU student was treated for exhaustion at 1:20 a.m. Tuesday in the third floor men's bathroom of McCollum Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said.
A KU student's Ford Explorer rear window was broken out between 12:44 and 12:48 a.m. Tuesday at lot 102 west of Lewis Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The damage to the window was estimated at $400.
Two KU students and a Lawrence resident were cited for trespassing and possession of stolen property at 12:05 a.m. at Memorial Stadium, the KU Public Safety Office said. The three individuals were cited and identified.
Issued notices to appear in court.
A KU student's car stereo was stolen between 9 p.m. Monday and 8 a.m.
Tuesday at the 900 block of Arkansas Street, Lawrence police said.The street is 6500
A KU student's Honda Civic was damaged between 3 a.m. Sept. 10 and 4 a.m. Sept. 12 at the 1100 block of Indiana Street, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $400.
A KU student's CD player was stolen between 6 p.m. Sept. 21 and 9 a.m. Sept. 22 at the 1300 block of West Campus Road, Lawrence police said. The stereo was valued at $400.
A KU student's cellular phone was stolen between 12 a.m. and 3 a.m. Sunday at the 700 block of Arkansas Street, Lawrence police said. The phone was valued at $129.
Kentucky enforces own regulations about evolution
The Associated Press
FRANKFORT, Ky.- The word "evolution" has quietly been deleted from Kentucky's guidelines for what students should be taught, two months after Kansas created a furor when it dropped Darwin's theory as a required part of the curriculum.
The Kentucky Education Department edited out "evolution" and replaced it with the phrase "change over time."
Deputy Education Commissioner Gene Wilhoit said the word was considered a lightning rod that created a diversion from what they were teaching.
Some teachers, already nervous about what they consider an assault on a cornerstone of biology from those who favor the biblical account of creation, were amnoyed.
"They chose the less sci-
entitifically correct term and went with a more politically feasible term," Ken Rosenbaum, director of the Kentucky Science Teachers Association, said yesterday. "In science we have big words like photosynthesis. Do we not call it photosynthesis? Do we call it plant 'ood making'"
Helen Mountjoy, chairwoman of the Kentucky Board of Education, said the change would make no difference in the classroom.
"We teach evolution and we test evolution in Kentucky," she said. "There is no change in the way we expect teachers to approach this subject."
In August, the Kansas Board of Education adopted new testing standards that play down the scientific importance of evolution, including the theory that humans descended from apes and other lower species.
ON CAMPUS
- The KU chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America is having a booth to provide information on breast cancer from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today and tomorrow. The booth is in front of Wescoe Hall today and will be in front of the Kansas Union tomorrow. Call Angie Dissmeyer at 864-2428.
- Ecumenical Christian Ministries and KU Environs are having a veggie lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. today at ECM, 1204 Oread Ave. Call Thad Holcombe at 843-4933
- The Spencer Museum of Art is having a Tour de Jour at 12:15 p.m. today at the White Gallery in the art museum. The program is "Durer's Echo." Call Sally Hayden at 864-4710
- The departments of American studies, history of art, religious studies, humanities and western civilization, in cooperation with the Office of the Provost and the Spencer Museum of Art, are sponsoring a lecture about Aaron Douglas at 5 p.m. today at the auditorium in the art museum. Call Sally Havden at 864.4710
- The KU HorrorZontals ultimate frisbee team is practicing at 5 p.m. today at Shenk Complex.
- Call Will Spots at 841-0671.
Amnesty International is meeting at 7 tonight at Alcove D in the Kansas Union. Call Kyle Browning at 842-1351.
- KU Meditation Club is meeting at 6 p.m. today at the Daisy Hill Room in the Burge Union. Call Pannir at 864-7735.
KU Yugo is meeting at 8 tonight at the Sunflower Room in the Burberry Union. Coll Kitjr at 833-8729
The African Studies Resource Center and the Hall Center for the Humanities are sponsoring a lecture by Professor Babacar Kanté, dean of the faculty of law and political sciences at the Université Gaston Berger in St. Louis, Sénégal, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Centennial Room in the Kansas Union. The program is "Democratic Transitions and Constitutionalism in Africa." Call Pin Thinley.
Constitutionalism in Africa." Call Pia Thielmann at 864-3745.
KU Badminton Club is practicing from 6 to 10:30 p.m. tomorrow and Saturday at rooms 211 and 212 in Robinson Center. Call Tee or Kevin at 843-2267.
Queens and Allies is meeting 7 tonight at the Centennial Room in the Kansas Union. Call Matthew Skinta at 864-3091.
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Y2K: Do you have the bug?—Learn how the Y2K problem might affect your personal computer and what do about it. Tues., Oct. 12, 4-5 p.m., Computer Center Auditorium
Creating Envelopes, Form Letters, & Labels—Learn how Microsoft Word can save you hours of work. Wed., Oct. 13, Noon-1 p.m., Computer Center Auditorium
Pine: Introduction—Learn the basics of Pine, an email program on KU central computers and NESTs. Prerequisite: Understanding Email or equivalent skills. Wed., Oct. 13, 5-6:30 p.m., Computer Center PC Lab, Room 202B
Outlook Express: Intermediate—Learn the advanced features of this email program. Prerequisite: Outlook Express: Introduction. Thurs., Oct. 14, 10 a.m.-noon, Computer Center PC Lab, Room 202B
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