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The Inside Front
Friday September 17,1999
News
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CAMPUS
Flute, CDs reported stolen from Murphy Hall rooms
Murphy Hall has been the site of a series of burglaries during the past two weeks.
Between Sept. 8 and Tuesday, three burglaries were reported by students and Murphy Hall staff members.
An Armstrong flute and case, valued at $1,000, were stolen between Sept. 10 and Tuesday from room 200 in Murphy Hall.
In two other instances, a total of 60 CDs were stolen between Sept. 8 and Tuesday from rooms 216 and 220 in Murphy Hall. The CDs were valued at $900.
Sgt. Troy Mailen of the KU Public Safety Office said that his department did not have any suspects.
"We will continue to look into the burglaries to see if they are connected in any way," Mailen said. "When you have burglaries that happen in a close time frame like these do there is a chance that they could be connected."
No one injured in fire at Pi Beta Phi sorority
A fire started at 10:50 a.m. yesterday at the Pi Beta Phi sorior house, 1612 W. 15th St. No one was injured
Lt. Doug Green of the Lawrence Fire and Medical Department said that the fire started on the third floor of the house where a construction worker had been welding.
"While one of the construction workers was welding some steel decking on the third floor, he noticed the smoke," Green said. "It took a little while once we got here for us to find where the smoke was coming from, but once we found it, we were able to put out the smoldering fire immediately."
The house is being renovated by the Fritzel Gene Construction Co. of Lawrence.
— Michael Terry
LAWRENCE
Ribbon-cutting ceremony will open nature center
Lawrence's new $950,000 nature center will make its public debut tomorrow with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and various activities to acquaint residents with the building.
The ribbon cutting for the Prairie Park Nature Center, 2730 Harper St., will take place at 9:30 a.m. and will be followed by a dedication of local artist Jon Havener's sculpture "Occurrence," said Lisa Patterson, recreation marketing supervisor of Lawrence Parks and Recreation.
Other activities include self-guided tours of the center, a "meet the Prairie Park staff" session at 1 p.m. and a butterfly tagging demonstration at 2 p.m.
Patterson said that the center featured nine permanent displays including aquariums, reptiles and butterfly- and bird-watching areas.
The 5,500 square foot building is in the 71-acre Prairie Park. The geographic features of the park will be interpreted through exhibits and education programs planned for the nature center.
Regular building hours will be 9 a.m to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday.
— Derek Prater
STATE
Kansas City elevator falls; four passengers injured
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Four people were injured Wednesday night when an elevator fell six floors in an apartment building.
Kansas City fire officials said the elevator was carrying six people in the Ambassador Apartments about 8 p.m. when it fell from the fifth floor to the basement.
Battalion Chief Gary Birch said passengers crawled out of the elevator from the basement. They made their way upstairs to the lobby, where they were treated for back and neck injuries. The injuries were not considered life-threatening.
NATION
Ft. Worth killer's motive still unknown to police
FORT WORTH, Texas — Police picked through Larry Gene Ashbrook's trashed home and old journals yesterday, finding holes punched in walls, concrete poured in toilets and family photographs shredded — but no explanation for why he opened fire in a church, killing eight people.
The 47-year-old Ashbrook appeared to be a very troubled man, said FBI agent Robert Garrity said.
"I don't know that we'll ever know the answer to the question of why it happened," he said.
Ashbrook, dressed in blue jeans, a black jacket and smoking a cigarette, entered the Wedgwood Baptist Church in Fort Worth on Wednesday evening as teen-agers listened to a Christian rock band in the sanctuary.
In the church lobby, Ashbrook confronted his first victims with a question: "What's the program?" Then he shot a jailtor who approached him and killed two other people before walking into the crowded sanctuary
The 150 teen-agers gathered inside initially thought Ashbrook was part of a skit as he began cursing and spouting derogatory comments about Baptists. They scrawled for cover as Ashbrook opened fire, pausing at least twice to reload.
Ashbrook killed himself in a rear pew
Report lists cyber-stalking as rapidly growing crime
SAN DIEGO — State and federal laws should be stiffened to outlaw stalking, according to a new U.S. Justice Department report that warns the practice is on the rise.
"Cybertalking is a very serious new problem confronting us in the information age," said Vice President Al Gore, who requested the report in February and released it yesterday.
Gore: Says cyber-
stalking is a serious
problem.
books that explicitly cover stalking on the internet or through other electronic communications means, the report found.
Two-thirds of states have no laws on the
NEWARK, N.J. — A suicide note left by Mexico's former deputy attorney general implicated President Ernesto Zedillo and members of the country's ruling party in the slaying of the one-time prosecutor's brother.
Suicide note implicates Mexico's ruling party
"To find my brother's murderers an investigation should be initiated beginning with Zedillo," said Mario Ruiz Massieu in the note distributed today by his U.S. lawyer.
In Mexico City, Attorney General Jorge Madrazo Cuellar dismissed the letter left behind by Ruiz Massieu.
"Mario Ruiz Massieu lived lying and died lying," Cueller said.
Ruiz Massieu, Mexico's former top drug prosecutor, was found dead Wednesday in an apparent suicide two days before he was to be arraigned in Houston on U.S. charges of laundering $9.9 million in suspected drug payoffs.
Swedish teen not guilty in Internet crime case
STOCKHOLM—A Swedish teen-ager has been accused of charges that he made copyright-protected recordings available free on the Internet.
Tommy Olsson, 17, was accused of spreading pop hits such as Madonna's "Ray of Light" through his Web page. However, the court said he was innocent because he only posted links to other sites on the Internet where the music files could be found.
The links functioned as road signs helping Internet surfers find music files. Web users then could listen to the songs or record them.
The case reportedly was the first of its kind in Europe.
The Associated Press
Carolinas Mid-Atlantic hit by Floyd
WILMINGTON, N.C. — Hurricane Floyd roared ashore yesterday near Cape Fear with 110 mph wind, then quickly weakened after flooding the coasts of the Carolinas and Virginia with more than a foot of rain and chasing tens of thousands of people into shelters.
The Associated Press
By 5 p.m., as the center of the storm was about 10 miles south of Atlantic City, N.J., it was downgraded to a tropical storm again, as sustained winds fell to 65 mph.
Some 1.4 million utility customers from South Carolina to New Jersey lost power, and 125,000 still had no power today in Florida. Flooding and power failures combined to shut down the Portsmouth, Va., water supply system, which serves 110,000 customers.
Schools were closed today for more than 2 million vounters.
At least seven deaths were blamed on Floyd.
However, since Floyd struck the coast about 3 a.m., the top-sustained wind fell quickly, down to about 75 mph, and by late afternoon to 65 mph, the National Hurricane Center said. The minimum wind speed for a storm to be called a hurricane is 74 mph.
President Clinton declared a major disaster yesterday in North Carolina, and released $528 million to the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help hurricane victims.
'Out of Focus named as theme for 51st Revue
By Emily Hughey writer@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
The theme for this year's Rock Chalk Revue is in the clear.
But it's "Out of Focus" nevertheless.
This year's theme, "Out of Focus," was unveiled to representatives from 24 living organizations last night at Parlors A, B and C in the Kansas Union.
Each year, living organizations are invited to pair up to develop a script, music, choreography and set design surrounding the given theme. Then, after creating a show and submitting it to a selection committee for judging, five pairs are selected to perform their musical in the revue that spring. The revue, a student-organized and performed compilation of minmusicals, donates proceeds from the show to the United Way each year.
Marie Mossberger. Overland Park senior and the revue's executive director, said the 16-student Rock Chalk advisory committee
brainstormed and finalized the theme Wednesday night. "We went through probably about 500 different ideas," Mossberger said. "This one stuck out, and everybody loved it."
She said that, although the logical choice would have surrounded the millennium, the committee decided against using it as a theme.
Jason Neusel, one of Sigma Nu's Rock Chalk Revue directors, said he thought the theme was a good one. Sigma Nu fraternity is paired with Alpha Delta Pi sorority, and he said the two chapters would meet after the theme announcement to discuss ideas for their show.
"It's highly workable, and I'm terribly excited," said Neusel, St. Louis junior. "We want to meet with both houses and get some good ideas from their brainstorming."
The 12 pairs of fraternities and sororites will base their 20-25 minute mini-musicals on the "Out of Focus theme. The 51st-annual revue will be presented March 9-11, 2000 at the Lied Center.
Edited by Brad Hallier
ON CAMPUS
The Spencer Museum of Art is sponsoring Family Day from 1 to 3 p.m. tomorrow at the museum. Call Sally Hayden at 864-0135.
The badminton club is practicing from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. today and tomorrow at rooms 211 and 212 in Robinson Center, Call Tee or Kevin at 843-2267.
United Methodist Campus Ministry is having open rehearsals for Cross Rhythms, a volunteer ensemble, at 6:30 p.m. Sunday at First United Methodist Church, 946 Vermont St. Call Rev. Call Heather Hensarling at 841-8661.
TheKU Writing Center at 4005 Wesco Hall is open by appointment only until Thursday. Call 864-2399 to schedule an appointment or visit the web site at www.ukmus.edu/writing
Child care grant applications are available today from the Office of Student Financial Aid. Call 864-4700 or visit the office at 50 Strong Holl between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's gym bag was stolen between 2 p.m. and 2:15 p.m. Wednesday from Robinson Center, the KU Public Safety Office said. The bag and its contents were valued at $160.
A KU student's mobile phone and car keys were stolen between 8 a.m. and 9:05 a.m. Tuesday at the 1700 block of Ohio Street, Lawrence police said. The merchandise was recovered
The window of a KU student's residence was damaged between 1:45 a.m. and 1:50 a.m. Wednesday at the 1300 block of Vermont Street, Lawrence police said. The window was valued at $100.
A KU student's curtain rod was damaged between 1:50 a.m. and 2 a.m. Sunday at the 1000 block of Emery Road, Lawrence police said. The rod was valued at $10.
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