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The Inside Front
Tuesday August 31, 1999
News
from campus,the state the nation and the world
CORRECTION
Friday's University Daily Kansan incorrectly identified John Rosanova as the owner of Pachamama's, 2161 Quail Creek Drive. Rosanova is the manager.
CAMPUS
Positive identification made in drowning
A positive identification has been made on the body found in the Kansas River Aug. 20, the Douglas County Sheriff's office said. It has been confirmed as Jarol Baker, Attica senior.
Lt. Don Crowe said the coroner matched the dental records this weekend.
Services were held for Baker last week.
Katie Hollar
Campus whistle down, temporarily weakened
Students had to set their alarm clocks and wind their watches yesterday.
The steam whistle was not working. George Cone, assistant director of mechanical systems at facilities operations, said he hoped to have the whistle blowing at full volume in one to two weeks.
"We want people to know we're working on it," he said.
Cone said facilities operations was doing a number of repairs on the whistle, which traditionally sounds at 20 minutes after the hour during the day to signal the end of classes and at 50 minutes past the hour on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
"It'll be a whistle upgrade," he said. Cone said one of the two main problems stemmed from the process of cleaning the boilers, which resulted in dissolved solids clogging the valve.
"We know it's going to happen, it just takes a bit of time for the boiler water to clean itself up," he said. "They're doing a fantastic job."
Cone said the other problem had to do with the air compressors that usually opened and closed the valve. Facilities operations continually changes the filters and is upgrading the air compressors, he said.
As a result, students will have to forego the hourly foghorn blast and settle for either a weak whistle or no whistle at all.
"I think more of the professors rely on it than the students." Cone said.
— John Audlehelm
Liberal Arts seeks student delegates
graduates to take part in its governing body during the next school year.
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is looking for 100 under
The student representatives would be responsible for voting on policies regarding new academic minors and changes to degrees.
Nancy Krische, coordinator of the student representatives for the the college assembly, said that usually many of the representatives become student senators later during their college careers.
"It's a good opportunity and experience to be a part of the policy making process," she said. "The main purpose is to approve and change existing policies."
Last year, the college assembly voted on the implementation of a diversity requirement within the school's curriculum.
Positions also are available for two committees within the assembly. The committee that reviews the budget for college needs one more representative.
The assembly will meet the first Tuesday of every month at 4 p.m. in the Kansas Union.
Applications are available at 109 Strong Hall and are due by 5 p.m. Friday.
Amanda Kaschube
NATION
First lady sends video to violence conference
ROSEMONT, Ill.—First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton helped open a conference aimed at ending domestic violence with a videotaped message to more than 2,000 advocates, researchers and battered women.
"Citizens and governments around the world will recognize that domestic violence is not a custom, it is a crime," Clinton said in the video-taped message.
The four-day Next Millennium Conference, organized by the Justice Department and the Department of Health and Human Services, convened Sunday at a hotel near O'Hare International Airport.
"We'd like to see the next nenniumn be completely free of violence against women," said Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Wanda Jones.
From 1992 to 1996, 21 percent of violence against women was initiated by a partner, according to a study by the Justice Department. In the same four-year period, 2 percent of violence against men was from domestic situations, the study said.
Officials scheduled to speak at the conference include U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala and U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D.Calf.
Resources for victims of domestic abuse include a national domestic violence hot line at 1-800-799-SAFE where
battered women can talk to counselors.
Officials say this number can be used by women too scared to tell a friend or family member, who might tell the batterer and make the situation worse.
Victims of domestic abuse also are attending the conference.
Anna Belle Burleson of Austin, Texas,
said she spent 10 years in an abusive
marriage before getting a divorce.
"I finally left the relationship the night " looked death in the face," Burleson said. "The last time I was assaulted it was very severe, and I realized that if I did not get out of this relationship, I was going to be murdered."
Since the experience, Burleson has helped arrange retreats for women recovering from domestic violence.
Game show contestant wins more in second try
NEW YORK—The North Carolina graduate student who was mistakenly told he gave the wrong answer on a television quiz show increased his winnings in a return visit Sunday but backed out before answering a $250,000 question.
David Honea got his first question right as he continued an earlier run on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, but declined to answer the second, deciding instead to pocket the $125,000 he'd already won. He was three correct answers from winning a million dollars.
Host Regis Philbin told Honea on the Aug. 19 show that he was wrong when he said Lake Huron was the second-largest in area of the five Great Lakes. The show said Lake Michigan, but later admitted it had made a research error and invited Honea back.
Producer Michael Davies told Honea, a doctoral student in computer engineering, that he could keep the $64,000 he'd won and try to increase his winnings.
In a show taped Saturday and aired on ABC Sunday, Honea correctly answered the question "Which was the last horse to win the Triple Crown?" boosting his winnings to $125,000. The correct answer is affirmed.
He declined to risk part of that money on the next question,
"Approximately how much saliva does the average human adult produce each day?"
"I could take a guess, and I'd really like to keep playing for a million bucks," Honea said. "A hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars is more than I paid for my house. I can't risk that. I'm going to take my money."
Philbin gave Honea a check with his winnings and then let him guess at the correct answer with no money on the line. He got the right answer — a quart.
ON THE RECORD
The Associated Press
A KU public safety officer was dispatched at 10:25 a.m.
Thursday to KU Lot 112 behind Oliver Hall on a report that a student's Kenwood stereo, 10-disc CD changer were stolen from his car, the KU Public Safety Office said. The damage and items were valued at $1,065.
A KU public safety officer was dispatched at 11:23 a.m. Thursday to KU Lot 112 behind Oliver Hall on a report that a student's JVC car stereo and three Case Logic CD cases were stolen from his car, the KU Public Safety Office said. The damage and items were valued at $460.
A KU public safety officer was dispatched at 10:40 a.m.
Thursday to KU Lot 112 behind Oliver Hall on a report that a student's CD car stereo, amplifier and 10 CDs were stolen from his car, the KU Public Safety Office said. The damage and items were valued at $620
A KU public safety officer was dispatched at 4:35 p.m. Thursday to KU Lot 111 in front of Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall on a report that tightening had struck a light pole, the KU Public Safety Office said. The pole fell and hit two parked vehicles causing damage to both.
A KU student's 1994 Toyota Corolla was damaged between 12 p.m. Wednesday and 11:30 a.m. Friday in the 100 block of Gower Place, Lawrence Police said. The damage was estimated at $200
A KU student's 1994 Ford Escort was damaged between 11:30 p.m. Thursday and 10 a.m. Friday in the 1400 block of Tennessee Street, Lawrence Police said. The damage was estimated at $100.
Milosevic's control of media blinds Serbs
The Associated Press
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia — NATO's inability to stop ethnic Albanian attacks against Serbs in Kosovo has given Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic a new, powerful weapon against opponents at home who demand that he step down.
Serbia's state-run media, controlled by Milosevic, report extensively on such attacks, sharply criticizing not only the ethnic Albanian perpetrators and NATO troops but also Serbian opposition leaders — denounced as collaborators with Western enemies of the Serb nation.
Milosevic is apparently trying to galvanize public opinion in Serbia and switch attention from growing demands for his removal. He used similar nationalist rhetoric in the past when he was in political trouble, triggering wars in the former Yugoslavia.
The issue of the rapidly diminishing Serb community in Kosovo — estimated at about 20,000 from a prewar population of 200,000 — is especially sensitive. Serbs consider the southern province their ancient heartland and the cradle of the Serb medieval state. It came under NATO-led control in June after Milosevac accepted a peace plan to end the 78-day NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
The opposition accuses
Milosevic of losing Kosovo after needlessly entering a war against NATO. Milosevic — using his monopoly on the mass media — is trying to make people think that the opposition is working together with the United States to break Kosovo from Serbia forever.
Last week, Milosevic said the United States was allied with Kosovo Albanian murderers; drug traffickers and terrorists and suggested that their mercenaries in Serbia were linked to the alleged U.S. campaign against minority Serbs in the province.
Such talk often succeeds in Serbia, where opposition has little or no access to the media; The opposition thus has no choice but to join Milosevic in his Kosovo rhetoric. The result is that attention is deflected from Milosevic's disastrous policies onto nationalist issues such as Kosovo.
"The crimes against Serbs actually help Milosevic, because he is using them to put all the blame on the international community and on opposition parties," said Slobodan Vukasanovic, vice president of the opposition Democratic Party. "He diverts public attention to Kosovo from problems at home."
Opposition parties gingerly point out that the latest tragedy in Kosovo comes from Milosevic's February 1998 crackdown on independence-minded ethnic Albanians.
ON CAMPUS
The KU College Republicans are meeting at 7:30 p.m. today to meet congressional candidate Jeff Colver, Call David Brandt at 331-3470
The Mock Trial Team is having an informational meeting at 8 p.m. today in 207 Blake Hall. Call Tara Kelly at 749-9265.
The Center for Community Outreach is offering a volunteering information session at 8 p.m. today at the parlors in the Kansas Union. Call 864-4073.
The Non-Traditional Student Organization, OAKS, is having a brown bag lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at Alcove E in the Kansas Union.
The Office of Student Financial Aid is award
ing Federal Work-Study funds for the 1999-2000 academic year. To apply online visit www.ukans.edu/~osta. Call 864-4700 or visit 50 Strong Hall Monday through Friday between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. before Sept. 10.
Ecumenical Christian Ministries is sponsoring a University Forum from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. tomorrow at ECM, 1204 Oread Ave. Dr. David Katzman, Professor of American Studies, will speak about athletics and the university. Call Thad Holcombe at 843-4933.
The Office of Student Financial Aid will be offering Child Care Grants for the 1999-2000 academic year. Applications will be available tomorrow through Sept. 17 at 50. Strong Hall.
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