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THURSDAY, APRIL 10.1997
SECTION A VOL.103,NO.132
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Oliver Hall roommates arrested after scuffle
Two KU students were arrested early yesterday morning after a fight on the ninth floor of Oliver Hall, KU police said.
Roommates Kongseng Khammanivong, Vientianne, Laos, freshman and Christina Beshears, Wellsville freshman, were both taken to the Douglas County jail at 2 a.m. after an argument and a fight in the hall lobby. Police said that the two had a history of arguing with each other.
Both roommates called each other names, and Khammanivong punched Beshears in the face several times before police arrived. Beshears suffered injuries to her right eve.
Police said they did not know the cause of the fight.
Beshears was released from jail at 2 p.m. yesterday afternoon after the charge against her was dropped, and Khammanivong was released at 3:30 p.m. on her own recognition.
-Kansan staff report
Army general named Zairian prime minister
KINSHASA, Zaire — President Mobutu Sese Seko had soldiers pull the prime minister off the streets yesterday as his reign appeared to crumble even further. The White House urged him to make way for a democratic government, calling his three-decade dictatorship a creature of history
The Zairian president, who had declared a nationwide state of emergency Tuesday in response to rebel advances, named an army general as the new prime minister. Gen. Likulia Bolongo previously had served as defense minister and army chief of staff.
Likulia promised a crackdown on civil liberties, saying his primary goal was to restore public order.
The four-star general, dressed in his army uniform and surrounded by four other officers, did not elaborate about the crackdown at a news conference but said measures would be taken against the news media if they published articles that affected the military's morale.
Riots erupt in West Bank after Palestinian funeral
Several foreign journalists, including an Associated Press photographer and APTV cameraman, were beaten and had their cameras stolen by soldiers during an antigovernment demonstration yesterday.
HEBRON, West Bank — The funeral of a Palestinian drew thousands of people to the streets yesterday in more West Bank rioting. Protesters hurled rocks and firebombs at Israeli soldiers — who responded with tear gas and rubber bullets.
About 30 people were injured as Palestinian police forced human chains, searched rooftops and blocked streets with trucks, struggling to separate protesters from the soldiers and to prevent more deaths after the funeral of Nader Isseid, 24, one of three Palestinians killed a daver earlier.
Two Palestinians were killed Tuesday after two Jewish seminary students shot and killed a Palestinian man.
Palestinian police fired 21 shots into the air as iseidell's body, wrapped in the red, white, green and black Palestinian flag, was lowered into the grave.
After the funeral, thousands of Palestinian marchers marched toward the Israeli-controlled part of the city, where 500 Jewish settlers live.
There have been almost daily stone-throwing clashes in the West Bank since Israel broke ground March 18 for a new Jewish neighborhood in east Jerusalem.
Recycling, child care ratified
Senate approves two bills for building new centers
By Dave Morantz Kansan staff writer
In its last session of the year one of its most productive and politicized meetings — Student Senate voted to approve a plan to finance the construction of a new child-care center. Senate also approved the implementation of a $1 student fee to expand the University's recycling program and to construct a recycling center.
Senate resolved the long battle about the Black Student Union's funding by approving a budget
bill that will keep the group's funding at $20,800,the amount recommended by the finance committee.
At its previous meeting, Dion Jones, Virgin Islands sophomore, off-campus senator and former vice president of BSU, recommended slashing $5,800 from the group's budget. Last night, Senate voted by a narrow margin to deny Jones an opportunity to speak about the group's funding.
"They don't want to be the ones to say they're holding up the process," Jones said of budget
Members of BSU said they were relieved that the long process finally had ended and that they were not worried about the proposed audit.
"Because of the programming we were doing, they recognized the value of our organization," said Andrea Lockett, Shawnee junior and BSU president. "We welcome the audit. They've been looking at our books all year."
allocation proceedings.
Jones said he would ask the Senate treasurer to audit the organization.
afford to finance the construction. This forced Grey Montgomery, student body president, to negotiate a deal between Senate, the administration and Hilltop Child Development Center.
Under the agreement, which the administration has said it would approve, construction of a new building could begin in 1999 and provide child care by 2001 or 2002.
"I think something that was wrong is we had a student fee for years and no commitment from the administration," Montgomery said. "If they bail out at this stage of the game it would be an incredible PR black eye."
Along with Kevin Yoder,
Hutchinson junior and Student
Environmental Awareness
Board chairman, Montgomery
also helped to pass a bill implie-
menting a $1 student fee to expand the University's recycling program.
"There might be some hitches at first, but we'll get something rolling next year," Yoder said.
The plan calls for recycling bins to be placed in every campus building. Doing so will save the University disposal costs and will help finance the construction of an on-campus recycling center, said Victoria Silva, environmental specialist for Environment Health and Safety.
"To me recycling equates to resource conservation," she said. "As an environmental specialist, I don't look at it as a money making opportunity."
Silva said an expanded program could be operational by the fall of 1998, but that a recycling center was a few years away.
Out in the cold
Heather Clark / KANSAN
Erik Heitman, Chicago freshman, leaves his mark by voting for Student Senate in front of Wescoe Hall. All poll sights for today's Student Senate elections have been moved indoors because of expected cold weather, said Chad Perlov, Englewood, Colo., senior and elec-
students with KUIDs and Spring '97 fee payment stickers who did not vote yesterday can vote in the lobbies of the Kansas and Burge unions, Strong and Haworth halls, and in the east end of the third floor of Wescoe Hall.
AIDS Awareness Month to focus on student, community education
By Emily Vrabac
Kansan staff writer
Being aware of AIDS and taking steps to prevent AIDS are two separate entities for college students.
"I think that students have a good knowledge of AIDS and HIV," said Janine Gracy, coordinator of health promotion and education at Watkins Memorial Health Center. "Unfortunately, students don't put that knowledge into action."
April is AIDS Awareness Month, and Gracy and her staff are working in conjunction with the Douglas County AIDS Project (DCAP) to promote AIDS education in the community.
RoxAnne Romey, Lawrence graduate student and intern at DCAP, said that DCAP had several events planned for this month, including a benefit walk on April 26 and a special church event on April 27.
Gracy said the message
"The reason I believe we're not seeing a change in attitude and behavior is because we're seeing more sexually transmuted diseases, which means people aren't practicing safe sex," Gracy said.
about prevention is particularly crucial to University students.
"We want people to be aware about HIV and AIDS, that it's here, that people need to be educated and take precautions not to spread it." Romey said.
Romey said DCAP's message was for both University students and the Lawrence community.
Volunteers from DCAP spent yesterday morning hanging red ribbons on the doors of local buildings to promote AIDS Awareness Month.
Gracy said that the health promotion department at Watkins tried to educate students about AIDS year-round.
"In this age group, there's a real set thought that 'It won't happen to me,'" Gracy said.
"Unfortunately, we have seen it happen to students on this campus."
Gracy said the people most at risk for AIDS were those who had had sex without protection or who had shared intravenous equipment, such as needles.
Watkins uses peer education to spread the message about AIDS prevention to classes and organized living groups, Gracy said.
Watkins offers three types of AIDS tests that range in price from $19 to $40. There are anonymous tests, confidential tests and saliva tests, and results can take from a few days to two weeks to return.
"We encourage people that, if they put themselves at risk, they should be tested," Gracy said.
Gracy said the tests detected antibodies, not the virus itself, so there was a window of time between suspected infection and when the person should be tested.
AIDS testing at Watkins
Anonymous test: Costs $19, students do not give name and test does not go on medical records. Results take two weeks.
Confidential test: Costs $19, students are tested without identification, but test goes into medical records. Results take a few days.
Saliva test: Costs $40, no blood involved in test,
results sent to laboratory in California for evaluation.
Call 864-9500 for more information.
teers to assist throughout the year.
For more information about the events or to volunteer, call DCAP at 843-0040.
A variety of opportunities are available, and students can choose what they would like to do. Romey said.
Union to be 'little Malasia' in lobby today
By Kelli Raybern
Special to the Kansan
Students passing through the Kansas Union may want to linger a little longer than usual today and take advantage of an opportunity to learn about Malaysian culture.
Meilling Chuah, Malaysia junior and organizer of the exhibit, said she hoped the exhibition would encourage students to travel to her country.
The Malaysian Student Association of the University of Kansas is presenting Budaya, a cultural exhibition that seeks to inform students about the country's dance, dress, food, festivals, music, architecture and terrain.
"You can go from west to east in five hours, from north to south in just a day," Lim said.
"We hope people will remember our country and one day visit our country." Chuah said.
Seow Shin Lim, Malaysia junior and treasurer of the association, said that the country's small size made traveling in Malaysia convenient.
Malaysia's 19.9 million people represent three major ethnic groups, Malays, Chinese and Indians all in an area about 1.5 times the size of Kansas.
"Since we are a multi-racial country, we have a lot of different things to see," Chuah said.
Lim said that the country's different ethnic groups shared a common culture.
"They have blended together over the years," Lim said. For example, Lim said that the Chinese population of Malaysia had incorporated spicy cooking that had not been common in China and that many Malaysians celebrated both Chinese and Malaysian New Years.
This is the first year that Malaysian students have presented the exhibition, which began yesterday. In past years, they offered students a taste of their culture through annual Malaysian Night celebrations.
"We have been having Malaysian Night for three or four years," Lim said. "We thought we wanted something different."
Chuah hopes that the exhibition in the Union would reach more students than Malaysian Night.
"Not all the students would go to Malaysian Night," she said. "Malaysian Night was more expensive — usually about $7 to get in."
Kenny Holt, Rock graduate student, said he had attended Malaysian Night a few times but that he still had learned a lot from the exhibition.
"I thought this was a better way to convey information than a big night," Holt said. "Here I saw a lot of different costumes, and I could read about them and pick up brochures. Even though I knew quite a bit about Malavian culture. I still learned a lot."
The exhibition will be open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
today in the fourth-floor lobby of the Kansas Union.
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