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THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1997
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A gray sofa chair and a gumball machine were stolen between 11:45 p.m. Sunday and 4 a.m.
Monday from the vacant Zeta Beta Tau fraternity, 1942 Stewart Ave.
Fraternity loses chair, gum to over-night theft
Lawrence police were called by a maintenance worker about 6:30 a.m. Monday regarding the theft. Police found that the glass in the front door of the fraternity had been broken to enter the building
Police have no suspicion in the theft. The stolen items and damage to the door totaled about $900, police said.
—Kansan staff report
White House defends protection of doctor
WASHINGTON — The protection that U.S. marshals afforded a Kansas doctor from anti-abortion violence was proper and had nothing to do with his political donations to Democrats, administration officials said yesterday.
The Wichita clinic is one of the few in the country that perform abortions in the third trimester, and has long been a target for anti-abortion protests. Tiller was shot in both arms in 1993 by an attacker.
The marshals, at times, have protected George Tiller and his Women's Health Care Services in Wichita because of what local law enforcement officials have regarded as threats to the facility, said Bill Dempsey, representative for the U.S. Marshals Service.
Any suggestion that the security was connected to Tiller's political contributions is crazy. Dempsey said.
The physician gave $25,000 to the Democratic National Committee in March 1996 and later attended a White House coffee, where he personally thanked the president for the marshals' protection.
Jury must be prepared for McVeigh judgment
Tiller and his wife, Jeanne, also gave $13,795 to a variety of candidates including Kansas Democratic congressional hopefuls and President Clinton's re-election campaign, according to federal records.
DENVER — One prospective juror in the Oklahoma City bombing trial said yesterday that she could not impose the death penalty, while another said that execution should
be almost automatic for murder. Both cited the Bible.
selection entered a third day.
Recalling Christ's teachings that only those without sin should cast the first stone, a woman identified as Juron No. 101 said, "I don't feel capable of throwing that first stone.
Timothy McVeigh
The next woman questioned, a farmer's wife identified as Juror No. 779, used her own view of the Golden Rule to defend the death penalty.
"I was always taught "Do unto others what you would want others to do unto you," she said. "He's guilty, he should die the death penalty."
McVeigh, 28, is charged in the April 19, 1995, truck bombing that ripped open the Oklahoma City federal building, killing 168 people and injuring hundreds.
—The Associated Press
It is expected to take weeks to whittle the pool of 350 prospects down to 12 jurors and six alternates.
Because the federal charges against McVeigh of murder and conspiracy carry a penalty of death by injection, a willingness to impose the death penalty is required of the jurors. Two of the 16 questioned have opposed it.
Policy would restrict e-mail
Anything not in KU mission may be banned
By Nicholas C. Charalambous
Kansas staff writer
Students, faculty and classified employees using the University's computers would not be allowed to send personal e-mail or promote their religious or political views according to new e-mail policy being considered by the University of Kansas.
The first draft of the KU Electronic Mail policy would restrict the use of the University e-mail system to mission-related purposes — defined as teaching, research and public service. The policy would prohibit the use of e-mail, bulletin boards and email lists to solicit or proselytize others for commercial ventures, religious or politica' causes or outside organizations, or personal gain. Proselytizing can mean anything from expressing one's opinion to pushing that opinion onto others.
The draft policy, written by William Crowe, vice chancellor for Information Services, also would not permit e-mail that would constitute discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, or political beliefs.
A copy of the draft policy was obtained by the University Daily Kansan, but has not been released by the University.
Crowe said that the purpose of the policy was to educate people about the appropriate uses of new technology in accordance with established University policies, such as those that prohibit staff and faculty from personal use of University phones and stamps and the wearing of political buttons on University property.
ANALYSIS: Draft policy is too broad, critics say. Page 3A
The e-mail policy is also necessary to provide a mechanism for complaint and to defend the University against legal action, Crowe said.
"People have to understand what is and is not an appropriate use of University property, so that when action is taken, they cannot plead ignorance," he said. "If you're being harassed by somebody online, what rights do you have? A legitimate criticism would be if we didn't have a University policy."
Provost David Shulenbur asked Crowe to create a draft policy for
KU's Lawrence campus. A 10 member, ad-hoc committee was established and Crowe's draft was distributed at the committee's first meeting on February 28.
The committee has no student representative.
including system misuse. The policy states that e-mail would be subject to disclosure through legal proceedings or laws that apply to e-mail transmissions.
Crowe took the first draft, with a few revisions, from the KU Medical Center Electronic Mail policy that went into effect Jan. 1, 1996, after a six-month review procedure.
Cowse said that normal University disciplinary procedures would be applied if students, faculty and staff were found to violate the e-mail policy, but he insisted that it was not practical or reasonable for the University to police the e-mail system.
Crowe stressed that the first draft was the beginning of a process that would take several months. The committee will prepare proposals that students, staff and faculty will have a chance to review, before a policy is put in place, he said.
The draft policy tackles the issue of enforcement by stating that authorized University personnel would have unrestricted access to e-mail and related information stored on University equipment for reasons
Jerry Niebiaum, executive director of Information Technology Services and chairman of the committee, said that the University would rely on users to inform them if the e-mail policy was being violated.
"We do not monitor the contents of e-mail," he said. "We do investigate complaints that are brought of us."
Staff, faculty and students can send their comments about the draft policy to the committee at itpolicy@ukans.edu
This is how we do it
Tyler Wirken / KANSAN
Demonstrating how to properly extend a guidon, an Air Force ROTC symbol which represents a particular unit, Ali Sage, Lees Summit, Mo. senior and Cadet Captain helps Bryan Meek, sophomore Air Force ROTC cadet during a marching drill yesterday in the grass area behind Watkins Memorial Health Center. Sage and Meek were making up a missed practice time with other members of Air Force ROTC.
KU students escape injury after accident
Kansan staff report
Lawrence police said two women who were riding in a red Mazda Protege were taken to the hospital. Names of the injured parties were not available, but Lawrence Fire Department officials said that neither woman appeared to have sustained serious injuries. Both were 22 years old and were wearing their seat belts.
Two people were taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital about 7 last night after a two-car accident at Harvard and Iowa streets.
The two women in the other car, a white Toyota RAV, were Janece Worner, Shawnee freshman, and her sister Suzanne Worner, Shawnee sophomore. Neither were injured in the accident.
Janece said that her sister, who was driving, hit her head on the windshield when the car came to a stop. Janece Worner said she had been
wearing her seat belt, but that her sister had not been wearing hers.
The Mazda was traveling north on Iowa and collided with the Toyota, which was going east on Harvard. The Mazda struck the Toyota in the right front fender, forcing the Toyota to swerve the left and narrowly miss hitting a streetlight pole.
"We were slowing down before we got to the intersection, then the light turned green, so we sped up," Janece Worner said. "We were just coming back from getting Little Caesar's Pizza. She (Suzanne) said she saw the car out of the corner of her eye. It all happened so fast."
The Toyota skidded to a stop in a yard on the northeast corner of the intersection. The car stopped about 6 feet from hitting a tree in the yard.
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Janeece Worner said that the light had just turned green as she and her sister were approaching the intersection.
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--candidates have answered the question in a one minute statement, they will each have 30 seconds for rebuttal. Each member of the panel also will present one question to the vice presidential candidates.
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Elections code rule violation suspected after vandalism act Delta Force insignia marked on sidewalk by unknown person
Chad Perlov, Englewood, Colo., junior and elections commissioner, said that he had seen a picture taken of the graffiti, which read “Δ-Force” and appeared to have been written with a permanent marker. He also had read the complaint, signed by Mike Walden, Unite coalition vice-presidential candidate.
By Kevin Bates Kansan staff writer
A complaint was filed at the student elections commission office yesterday by the Unite coalition regarding sidewalk graffiti in front of Ekdahl Dining Commons.
"The drawing is a violation of the elections code." Perlov says. "Since it's not a chalk drawing, it violates a University regulation. And if it violates a University code, it automatically is against election code."
Perlov said that the elections office would issue a citation against the Delta Force coalition by Monday. At that time, the alleged violator would have an opportunity to enter a plea of not guilty, guilty or no contest. A guilty or no contest plea would result in a fine, Perlov said, while a not guilty plea would lead to an appearance before the elections hearing board.
Rule 7 of Section 400D of the Student Senate Elections Code says that chalk写 anywhere upon
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Debate will let candidates voice views Students have opportunity to question candidate's views
By Dave Morantz Kansan staff writer
Admission is free, and students will be given opportunities to pose questions to the candidates.
Forget the flashy buttons, bright posters, neon fliers and packs of Student Senate candidates on Wescoe Beach.
The gloves come off at 7 tonight when the presidential and vice presidential candidates slug it out in Alderson Auditorium at the Kansas Union for the first and only debate of this year's Senate campaign.
"I'm just looking to have fun," said Matt Caldwell, Lawrence junior and Delta Force vice presidential candidate. "Traditionally debates haven't been a way that people have been informed. But student involvement needs to be taken very seriously."
Chad Perlov, Englewood, Colo., junior and elections commissioner, will moderate the debate. He hopes that student involvement will spur interest and increase voter turnout at next week's elections.
A three-member panel will first ask each vice presidential candidate one question. After the
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Presidential candidates will then answer two rounds of questions in the same format. Students in the audience will pose one round of questions to the vice presidential candidates and two rounds to the presidential candidates. Perlov said the debate should last less than one hour.
The panel consists of David Ambler, vice chancellor of student affairs, Al Cigler, professor of political science, and Audrey Nogle, elections commission chairwoman.
Scott Sullivan, Unite presidential candidate and Leawood junior, said that the debate gave the candidates a unique chance to express their views.
You just don't get much of an opportunity to discuss the issues one on with the other candidates," he said. "The students are going to want to know how we're going to get stuff done."
Michael Yaghmour, independent presidential candidate and Pittsburg junior, said that the debate gave candidates with little time to campaign and small budgets a good forum to present their ideas.
many students are frustrated with the campaigning that goes on on Wescoe Beach," he said. "I could shove people in peoples' hands all day but I don't think that would get the job done."