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The Inside Front
Thursday, May 3, 2001
News
from campus, the state the nation and the world
STATE
Hoisington students return after tornado
HOISINGTON — Hoisington High School students are back in classes to finish out the year, but in four different locations because of the April 21 tornado that extensively damaged the school building.
The tornado killed one person and destroyed close to 200 houses in the central Kansas community, and the high school was among the many other buildings with major damage. Younger students were back in class on Monday in their school buildings, but the high school needs major repairs that will take months.
On Tuesday, the high school students reported back for the first time since the storm, and they will be attending classes in the middle school and three churches.
NATION
KC school board hires new superintendent
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City school board has voted to negotiate a contract with the administrator who took the helm of the troubled district after embattled superintendent Benjamin Demps resigned
U.S.military contact with China suspended
The school board has decided to skip a national search, voting 8-1 in closed session Tuesday night to negotiate a 14-month contract with Bernard Taylor, who had been serving as interim superintendent since Demp's departure.
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has suspended all contacts with China's military, apparently in response to the Chinese handling of the U.S. Navy spy plane incident. Officials said yesterday it was not clear how the action would affect efforts to get the plane back.
The suspension had been ordered Monday by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and took effect immediately, said Army Lt. Col. Steve Campbell, a Pentagon spokesman. It affects not just the U.S. military services but also the Defense Department's senior civilian leaders, he said.
Supermodel Niki Taylor injured in car crash
ATLANTA — Niki Taylor made her first million by 16, her megawatt smile gracing one magazine cover after another. Younger sister Krissy soon followed her to stardom.
But Krissy died in 1995, a victim of
what doctors would later call an unusual, undetected heart condition. Now Niki is fighting for her own life after an auto accident from which she appeared to emerge without a scratch. Doctors say she suffered severe liver damage.
Taylor, 26, a top model since the early 1990s, remained in critical condition yesterday at Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital. Her older sister, Joelle Bolline, said Taylor had opened her eyes, nodded and squeezed relatives' hands but was not yet able to speak.
Bush, GOP leaders arrive at budget deal
WASHINGTON — President Bush and Republican congressional leaders clinched a budget deal yesterday that embraces most of the president's tax and spending goals while underlining the ability of moderate lawmakers to limit his agenda.
Congressional leaders planned to push a budget for 2002 embodying the pact through the House and Senate tomorrow. Passage would help GOP leaders toward their goal of shipping Bush a major tax bill by Memorial Day.
Under the agreement, taxes will be cut by $1.35 trillion over the next 11 years — a reduction from the $1.6 trillion, 10-year tax cut that has been Bush's trademark issue since he was battling to win the GOP presidential nomination in 1999.
Napster use drops after format change
SAN FRANCISCO — Naspter use has plunged 41 percent since the online company added song-screening technology to comply with a federal court order, according to an Internet researcher.
Users downloaded 1.6 billion songs in April, a sharp decline from 2.8 billion in February, according to Matt Bailev, an analyst with Weboize.
Napster's programming allows users to share and trade songs stored on computers linked by the Internet. The new screening technology was put in place during an ongoing legal dispute with the recording industry.
WASHINGTON — President Bush offered few details in committing the United States to building a defense against ballistic missile attack, but said enough to stir critics and require him to tundra unsettled allies.
Bush's missile plan meeting opposition
he would like to meet soon with President Vladimir Putin to "look him in the eye" and persuade him such a system does not threaten Moscow.
"It's really hard to what he means and what his strategy really is," said Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del. Russia has wigorously opposed a U.S. missile defense, and Bush said
Hollywood writers continue to bargain
LOS ANGELES — Negotiations between Hollywood screenwriters and producers and studio heads ended yesterday morning without a new deal but with promises to resume talks, temporarily averting a strike that would halt TV and movie production.
The 17-hour bargaining session concluded about three hours after the writers' contract expired at 12:01 a.m. The contract was not extended, and both sides were expected back at bargaining table later yesterday.
Fears of a walkout have gripped the industry for months, but the writers guild has yet to call for a strike vote from its members.
Yahoo! limits adult sites to users' alarm and ire
SAN JOSE, Calif. — When Yahoo! Inc. got rid of the adult videos and DVDs on its shopping pages last month, the popular Internet site wasn't done wrestling with pornography.
During the last few weeks, Yahoo quietly has reconfigured its adult-themed online clubs, message boards and chat rooms, removing links to them and making them harder to find, members said. Many users believe the clubs will fail to attract new members and ultimately disappear altogether.
Those members say they feel betrayed, and have assembled Internet petitions with thousands of complaints.
WORLD
EU president visits tense North Korea
PYONGYANG, North Korea — In North Korea's highest-level contact with the West in six months, the head of the European Union arrived yesterday to promote peace on the Korean peninsula.
Prime Minister Goeran Persson of Sweden, which holds the rotating European Union presidency, was to meet with Kim Jong Il, the reclusive leader of the totalitarian North.
The meeting comes at a time when efforts to promote the reconciliation of North and South Korea across the world's most heavily armed border are suffering setbacks.
New strains also have developed between the North and the United States, which helps defend the South with 37,000 American soldiers.
The Associated Press
Ballots in mail for retake policy's fate
By Cassio Furtado
writer @ kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The fate of the proposed course retake policy is in the mail.
Rv Cássio Furtado
University governance will accept mail ballots for and against the policy from faculty members, student senators and staff members until 5 p.m. Monday.
University Senate, which includes about 1,400 faculty members, staff members, student senators and University administrators, failed to have a quorum at its meeting April 19, causing the mail ballots to be sent to all of the Senate's members.
One-fifth of the Senate needed to have been present in order to reach a decision at the time, but only about 20 professors and 50 student senators attended the meeting.
In early April, 115 members of
Senate signed a petition opposing the new rules. The petition forced the introduction of mall ballots in case enough members were not present at the Senate's meeting.
If the petition hadn't been introduced, the proposal could have been automatically passed to Provost David Shulenburger for final approval even with the lack of a quorum at the Senate's meeting.
The proposed course retake policy would allow students to retake courses without the original grades — if they were Ds or Fs
— being figured into their grade point averages. However, if a student earned an A, B or C and opted to retake a course, an average of the new and old grade would factor into the grade point average.
The proposal, which the University Senate Executive Committee approved, was also approved by University Council
on March 8.
Michael Roessler, graduate senator, said student senators were trying to contact faculty members they knew were favorable to the policy and urging them to vote.
"I'm not super optimistic," he said. "But we will give it a shot."
Roessler, Webster Groves, Mo. graduate student, said senators weren't encouraged about the outcome of the vote.
Bernard Hirsch, associate professor of English, said faculty members weren't doing anything to encourage members of University Senate to vote.
He said he also couldn't predict an outcome of the vote because the issue was controversial.
"They can decide for themselves." Hirsch said.
"You never know what people can do on a secret ballot," Hirsch said. "It's a tosse up."
- Edited by Chevonn Payton
ON THE RECORD
A KU staff member reported damage to a racquetball-court wall at Robinson Center between 9 p.m. April 24 and 8:05 p.m. Friday, the KU Public Safety Office said. The wall was scraped and marked with paint, which will cost $410 to repair.
A car struck a stopped car at 11th and Indiana Streets at 3:45 p.m. Friday, the KU Public Safety Office said. A car was slowing near a stop sign when it bumped the car ahead, causing slight damage to that car's rear bumper. The damage was estimated at less than $500. The driver was cited for inattentive driving.
A car damaged two cars and fled the scene between 7:45 and 8:35 p.m. Saturday, the KU Public Safety Office said. A car was traveling west on Sunnyside Avenue when it crushed into the other lane and struck a parked car's left rear bumper. The impact bumped the parked car against an adjacent parked car. Damages were not listed.
parked in Carriage Blvd.
Two Coleman generators the Phi Delta Theta fraternity had rented were stolen Sunday from a field southeast of the intersection of North 500 Road and U.S. Highway 59, the Douglas County Sheriff's Office said. The generators were valued at $3,240.
ON CAMPUS
The KU ceramics department will have its spring ceramics sale from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. today at the Art and Design Building main gallery. Call Judy Arnold at 844-6441.
JayRock Campus Ministry will have its weekly Bible talks at 11 a.m. today at the alcove of the Kansas Union cafeteria and at 7 tonight at Room 304 in Tower D of Jayhawker Towers. Call Josh Talley at 312-2285.
KU Environons and Ecumenical Christian
KU Environs and Ecumenical Christian Ministries will sponsor veggie lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. today in ECM, 1204 Oread Ave, Call Thad Holcombe at 843-4933.
KI Aikido Club will practice from 5:30 to 7:30
introduction on room 207 in Robinson Center.
■ The KU Meditation Club will meet at 6 p.m. today at the Daisy Hill Room in the Burge Union. Call Pannir at 864-7735.
KU Traditional Karate Club will practice from
6:30 to 8:30 tonight at racquetball court No.
15 in Robinson Center. Call Rachel Fuller at
312-1990.
Amnesty International will meet at 7 tonight at Alcove D in the Kansas Union. Call Karen Keith at 749-7491.
Campus Crusade for Christ will meet at 8 p.m. tonight at Room 100 in Smith Hall. Call Mark Brown at 550-5503.
Radical Christians will meet from 8 to 9 tonight in Ecumenical Christian Miatries, 1204 Oread Ave. Call Heather Hensarling at 841-8661.
The Center for Community Outreach will sponsor a GROW volunteer informational meeting at 8:30 tonight at Alcove in the Kansas Union. Call Sarah Hall or Jessica St. Clair at 864-4073.
Okinawan Goji-Ryu Karate will meet from 9 to 10:30 p.m. tomorrow at Room 207 in Robinson Center. Call Ryan Ness at [785] 218-7415.
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