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The Inside Front
Wednesday, May 2, 2001
News
from campus,the state, the nation and the world
CORRECTION
A story in yesterday's Kansan incorrectly stated the day and misspelled the name of the KJHK radio program on which Tara Budiman, Tammy O'Shields and two other women will appear. They will be on Reel Talk radio at 6 p.m. tonight.
A photo caption on Monday's Hilltopics page in the Kansan incorrectly identified a prairie rats-tles.
CAMPUS
Ceramics students to benefit from sale
Student art will be available for purchase from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow when the ceramics department holds a spring sale to benefit ceramics students at the Main Gallery on the third floor of the Art and Design Building.
Judy Arnold, Ceramics Club president and Leavenworth senior, said works would include functional pieces such as small fountains and mugs, as well as large, sculptural pieces. Prices will range from $5 to hundreds of dollars, and all purchases will come with a biography sheet about the artist and an information sheet about the artistic process involved.
Part of the proceeds will benefit a fund for a ceramics student award. Arnold said the department began holding the sale to build the endowment fund four years ago, and the first award would likely be given next fall.
Arnold added the sale benefited the ceramics department as a whole.
— Sarah Smarsh
"It makes our department visible across campus and throughout Lawrence," she said.
KU teaching assistant to receive award
Ophra Leyser, a KU graduate teaching assistant, will receive the Graduate Student Award for Distinguished Service at the Graduate School awards ceremony at 3:30 p.m. today at the Big 12 Room in the Kansas Union.
Leyser, a doctoral student in sociology, will be presented the award for her work as an advocate for academic, employment, social and personal concerns of graduate students.
"Ophra's been active in student organizations and has really helped her fellow graduate students," said Daphne Johnston, assistant dean of the graduate school.
Leyser teaches a social problems course and has taught Hebrew language courses in past semesters.
Recipients of the award, established in 1983, receive a certificate and a
cash prize of at least $150, Johnston said. Their names are added to a plaque in the Kansas Union.
Student receives grant for salary research
A KU doctoral student has received a $14,000 grant from the Association for Institutional Research to fund research into wage equity for women faculty.
The association awarded more than $175,900 in research and dissertation grants for 2001.
Christine Keller-Wolf, a Shawnee student in educational policy and leadership, will use the grant to fund research for her dissertation. Keller-Wolf plans to explore the changes in earnings of male and female faculty members during the 1990s. She begins her year-long work June 1.
— Amanda Beglin
NATION
Man finds girl's head near decapitated body
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A retired postal worker found the head of a young girl whose decapitated body had been discovered earlier in the same wooded area in eastern Kansas City, Mo.
Billy Stegall, 51, found the girl's head yesterday in a black plastic trash bag about 100 yards from where the body was discovered Saturday. He said there were flies all around the bag.
When he saw the bag, Stegall motioned to a Fox television reporter who was in the block-long woods doing a report on the discovery of the girl's body. The reporter, Jana Shortal, went to Stegall, who poked the bag with a stick, showing the outline of a human head.
Shortal then called police.
Shortly then called police.
When police arrived, they confirmed that a girl's head was in the trash bag. Shortl said.
Pipeline explodes north of Kansas City
There were no reports of injuries. The 10-inch diameter pipe burst in a field along Missouri 273 between Platte City and Weston, about 15 miles north of downtown Kansas City, Mo.
PLATTE CITY, Mo. — A pipeline carrying propane between Kansas and Illinois erupted in a western Missouri farm field yesterday, sending flames hundreds of feet in the air.
The pipe, operated by Mid-America Pipeline Co., burst from "some type of stress fracture" about 11 a.m., said a representative for the Platte County Sheriff's Department.
Bail denied for teen charged with murder
HAVERHILL, N.H. — One of two teen-agers charged with murdering a husband and wife who taught at Dartmouth College pleaded not guilty yesterday.
Robert Tulloch, 17, said nothing during his Grafton County Superior Court arraignment. Led into the courtroom, he looked briefly at members of his family — father, brother and sister — and showed no emotion as a court clerk read two charges of first-degree murder.
No bail was set; Tullock remains in the county jail. Senior Assistant Attorney General Kelly Ayotte said a trial date would be set in the next few weeks, but it was not expected to begin before February.
Tulloch and James Parker, 16, both of Chelsea, Vt., are charged with murdering Half, 62, and Susanne Zantop, 55, in their isolated home on the Hanover campus Jan. 27.
SEATTLE — Angered by state education plans, teachers in Seattle and three suburban districts staged a one day walkout yesterday, shutting down classes for 70,000 students.
Teachers shut down classes with strike
"We're doing this because every day our students are being shortchanged," said John Dunn, president of the Seattle Education Association, which represents 4,800 teachers and staff.
It was a coincidence that the walkout came on May Day, the traditional day of labor demonstrations around the world, said Washington Education Association representative Rich Wood. He said yesterday just happened to be a convenient day for teachers in some districts.
The union said some 5,000 teachers walked out to protest the amount of money set aside for education in state budget proposals.
One student killed in university fire
The blaze was reported at about 6:20 a.m. at the privately-operated University Towers. The fire was under control in a half-hour.
AUSTIN, Texas — A fire broke out yesterday at a high-rise luxury apartment building for University of Texas students, killing one student and criti cally injuring another.
A 19-year-old student was found in his room and was pronounced dead at a hospital. His name was not released. Another student, Zawardy Ab Latiff, 21., was hospitalized with third-degree burns.
The fire was confined to a second-floor unit of the two-tower complex.
The Associated Press
The Associated Press
Klansman convicted of 1963 murders
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A former Ku Klux Klansman was convicted of murder yesterday for the 1963 church bombing that killed four African-American girls, the deadliest single attack during the civil rights movement.
Thomas Blanton Jr., 62, was sentenced to life in prison by the same jury that found him guilty. Before he was led out of the courtroom in handcuffs, he was asked if he had any comment.
"Iguess the good Lord will settle it on judgment day," he said.
bomb that went off at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church on Sunday Sept. 15, 1963.
Blanton was accused of helping other Klansmen plant a powerful
During closing arguments, U.S. Attorney Doug Jones told the jury of eight Whites and four African-Americans it was "never too late for justice." He said Blanton acted in response to months of civil rights demonstrations.
"Tom Blanton saw change and didn't like it." Jones said.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Posey added: "The defendant didn't care who he killed as long as he killed someone and as long as that person was Black."
"These children must not have
died in vain," he said. "Don't let the deafening blast of his bomb be what's left ringing in our ears."
The bomb ripped through an exterior wall of the brick church. The bodies of Denise McNair, 11, and Addle Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley and Carole Robertson, all 14, were found in the downstairs lounge.
Defense lawyer John Robbins said the government relied on murky tapes of his client secretly recorded by the FBI and proved only that Blanton was once a foul-mouthed segregationist.
ON THE RECORD
Blanton was among a group of Klansman identified as suspects within weeks.
A KU student reported being harassed by phone in her Hashinger Hall room at 4:20 a.m. Sunday, the KU Public Safety Office said
A car hit a parked car in the Strong and Bailey Hall parking lot at 8 p.m. Sunday, the KU Public Safety Office said. A car was paral lel parking when it struck a parked car, scraping its passenger side front bumper. Damages were not listed.
A KU student's mountain bike was stolen between 9 a.m. and 11:30 p.m. April 19 in the 1200 block of New Jersey Street, Lawrence police said. The bike was valued at $150.
A KU student's dashboard, stereo and passenger's side window and door frame were damaged and CDs stolen between 9 p.m. Sunday and 9 a.m. Monday in the 3900 block of Overland Drive, Lawrence police said. The damage estimate and CD value were unknown. A KU student's passenger door window was
A KU student's passenger door window was
damaged and car stereo stolen between 10 p.m. Sunday and 8 a.m. Monday in the 3900 block of Overland Drive, Lawrence police said. The stereo was valued at $200, and the damage estimate was unknown.
A KU student's driver's side window was smashed and the CD player's detachable face damaged between 11:30 p.m. Sunday and 7 a.m. Monday in the 2400 block of University Drive, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $450.
A KU student's driver's side window and dashboard were damaged and the CD player stolen between 11:30 p.m. Sunday and 7 a.m. Monday in the 3900 block of Overland Drive, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $300, and the CD player was valued at $350.
A KU student's window and steering column were damaged between 5 p.m. Sunday and 12:30 a.m. Monday in the 1900 block of West 23rd Street, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $400.
ON CAMPUS
Ecumenical Christian Ministries will sponsor the University Forum, "Charles Darwin and his Family", from noon to 1 p.m. today at ECM, 1204 Oread Ave. Harold Orel, professor emeritus of English, will speak. Call Thad Holcombe at 843-4933.
KU NonTrades will have a brown bag lunch at 1 p.m. today at its cubicle in the Organizations and Leadership Office, room 400 in the Kansas UniNA, Call Michael or Deena at 864-7317.
The School of Fine Arts and the Kansas Union will present Brown Bag Classics at 12:30 p.m. today at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Drinks will be provided. Call the SUA box office at 844.SHOW.
The Diversity Peer Education Team will meet at 5:30 p.m. today at the Multicultural Resource Center. Call Santos Nunez at 864-4350
paid in Lawrence, Kan. 66044.
Annual subscriptions by mail are $120. Student subscriptions of $2.33 are paid through the student activity fee.
KU Water Palo will practice at 7 tonight at
Robinson Pool, Call Jason Blazer at 312-2777.
KU Chess Club will meet at 7 tonight at the Daisy Hill Room in the Kansas Union. Call Matt Miller at 832-0733.
The United Methodist Campus Ministry Fellowship dinner will be from 6:30 to 7:30 tonight at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Call Heather Hensarling at 841-8661
ACT in Faith will meet at 7.tonight at ECM.
Call: Cell: Baltimore at 814.861-6821
Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
DaisyPraise will meet at 9 tonight on the first
Carly Barnhill
**WomanSpace will meet from 8 to 9 tonight in the upstairs at the ECM. Call Heather Hensrling at 841-8661.**
Ichthus will meet at 8 tonight at Alederson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
DaisyPraise will meet at 9 onton on the first floor of Hashinger Hall. Call B.P. at 312-1066
Roor of Hastinger Island. Call B. cr. ar 312-1608.
Latin American Solidarity will meet at 8 tonight at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204
Oread Ave. Call Rebekah Mahos at 312-1985.
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