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The Inside Front
Monday April 30,2001
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Student Union Activities to sponsor religion forum
Student Union Activities will present a panel discussion titled "Religiously Incorrect" as a forum for discussing religious issues on campus.
The panel discussion will be tomor row at 8 p.m at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Patrick Waters, forums coordinator for SUA, said the discussion was relevant to students.
"Religion has been discussed so much this semester in the Kansan, and we just thought this would be a great opportunity to have a public forum to discuss these events," Waters said.
Panelists are Paul Mirecki, associate professor of religious studies; Sarah Sawyer, associate professor of philosophy; Matt Cox, representing Campus Christians; Mike Scherschlgt, director of the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center's Catechetical Institute; Robert Minor, professor of religious studies; and Adrian Melott, professor of physics.
The discussion is free and open to the public.
Erin Adamson
STATE
Volunteers flock to help Hoisington residents
HOISINGTON — One week after a tornado ripped through Hoisington, volunteers from all over the country are helping in the recovery.
"We might be helping them, but they're inspiring us," said Kathy Mears of Greensburg, Pa., a caseworker with the American Red Cross.
Mears has been in Hoisington since Tuesday, set up in the Knights of Columbus hall on Main Street, just four blocks south of where a tornado destroyed 141 homes and damaged hundreds on April 21.
The Red Cross was prepared to coordinate as many as 10,000 volunteers on Saturday.
Groups that have offered help include Mennonites, Southern Baptists, Seventh-Day Adventists and United Methodists. And several church youth groups and schools of children from all over Kansas came to town, as well as about 250 miscellaneous volunteers.
Legislators rush to draft budgets for 2002,2003
TOPEKA — Legislative negotiators were starting from scratch Sunday rather than trying to find a compromise between rival House and Senate plans for closing a $206 million budget gap.
Three senators and three House members have been appointed to draft the final version of the year's final budget bill. Their bill will reconcile expected revenues with spending for the state's 2002 fiscal year, which begins July 1.
The joint conference committee met all day Saturday, but the two chambers had taken such different approaches to resolving the state's financial problems that the negotiators said it was like the plans were in different languages.
They abandoned the traditional negotiating process and started drafting a new plan, deciding first how much revenue they're willing to raise and how much money they'll need in the state's 2003 fiscal year.
The negotiators said they are working on both a fiscal 2002 budget and the outlines of a 2003 budget because it will do no good to resolve this year's problems and face similar or tougher budget problems next year, when the final 2003 budget is drafted.
NATION
KC schools' new leader vows to clean up district
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Bernard Taylor once turned around a Pittsburgh elementary school. Now he finds himself running the troubled Kansas City school district, a textbook example of an urban education mess.
Taylor, 41, just moved here from Pittsburgh last August for a midlevel job as the district's executive director for leadership.
Named as interim superintendent in the wake of the firing/court-ordered reinstatement/resignation of Benjamin Demps Jr., Taylor is new to Kansas City, and unknown to most of its residents.
Taylor knows what some people are saying — that he's too young, too green for this thankless job. That maybe he was chosen for those very reasons. That he can be intimidated and manipulated.
"To now talk about an investigation, it seems to me, is just the wrong way to go." Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., told ABC's This Week. "If the Pentagon asked me, 'I'd say no.'
"Don't underestimate me," he said.
"I may look young. I've been around the block a couple of times, too. I grew up in an urban area."
WASHINGTON — Some of Bob Kerrey's former Senate colleagues who served in Vietnam said Sunday they have little desire for a possible Pentagon investigation into his recent admission that civilians were killed during a mission for which he won the Bronze Star.
Former Sen. Bob Kerrey could face investigation
Bok Kerrey, the former Nebraska governor and senator, and five other former members of his Navy SEAL team said in a written statement released during the weekend that what happened on the night of Feb. 25, 1969, at Thanh Phong "was a defining and tragic moment for each of us."
Kerrey's admission came as another former SEAL member, Gerhard Klann, claimed in interviews that civilian women, children and elderly were herded into a group and killed on Kerrey's order. Two Vietnamese women who said they were witnesses gave a similar account.
U.S. inspectors will view downed surveillance plane
WASHINGTON — China will allow U.S. personnel to inspect an American spy plane that made an emergency landing on Hainan Island on April 1, officials in both nations said Sunday. An American inspection team in Okinawa, Japan, awaited
clearance to travel to China, hoping to depart as early as Monday.
The development raised U.S. hopes that the disabled aircraft will soon return home, and it seemed to signal an easing of U.S.-China tensions.
Bush: administration gives strong response to China
At the same
time, Cheney and top Bush administration officials reinforced President Bush's tough stand that a military response from the United States remains an option if China attacks Taiwan.
It has been nearly a month since a U.S. Navy EP-3E surveillance plane with a crew of 24 collided with a Chinese fighter jet sent to intercept it above the South China Sea, outside China's 12-mile territorial sea and airspace.
The plane made an emergency landing at a military airfield on Hainan Island, and the crew was detained for 11 days. They were released after Bush said he was "very sorry" for the loss of the Chinese pilot and for the U.S. plane's unauthorized entry into Chinese airspace to make an emergency landing.
The Associated Press
Poison ivy, ticks pose health risks
By Livi Regenboun
wriller@kanson.com
Kanson staff writer
Spring and summer is a time for hiking, biking and spending time outside, but plants and parasites can make the great outdoors a little treacherous.
Randall Rock, associate director for health education at Watkins Memorial Health Center, advised students to look out for poison ivy and ticks.
Poison ivy, a North American shrub or vine that has three leaflets, green flowers and white berries, can cause a rash and allergic reaction. Rock said symptoms of contact with poison ivy include itching, swelling, rash, redness and blisters.
"People have varying reactions in sensitivity based on their own immune response and amount of exposure," he said.
Marc Romito, Missoula, Mont,
graduate student, said he often
goes hiking and encounters poi
son ivy, but does not have an aller
"when I get it, I am not terribly allergic to it, so I just get a little outbreak of it," he said. Still, Romio said he wore long pants when hiking to avoid getting poison ivy. He said it was important to be wary of the plant.
gic reaction to it.
"The most important thing is being able to identify it," he said.
Rock said preventing a rash from poison ivy is as simple as wearing loose-fitting clothing and long pants while hiking. Anyone who comes into contact with the shrub should shower immediately and wash the contacted clothes.
Rebecca Kuhn, Sterling graduate student, said she was extra wary of poison ivy because an uncle of her's was hospitalized by the plant.
"It made me more paranoid about it," Kuhn said.
Plants aren't the only thing in the woods that can leave someone scratching.
Lyme disease.
Rock said students should also beware of tick bites because of
"When you come out of the woods, you need to examine yourself and use a mirror if necessary and try to remove ticks," he said. "If ticks are removed in 72 hours, Lyme disease is not of high incidence."
Romito said he often got ticks and that it was important to catch them before they get embedded in the skin. He said bug spray can work well to keep ticks away.
Rock said that if students had a serious outbreak from contact with poison ivy or Lyme disease, they should see a doctor.
— Edited by Doug Poey
He also said it was important to make sure the tick bite did not cause any redness or irritation. Symptoms of Lyme disease include a rash, fever and chills.
ON THE RECORD
A junior in Malatot Hall encountered a suspicious person outside the building at 11:45 p.m. Tuesday, the KU Public Safety Office said. The junior said she took some trash outside and, while smoking a cigarette, was approached by a muscular 6-foot-1 man. She said the man, standing 20 feet away from her, said, "Come over here." The junior went inside and locked the door behind her, but the man proceeded to pound on the door, the report stated.
A car hit a parked car in the Budig Hall parking lot at 9:20 a.m. Wednesday, the KU Public Safety Office said. A car attempted to park to the right of the parked car, but bumped the car. Damages weren't listed.
Two cars collided in the Burge Union parking lot at 10:35 a.m. Wednesday, the KU Public Safety Office said. A car was backing out of a parking stall when it was struck by another car. Damages weren't listed.
Two cars collided in the Robinson Center parking lot at 11:15 a.m. Wednesday, the KU Public Safety Office said. A car was backing out of a parking stall when it was struck by another car. Damages weren't listed.
A KU student's cell phone, Ray Ban sunglasses and 10 compact discs were stolen from a vehicle between 3 and 3:15 p.m. Thursday in the 800 block of Kentucky Street, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $580.
A KU student's driver's license, school IDs, three credit cards and wallet were stolen at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the 1700 block of Ohio Street, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $50.
A KU student's Nissan Maxima was damaged between 10 p.m. Wednesday and 10 a.m. Thursday in the 1600 block of Vermont Street, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $450.
ON CAMPUS
Black Student Union will meet at 7:30 tonight at the Pioneer room in the Kansas University. Call Courtney Bates or Cassandra Young at 864-3984.
The KU Baha'i Club will meet from 7 to 9 tonight at the Regionalist Room on the fifth floor of the Kansas Union. Call Justin Herrmann at 830-8912.
The department of music and dance will sponsor a percussion ensemble directed by John Parks at
7:30 tonight at room 130 in Murphy Hall. Call
864-3436.
Vietnam Veterans for Academic Reform; the KU Auxiliary, will present Teaching Religion at a State University: Ban it or Support it?, an interview with professor Paul Mirecki, from 7:30 to 8 tonight on cable channel 19.
KU Greens will meet at 8 tonight at Alcove D in the Kansas Union. Call Sarah Hoskinson at 838-9063 or Galen Turner at 838-3498.
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