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The Inside Front
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Wednesday April 25, 2001
News
from campus,the state, the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Scholarships available for nontraditional students
The Student Development Center has scholarship applications available for both graduate and undergraduate nontraditional students. Applications are due on Friday, May 18.
The Nontraditional Campus Leadership Award has four $1,000 awards for undergraduate nontraditional students with financial need. The scholarship is intended for students who have made leadership contributions on nontraditional issues on campus or in the community.
The second scholarship is the Paula Gottedtne award for undergraduate or graduate unmarried women, 50 years or older, with financial need.
A woman will receive the Mary C. Breakey award as well. This is intended for undergraduate or graduate nontraditional women who are Kansas residents with financial need. They must also plan to enroll in six or fewer hours for next fall and spring.
All undergraduate nontraditional students with financial need may apply for the Soad EI-Hodiri award.
Applications can be picked at 22 Strong Hall. For more information, call 864-4064.
Michelle Ward
Students file report after man enters home
A 21-year-old KU student filed a police report Sunday because a man with brown hair in his early 20s continues to appear in her residence in the 1100 block of Kentucky Street, Lawrence police said.
Det. John Lewis said the student reported that she came home at 3 a.m. Friday and saw a man jump off her apartment's porch and run around the side of the building. When she went inside, she found her front door unlocked, a window open and its screen missing.
She looked out the window and saw the man standing against the side of the building. When she yelled at him, he left.
The next day, the student's roommate saw the man when she returned home at 1 a.m., Lewis said. When the woman entered the apartment, all the blinds were open. She left the apartment temporarily. When she came back a few minutes later, all the blinds were closed, and a man who met her roommate's description from the day before was standing in her kitchen.
Neither woman called the police about the man at the time of the incidents, Lewis said. He said police would increase patrol in the area.
- Lauren Brandenburg
Navy ROTC awards to be presented today
The Naval ROTC Spring 2001 awards ceremony will be at the Woodruff Auditorium at 3:30 p.m. today.
Three students academically in the upper 25 percent of the NROTC class will receive the American Legion Award for Military Achievement. The winners are as follows: gold medal, Kevin Chestnut; silver medal, Ryan Willette; bronze medal, Larry Morgan. Other awards will be distributed as well.
Capt. Bill Howell said that the award ceremony was an opportunity for ROTC students to be recognized for their hard work.
Speakers at the ceremony will include Capt. James Cooper and William Meador of the Navy League.
The event is open to the public.
Erin Adamson
NATION
Supreme Court ruling OKs warrantless arrest
WASHINGTON A divided
WASHINGTON — A divided Supreme Court ruled yesterday that police can arrest and handcuff people for minor traffic offenses, saying the authority flows naturally from the right to pull someone over.
The court ruled 5-4 in the case of a Texas woman handcuffed in front of her small children and briefly jailed for failing to wear a seat belt.
Gail Atwater said the belts were unfastened only to help the family look for a distraught 4-year-old's lost toy. A police officer saw her as endangering her children and ordered her to jail.
"The question is whether the Fourth Amendment forbids a warrantless arrest for a minor criminal offense, such as a misdemeanor seat belt violation punishable only by a fine. We hold that it does not," Justice David H. Souter wrote for the court majority.
Unpersuaded, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote for the minority that the ruling "cloaks the pointless indignity that Gail Atwater suffered with the mantle of reasonableness."
The decision could affect any of the nation's 185 million licensed drivers. Texas is one of several states with laws specifically allowing this kind of arrest, and the Supreme Court ruling means that other states could pass similar laws without fear of constitutional problems.
Navy skipper to retire; will avoid court-martial
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii — Cmdr. Scott Waddle raised eyebrows in legal circles when he decided to testify without immunity at a Navy court of inquiry into the USS Greeneville's collision with a Japanese fishing vessel. But Waddle's attorney says the skipper's testimony may have helped him
avoid a court-martial.
Japanese families had called on the Navy court of inquiry to recommend a court-martial for Waddle, who was in charge Feb. 9 when the U.S. submarine rammed the Ehime Man during a surfacing drill and killed nine of their relatives.
At an "admiral's mast" Monday, Waddle was found guilty of two violations of military law: derelection in performance of duties and negligent hazarding of a vessel. Adm. Thomas Fargo, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, issued a letter of reprimand to the 41-year-old skipper and took steps to permanently remove him from command. But Fargo decided against a court-martial.
WASHINGTON — President Bush is offering Taiwan a panoply of military equipment, including submarines, to face off a Chinese threat, while deferring sales of the item Taiwan wants most: high-tech U.S. destroyers equipped with the Aegis combat radar system.
Bush offers equipment but no naval radar
The sale of such equipment to Taiwan, which China considers a rebellious province, could have worsened U.S.-China relations already strained by the collision
between a U.S. spy plane and a Chinese jet that led to the 11-day detention of 24 American military personnel.
The White House took pains to assuage Beijing's concerns about the arms package, which was outlined to reporters Monday by seven.
al U.S. officials and lawmakers who had been briefed on the decision.
Brownback states ways to stop global warming
WASHINGTON — Agriculture and land conservation can help slow global warming, Sen. Sam Brownback said yesterday as he promoted tax breaks for businesses that invest in anti-pollution efforts.
nesses that threaten in all pollutant entrances. The Kansas Republican senator wants to encourage farming practices and other land uses that trap carbon dioxide in the soil. This "carbon sequestration," some scientists argue, could help contain worldwide warming trends caused by the release of carbon dioxide and other harmful gases that trap heat in the atmosphere.
Debate rages over who or what to blame for increased carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere today. Brownback said, but there is "broad consensus" about its harmful effects on the environment.
The Associated Press
Watkins care wins approval
By Livi Raegenbau
writer@kanson.com
Kansas staff writer
The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, an organization that has accredited Watkins Memorial Health Center since 1988, gave Watkins initially good ratings.
Joyce Zissman, physician at Princeton University and evaluator for the Accreditation Association, said Watkins was a well-run center.
"You have practitioners who are knowledgeable, care about their patients and practice good
medicine." she said.
Carol Seager, director of health services at Watkins said the evaluations were something they chose to undertake every three years to measure the quality of services Watkins delivers. It is evaluated according to 24 national standards including patient rights, quality of care, physical therapy and urgent care.
The final results of the survey will not be released for 12 weeks.
Michelle Wolfe, Olathe graduate student, said Watkins was helpful and accessible.
"I'll go in, and they will listen
o what I have to say," she said.
"I was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, and it was nice that they understood and knew something about the illness."
Kimberly Giacobbe, Amherst, Mass., junior, said she went to Watkins for the treatment of asthma and was not given proper care. She said Watkins gave her the wrong inhaler, which caused her to have a more severe asthma attack.
But not everyone has had a good experience at Watkins.
- Edited by Kylie Colgan
ON THE RECORD
A tree and handicapped parking sign in the Fraser Hall parking lot were damaged when a car struck them at 3:10 p.m. Sunday, the KU Public Safety Office said. The driver said she parked in a stall and hit the brake, but her car wouldn't slow and she hit the sign and tree. The officer reported finding nothing wrong with the brake and gas pedals. The car suffered minor damage to the center and left front bumper. Her car was towed and the damage was estimated at less than $500.
A Kansas license plate was stolen from a KU student's 1997 Hyundai while parked in the
Hashinger Hall parking lot between 9 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. Sunday, the KU Public Safety Office said.
A KU student's car was damaged in the Jayhawk Towers parking lot between 11:15 pm. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday, the KU Public Safety Office said. The back windshield was broken, and damage was estimated at $200.
A KU student's windshield was damaged between 11 p.m. Saturday and 7:30 a.m. Sunday on the 1000 block of Emery Road, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $400.
ON CAMPUS
- Ecumenical Christian Ministries will sponsor the University Forum, "Eyes Wide Shut: Missionaries, NGOs and Violence in Northern Uganda" from noon to 1 p.m. today in ECM, 1204 Oread Ave. Sandra Gray, professor of anthropology, will speak. Call Thad Holcombe at 843.4933
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 864.SHOW.
■ KU Non Tradis 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 Union. Call Michael or Deena at 864-7317.
University Career and Employment Services will sponsor the workshop, "Better Late than Jobless" at 3:30 p.m. today at room 149 in the Burge Union. Call Ann Hartley at 864-3624.
The KU Polish Club will sponsor a lecture by professor Anna Cienciaal called "20th Century Polish History Distorted in University Textbooks" at 4 p.m. today at room 4012 in Wescoe Hall. Call Andrzej Karcz at 864-2351.
The Diversity Peer Education Team will meet at 5:30 p.m. today in the Multicultural Resource Center, Call Santos Nunez at 864-4350.
The KU Pre Nursing Club will meet from 5:30 to 7 tonight at the Sunflower Room in the Burge
Union. Learn about applying for to the University of Kansas Medical Center and ROTC opportunities. Call Ilian Sherwood at 312-7633.
Latin American Solidarity will meet at 8 tonight in Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Call Rebekah Moses at 312-1985.
KU Water Polo will practice at 7 tonight at Robinson Park, Call Elaine Blazer at 312-2277.
MOBBENI
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 in Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Call Heather Hensarling at 841-861
A. C.T. in Faith will meet at 7 tonight in Ecumenical Christian Ministries. Call Gary Bartholomew at 841-8651.
Ichthus will meet at 8 tonight at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
- WomanSpace will meet from 8 to 9 tonight in the upstairs at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries. Call Heather Hensaring at 841-8661.
DaisyPraise will meet at 9 tonight on the first floor of Hashinger Hall. Call B.P. at 312-1066.
tonight at the Hashinger Hall kitchen on the second floor. Call Jenn at 843-5638.
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All classes are FREE for KU students, staff, and faculty and don't require registration UNLESS otherwise noted.
Register at
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864-0494.
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Outlook Web Access Prerequisites: A KU Exchange account. Tues., May 1, 11 a.m.-Noon, Computer Center Auditorium
Web Authoring: Improving Accessibility Proerequisite: Web Authoring: Cascading Style Sheets Introduction. No registration or fee. Wed., May 2, 9 a.m.--Noon, Computer Center South Lab
Migrating from Eagle/Falcon/KUHUB Prerequisite: KU students, faculty or staff with email service on Eagle, Falcon, or KUHUB. Wed., May 2, 2:30-3:30 p.m.
Computer Center Auditorium
Outlook Granting Folder Access (Windows) Prerequisites: A KU Exchange account and Outlook: Introduction. Requires registration for all. Wed., May 2, 1-2 p.m., Computer Center Auditorium