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The Inside Front
Tuesday April 24, 2001
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Two KU students win national scholarships
Two University of Kansas students each won one of 80 national Morris K. Udall scholarships. The scholarships, each worth $5,000, were awarded to Anna L. Wagner, Topeka junior, and Holly M. Worthen, McPherson junior.
The scholarship was established in 1992 and named after Udall, a former U.S. congressman known for his career of public service.
It is given out annually to students interested in careers in environmental policy, health care or tribal public policy.
public policy. Wagner is an environmental policy major, while Worthen is an English and environmental studies major.
Barbara Schowen, director of the University Honors Program, said that Wagner and Worthen seemed prime candidates for the award.
"They're both excellent students, and I think they stand out because they are very clearly focused on long-term career plans in the environment." Schowen said. "They both worked very hard on their scholarship applications."
— Sarah Warren
KU student wins three musical scholarships
A University of Kansas student recently has won three awards for musical performance.
Robert Horton, Manville, R.I., graduate student, won a Fulbright student award, through which he will study organ in France during the next school year. He said he wanted to study at the Conservatoire National de region in Toulouse, where he would have access to some of the world's most celebrated instruments.
Horton also recently won the Poister Competition for his three organ performances during a day-long marathon of organ music in Syracuse, N.Y. Horton will receive $1,500 and will present a solo concert this fall at Syracuse University. He will also be featured this summer at the 2001 Region II Convention of the American Guild of Organists in Binghamton, N.Y.
Last weekend, Horton earned a $5,500 scholarship by winning first place at the John R. Rodland Memorial Scholarship Competition in Ridgewood, N.J.
Horton, a student of James Higdon,
professor of organ, is a graduate teaching assistant in the department of music and dance.
Sarah Smarsh
Naismith Hall residents charged with vandalism
Two Naismith Hall residents were booked into the Douglas County Jail Friday afternoon on the charge of criminal damage to property.
Lawrence Police Sgt. Mike Patrick said the two were suspected of creating several holes in Naismith's hallway walls near the elevator on the south end of the fourth floor.
Some holes were the size of fists and others appeared to have been created by someone slamming his body into the wall, Patrick said.
The damage to Naismith was estimated at $1,000.
The two residents were released on $1,500 bond each later Friday afternoon. They will appear at 3 p.m. on May 2 in Douglas County District Court.
White House blames Peru for downing plane
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration suggested yesterday that Peru's military failed to follow established rules of engagement in shooting down an American missionary plane. Peruvian authorities insisted they acted properly.
White House representative Ari Reischer said the U.S. crew of a CIA-operated surveillance aircraft tracking the missionary plane "did its best to make certain that all the rules were followed."
Unidentified man enters KU student's apartment
An unidentified man entered a KU student's residence through a window at 3 a.m. Saturday in the 1900 block of Ohio Street while she and a friend were in her basement bedroom, Lawrence police said.
Asked if they were, in fact, followed, he said "the information that we are in receipt of indicates, no." Other officials said a Peruvian air force officer aboard the surveillance plane moved too quickly to request authority to direct the use of force.
Sgt. Mike Pattrick said the student and her friend heard footsteps upstairs and initially thought the student's roommate had come home.
But the footsteps continued, and a man appeared in the doorway of the student's bedroom. The student's friend asked what the man was doing in the residence, and the man said he didn't know and left.
— Lauren Brandenburg
The student did not notice anything missing from the residence, but the damage to the window screen was estimated at $50.
NATION
Demps resigns as KC school superintendent
Bush defends proposal for education spending
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In another stunning reversal for the embattled Kansas City public schools, Benjamin Demps Jr. resigned yesterday as superintendent — just four days after his surprise reinstatement to the job by a federal judge following his firing Wednesday.
Demps, with tears in his eyes, urged a state takeover of the schools: "The only efficient solution to this crisis lies with the state Legislature and also in my opinion, it is truly the district's last chance."
The board, meeting in closed session after Demps' resignation, voted to appoint Bernard Taylor, executive director of school leadership, as acting superintendent.
WASHINGTON — President Bush insisted yesterday that his spending plan for schools strikes the right fiscal balance, rejecting Democrats' calls for billions of dollars more.
"I support historic new levels of education funding, yet all of us know better schools require more than just funding," Bush said. "My education reform has a good balance of new dollars."
Democrats want to provide about $30 billion for elementary and secondary education next year — about $13 billion more than last year. In his budget, President Bush proposed a much smaller increase of about $1.4 billion, proposing to spend about $19 billion total. The Senate is to take up the matter this week.
WORLD
Leaders sign agreement to open free-trade zone
QUEBEC — After the protesters left and a steady drizzle washed away the clouds of tear gas, 34 leaders of the Americas scrawled their names on a sweeping accord that would unite the Western Hemisphere in the world's most powerful trade bloc.
The Summit of the Americas ended Sunday with President Bush and other presidents and prime ministers agreeing to inaugurate the free-trade zone by the end of 2005. They still have fierce differences, though, about the details of the zone, which would unite their $13 trillion economies, eliminate national subsidies and increase competition.
The leaders also agreed that the Free Trade Area of the Americas, or FTAA, will include only democracies. Any country that veers from democracy — with a military coup, for example — could be kicked out.
The Associated Press
ON THE RECORD
A KU student reported her car damaged in the GSP-Corbin Hall parking lot between 6:30 and 10 p.m. April 12, the KU Public Safety Office said. The car had key scratches along the driver's side front panel. The damage was estimated at $500.
A KU student's car was damaged in the Lewis Hall parking lot between 6 p.m. Wednesday and 7:15 a.m. Thursday, the KU Public Safety Office said. A CD player and alarm system with pager remote were stolen, and the front driver's side window was broken. The damage and stolen goods were valued at $1,200.
A car backed into a stopped car on Constant Avenue at 5:50 p.m. Thursday, the KU Public Safety Office said. The driver had pulled over in the McCollum labs parking lot to let a passenger out and then backed up the car without first checking for traffic. The damaged car sustained a dented bumper and cracked front grill. The cost of the damages was not listed.
A car struck a stopped car at 15th Street and Naismith Drive at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, the KU Public Safety Office said. A car was stopped while a pedestrian crossed the street, and the car was struck from behind. Damages weren't listed.
from Benihai, ABUKU **A KU student's Honda moped was stolen from the northwest corner of Hawarth Hall between 9:30 a.m. Thursday and 2:45 p.m. Friday, the KU Public Safety Office said. The moped was valued at $600 and was later recovered.**
An audio recorder was stolen from a room on the second floor of Murphy Hall between 1:30 p.m. Tuesday and 1:30 p.m. Thursday, the KU Public Safety Office said. The recorder was valued at $1,000.
A KU student's car was damaged in the
McCallum Hall parking lot between 11:30 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. Saturday, the KU Public Safety Office said. The right side of the car was scratched. The damage was estimated at $500.
A car was hit and abandoned at Stouffer Place apartments at 10 a.m. Saturday, the KU Public Safety Office said. A car had attempted to park to the right of the parked car, but bumped the right rear panel and then fled the scene. The damage was estimated at $500.
A KU student reported his wallet stolen from Robinson Gymnastium between 7 and 7:20 p.m. Saturday, the KU Public Safety Office said. His Kansas driver's license, MasterCard, Discover card and $72 were in his wallet when it was stolen. The stolen goods were valued at $104.
A KU student's cash, laptop computer, beer mug, plastic baseball cup with coins, white T-shirt, tie and glass cup with coins were stolen between 3 and 4 a.m. Saturday in the 2700 block of Crestine Drive, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $3,635.
A KU student's front and rear windshields were damaged between 4 and 11 a.m. Sunday in the 1000 block of Emery Road, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $800.
A KU student's 1984 GMC truck was damaged between 11 p.m. Friday and 2 a.m. Saturday in the 4000 block of Harvard Road, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $400.
■ The rear window of a KU student's 1998 Saturn was damaged between 10 p.m.
Thursday and 10 a.m. Friday in the 1200 block of Ohio Street, Lawrence police said.
The damage was estimated at $500.
ON CAMPUS
Watkins Clinic Health Promotion will have a compulsive over./under-eating group at 7:30 a.m. today at the Watkins health promotion conference room in Watkins Memorial Health Center, Call 312-1521.
University Career and Employment Services will sponsor a workshop, "Better Late than Jobless" at 3 p.m. today at room 149 in the Burge Union. Call Ann Hartley at 864-3624.
KI Aikido Club will meet from 5:30 to 7:30 tonight at 207 Robinson Center.
Hispanic American Leadership Organization will meet at 6 p.m. today at the Pioneer Room in the Burge Union, Call Juan Toledo at 312-9120.
KU Traditional Karate Club will meet from 6:30 to 8:30 tonight at racte-
ball court No. 15 at Robinson Center.
Call Rachel Fulter at 312-1990.
KU Water Polo will practice at 7 tonight at the Robinson Center Pool. Call Jason Blazer at 312-2277.
Students for a Free Tibet will meet at 7 tonight at Alcove B in the Kansas Union. Call Pat Barrett at 830-9485.
United Methodist Campus Ministry will meet from 7:30 to 8:30 tonight at the Pioneer Room in the Burge Union. Call Heather Hersalring at 841-8661.
KU Environs will meet at 8 tonight in the fourth-floor lobby of the Kansas Union. Call Scott at 312-2228.
- Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karate will meet from 9 to 10:30 tonight at 207 Robinson Center. Call Ryan Ness at (785) 218-7415.
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