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The Inside Front
Monday April 23, 2001
News
from campus, the state the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Faculty, students admire JRP Hall at rededication
University of Kansas students, faculty and alumni gathered on Saturday to redelegate Joseph R. Pearson Hall
The building, which was converted from a dormitory into the new School of Education building, was dedicated in a ceremony during the weekend.
Nona Tollefson, professor of education, said JRP provided a more pleasant work atmosphere to work and learn in.
"We love it," she said. "We love this building."
The new building also showed the University's commitment to education. Tollefson said.
"This building represents to us a symbol of the importance that the University of Kansas and the state of Kansas assigns to education," she said.
Allison Roby, Topeka senior, said JRP was more pleasant because the building was nicer, had better desks in classrooms, places to sit outside and better technology than in Bailey
"All the classrooms have Internet access, and that wasn't possible at Bailey," she said.
Flora Wyatt, assistant professor of education, said classrooms were larger in JRP than in Bailey. She said the building featured a commons area where students could relax in between classes instead of sitting on the floor in hallways.
— Andrew Davies
International students begin awareness week
Paul Bonang meal for a home-cooked meal, an authentic blend of foods from his native Indonesia. But while in the buffet line, he decided to splurge, heaping his plate with foods from a variety of countries.
The Jakarta sophomore was one of the participants in International Student Association's Kick-Off dinner last night. More than 150 people attended the dinner that started International Awareness Week at the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center, 1631 Crescent Road.
The buffet boasted food from 12 different ethnic groups including Polish, Indian, Japanese and Lebanese.
"We wanted people to learn from each other's cultures," said Frances Tan, president of the association and Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, senior. "We want to expose domestic students to other cultures."
The association put on the event in conjunction with the Multicultural Awareness Committee at the campus center.
Felicia Orozco, event co-chairwoman, spent five hours making
beans and chile carne for the buffet. While she prepared the Mexican dish, she helped friends by serving fry bread, a Native-American dish.
The various foods presented at the free buffet helped serve the committee's goal of promoting diversity within the international and minority communities. Orozco said.
St. Lawrence provided the host site to kick off the association's week of activities.
The group will hold a showing of the Japanese film Kikujiro today at Woodruff Auditorium. Admission is $3.
Tomorrow, the group will present a puppet theater at noon on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union. At 6 p.m., the association will showcase a cultural and diversity panel for those students thinking about studying abroad.
Michelle Ward
STATE
One killed, 28 injured in weekend tornado
HOI SINGTON — Gerald Tauscher was confident the town alarms would give him plenty of warning if a tornado was coming, and he was in no hurry to go to the basement as thunderstorms rolled across the area.
The sirens never sounded, and Tauscher was killed late Saturday and 28 people were injured by a twister that ravaged an area of town six blocks wide and a mile long. One person remained in critical condition yesterday.
All that remained of Tauscher's home was the empty basement where his wife, Joyce, had taken shelter just before the tornado struck.
"I have nothing," Joyce Tauscher sobbed yesterday.
Officials estimated the tornado struck 20 to 25 percent of the buildings in the town of 2,900 people, 100 miles northwest of Wichita. The roof was blown off the high school auditorium, the local hospital had to be evacuated and the Dairy Queen was destroyed while several people took shelter in a walk-in freezer. High school students interrupted their prom to go to a shelter.
The storm that spawned the tornado was part of a huge weather system that spread thunderstorms and showers across wide areas of the southern and central Plains and record snowfall farther north.
installed a massive billion-dollar robot arm on the international space station yesterday and unfolded the two-handed limb.
"Look at the size of this thing," said space shuttle Endeavour crewman Chris Haddfield, as he tugged open the 58-foot, 3,600-pound arm. The arm remained bent at the elbow and was to be extended the rest of the way by the space station crew working inside.
NATION
Canadian spacewalker hooks up 58-foot arm
It was Canada's biggest day ever in space: the first Canadian spacewalker hooking up the new Canadian-built robot arm on space station Alpha.
At the conclusion of the seven-hour spacewalk, Mission Control congratulated Hadfield and his U.S. spacewalking partner, Scott Parazynski, in English and French and played a recording of "Oh Canada," the country's anthem. The recording was made at a Montreal hockey game.
Students storm field over threatening letter
"We're real proud of your work up there getting Canadarm2 operational," said Steven MacLean, a Canadian astronaut working in Mission Control. "And if you turn around and look down, I believe you're right over Newfoundland."
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — More than two dozen Penn State students were arrested Saturday for rushing the field before a football scrimmage to draw attention to death threats made against Black students.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Two spacewalking astronauts successfully
The students ran past police and onto the field as the band played the national anthem — delaying the start of the game by about 15 minutes.
Assata Richards, who was not arrested but described herself as a spokeswoman for the group, said a letter received on Friday threatened the life of a black student and threatened to bomb a ceremony for Black graduates.
"It was passive resistance," said Bruce N. Kline, assistant director of administrative services for the university police. "They locked arms and were resistant in that sense, but there was no active resistance, and there was no need to use spray or sticks."
The students, who were not immediately identified by authorities, were released by university police. A police representative said summonses would be sent in the mail.
University representative Steve McCarthy said the students would be charged with misdemeanor trespassing and defying an order to leave, but police would not say what charges might be filed.
The Associated Press
Fund-raiser falls short of profit hopes
By Cynthia Malakasi writer@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
A team of students competed in a basketball game yesterday against a team of Kansas basketball players in the NCAA for a Day event, a greek fund-raiser for Lawrence Habitat for Humanity.
The funds will go toward The House That Greeks Built in cooperation with Habitat. The team of Kansas basketball seniors and alumni defeated the students 99-79.
Building a house for a low-income family is a project the greeks undertake every two years. Members of the greek community raise the entire cost of the house through fund-raisers and then construct the building.
Hillary Dunn, Panhellenic Association vice president for public relations, said that this was the first year the greek community experimented with the NCAA for a Day fundraiser.
Dunn, Dallas junior, said that, considering it was the event's first time, it went relatively well, but there were also a lot of drawbacks.
She said the group had initially expected to raise about $12,000.
"We don't think that we raised anywhere near that." Dunn said. "We don't think it will cover the cost of building a house."
Organizers expected to make profits through ticket sales, participation fees for the student team tryouts and donations. The price of the tickets was $8 and participation fees were $5. The amount of money raised has not yet been determined.
Bad luck struck for the first time after the tryouts on April 11, when a box containing $700 in participation fees and donations and tickets valued at $384 were stolen from Allen Fieldhouse. Neither has been retrieved.
Chris Mandernach, president of Interfraternity Council and Lee's Summit, Mo., junior, said that the organizers of the event knew the numbers of the stolen tickets and were looking out for them as people arrived for the game.
After the game, Dunn said that none of the stolen tickets had been used.
She said the game featured a turnout of about 400, but not all the money from those tickets would go toward the house, because the Kansas basketball team will receive 70 percent of
the ticket sale profits for their participation.
that was the only way we could have the game," Dunn said.
Mandy Wilcox, Kansas basketball team manager and Olathe senior, said that was a usual practice of the team.
"They play charity games, and they get part of the profits, too, everywhere they go." Wilcox said.
She said she hoped the team would donate its profits to the house-building project, because it was a charity event. However, she said she did not think that would happen.
In an effort to increase the profits, NCAA for a Day also featured a raffle. The prize was a basketball signed by members of the Kansas basketball team and coach Roy Williams. Raffle tickets were $1.
Dunn said she was disappointed by the low turnout at the game. However, she said she expected a larger turnout if the event was repeated in the future.
She said they had not yet decided whether they would do it again or not.
"It's a possibility," Dunn said.
ON THE RECORD
- Edited by Jason McKee
A KU student's in-dash CD player was stolen between 2:15 and 2:21 a.m. Thursday while it was parked at 1705 Ellis Drive, the KU Public Safety Office said. The damage to the car was estimated at $500 and the CD player was valued at $50.
ON CAMPUS
A KU student's necklace was stolen from 1301 Sunnyside Ave, between 4:20 and 5:45 p.m. Wednesday, the KU Public Safety Office said. The necklace was valued at $1,000.
The department of art and design will sponsor the Hallmark Symposium Series from 6 to 8 tonight at the Spencer Art Museum auditorium. Bruno Monauzec, educator and designer from Meride, Switzerland, will speak. Call 864-4401
■ Auditions for University Theatre will be at 7 ontnight at Crawford-Preyer Theatre. Auditioners will have two minutes to perform prepared material. Call backs will be at 7 tomorrow night and Wednesday night. Call back lists will be posted by noon daily in the Green Room. Auditions are for Butterfly Kiss and Six Degrees of Separation. Call 864-2684.
The KU Baha'i Club will meet from 7 to 9 tonight at the Regionalist Room in the Kansas Union.
Call Justin Herrmann at 830-8912.
Black Student Union will meet at 7:30 tonight at the Pioneer Room in the Kansas University. Call Courtney Bates or Cassandra Young at 864-3084.
KU Young Democrats will have executive board elections at its last general meeting of the semester at 8 tonight at the International Room in the Kansas Union. Call Julie Merz at 838-3797.
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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