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The Inside Front
Friday April 20, 2001
News
from campus,the state the nation and the world
CORRECTIONS
A story in the April 13 Kansan and a photo caption in Tuesday's Kansan incorrectly stated that Craig Avery, a 19-year-old KU student, had been arrested in connection with anti-gay graffiti written on a door in Lewis Hall last week. Although the KU Public Safety Office filled out an arrest report, Avery was never arrested. He was cited for criminal damage to property and was issued a notice to appear in Lawrence Municipal Court on Wednesday, May 2.
A story in yesterday's Kansan incorrectly stated that there was a new fire system that could issue storm warnings at the child care center in the Dole Human Development Center. The alarm is actually in the Hilltop Child Development Center.
A story in yesterday's Kansan misspelled Kiran Jayaram, Lawrence graduate student.
CAMPUS
Workshops highlight Social Welfare Day
The School of Social Welfare will celebrate Social Welfare Day today.
Events begin at 8 a.m. and continue until 3:45 p.m. Twelve workshops will be offered at 10:45 a.m. and at 2:30 p.m.
The topics range from family and spirituality to homelessness.
Melanie Hepburn, assistant dean, said that the workshops will be geared toward practitioners and focus primarily on skills but also will address policy and big picture issues.
Three professionals from the social work field will speak throughout the day, including Monica McGoldrick, director of the Multicultural School Institute in Highland Park, N.J.; Gerry Riley, president-elect of the KU Social Work Alumni Society; and Daniel V. Papero, director of the clinic of the Georgetown Family Center in Washington, D.C.
Awards will be given to students for outstanding work in practicum.
"The goal of the day is to allow alumni, faculty and students to reconnect," Hepbum said.
Emily Callaghan
University professors oraanize conference
The KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors will hold its spring Kansas Conference Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Pine Room in the Kansas Union.
Martin Snyder, associate secretary for academic freedom and professional standards, for the AAUP will be the guest speaker.
"The topic of the meeting, 'An Effective Faculty Handbook,' is of particular importance now because of the all-too-frequent denials of due
Michelle Ward
process across campus and the administration's continuing efforts to rewrite the handbook to limit faculty rights," said Mike Cuenca, assistant professor of journalism.
Information on the meeting can be found online at http://www.aaup-inks.org.
LAWRENCE
Sobriety checkpoint planned for weekend
The checkpoint will be at the intersection of Highway 40 and County Road 1029, which Tate said is commonly referred to as "the Lecompton blacktop."
The Douglas County Sheriff's Office will conduct a sobriety checkpoint from midnight until 3 a.m. Sunday, Lt. Kathy Tate said.
Eight to 10 officers will be at the checkpoint, Tate said. Drivers who appear to be impaired will be asked to perform field sobriety tests, and impaired drivers will be arrested.
Lauren Brandenburg
NATION
Stocks continue to rise despite poor predictions
NEW YORK — Stocks extended their big rally yesterday, defying predictions that profit-taking would diminish the previous session's triple-digit gains.
Analysts said the strong advance, which included the Nasdaq composite index's second straight jump of more than 100 points, was a sign investor sentiment is improving — although the Federal Reserve, among others, remains deeply concerned about the health of U.S. businesses.
"People are believers of this rally. Seeing big volume and big price movement in stocks," said Brian Belski, fundamental market strategist at U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray. "If they weren't believers, you'd be seeing a lot of selling."
Blue chips also did well, with the Dow Jones industrial average rising 77.75 to 10,693.58 following its 399-point gain Wednesday.
The Nasdaq closed up 102.57 at 2,182.01, according to preliminary calculations, its third straight advance.
American to receive first mechanical heart
The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 15.53 to 1,253.69.
WASHINGTON — An American on the brink of death soon will receive the first self-contained, mechanical total heart replacement in a landmark surgery experts hope will lead to new hope for patients with failing hearts.
Heart surgery teams at five hospitals are trained and poised to remove a diseased natural heart and install in its place an electric-powered pump designed to fit inside the chest with no wires or tubes sticking through the skin.
Officials of Ablomed Inc., which developed the mechanical heart, said Wednesday that the first surgery, no later than June 30, would proceed without prior announcement and that the patient's identity may not be released. Results of the procedure, they said, would not be made known to the public for at least 30 days.
Drug companies drop AIDS treatment lawsuit
PRETORIA, South Africa — Pharmaceutical giants dropped a lawsuit yesterday against a South African law that could provide cheaper, generic AIDS drugs to millions of Africans.
PRETORIA South Africa
- ending an international battle over patent rights and profit that deeply embarrassed the companies.
The lawsuit was seen by human rights groups and AIDS activists as a landmark battle in the effort to secure medication for the 26 million people in Africa infected with HIV. The law could give South Africa the power to import or produce cheaper, generic versions of patented drugs, including expensive antiretroviral drugs needed to treat AIDS.
The dropping of the suit appeared to be an outright capitulation by the drug companies. Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said South Africa did not agree to any deals regarding the law, which passed but was never implemented. The drug companies also agreed to pay all the costs of the case.
BEIJING — U.S. and Chinese negotiators ended two days of talks with no sign of agreement yesterday on the return of an American spy plane or Beijing's demand to end surveillance flights near its coast.
China negotiations end without an agreement
The chief U.S. negotiator described the second day of talks yesterday as productive but neither side would give details. The Americans had threatened to break off the meeting Wednesday, saying Chinese negotiators wouldn't seriously discuss the return of the U.S. plane.
China has held the U.S. Navy EP-3E surveillance plane, worth some $80 million, since it made an emergency landing April 1 on Hainan island in the South China Sea. The 24 crew members were released only after 11 days of protracted negotiations. China wants the United States to take sole blame for the plane's collision with a Chinese fighter jet.
The Associated Press
Class tells personal stories
By Andrew Davies
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Derek Shaner didn't slink out of the room with his head down when he found himself in the wrong classroom at the beginning of the semester.
Instead he stayed through the class he went to — Narratives for Personal Growth—and liked it so much that he decided to take the class he had accidentally attended.
Welcome to the wonderful world of storytelling, KU style.
Paul Friedman, assistant professor of communications, teaches the class, which is in its first semester at the University, on Tuesday and Thursdays at 4058 Wescoe Hall.
Sitting in a circle, students pick a story from several choices on Tuesdays and tell a personal story on Thursdays.
Students tell their stories, which last between five and 10 minutes. Other class members or Friedman ask the storyteller questions and initiate discussion before moving on to the next story.
Friedman said the class tried to illustrate the power of stories and the way stories could make a difference.
Stories can also be used to give advice, move or comfort someone, lighten a situation or sell an idea or product, Friedman said.
"I want them to see stories as tools they can use to make a difference for other people," he said. "There is a vast list of literature of tellable stories that provide insights about all of the major issues of life."
Shaner said that he had learned more than how to tell stories. He said he had made friends with his classmates and grown comfortable with them.
"People I never would've met, I'm friends with here," he said. "It's actually good public speaking. It makes you more comfortable to talk in front of people. It's good practice."
The 14-student class has grown closer, Friedman said, because the stories let people to get to know each other.
"Stories open people up to each other," he said.
"It's a good class to take," Shaner said. "I've told people if they offer this class again to take it"
Sherre-Khan Blackmon, Houston senior, said the class had shown her that other people had similar experiences as she did, but they viewed those experiences from different perspectives..
Friedman said that he hoped the class would be offered again next spring.
Edited by Melissa Cooley
School superintendent reinstated
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The firing of Kansas City's school superintendent by the school board was put on hold yesterday by the federal judge overseeing the district's massive desegregation effort.
The decision temporarily gives Benjamin Demps Jr. his job back as the 32,000-student district tries to avoid a state takeover.
U. S. District Court Judge Dean Whipple issued the order yesterday afternoon and scheduled a hearing Friday, April 27 at which the board will need to show why Demps' reinstatement should not be made permanent.
Whipple has been overseeing the desegregation plan — one of the nation's costliest, at more than $2 billion — and has control over many aspects of the district's operations.
Demps had been fired Wednesday night. Just five of the nine school board members were present; the other four walked out after questioning whether the emergency meeting was legal.
The meeting was hastily convened after Demps failed to show up for a mediation session earlier in the day regarding his contract.
control of the schools to the state. "I'm delighted they overturned the school board's wrongheaded action and put the school board in its place," Senate President Pro Tem Peter Kinder said after the order.
Lawmakers had said the firing could hasten their efforts to shift
He added that lawmakers still intend a takeover: "This board has shown they can't run the district."
The district lost its state accreditation in 1999 for failing to meet any of 11 required standards. Demps, the city's 19th superintendent in 30 years, was subsequently hired. Failure to show adequate improvement by the end of June 2002 would mean a state takeover.
KU Queers and Allies will sponsor a human rights march at 11 a.m. tomorrow beginning at City Hall for KU and Lawrence Pride Week 2001. Call 864-3091.
KU Gueers and Allies will sponsor a brown bag drag show at noon today at the Kansas Union Plaza. Call 864.3091.
Applications for the Alternative
Ki Alkido Club will meet from 10 a.m. to noon tomorrow at 207 Robinson Center.
KU Water Polo will practice at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Robinson
Center pool.
Weekend Break at the Topkea
Community Gardens are due
at 5:30 p.m. today at room
410 in the Kansas Union, Box
63. Call Kendra Seaman or
Iris Master at 864.4317
The department of art and design will sponsor an art exhibition scholarship exhibition Sunday to Friday at the art and design gallery. Call 864-4401.
KU Traditional Karate Club will meet from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday at 207 Robinson Center.
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THANK YOU KU!
All of YOU,the campus community, recycled over 350 tons of office paper,newspapers,cardboard,plastic,aluminum and elec tronic equipment last year. Be our key to success and help us increase that amount this year.
The EHS Office of Resource Conservation & Recycling wants to expand and improve the recycling program, but we need your help. We're asking full time faculty and staff to act as RCR liaisons to help us reach everyone on campus about waste reduction and environmental improvement programs.
Please visit our table at the Kansas Union on Friday, April 20th in honor of Earth Day especially those of you working or teaching in:
Art & Design, Bailey, Blake, Budig, Dole, Haworth, JRP, Learned, Lindley,
The first 3 dozen committed volunteers will have their choice of "BU Recycling" gifts- a large canvas shopping bag or t-shirt, both of 100% recycled cotton fiber. Sponsored by EHS/RCR and Student Environmental Advisory Board (SEAB).
Call 864-2855 for more information.
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