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The Inside Front
Thursday April 19,2001
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CORRECTIONS
A story in yesterday's Kansan incorrectly stated that Queers and Allies had already received $114 in flat donations. The group expects to raise more than $100 with their Fight-Hate-a-thon.
A story in yesterday's Kansan incorrectly stated the date that Chancellor Robert Hemenway presented a check to Habitat for Humanity for the House that Greeks Built. He presented the check on Monday.
CAMPUS
Kansas Union celebrates its 75th anniversary
The Kansas Union started the week long celebration of the 75th anniversary of its dedication yesterday.
Yesterday's celebration featured a variety of events, with a rededication ceremony at the front entrance on Jayhawk Boulevard at 1 p.m. and a reception inside the inside at 1:30 p.m.
Other special events this week will include discounts at the Information Counter and the KU Bookstore. The bookstore will be celebrating its 75th birthday with discounts on selected items through Saturday. The Jaybowl Recreation Center will have 75-cent shoe rentals throughout the week. Events and sales are open to the general public.
The Union was built as a memorial to 130 University of Kansas students and alumni killed in World War I.
David Johnston, marketing coordinator for the Kansas and Burge Unions, said the Union was created to meet the needs of students then and had been adjusted to meet them throughout the years after more than 10 additions and renovations.
He said the Union was getting ready for yet another renovation, which would include, among other things, a late-night cafe and expansion of the Jaybowl area.
"We're finding ourselves today still meeting the changing needs of campus and fulfilling the original mission," he said.
— Cynthia Malakasis
STATE
Lawsuit says company knew of leaking gas
HUTCHINSON — A lawsuit against Western Resources alleges company officials knew gas was leaking from Yaggy field before selling the storage facility to Kansas Gas. Service four years ago.
Gas traveled seven miles from Yaggy storage field before erupting in gas geysers in Hutchinson on Jan. 17 and 18. Two people were killed in an explosion at a mobile home park, and two downtown businesses were destroyed in another explosion.
Western Resources owned the storage facility before selling it to Kansas Gas Service and its parent company, ONEOK, in 1997.
Attorney Stan Juhnke said Tuesday that the plaintiffs in the case have information indicating that the storage field was leaking before the 1997 sale.
NATION
Bush proposes labels for around meat
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is going forward with a proposal to require ground meat to carry nutrition labels similar to those on boxes and cans of processed foods.
The requirement was proposed in January during the final days of the Clinton administration.
"This proposed rule is important to help consumers make informed dietary decisions," said Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman yesterday.
The department extended a public comment period, which was to have expired yesterday, until July 18. Trade associations and consumer groups told the department they needed more time to prepare a response to the proposal.
Fed cuts interest rates; Wall Street cheers
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve, demonstrating it still has the capacity to surprise, cut a key interest rate by one-half percentage point yesterday. Stocks immediately soared.
The rate cut was the fourth this year and the second outside a regularly scheduled Fed meeting. It took investors by surprise because Wall Street had given up hope that the Fred would cut rates before its next regularly scheduled meeting in May.
By late afternoon the Dow Jones industrial average was up 395 points. The Nasdaq had gained 166 points, topping the 2,000 level for the first time since March 15.
Asian-American rate of growth increases
LOS ANGELES — If last year's census reflected a decade of Hispanic growth, expect the 2010 head count to show an Asian boom. One of the fastest growth rates in the 1990s belonged to those with Asian ancestry. With the population growing 74 percent to 11.5 million last year, demographers expect Asians to help give America a much different look a decade from now. In the 1990s, the rate of Asians surpassed even that of Hispanics. The number of Hispanics jumped 58 percent to 35 million, putting them almost even with non-Hispanic blacks as the largest minority group in the country.
Mississippi River floods, forces evacuations
The surging Mississippi River forced hundreds of shoreline residents to abandon homes in four states hoping for one thing yesterday — no more rain
Hundreds of Wisconsin and Iowa residents were chased away from low-lying riverside areas Tuesday, unsure when they would return home. Sixteen counties in Minnesota declared a state of emergency as did nine in western Wisconsin.
College professors end 13-day Hawaiian strike
HONOLULU — University of Hawaii professors have agreed on a new labor contract, ending a 13-day strike that had kept more than 40,000 college students out of classes.
However, public school teachers returned to picket lines yesterday, the ninth day of missed classes for 180,000 public school students. Talks with the state were to resume later in the day.
Classes had been shut down since April 5, unprecedented in any state. All classes at the university's 10 campuses were expected to resume today, with some restarting earlier.
WORLD
Burundi coup fails while president away
BUJUMBURA, Burundi — The Bundunid army put down a coup attempt by junior army officers, who seized the radio station yesterday while the president was outside the country for peace talks with Hutu rebels that the mutinous officers opposed.
Loyalist soldiers surrounded the radio station in downtown Bujumbura, Burundi's capital, where the army said 30 junior officers were holed up. Streets were sealed off near the building, but residents walked calmly through downtown, discussing the coup attempt. No violence was reported.
Helms visits Mexico, tempers old criticism
MEXICO CITY — In Washington, there is no voice more critical of Mexico than that of Jesse Helms. So the vision of his trading jokes with Mexico's foreign minister, who he once denounced as a communist, seemed surreal.
The North Carolina Republican also played down his past attacks, suggesting that democratic change in Mexico — where Vicente Fox last July became the first opposition candidate ever to win the presidency — had helped change his attitude.
But Helms talked of future cooperation as he and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee met yesterday with their Mexican counterparts for the first time.
The Associated Press
U.S. threatens to end talks with China
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — After a rocky first round, the United States is threatening to break off talks with China on U.S. surveillance flights unless the Chinese start discussing the return of the Navy reconnaissance plane.
The United States hopes to gain from the talks in Beijing, at least the return of the aircraft that made an emergency landing in southern China April 1. The crew was held for 11 days and released only after protracted negotiations.
The U.S. ambassador, retired Adm. Joseph Prueher, will meet with Foreign Ministry officials.
Bush's senior national security officials, including Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumfield and Secretary of State Colin
Powell, were meeting at the White House yesterday afternoon to discuss how the United States should proceed if China refused to discuss returning the surveillance plane, a defense official said.
The U.S. negotiating team in Beijing planned to return to Washington tomorrow, even if Prueher managed to get talks on the plane started today, the official said.
The EP3E Aries II made an emergency landing in southern China after colliding with a Chinese fighter jet. From the outset, the Bush administration has insisted its surveillance operation was legal.
China, by contrast, has insisted the plane swerved, causing the collision, and that the surveillance was improper and
must cease. The Chinese pilot was lost.
The senior Chinese negotiator, in a statement read on the main evening news broadcast, said, "The U.S. side should bear the full responsibility for the incident, make clear and responsible explanations to the Chinese people, stop reconnaissance flights in the space adjacent to Chinese coastal areas and take effective measures to prevent the recurrence of such incidents."
Even as American and Chinese negotiators met in Beijing, U.S. officials in Washington were weighing the kind of weapons that might be sold to Taiwan, which China considers a breakaway province that must be reuited with the mainland.
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's cell phone, wallet and $100 were stolen between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. Saturday in the 700 block of New Hampshire Street, Lawrence police said. The items and cash were valued at $200
A KU student's car stereo and 1995 Jeep Wrangler were damaged, and the stereo's face plate was stolen between 7 p.m. Saturday and
6 p.m. Monday in the Gertrude Sellars
Pearson-Corbin Hall parking lot, the KU Public
Safety Office said. The damage was estimated at $300, and the face plate was valued at $50
A KU student reported being harassed by telephone at 7 p.m. Monday in his eighth floor McCollum Hall room, the KU Public Safety Office said.
ON CAMPUS
The University Theatre auditions for the opening of the Fall 2001 season will be from noon to 4 p.m. today and Monday in the Murphy Hall lobby. Open call auditions are at 7 p.m. Monday at Crafton Preyer Theatre. Auditioners will have two minutes to perform prepared material. Call backs will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday. Callback will be posted by noon daily in the Green Room.Call Charla Jenkins at 864-2684.
■ JayRock Campus Ministry will have its weekly Bible talks at 11 a.m. today in the alcove of the Kansas Union cafeteria and at 7 tonight at room 304 D in the Jayhawker Towers. Call Josh Talley at 312-2285.
KU Environs and Ecumenical Christian Ministries will sponsor a veggie lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. today at the ECM, 1204 Oread Ave.
Call Thad Halcombe at 843-4933
KU HorrorZontals men's ultimate Frisbee team will practice from 4:30 to 7 tonight at Shenk Sports Pavilion. Call B.P. at 312-1066 or check out Zontals.com.
The women's ultimate Frisbee team will practice at 4:30 p.m. today at Shenk Sports Pavilion.
Call Olivia Stockman at 840-0404.
KI Aikido Club will practice from 5:30 to 7:30
tonight at 207 Robinson Center.
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The KU Meditation Club will meet at 6 p.m. today at the Daisy Hill Room in the Burge Union. Call Pannir at 864-7735.
KU Traditional Karate Club practice from 6:30 to 8:30 tonight at raucquetball at court No. 15 in Robinson Center. Call Rachel Fuller at 312-1920.
Amnesty International will meet at 7 tonight at Alcove D in the Kansas Union. Call Karen Keith at 749-7491.
- Hashinger Hall will sponsor a free rock show featuring Ghosty and the Hardaways at 8 tonight at Hashinger. Call Richard Gintow at 312-1331.
Campus Crusade for Christ will meet at 8 p.m. tonight at 100 Smith Hall. Call Mark Brown at 550-5503.
Radical Christians will meet from 8 to 9 tonight at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Call Heather Hensarling at 841-8661.
- Okinawan Goji-Ryu Karate will meet from 9 to 10:30 tonight at 207 Robinson Center. Call Ryan Ness at (785) 218-7415.
KU Queen and Allies will sponsor the movie But I'm a Cheerleader at 9:30 tonight at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Call 864-3091.
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