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The Inside Front
Tuesday April 17,2001
News
from campus,the state the nation and the world
LAWRENCE
University scientists study dinosaur skeleton
LAWRENCE — A well-preserved skeleton found in Wyoming is causing scientists to change their views about a type of dinosaur called a camaraur.
The fossilized, 50-foot-long skeleton, called Annabelle by scientists at the University of Kansas Natural History Museum, was a tree-eating dinosaur that lived in the Jurassic Period, about 140 million years ago.
Annabelle is a boon to science as well as a tourist attraction, said David Bumham, the paleontologist in charge of preparing the skeleton.
"This is a really rare skeleton, about 90 percent complete," he said. "Thanks to Annabelle, we now know what the neck bones looked like; and this is the first skeleton found with feet intact. We we've already had scientists come in to study her because of those bones."
STATE
Man charged in fourth cannibalistic murder
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Prosecutors have filed a fourth murder charge against the man accused of killing three others in a case investigators say involved "deviant cannibalistic tendencies."
Prosecutors filed the latest charge against Marc V. Sappington, 21, during his initial court appearance yesterday. During the hearing, Sappington pleaded not guilty in all four deaths.
Authorities have not elaborated on the "deviant cannibalistic" element of the case.
The latest charge accuses Sappington and an unidentified juvenile of killing David Mashak in Kansas City, Kan., on March 16.
The dismembered body of 16-year-old Alton "Fred" Brown was found April 10 in the basement of Sappington's Kansas City, Kan., house
NATION
Black organizations respond to hate mail
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — After 14 letters with racial epithets and slurs were sent to area African American churches, businesses and organizations, residents responded by saying that such hatred would not be tolerated.
Organizers hope to build on that momentum to push past what some involved call the "rally mentality" of the first efforts.
"Without follow-up, this has only been a touchy feel-good thing," said the Rev.
M. Diane Nunnele, senior pastor at Central United Methodist Church near the Country Club Plaza. She is helping organize events while urging her congregation to get involved.
"Perhaps there was something that was untapped in people," she said of the response. "it is a great place to start."
The leadership of virtually every denomination wrote statements against the hate mail. More than $12,000 was raised, with money still trickling in. Two rallies were held, each drawing hundreds of people.
Jury selection begins in church bombing case
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A jury pool three times larger than normal was summoned yesterday for the trial of a former Ku Klux Klanman accused in one of the most notorious crimes of the civil rights era: a 1963 church bombing that killed four African American girls.
Thomas Blanton Jr., 62, entered the courthouse without comment.
If convicted, Blanton could get life in prison. About 100 prospective jurors were called. Jury selection is expected to extend into next week.
The explosion at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church on Sept. 15, 1963, killed Denise McNair, 11, and three 14-year-olds: Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley and Carole Robertson. The bombing galvanized the civil rights movement.
Mississippi River floods Minnesota and Iowa
MINNEAPOLIS — The rising Mississippi River submerged a stretch of railroad track yesterday, forcing Amtrak to put passengers onto buses between Minneapolis and Chicago.
The Mississippi also seeped into basements and covered parks and boat landings, sending residents of low-lying areas to higher ground.
Flood warnings were in effect from the Twin Cities in Minnesota along the Minnesota-Wisconsin state line to northern Iowa. Communities along other rivers in Minnesota and North Dakota waited to see if sandbag levees would hold.
A search resumed yesterday for a 19-year-old man missing in the Minnesota River near Shakopee, Minn. His older brother was rescued Sunday. The two men had driven onto a flooded road, bypassing warning signs, and were swept away by rushing water in the area southwest of Minneapolis.
Bush says spending jeopardizes economy
WASHINGTON — President Bush marked the income-tax filing deadline yesterday with a sales pitch for his proposed tax cuts, arguing that heavy
axes levied to pay for government spending jeopardize the U.S. economy.
"Excessive federal spending threatens economic vitality." Bush told the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as he stood flanked by a pair of oversized 1040 tax forms.
Bush stepped up his criticism of lawmakers who don't see it his way, casting them as squanderers of public money.
And he expressed his irritation at the Senate for approving a $1.2 trillion tax cut — smaller than the $1.6 trillion cut he seeks.
He complained that the Senate has approved a plan that increases discretionary spending by 8 percent. He is trying to keep it at 4 percent.
Government agencies tracking Internet users
WASHINGTON — People who log onto dozens of federal government Web sites may be unknowingly tracked despite a privacy policy for bidding it, investigators say.
In one case, a government contractor was even given ownership of all the information collected from a Web site, said the congressional report released yesterday.
The report, culled from audits of 16 agencies, found 64 federal Web sites used files that allow them to track the browsing and buying habits of Internet users.
The departments of Education, Treasury, Energy, Interior and Transportation used such unauthorized files, as did NASA and the General Services Administration, the report said.
WORLD
Israel begins airstrike against Syrian target
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Striking deep into Lebanon to retaliate for guerrilla attacks, Israel launched an airstrike against a strategic Syrian radar station in the central mountains yesterday — the first time Israel had hit such a significant Syrian target in almost two decades.
One Syrian soldier was killed and at least four others were wounded, according to Lebanese security sources who spoke on condition of anonymity.
It was not immediately clear if the radar was hit.
Syrian security forces sealed off the area in the barren mountains just north of a highway linking Beirut with Damascus, Syria's capital. The airstrike was in response to Hezbollah guerrilla attacks in recent months, an Israeli army representative said.
The Associated Press
Two cars collided in the circle drive in front of the Dole Center at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, the KU Public Safety Office said. A van was backing into a loading zone when a car turned from Sunnyside Avenue into the circle drive. The cars struck each other, but the reporting officer said it was unclear which car caused the accident. The car left minor damage to the van's left rear door. The cost of the damages was not listed.
A KU student reported being harassed by phone in her room in Lewis Hall at 9:57 p.m. Wednesday, the KU Public Safety Office said.
ON THE RECORD
A KU student reported a pink stuffed elephant stolen from her room on the third floor of Ellsworth Hall at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, the KU Public Safety Office said. The stuffed animal was valued at $25
A car struck a stopped car at 15th and Burdick streets at 10:47 a.m. Friday, the KU Public Safety Office said. A car was stopped waiting for traffic to clear to make a left turn onto Burdick, when a car struck the stopped car's rear bumper. The cost of the damages was not listed. The driver of the moving car said he was eating an apple while driving and hit the brakes when he realized he was too close to the other car, but couldn't avoid a collision. The driver was cited for inatten-
A parked car was damaged and abandoned in the GSP-Corbin Hall parking lot between 10 p.m. Monday and 8:15 a.m. Friday, the KU Public Safety Office said. A car tried to park in a stall to the right of the parked car, but scraped the car's passenger rear door and then left the scene. Damages weren't listed.
tive driving.
A 19-year-old Johnson County Community College student was arrested Sunday on a charge of operating a vehicle under the influence, the KU Public Safety Office said. The student was stopped at 23rd and Iowa streets on Friday traveling 54 mph in a 40 mph zone. The reporting officer said he could smell an odor of alcohol on the student, so he was asked to perform three field sobriety tests. The student failed them all and was arrested and taken to Douglas County Jail, where he registered a .094 blood-alcohol level.
A 21-year-old KU student reported an in-dash Sony CD player stolen from his 1989 Ford Probe while it was parked in the 1000 block of Emery Road, Lawrence police said. The dashboard of the car was damaged during the theft. The damage and CD player were valued 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.
Skott Freedman will speak and perform at 4 p.m. today at Spencer Museum of Art as a part of KU and Lawrence Pride Week 2001. He also will speak at 8:30 tonight at the Hashinaer Hall auditorium. Call 864-3091.
KU HorrorZontals men's ultimate Frisbee team will practice at 4:30 p.m. today at Shenk Sports Complex. Call B.P. at 312-1066 or check out www.Zontals.com
Hispanic American Leadership Organization will meet at 6 p.m. today at the Pioneer Room in the Burge Union. Call Michael Luna 830-9147.
The women's ultimate Frisbee team will practice at 4:30 p.m. at Shenk Sports Pavilion.
Call Olivia Stockman at 840-0404
KU Traditional Karate Club will meet from 6:30 to 8:30 tonight at ractocourt ball court No. 15 at Robinson Center. Call Rachel Fuller at 312-1990
Ki Aikido Club will meet from 5:30 to 7:30 tonight at 2027 Robinson Center
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.
The Student Alumni Association will meet at 7 tonight at the Adams Alumni Center. Next year's officers will be elected. Call Palvith Bhana at 312-3432
KU College Republicans will meet at 7:30
night at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas
Union. Next year its officers will be elected.
Call Gavin Smith at 832-6201.
United Methodist Campus Ministry will meet from 7:30 to 8:30 tonight at the Pioneer Room in the Burge Union. Call Heather Henslairt 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 Gouji-Ryu Karate will meet from 9 to 10:30 tonight at 207 Robinson Center.
Call Ryan Ness at (785) 218-7415.
- Applications for financial director, communications director and program coordinator for the Center for Community Outreach are due at 5 p.m. tomorrow. Pick up applications at the CCO office, room 426 in the Kansas Union or online at www.ukans.edu/~cco.
Call 864-4073.
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