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The Inside Front
Monday, April 16, 2001
News
from campus, the state the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Comedian to kick off campus Pride Week
Queers and Allies and the Student Development Center will present a one-woman comedy act by Jan Einarson entitled, Why Didn't Somebody Tell Me I Was a Lesbian? at 8 p.m. tonight at the Kansas Union Ballroom. The event is part of KU and Lawrence Pride Week.
Einarson's show, part of a national tour, addresses her struggles with coming out as a lesbian, from denial to ill-fated romantic attempts with the opposite sex. The tour is sponsored by Roz Productions. The company was founded in 1999 by Einarson and her partner Sandra Brown to offer female comedy in a supportive environment. After their tour, Einarson and Brown plan to write a book about their experiences in towns such as Lawrence.
Laurie Sisk, resource coordinator for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered students at KU and Kansan photographer, said 25 percent of the proceeds from ticket sales would benefit a scholarship fund for LGBT students.
Tickets are available at Student Union Activities box office.
Few glitches reported in campus elections
Student Senate elections commissioner Dustin Johnson said there were only a few minor glitches during Wednesday and Thursday's elections
Meredith Sewell, Fort Scott sophomore, said she and her friend were only allowed to vote for student body president and vice president on Wednesday.
She said a poll worker at Strong Hall asked her where she lived. Sewell said when she and her friend said they lived in a sorority house, the poll worker told her she was already represented through the Panhellenic Association and therefore could only vote for president and vice president.
"We said there were girls running for a Nunemaker seat in our house and we should be allowed to vote for them," she said.
The problem was corrected Thursday, and Sewell said she and her friend were allowed to go back to the polls and vote for other candidates.
Brooke Hesler
House sister suspected in sorority gem theft
Two members of the Pi Beta Phi sorority reported to police Wednesday that items had been stolen from the
house, 1612 W. 15th St., Lawrence police said.
One member reported that her platinum gold necklace with a .7 karat diamond was stolen between March 31 and April 6, and the other member reported that one of her suits was stolen between March 15 and April 9. The member who reported her suit stolen had waited to report the theft in case someone had borrowed it, Detective John Lewis said.
Lewis said a 21-year-old member of the sorority house is a suspect in the necklace theft, but police had not talked with her yet Friday. He said there were no suspects yet in the theft of the suit.
The necklace was valued at $1,500,
and the suit at $400.
— Lauren Brandenburg
STATE
Murder charges filed in cannibalistic killings
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A man has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder in a case investigators say involved "deviant cannibalistic tendencies."
Marc V. Sappington, 21, was charged Friday with killing three men since April 7. He was being held on $2 million bond.
Kansas City, Kan., police Lt. Vince Davenport, commander of the homicide division, said evidence indicated cannibalism was the motivation in the slayings.
Police also said Sappington had a fascination with Jeffrey Dahmer, who was arrested in 1991 and admitted killing 17 young men and boys, mutilating the victims and cannibalizing some of them.
Sappington was taken into custody Thursday afternoon for questioning in the death of a 16-year-old Alton "Fred" Brown, whose dismembered body was found in Sappington's basement.
Authorities said Brown had been shot to death, and his arms had been severed and his legs cut off at the knees.
Sappington also was charged Friday with the murders of Terry Green, 25, and Michael Weaver, 22, and with kidnapping a 36-year-old woman on Tuesday.
CINCINNATI — The mayor extended hours on the city's dusk-to-dawn curfew yesterday in response to a calm night following the funeral of a young black man whose shooting triggered a week of unrest.
few will start at 11 p.m. instead of 8 p.m. to allow families more time to celebrate Easter together.
Cincinnati's curfew rolled back for Easter
NATION
"Hopefully today can be a day of prayer. A day of peace. A day of coming together." Luken said.
Mayor Charles Luken said the cur-
The April 7 death of Timothy Thomas, 19, led to three days of rioting in predominantly black neighborhoods that stopped when the mayor instituted the curfew on Thursday.
nomas, who was wanted on 14 warrants for misdemeanors and traffic violations, was unarmed when he was shot while running from police. He is the fourth black man killed by police since November in this city of 331,000 — 43 percent of which is black.
NEW YORK — The three admirals on the Navy's court of inquiry into the USS Greeneville's sinking of a Japanese fishing vessel have unanimously recommended the submarine's skipper not be tried by a court-martial, The New York Times reported yesterday.
Court-martial unlikely for submarine skipper
A reprimand would effectively end Waddle's career and could reduce his retirement benefits. But it would not result in a jail sentence, as a court-martial could.
Instead, the skipper, Cmdr. Scott Waddle, is likely to face a lesser form of punishment such as a punitive letter or reprimand, the Times said, citing unnamed senior Pentagon officials.
Spy plane crew home, denies apology needed
WHIDBEY ISLAND NAVAL AIR STATION, Wash. — The U.S. spy plane crew members held in China for 11 days arrived at their home base Saturday, greeted as heroes by thousands of family members, friends and well-wishers.
The 21 men and three women left Honolulu in a military passenger jet after wrapping up 26 hours of meetings with investigators about the April 1 collision with a Chinese fighter jet and the $80 million EP-3E plane they left behind on Hainan island.
At a news conference before leaving Honolulu, the surveillance plane's pilot, Lt. Shane Osborn said there was no need to apologize to the Chinese.
Osborn said the EP-3E, a 1950s-era patrol plane powered by four piston engines, was "straight, steady, holding altitude, heading away from Hainan island, on autopilot when the accident occurred."
"I'm here to tell you we did it right," Osborn said. "No apology is necessary on our part."
The Associated Press
Mills has lofty goals for Senate
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to work at a higher level," he said. "I don't really think about that though."
Browning said he was glad race never became an issue during the campaign.
"It just hit me the other day that he would be the second Black student body president," Browning said.
Mills said he would work hard regardless of race, but he knew the job would be tough.
"I think there's a lot less room for error, being African-American," he said.
The two will also be the first non-greek president and vice president since 1984.
"Someone came up to me the other day," Browning said. "He told me that for the first time, he felt like he was represented — like we represented him. That's what we wanted."
Mills said his victory proved non-greeks could run and win. But, he added, "we're not anti-greek by any means."
Pushing the limit
Mills' road to the presidency was a bumpy one. He spent days going to school and campaigning and then worked into the early hours of the morning at residence halls.
Sometimes, he said, it seemed like too much.
"Then I'd get up, and there'd be 18 people at my table working hard," Mills said. "If they can do it, I can do it."
Browning said Mills' work in student housing helped his visibility.
"That's what the student body president should do." Browning
said, "He should be among the students."
That connection to students factored int. 'Mills' victory, said John Roth, Honolulu sophomore and Lewis Hall resident.
"It didn't surprise me because he seems like someone who is involved in a lot of things," he said. "He's just a really fun, down-to-earth person."
Mills said he decided to run for president during winter break, but was hit hard during February when Shyra McGee, a former student senator and friend of Mills, died in a car accident.
"Shyra was what we call 'good people,'" Mills said. "I think the hardest thing was walking around the campus and knowing that she wasn't there.
"When I told her I was going to run, she said, 'You don't want to do that,' and I'd say, 'Yeah I think I do,' and then she wished me luck."
Later that month — right before Delta Force held its first campaign meeting — Mills' apartment complex caught fire.
Textbooks, notebooks, clothes, a phone and a stereo system were lost to smoke damage.
"We had to move out in three hours, and I had a hard time with it," he said. "A lot of stuff I own now smells like smoke."
During the next week, Mills wore the same three pairs of clothing.
Many student body presidents opt for law school after their undergraduate work is finished. But not Mills. He wants to go to medical school and then study to
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become a flight surgeon. Eventually, he wants to work for NASA and blast into outer space.
"That's my main goal," he said. "I wanted to be an astronaut when I went to Space Camp."
Mills said he was in no way looking to boost his résumé through his office.
medical school doesn't really care if you were student body president," he said. "When I came here, I didn't want to be president. I never thought about it."
Mills said he got involved with Senate because he wanted to make a difference. He said it was disheartening some senators didn't care as much as they should.
"There are always a group of us who are always there for the whole meeting," he said. "We look around at the end, and there won't be many people there."
Mills, who ran for vice president last year on the Delta Force ticket, said when people initially encouraged him to run in the fall of 2000, he wasn't sure.
"Last year's elections left a bad taste in my mouth." Mills said.
So when he went home for winter break, he did some soul searching—and decided to run.
More than being remembered as a good president, Mills said he'd like Senate to be remembered.
"I'd hope my legacy would be that the Student Senate of 2002 did this great job," he said. "I love Student Senate and I love KU, as corny as that sounds. I have no plans to follow in a political career. I just want to make it better."
Edited by Leita Schultes
ON CAMPUS
Black Student Union will meet at 7:30 tonight at the Pioneer Room in the Kansas Union. Call Courtney Bates or Cassandra Young at 864-3084.
Vietnam Veterans for Academic Reform, the KU student auxiliary, will present The University Under Fire: How Evolutionists are Suppressing the Facts from 7:30 to 8 tonight on cable channel 19
The KU Baha'i Club will meet from 7 to 9 tonight at the Regionalist Room on the fifth floor of the Kansas Union. Call Justin Herrmann at 830-8912.
The department of music and dance will present a horn recital by professor Paul Stevens at
7:30 tonight at Swarthout Recital Hall in Murnay Hall, Cullin 864-3436.
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.
- Comedian Jan Einsonna will speak as a part of KU and Lawrence Pride Week 2001 at 8 tonight at the Kansas Union Ballroom. Call 844-3091.
The Center for Community Outreach is accepting applications for financial director, communications director and program coordinator until 5 p.m. Wednesday. Pick up applications at room 426 in the Kansas Union or download them from www.ukans.edu/~cco. Call 864-4073.
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