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The Inside Front
Monday April 9,2001
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
LOCAL
Debate planned today for Student Senate
Presidential and vice presidential candidates from the Delta Force and VOICE coalitions will meet in the second of two scheduled debates.
The debate will begin at 12:30 p.m.
outside Wescoe Hall.
VOICE presidential candidate Jessica Bankston and her running mate Hunter Harris will debate Delta Force presidential candidate Justin Mills and his running mate Kyle Browning.
Katy Ferrel, coordinator for the event and a member of the elections commission, said this debate will be less formal than the previous one. Students will be able to directly ask candidates questions.
Brooke Hesler
Greeks sponsor game with students, athletes
The Junior Greek Council of the Panhellenic Association and Interfraternity Council is sponsoring the NCAA for a Day event, to raise funds for Habitat for Humanity.
The event will give KU students the opportunity to compete in a basketball game against KU basketball seniors at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 22, at Allen Fieldhouse.
NCAA for a Day is part of the greek fundraising efforts to collect the remaining $25,000 needed for the House that Greeks Built. The project involves the greek community raising money through various events and then constructing a house for Habitat for Humanity in two weeks.
"We're hoping to raise $12,000," said Dunn. Dallas senior.
Hillary Dunn, vice president for public relations for the Panhellenic Association, said the junior greek council had been planning the event since November.
Any KU student can try out for the game for $5. Tryouts will be at 7 p.m.
April 11, at the Horejsi Family Athletics Center. Admission to the game will be
$8.
— Cynthia Malakasis
STATE
K-State student dies after jumping off dorm
MANHATTAN — A Kansas State University student died after jumping from the eighth floor of a dormitory Friday night, a university spokeswoman said.
Andrew Charles "Drew" Cobb II, 19,
died from injuries he suffered after jumping
from the eighth floor of Haymaker
Hall, Kansas State spokeswoman Cheryl
May said. He died after undergoing
surgery at Mercy Hospital in Manhattan.
Cobb was a sophomore in graphic design from Denver, Colo. He was born May 15, 1981, in Denver and was a 1999 graduate of Kent Denver School. He was a member of the executive board of the United Black Volices at Kansas State.
He is survived by his parents, Gena and Andrew Cobb of Denver.
May said campus ministers and counseling center staff were at Haymaker and neighboring Moore Hall Friday to talk to other students. Additional counseling will be offered Saturday and Sunday, she said.
"Our first priority is our students," said Pat Bosco, dean of student life and associate vice president for institutional advancement. "We are deeply saddened that one of our K-State family has taken his life. We are very concerned about Drew's family and friends, and about how they are handling this crisis. We extend our heartfelt sympathy to Drew's family at this difficult time."
NATION
Budget details on tap Democrats wary of cuts
WASHINGTON — With President Bush preparing to release the point-by-point details of how his $1.96 trillion budget
Bush: preparing to release details of his $1.96 billion budget
would rein in government spending,
Vice President Dick Cheney said
Sunday that Bush will not hesitate to veto spending bills he considers excessive.
Democrats, still celebrating an initial victory in trimming Bush's tax cut, awaited Monday's release
¢ the full budget
so they could see which government programs were targeted for deep reductions.
They said that people who wanted a tax cut will be shocked when they see what Bush has done to programs such as Medicare, health care and defense.
They said opposition to those proposed cuts will help as they seek to hold the line on the administration's $1.6 trillion, 10-year tax cut.
Bush administration officials said Sunday a quick resolution was crucial to avoid further straining U.S. - China relations.
In Bush's first major defeat, the Senate last week voted to reduce the tax cut by one-quarter, to $1.2 trillion, an action that must now be reconciled with a House resolution endorsing the president's original request.
U.S. firm with China, no apology forthcoming
WASHINGTON — As the standoff over the detained crew of a downed American spy plane entered its second week, top
Continued delay in sending the 24 Americans homes could have repercussions on Capitol Hill, said members of Congress, citing a possible trade fight later this year and an upcoming decision on U.S. weapons sales to Taiwan.
The administration refused again to apologize for the collision between a Chinese fighter jet and the U.S. plane, which was forced to make an emergency landing on an island in southern China. The Chinese jet and its pilot are missing. Over the weekend, the Chinese military took a tough stance on who was to blame.
Secretary of State Colin Powell said the United States was "sorry" about the pilot's fate as he used a word the administration has generally avoided. But he emphasized the United States should not and will not apologize for the collision of the planes.
Both Powell, Vice President Dick Cheney and the president's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, said an extended standoff threatened to make it harder to repair relations between the two countries.
Legislators try to save Graves' education plan
TOPEAK — News of a $185 million hole in the state's budget caused the Statehouse school finance debate to shift like winds on the Kansas prairie.
Hours after sending a two-year, $263 million plan for improving elementary and secondary education back to committee, senators learned that the state's revenue outlook for the next 15 months is bleak.
Senators are looking for a way to hold on to the $68 million Gov. Bill Graves recommended in January and perhaps find a few dollars more.
"The needs haven't changed at all," said Sen. Christine Downey, D-Newton. "I'm not willing to come down much."
In the wake of last week's debate, the committee pared back its package and its price tag, consulting with Graves on what he sees as key elements of a plan he supports.
Graves has proposed a oneyear, $112 million plan that would have raised sales and motor fuels taxes. Combined with his original recommendations, Graves would put $178 million of new money in education, raising the base state aid per pupil to $3,930 from $3,820.
The Senate education plan would increase funding for teacher salaries and raise the base aid by $240 over two years.
However, members of the education group took several ideas off the table Friday, including the proposed tax on soft drinks and any plan to impose additional state or local property taxes.
The Associated Press
By Andrew Davies writer@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Libraries' collections could go online
Students doing research may have an easier time finding information they need if a University of Kansas project works as planned.
Officials hope the initiative will provide better information to campus, said Beth Warner, director of the KU Digital Library Initiatives Program.
The project, known as the Digital Library Initiative, would provide faculty and students Internet access to University library collections by digitizing some materials.
"The first priority is to make information more easily available to faculty, staff and students here at KU," she said.
The project also could provide more access to holdings of University libraries, such as the Kansas Collection in the Spencer Research Library, to people across the world
through the Internet.
"There's a lot of collections that we don't have in electronic format that could be more broadly available if they were in digital format," said Marilu Goodyear, vice chancellor for information services. "One of the things that is happening right now is that a number of students and faculty are now conducting research, but there's no unifying tool anybody can go to."
- Edited by Doug Pacey
ON THE RECORD
A 20-year-old KU student reported being harassed by phone in her McCollim Hall room between 10 p.m. March 30 and 9:30 p.m.
April 1, the KU Public Safety Office said.
Two cars collided in the GSP-Corbin Hall parking lot at 4:27 p.m. Wednesday, the KU Public Safety Office said. A car backed out of a parking stall and struck an oncoming car, causing minor damage to both cars. The cost of damages was not listed.
A 19-year-old KU student reported being harassed by phone in her room on the seventh floor of Templin Hall at 10:34 p.m. Wednesday, the KU Public Safety Office said.
**Wednesday, the KU Public Safety Office said.**
A **20-year-old KU student reported being harassed by phone in her room on the four floor building of the university.** Wordderdier, the KU Billboard Service Office said.
Wednesday, the KU Public Safety Office said. A KU parking department employee reported being harassed by a KU student at 10:51 p.m. Wednesday, the KU Public Safety Office said. The employee said he had been verbally harassed several times by the student, the report stated. On Wednesday, according to the report, the student approached him outside Hashinger Hall while he was towing a car. The student
cursed at him and the employee responded, "Come over here and say that." The dispute ended and the student told police he'd leave the employee alone from now on.
A parked car was damaged in Margaret Amini Hall parking lot between 8 a.m. Tuesday and 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, the KU Public Safety Office said. A car scraped the parked car's left panel as it tried to park, and then left the scene. The cost of the damages was not listed.
Two cars collided at Irving Hill Road and Crestline Drive at 5 p.m. Wednesday, the KU Public Safety Office said. A car was traveling across the intersection as the other car proceeded across the intersection, striking the first car's driver's side door. No one was injured. The cast of the damages was not listed.
A 19-year-old KU student was arrested Friday on a charge of operating a vehicle under the influence, the KU Public Safety Office said. An officer saw the student's car hit a curb on Naismith Drive near the Oliver Hall parking lot. The officer pulled over the car, and the student failed three field sobriety tests. He was arrested and taken to Douglas County Jail.
- The department of art and design will present the Hallmark Symposium Series from 6 to 8 tonight at the Spencer Museum of Art auditorium.
- Richard Mawdle, an educator and designer at the Southern Illinois University, will speak. Call 864.4401.
■ The Kansas and Burge unions will show ice Rink at 7 on tonight at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union as a part of the international film series. Call Leslie Huested at B64.SHOW.
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.
Black Student Union will meet at 7:30 tonight at the pioneer room in the Kansas University. Call Courtney Bates or Cassandra Young at 864-3984.
■ Hashinger Arts Council will offer swing and salsa lessons at 7:30 tonight at the Hashinger Hall Theatre, Galleria Alfonso at 864.400
Hall Theater. Call Allyson Flaster at 864-4091.
The department of music and dance will present the Swarthout Recital Series at 7:30 tonight at Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall, Visiting pianist Vinia Tsopeesel will perform. Call 864-3436.
- 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 on tonight on cable channel 19.
KU Young Democrats will meet at 8 tonight at the International Room in the Kansas Union. State party chairman Tom Sawyer will speak. Call Julie Merz at 838-3797.
KU Greens 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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