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The Inside Front
Thursday,
March 29, 2001
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
LAWRENCE
Police finish student's rape case investigation
Lawrence police detectives just finished their investigation of a rape of a female graduate student that occurred Feb. 26, 2000, and sent their reports to the district attorney's office, Sgt. Mike Patrick said westerday.
The KU student was raped by an acquaintance while she was passed out in her residence, Patrick said. Pattrick said he could not say whether she had passed out from alcohol or a date rape drug because it was part of the investigation.
District Attorney Christine Tonkovich said yesterday her office had received the report and was reviewing it.
Patrick said the report had not been released until yesterday because the investigation had taken a long time. The student reported the incident the day it occurred, according to the report
The student could not be reached for comment.
- Lauren Brandenburg
STATE
New spending budget approved by Senate
TOPEKA — The Senate approved a proposed state budget of nearly $9.15 billion Tuesday after hearing it criticized as both too big and too small.
The 22-18 vote Tuesday sent the spending bill — slightly smaller than the budget for the fiscal year that ends June 30 — to the House.
House members took up their own version of the budget yesterday, with members voting 103-21 to add an extra 5 percent pay raise for Kansas Highway Patrol officers, on top of the 8 percent Gov. Bill Graves proposed.
In the Senate, Republican leaders blocked repeated Democratic attempts to add money for individual agencies and programs.
NASA airplane to help prevent gas explosions
HUTCHINSON — NASA will send an airplane armed with a sophisticated experimental sensing unit to Hutchinson to help prevent more natural gas explosions like those that killed two people and damaged or destroyed several structures in January.
The twin-engine Otter turboprop aircraft will collect data from the skies above Hutchinson for 10 days beginning April 9, said Dr. David Ryder, instrument scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
NATION
Foot-and-mouth ban will not be lessened
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration refused yesterday to exempt any part of the European Union from an import ban imposed to keep the U.S. livestock industry free of foot-and-mouth disease.
The outbreak began in Britain and has since spread to France, Ireland and the Netherlands, but the U.S. ban applies to all 15 of the EU's member countries. Opponents said the restriction should be limited to the countries where the disease has been confirmed.
The ban was limited initially to Britain but was expanded March 13 to the rest of the union.
Appeals court overturns abortion case verdict
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court threw out a record $109 million verdict against anti-abortion activists yesterday, ruling a Web site and wanted posters branding abortion doctors "baby butchers" and criminals were protected by the First Amendment.
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously said the activists could be held liable only if the material authorized or directly threatened violence.
The ruling came two years after a jury in Portland, Ore., ordered a dozen abortion foes to pay damages to Planned Parenthood and four doctors. They had sued under federal racketeering law and the 1994 federal law that makes it illegal to incite violence against abortion doctors.
U.S. vetoes resolution to protect Palestinians
UNITED NATIONS — In its first U.N. veto since 1997, the United States heeded a call from Israel and killed a resolution backing a U.N. observer force to help protect Palestinians, who have largely been the victims in six months of Mideast violence.
Palestinians reacted with disgust Tuesday to the first U.S. veto in four years, saying it reflected badly on the Bush administration. After five days of around-the-clock negotiations, the Palestinians had secured the nine votes they needed to pass the measure in the 15-member U.N. Security Council.
Converse will close U.S. plant operations
its "Made in the USA" proclamation that has been stamped on its heel for more than 80 years.
LUMBERTON, N.C. — The Chuck Taylor All Star basketball shoe has been a symbol of Americas for decades. But the shoe will soon lose
Converse, which filed for bankruptcy protection earlier this year, is shutting down its U.S. plants and shifting production to Asia. The Lumberton plant that has churned out 8 million to 10 million pairs of Chuck Taylors a year has sent its 475 employees home and the factory officially closes Saturday. Plants in Mission, Texas, and Reynosa, Mexico, are also being closed by the 93-year-old company.
Skeletal remains found after alleged purge
WORLD
CAGAYAN DE ORO, Phillipines — Soldiers discovered the skeletal remains of 75 men, women and children in the southern Philippines, 15 years after communist rebels allegedly launched a bloody purge of suspected informers, officials said yesterday.
A military report from the southern city of Cagayan de Oro said soldiers dug up the bodies Tuesday in a remote area of the southern region of Mindanao.
The killings were part of Operation Zombie, an alleged campaign by the communist New People's Army in the mid 1980s to execute alleged spies and government informers, the report said. "Zombie" is rebel slang for a suspected army informer.
Macedonia commences offensive against rebels
SKOPJE, Macedonia — Macedonia's army launched a fresh offensive yesterday to clear ethnic Albanian rebels from the hills along the northern border with Kosovo in an apparent push to crush remaining insurgent strongholds.
The operation was a broad effort to clear out the terrain, army sources said, speaking on customary condition of anonymity.
Workers moved to safety in war-torn Somalia
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Five foreign aid workers trapped by militia fighting have been moved to safety in a hotel in north Mogadishu, but four others were still missing, a Somali official and aid agency representatives said yesterday.
The aid workers — two Spaniards, a Briton, an American and a French national — were taken to the Hotel Ramadan in Mogadishu, said Dahir Dayah, the interior minister of the national transitional government. The Spaniards, French and Somali work for the French agency Medecins sans Frontieres, or MSF, which is also known as Doctors Without Borders. The Briton and the American work for the U.N. children's agency, UNICEF.
The Associated Press
Senate looks to Court's decisions
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Senate was allocating money. Among the groups Southworth had a problem with were a campus socialist organization and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Center. The Court decided in favor of the university and ruled that students' fees could be allocated to groups whose views may offend other students.
Walker said Senate had to have the same standards for every student organization, even if they were religious or partisan.
"The intent is to establish a viewpoint-neutral system of funding without establishing a religion," he said.
Philip Kissam, professor of law, said Student Senate had to protect itself from the possibil
ity of a lawsuit.
"The Court held that is wasn't a violation of the establishment clause for student senates to fund religious groups," he said. "I don't think there's going to be a constitutional problem with funding these groups."
The establishment clause states that government cannot establish any religion.
ON THE RECORD
Edited by Jacob Roddy
A 20-year-old from Cumming, Iowa, reported a CD player and Nike tennis shoes stolen from his car between 2:30 p.m. Thursday, March 22, and 3:15 p.m. Sunday while it was parked in the GSP-Corbin Hall parking lot, the KU Public Safety Office said. The dashboard around the stereo was damaged during the incident. Repair costs and stolen goods were valued at $900.
Two cars collided on Sunnyside Drive at 8:55 a.m. Tuesday, the KU Public Safety Office said. A car crossed the road to park in a stall on the opposite side of the road when it was hit by a car backing out nearby. No one was injured, but there was major damage to the parking car's left rear wheel. Because the car in reverse backed out beyond the distance necessary, that driver was cited for limitations on backing. The cost of damages was not listed.
A KU student reported being harassed by phone in her McCollum Residence Hall room between 3:30 and 4 a.m. Sunday, March 18, the KU Public Safety Office said.
lia, and no proof of insurance, the KU Public Safety Office said. The student reported driving in the 1500 block of Crestline Drive at 11:47 p.m. Tuesday when his car's transmission locked, sending his car over a curb and causing major damage. The reporting officer said the student refused a preliminary breath test and didn't pass a sobriety test. The officer confiscated a marijuana cigarette found in a cigarette box in the student's coat pocket. The student was arrested and taken to Douglas County jail
A KU student's hemp necklace, decoration clothing studs and other items were stolen between 1:15 and 3:30 a.m. Saturday in the 1400 block of Apple Lane, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $4,701.
A KU student's black 1998 Pontiac Sunfire GT and license plate were stolen between 10 a.m. and 6:55 p.m. Tuesday from the 1300 block of North 1293 Road, the Douglas County Sheriff's Office said. Sheriff Rick Trapp said the student allowed a friend to borrow the car, but the friend did not return it and the student could not find him. The car and plate were valued at $10,003.
ON CAMPUS
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 in Tower D of Jayhawk Towers. Call Josh Talley at 312-2285.
■ KU Environers and Ecumenical Christian Ministries will sponsor veggie lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. today at ECM, 1204 Oread Ave.
Call Thad Holmelae at 843-4933.
University Career and Employment Services will present "Internships and Experiential Education" from 3 to 4 p.m. today at room 149 in the Burge Union, Call Ann Hartley at 864-3624.
Ki Akiko Club will practice from 5:30 to 7:30
taught at Boston 207 in Beiheng
The KU Meditation Club will meet at 6 p.m. today at the Pioneer Room in the Burge Union. Call Pannir at 864-7735.
The First Nations Student Association will meet at 6 p.m. today at the Regionalist Room in the Kansas Union. They will discuss final plans for the American Indian Big 12 conference and spring powwow. Call Michael Stewart at 312-9877.
Amnesty International will meet at 7 tonight at Alcove D in the Kansas Union. Call Karen Keith at 749-7491.
KU Traditional Karate Club will practice from 6:30 to 8:30 tonight at ractouchball court No. 15 in Robinson Center. Call Rachel Fuller at 312-1990.
Campus Crusade for Christ will meet at 8 p.m. tonight at room 100 in Smith Hall. Call Mark Brown at 550-5503.
Radical Christians will meet from 8 to 9 tonight in Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Call Helen Heenning at 841-8661
KU HorrorZontals men's ultimate Frisbee team will practice from 8:30 to 11 tonight in Anschutz Sports Pavilion. Call B.P. at 312-1066 or check out Zontals.com.
- The women's ultimate Frisbee team will practice at 8:30 tonight in Anschutz Sports Pavilion. Call Olivia Stockman at 840-0404.
Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karate will meet from 9 to 10:30 tonight at Room 207 in Robinson Center. Call Ryan Ness at (785) 218-7415.
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