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The Inside Front
Tuesday March 27, 2001
News
from campus,the state the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Law Review conference to focus on women
Students from the University of Kansas Law Review will present Thursday and Friday to the Law Review's 2001 symposium, titled "Women and the Legal Profession: The Past and the Future."
Women in the profession will give presentations from 2 to 5 p.m. Thursday at 107 Green Hall. Speakers will include professors from Stanford's Law School, the City University of New York and the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Symposium participants will discuss women's success as law students, lawyers and academics and how obstacles in education and employment have affected women.
Chief Judge Deanell Tacha of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will be participating.
Tacha will moderate a panel discussion from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Friday in the Green Hall courtroom.
Panelists include Judge Carol Beier of the Kansas Court of Appeals; Karen Ruckert, editor-in-chief of the Kansas Law Review; and University of Kansas graduate Judge Mary Murgula of the U.S. District Court in Phoenix.
LAWRENCE
Local teens arrested after car break-ins
Lawrence police believe two juvenile males are responsible for breaking into 14 vehicles during the weekend, Sgt. Mike Pattrick said. One of the vehicles belonged to a KU employee.
A 14-year-old and a 15-year-old were arrested and placed in the Juvenile Detention Center early Saturday morning after police found them near property stolen from the vehicles, Patrick said.
He said a resident called the police about someone breaking into a car, and police were dispatched at 2:07 a.m.
While police interviewed the resident, other officers patrolled the area and found the two juveniles.
The stolen property ranged from stereos and CDs to a tire gauge and steering wheel cover.
Cars were burglarized in the 2700 blocks of Harper Street, Fenwick Road, Lankford Drive, Rawhide Lane and Bishop Street and the 2900 block of Lankford Drive.
— Lauren Brandenburg
STATE
TOPEKA — Suicides among Kansas teens and young adults increased during the 1990s, a new state report shows.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment reported a 32 percent increase in suicides among people aged 15 to 24 from 1989 to 1998. But that figure reflects a relatively small number of people — 47 suicides in 1989, compared with 62 in 1998.
This is the first time the state has made such a detailed report on suicides.
The suicide increase for people 15 to 24 topped the list of age groups. Suicides increased 23 percent among 35- to 44-year-olds.
In 1998 the leading cause of death for 15- to 24-year-olds was unintentional injuries, which made up 47 percent of total deaths within that age group. Suicides were next at 18 percent.
"We think this is an important first step," KDHE spokesman Mike Heideman said. "Now, researchers can draw conclusions and look for wavs to reverse the trend."
Kansas suicide rates are increasing as rates nationally are decreasing, according to the report. As a whole, Kansas' rate increased by 2.6 percent from 1997 to 1998, while the United States' rate dropped 1.9 percent.
NATION
KANSAS CITY, Mo. President Bush's chief spokesman said yesterday the United States is "in the middle of an economic downturn," setting the stage for a new push by the White House to sell the president's roadmap to recovery: major tax cuts and budget restraints.
Slow economy helps sell Bush's tax cut proposal
"The debate no longer is whether we're going to have tax relief," Bush said at a greeting card business, opening a two-day, three-state trip designed to court wavering Democrats. "It is how much money we're going to pass back to the people and how quickly."
Bush and his staff were laying the groundwork for what they called a major speech today in Michigan, in which the president planned to describe the country's economic situation and review his plans to improve it.
"There is no dispute that we are in an economic downturn now."
"The president knows we're in the middle of an economic downturn but he has faith that the long-term strength of the economy is solid," representative Ari Fleischer told reporters aboard Air Force One.
Most economists do not agree, noting that the economy has been growing less rapidly but not turning downward as in a recession. Federal economics officials also speak of a slowing, not a downturn.
Bush himself did not say the economy was in a downturn but told reporters at a Kansas City diner, "I believe the economy has slowed and we better do something about it."
U.S. Air Force fighter jets reported missing
WORLD
LONDON — Two U.S. F-15 fighter jets were reported missing yesterday over a Scottish mountain range, the U.S. Air Force said. Hours later, no trace of them had been found.
Meanwhile, an Army reconnaissance plane crashed yesterday afternoon in Germany, killing two people on board. The aircraft, based in Wiesbaden, was on a training mission when it went down in a forest area near the town of Schwabach, the army said.
The two Air Force fighters, on an afternoon training flight from the U.S. air base at Lakenheath, 75 miles northeast of London, lost contact with controllers when they were over the Cairngorm Mountains in the Scottish Highlands, Lakenheath representative Maj. Stacee Bako said. Each F-15C carried only a pilot, Bako said.
The Royal Air Force said two Nimrod reconnaissance planes and three Sea King helicopters were searching the area, helped by two RAF mountain rescue teams on the ground.
Police said they had no reports of any planes coming down.
Macedonia reclaims ethnic Albanian ground
Macedonia forces dug in overnight after piercing rebel lines and retaking ground held by ethnic Albanian insurgents, and vowed that their offensive would continue until the rebels were driven out of the country. The former Yugoslav republic's ragtag infantry punched through rebel positions in a day of fierce battle Sunday that raged in the hills just outside Tetovo, Macedonia's second-largest city, spraying houses with bullets and forcing the guerrillas to pull back. In the most intense fighting in six weeks of conflict with the rebels, the army broke through a roadblock and moved into the ethnic Albanian village of Gajre, 2 1/2 miles northwest of Tetovo, setting afire homes suspected of sheltering rebels.
Finalists chosen for new dean
Students in the School of Education could soon know who their next dean will be.
By Andrew Davies
writer @kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
The school's search committee met March 15 and selected the finalists for the position.
Susan Twombly, chairwoman of the search committee, said she gave the committee's selections to Provost David Shulenburger on March 16.
Twomby would not disclose the names or the number of candidates selected as finalists.
She said the board considered
experience, performances in interviews and references in making the selections.
The selection is now in the hands of Shulenburger. He will use information collected by the committee and review the strengths and weaknesses of each candidate before offering the position to a candidate.
"I make the final decision with the advice and consent of the chancellor," he said.
Jeanette Johnson, assistant to the provost, said a search committee typically sent a list of three or four candidates to the provost and that the final decision normally wasn't made quickly.
"It could conceivably be fairly fast, but it usually isn't," she said.
Twombly said she was satisfied with the finalists the committee had selected and the entire search process.
The University hopes to name a dean by July 1.
"We have a good pool of candidates and faculty, students, and staff who wished to do so had opportunities to interact with candidates," she said. "Our goal was that all candidates should leave Lawrence feeling positive about the University of Kansas and the School of Education. We feel that happened."
- Edited by Jason McKee
ON THE RECORD
A KU student reported being harassed by phone in his McCollum Residence Hall room between 3 a.m. March 12 and 4 a.m. Saturday, the KU Public Safety Office said. A KU student on the same floor also reported being harassed by phone in his room between 11:30 p.m. Friday and 4:20 a.m. Saturday, the KU Public Safety Office said.
A KU student was not injured after a car accident near Sunflower Drive and Jayhawk Boulevard at 5:15 a.m. Saturday, the KU Public Safety Office said. The driver reported driving up a hill on Sunflower Drive when his driver's side rear tire came off its rim, causing him to lose control of the car and slide 91 feet into a tree. His car sustained extensive damage to the driver's side. He then drove home, he said, without reporting the incident to police. The driver was later cited for failure to report the
incident, speeding and no proof of insurance.
A KU student's car stereo and CDs were stolen
and soft cover Jeep top damaged between 3 p.m. March 17 and 5 p.m. Sunday in the 1600 block of Edgehill Road, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $500, and the damage was estimated at $200.
A KU student's driver's license, Visa credit card, KUID, black leather wallet and $3 were stolen between 11 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. Saturday in the 700 block of Massachusetts Street, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $110.
A KU employee's window and front door were damaged between 10:05 and 10:45 p.m. Saturday in the 1800 block of Mississippi Street, Lawrence police said. The employee heard a neighbor banging on the wall and yelling for the employee to go back to her home country or die before she returned to the residence to find the door and window damaged, Sgt. Mike Patrick said. The damage was estimated at $470.
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.
University Career and Employment Services will present the workshop, "Using the Internet for the Job Search," from 3 to 4 p.m. at room 149 in the Burge Union. Call Ann Hartley at 864-3624.
tonight at 207 Robinson Center.
Ki Aikido Club will meet from 5:30 to 7:30
2021 PBA season
Hispanic American Leadership Organization will meet at 6 p.m. today at the Pioneer Room in the Burge Annunce. Call Juan Tolotea at 312-9120.
KU Traditional Karate Club will meet from 6:30 to 8:30 tonight at racquetball court No. 15 at Robinson Center. Call Rachel Fuller at 312-1990.
Robinson Center. Call Rachel Refal at 312-1990.
KU Water Polo will meet at 7 onight at the Robinson
Center Pool. Call John Blazer at 312.2277.
*Students for a Free Tibet will meet at 7 onnight at Alcove
B in the Kansas Union. Call Pati Barrett at 8309485.
United Methodist Campus Ministry will meet from 7:30 to 8:30 tonight at the Pioneer Room in the Burge Union. Call Heather Hensarting at 841-8661
■ KU Environs will meet at 8 tonight at the fourth floor lobby of the Kansas Union. Call Scott at 312-2228
KU HorrorZontals men's ultimate Frisbee team will practice from 8:30 to 11 tonight at Anschutz Sports Pavilion. Call B.P. at 312-1066 or check out www.Zontals.com.
The women's ultimate Frisbee team will practice at 8:30 tonight at Anschutz Sports Pavilion. Call Olivia Stockmann at 840-0404.
■ Okinawan Goji-Ryu Karate will meet from 9 to 10:30 tonight at 207 Robinson Center. Call Ryan Ness at (785) 218-7415.
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