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The Inside Front
Thursday, March 15, 2001
News
from campus,the state, the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Unknown man enters Lawrence apartment
A 22-year-old KU student reported that an unknown person entered her boyfriend's apartment without permission about 9 p.m. yesterday, Lawrence police said.
Sgt. Mike Pattrick said the female student was waiting in her boyfriend's apartment. While her boyfriend was in the restroom, someone entered the apartment through its unlocked front door, announced he was a visitor and then turned around and walked out.
— Lauren Brandenburg
STATE
Drilling offers theory on Hutchinson gas leaks
HUTCHINSON — State geologists have a new theory about how natural gas leaking from a storage cavern found its way undeemeth Hutchinson. The latest explanation comes after more core drilling along the suspected path.
Ancient tidal channels up to 300 million years old could be the conduit for the natural gas believed responsible for two January explosions in Hutchinson, said Lynn Watney, a geologist with the Kansas Geological Survey in Lawrence.
NATION
Spring Break stunt ends in student death
Michael Santiago, 19, of Wall Township, N.J., had been kept alive by artificial life support since the early Sunday morning accident.
FORT LAUDERDALE — The Rutgers University sophomore who fell from a third-floor balcony to the concrete near a beach-area hotel swimming pool died Monday evening at Broward General Medical Center.
Witnesses told police Santiago had jumped from the balcony into the pool three times before he lost his balance on the wet railing, fell to the concrete feet first, then slipped again and smacked the back of his head.
Shuttle dodges collision with NASA space tool
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The international space station and space shuttle Discovery had to dodge a menacing piece of space junk yesterday — a large tool fumbled by an astronaut earlier in the week.
NASA did not think the 10- to 15-pound hunk of metal would come back to haunt the 10 astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the two linked spacecraft. But it did — to the embarrassment of Jim
Voss, who accidentally let go of the piece during a spacewalk on Sunday.
Mission Control ordered commander James Wetherbee to fire Discovery's thrusters to move the joined spacecraft to a higher orbit. Without the maneuver, the 12-by-6-inch visicle tool would have passed a scant 200 feet beneath the complex.
A direct hit from such an object could punch a gaping hole in a spacecraft, causing immediate depressurization and killing everyone on board.
Coca-Cola alters plan marketing at schools
WASHINGTON — Coca-Cola Co. says it will change the way it markets soft drinks at schools. The company's action comes in the face of threats of broader government regulation and scientific evidence its products can lead to health problems.
The Attantabased soft drink maker said yesterday it would begin loading healthier drinks into vending machines alongside sodas, covering up giant logos and advocating nonexclusive deals between bottlers and school districts.
Cincinnati targeted for racial profiling
CINCINNATI — City police have illegally targeted and harassed Blacks for 30 years on the basis of race, a federal lawsuit filed yesterday contends.
The American Civil Liberties Union and the Cincinnati Black United Front asked for a court order to ban so-called racial profiling.
The lawsuit was filed because Cincinnati officials haven't kept their promises to end police harassment of blacks, said Alphonse Gerhardstein, a lawyer for the plaintiffs. ACLU officials said 13 Blacks had been killed in situations involving Cincinnati officers since 1995.
Japanese captain grilled regarding sub accident
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii — The first impact knocked the boat of the boat toward the sky. Captain Hisao Onishi felt a shudder and heard metal screeching. From inside the bridge, he noticed his instruments were dead. Then, through a window, he saw the water rising.
Testifying before a Navy court of inquiry yesterday, Onishi described the terrifying moments after a submarine crashed into his ship last month. Onishi spoke through an interpreter before a courtroom packed with families of the Japanese victims and officers of the USS Greeneville.
Foot-and-mouth disease prompts U.S. ban on meat
The Ehime Maru, carrying 20 crew, 13 teens and two teachers, was on a voyage to teach high school students commercial fishing when the submarine surfaced beneath it. Nine people, including four students, were lost at sea.
WASHINGTON — A U.S. ban on imports of livestock and fresh meat was expanded to all 15 countries of the European Union after a case of foot-and-mouth disease was found on a farm in France.
The ban, which also applies to unpasteurized dairy products, would have the biggest impact on imports of pork from the Netherlands and Denmark. Imports of beef from the European Union already were banned because of mad cow disease.
Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman said the ban should present few problems for U.S. consumers.
Poll shows Bush popular not necessarily his policies
WASHINGTON — More than half of Americans generally approve of the job President Bush is doing and agree with his plans for the budget surplus, said a new poll. That support tends to slip away, however, when they're asked more specific questions on his proposals.
The proposals range from the faimess of his tax cut to the approval of drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic to the idea of giving government money to less mainstream religious groups, according to the CBS-New York Times poll. The poll highlights public opinion trends that Americans tend to like Bush better than they like some of his policies.
WORLD
NATO endorses Yugoslav move into buffer zone
MIRATOVAC, Yugoslavia — With NATO helicopters overhead, Yugoslav troops fanned out yesterday in a buffer zone overrun by ethnic Albanian rebels, a deployment the Western alliance hopes will quell violence that threatens to escalate into a new Balkan war. The deployment brings the heavily armed Yugoslav troops close to rebels who are their sworn enemies and an ethnic Albanian population that deeply resents the Serbs.
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Supporters and opponents of Indonesia's embattled head of state pelted each other with rocks and bottles yesterday in a third day of protests, as the administration faced new accusations of financial impropriety. About 1,200 students opposed to President Abdurrahman Wahid marched past a downtown campus loyal to him and demanded he resign. Meanwhile, about 1,000 supporters rallied outside the presidential palace.
Indonesian rivals fight during protest of leader
The Associated Press
Series touts ancient women
Portraits of powerful feminine figures existed even during the seventh century B.C. — a time when male poet Semionides compared women to doveks and monkeys.
By Danny Phillips
writer.kanson.com
Kansas staff writer
Classics instructor Jean Valk examined the symbols and similarities of powerful women in the ancient world, both real and fictional, yesterday afternoon during the second installment of the Multicultural Resource Center's Coffee Break series.
Valk said Semonides" "diatribe on women" was in part a representative view of women during that time, but he was also a satirist trying to make a joke.
women," Valk said.
But not all ancient authors viewed women in a negative light.
She called Penelope, one of Homer's Odyssey characters, the "earliest portrait of a single mother."
"She has to be one of the strongest women ever shown," said Valk, who cited the character's ability to raise a son while her husband was away at war for years.
Antigone, written by Sophocles in the fifth century B.C., was a "righteously rebellious heroin." She defied leaders and her own family to bury
her brother's body and she committed suicide rather than give in to others' demands, Valk said.
A more complicated character, Euripides' Medea, killed her children and ran away from her husband.
"And yet she's still a portrait of power." Valk said.
"She murdered her wav into our consciousness."
But a woman in ancient times didn't have to be fictional to be powerful...
A real-life example is the poet Sappho, who was born on the island of Lesbos around the same time Semionides lived, Valk said.
Sappho wrote with "extreme burning passion" about younger women and invented verse meters that were similar to modern song beats.
"We know her better for her sexual orientation," Valk said. Indeed, Lesbos is where the word lesbian comes from.
And even though only 700 lines of her poetry exist, Valk said the Greeks called her the tenth Muse.
"She never fails," Valk said. "There's no weak poetry, no bad writing."
Ned Robertson, Lawrence junior, said when he heard Valk was speaking about women of ancient times, he had to attend.
"It's really hard to put that stuff together," he said. And because most authors back then were men, "it's often a distorted picture."
- Edited by Joshua Richards
ON THE RECORD
A Sony camcorder was stolen from a car parked in the 1300 block of Sunnyside Avenue between 1 and 6 p.m. Monday, the KU Public Safety Office said. The cost of the camcorder was not given.
A TV was knocked over in the 5th floor lobby of Oliver Hall between 12:30 a.m. Sunday and
7 a.m. Monday, the KU Public Safety Office said. Dwarenes were estimated at $250
A KU student's car was damaged in the Amiini Scholarship Hall porking lt between 1:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Sunday, the KU Public Safety Office said. The passenger side-door mirror was damaged. Damages were estimated at $200.
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 304D in the Jayhawker Towers. Call Josh Talley at 312-2285.
KU Environ and Ecumenical Christian
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 Todd Halcone at 843-4933
KI Alikido Club will practice from 5:30 to 7:30 tonight at 207 Robinson Center.
The KU Meditation Club will meet at 6 p.m. today at the Daisy Hill Room in the Burge Union, Call Pannir at 864-7735.
KU Traditional Karate Club will practice from 6:30 to 8:30 on ractacle court No. 15 in Robinson Center. Call Rachel Fuller at 312-1990.
Amnesty International will meet at 7 tonight at Alcove D in the Kansas Union. Call Karen Keith at 749-7491.
The Kress Foundation department of art history will present "Rebirth of Zen Images and Ideas"
in Medieval Japan" at 7 tonight at 211 Spencer Art Museum. Use west entrance. Call Cherry Fowler at 864-4713.
The British Women Writers Conference will present the keynote address by Donna Landry at 7 tonight at the Spencer Museum of Art. E-mail bwvc@raven.cc.ukans.edu.
Campus Crusade for Christ will meet at 8 tonight at 100 Smith Hall. Call Mark Brown at 550-5503.
- Radical Christians will meet from 8 to 9 tonight at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Call Heather Hensaring at 841-8661.
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 Zontals.com.
The women's ultimate Frisbee team will practice at 8:30 tonight at Anschutz Sports Pavilion. Call Olivia Stockman at 840-0404.
- Okinawan Goji-Ryu Karate will meet from 9 to 10:30 tonight at 207 Robinson. Call Ryan Ness at (785) 218-7415.
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