====PAGE-LEVEL METADATA==== University Daily Kansan Page 0549 from reel: NP 8957 (2000-12-01 to 2001-07-25) https://digital.lib.ku.edu/ku-udk/90353 Title: Power Shutdown Affects Campus Buildings Again Summary: University workers will shut down power on Sunday to continue electrical repairs on campus and check for possible damage. Facilities Operations workers repaired one of the two main power switches located at the power plant. Category: campus news Subjects: university operations; campus facilities; electrical systems Named Entities: Riat, Doug [director of Facilities Operations] Confidence: 0.85 Title: Conference to Improve Student Leadership Skills Summary: The Blueprints Student Leadership Conference will help students learn and develop leadership skills. The conference will be held Friday, March 2 and Saturday, March 3, focusing on motivation, communication, time resources and diversity skills. Category: campus news Subjects: student leadership; student organizations; leadership development Named Entities: Ballard, Barbara [state representative]; Davenport, Beverly [associate vice chancellor for student affairs]; Quisenberry, Aaron [associate director of Organizations and Leadership]; Urich, Andrew [professor of business law]; Fuchs, Kim [Merriam senior] Confidence: 0.8 Title: Male Students Compete for Title of Mr. Engineer Summary: A handful of male engineers will shed their books and calculators, along with their clothes, to compete in the Mr. Engineer Contest as part of the Engineering Expo. The contest will be held at 4:30 p.m. today in the Frontier Room of the Burge Union. Category: campus news Subjects: student competitions; engineering; gender representation Named Entities: Deuth, Kelli [Salina senior and contest organizer]; Gustin, Chad [Overland Park senior, reigning Mr. Engineer] Confidence: 0.8 Title: Study Researches Deadly Asteroid Summary: Researchers analyzing the chemistry of ancient deposits in China and Japan concluded that a space rock three to seven miles across smashed into the Earth about 251 million years ago, at the time of the Permian-Triassic extinction event. The study appears today in Science journal. Category: national news Subjects: asteroid impact; extinction events; geological research Named Entities: Becker, Luann [University of Washington geochemist] Confidence: 0.85 Title: Bush Administration to Make Pardon Policy Summary: The Bush administration is developing a policy on granting presidential pardons, the White House said yesterday. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said White House counsel Al Gonzales was working on a general review of policies, with an eye toward developing rules for issuing pardons. Category: national news Subjects: presidential policy; criminal justice; white house Named Entities: Bush, George W. [president]; Fleischer, Ari [White House spokesman]; Gonzales, Al [Justice Department] Confidence: 0.8 Title: More Than 100 Left Dead in Indonesian Violence Summary: Gangs carried out the severed heads of their victims through a Borneo island town where more than 100 people have died in brutal ethnic violence this week. Security forces yesterday patrolled Sampit in Central Kalimantan province, the Indonesian part of Borneo island where clashes between indigenous Dayaks and migrants from other parts of the country first erupted Sunday. Category: national news Subjects: ethnic violence; indonesia; human rights Named Entities: Abdurrahman Wahid [Indonesian president] Confidence: 0.8 Title: Submarine Commander Still Relieved of Duties Summary: When the Navy needed to scrutinize its stuff, it could count on Cmdr. Scott Waddle to get the job done, those who know the beleaguered submarine commander say. He's the one that's chosen when they want to send a submarine to show off on Armed Forces Day in some major port in California, said his friend John Peters, a retired Navy submarine captain. Waddle, 41, now keeps quiet, pending investigation into his submarine's collision with a Japanese fishing and training vessel. Two civilians were at control positions in Waddle's submarine when the accident occurred. The Navy relieved Waddle as commander of the USS Greeneville after the Feb. 9 accident that sank the Ehime Maru, which was on a one-month training cruise with Japanese high school students. Twenty-six people were rescued, but nine others — including four students — are missing. Category: campus news Subjects: naval operations; military discipline; submarine accidents Named Entities: Waddle, Scott [Navy commander]; Peters, John [retired Navy submarine captain] Confidence: 0.75 Title: On the Record Summary: A Department of Student Housing maintenance truck hit a parked car in the Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbett Hall parking lot at 9:45 a.m. Thursday. The KU Public Safety Office said the truck driver was backing out of a parking stall when he hit the car, which was illegally parked. The truck sustained less than $500 damage to its left rear brake light. The KU Parking Department reported $245 cash stolen from one of its offices between 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. Monday in the 1100 block of Louisiana Street. Lawrence police said the items were valued at $1,800, and the damage was estimated at $500. Category: campus news Subjects: campus safety; police reports; student incidents Confidence: 0.7 Title: On Campus Summary: The Engineering Student Council will sponsor the Engineering Expo from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. today. The keynote address will be at 9:30 a.m. at Swarthout Recital Hall. Displays will be from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Learned Hall. Call Jill Hummels at 864-2934. KU Akido Club will meet from 10 a.m. to noon tomorrow at 207 Robinson Center. KU Water Polo will practice at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Robinson Center pool. KU Traditional Karate Club will meet from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday at 207 Robinson Center. Rabbi Jacques Cukierkorn will speak for the Hillel Spring Speaker Series at 5 p.m. Sunday at the KU Hillel Foundation for Jewish Campus Life, 940 Mississippi. Call Diane Whitten-Vile at 749-5397. The department of art and design will show its MFA Theses Exhibition from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, 8:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday and 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. today at the art and design gallery. Call the department at 864-4401. Alternative Weekend Break applications are available for the 3R's program in Kansas City, Mo., March 2 and 3. Applications are at room 410 in the Kansas Union and online at www.ukans.edu/~albreaks and are due at 5 p.m. tomorrow. Summer financial aid request forms are available in the Office of Student Financial Aid at room 50 in Strong Hall. Call 864-4700. Category: campus news Subjects: campus events; student organizations; academic calendar Confidence: 0.7 Title: Et Cetera Summary: The University Daily Kansan (ISSN 0746-4962) is published by the University of Kansas, 119 Stauffer-Flint Hall, Lawrence, Kan. 66045, daily during the regular school year, excluding Saturday, Sunday, holidays and finals periods, and Wednesday during the summer session. Periodical postage is paid in Lawrence, Kan. 66044. Annual subscriptions by mail are $12.00. Student subscriptions of $2.33 are paid through the student activity fee. Additional copies of the Kansan are 25 cents. Subscriptions can be purchased at 119 Stauffer-Flint Hall. The Kansan prints campus events that are free and open to the public. When information is submitted in advance of the desired publication date, forms can also be filled out online at www.kansan.com — these requests will appear on Kansan.com as well as in the Kansan. On Campus is printed on a space-available basis. 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