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The Inside Front
Friday February 23, 2001
News
from campus, the state the nation and the world
CAMPUS
rower shutdown affects campus buildings again
University workers will shut down power on Sunday to continue electrical repairs on campus and to check for possible damage.
Last Sunday, Facilities Operations workers repaired one of the two main power switches located behind the power plant.
Doug Riat, director of Facilities Operations, said workers could not open one of the breakers at the switch to repair it. He said Westinghouse Electric will repair the breaker, but the University will take care of any wiring or insulation needed.
The Dole Center will be without power from 6 to 11 a.m. because of the repairs.
Burt Hall, Green Hall, Learned Hall, the Spahr Engineering Library, the west parking garage and the Burge Union will be without power from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. Workers will check the power switch that provides power to the west side of campus for wear and tear.
Riat said the there was no damage and workers would check the switches as a precautionary measures.
— Andrew Davies
Male students compete for title of Mr. Engineer
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, at 4:30 p.m. today at the Frontier Room in the Burge Union, is sponsored by the Society of Women Engineers.
Kelli Deuth, Salina senior and a contest organizer, said it was an opportunity to give everyone a break during the expo. A panel of five freshman engineers will judge the men in several categories: business suit, talent, tie and boxes, and geek factor. Prizes will be awarded for the winner of each category, with the overall winner being crowned Mr. Engineer.
Chad Gustin, Overland Park senior, is the reigning Mr. Engineer and will try to defend his title again this year.
"It was fun last year, especially because there were lots of chemical engineers judging and in the audience," said Gustin, a chemical engineering major.
Milt Sills, a 1955 KU engineering graduate and senior vice president of product engineering at Cessna
Aircraft Co., will deliver the expo's keynote address at 9:30 a.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall.
Ali Brox
Students from all the engineering departments will exhibit projects from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Learned Hall. The displays will include design competitions, like the contest to build the strongest possible bridge using dried pasta and glue.
Conference to improve student leadership skills
The Blueprints Student
The Blueprints Student Leadership Conference will help students learn and develop leadership skills.
The conference, on Friday, March 2 and Saturday, March 3, will focus on motivation, communication, time resources and diversity skills.
Speakers include Barbara Ballard, state representative and associate vice chancellor for student affairs; Beverly Davenport-Sypher, associate dean of liberal arts; and Aaron Quisenberry, assistant director of Organizations and Leadership. Andrew Urich, a professor of business law at Oklahoma State University, will be the keynote speaker.
Kim Fuchs, Merriam senior, said the conference's speakers would help participants develop their leadership skills.
"I think one of the really neat things about this conference is that it provides students the opportunity to meet students at KU, to develop their leadership skills and to empower and help them," Fuchs said.
The conference costs $10, which covers program materials, breakfast and lunch on Saturday and a t-shirt.
Limited scholarships are available for students who are unable to pay the fee. More information is available at 864-4861.
Applications for the conference are due at 5 p.m. Monday at room 400 in the Kansas Union.
— Cássio Furtado
NATION
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is developing a policy on granting presidential pardons, the White House said yesterday.
Bush administration to make pardon policy
toward developing rules for issuing pardons.
He said the work was part of a "perfectly neutral" review for a new administration and not prompted by the troubles dogging former President Clinton.
White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said White House counsel Al Gonzales was working with the Justice Department on a general review of policies, with an eye
"That is not a topic the president is going to look back on," Fleischer said. "We have other fish to fry."
Submarine commander still relieved of duties
WASHINGTON — When the Navy needed to strut 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.
WORLD
More than 100 left dead in Indonesian violence
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Gangs carried 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. The violence highlights the breakdown of law and order in Indonesia as the archipelago emerges from more than three decades of authoritarian rule and old ethnic hatreds erupt into bloodshed. President Abdurrahman Wahid left for a two-week trip yesterday to the Middle East and Africa saying he was not worried about leaving Indonesia mired in a political crisis and ethnic violence.
Study researches deadly asteroid
Most life forms killed in collision
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — History's most devastating extinction, the death of almost 90 percent of life on Earth, may have been triggered by the impact of an asteroid or comet like the one that much later killed off the dinosaurs.
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, the time of the Permian-Triassic extinction event.
The study appears today in Science journal.
In what has been called "the great dying," 90 percent of all ocean species and 70 percent
of all land species vanishee within a short period of time — a key event in the history of life on Earth.
The Permian-Triassic impactor, either an asteroid or comet, left behind subtle deposits of buckminsterfullerenes, or "Buckybala," a form of carbon shaped like a volleyball with a hollow cage-like cavity inside.
"This was the mother of all extinctions," said Luann Becker, a University of Washington geochemist and lead author of the study. "What makes it so remarkable is that virtually all marine life and a good portion of land life forms were eliminated in a very short period time."
triggered or sped up by a massive object falling from space.
Becker said she and her colleagues found within those cavities a helium isotope that was thought to be of extraterrestrial origin. That, she said, provided strong evidence that the Permanian Triassic extinction was either
Although impacts from space played a role in the Permian-Triassic and Cretaceous-Tertiary extinctions, Becker said there were distinct differences in the two events.
For one thing, the chemical evidence left by the impactors. The worldwide geological formation marking the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary is enriched with iridium, a chemical from outer space.
The other difference was that the Earth was different. At the time of the Permian-Triassic impact, all the continents were together as a single land mass, called Pangea. By the time of the dinosaur extinction, some of the continents were separated and moving apart.
Becker said where the Permian-Triassic object hit the Earth was unknown, but the dinosaur-killing asteroid carved a massive crater in Mexico's Yucatan region.
ON THE RECORD
A Department of Student Housing maintenance truck hit a parked car in the Gertrude Sellhard Pearson-Corbin 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. Dec, 5 and 8 a.m. Feb. 12, the KU Public Safety Office said.
A KU student's 1987 Jeep Cherokee was stolen between 8:50 and 9 p.m. Wednesday in the 1800 block of Massachusetts Street, Lawrence police said. The car's value was unknown.
A KU student's radar detector, CD player and 100 CDs were stolen from an automobile, and the driver's side window and windshield were damaged, between 6 a.m. Sunday and 11:35 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.
ON CAMPUS
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 Swarthwat Recital Hall in Murphy Hall. Displays will be from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Learned Hall. Call Jill Hummels at 864-2934.
KI Alkido Club will meet from 10 a.m. to 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
Diane Whitten-Vile at 749.5397
Rabbit 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
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 am. 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.
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