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The Inside Front
Tuesday
February 20, 2001
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Students stage show in Budig computer lab
A group of people broke into song and dance at the Budig Hall computer lab yesterday afternoon. About 13 performers, seated throughout the lab, started singing at 12:15 p.m.
The people in the packed lab sat in silence and watched the five-minute song and dance unfold.
The group began the performance seated, singing solos, but then rose and started a dance number, singing an original composition about e-mail. The well-rehearsed performance ended with several singers leaving the lab, but most returned to their computers.
Minutes later, the lab was back to normal with people working on their computers.
The staged event was supposed to appear spontaneous.
— Michelle Ward
KU student arrested for disorderly conduct
A 20-year-old KU student was arrested ed at 5:23 a.m. Sunday on charges of disorderly conduct and public intoxication. Lawrence police said.
The officer said the intoxicated student was lying in the street, trying to sit up.
An officer was sent to 14th and Ohio streets, near The Hawk, in response to a complaint about a person yelling and stopping traffic on the street, said Sgt. Susan Hadi.
The student also jumped onto the hood of the officer's patrol car, slapped the windshield and muttered incoherently about the Kansas-iowa State men's basketball game on Saturday.
Hadi said the patrol car was not damaged. The student would not answer officers' questions. After being arrested, he was taken to Douglas County Jail.
Amanda Beglin
Lambda Sigma to raffle 'Chancellor for a Day'
A KU student will have a chance to call the shots around campus for a day, during the second "Chancellor for a Day" fund-raiser next month.
The event is sponsored by Lambda Sigma sophomore honor society.
Students can get raffle tickets from Lambda Sigma members from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. next Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 27 and 28, at
Wescoe Beach. The honor society suggests a $1 donation for the tickets.
The winner will be announced March 2 and will exchange places with Chancellor Robert Hemenway one day the following week.
Jameson Jones, Lambda Sigma community service chairman, said the event was a great idea.
"It lets students know what the chancellor does," said Jones, Dallas sophomore.
Proceeds from the fund-raiser will be donated to Jubilee Café, a local soup kitchen that provides breakfast to homeless people.
— Cássio Furtado
Wescoe Hall evacuated after false fire alarm
Students were evacuated from Wescoe Hall yesterday morning when someone pulled a fire alarm, said Sgt. Troy Mailen from the KU Public Safety Office.
Pulling a fire alarm is a misdemeanor offense, Malen said, and officers on the scene filed a criminal report.
Mailen said if the person who pulled the alarm was found, he or she could face a fine or other penalties. Lacey Crowl, Lyons sophomore was in the building when it happened.
"We haven't been out here for that long," Crowl said. "We just lost some time in class."
If the person who pulled the alarm is not found, Mailen said the case would remain inactive pending any workable leads.
— Brooke Hesler
Suspected murderers of professors found
NATION
NEW CASTLE, Ind. — Two teenagers wanted in the slaying of two Dartmouth College professors were taken into custody at a truckstop yesterday after a sheriff's deputy learned of their whereabouts while monitoring CB radio traffic.
Henry County Sheriff's Department Sgt. William Ward heard a trucker say he was carrying two teen-agers who were looking for a ride to California.
Hospitals nationwide forced to ration shots
He and other officers apprehended James Parker, 16, and Robert Tulloch, 17, at the truckstop at 3 a.m. without incident.
Ward, who had heard the suspects in the Dartmouth slayings might be headed west, pretended to be a truck driver and said he would pick the boys up at a truckstop along interstate 70.
A nationwide manhunt for Parker and Tulloch had been launched over the weekend. They were believed to have left their hometown of Chelsea, Vt., on Thursday bound for Massachusetts.
WASHINGTON — Hospitals nationwide are rationing adult tetanus shots, reserving them for severely injured patients, because of a huge shortage of the crucial vaccine.
It's one of the worst drug shortages facing hospitals in years — and don't expect it to be the last. Shortages of medications that hospitals use every day are occurring with more frequency, and they more often involve products with few good alternatives.
Although experts can't point to a shortage that has cost a life, it's a possibility that haunts doctors and pharmacists struggling to cope.
"It's really hard to talk about rationing care," said Linda Tyler, pharmacy manager at the University of Utah Hospital. The hospital hasn't offered adult tetanus booster shots since fall, reserving scarce doses for high-risk patients with burns, infected wounds or other severe trauma.
"We use it till it's gone, and when it's gone, it's gone," she said.
So far the tetanus crisis concerns only adult versions of tetanus vaccine, not children's vaccine. But Centers for Disease Control and Prevention experts are watching closely to see if the shortage spreads — and worrying about adult illnesses this spring, when vaccine demand rises along with a seasonal jump in injuries.
Reagan enters poll as greatest president
WASHINGTON — Ronald Reagan has joined John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln as those mentioned most often in a poll that asked Americans whom they regarded as the greatest president of the United States.
A year ago, Kennedy and Lincoln were mentioned most often in the Gallup poll asking that question, while Reagan was slightly behind along with Franklin Roosevelt.
Reagan moved up among the top three this year in the poll taken soon after news stories about his 90th birthday and his recovery from a broken hip.
This year, Reagan, Kennedy and Lincoln were followed by Bill Clinton, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, George Washington and Jimmy Carter, who were grouped together in the Gallup Poll. Others mentioned were George H.W. Bush, father of the current president, Theodore Roosevelt, Richard Nixon and Dwight Eisenhower. Others were mentioned by a combined 5 percent.
Reagan was mentioned by 18 percent, Kennedy by 16 percent and Lincoln by 14 percent in the poll of 529 adults taken Feb. 9.11. The poll had an error margin of 5 percentage points.
The Associated Press
Meeting to focus on Black life
By Dony Phillips
writer @kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Nine hundred students, advisers and faculty are scheduled to descend on the Kansas Union later this week for the 24th annual Big 12 Conference on Black Student Government.
The conference's theme is "Mind, Body and Soul: Complete Blackness," and is sponsored by the Black Student Union.
Conference co-chair Cassandra Young, Olathe junior, said the event had been in the planning stages for a year and a half. She came on board last summer with co-chair Natalie Lucas, Kansas City, Mo., senior, to take over the preparation reins.
"Big 12 is the most prevalent thing in my life." Young said.
Delegates from all of the Big 12 schools as well as smaller regional universities, such as Wichita State and Emporia State, will attend the conference from Feb. 22 to 25. The conference includes more than 40 workshops, keynote speakers, a comedy show and a gospel performance.
The workshops will be in the Kansas Union and Spencer Museum of Art, while the continental breakfast and speeches will be at the Holiday Inn Holldome, 200 McDonald Drive. Black Student Union President Courtney Bates is organizing the comedy and talent shows. She said she was looking forward to the conference because it would be a chance for her to meet different students from outside of the region.
Every year a member institution of the council sponsors the Big 12 Conference.
A council on Black student government was created in 1977, then called the Big 8 Conference. Since its inception, the council and its annual conference have evolved to promote leadership and academic excellence.
ON THE RECORD
Edited by Brandy Straw
A car was damaged in the south Robinson Center parking lot at 9:09 a.m. Feb. 13, the KU Public Safety Office said. A car was backing out of a stall and hit another moving car. No one was injured. Damages were not listed
Two cars collided in the Burge Union parking lot at 10:20 a.m. Thursday, the KU Public Safety Office said. The cars were traveling toward each other in the parking lot near a curve and hit head-on. One car sustained damage to the left front corner, the other had front bumper damage. Damages were not listed.
A KUID and $30 cash were stolen from an auditorium on the third floor of the Military Science building between 8:30 and 11:30 a.m. Thursday, the KU Public Safety Office said.
A green Timberland coat was stolen from Mrs. E's cafeteria, 1530 Engel Rd., between 7:30 and 8 p.m. Thursday, the KU Public Safety Office said. The coat was valued at $90.
A KU student hit a utility pole with his car near 11th and Main streets at 2:35 a.m. Feb. 12.
the KU Public Safety Office said. The student was reaching for a CD case in his passenger seat when he swerved off the road, hitting the pole and damaging a Sunflower Cable junction box. The pole was not damaged. The student suffered a cut on his nose and was taken by ambulance to Lawrence Memorial Hospital. He was released at 3:30 a.m. The student was cited for inattentive driving and failure to wear a seat belt.
A KU student's 1989 Ford Probe was damaged in the 500 block of W 17th Street. between 2:30 and 2:45 p.m. Friday, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $400.
A KU student was arrested on a disorderly conduct charge at 12:30 a.m. Friday in the 1300 block of Ohio Street, Lawrence, Mo.
A KU student's car door lock was damaged between 10:45 and 11 p.m. Thursday, Lawrence police said. The car was parked in the 1100 block of Tennessee Street. The damage was estimated at $400.
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.
- The Ki Aikido Club will meet from 5:30 to 7:30 tonight at 207 Robinson Center.
- The radar systems and remote sensing laboratory will sponsor "The Nature and Evolution of the Martian Hydrosphere" from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. today at the Apollo Room in Nichols Hall. Call Judith Galas at 864-4776.
Hispanic American Leadership Organization will meet at 6 p.m. today at the Sunflower Room in the Burge Union. Call Juan Toledo 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.
Student Alumni Association will meet at 7 tonight at the Adams Alumni Center. Bring quarters for laundry lottery. Call Palvib Bhana at 312-3432.
Robinson pool. Call Jason Blazer at 312-227-227
United Methodist Campus Ministry will meet from
7:30 to 8:30 on the Pioneer Room in the
Burge Union. Call Heather Henslarding at 841-866-
- 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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LAST CHANCE
If you would like to have an image of you, or you and your friends, or you and your pet, or whatever immortalized in the Jayhakwer Yearbook, and you missed the formal picture week, you have a new opportunity.
Bring your favorite picture from the 2000-2001 school year to the yearbook office, 428 Kansas Union, by Wednesday, February 21, and we will print your photo in a special section.
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