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The Inside Front
Monday
February 19, 2001
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CORRECTION
A brief in Friday's Kansan contained incorrect information. The University of Kansas radio program Medicine Chest won two awards in the District IV awards competition of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
CAMPUS
Diplomats, professors discuss foreign policy
Visitors from around the world discussed foreign policy with KU faculty members Friday.
The group, comprised of diplomats from Mozambique, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan and Panama and a journalist from Turkey, spent Friday morning at the University discussing foreign policy with professors from the School of Business, the political science department and other faculty members who focus their attention on the visitors' areas of the world.
The trip was sponsored by the U.S. State Department, and the foreign representatives came to the University after visiting the greater Kansas City area Friday.
The visitors had been in the country for about two weeks, visiting Washington D.C., New York and Chicago. They headed to Seattle after leaving the University.
Philip Schrodt, a professor of political science who met with the group, said the visitors were particularly concerned with the beginning of George W. Bush's administration and the possibility of increased isolationism.
"They asked really good questions on the ambiguities in the U.S. foreign policy." Schrodt said.
— Cássio Furtado
Music department hires opera singer as professor
Internationally known opera singer Joyce Castle has taken a position as professor of voice in the department of music and dance.
the mezzo-soprano will begin the job in August while continuing her stage career.
John Stephens, search committee co-chair and professor of voice, said Castle was chosen because she was a "skillful performer" with a "major international career." He said Castle combined her experience with the ability to relate to students.
"She brings enormous emotional and psychological insight to her work," he said.
Castle, a Baldwin native who graduated from the University of Kansas with a bachelor of fine arts in theater and voice, has a busy performance schedule. She will appear in this week's opening of Salome with the
Flanders Opera in Belgium and will resume her acclaimed portrayal of Augusta in The Ballad of Baby Doe in April with the New York City Opera. This summer, Castle will play Queen Elizabeth I in Gloriana at Central City Opera.
Castle will be in Lawrence Friday, April 10 to perform with baritone Kurt Ollmann at the Lied Center, a concert they will repeat during June in Barcelona. Spain.
Castle is the first of 11 new faculty members to be hired this spring by the School of Fine Arts.
— Sarah Smarsh
LAWRENCE
Fire leaves nine students without place to live
Nine KU students were forced to relocate after fire damaged three town homes in the Quail Creek complex, 2111 Kasold Drive.
According to Battalion Chief Lexie Engleman, the fire department was dispatched for a 6:38 a.m. alarm in apartment 2115. The fire spread to apartments 2117 and 2113, both sustaining heavy fire damage.
Engleman said nearby apartment 2119 sustained minimal smoke damage.
No one was injured in the fire. Stephanie Jackson, volunteer coordinator for the Lawrence Red Cross, said that all of the displaced residents had been offered space in other buildings in the apartment complex. Some decided to stay in hotels, however.
The Red Cross also took care of all of the students' other immediate needs. Jackson said.
The cause of the fire is under investigation, Engleman said. A full incident report will be available today.
Amanda Beglin
STATE
Kansas couple among submarine survivors
OVERLAND PARK — An Overland Park couple was among the 16 civilians aboard the USS Greeneville when it collided with a Japanese fishing vessel off Honolulu.
Jay and Carol Brehmer were home in suburban Kansas City on Saturday from their vacation in Hawaii.
Of the 35 people aboard the fishing vessel,26 were rescued and nine remained missing Saturday.
Relief program costs customers millions
OVERLAND PARK — A hedging program meant to save Kansas Gas Service customers at least $15 million this winter wound up causing heating bills to be slightly higher.
Utility executives said Friday that after numbers for the entire winter are tabulated, the hedging program is expected to cost customers more than it saved them. They said problems with the way the program was financed overwhelmed savings.
As gas prices began to soar late last year, Kansas Gas Service predicted that the hedge would benefit customers by at least $15 million, after paying the program's $6 million cost.
HUTCHINSON — A recovery team made up of Hutchinson and Reno County officials has announced an operating plan to help victims of the natural gas explosions.
Operating plan to aid explosion victims
The group met Friday to discuss its plan to help those affected by the January 17 and 18 explosions. Lynette Lacy, executive director of the Hutchinson Community Foundation, announced a $10,000 donation from the Charles E. Carey Memorial Fund, and additional contributions have raised the total to $12,975.
The group plans to offer three levels of assistance to anyon ein Hutchinson and Reno counties affected by the gas leaks and explosions.
NATION
Bush describes attack as 'routine mission'
WASHINGTON—The joint U.S.- British air strike against Iraq, described by President Bush as routine, was the biggest blow against Saddam Hussein's military in more than two years and involved two dozen attack planes armed with precision-guided missiles, Pentagon officials say.
"A routine mission was conducted to enforce the 'no-fly' zone" over southern Iraq, Bush said Friday. "It was a mission about which I was informed and I authorized. But I repeat, it's a routine mission."
It was the first military action ordered by the new president, who inherited an Iraq policy that has evolved from the 1991 Persian Gulf War that his father carried out to evict the Iraqi army from Kuwait. A key part of that policy is enforcement of no-fly zones over northern and southern Iraq
— a mission that has taxed the U.S. military while also taking a heavy toll on Iraq's extensive air defenses.
Iraq does not accept the legitimacy of the no-fly zones. The official Iraq News Agency said two people died and 20 were injured in Friday's attack.
The Associated Press
Candidate meetings lack students
A lack of communication and time is probably the reason student attendance at open meetings with dean candidates for the school of education is low.
By Andrew Davies writer@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Susan Twombly, chairwoman of the search committee and professor of teaching and leadership, said she was satisfied with the search process, but was disappointed with the lack of student attendance at the open meetings with the candidates.
Twomby partly blamed the communication process for the lack of attendance. She said most students learn about the meetings through a listserv or from teachers announcing the meetings in class, but there were no places to post signs for the meetings.
The school of education announced the fourth and fifth dean candidates on Thursday.
Larry H. Ebbers, a professor of higher education at Iowa State University, and Eileen I. Oliver, a professor and associate dean of education at California State University-San Marco were announced as the candidates.
Dianne E. Ashby, director of the center for the study of educational policy at Illinois State University, Jerry D. Bailey, interim dean of the school of education, and Angela Lumpkin, a professor of physical education at the State University of West Georgia, are the other candidates.
A sixth candidate is yet to be announced before Ebbers' visit to campus, Tuesday March 6 to Thursday March 8. Ebbers' will
interview Tuesday, Feb. 27 to Thursday, March 1. Oliver will be on campus Sunday, Feb. 25 to Tuesday, Feb. 27.
Emily Ligget, Prairie Village senior, said students sometimes had a tough time making the meetings because of scheduling difficulties.
"I think that part of the problem is that the candidates are on such a strict schedule which makes them only available to students for about 30 minutes a day," she said.
Ligget said she attended Bailey's meeting, but did not go to any others because of a conflict with classes.
Although Ligget did not think not having a bulletin board to post announcements was a big deal, she said familiarity with the candidates might improve attendance.
"I would have been more likely to go if I was familiar with the candidates, like I was with Dr. Bailey, or if we would've had a little more background on the candidates," she said.
Mona Ahmed, Lawrence senior, said a lot of students did not have time or think their input mattered.
"I say a lot of it is time," she said. "I think another part of it is that people don't think it matters, that our voices don't count."
Ahmed said some people did not care about the meetings because they are trying to concentrate on their studies.
ON THE RECORD
She agreed with Twombly that a bulletin board could help attract attention.
"I think that would make a difference," Ahmed said. "I know there's quite a few people who don't check their e-mail."
A KU faculty member's Kansas University Endowment Association parking permit was stolen from his car between 6:45 and 7:15 p.m. Tuesday. The KU Public Safety Office said the car was parked in the Fraser Hall parking lot and was unlocked at the time of the incident. The permit was valued at $125.
An 18-year-old KU student was arrested
An 18-year-old KU student was arrested Thursday night for operating a vehicle under the
influence, the KU Public Safety Office said. The arresting officer reported clocking the student driving 49 mph in a 30 mph zone near 19th and Alabama streets. He stopped the car, and the student failed sobriety tests. The officer reported the student having blood-shot eyes and smelling like marijuana. The student was arrested and taken to Douglas County Jail.
ON CAMPUS
Black Student Union will meet at 7:30 tonight at the Pioneer Room in the Kansas University. Call Courtney Bates or Cassandra Young at 864-3984.
The KU Balka'i Club will meet from 7 to 9 tonight at the Regionalist Room on the fifth floor of the Kansas Union. Call Justin Herrmann at 830-8912
The Sons and Daughters of Vietnam Veterans will present Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Multiculturalism Must Go! from 7:30 to 8 tonight on Cable Channel 19.
KU Greens will meet at 8 tonight at Alcove D in the Kansas Union. Car Sash Haskinson at 838-9063 or Galen Turner at 838-3498.
KU Young Democrats will meet at 8 night at the International Room in the Kansas Union. Call Julie Merz at 838-3797.
The department of art and design will have its graduate school exhibition from 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. Friday. Call 864-4401.
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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 Jayhahwer 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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