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The Inside Front
Monday February 12, 2001
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
LAWRENCE
One dead, one injured in accident Thursday
An 18-year-old man was killed and his 17-year-old passenger injured Thursday night in a car accident on Clinton Parkway at Lawrence Avenue, Lawrence police said.
Joshua Shuckahosee was driving eastbound on Clinton Parkway when he lost control and struck a signal light, Detective John Lewis said.
His passenger, Steven Spottedtall,
was treated and released that night at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
Haskell student reports date-rape drug in drink
A 19-year-old female Haskell Indian Nations University student reported that someone slipped a date-rape drug in her drink last week, Lawrence police said.
Detective John Lewis said the woman was with two male Haskell students on the Haskell campus and began to feel she was becoming drunk quicker than she normally would. Lewis said one of the two men made a comment about raping her, and she called a friend to pick her, up.
The student's friend got her out of the situation before anything happened, Lewis said, and the woman then passed out.
— Lauren Brandenburg
Police had not yet contacted the two suspects Friday, Lewis said.
NATION
Cameras snapped fan mugs at 'Snooper Bowl'
TAMPA, Fla. — As 100,000 fans stepped through the turnstiles at Super Bowl XXXV, a camera snapped their image and matched it against a computerized police lineup of known criminals, from pickpockets to international terrorists.
It's not a new kind of surveillance. But its use at the Super Bowl — dubbed "Snooper Bowl" by critics — has highlighted a debate about the balance between individual privacy and public safety.
Law enforcement officials say what was done at the Super Bowl is no more intrusive than routine video surveillance that most people encounter each day as they're filmed in stores, banks, office buildings or apartment buildings.
"I think it presents a whole different picture of America," said Howard Simon, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union in Florida.
Rapper Eminem to play Grammys despite outcry
LOS ANGELES — Eminem will perform at the Grammy Awards this month despite his controversial lyrics.
The performance was approved by the television committee of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and supported by CBS, which is broadcasting the event Feb. 21, academy President Michael Greene said Friday.
"I have issues with the lyrical content of the album, no question about that," he said. "But again, art has its extremities, and you can't really predict how they're going to play themselves out. This is one of the extremities for sure."
The action drew immediate outcry from the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, which labeled the performance invitation deeply offensive.
"Eminem should not have another platform for his hateful lyrics," GLAAD Executive Director Joan M. Garry said.
Maryland county sees Latino population jump
GATIHERSBURG, Md. — A new face arrives in teacher Sharon Dreyfus' second-grade classroom about every couple of weeks. The youngster typically speaks little English and comes from a family of recent immigrants.
"The biggest challenge is to keep constantly changing the program around to meet the needs of all the kids," said Dreyfus, who teaches at Rosemont Elementary School.
The most recent Census Bureau estimates show that the Latino population increased 46.7 percent, to 32.8 million, between the 1990 census and November 2000. The growth rate in the 1990s in Montgomery County, Md., where Gaithersburg is located, was 64.3 percent.
Projections show that by next year Hispanics are expected to pass Black, non-Latinos as the country's largest minority group — 34.7 million to 34.3 million.
Bush aims to improve U.S.military morale
WASHINGTON — Improving quality of life in the military is the Bush administration's first order of business as it conducts its top-to-bottom armed services review, said Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.
"I think the focus has to be on quality of life for the people." Rumsfeld said. "Without the men and women that we're able to attract and retain to man the forces, then we really don't have a national defense, so that has to be the first focus."
poor housing and pay and unfocused, "overextended" missions were eroding morale.
Bush said equipment shortages.
Rumsfeld also defended Bush's plan to develop a missile defense system, calling it a "reasonable" step to protect against the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
More bodies recovered in aftermath of quake
BHUJ, India — Authorities clearing mountains of rubble in western India have recovered 400 decomposed bodies from the debris of homes destroyed by the nation's worst earth quake in 50 years.
WORLD
During the past few days, soldiers have been able to dig deeper into the rubble using both hand tools and large cranes.
The bodies were found Saturday and Sunday, said Anup Kumar Singh, deputy inspector general of police in Bhuj.
The quicker work likely means a rapid increase in the confirmed death toll from the 7.7-magnitude quake that struck on Jan. 26, devastating more than 900 villages in the Bhuj-Kutch district.
The Gujarat state government says it has recovered nearly 18,000 bodies — 15,785 from the Bhuj area, Singh said. Unofficial estimates put the death toll at around 30,000.
Bush to visit Mexican president's hometown
SAN CRISTOBAL, Mexico — When President Bush comes to this village baked by dust and sun on Friday, he will see newly planted grass, freshly painted walls and gleaming telephone poles that soon will connect San Cristobal to the world.
What he is unlikely to see are the village's poor peasants and the bleak choice they have long lived with: Work for the family of President Vicente Fox for subsistence wages or cross illegally into the United States to try to make their fortune.
Rita Cruz, 23, said almost all the men in San Cristobal are either in the United States or have spent years there. Seven of her nine brothers are there, as are two uncles and countless cousins.
Illegal immigration is expected to figure at the top of the agenda when Fox and Bush meet on the U.S. president's first foreign trip.
"There are no men here, only little boys," she said. "They leave with the hope of coming back with some money so they can do something here."
The Associated Press
Napster ruling expected today
The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — Major record labels hope Monday's longawaited appellate court ruling in their case against Napster, Inc., will force millions of computer users to pay for music the online music-swapping service has allowed them to get for free.
But if Napster wins, the ruling could unleash other ventures that have been waiting for guidance on whether a "personal use" exception to copyright law allows trading songs over the Internet.
"Napster is a real threat
"Monday's decision may finally clear the way for the legitimate online marketplace to thrive in an environment that encourages both creativity and a respect for copyright," said Hilary Rosen, president of the Recording Industry Association of America. The five largest record labels
The five largest record labels
to creativity and production."
Erwin Chemerinsky
professor of constitutional law,
University of Southern California
Sony, Warner, BMG, EMI and Universal — sued when the service, based in Redwood City, Calif., took off, saying it could rob them of billions of dollars in profits.
The issue before the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is whether to uphold U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel's injunction ordering Napster to shut down pending a trial on the music industry lawsuit. The injunction was stayed pending
the 9th Circuit review.
But the three judge appellate panel also could rule more broadly, describing how copyright law should apply to emerging technologies that make it more difficult to control and profit from the distribution of music, software, movies and other creative content.
University of Southern California constitutional law professor Erwin Chemerinsky wondered whether record companies would have any financial incentive to produce music if it is increasingly copied and given away electronically.
"Authors and producers need the assurance of a return that free downloading undermines," Chemerinsky said. "Napster is a real threat to creativity and production."
ON THE RECORD
A bicycle was stolen from a second floor storage room in Ellsworth Hall between 11:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 5, and 7:45 a.m. Thursday, the KU Public Safety Office said. The bike was valued at $2,700.
■ A KU student's window was broken between 12:01 and 2:30 a.m. Saturday at a residence in the 1000 block of Missouri Street, Lawrence online news. The doorway was activated at $200
police said. The burglar was estimated at $200.
A KU student's Ford Thunderbird was damaged
and items were stolen from it between 11:15
p.m. Friday and 1:50 a.m. Saturday in the 800
block of West 24th Street, Lawrence police
said. The damage was estimated at $200, and the items were valued at $186.50.
A KU student's CD player with remote control was stolen between 4:30 p.m. Feb. 2 and noon Feb. 3 from the 2500 block of Crestline Place, Lawrence police said. The CD player was valued at $400.
A KU student's car stereo was stolen and dashboard damaged between 10 p.m. Wednesday and 9 a.m. Thursday in the 1600 block of Tennessee, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $150, and the CD player was valued at $325.
ON CAMPUS
The February Sisters Association will sponsor the Donate-a-Phone campaign from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. today through Friday, Feb. 23 at the University Theatre Box Office in Murphy Hall. The wireless phones collected will be given to domestic violence victims. E-mail Sharon at fb-sisters@yahoo.com or call 864-4012.
- The KU Running and Jogging Club will meet for its daily run at 4:30 p.m. today at the oak tree at the east entrance of Robinson Center, Call Michael Roessler at 312-3193.
Student Union Activities will have a public relations committee meeting at 4 p.m. today at Alcove B on the third floor of the Kansas Union. Call Rachel Cornish at 864-2431.
The department of art and design will sponsor the Hallmark Symposium Series from 6 to 8 tonight at the Spencer Museum of Art auditorium. Graphic designers Achim Wieland and Marion Delhees will speak. B644-4401.
The International Film Series will present Beau
Travel at 7 tonight at Woodford Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Call Leslie Heinsten at 844-SHOW.
Kansas Union. Call Leslie Heusted at 864.SHOW.
Black Student Union will meet at 7:30 tonight at the Pioneer Room in the Kansas Union. Call Courtney Bates or Cassandra Young at 864-3984.
Country Lines of Customs Young at Bowdoin
The KU Baha'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 830-812-91.
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.
The department of music and dance will have a piano cella and violin recital at 7:30 tonight at Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall, Call 864-3436.
Students Tutoring for Literacy will have an informational and training meeting at 8 tonight at the Jayhawk Room at the Kansas Union. Call Shawn Smith at 749-0895
KU Greens at 8 tonight at Alcove D in the Kansas Union. Call Sarah Hoskinson at 838-9063 or Galen Turner at 838-3498.
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