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The Inside Front
Monday February 5,2001
News
from campus, the state the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Applications available for Student Senate
Applications for replacement student senator positions now are available in the Student Senate office, Room 410 of the Kansas Union.
Senate is looking to fill two graduate seats, one liberal arts and sciences seat to represent liberal arts and sciences majors with more than 60 hours, one architecture seat, one engineering seat, one social welfare seat, one off-campus seat, one pharmacy seat, one fine arts seat and one Nunemaker seat, representing freshmen and sophomores.
Applications are due in the Senate office at 5 p.m. Friday, Interviews will be next Monday, Feb. 12, from 5 to 11 p.m.
Kim Fuchs, Student Senate Executive Committee chairwoman, told senators at last week's Senate meeting that about half of the vacancies were because senators graduated at the semester.
Brooke Hesler
Education school reveals third dean candidate
The School of Education announced its third dean candidate on Friday.
Angela Lumpkin, a professor of education at State University of West Georgia, is the third candidate. Two other candidates — Dianne Ashby and Jeny Bailey — were announced last week.
The three candidates will meet with students at room 720 in Joseph R. Pearson Hall.
Lumpkin was dean for the State University School of Education from 1996 to 2000 — a qualification that helped her nomination, said Susan Twombly, search committee chairwoman.
Ashby will meet students from 3:15 to 3:45 p.m. and again at 7:20 p.m. today. Bailey will meet students from 2:00 to 2:30 p.m. Thursday, and Lumpkin will meet students from 2:45 to 3:50 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 12.
At least two more candidates will be announced and a new dean should be named by July 1, Twombly said.
NATION
Andrew Davies
Bush to release plan for $1.6 trillion tax cut
WASHINGTON — After two weeks of warm-ups in which he pushed education and religious-based help plans, President George W. Bush is ready to launch the sales job for the centerpiece of his economic program — a sweeping $1.6 trillion, 10-year tax cut.
The White House has a full schedule of activities this week, starting today
when Bush was set to appear with a carefully selected group of American families — much like he did during the campaign — to illustrate the benefits of reducing individual tax rates.
He planned to meet tomorrow with small business owners and on Wednesday scheduled a White House reunion with his tax families from the campaign trail. The outlines of his tax program are to be formally sent Thursday to Congress.
One decision the administration is likely to make before sending the plan to Congress is whether to speed up the tax relief by making it retroactive to the first of this year as a way of fighting off a recession.
Delta, Continental meet to discuss merger plans
ATLANTA -- Delta Air Lines, the nation's third-largest carrier, and Continental Airlines reportedly have begun merger talks in which Continental would acquire the much larger Delta.
The discussions are "very informal" and "in the very early stage," an industry source told The Washington Post on condition of anonymity.
Neither Atlanta-based Delta nor Houston-based Continental, the fifth-largest carrier, would comment yesterday
Both Delta and Continental have said they preferred to stay independent but would consider a merger or some other alliance if competitors' mergers were approved.
A Continental-Delta merger would give the combined airline 26.7 percent of the passenger market. A merger of Delta and Northwest would capture 29.3 percent of the market.
Acquisition creates second-largest refinery
NEW YORK — Phillips Petroleum Co. has agreed to acquire Tosco Corp. for $7 billion in stock, creating the nation's second-largest oil refiner and one of the largest gasoline retailers.
The transaction was approved by the boards of both companies on Sunday and is expected to be completed by the third quarter of 2001.
Under terms of the deal, Phillips will assume approximately $2 billion in Tosco debt.
Tosco has 6,400 gas stations in 32 states, operating under the brands "76" and Circle K, the nation's No. 2 convenience store chain.
Phillips has about 5,900 gas stations, sold under the brand "Phillips 66," across the U.S. The company had $21.2 billion in revenues in 2000.
Water is suspected as cause of leukemia
FALLON, Nev. — Residents of a small farming and military town are
puzzled that 11 kids have become stricken with leukemia that some fear might have something to do with living in the self-proclaimed "Oasis of Nevada."
Acute lymphocytic leukemia is the most common childhood cancer, but still rare. Just 2,000 new cases are diagnosed a year in the United States.
Water is a common topic in Fallon; it has arsenic levels 10 times the federal standard and the city has been ordered to clean it up.
The state health department says it is a cluster, or perhaps a chance occurrence. The uncertainty has forced the state to ask for help from national experts.
Serbia could lose aid if it doesn't cooperate
WORLD
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia — Serbia's pro-democracy government may lose financial and political support from the United States unless it shows evidence of cooperation with the United Nations.
Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic said he was warned that failure to cooperate will mean the United States, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, as well as other world bodies, could vote against Serbian interests.
The United States has earmarked $100 million for post-Milosevic Yugoslavia. The unused portion of that money will not be disbursed if Yugoslavia refuses to cooperate in the U.N. investigation into wartime atrocities during the 1989-99 crackdown on Kosovo Albanians, including Milosevic.
Rebels in Chechnya free American aid worker
MOSCOW — An American worker for the aid group Doctors Without Borders held hostage in rebel Chechyna for nearly a month has been released unharmed and taken to a Russian military base.
Gluck, a 38-year-old New York City native, was seized Jan. 9 by masked gunmen who pulled him from his car near the town of Stariye Atagli, in the southern foothills of Chechnya. He and fellow aid workers were on a mission to deliver medical aid. Other workers in the group of cars escaped.
in the group of cars escaped.
A Doctors Without Borders representative in Moscow, Kris Torgeson, said she had no immediate details about how Gluck's release took place.
Russian officials had said last week that Gluck was being held by fighters under the command of a warlord who goes by the name Yakub.
The Associated Press
Haskell's new president
Karen Swisher, center, is escorted Friday at a powwow celebrating her inauguration as president of Haskell Indian Nations University. Photo by J.E. Wilson/KANSAN
ON THE RECORD
A KU student reported being harassed by phone in her third floor room of Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall between 11:34 and 11:38 p.m. Wednesday, the KU Public Safety Office said.
A 19-year-old KU student was arrested early Friday for operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol, minor in possession, and refusal of preliminary breath testing, the KU Public Safety Office said. An officer was patrolling near the Alumni Place parking lot at 1:58 a.m. when he found a student passed out in the passenger seat of his running car. After attempting to wake him by knocking on the window, the officer opened the door and shook him
awake, according to the police report. A 12-pack of beer was on the floor board of the passenger side; one can was open. The student refused a preliminary breath test. He was arrested and taken to the Douglas County Jail.
Two security cameras and an alarm system control panel were stolen between 6 p.m. Thursday and 4 a.m. Friday from a clubhouse at Jefferson Commons, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $1,150.
A KU student's wallet, $23, checkbook, four checks, Social Security card, driver's license and KUID were stolen at 4:44 p.m. Friday from the 2500 block of Iowa Street, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $46.
ON CAMPUS
■ 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 Roares at 312-3193.
University Career and Employment Services will offer a workshop, "Tips for Success at the Career Fair" from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. today at the Pioneer Room in the Burge Union. Call Donna Naab at 864-3624.
Sons and Daughters of Vietnam Veterans will present "We are Here" at 7:30 onlonight
Channel 19.
Black Student Room will meet at 7:30 tonight at the Pioneer Room in the Burge Union. Call Courtney Bates or Cassandra Young at 864-3984.
The KU Baha'i Club will meet from 7 to 9 tonight at the Regionalist Room in the Kansas Union.
Call Justin Herrmann at 830-8912.
KU Greens will meet 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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Do you want the City to decide who can live in your home?
Tell your commissioners that they CAN'T decide who your family is or who is allowed to live with you. Lawrence City Commissioners will not be able to ignore the public outcry against passing a law that would make it illegal to have more than two unrelated people in any Lawrence home.
This ordinance affects homeowners and renters, but is primarily a thinly disguised tactic to discriminate against students. Attend the City Commission meeting February 6 at 6:45 pm at City Hall.
DON'T LET THIS ORDINANCE PASS! WHAT YOU CAN DO: -Come to the City Commission meeting Tuesday, Feb 6, 6:45 pm, at City Hall. -Write to your mayor, Jim Henry, P.O. Box 708, Lawrence, KS 66044.
Concerned Property Owners of Lawrence
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