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The Inside Front
Monday January 29, 2001
News
from campus, the state the nation and the world
CORRECTIONS
A story in Friday's Kansan misidentified the room in Allen Fieldhouse where the lost and found is located. It's in room 117.
A graphic in Friday's Kansan misrepresented the amount of money the University library system has spent on electronic versus print resources. See www.kansan.com for a corrected version of the graphic.
CAMPUS
KU senior arrested on battery charges
A female KU student was booked into the Douglas County Jail at 3:09 a.m. Friday on charges of battery on a law enforcement officer and disorderly conduct.
Lawrence police Sgt. Mike Pattrick said an officer had pulled over a car and suspected that the driver was under the influence. Another officer armed and the passenger was verbally belligerent with the officer, Pattrick said. The passenger appeared intoxicated, police said.
The officer told the passenger to leave the area, Patrick said, and as she walked away, she threw an object at the officer. He was not hurt, but the student was arrested.
KU moves up in ranks for research spending
The passenger, Melissa A. McCray,
Lawrence senior, was released from the
jail Friday afternoon on a $500 bond.
A survey just released by the National Science Foundation reported that the University of Kansas had the second largest jump of any university in its research spending in 1999.
The University ranked 83rd out of 500 universities after ranking 93rd the previous year, and moved up seven places to rank 53rd among public schools.
"Our improvement in the national rankings not only speaks highly of the level of research being conducted at the University of Kansas, it also demonstrates that we are moving toward our goal of being among the top 25 public research institutions in the nation," Chancellor Robert Hemenway said in a statement.
Arizona State University moved the highest number of places, jumping 14 spots to be ranked 94th overall.
— Lauren Brandenburg
Phi Kappa Psi chapter celebrates its founding
The Kansas Alpha Chapter of Phi Kappa Pi Fraternity will celebrate the 125th anniversary of its founding at the University of Kansas Saturday, Feb. 17.
Phi Kappa Psi was initially founded at Jefferson College, Penn., as a brotherhood called "The Great Joy of Service"
during a typhoid fever epidemic in 1852. It was the 17th fraternity to be established in the nation.
The KU chapter became the 37th Phi Kappa Psi Chapter to be set up on Feb. 19, 1876, exactly 24 years after the initial founding. It was founded by a group of local students, including Frank O. Marvin, who was later chancellor of the University.
The anniversary will be celebrated with social events at the chapter house and a dinner at the Adams Alumni Center. John Zielgelmeyer, alumni advisor for Phi Kappa Psi at KU, said there would be an open house from noon until 5 p.m. for members and alumni.
"There are around 300 living alumni from this chapter alone," Ziegelmeyer said.
Formal guests who will attend include the national president and vice-president of the national organization, as well as the current and former executive director of the organization.
Cynthia Malakasis
NATION
Dangerous streets: Chicago accidents rise
CHICAGO — Speeding toward a disabled car on a Chicago expressway, state trooper Mike Karpinski points to a motorist cutting in front of him, apparently oblivious to his cruiser's flashing emerency lights and blaring siren.
"Look at that," he says. "You can count on one hand the number of cars that did the right thing. And we just went by, what, 300 cars?"
Consider what has happened in the Chicago area in little more than a month.
Dec. 23, Chicago Fire Department Lt. Scott Gillen was killed by a car that authorities say roared past flares and emergency lights at the scene of an accident and crushed him against the back of a fire truck.
Days later a Kankakee County sheriff's deputy was critically injured while helping a tow truck driver on the side of a road. And, in separate incidents in a span of 12 hours, another Chicago firefighter and a paramedic also were hit by vehicles.
Sundance Film Festival honors top film entries
Sundance jurors gave the documentary grand jury prize to Southern Comfort, an intimate portrait of a dying female-to-male transsexual and his romance with a male-to-female transsexual.
PARK CITY, Utah — The Believer, a tale of a Jewish neo-Nazi skinhead, won the grand jury prize, the top honor for dramas at the Sundance Film Festival.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch, a raucous musical adapted from the off-Broadway play about a rock singer struggling with her botched sexchange operation, won the dramatic audience award. Hedwig also won the dramatic directing award for
John Cameron Mitchell, who stars in the title role.
The documentary audience award was split by two films: *Downtown and Z Boys*, the story of misfit skateboarders in Santa Monica, Calif., who pioneered extreme sports in the 1970s; and *Scout's Honor*, director Tom Shepard's study of anti-gay policies in the Boy Scouts.
Dartmouth professors found dead at home
HANOVER, N.H. — The safe, close-knit feel of Dartmouth College was shattered Sunday by the suspicious deaths of two popular, longtime professors, a couple described as the pillars of the Ivy League school's faculty.
Susanne and Half Zantop had welcomed so many guests into their home "they practically seemed to run a hotel," said colleague Bruce Duncan.
President Bush grooves during Sunday sermon
The couple's latest guests arrived at their home Saturday evening, only to find their hosts' bodies.
WASHINGTON — After a slow start, President Bush and his family found their groove at a predominantly black church where a band belted out hymns, worshippers danced, sang and clapped, and the minister preached himself hoarse with a thunderous sermon on Christ.
Bush, his wife, Laura, former President Bush and his wife, Barbara, attended Lincoln Park United Methodist Church on Capitol Hill.
By the end of the one-hour, 45-minute service. Bush and his family were up and moving for a song whose refrain went: "I've got a feeling everything's going to be all right."
WORLD
Laborers strike in Israel, city's operations halt
JERUSALEM — Tons of garbage littered the streets of Israel's major towns, government offices were closed, and most flights at the main international airport were canceled Sunday in a massive strike of state workers.
The walkout by workers at the Ben-Gunon airport near Tel Aviv forced the cancellation of most outgoing flights, though some were able to depart. Some incoming flights were allowed to land, but passengers had to leave the airport without their luggage as the baggage handlers were on strike.
The strike was called by the Histadut, Israel's giant labor federation, in support of pay demands. In addition to the airport staff, the strike has hit government offices, hospital administration, telephone services, railways, seaports and garbage collection.
The Associated Press
Body could be atheist leader's
CAMP WOOD, Texas — Investigators unearthed a metal artificial hip and three skulls at a ranch yesterday and strongly believe they have solved the disappearance of atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair and her family.
The Associated Press
Roderick Beverly, special agent in charge of the FBI's San Antonio office, stopped short of confirming the identity of the bodies, but he said officials believe the search is complete.
Investigators believe O'Hair, her son Jon Garth Murray and the grandmother she had adopted, Robin Murray O'Hair, were killed, dismembered and dumped on the private, 5,000-acre ranch in 1995. O'Hair had a hip replacement operation several
O'Hair had a hip replacement operation several years before her disappearance.
"The bones indicate three sets of human remains," Beverly said. "All appeared to have their legs cut off. The remains and the ground around the bones were charred, indicating a fire at the scene.
"The likelihood of three individuals walking around here, one of which has a hip replacement, and the trauma and marks we see on the bones, it's a better-than-even chance" that the remains belong to the O'Hair family, he said.
Beverly said investigators also expect to find partial remains of Danny Fry, who was a suspect in the disappearance. His body was found in the Dallas area, but the head and hands had been severed.
Beverly said investigators would try to match the serial number on the metal hip to O'Hair's medical records. DNA tests and dental records also will be used to confirm the identities of the victims.
Investigators got their break in the O'Hair disappearance on the eve of the trial of David Roland Waters, who faced kidnapping and extortion charges in the case. Waters made an agreement with investigators Wednesday that was ordered sealed by a federal judge in Austin.
A law enforcement source who spoke to *The Associated Press* on condition of anonymity confirmed that Waters was taken to the ranch Saturday.
O'Hair, who was 77 years old when she dispeared, enjoyed calling herself the most hated woman in America. She was involved in successful court battles in the 1960s to ban prayer and Bible-reading in public schools.
O'Hair, Jon Garth Murray and Robin Murray O'Hair left their Austin home in August 1995 under mysterious circumstances. Breakfast dishes were still on the table and O'Hair's medication was left behind. The family's beloved dogs were left at the house.
They were later seen in San Antonio but dropped from sight along with about $500,000 in gold coins from one of O'Hair's atheist organizations.
Prosecutors content the victims were dismembered at a public storage shed in Austin, placed in 55-gallon drums and dumped on the ranch property under Waters' directions. He worked as O'Hair's office manager before being convicted of stealing $54,000. He is serving 60 years in prison on weapons charges.
Theories ranged from O'Hair having run off with money from her atheist organization, United Secularists of America. Others said she went away to die privately where Christians wouldn't pray over her.
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's purse, $50 and other items were stolen between 12:35 and 1 a.m. Friday in the 1000 block of Massachusetts Street, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $200.
A KU employee's window pane, telephone wires and TV cable wires were damaged between 9:54 and 9:56 p.m. Wednesday at a residence in the 1600 block of West Sixth Terrace, Lawrence online said. The damage was estimated at $175.
A KU student's window was broken between 2 and 9 a.m. Friday at a residence in the 2000
block of Heatherwood Drive, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $500.
A KU student's TV, VCR and other items were stolen between 3 and 11:45 a.m. Friday from a residence in the 900 block of Indiana Street, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $1,650.
A KU student's car's hood and trunk were damaged between 11 p.m. Thursday and 10 a.m. Friday at 12th and Ohio streets, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $1,400.
ON CAMPUS
Black Student Union will meet at 7:30 tonight at the Pioneer Room in the Burge Union. Call Courtney Bates or Cassandra Young at 864-3984.
Sons and Daughters of Vietnam Veterans will present. We now are at 7-30, tonight on Channel 19.
The KU Running and Jogging Club will meet at 4:30 p.m. today at the oak tree at the aest entrance of Robinson Center for its daily run. Call Michael Rossler at 312-3193.
*Sons and Daughters of Valiant Vener*
*sent We are Here at 7:30 tonight on Channel 19*
*The Wizard*
■ The International Film Series will present the Wina Will Carry Us at 7 tonight at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union, Call Leslie Heasted at 864.SHOW.
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.
Student Media Board is accepting applications for funding of organizations through the student media fee. Pick up applications at the Student Senate office at room 401 in the Kansas Union. The deadline is Wednesday. Call Branden Bell at 830-8602.
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