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The Inside Front
Thursday January 25,2000
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Math professor honored by engineering institute
The Institute of Electrical and Electronical Engineers selected a University of Kansas professor of mathematics as a fellow last month
Bozenna Pasik-Duncan was one of 270 members to receive the high honor. The international society has about 385,000 members across the globe. Pasik-Duncan also received the Distinguished Member award. She said the honor came as a surprise.
"When I received the message, I screamed," she said.
Pasik-Duncan will be formally recognized at a ceremony in Orlando, Fla., in December. Pasik-Duncan said she considered the award a sign of advancement for women in her field.
"I took the achievement for all of us," she said. "I feel like I made a change. This is very promising for other women."
Brooke Hesler
Student reports battery by magazine solicitor
A female University of Kansas student reported that she was sexually battered in Gertrude Sellars Pearson-Corbin Hall yesterday by a magazine solicitor, the KU Public Safety Office said.
Sgt. Troy Mailen of the KU Public Safety Office said the suspect, who was not a student, was located and questioned yesterday evening, but the female student did not want to press charges.
The man then left the room, according to a crime alert posted by the KU Public Safety Office yesterday.
The student said she allowed the male solicitor into her room at 2:30 p.m. and, after soliciting for sales, the man hugged her, kissed her lips and touched her breast.
Mailen said he wanted to remind students that no solicitors were allowed in the residence halls. Students should notify housing staff or the Public Safety Office if they see solicitors in the building, he said.
NATION
Amanda Beglin
Last Texas fugitives arrested in Colorado
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The last two of seven convicts who escaped from a Texas prison in December surrendered peacefully to police Tuesday morning.
Their arrests brought to an end a multistate hunt for the seven heavily armed convicts who bluffed their way out of prison Dec. 13.
Fugitives Patrick Murphy Jr., a 39-year-old rapist, and Donald Newbury, a 38-year-old convicted robber, surrendered peacefully at a hotel after several hours of negotiations with police and after making statements by telephone on a local television station.
Four other inmates had been arrested peacefully Monday in nearby Woodland Park, and a fifth killed himself as authorities closed in.
AOL Time Warner cuts 1,000 music positions
NEW YORK — Less than a week after a major revamp at CNN, newly formed media giant AOL Time Warner is shaking up the entire organization in a move that will result in at least 1,000 more jobs being lost, sources said.
the cuts, announced Tuesday, are affecting the company's music business, its America Online division and its movie studio New Line Cinema, according to several sources who spoke on condition of anonymity. The cuts are part of an overall belt-tightening drive to make good on a promise to investors that the merger would deliver a major boost to earnings.
California still searching to solve energy crises
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California is "burning through" money about as fast as it is consuming electricity, putting added pressure on the state to quickly find a solution to the energy crisis.
President George W. Bush extended an emergency order keeping power flowing to California for two weeks but said it wouldn't be extended again. State officials noted Tuesday that in just five days they have spent more than a quarter of a $400 million emergency fund. Another Stage 3 power alert was issued for all of California until midnight Wednesday. The alert, which means the state's power reserves have fallen to about 1.5 percent and rolling blackouts are a strong possibility, has been issued every day for more than a week.
Breach of security occurs at inauguration
Hall of Famer takes step toward recovery
WASHINGTON — Just after President George W. Bush was inaugurated, a man without any security clearance bypassed three security checkpoints and shook Bush's hand — an escapade he pulled at President Bill Clinton's second inauguration, authorities said.
The man's success at gaining access to the president started Secret Service agents and U.S. Capitol Police officers because security was intensified in preparation for large groups of protesters.
BOSTON — Doctors continue to be encouraged by Ted Williams' improvement more than one week after a nine-hour operation to repair failing heart valves.
Doctors have removed a tube that ran down his mouth and into his throat and four of the six IV lines and have continued to decrease the 82-year-old Hall of Famer's medication intake, The Boston Globe reported Wednesday.
Year of the Snake could be good for Bush
WORLD
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Chinese around the world on yesterday welcomed the Year of the Snake — a period astrologers say could be lucky for the new U.S. president.
According to the 12-symbol Chinese horoscope, this is the Year of the Snake, which can bring upheaval, revolutions and disasters. It could be a good year for President George W. Bush because he was born in 1946, a Year of the Dog, which is believed to be able to get along with the snake.
Two Israelis killed, peace talks postponed
JERUSALEM — Just as some progress was reported in Mideast peace talks, Israel's prime minister found himself with a fateful decision whether to resume negotiations with the Palestinians despite the brutal killing of two Tel Aviv restaurateurs.
Denouncing the killings as "horrendous," Ehud Barak on Tuesday recalled the leaders of his delegation from marathon peace talks in the Egyptian resort of Taba. He planned a meeting with the negotiators yesterday in Jerusalem.
Tiananmen Square site of fiery protests
BEJIING — Police checkpoints ringed Tianamen Square to head off threatened protests Wednesday by the outlawed Falun Gong sect after Tuesday's protest by five members who set themselves on fire in China's symbolic heart.
The fiery protest left one woman dead, injured the other four and signaled a dangerous turn in the intensifying 18-month-old standoff between the spiritual movement and the communist government. In response Beijing police imposed the tightest security in the square in years.
The Associated Press
Fee may help to light campus
By Brooke Hesler
Students will see more lights around campus if Student Senate approves a campus safety fee next week that would replace the current campus lighting fee, which is set to expire at the end of the semester.
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Last night, the Senate Finance and Student Rights committees approved the bill, which would continue the current $2 fee. Adam Obley, Campus Safety Advisory Board member and co-sponsor of the bill, said the continuation was necessary. He said if a replacement fee wasn't established, the impact of the board would be drastically minimized.
"Students will pay for safety one way or another." Obley, a Topeka sophomore, said. "Either we can pass this fee or the administration will build it into our tuition, and we'll have no say in it."
The fee would require students to continue to pay $2 per semester. It would be lowered to $1 per semester in 2004.
Nooshi Soltani, Campus Safety Advisory Board chairwoman and co-sponsor of the bill, said the University would match funds paid by students by at least 50 percent.
She said money from the fee would go toward completing $132,000 worth of proposed lighting projects. After that, Soltani said that the money could go toward more emergency phones on campus, an expansion of SafeRide, more fire alarms in
campus buildings and housing, key cards for residence halls and SafeWalk, a service where students could call for an escort to walk with them.
D. J. Schultz, a Nunemaker senator representing freshmen and sophomores, said the bill was too vague and that it was the University's responsibility to pay for student safety.
"It should be a University fee, not a student fee," he said. "It shows a lack of backbone by the senators. They should be approaching the administration about this. You can't say, 'Hey come to KU and pay for your own safety.'"
If full Senate passes the bill Wednesday, the fee would come up for review every three years. It would require a two-thirds majority vote by both Senate Committees and Senate to do away with it. In other business:
The Finance Committee approved a bill establishing criteria for allocating money from the reserve account, which holds money that had been allocated to student groups by Senate but had not been spent. Its balance is $428,000.
■ The University Affairs and Finance committees approved a bill to allocate $302 to the Swallowing Metis, an online student newspaper.
The University Affairs and Finance committees approved a bill to grant $1,150 to the Engineering Expo 2001.
The Student Rights and University Affairs com mittees approved a bill amending the code of student rights and responsibilities, entitleing organizations to a hearing when they violate rules.
ON THE RECORD
A KU employee suffered minor injuries after falling down a flight of stairs at 4:06 p.m. Friday, the KU Public Safety Office said.
She was taken by paramedics to Lawrence
- The employee caught her shoe heel on her pant cuff and tumbled, striking a wooden chair at the bottom of the stairs.
Memorial Hospital with a car on their hand and hoo
A purse was stolen from a room on the fifth floor of Corbin Hall between 12:30 p.m. and 1 p.m. Friday, the KU Public Safety Office said.
The purse contained a wallet and a gift certificate.
The items were worth $81.
A KU student's unattended backpack was stolen from the fourth floor women's restroom in Wescoe Hall between 12:40 p.m. and 12:50 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 16. The KU Public Safety Office said the backpack contained a Nokia cell phone, plastic phone case, KUID and Kansas driver's license. The items were valued at $343.
A vehicle struck another vehicle in the parking lot behind McColum Hall at 1 p.m. Saturday. No one was injured and no damage was reported.
■ A red plastic smoking device was seized from a room on the third floor of Lewis Hall at 10:10 p.m. Monday, the KU Public Safety Office said.
ON CAMPUS
Amnesty International will meet at 7 tonight at Alcove D in the Kansas Union. Call Karen Keith at 749-7491.
The JoyRock Campus Ministry will have its weekly Bible talks at 11 a.m. today at the Alcove of the Kansas Union Cafeteria and at 7 tonight at room 304D in the Jayhawker Towers. Call Josh Talley at 312-2285.
Library, 707 Vermont St.
The KU Green Party will sponsor a community dialogue on the Electoral College and election reform from 7 to 9 tonight at the Lawrence Public
■ 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.
KU Horronzontal men's ultimate Frisbee team will practice from 8 to 11 tonight at Anschutz Sports Pavilion. Call P.S. at 312-1066 or log onto www.Zontals.com.
Campus Crusade will meet at 8 tonight at room 100 in Smith Hall. Call Mark Brown at 550- 5503.
Radical Christians will meet from 8 to 9-tonight at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Call Heather Henslarina at 841-8661.
- Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karate will meet from 9 to 10:30 tonight at room 207 Robinson. Call Ryan Ness at (785) 218-7415.
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