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The Inside Front
Friday December 8,2000
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Area businesses help with directory recycling
Men's basketball coach Roy Williams appears on the cover of the latest edition of Lawrence's Southwestern Bell phone directory.
Delivery of more than 78,000 copies of the December 2000-2001 editions will begin today and is expected to be completed by the end of the month. His picture is a
Williams: appears on the new phone directory's cover
tribute to his 11
consecutive
NCAA tournament appearances and two
Final Four
berths.
Bell executive director of external affairs.
Area residents also are encouraged to recycle outdated directories during Project ReDirectory, Friday, Dec. 15 through Sunday, Jan. 7.
Residents can drop off their old phone books at area McDonald's restaurants, Dillons locations, on the first floor of City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St., and Wal-Mart, 3300 Iowa St.
McDonald's will offer a free small soft drink for each outdated directory.
- Rob Pazeli
GTAs to be awarded for excellent work
Daphne Johnson, assistant dean of the graduate school, said this was an opportunity to recognize GTAs for their work.
Students have the opportunity to nominate their graduate teaching assistants for the Outstanding GTA Awards, which are given annually by the KU Graduate School.
"We really want to acknowledge the contributions TAs make to the academic mission of the University," she said. "There are so many here that are fine teachers that this is just a small way that we can acknowledge them."
The deadline for students to nominate their GTA is Wednesday, Dec. 20.
For additional information, call the graduate school at 864-4141 or submit an online nomination by logging onto
http://www.ukans.edu/~graduate/
awards.html#tgtaa.
Jennifer Valadez
STATE
Bodies of young people found in Wichita home
WICHITA — Relatives and neighbors wept and embraced outside a northeast Wichita home yesterday, hours after police found the bodies of four young people inside, dead of undetermined causes.
Police were investigating the deaths of the two males and two females as homicides. Lt. Ken Landwehr said two of the victims had head injuries, and while there was no immediate evidence that they had been shot, police did not rule out gunfire.
Police said the fully clothed bodies had been discovered at 9:02 a.m. by a friend who had been unable to reach one of the four. At mid-afternoon, the bodies remained in the house as police awaited a search warrant.
Police did not immediately release identities of the victims, reported to range in age from 16 to 22.
NATION
Gore asks Florida court to order new recounts
TALLLAHASSEE, Fla. — One tumul
Gore: asked court to order new round of ballot recounts
tuoson month after
Election Day, Al
Gore is asking the
Florida Supreme
Court to revive his
quest for the
White House by
ordering a new
round of manual
recounts.
George W. Bush looked to the state's justices to finally count his rival out.
"Now is the last
fence for a legal judgment to be rendered in this case," Gore's lawyers argued in papers filed Wednesday on the eve of formal arguments before the state's high court in Tallahassee.
and outside the department through out his nearly six years in office.
That was fine with Bush, who certified the winner in Florida by 537 votes and eagerly looking forward to a presidential transition and inauguration.
"It seems like all the different court suits are working their way to finality and hopefully we can get this over with quickly," he said.
Organic food standards to be released soon
WASHINGTON — National standards for organic food will be released soon, and they will make clear that such products aren't safer or more nutritious than conventional products, said Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman. The rules have been debated inside
Clinton postpones federal execution
WASHINGTON — President Clinton yesterday postponed for at least six months what would have been the first execution of a federal inmate in 37 years, leaving the fate of convicted murderer Juan Raul Garza for the next president to decide.
In deciding to stay Garza's execution until June 2001, Clinton said he wanted to give the Justice Department more time to gather and properly analyze information about racial and geographic disparities in the federal death penalty system.
Two giant pandas arrive at National Zoo
WASHINGTON — It was time for a change in the nation's capital. The old regime was fine — although whispers of "dysfunctional" and "cantankerous" dogged its final years — but sentiment can go just so far, and then you need new blood.
Welcome to Washington, Mei Xiang and Tian-Tian, but know this; it's a tough town, where dynasties come and go in the wink of one of your huge panda eyes. The black and white creatures — Mei Xiang, a 2-year-old female, and Tian-Tian, a 3-year-old male — arrived at the National Zoo on Wednesday.
A smooth 17-hour flight on a specially equipped FedEx jet dubbed "Panda One" and an easy landing led to a decision to allow them to lodge together immediately, instead of spending their first two nights in separate quarters as originally planned.
WORLD
European Union gathers to extend membership
NICE, France — Their goal: to complete a "great mission" by bringing Europe together. But as the leaders of the European Union's 15 nations gathered here yesterday to revamp their organization and make room for young democracies from Eastern Europe, success was far from assured.
— that other European nations, from Turkey to the Baltics, are welcome to join and must work hard to get in shape for membership. But enlarging the European Union isn't that simple. The EU consistently brushes aside demands by the 13 candidate countries for firm entry dates.
During a planned three-day summit in this French Riviera resort, the EU nations were likely to restate their commitment — first made in 1993
The Associated Press
U.S. policy with Iraq has price, speaker says
By Cassio Furtado Special to the Kansan
For some, the Gulf War never ended.
For some, the Gulf war never ended. Kathy Kelly, the co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness, a Chicago-based group that advocates the end of the United Nations and United States sanctions against Iraq, said the war had merely changed.
She told a group of 30 students last night at Ecumenical Christian Ministries that the new war was even more devastating and destructive than the bombing in the early 1990s.
"It affects children, the elderly, the sick, and the poor," she said.
Kyle Browning, KU Amnesty International vice president and Overland Park senior, said he hoped the next U.S. president would change the country's policy towards Iraq. The sanctions are not hurting the Iraqi government, he said.
Kelly said 5,000 children died every month in Iraq because of the sanctions.
"Children are crying and imploring for food," she said. "We are not a nation of child abusers; we don't promote child sacrifice."
Kelly said the U.S. government was interested in keeping dictator Saddam Hussein in power. She said the United States benefited from keeping an internally strong Iraqi government in the hands of Hussein.
"But our government wants Iraq crippled externally," Kelly said.
"It's a very horrible thing. And it doesn't get much attention in the media."
Holly Worthen McPherson junior
McPherson junior
"But this policy has been accomplished at a terrible price," Kelly said.
For her, by weakening Iraq abroad, the United States would make sure that Saudi Arabia dominated the oil market, therefore making more profits, which would be used to buy U.S. weapons.
She said the U.S. government couldn't continue to force other countries to do what it wanted them to do when it wanted them to do it, while at the same time protecting its allies.
"Israel has violated U.N. mandates more than 70 times, and nothing has happened to Israeli children," Kelly said.
Holly Worthen, McPherson junior, said she had been ignorant of the U.S. policy towards Iraq and its consequences before attending last night's talk.
"It's a very horrible thing," she said. "And it doesn't get much attention in the media." — Edited by Shawn Hutchinson
ON THE RECORD
A 6-foot traffic control arm was damaged between 5 and 11:55 p.m. Tuesday at the east
end of Hoch Drive, the KU Public Safety Office said. Damages were estimated at $10.
ON CAMPUS
The NAMES Project AIDS memorial quilt will be on display from 10 a.m. to 9 tonight at the Central Court in Spencer Museum of Art. Call Carolyn Chinn Lewis at 864-4710.
■ KU Running and Jogging Club will meet for an afternoon run at 4:30 p.m. today at the oak tree by the east entrance to Robinson Center. Call Michael Roessler at 312-3193 or Keith Marshall at 840-0704.
The Office of Student Financial Aid will have exit interviews from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. today at the office, 50 Strong Hall. Call 864-4700
Intervarsity Christian Fellowship will pray at 5:15 p.m. today at Danfort Chapel. Call Daniel Wong at 312-3172.
The Center for Community Outreach needs volunteers for the children's party Wednesday, Call Michelle Black or Julia Gilmore at 864-4073.
KU Badminton Club will practice from 6:30 to 10:15 tonight at 211 and 212 Robinson Center. Call Tee at 550-5027.
- Applications for student media board are available today through Wednesday, Jan. 31 at the Student Senate office, 410 Kansas Union. Call Branden Bell at 830-8602.
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