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The Inside Front
Thursday December 7,2000
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Iraqi children's advocate to speak at KU tonight
The co-founder of a Chicago-based group that advocates the end of United Nations and United States sanctions against Iraq, Voices in the Wilderness, will speak at 8 p.m. tonight at Ecumenical Christian Ministries. 1204 Oread Ave.
Kathy Kelly helped initiate Voices in the Wilderness in January 1996. The organization claim the sanctions hurt Iraq children, not the country's government, headed by dictator Saddam Hussein.
Since its inception, Voices in the Wilderness has donated toys and medicine to Iraqi children.
ECM, Amnesty International and the Lawrence Coalition for Peace and Justice are sponsoring the event.
— Cássio Furtado
Former U.S. ambassador to speak to ROTC class
Kenton Keith, a KU alumnus and former U.S. ambassador to Qatar, is in Kansas City last night to receive an award for international statesmanship and understanding from the International Visitors Council.
Keith will be on campus today to speak to the KU ROTC class about his ROTC experience and how it helped his international work. Keith was the U.S. ambassador to Qatar from 1992 to 1995. He works for a private, nonprofit organization promoting international understanding through the exchange of people, ideas and the arts.
Jason McKee
KU student qualifies for Rhodes state finals
One of four University of Kansas students nominated for the Rhodes scholarship advanced to state competition yesterday.
Stephanie Jane Sprague, McPherson senior, interviewed at the Alumni Center yesterday for one of 32 scholarships offered annually in the United States for graduate study in Great Britain.
A selection committee will choose two finalists for the regional competition on Friday and Saturday.
Final selection for the Rhodes scholarships will be made by district committees on Saturday.
Leita Schultes
NATION
Bush says he realizes Gore's election position
George W. Bush says he can feel Al Gore's pain and won't press him to concede defeat in their overtime struggle for the White House.
The vice president suggested he might fight on even if he loses a high-stakes appeal at the Florida Supreme Court.
"I can understand his anguish." Bush, the almost-president-elect, said Tuesday of his rival for the White House.
For his part, Gore told reporters, "I don't feel anything other than optimistic" while awaiting a state high court decision on his appeal of a trial court ruling earlier in the week.
He stopped well short of saying he would quit if he lost.
Florida Supreme Court to hear Gore's appeal
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — With time running out in Florida to pick a president, the state's highest court agreed to immediately consider Al Gore's appeal of a ruling rejecting all of his election protests.
The Florida Supreme Court said lawyers could argue the case this morning, and only then would it decide whether it should rule on the matter at all and, if so, what it should say.
gore's case challenges Bush's 537-vote lead, a silver of the 6 million votes cast in the pivotal state. His appeal takes on urgency because Florida's electoral votes must be established by a Dec. 12 deadline. Circuit Judge N. Sanders Sauls on Monday spurned Gore's arguments.
Same-sex couple finds way to marry in church
In a twist on the traditional wedding ceremony, couples at the Broadway United Methodist Church in Chicago exchange vows at a ceremony with friends and family outside of church and then return to the church to celebrate their unions, the Rev. Gregory Dell said Tuesday.
CHICAGO — A Methodist minister suspended last year after presiding over same-sex marriages said church law allowed for such unions — if they took place outside of the church.
Colorectal cancer linked to excessive tobacco use
All weddings at the church now are conducted in the same manner as ceremonies for both heterosexual and homosexual ceremonies based on a policy adopted Sept. 12.
WASHINGTON — Smoking cigarettes for 20 years or more can increase by more than 40 percent the risk of dying of colorectal cancer, according to a study that blames tobacco use for nearly one in eight such deaths in the United States
A team of American Cancer Society researchers reported yesterday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute that a study of 781,351 people during 14 years showed a strong statistical linkage between cigarettes and death from colon or rectal cancer.
Human rights group calls for inquiry into violence
WORLD
JERUSALEM — Israeli troops have used excessive force in dispersing Palestinian demonstrators, an Israeli human rights group said in a new report yesterday, calling for a commission of inquiry into the violence.
Israel's tentatively scheduled spring elections, meanwhile, were called into question as the government and religious parties wrangled about the mandatory drafting of Jewish seminary students.
Late Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak met with opposition leader Ariel Sharon.
Both sides said the two talked about Israeli-Palestinian fighting, not about politics.
Army says chief of staff shouldn't testify in trial
THE HAQUE, Netherlands — Judges have agreed to hear U.S. arguments about why the army chief of staff cannot be ordered to testify before a U.N. war crimes tribunal about the detention of a Bosnian Serb suspect, officials said yesterday.
The tribunal on Oct. 18 summoned Army Chief Gen. Eric Sinkseki, former commander of the U.S. peacekeepers, to provide evidence in the Sept. 27, 1998, detention of Stevan Todorovic, but the United States protested against the subpoena.
The tribunal's five-judge appeals panel has scheduled a Jan. 10 hearing to consider protests filed by NATO, the United States and eight other countries, officials said.
Todorovic, a former prison camp commandant charged in the bloody "ethnic cleansing" of the northern Bosnian town of Bosanski Samac, claims he was detained illegally.
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Residents of Shawnee County can expect to receive a free video about Jesus Christ in the mail, just in time for Christmas 2001. A few months later, they'll be asked by telephone if they have seen the video and if they wish to become Christians.
Group to mail Jesus video
However, some religious leaders in Topeka expressed concern about mailing the video to all households, saying doing so doesn't take into consideration the religious preferences of others.
The Associated Press
Plans for the mass mailing were announced Tuesday by leaders of the Shawnee County Jesus Video Project, part of a California-based worldwide drive begun in 1992 as a ministry of Campus
In all, organizers expect to spend $250,000 to send the video — called Jesus — to 74,000 homes in Shawnee County. Churches, businesses and individuals are to fund the effort.
Crusade for Christ International.
Rich O'Brian, chairman of the county project and station manager of Christian radio station KBUZ-FM, said the goal "is to bring people face to face with Jesus Christ."
"We think this video is a wonderful tool to do that" O'Brian said.
Organizers hope at least 40 churches in the Topeka area will take part, O'Brian said. So far, Baptist, Assemblies of God, the Worldwide Church of God and Nazarene congregations are on board.
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's bike was stolen between 1 and 3 p.m. monday at the Art and Design Building's bike rack, the KU Public Safety Office said. The bike and its lock were valued at $130.
A vehicle hit another vehicle at 1:15 p.m.
Tuesday at 12th Street and West Campus Road,
the KU Public Safety Office said. Damages were
estimated at more than $500.
A vehicle struck another vehicle at 7:50 p.m. Tuesday in east Memorial Stadium parking lot, the KU Public Safety Office said. No damages were listed.
A KU student's brown JanSport backpack and brown Liz Claiborne wallet with contents were stolen between 9:45 and 9:55 a.m. Tuesday in
the east parking garage, the KU Public Safety Office said. The stolen items were valued at $1.35
A KU student was harassed by phone between 7 p.m. Oct. 1.5 and 9 a.m. Monday in her Ellsworth Hall room, the KU Public Safety Office said.
A KU student's cell phone was stolen between noon and 10 p.m. Saturday on Iowa Street, Lawrence police said. The phone was valued at $14.00
A KU student's cash, watch and phone were stolen between Aug. 28 and Sunday from the Alpha Delta Pi sorority house, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $330.
ON CAMPUS
The art and design department will have an installed performances exhibit from 8:30 a.m. to 9 tonight at the art and design gallery. Call 864-4401.
The NAMES Project AIDS memorial quit will be on display from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today at the Central Court in the Spencer Museum of Art. Call Carolyn Chinn Lewis at 864-4710.
Ecumenical Christian Ministries and KU Environs will have a veggie lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m today at ECM, 1204 Oread Ave. Call Thad Holcombe at 843-4933.
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 841-0704.
Intervariety Christian Fellowship will pray at 5:15 p.m. today at Danforth Chapel. Call Daniel Wong at 312-3172.
Diversity Peer Education Team will meet at 5:30 p.m. today at the Multicultural Resource Center. Call Vincent Edwards at 841-1377 or Santos Nunez at 864-4350.
Women's Ultimate Frisbee Team will practice from 5:30 to 7:30 tonight at 23rd and low streets. Call Ale Albors at 312-8798.
KU Greens will meet at 6 p.m. today at the International Room in the Kansas Union. Call
Galen Turner at 838-3498.
KU Meditation Club will meet at 6 p.m. today at the Daisy Hill Room in the Burge Union, Call Pannir at 864.7735.
KU Traditional Karate Club will practice from 6:30 to 8:30 tonight at raquetteball court 15 in Robinson Center. Call Rachel Fuller at 312- 1990.
KU Amnesty International will meet at 7 tonight at Alcove D in the Kansas Union. Call Karen Keith at 550-1036.
at the parlor in the kitchen The KU Percussion Ensemble will have a fall concert at 7:30 tonight at 130 Murphy Hall. Call 864-3436.
KU Queens and Allies will meet at 7:30 tonight at basketball in the Kansas Union.
■ Campus Crusade for Christ will meet at 8 tonight at 100 Smith Hall. Call Lindsey Challant at 312-9603.
Radical Christians will meet from 8 to 9 tonight at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave, Call Heather at 841-8661.
KU HorrorZontals men's ultimate friesbee team will practice from 8:30 to 11 tonight at Anschutz Sports Pavilion. Call B.P. at 312-1066.
- Applications for student board are available today through Jan. 31 at the Student Senate office, 410 Kansas Union. Call Branden Bell at 830-8602.
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