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The Inside Front
Tuesday December 5, 2000
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
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Professors to discuss presidential elections
Four professors will participate in a discussion tomorrow about other presidential elections that have been as close as this year's deadlocked race.
Jessica Bankston, Albuquerque, N.M., junior and legislative director for Student Legislative Awareness Board, will moderate the discussion, titled "Cliffhangers 101," at 10 a.m. at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union.
Paul Schumaker, chairman of the political science department, will address this fall's close election and answer questions.
kari Brooks, assistant professor of history, will discuss the 1960 race between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon; Jonathan Earle, assistant professor of history, will talk about the 1824 election between John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay; and Philip Paludan, professor of history, will address the 1876 race between Rutherford Hayes and Samuel Tilden.
Bankston said the discussion could give more meaning to this year's election for students.
"I think most people were misled into thinking this is a unique situation in our past," she said.
"Students interested in politics or history would be well served to go to the event and see how this election is similar to other close elections in the past."
— Kursten Phelps
Fashion show to bring together halls, sorority
Lewis and Templin Residence Halls will team up with Pi Beta Phi sorority for a fashion show at 6:30 tonight at the KU Visitors Center.
Valdez Russell, assistant complex director for both halls, said this would be a good opportunity for the residents of Lewis and Templin to connect with the women of Pi Beta Phi. In addition, a check will be presented to the Center for Community Outreach from money raised at Templin and Lewis.
Students from both residence halls and the sorority will model for the fashion show. The event is free and open to the public.
J. D. McKee
NASA might delay unfurling solar panels
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ish unfurling the international space station's newly attached set of powerful solar panels.
SPACE CENTER. Houston — NASA officials were assessing their options yesterday about when to fin-
the debut of the $600-million solar wings was incomplete as only the right panel was deployed Sunday. Although the right wing has started generating electricity, some of its tension cables appeared to be slack.
Engineers are trying to figure out if this will be a problem in unfurling the left wing and if it should be delayed until today, when astronauts on the space shuttle Endeavour conduct their second of three spacewalks during this mission.
Index finds economy may slow down in 2001
NEW YORK — A key gauge of future economic activity fell 0.2 percent in October, suggesting further slowing for the U.S. economy in the new year.
the Conference Board said yesterday that its Composite Index of Leading Economic Indicators declined to 105.5 in October after registering no change in September and dropping 1.1 percent in August.
The index is watched closely because it gives an indication of where the overall U.S. economy is headed in the next three to six months.
Palestinians injured in battles with Israelis
JERUSALEM — Heavy gun battles raged Sunday night in what the Israeli army said was an apparent attempt by Palestinian gunmen to take over an Israeli enclave in Bethlehem.
Palestinians said the fighting broke out after soldiers and Jewish settlers attacked Muslim worshippers. The confrontation lasted hours, and at one point, Israeli helicopters aiming at Palestinian gunmen fired two rockets at the Aida refugee camp near Bethlehem in the West Bank, the army said.
Twelve Palestinians were injured, two who were in serious condition with gunshot wounds, Palestinian hospitals said.
MEXICO CITY — Even before he completed his victory lap around the country, Mexico's new president scored another major victory, bringing the nation's most famous rebel
Mexican president to negotiate with rebels
group back to the negotiating table.
group back to the negotiating table. Vicente Fox, who became Mexico's first opposition president in 71 years Friday, made immediate overtures to the Zapatista rebels in southern Chiapas state, whose 1994 rebellion had been a thorn in the government's side ever since.
Apataista leader Subcomandante Marcos said Saturday that while he still distrusted Fox, his fighters were ready to return to peace talks.
He even said he would travel to Mexico City personally to push for an Indian-rights law in Congress.
Pakistan lets separatists negotiate with India
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan made a new offer in its long and bitter dispute with India about Kashmir, saying for the first time that it will not oppose one-on-one talks between Kashmir separatists and the Indian government.
The statement was a significant concession from Pakistan, which in the past has said it must be included in any negotiations on Kashmir, a Himalayan region that has been a focus of bitter contention with India for decades.
The offer comes amid renewed violence in Indian-ruled Kashmir, where an explosion yesterday in Baramullah killed one soldier and injured several others. Four civilians also were hurt, officials said.
Germans cut down swastika tree formation
BERLIN — Fall colors have always brought an embarrassment to one tranquil German village: When the needles turned golden brown, the trees suddenly formed a swastika visible from the air.
No one quite remembers how the pastoral plains north of Berlin wound up with this lasting Nazi symbol more than 60 years ago.
Whatever the history, local officials want to make sure the past no longer flowers in the rural village of Zernikow — and chain saw crews moved in yesterday to take the trees down.
Forest wardens thought they had banished Adolf Hitler's ghost five years ago when they cut down some of the larches, which change color in the fall and contrast with surrounding evergreen pines to form the swastika.
But the remaining trees grew to fill in the spaces, and the symbol was visible again this fall.
The Associated Press
Gore dealt double blow by circuit, Supreme courts
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Gore's team was organizing a campaign to discredit the Legislature and the state's Republican governor, Jeb Bush.
Gore himself was briefed Sunday by his legal team about potential legal options to counter the Florida Legislature. Gore's lawyers argued that the U.S. Constitution gave legislatures the power to select electors, but Congress sets the date for them to be picked. That date, they argued, was the Nov. 7 election; the Florida legislature established the rules for that election and now has no further input on the selection of electors. Gore lawyers said.
Officials familiar with the meeting stressed that Gore
was not asked to sign off on any legal action against the Legislature and did not authorize any.
Gore, Bush, lawmakers in Florida, congressmen in Washington and scores of judges presiding over the more than 40 lawsuits are focused on two deadlines: Dec. 12, when state electors are chosen, and Dec. 18, when the Electoral College meets.
Without a clear resolution, the Constitution throws the election in the laps of a divided Congress.
Just three days after hearing historic arguments, the U.S. Supreme Court invited Florida's top court to clarify its reasons for extending the deadline for hand-counted ballots in some Democratic counties. A spokesman for the state high court said the justices would reply to the order.
tues would reply to the order. "This is sufficient reason for us to decline at this time to review, the federal questions asserted to be present" in the contested election, the court said in its unsigned, unanimous opinion.
Florida's seven justices, all of whom were appointed by Democratic governors, had ordered Secretary of State Katherine Harris to accept recount totals for several days after the state's Nov. 14 deadline. Bush appealed, but the Supreme Court did not rule on the merits of his filing.
By passing the case back to Florida, the nation's highest court leaves in doubt gains made by Gore through manual recounts after Nov. 14. Those totals trimmed Bush's lead from 930 votes to 537 out of 6 million cast.
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's rear car window was bro ken between 9:30 and 9:35 p.m. Friday at Sixth Street and Kasold Drive, the KU Public Safety Office said. Damage was
estimated at $250
A false fire alarm was reported at 5:18 a.m. Saturday at McCollum Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said.
ON CAMPUS
The art and design department will present an installed performances exhibit from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. today at the art and design gallery. Call 864-4401.
■ The NAMES Project AIDS memorial quilt is 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.
Alcoholics Anonymous will have a Campus Serenity meeting from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. today at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Call Thad Holcombe at 843-4933.
The Hall Center for the Humanities will present "From Philosophy to Practicality: Virtue, War and Law in Giovanni da Legnano's De bello" at 4 p.m. today at the conference room in the center. Call 864-4798.
KU Running and Jogging Club will meet at 4:30 p.m. today at the oak tree by the east entrance to Robinson Center. Call Michael Rossler at 312-3193 or Keith Marshall at 840-7074.
Intervariety Christian Fellowship will pray at 5:15 p.m. today at丹东Fellow Church, Call
Daniel Wong at 312-3172.
KU Traditional Karate Club will practice from 6:30 to 8:30 tonight at racquetball court 15 in Robinson Center. Call Rachel Fuller at 312-1990.
Students for a Free Tibet will meet at 7 tonight at Alcove B in the Kansas Union. Call Ben Burgen at 312-3191.
University Christian Fellowship will have Bible study at 7 tonight at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave, Call Rick Clock at 841.3148 or e-mail rebsht@ukans.edu.
The philosophy department will present "Some Mysteries of Love" at 8 tonight at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
United Methodist Campus Ministry will have Bible study at 7:30 tonight at the Pioneer Room in the Burpee Union. Call Heather at 841-8661.
KU Hillel will have Kansas City Kollel speakers at 8 tonight at Hillel House, 940 Mississippi St. Call Matt Kanter at 312-8218.
Applications for student media 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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