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The Inside Front
Monday
Decmber 4,2000
News
from campus,the state the nation and the world
CORRECTION:
A caption in Friday's Kansan misiden tifed Kristy White, Phoenix senior.
CAMPUS
Masturbator spotted outside student's home
A 24-year-old female KU student dis covered a man masturbating outside her residence about 8 p.m. Tuesday in the 2400 block of West 25th Street, Lawrence police said.
Det. Mike Pattrick said the student first saw something pass her back window but did not think much about it. She later saw a man masturbating as he was looking through her blinds.
The man left westbound on foot, Patrick said, and a neighbor chased him. The neighbor grabbed the man's jacket, which is now in police custody but was unable to catch the man.
Police have no description of the suspect.
— Lauren Brandenburg
NATION
Kansas prairie photos shown in Smithsonian
WASHINGTON — Photos taken by Kansas ranchers have caught the eye of curators of the Smithsonian Institution.
The art depicts the practice of burning prairie grasses, used to rejuvenate pasture land. The photos were taken by Flint Hill ranchers Annie and John Wilson, who raise about 550 cattle near Emporia and view themselves as stewards of the land.
The Wilson's work is part of the exhibit "Listening to the Prairie: Farming in Nature's Image," which runs through March 31 and later will visit 20 cities.
Cheney urges Gore to concede election
Lawyers for Al Gore and George W. Bush slogged through a second day of testimony about chads, voting
Gore: heard a sermon titled *A Time for Waiting* yesterday
machines and election statistics yesterday, while GOP run mate Dick Cheney said it was time for Gore to concede. Democrats talked about the possibility of a gracious exit, but declared, "It's far over."
As a Florida circuit judge
promised a speedy resolution to Gore's historic election protest, the vice president braced for the next
round of legal action and attended church, where he heard a sermon titled "A Time for Waiting."
OMAHA, Neb. — A Creighton University fraternity was ordered to pay more than $250,000 to a Broken Bow, Neb., woman who was seriously injured two years ago after falling out of a second-story window at a Council Bluffs, Iowa, bar where the fraternity was having a Halloween party.
Tristan Brakeman was 19 years old when she broke both of her arms and suffered a brain injury after falling from the window.
A Pottawattamie County, Iowa, jury of seven women and one man deliberated for about six hours Friday before issuing the unanimous ruling.
The jury found the fraternity 60 percent liable for the more than $400,000 in damages Brakeman suffered. Brakeman, who had been drinking before the fall, was found liable for 40 percent.
The national fraternity carries insurance to pay claims against local chapters, but Brakeman's attorney, Bob Chaloupka of Scottsbluff, Neb., said he expected a fight to collect the award.
GTAs at Washington prepare for union strike
SEATTLE — University of Washington graduate teaching assistants spent Saturday making picket signs as administrators braced for a planned walkout today.
Members of the Graduate Student Employee Action Coalition, which represents 1,400 teaching assistants and other graduate employees, are demanding the union be recognized by the university. University administrators say they will not bargain with GSEAC unless the Legislature specifically authorizes it.
Solar wings give power to international station
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Two spacewalking astronauts attached the world's largest, most powerful set of solar wings to the international space station on Sunday.
It was a task as monumental as the wings themselves: The future of space station construction hinged on the astronauts' ability to install the solar panels, which will provide much-needed power to the newly inhabited outpost.
Space shuttle Endeavour astronauts Joe Tanner and Carlos Noriega guided the $600 million solar wings onto space station Alpha and then bolted them down. They had spent more than three years training for the
Fepsi spends billions to buy Quaker Oats
mission, and everything went according to plan.
NEW YORK — PepsiCo Inc. has agreed to buy Quaker Oats Co., the maker of Gatorade and Cap'n Crunch cereal, for $13.4 billion in stock, a source close to the talks said yesterday.
The boards of both companies approved the deal during the weekend and an announcement is expected today, the source told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
Gaining control of Gatorade would give PepsiCo the dominant brand in the $2.5 billion sports drink market, which has been growing faster than colas.
At least two PepsiCo rivals had considered acquiring Quaker: Coca-Cola Co. abandoned talks two weeks ago after its board rejected a deal reportedly worth $15.75 billion, and French food conglomerate Danone SA backed away from a possible bid last month.
WORLD
Summit to negotiate toxic chemical ban
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Delegates prepared yesterday for the fifth and final United Nations summit aiming to eliminate some of the world's deadliest chemicals.
More than 600 delegates are set to attend the six-day negotiations, which begin today and aim to reach an agreement on a global ban on a "dirty dozen" list of highly toxic chemicals linked to cancer, birth defects and other genetic defects.
Iraq to resume exports after U.N. dispute
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq said yesterday it would resume its oil exports to fulfill its existing contracts, backing away from a halt it called two days earlier in a dispute with the United Nations about pricing.
Iraq, the third largest producer in OPEC, stopped production Friday, blaming the United Nations' refusal to authorize a new payment arrangement for exports under the oil-for-food program.
The halt, however, did not disrupt oil markets as many had feared. The United States has said it would tap its reserves to counter any Iraqi cutoff and Saudi Arabia — by far OPEC's largest producer — hinted it could do the same, citing the need to keep the market stable.
The Associated Press
University struggles to bring diversity, minority enrollment
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"Your teacher's looking at you the whole time, thinking, 'Oh my God. I hope she's not getting mad,' she said.
Courtney Bates, president of the Black Student Union, said the experience of minority students on campus was something that needed attention if retention were to improve.
"I feel the administration they know that they're doing things," said the Chicago sophomore. "But I think they also realize that it isn't enough. Otherwise they wouldn't keep coming up with new programs."
part was that the University was making an effort. But she said the next step was to look at the problems in the programs already in place.
"There are so many reasons why people leave, and you can only tackle one thing at a time. The University needs to look at why people are leaving," she said. "Find them. Ask them why they left."
Bates said the important
Although Cerveny said he could not pinpoint why minority students left KU,he stressed the effort his office was making to bring diversity to campus.
"We are looking at our scholarship program and looking at ways we can offer competitive
scholarships to minority students." he said.
He said that this year recruiters started going to individual schools to meet students and that a Multicultural Recruitment Board was improving communication across campus.
"The one key to success in any recruitment effort is that you're able to rally the entire campus community," he said.
Sometimes at KU, Cerveny said, different recruiting programs haven't worked together or known what the other was doing. He said it was something he was working to change.
— Edited by John Audlehelm
ON THE RECORD
A visitor's two tennis rackets were stolen between 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Gertrude Sellards-Pearson and Corbin Hall parking lot, the KU Public Safety Office said. The rackets were valued at $40.
A vehicle struck another vehicle at 11 a.m Thursday on West Campus Road and
Memorial Drive, the KU Public Safety Office said. Damages were estimated at less than $500.
A vehicle struck another vehicle then left the scene between 8:30 and 11 a.m. Nov. 16 in the east Joseph R. Pearson parking lot, the KU Public Safety Office said. Damages were estimated at more than $500.
ON CAMPUS
The art and design department will have an installed performances exhibit from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. today at the art and design gallery.
Call 864-4401.
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
4923
Compulsive Eating Anonymous will meet at 3 p.m. today at Watkins Memorial Health Center. Call 312-1521.
The linguistics department will present
200 610 blake hall, Ct. Call 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 Inguish Robotics Project" at 3:30 p.m. today
at 206, Blike Hall, Call 843-6450 or 842-6348.
SUA forums committee will meet at 5 p.m. today at Alcove A in the Kansas Union. Call Patrick Waters at 864-2428.
Intervarsity Christian Fellowship will pray at 5:15 p.m. today at Danforth Chapel. Call Daniel Wona at 312-3172.
Women's Ultimate Frisbee will practice from
5:30 to 7:30 tonight at 23rd and Iowa streets.
Call Ale Alhors at 312-8798.
SUA Recreation Committee will meet at 6 p.m. today at Alcove B in the Kansas Union. Call Patrick Lafferty at 864-2427.
KU Hillel women's learning group will meet at 6:15 p.m. today at Hillel House, 940 Mississippi St. Call Becky Adelberg at 841-7769.
■ KU Baha'i Club will meet at 7 toronto at the Regionalist Room in the Kansas Union. Call Justin Herrmann at 830-8912.
Black Student Union will meet at 7:30 tonight at the Pioneer Room in the Burge Room. Call Courtney Bates or Cassandra Young at 864-3984.
KU Enviros will meet at 7:30 night at the KU Envros. Call engh at 312.1996
The music and dance department will present a faculty composition recital at 7:30 tonight at Swarthout Recital Hall. Call 864-3436.
Sons and Daughters of Vietnam Veterans will present "University Under Fire: Vietnam Vets on the Campus, War Protesters of the 60s" from 7:30 to 8 tonight on cable channel 19. Call Leonard Magruder at 843-3737.
- 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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College Bowl - Jan 27, 2001, at 9 a.m. Deadline for registration is Dec 12, 4:30 p.m.
World Aids Day Exhibit,
World Aids Day Exhibit, Featuring Tom Klocke - Dec 1-16, at the SUA Gallery, 4th floor of the Kansas Union.
SUA Live Music sponsors
Superdrag in concert - Dec 9, at 9 p.m., Kansas Union Ballroom. is part of Hawk Nights events.
SUA 12th Angel Tree - Nov 27
- Dec 11, Kansas Union Lobby.
Take an ornament off the tree
and help a child's dreams come true Donations benefit the Salvation Army Toy Shop.
What do You Want SUA to bring? Stop by the SUA Office, 4th floor of the Kansas Union, and get involved!
Net Event
Thirteen Days Dec 5, at 8 p.m. Vouchers available the day of the event.
Shaft
Shaft
Dec 6-9, 7 p.m.
Shaft in Africa
Dec 8 & 9, midnight.
Samuel L.
Jackson
Shaft
Dec 6-9, 9:30 p.m.
All movies at Woodruff Auditorium. 5th floor of the Kansas Union. Tickets/Move passes sold during movie times, in front of Woodruff.
The SUA Box Office is located at the 4th floor of the Kansas Union. Please call 864-SHOW for more information.
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