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The Inside Front
Friday December 1,2000
News
from campus,the state the nation and the world
CORRECTIONS
A brief in yesterday's Kansan reported an incorrect date for when the Truman Scholarship Foundation would be on campus to present the University with a Year 2000 Truman Foundation Honor Institution Award. The presentation was yesterday.
The presentation was yesterday.
A story in Wednesday's Kansan incorrectly reported the name of the Kansas Association of Public Employees.
A brief in Wednesday's Kansan reported an incorrect date for a presentation by Independent Counsel Robert Ray. The presentation was Tuesday.
A story in Wednesday's Kansan incorrectly reported that in 1991, the Kansan broke a story about Darren Fulcher, then-student body president. KJHK News was the first news agency to run the story.
A graph in Wednesday's Kansan contained incorrect numbers. The minority enrollment average at national public universities was 20.8 percent in 1990 and 27.9 percent in 1997. The Black enrollment average at these universities was 9.2 percent in 1990 and 11.1 in 1997.
CAMPUS
Trial postponed in case of homeless man's death
A trial set for next week was postponed yesterday until March for a man accused of running over a homeless man this spring.
Joshua C. Mattocks, 22, of Fair Grove, Mo., was scheduled to stand trial Monday, Dec. 4 for a felony count of involuntary manslaughter and misdemeanor counts of driving under the influence and leaving the scene of an injury accident.
Mattocks' new trial date is Monday, March 26.
John Lowe was hit by an automobile and dragged half a block on April 28. Police found his body in a gutter on Mississippi Street near Ninth Street.
Late professor leaves $1 million donation
The Kansas University Endowment Association announced yesterday it had received more than $1 million in donations from a late professor.
Anthony "Toni" Burzle, who was a professor of German at the University for 30 years, left about $717,000 to the University in unrestricted funds, which University administrators may use as they see fit in the University budget.
The donation also includes his Lawrence home, which will be used by the University as a guest house named in honor of him and his wife, Muriel. The house on Strong Avenue
has been used by Fulbright scholars and visiting professors since Burzle's death in 1998.
He also donated his personal library, including his collections of music recordings and artwork, said John Scarffe, director of communications for the endowment association.
Burzle's bequest establishes scholarships for KU students studying German and a program to train experts in German studies. The donation also includes money to purchase artwork and to support chamber music programs.
Jason Krall
student may not stand trial for sexual battery charge
A male KU student accused of kissing and fondling a female Hashinger Hall resident Aug. 31 will not stand trial next week.
sally Howard, attorney for Kevin J. Hoskinson, Garden City junior, said she wanted to file a motion to suppress evidence.
"My client has a history of mental illness," she said, saying that she was not made aware of that when she began representing Hoskinson. "It is significant enough to impact the voluntary nature of that confession."
Howard told District Court Judge Paula Martin that her client was undergoing psychological testing and had a number of tests to complete.
Martin will hear the motion to suppress evidence at 2:30 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 19. She will decide at that time whether Hoskinson will stand trial. He is charged with a misdemeanor count of sexual battery.
— Lauren Brandenburg
NATION
State commission finds natural gas plan faulty
TOPEKA — The largest natural gas distributor in Kansas is marketing a program that it says will help protect consumers from higher fuel prices this winter.
But the Kansas Corporation Commission, which regulates utilities, has taken Kansas Gas Service to task about its marketing materials. Also, a commission representative describes the program as a gamble for consumers.
Kansas Gas promotes its WeatherProof program as a way for consumers to avoid fluctuating bills because of high gas prices. Customers who opt for it pay the same bill throughout the year.
The company provides gas to 625,000 customers in 300 communities. Its service territories include most of northeast Kansas; parts of central Kansas, including Salina and Wichita; and parts of southwest
Kansas outside Dodge City and Garden City.
Last year 23,000 Kansas Gas customers signed up for the program, said Steve Johnson, the company's spokesman. This year, about 27,700 are signed up.
Consumer spending slows; incomes decline
WASHINGTON — Although consumer spending rose in October at the weakest pace in six months, Americans' incomes actually declined for the first time in nearly two years, the government reported yesterday, providing fresh evidence that the economy is shifting into a lower gear
The Commerce Department said that personal incomes fell by 0.2 percent last month, reflecting a big swing in federal payments to farmers, while consumer spending edged up just 0.2 percent.
Economists worried that the weakness in the consumer sector could intensify if Americans suddenly become more cautious in their spending habits because of the volatility on Wall Street.
Egg warnings to help educate consumers
WASHINGTON — Egg cartons will soon bear new safety warnings designed to help Americans avoid food poisoning.
Eggs can be infected with salmonella, a type of bacteria that cooks can avoid if only they handled eggs safely. So the Food and Drug Administration ordered yesterday that all egg cartons bear the following warning:
"To prevent illness from bacteria: Keep eggs refrigerated, cook eggs until yolks are firm, and cook foods containing eggs thoroughly."
Illusionist Blaine freed from ice after 62 hours
NEW YORK — After spending 62 hours encased in a 6-ton block of ice, illusionist David Blaine was freed from his Arctic confines. Blaine emerged wobbly and incoherent Wednesday night after the ice was chipped away.
He was quickly wrapped in blankets, placed on a stretcher, and whisked to a waiting ambulance. His condition was not immediately known. The stunt was the first for Blaine since he was buried alive in a pleixglass sarcophagus in New York for seven days last year.
Blaine, 26, entered the ice tomb Monday in front of ABC studios in Times Square. He was completely sealed within two blocks of ice with a body-shaped cocoon etched out of the center, and only had a tube from which to breathe and to drink water.
— The Associated Press
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — With appeals to boycott McDonald's and other U.S. products, Gulf Arabs are urging consumers to punish America for supposedly favoring Israel above the Palestinians.
U.S. faces threat of boycott
The Associated Press
but in a region where suburbs and shopping malls look as though they've been copied from America, governments are unlikely to get behind any boycott.
in an apparent move to appease critics, McDonald's branches in Saudi Arabia announced this week that for the next month, 26 cents from every meal sold will go to Palestinian children's hospitals.
The informal drive to ignite a boycott began after the Israeli-Palestinian violence began Sept. 28 and has spread beyond the Persian Gulf. This week, Muslim clerics in Egypt said importing Israel and U.S. products is forbidden on religious grounds in light of the violence.
Since the Israeli-Palestinian violence began, some countries, notably Syria, have called for a revival of the boycott.
The Israeli government declined to comment Wednesday on calls for its revival
Despite tough language denouncing Israel and demanding more U.S. sympathy for the Arab case, Gulf governments have distanced themselves from the boycott because of tight U.S. economic and political ties.
Calls to boycott are being backed religious edicts from some Muslim clerics.
Bishr Bakheet, a Saudi financial adviser said Arabs should cut oil output as they did in the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, triggering a price increase of 288 percent in less than three months.
But Saudi Arabia has already made clear it won't use the oil weapon this year.
ON THE RECORD
Even the most ardent supporters of a boycott admit that totally shunning U.S. products is unrealistic.
"U.S.-Saudi economic relations are very intertwined; the Americans cannot do without the Saudi market and the Saudi market cannot do without the Americans," said Omar Bahlaiwa, of the Council of Saudi Chambers of Commerce and Industry. "Much of Saudi Arabia is built to U.S. standards and specifications, so do you also boycott using 110-volt electricity?"
A KU student's 1991 Chevrolet Blazer was stolen between 12:30 and 9:45 a.m. Wednesday in the 3500 block of
ON CAMPUS
Westridge Drive, Lawrence police said.
The vehicle was valued at $6,000.
The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt will be on display from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today at the Central Court in the Spencer Museum of Art, Coll Carsten Chnin 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 Rosserat at 312-3193 or Keith Marshall at 840-0704.
Intervarsity Christian Fellowship will pray at 5:15 p.m. today at Danforth Chapel. Call Daniel Wong at 312-3172.
KU Hillel will have Shabbat service at 5:30 p.m. and dinner at 6:15 p.m. today at Hillel House, 940 Mississippi St. Call Sue Shafer-Landay at 749-5397.
The World AIDS Day commemorative service will be from 5:30 to 7 tonight at the Central Court in the Spencer Museum of Art, Call Carolina Chinna Lewis at 864-4710.
KU Badminton Club will practice from 6:30 to 10:15 tonight at 211 and 2132 Robinson Center. Call Tee at 550-0527.
Parkgrounds
**KU Badminton Club will practice from 6:30 to**
10:15 p.m. tomorrow at 211 and 2132
Robinson Center, Call Tee at 550-0527.
Lawrence Habitat for Humanity will have a holiday arts and crafts fair from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow at the Douglas County Fairgrounds. Call 832-0777.
The art and design department will have an installed performances exhibit from 1 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday at the Art and Design Gallery. Call 864-4401.
KU Traditional Karate Club will practice from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday at 207 Robinson Center. Call Rachel Fuller at 312-1990.
Culverfield Ballroom Dance Club will practice from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Kansas Union Ballroom. Email Nicky Bowers at nbowers@ukans.edu.
■ The Spencer Museum of Art will present "Ginter Grass: The Voice of a Lost Homeland and a Lost Generation" at 2 p.m. Sunday at the auditorium in the museum. Call 864-4710
Know Thyself as Soul Foundation Southwest will have a meditation seminar at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Call 297-1715.
The music and dance department will present the Orgian Music of J.S. Bate at 4:30 p.m. Sunday at Bales Organ Recital Hall, Call 864-3436.
KU Association for Skepticism and Inquiry will meet at 6 p.m. Sunday at the Regionalist Room in the Kansas Union. Call Megan Siebelbusch at 865-5469.
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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