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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1997
SECTION A VOL.103, NO.99
Democratic fund raising to be investigated
(USPS 650-640)
WASHINGTON — The chairman of the House committee Investigating campaign fund-raising activities said yesterday that his probe will be far broader than originally anticlated. As justification, he cited new allegations of official Chinese attempts to help the Democrats.
attitudes to his leadership. The White House aide handling the problem, counsel Lanny Davis, countered that suggestions that President Clinton encouraged improper campaign contributions in any way were "flat out wrong."
Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., chairman of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, said that hearings will begin in April or May.
The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee is conducting a parallel investigation.
The Washington Post reported last week that evidence had emerged that the Chinese embassy in Washington was interested in providing money to the Democratic Party. That would be illegal under U.S. law. No proof has been presented that the Chinese did so.
NATO to extend hand to European countries
ROME — In Madeleine Albright's first plunge into diplomacy abroad as secretary of state, she told Italian leaders that she was disturbed over Italy's dealings with rogue states.
According to top White House aides, Albright outlined the U.S.
cause against iran as a supporter of terrorism bent on producing nuclear weapons.
Libya also was branded as a sponsor of terrorism. The United States and Britain have
Madeleine Albright
accused Libya of plotting and carrying out the bombing of a Pan Am jetliner over Scotland in 1988, which killed 270 people.
In her talks with Italian officials, Albright accepted Italy's unqualified backing for expanding NATO. Foreign Minister Lamberti Dini dismissed a French proposal for a five-nation summit in April to consider Russia's anxieties.
Leaders of all 16 NATO countries plan to meet in Madrid, Spain, in July and offer membership to countries of central and eastern Europe, most probably Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic.
American oil engineer kidnapped in Yemen
SAN'A, Yemen — Tribesmen involved in a land dispute with the government kidnapped an American oil engineer in southeastern Yemen, Western oil company officials said yesterday.
Joe Dell'Aria, an engineer with Houston-based Halliburton Energy Services, was kidnapped Feb. 11, said a field engineer with the company who spoke on condition of anonymity.
he said that Dell'Aria, 50, was held by members of the Murad tribe, who are locked in a dispute with the government over a valuable piece of land near the presidential palace in San'a, the Yemen capital.
Dell'Aria was working on fields owned by the American Hunt Oil Co. when he was kidnapped, 80 miles east of San'a.
A Halliburton official said that negotiations for Dell' Aria's release were under way.
Several American, French, British and Canadian diplomats, tourists and engineers have been kidnapped and freed by tribes in Yemen during the last three years.
—The Associated Press
Steve Dunne / KANSAN
KU students and other protesters march down Jayhawk Boulevard Friday to protest building South Lawrence Trafficway through wetlands.
GR Gordon-Ross / KANSAN
Protestors march against trafficway
Opponents say South Lawrence Trafficway would disrupt rituals
Jeff Weinberg, assistant to the chancellor, speaks to members of KU Environs Friday in Chancellor Hemenway's office. The group was asking Hemenway to issue a statement against the South Lawrence Trafficway.
By Paul Eakins Kansan staff writer
More than 20 opponents of the South Lawrence Trafficway marched from the Kansas Union to Wescoe Hall Friday afternoon and then went to the chancellor's office.
The protest, led by KU Environs, was meant to educate KU students and faculty about the South Lawrence Trafficway and reasons opponents say it should not be there.
The protest was the first of a weekend of events organized by opponents of the trafficway. Haskell Indian Nations University held a prayer on Friday evening and an organizational meeting on Saturday. Haskell owns the wetlands through which the trafficway is slated to pass.
Protester Bridgett Chapin, Lawrence graduate student, told onlookers they needed to take action.
"get mad at the County Commission," Chapin shouted as she marched. "Tell them we don't want the South Lawrence Trafficway."
When protesters reached Wescoe, three Native Americans sang a prayer song in the Lakota language. Penina Yellow Bird, who led the singing, said that she and other Native Americans sing the song when they pray in their sweat lodges in the wetlands. She said that the
After answering questions from onlookers about the trafficway, the protesters went to the chancellor's office. There, several Environs members met with Jeff Weinberg, assistant to the chancellor, and Mary Burg, executive assistant to the chancellor.
Jason Daniels, KU Environics member and Colby sophomore, said that the University needed to take a stand on the wetlands issue.
trafficway would intrude on the silence needed to pray and was a violation of their religious rights.
Environers also wanted the University to take a stand against the trafficway. Daniels said that aside from the other issues involved, the University had a stake in the wetlands because it owns part of them and many students and faculty have projects there that may be affected by the trafficway.
"We're here to talk about the injustices that are heaped day after day upon the native peoples," Yellow Bird said.
Environs members told the assistants that they wanted Chancellor Robert Menhew to release a memo saying that all KU students, faculty and staff may protest the trafficway, or at least local issues, without fear of reprimand from the University. Environs believes that some faculty have not spoken out through fear.
"If they put a road through the middle of Strong Hall, do you think the University would do something about it? I think they would," he said.
Burg said that it would be worthwhile to look at how the traffickway would impact KU lands and the quality of education. However, she and Weinberg said that the University probably would not take an official stand on the traffickway because the University is a state-funded school.
New funding could provide campus shuttle
Kansas Legislature may pass a bill that funds transit with parking revenue
By Ann Marchand Kansan staff writer
but that doesn't mean the parking department will fund the KU on Wheels bus system in the near future.
The Kansas Legislature soon may pass a bill which would allow parking department revenues to pay for campus transportation systems.
"We don't expect to see any of its revenues coming toward KU on Wheels," said Bob Grunzinger, KU on Wheels coordinator.
Donna Hultine, assistant director of parking, agreed that KU on Wheels probably would not see any extra revenue from the parking department when the bill passes.
Currently, all revenue derived from the sale of parking permits and parking fines must fund parking patrol units and construction, acquisition, maintenance and repair of parking facilities.
The legislation, proposed by the Senate committee on ways and means, would add the words "and for campus transportation systems" to the list of things parking revenues may fund.
Parking Laws
The bill is not expected to face much opposition.
Current law states that fees from sales of parking permits and fines may fund the enforcement of parking regulations and maintenance, construction, acquisition and repair of parking facilities.
The new law would allow all of the above, in addition to funding campus transportation systems.
as it goes through the legislative process
But the effects of its passage may leave some people at the University of Kansas perplexed about its intent. Hultine said that the bill was simply a logistical change which would allow the parking department to operate a shuttle system from various lots around campus to the center of Jayhawk Boulevard and that it was not intended to assist KU on Wheels.
"The transportation system right now really brings people from off campus to campus," she said. "The shuttle they're proposing is just moving people around campus."
But Grunzinger said that the idea of the parking department operating a shuttle system did not make sense and that KU on Wheels should be operating all of the campus transportation to better integrate the two systems.
"For as long as parking has been in existence, we've been competing against each other," he said. "We've had to compete for the same customer base. We both serve the same purpose — getting students to, from and across campus."
Hultine said that parking and transportation were not competing and that this proposal actually moved them closer together.
Hultine also said that the parking department usually had about $200,000 left at the end of each year, but that money is used to start the next fiscal year.
She declined to speculate on how much more the department would generate with proposed increases in permit prices next year.
The law currently states that fees from sales of parking permits and fines may fund the enforcement of parking regulations, maintenance, construction, acquisition and repair of parking facilities.
The new law would allow all of the above in addition to funding campus transportation systems.
Human sexuality speaker advocates chastity
By Doug Weinstein
Kansan staff writer
Lust is a blinding force, and chastity is one of the best weapons to defeat it, a speaker told a group of 40 students at a human sexuality forum Friday in Alderson Auditorium.
Celeste Thomas, a speech and language therapist from Denver, Colo., was the featured speaker in the forum sponsored by the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center.
Thomas said that stability occurs in people's lives when they respect certain boundaries, but she has seen a disturbing trend where those boundaries are being destroved.
"I'm not here to talk about biological sexuality," she said. "I'm here to talk about the concept of genital intimacy."
"Genital intimacy and marriage belong together and engaging in genital intimacy outside of marriage will always lead to despair, disease, destruction and death," she said.
Thomas said that she understands that college can be a time when many beliefs are compromised.
"In college I was my own authority," she said.
"When you don't know why you believe what you
Jessica Langdon, Prairie Village freshman, said that the forum reconfirmed what she learned in high school, which is the opposite of what she's seen on campus.
believe and the new stuff starts sneaking in, it feels good. You'll fall for those new ideas and suffer the consequences."
"I've seen people who don't have hesitations of getting into bed with someone," she said.
"Your habits do matter whether they're good or bad," she said. "Have you been using your body to become a user or a lover?"
Scott Wallisch, St. Louis, Mo., freshman, said that he enjoyed Thomas' lecture because she was an energetic speaker.
Thomas said that one thing college students can do is to question their sexual relationships.
"It gave me a greater understanding of dating, manners and relationships." he said.
Henry Buck, Waldins health physician, attended the forum to provide medical information about college students and their sexual behaviors.
"Sexual activities haven't changed much, but STDs have." Buck said.
In over 10 years of practice as a physician, Buck has seen thousands of people afflicted with sexually transmitted diseases.
Pam Dishman / KANSAN
Celeste Thomas speaks to a crowd of approximately 40 people about the benefits of chastity. She was the main speaker at the Human Sexuality Forum held Friday.
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