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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1997
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SECTION A VOL.103,NO.92
(USPS 650-640)
Woman struck by truck, KU freshman arrested
The combined efforts of two local police departments led to the arrest of one McCollum Hall resident Monday after a hit-and-run incident at a fast food restaurant.
Lawrence police arrested Carl Amold, Omaha, Neb., freshman, at 4:51 p.m. yesterday on aggravated battery charges for allegedly striking a Lawrence woman with his truck.
Police said that the victim, 25-year-old Kimberly Winholz, attempted to pull into the parking lot of Kentucky Fried Chicken, 658 W. 23rd St., but Arnold's vehicle blocked most of the entrance.
Winholz's car came close to hitting the other vehicle while turning into the lot, police said. After Winholz parked her car, Arnold backed his truck up into a space next to hers and accused her of damaging his truck, but Winholz denied it.
Winholz got out of her car and was walking toward the restaurant when Arnold's truck struck her from behind. Winholz was knocked onto the hood of the truck and then slid down and landed on the pavement.
Winholz sustained minor injuries and declined medical attention.
Winholz got the license plate number of the vehicle as it left the lot.
a declined medical attention. Later Monday evening, a KU police officer located Arnold's truck in the parking lot of Lewis Hall and then notified Lawrence police.
Arnold charged that Winholz had hit his vehicle and police found a co-responding scratch on his vehicle. Arnold told police that he had not intentionally hit Winholz, but that she had walked in front of his truck.
A $3,000 bond was set for Arnold. He remains in custody at the Douglas County Jail. He is scheduled to appear in court at 1:45 p.m. Feb. 13.
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A report on the survey from the New England Journal of Medicine called the figure surprisingly high, given the possible legal and ethical repercussions of such an action.
Doctors' approval rising for AIDS-patient suicides
The survey was conducted of 228 members of a San Francisco-area group of AIDS specialists. Half of them returned anonymous questionnaires, and 53 percent of those doctors said they had helped patients commit suicide by writing prescriptions for narcotic overdoses.
BUSTON — Half of all AIDS doctors responding to a survey in San Francisco admitted that they had prescribed deadly doses of narcotics to help terminally ill patients commit suicide.
"Everyone knows this occurs, but there has been no quantifiable data on it," said researcher Thomas Mitchell of the University of California at San Francisco.
Legislation considered to silence illegal scanners
WASHINGTON — All it took was a minute, a two-inch piece of wire and a soldering gun for Rep. Billy Tauzin to convert a legal radio scanner into one that picks up cellular phone calls.
Most experts agree that the conversion is illegal but enforcement is difficult.
Cellular telephone interceptions by scanners caught the public eye after a Florida couple used a police scanner to tape a conference call involving Republican leaders discussing House Speaker Newt Gingrich's ethics case. Excerpts of the tape were printed in The New York Times.
Tauzin, R.L., chairman of the House Commerce Committee's telecommunications subcommittee, who rigged the scanner at a hearing yesterday, is considering legislation to toughen laws against altering listening equipment.
New digital cellular technology is supposed to,make cellular eavesdropping more difficult.
KU professor to help U.N.
The Associated Press
Outside presence is debate's focus
By Paul Eakins Kansan staff writer
Professor Bryant Freeman is going back to Haji.
Freeman, director of the Institute of Haitian Studies at the University of Kansas and an expert about Haiti, will serve as an official representative for the United Nations and the United States in a special public debate in Port au Prince, Haiti. The debate will be broadcast on Haitian radio and television.
f reeman will be in Haiti for 10 days and will discuss the United Nation's presence in Haiti since 1994. He will debate with Roger
Gaillard, director of the University of Haiti, and political leader Gerard Pierre-Charles.
Freeman will defend the U.N. presence in Haiti, while Pierre-Charles and Gaillard will oppose the presence. But Freeman said that changing the two speakers' views was not his goal.
"My role is to explain to the Haitian public why there is U.N. involvement," Freeman said.
Freeman will explain why he believes Haiti's current situation is better than it was under previous U.S. rule from 1915-1934, or under a rule of terror from 1991-1994 before U.S. troops re-entered Haiti.
While he is gone, Haitian graduate teaching assistants will instruct Freeman's Haitian language and culture classes.
"There's a contrast to the American occupation of 1915 and to 1994," he said. "Now it's to restore democracy, not set up an American puppet."
U. N. officials asked Freeman to be a representative because of his ability to speak French and Creole, his knowledge and experience in Haiti and his experience with the United Nations.
Freeman has frequented Haiti for 39 years. In 1995, Freeman served as consultant and adviser to Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Kinzer, commander of U.N. troops in Haiti. Freeman was awarded the protocol rank of major general to serve as a lecturer to U.N. troops and U.N. consultant in 1993.
Freeman also worked with the Pax Christi, an international human rights organization that observed possible human rights violations in Haiti. He also served as an interpreter for the Haitian refugees at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba in 1992.
Freeman went to Haiti in 1996 with Chancellor Robert Hemenway to be honored for the completion of a 656-page, Haitian-English dictionary that Freeman helped edit.
With this wealth of experience, Freeman said, he was not surprised when he was called, and he thought it was his duty to help. The faculty of the University has many duties outside of teaching classes, he said.
"KU has a responsibility to the world," he said. "There are people here with various talents, and they have to be used."
Freeman's students understand that what he does is important, and much of what he learns in Haiti he applies to the classroom.
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Blazin' at The Bottleneck
james Grau / KANSAN
Palomar, featuring former members of Lawrence's rock group Paw, plays at The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St. Palomar will appear next at The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts St., on Feb. 20, when they open for Soul Coughing.
Students,public will pay more for sports tickets
Bv Kevin Bates
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas Athletic Corporation board of directors decided yesterday to raise ticket prices for football and basketball games. The ticket policy originally had been proposed in December.
proposed in accordance.
Ticket prices will increase mainly for the public, but students also will pay a fee. Football tickets will increase to $26 from $22 a ticket, and basketball tickets will increase to $25 from $20. Students who buy the ticket package will pay $91, a $6 increase from last year. These increases will finance renovations to Memorial Stadium and Allen Field House.
"A 20-percent discount is common across the country," Steeples said. "The chancellor has looked at different factors, and he wants to try to accommodate everyone, such as the guy coming in from Colby who has to travel a long way and might have to find lodging. The faculty doesn't have many other costs like that."
Don Steeples, board chairman, said that another issue during the meeting was that the corporation planned to continue the current faculty and staff discount rate. The discount rates were decreased two years ago from 50 percent to 20 percent.
If the University continued a 50 percent discount, it would have to be reported as taxable income to the Internal Revenue Service and would cost the University more money, said David Katzman, board member and American
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"It seems to me that there are no great obstacles to restoring a 50 percent discount," Katzman said. "I'd like to see us maximize the opportunities for all members of the University community to go attend the sports events. I fear that the faculty and staff are being priced out."
losing benefits.
"I'm really ticked off about the whole thing," Himmelmberg said. "When we still had the 50 percent discount, I used to buy four tickets for my family. Then I had to cancel two of them. There aren't a lot of faculty perks on this campus. This makes one less."
Charles Himmelberg, professor of mathematics, said he also was upset about the discount change and agreed that faculty members were losing benefits.
Bob Frederick, athletics director, said he thought ticket price increases were essential to the restoration of Memorial Stadium and Allen Field House.
David Ambler, board member and vice chancellor of student affairs, also recognized a need for ticket price increases.
"We all need to be concerned with the increasing price of athletic events," Ambler said. "But in order to have the kind of intercollegiate program we want, we're going to have to pay for it. I don't see any other viable option."
Conservationists cut logging figures
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Logging of national forests costs taxpayers $398 million more than the timber sales brought in to the U.S. Department of the Treasury in 1995; losses hidden by the government's accounting system, conservationists charged yesterday.
The Forest Service earlier reported its commercial logging operations earned a $59 million profit for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 1995.
But the Wilderness Society said in an annual audit that the agency numbers are skewed because the numbers ignore costs such as road construction and special payments to counties.
The Wilderness Society review said the service failed to account for $200 million in road-construction costs and $257 million in payments to counties.
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Tomorrow last day to elect credit no-credit
By Mark McMaster Kansan staff writer
Under this option, the instructor assigns a course grade, but it will not appear on the transcript. Credit is awarded for the class if a C or above is earned, while grades of D or below are shown as no credit.
If your Spanish class grade has you saying jay caramba! or your psychology elective is pushing you toward a mental breakdown, there is still time to save your transcript by choosing the credit/no credit option.
Tomorrow is the last day students can elect the option.
Pam Houston, director of undergraduate services, said that the credit/no credit option was designed for a different purpose than what it often was used for.
The University allows each student to take one class per semester on a credit/no credit basis. Within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and most other schools, students can only take courses credit/no credit outside of their majors.
"It was started to give students an opportunity to take courses they were interested in, but were outside their majors or areas of expertise, and not have it affect their GPAs," Houston said. "That's generally not how it's being used."
Instead, she said that many students elected the option so that their performance in difficult core classes would not affect their grade point averages.
Mark Munoz, Ellsworth sophomore, is one of those students. Yesterday, he changed his Linguistics 320 class to credit/no credit because he was worried about his grade.
She also said that some graduate or professional schools and potential employers prefer that students not take courses on a credit/no credit basis. Some graduate programs, for example, convert each "no credit" to an F and each "credit" to a C before evaluating GPAs.
"I think getting 'credit' on a transcript is better than risking a D or an F, if it fulfills the requirement for the college but isn't within the major," Munoz said.
Houston warned that the credit/no option option was not the easiest way to pass a course, though, because D-level performance would not earn credit.
According to the University Placement Center, professional schools such as pharmacy, law, and medicine programs were the most likely to object to classes taken credit/no credit, especially when they were relevant to future study.
Houston advised students to make the credit/no credit decision carefully, because after Friday, it would become permanent.
"Once you make that decision, you live with it, regardless of the case," she said.