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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANS.
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SECTION A VOL.103,NO.82
THURSDAY, JANUARY 23.1997
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Senate confirms Albright, Cohen with 99-0 votes
WASHINGTON — The Senate ratified President Clinton's ground-breaking national security team with lightning speed yesterday, confirming Madeleine Albright as the nation's first female secretary of state and former Republican Sen. William Cohen as defense secretary.
Both won 99-0 approval with no
Madeleine Albright
worst of doubt or dissent.
"She's a strong lady.
She's a courageous lady."
Senate Foreign Relations
Committee Chairman
Jesse Helms, D.N.C., said of the illusion
U. S. ambassador to the United Nations during Clinton's first four years in office.
The Senate was equally laudatory of Cohen.
"It's a pleasure to participate in your coronation — I mean, your confirmation," said Pat Roberts, R-Kan., welcoming back his former colleague.
President Clinton was quick to turn the praise back on the Senate, saying it sent a strong signal to the world of its determination to work in with the administration on foreign policy and national defense. The full Senate vote came within an hour of unanimous approval by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Clinton aide's statement contradicts White House
WASHINGTON — Bruce Lindsey, President Clinton's closest adviser, knew in 1994 that an Indonesian company had hired Clinton's disgraceful friend Webster Hubbell — long before the company emerged at the center of the Democratic fundraising controversy.
Lindsey's statement, contained in a June 1996 Senate deposition, contradicts the account White House press secretary Mike McCurry gave last month.
McCurry told reporters in December that Lindsey and other presidential aides did not learn about the Lippo Group's hiring of Hubbell until press accounts last year.
Asked by the Associated Press about the conflicting deposition, the White House yesterday altered — for a third time in recent weeks — its public account of events in the controversy over Asian-linked donors to the Democratic Party.
Speeches, protest mark Roe vs. Wade decision
White House special counsel Lanny Davis said Lindsey's testimony was accurate and that McCurry's explanation was wrong.
WASHINGTON — The 24th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 decision legalizing abortion was marked yesterday by protest, a bomb scare and condemnation of anti-abortion terrorism by Vice President Al Gore.
"To those who committed the horrible deeds of Tulsa and Atlanta, I say this. The American people will not tolerate your cowardly crusade," Gore said of recent abortion-clinic bombings in those cities.
While he and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke to the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, tens of thousands of abortion opponents rallied near the White House, then marched to Capitol Hill to protest.
—The Associated Press
The Roe vs. Wade anniversary got off to a shaky start when a worker at the hotel found a small fusing device used in grenade training.
The marchers included schoolchildren, seminarians wearing long, black robes bearing religious icons and bus loads of Knights of Columbus members, a Catholic men's group.
Senior swimmer dies at 21
Fatal collapse occurs near pool
By Kelly Cannon
Kansan sportswriter
Seth Dunscomb, Sullivan, III, senior, and co-captain of the Kansas men's swimming and diving team, died yesterday. The cause of death is unknown.
"The support group and the ambulance were excellent. The y responded immediately," Kempis fed.
Dunscomb, 21, collapsed at practice. He had gotten out of the water and was sitting on the pool deck when he passed out, Kansas swimming coach Gary Kempf said.
Kempf said he called 911 as soon as Dunscomb collapsed, and a police officer in Robinson Center performed CPR until paramedics arrived.
Dunscomb was pronounced dead by doctors at 5 p.m. at
Lawrence Memorial Hospital, 325 Maine St., said Vicki Friede, nursing supervisor at the hospital. Although the cause of death is unknown, Dunscomb had a history of asthma and lately has been suffering from exercise-induced asthma, Kempf said.
Seth Dunscomb
"We really don't know what happened, and we really don't want to speculate," he said. "They're going to investigate more tomorrow."
Dunscum had been cleared to swim despite his asthma, said former graduate student Joy Hayes, Dunscum's weight trainer.
"He had been cleared to swim; everyone had cleared him," she said.
Kempf said the men's swimming and diving team would not compete tomorrow against Iowa and Wisconsin. Both men's and women's teams are scheduled to compete Saturday against Southern Illinois, but Kempf was unsure if the teams would participate.
Dunscomb was a graduate of Sullivan High School and was a four-year letter winner in swimming and track.
During the 1955-96 collegiate season, he placed fourth in the 200 individual medley and eighth in the 200 butterfly at the Big Eight Conference Championships. He was
named to the Phillips 66 Academic All-Big Eight Honor Roll and as a Jayhawk Scholar.
Bob Frederick, Kansas athletic director, expressed his sympathy for Dunscomb's family, teammates and coaches.
"Seth was truly a scholar-athlete who represented the ideals important to the University and its Athletic Department. We are all sadened by his tragic death." Frederick said in a statement released yesterday.
Hayes said Dunscomb was well-liked by his teammates and friends.
"Seth was everybody's friend, and everybody loved Seth," she said. "He was a team leader, he worked hard, and he loved to swim. He helped everybody love it too." Kenof agreed.
"Seth was the absolute most wonderful man I have ever had to
"Seth was everybody's friend, and everybody loved Seth." Joy Hayes student weight trainer
coach," Kempf said. "He was absolutely everyone's best friend. I never saw him angry. He was the senior captain. They don't make them any better. He touched a lot of people in many ways."
DUNSCOME: Family, friends,
react to swimmer's death. Page 3B
The Lippincott legend
framed by the doors of Lippincott Hall, a student exits the building Tuesday as the statue of Uncle Jimmy Green stands tall over the KU campus. According to the KU Ambassadors Office,the statue, which depicts Green patting on the back of an engineering student was seen as ironic in 1905.
When Daniel Chester French, sculptor of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., finished the statue. Green was the dean of the School of Law.
The identity of the student is unknown, although his tail boots signify he is an engineering student as opposed to a law student. According to myth, law students wore shorter boots.
The school was then located in Lippincott Hall. Traditionally, law students and engineering students were rivals, so the statue seemed humorous because Green was standing with an engineering student rather than a law student.
Ungrounded wire has shock potential
Lightning protection could be completed in two to four weeks
By Dave Morantz
Kenyon staff writer
Kansan staff writer
The ungrounded lightning rod wire lying behind Stauffer-Flint Hall poses little harm, said John Godwin III of Godwin Lightning Protection. But a former KU professor disagrees.
Godwin said the wire had been ungrounded for about 45 days. Because of bad weather and concrete, the company could not install a ground pole from the wire.
The company will find a way to ground the wire in about two weeks. Until then, Godwin said he would nail the wire down to prevent any one from picking up the wire.
"There is the possibility that someone could get hurt if they were stupid enough to hold on to the wire at the time that lightning struck the building," he said. "The chances of someone getting hurt through that are like the chances of winning the lottery."
"The asphalt isn't a good conductor. The charge could spread through the water on the asphalt," he said. "One doesn't want to be in the path where the current is going."
But Dale Rummer, professor emeritus of electrical engineering and computer science, said rainwater could conduct an electrical charge and injure someone standing in the water.
If lightning struck Stauffer-Flint Hall, the charge would flow from a rod on the building roof, through wires above the building and find the quickest path to the ground, Godwin said.
A lightning strike to Stauffer-Flint Hall would not damage the building because of other ground wires. But
"The chances of someone getting hurt through that are like the chances of winning the lottery." John Godwin III Godwin Lighting Protection
the possibility exists that the electrical charge could follow the ungrounded wire, Godwin said.
A similar ungrounded wire exists at Haworth Hall. Godwin said the building, like Stauffer-Flint Hall, was in no danger because of its other ground wires.
Godwin said completion would take about a month because of a priority job at the Spencer Museum of Art. Because of roof work ,the museum does not have a lightning protection system.
Godwin said that his company had completed lightning protection installations on about 20 other buildings on campus.
Dan Carroll, an attorney in architecture services in the state's general purchasing office, said that he had heard discussion about the company's work not being completed on time, but that as far as he knew, the work had been satisfactory.
Traci Maloney, corporate communications specialist for Underwriters Laboratories, a nonprofit organization that certifies and inspects electrical work, said that Godwin's company was certified by her organization and that inspectors would review the completed work.
KU connections to run for commission
By Paul Eakins Kansan staff writer
City Hall received the last applications for city commission candidacy on Tuesday, and among them were those of a KU professor and a KU student.
Alan Black, professor of urban planning, and Sean Bergin, Lawrence graduate student in biology, were both on the list of 12 candidates competing for three open positions on the city commission. The positions are those currently held by Allen Levine, who is not running for re-election, Jolene Andersen and Bo Moody.
Public transportation is an important issue in Black's campaign.
"I would hope that eventually the KU bus system could be expanded to include all of Lawrence," he said.
Bergin said he is running for the position because he has lived in Lawrence for 18 years and thought he could help.
"I've grumbled enough about government," he said. "I decided that if I'm going to complain, I should do something about it."
The other candidates include Debra Allen-Barnes, a pharmacist at Lawrence Memorial Hospital; Andersen, incumbent commissioner and kitchen designer for Payless Cashways Building Materials; Lisa Blair, administrator of
Downtown Lawrence Inc. and executive director of the Lawrence Alliance; Carol Bowen, computer coordinator of science applications at
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Haskell Indian Nations University; Bob Cutler, bassist for the local band John Geery Theory; Erv Hodges, retired area manager of Grinnell Corp. in Kansas City, Mo.; Marty Kennedy, manager of Kennedy Glass Inc.; Moody, incumbent commissioner and advertising representative for The Trading Post; Kyle Numbers, a truck driver; and Deitre Weillmer, a taxi driver.
To apply, the candidates must also be electors registered in Lawrence.
Mike Wildgen, city manager,
said Tuesday was the final day
for candidates to submit applications
with either a $10 fee or a petition signed by 50 registered voters in Lawrence.
Candidates must also pay a $30 fee to the Kansas Commission on Government Standards and Conduct, which oversees campaigns to ensure that funds are used properly.
The primary election will be held Feb. 25. The six candidates with the most votes will then proceed to the general election, which will be held April 1.
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