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The bands will
perform at the union
for a local homeless
shelter.
The Knehans will
move during the fall
into the residence
halls as part of
Faculty in Residence
program.
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Slobodan
Milosevic The
leader of Kosovo has
until noon Saturday
to agree to the deal
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“1 think it’s great that student*
want to support philanthropic caus-
es," said union administrator Clarke
Stroud.
The concert will be at 5 p.m. at the
Crossroads in the union.
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He has also gained recognition as
a presidential professor.
Joseph Ferretti, senior vice
Bandit Concert
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Call 325-2121 for ticket information
Martini Kings to play because they are a big,
local band.
They’re a really fun band," he said.
Paul Barsic, engineering physics senior
and co-founder and president of the OU
Dancesport Club, said swing music is fun,
with a rhythm that “just pushes forward.”
The thing I like about swing is it’s really
active,” he said.
Barsic did not begin swing dancing until
fall 1997 when the OU Dancesport Club was
founded
“(Swing) is a little more free than some
other dances," said Paul Warfel, biochem-
istry and zoology senior. Warfel is a co-
founder and lead instructor for the club.
Warfel competed as a ballroom dancer
and has taught ballroom dancing for 10
years. Ballroom dancing includes swmg.
The music is great,” he said, "rhe swing
beat is an all-American sound.”
Thursday night, OU Cousins learned
swing dancing from the Sooner Ballroom
Dance Club, another ballroom and swing
dance club at OU.
Becky Barker, assistant dean of students,
said free swing lessons will also be given at
7:30 today in the ballroom, before the
Martini Kings perform.
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age of Thursday’s sales to East
Main Place. The restaurant
donated 50 cents to the shelter
for every foot-long and 6-inch
sandwich sold and 25 cents for
every round sandwich sold.
Dawn Rainer, Subway man-
ager, said she wanted to help
after thinking of herself in the
same situation as the shelter's
residents.
“1 think community help is
important," she said. “Any time
you think of being in those peo-
ple’s shoes, having their home
taken away, you think to your-
self, 'would you want your home
taken away?’"
Rainer said lunch sales were
great and expected good sales
during dinner.
The shelter found out in
December that it might have to
shut its doors because of lack of
funding. The shelter had been
running operations with HUD
grants, but 1997 and 1998
applications for the grant were
denied.
The scheduled closing date is
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Main Place Homeless Shelter open a
little longer and enjoy music from
metro bands for $5, said Laura
Wegener, union program coordina-
tor.
The homeless shelter needs
$15,000 a month to remain open for
its 40 to 50 residents.
East Main Place lost its federal
funding in January and will shut
down Feb. 26 unless $13,000 is
raised, said Chris Medford, the
Cleveland County area coordinator.
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CLEAN-UP TIME — Lavonna Sparks, job developer specialist, cleans the playground at the shelter.
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His father, Allen Knehans,
will become the first faculty
member from the Health
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New professor to join
Faculty in Residence
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WASHINGTON — With time running out for a
political settlement, NATO reviewed possible Serb tar-
gets in and around Kosovo, and the Clinton adminis-
tration warned President Slolxidan Milosevic on
Thursday to chrsise peace with ethnic Albanians or
face a devastating military strike.
“He will be hit hard, and he will lie deprived of the
things that he values," warned Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright, who planned
to return to the peace talks txxlay
in Ramliouillet, France.
If an attack were ordered, scores
of sea-launched 'Ibmahawk mis-
siles would hit Serf) air-defense
sites and radar facilities first, then
vital command centers and bar-
racks in what likely would l)e a lim-
ited NATO strike, Pentagon plan-
ners said. They cautioned, howev-
er, that a more aggressive attack
plan is being considered.
In their second week of peace
talks, the Serbs and ethnic Albanians have until noon
Saturday to reach agreement on a self-rule plan for
Kosovo, a Serbian province. Mediators at Rambouillet
presented the two sides a final version Thursday of a
proposed political settlement.
Albright and Norwegian Foreign Minister Knut
Vollebaek, chairman of the Organization for Security
and Cooperation in Europe, pointedly reminded
Milosevic that if he doesn't accept NAT<) peacekeeping
ground tnxips as part of any Kosovo agreement, hi*
will face military consequences. So far, Milosevic has
rejected the NATO plan to send 28,(MM) ground tnxips
to the province.
Demonstrating the seriousness of NATO threats,
the United States has started planning to evacuate
the U.S. Embassy at Belgrade, and 1,300 internation-
al “verifiers" monitoring Kosovo under OSCE authori-
ty also are prepared to leave.
Nonessential embassy staff could leave as early as
txxlay, said a U.S. embassy official, speaking on condi-
tion of anonymity.
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Featured bands will be The Mike
Hosty Trio, Sean Na Na, The
Mimsies, Traindodge, 30 Seconds to
Disenchantment, The Problem-
Adiets, P.C.S. and Altamont
Speedway, Wegener said.
“Sooners really care about peo-
ple,” said Kyle Pennington, finance
senior. “I hope it’s a success,"
The concert is sponsored by the
Union Programming Board and
donations will be accepted, Wegener
said.
Kosovo peace
NATO reviewed possible targets
in Serbia as talks neared
completion.
nutritional sciences in the
College of Allied Health, will
move into a faculty apartment in
one of the residence halls with
his wife, Jean, this fall.
“This is another way to inter-
act with the students,” Allen
Knehans said. “I enjoy teaching
— I eiyoy working with stu-
dents.”
Allen Knehans also teaches an
introduction nutrition class on
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Local bands will invade the
Oklahoma Memorial Union on
Saturday for a concert benefiting
Norman's largest homeless shelter.
Students can try to keep East
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East Main Place
may have to close
Feb. 26.
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The fate of Norman’s largest
homeless shelter continues to
hang in the air.
Efforts are being made with-
in the community to keep East
Main Place open, but the shel-
ter’s future will not be certain
until Wednesday, said Chris
Medford, Cleveland County
area coordinator.
Medford said they have some
positive things in the works,
but was unable to comment on
anything specifically.
“I think we'll be able to buy
ourselves some time,” she said.
“If we can gain some positive
momentum, than maybe we can
see it snowball into something
really positive."
Medford said many
Cleveland County churches and
non-profit organizations have
offered help.
The Subway at 1000
Alameda St. donated a percent-
Free dance lessons will be
given at 7:30 p.m. today
before the Martini Kings
take the stage.
Christy Goelz
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OU students can jump, jive and wail with
the Martini Kings at 8 tonight in the ball-
room of Oklahoma Memorial Union.
Tom Karnowski, Union Programming
Board president and electrical engineering
junior, said “everybody, their mother and
their dogs" are invited to the show. The show
is free and open to the public.
The Martini Kings, a local swing band,
will play from 8 until midnight, with breaks,
Karnowski said. He said during the breaks a
disk jockey will perform and the OU
Dancesport Club will give free lessons.
Laura Wegener, Union program coordina-
tor, said the UPB decided to hold a swing
concert because organizers thought there
were students who may not have had a
chance to try swing dancing.
“It just kind of seems like a popular thing
to do right now," she said.
Karnowski said the board wanted the
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John Knehans remembers
when his dad would eat lunch the Norman campus. He started
with him at his preschool, which working at OU in 1982, and in
was across from his dad's office
in Burton Hall.
Knehans, pre-social work
junior, will be able to relive those
memories with his dad again at president and provost at the
HSC, said Allen Knehans will be
a great representative for the
HSC.
from the Health “I am thrilled that faculty
Sciences Center to participate in from our campus can be repre-
the Faculty in Residence pro- sented on the Norman campus,”
gram on the OU campus.
Allen Knehans, a professor of
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