6A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
MONDAY, IANUARY 30, 2006
MULTICULTURALISM
David Noffsinger/KANSAN
Laewood junior Mike Sothan rolls out dough for Chinese dumplings Friday afternoon at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries. KU students and other volunteers prepared traditional Chinese and Korean dishes for the evening's Chinese New Year celebration. The celebration was put on by the Center for East Asian Studies.
Community takes part in Chinese New Year
BY ANNE WELTNER
aweltner@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
The Chinese Students and Scholars Friendship Association shared a Chinese tradition with a crowd of over 300 people Saturday night at its annual Chinese
New Year show at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
The show featured CSSFA and University and Lawrence community members in a 13 act show. The show included traditional music, martial arts, singing, skits and even a fashion show.
munications and propaganda coordinator and Qsingtao graduate student, said in China the New Year is to celebrate the harvest and the start of the next spring.
Gong said China's biggest television network, CCTV-1, organizes and broadcasts a celebration that millions of people watch.
Qinqin Gong, CSSFA com-
ern families use it to get together and visit.
The holiday has been around for as long as the lunar calender thousands of years—but mod-
On a smaller scale, CSSPA brought that celebration to the University Saturday night.
In attendance were not only some of the over 200 members of the club, but also members of the University, Lawrence and Kansas City communities.
The occasion was eclectic in all senses. Red New Year charms that bring luck and happiness hung from the doors and were
carried throughout the auditorium by those in attendance.
People in bright-colored, traditional clothing moved in and out of the auditorium, pausing to chat and watch the performances and children playing in the aisles with plastic dinosaurs.
with modern elements, such as references to Monica and Chandler in the television show "Friends" and Kate Winslet and Leonardo Dicaprio's characters "flying" at the bow of the Titanic to Celine Dion's popular theme song. A dinner of special food for the Chinese New Year followed the performances, said Ji Hong, Wuxi sophomore and CSSFA webmaster. The dinner included dumplings and oolong tea, a mix of red and black tea. Red is the symbol for happiness and good luck in the New Year, Hong said.
Lei Zhang, a researcher in the chemistry department, attended with his family. Zhang's wife, Rongti Li, said she is from Shandong and enjoyed the show.
The martial arts act showed demonstrations not only from China, but Japan, Brazil and Korea.
One of the skits incorporated a traditional Chinese story called "Journey to the West"
— Edited by Janicce Gatson
Models display oriental dresses on stage Saturday at the Chinese New Year performance at Woodruff Auditorium. The "Mandarin Gown Show" was one of many performances throughout the night. The show was put on by the Chinese Students and Scholars Friendship Association of KU.
David Noffsinger/KANSAN
WAR IN IRAQ
ABC's anchor, cameraman seriously injured in Iraq
DAVID BAUDER
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — ABC "World News Tonight" co-anchor Bob Woodruff and a cameraman were seriously injured Sunday when the Iraqi Army vehicle they were traveling in was attacked with an explosive device.
Both journalist suffered head injuries, and Woodruff also has broken bones. They were in stable condition following surgery at a U.S. military hospital in Iraq, and due to be evacuated to medical facilities in Germany, probably overnight, said ABC News President David Westin.
"We take this as good news, but the next few days will be critical." Westin said.
Woodruff and Doug Vogt, an award-winning cameraman, were embedded with the 4th Infantry Division and traveling
in a convoy with U.S. and Iraqi troops near Taji, about 12 miles north of Baghdad.
They were wearing body armor and helmets but were standing up in the hatch of the mechanized vehicle when the device exploded, exposing them to shrapnel. An Iraqi soldier was also hurt in the explosion.
ABC said the men were in the Iraqi vehicle considered less secure than U.S. military equipment — to get the perspective of the Iraqi military. They were aware the Iraqi forces are the frequent targets of insurgent attacks, the network said.
"He wanted to get out and report the story and not be locked in and taking information from someone else who was experiencing it," ABC senior producer Kate Felsen said.
She said she spoke with Woodruff and Vogt after the attack.
"Doug was conscious, and I was able to reassure him we were getting them care. I spoke to Bob also and walked with them to the helicopter," Felsen said
The U.S. military confirmed that Woodruff and Vogt were injured in the midday attack and said an investigation is under way.
Woodruff, a father of four, has been at ABC News since 1996 He grew up in Michigan and became a corporate lawyer in New
York, but changed fields soon after a stint teaching law in Beijing in 1989 and helping CBS News during the Tiananmen Square uprising.
NBC "Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams said he had been in touch with Woodruff's family and is praying for the families of both men.
"There is no way to cover the story in Iraq without exposure to danger," he said.
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