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April 2, 1999
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Vol. 109 • No. 122
Vol.109·No.122
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Wandering the Web
This week marks a convergence between two major world religions. Today is Good Friday, which marks the crucifixion and death of Jesus of Nazareth. It's also the second day of Passover, which celebrates the liberation of the Hebrews from slavery in Israel. There are plenty of resources on the Internet to help the faithful celebrate.
www.holidays.net/
peesover/seder.html
This Web site is devoted to the significance of the Passover Seder. It educates visitors about what is eaten at this ceremonial meal and why.
This Web site, maintained by the Vegetarian Resource Group, contains kosher Passover recipes for Jews who are vegetarians. They all look pretty tasty, so check them out!
www.vrg.org/recipes/
www.holidays.net/easter/
www.htm
www.execpc.com/~tmuth/
easter/holiday.htm
This is the traditional story of the passion and death of Christ. Holy Week and Lent are also explained here.
This Web site is devoted to Easter traditions from around the world, with special emphasis on the Eastern Orthodox church in Russia and Eastern Europe.
index.html
And now for something completely different—Eggs that have nothing to do with a holiday! This site explores the neat little goodies that programmers build into software, also known as Easter eggs. Have fun with this one.
www.promo-dex.com/eegg/
index.html
CONCERTCALENDAR
Tonight:
The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St. — Star 80
Brown Bear Brewing Co. 729 Massachusetts St. — Simplexity
Jazzhaus, 926 1/2 Massachusetts St. — Shaking Tree
- The Bottleneck - The Get Up Kids, The Higher Burning Fire, Richard Butler from the Farewell Band
Tomorrow:
Brown Bear Brewing Co. — The Mudslingers with Clay Goldstein
Jazzhaus - Tim Mahoney and the Meenies
The Bottleneck — Swing Set
Sunday
Index
News .2A
Movies .5A
Classifieds.4,5B
Coupons .3B
Sport of the Week .6B
Horoscopes .2B
A bridge on the Danube River in Novi Sad, Serbia, was destroyed Wednesday by NATO warplanes. Vladislava Gordic, assistant professor of American and English literature at the University of Novi Sad, said people cried on the river's bank because the bridge had symbolized anti-fascist resistance after World War II. KRT photo
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A Serbian professor expresses her fear that war may tear cultural and scholastic bonds in a time of ...
Academia under fire
By Mike Loader Special to the Kansan
Vladislava Gordic has canceled her classes.
An assistant professor of American and English literature at the University of Novi Sad in Serbia, Gordic has retreated to a shelter. Her campus, she reported, came under fire from NATO air attacks yesterday morning and was damaged heavily.
"There are no conditions for intellectual work," she said in an e-mail message. "My belief in the premises of Western civilization has been seriously shaken, although, while sitting in shelter, I try to focus on books and music which are the inherent part of the Western cultural heritage."
Professor Gordic has depended on the Internet, including message boards, to keep in contact with her
colleagues and friends overseas.
rier e-mail comments contained a sense of both confusion and anger, along with bafflement about the charges of ethnic cleansing that prompted the NATO air strikes.
"People think that Albanian problem is only an excuse for the disruption of Yugoslavia's integrity and sovereignty," she said.
Gordic said that she did not think coverage of the crisis by the Western media was accurate.
She also sent excerpts of her diary via e-mail, in which she wrote that the world seemed to be concerned about "a handful of Albanian refugees," noting that she had seen no television coverage to suggest that a mass exodus of ethnic Albanians from Kosovo or a humanitarian catastrophe was taking place.
The UN high commissioner for refugees said yesterday that more than 150,000 people had fled Kosovo since NATO air strikes began March 24.
Ted Wilson, KU professor of history, said there were historical examples of government censorship in wartime.
During World War I, proGerman reporting probably did not cross the ocean from Britain to the United States, Wilson said, because before the United States entered the war, Britain controlled the trans-Atlantic cable.
In an e-mail, Gordic requested that she not be
Belgrade residents rip up a U.S. flag during a protest. The protest concerning NATO airstrikes over Yugoslavia took place yesterday in Belgrade. NATO confirmed that three U.S. soldiers were captured by Serb forces. KRT photo
See SERBIAN on page 2A
U.S. working on soldiers' release
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Clinton pledged yesterday that the United States would do everything in its power to gain the return of three Army soldiers captured near the Yugoslav-Macedonia border, and he warned Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic that "the United States takes care of its own."
"President Milosevic should make no mistake: We will hold him and his government responsible for their safety and their well-being-"
Clinton said to emotional applause from service members gathered in a hangar at Norfolk Naval Base in Virginia.
Shortly before Clinton spoke, Yugoslav state-controlled television announced that the three soldiers would face criminal proceedings before a military court on Friday.
"There was absolutely no basis for them to be taken," Clinton said. "There is no basis for them to be held. There is certainly no basis for
See SOLDIERS on page 5A
Norm takes a seat
Missouri basketball coach Norm Stewart resigned today after 32 seasons. He says a popular KU student chant helped inspire him to make the decision.
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The School of Journalism today will unveil the Digital Jayhawk, an online news service for the university and the first of its kind in the United States.
On the cutting edge
A message of peace
See page 5A
Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Prize Laureate Oscar Arias Sanchez spoke last night about bringing peace to the world and abolishing poverty.
Sport of the Week
The Kansas men's and women's Ultimate Frisbee club teams have traveled around the United States since their inception, but this weekend they get to play host in the Fools Fest tournament.
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