4A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2005
CAMPUS
Film about Senegalese life to be shown at Kansas Union
The African Students Association will show the film "Faat Kin" at 7 p.m tomorrow at the Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
A table fit for a justice
The movie, from director. Ousmane Sembene,
was first released in 2000.
Ugo Okoronkwo, Nigeria freshman, said the movie, which focuses on single mother's struggle in Senegal, was a mix of comedy and drama.
The movie is free to the public and will be followed by a discussion about the film.
Estuardo Garcia
SUA sells out Carnaval tickets for Saturday's celebration
Mardi Gras came early this year, but for the Brazilian Students Association, March is its time to party.
Tomorrow night members of the association will hold its yearly Carnival celebration at Abe and Jake's Landing, 8 E. Sixth St.
Barbara Alves, São Paulo senior and vice president of the association, said KU alumni from Brazil come from all over the United States for the party.
Student Union Activities has sold out of tickets for the event. Alves said that Abe and Jake's held 900 people and that Carnaval sold out every year,
The association will pick up about 150 more tickets for SUA to sell. The remaining tickets will be sold in front of Abe and Jake's between 4 and 6 p.m. Saturday. The tickets will be sold for $15.
Estuardo Garcia
Brent Metz, assistant director of Latin American studies, said that Carnaval was a celebration where the "poor and rich would come together to let off some steam."
Nicoletta Niosi/KANSAN
The former president of Ecuador will speak about globalization today at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics.
Former president of Ecuador to speak about globalization
Rodrigo Borja, who was president from 1988 to 1992, will present "Globalization and Its Consequences in Latin America," at 3:30 p.m.
Porntida Treemaneekarn, Lawrence sophomore, and Whitney Fox, Catering Coordinator for KU Catering, prepare dining tables in the Kansas Union Ballroom yesterday. KU Catering was preparing for a dinner hosted by the School of Law for visiting Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
The event is free and open to the public. Bill Lacy, director of the Dole Institute, said he was excited to bring someone of Borja's prominence to the Institute.
The event is free and open to the public.
"This is to allow students and adults as many opportunities to rub elbows with leaders and politicians," Lacy said.
The event is co-sponsored by the University's Latin American studies department.
— Nate Karlin
NATION
Suicide bomb kills 47 injures 100 at funeral
MOSUL, Iraq — A suicide attacker set off a bomb that tore through a funeral tent jammed with Shiite mourners yesterday, splattering blood and body parts over rows of overturned white plastic chairs. The attack, which killed 47 and wounded more than 100, came as Shiite and Kurdish politicians in Baghdad said they overcame a major stumbling block to forming a new coalition government. The explosion, in a working class neighborhood of this northern city, destroyed a large tent pitched next to a smaller one on a grassy patch in the courtyard of a mosque. Survivors scrambled to get
The Associated Press
the wounded to a hospital, lugging them to ambulances and cars in blankets or prayer rugs as a strong smell of gunpowder filled the yard.
CHICAGO — A man who filed bizarre, rambling lawsuits over his cancer treatment shot himself to death during a traffic stop outside Milwaukee and left a suicide note claiming he killed the husband and mother of a federal judge who ruled against him, police said yesterday.
Man admits to murder commits suicide in car
Bart Ross, a 57-year-old electrician from Chicago, committed suicide Wednesday in West Allis, Wis., after a police officer pulled him over because of a broken taillight.
Chicago Police Superintendent Phil Cline did not declare the murders of federal judge Joan Lefkow's relatives solved. But, he said, "We're satisfied that there's information in the letter that would point us to Ross being in Lefkow's house."
The Associated Press
Discovery may lead to elderly blindness cure
WASHINGTON — The leading cause of blindness in the elderly, age-related macular degeneration, has been linked to a gene mutation, raising hopes of earlier detection and possible treatment.
Fifteen million Americans have the disease, and that number is expected to double as baby
boomers age.
Being able to relate a gene mutation to the likelihood of developing the illness may lead to better tests and eventually treatments, the scientists hope.
"I don't think it's going to be a year or two ... but I guess less than 10 years before a treatment might become available," said Albert O. Edwards, the lead researcher for one of three sets of researchers reporting on the link.
Macular degeneration causes the central region of the eye's retina to deteriorate, damaging or destroying vision. For now, there are no broadly effective treatments, though a recently approved drug can slow the disease for some patients.
The Associated Press
Checkout the latest spring styles from...
Steve Madden Chinese Laundry Teva Camper Diesel BCBGirls Franco Sarto Merrell Keen Mia & Others
ARSENBERG'S SHOES
825 MASSACHUSETTS in Downtown Lawrence 843-3470 Check us out online @ www.arsenbergshoes.com