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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2005
VOL.115 ISSUE 98
RELIGION O&A
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Professor encourages acceptance
University Daily Kansan staff writer Estuardo Garcia spoke with Akbar Ahmed earlier this week about issues Muslim Americans face in today's society. Ahmed is a professor and author of "Islam Under Siege." Ahmed will meet with students from 10 to 11:30 today at the Hall Center's Conference Hall for a question and answer session. He gave a lecture on Islam Under Siege last night at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
The title of your lecture and your book is "Islam Under Siege." What does the title mean?
BY ESTUARDO GARCIA
egarcia@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
If you talk to Muslims they feel they're under siege. If you talk to Americans they feel they're under siege. If you talk to Israelis they feel like they're under siege. And when societies are under siege they tend to be on the defensive.
They're not really outgoing, they're not communicating, and
Ahmed
yet this is a time when they need to reach out and need to build bridges.
Do you think that students from Middle Eastern countries studying abroad will help re-establish the
importance of education in the Muslim world?
It's very important for the Muslim world.
It is also very important for America because it builds bridges both ways.
If you don't have that bridge you don't have that link. Not only the Muslim world, but it's also the United States that desperately needs to win the hearts and minds of the Muslim world. And one of the great traditions of America was to attract students from the third world and developing worlds, and that is what America has to do again.
After September 11, there has
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HOLIDAY
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Alamgir Hossain, adviser to the KU Bangladesh Student Association, displays his son's drawing of the Shahid Minar. The monument was built to commemorate the martyrs of the historic Language Movement of 1952. Hossain will celebrate International Mother Language Day Sunday.
Language day celebration
BY ERIC SORRENTINO esorrentino@hansen.com KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Language is a manner of expression, but to the Bangladeshi people, it is a way of life.
The Bangla language was saved in 1971 when Bangladesh achieved its independence from Pakistan.
The Bangladesh Student Association of KU (BSAKU), along with the Bangladesh Association of Greater Kansas City (BSGKC), will bring Bangladesh heritage and tradition to Lawrence on Sunday.
"We feel very proud that there is no other nation in the world
Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan, preserved the language of Bangla through protests in 1952 after Pakistan attempted to standardize their own Urdu language countrywide, Hossain said.
that sacrificed lives for its mother tongue," said Alamgir Hossain, adviser to the BSAKU and post-doctoral student in chemistry from Faridpul. Bangladesh.
Hossain said it was important to preserve the language because he wanted to remember the four martyrs who sacrificed their lives in 1952. He also said that other countries celebrated linguistic diversity in
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STUDENT PROJECT
Mike Gonos, St. Louis third-year graduate student in architecture; Joe Davidson, fifth-year architecture student; and Randy Taylor, third-year graduate student in architecture, discuss the building plans Wednesday for the house they are building with their Studio 804 class. Students in the class designed the house, which will go to a Kansas City, Kan., family.
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Students design, construct house
Kansas City family to receive final product
BY NATE KARLIN
nkarlin@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Scott Clark virtually lives in a warehouse at the intersection of Seventh and New Jersey streets. Monday through Saturday his workday begins at 7:30 a.m., and, on some days, it doesn't end until 9 p.m. But this was the reason Clark came to the University of Kansas.
Clark, a graduate student from Columbia, Mo., is one of 18 architecture students in Studio 804 who, for the next four months, will build an entrylevel house for a family in Kansas City, Kan. The group has scheduled an open house visitation for May 21.
"It's pretty intense," Clark said. "It's expected though. I think that it's a lot more work than what we get in a regular studio. We actually get to put to
use, put into practice what we learn."
The 1,200 square-foot house will have two bedrooms and one bathroom and will be built over a full basement and garage, said Randy Taylor, St. James, Mo., graduate student.
The group of architecture students — 10 graduate students and eight fifth-year seniors — started the house's overall design on Jan. 3, but it continues to tweak it as the work progresses.
The group has completed much of the house's framing, flooring and temporary foundation after a week and a half of working. Taylor said.
The students built the frame on Monday and raised it on Tuesday. Before that, it took the students three days to lay the floor beams and a few days to fill in the foundation, he said.
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They were in charge of everything from design layout, to
Mike Gonos, thirdyear graduate student in architecture, checks to make sure a corner on the house is square Wednesday morning. Gonos worked on framing with other members of the Studio 804 class.
construction, to interior design. Taylor said. Sub-contractors will install critical elements such as electricity, plumbing, heating and ventilation, but the Studio 804 students had more responsibilities than than most professionals. Taylor said. Most professional architects design a building and oversee the construction contractor.
"I think this is unique in the sense we're actually building what we design." Taylor said.
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