THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY. APRIL 10, 2012
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NEWS OF THE WORLD
Associated Press
ASIA
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The Obama administration said Monday it would consider both a rocket launch and an underground nuclear test as highly provocative and leave Pyongyang more isolated.
South Korean Army soldiers watch a TV news program which shows North Korea's Unha-3 rocket at Seoul train station in Seoul, South Korea, Monday. North Korean space officials moved all three stages of the long-range rocket into position for a controversial launch.
"In the Security Council in New York, I anticipate that the council would convene to discuss this and to respond in a credible fashion, both to the missile launch and to any potential additional subsequent actions," she said.
Observers fear a repeat of 2009, when international criticism of the North's last long-range rocket launch prompted Pyongyang to walk away from nuclear disarmament negotiations and, weeks later, conduct its second nuclear test.
Officials suspect nuclear testing site
SEOUL, South Korea - Recent satellite images show North Korea is digging a new underground tunnel in what appears to be preparation for a third nuclear test, according to South Korean intelligence officials.
The excavation at North Korea's northeast Pungye-ri site, where nuclear tests were conducted in 2006 and 2009, is in its final stages, according to a report by intelligence officials that was shared Monday with The Associated Press.
Its release comes as North Korea prepares to launch a long-range rocket that Washington and others say is a cover for testing missile technology that could be used to fire on the United States.
"In each case this would be an indication of North Korea's decision at the leadership level not to take the steps that are necessary to allow
North Korea to end its isolation, to rejoin the community of nations and to do something about the extreme poverty and deprivation that its people suffer." White House spokesman Jay Carney told a news briefing in Washington.
Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and current Security Council president, told CNN on Monday that "either or both developments would be a blatant violation of North Korea's international obligations under Security Council resolutions."
AFRICA
Suicide car bombings kill victims of all religions, no arrests have been made
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People gathered around the wreckage of a damaged road side tea shop following an explosion in Kaduna, Nigeria Monday, April 9, 2012. A suicide car bomb killed at least 38 people in Nigeria over the weekend.
KADUNA, Nigeria — The suicide car bombing that killed at least 38 people in Nigeria claimed victims across its religious and ethnic lines, showing clearly everyone is at risk in this nation often violently divided against itself.
Young Muslim men of the Hausa Fulani people of Nigeria's north burned to death in Sunday's blast, pinned under the weight of their motorcycle taxis. A passer-by from Nigeria's southwest Yoruba people found himself thrown to the road in the explosion. The blast tore apart businesses owned by Christian Igbo people of the nation's southeast.
All those who spoke Monday said they wanted Nigeria's weak central government to stop the violence now spreading across the country, including attacks carried out by a radical Islamist sect. However, authorities in the northeast said the sect known as Boko Haram had killed
four people, as soldiers in the northern city of Kano found another car bomb ready to explode.
Sunday's blast struck the capital of Kaduna state, apparently after the suicide bomber turned away from attacking a church holding a morning Easter service. The car exploded at a busy junction about 200 meters (yards) away, tearing apart makeshift restaurants made of discarded lumber there serving cheap rice patties to the city's working poor.
No one has claimed responsibility for the blast, though suspicion immediately fell upon Boko Haram. Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is sacrilege" in the Hausa language of Nigeria's north, is waging an increasingly bloody fight with security agencies and the public. More than 390 people have been killed in violence blamed on the sect this year alone, according to an Associated Press count.
EUROPE
Museum refuses to 'glorify' Stalin
GORI, Georgia — A museum that has honored Josef Stalin in Georgia since 1937 is being remodeled to exhibit the atrocities that were committed during the Soviet dictator's rule.
Georgian Culture Minister Nika Rurua said Monday that his nation, which became independent in 1991, can no longer host a museum "glorifying the Soviet dictator."
Stalin was born Josef Dzhugashvili in the central Georgian town of Gori in 1879, and the museum opened here in 1937, at the height of purges that were later dubbed the Great Terror.
The gigantic museum includes
the house where Stalin was born and some 47,000 exhibits, including his personal belongings and death masks.
It remained open despite the de-Stalinization campaign and denunciation of his personality cult declared by Stalin's successor Nikita Khrushchev in 1956.
According to the prominent Russian right group Memorial, Stalin ordered the deaths of at least 724,000 people, while millions died as a result of the forced labor system in Gulags, the Soviet prison system.
ASIA
Civilians join military to fight al-Qaida
SANAA, Yemen — An al-Qaida attack Monday on a Yemeni army post in the south set off clashes that left 44 people dead and prompted local civilians to take up arms alongside the military to beat back the militants, said army officials and residents.
The dawn attack demonstrates how al-Qaida's branch in Yemen has exploited the political and security turmoil following the country's yearlong uprising, managing to take control of large swaths of land in the south and staging increasingly bold attacks on the military.
The officials said the militants attacked an army position in the town
Residents and military officials said 24 militants were killed in the clashes. Additionally, 14 soldiers, including a colonel, were killed battling the militants Monday, officials said.
Yemen's military in the south, poorly equipped and low on morale after a series of bloody al-Qaida attacks, has not been able to fight the group and its supporters alone. In cities like Lawder, residents have become fed up with the government's inability to protect them and, in a country where tribes posses weapons, have taken up arms to protect themselves.
CAMPUS
Rock wall name contest for rec comes to a close
Next week, students could be climbing The Chalk Rock, Jay Rock or Wilt "The Stilt" Chamberlain. All three names are finalists in the Ambler Student Recreation Center's competition to rename the rock wall.
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Kevin Dinh, a Junior from Liberal and member of the KU Rock Climbing club, boulders at the rock wall at the Ambler Student Recreation Center.
The competition was announced last month, and the submissions have been narrowed down to three. The competition was created to draw attention to the rec's Outdoor Pursuits Program, which includes the 42-foot rock wall, a challenge course and outdoor equipment rentals.
Finalists used different strategies to sell their ideas in brief YouTube videos. Davis Mcelwain's "The Chalk Rock" video featured enthusiastic toddlers clad in Jayhawk t-shirts yelling "Chalk Rock." Team Jay Rock, comprised of Julie Louau from Shawne and Amelia Wailou, proposed the name while climbing
the wall. Hannah Babcock from Bentonville, Ark., came up with Wilt "The Stilt" Chamberlain, and her proposal was given by an elderly man.
Rebecca Goering, the rec's communications coordinator, said that she received five entries. They were judged on
creativity, relevance and tastefulness.
So far "The Chalk Rock" has 80 percent of the 377 votes that have been cast. Voting is open through the rec's Facebook page until Friday. The winner will be announced Monday.
— Kelsey Cipolla
NATIONAL
Santorum's daughter may be released from hospital soon
WASHINGTON — GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum's hospitalized daughter could be released Monday, his campaign said.
Santorum spokesman Hogan Gidley said 3-year-old Bella was doing much better and could be discharged from a northern Virginia hospital by the end of the day.
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Bella was hospitalized Friday as her father began a brief holiday break from campaigning. He did not campaign Monday so he could be with his daughter, who suffers from a rare genetic condition called Trisomy 18.
"The family hopes to take her home from the hospital very soon," he said.
Santorum faces an uphill battle against front-runner Mitt Romney in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. The contest next turns to Santorum's home state of Pennsylvania, where both men plan to campaign heavily and where Romney is airing $2.9 million in TV ads against Santorum.
Gidley said Santorum's campaign schedule Tuesday would depend on his daughter's health, but that "we have a full day of events planned tomorrow, so he should be back on the campaign trail."
In deference to Bella's illness, Romney's campaign pulled down a harsh ad that was running against the former senator in Pennsylvania. Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul said Monday the campaign asked TV stations over the
Romney is far ahead of Santorum in the race for delegates to the Republican National Convention and is the likely GOP nominee. Santorum has said he won't drop out of the race, though he's acknowledged he will have to win Pennsylvania if his campaign is to survive.
weekend to pull the ad and replace it with a positive, pro-Romney spot instead.
Bella was hospitalized in January with pneumonia and Santorum left the campaign trail, ahead of the Florida primary, to care for her. The campaign has not provided details of her latest hospitalization.
While Bella doesn't travel with her father, she is a frequent presence in his campaign.
2012 Robert Hemenway Public Service Award
AWARD DESCRIPTION The Dole Institute of Politics established the Robert Hemenway Public Service Award in May of 2009, in honor of the 16th Chancellor of the University of Kansas upon his retirement. The $1,000 award is given annually to a junior student who has demonstrated a commitment to making a difference for KU students, and furthering the ideas of service on campus and within the community; the overriding criterion for this award is commitment to public service, with demonstrated leadership.
ELIGIBILITY:
Junior status for the Spring 2012 semester, with at least one year to complete at the University of Kansas.
- Complete the full application and write a 250 word essay to be hand-delivered to the Dole Institute by the posted deadline.
- Enrolled as a full-time University of Kansas undergraduate student during the 2012-2013 academic years.
Robert Hemenway & 2011 Hemenway Award winner, Stephanie Jian
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: Friday, April 13, 2012 by 4:00 P.M. Hand-deliver to the Dole Institute of Politics, 2350 Petefish Dr., Lawrence, KS.
Applications are available at the Dole Institute or online at www.doleinstitute.org/students-hemenway-award.shtml. You may find more info on our website or by calling 785-864-4900
ROBERT J. DOLE INSTITUTE OF POLITICS
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