THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 2012
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NEWS OF THE WORLD
Associated Press
AFRICA
Kony gains the world's attention online
KAMPALA, Uganda — If Joseph Kony lived in relative anonymity before this week, he's an internet star now.
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A video about the atrocities carried out by Kony's Lord's Resistance Army has gone viral, racking up millions more views seemingly by the hour.
The marketing campaign is an effort by the advocacy group Invisible Children to vastly increase awareness about a jungle militia leader who is wanted for atrocities by the International Criminal Court and is being hunted by 100 U.S. Special Forces advisers and local troops in four Central African countries.
Joseph Kony became known to the world this week after a 30-minute video on YouTube went viral.
The group's 30-minute video, which was released Monday, had more than 32 million views on YouTube by Thursday. The movie is part of an effort called KONY 2012 that targets Kony and the LRA.
But Kulaygey said that Kony's forces — once thousands strong — have been so degraded that he no longer considers
Kony a threat to the region. Because of the intensified hunt for Kony, his forces split into smaller groups that can travel the jungle more easily.
Experts estimate that the LRA now has only about 250 fighters. Still, the militia abducts children, forcing them to serve as soldiers or sex slaves, and even to kill their parents or each other to survive. The LRA now operates in Congo, the Central African Republic and South Sudan.
NORTH AMERICA
Koreas begin informal nuclear talks
NEW YORK Nuclear envoys of the rival Koreas have a chance for informal talks at an academic conference that began in New York Thursday as diplomacy on Pyongyang's atomic program gathers pace.
Former senior U.S. officials and Korea experts are also participating.
North Korea's representative to stalled six-nation disarmament talks, Ri Yong Ho, and his South Korean counterpart, Lim Sung-nam, are attending the two-day conference on Northeast Asian security, taking place behind closed doors at a hotel near the United Nations headquarters.
It was not immediately clear if the Korean envoys would meet face-to-face.
Washington wants to see improved inter-Korean relations before resuming the disarmament negotiations that the North withdrew from in 2009. The North has since conducted its second nuclear
test and unveiled a uranium enrichment program, that could give it an alternative means for producing fissile material for a bomb.
North Korea announced last week it would freeze its uranium enrichment and nuclear and long-range missile tests, and allow in U.N. nuclear inspectors — key U.S. conditions for restarting the six-nation talks that would determine what assistance the overpowered North would get for abandoning its nuclear weapons program.
In Beijing on Thursday, the U.S. and North Korea concluded their latest talks, aimed at finalizing the 240,000 tons of food aid that the North will receive for its nuclear freeze.
U. S. envoy on North Korean human rights issues, Robert King, said administrative issues on deliveries of the aid have been resolved, though details still remain to be settled.
AFRICA
South Africans protest for the poor
JOHANNESBURG — Tens of thousands of South Africans marched peacefully through their main cities Wednesday to demand the governing African National Congress do more for the poor.
Police estimate 50,000 people marched in Johannesburg, South Africa's economic hub. Smaller crowds turned out in Cape Town and other cities and towns for protests called by the Congress of South African Trade Unions, a close ally of the ANC, but often among its sharpest critics. The federation, known as COSATU, linked the protests to two ANC economic policy decisions. But the theme was broader than a pair of demands.
COSATU is concerned that after 18 years in power, the party has become complacent and needs to be pushed to replace corrupt or incompetent leaders with politicians who can deliver.
The marches come before an ANC policy-making conference in June and another meeting in December to elect top party leaders. The party that has been in power since the end of apartheid in 1994 is under pressure to show it can work more quickly to improve the lives of black South Africans.
Support from across the political, racial and economic spectrum emerged for one of the demands COSATU made Wednesday, that the government scrap planned tolls to pay for road upgrades in the Johannesburg area. COSATU says tolls will make life more expensive for the working class. Middle-class drivers also complained, and businesses don't want the cost of transporting goods to rise. The main opposition Democratic Alliance party has vowed to challenge the toll plan in court.
Santorum talks about blue collar roots
POLITICS
MARSHALL SCHMIDT
mschmidt@kansan.com
Presidential candidate Rick Santorum spoke about limited government, repealing Obamacare, and the threats of radical Islam during a rally in Lenexa on Wednesday. Santorum spoke at the rally, which took place at the warehouse of Harvest Grapes, to appeal to Kansas voters before the caucus this Saturday.
"We have a great opportunity in the next few weeks in this primary season to stand up to the establishment," Santorum said. "And have an insurgent candidate, a candidate who speaks to the people, who comes out of working-people towns."
Santorum emphasized his blue-collar roots and characterized his view of government as bottom-up instead of what he described as President Obama's top-down approach. The candidate said the president only
cared about making government bigger and making more people dependent on the president and the state. The candidate said this election was about freedom and called it the most important in American history.
"This is an election about what kind of country we are going to pass on to our children and grandchildren," Santorum said. "If we don't get it right, the idea that we can recapture freedom somewhere down the road — show me any civilization that's been able to do that."
Pledging to repeal the recent health care reform, the candidate even pulled a copy of the Constitution out of his pocket to demonstrate his dedication to freedom. Santorum then turned his attention to rival Mitt Romney, and compared the Massachusetts healthcare plan that Romney enacted as governor to the national healthcare reform.
Lasting just more than half an
hour, Santorum rounded out his speech by speaking about the dangers of Iran's radical theocracy and their pursuit of nuclear weapons. He also encouraged Kansans to turn out to vote.
"We're committed to doing really well," Santorum said. "And Kansas can lead the charge."
Only a few college students attended the event. Rose Morris and Alex Contreras, freshmen from Raytown, Mo., who attend Longview Community College, came to hear the speech. Both hope to attend the University after completing junior college and said their primary political issue was affordable higher education.
Contreras said he was still undecided on which candidate he was going to support, but said he came to the rally with an open mind. Now
Morris said she was concerned with government spending, especially on foreign wars. With many Santorum supporters
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MARGARET SUNITHANAN
Republican nominee candidate Rick Santorum talks with Kansans in Lenexa Wednesday. He spoke about how his views differ from President Obama.
sporting "Don't believe the liberal media" signs, Morris felt that staying informed was important, regardless of one's political beliefs.
"I think you have to research any of your views to see whether they're true or not." Morris said.
CAMPUS
Edited by Corinne Westeman
Revue nears millionth dollar raised since 1983
Five groups danced and sang in front of an audience of 1,100 people on Saturday night as the 63rd annual Rock Chalk Revue came to a close.
"A Letter For U," performed by members of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and Delta Gamma sorority, won the award for best overall show.
All proceeds from the performances went to the United Way of Douglas County, and this year, Rock Chalk Revue is working toward its one-millionth dollar raised for the organization since 1983.
WINNERS ARE AS FOLLOWS:
Best overall show: "A Letter for U," Sigma Phi Epsilon and Delta Gamma
Best female lead: "T" in "A Letter for U," played by Kristina Strader in Delta Gamma
Best male lead: "Ten of Hearts" in "It Suits You", played by Paul McArdle in Sigma Nu
Best supporting female: "Marley" in "A Campus Carol," played by Erin Robinson in Chi Omega
Best supporting male: "Jack of Spades" in "It Suits You," played by Jimmy Meyers in Sigma Nu
Best use of set: "Mail Story," Sigma Chi and Kappa Delta
Best original song: "A Campus Carol," Beta Theta Pi and Chi Omega
Best production number: "A Letter for U," Sigma Phi Epsilon and Delta Gamma
ELECTION
Best choreography: "A Letter For U," Sigma Phi Epsilon and Delta Gamma
Best costumes: "It Suits You, Sigma Nu and Delta Delta Delta"
Best use of theme in Script: "A Letter For U," Sigma Phi Epsilon and Delta Gamma
Best pre-show video: "It Suits You," Sigma Nu and Delta Delta Delta
— Kelsey Cipolla
The Kansas Caucus runs from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Lawrence Free State High School is the caucus site for Douglas County.
Viraj Amin
Presidential candidate Ron Paul to speak at KU
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The Texas congressman will speak at the University Lied Center at 7:30 p.m. on the eve of the Kansas Caucus. The event is sponsored by the Youth for Ron Paul chapter at the University. The chapter has recruited over 1600 supporters and has the second most supporters behind the University of Mavland.
Jessica Brink performs at rehearsal for the 63rd annual Rock Chalk Revue.
Presidential Candidate Ron Paul will be at the University of Kansas today.
Paul is currently in fourth place in the national polls, and finished third in the Kansas Caucus four years ago.
The event is free to the public and early seating vouchers are available on rponalapta.eventbrite.com. The vouchers are available all day and will allow you in at 6:30 p.m. while doors open for the general public at 7 p.m.
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