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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2012
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NEWS OF THE WORLD
Associated Press
NORTH AMERICA
Judge orders investigations in consideration of killings
MEXICO CITY - A judge has ordered Mexican authorities to investigate the killings of women in the suburbs of Mexico City, reviving a sensitive issue related to a former governor who is a leading candidate in the presidential race.
Judge Jose Alvarado ruled a national, multi-government agency formed to fight violence against women should reconsider a request by activists to declare a state of alert for central Mexico State, women's rights activist Maria de la Luz Estrada said Tuesday.
Human rights groups say hundreds
of women have been killed or gone missing in recent years in that state, which lies next to Mexico City and is home to 13 million people.
Estrada said her group has documented more than 1,000 killings of women during the six-year administration of former Gov. Enrique Pena Nieto, who is a leading contender in the July 1 presidential election.
The issue recalled the campaign for justice waged by relatives of women killed in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, where dozens of women were tortured, raped and killed prompting a women's rights movement that
garnered international attention.
"Authorities in Mexico State don't investigate and instead blame the victims for their own deaths, or in many cases say they committed suicide, without doing a proper investigation," Estrada said.
The judge's ruling was aimed at the National Agency for Prevention and Eradication of Violence Against Women, which was formed in 2007 from federal, state and local agencies to declare violence alerts and follow up with education, prosecution and prevention programs.
MIDDLE EAST
Avalanche destorys village, 50 confirmed dead so far
JARF, Afghanistan — Rescuers shoveled through deep snow Wednesday, searching for victims of an avalanche that destroyed a village of about 200 people in northeastern Afghanistan, authorities said. Fifty people have been confirmed dead, and most of the other residents of the devastated village are also believed to have perished.
Only seven people are known to have survived the avalanche, which buried dozens of homes Sunday night
in Badakhshan province, said Sultanhamid, an employee of the Geneva-based Aga Khan Foundation who hiked to the site.
Four of the survivors were injured in the avalanche in Dasty village in the Darzab area, Sultanhamid said by telephone. The three others, two women and one child, were away from the village fetching water when tons of snow came crashing down, he said.
The 50 who have been confirmed dead included three who were found alive but died later because no
medical personnel have reached the site, said Sultanhamid, who uses only one name, like many Afghans. The dead also included 18 children and two teachers who were in a mosque when the avalanche hit. The bodies that have been found were buried under at least six feet of snow, he said.
Shams UI Rahman, the deputy governor of Badakshan province, expressed hope earlier in the day that some people might still be alive inside their homes.
ASIA
MOSCOW — Authorities in Moscow on Wednesday gave permission for another major protest rally this weekend, but one of the organizers warned that the turnout may be smaller than the huge throngs that came to previous demonstrations.
A wave of rallies in Moscow attracted crowds as big as 100,000, a stunning show of public opposition to Vladimir Putin. But after Putin's election on Sunday to a new six-year term as president, the opposition's ability to maintain that momentum is in doubt.
Putin won nearly 64 percent of the
Throngs of dissenters gather after Putin's re-election
vote but independent observers described widespread violations.
A protest the day after the election drew some 20,000 people. The latest protest has been authorized for Saturday on Novy Arbat, one of Moscow's major avenues.
But Boris Akunin, one of the rallies' organizers and a well-known novelists, said Wednesday that the "romantic phase of the protests is over" and he "would not be surprised" if the Saturday event attracted a smaller crowd, primarily made up of disgruntled observers who witnessed vote-rigging.
"People have realized that you cannot oppose robots from the riot police with white ribbons, white balloons and funny flash mobs." Akunin told reporters.
Several hundred people stayed on after Monday's rally but were swiftly dispersed and detained by riot policemen.
"People are feeling a kind of stupr," Aukun said. "This is natural. People need some time to think things over."
AFRICA
U.N. official compares Khartoum's military to Darfur
NAIROBI, Kenya — The former top U.N. humanitarian official in Sudan warned on Tuesday that Khartoum's military is carrying out crimes against humanity in the country's southern Nuba Mountains in acts that remind him of Darfur.
Following a visit to the southern part of Sudan, Mukesh Kapila said he saw military planes striking villagers, the destruction of food stocks and "literally a scorched-earth policy."
the Arab government targeted black tribes. Kapila served as the U.N.'s top humanitarian official in Sudan at the time. He said that world governments must now act to prevent another Darfur-type situation in the Nuba Mountains.
"When we were there we heard an Antonov (plane) above us," he said. "Women and children started running and going into the nooks and caves of a mountain, a small hill rather. ... We saw a burned-out village. As we left the border there was burned place after burned place after burned
place. There was hardly a person to be seen."
Kapila said the Nuba Mountains region is facing an oncoming hunger crisis because the region's residents haven't been working the fields for fear of overhead attack by military planes.
Sudan has refused to let aid agencies into the region. The U.N., the U.S. and other world governments and groups have condemned the attacks that are taking place against civilians.
THEATER
Cast of Williams' play describe experience
KELSEY CIPOLLA
kcipolla@kansan.com
Sexual tension, booze and heartbreak shape young lives in the heat of summer. No, it's not the plot for Jersey Shore, but "Summer and Smoke", the Tennessee Williams play being put on by the University Theatre Department this week.
TYLER BIERWIRTH/KANSAN FILE PHOTO
Mrs. Winemiller portrayed by Chandra Owenby Hopkins teases Alma Winemiller portrayed by Laura Williams during Kansas' production of Summer & Smoke directed by theatre doctoral student Boone Hopkins.
"Summer and Smoke" tells the story of the spiritual and sexual awakening of Alma Winemiller, the daughter of a preacher, who is trying to fight her long-time attraction to John Buchanan, Jr., a young doctor with a penchant for liquor and women.
"I think that's a story that a lot of students can relate to," said Boone Hopkins, the play's director and a doctoral student. "How do we find ourselves within this mine field of sexuality and passion? We have whole classes about that here at KU."
The play marks Hopkin's third time directing a University production, but he was particularly excited by this opportunity to stage a William's play that is often overlooked in favor of his more famous works.
Laura Williams, a senior from Lawrence, plays Alma, a role that she was nervous about tackling since the story is told from her perspective and requires a wide range of intense emotion.
"For me, the importance of finding the complexity and emotions came with time, and not with trying to capture them all at once," Williams said.
Developing her character and collaborating with fellow students and cast members with professional experience made the experience educational, said Williams. Hopkins saw students' progress throughout rehearsals and performances last week.
"These students bring such great energy because they're just so hungry to work on characters that are this complex," Hopkins said.
Danny Devlin, a doctoral student from Fairfax, Virg., plays John. Before coming to the University, Devlin spent several years acting professionally in Washington D.C., where plays are often rehearsed for two weeks and then performed. For this production, the rehearsal schedule was slowed down to three and a half
hours a day for six weeks. Adapting to being back in a University setting has been high point of this experience, said Devlin.
"What I tried to do consciously when I came back to the University model was to relearn the enjoyment of character creation," Devlin said.
He also couldn't resist the opportunity to star in a Williams play.
"It it doesn't get any better than Tennessee Williams," Devin said.
The play opened last week and showings continue in the CraftonPreyer Theatre in Murphy Hall at 7:30 on March 9 and 10 and at 2:30 p.m. March 11. Tickets are available from the Theatre department's website.
Edited by Max Rothman
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No charges have been filed.
think the 83-year-old man died of natural causes. The coroner is working to verify that part of the woman's story. Police have not identified the man or woman.
Associated Press
him would be difficult, but she never dumped his body as she had planned. The woman and her roommate recently went to police to tell their story after deputies came to the apartment when they wouldn't let maintenance workers inside the home.
St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain Jr. said Wednesday police
CRIME
Woman from Louisiana stores her dead father
Police say a Louisiana woman apparently kept her father's severed body in an ice chest at her apartment for at least two years as she collected his Social Security check.
Authorities say at some point, she cut off his hands so that identifying
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