THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2012
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NEWS OF THE WORLD
AFRICA
Associated Press
Suicide car bomber attack outside of church kills family
JOS, Nigeria — A suicide car bomber detained his explosives outside a major church Sunday, killing three people and wounding 38 in a restive central Nigerian city that has seen hundreds die in religious and ethnic violence.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The radical Islamist sect Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the attack on the main headquarters of the Church of Christ in Nigeria that hit as worshippers took part in an early morning service. The attack follows other assaults the sect has claimed against Christians in Nigeria's north, widening distrust between the two main faiths in the multietnic nation of more than 160 million people.
A soldier walks past a damaged car following an explosion at Christ embassy church in Suleja, Nigeria, Feb. 19.
The attack killed a woman, and a father and his child near the explosion. Plateau state spokesman Pam Ayuba said. The bomber apparently ran down the woman while racing his car toward the church compound, said Mark Lipdo, a coordinator for a Christian group called the Stefanos Foundation. The blast left shattered glass all over the church compound, as an angry crowd of youths began smashing the windows of cars passing by the scene, witnesses said.
Emergency officials took 38 people to hospitals for treatment, said Yushau Shuaib, a spokesman with Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency.
in a statement, President Goodluck Jonathan condemned the attack.
Rebel group will no longer kidnap, freeing 'prisoners of war'
SOUTH AMERICA
BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia's main rebel group said Sunday it is abandoning the practice of kidnapping and will soon free its last remaining "prisoners of war," 10 security force members held for as long as 14 years.
The leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, announced on its website that it would no longer kidnap civilians "for financial ends," marking the first time the rebels have unequivocally renounced a tool they have long employed against Colombia's well-heeled.
The FARC did not provide a date for the liberation of the 10 security force
memoers, two fewer than the government says it holds.
Sunday's announcement could advance prospects for a peace dialogue sought by the rebels. The government has insisted the FARC end all kidnappings as a minimal first step.
"We value the FARC's announcement that it is renouncing kidnapping as an important and necessary, if insufficient, step in the right direction," he said.
The rebels did not say, however that they were was abandoning hostilities. The FARC has recently stepped up hit-and-run attacks and the military blames it for bombings and mortar attacks on two police posts in the past month that killed 15 people and wounded nearly 100, most of them civilians.
President Juan Manuel Santos responded to Sunday's statement positively via Twitter.
In the 1990s, kidnappings by the FARC or by criminal gangs that sold the abducted to the rebels helped make Colombia the world's kidnapping capital.
ASIA
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un threatened to launch a powerful retaliatory strike against South Korea if provoked, state media said Sunday, a day before the start of annual South Korean-U.S. military drills that Pyongyang calls an invasion rehearsal.
North Korean leader threatens strike against South Korea
South Korean and U.S. officials have said the 12-day, largely computer-simulated war games are defensive in nature.
Kim, supreme commander of the North's 1.2 million-member military, made the comment during a visit to front-line military units, including one
that shelled a South Korean island in 2010, according to the official Korean Central News Agency.
"He ordered them to make a powerful retaliatory strike at the enemy, should the enemy intrude even 0.001 millimeter into the waters of the country where its sovereignty is exercised," KCNA said. It did not say when Kim visited the units.
North Korea has regularly issued such rhetoric against joint South Korean-U.S. military exercises.
KCNA said fears of a war on the Korean peninsula have heightened due to the drills, which it called a "new war of aggression." North Korea's
powerful National Defense Commission threatened Saturday to wage a "sacred war" over the exercises.
North Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Kim met with China's chief nuclear envoy, Wu Daewell, and Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun separately on Saturday to discuss the stalled six-nuclear talks, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry. Further details were not disclosed.
More than three years have passed since the last session of the six-nation talks, which involve the United States, the two Koreas, China, Japan and Russia.
EUROPE
Second damaging quake hits Siberia in past two months
MOSCOW — A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 shook southwestern Siberia on Sunday afternoon, the second to hit the area in two months. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, emergency officials said.
Residents of multistory apartment buildings said objects tumbled off of shelves, windows rattled and chandeliers swayed during the quake, the RIA Novosti news agency reported.
A aquake of similar strength hit the same spot in late December. That quake damaged dozens of buildings, including a bridge over the Yenisei River to Mongolia.
The earthquake hit about 60 miles east of Kyzyl, the capital of
the russian republic of Tuva, which borders Mongolia.
Sunday's quake, which the U.S. Geological Survey said was centered 7.3 miles below the surface, was felt across a broad swat of southeastern Siberia.
CAMPUS
Ravazov, an official with the emergency services in Siberia. "Our specialists are inspecting the situation in the region."
"At the moment we have no information about any injuries or destroyed buildings," said Stanislav
Workers reported feeling the quake at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric plant, the largest in Russia, located more than 180 miles from the quake's epicenter.
The temblor also was felt in Krasnoyarsk, a large city about 600 miles away, emergency officials said.
Expo sparks interest for future students
MARSHALL SCHMIDT
mschmidt@kansan.com
More than 2,000 elementary, middle and high school students interested in science crowded Learned Hall all day Friday for the annual Engineering Expo, sponsored by Engineering Student Council. Three hundred engineering students volunteered to run the activities that promoted engineering concepts aimed at stimulating interest in the field for the visiting students.
"Although Expo is a great opportunity to recruit students, it's really about seeing these kids get truly excited about science, math and engineering, in hopes that they will pursue it in their futures," said Nicole Rissky, sophomore from Tecumseh and co-chair of the event.
This was the 101st Engineering Expo hosted at the University. This year's theme was "Engineering Expo: At the Top of Our Game."
Students came prepared for certain competitions including designing inventive gadgets to perform simple tasks called Rube Goldberg machines, constructing concrete load-bearing structures
The activities, put on by 32 student organizations, sought to incorporate board games and video games into promoting engineering as the top field in the world today, Risky said. Students learned about the University's various engineering disciplines including architecture, aerospace and mechanical through the activities, one of which was a classroom-sized Star Wars Monopoly game.
out of popsicle sticks, and building bridges with pasta.
Hadley Sis, a sophomore from Seattle, assisted with the trebuchet competition as part of student chapter of American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Sis saw that students going through the process of designing miniature trebuchets (catapults that were required to fling a racquetball 15 feet) as gaining hands-on experience with physics and mechanics.
“It's a really good opportunity to see what younger kids can do who are interested in the field of engineering," Sis said. "I think it's important for kids to see what it entails to be in a math and science field."
Emily Hull, a sixth grader from Eudora Middle School, and her two teammates prepared for three weeks building their trebuchet for the competition. This was the first year they were able to compete as school. Funding issues prevented them from attending last year.
"We know that we can work together long enough to make something as great as our trebuchet." Hull said. "I think KU worked really hard to set this up."
Using the engineering process, Hull's team researched previous designs, brainstormed ideas, simulated a model and tested the final design, which they called "Big Jay," making changes as needed.
Hull said she was more interested in attending the University for engineering someday because of this event.
Edited by Nadia Imafidon
SAN DIEGO — Their hometowns stretched from Connecticut to California. One young man was soon to become a father, another had just gotten engaged. One was a former youth pastor, while another was the son of one.
MEMORIAL
They were among the seven Marines killed in one of the Corps' deadliest aviation training accidents in years.
Families of dead marines share stories of loved ones
As their families grieved and shared memories, crews worked to clean up the accident site on a sprawling desert range near Yuma, Ariz.
The dead, part of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, were listed as Maj. Thomas A. Budrejk, 37, of Montville, Conn.; Capt. Michael M. Quin, 28, of Purcellville, Va.; Capt. Benjamin N. Cerniglia, 31, of Montgomery, Ala.; Sgt. Justin A. Everett, 33, of Clovis,
"Every single one of these Marines impacted our squadron in their own special way, and the entire Marine Corps aviation community is feeling their tragic loss," said Lt. Col. Stephen Lightfoot, commanding officer of the Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 469. "I ask that you pray for the families and friends of the warriors we have lost."
Calif.; Lance Cpl. Corey A. Little, 25, of Marietta, Ga.; Lance Cpl. Nickulaws H.elliott, 21, of Spokane, Wash., and Capt. Nathan W. Anderson, 32, of Amarillo, Texas.
Anderson was based in Yuma and the others were from Camp Pendleton in Southern California, the West Coast's largest base.
Officials said it could take weeks to determine what caused two helicopters, an AH-1 WCobra and a UH-1 Huey, to crash in midair during a routine exercise Wednesday night, killing all aboard the aircraft.
CLAIRE HOWARD/KANSAN
Emily Hull and Blake Reed. middle school students in Douglas County, load a projectile into the basket of a trebuchet during the trebuchet competition at the school of engineering's Engineering Expo on the lawn of Learned Hall Monday morning.
The Hall Center for the Humanities is looking for undergraduates with strong academic credentials who have demonstrated significant engagement within the university community. Hall Center Scholars interact with the well-known authors, scholars and public intellectuals who speak in our Humanities Lecture Series. The $500 award is sponsored by the Friends of the Hall Center.
KU HALL CENTER SCHOLAR AWARD 2012-2013
www.hallcenter.ku.edu/grants/undergrad/support for application guidelines.
The deadline for applications is Monday, March 12, 2012.
Questions may be directed to Associate Director Sally Utech at 864-7823 or sutech@ku.edu
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