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Sunny. South wind 10 to 15 mph.
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HI: 56
LO: 38
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WHAT: Nourish International Giving Challenge
WHERE: 4th floor lobby, Kansas Union
WHEN: Noon
ABOUT: KU's Nourish International chapter is raising money for young women in Ghana. Africa to help teach them sustainable life and small business skills
WHAT: Workshop: "Resume Doctor"
WHERE: Edwards Campus, Overland Park
Tuesday, February 28
WHEN: 3 p.m.
ABOUT: Students on Edwards Campus can get their resumes reviewed before going on job interviews
WHAT: Everybody Cut Footloose
**WHAT:** Everybody cut Footwear
**WHEN:** Hashinger Hall
**WHEN:** 7 p.m.
**ABOUT:** Dress up in some '80s gear
and do some punch dancing
WHAT: Workshop: "Time Management"
WHERE: Room 204, JRP Hall
WHEN: 1 p.m.
ABOUT: Feeling bogged down with tests and projects? Learn how to juggle all your school work effectively
WHAT: Study Group: "Presidential Play-Rv-Play"
WHERE: Dole Institute of Politics
WHEN: 4 p.m.
WHEN: 4 p.m.
ABOUT: Political communications
expert Tom King talks about what goes into a presidential campaign
Wednesday, February 29
WHERE: Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas
Union
WHEN: 8 p.m.
ABOUT: Watch Kevin Bacon fight for
his right to dance
WHAT: Campus movie: "Footloose"
WHERE: Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas
Union
**WHAT:** Lecture. "Slimming Down in the 21st Century: America's New Defense Strategy"
21st Century America's New Defense Strategy"
WHERE: Centennial Room, Kansas Union
WHEN: 12 p.m.
ABOUT: Retired Army Colonel Kevin Benson talks about President Obama's new defense strategy and how it will change the nation
WHAT: Architecture, Design and Plannine Career Fair
WHERE: 5th floor, Kansas Union WHEN: 2 p.m.
ABOUT: Students in architecture, architectural engineering, design and urban planning programs can come learn about potential employers
WHAT: Lecture. "Civil Society and the Phoenix in the Ruins: Disaster, Carnival, Revolution and Public Joy"
WHERE: The Commune Hall
WHERE: The Commons, Spooner Hall
WHEN: 7:30 o.m.
ABOUT: Scholar Rebecca Solnit talks about how our society will really look when mankind returns to its original nature
Thursday, March 1
**WHAT:** Journalism Career Fair
**WHERE:** Kansas Room, Kansas Union
**WHEN:** 10 a.m.
**ABOUT:** Journalism students can come out and meet potential employers and find internship opportunities
WHAT: Rock Chalk Revue
WHEN: 7 p.m.
WHEN: / p.m.
ABOUT: Five teams Greek organizations put together original 20-minute musicals and compete for the title of best show, shows continue on Friday and Saturday
WHAT: Campus Movie: "J. Edgar"
WHAT: Campus Movie: "J. Edgar"
WHERE: Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas
Union
CAMPUS
ABOUT: Leonardo DiCaprio stars in a biopic about the controversial first FBI director; tickets cost $2 for students
WHEN: 8 p.m.
Student group turns litter into livelihood in Ghana
KELSEY CIPOLLA
kcipolla@kansan.com
In Lawrence, a plastic bag on the street is litter. In Ghana, that same bag is a weapon to fight poverty.
A new student group, Nourish International KU, is teaming up with students from the University of New Mexico and ABAN, an organization that helps single, teenage mothers in Accra, Ghana, turn discarded plastic bags into a fabric they can use to make the products the sell.
Adam Nicholson, the founder of Nourish International KU and a junior from Lawrence, said that ABAN's work helps both the women and the environment.
"They don't have a lot of clean water, so they buy it in these plastic bags," Nicholson said. "The bags usually just get discarded, thrown out. They just sit around and collect germs and make for a not very nice environment."
The women turn these bags into purses, wallets and beads
for bracelets, which club members have been selling in Lawrence this month.
The money raised will be used to improve the ABAN
If Nourish International can raise extra money, members will clean up a piece of land owned by ABAN to plant a garden and buy small farm animals, which would give the female workers an extra source of food and income.
The student group is currently raising money for a giving challenge with 14 Nourishment International chapters throughout the United States. The University has raised $825, and is in sixth place. Lawson, the ventures director for the group, said Nourish International's fundraising efforts will continue next month with a three-against-three basketball tournament and a March Madness bracket contest.
"It's really giving them a way to transition out of poverty, because poverty is such a cyclical trap," said Nicole Lawson, a senior from Shawnee. "This is a way to kind of break that trap. It allows for better education for their children, better nutrition."
workshop in Accra, where student volunteers plan to build an outdoor, covered work area this summer. The workshop will serve as a cooler work place during the hot summer months and give the women more space to work. Members also hope to install a new clay oven so the women can make more beads.
The group has already sold several shipments of the bracelets, but the bracelets are still
"It's really giving them a way to transition out of poverty, because poverty is such a cyclical trap."
available on the organization's Facebook page, along with information about donations. Jen Adams, a sophomore from Overland
NICOLLE LAWSON
Ventures Director of
Nourish International KU
Park, bought one of the ABAN bracelets earlier this month.
"It was cute, and I liked that there was a meaning behind it," Adams said.
Edited by Caroline Kraft
- A 25-year-old Lawrence man was arrested Sunday at 1:25 a.m. on the intersection of 19th and Ohio streets on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. Bond was set at $250.
- Information based on the Douglas County booking recap
- A 20-year-old Baldwin City man was arrested Sunday at 2:45 a.m. on the 300 block of Country Club Road on suspicion of battery. Bond was set at $100.
- A 20-year-old male University student was arrested Sunday at 1:15 a.m. on the 2500 block of West 31st Street on suspicion of domestic battery. Bond was not set.
- A 23-year-old female University student was arrested Saturday at 11:49 p.m. on the 900 block of Ohio Street on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. Bond was set at $250.
- A 25-year-old Eudora man was arrested Saturday at 10:15 p.m. on the intersection of West 24th Street and Murphy Drive on suspicion of possession of stolen property less than $1,000,
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- A 26-year-old Lawrence man was arrested Saturday at 2:39 p.m. on the 2700 block of Wakarusa Drive on suspicion of operating under the influence, driving while suspended or on and cancelled or expired license, driving while a habitual violator, and no insurance. Bond was set at $800.
- criminal felony possession of a firearm, obstructing the legal process and possessing an open container. Bond was set at $3,600.
- A 21-year-old male University student was arrested Saturday at 1:24 a.m. on the 1400 block of Memorial Drive on suspicion of operating under the influence. Bond was set at $500.
- A 25-year-old Eudora man was arrested Friday at 9:56 p.m. on the 3100 block of Iowa Street in relation to charges from September 16, 2011. He was charged with vehicle burglary, theft of property or services more than $1,000, and felony criminal possession of a firearm. Bond was set at $1,500.
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Santorum asks for a Karzai apology
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"The response needs to be apologized for by (President Hamid) Karzai and the Afghan people for attacking and killing our men and women in uniform and overreacting to this inadvertent mistake." Santorum said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "That is the real crime here, not what our soldiers did."
WASHINGTON — Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum criticized President Barack Obama's apology for the burning of Qurans in Afghanistan, adding that Afghanistan should apologize to the U.S. for the deaths of four U.S. soldiers during six days of violence sparked by the incident.
More than 30 people have been killed in clashes since it emerged Tuesday that copies of the Muslim holy book and other religious materials had been thrown into a fire pit used to burn garbage at Bagram Air Field, a large U.S. base north of Kabul.
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