THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2012
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NEWS OF THE WORLD
Associated Press
EUROPE
Cold snap freezes Black Sea as death toll rises in Poland
BELGRADE, Serbia — Authorities in Serbia say some 11,000 villagers are trapped by heavy snow and blizzards as a cold spell grips eastern Europe.
Europe's death toll from a week of frigid weather rose to 113 people Thursday with reports of 20 more deaths in Ukraine, nine more in Poland and one more in Serbia. Emergency crews were working overtime across the region as temperatures sank to minus 26.5 F.
Emergency police official Predrag Maric said Thursday those stranded people live in some 6,500 homes in remote mountainous areas of Serbia that cannot be reached by icy, snow-clogged roads.
Parts of the Black Sea froze near the Romanian coastline and the rare snow fell on Croatian islands in the Adriatic Sea. In Bulgaria, 16 towns recorded their lowest temperatures since records started 100 years ago. Officials appealed to the public Thursday to quickly help anyone they saw in need.
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A man looks at icicles on a window in Uzice 125 miles southwest of Belgrade, Serbia Thursday.
MIDDLE EAST
Pakistani Prime Minister to face contempt charge
Gilani
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's Supreme Court vowed Thursday to charge the prime minister with contempt for his failure to reopen an old corruption case against the president, ramping up a destabilizing political crisis just as Washington seeks to rebuild a troubled anti-terror alliance with the country.
If convicted, Prime Minister
Yusuf Raza Gilani could face six months in prison and the loss of his job.
Gilani told parliament Thursday that he will honor a summons to appear before the court on Feb. 13, when he is scheduled to be charged.
The announcement was a major escalation in a case that has dogged the democratically elected government since 2009, when the Supreme Court ordered it write to Swiss authorities requesting they reopen a corruption case against President Asif Ali Zardari that dates to the late 1990s.
The government has refused, claiming the president enjoys immunity from prosecution while in office.
In early January, the judges threatened to hold Gilani in contempt if he didn't write the letter, ordering him to make a rare appearance before the court to plead his case.
North Korean demands signal, new talks with South Korea
ASIA
PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea on Thursday demanded several tough preconditions for resuming talks with rival South Korea, as it backed away from earlier vows to shum Seoul's conservative leader in what could be a sign of conciliation.
South Korea quickly called the demands made in a statement by the Policy Department of the North's powerful National Defense Commission "unreasonable." But the timing of the statement, which follows comments Wednesday by a senior U.S. diplomat that Washington is open to diplomacy if Pyongyang improves ties with Seoul, and the change in tone after weeks of refusal to talk with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak could signal a willingness to ease tensions, analysts said.
The North's defense commission issued a list of nine conditions, including demands that South Korea apologize for failing to show proper respect to Kim Jong Il during the mourning period that followed the late leader's death.
The North also demanded an end to U.S.-South Korean military drills, which the allies hold regularly but that Pyongyang calls a rehearsal for war. A round of military exercises are to start later this month.
South Korea has called for dialogue as new North Korean leader Kim Jong Un tries to consolidate power and extend his family dynasty into a third generation following his father Kim Jong Il's death.
SOUTH AMERICA
Tricycle bomb kills six, wounds 20 in attack on police station
BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombian officials now say six people are dead and 20 wounded in an attack with homemade mortars on a police station in a western town.
Alarcon said it is premature to assign blame for the attack.
Thursday's attack on the police post in Villa Rica comes a day after a bomb planted in a tricycle outside a police station in the Pacific port of Tumaco killed nine people and injured another 76.
Cauca state police chief Col. Ricardo Alarcon tells The Associated Press that the dead Thursday include the Villa Rica police commander and five civilians.
Colombia's defense minister says leftist rebels in league with a drug-trafficking gang were behind the Tumaco attack.
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CAMPUS
Residents and police officers rush to the site where a bomb exploded outside a police station in Tumaco on Colombia's southern Pacific coast Tuesday.
Senate to open student graphic design shop
VIRAJ AMIN
vamin@kansan.com
Student Senate's two main projects for the spring semester seem to have a common theme technology.
Senators will celebrate the opening of their project - a student design center in the Kansas Union and will seek to help the University implement more technology into every classroom on campus. The student design center will be located on the fifth floor of the union.
Student body president Libby Johnson said Student Senate will employ students who are graphic design majors and they will create logos, flyers, t-shirt designs and any graphic that is requested for student organizations that need to market their events.
"We believe this will benefit student organizations because one of
the most important things for outreach of a student organization is to be recognizable," Johnson said.
"It will also benefit students to help build their portfolio," she said. "They would be working professionally with hands on work."
Job request forms will be available on Feb. 6, and the design center will open shortly after. Student groups will have a certain number of graphics designed for free, and after that there will be a charge that helps pay the design workers.
Eric Norton, a junior from Dodge City, said this program will benefit both student groups and graphic design majors.
"I think it will provide good job opportunities on campus for design majors, as well as provide valuable resources for students who are looking to give their organization a recognizable identity," Norton said. "This will also help the organization seem more organized and professional."
Johnson worked with a graduate focus group last semester; surveys were handed out to faculty members on their view of technology in the classroom.
Student Senate also wants to implement more technology in classrooms. Johnson said that it was inevitable that more technology will be seen in the classroom eventually.
Johnson will also be speaking with the University Senate at the end of February to get more feedback. She hopes to have a model statement that will be optional for faculty members to put in their syllabus.
"Technology in the classroom would be very beneficial for the student body," she said. "Textbooks could be a third of the price if bought through e-books."
Johnson said that while it would be helpful, there still are unan-
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swered questions in this project.
"We understand that technology can cause distractions, right now we are working to get teachers, faculty and the student body on the same page," she said. "However, we also understand technology is going to be ingrained in the classroom in five or 10 years. We would like KU to start talking about it so when the time comes we are ready for such changes."
Steven Matthew, a senior from Merriam, agrees more technology
in the classroom will be valuable.
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"Most kids bring laptops or tablets to class already. Why not make books available to us through e-book?" Matthew said.
"It would be a cheaper option and much easier, I would love to see them make more strides to adding technology in classrooms"
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Victor Trevino Jr., impersonating Elvis Presley, belts out a song while he dances to an Elvis classic at the Lied Center Thursday evening. Trevino Jr., along with a hefty backup cast, stopped in Lawrence as part of the nationwide tour. "Elvis Lives."
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STATE
Officials to investigate grain elevator explosion
The explosion was reported early Thursday at the Cairo Coop in Arlington, about 15 miles southwest of Hutchinson.
Associated Press
ARLINGTON Federal inspectors arrived Thursday at the scene of a central Kansas grain elevator explosion that injured one worker.
Reno County Sheriff Randy Henderson said one employee was taken to
a Wichita hospital with burns. The Hutchinson News reports that the worker was seriously injured, and that investigators from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration have arrived at the scene.
Bill Guy, Reno County emergency management director, said the injured employee was at the base of the elevator when the explosion occurred.
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