MONDAY MARCH 31, 2008
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MONDAY,MARCH 31,2003
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CAMPUS
Speeches, events scheduled to celebrate 'Alpha Week'
"Alpha Week," a week of events and community service sponsored by the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, begins this week. Activities include:
Today — Round table discussion after Black Student Union meeting at the Burge Union.
■ Wednesday — "Am I mv brother's keeper," with Robert N. Page Jr., director of multicultural affairs, at 7 p.m. at the Big 12 Room in the Kansas Union.
■ Thursday — "Alphas vs. Kappas ball game" at 7:06 p.m. in Robinson Center.
Saturday — Tenth annual Club Alpha at 7:06 p.m. at the sixth floor of the Kansas Union.
■ Sunday — Worship service at 10:30 p.m. in the First Regular Missionary Baptist Church at 16th and Vermont streets.
Jessica Palimenio
Nuns argue 'free speech' after bloodying missile silo
NATION
DENVER — The nuns say they were exercising their right to free speech when they cut through a fence around a Minuteman III missile silo, used their own blood to paint a cross on the military structure and began swinging at it with hammers.
Prosecutors say those actions interfered with the national defense — a crime, that if a jury finds the women guilty, could put them behind bars for 20 years.
Dominican sisters Ardeth Platte, 66, Carol Gilbert, 55, and Jackie Hudson, 68, head to court today for a trial supporters say is ill-timed in the midst of war.
"If it had been Iraq and these nuns had found these weapons everyone would have praised them as heroes. And that's exactly the right response," said Anabel Dwyer, a legal adviser to Platte.
The nuns, jailed since their Oct. 6 protest near Greeley, maintain they were a "Citizens Weapons Inspections Team" that was symbolically disarming the United States They had argued their actions fell under principles established by the war crimes tribunal at Nuremberg after World War II. The United States endorsed the principle that people are obligated to disobey laws that lead to
crimes against humanity. But U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn ruled the defense may not be used at the trial.
The women will now argue they were exercising symbolic free speech, according to Walter Gerash, who represents Hudson.
Each faces one count of willful injury, interference or obstruction of national defense, which carries up to 20 years in prison, and a count of causing more than $1,000 in damage, which carries a maximum 10-year term.
Despite fears by supporters that the trials' timing would work against the nuns, Gerash said the sisters didn't want a delay. They are heartened by anti-war protests, he said.
WORLD
Iraq rewards family of 'martyr for killing four U.S. soldiers
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq gave $34,000 to the family of an Iraqi army officer who killed four U.S. soldiers in a suicide attack, and the leader of the militant group Islamic Jihad said yesterday its volunteers had gone to Baghdad for several bombing missions against the "American invasion." "Ali Jaafar al-Noamani, a noncommissioned officer with several children, was posthumously promoted to colonel and awarded two medals for the attack in Najaf that killed the unidentified Americans, Iraqi state television reported.
His family reportedly was given a fortune by Iraqi standards: 100 million dinars, the equivalent of $34,000.
In the Israeli coastal town of Netanya yesterday, an Islamic militant blew himself up in a crowded pedestrian mall, wounding 30 bystanders in what Islamic Jihad called "a gift to the heroic Iraqi people."
Ramadan Shailah, Islamic Jihad's leader in Damascus, Syria, also said the group already had "martyrdom seekers" in Iraq.
"This is fulfillment of the call of sacred duty ... an opportunity for Jihad and martyrdom is available now for the Islamic nation," he said.
Shallah urged "the entire (Islamic) nation, including the Jihad and resistance in Palestine, if they were able to get there, to fight side by side with the Iraqi people against this butcher Bush."
The Associated Press
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tonight at Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall. Call 864-3436.
Camera on KU
Josh Hill, Lawrence resident, celebrates his 12th birthday and a Kansas victory with his trumpet on Jayhawk Boulevard. Fans cheered, set off fireworks, flashed skin and honked horns on campus Saturday night after the Jayhawks' victory over Arizona.
To submit photos to Camera on KU, bring your photo to 111 Stauffer-Flint Hall. Place it in the On Campus mailbox and fill out a photo information sheet to identify your picture.
ON CAMPUS — For more events, go to kucalendar.com
Peter Mancall of the University of Southern California will give an Early Modern Lecture on "Hakliuyt's Promise" at 3:30 p.m. today at the conference room in the Hall Center for the Humanities, Call 864-4798.
Hitoshi Murayama of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will give a lecture on "The Next
twenty Years in Particle Physics" at 4 p.m. today at room 3005 in Malott. Call 864-4626.
The KU Tae Kwon Do Club will practice from 7 to 8:30 tonight at room 207 in Robinson Center. Contact Tim Forthman at 865-3913.
Jeff Bremer of the History and Western Civilization Departments will give a lecture on "A Species of Town-building Madness: The Boom and Bust of Quindaro, Kansas, 1856 to 1865" at 7:30 tonight at the Malott Room in the Kansas Union. Call 864-3011.
The School of Fine Arts will present a Graduate Honors Recital at 7:30
ON THE RECORD
A 22-year-old KU student told
A 27 year-old KU student told Lawrence police that someone damaged his 2000 Ford Taurus between 4:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in the 300 block of Northwood Lane, according to reports. Damage was estimated at $600
Lawrence police that someone stole her blue and gray Trek mountain bike between 6:30 p.m. March 22 and 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in the 3400 block of Aldrich Street, according to reports. The bike was valued at $375.
A21 year-old KU student told
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Lawrence police that someone damaged the passenger door and dashboard of his 1990 Honda Accord and took his CD stereo between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Tuesday in the 4800 block of West Sixth Street, according to reports. The loss was estimated at $900.
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