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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, MARCH 30, 2009
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sign of progress."
Elizabeth Roybal, 2007 graduate, is a second-year member of the Teach for America corps in Las Vegas. She works as an eighth-grade English and publications teacher at Dell H. Robison Middle School and called Teach for America one of the hardest things she has ever done.
"You'll certainly get confronted with a lot of experiences that you're maybe not prepared for," Roybal said. "Going into it, my advice would be to just keep going and no matter what, work your hardest and never stop — always do what is in the best interest of the students."
Roybal said what kept her going was the 150 students she taught.
"They're counting on me to teach them information that they're already so far behind on due to their economic situation and where they live." Roybal said. "I'm always working toward doing my best work for them."
Kristen Watkins, Lenexa senior, will teach high school social studies in Dallas next year. Watkins already has some hands-on experience with the program after participating in an alternative break in Chicago last January, where she volunteered in a seventh-grade math and science classroom. She said that what these students were learning was two years behind what she learned when she was in seventh grade.
"I fell in love and I applied for it when I was still up in Chicago," Watkins said. "Seeing all the inequalities made me want to do it."
Teach for America corps members are paid a normal teacher's salary, which for Walberg will be $35,000. After six weeks of training in Chicago this summer, Walberg will begin teaching on August 11. He said he hoped to coach basketball at the middle school where he would be teaching and said he was extremely honored to have the job.
"It's a great corps program that's main mission is to close the education gap between classes in America," Walberg said. "It's really a program focused on giving a good education to every kid in America, because every kid does deserve a great education."
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sophomore, and vice president of KUCIC, said almost 160 women died daily because of medical complications during pregnancies in India. Save-A-Mother helps pregnant mothers with their diets, surgery or any medical issues that could result in maternal mortality, Desai said.
"Education is important and by educating this backward youth of India, somewhere we are further securing the future of the country and uplifting these poverty-ridden individuals," Desai said. "Being involved in any work which helps the needy provides me with great satisfaction and I consider that as the most efficient usage of my time."
Desai said there would be about 15 kinds of authentic Indian food and all the items would be prepared using Indian spices. She said the dinner would include several types of vegetarian and nonvegetarian curries, a variety of rices, several lentil soups, Indian snacks, also called "chaats," along with other side dishes and Indian sweet dishes. Also, Indian chai and lemonade would be provided, Desai said.
Loya said he helped make the Mattar Paneer, an Indian dish of peas and cheese. He said the Indian food would have spices from India that cannot be found in Lawrence, which gave students an opportunity to try food they had never eaten before while donating to help feed the hungry.
1 16-ounce bag of frozen green peas
3 medium size tomatoes
1/2 pound paneer
3 tablespoons oil
Pinch of asafetida (hing)
1 teaspoon cumin seeds (jeera)
2 bay leaves (tajpat)
1/2 inch of cinnamon stick (dalcheene)
1 tablespoon chopped ginger
1 tablespoon coriander powder (dhania)
1/2 teaspoon turmeric (haldi)
1/2 teaspoon chili powder
1/2 teaspoon paprika
1 teaspoon salt or adjust to taste
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1 tablespoon cornstarch
mattar paneer ingredients
mattar paneer recipe
1. Cube the paneer into half-inch pieces and deep-fry them on medium-high heat. Fry until the paneer becomes a light golden color. Take the paneer out and place on a paper towel so the extra oil is absorbed.
2. Mix cornstarch with three tablespoons of water and keep aside.
3. Blend the tomatoes and ginger to make a paste.
4. Heat the oil in a saucepan. Test the heat by adding one cumin seed to the oil. If the cumin seed cracks right away, the oil is ready.
5. Add the asafetida (hing), cumin seeds, bay leaves and cinnamon and stir-fry for a few seconds.
6. Add the tomatoes, coriander, turmeric, chili powder and paprika. Cook until the mixture reduces to half.
7. Add the green peas and 1/4 cup of water. Cook on medium heat. Pan should be covered. When the peas are tender, add the salt and paneer.
8. To thicken the gravy, add corn starch mix. Cover the pan and let it cook for 3 to 4 minutes.
Source: manjulaskitchen.com
authentic Indian food with real Indian spices"
"We really wanted to help a charity, but most students don't have the time to do lots of work." Loya said, "This way people can give money to the charity and eat
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ROBBERY AT
KNIFEPOINT IN OREAD
NEIGHBORHOOD
Police were called to a house near 11th and Vermont streets just after 1 a.m. in connection with an aggravated robbery and aggravated assault.
Three Lawrence residents, believed to be KU students, reported that they had been confronted by a man with a knife who demanded their wallets. The
suspect punched one of the victims and then fled, running northwest from the scene, Nickells said.
The suspect was described as a white male in his late 20s, about 5 feet and 9 inches tall, with a goatee and wearing a brown hoodie.
DISCHARGE OF A
FIREARM ON OAK
HILL AVENUE
Police were dispatched to
gunshots heard in the 1500 block of Oak Hill Avenue at 12:42 a.m.
Officers found bullet holes in a vehicle and a residence at the scene but no one was injured, Nickells said.
Anyone with any information relating to any of these crimes is asked to call the Lawrence Police Department at 785-832-7509 or leave an anonymous message at 785-832-TIPS.
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A Christian man guards the Kirkuk Cathedral in Kirkuk, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq. Thursday Seeking to head off a wave of ethnic violence, the United Nations will call for a new and risky power-sharing system of government in the northern region Kirkuk, according to officials in one of Iraq's most deeply divided provinces.
UN plan aims to steer Iraq from violence Plan proposes a power-sharing system
BY LARA JAKES Associated Press
KIRKUK, Iraq — Seeking to head off an explosion of ethnic violence, the United Nations will call for a power-sharing system of government for Iraq's deeply divided region of Kirkuk in the oil-rich north.
A draft U.N. plan, outlined to the Associated Press by two Western officials, aims to defuse dangerous tensions. Kurds, a majority in the region, have been trying to wrest control from Arabs, Turkomen and other rival ethnic groups. If open warfare breaks out, it could jeopardize the U.S. goal of stability across Iraq before elections at year's end.
Peaceful elections are critical to reducing the U.S. presence in Iraq, promised by President Barack Obama.
when its Baghdad headquarters was destroyed by a truck bomb. Now, officials in Kirkuk say the U.N. efforts may be the last chance for a peaceful outcome.
The U.N. has played only a minor role in Iraq since 2003,
Deputy Gov. Rakan Saeed al Jubouri, a Sunni Arab, agreed.
"Violence is very easy to start in Iraq," he said in a separate interview.
Kirkuk's future hinges on whether its 1.3 million people will be run by Baghdad or by Irbil, the capital of the politically autonomous Kurdistan region in northern Iraq.
Kurds make up an estimated 52 percent of Kirkuk's population. Arabs represent 35 percent. Kurds want the province to be wrapped into Kurdistan. Arabs and Turkomen vehemently oppose this.
The long-awaited U.N. report on Kirkuk will outline options for compromise, but "we are not pushing them into any particular direction," said spokeswoman Randa Jamal.
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MEDIA Huffington Post hires investigative journalists
NEW YORK — The Huffington Post said Sunday that it will bankroll a group of investigative journalists, directing them at first to look at stories about the nation's economy.
The Huffington Post Web site is a collection of opinionated blog entries and breaking news. It has seven staff reporters.
Work that the journalists produce will be available for any publication or Web site to use at the same time it is posted on The Huffington Post, she said.
The popular Web site collaborating with The Atlantic Philanthropies and other donors to launch the Huffington Post Investigative Fund with an initial budget of $1.75 million. That should be enough for 10 staff journalists who will primarily coordinate stories with freelancers, said Arianna Huffington, co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post.
AUTO INDUSTRY General Motors CEO may have plans to step down
DETROIT — A person with knowledge of General Motors' plans says Rick Wagoner will step down immediately as chairman and chief executive of the struggling Detroit automaker.
The person asked not to be identified because Wagoner's plans have not been formally announced.
The move comes on the eve of President Obama unveiling his plan to reinvigorate the U.S. auto industry. Obama and other administration officials have said they would demand deeper restructuring from General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC before they would get any more government loans.
Both companies are living on a total of $17.4 billion in federal aid.
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