THE UNIVERSITY DARY KANSAN
MONDAY, MARCH 9 2009
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Hiroshima Exhibit shines light on nuclear proliferation
Exhibit will teach about bombings, personal human tragedy
BY DAVID UGARTE
dugarte@kansan.com
As a part of the Hiroshima Nagasaki 101 exhibit campaign, the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Exhibit opened Sunday at the Nunemaker Center. The exhibit includes posters showing pictures, charts and information about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as well as a documentary about the bombings, victims and survivors.
Katherine Logan, administration associate for the University of Kansas, served as the group leader for the Peace with justice team, which set up the exhibit. Logan said the exhibit would focus on the bombings, the personal human tragedy and more generally about nuclear proliferation.
The exhibit would make people think about the real impact of nuclear weapons and why they are not a good idea, Logan said.
"I think it's a good opportunity to bring people together who are interested in peace and nuclear
proterioner to talk about it,
Logan said. "I am very happy to be working on it."
Attendees of the exhibit can make paper cranes, using instructions provided. Logan said she hoped to
collect 1000 paper cranes for the exhibit. Near the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Japan, 10 million paper cranes are donated each year to The Children's Peace Monument that stands in Peace Park.
Nobuyuki Tsuchiya, Fukui Prefecture, Japan, graduate student, helped set up and organize
HIROSHIMA NAGASAKI 101 EXHIBIT CAMPAIGN
WHAT: The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Exhibit
WHERE: March 8 to 15
WHERE: The Nunemaker Center, 1506 Engel Rd., is open 4 to 10 p.m. Sundays, 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and is closed on Saturdays. From March 29 to April 29 the exhibit will be in the Lawrence Public Library.
the exhibit and assisted in translating for the Japanese speakers. Tsuchiya said the event was meant to teach a historical lesson and
to help remind students of the results of using atomic bombs so they would never be used again.
"The wars and battles in the world never vanish."
"The wars and battles in the world never vanish," Tsuchiya said.
Ecumenical
"I wish more people would see it. I think it could have a very big impact on people."
Ecumenical Christian Ministries and the KU Honors Program student council
NOBUYUKI TSUCHIYA Graduate student
are hosting the event, with support from the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Japan.
LAUREN TULLIS
Carl Junction, Mo.
junior
support it.
at the exhibit. Accompanying Masuoka was Yuki Miyamoto, an assistant professor of religious studies at DePaul University and
Lauren Tullis, Carl Junction, Mo., junior, is involved in the ECM and said she came to the opening of the exhibit to
"I think that it's really powerful," Tullis said. "I wish more people would see it. I wish it could have a very big impact on people."
For the first day of the exhibit, Sachiko Masuoka, a survivor of the bombing in Hiroshima, spoke
daughter of an atomic bomb survivor.
"My goal would be for us to think about this issue more seriously. It is very relevant to our lives, yet it has not been treated so," Miyamoto said. "Ms. Musuoka would like to say the abolishment of war
in general; the city's goal would be the abolishment of nuclear weaponry"
Miyamoto helps translate for Masuoka whenever they speak at exhibits. Miyamoto said together they had spoken at several exhibits since the summer of 2007.
"I believe in us creating our own future," Miyamoto said. "And the youth in the United States is my hope."
Miyamoto said she felt fortunate to get to know Masuoka and touring with her was an inspiring and humbling experience.
"It is amazing to see her willingness to talk about her experiences, though she is very humble," Miyamoto said.
Edited by Sam Speer
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Takashi Kinoshi, Japanese exchange student (middle), teaches Hilyar Ferguson, Lawrence freshman, and Kevin Fincher, Birmingham, Ala., junior, how to make a paper crane. The paper cranes will be dried at Hiroshima.
Jerry Wanq/KANSAN
Sachiko Masuoka, a survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, speaks to an audience at the Numeraker Center Sunday afternoon about her experience. Masuoka was accompanied by Miyako Mikamiya, an assistant professor at Depal University and the daughter of an atomic bomb survivor.
POLITICS
100th senator still unknown
Al Franken and Norm Coleman battle for Minnesota representation
BY BRIAN BAKST Associated Press
More than four months after Election Day, Minnesota voters are only marginally closer to knowing whether Democrat Al Franken or Republican Norm Coleman will represent them in Washington.
ST. PAUL, Minn. — What lasts longer than a Minnesota winter? The struggle to choose the nation's 100th senator.
The stakes go beyond Minnesota: Franken would put Democrats in position to muscle their agenda through with barely any Republican
help, and he could be a differencemaker on the federal budget and a proposal giving labor unions a leg up on management when organizing.
the statewide recount ended two months ago, with Franken ahead by
225 votes out of 2.9 million cast. Coleman had held a similar sized lead heading into the recount. The campaigns are now arguing in a special court whether the latest tally is accurate.
Coleman, whose term expired Jan. 3, argues that absentee voters were treated differently based on where they lived and that officials made mistakes that gave some people two votes. Until those and other irregularities are accounted for, his lawyers say, it's impossible for the public to have faith in the result.
Franken's lawyers counter that the election was as precise as humanly possible. Six weeks into the trial, they say Coleman has failed to prove to a three-judge panel that there were enough errors to reverse the outcome.
"They're willing to let Minnesota have one senator in order to delay my getting there."
The trial has delved into voter
AL FRANKEN Democratic candidate
"I would readily concede that our system is not perfect, but it stands up favorably to other activities," Mansky said. "The attorneys
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Joe Mansky, who oversees voting in Ramsey County, said elections just can't be calibrated for a race this close. The margin between Franken and Coleman is seven one-thousandths of a percent, closer than any other Senate election in history.
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are not in court to tell people what a great job we're doing. They're here to highlight the problems."
Coleman appears in court a few times a week, joting notes during testimony and conferring with his attorneys.
Franken steers clear of the courtroom. Aides say he is boring up on matters before Congress and sketching out a staff so he can jump right in if he prevails. He unsuccessfully asked the state's Supreme Court for an election certificate enabling him to take office before the lawsuit reaches its end.
Franken steers
Franken, a former "Saturday Night Live" comic, wonders whether Republicans will push Coleman to keep the race tied up in court.
"They don't want this extra vote," Franken said. "They're willing to let Minnesota have one senator in order to delay my getting there."
Coleman acknowledges the Senate makeup heightens interest on the outcome, acknowledging a Franken win would put Democrats "one vote away from being filibuster-proof, one vote away from having a lock on the House, the Senate and the presidency."
Coleman said he's focused on making his case in trial, and he won't get into what lies ahead if he doesn't succeed.
"I'm not in this to prolong it. I'm in it to make sure we get a fair count — that people are enfranchised, their votes are counted fairly and no vote counted more than once," Coleman said.
Last week, Coleman and his lawyers floated the notion of setting aside last fall's election if the judges can't settle it with confidence. It would take a change in Minnesota law for a new election.
"We all want resolution," Coleman said. "We want to get it right. I'm a patient person."
"I think I'll be seated before the summer solstice," he said.
Franken thinks the end is near.
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