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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2009
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INTERNATIONAL
1. Car bomb kills four
U.S. soldiers, interpreter
BAGHADD — A suicide car bomber struck a U.S. patrol in northern Iraq on Monday, killing four American soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter in the deadliest single attack against U.S. forces in nine months.
The blast occurred as U.S. vehicles were passing near an Iraqi police checkpoint in Mosul, Iraq's third largest city and the last major urban battleground in the war against al-Qaida and other Sunni insurgents.
2. Suicide attacker takes 28 lives at checkpoint
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — A suspected Tamil Tiger rebel who pretended to be a war refugee blew herself up Monday as Sri Lankan soldiers frisked her at a checkpoint. Twenty troops and eight civilians died.
State TV showed the carnage after the suicide bombing in Vishwamadu, a northeastern town
where hundreds of civilians had been waiting to be sent to refugee camps: a woman in a blue dress curled up in the fetal position, her face and neck spattered with blood; plastic lawn chairs upended and piled in a jumble from the force of the blast.
There were no reports of deaths or injuries.
Beijing usually tightly restricts the use of fireworks downtown, but waives the rules each year during the Lunar New Year holiday. Monday was the final day for the exception to fireworks, marking the first full moon since the Lunar New Year. And plenty of residents took advantage of the time to set off fireworks.
3. Fireworks set fire to hotel during celebration
BEIJING — The burning shell of an unfinished, 44-story luxury hotel lit the night sky over downtown Beijing on Monday after being showered with sparks from fireworks set off during China's biggest holiday, the Lunar New Year.
NATIONAL
4. Darwin group honors birthday by placing signs
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — A secularist group is observing the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin with billboards that urge people to "Evolve Beyond Belief."
5. Children's advocacy group protests Scholastic
The Freedom From Religion Foundation placed "Praise Darwin" billboards in Grand Junction; Dayton, Tenn.; Dover, Pa.; and Whitehall, Ohio — cities where the foundation has battled prayers in meetings and nativity scenes.
The Wisconsin-based foundation is made up of agnostics and atheists opposed to government displays of religion.
NEW YORK — Scholastic Corp. the U.S. publisher of the Harry Potter books, has come under criticism from a children's advocacy group for using its network of school-based book clubs to market toys and other non-educational items.
The Boston-based Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood launched a protest campaign Monday asserting that Scholastic has exploited its unique access to schools by marketing an array of non-book products in its monthly book club filers.
The campaign is the latest fight over exposing children to advertising and commercial products at school.
6. Truck driver pleads guilty in church shooting
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Jim D. Adkisson, 58, pleaded guilty to killing two people and wounding six others at a Tenn. church last summer because he hated its liberal politics.
Adkisson was scheduled to stand trial next month in the July 2008 rampage at the Tennessee Valley United Unitarian Church, but decided to enter a plea deal that virtually guarantees he will never leave prison alive.
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BY VICKY LU
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Rachael Beaumont
Every Thursday afternoon, room 208 in Murphy Hall is filled with student actors and their directors — first graders from elementary schools in Lawrence. Rachael Beaumont doesn't mind playing the dog. In fact, she was also directing big college kids when she was in the first grade.
"Children and Drama" is a class offered to elementary school children for free. The class explores elementary-age children's potential in dramatic arts. Students and children work in groups to perform a given story each class period. It is taught by Jeanne Klein, associate professor of theater and film, with help from KU theater or education major students enrolled in the class. Beaumont, Lawrence junior, helps teach the class.
Beaumont said she still vividly remembered her days as one of the little kids in the class. She did a newscast wearing a bathrobe and big rubber gloves, and talked about the president.
Beaumont also appeared in a Men's Warehouse commercial, which encouraged her to continue studying drama. She participated in the class every semester until the sixth grade.
"I didn't feel restrained. There was no director or stage manager that would tell you where to move, or how to move. It's about expressing your creativity."
"Taking this class, I'm just inspired again," Beaumont said.
After six years of drama classes at the University, Beaumont decided to let her passion for drama thrive. She became involved in more drama-related activities in junior and senior high. Now as a theater and film major at the University, Beaumont is taking the same class again, but as a big kid who helps children perform their own interpretation of the story.
"Rachael is an example," said Klein, who has been teaching the class for 20 years. "We think kids are creative, but you might be as imaginative as those children."
Through interacting with the children, Beaumont said the energy and creativity that came out of the children affected everyone in the class.
"I'm supposed to observe them, but I feel being sucked back to the first grader" Beaumont said. "I'm amazed at how much creativity can come of a child."
Beaumont plans on participating in Teach for America or teaching children's drama classes after she graduates.
Edited by Melissa Johnson
ON CAMPUS
The "Word 2007: Controlling Document Layout" workshop will begin at 8:30 a.m. in the Budig PC Lab.
The "Effective Delegation" workshop will begin at 9 a.m. in 204 JRP.
The "True Love is a Valentine's Day AIDS Test" student group event will begin at 10 a.m. in Alcoves I and K in the Kansas Union.
The "Phase transitions in the Universe" lecture will begin at 12:15 p.m. in 1089 Malott.
The "Excel 2007: Charts & Graphics" workshop will begin at 2:30 p.m. in the Budig PC Lab.
The "Hitting Academy" baseball event will begin at 7 p.m. in Hoglund Ballpark.
The National Society of Collegiate Schools Integrity Week event will begin at 7 p.m. in Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
The "What's Up With That?' with Imani Winds" public event will begin at 7 p.m. in the Crystal Ballroom in the Eldridge Hotel.
ON THE RECORD
On Feb. 5 a suspect was being detained by an officer when the suspect fought back, dislocating the officer's finger. The suspect escaped, but was later found and arrested.
KU Public Safety Office Reported:
On Feb. 8 a radar detector was removed from a vehicle in parking lot 102. A different subject entered an unlocked vehicle in lot 105 and stole a no smoking sign.
On Feb. 7 a KU student reported disorderly conduct
On Feb. 7 a person holding a sign advertising the sale of KU athletics tickets was cited for criminal trespassing.
On Feb. 4 a KU student reported theft of a purse.
Mike Bontrager
Lawrence Police Department reported:
DAILY KU INFO
One hundred and ten years ago today, KU played its first home basketball game at 807 Kentucky St. KU beat the Topeka YMCA 31-6. Only 50 fans attended because a gas line had frozen and there was no heat in the building.
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