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THURSDAY JANUARY 29, 2009
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whole story if you only get one point of view" Lear said.
Alanqar agreed, and he said the closeness between the United States and Israel caused him to seek out other news sources on a daily basis, usually BBC and Al-lazeera.
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Ibrahim
Alanqar, Abu
Dhabi junior,
is one of the
few who have
a Palestinian
passport. How-
ever, tightened
security
has made it
impossible for
Alanqar to
return to
the Gaza strip.
The last time
Alanqar was
in Gaza was in
2004, when
he was visiting
relatives who
had grown
accustomed
to the bullet
holes in their
home.
Alanqar and Lear said one of the issues that seemed to be misrepresented was the number of deaths and the causes.
According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, damages were high on both sides of the Israeli-Gaza border, but civilians in the Gaza strip comprised the most casualties.
While exact numbers are being debated by human rights groups, during the conflict an estimated 1,314 Palestinians were killed, 512 of whom were women and children.
The high number of civilian Palestinian casualties doesn't mean that Israelis haven't suffered, Lear said. The reason Israeli casualties were so low was because of protective measures taken by the government.
"Ishaa has a top-of-the-line army and security systems," she said. "It allows citizens near the rocket attacks to take cover. They still suffer damages and destruction."
Lear said the defenses, which included bomb shelters and an early-warning siren system for incoming rockets, were put in place in response to years of being bombarded by Hamas' bombs and rockets.
Philip Schrodt, professor of political science, said another factor that might have thrown perceptions off about the death toll was the living conditions of each side. Citizens in the Gaza strip are far more crowded than citizens of southern Israel, and they do not have the means to take cover, Schrodt said.
Schrodt spent nine months teaching at Birzeit University in the West Bank. He said even though Israeli armed forces tried to warn civilians of aerial attacks and urged them to evacuate, it didn't matter.
"Where would they go? The sea?" Schrodt said.
Living conditions in the Gaza strip had steadily worsened since the last time Alanqar was there. He said he thought it was because of the economic sanctions placed on the region by western powers in response to Hamas being elected. Hamas has openly denounced Israel and negotiations with western powers while promoting constant shelling of Israel and suicide attacks, which have not been used since 2005.
Alanqar said people supporting another intifada wasn't likely.
"The people are tired," he said,
"They are tired of the economic sanctions and the danger. They are tired of their children growing up in a war zone"
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"Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica," a multimedia production about Antarctica, on March 27 at the Lied Center. Campus and community lectures have also been planned for the coming months.
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Jennifer Talbott, assistant to the director, said the exhibition emphasized how people could adapt to change. It coincides with the current fourth International Polar Year, which began in March 2007 and ends in March of this year. IPY is an international scientific program that involves projects in the Arctic and Antarctic.
The exhibition was organized primarily by three museum staff members: Talbott, Kate Meyer, curatorial assistant, and Angela Watts, assistant collections manager.
"The north balcony is more how people live in the Arctic and the south balcony is about how people analyze the Antarctic," Watts said.
The three organizers set up the museum's north balcony gallery to represent the North Pole and the south balcony gallery to represent the South Pole.
The North Pole section contains more than 50 Inuit objects, including a polar bear suit and a kayak. The museum obtained these objects from the former Museum of
upcoming events
The Spencer's Student Advisory Board is hosting a juried art show to display student work. The theme is "Technology / Nature" and students can submit works of any medium before March 1, said Lauren Doshier, Wichita sophomore and director of the show. Selected pieces will be on display in the SUA
"Technology / Nature" juried art show
Gallery in the Kansas Union from March 29 to April 18.
"A Greenland Glacier: The Scale of Climate Change"
This exhibition opens Feb. 7 and features photographs by Terry Evans, a Chicago-based artist who was commissioned by the museum to take photos of the Jakobshavn Glacier where CReSIS is working.
Anthropology's Ethnographic Collection, Watts said. The Inuit are an indigenous people who live in the Arctic regions of the world.
The art museum and CREsIS worked together to develop the idea for the climate change exhibition. CREsIS has its headquarters at the University of Kansas.
Talbott said the South Pole section contained more than 20 items that focused on the scientific aspect of climate change. This includes tools and maps from the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, or CRESIS.
"It's nice how we can learn from people who have dealt with challenges in places of the globe where scientists tell us change is occurring." Mever said.
"Trees & other Ramifications: Branches in Nature & Culture This exhibition opens March 7 and includes a collection of works inspired by trees in nature and human cultures. Patrick Dougherty, the museum's artist-in-residence in May, will create a tree-branch sculpture at The Commons at Spooner Hall.
Stephen Ingalls, associate director for CReSIS administration, said the center evaluated how ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica responded to climate change and how the sheets contributed to a rise in sea level.
"It's another avenue for us to be able to go out and communicate the challenges of climate change and to highlight the work going on at KU." Ingalls said.
Johannes Feddema, professor of geography, said climate change was difficult to communicate because of the misconceptions surrounding the topic. Feddema, who also serves on the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change, said people often made the mistake of seeing climate change as something to believe or not believe.
"It's something you should look
at the best evidence and see what it tells you," Feddema said. "The museum has a way of showing this information in a nontraditional way."
Falter said that every student could learn something from the exhibition, no matter what his or her major may be.
"Climate change is something we have to deal with for a while and the whole museum is going to encompass climate change from now until the summer," Falter said. "It involves different conversations about climate change and this is just the beginning."
The exhibition opened on Saturday and will remain open until May 24.
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was $2.69 a gallon. These figures show the average American spent $1,345 on gasoline in 2008.
Even if students purchased a preassembled biodiesel kit, it would pay for itself over time by reducing petroleum consumption.
WHERE CAN YOU GET WASTE VEGETABLE OIL?
Chuck Magerl, owner of Free State Brewery, said people frequently came to Free State to get their waste vegetable oil. The restaurant stores its used peanut oil, the only cooking oil Free State uses, in a bin in the alley behind the restaurant. Magerl said the fill-up process was informal.
"A lot of people just poke their head in the back door and say 'Hey, is it OK if I use this'" he said.
Magerl said most restaurants downtown put their waste oil be-
bind the restaurants as well, but he said Free State was known for the quality of its oil among biodiesel car owners.
"Something that's made ours a little more ideal is the fact that we are using strictly peanut oil and nothing else is getting blended in there with it." Magerl said.
He said other restaurants sometimes shared oil bins, and different types of cooking oil could get mixed together, decreasing the quality of the oil.
WHAT MATERIALS DO YOU NEED?
In addition to materials needed for a convert kit, a few tools are needed in order to pump the vegetable oil itself. Magerl said people usually used their own portable pump to fill their cars with the restaurant's oil.
Backus said he had a 12-volt
pump, which costs about $140 at biodieselwarehouse.com. Magerl said most people brought something to filter the oil before they put it into their cars. He said people found unique ways to filter the oil.
"I've seen things from as simplicist as a used nylon hosiery all the way up to more sophisticated poly bags and filters of that sort," Magerl said.
NO MONEY TO CONVERT YOUR CAR?
If your car already has a diesel engine, there are alternatives to the two-tank system. Backus said he had a different system of using vegetable oil in his car. He drives a Volkswagen Golf with a diesel engine. Instead of having the typical biodiesel two-tank system, he creates his own blend of biodiesel fuel.
Backus combines waste vegetable oil from restaurants with
a small amount of diesel fuel and kerosene to help make the fuel more combustible. Backus said he used about two gallons of diesel for every 20 gallons of vegetable oil.
At that rate, he said he spent about $0.50-$0.60 per gallon of fuel in his car. He said that kind of system would be easy for students to manage if their car came equipped with a diesel engine. Backus said he couldn't drive his car in the winter because he didn't have a two-tank system.
Although this alternative fuel system worked for Backus, Dave Bach, owner of Das Autohaus, said that method could destroy diesel pumps and had negative effects on engines. Bach said running a car off a biodiesel system was not ideal but that the two-tank system was the most reliable and less likely to damage engines.
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With unemployment at its highest level in a quartercentury, the banking industry wobbling despite the infusion of staggering sums of bailout money and states struggling with budget crises, Democrats said the legislation was desperately needed.
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