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2A - THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWSINBRIEF
WEDNESDAY,DEC.12,2001
CAMPUS
Three professors selected as Fulbright Scholars
Three University of Kansas professors have been selected as Fulbright Scholars.
Bob Basow, David Katzman and Richard Prum will travel to different parts of the world to teach as a part of the program.
Hodgie Bricke, assistant dean of International Programs, said the program provided grants to all professors named as Fulbright Scholars.
Basow, associate professor of journalism, will be at Lanzhou University in Lanzhou, China, from February to July to discuss journalism in the global marketplace.
Katzman, associate professor of American studies, will teach a seminar on race and ethnicity at Kobe University in Japan from April to July.
Prum, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, will continue to teach macro evolutionary studies of behavior, morphology and biogeography of Southeast Brazilian endemic birds at the State University of Campinas in Campinas, Brazil.
Two professors will come to the University from other countries as part of the program: Petr Boukharkine, professor of Russian literature, and Olena Kovalova, associate professor of economics and management. Boukharkine and Kovalova have been at the University this semester and will continue to teach in the Spring 2002 semester.
—Luke Daley
STATE
McPherson schools help victims of Sept. 11 attack
McPHERSON — They're not the kinds of holiday gifts that fill children's dreams, but the socks and lip balm being collected at McPherson schools are just what New York City's recovery workers wanted.
The items will be taken to New York by four teachers and 26 other people traveling at their own expense and using vacation time to help those still feeling the effects of Sept. 11.
The group will be the second delegation of "Kansas Volunteer Aid," an effort started by Steve Hamilton of Louisburg. He headed the first group of Kansas volunteers who worked at the World Trade Center site during Thanksgiving.
Jana Koehn, a special education teacher at McPhrerson's Eisenhower Elementary School, will be among those heading to New York on Dec. 26 to work with homeless shelters and soup kitchens near the scene of the tragedy.
Koehn said the group received a list of items needed by the firefighters and recovery workers at the World Trade Center site and decided on work socks and lip balm.
NATION
U.S.'s largest grocery chain says 1,500 jobs will be cut
CINCINNATI — Kroger Co. said yesterday it would cut 1,500 jobs after the sluggish economy helped push third-quarter earnings down 33 percent at the nation's largest supermarket operator.
the job reduction affects mostly management and clerical jobs and is to be done in 2002, the company said. The cutback amounts to less than 0.5 percent of the company's total work force of 312,000 people.
NATION&WORLD
Afghan, U.S. troops trap al-Qaida forces in caves
The Associated Press
TORA BORA, Afghanistan — Afghan tribal forces overran some al-Qaida cave hide-outs at Tora Bora yesterday and trapped a group of Osama bin Laden's foreign fighters, who said they wanted to surrender. The Afghan forces also were backed by intense U.S. air strikes.
After making a last stand on a wind-swept mountain top, hundreds of foreign fighters tried to escape a relentless tribal advance. But when shelling trapped them in a rocky canyon, some contacted tribal commanders by radio and pleaded for the chance to give up.
Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, said Tora Bora—located in the 15,400-foot White Mountains of eastern Afghanistan—was "the last effective al-Qaida stronghold." He said that U.S. troops entered some the "literally thousands" of caves in the area, though not necessarily ones with al-
Mohammed Zaman, defense chief for the tribal eastern alliance, called a pause in fighting and gave al-Qaida forces until 8 a.m. Afghanistan time today to surrender or face a new attack.
The whereabouts of bin Laden, who U.S. officials suspected was in Tora Bora, remained unclear. Another tribal commander claimed local intelligence officers spotted bin Laden with al-Qaida troops in the area Monday, but no independent verification was possible.
Oaida bunkers.
"I don't know if he is dead or alive. Tomor-
row we may know." Zaman said of bin Laden.
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumfseld said there was a "major fight" at Tora Bora and cautioned that the battle was not over. "The attack is continuing. ... (Al-Qaida) people in there are fanatical, forces opposing them are determined," he told reporters at the Pentagon.
He said it was possible bin Laden's fighters could flee to other parts of Afghanistan or across the nearby border into Pakistan. It is impossible to "put the cork in the bottle," he said.
Pakistan intelligence officials said their country had deployed 4,000 troops along a 25-mile stretch of border nearby and stepped up aerial surveillance to block possible escape routes for bin Laden or his men.
The world helps America mourn
The Associated Press
At the White House and in outer space, on a factory picket line, at statehouses and farflung embassies, Americans and their allies paused yesterday to commemorate the instant three months earlier when the first hijacked iettler struck the World Trade Center.
Drums rolled, guns fired in somber salute the national anthem was played or sung. But many of the ceremonies centered on a moment of silence.
"Just the silence, I think, was better than words," said Lt. Gov. Gary Sherrer of Kansas after a ceremony at the Statehouse in Topeka. "It smoke for itself."
"Every one of the innocents who died on September the 11th was the most important person on earth to somebody," President Bush said. "Every death extinguished a world."
The White House commemoration began with a drum roll at 8:46 a.m. EDT, followed by The Star-Spangled Banner.
Elsewhere around Washington, ceremonies took place at the Capitol, the Justice Department, the Transportation Department and the Pentagon. Education Secretary Rod Paige, visi-
iting Washington's Duke Ellington School of the Arts, urged students to cherish their freedom to express themselves.
In New York City, firefighters, police officers and construction workers at the World Trade Center site interrupted search and cleanup operations for an interfaith prayer service. A lone trumpeter played a slow, mournful Star-Spangled Banner.
As generators hummed in the background, Muslim, Jewish and Catholic leaders recited prayers for the dead and the survivors. "They took down those structures, but they will not take away the spirit," said Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, a Fire Department chaplain.
Astronauts aboard space shuttle Endeavour and the international space station joined the commemoration, listening to the U.S. and Russian national anthems.
Frank Culbertson, completing his stint as space station commander, said the attacks have given crew members greater resolve to promote international cooperation in space.
Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair, a staunch American ally in the war on terrorism, was joined by Secretary of State Colin Powell for commemorations in London.
Study: Obesity a problem for American children
CHICAGO — American children are getting fatter at an alarming rate, with the percentage of significantly overweight black and Hispanic youngsters more than doubling during the last 12 years and climbing 50 percent among whites, a study shows.
By 1998, nearly 22 percent of black children ages 4 to 12 were overweight, as were 22 percent of Hispanic youngsters and 12 percent of whites, according to researchers who analyzed data from a national survey.
In 1986, the same survey showed that about 8 percent of black children. 10 percent of Hispanic youngsters and 8 percent of whites were significantly overweight.
"Prior studies show it took 30 years for the overweight prevalence to double in American children," said Dr. Richard Strauss, a pediatrician at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. This study should be "a call to action," said Strauss, who conducted the research with Harold Pollack of the University of Michigan.
Among the reasons given for the increase: Children are spending much more time watching television, using computers and playing video games, and busy parents are relying more on fast food to feed their families.
WORLD
Curiosity leads Bulgarians to buy Hitler's Mein Kampf
SOFIA, Bulgaria — Adolf Hitler's autobiography has been published legally for the first time in Bulgaria, and vendors say it is selling well in a country where anti-Jewish sentiment is traditionally low.
Mein Kampfhas not been publicly available in Bulgaria until now because it lacked two legal requirements: a critical preface stating the book is anti-Semitic and the name of a publisher.
Bulgaria was the only Nazi ally to save its Jewish citizens. Despite a deportation order of the pro-German government in the spring of 1943, Bulgaria's King Boris III rescinded the decree after a deluge of protests and appeals from lawmakers, clergymen and intellectuals.
Even now, the right-wing skin head gangs targeting Jews and other minorities elsewhere in the former communist parts of Europe are relatively rare in Bulgaria.
The Associated Press
ON THE RECORD
A KU staff member reported two thefts at the storeroom in the Kansas Union Bookstore between midnight Oct. 19 and 4 p.m. Nov. 21 and between noon Dec. 4 and 3 p.m. Dec. 5, the KU Public Safety Office said. Between Oct. 19 and Nov. 21, five black leather coats with a embossed Jayhawk and four blue hooded nylon coats were stolen. The items were valued at $1,690. Between Dec. 4 and Dec. 5, another black leather coat and nylon coat were stolen. The stolen items were valued at $355.
ON CAMPUS
Ecumenical Christian Ministries will sponsor a University forum from noon to 1 p.m. today at the ECM building, located at 1204 Oread Ave., one block north of the Kansas Union. The forum will be about the future of the College of Education. Contact Thad Holcomba at 843-4933.
Ithus will meet at 8 tonight at the Big 12 room in the Kansas Union. Contact Marietta Liebengood at 979-1353.
O. A.K.S. Non-Traditional Students will have a brown bag lunch from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. today at Alcove C in the Kansas Union. Contact Joan Winston at 864-7317.
A KU staff member reported criminal damage to property in Murphy Hall between noon Friday and 9 a.m. Monday, the KU Public Safety Office said. A wooden door was damaged. Damages were valued at $400.
The KU Chess Club will meet at 7 tonight at the Frontier Room in the Burge Union. Contact Aeshi Shallure at 749-3934.
Environmental Studies Student Association will meet at 8tonight at the Regionalist Room in the Kansas Union. Contact Clare Fuchs at cfuchs@ku.edu or visit www.ku.edu/~kuesp and click on the link ESSA.
The Tae kwon Do club will meet from 6:30 to 8tonight at 207 Robinson Center. Contact Greg Isaac at 749-4649.
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