2A = THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS IN BRIEF
MONDAY, NOV.12, 2001
CAMPUS
Film, other activities this week to address intolerance, hatred
Hate Out Week, a week to address issues of intolerance, begins today with information tables at the Kansas Union, Wescoe Beach and Ekdahl Dining Commons.
Other events for the week include the documentary "Journey to a Hate-Free Millennium," followed by a panel discussion with Brent Scarpo, who produced and directed the film. It will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
A town hall meeting about stopping hate is scheduled for 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Frontier Room in the Burge Union, and a unity march starts at 6 p.m. Thursday in front of Wescoe. The week's events finish with a weekend diversity retreat, "Colors of KU."
— J. R. Mendoza
Memorial service planned for Robert Justin Aycock
An open remembrance service for Robert Justin Aycock will be from 6 to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov.13, at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union.
ROOM IN THE KING LANE
Jenalee Burk, Dallas sophomore,
who is planning the event with Grant
Jones, Prairie Village senior and Phi
Delta Theta fraternity president, said the
memorial was for people who were
friends with Aycock. She said friends
would speak at the service, and there
would be a slide show and music.
Aycock, a 20-year-old Dallas freshman, died Monday morning at his home.
-Eve Lamborn
NATION
Firefighters to express thanks in cross-country bicycle trip
NEW YORK — A group of New York City firefighters set out yesterday on a cross-country bicycle trip to express gratitude for the support they've received since the World Trade Center attacks.
"I'm going to personally say thank you to every person I can," said firefighter Dan Rowan, the trip's organizer, before mounting his bike to begin the first leg of the journey.
The tour, dubbed "Thank You America," will take the firefighters to Georgia before they turn west. They plan to visit 100 firehouses and aim to reach Los Angeles in 33 days — the number of their ladder company.
their ladder company. The firehouse lost 10 men in the Sept 11 terrorist attacks on the trade center.
Protestors claim CNN fails to report Afghan starvation
ATLANTA—About 200 people rallied against CNN's coverage of the war in Afghanistan, leading to three arrests.
Aghanistan insurgents said millions of refugees and residents in Afghanistan faced starvation but that CNN wasn't telling the story.
A network spokeswoman did not return a call seeking comment yesterday.
Several of the demonstrators wore bandanas over their faces.
George Ward, 21, from Columbia County, was charged with criminal trespass. Samuel Sabel, 21, from Montgomery, Ala., and Matthew James Wallace, 20, of North Carolina, were charged with violating Georgia's anti-mask law.
The Associated Press
Bin Laden denies role in anthrax attacks
NATION&WORLD
The Associated Press
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Osama bin Laden said he had nothing to do with the anthrax attacks in the United States, and declared he would never allow himself to be captured, in the second part of a newspaper interview published yesterday.
"America can't get me alive," bin Laden was quoted as saying. "I can be eliminated, but not my mission."
Bin Laden granted the interview Wednesday to Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir, who said he was blindfolded and bundled into a jeep in the Afghan capital, Kabul. He said he was driven five hours to a cold, mud hut, where he spoke with bin Laden for two hours.
It was impossible to independently verify Mir's account of the interview.
Mir's newspaper, *Ausaf*, published part of the interview Saturday and included additional excerpts yesterday. Mir, who has written a biography of bin Laden that will be published soon, said the terror suspect declined to answer many of his questions.
iswah many of his questions.
When Mir asked if bin Laden was responsible for the anthrax attacks, he laughed and said: "We don't know anything about anthrax."
FBI officials say there is no direct link between anthrax attacks in the United States and any cell or network, including al-Qaida.
Bin Laden did claim in the portion of the interview published Saturday that his al-Qaida organization had nuclear and chemical weapons and would use them if the United States employed such weapons on him.
states employed such a Mir wrote that, when he asked bin Laden where he had allegedly gotten the mass destruction weapons, bin Laden replied: "Go to the next question."
The United States says it has no evidence that bin Laden possesses nuclear weapons. Intelligence experts believe al-Qaida has experimented with crude chemical weapons at a training camp in Afghanistan.
at a training camp in the night. Mir said bin Laden vowed that if his Taliban allies lost Kabul and other cities, "we will move to the mountains. We will continue our guerrilla warfare against the Americans."
Catholic bishops to elect leader
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON—The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is likely to elect its first African-American president during a four-day meeting that begins today.
four-day meeting this week. Diversity will also be the focus, and the group will renew the church's fight against abortion, while proposing a day of prayer for peace as the war in Afghanistan continues.
Bishop Joseph Fiorenza of Texas is finishing his three-year term as head of the group, which serves as the church's national voice on social, political and religious issues.
Bishop Wilton Gregory of Belleville, Ill. now the organization's vice president, is expected to succeed him. Conference vice presidents are traditionally elected president.
The vote is scheduled for tomorrow. The Roman Catholic Church in the United States is 78 percent White, according to the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University. African-American Catholics have long sought recognition from church leaders.
Estimates of the number of African-American Catholics range from 2 million to 3.5 million, out of 63.7 million nationwide.
They welcome the upcoming election of Gregory as a sign that their voices will be heard.
The bishops also are concerned about serving the growing number of Asian Catholic immigrants. Fiorenza, from Galveston-Houston, estimates 2.6 percent of U.S. Catholics are Asian or Pacific Islanders.
The conference leaders are expected to issue a statement urging Catholics to welcome their Asian brethren and be attentive to their spiritual needs.
spiritual needs.
The bishops will also propose designating Jan. 1 as a National Day of Prayer for Peace as the war on terrorism continues.
Our military response must be guided by the traditional moral limits on the use of force." Fiorenza said in a statement after the U.S. air strikes began Oct. 7. "Military action is always regrettable but it may be necessary to protect the innocent or to defend the common good."
The bishops plan to renew their fight against abortion, human embryo research and physician-assisted suicide.
physician-assisted suicid Fiorenza applauded last week's directive from Attorney General John Ashcroft that doctors who use federally controlled drugs to help terminally ill patients die will face suspension or revocation of their licenses. A federal judge has granted a temporary restraining order barring the directive.
Also, the bishops will be asked to approve amendments to canon law to allow laymen to preach in church under certain circumstances, in part to address the priest shortage and needs of non-English speaking parishioners. The Vatican still must approve any revisions.
Conference leaders additionally plan to discuss new instructions from Pope John Paul II on translating liturgy from the Latin.
Increase in cell-phone use leads to reviewing of bans
WASHINGTON—As students rushed to get in touch with their parents in the anxious hours after the Sept. 11 attacks, Principal Ann Monday decided she had bigger worries than enforcing her school's ban on cellular phones.
school officials to reconsider long-standing bans on cell phones and pagers during school hours.
professional playgrounds
"Enforcing a cell phone ban was not on our agenda" that day at Robinson Secondary School in Fairway, Va., Monday said. "Taking care of the emotional needs of our students was."
When word spread of an airliner crashing into the Pentagon, just 14 miles away, the phones began appearing everywhere. "The reality was that many kids are carrying around phones, and carrying them around responsibly," Monday said.
Last week, her school district decided to let students carry cell phones, which must be kept off during school hours.
Judy Seltz of the American Association of School Administrators said superin tendents are reporting a "fairly low-key shift toward loosening restrictions since Sept. 11.
Last month, the school board in Montgomery County, Md., voted unanimously to let high school students have cell phones if the devices are turned off during school hours.
Dustin Jeter, a senior at Seneca Valley High School in Girmont, Md., said virtually all of his friends carried cell phones even before the ban was lifted.
"I think it was just a matter of getting in touch with family, letting them know that everything was OK, trying to make plans for where they would be meeting," he said.
White supremacists use attacks as recruitment tool
CHICAGO — White-supremacist groups based in the Midwest are using the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to recruit new members, according to a study by an anti-racism group.
The Center for New Community, a six-year-old faith-based organization in suburban Oak Park, counts 338 "white nationalist" groups in 10 Midwestern states.
Some of them are using images of the burning World Trade Center towers to advocate closing America's borders, the group says in a report titled "State of Hate: White Nationalism in the Midwest 2000-2001."
"These organizations have been responsible for several rallies, public events, distribution of literature and even a few crimes in recent months," said Devin Burghart, who directs the center's Building Democracy Initiative. They're trying to use anti-Arab and anti-Muslim sentiment in the wake of Sept. 11."
Sept. 15 The Center for New Community cites white supremacist groups in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska and Ohio.
The Associated Press
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A 20-year-old KU student was arrested Friday for operating under the influence, a Lawrence police report said.
The Black Student Union will meet at 7:30 onight at the Pioneer Room in the Burge Union. Contact Mark Dupree at 864-3984.
Tae Kwon Do club will meet from 6:30 to 8tonight in 207 Robinson Center. Contact Greg Isaac at 749- 4649.
O. A.K.S.the nontraditional students organization will have a brown bag lunch from noon to 130 today in the Burge Union. Contact Joan Winston at 864-7317.
KU Green Party will meet at 8 tonight at the Regionalist Room in the Kansas Union. Contact Sarah Hokinson at 838-9063 or Dalyn Cook at 312-2090.
Vietnam Veterans for Academic Reform will present John Frydman, a criminal defense attorney, who will speak about drug laws tonight from 7:30 to 8 on cable channel 19.
KU Karate Kobudo Club will practice from 8:30 to 10:30 tonight at racquetball court No. 15 in Robinson Gymnasium. Contact Hannah Reynolds at 312-3419.
Wireless communication has been around a lot longer than cell phones and pagers.
Canterbury House (Episcopal)
www.geocities.com/kuchristians/
cooperative.html 843-8202
KU Cooperative Ministries
KU Hillel
(Jewish)
www.ku.edu/~hillel
749-5397
Lutheran Campus Ministry
University Christian Fellowship
(Southern Baptist)
www.ukans.edu/~rcbsu/
841-3148
(ELCA)
www.geocities.com/kuchristians/
cooperative.html
843-4948
United Methodist Campus Ministry falcon.cc.ukans.edu/~umcmku 841-8661
Ecumenical Christian Ministries
(Presbyterian, United Church of Christ, Quaker,
Church of Brethren)
www.ukans.edu/~ecmku
843-4933
It's Time to Stop the Hate!
Hate Out Week 2001
November 12
Promotional tables on Wescoe Beach, Kansas
Union & Mrs. E's
10am-2pm
10am-2pm
November 13
Journey to a Hate Free Millennium
Woodruff auditorium
7pm-9pm
November 14 Town Hall Meeting Burge Union Frontier Room 7pm
November 16
November 15 Unity march across campus Meet at Wescoe Beach
Colors of KU Diversity at Tall Oaks
6pm
Sponsored by
Multicultural Resource Center, Office of Multicultural Affairs AURH, KU Student Senate, SUA, HALO, KU Hillier Foundation. Center for Community Outreach, Interfraternity Council, Panhellenic Association Queers and Allies, FNSA, NPHC, Asian American Student Union, BSU
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