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to re-establish her connection with her Muslim roots.
"For me it's not rough at all to fast, because I've been doing it since I was seven years old." Afani Ruzik said. "It's easy for me because I have good motivation for it and because I'm secretly a deeply religious person and I really enjoy Ramadan and fasting and the whole kit & kaboodle."
distributed more than 1,000 maps that informed students where they could vote.
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Johanna Maska, director of SLAB, said she thought more students had voted this year because of issues such as the tuition increase.
"Students know the issues."
said Maska, Galesburg, III. junior.
Maska said that, when she was at the polls at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, she was surprised at the voter turnout.
"I could not believe how many people were there," she said.
Samantha Lucciarini, Wichita junior, said she had voted because she thought she was old enough to be affected by issues. Lucciarini voted using an advance ballot.
She said she had received advice on who to vote for directly from parents and friends who were politically active.
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us and added rent, we really need supplemental funding even though we are pursuing other support too."
Senate awarded the $2,660 Headquarters requested. The money will help pay for computer hookups and make up the difference in higher rent costs for eight months. Headquarters also received money from the City of Lawrence, Douglas County and The Lawrence Rotary Club.
Headquarters offers around-the-clock counseling, suicide prevention, community resource referrals, and information on abuse, assault, physical and men-
Fasting and observing the month of Ramadan is not something most students should be medically worried about, as long as they are smart about it, said Dr. Patricia M. Denning, a physician at Watkins Memorial Health Center.
"For some students, fasting doesn't cause a great deal of problems if they eat a good meal before dawn and after dusk, but it presents a challenge for students that don't," said Dr. Denning.
Denning said she worried about students with problems
"Fasting can be stressful and if you have a tendency towards health problems, you're better off drinking fluids and at least eating small amounts of food," Denning said.
Denning said that physicians could morally excuse students
like diabetes or kidney and endocrine disorders that needed lots of fluid intake. She also said that students experiencing cold and flu-like symptoms during Ramadan would have a harder time getting over a respiratory infection if they were fasting.
from fasting if they had a genuine medical health issue.
Afani Ruzik also said that during Ramadan she would often take naps during the day to help with low energy. She said she also received a lot of Ramadan cards from her family to encourage her during such a holy time and that she looked forward to Eid, the three-day festival celebrating the end of the month of Ramadan.
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Chris Hampton, a public education associate for the ACLU, said the ACLU didn't justify the behavior that put Limon in jail. But the organization argues it is unfair the Romeo and Juliet Law does not apply to Limon, Hampton said from the ACLU Lesbian and Gay Rights Project office in New York.
On Oct. 10, the American Civil Liberties Union appealed the sentence, which could keep Limon in jail until he is 36, to the United States Supreme Court.
His sentence is unfair, Limon's ACLU lawyers said, because he isn't receiving the equal protection given to him by the constitution.
Yet the ACLU's Supreme
"We want lesbian and gay people to be treated the same as others. We don't think someone should have to do ten times as much time for a same act simply because they are gay."
Chris Hampton public education associate, ACLU
Court appeal could run into problems, said Don Haider-Markel, an assistant professor of political science who specializes in public policy.
"The argument for equal protection for gays and lesbians has been made before but it hasn't been successful," Haider-
Markel said, referring to appeals against Kansas' sodomy laws that only apply to homosexuals.
Limon might be able to argue the severity of his sentence based on gender discrimination, Haider-Markel said.
It takes up to a year before the court decides if it will even hear the case, but Hampton expects that the Supreme Court will reach a decision by late winter or early spring.
"We want lesbian and gay people to be treated the same as others," Hampton said. "We don't think someone should have to do ten times as much time for a same act simply because they are gay."
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tal sickness and support groups among other things.
"I think this is an extremely important organization because it serves KU students and a lot of KU students are their volunteers," said Catherine Bell, Coffeyville junior, one of the senators who sponsored the bill. "I think the goals and values of this organization, are extremely valuable to the KU student body."
The 33-year-old service makes contact with clients more than 14,000 times a year. The staff estimates that between a third and a half of those calls are from University of Kansas students. More than half of Headquarters' 70 volunteers are also KU students, Leedy said.
The student rights committee unanimously approved an online senate election voting bill. The bill will be addressed in next week's full senate meeting, and, if passed, the Dean of Students and Information Services will implement an online voting system in time for next spring's elections. Students would receive a personal identification number in their e-mail account, enabling them to vote at a Web site.
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"It's very cheap, and it should increase voter turnout immensely," said Travis Weller, Garden CityJunior and rights committee chair.
KU is one of the last among its peerinstitutions to use onlinevoting.
Where to find counseling
Headquarters Counseling Service is now located at 211 E. Eighth St., Suite C. Contact Headquarters year-round, 24-hours-a-day (at 785) 841-2345.
Weller said. School's that already use it include Kansas State University, The University of Missouri, and The University of Colorado.
Senate allocated $431 to the KU chapter of Habitat for Humanity.The Black Graduate Student Association received $536. Taiwanese Student Association received $589. KU Go Club received $109.50.
— Edited by Melissa Shuman
Train fire kills 12 passengers in France
The Associated Press
NANCY, France — A fire on an overnight train in eastern France filled a sleeping car with deadly smoke yesterday, killing 12 people — including five Americans from the same family and driving panicked passengers to smash windows and jump to safety.
Fatal rail accidents are rare in France, where trains are known for speed, safety and efficiency.
The train, like others in Europe, had no smoke detectors even though cigarette smoking was allowed.
The fire began shortly after 2 a.m. as the train with 150 passengers passed through the city of Nancy on its way to Munich, Germany, according to SNCF.
Yesterday's blaze, which also injured nine people, was initially blamed on an electrical short-circuit. But the French rail authority SNCF said that was premature and the cause was under investigation.
Smoke was blamed for the deaths.
An accountant from North Branford, Conn. and four members of his family were killed. Salvatore Michael Amore, 43, and his family were also killed, said Anna Maria Amore, his sister-in-law. Also killed were Amore's wife, Jeanne, 43; daughter Emily Jeanne, 12; son Michael Bernhardt, 8; and mother, Susanne, 72.
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