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Kristen Menz and Caliee Kelly, KU atmospheric science students
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2011
Tuesday
HI: 43 Sunny, Breezy with a north wind between 15 and 20 mph with gusts up to 30.
LO: 19
Penguin
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Wednesday
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LO: 28
Officially Ugg season.
Don't freeze on that walk to class
Thursday
HI: 46 Sunny.
L0: 23
Almost the weekend!
Penguin
Friday
HI: 41
Sunny.
LO: 27
Still no snow?
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NEWS AROUND THE WORLD
MEXICO CITY
Thousands of self-proclaimed "undead" have gathered in the historic center of Mexico's capital for a "Zombie Walk" that organizers hope sets a world record.
The announced 9,860 registered participants are dressed in rags and makeup to look bloody and decaying.
Organizer Pablo Guisa said the fifth annual Mexico City event is meant to celebrate diversity and human rights. The participants also collected donations for a local food bank.
Cities around the world hold zombie walks, and Guinness World Records currently recognizes Asbury Park, New Jersey, as the record holder, with 4,093 participants on Oct. 30, 2010.
A group in Brisbane, Australia, has applied for the record, claiming it massed 8,000 "zombies" last month.
MOSCOW
The Russian military will rely increasingly on volunteer soldiers and sharply reduce the number of draftees, President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday.
He said the conscripts' share will be brought down to 10-20 percent in the next five to seven years, with volunteers accounting for the rest. The pledge to reduce Russia's unpopular draft appears to be part of campaigning for Dec. 4 parliamentary elections, in which Medvedev leads the list of the ruling United Russia party, now that he has decided not to run for re-election so that Vladimir Putin can replace him as president.
The military has been coy about the current exact number of volunteer soldiers and conscripts, but media reports put the number of volunteers among the enlisted men at about 100,000.
LOME. TOGO
At least six topflight Togolese soccer players were killed and another 28 people critically injured on Saturday after a bus carrying their team plunged into a ravine and caught fire.
The accident happened near the city of Atakpame, about 160 kilometers (100 miles) north of Lome, as Etoile Filante was on its way to Togo's second largest city of Sokode for Sunday's league game against Semassi.
A tire is believed to have burst, causing the bus to topple over and plunge down a ravine. Some of the victims reportedly burnt to death. Eyewitness accounts said the bus flipped over several times as it crashed into the ravine.
Lome-based Etoile Filante is a seventime Togo national league champion and was runner-up in Africa's continental club competition in 1968.
SEOUL. SOUTH KOREA
South Korean police say nearly 40 officers were injured during a rally opposing the ratification of the country's free trade deal with the United States.
Hundreds of protesters have been staging near-daily demonstrations since the ruling party railroaded the U.S. trade deal last week. The protesters believe the deal favors Washington over South Korean workers.
About 2,200 people rallied in Seoul on Saturday evening. Police say some of them punched and kicked officers trying to disperse the crowd.
Police said the violence left 38 officers injured. Most of the injuries were minor, but it was the most police casualties at a single rally since June.
Protesters say they're looking into whether police also used violence during the rally.
CAMPUS
Malott Hall now open after lab fire Saturday
Lawrence Fire and Medical and KU Public Safety responded to a fire at Malott Hall Saturday morning. The fire occurred in an interior lab on the fifth floor at around 7:15 a.m., according to a University press release. The fire was extinguished with no injuries reported.
Water damage extended from the fifth floor laboratory to surrounding hallways and laboratories on the fourth and third floors, according to Jack Martin, a University spokesman.
Malott will be open to students Monday, as usual, Martin wrote in an email, though the laboratory where the fire occurred remains closed pending an investigation of the cause of the fire. No classes have been canceled or relocated, Martin said.
University Facilities and Operations staff were assessing damage to the building and planning cleanup efforts Saturday.
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NATION
Teach for America program expands amid mixed results
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MIAMI — In a distressed neighborhood north of Miami's gleaming downtown, a group of enthusiastic but inexperienced instructors from Teach for America is trying to make progress where more veteran teachers have had difficulty: raising students' reading and math scores.
"These are the lowest performing schools, so we need the strongest performing teachers," said Julian Davenport, an assistant principal at Holmes Elementary, where three-fifths of the staff this year are Teach
for America corps members or graduates of the program.
By 2015, with the help of a $50 million federal grant, program recruits could make up one quarter of all new
Its teachers perform about as well as other novice instructors, who tend to be less successful than their more experienced colleagues. Even when they do slightly better, there's a serious offset: The majority are out of the teaching profession within five years.
That growth comes as many districts try to make teachers more effective. But Teach for America has had mixed results.
"I think ultimately the jury is out," said Tony Wagner, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of
also is expanding internationally.
"These are the lowest performing schools, so we need the strongest performing teachers."
teachers in 60 of the nation's highest neee school districts. The program
JULIAN DAVENPORT Holmes Elementary assistant principal
Education, and an instructor to the first class of TFA corps members.
Teach for America teachers work with not just the poor, but also English language learners
and special education students
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