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LAWRENCE FORECAST
Kristen Menz and Cailee Kelly, KU Atmospheric Science
Tuesday
Hi: 84 Seasonable temperatures and
sunny skies with a south wind
5-15 mph.
L0: 57
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2011
HI: 73
LO: 55
Picture-perfect weather
Wednesday 20 percent chance of isolated showers in the morning and early afternoon.
Overcast skies
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Thursday
HI: 70 Sunny and cooler.
L0:48
Ideal fall weather
HI: 70
L0: 43
Friday Very similar to Thursday with sunny skies and below average temperatures.
It's a beautiful day
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NEWS AROUND THE WORLD
ACAPULCO. MEXICO
Police in southern Mexico say they have found the bodies of a federal congressman and his driver. Moises Villanueva and the driver had been missing since Sept. 4.
MOSCOW, RUSSIA
Guerrero state police chief Ramon Almonte says residents saw the badly decomposed bodies in a river in the town of Huamuxitian and alerted police on Saturday.
Russian tycoon Alexander Lebedev has punched a fellow billionaire on a television panel show after a discussion on the financial crisis degenerated into petty name-calling.
Lebedev, a former KGB operative and owner of two major newspapers in the United Kingdom, wrote on his blog that property developer Sergei Polonsky had earned the clobbering by behaving abusively throughout the recording of the program.
KABUL. AFGHANISTAN
Three NATO service members died in separate attacks, and a patrol of Afghan and international forces killed more than 10 insurgents during a raid on a major narcotics laboratory in southern Afghanistan, NATO said Sundav.
The alliance said one service member died in an insurgent attack on Saturday, while the other two were killed by bombs on Sunday. All three died in the south of the country.
GAUHATI, INDIA
A strong earthquake shook northeastern India and Nepal on Sunday night, killing at least 16 people, damaging buildings and sending lawmakers in Nepal's capital running into the streets.
The quake, with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9, struck at 6:10 p.m. local time and was felt across northern and eastern India, including in the capital of New Delhi. It triggered at least two aftershocks of magnitude 6.1 and 5.3, Indian seismology official R.S. Dattatreya said. He warned more aftershocks were possible.
IMMIGRATION
IAN CUMMINGS icummings@kansan.com
Website helps visa process
International students at the University of Kansas may be affected by a new federal initiative to process all student visas through one new website.
Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton announced the initiative and the launch of the Study in the States website Friday afternoon in a conference call from the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Secretary Napolitano called Study in the States a "one-stop shop" for student visas, visa renewals and information about visa qualifications. Study in the States is designed to be a combined website for various federal agencies to make the visa and regulation process open and easy to use for members of academia, the public and prospective visiting students and professors.
Morton said the intent of the initiative was to encourage more than 1.1 million international students, visitors and their dependents now in the United States to stay while improving the integrity of the nation's immigration law enforcement. The 10,000 educational institutions in the United States now hosting international students, he said, made the it "the finest place in the world to study."
He said foreign students contributed to that tradition and to the nation's cultural diversity. Morton said one goal of the website was to help foreign students remain in compliance with visa laws. He said it was part of a greater federal initiative to move the visa regulation process entirely online, replacing the current system, which uses both paper and electronic documents.
The Study in the States website will employ a variety of social media tools, such as Facebook and Twitter, disseminating relevant visa requirements and information to international students, exchange visitors and the academic community. It will also feature a blog with posted videos, public service announcements, relevant news, requirements, helpful tips and success stories.
Morton said that recent policy memos from his department had directed enforcement to focus on criminals and national security threats, but that international students were not exempt from any applicable immigration laws.
Napolitano said the website would be translated into multiple languages, but did not offer details about which languages, or how many.
For more information, visit:
http://studyinthestates.dhs.gov/.
CAMPUS
Kansas Union turns into a jungle
JOHN GARFIELD
jgarfield@kansan.com
The Kansas Union ballroom was transformed Sunday afternoon into a lush jungle landscape riddled with Olnec ruins, treacherous traps, tumultuous trials and, of course, temple guardians, at least in the minds of those attending the Legends of the Hidden Temple competition put on by Student Union Activities.
Though SUA tried to have the event last year, it was canceled because of inclement weather. This year, rain threatened to cancel the event again, but the enthusiasm of the staff and participants preferred it be moved to the Union ballroom so that 64 two-person teams could compete in the style of the '90s Nickelodeon game show.
"It was a childhood dream, competing in this," said Kailee Karr, a freshman from Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Though competitors stood to gain
$150, $100 or $50 dollar gift cards for 1st, 2nd or 3rd place respectively, the spirit of competition was much more deeply rooted in nostalgia. This made the obstacle courses, gladiator-style battling and runs up the slippery rockslide all the more intense for competitors reveling in memories of their youths.
"It was getting heated. There were some 'bows thrown', Karr said.
Based on the average undergrad's age of 18-22, they would have been between 2 and 6 years old when the show went off the air in 1995. Stephanie Joffe, a sophomore from Chicago, used to watch the show "all the time" and used her position as the assistant coordinator of film and media for the SUA to both plan the event and to encee it.
"We are probably the last of our generation to watch the show, so we thought it would be fun to bring back something that everybody would remember" said Joffe.
CRIME
16-year-old boy found guilty of murder
The Kansas City Star reported Friday that a Wyondotte County jury found a teenager guilty in the April 23rd killing of 16 year-old Johnson County high school student Ryder Spillman. Stephen Reed, 17, of Kansas City, Kan., was found guilty of second-degree murder. The jury had been deliberating since Thursday and delivered the verdict Friday afternoon. According to The Star, the killing followed a dispute between two rival Johnson County high school factions. Reed's cousin, Shane Reed, 18, previously pleaded guilty to juvenile charges for his role in Spillman's death and was sentenced to 18 months in juvenile confinement. Reed is being tried as an adult and will be sentenced October 21st. He will face between 10 and 55 years in prison.
John Garfield
CAMPUS
Former BBC head to talk on campus
Award-winning documentary maker and World War II expert Laurence Rees will present a lecture titled "Talking with Nazis" Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium at the Kansas Union.
Rees authored several books on the subjects of Nazi Germany and the aftermath of World War II and is the former head of BBC Television's history programs. The lecture will focus on interviews with former Nazis, including those who worked directly with Adolf Hitler, making use of excerpts from Rees' television series: "The Nazis: A Warning from History."
John Garfield