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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY DECEMBER 4, 2008
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2008
quote of the day
"I once saw a forklift lift a crate of forks. And it was way too literal for me"
Mitch Hedberg
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When concentrated, pine tree sap is more toxic than arsenic.
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Remembered by candlelight
Hundreds of people gather to light candles in memory of people killed in last week's terrorist attacks as they proceed toward the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai, India, Wednesday.
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CAMPUS
Party to launch global awareness club
BY ANDY GREENHAW
agreenhaw@kansan.com
Students looking to broaden their cultural horizons and meet students from abroad can check out the Students for Global Awareness Winter Soiree at 6:30 tonight at the Spencer Museum of Art.
Milica Rastovic, SGA president, said the social event would serve as the launch party for the organization, which was established this semester and planned to become more active next semester.
"Students and faculty are invited to join the KU international community in celebrating the end of the semester with free food, student performances and artwork."
"There's a wide range of cultures and experiences at KU, and when students overlook the international student body, they miss out on a huge part of the campus community," Goodgame said. "Hopefully by bringing all these groups together, we can demonstrate to students what these different cultures have to offer."
Rastovic said.
The SGA Winter Soiree will feature performance art from the University Dance Company, three Peruvian dance performances and multicultural music from a variety of local artists.
Local restaurants will also cater the event with free food, including hummus and baklava from Aladdin Cafe, salami and imported cheeses from Au Marché, tea and Turkish purses from Nargile Lounge, and crab wontons and egg rolls from Jade Garden.
Zarda Bar-B-Q, a Kansas City catering company, will also provide two fondue chocolate fountains.
Chloe Goodgame, Austin,
Texas, sophomore, is in charge
of coordinating the event. She said the Winter Soiree's purpose was to open students' eyes to the international community on campus.
J. J. Siler, Overland Park junior, founded Students for Global Awareness last spring with the intent of creating a forum for discussion and collaboration among
globally aware student organizations.
He said 30 environmental, humanitarian and ethnic students have since joined SGA, and he expected many more to participate next semester.
"Our goal is to further the cultural, social and political growth of KU students to build a vital and thriving University community," Stler said. "I think that should be the goal of every student group funded by student fees."
Siler said he hoped at least 400 students would attend the SGA Winter Soiree, which he said would become an annual event.
Edited by Becka Cremer
ODD NEWS Fisherman finds, returns ring eaten by 8-lb. bass
BUNA, Texas — The one that didn't get away held an unlikely surprise for a Texas man.
The blue-stoned class ring of Joe Richardson, engraved with his name, turned up inside an 8-pound bass 21 years after he lost it while fishing on Lake Sam Ravburn.
"My first reaction was — you gotta be kidding," he said Wednesday.
The fisherman who discovered the tarnished ring inside his contact captured Richardson on Nov. 28 in Buna, about 100 miles northeast of Houston, after tracking him down with help from the internet.
remain anonymous.
His fisherman hero asked to
Richardson, 41, said he lost the ring about two weeks after his 1987 graduation from Universal Technical Institute in Houston. His mom had bought it for about $200 and wasn't pleased when it went missing.
As a mechanic, Richardson said he doesn't wear jewelry so he tucked the undamaged ring away.
"I have not cleaned it," he said.
"I told my wife I don't want to clean it."
INDIANAPOLIS — Sixteen Indiana National Guard soldiers sued the big defense contractor KBR Inc. on Wednesday, saying
IRAQ
Soldiers sue contractor, allege toxic exposure
its employees knowingly allowed them to be exposed to a toxic chemical in Iraq five years ago.
The federal suit filed in U.S. District Court alleges the soldiers from a Tell City-based unit were exposed to a carcinogen while protecting an Iraqi water pumping plant shortly after the U.S. invasion in 2003.
The 23-page complaint claims that Houston-based KBR knew at least as early as May 2003 that the plant was contaminated with sodium dichromate, a known carcinogen, but concealed the danger from civilian workers and 139 soldiers from the Indiana Guard's 1st Battalion. 152nd Infantry.
KBR issued a statement Wednesday saying the allegation it knowingly harmed troops and was responsible for an unsafe condition "is simply untrue."
The lawsuit, however, alleges that KBR knew of the contamination and played down the danger
"KBR's commitment to the safety and security of all employees, the troops and those we serve, is the company's top priority," the statement said.
When Guard members and American civilians working at the plant began to have nosebleeds, KBR managers told them they were simply caused by the dry desert air, the lawsuit says. But nosebleeds are a symptom of acute hexavalent chromium poisoning, it says.
KBR used to be a subsidiary within Halliburton Co., the oilfield services conglomerate whose chief executive from 1995 to 2000 was Vice President Dick Cheney. KBR became a separate public company last year.
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on campus
The 52nd Asphalt Paving Conference will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Level 5 in the Kansas Union
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The workshop "Conducting Unclassified & USS Searches" will begin at 9 a.m. in 103B in Carruth-O'Leary Hall.
The entertainment event "SUA Holiday Open House" will begin at noon in the lobby in the Kansas Union.
The public event "FREE Tea at Three" will begin at 3 p.m. in the lobby in the Kansas Union.
The lecture "Geology Colloquium Series: The role of bac teriogenic iron oxides (BIOS) in Sr cycling in a wetland environment" will begin at 4 p.m. in 103 Lindley Hall.
The lecture "Alternate Realities; Perceptions of Pyongyang, Capital of the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea (North Korea)" will begin at 4 p.m. in the Pine Room in the Kansas Union.
The Women's Basketball vs. San Jose State game will begin at 7 p.m. in Allen Fieldhouse.
The lecture "The Sexual Politics of the Revival of Hebrew" will begin at 7 p.m. in the Kansas Union.
on the record
On Dec. 3, the KU Public Safety Office reported that on Dec. 2, four 12-volt lead acid batteries, valued at $240, were removed form a pallet in the Facilities Operations warehouse. On the same day, someone activated a fire alarm in McCollum Hall, causing the building to be evacuated although no smoke or fire were present.
On Dec. 3, the Lawrence Police Department reported that a KU employee reported the theft of a gold chain valued at $1,200.
The dental school at the University of Pittsburgh, Pa., used the Rock Chalk chant from the early 1900s until the 1980s. It went like this, "Rock Chalk, Jayhawk, go Pitt Dental!"
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PHILOSOPHY LECTURE SERIES What Does a Liberal Society Owe the Disadvantaged?
Varieties of Cosmopolitanism & the Ideal of Global Justice
Richard Arneson Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego
4:00-5:30 p.m.
Dec. 5, Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union
Arneson's research is in moral and political philosophy, having published nearly 100 essays on topics in these areas including, most recently, "What Do We Owe to Distant Needy Strangers?," "What is Wrongful Discrimination?," "Desert and Equality" and "Moral Limits on the Demands of Beneficence." His recent work explores how a satisfactory account of personal responsibility might best be integrated into broadly egalitarian theories of social justice and it explores issues of global justice.
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