in other words "It disturbed me. I knew that it wasn't the truth." -Pfc.Jessica Lynch on media coverage of her rescue in Iraq
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wednesday, November 12, 2003
Campus Author to give presentation at Asian-American conference
Eric Liu, author and former adviser to President Bill Clinton, is coming to the University of Kansas.
Liu will present An Asian American Perspective at 11:30 a.m. today at the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Union.
Following the presentation, Liu will sign books from 12:30 p.m. until 1 p.m.
Liu's presentation is part of this year's Asian-American leadership conference.
Anna Kowalewsl. i, president of Asian-American Student Union, said the conference was designed to inspire students to become leaders in their community.
"We want Asians to realize that in spite of the impediments that society has placed on them, they can still rise up and be leaders." she said.
Liu was named one of the 25 most influential Asian Americans in the United States by A. Magazine: Inside Asia American.
Liu also wrote The Accidental Asian Notes of a Native Speaker, which Kowalewski said was used in several courses at the University.
Robert Perkins
Engineering student receives rare scholarship in computing
Babak Yeganeh, Lawrence senior, won a scholarship awarded to only two students in the world last week.
The 2003-04 Upsilon Pi Epsilon Association for Computing Machinery Student Chapter Scholarship Award gives $1,000 and a certificate of commendation to Yeganeh, according to a
press release from University Relations.
"It is going to increase his visibility around the world as someone who is a doer of things," said Jill Hummel, public relations director for the school of engineering.
Yeganeh is the president of Upsilon Pi Epsilon, and the chair of the KU Association for Computing Machinery chapter, according to the School of Engineering Web site.
Joe Hartigan
Nation Boeing develops new unit to monitor professional ethics
CHICAGO — Boeing Co., stung by the loss of government business after an ethics probe, is creating an internal office to monitor ethics and compliance with government regulations.
Bonnie W. Soodik, a Boeing senior vice president who is president of Shared Services Group, will lead the Office of Internal Governance, the company said yesterday.
"Creating this key office ... sends an important message throughout the Boeing organization and to all those with whom we do business: that we will conduct ourselves according to the highest standards in every aspect of our business," Boeing president and CEO Phil Condit said in a statement.
In July, the Air Force banned Chicagobased Boeing from bidding on satellite launching contracts and the company had seven satellite launches taken away to punish it for using rival Lockheed Martin Co. records to help win a $1.88 billion satellite launching contract in 1998.
The Air Force has said the suspension would remain in place until the military was satisfied Boeing had changed
Boeing has claimed in a court filing that it did not engage in racketeering or violate antitrust rules by allegedly using the documents.
its ways.
Boeing shares fell 51 cents yesterday to close at $38.32 on the New York Stock Exchange.
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World
President of Zimbabwe dies after long bout with illness
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Canaan Sodindo Banana, the first black president of Zimbabwe, died Monday after a long illness, state radio announced yesterday. He was 67.
Banana served as the country's ceremonial president from March 1980 to Dec.31,1987.
In 1998, Banana was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in a gay sex scandal that embarrassed the government after a prime minister denounced gays and lesbians as "lower than pigs or dogs" and urged Zimbabweans to turn them over to police.
Aides to Banana said they had been seeking protection from homosexual rape for about 15 years.
Banana was convicted by Zimbabwe's high court, but only served six months of his sentence in an open prison that allowed him shopping trips to the capital.
He continued to deny that he was a homosexual.
The son of a Malawian migrant worker and a Zimbabwean woman, Banana was chosen to be figurehead president in a bid to give the post-independence government regional balance.
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Jeff Wisniewski, Overland Park senior, acted as mayor and wrote laws with help of his assistant, seven-year-old Lawrence resident Malachi Podrebarać during after-school drama classes for children yesterday afternoon in Murphy Hall. The two classes, for first through third graders on one day, and fourth through sixth on another, is part of a "Children and Drama" class for KU students. Drama leader and associate professor of theater and film, Jeanne Klein, said that the two created "laws" during the improvisation such as a 10:30 p.m. town curfew and an ordinance disallowing handgun usage within city limits.
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www.ku.edu/cgiwrap/sfa/index.pl; Lied Center sponsors concerts, plays, chamber music, musicals, dance companies, www.ukans.edu/~lied/
local music info is available at www.lawrence.com.
A 21-year-old KU student reported two stolen cameras valued at $685 total between 6:30 p.m. Saturday and 8 a.m. Sunday from her residence in the 1000 block of Maine Street.
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A 19-year-old KU student reported $300 and a cell phone valued at $150 stolen between 1:30 a.m. and 2 a.m. Sunday from her residence in the 1100 block of Ohio Street.
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A 22-year-old KU student reported a damaged window and screen between 10:30 p.m. Sunday and 9 a.m. Monday at her residence in the 4400 block of Adam Avenue.
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The School of Fine Arts is having their Brown Bag Classics featuring the KU Opera previewing The Crucible from 12:30 to 1 p.m. today at Alderson Auditorium on Level 4 of the Kansas Union.
The School of Fine Arts is sponsoring a Student Recital Series featuring Wei-San Yue, piano, at 4:30 p.m. today at Swartwhate Recital Hall.
The School of Fine Arts is sponsoring a Student Recital Series featuring the KU Saxophone Quartet at 7:30 tonight at Swarthout Recital Hall.
Office of Study Abroad is sponsoring a summer study abroad information fair from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. today on lvl 4 of the Kansas Union
The ECM is sponsoring A Real Person's Guide to Relationships: Gen-
deredness at 7 p.m. tomorrow at the International Room of the Kansas Union.
Asian American Student Union is having Eric Liu speak from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.today at the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union. Liu is the author of The Accidental Asian and was a domestic policy advisor and speech writer for President Clinton.
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