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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2009
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INTERNATIONAL
1. US scientists visit Cuba for'science diplomacy'
HAVANA — Eight American scientists, including Nobel laureate in chemistry Peter Agr, are in Havana to engage in "science diplomacy."
The group was scheduled to meet with officials at Cuba's foreign and public health ministries as well as visit the island's Academy of Sciences and the University of Havana.
There was no official word on the visitors' schedule, but they planned to remain in Cuba through Friday, according to a statement released by organizers.
The trip comes as Cuba and the U.S. are taking tentative steps toward improving nearly 50 years of frigid relations with recent talks on immigration and re-establishing direct mail service between the countries.
2. Iran cooperative in talks about nuclear fuel bank
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran says it could cooperate in a global nuclear fuel bank, a U.S.-backed idea for a safe repository for uranium aimed at preventing proliferation of nuclear weapons.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday Tehran places importance on
international nuclear cooperation including "Iran's presence in the global fuel bank."
Iran has been wrangling with Western powers over their proposal for it to ship most of its uranium out for enrichment abroad. The aim is to reduce Iran's stockpile of fuel that can be used for nuclear energy or nuclear weapons. Iran is proposing the U.N. supervise uranium enrichment inside the country.
President Barack Obama and U.N. have both endorsed nuclear fuel banks.
3. Ivory Coast elections delayed at least 2 months
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — An Ivory Coast election official says this month's presidential vote will not occur as planned.
Robert Beugre, the president of the electoral commission, says the Nov. 29 election will be delayed at least two months.
The country's elections have been delayed every year since 2005, when President Laurent Gbagbo finished his last term. The country slipped briefly into civil war but a peace deal was struck that was meant to pave the way toward elections.
Beugrie said Wednesday more than 5 million voters have been cleared to take part in the election, representing 83 percent of the electorate.
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4. Five members of family charged with sex crimes
LEXINGTON, Mo. — Five members of a family,including three lay ministers, are charged in Missouri with sex crimes against children.
The five men arrested Tuesday are charged with several felonies, including forcible sodomy, rape with a child less than 12 years old and use of a child in a sexual performance. Allegations include bestiality and forcing an 11-year-old to have an abortion
Authorities say one of the victims came forward with the allegations in mid-August. The 26-year-old woman is related to the suspects.
A spokeswoman for the Independence-based Community of Christ says three of the suspects are lay ministers but are not in positions of leadership or involved with youth.
5. Police seek man accused of torturing girlfriend
LOS ANGELES — Police in Los Angeles are seeking a man they say tortured, raped and poured battery acid on his girlfriend during a Halloween attack.
Police say 30-year-old Miguel Herrera got into a heated argument with the woman after she
showed up late at his South Los Angeles apartment.
Capt. Art Miller said Wednesday that Herrera told the woman he wanted to teach her a lesson. Miller says he punched the woman, stabbed her with a knife, whipped her with an electrical cord, poured acid on her and tried to make her drink the acid. Miller says Herrera raped her before letting her go.
Police say Herrera followed the woman's car but she eluded him. She was treated at a hospital and released.
6. Man charged for falsely wearing military medals
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — A Palm Springs man who was never in the military has been charged with wearing the Navy's highest honor.
Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles say 39-year-old Steven Burton was photographed wearing the Navy Cross along with the Bronze Star, the Purple Heart and other medals.
Authorities say Burton claimed in Internet postings that he'd served in Afghanistan and Iraq. He's expected to surrender Thursday to face a charge of unauthorized wearing of military medals and could face up to a year in federal prison if convicted.
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KUlture:
Veggie Lunch
BY LISA ANDERSEN landersen@kansan.com
One week, it might be spicy split pea soup; another week vegetable curry. But regulars know what to expect at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries (ECM) each Thursday at lunchtime: a hot vegetarian meal, a table stacked high with free bread and the chance to break bread with lots of people.
Every Thursday from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., the ECM sponsors an allvegetarian lunch for anyone in the Lawrence community.
"ECM is a campus ministry, there is no specific membership or worship service and we are open to all faiths or no faiths," said Shannon Gorres, ECM administrative assistant.
Attendance and volunteers include faculty, students from a variety of different organizations as well as others living in the Lawrence community. The lunch serves about 200 people each Thursday.
about five or six people from ECM, KU Environs and PETA members all having lunch together. Shannon Martin, one participant, had the idea to open the lunch to everyone in the community. Within a few semesters, the group had reached 20 people and continued to grow to its current size.
"It introduces people to vegetarian dishes, though most people aren't vegetarians," Holcombe said. "It's a place where people can organize, and it helps to humanize the University."
Student coordinators Miles Gray and Lauren Ashman, Wildwood, Mo. Junior, run the Veggie Lunch. They recruit volunteer cooks each week. Volunteers begin preparation on Wednesday nights.
Reverend Thad Holcombe, pastor at the ECM, said the tradition started in the spring of 1999 with
"Wednesday evening two different volunteers come in," Gorres said. "They do the grocery shopping themselves and cook about three to six tubs of food for two hundred people. They put tablecloths up to give a home-feeling to the meal, so it's not just cafeteria style."
The meal varies depenning on the cooks.
The Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave., plays hosts to a Veggie Lunch every Thursday from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Volunteers cook the food and attendees wash their own dishes. "The main point is for people to meet new friends and have good conversation," Shannon Gorres, ECM administrative assistant, said.
"They have had Indian and Italian food, stews, rice dishes and Southwestern food — I'm amazed at the kinds of things they come up with," Holcombe said.
"Volunteers are generally people who have enjoyed the Veggie Lunch for several weeks or months over a semester," Gorres said.
ECM does not have a problem finding volunteers within the Lawrence community.
"Its another time of fellowship and conversation; its just another part of the community building process," Gorres said. "The main point is for people to meet new friends
After the meal is over, attendees wash their own dishes in the kitchen in communal tubs.
and have good conversation."
Attendee donations pay for the lunch. Only local food is served.
"Its important for people to have a place to pause." Holcombe said.
Holcombe said he tests the veggie
Lunch serves its intended purpose.
After cleanup, if the weather permits, attendees are free to play or listen to music on the lawn of ECM. Andrew Storer, Overland Park sophomore, likes the atmosphere of Veggie Lunch.
"There are so many cliques, people don't always break out of the norm," Storer said. "It's a good way to get people from different areas and organizations to bond."
— Edited by Brenna M. T. Daldorph
ON CAMPUS
The brownbag lunch with the Provost will begin at noon in the Big 12 Room in the Kansas Union.
Tea Time will begin at 3 p.m. in the lobby in the Kansas Union.
The University/Faculty Senate Meeting will begin at 3:30 p.m. in Room 203 in Green Hall.
The Big 12 Diversity Officers Reception will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the Dole Institute of Politics.
The "NewWork Poetry Reading: Kenneth Irby, Joseph Harrington, and William J. Harris" will begin a 4:30 p.m. in the Central Court in the Spencer Museum of Art.
The KU School of Music Saxophone Quartets will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
ON THE RECORD
About 5 p.m. Monday at Grace Pearson Scholarship Hall, someone reported the theft of an iPod, at a loss of $200.
About 10:30 p.m. Monday near 19th St. and Stewart Ave., a University student reported the theft of a driver's license and debit card, at unspecified losses.
About 11 a.m. Tuesday at a parking lot on campus, someone reported the theft of a lost or mislaid license plate.
About 2 p.m. Tuesday at Murphy Hall, someone reported the theft of one tuba, and criminal damage to another tuba, at a loss of $13,500.
About 3 p.m. Tuesday at the Kansas Union, someone reported the theft of a coat and two gold bracelets, at a loss of $900.
About 5 p.m. Tuesday near the parking lot near 11th and Illinois streets, someone reported the theft of a vehicle tailgate, at a loss of $500.
About 10 p.m. Tuesday near Wescoe Hall, someone reported the theft of a giant bicycle, at a loss of $436.
ODD NEWS N.C. school puts end to cash-for-grades' plan
GOLDSBORO, N.C. — Administrators have nixed a North Carolina middle school's cash-for-grades fundraiser.
The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Wednesday that Wayne County school administrators have halted the plan at Rosewood Middle School in Goldshoro.
NATIONAL
The school was offering 20 test points to students in exchange for a $20 donation. Rosewood principal Susie Shepherd had said that she approved the idea after a parent advisory council presented it as a way to raise money. Shepherd rejected the suggestion that extra points on two tests could make a difference in a final ordeal.
School district administrators said no extra credit will be awarded and that any donated money will be returned.
Obama visits Arlington Cemetery for Veterans Day
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Obama led the nation Wednesday in observing Veterans Day with a traditional wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington before an unannounced visit to the section
Associated Press
ARLINGTON, Va. — On a cold, rain-soaked Veterans Day, President Barack Obama walked slowly through the white, stone markers at the section of Arlington National Cemetery reserved for troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, the two wars he oversees as commander in chief.
"We gather here mindful that the generation serving today already deserves a place alongside previous generations for the courage they have shown and the sacrifices that they have made," Obama said in a brief speech following the wreathlaying. Obama pledged he would do right by all veterans and families, saying: "America will not let you down."
reserved for those who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The president spoke one day after honoring the victims of a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas. He said he was struck by the
determination of the soldiers there a quality that unites generations of American servicemen.
"To all of them — to our veterans, to the fallen and their families — there is no tribute, no commemoration, no praise that can truly match the magnitude of your service and your sacrifice," he said.
The nation observed Veterans Day from remembrances at the nation's capital to a New York City parade to ceremonies in towns and cities across the nation and overseas.
At Camp Eggers in Kabul,
soldiers observed a moment of silence for the more than 800 U.S. service members have died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan since the 2001 invasion to oust the Taliban regime.
The Navajo Code Talkers were special guests at the New York parade's opening ceremony, where a wreath was laid at the World War I Eternal Light Monument in Madison Square Park. As young Marines during World War II, the Code Talkers used secret Navajo language-encrypted military terms that the Japanese were never able to crack.
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President Obama and Gen. Karl Horst make an unannounced visit to Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery Wednesday. The section is reserved for soldiers who fought in Iraq or Afghanistan.
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