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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2009
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But then, she said, students came to her office to give her the news.
"One of the students told me You probably don't want to be sitting here, because we just had a bus crash," Bennett said.
"And I looked up and everyone is looking out the window," Gerstenberger said.
Firefighters examine damage to the Park and Ride bus that crashed into Higuchi Hall on Tuesday, Danny Kaiser, assistant director for parking and transit, said the bus cost more than $269,000 in 2006.
staved vacant.
Adam Blackwood, research assistant at the Bioassessment Center, said the bus hit a water main and sprayed water into the room, which was a laboratory that studied water quality. Blackwood said the bus did not damage gas bottles that were in the lab and that the lab typically
"It flooded that room," Blackwood said. "If it's not broken, it's soaked with water everywhere."
Danny Kaiser, assistant director for Parking and Transit, said the investigation was still underway and estimates for collision repair work were not done yet. He said the bus cost $269,601 in 2006.
Gerstenberger called it an interesting experience.
"Anyone that was standing would've been down on the ground." Gerstenberger said. "We were going fast and it was like 'boom'!"
Petty said the experience was like a "good old roller coaster ride."
"I'll be in the back of the bus from now on," he said. "Hopefully it doesn't roll backwards into anything."
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the changes. the money came from the existing co-major program and the masters program at the Edwards campus, which will also be moved to the center once it's completed in 2010.
Patti said she agreed that the changes in the department would be beneficial for today's students.
you leave college without it you're already a step behind other people who do have that experience."
"For myself and students majoring in anything from art to science, an international focus is almost essential right now," Patti said. "If
The University has one of the best international studies in the country, Stanley Mugeki, assistant director of the new center, said. But, he said, if a more global emphasis were given to the department it would be a beneficial addition to the University.
Mageki and Tsutsui said they agreed the new center would bring a new energy to campus on thematic
global issues, such as global health care and the environment.
"The issues that affect other countries cannot be escaped." Mugeki said, "We're counting on the students to be at the forefront of these issues and help us to know what to teach them."
Since this semester began, Patti has been working with directors of the Center for Global and International studies to put together a group of students to focus on the
transition.
Patti said the group should be approved and ready to begin meeting in the next two weeks.
The department will also be partnering with the Army's Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth to hold programs, such as a lecture on global Islam in the spring in order to help spread awareness of the changes.
Applied Behavioral Sciences in a community development program to give students the tools to help build communities internationally.
Tsutsui said the center was also working with departments such as
"They want to know more about global issues as much as the students here do," Tsutsui said, "It is a fortunate partnership and will help to empower students to make a change globally."
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MILITARY
Military personnel move on a staged iraqi village as part of transition training on post at Fort Riley on Friday. A mission that has trained more than 15,000 soldiers, sailors and airmen to be advisers in Afghanistan and Iraq is leaving Kansas after three years, shifting focus as it moves to Louisiana. The change is part of the next phase in Iraq aimed at the withdrawal of troops in 2011.
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Local mission plan changes; leaves Kansas after 3 years
The White House says Monti showed selfless service and sacrifice on during combat. Obama will appear with his parents in the East Room.
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Monti was a native of Raynham, Mass. He previously was awarded a Bronze Star, Purple Heart, five Army Commendation Medals, four Army Achievement Medals and three National Defense Service Medals.
FORT RILEY — A mission that has trained more than 15,000 soldiers, sailors and airmen to be advisers in Afghanistan and Iraq is leaving Kansas after three years, shifting focus as it moves to Louisiana.
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Instead of training teams of 12 to 16 people, the mission to be based at Fort Polk, La. will turn combat brigades of 3,500 soldiers into a brigade focused on advising. The change is part of the next phase in Iraq aimed at the withdrawal of troops in 2011.
Instead of training small groups and sending them to work as liaisons between U.S. forces and Iraqi forces, the teams will be brigadesized and do much the same task. The idea is that with larger groups, the brigades can do a better job of training the Iraqis as the U.S. pulls back from combat operations.
Defense analyst John Nagl, president of the Center for New American Security in Washington, said the new system was a move in the right direction, giving brigades additional skills without compromising their combat abilities.
"We are figuring this thing out. This is a learning process," said Nugl, a former Army colonel who trained advisers at Fort Riley and helped write the Army's counterinsurgency manual.
The shift reflects not only a change in location for the training, but a change in the adviser mission.
RECOGNITION Obama to issue his first Medal of Honor award
The first brigades are being trained and deployed to Iraq, including three brigades of the 3rd Infantry Division from Fort Stewart, Ga., and one from 4th Infantry at Fort Benning.
About 90 percent of what U.S. forces are doing in Iraq is advising army and police forces to develop skills, said Col. Mark Bertolini, commander of the Fort Polk unit responsible for adviser training. That part of the mission will also grow in Afghanistan as that nation increases the size of its security forces.
He said the new brigades will have the ability to deploy repeatedly without needing to rebuild adviser units, saving time and resources.
"Fort Riley did very important work for three years in training and educating the advisers to the Afghan and Iraqi militaries," Nagl said. "It is a thankless mission. Not nearly as fun, but it served the nation well."
Fort Polk is better suited for training advisers, Nagl said, because of its mission and available resources. He noted that Fort Riley was never designed to keep the mission forever.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is giving his first Medal of Honor to a soldier who sacrificed his life saving a comrade in Afghanistan.
For Fort Riley, the move means
The final tally late Tuesday was 240-179, generally but not entirely along party lines. It was 233 Democrats and seven Republicans voting to chastise Wilson, 167 Republics and 12 Democrats opposing the measure and five Democrats merely voting "present."
Bertolini said brigades of advisers with good language and culture skills will enable the development of those forces.
Obama plans to award the honor to Sgt. 1st Class Jared Monti during a ceremony at the White House on Thursday. The White House announced the plans Tuesday.
"This will put the expertise within in the brigades, a team of teams," Bertolini said Tuesday. "It's such a critical mission, the exit strategy for Iraq and Afghanistan eventually."
a shift in focus, but it also means growth.
"The resolution is not about the substance of an issue but about the conduct we expect of one another in the course of doing our business," declared House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., who sponsored the measure with Democratic Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C.
The 1st Brigade of the 1st Infantry Division, which is ending its role training advisers, will grow from less than 1,000 soldiers to closer to 3,800 soldiers as it returns its focus on preparing for war as an armored brigade.
The growth is the last phase of the Army's plans to increase the Fort Riley soldier population to more than 18,000.
Fort Riley traditionally has trained large units for war. One 1st Infantry brigade returns from Iraq this month, while a second is beginning its yearlong tour.
Lt. Col. James Smith, commander of a Fort Riley battalion training advisers, said he will soon begin building his infantry battalion to full strength, but will have some soldiers who trained advisers who will help develop cultural and language skills among the incoming soldiers.
Republicans tended to strongly disagree.
Wilson had called the White House to apologize shortly after the incident, and he said at the time that the president "graciously accepted my apology and the issue is over."
WASHINGTON — Bitterly divided along party lines, the House formally rebuked Republican Rep. Joe Wilson Tuesday for shouting "You lie" at President Barack Obama during last week's nationally televised speech to Congress.
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"We're here on some witch hunt, some partisan stunt that the American people are not going to respect," said Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio.
"We've always had them resident in the Army, mainly in special forces. Based on broad width of experiences advising, I think we'll have that resident for the next 20 years," smith said.
The rare resolution of disapproval was pushed through by Democrats insisting that Wilson, a South Carolina lawmaker, had violated basic rules of decorum and civility in his outburst. Republicans dismissed the vote as a political "witch hunt" and a waste of precious time and taxpayers' money.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, is calling for increasing the size of Afghan forces before committing additional U.S. troops to the war. The job of training those soldiers would fall to Army advisers.
House rebukes outcry as uncivil
"This is definitely a growth industry in the Army," Bertolini said.
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