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Haskell speaker talks politics
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LAWRENCE — After speaking at their graduation ceremony this spring, U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs Leader David Anderson returned to Haskell Indian Nations University this week to reminded students to take control of their lives.
As for students planning to party rather than study this semester?
"I'm asking you to leave. Now." Anderson said Tuesday, pointing to the Haskell Memorial Stadium exit where about 300 students and faculty gathered for the speech.
Anderson was appointed by President Bush to the top post of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 2003. The Chippewa and Choctaw tribe member and founder of the "Famous Dave's" family restaurant chain shared his
struggles with alcoholism and school.
"I was a C. D, F student," Anderson said. "I've been sober nine and a half years now."
His speech also addressed the lack of Native American participation in U.S. politics.
Kit Lofter/NANSAN
"We don't vote," Anderson said, pointing out the absence of Native Americans at this week's Republican National Convention.
Wescoe wounds
Michael Cherniss, professor of English, is aided by paramedics after taking a fall down a flight of stairs outside Wescoe Hall yesterday afternoon. Cherniss was also helped by two students, Matt Reynard, Lawrence sophomore, and Cody Vliet, Wichita junior, who carried him to a bench on the north side of Wescoe.
Milosevic denounces tribunal as 'farce'
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A Yugoslav war crimes tribunal acquitted a Bosnian Serb leader of genocide yesterday, while former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic told a separate panel the charges he himself faces are "empty words" and a "mutilation of justice."
The verdict in the five-year trial of Radislav Brdjanian, wartime leader of the autonomous Krajina region of Bosnia, should encourage Milosevic, who launched his defense this week against charges of genocide and more than 60 other counts of war crimes.
Brdjanin, 56, a powerful Serb figure at the start of the Bosnian war in 1992, was convicted on eight of 12 charges and sentenced to 32 years imprisonment — a surprisingly lengthy term in view of the acquittals on the most serious charges related to genocide and extermination.
Despite a Serb campaign of mass murder, torture and deportations of non-Serbs, the court said the brutality fell short of genocide, which requires stringent proof of the sole intent was to wipe out the Muslim and Croat communities.
The acquittal was a setback for prosecutors who placed genocide at the center of Milosevic's indictment. He is accused of responsibility for the deaths
of more than 7,500 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in the U.N.-protected enclave of Srebrenica in 1995.
The court said it would announce today whether it will impose defense counsel on Milosevic, who has insisted on defending himself despite repeated bouts of ill health that have delayed the trial by months.
The tribunal has set a high bar for a genocide conviction. Of more than a dozen Serbs charged with genocidio, only one, Gen. Radislav Krstic, has been convicted — and the charge was reduced on appeal to aiding and abetting genocide.
Yesterday, Milosevic concluded a 5 1/2-hour opening statement, denouncing his trial as "a farce, pure and simple."
"This indictment represents a sum of unscrupulous manipulation, lies, crippling of the law, and an unjust presentation of the history," he said. The charges are a "sheer mutilation of justice. Nothing else. What it says there are empty words."
wintosevic failed to address the specific charges he faces, instead arguing the Serbs faced a conspiracy of persecution by Croats, Islamic fundamentalists, the United States, NATO and the Vatican.
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I really cannot accept at all that you do not give me
"What the Serbs did was only making up for what the Muslims and the Croats took away from them," he said.
the right, the opportunity to voice the truth."
Slobodan Milosevic
Yugoslav President
Prosecutors suggested Milosevic ask
one of his Belgrade legal assistants to represent him in the courtroom. Judge O-Gon Kwon told him he could continue speaking in court even if another attorney was leading the defense, but Milosevic has refused.
"I really cannot accept at all that you do not give me the right, the opportunity to voice the truth," Milosevic said.
Prosecutors cited medical reports from last week that Milosevic was unfit to represent himself and was refusing to take prescribed drugs to control his high blood pressure in order to delay the proceedings.
The indictment accuses Milosevic of orchestrating or condoning murder, the destruction of towns and places of worship and the expulsion of hundreds of thousands in an effort to create an ethnically pure "greater Serbia" by funding and arming Serbian uprisings in Croatia and Bosnia.
Milosevic said that the drugs made him too drowsy to work on his case.
CORRECTIONS
Tuesday's University Daily Kansan contained an error. In the article, "Student starts own line of tank tops," Erin Pickholtz's name was misspelled. It also stated that Pickholtz started making tank tops during the summer of 2003. Pickholtz has been making tank tops for three years; she started selling them in Lawrence the summer of 2003.
- Tuesday's University Daily Kansan contained an error. In the article, "The fight goes on," Charles Jean-Baptiste's named was misspelled.
CAMPUS
He was aided by Matt Reynard, Lawrence sophomore, and Cody Villet, Wichita junior, to the a bench on the north side of the building.
Ambulances arrived in front of Wescoe Hall yesterday shortly before 2 p.m. after Michael Cherniss, professor of English, fell down a staircase.
English professor injured on Wescoe Hall staircase
"My leg went under and I went down. Some college students helped me to get up," Cherniss told paramedics.
Vliet said that the Cherniss was in front of him when he fell.
Vliet said that Cherniss didn't want to call for an ambulance until he realized that he couldn't get up.
"He bit it on his hip really hard," Viet said.
Cherniss had a cut on his right arm and an injury to his hip.
Nikola Rows
Eight members of a local anarchy group, including two KU students and one KU graduate, were arrested Tuesday in New York City protesting the Republican National Convention.
Local anarchists arrested and held after NYC protest
NATION
Vanessa Hays, a friend of the arrested group members, said she did not know what the members had been charged with, but she assumed it was a political arrest.
"I think that whatever the situation, they were arrested because they were exercising their first amendment rights." Hays said.
Hays said they were held overnight at Pier 57, where 10 protesters were placed in pens with 10-foot chain link fences without food, water or toilet facilities.
Hays said she got this information from a Web site, www.nyc.indymedia.org, where people who had been held in the facility and released were posting online.
Andy Hyland
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