THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2007
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>> STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS
Groups can re-register on Internet
BY COURTNEY CONDRON
ccondron@kansan.com
All student organizations on campus are required to re-register online with the Student Involvement and Leadership Center by Sept. 15.
This is the first year that SILC has done the online registration. Before, students had to turn in a form with the signatures of their president, vice president, treasurer and adviser. Now one officer of the group can sign them up online, and then an e-mail is sent to the rest of the officers for their confirmation.
"We wanted to provide a smoother and more accessible way for people, so they don't have to worry about getting a form, and getting signatures," said Aaron Quisenberry, associate director of SILC.
Quisenberry said so far 295 groups had registered for the 2007-2008 school year. Though SILC usually has more than 500 groups registered, this is about a 30 percent increase from the amount of groups registered at this time last year. After Sept. 15, all groups that haven't re-registered will be dropped from the SILC database.
"We've had a few electronic kinks," Quisenberry said. "But we've received pretty good feedback from the groups."
Dennis Golden, president of the Phi Alpha Delta Law School chapter, said registering online was easier.
"It was pretty quick, and I didn't
have to do much, so it was probably better," Golden said.
Students with registered groups can also go online and see the results of the freshmen Summer Interest Survey for their group. This tells them which students are interested in joining.
"We were able to put together a spreadsheet of all the students who were interested and contact them that way," said Brad Ingber, president of the KU Marketing Club.
Student organizations that still need to re-register can go to www. SILC.ku.edu or call their office at 864- 4861.
Edited by Luke Morris
AL-QAIDA
Osama bin Laden releases video on 9/11
BY LEE KEATH ASSOCIATED PRESS
CAIRO, Egypt — Osama bin Laden urged sympathizers to join the "caravan" of martyrts as he praised one of the Sept. 11 suicide hijackers in a new video that emerged Tuesday to mark the sixth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
Al-Qaida traditionally issues a video every year on the anniversary, with the last testament of one of the 19 hijackers involved in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. This year's video showed hijacker Waleed al-Shehri addressing the camera and warning the U.S.: "We shall come at you from your front and back, your right and left."
The new message, which AP Television obtained from the IntelCenter monitoring group in suburban Washington, came days after the world got its first current look at bin Laden in nearly three years, with the release of a video Saturday in which the terror leader addressed the American people.
Later it appeared on militant Web sites, with a note from al-Qaida's media production wing al-Sahab saying it was intentionally sent to television stations before being placed on the Internet. It begins audio from bin Laden. The video shows a still image of him, raising his finger. In the image, bin Laden has the same dyed-black beard and the same clothes, a white robe and cap and beige cloak, hat he had in Saturday's video.
It was not known if the audiotape was recently made. Al-Qaida has used footage and audio of bin Laden taped long ago for release later. In the tape, bin Laden praised al-Shreyi, saying that Arab rulers were "vassals" of the West and had "abandoned the balance of (Islamic) revelation. It is true that this young man was little in years, but the faith in his heart was big," he said.
"So there is a huge difference between the path of the kings, presidents and hypocritical Ulama (Islamic scholars) and the path of these noble young men," like al-Shehri, bin Laden said. "The formers' lot is to spoil and
enjoy themselves whereas the latters' lot is to destroy themselves for Allah's Word to be Supreme.
"It remains for us to do our part. So I tell every young man among the youth of Islam: It is your duty to join the caravan (of martyrs) until the sufficiency is complete and the march to aid the High and Omnipotent continues," he said.
After bin Laden speaks, the video of al-Shehri appears. Al-Shehri — one of the hijackers on American Airlines Flight 11, which hit the World Trade Center — is speaking in front of images of the burning World Trade Center.
"We shall come at you from your front and back, your right and left," al-Shehri said, asserting that America would suffer the same fate as the Soviet Union. He praised the losses the U.S. suffered in Somalia 1993. "As for our own fortune, it is not in this world," he said. "And we are not competing with you for this world, because it does not equal in Allah's eyes the wing of a mosquito."
We the People of the United States ...
Constitution Day Program at the Dole Institute
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
7:30 p.m.
The Roberts Court
Panelists:
Judge Steve Leben, Kansas Court of Appeals State Representative Pat Colloton, Attorney Professor Burdett Loomis, Political Science Professor Steve McAllister, KU School of Law
The panel will discuss the Supreme Court under the leadership of Chief Justice John Roberts. Questions will include: How much has the Supreme Court changed with the addition of the Chief Justice and Justice Alito? Who is/are the "swing" vote(s) on the Court now? Recent hot-button cases including affirmative action, campaign finance, freedom of speech and other constitutional topics will also be addressed.
ROBERT J. DOLE INSTITUTE OF POLITICS The University of Kansas
www.doleinstitute.org
2350 PETEFISH DR, LAWRENCE, KS 66045
KU SCHOOL OF LAW
The University of Kansas
The Student Senate Executive Committee is pleased to announce the election of 5 NEW Freshman Senators:
Drew Carlson
Katy Clagett
Andy Haverkamp
Michael Wade Smith
We are ALSO pleased to announce the election of the following students as Associate Senators:
- Joanne Bauer (Finance Committee)
- Alex Earles (Student Rights Committee)
- Chris Weber (Multicultural Affairs Committee)
- Chantz Thomas (University Affairs Committee)
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