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WEDNESDAY
April 6
THURSDAY
April 7
International Student and Scholar Services will host a "World Foosball Tournament."The tournament will take place in the Kansas Union Plaza from noon to 3 p.m.
■ KU Memorial Unions will host a book signing for "Iraqi Fulbrighter," by Goran Sabah Ghafour. It will be in Jayhawk on level two of the Kansas Union from 4 to 5:30 p.m.
FRIDAY
SUNDAY
April 8
International Student and Scholar Services will host the ISA World Cup Soccer Tournament from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Shenk Fields. The event is free.
KU alumnus and producer Mark Amin will show his film "Peaceful Warrior" at 7 p.m. at Oldfather Studios. A reception with pizza will follow the event.
MONDAY
April 10
J. V. Sapinoso will host a seminar on gender from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Hall Center.
April 11
SATURDAY
April 9
The department of visual art will host an open drawing of a live nude model from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in room 405 of the Art and Design Building.
TUESDAY
The University Senate Executive Committee will meet from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Strong Hall.
NATIONAL
April 12
Biden fights sexual violence on campuses
BY MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
WASHINGTON—Schools must do more to prevent and respond to sexual violence on campus, Vice President Joe Biden said Monday as he introduced new federal guidelines to combat the problem.
"Students across the country deserve the safest possible environment in which to learn," Biden said. "That's why we're taking new steps
to help our nation's schools, universities and colleges end the cycle of sexual violence on campus"
Biden was joined by Education Secretary Arne Duncan at the University of New Hampshire, which was chosen because of its highly regarded efforts in sexual violence prevention.
Under the Department of Education guidelines, schools informed about sexual harassment
or violence must take immediate action to stop the abuse and prevent it from happening again.
Schools must have sex discrimination policies in place and an employee responsible for managing the institution's compliance with Title IX, the law that prohibits sex discrimination in education programs. Schools must make procedures for filing complaints based on Title IX violations available.
LUXURY LEASING
NASA
BY MCCLATCHY- TRIBUNE
ORLANDO. Fla. — A small piece of debris from an old satellite hurling toward the International Space Station sent a scare through NASA and the three astronauts aboard the station, but the debris ultimately sailed harmlessly by.
The debris, about 5 inches wide, passed by the station at 5:21 p.m., missing the station by a little more than three miles, according to NASA calculations.
For much of the day, as NASA tracked the space junk, the three astronauts were advised to be ready to scramble into the Soyuz capsule that's attached to the station that could fly them back to earth.
But the red-level alert was canceled around 4 p.m., when NASA became confident enough in the track of the debris.
Debris threatens space station
The astronauts on the space station are American Catherine Coleman, Italian Paulo Nespoli, and Russian Commander Dmitry Kondratyev.
Despite the scare, the incident was considered fairly rou
tine. NASA begins preparing for action any time a piece of space junk appears likely to pass close to the space station, which happens fairly regularly. Usually the alert is dropped as the debris gets close enough for NASA to project an exact path, and determines it's going to miss. The last time debris got close enough to force an evacuation was in 2009.
Nothing significant has ever struck the station, said NASA spokesman Josh Byerly.
SPACE STATION
Space debris moves at orbital
"A five-inch piece of debris hurtled toward the International."
speeds of about 18,000 mph. So an impact by a 5-inch chunk, Byerly said, "depending on where it hits, it could be severe. Something even the size of a grain of sand can punch a hole."
But two recent events have added to the mess. In 2007, China destroyed one of its own probes with an anti-satellite missile in a show of military force, creating a huge cloud of debris. In fact, the piece that threatened the station today is from the Chinese FENGYUN 1C satellite destroyed in that weapons test.
Orbital debris has become a growing problem for space travelers. The amount of space junk has been multiplying in recent years, as collisions between larger pieces create even more smaller ones.
Also, in February 2009, a Russian and an American communications satellite collided over Siberia. That crash created another round of new space junk. On Friday, the space station had to take evasive action to avoid debris from that event.
As of July 2009, more than 19,000 pieces of space debris larger than 10 centimeters were known to be circling the Earth, according to NASA researchers who track it. Another 500,000 pieces are between 1 cm and 10 cm. The tiniest pieces number in the millions.
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