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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAS
THURSDAY MAY 10, 2007
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2003 WORLD NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
The Janiaweed, a government-supported Arab militia in Sudan, is accused of committing genocide against black Africans in Sudan's Darfur region. Although the situation, which is still unresolved, has been labeled genocide by several nations, the UN Security counsel has failed to place sanctions on the Sudanese government and has been unable to place a peacekeeping operation in the nation due to a clause in the UN Charter, which requires the permission of the host nation to dispatch a peacekeeping force.
NASA launches its Mars exploration Rover mission. NASA sent two rovers — Spirit and Opportunity/ — to Mars to explore the planet's surface. Scientists found that water existed on the planet at one time, proving that Mars might be habitable.
April 28 — Apple opens the iTunes store. Apple opened the store, which was the first legal Web site that allowed users to download music, as an alternative to illegal music downloading.
August 14 — Power lines in FirstEnergy's Ohio service areas become tangled with overgrown trees causing power plants in key United States and Canadian cities, including New York City, Detroit and Toronto, to shut down suddenly. The shutdowns caused a large-scale blackout, which lasted almost twenty-four hours in some cities.
- October 7 — Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) beats incumbent Gray Davis in the California election for governor. Schwarzenegger won 48 percent of the vote.
- October — China becomes the third nation, after Russia and the United States, to send a man into space.
2003 ENTERTAINMENT HIGHLIGHTS
Britney Spears and Madonna share a passionate kiss at MTV's Video Music Awards.
*Singer Johnny Cash, 71, dies from complications associated with diabetes.
Diixe Chicks shunned after band member criticizes President Bush.
Syracuse defeats Kansas in the NCAA championship game
Norah Jones wins five Grammys
*Ruben Studderd wins the second American Idol*
■ Popular songs: "Crazy in Love" by Beyonce, "Hey Ya" by Outkast, "Where is the Love" by Justin Timberlake & Black Eved Peas
*Popular movies: Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, Finding Nemo, Elf*
■ February 20 — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell visits the University of Kansas. Powell opened students' minds to the capabilities of high-speed broadband Internet, which was not well known at the time of his lecture.
2004 CAMPUS NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
March 8 — W. Clarke Wescoe, the University's $10^{\mathrm{th}}$ chancellor, dies at age 83. Wescoe Hall at Kansas and Wescoe Pavilion at KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., are both named after the former KU chancellor.
■ March 28 — Kansas and new coach Bill Self make it to the Elite 8. Kansas loses in...
Elite 8. Kansas loses in the first round to the infamous "Killer Bs" the next two years
May 21—Former President Bill Clinton gives the inaugural Robert J. Dole Lecture at the University. Clinton was personally invited to speak by Dole, who was Clinton's democratic opponent in the 1996 presidential race.
- Fall - The University introduces new Wireless Zones on campus for all students. Previously, students could get wireless Internet connection at the Kansas Union and Watson Library, but only on library laptops and not their personal laptops. The University also spread its already existing Wireless Zones across campus adding zones at Anschutz Library, Wesco Beach and Budig Hall as well as other hot spots on campus.
2004 ENTERTAINMENT HIGHLIGHTS
Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson drop jaws during the Super Bowl halftime performance with a "wardrobe malfunction" that left Jackson's breast fully exposed.
Martha Stewart convicted
Facebook.com founded
- Popular songs: "Leave" by JoJo, "Toxic" by Britney Spears, "Lose My Breath" by Destiny's Child
■ Popular movies: "Shrek 2," "Spiderman," "The Passion of the Christ," "Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban"
2004
2005 CAMPUS NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
■ February 7 — The University of Kansas makes "royal blue" the official shade of blue at the University, replacing "big blue," which was an all encompassing blue.
2003
April 9 — Tony Award winner and KU alum Mandy Patinkin comes to the University to help raise money for new equipment for Murphy Hall's Crafton-Preyer Theater. The money from the fundraiser helped buy new equipment to aid patrons with hearing disabilities and to raise money for undergraduate film
scholarships. Patkinkin won the Tony for his performance as Che in "Evita" in 1980. He was also the narrator in "The Polar Express" and appeared in "The Princess Bride."
■ July 5 — The University chooses its school logo. After more than 4,500 faculty, staff, students, and alumni voted, the University finally decided on the school's current "KU" logo.
September 15 — Carlos Mencia performs at the University as part of
Hispanic Heritage Month. Currently, Mencia hosts his own television show on Comedy Central entitled "Mind of Mencia."
- September 20 — Ken Carter, the inspiration for the film "Coach Carter," starring Samuel L. Jackson, speaks at the University on behalf of Academic Success Week. Carter is the California high school basketball coach who locked his team out of the gym in 1999 until they improved their grades
October 15 — KJHK celebrates its 30th anniversary. Chuck D, founder and lead singer of the hip-hop group Public Enemy, gives a lecture at the University on behalf of the occasion. "Rolling Stone" has called Public Enemy one of the "50 greatest performers in rock & roll history" and the group was featured on the cover of "Spin" magazine as one of the 20 greatest music innovators of the past 20 years.
December 23 - Fort Worth Bowl: The KU football team wins its first bowl game in 10 years, blowing out Houston 41-13. The victory gains respect for the University throughout the Big 12.
2005-2006 season — The KU baseball team wins the program's first Big 12 title en route to an overall 43-25 record and an appearance in the NCAA tourney for the first time since 1994.
2005 ENTERTAINMENT HIGHLIGHTS
Brokeback Mountain
livestrong bracelets lead to national trend
Kanye West - "Bush doesn't care about black people."
- Popular songs: "We Belong Together" by Mariah Carey, "Since U Been Gone" by Kelly Clarkson, "Don't Cha" by Pussycat Dolls
Popular movies: Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, King Kong, Wedding Crashers, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2005
2003 CAMPUS NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
April - Syracuse's Hakim Warrick blocks Kansas basketball player Michael Lee's three-point attempt with two seconds left to secure the national championship in Roy Williams' final year coaching the lawhaws.
- September 23 — Former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno gives a guest lecture at the KU School of Law. Reno, the first woman to serve as U.S. attorney general, served during the Clinton administration.
September 25 — The University of Kansas opens the Student Recreation and Fitness Center. The center, which cost $17 million to build, was funded entirely by student fees. The building was approved through a referendum passed in 1999.
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Sigma Nu fraternity is placed on probation until December 2004 for hazing. The chapter was prohibited from holding or attending any social functions that involved alcohol until June 2004.
- December 11 — The Military Science Building celebrates its 60th anniversary. The Federal Works Progress Administration and Kansas University Endowment Association originally financed the building. Construction of the building began in the spring 1941. However, construction of the building was not finished until 1943 due to the collapse of the WPA in 1942.
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■ December 22 — Tangerine Bowl: Kansas football makes it to — but loses — it's first bowl game in eight years. Despite the loss, it is a step forward for the program. Final Score: N.C. State-56, Kansas-26
October 17 — Eaton Hall, the current engineering building, opens.
- November 7 — KU School of Law celebrates its $125^{th}$ anniversary. The Kansas Board of Regents created the Department of Law in November 1878.
April 28 — The infamous Abu Ghraib pictures are released. The pictures led to an investigation of the treatment of prisoners at other United States detention centers and three soldiers were sentenced for their roles in the prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib.
■ July 22 — The 9/11 Commission finds the United States government at fault, in part, for the terrorist attacks which took place at the Pentagon and the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. The Commission claimed the government ignored warnings that there could be a terrorist attack on United States soil and thus failed to stop the tragedy.
May 17 - The 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. On May 17, 1954 the United States Supreme Court ruled separate schools for black children and white children unconstitutional.
2004 WORLD NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
■ June 5 — Former United States president Ronald Regan dies after fighting Alzheimer's for nearly a decade. Regan was elected president in 1981 and served two terms.
November 2 — George W. Bush wins his second presidential election. Bush won 31 of 50 states while his democratic opponent, John Kerry, won only 19 states.
November 11 — Yasser Arafat, Palestine Liberation Organization leader, dies at age 75 after multiple organ failure.
August 13 — The summer Olympic Games take place in Athens, Greece, the birthplace of the Olympics. More than 24 athletes tested positive for steroids, setting a new record for steroid use at the Olympics.
March 11 — Islamic militants linked to al-Qaeda kill 191 people and wound 1,000 more after bombs placed on four commuter trains in Madrid — as a response to Spain's participation in the Iraq war — explode.
*December 26* — One of the largest recorded earthquakes in history occurs near Sumatra, an island in the Indian Ocean. The
earthquake caused a series of tsunamis, which hit Indonesia and Thailand, and other countries in the area. More than 150,000 people died and approximately five million people were left homeless. The disasters drew the international community's attention to the need for better natural disaster warning systems in high alert countries.
KU students helped raise money for rebuilding in southeastern Asia after an earthquake caused numerous destructive tsunamis in late 2004. Approximately five million people were left homeless.
2005
WORLD NEWS HIGHLI
Terry Schiavo debate
April 26 - Anderson Cooper, CNN anchor, speaks to students at the University
Steve Faucett round the world flight
January — Iraq holds its first free election in 50 years. Despite violence, 98 perc-
■ January 28 — Ann Coulter speaks at the 37th J.A. Vickers St. and Robert F. Vicke-
number of best-selling books and has appeared on many TV news shows, including
conservative political commentary.
■ April 2 — Pope John Paul II dies from the flu. He also suffered from Parkinson Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI.
July 7 — The London subway bombings become the second major al-Qaeda attack people and 700 more were wounded.
April 26 — Anderson Cooper, CNN anchor, speaks to students at the University
July 1 — Supreme Court justice Sandy Day O'Connor resigns. O'Connor serve first woman to hold that position. President Bush nominated Harriet Miers to replace O'Connor was replaced by Samuel Alito.
■ August — Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon begins Israel's unilateral disengagement of the Gaza Strip and four of its territories in the West Bank and gave Authority. The Palestinian National Authority is an interim government, a government is established.
■ September — The Danish Jyllands- Posten newspaper publishes a series of Mohammad cartoons. More than 3,500 people demonstrated peacefully in Copenhagen denouncing the cartoons in the following weeks. However after European newspapers began re-publishing the images, labor strikes in Pakistan began along with a boycott of
- Fall — Bird flu — also called the avian flu and the H5N1 virus — rapidly spread from Asia to Europe and was predicted to spread to the United States, causing a pandemic, by the summer of 2006. The World Health Organization has reported more than 200 cases of humans who were infected by the virus.
August 29 — Hurricane Katrina devastates areas in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, but must notably the Louisiana city of New Orleans. The hurricane killed approximately 1,300 people and inflicted $150 billion in damages. The 2005 hurricane season was the longest-running season with the most hurricanes recorded in U.S. history.
Danish goods in 2006. Several countries pulled ambassadors out of the area and No other countries.
October 8 — The Kashmir border, an area between India and Pakistan, is struck
killed some 80,000 people, injured 70,000, left more than 3 million homeless and has
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October 24 — Rosa Parks dies at age 92. Parks was sent to jail her seat in the whites-only section of a bus in Montgomery, Ala. Si violating a local ordinance. Parks' arrest inspired blacks in Montg year and fueled the civil rights movement.
October 27 — Teenagers — most of whom are Muslim — be of the death of two teenagers who were electrocuted after allegedly while running from the police. It is still unclear whose fault the ace for poor youth in the country to demand better employment option from Paris to 274 other towns in France. The riots caused one dead
October 28 — Dick Cheney's chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter L" of justice and making false statements in connection with design
of justice and making case statements in connection with the invo Robert Novak claimed in the Washington Post that Valerie Plame, married to former CIA agent. Revealing the name of a CIA agent is a federal offense and it is still une information. However Plame and Wilson saw the action as a response to Wilson's opio before which criticized the Bush administration's actions in Iraq.
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