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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, APRIL 2, 2007
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Student Senate nixes bill to add textbook library
A bill to fund the textbook library failed at the Student Senate committee meeting on Wednesday.
The bill asked for $25,515.29 to establish a textbook library as a way to decrease student textbook costs.
The Senate Rights Committee failed the bill because it did not believe in the alliance between the University libraries, KU Bookstores and faculty and because it wouldn't benefit the students enough, Hannah Love, Dodge City junior and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences senator, said.
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Physical exercise is often crammed into busy students' agendas, but the act of mental exercise is something that might be ignored.
BY AMRUTA BHADKAMKAR
Spotlight on Organizations
The KU Art of Living Club hopes to change that. As a chapter of the worldwide Art of Living Foundation, the goals of the group are educational and humanitarian in nature. The KU chapter will hold courses on campus that will teach participants breathing and relaxation techniques.
Muralidhar Satuluri, KU Art of Living president, said the courses would focus on mastering the act of
"The idea is that through Pranayama, you can alleviate stress, have greater clarity in your thoughts and feel more energy in your day to day activities," Satulari said. "Sudarshan Kriya, a form of Pranayama, is the central theme of the Art of Living courses. Our primary motivation in forming the student organization is to provide the KU students with access to this effective and helpful breathing technique."
Pranayama, or controlled breathing, which was one of the most important parts of yoga.
The main goals of the organization are to organize the Art of Living courses on campus,
KU Art of Living Club
educate the public about the benefits of Pranayama and hold practice sessions every week so that people taking the course get a chance to practice regularly. KU Art of Living also hopes to organize fundraising events on campus for community service projects.
The Art of Living courses on campus will be taught by an instructor from the organization's Kansas City chapter.
One of the major events that this organization will be organizing in
the near future is "Leading into the Light." Sri Ravi
Shankar, founder of the Art of Living Foundation, will be speaking about achieving inner peace in the modern world through meditation and breathing techniques. This event will be held April 9 in Kansas City, Mo. More information about it can be found at wwwArtofLiving.org/kansacity.
The KU Art of Living Club meets at 10 a.m.every Sunday. Interested students can contact Satuluri at murali@ku.edu.
- Edited by Ashley Thompson
Get used to it
Jonathan Pryor, Columbus senior (left) and David Ta, Kansas City, Mo., senior (right) put up a rainbow-colored flag in front of Wescoe Beach Sunday afternoon. "We're preparing for gay pride week," Pryor said. This year the marks the 39th annual Pride Week at the University of Kansas.
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NATION
Clinton raises $36 million this quarter for campaign
WASHINGTON — Two Democratic presidential candidates broke previous fundraising records during the first three months of the year, with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton setting a high bar of $26 million in new contributions for the quarter.
Former Sen. John Edwards' campaign said he had raised more than $14 million since the beginning of the year.
The Clinton campaign also announced that she had transferred about $10 million from her last Senate campaign, bringing her total receipts for the quarter to $36 million. Edwards had no such transfers of money.
Clinton aides would not specify how many of her contributions were designated only for the primary election and how many could only be used in the general election, if she were the party's nominee.
Edwards' aides said about $1 million of his contributions could only be used in a general election.
Neither campaign divulged how much money it had spent in the quarter or how much cash it had in hand.
WORLD
McCain tours Iraq to view American-Iraqi security
Associated Press
BAGHDAD — After a heavily guarded trip to a Baghdad market, Sen. John McCain insisted Sunday that a U.S.-Iraqi security crackdown in the capital was working and said Americans lacked a "full picture" of the progress. The U.S. military later reported six soldiers were killed in roadside bombings southwest of Baghdad.
Four soldiers were killed responding to the blast that killed the first two, the military said. Britain, meanwhile, announced that one of its soldiers had been shot to death in southern Iraq — its 104th combat casualty since the war started four years ago.
McCain, a Republican presidential hopeful, criticized the media for not giving Americans enough information about the recent drop in execution-style sectarian killings, the establishment of security posts throughout the city and Sunni tribal efforts against al-Qaida in the western Anbar province.
"These and other indicators are reason for cautious, very cautious optimism about the effects of the new strategy," said McCain, who was leading a Republican congressional delegation to Iraq.
Associated Press
What do you think?
BY FRANCESCA CHAMBERS
WHAT ISSUESWOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE ON STUDENT SENATE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES PLATFORMS?
CHRIS CARDWELL Lincoln, Neb., senior
"It's frustrating when candidates propose trite issues like Chipotle in the Underground. We really need to deal with more hands-on issues like tuition-increase moratoriums. I'll eat whatever."
Riyadh, Saudia Arabia, freshman "Men can't play at the soccer playground opposite of Naismith. It's only for women. Until now we could not get someone to help us with this problem."
THAMIR ALSHAMMARI
SASHA HORN
Kansas City, Mo., senior After four years of going to KU, and having previously lived in KCMO, I think we should get a break on our tuition because it's so close."
MIYAKO WAKITA
Fukuoka, Japan, sophomore "The food court is not tasty and we need more healthy food — not pizza or hamburgers. We also need more buses going to 15th and 23rd and less going to McCollum."
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The workshop "Resumes for Scratch for Freshman & Sophomores" will be held at 3:30 p.m. at the PC Lab in Budig Hall.
on campus
Elbert Chia, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, will present the seminar "Ultrastaf Quasiparticle Dynamics of Strongly Correlated Electron Systems" at 4 p.m. at Room 2074 in Malott Hall.
Ann Rowland will present the British Seminar "A Colony of Children: Cultural Theory for the Modern Nation" at 3:30 p.m. at the Seminar Room in the Hall Center for the Humanities.
world
Pope John Paul II takes step toward canonization
VATICAN CITY — Cathone Church officials reached a key milestone in the drive to make Pope John Paul II a saint Monday, closing an investigation into his life and handing over a dossier detailing the purported miraculous cure of a nun who prayed to him.
Pope Benedict XVI put John Paul on the fast track for possible sainthood weeks after his death when he waived the customary five-year waiting period and allowed the investigation to begin immediately.
The events come two years after John Paul died, a remarkably fast pace that underscores the church's keen interest in beatifying John Paul and responding to the calls of "Sainthood Immediately!" that erupted after his death.
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