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Rock and roll
Salman Ahmad, founder of South Asian rock band Junoon, performs Thursday night in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union. Ahmad, a Pakistani, spoke of his experiences growing up in America and Pakistan, the influence of rock bands like Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, and The Beatles, and the cross-cultural value of music. Ahmad said he saw music as "a vehicle to address many things" and that it was a "cultural bridge." His performance/lecture was followed by a book signing of newly published "Rock and Roll Jihad," which discussed his pursuit of rock stardom in the Muslim world.
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Wild animals kill woman jogging along Alaska road
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Wolves likely killed a teacher jogging alone along a rural Alaska village road, public safety officials said Thursday.
The Alaska State Medical Examiner listed "multiple injuries due to animal mauling" as the cause of death for Candice Berner, 32, a special education teacher from Pennsylvania who began working in Alaska in August. Her body was found off the road a mile outside the village of Chignik Bay on the Alaska Peninsula, which is about 474 miles southwest of Anchorage.
The autopsy could not say which animals, said Col. Audie Holloway, head of the Alaska State Troopers, but wolves are the chief suspect.
"There's no other carnivores in that area that are out and active," he said.
Wolves, bears, foxes and other wildlife have disturbed bodies in the Alaska wilderness, but Holloway said the autopsy ruled
out other causes that may have killed Berner. Additional tests could tie the death to wolves, Holloway said.
"If we're able to actually prove which animal, it will be through some kind of DNA analysis
around the body, and drag marks associated with those wolf tracks," Holloway said.
"There were wolf tracks all around the body, and drag marks associated with those wolf tracks."
Tracks indicated more than
COL. AUDIE HOLLOWAY Head of Alaska State Troopers
or through some expert that can maybe testify or explain how they know that it's a wolf" he said.
Troopers have plenty of circumstantial evidence leading them to point the finger at wolves.
"There were wolf tracks all
"From the number of prints at the scene, we're thinking there probably were, possibly, two, three, maybe four," Holloway said.
Villagers in
the community of 105 residents already were on alert because of wolves running boldly near the community, said Johnny Lind, president of the village council.
involved.