6A the university daily kansan
tuesday,april 27,2004
news
Youth survives duel with Alaskan bear
The Associated Press
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A 15-year-old boy on a wilderness expedition for emotionally troubled youths woke up to find a 400-pound brown bear with a bad attitude sitting at his feet.
bad attitude sitting behind him.
After trying unsuccessfully to back out of the tent, the boy was bitten in the forearm and decided to fight back, punching the bear with his left hand a half-dozen times, Alaska State Trooper Adam Benson said yesterday.
When the teenager tried to run, the bear bit him again below his ribs, this time leaving a half-dozen puncture wounds on his back, Benson said.
The boy punched the bear again, and again she let him go, but chased him around a nearby stand of trees. He eventually remembered an air horn in his
gear, and blew it in the bear's muzzle, waking others in the camp, said Steve Prysunka, director of the six-week "Crossing Wilderness Expeditions for Youth" program.
Youth program.
Prysunka asked that the boy
not be identified.
The bear finally turned and ran after counselors blasted her with pepper spray and fired a flare at her feet, Prysunka said. Later Saturday, following the attack, officials found the sow in the campsite area on Deer Island in southeast Alaska and killed her.
The boy was flown out to a hospital, where he was treated, then sent home to Barrow to give his wounds time to heal. Prysunka said.
Prysunka said, "I think he is the biggest, baddest thing in the woods. He punched the bear," Prysunka said.
China rules out Hong Kong elections
The Associated Press
HONG KONG — China killed Hong Kong's hopes for quickly attaining full democracy, ruling yesterday that the territory cannot directly elect its next leader because it could stir social and economic instability.
Critics, including the U.S. consul general, charged that Hong Kong's promised autonomy had been harmed by the decision from China's top legislative panel, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. Britain said the ruling went against the deal China signed when former colony Hong Kong was returned to its motherland in 1997.
Pro-democracy Hong Kong lawmakers unfurled a banner and chanted slogans before walking out of a meeting where a Chinese legislative official was
explaining the ruling. A small group of student activists outside burned a copy of Hong Kong's mini-constitution, the Basic Law.
Some analysts predicted public anger could explode into more street protests as locals vent frustration at their inability to pick a successor to the highly unpopular Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa.
The Standing Committee's deputy secretary-general, Qiao Xiaoyang, insisted Beijing had considered Hong Kong's democratic aspirations before issuing its binding ruling.
But the Communist government decided Hong Kong's priority should be preserving its capitalist system by achieving a long-term economic recovery, and democracy can come later, he said.
"Governments who are led by the nose by public opinion are irresponsible." Qiao told business leaders, local officials and foreign diplomats in a conference hall.
Protesters outside chanted: "Fake consultation, real dictatorship." Qiao later met with Hong Kong lawmakers in the former British colonial governor's mansion — but opposition politicians walked out in protest.
China calls democracy an eventual goal but says Hong Kong can't rush into it.
Pro-democracy figures charge that Beijing is afraid of facing the people's will at the ballot box, but predicted its heavy-handed move will carry a political price.
pointed the U.S. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said yesterday Washington was "disappointed by the decision."
"We believe it doesn't adequately reflect the expressed wishes of the Hong Kong people for universal suffrage and
Activists are planning a major rally for July 1, the anniversary of a massive march by 500,000 people that forced Tung to backtrack on an anti-subversion bill that was viewed here as a threat to freedom. That protest alarmed Beijing.
The Standing Committee said Monday that Hong Kong will be allowed to make changes to its electoral methods but only gradually.
The decision ruled out Hong Kong people's demands to democratically choose a successor to Tung in 2007 and all lawmakers in 2008.
Tung was picked by an 800-
member committee that sides
with Beijing.
Although ordinary Hong Kongers have no say in picking their leader, they will directly elect 30 of 60 Legislative Council members in September, up from 24 last time.
SMOKING: Clean Air Lawrence group trying to attain smoking ban
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If commissioners do vote on the issue, the work of Dave Boulter would be void. Boulder, owner of Henry's, 11 E. Eighth St., has collected about 1,500 signatures against the ban in the past year. To get the issue on a public ballot,
according to the referendum, 3,800 signatures would be needed.
needed.
Boulter's coffee shop is one of three Lawrence shops that allow smoking. The Bourgeois Pig, 6 E. Ninth St., and the Java Break, 17 E. Seventh St., also allow it. Lindey Cavitt, who works at Henrv's.
said that smokers were a big part of the shop's business.
"People come where they are allowed to smoke, so this is kind of a big deal around here," Cavitt said. "I think that a ban is stupid because business will go down, my tips will go down."
Carrie Pohl, coordinator of
Clean Air Lawrence, said she was relieved to hear the commissioners were reconsidering the referendum. She said she would rather see commissioners make the decision instead of citizens.
group concerned with the effects of secondhand smoke. Pohl estimated that about 25 students belonged to Clean Air Lawrence. But she wants to see more KU students become involved with the issue, by contacting city commissioners and writing opinion letters in newspapers, she said.
In the past year, Pohl has recruited more than 250 active members for the organization—a
Lawrence a few months ago. She also said that commissioners should vote on the issue. It is easier to educate five people about an issue than it is to educate an entire city, she said.
No decisions on the future of the ban will be made until next week's commission meeting.
Janelle Anderson, Andover senior, joined Clean Air
SHIRTLESS: Music lover embodies the meaning of 'carpe diem'
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After gaining experience as a DJ on the radio, Joe and Centenzo took Latin Lab live. They started to DJ house parties and local events. This year they are a Thursday night staple at the EightOneFive Cafe and Night Club, 815 New Hampshire St.
Earlier this semester he spoke on a panel for World Music Week. Joe talked about the connections between local and global music.
Joe's love of world music started when his dad turned him on to jazz at age 7. He became fascinated in the way culture and music interact. Jazz spurred his interest in the African diaspora of music and the Latin and Caribbean interaction with American and African music.
African music.
On a trip to New York City, Joe stopped to look at CDs sold on the sidewalks. There he met a group of African immigrants and began talking about popular African musicians. Within minutes they were singing African songs on the street together. Centeno, who was on the trip, said the immigrants were amazed that Joe knew so much about their music.
much about. No matter where he goes, people open up to Joe, Oz said. Even with language barriers, he said his brother always found a way to communicate.
way to communicate. "He is 100-percent pure life force and energy," Oz said.
Centeno said McGuire was always talking about how beautiful life is. He calls Joe "the embodiment of carpe diem." At the EightOneFive, Centeno said Joe was known for dancing wherever he can find a platform. At about 1 a.m. he jumps on top of chairs and tables to dance.
dance.
"It's not to shock people," he said. "If it makes him happy, he'll seize the moment."
Joe wants to push people to break their own comfort zone and explore happiness in music. He sees it on the dance floor when he's a DJ.
when he'd B. J.
"There's bodies moving everywhere uncontrollably in a beautiful collage of expression," he said.
he said. Joe wants to do more to bring world music and cultures to the nation, to Lawrence and to his friends. He said he knew most people would never learn about the music the world has to offer unless he acts as their "cultural ambassador."
Joe sees the way the rhythms, beats and grooves of the music break down barriers between people and erase complications.
"When that hits them, suddenly they forget about all their problems and differences," he said. "All that they care about is that this music is boiling in their blood and making them move."
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Joe McGuire, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, has had a growing interest in music since age 7, and now co-hosts the popular KJHK radio program Latin Lab. He learned how to DJ from his brother, Oz, who says Joe is "100-percent pure life force and energy." Joe says he considers himself to be a "cultural ambassador."
SENATE: Some attendance lax
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"To be honest, I just haven't seen it." Johnson said.
the attendance, hadn't told him that anyone had exceeded the three absence limit.
seen, Jones said that she saw no reason to bring senators before StudEx for possible suspension with the end of the year approaching and not enough time available to find replacement senators.
"What are we going to do to senators, kick them out with just joint Senate left?" she said, referring to the last Senate meeting of the year. "Retention's pretty much always been a problem in Senate. I think people think they have enough time in the beginning, but once they get into the semester, they realize they don't."
they realize they have been After seeing the attendance records, Johnson said he agreed with Jones' decision to not bring the senators before StudEx. He said he had suspended five to seven senators earlier in the year for attendance problems, but wouldn't have done anything this late.
if have done this." "At this point in the year, unless there's a grievous issue with attendance, I don't see the purpose of me acting on that," Johnson said. "At this point, we wouldn't have time to replace them and we want knowledgeable people to elect the holdover senators."
Every year Senate elects three holdover senators for the next holdover at the last meeting of the year.
Johnson said that most of the senators had gotten their third absence at one of the last meetings of the year and that some had circumstances that made it impossible to attend meetings. For example, Melinda Bretthauer, nontraditional senator, recently had a baby. Johnson also said much of the work of senators was done outside of meetings.
Erica Padish, associate senator, has accumulated 3.5 absences this semester, and Patrick Quinn, off-campus senator, has accumulated 4.5 absences. Both were relected to Senate positions two weeks ago.
Johnson said that because Padish's third absence had occurred on the second-to-last meeting of the year, he would not have suspended her.
Quinn sponsored or co-wrote several bills during the semester. He said he missed three meetings because of organic chemistry tests on Wednesday nights. He said his new constituents in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences shouldn't be concerned about his attendance next year.
"If you've observed me in Senate, you've seen I'm an active participant," Quinn said. "You can expect me to attend as many meetings as I can without subjecting myself to academic harm."
Twenty senators had perfect attendance at all nine meetings this semester. Kelli Stadalman, pharmacy senator, was one of them.
macy senator, who "it was kind of tough being there every Wednesday night." Stadalman said. "But I knew when I ran that it was required, and I was willing to make the sacrifice."
Edited by Joe Hartigan
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