in other words
"As it gets older, it's getting uglier."
David Keating, senior counselor at the National Taxpayers Union, on the growing complications in the tax code.
2A the university daily kansan
news in brief
friday, april 16, 2004
ON CAMPUS
The School of Fine Arts is sponsoring a Music Colloquium featuring a presentation by Professor Bryan Kip Haheim at 3:30 p.m. today in 123 Murphy Hall. Free. Contact the M&D Office at 864-3436.
The School of Fine Arts is sponsoring the Men's Glee Club at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Swarthout Recital Hall. Free. Contact the M&D Office at 864-3436.
The KU Ballroom Dance Club is sponsoring dance practice from 7 to 9 tonight in the Hashinger Dance room. Ballroom, salsa, and swing practice for beginners or to those looking to learn new moves. Contact kubde@ku.edu.
Contact kubuo@kubuo.edu
The Kansas Relays are from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. today through Sunday at Memorial Stadium. Thousands of athletes come to the University to compete. The 77th Annual Kansas Relays is free with your KU ID. Contact Debbie Luman at 864-348C or at dluman@ku.edu.
The International Student Association is sponsoring the Festival of Nations from 7 to 9 tonight at the Ballroom in the Kansas Union. International students will perform different dances and play instruments that are traditional of their countries. Contact Gaston Araoz at 812-3172.
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The International Student Association is sponsoring a World Expo from noon to 5 p.m. today in the Ballroom of the Kansas Union. International students will have the option of setting up a table display and exhibit what their country has to offer. More than 30 countries will be represented. Contact Gaston Araoz at 812-3172.
STATE
4 Pakistani citizens convicted in fraudulent-marriage case
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Four Pakistani citizens living in the Kansas City area have been convicted in a marriage fraud case.
A jury in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan., on Wednesday found Shabber Ali, 24, Tarq Mahmoud, 34, Zaheer Ul Islam, 30, and Ahmed Bilal Aslam, 37, guilty of one count each of conspiracy to arrange fraudulent marriages. Islam and Aslam also were convicted of one count of marrying to evade immigration laws.
U. S. Attorney Eric Melgren said that testimony during the five-day trial showed that Ali and Mahmood conspired to arrange sham marriages between Pakistani men and American women so that the Pakistani citizens could legally live in the United States. Melgren said the American women were paid.
Ali and Mahmoud each face up to five years in federal prison for conspiracy, Islam and Aslam face up to five years in prison for marriage fraud. Sentencing is set for July 12.
The Associated Press
36th Fort Riley solider dies since beginning of Iraq war
FORT RILEY — A sergeant from Texas is the 36th soldier from Fort Riley to die in the Iraq war, Army officials said yesterday.
Sgt. Christopher Ramirez, 34, of McAllen, Texas, died Wednesday in
fighting in the Al Anbar Province near Fallujah, west of Baghdad. He was assigned to Company B, 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry, 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, which has been in Iraq since September.
Ramirez was the first Fort Riley death since five soldiers of the 1st Engineer Battalion were killed on March 31 by a bomb exploding beneath their M113 armored personnel carrier.
The Associated Press
Kansas national guard troops may be called to duty in Iraq
TOPEKA — About 1,100 Kansas Army National Guard soldiers from five units have been alerted that they may be mobilized for duty in Iraq.
The units have primarily support and transportation duties and represent the largest single alert of Kansas National Guard soldiers since the start of the Iraq war last year. Alert status puts the units on notice that mobilization orders could be forthcoming later this year as part of a third rotation of soldiers into Iraq.
a third location of security Maj. Gen. Tod Bunting, the state adjutant general, said the alerts don't guarantee mobilization for active duty but give soldiers time to prepare in case they are called.
Bunting said, if mobilized, soldiers could be gone up to 18 months, including a year on the ground in Iraq.
As of Wednesday, nearly 173,000 National Guard and Reserve forces were on active duty, many in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the Pentagon.
100TH ANNIVERSARY
The Associated Press
FROM THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN ARCHIVES
April 16
Fifty-seven years ago
All 25 members were confronted by 30 University students, some of whom were reported to be members of the football team.
Members of the Committee on Racial Equality were forcibly thrown out of Brick's cafe because they were protesting racial inequality.
The owner of Brick's cafe said he didn't encourage what transpired, but said he understood that the committee members were thrown out because they occupied all the seating in the cafe.
Thirty-four years ago
Apparently, clubs, chains and Mace were used by the students in the fights that took place in the cafeteria, main hall, and outside another classroom.
A brawl between african-american and white students erupted at Lawrence High School. Twenty-eight students were injured and five were taken to the hospital.
Fights broke out through the day after approximately 70 white students and 70 african-american students gathered in the morning in preparation for a fight. After both crowds were dispersed by school officials, the crowd gathered in the school where various fights broke out.
Twenty-two years ago
Brent Carter/Kansan
KU biology students and faculty could look forward to moving its facilities to a $13.8 million addition to Haworth Hall that was approved by the University.
The new facility means the biolcgy
department could move out of its outdated Snow Hall facility. Officials said that Snow Hall could not house the new technological additions that the department had wanted to add.
department Haworth Hall's addition would house modern research labs as well as new lecture rooms and offices.
Belly dancing 101
Eight years ago
Moos said technology drives that gap between the rich and the poor, the haves and the have-nots even wider, thereby increasing the feeling of inadequacy among the have-nots.
After the Unabomber published his 35,000 word manifesto badmouthing technology in The New York Times, KU anthropology professor Felix Moos said he was hardly surprised at the Unabomber's stance.
JoAnne Zingo Hargus taught basic belly dancing techniques and steps to Anastasia Varnavskia, Russian exchange student, and Gaston Aroz, La Paz, Bolivia, junior, Wednesday evening at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
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