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amining where things with the beloved Jayhawk come from."
Vander Tuig said Athletics had evaluated its affiliation with the FLA several times after students had initiated the conversation, but Athletics decided the FLA is currently the best option.
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He said one factor in the decision is that WRC is only concerned with college apparel. The FLA monitors apparel from many different companies and also licensed merchandise, such as mugs and key chains. Each year Athletics' trademark royalties are made up of 63 to 65 percent apparel sales and about 35 percent merchandise.
Marchiony said he didn't want Athletics' reluctance to switch to WRC to overshadow its concern and interest in labor rights.
"That's been a concern of ours for over a decade and that's why we have been a part of the FLA.
so long," Marchiony said. "This institution believes that we need to be involved in the solution."
Clark said there are still important issues to be resolved within the labor monitoring system, but individuals aren't to blame for those problems. The system makes it difficult for Athletics, and even the consumer, to track a lot of issues by itself.
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"The global economy has made labor issues so hard to track," Clark said. "It's not impossible and there are victories. The fact that the University has a commitment to this is a victory in terms of a social movement for labor.
Police search for Oliver Hall suspect
Police are looking for the person who tried to start a fire late Friday night in Oliver Residence Hall, 1815 Naismith Dr.
Someone tried to set fire to a banner on the seventh floor of the dorm, said Capt. Schuyler Bailey with the KU Public Safety
Office. The fire occurred sometime between 11 p.m. Friday and 12:30 a.m. Saturday on the north wing of the floor, he said.
Anyone with information about the person or fire can call the University police at 785-864-5900,or call anonymously to the KU crime stoppers at 785-864-8888.
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Altercation leads to library arrest
A man who had been banned from the University was arrested Monday evening at Watson Library. Capt. Schuyler Bailey said there was a "scuffle" between the man and KU Public Safety officers.
Amanda Manke, a junior from Overland Park, said she was doing homework in the library when she witnessed the altercation.
Manke said at about 5 p.m. a male officer and female officer approached two men near the circulation desk on the main floor of the library. She said the officers told one of the men that "he knew he wasn't supposed to be on University property." The man
said he thought the charges were dropped. The officers and man argued for about five minutes, Manke said.
"Then he took a swing at the male cop," she said.
The male officer and the assailant wrestled on the ground for a few moments until the officer handcuffed the man, Manke said.
Trash talk
Bailey said he was unsure of the assailant's age or why he was banned from University property.
Bailey said that, following this incident, the assailant was charged with battery of a law enforcement officer, criminal trespassing and resisting arrest.
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Celeste Hoins, administrative manager of KU Environmental Stewardship Program (left), Lycia Gabson, Prairie Village graduate student from Praire Village(middle), and Jason Hering, a senior from Hutchinson (right), construct a recycling study outside of Wescoe Hall Monday. The study consisted of all trash collected last week from Jayhawk Blvd. to survey KU's recycling efficiency. The goal of the study is to make campus as recycle friendly as possible.
Business students travel to India
STUDY ABROAD
BY CARLO RAMIREZ
cramirez@kansan.com
If your idea of fun on New Year's Eve includes roaming the rural countryside of India with wild animals, then you're in luck. The School of Business is offering a study abroad program in south India for the first time in University history this Winter Break, including a trip to a game reserve on New Year's Eve.
"I'm pretty excited at the chance to go to India, and experience a different part of the world while getting some credits out of the way," said Nick Manning, a senior from Kansas City, Kansas.
Hopeful applicants such as Manning have applied to take "Emerging Topics in Marketing: U.S. and India."
Kissan Joseph, faculty adviser and professor for the course, said the program would be advantageous in understanding emerging marketing practices in the U.S. and India, naturally leading to opportunities across
two market-oriented economies.
"It is a large market. There are over 300 million individuals in the middle class. In fact, President Obama has recently stated that the relationship between U.S. and India will be the defining partnership of the current century," Joseph said.
Students will enjoy a newly built, $15 million LEED certified building. LEED certified. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, buildings focus on meeting certain environmental standards.
Joseph warns that besides the daily 6 a.m. yoga session, no day will be the same.
"Some days will be all class, others will be social excursions or company field trips," he said.
The course will be taught by Joseph and select professors of the Asian School of Business, a school founded in Trivandrum in 2005. Joseph will focus on how to connect the two marketing worlds, while the ASB faculty will focus on marketing in India.
It is a three credit hour course and counts toward Spring 2011 semester.
The three-week study abroad program, will be spent near a beach on the southern tip in Trivandrum, India in the state of Kerala, acclaimed for its scenic sights and beautiful, 70 degree weather in the winter.
Students interested submitted an application that included why they believed they would be good candidates for the program, if they needed financial aid, as well as a copy of a resume. The abroad program is only open to those in The School of Business.
The Office of Study Abroad wanted to help students financially as much as possible, particularly because it's the first year for the program. Students can receive scholarships for up to $1200, which covers all but $240 of the total program cost.
"It's a great opportunity and the fee is very reasonable with the scholarships given," said Suzanne Scales, assistant head and head of the
Institute for International Business.
The students must pay for their flight, which is around $1500, said Scales.
"A dollar can go a long way in India," loseph said.
Each day students will learn about the distinctions between the Indian and U.S. marketing business worlds, and Joseph hopes this knowledge will help students bridge the gap in the future.
Joseph stresses international business is key for the University's School of Business, adding that this program is one of the many abroad opportunities it offers.
"Kansas is the center of the U.S., but we at the business school want it to be the center of the world," Joseph said.
The students chosen will leave for India on Dec. 26 and return on Jan. 17, 2011.
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Psychologist speaks of religious infection
The KU Society of Open-Minded Atheists & Agnostics will host Dr. Darrel Ray tonight from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Parlor Room ABC of the Kansas Union. Dr. Ray, an organizational psychologist, will be speaking about his book "The God
Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture."
Ray said he examined the idea that religion was a virus that was infecting almost all aspects of life. He said he questioned how people get infected with religious ideas and what the consequences of that religious infection.
"There is no way of verifying that Allah is the right one or that
Jesus is the right one," Ray said. "Yet people would kill over that idea."
He said most people became "infected" as young children, which was why religion often targeted children. He said most children are susceptible to the "God virus" because their rational immune system was immature. He said when a person was young
Ray calls this infection the 'God virus' because once a person has the virus, it's difficult for the person to get rid of it.
and went to bible school, the religion would teach how other religions were wrong.
He said another large part of his lecture is about the taboo of sex within the religious community. He said all of the major religions
"I often say that religion is a sexually transmitted disease,"Ray said.
were consumed with sex. He said religion creates guilt through sex. He said if a person took sex out of religion, then the religion would collapse.
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Overall, Ray said people often don't realize they were being controlled by the "God virus", and
"Any religious person is probably infected with a God Virus and what you do you about it?" Ray said. "I have a little bit of an idea on what to do about it."
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his lecture taught people how to overcome it.
Alleged genocide leader charged with lying on citizenship application
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CONCORD, N.H. — Lawyers for a Manchester woman charged with lying about her role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide argued Monday she will not flee if she is released from custody while awaiting trial next year.
Defense Attorney David Ruoff told a federal magistrate that Munyenyezi has lived "a very quiet and unassuming life" during the 10 years she has lived in Manchester with her three daughters, who are now in their teens. He called her ongoing detention "strictly punitive."
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Auerhahn said Munyenyezi's
Beatrice Munenyeyezi, 40, has been in custody since June, when she was indicted for lying on applications to enter the United States in 1995 and to obtain citizenship. Federal prosecutors say she ordered rapes and murders of Tutsis during the genocide that killed up to 800,000 people.
brother heads an organization that wants to overthrow the current regime in Rwanda, and predicts she would return to Rwanda if that happened.
"Why stay around here and face a potential 10-year sentence," Auerhahn said. "Her roots in the community are tenuous at best and suspicious."
Munyenyezi, who was sworn in as a U.S. citizen in Concord in 2003, appeared to be listening intently. She spoke only when U.S. Magistrate Judge Landya McCafferty asked her if she was pronouncing her name correctly.
Munyenyezi is married to Arsene Shalom Ntahobali, a commander in the former Rwandan army and one of the "Butare Six", suspected by authorities of planning the slaughter. He and his mother have been on trial before a U.N. tribunal for more than eight years.
McCaffery did not indicate when she would issue a decision.
Ruoff argued that during that
A federal affidavit says Munyenyezi and her husband were extremist Hutus who participated in roadblocks and ID checks that resulted in numerous Tutsi rapes and killings.
eight year trial, including the three times Munyenyezi testified on her husband's behalf, she was never linked to genocide or other war crimes.
Ruoff also questioned the credibility of the government's Rwandan witnesses, calling them "jailhouse rats" who participated in the genocide.
Prosecutors challenged Ruoff's characterization, saying they have nothing to offer Rwandan convicts who are serving multiple life sentences.
"Some of the witnesses knew her for years and years and years," he said.
Auerhahn said they fear Munenyeyezi will attempt to coerce or threaten their witnesses.
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