2A NEWS THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 2008 quote of the day "Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled." Fyodor Dostoyevsky fact of the day In a 10-month study in 2007, International Fund for Animal Welfare found more than 1,900 illegal items, created from 30 protected species, for sale on major Chinese auction sites. www.environmentalgraffiti.com most e-mailed Want to know what people are talking about? Here's a list of Monday's five most e-mailed stories from Kansan.com: 4. Warner Brothers switches to Blu-ray 1. Fusco: March values the game, not a team 3. Keefer: Payback, solid game power Jayhawks to tournament 2. One last time at Allen Fieldhouse 5. Student Senate Notes: January 24, 2008 KU1info daily KU info On Monday, the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center presents EmPOWER, a self-defense course for women. 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Postmaster: Send address changes to The University Daily Kansan, 119 Stauffer-Flint Hall, 1435 Jayhawk Blvd., Lawrence, KS 66045 media partners KUJH For more news, turn to KUJH- TV on Sunflowe Broadband Channel 31 in Lawrence. The student-produced news app 5:30 p.m.; 7:30 p.m; 9:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. every Monday through Friday. Also, check out KJH online at tv.ku.edu. KJHK is the student voice in radio. Each day there is a student talk and a talk shows and other content made for students, by students, when they rock 'n' roll or reaggee with KJHK 9:7 for you with Jessie Fetterling/KANSAN Lecturer Iain Ellis English Department English lecturer Iain Ellis teaches Expressions of Youth Rebellion this semester. He moved the U.S. from Manchester, England for the cultural experience of rock music. BY ABBY OLCESE aolcese@kansan.com What classes do you teach? Where are you from originally, and what brought you to the United States? What classes do you teach? Right now I'm teaching a class called Expressions of Youth Rebellion, which looks at the history of social rebellion through the decades. We just finished learning about the Black Power movement. I also teach some basic writing classes. I'm from Manchester. I came here because of Rock. People growing up in Britain who are into music sort of drift into the cultural experience of it all. Why did you decide to get your doctorate in American Studies? What got you interested in music? I've always been interested in the area. It's really broad, so you can pursue various avenues. Rock has always been my main interest, and so I like to manipulate the system any way I can to work with it. Also, I find that many English classes that are taught these days aren't that different from culture classes. It's not as strict as it used to be. Punk rock was my turning point. When I was growing up, there was a DJ, John Peel, who had a radio program on BBC1. He had a two-hour show every night, and that was it if you wanted to listen to anything alternative or different. But then the Punk movement happened, and it was life changing. It not only influenced a musical revolution, but also a social, cultural and political revolution. I think it helped that I was about 15 or 16 at the time, and that's when you tend to find the music that defines you. It was my defining music then, and it still is. How did you get into teaching? I sort of fell into teaching. Like a lot of graduate students, my first experience teaching was in a teaching assistantship. Finally, I just got to a point where I just couldn't do anything else. I've grown to love it, and I feel like it's a natural profession for me. I came to popmatters through a friend who I'd been in a band with in Ohio. He was an editor there. At the time, one of my favorite bands, Guided By Voices, had just broken up, and I wanted to do a tribute essay. My friend accepted it, and I've just kept at it since then. When and how did you start writing for popmatters.com? You're writing a book on subversive rock humorists. What interested you in that subject? It started as a series for popmat- ters.com. I'd written a few profiles of some of my favorite rock humorists. The more I thought about it, over history my favorite subversive artists have used humor as their main force of articulation. I also feel like there's more diversity in the use of humor in rock than in any other genre. It can be visual, lyrical, musical, there are so many styles and strategies. The most radical figures out there are people who have had an ability to mix humor with subversion and rebellion. The book follows how that's changed over time. There are very few rock rebels who have been humorists at the same time, so this is sort of an alternative view of rock history and youth history. What do you think of the Lawrence music scene? I like a lot of Lawrence music. There are some bands I've really liked, like Black Christmas, Suzannah Johannes and Fourth of July. I also like that there are lots of bands who stop in here to play. What are some current bands you've been listening to? My tastes now are very eclectic. I've been listening to a lot of stuff that's been coming out of Britain in the last couple of years like the Fratellis, the Libertines and the Arctic Monkeys. They're sort of guilty pleasures. My tastes are all over the place, but I've been coming back to the Brits lately. - Edited by Katherine Loeck From the inside looking out Four Caribilambo monkeys peek out from a cage at a temporary shelter in Bogota, Colombia, Friday. According to the police, an average of 50 animals are seized from illegal traders by the special environmental police unit daily in Bogota. Many of the animals are endangered species and are sold as pets. SCIENCE Spacecraft photographs avalanches on Mars PASADENA, Calif. — A robotic spacecraft circling Mars has snapped the first image of a series of active avalanches near the planet's north pole, scientists said Monday. The image, taken last month, reveals at least four avalanches of fine ice and dust breaking off from a steep cliff. The cascade kicked up massive debris clouds, with some measuring more than 590 feet across. sonal change. It is rare for scientists to catch a natural event in action on the surface of Mars. Most of the landscape that has been recorded so far has not changed much in millions of years. The avalanches occurred near the north pole and broke part of a 2,300-foot cliff. The landslides were spied by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter during a routine tracking of sea- "We were checking for springtime changes in the carbon-dioxide frost covering a dune field and finding the avalanches was completely serendipitous." Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist Candice Hansen said in a statement. Scientists were unsure what set off the avalanches and whether they occur frequently or only during the spring. PRESIDENTIAL Democrats worry about lengthy campaign struggle WASHINGTON — Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton reached for the finish line of contentious Ohio and Texas primary campaigns on Monday as senior Democrats expressed concern the party could suffer this fall if their struggle goes much longer. accused Obama of double talk on NAFTA, to Texas. Obama spent his day in Texas pledging to begin the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq next year and envisioned a "seamless transition from active duty to civilian life" for men and women who leave the armed forces. "I'm just getting warmed up," Clinton said, looking beyond this week's contests and shrugging off 11 straight primary and caucus defeats as well as a three-digit deficit in delegates. The former first lady campaigned from Ohio, where she But he was shadowed by allegations that he had overstated his opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement to win votes back in Ohio. He told reporters his campaign never gave Canada back-channel assurances that his criticism of NAFTA amounted to political posturing. Associated Press The public event "Association of American University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show" will take place all day at the University Press of Kansas. The public event "KU Libraries' Book Sale" will take place from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. in the Watson Library. The workshop "Access 2003: Forms" will begin at 9 a.m. in the Budig PC Lab. The public event "Education Interview Day" will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Kansas Union Ballroom. on campus The lecture "Russia's Counterterrorism Policy: Variations on an Imperial Theme" will begin at noon in 318 Budig. The workshop "Powerpoint Power Hour" will begin at 11 a.m. in the Anschutz Library Instruction Center. The concert "KU Tuba/Euphonium presents 'Music of Rodger Vaughan'" will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall. The concert "Kansas City Symphony- small ensemble performance" will begin at 7 p.m. in the Regnier Hall Auditorium. The event "Student Union Activities Presents Spoken Word Artist Bridget Gray" will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Hawk's Nest in the Kansas Union. The concert "Murphy 50th Anniversary Event Visiting Artist Ruth Krusemark, Organ (KU Alum) will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Bales Organ Recital Hall. STUDENT SENATE Violation accusation found to be unmerited Friday, the elections hearing board heard the first elections violation of the election period. Mason Heilman, Lawrence sophomore and residential senator, filed a violation against Jarrod Morgenstern and Jack Connor with the WIKUpedia project. The violation said that Morgenstern, Overland Park senior and journalism senator, and Connor, Overland Park senior and holdover senator, visited Charles Marsh's Journalism 101 class and showed the WiKUpedia Web site to the students. WiKUpedia is hosted from the Connect coalition's Web site. Alex Herman, Hays law student and chair of the hearing board, said the hearing board found no violation in a vote of 3-0. He said the two senators didn't go through the coalition's Web site and instead went straight to the Wikipedia site "They only went to sites that were undoubtedly neutral with Senate politics." Herman said. Morgenstern said that in the two years he has been involved in Senate, he did not remember a violation being filed this early. 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