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MONDAY, MAY 8, 2006
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2A THE UNIVERS ON CAMPUS Groundbreaking to take place today
A ceremonial groundbreaking will be held for the Sabatini Multicultural Resource Center at 4:30 p.m. today.
The groundbreak.ng will take place just north of the Kansas Union, at the site where the $2.7 million, 7,000-square-foot facility will be constructed.
The current Multicultural Resource Center is part of a military annex building near Summerfield Hall. KU officials involved in the project will speak at the groundbreaking, including Robert Page Jr., director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs, and Chancellor Robert Hemenway.
— Kansas staff reports
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"Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling"
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Fact of the Day
Comedic actor Chevy Chase occasionally served as drummer for the college band "The Leather Canary," which featured Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, who later formed Steely Dan. Bonus fact: Chase was the valedictorian of his high school class.
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Bush speaks to OSU graduates
1. Life after drunken driving:
fines, counseling and biking to the bars
2. The more the merrier
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2. The more the merrier
3. Illegal immigration needs revision, then enforcement
4. Photo gallery: Fall Out Boy
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4. Photo gallery: Fall Out Boy
5. New programs draw in Confucius Institute
STILLWATER, Okla. — President Bush advised college graduates on Saturday to use technology but not become enslaved by it.
"Science offers the prospect of eventual cures for terrible diseases — and temptations to manipulate life and violate human dignity." Bush said during commencement exercises at Oklahoma State University. "With the Internet, you can commu
"My advice: Harness the promise of technology without becoming slaves to technology. My advice is that science serves the cause of humanity and not the other way around," the president said.
nicate instantly with someone halfway across the world — and isolate yourself from your family and your neighbors."
The nation's young generation will wrestle to resolve these dilemmas, he said.
ates said they couldn't make out clearly what Bush said because of an echo in the audio system at Boone Pickens Stadium.
"I couldn't really hear it because the sound was so bad," said Michelle Ward, who earned a degree in biomedical sciences.
After the speech, some gradu-
Bush highlighted recent economic gains and told the graduates that an improving job market is giving them more job opportunities.
in years," he said. "This economy of ours is strong and so you'll have more jobs to choose from than previous classes and your starting salaries will be higher. And the opportunities beyond are only limited by the size of your dreams."
"The job market for college graduates is the best it has been
"Some look at the changes taking place all around us, and they worry about our future. Their reaction is to wall America off from the world, and to retreat into protectionism," he said.
And she's off!
Luisa Fairfax of the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology races around the track at Concord Motorsport Park Sunday during the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Human Powered Vehicle Challenge Endurance Race.
Violence continues; more than 40 killed
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Car bombs killed at least 16 people and injured dozens Sunday in Baghdad and a Shite holy city, casting doubt on U.S. hopes that formation of a new government alone would provide a quick end to the country's violence.
WORLD
At least 26 others were killed or found dead Sunday, including a U.S. Marine mortally wounded in the insurgent bastion of Anbar province in western Iraq, police and the U.S. military said.
Some of the victims appeared to have been abducted and killed by sectarian "death squads" that target members of rival religious communities. The dead included three brothers whose charred bodies were found before dawn in Baghdad's Dora district, a mixed Sunni-Shiite area and one of the city's most violent.
The deadliest single attack occurred at midmorning when a suicide driver detonated his vehicle near an Iraqi army patrol leaving its base in the Sunni Arab neighborhood of Azamiyah, killing 10 people and injuring 15, most of them Iraqi soldiers, police Lt. Col. Falah al-Mohammedawi said.
A half-hour earlier, a car bomb exploded near the Baghdad offices of the state-run al-Sabah newspaper, killing an employee, police Lt. Ahmed Mohammed Ali said. Officials believed the target was a police patrol that passed by shortly before the blast.
LOS ANGELES — Fewer people chose to acceptTom Cruise's latest mission, a possible sign that the odd behavior of Hollywood's biggest star may have taken a toll on his box-office charm.
ENTERTAINMENT 'M:l3' fails to meet box office forecast
The Associated Press
Paramount's "Mission: Impossible III" debuted with $48.025 million, a solid opening yet well below industry expectations and almost $10 million lower than the franchise's previous installment, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Industry analysts had expected the movie to open in the range of "Mission: Impossible II" which debuted with $57.8 million from Friday to Sunday in 2000.
The Associated Press
An unknown suspect stole a Dell laptop, carrying case and battery charger from a Fraser Hall room between 8 a.m. Monday and 10 a.m. Thursday.The estimated value of the laptop and its components is $1,200.
ON CAMPUS
Brian Fields, University of Illinois, is giving a lecture entitled "When Stars Attack! Live Radioactivities as Signatures of Nearby Supernova Explosions" at 4 p.m. today in Malott Hall 2074.
The Men's Glee and Concert Choirs are giving a performance of "Music for Sacred Spaces" at 7:30 p.m. today in the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center.
NATION Feds detain five aboard plane
NEWARK, N.J. — Authorities boarded an American Airlines plane Saturday and detained five men after it landed at Newark Liberty International Airport, according to a spokesman for the airport's operator.
The plane was bound from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport when an air marshal notified authorities of five men he considered suspicious, according to Marc LaVorgna, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
They had no weapons, said Tim Smith, an airline spokesman.
—The Associated Press
NATION DNA variant may tell about cancer cause
NEWYORK - Scientists have identified a common genetic marker that signals a 60 percent heightened risk of prostate cancer in men who carry it, and it may help explain why black men are unusually prone to the disease, a new study says.
The DNA variant may play a role in about 8 percent of prostate cancers in men of European extraction and 16 percent of the cancers in blacks.
The study was published online Sunday by Nature Genetics and will appear in the journal's June issue. The work is reported by Kari Stefanson and colleagues at deCode genetics in Reykjavik, Iceland, and scientists elsewhere.
—The Associated Press
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