NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 3A
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20. 2006
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- Matt Dunbar, graduate research assistant in geography, is hosting a seminar titled "Utilizing Stereoscopic Displays in Geographic Education" at 12 p.m. today at the Pine Room in the Kansas Union. The event is sponsored by the Center for Science Education.
- ♦ Matt Hollrah, English lecturer, is giving a lecture titled "A Foundherentist Epistemology of Literary Inquiry" at 3:30 p.m. today in the Hall Center for Humanities.
- Tom Cravens, professor of physics and astronomy, is giving a lecture, "The Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan," as part of the Physics and Astronomy Colloquium at 4 p.m. today at room 2074 in Malott Hall.
- The Center for East Asian Studies is showing the film "Go" at 7 p.m. today at the Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
ON THE RECORD
♦ A KU Public Safety Officer responded to an accident at 2:37 p.m. on Feb. 10th, at 15th St. and Naismith Drive riding his bicycle collided with a vehicle at a cross-walk.
Powerball winner laying low after buying longest lottery jackpot
LINCOLN, Neb. — Someone, somewhere held the only winning ticket for the record $365 million Powerball jackpot, but likely wasn't in a rush to come forward, Nebraska lottery officials said Sunday.
NATIONAL
The only ticket matching the winning numbers drawn Saturday night for the multistate lottery was sold at a U-Stop convenience store in Lincoln, Nebraska Lottery spokesman Brian Rockey said.
It was the biggest jackpot on record for any lottery in the United States.
No one had come forward to claim the jackpot Sunday, Rockey said.
"We don't know if the winner knows yet," he said.
Even when the lucky individual or group realizes it, they might not leap into the public eye.
"We have found ... that they tend to wait until they have sought legal counsel or financial counsel", Jim Haynes, acting director of the Nebraska Lottery, said of large jackpot winners.
Pakistani protesters burn the U.S. flag during a rally called to condemn the publication of cartoons depicting Islam's Prophet Muhammad Sunday in Karachi, Pakistan. Pakistan banned protests after five people were killed in riots last week.
The cash option is $177.3 million, or $124.1 million after taxes.
INTERNATIONAL
Cartoons spark more protesting
BY MATTHEW PENNINGTON
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistani security forces arrested hundreds of Islamic hard-liners, virtually sealed off the capital and used gunfire and tear gas Sunday to quell protests against caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
Pakistan had banned protests after riots killed five people in two cities last week.
Elsewhere in the Muslim world on Sunday, demonstrators with wooden staves and stones tried unsuccessfully to storm the U.S. Embassy in Indonesia, while tens of thousands rallied in the Turkish city of Istanbul and complained about negative Western perceptions of Islam.
Troops patrolled the deserted streets of the northern Nigerian town of Maiduguri, where thousands of Muslims attacked Christians and burned churches Saturday, killing at least 15 people during a protest over the cartoons. Most of the victims were beaten to death by rioters.
In Saudi Arabia, newspapers ran full-page apologies by Jyllands-Posten, the Danish newspaper that first ran the caricatures in September. The newspaper's Web site said businesses placed the ad on their own initiative, using an apology issued by the newspaper late last month. It did not identify the companies or say if they were Danish.
Boycotts of Danish products throughout the Muslim world have taken a heavy toll on Denmark's exporters, especially those selling Denmark's famed dairy products.
The cartoons, which have been reprinted by other Western publications, have outraged Muslims. But protests over the past three weeks have grown into a broader anger against the West in general, and Israel and the United States in particular.
Demonstrations have turned increasingly violent and claimed at least 45 lives worldwide, including 11 in Afghanistan during a three-day span two weeks ago and 10 on
Friday in the Libyan coastal city of Benghazi. The Libyan riot outside the Italian consulate apparently was sparked by a right-wing Italian Cabinet minister who wore a T-shirt with a caricature of Muhammad.
On Sunday, thousands of police and paramilitary troops manned armored personnel carriers and sandbag bunkers in and around Islamabad to block a planned rally organized by a coalition of hardline Islamic parties that sympathizes with the former Taliban regime in Afghanistan and is fiercely anti-American.
As roadblocks went up around the capital, authorities declared they would arrest anyone joining a gathering of more than five people.
Maulana Fazlur Rahman, an opposition leader who denounced the government ban as unconstitutional, was allowed to stage a small rally
with eight other opposition lawmakers and a few supporters.
They chanted "God is great!" and "Anny friend of America is a traitor."
But police fired tear gas and guns to chase off hundreds of stone-throwing protesters who tried to join the rally and then enter an enclave where most foreign embassies are. The three-hour clash left the street littered with rocks and spent tear gas shells. An Associated Press reporter saw two injured police, one bleeding from his head, and several injured protesters.
Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao said police fired tear gas, but denied they fired guns. The private Geo TV network said officers fired rubber bullets.
Qazi Hussain Ahmad, a top leader of the hardline Islamic coalition, the Mutahida Majlis-e-Amal (United Action Forum), was confined to his
Lahore residence and others were detained or told to stay at home, police said.
"These people could create problems of law and order," said Chaudry Shfaqat Ahmed, chief investigator of the Lahore police.
In Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, police said 15,000 coalition supporters, most wearing white shrugs of mourning splashed with red paint to symbolize their willingness to die defending the prophet's honor, rallied peacefully.
Hundreds of Muslims burned a church in the southern city of Sukkur. No worshippers were inside at the time, but one person was hurt afterward when police fired tear gas.
Local police chief Akbar Arian said the riot was not sparked by the cartoons but by allegations that a local Christian had burned pages of Islam's holy book, the Quran.
THIS WEEK ON CAMPUS
February 20,2006
ENGINEERING EXPO
Sam Gilliland is the Chairman & CEO of Sabre Holdings and a 1985 KU Electrical Engineering Grad.
Activities begin with keynote speaker Sam Gilland at 9:30am on Friday, February 24 in the Lied Center.
FREE to the public Dozens of contests!
EXHIBITS ARE HELD IN LEARNED AND EATON HALLS FRIDAY, FEB. 24TH, 11AM-3PM SATURDAY, FEB. 25TH, 9AM- 12PM
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
Leadership Conference February 25th $10.00
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Natural Ties Spaghetti Dinner!
Natural Ties is a student-run volunteer program that fosters friendships between individuals with and without disabilities.
Wednesday, February 22 from 6-8pm St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center
Voter Registration
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Pizza & Politics
With Bill Lacy, Director of the Dole Institute of Politics and former Senior Political Advisor to President Reagan
Mr. Lacy will be giving a talk titled "Director's Tales: Stories and Insights from Twenty Years in National Politics". Come enjoy FREE PIZZA and hear humorous stories about life in politics.
When: February 22,2006 12-1:30 PM
Where: Kansas Union,
Where: Kansas Union,
Jayhawk Room, 5th Floor
Presented by the Student Legislative Awareness Board and the Dole Institute of Politics
Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics
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Tues. Feb. 21, 4:30
Wed. Feb. 22, 4:30
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Five Stories and the Stories Behind Them
Dave Ranney, Lawrence Journal-World reporter, will give personal insights on his writing of specific articles and what gave them special significance.
ECM
Feb. 22nd 12-1pm is the lecture with a $3 lunch served at 11:30 or brownbag.
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