NEWS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2006
4A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Beard said that the majority of the work being done on the space was electrical to accommodate the print center's machinery.
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He said the construction would not interfere with surrounding areas in the Union.
"It's a relatively short, easy project." Beard said.
A representative from FedEx Kinko's said the store should be completed by the end of spring break.
Barry Swanson, associate comptroller, said the contract was taking longer than expected because so many people had to review it, making an accurate estimate impossible.
"If every piece of paper sits on someone's desk for three days, you've wasted a few months." Swanson said.
Swanson said that after the University closed KU Printing Services last year, it immediately had interim solutions in place.
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"We've been experiencing lots of frustration," Elliott said.
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"We never had a day when campus was unable to do its work," he said.
But the solutions were inconvenient for some.
Elliott said the department had been trying to cut down on copying by using e-reserve and Blackboard.
Over the last several weeks thousands of angry demonstrators have been burning buildings and at least 19 have been killed because of the protests, most of them in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
"I think that a religion that asks for tolerance really ought to be able to tolerate the freedom of expression," Frederickson said.
Margaret J. Rausch, assistant professor in the department of religious studies, said to help people understand how these cartoons hurt the feelings of the Muslim community she used the analogy of a person making a disrespectful image of someone's father.
Dorice Elliott, chairwoman of the English department, said that the department had been using its own copy machine, and when it broke down department members had to use the Kinko's on Massachusetts Street.
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Ted Frederickson, professor of journalism, said that criticism was a part of peoples' lives. He said people needed to understand that although they might not agree with the message being presented, it is still important to uphold the right of free expression, no matter what.
As the violence of the protests increases, more newspapers across the country are questioning if they should reprint the cartoon in their publications.
She said when the copy center opened in the Union it would "help a lot," because faculty would be able to charge copy projects directly to the department.
After printing the cartoons in the Daily Illini, two editors of the University of Illinois student newspaper were suspended from their duties until a task force has reviewed the situation.
"It's something that's very close to you that's being made fun of," she said. "If a paper chooses to publish it, it's making a statement that it doesn't see a problem with presenting something that's very offensive to people of this certain religion."
Mary Cory, publisher and general manager—a full-time employee—of the Daily Illini, said the task force needed to discuss the fact that the editors went behind the editorial
Faculty have to submit copy requests 24 hours in advance that must be pre-approved by the department to be reimbursed, so they often end up taking on the costs themselves.
LECTURE
"Current Global Events and Muslim Sensitivities
The Muslim Student Association will be holding a lecture regarding the issue of the carbons depicting Prophet Muhammad and the upset it caused among the Muslim community. Dr. Moussa Elbayoumy, director of the Islamic Society of Lawrence, will be speaking and answering questions.
Thursday, Feb. 23 at 7:30 p.m.
University of Kansas,
Edwards Campus
Regnier Hall Auditorium
12800 Quivira Road
Overland Park, Kan.
For more information on
this event contact: IS-
GKC_DOC@Yahoo.com or
AmsR80@Hotmail.com
Source: Muslim Student Association
board's back and printed the cartoons without any debate about the subject.
Frederickson said it was sad that journalists were being intimidated into censoring themselves with information that may be important news for the general public.
"We should have the freedom to report the news and provide our opinion without the fear of violence because people don't appreciate our message," he said.
Jonathan Kealing, editor-in-chief of The University Daily Kansan, said the paper had decided not to publish the cartoons.
He said with the advance of technology it was unnecessary for the newspaper to print them as long as it was still made available through other means, such as an online hyperlink.
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Pachamama's
Although she has not yet been to the new Pachamaama's, she said she planned to try it out within the next couple of weeks.
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Baker said the restaurant's old location will now be used specifically for catering.
"One of the main reasons we moved here was that we really had problems doing lunch in our old location."
Known for only serving dinner at its old location, Baker said that he plans on having lunch hours starting the second week of March.
"One of the main reasons we
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moved here was that we really had problems doing lunch in our old location," Baker said.
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WORLD
Cartoon-fueled protests blaze
BY ZARAR KHAN
THE ASSOCIATED PRES!
Pakistani protesters grab a Danish flag to tear it at a rally to condemn the publication of cartoons depicting Islamic Prophet Muhammad in Karachi, Pakistan, Thursday. Tens of thousands of people shouting "God is Great!" marched through Karachi and burned effigies of the Danish prime minister in Pakistan's latest round of protests over the cartoons.
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KARACHI, Pakistan—Thousands of people shouting "God is Great!" marched through a southern Pakistan city on Thursday and burned effigies of the Danish prime minister in the country's fourth day of protests over cartoons of Prophet Muhammad, police said.
About 5,000 police and paramilitary forces, wearing helmets and wielding guns and shields, were deployed along the two-mile route of the rally to prevent the violence that has plagued other protests throughout the country this week, said Mushtaq Shah, chief of police operations in the southern city of Karachi.
About 40,000 people took party in the demonstration, which ended peacefully, said Shahnawaz Khan, a senior Karachi police officer.
Protesters burned Danish flags and chanted "God's curse be on those who insulted the prophet." The government ordered educational institutions to close for the day and many shops in the city were shut. Most public transport was off the roads.
The "movement to protect the prophet's sanctity will continue until the pens of the blasphemous people are broken and their tongues get quiet," said Shah Turabul Haq, the head of Jamat Ahl-e-Sunnat, the Sunni Muslim group that organized the rally.
Pakistan's President Gen. Pervez Musharraf and visiting Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday appealed for European and other Western nations to condemn the cartoons, saying freedom of the press did not mean the right to insult the religious beliefs of others.
The drawings were first published in a Danish newspaper in September and later reprinted by other media, mainly in Europe. Many Muslims regard any depiction of the Prophet Muhammad as blasphemous. One of the drawings depicted the prophet with a turban shaped like a bomb.
Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller said Wednesday that the Iraqi government had asked Denmark to keep its troops in Iraq, despite demands for a withdrawal by the provincial council in Basra, the town where the 530-strong Danish contingent is based.
The council had demanded that the Danish troops withdraw
On Wednesday, a protest by more than 70,000 Pakistanis in the northwestern city of Peshawar dissolved into deadly riots by stone-throwing and gunwielding youths, who targeted foreign businesses.
properties were vandalized and the provincial lawmakers' assembly set on fire. Five people have been killed in protests in Pakistan this week.
Ameer ul-Azeem, a spokesman for United Action Forum, an opposition coalition of religious parties that have organized most of the protests in Pakistan, said television footage of violent attacks by protesters on embassies in other countries had prompted Pakistanis to do the same.
He appealed for people to avoid violence in more demonstrations the coalition plans for later this month, but didn't expect people to follow his advice.
TECHNOLOGY
Quoth Apple Don't steal
BY MAY WONG THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Apple Computer Inc. has resorted to a poetic broadside in the inevitable cat-and-mouse game between hackers and hightech companies.
The maker of Macintosh computers had anticipated that hackers would try to crack its new OS X operating system built to work on Intel Corp.'s chips and run pirated versions on non-Apple computers. So, Apple developers embedded a warning deep in the software — in the form of a poem.
Indeed, a hacker encountered the poem recently, and a copy of it has been circulating on Mac-user Web sites this week. Apple confirmed Thursday it has included such a warning in its Intel-based computers since it started selling them in January.
The embedded poem reads: "Your karma check for today. There once was a user that whined/his existing OS was so blind/he'd do better to pirate/ an OS that ran great/but found his hardware declined./Please don't steal Mac OS!/Really, that's way uncool./(C) Apple Computer, Inc."
Apple also put in a separate hidden message, "Don't Steal Mac OS X.kext," in another spot for would-be hackers.
It's a risk that became apparent after Apple decided to make a historic transition to Intel-based chips, the same type that its rivals use in predominant Windows-based PCs. Apple previously relied on Power PC chips from IBM Corp. and Freescale Semiconductor Inc., but this year began switching its computers to the Intel platform. Various analysts have since hypothesized a worst-case situation in which Apple would lose control of its proprietary Macintosh environment.
The hacking endeavors are, for now, relegated to a small, technically savvy set, but it underscores a risk Apple faces if a pirated, functional version eventually becomes as accessible and straightforward as installing other software on a computer.
"We can confirm that this text is built into our products," Apple issued in a statement. "Hopefully it, and many other legal warnings, will remind people that they should not steal Mac OS X."
NATION
Judge orders spy records
BY KATHERINE SHRADER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — A federal judge ordered the Bush administration on Thursday to release documents about its warrantless surveillance program or spell out what it is withholding, a setback to efforts to keep the program under wraps.
At the same time, the Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said he had worked out an agreement with the White House to consider legislation and provide more information to Congress on the eavesdropping program. The panel's top Democrat, who has requested a full-scale investigation, immediately objected to what he called an abdication of the committee's responsibilities.
U. S. District Judge Henry Kennedy ruled that a private group, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, will suffer irreparable harm if the documents it has been seeking since December are not processed promptly under the Freedom of Information Act. He gave the Justice Department 20 days to respond to the group's request.
"President Bush has invited meaningful debate about the wireless surveillance program," Kennedy said. "That can only occur if DOJ processes its FOIA requests in a timely fashion and releases the information sought."
Justice Department spokeswoman Tasia Scolinos said the department has been "extremely forthcoming" with information and "will continue to meet its obligations under FOIA."
On Capitol Hill, lawmakers also have been seeking more information about Bush's program that allowed the National Security Agency to eavesdrop — without court warrants — on Americans whose international calls and e-mails it believed might be linked to al-Oaida.
After a two-hour closed-door session, Senate Intelligence Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., said the committee adjourned without voting on whether to open an investigation. Instead, he and the White House confirmed that they had an agreement to give lawmakers more information on the nature of the program. The White House also has committed to make changes
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to the current law, according to Roberts and White House deputy press secretary Dana Perino.
"I believe that such an investigation at this point ... would be detrimental to this highly classified program and efforts to reach some accommodation with the administration." Roberts said.
Still, he promised to consider the Democratic request for a vote in a March 7 meeting.
Earlier, Bush spokesman Scott McClellan reiterated that Bush does not need Congress' approval to authorize the warrantless eavesdropping and that the president would resist any legislation that might compromise the program.
Later Thursday, Bush adviser Karl Rove told at the University of Central Arkansas: "The purpose of the terrorist-surveillance program is to protect lives. The president's actions were legal and fully consistent with the 4th Amendment and the protection of our civil liberties under the constitution."
West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller, the Intelligence Committee's top Democrat, said the White House had applied heavy pressure to Republicans to prevent them from conducting thorough oversight. He complained that Roberts didn't even allow a vote on a proposal for a 13-point investigation that would include the program's origin and operation, technical aspects and questions raised by federal judges.
Rockefeller said the Senate cannot consider legislation because lawmakers don't have enough information.
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