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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future."
-Denis Waitley, www.thinkexist.com
FACT OF THE DAY
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name was Moon. Buzz was the second man to step onto the moon in 1969.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
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CORRECTION
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The Sept. 27 story "Salon Nouveau to host program on porn industry" contained a factual error. The Commission on the Status of Women has hosted Salon Nouveau for several semesters and has events a couple of times each semester.
What's going on?
TUESDAY
September 28
The KU Law Federalist Society will sponsor a panel discussion on health care reform from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in the Stinson Morrison Hecker Lecture Hall, Room 104 of Green Hall.
WEDNESDAY September 29
- KU Army ROTC and the School of Engineering will host Race Day at the Burge from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Burge Union parking lot.
THURSDAY September 30
SATURDAY October 2
October 2
SUA will show Toy Story 3 at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union from 8 to 10 p.m. Tickets are free with a Student Saver Card, $2 with a valid KU ID and $3 for the general public.
The School of Music will host KU Opera. Cosi Fan Tuttle from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Robert Baustian Theatre.
- SUA will show Toy Story 3 at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union from 8 to 10 p.m. Tickets are free with a Student Saver Card, $2 with a valid KU ID and $3 for the general public.
SUNDAY
Dr. Berghout will perform from 5 to 5:30 p.m. at the World War II Memorial Campanile.
October 3
FRIDAY October 1
- SUA will show Toy Story 3 at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union from 8 to 10 p.m. Tickets are free with a Student Saver Card, $2 with a valid KU ID and $3 for the general public.
KU Hillel will sponsor a Shabbat Dinner from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Burge Union.
MONDAY
October 4
Nancy Kwan will be available for a question and answer session about the new documentary about her life and career. The session will include excerpts from the documentary, "To Whom It May Concern: Ka Shens Journey."The event will take place from 9 to 10 a.m. in Oldfather Studios, Room 100.
Spotlight on groupsMuslim Student Association
BY ALLISON BOND abond@kansan.com
Every Friday afternoon at 1:30 p.m. Muslim students gather to pray with community members at the Islamic Center of Lawrence mosque. This would not be possible if it were not for the Muslim Student Association. Founded in the 1970s, this campus club was the only Muslim community group in town. About 10 years later, the MSA got sponsorship to build a
community mosque, now known as the Islamic Center of Lawrence, located at 19th Street and Naismith Drive.
"I wanted to embrace being
Today about 60 members make up this organization. Currently, the organization's main goals are to reach Muslim students on campus and to educate the student body about Muslim identity. Ibrahim Alangar, president of the club, joined four years ago after going to the mosque for weekly prayer.
Muslim, I wanted people to know Islam Awareness Week
this is so who
During its
Mustahi, I waited that this is who we are and this is what we do" Alanquar said. "Especially after Sept. 11, we had to do a lot of work to let people know and become more aware of the real us."
"Especially after Sept. 11, we had to do a lot of work to let people know and become more aware of the real us."
IBRAHIM ALANQAR Muslim Student Association president
Week event, the MSA works on campus to let Muslims and non-Muslims know about Islam through education. social activities and community service. Several different events to educate campus such as special lectures, a women's day and an informational tent on Stauffer-Flint lawn occur starting Oct. 27.
"This year we are trying to work with other religious groups on campus to see if they want to contribute to the week by talking about religious issues such as freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the religious intolerance that has been happening in the country," Alanquar said.
The club has weekly meetings on Friday for Halaqah, where students
gather to read and study the Qu'ran and talk about Islam in their daily lives. It also organized the Fast-A-Thon in which up to 500 students and professors have participated in the past to contribute donations that the MSA gives to a local homeless shelter.
For more information about the Muslim Student Association, visit www.msaku.com.
— Edited by Sean Tokarz
NATIONAL
Justice Department attorney commits suicide
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WASHINGTON — A Justice Department prosecutor killed himself while under investigation over whether he and other attorneys in the prosecution of Sen. Ted Stevens acted improperly in the case, officials said.
Nicholas A. Marsh, 37, committed suicide on Sunday, two years after being part of the Justice Department team that convicted Stevens on corruption charges that were eventually thrown out. Marsh's suicide was confirmed by his lawyer, Robert Luskin.
"I think Nick loved being a prosecutor and I think he was incredibly fearful that this would
prevent him from continuing to work for the Justice Department," Luskin said Monday. "It's incredibly tragic after all this time when
throw out Stevens' convictions, which the judge did, while taking the additional step of appointing a prominent Washington attor-
we were on the verge of a successful resolution."
The prosecutors in the Stevens case failed to disclose evidence favorable to the defendant as Supreme Court
precedent requires. The omission was so serious that Attorney General Eric Holder stepped in and asked a federal judge to
"It's incredibly tragic after all this time when we were on the verge of a successful resolution."
ROBERT LUSKIN
Lawyer
ney, Henry Schuelke, to investigate possible improprieties by the prosecutors.
"My general sense is that with the direction things are going, 1 really would have been shocked if Hank had done anything other than exonerate Nick Marsh," said Luskin, who called the suicide a
"terrible tragedy."
"I think we were within shouting distance of the finish line," the attorney said.
Luskin said his impression was that the investigation was drawing to a close.
Stevens, a longtime Republican senator from Alaska, lost his Senate seat in an election shortly after his October 2008 conviction. He died in a plane crash in Alaska in August.
Lanny Breuer, the assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department's criminal division, said, "Our deepest sympathies go out to Nick's family and friends on this sad day. The Department of Justice is a community, and today our community is mourning the loss of this dedicated young attorney"
During the Schuelke investigation, Marsh had been transferred from the department's Public Integrity Section, which handles corruption probes. Marsh most recently been working in the department's Office of International Affairs.
"Notwithstanding the unfounded accusations recently made against him, he took his ethical and professional obligations as seriously as any prosecutor or lawyer I've ever met," Joshua Berman, a former prosecutor and close friend of Marsh, said in a statement.
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