A / NEWS / WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 1, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM QUOTE OF THE DAY "I do not feel like an alien in this universe. The more I examine the universe and the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming." Freeman Dyson, qi.com KANSAN.com FACT OF THE DAY In 1994, 35,000 Americans insured themselves against being kidnapped and eaten by aliens. Wednesday, September 1, 2010 Featured content kansan.com kansan.com qi.com Soccer photo gallery Jerry Wang/KANSAN See Kansan.com/photos for a gallery of images taken during the team's 3-0 win Friday. Kansan TV newsroom updates Video by KANSAN TV Check Kansan.com/videos at noon, 1 p.m. 2 p.m., 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. for news updates. KU$\textcircled{1}$nfo Today is the 112th anniversary of KU hiring Dr. James Naismith as director of physical culture. ROBERT J. DOLE INSTITUTE OF POLITICS The University of Kansas http://www.facebook.com/doleinstitute What's going on? WEDNESDAY THURSDAY September 1 September 2 The Department of English will be hosting a lecture, "From Mississippi (1964) to the Heath Anthology," at 7:30 p.m. in the Alderson Auditorium at the Kansas Union. Admission is free. Student Union Activities will be hosting "Tea at Three" from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union, Tea and cookies are free. September 3 SUNDAY September 5 FRIDAY September 5 There will be a carillon concert from 5 to 5:30 p.m. at Memorial Campanile. Student Union Activities will be hosting "Tunes at Noon" with musical guest Sam Billen from noon to 1 p.m. outside the Kansas Union. Student Union Activities will be sponsoring a bus ride to the Kansas City Crossroads District, departing at 5 p.m. from the Kansas Union. Interested students should pick up tickets from the SUA box office by Aug. 27. Tickets are $2 with a KUID. SATURDAY September 4 September 6 MONDAY Labor Day. - Student Union Activities will be hosting the "Hawk Zone Student Tailgate" outside Memorial Campanile for members of the Hawk Zone/Jr. Williams Fund. Membership is $25. TUESDAY September 7 The Lawrence Farmers'market will run from 4 to 6 p.m. at 1020 Vermont St. LATIN AMERICA Castro regrets intolerances ASSOCIATED PRESS Cuba on Tuesday released pictures of Fidel Castro with an American magazine correspondent and a Washington-based policy expert, while a Mexican newspaper published an interview in which the gray-bearded revolutionary expressed regret for past persecution of homosexuals. The images show Cuba's 84-year-old former leader with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic and Julia E. Sweig from the Council on Foreign Relations during a visit Monday to the Havana aquarium — Castro's second trip there during a media blitz that has seen him making near daily appearances. Goldberg is a national correspondent for the magazine who has written on the Middle East and Iran. State media reported that he and Sweig interviewed Castro, but gave no indication of what was said. For months, Castro has warned of nuclear war that would pit Washington and Israel against Iran and would also involve an attack on North Korea. He even said he expected fighting to begin earlier this summer, but has since said those doomsday predictions may have been somewhat premature. The Council on Foreign Relations is a nonpartisan think tank with offices in New York and Washington, and Sweig is a longtime scholar on the U.S.-Cuba relationship. Also Tuesday, Mexico's left-leaning daily La Jornada published an interview in which Castro said Cuban authorities had been wrong to send gays and lesbians to work camps in the early years of his government. "Those were moments of great injustice, great injustice!" the paper quoted Castro as saying. In the 1960s and early 1970s, Cuban officials fired homosexuals from state jobs, imprisoned them or sent them to work camps. Castro told La Jornada. "Yes, we did it, us," but also said, "I am trying to limit my responsibility in all this because, of course, I personally do not hold those kinds of prejudices." Still, when pressed if the Communist Party or some other entity was behind what occurred Castro said, "No, if any person was behind it," responsible, it's me." He said he had been too busy coping with events such as the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis to stop what occurred. "We had so many Government media campaigns now discourage homophobia and the state has even paid for a few sex-change operations for trans-sexuals. Also, Fidel's niece Mariela, the daughter of President Raul Castro, is today the country's leading gay rights advocate. Castro's comments to La Jornada elaborated on past acknowledgments of his government's mistreatment of gays. "I'd like to think that discrimination against homosexuals is a problem that is being overcome," he said during interviews with French journalist Ignacio Ramonet between 2003 and 2005. "Old prejudices and narrow-mindedness will increasingly be things of the past." Cubas ex-president underwent emergency intestinal surgery in July 2006 and disappeared from and such terrible problems, problems of life or death, that we didn't pay it enough attention." FIDEL CASTRO Former Cuban president "Those were moments of great injustice, great injustice!" public view for four years, recuperating from an undisclosed illness in a secret location. But he has been popping up every- aquarium on July 15. Jewish community leaders also accompanied Castro. He even took in the dolphin