THE UNIVERSITY DARLY KANSAS
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FINE ARTS
Exhibit uses new gallery
BY BRIAN LEWIS-JONES
A new gallery featuring work by fine arts majors will open this weekend on the third floor of the Art and Design Building.
The exhibition will be the first of several to open during the semester, said Sara Muzzy, coordinator of foundations at the School of Fine Arts. Thirty-four undergraduate students will have artwork on display from Sunday until Friday.
Galleries this semester will include a variety of work done by students, graduate students and faculty, including sculptures, paintings and expanded media, Muzzy said.
"It's a time when these students are trying to get their work shown," she said. "It's their opportunity."
Rehmatullah Jaghoori, Afghanistan senior, will be one of the artists contributing to the upcoming gallery. Two of his paintings, one a figure and another a landscape, will be on display.
"I love nature. I usually get my inspiration from nature; I usually get my inspiration from looking at people, from talking to people," he said.
Jaghoori, who came to the United
States in 1999, has been painting for over a decade. This is the first time his art will be in a University gallery, he said.
The gallery for undergraduate students will have its opening reception at 2 p.m. Sunday. A graduate student exhibition will be on display the following week.
All shows are free and open to the public.
Kansan staff writer Brian Lewis-Jones can be contacted at bljones@kansan.com.
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"Some jobs offer health insurance plans that you're not going to use," Wergin said. "You're paying so much for this insurance policy but it really covers nothing."
At his State of the Union address Tuesday, Bush proposed that individuals with health care receive $7,500 per year in tax-deductible income.
"This plan would save Esmeralda $3,500 a year," Bush said. "Ultimately the best plan is one that helps people like Esmeralda and her family make decisions."
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Kansan staff writer Joe Hunt can be contacted at jhunt@kansan. com.
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President George W. Bush presents Susan Hoskins with the President's Volunteer Service Award at Charles B. Wheeler Downtown airport in Kansas City. President Bush has traveled throughout the United States honoring local volunteers to thank them for their service since March 2002.
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strain for those who do.
"It would probably be a headache for people who help with satellite voting who are trying to make sure people don't vote twice," she said.
Zimmerman said satellite voting could make voting quicker, but she said accountability was an
issue that needs to be considered.
"I think there are definite pros and cons that need to be weighed," she said. "It would make it easier to vote but the system would be easy to manipulate."
But as long as paper ballots are used, Zimmerman said she
would be less anxious about satellite voting.
Kansan staff writer Tyler Harbert can be contacted at tharbert@ kansan.com.
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NATION
MySpace, list leads to arrests
BY BILL POOVEY ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Six girls at a rural high school were charged with homicide conspiracy after their principal found a list of 300 names and officials discov-
initially considered it a joke, but that authorities then found the ninth graders' online MySpace pages and postings that included the word "kill."
ered online postings suggesting they kill people, authorities said Thursday.
"In general terms, it was like, 'Let's kill these people,' " Dunlap Police Clint Clint Huth said. He
"Had this gone unchecked down the road it could have grown into something a whole lot more serious than a list of names."
also included Tom Cruise, Oprah Winfrey and the Energizer bunny.
CLINT HUTH Dunlap Police Chief
Sequatchie County High School Principal Tommy Lyne said that he
declined to provide the specific wording on the posting, which has been removed.
"I am not saying we thwarted a shooting incident or an act of violence," Huth said. "On the other hand, had
this gone unchecked, down the road it could have grown into something a whole lot more serious than a list of names."
There was no evidence that the girls had weapons or that an attack had been imminent, Huth said.
The girls, ages 14 and 15, were charged with conspiracy to commit criminal homicide late Wednesday and taken to a juvenile facility. A juvenile court detention hearing was set Friday in Dunlap, about 40 miles northwest of Chattanooga.
Layne said he learned about the list Tuesday when a "young man came in with his grandmother and said his name was on the list."
No club or group was involved, said Layne, who described the girls as friends. The school has more than 600 students.
Sophomore Lakyn Ledford stayed home Thursday after learning that student athletes were on the list.
"I was very scared, my friends were scared, that's a scary thing, it can really happen," she told WTVC-TV.
» WORLD
Civil war nears as violence continues
BY BRIAN MURPHY ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIRUT, Lebanon — University students loyal to Lebanon's government clashed with Hezbollah supporters Thursday, setting cars ablaze and battling with homemade clubs and stones. The mele deepened worries that Lebanon cannot contain the political and sectarian rivalries threatening to push it toward civil war.
But the fallout reaches far beyond the casualty count. The clashes, sparked by a cafeteria scuffle between pro-government Sunni Muslims and
At least three people were killed and dozens were injured before army troops backed by tanks and firing barrages of warning shots into the air dispersed most riots. The military then declared Beirut's first curfew since 1996.
It was the third straight day of violence, sparked by a Hezbollah led strike Tuesday that came ahead of a crucial gathering of donor nations in Paris. The conference Thursday raised pledges of $7.6 billion to help Prime Minister Fuad Saniora's U.S.-backed government rebuild after last summer's devastating Israel-Hezbollah war.
pro-Hezbollah Shittes, reinforced fears that Lebanon's sectarian divisions are erupting into violence as they did during the 1975-1990 civil war.
In Paris, Saniora pleaded to his countrymen to "distance themselves from tensions."
The chaos has paralyzed the government. Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said Wednesday that donors were backing the wrong side in the standoff and that he could topple Saniora at any time.
"No one can help a country if the people of this country don't want to help themselves" he said. "I call on your wisdom and reason."
Leaders on all sides called for calm. Nasrallah went on TV in the evening to tell followers it was a "religious duty" to get off the streets to allow security forces to keep order.
"I appeal to you in the name of Lebanon and human conscience ... It's a pity to waste Lebanon like this," said Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, a Hezbollah ally. "It is time we learn from the past."
Thursday's clashes in Beirut showed just how quickly any spark can turn into a wildfire.
The alarming violence has stunned supporters of both sides. But the leadership of both camps do not appear to be backing down.