4A ... / NEWS / WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM AWARENESS Students leave for march Journey to the Capitol aims to draw support and outlaw abortion BY ROSHNI OOMMEN roommen@kansan.com More than 100 KU students will begin a pilgrimage today to Washington D.C. to participate in the March for Life. The students, as part of the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center, will make the journey to the Capitol in an effort to reverse the ruling of Roe vs. Wade. This 1973 Supreme Court case made abortions legal in the U.S. More than 200,000 people are expected to participate in this year's march. Joel Haug, a sophomore from Atchison, participated in the pilgrimage last year and is planning to make the journey again this year. "Its an eye-opening experience, seeing that many people united for a single cause." Haug said. "It's pretty powerful." The 22-hour trip costs more than $300 per student, but with donors and fundraising efforts by the group, students only need to pay $50 each. Michael Miravalle, the evangelism and outreach coordinator at the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center, said keeping the cost low had been especially important to the center this year. He said making sure each student was able to participate was very important to the center. "This is our first time fundraising." Miravalle said. "Because of the shape of the economy, we've had to pick up the slack." "The March for Life is very impacting," Miravalle said. "It's rare anyone feels like they're not taking part of something bigger." The group's trip to Washington, D.C. is part of the ongoing movement to outlaw abortion in the U.S. The March for Life is so important to some participants that they're willing to miss up to three days of school to attend. Lizzy Alonzi, a sophomore from Tulsa, said she was more than willing to miss her classes in order to do something that she felt was so important. "College is about figuring out what's important to you." Alonzi said. "For us, it's life, and this is what we're doing to protect it." Though abortion opponents are making the 1,000-mile trip to the nation's Capitol, some campus groups remain staunchly in favor of abortion rights. Laura Kozak, co-president of the Commission on the Status of Women, said a ban on abortion would deny women's rights. "By denying women safe, affordable abortions, it's denying them rights to health," Kozack, a junior from Kansas City, Mo., said. "If those wings aren't available, women could seek less healthy options that could harm them." The commission is an on-campus student group, dedicated to resolving issues facing women, including reproductive justice, affordable birth control methods and access to safe medical care. As a group, Kozak said, the commission favors abortion rights in an effort to protect women's health. The group of 110 students from the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will return to Lawrence Sunday. Edited by Drew Anderson EDUCATION Obama asks for extension on grant ASSOCIATED PRESS FAIRFAX, Va. — President Barack Obama announced Tuesday he'll ask Congress for $1.35 billion to extend an education grant program for states, saying that getting schools right "will shape our future as a nation." The $787 billion economic stimulus program that Obama signed into law soon after taking office included $4.3 billion in competitive grants for states, nicknamed the "Race to the Top" fund. States must amend education laws and policies to compete for a share of the money. The deadline to apply for the program is Tuesday, and officials expect more than 30 states to apply. The Education Department is expected to announce its first of two rounds of awards in April — with Obama saying that not all who enter will get a grant. The president said that extending the program would allow more states to win grants. He also wants to use some of the $1.35 billion for a similarly competitive grant program for local school districts. "Offering our children an outstanding education is one of our most fundamental — perhaps our most fundamental — obligations as a country" Obama said in brief remarks. "Countries that out-educate us today will out-compete us tomorrow, and I refuse to let that happen on my watch." The "Race to the Top" fund and the opportunity to compete for the billions of dollars it holds was designed to encourage states to rework their education systems and bring them more in line with Obama's vision. Education is largely a state and local responsibility. INTERNATIONAL Randy McCoryt, a lawyer for Catholic Legal Services, gives legal advice to several hundred Haitians at the Notre Dame Gothic Church in Miami. The Obama administration is allowing Haitians who were in the United States illegally to apply for temporary protected status. ASSOCIATED PRESS Illegal Haitian immigrants to be given protected status ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI — More than 100 Haitians crammed inside a Catholic church Tuesday to ask questions about a federal government designation that will allow possibly hundreds of thousands of illegal Haitian immigrants to work in the U.S. and send money home during the next 18 months. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Alejandro Mayorkas said Haitians will be able to start filing their applications for the Temporary Protected Status Thursday, the day official notice of the program is expected to be published in the Federal Register. Only those in the U.S. before the earthquake hit their Caribbean homeland a week ago will be eligible. Mayorkas warned that applications sent before Thursday would likely be delayed. Haitians have already started showing up at centers to get help filling out the forms. At Notre Dame d'Haiti Catholic Church in Miami's Little Haiti neighborhood, Randy McGrory, head of Catholic Charities Legal Services, fielded questions, mostly in Creole, about whether applicants could bring family members from Haiti, whether they could qualify for college financial aid and whether they could get any help paying the $470 application fee. Although the government has cautioned the protection is only temporary — 18 months to be exact — some of those applying hoped it would lead to a longer reprieve. Julie Bermane, 19, of Miami, said she has lived in the U.S. since she was 3 but because she was here illegally has been unable to go to college or get a job. "There's a lot of things in my life that I want to do, but this stuff has been holding me back," she said. If her application is granted, she said, "I can go out and see the world." "We are drawing on expertise from the past" to be ready for the onslaught, said Mayorkas, who also cautioned applicants to be wary of people who may try to scam those looking for help filling out applications. The agency, part of the Department of Homeland Security is expecting about 100,000 to 200,000 applications. The U.S. has granted temporary protected status to about 350,000 people from Central American and African countries. Mayorkas is heading to Miami Wednesday to educate people on the process and take calls from around the country. More meetings will be held in Orlando and Tampa, as well as Newark, N.J. and New York City, where the highest concentrations of Haitians live. 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