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2 I Thursday, July 13, 2006 | The Red & Black
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UGA TODAY
Thursday, July 13
> Open Forum. 1:30 p.m. -
2:30 p.m. 138 Tate Student
Center. Sponsored by the
Office of the Vice President
for Student Affairs.
Contact: 705-542-3564,
sheri7@uga.edu.
Friday, July 14
>- July Pool Party. 8 p.m. -
10 p.m. Legion Pool.
Sponsored by International
Student Life. Cost: Free and
open to the public.
Contact: 706-542-5867,
ugaisl@uga.edu.
Saturday, July 15
>■ Golf Tournament:
Bulldogs Battling Breast
Cancer. 12:30 p.m. The
Georgia Club, Statham. Cost:
$125 per player for three-man
teams. Contact: 770-713-
4074, jayabbott76@cs.com.
Web site: bulldogsbattling-
breastcancer.com.
>■ Countdown to Kick Off.
3 p.m. - 6 p.m. Woodruff
Practice Field, Lumpkin at
Smith Street. Cost: $30 per
person/$100 for a family of
four. Contact: 706-542-2267,
lbarrett@uga.edu, www.uga-
kickoff.com.
>- Advisory: Lumpkin St.
Reconstruction.The contrac
tor will be milling the existing
surface of Lumpkin St. from
Baxter to Baldwin Streets and
applying new asphalt from
approximately July 15 through
August 4.
Monday, July 17
> Confirm parking assign
ment by July 28.
Sponsored by Parking
Services. Parking permit
assignments for the 2006-07
year will be issued beginning
July 17. Permits for the new
year will be distributed by
Aug. 1. Web site:
http://www.parking.uga.edu.
>- Garden Earth Nature
Camp. Through July 21.
9 a.m. - Noon. Botanical
Garden Visitor Center,
Children’s Classroom. Cost:
members $75, non-members
$80. Contact: 706-583-0894,
dbmitchl@uga.edu.
>- Campus Blood Drive.
10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Georgia
Center, Hill Atrium. Contact:
678-227-4650.
>- Lecture - Embryonic
Stem Cells: Science and
Society. 1 p.m. Masters Hall,
Georgia Center for Continuing
Education. Cost: Free and
open to the public.
Contact: 706-583-0071,
sstice@uga.edu.
> Book-signing: Charlayne
Hunter-Gault. 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
UGA Bookstore, Sanford
Drive.
Tuesday, July 18
> Swing Dancing. 10 p.m.
The Ritz, downtown Athens.
Web site:
www.uga.edu/ugaswingclub.
Wednesday, July 19
> Midterm and midpoint
withdrawal deadline for
summer short session II.
CLARIFICATION
The story "Ex-dean
lawsuit reaches final
stage of appeal" in the
July 6 edition of The
Red & Black includes
incorrect information
regarding the salary of
John Soloski.
Per documents sent
to us by Soloski's attor
ney, Brandon Hornsby,
Soloski has signed a
contract to be paid
$130,015 over a 9-month
academic period.
Per additional docu
ments, Soloski is seek
ing $190,000, an amount
that equals the salary
of the highest-paid pro
fessor in Grady College,
according to Hornsby.
The Wi
THIS WEEK’S TOP STORIES FROM
THE STATE, NATION AND WORLD
Explosions hit Bombay train,
at least 147 dead from blasts
AIJAZ RAH I | Associated Press
▲ Fire officers stand near a train coach destroyed by a bomb blast at Matunga railway
station in Bombay, India, Tuesday. Eight explosions ripped through packed commuter
trains during rush hour in India’s commercial capital, killing nearly 150 people and
injuring another 439 in what officials said was a terrorist attack.
BOMBAY, India — Eight
bombs hit Bombay’s com
muter rail network during
rush hour Tuesday evening,
killing at least 147 people
and wounding more than 400
in what authorities called a
well-coordinated terrorist
attack.
There was no immediate
claim of responsibility in the
bombings, which came in
quick succession — a com
mon tactic employed by
Kashmiri militants. The
blasts came hours after a
series of grenade attacks by
Islamic extremists killed
eight people in the main city
of India’s part of Kashmir.
Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh convened
an emergency Cabinet meet
ing and said that “terrorists”
were behind the attacks,
which he called “shocking
and cowardly attempts to
spread a feeling of fear and
terror among our citizens.”
Pakistan, India’s rival
over the disputed territory of
Kashmir, quickly con
demned the bombings.
Chaos engulfed the
crowded rail network in
India’s financial capital fol
lowing the blasts that ripped
apart densely packed car
riages on trains that police
said had either pulled into
stations or were traveling
between them. Doors and
windows were blown off the
train cars, and witnesses
said body parts were strewn
on the ground.
After meeting with his
Cabinet, Maharashtra state
Chief Minister Vilasrao
Deshmukh said Tuesday
night that the death toll was
147, with another 439 wound
ed.
One Washington official
said the attacks’ coordinat
ed nature and their targeting
of trains at peak travel times
match the modus operandi
of two Islamic extremist
groups that have been active
in India during the last sev
eral years: Lashkar-e-
Tayyaba, or Army of the
Righteous, and Jaish-e-
Mohammad, or Army of
Mohammed.
The U.S. government has
designated both groups as
terrorist organizations and
considers them affiliates of
al-Qaida.
— Associated Press
North Korea pressured to return to talks
BEIJING — China’s presi
dent on Tuesday urged
North Korea to refrain from
increasing tensions over its
nuclear program and to
return to disarmament talks
as diplomats worked to fore
stall U.N. sanctions against
the regime.
America’s top nuclear
envoy made an unscheduled
trip to China, saying efforts
to resolve the crisis have
reached a crucial point. A
delegation from North Korea
also came to Beijing.
China’s Foreign Ministry
criticized a Japanese pro
posal that demands the
North stop developing, test
ing and selling ballistic mis
siles as “an overreaction.”
Cabinet-level talks
between North and South
Korea, meanwhile, kicked off
with the South saying
Pyongyang’s missile tests
were destabilizing the
region.
Chinese President Hu
Jintao told the visiting vice
president of the North’s par
liament, Yang Hyong Sop:
“We are against any actions
that will aggravate the situa
tion. We hope that relevant
parties will do more things
conducive to the peace and
stability of the peninsula,”
according to the official
Xinhua News Agency.
Hu said Beijing is “seri
ously concerned” and called
for progress in stalled six-
nation talks over the North’s
nuclear program.
Pyongyang ignited the
furor a week ago by test-fir
ing seven missiles, including
a long-range Taepodong-2
potentially capable of hitting
the United States. The
weapons, which landed in
the waters between the
Korean Peninsula and
Japan, created a major new
challenge to international
efforts to defuse the North’s
nuclear threat.
Alleged rape leads
to death of soldiers
BAGHDAD, Iraq — An al-
Qaida-linked group posted a
Web video Tuesday purport
ing to show the mutilated
bodies of two U.S. soldiers,
claiming it killed them in
revenge for the rape-slaying
of a young Iraqi woman by
American troops from the
same unit.
The Mujahedeen Shura
Council previously claimed
responsibility for killing the
two soldiers, who were
seized in a June 16 attack
near the town of Youssifiyah,
southwest of Baghdad. A
third soldier was killed in the
attack.
But the statement was
the first time the group
linked the slaying to the rape
case.
A statement by the group
said the video was released
as “revenge for our sister
who was dishonored by a sol
dier of the same brigade.”
U.S. detainees
given Geneva rights
WASHINGTON — The
Bush administration, called
to account by Congress after
the Supreme Court blocked
military tribunals, said
Tuesday all detainees at
Guantanamo Bay and in U.S.
military custody everywhere
are entitled to protections
under the Geneva
Conventions.
White House spokesman
Tony Snow said the policy,
outlined in a new Defense
Department memo, reflects
the recent 5-3 Supreme
Court decision blocking mili
tary tribunals set up by
President Bush. That deci
sion struck down the tri
bunals because they did not
obey international law and
had not been authorized by
Congress.
The policy, described in a
memo by Deputy Defense
Secretary Gordon England,
appears to change the
administration’s earlier
insistence that the detainees
are not prisoners of war and
thus not subject to the
Geneva protections.
The memo instructs
recipients to ensure that all
Defense Department poli
cies, practices and directives
comply with Article 3 of the
Geneva Conventions govern
ing the humane treatment of
prisoners.
“You will ensure that all
DOD personnel adhere to
these standards,” England
wrote.
The Senate is expected to
take up legislation address
ing the legal rights of sus
pected terrorists after the
August recess — timing that
would push the issue square
ly into the election season.
Student killed in
Dalton robbery
DALTON, Ga. — Whitfield
County sheriff’s investiga
tors have made no arrests in
the Friday night shooting
death of a 19-year-old college
student in the parking lot of
a Dalton bowling alley.
Thomas Dexter Canavan
of Jackson was shot in the
chest by two men trying to
rob him and his friends out
side the Galaxy Bowl on
Cleveland Highway, authori
ties said. Canavan, who was
in town visiting a college
roommate, died later during
surgery at Hamilton Medical
Center.
Authorities said Canavan
was in a car with three of his
friends when they were
approached by two males
who attempted to rob them.
One of the males fired a gun
into the car, hitting Canavan
in the chest. Canavan’s
friends, one of whom was
University student Alan
Moore, immediately drove
him to the emergency room.
He was a freshman major
ing in chemistry at Georgia
College & State University in
Milledgeville.
Pink Floyd founder
found dead in home
LONDON — Syd Barrett,
the troubled genius who co
founded Pink Floyd but
spent his last years in reclu
sive anonymity, has died, a
FILES | Associated Press
A File photo dated March
3, 1967, of Pink Floyd
founding member Syd
Barrett. The troubled
genius co-founded Pink
Floyd and spent his last
years in anonymity.
spokeswoman for the band
said Tuesday. He was 60.
The spokeswoman said
Barrett died several days
ago, but she did not disclose
the cause of death. Barrett
had suffered from diabetes
for many years.
Barrett co-founded Pink
Floyd in 1965 with Roger
Waters, Nick Mason and
Rick Wright, and wrote many
of the band’s early songs.
The group’s jazz-infused
rock made them darlings of
the London psychedelic
scene, and the 1967 album
“The Piper at the Gates of
Dawn” — largely written by
Barrett, who also played gui
tar — was a commercial and
critical hit.
However, Barrett suffered
from mental instability,
exacerbated by his use of
LSD. His behavior grew
increasingly erratic, and he
left the group in 1968 — five
years before the release of
Pink Floyd’s most popular
album, “Dark Side of the
Moon.” The band spokes
woman said a small, private
funeral would be held.
— Associated Press
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Grill/ now
prohibited
in Texas
ARLINGTON, Texas —
The school district here has
expanded its dress codes to
include mouths — and ear
lobes.
Students may no longer
wear mouth jewelry known
as “grillz” — shiny teeth caps
— or the earlobe-stretching
practice known as “gauging.”
“The district is having to
respond to fads because
they’ve become distracters
or a safety hazard for those
around them,” said Malcolm
Turner, the district’s execu
tive director of student serv
ices.
The nearby Irving, Grand
Prairie and DeSoto districts
also ban grillz, and some also
address gauging — the
process of placing increas
ingly large items in the ears
to stretch the lobes.
But students said the
body modification is simply
self-expression.
“Really, a grill is just like
an earring. It’s fashion," said
junior Devonte Wright, 16.
“We want to instill in
them a sense of modesty and
a sense of community,” said
school board trustee Gloria
Pena. “We’re preparing them
for the work force, and in the
work force there are rules.”
Bipartisan couple
vie for House seat
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.
— The candidates say they
offer legitimate political dif
ferences. Their conservative
critics say it’s a campaign
dirty trick.
Jeff Ippel is a Republican,
involved in a three-way pri
mary race for a seat in the
Kansas House. His wife,
Pam, is unopposed in the
August Democratic primary
— for the same seat.
Pam Ippel, whose plat
form emphasizes health care
and funding for education,
said she was the first to
enter the race for an open
seat from this Kansas City
suburb.
“The more Jeff thought
about it, the more he
thought he’d have a better
chance,” she said.
“Better ideas,” said her
husband, who is running on
a platform of smaller govern
ment and fewer illegal immi
grants.
Other Republicans accuse
the Ippels of working as a
team.
“Personally, I think it’s a
fraud. It’s a deliberate strat
egy of confusion,” conserva
tive Republican Jeff Colyer
said. He says their real goal
is to siphon away votes from
his campaign.
“It’s an absolute sham.
They’re trying to confuse
voters and manipulate the
process,” agrees Republican
state Rep. Eric Carter, who is
giving up the seat to run for
state insurance commission
er.
The Ippels and Smith
denied any collusion.
If there were any truth to
it, it would be a case of con
servatives having one of their
own tricks pulled on them,
said Kansas State University
political science professor
Joe Aistrup.
“It’s about time the mod
erates started pulling this
stuff, Aistrup said.
“Conservatives have been
running stealth candidates
for years.”
Whatever is going on,
Johnson County Republican
Party Chairman Doug
Patterson doesn’t like it.
“It’s just one of those
cute things that belong in
the weird news section,” he
said.
— Associated Press
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