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Friday, March a, UOO7 I Thk Red a Black 2 UGA TODAY ► Dawgs after Dark. Sponsored by the University Union. Featured activities include a game show, tree food, super-hero look-alikes and much more Free with UGA Card, $5 for non-stu dents 10 p.m. - 2 am. Tate Student Center. Contact: 706- 542-6396. jillt9uga.edu ► Friday Speaker Series. Sponsored by the Institute for Women's Studies Dr Shabana Mir, independent scholar, will speak on: “You can't really look normal and dress modestly: American Muslim women constructing a third space on campus." 12:20 p.m. - 1:10 p.m. 148 SLC. Contact: 706-542-2846 ► Lecture on Medieval Art. Sponsored by the Lamar Dodd School of Art and the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. Lecture by Dr. Deborah Kahn, associate pro fessor of art history at Boston University. 5:30 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. Contact: 706- 542-1511, artinfo@uga.edu Saturday ► The Inside Scoop on Law School. Sponsored by the Asian Law Students Association. A workshop and mixer open to anyone consid ering law school or curious about the legal profession. The workshop will be followed by refreshments and a chance to socialize. 2 p.m School of Law. Room A ► Ensemble Corund. Sponsored by the UGA Performing Arts Center The ensemble of Swiss vocalists will perform Stephen Smith, conductor. Tickets $23/S2B 8 p.m Hugh Hodgson School of Music Contact: 706-542- 4400. www.uga edu/pac Sunday ► Sailing Clinic. Sponsored by the Georgia Outdoor Recreation Program. Learn tKe basics of sailing. $25 10 a m. - 4 p.m. Lake Chapman, Sandy Creek Park Contact: choppie2@uga.edu ► Faculty Recital: Kenneth Fischer, saxo phone. Sponsored by the Hugh Hodgson School of Music Free 4 p.m. Ramsey Concert Hall, UGA Performing Arts Center. Monday ~ ► South Campus Career and Internship Expo. Sponsored by the Career Center Network with employ ers in the agricultural, envi ronmental and related indus tries for jobs and internships. 11 a m -3 p.m. Georgia Center Contact: 706-542- 3375 ► Blood Drive. Sponsored by the American Red Cross. 1 p.m. - 6 p.m. Fireside Lounge of Rooker Hall, East Campus Village Contact: 678-227- 4650 ► Film Fest: Charlotte’s Web. Sponsored by Speak Out for Species Revisit the original classic animated film as we consider the lessons the film still holds for us today. Free. For more information, go to www uga edu/sos/film fest 7:30 p.m 101 SLC. Contact: sos@uga edu Tuesday ► Spring Break Safety Block Party. Sponsored by Safe Campuses Now Get to your Spnng Break destination safely. Join us for this fun filled evening packed with educational events and safety demonstrations Blue Card Event 5 p.m - 9 p.m. Lawns of Chi Phi & Kappa Alpha fra ternities, 290 S. Lumpkin St. Contact: 706-345-1115, kksims @ safecampusesnow org Please send submissions for UGAToday to ugatoday&randbcom Listings are published on a first-come-first-serve basis as space permits. CLARIFICATION In Thursday’s edition of The Red Black, the editorial board wrote in its Our Take that if WUOO is forced to pay the s7,ooofine to the ACC, the money will come out of student activity fees. According to the group's advisor, Ed Mirecki, the fine, if there is one, would be paid by monies from "revenue generating accounts’’ within the Department of Campus Life. Army fires general in charge of hospital WASHINGTON The Army fired the general in charge of Walter Reed Army Medical Center after disclo sures about inadequate treat ment of Iraq vets and other wounded soldiers. The action on Maj Gen. George W. Weightman, who was commanding general of the North Atlantic Regional Medical Command, as well as Walter Reed hospital, was announced Thursday by Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey. In a brief announcement, the Army said service leaders had “lost trust and confi dence” in Weightman’s lead ership abilities “to address Iv " i- pil p , '£% M '***?., ffipy l j&ttakSSSBL wBaL n_ ni> ■! m •* —-JS ■ 1i— CHARLIE RIEDEL Asmkut*i> A Neighbor David Eastwood helps salvage items from the wreckage of the home of David and Claudia Matthes near Blue Mound, Kan., Thursday. The couple was not injured. Tornado strikes house, kills 7-year-old girl in Missouri CAULFIELD, Mo. A tor nado struck southern Missouri, killing a 7-year-old girl and damaging homes and businesses Thursday, and another apparent twister struck an Alabama high school, authorities said. Students were inside Enterprise High School at the time, and there were early reports of injuries, state and weather officials said. Police were trying to determine if any students were trapped, state Rep. Terry Spicer said. The school "appears to have been right in the path,” said Paul Duval, meteorolo gist with National Weather Service in Tallahassee, Fla. In Missouri, Howell County Sheriff Robbie Crites identified the young victim as Elizabeth Croney. Her moth er, father and two brothers were injured when a tornado hit their mobile home in a rural wooded area near West Plains, Crites said. In Caulfield, Rick Jarvis heard the storm ripping through his gas station around dawn. His home next door suffered just minor dam age, but the twister shredded the business, ripping down its roof and back wall. “It sounded like a herd of horses tearing up stuff. When I came out, it was done,” said Jarvis, 48. Army copter makes ‘hard landing’ BAGHDAD A U.S. Army helicopter made a "hard land ing” Thursday in northern Iraq, lqjuring the two-mem ber crew, but the military said the problem was mechanical and not the result of hostile fire. A car bomb exploded near a motorcade heading to a police officer's wedding in the Sunni militant stronghold of Fallujah in Anbar province, killing at least five people and wounding 10, said police Lt. Wessam Mohammad. The bride and groom were not harmed. The attack appeared linked to insurgents, who have targeted police officer*, politicians and others seen as symbols of the U.S.-backed government. Baghdad, meanwhile, had a rare day without a series of bombings. One bomb explod ed on a minibus carrying employees of the capital’s TVirk Wiwy, TOP STORIES FROM AROUND 1 lit: VV111: THE STATE, NATION AND WORLD needed solutions for soldier outpatient care." He had headed Walter Reed since last August. The Army and the Defense Department began their own investigations after The Washington Post published stories last week that docu mented problems in soldiers’ housing and in the medical bureaucracy at Walter Reed, which has been called the Army’s premier caregiver for soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. After a visit to the hospital compound last Friday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said those found to have been responsible for the NATIONAL Sex change costs city manager her job LARGO, Fla. Steve Stanton professed his love for the city and asked the people of Largo to support his deci sion to undergo a sex change and allow him to keep his $140,000-a-year job as city manager To his sorrow, the answer came back no. Almost 500 people packed City Hall on Tuesday night for a special meeting to decide if they would accept someone named Susan instead of Steve as their top official And while many spoke eloquently in his defense, more called for his ouster. “If Jesus was here tonight, I can guarantee you he'd want him terminated,” said Pastor Ron Saunders of Largo’s Lighthouse Baptist Church. "Make no mistake about it.” At the end of the 3 1/2- hour meeting, the City Commission voted 5-2 to begin the legal process of fir ing Stanton, who went public about his sex-change plans after learning a local newspa provincial council, killing one person and injuring four in an eastern neighborhood, police said. N. Korea wants aid y vows to stop nukes SEOUL, South Korea North Korea's No. 2 leader reiterated Thursday his coun try’s pledge to abandon its nuclear weapons, as the impoverished nation sought a resumption of aid at its first high-level talks with South Korea since conducting an atomic test. Kim Vong Nam said “the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula is the dying wish” of the country’s founding president, Kim II Sung, the father of Kim Jong D. North Korea “will make efforts to realize it,” he told NEWS problems would be “held accountable.” On Thursday he issued a brief statement endorsing Harvey’s action. "The care and welfare of our wounded men and women in uniform demand the highest standard of excel lence and commitment that we can muster as a govern ment,” Gates said. “When this standard is not met, I will insist on swift and direct cor rective action and, where appropriate, accountability up the chain of command.” It was not clear whether Gates insisted on Weightman’s firing. A Pentagon official, speaking on per was about to reveal his secret. Authorities look for would-be bomber KANSAS CITY, Mo. He calls himself "The Bishop.” Exactly why is just one of the many mysteries surrounding the increasingly menacing fig ure. The man— and investiga tors believe they are dealing with a man— is suspected of sending at least a half-dozen threatening letters to finan cial institutions over the past 18 months and mailing two dud pipe bombs that arrived a day apart in Kansas City and Chicago in January. In his letters. The Bishop has demanded financial com panies move the prices of cer tain stocks to certain levels, often $6 66 an apparent ref erence to the Antichrist, said corporate counterterrorism expert Fred Burton. Burton, whose security firm has been hired by finan cial companies to find The Bishop, said the pipe bombs were assembled with crucial components deliberately left out, in what was probably a warning. Next time, Burton said, the bombs could be real. Associated Press WORLD South Korean Unification Minister Lee Jae-joung in Pyongyang, the North’s capi tal. Lee pressed for North Korea to follow through on its breakthrough Feb. 13 agree ment with the U.S. and four other countries to shut down its sole operating nuclear reactor in 60 days. Evangelicals’ work in Africa criticized ALER, Uganda Christian evangelicals have been coming to Africa for centuries. Critics accuse them of taking advantage of vulnerable communities forcing people to abandon traditional beliefs in condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said Gates was “actively involved” in the fir ing decision. In an interview with sever al reporters two days before the first Post story was pub lished, Weightman acknowl edged shortcomings at Walter Reed, but also said the prob lems were magnified because of the facility’s location in the nation’s capital. “We re a fish bowl,” he said, noting that being in Washington makes it easier for complaining patients and their families to draw the interest of members of Congress. An outside panel of former Man tries to cash check from God HOBART, Ind. Kevin Russell found out it's not easy trying to cash a check from God. The 21-year-old man was arrested Monday after he tried to cash a check for $50,000 at the Chase Bank in Hobart that was signed "King Savior, King of Kings. Lord of Lords, Servant,” Hobart police Detective Jeff White said. Russell was charged with one count attempted check fraud and one count intimi dation, both felonies, and one count resisting law enforcement, a misde meanor. He could face prison time Police were called to the bank after Russell tried to cash the check, which was written on an invalid Bank One check with no imprint. White said Russell had sev eral other checks with him that were signed the same way but made out in differ ent dollar amounts, includ ing one for SIOO,OOO. Russell struggled with police as they tried to detain him. White said, and then threatened police as they transported him to the Hobart Police Department. "I’ve heard about God giving out eternal life, but this is the first time I’ve heard of him giving out cash,” White said Suit claims dog given online degree FOSTORIA, Ohio An attorney challenging the authority of the city's police chief wants the depart ment's police dog to appear in court as an exhibit, because he says the dog and the chief have criminal justice degrees from the same online school. The issue gives “one pause, if not paws, for con cern” about what it takes to get the degrees from the school based in the Virgin Islands, Gene Murray wrote in a court document filed Monday. Murray is seeking to have a drug charge against a client dismissed by argu ing that police Chief John McGuire who is accused of lying on his job applica tion was not legally employed and had no authority as an officer. McGuire is to go on trial in March on charges of fal sification and tampering with records. A special i Lfi m*2m p rrl i- ~ Ma ul ■ 1 • ■ ' 1H JP i ftW JjßJt | v wkiM** 1 KHALID MOHAMMED | Amocutbd Paata A Iraqis watch as a U.S. soldier patrols central Baghdad Thursday. The city appeared quieter Thursday, with only one person killed in a roadside bomb, police said. exchange for desperately needed goods and medicine. Rev.* Franklin Oraham, though, says his group is meeting spiritual as well as physical needs, and .he’s proud of what has been military officials and former congressmen, set up last week by Gates, held its first meeting Thursday at the Pentagon. Headed by two for mer Army secretaries, Togo West and Jack Marsh, the panel is reviewing treatment and administrative processes at Walter Reed and at the National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Md. The panel’s charter identi fies its main goal as finding the “critical shortcomings” in rehabilitative care, adminis trative processes and quality of life for injured ..and sick troops, and to recommend how to fix the problems. Associated Press NEWS OF THE WEIRD prosecutor said McGuire lied on his application and resume about his rank, position, duties, responsi bilities and salary in three of his previous jobs. McGuire was hired as chief of Fostoria, Ohio a year ago. The union that repre sents Fostoria police offi cers and dispatchers filed a lawsuit challenging McGuire’s hiring. Murray said asking that the police dog, Rocko, show up in court at an evidence hearing is a key to discred iting McGuire, who took part in a traffic stop and search in October that resulted in drug possession charges against Clifford Green of Fostoria. Both McGuire and Rocko, who is listed as John I. Rocko on his diplo ma, are graduates of Concordia College and University, according to copies of diplomas that are part of Murray’s motion. The court filing did not say how the attorney knows that diploma is for the dog or how Rocko allegedly managed to enroll in the college. Accused robber gets robbed too FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. A man charged with rob bing a bank, for the second time since 2005, tried to show police the loot but discovered he had been robbed, Fayetteville police said. Joseph Thomas Mulkerin, 46, was arrested at a Bragg Boulevard motel Tuesday and charged with common law robbery of $2,179 from the Wachovia branch on Green Street, said police spokeswoman Jamie Smith. He had been released from prison Jan. 11 after serving a sentence for the 2005 robbery of the same bank, in which he pleaded guilty to taking $1,098. Mulkerin went to his motel room to show officers the money but discovered some missing. Police later charged motel maintenance man David Mims, 49, with breaking into the room and taking some of the cash. Smith said. - Associated Press accomplished. “We want to bring these children to Christ,” Pastor George Purkweri told Graham. Associated Press
