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2 Wednesday, August 29, 2007 | The Red & Black UGA TODAY ► Grassroots Politics Forum. Sponsored by the UGA College Republicans. Republican Party of Georgia Chairman Sue Everhart will speak about the importance of grassroots organizations. 7 to 8 p.m. 214 Student Learning Center. Contact: 404-643-2844, dballard@uga.edu >- Alpha Kappa Psi Coed Professional Business. Fraternity. Fall Rush Aug. 28-30. All Majors accepted. 545 South Milledge Ave. www.terry.uga.edu/akpsi ► Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority, INC. Meeting of the FIRST Latina sorority in the Nation and at UGA. SLC 274 at 7 p.m. Contact: Daniela at dcgonzal@uga.edu >- Volunteer Resource Fair. Sponsored by Volunteer UGA, Center for Leadership & Service. Find volunteer opportunities with student service groups and Athens-area nonprofit, social ser vice, and government agencies. Tate Student Center Plaza. Contact: 706-583-0830, www.uga.edu/cls ► Blood Drive: Sponsored by the American Red Cross. Noon to 5 p.m. Science Library lobby. Contact: 678-227-4650 >- President Michael F. Adams speaks to the South Forsyth Rotary Club. 12:15 p.m. Polo Golf and Country Club, Cumming ► Lecture. Rumors, Race and Hurricane Katrina. Sponsored by the department of English, the UGA Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and the Folklore Studies Group. Patricia A. Turner, a national expert on rumors and race in America, will address issues at the core of individual and public perceptions of the Hurricane Katrina disaster. 4:30 p.m. 265 Park Hall. Contact: 706-542-9262, ehenken@uga.edu Please send submissions for UGAToday to news@randb.com. Listings are published on a first-come, first-serve basis. CORRECTIONS The Red & Black is committed to journalis tic excellence and pro viding the most accu rate news possible. Contact us if you see an error, and we will do our best to correct it. Editor-in-Chief: Juanita Cousins (706) 433-3027 jcousins@randb.com Managing Editor: Matthew Grayson (706) 433-3026 mgrayson@randb.com . WEDNESDAY LADIES: 50< Well Drinks or Domestic Draft MEN: Complimentary Beer Goggles w/ Pitcher Purchase Live Music: Josh Taylor ■* ; - jigyj . ~ JB a§fr &IS£33 iMfe*-. a /i^ x jS^KSyieul %§&& r '"' — -sJp&%\ *• Li ■) Jtß,-"-' - : -* ■ ' 'V*'sk~ " f ■ ~> * *~jp£ <s ".~’ ' ;^*'^fe*-* J ' Governor testifies in nursing home trial ST. FRANCISVILLE, La.— Gov. Kathleen Blanco recounted the state’s prep arations for Hurricane Katrina as she testified Tuesday in the trial of two nursing home owners charged in the drowning deaths of patients who weren’t evacuated during the storm. Prosecutors called the governor as a witness after she fought a subpoena from attorneys for the two defendants, Mabel and Salvador Mangano. The Manganos face 35 counts of negligent homicide. Prosecutors say they should have evacuat ed their patients from St. Rita’s nursing home in St. Bernard Parish, a coastal parish near New Orleans that was wiped out by flooding when Katrina hit. Defense attorneys say Blanco and other public officials failed to organize an effective evacuation and help transport “at risk” people to high ground. On the witness stand Pageant contestant revises answer COLUMBIA, S.C. This time, the question was a little easier for Miss Teen South Carolina. After being stumped by a Miss Teen USA pageant question on live television Friday night, Lauren Caitlin Upton’s confused, mangled response has been drawing attention. The 18-year-old got a chance to redeem herself Tuesday on NBC’s “Today Show” when she was again asked why one-fifth of Americans can’t locate the U.S. on a map. “I would love to re-an swer that question,” Upton said. “Well person ally, my friends and I, we know exactly where the United States is on our map. I don’t know anyone else who doesn’t. And if the statistics are correct, I believe there should be Nowak’s defense is ‘temporary insanity’ ORLANDO, Fla. Former astronaut Lisa Nowak is pursuing a tem porary insanity defense on The Wire Tuesday, Blanco described three news conferences she held two days before the storm struck two years ago. “I strongly urged people to get themselves ready to leave the area. It appeared to be coming to Louisiana,” Blanco said. Under cross examination, however, Blanco said she left it to local officials to decide whether to call mandatory evacuations. The Louisiana Supreme Court rejected Blanco’s attempt to avoid testifying in the trial. An attorney for the governor said she was not the best person to answer the attorney’s ques tions. The Manganos’ trial was moved to St. Francisville, about 100 miles northwest of St. Bernard Parish, because it would have been difficult finding jurors in the slowly recovering parish. Associated Press if* - ‘1 ■- r PATRICK PRATHER | Miss Universe L.P. ▲ Upton answers a question from host Mario Lopez during the Miss Teen USA competition. more emphasis on geogra phy.” That was much better than her previous response, which included “U.S. Americans” and mentions of South Africa charges that she assaulted and tried to kidnap a romantic rival, according to a court document released Tuesday. Nowak suffered from major depression, obsessive-compulsive dis order, insomnia and “brief psychotic disorder with marked stressors,” defense attorney Donald Lykkebak t&ji LIN OR Free Pickup & Delivery lb. wash & fold next day service 706.461.2953 www.SudzAthens.com NEWS TOP STORIES FROM AROUND THE STATE, NATION AND WORLD TIM MUELLER | Associated Press ▲ Gov. Blanco enters the West Feliciana Parish Courthouse Tuesday in the trial o? nursing home owners Salvador and Mabel Mangano. and “the Iraq.” A You Tube video of Upton has drawn a couple million hits and thousands of comments, many of them with harsh remarks for the Lexington High NATION wrote. He said thealready petite woman had also recently lost 15 percent of her body weight and strug gled with “marital separa tion.” “This notice does not challenge competence to stand trial, but only raises Kirk's Cafe . j Daily Specials $3.99 706.355.3002 154 College Ave. Mon. - Fri. (11-3) NAMES S FACES School graduate who plans to attend Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C. Upton was taking her flubbed answer —and the attention in stride. “Everything did come at me at once. I was over whelmed and I made a mistake. Everybody makes a mistake. I’m human,” she said Tuesday. “I seri ously think I only heard about one or two words of the actual question.” Upton’s former princi pal Creig Tyler remem bered her as a well-round ed student. “She took college-prep and honors courses and performed well,” Tyler said. Associated Press insanity at the time of the offense,” he wrote. Nowak, 44, was charged with attempted kidnap ping, bat tery and ■■■■■ burglary 1 -; ; : with assault I after alleg- mL C. ■ edly driving ■ - Jm nearly 1.000 ■F' miles from I Houston to ■§& &S§i|| Orlando to confront Colleen NOWAK Shipman, the girlfriend of a former space shuttle pilot Nowak had been involved with. Nowak, who was dis missed from the astronaut corps a month after her arrest, has pleaded not guilty. Her trial is set for September. Associated Press _ Taw an Extra Iv 7 '© OTT our already low pricey ■ Kk % IBnnn dlAn nwnvilkLuuM) LEARN HOWMD CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE! I Find volunteer opportunities with student 1 service groups and Athens-area nonprofit, I social service, and government agencies. I WORLD Turkish leader to remain impartial ANKARA, Turkey A devout Muslim with a background in political Islam won the Turkish presidency on Tuesday, in a msgor triumph for the Islamic-rooted govern ment after months of confrontation with the secular establishment. Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul received a majority of 339 votes in a parliamentary ballot and took the oath of office, pledging impartiality and loyalty to Turkey’s his toric separation of reli gion and politics. Commanders from the fiercely secular military were conspicuously absent -a decision many saw as a symbolic protest against the decision to elect a president to a post traditionally held by a secular figure. “Secularism -one of the main principles of our republic - is a precondi tion for social peace as much as it is a liberating model for different life styles,” Gul said. “As long as I am in office, I will embrace all our citizens without any bias. I will preserve my impartiality with the greatest of care.” Shiite gunmen clash in Karbala BAGHDAD _ Fighting erupted Tuesday between rival Shiite militias in Karbala during a religious festival, claiming 51 lives and forcing officials to abort the celebrations and order up to 1 million Shiite pilgrims to leave the southern city. Security officials said Mahdi Army gunmen loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr fired on guards around two shrines protected by the Badr Brigade, the armed wing of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council. Residents of Karbala contacted by telephone said snipers were firing on Iraqi security forces from rooftops. Explosions and the rattle of auto matic weapons fire could be heard during tele phone calls to reporters in the city 50 miles south of Baghdad. In addition to the deaths, security officials said at least 247 people were wounded, including women and children. The clashes appeared to be part of a power struggle among Shiite groups in the sect’s southern Iraqi heartland, which includes the bulk of the country’s vast oil wealth. Associated Press