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Friday, September 28, 2007 | The Red & Black
UGA TODAY
>• Dawgs After Dark.
Almost Famous. Sponsored by the
University Union Dawgs After
Dark. Activities will include a
Digital Easel, Karaoke, Make Your
Own Magazine Cover, Oxygen
Bar, Photo-View Keychains, Pump
It Up, Red Carpet. Video Dance
Party, Video Star, Big Glove
Boxing, Cosmic Golf, Armchair
Quarterback, Tie Dye T-shirts,
Caricatures. Right Simulator and
Celebrity Impersonators. Free for
students with valid UGA ID. $5 for
all others. More information at
www.uga.edu/union/events.htm
10 p.m. Tate Student Center.
Contact: 706-542-6396.
union@uga.edu
> Campus Coffee Hour.
Sponsored by Students Helping
Orphans Worldwide (5.H.0.W.).
Students, faculty and staff from all
over campus can mingle over cof
fee, cultural presentations and
samplings of international foods.
11:30 a.m. -1:30 p.m. Memorial
Hall Ballroom. Contact:
706-542-5867,
careyk@uga.edu
> IWS Friday Speaker
Series. Sponsored by the
Institute for Women's Studies.
Open discussion on issues in
women’s studies with Elizabeth
Kennedy, professor of women’s
studies at Univ. of Arizona.
12:20 -1:10 p.m.
148 Student Learning Center.
Contact: momolly@uga.edu
>• Performance. Piano Duo.
Sponsored by the Hugh Hodgson
School of Music. Chrisa Howell
and Megan Woodworth perform.
3:35 p.m. Ramsey Concert Hall.
Contact: 706-542-3737,
www.music.uga.edu
> Willson Center Cinema
Roundtable. Sponsored by
the Willson Center for Humanities
and Arts. Richard Neupert,
Theatre and Film Studies, moder
ates this panel discussion on
“Ogres, Rats and Penguins:
Computer Animation, 2007.”
Panelists also include Mike
Hussey and John Kundert-Gibbs,
Theatre and Film Studies; Alex
Murawski, Lamar Dodd School of
Art; and James Biddle, Grady
College of Journalism and Mass
Communication. 4 p.m.
150 Student Learning Center.
Contact: 706-542-3966,
jdingus@uga.edu
> Presidents’ Club
Reception. Recognizing
donors at the Presidents’ Club
level. 6 - 8 p.m. Classic Center
>- After Hours @ the
Georgia Museum of Art.
Sponsored by the Young at Art
Committee. This event celebrates
the opening of “Amazing Grace:
Self-Taught Artists from the Mullis
Collection,” “Real Western Wear:
Beaded Gauntlets from the
William P. Healey Collection” and
“More Than Words: Illustrated
Letters from the Smithsonian's
Archives of American Art.” $8
Friends and sl2 non-members.
6:30 p.m. Contact: 706-542-9078
> Open House. Words
and Pictures: Sponsored by
Ideas for Creative Exploration
(ICE). An early evening social
hour and presentation of projects
at ICE. Katherine McGuire unveils
“What Lies Here,” this semester’s
ICE window installation. Patrick
Fadely, whose poetic practice has
been shaped by an interest in
improvised music, reads. Jordan
Dalton shows “Room-Poem,” a
procedure for creating poetry over
time with speech recognition soft
ware. 6:30 p.m. 101 Tanner •
Building. Contact: 706-542-7270,
mark@mazamedia.com
>• Soccer vs. Florida. 7
p.m. Turner Soccer Complex
>• Flute Performance.
Sponsored by the Hugh Hodgson
School of Music. Tammy Yonce
Evans performs. 8 p.m. Ramsey
Concert Hall. Contact:
706-542-3737,
www.music.uga.edu
>- Women in the
Wilderness. Sponsored by
Georgia Outdoor Recreation. $65
students, $75 non-students 5:00
PM. Through Sunday, September
30,2007. Sand Rock, AL.
Contact: choppie2@uga.edu
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Spaceship
sent to belt
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. NASA
took aim at the heart of the asteroid
belt Thursday, launching a space
craft on a nearly decade-long jour
ney that will include two never-be
fore-attempted close encounters.
The scientific probe Dawn is on a
three billion-mile course that will
have it meeting up with an asteroid
named Vesta in 2011 and a dwarf
planet called Ceres in 2015.
They are the biggest members of
the crowded asteroid belt between
Mars and Jupiter, and scientists
hope that by studying them up close,
some of the secrets of the early solar
system will be revealed.
Dawn’s mission is the world’s first
attempt to journey to a celestial
body and orbit it, then travel to
another and circle it as well. lon
propulsion engines, once confined to
science fiction, are making it possi
ble.
“To me, this feels like the first real
interplanetary spaceship,” said Marc
Rayman, chief engineer.
“This is the first time we’ve really
had the capability to go someplace,
stop, take a detailed look, spend our
time there and then leave.”
University alert systems
get real-life experience
NEW YORK When a masked
freshman came to campus at St.
John’s University with what police
said was a loaded rifle sticking out of
a bag, the school alerted students
via cell phone text messages within
18 minutes.
And when a suicidal gunman was
reported to be on the loose at the
University of Wisconsin, the school
sent out mass e-mails and took out
an ad on Facebook to warn stu
dents.
As the school year starts, colleges
around the country are applying the
lessons of Virginia Tech and using
high technology to get the word out
fast in a crisis.
“This was certainly a surprise. No
one thought that we would be test
ing this latest technology this quick
ly for an emergency,” said James
Pellow, executive vice president of
St. John’s.
The 20,000-student Roman
Catholic school in Queens activated
its new text messaging system just
three weeks ago.
The scare came on the same day
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GURINDER OSAN | Associated Press
▲ Hollywood actor Richard Gere, left, hugs
and kisses Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty
during an event for HIV-AIDS awareness in
New Delhi, India on March 15.
Bollywood star suffers
troubles from smooch
MUMBAI, India
Five months later,
Bollywood actress
Shilpa Shetty still is
feeling the effects of a
kiss from Richard Gere.
Immigration officials
at Mumbai airport brief
ly detained Shetty, say
ing she still was wanted
for obscenity charges
filed in the wake of the
public kiss with the
Hollywood star, her pub
licist Dale Bhagwagar
said Thursday.
“I can understand
something like this if I’d
committed a criminal
offense. But what was
my offense, when I’m
just an actor, going to
perform a musical on
foreign land,”
Bhagwagar quoted
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RED HUBER | Associated Press
▲ The Dawn spacecraft sits atop of a Delta II rocket Thursday,
Sept. 27, 2007, as it blasts off the launch pad at Cape
Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
the student paper ran a front-page
story on the system.
This week’s incidents at St. John’s
and UW-Madison both of which
ended without bloodshed under
score how campus security has
changed since Seung-Hui Cho killed
32 people on the Virginia Tech cam
pus in April.
Cho shot his first two victims just
after 7 a.m. More than two hours
NAMES & FACES
Shetty saying.
Gere embraced and
kissed Shetty on her
cheek at a public AIDS
awareness event in New
Delhi in April, sparking
an outcry among con
servative hardline
Hindus, who claimed
the pair had violated
the country’s strict anti
obscenity laws.
A regional court
issued arrest warrants
against Gere and barred
Shetty from leaving the
country. The order was
soon overturned by the
Supreme Court.
Associated Press
NEWS
TOP STORIES FROM AROUND
THE STATE, NATION AND WORLD
NAIION
Journalist dies in Myanmar protest
Officials fire
at thousands
YANGON, Myanmar
Security forces fired auto
matic weapons into thou
sands of pro-democracy
protesters for a second day
Thursday. The military gov
ernment said nine people
were killed and 11 wound
ed.
Tens of thousands defied
the ruling military junta’s
crackdown with a 10th
straight day of demonstra
tions in Myanmar’s largest
city, Yangon. Security forc
es also raided several mon
asteries overnight, beating
monks and arresting more
than 100, according to a
monk at one monastery.
Among the dead was
journalist Kenji Nagai of
the Japanese video news
agency APF News. Japanese
broadcaster Fuji posted a
photo on its Web site show
ing a man believed to be
Nagai lying on his back
apparently wounded in the
chest but holding a video
camera in his hand —with
a soldier pointing a gun at
him at point-blank range.
The protests are the
stiffest challenge to the
generals in two decades, a
crisis that began Aug. 19
with protests over a fuel
price hike, then expanded
dramatically when monks
started leading the march
es.
The crackdown has
drawn increasing interna
tional pressure on the iso
lated regime.
The Bush administra
tion imposed economic
sanctions against 14 senior
officials in the government,
including the junta leader,
Senior Gen. Than Shwe,
and the No. 2 man, Deputy
Senior Gen. Maung Aye.
The action freezes any
assets the 14 have in U.S.
banks or other financial
institutions under U.S.
jurisdiction and also pro
hibits any U.S. citizens from
doing business with those
individuals.
“The world is watching
the people of Burma take
to the streets to demand
their freedom, and the
American people stand in
later, he massacred 30 people in a
classroom building across campus.
It was not until 9:26 a.m. that the
school sent the first e-mail to stu
dents and faculty. Since then, hun
dreds of schools administrations
have installed text-messaging sys
tems to communicate with stu
dents.
St. John’s purchased its system
over the summer in response to the
Virginia Tech slayings.
Associated Press
FRANCOIS MORI | Associated Press
▲ A man harvests grapes are in the Champagne
region, near Epernay, on Aug. 30, 2007.
According to a team of French and Italian
researchers that has mapped the genome of the
Pinot Noir grape, the variety has a DNA
sequence of nearly a half billion letters.
WORLD
solidarity with these brave
individuals,” Bush said in a
statement.
Thousands of protesters
ran through the streets of
Yangon on Thursday after
warning shots were fired
into the crowds. Bloody
sandals were left lying in
the road.
“Give us freedom, give
us freedom!” some shouted
at the soldiers.
Grape gene count
exceeds human’s
PARIS Critics who
praise the “complexity” of
red Burgundy and
Champagne are on target.
A team of French and
Italian researchers has
mapped the genome of the
pinot noir grape, used to
make bubbly and many red
wines from France’s
Burgundy region and
around the world —and it
has about 30,000 genes in
its DNA.
That’s more than the
human genome, which con
tains 20,000 to 25,000
genes.
The team published its
findings in Thursday’s issue
of the journal Nature, say
ing it identified the nearly
half a billion chemical
building blocks of the
Jena teen
to receive
juvenile
charges
BATON ROUGE, La.—
The prosecutor in the
“Jena 6” cases said
Thursday he had decid
ed not to challenge a rul
ing that sent 17-year-old
Mychal BeU’s case to
juvenile court.
LaSalle Parish District
Attorney Reed Walters
said he spoke with the
beating victim and legal
experts in the state
before making the deci
sion.
He earlier had said he
would appeal the state
appeals court’s decision
to set aside Bell’s sec
ond-degree battery con
viction on the grounds
that Bell should not
have been tried as an
adult.
Gov. Kathleen Blanco,
announced Wednesday
she asked Walters to
reconsider pushing to
keep the case in the
adult system.
“I want to thank him
for this decision he has
made,” Blanco said.
Bell, who remains
behind bars, was one of
six black Jena High
School teens arrested
after a December attack
on a white student,
Justin Barker. Five of
the six initially were
charged with attempted
second-degree murder,
though charges against
four of them, including
Bell, were later reduced.
The Rev. A1 Sharpton
said he hopes bond will
be set low enough to
allow for Bell’s release,
and he thanked Blanco
for getting involved.
“I want to congratu
late her for showing
leadership,” Sharpton
said. “And I want to con
gratulate the district
attorney for good judg
ment.”
Associated Press
grape’s DNA. Certain
sequences of these building
blocks form genes, like let
ters spelling words.
These discoveries won’t
make any immediate differ
ence to wine drinkers
worldwide.
The pinot noir is the first
grape —and first fruit
ever genetically mapped,
and it would take years to
apply this new knowledge
to today’s vines.
But down the line, it
possible could lead to har
dier grape varieties and
more resistant to bugs and
disease.
The team said its
research had confirmed
that the grape has an
unusually high number of
genes whose job it is to cre
ate flavor.
More than 100 of its
genes are dedicated to pro
ducing tannins and ter
penes compared to about
50 for other plants, said
researcher Patrick Wincker.
He said the mapping of
those flavor-producing
genes could be a first step
toward developing new fla
vors in wine by allowing
scientists to breed different
varieties to create precise
new tastes.
But flavor also depends
on external factors such as
weather, microclimate, soil,
size of the crop, age of the
vines and the winemaker’s
art.
Associated Press