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2A 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 - 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 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 jPjapß .' V w gaß, * Sky Ilf IPmLh Sgig ' ' A 1 JsSi t-JW/- gp m - * i§sr jk 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 The Wire - - s’ j jWfjg .hrJt W I WfT gjg It 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