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Thursday, October 18, 2007 | The Red & Black
UGA TODAY
>- Dr. Frederick Snow,
Forensic Anthropologist for
the Georgia Bureau of
Investigation. Dr. Snow will be
a speaking on The Tri-State
Crematory Incident, a Mass
Disaster of Negligence.’ This
event is sponsored by both the
Anthropology Society and the
Student Association for
Archaeological Sciences, and is
sanctioned as a Franklin College
“Blue Card” event. Sanford Hall,
7 p.m. Contact: Meredith Tise,
706-410-5050, mtise@uga.edu.
► Terry Third Thursday.
Sponsored by the Terry College
of Business. Dr. Robert T.
Sumichrast, Dean of the Terry
College of Business, discusses
“Building Terry: Reputation,
Rankings and What’s Really
Relevant.” S3O, includes break
fast and parking. 7 a.m. Terry
College Executive Education
Center, One Live Oak Building,
3475 Lenox Road, Atlanta.
Contact: 706-583-0397.
>• Annual Campaign for
Charities Kickoff Breakfast
7:45 to 9 a.m. Georgia Hall of the
Tate Student Center. ,
► Safe Space Training.
Sponsored by the LGBT
Resource Center. An initiative for
inclusion, acceptance, and sup
port of lesbian, gay, bisexual,
and transgender people in the
university community. The orien
tation intends to raise awareness
and knowledge of LGBT issues,
including being an LGBT ally.
Register at www.uga.edu/
safespace. 8:30 a.m. to noon.
Contact: 706-542-4077,
safe@uga.edu.
► Piano Master Class: Victor
Rosenbaum. Sponsored by the
Hugh Hodgson School of Music.
11 a.m. Ramsey Concert Hall.
Contact: www.music.uga.edu.
► Guided Tour Amazing
Grace. Sponsored by Georgia
Museum of Art. Overview of the
exhibition “Amazing Grace: Self-
Taught Artists from the Mullis
Collection.” 2 p.m.
90 Carlton Street. Contact:
chinton@uga.edu.
► Meeting: University Council
Executive Committee.
3:30 p.m. Peabody Board Room,
Administration Building. Contact:
706-542-6020, dlord@uga.edu.
► Lecture: Mary Ellen
Brooks. Sponsored by the
Willson Center for Humanities
and Arts. Mary Ellen Brooks,
Director of the University of
Georgia Hargrett Rare Book and
Manuscript Library, presents, Art
as Book, Book as Art. 4 p.m.
150 Student Learning Center.
Contact: 706-542-3966,
jdingus@uga.edu.
>- Reading: Stephen Dunn.
Sponsored by the Georgia
Review. Pulitzer Prize winning
poet Stephen Dunn, the author of
over a dozen poetry books, reads
from his most recent, Everything
Else in the World. 4 p.m.
265 Park Hall. Contact:
706-542-0397,
ingle.david@gmail.com.
► Externship Program
Orientation. Sponsored by the
Career Center. The externship
program at is a one-day job
shadowing opportunity.
Applications are currently being
accepted. 4 to 5 p.m. B 5 Clark
Howell Hall. Contact: extem@
uga.edu.
>■ Environmental Bottle
Exchange. Sponsored by the Go
Green Alliance, the Physical
Plant. Exchange disposable plas
tic water bottles for reusable bot
tle provided by PPD. Tate Plaza
10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Ramsey
Center 4 to 6 p.m. Contact: 706-
542-7422, kjohnson@uga.edu.
>- Peabody/Loyless Seminar
The State of TV. Sponsored by
the George Foster Peabody
Awards. Panel discussion of the
state of television among three
noted academics and three top
TV critics, including David
Bianculli of the New York Daily
News and NPR’s “Fresh Air.”
Peabody director Horace
Newcomb moderates. 5 p.m.
204 Caldwell Hall. Contact:
706-542-8983,
nholston@uga.edu.
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Thrashers’ coach fired due to losses
ATLANTA Bob Hartley
was fired \Vednesday as
coach of the Atlanta
Thrashers, who have
lost their first six
games and are the only
NHL team without a Victo
ry-
General manager
Don Waddell will be
the coach until a replace
ment is found. He has no
timetable for a hiring.
“We felt after six games
the direction we were going
was not the direction we
wanted to go,” Waddell said
at a news conference in
announcing the first
coaching change of
the NHL season. “We
couldn’t let it go any fur
ther.”
Waddell already has one
stint as an interim coach,
following his firing of Curt
Fraser during the 2002-03
season.
Hartley, who won a
Stanley Cup with the
Colorado Avalanche in
2001, was in his fifth season
with Atlanta.
“It was a shock,”
Thrashers defenseman
Garnet Exelby told The
Associated Press. “I don’t
think anybody saw this
coming. It’s only six
games.”
“Sometimes changes
need to be made,” he
added. “At the same time,
it tells all of us it’s a big
wake-up call, and we need
Parents claim religious beliefs,
exempt children from vaccines
BOSTON Sabrina Rahim
doesn’t practice any particular
faith, but she had no problem
signing a letter declaring that
because of her deeply held reli
gious beliefs, her 4-year-old son
should be exempt from the vac
cinations required to enter pre
school.
She is among a small but
growing number of parents
around the country who are
claiming religious exemptions
to avoid vaccinating their chil
dren when the real reason may
be skepticism of the shots or
concern they can cause other
illnesses. Some of these parents
say they are being forced to lie
because of the way the vaccina
tion laws are written in their
states.
“It’s misleading,” Rahim
admitted, but she said she fears
that earlier vaccinations may
be to blame for her son’s autism.
Turkey approves offensive against Kurds
ANKARA, Turkey Parliament on Wednesday
overwhelmingly approved a possible cross-bor
der offensive against Kurdish rebels in northern
Iraq, although the government appears willing
to give diplomatic pressure on the U.S.-backed
Iraqi administration more time to work.
Lawmakers voted 507-19 in favor of empower
ing the government to order the military to cross
into Iraq during a one-year period, Parliament
Speaker Koksal Toptan said. They then burst
into applause.
Turkish leaders have stressed that an offen
sive against the rebels of the Kurdistan Workers’
Party, or PKK, would not immediately follow the
authorization.
In Washington, President George W. Bush
said the U.S. was making clear to Turkey it
should not send a massive number of troops into
Iraq. Bush said Turkey has had troops stationed
in Iraq “for quite a while.”
Bush also noted that Tariq al-Hashimi, one of
Iraq’s vice presidents, was in Istanbul expressing
that Iraq shares Turkey’s concerns about terror
ist activities, but that there’s a better way to
deal with the issue than sending more troops
into Iraq.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
appeared to dismiss Bush’s comments.
“What’s important is the parliament’s deci
sion, not what people say,” private NTV televi
sion quoted him as saying.
Wednesday’s motion authorizing an attack
into Iraq sometime in the next year had the
backing from all of Turkey’s parliamentary par
ties except a small Kurdish party.
Police prepare for exile’s return
with bomb squads, sealed roads
KARACHI, Pakistan Thousands of Benazir
Bhutto supporters surged toward Karachi on
Wednesday as she declared any Islamic militant
assassin targeting her would “bum in hell.”
Meanwhile, Pakistan’s top court heard chal
lenges to the legality of Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s
re-election as president.
Police were readying bomb disposal squads
and sealing roads ahead of Bhutto’s planned
return to this chaotic city of 15 million people on
Thursday, where she hopes 1 million people will
greet the end of her eight-year exile.
Negotiations with Musharraf that could see
the archrivals team up in a U.S.-friendly alliance
to fight al- Qaida and the Taliban have already
produced an amnesty covering the corruption
cases that made her leave Pakistan in 1999.
Bhutto hopes to secure a third term as prime
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to fix this.”
The Thrashers have
been outscored 27-9 this
season, and their winless
start comes after they won
the Southeast Division last
season. Atlanta lost four
straight to the New York
Rangers in the first
round of the playoffs last
season.
It was clear after
Tuesday night’s 4-0 loss to
Philadelphia that Hartley
was aware of building pres
sure.
“You know what? If any
one is not satisfied with
the team effort, I don’t
agree,” Hartley said. “I
think those boys work hard
... Let’s keep working, let’s
get a couple of breaks
going our way, and we’re
going to turn this thing
around.”
“The last thing that
those guys need right now
is to be hard on them,” he
added.
“It’s hard enough right
now. When people don’t
have great confidence you
don’t step on them. I’m
part of this. We have to
find solutions, we have
lots of young players, we
have lots of new faces, and
to get in those guys’ face
and to start yelling and
throwing stuff, I think
that we would go back
ward.”
Associated Press
NATION
“I find it very troubling, but for
my son’s safety, I feel this is the
only option we have.”
An Associated Press exami
nation of states’ vaccination
records and data from the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention found that many
states are seeing increases in
the rate of religious exemptions
claimed for kindergartners.
“Do I think that religious
exemptions have become the
default? Absolutely,” said Dr.
Paul Offit, head of infectious
diseases at Children’s Hospital
in Philadelphia and one of the
harshest critics of the anti-vac
cine movement. He said the
resistance to vaccines is “an
irrational, fear-based decision.”
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▲ Atlanta Thrashers coach Bob Hartley works behind the bench against
the Pittsburgh Penguins in this Dec. 27, 2006 file photo. Hartley was
fired as coach of the Thrashers, the only NHL team without a victory.
is extremely small in percent
age terms and represents just a
few thousand of the 3.7 million
children entering kindergarten
in 2005, the most recent figurfe
available.
But public health officials
say it takes only a few people to
cause an outbreak that can put
large numbers of lives at risk.
“When you choose not to get
a vaccine, you’re not just mak
ing a choice for yourself, you’re
making a choice for the person
sitting next to you,” said Dr.
Lance Rodewald, director of the
CDC’s Immunization Services
Division.
All states have some require
ment that youngsters be immu
nized against such childhood
diseases as measles, mumps,
chickenpox, diphtheria and
whooping cough.
Associated Press
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B.K. BANGASH | Associated Press
▲ Supporters of Pakistan’s former Prime
Minister Benazir Bhutto throw currency
notes on Wednesday to celebrate the
imminent arrival of their leader in
Karachi, Pakistan.
minister after January elections.
“My return heralds for the people of Pakistan
the turn of the wheel from dictatorship to democ
racy,” Bhutto said at a news conference in
Dubai.
Bhutto recently courted controversy in
Pakistan by saying that she would cooperate
with the American military in targeting Osama
bin Laden, and authorities here warned that
militants could launch suicide attacks and road
side bombings against her.
Asked about such threats, Bhutto said Islam
forbids suicide bombings and attacks on her.
“Muslims know if they attack a woman they will
bum in hell,” she said.
Associated Press
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Colbert ‘seeks
presidential
office,’ mocks
election runs
NEW YORK - Stephen Colbert has
announced his candidacy for president
on “The Colbert Report,” tossing his
satirical hat into the ring of an already
crowded race.
“I shall seek the office of the presi
dent of the United States,” Colbert said
Tuesday on his Comedy Central show as
red, white and blue balloons fell around
him.
Colbert, 43, recently had satirized the
coyness of would-be presidential candi
dates by refusing to disclose whether he
would seek the country’s highest office
—a refusal that often came without any
prompting.
Shortly before making the announce
ment, Colbert appeared on “The Daily
Show” (the show that spawned
Colbert’s spin-off) and played cagey,
claiming he was only ready to consider a
White House bid. He entered the studio
set pulled by a bicycle pedaled by Uncle
Sam and quickly pulled out a bale of hay
and a bottle of beer to
show that he was “an
Average Joe.”
Colbert said his deci
sion would be
announced on a “more
prestigious show,” which
turned out to be his own.
“After nearly 15 min
utes of soul-searching, I
have heard the call,” said
Colbert.
His recent best-seller,
“I Am America (And So Can You!),”
allowed him to mock the now-standard
approach to a White House run, com
plete with a high-profile book tour.
Colbert said he planned to run in
South Carolina, “and South Carolina
alone.” The state, one of the key early
primaries, is also Colbert’s native state.
Earlier this week, South Carolina public
television station ETV invited Colbert to
announce his candidacy on its air.
Exactly how far the mock conserva
tive pundit planned to stretch his
impression of a presidential candidate
wasn’t clear. Colbert rarely breaks char
acter on camera, including at his memo
rable speech at the White House
Correspondents’ Association Dinner last
year.
The Comedy Central host often has
mobilized his fans, encouraging them to
vote to have a Hungarian bridge named
after him, for example.
Colbert said he would run as both a
Democrat and Republican. He earlier
explained the strategy: “I can lose
twice.” He claimed three running mate
possibilities: Colbert-Huckabee, Colbert-
Putin or Colbert-Colbert.
Minutes after announcing his presi
dential pursuit, Colbert welcomed CBS
political analyst Jeff Greenfield to ask
how he had changed the race.
“This is going to be one for the
books,” said Greenfield.
In a guest column for Maureen Dowd
in Sunday’s New York Times, Colbert
wrote, “I am not ready to announce yet
even though it’s clear that the voters
are desperate for a white, male, middle
aged, Jesus-trumpeting alternative.”
Associated Press
