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Thuksday, December 6, 2007 | The Red & Black
UGA TODAY
> Last day of classes for Fall
semester.
> Academic Freedom Debate.
Charles Bittner from The Nation
Magazine wiS debate Mike
Adams from Townhall.com on
the subject of Academic
Freedom. Hosted by the
Roosevelt Institute and the
College Republicans. 7 p.m.
SLC 248.
>- Student Alumni Association
Membership Appreciation.
Sponsored by the Student Alumni
Association. Wear an SAA T-shirt
to receive a pizza coupon and
water bottle, professional mas
sages, Panera Bread food, Jittery
Joe’s Coffee, a 20 percent dis
count and a drawing for an iPod
at the University Bookstore.
Members must show their card.
Tate Plaza. Contact: 706-542-
4802,
jcheney@uga.edu
> Solo Seniors Thursday Night
Dinner. Sponsored by the Alumni
Association. SoIoSENIORS meet
the first Thursday of each month
at Athens-area restaurants for
the Thursday Night Dinner
Series. Harry Bissett's, Mitchell
Bridge Road. Contact: 706-548-
4811, ncanolty@gmail.com
> Candidate's Open Forum:
Senior Vice President for
External Affairs. As part of their
campus visit, each finalist for the
position of Senior Vice President
for External Affairs will participate
in an open forum for deans to
which the entire campus commu
nity is invited. The candidate is
Thomas S. Landrum, interim
senior vice president for external
affairs at the University of
Georgia. 10:30 a.m. Larry Walker
Room, Rusk Hall fourth floor
>- Meet the Candidate
Reception: The Georgia
Review. The University commu
nity is invited to meet and greet
Steve Corey, acting editor of The
Georgia Review, who is one of
three finalists for the position of
editor of The Georgia Review.
3:15 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. Foyer, Joe
Brown Hall. Contact:
706-542-1561
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CORRECTIONS
In Wednesday’s col
umn “Sigur R6s tra
verses icy homeland in
new film,” the “Heima”
screening was incor
rect. The screening at
Cine was postponed to
Jan. 10.
In Wednesday’s arti
cle “Sorority returns to
make fresh start,”
Alexandra Robinson
was incorrectly quoted.
The University never
has suspended the Eta
Xi Chapter of Alpha
Kappa Alpha Sorority
Inc. and President
Robinson made no such
comment.
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Tlin top stories from around
111 V V 11 THE STATE, NATION AND WORLD
Man kills
eight, then
shoots self
OMAHA, Neb. A man with a
rifle opened fire at a busy shopping
mall Wednesday, killing eight people
before taking his own life. Five more
people were wounded, two critically.
Shoppers and employees ran
screaming through the mall and bar
ricaded themselves in dressing rooms
after hearing gunfire. The gunman
was found dead on the third floor of
the Von Maur department store in
the Westroads Mall, in a prosperous
neighborhood on the city’s west
side.
“My knees rocked. I didn’t know
what to do, so I just ran with every
body else,” said Kevin Kleine, 29,
who was shopping with her 4-year
old daughter. She said she hid in a
dressing room with four other shop
pers and an employee. Keith Fidler, a
Von Maur employee, said he heard a
burst of five to six shots followed by
15 to 20 more rounds. Fidler said he
huddled in the comer of the men’s
clothing department with about a
dozen other employees until police
yelled to get out of the store.
Sgt. Teresa Negron said the gun
man killed eight people, then appar
ently killed himself. His name was
not immediately released, and
authorities gave no motive for the
attack and did not know whether he
said anything during the rampage.
A witness, Shawn Vidlak, said he
heard four or five rapid shots “like a
nail gun.” At first he thought it was
noise from construction work going
on at the mall.
“People started screaming about
gunshots,” Vidlak said. “I grabbed
my wife and kids we got out of there
as fast as we could.”
Teen birth increase troubling
ATLANTA ln a troubling reversal, the
nation’s teen birth rate rose for the first
time in 15 years, surprising government
health officials who had no immediate
explanation.
The birth rate had been dropping since
its peak in 1991, although the decline had
slowed in recent years. On Wednesday,
government statisticians said it rose 3
percent from 2005 to 2006.
U.S. health officials said it was possibly
a one-year statistical blip and not the
beginning of anew upward trend.
Several experts said they expected a
jump, blaming the increase on more fed
eral funding for abstinence-only educa
tion that does not teach how to use con
doms and other contraception.
Some key sexually transmitted disease
rates have been rising, including syphilis,
Bush’s ‘little girl’ calls from TV show
NEW YORK Jenna
Bush, phone home.
The first daughter
appeared nervous when
Ellen DeGeneres asked her
to call her parents during a
taping of DeGeneres’ talk
show Tuesday. The show
aired Wednesday.
“They’re going to kill
me,” the 26-year-old told
DeGeneres. “I’m going to
be in so much trouble.”
“No, they’re going to be
thrilled,” DeGeneres said.
“They may have wanted
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▲ Unidentified people react to the shooting at the Von Maur
department store Wednesday in Omaha, Neb. where a man with
a rifle opened fire at the store, killing eight people before taking
his own life. Five more people were wounded.
Shortly after the shooting, a group
of shoppers came out of the building
with their hands raised. Some were
gonorrhea and chlamydia. The rising teen
pregnancy rate is part of the same phe
nomenon, said Dr. Carol Hogue, an Emory
University professor of maternal health.
The new report is based on a review of
more than 99 percent of the birth certifi
cates from last year by thr U.S. Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention.
A final report is due out next year, but
the findings are not expected to change
significantly, CDC officials said.
The new numbers are based on the
15-19 age group, which accounted for
about 99 percent of the more than 440,000
births to teens in 2006.
Associated Press
NAMES & FACES
some warning,” responded
Bush, who was on “The
Ellen DeGeneres Show” to
promote her new book,
“Ana’s Story: A Journey of
Hope.”
“I’m just sitting here
with daddy,” Laura Bush
told her daughter, to which
DeGeneres chimed in: “Oh
hey! It’s Elleii. I wanted to
say ‘hi’ to daddy.”
So the president got on
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STATE
the line: “How’s my little
girl doing?”
“Oh, she’s great. She’s
scared she’s
going to get
in trouble
because I
just said, ‘ls
it easy to
just pick up
the phone
and call your
dad any
time?”’ she I
said.
BUSH
Bush said he wasn’t
angry. “I do want to say
‘Merry Christmas’ to your
audience, and I want to
tell my little girl I love her,”
he said.
Associated Press
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still holding shopping bags.
Associated Press
Nations
request
more aid
from U.N.
BALI, Indonesia
Developing nations at
the U.N. Climate Change
Conference demanded
rapid transfers of tech
nology Wednesday to
help them combat global
warming, while a report
warned that some of
Asia’s biggest cities could
be threatened by rising
sea levels.
Poor and emerging
economies argue they
need more scientific
know-how to reduce pol
lution and improve ener
gy efficiency, but the
wealthy nations want to
focus on booming coun
tries like China to set
goals for cutting pollu
tion emissions, delegates
and activists said.
“How on earth can
you talk about targets if
you don’t want to engage
on the scope, the depth
and need of technology?”
said Meena Raman, of
Friends of the Earth
International. “The sin
cerity and urgency that
is needed and goodwill ...
is not happening.”
Associated Press
Students
)romote
iteracy
program
By DIANA PEREZ
The Red & Black
Instead of giving an
impersonal holiday card,
people now can give the
gift of literacy to a child
through the Wee Read
program.
“People can sponsor a
child to receive books for
half a year for a S2O dona
tion,” said Rebekah
Maddox, president of the
service fraternity Alpha
Phi Omega.
“They give the dona
tion in honor of someone,
and we will send them a
holiday card telling them
about the donation.”
Alpha Phi Omega will
collect donations for the
program at various gro
cery stores today, said
Michelle McDaniel, a
member of the organiza
tion.
“We are asking for peo
ple to sponsor a child for
six months, a year or give
as much money as they
can,” McDaniel said.
Maddox said she was
contacted about the pro
gram by the Ferst
Foundation and said this
will be the fraternity’s
first year helping with
Wee Read.
“We are looking for
ward to helping out with
the program for many
years to come,” she said.
Wee Read was started
in Athens-Clarke County
in January, said Patty
Wagner, director of United
Way of Northeast
Georgia’s Success By Six
program.
Wagner said since
January more than 1,000
children have been regis
tered for the program.
Wee Read’s ultimate goal
is to register most of the
6,000 children living in
ACC.
Maddox said she knew
this was a program Alpha
Phi Omega “would defi
nitely want to help out
with” after meeting with
Wagner.
“We do a lot to help
students K-12, but this is
one way we can make
sure that future students
have the necessary build
ing blocks for their edu
cation,” Maddox said.
Wagner mentioned the
success the program has
had in Morgan County,
where it started.
“In 2001, when the pro
gram first began, only 45
percent of children tested
ready for kindergarten in
reading skills. Three
years later, 90 percent
were ready,” she said.
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“We do a lot to help
students K-12, but
this is one way we
can make sure that
future students
have the
necessary building
blocks for their
education ”
Rebekah Maddox
President, Alpha Phi Omega