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2A Thursday, January 17, 2008 | The Red a Black UGA TODAY >- SMIS Orientation. SMIS will be hosting its first meeting ot the year, and representatives Irom IBM Global Business Services will be presenting Free food and drinks will be provided. 6:30 p.m. to 8 p m. SLC 213. Contact: clayhro4@uga.edu. > Safe Space Training. Sponsored by the LGBT Resource Center. An initiative for inclusion, acceptance, and sup port of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in the University community. The r ientation 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, sale@ugaedu > Guided Tour Redefining the Modem Landscape in Europe and America, ca. 1920-1940. Sponsored by the Georgia Museum of Art. 2 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. Contact: collardj@uga.edu. >- State of the University Address. Annua! address by President Michael F. Adams. The Town and Gown community is invited 2 p.m. The Chapel > Wealth Creation: Does Sett- Esteem Matter? Sponsored by the Department of Housing and Consumer Economics. The speaker is assistant professor Dr Swarn Chatteriee. whose research and teaching area is family financial planning. 3.30 p.m. 202 Dawson Hall. Contact: ymimura@fcs.uga.edu. > Annual Legislative Reception. Sponsored by the office of the Vice President for Government Relations Annual reception highlighting Univ. for members of the Georgia General Assembly and other key state government officials. 5 p.m. to 7 p.m The Georgia Depot at Underground Atlanta. > Bulldog Author Julie L Cannon ‘BS Book Signing. Sponsored by UGA Alumni Association Julie L. Cannon ’BS, author of The Romance Readers' Book Club, a coming-of-age with Southern style about a girl who receives a cache of old paper back romances. Cannon will present a program and sign books. SlO Association mem bers, Sls all others. 6:30 p.m. Atlanta Alumni Center. Contact: 404-266-2622. cchoate@uga.edu. ► Botanically-inspired Silk Scarf Creations. Sponsored by the State Botanical Garden inspired by the nch colors and patterns of nature, learn to dye your own silk scarves. Members $22, non-members 525. 6:30 to 8:30 p m. State Botanical Garden Visitor Center classroom A Contact 706-542-6156. ckeber@uga.edu ► Women's Basketball at Vanderbilt. 8:00 p.m Nashville. Tenn. ► Annual Jan Fest Band Festival. Sponsored by the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, Students work with guest con ductors m the Honor Band or one of the Festival Bands in this con ducting symposium for directors. Throughout the three-day event, guest concerts are presented by selected high school and com munity ensembles. Through Sunday, January 20. 2008. Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall and Ramsey Concert Hall. Contact: lpowell@uga edu. http ji bands music. uga edu ► Terry Third Thursday. Sponsored by the Terry College of Business. James B Langford, Project Executive. Linger Longer Communities, discusses The Revitalization of Jekyll Island. S3O. includes breakfast and park ing. 7 a m. Terry College Executive Education Center, One Live Oak Building. 3475 Lenox Road. Atlanta Contact: 706-583-0397. - Please send submissions for UGAToday to news@randb com Listings are published on a first-come, first-serve basis. CORRECTIONS In Wednesday’s edi tion of The Red <6 Black, the information regarding the online poll incorrectly stated that the last day to return books to the University bookstore was Tuesday. The last day to return books for a full refund was Wednesday. Editor-in-chief: Juanita Cousins (706) 433-3027 randb.com Managing Editor: Shannon Otto (706) 433-3026 sotto( randb.com Former Congressman funds terror WASHINGTON - A former con gressman and delegate to the United Nations was indicted Wednesday as part of a terrorist fundraising ring that allegedly sent more than $130,000 to an al-Qaida and Taliban supporter, who has threatened U Sand international troops in Afghanistan. The former Republican con gressman from Michigan, Mark Deli Sfijander, was charged with money laundering, conspiracy and obstructing justice for allegedly lying about lobbying senators on behalf of an Islamic charity that authorities said was secretly send ing funds to terrorists. A 42-count indictment, unsealed in U.S. District Court in Kansas i • 'f ’ r * B *^* ML 9 mm HiHE IRu H HB shhEm AUm CUBAN GOVERNMENT Av*>ua™> 1’.,- ▲ In this photo released by the Cuban government, Cuba’s President Fidel Castro, right, speaks to Brazil’s President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva on Tuesday during a meeting in Havana. Castro met with Brazil’s president and the Cuban leader looked frail but alert in a series of official photographs from the meeting, the first images released of him in months. Ailing Castro writes to the public HAVANA Fidel Castro said Wednesday he is not yet healthy enough to address Cuba’s people in person and can’t campaign for Sunday’s parliamentary elections. "I am not physically able to speak directly to the citizens of the municipality where I was nom inated for our elections,” the ailing 81-year-old wrote in an essay pub lished by state news media. Hours later, government televi sion broadcast images of a frail but upbeat Castro meeting Brazil’s visiting President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Tuesday. The first video of Castro in three months showed him sitting and listening intently with a finger pressed to his forehead, then later Simpson accused of ‘ignorance, arrogance’ LAS VEGAS An angry judge doubled O.J. Simpson’s bail to $250,000 on Wednesday for violat ing terms of his original bail by attempting to contact a co-defen dant in the armed robbery case against him. Simpson, clad in jail attire, gri maced as the amount was announced and meekly acknowl edged that he understood. “I don’t know Mr. Simpson what the heck you were thinking or maybe that’s the problem you weren’t," District Judge Jackie Olass told Simpson during the hearing. “I don’t know if it’s just arro gance. I don't know if it’s igno rance. But you’ve been locked up at the Clark County Detention Center since Friday because of arrogance or ignorance or both.” Olass said the order to not con tact other defendants was clear and she warned if anything else happened Simpson would be locked up. She warned hirrt against contacting anyone else in the case, and barred him from leaving the country. Simpson’s attorney, Yale Oalanter, said he did not know how long it would take for Simpson to post bail, but it could be a few days. Tom Scotto, a Simpson friend who owns an auto repair shop in Florida, said he and several other people were trying to get him freed by the end of the day. The former football star was picked up Friday in Florida by his bail bondsman, Miguel Pereira of You Ring We Spring, and was brought back to Nevada for vio- The Wire City, Mo., accuses the Islamic American Relief Agency of paying Siljander $50,000 for the lobbying money that turned out to be stolen from the U.S. Agency for International Development. Siljander, who served two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, was appointed by President Reagan to serve as a U.S. delegate to the United Nations for one year in 1987. He could not be reached for comment Wednesday, and his attorney in Kansas City, JR Hobbs, had no immediate comment. The charges are part of a long running case against the charity, which was formerly based in Columbia, Mo., and was designat WORLD standing and speaking, waving a finger for emphasis. “I have felt very good, very good,” Castro says after exchang ing a warm hug with Silva the only audible comment on the 60 seconds of footage. Silva, a leftist admirer of the Cuban revolution, said Castro’s health “was a nice surprise” and said Castro appeared healthy enough to return to politics. “I think Fidel is ready to take over his historic political role in this globalized world, in humani ty,” Silva said. He did not suggest what that role might be. RICK WILKING I Amocutid Pina A O.J. Simpson sits in a courtroom for his bail revo cation hearing Wednesday. lating terms of his release. The district attorney charged that Simpson left an expletive - laced phone message Nov. 16, tell ing Pereira to tell co-defendant Clarence “C.J.” Stewart how upset Simpson was about testimony during their preliminary hearing. “I Just want, want C.J. to know that... I’m tired of this (exple tive),” Simpson was quoted as saying. “Fed up with (expletives) changing what they told me. All right?” NEWS TOP STORIES FROM AROUND THE STATE, NATION AND WORLD ed by the Treasury Department in 2004 as a suspected fundraiser for terrorists. In the indictment, the govern- ment alleges that IARA employed a man who had served as a fund raising aide to Osama bin Laden. The indictment charges IARA with sending approxi mately $130,000 to help Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, whom the United States has designated as a global terror ist. The money, sent to bank accounts in Peshawar, Pakistan in Castro has not been seen in public since July 2006, when emer gency intestinal surgery forced him to cede power to a provisional government headed by his brother Raul, five years his junior. Despite stepping aside, the elder Castro has retained his position as head of the Council of State, Cuba's supreme governing body. In Wednesday’s essay, he expressed frustration that he can no longer give the kind of hours long speeches for which he was noted. “I do what I can: I write. For me, this is anew experience: writ ing is not the same as speaking,” he wrote. Associated Press Darfur ceremony cancelled for China PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - The Cambodian government said Wednesday it will not allow Mia Farrow to hold a ceremony at a former Khmer Rouge prison as part of her efforts to draw atten tion to the crisis in Sudan. The 62-year-old actress, work ing with the U.S.-based Dream for Darfur advocacy group, had planned to light an Olympic-style torch Sunday at the Khmer Rouge’s infamous Tuol Sleng tor ture house to urge China to press Sudan to end abuses in Darfur. The group claims China, host of the 2008 Olympics, has protect ed Khartoum at the U.N. Security Council and sold weapons to the Sudanese government, while mak ing Sudanese oil purchases that have helped frind genocide there. “We will not allow them to hold the ceremony because they are not doing this for humanitarian reasons, but because they have a political agenda against China," government spokesman Khieu Kanharith said. China is one of Cambodia's major trading partners and was also the biggest backer of the Khmer Rouge's communist regime in the 19705, which led to the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians. Associated Press SIUANDER NAMES & FACES 2003 and 2004, was masked as donations to an orphanage located in buildings Hekmatyar owned. Authorities described Hekmatyar as an Afghan muja hedeen leader who has participat ed in and supported terrorist acts by al-Qaida and the Taliban. The charges “paints a troubling picture of an American charity organization that engaged in transactions for the benefit of ter rorists and conspired with a for mer United States congressman to convert stolen federal funds into payments for his advocacy,” said Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Wainstein. - Associated Press STATE Delusional disease undergoes research ATLANTA lt sounds like a freakish ailment from a horror movie: sores erupt on your skin, mysterious threads pop out of them, and you feel like tiny bugs are crawling all over you. Some experts believe it’s a psychiatric phenomenon, yet hundreds of people say it’s a true physical condition. It’s called Morgellons. and now the government is about to begin its first medical study of it. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is pay ing California-based health care giant Kaiser Permanente $338,000 to test and interview patients suffering from Morgellons’ symptoms. The one-year effort will attempt to define the condition and better determine how common it is. The study will be done in northern California, the source of many of the reports of Morgellons. Researchers will begin screening for patients immediately, CDC officials said Wednesday. A Kaiser official expects about 150 to 500 study participants. Morgellons sufferers describe symptoms that include erupt ing sores, fatigue, the sensation of bugs crawling over them and— perhaps worst of all myste rious red, blue or black fibers that sprout from their skin. They’ve documented their suf fering on Web sites. Some doctors believe the condition is a form of delusional parasitosis, a psychosis in which people believe they are infected with parasites. In the study, volunteers will get blood tests and skin exams, as well as psychological evalua tions, said Dr. Michele Pearson, who leads a CDC task force overseeing the study. Archbishop found guilty of promiscuity ATLANTA Court officials say the 80-year-old leader of a suburban Atlanta megachurch pleaded guilty Wednesday to a charge that he lied under oath. Cobb County Superior Court Judge Frank Cox said Archbishop Earl Paulk of the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit at Chapel Hill Harvester Church was sentenced to 10 years pro bation and a SI,OOO fine for the felony charge. Paulk turned himself in to authorities Tuesday night after a warrant was issued for his arrest the previous day. The charges stem from a deposition Paulk gave as part of a civil law- suit against him, his brother Don and the church by a former church employ ee, who says she was coerced into an affair. In a 2006 deposition for the lawsuit, the archbishop said under oath that ■■* ' I h' PAULK the only woman he had ever had sex with outside of his mar riage was former church worker Mona Brewer. But the results of a court-or dered paternity test revealed in October that Paulk is the bio logical father of his brother’s son, D.E. Paulk, who is now head pastor at the church. As part of Brewer’s lawsuit, eight women have given sworn depo sitions that they were coerced into sexual relationships with Earl Paulk. Associated Press