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LEFT Engineering senior Nnenna Udegbunam and LSA junior Aissatou Barry teach African dance
moves to students at their dance group Amala's Makossa Night on Tuesday in the Michigan League.
The group's dancing is inspired by the music and culture of West Africa and the Congo. (Marissa
McClain/Daily) RIGHT LSA junior Anant Jain takes a moment of reflection at the Ghandi Day of Ser-
vice event on the Diag last Saturday. The event, put on by the Indian American Student Association,
was in honor of Ghandi and his work in the nonviolence movement. (Maddie LaKind/Daily)

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CRIME NOTES

CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES

Paper goods
swiped
WHERE: North Campus Facil-
ities Services Building
WHEN: Wednesday at about
7:15 p.m.
WHAT: About 17 paper towel
rolls and 2 rolls of toilet paper
were stolen from the women's
bathroom in a one to one and a
half month period, University
Police reported. The stolen
items are valued at $70.

Mic damaged Economics

WHERE: Duderstadt Building
WHEN: Wednesday at about
8 a.m.
WHAT: A microphone was
damaged when someone tried
to remove it from a stand
without permission, Uni-
versity Police reported. The
estimated cost of the damage
is $55.

Glass topples,
Laundry lifted water spills

workshop
WHAT: This week's workshop
topic is Economic Crises as
Transformative Events and is
being led by William H. Sewell,
Jr., and PhD candidates from
the Anthropology and History
Departments
WHO: History - Eisenberg
Institute
WHEN: Today from 12 p.m.
to 2 p.m.
WHERE: Tisch Hall, Room
1014
Nature talk
WHAT: Josh Cornell, a
nature educator, hosts a dis-
cussion and how to become
more connected with nature.
WHO: Matthei Botani-
cal Gardens and Nichols
Arbretum
WHEN: Today at4 p.m.
WHERE: Dana Natural
Resources Building, Room 1040

Survival bingo
WHAT: Free, fast-paced
game of bingo in which stu-
dents receive prizes.
WHO: University Unions Arts
and Programs
WHEN: Monday at 8 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan Union
NY quintet
WHAT: Gandalf Murphy
and the Slambovian Circus of
Dreams perform music remis-
cent of folk rock from 1960s.
WHO: Michigan Union Tick-
et Office
WHEN: Tonight at 8 p.m.
WHERE: The Ark
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Department of Public Safe-
ty spokeswoman, Diane
Brown said the crime alert
issued Tuesday after a man
took $400 worth of $20 bills
from a cash register at UGo's
in the Michigan League was
canceled. Brown said another
agency arrested a suspect after
getting a tip from a student.
About 10,000 students
and faculty work and live
on North Campus.
*FOR MORE, SEE OPINION PAGE 4A
3Two inmates at the Rock-
Ingham County House of
Corrections sent letters to
the superintendent asking to be
kept beyond their court-man-
dated stays, Fosters.com report-
ed. The inmates feared being
released and not being able to
find work in the this economy.

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WHERE: Couzens Residence
Hall
WHEN: Wednesday at about
11:30 p.m.
WHAT: Clothing valued at
$245 was stolen from the laun-
dry room, University Police
reported.

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Kansas legislator's 'Red Neck Rap'
video taken down from YouTube

Videoby Republican
BillkOtto criticizes
PresidentObama
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A video
featuring a Kansas legislator criti-
cizing President Barack Obama's
policies while wearing a hat
describing opossum as "the other
dark meat" was removed yesterday
from YouTube, where the lawmak-
er had posted it last month.
Republican Rep. Bill Otto said
he didn't remove the video, titled
"RedNeck Rap," and didn't know
whyithadbeentakendown. Google
Inc., YouTube's owner, could offer
no explanation.
Otto said criticism of the video
was unfounded. He said the hat's
saying, which he repeats at the end
of the short video, refers to redneck
stereotypes, not Obama.
The White House declined to
comment yesterday, but Kansas
Senate Minority Leader Anthony
Hensley, a Topeka Democrat, called

the video "disturbing." He said it's
logical to see the reference as being
to the first black president's race.
In the video, Otto pauses after
criticizing Obama and his policies,
repeats the saying on the cap and
adds, "A little greasy, but hey."
"It's a reference to rednecks,"
Otto said during a telephone inter-
view from his home in LeRoy, a
small town about 75 miles south of
Topeka. "It's like 'The Beverly Hill-
billies,'eating opossumbellies, grits
and pigs' feet."
The flap comes less than two
months after U.S. Rep. Lynn Jen-
kins, another Kansas Republican,
remarked in a public forum that
the GOP was still looking for "a
great white hope." She later said
she wasn't referring to Obama and
didn'tknowofthe phrase'spastlink
to pre-civil-rights era racism.
Attempts by AP to access Otto's
video Thursday night resulted in
a message stating that it had been
"removed by the user." Google
spokesman Scott Rubin said if a
video is removed for violating You-

Tube's standards, a message would
say so.
"With 20 hours of video upload-
ed every minute to YouTube, we
cannot comment on individual vid-
eos," he said in an e-mail.
Meanwhile, Hensley accused
Otto of "bigotry."
"If opossum is the other dark
meat, whatis the original darkmeat
he is referring to?" Hensley said. "It
is not only thoughtless, but outra-
geous."
Otto replied:"Idon't know where
he's getting that."
Hensley, though, pointed to an
incidenthesaidhappenedearlierthis
year involving Patrick Woods, legis-
lative liaison for the Department of
Social and Rehabilitation Services.
Woods said he encountered Otto
in March while walking between
the Statehouse and an office build-
ing, and Otto said he'd confused
Woods with Rod Bremby, the state's
secretary of health and environ-
ment. Woods said Otto told him, "I
almost shot you. You look a lot like
Secretary Bremby."


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