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HAR DING UNIVERSITY BANS STATE OF THE GAY
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An online LGBTQ student
publication created by stu-
dents at Harding University
- a private Christian school
in Arkansas - was blocked
by the school last Wednes-
day after a physical copy
was given out around cam-
pus, according to March 2
and March 3 articles in the
Arkansas Times.
The publication, called
StateoftheGay,waslaunched
by LGBTQ students and
alumni, the article reported.
Harding, a Christian-affiliat-
ed university, does not sup-
port homosexuality.
"The student handbook
holds to the biblical principle
that sexual relationships are
unacceptable to God outside
the context of marriage and
that sexual immorality in any
form will resultin suspension
from the university," David
Crouch, a Harding Univer-
sity representative, told the
Arkansas Times.
CORNELL DEBATES
HOMEWORKFREE
VACATIONS
Faculty members at Cor-
nell University are currently
debating a proposition to
decrease homework during
to a Feb. 11 article in The Cor-
nell Daily Sun.
The Education Policy
Committee at the university
came up with the proposal
out of consideration for stu-
dents' mental health, The
Cornell Daily Sun reported.
"What the EPC is sug-
gesting is that you should not
surprise students the Friday
before break with an assign-
ment," Dean of Faculty Bill
Fry told The Cornell Daily
Sun. "If the assignment is on
the syllabus at the beginning,
of the semester, then that is
okay because they have time
to plan for that:'
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A University Alternative Spring Break group stands in front of a part
the border of Texas and Mexico last week.
states that the university school vacations, according
CRIME NOTES
Visitor arrested Suspected pot
CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
How to beat the Talk on First
blues workshop Amendment
WHERE: University
Hospital
WHEN: Friday at about
4:15 a.m.
WHAT: A man with an
outstandingwarrantwas
arrested in the emergency
room, University Police
reported. The man initally
refused to leave, claiming
he was visiting someone.
found in closet
WHERE: Earl V. Moore
Building
WHEN: Fridayat about 7:30
a.m.
WHAT: A University Hous-
ing staff member found a tin
can containing suspected
marijuana in a closet, Uni-
versity Police reported. The
tin was taken as evidence.
WHAT: Students will learn
the definition of depression
and how to deal with
depressing feelings.
WHO: Counseling and
Pyschological Services
WHEN: Today at 4:15 p.m.
WHERE: The Michigan
Union
WHAT: The Secular
Student Alliance will discuss
the First Amendment rights
of freedom of speech and
religion.
WHO: Secular Student
Alliance
WHEN: Today at 6 p.m.
WHERE:Angell Hall
Sidewalk gets Hospital brawl
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Organ recital
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A telecom company in
Japan has developed
technology to provide
an Internet broadband ser-
vice that costs $26 a month
to download at a speed of
one gigabit per second, The
New York Times reported. No
comparable service exists in
the U.S. at that price.
The Michigan men's
basketball team swept
the season series with
Michigan State for the first
time since the 1996-1997 sea-
son
>o FOR MORE, SEE SPORTSMONDAY
A professor at the
University of Califor-
nia, Los Angeles has
developed a cell phone
microscope accessory that
could help save lives, CNN
reported. The microscope
accessory - which relies on
cell phone cameras - could
cost as little as $5.
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WHERE: University
Hospital
WHEN: Thursday at about
7:45 a.m.
WHAT: A female staff
member injured her hand
and passed out after tripping
on an uneven sidewalk, Uni-
versity Police reported.
WHERE: University
Hospital
WHEN: Friday at about
12:30 p.m.
WHAT: After arguing, two
staff members engaged in
a physical fight, University
Police reported. No serious
injuries were sustained and
neither staff member was
arrested.
at The Ark
WHAT: The jazz and blues
band, the Big Bad Voodoo
Daddy, will play a show
at the Ark. The band has
been performing for more
than 20 years and has given
thousands of performances
in the United States and
abroad. Tickets start at $35.
WHO: Michigan Union
Ticket Office
WHEN: Tonight at 8 p.m.
WHERE: The Ark
WHAT: School of Music,
Theatre & Dance alumn
John Beresford will play the
organ in a recital featuring
the music of Louis Vierne
and Olivier Messiaen.
WHO: School of Music,
Theatre & Dance
WHEN: Tonight at 8 p.m.
WHERE: Hill Auditorium
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Afghan president rejects U.S.
apology over civilian killings
Karzai says ship between Karzai's govern-
ment and the United States, and
expressing regret is they generate widespread outrage
amongthe population.
not sufficient "President Karzai said that only
regret is not sufficient and also
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - mentioned that civilian casual-
Afghanistan's president yesterday ties during military operations by
rejected a U.S. apology for the coalition forces is the main reason
mistaken killing of nine Afghan for tension in relations between
boys in a NATO air attack and said Afghanistan and United States,"
civilian casualties are no longer the statement said. "It is .not
acceptable. acceptable for the Afghan people
According to a statement from anymore. Regrets and condemna-
his office, Hamid Karzai told Gen. tions of the incident cannot heal
David Petraeus, the top command- the wounds of the people."
er of coalition forces in Afghani- The killing ofthe nine boys took
stan, that expressing regret was place on March 1 in the Pech val-
not sufficient in last week's killing ley area of Kunar province in east-
of the boys, ages 12 and under, by ern Afghanistan.
coalition helicopters. Lt. Gen. David Rodriguez, who
NATO has also apologized for directs day-to-day operations of
the mistaken killings. Civilian coalition forces across Afghani-
casualties from coalition opera- stan, later issued avideo statement
Lions are a major source of strain of apology.
in the already difficult relation- In the video, Rodriguez said
troops at a base in the valley were
responding to a rocket attack and
dispatched attack helicopters to
the location they were told the
rockets came from. He said the
helicopters thought they were
engaging insurgents, but it later
turned out they were boys from a
nearby village who were cutting
firewood.
Karzai appealed to Petraeus to
do more to prevent such incidents.
He made the remarks to Petraeus
during a Sunday meeting of the
National Security Council, a body
that includes Cabinet members
and senior political and military
officials.
According to the statement,
Petraeus said during the meeting
that the killing was a mistake by
coalition forces and extended his
condolences and regret to Karzai
and the Afghan people, promising
that such an incident will not be
repeated.
JACQUES BRINON/AP
French Former President Jacques Chirac, with Agriculture Minister Bruno Le Maire, left, as he visits the Paris interna-
tional agricultural fair on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011.
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ormper French president
to stand trial after delay
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Gangs, police loot 10 government
officials' homes on the Ivory Coast
Increase in Pro-
Gbagbo security
cause violence
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) -
Gangs of young people, actively
aided by uniformed police, ran-
sacked at least 10 houses in Abi-
djan belonging to officials allied
with the internationally recog-
nized president of Ivory Coast,
as heavy fighting broke out in the
country's west.
Security forces loyal to incum-
bent leader Laurent Gbagbo, who
refuses to cede power more than
three months after the United
Nations says he lost an elec-
tion, have turned to increas-
ingly criminal behavior in the
past week, killing six unarmed
women protesters in the street
on Thursday.
An eyewitness reported hav-
ing seen a pickup truck belong-
ing to the elite paramilitary
police force CECOS leaving the
house belonging to Alassane
Ouattara's finance minister on
Saturday. The CECOS truck was
loaded down with a refrigera-
tor, he said, and it later returned
to the house, owned by Charles
Koffi Diby, leaving a second time
with a large safe.
Dozens of teenagers smashed
the doors and windows of the
house and later leftwearing suits
and robes, carrying dishes and
other valuables, said the witness,
who asked not to be identified for
fear of retribution.
Hundreds of miles away in the
region bordering Liberia, heavy
fighting broke out between pro-
Gbagbo and pro-Ouattara forces.
On the Liberian side of the fron-
tier, Saah Nyuma, the deputy
director of the Liberia Refugee
Repatriation and Resettlement.
Commission, said he heard the
sounds of explosions coming
from Ivory Coast. At least one
mortar shell fell on the Liberian
side. A fighter allied with Ouat-
tara and who was reached by
telephone and who asked not to
be named for fear of reprisal, said
the fighting was occurring in the
border village of Toulepleu.
Top Ouattara adviser Amadou
Coulibaly said that police recruit
youth to participate in the loot-
ings, which began Thursday.
"They're trying to install an
atmosphere of terror," he said,
"but you can't do more than what
they've already done, firing on
unarmed women. They're get-
ting desperate."
Chirac first French
president to be
tried since Nazi-era
PARIS (AP) - After years of
claiming presidential immu-
nity to avoid legal proceedings,
Jacques Chirac is finally facing
a court.
The former president, a buga-
boo for George W. Bush during
his rush to war in Iraq, today
becomes France's first former
head of state to go on trial since
its Nazi-era leader was exiled
That is, if the whole case isn't
derailed by a last-minute protest
by another defendant.
If the trial goes ahead as
planned, Chirac, 78, faces a
month in court on charges that
he masterminded a scheme to
have Paris City Hall pay for work
that benefited his political party
when he was mayor - before he
became president in 1995.
A prison term is seen as
highly unlikely, but in principle
if convicted, Chirac could be
jailed for up to 10 years and fined
euro150,000 ($210,000).
France's restive political
circles are gearing up for next
year's presidential race, but the
fallout from this trial is unlikely
to hit anyone other than Chirac
and the nine other defendants
including a grandson of Gen.
Charles de Gaulle and a former
left-wing labor union leader.
Still, the trial looms as an
embarrassing coda to Chi-
rac's 12-year presidential term,
potentially denting his legacy,
recent philanthropic work and
image as one of France's most
popular personalities since he
left office.
The trial will also shine a
spotlight on the underside of
high-level politics that could
be uncomfortable background
noise for Chirac's successor and
one-time protege, President
Nicolas Sarkozy, who wants to
rebuild his depleted poll num-
bers before a possible re-elec-
tion bid.
The trial fuses two separate
but similar cases.
One of the other defendants,
former Chirac aide Remy Char-
don, says the two cases shouldn't
be combined. His lawyer told
The Associated Press he will
ask the judges Monday to decide
whether the decision was con-
stitutional, which could throw
the whole trial into disarray.
In the first case, investigat-
ing magistrate Xaviere Simeoni
in Paris has focused on claims
that Chirac had City Hall pay
for 21 contract hires who never
worked for the city but instead
worked for his party, then called
RPR. He faces charges of embez-
zlement and breach of trust.
Simeoni, in her order for Chi-
rac to stand trial, wrote that he
was the "conceiver, author and
beneficiary" of that system.
The other case, led by inves-
tigating judge Jacques Gazeaux
in the western Paris suburb of
Nanterre, centers on seven jobs
at Chirac's former party said to
be improperly paid for by City
Hall. Chirac is accused of illegal
conflict of interest in that case.
That case netted a conviction
and temporary ban from politi-
cal office in 2004 for Chirac's
longtime political ally Alain
Juppe, a former prime minister
who recently returned in a big
way to political life - and is now
foreign minister.
Chirac will answer for only
a fraction of the scandals that
have hounded him over the
years: the others were either
thrown out for a lack of evidence
or had exceeded the statute of
limitations. Even for those going
to court, he will answer for just
21 total jobs out of 481 turned up
in the investigation by Simeoni's
team: Those before 1992 are too
old to warrant prosecution.
Plus, under onerofthe unusual
aspects of France's legal sys-
tem, the Paris prosecutor, Jean-
Claude Marin, will actually
argue against a conviction.