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James Franco to teach at NYU
James Franco will be
returning to his alma
mater, New York Univer-
sity, next year to teach a
graduate-level course on
directing, according to a
March 25 article in the
Washington Square News.
While the class will like-
ly garner much attention
among students, it will be
limited to an enrollment
of 10 to 12 students, WSU
reported. As part of the
curriculum, students will
examine a Louise Gluck
poem and alter it to make it
suitable for filming.
'James has an amazing
mind. And limitless ener-
CRIME NOTES
gy," John Tintori, chair
of the graduate division
of the Kanbar Institute of
Film and Television said in
the article. "Our students
will be fortunate to learn
from him."
RACIAL SLURS TARGET
OBAMA AT U. OF
KENTUCKY
A University of Ken-
tucky professor found a
sign posted on the door
to a building in the law
school referring to Presi-
dent Barack Obama in a
racial epithet, according to
a March 25 article in The
Huffington Post.
A Kentucky law student
found a similar sign on
the front of a bus shelter"
on March 24, the article
stated.
The Huffington Post
reported that campus
police are investigating
the matter to figure out if
a student created the signs
or a non-University affili-
ate. University of Kentucky
Spokesman Blanton said
in the article that the per-
son responsible could ber
charged with third-degree
criminal mischief.H
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Two students make paper cranes in Mary Markley Residence Hall on Fri-
-SARAHTHOMAS day to support relief efforts in Japan.
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Hot n' bothered It takes three International Visiting authors
A liquor store in Britain
WHERE: West Quadrangle WHERE: Law Quadrangle law lecture presentation is closing after more than
Residence Hall WHEN: Friday at about 394 years in business,
WHEN: Friday at about 3:30 a.m. WHAT: Christine Chinkin, WHAT: Writers Pauline BBC News reported. Bakers
7:30 a.m. WHAT: Officers observed professor of Law at the Kaldas and T.J. Anderson Wine Merchants, which has
WHAT: A student burned three students carrying a London School of Econom- will present their work as been open since 1617, will
himself after a lamp fell person by the Law Quad, ics, will deliver a lecture part of the Zell Visiting close due to a lack of cus-
onto his bed and started University Police reported. on international law called Writers Series. tomers and pressure from a
smouldering, University An ambulance took the "UN Women: Fragmenta- WHO: English Language &
Police reported. The stu- person who was being car- tion or 'Delivering as One?"' Literature - MFA Program national chai called Sains-
dent later put out the flame. ried to the emerency room WHO: Center for Interna- in Creative Writing bury's.
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WHEN: Today at 4 p.m.
WHERE: Hutchins Hall
Hazy evening
WHERE: Mary Markley
Residence Hall
WHEN: Saturday at about
12:15 a.m.
WHAT: Officers found a
student with what is sus-
pected to be marijuana and
a bottle of alcohol, Univer-
sity Police reported. The
alcohol and marijuana were
taken as evidence.
Swim and steal Shaking up
WHERE: Don Canham
Natatorium
WHEN: Friday at about
12:45 p.m.
WHAT: A student found
her personal belongings
missing after she returned
to the weight room, Univer-
sity Police reported. There
are currently no suspects.
Shakespeare
WHAT: The Propeller
Theatre company will give
a presentation on how the
theatre company reinvents
and interprets classic plays
by Shakespeare like "The
Comedy of Errors."
WHO: University of Michi-
gan Museum of Art
WHEN: Tonight at 7 p.m.
WHERE: University of
Michigan Museum of Art
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WHERE: 3222 Angell Hall
CORRECTIONS
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("1000 Voices lobbies
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The Michigan hockey
team secured a spot in
the 2011 Frozen Four
in St. Paul after defeating
Nebraska-Omaha and Colo-
rado College in the West
regional last weekend.
FOR MORE, SEE SPORTSMONDAY
A man who was
attempting to flee the
police in New York had
his leg severed by a Subway
train, The Associated Press
reported. The man's leg
was severed because he had
stepped onto the track in an
effort to escape the police.
International air raids
hit Gadhafi stronghold
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Sirte, Tripoli
bombed as rebels
move toward
takeover of capital ,
RAS LANOUF, Libya (AP) -
International air raids targeted
Moammar Gadhafi's hometown
of Sirte for the first time last
night as rebels quickly closed in
on the regime stronghold, a for-
midable obstacle that must be
overcome for government oppo-
nents to reach the capital Tripoli.
A heavy bombardment of
Tripoli also began after nightfall,
with at least nine loud explosions
and anti-aircraft fire heard, an
Associated Press reporter in the
city said.
Earlier in the day, rebels
regained two key oil complexes
along the coastal highway that
runs from the opposition-held
eastern half of the country
toward Sirte and beyond that, to
the capital. Moving quickly west-
ward, the advance retraced their
steps in the first rebel march
toward the capital. But this
time, the world's most power-
ful air forces have eased the way
by pounding Gadhafi's military
assets for the past week.
Sirte is strategically located
about halfway between the
rebel-held east and the Gadhafi-
controlled west along the Medi-
terranean coast. It is a bastion of
support for Gadhafi that will be
difficult for the rebels to overrun
and the entrances to the city have
reportedly been mined. If the
rebels could somehow overcome
Sirte, momentum for a march on
the capital would skyrocket.i
An AP reporter at the front
said the latest rebel advance dur-
ing the day reached as far west as
the oil port of Ras Lanouf, about
130 miles (210 kilometers) east of
Sirte.
After nightfall, Libyan state
television confirmed air raids
on Sirte and Tripoli. Foreign
journalists who were taken by
the regime to Sirte a few hours
before the bombings began
reported hearing at least six
loud explosions and warplanes
flying overheard. They were
driven around the city and said
it was swarmingwith soldiers on
patrol and armed civilians, many
of them wearinggreen bandanas
that signaled their support for
Gadhafi.
In the contested city of Mis-
rata in western Libya, residents
reported fighting between rebels
and Gadhafi loyalists who fired
from tanks on residential areas.
MUZAFFAR SALMAN/AP
Anti-Syrian government protesters shout slogans as they protest after Friday prayers a in Damascus on March 25, 2011.
Gangs of armeed young
-men roam Syria streets
Supreme Court to take on Wal-Mart
employment discrimination lawsuit
Class action could
involve up to 1.6
million women
WASHINGTON (AP) - Chris-
tine Kwapnoski hasn't done too
badly in nearly 25 years in the
Wal-Mart family, making more
than $60,000 a year in a job she
enjoys most days.
But Kwapnoski says she faced
obstacles at Wal-Mart-owned
Sam's Club stores in both Mis-
souri and California: Men mak-
ing more than women and getting
promoted faster.
She never heard a supervisor
tell a man, as she says one told her,
to "doll up" or "blow the cobwebs
off" her make-up.
Once she got over the fear that
she might be fired, she joined
what has turned into the largest
job discrimination lawsuit ever.
The 46-year-old single mother
of two is one of the named plain-
tiffs in a suit that will be argued
at the Supreme Court tomorrow.
At stake is whether the suit can
go forward as a class action that
could involve 500,000 to 1.6 mil-
lion women, according to varying
estimates, and potentially could
cost the world's largest retailer
billions of dollars.
But the case's potential impor-
tance goes well beyond the Wal-
Mart dispute, as evidenced by
more than two dozen briefs filed
by business interests on Wal-
Mart's side, and civil rights, con-
sumer and union groups on the
other.
The question is crucial to the
viability of discrimination claims,
which become powerful vehi-
cles to force change when they
are presented together, instead
of individually. Class actions
increase pressure on businesses to
settle suits because of the cost of
defending them and the potential
for very large judgments.
Columbia University law pro-
fessor John Coffee said that the
high court could bring a virtual
end to employment discrimina-
tion class actions filed under Title
VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,
depending on how it decides the
Wal-Mart case.
"Litigation brought by indi-
viduals under Title VII is just too
costly," Coffee said. "It's either
class action or nothing."
Illustrating the value of class
actions, Brad Seligman, the Cal-
ifornia-based lawyer who con-
ceived of and filed the suitl10 years
ago, said the average salary for a
woman at Wal-Mart was $13,000,
about $1,100 less than the average
for a man, when the case began.
Reports of security
forces shooting
demonstrators
across the country
LATAKIA, Syria - Gangs
of young men, some armed
with swords and hunting rifles,
roamed yesterday through the
streets of a Syrian seaside city,
closing alleys with barricades
and roughly questioning pass-
ersby in streets scarred by days of
anti-government unrest.
The scenes in Latakia, a Medi-
terranean port once known as
a summmer tourist draw, were
a remarkable display of anar-
chy in what had been one of the
Mideast's most tightly controlled
countries.
Syria has been rocked by
more than a week of demon-
strations that began in the
drought-parched southern
agricultural city of Daraa and
exploded nationwide on Friday,
with security forces opening fire
on demonstrators in at least six
places and killing dozens.
A Damascus-based activist
said residents of an impoverished
hillside neighborhood of the capi-
tal known as Mezah-86 reported
that government forces were
attacking demonstrators there
last night.
The activist said two residents
reported hearing gunfire in the
area as they spoke to him by
phone.
"I heard shouting, screaming,
fighting and shooting," he said.
One of the residents reported
seeing security forces breaking
into the home of at least one per-
son who had attended an anti-
government protest earlier in the
evening, the activist said.
His account could not be inde-
pendently confirmed because
Syria maintains tight restrictions
on journalists and many areas
have become unsafe in recent days.
The government has also tried
to calm the situation with con-
cessions, and President Bashar
Assad is expected to announce
Tuesday that he is lifting a nearly
50-year state of emergency and
moving to annul other harsh
restrictions on civil liberties and
political freedoms.
Member of Parliament
Mohammed Habash told The
Associated Press that lawmakers
discussed the state of emergency
during a night session yester-
day and Assad would make an
announcement about the issue on
Tuesday. He offered no further
details.
Ammar Qurabi, an exile in
Egypt who heads Syria's National
Organization for Human Rights,
said there appeared to be diver-
gent views within the Syrian
leadership, with one branch that
believes in a crackdown and
another that believes in dialogue.
He said Assad must address
the people and show some trans-
parency as quickly as possible.
"People are askingthemselves,
where is he? why doesn't he make
an appearance?" Qurabi said.
"Assad must choose whether
he wants to go the way of the
Moroccan king, who has pledged
to sponsor broad constitutional
reforms, or the Gadhafi way.
Which is it going to be?"
A top adviser to Assad offered
the first hint of reforms in an
announcement Thursday, say-
ing the government had begun
studying change to the emergen-
cy law and other measures. That
pledge did not stop protests from
erupting in cities across Syria the
following day.
Some of the worst violence
appears to have taken place in
Latakia, a coastal city that is a
mix of Sunnis living in its urban
core and members of Assad's
minority Alawite branch of Shiite
Islam in villages on its outskirts,
along with small minorities of
Christians, ethnic Turks and
other groups.
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