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LEFT Protesters gather on the
Diag Tuesday to raise aware-
ness of the recent outbreak
of viol nce toward peaceful
demonstrations in Venezuela.
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UPPER RIGHT Students
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Classical Sword & Water Sleeve
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League Monday. (LUJNA ANNA
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Trailer review
BY DREW MARON
The new "Guardians of
the Galaxy" trailer from
Marvel is irresistably enjoy-
able, conjuring nostalgia for
the childhood pleasures of
comics and fantasy. The add
should give fans optimism
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WHAT: Come out for
a rhythmic throwdown
staged by the most
innovative beat makers on
campus. Professor Bruce
Conforth will speak as well.
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Student Affairs
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to 7 p.m.
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Mother India
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Nine elderly men were
arrested in southwest
Germany due to their
alleged service as Nazi
guards during World War
II, the Associated Press
reported. German officials
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Amid the recent events
surrounding University
kicker Brendan Gibbons,
teammate Taylor Lewan
spoke publicly on the topic
for the first time and denied
his involvement. He was
originally alleged to have
intimidated the 2009 sexual
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The singer-songwriter hails
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sound.
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Though Michigan was
unseasonably cold in
January, Earth actually
recorded its fourth-warmest
January on record, Mashable
reported. The warm
temperatures continue a
29-year run of above average
global temperatures.

Venezuelan government
dispatches additional troops

Border areas have
been particularly
active in protest
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP)
- The Venezuelan military
planned to send additional
troops to a border region where
unrest has been particularly
fierce, officials said Thursday, as
the government faced growing
criticism for its heavy-handed
attempt to subdue a protest
movement with nighttime
sweeps that have turned
many parts of the country into
dangerous free-fire zones.
Interior Minister Miguel
Rodriguez Torres said a
battalion of paratroopers would
be dispatched to the state of
Tachira, on the western border
with Colombia, where protesters
have clashed with police and
National Guard units, bringing
the capital city, San Cristobal, to

a halt.
"These units will, enable the
city to function, so food can get
in, so people can go about their
normal lives," Rodriguez said.
"It's simply meant to restore
order."
Members of the opposition
have charged that the
government of President Nicolas
Maduro is leaning too heavily
on the military as well as police
and civilian militias to squash
opposition to his socialist
government.
San Cristobal Vice Mayor
Sergio Vergara, a member of the
opposition, said the government
had already cut off vital services,
including public transportation
and the Internet, to crack down
on what had been peaceful
protests against a government
of a country that is rich in oil but
struggling with inflation above
56 percent and one of the highest
homicide rates in the world.
The presence of some 3,000

H ,-,

troops in a city of 600,000,
Vergara said, is "effectively part
of an effort at repression being
played out by the government
across the country."
Violence has been escalating
across Venezuela since a Feb. 12
opposition rally that turned vio-
lent and left three people dead.
Since then, there have been at
least three more deaths as well
as dozens of injuries and arrests.
Police, National Guard troops
and members of private militias
have swarmed through streets
in the capital and elsewhere
firing volleys, at times indis-
criminately, in repeated spasms
of nighttime violence in recent
days.
Henrique Capriles, the two-
time presidential candidate of
an opposition coalition, said
the government has engaged
in "brutal repression" as it goes
after students and other protest-
ers, in some cases breaking into
apartment buildings to arrest
those it accuses of taking part
in an attempted coup.
"What does the
government want, a civil
war?" Capriles asked at a
news conference.
David Smolansky, an
opposition mayor of a district
in Caracas, saidthe countryis
passing through the harshest
wave of political persecution
in decades with the response
to the protests and the
jailing of opposition leader
Leopoldo Lopez. "If this isn't
a totalitarian system then I
don't know what can explain
what is happening in this
country," Smolansky said.
While several large
demonstrations by thousands
of people have been peaceful,
smaller groups of protesters
have lobbed gas bombs and
rocks and blocked streets
with flaming barricades of
trash. Troops and police
have responded with tear
gas, rubber bullets and blasts
from water cannons - as
well as raids by gun-firing
men on motorcycle.

Newly passed Arizona bill
a setback for gay rights
Business owners stitutional protections and civil ways to counter the increasing
rights. legality of gay marriage.
allowed to refuse Opponents raised . scenarios Arizona's voters approved a
in which gay people in Arizona ban on same-sex marriage as a
service due to could be denied service at a state constitutional amendment
b fs restaurant or refused medical in 2008. It's one of 29 states with
religiousbele treatment if a business owner such prohibitions, according to
thought homosexuality was not the National Conference of State
PHOENIX (AP) - The Arizona in accordance with his religion. Legislatures. Federal judges have
Legislature gave final approval One lawmaker held up a sign that recently struck down bans in
Thursday evening to legislation read "NO GAYS ALLOWED" in Utah, Oklahoma and Virginia,
that allows business owners arguing what could happen if the but those decisions are under
asserting their religious beliefs law took effect, drawing a rebuke appeal.
to refuse service to gays, drawing for violating rules that bar signs Republican Sen. Steve
backlash from Democrats who on the House floor. Yarbrough called his proposal a
called the proposal "state- Democrats also said there First Amendment issue during
sanctioned discrimination" and were a host of other scenarios the Senate debate.
an embarrassment. not involving sexual orientations "This bill is not about allowing
The 33-27 vote by the where someone could raise discrimination," Yarbrough said.
House sends the legislation to their religious beliefs as a "This bill is about preventing dis-
Republican Gov. Jan Brewer and discrimination defense. crimination against people who
puts Arizona back at the forefront The bill is backed by the Center are clearly living out their faith."
of a polarizing piece of legislation for Arizona Policy, a social Democrats say it is an outright
four years after the state enacted conservative group that opposes attack on the rights of gays and
an immigration crackdown that abortion and gay marriage. The lesbians that will reverberate
caused a national furor. group says the proposal is needed through the economy because
Similar religious protection to protect against increasingly businesses and tourists will
legislation has been introduced activist federal courts and simply avoid Arizona like they did after
in Ohio, Mississippi, Idaho, clarifies existing state law. the passage SB1070 in 2010 that
South Dakota, Tennessee and "We see a growing hostility cracked down on immigration.
Oklahoma, but Arizona's plan is toward religion," said Josh "This bill is about going after
the only one that has passed. The Kredit, legal counsel for the the rights of the LGBT com-
efforts are stalled in Idaho, Ohio group. munity in Arizona," said Rep.
and Kansas. All but three Republicans in Chad Campbell, the Democratic
Republicans stressed that the the House backed Senate Bill minority leader. "This is going to
bill is about protecting religious 1062 Thursday evening. All three be horrible for our economy."
freedom and not discrimination. House Republicans who broke But Republicans said it was
They frequently cited the case of ranks said they had problems simply an added protection for
a New Mexico photographer who with the proposal, though none the faithful in the state who dis-
was sued after refusing to take elaborated at length. approve of gay marriage and want
wedding pictures of a gay couple "I disagree with the bill," said to be able to reject participating.
and said Arizona needs a law to Rep. Ethan Orr. "I think it's a bad "Please, I will accept you
protect people in the state from bill." because you are a child of God, I
heavy-handed actions by courts The two others were Reps. love you because you are a child
and law enforcement. Heather Carter and Kate Brophy of God," said GOP Rep. Steve
The bill allows any business, McGee. Montenegro. "But please don't
church or person to cite the law The Senate passed the bill a ask me to go against my religious
as a defense in any action brought day earlier on a straight party- beliefs."
by the government or individual line vote of 17-13. The bill is similar to a proposal
claiming discrimination. It also Brewer doesn't comment last year brought by Yarbrough
allows the business or person on pending legislation, but she but vetoed by Brewer. That leg-
to seek an injunction once they vetoed a similar measure last islation also would have allowed
show their actions are based on year. That action, however, came people or religious groups to sue
a sincere religious belief and during an unrelated political if they believed they might be
the claim places a burden on the standoff, and it's not clear wheth- subject to a government regula-
exercise of their religion. er she would support or reject tion that infringed on their reli-
The legislation prompted a this plan. gious rights. Yarbrough stripped
heated debate on the floor of the The legislation comes also a provision from the bill in hopes
House, touching on issues such as an increasing number of Brewer will embrace the new ver-
as the religious freedom, con- conservative states grapple with sion.

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