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 Volume 124 Issue 135
kansan.com
Monday, April 16, 2012
the student voice since 1904
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
A ctts, uss statd twis, © 2012 T Uivsity Daiy Kasa
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Sa cac  sws
It’s t ast day t dp  witdaw  casssat t ista’s ic.
IndexDon’tforgetToday’s Weather
Where did spring go?
HI: 65LO: 44
Students host powwowin Robinson Gym
Check outthis semeste’south and fnalapatment guide
inside
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The KUnited coalition wonthe presidential and vice presi-dential election and 53 of 54senator seats after last week’selections, shutting out opposingcoalition SPQR from StudentSenate next year, according tounofficial elections results.The only non-KUnited seat— a graduate studies senatorposition — was awarded toindependent candidate ThomasRingenberg. There was no can-didate for the School of SocialWelfare’s two senator seats.The Kansan ran a front pagestory Friday stating SPQR wontwo freshman/sophomore sen-ate seats in the College of LiberalArts and Sciences. However,further vote tallies show thatSPQR did not win any senateseats.Voter turnout took a divefrom last year with only 8 per-cent of students casting theirballot.Last year, KUnited andopposing coalition RenewKUboth ran strong campaigns thatended with an increased voterpresence: 21 percent of the stu-dent body. That was up 9 per-centage points from the 2010elections.The campaigns for last week’selections were a different story.KUnited spent more than $6,000on campaign efforts, whileSPQR spent $15, according tothe coalitions’ mid-electionsexpense reports.SPQR faced a serious viola-tion of the Student Senate elec-tions code during a hearing onApril 11 for obscuring KUnited’schalking. Members of the coali-tion were ordered to clean up allchalking by 10 a.m. April 12, orthe elections commission wouldinvalidate any seats awarded tothe coalition.Many of SPQR’s chalking wasfound rubbed away Thursday morning, but some messagesstill remained. Elections com-mission chairman Keith Adamssaid that SPQR did enoughcleaning to stay in the elec-tions.The two coalitions’ finalactivity and expense reports aredue Monday at 5 p.m. The elec-tions commission is expected toofficially validate the electionsresults on Wednesday.
— Edited by Christine Curtin 
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vshanker@kansan.com 
eleCTIon
Senate LIneup
Turn to page 3 for a full list of the senators elected for next year.
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restless Charity
Comedian brings laughs to ‘Gaypril’ 
CAmPUS
Coming out to your parents,turning the tables on potentialkidnappers and being mistakenfor a guy; no topic was off limitsfor comedian Fortune Feimster,who performed Saturday night aspart of Queers and Allies’ Gayprilcelebration.Feimster was a semi-finaliston NBC’s “Last Comic Standing”in 2010. She now works as a full-time writerand performerfor “ChelseaLately,” come-dian ChelseaHandler’s latenight show.It wasFeimster’s firstGaypril perfor-mance, and shesaid she wasexcited to be apart of some-thing that promoted acceptance.“When I was in college, thereweren’t many people who wereout, so to have a group and eventsthat put on these sort of things isreally cool,” Feimster said. “I wishI had had it when I was in college,because maybe I would have comeout of the closet back then.”Nathan Stitt, a senior fromClay Center and media coordi-nator for Queers and Allies saidthe organization tries to choose abalance between educational andentertaining events.Stitt said that Feimster was agreat choice for Gaypril becauseshe is outspoken and successful,despite the fact that lesbian come-dians are underrepresented in theentertainmentindustry.MeganDomnanish,a first year law student fromTopeka, saidthe show wasextremely enter-taining,“I watch‘Chelsea Lately’every night, soI was excited toget to see Fortune in person,”Domnanish said.Before her show, the comedianate dinner with students at Mrs.E’s and explored MassachusettsStreet, but it was the Lawrenceweather that made the biggestimpression on Feimster.“We’re going to go into thebasement together,” she said.“We’re going to hunker down andhug each other, because I don’tknow how to deal with tornadoes.You’re going to be like ‘Fortunewas supposed to be funny and she just cried the whole time.’”Feimster performed a 45-min-ute routine that explored every-thing from adjusting to life inLos Angeles after being raisedin North Carolina to posing as aHooters waitress. Feimster alsoincluded in her performance animpromptu tap dance and rendi-tion of the Ying Yang Twin’s song“Get Low.” After her stand-up,she took questions from the audi-ence, many of which were aboutworking at “Chelsea Lately” andworking with her famously snarky boss, Chelsea Handler.“She’s so cool to work with,”Feimster said. “People see thisrough exterior on the air whenshe’s making fun of people, butshe’s the coolest boss ever.”
— Edited by Caroline Kraft 
ashleigh lee/kansan
Cdia Ftu Fist ps a stadup uti i hasi ha Satudayvi as pat  Qus ad Ais’s gaypi i-up. Fist as appad nBC’s “last Cic Stadi” w s fisd as a si-faist ad is aswit ad p e! ntwk’s “Csa laty”.
kelsey Cipolla
kcipolla@kansan.com 
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Fortune Feimster excited to help celebrate accecptance 
For 12 hours Friday nightand early Saturday morning,students struggled to stay awake for a good cause.Friday was the University’sRelay for Life, an all nightfundraiser for the AmericanCancer Society. So far, par-ticipants have raised $28,500,but fundraising will continuethroughout the rest of the year“It was such a powerfulevent,” said Jacquelyn Pedigo, agraduate student from Wichita.“I love the metaphor of stayingup all night and being so tiredbut fighting through it.”Pedigo has participated inRelay for Life since it first cameto the University in 2003. Overthe years, she has raised around$1,000 to help fund researchfor an illness that took the livesof her aunt and two grandpar-ents. Raising the money andwalking in Relay makes her feellike she’s making a difference,Pedigo said.“Every little bit counts, butthe more people that partici-pate and the more times youdo it, the bigger the differenceit makes,” she said.Jana Schwartz, a freshmanfrom Topeka, got involved inRelay for the first time this yearafter hearing that many of herfriends wanted to get involved.“It’s fun because you’reraising money, but you also getto really see what you’re raisingmoney for, and everyone is herefor the same thing,” Schwartzsaid.Although one person fromeach time is suppose to be onthe track at all times, Schwartzsaid her team, “Save SecondBase,” didn’t work out a sched-ule in advance for who wouldwalk at certain times. They didcome prepared with blankets,computers and a deck of play-ing cards to keep themselvesentertained during the longnight.Bre Kirkhart, the chairof Relay and a junior fromWichita, said that althoughfundraising efforts brought in$28,500, Relay is still shy of the$40,000 goal.“We have a long way to go,but we can at least get closer toit,” Kirkhart said. She said rais-ing $35,000 might be a morerealistic target.Upcoming fundraisers forRelay include country night atthe Ranch on April 21 anda percentage night at On theBorder, April 24. Donationsare also still being acceptedthrough the organization’swebsite.The University’s Relay isn’tthe only opportunity to getinvolved with Relay For Lifein Lawrence. Douglas County organizes it’s own relay, whichwill be at Free State HighSchool June 6 at 7 p.m.
— Edited by Pat Strathman 
kelsey Cipolla
kcipolla@kansan.com 
tara Bryant/kansan
Asy DSad, a si  Pc lak, Pa., ivs Cac Badtt gay-litt iati  w t dtct basttus Fiday vi at t ray  li vt.
tara Bryant/kansan
Cac suvivs, w w spcia pup sits, tak t scd ap  t ray  li wak wit ti aiy bs adcaivs Fiday vi at t Ab Studt rcati Fitss Ct. m ta 400 studts ad cuity bspaticipatd i t vt.
Tas wak  twv us tais y  cac sac
““W I was i c,t w’t ay ppw w ut, s t av aup ad vts tat put ts st  tis isay c.”
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Tuesday
Time to open the windows.
Mstly sunny with ahigh near 69. Nrth-west winds arund5 t 10 mph becmesuth winds.
Wednesday
Rays on rays on rays.
HI: 69LO: 55
Mostly sunny with a highnear 75. Skies will becomepartly cloudy at night with alow around 54 and a smallchance of thunderstorms.
Thursday
Hey, no tornadoes.
HI: 75LO: 54
Forecaster: Shawn Milrad, Jack McEnaney and Sasha Glanville,KU Atmospheric Science
 Wht’s the
PoLICE REPoRTS
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calEndar
what:
Last day t drp/withdraw
wheRe:
Registrar’s ofce, Strng Hall
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All Day
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It’s the last day r students t drpclasses r ully withdraw rm the Uni-versity; visit registrar.ku.edu t see whatprcess yu need t g thrugh t drp.
Monday, April 16Tuesday, April 17Wednesday, April 18Thursday, April 19
what:
Lecture: “The Rle  Writing in aMultimedia Wrld”
wheRe:
Aldersn Auditrium, Kansas Unin
wheN:
4 p.m.
aBoUt:
KU assciate pressr Dug Ward,wh was the awarded the 2011-12 BudigTeaching Pressrship  Writing, speaks tstudents abut the changing ace  jur-nalism; a receptin will llw until 6 p.m.
what:
Lecture: “Paris’s Water Shrtages,1880-1914”
wheRe:
Parlrs, Kansas Unin
wheN:
4 p.m.
aBoUt:
University  oklahma assistantpressr Peter Sppelsa gives a lecturen negtiating urban nature and Paris’sexperience with water shrtages.
what:
Just in Time Career Fair
wheRe:
Kansas Unin
wheN:
12 p.m.
aBoUt:
The Schl  Business hstsa career air; check KU Career Cn-nectins t see what cmpanies willbe there.
what:
Runners Clinic
wheRe:
Watkins Memrial HealthCenter
wheN:
1 p.m.
aBoUt:
Bring yur tennis shes andrunning shrts, and get ready t havea pressinal analyze yur runningand walking rm. Call Watkins treserve yur spt.
what:
Lecture: “Syria in Turmil”
wheRe:
Dle Institute  Plitics
wheN:
3 p.m.
aBoUt:
Dr. Radwan Ziadeh tells stu-dents abut his frst-hand experiencein dcumenting the Syrian uprising.
what:
Earth Day Burger Grill-o
wheRe:
Hawks Nest, Kansas Unin
wheN:
1 p.m.
aBoUt:
Are yu a grill-master? SUAhsts a day r students t cmpetewith their wn burger recipes.
what:
Meeting: Learned EngineerExpansin Prject
wheRe:
Spahr Engineering Class-rm, Eatn Hall
wheN:
4 p.m.
aBoUt:
Engineering students cancme weigh in n the M2SEC buildingging up in the engineering cmplex.
what:
Cncert: KU Jazz Singers andKU Jazz Cmb
wheRe:
Lawrence Arts Center,dwntwn
wheN:
7:30 p.m.
aBoUt:
The KU Schl  Music hstsa cllabrative night  jazz band andchir; tickets are ree.
what:
KU Peace Crps Send
wheRe:
Jayhawk Rm, Kansas Unin
wheN:
7 p.m.
aBoUt:
A ceremny r the University’s PeaceCrps applicants, nminees and invitees;students lking t jin the Peace Crps cancme speak with Peace Crps alums.
what:
University Dance Cmpany SpringPerrmance
wheRe:
Lied Center
wheN:
7:30 p.m.
aBoUt:
The University Dance Cmpanyhsts its spring perrmance, eaturingchregraphy by guest chregrapherCarl Fink rm Black Label Mvement.
what:
Lecture: “Why Presidents Succeed.Why They Fail.”
wheRe:
Dle Institute  Plitics
wheN:
7:30 p.m.
aBoUt:
 Jhn Andrews and Lee Huebnergives a lecture n why President RichardNixn’s presidency ended the way it did.
Inrmin bsd n Duls cuny Sri’s oind KU oi  publi Sybkin rs.
A 24-year-ld Cincinnati, ohiman was arrested Sunday at 3:15a.m. n the 100 blck  IndianAvenue n suspicin  peratingunder the inluence. Bnd was setat $500. He was released.A 25-year-ld Lawrence man wasarrested Sunday at 1:06 a.m. n the1000 blck  Massachusetts Streetn suspicin  being intxicatedin the radway. Bnd was set at$100. He was released.A 26-year-ld male Universitystudent was arrested Sunday at12:56 a.m. n the 2500 blck Crnish Square n suspicin criminal damage t prperty lessthan $1,000. Bnd was set at $250.He was released.A 22-year-ld male Universitystudent was arrested Saturday at9:01 p.m. n the 800 blck  nrthSixth Street n suspicin  perat-ing under the inluence. Bnd wasset at $500. He was released.A 32-year-ld ottawa man wasarrested Saturday at 8:10 p.m. nthe intersectin  Eighth Streetand Kasld Drive n suspicin criminal damage t prperty lessthan $1,000. Bnd was set at $250.He was released.A 22-year-ld Lawrence man wasarrested Saturday at 4:45 p.m. nthe 3600 blck  east 25th Streetn suspicin  dmestic batteryand making a criminal threat. Bndwas set at $5,000. He was released.A 21-year-ld Lawrence wmanwas arrested Saturday at 2:38 p.m.n the 1300 blck  east 25thTerrace n suspicin  criminaldamage t prperty less than$1,000. Bnd was set at $250. Shewas released.A 19-year-ld male Universitystudent was arrested Saturday at9:14 a.m. n the 1800 blck Naismith Drive n suspicin  bur-glary t a nn-dwelling and thet prperty and services less than$1,000. Bnd was set at $3,000. Hewas released.A 19-year ld male Universitystudent was arrested Saturday at5:35 a.m. n the 1800 blck Naismith Drive n suspicin  bur-glary t a dwelling, thet  prpertyand services less than $1,000 andpssessin  a suspended akedriver’s license. Bnd was set at$3,250. He was released.The oice  Public Saetyreprted an incident  burglary,breaking and entering and psses-sin  anther persn’s driver’slicense n Saturday at 2:54 a.m. atMemrial Stadium. Smene triedt steal chairs valued at $400 rmthe stadium. The case was clearedby arrest.
— Rachel Salyer 
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CARTAGENA, Colombia— In his most specific pledgeyet to U.S. Hispanics, PresidentBarack Obama said Saturday hewould seek to tackle immigra-tion policy in the first year of asecond term. But he cautionedthat he would need an amenableCongress to succeed.“This is something I caredeeply about,” he told Univision.“It’s personal to me.”Obama said in the televisioninterview that he would work on immigration this year, butsaid he can’t get support fromRepublicans in Congress.Obama also tried to painthis Republican presidentialchallenger, Mitt Romney, asan extremist on immigration,saying that Romney supportslaws that would potentially allow for people to be stoppedand asked for citizenshippapers based on an assump-tion that they are illegal.“So what we need is a changeeither of Congress or we needRepublicans to change theirmind, and I think this has to bean important debate during —throughout the country,” Obamasaid.Romney aides have said thatthe former Massachusetts gov-ernor supports laws that wouldrequire employers to verify thelegal status of workers they employ.“President Obama only talksabout immigration reformwhen he’s seeking votes,” saidRomney spokeswoman AndreaSaul. “Then-candidate Obamapromised to tackle immigrationreform in his first year. Morethan three years into his term,America is still waiting for hisimmigration plan.”Hispanics are an increasingly important voting bloc in presi-dential elections. Obama won asizable majority of the Hispanic vote in the 2008 election and hiscampaign is hoping for similarresults this November.
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President Barack obama participates in a three-way cnversatin with Brazil’s President Dilma Russe and Clmbia’sPresident Juan Manuel Sants at the CEo Summit  the Americas, in Cartagena, Clmbia, Saturday. Reginal businessleaders are meeting parallel t the sixth Summit  the Americas which brings tgether presidents and prime ministersrm Canada, the Caribbean, Latin America and the U.S.
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CARTAGENA, Colombia
—Could this weekend’s gathering oabout 30 Western Hemisphere leadersbe the last Summit o the Americas?The question hung in the air as theleaders convened Sunday or a privatemorning retreat.Washington, backed by Canada,was standing ast against widespreaddemands to include in the meeting’snal declaration language speciyingthat Cuba be included in uture hemi-spheric summits.“All the countries here in LatinAmerican and the Caribbean wantCuba to be present. But the UnitedStates won’t accept,” President EvoMorales o Bolivia told reporters lateSaturday. “It’s like a dictatorship.”Morales and other letist leaders havebeen insistent that this weekend’s meet-ing in this Caribbean colonial port will bethe last regional summit under Organiza-tion o American States auspices unlessCuba is invited in the uture.The top international adviser to Bra-zilian President Dilma Rousse, MarcoAurelio Garcia, said the dierences couldmean the summit will end with no naldeclaration.U.S. President Barack Obama’s peerslectured him Saturday over his unfag-ging opposition to Cuban participationdue to U.S. objections to the communist-governed Caribbean island’s lack o de-mocracy.The oreign ministers o Venezuela,Argentina and Uruguay have said theirpresidents won’t sign any declarationunless the U.S. and Canada remove theirveto o uture Cuban participation.The Cuba issue led Ecuadorean Presi-dent Raael Correa to boycott the sum-mit, and Nicaragua’s letist PresidentDaniel Ortega also sat out the meeting.
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NEwS Of ThE wORLD
SOUTh AMERICA
Nations disagree on Cuba joining Summit o the Americas 
— Associated Press 
AfRICA
Five people die ater Sudanese planes drop bombs on town 
ASIA
Taliban militants raid prison and ree about 400 prisoners 
ASIA
Kim Jong Un stresses military might in frst public address 
PYONGYANG, Nort Korea
—North Korea’s new leader addressed hisnation and the world or the rst timeSunday, vowing to place top priorityon his impoverished country’s military,which promptly unveiled a new long-range missile.Kim Jong Un’s speech took North Ko-reans gathered at Kim Il Sung Squareand around televisions across thecountry by surprise. His ather, lateleader Kim Jong Il, addressed the publiconly once in his lietime.Punctuating Kim’s message that theNorth will continue to pour unds intoits military, the parade culminatedwith the unveiling o a new long-rangemissile, though it’s not clear how pow-erul or signicant the addition to theNorth Korean arsenal is. Some analystssuggested it might have been a dummydesigned to dupe outside observers.Kim’s address was seen by analystsas an expression o condence by theyoung leader and meant to show that heis rmly in control.“Superiority in military technology isno longer monopolized by imperialists,and the era o enemies using atomicbombs to threaten and blackmail us isorever over,” Kim said.His message suggested no signi-cant changes in national policy — the“Military First” strategy has long beenat the center o North Korea’s decision-making process.Kim said he will strengthen North Ko-rea’s deenses by placing the country’s“rst, second and third” priorities onmilitary might. But he said he is opento working with oreign countries that donot have hostile policies toward his na-tion, and said he would strive to reuniyKorea.He also stressed the importance onational unity, calling his country “Kim IlSung’s Korea” rather than North Korea.
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Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s new leader and late leader Kim Jon Il’s son, addressedthe world or the rst time on Sunday. He stressed military strength and unity.
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President Barack Obama, right, speaks with his Chilean counterpart SebastianPinera at the sixth Summit o the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, Sunday.
DERA ISMAIL KhAN,Pakistan
— Taliban militantsarmed with automatic weapons androcket-propelled grenades battledtheir way into a prison in northwestPakistan on Sunday, reeing closeto 400 prisoners, including at least20 described by police as “verydangerous” insurgents, authoritiesand the militants said.The raid by more than 100 ght-ers was a dramatic display o thestrength o the insurgency grippingthe nuclear-armed country. The es-caped prisoners may now rejoin theght, giving momentum and a propa-ganda boost to a movement that haskilled thousands o Pakistani ocialsand ordinary citizens since 2007.The attackers stormed the prisonbeore dawn in the city o Bannu inKhyber Pakhtunkhwa province close tothe Aghan border, said police ocerShaque Khan. They used explosivesand hand grenades to knock down themain gates and two walls, said Bannuprison superintendent Zahid Khan.“They were carrying modern andheavy weapons,” said Zahid Khan.“They red rockets.”Once inside the building, the at-tackers headed straight to the area othe prison where death-row prisonerswere being kept, he said. They oughtwith guards or around two hours, set-ting part o the prison on re beorereeing the 380 inmates, includingat least 20 “very dangerous Talibanmilitants,” said Shaque.The militants coordinated witheach other using radio handsets asthey reed their colleagues in dier-ent parts o the prison, said one othe prisoners who did not escape,Amanullah Khan.
RUBKONA, Sout Sudan —
Su-danese planes bombarded a disputedoil town near South Sudan’s border onSaturday, a southern military ocialsaid, and a doctor said bombs aimedat strategic sites in South Sudan’sUnity State killed ve people.Col. Philip Aguer said Saturday thatvillages near the disputed oil town oHeglig ell under heavy aerial bom-bardment and that he expected groundghting to resume “anytime” soon.Troops rom South Sudan onWednesday captured the oil-rich bor-der town that is claimed by Sudan.Aguer said southern orces did notplan to give up the town, which liesalong the ill-dened border betweenthe two Sudans.Aguer could not say how many sol-diers had been killed on either side.He said at least 19 South Sudanesesoldiers and 240 Sudanese troops hadbeen killed since the recent resumptiono hostilities.Heglig has been the ocal pointo more than two weeks o clashesbetween the two nations. Both sidesclaim the area, but Sudan operatesHeglig’s oil acilities, which accountor nearly hal o the country’s dailyproduction.The U.N. Security Council demandedthe withdrawal o South Sudan’s mili-tary orces rom Heglig and an end toaerial bombing by Sudan o South Su-dan. It also urged Sudanese PresidentOmar al-Bashir and Kiir to hold a sum-mit to resolve their conficts.In Unity State, Bentiu Hospital medi-cal director Peter Gatkuoth said bombskilled our civilians and a soldier Sat-urday. Jets released six bombs.Fighting erupted in between Sudanand South Sudan May o last year, justmonths beore South Sudan ormallydeclared independence rom Sudan.
CULTURE
Dressed in traditional Na-tive American clothing of feath-ered head dresses, colorful danceshawls and decorated moccasins,more than 50 dancers performedto beating drums in front of atleast 400 people at the 24th an-nual KU Powwow on Sunday af-ternoon.Te powwow, sponsored by First Nation Student Association,(FNSA) was held at the RobinsonCenter gymnasium and was post-poned from Saturday evening dueto inclement weather. Troughsinging and dancing, Natives andnon-Natives alike celebrated Na-tive American culture.“Te powwow creates a big op-portunity for people on campusto come and experience NativeAmerican culture,” Samantha Wi-ese, a senior from Sussex, N.J., andpresident of FNSA, said.More than 20 tribes were repre-sented at the powwow, includingthe Omaha, Lakota, Pueblo andWiese’s tribe, the Huron-Wyan-dot.“It’s always great to share yourNative culture with other people,”Wiese said.Brian Horsewhitaker, a dancerwho performed at the event, wasglad to be able to dance one lasttime before heading overseas formilitary service. Horsewhitakerpreferred the smaller dances, andhe performed a grass dance as partof the powwow.“Te Natives at the college comefrom all over, so it’s a good way forthem to come together and feel athome,” Horsewhitaker said.rudy Curley, a junior fromGallup, N.M., and member of the Navajo tribe, volunteered atthe event as part of the AmericanIndian Science and EngineeringSociety (AISES). Curley, who hasattended powwows for her wholelife ,enjoys the community aspectof the event.“I know a lot of people and it’snice to connect the AISES mem-bers to their heritage and cul-ture,” Curley said. “I like the mu-sic, dancing and mingling withfriends and family.”
— Edited by Christine Curtin 
Powwow honors Native Americans’ heritage 
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Kiowa Cozad (red) leads his group, the Cozad Singers, in a traditional Native song and drum beat. The 24th Annual KU Powwow was held by theFirst Nation Student Association Saturday aternoon in Robinson Gymnasium. The event celebrated dierent Natvive Cultures in Lawrence.
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