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March 25, 2003

WAR IN IRAQ

Continued resistance

slows invasion of Iraq resurface duri

Soldiers of lst
Brigade. IOIst
Airborne Divi-
‘ slon, mourn
the loss of
Capt. Christo-

0ne cost of war: President Bush to ask Congress
for $75 billion to fund war, humanitarian efforts

ASSOCIATED PRESS

U.S.-led warplanes and helicopters attacked Republi-
can Guard units defending Baghdad on Monday while
ground troops advanced to within 50 miles of the Iraqi
capital. White House aides said a down payment on war.
related costs would come to $75 billion.

Five days into Operation Iraqi Freedom, ﬁerce resis-
tance prevented American and British forces from secur-
ing the southern cities of Basra and An Nasiriyah and
thwarted efforts to extinguish burning oil wells.

Iraq claimed custody, as well, of two American pilots
after a helicopter went down, in addition to a handful of
POWs taken over the weekend.

“These things are never easy,” British Prime Minister
Tony Blair conwded Monday, the day his country suffered
its ﬁrst combat casualty of the war. “There will be some
difﬁcult times ahead but (the war) is going to plan despite
the tragedies.”

Saddam sought to rally his own country in a televised
appearance. “Be patient, brothers, because God’s victory
will be ours soon,” he said, seeming more composed than
in a taped appearance broadcast last week.

Despite Saddam’s deﬁant pose, a military barracks in
the northern part of the country was bombed, and Bagh-
dad fell under renewed air attack by day and by night.
Iraqis set up mortar positions south of the city and piled
sandbags around government buildings and other strate
gic lomtions, in evident anticipation of a battle to come.

“Coalition forces are closing in on Baghdad,” Maj.
Gen. Stanley McChrystal told reporters at the Pentagon.

He said 118. Apache helicopters attacked Saddam’s Re-
publican Guard forces arrayed around Baghdad, while an-
other omcial, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a
“large portion” of the day’s bombing runs were dedicated
to hitting the same units.

Asked about ground forces, McChrystal said, “We
have not gotten into direct ﬁreﬁghts with Republican
Guard forces.”

That seemed a matter of not much time, though.

The Army’s 3rd Infantry Division was within 50 miles
of the capital, battling sandstorms more than Iraqi ﬁne as
it neared the approaches to Baghdad.

The advance of long columns of thousands of vehi-

See MAR on 2

UK free speech issues
rig war

Linguistics sophomore Meagan
Gibson laughs as she talks with
Pat Cooper, a women's studies
professor at UK. Gibson, Cooper
and others. have been meeting
every Monday at ":30 In front
of the Patterson Office Tower,
from where they walk around
campus until 12:30 protesting
the war. “We think of It as a
stroll for peace," Cooper said.
Behind Gibson and Cooper are
natural resources and manage-
ment sophomores Ben Luckett
and Ben Abel and women's stud-
ies senior Sara Searcy.

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Test: Administrators say expanded free speech area
will apply to non-disruptive war demonstrations

ByBenFain

STAFF WRITER

Every Monday. a group
gathers with signs in hand at
the Patterson Ofﬁce Tower
plaza and walks around cam-
pus, hoping for peace.

The walk, formed in Jan-
uary, is so informal it does not
even have a name. One of the

walkers. Patricia Cooper. an
associate professor of history
and women‘s studies. calls it a
walk around campus for
peace.

But a walk like this prob-
ably wouldn‘t have been al-
lowed on UK's campus just
two years ago. said Tony Blan-
ton. associate dean of stu-
dents.

Since President Lee Todd
arrived at UK. administrators
have relaxed how they en-
force the free speech policy,
which outlines where demon-
strations. meetings or assem-
blies can take place.

Now. groups like Coopers
have found a broader outlet
for expressing their views.
Groups have been allowed to
hand out ﬂiers on many areas
of campus. and last spring. an
organization set up a graphic
anti-abortion display in front

of the Classroom Building.

Still. Todd sent out an e-
mail to the entire UK commu-
nity last Thursday reminding
everyone of the free speech
policy

“While we continue to
vigorously support all consti-
tutional guarantees, it is im-
portant to remember that the
University has a designated
free speech area and demon-
strations are subject to time,

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International students still feel safe

Quiet: No incidents of violence or harassment have been reported on campus

By Derek Poore
STAFF WRITER

Despite the growing ten-
sions between the United
States and other countries
brought about the war, many
international students said
they haven‘t experienced ha-
rassment due to the conﬂict.

No reports of incidents
or complaints from students
regarding the war have been
made. said Doug Boyd. the
director of the Office of In-
ternational Affairs.

Many students said they
don‘t feel in danger.

“I feel pretty safe at UK."
said Rebecca Breisteim. a
student from Bergen. Nor-

way who has been at UK for
three months.

But the medical labora-
tory science senior added
that she has changed her at-
titude regarding travel. “I
don‘t like to go into big cities
now,” Breisteim said.

To help safeguard inter-
national students and profes-
sors. President Lee Todd sent
an e-mail last Thursday urg-
ing students to treat interna-
tional students and profes-
sors as they normally would.

“Given the upsurge in
patriotism that is likely to
occur. we must guard against
a tendency to ostracize for-
eign nationals in our corn-
munity.“ Todd wrote.

After the Sept. 11 at-
tacks. four students and a
staff member were harassed
on campus.

Many understand the
possibility of danger.

“There might be some
negative moods against in.
ternational students. espe-
cially those coming from the
Middle East." said Petya
Dimitrova. a public policy
and administration graduate
student from Bulgaria.

The screening processes
in public facilities since
Sept. 11 has caused some
problems for foreign people.
said Latisha-Leigh Seerat-

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we must
guard against
a tendency to

ostracize
foreign
nationals in
our

community.”

— Lee Todd,
UK president

Fliers offend other SG candidates

”Ml-3W"

STAFF WITER

A new candidate has
emerged in the race for Stu-
dent Government president
— but some in 80 say Chris
Perkins’ posters announcing
candidacy are more of an of-
fensive prank than a serious
bid for the ofﬁce.

The posters appeared on
campus sometime yesterday
or Sunday. SG rules state that
candidates may not post ﬂiers
until SG election ofﬁcials
have approved and stamped
the posters. The elections will
be held April 2 and 3.

SG ofﬁcials and other
candidates said they did not
know Chris Perkins and were
not sure whether the individ-

ual actually exists. The UK
Registrar‘s ofﬁce said there
were “several" registered stu-
dents named Chris Perkins,
but could not provide any fur-
ther information on them.
The UK directory has no list-
ings for a Chris Perkins.

Kellen Baker. chairman
of the SG elections board of
supervision. said he had ﬁled
a claim against Perkins for vi-
olating the rule prohibiting
the posting of ﬂiers. Should
Perkins be elected. he could
be ﬁned or the election results
challenged on the basis of the
claim.

Some other candidates
for the election said they had
been offended on seeing
Perkins' ﬂiers. and said they
did not take the new candi-

date seriously.

“I think it‘s just someone
that‘s trying to mock the over-
all integrity of the SG elec-
tions.“ said presidential can-
didate Kyle Jewell regarding
one of the ﬂiers.

The ﬂier stated: “I can‘t
change the alcohol policy. I
can‘t solve parking problems.
I can’t make classes shorter.
But I can add this to my re»
sume. Help my career out
vote for Chris Perkins.“

Among the messages on
posters were “SC is for suck-
ers. Even monkeys can vote."

David Hutchinson. also a
candidate for president. said
he didn't appreciate the
poster's ﬂippant attitude to-
ward SG. “1 think that any-
body using an SG ofﬁce for

their own future advance-
ment is not running for the
right reasons." he said.

Candidate Rachel Watts
said she had been offended by
some of the posters. but she
wasn‘t taking it seriously.
"Obviously it‘s a person with
a sense of humor. but I ﬁnd it
hard to believe it‘s a real per-
son."

Candidate Matt Falk said
that anyone. who wouldn't
bother collecting the 1.000 sig-
natures needed to get on the
ballot is “obviously not pre-
pared to take on a role in SC."

He said he thought there
were more signiﬁcant issues
on the table at [K than what
was stated on the ﬂyers. such
as the proposed fee for drop-
ping classes.

I think it’s just someone trying to mock the overall integrity of the
SG elections.”

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cles was aided by heayy air
protection that Wiped out a
coliitiiii of Iraqi armor at one
point and sent some of Sad-
dam's outer defenses with
draw ing toward the capital.
Aides to President Bush
said he would ask Congress
for $7.3 billion. Of that. 862.6
billion would be iii direct war
costs for 30 days of combat.
The request was also expected
to include tip to St billion to
guard against terrorist
threats. as well as aid to Is—
rael. Afghanistan and other
US allies. a down payment on
hmnanitarian aid for Iraq and
for rebuilding the country.

SPEECH

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place and manner restric-
tions." Todd wrote.

But administrators say
demonstrations during
wartime will be handled just
the same # as long as they
are peaceful and appropriate.

“We're an institution
everybody should have the
right to share ideas as long as
it's in a prudent manner."
said Victor Hazard. dean of
students. “Free speech is a
very important component of
what we do.“

Blanton said UK insists
on peaceful demonstrations
whether the country is at war
or not.

“Emotions are high on
both sides during war. but
there's always a concern that
any demonstration could get
out of hand." Blanton said.
“The preacher outside the
Student Center has just as
much potential to cause trou-
ble as a student group.“

Right now. the Universi~
ty's Administrative Regula-
.tion restricts free speech to

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Spokesman Ari Fleischer
said the president expressed
concern about reports that
Russia was selling anti-tank
guided missiles. jamming de-
yices and night yision goggles
to Baghdad.

Iraqi television showed
pictures of one American he»
licopter III a field and men
brandishing automatic rifles
as they did a victory dance
around the aircraft. Later.
Iraqi teleyision showed two
men it said made up the ciew.

"We have a two-man crew
missing." confirmed Gen.
Tommy Franks. the US. war
commander But he denied re—
ports that the craft was shot
down by farmers. and that
two choppers had been lost.

Franks said 3.000 Iraqi

the Student Center patio and
the grassy area behind it.
Free speech is allowed on
most areas of campus as long
as a group receives permis-
sion.

However in summer
2002. several administrators
and students gathered to re-
vise regulations and draw up
a new policy: The new policy.
if passed. will allow most
parts of campus -~ with ex-
ceptions like Chandler Med-
ical Center 7» to become free
speech areas. It will also al-
low chalking on designated
areas by reservation with the
office of the Director of the
Student Center. Blanton said.

The proposed revision
was sent to the provost in fall
2002 and. if approved by the
provost. will be sent to Presi—
dent Todd. who approves ad-
ministration regulations.

The proposed revision
pleases professors such as
Cooper.

“As long as people aren't
interrupting the life of the
university. I think free
speech should be guaranteed
anywhere." Cooper said.

Ernest Yanarella, 21 polit-
ical science professor. was in-
volved in a demonstration on

prisoners had been taken.
Pentagon spokeswoman
Torie (‘lark accused Iraqis of
violating the rules of war by
misusing white flags of sur-
render and other deceptions.
In London. the Ministry
of Defense announced the
first British combat death. a
soldier who fell in ﬁghting
near Az Zubayr in southern
Iraq. near the city of Basra.
Two other British troops
were missing after their con
voy was hit by continuing re-
sistzmce in southern Iraq.
Basra. Iraq's second
largest city. provided evi-
dence of that. as Iraqis bat-
tled British forces on the out
skirts of town. Commanders
held off storming the city.
hoping its Iraqi defenders
would give up. biit they have

held firm.

the then-potential war with
Iraq a couple of weeks ago.
He sees the current free
speech area as too far out of
the way to serve its purpose
— to get people‘s attention.

“It seems that the admin-
istration intentionally chose
that area to condone the pos-
sibility of loud demonstra-
tions." Yanarella said. “The
logical place for free speech
is in the quadrangle of the
Patterson Office Tower and
the Administration
Building."

Yanarella said that the
quadrangle would be ideal
because it would draw the at—
tention of university admin-
istrators. which is the intent
of many demonstrations.

While Cooper and her
fellow peace walkers go be-
yond the designated free
speech area. Cooper said
they are silent and do not dis-
turb campus life.

This Monday, the group's
ﬁrst meeting since the Unit-
ed States entered into war
with Iraq “was more somber
knowing there has been a
loss of life: we‘re really wor-
ried about the welfare of our
troops." Cooper said.

The bombing in the north
was carried out on a military
barracks near the line sepa-
rating lraqi—held territory
from the Kurdish-held region

"People are evacuating.
but not because of the bomb-
ing. They are afraid Saddam
will respond with chemical
weapons." said Ahmad
Qafoor. a school teacher.

There was no evidence of
that as of yet. But military
commanders said American
forces were still evaluating a
plant capttued by US. troops,
and pursuing leads from cap~
tured Iraqis.

At the United Nations.
Secretary General Koﬁ An—
nan warned of a humanitari-
an crisis in Basra and said
“urgent measures“ were
needed to restore electricity
and water supplies.

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tan. who is originally from
Trinidad and Tobago.

Seerattan. an architec-
ture junior. said that she
was recently pulled in a ran-
dom security check at the
airport. Two Americans
near her were also pulled.
but in her mind it was not a
random process. she said.

“In my opinion. they
pulled those Americans to
make it feel like they were
pulling randomly“

German student Markus
Kessler. who has been fol-
lowing the war with Ger-
man newspapers on the In
ternet. said he disagrees
with people being critical of
other nationalities.

“Sometimes I‘ve turned
on CNN and seen them mak-
ing fun of France and Ger-
many." said Kessler. a gradu-
ate student studying man-
agement information sys—
tems. “I think it's not right
to criticize them just for
having a different opinion."
he said.

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mosphere designed around a
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An 18-year tradition, the
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the Cosmopolitan Club. Both
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