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Show Monday, March 28,2005 At A Glance News Editor: Heather Hunt-Wood Phone: 626-7655 By Nicholas Gurewitch The Perry Bi simniifl ikere's only oneway io SHOTGUN Monday, March 28 •Voting begins; 8 a.m.; weberstudents.com/elections. •Mar. 28-April 16 - VVSU's Visual Arts Department presents theWSU Annual Student Art Exhibition featuring work from photography, sculpture, drawing, graphic design, illustration, digital media, printmaking, painting, ceramics, textiles, jewelry and small metals; 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Saturday; free. For more information, call 626-6762. Murders, wages draw group to Mexico for spring break Sound dry and intellectual for the week when college students are supposed By Lynn Franey to get a break from bookwork? Knight Ridder Tribune Not to Mehl, a 22-year-old from Lawrence, Kan. "I think it's really important as young Rachel Mehl's done the communitystudents to educate ourselves about service thing for spring break three times: these issues," Mehl said. "But, also, I senior year in high school and freshman would say we're going to have fun, too. and sophomore years at the University of We're a group of nine twenty-something Kansas. kids so we get along and we'll go out and This year, she's taking a spring-break have fun, also. That's the important thing trip that enhances what she has been about doing advocacy work. You keep it learning in her Latin American studies fun. Otherwise, you wouldn't want to do courses. it." She's taking eight other KU students to The idea of going to Ciudad Ciudad Juarez, a poor, sprawling Mexican border town just across from El Paso, Juarez emerged from her work on an Texas. There they hope to learn about the honor's thesis about women's lives as economic, gender, and political issues manifestations of border issues such as surrounding the murders of hundreds of human-rights abuses, labor exploitation girls and young women and the problems and gender inequality. More than 300 girls and young women have been found with the investigations. Crossword ACROSS 1 Grounds 6 Electrical unit 10 Frankenstein feature 14 Kofi of the U N . 15 Fencing foil 16 Kind of stick 17 Unbending 18 Take the train 19 Flagon fillers 20 Prayer enders 21 No matter what happens 23 Moliere's hypocrite 25 Litigate 26 Luau dish 27 Icons 31 Drying powder 35 Delicacy 37 Composer Copland 38 Bright light? 39 Treble-pitched woodwinds 41 Hindu music form 42 Borge's instrument 44 Bound along 45 Feed the hogs 46 Unfamiliar 48 Vegas lead-in 50 Hilo garland 51 City near San Jose 56 Took evasive action 60 Warning signal 61 Capital on a fjord 62 New alum 63 City near Anchorage 64 T h e Good • Earth" wife 1 2 3 see Solutions page 8 4 5 5 7 8 9 10 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 23 31 • 32 12 13 I ••1 26 33 11 2B 29 30 3d 1 38 42 41 144 43 50~ 64 67 65 66 67 68 69 52 53 54 55 57 61 =1 Boot binding Construct Whipped up Beholder Prescribed amounts DOWN 1 Jeweler's weight 2 Jungian soul 3 T h e Odd Couple" neatnik 4 Church honoree 5 Finishes 6 Certain to pass an audit 7 Editorialize Corrections 45 46 56 murdered - many of them disfigured raped, and bearing evidence of torture in the Ciudad Juarez area in the past decade. Most of the murders have gone unsolved. The group left recently for the 900mile drive to El Paso, where they will stay all week. The students are paying for the trip themselves, Mehl said. It costs about $250 per person for food, lodging and transportation. They plan to meet with the assistant to the director of the Mexican Special Commission to Prevent and Eradicate Gender Violence; leaders of Ciudad Juarez's only domestic violence crisis center; and the organization founded by family members of murdered women. They also will meet with labor leaders in El Paso, who will teach them about the wages and working conditions in the border factories, called maquiladoras. The students will tour a maquiladora. "I think a lot of people, including myself, start with community service. That's an easy way to start giving back to your community. Everybody can see that's a good thing/' Mehl said. "I think community service leads to more advocacy work or more political work because it exposes you to the causes of the problems." Letters •2nd Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium & Celebration, featured student's oral, performance, or poster presentations; 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Shepherd Union and Kimball Visual Arts Building; free. For more information, call 626-8541. •Executive debate, featuring all current executive positions for StudentBody President, Executive Vice President, Academic Vice President; 1 p.m.; SUB Fireplace lounge. •Executive Lecture Series features NormTarbox, WSU administrative services vice president; 5:30 p.m.; WSU-Davis Campus, Room 110; free. For more information, call 395-3482. Tuesday, March 29 •Latter-day Saint Student Association weekly devotional, Bruce A. Bowen; 10:30 a.m.; LDS Institute of Religion; free. For more information, call 621-1800. •Gay and Straight Alliance club meeting; 8 p.m.; SUB Junction; free. Weather Monday High: 55' Low: 3 5 ' 162 165 Tuesday 166 8 Mother of Castor and Pollux 9 Itty-bitty 10 Cursor movers on keyboards 11 Drink in a can 12 Has a birthday 13 Ascended 22 Arizona city on the Colorado 24 "Variety" pic 27 Stereotypical elopers'gear 28 Spoken 29 Brand image 30 Brittle cookie 31 Gratuities 32 Mine entrance 33 34 36 40 Regan's father Part of Panama Bill and _ Navy commando 43 SSS status 47 Laugh nervously 49 Drenched 51 Tranquility 52 Olds model 53 Bowling alley assignments 54 Smidgen 55 Overlooks 56 Go fast 57 "La __ Bonita" 58 Delighted 59 Go-withanything color Submissions Please submit to The Signpost offices in person SUB #267 or e-mail natalie@wsusignpost .com or call 626-7974 for more information. High: 5 1 ' Low: 34' Wednesday High: 42' Low: 29' |