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Show DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE Monday, February 11, 2008 Man fatally shot at party near U Police are investigating the death of a 26-yearold male shot at a social gathering near the U. The shooting occurred at a housing complex on 369 S. 1300 East around 1:20 a.m. on Sunday morning, police said. The victim was identified as Robert Ramirez. He was taken to the U Hospital, but later died from his injuries. Police have little information about the case, which remains under investigation. "We have no suspect information, no vehicles, no people. All we know is that it happened at some sort of party. We don't know anything else other than that," said Lt. Dave Hoffman with the Salt Lake City Police Department. "Our detectives are working hard on the case. We have 15 to 20 witnesses, but little information." Adam Lenkowski, a senior in mass commu- tir&fL Y j/osi Students, facuCty & staff receive 20% discount nication and meteorology, lives next door to where the shooting happened. He said he was at the party earlier in the night, but left after a fight started. "I left and came back over to my house. I thought everything was cool," Lenkowski said. "Then I saw the police and a body being carried away," Lenkowski said he recognized some U students at the party, but that there were also a mix of older people. He said he also knows the girl who lives in the house where the party happened, and that "she's pretty messed up" after the shooting. Officers are encouraging people with information to call the police department at 801-799-3000. Ana Breton BENNION EWELERS Loose Diamond Headquarters f: sfiecirtusfc STAFF WRITER Photojournalists and directors Molly Bingham and Steve Connors spent 10 months in the Baghdad neighborhood of Adhamiya shortly after the fall of the city, interviewing Iraqi insurgents in an attempt to find out why some of them wanted to kill Americans. What they found was that Iraqis involved infightingcoalition forces were merely doing what any patriotic American would do: defending their homeland, even if that meant killing people from the United States. Their experiences are captured in the new film "Meeting Resistance," which was screened to a full house at the OSH Auditorium on Friday. Bingham, who was once a prisoner in Abu Ghraib, and Connors were in attendance during the screening, and afterward talked about the film that tries to dispel the myth that the Iraqi insurgency consists of outside fighters and religious fanatics. See FILM Page 4 Pacific Islanders connect with roots in conference Clayton Norlen Pacific Initiatives Program for the American West Center. "We need their support to Taukave Lauti has always do this work. You can't do a respected his Tongan culture conference on Pacific Islandbut said he values his culture ers without Pacific Islanders more after learning more there." about Tongan history and Ka'ili said a major goal of the contemporary issues impact- conference was to raise awareing Pacific Islanders. ness about Pacific Islander Lauti attended the U's Pa- scholarship and research from cific Worlds and the Ameri- across the nation while highcan West conference held last lighting the work Utahns are doing to support the state's weekend. "(This conference) has been Pacific Islander population. a big help to better under- Utah has the largest populastand culture, and there are tion of Pacific Islanders in the a lot of people who have be- American mainland. come Americanized and need Although Pacific Islanders to know their culture," said are often the subject of reLauti, an undeclared fresh- search, Ka'ili said, the conferman. "The real Polynesian ence wasn't about the work culture is working together outsiders have done but rather and helping each other, and Pacific Islanders talking about that's here." themselves. More than 70 presenters "What I hope students take from around the United States from this is seeing Pacific Isand Pacific regions spoke lander scholars represented in about topics such education, higher education," Ka'ili said. identity, religion and cultural "The topics are both contemtraditions. There were also porary and historical, and you four keynote addresses from don't get that in the K-12 eduprominent scholars in Pacific cation system, so I hope stuIslander studies. The confer- dents take what they can from ence was attended by more (the conference)." than 300 community memJacob Fitisemanu, a recent bers, students and teachers graduate from Westminster from across the state who College, presented his refilled panel discussions and search on Samoan Ava (or lectures at the Officers Club Kava) Ceremonies in Salt Lake last weekend. County and how cultural dif"I was hoping the com- fusion has changed these cusmunity could come and see toms in the American West. what we are doing here," said Fitisemanu said the specific Anapesi Ka'ili, director of the practice of these ceremonies STAFF WRITER fl 15 minute call could saue you 15% on your car insurance. 1513 N. Hillfield Rd., Suite 3 (801)298-9336 GEICO has changed, but they are still an expression of identity and a way for participants to feel connected to their ancestors. Topics such as how indigenous minority groups are represented in school curriculum were also discussed during the conference. Panel presenters focused on the importance of students having a strong understanding of their past and the positive impacts that a strong identity can have on their overall educational experience. Panelists said students in Hawaii have been successful in classes where Hawaiian language and history is taught. "This (conference) has been a place for us to come together and create a community," said Caroline Falepapalangi, a sophomore in business administration. "It's very important to learn about our backgrounds, because whatever we learn here we give back to our community to uplift them." c.norlen@chronicle.utah.edu www.BennionjeweCers.com 107 5. Main SaCt Lake City 801.3643667 vorjvo Film dispels Iraq myths Andrew Cone p $ 23 595 - '269 ! 22 945^269 I FOR fafa,/ IVFOR llV/l 13.2 LUXURY SEDAN euv FOR $ S $ 28 945 329 II 35995 379 $ fcw,# I^FOR mm #MQNTHS||FOR mm^m m m^m. PER I MONTH I FOR 2-41 MONTHS! mm #1 LUnSP* 8 ^ 36945 399 PER MOfJTH FOR 24 MONTHS Ken Garff I! 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