Campus

Remembering Lynn Imergoot

Washington University will remember the late athletics staffer Lynn Imergoot in a memorial service on Sunday.

Lynn Imergoot, associate director of intramurals and club sports and former women’s tennis coach, was killed in a car accident outside New York City on July 24. A funeral service took place for Imergoot in Livingston, N.J.

The service will occur at 2 p.m. on Sunday in Graham Chapel. Following the hourlong memorial, a reception will take place in the Women’s Building Formal Lounge. (Kelly Fahy)

National

Apple’s Jobs appears at company event

Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, appeared at the company’s invitation-only event in San Francisco on Wednesday. This was his first appearance at an Apple event since last October, when the new lineup of Macintosh computers was unveiled.  Jobs was under the radar for much of 2009 due to health-related issues.

At the event, Jobs unveiled several new products such as iTunes 9 and upgraded iPods. According to Jobs, the new iTunes store will have a cleaner layout and bigger image display. Apple also introduced the iPhone OS 3.1 for iPhone and iPod Touch users. This new upgrade will allow users to download premade ringtones for $1.29 each.

In addition, a new iPod lineup was unveiled featuring new Nanos with video cameras. Jobs also indicated that the prices of the music players will be cut by $20 to as much as $120.  (Sally Wang)

International

Officials probing fraud in Afghan elections

The Afghan Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) is investigating fraud in the presidential election in Afghanistan.

In the election, President Hamid Karzai received more than half of the votes, meaning that there does not need to be a runoff. Abdullah Abdullah, Karzai’s main opponent, complained that Karzai had manipulated the election. If in the investigations the ECC discounts enough votes that Karzai has less than 50 percent of the votes, there will need to be a runoff.

Voting fraud is already believed to have occurred in more than 600 polling stations out of approximately 25,000. In each station, 600-700 ballots were cast. Attempts of fraud include ballots that were unfolded, miscounted and had uniform markings. (Lauren Olens)

Venezuela recognizes rebel regions of Georgia

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced that Venezuela will join Russia and Nicaragua in recognizing two rebel regions of Georgia in a meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. The regions, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, were recognized as independent states by Russia a year ago, following a war against Georgia over the independence of the territories.

Political experts suggest that Venezuela recognized the regions in order to secure closer relations with Russia. In particular, Venezuela seeks to purchase arms from Russia. During the meeting, Medvedev commented that Russia is committed to “supply[ing] Venezuela with all the weapons that they request.”

Though the three nations have recognized Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent, other countries, including the United States, do not consider the regions independent, according to the Georgian Foreign Ministry. (Kelly Fahy)

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