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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2005
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 3P
ON CAMPUS
The Beijing Modern Dance Company is performing at 7:30 tonight at the Lied Center. Tickets range from $11.50 to $28 and can be purchased at the Lied Center Box Office. Student Union Activities is selling a limited number of student tickets for $7 at the SUA box office on level four of the Kansas Union.
"Saturday Night Live" comedians KenanThompson and Seth Meyers are performing at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the Lied Center. Tickets can be purchased at the SUA box office, level four of the Kansas Union, at $10 for students and $15 for the public.
Patrick Wilbur, vice chairman of the Kansas Libertarian Party, is speaking at 6 p.m. Monday in the International Room of the Kansas Union.
HURRICANE WILMA
KU senior Jes Cook and Lawrence resident Laura Ramberg are playing host to "Our Kids and the Juvenile Justice System: A Public Dialogue" on Monday at the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. They will show the film "System Failure," a documentary on the juvenile justice system, followed by a discussion.
Wfredo Lee/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Community Blood Center is hosting a blood drive from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Community Blood Center, 1410 Kasold Drive. Army troops will be on hand in armored vehicles. Donors will receive raffle tickets for prizes, including T-shirts and autographed Chiefs memorabilia.
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A message spray-painted on the boarded-up windows of an insurance company is shown on Thursday in Port Charlotte, Fla., as the area prepares for the possible arrival of Hurricane Wilma. Wilma's march toward Florida slowed somewhat Thursday, giving residents an unexpected extra day to make preparations.
Florida prepares for impact
BY WILL WEISSERT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CANCUN, Mexico — Tourists packed Cancun's airport and shuttled from luxury hotels to spartan emergency shelters Thursday, desperately trying to escape Hurricane Wilma as its outer bands battered the resort's white-sand beaches. Cuba evacuated more than 200,000 people.
The storm had strengthened slightly, and forecasters said it could regain Category 5-strength winds of 156 mph or more.
Wilma, a Category 4 storm with winds of 150 mph, churned toward the Yucatan peninsula and south Florida after its outer bands hit Haiti and Jamaica, where it killed at least 13 people. The storm was expected to strike Cancun and its surrounding resorts and sideswipe Cuba early Friday.
Briefly the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record, Wilma was a potentially catastrophic Category 5 storm before weakening. Its 150 mph winds made it more powerful than Hurricane Katrina when it plowed into the Gulf coast of the United States on Aug. 29, killing more than 1,200 people.
Cancun, a city of some 500,000 people, by early Friday.
"This is getting very powerful, very threatening," Mexican President Vicente Fox said earlier.
Forecasters said Wilma likely would make a sharp right turn toward Florida, where Gov. Jeb Bush declared a state of emergency, after getting caught in the westerlies, the strong wind current that generally blows toward the east. It is expected to make landfall in Florida on Sunday.
said Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
"At least for the next couple of days here, we think we're going to have a very powerful hurricane here in the Caribbean,"
Hundreds of schools in the Yucatan peninsula were ordered closed Thursday and Friday,and many were turned into shelters. Airlines started canceling flights.
At 5 p.m. EDT, the storm's wobbly center was roughly 135 miles southeast of Cozumel, a popular vacation island, the hurricane center said. Its forecast track would carry it directly to
At the Cancun airport, hundreds of tourists waited for flights or sought rental cars, taxis or ATMs.
ON THE RECORD
A 20-year-old KU student reported to Lawrence police a theft of a $350 Rockford Fosgate Stereo and a $450 JL amplifier from a vehicle between 3 a.m. and 1 p.m. Oct. 4 at the 1400 block of West Seventh Street.
♦ A 23-year-old KU student reported to Lawrence police a theft of a $250 Schwinn bicycle and a $15 cable lock between 10 a.m. Sept. 30 and 4:40 p.m. Oct. 4 from the 600 block of Michigan Street.
A 20-year-old KU student reported to Lawrence police a theft of a $150 JVC stereo between 11:30 p.m. Sept. 27 and 11 a.m. Sept. 28 from the 500 block of Fireside Road.
♦ A 20-year-old KU student reported to Lawrence police a theft of a $150 Mongoose bicycle and a $15 cable lock between 2 and 7:30 a.m. Oct. 3 from the 1400 block of West Seventh Street.
CAMPUS
Museum to announce evolution exhibition
The Natural History Museum will hold a news conference previewing a new multimedia exhibit on evolution Oct. 25 at 11 a.m.
The press conference will be held in the museum on the fifth floor of Dyche Hall.
The exhibit allows visitors the opportunity to see how research on evolution is conducted.
The knowledge of seven different areas, from cells to whales, will illustrate how evolution is key to future advances in science and medicine.
Rvan Schneider
It is funded by a $2.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation and will be on display for two years.
The University is one of only six in the nation that will feature the exhibition.
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