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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2008
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You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to the computer when you want to turn your brain on.
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Three injured in shooting at Last Call this weekend
Three people were left injured after a Sunday shooting a downtown Lawrence club.
According to an Associated Press story, Lawrence police were investigating a shooting that occurred about 3 a.m. in front of the Last Call, 7th and New Hampshire streets.
According to the AP, police said a man was thrown out of the club, went to a nearby parking lot and began firing shots into a crowd of people.
The man left the scene in a small dark-colored vehicle that was driven by another person.
According to the AP, people were fighting in front of the club when police arrived.
Police did not release the conditions of the three victims, but two were club employees. According
The suspect was described as a black male, approximately 5-foot-7, 140 to 150 pounds, and possibly wearing a black coat.
to the AP, one of the victims, a 15-year-old male from Topeka, was shot in the foot.
This is not the first incident at Last Call. In November 2007, several patrons were thrown out of the Last Call, and started a gunfight on Interstate 435 in Kansas City. One person was killed, and three others injured.
Last Call had since opened on weekends as a bring-your-own-alcohol establishment.
A similar event to one in November 2007, occurred in January on Kansas Highway 10.
No one was hurt, but two arrests were made.
Rustin Dodd
ODD NEWS Presidents Day gets hairy this year in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA — It might be the strangest way to spend Presidents Day.
For the first time, The Academy of Natural Sciences is displaying a scrapbook that has locks of hair from the first 12 U.S. presidents. It will on be view Feb. 16-18.
the presidential "hair album" was assembled by Peter Arvell Browne, a Philadelphia attorney and scholar of the natural sciences who collected thousands of samples of animal fur and human hair in the 1840s and 1850s and organized them in a dozen leather bound volumes.
Browne also wrote to presidents still living during his lifetime — 1762-1860—and to the families of those who had died. His letters and their responses are included in the book along with the strands of hair.
His requests for hair weren't considered odd, as saving a loved one's locks in a family "hair album" was popular in the 19th century.
and delicate contents, it will be displayed under glass and opened only to the page featuring George Washington's brown-and-gray locks. Photographs will be shown of the other presidents' hair, from John Adams to Zachary Taylor.
Thomas Jefferson's hair was reddish with gray when he died and James Monroe had dark curls.
in his first letter to Brown, Andrew Jackson's son apologized that he could not immediately send a lock from the seventh president, noting that his father recently had a "close cut" that would take a fortnight to grow out.
Because of the scrapbook's age
"There's something very human and touching about it," longtime academy curator Robert Peck said of the collection. "It gives you a sense of who they were as people."
Browne also acquired hair samples from Napoleon Bonaparte, Daniel Webster, many Pennsylvania governors, signers of the Declaration of Independence and other political figures.
Man enters guilty plea requests time in prison
ADRIAN, Mich. — Ask and you shall receive in Lenawee County Circuit Court.
A man who pleaded guilty to unarmed robbery faced no more than a year in the county jail but asked to be sent to prison instead to help his chances of rehabilitation.
Michael Thomas Isaacson got what he wanted on Thursday when a judge sentenced him to 17 months to 15 years in state prison, with a recommendation for a psychological evaluation and counseling.
Isaascon told Judge Timothy P. Pickard he believes programs available in state prisons will help him "get back on my feet," while a year in the county jail would leave his situation the same as when he was arrested.
Isaacson was caught minutes after robbing a movie theater employee, who was carrying a bank deposit bag. Isaacson said he had no gun during the robbery.
"He chose the cinema because he used to work at the cinema. He knows the victim. He perceived it as a low-risk crime," jameson said.
Jameson said Isaacson does not understand why he committed the robbery.
KFC chicken in run to be named official picnic food
Defense lawyer Robert
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Animals rights advocates are squawking at a measure that would make fried chicken Kentucky's official picnic food.
State Rep. Charles Siler is sponsoring legislation to assign the designation to KFC's "finger lickin' good" chicken, first served by Colonel Harland Sanders in 1940.
The late colonel's fried chicken deserves the title because of the worldwide attention and economic benefit it has brought to the state, Siler said.
Associated Press
STUDENT SENATE Web site displays more senator information
Student Senate's updated Web site went live last week.
Roderick Patton, deputy communications director for Senate, updated the site because he said the old site didn't fulfill the goals of transparency.
The new site has biographies of the executive staff, lists bills passed or failed at meetings, lists all committees, has a senator contact list and has a Senate calendar for the month.
There is also a list of tutors listed on the site. Tutors are listed for many concentrations, and pricing and contact information is available.
The site also has Senate's budget posted, which shows how much money each student group that is funded by Senate receives. The $377.75 in fees students pay every semester is divided into categories and shows where each portion of money goes.
The goal of the site's update is to make information more accessible to students.
"Just like any other web site, it's about outreach and communication," said Hannah Love, student body president.
Brenna Hawley
CORRECTIONS
In Friday's edition of The Kansan, the cutline of the "Battle of the guards" story misspelled the name of Baylor's junior guard Curtis Jerrells.
In Friday's edition of The Kansan, the article "Swimming team maintains winning streak" misspelled the name of Danielle Herrmann, the swimming and diving team's junior co-captain.
ENTERTAINMENT Winehouse, West clean up at Grammy awards
LOS ANGELES — Amy Winehouse may have been physically absent from the Grammy awards on Sunday, but her presence was strong as the famously troubled singer won four awards, including song of the year for her autobiographical hit "Rehab."
Kanye West, who had a leading eight nominations, also won four awards: best rap album for "Graduation," best solo performance for "Stronger," best rap song for "Good Life" and best rap performance by a duo or group for his collaboration with Common on "Southside."
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