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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 2008
quote of the day
"I think they should have a Barbie with a buzz cut."
Ellen DeGeneres
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—about.com
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
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Protest for peace
Lisa Lipovac/KANSAN
On Saturday morning, Bill Dickinson, Lawrence, joins other protesters by the Douglas County Courthouse. From noon until 1 p.m., every Saturday since September 2002, the Douglas County Coalition for Peace and Justice has protested the war in Iraq. "We don't see many students down here," Dickinson said, "because I think they are afraid of the war and the possibility of a draft."
FUNERAL
Ledger ceremony remains a secret
BY TOM HAYS ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK _ Details about funeral arrangements for actor Heath Ledger remained secret as his body was taken from a Manhattan funeral home.
Ledger's publicist, Mara Buxbaum, said Friday the arrangements "will continue to be kept private at the family's request."
Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said his government would do whatever was needed to help the family bring back the 28-year-old Ledger's body to Australia.
His body was moved from the police-barricaded funeral home amid a swarm of cameras and reporters at about 4 p.m. Friday. Meanwhile, police insisted they have no interest in interviewing actress Mary-Kate Olsen, who was the first person a massuse called after finding an unresponsive Ledger in a Manhattan apartment Tuesday.
In her first comment since the Australian-born actor's death, Olsen issued a statement that read: "Heath was a friend. His death is a tragic loss. My thoughts are with his family during this very difficult time."
Police said the masseuse who found Ledger's body spent nine minutes making three calls to the "Full House" actress before dialing 911 for help, then called Olsen a fourth time after paramedics arrived.
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The word "bitch" written in black ink was reported stolen to Lawrence police. It was valued at $50.
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Anyone can reserve Danforth Chapel. Charges are $50.00 for students and $150.00 for all others. There are some exceptions on cost. Check out www danforthku.edu for details.
The seminar New Staff Orientation will begin at 8 a.m. in room 204 of JRP.
KU Libraries Instructional Services will present SoftChalk Lesson Builder at 10 a.m. in room 6 of Budig hall.
At 3 p.m. KU Libraries instructional Services will present the workshop Overview of U.S. Government Resources in KU Libraries in the Anschutz Library Instruction Center.
Majid Hannoum will present the Lecture, "North Africa as a Geopolitical Entity, or How North Africa is Africa" at 3:30p. m. in the International Room of the Kansas Union.
Chuck Owens will present the lecture KU Department of Design Hallmark Design Symposium at 6 p.m. in 3140 Wesco Hall.
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Meet your Student Senator with Matthew Shaw
If you were to ask Matthew Shaw where he grew up, you would here a long list of places. Shaw describes himself as a military kid, him and his family have lived in places in the U.S. from Chicago, Mobile, Ala., Shawnee and Overland Park to more recently living overseas in Heidelberg, Germany. "Since my dad works for the military I lived in Germany for eight years, so I've been all over Europe." Shaw explains, "I love to visit the town where I went to high school called Heidelberg. I would highly recommend going there if you ever get the chance"
The sophomore is an Economic and German major and is currently the Freshman-Sophomore College
of Liberal Arts & Science Senator. He became involved in politics by chance his junior year of high school. "I bumped into a friend at the beginning of lunch who happened to be heading to a student government meeting toward the end of the year. Since I had nothing else to do I tagged along, and during that meeting they happened to give out the information on running for class president. I decided to give it a shot, and from then on I was hooked," says Shaw. He won and became the Senior Class President, when he came to KU his freshman year, he was an Associate Senator then this year he became the CLAS Senator.
Shaw has a lot of ideas when
it comes to the way the campus is run. One of them is having a system implemented for teachers to text students when class is cancelled, "E-mail works most of the time, but as the confusion of last semesters final showed, it isn't always quick or convenient enough!"
Another idea has to do with the deferred maintenance on campus, which Shaw strongly sees as an issue. "Almost all of the buildings on the main campus show serious signs of wear and tear, and every day that the money is not found to fix them, the problems grow exponentially worse." Says Shaw.
When Shaw isn't sitting in class or senate meetings, he enjoys juggling.
He says he learned to juggle when he was in junior high and every now and then takes it up again. When asked what was the most memorable thing he had done so far in college,
Shaw said. "Stop day eve of last year's spring semester, I ramped bikes off a flaming ramp into Potters Lake. That was pretty memorable!"
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