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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2007
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"Hmm. Teenagers. They think they know everything. You give them an inch, they swim all over you."
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Spotlight on Organizations
BY JENNIFER TORLINE
jtorline@ku.edu
Flying Club
The sky is the limit for members of the KU Students Flying Club.
The Flying Club is a new organization to the KU community, Victor Jara-Olivares, Vina Del Mar, Chile, graduate student and president, began the club last summer.
"I came up with the idea and sent out an e-mail," Jara-Olivares said. "Even students who were not pilots were interested in the club."
The club focuses on encouraging aviation interest in the KU community, while providing a lower cost per hour to fly. It is open to anyone affiliated with KU and is a nonprofit organization.
"This is our hobby," Jara-Olivares
said. "It's not a business."
To help the organization start smoothly, Jara-Olivares, William Blake, Olathe graduate student and vice president, Cameron Lewis, Olathe graduate student and treasurer, and several other students spent the semester creating a constitution, dealing with insurance costs and performing other introductory responsibilities.
Although it took a lot of work to start the group, the members are excited about the progress the club has made.
"We love to fly," Blake said.
Blake and Jara-Olivares both have their Private Pilot License, PPL. Lewis is in the process of getting his license.
In order to obtain a PPL, a pro
spective pilot must attend ground school, take a knowledge exam and obtain a minimum of 40 hours of total flying time to qualify and request the Federal Aviation Administration, FAA, flight examination.
The expenses can add up. It can often cost $120 to fly an airplane for one hour, plus a $30 instructor fee at local airports. The flying club hopes to reduce the airtime price to $80 when it buys its own airplane next semester. This would help pilots reach their required number of hours at a cheaper rate and would allow members to fly for their own enjoyment.
The club follows all of the FAA rules and is in the process of collecting donations and talking with affiliates through the aerospace engineering program to raise money for the
airplane. The airplane would not be used for commercial purposes or as an alternative source of transportation, but would be used only by the members of the club.
"The club gives the community the opportunity to fly at very low rates," Blake said. "There is no other non-profit flight club around the area that is open to everybody."
The club consists of about 16 members and meets once a month, depending on members' schedules.
For more information or to send donations to the organization, call 785-864-7819 or e-mail Jara-Olivares, Blake or Lewis at kusf@ku.edu. The group's Web site is http://groups.ku.edu/-kusfc.
- Edited by Meghan Murphy
Sunday snow ride
Macev Maronev, 7, of Dubuque, Iowa, enjoys a sled ride at a home along South Grandview Avenue on Sunday in Dubuque, Iowa.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
What do you think? BY ALEX DUFEK
KATIE SACHS
Overland Park freshman
"What my family does is called Bread Bag, and we pick a child, and they write down their age and what they want for Christmas. Then we supply the presents for them, and we've done that for a long time now."
DO YOU PLAN TO GIVE TO ANY HOLIDAY CHARITIES?
"I like to get the tags off the Christmas trees. They list children's Christmas wishes, and you buy the gifts for them."
KAREN COOK
Overland Park senior
GEORGE BRAHLER Lawrence senior
"like to give money to the bell ringers as a reward for their sometimes clever and witty returns."
CHRIS WARD Lawrence junior "My family always adopts a family and gives them gifts each year."
ODD NEWS Cat survives 19 days with head stuck in a jar
BARTLETT, Tenn. — Tabitha Cain fed a feral cat she called Wild Oats for several years, but now she's thinking of changing the feline's name to Survivor.
That's because she said the cat survived for 19 days with a peanut butter jar stuck on its head.
"We tried to get her, but being the type of cat you can't catch, she kept running and hiding," said Doretha Cain, Tabitha's mother.
The family saw the cat several times with the jar on its head and tried in vain to catch it. But after not seeing the cat for a week, the Cains feared the worst
"I thought she was going to die with that jar on her head," Tabitha, 25, said.
They found the once chubby cat on Wednesday, too thin and weak to flee. They caught her with a fishing net and used some oil to get the jar off her head.
They gave her water and treated her wounds. On Friday she began to eat again.
"I've heard of cats having nine lives but I think this one has 19 because she survived 19 days," Doretha said.
Memphis veterinarian Gerald Blackburn said he heard similar stories of pets getting trapped for days or even weeks at a time and surviving. Blackburn said the cat may have lived off of its excess fat.
Husband's wedding band deflects bullet, saves life
JACKSON, Miss. — Donnie Register has a new reason to be thankful he's married — police said his wedding band deflected a bullet and probably saved his life.
Two men walked into Register's shop at The Antique Market on Saturday and asked to see a coin collection, police Sgt. Jeffery Scott, said.
"The bullet managed to go through two of his fingers without severing the bone;" said his wife, Darlene Register. "A part of the bullet broke off and is in his middle finger. The other part is in his neck, lodged in the muscle tissue. But it's not life-threatening."
She said she gave God all of the credit.
Police were searching for the robbers, who Scott said "stole a substantial amount of cash."
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