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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2007
quote of the day
"Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night."
Steve Almond
fact of the day
Candy sales this Halloween are projected to be $2 billion, an increase from about $1.9 billion last year.
National Confectioners Association
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1. University may implement test to assess acquired skills
2. Simmermon: Sexual responsibility necessary
3. Beat generation poet comes to Lawrence
4. Alumnus moves into the big leagues
5. Students hold first corndog eating contest
et cetera
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Professor Lester Mitscher Chemistry Department
BY JASON BAKER
editor@kansan.com
What courses do you teach? I teach courses in herbal medicines, antibiotics and medicinal biochemistry. My duties are becoming a lot less because I'm near retirement.
Where did you go to college? I did my undergraduate and graduate at Wayne State University in Detroit.
Where are you from? I'm from Detroit.
What inspired you to teach? Well, my parents are both immigrants. My dad is Czech-German and my mom is Irish-Canadian. They respected teachers above anyone else. It was a given that I wanted to do it, and they met with no resistance and I love it.
Have you had any funny moments while you were teaching? Well, what we professors find funny, students usually don't find funny. Occasionally students miss spell words that are bizarre to us. One student wrote, "He got a plastic enema," when the correct answer was *aplastic anemia*.
What is your favorite sports team? I would have to say the Jayhawks. I occasionally follow the Tigers, Lions and Redwings.
Are you upset the Rockies lost the World Series? No, I don't care either way. Baseball is one of those sports that is fun to play but boring to watch.
What's the worst job you've had?
I worked midnights at the auto factory when I was an undergraduate. It was scary because most people would lose a finger.
Favorite type of music? I love Mozart. I haven't liked popular music in decades.
What's your ideal weekend?
Well, I work most weekends, but my work lets me travel. I would enjoy traveling.
Where have you traveled to? You
name it, I've been there. All the continents except Antarctica. I've been everywhere.
Do you have any pet peeves? I try to not let peeves interfere with my life. But as a professor, it peeves me when people don't take advantage of opportunities; they just drift through college.
Edited by Elizabeth Cattell
A hungry Hungarian tapir
ASSOCIATED PRESS
A four-day-old male tapir named Gesitzeen stands in his enclosure in the Xantus Janos Zoo of Gyoer, Hungary, as the baby is first shown to the public Monday in Gyoer, 124 kilometers west of Budapest,
Hungary. Gesitzeen means chestnut in Hungarian.
What do you think?
BY VANESSA CUNNINGHAM
AMANDA MILLER
Olathe freshman
"No. It's for kids, and I'm too old to be a part of that."
"I'm going trick-or-treating, most definitely. I've always wanted to be Superman!"
AS A COLLEGE STUDENT THIS YEAR,WOULD YOU CONSIDER GOING TRICK-OR-TREATING?
C. J. HARRIES Wichita sophomore
"No. I would not because I'm too big and too old. I would scare people."
ISAAC ROBERTO Wichita senior
DAVID OWENS
Lenexa junior
Seneca junior
"I'm not going this year, but if I had nothing else to do, then I would. I think that it would be fun."
on campus
The lecture "Putting your Best Facebook Forward!" starts at noon in the International Room in the Kansas Union.
Dan Bernstein, courtesy professor in the department of applied behavioral science, and Andi Witzak, director of the Center for Service Learning, will present the seminar "Making Community Engagement Visible" at noon in 135 Budg Hall.
"Kansas football 8-0 for first time in 98 years."
And pundit Lee Conso still refuses to acknowledge that the University of Kansas exists
Maj, Kevin Thompson, Rob Kurz and 1st Lt. Chuck Bartles will present the lecture "Foreign Military Studies Office, Ft Leavenworth — Background, Mission and Way Ahead" from noon to 1 p.m. in 318 Bailey Hall.
daily KU info
Jasone Grabher will present the seminar "Ducial Duel, Honor and the lus Commune in the Later Middle Ages: A Reassessment" at 3:30 p.m. in the Seminar Room in the Hall Center for the Humanities.
Jerry Austin will lead the "Presidential Politics from the Inside" study group at 4 p.m. at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics.
The Jazz Ensemble I with Chuck Dotas, guest composer, will perform a concert at 7:30 p.m. at the Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St.
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KUinfo
Lane Robins will hold a reading and book signing of her book "Maledicite" at 4:30 p.m. in Oread Books in the Kansas Union.
The Kansas City Symphony will perform a concert at 7 p.m. in the Lied Center. Tickets cost $10.
Because of the early kickoff time of Saturday's football game, the Homecoming Parade will begin on Jayhawk Boulevard at 9:30 a.m. instead of the originally planned time of 10 a.m. Check out Wescoe Beach all week long for other homecoming events. Go Hawks!
Visiting organist and alumnus Wolfgang Reisinger will perform a concert at 7:30 p.m. in the Bales Organ Recital Hall in the Lied Center.
Four cars in the parking lot west of Margaret Amini Scholarship Hall were vandalized Friday, according to the KU Public Safety Office.
Dole Institute of Politics ON KU'S WEST CAMPUS 785.864.4900
According to police reports, a hole was found in the ceiling of a fifth floor women's restroom in Haworth Hall that could have been used to peep through.
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