Fridav. March 5. 1999
The University Daily Kansan
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Bank robbery actor witnesses real holdup
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Life imitated art, or maybe vice versa, when a man held up a bank where a TV actor was preparing to portray a thief robbing the same bank.
According to the newspaper Jyllands Posten, the actor showed up at the bank Tuesday about 10 minutes before the rest of the crew to reconstruct a robbery that had taken place there a week earlier for a television crime show.
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the robbery was a prank, but when he understood it was the real thing he paid close attention for some tips.
Criminal Inspector Uwe Petersen, who was supposed to supervise the reconstruction, arrived a few minutes after the real bank robber had left with $20,000.
The newspaper quoted him as saying that the robber sounded like the same man who had held up the bank for $19,000 Feb. 25.
OXFORD, Ohio — Miami University officials think there's just too much of G. Roger Davis showing.
The music professor says the school violated his constitutional rights by forbidding him to wear a thong at the campus swimming pool.
Miami professor sues school for swimsuit
G. Roger Davis sued the university's board of trustees Monday, asking U.S. District Judge Herman Weber to order the school to let him wear the swimsuits of his choice.
He is seeking unspecified compensatory damages, plus attorney fees.
Davis was joined in the lawsuit by the Naturist Action Committee Inc., an Oshkosh, Wis., group that promotes "clothes-optional lifestyles."
Davis said he began wearing his thong in the fall of 1996 during his regular workouts at Miami's Recreational Sports Center pool. The following October, school administration banned the skimpy suit.
He said the administration revoked his paid membership
at the center in December. Davis claims the dress code wasn't publicly posted.
University administrators hadn't seen the lawsuit Tuesday and could not discuss it, said school spokeswoman Holly Wissing.
Free wedding offer not gaining support
DAVENPORT, Iowa — The Rev. Bill Van Patten seems to have an offer few couples can refuse: Have your wedding and reception here — on us.
The First Church of the Nazareene is offering a free wedding service in a decorated church and a nice luncheon of ham sandwiches. It's also throwing in a free video of the event and a disposable camera to capture the nuptials.
Trouble is, no one has taken the church up on its offer.
"I thought it would go over like hot cakes," said Van Patten, pastor of the First Church. He was hoping to attract couples who might like a church wedding but couldn't afford it.
First Church began promoting the free offer several weeks ago in newspapers, on a radio station and by word of mouth.
There are two requirements: The wedding date must be set for March 14, and interested couples would have to meet with the pastor beforehand to talk about what to expect in marriage.
"I've had no calls," Van Patten said Tuesday. "I had other people call for friends and thought it would be neat."
Students reproduce sound of Liberty Bell
The offer expires this week
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — The Liberty Bell has rung again sort of.
Students at Pennsylvania State University have managed to replicate the sound of the
Liberty Roll's
Liberty Bell's original peal a tone not heard since the famous b e l l cracked 153 years ago.
Professor
Gary
Koop-
mann
Engineering 597 students last spring to duplicate the sound of the bell on a computer by crunching complicated mathematical formulas and tinkering with digital models.
They started with some basic information. The bell weighs 2,080 pounds, is made of copper and tin and has a 3-inch thick lip. And they know what the bell was designed to sound like a melding of G-sharp, E-flat, F-sharp, B-flat and E-flat.
Koopmann's class is called Designing Quiet Structures, where students learn to use computers to make everything from fans to refrigerators sound better.
Months later, Koopmann sat before a boombox hooked up to a laptop. "Here's the Liberty Bell," he said as a heavy gong sounded.
Then again, who could prove them wrong?
"See, the thing is, no one's ever heard it," Koopmann said last month. "So we can just say, 'This is what is sounds like.'"
Attendance rewards for students illegal
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. There won't be a payoff for punctuality any more at Slipery Rock High School.The law simply got in the way.
The school board Monday ended a program that rewards students for good attendance with gi cates worth up to $50
attendance with gift certificates worth up to $500.
The seven-member panel that launched the program to combat the unusually high rate of absentees may have unwittingly broken the law, said the school district's attorney, Tom King.
The panel also acted separately from the school board in spending state money, another violation, King said. Only the board can spend such money.
Students with perfect attendance were eligible to enter drawings for $50, $200 or $500 gift certificates that could be spent on prom tickets, yearbooks, class rings, gas stations or at restaurants and stores.
"No matter how well-conceived your ideas were, we can't allow it to happen," board president Dan Duryea said. "We have to do things in a legal manner."
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