The weekend's weather
Tomorrow: Sleet and snow
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Kansan Happy Kansas Day
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Januray 29,1999
Section:
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Vol. 109 • No. 83
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
WWW.KANSAN.COM
To see a photo campus this week visit the UDKi.
http://www.
kansan.com/
tracks
To see a photo gallery of
(USPS 650-640)
This week's list is devoted to randomness. Are you trying to find new and different ways of avoiding homework? Then get thee to a computer and prepare to shake your head in utter disbelief.
www.slanguage.com
This site will teach you how to sound hip and 'with it' in a number of different cities. Kansas City, Mo., is on the list, among many others.
http://copland.udel.edu/
- ioplanet
This is called "The Realm of Niftyness" and it's designed to be a complete waste of time. The design of the page is unfathomably bad, and that's a good thing. You'll be able to put off your homework for hours with this page.
index2.htm
www.deathclock.com/index2.htm
Ever wonder just how long you have to live? This site will tell you in no uncertain terms. Makes you wonder just how important homework is in the grand scheme of life.
■ www.elsop.com/wrc/
humor/dr.seuss.htm
For those who want to know how the Internet actually works, this is the site. If Dr. Seuss had written technical manuals, many lives around the world would have been made much easier.
CONCERTCALENDAR
Tonight:
The Band That Saved the World, with Busy Signal, The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St.
Simplexity, Brown Bear Brewing Company, 729 Massachusetts St.
The Mike Hosty Trio, The Jazzhaus, 926 1/2 Massachusetts St.
Saturdav:
The Deal, The Bottleneck 737 New Hampshire St.
- Kim Murphree and Friends, Brown Brewing Company, 729 Massachusetts St.
Swing Set, The Bottleneck,
737 New Hampshire St.
Sunday:
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Index
News ...3A
Movies ...5A
Poster ...3B
Classifieds ...2,7B
Sports ...1B
Horoscopes ...2B
Feature ...8A
How to meth up life
Many labs busted in state, Midwest
By Katie Burford
Kansan staff writer
Methamphetamine — like most drugs — has inspired its own family of slang: crystal, crank, speed, ice or tweaking.
Meth is cheap. Meth is easy to make. Meth can be shot, smoked or snorted.
Illustration by Jason Williams
And when it comes to meth, the Midwest is a Mecca.
“You want to talk about meth?” said Matthew Reed, Salina sophomore. “It’s all hurry up and go nowhere.”
Reed speaks from experience. Although he has not done the drug recently,he remembers the feeling well.
"You feel nervous, tense and anxious — like something is getting ready to happen but there's nothing going on." Reed said.
But is the drug present at the University of Kansas? Has KU been hit by the powdery white flizzard that has descended on the Great Plains?
Meth's presence in Lawrence is indisputable
Last month, the Douglas County Sheriff's Office busted a meth lab in Lawrence. It was the sixth lab discovered in the county this year, Kenny Massey, Douglas County Undersheriff, said.
Nonetheless, he said he had not seen evidence that meth use was widespread among KU students. He said he had only one KU-related meth case last year.A student was selling a supply of the drug he had obtained in St. Louis.
"If it gets started though, it could spread like wildfire." Massey said. "It's that addictive."
Some speculate that there are reasons why meth hasn't managed to penetrate the campus market.
"Higher education and meth don't mix," said Lt Schuyler Bailey of the KU Public Safety Office.
See LABS on page 3A
Trying to avoid making history
There is a lot more than pride riding on the men's basketball team's performance tomorrow against Colorado at Allen Fieldhouse.
See page 1B
She's (not) All That
In the battle of who's who, the Broncos may have the edge against the Falcons, but that hasn't kept individual players of both teams from talking trash. See page 8B
The trash-littered road to the Super Bowl
Happy Birthday, Kansas
See page 8B
The Sunflower state turns 138 today, and formal and informal celebrations abound.
See page 6A