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Walking down the hill and leaving before the ceremony is a little like walking down the aisle and leaving before you say, "I do."
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1000 Sunnyside Avenue Lawrence, Kan.
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Wednesday, May 2
**WHAT. Lecture:** "Nutrition: Understanding Portion Distortion"
**WHERE. Room 202, Ambler Student Recreation Center**
**WHEN. Noon**
**ABOUT. Aysley Anderson from Lawrence Memorial Hospital tells students how to watch their figures this summer as part of the "Lunch 'N Learn" series.**
CALENDAR
WHAT: Grad Grill
WHERE: Adams Alumni Center
WHEN: 5:30 p.m.
ABOUT: The Alumni Association celebrates seniors' upcoming graduation.
**WHAT:** Concert: Jazz Ensembles
**WHERE:** Lawrence Arts Center, downtown
**WHEN:** 7:30 p.m.
**ABOUT:** The KU School of Music presents its spring concert of jazz ensembles;
tickets are free.
Thursday, May 3
WHAT: KU Core University Wide Discussion
WHERE: Big 12 Room, Kansas Union
WHEN: 11:30 a.m.
ABOUT. The KU Core transition committee hosts a forum to give students the opportunity to voice their opinions about the changes to the University core curriculum.
WHAT: Distinguished Engineering
Service Award Banquet WHERE: Ballroom, Kansas Union WHEN: 6 p.m. ABOUT: An event honoring individuals associated with the School of Engineering who have made an impact on engineering or engineering education
Friday, May 4
WHAT: KU Opera Gala
WHERE: Lied Center
WHERE: 7.30 p.m.
ABOUT: The School of Music presents its annual opera gala; call the Lied Center ticket office for ticket prices and information.
WHAT: Stop Day FitFest
WHERE: Front Lawn, Ambler Student
Recreation Center
WHEN: 2:30 p.m.
ABOUT: Need a break from study-
ing? Come work out with Recreation
Services for free.
WHAT: Tensi Awards and Film Awards
Spectacular
WHERE: Liberty Hall, downtown
WHEN: 6.30 p.m.
ABOUT: The Department of Film
and Media Studies hosts a night of
recognition and awards, as well as a
farewell for graduating students.
WHAT: Cosmic Bowling
WHAT: Cosmic Bowling
WHERE: Jaybowl, Kansas Union
WHERE: 10 p.m.
ABOUT: Go to the Union to relax before
finals week; bowling is free, so bring
your glowsticks.
WHAT: Super Saturday
WHERE: Burge Union
WHEN: 10 a.m.
ABOUT: Sixth- to eighth-graders visit the University to see what their future options will be.
Saturday, May 5
WHERE I a.m.
ABOUT: The visual art department offers a day of free life drawing to help keep your portfolio up to date.
R. John Percival & Brading
WHERE: Room 405, Art and Design Build-
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WHAT: Open Figure Drawing
WHAT: Concert with Steven Spooner
WHERE: Swarthout Recital Hall, Murphy
WHEN: 11 a.m.
ABOUT: The KU School of Music hosts a piano recital with piano professor Steven Spooner.
WHEN: 3 D.m.
POLITICS
Gingrich's race for the White House fizzles out
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Over the course of a career, Gingrich, 68, went from rabble rouser to the pinnacle of establishment power and back again.
WASHINGTON — Apresident candidate no longer, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich departs the race for the White House as likely the most consequent and certainly the most interesting Republican of his time never to sit in the Oval Office.
Rabble rousing was the way to power, he thought. It worked once, in Congress, but not the second time, in his bid for the White House. He bid farewell to his supporters in a video posted on his campaign website on Tuesday. "Your help was vital," he thanked them. A formal announcement that he is suspending the campaign, coupled with an endorsement for Mitt Romney, is on the calendar for Wednesday. By the time he decided to bow out, he had already weathered more crises than appeared survivable.
His entire senior staff quit in the summer of 2011, saying he wouldn't devote enough time to fundraising or campaigning in early states. He promptly announced he would run a "substantive, solutions-oriented" race.
When other challengers to Romney faded, Gingrich led the polls late last year before the Iowa caucuses, only to be knocked back by a strong barrage of attack ads financed by a super PAC aligned with Romney. Somehow, he recovered once more, and won the South Carolina primary in January, before losing Florida and beginning a long, final fade.
It is not clear exactly how long Gingrich has wanted to be president. He flirted with it in 1995, when he was speaker, and made
a joint appearance in the firstin-the-nation primary state of New Hampshire with Clinton to discuss campaign finance legislation.
Gingrich had lost his first two races for the House, in 1974 and 1976, before his career-defining persistence paid off when a long-term Democratic incumbent retired in 1978, creating a vacancy. Inside the House, Gingrich and his allies created the Conservative Opportunity Society to help build a policy framework on key issues. Outside Congress, he took over GOPAC in the mid-1980s and used it to build a farm team of future Republican political conservatives. As speaker, Gingrich made sure the House voted in the first 100 days on each item in the Contract With America, the Republican campaign manifesto from the 1994 election. His closest associates said he was often the smartest man in the room, and insisted on acting that way.
His ability to outmaneuver others and his understanding of technology were on brilliant display one night just before the Florida presidential primary. Facing a crushing defeat, he strolled over to a group of reporters in the lobby of a Jacksonville hotel. With a conspiratorial smile, he said a poll coming out in the morning would show him trailing Romney by only 4 points.
Was that on the record? It was and, within minutes, virtually the entire press corps had been gulled by a fading candidate into tweeting that a poll of unproven existence showed him with a slim and shrinking deficit.
Gingrich lost Florida to Romney by 14 points, not 4. and his White House campaign entered a death spiral.
Information based on the Douglas County Sheriff's Office and KU Office of Public Safety booking recaps.
- A 29-year-old Lawrence woman was arrested Tuesday at 2:06 a.m. on the 2400 block of West 24th Terrace on suspicion of domestic battery. No bond was set.
- A 41-year-old Bucyrus man was arrested Tuesday at 1:06 a.m. on the 800 block of Lawrence Avenue on suspicion of operating under the influence. Bond was set at $500.
- A 52-year-old Lawrence man was arrested Tuesday at 12:44 a.m. on the 800 block of North 1500 Road on suspicion of driving while intoxicated and driving with a suspended license. Bond was set at $500.
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● A 59-year-old Eudora woman was arrested Monday at 9:30 p.m. on the 900 block of Birch Street on suspicion of disorderly conduct. Bond was set at $100.
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- A 28-year-old Eudora man was arrested Monday at 5:50 p.m. on the 1400 block of West 23rd Street on suspicion of battery. Bond was set at $100. He was released.
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