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Opinion editor Jon Samp
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Associate sports editor Matt Galloway
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2012
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Web editor Laura Nightengale
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Mostly cloudy and much cooler. 20 percent chance of showers.
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Partly sunny, breezy and a little cooler.
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Wednesday, April 25
**WHAT:** International Food Court
**WHERE:** Plaza, Kansas Union
**WHEN:** Noon
**ABOUT:** Come try free samples of international food from local restaurants, including La Parilla, India Palace and Aladdin Cafe.
Thursday, April 26
WHAT: Lecture: "Living Off the Grid"
WHERE: Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center
WHEN: Noon
ABOUT: Alternative Break coordinator John Coffee speaks about completing community building projects with the environment in mind.
WHAT: Film Screening: "Body and Soul"
WHERE: Spencer Museum of Art
WHEN: 8.15 p.m.
ABOUT. The Kansas African Studies Center hosts the documentary about three people from Mozambique with physical disabilities who dance. Tickets are free.
WHAT: World Expo
WHEN: World Expo
WHERE: Ballroom, Kansas Union
WHEN: Noon
ABOUT: As part of International Awareness Week, displays from more than 50 countries will be spread out for students to peruse; there will be food, performances and information about each country.
WHAT: Maya 2012
WHERE: Lawrence Public Library.
Friday, April 27
WHEN: 7 p.m.
ABOUT: Dr. Quetzil Castaeda from Indiana University speaks about the truth behind the end of the Mayan calendar this December; tickets are free.
HALLOWEEN 7:50 p.m.
ABOUT: The spring concert features student choreography in the Elizabeth Sheron Dance Theatre, go see it for free.
WHAT: New Dance
WHERE: Studio 240, Robinson Studio WHEN: 7:30
WHAT: Brown Bag Drag
WHAT: Brown Bag Urag
WHERE: Outside Plaza, Kansas Union
WHEN: Noon
ABOUT. Queens and Allies hosts its annual Brown Bag Drag performance event as part of Gaypriul.
WHAT: Global Dance Party at The Cave
WHERE: The Cave, Owed Hotel
WHEN: 9 p.m.
ABOUT: The International Student Association hosts a night of international music and dancing as part of International Awareness Week.
WHAT- Cosmic Rowling
WHAT: Cosmic Bowling
WHERE: Jaybowl, Kansas Union
WHEN: 10 p.m.
ABOUT: SUA hosts a night of free bowling and dance music. Be sure to bring your glowsticks.
Saturday, April 28
ABOUT: Hilltop hosts its 13th annual fundraiser; event proceeds go to Hilltop's Families In Need Fund. Contact Hilltop to find out how to register.
WHERE: Hiltop Child Development Center
WHEN: 8 a.m
WHAT: Sowing and Reaping; Christian Perspectives on Food & Agriculture
ABOUT: The ECM hosts a conference about farming as a religious and ethical response to hunger. The event is free.
WHAT: Hiltop Hustle 5K race/walk and 1K Family Fun Run
WHERE: Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center
WHEN: 9 a.m.
WHAT: FIFA International Video Game Tournament
WHERE: Hawk's Nest, Kansas Union
WHEN: 2 p.m.
ABOUT. As part of International Awareness Week the international Student Association hosts a day of virtual soccer, games and consoles are provided and the event is free.
POLICE REPORTS
Information based on the Douglas County Sheriff's Office and KU Office of Public Safety booking recaps.
- A 44-year Lawrence man was arrested Tuesday at 2:47 a.m. on the 600 block of Connecticut Street on suspicion of domestic battery. No bond was set. He was released.
- A 21-year-old Lawrence man was arrested Monday at 9:38 p.m. on the 2000 block of West 31st Street on suspicion of felonious obstruction of legal procedure, not having a tax stand, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a controlled substance and felonious cultivation or distribution of a controlled substance. Bond was set at $31,000.
- A 28-year-old Lawrence man was arrested Monday at 4:07 p.m. on the 1900 block of East 19th Street on suspicion of criminal property damage valued at $250 and robbery. No bond was set. He was released.
- A 55-year-old Lawrence man was arrested Monday at 5:40 p.m. on the 2400 block of Redbud Lane on suspicion of criminal property damage valued at $250. Bond was set at $250. He was released.
A 53-year-old Topeka man was arrested Monday at 3:56 p.m. on the 3600地板 of East 25th Street on suspicion of writing a worthless check. Bond was set at $500.
- A 35-year-old Kansas City, Kan., man was arrested Monday at 2:36 a.m. on the 2900 block of West Sixth Street on suspicion of driving with a suspended, revoked or cancelled license, operating under the influence and not having insurance. Bond was set at $700. He was released.
- ● A 24-year-old Lawrence man was arrested Monday at 12:52 a.m. on the 1800 block of West 23rd Street on suspicion of possession of drug paraphernalia, transporting an open container and possession of marijuana. Bond was set at $300. He was released.
- The Office of Public Safety reported an incident of breaking and entering, burglary, theft and criminal property damage Sunday at 8:25 a.m. when someone broke into the chancellor's guest house on the 1500 block of Pearson Place. The police report says someone entered a secured guest-house while the tenant was away and took cash. Officers estimate the loss at $200 and damages at $250. The case is still open.
— Laura Sather
POLITICS
Speaker will address tuition and student debt
The University of Kansas Young Democrat Socialists will be hosting a presentation tonight with Andrew Porter, the national organizer of the group, as a keynote speaker.
rising tuition and student debt costs. Porter will give his views on how the increase of student debt and tuition is connected to neo-liberal reforms that have created the current system for higher education. A question-and-answer session will follow Porter's presentation.
The event will be held at 7 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room at the Kansas Union. Porter will be speaking about
— Viraj Amin
Judge sends shirtless photo to employee
ODD NEWS
DETROIT — A Detroit judge says the verdict is in. He's proud of his physique and has no reason to be ashamed of sending a shirtless photo of himself to women, including at least one court employee.
A TV station confronted 55-year-old Wayne County Judge Wade McCree this week after the husband of a court employee said the photo turned up on her phone. It shows the very fit judge from the waist up taking his own picture in front of a mirror.
"Hot dog. Yep, that's me," McCree said when WBK-TV showed him a printout of the photo. "No shame to my game."
McCree, who is married, said he also sent the photo "out to other women," noting he's not fully nude in the picture and goes shirtless each day at the YMCA pool.
He did not immediately return an email from The Associated Press.
said, "You can always get that here and now."
McCree's father was the first black judge on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati and solicitor general under President Jimmy Carter.
The judge then feigned taking off his shirt for reporter Charlie LeDuff and
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President Barack Obama arrives at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Tuesday. He spoke about student debt.
Obama sympathizes with college students about the cost of loans
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Courting college voters, President Barack Obama said Tuesday that Congress needs to keep the cost of college loans from skyrocketing for millions of students, taking an important election-year message to three states crucial to his bid to hold onto the White House.
Obama told students at the University of North Carolina that he personally understood the burden of college costs, noting that he and first lady Michelle Obama had "been in your shoes" and didn't pay off their student loans until eight years ago.
"I didn't just read about this. I didn't just get some talking points about this. I didn't get a policy briefing on this," Obama said, recalling he and his wife shared a "mountain of debt" not a long time ago. "When we married, we got poor together."
The emphasis on his personal experience set up a contrast with
his likely Republican presidential opponent, Mitt Romney, whose father was a wealthy auto executive.
By taking on student debt, Obama spoke to middle-class America and targeted an enormous burden that threatens the economic recovery.
Pressuring Republicans in Congress to act, he sought to energize the young people essential to his campaign — those who voted for him last time and the many more who have turned voting age since then. Obama urged students to take their message to social media sites like Twitter to pressure their lawmakers.
Both Obama and Romney have expressed support for freezing the current interest rates on the loan for poorer and middle-class students but lawmakers are still exploring ways to pay for the plan. The issue is looming because the rate will double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent on July 1 without intervention by Congress, an
expiration date chosen in 20% when a Democratic Congress voted to chop the rate in half.
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