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"There was a St. Valentine, but he had nothing to do with hearts, flowers, chocolates or romance," said Epstein. "He was a Christian martyr."
However, this legend is an embellishment, according to Steven Epstein, a history professor at the University.
Nevertheless, the Catholic church declared their own day of feast to coincide with Lupercalia in honor of St. Valentine on February
"Valentine's Day is a day when you can express emotions in a creative way that also gives you an
14. Love notes became associated with the day during the 18th century, and in 1913, Hallmark rolled out its first line of Valentine's Day cards. In the 1980s, the diamond industry began marketing its products as part of the holiday. By 2009, the holiday brought in 14.7 billion dollars in retail sales.
Will Nash, a freshman from Leawood, plans to send his girlfriend a bouquet of roses and take her out to dinner.
excuse to buy gifts for your signifi cant other." Nash said.
However, Hadfield, who is single, does not plan on doing anything special. For other singles, Hadfield encourages them to be content rather than refer to it as "Singles Awareness Day"
"I just feel like they're calling attention to themselves," Hadfield said. "It's nice if you want to celebrate it with someone, but it's not needed."
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want them to tell me when there's a problem and if'll get fixed in a timely way. I want to know if they can't make rent, so we can talk about it. Leaving me to guess is how problems occur, and I don't want to go to court anymore than the tenant does"
Peters said he pays better attention to whom he is renting from now.
"I will try and ask around," Peters said. "Talking to the current tenants without the landlord helps, and so far I haven't had problem with where I'm at now, and I hope I won't have to go through a bad experience like that again."
Alton said if students are considering taking their landlords to court or are being sued by a landlord, there are a lot of paperwork deadlines that need to be met to avoid a default judgment, and Legal Services for Students can help sort it all out. Students can make an appointment with LSS by calling 864-5665. For more information see their website at:
legalservices.ku.edu
APARTMENT LAWSUITS BY THE NUMBERS
Edited by Anna Allen
Midwest Property Management has been sued 12 times since 2004. Of those cases, 10 cases were dismissed or disposed, which could have been for various reasons, including settlement or the plaintiff's decision to drop charges. Midwest won one case, a tenant won another of the cases, and one case is pending. The Douglas County Courthouse did not have any records on file of Midwest suing a tenant. Midwest declined to comment.
Jayhawk Property Management has been sued five times since 2002. All of those cases were dismissed or disposed. It currently has three cases pending, in which tenants are being sued, but no records were on file showing it had previously sued tenants. Jayhawk Property Management declined to comment.
Fairfield Lawrence Exchange, which owns The Connection, has sued tenants 37 times since 2010. Of those cases, 15 were dismissed or disposed and the remaining 22 cases were in the company's favor due to a default or uncontested judgment, meaning the defendant in the lawsuit did not respond to the complaint within the allotted time. The Connection declined to comment.
BVP Legends LLC, which owns Legends Place, has sued 16 tenants since 2008. Five of the cases were dismissed or disposed and the remaining 11 were in the company's favor due to a default or uncontested judgment. It has two cases pending in which Legends is being sued. Legends Place declined to comment.
Source: Douglas County Courthouse records
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GOP agrees to payroll cuts
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., and GOP Whip Kevin McCarthy of California said the House could vote on the payroll tax measure this week, but that the fate of unemployment benefits for millions of the long-term jobless and efforts to forestall a scheduled cuts in fees to doctors who treat Medicare patients would remain in the hands of a House-Senate negotiating panel that's looking for ways to pay for them.
WASHINGTON — In an abrupt about-face, House GOP leaders announced Monday that they are willing to extend the two percentage point cut in the payroll tax through the end of the year and add the approximately $100 billion cost to the nation's $15 trillion-plus debt.
The GOP statement came after intense talks this weekend failed
to produce an agreement. Republicans were pressing for pay cuts for federal workers and requiring them to contribute more to their pensions. They recoiled
"...Republicans went to great lengths to change their rules to say you don't have to pay for those."
statement said.
REP. CHRIS VAN HOLLEN Democrat-Md.
The move by the GOP leader-
Democrats were encouraged and said the development could break an impasse over the payroll tax proposal and the other expiring provisions.
at a Democratic proposal to raise Transportation Security Administration per-ticket airline security fees.
"We've been making the point that when (it comes to) tax cuts for folks at the very top the House Republicans went to great lengths to change their rules to say you don't have to pay for those," said Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md. "And yet they've been saying that when it comes to a short-term, 10-month payroll tax cut for middle-income people all of a sudden you have to pay for it."
"Democrats' refusal to agree to any spending cuts in the conference committee has made it necessary for us to prepare this fallback option to protect small business job creators and ensure taxes don't go up on middle class workers," the GOP leadership
Without action by Congress by the end of the month, payroll taxes will rise for 160 million Americans. The two percentage point tax cut delivers about $20 a week to a worker making $50,000 a year and a tax cut totaling $2,000 this year for someone making a $100,000 salary.
the GEOR leadership still would leave it to negotiators to come up with $30 billion or $40 billion in deficit savings to extend jobless benefits averaging about $300 a week to people who have been
out of work for more than six months. Republicans have pressed to cut the number of weeks from the maximum 99 permitted under current policies and economic conditions down to as few as 59 weeks. They also are pressing to require people receiving unemployment to enroll in GED classes and allow states to condition benefits on the passage of drug tests.