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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY MAY 4, 2009
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating."
—Joel, "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"
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The opening credits of "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" appear 18 minutes into the film, at the end of the first reel.
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INTERNATIONAL 1. Pig farmers fight police on slaughtering efforts
CAIRO — Egyptian police and armored cars charged into a crowd of 1,000 irate pig farmers armed with stones and bottles, leaving 12 people injured as residents of a Cairo slum resisted government efforts to slaughter the nation's pigs to guard against swine flu.
2. Tensions may threaten Pakistan. Taliban peace
"They say that we don't fight terrorism, and 18 soldiers die patrolling the border." Chavez said.
Officials said the nearest military base lost radio contact with the helicopter shortly after middav.
What happens to the peace pact is likely to figure prominently in talks between Pakistani
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's army and the Taliban blamed each other Sunday for a rise in tensions that threatened to destroy a much-criticized peace deal, just days before the Pakistani president heads to Washington for talks with President Obama.
Egypt last week ordered the slaughter of all the country's 300,000 pigs even though no cases of swine flu had been reported there.
The soldiers were patrolling the 1,400-mile (2,300-kilometer) border separating Venezuela and Colombia when the Mi-25 military helicopter crashed near the town of El Alto de Rubio, the state-run Bolivarian News Agency reported. Two pilots and the entire crew were killed. Army Brig. Gen. Domingo Alberto Feneite was among the victims.
CARACAS, Venezuela — Eighteen Venezuelan soldiers died in a helicopter crash near Venezuela's border with Colombia on Sunday, President Hugo Chavez said.
President Asif Ali Zardari and Obama later this week. Zardari is expected to ask for more money to help Pakistan's battered economy and under-equipped security forces.
3.18 Venezuelan soldiers die in helicopter crash
WASHBURN, Mo. — There was a lot of public attention when leaders of two obscure churches in the Ozarks woods were accused of ceremonially abusing girls, preparing them for "service to God" by molesting them.
The allegations involved extended families in southwest Missouri, a largely rural area that has one of the state's highest rates of reported child abuse and has had other high-profile abuse cases.
NATIONAL 4. Most charges dropped in sexual abuse cases
NATIONAL
But nearly three years later, the cases have almost completely unraveled: Only one of the six defendants remains charged, and he is free on bail while waiting for a yet-to-be-scheduled trial.
5. Colorado might end expensive death penalty
DENVER — Colorado is one of 10 states that have considered abolishing the death penalty this year to save money, but
Colorado's proposal has a twist: It would use the savings to investigate about 1,400 unsolved slayings.
The measure has sparked fierce debate between prosecutors and some victims' families. Prosecutors want to keep capital punishment as an option for heinous crimes, and they said the bill had raised unrealistic hopes about solving cold cases.
Supporters of the bill say it's more important to find and prosecute killers still on the loose than to execute the ones already convicted.
6. Investigators still seek cause of tour bus crash
PERRIS, Calif. — Investigators in southern California are still trying to learn why a tour bus crashed into a freeway divider, injuring all 28 people on board.
Riverside County Fire Department Capt. Rick Griggs said eight people injured in Saturday's accident on Interstate 215 were listed in critical condition.
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CAMPUS Seniors may take survey to improve the University
Seniors have the opportunity to give feedback about their experience at the University through the KU Senior Survey.
"It it helps the University make decisions about the quality of education students get at KU," Cohen said. "Student feedback is very important, and before students go into the real world we want to get their feedback while the experience is still fresh."
Todd Cohen, director of University Relations, said the survey
aimed to assess the level of student satisfaction on a broad range of University experiences
each time.
The survey is being administered to graduating seniors this year for only the eighth time since 1977. The survey is administered every four or five years, Cohen said, to target a completely new group of students
survey did result in significant changes at the University. Results from previous surveys have led to new advising positions and better computer access.
Cohen said feedback from the
Participating seniors may take the survey before they graduate at http://surveys.ku.edu/Seniors.
ODD NEWS
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Alaskan residents bet on when ice will 'go out'
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The ice on Alaska's Tanana River has broken apart and now two lucky winners who guessed the timing of that much-awaited annual event will split a jackpot of nearly $284,000.
"My reaction was disbelief." Claudia Russell said Saturday after learning she was a co-winner of the Nenana ice Classic. "When I realized it was real, we egestal."
annual rite in Alaska, said the ice "went out" Friday at 8:41 p.m. local time.
Russell has placed bets on the classic since 1966 and said in a telephone interview that she once came within a minute of the correct time.
Russell, a Juneau resident, and Stephen Gregory, of Galena, were the only ones to pick the exact time of the ice breakup.
Cherrie Forness, manager of the betting game that is an
This year's jackpot was $283,723, down from nearly $304,000 in 2008.
A huge wooden tripod is set up on the river ice and wired to a clock in a watchtower on shore.
As for her share of the cash, Russell said, "I'm just going to look at it for a while."
ter taking off from Thun Field, an airfield owned by Pierce County southeast of Tacoma.
Sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said the plane was about 150 feet in the air when the engine quit running.
Airplane lands on toilets; pilot walks away unhurt
PUYALUP, Wash. — A small airplane dropping from the sky after its engine failed wound up on a cushioning bunch of portable toilets — and the pilot was able to walk away apparently unhurt.
Gary Mayor of the Federal Aviation Administration said the Cessna 182 crashed Friday afternoon in Washington state af-
The plane hit a fence, flipped over and landed upside down on top of the portable toilets standing in a storage yard.
Troyer told The News Tribune that the pilot tried to turn around to land but didn't quite make it.
Authorities didn't immediately give the pilot's identity.
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ON CAMPUS
The "Blackboard Strategies and Tools" workshop will begin at 9 a.m. in 6 Budig Hall.
Junior Day will begin at 9:15 a.m. in the Kansas Union.
The "Revolution and Protest in 20th-century China" panel discussion will begin at 3 p.m. in the Pine Room in the Kansas Union.
The "Native Dreams and Jesuit Dreams in Seventeenth-Century New France" seminar will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Seminar Room in Hall Center.
A 20-year-old KU student reported a battery in the 2300 block of Hawthorne Road Thursday.
A 20-year-old KU employee reported criminal damage to the passenger side of a vehicle in the 2500 block of W. 31st Street at a loss of $1,500 Thursday.
The lecture titled "The Future Isn't What it Used to Be" will begin at 4 p.m. in 2074 Malott Hall.
The KU Opera presentation of "L'Enfant et les Sortileges" and "Gianni Schicchi" will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Robert Baustian Theatre in Murphy Hall.
The KU Kansas City Youth Symphony concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Lied Center.
ON THE RECORD
TOPEKA — A disagreement over business taxes threatens to delay legislators as they try to balance the next state budget.
A 21-year-old KU student reported criminal damage to a window in the 1000 block of Missouri Street at a loss of $500 Friday.
STATE
Democratic Gov. Mark Parkinson and the Republican-controlled Legislature must eliminate a projected $328 million deficit in a $13 billion budget previously approved for the state's 2010 fiscal year, which begins July 1. He and legislators appear to agree that the package should include additional spending cuts.
Parkinson, Legislature discuss budget deficit
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