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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself."
James Thurber
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 28, 2009
FACT OF THE DAY
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All clams start out as males; some decide to become females at some point in their lives.
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INTERNATIONAL
1. New patriarch elected by Russian church
MOSCOW — The interim leader of the Russian Orthodox Church was overwhelmingly elected patriarch Tuesday.
Metropolitan Kirill received 508 of the 700 votes cast during an all-day church congress in Moscow's onate Christ the Savior Cathedral, the head of the commission responsible for the election, Metropolitan Isidor, said.
Kirill, 62, will be installed Sunday as the successor to Moscow Patriarch Alexy II, who had headed Russia's dominant church since 1990. Alexy II died Dec. 5, at age 79.
In Russia, Kirill is seen as a politically savvy figure who may seek a more muscular role for the church, which has served the state for much of its 1,000-year history.
2. Archaeologists discover bust outside old city
JERUSALEM — An 1,800-year-old figurine believed to have originated from the eastern stretches of the Roman Empire has been discovered by archaeologists outside the walls of the old city, the Israeli Antiquities Authority said.
The 2-inch (5-centimeter) marble bust depicts the head of a man with a short curly beard and almond-shaped eyes who may portray a boxer, the authority said.
Archaeologists believe the figurine was used as a weight for a hanging scale of a type common in the Roman period.
3. Japan may be allowed to hunt whales in Australia
CANBERRA, Australia — The International Whaling Commission may ease its ban on commercial whaling to allow Japan to hunt whales off its coast in return for killing fewer whales in the Antarctic, officials said Tuesday.
Japan would be allowed to conduct commercial whaling in local waters in exchange for reducing the number of whales it kills in the Antarctic for scientific research.
The proposal, first reported in the Washington Post on Sunday, did not specify how many whales Japan would be allowed to kill.
The chairman of the IWC, William Hogarth, told the AP that the U.S.feels the ban on commercial whaling should stay in place. But he said the number of killed whales has been increasing, and the plan is an attempt to reduce the kill.
Opponents say the Japanese research expeditions are a cover for commercial whaling, since the whale meat is sold on the market.
The other two whaling countries are Norway and Iceland, which chose not to abide by the ban as allowed by IWC rules.
Australia responded to the plan Tuesday by ruling out ever supporting commercial whaling. New Zealand said it wanted to see the final details of the plan.
NATIONAL
4. Meatpacking employee faces child labor charges
DES MOINES, Iowa — Nearly a thousand new charges have been filed in the state's prosecution of alleged child labor violations at a kosher meatpacking plant in northeast Iowa.
The 954 new charges were filed Jan. 16 against Jeffrey Heasley, a beef production supervisor at the Agriprocessors Inc., plant in Postville. They include alleged child labor violations of employing minors in a meatpacking establishment and for exposing minors to dangerous or poisonous chemicals.
Last September, the Iowa attorney general's office filed more than 9,000 charges against the plant, its owners and managers. Heasley was not one of the managers charged at that time.
SALINA — City commissioners have approved an ordinance toughening a smoking ban passed in 2002.
One affidavit in the case says that children were exposed to dry ice and chlorine solutions and that children were operating conveyor belts, meat grinders, circular saws, power washers and power shears.
5. Smoking banned in buildings, vehicles
Commissioners voted 3-2 Monday in favor of the measure that bans smoking in almost all buildings, except private homes.
The ordinance prohibits smoking in all areas of a building that the public or employees would be expected to occupy. It includes lobbies, hallways and break rooms, all city-owned buildings and vehicles, all vehicles used for public transportation, all restaurants, bars, bingo parloris and bowling alleys, all private clubs and the area within 10 feet of a building's primary entrance.
6. Weather causes nine deaths in four states
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Tree limbs snapped with a sound like gunshots, blacking out thousands of homes and businesses, and schools and government offices were closed Tuesday as a major storm spread a glaze of ice and snow from the southern Plains to the East Coast.
Since the storm began building on Monday, the weather had been blamed for three deaths in Arkansas, three in Oklahoma, two in Missouri and one in Texas.
The National Weather Service posted ice storm and winter storm warnings Tuesday.
Broken tree limbs weighted down by ice crashed onto power lines, cutting service to at least 85,000 homes and businesses in hard-hit Arkansas, utilities said.
About 6,000 customers were blacked out in Oklahoma.
Up to 15 inches of snow was forecast Wednesday in New Hampshire.
Associated Press
Jayhawk Shuffle
Katie Showalter, Topeka senior
To you, what is extra special about this music?
"I'm really partial to the Jersey Boys. I saw the show in Chicago, and I really liked it."
The first 10 songs on shuffle on her iPod:
1. "I Love the Unknown" by Eef Barzelay
2. "Untitled 1" by Keane
3. "All You Need is Love" by the Beatles
4. "Get Rhythm" from Walk the Line, by Joaquin Phoenix
6. "Big Man in Town" from Jersey Boys, by the Jersey Boys Original Broadway Cast
7. "A Well Respected Man" from Juno, by the Kinks
8. "Maui-Wau" by Chuck Mangione
9. "Run, Freedom, Run!" from Urinetown, by Various Artists
10. "Honesty" by Billy Joel
— Meg Bodem
5. "All I Need" by Matchbox Twenty
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The SPSS I workshop will begin at noon in the Library Computer Lab on the Edwards Campus.
The Blackboard Strategies and Tools workshop will begin at 1:30 p.m. in 6 Budig Hall.
The InDesign: Introduction workshop will begin at 9 a.m. in the Instruction Center in Anschutz Library.
ON CAMPUS
The Excel 2007: What's New workshop will begin at 1:30 p.m. in the Instruction Center in Anschutz Library.
The Lawrence Police Department reported:
ON THE RECORD
On Jan. 23 a KU student reported theft of merchandise valued at $98.
Mike Bontrager
Melody Morales has sued seeking unspecified damages and saying she applied 15 times for a job at the Hawaiian Tropic Zone restaurant and bar. She says managers always denied there were any openings even though other employees said there were.
On Jan. 25 a KU student reported battery.
On Jan. 24 a KU student reported theft of a credit card. Another KU student reported auto burglary.
NEW YORK — A woman who wanted a job as a bikini-clad barmaid at a New York City eatery says managers rejected her because she has a "Latin accent."
Representatives of the restaurant didn't immediately respond to calls seeking comment Tuesday.
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Morales says she was born in New York to Dominican and Puerto Rican parents. And she says she looks good in a bikini.
Her lawsuit says one manager told her her "Latin accent" would run his business. She says another told her "You don't speak white."
A KU student reported seven CDs and a black KU baseball cap stolen during an auto burglary. Another student reported criminal damage to a glass window.
ODD NEWS Woman says she wasn't hired because of accent
Associated Press
DAILY KU INFO
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The first Jayhawk was created in 1912. But KU dates back to 1865. How could there be a KU without the Jayhawk? There were several unofficial mascots from 1865 to 1912. One of the most popular was the bulldog.
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