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Tuesday, Oct. 8
What: Deadline for Credit/No Credit
When: All day
Where: all University
About: Final day to take a full semester class for credit or no credit
**wnat:** Race and Slavery in Urban South Africa
**When:** 3:30 to 5 p.m.
**Where:** Hall Center, Seminar Room 1
**About:** A seminar with Elizabeth MacGonagle, department of history associate professor, part of the Reimagining the City series
Wednesday, Oct. 9
What: Has Citizens United Changed the Rules?
When: 7:30 p.m.
Where: Dole Institute of Politics
About: A debate covering Supreme Court and campaign finances policy for the Constitution Day program
What: Tunes @ Night
Thursday, Oct. 10
When:
Where: Hashinger Hall, The Studio
About: Live music and free food presented
by Student Union Activities
When: 9 to 10 p.m.
What: "Transcendental" Reading and Book Signing
When: 4 to 5.30 p.m.
Where: Jayhawk Ink Lounge, KU Bookstore,
Kansas Union
About: A reading, book signing and reception with science fiction author James Gunn
What: Tamale Road; A Memoir from El
Camino de los Tres
What: Tamale Road: A Memoir from El Salvador
When: 6 to 8:30 p.m.
Where: Wescoe Hall, 4012
About: A documentary screening with twotime Emmy award winner Marcos McPeek
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Friday, Oct. 11
What: Merienda Brown Bag Lecture with Artist Diego Teo
When: 12 to 1 p.m.
Where: Spencer Museum of Art Auditorium
About: Public presentation open to English and Spanish speakers with artist-in-residence Diego Teo and lunch
What: Haim concert
When: 8 p.m.
Where: The Granada Theater
About: Concert presented by Student Union
Activities and KHK
Cost: $7 advance KU student / $10 KU
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Chess players defy public game ban
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SAN FRANCISCO — At least for an afternoon, the chess players were back at the usual spot they've occupied for years along downtown San Francisco's busy Market Street.
But instead of hustling a dollar here and a dollar there with deft openings and clever traps, the mostly homeless players and their supporters were playing Sunday in defiance of a recent police crackdown and ban on the public games. And they were backed by a brass band and several homeless advocates who helped organize the three-hour "chess-in" under bright, blue skies on a hot San Francisco afternoon.
Earlier this month, police confiscated chess gear, tables and chairs at the site.
Police said the games had begun to attract illegal gambling and drug sales to the area adjacent to a cable car terminal, which is a popular tourist destination. Nearby merchants had also complained about an increase in illegal activity.
"We don't mind the chess players and would like to have them back," said Cody Hunt, manager of an electronics store in front of which the games were played. "But lately, the games have attracted loud dice games and open drug deals, and nobody needs that."
The chess players argue that
the police response to the illegal activity that took place near the games was heavy-handed and indiscriminate.
"Have the drug deals stopped because chess has been banned?" said Andrew Resignato, a San Francisco resident who would play a game along Market Street occasionally. "It was an excuse to move homeless people away from here."
San Francisco police didn't return a phone call Sunday.
Police Capt. Michael Redmond told the San Francisco Chronicle last month that he agreed the chess players themselves weren't the problem. But others used the games as a shield for illegal activities. Redmond said arrests and complaints from merchants increased in the area.
"It's turned into a big public nuisance," Redmond said. "I think maybe it's a disguise for some other things that are going on."
other things that are going on Hector Torres Jr., a homeless man who scratched out a living renting his chess equipment, tables and chairs to Market Streets players, said the games were a San Francisco tradition that attracted all sorts of players from all walks of life.
Torres and others said it's unclear whether regular games will resume in their usual spots, some place else or disappear forever.
"Chess isn't a crime, and we aren't criminals," Torres said.
vote was rooted in public interest. The details of the industrial revenue bonds for Rock Chalk Park have been posted online, however the city commission wanted the public to have more time to be able to review the details of the industrial revenue bonds. The commission wanted the documents to be available to the public for at least a week before voting on approval of the bonds.
The city hopes that the new recreation center at Rock Chalk Park will help Lawrence host more sporting events and draw more revenue from visitors. The delay on approval of the bonds by the city commission is not expected to affect construction of Rock Chalk Park, which has begun and is slated to be completed by 2014. The city commission expects to take up the vote again on vOct.8.
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Finally they were walking past the Kansas locker room into the Fieldhouse with huge grins and relief on their faces as they gazed at the scene of Late Night in the Phog.
The Holden family sat in the first row behind the north basket, screaming and clapping as enthusiastically as anyone in the building. A helpful hand had turned their disheartening trip into a night of bliss.
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"I was glad they let us come in, because of how long we had been standing here and how upsetting it would have been to drive all this way and get turned away," Steven Holden said.
Steven hopes that some changes can be made in how fans are let in. Next year, he doesn't plan on making the drive and waiting in line if he knows it will end up just being a rush for the doors in the end. He knows his family was lucky this time.
-Edited by Casey Hutchins and Paige Lytle
Bryne Gonzales and Natalie Scott, both seniors from Topeka, wave as they receive the 23rd annual Excellence in Community, Education and Leadership awards during the halftime of the Kansas-Texas Tech football game at Memorial Stadium on Saturday. The $500 ExCEL Award is awarded annually to one male and one female student for achievement in areas of leadership, community and campus involvement, communication and academics.
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