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Calendar
**What:** The Role of Islam in Post 9/11 America
**When:** 7.30 to 9 p.m.
**Where:** Kansas Union, Woodruff Auditorium
**About:** A lecture by Arsalan Iftikhar, international human rights lawyer and author.
What: Sexy Science
When: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Where: Dyche Hall
About: Games, activities and snacks
for KU students 18 years or older
Friday, Sept. 13
What: Carillon Recital
When: 5 to 5.30 p.m.
Where: Campanile
About: A performance by Elizabeth Berghart on the 53 bronze bells in the Campanile.
**What:** Conversation Featuring Artist James Turrell
**When:** 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.
**Where:** Spencer Museum of Art Auditorium
**About:** A discussion exploring themes of the James Turrell light exhibit opening at noon
Sunday, Sept. 15
What: Sand Volleyball Tournament When: 4 to 7 p.m. Where: Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center, Sand Volleyball Courts About: Six-person team or club tournament for cash prizes, presented by Student Union Activities.
**what:** Potselui Putina (Putin's Kiss)
**When:** 7 p.m.
**Where:** 318 Bailey Hall
**About:** Film and snacks presented by the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies.
Saturday, Sept. 14
What: Fabrications, or How to Lie with Computer Vision
When: 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
Where: Kansas Union, Alderson Auditorium
About: Keynote speech on manipulating modern technology
What: Monarch Watch Fall Open House When: 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Where: Foley Hall
About: Open house, refreshments,
hands-on activities, garden and lab
tours, tagging demonstrations and
bugs.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
PAGEANT
Theresa Vail, Miss Kansas, takes part in the swimsuit competition during the first night of the Miss America Pageant at Boardwalk Hall, in Atlantic City, N.J.
Miss Kansas: a unique pageant contestant
FRESHMEN
Kansas State University. She's also a member of the Army National Guard who wants to become a military dentist.
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Miss Kansas Theresa Vail says she wants to break the stereotype that women with visible tattoos don't compete in pageants.
Students elect new freshmen senators
The Miss America pageant is back in Atlantic City, N.J., after a six-year absence. The finale will be Sunday night.
So during the swimsuit portion of the Miss America competition on Tuesday, Vail revealed two tattoos — the Serenity Prayer on her right side and the insignia of the U.S. Army Dental Corps on her left shoulder.
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Her platform is helping women overcome stereotypes and break barriers.
Given her platform, she wrote on her blog last month: "What a hypocrite I would be if I covered the ink."
The large number of students running for Student Senate was in part due to the Student Senate Executive Staff's diligent work to recruit fresh
Five new freshman senators were elected to serve in the University Student Senate on Wednesday.
Stephon Alcorn, Mary Sniezek,
Maddi Duncan, Jake Noveff and TJ
Blake were voted into office out of
27 freshmen who campaigned to fill
five seats.
man candidates during the summer and beginning of the fall semester, said Tyler Childress, chief of staff for the Student Senate.
student senators are expected to advocate for the students they represent, reach out to their assigned organizations and positively promote the Student Senate to the rest of the student body, Childress said.
"We have tried to continue to expand the impact and frequency of student voices," Childress said.
which meant that they asked fresh-
men voters to vote for their team of
candidates. Alcorn said.
Vail is a 22-year-old senior at
Childress said he commended the efforts of the freshman class and the Student Senate to work toward a more inclusive program.
Alcorn, Sniezek, Duncan and Novicoff decided to "run together,"
"Our primary method of campaigning was a lot of face-to-face human contact." Alcorn said.
Jennifer Salva
Alcorn said that he is excited to get involved and start making his mark on Student Senate.
STUDENT SENATE Resolution to Wetlands bill amended, passed
Five bills were presented, discussed and passed at last night's first full Student Senate meeting.
however, most of the discussion was spent on a resolution regarding a decision the University made to give land to the Kansas Department of Transportation (KOOT) for the construction of the South Lawrence Trafficway.
The resolution was created because students weren't consulted in the decision, thus violating a Student Senate code. It also states that the
decision "will have a lasting and damaging environmental, educational, and cultural impact on the Wetlands and University community." KDOT plans to construct the South Lawrence Trafficway which will run directly through the Wakarusa Wetlands.
The debate resulted partly from the two different motives of the resolution and partly because, as brought up by Senator Zach George, many of the people in the room were new to Senate and not familiar with all the facts.
George said that because the resolution addressed two things — the code and the Trafficway project — it
He amended the resolution to exclude clauses that provided a stance on the project itself.
wasn't good governing to pass the resolution as is.
"I think I have to be satisfied with it," Savoy said, "because it represented the voice of the body and that's what I was trying to convey and represent."
After more than an hour of debate, the resolution passed as amended 28-24 with one senator abstaining. Mark Savoy, who presented the bill, said the bill was important to promote the student voice.
Kaitlyn Klein
POLITICS
Anthony Weiner's political comeback runs out of steam
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NEW YORK — Anthony Weiner's ill-fated mayoral campaign ended with a string of final embarrassments: He mustered a mere 5 percent at the ballot box. One of his sexting partners tried to crash his primary night rally. And Weiner was caught making an obscene gesture to reporters as he was driven away.
Outside a "victory" party where supporters mourned a disappointing fifth-place finish in the Democratic primary, cameras crowded around Sydney Leathers, the 23-year-old whose sexting with the former congressman brought his once-high-flying campaign to a screeching halt.
screaming him.
"Why not be here?" Leathers asked reporters. "I'm kind of the reason he's losing. So, might as well show up."
Another politician with a sex scandal, Eliot Spitzer, lost the Democratic primary contest for city comproller to Scott Stringer, the Manhattan borough president. Stringer took 52 percent of the vote to Spitzer's 48 percent.
Spitzer resigned as governor in 2008 and admitted he paid for sex with call girls. In exile, he bounced around television as a pundit. Then, just four days before the deadline, he announced he was running for comptroller. On the final campaign day for
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For his part, Weiner acknowledged in his concession speech that he was an "imperfect mes-
And after a concession speech in which he got choked up as he spoke of family, a scowling Weiner was caught by a photographer giving a middle-finger goodbye to reporters as he was driven away.
all day hoping to confront him.
His wife, Huma Abedin, who stood by his side at the height of the scandal, was nowhere to be seen.
At one point, one of Weiner's supporters scolded Leathers, saying: "You must really be ashamed!"
Leathers, who has launched a porn career since the scandal broke, said Weiner needed "to stop being an embarrassment to the city of New York. He's going to continue this behavior. If it's not going to be me, it's
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messages and pictures. He got into the mayor's race in May, and aside from a few dust-ups with hecklers, was largely well-received at first, holding the lead for most of June and July.
but after an obscure gossip website named The Dirty released X-rated exchanges between Weiner and Leathers that took place well after the candidate quit the House of Representatives, Weiner — and his sexting pseudonym, Carlos Danger — once again became a national punchline.
With 98 percent of precincts reporting Wednesday morning, Weiner was far behind in the city's Democratic mayoral pr:mary.