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THE UNIVERSITY OF HAITI KANSAN
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 11, 2008
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2008
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"We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something."
Sandra Day O'Connor
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Archaeological evidence in the Czech Republic indicates that weaving, one of the most ancient fundamental arts, originated in the Paleolithic period 27,000 years ago.
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William, meet weaving
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William Backman, Lawrence junior, works on a project for "Introduction to Weaving" on Monday morning in the Art and Design Building. Backman said he would spend about 12 hours working to complete his project. The cloth is woven on the loom, which holds warp threads in place while the filling threads are woven.
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CAMPUS Police investigate Wescoe after threatening notes
The KU Public Safety Office dispatched officers to Wescoe Hall on Monday morning after a professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese reported threatening notes posted on the walls near classrooms on the fourth floor.
Rosalea Postma-Carttar, professor and co-director of Spanish instruction, said she dismissed her students after another professor reported seeing the note, which contained the messages "9:15:Trigger time" and "12:15:All is lost."
"It was specific enough that I didn't feel comfortable keeping my own students there," Postma-Carttar said.
Todd Cohen, of University Relations, said that campus police were called to the scene at 8:36 a.m. Police determined that the notes had been in the building since last Friday, and the messages corresponded to events that had taken place over the weekend. A KU Public Safety Office spokesman declined to
Although there have been no actual shootings at the University in recent memory, the campus has had of occasional gun scares.
In January, police were called when an ROTC cadet entered McCollum Hall with a practice rifle that was mistaken for an actual firearm, and the University instructed students to remain indoors in June 2007 when a man was believed to be roaming campus with a "long gun."
Kansas Asia Scholars offers summer tour of China
— Ryan McGeeney
The Kansas Asia Scholars program is looking for KU education students to apply for its three-week summer study tour of China. The program is for KU students who plan to become elementary or secondary school teachers and want to study abroad in China.
Only 15 students will be selected to participate in the summer program, which will include a trip to famous sites such as the Great Wall and the Forbidden City. To
apply, visit the program's Web site at www.kas.ku.edu. The application deadline is Dec. 5.
Haley Jones
Careers Center will hold internship, non-profit fair
The University Career Center is holding a 2008 Internship, Summer Camp and Non-Profit Fair on Thursday from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
"Networking is the number one way to find a job or an internship" she said. "They're going to leave with contacts and hopefully some good impressions of organizations that eventually will provide opportunities for them."
The fair enables students to meet with employers and learn about opportunities and organizations.
Erin Wolfram, assistant director and internship coordinator for the Career Center, said the event was open to all students of all majors and all academic levels.
More than 50 employers are expected to attend the fair and offer various internship, non-profit and summer camp opportuni-
ties.The Career Center advises students to bring copies of their resumes and dress in business attire.
Haley Jones
Coke Zero to film students for basketball commercial
KU students will once again have the opportunity to show their school spirit on a national stage.
Coke Zero will be on campus Wednesday to film a commercial in Allen Fieldhouse. The commerical, which will be used during March Madness 2009, will be filmed in the basketball arena from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m.
The first 100 students to sign up will be used as extras in the commercial, which will feature the Rock Chalk Chant. Students who are able to commit nine hours of their time on Wednesday will be reimbursed by Coke Zero in the form of $150 and free lunch. Interested students can call (913) 707-7688.
Joe Preiner
ODD NEWS
Goodwill employee finds
$7.5K inside shoebox
A recent Bulgarian immigrant found the money during her first day on the job last week at a Goodwill near St. Louis in Glen Carbon, Ill.
GLEN CARBON, III. — This stacks up among the better finds at a Goodwill store: $7,500 in cash stuffed in a shoebox.
Teodora Petrova didn't hesitate after finding the cash with a pair of donated shoes — she turned the money over to a manager who told executives for the nonprofit charity.
The president and chief executive of the area's Goodwill organization says it's eager to find the owner of the money. The charity figures it may have been left with the shoes accidentally.
If the owner isn't found, Goodwill says the money will go toward the charity's job-placement efforts.
Dallas councilman fights against saggy pants
DALLAS— Dallas Councilman Dwaine Caraway is on a mission:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
He wants those wearing low- hanging, baggy pants to pull them up.
As part of his ongoing campaign against saggy, underwear-exposing pants, the mayor pro tem held a summit Saturday.
More than 100 adults, children students, ministers, law enforcement officers and representatives from local organizations attended the hours-long derriere affair.
Local youth counselor Calvin Glover even brought a contingent of saggy bottom teens. The group piled into two elevators and made its way to the council chamber. Saggy britches, big belt buckles and untucked T-shirts were in abundance.
Glover, a 29-year-old former sagger who still admits to an occasional offense, said kids today have taken the trend too far, exposing too much of their backsides.
Gus, the world's ugliest dog, died from complications with cancer. Gus was a 9 year-old Chinese crested dog whose owner rescued him from a crate in someone's garage and adorned him.
Looking at a toddler sitting on one woman's lap, Caraway said the baby girl had a right not to see dirty boxers. So does the elderly woman at the grocery
"Come on, man," he said disgustedly. "I don't want to see your dirty boxers that you've had on for two or three days. I mean, really."
Most listened. Others seemed still groggy from the early morning wake-up.
store, he said.
Caraway told the crowd they wouldn't want someone to show up to their house for a date if their pants were sagging. It would be disrespectful, he said.
arter cancer treatment GULFPORT, Fla. — A one-eyed, three-legged dog that won the title of world's ugliest pooch this summer has died.
World's ugliest dog dies after cancer treatment
The St. Petersburg Times in Florida reports that Gus, a Chinese crested dog, had cancer. He
was 9.
Gus was rescued from a bad home and went on to win the annual World's Ugliest Dog contest at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in northern California.
Gus came from humble origins According to the fair, his adopted family in Gulfport, Fla., rescued him after learning he was being kept in a crate inside someone's garage.
He had one leg amputated because of a skin tumor and lost an eye in a cat fight.
Gus' owner had said the prize money from the contest would be put toward the dog's radiation treatment.
The workshop "Unclassified Professional Staff Evaluations-Presentation and Brown Bagled by Human Resources and Equal Opportunity" will begin at 11:30 a.m. in the International Room in the Kansas Union.
The public event "Flu Immunization Clinic" will begin at 10 a.m. in the Traditions Area on the 4th floor of the Kansas Union.
The workshop "Lunch & Conversation: Teaching the New Generation" will begin at noon in 135 Budig Hall.
on campus
The brownbag lecture "The Bronze Soldier: Embodying Conflicts between Estonians and Russian-Speakers in Tallinn" will begin at noon in 318 Bailey Hall.
The workshop "Hardening Network Setup on Computers" will begin at 3 p.m. in the Budig PC Lab.
The seminar "Broadway Comes to the Lied Center, 2008-09" will begin at 2 p.m. in Continuing Education Building.
The entertainment event "SUA Presents Project Runway featuring Christian Siriano" will begin at 7 p.m. in the Kansas Ballroom in the Kansas Union.
The Faculty Senate Executive Committee Meeting will begin at 3 p.m. in the Provost Conference Room in Strong Hall.
The film "Sis ve Gece (Fog and the Night)"a part of the Turkish Film Series will begin at 7 p.m. in 318 Bailey Hall.
The seminar "The Talmud Backwards in Time: Reading Self in Rabbinic Literature" will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Seminar Room in Hall Center for the Humanities.
ODD NEWS Oversized purse saves girl from robber's bullet
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Don't knock those trendy, oversized purses — they could save your life, as one college student found out.
Police say the contents in an oversized purse saved Elizabeth Pittenger, a 22-year-old Middle Tennessee State University student, by stopping a bullet during an attempted robbery.
Pittenger was walking to her car on campus Thursday evening when a man confronted her and demanded her purse, cell phone and laptop, university Police Chief Buddy Peaster said. She fought the man off, but he fired a gunshot before fleeing.
The bullet was found inside the purse, along with a calculator, umbrella and small case that had been punctured. Pittenger was not injured.
Police nearby heard the gunshot and arrested Orlando Edmiston, 20. Officers found a .38 caliber handgun beneath a parked van.
Edmiston was charged with attempted murder, attempted armed robbery and possession of a weapon on school property. He was being held at the Rutherford County jail on $32,500 bond.
No one answered Monday at offices for Edmiston's court-appointed attorneys.
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