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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 29 2008
quote of the day
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2008
"I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots, I'm in a world of my own."
Muhammad Ali
fact of the dav
When Muhammad Ali appeared at the 1996 Olympics to light the flame, he was also given a new gold medal to replace the one that he threw into a river back in his early boxing years.
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Matt Clothier
BY LAUREN HENDRICK
editor@kansan.com
Matt Clothier remembers waiting for packages of CDs every month from BMG Music Service with his older brother Scott during their childhood in Wilmington, Del. A BMG membership and Led Zeppelin's first album quickly helped Clothier realize that music was his thing.
Clothier teaches English 102 and writing a dissertation about poet Robert Duncan. He has revised his thesis multiple times, but enjoys the writing process.
"I'm writing, and that's the important thing," he said.
Writing his dissertation occupies a lot of his time, but he still finds the time to play music. For 10 years, Clothier has been singing
and playing the guitar. His pursuit of music has landed him performances at different venues around Lawrence.
"I get paid, but it's more for fun," he said. Clothier has covered artists and played his own original pieces at places such as the Yacht Club, Abe & Jake's Landing, Johnny's Tavern and Zig & Mac's.
"It's not a bad gig. I get free drinks." Clothier said, "I play music that I like and my friends come."
He said he had played Van Morrison's "Brown Eyed Girl" and Jimmy Buffett's "Margaritaville" too many times, and he liked to sneak in personal favorites such as "Possum kingdom" by The Toadies and "Black" by Pearl Jam.
When Clothier isn't teaching, working on his Ph.D or strumming his guitar, he's working at Sunflower Cable.
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"No. I can't get anyone free cable," he said with a grin, as if he's answered the question too many times. Working two jobs and trying to finish his thesis by this spring keeps Clothier busy, and he's about to add another responsibility, fatherhood.
Emily Clothier, Matt's wife, is six months pregnant, and Matt said he
couldn't be more excited to be father. He just found out this week that they were expecting a boy, and they both plan on making music and reading a big part of their son's life.
His goals for the year are to welcome a healthy baby, finish his dissertation and record music.
Edited by Brieun Scott
Hungry, hungry hippo
Blimpo the hippopotamus snacks on fruit in his pond at Wildlife Safari zoological Park in Winston, Ore., on Friday. Blimpo's 33-year-old father, Morey, died last week, and now Blimpo is alone in his pond. Last week the orphaned hippo kept returning to the area of the park where employees found Morey. By next summer the park hopes to have a renovated hippo exhibit and a new companion for Blimpo. "A cute little girl would be nice," said Mary Lida, Wildlife Safari unguate supervisor.
LAWRENCE Landlord's body found in Mississippi St. house
The body of Frank Sandelius was removed from a basement apartment of a house at 1208 Mississippi St. at approximately 2 p.m. Tuesday.
who was a tenant in the house. Matt Toffrey, from the Douglas County Coroner's Office, removed the body.
Sandelius was the landlord of the property, according to Chris Dickinson, Wichita senior.
Dickinson said that Sandelius was about 80 years old, and that he was occasionally not lucid. Dickinson said he last saw the man about seven days ago.
ODD NEWS Democrats'flier misprint directs voter to hotline
-Ryan McGeeney
DETROIT — Michigan Democrats trying to arouse interest in absentee voting have accidentally directed people to a phone-sex line.
State party spokeswoman Liz Kerr says a flier that included two absentee ballot applications had
a misprint in the number for a campaign hotline.
The flier came from the Michigan Democratic State Central Committee and featured photos of presidential candidate Barack Obama and U.S. Sen. Carl Levin.
The error was first reported by WJB-KTV in Detroit. Kerr says the party apologizes for the misprint.
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on campus
"SMART Scholarship Program Presentation" will begin at 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. in the International Room in the Kansas Union.
Flu Immunization Clinic will begin at 10 a.m. in the Main Lobby in the Burge Union.
The lecture "University Forum: Challenging Stereotypes of Africa" will begin at noon in the ECM Center.
The seminar "Papyrus, Parchment, Paper: A Brief History of Map-Making" will begin at 2 p.m. in Spencer Research Library.
The workshop "Research Administration 101: Guide to the Administration of Sponsored Projects at KU" will begin in 2:30 p.m. in the Apollo Room in Nichols Hall.
The Electronic Theses & Dissertations (ETD) Workshop will begin at 3 p.m. in Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
The lecture "Political Communications: The Art of the Science or the Science of the Art?" will begin at 4 p.m. in the Dole Institute of Politics.
The student group event "Up'til Dawn's Annual Letter Sending Event" will begin at 5 p.m. in the Ballroom on the fifth level of the Kansas Union.
The seminar "Discourses of Sexual Violence in a Global Framework" will begin at 7 p.m. in the Conference Hall in Hall Center.
"Tournees French Film Festival" will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
The lecture "Nobody Loves a Fat Man: Masculinity and Obesity in the Film Noir Cycle" will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
"SUA Haunted Halloween" will begin at 11 a.m. in the Kansas Union.
Happy birthday, Spooner Hall! Built in 1894, Spooner was KU's sixth build and served as our first free-standing library. Spooner is now considered KU's oldest continually used academic structure.
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