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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY OCTOBER 23 2008
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2008
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"Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face."
Dave Barry
fact of the day
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It turns out that if you peel the popular adhesive tape off its roll in a vacuum chamber, it emits X-rays.
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Bras hang across the Kansas River Bridge at Sixth and Massachusetts streets on Wednesday. "Bras across the Kaw" promotes breast cancer awareness and was put on in part by the Health Care Access Clinic.
Student Senate notebook
Senate splits campaign legislation into 3 parts
Student Senate voted to separate the bill that would have shortened the time allowed for campaigning prior to elections and cut the amount of money coalitions can spend on campaigning. The bill was separated into three parts and each part was voted on individually. The first part, which limited the amount of time allowed for campaigning activities prior to elections, passed. Senate voted to table the two other parts, which would have created a new Elections Reform Board and limited the amount of money coalitions could spend on their campaigns. Senate will reexamine the two pieces of legislation and eventually submit them to the Elections Commission. The Elections Commission is an unbiased board of disinterested individuals who create rules for Senate elections.
1,846 students register to vote through SLAB
The Student Legislative Awareness Board, or SLAB, registered 1,846 people to vote during the last several months. Ryan Lawler, Bolingbrook, III., senior and SLAB community affairs director, said SLAB registered about 35 percent Democratic, 33 percent unaffiliated, 26 percent Republican and five percent declared independent. Lawler said 430 students registered to vote on the last day registration was open, which was Oct. 20.
SLAB tripled the number of students it registered to vote in this year's presidential election from 2004, when it registered 600 students. Lawler said SLAB registered students in about 30 scholarship halls and Greek houses, the student residence halls and at tables on campus.
— Haley Jones
ODD NEWS Officer faces suspension
over his mustache length
SYLVANIA, Ohio — A police officer was suspended for three days without pay in a tussle over whether he whacked his mustache to regulation length.
The facial hair of Officer Ron Dicus was the subject of a three-hour hearing Tuesday night before the SyLVania Township Board of
Trustees
Trustees determined the nine-year police veteran had been insubordinate. Dicus countered that he shortened his bushy mustache once when he was warned and again when he was charged. Police Chief Robert Metzger described the 'stache as a "General Custer-type" that extended below the mouth in violation of department policy. Dicus said he plans to take the
dispute to arbitration.
Woman in her 70s racks up 73 lifetime arrests
Dicus said he plans to take the
up 73 lifetime arrests
NEW YORK — A 70-something woman who gave her address as 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, was arrested for the 73rd time, accused of stealing a police decoy wallet and stuffing it in her bra.
The woman, who prosecutors say has used 36 different names, was
indicted Tuesday as Katherine Kelly.
A criminal complaint charged Kelly with grand larceny and attempted grand larceny after her arrest in a Manhattan supermarket Oct. 15. It said she took a wallet, left by police as bait, from a shopping cart. An officer recovered the wallet from Kelly's "bra area," it said.
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on campus
The lecture "Senior Session" will begin at 10 a.m. in the Spencer Museum of Art Reception Room.
The homecoming event Chalk'n Rock" will begin at 10 a.m. in Wescoe Hall.
The public event "Fu Immunization Clinic" will begin at 10 a.m. in the Damp Rotunda in Strong Hall.
The public event "FREE Tea at Three" will begin at 3 p.m. In the lobby in the Kansas Union.
The student group event "Pizza and Politics" will begin at 12 p.m. in the Bruckmiller Room in the Adams Alumni Center.
The lecture "The History and Future of Personal Rapid Transit in the United States" will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Spahr Engineering Classroom in Eaton Hall.
The seminar "Come to Africa and it is here!" will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the International Room in the Kansas Union.
The University/Faculty Senate Meeting will begin at 3:30 p.m. in 203 Green Hall.
The lecture "The dating game: monazite as a monitor of the timing of metamorphism and alteration" will begin at 4 p.m. in 103 Lindley Hall.
The public event "Clinton M. Ricketts art show at the KU Bookstores" will begin at 5 p.m. in Oread Books in the Kansas Union.
The lecture "Insiders and Outsiders: The Impact of Political Transformation in Spain on Research Opportunities for Art Historians" will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Room 211 in the Spencer Museum of Art.
The swimming meet "Swimming vs. Texas A&M" 6 p.m. in the Robinson Center.
The concert "Helianthus Ensemble" will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
117 years ago this week, Harvard crimson was chosen as the new football team's official color Yale blue was added five years later. They have served as KU's official colors ever since.
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