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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2008
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"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me"
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The first chocolate chip cookie was invented in 1937 by Ruth Graves Wakefield (1905-1977), of Whitman, Massachusetts, who ran the Toll House Restaurant. The Toll House Restaurant site was once a real toll house built in 1709, where stage coach passengers ate a meal while horses were changed and a toll was taken for use of the highway between Boston and New Bedford, a prosperous whaling town.
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Bea Kilat, Salina freshman and Student Union Activities member, serves cookies to John Cross, 2008 graduate from Kansas City, Mo., at Tea at Three in the Kansas Union on Thursday afternoon. Tea at Three is a weekly event sponsored by SUA that provides students with free cookies and drinks.
A youngster eats an ice cream cone in front of Ben & Jerry's ice cream shop in Montpelier, VT. The Virginia-based nonprofit group, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, wants Ben & Jerry's to use human breast milk instead of cow's milk in their products.
PETA lobbies for ice cream from breast milk
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BY JOHN CURKAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WATERBURY, Vt. — Mooove over, Holsteins. PETA wants world-famous Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream to tap nursing moms, rather than cows, for the milk used in its ice cream.
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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is asking the ice cream maker to begin using breast milk in its products instead of cow's milk, saying it would reduce the suffering of cows and calves and give ice cream lovers a healthier product.
The idea got a cool reception Thursday from Ben & Jerry's officials, the company's customers and even La Leche League International, the world's oldest breast-feeding support organization, which promotes the practice for babies anyway.
PETA wrote a letter to company founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield on Tuesday, telling them cow's milk is hazardous and that milking them is cruel.
"If Ben and Jerry's replaced the cow's milk in its ice cream with breast milk, your customers — and cows — would reap the benefits," wrote Tracy Reiman, executive vice president of the animal rights advocacy group. She said dairy products have been linked to juvenile diabetes, allergies and obesity.
Ashley Byrne, a campaign coordinator for PETA, acknowledged the implausibility of substituting breast
milk for cow's milk, but said it's no stranger than humans consuming the milk of another species.
As a standardized product under federal regulations, ice cream must be made with milk from healthy cows. Ice cream made from goat's milk, for example, would have to be labeled as such.
To Ben & Jerry's, the idea is udderly ridiculous.
"We're aware this idea is somewhat absurd, and that putting it into practice is a stretch. At the time same, it's pretty absurd for us to be drinking the milk of cows," she said.
It takes about 12 pounds — or $ \frac{1}{2} $ gallons of milk — to make a gallon of ice cream. Ben & Jerry's, which gets its milk exclusively from Vermont cows, won't say how much milk it uses or how much ice
Presumably, so would mother's milk ice cream.
"We applaud PETA's novel approach to bringing attention to an issue, but we believe a mother's milk is best used for her child,"
spokesman Sean Greenwood said in an e-mail. He didn't respond to requests for an interview.
Leon Berthiaume, general manager of the St. Albans Cooperative Creamery, which provides milk products to Ben & Jerry's, called the dairy products "among the safest in the world."
"Milk from cows has long-term health benefits and has been proven to be safe and healthy and an important part of the American diet for generations," he said. "I'm not ready to make that change."
CULTURE
Taiko drummers to perform at festival
BY BETSY CUTCLIFF bcutcliffkansan.com
Tomorrow afternoon, KU's Taiko Club will be performing on traditional Japanese drums at Kansas City's annual Japanese Festival.
Taiko drums are large, traditional Japanese drums known for
their loud and harmonious beats.
"You can feel it pounding in your chest, even if you are sitting in the back of the audience," she said. "It takes your breath away."
Hayley Fry, Wichita senior and vice president of the club, said she was immediately hooked the first time she saw a performance.
The Taiko Club writes all its own beats, which Fry was done by ear and memorization.
were used in warfare, to sound the arrival of a general or an approach to battle. The ensembles combine beats to create a rhythmic, drumming sound that was said to inspire unity within the troops.
Two Tako members will perform Saturday in traditional uniform and will play a variety of songs and beats, followed by a question-and-answer session. The festival will take place at noon in the Carlsen Center at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park.
"Pretty much everything sounds amazing if you time it right," she said.
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The University of Kansas Office of Research and Graduate Studies, the School of Fine Arts, and the Department of Art invite you to attend an
Artists' Reception
Friday, September 26, 4-6:30 p.m.
Multidisciplinary Research Building (MRB)
2030 Becker Drive, West Campus
Featuring work by KU Graduate Students
ECONOMY Bush meets candidates to discuss bailout
Tammy Keiser Mari LaCure Jody Wood
WASHINGTON — President Bush is bringing presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain into negotiations on a $700 billion rescue of Wall Street as Democrats and Republicans near agreement on a bailout plan with more protections for taxpayers and new help for distressed homeowners.
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Senior lawmakers and Bush administration officials have cleared obstacles to a deal on the unprecedented rescue, agreeing to include widely supported limits on pay packages for executives whose companies benefit.
They're still wrangling over major elements,including how to phase in the eyepopping cost.
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on campus
The "Smissman Lectures" will be held all day in Malott Hall.
The Jawhawk Invitational tennis tournament will be held all day at First Serve Tennis, located at 5200 Clinton Parkway.
The student group event "Cell Phone/Printer Cartridge Recycling Collection" will begin at 9 a.m. on Wescoe Beach.
The lecture "Biomimetic Chemistry" will begin at 10 a.m. in 1005 Haworth Hall.
The student group event "KU Tower Guard Vidual" will begin at 9 a.m. on the Stauffer-Flint Lawn.
The seminar "Latin American Seminar — Ruth Behar" will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Conference Hall in Hall Center
The seminar "Trials and Tribulations in Airplane Design" will begin at 2 p.m. in Continuing Education.
The play "The King Stag" will begin at 1 p.m. in William Inge Memorial Theatre in Murphy Hall.
The public event "Art @ MRB" will begin at 4 p.m. in the Lobby in the Multidisciplinary Research Building.
The social event "TGIF" will begin at 4 p.m. in Adams Alumni Center.
The lecture "Fireside Chat with Professor H. Rutherford Turnbull" will begin at 4:30 p.m. in JRP.
The meeting "Around the World with Peace Corps" will begin at 7 p.m. in the International Room in the Kansas Union.
The concert "Alexander String Quartet and Branford Marsalis" will begin at 7:30 p.m. In the Lied Center.
The film "The Incredible Hulk" will begin at 8 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Free Cosmic Bowling wi!!
begin at 10 p.m. in Jaybowl in the Kansas Union.
Thursday's article "Engineering team builds hybrid car" misidentified Lou McKown's hometown. He is a Downingtown, Pa., senior.
correction
Thursday's article "Engineering team builds hybrid car" misstated Gavin Strunk. He said, "take it from what it is now to a series hybrid."
Thursday's editorial concerning a pay raise for university officials indicated that Chancellor Robert Hemenway's pay rate was determined solely by the University. KU Endowment and the Board of Regents are both responsible for parts of the Chancellor's compensation. The Board of Regents approved the Chancellor's recent pay increase.
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