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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2008
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Arnold Phommavong, Springdale, Ark., senior, Bill Walberg, El Dorado, Ca., senior, Kevin Campbell, Overland Park senior, Leslie Rhoton, Lawrence senior, and Alex Rock, Lawrence senior, demonstrate the effects of alcohol during "Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself," a program aimed at educating students about the grave consequences of drunken driving. In addition to field sobriety tests, representatives from KUPD, Lawrence Memorial Hospital and KILL Legal Services snake at the event.
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Anything for a cause
Performance artist Alice Newstead, hangs suspended from the ceiling in the window of a cosmetics shop with her skin pierced with shark hooks in central London on Wednesday. Newstead was a part of a campaign to end shark finning and to demonstrate how sharks are caught on longlines to be killed. According to the Sea Shepherd Conversation Society that organized the demonstration, 100 million sharks are killed every year for their fins, flesh, cartilage and oil.
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Field sobriety tests take the stage
BY MICHELLE SPREHE
msprehe@kansan.com
Missy Lightner, Leawood freshman, went to the Lied Center Wednesday night for a lecture about the dangers of alcohol. She had heard alcohol education talks before and thought she knew what to expect. But last night was more than a talk. Last night, Lightner and others in attendance at the annual alcohol education event "Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself" saw what happened when a police officer gives a field sobriety test.
"I didn't realize how obvious the signs the officers look for are," Lightner said. "I didn't know something little mattered."
Student leaders from Interfraternity Council, Panhellenic Association and Student Union Activities appeared on stage to perform field sobriety tests. Four were intoxicated under police supervision and one was sober. A leader from the Department of Student Housing was scheduled to participate in the tests but became ill during the supervised drinking in preparation for the sobriety test. Nurses cared for her backstage.
sented a graphic slide show of three emergency room cases all were the result of alcohol.
In addition to the field sobriety tests, a registered nurse from Lawrence Memorial Hospital pre-
"It was kind of scary because you never see the dangerous side," Lightner said.
Lightner, a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority, was one of almost 1,000 members of the Greek community in attendance.
The event was open to all University of Kansas students. However, non-greek attendance seemed to be very low.
Morgan Cheeseman, Columbus sophomore, lives in Douthart Scholarship Hall. She said she saw only four people she knew were not
part of the greek community
"There's a definite rift between housing and the greek community," Cheeseman said. "But this event wasn't a good place to see it because they're [the fraternity and sorority members] required to go"
Edited by Becka Cremer
ODD NEWS
Brazilian police say
'gators disposed of bodies
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Brazilian police say they've literally taken a bite out of crime.
Officers raided raided the home of a drug dealer's mother-in-law on Wednesday and found
two alligators, one of them about 6 feet long, said police inspector Ronaldo Oliveira.
Police speculated that traffickers used the jacare alligators to
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The alligators were turned over to the Rig zoo.
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Police arrested three men while seizing several guns and a small quantity of drugs during the operation, Oliveira said.
dispose of bodies and to torture captured members of rival gangs, though they gave no evidence of anyone being eaten or tortured.
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The workshop "Blackboard Strategies and Tools" will begin at 9 a.m. in 6 Budig Hall.
The workshop "Excel 2003: Data Management" will begin at 9 a.m. in the Instruction Center In Anschutz Library.
The workshop "Conducting Unclassified Prof. & USS Searches" will begin at 9 a.m. in 103 B in Carruth-O'Leary Hall.
The public event "FREE Tea at Three" will begin at 3 p.m. in the Lobby in the Kansas Union.
The workshop "SPSS II: Building SPSS Skills" will begin at 10 a.m. in the Budig PC Lab.
The event "SUA Feature Films Indiana Jones" will begin at 8 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
The social event "SUA Texas Hold'em Tournament" will begin at 4:30 p.m. in the Crimson Cafe in the Burge Union.
The ceremony "Faculty Staff Convocation" will begin at 3:45 p.m. in 130 Budig Hall.
Can't make t? Contact Prof. Burdett Loomis. 515 Blake Hall. 785-864-9033 bloomis@ku.edu
POLITICS Abramoff pleads for leniency in federal case
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WASHINGTON — Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff told a federal judge Wednesday that his lifestyle of trading expensive gifts for political favors crossed the line, even by Washington standards, but said he was "not a bad man" and pleaded for leniency.
But prosecutors are asking for a much more lenient sentence of less than four years. Defense attorneys say he deserves even less time..
Abramoff, the central figure in a corruption scandal that shook up Washington politics and contributed to the Republican loss of Congress in 2004, is scheduled to be sentenced today.
Abramoff is serving a nearly six-year prison sentence for a fraudulent Florida casino deal. He faces up to 11 years in prison when he is sentenced Thursday for corrupting Capitol Hill lawmakers.
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