2A NEWS THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN quote of the day "Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics.I can assure mine are still greater." — Albert Einstein fact of the day Einstein declined the presidency of the state of Israel when it was offered to him in 1952 by state leaders. www.interestingfacts.org most e-mailed Want to know what people are talking about? Here's a list of the five most e-mailed stories from www.kansan. com: 1. Editorial: Cheating not worth consequences 2. Releford wills Kansas to victory 3. Students experience living on campus 4. GSP-Corbin celebrate rich history 5. The first-day survival guide that you forgot Allison Richardson/KANSAN The University Daily Kansan is the student newspaper of the University of Kansas. The first copy is paid through the student activity fee. Additional copies of The Kansan are 25 cents. Subscriptions can be purchased at the Kansan business office, 119 Stauffer-Flint Hall, 1435 Jayhawk Blvd., Lawrence, KS 66045. 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Jayhawks eat Panther pot pie Josh Franklin, Apple Valley, Minn., senior, and John Mark Zini, Overland Park senior, cheer during the opening ceremonies at the football game on Saturday at Memorial Stadium. Franklin and Zini will to stadium two early hours to paint their bodies to show support for the football team. Check www.karsan.com for multimedia coverage of the game. ODD NEWS ODD NEWS MSU grad student raps about science, physics EAST LANSING, Mich. — Who says science doesn't turn people on? Kate McAlpine is a rising star on YouTube for her rap performance — about high-energy particle physics. Her performance has drawn a half-million views so far on YouTube. The 23-year-old Michigan State University graduate and science writer raps about the Large Hadron Collider, the groundbreaking particle accelerator that has been built in a 17-mile circular tunnel at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. McAlpine raps that when the collider goes into operation on Sept. 10, "the things that it discovers will rock you in the head" The $3.8 billion machine will collide two beams of protons moving at close to the speed of light so scientists can see what particles appear in the resulting debris. "Rap and physics are culturally miles apart," McAlpine, a science writer at CERN, wrote to the Lansing State Journal in an e-mail last week, "and I find it amusing to try and throw them together." Others, including physicists, also find it amusing. "We love the rap, and the science is spot on," said CERN spokesman James Gillies. McAlpine received permission to film herself and friends dancing in the caverns and tunnels where the experiments will take place. "I have to confess that I was skeptical when Katie said she wanted to do this, but when I saw her previous science rapping and the lyrics, I was convinced," Gillies said. McAlpine honed her physics rapping skills at Michigan State's National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, where she was part of a student research program two years ago. Passenger, pilot stranded in trees after crash landing "I think you'll find pretty close to unanimity among physicists that it's great." EAST WINDSOR, Conn. — A 1930s biplane glided to a crash landing in the tops of a stand of trees on Sunday, stranding the pilot and his passenger amid the branches for several hours. No one was injured, said Michael Koczera, manager of the Skylark Airpark. The single-engine de Havilland Tiger Moth apparently lost power about 200 feet from the runway after taking off from the airport, said Jim Peters of the Federal Aviation Administration. "When he ran out of airspace, he landed on top of a tree," Koczera said. "We're not talking about a big airplane. It's a fabric (covered) plane, probably weighs about 1,000 pounds." Koczera said the plane came to rest in the trees above 50 feet above the ground. A tree surgeon joined the crew of a Coast Guard helicopter and members of the local fire department in rescuing the stranded aviators, Koczera said. "The tree person was able to climb the tree and set up some kind of a pulley arrangement where they could remove the people by rope and tackle," Koczera said. The plane was expected to remain in the trees until a crane can be brought in on Tuesday, he said. The names of the pilot and passenger were not released. Koczera said both are members of a club, Tiger Moth Drivers LLC, that flies the biplane out of Springfield, Mass. Video game love inspires proposal, wedding theme MORRISTOWN, N.J. — He reprogrammed her favorite video game so a ring and a marriage proposal would pop up when his girlfriend reached a certain score. And on Saturday, computer programmer Bernie Peng married Tammy Li in a New Jersey ceremony and reception replete with references to Li's favorite game, "Bejeweled." PopCap Games, the game's creator, says the couple's wedding cake was in the shape of a video game console. Guests were given free copies of the game as wedding favors. In the popular game, players score points by swapping gems to form vertical and horizontal chains. LONDON — As a dead man, Ahmad Akhtary shouldn't have needed a doctor's appointment. Husband, wife sentenced for fake death certificate Akhtary's checkup, six months after he allegedly died in Afghanistan, scuttled his ex-wife's attempt to collect the equivalent of US$550,000 on a life insurance policy. At a court hearing last week in Gloucester, a judge sentenced 34-year-old Akhtary to 60 hours of community service and his former wife, Anne Akhtary, to 40 hours of community service but suspended prison sentences of nine months each. Anne Akhtary, 43, admitted trying to claim the payout from the Norwich Union insurance company by using a forged death certificate from Afghanistan claiming that her husband had died of brain trauma in an accident. Within weeks, however, Norwich Union investigators were tipped off about the doctor's appointment. "They were told that Mr. Akhtary's GP had seen him at his practice and he had attended hospital, so it was not the most sophisticated way of going about making a false claim," said prosecutor James Cranfield. Akhtary had continued to live openly in Gloucester after his supposed death, working and paying taxes, Cranfield said. Passing sentence on Friday, Judge Mark Horton said fake insurance claims were serious, but that the couple had been less than sophisticated in their attempt and that no money had been lost. Associated Press on campus The workshop "SPSS I: Getting Started" will begin at 10 a.m. in the Budig PC Lab. The lecture "Russian Military Intelligence, 1914" will begin at noon in 318 Bailey Hall. The workshop "Blackboard Strategies and Tools" will begin at 1:30 p.m. in 6 Budig Hall. The workshop "Windows.Vista" will begin at 4 p.m. in the Computer Center Auditorium. The governance meeting "FacEx" will begin at 3 p.m. in the Provost Conference Room in Strong Hall. on the record On Sept. 1, the KU Public Safety office reported that: -On Aug.28, four separate instances of criminal damage were done to the cloth tops of convertible vehicles parked around the KU campus, causing $1,950 in total estimated damage. -On Aug. 28, a female suspect bit a law enforcement officer when the officer attempted to apprehend her inside Hoglund Baseball Park. -On Aug. 28, three separate charges of criminal damage stemmed from a single vehicle break-in that resulted in $1,000 in damage. As of Sept. 1, the Lawrence Police Department had not yet reported any offenses for the weekend. correction Friday's "Working Title" comic was credited to the wrong person. Sara McElhaney writes "Working Title." Thursday's article "Campus groups set up voter registration" failed to mention that Student Union Activities, or SUA, is also working with Student Legislative Awareness Board, SLAB, to increase venues of voter registrations. SUA and SLAB are providing free Rock the Vote buttons, stickers, posters, information and voter registration opportunities every Thursday and Friday at Tea @ 3 and Tunes @ Noon through Oct. 15. 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