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QUOTE OF THE DAY
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2009
"Glass, china and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended."
Benjamin Franklin
FACT OF THE DAY
Benjamin Franklin invented the glass harmonica.
—ushistory.org
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ODD
Man drops ring during hot-air balloon proposal
BURTON, Ohio — A young Ohio pastor asked his girlfriend to marry him — even after he accidentally dropped the engagement ring overboard during their hot-air balloon ride.
She still said yes, and a one-week hunt turned up the camera case the ring had been in.
NEWS NEAR & FAR
INTERNATIONAL 1. Tallest man reveals largest gingerbread man
OSLO — The world's tallest living man has unveiled the world's largest gingerbread man at an idea outlet in Norway's capital, Oslo.
Guinness Book of World Records spokeswoman Justine Bourdariat says 8-foot-1-inch tall Sultan Koesen of Turkey displayed the 1,435-pound biscuit. Baked locally in the traditional gingerbread-man shape, it beat the previous gingerbread cookie record of 1,307 pounds set in 2006 in Smithville, Texas.
2. Russian module to be added to space station
MOSCOW — A cargo ship has delivered a Russian research module to the International Space Station.
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Russia's space agency says the spacecraft carrying the Poisk module docked with the station Thursday.
Poisk is Russian for 'search.' The space agency, Roskosmos, said the small module will be used for scientific research and experiments once it is secured and linked to the station with communications cables. That will require a space walk, scheduled for January.
3. Sarkozy identity speech addresses burgas in France
PARIS — French President Nicolas Sarkozy says there is no place for full face and body veils such as the burqa, or for the debasement of women, in France.
Sarkozy says all beliefs will be respected in France but says "becoming French means adhering to a form of civilization, to values, to morals."
Sarkozy said Thursday during a speech on national identity that "France is a country where there is no place for the burqa." France has a large Muslim community but only a small minority of French Muslim women wear burqas, common in Afghanistan.
NATIONAL 4. Four bodies found in burning mobile home
PEARCY, Ark. — Authorities say they found four bodies in a burning mobile home in southwest Arkansas and another person was found dead inside a nearby house.
Nearly 15 miles away, the fire department in Hot Springs received a report of a vehicle on fire.
Authorities then discovered the deaths and the truck fire were connected.
Lt. James Martin of the Garland County Sheriff's Department said the truck that caught fire was registered to one of the people found dead inside the mobile home.
5. Twenty dead dogs found in woman's backyard
SELDEN, N.Y. — Authorities are trying to determine whether any of the 20 dead dogs found buried in a New York woman's backyard
might have been pets stolen from neighbors.
Sharon McDonough pleaded not guilty over the weekend to misdemeanor animal cruelty charges after five dogs and a cat were found in wretched conditions in her home and were removed.
Her 21-year-old son told authorities animals had been abused at her home. A Family Court judge removed the woman's six younger children from the home this week.
6. Man accused of wearing unearned military awards
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A Southern California man has pleaded not guilty to unauthorized wearing of the Navy's highest medal and other military awards.
Prosecutors say Steven Burton, who was never in the military, was photographed wearing a Marine Corps uniform displaying the Navy Cross along with a Purple Heart and other medals.
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KANSASCITIES
cbullis@kansan.com
BY COURTNEY BULLIS
Stull
County: Douglas County
Town: Stull
Distance from Lawrence: 10 miles
According to theshadowlands, net, Stull is said to be one of the six or seven gateways to hell. Allegedly, the devil had a child with a witch in the town. The child was soon killed and the witch was hung. Now, the devil supposedly chooses to appear every Halloween in that same cemetery. As the legend goes, the devil also appears in an uninhabited location in India at the same time.
Another legend, according to ghosthautungs.org, is that in the
Destinations: Even though the cemetery is surrounded by a chain link fence and is patrolled regularly by the county sheriff for trespassers, Stull Cemetery is the major attraction in Stull.
★ Stull • Lawrence
1850s, a stable hand stabbed the mayor of the town to death in the cemetery's stone barn, which is now the church, and that is why the devil appears. This legend is historically inaccurate because the town has never had a mayor. On March 29, 2002, the church inside the cemetery mysteriously fell down and gave people hope that the gateway to hell had been closed, but that has not stopped the legends.
Interesting Fact: In November
1974, The University Daily Kansan printed an article that claimed the cemetery was haunted. It also brought up tales of devil worship and memory loss after visiting. After this article ran, the Stull myth began.
Interesting Myth: According to Prairieghosts.com, in 1995 Pope John Paul II supposedly made the pilot of the plane he was on fly around eastern Kansas because he did not want to fly over Stull, Kansas.
DO YOU BELIEVE STULL CEMETERY IS A GATE TO HELL?
AMY REESE McPherson junior
"I've been to Stull once, I was freaking scared and I will never go back. My friend cried."
Amarillo, texas sophomore
"Yeah. Without a doubt. Next
question."
TREY SIDWELL,
7:30 p.m.
November 14, 19, 20, 21, 2009
2:30 p.m. November 15 & 22, 2009
Crafton-Preyer Theatre
by Tennessee Williams
TEDDY NOVAK Shawnee junior
Reserved seat tickets are on sale in the KU ticket offices: University Theatre, 864-3982; Lied Center, 864-ARTS, and online at www.kuheatre.com. Tickets are $18 for the public, $17 for senior citizens and KU faculty and staff, $10 for all students
All major credit cards are accepted for phone and online orders.
The Glass Menagerie is KU's entry in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival XLII. The University Theatre is partially funded by the KU Student Senate Activity Fee; funding is also provided by the Kansas Arts Commission, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a national agency.
"No, because I got abandoned there one night for like four hours and nothing happened."
ANDREA BACON
Olathe sophomore
"On Halloween, it threw a glass bottle at what's left of the church, and it didn't break. The people I was with believe that it is a gate to hell, but I do not."
ODD
Word 'meep' banned at Massachusetts high school
DANVERS, Mass. — Who knew "Meep!" was a four-letter word? The utterance favored by bungling lab assistant Beaker of "The Muppet Show" has been banned at Danvers High School in Massachusetts after students said it to repeatedly interrupt school.
Principal Thomas Murray said the word was part of a disruption planned using Facebook.
The Salem News reports that parents recently got an automated call about "Meep!" from Murray. He warned them that students who said or displayed the word at school could be suspended.
Murray says the warning was needed because students didn't heed his "reasonable request" to stop the meeping.
Danvers High sophomore Melanie Crane says it doesn't mean anything in particular.
Associated Press
ON CAMPUS
"Coffee with the Dean" will begin at 10 a.m. in the Apse Room in Spooner Hall.
The Dealing with Stress workshop will begin at 11:30 a.m. in the International Room in the Kansas Union.
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Free Cosmic Bowling will begin at 10 p.m. in Jaybowl in the Kansas Union.
ON THE RECORD
The International Experience Exchange Forum will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Union.
Shortly after midnight Thursday near 14th and Ohio streets, a university student reported a case of battery.
The KU School of Music Student Recital Series will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
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About 1 a.m. Thursday near 23rd and Iowa streets, a University student reported an auto burglary and criminal damage to his vehicle, at a loss of $300.
About 3 p.m. Wednesday near 15th Street and Crestline Road, a University student reported criminal damage to his vehicle, at a loss of $750.
About 2 a.m. Thursday near 11th and Ohio streets, a University student reported criminal damage to his vehicle, at a loss of $50.
About 2 a.m. Thursday near 31st Street and University Drive, a University student reported an attempted aggravated burglary.
JOBS
JOBS Applications online for Spring 2010 Kansan staff
Stephen Montemayor
Student positions for the Spring 2010 University Daily Kansan staff are now posted online at jobs.ku.edu. Students may apply for the following jobs: opinion designer, news designer, Jayplay designer, photographer, correspondent, editorial writer, columnist, sports writer, cartoonist, editorial cartoonist and news clerk. These jobs will be posted until Nov. 30.
CAMPUS Event to honor life of theater accompanist
Puckett
Students and faculty will gather Monday to honor the life of Barbara J. Puckett, staff accompanist for the Depart-
Theatre. The event, called "A Celebration of Life" will feature students performing songs significant to their
Department chair John Staniunas, who was a close friend of Puckett, will preside over the ceremony. He said Puckett will be deeply missed.
"Barbara was the heart and soul of musical theater here at KU and in Kansas City," he said. "We all feel a very deep loss in her passing."
relationship with Puckett
Puckett, a devoted Jayhawks fan who taught piano professionally for more than 30 years, died Nov. 3 in Overland Park.
The department will dedicate a Jayhawks mural in her memory.
A Celebration of Life will be held from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Monday in Swarthort Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
Justin Leverett
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