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"Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian."
H. L. Mencken, American journalist
FACT OF THE DAY
In 2001, San Francisco's Barry Bonds broke the all-time single-season home run record when he hit 73. He broke the mark of 70, set by St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Mark McGwire in 1998.
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INTERNATIONAL
1. French navy captures five suspected pirates
PARIS — Somali pirates in two skiffs fired on a French navy vessel early Wednesday after apparently mistaking it for a commercial boat, the French military said. The French ship gave chase and captured five suspected pirates.
No one was wounded by the volleys from the Kalashnikov rifles directed at La Somme, a 3,800-ton refueling ship, French military spokesman Rear Adm. Christophe Prazuck said.
France is a key member of the EU's naval mission, Operation Atalanta, fighting Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden.
2. Largest dinosaur prints discovered in mountains
PARIS — Now that's a big foot. Paleontologists in eastern France have reported the discovery of some of the largest dinosaur footprints ever documented,
measuring about 4.6 feet to 4.9
feet in diameter.
The site of the find, high in the Jura mountains, was once a literal stomping ground: So far, 20 prints scattered on a 25-acre site have been uncovered, Jean-Michel Mazin of France's National Center of Scientific Research told The Associated Press.
3. R.I. man accused of killing wife on diving trip
NATIONAL
TORTOLA. British Virgin Islands
— A prosecutor opened the trial of a Rhode Island man on Wednesday by accusing him of killing his wife while scuba diving in the British Virgin Islands to pursue a romance with another woman.
The 1999 drowning of Shelley Tyre was ruled an accident. Authorities in the British Virgin Islands later charged Swain with murder after a 2006 Rhode Island civil trial found him responsible.
NATIONAL 4. Former service agent named as jail operator
BILLINGS; Mont. — A former Secret Service agent named as the would-be operator of a Monta jail and law enforcement training center served 14 months in prison for stealing money from the government.
Michael Cohen was a supervisor with the Secret Service before his 2004 conviction on charges of stealing $2,800 from the agency. Cohen was named by the American Police Force as the future overseer of a jail in Hardin, Mont.
5. Two people arrested for possession of explosives
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Police in Connecticut say they have arrested two people after stopping a car full of explosives in a New Haven residential neighborhood
Police charged John lannucci
of Branford and Jessup Bollinger of New Haven with manufacture of bombs, illegal possession of explosives and other charges. Both men were being held on $500,000 bond.
Officers say they stopped the car Tuesday night and found pipe bombs, rifles and a propane tank.
A bomb squad detonated the explosives without incident.
6. Government agency sued over sheep habitat
SAN DIEGO — Environmentalists have sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to re-designate 1,320 square miles of Southern California as protected habitat for an endangered sheep.
In 2001, the government designated nearly 845,000 acres as critical habitat, but slashed that in half this April after a lawsuit.
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KUlure Mountain Dewds
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BY KIRSTEN KWON
kkwon@kansan.com
Pig roasts, box derby races and QuikTrip birthday parties; nothing is out of the question for the Mountain Dewds.
Chaz Steele (left) and Matthew Shaw stand in front of one of the Mountain Dew houses on Tennessee Street. "Our goal is to promote awareness," Shaw said.
It all started in 2003 with a group of guys road tripping to Arizona. They stopped at a gas station and found an old box of T-shirts outside. The discovery of the shirts, which read "Mountain Dewds," gave the group its namesake.
"We don't have anything to do with mountains or the drink Mountain Dew," Matthew Shaw, Hiedelberg, Germany, senior, said.
The Mountain Dewds consist of 21 male KU students who live together in two houses on Tennessee Street. In "Dewdville" the roommates, who are Christian, try to live by example by throwing non-alcoholic events and inviting people from the Lawrence community.
"We're not against drinking,"
Shaw said, "We just think there's other, more awesome thieves to do."
The Dewds throw four major events a year including a date night, Halloween party, ramp party, which involves a barbecue and biking off ramps into Potter Lake, and Keith Day, when they hand out free kool-aid on campus.
Keith, a former roommate from 2004, was constantly busy with school and work and rarely had time to spend with the guys. The Dewds wanted to come up with a way to show Keith he was still an important member of the group.
"What better way to hang out with him than to throw him his own holiday?" Shaw asked. There are photos of Keith throughout the house and one outside that can be seen from the street.
The Dewds' Halloween party brought in around 400 people last year. Complete with lasers, a fog machine and a DJ, it's their biggest event of the year. But Shaw said friends are always stopping by the
houses to hang out. He said you don't have to live in Dewdville to be a Dewd.
"It's really anyone that takes part in the community and promotes our ideals," Shaw said.
Living in Dewdville means being a part of a group. While the Mountain Dewd houses may be compared to a fraternity or a ministry house, Shaw said they are neither.
"It's unique," Shaw said. "We're not a frat because we stand for different things than they do; but we're also not what a ministry does because we hate how strict some Christians can be."
That attitude is not the only thing that makes these houses stand out. Inside, visitors find "stadium" seating in the living room, a McDonald's drive-thru sign near the door, a snake named Delilah and their own rendition of a Blockbuster DVD rental system.
"There'a a culture associated with it, there's alumni, there's tradition," Shaw said. And the Mountain Dewd mission is simple.
"Our goal is to promote awesomeness." Shaw said.
Edited by Jonathan Hermes
ON CAMPUS
ON CAMPUS
Chalk 'n' Rock on Wescoe
Beach will begin in 10 a.m.
Tea Time will begin at 3 p.m. in the lobby in the Kansas Union.
The University / Faculty Senate Meeting will begin at 3:30 p.m. in 203 Green Hall.
Jayhawk Jingles will begin at 7 p.m. in the Adams Alumni Center.
The "Transformers. Revenge of the Fallen" show will begin at 8 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
ON THE RECORD
At 4:30 p.m. Monday near 4th and Wisconsin streets, a University student reported an attempted burglary.
About 6 p.m. Monday near 13th and Ohio streets, a University student reported the theft of a driver's license and cash, at a loss of $60.
About 11:30 p.m. Monday near the Kansas River, a University student reported the theft of a laptop and case, at a loss of $1720.
About 1 a.m. Tuesday near 10th and Alabama streets, a University student reported criminal damage to a vehicle's rear windshield wiper and antenna, at a loss of $75.
About 8 a.m. Tuesday at the Art and Design Building, someone reported the theft of a vacuum cleaner, at a loss of $585.
About 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Ambler Student Recreation Center, someone reported the theft of a bank card, at unspecified losses.
Ninety-one years ago today, campus was closed for just over a month because of an influenza pandemic. Students were forbidden to gather in large groups or leave Lawrence. KU has a formal pandemic response plan outlined at www.pandemic.ku.edu.
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