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QUOTE OF THE DAY
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY GANSAN MONDAY AUGUST 17, 2009
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
MONDAY, AUGUST 17,2009
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
FACT OF THE DAY
A tiger can eat 60 pounds of meat in a single night. The Amur tiger is the largest of the species and has more white in its coat than other tigers, with the exception of the White tiger, which is a color variation of the Bengal tiger. They are rare in nature, but have been deliberately bred in zoos. Sumatran tigers are the smallest tigers and have the darkest coat of the tiger family. Tiger Day is the last Sunday in September.
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ALBANY, N.Y. — Alice Connors-Kellgren was surprised by her boyfriend's new Facebook profile picture a few weeks ago: He was kissing another girl on the cheek.
"We trust each other. Deep down, I know nothing is going on. But when you first see it, it's like 'Oh my goodness! What's going on here?'" says the college student from Westchester County, N.Y.
Muisse said researchers are beginning to learn all the ways social networking sites are changing the way couples relate. The study was based on anonymous online survey data from 308 undergraduate Facebook users.
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INTERNATIONAL
1. Typhoon Morakot buries hundreds in mud
CISHAN, Taiwan — Police said Wednesday there is no way to know how many people remain buried in the mudslide that struck a remote village in Taiwan over the weekend.
Survivors fear hundreds are dead in the southern village of Shiao Lin, Cishan police chief Lee Chin-lung said efforts to pluck survivors from the village were continuing for a fourth day.
The community of Shiao Lin and its surroundings were buried under tons of mud Sunday after torrential rain spawned by Typhoon Morakot .
Morakot left at least 93 people dea.
2. China may appeal restrictions on trade rule
BEIJING — China said Thursday it might appeal a World Trade Organization ruling that told Beijing to ease restrictions on imported movies, music and books in its latest trade dispute.
The Commerce Ministry insisted Beijing does not hamper
imports of media products, despite Wednesday's decision by a WTO panel of experts that it violates free-trade rules.
"The Chinese side will conscientiously assess the expert groups ruling and does not rule out the possibility of an appeal," ministry spokesman Yao Jian said in a written statement. The communist government sees its control over content of movies, music, books and other media as a tool to protect its political power.
3. Kim Jong II meets Hyundai executive
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong I will talk with the head of South Korea's Hyundai Group, the North's state media reported Sunday, in a rare meeting that could warm prospects for a resumption of stalled cross-border projects.
NATIONAL 4. Tropical storm Claudette strikes Florida
Meanwhile, North Korea warned the United States and South Korea of "merciless retaliation" over sanctions imposed on the communist country, and nuclear attacks in response to any atomic provocation.
PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. Brewing in the Gulf of Mexico, Tropical Storm Claudette was bringing heavy rain to the Florida Panhandle Sunday, likely becoming the first tropical storm to strike the U.S. mainland this year.
Kim and Hyun Jeong-eun, Hyundai's chairwoman, had a "cordial talk," on Sunday, the Korean Central News Agency reported in a brief dispatch from Pyongyang, though it provided few details.
Just days earlier, the North freed a Hyundai worker whom it had detained for months. Pyongyang accused the worker of denouncing North Korea's government.
The release of the South Korean worker and Kim's meeting with Hyun could renew efforts to boost industrial cooperation between the two Koreas.
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Claudette had winds of at least 50 mph,but was not expected to cause significant flooding or wind damage. Lurking more
ominously in the Atlantic was Tropical Storm Bill, which was quickly turning into a powerful storm over warm waters in the open Atlantic with sustained winds of 65 mph. Ana, a tropical storm that had also been churning in the Atlantic, had weakened to a depression.
Heavy rain began in the afternoon in Pensacola as Claudette approached. On Pensacola Beach, the National Park Service closed low-lying roads that connect the restaurants and hotels to the undeveloped National Seashore and historic Fort Pickens Fort.
The Park Service said campers would be ordered to leave the area because of the likelihood of the road flooding.
In Panama City, the Bay County Emergency Operations Center opened a shelter at a local high school for residents of low-lying areas and people with special needs.
A tropical storm warning covers most of the Panhandle, from the Alabama state line to the Suwanee River more than 300 miles to the east.
Associated Press
Ready the ranks
The KU Drumline practices new music on Thursday for the upcoming football season. The rehearsal was part of an annual week-long training camp before school starts
ODD NEWS
ODD NEWS Five-legged canine costs show operator thousands
CHICAGO — Thanks to a Chicago TV judge, a Coney Island freak show operator is up $4,000 but down a five-legged puppy.
Calvin Owensby agreed to sell the five-legged puppy formerly known as Precious to Strong on June 29. Strong sent Owensby $1,000, with a promise to deliver $2,000 more when Precious got to New York.
Judge Jeanine Pirro ruled during a taping of her show Wednesday that freak show owner John Strong is entitled to the cash after the dog's owner backed out of a contract' to sell the Chihuahua-
terrier mix to him.
But Owensby, an unemployed electrician from Gastonia, N.C., balked days later after researching Strong online.
But Strong still wanted the dog — or what Owensby was
It probably also helps that he said his business has increased 60 percent since the story hit the news.
"I certainly am not chasing four-legged dogs around the world," he said. "Because of the cuteness of the dog ... I would still like to have the dog."
Lilly, meanwhile, is doing well at her new home.
Associated Press
ODD NEWS Bird's dinner smashes woman's car windshield
MARBLEHEAD, Ohio — A woman in Ohio is telling a fish story about one that got away — from a bird, and damaged her car.
Authorities in northwest Ohio say the fish — a Lake Erie freshwater drum, known as a sheepshead — smashed a car windshield Tuesday when an eagle dropped its catch from a height of about 40 feet.
Niles says she had thought herself lucky to escape damage in another animal encounter shortly before the fishy one. She says a truck hit a small bird, which struck her back passenger door and startled her 5-year-old daughter.
Leighann Niles says the impact felt like a brick hitting her Toyota's windshield. The woman from the Cleveland suburb of South Euclid was vacationing along the lake in Marblehead.
CAMPUS Band Passion Pit to visit campus tonight
Student Union Activities has booked an electro-pop band for this year's Night on the Hill Concert.
Passion Pit of Cambridge, Mass., will begin at 9 p.m. tonight at the bottom of Campanile Hill.
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"It's exciting that we got them to come because Passion Pit is such an up-and-coming band," said Emily Gairns, Leawood senior and vice president of communications for SUA.
The show is free to all students and the Lawrence community and will last one hour.
Megan Do, Wichita junior and live music coordinator with SUA, said the cost to bring Passion Pit was in the thousands.
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"We wanted a high energy show to welcome the students"she said.
Do said the electronic beats of the band will make everyone want to dance.
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Susan Hoffman, SUA adviser, said last year's concert, which brought the musical talents of Ben Kweller, brought a crowd of 2,500 people.
"It's a great welcome to KU," Hoffman said. "It'll be a good introduction to all the things that happen on campus. People don't have to go off campus to find great things to do."
If the Kansas weather attempts to drown the sounds of Passion Pit, Hoffman said SUA would move the concert the Lied Center. She said SUA will announce a rain out by 10 a.m. Monday on the SUA events Web site and on the KU Calendar.
— Aly Van Dyke
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CRIME Man sentenced for death of KU student
A 26-year-old Johnson County man convicted of killing a KU student in February was sentenced Thursday.
Steven Kyle Cummins will serve 41 months in a Johnson County prison for the drunken-driving collision that killed Dimitri Mavridorakis, a 23-year-old business graduate student from St. Etienne, France. Cummins will then serve 36 months probation and DUI supervision.
Cummins' Dodge Dakota hit Mavridorakis on Shawnee Mission Parkway at Interstate 35 in the early morning hours of Feb. 7. Mavridorakis was standing on the shoulder of the highway beside the car of a friend with whom he had driven into Kansas City. The car had somehow broken down or was experiencing engine trouble. Mavridorakis was declared dead at the scene.
-Alex Garrison
ADMINISTRATION Barbara Romzek named interim vice provost
Romzek has served as a leader on campus since her arrival in 1979. She is the associate dean for social and behavioral sciences in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and served as interim dean of the college from 2005 to 2006.
Interim Provest Danny Anderson announced Aug. 10 that Barbara Romzek would fill the role of interim vice provost for academic affairs.
She was the University liaison to the United States Army Combined Armed Services Center at Fort Leavenworth from 2003 to 2007 and is a co-chairwoman of the Working for Kansas committee of the Initiative 2015 project.
"Barbara Romzek has a track record of advancing KU's missions in teaching, research, and service to the state of Kansas," Anderson said in a press release. "I look forward to working with Barbara in this new role and I appreciate the insight she will bring to our implementation of new initiatives under the leadership of Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little."
Jesse Brown