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**WHAT:** Craft Open House
**WHEN:** 11:00 a.m.to 2:00 p.m.
**WHERE:** Kansas Union, 4th floor lobby
**ABOUT:** Need an original and cheap gift to give? Learn how to make origami, voodoo dolls and hanging birds during this free crafting session.
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**WHAT:** Holiday Ceramic Sale
**WHEN:** 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
**WHERE:** Kansas Union, 4th Floor
**ABOUT:** Check out this annual sale. Proceeds support the University's Ceramics Club, which produced all the products.
Wednesday, Dec. 5
Thursday, Dec. 6
**WHAT:** 100 Years of the Jayhawk Opening
**WHEN:** 5:30 to 7:00 p.m.
**WHERE:** Spencer Research Library
**ABOUT:** Celebrate the grand opening of a new exhibit showcasing the Jayhawk's century-long history.
WHAT: Planning a Strong Semester Finish
WHEN: 3:00 to 4:00 p.m.
WHERE: Anschutz Library, Room 421
ABOUT: Learn how to prioritize and manage your time going into final week.
Friday, Dec. 7
**WHAT:** Post-Election Conference
**WHEN:** All day
**WHERE:** Dole Institute of Politics
**ABOUT:** Suffering from election withdrawal?
Political insiders will be on campus to analyze the presidential election.
**WHAT:** Late Night Winter Bash
**WHEN:** 9:00 to 11:00 p.m.
**WHERE:** Hawks Nest, Kansas Union
**ABOUT:** Kick-off Stop Day by building a ginger-bread house, decorating ornaments, and getting a free massage.
WHAT: Stop Day
WHEN: All Day
WHERE: All Campus
ABOUT: Relax before finals week.
POLITICS
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House Speaker House John Boehner of Ohio, center, leaves a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012, after reporting on his private talks with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on the fiscal cliff negotiations.
No progress on fiscal cliff talks
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Obama's point man for the talks, went on five Sunday news shows to reiterate the administration's insistence on higher taxes for households earning over $250,000. After all, Obama ran on it and Democrats see raising taxes on the wealthy as a mandate.
In fact, there doesn't even seem to be a negotiating table.
"We're nowhere, period," House Speaker John Boehner told "Fox News Sunday."
There's been little progress at the negotiating table.
Don't hold your breath waiting for a "fiscal cliff" agreement. Landmark deals between presidents and Congresses sometimes aren't struck until the final hour of the final day before lightning strikes.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
With just four weeks to go to the "fiscal cliff," the postelection test of wills is being played mainly in public — on television shows, news conferences and by President Barack Obama's campaign-style excursions to gin up popular support and strengthen his bargaining hand.
Republicans oppose increasing any tax rates, while saying they're willing to trim unspecified deductions to boost tax revenues.
The negotiations to avert a yearend economic disaster of automatic tax increases and spending cuts may be following such a pattern.
They mostly want to tame soaring deficits with federal spending cuts, particularly on entitlement programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.
Strangely, the simplest option for both the president and Congress doing nothing and going over the cliff—would give both sides a lot
of what they want. Obama would get higher taxes on the wealthy. And Republicans would get deficit-slashing spending cuts.
And a lot more.
POLICE REPORTS
While some of the self-inflicted mix of tax hikes and spending cuts could be undone retroactively, the austerity bomb could trigger a new recession.
Information based off the Douglas County Sheriff's Office booking recap.
Unfortunately, how this plays out may not be known until we're welcoming in 2013.
- A 21-year-old Lawrence man was arrested Monday at 3:40 a.m. on the 1000 block of Tennessee Street on suspicion of criminal trespassing. Bond was set at $100. He was released.
Defense spending would also suffer from across-the-board cuts, which Republicans don't want. And nearly everyone's taxes would rise, neither side wants.
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- A 19-year-old male University student was arrested Sunday at 8:42 p.m. on the 1700 block of Engle Road on suspicion of possessing a controlled substance, possessing drug paraphernalia and cultivating or distributing a controlled substance.
- A 43-year-old Lawrence man was arrested Sunday at 11:15 a.m. on the 500 block of Frontier Drive on suspicion of battery and domestic battery. Bond was set at $500. He was released.
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