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Happy birthday, IDK! The first official issue of the paper, then titled "Semi-Wreak Weekly," appeared on campus 108 years ago today. It became the Daily Kansan seven years later.
THE UNIVERSITY
DAILY KANSAN
NEWS MANAGEMENT
Editor-in-chief Ian Cummings
ADVERTISING MANAGEMENT
Managing editor Vikaas Shanker
Business manager Ross Newton
NEWS SECTION EDITORS
Sales manager Elise Farrington
News editor
Kelsey Cipoila
Associate news editor Luke Ranker
Copy chiefs
Nadia Imafidon
Taylor Lewis
Sarah McCabe
Designers
Ryan Benedick
Megan Boxberger
Emily Grigone
Sarah Jacobs
Katie Kutsko
Opinion editor Dylan Lysen
Photo editor
Ashleigh Lee
Sports editor Ryan McCarthy
Associate sports editor Ethan Padway
Special sections editor Victoria Pitcher
Entertainment editor Megan Hinman
Web editor
Natalie Parker
Technical Editor Tim Shedor
ADVISERS
General manager and news adviser Malcolm Gibson
Sales and marketing adviser Jon Schlitt
Contact Us
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Newsroom: (785) 766-1491
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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 50 cents. Subscriptions can be purchased at the Kansan business office, 2051A Dale Human Development Center, 1000 Sunnyside Avenue, Lawrence, KS., 60454.
The University Daily Kansan (USN 0746-4967) is published daily during the school year except Friday, Saturday, Sunday, fall break, spring break and exams and weekly during the summer session excluding holidays. Annual subscriptions by mail an $250 plus tax. Send address changes to The University Daily Kansan, 2051A Dole Human Development Center, 100 Sunnyside Avenue
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2012
What's the weather, Jay?
Forecaster: Tyler Weiland
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Jav says it's time for sleeves!
Wednesday
HI: 80
LO: 51
Mostly sunny and warmer. Southwest winds at 14 mph.
HI: 79
LO: 52
Partly cloudy. West wind at 7 mph.
Thursday
Jay says put the sleeves away!
Jay is confused; do what you want!
Monday, September 17
CALENDAR
WHAT: Last day to add class
WHERE: Campus
WHEN: All day
ABOUT: For more details, visit the Office of the Registrar in Strong Hall.
WHAT: Last day for tuition refund
WHERE: Campus
WHEN: All day
ABOUT: Last day for 50 percent tuition
refund when with withdrawing from
a class.
WHAT: John Lithgow. Stories by Heart
WHERE: Lied Center
WHERE: 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
ABOUT: Listen to actor John Lithgow tell a humorous reflection about story telling.
Tuesday, September 18
WHAT: Start Credit/ No Credit
WHERE: Campus
WHERE: All day
ABOUT: Apply for credit/ no credit in office of the University Registrar, located in 121 Strong Hall.
WHAT: Jessica Johnson. Obliquity to Everyone
WHERE: Kansas University, Woodruff Auditorium
WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m.
ABOUT. Watch Jessica Johnson's comedy show about the media's influence and portrayal of women.
ABOUT. Learn to dance to Latin American music with Hispanic American Leadership Organization and Student Union Activities.
WHERE: Hashinger Hall, Dance Studio
WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m.
Wednesday, September 19
WHAT: Hispanic Heritage Month; Latin Pride Dance Lessons
WHAT: Cooking Demo
WHERE: Kansas Union, lobby
WHEN: 3 to 4 p.m.
ABOUT: Join experienced cooks from around campus and the Lawrence community for free cooking lessons.
WHAT: Volleyball vs. Creighton
WHERE: Horejsi Family Athletics
Center
WHEN: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
ABOUT: Watch the Jayhawks take on
the Blue Jays
Thursday, September 20
ELECTION
WHAT: Tea at Three
WHERE: Kansas Union, Level 4 Lobby
WHEN: 3 to 4 p.m.
ABOUT: Enjoy free tea, punch and cookies in the union.
WHAT: Read Across Lawrence:
Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town
WHERE:Dole Institute of Politics
WHEN: 7:30 to 9 p.m.
ABOUT: Join Lawrence community members for a discussion with Nick Reding, author of this New York Times bestseller, Methaland, a book about meth abuse in a small Midwestern town.
Presidential race still too close to call
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney makes comments on the killing of U.S. embassy officials in Libya.
WASHINGTON — Middle East violence is shaking up a presidential race that otherwise looks stubbornly stable, and tight. President Barack Obama holds a tiny edge, Republican Mitt Romney is seeking a breakthrough message, and three debates are ahead in the campaign's final seven weeks.
President Barack Obama, accompanied by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaks during a Transfer of Remains Ceremony at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., marking the return of the four Americans killed.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Republicans and Democrats agree the election probably will be decided on Obama's jobs-and-economy record. Both campaigns are gearing up for the new week by trying to shift the focus back to that issue. But foreign policy leaped to the forefront in recent days when protesters attacked U.S. diplomats and missions in the Middle East, and it's unclear when it will recede.
Criticisms of Romney's quickdraw response to the protests underscored both his foreign policy vulnerabilities and the difficulty in knocking off an incumbent, especially one who remains relatively well-liked despite a struggling economy. Obama used the trappings of the presidency to full advantage. He led somber events honoring the four U.S. officials killed in Libya. He also needed his challenger by saying that Romney "seems to have a tendency to shoot first and aim later."
As unrest abroad continues.
"They want to go back to the same old policies that got us in trouble in the first place," former President Bill Clinton is shown saying in the 60-second TV ad.
Obama is launching an aggressive effort to convince voters in the most competitive states — Colorado, Florida, Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio, and Virginia — that his economic policies are working and that Romney is risking the nation's recovery with a plan that caters to multimillionaires over the middle class.
Romney is trying to get back to the economy, his strength, even
as a new national survey by The New York Times and CBS News finds that he has lost his long-standing edge on the question of whom voters view as most likely to restore the economy and create jobs. Voters are feeling slightly more optimistic that the president's policies are helping. Still, that poll and others found the race narrowly divided.
"Beating an incumbent is never easy," Romney told ABC on Friday.
He dismissed polls that show Obama ahead. "I'm doing well ... and this is a campaign which I think will come into focus as the debates occur."
Frustration is showing in some GOP circles because Romney has failed to move ahead Obama despite months of highlighting the nation's high jobless rate and the millions of dollars spent pushing an economic message on TV. Romney allies are urging him to
find a message that will persuade distillusioned voters to give him a chance. They reject the notion that Romney is careening from topic to topic, despite recent emphases on Medicare and international leadership.
The campaign's final seven weeks will dump new torrents of TV ads on the few competitive states, fueled by the eye-popping fundraising of Romney, Obama and their supporters.
POLICE REPORTS
Information based on the Douglas County Sheriff's Office booking recap and KU Office of Public Safety crime reports.
A 25-year-old Kansas City, Kan man was arrested Sunday at 3:20 a.m. at Toll Plaza 197 near, the Lecompton exit on suspicion of driving while intoxicated and driving without a license. Bond was set at $275. He was released.
- A 23-year-old Lawrence man was arrested Sunday at 2:40 a.m. on the intersection of 17th and Massachusetts streets on suspicion of driving while intoxicated and driving without a license. Bond was set at $275. He was released.
- A 26-year-old Olathe man was arrested Sunday at 2:37 a.m. on the 900 block of Rockledge Road on suspicion of operating under the influence and transporting an open container. Bond was set at $600. He was released.
- A 24-year-old Olathe woman was arrested Sunday at 2.17 a.m. on the 700 block of east 23rd Street on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. Bond
was set at $250. She was released.
- A 21-year-old male University student was arrested Sunday at 1:15 a.m. on the 900 block of Ames Street in Baldwin City on suspicion of operating under the influence. Bond was set at $500, he was released.
- A 23-year-old female University student was arrested Sunday at 1:38 a.m. on the 500 block of east 23rd Street on suspicion of driving while intoxicated and having an open container. Bond was set at $350. She was released.
- A 24-year-old Lawrence man was arrested Saturday at 12:22 a.m. on the 2300 block of Iowa Street on suspicion of battery of a law enforcement officer, making criminal threats, criminal carry of a firearm and criminal possession of a firearm. Bond was set at $25,000. He was released.
- An assault was reported to the KU Office of Public Safety at 9:06 a.m. on west 11th Street after one person threw a drink on someone who then threatened the first person after police contact. The case was cleared by arrest.
According to a news release from the Lied Center, Lithgow tells the story of his ascent through the acting world while intertwined through two vastly different childhood stories told to Lithgow and his siblings while they were growing up.
CAMPUS Actor to perform at the Lied Center
Tonight, the Lied Center will welcome the comedic talents of actor John Lithgow with his one-man theatrical memoir show "Stories by Heart."
According to Michele Berendsen, publications manager at the Lied Center, the Watkins Community Museum will be in the lobby before the performance, displaying props and information about "The Day After," a 1983 movie filmed in Lawrence, which Lithgow plays Professor Joe Huxley, Lithgow's extensive acting experience includes starring in the TV show "3rd Rock from the Sun," the voice of "3rd Forguard in the animated film "Shrek" and guest starring roles on "How I Met Your Mother" and "Dexter."
—Elly Grimm
CAMPUS
"The car is based off of a World War II design," junior Andrew Locke said. "It was a lot of trial and error because we were so short on time and ended up doing a lot of things we didn't plan. The design process was more of a design as you go kind of thing."
est cheers from the audience.
ROTC tests soapbox car in national event
The team, which they named the Fighting Jayhawks, was the only one representing the Kansas City region. They competed against 40 other teams from across the country in front of an audience of 150,000.
The University's ROTC put its soapbox derby car to the test in the Red Bull Soapbox Race in Dallas on Saturday afternoon. The five-member team built the car in one week, and they expected, at the very least, to win the audience's popular vote.
"Our image and concept were definitely the most developed," Locke said.
Locke said the car was clearly a crowd favorite and garnered the loud-
The car was pushed down a hill and reached 25 mph, with junior Andrew Martin steering the car through jumps and turns. However, after the first jump, the car lost two wheels and crashed. Martin carried the remains of the car across the finish line.
Locke said the team is already brainstorming ideas for next year's competition. With a year of experience under the team's belt, Locke believes a boxcar derby win is in the future.
"There's some rumors that next year's race includes a 25-foot drop into water." Locke said. "We'll need to start working on the car earlier and fabricate it out of steel and aluminum. We will also publicize it earlier, and hopefully have a larger fan base."
—Allison Kohn
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