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Today is KU's 146th birthday, September 12. 1866 was the first day of classes in Old North College, located just south of GS residence hall.
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What's the weather, Jay?
Forecaster: Tyler Weiland
Thursday
HI: 67
L0: 45
Grab the umbrella. Cooler with a 80% chance of showers
Prepare for rain.
Friday
HI: 74
LO: 51
Fall-like weather arrives with sunny skies
Saturday
Soak up some rays.
HI: 80
L0: 53
Mostly Sunny
Decent tailgating weather.
Wednesday, September 12
CALENDAR
**WHAT:** Cooking Demo
**WHERE:** Kansas Union
**WHEN:** 3 to 4 p.m.
**ABOUT:** If your kitchen skills only extend to making ramen, check out SUA's weekly cooking demo.
WHAT: Kevin Roberts, The Food Dude
WHERE: Kansas Union, Woodruff
Auditorium
WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m.
ABOUT: Learn easy alternatives to
campus dining halls and fast food from
chef Kevin Roberts.
**WHAT:** Science on the Spot. Bar Edition
**WHERE:** Red Lyon Tavern, 944 Massachusetts St.
**WHEN:** 7 to 9 p.m.
**ABOUT:** Join KU Natural History Museum educators as they do science experiments with bar ingredients.
Thursday, September 13
**WHAT:** Sexy Science
**WHERE:** Natural History Museum
**WHEN:** 5 to 7 p.m.
**ABOUT:** The Natural History Museum will kick off its Thursday evening by featuring the suggestive side of science.
WHAT: Candlelight Vigil Honoring
WHAT: Candlelight Vigil Honoring Survivors
WHERE: Memorial Campanile
WHEN: 7 p.m.
ABOUT: As part of Sexual Awareness Week, join in the candlelight vigil honoring sexual assault survivors.
CRIME
Friday, September 14
WHAT: The Laramie Project
WHERE: Kansas Union, Alderson
Auditorium
WHEN: 6:30 p.m.
ABOUT: Theater students stage a reading of the play, which is about the murder of a gay Wyoming college student.
WHAT: Belly dance for Beginners
WHERE: Westside Yoga
WHEN: 5:45 p.m.
ABOUT: Work your abs with this weekly class.
Saturday, September 15
**WHAT:** Monarch Butterfly Tagging
**WHERE:** Baker-Haskell Wetlands
**WHERE:** 7:30 to 11:30 a.m.
**ABOUT:** Join nature enthusiasts for the annual monarch butterfly tagging sponsored by Monarch Watch and Jayhawk Audubon
**WHAT:** Football vs. Texas Christian University
**WHERE:** Memorial Stadium
**WHEN:** 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
**ABOUT:** Watch the Jayhawks take on the Horned Frogs in the first conference game of the season.
Baby hospitalized after ingesting hard drugs
KSNW-TV reports the baby was upgraded to stable condition Tuesday at St. Francis Regional Medical Center.
WICHTA. Kan. — Police in Wichita say an 8-month-old girl whose mother claimed she had fallen off a bed was really under the influence of methamphetamine.
The 34-year-old mother has been arrested on suspicion of child endangement and possession of drugs and paraphernalia.
Police say the mother called paramedics Monday saying her daughter was unresponsive after falling out of bed.
The baby was taken in critical condition to the hospital, where doctors found meth in her system.
The baby has been placed in protective custody.
A 50-year-old man living at the same extended-stay motel as the mother and child has also been arrested.
It wasn't clear Tuesday how the baby ingested meth.
MILITARY
Associated Press
Monument to include soldiers from Fort Riley
FORT RILEY, Kan. — The names of 16 soldiers are now part of a monument near Fort Riley's Cavalry Parade Field after a ceremony Tuesday to mark the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
The event was held by the 1st Infantry Division and Fort Riley. The names joined those of 188 soldiers on the Global War on Terrorism Monument near the U.S. Cavalry Museum at the northeast Kansas Army post.
All of the names are of service members who either deployed to combat from Fort Riley or who mobilized through the installation before going to war.
The annual event pays tribute to the nearly 3,000 people who were killed in the attacks on New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, as well as the thousands of soldiers who have been killed or wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Brig. Gen. Don MacWille, senior commander of Fort Riley and the 1st Infantry Division, said the attacks united the United States around a cause, rather than fear.
Information based on the Douglas County Sheriff's Office booking recap and KU Office of Public Safety crime reports.
POLICE REPORTS
A 62-year-old Lawrence man was arrested in the 700 block of New Hampshire at 8:56 a.m. Monday for suspicion of criminal trespassing. Bond was set at $100. He was released.
"Eleven years later, we're still standing strong," MacWille said. "They did not and will not condemn us to fear."
Fort Riley is home of the 1st Infantry Division and its more than 18,000 soldiers.
"Those attacks were designed to break us as a nation. Those attacks were designed to change the American way of life.
- A 33-year-old Lawrence man was arrested in the 700 block of Kentucky at 9:30 p.m. Monday for suspicion of disorderly conduct and drinking in public. Bond was set at $200. He was released.
- Criminal damage to property was reported to the KU Office of Public Safety at 10:36 a.m. after someone damaged the back glass of the victim's car on the 1400 block of Alumni Place. Loss is reported at $500. Case is open.
HONORING THE FALLEN
Presidential candidates remember 9/11
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, joined by members of the White House staff, pause during a moment of silence on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington yesterday to mark the 11th anniversary of 9/11.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — The presidential candidates are taking a break from their partisan attacks — but not all their politicking — to remember the 9/11 anniversary.
President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney pulled their negative ads and avoided appearing at campaign rallies in honor of the 11th anniversary of the terrorist strike. But Obama's camp sent former President Bill Clinton to swing-state Florida for an evening rally eight weeks before Election Day. And the day offered Romney a chance in a speech to a meeting of the National Guard to address criticism that he didn't include a salute to the troops or reference the war in Afghanistan in his convention speech.
"With less than two months to go before Election Day, I would normally speak to a gathering like this about the differences between my and my opponent's plans for our military and for our national security," Romney told thousands packed into the Reno, Nev., convention hall. "There is a time and a place for that, but this day is not it."
He went on to thank the troops who protect our country, "including those who traced the trail of terror to that walled compound in Abbottabad and the SEALs who delivered justice to Osama bin Laden," Romney said in a nod to his rival without mentioning his name. The remark won loud
applause.
the president and first lady Michelle Obama observed the anniversary with moments of silence on the White House's South Lawn and at the Pentagon, the target of one of the four planes hijacked by al-Qaida operatives.
"Eleven times, we have paused in remembrance, in reflection, in unity and in purpose," Obama told the crowd of family members of the Pentagon victims. "This is never an easy day."
The president then went to Arlington National Cemetery, where he visited the graves of recent war dead from Afghanistan and Iraq and placed presidential challenge coins in front of their headstones.
He later planned to visit wounded soldiers and their families at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
At the time of the somber White House observance, Romney was shaking hands with firefighters at
The speech was an opportunity for Romney to address criticism from Democrats that he's not ready to be commander in chief or that he hasn't provided
Chicago's O'Hare Airport, their yellow trucks forming a backdrop that recalled the sacrifice of first responders to the attacks.
The Republican nominee then flew to Nevada to address the National Guard, whose members deployed as part of the military response.
enough detail about how he would handle Afghanistan — attacks that stopped for the day but were sure to continue in the coming weeks.
Obama's goal is to end all U.S. combat there by the end of 2014, while Romney has avoided specifics about troop numbers.
Romney repeated his position in the speech Tuesday that his goal would be for U.S. troops to hand over security to Afghan troops by the same deadline, while evaluating the conditions on the ground and soliciting the best advice of commanders.
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"We can all agree that our men and women in the field deserve a clear mission, that they deserve the resources and resolute leadership they need to complete that mission, and that they deserve a country that will provide for their needs when they come home," he said.
Vice President Joe Biden attended a memorial service in his home state of Pennsylvania, where one of the hijacked airliners crashed in the fields of Shanksville.
Negative ads were off the air Tuesday, following precedent for the anniversary. The 9/11 attack killed nearly 3,000 in the United States and was followed by wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
He told the families of the victims that "what they did for this country is still etched in the minds of not only you but millions of Americans forever."
At least 1,987 U.S. troops have died in Afghanistan and 4,475 in Iraq, according to the Pentagon.
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