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Potter Lake was built in 1911 in order to combat major fires on campus. Swimming and diving contests were held there until the water quality was deemed poor enough to ban swimming in 1924.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Saturday
What's the weather, Jay?
Forecaster: Tyler Wieland KU Atmospheric Science
Thursday
HI: 86
LO: 64
Partly cloudy, 60 percent chance rain. 1-5 mph NE winds.
day
HI: 77
LO: 50
Sunny skies.
Friday
Pack an umbrella to be safe.
HI: 79
LO: 53
Cool with likely thunderstorms earlier in the day.
Embrace cooler temperatures.
Great tailgating weather!
CALENDAR
Wednesday, September 5
**WHAT:** Party on the Patio
**WHERE:** Dole Institute of Politics
**WHEN:** 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
**ABOUT:** Enjoy free barbecue while learning about Dole's student advisory board.
WHAT: Ad Astra Percussion
WHAT: Ad Astra Percussion
WHERE: Spencer Museum of Art
WHEN: 6:30 p.m.
ABOUT: Local percussionists celebrate the birthday of composer John Cage with a free performance of his music.
WHAT: The Malah
WHERE: The Bottleneck
WHEN: 8 p.m.
ABOUT: South Carolina electronic rockers bring their Southern rhythm to Lawrence.
Thursday, September 6
WHAT: Study Abroad Fair
WHERE: Kansas Union
WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
ABOUT: Find out about opportunities to study abroad and speak with past participants.
WHAT: Planning Your Semester Now
WHERE: AAAC and Writing Center
WHEN: 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
ABOUT: Learn how to make the most out of your semester by planning ahead.
**WHAT:** KU Tango Boot camp
**WHERE:** Kansas Union Ballroom
**WHOW:** 7 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
**ABOUT:** Pick up the basics of the Argentine Tango during this no-partners necessary crash course in dance.
Friday, September 7
WHAT: Sand Mandala Concentration
Ceremony
WHERE: Spencer Museum of Art
WHEN: 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
ABOUT: The mandala created by Tibetan monks throughout the week will be dismantled in a ceremony that starts at SMA and ends at Potters Lake.
**WHAT:** A Conversation with Nicky Finney
**WHERE:** Hall Center for Humanities
**WHERE:** 10 a.m. to 11:30 p.m.
**ABOUT:** National Book Award winning poet Nicky Finney will discuss how humans are now changing the planet.
**WHAT:** Buckwheat Zydeco
**WHERE:** Lied Center
**WHEN:** 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
**ABOUT:** Enjoy the Grammy award winning band's free outdoor performance.
POLITICS
WHAT: Football vs. Rice
WHERE: Memorial Stadium
WHEN: 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
ABOUT: Come watch the Jayhawks battle the Owls.
Saturday, September 8
**WHAT:** Volleyball vs. Woming
**WHERE:** Horejsi Family Athletics Center
**WHEN:** 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
**ABOUT:** After the football game, see lady Jayhawks play the Cowboys.
President Obama listens as former President Bill Clinton speaks in the briefing room of the White House in Washington on Dec. 10, 2010. When Clinton takes the convention stage to endorse Barack Obama this week, it will be a landmark step on a path to reconciliation for two former rivals whose political fortunes are now inextricably tied.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
"President Clinton has an economic record second to none," Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said at a briefing Tuesday hosted by ABC News and Yahoo. "He's a very credible messenger ... he's going to deliver a very compelling speech."
Former democrat rivals confer at DNC
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — When Bill Clinton takes the convention stage in prime time Wednesday to praise President Barack Obama, it will be the most visible step on a path toward reconciliation for two former rivals whose political fortunes are now inextricably linked.
That Obama would choose the former president for such a high-profile speaking spot and that Clinton would accept seemed unfathomable in 2008, when the two clashed bitterly during the Democratic nomination showdown between Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former president's wife. Even though Hillary Clinton now serves as Obama's secretary of state, resentments between the current and former presidents have been slow to ebb.
But now, with the Democratic incumbent locked in a tight race with Republican Mitt Romney, Obama has fully embraced Clinton as a political partner in hopes of capturing the former president's uncanny knack for political survival against tough odds.
Obama called Clinton in July and asked him to give the speech that would place the president's name in nomination. Clinton accepted enthusiastically, aides to both men said.
If the arrangement seems like a forced marriage, it's also a mutually beneficial pairing that brings Clinton back to the national political forefront and lends Obama the validation of the Democratic Party's most popular elder statesman.
But it's not a one-way proposition, as Clinton needs an Obama win in November to preserve his own legacy.
With the economic recovery still tepid and unemployment stubbornly high, Obama campaign officials are eager to portray the president's economic policies as mirroring those of his Democratic predecessor. Many voters remember Clinton's tenure as a period of prosperity. The economy added some 22 million new jobs during his two terms in the White House from January 1993 to the start of 2001 and Clinton left office with a balanced federal budget and surplus.
"From President Clinton's perspective, if Romney were elected held repeal everything Clinton ever did and everything he wants to advance," longtime Clinton adviser Paul Begala said. "He and President Obama share an economic philosophy ferociously
focused on the middle class, and he believes Obama has us on the right track."
Begala also serves as senior adviser for Priorities USA Action, an independent group supporting Obama's re-election that has struggled to compete financially with similar Republican-leaning groups. Clinton has signed on to help the group and did his first event in August, briefing donors on the political landscape. His assistance helped the group raise about $10 million in August, its best monthly haul.
Clinton stars in an Obama campaign commercial currently running in battleground states. In the ad, the former president suggests that Romney would return the country to George W. Bush-era economic policies while affirming Obama's approach that he argues mirrors his own.
"President Obama has a plan to rebuild America from the ground up," Clinton says, adding, "That's what happened when I was president."
To be sure, Clinton hasn't always been a model surrogate for the Obama campaign. The former president once praised Romney's "sterling" business credentials at Bain Capital, the private equity firm where Romney amassed a large fortune. The remark contradicted the Obama campaign's effort to paint the GOP nominee as a plutocrat devastation.
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POLICE REPORTS
Information based on the Douglas County Sheriff's Office booking recap and KU Office of Public Safety crime reports.
- A 30-year-old Canton man was arrested Monday at 9:49 p.m. on KU Parking Lot 101 near Templin Residence Hall on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. Bond was set at $250. He was released.
- A 21-year-old Lawrence man was arrested Tuesday at 12:02 a.m. in the 3500 block of Clinton Parkway on suspicion of domestic battery. Bond was not set.
- A 26-year-old Lawrence man was arrested Monday at 1:50 a.m. in the 600 block of Iowa Street on suspicion of driving while intoxicated and driving with a suspended driver's license. Bond was set at $500. He was released.
- A 32-year-old Topeka man was arrested Monday at 12:16 a.m. in the 1000 block Massachusetts Street on suspicion of being intoxicated in the roadway. Bond was set at $100. He was released.
Correction:
Packed lunch savings
Tuesday's story, "NOT SO FAST,
JACK" incorrectly stated the cost of
buying lunch in the Underground
for a year. In 85 days, the cost of
eating an $8.05 lunch is $884.25.
and the savings of packing a lunch
instead of eating on campus is
$1,259.67 a year.
— Luke Ranker
- A 20-year-old male University student was arrested Sunday at 2:02 a.m. in the 1100 block of Tennessee on the suspicion of aggravated assault and aggravated battery. Bond was set at $15,000.
CAMPUS
- A 25-year-old Lawrence man was arrested Sunday at 12:16 a.m. in the 2400 block of West 24th Terrace on suspicion of criminal damage to property less than $1,000, battery and domestic battery. Bond was set at $1,500. He was released.
- A 21-year-old male University student was arrested Sunday at 4:08 a.m. in the 3100 block of Clinton Parkway on suspicion of operating under the influence. Bond was set at $500. He was released.
Sexual harrassment online training now required
According to an email from Tammara Durham, vice provost for student affairs, students must complete the mandatory training online by Oct 5. The training should take no more than 20 minutes and can be completed by logging into http://ku.resultready.com.
Students should have received an
All students are required to complete training on sexual harassment and sexual violence.
According the email from harasstraining@ku.edu, training will not time out once started, so if a student is interrupted during the process they should leave their browser open. However, if a student closes their browser the training will restart.
— Luke Ranker
email from harasstraining@ku.edu yesterday with further details about logging in.
Operation Rescue files ethics complaint
ASSOCIATED PRESS
TOPEKA, Kan. — An anti-abortion group filed an ethics complaint Tuesday accusing Johnson County's district attorney of lying to a judge about the fate of records from an investigation into Planned Parenthood.
Operation Rescue filed the complaint with the Office of the Disciplinary Administrator, the board responsible investigating cases of attorney misconduct.
It alleges District Attorney Steve Howe lied in court about the destruction of the records obtained in the investigation.
The clinic was charged with falsifying documents and performing illegal late-term abortions.
Howe asked a judge in November 2011 to drop 49 of the original 107 charges, including the felonies, filed against Planned Parenthood in 2007.
The last of the charges were dropped in August.
Cheryl Sullenger, policy adviser for Operation Rescue, said Howe lied when he told a district court judge that the "last complete copies" of the abortion records were destroyed by the attorney general's office.
I
Sullenger said that was false and that Operation Rescue had proof from a Shawnee County judge that copies still existed.