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Wednesday
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Clouds can't stop the weekend!
Warm for Wednesday.
Thursday
Is it always cloudy on Thursdays?
Tuesday, August 21
CALENDAR
WHAT: KU Info Tables
WHERE: Wescoe Hall
WHEN: 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
ABOUT: KU staff can answer questions you still may have after the weekend's activities.
WHAT: Music recital: Heather Paisar
WHAT: Music recital: Heather Patsar
WHERE: Bales Organ Recital Hall
WHEN: 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.
ABOUT: Come watch a fellow student perform on organ.
Wednesday, August 22
WHAT: Poster sale
WHERE: Kansas Union, Fourth Floor
WHEN: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
ABOUT: You can spiff up your crib with posters of all kinds of interests.
**WHAT:** Poster Sale
**WHERE:** Kansas Union, Fourth Floor
**WHEN:** 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
**ABOUT:** After classes, a Michael Jordan or Al Pacino poster might be in order.
WHAT: Global Population Growth lecture
WHERE: Ecumenical Campus Ministries Center
WHEN: Noon to 1 p.m.
ABOUT: Listen to how we can be leaders on the issue of population growth for the planet.
Thursday, August 23
WHAT: Veggie Lunch
WHERE: Ecumenical Campus Ministries
Center
WHEN: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
ABOUT: "I'm a vegetarian and Iain't scared of him."
STATE
WHAT: Tea at Three
WHERE: Kansas Union
WHEN: 3 p.m.
ABOUT: Crumpets may not be included,
but getting involved with Student Union
Activities is.
WHAT: Red Molly concert
WHERE: Red Milky Concert
WHERE: Lied Center
WHERE: 7:30 p.m.
ABOUT: Bluegrass and folk music fans will be treated to original music by band Red Milk. Tickets are $25.
Friday, August 24
Some Christians consider the Sea of Galilee a holy site because they believe Jesus walked on water there. Swimming in the lake is permitted but public nudity is not allowed, according to Israeli police
**WHAT:** Last day to enroll
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**WHEN:** All day
**ABOUT:** Friday is the last day to add classes for the fall semester
WHAT: ECM Welcome Back BBQ
WHAT: ECM Center, 1204 Oread Ave
WHEN: 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
ABOUT: Opportunity to mingle with
students faculty and staff
Yoder had been scheduled to participate Monday in a discussion on energy policy at an oil and natural gas industry convention in Wichita, but he did not attend. However, he did the radio interview at the station's studio, accompanied by his wife, Brooke.
WHAT: Campus Movie Series: Men in Black 3
--spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.
**WHERE:** Kansas Union
**WHEN:** 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.
**ABOUT:** Kick off the semester with the first movie in the Fall Campus Movie Series. Ticket prices: Free with SSC, $2 Student, $3 General at SUA offices, Level 4 Kansas Union
ASSOCIATED PRESS
In this Oct. 6, 2010 file photo, Kevin Voder participates in a debate in Overland Park, Kan. The conservative Republican congressman, unopposed for re-election in Kansas' 3rd District, has apologized for any offense caused by his naked swim in the Sea of Galilee last summer.
"I't an embarrassing situation, and I regret it." Yoder said during an interview on public radio station KCUR-FM in Kansas City, Mo. "I know that many constituents out there are sort of scrapping their heads, saying, 'What is this guy up to? What was he doing? What was he thinking?'
Nude swim haunts Yoder
ASSOCIATED PRESS
TOPEKA, Kan. — The Kansas Democratic Party's chairwoman is calling on a Republican congressman to resign following the disclosure that he briefly swam naked at the Sea of Galilee during an official trip to Israel last year.
"I jumped in, was in for 10 seconds, jumped back out," Yoder said during his radio interview. "Just in and out — just to have the experience, really."
Democratic Party Chairwoman Joan Wagnon said Monday that freshman Congressman Kevin Yoder had embarrassed the state, and his actions raise questions about whether he's fit to serve in Congress.
The incident occurred in August 2011 when he and about 20 other lawmakers and staff members jumped into the water. Politico reported Sunday that he was the only one among them who wore no clothes.
Yoder apologized publicly for the incident, saying he regrets it. He said he was only in the water for about 10 seconds.
"If someone walks around the beach naked, that's an offense," Rosenfeld said in Jerusalem. He said no official complaint had been made against Yoder, but it was possible he could still be charged even a year later.
Yoder said it was dark and he was in the water for only about 10 seconds. He said his wife was with him but did not go into the water. He said members of the party jumped in individually, not as a group, and not everyone did.
The Aug. 13-21 trip was sponsored by the American Israel Education Foundation, a charity whose mission is to provide grants for educational programs and conferences, and to educate politicians and influential people about the importance of the U.S.-Israel relationship.
"If that kind of incident takes place and someone makes an official compliant, we'll investigate," Rosenfeld said Monday.
Kansas Democratic Party Chairwoman Joan Wagonn called Yoder's behavior "inexcusable" and said if the incident had occurred in Kansas, he would be forced to resign. She later issued a statement calling for him to step down.
"At the time, it seemed very spontaneous," Yoder said. "Somewhat afterwards, maybe the next day, I started thinking that maybe that wasn't the smartest decision."
"I'm astonished these people think they can go on these junkets like this and no one will know what they do." Wagton said.
POLITICS
Ryan's record key to both presidential campaigns
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LAKEWOOD, Colo. — Since Mitt Romney selected Paul Ryan as his running mate, the presidential campaign's focus has largely centered on the Wisconsin congressman's ambitious plan to transform Medicare and slash government spending.
But President Barack Obama's re-election team and its allies have also been highlightting the congressman's staunchly anti-abortion stance, hoping to buttress its argument that the Republican ticket is hostile to women's rights.
Ryan has earned a perfect rating from the National Right to Life Committee for his votes during his 14 years in Congress. The National Abortion Rights Action League tallied 59 votes that Ryan took on abortion-related bills. On each measure, he voted against abortion rights.
"I'm as pro-life as a person gets," Ryan told The Weekly Standard, a conservative magazine, in 2010.
Shortly after the formal announcement of Ryan's selection on Aug. 11, Obama's team tweeted that Ryan would ban abortions even in cases of rape and incest and had sponsored a bill that would outlaw some forms of birth control. The Democratic campaign emailed female supporters to stress Ryan's record on women's issues, including his
vote against the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the first bill Obama signed when he took office.
When Ryan made his Colorado debut Tuesday, a liberal activist group flew a banner above the high school where he was speaking. The banner read, in part, "Choose me, lose choice." On Friday, the Obama campaign launched a television ad blasting Ryan's abortion record.
Romney's campaign contends that Democrats are trying to confuse voters by attacking Ryan on women's issues. "This is a desperate attempt by President Obama's allies to distract from his failed economic policies, which have been particularly devastating to women," said Brendan Buck, a spokesman for the vice presidential candidate.
In a statement, the Obama campaign said, "American women know they can't trust a Romney/Ryan ticket to stand up for them."
Both campaigns are aggressively targeting suburban women, and the election has already featured an unusual amount of debate over reproductive rights. The entry of Ryan into the race only heightens the polarization over the issue.
"There are lots of things that the pro-abortion community will throw at Paul Ryan because there's lots of ammunition, since he has such a solid pro-life record," said former GOP Rep. Marlin Musgrave, now vice president for governmental affairs of the anti- abortion Susan B. Anthony List.
In a 2010 essay for a conservative think tank, Ryan compared the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion to the infamous 1857 Dred Scott decision, in which the court ruled that black slaves were not legally people. "After America has won the last century's hard-fought struggles against unequal human rights in the forms of totalitarianism abroad and segregation at home, I cannot believe any official or citizen can still defend the notion that an unborn human being has no rights," Ryan wrote.
When he first won election to Congress in 1998, Ryan vowed to oppose all abortions unless they were needed to save the life of the mother. He voted for a bill requiring that women who receive abortions first undergo an ultrasound, and another barring anyone besides parents from transporting minors across state lines for abortions. He also voted against a measure to allow women in the military to receive abortions in military hospitals.
Ryan was also one of several dozen Republican co-sponsors last year of a bill called the Sanctity of Human Life Act. The measure, which never made it to the House floor, would give a fertilized egg the same legal rights as a person.
Information based on the Douglas County Sheriff's Office booking recap.
POLICE REPORTS
- A 19-year-old Eudora man was arrested Monday at 8:54 a.m. on the 1200 block of Bluestein Drive in Eudora on suspicion of possession of drug paraphernalia and aggravated assault. Bond was not set.
- A 19-year-old Lawrence man was arrested Sunday at 5:43 a.m. on the 600 block of Michigan Street on suspicion of domestic battery. Bond was not set.
- A 21-year-old male University student was arrested Sunday at 1:30 a.m. on the 1400 block of Ohio Street on suspicion of being intoxicated in the roadway. Bond was set at $100. He was released.
- The KU Office of Public Safety reported a minor in possession of alcohol Sunday at 12:40 a.m. at the Chi Omega Fountain. The case was cleared by arrest.
- A 22-year-old Shawnee man was arrested Sunday at 1:25 a.m. on the 1300 block of Ohio Street on suspicion of possessing, purchasing or consuming alcohol by a minor, possession or use of a fake driver's license and interfering with duties of an officer. Bond was set at $300. He was released.
- An 18-year-old male University student was arrested Sunday at 12:23 a.m. on the 700 block of 23rd Street on suspicion of possessing drug paraphernalia, criminal carry of a club or knife and cultivating or distributing a controlled substance. Bond was set at $21,750.
- A 21-year-old Overland Park woman was arrested Sunday at 12.14 a.m. on the 300 block of east 15th Street on suspicion of driving with a suspended, cancelled or revoked license, no insurance and operating under the influence. Bond was set at $800. She was released.
- A 20-year-old Lawrence woman was arrested Saturday at 4:40 p.m. on the 1500 block of west Eighth Terrace on suspicion of domestic battery. Bond was not set.
- A 21-year-old Lawrence woman was arrested Saturday at 5:15 a.m. on the 1400 block of Tennessee Street on suspicion of criminal deprivation of property to a non-vehicle, battery and domestic battery. Bond was not set.
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— Rachel Salyer