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THE UNIVERSITY BABY KANSAS
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10,2006
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"I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face."
— Comedian Rodney Dangerfield
fact of the day
Acne is the most common skin disease. Nearly 17 million people in the United States have it. Bonus fact: Doctors think starting or stopping birth control pills can cause acne.
Source: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
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BY ANDREA CHAO
The show is open to all ages, and tickets are available both at the Liberty Hall box office and through Ticketmaster. Ticket prices range from $30 to $40 with floor tickets ranging from $36 to $40, and balcony seats are available for $30 to $40.
"She's popular," Kristin Soper, Liberty Hall employee, said. "I think she'll do really well. It will probably sell out."
She entered the world of stand up comedy when she was 16. She has written best-selling books. She tours nationally, and has taken up belly dancing. She won the ACLU First Amendment Award.
She is Margaret Cho, and she will be performing her comedy routine at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts St.,
packed house Saturday night, so do not count on getting tickets at the door.
As of Thursday, there were about 100 tickets left for sale, but Cho is expected to perform in front of a
According to Cho's official Web site, she was born in 1968 and grew up in San-Francisco. Her comedy career began when she performed at a comedy club above her parents' bookstore. Not long after that, she won a comedy contest and opened for Jerry Seinfeld. Since then, Cho has been in TV sitcoms, written books, including best-seller, "I'm the One That I Want," toured nationally and has taken a stand politically. Cho has blogs and
in Lawrence.
has been a part of campaigns supporting gay marriage and human rights.
"She's funny," Julie Heschmeyer, Lawrence sophomore, said. "I think it's great that she's coming to Lawrence."
"Lawrence is a liberal town," Soper said, "and she's a liberal comedian. I think it's something students would enjoy."
According to Lawrence.com, Cho's performance at Liberty Hall will include comedy about her family politics, the news and sexuality.
Kansan staff writer Andrea Chao can be contacted at editor@kansan.com.
Edited by Erin Wiley
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Longhorn cattle are lead through downtown Dallas on Wednesday. The cattle drive kicks off the sixth-annual Texas Stampede Rodeo that runs Nov. 10 through 12 in Dallas.The event is a benefit for Children's Medical Center in Dallas.
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Free food in exchange for reducing campaign clutter
CHARLESTON, S.C. — With the election season over, campaign signs are now worth their weight in spinach dip.
So says the Southeast restaurant chain Sticky Fingers, which is offering a free appetizer to anyone who cleans up the campaign clutter and brings in a sign.
"Just think of those leftover campaign signs as oversized, roadside gift certificates," said Sticky Fingers co-owner Jeff Goldstein. "It's an easy way to help take care of our neighborhoods."
The Charleston-based ribs restaurant will offer coupons for a free appetizer through next Wednesday.
The chain operates 17 restaurants in the Carolinas, Tennessee,
Georgia and Florida.
RENO, Nev. — Backers of a move to legalize small amounts of marijuana in Nevada said they're not bummed out by its defeat at the polls. /
Nevadans vow to fight for legalized marijuana
"The reality is, in the history of this country, no pot initiative has gotten the vote total we're going to end up getting," said Neal Levine, campaign manager for the Committee to Control and Regulate Marijuana.
If anything, they were encouraged by the voters' support and pledged Wednesday to try again.
Nevadans can expect the issue to appear again in 2008 or 2010, he said.
we will be back on the ballot," Levine said. "We've been working this state for five years, and we're not going anywhere."
"It's 100 percent certainty that
Voters rejected the question, 56 percent to 44 percent. It passed only in tiny Storey County, by a mere 95 votes of1,851 cast.
Buy the naming rights to an artificial coral reef
KEY WEST, Fla. — Call it an opportunity for some below-sea-level recognition.
An online auction began Wednesday for naming rights to an artificial reef project organizers hope to establish off the Florida Keys.
1963 to 1983.
The reef is to be created by sinking the retired 524-foot U.S. Air Force missile-tracking ship General Hcyt S. Vandenberg, which monitored NASA space launches from
Since 1984, the ship has been among other decommissioned vessels at the James River Naval Reserve Fleet in Virginia's James River. The so-called Ghost Fleet is being thinned because of environmental concerns.
Bidding on the online auction site eBay Inc. starts at $900,000, with a reserve price of $1.3 million, said Joe Weatherby, a project organizer with Artificial Reefs of the Keys.
It's the last piece of a funding puzzle needed for the $5.7 million project. ARK has already gathered $3 million, but needs the rest to avoid losing the ship to scrap yard.
"This is for someone who is looking for a legacy." Weatherby said. "It's something for an individual or a company that is permanent and positive for the environment."
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A 20-year-old KU student bicyclist struck a car hard enough to substantially dent it Wednesday at the intersection of Jayhawk Boulevard and Sunflower Road. The car had stopped because a pedestrian was crossing the street as the driver waited to turn right. The student said that he initially saw the car as his bike approached the intersection and that after looking in one direction, he assumed the car had proceeded from the intersection.
The student started pedaling and struck the rear driver-side panel. The impact made a large dent in the side of the car, a 1995 Cadillac Seville, and catapulted the student onto the trunk. The student sustained scratches on his elbow and declined medical treatment.
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Pink repainting meant to calm prison inmates
BUFFALO, Mo. — Prisoners returning to a southwest Missouri county jail damaged in a failed breakout will find a new color scheme — pink with blue teddy bear accents.
The Dallas County Detention Center is being repainted a soft shade of pink in an effort to better manage sometimes volatile detainees. Sheriff Mike Rackley said he decided to update the look as part of extensive repairs necessary after inmates set a fire and vandalized the interior in an escape attempt.
"Basically, if they are going to act like children and commit a childish act, then we'll make a childish atmosphere," he said. "And it's a calming thing; teddy bears are soothing. So we made it like a day care, and that's kind of like what it is, a day care for adults who can't control their behavior in public."
A month after the Oct. 8 incident, the county's 30-plus prisoners are in neighboring jails while repairs continue. The new paint job includes stenciled blue teddy bear accents.
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correction
An article in Wednesday's The University Daily Kansan needs correction. In the article "Coming in from the cold," the number of riders for KU on Wheels was mistated. KU on Wheels had an average of 9,108 riders per day in February and 6,093 riders per day in October.
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