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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2006
quote of the day
"I'm like this — failure ain't even in my vocabulary. Even though I just used the word. You know what I mean."
- hip hop artist Daniel Dumile, a.k.a. MF DOOM, in an Interview with The Wire magazine
fact of the dav
About 300,000 deaths a year can be attributed to poor diet and inactivity.
Source: American Medical Association
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Emily Balkin (left) I am muckenzie Newsville
Natalie Henning, 4, tries her hand at pumpkin Sunday during the Pre-Halloween Fun for the Young event at the Dillon Nature Center in Hutchinson. Other activities at the event included crafts, a nature hike and cookie making.
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odd news Suzanne Dias times two run for school board
FRESNO, Calif. — Voters In the tiny American Union Elementary School District may think they're seeing double when they go to the polls next month.
When they get to the candidates running for school board on Nov.7, they'll find Suzanne Dias and Suzanne Dias.
Bowling with pumpkins
That's Suzanne Dias, 50, a school food service manager, and Suzanne Dias, 36, a housewife.
The two women are among six candidates running for three school board seats in the rural Fresno County district, which has one school with about 350 students.
Workers at the county elections office said they can't recall a time when two candidates with the same name ran for the same office.
"It's rare and clearly it would tend to confuse the voters," said County Clerk Victor Salazar.
Voters will see some differences between the two candidates.
The elder Dias will be listed on the ballot as Susanne Hodoian Dias. She added her maiden name after learning that the other Suzanne Dias was also running.
The two will also be distinguished by their occupations, which will be listed below their names on the ballot.
Another candidate, Brett Mosekian, calls the situation "kind of peculiar," but he doubts voters will have much trouble picking one candidate from the other because everyone in the district pretty much knows everyone else.
The district only has 893 registered voters.
Neighbors use trailers to preempt hog feedlot
ANSLEY, Neb. — LeRoyce and Cynthia Margritz don't want a hog feedlot close to their home, so they and a neighbor used a Custer County zoning law to their benefit and took out housing permits to put in two makeshift trailers near the proposed site.
The Margritzes, who began ranching and growing crops on their 1,360 acres eight years ago, said they acted after hearing rumors of a 6,000-head hog feedlot going in about a mile from their house.
After confirming the rumors, they and the neighbor started planning to put in the trailers a quarter-mile from the proposed feedlot. The move pre-empted R.J. Thomas' county permit application to build the feedlot.
Thomas, a farmer, said the Margritzes' move was a bad-faith effort to exploit zoning laws.
"They're not places where people might actually live," Thomas said of the trailers. "It's just a ploy to stop the permit."
While acknowledging that they were trying to block Thomas' proposed feedlot, they said it was their only legal recourse because they did not have an opportunity to challenge its construction.
BELOIT, Wis. — More than 200 people attended a symbolic funeral to lay to rest the offensive
Wisconsin residents hold funeral for offensive word
term for blacks: the n-word.
"I didn't know it was possible to be happy to go to a funeral," said Milele Chikasa Anana, publisher of Umoja magazine in Madison. "Hallelujah! I am delighted that we are having a funeral!"
The Oct. 21 funeral was part of an event organized by the Black Star Project of Beloit, which was recently formed to pursue educational and job opportunities for blacks in Beloit and strengthen spiritual growth for families.
Before the funeral at New Zion Baptist Church, there was a ceremony at Bethel AME Church and a rally at Merrill Elementary School.
The N-word's coffin was buried at East Lawn Cemetery, along with other hateful words that attendees wished to bury.
Wanda Sloan, a member of the Black Star Project and one of the funeral's organizers, said she is bothered that some in what she called the hip-hop generation use the word as a term of endearment.
"It's disturbing because it shows that the educational system is still being negligent at teaching African-American children and majority children about the true history," Sloan said.
Associated Press
TUESDAY top10
Top Ten Scary Movies:
1) The Exorcist
2) The Shining
3) Nightmare On Elm Street
4) Silence Of The Lambs
5) Psycho
6) Alien
7) Seven
8) Jacob's Ladder
9) Nosferatu
10) The Mummy
Source:Infoplease.com
on campus
The University Career Center will hold a "Resumes from Scratch for Juniors and Seniors" workshop from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. today in the Budig computer lab.
odd news
Councilman dons chicken costume at city meeting
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Steve Volan drew guffaws and cackles when he walked into City Council meeting dressed in a yellow chicken costume.
The councilman's outfit led to a string of jokes before the serious business of debating whether chicken-keeping within city limits should be allowed got under way.
The word "chicken" was uttered more than 200 times and council member David Sabbagh jokingly asked whether three unrelated birds would be allowed to co-roost — a reference to a city ordinance restricting the number of unrelated adults allowed in single-family homes.
During Wednesday's discussion, 21 audience members spoke in favor of allowing residents to raise egg-laying chickens and four spoke against the ordinance. Volan joined the 5-1 council majority in voting to recommend the ordinance for final approval.
Opponents of chicken-keeping said they fear that neighbors with chickens would impact property values, and threaten the public health.
Supporters said that when people grow their own food and raise their own chickens, they actually contribute to public health since store-bought eggs can be unhealthy.
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