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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2006
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"Now they're getting so politically correct, you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody."
legendary NASCAR driver Richard Petty
A NASCAR driver can lose between five and 10 pounds during a race. Drivers have systems that keep pumping water to them throughout the race to prevent dehydration.
Source: mphmotorsports.com
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GET READY FOR THE BEAKEND
BY KATIE HOBSON
Benefit Rock Concert
Dar4Life, a benefit concert, will be held all day Saturday in Burcham Park at Indiana and 2nd in Lawrence. The goal of Dar4Life is to help raise awareness about the ongoing problems in Darfur, Sudan, and to help raise money in order to stop the genocide there. On average, 500
people are killed in Darfur every day. Tickets cost $12 and can be purchased at www.ticketweb.com or at the concert. All proceeds from the concert will go to the Genocide Intervention Network - a nonprofit organization that works to stop genocide and save lives. Mary bands will be playing at the all-day event including: Fermata, Albino Fly, Sidewise, Aubrey, Censure, Distance to Empty,
Device, Mindrite, Cassiopia, Ten Hour Drive, Rachel Anderson and Joe Schreiner. For more information about the event, or how to help, visit www.genocideintervention.net.
Concert at the Lied
Fireworks, an eclectic music ensemble from the Symphony Space in New York, will present its latest program, "Cartoon," on Saturday at the KU Lied Center. The program consists of songs written for the classic cartoon series "Looney Tunes." The performers will play songs by Raymond Scott and Carl Stolling – who wrote the original music – as well as some music created just for their program. Tickets for KU students cost $14 for seats in the first balcony and $11 for seats in the second balcony. Tickets for KU faculty and staff cost $24 for seats in the first balcony and $20 for seats in the second balcony. The performance will begin at 7:30 p.m.
Lawrence High School Plav
Today and tomorrow, Lawrence High School will present "Death of a Doornail," at 7:30 p.m. Tickets may be purchased at the door.
Kansan correspondent Katie Hobson can be contacted at editor@ kansan.com.
- Edited by Brett Bolton
》 GREEK LIFE
Ryan Weber of Indianapolis, Delta Tau Delta chapter leadership consultant, leads the fraternity's first new pledges in five years into the Malott Room in the Kansas Union to take an oath of loyalty. Weber, a Kansas State University graduate, led Delta Tau Delta's Kansas expansion team, which recruited men on the University of Kansas campus throughout September. The fraternity, active at the University from 1914 to 2001, is returning after a five-year hiatus, having closed because of low membership and financial difficulties.
Ryan McGeeneey/KANSAN
Revitalized fraternity adds members
Expansion team encourages 'founding father class' to look toward future
BY MATT ELDER
The Delta Tau Delta expansion team welcomed 41 new members to the re-established fraternity Monday night during its formal pledging ceremony at the Malott Room in the Kansas Union.
After disappearing from the Kansas campus in 2001 from a decline in members, the fraternity again found its feet after the national organization sent an expansion team to campus Sept. 1.
Delta Tau Delta had high expectations of the student population when
Nick Goldsberry, Delta Tau Delta director of expansion, said the response from KU students interested in the fraternity was extremely positive.
being introduced to the Lawrence campus.
After several weeks of interviews, Goldsberry is excited about the group selected as the "founding father class."
"There really was a great group on the Kansas campus that was focused on academics, service, and leadership," he said. "A lot of very high-quality men."
At the top of this "founding father class" was Eric Froese, Shawnee junior, the KU Delta Tau Delta colony president chosen by the expansion team and alumni-advising team.
Alongside other officers, Froese will be responsible for the next 18 months of the fraternity's success. At the top of his list will be
the colony's acceptance from the national organization as a recognized chapter.
After expressing interest in members of the Lawrence population who have achieved both academically and within their community, the expansion team's efforts have not gone unnoticed.
"In terms of everything I've seen thus far, I feel that they've been the most on the ball" in terms of marketing and P.R. that they've done," said Laura Bauer, program director of fraternity and sorority life.
Now with members chosen, Delta Tau Delta will begin making decisions for the fraternity's future. An alumni-advising team will oversee a colony retreat this Saturday, where new members will be expected to
spend up to eight hours making decisions on the fraternity's constitution, mission statement and goals.
"They'll do the big-picture things," said Ryan Weber, Kansas expansion team and chapter leadership consultant. "We'll set the boundaries, but they'll make the decisions about how it is going to be at KU."
Within the next eight weeks, Goldsberry said members would go through a "colony active ceremony." He likens the event to an initiation ceremony of fraternities.
Kansan staff writer Matt Elder can be contacted at melder@kansan. com.
Edited by Shanxi Upsdell
A 20-year-old KU staff member reported receiving a criminal threat Wednesday from a man allegedly armed with a personal weapon.
on the record
A 10-year-old reported her bicycle stolen from the bus stop area of KU parking lot 114 in the Stouffer Place community Monday afternoon. The bike, a Silver Samchunri Lespo, was valued at $25. The victim's name was written on the handle bars.
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Borough flushes out club, citing unpaid bill
COOPERSBURG, Pa. — There won't be any wet T-shirt contests at a strip bar here — the water's been turned off.
The borough turned off the water to the Silhouette Showbar on Monday, with more than $700 owing on its water bill, and the building cannot be occupied without water, Borough Manager Daniel Stonehouse said.
Stonehouse said the action concerning the pending water bill is unrelated to the borough's legal efforts to shut down the bar's Club Kama Sutra, which has been offering Saturday night sex parties.
Sea lion learns to paint is paid in dead fish
PITTSBURGH — Some artists suffer for their work. Maggie, an 11-year-old sea lion at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium, gets to eat dead fish for hers.
Kesha Phares, a zoo trainer, has been teaching the animal to paint since last year.
It took three months to get the animal to hold a paint brush and touch the bristles to paper.
Phares picks the paint colors
sea lions are colorblind
—and puts paint on the brush. The paintings are done one stroke at a time, with Maggie getting a fish after each stroke.
If the animal can be said to have a style, it is this: she tends to put more paint on the right side of the canvas than the left.
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