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"I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances."
3. Freshman man performs with dance team
4. Woman dies at KC-area hospital
2. Student killed in accident remembered fondly
5. Study criticizes educator education
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— Martha Washington
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1. University mourns Ryan Kanost
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Martha Washington, wife of the first president, George Washington, did not actually enjoy her role as first lady. She told a niece once that she would much rather spend time at the Washingtons' Mt. Vernon home.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAU
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 26, 2005
Paul Beaver/THE EXAMINER
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2005
Dianna Phillips. S. of Independence. Mo.. spins on a tire swing in her front yard while playing after school Monday.
Burdock said he went outside and yelled at Janssen, who walked right over to him, still carrying the plants.
odd news
lowa pot grower arrested after downtown saunter
NAPLES, Fla. — Dennis Davis has reached celebrity status in a Spanish village he's never visited.
Janssen, 36, was arrested on marijuana charges Thursday after he was spotted taking a leisurely stroll through downtown, carrying his recently harvested pot plants, police said.
DES MOINES, Iowa — Aaron Janssen apparently made it way too easy for police.
"He was carrying it like you'd carry a bundle of presents. It was tall enough where he was looking over the top of them, and he's just walking like nothing's going on," Burdock said.
Janssen said the plants were part of his marijuana grown near the Des Moines River, but wouldn't say exactly where, Burdock said.
Polk County Chief Deputy Mark Burdock said he did a double-take when he looked out his office window at the county jail and saw Janssen walking down the side-walk with the stalks.
Three years ago, the 16-year-old put a message in a bottle that eventually washed up on a beach near Malpica.
The 2-foot serpent's name is Slim, a ball python who escaped from its tank in the sixth-grade science room it had occupied for five years at the Hauppauge Middle School.
The bottle was part of a project at Oak Ridge Middle School. Teachers there had students bring glass bottles with cork tops to class. On one side of a paper, the teachers wrote a note about themselves, with contact information.
Now, thanks to an article about the bottle published in a Spanish newspaper Aug.26, the whole town knows more about the American who lives more than 4,000 miles away than he knows about them.
On the other side, students wrote things about themselves, including their ages, where they went to school and what their lives in Naples were like.
HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. — Students at a Long Island school have more than the three R's to deal with these days. They're hunting for a reptile running loose.
On Tuesday, teachers were putting Slim and another snake named Otis back into their containers when a student with a problem in the hall distracted them for a few moments.
"The calculating snakes took this as an opportunity to make a break for it", principal Maryann Fletcher explained to parents in a letter.
Deputies also found two two-pound bags of processed marijuana strapped to each of Janssen's legs, and a third wrapped in a sweater.
Slithering, actually.
Snakes escape sixth-grade teachers, loose in school
Associated Press
Otis was caught. Slim was not.
"He didn't seem intoxicated or anything of that nature,"Burdock said. "He was just kind of proud of his grow."
Associated Press
Message in bottle creates fame for U.S. teen in Spain
Odisha taught us how not
Pythons — cold-blooded serpents native to West Africa — are
not generally dangerous. If afraid, they usually roll themselves into a ball.
Bourne seemed to agree, setting bond for $50,000 for Criswell, who is accused of stealing his mother's car and checkbook. Criswell remained jailed in lieu of bond.
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. — A man accused of stealing from his mother had a bone to pick with the prosecutor seeking $30,000 bond — it simply wasn't high enough.
"I stole from my mother. I don't think that bond's high enough," Cedric Criswell, 34, told District Judge Don Bourne on Wednesday.
Still, the principal promised that the school is "making every effort to locate the snake."To entice the critter, the school has set up heating lamps and traps filled with crickets.
Man steals from own mom asks judge for higher bail
Associated Press
Detective David Virden said that Criswell and two others — Amanda Garis, 19, and Ashley James, 21 — used forged checks to buy surveillance equipment, cell phones and stereo equipment.
Associated Press
Gov. Sebelius urges Kansans to exercise more
HEALTH
Kansas the 26th heaviest state in the nation, reporting that 23 percent of its adults are obese.
regularly also do better in school."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
TOPEKA — Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is trying to encourage her fellow Kansans to move more, eat less and avoid tobacco, and she worries some kids aren't getting enough physical education.
as she helped kick off a "Stepternber" campaign Monday at Topeka's downtown YMCA. Nationally, the YMCA is encouraging Americans to walk or run an additional 2,000 steps a day and consume 100 fewer calories a day.
Sebelius touched on those subjects
"More and more schools seem to be limiting or eliminating physical activity as part of an overall curriculum," Sebelius said. "That's one of the I, think, essential programs. What they find are that kids who exercise
The governor's remarks came less than a month after the nonprofit Trust for America's Health ranked
In Kansas, high school students must pass one year's worth of physical education to graduate, but local boards of education determine how much time children spend in PE, said Cynthia Williams, spokeswoman for the state Department of Education.
A 21-year-old male KU student and an 18-year-old female KU student reported battery and criminal trespassing in Lewis Hall at 1:43 a.m. Friday morning.
An 18-year-old female KU student was arrested by Lawrence Police Friday and charged with the battery of a law enforcement officer.
on the record
on campus
A 20-year-old male KU student was arrested by Lawrence Police Saturday on a charge of operating under the influence.
A 20-year-old male KU student was arrested by Lawrence Police Saturday on charges of purchasing/providing alcohol for a minor, consuming in public, and unlawful use of a driver's license. The student was released on $250.00 bond.
The University Career Center will host an interview workshop from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday in 149 Burge Union.
David Werdin-Kennicott, a KU alumnus, will speak about his experience with the Peace Corps at "Around the World with the Peace Corps: Africa" in Alcove C of the Kansas Union on Wednesday from noon to 1 p.m.
The University Career Center will host a workshop to jumpstart a job search from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Thursday in 149 Burge Union.
corrections
Monday's The University Daily Kansan contained an error. The article "Weekend hit-and-run kills student" should have said that a Baker University student was critically injured and life-flighted to University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City, Kan.
TUESDAY top10
Top Ten Least Federally
Funded Counties in Kansas
1) Chase $17,572
2) Comanche $18,715
3) Clark $21,857
4) Hodgeman $22,648
5) Elk $22,958
6) Lane $25,281
7) Wallace $25,452
8) Lincoln $26,697
9) Trego $27,410
10) Woodson $27,777
source: Census Bureau.
source: Census Bureau
—Zach White
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