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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2006
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"What would men be without women? Scarce, slr, mighty scarce."
Mark Twain
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Actor Vince Vaughn's first speaking role in a movie was in the 1993 film "Rudy."
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Who's Whoat
Contributed by Josh Landau
BY JOSH LANDAU
Beverly Boyd Professor of English
Beverly Boyd will receive a lifetime achievement award this weekend from Brooklyn College, where she earned her first degree.
Boyd has been a professor of English at the University of Kansas since 1962. Before that she taught at Redford College. When the University offered her a position, she gladly accepted.
"I got double the pay and double the rank," Boyd said.
She said her father helped her select teaching as a career choice.
"He told me that I needed to have a major if he was going to send me to college." Boyd said.
Though teaching might not have
been her first love, English was. Her father would read to her as a child and since then she has loved English and reading. Boyd is a medievalist, which means that she specializes in medieval literature. She teaches English 105, which focuses entirely on Arthurian legend, and English 312, a survey of early English literature.
Out of all the medieval authors, her favorite is Geoffrey Chaucer. Large posters of the author and his works hang in her office.
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Even though she is receiving her lifetime achievement award in New York this weekend, her career still has no end in sight.
Edited by Mindy Ricketts
Getting a hogcut
Allan Gross, 14, of Hot Springs, Ark. trims the hair on his hip, nicknamed J-Lo. Tuesday in preparation for the night's showing at the Garland County Fairies in hot Springs. Ark. Gross is a member of the Fountain Lake, Ark. 4-H Club.
CAMPUS KU Hillel event features Israel-awareness activities
The University of Kansas Hilliell will host its second annual Israel on the Hill day Wednesday on the lawn of Stauffer-Flint. The event will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Tracy Altman, development associate of KU Hillel, said one of Hillel's goals for the event was to raise awareness about Israel to all students and to give them the opportunity to know about traveling there.
The event will feature a hookah tent and a booth to buy $2 falafel. Altman said a replica of the Western Wall in Israel would also be set up on the lawn. Students can write
letters to the actual Western Wall in Israel.
A table will be set up, displaying information about non-University related study abroad opportunities and a giant map for students to walk across.
The event is put on with the assistance of students involved in Hillel as well as Hillel's Israel Intern Taly Yeyni.
Israel on the Hill is free and open to anyone to attend.
Courtney Hagen
Kick off meeting includes basketball coach, prizes
Rock Chalk Responsible Choices, a campus group focused on promoting responsible decision
making, will host a Responsible Choices Kick-Off event at 7 p.m. Thursday in Budig 130.
The event will feature a key note presentation by women's basketball coach Bonnie Henrickson.
Prizes such as an alcohol-free tailgate party and a VIP experience at Late Night in the Phog will be given away at the event.
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Nate McGinnis
INDEPENDENCE, Va. — It has nothing against indoor plumbing.
Virginia town to compete for outhouse racing event
but the town of Independence would like to be recognized for its outhouses.
Resident are hoping to have the town proclaimed Virginia's official privy race site.
Outhouse racing has become a popular event in the town's annual Mountain Foliage Festival. Hundreds of visitors line Main Street to cheer as competitors haul 100-pound outhouses on wheels more than a tenth of a mile.
Town officials hope to persuade the governor or the state's General Assembly to recognize the community as home of the Grand Privy Race. The designation could boost tourism and the number-of teams competing in the latrine extravaganza, they said.
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on the record
KU Public Safety officers arrested Nathan Penny, 32, for trespassing and indecently exposing himself near the 1600 block of Ellis Drive. Penny was booked into Douglas County jail on Monday evening.
A 19-year-old KU student reported criminal damage to a Chevrolet Monte Carlo in a parking lot near Sellars Scholarship Hall. The driver's side mirror had been broken. Damage was estimated at $150.
on campus
A 19-year-old KU student reported the theft of a Motorola cell phone and some cash from a car parked near Sunflower Road. The loss was valued at $305.
The Office of Study Abroad's Information Fair will take place from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. today on the 4th floor lobby of the Kansas Union.
odd news
Balloon buyers may pay cost for helium shortage
CLEVELAND — Bad news for people who cannot resist sucking party balloons. There's a helium gas shortage looming.
Helium suppliers report there could a temporary shortage this fall. Domestic helium production will be trimmed for a couple of weeks for scheduled maintenance at two U.S. manufacturers.
Operators of party stores in the Cleveland area are worried they're going to have to pay more for helium. And that helium inflation may be passed along to balloon buyers.
Factory burglars grab meat, cheese, beers
MARION, Wis. — This burglary has all the makings of a giant tailgate party.
The burglar who struck a central Wisconsin cheese factory early Monday made off with nearly 350 pounds of meat, more than 100 pounds of cheese and a dozen cases of beer, authorities said.
The theft occurred at the Dupont Cheese Factory in Marion, according to the Waupaca County Sheriff's Department.
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