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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 2006
quote of the day
"Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings." — George Will
fact of the day
A Chinese military manual written in the second century B.C. contains documented evidence of what may be the oldest organized activity resembling the game of football.
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Rustin Dodd, Overland Park sophomore, left, and Andrew Baker, Overland Park senior and assistant sports director, discuss Saturday's Kansas-Northwestern State football game during the KJHK Gorilla Radio pregame show. KJHK hosted a tailgate party on the first floor of the Kansas Union. The pregame show and all KJHK content is streamed live online at khk.org and can be heard at 90.7 FM on the radio.
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'Bruce' the Cabbage wins weight competition
PALMER, Alaska — It was admittedly rather ugly, but Brenna Dinkel's cabbage was big enough to win the Giant Cabbage Weigh-Off at the Alaska State Fair.
Just before the weighing began Friday in front of a packed grandstand, 19-year-old Brenna pointed out one particularly gooey leaf to her friends.
"Yuck," she said
Brenna named him Bruce.
Brenna named him Bruce How heavy was Bruce?
Mike Campbell, the official from the state Division of Weights and Measures chosen to end all arguments, said it tipped the scales at 73.4 pounds.
Brenna won the $2,000 firstplace prize for the second year in a row. Last year she won with an 85-pound cabbage. Barbara Everingham set the state record in 2000 with a 105.6-pound cabbage.
Michigan county judge's identity stolen
Brenna credited her grandfather, Don, for helping her this year, as well as a big fence that helped keep the moose out.
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich
MOUNTAIN CLEMENS, WA
— Somebody out there has stolen Mary Chrzanowski's identity. And
that's a pretty powerful thing since she's a Macomb County Circuit judge.
"It's not a good feeling to have bill collectors knocking on your door demanding payment for a bail you never incurred," she said. "I will now spend the rest of my life checking my credit report in fear that this will happen again."
have been well Chrzanowski, who lives in Harrison Township, discovered the theft after receiving a call from a collection agency about her telephone bill.
The thief recently obtained Chrzanowski's Social Security number and birth date, then opened accounts with a Syracuse, N.Y., address and ran up a $5,800 phone bill and $500 in credit card charges.
"Unbelievable," Chrzanowski said. "I guess I'm lucky the debts incurred were not high. Things could have been worse."
This isn't the first time she's been the victim of theft. Her home was burglarized in the late 1990s and the thieves were caught.
The judge may not have to pay the bills, although she's aware it could take several months to clear her credit.
Back then, Chrzanowski asked for leniency, asking the judge not to put the thieves in prison if they'd return all of her jewelry.
"All I'd like to accomplish this time is an awareness by the person that stole my identity that they got
ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Shocking news: Squirrels and power lines don't mix.
New 'zapper' to keep squirrels off power lines
These cute but pesky rodents are a leading cause of unplanned outages. They chew through power lines, fry themselves by completing electrical circuits and generally wreak havoc on power grids.
caught,"she said.
The ZAPshield is an $11 polymer disc that arrived on the market some three years ago and delivers a non-lethal, electrostatic jolt to any varmint touching it. In Pennsylvania, two large utilities have both deployed the ZAPshield.
Utility companies, always on the hunt for new ways to combat animals, may have found an inexpensive solution to what has long been a vexing problem.
If you can't beat'em, zap'em.
The idea is to give the squirrels enough of a shock to keep them away from sensitive power equipment, but not enough of one to hurt them. Inventor Jim Rauckman compares the feeling of getting zapped by the ZAPshield to walking across a carpet on a dry day and then touching someone.
Bernard "Bud" Hirsch, associate professor of English, died Sunday at his home.
CAMPUS
English professor dies
Hirsch was diagnosed with brain cancer last spring. He received a W.T. Kemper Fellowship last month for excellence in teaching.
"It teaches them not to be up there,"he said.
Services will be announced by Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home.
Kansan Staff Reports
STATE
School district to test students for drug use
The new policy covers any student in seventh grade or higher who participates in extracurricular activities, a category that was expanded to cover everyone from athletes to members of the band and academic clubs to those who park in the school parking lot.
EL DORADO — The El Dorado school district has adopted a new policy allowing it to test most of its middle- and high-school students for drugs and alcohol, starting this year.
Many districts test students suspected of using drugs, and it's not uncommon for schools to test athletes.
Superintendent Tom Biggs said the policy was meant to make students safe, but some parents and students say it invades students' privacy.
Associated Press
Jury duty dodger caught plagiarizing in report
HOWELL, Mich. — The court-ordered report Brandon Dickens was made to write after ducking out of jury duty has not passed muster.
Livingston County Circuit Judge David Reader said Dickens' paper was plagiarized. To the 20-year-old Dickens, the report merely contained "quoted" material.
talked quietly.
Not surprisingly, Reader had the last word.
"Really, what I was looking for, Mr. Dickens, was your own work," Reader said last week in upping Dickens' punishment from three days in the courthouse to four days, and ordering him to rewrite the paper.
Dickens originally landed in Reader's doghouse in June, when he failed to return to jury duty after a lunch break. The judge ordered him to spend three days observing a civil trial and to write a five-page paper on the history of jury service.
When Dickens turned in the paper Aug. 30, a court employee recognized phrases from something else the employee had read previously. An Internet search showed many of the phrases came word for word from an article in an online magazine.
Associated Press
on campus
The Public Safety Office will be holding an open house on Friday, Sept. 8 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the new facility located at 1501 Crestline Drive.
on the record
A 20-year-old KU student reported being battered in the 1700 block of Ohio Street. The incident occurred Aug. 31 and no arrests were made.
A 19-year-old KU student reported being battered in the 900 block of 23rd Street. The incident occurred between Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 and no arrests were made.
An 18-year-old KU student reported the theft of $300 in cash from Wescoe Hall. The incident occurred Aug. 30 and no arrests were made.
A University employee reported a 6-inch diameter area of criminal damage to a red oak tree on Campanile hill. The incident occurred between Aug. 30 and Aug. 31 and the total damage was estimated to be $500.
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