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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAS
THURSDAY AUGUST 31, 2006
quote of the day
"To show this diagram properly, I would really need a four dimensional screen. However, because of government cuts, we could manage to provide only a two dimensional screen."
— Stephen Hawking, presenting a diagram from his book, "The Beginning of Time"
fact of the day
most e-mailed
At Calus College in Cambridge, England, there is a stained glass window that commemorates the life of John Venn. Venn created the Venn diagram, where two overlapping circles allow for comparing and contrasting.
Want to know what people are talking about? Here's a list of Wednesday's most e-mailed stories from Kansan.com.
1. Business uses loophole in smoking ban
3. Wescoe Hall tested for possible cancer link
2. Opinion: clothes should cover more, not less
4. Football facility displaces parking spots
5. DNA vaccine immunizes AIDS in monkeys
et cetera
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What big teeth you have!
Jaime Oppenheimer/THE WICHITA EAGLE
Exploration Place staff member Scott Robinson helps assemble part of the traveling exhibit, "A.T. Rexnamed Sue," on loan from The Field Museum in Chicago, at the Exploration Place in Wichita on Tuesday. Beginning next Saturday, Exploration Place will offer the exhibit, which features a replica of the largest Yrynnasouns ex skeleton ever discovered. The exhibit is the first of a five-year museum plan that includes other large travelings as well as new in-house exhibits.
CAMPUS Haworth evacuated briefly because of odd smell
Haworth Hall was evacuated for nearly 30 minutes Wednesday morning after someone reported a suspicious odor in the building.
Cant. Schuyler Bailey said the University of Kansas Public Safety Office received a call from the building at 10:27 a.m. after someone smelled a burnt rubber-like odor on the third floor of the
building's Stewart Wing, the four-story addition on the east end of Haworth Hall. The public safety office and Lawrence-Douglas County Fire and Medical responded to the call. The building was evacuated at 10:45 a.m. and students, faculty and staff were allowed back in the building at 11:12 a.m.
The addition houses child-care facilities on the first floor. Children in those areas were evacuated to other classrooms in the Dole Human Development Center, south of Watson Library, said Michael Russell, director
Russell said the problem was solved by airing out the building. The odor originated from a sealant being used in a construction project. As the substance hardens, it emits a smell similar to the chemical used to detect natural gas leaks, which was distributed throughout the building by air handlers. The same handlers now feed all of their air outside, he said.
of the department of environment, health and safety.
odd news
Prankster puts marijuana in police planter
Catherine Odson
A dozen marijuana plants, a few as tall as six inches, were found growing in a planter near the substation's front door. City Gardener Tom Kasper estimated they had been growing for about three weeks.
DULUTH, Minn. — Punsters might say the West Duluth police substation is going to not
"The only thing I can say is somebody has a sense of humor," said neighborhood supervised police Lt. John Beyer.
DES MOINES, Iowa — At least the flower thief left a thank you note.
Beyer noted that he, his police officers and the public use the back door entrance to the police station. The front door is just off a busy street and is usually locked.
Flower bandit strikes neighborhood
the note in his garden Sunday, a day after he caught two women holding a bunch of posies taken from outside his 1880s-era home near downtown Des Moines.
Jason Jasnos said he found
"Thank you for the flowers," it read. "Many others will enjoy them."
The note was signed:"The flower bandit."
Jasnos said he asked around and found that other neighbors also have had flowers and plants stolen from their yards and porches.
Buckeyes give Kellogg a run for its money
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Snap, Crackle and Pop have some competition in Columbus. The Ohio State Buckeyes have their own cereal.
Buckeye HerOes, the newest university-licensed food, will be available in grocery stores before the No.1-ranked Ohio State football team opens its season Saturday against Northern Illinois at Ohio Stadium.
The honey-nut-flavored oat cereal joins other Ohio State foods such as pasta, chips, salsa, hot dogs, mustard and hot sauces, as well as candy Buckeyes.
Former Buckeyes linebackers and current NFL rookies Bobby Carpenter, A.J. Hawk and Anthony Schlegel are featured on the
cereal boxes.
Other universities have had cereal promotions but none on the scale of Ohio State, which is starting with about 75,000 boxes, said Tom Schmieder, marketing vice president of Carrollton, Texas-based TK Legacy, which is making Buckeye HerOes.
ROCHESTER, Minn. — A City Council member and mayoral candidate admitted he has anony mously praised himself in comments posted on a newspaper's Web site.
Councilman praises self anonymously online
The Post-Bulletin newsroom doesn't regularly check identities of online users, but a reporter noticed similarities in the way a user named "127179" writes and Pat Carr talks.
Whatdoyou think?
Some of the dozens of messages posted by "127179" since November found notes of praise for Carr, while some attacked officials who voted differently.
Would you support the placement of advertisements in textbooks if it made the books cheaper or free?
"Definitely.
Books are expensive,
and I'm sick of it.
I don't
have a lot of them,'cause I'm too cheap."
Danielle King,
Bartlett, Ill., junior
"if it made it cheaper or free, yeah.
I just paid 200
bucks for books I'll use for one semester."
Gabe Adams,
Kansas City, Mo., senior
"Yeah,
definitely.
It's
cheaper,
and I
guess it
would
make the books more interesting"
Mike Meadows,
Derby sophomore
"Yeah, I think,
to a certain
point.
You don't
want
it to be too full of it or have too much brainwashing, but if it brings down the cost, it would be good." Claire Stieffel, Prairie Village junior
'It would be nice for them to be cheaper, but we're
already getting bombedby advertisements in magazines and movies. It would depend on the frequency."
Alison Terkel,
Tula, Okla., freshman
Kansan correspondent Matt Erickson can be reached at editor@ kansan.com
on campus
At 3:30 p.m. today in 109 Bailey Hall, Major Robert Owen of Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, will present an African Studies seminar "U.S. National Security Interests and the Role of the Militaries in Africa".
An article in Monday's The University Daily Kansan contained an error. The article, "Proposal attempts to save The Crossing," should have said the Historic Resources Commission deferred the original proposal to redevelop the corner at 12th and Indiana streets to its Sept. 21 meeting.
Wednesday's University Daily Kansan contained an error. The article,"Ads in textbooks may lower prices," incorrectly identified Bruce Hildebrand. Hildebrand is the president and spokesman for the Association of American Publishers.
An article in Wednesday's The University Daily Kansan contained an error. In "Who's Who at KU," Malakai Edison's name was misspelled.
on the record
The Douglas County Sheriff's office will conduct a saturation patrol and a DWI check lane on Sept. 9. The office's last saturation patrol and DWI check lane was Aug.19 on U.S. Highway 40 near Kansas Highway 10.
Deputies issued 25 citations, mostly for speeding, during the saturation patrol. No arrests were made or citations issued during the DWI check lane.
A University employee reported being the victim of forgery on July 7. The perpetrator forged one of the employee's personal checks. No arrests have been made.
A 21-year-old KU student reported the theft of a purse and a Motorola cell phone. The theft occurred in the 1300 block of Ohio and the total value of the theft was $240.
A 20-year-old KU student reported the fraudulent use of a financial card, including a total theft of $57.
An 18-year-old KU student was arrested for urinating in public. A KU Public Safety officer observed the student in the act on Aug. 29 in the parking lot near Hashinger Hall.
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