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THE UNIVERSITY DAYLONG
FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 2006
quote of the day
"Ive never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police"
— Keith Richards
fact of the day
If you think that pirates no longer roam the seas, you are mistaken. The number of pirate attacks in international waters has tripled in the past decade and costs businesses an estimated $13 billion to $16 billion annually in losses.
Source: Council on Foreign Relations
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KATIE HOBSON
Concert in the Park
History is coming alive this Saturday as the 11th annual 12-day festival, Civil War on the Western Frontier continues. The Douglas County Historical Society will sponsor an old-fashioned box dinner social that will take place near the eastern gazebo in South Park, 12th and Massachusetts streets. The boxed lunches.
provided by local restaurants, will be auctioned off to the highest bidders starting at 6:45 p.m. History lovers of all ages are welcome to attend and bid on dishes from their favorite restaurants.
Following the dinner social will be a free concert in the park, featuring music by the Freestaters who will entertain audience members with songs from the 1850s and 1860s. The concert starts at 7:30 and will go through
9 p.m. For information regarding other Civil War on the Western Frontier events, call the Douglas County Historical Society at (785) 841-4109.
Artists of all ages are invited to attend the EMU Theater's presentation of "Junkyard Dogma" to take place at the Lawrence Arts Center on today and Saturday.
Junkyard Dogma
The two evening affair will consist of two 10-minute plays and an art show. Spectators will be able to work by Jenny Akin, David Butterfield, Jennifer Cook, Patrick Giroux, Emily Parker and Adri Pendergrass before the first play and during intermission.
Additionally, music listeners will enjoy the tunes of Howard Calihan who will perform classical guitar during the art show. The event costs $6 and will begin at 8 p.m. each evening.
Rock Concert
Sunday evening, Amber Pacific will be playing with The Audition,
Just Surrender and All Time Low at The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts St. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m.
and will feature funk and rock music. Tickets can be purchased online through Ticketmaster for $12. Guests must be 18 or older to attend.
Edited by Erin Wiley
Professor receives Kemper award
William Westerbeke, professor of law, left, receives a Kemper award Thursday from Mark Heider, President of Commerce Bank, Lawrence, and Cancellor Robert Hemenway. Between Thursday and Monday, a total of 20 KU faculty members will be presented with Kemper awards, each of which includes a check for $5,000.
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Lawrence Police increase patrols this weekend
Lawrence Police Department plans to increase patrols to combat drunken driving this weekend in correlation with law enforcement agencies across Kansas.
A saturation patrol will operate from 5 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Saturday, and the Douglas County Sheriff's Office will join Lawrence Police to conduct a DUI checkpoint from midnight to 3 a.m. Sunday.
It is illegal in Kansas to operate a vehicle with a blood-alcohol content of 0.08 percent or higher. No one under 21 can buy, possess or consume alcohol.
David Linhardt
CAMPUS Ambulance takes away alcohol poisoing victim
Around 10:30 p.m. Thursday, an ambulance responded to a call to assist a victim of alcohol poisoning in front of Dyche Hall.
Three bystanders saw a young woman laying in the ivy in front of Dyche Hall. She was unable to respond to any questions besides her home town, where she lived and her name, they said. They first called Safe Ride to take her home but when she was unable to walk to the vehicle they called the police.
The bystanders said an officer with the KU Public Safety Office told them the victim would be fine.
Gabriella Souza
odd news Public art sculpture stolen from city park
TACOMA, Wash. — For the second time in as many summers, police are trying to find a stolen salmon — a larger-than-life fiberglass fish sculpture taken from a city park.
The latest theft occurred at Gateway Park sometime between 6 p.m. Friday and 6 a.m. Saturday, said Lynn Di Nino, an artist who said she tried to find clues in the city's Old Town neighborhood before reporting the loss to police Tuesday.
"I thought maybe somebody pushed it over the edge," she said. "But I scoured the landscape and couldn't find it."
Police Officer Mark W. Fulghum
confirmed that the report had been received.
The 8-foot,150-pound sculpture is one of 10 that City Council member Bill Evans bought five years ago as part of a public art effort called Soul Salmon 2001.
The Associated Press
Trash at airport turned to treasure for homeless
EUGENE, Ore. — Items discarded at an airport in the response to a terror plot have turned into balm for the city's homeless.
The items will be distributed at the organization's First Place Family Center.
The Associatied Press
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Senior citizen pleads guilty to robberies
SANTA ANA, Calif. — A man dubbed the "senior citizen bandit" has pleaded guilty to 10 counts of armed robbery and one firearms count for sticking up banks in three Western states, authorities said.
States, Charles Manrow, 70, of Pennsylvania, entered the plea Aug. 10 and will be sentenced early next year.
Manrow pleaded guilty to robberies in Southern California, Fresno, Utah and Arizona Assistant U.S. Attorney Ivy Wang said.
Manrow was arrested in January outside a motel in the Riverside County community of Thousand Palms. He had cash, fake identification and weapons stashed in a stolen Cadillac.
Manrow would enter the banks wearing a baseball cap and casual clothes. When he reached a teller, he would announce the holdup, show a weapon and hand over multiple bags, saying he had a remote device that could tell him if a silent alarm was activated.
A year ago, Manrow's crime spree sparked national interest after a Los Angeles TV station reported that investigators considered whether Manrow could be the fugitive Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger, who is on the FBI's "Most Wanted" list and has been on the run for years. The possibility was ultimately discounted.
The Associated Press
on the record
A 21-year-old KU student reported criminal damage to several cars parked near Sellards Scholarship Hall on Aug. 15 and 16. Two of the cars had broken or bent rear wiper blades, and one car had its rear window smashed.
An 18-year-old KU student reported criminal damage to a car parked on the 1500 block of Lynch Ave. The car's windshield had been smashed and the side-body panels dented.
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