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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2007
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"Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat."
Mark Twain
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Sir Isaac Newton is not only credited with the laws of gravity but is also credited with inventing the cat flap.
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Spotlight on Organizations
BY JENNIFERTORLINE
Whether by sponsoring flu clinics or dealing with the student health fee, the Student Health Advisory Board for Watkins Memorial Health Center has one concern: the health of KU students.
"We are the student voice for Watkins Health Center," said Ben Berning, vice president of the board. "Any decisions that Watkins makes, they feel it is very important to get
the students' opinion."
Berning, Shawnee junior, has been involved with the advisory board for two years.
The Student Health Advisory Board assists the health center with student health care and educational issues. Last year, the board worked with the center on increasing the student health fee to maintain student services. The health center has to get many proposals approved by the student board before enforcing
"We help provide services for students that are really necessary," said Kimberly Guess, board secretary and Overland Park senior. "We assist with programs that students as well as KU uses."
them.
One of these programs is the flu clinics, which the advisory board assist with every year. The organization also has worked with peer health educators, and last year they held a disaster drill for the health center. Members of the advisory board help with other events such as Sexual Awareness Week.
Student Health Advisory Board
"What really interested me about [the board] was that we focused on the business part of health," Berning said. "This gave me the opportunity to see the business side, which is important but is sometimes overlooked."
The organization meets on Tuesdays and has about 25 members. It is composed of a variety of students, including freshmen through seniors and nontraditional and graduate students.
"I think it's a good opportunity to meet students outside your major that still have the same goal of improving health care in our community," Guess said.
Those interested in joining the Student Health Advisory Board can find the application online at www. studenthealth.kue.edu. Elections are held in the fall and spring semesters.
Edited by Luke Morris
Free fallin'
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Base jumpers let gravity take control during a tandem jump off the New River Gorge Bridge in Fayetteville, W.Va., on Bridge Day on Saturday. More than 200,000 people attend the festival every year.
ODD NEWS
ODD NEWS Man wins contest, solves sudoku in seven minutes
PHILADELPHIA — When it comes to sudoku, 7 and 9 are the numbers to beat.
Thomas Snyder took seven minutes and nine seconds to solve an advanced puzzle to win the first Philadelphia Inquirer National Sudoku Championship on Saturday.
Snyder, 27, of Palo Alto, Calif., won the $10,000 prize and a spot on the six-person U.S. World Sudoku Team, which will compete in the World Sudoku Championship next year in Goa, India.
Snyder is the current world champion, having won the second world competition, held in the spring in Prague.
The tournament attracted 857 contestants and 302 spectators.
Officials said it was the largest live puzzle tournament ever held
Sudoku, a Japanese number puzzle, consists of a grid of nine rows of nine boxes, which must be filled in so the numbers one through nine appear just once in each column, row and three-bythree square.
It looks like arithmetic but requires the application of logic.
Man behind iron mask protests for financial help
BOGOTA, Colombia — An unemployed man has sewn shut his mouth and locked himself behind an iron mask to demand the government attend to his family's desperate economic plight.
Luis Miguel Aldana, 52, told The Associated Press on Saturday that he started the peculiar protest five
days ago, after being locked out of his apartment in Bogotá. Instead of paying two months of rent, Aldana said he bought shoes for his three children.
Now he is demanding the government provide a loan to jump-start a cottage textile business and pay health care bills for his wife and children. Without the loan, he said his family would end up living on the streets.
"I'm doing this to get attention because people have a heart of iron and also a face of iron — they don't listen to anybody and think this is a joke," said Aldana, speaking out of the corner of his mouth that is not sewn shut.
Aldana currently is living in a neighbor's house, where he sits in bed with his hands and legs shackled in chains.
growth the past three years, Colombia's unemployment rate remained stubbornly high at 10.6 percent in August.
Despite soaring economic
City officials forbid archery in park named for activity
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. — Archery Park may need a name change.
Tom Draper was surprised when he found a sign that cited a city ordinance prohibiting bows and arrows.
"Several archers that I've talked to are kind of in disbelief," Draper said, who along with his bowhunting friends has practiced archery at the park for more than 20 years.
The park was closed to archery after a neighbor found an arrow in his yard, officials said.
on campus
Associated Press
Flu immunizations will be available from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the fourth level of the Kansas Union.
Alison Games, Georgetown University, will present the seminar "Jamestow Revisited: An Atlantic Perspective" at 3:30 p.m. in the Seminar Room in the Hall Center for the Humanities.
Dr. William Harter, University of Arkansas, will present the lecture "Primal Quantum Chemistry; Light Plus Light Matter, Probing Quantum Mysteries with Optical Frames, Occam's Razors, and Evenson's Lasers" at 4 p.m. in 2017 Malott Hall.
Matt Checkowski will present the KU department of design Hallmark Design Symposium Series lecture at 6 p.m. in 3139 Wescohe Hall
Sara Ahmed, Goldsmiths College and University of London, will present the lecture "The Promise of Happiness" at 7:30 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
The KU Percussion Ensemble will perform at 7:30 p.m. in 130 Murphy Hall.
on the record
Three people were battered by two men in the McCollum Hall parking lot early Thursday morning, according to police reports. The two men were issued notes to appear in court.
A 19-year-old KU student reported the theft of a cellular phone valued at $200 near the 1400 block of Massachusetts Street.
A 21-year-old KU student reported the theft of a purse and its contents, valued at $995.
Believe it or not, a jiffy is a precise measure of time. The amount varies in different fields of science, but it is most typically 0.01 seconds.
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