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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2007
Bob Garfield
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Watkins Health Center is sponsoring their annual flu shot clinics starting Monday. They will be held two or three times a week for the next month. Check out Watkins' Web site for dates and times, at www. studenthealth.ku.edu. The shots cost $15, but if that means not getting the flu this winter, it is $15 well spent.
1. Phelps documentary premieres nationally
3. KU organizations discuss gender role
2. West Lawrence condos contribute to trend
4. Self looking to fill open scholarships
5. City ordinances cut down on vicious dogs
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Cockatoo dances way into YouTube fans' hearts
SCHERERVILLE, Ind. — Snowball the cockatoo can't get enough of the Backstreet Boys.
The 11-year-old medium sulfur-crested cockatoo lifts his legs, squawks and bobs his head, flashing his bright yellow crest to the beat of the boy band's "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)." He even takes a bow with a vigorous bob of his head at the end of the 1997 pop tune.
When Snowball was given to a bird rescue shelter a few months ago, the previous owner included the CD and instructions to watch his reaction.
Irena Schulz said she almost fainted at the sight.
The couple said they have been contacted by people from around the world who have watched Snowball on the video-sharing Web site YouTube.
"I'm thinking, 'What on Earth is this? This is unreal,'" said Irena, who runs Bird Lovers Only Rescue with her husband, Chuck.
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The northwestern Indiana couple have more than 30 birds in their home and many are available for adoption. "He makes a great spokesbird for the rescue," Chuck Schulz said.
Snowball has found his permanent home.
"He's my baby, Irena Schulz said.
"He will stay here and be loved."
Snake hidden in toilet scares Brooklyn woman
NEW YORK — There was no Halloween bogeyman in the closet for one Brooklyn woman — just a 7-foot-long python in her toilet.
Snowball, an 11-year-old medium sulfur-cured Eleonora cockatoo, dances to the Backstreet Boy songs 'Everybody (Backstress' back') in the Scherwellie, Ind., home of frena Schulz Tuesday.
Nadege Brunacci was washing her hands in her bathroom before dawn Monday when she glanced back and saw the slithering serpent peeking out from her toilet, most of its body hidden in the pipes.
"it turned on the light and screamed," Brunacci, 38, told the New York Daily News. "It still makes my heart race."
Brunacci slammed down the lid,
put a heavy box on top of the toilet
and called for help, which came
from her landlord and firefighters. Plumbers had to tear apart the downstairs neighbor's pipes to capture the snake, she said.
It's unclear how the snake made its way into the pipes.
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Jessica Staton, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore, explains the fifties style, purple, wool suit that she designed and made to the Student Union Activities judges at the Project Runway preliminary challenge Wednesday in the Kansas Union. Participants were not allowed to spend more than $50 on their designs and had to incorporate a pre-chosen ribbon in their final garments. The finalists from the preliminary challenge will create three more designs, which will be judged by a fashion show at 7 p.m. on May 13 in the Kansas University Ballroom.
What do you think? BY ALEX DUFFEK
TREVOR STEVENS
Shawnee freshman
"Sounds good to me. I ride my bike every day."
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE POSSIBLE CHANGE OF PARKING SPOTS ON JAYHAWK BOULEVARD TO BIKING LANES?
Naperville, Ill., sophomore "I don't have a bike, and I don't have a car, so I really don't care."
VINEETH HEMAVATHI
TRACI CLATTERBUCK
Topelem sophrome
"I would actually really like that because I almost die every day when I'm crossing the street."
topeka freshman
"I don't mind that, I don't park
there, and I see a lot of people biking
in the middle of the street, and
it really slows down the cars."
on campus
The Kansas Public Radio Membership Drive continues today, all day, in the Broadcasting Hall.
Christine Knudsen and Takao Shibata will present the lecture "A Personal View of an African Community Devastated by AIDS" at 11 a.m. in Nunemaker Hall.
Shannon Gorres will present the seminar "Collaborative Ethnography on Garifuna Cultural Identity" at noon in 318 Bailey Hall.
Shyl Zhang will present the International Scholar Brownbag lecture at noon in the International Room in the Kansas Union.
Steve Shawl and Dan Bernstein will present the Teaching Tea seminar "Teaching Inductively" at 3 p.m. in 135 Budig Hall.
Dr. Prasenjit Guptasarma, University of Wisconsin-Madison, will present the lecture "Probing Unconventional Ground States and Competing Interaction in Complex Oxides" at 4 p.m. in 2074 Malott Hall.
Fred Rush will present the lecture "Remnants of Beauty" at 4:30 p.m. in Centennial Room in the Kansas Union.
The KU Youth Chorus will perform a concert at 4:30 p.m. in 328 Murphy Hall.
There will be a Women in Law forum at 5 p.m. in 104 Green Hall.
The Harlem Renaissance Book Discussion & Film Series will hold an event at 6 p.m. in the Spencer Museum of Art.
Christine Knudsen will present the lecture "UN Policy and Displaced Persons" at 7 p.m. in Nunemaker Hall.
The play "Translations" by Brian Friel will start at 7:30 p.m. in Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall. Tickets are $10 - $16.
The film "Hairspray" will be shown at 8 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium at the Kansas Union. Tickets are $2, or free with your SUA Card.
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