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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2007
quote of the day
"The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves."
W. C. Fields
fact of the day
The largest pancake ever made and flipped measured 49.2 feet wide,0.9 inches deep and weighed 3.3 tons.
Source:www.tiscali.co.uk
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In what department do you teach?
Philosophy
How long have you taught at the University?
BY DANNY NORDSTROM
This is my first semester.
This is my first semester.
What courses do you teach
What courses do you teach?
"Introduction to Ethics","Professional Ethics" and "Contemporary Ethical Theory".
Where did you attend college? I did my undergraduate at University of Arizona at Tucson and did graduate school at Syracuse.
Where are you from?
It was bizarre. It's weird growing up in a segregated society when you don't have segregationist values.
Why did you leave South Africa? Because of the general instability in the country at the time.
What was it like growing up in South Africa?
What are your fondest childhood memories?
Spending time with extended family on the weekends and watching
What are some of your hobbies?
I like golf, tennis, watching "The Shield" and cooking.
rugby.
What kind of music do you listen to?
Name all the places you have lived.
Johannesburg, Tucson, Syracuse,
Birmingham and Lawrence
What is the best bar in Lawrence? Henry's Upstairs, 11 E.8th St.
Cats or dogs?
Hip-hop like Dr. Dre, Chingy, Ludacris, and British pop like Blur and Pulp.
Dogs, but I don't have any pets.
Who is your favorite author?
Terry Pratchett
Do you have a favorite book?
"Going Postal" by Terry Pratchett
Favorite movie?
Favorite movie? "Trainspotting"
Where is your favorite spot to travel?
All over Spain
A chef, and if that fell through, a vigilante.
If you weren't a professor what would you be?
Keeping vigil
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Seen through a hole in a stone wall, Palestinian Muslim worshipers pray during Lilat al-Qadar, also known as the Night of Power. They are praying in front of the Dome of the Rock Mosque in the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City, Monda. According to Muslim tradition, the Koran was revealed to the Prophet Mohammed during the night of Lilat al-Qadar.
odd news
FARGO, N.D. — With lots of stretching and reaching toward blue, red, yellow and green circles, some 450 high school students played Twister on 180 mats in what they hope will set a world record for the largest Twister game board.
Sunday's night attempt took place during a conference held over the weekend by North Dakota DECA, a high school business club.
The students won't know for sure until officials at Guinness World Records review a video of
the attempt.
The mats formed a Twister board measuring 4,699 square feet. The current record was set in April 2005 in the Netherlands, at 2,453 square feet.
Missouri donut thief could go to jail for crime
Authorities said Scott A. Masters, 41, slipped the doughnut into his sweat shirt without paying, then pushed away a clerk who tried to stop him as he fled.
FARMINGTON, Mo. — It's a hefty price for a pastry: A man accused of stealing a 52-cent doughnut could face time in jail.
"Strong-arm robbery? Over a doughnut? That's impossible," Masters said from jail. He admitted that he took the pastry but denied touching the employee.
The push is being treated as minor assault, which transforms
a misdemeanor shoplifting charge to a strong-armed robbery with a potential prison term of five to 15 years. Because he has a criminal history, prosecutors say they could seek 30 years.
Farmington Police Chief Rick Baker said state law treated the shoplifting and assault as forcibly stealing property. The amount of force and value of the property doesn't matter.
corrections
"It's not the doughnut," Baker said. "It's the assault."
Matt Hirschfeld's Oct. 2 column misidentified the animal appearing on the scoreboard at Bid Snyder Family Stadium. It was a bulldog, not a pig.
The photo accompanying the Monday's article "The streak comes to an end" misidentified Carmon Boyd-Anderson.
Domestic & Foreign Complete Car Care
Monday's photo outline for "Wrapping up a week of awareness" incorrectly stated the amount of money raised during the week. The week's events raised $8,000.
"A Conversation with Orville Schell" will start at 10 a.m. in the Conference Hall in the Hall Center for the Humanities. Schell is director of the Center on U.S.-China Rgoelations in New York.
on campus
Associated Press
John Peck, professor of law, will present "Can the Ogallala Aquifer in Western Kansas be Saved for Future Generations?" at noon in the Ecumenical Christian Ministries building, 1204 Oread Ave.
The seminar "The Portable Castle: Tents, Reading, and the Ekphrasis of Space in Medieval German Romance" will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Seminar Room in the Hall Center for the Humanities.
The Concert Choir concert scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at Lawrence High School has been canceled.
An etiquette dinner will start at 6 p.m. in the Kansas Union.
Tickets are $12 and are on sale in 110 Burge Union.
Takao Shibata, chancellor's lecturer, will present the lecture "Post-Conflict Reconciliation and Ending Poverty in Africa" at 7 p.m. in Nunemaker Hall.
The KU Symphony Orchestra will play at 7:30 p.m. in the Lied Center. Tickets are $5 for students and $7 for adults.
Stephanie Fox Knappe, exhibition coordinator, will speak at the lecture "Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist" at 7 p.m. in Regnier Hall Auditorium on the Edwards Campus.
The KU football team broke an 18-year losing streak at K-State on Saturday. However, thirteen years ago yesterday, K-State ended an even longer losing streak in Lawrence. On Oct. 8, 1994, K-State beat KU in Memorial Stadium for the first time in 25 years.
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