VOLUME 118 ISSUE 24
A leap of faith
Andrew Mckee, Lawrence junior, prepares to land after jumping his bike off of the wall behind Wescoe Hall. Mckee and many others jump off this drop regularly, which they call Wescoe Wall. "I like to send it like a gnar dog three times a day off that wall," Mckee said. Free riding, a style of mountain biking involving big jumps and lots of air, is gaining popularity among cyclers.
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Students, professors lunch on KU tab
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is introducing a "Take Your Professor to Lunch" program next week during Academic Success Week.
Students in the college can go online to fill
out a form and turn it in to the dean's office to receive a free $15 meal ticket for The Underground, The Market or the Crimson Café. There is a limit of three students per professor, and students can participate once
each academic year.
Professors already have been informed of the new program, and Christie Appelhanz, associate dean of liberal arts and sciences, said several professor
already have expressed their excitement. Students can find the forms at www.clas. ku.edu.
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DIVERSITY
Greek houses sponsor events for Hispanic Heritage Month
SCIENCE
For the next four weeks, the University of Kansas will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. Sponsored events will provide information about the Hispanic community on campus and raise awareness of Hispanic culture.
Chris Muñoz, Topeka junior, said he had been a victim of discrimination in the past. Now, he is the president of the KU chapter of Latino-based fraternity Sigma Lambda Beta. He said his fraternity would sponsor events for Hispanic Heritage Month.
Muñoz said that he personally worked to break down negative stereotypes of the
"A lot of what people only see is what's on TV and in newspapers," Muñoz said. "I think about my little brothers and sister. I want to make it better for them."
Latino community.
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Justino Moreno, Topeka junior, demonstrates salsa dancing moves Monday night in the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union. Salsa dancing lessons were part of the Sigma Lambda Gamma sorority's 10-year anniversary on campus.
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Disaster program to feature University scientists
History Channel show discusses apocalypse
University scientists will consider a possible end to the world tonight on "Mega Disasters," a History Channel show.
Bruce Lieberman, professor of geology and senior curator of the Natural History Museum, and Brian Thomas, who earned his doctorate in physics at the University in 2005, will be featured on tonight's episode of "Mega Disasters."
The show, which explores the possible effects of natural disasters on modern cities, will devote an episode to gamma-ray bursts, or exploding stars, which Lieberman and Thomas have studied extensively. The episode airs at 9 tonight on the History Channel.
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NATION
Nominee for attorney general is tough on terrorism
Mukasey is a former federal judge and also worked as a trial prosecutor. He is a supporter of the USA Patriot Act and has overseen significant terror trials, such as the World Trade Center bombings in 1993.
President Bush nominated Michael Mukasey on Monday to replace Alberto Gonzales as attorney general.
Senators are expected to move quickly to confirm Mukasey so that vacancies in the Justice Department after Gonzales left can be filled.
Senate Democrats, however, threatened to hold up the process until the White House hands over information on terrorist surveillance programs.
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THIS LITTLE PIGGY WON'T WEAR CROCS AGAIN
Popular soft-soled clogs catch easily in escalators cause severe foot injuries
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