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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 2007
quote of the day presents KU football
"it's not devotion to a fad that makes men play football; it's because they enjoy their struggle."
Fielding H. Yost, Kansas football coach, 1899
fact of the day presents KU football
In 1899, his only season coaching at the University of Kansas, Yost led the football team to a perfect 10-0 record, one of only 2 perfect seasons in the program's 116-year history.
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5. Activists rally at Burger King locations
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Tawney Carter, right, gets a caricature at the SUA Carnival Saturday night in the parking lot of the Student Recreation and Fitness Center. Other activities, for KU students, faculty, employees and their families, included rides, games and food.
Spotlight on Organizations
Experimental Balloon Society
BY STEVEN KARLIN
A trip into space is impossible for the average person. But Stephen Mance, Prairie Village senior, wants to change this.
Mance is president of the Experimental Balloon Society. The Society has about 20 members and meets once a week for 30 minutes to an hour to build and test amateur balloon satellites. A couple of times a semester, they meet on Saturday mornings at Shenk Sports Complex
A typical balloon is made of latex and carries a camera, GPS system, radio tracking system and instruments to measure temperature and pressure. The radio tracking system is essential because the average height obtained by a balloon is 100,000 feet, Mance said. The system is linked to a laptop computer so the group can follow the balloon and retrieve it once it lands.
to launch the balloons.
Last semester, the society managed to take successful still shots
from the air. The video surveillance was not as successful, but Mance did manage to piece together a full panorama of the horizon from the frames of the video. He hopes the kinks will be worked out by the next launch.
This semester, the group's goal is to create a radio tracking system for rockets. The rocket would be launched at the apex of the balloon's ascent. Mance said the society hoped to break the international space barrier at 100,000 kilometers. If successful, the rocket would be the first amateur rocket to have done so, he said.
The Experimental Balloon Society is a research organization that used to be called the High Altitude Balloon Society and consisted only of graduate students. Recently the society became available to everyone.
For more information, contact Stephen Mance at kusteveo@ku.edu.
SMYRNA, Tenn. — A man who authorities say used his computer to make fake $100 bills to buy lap dances has pleaded guilty to counterfeiting charges, federal prosecutors said.
ODD NEWS Man pays for lap dance with counterfeit $100 bills
Edited by Matt Erickson
Strippers at Deja Vu in Nashville were suspicious of the bills and called police after Damon Armagost spent $600 of the fake money April 16, authorities said.
When officers arrived, Armagost first told them he got the money when he sold gold coins to someone for $1,400.
U. S. Secret Service agents later determined that counterfeit bills with the same serial number had been passed in other parts of the country. When they went to Armagost's home, about 20 miles southeast of Nashville, a family member told agents that an image of a $100 bill had been on a computer there.
Armagost then acknowledged that he had downloaded the image and printed 14 of the bills, prosecutors said. He pleaded guilty Friday to manufacturing and passing counterfeit currency.
Siblings cause terror scare by sprinkling powder in lot
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Two people who sprinkled flour in a parking lot to mark a trail for their offbeat running club inadvertently caused a bioterrorism scare and now face a felony charge.
The sprinkled powder forced hundreds to evacuate an IKEA furniture store Thursday.
New Haven ophthalmologist Daniel Salchow, 36, and his sister, Dorothee, 31, were both charged with first-degree breach of peace, a felony.
The siblings set off the scare while organizing a run for a local chapter of the Hash House Harriers, a worldwide group that bills itself as a "drinking club with a running problem."
"Hares" are given the task of marking a trail for runners, throwing in some dead ends and forks as challenges. On Thursday, the Salchows decided to route runners through the massive IKEA parking lot.
Police fielded a call just before 5 p.m. that someone was sprinkling powder on the ground. The store was evacuated and remained closed the rest of the night.
Daniel Salchow biked back to IKEA when he heard there was a problem and told officers the powder was just harmless flour, which he said he and his sister have sprinkled everywhere from New York to California without incident.
"Not in my wildest dreams did I ever anticipate anything like that," he said.
Mayoral spokeswoman Jessica Mayorga said the city plans to seek restitution from the Salchows.
"You see powder connected by arrows and chalk, you never know," she said.
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on campus
The physics and astronomy department will present the lecture "Velocity Fields as a Probe of the Large Scale Structure of the Universe" at 4 p.m. in 2074 Malott Hall.
Brad Sneed will present the KU Department of Design Hallmark Design Symposium Series lecture at 6 p.m. in 3139 Wescoe Hill
There is a program called "Tea at three" at 3 p.m. every thursday in the fourth floor lobby of the Kansas Union. You can join students, faculty and staff for a free cup of tea and cookie.
ODD NEWS 'Snakes on a plane' becomes reality for pilot
BROOKHAVEN, Miss. — It was no movie moment when a physician, flying himself across Mississippi, discovered a stowaway — a gray rat snake.
Dr. Ed Carruth discovered the snake-on-a-plane when it began "licking" his arm Thursday, he told The Daily Leader of Brookhaven.
"I've been flying planes for 50 years and over 14,000 hours, and this is the most unusual inflight emergency I've encountered," he said.
Needing to fly the plane and lacking tools to get rid of the snake, "I did some aerobatics," Carruth said. "And once he got oriented, he went to the back of the plane."
When Carruth arrived at Brookhaven Municipal Airport, officials called a snake expert to remove the reptile.
Fresh set of clothes leads to drug arrest
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — Police sent to arrest a man spotted a bag of marijuana in his dresser drawer, according to the criminal complaint against him.
The 27-year-old man was charged with possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia for a smoking device found in his bedroom, the complaint said.
Officers said the man greeted them at the door and asked if he could put on his pants before being taken away. The officers spotted the marijuana when he opened the drawer to get clothes.
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