2A NEWS THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 2007 quote of the day "In junior high a boy poured water down my shirt and yelled: 'Now maybe they' ll grow!" — Pamela Anderson fact of the day Want to know what people are talking about? Here's a list of Thursday's most-emailed stories from Kansan.com: Pamela Anderson was born in Ladysmith, British Columbia, Canada, on July 1, 1967. That was Canada's 100th birthday. www.pamelaanderson.com

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Music program quality and test scores linked 2. Crossing manager says his bar will not close 3. Summer full of injuries for basketball team 4. Local DJ finds a home for his music 5. Dorm residents affected by magazine scam most e-mailed The University Daily Kansan is the student newspaper of the University of Kansas. The first copy is paid through the student activity fee. Additional copies of the Kansan are 25 cents. Subscriptions can be purchased at the Kansan business office, 119 Stauffer-Flint Hall, 1435 Jayhawk Blvd., Lawrence, KS 60045. et cetera The University Daily Kansan (ISSN 0746-4962) is published daily during the school year except Saturday, Sunday, fall break, spring break and exams. Weekly during the summer session excluding holidays. Periodical postage is paid in Lawrence, KS 66044. Annual subscriptions by mail are $120 plus tax. Student subscriptions of are paid through the student activity fee. Postmaster: Send address changes to The University Daily Kansan, 119 Stauffer-Flint Hall, 1435 Jayhawk Blvd., Lawrence, KS 66045 media partners NEWS KUJH For more news, turn to KUJH- TV on Cablevision Channel 31 in Lawrence. The student-produced news airs at 5:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m, 9:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. every Monday through Friday. Also, check out KUJH online at tvku.edu. KJHK is the student voice in radio. Each day there is sports talk shows and other content made for students, by students, in class, at school, or roll or reggae, sports to KJHK 90.7 is for you. Whether it's rock n roll or reggae, sports or special events KJH 90.7 is for you. BY KATHERINE LESLIE Are you ready to try something new, whether it is crowd surfing at a concert in one of the many bars Lawrence is famous for or shopping downtown on Mass Street? Every weekend, Lawrence becomes a of hotbed of activity, so try out some of these events to kick off your Beakend: GET READY FOR THE BEAKEND POKER PUB TOURNAMENT Every Thursday and Saturday beginning at 6 p.m. and again at 9 p.m., Conroy's Pub has a free poker tournament. The pub, at 3115 W. Sixth St., allows all ages to participate in the contest, and follows the normal rules of good-old Texas Hold 'Em. Players receive $4,000 in chip points. Play continues until one competitor holds all the chips. Players should arrive 30 minutes before the tournament to register. For a complete list of rules, go to www.lawrence.com/events/ongoing/4204. NORTH VS. SOUTH FESTIVAL More than 70 bands will gather from across the nation to perform at this year's North vs. South Festival. Located on Massachusetts Street between Sixth and Eleventh streets, the festival features artists playing genres from independent rock to alternative country and folk music. Most of these stellar performances will be in and outside the Replay Lounge, Louise's Downtown, and Jackpot Saloon and Music Hall. The Jackpot will be open only to those 18 and older. The festival will begin at 6 p.m. Friday and will continue Saturday at 6 p.m. All-access bracelets cost $15. Individual show tickets are $2 to $3. For show schedules, visit www.lawrence.com. — Edited by Rachael Gray Juggling school and fun Jon Goerina/KANSAN Ezra Huscher, Salina junior, and Justin Gramarye, Fairfax, Va., doctoral student, toss pins high in the air in front of Wescoe Hall on Tuesday as a part of the "Beach 'N Boulevard" during the Hawk Week celebration. Huscher is the current president and Gramarye is the former president of the KU juggling club. The first practice for this school year is at 1 p.m. om Aug.25 on Wescoe Beach. ODD NEWS 'Elusive gator'attempts return to wild from LA zoo LOS ANGELES — You can't keep a good gator down. An alligator that became a celebrity after eluding trappers for nearly two years at an urban lake managed to escape from his new home at the Los Angeles Zoo on Wednesday. It was nearly opening time before Reggie was caught. Keepers discovered the $7 \frac{1}{2} $-foot gator was missing from his personal exhibit pond at about 7:30 a.m. and a search of every rock and bush proved he wasn't anywhere in the display. The wily beast was finally found near a loading dock several hundred yards away shortly before the zoo's 10 a.m. opening time, spokesman Jason Jacobs said. It's believed he had climbed a mesh-covered side wall of the exhibit. "It proves to us that he's a very smart, healthy gut," Jacobs said. Reggie was placed in quarantine while a mesh overhang was added to his exhibit to prevent another escape. Reggie was spotted in Harbor City's Machado Lake in August 2005. Authorities say a man who illegally raised Reggie as a pet dumped the gator in the lake when it got too big. BEIJING — A Chinese couple seeking a distinctive name for their child settled on the e-mail 'at' symbol--annoying government officials grappling with an influx of unorthodox names. After several attempts, Reggie finally was captured in May. He was introduced to the public last Thursday, and fans have been eager to see him. his neighbors," City Councilwoman Janice Hahn, who represents the Harbor City area, said of his escape. "Or maybe he was heading back to Harbor City." "I am sure that Reggie simply wanted to explore his new home at the zoo and introduce himself to "We all know that Reggie is a very smart and elusive gator," she said. "It took us almost two years to catch him, and I would expect nothing less than at least one escape attempt from him." bringing bizarre names into the Chinese language. Couple picks symbol, not characters, for baby boy The unidentified couple was cited Thursday by a government official as an example of citizens Written Chinese does not use an alphabet but is comprised of characters, sometimes making it difficult to develop words for new or foreign objects and ideas. As of last year, only 129 names accounted for 87 percent of all surnames in China, Li Yuming, vice director of the State Language Commission, said at a news conference. The letters 'a' and 't' can be pronounced in a way that sounds like the phrase "love him" in Chinese. The father said, "The whole world uses it to write e-mails and, translated into Chinese, it means 'love him,'" Li said. Li did not say if police, who are the arbiters of names because they issue identity cards, rejected baby 'at.' on campus The Lied Center Family Arts Festival is from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the garden courtyard at the Lied Center. "Trout Fishing in America"is performing from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on the northeastern lawn of the Lied Center. The Movie on the Hill, "Spider-Man 3," is at 9 p.m. on the Campanile Hill. Free cosmic bowling is from 10 p.m. to 1 p.m. in Jaybowl in the Kansas Union. ODD NEWS daily KU info The hottest day on record for Lawrence is 110 degrees. It should be at least 20 degrees cooler than that during your walk through campus today. Enjoy. Woman finds medieval cross in crockery hunt VIENNA, Austria — A medieval cross that was hidden from the Nazis and ended up in the trash could be worth more than a half-million dollars, police said Thursday. A woman looking for old crockery in a trash container in the western Austrian town of Zell am See stumbled upon the piece in 2004, Salzburg police said Thursday, when they announced the find. The woman, who has not been identified, apparently did not know what she had found and stashed the cross behind her couch. Last month, a neighbor with a keen eye had an inking the cross might be something special and took it to a local museum in the village of Leoang. Experts said the cross could be worth more than $500,000 at auction. A local museum has custody of it for the moment, and it's unclear whether the trash-foraging woman will get so much as a penny for her find. She discovered the cross while going through items discarded by the relatives of a local hotel owner who had died, the Austria Press Agency quoted police official Christian Krieg as saying. The London-based Commission for Looted Art in Europe is representing the heirs of the former owner of the cross. contact us Tell us your news Contact Erick R. Schmidt, Eric Jorgensen, Darla Slipke, Matt Erickson or Ashlee Kieler at 864-4810 or editor@kansan.com. 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