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2A / NEWS / FRIDAY, MAY 6, 2011 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"I think it's important that we don't all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything's fine."
Nicole Kidman
The praying mantis can turn its triangular head up to 180 degrees in search of an insect.
FACT OF THE DAY
— interestingfacts.org
Weather forecast
FRIDAY: High: 77. Sunny, Winds 10 to 15 mph, gusting to 30 mph.
FRIDAY NIGHT:
Low: 56.20 percent chance of rain.Winds south,10 to 15 mph,gusting to 25 mph.
SATURDAY: High: 80. Mostly sunny. Winds west 5 to 15 mph, gusting to 20 mph.
SATURDAY NIGHT: Low: 57. Partly cloudy.
SUNDAY: High: 83. 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny. Low: 66.
MONDAY: High: 87. Sunny. Low: 67.
Information from forecasters Austin Quick and Heather Williams, KU atmospheric science students
What's going on?
FRIDAY
May 6
The Music Therapy Student Association will be hosting Music in the Park from 7 to 9 p.m. at South Park on Massachusetts Street. The concert is free and open to the public.
SATURDAY
May
The KU Society of Open-Minded Atheists and Agnostics will host Reasonfest, a festival of secular thought from 2 to 8:30 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
TUESDAY
SUNDAY
May 8
May 10
The University Theatre will host the opera "Hansel and Gretel" from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall.
The Human Resources and Equal Opportunity Department will host "Generational Differences in the Workplace" from 9 to 11 a.m. at Joseph R. Pearson Hall, room 204.
WEDNESDAY
May 11
The School of Music will host a french horn recital for Michael Cooper as part of the student recital series. It will be held in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall at 7:30 p.m.
MONDAY
May 9
The Dole Institute's first summer exhibit traces the history of the movement to abolish slavery from the framing of the Constitution to its abolition during the Civil War.
THURSDAY
May 12
The KU Alumni Association will host a Grad Grill from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Adams Alumni Center.
ODD NEWS
Fearful man jumps into Hudson River
RENSSELAER, N.Y. — Authorities in New York say a 21-year-old man who jumped into the Hudson River to escape police got all wet for nothing.
The man was riding in a car Wednesday afternoon when it was pulled over by police in Rensselaer, across the Hudson River from Albany. Police said he bolted from the car's passenger side and ran toward the river, where he jumped in near
a bridge.
Authorities say the man,
The current carried him about 250 feet down river before he was able to grab onto a branch. Police soon arrived and pulled him from the 50-degree water.
whose name hasn't been released, thought there was a warrant out for his arrest.
But police say there was no warrant.
He was taken to an Albany hospital for an examination.
Associated Press
CLARIFICATION
The identification of sources in Thursday's "Malicious Intimacy" story was unclear. The names of the victims and attackers in the story, with the exception of Jana Mackey and Fito Garche, were replaced with random pseudonyms. Other identifying information was modified in order to protect the sources.
CORRECTION
In an article published yesterday about Reasonfest, JohnMark Miravalle's name was misspelled.
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