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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Diligence is the mother of good luck."
—Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin was one of 17 children.
FACT OF THE DAY
— ushistory.org
Weather forecast
WEDNESDAY: Sunny and clear skies with winds from the southeast at 10 to 20 mph. High of 71.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT:
Clouds moving into the area will keep our low near 50. Winds out of the southeast at 10 to 15 mph will become southwesterly as the night progresses. 30 percent chance of thunderstorms.
THURSDAY:
High near 70. Cloudy skies in the morning will give way to clear skies in the afternoon. 20 percent chance of thunderstorms in the morning. Winds from the southwest at 5 to 15 mph.
ON THE RECORD
THURSDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear skies with a low near 47.
FRIDAY: Sunny skies with a high in the upper 70s. Clear skies overnight, low near 55.
SATURDAY: Mostly sunny skies during the day, high in the upper 70s. Mostly clear skies at night will give a low of 55.
On April 30, someone was arrested at McCollum Hall for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
On April 30, someone reported a baggie containing a spoon and drug residue in a bathroom.
On May 1, someone was arrested at Hashinger Hall for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
On May 1, someone in Marvin Hall kicked a hole in a wall, knocking off a toilet paper dispenser in a men's room at a loss of $100.
Information from forecasters Carisa Morgan and Regina Bird, KU atmospheric science students
What's going on?
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
May 4
The theater department will host an interactive theater experience dealing with office politics and personal management. The event will be held at the Edwards Campus in Regnell Hall auditorium from 8 to 9 a.m.
May 5
Student group Compassion for All Animals will host "FREE FOOD, FASHION AND COMPASSION" at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries building 7 to 8:15 p.m. The event features a cruelty-free fashion show with a live DJ.
FRIDAY
SUNDAY
May 6
The University Theatre will host the opera "Hansel and Gretel" from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Crafty-Pronter Theater in Murphy Hall.
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.
May 9
The department of dance will host a New Dance Concert at 7:30 p.m. at the Elizabeth Sherbon Dance Theatre in the Robinson Center. Tickets are $2.
MONDAY
SATURDAY
May 7
The Center for Global and International Studies will host a film titled "Irish Travellers: Tinkers No More" at 2:30 p.m. in the Spencer Art Museum auditorium.
TUESDAY
May 10
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.
STUDY ABROAD
University cautions students abroad
IAN CUMMINGS
The Office of Study Abroad sent an email Monday asking University students enrolled in its programs to follow the recommendations of a worldwide travel alert issued by the U.S. Department of State.
The department's message closely followed the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan and warned of potential anti-American violence. It advises Americans traveling abroad to be informed about local conditions, maintain a low profile and avoid large groups of tourists.
The message from the Office of Study Abroad said that it had not canceled any programs but was monitoring events closely and that students should contact program coordinators to confirm their contact information. Students traveling away from their program sites, the
message said, could register their travel plans at the Department of State's website.
Source: U.S. Department of State Travel
Advisory
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/ pa_worldwide.html
COUNTRIES WHERE STUDENTS ARE STUDYING ABROAD:
Argentina, Australia, British West Indies, China, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, England Finland, France, Germany, Guatemala, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Peru, Russia, Scotland, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Uganda
Source: Office of Study Abroad
NATIONAL
California official challenges Proposition 8
ASSOCIATED PRESS
FRANCISCO
SAN FRANCISCO California's attorney general has again come out against the state's same-sex marriage ban, this time telling the state Supreme Court the proponents of successful ballot initiatives do not have the right to defend their measures in court.
Kamala Harris, a Democrat who succeeded Gov. Jerry Brown in January as attorney general, submitted an amicus brief Monday in the ongoing legal dispute over the voter-approved ban known as Proposition 8.
In it, she argued that only public officials exercising the executive power of government have authority to represent the state when laws passed by voters or the Legislature are challenged.
"California law affords an initiative's proponents no right to defend the validity of a successful initiative measure based only on their role in launching an initiative
process," Harris wrote.
The question of where the role of ballot measure backers ends is critical to the legal fight over California's ban on same-sex marriages. Both Brown and former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger refused to defend the 2008 constitutional amendment on appeal after a federal judge struck it down last summer as a violation of civil rights.
Proposition 8' s sponsors asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to allow them to step in, but the court punted the question to the California Supreme Court earlier this year, saying it was a matter of state law.
If the sponsors are not permitted to intervene, the lower court ruling overturning Proposition 8 will stand.
initiative proponents need to be allowed to advocate for laws in court to prevent elected officials from effectively vetting measures by not defending them in court.
Lawyers for the coalition of religious and conservative groups that qualified the gay marriage measure for the ballot and campaigned for its passage have argued that
Harris contended in her brief that rather than empowering citizens, granting the sponsors of initiatives the ability to overrule the governor and attorney general's judgment "would rob the electors of power by taking the executive power from elected officials and placing it instead in the hands of a few highly motivated but politically unaccountable individuals."
The California Supreme Court is expected to hold a hearing in the case before the end of the year.
Republican State Sen. Tom Harman of Orange County introduced a bill that would grant ballot measure sponsors the right to represent the state when elected officials refuse to defend enacted laws in court. The Senate Judiciary Committee defeated it on a 3-2 vote Tuesday.
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