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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 2007
quote of the day
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
3. Rec center expansion will begin Monday
Henry David Thoreau fact of the day
4. Robinett: New rule shouldn't change much
The average home contains about 400 pounds of copper for electrical wiring, water pipes and appliances.The average automobile contains about 50 pounds.Each child born today in the United States will use 1,500 pounds of copper in his or her lifetime.
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1. Truck crashes into Chi Omega sorority house
2. Scholarship hall has Cinco de Mayo party
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5. Magruder: Small-town sensibility
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Who's Who at KU
Rachel Magario
BY RACHEL BURCHFIELD
Rachel Magario's smile lights up the room as she tells her life story — a story that began in Santos, São Paulo, Brazil, and went from there to Chile, Peru, and finally, the United States. Although her life has taken her from one country to another, Magario has one constant in her life — her dog, Hamlet, an 11-year-old black lab, is Magario's source of companionship, but more importantly, Hamlet is Magario's seeing eve dog.
Magario has been blind since she was six years old. To some, her blindness may be a disability, but for her, it is simply a character builder.
"I don't even like the word disabled," she said. "I might be limited in some parts of my life, but I'm overly talented in others. Everyone is like that. I do feel that I can do anything that anyone else can, I just have to use different means."
"Usually, dogs retire at age nine or 10," Magario said. "But really, you
Magario said that it was sometimes difficult for her to get around a college campus the size of the
retire a dog when he wants to retire, and he doesn't want to"
University's, but she doesn't let that slow her down. Instead, she transforms problems into solutions.
"I have a journal, and in it I write down what I see is wrong and possible alternatives for it," she said.
Some of these alternatives include building a tactile map of campus, in which Braille and raised lines and symbols are used to show topographic features. Though she said it "took a couple of years to get the campus down," she hoped it would take much less time for future students.
When Magario was applying to universities in the United States 10 years ago, the first university that accepted her was the University of Kansas. She had wanted to attend either Harvard or New York University, but her parents urged her to come to the University because her dad, who had visited Kansas on business trips in the past, thought Lawrence would be a safer environment for her.
She arrived at the University in 1997, but in May 1998, she was hit by a car on campus. She suffered
severe kidney damage as a result of the accident. Somehow, though, she remained positive about the tragedy.
"Yeah, it got in the way, but it didn't stop me," she said. "That's something I'm proud of — I didn't lose hope on life."
In 2004, Magario graduated from the University with two undergraduate degrees in communication studies and geography. She is now in her second year of graduate school, pursuing a master's degree in education.
She said she could see herself going to law school one day; in 10 years she hopes to be helping implement policy change to create better technology and accessibility for people with disabilities. But no matter what Magario is doing, 10 years from now, she said she'd be doing it on her own terms.
"I know who I am," she said. "I'm not trying to be somebody else. I'm comfortable with who I am, and I'm happy with who I am."
— Edited by Ashley Thompson
Old man river
Robert Cohen/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dallas Kropp, 77, left, and Tony Burks, 85, watch the Missouri River in Hermann, Mo., on Tuesday. Kropp, who owns the K&S Bait and Fish on the boat ramp in downtown Hermann, said he stacked his belongings from his basement on his patio in preparation for the high water from recent heavy rain. In 1993, the water level reached the halfway up his windows, he said.
What do you think? BY JASON BARKER
WHAT DO YOU THINK WILL BE YOUR TOUGHEST FINAL?
BY JASON BARKER
MATT SHAW
Heidelberg, Germany, freshman "Biology 100 at 8 a.m., because I've been to that class once in the last month."
EMILY ASHWORTH
St Louis phonerep
"Business statistics, because there's only 28 questions with options A through I in them."
Overland Park junior "Probably my English final. It's an essay, and I don't like writing essays."
ERIN GREGORY Leawood junior
TJKLUG
"My campaign presentations, because campaigns is the hardest class I ever taken, but it's also the most rewarding class."
on campus
The KU Bookstore Sidewalk Sale will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at East Plaza in the Kansas Union.
Don Worster will present the lecture "Feeling the Heat" at 3:30 p.m. at Spahr Auditorium in Eaton Hall.
odd news
The Student Chamber Ensemble World Music Choir will perform a concert at 7:30 p.m. in Bales Organ Recital Hall.
Clinton provides hints to N.Y. Times crossword
NEW YORK — What's a four-letter word for "words in some kvetching?"
According to former President Clinton, it's "veys."
For "ent" he came up with
"What you might get for your
thoughts." For "arbs" it was
"They're almost a food group
on Wall St."
The former president supplied the clues to a crossword puzzle on the Web site of The New York Times Magazine, appearing this week.
The puzzle is part of a special issue on "the new middle ages" as in baby boomers, not medieval times and several clues poke fun at the boomer generation to which Clinton belongs.
Associated Press
Finals Frenzy will take place from 12:45 to 1:45 p.m. Monday in front of Wescoe Hall. At 1:15 p.m. sharp, there will be a group yell. This your opportunity to let off some major steam for finals week.
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corrections
An article in Monday's The University Daily Kansan contained an error. The article, "Celebrating a good cause," should have said the Cinco de Mayo festival took place at the Wilna Crawford Community Center.
An article in Tuesday's The University Daily Kansan contained an error. The article, "Few students graduate in four years," should have said Mya Lawrence was a St. Louis senior.
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