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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized."
— Fred Allen
FACT OF THE DAY
Comedian Fred Allen started his career as a juggler and his big break came when he appeared on Broadway in 'The Passing Show' in 1922.
Source:fredallen.org
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
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Dog jog raises money for Lawrence Humane Society
Video by Clayton Ashley/KUJH-TV
The Concerned Active and Aware Students held a second annual dog jog on campus to raise money for the Lawrence Humane Society.
Class teaches video game design
Video by Kiernan Markey/KUJH-TV
A new class started by art professor Stacey For teaches students the process of creating video games.
This is National Libraries Week. KU has seven branch libraries, maintaining over 4 million volumes. Today is National Library Workers Day. Have you hugged your librarian today?
What's going on today?
Student Health Services will host "KU Smokeout: 'It's Never Too Late to Quit" from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Anschutz Library and The Underground.
WEDNESDAY April 14
Student Legal Services will offer a free tax workshop from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Harris Computer Lab of the Kansas Union.
The Kronos Quartet will perform at 7:30 p.m. at the Lied Center. Tickets are $14 for students and youth and $32 for adults.
If you would like to submit an event to be included on our weekly calendar, send us an e-mail at news@kansan.com with the subject "Calendar."
- The Kansas Relays will be from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Memorial Stadium. The event is free with a KUIO.
- Watkins Memorial Health Center will offer a free runners clinic from 9 to 11 a.m. at its southwest entrance. Call 864-9592 to reserve a spot.
THURSDAY April 15
The Kansas Relays continue from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Memorial Stadium. The event is free with a KUID.
SATURDAY
April 17
Valerie Hudson, a professor of political science at Brigham Young University, will present the lecture, "The Heart of the Matter: The Security of Women and the Security of States," from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in Room 116 of the Sabatini Multicultural Resource Center.
The Kansas Relays continue from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Memorial Stadium. The event is free with KUID.
The annual KU Spring Pow Wow will be from 5 to 10 p.m. at the Auditorium of Robinson Center.
- Free Cosmic Bowling from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.
at Jaybowl in the Kansas Union.
SUNDAY April 18
- The KU Opera Chamber Ensemble will present XERXes by Georg Friedrich Handel from 2 to 3 p.m. at the Spencer Museum of Art.
FRIDAY April 16
The Kansas Relays continue from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Memorial Stadium. The event is free with KUID.
Student Union Activities will showcase local bands playing for its Tunes and Noon from noon to 1 p.m. in the Plaza of the Kansas Union.
MONDAY April 19
Diana B. Carlin will offer the seminar "Osher Institute: America's First Ladies: More Than the Women Behind the men" at 2 p.m. at the Continuing Education Building, 1515 St. Andrews Dr. The seminar is free and open to the public.
FDIC Chair and KU alumna Sheila Bair will discuss her career and efforts to restore Americans' faith in the financial system at 7:30 p.m. at the Dole Institute of Politics.
AWARDS
Journalism alumna wins Pulitzer Prize
Colleen McCain Nelson, a 1996 KU graduate, won a Pulitzer Prize yesterday for her editorial writing at the Dallas Morning News.
McCain Nelson and two of her colleagues were awarded the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing "for their relentless editorials deploring the stark social and economic disparity between the city's better-off northern half and distressed southern half," according to the Pulitzer citation.
While at the University,
McCain Nelson was the editor for The Kansan for the fall 1995 semester before she graduated with a bachelor of science in journalism in fall of 1996.
"In winning the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing, she carries on the great tradition of William Allen White. We are incredibly proud of her," said KU Journalism Dean Ann Brill in a statement.
McCain Nelson is the 12th University alumnus to win a Pulitzer Prize and the first since 2004.
Elliot Metz
NATIONAL
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Past contenders top list of potential new Supreme Court Justices
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's candidates for the Supreme Court include a new name, federal appeals court Judge Sidney Thomas of Montana, and at least six others who were contenders when Obama chose his first high court nominee last year. The Associated Press has learned.
Among the others under consideration are former Georgia Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears, federal appeals court judges Diane Wood and Merrick Garland, Solicitor General Elena Kagan, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Grohlman and
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
The president is seriously reviewing about 10 people as a potential nominee to replace Justice John Paul Stevens, who is retiring this summer.
Seven of those names are now confirmed to the AP by the administration.
A senior administration official said the president's consideration is not just centered on the three people receiving the most public attention: Wood, Kagan and Garland. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because no announcements have been made about the
people Obama is considering for the court.
Thomas, 56, of Billings, Mont., serves on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the largest of the nation's appellate courts.
He was nominated to the federal bench in July 1995 by then-President Bill Clinton and confirmed by the Senate in January 1996 with no controversy in a voice vote.
He comes from Western roots — born in Bozeman, Mont., bachelor's degree from Montana State University, law degree from the University of Montana. Thomas worked in private practice in Billings and was an adjunct
community college law professor there for years before becoming a federal judge.
The White House on Monday quickly ended speculation about another potential nominee: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Her name had been floated as a possibility by Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, but White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Obama "is going to keep her as his secretary of state."
Obama's list includes three people whom he interviewed as finalists when the court had an opening last year — Wood, Kagan and Napolitano.
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