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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Kissing is like drinking salted water; you drink and your thirst increases."
— Chinese proverb
FACT OF THE DAY
Approximately two-thirds of people tip their head to the right when they kiss.
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New law requires safety training for social workers
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Gov. Mark Parkinson is expected to sign a bill into law Thursday requiring social workers to take at least six hours of safety training to renew their licenses.
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Natural History Museum obtains new lizard
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KU researchers discovered a new lizard in the Philippines last summer and brought it back to campus.
Wilt Chamberlain's sister donates memoribilia to KU
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Barbara Chamberlain-Lewis, sister of former KU basketball greet Wilt Chamberlain, donated a collection of her brother's letters, postcards and newspaper clippings to the Spencer Research Library.
What's going on today?
The reception for the Snyder Book Collecting contest will be from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on the third floor (west) of Watson Library. It will feature Nicholas Basbanes, noted author who writes and lectures widely on books and various aspects of book culture, and the winners of this year's Snyder Book Collecting Contest.
FRIDAY
The KU Women's Hall of Fame dinner will be hosted from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in the Malott Room of the Kansas Union. The ceremony will honor the 2010 Women's Hall of Fame inductees.
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."
April 9
KU Queens and Allies will host their annual "Brown Bag Drag at 12 p.m. in front of the Kansas Union. The event is part of the Union's Tunes at Noon series. The show is free and open to the public.
■ Student Union Activities will show the film, "Avatar," at 8 a.m. in Woodruff Auditorium. Tickets are $2 with a KUID and $3 for the general public.
SATURDAY
MONDAY
■ Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Ted Kooser will read from his works from 7 to 8 p.m. at The Oread, 1200 Oread Ave.
April 10
Author Edward Drea will present the lecture "From Samurai to Soldiers" from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Hall Center as part of the annual Grant Goodman Distinguished Lecture in Japanese Studies.
The Self Engineering Leadership Fellows program will offer an all-you-can-eat pancake feed from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the Locke Atrium of Eaton Hall. This annual event will raise funds to support Habitat for Humanity reconstruction efforts in Haiti.
SUNDAY
TUESDAY
April 11
Bernadette Gray-Little will be formally installed as the 17th Chancellor of the University of Kansas at 2 p.m. in the Lied Center. Tickets are required for the event. For more information, visit www.chancellorku/inauguration.
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Student Health Services will host KU Smokehouse: 'It's Never Too Late to Quit' from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Anschutz Library and The Underground.
Student Legal Services will offer a free tax workshop from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Harris Computer Lab of the Kansas Union.
WEDNESDAY April 14
The Kansas Relays will be from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Memorial Stadium. The event is free with a KUID.
- 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.
ODD NEWS
Judge issues arrest warrant over DVD
LITTLETON, Colo. — A longtime Colorado judge has been fired after issuing an arrest warrant for a teenager over an overdue library DVD.
Municipal Judge James Kimmel issued the warrant after 19-year-old Aaron Henson failed to show up in court Jan. 14 over the overdue DVD, "House of Flying Daggers". On Jan. 25, police stoped the teen for speeding and held him for nearly eight hours after discovering the warrant.
Henson had moved and didn't received the summons to court. The teen said he had packed the DVD in a box, and returned it about a week before Henson issued the warrant. The library
notified the judge the DVD was back.
City encourages meatless reflection
The Littleton City Council fired Kimmel, a judge for nearly 30 years, at its meeting Tuesday night. Kimmel declined to comment to The Denver Post.
SAN FRANCISCO — Besides approving rules against using plastic grocery bags, mixing recycling with compost, and smoking in sidewalk cafes, San Francisco supervisors have passed a resolution asking residents to observe meatless Mondays.
San Francisco supervisors passed the resolution Tuesday for no-meat Mondays in their latest legislative endorsement of healthy, eco-conscious living.
It cannot stop the city's residents from eating meat.Instead, it is meant to call attention to the relationship between diet and climate change.
To some, the resolution is a welcome reminder of the small part that residents play in solving a larger problem. Others, however, were left asking for Board of Supervisor-Free Fridays.
Most shrugged it off as another one of those"only in San Francisco"initiatives that many forget about soon after passage.
Escapee's smoke break ends in arrest
WOODBINE, Ga. — Authorities say an inmate who broke out of jail, then returned after stealing 14 packs of cigarettes, has been sentenced to 20 years.
Prosecutors told The Florida Times-Union that inmate Harry Jackson, 26. escaped his cell at the Camden County Jail last year and went to the exercise yard to retrieve cigarettes he had expected would be tossed over a fence.
They say that when the contraband wasn't there, Jackson scaled the fence, broke a window at a convenience store and grabbed cigarette packs only to be arrested upon his return.
Jackson pleaded guilty to burglary and escape charges Monday. Prosecutors say he had been jailed on charges including driving with a suspended license. His lawyer, William Ashe, didn't immediately return a call seeking comment.
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CRIME REPORT
At 3:20 p.m. Tuesday, someone pulled a false fire alarm at K.K. Amini Scholarship Hall.
Sometime between 4 and 7 p.m. Tuesday, someone flattened the tire of a parked truck in the parking lot near the Burge Union by inserting a razor blade into the tire's sidewall. Damages are estimated to be $85.
A KU student reported an aggravated batter at about 3:30 a.m. Sunday near 11th and Ohio streets.
At about 2:15 a.m. Sunday, a suspect was cited for publicly consuming alcohol at 11th and Indiana streets.
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