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NEWS / MONDAY, MARCH 8, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say."
G. K. Chesterton
FACT OF THE DAY
The Epic of Gilgamesh, written thousands of years ago in Mesopotamia is the oldest extant poem.
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Monday, March 8, 2010
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Behind the curtain: 'Arms and the Man'
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Wescoe and Budig halls timelapse
A look at the student traffic in front of and behind Wescoe Hall from 12 to 2 p.m. on Wednesday and all day Thursday
If and when Sherron Collins and Cole Aldrich get their jerseys retired in Allen Fieldhouse, they will both share jersey numbers with players already in the rafters: Nick Collison (4) and Raef LaFrentz (45). There are only four other numbers that represent multiple retired jerseys.
What's going on today?
The Wallace Johnson Memorial Lecture in Medieval Chinese Culture:"A New History of the Silk Road" will be delivered by Valerie Hansen from Yale University. The lecture is 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. in Alderson Auditorium located in the Kansas Union.
March 9
KU School of Music presents KU Concert Choir conducted by Matthew Thompson at the Lawrence Arts Center. The concert is from 7:30 to 8:30 and is free to the public.
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
March 10
- Tammy Kernodle, associate professor of Musicology at Miami University, will present "Evry Time I Feel the Spirit: Constructing Black Women's Conversion Narratives in Jazz" at 7:30 p.m. in Spoon Hall.
■ The KU School of Music will present tenor Jordan Gouge and soprano Tausha Torres as part of its Student Recital Series from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall of Murphy Hall.
Former U.N. Ambassador and U.S. Senator Jack Danforth will discuss current state affairs in Sudan from 2 to 3 p.m. in the Centennial Room of the Kansas Union.
THURSDAY
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The group, Shidara, will perform Japanese taiko drumming at 7:30 p.m. in the Lied Center. Tickets are $10 for students and $28 for adults.
March 11
FRIDAY
March 12
The 2009 Association of American University Presses Book, Jacket and Journal Show is open to the public all day at the University Press of Kansas, 2502 Westbrooke Circle.
SATURDAY March 13
■ The KU School of Music continues its Student Recital Series with Jeff Sears, baritone, at 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. at Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
The Spencer Museum of Art and the Lawrence Public Library will screen "A Very Long Engagement" from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Spencer Museum of Art Auditorium.
THE KU School of Music will present the Kansas City Symphony Trumpet Section from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. in Room 130 of Murphy Hall as part of its Visiting Artist Series. Professor and saxophonist Vince Gnojek will perform at the same time in the Swarthownt Recital Hall in Murphy Hall as part of the School of Music's Faculty Recital Series.
SUNDAY
March 14
SPRING BREAK
ODD NEWS
Thief caught cashing stolen lottery ticket
BARTOW, Fla. — A Winter Haven man was arrested after authorities said he took a winning scratch-off ticket back to the store he had stolen it from a day earlier. The Polk County Sheriff's Office reported that a 22-year-old man stole $70 worth of scratch- off lottery tickets from a Circle K store Sunday. One of the tickets revealed a $50 prize.
When the man went back to the store on Monday to claim the money, a clerk asked the man for his driver's license and wrote down the information. The clerk called the police, who arrested the man.
Grandma camps out at soft serve store
STEVENS POINT, Wis. — Michelle Cuestas of Green Bay used two vacation days and camped out for 43 hours to make sure her grandson would be first in line for the 2010
opening of a Stevens Point ice-cream landmark.
Belts' Soft Serve opened for the year Friday at 11 a.m. Thanks to grandma, 6-year-old Brayden Banks placed the first order.
Woman assaults jailer with breast milk
OWENSBORO, Ky. — A woman
in jail for public intoxication was accused of assaulting a jailer by squirting breast milk at her. WYMT-TV reported that a 31-year-old woman was arrested Thursday on a misdemeanor charge of public intoxication. But as she was changing into an inmate uniform, she squirtd breast milk into the face of a female deputy.
Repeat offender uses cabbies as getaways
FAIRBANKS, Alaska — Police said a woman accused in December of
stealing televisions and hiring a cabbie as her getaway driver is now accused of trying it again. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported that a 27-year-old woman was charged with second-degree felony robbery and misdemeanor theft in the Friday incident. The newspaper said she was arrested Friday after police were called to a Fred Meyer store on a report of a woman walking out without paying.
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