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"This old eagle is laying some new eggs." Singer Chubby C, formerly Chubby Checker, on his reinvention as a rap artist.
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news in brief
monday, april 12, 2004
ON CAMPUS
The School of Fine Arts is sponsoring a Faculty Recital Series featuring Kip Haaheim at 7:30 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall, Free, Contact the Music and Dance Office at 864-3436.
Freshmen Lindsey Kellenbarger, Wichita, and Claire Scharenberg, Shawnee, studied on a bench outside of the Replay Lounge yesterday afternoon. Kellenbarger was reading Rosaura a las Diez for Spanish 216 while Scharenberg went over geology homework.
Russian and East European Studies is sponsoring its weekly Laird Brown Bag from noon to 1 p.m. tomorrow at 318 Bailey Hall. The title of the lecture is Azerbaijin and Problems of Regional Security in the South Caucasus with Elchin Rizayev, Junior Faculty Development Program Fellow, 2004. Contact Ray Finch at 864-4236 or ravfin@ku.edu.
Studying the day away
Kit Leffler/Kansan
The Kansas Alumni Association is sponsoring Great Expectations from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Adams Alumni Center. An alumni panel will discuss What I Wish I Would Have Known, regarding workplace realities, financial tips, networking and ethics. The panel will include alumni who work at the Douglas County District Attorney's Office, H&R Block, Sprint, Kansas Highway Patrol, KU Center for Research, Hallmark Cards, Bayer Corporation and the KU Freshman-Sophomore Advising Center. Free. Open to all KU students. Contact the University Career and Employment Services (UCES) at 864-4643.
The School of Fine Arts is sponsoring a Brown Bag Classics featuring the Concert Choir from 12:30 to 1 p.m. Wednesday in the Traditions Area. Event and drinks are free. Contact the Music and Dance Office at 864-3436.
The School of Fine Arts is sponsoring a Music Colloquium featuring a presentation by Professor Bryan Kip Haaheim at 3:30 p.m. Friday at 123 Murphy Hall. Free. Contact the Music and Dance Office at 864-3436.
The School of Fine Arts is sponsoring the Men's Glee Club at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in Swarthout Recital Hall. Free. Contact the Music and Dance Office at 864-3436.
Ecumenical Christian Ministries is having a Veggie Lunch from 11:30 to 1 p.m. Thursday at the ECM, 1204 Oread Ave. Optional donation for meal. Contact Laura Adams at 843-4933.
CAMPUS
University Christian Fellowship is sponsoring a Bible Study at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the ECM, 1204 Oread Ave. Contact Rick Clock at 841-3148 or www.uclu.org.
The KU Ballroom Dance Club is sponsoring dance practice from 7 to 9 p.m. today and Friday at the Hashinger Dance room. Ballroom, salsa and swing practice for beginners or to those looking to learn new moves. Contact kubdc@ku.edu.
$300,000 donation will help build. maintain collection
A former University of Kansas professor has given $300,000 to the Kansas University Endowment Association to expand a Latin American library collection. The donation is from the late William J. Griffith and his late wife, Shirley Lucas. It will be used to endow a fund for the Griffith Collection of Research Materials on Latin America.
Interest earned on the fund will be used to preserve and supplement the collection, which the University first bought from Griffith in 1982.
The collection includes materials Griffith collected during his time as director of the U.S. Division of Education, Office of Interim-American Affairs in the 1940s.
Griffith was director of the KU Center of Latin American Studies for five years before retiring in 1975.
— Azita Tafreshi
STATE
Blasting caps found near historic site, pose no danger
TOPEKA—Bomb technicians were
called to an alley near the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site after a blasting cap was found, police said.
Topeka police bomb technician Sgt. Kevin Miller said a volunteer with the Monroe neighborhood cleanup efforts found a device used to detonate explosives Saturday.
The finding shouldn't raise security concerns for the historic site, Miller said.
The former Monroe School, will be dedicated May 17 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court's school desegregation decision.
Miller said the device could have come from an old construction site and that is not uncommon for citizens to find old blasting caps.
Bomb technicians later found three more blasting caps that appeared to be old and corroded in an area where a property owner was removing old railroad tracks.
The property owner and bomb technicians removed dirt to look for additional blasting caps,but none were found.
If residents find a blasting cap, police warned them not to touch it because blasting caps can deteriorate and become unstable as they age.
The Associated Press
Legislature debates raising speed limit to 75 mph on I-70
SALINA — Paul Britow doesn't care if Kansas raises the speed limit to 75 mph on parts of Interstate 70. He wouldn't drive his rig that fast anyway.
"I drive 68 or 69 all the time. It doesn't matter what the speed limit is," said Bristow, a truck driver from Denver who stopped on a recent day at Salina's Flying J Travel Plaza for fuel and a shower.
"The thing I see in Kansas is that everybody drives 75 anyway — especially in cars. Trucks seem to stay about 70 or less."
Bristow owns his truck and drives the Denver-Kansas City route a couple of times a week.
Whatever the speed limit is, he said the state should enforce it strictly so that some vehicles don't go 20 mph faster than others.
A bill that has cleared both chambers of the Kansas Legislature authorizes a 75 mph maximum on rural highways with grass or concrete dividers — in other words, on parts off-1 and I-35.
But the two chambers disagreed on how much of a "buffer" to allow before a speeding ticket went onto a driver's record.
The House bill has a 10-mph buffer, so that getting stopped for driving 84
mph in a 75 mph zone wouldn't count on a driving record. The Senate version sets the buffer at 5 mph.
Legislative negotiations on the bill have stalled, and lawmakers are on a recess that ends when they return April 28 to wrap up their business for the year.
"Anything is possible on anything at this point," said Senate Transportation Committee Chairman Les Donovan (R-Wichita). "We have ways of resurrecting the dead."
Donovan said that if the bill does not pass this year, it's likely to come back next year but tied to a proposal to strengthen the state's seat-belt law.
The Associated Press
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