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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN MONDAY, APRIL 21, 2008
quote of the day
"What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero?"
Calvin & Hobbes
fact of the day
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Sombrero is a Spanish word that developed from the word sombre, which is Spanish for shadow.
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1. Living the Wright life
2. Mersmann: Roy Williams rigged championship game
4. Rain garden could save water
5. Rush, Arthur headed to the NBA
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ODD NEWS Dog travels 80 miles home after being lost in desert
ELY, Nev. — A dog that ran off during a road-trip rest stop made her way nearly 80 miles across Nevada's high desert and two mountain ranges to return home a week later.
Moon, a Siberian husky, was reunited April 14 with owner Doug Dashiell, who had last seen her April 6 near Railroad Valley, about 77 miles from his home in Elv.
Moon, who is nearly 2 years old, was no worse for the wear, with the exception of stinking like a skunk that apparently sprayed her somewhere along the journey.
"I've had trouble with her running away before. She's always come home," Dashiell said. But he didn't expect her to show up after a week had passed.
"After seven days - no way!" he told the Ely Times on Thursday.
Then the White Pine Veterinary Clinic called Dashiell and told him Moon was back in town. She had wandered up to an Ely residence where Alvin Molea took her home, fed her and gave her a place to sleep.
Molea called the clinic because the dog was wearing a tag from it.
The dog's journey would have taken her across the White River and Ward mountain ranges.
Food no excuse for officer to park patrol car illegally
PORTLAND, Ore. — An attorney who watched a police officer park illegally in front of a restaurant,
Bryant told the weekly paper that when he asked Stensgaard about his car, the officer asked Bryant, "If someone broke into your house, would you rather have the police be able to park in front of your house or have to park three blocks away and walk there?"
Stensgaard was issued a summons to appear in traffic court in May. The fines could total $540.
Bryant filed a complaint as a private citizen alleging several violations, including illegal parking and illegal operation of an emergency vehicle.
then wait around while his meal was prepared, issued the officer a series of citizen-initiated violations.
Eric Bryant said he was sitting at the restaurant March 7 when Officer Chad Stensgaard parked his patrol car next to a no-parking sign and walked inside to wait for his food, the Portland Mercury reported Thursday.
Parking is limited on city streets, especially with many construction projects downtown, she said, and officers remain on duty even when they are picking up food.
Cathe Kent, a spokeswoman for the Portland Police Bureau, said Stensgaard would fight the complaint in court, "as he rightfully should."
"Citizens should be concerned that he used his status as an officer of the law as justification for breaking the law," Bryant said.
"We are emergency responders and need to be ready to take an emergency call," Kent said Saturday.
SANTA FE, N.M. — A couple have decided to give away their home to the winner of an essay contest. The catch: It costs $100 to enter, and the home will go only if at least 2,500 people sign up.
Contest may land couple in some legal trouble
The state Gaming Control Board is examining whether Tiffany and Todd Lovell's contest qualifies as a raffle, which would make it illegal under state law, or a game of skill, which is allowed, said Greg Saunders, the board's deputy director.
The Lovells said the depressed housing market led them to try to move their 1,200-square-foot, three-bedroom, one-bathroom home through the essay contest. They are hoping to get at least 2,500 entries, which would net them $250,000. If they receive fewer than 2,500 entries, they said they would cancel the contest and return the entry fees.
"We haven't made that determination yet," he said.
The couple said entries would be judged by "various members of the Los Alamos County community."
50 school children underwent hospital treatment Friday after developing what educators called mass hysteria, marked by fainting and screaming.
Firefighters immediately shut down Dakar's Lamine Gueye Secondary School and Senegal Minister of Education Moustapha Sourang ordered an investigation.
"It's the first time that I have seen such a phenomenon," Sourang said.
Mass hysteria afflicts 50
Fifty-three teenage girls and two boys were treated at the capital's main hospital, said principal Adina Aidara.
"The phenomenon started in one of the classrooms," Aidara said. "Three students, all girls, fell down. The same phenomenon was repeated 30 minutes later during recess."
Worried parents fussed over their daughters at the hospital, and some allowed their girls to be interviewed on condition that their name not be published.
DAKAR, Senegal — More than
schoolchildren in Senegal
A 15-year-old girl said that she was chatting with a friend. "Suddenly I had a horrible headache. It hurt so much that I started screaming. And then I fainted. From that moment on, I no longer knew where I was"
Doctors didn't immediately provide a medical diagnosis, and rumors began circulating in the city linking the incident to supernatural involvement.
Associated Press
on campus
The African Studies Seminar will begin at 1 p.m. in the International Room in the Kansas Union.
The Philosophy & Literature Seminar will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Hall Center Conference Hall.
The lecture "Linguistics Colloquy: Phonological Knowledge Beyond the Lexicon in Taiwanese Double Reduplication" will begin at 3:30 p.m. in 206 Blake.
The seminar "Universal Scaling Laws from Cells to Cities; Towards a Unified Quantitative Theory of Biological and Social Structure and Organization" will begin at 4 p.m. in 2074 Malott.
The lecture "Becoming a Woman in Sixteenth-Century Japan: Overcoming the Buddhist Paradigm of Male Transformation (henjo nanshi) Through Text and Image" will begin at 5:15 p.m. in 211 Spencer.
The KU Department of Design Hallmark Design Symposium Series will begin at 6 p.m. in 3140 Wescoe.
odd news
Police sergeant saves woman from python
EUGENE, Ore. — A pet store owner is calling a police sergeant a hero for saving her from the coils of a 12-foot Burmese python doing its best to turn her into a meal.
Teresa Rossiter had reached into a cage Thursday to show the huge snake to a customer when it bit her right hand and coiled around her left arm to throw her to the floor.
A friend who happened to be at the store kept the snake off her neck and body while police were called. And when Sgt. Ryan Nelson rushed into the store, he was ready to kill the snake with his knife.
But Rossiter asked him to spare the expensive python, Nelson put on gloves and pried open the snake's mouth.
Earth Day is tomorrow. There are lots of programs planned this week on campus and in town. Stop by the Stauffer-Flint lawn tomorrow between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. for Earth Day Recess.
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