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quote of the day
"I was married once - in San Francisco. I haven't seen her for many years. The great earthquake and fire in 1906 destroyed the marriage certificate. Thereis no legal proof. Which proves that earthquakes aren't all bad."
— W.C. Fields
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The 1906 San Francisco earthquake was the largest event (magnitude 8.3) to occur in the continental United States in this century. Recent estimates indicate that as many as 3,000 people lost their lives in the earthquake and ensuing fire. In terms of 1906 dollars, the total property damage amounted to about $24 million from the earthquake and $350 million from the fire. The fire alone destroyed 28,000 buildings over a 520-block area in San Francisco.
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1. Living the Wright life
2. Men's basketball makes the grade
3. Mersmann: Roy Williams rigged championship game
4. Stewart: Aborted fetuses on giant signs distract from actual issue
5. Hudson: Class size not solo factor in student learning
NEWS BRIEF More than 100 evacuate plane because of haze
SEATAC, Wash. — More than 100 people were evacuated from an Alaska Airlines 737 on Thursday because hazy smoke appeared in the cockpit shortly after the plane landed at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, officials said.
No major injuries were reported and the source of the smoke remained under investigation, authorities said.
The crew of Flight 529 from Los Angeles reported a potential landing gear problem 23 minutes before landing, but all appeared normal until "a light gray haze ... not thick smoke" appeared on the flight deck five minutes after touchdown, said Mike Fergus, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman.
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The plane carried 103 passengers and a crew of five.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAS
Friday, December 27, 2008
FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 2008
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Flowers and showers
Molly Jones, Olathe sophomore, walks through campus in the rain Thursday. She said that she was hoping for sun in the near future.
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clarification
Wright reaches for one of his custom bowling balls at AMF All-Stars, a 64-lane bowling alley in Kenner, La. He has four 15-pound balls designed to handle different lane conditions and pin arrangements.
Because of a technical error, Thursday's story "The Wright' choice," about Julian Wright's adjustment to life as an NBA player in New Orleans, was missing part of a paragraph that was split between pages 1A and 4A. For the complete story, go to Kansan.com, where you can also view a photo gallery, a slideshow and videos of Wright. The paragraph should have read:
His living room is where he lives like a king and like a kid. A large flat screen Panasonic TV is stationed at the front, where X-Box video games and DVDs spill out from containers. He's always playing video games, even in his bedroom where another flat screen TV is stationed for games on his Nintendo Wii. A chess set and a pink Barbie book bag lie amid rumpled clothes on the floor. He plays chess with teammates on the plane when he's flying to road games. And the pink Barbie bag? The veterans made him wear it as part of his rookie duties. His bed is unmade, the peach-colored sheets his mom picked out for him in a wrinkled pile.
BY SAMANTHA FOSTER sfoster@kansan.com
For six weeks in 1982, Lawrence became the City of Destruction.
Approximately 2,500 Lawrence residents and KU students took the opportunity to work as extras in ABC's made-for-TV movie "The Day After" during the filming, which took place in August and September. The film, a dramatization of the aftermath of a hypothetical nuclear attack on the United States, created an immense sensation. Reporters from Time and Newsweek magazines and USA Today were among the many people who filled Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union on Oct.12, 1983 for the special showing of the finished film.
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The University's faculty and students played roles in the filming. Jack Wright, professor of speech and drama, served as the local casting director. Charles Oldfather, professor emeritus of law and namesake of Oldfather Studios, had a minor speaking part, as did two professors of speech and drama, Chuck Berg and William Kuhlke.
Several scenes were shot in and above Allen Fieldhouse (transformed in the film into a makeshift hospital for 1,200 students suffering from fallout exposure after the nuclear explosion in Kansas City), Spencer Art Museum, Memorial Stadium, Spooner Hall and Jayhawk Boulevard.
A kuhistory.com article written by John H. McCool contains a quote from KU anthropology professor John Janzen, who said, "The overwhelming feeling I have is the hopelessness of what would follow a real nuclear war. If anybody's around, life as we know it would be gone."
An instant controversy was generated by the viewing. Conservative leaders considered the film to be left-wing propaganda geared toward undermining President Reagan's foreign policy at the height of the Cold War, when disarmament was considered an impossible option which would only serve to invite further Soviet aggression.
Due to the great amount of media attention and network promotion of "The Day After," an estimated 100 million viewers tuned in to watch when the movie aired nationally on Nov.20,1983—an estimated half of the adult population.
However, University protesters against the film were in the minority. Students from the groups Young Americans for Freedom and Maranatha, a college ministry organization, organized rallies during the special showing protesting what they called the films "emotionalism" and burned the Soviet flag.
One of the protesters, Matt Thor, told The University Daily Kansan, "You can't fight evil without weapons. If we let the Communists take
over, we will be destroying everything that every soldier who ever fought and died in war for America and the Constitution ever fought for ... if we don't defend (America) with our arsenal, that freedom will wither and die."
"We saw our community destroyed. We saw civilization annihilated," then-Lawrence Mayor David Longhurst said the evening after the viewing at a candlelight vigil at the Memorial Campanile. "All our nightmares came true. I don't want the film to be a preview of coming attractions."
Other members of Lawrence and University communities had more subdued reactions to the film.
Despite the initial amount of controversy, the overwhelming amount of attention drawn to the film did not last long.
"Aside from bringing more than a million dollars into the local economy," wrote Lawrence Journal-World columnist Chuck Twardy, "the film has earned Lawrence an association with nuclear devastation. The town William Quantrill burned down has become the city ABC blew up."
- Edited by Jessica Sain-Baird
ODD NEWS Mayor orders calls to give notice of missing cat
NORTH ARLINGTON, N.J.
— Mayor Peter Massa put out a citywide cat call when his Maine Coon disappeared.
Massa had an automatic call sent to 8,500 voters on Wednesday asking for help finding Max.
Turns out he didn't have to look that far. Massa's wife, Val, says 14-year-old Max was found inside a wall of their house Thursday morning. He had been missing since Tuesday.
Val Massa says she doesn't know how the 20-pound cat got in the 5-inch hole under the stairs. Max was dehydrated and hungry, but otherwise fine
The Massas had also offered a $500 reward.
ODD NEWS Only three identical of newly born quadruplets
TOWSON, Md. — A mother has given birth to a rare set of quadruplets in which three of the four boys are identical.
The boys were born 11 weeks premature in January at Greater Baltimore Medical Center in Towson. The parents plan to introduce themselves and their boys at a news conference Friday.
There are fewer than 100 documented cases of "identical triplets plus one" in the United States, hospital officials said.
Two embryos were implanted into the mother, and both were fertilized, hospital spokesman Michael Schwartzberg said. One of them split, then split again, creating the identical triplets.
The boys were delivered by Caesarian section Jan. 29, their mother's 32nd birthday. Joshua Drew was born first, then Gavin Michael, Cody Benjamin and finally Logan Christopher, the non-identical one, Schwartzberg said.
The babies were treated at the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit, Schwartzberg said.
ODD NEWS
Vote regarding alcohol sales results in 690-690 tie
TISBURY, Mass. — Tisbury voters, it seems, are split on whether to allow restaurants in town to put beer and wine on the menu.
Exactly split.
A ballot question on whether to allow sales of alcohol at restaurants and inns in the Martha's Vineyard community tied 690-690 in Tuesday's election.
If it's a tie, the place stays dry. So, those favoring the change have already launched an effort to get a hand recount town clerk Marion Mudge said.
Tisbury is one of more than a dozen dry towns in Massachusetts.
on campus
The lecture "Japan's Theatrical Performance Today: Gekidan Shinkansen's 'Kabuki Drama' will begin at 1 p.m. in the Governor's Room in the Kansas Union.
The seminar "Performance & Culture" will begin at 1:30 p.m. in the Hall Center Seminar Room.
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The British Seminar will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Seminar Room in the Hall Center.
The 56th annual "Festival of Nations" will begin at 7 p.m. in the Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
The seminar "On the Role of Ultrahigh-Resolution Mass Spectrometry in Contemporary Proteomics and Chromatin Biology" will begin at 3:30 p.m. in 101 Malot Hall.
Student Union Activity's Cosmic Bowling will begin at 10 p.m.at Jaybowl in the Kansas Union.
The concert "Visiting Artist Susan Landale, organ" will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Bales Organ Recital Hall.
on the record
The KU Public Safety Office reported the theft of a wallet from parking lot #114 Wednesday. The crime occurred between 9:45 and 10 a.m. on Sunday. A credit card that was in the wallet was later used at a gas station. Losses were valued at $83.
The KU Public Safety Office reported the theft of money from a wallet at the Student Recreation Fitness Center Wednesday. The crime occurred between 8 a.m. and 11 p.m. on Tuesday and the loss was valued at $90.
The KU Public Safety Office reported the theft of money from a dorm room in GSP-Corbin Hall. The crime occurred between 1 and 6 p.m. on Sunday. The loss was valued at $300.
A 21-year-old KU student reported the theft of $280 to the Lawrence Police Department Wednesday. The crime occurred at about 12 p.m. on Monday on the 900 block of Iowa Street.
The KU Public Safety Office reported the theft of a cell phone from the cafeteria in GSP-Corbin. The crime occurred about 10 a.m. on Monday. The loss was valued at $200.
A 23-year-old KU student made a noise complaint to the Lawrence Police Department on Sunday. The crime occurred about 12:10 a.m. and was reported from the 900 block of Arkansas.
Pita Pit, 1011 Mass. St., reported the forgery of a $100 bill to the Lawrence Police Department on April 11. The crime occurred at 1 a.m.
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How hard is it to win an NCAA basketball championship? Very few head coaches have ever done it twice. And only four have done it more than twice: Mike Krzyzewski with three, Bobby Knight with three, Adolph Rupp with four and John Wooden with ten.
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