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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 2008
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"It was so wide ... usually you think about a tornado, it has a funnel, and it may be a block or two or three blocks wide. But something about a mile wide, well it just-"
— Eugene Porter, Murphysboro, Ky. resident
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- http://www.ezl.com/~fireball/
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March 18, 1925: Tri-State Tornado. The deadliest tornado event in U.S. history. 747 died. It traveled 219 miles.
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1. Award ceremony puts season to rest
2. 'Mr. Jayhawk' times five
3. Championship parade takes over downtown
4. Letter to the editor:
Wrong label
5. Rockball poster
5. Baseball notes
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The Registrar's office has been temporarily housed in Wescoe Hall while its offices are renovated. As of this week, it is back in its permanent location, Room 151 Strong Hall.
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BY ASHLEY BARFOROUSH
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE NEW $20 STUDENT FEE THAT WILL ALLOW ALL STUDENTS TO USE THE BUS SYSTEM NEXT FALL?
"I like it. I use the pass and now when I use the bus I won't have to worry about pulling my pass out and I won't have to worry about buying a new pass each semester."
MORGAN MONSEERS Overland Park freshman
KENDAL WHITNEY
Menlo Park graduate student "I like that idea because in February I hate walking up the hill, and now I don't have to worry about having a pass to ride the bus."
CHAD ELLER Denver freshman
"I think it's a good idea, but honestly I would never use it. But for McCollum and those dorms far away, it is a good idea because that walk sucks."
CHADRICK MILLER Hutchison graduate student
"Definitely a good idea. Before, as an undergrad, I would have taken better advantage of it. I think more students will be attending class now that they won't have to worry about having a vehicle to get to class."
ODD NEWS Performing CPR pays for Navy medics towing bill
JACKSON, Mich. — A Navy medic is being reimbursed for a $60 towing bill he received while he was helping perform CPR on a heart attack victim.
Jackson County Undersheriff Tom Finco said the department was paying back Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Tim Moore as "a goodwill gesture."
("Moore") said it wasn't necessary, he understood, but we sent him a check anyway. "Fico said."
Moore, 24, who had just returned from Iraq, was driving on Interstate 94 on April 2 when he saw an ambulance parked on the side. He pulled over and comforted a woman whose fiancé had suffered a heart attack inside the ambulance.
When the rescuers learned of
Blowing through one nostril at a time, Andrew Dahl inflated 213 balloons within an hour Friday
Moore's medical training, they asked if he would help administer CPR. He left his truck on the exit ramp and got in. The man died at Foote Hospital in Jackson.
In the meantime, Moore's truck parked partly over the white line marking the side of the road was deemed a travel hazard and towed.
Moore, now stationed at Camp Lejeune, N.C., said people have been sending checks to his parents after word spread about the towing bill, but he plans to donate that money to veterans' charities.
BLAINE, Wash. — A 13-year-old boy hopes to win a balloon-blowing record by a nose.
Boy to blow up balloons with nose for contest
— a feat that has been submitted for review by Guinness World Records.
His father, Doug Dahl, measured the balloons to make sure each was at least 20 centimeters, the minimum diameter, and his mother, Wendy Dahl, kept the tally.
At one point he asked, "Does this count as practicing my trumpet?" His mother replied, "Only if you can play that with your nose."
Computer programmer proposes with video game
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Hiding a ring in a bouquet just wasn't enough when a computer programmer decided to pop the question.
Bernie Peng reprogrammed Tammy Li's favorite video game, "Bejeweled," so a ring and a marriage proposal would show up on
the screen when she reached a certain score.
Li reached the needed score and said ves.
The word of the romantic feat last December filtered out after Peng, a financial software programmer, posted details on his blog. The reprogramming was a tricky task and took him a month.
"I thought it was pretty cool, in a nerdy way," Peng told The Star-Ledger of Newark.
The couple plan to marry over Labor Day weekend, and PopCap, the Seattle company that makes "Bejeweled," will fly the couple to Seattle as part of their honeymoon.
"Most video game companies would frown on people manipulating their games," said Garth Chouteau, a spokesman for PopCap.
"But it won him a woman. As a bunch of geeks we have to say, 'Bernie, hats off to you.'"
The company is also supplying copies of "Bejeweled" to hand out as favors to the wedding guests.
The workshop "Access 2003: Forms" will begin at 1 p.m. in the Budig PC Lab.
The public event "Get a Milk Mustache!" will begin at 11:30 a.m. at Wesco outside the underground.
The workshop "Conducting Staff Searches-Updates" will begin at 10 a.m. in 103B Carruth O'Leary.
The lecture "H-1B and Employment Based Permanent Residence" will begin at 3:30 p.m. in Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Associated Press
The panel discussion "Briefing on New NIH Public Access Policy" will begin at 2 p.m. at Simons Laboratories in the Higuchi Biosciences Center Auditorium.
The seminar "American Seminar- Shawn Alexander" will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Hall Center Seminar Room.
The International Fashion Show will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union.
on the record
The lecture "University Series at the Commons From Prarie to Ice Sheet" will begin at 7 p.m. in Spooner Hall.
campus
The Free Runner's Clinic will begin at 9 a.m. at Watkins Memorial Health Center.
The KU Public Safety Office reported the criminal damage to property of a wooden door at the Natural History Museum in the Entomology Lab on Monday. The crime occurred between 8 a.m. on Sat. April 5 and 8 a.m. on Sat. April 12 and the damage was valued at $100.
A 21-year-old KU student reported criminal damage to the hood of and top of a 2006 Kia Spectra to the Lawrence Police Department on Friday. The crime occurred between 10 p.m. on Mon. April 7 and 12 p.m. Tues. April 8 on the 800 block of Maine Street. The damage was valued at $1,000.
A 19-year-old KU student reported the theft of a cell phone to the Lawrence Police Department Friday. The crime occurred between 9 p.m. on Thursday and 11 a.m. on Friday on the 2900 block Bob Billings Parkway. The theft was valued at $600.
A 21-year-old KU student reported an aggravated robbery to the Lawrence Police Department on Monday. The crime occurred at about 12:35 a.m. on the 1000 block of Ohio Street. The theft items stolen and their values were not reported.
A 20-year-old KU student reported criminal damage of the hood, top and front windshield of a 2006 Honda Civic to the Lawrence Police Department last Wednesday. The crime occurred at about 10:30 p.m. on Mon. April 7 on the 1000 block of Massachusetts Street and the damage was valued at $1,430.
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