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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2008
quote of the day
"The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it."
Arnold H. Glasgow
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Four thousand years ago the Egyptians built brick incubators which could hold 10,000 chicks at a time.
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1. Self says he won't leave for Oklahoma State
2. Editorial Board: Out with the old, in with ConnectKU
3. Stewart: Guns don't kill people; recent House bill does
4. Quiet guard, fierce battle cry
5. Pride Week increases awareness
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FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2008
A light-hearted protest
Students from the University of Kansas and other area colleges made posters for a march against extremist Fred Phelps on Monday in Topeka. Participants from left include Andrew Lewis, Rose Hill senior; Kim Frazier, K-State graduate; Michael Cole, Butter County Community College senior; Lauren Doshier, Wichita freshman; Bethany Cox, Rose Hill senior; Ashley DeMoss-Doshier, Cowley County graduate; and Apollo Hernandez, Lawrence senior.
ODD NEWS Woman saves her dog by biting pit bull's nose
MINNEAPOLIS — Amy Rice feared for her dog's life when a pit bull jumped over a fence into her yard and attacked her pooch. So she took matters into her own mouth.
Rice says she bit the pit bull on the nose Friday after trying to pull the dog's jaws off her Labrador retriever, Ella. The dog had jumped a fence to get into Rice's northeast Minneapolis yard, and Rice says she feared the pit bull would kill Ella.
"I didn't plan it, that's what happened. I broke the skin and had pit bull blood in my mouth," said Rice, 38. "I knew what happened, and I knew that it wasn't good."
The pit bull was quarantined Wednesday by Minneapolis Animal Control officers while rabies tests are being completed. Rice's doctor will determine whether she needs shots for rabies.
Arkansas toddlers can no longer get married
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas' marriage-age crisis is over.
A law that mistakenly allowed anyone — even toddlers — to marry with parental permission was repealed by a measure signed into law Wednesday by Gov. Mike Beebe, ending months of embarrassment for the state and confusion for county clerks.
Lawmakers didn't realize until after the end of last year's regular session that a law they approved, intended to establish 18 as the minimum age for marriage, instead removed the minimum age to marry entirely. An extraneous "not" in the bill allowed anyone who was not pregnant to marry at any age with permission.
The bill read:"In order for a
person who is younger than eighteen (18) years of age and who is not pregnant to obtain a marriage license, the person must provide the county clerk with evidence of parental consent to the marriage."
Some lawmakers called for a special session last year, saying the error would make it easy for pedophiles to take advantage of the law. Gov. Mike Beebe said he didn't see any imminent crisis and said the chances of children marrying under the law were slim.
Legislators, however, had the chance for a do-over this week when Beebe convened a special session to consider a hike in the state's severance tax on natural gas. They repealed the botched law, and reinstated 17 as the minimum age to marry for boys and 16 for girls.
Burglar plays dead in funeral home
Police and the Crespo Funeral Home said Wednesday they had no idea what the 23-year-old Spanish man was trying to steal in the March 17 break-in at Burjassot, a small town just outside Valencia.
MADRID, Spain — A burglar who broke into a funeral home tried to fool police by playing dead, but two things gave him away. First, he breathed. Plus, he wore grungy clothes rather than the Sunday best of those settling in for eternal rest.
Neighbors living nearby alerted police when they heard the front door of the business being forced open in the middle of the night.
MONROE, Ga. - The mystery of a tire that plunged from the sky and crashed through the roof of a home here now has an explanation.
Police officers arrived with the owner, and eventually found the suspect lying on a table in a glassed-in chamber used for viewings of deceased people during wakes, a local police official said from Buriassot
people to be dressed in suits, in nice clothes that look presentable. This guy was in everyday clothes that were wrinkled and dirty," the police official said. Department rules barred her from giving her name.
Federal Aviation Administration officials told home owner Mark Brown on Tuesday that the wheel plummeted to earth from a helicopter owned by the Loganville-based Forever Green Landscaping. The wheel is part of equipment used to haul the helicopter around the landing pad during maintenance.
The funeral home said it was mystified about what the man could have been after, because there were no valuables or cash inside the funeral parlor.
"He was trying to fake being dead, but he was breathing," the officer said.
Helicopter tire falls from sky, hits house
The company's owner told the Athens Banner-Herald he didn't know his helicopter had lost a wheel.
Brown said he and his wife returned home last Wednesday to find pictures knocked to the floor and cracks in a hallway's drywall. He crawled into the attic, where he saw a hole about the size of a loaf of bread in his roof, with a tire peeking through
"The custom here is for dead
Officials said the equipment should have been removed before flight.
"When I crawled up there and saw it pushing through the roof, I thought, 'I must be dreaming,' Brown, a mechanic, told the Banner-Herald.
STATE Tased man's death under investigation
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TOPEKA — The local sheriff's department says it might not know for weeks whether a deputy's Taser shocks killed a man in a brief confrontation, but it continues to face criticism over the incident.
Walter E. Haake Jr., a 59-year-old Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. worker, died early Sunday after an ambulance and two deputies responded to a report that he was having a medical emergency.
Haake was handcuffed but didn't respond when deputies asked him to rise, according to various accounts.
After he refused repeatedly, a deputy used her Taser.
Haake was in his car at Goodyear's north Topeka plant, and the deputies asked him to get out.
"They had his keys, where was he going to go?" Marc Luetje, a co-worker who said he witnessed the incident, told The Topeka Capital-Journal.
Shawnee County Sheriff Dick Barta said he won't know whether the Taser killed Haake until an autopsy report is released. His spokesman said such a report could take weeks.
Barta said the two deputies involved had unblemished records and remained on duty.
The incident is under investigation.
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on campus
The Southwind Finance Conference will take place from 8 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. in the Adams Alumni Center.
The lecture "Spring CLE 2008: A Return to Green Hall" will take place from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Green Hall.
The lecture KU Geology Colloquium "Carbonate platform development and island building as modulated by sea-level changes during the Quaternary" will begin at 11:30 a.m. in Lindley Hall.
The 59th annual Frank Burnett Daines Memorial Lecture "Chemistry on the Brain" will begin at 3:30 p.m. in 1001 Malott Hall.
Scott Palmer will present the lecture "Peace, War & Global Change" at 3:30 p.m. in the Seminar Room in the Hall Center for the Humanities.
The Snyder Book Collecting Contest will begin at 5:30 p.m. on the third floor of Watson Library.
Undergraduate one-act plays will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the William Inge Memorial Theatre in Murphy Hall.
Cellists Darry Dolezal, Nancy Ives and David Shumway will play a concert at 7:30 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
Cosmic Bowling will begin at 10 p.m. at Jaybowl in the Kansas Union.
Arguably, the top programs in college basketball history are Kansas, North Carolina, Kentucky and UCLA. Many people know that the UK and UNC programs were made strong by Jayhawks Adolph Rupp and Dean Smith. But not many know that UCLA's legendary coach John Wooden stopped in Lawrence on his way to California and worked for Phog Allen.
on the record
A 22-year-old KU student reported the theft of 40 DVDs, five GameCube games, two GameCube controllers, a Louis Vuitton purse, an iPod and several other items to the Lawrence Police Department on March 25. The theft occurred between 6 p.m. March 16 and 11 p.m. March 17 in the 400 block of Eldridge Street. The loss was estimated at $1,865.
Signs of Life, 722 Massachusetts St., reported the theft of four books to the Lawrence Police Department on Wednesday. The theft occurred between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Monday. The loss was valued at $140.
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