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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 2008
quote of the day
"I think that I am the luckiest cat on the planet and I'm living out my own dreams and fantasies and have been for a number of years and to remain at this stage of my life, you know, so alive and things have never been better."
Hugh Hefner
fact of the day
Bunnies can't throw up, but they can gag.
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BONUS FACT: Bunnies can snore!
on campus
The USS executive meeting will begin at 11:30 a.m. in the Kansas Union.
The workshop "Access 2003: Introduction" will begin at 1 p.m. in the Budig PC Lab.
The seminar "Osher Institute: The Bible, An Unauthorized Biography" will begin at 2 p.m.at Continuing Education.1515 St Andrews Dr.
The concert "Elena Unoste violin" will begin at 7 p.m. at Regnier Hall.
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Want to know what people are talking about? Here's a list of Tuesday's five most e-mailed stories from Kansan. com:
1. Players don't get side-tracked by past
2. Lacy returns to Dole Institute after Thompson's campaign loss
3. Mass. Street Mayhem
5. Fusco: Saturday's chal lenge tells story of Self
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What do you think?
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT KU GOING UP AGAINST UNC IN THE FINAL FOUR?
BY KATIE GUINN
MELINDA ROBINSON
Hutchison sophomore
"I think it's going to be really interesting because Roy Williams is the coach. I also think it's going to be really challenging game."
ADAM LEE Seoul graduate student "I think we are going to win."
KATE AUGUST Chicago freshme
"I think it's going to be a good game. I think KU is going to come out on top. UNC has had it pretty easy so far in the tournament."
SHEHAN FERNANDO
Sri Lanka sophomore "I think we will win.I think they have a lot of teamwork and they are really active when they are playing."
ODD NEWS Woman mistakes police for drug dealer
LAKE CHARLES, La. — Police officers suspected that a car they had pulled over was stolen, so they called the registered owner and left a message.
But when the owner called back, officers say, she apparently thought the message was from a drug dealer, and she was busted for allegedly trying to buy crack cocaine.
"Officers put in a lot of energy to close a case, so we never mind getting one on sheer luck and stupidity." Lake Charles police Sgt. Mark Kraus said of last week's arrest.
He said officers Hope Kingery and George Miller stopped a vehicle for a traffic violation and the driver could not produce identification or a valid license. While waiting to hear from the owner, they determined the vehicle wasn't stolen and allowed the driver to leave, Kraus said.
About an hour later, Miller got a call on his cell phone from the apparent owner of the car"who stated that she would like to buy $150 in crack," Kraus said.
Associated Press
ODD NEWS Lack of citation leads to plagiarized honor code
SAN ANTONIO — Their goal was an honor code that discouraged cheating and plaquizing.
However, the wording in a draft by students at the University of Texas at San Antonio appears to match another school's code — without proper attribution.
"That's the consequence of the Internet and the availability of things," said Daniel Wueste, director of the Rutland Institute for Ethics at Clemson University. "It doesn't feel like what would be in a book. You Google it and here it comes."
The student currently in charge of the honor code project said it was an oversight, but cheating experts say it illustrates a sloppiness among Internet-era students who don't know how to cite sources properly and think of their computers as cut-and-paste machines.
Student Akshay Thusu said that when he took over the project a month ago he inherited a draft by earlier project participants, including a group of students who attended a conference five years ago put on by The Center for Academic Integrity at Clemson.
Materials from the conference, which are used by many universities, were probably the main source of UTSA's proposed code, Thusu said. That's why parts
of the Texas draft match word-for-word the online version of Brigham Young University's code
That will change, said Thusu, who plans to include proper citation and attribution when the draft is submitted to the faculty senate.
"We don't want to have an honor code that is stolen," Thusu said.
BYU credited the Center for Academic Integrity, but the San Antonio draft doesn't.
Rep. pushes for mental health plan after robbery
EAST ST. LOUIS, III. — A 77-year-old Illinois state representative is happy to be alive after a man with a gun pushed his way into her home and robbed her of $7.
Younge said she thought her son had knocked on her door and opened it, but instead found an armed man. He told her to get on her hands and knees, then grabbed her purse and ran.
Wyvetter H. Younge was not injured in the robbery that occurred around noon Friday.
Younge, a Democrat, said she didn't recognize the man, who wore a red hat and red jacket and dark pants. She said she's going to pray for him.
"This robbery and what's happening to this community is the result of a lack of a supportive system for our youth. We need jobs," she said. "This happened in
broad daylight at noon. We need a mental health support system. This is further evidence of that."
Illinois State Police are investigating.
Bounced check leads man to commit bank robbery
SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Authorities say a man robbed a bank in South Carolina after the $173 check he tried to cash bounced.
Police say the man gave a teller the personal check on Monday morning, but the teller couldn't cash it because there wasn't enough money in the account.
Authorities say the man told the teller he had to have the cash or someone was going to kill him. Police say the teller gave the man some money and he ran away.
Post-drinking, man discovered in trash bin
MUNCIE, Ind. — William M.
Bowen woke up after a night of
drinking with friends and realized
he was inside a commercial trash-
collection truck full of waste.
DISCOVERY
The driver had just emptied a commercial trash bin into his truck and was about to activate its compactor when he heard Bowen screaming.
Bowen told police he had been drinking with buddies at a Muncie bar until about 3 a.m. Thursday.
Associated Press
ASSOCIATED PRESS
FBI Special Agent Robbie Burroughs looks at the date on the parachute found in North Clark County, Wash., on Tuesday, March 25, in Seattle. The FBI is working to find out if it is linked to the infamous D.B. Cooper case from 1971.
Chute not linked to 1971 skyjacking
ASSOCIATED PRESS
VANCOUVER, Wash. — A recently discovered parachute could not have been used by D.B. Cooper in 1971, says the man who packed the four chutes that were given to the mysterious skyjacker.
The torn, tangled parachute — found about a month ago by children along a dirt road near Amboy — was probably made around 1945, said Earl Cossey, who examined the chute for the FBI on Friday.
The FBI said the matter remained under investigation.
A man who had given his name as Cooper hijacked a Northwest Orient flight from Portland, Ore., to Seattle in November 1971, claiming he had a bomb. After the plane landed at Seattle, he released the passengers in exchange for $200,000 and four parachutes and asked to be flown to Mexico. He then bailed out of the jet as it flew somewhere near the Oregon line.
Some of the money given to him was found in 1980 along the Columbia River, but the fate of
Cooper remains unknown. Many think he could not have survived the jump.
Cossey, who sold parachutes at a skydiving operation in Issaqah in the 1970s, had provided the chutes that the FBI gave Cooper. He told The Columbian of Vancouver that the newly found chute "absolutely, for sure" could not have been one of the four that he provided.
"The D.B. Cooper parachute was made of nylon," he said. "This 1945 parachute was made of silk."
FBI agent Roberta Burroughs in Seattle said Monday that agents had not ruled out the possibility that the chute was from Cooper.
"We haven't made a determination one way or the other yet," Burroughs said. "We're still in the process of finishing up what investigative steps we think are necessary to feel certain about calling it one way or the other."
The FBI had launched a publicity campaign last fall, hoping to generate new tips to solve the 36-year-old mystery.
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