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quote of the day
"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."
John Lennon
John held the now infamous "Bed-in" for a peace event with wife Yoko Ono in both Amsterdam and Toronto; thus creating his anti-war anthem, Give Peace a Chance.
fact of the day
Want to know what people are talking about? Here's a list of Tuesday's five most e-mailed stories from Kansan.com:
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1. Anderson: Palestine needs our help
most e-mailed
2. Legally trippin
3. Softball team bats .750 during weekend wins
during weekend wins
2. Legally trippin'
4. Students praised for making boathouse a reality
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5. Bigs and littles
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Workin'on that man tan
From left, Kevin Cook, Dallas freshman, Jake McNiel, Overland Park freshman, Elliot Donahue, Chicago freshman, and Hunter Portmann, Dallas freshman, spend their Tuesday afternoon soaking up the rays in front of the Delta Chi fraternity house. According to the Weather Channel, the temperature reached a high of 67 degrees.
ODD NEWS
Police officers refuse to pay speeding tickets
ROCKVILLE, Md. — No matter what the cameras say, some drivers are refusing to pay dozens of $40 speeding fines.
SPRINGFIELD, Ore. — For guys who park in front of the TV during college basketball's March Madness, the Oregon Urology Institute has a suggestion: Why not use that time to recover from a vasectomy?
Who? Police officers.
Supervisors dismissed 76 of those citations after determining the officers were responding to calls or had valid reasons to break the speed limit.
But that left 148 who didn't have that excuse, and about two-thirds of those citations haven't been paid, said police Lt. Paul
In the last eight months or 2007, Montgomery County's new speed cameras recorded 224 cases in which police vehicles were recorded traveling more than 10 mph over the speed limit, according to department records.
Men get vasectomies to stay home for March Madness
"When March Madness approaches you need an excuse ...
The police union says officers shouldn't pay because the citations are issued to the owner of a vehicle, in this case the county.
Police Chief Thomas Manger doesn't buy that argument.
Starks.
Lindsey Vitalo of Pike Creek got one of the calls at 4:20 a.m. Sunday. She answered, fearing the call was about a family emergency, but got a mortgage refinancing pitch.
At least two other people have told The (Wilmington) News-Journal about similar calls.
WILMINGTON, Del. — Someone with a little knowledge of musical golden oldies is jangling nerves in Delaware.
"We are not above the law," Manger said. "It is imperative that the police department hold itself to the same standards that we're holding the public to."
Telemarketers appropriate number from'80s hit song
They haven't been able to call back to protest, because there is no 867-5309 in Delaware's area code.
Some people getting late night and early morning telemarketing calls in the Wilmington area have been doing a double take when they see the number on their caller ID: 867-5309. That's part of the title
of a 1980s hit "867-5309/Jenny"
by the band Tymone Tutone.
to stay at home in front of the big screen," the clinic's radio ad says.
"Get your vasectomy at Oregon Urology Institute the day before the tournament starts. It's snip city."
Institute Administrator Terry FitzPatrick said men need two to four days to recover from the procedure — but not all take the time.
The sports radio station broadcasting the clinic's ads promises to send each patient a recovery kit of sports magazines, free pizza delivery and a bag of frozen peas.
He's reserved a dozen appointment slots for March 19, the day before the first tipoffs of the NCAA Tournament, and another dozen for March 26, before the tournament's second week.
"The frozen peas are malleable enough that you can get them right in there and get the swelling down," FitzPatrick said.
Associated Press
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 2008
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Obama predictably wins in Mississippi
DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES
JACKSON,Miss. — BarackObama coasted to victory in Mississippi's Democratic primary Tuesday, the latest in a string of racially polarized presidential contests across the Deep South and a final tune-up before next month's high-stakes race with Hillary Rodham Clinton in Pennsylvania.
Obama was winning roughly 90 percent of the black vote but only about one-quarter of the white vote, extending a pattern that carried him to victory in earlier primaries in South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana.
His triumph was widely expected, and seemed destined to do nothing to shorten a Democratic marathon expected to last at least six more weeks — and possibly far longer — while Republicans and their nominee-in-waiting, Sen. John McCain, turn their attention to the
Clinton expressed disagreement with Ferraro's comments, and said, "It's regrettable that any of our supporters — on both sides, because we both have this experience — say things that kind of veer off into the personal."
Torrance, Calif., that was published last Friday.
fall campaign.
Obama called Ferraro's remarks "patently absurd."
Obama picked up at least six Mississippi delegates to the Democratic National Convention, with 27 more to be awarded. He hoped for a win sizable enough to erase most if not all of Clinton's 11-delegate gain from last week, when she won three primaries.
Neither of the two rivals appears able to win enough delegates through primaries and caucuses to prevail in their historic race for the nomination, a development that has elevated the importance of nearly 800 elected officials and party leaders who will attend next summer's national convention as uncleaved superdelegates.
Obama began the night with 1,579 delegates, to 1,473 for Clinton. It takes 2,025 to win the nomination.
There was little suspense about the Mississippi outcome, and both Clinton and Obama spent part of their day campaigning in Pennsylvania, which has 158 delegates at stake in a primary on April 22.
Adding to the uncertainty in the lengthening race between Obama and Clinton, Democrats from Florida and Michigan are pressing for their delegations to be seated at the summer convention.
Returns from the first few precincts to report showed Obama gaining 60 percent of the vote, to 38 percent for Clinton.
The volatile issue of race has been a constant presence in the historic Democratic campaign, and it resurfaced during the day in the form of comments by Geraldine Ferraro, the 1984 Democratic vice presidential candidate and a Clinton supporter.
"If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept," she said in an interview with the Daily Breeze of
Obama leads Clinton among pledged delegates, 1,368-1,226 in The Associated Press count, while the former first lady has an advantage among superdelegates, 247-211.
Both states were stripped of their delegates by the Democratic National Committee after they held early primaries in defiance of party rules. But efforts are under way to find a compromise that would satisfy party leaders in both states as well as the candidates, possibly through primaries-by-mail.
on campus
The Association of American University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show will take place all day at University Press of Kansas.
The workshop "People Admin Hiring Manager Training" will begin at 8:30 a.m. in 31 Carruth- O'Leary.
The workshop "Blackboard Strategies and Tools" will begin at 9 a.m. in 6 Budig.
The workshop "Photoshop:
Intermediate" will begin at 10 a.m. in the Budgic PC Lab.
The public event "Resumé Doctor" will begin at 10 a.m. on the lobby on the fourth level of the Kansas Union.
Osher Institute: Islam and Muslim Approaches to Modernity will begin at 2 p.m. in Continuing Education.
The seminar "Gender Seminar- Alesha Doan" will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Hall Center Seminar Room.
The Peace Corps will hold an information session beginning at 6 p.m. in the Courtside Room in the Burge Union.
University Support Staff Senate will begin at 10:30 a.m. in the International Room in the Kansas Union.
The Undergraduate Honors Recital will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
The Pilobolus Dance Theatre will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Lied Center.
on the record
A 23-year-old KU student reported a stolen car Tuesday morning to the Lawrence Police Department.The 1982 Honda Express was stolen from the 1600 block of Ninth Street.
Jason's Dell, 3140 S. Iowa St., reported criminal damage of food items estimated at $300 to the Lawrence Police Department between 10 and 10:30 yesterday morning.
This is Spirit Week, sponsored by the KU Alumni Association. Today, you can win $100 for the most spirited KU outfit. Just stop by to get your picture taken from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Wescoe, or 1 to 5 p.m. at the Alumni Association building. The contest winner will be announced tonight at the Jaybowl's Free Cosmic Bowling.
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