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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, MARCH 3, 2008
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"Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you $1,000 for a kiss, and 50 cents for your soul. I know, because it turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the 50 cents."
Marilyn Monroe
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— www.didyouknow.cd
Fifty percent of Hollywood movies never achieve a cinema release. Those that do make five times more from video sales than cinema takings.
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1950DA performs at Fatso's Friday night. The band closed down the bar after following two sets by Brody Buster Band. 1950DA's next appearance is Thursday night at the Jazzhaus.
ODD NEWS
Cat survives tornado, fire;
vet predicts recovery
CLINTON, Ark. — Charlie Brown is down to seven lives.
Donna and Danny Pistole's black-and-white cat survived a February tornado that destroyed the family's mobile home, coming out of nearby woods skittish but no worse for wear. However, the cat took up refuge in a large pile of debris from the storm that the Pistoles set afire last Sunday while cleaning up their property.
Thursday, Donna Pistole followed Charlie Brown's weak meows
and found him stuck in briars. His paws and nose were scorched, his eyes matted shut and his coat singed a dingy yellow — but he was alive.
That night, Charlie Brown underwent an exam by veterinarian Doug Mays.
"He smells like an old, scorched wool blanket," Mays said. "His feet pads are peeling off. But they'll heal. I think he'll be OK."
The Pistoles sought shelter in a storm cellar during the tornado. Donna Pistole took one of their cats, Bubby, but couldn't find Charlie Brown and fellow feline Sanbo.
Sheriff's detectives in Franklin County, Wash., say a man had his friend shoot him in the shoulder so he wouldn't have to go to work
PASCO, Wash. — What happened to faking a cough?
Sanbo is still missing.
"I think the storm got him because we haven't seen him since the storm," Danny Pistole said. "Two's enough, I guess."
Man wants to skip work, tells friend to shoot him
shooting while he was jogging Thursday. But detectives told KONA radio that Kuch later acknowledged that he asked his friend to shoot him so he could get some time off work and avoid a drug test.
When he first spoke with deputies, Daniel Kuch told him he'd been the victim of a drive-by
The friend has been arrested for investigation of reckless endangerment. Kuch is expected to be charged with false reporting.
Detectives declined to say where Kuch worked or if he still had a job.
Associated Press
Meet your Student Senator with Duy Pham, Asian-American Student Union
BY ALEXANDRA GARRY agarry@kansan.com
This is a good time of year for Duy Pham. This is because Pham, Asian-American Student Union (AASU) senator, loves politics. With the presidential election race in full swing and campus campaigns just heating up, now is an exciting time for people with Pham's interests.
"Politics has always fascinated me," Pham said. "I was studying to be a pharmacist, but I switched quickly to political science after coming to KU."
Pham was born in Vietnam and immigrated to Wichita in 1996. After coming to the University last year, he got involved with AASU, fell deeply in love with political science
and ran for his current Senate seat to combine the two. He described his Senate position as fairly low-key, primarily acting as a liaison between the two groups.
"Mainly, I vote on things," he said. "I keep my group's interests in mind. I will ask AASU what's going on with them and tell them what's going on with Senate and politics in general."
Rachel Balzer, program assistant in the Multicultural Affairs Office and adviser for AASU, said Pham's strength as a senator is not just his interest in politics, but his ability to effectively communicate with his constituents.
"He is always very clear and efficient when talking with people," Balzer said. "He's a natural fit for
the job."
In his term as senator, Pham wrote legislation to fund the Vietnamese Student Association and sponsored a bill requiring any structure built on campus to have an environmental certification if it is to receive Senate funds.
Pham also tutors through the Multicultural Resource Center, which opened earlier this year, in part sponsored by Senate.
"Student Senate has always been supportive of diversity issues on campus," Pham said.
"One of the great things about KU," he said, "is its diverse community and the fact that race is not a divisive issue for the majority of students."
Pham said he was interested
in getting students involved with campus politics and aware of the broader issues.
"The Asian-American community makes up about 4 percent of the American population," he said. "That may not seem like a lot, but I think in tight races we can definitely be the swing vote, so I think Asian-Americans should be very interested in politics."
But it's not only Asian-Americans who should be willing to discuss politics, he said.
"It might be a controversial issue - politics is never the easiest thing to talk about - but it's important" he said. "You don't have to be a political junkie. Just know enough to be involved."
— Edited by Kaitlyn Syring
on campus
The Association of American University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show takes place all day at the University Press of Kansas, 2502 Westbrooke Circle, Conference room.
The KU Libraries' Book Sale takes place from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. in the Watson Library.
The seminar "From Cheese to CSI: The Role of Biotechnology in Our Lives" begins at 2 p.m. at the Edwards Campus.
The workshop "Dreamweaver: Visual Design using CSS" begins at 2 p.m. in the Budig PC Lab.
The workshop "Teaching Tea: Feedback on Teaching Using Small Groups" begins at 3 p.m. in 135 Budig.
the lecture "Votes for Women!" The Birth of a Modern, Middle-Class & Female Politics in London" begins at 3:30 p.m. in the Dole Institute of Politics.
The seminar "Globalization(s)
Seminar: Johannes Feddema"
begins at 3:30 p.m. in the Hall
Center Conference Hall.
The lecture "Geology Colloquium: 'Subsidence and Sea-Level Change along the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Response of Mississippi River to the last Glacial Cycle, and the Flexural Ups and Downs of Mississippi Delta" begins at 4 p.m. in 103 Lindley.
The lecture "The Tie That Binds: Some Thoughts about the Rule of Law, Law and Economics, Collective Action Theory, Reciprocity, and the Heisenberg Principles" begins at 5:30 p.m. in the Adams Alumni Center in the Summerfield Room.
The workshop "I Always Wanted to Learn How to Draw..." begins at 7 p.m. at Continuing Education 1515 St. Andrews Dr.
Men's Basketball vs. Texas Tech begins at 8 p.m. in Allen Fieldhouse.
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