2A NEWS THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2008 quote of the day "The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is and the future less resolved than it will be." Standing room only Marcel Pagnoi Scott Wagner uses his invention, which he calls "Stand and be Recognized," to stand in his wheelchair and play pool at Three Eleven Club in Pittsburg. The Languedoc-Rousillon city of Nimes is the birthplace of jeans. The distinctive fabric was imported to California by Levi Strauss in order to make tough work trousers for gold diggers. Denim is short for "de Nimes." most e-mailed Want to know what people are talking about? Here's a list of the five most e-mailed stories from Kansan.com: http://france-travel.suite101.com 1. The man behind the mic 2. Kansas conquers Iowa State ASSOCIATED PRESS 3. Lawrence named one of smartest cities in America 4. Compliance checks help curb alcohol violations 5. Arthur's shot inspires team NEWS BRIEFS Billboards cause numerous complaints. one removed ALTOONA, Pa. — A convenience store chain's billboard advertising its fried chicken sandwich is ruffling the feathers of some residents. Sheetz unveiled the "Crispy Frickin' Chicken" billboards at the beginning of February. The campaign consists of 100 billboards placed in locations that carry the sandwich, spokeswoman Monica Jones said Thursday. The campaign is aimed at young adults, and the company did not intend to offend anyone, Jones said. "We're kind of known for edgy, kind of brash advertising tactics, and we knew this would spark a certain amount of controversy," Jones said. "That said, we're proud of the campaign." Sheetz will take down the billboards on Wednesday, when the campaign is scheduled to end, Jones said. The company recently removed one billboard in Hazle Township, near Hazleton, after local officials fielded complaints. et cetera The University Daily Kansan is the student newspaper of the University of Kansas. The first copy is paid through the student activity fee. Additional copies of The Kansan are 25 cents. Subscriptions can be purchased at the Kansan business office, 119 Stauffer-Flint Hall, 1435 Jayhawk Blvd., Lawrence, KS 68045. The University Daily Kansan (ISSN 0746-4967) is published daily during the school year except Saturday, Sunday, fall break, spring break and exams. Weekly during the summer session excluding holidays. Periodical postage is paid in Lawrence, KS 66044. Annual subscriptions by mail are $120 plus tax. Student subscriptions of are paid through the student activity fee. Postmaster: Send address changes to The University Daily Kansan, 119 Stauffer-Flint Hall, 1435 Jayhawk Blvd., Lawrence, KS 66045 media partners Broadband Channel 31 in Lawrence. The student-produced news airs at 5:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m., 9:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. every Monday through Friday. Also, check out KUJH online at tvku.edu. KUJH KJHK is the student voice in radio. Each day there is a weekly special talk shows and other content made for students, by students, by teachers, you hear it roll or ragee, sports or special events. KJHK 90.7 is for you. NEWS BRIEFS Former Jayhawk and NFL player Gale Sayers visits The Kansas Comet is coming back to Lawrence. Jayhawk and NFL football legend Gale Sayers will be on hand for a book signing at Oread Books Saturday afternoon. Sayers is promoting his new book, "Sayers: My Life and Times," written with Chicago Tribune columnist Fred Mitchell. It is a book of Sayers' memoirs that follows his career and traces out his life philosophy. "We're thrilled that this came together. It's a great book with a lot of great information about his outlook on life," said Lisa Eitner, general book buyer for the Oread Books division of KU Bookstores. After his time at Kansas, during which he became a two-time All-American halfback, Sayers was drafted by the Chicago Bears. He went on to a Hall of Fame career in seven seasons. All of Sayers' royalties from the book will be donated to the Gale Sayers Center, which is scheduled to open up this fall, Eitner said. The center will be located in Illinois. Its goal is to further the education of 8-to 12-year-old children in the center's area. Associated Press After football, Sayers returned to the University to complete his bachelor's degree and serve as an assistant athletics director. Sayers will be at Oread Books from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday. Eitner said Oread Books would give a portion in-store sales of Sayers' book that day to the Gale Sayers Center. "There was a lady who left an angry voice mail," code enforcement officer Fran Calarco said. "And a man called and said he had small children and didn't think they Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia. should be exposed to that type of language. I told him I completely understood and agreed." Sheetz Inz, based in Altoona, operates stores in Maryland, North Luke Morris Do You Know KU? BY KATHERINE LESLIE kleslie@kansan.com Everyone loves a pajama party — but none more than University of Kansas students during their Nightshirt Parades in the early 1900s. Before the first home game of a season, hundreds of students dressed in nightclothes and caps would trek along Sixth street until they reached Massachusetts streets. Then, according to Mark D. Hersey, instructor in history, the students would form a long, single-file line — rather like a serpentine tack of sleepwalkers — that weaved all the way to South Park, where a happily crackling bonfire awaited the paraders. But where in the world did the idea for a mass traveling pajama party come from? The origins of the tradition are cloaked in mystery (or, more likely, sub-par record-keeping). Some accounts recall spontaneous nightshirt gatherings as far back as the 1890s — supposedly, in celebration of athletic victories — but the tradition of the actual Nightshirt Parade, ironically, came from an ending to another custom. While were all accustomed to class rivalries, the early 1900s sophomore and freshmen classes took such antagonisms a little far by today's standards, involving themselves in bouts of fistcuffs. Two main events, the "fall numeral fight" and the "Maypole Scrap," were University-sanctioned events. At least University officials (including the chancellor) knew about them but turned a blind eye, often viewing the bouts as a "bolster [to] manliness and class spirit." The classes would have scouting groups, who, if they were to meet, would begin fighting. According to Hersey, "One year, such fisticuces even erupted between the freshmen and sophomore classes during chapel." The scrapping came to a stop, however, when Chancellor Strong, after the injury of two freshman in 1904, asked the sophomore class to apologize to the freshman class and convinced both groups to end hostilities. They signed a formal treaty, bringing an end to the physical scrapping, but not necessarily to the rivalry. An official end to the class-wide rivalry came the night before the Jahyawkger gridiron squad's first game of the season. Students from both the freshman and sophomore classes dressed in their night wear and gathered in Central Park, before trekking down Massachusetts Street to the chancellor's home on Louisiana Street. Hersey's account has the revelers marching to a bass drum, shrieking "a Rock Chalk that could be heard all over town" and seating themselves in the Chancellor's front yard — all 200 of them. The noise, according to the Sept. 23, 1905 University Daily Kansan, "brought the Chancellor to the door," also dressed in bedclothes due to the late hour of the visit. The president of the sophomore class explained that "both classes were there in a great peace jubilee." Chancellor Strong replied, "I am glad to see you clothed in the robes of peace. I hope you have established a tradition that will take the place of the annual scrap. Wishing you a 'good-night,' I go again to my pleasant dreams." And that, as it goes, is the story. Well, not quite. Over the years, the parade's original beginnings in peace were forgotten by students and faculty alike, until much of the story was left to legend. Perhaps that is why the students began re-enacting history, only this time with paddles. The parade had changed from its mass gathering of nightshirt-clad men to pajama-clad men (women were not allowed in the parade until World War II) who formed a single-file line parading in a conga-like manner. Students who got out of line could be subjected to paddling by overeager student spirit groups. As years passed, participation in the parade began to be more and more compulsory, with paddling as punishment for slacking off. In 1925, according to an Oct. 4 issue of The Kansan, one student neglected to attend the parade, going on a date instead. About 50 paddlers caught him and he was forced to endure "countless resounding whacks" before joining the parade line minus his hat and with his coat turned inside out, according to Hersey. By 1938, enthusiasm for the parade had diminished as a result of the overreger paddling, until one student commented, "everyone enjoys the nightshirt parade except the guys who are parading." In 1941, a student had to be "rushed to the hospital with injuries suffered from a paddler." Subsequently, the University banned the use of paddles. Zeal for the parade continued to wane during and after World War II enough that females were finally allowed to attend to boost numbers), before the Nightshirt Parade was formally replaced by the Traditions Convocation in 1958. Edited by Samuel Lamb on campus The workshop "Diversity Training Institute" will begin at 1 p.m. in 116 Sabatini Multicultural Resource Center. The camp "Exponent" will begin at 3:50 p.m. in Eaton Hall. The workshop "Academic Training for J-1 Students" will begin at 4 p.m. In the Governors Room in the Kansas Union. The conference "Thurgood Marshall Law Day" will begin at 9 a.m. in Green Hall. The play "Catch-22" will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Lied Center. The seminar "New Applications of Trichlorocarbinols and Arynes in Small Molecule Synthesis" will begin at 3:30 p.m. in 1001 Malott Hall. The concert "Visiting Artist David Holloway, baritone" will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall. The play "Twelfth Night" will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall. on the record A Lawrence man was arrested for illegally discharging a firearm on 4th and Illinois streets. KU Public Safety reported that a vending machine in Wescoe Hall had been broken and some of the contents inside were removed. CORRECTION In the story "Astronaut to teach at University," we reported that Steve Hawley had been in space three times. He was actually in space five times. Hawley's total flight time was 170 hours and 27 minutes. NEWS BRIEFS Pelosi seeks grand jury search into Bolton, Miers WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has asked for a grand jury investigation into whether White House chief of staff Josh Bolten and former counsel Harriet Miers should be prosecuted for contempt of Congress. The House voted two weeks ago to hold Bolten and Miers in contempt for not cooperating with committee investigations. Pelosi is demanding that misdemeanor charges be pursued against Miers for refusing to testify to Congress about the 2006 firings of federal prosecutors, and against Bolten for falling to turn over White House documents related to the purge. While KU boasts a truly unique mascot, there are no fewer than 14 higher education institutions that call themselves the Wildcats. 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