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NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAS
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2008
quote of the day
"A celebrity is anyone who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair"
— Steve Martin
fact of the day
The average person has 100,000 hairs on his or her head. Each hair grows about 5 inches (12.7 cm) every year.
www.hightechscience.org
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Fuzzy friends
Polar bear cub Flocke plays with a cuddly toy in her new enclosure at the "Tiergarten Nuernberg" zoo in Nuremberg, Germany on Thursday. Flocke, born in early Dec. 2007, rose to star status after being taken from her mother, Vera, on Jan. 8 amid concerns that she could harm or even kill the newborn.
CRIME
Lawrence resident attacks several people at a party
Benjamin Alaniz, 20-year-old Lawrence resident, attacked a number of individuals at a party in South Ridge Plaza Apartments, 1732 W. 24th St., sending five to the hospital for injuries. Two of the victims returned to the apartments later that morning and assaulted a 20-year-old male.
Police responded to the first assault at 4 a.m. Police reports
say the incident occurred during a fight between Alaniz and a 19-year-old male victim. The fight started inside and ended in the hallway outside the residence. Police reports said Alaniz used a broken beer bottle to threaten patrons of the party. The 19-year-old suffered facial lacerations and was flown via air ambulance to a Kansas City hospital for treatment.
The other victims were all female. Three were treated at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. A 27-year-old and a 20-year-old both
Alaniz was arrested and charged with five counts of aggravated burglary.
suffered wrist injuries. A 30-year-old victim had lacerations to her scalp. The other woman suffered minor injuries and was treated on the scene.
Police responded to another incident at 7:19 a.m. Two of the female victims from the first incident returned to South Ridge Plaza Apartments and broke into the apartment of a 20-year-old male resident.
The resident reported to police that the 30-year-old woman took the bottle from him and hit him with it.
The resident said that the women threatened him, and he grabbed a beer bottle to protect himself.
Alaniz suffered lacerations to his face. The two women were arrested on charges of aggravated burglary and aggravated assault.
Jessica Wicks
Meet your Student Senator
with Ray Wittlinger, Student Body Vice-President
BY ALEXANDRA GARRY
aqarry@kansan.com
Ray Wittlinger's first attempt at Student Senate didn't go so well.
Wittlinger, Olathe senior, ran for a freshman seat in 2004, but did not get enough votes to secure that election. Later that year, he was asked by a fellow fraternity member if he would like to give Senate another shot, this time, for an open Interfraternity Council seat.
"I thought, 'Why not? That sounds pretty fun," Wittinger said.
Today, Wittlinger serves as the student body vice-president. Once he got into Student Senate, he said, he fell in love with public service and working with other students.
"I've always thought Student Senate was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," Wittlinger said. "It's the kind of experience that's rare to have at this age, and it's fun because of how many students I get to interact with."
wittlinger got his political start representing the Interfraternity Council and has remained a supporter of the Greek community's interests. He supported last week's passed bill that allows membership only student groups, such as fraternities, to advertise with Student Senate funds. Wittlinger said the Greek community was far from his only cause.
"Each senator finds a cause early on" he said. "You see how much potential one issue has to make a change for the better. I found that in campus safety. So often, people think of campus safety as a cause for just women. I've always loved to be involved with campus safety because I knew I could make an impact early on in my term."
Student body president Hannah Love's joint platform has focused on academic policies and their effects on students.
Wittlinger passed legislation during the summer that reformed the structure of the Campus Safety Advisory Board, which oversees the
spending of the $2 campus safety fee paid by each student and the overall safety conditions on campus.
"We've really taken on the challenge of making academic policies better for students." Wittlinger said.
This includes the implementation
of an academic "deadweek" proceeding finals week, a proposal that has not yet come to fruition.
Wittlinger, a political science major, can graduate in May, but is considering staying at the University for another year to take some more classes and continue to work with Senate. He said his greatest frustration with Student Senate was the time crunch of a one-academic yearlong term.
Whether he stays enrolled at the University or moves on, Wittlinger said public service will continue to be in his future.
"We have from May 1 to May 1 to accomplish our goals, and, often, that's just not enough time," he said.
"I'm one of those people that can't sit around. I can't back and relax. I need to be working with students, writing legislation, getting things done," he said. "I always feel like I could be doing more."
on campus
The public event "Junior Day" will begin at 9:30 a.m. in the Kansas Union. Registration is required.
The public event "Kiosk for the Cure" will begin at 11 a.m. in Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall.
The workshop "Residency Brown Bag" will begin at 11:30 a.m. in the Kansas Union.
The workshop "Blackboard Strategies and Tools" will begin at 1:30 p.m. in Room 6 of Budig Hall.
The workshop "Copyright Basics for University Faculty" will begin at noon in the Hall Center.
The workshop "Dreamweaver: Creating Web Pages" will begin at 2 p.m. in the Budig PC Lab.
The lecture "Philosophy Dept. Title: Aristotle's Concept of Soul as a Bridge between Biology and Ethics" will begin at 4:30 p.m. in the English Room in the Kansas Union.
The workshop "I Always Wanted to Learn How to Draw..." will begin at 7 p.m. at Continuing Education, 1515 St. Andrews Drive.
on the record
A Lawrence man was arrested Thursday for battery of a law enforcement officer.
Lawrence police cited an alcohol privider, Presto Convenience Store, 1030 N. 3rd St., for furnishing alcohol to a minor.
The KU men's basketball team celebrated 110 years over the weekend. The team's record in those 110 years is 1,929 wins, 784 losses. KU is only a few wins away from overtaking North Carolina for #2 on the list of all-time winningest college basketball programs.
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