THURSDAY, MAY 11, 2006
2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
"Quote of the Day"
"Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?"
— Philip G. Hamerton
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Here's a list of Wednesday's most e-mailed stories from Kansan.com:
1. To transfer or not to transfer, that is the question
2. Jeweler turns simple metals into treasures
3. Latter-day stripper
3. Litter day script
4. Senior baseball players play, live together
5. Swing low, fly high. Bipolar disorder affects college students
WORLD Iranian president addresses concerns
JAKARTA, Indonesia Iran's president on Wednesday dismissed Western concerns over its nuclear program as "a big lie," a day after key U.N. Security Council members agreed to present Tehran with a choice of incentives or sanctions in deciding whether to suspend uranium enrichment.
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Meanwhile, in a letter to Time magazine published on its Web site, a representative of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei offered newah for solving the impass.
Hassan Rohani, Iran's former top nuclear negotiator, said Tehran would consider ratifying an International Atomic Energy Agency protocol.
By DIRK NEWTON
editor@kansan.com
KANSAN CORRESPONDENT
May 10, 1921 - McCook Field, the football stadium prior to Memorial is torn down by 4.000 members of the student and faculty bodies. The destruction took the group a mere hour and 18 minutes, which they followed with a free barbecue from the University of Kansas.
The field, which had seen 30 years of sub-pur play and a 27-4 victory in its 1892 opener against Illinois, was built after a $2,500 donation from Col. John James McCook. The original stadium held 800 fans and by 1911 it held its maximum of 10,000. And, as the program grew and the stadium began to crumble, the school decided it would build a memorial for the 130 KU students who had died in World War I.
May 10, 1942 - 47 doctors and 52 nurses of the KU Medical School, known as the 77th Evacuation Hospital Unit, got
On October 29,1921, Memorial Stadium was officially christened, although it was only partially built in a game against Kansas State.
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the call of a lifetime from the U.S. government when it was asked to assist in World War II.
Maj. Gen. James C. Magee, former Surgeon General of the Army, wrote the dean of the School of Medicine, Harry R. Wahl, because in Magee's words, Kansas had one the country's "outstanding civil medical institutions." Wahl, served as a Major in the Army's Medical Corps in World War I and was able to offer his guidance to those who would be making the trip. Wahl later selected Dr. Edward Hashinger, also a World War I veteran, as the unit director.
In 1940 and 1941, the group was preparing for upcoming events and were called into duty early December in 1941 after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. The 77th Unit was sent to Missouri's Fort Leonard Wood for basic training.
By May, 1942, the 77th Unit was asked to return to Fort Leonard Wood and left New York City for Liverpool, England, July 31, and arrived by Aug. 17 after dodging German U-boats scattered throughout the Atlantic Ocean.
For the next 10 weeks, the 77th Unit prepared for the hard times it would see by working at a children's hospital that had converted to house American GIs in England who had been sick or injured.
After a year of activity, the 77th Unit felt like it wasn't contributing enough to the American war effort. After remaining stationed in the same location instead of moving with the troops, it was finally ordered to move near the Algerian-Tunisian borders.
mandy, a month after D-Day. It was in that location that the 77th Unit saw the worst the war had seen at that point. In its first 12 hours, the 77th Unit took in over 1,200 casualties and averaged 44 patients an hour for six days.
For the next year and a half, the 77th Unit bounced from war front to war front, eventually landing it at the beach at Nor-
Five months later, the 77th Unit was moved to Verviers, Belgium, for the Battle of the Bulge. In 1944, the 77th Unit saw an estimated 35,000 patients and almost 21,000 were casualties from its stop in Verviers that lasted five weeks. Of the 25, 408 patients that they had seen, only 94 died at a later date. Amazingly, no one in the 77th Unit died while serving.
May 11, 1896 - Lucien Blake, a KU professor who toyed with Morse code and X-ray photography, took an X-ray of a man's foot and found a bullet that the man's doctors had failed to find four months before.
May 13, 1923 - William Allen White is Kansas' first graduate named to a Pulitzer Prize after an editorial in the Emporia Gazette.
May 15, 1981 - The KU School of Religion celebrates the near completion of Eldon Teft's Moses statue that is located in front of Smith Hall.
Read any good books lately?
Dan Ensz, Lawrence senior, left, and Joe Nickels organize and shelve books Wednesday morning at the Kansas Union Bookstore. Recent shipments of books have been arriving before the start of summer classes in June.
ODD NEWS Prison break takes turn for the worse
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind.
- An inmate trying to escape from his cell crashed through a ceiling panel and landed just feet from jailers in the lockup's lobby, authorities said.
Paul Stein, 32, of Kokomo, was taken to the Montgomery County jail on a public intoxication charge when he crawled through a hatch in his holding cell, they said.
"It is there so we can get up there and fix plumbing and lighting problems," said jail officer Robin Threlkeld. "He
was able to open the door and pull himself up and through somehow, and then he fell down through a panel in the lobby"
Stein wasn't injured in the fall Saturday at the jail in Crawfordsville, about 45 miles northwest of Indianapolis.
"His feet came through
tirst" said Montgomery County Sheriff Dennis Rice.
Authorities were investigating how Stein was able to open the panel.
Stein faces an additional preliminary charge of escape and remained in custody Tuesday.
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CLARIFICATIONS
A photo credit in Wednesday's The University Daily Kansan needs clarification. The photos accompanying "Latter-day stripper" were not photo illustrations. They were photos taken by Rachel Seymour.
David Cateforis, associate professor of art history, is giving a lecture titled Wenda Gu's Forest of Stone Steles: Retranslation and Rewriting of Tang Poetry -Translation as Transformation in the Work of a ContemporaryChinese Installation Artist" at 7 p.m. today at the auditorium in the Spencer Museum of Art.
ON CAMPUS
The KUYouth Chorus is performing at 5 p.m. today at 328 Murphy Hall.
James Harris, director of the International Crane Foundation in Minneapolis, is giving a lecture titled "The Story of Zhalong Marsh - Challenges for Wetland and Crane Conservation in Northeastern China" at 4:30 p.m. today atthe Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center.
Eunyoung Cho, organist, is performing at 7:30 tonight in the Bales OrganRecital Hall.
A photo credit in Wednesday's The University Daily Kansan needs clarification. The photo accompanying "KU golfer selected to participate in regional" was a photo illustration by David Noffsinger.
NATION Worship has increased since Sept. 11,2001
About 22 percent of congregations reported participating in interfaith worship in the past year, compared to 7 percent in a Faith Communities Today 2000 Survey.
HARTFORD, Conn. — Interfaith worship and community service has increased in the nearly five years since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to a new survey.
And nearly 38 percent of congregations reported participating in interfaith community service work, compared to 8 percent in the 2000 poll.
Minority faiths are most active in interfaith work, the survey found.
Faith CommunitiesToday is a project of the Cooperative Congregational Studies Partnership at Hartford Institute for Religion Research.
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