THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
FRIDAY, MAY 5. 2006
"QUOTE of the Day"
"It's important to know what's fun, and fun to know what's important." — Alan Cumming, Broadway actor
Fact of the Day
Professors can change a student's final grade at any point after the class, for as long as the professor is alive.
Source: Register's office
KANSAN.COM
Here's a list of Thursday's most e-mailed stories from Kansan.com:
1. My Name is Jason
2. Life after drunken driving: fines, counseling and biking to the bars
3. Student to run three-day marathon on Jayhawk Boulevard
4. Consultants keep greek houses on their feet
5. Rework republic's governance
ON CAMPUS
- Richard Noggle, English student, and Kirsten Drickey, Spanish & Portuguese student, are hosting a Performance and Culture Seminar at 1:30 p.m. today at the Seminar Room in the Hall Center for the Humanities.
Neil Maher, assistant professor in the Federated Department of History at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, is giving a lecture entitled "NASA's Final Frontier: How the Race to the Moon Transformed Nature on Earth" at 3:30 p.m. today at the Seminar Room in the Hall Center for the Humanities.
■ Edward Sullivan, professor of fine arts, New York University, is giving a lecture entitled "Collecting/Representation/Fetishization: The Object in Latin American Art" at 5 p.m. today at room 211 in the Spencer Museum of Art.
GET READY FOR THE BEAKEND
the film "Glory Road" is showing at 7 tonight at the Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Tickets are $2 or free with an SUA activity card.
BY EMILY HENDRICKS
editor@kansan.com
KANSAN CORRESPONDENT
It's Cinco de Mayo, and that means it's time to celebrate Latin in style. Limerance, 1520 Wakarusa Drive, will hold a Cinco de Mayo 2006 party from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. This Latin dance party kicks off with an all-you-can-eat Mexican buffet at 6 then continues with Salsa lessons at 8 and Latin music starting at 9. The
Another Latin event tonight is the return of Latin band Son Venezuel at the Granada, 1020 Massachusetts St. The show starts at 9 p.m. and costs $5.
The Shakespearean comedy "As You Like It" will be performed today at noon and 6 p.m. and at 6 p.m. on Saturday. The play about gender roles, love, and politics costs $6 and is in South Park.
Concert' starting at 7:30 tonight and Saturday night. It costs $7.50 to $13 to see the performance this weekend, which is a culmination of the company's entire season.
Other happenings tonight include the movie "Glory Road" showing at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union at 7 and 9:30. The 940 Dance Company, a local contemporary dance company, will perform its "New Works
event costs $5.
Sigma Lambda Gamma and Sigma Lambda Beta will be playing host to the annual Cinco de Mayo cultural extravaganza at 6 tonight at Dad Perry Park. There will be food, music and a pinata. The event is free and open to the public.
The metal/hardcore rock bands Coheed and Cambria, Avenged Sevenfold, and Eighteen Visions will perform at City Market in Kansas City, Mo. at 7 p.m. This show costs $25-30
South Park will be the site
of KJHK's Jazz in the Park on Saturday from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. This free event will feature the bands Free All Beats, Dojo, The Yards, and Lovechild. Another event in South Park this weekend is the 45th annual Art in the Park, a fine art and fine craft show and sale, on Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The event will feature live bands all day long and several food vendors.
Lawrence graduate student Michael Garfield looks through a bin of books at the sidewalk sale in front of the Kansas Union Thursday afternoon. Garfield came to the sale to look for a field guide to butterflies.
Enjoy your Cinco de Mayo, and take a stroll down to South Park at least once this weekend for some unforgettable entertainment.
Edited By Timon Veach
ODD.NEWS 'Homeward Bound' after 10 years away
SACRAMENTO, Calif.
- Sneakers the cat is being reunited with his owner, hundreds of miles away from where he disappeared in 1996.
The long-haired black cat was given to Sacramento's Animal Care Services last week, where an employee scanned him for a microchip, a routine procedure.
The number on the chip was used to track down Allison MacEwan of Seattle, who said
she placed newspaper ads and went door-to-door with fliers in a futile search for her lost cat a decade ago.
"It was very surreal," said MacEwan about first hearing the news. "I was completely surprised. I mean, completely."
Officials on Wednesday said they weren't sure how the cat wound up in Sacramento.
MacEwan's daughter was 4 years old when her cat disappeared, and officials said she was now looking forward to being reunited with her childhood pet.
The Associated Press
Unfinished sandwich presidential history
SPRINGFIELD, III. — Some might call a partially-eaten sandwich ordered by then-Vice President Richard Nixon more than 40 years ago a piece of trash. But Steve Jenne thought he found a piece of history.
Jenne retrieved the left-behind buffalo barbecue sandwich after Nixon dined at a political rally in Sullivan, Ill., during his 1960 presidential campaign.
updated version of the classic 1950s and "60s television game show "I've Got a Secret," in which celebrity panelists attempt to guess a contestant's secret. Taking an old sandwich on the road is more difficult than it sounds.
Last month, Jenne, 59, was invited to be a guest on an
"It ain't easy." Jenne said. "First of all, to fly with dry ice I would have had to go through all different channels of security. So I forgot the dry ice and rigged up a way to keep it frozen in a cooler as part of my luggage and made sure it never left my side."
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CORRECTION
- An article in Thursday's The University Daily Kansan contained an error. The article, "Drink your spirits away," incorrectly implied that KU student Joel Switzer currently works at Mr. Goodcents. Switzer worked at Mr. Goodcents earlier this semester, but he no longer does.
ON THE RECORD
A 23-year-old KU student reported criminal damage to his 1997 Chevy S-10 pickup truck between 3 p.m. and 3:50 p.m. Wednesday.The truck was parked in KU parking lot #60. According to the police report an unknown suspect keyed the truck on the driver's side door and rear quarter panel. The damage is estimated at $1,000.
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ODD NEWS Wrongful charges for gangsta rap and porn
YONKERS, N.Y. — Claudia Lee, a 62-year-old retired schoolteacher who said she was wrongfully charged for pay-per-view porn and gangsta rap programming has won her battle with the cable company — and an apology.
The Associated Press
The company insisted someone in her home must have ordered the extra services, but Lee, who lives alone, said she didn't. The only regular visitor to her house her 81-year-old mother, she said, "and I don't think she wants to watch porn."
Lee claimed that Cablevision was harassing her and insisting on payment of the $1,126 cable bill that arrived shortly after she bundled her phone, Internet and cable TV services.
Attempted snake killing ends in siding damage
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.
— After being told by her apartment complex management that it was not their responsibility to remove a snake on her porch, a woman came up with her own unfortunate solution:
She set the reptile on fire and caused $1,000 damage to vinyl siding.
Shatavia Kearney, 19, called the Charter Landing Apartments office Sunday and asked someone to remove a snake on her porch. She said she was told do deal with the situation herself.
So she did.The vinyl siding caught fire and was charred and melted in two places.
No one was charged and
— to make matters worse
— the snake got away.
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