THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
FRIDAY, APRIL 28. 2006
"Quote of the Day"
"Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's very dark."
Groucho Marx
Source: slate.com
Men with longer ring fingers were exposed to more testosterone in the womb.
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ODD NEWS
ODD NEWS Alligator attacks man retrieving golf balls BOYNTON REACH, Fla.
A diver hired by the city to retrieve golf balls from a lake was attacked by a 9-foot alligator that bit the man's arm, authorities said.
Stephen Martinez, 43, of Cora Springs, Fla., was treated at a hospital for injuries similar to a dog bite, said Palm Beach County sheriff's Lt. Rolando Silva.
"it's serious, but certainly not life-threatening," he said
Martinez was under murky water at The Links golf course on Tuesday when a group of golfers heard him yell for help, said course manager Dan Hager.
The alligator apparently bit Martinez's air tank and tried to pull him under the water. Martinez grabbed a utility knife wrapped to his dive suit and tried to stab the animal. That's when it bit his arm, Hager said. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission was investigating.
The alligator was trapped and will have to be euthanized, commission spokeswoman Dani Moschella said.
GET READY FOR THE BEAKEND
BY EMILY HENDRICKS
editor@kansan.com
KANSAN CORRESPONDENT
Student Union Activities is showing the movie "King Kong" at the Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union at 6:30 and 9:45 tonight for $2 and Haskell Indian Nations is hosting the folk/rock bands The Boy Dandy and Junemoon from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. for free.
Get some culture old-school style this weekend by attending "The Marriage of Figaro" at Murphy Hall at 7:50 tonight or at the same time Sunday. The University Theater, Music and Dance studios will be performing this classic opera. Written by Mozart, it is a story about love, betrayal and forgiveness.
creative arts of music and poetry.
Barn Woolfson — The Associated Press
The Students Saving Lives with AIDS Medications is hosting its SLAM AIDS Benefit tonight at the Jackpot Saloon, 943 Massachusetts St. Pay the small price of $5 to see favorite local bands like The Kinetiks, Death and Flowers, Emperor Stan, Michael Garfield and Farewell to Ashlyn. This concert will serve to raise money for patients at the Kairos Medical Centre in Namuwongo, Uganda, in addition to promoting awareness of the HIV/AIDS pandemic through the
SUA will play host to Project 2020: Oil Shockwave, an event created to promote awareness of the energy situation in our country, on Saturday. Starting at 7 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium, this presentation will inform people on how to significantly reduce the amount of oil we use by the year 2020. Find out what multiple campuses around the country are learning about energy conservation at this free presentation.
and the cover charge is $4.
Other local music concerts include Martin Sexton and Trevor Hall performing at The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St., starting at 9 tonight. At the Granada, 1020 Massachusetts St., the bands Tr Point Paradox and The Brody Buster Band will play at 9 p.m. as well. These bands are a combination of funk, jam, pop and rock,
Don't pass up these great opportunities to get some new perspective on campus this weekend.
A man and his dog ride in a horse buggy past a Mobil gas station in Intercourse, Pa., on Thursday. Exxon Mobil Corp. posted the fifth highest quarterly profit for any public company in history on Thursday, and with oil prices above $70 a barrel it could go down as the company's weakest quarter for the year.
Edited by Jodi Ann Holopirek
That's one way to avoid the gas pump, Rover
ODD NEWS
CHESTERTON, Ind. — A trucking company is trying to get one of its drivers to answer a simple question: Where's the beef?
Frozen beef worth $500,000 is missing, and the driver who was hauling it isn't returning phone calls, according to Priority Refrigerated Service.
The driver failed to make a delivery at 1 a.m. Monday in Suffield, Conn., company officials told Chesterton police.
Officials called him and he told them he thought the meat was supposed to be delivered later that morning.
The 48-year-old trucker from Manchester, Conn., said he was en route, and the truck's Global Positioning System satellite showed he was 15 miles away. But the trucker never showed up, according to a company official.
The driver received 20 messages from the company within 24 hours but failed to return any of them, the official told police Tuesday.
After about 24 hours.
without any contact with the trucker, the company called police.
Connecticut State Police also were notified about the missing truck, valued at $80,000, and the cargo.
The Associated Press
Police find stolen pig in back of man's car
WHEELING, W. Va. — Call it a case of pignapping.
Wheeling police found a missing potbellied pig early Wednesday in the back seat of a car that had been reported stolen in Ohio.
The car's owner, who wasn't identified, had told the Belmont County (Ohio) Sheriff's Department that the pet pig was in the vehicle when it was stolen Tuesday afternoon from a restaurant parking lot in St. Clairsville, Ohio, according to a Wheeling Police Department report.
The Wheeling officers began following the car after they saw a man stagger to it at an intersection. They stopped the car after it allegedly swerved several times and hit curbs.
The Associated Press
CORRECTION
Thursday's Jayplay contained an error. On page 18, the Wayne and Larry's Sports Bar and Grill ad should have said that import sluggers are $2.75 on Fridays. It also should have said that Wayne and Larry's is at 933 owl St. and is open from 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. every day. Its phone number is 856-7170.
ON THE RECORD
ON CAMPUS
A KU Athletic Department employee reported a theft of two pairs of KU men's basketball shorts stolen from Allen Fieldhouse.The theft occurred sometime between March 20 and Friday. One pair of the shorts was blue and the other pair was white.The shorts were valued at $240.
Arthur Miller, a political science professor from the University of Iowa, is giving a lecture called "Developing Democratic Values: Implications for the Ukrainian Orange Revolution" at 3 p.m. today at the Conference Hall in the Hall Center the Humanities.
Chris White, a member of the Latin American studies department, is playing host to a seminar titled "The Search for a Third Way for Peru: Transnational Influence and the 'Unique Revolution', 1968-75" at 3:30 today at the Seminar Room of the Hall Center for the Humanities.
Jeffrey Noonan, of Southeast Missouri State University, is giving a lecture titled "A Lecture/Demonstration on Baroque Plucked String Instruments" at 3:30 p.m. today at Room 123 in Murphy Hall.
The film "King Kong" is showing at 6:30 and 9:45 p.m. today at the Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union. Tickets are $2 or free with an SUA Activity Card. A free drive-in showing will be held at 9 p.m. Saturday in the parking lot east of Memorial Stadium.
The Department of Music and Dance is hosting "The Marriage of Figaro" at 7:30 p.m. today and 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Craft-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall. Tickets are $10 for students.
Student Union Activities is sponsoring a Hawk Nights Street Ball competition at 9 p.m. today at the Oliver Hall basketball courts.
Student Union Activities is sponsoring free cosmic bowling from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. today and Saturday at the Jaybowl in the Kansas Union.
The University Dance Company is performing at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Lied Center.Tickets are $7 for students.
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