2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 2006
FILM
9/11 film headlines New York festival
NEWYORK - The choice of the Hugh Grant comedy "About a Boy" to open the firstTribeca Film Festival in 2002 was a conscious attempt to turn away from the horrors of Sept. 11, the impetus for the festival, and give people a reason to laugh again, if only for one night.
Now in its fifth year, Tribeca faces the terrorist attacks head-on with the world premiere of "United 93," an intensely visceral drama about one of the four planes that crashed that day after passengers tried to tackle their hackers.
""(United) 93', if it was not opening the festival, it would seem strange", said Robert De Niro, who co-founded the festival with his Tribeca Films producing partner, Jane Rosenthal, to spark economic recovery in the neighborhood where he lives and works.
The film from writer-director Paul Greengrass, which recounts the flight and culminates with the jet nose-diving into a Pennsylvania field, will play on today's opening night before appearing in theaters nationwide Friday. Members of the passengers' families are expected to sit in the audience alongside others who lost loved ones during the attacks.
"You can't not be touched by it, honestly," De Niro said at a news conference Monday. "It's direct, simple. It's important to see because it's kind of a playback of what happened."
How alarming
While there are 273 other films playing at Tribeca over the next two weeks, a great deal of emotion and attention understandably have been devoted to "United 93."
"Quote of the Day"
The Associated Press
"But there is also something vaguely creepy about Peeps. They are blob-like and ubiquitous. Their eyes have no expression. With little taste, no nutritional value (though only 32 calories apiece) and a shelf life of two years, they hover somewhere between foodstuff and material object."
—The New York Times writer Thomas Vinciraver, from his Easter day article "The Basics; Soft, chewy and taking over the world."
F $ ^{act} $ of the Day
In 1953, it took 27 hours to create one Marshmallow Peep. Today, it takes six minutes. Bonus fact: The first Peeps were squeezed one at a time out of a pastry tube and the eyes were painted on by hand. Now machines create 3,500 Peeps' eyes per minute.
Source: npr.org
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1. NCAA alleges more viola
A fire truck responds to a false alarm Monday afternoon at Dyche Hall. According to authorities the alarm was set off by construction dust trapped in the air ducts.
2. Number of mumps cases passes century mark
3. Seniors remember their last season
4. Jayhawks ready for Border
    Showdown game
5. At least six arrested after fights break out at Abe and Jake's
CORRECTION
ON THE RECORD
An article in Thursday's The University Daily Kansan contained an error. The article, "New buses displayed," incorrectly stated that a federal law required KU Park and Ride to include free bus passes with Park and Ride passes because of a grant it received.The FederalTransit Administration does not have this requirement. The article also misspelled the name of Cliff Galante, public transit administrator for the Lawrence Transit System.
ON CAMPUS
A 19-year-old KU student reported that she was a victim of domestic battery between 5:41 p.m. and 5:57 p.m.
Sunday at Gertrude Sellars Pearson Hall. According to the police report the suspect was a friend of the victim.
Fulbright Scholar, Tavirida National Vernadaky University, Simferopol, Ukraine, is giving a lecture on "The Islamic Factor in the Russian-Chechen Wars" at 12:30 p.m. today at 318 Bailey Hall.
John Toohey, Dole Fellow, is leading a seminar on "Politics in an Age of Entertainment & Instant Information" at 4 p.m. today at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics.
John Mark Eberhart, books editor forThe Kansas City Star, Stanley Banks, poet and creative writing professor at Avilla College, and Jeff Worley, poet and professor at University of Kentucky, are holding the Spring Poetry Panel at 7 tonight at the Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
KU Hillel and Student Union Activities are sponsoring a lecture as part of National Holocaust Remembrance Day at 7 ond at the Woodruff Auditorium at the Kansas Union.
ODD NEWS
Some sewage with your morning paper?
HUNTINGTON, N.Y. - A 71-year-old man who went outside in the rain to pick up the Sunday newspaper plunged into a cesspool in his front yard, and his son and neighbor were sucked in when they tried to help.
The victims escaped, two with the help of firefighters, covered in raw sewage but not badly hurt.
Andrew Palladino said the soggy ground, soaked by two days of rain, gave way outside his Long Island home: "I walked across the lawn, and
all of a sudden I disappeared."
He yelled to his wife for help, and she threw a rope and called their son, Dan, who lives with them. The son said the scene "was like a horror picture"
A neighbor who heard the commotion ran over to help but the ground gave way again, swallowing him and the son. The neighbor crawled out and passers-by tried to hold onto the others until the Huntington Fire Department arrived.
Firefighters secured the ground, lassoed Palladino and his son and dragged them out.
It's not the first time a cesspool — a pit that collects waste from toilets and sinks
has swallowed someone in
Huntington.
In 2001, a man practicing archery in the backyard with his two children died when his cesspool caved in and consumed him. And in 1998, a Huntington Station man was rescued after he fell 65 feet into one.
The Associated Press
Judge upholds lawsuit to save orphaned deer
MADISON, Wis. - A family that nursed Bambi, an orphaned fawn, to health three years ago can fight to prevent a state agency from euthanizing the animal, state courts decided.
Michael and Ilene Smith of
rural Columbus filed a lawsuit against the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to halt the execution of the deer.
A judge declined a DNR request to throw out the lawsuit in February, and last week the state Court of Appeals refused to hear the state's appeal. Now the case is expected to be scheduled for an evidentiary hearing in Circuit Court.
plicated by chronic wasting disease, the fatal brain ailment that turned up the state's wild deer herd in 2002. State officials say restrictions to control the disease prevent the Smiths from keeping Bambi.
The Smiths say the white-tailed deer is like a family pet and kept in a fenced, wooded area on their farm. They say they followed state instructions on fencing and veterinarian checks, only to have the agency order the deer's destruction.
The dispute has been comin a ceremony at the Italian Consulate on Park Avenue.
The Associated Press
Stolen Dionysus head returned to Italians
NEWYORK — Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly has returned a remarkable piece of stolen loot: an antiquity depicting the Greek god of wine.
"On behalf of the NewYork Police Department, I bring you the head of Dionysus." Kelly told Consul General Antonio Bandini
The antiquity was returned last week after police determined it had been stolen from a museum in Italy more than two decades ago.
Authorities said Christie's had planned to put the bust of Dionysus — known in Roman mythology as Bacchus — up for sale for $25,000 in 2002 after acquiring it from a defunct Japanese museum. But the auction house, amid suspicions that it had been stolen, turned it over to police.
The NYPD's Major Case Squad traced the sculpture to a small museum in italy that had been looted in 1983.
The Associated Press
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