2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
FRIDAY, APRIL 21. 2006
"Quote of the Day"
"I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps, 'Oh look at that!' Then — whoosh, and I'm gone ... and they'll never see anything like it ever again ... and they won't be able to forget me. Ever!"
Jim Morrison
Fact of the Day
Dried shark skin, shagreen was used in the past as sandpaper. Bonus fact: in Germany and Japan, shark skin was used on sword handles for a non-slim grip.
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4. Kansas football to face Duke in 2009
5. Kansas loses to KCFC U-15 boys team
ON CAMPUS
There is a Wind Ensemble performance at 7:30 p.m. today at the Lied Center. Tickets are $5 for students and seniors and $7 for adults.
Student Union Activities is sponsoring Hawk Nights Street Ball from 9 to 11:30 p.m. today on the basketball courts at Oliver Hall.
The 18th Annual KU Pow Wow starts at 1 p.m. Saturday at Robinson Center.
GET READY FOR THE BEAKEND
BY EMILY HENDRICKS editor@kansan.com KANSAN CORRESPONDENT
This weekend you will have a opportunity to see Olympic athletes as well as up-and-come, for free with your, KUID. This opportunity is the Kansas Relays, and it is the biggest track event of the year.
*Kansas*. Relays events are from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. today and
Saturday at Memorial Stadium, so there will be many opportunities to go and see a few. The culmination of the event is called Gold Zone II, and it will take place from 2 to 5 p.m. on Saturday. During Gold Zone II, some of the most elite track athletes in the world will run. This list includes greats like Maurice Greene, Justin Gatlin and Muna Lee.
the official KU Relays after party on Saturday at 8 p.m. DJ Scottie Mac will provide the music.
Abe & lake's Landing will host
At noon today, Tunes@Noon will feature a local band at the Kansas Union Plaza. Tonight see Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Will Ferrell and Uma Thurman in the film "The Producers." The film plays at 7 and 9:30 tonight at the Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Display your basketball skills in tonight's Hawk Nights Street Ball tournament. Events such as one-on-one challenges and skills competitions starting at 9 tonight at the Oliver Hall Basketball Courts.
If you'd rather watch a sport
man play one, the baseball team plays against Kansas State at 7 tonight at Hoglund Ballpark, and the softball team will play Texas tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. at Arrocha Ballpark.
Get outside, enjoy the spring weather and stop by to watch some world-class athletes this weekend.
At 7:30 p.m. Saturday, the Lied Center will host the Grammy-nominated band Tempo Libre. Tempo Libre's energetic and tropical sounds will be well worth the $14 entrance fee for KU students, KU faculty and staff will pay $24 for tickets.
Edited by Hayley Travis
Spraying the stars
Temmy Ljungblad/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
In preparation for the 16th annual Kindest Kansas Citian Banquet, volunteers, from left, Lainie Rosenthal, Lisa Hoffman and Kaki Kahl, spray paint stars Wednesday that will be used for centerpieces at the banquet on April 23rd. The banquet benefits the Stop Violence Programs of Synery Services. The volunteers were working at the Kansas City home of Katie Gerson, a co-chair of the event with Gale Bay.
ODD NEWS
Confetti cannon shuts down power in district
A cannon that fired confetti at a grand opening celebration in Shanghai damaged power lines and cut electricity to scores of factories, offices and homes, a newspaper reported.
Chinese often set off strings of firecrackers on auspicious occasions, but Shanghai Danone Biscuit Foodstuff Co. apparently sought an alternative to celebrate the opening of a new operation in an industrial park west of the city.
SHANGHAI, China - Maybe they should have stuck to firecrackers.
A 6-foot plastic strap that was accidentally ejected with the shredded paper wrapped around high voltage electrical cables, apparently causing a short circuit, the Shanghai Daily reported Wednesday.
"We heard a big bang and then the electricity was gone," the newspaper quoted Wang Xiaohua, an employee at a post office located opposite the new outlet, as saying.
At least two people were trapped in stalled elevators, and neighboring factories demanded compensation for damaged equipment and lost production, the newspaper said. A 50-member repair team needed five hours on Tuesday to get power running again, it said.
Charlie, here's your ticket to the bowling alley
VELVA, N.D. — The winner of a bowling tournament here gets a unique prize — the
bowling alley.
Star City Lanes owner Darin Bail says he needs to hand off the business because he must spend several months a year in Oregon because of a family situation.
"I call it the 'ultimate winner take all,'" Bail said. "There's one winner, no second-place prize. The winner gets the whole property — a bowling alley, restaurant, the real property that goes with it."
The tournament's format is different from most. The score
nearest to a bowler's own average will win, which ensures that someone who regularly bowls 75 could win just as easily as someone who rolls a 250 every time.
The entry fee is $250.
Qualifying rounds will be held at North Hill Bowl in Minot on May 27 and June 3, 10 and 17.
The top 12 bowlers will face off June 24 in Velva in the bowling alley they hope to win.
"People tell me we should expect 1,000 people," he said. The Associated Press
CORRECTION
■ Thursday's The University Daily Kansan contained an error. The article, "Team work pays dividends," should have quoted Gus Milner as saying, "Once you get up nine or 10 runs, then the umpire's zones start getting a little bigger. There's more out calls and stuff like that." The Kansan apologizes for any false light the original quote might have cast.
An article in Thursday's Jayplay contained an error. The article, "The thin web line," should have said that Darcy had two Web sites, the second of which was Finding My Wings. She stopped operating the first. In the same article, Darcy landed in the hospital from an unspecified drug overdose, not because of the use of antihistamines.
CAMPUS Battle of the Bands to return to McCollum
Cody Charles, assistant complex director for McColum, said he was expecting about 300 people to attend. — DeJuan Atavw
Six bands will perform 25-minute sets,competing for a $600 purse.The bands will perform songs ranging in genres from hard rock to pop to '80s.The concert is free and will include free food and beverages.
The eighth annual McCollum Battle of the Bands will take place at 1 p.m. Saturday on the west side of McCollum Hall.
ON THE RECORD
A 22-year-old Lawrence man was transferred to Lawrence Memorial hospital at 11 p.m. Monday.The man was found by KU police lying on the sidewalk of 19th and Iowa and complaining of pain in the left side of his chest.
ON CAMPUS
The Department of Germanic Languages and Literature is holding a conference on "Alexander von Humboldt in Literature and Culture" from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. today at the Max Kade Center.
Hal E. Wert, liberal arts, Kansas City Art Institute, is hosting a seminar called "Spectre of Starvation American Humanitarian Aid to Occupied Europe, 1939-1941" at 4 p.m. today in the Seminar Room of Hall Center for the Humanities.
Student Union Activities is sponsoring a 10-Minute Plays Contest from 2 to 3 p.m. Sunday in the auditorium of the Spencer Museum of Art.
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