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MONDAY, APRIL 17.2006
"Quote of the Day"
"Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid."
— Walter Winchell, the American newspaper and radio commentator credited with inventing the modern-day gossip column
Fact of the Day
Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick was drafted by the Colorado Rockies in the 30th round of the 2000 Major League Baseball draft despite not playing baseball since the eighth grade.
Source: atlantafalcons.com
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1. Choice of a lifetime
2. Jayhawks lose close one to Canadian Women's National Team
3. LaMort: Undefined noise limits should worry students
4. College students need more sleep
5. Kansas baseball returns to road against Oklahoma State
BY LISA TILSON
editor@kansan.com
KANSAN CORRESPONDENT
The Kansas Board of Regents established the KU School of Medicine. The four-year School of Medicine was a merge of the two-year medical school that was already part of the Mount Oread campus and three schools already in existence in Kansas City. Chancellor Strong said the school would be the "best medical school between Chicago and San Francisco."
April 21.1905
this week in KU HISTORY
Before the KU on Wheels bus system, students used to wait for the 'KU Loop', which was part of a system of streetcars that once occupied Lawrence for 23 years. Just
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a year after the system of electric streetcars was running through Lawrence, the 'KU Loop' was added to help the students get up the hill for just five cents a ride.
The streetcars had been a part of Lawrence transportation since the 1870s, but the cars were pulled by mules and horses before the electric power. It was not only a better way to get to campus than walking in the snow; it provided jobs for many KU students. Students could be conductors for 17 cents an hour.
Besides jobs, it also provided entertainment for campus pranksters. Students stole the KU letters that decorated the cars, 'rocked the car', disconnected the trolley from the overhead wires, jumped on for free rides and committed other small acts of vandalism.
The streetcar system did not last long in Lawrence. Most of the tracks were abandoned or ripped up to be replaced by a bus system.
At 10:38 p.m. the University
April 20,1970
of Kansas Union roared with the sound of an explosion. It started in a sixth floor women's restroom and raged in the upper stories for hours causing about $1 million in damages.
Bill Rowlands was the night manager on duty at the Union and discovered the fire. He said, "It sounded like a light bulb exploding and I ran upstairs. I think that everyone in the building noticed the smoke about the same time and evacuated the building."
About 100 students helped
the Lawrence Fire Department fight the fire that went about 30 feet into the air above the Union. The fire was attributed to arson during what was later called the, "Days of Rage" in Lawrence.
The "Days of Rage" included two other firebomb attacks on a furniture store and a fraternity. There were several other incidents that included protests, sniper fire and racial confrontations.
and racial contensions.
No one was ever convicted of arson for the fire at the union. A curfew was put in place for four days in Lawrence for the protection of KU students and Lawrence residents. Several arrests were made including the student body president. The spring semester ended early and final examinations were canceled, but the violence did not cease.
Easter is sweet
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Megan Posey, 5, sifts through her candy after an Easter egg hunt on the hill by the Campanile on Saturday. The egg hunt was sponsored by Sigma Lambda Beta fraternity and Big Brothers/Big Sisters.
ON CAMPUS
Elizabeth Lehfeldt, history, Cleveland State University, is hosting a seminar on "Discourses of Masculinity and Decline in Seventeenth-Century Spain" at 3:30 p.m. today at the Conference Hall in the Hall Center for the Humanities.
Dan Hooper, Oxford and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, is giving a lecture entitled "Hot on the trail of particle dark matter" at 4 p.m. today in Malott Hall at room 2074.
Robert Herndon, FBI Special Agent, is giving a lecture as part of the Walter S. Sutton Ethics Lecture Series at 7 p.m. today in the Woodruff Auditorium at the Kansas Union.
Lt. Gen. David Petraeus is giving a lecture entitled "Observations from Soldiering in Iraq" at 8 p.m. today in the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics.
ON THE RECORD
A 27-year-old KU employee reported two Sony Digital Voice Recorders stolen from room 301 in Snow Hall. The theft occurred between 12:15 p.m. and 4 p.m. Wednesday.The estimated value of the digital voice recorders was $300.
ODDS AND ENDS Adult diapers found near Wisconsin road
MOUNT PLEASANT, Wis.
— A small stretch of this Wisconsin village might want to change its name to "Mount Unpleasant" now that the diaper dumper has struck again.
Residents along Braun Road report 12 to 15 used adult diapers have shown up in a grassy ditch, apparently dumped in the middle of the night. Similar activity had been reported to The Journal Times of Racine in January before it stopped.
Police haven't received any reports about the latest incidents, Lt. Wally Sparks said.
The road is near Interstate 94, providing quick access and escape for whoever dumps the diapers, he said. He said there was little police could do, unless a witness can provide a vehicle description or license plate number.
The Associated Press
Car stereo in N.Y. packs explosive bass
NEWYORK - That's one booming stereo.
The police bomb squad, responding Friday to a call of a suspicious device inside a parked minivan in midtown Manhattan, blew out the vehicle's windows — only to find out the item inside was simply stereo equipment, police said.
The incident occurred when police received a 911 call from a passer-by who spotted the device inside a red minivan parked outside 4 E. 67th St., said police spokesman Dennis Laffin. It was a canister about the size of two shoe boxes, with
"It looked suspicious," Laffin said. "I think anyone would have thought something was strange."
a digital display of changing numbers and some loose wires visible.
The police bomb squad responded after the 8:22 a.m. call, blowing out three side windows and the back window with a water propelled charge, Laffin said at the scene.The van's owner, a Bronx resident, has yet to hear the bad news about his windows.
The Associated Press
teachers put futures in hands of foot fetishists
LITTLE ROCK — The Arkansas Teacher Retirement System doesn't encourage its members to call phone sex lines. But that changed this week, thanks to a typo.
The retirement system sent out letters to retirees and active teachers explaining how to name beneficiaries in the event of their death, said David Malone, the association's executive director.
Some of the pages in the letter listed the correct toll-
free number associated with the program, he said. But one page listed a toll-free number that brought callers to a recording of a seductive woman's voice, promoting a 69-cents per minute foot fetish sex line.
"We've had a few calls about it," Malone said. "Most everybody's been pretty good natured."
The letter with the wrong telephone number went out to about 50,000 system members. Another 50,000 will get letters with only the correct number.
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