2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
FRIDAY, APRIL 14. 2006
"Quote of the Day"
"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."
Avn Rand
Fact of the Day
Humans are the only reservoir for the mumps virus.
Source: aMedicine.com
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Hera's a list of Thursday's most e-mailed stories from Kansan.com.
1. Women's sports funding kicked up a notch
2. Ignite takes the torch
1. Ignite takes the tol on
2. Nick Czeyz found his stride and tasted his first win as a Jayhawk
tested his first win as a Jawnyw
4. Seder celebrated by students
5. Transgender speaker has no regrets
CORRECTION
- Thursday's The University Daily Kansan contained an error.The results provided by the election commission were incorrect. Delta Force presidential and vice presidential candidates, Studie Red Corn and Bridget Franklin, received 40 percent of the total votes.
ON THE RECORD
A 33-year-old KU employee reported the tags of a KU-owned 2002 Ford F-350 stolen. The theft occurred between December 19, 2005 and April 12, 2006.The estimated value of the tags is $1.00.
BY EMILY HENRICKS
editor@kansan.com
KANSAN CORRESPONDENT
GET READY FOR THE BEAKEND
Bluegrass and country fans rejoice: Nickel Creek is coming to Lawrence tonight to play at Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts St. Nickel Creek's bluegrass and country sound has become popular with fans of all types of music. Its show
also features Matt Pond PA — an up-and-coming indie rock band. The show will start at 8 p.m. Tickets are $26.
Also, the blues, country and rock bands Midtown Hounds and The Rounders will be playing at 9 p.m. Saturday at Harbour Lights, 1031 Massachusetts St. This 21-and-over show costs $2.
Other happenings tonight include Wigs and Candy, a "fashion victims and trash" party at Ole Tapas Bar, 1008 Massachusetts. Wear your wildest wig, design one, or dress as your favorite candy at this crazy event. Starting at 9 tonight and going until 2 a.m., this 18-and-over party has tickets for $3 to $5.
The Bomonas, The Volunteers and Kaw Valley Project are playing at the Jackpot starting at 10 p.m Saturday. This concert is also 18 and over. The charge is $4 to $6.
Local music events abound on Saturday night. The Esoteric, Drakkar Sauna, Black Christmas, Atone at Tone,
Filthy Jim and Sorcery Bird will play for the Celebration in Memory of Adam Mersmann at The Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts St. Starting at 5 p.m., everyone 21 and over can hear these folk, metal and hard-core rock bands play for $3.
Medaphoar, Aloe Blak and Exile will perform in The Dirty Science Tour at the Jackpot Saloon, 943 Massachusetts St. These hip-hop groups will start playing at 10 p.m. The show is for people 18 and over.
Have a great beakend!
Edited by John Jordan
Nicoletta Niosi/KANSAN
Chillin' at the Chi
Christina Kuhn, Lenexa sophomore, and Christina Mayer, Wichita sophomore, dip their feet in Chi Omega fountain Thursday. Kuhn said they got hot while walking and decided to cool down in the fountain. Temperatures reached 80 degrees Thursday afternoon.
EDWARDSVILLE, III. — When Thomas Carroll couldn't come up with the $125 to bail his dog out of the pound, authorities say, he broke in and freed his pooch and three others.
ODD NEWS Man springs pooch from pound, then jailed
The dogs' liberation didn't last long.
Authorities caught up with Carroll, 20, of Glen Carbon, charging him Tuesday with two felony burglary counts.
Animal control officers told Carroll on April 5 they had picked up his Weimaraner, Titus, after finding the dog running loose, authorities said.
Carroll quickly became a suspect and investigators think he freed three other strays as a distraction.
Five days later, workers at the Metro East Humane Society and at the county's neighboring animal-control building discovered the break-in.
He remained in jail Wednesday on $60,000 bond.
Titus was to be put up for adoption, authorities said.
- The Associated Press
Thief runs off with 600 worthless lotto tickets
ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. — A thief who ran off with a display cabinet full of lottery tickets will have little to show for his efforts, lottery officials said.
The man walked into a gas station store last weekend, grabbed a display with 600 tickets inside, went back outside and drove off in a pickup truck, police said.
Lottery officials were notified of the theft soon after it occurred.
the tickets, the thief won't win anything, lottery spokeswoman Pam Walker said. Each ticket has an identification number that is recorded in a computerized system with records of which vendor received it.
That means, despite what he might find by scratching off
"As soon as we are notified (of a theft), we deactivate those numbers, and the tickets cannot be redeemed," Walker said.
The Associated Press
ATHENS, Ga. — Running through the University of Geor
Feds nab ninja-clad college student
gia campus as a ninja can elicit a prompt response from authorities, a sophomore learned this week. Federal agents, on campus for a community training project, detained Jeremiah Ransom of Macon as a "suspicious individual" when they spotted a masked figure darting near the Georgia Center on Tuesday.
"It was surreal," said Ransom, who told The Red & Black student newspaper that he had left a pirate vs. ninja event when he was snared by agents with guns drawn. He was released as soon as he was found to have violated no laws, authorities said.
NATION Funds donated where funds were not due
WASHINGTON — The Agriculture Department loaned $9 million over six years to farmers who shouldn't have gotten loans, according to an audit released Thursday.
The 98 farmers failed to fully repay earlier loans, according to the agency's inspector general. Congress considers those borrowers ineligible for future loans.
Through its Farm Service Agency, the department is a lender of last resort; it loans money to farmers and ranchers who can't get credit from banks or other lenders. In 2004 alone, the department issued $323 million in loans, the audit said.
The farmers got credit because department employees misunderstood the rules and approved some loans by mistake, the audit found.
In other cases, debt history was missing from the department's automated system for tracking loans, or the system wasn't used, auditors reported.
"We conclude that FSA should improve its controls for ensuring that applicants whose previous debts have been forgiven ... are judged ineligible," auditors wrote.
In response to the audit, the department said loans worth $1.5 million were actually eligible. Department officials also began collecting the other $7.5 million.The Inspector General agreed with the agency's response.
Department officials also issued new guidelines for employees and is putting finishing touches on a new computer system that will do a better job of tracking debt history.
"The integrity of these programs is very important to us" department spokesman Ed Loyd said.
The Associated Press
The Associated Press
chatty clerks cause ban on in-store gossip
"It's really a problem with one or two employees," he said Tuesday.
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — A couple of chatty employees have earned a ban on gossiping for all 64 people who work at county-operated liquor stores. Gene Webb, general manager of the Cumberland County Alcoholic Beverage Control system, issued an order that bans gossip and threatens to fire anyone who spreads rumors on the job.
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