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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, APRIL 3; 2006
NEWS
"QUote of the Day"
"I got an E-Trade account. Turns out I can turn $1,000 into $420 in less than a week. Sure, I had to pay some fees."
Comedian Mike Birbiglia, who performed at the University in February
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George Mason University's Cinderella run in the NCAA tournament isn't the school's only oddball success. The school's economics program has two Nobel Prize winners on faculty — and it didn't award Ph.D.s until 1983. Its law school became a first-tier school a few years ago; 10 years ago it was being run out of an old department store building.
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April 3, 1917 - About 150 KU students and Lawrence women established a chapter of the Red Cross at the University of Kansas. The establishment of the chapter was an effort to have women learn and practice vital skills for the war effort. The United States entered World War II just three days later.
KU HISTORY
april 3 - april 7
BY LISA TILSON
editor@kansan.com
KANSAN CORRESPONDENT
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While KU men were leaving to join the National Guard, women learned skills that could launch them into a career at a military hospital. After only a month, there were 531 KU students and faculty participating in the Red Cross chapter. More joined the Lawrence chapter after the class at KU was closed due to the overwhelming amount of interested students. No members had any obligation to serve in the war, although many did. The students and faculty members participated in everything from rolling bandages to advanced first-aid training.
KU Chancellor Frank Strong said, "Seventy-five women students are engaged in bandage work; and two hundred fourteen members of the faculty have joined the local Red Cross Society in Lawrence."
She oversaw the Red Cross chapter and organized classes in stenography, first aid, food conservation and home nursing. Under her supervision the University of Kansas women produced 15,000 bandages and compresses and raised over $3,000 for the Red Cross.
Margaret Lynn, associate professor of English at KU, was appointed supervisor of the program in 1918
The University Daily Kansan said, "The women of the University of Kansas are preparing to do their bit in the war." The headline in the Kansan read, "WOMEN RESPOND TO CALL."
April 8,1970-Abbie Hoffman spoke to 8,000 KU students in Allen Field House; during his speech he called a college degree, "useless." The "cultural revolutionary," spoke at the University during the student strike protesting the Kansas Board of Regents decision not to promote two professors.
Hoffman said, "People have really got to make up their minds that they are going to destroy the University, if they accept the students' role, they accept the role of slave."
The student strike protested the denied promotions of law professor Lawrence Velvel and acting professor of speech and drama Frederic Litto. Hoffman used professor Velvel as an example of the consequences of using free speech. Velvel had not been promoted because of a speech he had given to protesters about the "Chicago 7" trial involving Hoffman. Litto had not been promoted because of his participation in a controversial play called "Kaleidoscope."
During Hoffman's speech, he blew his nose on an American flag and said, "The first thing a dying dinosaur empire does is to try to devour its young. America is a dying empire and its institutions are crumbling." He added, "We are living for the revolution and dying for it."
Hoffman, a graduate of Brandeis University, began as a civil rights advocate in 1964. He went on to protest the Vietnam war in 1968 in Chicago and the CIAs recruitment of students in the 1980s. He served prison time for drug trafficking, had three children and was married twice. He committed suicide in April of 1989.
Remembering John Paul
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Pier Paolo Cito/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Photos of late Pope John Paul II are displayed behind candles during a prayer vigil in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. The vigil commemorated the first anniversary of the death of Pope John Paul II on Sunday.
The University Career Center is offering a workshop on "Resumes from Scratch for Freshmen and Sophomores" at 3:30 p.m. today in the Budig Computer Lab.
UN CAMPUS
Steve Pollack, University of Colorado, is giving a lecture entitled "Building on a Base: Applying Physics Education Research to Physics Teaching" at 4 p.m. today in 2074 Malott Hall.
Eliane Karsaklian, NEGOCIA Business School, is giving a lecture on "Marketing and Promotion in Europe" at 4:30 p.m. today in 413 Summerfield Hall.
ON THE RECORD
While a Department of Student Housing maintenance worker was fixing a window in McCollum Hall on March 15, he looked into the room and observed marijuana and a glass smoking pipe on the floor. The tenant of the room was interviewed by the KU Public Safety Office Tuesday.
FORT WAYNE, Ind. — An industrious teenager is hoping time is money.
ODD NEWS Teenager hopes to turn time into money
Eightteen-year-old Evan Kelso is offering to change every digital clock in a customer's home or car after all of Indiana goes to daylight saving time this weekend for the first time in more than 30 years. His fee: $10.
Kelso, a senior at Bishop Luers High School, said he came up with the idea as Indiana lawmakers sniped about time zones and daylight-saving
time. He said he and his father are always trying to think up new ways to make a little extra cash.
"I just kind of sat there and thought, 'We got to capitalize on this.'" Keilso said.
Kelso expects the time-change predicament to affect senior citizens the most. He plans to work from Sunday into next week which is his spring break from school.
His offer includes changing the time on microwaves, ovens, answering machines, cars, computers, watches and VCRs. For an extra $1, he'll also install new batteries.
changing VCRs.
The biggest challenge is
"There are so many makes and models. God knows, they are impossible to do anyway," Kelso said.
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Thanks to his cameo appearance in the 2004 documentary film, "Supersize Me," that was highly critical of the fast food culture, he ran into autograph-seekers at the airport in Los Angeles, and teens used their camera phones to take his picture.
Big Mac consumer cannot stump panel
The Fond du Lac man earned a spot in Guinness World Records in March 2003 when the number of McDonald's Big Mac sandwiches he had eaten hit 19,000. He kept records showing he ate one or two every day since 1972.
"I couldn't believe how many people recognized me," he said.
FOND DU LAC, Wis. —The record-setting consumer of Big Mac sandwiches couldn't stump a television panel on the new "I've Got A Secret" show, but Don Gorske says he got a surprise on his trip to the West Coast for the taping.
His record is still growing.
The 6-foot Gorske has kept his weight at 180 pounds despite his diet.
When interviewed by The Reporter of Fond du Lac about his trip, he downed No. 21,249.
The episode of "I've Got A Secret," a revival of a classic game show from the 1950s and 1960s, is expected to air in early May on the Game Show Network.
At Monday's taping, Gorske said each of four panelists had 40 seconds to try to uncover his secret, and the final panelist hit the target with a question about fast food, followed by one with the magic word —McDonald's.
cheer, and he guessed it in time," Gorske said.
"Then the crowd started to
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A federal judge agrees: Sexy signs just have no place near the highway.
Sexy signs cannot be near highway
The case came before the court when John Haltom, who owns 10 stores that sell lingerie, sex toys and adult videos in six states, filed a lawsuit last year against the attorney general's office.
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