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TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 2006
"Quote of the Day"
"If you play this stuff back-wards, it says, 'This sucks!'"
— Beavis or Butthead (we couldn't find which one said it) about the INXS song "The Devil Inside"
Fact of the Day
Source: pbs.org
A polar bear's heat is so well-contained that a heat-sensitive camera can't detect a bear sleeping on the ice. Bonus fact: Polar bears hiss like cats when they're mad.
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3. Love of grammar and penmanship lands teacher on evening news
4. Shortage of doctors for the elderly expected to worsen
5. What you missed
CAMPUS
Building damage cost may continue to rise
Campus buildings that were damaged in the March 12 microburst are being temporarily fixed to prevent rain from leaking into the buildings.
About eight contractors are working on the campus, installing temporary protection on roofs and assessing the cost of permanent fixes, Jim Long, vice provost of facilities planning and management, said. A final estimation of damage is in the works. As of Friday afternoon, $5.4 million in damage was tailed to 126 buildings.
"We originally estimated between six and seven million in costs associated with the damage," Long said. "We still expect the final amount to fall in that range."
CAMPUS
Campaign manager to talk about election
Who will foot the bill for the damage is still unclear.The University has approached both the State of Kansas and FEMA, but neither organization has formally responded to the requests. Monday, the workers moved from examining the exterior of the affected buildings to the interiors, looking for things like water damage in classrooms.
Joe Trippi, the former campaign manager for Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign, will give a lecture at 7:30 tonight in Hansen Hall, located inside of the Robert J. Dole Center of Politics.
The lecture, entitled "Catching Lighting in a Bottle: The Rise and Fall of the Dean Campaign", will chronicle the ups and downs the Dean campaign experienced in the 2004 election year.
Trippi was responsible for organizing a successful Internet grassroots fundraising movement as Dean's campaign manager.
Through the Internet, he started a small-donor fundraising technique with all donations averaging less than $100, all of which helped Dean raise more money than any Democratic presidential campaign in history.
He is also responsible for using the Internet as a social network to connect Dean campaign supporters throughout the nation and started a campaign blog.
Both practices have now been adopted by other political campaigns.
Jonathan Pryor, Columbus junior, kisses his partner David Ta, Wichita senior, as part of the Pride Week Kiss-In. Queers and Allies' Pride Week activities are occurring this week on Wescoe Beach."We should be allowed to make a point. We should be allowed to show affection, too." Pryor said, regarding the negative bias toward gay public displays of affection. Pryor and Ta have been dating for three months.
Tripii will also sign copies of his book "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything" which was released in 2004.
Michelle Grittmann/KANSAN
Pucker up!
DeJuan Atway
Michael Phillips
The third of five candidates for the dean of libraries position will conduct a public forum from 3 to 5 p.m. on Thursday at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
The candidate, Bradley Schaffner, will visit campus on Thursday and Friday.
Schaffner is the head of the Slavic division of Harvard University's Widener Library. Before joining Harvard in 2004, he was a tenured librarian at the University for 15 years and worked as a librarian at Indiana University.
Additional information about each candidate can be found at www.lib.ku.edu/dean.
The University hopes that the new dean will begin work in August.The new dean will replace Stella Bentley, the current dean, who is retiring this summer.
Melinda Ricketts
The film "Brokeback Mountain" is showing at 7 and 9:30 p.m. today in the Woodruff Auditorium at the Kansas Union. Admission is $2 or free with an SUA Activity Card.
ON THE RECORD
An unknown suspect entered a Lawrence resident's vehicle and removed a handicap hang tag and laundry detergent between 9 p.m. Thursday and 10 a.m. Friday.The vehicle was parked in KU lot #114, located near Stouffer Place Apartments.The estimated value of the loss was $20.
Allen Macfarlane, Kansas Geological Survey, is hosting a seminar entitled "The Prototype Plume Busters Software: A New Tool for Computer Assisted Instruction" at noon today in 321 Anschutz Library.
Verena Winiwarter, University of Applied Life Sciences Institute for Soil Research, is hosting a seminar on soil and its fertility in pre-modern Europe at 3:30 p.m. today in the Conference Hall of Hall Center for the Humanities.
Joe Tripi, 2004 presidential campaign manager for Howard Dean, and John Tohey, Dole Fellow, are hosting a seminar on the evolution of electronic media and the role the media plays in shaping and influencing public policy at 4 p.m. today at the Dole Institute of Politics. Tripi will also be giving a lecture entitled "Catching Lightning in a Bottle: The Rise and Fall of the Dean Campaign" at 7:30 p.m. at the Dole Institute.
- John Burt Foster Jr., George Washington University, is giving a lecture entitled "Hadji-Murad: From Russian to Western to World Literature" as part of the Brown Bag Discussion Series at 12:30 p.m. today in 318 Bailey Hall.
ON CAMPUS
"You have to decide to do it and be committed to it," she said. "And now I'm a better wife, mother and employee because I take better care of myself."
ODD NEWS Prize for weight loss inspires commitment
HANKINSON, N.D. - Those who hope they can stop the Dakota Sioux language from dying have hit on the perfect word: Scrabble.
FOND DU LAC, Wis. — Tim and Molly Haack are a combined 125 pounds lighter and their wallets are $1,200 fatter after winning a weight loss contest.
Molly Haack said losing weight was as much mental work as it was physical.
The contest, sponsored by radio station WTCX-FM of Fond du Lac, encouraged pairs or partners to lose weight together and rewarded those who lost the greatest percentage of body weight in 12 weeks.
The Associated Press
Dakota Sioux scrabble to save their language
A special Scrabble tournament in the language made its debut Friday, pitting teams from Sioux reservation schools in North Dakota, South Dakota
and Manitoba.
The game is part of the tribe's campaign to revitalize the Dakota language, now spoken fluently by a dwindling number of elders. One survey predicted the last fluent Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota speaker would die in 2025.
- The Associated Press
Stressed? Pull over, get a nice massage
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Stressed out during a long drive? Road hogs driving you up the wall?
country's first highway drive in massage parlor opened Monday, with the aim of reducing accidents by easing tense muscles of stressed-out drivers.
The Malaysian government is only too happy to help. The
The parlors will be equipped with automatic massage chairs.
"I hope highway users will use this facility," Works Minister S. Samy Vellu said.
Hundreds of thousands of Malaysians commute along a web of highways daily, but accidents — and deaths — typically rise during festive occasions when millions leave Kuala Lumpur and major cities during extended holidays.
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