MONDAY. MARCH 27, 2006
2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
"Quote of the Day"
"Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition."
Jack Handey
Fact of the Day
NEWS
ACADEMICS Three KU students win Goldwater scholarships
Three KU students won Barry M. Goldwater scholarships, the nation's top undergraduate award for science, engineering and mathematics.
In Canada, Spring Break is known as Reading Week.
Source: wikipedia.org
The KU recipients were: Daniel Hogan, Leawood junior in physics and mathematics; Andrew Olive, Lincoln, Neb., junior in microbiology; and Luis Vargas, Wichita sophomore in physics, astronomy and mathematics.
Laura Stiles, Prairie Village sophomore in engineering physics, received an honorable mention.
A total of 323 recipients were announced last week by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation in Springfield, Va.
"We congratulate our newest Goldwater winners for their academic excellence that puts them in the forefront of challenging research in the sciences, mathematics and engineering." Chancellor Robert Hemenway said in a press release.
A total of 41 KU students have received the scholarship since it was first awarded in 1989. Congress started the program in 1986 in honor of the retired United States senator from Arizona.
The award provides up to $7,500 for tuition, fees, books and room and board. Recipients who graduate in 2007 receive one year of support; those who graduate in 2008 receive two years.
ODD NEWS Mannequin bought for whopping $15,000
MILLFIELD, Ohio — A makeshift mannequin that failed to fool police monitoring the high-occupancy vehicle lane on Highway 36 fetched $15,000 in an auction on eBay, with proceeds going to charity, the buyer announced.
Denver-based Video Professor bought the Styrofoam head, coat hanger, and clothing stuffed with newspapers from HOV scofflaw Greg Pringle, 53, of Broomfield, said Brian Olson, a company spokesman.
after she was impounded by police — and the auction to the Alive At 25 driver safety awareness program.
As part of his sentence handed down earlier this month, Pringle agreed to donate any profits from a Web site - launched by free "Tillie"
"We've rescued Tilley from a life of crime and we hope to rehabilitate her so she can be a contributing dummy to our society" Olson said.
"This is just incredible," Pringle said.
Pringle also was fined $115 and ordered to hold a sign alongside the highway for four hours reading: "HOV lane not for dummies." He was pulled over and ticketed Jan. 26 for driving in the lane reserved for car pools, motorcycles, buses, and hybrid vehicles.
Pringle previously said it cost him $10 to create Tillie.
Olson said the computer tutoring company will take Tillie to various events and
later auction her off again for charity in June.
The Associated Press
Student filmmakers' scene taken seriously
Kansan staff reports
FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla.
— A movie set at the downtown post office turned all too real for a group of high school filmmakers.
Members of the high school Spanish club were shooting a movie Thursday night when the police showed up believing a hostage crisis was going on inside the post office.
But apparently, someone saw the teens carrying toy guns into the building on Centre Street, which is the heart of the town's historical district. When they couldn't get an answer to calls
placed inside the building, they assumed the worst.
Police cordoned off the block, cleared nearby buildings and surrounded the post office ready for a hostage crisis. When a group of students left the post office, they were ordered to get on the ground, face down.
Postmaster Ron Steedley had given permission for the school group to use the post office after hours to make a movie, "Rolling Thunder." Steedley said he didn't think the student's movie would frighten anyone.
Devon Menendez, the film's director, said his film career is over.
"I'm not accepting any more offers to direct a movie," he said.
The Associated Press
Getting into the swing of spring
Mickey Welsh/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Michael Allen, 6, laughs as his brother pushes him high on a swing as they play in Louis Armstrong Memorial Park in Montgomery, Ala., on Sunday.
ON CAMPUS
KANSAN.COM
The Home of Dance and Animation
Donny Rausch, movie special effects, is giving a lecture as part of the Hallmark Symposium at 6 p.m. today in the auditorium at the Spencer Museum of Art.
Jack Kemp, former vice presidential candidate for Bob Dole, is giving a lecture as part of the Vickers Memorial Lecture Series at 7 p.m. today at the Lied Center.
WONDERING WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT?
Here's a list of Spring Break's most e-mailed stories from Kansan.com:
John Burt Foster Jr., George Mason University English and comparative literature professor, is hosting a seminar entitled "Lidless Eyes, Stony Places, Vibrant Spectators: Nietzschean Tragedy in Yeats's Lyric Poetry" at 3:30 p.m. today at the Seminar Room in the Hall Center.
Marco Cavaglia, University of Mississippi, is giving a lecture entitled "Groke: A Monte Carlo simulator for black holes in the atmosphere" at 4 p.m. today in 2074 Malott Hall.
1. SHOCKED!
2. Ghostface Killah raps Granada
3. Some students receive in-state tuition despite being illegal immigrants
4. Photo gallery: Cataloging the damage
LIBRARIES
5. Kicker's spotlight gets brighter
CORRECTION
LIBRARIES Candidate for dean to lead public forum
The second of five candidates to be the next dean of libraries will conduct a public forum on Tuesday. The candidate, Paul Conway, will visit campus from Monday to Wednesday.
Duke and has adjunct teaching appointments at Duke and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
He previously worked in the Yale University library system, at the Office of National Archives and the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
-Kansan staff reports
Conway is the director of digital asset initiatives for Duke University Libraries. He is also the faculty director for curriculum development at
The University is hopeful that the new dean will begin work in August.The new dean will replace Stella Bentley,the current dean,who is retiring this summer.
ODD NEWS Would-be bank robber rescued, then arrested
A man found stuck in a bank chimney didn't try to cover up his intent.
GRANGER, Wash. — Sometimes honesty is the best policy.
The March 16 issue of The University Daily Kansan contained an error.The photo "Practice makes perfect" should have said Tim Patterson was practicing a bass.
"We asked him what he was doing down there and he said, 'What do you think? I'm trying to rob the bank,' said Police Chief Robert Perales.
Firefighters threw down a
rope and pulled out a soot-covered 26-year-old man, who was arrested on the spot. He was booked into the municipal jail in nearby Wapato.
Police in this lower Yakima Valley town had been summoned Thursday morning to the U.S. Bank because of an apparent break-in attempt. They discovered the stuck suspect after finding the top had been removed from the ventilation shaft for the furnace.
The Associated Press
Recruiting letter asks 78-year-old to serve
SAUGUS, Calif. — Sonia Goldstein was flattered by the nice recruiting letter asking her to consider becoming one of "the few, the proud."
But at age 78, she believes she's just a little old to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps.
"I couldn't believe it," Goldstein told KCAL-TV on Friday. "My girls were sitting here ... we were in hysterics, we laughed so hard."
The Associated Press
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