2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 2006
"Quote of the Day"
"I despise cool. I've never seen one frickin' person who was cool who I liked."
Roy Williams, North Carolina coach, after benching his starters in the North Carolina-Duke game this year.
Fact of the Day
Those signature white cords attaching ear bud headphones to iPods led a New York City Police Department spokesman to blame them for a 24 percent rise in robbery and a 10 percent increase in grand larceny in the NYC subway system.
Source: wikipedia.com
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Here's a list of Thursday's most e-mailed stories from Kansan.com:
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The Lawyer's Guide to the Real World
1. Spreadsheets Are A Girl's Best Friend.
2. Gold: Roe vs. Wade shouldn't apply to men
3. Jayhawk seniors seeing fewer minutes.
4. Photo gallery: Cataloging the damage
5. Sex in a bunk bed
CAMPUS University study on ponds wins award
Man-made ponds have morphed run-off patterns in the United States, according to a study published by the Kansas Geographical Survey.
According to the study, these ponds collect approximately 20 percent of all run-off sedimentation. The research is the first to estimate the impact of smaller bodies of water on run-off distribution.
The report said that thousands of ponds are added each year to the 2.6 million ponds already in the U.S.The sediment ponds collect each year could fill more than 3 million boxcars with dirt.
The research was published in the journal Geomorphology and received an award from the Association of American Geographers. KU researchers Jeremy Bartley and Robert Buddemeier were two of the paper's authors.
GET READY FOR THE BEAKEND
BY EMILY HENDRICKS
editor@kansan.com
KANSAN CORRESPONDENT
Don't forget to wear green today because everyone's favorite Irish holiday has arrived. At 1 p.m. Lawrence will play host to the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade, which will travel down Massachusetts Street starting at 11th Street and proceeding to its traditional destination, The Pink Flamingo.
At 7 p.m. there is a St. Patrick's Day charity concert at the Bottleneck featuring Kelley Hunt, a blues/rock singer. The cover charge is $20 for this all ages show, and the proceeds will benefit the Children's Health Fund and D-CF3, among other children's charities.
Another Irish festivity includes the St. Patrick's Day Benefit at 8 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Holidome at 200 McDonald Drive. There will be a dance floor and the band Dave and the Wave will play country and rock; the $5 cover charge will go to the Malinois Rescue Fund.
Keep it wheel
On Saturday night Kelley Hall will perform again in the Kansas Music Hall of Fame 2006 Induction. This show includes several other rock/ blues bands and will be held in Liberty Hall at 6th and Massachusetts streets.
Don't forget that at 8:30 tonight the Jayhawks will kick off their start in the NCAA tournament when they play No. 13 seed Bradley in Michigan.
On Saturday local rock band Dead Girls Ruin Everything will play at the Bottleneck starting at 10 p.m. for the just $4-6. The band Textbook will also play, and the group Jackie Carol whose '90s sound is reminiscent of The Get Up Kids will be opening the show.
-Catherine Odson
At the Granada, the metal/hardcore rock bands Funeral for a Friend, Bleed the Dream, and Love-HateHero play an all ages show at 7 p.m.
Even if you're not Irish, there's plenty of St. Patrick's Day fun for everyone this weekend. Kick off your spring break by sporting the green, and have a relaxing week!
Jeff Stead/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lena Fowler from Swope Ridge Geriatric Center in Kansas City, Mo., wheels her way past the windows of the Sermon Center during the wheelchair race in the Golden Age Games Thursday in Independence, Mo. The games are a special氧利于 Kansas City area nursing homes and include competitions like bowling, checkers and a best hat contest.
An 18-year-old KU student reported his Dell Inspiron 720 laptop stolen between 9 p.m. and 9:20 p.m. March 10 from room #1041 of McCollum Hall. The laptop was valued at $1,600.
ON THE RECORD
ON CAMPUS
NATION
Prosecutors ask judge to reconsider decision
The Center of Latin American Studies is showing the film "Los Inundados" at 2 p.m. Saturday at the auditorium of the Spencer Museum of Art.
They acknowledge their only hope of obtaining the death penalty for the 37-year-old Frenchman of Moroccan descent, is to persuade U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema she punished the government too harshly for tampering with trial witnesses and lying to defense attorneys.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Fighting for a death penalty in a 9/11 case, prosecutors are beseaching a federal judge to reconsider her decision to exclude half the government's case against confessed al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui.
Brickenka did not immediately respond to the motion for reconsideration that prosecutors filed Wednesday evening. She indicated earlier that she had time available Thursday to hear such a motion if it were filed.
— Edited by James Foley
Brinkema barred prosecutors from submitting any witnesses or exhibits about aviation security. Prosecutors responded in their motion that this evidence "goes to the very core of our theory of the case"
The jury has been sent home until Monday to give prosecutors time for their next step.
The Associated Press
ODD NEWS City worker wrecks home, sues the city
LODI, Calif. — When a dump truck backed into Curtis Gokey's car, he decided to sue the city for damages.
Only thing is, he was the one driving the dump truck.
That minor detail didn't stop Gokey, a Lodi city employee, from filing a $3,600 claim for the December accident, even after acknowledging the crash was his fault.
husband.
City Attorney Steve Schwabauer said this one also lacks merit because Rhonda Gokey can't sue her own
After the city denied that claim because Gokey was, in essence, suing himself, he and his wife decided to file a new claim under her name.
"You can sue your spouse for divorce, but you can't sue your spouse for negligence," Schwabauer said. "They're a married couple under California law. They're one entity. It's damage to community property."
The Associated Press
Court error leads to 46-year-long probation
SAN DIEGO — Jean Moore is finally off probation — after 46 years.
Moore was placed on probation in 1960 after pleading guilty to embezzling several thousand dollars from her La Jolla employer. She paid back the money over the next 20 years until a court in Colorado, where she had moved,
informed her she had satisfied the terms of her probation.
But word apparently never got back to San Diego and an arrest warrant was entered into the system in 1979.
The warrant sat unnoticed for 27 years, until January, when Moore's Social Security benefits were abruptly cut off. Federal law stops payments to people with active arrest warrants.
With help from a lawyer, a Superior Court judge rescinded the warrant on Monday.
BURTON, Ohio — The community that bills itself as Pancake Town USA doesn't like flapjacks enough to paint
— The Associated Press
Pancake Town, USA,
won't paint flapjacks
a stack of them on the local water tower.
The Village Council turned down the proposal Monday night, calling it too tacky.
Chamber of Commerce president Marie Lovas made the proposal, saying it was appropriate considering an estimated 20,000 people crowd into the northeast Ohio village on weekends in March — the end of syrup-making season
just to eat pancakes.
Mayor Nick Fischbach originally said he would support the project if donations covered the cost but changed his mind after residents complained about the idea.
"We don't want a carnival atmosphere," Fischbach said. "It's just a little too sideshow for our tastes."
Lovas hopes the council will
reconsider.
"How they can't see the vision, I don't understand," he said.
The Associated Press
Dead incumbent beats living opponent easily
SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. — Voters in the town of Bisbee stuck by their incumbent city councilman — even though he died nine days before the election.
Bob Kasun easily defeated Jeff Harris on Tuesday by a margin of 246 to 83. The 79-year-old four-term councilman died March 6 of lymphoma and renal failure. His funeral was Monday.
Councilwoman Luche Giacomino said, "I am just tickled to death that Bob won."
- The Associated Press
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