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"May you get to heaven a half hour before the devil knows you're dead."
— an Irish toast
The odds of Oral Roberts to win the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, as determined by odymaker Danny Sheridan, are 5,000,000,000,000 0,000,000,000 to 1. That's 5 trillion billion to 1 or 5 sextillion to 1.
Bonus fact: Las Vegas oddsmakers have Kansas as 25 to 1 to win it all.
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1. Photo gallery: Cataloging the damage
2. After the storm
3. Lawrence ravaged by morning storm
4. Storm wreaks havoc on Lawrence
5. Campus damage totals $6 million
BY ANDREA CHAO
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KANSAN CORRESPONDENT
While many college students will be hitting the beach or just taking it easy for spring break, freshmen Robbie Gordy will be participating in an Alternative Spring Break promoting cancer awareness. Gordy is from Omaha, Neb., and is involved in a variety of student organizations. He was a National Merit scholar, loves Disney movies and says he has a "wild imagination."
RG: Theater, music and choir.
I like to cook and play the piano.
What are some of your interests and hobbies?
What is your major? RG: Undecided.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 2006
What are your Spring Break plans?
How did you get involved with the Alternative Spring Break program?
RG: I will be in Denver, Colo. at the American Cancer Research Center.
tients and spreading awareness
RG: I saw a poster in my dorm.
It seemed like a good thing to do. I normally don't have a lot of time to volunteer with classes and stuff. It should be a good time.
RG: It's not set in stone, but probably making rounds with doctors and nurses, working with pa-
What will you be doing there?
Are you involved in any student activities or clubs?
RG: I am in two choirs: the KU Men's Glee Club and the Oread. I am involved in CUSA, which is the College Committee on Undergraduate Studies and Advising. I am one of four student representatives. We work with faculty on and decide on things like major requirements and educational goals.
ODD NEWS Plumbing mishap turns water faucet to beer tap
What is your favorite movie?
What is your favorite movie?
RG: Dances with Wolves. Pretty much any Disney movie.
OSLO, Norway — It almost seemed like a miracle to Haldis Gundersen when she turned on her kitchen faucet and found the water had turned into beer.
Two flights down, employees and customers at the Big Tower Bar were horrified when water poured out of the beer taps.
How would you describe yourself?
RG: I am easy going. I am an only child, and I tend to have a wild imagination. I like to have a good time.
— Edited by Lindsey St. Clair
Mike Dorer/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
By an improbable feat of clumsy plumbing, someone at the bar in Kristiandsund, in western Norway, had accidentally hooked the beer hoses to
Mmm, cookies!
the water pipes for Gundersen's apartment.
"We had settled down for a cozy Saturday evening, had a nice dinner, and I was just going to clean up a little." Gundersen, 50, said Monday. "I turned on the kitchen faucet and beer came out."
Girl Scout Lynn Sangiacomo, center, holds a handful of postal meter strips to be attached to boxes of Girl Scout cookies that were mailed to the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq from Montville, N.J., Tuesday. The Girl Scouts of Troop 580 in Montville asked for donations from their community to pay for the 1,500 boxes of cookies. The local Kiwanis Club donated the postage.
Gundersen said the beer was flat and not tempting, even in a country where a halfpint can cost about $3.75 in grocery stores.
"The water and beer pipes do touch each other, but you
Per Egil Myrvang of the local beer distributor said he instructed bartenders by telephone how to reconnect the pipes.
have to be really creative to connect them together," he said.
The Associated Press
Man hopes to find bride while selling townhouse
GREENSBURG, Pa. - Mark R. Miller hopes some female homebuyer is looking for a unique feature: him.
Miller has been running ads in newspapers and on the Web
The 47-year-old says he's been too busy to get married. He helps parents find missing children through his charity, the American Association for Lost Children.
site http://www.townhousewithgroom.com for his town house, which includes a wooden deck, air conditioning and gas log fireplace. The asking price is $95,000.
"I'd like to be married, and I was going to sell (the town house) on my own, so I thought, why not put the two together?" Miller said.
Miller came up with the idea after reading about a woman who sold her home through a "house with bride" marketing campaign. Any deal is subject to compatibility, his ad says.
Miller said he will donate to his charity any profit after satisfying the mortgage.
- The Associated Press
Rider didn't think he was speeding that much
LIVINGSTON, La. - A motorcyclist was booked for reckless operation of a vehicle after state troopers clocked him at 155 mph.
Brian Samuel Willis, 20, of Ponchatoula, also faces charges of flight from an officer and speeding, authorities said. The posted speed limit was 70 mph.
"He just said he didn't think he was going that fast and he didn't know we were behind him," Trooper Ryan Riley said. "He thought he was only doing 120 or 130."
The Associated Press
ON CAMPUS
The University Career Center is hosting a "Resume Doctor" workshop from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today in the lobby of the Kansas Union.
There is a lecture titled "Programs and Politics in Serving the Homeless in a Tough Environment" at 12 p.m. today at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center. An optional lunch is offered for $3 for students and $5.50 for others.
The "Stand Up Stand Off" finals are at 7 p.m. today at the Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
There is a performance of "The Will Rogers Follies, A Life in Revenue" at 7:30 p.m. today in the Lied Center. Tickets are $19.50-$22.50 for students and $33-$38 for others.
Wilfried Barner, University of Göttingen, is giving a lecture titled "From Ithaca to Troy: On Reading Modern Mythical Texts" at 7:30 p.m. today at the Max Kade Center.
ON THE RECORD
A 19-year-old female KU student reported that she had been the victim of domestic battery 6 p.m. Thursday at 420 W. 11th St.
NEWS Head-sized mango vies for spot in record book
KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii - A woman says she has grown the world's heaviest mango, a more than 5-pound tropical fruit that is roughly the size of a human head.
Colleen Porter has a certificate from the Guinness Book of World Records for her 5-pound, 7-ounce mango. The fruit is a Keitt mango, which typically reach 2 to 3 pounds.
Virginia Easton-Smith, West Hawaii agricultural extension agent for the University of Hawaii, who helped with the submission to Guinness, confirmed the record.
The fruit had to be weighed and documented two separate times by three people. Independent witnesses verified the weigh-ins.
Porter said she has been told a photograph of her mango is a "strong contender" to be included in Guinness next edition.
The mango was picked in mid-October and still sits in Porter's refrigerator.
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