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MONDAY, MARCH 13, 2006
"Quote of the Day"
"There is nothing I love as much as a good fight."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
F act of the Day
There are more possible chess game outcomes (10 to the 120th power, or a billion billion googol) than the estimated number of atoms in the universe (between 4 x 10 to the 78th power and 6 x 10 to the 17th power).
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this week in KU HISTORY
BY LISA TILSON
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march 13 - march 18
March 13, 1897 — The University of Kansas faculty and administration salaries were reduced when the legislature announced large funding cutbacks for the University.
March 17, 1942 — In the midst of Japanese-American deportation on the west coast, Chancellor Deane W. Malot invited Japanese-American college students to the University of Kansas. He said the deportation would seem, "utterly foolish" in the "light of later years."
March 17, 1960 — University of Kansas Chancellor Franklin D.
Murphy resigned from the University after a long feud with Governor George Docking. During Docking's 1956 campaign for governor, Murphy supported the opposing Republican candidate Warren W Shaw.
Murphy said, "Democrats can only promise to continue, or at most expand, Republican programs. This should be put to the electorate so constantly and so frequently that they cannot forget it."
equipment, library holdings and an expansion of the University's physical plant.
After Docking won the election, tension between him and Murphy grew. Docking did not approve of Murphy's vision for the future of KU, which called for a large investment from the state to improve faculty's salaries, research facilities, technological
Murphy believed the funds for the University were needed immediately and "lack of vision, shortsightedness, political infighting, at the expense of adequate investment in higher education could be devastating."
Docking thought any investment in the University should go directly to student education and was skeptical of allocating state funds to academic research. He believed museums, libraries and galleries were "luxuries."
The feud between Murphy and Docking continued in The Lawrence Journal-World, The University Daily Kansan, The Topeka Capital-Journal and Salina Journal. But on March 17, 1960, after 12 years at KU, Murphy announced he was leaving KU to take the job as chancellor at UCLA. That night, a dummy of Docking was hung and burned in the company of about 600 students.
The day after Murphy's resignation, more than 4,000 students
gathered in Hoch Auditoria to protest and show their disgust of the treatment Murphy had received from Governor Docking.
Murphy's colleagues at UCLA said "through countless private kindness, Franklin D. Murphy endeared himself to a legion of admirers around the world." Two campus facilities were named in Murphy's honor, Murphy Hall and Murphy Art and Architecture Library.
March 18, 1969 — Senator Robert F. Kennedy began his presidential campaign at the University of Kansas and Kansas State University. His speech on March 18 brought over 20,000 students to Allen Fieldhouse. KU students interrupted him 38 times during the course of his speech with applause.
One of the interruptions of applause was most likely after Kennedy surprisingly commented, "The more riots that come out of our college campuses, the better the world for tomorrow."
In a blaze of glory
A Hollywood film stunt man sitting atop a car in motion drives through a ball of fire as the stunt group shows its performance for the first time in China, at the Shanghai International Circuit, in Shanghai, east China, Sunday.
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CAMPUS Million dollar payout isn't for KU employee
KU employee Johnny Andris
won $5,000 on the TV show
"Who Wants to Be a Millionaire"
The show aired Friday on NBC.
Andris, a media relations assistant for the KU Athletics Department, was close to winning $16,000, but he got stumped by a question and used a life line to phone his dad. Because his dad wasn't sure of the answer, Andris decided to walk.
"Looking back, I wish I could've won more," he said. "I should've gone with my gut instead of walking away."
He would have won if he'd gone with his dad's answer. The question was: In 2005, a Russian astrologer filed a $300 million lawsuit against what U.S. agency for interfering with her horoscope? Out of Environmental Protection Agency, FBI, NASA and CIA, his dad gave the correct answer of NASA.
"I can't complain though, I still won money," he said. "I can't be disappointed."
Andris hasn't done anything with the money yet. He hopes to use some of it toward a trip to see the World Cup in Germany this summer. He wants to attend law school soon, but he said the money was not enough to put toward it.
— Kristen Jarboe
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SAN FRANCISCO — Emptying one's bladder in a public place is a crime, even if there is no specific law prohibiting the practice, a state appeals court ruled.
Ruling on an appeal brought by a Berkeley man who was
charged with cocaine possession after an officer stopped him mid-pitstop, the Court of the Appeal for the Second District said Wednesday that public urination is a crime that justified the officer's search of the man's pockets.
J. Anthony Kline wrote in an opinion.
"Urination on or near a busy commercial street interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of both life and property." Presiding Justice
Renter takes bizarre revenge on landlord
The officer arrested McDonald and while searching him allegedly found cocaine in the suspect's pocket.
ANTIOCH, Calif. — A man who was evicted from the house he rented for years
— five-gallon buckets of cookies, canned food, old batteries and puzzle pieces — on the lawn.
The homeowner, Ann Stevenson, said she rented the house to Lloyd Annesley and his partner, Margaret McCoy, with a subsidized rent as a favor to the longtime family
allegedly took revenge on his landlords by dumping the home's hoarded contents
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After McCoy died, Annesley learned he would have to move and his relatives helped him dump the debris before they abandoned the property last week.
Stevenson said she spent $4,000 to clean up the mess. Besides spoiled candy and food,the litter included handcuffs and Scrabble pieces.
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