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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic."
Andy Warhol
FACT OF THE DAY
Los Angeles employs more judges than the whole of France, and contains more cars than people.
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Nine freshman students made perfect scores on their ACT or SAT
Band of the week
Kansan Reporter Nicolas Roesler interviews Son Venezuela in his ongoing weekly series.
SUA offers $2 movies shown at the Kansas Union. Quite a wide variety: this week is Toy Story 3 and next week is Predators. Check suaevents.com.
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What's going on?
TODAY October 1
SUA will show 'Toy Story 3' at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union from 8 to 10 p.m. Tickets are free with a Student Saver Card, S2 with a valid KU ID and S3 for the general public.
KU Hillel will sponsor a Shabbat Dinner from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Burge Union.
SATURDAY October 2
- SUA will show "Toy Story 3" at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union from 8 to 10 p.m. Tickets are free with a Student Saver Card, $2 with a valid KUID and $3 for the general public.
The School of Music will host a faculty recital at 7:30 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
SUNDAY October 3
TUESDAY
Dr. Berghout will perform from 5 to 5:30 p.m. at the Campanile.
October 5
KU and Kansas NSF EPSCoR will host a regional National Science Foundation workshop from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union.
October 6
WEDNESDAY
KU School of Music will present the KU Wind Ensemble at 7:30 p.m.in the Dole Institute of Politics.
MONDAY October 4
Nancy Kwan will be available for a question-and answer session about her life and career.The session will include excerpts from her documentary,"To Whom It May Concern: Ka Shen's Journey".The event will take place from 9 to 10 a.m. in Oldfather Studios, Room 100.
THURSDAY
October 7
SUA will host B.o.B in concert at the Lied Center from 9 to 1 1:30 p.m. To check ticket availability and prices, call 785-864-2787.
CORRECTION
ODD NEWS
In Thursday's article, "Campus response plan is effective." Lawrence Police Department's Sgt. Matt Sarna's last name was incorrectly spelled "Saran."
Thieves rob house and get away clean
The first robbery on Sept. 20 occurred late at night when a homeowner confronted two men trying
ELOY, Ariz. — The Pinal County Sheriff's Office said in two recent burglaries, thieves entered homes, made a mess, stole things and even took showers.
to steal food and water.
The burglar got away but scattered food and water around the house. The homeowner also discovered they had showered.
No arrests have been made.
Tuesday morning, deputies responded to another Eloy residence. The homeowner told deputies thieves stole a knife and food and once again used the shower.
Associated Press
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THE BOLLYWOOD DANCE PROJECT AT KU
IS A NEW STUDENT ORGANIZATION RECENTLY FORMED AT KU. BOLLYWOOD DANCE STYLE IS PRIMARILY BASED IN THE SOUTH ASIAN CULTURE AND THIS CLUB WOULD BE THE FIRST CATERING TO TEACH AT KU.
FRIDAY. OCTOBER 1ST 8:30PM AT THE KU RECREATION CENTER
WE ARE ORGANIZING OUR FIRST MAJOR EVEN ON KU CAMPUS: A WORKSHOP TEACHING A STEP BY STEP SIMPLE ROUTINE. THE EVENT IS OPEN FOR ALL WITH NO DANCE EXPERIENCE NECESSARY TO JOIN.
STUDENT SENATE
Last week, Tyler Clementi, a shy, 18-year-old Rutgers University freshman and gifted violist, jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge after his roommate and another classmate allegedly used a webcam to secretly broadcast his dorm-room sexual encounters with another man. The two classmates have been charged with invasion of privacy, with the most serious charges carrying up to five years in prison.
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five years in prison. The suicide shocked and disturbed gay rights activists and others on campus.
Social networks blur line between public and private
Cruel gossip and vengeful acts once confined to the schoolyard or the dorm can now make their way around the world instantly via the Internet, along with photos and live video.
others on campus.
"Had he been in bed with a woman, this would not have happened," said Rutgers student Lauren Felton, 21, of Warren, N.J.
"He wouldn't have been outed via
PISCATAWAY, N.J. - The shocking suicide of a college student whose sex life was broadcast over the Web illustrates yet again the Internet's alarming potential as a means of tormenting others and raises questions whether young people in the age of Twitter and Facebook can even distinguish public from private.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
"It's just a matter of when the next suicide's going to hit, when the next attack's going to hit," said Parry Aftab, a New Jersey lawyer who runs the website WiredSafety.
Aftab said young people who would never bully someone face to face do it online in part because of the often-false sense of anonymity that the Internet provides.
Gregory Jantz, founder of A Place of Hope, a Seattle mental health care center, said young people who use the Internet to spread something damaging about others often don't realize how hurtful it can be because many of them have grown up in a world that has blurred the line between public and private.
"Our kids are in a different zone now," Jantz said.
The Associated Press found at least 12 cases in the U.S. since 2003 in which children and young adults between 11 and 18 killed themselves after falling victim to some form of "cyberbullying" — teasing, harassing or intimidating with pictures or words distributed online or via text message.
In probably the best-known case, 13-year-old Megan Meier of Daddenne Prairie, Mo., hanged herself in 2006 after she received messages on MySpace — supposedly from a teenage boy — cruelly dumping her. An adult neighbor was later found guilty of taking part in the hoax, but the conviction was overturned.
an online broadcast, and his privacy would have been respected and he might still have his life."
In Clementi's case, prosecutors said that his roommate, Dharun Ravi of Plainsboro, N.J., and Molly Wei of Princeton, N.J., both 18-year-old freshmen, transmitted a live image of Clementi having sex on Sept. 19 and that Ravi tried to webcast a second encounter on Sept. 21, the day before Clementi's suicide. Lawyers for Ravi and Wei did not return calls.
out with a doctor.
Prosecutor Bruce J. Kaplan said in a statement: "We will be making every effort to assess whether bias played a role in the incident, and, if so, we will bring appropriate charges."
Ravi posted a message on his now-closed Twitter account on Sept. 19: "Roommate asked for the room till midnight. I went into molly's room and turned on my webcam. I saw him making out with a dude, Yay."
ate charges. A lawyer for Clementi's family did not respond to requests for comment on whether Clementi had come out to friends and family about his sexual orientation He also said the family had no comment.
Earlier this year, 17-year-old Alexis Pilkington of West Islip, N.Y., who had landed a college soccer scholarship, killed herself after receiving a stream of nasty messages.
"They'll also jump on because they don't want to be the next target," Aftab said.
Luanne Peterpaul, vice chairwoman of the gay rights group Garden State Equality and a former New Jersey prosecutor, said authorities might be able to pursue the case as a hate crime under state law if they are able to establish that the defendants acted because they believed Clementi was gay.
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