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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underground."
— Samuel Butler
FACT OF THE DAY
Thomas Anderson (1819-74) was the first person to discover what turnips are made of.
— Friday, September 24, 2010
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One hundred thirty one years ago, Rutherford B. Hayes became the only sitting U.S. president to visit KU and give a speech on campus. He was our 19th president.
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What's going on?
FRIDAY September 24
Student Union Activities will host Tunes at Noon, featuring Quiet Corral, from noon to 1 p.m. on the Plaza outside of the Kansas Union.
Student Union Activities will show the movie "Sex and the City 2" at 8 p.m. in the Woodruff Auditorium at the Kansas Union.
SATURDAY
September 25
September 25
Former KU quarterback Todd Reesing will sign copies of his new book in the KU Bookstores at the Kansas Union from 3:30 to 5 p.m.
Student Union Activities will host free Cosmic Bowling from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. in Jaybowl at the Kansas Union.
TUESDAY
September 28
SUNDAY September 26
The School of Music will host the KU Symphony Orchestra from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Lied Center. Tickets cost $5.
There will be a carillon concert from 5 to 5:30 p.m. at the Memorial Campanile.
The KU School of Music Student Recital Series will feature Zach Bachert and Justin Davidson on alto sax from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall at Murphy Hall.
WEDNESDAY September 29
KU Army ROTC and the School of Engineering will host Race Day at the Burge! from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Burge Union parking lot.
MONDAY September 27
Ben Eggleston, professor of philosophy, will lead a "Lunch and Conversation" session on managing grade expectations, which will focus on helping students appreciate the realities of grade distributions in large classes from noon to 1 p.m. in Room 135 at Budig Hall
THURSDAY
THURSDAY September 30
SUA to show Toy Story 3 at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union from 8 to 10 p.m. Pickets are free with Student Saver Card, $2 with valid KU ID and $3 for the general public.
ODD NEWS
Woman fights off bear with zucchini
The woman suffered minor scratches and one of her dogs was wounded after tussling with the 200-pound bear.
HELENA, Mont. — A Montana woman fended off a bear trying to muscle its way into her home Thursday by pelting the animal with a large piece of zucchini from her garden.
The attack happened just after midnight when the woman let her three dogs into the backyard for their nighttime ritual before she headed to bed, Missola County Sheriff's Lt. Rich Maricelli said. Authorities believe the black bear was just 25 yards away, eating apples from a tree.
Two of the dogs sensed the bear, began barking and ran away. Maricellli said. The third dog, a 12-year-old collie that wasn't very mobile, remained close to the woman as she stood in the doorway of the home near Frenchtown in western Montana.
Before she knew what was happening, the bear was on top of the dog and batting the colli back and forth, Maricelli said.
"She kicked the bear with her left leg as hard as she could, and she said she felt like she caught it pretty solidly under the chin" Maricelli said.
But as she kicked, the bruin swiped at her leg with its paw and ripped her jeans.
The bear then turned its full attention to the woman in the doorway. She retreated into the house and tried to close the door, but the bear stuck its head and part of a shoulder through the doorway.
The woman held onto the door with her right hand. With her left, she reached behind and grabbed a zucchini that she had picked from her garden earlier and was sitting on the kitchen counter, Maricelli said.
She threw the vegetable. It bopped the braun on the top of its head and the animal fled, Maricelli said.
CAMPUS
Arts center holds dance fundraiser
Those two words, spoken by Chuck Berg before his flute performance of "Over the Rainbow," encapsulated the night.
"For Janet."
Berg was one of 15 musicians and dancers who appeared Thursday night in "Mad for Dance," a fundraiser hosted by the department of dance at the Lawrence Art Center. The
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event was dedicated to Janet Hamburg, a former dance professor who died on Sept. 4 in New York City.
Hamburg
The fundraiser raised more than $4,000 in scholarship money for the department. Students, colleagues and friends of Hamburg, 189 people in total, attended the event.
"Her legacy lives on in all of us who were touched by her," said Berg, a film and media studies professor who knew Hamburg for more than 30 years." "It may be a cliche, but I can't help but think she was up there looking down."
"It's amazing how many people came out for tonight's performance," said Michelle Heffner Hayes, chairwoman for the department of dance.
"I think tonight is the first moment of joy for a lot of us because we haven't had a chance to gather as a group."
Hayes said Hamburg had been a "passionate fund raiser for scholarships" during her 30 years at the University of Kansas.
"We've all been devastated since she passed away," Hayes said. "The fact that we're gathering for her favorite cause in the whole world, I think, is pretty significant."
Had Hamburg been there,
said Kara Vaglio, her former student assistant, she'd be smiling.
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Mid-term elections are right around the corner, so it's time to register in order to have a voice in the election process.
SLAB to register voters in Union
CAMPUS
Students can also register in their home districts or states and have an advance ballot sent to them. The last day to register in Kansas for the upcoming elections is Oct. 18. The election is on Nov. 2.
The Student Legislative Awareness Board will host weekly voter registration every Thursday and Friday until Oct. 18, which is the last day to register in Kansas. Students can find SLAB's voter registration tables during Tea Time on Thursdays in the Kansas Union at 3 p.m. and on Fridays during Tunes at Noon in front of the Union. The Dole Institute Advisory Board will also host voter registration on Wescoe Beach in the upcoming weeks before the deadline.
"Registering is only part one of the process. Remember to educate yourself on the issues and candidates and then vote on Nov. 2."
"It never hurts to register again," Earles said.
Alex Earles, legislative director and chairman of the board, said the goal of these registration events is to give all students the
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Students can register with their Lawrence address. He said students should register if they have moved in the past two years, or are unsure of where they registered.
"Politicians are making decisions about our futures and we should care and elect those that make the best decisions for our futures," Earles, a senior from Salina, said.
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