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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist,but in the ability to start over."
— Francis Scott Fitzgerald
FACT OF THE DAY
Wrigley's gum was the first product with a bar code to be scanned at a supermarket.
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FRIDAY September 3
Student Union Activities will host "Tunes at Noon" with musical guest Sam Biller from noon to 1 p.m. outside the Kansas Union.
SATURDAY September 4
Student Union Activities will be sponsoring a bus ride to the Kansas City Crossroads District, departing at 5 p.m. from the Kansas Union. Interested students should pick up tickets from the SUA box office by Aug. 27. Tickets are $2 with a KUID.
- Student Union Activities will host the "Hawk Zone Student Tailgate" outside Memorial Campanile for members of the Hawk Zone/ Jr. Williams Fund. Membership is $25.
SUNDAY September 5
Student Union Activities will host free cosmic bowling from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. in the Jaybowl, on the first floor of the Kansas Union.
There will be a carillon concert from 5 to 5:30 p.m. at Memorial Campanile.
TUESDAY September 7
MONDAY September 6
The Lawrence Farmers' market will run from 4 to 6 p.m. at 1020 Vermont St.
Labor Day
WEDNESDAY September 8
Rosh Hashanah begins.
The University Advising Center is hosting a pre-law informational meeting from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
THURSDAY September 9
Eid Al-Fitr
Student Union Activities will host a free outdoor concert with local band Right of Way from noon to 1 p.m. outside the Kansas Union.
CAMPUS
Groups will introduce recycling for tailgaters
"It's all about the environment for us," said Nick Benson, a sophomore from Orlando, Fla., and an officer and coordinator of KU Environs. "Not only are we recycling, but also helping out local businesses."
KU Environs and Cans for the Community are teaming up with KU Athletics this football season to promote recycling at tailgates near Memorial Stadium.
The groups will hand out recycling bags in which tailgaters can place their empty aluminum cans. Volunteers will make several rounds throughout the parking lots surrounding Memorial Stadium during game day to distribute bags and collect cans.
KU Environs wants to eventually reach out to the neighbors around Memorial Stadium and include them in the program. The volunteers said they hoped to collect 1,000 pounds of aluminum cans from each home game.The 12th & Haskell Recycle Center, 1146 Haskell Ave., will buy the donated cans and the money from the sales will go to local charities.
Samantha Collins
NATIONAL
East Coast readies for hurricane
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
NEW YORK — Hurricane Earl, still a dangerous Category 3 storm, closed in on the North Carolina coast Thursday, prompting warnings and evacuation orders as the region braced for heavy rains and a dangerous storm surge.
Meteorologist predict the eye of the hurricane will hug the East Coast but remain at sea over the next few days, with the Middle Atlantic's outermost islands and New England's Cape Cod likely to take the worst lashing.
"The center of Earl will pass near the North Carolina Outer Banks tonight and be very near southeastern New England Friday night," the National Weather Service said Thursday, describing it as "a large and powerful" hurricane.
The weather service has issued a hurricane warning for communities from Bogue Inlet, N.C., to the North Carolina-Virginia border. Officials in some of North Carolina's seaside communities have issued evacuation orders aimed primarily at the thousands of visitors that would normally crowd beaches there for the Labor Day weekend.
A hurricane watch remained in effect from the North Carolina-Virginia border to Cape Henlopen, Del., and parts
of Massachusetts, including Plymouth,
Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard.
The North Carolina coastline from Cape Fear to west of Bogue Inlet was under a tropical-storm warning, which also extended north of the North Carolina-Virginia border to Sandy Hook, N.J., and to the coast of Long Island, N.Y., from Fire Island inlet to Port Jefferson Harbor.
The weather service is also predicting a "dangerous storm surge will raise water levels as much as three to five feet above ground level within both warning areas and the lower Chesapeake Bay"
The surge will be "accompanied by large and destructive waves", it added.
Airlines serving the region — such as American, US Airways, JetBlue and AirTran — waived their fees for customers that want to change their itineraries.
"We will continue to monitor the track of the hurricane and communicate any additional operational impact in the morning, but at this time we have no delays or cancels planned for further up the East Coast," a Delta representative said.
Continental canceled 50 regional departures in the Northeast and Delta said it canceled five flights to North Carolina and Virginia.
heart was packing winds of 115 mph, according to a Thursday afternoon advisory from the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
A Category 3 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale is capable of causing "devastating damage" to structures, trees and power lines. There is also "a high risk of injury or death to people, livestock and pets due to flying and falling debris," the center said. "Nearly all older (pre-1994) mobile homes will be destroyed."
Earl had been upgraded to a Category 4 this week, but has begun to gradually weaken.
The storm continued to move north at 18 miles an hour, the hurricane center said, and was about 245 miles off Cape Hatteras, N.C., and 720 miles from Nantucket, Mass. as of 2 p.m. Eastern time Thursday.
Gov. Bob McDonnell declared a state of emergency Wednesday in Virginia.
"The current forecast has Hurricane Earl passing east of Virginia later this week. However, a change in the storm's path could bring hazardous weather conditions to eastern Virginia," he said. "This declaration is a precautionary move which will allow state agencies to be ready just in case resources are needed."
ODD NEWS
Police arrest trespasser calling 911 from hot tub
BEAVERTON, Ore. — A homeless man who called 911 from the hot tub of a suburban Portland home and asked for towels, hot chocolate and a hug got arrested for trespassing instead.
Beaverton police say Mark Eskelsen called 911 from his cell phone, identified himself as "the sheriff of Washington County," and asked for medical help. He later admitted he wasn't the sheriff but informed the dispatcher he'd been "yelling for about an hour and a half."
The man said in his Sunday morning call that he'd been in the water about 10 hours and his towels had gotten wet.
Christina Schuler's 8-pound,11-ounce son was born Tuesday in the front seat of the family's truck. Her husband stopped less than a mile from their hospital in southwest Ohio's Clermont County.
BETHEL, Ohio — For a second time, an Ohio woman has given birth to a baby who couldn't wait and arrived on the drive to the hospital.
Ohio woman gives birth in car for a second time
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