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"To be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome our fear, you must deal with the best."
Barry Bonds
2. Adidas contract provides more than Nike
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fact of the day
Alex Popov, who caught Barry Bonds' record-setting 73rd home run in 2001, sold the ball for $225,000. However, he spent $47,350 on legal fees to claim ownership of it, meaning he lost money by catching the ball.
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4. Alternative Reality
5. The Wright Stuff
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BY RACHEL BURCHFIELD
Did you know that the Bulldog was originally the University's mascot, not the jayhawk? Or that there are 31 lost and found sites on campus?
"There's never a dull moment, and I'm always meeting someone new" he said.
Kris Morford knows all of this and more as a student assistant at the KU Info booth, located on the fourth floor in the Kansas Union.
"I love my job" Morford said. "KU Info is the coolest job in the world. I learn something new and interesting every week."
"Alumni still call a lot," he said, "It's not as popular with our generation, but it is held very high with the alumni. It has a deep history. It's nice to be a part of the KU Info staff in that regard."
Mortford, a Patchinson senior in biology, has worked at KU since 1952.
it returned to the Kansas Union in March 2006. He logs 10 hours per week at the booth, where he handles walk-ups, phone calls and e-mails about anything and everything University related. Morford said KU Info dealt with roughly 200 questions per day.
Morford said he got about five random calls per day, where callers typically asked for drink specials at bars or, if it was a cold day, whether class had been canceled. More often, Morford is asked to transfer callers to other University departments or local Lawrence businesses.
Though KU Info has fundamentally the same purpose as it did many years ago, as technology has changed, so has the program. KU Info now offers a daily tip in The
Mortford also occasionally received calls from alumni, who still remember KU Info's phone number — 864-3506 — which hasn't changed since KU Info's creation in the 1970s.
University Daily Kansan. Daily tips can also be e-mailed to students. They can sign up for this feature at the Kyou Portal.
Mortford himself has benefited from the services of KU Info. If it weren't for the program, he said, he might not know all of the deadlines that he needed to meet before graduating in May. Before Mortford was a staff member, he called KU Info himself to get answers to questions.
"My favorite part of the job is helping people get through their college experience," he said. "It's nice to give people a helping hand and help them along the way. I like to provide people with what they need while at the same time learning new things about campus that I normally wouldn't know if it weren't for KU Info."
Students can seek answers to their questions by visiting, calling or e-mailing KU Info every weekday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Edited by Ryan Schneider
CAMPUS Low blood sugar leads to student's dizzy spells
A KU Public Safety officer was called to the fourth floor of the Dole Human Development Center, south of Watson Library, at 11 Tuesday morning because a female student was having dizzy spells. The student told the officer that her blood sugar had dropped and was examined by medical rescue units. The student declined further treatment and was released.
— Erick R. Schmidt
March of the Elephants
Fire patrol units responded to an alarm at the Art and Design Building, west of Budig Hall, Tuesday morning. Alarms began sounding at 9:55 and units arrived at 10:05. Capt. James King said the alarm was a result of construction workers using heat directly under a detector. The alarm was the third reported incident on campus in the past five days.
Construction workers trigger fire alarm
- Erick R. Schmidt
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Alex Vargas, trainer for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, gets the elephants ready for their half-mile march from Carlstadt, N.J., to the Continental Airlines Arena in EAST Rutherford, N.J., on Tuesday. The circus opens at the arena today.
What do you think?
BY JASON BAKER
GRANT NOBLE
Olathe sophomore
"I would go to Japan to ride the world's largest roller coaster and teach English."
Humboldt sophomore
"I would want to go to Tahiti to study Tahitian dance."
KATIE WEBER
What would be your ideal study abroad session?
RACHEL RYAN Shawnee freshmar
"I really would want to do the business program in italy."
NICK LALIM
Bloomington, Minn., freshman "italy, because I like the culture and the food. And I always wanted to go there; it'd be a cool place to study.
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Takao Shibato. Consul-General of Japan, will present a Diplomat's Forum lecture at noon at 104 Green Hall.
Former football coach Don Fambrough, author of "The Three Little Jayhawks," will be in Oread Books from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Kansas Union.
Carolyn Johnson, physician at Watkins Memorial Health Center, will present an HPV presentation at 7 p.m. at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union.
Graduate students will debate "Should the State Fund Stem Cell Research?" at 7:30 p.m. in the Dole Institute of Politics.
lawrence Downtown construction to begin in April
Construction on new waterlines along Massachusetts Street should begin in April after the Lawrence City Commission set a date Tuesday night to begin taking bids from construction contractors.
The city will begin taking bids March 27. The project will cost about $2 million, according to an estimate by BG Consultants.
After construction begins in April, it will take a break for the University's commencement ceremony May 20 before continuing through early September.
During the summer stage of construction, Massachusetts Street from Ninth to 11th streets will become one-way, and parking will be eliminated along one side of the street.
Matt Erickson
correction
Tuesday's The University Daily Kansan contained an error. In the article "University, shop to contest T-shirts," the quote, "We believe that KU is misusing the trademark law in an attempt to monopolize the right to use these ideas," should have been attributed to Larry Sinks' attorney, Bill Skepnek.
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Daylight-saving time is this Sunday, almost a month earlier than usual. The change comes from the Energy Policy Act of 2005, in an attempt to decrease energy costs by taking advantage of early-even sunshine.
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