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2A / NEWS / FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity."
William Allen White
Air contains about a billion trillion atoms per cubic inch.
Friday, August 27, 2010
FACT OF THE DAY
- qi.com
A walk through history
Video by Chris Bronson/KANSAN
View a slideshow of the Quantril walking tour to commemorate the victims of the raid.
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Mike Getto, assistant KU football coach from 1929-1939 and 1947-1950, took the Jayhawk back to his hometown of Jeannette, Pa., where it was adopted by the high school and remains its mascot to this day.
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What's going on?
FRIDAY
August 27
Student Union Activities will be hosting "Tunes at Noon," a free concert with Down with Gravity, from 12 to 1 p.m. on the plaza outside the Kansas Union.
The Department of Theatre will be hosting "The Trojan Women," a restaging of the KU Summer Theatre in Greece production, at 7:30 p.m. in the William Inge Memorial Theatre of Murphy Hall.
SATURDAY August 28
The Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies will be hosting "50 Years of Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies in the American Heartland;" a conference, all day in the Kansas Union.
Student Union Activities will be hosting its annual SUA Carnival from 8 p.m. to midnight in the Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center parking lot.
TUESDAY
August 31
SUNDAY August 29
The Dole Institute of Politics will be hosting a talk, "Neutral Ground: Congress Should Enact Cap and Trade Legislation," at 7:30 p.m. at the institute.
The Department of Theatre will be hosting "The Trojan Women", a restaging of the KU Summer Theatre in Greece production, at 7:30 p.m. in the William Inge Memorial Theatre of Murphy Hall.
WEDNESDAY
MONDAY
September 1
August 30
The Department of English will be hosting a lecture, "From Mississippi (1964) to the Heath Anthology;" at 7:30 p.m. in the Alderson Auditorium at the Kansas Union. Admission is free.
The Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Graduate Studies will be hosting a conference, "Biosecurity: Our Regional and National Response," from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Kansas City Convention Center in Kansas City, Mo.
THURSDAY
September 2
Student Union Activities will be hosting "Tea at Three" from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union. Tea and cookies are free.
STUDENT SENATE
Questions sought for student body president
Student Body President Michael Wade Smith has emphasized one thing to expect from Student Senate this semester: accountability. That's the topic of Saturday's interview with Smith and Student Body Vice President Megan Ritter. Please e-mail question suggestions to Kansan Reporter Michael Holtz at mholtz@kansan.com for a chance to have them asked during the interview. Submissions are due by noon Saturday and must include student's name, hometown, major and year in school.
Smith
Ritter
ODD NEWS
Truck flips, releases sheep onto highway
KNOWLTON, N.J. — Traffic is flowing again on Interstate 80 in New Jersey after a truck carrying sheep overturned and set scores of them loose.
The sheep were on their way to a slaughterhouse when they were tossed out of the overturned tractor-trailer near the New Jersey-Pennsylvania line.
It took about four hours before both eastbound lanes reopened through Knowlton.
Unkown prankster fakes shark sighting
SOMERSET, Mass. — A practical joker in Massachusetts has taken advantage of recent shark sightings and caused a scare with a fake fin.
Police say about 50 people were drawn to a Somerset, Mass., cove on Wednesday night after someone reported seeing a shark fin in the water. Police tell the Herald News of Fall River that several 911 calls came in to Somerset and Swansea police.
Responding officers soon realized that the "shark" was just a piece of Styrofoam cut into a fin shape, wrapped in gray duct tape and weighted down.
There was no word on who pulled the prank.
Several Massachusetts beaches have been closed this summer after shark sightings.
Shoplifters caught during police event
PORTLAND, Ore. — Two men arrested in Oregon for shoplifting during a "Shop With a Cop" event for school children initially
thought it was a bad time for stealing — with more than 60 uniformed officers on scene.
But Portland Sgt. Pete Simpson says the two gave it some more thought and decided police would be distracted so it would be a good time to steal.
They were wrong.
Simpson says security watched the two young men packing their own backpacks with blenders, shoes, clothes and tools while officers helped children pick out supplies for the school year.
The two were then arrested.
Associated Press
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