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THE UNIVERSITY HAILY KANSAN
NEWS
WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 21, 2007
SHROVE TUESDAY
US reclaims pancake title
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LIBERAL — A southwest Kansas high school student won the annual trans-Atlantic pancake race Tuesday, beating the winner of the English leg of the race by more than 10 seconds.
Jessica Lash, an 18-year old Liberal High School student racing for the first time, won the race with a time of 1 minute. 3.1 seconds.
Jane Hughes, 42, won the English leg of the annual race on Shrove Tuesday, crossing the finish line of the 41.5-yard (379-meter) course in 1 minute, 13.5 seconds.
Michelle McNabb and Chrissy Davis finished second and third, respectively, in the Liberal race that included a field of 12.
Lashs time was just a few tenths of a second faster than the winning time in Olney last year, when Andrea Rawlins won in 1 minute, 3.76 seconds, snapping a string
of seven straight victories for the United States.
Nearing the finish line. Lash and McNabb were in a dead heat, with griddles and pancakes still in tow.
"It it feels good. The race was exhilarating, it was a fun race." Lash told the Southwest Daily Times after crossing the finishing line, appearing not to have been winded by the run.
The Shrove Tuesday cake race is a tradition between the women of Olney, 50 miles (80 kilometers) northwest of London, and their counterparts in Kansas.
"I just never even dreamt it," Hughes said, panting with hands on hips after winning the English leg. "You hear all about the pancake race; I never dreamt about winning."
According to legend, the pancake race began in 1455 when a rushed Olney housewife ran to Shrove Tuesday church services still carrying a pancake in a frying pan.
Liberal asked to make the race an
international friendly competition in 1950 and now leads the series 32-25.
To participate in the race, women must be at least 18, wear traditional housewife garb — an apron, a long skirt and a head covering — and run from the Olney market place to the town church.
Shrove Tuesday, widely known as Pancake Day in Britain, marks the last day of merrymaking before the start of Lent. Christians traditionally consider pancakes to be a good way to indulge in the excesses they are supposed to forgo during the fasting period.
Hughes beat 13 other runners on a rain-sliced course.
She said she didn't train for the race this year and entered because she thought it would be fun. She's a member of an Olney runners club, but she said she trains for distance running, not sprints.
》 COURTS
Tyson suit moves forward
BY RICHARD GIBSON ASSOCIATED PRESS
DES MOINES, Iowa — A federal district judge ruled in favor of workers at a Tyson Foods Inc. beef-processing plant seeking payment for time spent putting on and removing safety gear for work.
A similar case was filed against the company in Sioux City, Iowa, earlier this month.
Springdale, Ark-based Tyson, the world's largest meat packer, sought summary judgments blocking the compensation claims, first brought by employees at the Holcomb, Kan, facility last May.
Tyson now pays knife-wielding workers for four minutes to doan and doff special protective clothing, but the current lawsuit would also cover employees who are required to wear items such as hair nets, hard hats, gloves and earplugs.
In ruling in the Kansas matter
on Friday, U.S. District Judge John W. Lungsrum rejected Tyson's motion, clearing the way for the plaintiffs to seek class-action status.
The judge noted that while the Fair Labor Standards Act "typically requires employers to pay their employees for all time spent working on their behalf", Congress never precisely defined "work," leaving it up to the courts to determine that on a case-by-case basis.
While Tyson attorneys contended that a 1994 case, Reich v. IBP Inc., determined that donning and doffing protective clothing wasn't work, the judge disagreed. He wrote that if the court in that case were to revisit the issue, it would analyze it differently considering subsequent cases, particularly one, titled IBP Inc. v. Alvarez in 2005.
In that case, the Supreme Court ruled that any activity that is "integral and indispensable" to a "principal activity", or work situation, is compensable. Judge Lungstrum concluded.
He also left open whether four minutes was adequate time to put on and remove special protective clothing and gear worn by those who use cleavers and knives on the assembly line.
"We're disappointed with the decision and are carefully considering our options," Tyson spokesman Gary Mickelson said in an e-mail. "We continue to believe we are paying all our people appropriately."
George Hanson, a lawyer for the Holcomb plant plaintiffs, said the next step is to file for class-action certification. He said more than 800 workers have indicated they wish to join the lawsuit, titled Adelina Garcia et al. v. Tyson Foods Inc. and Tyson Fresh Meats Inc.
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