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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY DECEMBER 5, 2006
quote of the day
"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."
— Kurt Vonnegut
fact of the day
One method used by actors to cry on cue is to simply not blink. By stiffening the muscles around the eyes, opening wide and resisting the temptation to close the eyelids, tears can be generated.
Source: actorpoint.com
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Principal faces legal action after hair-cut controversy
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A high school principal could be in trouble for taking one of his students to a barber shop — without permission of the pupil's parents.
"Students should not be taken off of campus by any staff member without parental permission," said Rigo Chavez, district spokesman.
Rio Grande High School Principal Al Sanchez said he thought Fidel Mandonado Jr's hair style
Hill Country half-style — the number "505" and a Zia symbol shaved into the back of his head — was a gang haircut. The Zia, a sun design on the state flag, can be traced to a symbol on a 19th century Zia Pueblo water jar. 505 is New Mexico's area code.
Sanchez said he thought he was doing Maldonado, 15, a favor by taking him to a barber instead of suspending him. I said, 'Do you want to just go to the barber and cut it off?' He said, 'Yeah. I said, 'Let's go.' Sanchez said.
But the barber, Jake Maestas, said he refused to cut the teenager's hair Thursday without parental permission and told the boy to call his father.
Fidel Maldonado Sr. said the law was broken when the principal took his son off campus. He said he is considering legal action." For him to take my son and take him out of
school without my consent, against his own will, is wrong," the elder Maldonado said.
He said his son is not a gang member and always has the design shaved on his head prior to a boxing match. "Before every fight, he puts that on to represent his state, and then after the fight he shaves his head," the elder Maldonado said.
John Walsh, an Albuquerque Police Department spokesman, said 505 is "associated with New Mexico and Albuquerque, sort of in the good sense."
"It was picked up by gang members and has been used in the peripheral sense, but we haven't seen a huge campaign", he said.
Cuss jar collects $120 from foul-mouthed employees
PORTAGE, Ind. — Employees in the city clerk's office are turning their colorful language into a little green.
Since July, workers have generated at $120 by finding themselves for using profanity in the office.
The money goes into a flower vase on Portage Clerk Ellen Mesich's desk, and eventually will go to buy gift cards to give to teen cancer patients at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Mesich had a niece who died of cancer last summer and was treated at the hospital.
Mesich started the foulmouthed fund drive.
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Earlplugs apparently won't do, so the College of Charleston has agreed to stop construction on a new building during final exams.
"One day I was noticing my mouth was a little foul, so I decided I should have a cuss jar," Mesch said.
Fines range from a penny to $1.50, except on Monday mornings, when there's a general amnesty because, after all, it's Monday morning. Some people use IOUs or pay in advance of stressful times.
oddly unique.
Paying the fines has made some workers more watchful of their words. "I've been catching myself more at home," Deputy Clerk-Treasurer Lynn Reed said.
Noise complaints delay construction during finals
Students had complained about the clang of a pile driver sinking columns for the new building and wanted construction halted during finals. The building is in the middle of campus near classroom buildings and dorms.
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"After listening to the concerns of students and taking time to assess the situation, we have decided it would be in the best interest of everyone to temporarily stop construction," said Victor Wilson, senior vice president for student affairs at the college which has an undergraduate enrollment of about 9.800.
The construction delay is expected to cost the college about $6,000 a day,the school said.
The college originally said it would not have exams in the building nearest the construction and would provide earplugs for students.
But on Friday, the college agreed to suspend construction until the end of exams which run from
Snowstorm keeps robbers from using get-away car
MILWAUKEE — Two armed robbers got a little lesson in cold justice.
The Milwaukee men, ages 27 and 22, were arrested after authorities said they robbed a man outside a check cashing store and held up a woman less than an hour later on Friday in a heavy snowstorm.
According to police, the suspects pushed the woman into their car, robbed her and threw her back out on the street.
Officers responded to the scene, where they found the men trying to dislodge their vehicle from the snow, which reached up to 12 inches in parts of the city.
The men fleed on foot, but were arrested about six blocks later.
"There is a God," Milwaukee Police Capt. Debra Davidoski said.
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TUESDAY top10
Top 10 NHL teams by points in 2005-2006 season:
Source: ESPN.com
1) Detroit Red Wings (124)
2) Ottawa Senators (113)
3) Dallas Stars (112)
4) Carolina Hurricanes (112)
5) Buffalo Sabres (110)
6) Nashville Predators (106)
7) Calgary Flames (103)
8) New Jersey Devils (101)
9) Philadelphia Flyers (101)
10) New York Rangers (100)
Republican politicians to discuss party's future
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ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. George Pataki, stepping down at the end of the year and eyeing a possible 2008 run for the White House, plans to host a gathering of former Republican governors, including Bill Graves of Kansas, this coming weekend to talk about the direction of the party, a top aide said Monday.
Pataki spokesman David Catalfamo said at least nine former governors who were in office when Pataki was first elected in 1994, or who also won election that year, will meet in New York City and may stage some sort of public event to discuss their talks.
The Pataki aide said the gathering could be helpful given Republican losses last month, when Democrats took control of both houses of Congress and won 20 of 36 governors' races at stake. The gubernatorial victories left Democrats in control of the majority of statehouses for the first time since 1994, when Pataki ousted Democrat Mario Cuomo in New York.
Pataki decided last year not to seek a fourth, four-year term, clearing the way for Democrat Eliot Spitzer, the state's attorney general, to cruise to an easy victory in the governor's race.
Joining Pataki in New York City on Sunday will be former governors David Beasley of South Carolina, Terry Branstad of Iowa, John Engler of Michigan, Don Sundquist of Tennessee, Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin, Bill Weld of Massachusetts, Christie Todd Whitman of New Jersey, Graves and Frank Keating of Oklahoma.
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