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NEWS / MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
"The important thing is never to stop questioning."
QUOTE OF THE DAY
Albert Einstein
William Clarke Quantrill's Confederate raid on Lawrence occurred 147 years ago this week. Between 150 and 200 people were murdered and dozens of homes and businesses were destroyed. The financial damage nearly prevented the University from being established in Lawrence.
FACT OF THE DAY
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VIDEOS
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NOTABLE KANSAN.COM FEATURES FROM THIS SUMMER
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The Office of New Student Orientation will be hosting Traditions Night from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.in Memorial Stadium.
Student Union Activities will be hosting Night on the Hill, a free concert with musical guest SafetySuit, from 9 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. near Memorial Campanile.
The Adams Alumni Center will be hosting a free ice cream social from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
STORIES
The ECM Center, 1204 Oread Ave., will be hosting a free welcome barbecue from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
What's going on today?
Shelters fill up with students' unwanted pets
August 17
TUESDAY
Student Union Activities will be hosting a free screening of "Iron Man 2" at 9 p.m. on Daisy Hill.
PHOTO GALLERY
Music scene faces new challenges
New technology catches autism earlier
Found in the newsroom
The engineering department will be hosting a free barbecue for engineering students from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. outside Learned Hall.
The Office of New Student Orientation will be hosting the annual Beach 'N Boulevard student organization info fair from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in front of Wescoe Hall.
The Lied Center will be hosting a free concert with Jeffery Broussard and the Creole Cowboys at 7 p.m.
FRIDAY
WEDNESDAY
August 18
August 20
The Theater Department will be hosting open auditions from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. in Murphy Hall.
There will be a part-time job fair from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union.
The opening convocation ceremony will be from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Lied Center.
SATURDAY
August 21
THURSDAY August 19
The School of Engineering will be hosting "Frost Frenzy" from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in front of Learned Hall.
The Center for Community Outreach will be hosting its "Saturday Service Project" from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Kansas Union.
Classes begin.
KU Dining will be holding a back-to-school barbecue from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center will be hosting "Rock the Rec" from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
August 22
SUNDAY
- The School of Business will be hosting a free resume workshop from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Koch Commons in Summerfield Hall.
"Someone Must Wash the Dishes: An Anti-Suffrage Satire," a one-woman show by KU graduate Monielle LaRue will be performed at 7:30 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall. Tickets are free.
ODD NEWS
Obama's daughter makes mini golf ace
PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. Sasha Obama is proving that the president isn't the only golfer in the family.
On a family trip to a miniature golf course, 9-year-old Sasha hit a hole-in-one in front of the watchful eye of the media, and much to the delight of her father, an avid golfer. The president gave Sasha a high-five, and declared her stroke, "unbelievable."
The president followed up by making par with his two shots on the first hole.
The Obamas are in the Florida Panhandle on a quick weekend trip that the president hopes will jump-start the region's tourism industry, which has suffered following the Gulf oil spill.
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle react after daughter Sasha, 9, gets a hole-in-one during a game of miniature golf on Saturday in Panama City Beach, Fla.
Man goes naked for 'spiritual' outing
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LINCOLN, Neb. — Lincoln police say a man was spotted walking naked near two churches and a parochial high school. Police said a passer-by called dispatch around 8:40 a.m. Sunday after seeing the man near Plus X High School. According to police reports, the 35-year-old man told officers that he went naked for a spiritual experience.
Capt. David Beggs said the man was cited on suspicion of public indecency, among other misdemeanors.
No McNuggets causes epic tantrum
TOLEDO, Ohio — A security video from a McDonald's in Ohio shows a woman punching
The tantrum caught on tape in Toledo earlier this year shows the customer reaching through the drive-thru window, slugging one worker and then another. She then grabs a bottle out of her car and tosses it through the glass window before speeding off.
two restaurant employees and smashing a drive-thru window because she couldn't get Chicken McNuggets.
It happened early on New
Dushane says she was drunk at the time. She was sentenced to 60 days in jail last month and ordered to pay McDonald's for the broken window.
Year's Day, Police say Melodi Dushane was angry that McNuggets weren't being served, because it was breakfast time.
The video was released Monday when it became public record.
Driver uses dirty diaper in dispute
CONNELLSVILLE, Pa. — State police said a woman wiped a dirty diaper on the window of another woman's vehicle during a dispute in a traffic jam as both were leaving the Fayette County Fair. Jessica Hollis, 23, of Mount Pleasant, has been charged with harassment in the incident which state police in Uniontown said happened about 10:50 p.m. Saturday.
Police said Hollis smeared the diaper on the rear window of a vehicle driven by 36-year-old Melanie Campbell, of Hopwood.
Police said the women began arguing while they were stuck in traffic leaving the fairgrounds in Dunbar Township.
Online court records don't list an attorney for Hollis, and a phone number listed in her name was disconnected Monday.
Glow-in-the-dark shrimp not harmful
NEWPORT, Ore. — People who bought pink shrimp at some Oregon stores are reporting that it glows in the dark. Experts told The Register-Guard that they shouldn't worry because it's due to certain marine bacteria that can cause shrimp and other seafood to appear luminescent. They said it's not a health risk and does not indicate mishandling during processing.
Specialists at Oregon State University Sea Grant Extension say the bacteria can grow at refrigerator temperatures, especially on seafood products where salt was added during processing.
Associated Press
TECHNOLOGY
Suitors lining up for rare space artifacts
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
WASHINGTON — They've racked up a lot of mileage and their $28.8 million price _s engine — should be enough to cause sticker shock. But that isn't stopping institutions from Chicago to Los Angeles from engaging in a new space race to land one of the soon-to-be-retired space shuttles.
Twenty-one institutions are in fierce LeBron-style competition for what one museum director called the rarest of space artifacts. They've enlisted former astronauts and high-flying officials to back
their bids for one of three orbitors. Lawmakers have even tried to use congressional legislation to give their states a leg up.
"Like anything rare, the orbiters will be hugely popular attractions," said Valerie
"Like anything rare, the orbiters will be hugely popular attractions.
aerospace heritage, say they have the right stuff.
Neal, space history curator at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. They are the most significant space artifacts to become available since the Apollo and Skylab command modules in the 1970s, she said.
Florida, where the shuttle is launched, and Texas, home to mission control, say they deserve one. Ohio says it should get one because it was the home of the Wright brothers. New York City says it should get one because it can draw the biggest crowds.
VALERIE NEAL
Space history curator
Chicago's Adler Planetarium is competing, as are institutions in Seattle, Tulsa, Huntsville, Ala., and McMinnville, Ore., home of another big flying machine _ the
"The shuttle was created here," said Jeffrey Rudolph, president and CEO of the California Science Center in Los Angeles. Shuttle components were manufactured in Downey and assembled in Palmdale, not to mention that Southern California has been occasionally jarred by sonic booms from desert shuttle landings at Edwards Air Force Base.
At least three museums in Southern California, with its
Spruce Goose.
N A S A
Administrator
Charles F. Bolden
Jr. has final say
over who will
receive one of the
shuttles, which
one bidder called
"the modern-day
equivalent of hous-
ing. Columbus
famed ships _ the
Nina, the Pinta
the Santa Maria."
No date has been set for a decision, but the shuttle, workhorse of the space program for three decades, is scheduled to make its final space flight next year.
Bolden has heard from Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., who flew with him during a 1986 shuttle flight, on behalf of Kennedy Space Center's commercially operated visitor complex. Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland pitched the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force near Dayton to President Barack Obama when he visited the state.
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