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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier."
— Blore's Razor
FACT OF THE DAY
In "Home Alone," the picture Kevin finds of Buzz's girlfriend was actually a picture of a boy made up to look like a girl because the director thought it would be too cruel to make fun of a girl like that.
Mostly cloudy with a 70 percent chance of rain. A high around 40 degrees and northeasterly winds around 10 mph.
Weather forecast
TUESDAY:
40 percent chance of rain turning to snow as temperatures drop. A low around 28 degrees with a northerly wind near 10 mph.
TUESDAY NIGHT
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WEDNESDAY: Mostly cloudy and variable calm winds with a high near 45 degrees.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT:
A 40 percent chance of rain with calm southeasterly winds and a low near 35 degrees.
Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain. A high near 55 degrees with calm winds from the south and low around 35 degrees
THURSDAY:
Warmer temperature and mostly sunny skies. A high near 65 degrees with 5 mph wind from the west with a low around 41 degrees.
The University Career Center is hosting a Life After College Alumni Panel at the Adams Alumni Center from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. The panel will offer useful tips and advice for students transitioning from college to the workplace.The workshop is free.
FRIDAY:
Forecasters Megan Lynxwiler and Chris Dobbs KU atmospheric science students
March 29
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How hard is it to win a NCAA championship. Kansas is one of only six programs with more than two. Duke has four, Indiana and UNC have five, Kentucky has seven, and UCLA has 11.
TUESDAY March 29
What's going on?
WEDNESDAY
March 30
The School of Music is hosting an undergraduate honors recital from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall. The event is free.
The Department of Dance will hold a celebration of Professor Janet Hamburg's life from 3 to 4 p.m. in the Spencer Museum of Art auditorium.
SATURDAY
THURSDAY
April 2
March 31
The Hall Center for the Humanities will host a program in Jewish studies from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the conference hall of the Hall Center.
The Center for Global and International Studies is hosting "The Saga of Elephants and Humans" by Indian photojournalist DK Bhaskar. The event is from 4 to 5 p.m. in 100 Smith Hall.
SUNDAY April 3
FRIDAY
The Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies is hosting a conference from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Malott Room of the Kansas Union.
April 1
Auditions for the KST '11 production of "Dirty Work at the Crossroads" or "Tempted, Tried and True," a Gay 90s melodrama by Bill Johnson. Sign-ups: Noon 4:00 p.m. Friday, April 1, Murphy Hall.
MONDAY April 4
CORRECTION
In the Monday, March 28 story "SUA assures LGBT youth: 'It Gets Better,' columnist and author Dan Savage's name was misspelled in the first paragraph.
Please recycle this newspaper
ENDOWMENT
Donations help ongoing project
The University of Kansas Medical Center announced Monday that it received $4 million in donations for its ongoing project to achieve National Cancer Institute designation.The Walsh Family Foundation gave $2 million and the Victor E. and Caroline E. Schutte Foundation and the Johns W. and Effie E. Spees Memorial Trust gave another $2 million, totalling the funding for the project at $50 million, according to a media release from Rosita McCoy, associate director of KU Endowment.
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The gifts were announced at an event at the center in Kansas City, Kan. Speakers at the event included Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little, Gov. Sam Brownback and Roy Jensen, director of the cancer center.
"Our vision of creating a nationally recognized cancer center in Kansas City is closer to reality today"; Jensen said in a media release."Thanks to the support of these and many other donors, we are conducting breakthrough research and providing some of the best cancer treatment in the nation."
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