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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television,you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us."
— Kurt Vonnegut
FACT OF THE DAY
The average housefly weighs 10 to 15 millionths of a pound.
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Ed Harvey (left photo) became the first African American football player in 1893 for the University of Kansas. Leonard Monroe (right photo) talks with Wilt Chamberlain about old hangouts in Lawrence after a game.
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FRIDAY January 28
The KU School of Music KU Opera "Ruddigore" is from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at the Robert Baustian Theatre, Murphy Hall.
There will be a poster sale from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Kansas Union, level 4.
SATURDAY January 29
SUNDAY January 30
- The Children's Class: Lemons and Limes workshop will be held at the Spencer Museum of Art from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Children's art appreciation classes are for ages 5-14.
Join Richard Norton Smith and former Reagan Political Director Bill Lacy as they reminisce about our 40th president at the Presidential Lecture Series: 20th Century Mt. Rushmore, Reagan at 3 p.m. in the Dole Institute of Politics.
TUESDAY February 1
MONDAY
January 31
The Kansas African Studies Center will host a lecture titled "Stereotypes and the Social Psychology of Repression" from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the Kansas Room at the Kansas Union.
- There will be a FacEx meeting from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Provost Conference Room at Strong Hall.
WEDNESDAY February 2
There will be an informative talk on careers in the foreign service by David Peterson at 4 p.m. in the English Room of the Kansas Union.
There will be a brown bag lunch from noon to 1 p.m. in room 318 of Bailey Hall entitled "The New Germany In Today's World: Strategies, Policies and Great Power Relations" with Manfred Stinnes, a lecturer in International Relations at Humbolt University of Berlin.
THURSDAY February 3
Author Michael Byers will discuss his novel "Percival's Planet" which was inspired by the true story of Kansan and noted astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto. Byers discussion will be in the Kansas Union Ballroom from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
SUSTAINABILITY
Take Charge! tests energy efficiency
BY IAN CUMMINGS icummings@kansan.com
The challenge is a competition between 16 area communities to see which city can reduce its energy use the most. Lawrence and Manhattan are going head-to-head in the contest, and the winner will take away a $100,000 grant for a community project in the area of renewable energy or energy efficiency. A bonus prize goes along with the money, too; a basketball signed by Gov. Sam Brownback.
While the Jayhawks and the Wildcats face off on the basketball court Saturday, Lawrence will take the opportunity to kick off a different type of competition with Manhattan: an energy efficiency contest called the Take Chargel Challenge.
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Jeff Severin, director of the KU Center for Sustainability, said the TCC fits in nicely with his organization's efforts to promote energy efficiency at the university level.
Brownback offered up the ball at a event held at the Governor's mansion at Cedar Crest on Wednesday.
"It's a great way for students to be part of the community and it's a chance for student organizations to help educate the community about what's going on," he said.
Rep. Barbara Ballard, County Commissioner Mike Gaughan and KU Environs president Celeste McCoy. The watch party will run from 5 to 8 p.m. and alcoholic drinks will be available through Liberty Hall concessions.
The Take
Charge!
Eileen Horn, sustainability
"It's a chance for student organizations to help educate the community about what's going on."
JEFF SEVERIN KU Center for Sustainability
Challenge, which runs through September, will formally open with a Kansas versus Kansas State basketball watch party at Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts St. The watch party will be an all-agesevent with free pizza and soft drinks as well as activities for kids such as face painting, balloon animals and a basketball shoot-out game. Vice-Mayor and City Commissioner Aron Cromwell will kick off the watch party with a welcoming address, and the halftime Take Charge! Challenge trivia game will feature special guest contestants
coordinator for Lawrence and Douglas County, said the idea of Saturday's watch party is for people in Lawrence to have a good time while learning how they can help
The Take Charge! Challenge is sponsored by the Kansas Energy Office and the Climate and Energy Project. Communities will compete in four measures of energy efficiency, which include the number of residents scheduling Efficiency Kansas home energy audits, switching to compact fluorescent bulbs, enrolling in Westar
Lawrence win the TCC.
Lawrence said, "It's going to be a whole lot of fun" Horn said, "Just to kick off the Challenge with some excitement, playing off the rivalry to use the opportunity to reach people."
energy's energy efficiency programs and attending Take Charge! Challenge events. Another key goal of Saturday's event is distributing information about the Challenge and how Lawrence residents can take part in it. Information is also available on the City of Lawrence website.
Margaret Tran, Lawrence Coordinator for the Take Charge! Challenge, said she hope students at the University will get involved as much as possible.
Students are great because they're young and they get excited about these issues," she said.
some aspects of the competition, such as the scheduling of housing audits and enrolling in Westar programs, aren't naturally suited to students who live in residence halls.That is why Severin and other contest coordinators are working with representatives of Kansas State University to develop a way for the respective universities' student housing to be counted as well.
Severin said his goal was to involve students in promoting more energy efficient practices, which is something everyone can do.
"Of course," he said, "the simplest thing is to switch to fluorescent light bulbs."
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ODD NEWS
Unmarked graves found at cemetery for veterans
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VICKSBURG, Miss. Authorities said Thursday they fear dozens of veterans could lie in unmarked graves at a Mississippi military cemetery after they found two unidentified coffins and used radar to detect other possible plots.
The two coffins and other potential graves were found in sections of Vicksburg National Military Cemetery that were opened in the 1940s for World War I, World War II and Korean War veterans, National Park Service officials said at a news conference. The sprawling cemetery is the final resting place for more than 18,000 veterans, mostly Union soldiers from the Civil War.
The problems were discovered after workers preparing a burial site for a World War II veteran found a coffin in August. Another coffin was found nearby. The veteran was buried elsewhere in the cemetery and the graves were left alone, authorities said.
The cemetery stopped offering burials in 1961, except for veterans
who had prior arrangements. There have been 109 burials since then.
The park service asked for help from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which used ground-penetrating radar devices to search for graves. Those sites were then checked by pushing metal rods into the ground, which in several cases hit solid objects that could be coffins.
The National Park Service's Southeast Archaeological Center has also been helping. Officials said a preliminary analysis of their research identified "eight probable and 48 possible unmarked graves."
Vicksburg National Military Park Superintendent Michael Madell said officials haven't found any documentation to help identify the unmarked graves, despite searching cemetery records, archives and looking for lost documents.
Madell said federal authorities are trying to respect the dead by using research methods that don't physically disturb the graves, like the radar devices.
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