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NEWS / THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"After today, I'll bet Santa takes a shovel to the reindeer stalls to fill your stocking."
Calvin and Hobbes' creator Bill Watterson
FACT OF THE DAY
The caribou, also known as the reindeer, are the only deer where the males and females have antlers. BONUS FACT: When snow falls, they go south in a migration that is 1,600 miles long.
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THURSDAY
December 9
What's going on?
Student Union Activities will host a late-night winter bash from 9 p.m. to midnight in the ballroom of the Kansas Union.
FRIDAY December 10
Last day of classes.
Stop Day. No classes.
SATURDAY December 11
MONDAY December 13
December 11
The School of Engineering will recognize fall 2010 engineering graduates at 9 a.m. in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
- Finals week begins.
TUESDAY
December 14
The Spencer Museum of Art Student Advisory Board will host a study night from 4 p.m. to midnight in the Central Court of the Spencer Museum of Art. They will provide free bagels, Coca-Cola products and Wi-Fi.
SUNDAY December 12
Student Union Activities will host its Late Night Breakfast at Mrs. E's from 10 p.m. to midnight.
The School of Journalism will hold its graduation ceremony at 1 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union
WEDNESDAY
December 15
Students from Metalsmithing/Jewelry Design are having their first annual student holiday sale and fundraiser. They will present an exhibition and sale of their work from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Jewelry by Design Gallery in Prairie Village. A portion of sales will be donated to the Salvation Army. Address is 7608 State Line Road, Prairie Village, KS 66208.
Board approves funds for lighted path
BY MICHAEL HOLTZ
mholtz@kansan.com
The Campus Safety Advisory Board (CSAB) approved $100,000 for the Oread Neighborhood lighted pathway on Wednesday night.
The $531,000 project has faced severe funding shortfalls since it was started last fall. It was delayed when the Kansas Department of Transportation turned down a $174,345 grant the City of Lawrence had applied for to help fund the project.
"We've proven our support for this project and said, 'This is really something students want,' said Libby Johnson, chairwoman of CSAB.
Construction on the pathway's primary route started after Thanksgiving. The primary route costs $263,380 and will run down the sidewalks on the north side of 12th Street between Vermont Street and Jayhawk Boulevard and across South Park to its northeast corner.
The additional funding from CSAB was originally allocated
for lighting and other on-campus projects that were never started or received funding from outside sources.
CSAB has more than $230,000 in unallocated funds.
The funding for the lighted pathway is contingent on the commitment of the City of Lawrence, Johnson said. So far the city has contributed $50,000. Student Senate contributed an additional $20,000 to the project last year.
The city reapplied for a community development block grant earlier this month. Last year it was
awarded a $60,000 grant for the project. The grant was restricted to funding the pathway through South Park, which costs $30,000.
Johnson said the city reapplied for the grant with the hope of freeing the rest of the money and receiving additional funding. Grants are in the spring. Johnson sounded confident that the city's application would be approved.
"Because of our commitment there's a lot higher likelihood that the development grant will go through," Johnson said.
—Edited by Tim Dwyer
ODD NEWS
Woman returns 74-year-old rental
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A California woman is proving it's never too late to make things right.
Ninety-five-year-old Hazel Severson of Sacramento says a friend found a book that Severson's late husband had borrowed from an Amador County library in 1936 while sorting through things for a garage sale.
She knew what she had to do:
return the book and offer to pay
the overdue fee — a whopping
$2,701.
Luckily for Severson, the library didn't charge her the fee, though
it did accept a small donation when she stopped by on Oct. 13.
Cat returns after five years missing
BILOXI, Miss. — Five years after wandering away in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath, a gray and white cat named Scrub has been reunited with his Mississippi family
The Humane Society of South Mississippi says Scrub was identified by an implanted microchip. The 7-year-old cat was brought to the shelter by a Gulfport woman who'd fed him as a stray the past couple of months.
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