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NEWS / FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days."
Garrison Keillor
FACT OF THE DAY
St. Dismas, the Penitent Thief crucified with Christ, is the patron saint of funeral directors.
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What's going on?
FRIDAY December 3
SATURDAY December 4
The KU Department of Dance will present "New Dance Concert" at 7:30 p.m. in Robinson Center, Elizabeth Sherbon Dance Theatre, Studio 240.
Student Union Activities will host a showing of the movie "Eat, Pray, Love" from 8 to 10 p.m. in the Kansas Union, Woodruff Auditorium, level 5.
The Department of Visual Art will host an open drawing workshop from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Art and Design Building room 405.
Student Union Activies will host free cosmic bowling from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. In Jaybowl, first floor of the Kansas Union.
SUNDAY December 5
■ Elle Woods makes her way to Lawrence as the popular "Legally Blonde" film; moves to the stage at the Lied Center. The show is from 7:30 to 10 p.m. Student tickets range from $21 to $24, available by calling 785-864-2787.
December 7
TUESDAY
December 7
KU School of Music will present a Holiday Vespers concert from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the Lied Center.
WEDNESDAY December 8
The Department of Visual Arts clubs will be holding a holiday art sale from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union.
The Chancellor's holiday reception will be from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Adams Alumni Center.
MONDAY December 6
There will be an informational session about the Peace Corps from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Pine Room in the Kansas Union.
The KU School of Music will present a Percussion Ensemble from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Swarthout Recital Hall at Murphy Hall.
THURSDAY December 9
Student Union Activities will host a late-night winter bash from 9 p.m. to midnight in the ballroom of the Kansas Union.
What is on your iPod?
BY SARA SNEATH
Jahmal Clemons Wichita junior Dolly Parton — "I Will Always Love You"
Carrah Haley Casper, Wyo., graduate student Hanson — "Mmm Bop"
Emily Powers
Quincy, ill., graduate student
Spice Girls — multiple tracks,
including "Wannabe"
Stanislav Sinitsym
Derby junior
Right Said Fred — "I'm Too Sexy"
Tanya Reazayazi
Lawrence senior
Cat Dolls - "lal Ho"
Pussy Cat Dolls — "Jai Ho"
ODD NEWS
Cashier lifts wallet from mayor-elect
WASHINGTON — A cashier at a drug store in Washington, D.C., is accused of stealing the mayor-elect's wallet on Thanksgiving Day and using his credit card to buy cigarettes and liquor.
Tamika Garris used Gray's credit card to buy cigarettes for $13 and forging the mayor-elect's signature for $25 in liquor.
Associated Press
ODD NEWS
iowa prison makes its own toilet paper
DES MOINES, Iowa There probably won't be any squeeze tests involved, but Iowa prisons could soon be stocking prisonmade toilet paper to save taxpayers money and provide jobs to inmates.
The Des Moines Register reported on Thursday that inmates at two Iowa prisons are testing a single-ply tissue processed at a Missouri prison. Roger Baysden, director of Iowa Prison Industries, says Iowa inmates could start processing their own toilet paper next year — if the Legislature supports the idea.
lowa prisons use about 900,000 rolls of toilet paper annually. Processing it in-house would save about $100,000 a year and would create jobs.
Al Reiter, the associate warden at the prison in Anamosa, Iowa says the paper is not fluffy but the state says it's an acceptable roll.
Associated Press
SUV crashes into barber shop front
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Talk about a close shave. An SUV crashed into an Anchorage barber shop, narrowly missing shop owner Heng Song and his two customers.
But Song wasn't about to let the horrifying moment get in the way of a good haircut.
He was momentarily stunned yes, when the vehicle burst through a door and window Wednesday afternoon as he was clipping a customer's hair.
"Half a haircut and kaboom!" is how the 53-year-old native of South Korea described it Thursday, after the shop had been cleared of debris and the gaping hole was boarded with plywood.
PETA approves the NYPD's mousetraps
NEW YORK — The New York Police Department has been commended for a new method to catch mice with spring-loaded mousetraps.
The drama was caught by a security camera, and footage shows the SUV land fully inside the shop, where Song stood behind a man in the barber's chair and another customer sat waiting on a sofa in the corner.
The department had been using glue traps, where mice get stuck and can live up to 24 hours, to get rid of the rodent problem at 1 Police Plaza. On Oct. 12, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals received an anonymous complaint about the traps
The department responded in November. Chief NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said Thursday that the traps were replaced with two types of professional-grade traps PETA recommended, created to kill mice instantly.
"We immediately conveyed our concerns to Police Commissioner (Raymond) Kelly and asked that they ban glue trap usage," Martin Mersereau, the director of PETA's emergency response division, said Thursday.
Associated Press
Associated Press
Hate group creates 'offensive to the senses' snowman in Idaho
Kootenai County sheriff's deputies told Mark Eliseuson Wednesday that he could be charged with a crime because the 10-foot-tall snowman was holding what appeared to be a noose. Deputies were called by neighbors who were appalled by the pointy-headed snowman with two dark eyes.
Eliseuson could have been charged with creating a public nuisance. Idaho law defines such a nuisance as anything "offensive to the senses" or that interferes with the comfort of an entire neighborhood. Eliseuson removed the noose and toppled the snowman after he talked with officers.
HAYDEN, Idaho — A white separatist drew complaints from neighbors and a visit from law enforcement officers after building a snowman shaped like a member of the Ku Klux Klan on his front lawn.
Hayden for decades earned notoriety for being near the former rural compound of the Aryan Nations.
Elseuson told KXLY-TV of Spokane that he sees nothing wrong with the snowman. But
"It's such a message of hate," said Amber Caldwell, who saw the snowman while visiting her cousin in the neighborhood. "My kids asked me about it and I had to explain what that symbol means."
other people did.
Eliseuse has angered neighbors in the past by flying Aryan Nations flags at his home. At Halloween he passed out bullet casings after he said he ran out of candy.
Associated Press
The discovery "does show that in other planetary environments organisms might be able to use other elements to drive biochemistry and that the 'standard' set of elements we think are absolutely necessary for life might not be so fixed," commented Charles Cockell, professor at the Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute, Open University, in Milton Keynes, Britain. Cockell was not part of the research team.
"This organism has dual capability. It can grow with either phosphorous or arsenic. That makes it very peculiar, though it falls short of being some form of truly 'alien' life", commented Paul C. W. Davies of Arizona State University, a co-author of the report appearing in Thursday's
Bacteria has life beyond earth
While researchers discovered the unusual bacteria here on Earth, they say it shows that life has possibilities beyond the major elements that have been considered essential.
The find is important in the search for life beyond Earth because researchers need to be able to recognize life, to know what life looks like, Anbar said.
found on Earth. However, the announcement of a news conference to discuss it, which did not disclose details of the find, generated widespread speculation on the Internet that the report would disclose the discovery of extraterrestrial life.
Six major elements have long been considered essential for life — carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur.
But the researchers found that the bacteria, discovered in Mono Lake, California, is able to continue to grow after substituting arsenic for phosphorous.
WASHINGTON — The discovery of a strange bacteria that can use arsenic as one of its nutrients widens the scope for finding new forms of life on Earth and possibly beyond.
"It makes you wonder what else is possible," said Ariel D. Anbar of Arizona State University, a co-author of the report.
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