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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face."
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— Dave Barry
Norway has won the most medals (263) at the Winter Games
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Monday, February 15, 2010
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Two games/one day
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This timelapse shows Allen Fieldhouse Saturday during both the women's and men's basketball games.
Kansan.com Roundup:
Feb. 8-12
Miss any of last week's top stories?
Kansan.com has you covered with our weekly roundup. (Compiled by Devin Lowell)
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Graduating in May? Don't miss the Grad Finale today through Wednesday from 10 a.m. till 4 p.m. in the KS Union Ballroom. Everything you need for Commencement will be there.
What's going on today?
KU School of Music will present a visiting artist workshop with trombonist, Ron Barron, at 4:30 in the Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall. The workshop is free.
Feb.16
Robin Netherton, freelance editor and writer, will present the lecture, "When Medieval Meets Victorian: The Development of Scholarship in Medieval and Renaissance Dress" at 5:15 p.m. in Room 211 of the Spencer Museum of Art.
TUESDAY
Student Health Services will have a Wellness Fair, "Preparing for a Healthier U" from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the lobby area of the Watson Library.
Trombonist Ron Baron will perform at 7:30 p.m. in the Swarshort Recital Hall in Murphy Hall. The workshop is free.
If you would like to submit an event to be included on our weekly calendar, send us an e-mail at news@kansan.com with the subject "Calendar."
WEDNESDAY
FRIDAY Feb.19
Feb.17
Engineering Expo from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at Eaton Hall.
KU Baseball vs. Eastern Michigan at 3:00 p.m. at Hoglund Ballpark
Milton Wendland will present the seminar,
"Falling from Kansas: On Aliens, Witches and
the Sinhomosexual" at 3:30 p.m. in the Semi-
nair Room of the Hall Center.
■ KU Opera will present the play, "The Rake's Progress," from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the Robert Baustian Theatre of Murphy Hall. Tickets are $5 for students and senior citizens and $10 for adults
SATURDAY
THURSDAY
Feb.20
KU men's basketball vs. Colorado at 3 p.m.
at Allen Fieldhouse
Feb.18
This American Life's host and producer Ira Glass will present a discussion of journalism and storytelling at the Lied Center beginning at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $36 for Adults and $18 for students.
Student Union Activities is hosing the 2nd International Film Festival at 7 p.m. in the Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
The KU School of Music is having a celebration of African-American music at 7:30 p.m. in the Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
SUNDAY Feb. 21
Feb.21
■ KU Opera presents "The Rake's Progress" from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at Robert Baustian Theatre in Murphy Hall.
KU School of Music will present the Celebration of Chopin's 200th birthday with pianist Steven Spooner from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Lied Center.
ODD NEWS
CORRECTION
Man sells square-inch plots in abandoned lot
Ron Barrett's name was misspelled in Friday's "Aerospace class takes flight."
DETROIT—A Web designer is hawking square inches of an empty lot in Detroit for a dollar each to show what can be done with vacant spaces.
He says some inchvestors buy one
Jerry Paffendorf says nearly 600 "investors" have bought some of the 10,000 plots for sale in the "Loveland" art and real-state project.
plot while others have taken 1,000, and that they may do with the land as they wish. He says some plan to construct tiny buildings.
Drowning snowmobiler turns out to be an otter
GREENVILLE, Maine — State officials in Maine say witnesses who reported seeing a drowning snowmobiler on a lake were probably looking at an otter
enjoying a snack.
On Thursday, three people reported seeing a snowmobiler wearing all black and a black helmet struggling in Moosehead Lake. Officials used an airboat and flew overhead on both Thursday and Friday, but found no evidence that a person had gone through the ice.
Cpl. Mike Joy of the Maine Warden Service tells the Bangor Daily News that authorities did find pieces of crawfish and a small bloodstain on the ice, indicating that at least one otter had been feeding there.
Three-legged dog wins doggie talent contest
NEW YORK — A three-legged pitbull mix that played in a game of doggie baseball has won "Best in Show" at a talent competition held by one of New York City's largest animal shelters.
Associated Press
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