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NEWS FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 2010 THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails."
— BillySunday www.brainyquote.com
FACT OF THE DAY
The First United Methodist Church in Hutchinson, Kansas, was built during the state's notorious grasshopper plague of 1874. As a result, thousands of grasshoppers made their way into the concrete mixed for the foundation.
KANSAN.com Friday, January 29, 2010
Bill Wilson's Memorial
Photos and video by Tanner Grubbs
The memorial service for Bill Wilson, the "Bookstore Guy," was held Monday afternoon at 3:30 in the Malott Room in the Kansas Union.
FEATURED PHOTO GALLERY AND VIDEO
Opinion poll
Check out the "Sexually (inter) Active" columns (page 5A), and head to Kansan. com to tell us whom you agree with most.
Happy 149th birthday, Kansas! Kansas became a state in 1861 and created the University of Kansas just four years later.
WHAT'S GOING ON?
KU School of Music Student Recital Series:
Taylor Smith on the bassoon from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.
at Swarthout Recital Hall, Murphy Hall.
Screening of "Zombieland" from 8 to 11 p.m. at Kansas Union. Tickets are $2 with a KU student ID, $3 for general public and FREE with Student Saver card.
Have a safe and responsible Kansas Day!
SATURDAY
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Ryan Fessinger will play the bassoon as part of the KU School of Music's student recital series at 7:30 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
- Student Union Activities will show the film, "Zombiebail" at 8 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union. Tickets are $2 for KU students and $3 for the general public.
SUNDAY
- "Four Flemish Tapestries" and "Chen Shaoxiong: Ink Things" at the Spencer Museum of Art from 4 to 4 p.m.
Jan. 31
Student Union Activities will show the film, "Zombieland," at 8 p.m. in woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union. Tickets are $2 for KU students and $3 for the general public.
MONDAY
Feb. 2
TUESDAY
The conference, "Why Do Humans Migrate," will be held in The Commons of Spooner Hall from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets are free.
WEDNESDAY
The Department of Human Resources and Equal Opportunity will host the workshop. Dealing with Stress, from 9 to 11 a.m. in Room 204 of Joseph R. Pearson Hall.
Feb.1
Feb.3
The play" The Drowsy Chaperone", will be performed at 7:30 p.m. at the Lied Center. Tickets are $18 for students and $46 for adults.
Summer Study Abroad Fair from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Kansas Union on the 4th Floor. Gather information about 2010 summer and 2010-2011 semester and year programs. Contact: 785-864-3742; osa@ku.edu
KU professor, Stephen Fawcett, will present "Addressing Social Determinants of Health and Health Equity" from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. in the Seminar Room of the Hall Center. Tickets are free.
The Black Student Union will host the forum,
"You've got questions, we've got answers" at
7:30 p.m. in the Gridiron Room of the Burge
Union.
THURSDAY Feb. 4
Former boxer George Foreman will present in the Ballroom of the Kansas Union from 7 to 9:30 p.m.
Screening of "Fantastic M. Fox" from 8 to 11 p.m. at Kansas University, Tickets are $2 with a KU student ID, $3 for general public and FREE with Student Saver card.
Argentina president says pork betters sex
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentina's president thinks eating pig meat is really sexy. Many people in the beef-loving nation reacted with surprise Thursday after Cristina Fernandez promoted pork in a speech during which she not only said pork is better than Viagra, but suggested she's personally proven it.
ODD NEWS
"I didn't know that eating pork improved sexual activity," Fernandez said in a meeting with representatives of the swine industry Wednesday. "It is much more gratifying to eat some grilled pork than to take Viagra."
She even joked that "it was all good" after she enjoyed some pork with her husband, former President Nestor Kirchner.
The president's half-joking speech in which she announced
subsidies for the pork industry won prominent play on television and radio stations, prompt discussions on whether Argentines should add more pork to their diet.
Argentines are among the world's biggest consumers of red meat, and most people stubbornly reject the idea of replacing beef with chicken, pork or other meats.
Fernandez approved subsidies to keep the price of pork low despite inflation, and her government has also recently subsidized red meat producers after beef supplies sharply declined in the South American country.
Subway rider records man kissing chicken
The head of the association of pork producers, Juan Luis Uccelli, supported Fernandez's speech by saying that Denmark and Japan have much more "harmonious" sex lives than the Argentines because they eat a lot of pig meat.
NEW YORK — New York City's transit agency is investigating a video posted online that shows a man kissing and snuggling a live chicken aboard a subway.
The subway rider, Kylie Kaiser, took the video said Thursday that it was one of those New York moments she felt compelled to record.
"He was on his back, rolling from side to side, kissing, hugging and lifting the chicken up in the air," she said.
She said the man was oblivious to everything around him and didn't respond to onlookers.
"It was definitely an only-in New-York situation," said Kaiser, who moved to the city about three years ago from Murfreesboro, Tenn.
Kaiser said the man looked like
he was homeless because he had a shopping cart next to him full of cans and was wearing a shirt with an MTA patch that "looked like he found it somewhere."
Kaiser took video and photos with her Blackberry, got off with the man still on the train and later posted video and photos on her blog.
"I knew it would be a story people would want to hear," she said.
Man asks children to attack officers
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.
— Police in Colorado arrested a 28-year-old man accused of passing out in a McDonald's play area and telling his two children to bite the officers who were trying to arrest him. Colorado Springs police said officers had to use a Taser on Joshua Alger to subdue
him Wednesday after he allegedly passed out drunk at the fast-food restaurant.
Police said Alger refused officers' orders and at one point told his children to "bite the officers' faces off."
PUEBLO, Colo. — Pueblo County authorities said a 22-year-old woman worked out a plan with her boyfriend to get narcotics into jail Wednesday through a courtroom exchange at her own sentencing hearing. Officials learned of the plot because the woman in jail, Felisha Trujillo, and her boyfriend talked about the plot on a monitored phone line.
Phil Martinez, 26, allegedly dropped a bag of narcotics in the jury box before Trujillo's hearing, when the courtroom was empty.
Detectives were watching, and Martinez was arrested.
Man finds $200,000 in counterfeit bills
BALL GROUND, Ga. — One north Georgia man got more than he bargained for when he bought a car from a towing company late last year. Officials with the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office said Thursday that Tye Kuykendall found $200,000 in counterfeit money inside a hidden compartment behind the back seat.
Authorities said Kuykendall bought the car after it sat for more than three years in an impound yard after being towed by Fulton County police in 2006.
Authorities said he was fixing a gas leak when he discovered the secret compartment.
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