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NEWS / TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Like a man traveling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, though in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them."
Benjamin Franklin, www.thinkexist.com
FACT OF THE DAY
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The foggiest area in the United States is Point Reyes, California. It is one of the top two foggiest land areas in the world with more than 200 days of fog per year.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
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WHAT'S GOING ON TODAY?
WEDNESDAY
- Karl Brooks, associate professor of History & Environmental Studies will present the lecture "Topic: Green Light, Red Light: Steering Your Environmental Career Toward an Unknowable Future" from at 12:30 p.m. in 308 Marvin Hall.
The Lawrence City Commission meets at 6:35 p.m. in the commissioner's room on the first floor of City Hall, 6 E. 6th St.
■ KU Opera presents "The Sorrows of Young Werther" at 7:30 p.m. in the Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall. Tickets are $5 for students and seniors and $10 for general admission.
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."
Jan. 20
Student Health Services will host an Employee Wellness Fair from 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Ambler Student Recreation Center.
The Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St., will host "Unwrapping the Past: A solo exhibition by Lynda Andrus" from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Admission is free.
THURSDAY
Jan.21
The Kansas African Studies Center will host a Martin Luther King Spring Welcome Back reception for faculty, staff and students at 3:30 p.m. in 10 Bailey Hall. The reception is free.
*Student Union Activities will screen the movie, "Wilh it" at 8 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium. Tickets are $2 for KU students and $3 for the general public.*
SATURDAY
Jan.23
The Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center is providing an EmPower self defense workshop at 1 p.m. in the Martial Arts room of the Ambler Student Recreation Center.
FRIDAY
A Dog Days winter workout run will start at 7:30 a.m. at J & S Coffee at 6th Street and Wakarusa Drive. Dog Days are free and open to the Lawrence community.
SUNDAY
Jan.24
Jan.22
The University will host a Martin Luther King Jr. banquet featuring Congressman Emanuel Cleaver, II, at 6 p.m. in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union. Tickets are $20 and must be purchased in no later than Jan. 21; www.oma.ku.edu.
Opera singer Sasha Cooke will perform at the Lied Center at 2 p.m. Tickets are $5 for students and $18 for adults.
- Watkins Memorial Health Center will have an H11 clinic from noon to 2 p.m. in the first floor conference room. The clinic is open to all students, faculty, staff and retirees.
KU Opera presents "The Sorrows of Young Wrather" at 7:30 p.m. in the Swartwhatch Reticult Hall in Murphy Hall. Tickets are $5 for students and seniors and $10 for general admission.
MONDAY
Jan. 25
Three faculty members will present "Food for Thought: The Culture of Food in the United States" at 4 p.m. in the Big 12 Room of the Kansas Union. Tickets are free.
Ayu Saraswati will present "Cosmopolitan Whitness: The Effects and Affects of Skin-Whiting and Tanning Advertisements in Transnational Media" at 3:30 p.m. in the Seminar Room of the Hall Center for Humanities. Tickets are free.
ODD NEWS
Police: Drunken'cowboy threatened dog's life
IOWA CITY, Iowa, — Iowa City police say a drunken man dressed like a cowboy broke into a house and threatened to kill the resident's dog. Police said 24-year-old Derrick Thomas Alger of Iowa City was arrested early Thursday morning on charges of trespass, intoxication and carrying a dangerous weapon.
Officers said Alger reportedly threatened a cab driver with a handgun shortly after midnight. They say Alger, who was dressed in shorts, boots and a cowboy hat, fled the scene, but entered the rear door of a private residence, where he
Alger has an unlisted telephone number and could not be reached for comment.
demanded to know who the residents were and threatened their barking dog.
Police arrested Alger outside the house and said he had a blood alcohol level several times the legal limit for driving
School evacuated for misidentified project
SAN DIEGO — Fire officials said a San Diego middle school was evacuated when a student's science project was mistaken for a bomb. Fire-Rescue spokesman Maurice Luque said a vice principal's concerns prompted
the evacuation of Millennial Tech Magnet Middle School Friday afternoon. Luque said an arson team took photos and x-rays of the empty plastic bottle with wires and determined it was harmless.
Luque says the 11-year-old boy was trying to build a motion detector from instructions he found on the Internet and parts he bought online with help from his father.His parents did not realize that the object looked threatening.
He said the student was "a genius-type kid" who undertook the project on his own, had no intentions of hurting anyone or causing any disruptions.
Man shoots window after phone-related crash
ROSEVILLE, Calif. — A driver whose SUV plunged into a Northern California creek after he was startled by his hands-free cell phone device escaped the sinking vehicle by blasting out the window with a handgun. The 28-year-old man, whose name wasn't immediately available, is an armed security guard at Thunder Valley Casino, north of Sacramento.
The SUV landed in Pleasant Grove Creek.
He used his gun to shoot himself out, then flagged down a passerby.
Associated Press
COLLEGE
Missing OU student found dead in car near home
Julia Gilbert, an OU senior, was found dead around 2:45 p.m. Sunday, said Glynda Chu, spokeswoman for the Edmond Police Department.
Gilbert, 21, was last seen leaving a friend's house around 3:30 a.m. Friday. Chu said she had been watching the BCS National Championship game and could not confirm whether or not Gilbert had been drinking that evening.
Gilbert was heading home when she ran into a tin guardrail on a small bridge, Chu said. The 2002 silver Volkswagen Jetta flipped and landed upside down under the bridge, making it
difficult to see from the road.
Chu said Gilbert's body was found inside the car on Waterloo Road, about half a mile west of County Line Road and a few miles from her home in Edmond.
Why Gilbert was in the area when she crashed is still unknown.
"I don't know if we'll ever know why she was in that particular area," Chu said.
The Edmond Police Department is closing the missing person case and Chu said the police department does not suspect any foul play.
College News Network, Jamie Hughes writes for the Oklahoma Daily at the University of Oklahoma
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