Monday, September 28, 2009

News 9-28-09


YOU MAY BE SEEING STUDENTS ON CAMPUS GETTING YOUNGER BUT DON’T WORRY…YOU’RE NOT GETTING OLDER FASTER. KANSAS STATE IS TEAMING UP WITH HIGH SCHOOLS ACROSS THE STATE TO ENCOURAGE GIRLS TO CONSIDER A FUTURE IN MATH…SCIENCE…OR ENGINEERING. THEY WILL GO TO CLASS…TOUR THE CAMPUS…MEET WITH STUDENT MENTORS…AND GO TO A WORKSHOP ABOUT CHOOSING THEIR CAREER. THIS IS PUT ON BY K-STATE’S WOMEN IN ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE PROGRAM.


THE DEATH OF A DODGE CITY CHILD IS UNDER INVESTIGATION. POLICE SAY TWO-YEAR-OLD JOSE GUERRERO WASN’T BREATHING WHEN THEY ARRIVED AT HIS HOME LAST WEEK. HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD WHEN HE ARRIVED AT WESTERN PLAINS MEDICAL COMPLEX.


A MAN WHO IS ALREADY IN THE HUTCHINSON JAIL FOR ROBBERY JUST GOT HIMSELF CHARGED FOR SENDING A THREATENING LETTER. INMATE GREGORY WEIR SENT GOVERNOR MARK PARKINSON A LETTER SAYING HE WAS GOING TO SHOOT HIM AFTER HE GOT OUT OF JAIL NEXT MONTH. THE LETTER WAS INTERCEPTED BY PRISON WORKERS LAST MONTH.


A KANSAS MARINE AND HIS DOG ARE REUNITED AGAIN. WHILE IN AFGHANISTAN…LEUTENANT CHRIS CORMAN AND SOME OF HIS FRIENDS FOUND A DOG. CORMAN’S PARENTS ENDED UP RAISING FOUR-THOUSAND DOLLARS TO GET THE MUTT BACK TO DERBY KANSAS.


KANSAS REPRESENTATIVE JERRY MORAN HAS SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN’S SUPPORT IN HIS RACE FOR SAM BROWNBACK’S SENATE SEAT. MCCAIN SAYS MORAN HAS PROVEN HIS FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY. MORAN WILL BE FACING TODD TIAHRT (TEA-HEART) IN THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY. BROWNBACK WILL BE RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR AT THE END OF HIS 2010 TERM.


PRESIDENT OBAMA WILL BE IN COPENHAGEN DENMARK AT THE END OF THIS WEEK TO MAKE A PUSH TO GET THE 2016 SUMMER OLYMPICS IN CHICAGO. OBAMA IS THE FIRST U-S PRESIDENT TO GO TO AN INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE VOTE. CHICAGO IS UP AGAINST MADRID…TOKYO…RIO DE JENEIRO..AND POSSIBLY COPENHAGEN. THE UNITED STATES HAS HOSTED FOUR OTHER SUMMER GAMES.


A SAN FRANSICO ZOO GOER IS VERY LUCKY AFTER A STUNT HE PULLED SATURDAY. THE 27-YEAR-OLD MAN SNUCK INTO THE GRIZZLY BEAR EXHIBIT BUT WAS IMMEDIATELY RESCUED AFTER ANOTHER VISITOR TOLD ZOO STAFF HE WAS IN THERE. THE MAN WAS CONSCIOUS BUT NOT RESPONDING WHEN THEY GOT HIM OUT. THEY DO NOT KNOW WHY HE GOT IN THE BEAR CAGE.


THE NEWEST MEMBER OF THE SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE CREW MADE A BIG MISTAKE DURING THE SEASON PREMIERE. DURING A SKIT CALLED BIKER CHIT CHAT JENNY SLATE DROPPED AN F-BOMB. AFTER SAYING IT…SLATE PUFFED OUT HER CHEEKS AFTER MAYBE REALIZING WHAT SHE HAD DONE. THIS ISN’T THE FIRST TIME THIS HAS HAPPENED ON S-N-L. CHARLES ROCKET MADE THE SAME MISTAKE IN 1981.

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