Strange Stories

Librarians go wild in cart drill contest

MADISON, WIS. --- Librarians shook out their buns and dusted off their dancing shoes to compete in the Wisconsin Book Cart Drill Team competition.

The Baraboo Bookers took first prize Friday at the Wisconsin Library Association's annual conference.

Teams of librarians created short choreographed dances and rocked out with their book carts.

The Baraboo Public Library team danced to the rock 'n' roll classic Born to be Wild with four carts and a dolly. They competed against the Mad City truckers, graduate students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison who used an Indiana Jones-themed routine.

The Baraboo team advances to the national competition in Chicago next summer and also gets a $250 gift certificate.

Students upset that map has them outside U.S.

ESCANABA, MICH. --- Some Escanaba high school students are upset that a map in their history textbook appears to exclude Michigan's Upper Peninsula from the borders of the United States.

A map showing the spread of women's suffrage in the Michigan edition of United States History: Modern America colors the Upper Peninsula white like the void surrounding the continental United States. Michigan's Lower Peninsula is shaded light blue.

The map identifies states by their postal codes; the Upper Peninsula is designated "IL" for Illinois -- which has no label.

The students wrote to the textbook publisher asking the company to correct the map, The Daily Press of Escanaba reported.

Student Jack Klim called the misprinted map "a little bit degrading" and said it made him feel "un-American."