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NEWS
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18.2005
GET READY FOR THE BEAKEND
BY MATT LINDBERG
editor@kansan.com
KANSAN CORRESPONDENT
It's the weekend before Thanksgiving, and we find ourselves wanting to kick back and relax. Fortunately, Student Union Activities is giving all KU students the opportunity to see, for the first time or again, one of last summer's biggest movies, "Mr. & Mrs. Smith."
"Mr. & Mrs. Smith" lives up to the expectations. Pitt and Jolie star as the Smiths, a married couple who begin to grow distant after years of marriage.
"Mr. & Mrs. Smith" stars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Despite all the drama surrounding the film, such as reports like Pitt leaving his wife Jennifer Aniston for Jolie, the movie is enivable.
Neither knows the other works as an assassin, until they are assigned to kill one another. Pitt and Jolie give outstanding performances in this action comedy, which has proven to be
a hit.
It marks the third film for director Doug Liman, known for his films "Swingers" and "Made." Liman, as expected, cashes in on funny man Vince Vaughn's recent success, Swingers, as Pitt's friend Eddie. Between the charismatic Pitt, the sexy Jolie and the comedic Vaughn, there is something in this film for everyone.
"Mr. & Mrs. Smith" hit theaters last June, and opened at No. 1 earning $186,267,775 as of Nov. 6. SUA will show the film at 7 and 9:30 tonight at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Tickets are free with a SUA movie card, or $2 without one.
The film is one of the great action comedies to come in recent years and is definitely worth checking out. Even if you've seen the film already, it is worth seeing twice if you find yourself with nothing to do.
Enjoy the show.
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
Ethics necessary for career
- Edited by Patrick Ross
Business and philosophy combine to provide services
BY GABY SOUZA
gsouza@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Joe Reitz, professor in the School of Business, thinks that in order to have a rewarding career and to lead a fulfilling life, a person must be ethical. That is why he co-founded the International Center for Ethics in Business.
Reitz and Richard T. De George, University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, started the center in 1991 Its focus is to promote ethical thinking in every area of business, and to encourage considering the ethical implications of everyday decisions.
Reitz started an ethics center at Georgia Tech University, where he previously taught.
"People don't realize the ethical implications of their decisions until it's too late." Reitz said.
De George
When he joined the University of Kansas faculty in 1988, he approached De George with the idea of starting another. De George had authored a textbook in business ethics. The two used private funding to start the center and it still functions through donations.
Business ethics is as big an issue as it was when the center first started, De George said. Issues such as the Westar scandal continue to show just how important instruction in ethics is. he said.
The center is working on sponsoring an ethics class for
students in the business school. Business students are not required to take an ethics class in order to graduate.
The center has sponsored workshops for professors that help them incorporate ethics into their classes. The center director hopes to host another workshop in May 2006.
The center also hosts the Sutton Lecture Series, which brings ethics lecturers to the University. Plans to start an International Business Ethics Seminar Series to provide outreach about ethics issues are in the works.
Many companies have written ethics codes for its employees. Larger corporations have ethics advisers who help the employees make appropriate decisions. De George said.
Some of the issues regarding ethics in statistics have to do with how data can be used in an ethical, moral way, Hillmer said.
Steve Hillmer, professor of statistics in the School of Business, found the information he received in the workshops helpful, and took it back to all of his classes.
Reitz and Richard T. De George, University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, started the center in 1991. Its focus is to promote ethical thinking in every area of business,and to encourage considering the ethical implications of everyday decisions.
For example, if data is needed to support a decision, the question of whether the data is being used to find the truth or to reinforce a preconceived notion must be asked. The material from the ethics center helps students to understand what is moral in this situation.
"It's important to understand the bigger picture," Hillmer said. "And ethics is part of it."
"And ethics is part of that."
— Lanaea by Patricia Ross
WORLD
Bush takes hard stance with Korean reactor
South Korea — President Bush took a hardline stance against North Korea on Thursday, saying the United States, won't help the communist nation build a civilian nuclear reactor to produce electricity until it dismantles its nuclear weapons programs.
With the nuclear dispute with North Korea at an apparent impasse, Bush and South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun put the communist
regime on notice that it would not be allowed to keep its nuclear weapons programs.
The North has demanded that it be given a light-water reactor — a type less easily diverted for weapons use — in exchange for disarming. U.S. officials once rejected the idea outright and argued North Korea could not be trusted with any nuclear program, but now have left the door open as long as Pyongyang isn't given a reactor as an incentive but only as a reward after it has eliminated nuclear weapons programs.
The Associated Press
Lion lovin'
Tim Kimzev/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Hollywild Animal Park director David Meeks holds Kyra, a 7-week-old lioness, as she is kissed by Norman, a white-tailed deer, at the park in Inman, S.C., Wednesday.
KU Recycling buys a new and improved baler machine
ENVIRONMENT
BY TRAVIS ROBINETT
trobinett@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Tom Boxberger, KU Recycling warehouse manager, works 40 hours a week processing cardboard, shredded paper, chip board and plastic bags collected from campus.
"During the school year, I spend 98 percent of my time working here at the warehouse," Boxberger said. "I do need some relief. No doubt about it."
To give Boxberger relief and to expand recycling services across campus, KU Recycling will purchase a new and improved horizontal baler — a machine that compacts recyclable material into dense bales — with a $66,782 grant from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
Jeff Severin, KU Environmental Services Manager, said KU Recycling had reached its capacity for bailing material with its current technology, which led him to apply for the grant.
KU Recycling's current baler must be hand loaded by Box-berger. To get a good bale, he must pay close attention to what
"A lot of pieces are too big," he said. "I have to cut or fold them to fit them into the bins."
Severin said the cardboard bales weighed about 600 pounds; but with the new baler, they will weigh twice as much — around 1,200 lbs. Heavier bales helped transportation, he said.
he puts in the baler, especially when he's loading cardboard.
Severin said loading heavier, more compact bales onto a truck would allow the drivers to bring them directly to a recycling mill instead of to a recycling plant where they would be made compact enough to recycle.
With bigger bales produced more often, KU Recycling will make more money that is fed back into the system. The money will go toward the purchase of additional collection containers around campus. Severin said KU Recycling was currently in the middle of a waste audit project across campus to find the locations with lots of cardboard
inside nearby dumpsters.
"We're going to be adding containers at those buildings," he said. "We could probably put a container in every building on campus if we had the money or space to do it, but space on campus is limited."
Severin said that information was not compiled vet.
KU Recycling expects to collect and compact 10 percent more cardboard and five percent more newspaper, plastic, aluminum and other papers.
Severin said KU Recycling wanted to educate faculty, staff and outside contractors regarding its cardboard recycling service because many people were unaware of it.
Many dumpsters are filled with bulky cardboard boxes, causing an unnecessary need for additional waste collection services, Severin said. He said increasing cardboard recycling would eliminate some of those collections and reduce waste.
"Recycling is a constant education process," Severin said. "We always try to teach people what they can recycle and how they can do it."
Woodward's testimony helps Libby's defense
WASHINGTON — Bob Woodward's version of when and where he learned the identity of a CIA operative contradicts a special prosecutor's contention that Vice President Dick Cheney's top aide was the first to make the disclosure to reporters.
Edited by Jayme Wiley
Attorney for the aide, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, described Wednesday's statement by the Washington Post's assistant managing editor as helpful for their defense, although Libby is charged with lying to a grand jury and the FBI, not with disclosing the CIA official's name.
"Hopefully, as information is obtained from reporters like Bob Woodward, the real facts will come out," lawyer Ted Wells said Wednesday.
Woodward, a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter, said he had not told his bosses until last month that he had learned about Valerie Plame's identity and her work at the CIA more than two years ago from a high-level Bush administration official.
When Woodward learned Plame's name, he told The Associated Press Wednesday, he was in the middle of finishing a book about the administration's decision to go to war in Iraq, and didn't want to be subpoenaed to testify.
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