2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 15, 2005
TUESDAY top10
BY COURTNEY HAGEN
editor@kansan.com
KANSAN CORRESPONDENT
Words not in the dictionary
10. lingweenie (n.) - A person incapable of producing neologisms, which are new words, expressions or usage.
9. **snirt** (n.) - Dirty snow, most often found by the side of roads and parking lots that have been plowed.
8. slickery (adj.) - Description of a surface that is wet and icy.
7. phonecrastinate (v.) -Waiting to answer the phone until the caller ID shows the incoming name and number.
6. **gription** (n.) - The leverage obtained with friction: "My car needs new tires because the old ones have lost their gription."
5. cognitive displaysia (n.) - The sense you have before you even leave the house that you are going to forget something and not remember it until you're gone.
2. **confuzzled** (adj.) - Confused and puzzled at the same time.
4. chillax (v.) - To chill out, relax or hang with friends.
3. woot (interj.) - An cry of elation or exhilaration.
1. **ginormous** (*adj.*) - Bigger than gigantic and enormous.
Source: Merriam-Webster Online
The man behind the curtain
ON THE BOULEVARD
FRANK TANKARD
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KANSAN STAFF WRITER
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The screens on the wall are lit up, the computers are running, the VCR is tapping and something has gone wrong.
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Scott Winer sits in the middle of it, a headset on his head, a denim jacket draped over his chair.
The jacket, with the words "NBC Sports" on the back and the 1996 Atlanta Olympic logo stitched to the breast, is a symbol of where he wants to be: directing major sporting events for network TV. He hopes to someday be in the middle of the action, at the Olympics perhaps, controlling the action viewers see across the world.
For now, he's in a control room in the Dole Human Development Center. The worn jacket he bought on eBay is only a symbol of his dream, student-run TV station KUJH-TV his vehicle for getting there.
It's a small crisis. The audio engineer and associate producer sit at opposite ends of the control panel, watching Winer. The wall of screens shows the three hosts on the other side of the wall, waiting on the set. Everyone awaits Winer's instruction.
At the moment, the KUJH-TV gear, a far cry from network equipment, isn't working. "jayhawk Sports Talk," the live show Winer directs, was supposed to start at 8 p.m., but the automated machine that controls show start times is a few minutes off, and the computer he uses to control the show froze.
The computer reboot and the automated machine is back on track. At 8:06, he says into his headset, "Let's go ahead and roll."
"We're going to be fine," says Winer, an Atlanta junior. "We're going to do this show."
Scott Winer, Atlanta junior, directs KUJH-TV's "Jayhawk Sports Talk" from the control room in the Dole Human Development Center Wednesday night. Winer directs the show and aspires to be a director for major sporting events on a network television station.
The cameras roll and Winer works like his life depends on it, directing the cameraman through his headset, "a little tighter on that shot," or "a little to the left," switching between cameras every few seconds, cuing the 21 graphics he designed before the show and the music that goes with them.
It doesn't matter to him that the show's few regular viewers are probably packed into Allen Fieldhouse on this night to watch the faj Hawks kick off their basketball season.
"The idea that you can snap your finger and it all changes in front of you, I like that," he said. "You watch this world come alive."
After the 30-minute show is over, he brings out a sandwich: time for dinner. He's been here since 2:30 p.m., working on every detail of the show. Winer said that even though his show wasn't the last of the evening, he's usually the last to leave.
Winer's serious about the show he directs on Tuesday and Wednesday nights. It isn't just something he does. It's practice for what he wants to do with his life.
Winer got his first taste of the sports directing business at the age of 10, when his cousin Mark Wolff, who was then a producer for NBC Sports, brought him
to the control truck after a National League Championship Series baseball game.
Since then, he's worked as a runner for CBS sports, assisting producers and directors at live TV sporting events, and got to shadow the man he now calls his mentor, Bob Fishman, a longtime director for CBS Sports. All the while, Winer took mental notes of the controlled chaos of directing a live game.
"He made it a real conscientious effort to study people in our business."
said Wolff, who now produces for CBS Sports. "He's an aggressive kid."
That's where Winer wants to be someday, in the center of the action. Until that happens, he needs to wait, and practice. That's where KUJH-TV comes in.
"Directing is really what I want to do, and it's something I've been working on for years," he said. "I'm not just in here pushing buttons."
— Edited by Erick R. Schmidt
Campus landmark witnesses victories, tragedies and oddities
BY CHARISSA YOUNG editor@kansan.com KANSAN CORRESPONDENT
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Under the waters of Potter Lake, there once lived an old Model-T Ford, a sewing machine, and, supposedly, a whale.
Swimmers enjoy the waters of Potter Lake before 1927, when it was banned for safety and health reasons. The lake was built in 1911 as a source of fire protection on campus and became a source of recreation for students.
Though the Model-Tand sewing machine were removed when the lake was drained in 1958, workers found no evidence of the legendary whale that witnesses claimed made appearances at student events.
Architect and contractor W.W. Gilmore and KU buildings and grounds supervisor E.F Crocker led the construction that included a 60-foot dam and pump house. Improvements in the local water system in 1924 rendered the motor-driven pump obsolete.
At 94 years old, Potter Lake retains little of the vitality it had in the early twentieth century. Created in 1911 as a source for fire protection on campus, its surface spanned approximately two acres and it was 18 feet deep.
Although the lake was created
for a useful purpose, it became a focal point for outdoor recreation throughout the 1910s and 1920s. In previous years, a regatta was held annually at the Kansas River, but with the lake's completion, the event moved to the University. The regatta served as an unofficial dedication ceremony for the lake. Kansas State Senator Thomas M.
Potter, the lake's namesake for unknown reasons, attended the event. It featured diving contests, water games, and swimming and canoe races.
A center of entertainment, Potter Lake was also subject to tragedy. In the spring of 1911, before the lake's completion, a group of civil engineering students stopped
for a swim on its way home from a party at Marvin Hall. One of the students, Leonard Ritchey, had a history of heart problems and was unable to swim across the lake. He drowned about halfway out. According to The University Daily Kansan, there were at least six Potter Lake drownings by 1921. Concern for student safety along with student health because of the polluted water, forced the University to ban swimming in the lake in 1927.
Though students could no longer engage in water activities at Potter Lake, it still attracted ice skaters during the winter and golfers at the nine-hole course built before the lake in 1900. The free golf course was later transformed into student barracks and parking lots after World War II, as enrollment figures boomed at the University. Ice skating was banned at the lake in the 1970s.
In the 1960s and 1970s Potter Lake was the scene of protests and initiation rites for fraternities, but other events also attracted students.
In 1974, 4,000 spectators watched Dan Wessel, a daredevil known as "The Great Wesselini" and "The Great Lorenzo," attempt to roll down a wooden ramp in a Plexiglas bubble and fly over Potter Lake. Clad in patriotic swimming trucks and white tights topped with a pink cape, Wessel rolled inside the bubble by standing on a skateboard. Unfortunately, the bubble spun out of control as assistants tried to loosen it after it was wedged between the tracks leading to the ramp. The Great Wesselini was flung to the ground unharmed.
Although the receding water shows evidence of Potter Lake's age, students still frequent the lake year-round.
Potter Lake. In 1999, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment found hazardous algae growing in the lake and listed it as one of 120 polluted bodies of waters in the state.
Those with a fishing permit can catch bluegill, catfish, bass and goldfish at the lake, but because the lake serves as a refuse for the campus steam heating system, eating the fish is not recommended
Pollution is still a concern at
Swimming is still banned, but after a big victory at nearby Memorial Stadium, KU football fans can be found paddling in the water trying not to sink under the goal posts they carried with them. Students cool off from the summer heat with outdoor evening movie showings. Ice skating has been replaced with sledding down the nearby hills. Regattas no longer draw crowds to the lake, but people still gather lakeside every May to celebrate the end of the school year with live music from groups such as Pearl Jam and Soul Coughing.
Potter Lake may have decreased in physical size over the years, but never in popularity within the KU community.
Edited by Ty Beaver
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