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Mangino said his team's attitude was one that would never be divided. "We have all, players and coaches, have all invested so much to it," Mangino said. "The kids always stick together. That is something that has been important. Instead of finger pointing, the kids try to help each other."
After Kansas' 19-3 loss to Oklahoma, however, senior linebacker Nick Reid said he felt like getting in a fist fight with the team's offense because of its lack of production. Mangino said players on both sides of the ball helped each other in practice this week.
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"We were doing some passrush drills last week and the defensive lineman were talking to the offensive lineman," Mangino said. "That is what we are all about. We have a great deal of pride here at KU."
deal of practice. The Kansas offensive line took that advice to heart. The line opened big holes for the Kansas running backs and helped the team accumulate 208 vards on the ground.
Senior quarterback Jason Swanson was in high spirits after knocking off Missouri. "We don't think our season is over by a long shot," Swanson said. "We are just trying to stay positive and go out there and get us two more wins and get us bowl eligible."
Saturday's victory against Missouri has given Kansas new life, and the once seemingly impossible is again possible.
"We deserved to win today's game," Mangino said. "It will be a springboard for us for the rest of the season." Kansas will next face a Nebraska team that lost to Missouri 41-24, two weeks ago.
"This win gives us momentum," junior wide receiver Charles Gordon said. "Missouri beat Nebraska and we think we can do the same. It's huge."
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Former space director testifies
Former Kansas Cosmosphere director Max Ary is seen in this 2002 photo. Ary testified Friday at his theft trial that he sometimes traded his own space and astronaut artifacts to obtain items for the museum. Ary also is charged with fraud and money laundering for allegedly stealing and selling items that belonged to the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center.
Director charged with fraud, laundering
BY ROXANA HEGEMAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WICHITA — A former space museum president testified Friday at his theft trial that student volunteers mistakenly counted his personal collection of space items as part of a museum's inventory.
Max Ary, who co-founded the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center and led it for more than 26 years, is charged with 19 federal counts, including fraud, theft and money laundering. He is accused of stealing and selling items that belonged to the Hutchinson space museum.
"At no time while employed at the Cosmosphere did I ever intend to cheat or do anything improper for the Cosmosphere," Ary told jurors.
Ary recounted how in the late 1970s, when the Cosmosphere's collection was being assembled, he would often take students with him to pick up space hardware NASA no longer wanted. He said the teenage volunteers also inventoried Ary's own artifacts — items used to start the museum's collection.
Under cross examination, Ary identified many items prosecutors contend were stolen as actually being part of the original collection he brought to the Hutchinson museum. He said obtained his collection entirely through trade or gifts.
"It is hard to have documentation when you didn't buy anything," he said.
Ary also testified that he often used some of his own artifacts to barter for items for the Cosmosphere.
He cited as an example obtaining 10 Apollo hand controllers, to use on simulators at the museum's space camp, by trading a small rocket engine that was part of his collection.
Ary testified that he began collecting space artifacts while
working at the Noble Planetarium in Fort Worth, Texas. Photos of him using many of those artifacts while working there were introduced into evidence.
When NASA was disbanding the Apollo program that took men to the moon, Ary said he thought it would be a once-in-a-lifetime chance for a museum to obtain a large collection in a short time.
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He said change was in the air when he rose to power and that Communism had stifled the
Gorbachev
"This system was not working," Gorbachev said. "It was rusting, to say the least."
Through a translator, Gorbachev talked about the difficulties of the Soviet Union's breakup. He also compared the lessons he learned from overseeing the Soviet transition to similar changes happening today.
He said when Russia was going through "perestroika," the period of economic change before the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, people were critical of the Soviet leaders. Gorbachev, who was relatively young, had to overcome the resistance to the government.
He said change does not
come easy and ensuring democracy and freedom requires patience. These are lessons America needs to keep in mind as the world's superpower, Gorbachev said.
"It took you Americans 200 years to build up your democracy, and you want us to speed up?" he asked the crowd.
He also said the world must improve relations with Islamic nations. The United States must understand the goals of the Islamic world and maintain a respectful dialogue, not just accuse Muslims of fundamentalism and terrorism.
K-State's president, Jon Wefaid, ended the event by presenting Gorbachev with a white and purple K-State sweatshirt
purple K A states Gorbachev continued his tour of the United States with a visit to Lindsborg on Saturday to talk about chess and world peace.
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A police officer crossed the street and grabbed the middle of the post, he said.
Between 30 seconds and two minutes later, the officer sprayed five to 10 people, they said.
spray, he said. He was told the officer felt like he was being "charged."
Those carrying the post continued toward Massachusetts Street and the officer warned them that he would spray them with pepper spray if they failed to drop the post, Bizjack, Chris Kavanaugh, Wichita sophomore, and Julian Grass, Mattoon, Ill., junior, said.
Ralph Oliver, chief of the KU Public Safety Office, said he had not seen the written report, but he had been told that a number of people were carrying a goal post and an officer with the KU Public Safety Office used pepper spray, he said.
Oliver said he assumed that meant someone might have rushed at the officer.
An investigation will be conducted to determine whether the officer properly used the pepper spray, Oliver said.
Pepper spray is considered force and must meet protocol for the use of force, he said.
Kavanaugh said he was one of the people hit by the cloud of pepper spray while carrying the post.
His eyes hurt for 20 minutes, he said.
"I think it was inappropriate to spray." Kavanaugh said.
While the office gave the group fair warning, Kavana-augh said, he thought the officer should have avoided using pepper spray.
"We were just showing school spirit by taking the posts to Mass. Street where we all hang out."
Grass also helped carry a post from Potter Lake.
Police followed both groups from Potter Lake, and at one point an officer tackled a person carrying an orange pylon, he said.
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