2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2005
TUESDAY top10
BY COURTNEY HAGEN
editor@kansan.com
KANSAN CORRESPONDENT
Top 10 books sold at Borders Books and Music during the month of September
9. "Lipstick Jungle"by Candace Bushnell
10. “Point Blank”by Catherine Coulter
8. "The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova
6. "Polar Shift: A Novel From the NUMA Files" by Clive Cussler
7. "The DaVinci Code" by Dan Brown
5. "Goodnight Nobody" by Jennifer Weiner
4. "Anansi Boys" by Neil Gaiman
3. "Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince" (Harry Potter #6) by J.K. Rowling
2. "The March" by E.L Doctorow
The Eldest"by
1. The Eldest by Christopher Paolini
Source: www.bordersstores.com
ON THE BOULEVARD
Croatian turns Kansan
After stops in three countries and two states graduate student finds latest home at University
By FRANK TANKARD
fankard@kansai.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Born in Berlin, raised in Croatia, schooled in Montana and Maine, he now sits squarely in the middle of the United States with a blue Rock Chalk bracelet hugging his wrist.
Vjeko Jadric is a second-year graduate student, but his path to the University wasn't a typical one.
It began in Berlin, where he was born to two Croatians. In 1986, at the age of six, he moved with his mother to Hvar, a Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea that served as a refugee outpost during the Croatian battle for independence from Yugoslavia. At the time he lived there, the war wasn't ongoing, but Jadric saw the side effects of a wartime nation.
It was basketball that brought the 6-foot-7 Jadric to America. After graduating from high school, his coach found a scholarship for him at Miles Community College in Miles City, Mont. Jadric jumped at the opportunity.
"At that point, everything in
He eventually got used to the barren Montana landscape and quickly began to like the people.
America was the same to me. I didn't know the difference between Chicago and Montana," he said.
"I've never had a problem with people in smaller towns in America. They're very pleasant," he said.
He then returned to Europe to try to play professional basketball. He signed an agent, but when he wasn't able to find a team, Adric came to the University on the recommendation of a Presque Isle professor.
After two years at Miles Community College, Jadric transferred to the University of Maine at Presque Isle, where he played basketball for two years in the NAIA. He averaged nearly 10 rebounds per game and graduated with a bachelor's degree in international relations and political science.
So now he's here, in the lobby of the Kansas Union. His basketball days are now limited to playing on an intramural team and an occasional pickup game at the Student Recreation Fitness Center. He's a year and a half away
from graduating with a master's of business administration and a master's of arts in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies. He's the first student to pursue the joint degree.
"There aren't, frankly, a lot of students with the full compliment of international experience Vjeko has," said Bart Redford, international programs coordinator at the School of Business, who helped him get into the program.
Jadric said he'd probably look for work at an American company after graduation.
"I've really blended in and gotten used to the American lifestyle," he said. "Being abroad was never really a problem for me."
Editor's note: University Daily Kansan reporter Frank Tankard writes a regular feature on KU students, faculty and staff who have a story to tell. If you have an interesting story or know someone who does, e-mail Frank at ftankard@kansan.com.
Edited by Erick R. Schmidt
Kristin Driskell/KANSAN
Vjeko Jadric, a second-year graduate student from Stari Grad, Croatia, is the first student to pursue a joint master's degree in business and Russian and Eastern European studies. He graduated from the University of Maine at Presque Isle with a bachelor's degree in international relations and political science before coming to Lawrence.
SUPREME COURT
Bush's latest justice nomination has no experience as judge
BY DAVID ESPO
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Pablo Martinez Monsivals/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — President Bush nominated White House counsel Harriet Miers to a Supreme Court in transition Monday, turning to a longtime loyalist without experience as a judge or publicly known views on abortion to succeed Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
White House counsel and Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers walks out with RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie following their meeting with Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky, Monday, in Washington. President Bush nominated Miers to the Supreme Court Monday to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
Miers "will strictly interpret our Constitution and laws. She will not legislate from the bench," the president said as the 60-year-old former private attorney and keeper of campaign secrets stood nearby in the Oval Office.
ing for the Capitol and a confirmation campaign already taking shape in the Senate.
Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said through his spokesman he wanted a confirmation vote by Thanksgiving, a compressed, seven-week timetable by recent historical standards. Sen. Arlen Specter, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, pledged thoroughness.
Miers' was Bush's second selection in three months for vacancies on a high court long divided on key issues. The announcement came shortly before the president attended a ceremony marking John Roberts' new tenure as the nation's 17th chief justice.
"The wisdom of those who drafted our Constitution and conceived our nation as functioning with three strong and independent branches has proven truly remarkable." Miers said at the White House before depart-
"There needs to be, obviously, a very thorough inquiry into her background as a lawyer and her activities, people who will know her on the issues of character and integrity, which we will find out," he said.
In conference calls and interviews, the White House worked aggressively during the day to tamp down concern among conservatives determined, as Bush has pledged, to turn the court in a new direction.
Despite criticism, initial reaction suggested Bush had managed to satisfy many of the conservatives who helped confirm Roberts — without inflaming Democrats who repeatedly warned against the selection of an extreme conservative to succeed O'Connor, who has voted to uphold abortion rights and
preserve affirmative action.
preserve terminal author.
Several officials familiar with Bush's consultations with Congress said that Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic leader, had recommended that he consider Miers for the vacancy. In a written statement, Reid
praised the Dallas native as a "trailblazer for women as managing partner of a major Dallas law firm" and said he would be glad to have a former practicing attorney on the court.
Frist greeted Miers by telling her, "We're so proud of you."
sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky, the second-ranking Republican in the Senate, issued a statement saying he looked "forward to Ms. Miers' confirmation."
Republicans hold a 55-44 majority in the Senate, with one independent. Barring a filibuster, they can confirm Miers on the strength of their votes alone.
Miers has served as an adviser to Bush for more than a decade, in positions as varied as private attorney, chairwoman of the Texas Lottery Commission and in the White House.
When Bush decided to run for governor of Texas in the early 1990s, he turned to Miers to research his own background for information that his opponents might try to use against him. When terrorists struck the United States in 2001, she was with him as staff secretary on what had been a routine trip to Florida.
While her loyalty to Bush is unquestioned, Democrats publicly and Republicans privately wondered about her qualifications for the high court.
"The president has selected a loyal political ally without a judicial record to sit on the highest court in the land," said Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.
At the same time, several senators, Reid and Specter among them, said they would be pleased to have a justice with no prior judicial experience, and the White House moved to fend off any charge that Bush was merely picking a longtime associate.
The administration released material showing that 10 of the 34 justices appointed since 1933 had worked for the president who picked them. The list included the late Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, first tapped for the court by Richard M. Nixon, and Byron White, named by John F. Kennedy.
Republican concerns tended to be more muted. Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., a strong foe of abortion, pointedly declined to issue a statement responding to the nomination.
First-term Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., said he was reserving judgment. "It has been my expectation that President Bush would nominate someone in the mold of Justices Scalia and Thomas and it is my hope that Harriet Miers will prove to be such a person," he said. Both justices have voted to overturn the 1973 abortion ruling.
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