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THE UNIVERSITY DARY KANSAN
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2008
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"Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things — blocking and tackling."
Vince Lombardi
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3. Kansas students volunteer for the earth
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2. Wheeler: Jayhawks taste bitter defeat
During Super Bowl Sunday 2006, viewers ate 49.5 million pounds of avocados, enough to cover Ford Field end zone to end zone in more than 11.8 feet of guacamole.
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4. Keefer: Cats wanted it more
1. Kansas houses gladiator-in-training
5. International Law Society discusses world politics
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A 10-day-old Rothschild giraffe named Margaret is fed by her keeper, Tim Rowlands, at Chester Zoo in Chester, England, on Wednesday. The 5-foot, 75-pound giraffe was born two weeks early and is the first call for his six-year-old mother Fay, who was having difficulty sucking her calf.
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KU School of Law presents annual tribal conference
annual tribal Conference The 12th annual Tribal Law and Government Conference was held Friday at the University of Kansas, Stacy Leeds, professor of law and director of the Tribal Law and
Government Center, said that the conference was about opening doors for Native Americans.
"Any student that graduates from the business school that may go into banking could be handling money for a Native American tribe," Leeds said.
Leeds said there were four Kansas tribes involved: Putawatomie, Kickapoo, Sac and Fox and Iowa.
from various areas.
The conference held a panel consisting of tribal attorneys, business leaders and law professors
Leeds said the goal of the conference was to "offer other things that tribes can go into besides
casinos, such as construction and banking."
The conference's topic was especially timely because Kansas has taken steps to open state-owned casinos and other states may follow suit.
Meet your Student Senator with Aaron Jacobs
Jason Baker
BY ALEXANDRA GARRY
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Nontraditional student senator Aaron Jacobs' college career has been, well, nontraditional. Jacobs, a Leawood senior majoring in political science and philosophy, took a year off after his junior year to work with underprivileged youth outside Chicago.
"I wanted to take a break before I graduated," Jacobs said. "A lot of people graduate and really don't know what they want to do with their lives. I wanted to take some time to figure that out."
Jacobs took the opportunity to "leave the nest" through AmeriCorps VISTA, a volunteer program dedicated to fighting poverty. Jacobs worked with a charitable organization for high school dropouts. The experience, he said, expanded his horizons and deepened his belief in the value of education.
"It gave me a new and different perspective," he said. "It made me a better person and a better student."
Today Jacobs continues his interest in community service through Student Senate.
"Nontraditional students are very underrepresented on campus by other students." Jacobs said. "There's a lot of organizations and administration programs for nontraditional students on campus, but not a lot of student representation. I wanted to become a student advocate for other students like me."
Any student who is married, a veteran or a parent is defined as a nontraditional student, according to the Nontraditional Student Services Web site. Students who must commute 10 or more miles to attend class or who are three or more years older than their classmates also are considered nontraditional, according to the Web site. According to the Nontraditional Student Foundation, about 25 percent of Lawrence campus students fit into this category.
From finding the cash to pay rising tuition costs to finding time to sleep, the challenges facing any college student are numerous. Nontraditional students face a varied set of additional challenges such as finding affordable child care or adjusting to returning to education after an extended absence.
"They're really taking the initiative to pay for and make their way through college on their own — to fight through whatever life has given them, be that kids or marriage or military service or absence," Jacobs said.
The varied interests of jacobs' constituents can make representation difficult. Jacobs focuses on finding funding for student groups through the Senate.
"I like to find groups, especially those that focus on nontraditional
interests, that need help and help them to find the money to see their goals fulfilled", Jacobs said.
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Five bottles of perfume were reported stolen to Lawrence police officers Friday on Iowa Street.
Wal-Mart reported $290 worth of feminine hygiene products stolen from its store.
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The University offers test preparation courses for the LSAT, GMAT and GRE. They are held throughout the spring semester at both the Edwards Campus and the Lawrence Campus. Some are being held this week, so check them out at www.continuingeducation.ku.edu.
Business Career Week will take place all day in Summerfield Hall.
Principal-Counselor-Student Conferences will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the KU Visitor Center.
KU Libraries Instructional Services will present "Blackboard Strategies and Tools" at 9 a.m. in 6 Budig Hall.
KU Libraries Book Sale will be from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. in Watson Library.
KU Libraries Instructional Services will present the workshop "SPSS I: Getting Started" at 1 p.m. in the Budig PC Lab.
The play "Rumpelstiltskin",
created by Moses Goldberg,
will begin at 1 p.m. in the William Inge Memorial Theatre in Murphy Hall.
Vinu Unnikrishnan will present the lecture "Multiscale Analysis of Biomechanical and Nanomechanical Systems" at 3:30 p.m. in the Spahr Engineering Classroom, 2 Eaton Hall.
The early modern seminar presented by Robert Bayliss will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Hall Center Seminar Room.
Dan McIntosh of University of Massachusetts in Amherst will present the seminar "Exploring Galaxy Evolution with Modern Surveys" at 4 p.m. in 2074 Mall Hall.
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