THE UNIVERSITY DARRY KANSAN
TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2008
NEWS
BUSINESS
3A
Orange bowl brings big green
Champion merchandise sales increase as students resume classes
BY LUKE MORRIS
lmorris@kansan.com
Books weren't the only items students bought last week. Many were also after memorabilia commemorating the Jayhawks' victory in the Orange Bowl.
Michael Mueller, Plano, Texas
apparel didn't seem very expensive after buying books.
"My attitude is I've already spent a lot on books," he said. "A T-shirt doesn't seem that bad anymore."
Last week returning students made a second rush for Orange Bowl championship apparel, which Bill Muggy, owner of Jayhawk Bookstore, said he anticipated at his store. But Jackie Schoenwandt, merchandise manager for KU Bookstores, said that sales had remained steady.
The first rush began early the day after the game. Fans in Lawrence lined up at local retailers early to grab their mementos.
Ryan Owens, manager of Jock's Nitch Sporting Goods, 837 Massachusetts St. and 1443 W. 23rd St., said that people waited outside his stores before they opened and that most apparel didn't even make it onto the shelves the first day.
"We were basically just opening up the boxes as they came and handing out shirts from the boxes," Owens said.
He attributed the strong sales to the magnitude of the season and bowl.
Photo illustration by Mindy Ricketts
"One customer told me, I've waited my whole life for this," Owens said. "I guess everyone wants a piece of history."
Online sales boomed as well.
Jayhawk fans from outside Lawrence
bought their fair share of memorabilia. Web sites connected to local stores were swarmed with orders. Muggy said that orders had quadrupled on his store's site and included a few international orders. Top sellers on kustore.com included glasses, hats, shirts and pre-orders of DVDs commemorating the jayhawks season.
Stores still have plenty of memorabilia for those who haven't made their purchases yet. Shelves are far from empty and many stores owners
a r e contemplating putting the remaining items on sale.
Owens said that he bought Orange Bowl items aggressively because he planned to mark down the leftover items as part of the grand opening sale for his store's third location. Schoenwandt said that KU Bookstores were offering $3 off a T-shirt or $5 off a sweatshirt when students bought $100 worth of textbooks.
Schoenwandt and Owens agreed that Orange Bowl merchandise sales were far better than sales after Kansas' victory in the Fort Worth Bowl in 2005. Owens said that sales were nowhere close in comparison.
-Edited by Katherine Loeck
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UNION (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
CARRYING THE BANNER
"People automatically assume because we have in our title, 'Black,' that that's a pre-requisite to be in
Howard sat at her desk at Express Personnel Services, 1000 Iowa, on Monday. A photo of Dr. Martin Luther King with a group of civil rights leaders sat illuminated on her computer's desktop.
Contributed photo
Ebony Howard, fourth from right, is pictured at the Chancellor's Reception October 2007. She is with the Chancellor and representatives of the following student organizations: Black Student Union, First Nations Student Association, Hispanic American Leadership Organization and Asian American Student Union
But, Howard said a few misconceptions about the group still exist.
"Do I feel a personal responsibility for maintaining the legacy that was put fourth before me? Yeah, I actually feel a personal responsibility to maintain the legacy started by Martin Luther King and others," Howard said on the day America celebrates King's holiday.
"But I don't think it's just a role that African-Americans have. I think it's a role for any individual who has any respect for any person's civil rights," Howard said. "You're going to maintain that legacy as well."
The B.S.U. will co-sponsor the event, "Walking the Dream: Honoring the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King" on Jan. 31. The group will also host numerous events in February to commemorate Black History Month, and will be putting on Black Love week in April - a week devoted to community service events.
Howard said the Black Student Union maintains that legacy through its dedication to serving the community.
our organization," Howard said. "If you want to be an active participant in community service and other things that are promoting' multiculturalism on the campus, then this organization is for you."
For Howard, a African-American studies and American studies major, the B.S.U. was a springboard to other organizations on campus.
Howard is a member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc., and is a tutor for SOAR - Students Obtaining Academic Resources.
"Her leadership style kind of matches her personality, very outgoing, very direct," Brooks said.
Howard said she credited and the students in the B.S.U. for giving
"Any organization that promotes multi-culturalism and diversity is very paramount for any setting." Howard said.
her the ability to branch out around the university.
Edited by Nick Mangiaracina
PRESIDENTIAL RACE
Voters versus fans
WASHINGTON — Super Bowl vs.
Super Tuesday
How can Hillary vs. Barack or Mitt vs. Mike get any attention when the national spotlight is on Tom vs. Eli?
Four Super Tuesday states are home to huge numbers of fans of the SuperBowl New York Giants and New England Patriots: New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts.
Other states holding contests on Feb. 5 include California, Illinois and Georgia, all expensive media markets.
Both have ads in northern California, where there is a high concentration of early voting. Obama is also airing ads in Arizona — concentrating in the early voting center of Phoenix — and in Missouri, New Mexico and Connecticut.
Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama must first concentrate on Saturday's South Carolina primary. But as the two best financed candidates in the presidential field, they are already spending on television commercials in Feb. 5 states.
Obama aides say he has the financial resources to advertise in many of the Feb. 5 states, a step he must take early because he's had less exposure there than in early-voting states such as Iowa and New Hampshire.
The Republican campaigns are still trying to divine what the political terrain will look like going into Super Tuesday. For now, they must concentrate on the Jan. 29 primary in Florida, where the four leaders are packed in a cluster, according to polls in the state. The race is too unsettled to plan Feb. 5 strategy.
As for the Super Bowl, campaigns are still weighing whether to buy less expensive regional spots for the game. That would permit them to address a more specific audience at a cost that is lower, though still expensive by other advertising standards.
INTERNATIONAL
Ain't no mountain high enough for Hillary
Five hundred New Zealand and international dignitaries joined the Hillary family at a state funeral in St. Mary's Anglican Church in this northern city, while thousands gathered at big screen venues in cities nationwide to pay respects to Hillary, hailed as this South Pacific nation's greatest son.
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Sherpas laid prayer scarves on the coffin of Edmund Hillary Tuesday as thousands across New Zealand bid farewell to the Mount Everest conquerer.
pas, including one woman, laid traditional prayer scarves on the coffin for "burra sahib" or big man, who had spent more than 40 years working to aid Nepal's development.
The ice ax used by Hillary on his May 29, 1953, conquest of Mt. Everest with Nepal's Sherpa Tenzing Norgay also lay atop the flag-draped coffin.
The enormously popular adventurer died of a heart attack on Jan. 11, at age 88.
Intelligence e-mails lost
WASHINGTON — Apparent gaps in White House e-mail archives coincide with dates in late 2003 and early 2004 when the administration was struggling to deal with the CIA leak investigation and the possibility of a congressional probe into intelligence failures.
As the service began, five Sher-
The gaps — 473 days over a period of 20 months — are cited in a chart prepared by White House computer technicians and shared in September with the House Reform and Government Oversight Committee, which has been looking into reports of missing e-mail.
Waxman said he decided to release details from the White House-prepared chart after presidential spokesman Tony Fratto declared "we have absolutely no reason to believe that any e-mails are missing."
Contents of the chart — which the White House now disputes.
the White House now disputes — were disclosed Thursday by Rep. Henry Waxman, a California Democrat who chairs the House committee, as he announced plans for a Feb. 15 hearing.
Among the periods of time for which the chart indicates e-mail is missing is a five-day span starting on Jan. 29, 2004, when the White House was dealing with the possibility of an election-year probe by Congress into Iraq intelligence failures.
The White House says computer back-up tapes should contain substantially all e-mails between 2003 and 2005. However, the White House recycled backup tapes until sometime in October 2003, taping over existing data. That could mean some e-mail is gone forever if it is also missing from archives.
The White House says the e-mail matter arose in October 2005 in connection with the Justice Department's CIA leak probe, in which Fitzgerald later that month obtained a grand jury indictment against Libby for perjury, obstruction and lying to the FBI.
NATIONAL
Racist protest leads to counter protest
Police separated participants in the "pro-majority" rally organized by the Learned, Miss-based Nationalist Movement from a racially mixed group of about 100 counter-demonstrators outside the LaSalle Parish Courthouse. There was no violence and one arrest, a counter-demonstrator.
JENA, La.  About 50 white separatists protested the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday Monday in this tiny town, which was thrust into the spotlight months ago by 20,000 demonstrators who claimed prosecutors discriminated against blacks.
Chants of "No KKK" from the mostly college-age counter-demonstrators were met with a chant from the separatists that contained a racial epithet.
Five of the black teens were originally charged with attempted murder, leading to accusations that they were being prosecuted harshly because of their race. Charges have since been reduced.
Race relations in Jena (population about 2,800) have been in the news ever since six black teenagers were arrested in the beating of a white classmate at Jena High School in December 2006.
Police from several organizations, including Louisiana State Police and at least three parish sheriff's departments, were on hand. Sniper staked up the roofs of buildings across the street from the courthouse.
One of the Jena Six, Mychal Bell, 17, pleaded guilty in December in juvenile court to second-degree battery. A judge sentenced him to 18 months with credit for the 10 months he'd already served in jail. Trials are pending for the others charged.
Israel eases blockade
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel said Monday it will ease a blockade of Gaza imposed in retaliation for militant rocket attacks, allowing some food and fuel in for one day. The announcement followed a U.N. warning that international food aid to the impoverished territory may have to be suspended by the weekend.
The closure imposed after a spike in rocket attacks last week cut off fuel supplies. On Sunday, Gaza's Hamas rulers shut the strip's power plant, leaving one-third of the 1.5 million people without electricity. Gas stations and many bakeries closed, and health officials warned of an impending crisis in hospitals running low on generator fuel.
The cutoff of fuel prompted condemnation from aid and human rights groups. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak called Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Monday and urged him to ease restrictions.
-Associated Press
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Michael Brown, of West Monroe, La., holds a Ku Klux Klan flag as he talks with reporters in front of the courthouse in Jena, La., Monday. Brown is a self-proclaimed member of the Ku Klux Klan.
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