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APARTMENTS
Fire moves residents to hotel
A fire in Lawrence's Heatherwood Valley apartments damaged 12 apartments Saturday. Lawrence company Gage Management, Inc., manages the building at 2040 Heatherwood Drive.
The blaze was started by a resident's candle that was knocked on his bed. The mattress caught on fire, which spread the blaze to other rooms in the apartment and other apartments. The resident then alerted other residents in the building of the fire. Three students, whose names were not disclosed, were in the complex.
"We have been working around the clock since it happened to get the residents in new places," Gage said.
David Gage, owner of Gage Management, said the residents were put in hotel rooms directly after the fire.
Gage said a rehab project for the building may take months, so the residents affected have already been placed in new apartments. All residents except for one group stayed with the company.
Gage said of the residents affected, only one had renter's insurance.
"The people who lived in other apartments didn't have anything to do with the fire, but all their possessions got damaged or ruined." Gage said.
He said that the insurance cost only $8 to $10 a month, and it would have covered the renters' possessions.
-Brenna Hawlevy
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CAMPUS
Perfect record continues
Darnell Jackson, senior forward, yells in celebration as the clock runs out sealing a 76-70 victory for the Jayhawks over Missouri Saturday in Columbia, Mo. The Jayhawks improved to 18-0 with the win while the Tigers fell to 11-6.
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Fans in the Mizzou student section cheer to distract a Kansas free throw shooter. Kansas made 50 percent of its free throws in the first half and 67.7 percent in the second
SPOTLIGHT
Student leader finds voice on large campus Black Student Union president encourages all races to participate
BY RUSTIN DODD
DODD@KANSAN.COM
Three years ago, Ebony Howard found herself alone at a university — just another face among thousands.
"It was big," Howard said about her first impression of the University of Kansas. "It was a little scary, being that I was the only member of my family, period, to be in the state of Kansas."
Looking for a niche in a large campus. Howard said she heard about a group — the Black Student Union — that met on Monday evenings. Howard said she wandered into the meeting, and saw something refreshing.
"They wanted a body that could help them not only thrive on the campus, but also spark change."
It was a lot of people I thought I could relate to," Howard said. "That was just comforting. Any student needs to find that outlet where they feel most comfortable"
Howard, who has served on the Black Student Union executive board for three years, said it was her mother Carol who instilled in her a willingness to serve.
According to Howard, the Black Student Union was started at the University in the late 1960's because African-American students felt a need to organize.
Now, three years after Howard said she took the advice of a friend's Aunt to attend the University, Howard, the Ft Worth, Texas native, is president of the Black Student Union - a leading voice of multi-culturalism at the University of Kansas.
Howard said she was motivated to get more involved with the Black Student Union when she attended her first Big 12 council on Black Student Government in 2006. This conference is held every February at a different Big 12 school. Howard won an election to become the group's historian before being appointed to the vice president position.
Earl Brooks, Topeka senior, is the Black Student Union's current vice president. He said he began working closely with Howard this year.
"When we were growing up, we were constantly doing some sort of community service project, or volunteering somewhere with my mother," Howard said. "If I see something that needs to be done,
"She's a really good people person," Brooks said. "Her communication skills are really superb. She's got a really good passion for what she's doing. She works really hard."
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BUSINESS
Retailers see spike in Orange Bowl merchandise sales
Students looking for more of that sweet orange aftertaste resurged sales of Orange Bowl memorabilia.
The students bought shirts, hats and more proclaiming the Jayhawks as Orange Bowl champions despite spending hundreds on books in the same day.
The original rush for memento began
the morning after the Orange Bowl victory. In Lawrence some fans lined up before stores opened to get their hands on a piece of history. That day many pieces of apparel didn't even make it to the racks, as fans were grabbing them from the boxes.
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ENTERTAINMENT
The 59th annual Rock Chalk Revue fully underway
Last Thursday over 250 fraternity and sorority members began rehearsing for the annual United Way benefit show in March: Rock Chalk Revue. For the next month and a half cast members, directors and administrative staff will balance school and rehearsal and find a new appreciation of the arts while producing a musical.
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CAMPUS
Freenet's proposal passed up
Lawrence Freenet is trying to provide free internet access to all KU students. The proposal would give KU students wireless internet access all over Lawrence. Sunflower Broadband also began providing a free internet service, and said Freenet's service was not really being free.
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