THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 2008
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POLITICS
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Lacy sees no end for Thompson's run
Dole Institute director continues participation in GOP, presidential campaign
Ginny Weatherman/KANSAN
The Dole Institute director Bill Lacy took a leaf of absence, when he left to manage Republican Fred Thompson's presidential campaign last August. Thomson's campain is the sixth presidential campaign that Lacy has worked on.
FRANCESCA CHAMBERS
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It is official. Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson finished near the bottom in the Michigan primary election, held on Jan. 15. Thompson finished ahead of Rudy Giuliani and behind Mitt Romney, John McCain and Mike Huckabee. Thompson for President campaign manager Bill Lacy was not surprised. But Lacy refused to see Thompson's loss as an indication that Lacy might return to Lawrence to his job as director of the Dole Institute of Politics any time soon.
Lacy did not mention that York, S.C., where Thompson's event was held, has a population of 7,465, according to a July 2006 estimate by City-Data, compared to Lawrence's population of 88,605.
Fred Thompson is in South Carolina where primary elections are held on Saturday.
"I just got a call from the event in South Carolina," Lacy said. "The fire marshal was very concerned that the crowd was way too big for where we were. That is a good sign in a presidential campaign."
Still, Lacy said he was optimistic about Thompson's campaign in South Carolina for other reasons, including the fact that Thompson has spent time and money campaIGNing in South Carolina, which he did not do in Michigan, Mitt Romney's home state.
campaign that Lacy was involved with. Lacy worked on the presidential campaigns for Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole and George H.W. Bush, as well as Thompson's senate campaigns. After Bob Dole's 1996 presidential campaign, Lacy took a break from politics until he was named the director of the
"He has always told us that when the opportunity comes to serve your country, you have to take that opportunity."
CLARISSA UNGER
"I think the momentum is clearly in our favor," Lacy said. "The Rasmussen poll showed us with a four-point bounce since the debate the other night where Fred's performance was so, so strong. We have a very well structured and financed campaign in South Carolina, so we're optimistic."
Colby junior
Thompson's presidential campaign is the sixth presidential
"When I first heard from Thompson.
Dole Institute in 2004. In August 2007, Lacy took a leave of absence from his job as director to manage Thompson's campaign.
Senator Dole and Chancellor Hemenway were very excited about a leave of absence," Lacy said. "They thought it was important for me to practice what I preach every day. I wouldn't have done it with out their support."
Lacy said he had a lot of support from the Lawrence community regarding his decision as well as from University students.
"I literally got hundreds of
e-mails from the community congratulating me," Lacy said. "The democrats were just as supportive as the Republicans, not of Thompson but of me getting involved again."
Jonathan Earle, interim director of the Dole Institute, said he really encouraged Lacy to take the position, but Earle said he looked forward to having Lacy back at the Institute.
"I know how much he liked working in politics and this was a chance for him to get back into that and work for someone he believes in."
"He has always told us that when the opportunity comes to serve your country, you have to take that opportunity," Unger said.
Clarissa Unger, Colby junior and student assistant at the Dole Institute, said she missed Lacy but knew that he was doing great things.
Lacy said he loved working on Thompson's campaign, but that he had forgotten how fast-paced presidential campaigns are.
"Their idea was to do an announcement within a month of
when I got here, but there were no plans for it. A lot of the candidates had been in the race for a year before I got here. But at the end of the day, we think we have a really good candidate"
Lacy also said he only had 10 days off since he began working on Thompson's campaign. He now works twice as many hours as he did at the Dole Institute.
"I am literally making things happen from the time I get in every day, and it's a pace that is relentless," Lacy said. "Whenever I get back to the Institute I will take the connections I have built up and try to increase the quality of our programming."
Lacy said he expected Thompson to do well in South Carolina's primary election on Saturday. He also said Feb. 5,would be Thompson's real test when many of the southern states have their primary elections, including Tennessee, Thompson's home state.
"I plan on not being back until after the November election," Lacy said.
Edited by Madeline Hyden
ODD NEWS Man almost loses ticket to national championship
RACINE, Wis. — A little house-cleaning nearly cost the Rev. Walter Hermanns a seat at Sunday's National Football Conference championship game.
Hermanns, who has multiple sclerosis and uses a wheelchair, was getting some help from a friend last Friday when he asked him to take care of a stack of papers left in a bin for shredding.
When his friend got to four Green Bay Packers tickets bundled together with a rubber band, he took off the band, put one in the shredder and then stopped short.
"Something rang a bell and he said, 'Are you sure you want to shred these?' Hermanns said.
They emptied the shredder, collected pieces of the ticket and put them in a plastic bag. A call to the Packers' ticket office remedied the situation, but not without some explaining.
Too late. The ticket was in shreds.
"It almost sounded like they had heard crazy stories like this
before," Hermanns said.
before, he mentioned is said:
It helped that he had purchased the tickets with a credit card, still had three remaining tickets and had gotten the tickets through a special lottery for handicapped-accessible seats.
The seniors at suburban Bellevue East High School both scored 36 on the college entrance exam, though Ross DeVol needed three tries. One of his earlier tries netted a 35.
Identical twin brothers earn perfect ACT scores
BELLEVUE, Neb. — Brian and Ross DeVol are a perfect match, genetically and academically: The identical twins earned perfect ACT scores.
The 18-year-old brothers have maintained straight-A's through high school, and both are in the running for class valedictorian.
The twins have already won household bragging rights. Their older brother, John, earned a 33 the first time he took the ACT and didn't try again.
"We're pretty competitive," Ross DeVol said.
Ross DeVol said his older
The brothers are both good in physics and are considering the University of Nebraska or Creighton University in Omaha as their college choices, but they haven't yet decided.
brother has been joking about retaking the test since the twins earned their perfect scores.
The DeVols are only the third pair of students in the past decade to earn perfect scores in the same year and share the same address, ACT spokeswoman Kristin Crouse said. Crouse couldn't say whether the others were twins.
Ross DeVol said he wants to become a doctor or a psychiatrist. Brian DeVol has said he wants to become an actuary.
About one out of every 4,000 graduates who took the ACT last year scored a 36. The average score in Nebraska was 22.1, and the national average was 21.2.
LOS ANGELES — Conservationists vowed to return to court to challenge President Bush's decision to let the Navy continue using high-power sonar in its training off.
Bush allows Navy to use high-powered sonar devices
southern California, a practice they say harms whales and other marine mammals.
The president's decision to exempt the Navy from an environmental law will not by itself allow the anti-submarine warfare training to go forward because an injunction remains in place. But the Navy believes it will significantly strengthen its argument in court.
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco had been expected to rule on the future of the Navy exercises on Friday. But after Bush's decision, the appeals court on Wednesday sent the issue back to the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles to consider. The Navy asked the court for a decision by 4 p.m. Thursday.
But much is still unknown about how sonar affects whales and other marine mammals. For example, the sound can hurt some species while not affecting others, and experts don't fully understand why.
Scientists said loud sonar can damage marine mammal brains and ears. It may also mask the echoes some whales and dolphins listen for when they use their own natural sonar to locate food.
Associated Press
》 RESOLUTIONS
New year promotes fitness techniques
BY MARY SORRICK
msorrick@kansan.com
New Year's resolutions for many students for better fitness are put to the test at the start of the spring semester. Stress from class work and busy schedules can often make regular exercise a difficult commitment to keep.
dietary change. Reducing a diet by no more than 500 calories is best for long-term weight loss.
Jennifer Mohwinkie, Topeka junior, said she was one student who had trouble keeping New Year's resolutions.
JOSEPH DONNELLY Director of KU's or Physical Activity and Weight Management
"I say I'll try to start exercising when classes start," Mohwinkle said. "But it's
"It's important to remember that you don't have to get fit tomorrow. You have your whole life to get to a level of fitness and work to keep it."
hard to find the time to go consistently."
Donnelly said an incremental increase in exercise time and realistic short and long-term goals were important. Students should aim for workouts of 30 to 60 minutes at least five days a week, he said.
"It's important to remember that you don't have to get fit tomorrow," Donnelly said. "You have your whole life to get to a level of fitness and work to keep it."
Joseph Donnelly, director of KU's Center for Physical Activity and Weight Management, said there were a number of strategies students like Mohwinkle could employ to increase the likelihood of sticking to a new exercise plan.
Donnelly is also testing the effects that exercise can have on the body in a long term exercise study. The study measures the results of 45 to 75 minutes of exercise per day for 10 months in overweight people between the ages of 18 and 30. Jeff Honas, project coordinator, said the five-year study, now in its second year, brought significant weight loss for some participants. Honas said depending on the number of calories burned during the workouts, study participants lost between 4.5 percent and 7.5 percent of their body weight.
Fitness or weight loss must become a priority, he said, and anyone who began a new fitness regimen should increase exercise gradually.
Donnelly also stressed the importance of students maintaining a healthy diet and, if possible, joining a fitness program or finding a friend to exercise with to hold them accountable to their fitness goals.
Meg Givens, KU alumna, is one of the exercise study's most successful participants. She completed the study in July after losing 40 pounds and attested the importance of working out consistently.
Weight loss achieved by consistent exercise can also be maintained with a healthy diet, Donnelly said.
He said a person could exercise regularly and still only lose 5 to 10 pounds per year without
"You really need something to be accountable to," Givens said. "I never would have made myself go out every day and exercise without the program."
Givens said she continued to keep her
weight down by running, lifting weights and paying attention to nutrition.
Anyone interested in participating in the Long Term Exercise Study should contact Jeff Honas at ltexercise@ku.edu. For more information on getting healthy, visit KU's Student Health Services Web site at www.studenthealth.ku.edu.
But for those who can't find the time to spend hours at the gym every week, Donnelly said every bit of exercise counted.
"To have a reasonable level of fitness, all you have to do is walk," he said.
Edited by Matt Hirschfeld
Dr. Donnelly's advice to keep fitness resolutions
gradually
1- Start small
2- Increase exercise time gradually
3 Hold yourself accountable
—take an exercise class, go to the recreation center or find a workout buddy
4 Set realistic goals
5- Seek dietary advice
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