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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2007
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TRANSPORTATION
An Amtrak police officer and his dog monitor travelers as they line up to board a train at New York's Pennsylvania Station, Wednesday. Americans packed up and headed to airports and train stations hours ahead of time Wednesday to get a jump on what was predicted to be the largest Thanksgiving pilgrimage ever despite rising gas prices and fears of air delays.
Airports not fazed by holiday
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ATLANTA — Travelers heading home after the Thanksgiving holiday weekend swarmed airports Sunday but without the long lines and delays many had feared.
"So far, at least, it's been reasonable," Alli Charney of Atlanta said as she waited for a flight at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. "I just left very early, got a good night's rest and drank lots
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Airport officials estimated about 1.8 million people would pass through Hartsfield during the long holiday weekend, including about 324,000 people on Sunday
measures to reduce delays in anticipation of Sunday's heavy air traffic, she said.
Ashley Delseniarrived at Florida's Pensacola Regional Airport several hours early for a flight to Atlanta
and 305,000 expected on Monday. That is about a 4.6 percent increase in holiday weekend traffic from last year, airport spokesman Herschel Grangent said Sunday.
"Everything was on time, and there were no problems at all."
and a connection to San Diego, but she found no lines or delays by midmorning.
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Despite light rain, wait times were low at the airport — about 25 minutes on Sunday, Grangent said.
AAA said its surveys indicated a record 38.7 million U.S. residents were likely to travel 50 miles or more for the holiday period of Wednesday through Sunday, up about 1.5 percent from last year. About 4.7 million were expected to fly, and about 31.2 million travelers were likely to drive in spite of rising gasoline prices, AAA said last week.
"Everything is going very smoothly," Delseni said. Her husband is
There were no delays by late morning at Los Angeles International Airport, spokeswoman Katherine Alvarado said. The airport had not taken any
a Marine stationed in Iraq, and she spent Thanksgiving with her family in Pensacola.
Virginia O. Van Antwerp and her daughter, Gypsie, returned home to Pensacola on Sunday following an overnight flight from Argentina, where they spent a Thanksgiving vacation, and a connecting flight from Atlanta.
"Everything was on time and there were no problems at all." Gypsie B. Van Antwerp said.
Delays were minimal for the estimated 311,000 travelers passing through Chicago's Midway Airport and O'Hare International Airport on Sunday and few flights were canceled, said Chicago Department of Aviation spokeswoman Karen Pride.
Rivalry boosts donations
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Kansas, Missouri alumni create competitive food drive
BY SASHA ROE
sroe@kansan.com
The Border Showdown was held both on and off the football field Saturday as the KU and MU alumni associations teamed up for a food drive. The drive supported Harvesters, a Kansas City, Mo., based food bank.
The University of Missouri proved to be the winner of both the game and the drive Saturday, donating $8,092.75, the equivalent of 40,664 meals. The Jayhawks donated $3,923.25, or 19,779 meals.
Paula Pratt, Harvesters director of community outreach, said the organization was thrilled with the cooperation from both schools, and the results of the "competition." She said the schools set an aggressive goal for the first-time event, and did very well by providing the Kansas City area with more than 60,000 meals. Pratt said she thought the school rivalry helped boost participation in the drive.
"Everyone was so competitive in such a friendly way," Pratt said.
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Pratt said Harvesters started in 1979 and provided 150,000 pounds of food the first year. Harvesters has grown to serve 550 agencies, in 13 counties in Missouri and Kansas and provided 26 million pounds of food in 2006.
Jennifer Alderdice, KU director of student programs, said the food drive idea began early last summer. She said both schools thought it would be a nice gesture to do something for the Kansas City community because the game was at Arrowhead Stadium this year.
Fans could donate canned goods at bins located around the stadium, give cash to Harvesters volunteers walking around tailgates, or donate to Harvesters' virtual food drive on their Web site. Alderdice said the virtual food drive proved to be the most successful and convenient for people, and if the drive was repeated in the future, the online donations would be more encour-
Pratt agreed it was easier for people to donate online before Saturday's game, or donate from home if they weren't attending the game but still wanted to contribute.
"At the stadium, everyone is so focused on the game as they should be," Pratt said. "Instead of lugging canned goods to the game, online gave people a more convenient way to be engaged."
Christina Gering, student alumni association member and Wichita junior, helped organize the event. She said the schools had worked on the food drive all semester, and she thought it was a good project because the rivalry helped the participation, and the schools worked together so closely.
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"A lot of people wanted to beat Mizzou in both areas," Gering said. "We may not like each other that much, but it was for a good cause."
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Cleveland Sellers talks about his experiences with the Orangeburg Massacre and how scouting helped him growing up in rural South Carolina during an interview in Columbia, S.C. Sellers has been tagged with the label of "outside aptiator" and once could be called a criminal.
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Professor receives Eagle Scout honors
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — Years before civil rights activist Cleveland Sellers got caught up in the deadly 1968 protest known as the Orangeburg Massacre, he was on the path to the elite rank of Eagle Scout — until his paperwork was lost.
Next month, the 64-year-old, who called himself a black militant in his autobiography, will formally collect the honor. He said he hopes it will add an important layer to a personal narrative that, to many people, will always be linked to his conviction in the civil rights protest at a historically black college that ended with three students gunned down by state troopers.
"People have tried to create these monsters and make us something that we weren't because it helped them make their case," said Sellers, the director of the African American Studies program at the University of South Carolina. "I think it's important for people to know who I am and maybe through the process that will help lower the barrier and lower
the kind of imagery they have of me."
During a recent interview at his college office, he credited Scouting for his appreciation of nature, and a sense of orderliness. He fondly recalls attending the Boy Scouts' National Jamboree in 1960, and thinks he still could cook up a mean coffee-can souffle.
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The men who led the troop he once belonged to were father figures — something many youths lack today, Sellers said.
named after Camp Brownlee, the blacks-only Scout camp he attended as a young man. A formal Eagle ceremony will be held Dec. 3 in his hometown of Denmark — 20 miles from Orangeburg — more than four decades after he earned the rank, given to only about 5 percent of all Boy Scouts. Since 1912, nearly 1.9 million Eagles have been awarded, according to Boy Scout officials.
"I look around now and there's no organizations for them other than the gang banging and that kind of stuff," he said. "I just think we need to take another look at the Boy Scouts as an alternative to the idleness and the crime."
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After his years as a Scout, Sellers earned a doctorate in education and dedicated his life to improving the lives of black South Carolinians. During his early activism days, Sellers worked as a coordinator for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and sat in on planning sessions with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Sellers has helped start a troop
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