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SHOPPING
VOLUME 118 ISSUE 67
Group boycotts Black Friday
Christina Williams, Wichita junior, said she didn't plan to participate in any shopping on Friday, but knew it was a popular day to do so.
Consumers avoid holiday sales
Instead of setting the alarm to get up early and go shop, the Canadian organization Adbusters is encouraging people to commit to a shopping-free day, with the international Buy Nothing Day.
However, Leah Wewer, Leoti senior, said it was her family's tradition to get up early and find bargains on the day commonly known as Black Friday.
Friday will be the 15th annual Buy Nothing Day. Adbusters campaign manager Paul Cooper said events ranged from walks through malls and cutting up credit cards to simply not buying anything on Friday. He said the purpose of the day was to make people think about the psychological and ecological effects of consumerism.
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BRONCOS DESTROY TITANS
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POLITICS ASIDE
Rivalry reaches governors'mansions
BY SARAH NEFF
sneff@kansan.com
Leader of losing state in Border Showdown to wear other school's colors at summit
Catherine Blair, University of Missouri-Columbia junior from
Missouri Gov Matt Blunt will wear crimson and blue to the 2008 Governors' Summit on Regional Economic Development if the Jayhawks win the Border Showdown.
Photo Illustration by Drew Bergman/KANSAN
The governors of Kansas and Missouri have made a friendly bet on Saturday's football game. If the Missouri Tigers win, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius will wear Tiger colors to the summit.
"Governor Sebelius and I have worked together on many issues facing the bi-state region, but when it comes to the Tigers and Jayhawks we can find no common ground." Blunt said in a press release. "The Tigers are having a tremendous season, and I am confident that Governor Sebelius will be wearing black and gold at next year's economic development summit."
Sebell received a master's of public administration degree from the University of Kansas after earning her undergraduate degree from Trinity College in Washington, D.C. Blunt never attended the University of Missouri. He received a bachelor's degree from the United States Naval Academy.
Kansas City, Kan., said she had been to most of the Tigers games and also would attend Saturday's showdown.
"It's exciting to know that the majority of both states are getting involved," Blair said. "It's good to know that our governors are as deeply involved in the rivalry as their states."
Blair said the wager showed that both governors thought their team was going to win.
"It creates an unnecessary division between the people," Garcia said. "It exploits a terrible historical event," he said, referring to the burning of Lawrence during the Civil War.
"While I command Governor Blunt's optimism, the Jayhawks have demonstrated incredible talent in both the classroom and on the field; and I look forward to Governor Blunt sporting crimson and blue when we gather next year in Kansas City," Sebelius said in a press release.
Joshua Nold, Auburn, Kan., junior, said there was no chance Sebelius would have to wear Missouri's colors.
"I think the bet is great because Kansas is going to win," Nold said.
Not all students agreed with the bet. Brent Garcia, Stockton junior, said he didn't agree with the rivalries.
The Governors' Regional Summit will be held in Kansas City in February 2008.
Edited by Luke Morris
FOOTBALL
Free tickets offered for Big 12 title game
KU students can get free tickets to the Big 12 Championship Game if Kansas wins the Big 12 North.
Students can request tickets to the game at 9 a.m. on Monday at the KU ticket office, where they will receive a coupon. Of the 8,500 tickets allotted to the University, 20 percent (about 1,716 tickets) would be for students, though more could become available. A valid KUID is required, and a limit of four KUIDs per student will be enforced.
Students can pick up the tickets at the Alamodome the day of the game, and
groups of students who want to sit together must pick up their tickets together at the Alamodome. And for the bowl game, the Athletics Department is offering a reduced-price ticket for $50, a significant discount, to the first 3,000 students who request one.
The Big 12 Championship Game will be played at 7 p.m. Dec. 1 in the Alamodome in San Antonio. The Jayhawks would play the Big 12 South winner, either Oklahoma or Texas.
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> RIVALRY
Fan says Quantrill shirts were meant as protest Mizzou alumnus says the sports gear he designed was only for private use
A shirt made by an MU fan sparked controversy last week. The shirt was not made nor was it endorsed by the University of Missouri-Columbia athletics department, but the Tigers logo was used on the shirt.
Old rivalries between Kansas and Missouri dating back to the Civil War have been
brought up on Internet discussion boards in the days building up to the border showdown this Saturday. The shirtmaker said he made the shirt to protest the use of the Jayhawk by the University of Kansas.
CAMPUS
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The center's new building, which is conjoined with the Kansas Union, was first proposed in 2001. It was approved by KU administration in 2003. Funding for the center comes from private donations and a $3.50 fee that KU students pay each sememster.
Board members, student senators get a sneak peek at the building
Santos Núñez, program director of multicultural affairs, gave members of both groups a tour of the center.
The new Sabatini Multicultural Resource Center was shown to members of Student Senate and the Multicultural Education Fund Board yesterday for the first time.
Resource center slated to open in January 2008
Alex Porte, assistant student body treasurer, said that Student Senate had approved spending $30,000 from the Senate budget to go toward a digital screen and panels that would hang in the hallway that connects the Center and the Kansas Union.
The new building is expected to be completed on Dec. 10 and will be formally opened on Jan.28.
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Student Senate Assistant Treasurer Alex Porte, right, points out the view from the new Sabati Multicultural Resource Center to Hannah Love, student body president