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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2007
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He's a multi-talented guy Comedian,columnist to visit campus this weekend
BY MATT LINDBERG mlindberg@kansan.com
He pokes fun at college life and sports when he's writing columns for SportsIllustrated.com and appearing on various ESPN shows, but comedian Steve Hofstetter will bring his comedic views to campus this weekend. Alpha Epsilon Pi is holding a
--fundraiser with Hofstetter as the host at 4 p.m. Sunday in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Hofstetter
Barak Krengel, Dallas junior and member of Alpha Epison Pi, said the profits would be used to help pay the house's future costs.
"It's specifically targeted to raise
money for our house repairs and for new programming events for our brothers," Krengel said.
Marc Kingston, Wembley, England, sophomore and Alpha Epsilon Pi rush chairman, began planning Hofstetter's show and a fundraiser as two separate events a year ago before deciding to merge the two together.
"We thought it would be a fun idea to use his show as a fundraiser for our fraternity," Kingston said. "Most fundraisers usually are involved with selling T-shirts or something along those lines. We thought we could do something a little different and use a well-known comedian to help raise us money"
com. He also has written for Maxim, ESPN and Sports Illustrated For Kids magazines in the past. Each year he tours more than 100 college campuses to perform his comedy routine. In 2004 he was nominated for Comedian of the Year by the Association for the Promotion of Campus Activities.
Hofstetter, who graduated from Columbia University in 2002 as a member of Alpha Epsilon Pi, is a regular columnist for SportsIllustrated.
"Steve was referred to us by many other campuses, and we only heard great things about him, so we wanted to have the chance to bring him to KU" Krengel said.
Krengel said word of mouth among college students had increased Hofstetter's popularity.
SUA employees said tickets were still available at the SUA box office. Tickets cost $5 for KU students and $8 for the general public.
- Edited by Amelia Freidline
COMMUNITY
Newspaper available via phone
BY COURTNEY CONDRON ccondron@kansan.com
Mary Chappell, a University of Kansas employee for 26 years, always looked forward to reading The University Daily Kansan, but that became a challenge when she lost most of her vision about a year ago.
Chappell, director of Recreation Services, solved her problem and can now listen to the Kansan over the phone. She requested that Audio-Reader, a telephone and radio print and information service for the visually impaired, add the Kansan to its daily recordings. In January, faculty at Audio-Reader were able to accomplish this, and they now have a full staff of volunteers who record The Kansan Monday through Friday mornings and Jayplay on Thursdays.
Audio-Reader now also carries the Oread magazine, a publication of the Office of University Relations.
Chappell now listens to The Kansan every day.
"With a large campus like KU, you never know about all the services out there until something big impacts your life," Chappell said.
"With a large campus like KU, you never know about all the services out there until something big impacts your life."
MARY CHAPPELL Recreation Services director
Jennifer Nigro, AudioReader volunteer coordinator, said that the service added The Kansan to its recordings because of Chappell's request but that they had received a lot of positive feedback from others.
Audio-Reader, which is available in Kansas and western Missouri, already had publications such as The Kansas City Star and The Wichita Eagle available through its telephone service. Listeners can call into the
telephone line and enter their user ID numbers and security numbers to access the newspapers.
George McCoy, Audio-Reader telephone reader supervisor, said he thought The Kansan provided an interesting change from commercially owned publications.
"Offering the UDK on telephone reader allows listeners all over Kansas and parts of Missouri to keep up with campus events and campus life and also gives a viewpoint on KU that's not always available in the mainstream media," McCoy said.
Each weekday, a volunteer comes into the studio between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. to record The Kansan, which takes one to two hours. McCoy said he tried to have the material recorded on the telephone line by 10 a.m.
"We want the listeners to be able to experience the morning news in the morning when it's still fresh, if we can?" McCoy said.
Students who want to volunteer with Audio-Reader can visit reader. ku.edu for more information.
Edited by Amelia Freidline
》 POLITICS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bush to veto health insurance bill
WASHINGTON — A defiant Democratic-controlled Congress voted Thursday to provide health insurance to an additional 4 million lower-income children, and President Bush vowed swiftly to cast his second straight veto on the issue.
The legislation cleared the Senate on a vote of 64-30. It passed the House last week, but supporters were shy of the two-thirds majority needed to override Bush's threatened veto.
"We're convinced that the president has undermined an effort to protect children," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said shortly before the vote.
"Congress has known for weeks that the President would veto this bill," White House press secretary Dana Perino countered in a statement shortly after the vote. "Now Congress should get back to work on legislation that covers poor children and stop using valuable floor time to make partisan statements."
promise that could attract enough votes in the House to override Bush's veto.
In a situation of unusual political complexity, Republicans dictated the decision to pass the legislation speedily. It appeared their goal was to short-circuit attempts by supporters of the bill to reach a com-
Attempts by Reid to delay final passage of the bill until next week or longer drew objections from the GOP.
Charles Grassley of Iowa and Orrin Hatch of Utah, and several members of the House GOP.
Rep. Judy Biggert (R-III.) who supported Bush's first veto and is involved in the discussions, said "we are pretty close" to an agreement but that several issues remain. For example, she said, the two sides had narrowed their differences on the issue of ensuring maximum coverage of poor children before
The vetotreatened measure would add an estimated 4 million ben-
Baucus said the negotiations would resume next week.
coverage of poo those in slightly higher-income families can be brought into the program.
"I believe a deal is within reach," said Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, a participant in meetings with two senior Senate Republicans, Sens.
eficiaries to an existing program that provides coverage for children from families who earn too much to qualify for Medicaid but cannot afford private insurance. The program currently provides benefits to roughly 6 million children.
"We're convinced that the president has undermined an effort to protect children."
At a cost of $35 billion, the bill would be paid for through an increase in tobacco taxes, including
"Congress has known for weeks that the President would veto this bill. Now Congress should get back to work on legislation that covers poor children."
DANA PERINO White House press secretary
Democrats failed to override his veto on a vote of 273-156, 13 short of the two-thirds majority they needed.
In response, Democrats launched a replacement measure, incorporating changes they said were designed to meet Republican objections to their first offering.
But Bush dismissed those efforts this week, telling a business audience, "If Congress sends this bill
a 61-cent rise on a package of cigarettes.
Bush vetoed an earlier children's health bill this fall, and Republican critics said it failed to give a high enough priority to covering poor children, marked a Democratic
HARRY REID Senate majority leader
attempt to expand government-run health care, and did not take sufficient steps to prevent the children of illegal immigrants from receiving benefits.
back to me, I'm going to veto it again." He predicted his second veto would be upheld.
tobacco or any other taxes, a significant hardening of the administration's public position on the issue.
A day earlier, the president told House Republicans in a private meeting that he would veto any measure that raised
Political polls show the children's health issue enjoys widespread support, and Democrats and their allies have moved quickly to exploit it for their advantage with television and radio commercials attacking Republicans who opposed the legislation.
The result has been a growing nervousness among House Republicans looking ahead to the 2008 elections. The party's top leaders, Reps. John Boehner of Ohio and Roy Blunt of Missouri, joined the compromise negotiations in recent days.
It is unlikely either of them would support a bill that raises taxes. Rather, officials said their intention was to coax as many concessions as possible from the Democrats so that the next measure would be one that other Republicans among the rank-and-file could comfortably support.
Sick air
Team Summit freestyle skier Brandon Denker of Breckenridge, Colo., executes a backflip iron cross while training on Copper Mountain's Copperopolis on Thursday. Keystone Resort and Copper Mountain will be the third and fourth resorts in Colorado to open this season.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
AWARDS
Army ROTC honors alumni
cconforon@kansan.com
BY COURTNEY CONDRON
Finding and identifying remains of American soldiers, such as teeth, bones, medals and letters, is the goal of the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command.
Eighty-eight thousand Americans are still missing or unaccounted for from previous U.S. conflicts. The command has recovery and investigation missions in Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Europe. Michael Flowers, brigadier general and U.S. commander of the accounting command, negotiates with leaders of foreign countries about doing excavations and searches for remains in their countries.
Circuit Court Budget Committee, will be inducted into the Army ROTC Hall of Fame on Saturday.
"It's important because folks in the military are pretty much told that the army will not leave anyone behind," Flowers said.
Flowers, a 1977 KU graduate, spoke to the Army ROTC yesterday about his job, leadership and the important things to remember while serving. Flowers, along with two other alumni, Edward Reilly, chairman of the United States Parole Commission, and Judge J. Miles Sweeney, vice chairman of the
"When I graduated my intentions were to serve my four years of commitment and get out of the service, so this is an honor," Flowers said.
The three inductees will attend a ceremony before the football game and will join the Hall of Fame. Eleven other alumni have been inducted into the hall since it was started two years ago.
Tyler Able, Billings, Mont., senior and Army publications officer, said. "We want to get them to realize that their achievements have not been forgotten."
John Basso, ROTC professor and lieutenant colonel, said that the Hall of Fame was created to help foster a strong sense of tradition.
"We want the cadets to realize that they are certainly not the first to go through this program," Basso said.
Sweeney has tried more than 300 jury trials and has implemented local improvements in the jury system. Reilly is also a member of the American Correctional Association, the Association of Paroling Authorities International
and the National Association of Chiefs of Police.
Flowers was deployed during several military operations, including Operation Desert Storm. He continues to travel and oversee the mission of the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command. The command was the only organization in the world working to discover soldiers' remains, until it helped Korea form its own organization last January. More than 1,300 soldiers have been identified through dental records, DNA samples and other methods and returned to their families.
"When we do ID someone, it's very rewarding to sit down with the family." Flowers said.
Flowers said the command needed DNA references from family members of missing soldiers. Anyone who has a missing relative can go to the command's Web site at www.jpac.pacom.mil for more information about how to donate DNA.
"We will be doing this mission until the president says we're not going to do it anymore," Flowers said.
— Edited by Amelia Freidline
The University of Kansas Department of Theatre and Film University Theatre, the KU Department of Music & Dance, and Capitol Federal Savings Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Murphy Hall with
Meredith Willson's
The Music Man
30 p.m. November 9-10 & 15 - 17, 2007
2:30 p.m. November 11, 2007
Crafton-Preyer Theatre
Book, Music and Lyrics by Meredith Willson Story by Meredith Willson and Franklin Lacey
featureting the KU Symphony Orchestra
David Neely, Music Director and Conductor
Reserved seat tickets are on sale in the KU ticket offices:
University Theatre, 864-3982; Lied Center, 864-ARTS; and SUA
Office, 864-7469, and online at kuweathe.com. Tickets are
$20 for public, $10 for all students, and $19 for senior citizens and
KU faculty and staff. All major credit cards are accepted for phone
and online orders.
The University Theatre is partially funded by the KU Student Senate Activity Fee.
The Music Man, first staged on Broadway in 1957, is being presented as part of the 50th Anniversary celebration of Murphy Hall. A rededication ceremony will be held at 5:00 p.m. Saturday, November 10, in the Murphy Hall Courtyard. It is free and open to be public.
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THEATRE
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