2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2005
Sororities increase security
INSIDENEWS
security is an important issue for KU sorority chapters. With recent and previous break-ins, sorority officers are increasing security methods. Pi Beta Phi installed a $10,000 system yesterday. Other chapters don't rely on such high tech systems. PAGE 1A
Recruitment effort focuses in state
The University of Kansas recently began the Rock Chalk Road Show, a recruitment effort in western and central Kansas. According to the 2003 and 2004 enrollment reports by the University, the number of students from western and central Kansas increased by nine students in the fall 2004 school year, the first enrollment period after the Rock Chalk Road Show began. PAGE 1A
Kansas State tops University in recruiting students from state
An investigation into the fire at Spencer Library prompted the company who installed a malfunctioning light to hire inspectors to patrol at-risk buildings. Several students wonder if they're really needed. PAGE 1A
Looking into the lights
An investigation into the fire at Spencer Library prompted the company who installed a malfunctioning light to hire inspectors to patrol at-risk buildings. Several students wonder if they're really needed. PAGE 1A
Lost opportunities for love --- this time
The SUA's speed-dating event last night attracted fewer potential lovebirds than anticipated. Six people, none from the original 17 who signed up, came to enjoy each other's company and free coffee and cookies. Round two is in March. PAGE 2A
Alcohol sales could limit KU events
Alcoholir will have some changes in store if beer is sold at the Union SUA and hawk Nights will have some changes in store if beer is sold at the Union their funging will not be affected. PAGE 2A
Social services cut
The Social Service League of Lawrence has offered social services in Lawrence since 1888, but the league is now in danger of losing several of its services. Because of a lack of funding and increasing expenses, the league has discontinued programs that offered dress clothes and discounted clothing to PAGE 3A.
Experience at work
The University of Kansas is holding its first summer camp career fair on Feb. 22 at the fourth floor lobby in the Kansas Union, but students and career experts have mixed reactions as to whether a summer camp job is as valuable as an internship. PAGE 3A
Jump, iive and wail
University of Kansas students keep a decades old dance alive at least once a week at the ECM. They give lessons to new members, then dance late into night and go to swing bars in Kansas City. PAGE 5A
INSIDEOPINION
Recycle, reuse and reduce
Stephanie Lovett's take on conservation is that recycling is hardly half the battle. Students can take greater measures such as reusing stuff you buy and reducing what you buy. PAGE 7A
Pull your pants up, boy
Wheaton Elkins can't quite get around how there was a bill that got introduced in the Virginia legislature seeking to prohibit underwear being seen above the waist line. It got killed, but at what cost? Perhaps only the politician's dignity. PAGE 7A
INSIDESPORTS
Texas Tech dominates Kansas
No. 15 Texas Tech pulled ahead of Kansas early and never looked back, beating the Jayhawks 66-53. Kansas' best moment came when Crystal Kemp scored the 1000th point of her career. By that time, just a couple minutes in, the game was already out-of-hand PAGE 18
Column: Women's basketball team buys into coach's comments
Bullm. Women's basketball team suffered its eighth Big 12 Conference loss last night, but its four conference victories are a better indicator of the team's progress, Jonathan Kealing says. Last season, the Jayhawks won just two conference contests and finished the season on a 10-game losing skid. This year's Jayhawks have a different attitude, players say, and expect to win every time they take the court. PAGE 1B
Practice players push men's starters
Freshman forward Matt Kleinmann and sophomore guards Jeremy Case and Roderick Stewart haven't played this year, but that doesn't mean they haven't helped the men's basketball team. Each player is a key contributor in practice, and they appear to be improving for next year's team. PAGE 1B
Baseball team dominates home opener
The Kansas baseball team opened its season with a victory, defeating the South Dakota State, 8-2. The Jayhawks had no trouble adjusting to the weather after playing their first nine games in Hawaii and California. Junior pitcher Kodiak Quick notched his third victory this season. PAGE 1B
cant wants to focus on Iowa State, winds up talking about
He's led the jayhawks to the best record in the conference and a No. 2 national ranking.
Men's basketball coach Bill Self's newest challenge is to get his players to put Monday
night's double-overtime loss behind them. PAGE 2B
Winning team gains top players
The Kansas soccer team is coming off its best season, and will lose four players to graduation. But six freshmen who signed last Friday will help fill the void. PAGE 2B
Self wants to focus on Iowa State, winds up talking about loss
Kemp scores 1,000th point, joins Jayhawk elite
The Kansas women's basketball program welcomed its 17th 1,000-point scorer last night, when junior forward Crystal Kemp passed the milestone on her first basket. She credited junior high school pickup games with her older brother. PAGE 3B
Russian tennis player adapts to Big 12, U.S.
Elizaveta Avdeeva, the Kansas tennis team's top singles player, had leaned on teammates, coaches and freshman basketball forward Sasha Kaun to help her adjust to her first semester of American Life. Though Avdeeva is still looking for her first victory, coaches say she is adapting well. PAGE 6B
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5-minute dates draw 6
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David Hait, Greenwood Village, Colo., freshman, and Ruth Seeliger, Winfield freshman, chat in the Hawk's Nest during SUA's speed-dating event last night. Participants in speed-dating sit and talk with members of the opposite sex for five minutes and find out who they were compatible with at the end of the night.
Speed-dating event attracts more people than predicted
BY NEIL MULKA
nmulka@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Before yesterday, seventeen students had signed up for SUA's first speed-dating night.
None of those people showed up for the 6 p.m. event yesterday at the Hawk's Nest in the Kansas Union.
But at the event's scheduled time, six people — two women and four men who hadn't signed up — arrived, and that was enough for Sean Hatfield, SUA Games and Novelties Coordinator and Bennington senior.
"We had a lot of competition,' Hatfield said. "There's a speed-reading lecture and we're showing also showing 'Constantine.'"
Speed-dating is designed for singles to get know each other quickly. The women sat at a table and the men rotated from table to table every five minutes.
Because there were two more men than women, the two who waited
drank coffee, talked to each other or studied. One played a bowling game on his cell phone to pass the time.
The participants sat at candle-lit tables and talked. The rules included no exchanging of contact information, not asking what the other person's major is, or anything work-related.
That's more second-date stuff, Hatfield said. Icebreakers like favorite foods and favorite movies were encouraged because these show more of a participant's personality.
After the conversations were over, the participants wrote down whom they thought they matched with on slips of papers and gave them to Hatfield. If two people wrote that they matched well, he will give them each other's e-mail addresses by tomorrow.
"It's a cheap way to have a bunch of first dates." Hatfield said.
For Ruth Seeliger, Winfield freshman, it's the number of people at the University of Kansas that makes finding dates hard.
In this case, it would have been more fun if more people had shown up, she said. Despite last night's low turnout, Nathan Hurd, Monterey, Calif., senior, said he would give it another shot.
A lot of people don't have the time to meet others on campus, or are transfers who don't know too many people, Hatfield said.
"It's kind of daunting because there are so many people," Seeliger said. "It's hard to find an excuse to talk to people."
Hurd also said he got a good idea of the people he talked to.
"I got as much as I needed to carry on a conversation later," Hurd said. "It was a good starting point."
The SUA is planning another Speed Dating night on March 16.
Next time, in order to increase participation, the SUA will publicize the event with flyers and prizes, Hatfield said.
Edited by Jesse Truesdale
POLICY
BY DANIEL BERK
dberk@hansan.com
kANSAN STAFF WRITE
Beer sales could alter KU events
Two main organizations that promote non-alcoholic activities on campus will have to re-think their strategies if beer is sold in the Kansas Union.
Hawk Nights and Student Union Activities hold some of their events in the Jaybowl and Hawk's Nest area, where beer will likely be sold if it is allowed in the union. But that all might change.
Hawk Nights adviser Trisha Gressick said she would be surprised if the organizations still held events in that area.
"Right now, I can't imagine doing something where alcohol is sold." Gresnick said. "However, it could be an educational opportunity to see responsible drinking first-hand."
Rachel Peart, Overland Park junior, and SUA president, said plenty of questions still remained concerning alcohol sales. But she said she was pleased that Student Senate proposed
the bill by asking to investigate
Peart said she was pleased that Student Senate proposed the bill by asking to investigate bringing alcohol into the union, rather than outright proposing the idea without research.
"Because of the way it was posed, it will definitely go to the right people to make the final decision," she said.
SUA holds many of its events at the union, but it also offers events at other locations like the Lied Center.
SUA and Hawk Nights already have had to adjust to some changes this year. Gresnick said a new organizational structure was implemented that allows students to become more
The idea of bringing beer sales to the union was discussed at the Memorial Corporation Board meeting earlier this month. At the meeting, Steve Munch, student body president and Bellevue, Neb., junior, said SUA and Hawk Nights would be accommodated if beer was sold in the union.
He also suggested that the sale of beer could cease during an SUA or another organization's event in the area where beer was sold.
involved in Hawk Nights and SUA planning.
Twelve students used to attend the board meetings for SUA and Hawk Nights, Gresnick said. Now more than 50 students show up, she said.
The petition for alcohol sales at the union, which was passed earlier this month, will either be accepted or rejected by the chancellor and provost. There is no deadline for the decision.
Alcohol sales at the union will not affect funds the organizations receive from the Alcohol Tux Grant, which is money produced from alcohol sales. The grant is only eligible for organizations that provide alternative programs. Hawk Nights received $16,500 from the grant this year.
The organizations have adjusted well, David Mucci, director of the KU Memorial Unions, said.
BY MATT SEDEDKY
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
"SUA has been building after a year of transition and has gained strength in leadership and in members," Mucci said.
— Edited by Ross Fitch
GOVERNMENT
The 583 incidents reported to the National Clandestine Laboratory Seizure System by the state last year still represent far more than most other states.
TOPEKA — Kansas, a perennial fixture among states with the most methamphetamine laboratory seizures, has dropped off the top 10 list for the first time in a decade.
Meth bill passes first Kansas vote
But an estimated 10 percent drop in discoveries of labs, dumpsites, materials and equipment put Kansas 11th nationwide.
Larry Welch, director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, said the new
Even with the decrease in meth seizures, the statistics showed the pervasiveness of the highly addictive drug's production throughout the state. Of Kansas' 105 counties, 73 reported the discovery of some sort of meth-making evidence.
statistics were a hopeful sign.
"We've tried about everything to fight this plague, from education, prevention and prison to prayer," Welch said. "I'm pleased with the apparent success those efforts have shown."
The four counties reporting the most seizures — Crawford, Cherokee, Cowley and Allen — are all congregated in the state's southeastern corner. Together, the four account for about 43 percent of all the meth
seizures reported in Kansas last year.
seizures reported in Hawaii neighbor,
The state's eastern neighbor,
Missouri, led the nation, as it has for
a number of years, with the most meth
seizures: 2.799 in 2004.
State lawmakers in both Kansas and Missouri are considering bills limiting the sale of cold medications that can be used to produce methamphetamine.
Oklahoma has passed similar legislation, which has been credited with a massive drop in drug lab seizures in that state.
In Kansas yesterday, the Senate gave first-round approval to its antimeth bill on a voice vote. Final action is scheduled for today, when passage would send the measure to the House.
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