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FEATURE
Napster on Campus, or another file-sharing service, may soon be a legal music downloading option for KU students. PAGE 6A
Kansas set a school record by hitting 16 three-pointers on the way to an 86-66 victory over the Baylor Bears. PAGE 1B
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Pipe thought to be used as a sleeping place
BY JOSHUA BICKEL
jbickel@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFP WRITER
Residents of K.K. Amini Scholarship Hall may see members of the KU Public Safety Office patrolling their area more.
A homeless person is believed to have been sleeping in an exhaust pipe
near the south side of the scholarship hall, according to a KU Public Safety Office report. Keith Visocsky, physical plant supervisor, discovered that the vent cover had been missing from the exhaust pipe every morning last week.
A KU Public Safety officer examined the scene after Viscosity reported
Visocsky believed that a homeless person had been sleeping there to stay warm during the night, but the KU Public Safety Office has found no evidence that anyone had been there.
it at approximately 10 a.m. or Monday. The officer found the vent cover off of the pipe about 10 feet away. The officer reported that air pressure from the pipe may have blown the vent cover off.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said that air pressure alone couldn't remove a vent cover from a pipe but that a person would have to remove it.
Capt. Schuyler Bailey, KU Public Safety Office spokesman, said that while sleeping in a pipe is not encouraged, the public safety office can't do anything about it.
"It's not against the law," Bailey said. "All we can do is advise the person sleeping there not to do it."
Stoner said that the Department of Student Housing was aware of homeless people sleeping next to vents and in exhaust pipes to stay warm, but he said that it wasn't a huge concern.
"We're aware that this happens from time to time," Stoner said. "But it isn't a big problem."
Stoner said that when the department does discover that a homeless person has been sleeping in an exhaust pipe, a padlock is put on the vent cover so that it can no longer be removed.
According to the police report, Visocsky planned to screw the vent cover to the pipe so that the homeless person he suspected of sleeping there could no longer get inside.
Bailey said that the KU Public Safety Office will pay extra attention to that area for the next few days.
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Coored band craze continues
KU Hillel, Louise's, join bracelet bandwagon
BY ADAM LAND
aland@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
The craze that began with the yellow LiveStrong bracelet has become a trendy way to skip cover charges and to show spirit and awareness. Presidential candidates, congressmen and even basketball coach Bill Self wear the LiveStrong bracelet. Bracelets are $1 and proceeds go to cancer research.
Different colored bracelets began springing up across the nation and are a trendy way to raise money. Bands range in causes and colors.
Bruce Hommid, president of Columbus Fundraising, an Ohio-based manufacturer of wristbands, said the company sells 50,000 wristbands month.
"We have seen a jump in sales of the wristbands," said Hommid. "I think this should continue for at least a few more months."
University of Kansas' Hillet Foundation, a Lawrence bar and a local scholarship fund are among the newest organizations to buy into the increasingly popular plastic wristbands.
Columbus Fundraising sells the majority of its wristbands for fundraising, said Hommid. However, he has seen a slight rise from private businesses.
KU Hillel began selling a similar royal blue bracelet in December. They say "Yisrael," which is "Israel" in Hebrew.
Pollie Kenn, program director of KU Hillel Foundation, said Hillel bought 10,000 wristbands that cost $7,500.
"We want the bracelets to be conversation starters," Kenn said. "These bracelets are really good ways to advocate our cause."
KU Hillel sold 7,000 bracelets to approximately 40 other universities. The organization purchased the bracelets through a grant given to the organization, Kenn said.
One of the first local bracelets to surface was the purple "Teri Tough" bands last semester. The bracelets
benefit a scholarship fund that was set up in honor of Teri Lea Mathis Zenner, Olathe graduate student, who was murdered in August. She was in the home of a Johnson County Mental Health client when she was killed.
Her husband, Matt Zenner, purchased 10,000 bracelets to support the scholarship fund and to increase violence awareness.
Zenner said the wristbands are $2 and the scholarship will be available to students pursuing a master's degree in social work.
"Teri Tough" bands were purchased in bulk in November.
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bracelets are really good ways to advocate our cause." Pollie Kenn, program director of KU Hillel Foundation
"We want the bracelets to be conversation starters. These
Updated opera has Kansas roots Foreign, local themes blend together
BY NEIL MULKA
nmulka@kansan.co
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Mozart, we're not in Italy anymore.
When audience members watch KU Opera's opening night performance of Mozart's "Cosi Fan Tutte," they won't be in an 18th century villa.
They'll be in the more familiar confines of a 1950s Kansas home.
Tim Ocel, artistic director of KU Opera, said the idea to remake "Cosi" came to him while furniture shopping in north Lawrence and reflecting upon his work with William Inge's plays, a Kansas-born plawright.
"I was driving past the grain elevator and all these houses," said Ocel, associate professor of opera. "And I've directed William Inge plays, and I know this is William Inge territory."
He said somehow exploring Lawrence and thinking about "Cosi" blended together.
The opera is more accessible to audiences because it's a remake and English translation of the original version, said Holly Wrench, Marshfield doctorate student who plays Dorabello.
While "Cosi's" setting has changed, the story stays the same. A man, Don Alfonso, bets two soldiers, Guglielmo and Ferrando, that their lovers will cheat on them if they go to fight in the Korean War.
The soldiers accept Alfonso's bet and try to woo each other's lover in disguise. The women then fall in love with the disguised men and lose their honor.
"Cosi" is about the loss of innocence but is also a psychological comedy, Ocel said.
"It's not very nice, and it's not particularly pleasant — the outcome," he said. "I mean, can you imagine two guys betting on their girlfriends' fidelities? This is a joke, I mean, it's a bet. But the girls don't know it."
Holly Wrensch, Marshfield doctorate student, and Gina Galati, St. Louis graduate student, rehearse a scene from their upcoming opera "Cosi fan Tutte." The opera, rewritten and updated by Tim Ocel, KU professor, held a dress rehearsal yesterday evening at the Black Box Theater in Murphy Hall in final preparations for opening night this Friday.
Because of the lack of attention-grabbing comedy, achieving the comedic effect was the most difficult part of the opera, said Julie Maykowski, who plays Despina.
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Senate to vote on Union alcohol sales
Student Senate will submit a petition to investigate allowing the sale of alcohol in the Memorial Unions tonight at its weekly meeting.
The petition asks the Kansas Memorial Union Corporation to further investigate the possibility of selling alcohol at the Burge and Kansas Unions. Both student unions sold alcohol until 1997.
The University of Kansas allows alcohol consumption at University functions, football games and football tailating.
Marlesa Roney, the vice provost for
The Kansas Board of Regents allows the sale of 3.2 percent beer on campus if it is approved by University administrators and managed responsibly.
student success, said it is an idea that is worth exploring. Roney said that a lot of people will be involved in making the final decisions, but that alcohol sales are possible.
In order for the petition to pass with Student Senate, it has to be approved by two of the five Student Senate committees.
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Researchers develop telescope
Faculty from the University of Kansas are working with researchers from other universities to develop an ultra-lightweight telescope. PAGE 3A
Fall ball
As the baseball team prepares to leave for Hawaii, off-season practice in October is paying off for the players and coaches. PAGE 2B
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