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THE UNIVERSITY
DAILY KANSAN
NEWS MANAGEMENT
Editor-in-chief Ian Cummings
Managing editor Lisa Curran
ADVERTISING MANAGEMENT
Business manager Garrett Lent
Sales manager Korab Eland
NEWS SECTION EDITORS
Art director Hannah Wise
News editor Laura Sather
Copy chiefs
Marla Danielis
Jennifer DiDonato
Alexandra Esposito
Dana Meredith
Associate news editor Vikaas Shanker
Designers
Bailey Atkinson
Ryan Benedick
Megan Boxberger
Stephanie Schulz
Nikki Wentling
Hannah Wise
Opinion editor Jon Samp
Photo editor
Jessica Janasz
Sports editor
Max Rothman
Associate sports editor Matt Galloway
Special sections editor Kayla Banzet
Web editor
Laura Nightengale
ADVISERS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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What's the weather, Jay?
Mostly cloudy. 50% chance of rain and thunderstorms. Breezy
TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 2012
Wednesday
Forecaster, Brianne Gerber and Jordyn Sausberry,
KKI Atmospheric Science
HI: 73
LO: 50
Partly cloudy chance of rain and thunderstorms in the night.
HI: 58
LO: 42
Thursday
Raindrops? More like lame drops.
Friday
HI: 60
LO: 54
Mostly cloudy, 50% chance of rain and thunderstorms. Breezy
And the thunder rolls...
Oh, well. At least it's Friday.
Today
CALENDAR
**WHAT:** Workshop, Collaborative Leadership
**WHERE:** Walnut Room, Kansas Union
**WHEN:** 12 p.m.
**ABOUT:** The Student Involvement and Leadership Center tells students how to be a community leader to bring about change.
Wednesday, April 11
ABOUT. A visual theater group from Italy invite audiences of all stages on stage to participate in a multimedia performance; tickets cost $12 for students.
**WHAT:** Concert: KU Choirs
**WHERE:** Swarthout Recital Hall,
Murphy Hall
**WHEN:** 7:30 p.m.
**ABOUT:** The KU School of Music presents
the Women's Chorale and Oread
Consort singing groups.
**WHAT:** Wellness Fair
**WHERE:** Stairflter-Flint Lawn
**WHEN:** 11 a.m.
**ABOUT:** Student Health Services tells students how best to stay healthy this spring season.
WHAT: Spring Into Action
WHAT: Spring Into Action
WHERE: Spencer Museum of Art
WHEN: 5:30 p.m.
ABOUT: The Spencer presents its annual spring opening reception.
Thursday, April 12
WHAT: Lecture: "Citizen Journalism and Arab Spring"
ANNO LECTURE: "Citizen Journalism and Arab Spring"
WHERE: Dole Institute of Politics
WHEN: 7:30 p.m.
ABOUT: NPR journalist Andy Carvin will speak to students about how social media affected the Arab Spring movements over the past year.
WHAT: Prospective Student Information Session
WHERE: Edwards Campus, Overland Park
WHEN: 6:30 p.m.
ABOUT: Looking to take classes at the Edwards Campus? Learn what student services and programs are available.
WHAT: Concert: KU Saxophone
Quartets
WHERE: Swarthout Recital Hall,
Murphy Hall
WHEN: 7:30 p.m.
ABOUT: The KU School of Music pres-
ents various saxophone performers.
WHAT: Campus Movie: "Man on a Ledge"
WHERE: Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas
Union
WHEN: 8 p.m.
ABOUT: SUA presents a crime thriller featuring Sam Worthington of "Avatar" fame; tickets cost $2 for students.
Friday, April 13
WHAT: Tunes at Noon
WHERE: Outside Plaza, Kansas Union
WHEN: 12 p.m.
ABOUT: SUA hosts local band Genuine
Imitation for an hour-long, free
outdoor concert; the event may be
cancelled due to weather.
WHAT: Relay for Life
**WHAT:** Relay for Life
**WHERE:** Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center
**WHEN:** 7 p.m.
**ABOUT:** Fight cancer with a night of walking, activities and games; check in starts at 5 p.m. and the event begins at 7 p.m.
WHAT: Cosmic Bowling
**WHAT:** Cosmic Bowling
**WHERE:** Jaybowl, Kansas Union
**WHEN:** 10 p.m.
**ABOUT:** JOIN SUA for a night of free bowling and techno music; be sure to bring your glowsticks.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Campaign texting raises concerns
NEW YORK — Text messaging is posing both new opportunities and dangers for America's political campaigns.
That texting practice has
The most widely used form of mobile communication, it has become one of the most effective ways for campaigns to reach supporters, using 160-character messages to encourage last-minute donations or provide information such as where to vote. And strict federal rules prohibit such texts from going to anyone who does not "opt in" to receive them.
But some groups have found their way around that requirement, using email — rather than the SMS "short code" that telemarketers normally use — to send unsolicited, anonymous and often negative messages to cellphone lists they purchase through brokers.
angered voters, who are forced to pay if they don't have flat-rate messaging plans. And it's alarmed campaign strategists, who fear political texting will be weakened by the introduction of what amounts to spam texting.
"They've taken a tool and technology we used to help people get voter information and turned it into a very sophisticated way to do voter suppression tactics and annoy people with false and misleading information," said Scott Goodstein of Revolution Messaging, a Democratic-leaning mobile communications firm. "Worse yet, people are being charged to receive these messages."
Goodstein has filed a complaint about the practice with the Federal Communications Commission, whose Telephone Consumer Protection Act prohibits telemarketers from texting "to any telephone number ... or any
service for which the called party is charged."
Unsolicited messages hit the presidential campaign this year, when texts targeting Republican Mitt Romney surfaced in Colorado, South Carolina and Michigan. Voters received texts urging them to call a number where they heard a recorded message criticizing the former Massachusetts governor.
Spam texts have popped up
in congressional campaigns in states including Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Missouri and Minnesota. They've also appeared in sey-
eral state legislative races.
"to identify social and fiscal conservatives throughout America and engage them at the grassroots level in the political process." Several voters in Wisconsin received messages from txt(at)aicpac.org during Gov. Scott Walker's clash with public employee unions last year, asking, "Do you agree government unions are being too greedy?"
"Texting is the cleanest channel available to engage with supporters."
Some of the texts have been followed back to Americans in Contact PAC, a Republican-leaning group whose mission is
President Barack Obama's 2008
ZAC MOFFATT digital director
campaign largely pioneered the use of political text messaging. That's the way supporters were alerted that Obama had selected then Delaware Sen.
Joe Biden to be his running mate, for example.
This year, with social media outlets like Twitter and Facebook a much greater political
communications tool than they were in 2008, the Obama re-election campaign is using texts more selectively.
Strategists for Romney, the favorite to be the Republican presidential nominee, have been building up the campaign's texting program in hopes of competing with Obama for the number of supporters it reaches.
texting is the cleanest channel available to engage with supporters"Romney digital director Zac Moffatt said, adding that the proliferation of third-party groups spam-texting voters was "a real problem for us. People blame the campaign."
Political text spamming has also created challenges for the mobile telephone industry, which reaps significant profits through text messaging and so is eager to halt any mischief that undermines consumers' use and confidence in texting.
POLICE REPORTS
Information based on the Douglas County Sheriff's Office booking recap
- A 26-year-old Lawrence man was arrested at 10:23 a.m. on the 2000 block of Iowa Street on suspicion of operating under the influence, possession of marijuana or TRC and driving with a valid driver's license.
Bond was set at $700. He was released.
- A 27-year-old Lawrence man was arrested Sunday at 7:26 p.m. on the 1000 block of Massachusetts Street on suspicion of domestic battery. Bond was not set.
- A 21-year-old Kansas City, MO. man was arrested Sunday at 1:14 p.m. on the 1500 block of Harper Street on suspicion of domestic battery and battery. Bond was not set.
- A 31-year-old Lawrence woman was arrested Sunday at 7:44 p.m. on the 700 block of Monterey Way on suspension of criminal damage to property less than $1,000 and three separate counts of failure to appear in municipal court.
Bond was set at $863
- A 29-year-old McLouth man was arrested Sunday at 2:21 a.m. on the 1000 block of Massachusetts Street on suspicion of disorderly conduct. Bond was set $100. He was released.
- The KU Office of Public Safety reported theft Saturday at 7:16 p.m. at Hassinger Residence Hall after the victim's bike and bike lock were removed from the bicycle rack. The value is estimated at $705. The case is open.
— Rachel Salyer
The University Daily Kansan is now accepting applications for 2012 summer and fall Editors-in-chief and summer and fall Business Managers. Applications will be accepted until April 11.
EMPLOYMENT
Applications can be submitted at the University's employment site, jobs.ku.edu. Online listings for these
UDK now accepting applications for summer
Once the editors are selected, the Kansan will open applications for news and advertising staff positions.
positions include qualifications and requirements for the job.
Contact the Kansan's current editor-in-chief Ian Cummings at icumings@kansan.com with questions.
BUSINESS
— Laura Sather
Man pleads guilty to falsifing claims of past veteran services
ASSOCIATED PRESS
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas City-area contractor pleaded guilty Monday in Kansas to defrauding a federal government program designed to steer projects to companies owned by disabled veterans.
In his plea, Warren Parker, 70, of Blue Springs, Mo., admitted that he falsely claimed to be a disabled vet, helping his company, Silver Star Construction LLC, land
Parker, whose company also operated in Stillwell, Kan., pleaded guilty to single counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, major program fraud, wire fraud, money laundering and making a false statement.
"If we fail to hold these firms accountable, we will be sending a
When he announced the charges against Parker last summer, Kansas U.S. Attorney Barry Grissum said Parker's company wasn't doing well in a down economy when he devised a scheme to take advantage of the Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Program, in which a smaller pool of companies compete for work.
roughly $7.5 million in contracts it wasn't eligible to receive.
message to unscrupulous members of the contracting community that there is no punishment and no penalty for abusing the program," Grissom said in June.