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WEDNESDAY,MAY 8,2002
Runner torn by difficult decision
Senior sprinter opts to run in meet, not walk down hill
By Adam Pracht Kansan staff writer
While other seniors will be walking down the campanile hit on their way to graduation on May 19, Jabari Wamble will be crossing a different finish line -
The Oklahoma City senior said that choosing between graduation ceremonies and the Big 12 Conference track meet was not an easy decision. He said that walking down the hill was special, but not everything.
"It's going to be sad, but at the same time, I'll be with my friends and teammates — at the track working hard," he said. "I'll definitely miss it."
Wamble will be running the 400 and 4X400 at the meet in Columbia, Mo.
Faces in the Crowd
Jabari's mother, Wilma Wamble, said that she and Jabari's father, Amos Wamble, were disappointed at first that they wouldn't see Jabari walk down the hill for commencement. She said they went to see it last year to know what to expect.
"Looking back on my track
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hill on graduation day, he would still make the short journey in honor of his graduation. He said about 20 graduating seniors on the track team would have an informal ceremony together as soon as they got back from the track meet.
Every face in the crowd and every number in the phone book has a story behind it.
"We looked forward to that and we looked forward to seeing that long processional," Wilma Wamble said.
That time will mark the end of a successful track career for Wamble that included being named an All-American last year.
Wamble said that even though he wouldn't be walking down the
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record that is slowly coming to an end — within the next couple of weeks — I think it been a really fun time," he said. "I wouldn't trade it for the world."
Senior Jabari Wamble, plans to run in the Big 12 Conference track meet instead of participating in commencement ceremonies.
Wilma Wamble said that Jabari was active even before he was born.
"I think he was running inside of me," she said.
cially now with his successful years in track.
Wamble said that of all the races he had won, he was proudest of the ones in which he ran the last leg of a relay and took the baton from the last place position to a victory. He said those victories were a metaphor for the way he approached life — for the track team and for his career.
"No one can really choose where they're born and whose parents they were born to or their
economic situation," he said. "But maybe when you can end your life and pass off the baton to someone else better than you received it, then I think that you've done a good job."
Contact Pracht at apracne kansan.com. This story was edited by Brandon Stinnett.
Elections to proceed despite death of candidate
The Associated Press
Police were questioning a 32-year-old white Dutchman caught with a pistol minutes after Fortuyn was gunned down Monday in the parking lot of a radio station after giving an interview.
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands Dutch leaders agreed yesterday to go ahead with parliamentary elections next week, as thousands grieved for assassinated antiimmigration candidate Pim Fortuyn.
In Rotterdam, where his upstart party stunned the nation as it swept more than 35 percent of the vote in local elections less than two months ago, thousands of people laid flowers and lit candles outside his home.
Hundreds of supporters of the openly gay politician waited hours to sign a condolence log at City Hall. In the evening, tens of thousands marched silently through the center of Rotterdam to honor Fortuyn.
After meeting with officials
from Fortuyn's party, the government announced general elections will be held as planned on May 15, but the parties agreed not to campaign. Pim Fortuyn's List, the party named for its charismatic founder, said the slain candidate's name would remain at the top of its ballot list.
Fortuyn, an academic and former columnist, was shot at least five times after leaving the radio station in Hilversum, about 12 miles southeast of Amsterdam. Police said the gunman apparently acted alone.
The Dutch media, constrained by the custom that prevents naming criminal suspects, identified him as Volkert van der G., who was married and had one child. News reports said the attacker worked for a group called Environment Offensive. Police said investigators found ammunition at the suspect's home matching shell casing at the crime scene, and environmental literature.
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