2A • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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MONDAY, MARCH 25, 2002
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Top Story: The University wants to send birthday cards to students on their 21st day discouraging binge drinking
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CAMERA ON KU
Jeff Gebhart, Kansas City, Kansas, resident, tries to display a KU flag from a street light along Jayhawk Boulevard following the men's basketball team win yesterday that sent the Jayhawks on to the Final Four. Gebhart climbed the poles in 1993 after the team's advancement to the finals, and returned this year to commemorate another winning season.
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State budget gap difficult for some to grasp
The Associated Press
TOPEKA Mark Reber acknowledges that he and other Kansans find it hard to grasp the big numbers coming from the Capitol these days, including the estimated $700 million budget shortfall.
But when it's explained in terms of cars, the picture becomes clear.
Reber is a salesman at a Laird Noller dealership lot about a mile from the Statehouse. Parked on its lot is a charcoal gray, four-door Ford Focus with a sticker price of $15,765.
That $700 million — or $698.7 million, to be more precise — would buy that Focus for every full-time state worker, nearly 41,000 cars, with enough left over to cover sales tax and pay for gas.
"That puts it into perspective," Reber said, a little stunned by the idea.
For legislators, $700 million is the projected gap between expected revenues and required spending over the next 15 months.
Legislative leaders tend to think of the number in terms of its potential consequences: reduced spending on education and social services, closing minimum-security prisons, canceling highway projects and forcing government workers to take unpaid vacation days.
Without considering the budget figures in terms of cars or something similar, Reber believes, most Kansans have a hard time understanding them
ON CAMPUS
Tae Kwon Do club will meet from 6:30 to 8 tonight at 207 Robinson. Contact Greg Isaac at 749-4649.
Black Student Union will meet at 7:30 tonight at the Pioneer room in the Burge Union. Contact Mark Dupree at 864-3984.
OAKS Non-Traditional Students will have a brown bag lunch from noon to 1:30 p.m. today in the Burge Union. Contact Joan Winston at 864-7317.
- KU Greens will meet at 8 tonight at the Regionalist Room in the Kansas Union. Contact Sarah Hoskinson 838-9063.
'A BEAUTIFUL MIND'TAKES BEST PICTURE
List of winners at the 74th annual Academy Awards, presented last night at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Calif.:
Picture: A Beautiful Mind.
Director: Ron Howard, A Beautiful Mind.
Actor: Denzel Washington, Training Day.
Actress: Halle Berry, Monster's Ball Supporting Actor: Jim Broadbent Iris.
Supporting Actress: Jennifer Connelly, A Beautiful Mind.
Adapted Screenplay: Akiva Goldsman,
A Beautiful Mind.
Animated Feature: Shrek
Animated Short: For the Birds.
A Direction: Marlin Bouye.
Animated Feeds. Small
Animated Short: For the Birds
Art Direction: Michael L. McKenzie
Cinematography: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
Dessin/Movie Rouge.
Animated Short For the Drive
Art Direction: Moulin Rouge.
Documentary Feature: Murder on a Sunday Morning.
Documentary Short Subject: Thoth.
Film Editing: Black Hawk Down.
CAMPUS Administrator leaves for job in Nebraska
Alan Cerveny, director of the Office of Admissions and Scholarships, is leaving to become dean of admissions at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln next month.
Lisa Pinamonti, associate director of admissions and scholarships, will serve as interim director until a fulltime replacement is found.
Cerveny, who came to the University five years ago, said he had tremendous respect for KU and was proud of the recruiting program that he had developed here. He said leaving the University was a tough decision.
"It was difficult particularly because I have been blessed to work with the most dedicated, enthusiastic, and talented admissions staff that I've seen in my 20-plus years in this business," he said.
Cerveny and his wife are originally from Nebraska.
Richard Morrell, university registrar, is the chairman of a nine-member committee that will search for Cerveny's replacement. A decision is expected before the fall semester.
Morrell said the committee represented different parts of the University and not only members of the Office of Admissions and Scholarship staff.
"Through this committee, we intend to get the best person we can for the job," Morrell said.
Student hospitalized after car accident
Paul Hindley, a 20-year-old Overland Park sophomore, remains hospitalized but is in stable condition after a one-car accident early Friday morning March 15.
Hindley, a passenger in the 1995 Nissan Altima, was transported by Life Flight helicopter to the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Two other KU students were in the car. lan Schuster, a 21-year-old Glendale, Mo, junior, was taken by ambulance to Lawrence Memorial Hospital where he was treated and released.
The driver, Ryan Vandover, a 21-year-old St. Louis, Mo., sophomore, was not injured.
vandover lost control of the vehicle while traveling south on Mississippi Street near Jayhawk Boulevard. The vehicle struck a utility pole and a tree after missing a curve.
Vandover was arrested and taken to Douglas County Jail for blood-alcohol testing. Charges were pending based on the results of the test
Lt. Schuyler Bailey with the KU Public Safety Office said alcohol was a factor in the accident.
— Meredith Carr
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