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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY JANUARY 30, 2009
FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 2009
CAMPUS
Pregame, Jay Lenostyle
BY RACHEL BURCHFIELD
rburchfield@kansan.com
Students attending men's basketball games will now have pregame entertainment, courtesy of the University Career Center.
The UCC partnered with KU Athletics and Jayhawk Sports Marketing to create "Center Court," a pregame show meant to entertain students and inform them of its presence on campus. The next show will begin before tomorrow's game against Colorado.
"This is the most creative way to get our name out," said Nancy Hoch, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, senior and UCC employee. "Students seem to enjoy the pregame show. For any office on campus to get its name out to 30,000 people is a creative way to do it."
The show begins with a video modeled after the "jaywalking" segment on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
Hoch walked around campus with a camera and a microphone to record material for the video. She asked students what the chancellor's name is, what the abbreviation NCAA stands for and where the UCC is. The last question, Hoch said, usually stumped students.
"They'll be standing 100 feet from the UCC and they'll ask 'where's the UCC?'" Hoch said. "They'll say 'I think it's at the Union' or 'I didn't know we had one'"
Brent Blazek, Lenexa senior, saw "Center Court" premiere at the
Kansas State game. Blazek said he and his friends typically show up to games when the doors open two hours in advance. He said the pregame show got students' attention and that his roommate was one of the students interviewed by Hoch for the video segment of the show.
"I thought it was a good idea, because it's always kind of a time when students just sit around." Blazek said. "They have to sit there for two hours so it's a good idea to stick something in there. Anything you can do to connect to basketball is good. That's where you get a lot of students — at basketball games."
After the video, an enceee welcomed students to participate in a live competition for prizes. A video and photo submission contest is also taking place on the UCC's Web site, KUCareerHawk.com.
Students can submit videos and photos to the Web site showing what they will be doing one year after graduation. Students can then visit the Web site to vote on their favorite submissions. Winners of the contest will take home an iPod Touch or a Nintendo Wii.
Megan Hill, UCC associate director, said the show was an unconventional way to get students thinking about their futures.
"The contest provides a fun and unique way to engage students in the career development process," Hill said. "We hope it will also encourage students to take advantage of the many valuable resources offered by the University Career Center."
"CENTER COURT"
PREGAME SHOW
PERFORMANCES
Jan. 13 vs. Kansas State
Jan. 19 vs. Texas A&M
Jan. 31 vs. Colorado
Feb. 7 vs. Oklahoma State
Feb. 15 vs. Iowa State
Feb. 21 vs. Nebraska
Mar. 1 vs. Missouri
Mar. 7 vs. Texas
Jason Booker, Jayhawk Sports Marketing general manager, said the project began last February, but on a much smaller scale.
Booker said the "Jaywalking" segment made it apparent that many students were unaware of the UCC.
"It was eye-opening that a fair amount of people didn't know what a resume was or what the career center was," Booker said.
Video and photo submissions to the contest began on Jan. 13 and are due by Feb. 18 to the UCC Web site. Winners of the contest will be announced at the pregame show before the men's Feb. 21 game against Nebraska.
-Edited by Justin Leverett
Who brought the sled?
Ice climbers edge their way up an icy face on Frankenstein Cliff in Harts Location, N.H., Saturday.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CRIME
Mo. woman comes clean, accusing father of rape
BY ANDALE GROSS
HARRISONVILLE, Mo. — The sister of a girl who was allegedly molested and impregnated four times by their father says she
Associated Press
waited until she turned 18 to come forward because she was afraid of being placed in state custody.
"My dad was doing all this crazy stuff," the 18-year-old told The Associated
holding the names of the suspects and other family members to protect the identity of the daughter, an alleged sexual assault victim.
"I got fed up with it until I finally ran my mouth. ... I couldn't see my sister suffer anymore."
why I wanted her out."
Press in an interview Thursday.
"I got fed up with it until I finally ran my mouth. ... I couldn't see my sister suffer anymore. That's
She said her sister, now 19, was 13 when their father started molesting her. The 18-year-old said his sibling confided in her about the abuse after becoming pregnant the first time.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON Alleged rape victim
A cousin of the suspect's four daughters said the girls were afraid of their father and that's why none of them sought help sooner.
"But I already knew," she said.
The 18-year-old told police in October that her sister was being molested by their father and had given birth to four of his children. The tip led to a search of a rural property in
Harrisonville, where the family used to live. The property's new owners found two sealed coolers with the remains of two infants
"He threatened to kill them if they ever said anything," she said Thursday. "They were netrified."
on lan, 1.
Authorities said one of those infants died after not receiving
medical treatment for pneumonia. The 47-year-old father has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of that baby, who was born in November 2006.
Janeal Matheson, the public defender representing the man, declined to comment when reached by the AP on Thursday. No attorney was listed for the man's wife in court records, and calls to multiple phone numbers for her went unanswered.
He also is accused of father-
ing the other infant whose body was found in the coolers, and investigators said they were looking into the circumstances of that baby's death.
"He threatened to kill them if they ever said anything. They were petrified."
Authorities believe a third baby born in 2004 has been buried in Oklahoma where the family
once lived. A fourth child, now a 3-year-old boy, is in state custody. In addition to the
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON
Cousin of alleged
rape victim
A preliminary hearing for the father of the victim was scheduled for March 5.
the incar charge, the father also was charged with endanger ing the welfare of a child, statutory rape and two counts each of incest and abandoning a corpse. He was being held in the Cass County jail in lieu of a $500,000 bond.
FINANCE
World Economic Forum offers no answers, apologies
BY BRADLEY S. KLAPPER
Associated Press
DAVOS, Switzerland - At Davos, it seems, sorry is the hardest word.
There have been plenty of excuses, recriminations, hand-wringing and analysis. But scant few have owned up to the pervasive effects of bad business decisions that cost hundreds of thousands of jobs and brought the world economy to its knees.
Amid the profound pain of the financial meltdown enveloping the globe, this week's World Economic Forum might have been expected to feature apologies even a massive mea culpa from the movers and shakers of the financial community that created the crisis.
"There's a tremendous arrogance about the whole process," Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz told The Associated Press. The top bankers "think that it just happened, that it was nobody's fault. But they should feel sorry."
Meanwhile, its primarily midlevel banking officials who are now getting the boot.
Stiglitz said they aren't to blame. "The senior people — the ones who went to Congress and lobbied for less regulation — they
Lord Nicholas Stern, among Britain's most influential economists, agreed that captains of industry and high-flying business tycoons have not been humbled or even accepted their role in the
should take responsibility" he said.
mendown. Not have they recognized the culpability of an unsustainable economic system they prospered under for so long.
"There's some apologetic gestures. It is not zero, but I will say it is
Many of the businessmen most tainted by the collapse of global banks and record industry losses have skipped this year's forum. Those who came have taken part in numerous debates about the current downturn — the focus of a sober gathering that lost much of the party atmosphere and lavishness of previous years, even if private jet and helicopter use were expected to climb from 2008.
Stephen Green, chairman of financial services titan HSBC Holdings PLC, did attend - his presence noted by a TV journalist at the opening news conference.
"There's a tremendous arrogance about the whole process."
Some businessmen have blamed poor regulation, arguing that authorities were at fault for permitting bankers and investors to run
embarrassingly small," Stern said.
Green managed an uneasy smile, saying later: "The banking sector has not covered itself in glory. It has made mistakes."
Others have cited spendthrift American consumers for indebting themselves beyond repair. Still others blame the generous, bailout-giving governments of today for their policies a decade ago.
amok in a world of financial lawlessness.
In offering a response to the crisis, Stephen Schwarzman, chairman and CEO of The Blackstone Group LP, even went so far as to suggest less government control of the financial sector was needed.
Schwarzman urged lower capital ratios, meaning banks would be allowed to lend more of the money they are currently required to store away to cover losses.
Blackstone Group, one of the world's largest private-equity funds, reported third-quarter losses of $340.3 million as the global credit crisis eroded the value of companies it controls and locked up the lending it counts on to fund
deals.
The suggestion for less regulation was greeted with derision by economists such as the University of Berkeley's Laura Tyson, who say such policies reek of the riskiness that helped push banks into the crisis they now find themselves in.
It's true that a simple "sorry" for mistakes or misjudgments would not reverse the economic slide. But it still might be appreciated by the many taxpayers who are now propping up their countries' economies.
Self regulation of financial institutions has not worked in the U.S., said Tyson, who was economic adviser to the Clinton administration.
The CEO of Swiss insurer Zurich Financial Services AG was a rare exception.
Schiro — whose company's profits crashed by 90 percent in the third quarter last year after写下降s of $1.1 billion due to the financial crisis and a costly hurricane season — added that business and government needed to face up to their shortcomings.
"We didn't deliver on what we promised and brought (people) to the state that we're in," James Schiro said. "That's the sense of loss of trust, loss of credibility and loss of reputation."
"We all have to say 'We apologize," he said. "We can spend a lot of time looking at this process, but I think we have to look forward and say what are the solutions."
That was far from universally endorsed, however, even by companies far from the center of the storm.
Chad Hurley, the co-founder and CEO of YouTube, said the Davos forum was about getting down to business.
But Hurley said he also understood the public's anxiety about how its money was being spent by businesses that have lost so much. Companies needed to act wisely, he said.
"I don't think now is the time to sit around and apologize," he said.
Billionaire and former Republican presidential candidate Steve Forbes said those responsible for the crisis will soon be sorry, even if they don't say it here in the Swiss Alps.
"It's hard to see what they're doing internally, to see how they're using public funds," he said. "The public, of course, doesn't like it when a guy buys a new jet with government money."
"I think Davos is for problem-solving," he said. "The heartfelt apologies will come when some individuals are brought before a court of law."
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