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Basketball minus Lee Kansas lost starting guard Mike Lee after he broke his right collarbone during practice on Friday. He is expected to return to the court in six to eight weeks. Kansas takes on Texas Christian University tonight in Fort Worth, Texas. PAGE 12A
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Poker popularity rises among campus card players
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[Image of four men seated around a table, playing a card game with visible poker chips and cards. The focus is on the hands of the players, who are making decisions and engaging in the game.]
By Zack Hemenway
zhenmenway@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
When I look up from my cards, I see six sets of cold, blank eyes staring back at me. These intense poker faces tell me that everyone at the table forgot I was a reporter 20 hands and $5 worth of chips ago. I'm just another stack of chips, and my **K**-**K**=10 of diamonds has combined with the flop of **A**-**3**-**Q**-**4** to put me one card away from a flush and one away from a straight (see rules, 6A)
Tara Milleson, Wichita sophomore, rakes in a big pot she won with a pair of jacks. From left, Felipe Rosso, Overland Park senior, Joseph Shult, Wichita senior, and Chris Stachura, Milwaukee junior, wait for the next hand.
I'm waiting for Adam Heasley to bet. Heasley told me before the cards were dealt that he's up $250 this month. The flurry of folds following his bets have showed me the other players respect and fear him.
"All-in", he says, pushing all his chips towards the pot. Other players fold quickly, and it's up to me. Heasley wants to scare me into folding. But even if he has A-Q, a flush or straight will beat him. Besides, he's already pegged me as a weak player, the type most likely to fold after a big bet. Maybe it's this
Our pre-game talk helped Heasley size me up too. He knows I've never played in a game like this, and if he didn't, my skills with the cards made it clear, I've been passing them to him when it's my turn to shuffle. We're playing no-limit Texas Hold'em, the game where you can bet every chip you have at any point in any hand. Heasley stares at me, and in a cold, unfearing tone, does just that, with the two most important words in the game.
intelligent poker reasoning, or maybe I'm remembering what Heasley told me in my pre-game interview when I asked why he prefers no limit.
"If I can't bluff, I can't play." Heasley said.
"I'll call."
Whatever the reasoning, my mind is made up. The bloodflow to my heart triples as I say the words.
More KU students have experienced this kind of mini-drama this semester than ever before, as increased coverage of no-limit hold'em on television has introduced the game to a new generation.
watching and networks are noticing the target demographic. Thanksgiving viewers were offered 17 hours of televised poker tournaments on ESPN, Fox Sports Net, and the Travel Channel.
Poker on television is not a new concept. But when networks aired tournaments in the past, the programs were not much different than watching friends play. Viewers couldn't see the players' cards, so they often never knew if a player was bluffing.
All the players in Heasley's game started playing after seeing the World Series of Poker on ESPN, and each knew of other regular games in town. Coverage of the World Poker Tour on the Travel Channel has inspired, other weekly games.
The networks televising poker solved that problem about six months ago with the new "hole-card cam" technology, which lets viewers see the players' cards. To see the hands, tiny spy cameras are built into the poker table, and the viewers see the cards at the same time players do. The image is transmitted to a locked
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Muralist adds color to Kansas horizons
By Meghan Brune
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Kansan staff writer
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Inside the 4-1-1 Studio in East Lawrence, a group of novice artists gathered around a makeshift plywood table as artist David Loewenstein begin to sketch absentmindedly. Loewenstein's students pored over a set of drawings and watercolor paintings to come to a conclusion on their final mural design.
The studio, previously a small, white house and garage, has become a colorful workspace for a muralist and a group of young artists.
Outside, Loewenstein's art covers the building. Inside, spray-painted portraits, empty paint cans and drawing plans for much larger pieces of art lead the way into the artist's den.
Loewenstein, a local muralist, opened his studio doors in September to a group of Lawrence residents and University of Kansas students. His goal was to teach them about this public form of art and help them create one together. But his goals extend beyond this group.
SEE MURALIST ON PAGE 3A
"I just jumped in," he said. "I had to find out for myself."
Though he has worked on murals in far away places such as New York and
After obtaining a Master of Arts in Painting from Purdue University, Loewenstein came to the University to study mural arts. But none of his professors knew anything about larger art form.
Lowenstein began to study muralists such as Diego Rivera and painted his first mural in Lawrence in 1992. Since then he has created murals all over Kansas and Missouri.
A graduate of Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, Loewenstein always knew he wanted to paint but didn't like constraining his art to a studio or gallery.
Making of a muralist
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Kansas quarterback Bill Whittlemore waved to the crowd during the final minute of the Iowa State game on Nov. 22. The Jayhawks accepted a bid to the Tangerine Bowl on Saturday, their first bowl appearance since 1995. SEE STORY ON PAGE 12A.
Martin's host family remembers her life
By Lindsay Hanson
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GOLFITO, Costa Rica - Shannon Martin stumbled upon a nest of 15 butterfly larvae during one of her twice-daily hikes through Golfito's forest.
Odette Porras, Martin's host mother during her spring 2000 semester at Golfito's Institute of Tropical Studies, glows when she tells the story. A friend, a local parks guide, had coached her in scooping the fragile larvae into a bucket and delivering them to the Porras home. For weeks Martin, a biodiversity, ecology and evolutionary biology major at the University of Kansas, had been nursing the sluggish larvae when they were near death, seeing them into the caterpillar stage and later into the cocoon stage.
Martin, a 22-year-old Topeka junior, hadn't been looking for butterflies, specifically. She had been collecting rare fern specimens as an independent research project for the honors thesis she would
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Editor's note: This is the first in a three-part series about the murder of Shannon Martin, a Topeka senior who was killed May 13, 2001, while completing research in Costa Rica.
write the next year. Just before graduation the following spring, she would find that she needed a few more samples to make her thesis work. She found some stray funds in the biology department, crammed her final into two hectic days and hopped on a plane to Golfito for a quick, seven-day trip before she was to return home to walk down the hill with her boyfriend and her sister Sheri.
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But early in the morning of May 13, 2001, three days after her arrival and seven before graduation, her trip ended abruptly. She was stabbed 14 times while walking on an unlit airport access road from the popular nightclub Jurassic Bar to the Por-
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Odette Porras examined a fern in her G肥侨, Costa Rice, backyard. Porras, Shannon Martin's host mother during her study abroad semester in G肥侨 in Spring 2000, has maintained the garden started by Martin.
ras home, where she was staying. She was about 30 meters from the bar, whose open, bamboo-barred dance floor was filled with between 100 and 200 people. But no one heard anything. Fifty meters down the road, the Pornas slept undisturbed.
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Sheriff's officials said several wireless microphones discovered outside their headquarters could be the latest of several attempts by journalists to surreptitiously get information on the Michael Jackson molestation case.
The devices were found in a brushy area where Sheriff's Department employees frequently take breaks and where reporters are not normally allowed. Officials did not say when they discovered the microphones.
Hundreds of reporters and photographers converged on the Sheriff's Department on Nov. 20, when Jackson was booked at a nearby jail on suspicion of sexually molesting a child under 14.
The entertainer, who is free on $3 million bail, has maintained his innocence. Authorities say he probably won't be charged until after Dec. 15.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq — In the deadliest reported firefight since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, U.S. soldiers fought back coordinated attacks yesterday using tanks, cannons and small arms in running battles throughout the northern city of Samarra. The troops
killed 46 Iraqi fighters, and five Americans were wounded.
Minutes later, two South Korean contractors were killed nearby in a roadside ambush in what U.S. officials called a new campaign aimed at undermining international support for the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq. Attacks on Saturday killed seven Spaniards, two Japanese diplomats and a Colombian oil worker.
Lt. Col. William MacDonald of the 4th Infantry Division said attackers, many wearing uniforms of Saddam's Fedayeen militia, opened fire simultaneously on two U.S. supply convoyes on opposite sides of Samarra.
After barricading a road, the attackers opened fire from rooftops and alleyways with bombs, small arms, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades, he said. U.S. troops responded with rifles, 120mm tank rounds and 25mm cannon fire from Bradley fighting vehicles.
When the smoke cleared, 46 Iraqis were dead, 18 were wounded and eight were captured, MacDonald said. Five American soldiers and a civilian were wounded, he said, adding that none of the injuries were life-threatening.
Shortly after the firefight, four men in a BMW attacked another U.S. convoy in Samarra with automatic rifles, MacDonald said. The soldiers wounded all four men, and found Kalashnikov rifles and grenade launchers in their car.
MacDonald said the attack was the largest faced by his Task Force Ironhorse — whose mission includes the hunt for Saddam. Military officials in Baghdad said they haven't reported a deadlier attack since May 1, when President Bush declared major combat over.
U. S. officials have only sporadically released figures on Iraqi casualties, and wouldn't say whether there has been a deadlier firefight that went unreported.
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Political groups on campus are preparing for the busy campaign season.
With the U.S. presidential election less than a year away, candidates have already begun their races for office.
Student political organizations are doing their part by providing information about the issues and a place to discuss them.
The student organization KU Greens is sponsoring a U.S. foreign policy forum tonight as one way to prepare voters for next year's presidential election.
"It is important for people to be thinking about the issues and learning more about what is going on," said Sara Zafar, co-president for the KU Greens and Kansan columnist. "We want informed voters."
The forum, a panel of five professors, students and members of the community, will begin at 7
Each panelist will present a different perspective on the topic and the audience can ask questions of them, said Zafar, Wichita junior.
Zafar said the purpose of the panel was to cover all the views across the political spectrum — from conservative to liberal.
"We tried to get a diverse perspective in order to give people a sense of what everyone thinks about foreign policy," Zafar said.
tonight at the Big 12 Room in the Kansas Union.
Keating, the president of the KU Young Democrats and Marysville junior, said he thought it was important for everyone to learn more about the issues facing the government before voting.
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Keating, will speak from a Democratic viewpoint.
"Foreign policy is hard to understand," he said. "When working with a country sometimes we don't even know where they are on a map."
Dave Best, co-president of KU Greens, said one motivation for
the forum was to help people understand why U.S. troops were fighting in Iraq. Best said that he was interested in learning about other perspectives on the war and helping expose students to diverse ways to approach foreign policy.
"More and more soldiers are being killed and I think people are wondering why we are there," said Best, Dallas senior.
Best said his other goal was to register more voters. He said traditionally the turnout for college
age voters was low and that there would be voter registration cards at the forum.
"We want them to get excited and realize how important these things are."Best said.
The other panelists include Philip Schrodt, a political science professor, Brian DeToy, an adjunct professor of the Army ROTC, and Dave Strano, a peace activist in Lawrence, and a member of the College Republicans.
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MURALIST: Class brings art form to Lawrence area
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Ireland, Loewenstein said he has stayed in Lawrence because its size gave him the opportunity to work more.
"There isn't a mural tradition in Lawrence like in bigger areas," he said.
In Lawrence, Loewenstein has begun his own tradition with approximately 10 murals throughout the city.
One of these is the 20-foot painting, "A Thousand Miles," on the side of Cordley Elementary. The mural, painted in 1996, depicts the story of Reverend Richard Cordley and his wife, who hid a runaway slave as part of the Underground Railroad.
Loewenstein said.
The idea to create the piece of art came from Cordley's PTA, who contacted Loewenstein, said Kim Bodensteiner, Cordley principal.
David Loewenstein, Lawrence muralist, watched over Rebecca Bruce, Leawood senior, Karl Janssen, graphic designer at the University Press of Kansas, and Janet Reeves, Spring, Texas, junior, his first class of mural painters last month. The students said they were trying to expand their artistic talents." I wanted to learn more about making murals," Janssen said. Loewenstein's class is held Sunday nights at his studio in Lawrence.
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"It is a good way for our students to learn the story of their school," she said.
Every year, Bodensteiner said, the school talks about the mural and the part of history their school represents.
"I wanted it to have some vitality and energy now,"
"Some thought that it would be an invitation to draw all over the building, but I think it is the opposite," she said. "People take extra care of it."
Bodensteiner said at first the school district was worried about adding the mural to the school.
With the help of students' ideas, Loewenstein created a design that brought the history of the school's namesake into the present by incorporating students studying at computers in the bottom right of the mural.
Loewenstein's inclusion of the school and the community in creation of his art and its beauty has kept it safe. Bodensteiner said.
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Loewenstein said it was important to him to get to know the community and work with it so that they would be happy with the result.
"Murals beautifully and enhance any area for not much money, and they bring people together," he said. "Eventually they become part of the landscape of the place."
Another of Loewenstein's murals resides on the side of the Cork and Barrel at Ninth and Mississippi streets.
Teaching his craft
In September, Loewenstein began a mural workshop for six students. The class gives anyone, from artists to art enthusiasts, the opportunity to learn the process of creating a "community-based" piece of art.
Loewenstein is now at work on his latest project - a mural for a restaurant in Great Bend. He said that he didn't usually work with restaurants, but that the owner seemed happy.
Wall-size men and women work together planting and cultivating bright green rows of crops. Images of Kansas wildlife mingle with the vibrantly colored people. The words on either side of the mural read, "We cannot sow seeds with clenched fists. To sow we must open our fists."
During about a six-week period, Loewenstein's class visited Kansas murals, studied the process of picking a location, experimented with different media for murals and designed their own collaborative mural. The cost of the class was $100, which included all supplies.
Last week, the class began painting its portable mural for Lawrence Habitat for Humanity.
Loewenstein said that Habitat wanted a portable mural so it could roll it up and carry it to different sites.
The design — images of building materials, working people and houses — is a blending of 20 designs the students had made throughout the classes.
The group was nervous to begin sharing ideas, but was excited to have one final design, class member and graphic designer at the University Press of
"I transferred directly from their drawings," Loewenstein said. "I didn't try to interpret."
In the design, hands hold up hammers, a home, its deed and the key to the home. The figures represent the collaborative nature of Habitat as well as the art process.
Kansas Kari Janssen said.
"Murals take art out of the gallery and put them in people's lives and forces them to look and form an opinion," Janssen, a KU employee said.
Janet Reeves, a painting major at the University, said she had always had an interest in the art form.
"I like working this big," Reeves, Spring, Texas junior said. "You can be more expressive."
Documenting a Kansas tradition
Loewenstein not only creates
art, but he also writes about it.
Loewenstein and fellow Lawrence artist, Lora Jost, traveled more than 5,000 miles around Kansas to record the hundreds of murals in its towns.
The product, Kansas Murals: A Travelers Guide, will be released in the fall or winter of 2004.
Loewenstein and Jost received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Kansas Art Commission to create a Web site and book as part of the Kansas Mural Project.
Jost said the book had three purposes: To celebrate murals, help travelers find the murals and draw attention to the art form.
Loewenstein said he didn't know how long he planned to stay in Lawrence, but he said it was a good home base. He will continue to build his own tradition of art, to teach classes and to work closely with the community to create his murals.
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Should America embrace same-sex marriages? Ban runs counter to freedom Union barriers would dissolve
Predictably, reaction to the landmark Massachusetts decision ruling the state's ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional has been mixed. Wild predictions that allowing gay marriage will decimate the morals of society dominate conservative discourse.
Bush's statements about the issue point to a popular, and true, objection: common law definitions exclusively define mixed-gendered marriage. The Massachusetts decision acknowledges this fact, but recognizes that the definition's "history cannot and does not foreclose the constitutional question."
One of the most dismissible and despicable objections is the notion that marriage is critical to procreation. The devastating question: how would facilitating committed homosexual marriages decrease the homosexual potential of heterosexual marriages? That this country needs special tax status to encourage procreation would be laughable if it wasn't given the credence it has received.
The Massachusetts decision takes this a step further, writing that the "marriage is procreation" argument singles out the one unbridgeable difference between same-sex and opposite-sex couples, and transforms that difference into the essence of legal marriage... In so doing, the State's action confers an official stamp of approval on the destructive stereotype that same-sex relationships are inherently unstable and inferior to opposite-sex relationships and are not worthy of respect." Perhaps this was the intent all along.
Yet often the divergent legal argument suggests that any kind of marriage is permissible once the courts abandon the historical definition of marriage. The fear is that incestuous or polygamous marriages would suddenly become permissible. But to assume a runaway system is to ignore the system's essential nuances.
Marriage has long been recognized as a basic civil right, as illustrated in cases such as Loving v. Virginia, Skinner v. Oklahoma
Face-Off is a project of the Kansan editorial board. Two editorial board members argue opposing sides of a hot-button issue that affects students at the University of Kansas.
This section is designed to help students understand opposing sides of an issue and make informed decisions.
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and Milford v. Worcester. Courts have consistently ruled that marriage has little meaning if it does not include the ability to marry a person of one's choice.
Hypothetical fears of a runaway judicial future, or of damage to the "fabric" of society are poor excuses to deny such a basic right.
Greg Holmquist for the editorial board.
Nearly everyone on this campus and in this country draws a line in the sand somewhere with respect to issues of sexual morality. A good number of those people had their lines crossed this week by the Massachusetts Supreme Court. It is now legal in that state for same-sex couples to marry.
This is not really a gay issue. At its core, this issue centers on the definition of marriage.
Since America's inception, marriage has been a union between a man and a woman. It does not seem inappropriate for America, or any society, to create its own definition of marriage even if that definition is somewhat limited. This decision is bigger than a gay issue. If marriage is going to be redefined here, what is to stop it from being redefined further?
The Massachusetts court said the state may not "deny the protections, benefits and obligations conferred by civil marriage to two individuals of the same sex
wish to marry." If this is the case, how can the state deny those same protections, benefits and obligations to polygamists? How can it deny them to a brother and sister who wish to wed each other? Sound like a crazy comparisons? They really are not. Homosexual, polygamous and incestuous relationships can all exist between consenting adults. If we follow the court's logic, why should a woman looking to become her husband's second wife or a man who wishes to marry his sister be denied the "protections, benefits and obligations conferred by civil marriage?"
Let's go back to our own individual lines in the sand for a second.
This case is all about where to draw them. If you are going to support the logic of gay marriage and not be in favor of allowing a brother and sister to marry, then you are guilty of the same crime you would accuse an opponent of gay marriage of committing. The nature of this "crime" is essentially to make an "arbitrary" distinction between who can marry and who cannot.
Those in favor of keeping the institution of marriage limited to traditional heterosexual relationships, however, are not making such an "arbitrary" distinction.
They have the benefit of tradition and the logistics of procreation on their side.
Matt Pirotte dissenting.
perspective
Clark promises critical, heavily involved society
Forty years and a week ago, John F. Kennedy was killed. Before he died, Kennedy urged our nation to service: "Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country."
COMMENTARY
PATRICK BROWN
Bush then proceeded to exploit that national tragedy for personal political gain. He drew a spurious connection between the Al Qaeda terrorists who attacked us and Saddam Hussein, who did not, to garner public support for a war in Iraq. He used our fear of being attacked again as an excuse to erode civil liberties. He painted political opponents as unpatriotic. And he told us, when we asked what we could do for our country, to shop till we drop.
Two years and three months ago, America was attacked by terrorists. In response to the overwhelming longing of the American people to sacrifice for the good of our country in its hour of need, George W. Bush asked us to go shopping.
Rachel Robson opinion@kansan.com
I don't want to go shopping. I wint to be inspired.
Enter Wesley Clark, wounded Vietnam
veteran, retired four-star general and Democratic candidate for the presidency
Clark is about as inspiring as they come. Raised by his struggling mother and stepfather in Arkansas, Clark graduated first in his 1966 West Point class. He won a Rhodes Scholarship, which he used to earn a master's degree in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford University. He then went to Vietnam, where he was wounded four times while leading his troops. He eventually became a general and then Supreme Allied Commander of NATO. He retired from the army with 34
"This is why I'm running for president to return America to the core ideals of our democracy: personal liberty, service to country, respect for others, the right to criticize and correct the government," Clark said at a military reporters' convention Oct. 3.
Clark is everything that Bush is not. Clark is a decorated war hero; Bush avoided serious military service by joining the Texas Air National Guard during Vietnam, and even then didn't bother to report for duty for an entire year. Clark earned everything he has on his own merits; Bush enjoyed all the privileges that come with being born of a wealthy, influential family. Clark is intellectually curious and interested in world events; Bush has bragged that he doesn't watch any news other than SportsCenter.
years of service and four stars.
Last September, after tens of thousands of Americans wrote letters begging him to run, Clark announced that he'll now try to become America's commander in chief
your needs and policy — insofar as it exists — is notoriously short sighted, denying the well-established phenomenon of global warming and doing little to encourage renewable sources of energy. Clark said we should always consider what our country will look like 100 years from now and make decisions about natural resources accordingly.
More importantly, Clark stands for everything that Bush does not.
And while Bush tells Americans that materialism is the highest form of patriotism, Clark encourages volunteering with a plan for a civilian reserve that could be called upon in the event of a national disaster.
Bush was willing to throw away longstanding alliances for an optional war in Iraq. Clark believes such a unilateralist attitude is dangerous, weakening America in the long run.
Following Sept. 11, 2001, Ari Fleischer Bush's press secretary at the time, said that Americans must "watch what they say, watch what they do." Contrast this with Clark: "There is nothing more American, nothing more patriotic, than speaking out, questioning authority and holding your leaders accountable."
Patriotism requires sacrifice. Clark and I understand that, even if Bush does not. I will be giving up my cherished position as a columnist for The University Daily Kansan next semester so I can devote more time to the Clark campaign.
"Under this administration, service is for those who cannot afford to be served and patriotism is defined as the many sacrificing for the few. I believe differently. I believe that the call to service is the highest calling any American can answer, that your time and talent and energy are the greatest gifts you can give your country. That service to your country is patriotism." Clark said.
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Clark is the kind of leader that this country needs, so I will do what I can to help him get elected. Now is the time we should all be considering what we can do for our country.
Robson is a Baldwin City doctoral candidate in pathology. She is president of KUMC for Clark, and editor of http://scientists.forclark.com.
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FLYING HOME
The trial's end last Monday brought 15-years' worth of justice to two of the three defendants, but the Porras had hoped for a more stern ending to the violent death of the student they thought of as their daughter.
With bright eyes and sweeping hand gestures, the retired Porras, 61, describes her "Chanon," reverting to the skills she perfected during her former days as an elementary school teacher.
She and her husband, Marcial, have housed about 40 study abroad students from the University of Kansas and Goshen College, a private Mennonite university in northern Indiana. Many students have passed through, but the memory of Shannon has never faded. They had become closest to her.
"She was always very open,"
"She was Odette said in Spanish. She paused. "It was easy to love her."
A view from the edge of the Porrs' yard shows the short distance from the Porras home to Jurassic Bar, about 50 meters away, Shannon Martin, 23-year-old Topeka senior, was killed in 2001 on the broken pavement of the airport hangar parking lot adjacent to this airport access road.
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During Martin's study abroad semester, she often grabbed her host parents, who she called
Martin
Odette Porras, 61, still displays the shelled decoration that Shannon Martin crafted for her during her semester studying abroad in Golifito, Costa Rica. The Porras' home is speckled with memories of Martin, including a 4-foot-tall ceramic memorial in the lawn, which overlooks the site of Martin's death in 2001.
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Mami and Papi, for walks around the neighborhood. They live quietly on the edge of Golfito, where the lush tropical forest almost engulfs the port town town of 18,000. Their house sits less than 100 meters from the Golfito National Wildlife Refuge, where possibly more species live per square mile than any other region on the planet.
Odette remembers the day before Martin finished her initial stay in Golffito. Odette had been concerned that the butterflies Martin had been cultivating wouldn't emerge before Martin was to leave, and she knew how important the project was to Martin.
But that day, Martin called her and Marcial into the backyard butterfly garden she had built.
"The butterflies are ready!" Martin cried.
[Image] A dark, misty path surrounded by palm trees and dense foliage. The ground is covered with fallen leaves or debris. A building with a white facade and dark roof can be seen in the background.
She peeled back the lid of the plastic bucket to reveal all 15 of the matured insects flying free, one after another.
"How precious, no?" Odette said.
The remnants of Martin's butterfly garden still pepper the Porras lawn. Odette can remember when Martin planted each fern, palm, herb and orchid. She wasn't much of a horticulturist before Martin came, but now she cares for the garden as if she had planted it herself.
"That's Embra, that's Macho," Martin said, giggling. She had named them all, and somehow, they were ready for release on the day she was to say goodbye to the Porrases.
NIGHT FLIGHT
The details of Martin's return to Golfito are as clear to Odette as if the story were displayed in the photo album laying across her lap.
Martin had exchanged teary greetings with her friends and host parents upon her arrival via a seven-hour bus ride from San Jose, the country's capital, late on Thursday, May 10, 2001. Odette had prepared honey and bananas on tortillas, the favorite snack of Martin, a vegan. While Martin stuffed her cheeks and mumbled about the dish's rich flavor, Odette said it was as if no time had passed since Martin left.
"How cute, Chanon," Odtet told her. "You're like a rose."
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As Odette narrates Martin's story, her jovial, lighthearted tone suddenly turns solemn.
The day after Martin arrived, Odette fell ill to her diabetes and found herself bedridden for most of the day. Saturday was the same. She still beats herself up over lost time with Martin.
Saturday evening, Martin set out to dance. She had taken a Latin American dance class the year before. This was the night to emulate the moves of Ricky Martin, she told Odette. Word had spread around town about a blowout party at Jurassic Bar, and she was going to be there along with a few friends.
Odette's voice becomes hoarse. Marcial responds faithfully by excusing himself to the kitchen and returning a minute later.
Routine had prompted the warnings, not fear. Odette had lived in Golfito 29 years and couldn't remember any examples of violent crime. Martin had assured her she'd return early, so Odette took her medicine for diabetes and didn't fret.
As any mother would, Odette advised Martin not to drink too much and not to walk home alone on the access road that touches the Porras lawn. She didn't even have to hail one of the faded red taxis that zip like go-carts around traffic on Golfito's main highway. Though the walk would take a few extra minutes, the lit, paved road in front of the house would be safer to follow, she told Martin.
It would have been senseless to
pay 75 cents for a ride back to the Porras home, just 50 meters away on the dark path through an old airport hanger lot. She carried a bottle of Heineken. The neighborhood was quiet. The back fence to the Porras lawn was 50 meters away—a quick sprint.
The autopsy reports say Martin approached her attackers as if they were familiar to her. People close to Martin said she could have befriended anyone.
CRUSHED WINGS
Paulo Lopez, now 25, was friends with the bar owner. About 2 a.m. that Sunday morning, he had noticed something out of the ordinary on the broken pavement of the old airport hanger parking lot. He quickly pulled his car around to illuminate the scene with headlights and froze at what lay before him. There was Martin — lifeless, pale and bloodstained.
Bar patrons spilled out immediately at the news. Not until an hour later did a friend of Martin's knock on the Porras' door. Odette, whose diabetes drugs and grogginess made her confused, thought the man at the door had said Martin was vomiting from alcohol. Marcial knew. He somberly followed the man to the scene and identified the body of Martin for the police.
Odette became frantic when she realized what had happened. She rushed to the yellow tape,
but several officers held her back. Her head was spinning. She wanted to see Martin.
Odette's chin quivered as she sobbed.
"Why didn't she listen?"
Though the trial ended last Monday, Golifeños are left wondering why the punishment was less than requested. The prosecution had asked for capital homicide, which carries a maximum punishment of 35 years, for all
three defendants. The three-judge panel instead declared 15-year sentences for "simple murder," citing a lack of evidence that showed enjoyment in the killing. Kattia Cruz Murillo, 29, and Luis Alberto Castro Carrillo, 33, will be eligible for parole in nine years, while Rafael Zumbado Quesada, 52, was acquitted.
The Porrasse have tried to move on, but the closure of the University's Institute of Tropical
Studies has meant no new students to fill their home and occupy their attention.
Still, Martin's spirit seems alive in the Porras' house through small tokens from her life. Like a monument to Martin's stolen future, a cobalt-colored butterfly sits suspended between two layers of glass, watching over the Porras' living room, preserving her memory.
—Edited by Erin Riffey
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room in the casino, which is closely guarded to prevent any possible impropriety.
The hole-card camera has taken the sport into prime-time and raised its ratings to network-record levels. James Ashurst, spokesman for the Travel Channel, which airs the World Poker Tour each week, said the new-found poker popularity wouldn't be possible without the new technology.
"It's the hole-card camera that really engages the viewer." Ashurst said. "It creates a situation where the viewer has more information than the players."
Ashurst said the amount of money at stake also made events exciting. The annual World Series has a prize of $2.5 million, and tour events, aired weekly, usually have a purse exceeding $1 million.
"When you have hundreds of thousands of dollars hanging on one card, it's pretty compelling," Ashurst said.
The emergence of reality TV has shown that in the world of television, success breeds imitation. Fox Sports aired a Thanksgiving tournament, the "Showdown at the Sands," and network giant NBC has also joined the newly crowded field of TV poker.
Bravo, one of NBC's subsidiary networks, will unveil a new celebrity no-limit hold'em series tomorrow night, and the network has partnered with the Travel Channel for a "Battle of Champions." The event, which will include professionals from this year's World Tour, will air Super Bowl Sunday.
Poker Pals
Poker is taking over the television airwaves. But for many students, merely watching poker is not enough.
Felipe Rosso has been hosting a regular game for more than two months. He and his friends watched the World Poker Tour and decided to start their own weekly event.
Every Thursday around 8 p.m., between six and 10 people contribute $5 to sit at Rosso's wooden table and fling plastic chips into the pot. They play winner-take-all, which means that each week, one person walks away with $30-50 and everyone else leaves with nothing. It also means that the games average about five hours in length.
Rosso describes their game as "last man — or woman — standing." One of the unusual aspects of Rosso's game is that two females play in it regularly. Poker has long been in the same category of stereotypes as draft beer, heavy machinery and Monday Night Football: "guy stuff."
But the game is changing, as pros like Annie Duke, who finished tenth in the 2000 World Series while eight months pregnant, are winning millions. The student game has similar trailblazers. Rachna Govind, Overland Park senior, has played in Rosso's game nearly every week, winning the big prize more than once. She said her gender could be an advantage in the game.
"Sometimes people think you don't know what you're doing because you're a girl," she said.
Govind is one of the stronger players despite having the most dreaded of poker habits, a "tell," a behavior that gives players a hint on the strength of a hand. When Govind wants to bet, the right side of her mouth quivers ever so slightly as she fights a smile.
Govind's tell doesn't hurt her
How often does a certain hand win?
Starting Hand Win Rate
AA 75%
KK 63.5%
OQ 56.1%
JJ 50%
AK, suited 51.1%
AK, not suited 48.1%
AQ, suited 46.5%
AQ, not suiced 42.4%
AJ, suited 41.7%
10,10 43.5%
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RULES
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If you're going to start your own poker game or play in someone else's here are some rules and terms you should know.
How to play Texas Hold'Em:
Each player is dealt two cards face-down, called hole cards.
After a round of betting, 3 cards are dealt face-up. This is the flip.
Another round of betting follows.
then another card is dealt. After another round of betting, the final card, the river, is dealt. Players bet one more time, and the player with the best 5-card hand, made by combining hole cards with the community cards, wins the pot.
In no-limit hold'em, a player may bet all of his chips at any point in the hand.
ALL-IN. When a player bets every chip he or she has on a hand, they are going all-in. BLIND. Two bets, the big blind and small blind, which are force bets for the two players left of the dealer to try and ensure action o.o each hand.
TERMS
SPADES
DIMECK: To waive the right to bet
to the next person at the table.
Checking is usually indicated by
tapping the table.
COMMUNITY CARDS: The face-
cup cards in the center of the
table used by all players.
FLOP: The three community
cards deal face-up after the first
round of betting.
FOURTH STREET: Also called the turn card, fourth street is the first
card dealt after the top.
MUCK: to discard a hand.
NO-LIMIT: Building structure in which players may wager all their chips at any point in a hand.
NUTS: The next possible 5-card
hand on a given hand.
OUTS: Cards which could improve a player's hand.
RIVER: Also called Fifth Street, the river is the last card dealt.
STACK: Chips in front of a player.
SUITED: Two hole cards of the same suit are suited.
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At Overland Park senior Joe Gloeckner's apartment Friday night, it's hard to believe that any of the players would describe poker as a mere "game." With a borrowed felt poker tabletop
much, since it merely shows she has a good hand, not when she's bluffing. Besides, her friends hardly notice. The mood at the game is as raucous and easygoing as the classic rock music blasting from the stereo. Players joke with one another about bluffs in between discussions of TV poker and KU basketball — it's almost as if they've forgotten that the small plastic trophy, which ceremonially holds the night's purse, is overflowing with $5 bills.
"It gives us a reason to hang out," Govind said. "It's really the only tradition we have in our group of friends."
A recent article in The New York Times estimated that 50 million Americans play poker, with most playing in small-stakes home games like Rosso's.
Minutes after that statement, Govind gets a call on her cellphone. The table expresses its displeasure as she turns away.
"Hey," someone shouts in mock anger. "We're trying to play a game here."
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with clay chips, the scene is set for serious poker. Serious does not describe the stakes at the table, as the eight players bought into the game for $5, but the word hardly does justice to the faces — this is the site of the cold eyes described earlier.
Minutes seem to go by without anyone blinking. Players move slowly, eyes shifting from their hole cards to other players. The bets come quickly and furiously, as players with larger chip stacks try to steal pots from less wealthy players through sheer intimidation.
The table has the feel of a final exam test room. The little talk that goes on is restricted to betting procedure and gallows humor jokes about possible hands. Brad Vangoethem, Overland Park senior, says good poker requires such intensity.
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"These guys aren't my friends right now." Vangoethem says. He laughs afterward, but it's not very convincing.
Vangoetham is one of four players at the table wearing sunglasses, even though it's 11 p.m. They say the shades help them examine other players more closely, but also acknowledge glasses-wearing pros sitting at televised tables might have influenced their game garb.
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Brad Vangoethem, Overland Park senior, looks at his hole cards, the ace of spades and six of hearts. Vangoethem, who bet strongly on this hand, plays poker three to four times a week.
Joe Gloeckner, left, Overland Park senior, watches as his roommate, Brian Pollack, Overland Park senior, folds his hand during a $5 buy-in tournament last week. The two host poker games at their apartment a few times a week.
Vangoethem freely admits his style is modeled after his poker hero, World Series runner-up Sam Farha, but any casual poker fan would already know this. Vangoethem is in full Farha costume, dressed all in black with Farha's style of shades. Completing the look is an omnipresent unlit cigarette — smoking is not allowed at the World Series.
The apartment's dining-room table has seen its share of cash. Vangoethem and his friends play three to four times a week. This frequency of play has turned the apartment into a mini-casino, with buy-ins and cash balances not settled immediately. Winnings are recorded on "The Sheet", a pad of post-its with pluses and minuses scrawled into the margins.
The Sheet seems to defy one of the mathematical certainties of gambling: for every winner, there also is a loser. Nearly every player is ahead for the month, according to the Sheet. Grumblums at the table accuse players of jumping to record their winnings, but slinking off when they've had a bad night.
For big games, though, cash is required. The group of friends held a 14-person, $10 buy-in tournament last month. The three-hour event ended with Heasley winning $140. The players said that playing so often helps improve their skills.
"The more hands you play, the better you get." Gloecker said.
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rreasley, Overland Park senior, said the route from beginner to "serious" player follows a natural progression.
"At first, it's all about the cards you have," he said. "But as you evolve your own style, you learn it's more than the cards. You can win by reading people and betting creatively."
When they can't get the poker posse together, some of the players play online, an increasingly popular pastime. Partypoker.com, an internet poker site which offers games for real and "play" money, has digitally dealt over 50 billion hands since opening in 2001, according to a counter on the site. But all the players in Friday's game say they prefer face-to-face action.
"Poker is about playing against people," Gloeckner says, taking one last look at his cards before tossing more chips into the pot.
After I call his bet, Heasley has a mild look of disgust on his face as he turns over his cards; two fours. With one card left, he's still got the better hand, but my flush draw, straight draw
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and higher cards mean that if the dealer turns over any diamond, jack, king, or ten, Heasley's stack is mine. With nine diamonds, four jacks, three tens, and three kings left in the deck, in theory, I have 19 "outs", cards which will win me the hand. Discounting the eight cards I've seen — mine, Heasley's and the flop and turn
- 19 outs in 46 cards means mathematically, I have about a 42 percent chance of winning the hand.
I stand up, confident I made the right move. I'm waiting for the dealer to turn over my diamond so I can sit back down and try to knock someone else out. The dealer seems to move in slow-motion as he turns over ...the nine of hearts. The nine of hearts? The nine of fing hearts!
Later, Heasley tells me he was not happy when I called him, and other players tell me that I made the right call as I gather my notebooks. It's supposed to make me feel better, but right now, it's not working.
A minute ago, I was calmly playing the game. Now I'm done. But as I walk slowly out the door I realize my heart hasn't slowed a beat. I'm not thinking about the five dollars I just lost at all. Instead, a single question dominates my thoughts: Where can I play my next game?
— Edited by Shane Mettlen
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By Jesse Newell
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Kansan sportswriter
Even though the Kansas women's basketball team was out of town for the holiday break, it still had a lot to be thankful for after a strong showing at the Oregon Classic.
Kansas earned its first victory of the year, defeating Sacramento State 70-64 Saturday. Coach Marian Washington said she was also pleased with the Jayhawks' effort in a 54-51 loss Friday to the 24th-ranked Oregon Ducks.
"I felt we made tremendous improvement," Washington said. "If you look at the stats, we were only beat on the free-throw line, and that's encouraging."
Free throws were indeed the difference in the game, as Oregon connected on 18-of-29 free throws, while Kansas finished with only four out of nine attempts. Still, Kansas (1-2) gave nationally-ranked Oregon all it wanted and more in the three-point defeat.
The game featured four ties and six lead changes, with the Jayhawks taking the early advantage.
Just three minutes in, sophomore guard Kaylee Brown hit a three-pointer, giving Kansas a 7-0 lead to begin the game. In front of its home fans, Oregon battled back, taking a 26-20 lead into halftime.
Kansas trailed much of the second half, but regained the lead at the 2:10 mark, with sophomore forward Crystal Kemp connecting on a layup to make it 47-46. It would be Kansas' last lead, however, as Oregon guard Brandi Davis answered with a layup and Oregon made six free throws in the final minute to seal the victory.
Kemp paced all Jayhawks with 11 points. Sophomore forward Tamara Ransburg chipped in eight points and eight rebounds, while junior guard Aquanita Burras added eight points and seven rebounds in the loss.
"Playing on the road is a challenge in itself," Washington said. "I felt we played evenly or outperformed them on the boards and on defense."
The Jahwahks turned good play into a victory against Sacramento State.
Kansas performed well in the second
"Our momentum started to get to our head."
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half, extending a nine-point halftime advantage.
Freshman forward Lauren Ervin rebounded a missed shot by junior guard Blair Waltz and put it in for two points, giving the Jayhawks their biggest lead, a 64-44 advantage with 9:16 left.
But Kansas would struggle to hold onto that lead. The Jayhawks would not score a field goal the rest of the game, and Sacramento State took advantage with a 16-0 run in the next eight minutes. Kansas aided Sacramento State with six turnovers in the stretch, and the Hornets closed the gap to four with just more than a minute to play.
"Our momentum started to get to our head," Ransburg said. "We started to relax up 20 points and weren't really focused."
Waltz, Ransburg, and junior guard Larisha Graves all connected on their free throws to put the game out of reach.
"We played well enough to win," Washington said. "We let up at the end of the game, but those are things we are able to correct."
Ransburg led the Jayhawks with a team-high 18 points and six rebounds. Kemp added 13 points, with 11 coming in the first half. Waltz also hit double figures with 10.
Kemp and Ransburg were both named to the all-tournament team. Kansas and Oregon were the only two squads to have multiple players named to the team. The Jayhawks will compete in their first home games of the season this weekend, hosting the Holiday Inn Jayhawk Classic Dec. 6 and 7 in Allen Fieldhouse. Kansas will take on CalState Fullerton at 12:30 p.m. Saturday, with the game also being televised on Jayhawk Television. UTEP and Alabama State round out the four-team field.
—Edited by Mike Owells
Chiefs win again, title in reach
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SAN DIEGO — The Kansas City Chiefs came out of the holiday weekend with neither a wild-card berth nor the AFC West title.
The NFL's best team did at least get a victory over the San Diego Chargers, 28-24 yesterday, to remain on track for its first division title in six years.
Priest Holmes ran 31 times for 162 yards and two touchdowns, and Tony Gonzalez caught two touchdown passes from Trent Green to lift the Chiefs to 11-1. Kansas City capitalized on two turnovers by Doug Flutie in the final 11 minutes.
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Flutie at least made the game interesting when he helped the Chargers close the deficit from two touchdowns to just four points late in the third quarter.
But he had two turnovers in the fourth quarter. The biggest came when he dropped a snap while in the shotgun formation, which was recovered by Kansas City's Gary Stills at the San Diego 27 with 11:18 to play.
After Holmes carried seven straight times, Green found Gonzalez wide open for a 3-yard touchdown pass and a 28-17 lead with 6:28 to play.
Flutie had the Chargers moving again, but was intercepted in the end zone by safety Greg Wesley with 4:07 left.
Flutie did throw an 18-yard touchdown pass to Antonio Gates as time expired, but as usual for the Chargers (2-10), it wasn't nearly enough.
Green completed 17 of 30 passes for just 155 yards, with two TDs and two interceptions, both by Quentin Jammer. Flutie was 16-of-34 for 213 yards, also with two TDs and two pickoffs. San Diego's LaDainian Tomlinson had 106 yards and one TD on 19 carries.
It was the first 10-loss season in Charger coach Marty Schottenheimer's 17 full seasons as an NFL head coach.
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BOSTON — Curt Schilling is a winner, a workhorse and a fanatic about preparation.
And, even better. He isn't afraid of the New York Yankees.
The Boston Red Sox acquired the 37-year-old right-hander from the Diamondbacks after he waived his no-trade clause and agreed to a deal that guarantees him $37.5 million over the next three years.
With an option for 2007, he has four years to win a championship in Boston like he did in Arizona.
Schilling's desire to take on the Yankees has already made him a hero in Boston. The five-time All-Star also comes to town as an innings-eater and a strikeout machine who will join Pedro Martinez in one of baseball's most formidable rotations.
Boston and Arizona worked out a deal Monday to exchange Schilling for lefty Casey Fossum, righty Brandon Lyon and two minor leaguers. But Schilling wanted a contract extension before he waived the no-trade clause in his current deal.
A baseball source speaking on condition of anonymity told The Associated Press that Schilling's new contract, which folded in the $12 million he was to receive in 2004, guarantees him $12.5 million in 2005 and $13 million in 2006. It also includes a $13 million option for 2007 that could become guaranteed if Schilling meets specified performance levels, the source said.
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Yes, a Kansas post player just might take home a national player of the year award for the third-straight year. OK, it is early in the season, but junior Wayne Simien has shown the potential to be the most dominant big man in the country.
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Simien isn't the only big man in the country who's impressive on the court, but there are other factors that could favor Big Dub when it comes time to pass
First and foremost, he plays on a national stage. Fourteen Kansas games are on national television. The rest are available to hoops junkies nationwide who own a satellite dish and subscribe to ESPN's Full Court package. Simien already had a huge game on national television, scoring 28 points against Michigan State last week.
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The same type of exposure helped Nick Collison, who had 24 points and 23 rebounds versus Texas on ESPN last season, in his campaign for player of the year honors. As long as the lahayaves stay in the national rankings, their highlights, many of them featuring Simien, will be a fixture on SportsCenter.
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post players. Former Jayhawk coach Roy Williams gets much of the credit for that. But, the tradition of quality Jayhawk big men should live on with legendary post player Danny Manning now on Bill Self's staff and a new high-low offense that gets the ball in the hands of the big men.
Simien also has something both Drew Gooden and Collison had during their
player of the year campaigns, help on the block.
Opposing defenses couldn't double team Gooden because Collison was just as capable of hurting them. Last season, Collison played alongside Simien, when he was healthy, and Jeff Graves who was good enough to keep defenses honest.
This season Simien can dump it to Graves and freshman David Padgett if the opposing team doubles down on him. At the same time, Simien will be the focus of the Kansas offense. The Jayhawks' guards a are a strong ball-handling group, but not great shooters. This is especially true with junior Mike Lee out with a collarbone injury for 6-8 weeks.
That means the guards will look to feed Simien down low and give him an
opportunity to grab offensive rebounds when they shoot and miss from the outside.
Of course, Simien has to do his part. Continuing to average more than 20 points a game would help. Simien may be the most gifted post player to wear crimson and blue since Manning.
He has a body most NFL defensive ends would envy and has shown the ability to hit the outside jumper. So enjoy what could be another special season for a Jayhawk player. If the Leavenworth native can stay healthy, you couldn't blame him for skipping his senior season and taking his player of the year trophy to the NBA.
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"I know that they feature one of the best quarterbacks in the nation in Phillip Rivers." Mangino said. "We also have a great guy who can wing it around, and it'll be his chance to have the national audience as his stage."
Texas Tech lost to Clemson in last year's Tangerine Bowl and brought about 2,000 fans.
Colorado's failure to achieve bowl eligibility left Kansas as the likely suspect.
Even though the game takes place just days before Christmas and is nearly 1,300 miles from Lawrence, Lew Perkins does not think fan support will be an issue.
"Mark had talked to the kids earlier on before they left for holidays, and we felt very comfortable that the kids wanted
"Mark had talked to the kids earlier on before they left for the holidays,and we felt very comfortable that the kids wanted to go to this bowl
game."
to go to this bowl game," Perkins said, "Surprisingly, we have 8,000 to 10,000 alumni down in that area, and we were excited about that. It was just something the kids and coaches really wanted to do and they had my total support."
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■ Jayhawks Hitting The Books
...Nine members of the Kansas football team were announced to the Big 12 conference's All-Academic teams last Wednesday.
Derick Mills, Johnny Beck,
Jonathan Lamb and Kevin Kane
garnered first team honors.
Bill Whittemore, Charles Gordon, Clark McCracken, Zach Dyer and Darren Rus were all named to the second team.
... And Hopefully The Road As Well—The University of Kansas Athletics Department has organized plenty of travel plans for making the trip to Orlando.
Information for tickets and travel arrangements can be found at kuathletics.com.
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As the show started, Kansas's name didn't appear right away.
NCAA BID: Late-season play helps Kansas advance to Malibu
"I wasn't nervous," Lima said. "But five minutes after seven my hands started sweating."
"So many things are running through my head, my head hurts," Lima said. "It was so exciting to see our name there."
After their name appeared on the board, screams from players who had been working for this moment all their lives erupted. Everyone calmed down enough to see the Jayhawks will be heading to Malibu, Calif., on Thursday to play the Long Beach State 49ers at Pepperdine.
The 49ers finished 19-10 on the year, but upset No. 8 Georgia Tech late in the season.
Long Beach State is in the tournament annually, and has won multiple championships.
"There's not a lot of similarities between our teams, but that's OK." Bechard said.
But the team isn't worried about the past, only that the two will meet on Thursday in the first round.
Rome said this team deserved the bid.
After the excitement of making the tournament had died down, it sank in where the team would be in three days. Jacobson echoed what many of the team members had already said.
"I wouldn't want to go with anyone else," she said. "This team is great."
"We're going to Malibu," she said.
—Edited by Neeley Spellmeier
VITALE: 'Dickie V.' prepares more before games than fans may realize
Yet, he doesn't even utter his trademark "baby" until 23 minutes into the book signing and that was only after being prompted by a woman who couldn't leave with out hearing it in person.
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"He's not as loud in daily life," says Andy Katz, one of Vitale's colleagues who covers college basketball for ESPN.com. "But he's certainly as passionate."
While college basketball is his favorite, Vitale is a fan of other sports. He holds season tickets to Tampa Bay Devil Rays' games and loves the atmosphere of college football games. He also coowns a racehorse. It's Awesome Baby, with Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino and others. But, it seems that with Vitale the conversation always turns hoops.
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"I can't wait to see David Padgett," he says to one fan. "Simien and Langford could be the best 1-2 combo in America," he tells another.
At about 1:30 p.m. the book
signing is over and Vitale is interviewed by four local television crews before heading back to his hotel to relax, grab a bite to eat, talk with Michigan State coach Tom Izzo and change out of his sweater and khaki's into a suit for the broadcast.
He arrives at Allen Fieldhouse at 4:45 p.m., more than three hours before tip-off. The next hour or so is when Vitale really earns his paycheck.
"People don't realize the preparation before a game," Vitale says, shuffling through about 50 pages of notes on the Jayhawks and Spartans. "Once the game starts, that's the easy part."
Patricia Lowry, ESPN producer, walks up to Vitale and asks him to do a promotional spot for the network's Feast Week, the 21 college games airing during the week of Thanksgiving.
Vitale is busy; he already had to turn down being a guest on ESPN's Pardon the Interruption that afternoon. But this provides him an opportunity to interact with the fans so he obliges.
Lowry leads Vitale outside, where the rowdiest of the rowdy KU fans are waiting to get into the game.
The cameras light up and so does Vitale as he ad libs the spot while scores of people surround him and scream. They scream so loud in fact, the microphones can't pick up Vitale and they are forced to shoot again.
"You are quite the trooper," Lowry says to Vitale as they rush back inside to tape Dick's Stock Report, an analysis that will air during halftime of a preseason NIT game the following night. Vitale again works without a script, and after three takes is satisfied.
"Might have been a little long," he says, thinking it over. "You know what? They can edit it."
Lowry comes back and fills Vitale in on some of the recent controversial changes made in Jayhawk Land, including special red uniforms and the enormous Jayhawk at center court that Vitale is sitting in front of. When she finishes, it's time to go live on ESPNEWS.
"Sometimes it's unbelievable.
You're sitting here like you're naked," Vitale says after finishing the segment despite difficulty hearing the anchors in his earpiece.
He chats with Patrick for a few minutes about coach Bill Self and his Kansas team and mentions the controversially huge Jayhawk behind him. It's about 6:00 p.m. when he finally has time to sit down with Self. They discuss the game for about 10 minutes in Self's office before Vitale heads back to the court area.
He takes a few sips of water to help with a raspy voice before going back on the air live to talk with Dan Patrick on SportsCenter.
By now his broadcast partner Dan Shulman has arrived, and they head to the media room to get some food and discuss the night's game.
The students are now in the building, and as Shulman and Vitale walk in front of them, there is a rousing ovation. It's not as loud as the cheering later for Self, but it's close.
"It's like this everywhere we go," Shulman says in his booming broadcast-baritone voice, a sharp contrast to Vitale's higherpitched, less-polished delivery. "It's like touring America with Elvis."
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By 8:00 p.m., Vitale and Shulman have begun calling the game. Vitale works more than 30 games a year and this will be the first time in 20 years he will spend Thanksgiving at home, in Sarasota, Fla. He has to wake up early the next morning, though and fly to Springfield, Mass., to call the Arizona-Florida matchup in the Hall of Fame Classic.
By the 14:00 minute mark of the first half, Dickie V. is completely wound up, using just about every superlative in the dictionary and tossing out "babies" left and right. This is Dickie V. in his natural environment, letting loose and enjoying his favorite pastime.
He can enjoy it for the next two hours. After that he's off to the airport. He will arrive at his home about 2:30 a.m. Eastern standard time. Just in time to get some sleep. By 7:30 a.m. he'll be up again, this time on the radio, talking hoops and living his dream.
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TCU: Players step up, help in Lee's absence
Self also mentioned freshman Jeremy Case, Hawkins and Nash in addition to Giddens, as players that need to step up in Lee's absence.
Kansas Basketball Notes
If the initial diagnosis is correct, Lee should be back by the beginning of the Big 12 Conference schedule, which begins Jan. 5 at Colorado.
"If there is a positive in the situation, it is that it happened early enough where he can get back for the Big 12," Self said. "And it will not require surgery."
Tonight the Jayhawks will play against former Jayhawk assistant Neil Dougherty. He coached under Roy Williams from 1996-2002 before becoming the Horned Frogs head coach last year.
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His team went 9-19 last year, and is 1-1 this season. The Horned Frogs are coming off a 76-64 home loss to Tulsa on Nov. 29.
Junior Wayne Simien has been perfect from the free throw line this season, 16-16 in two games this year. That is now 23 in a row dating back to last season. That streak is the longest by a Jayhawk since Ryan Robertson made 23 straight in 1999. Simien is 10 short of tying Calvin Thompson's school record of 33 straight free throws in 1983-1984.
■ Tonight's game is a homecoming for both Langford and Nash. Langford is from Fort Worth and Nash is from nearby Carrollton, Texas.
At halftime of the Michigan State game, former Jayhawk Nick Collision had his No. 4 jersey retired. He said that the honor was something he thought about often as a Jayhawk player.
In his speech at center court he reminisced about different games and said thanks to his family, teammates, coaches and fans. He received the biggest cheer at the end of speech when he said: "I became a Jayhawk Sept. 21, 1999, and I will be until the day I die."
— Edited by Ashley Marriott
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If Texas Christian's style of play looks familiar to Kansas fans tonight, there will be good reason. TCU coach Neil Dougherty took over the Horned Frogs last season after seven years at Kansas under Roy Williams. Like Williams, Dougherty favors a fast-paced, high-scoring offense.
If TCUs execution doesn't look familiar to Kansas fans, there will be good reason for that too. The Horned Frogs aren't any good. Dougherty's first TCU team finished 9-19 and allowed opponents an atrocious 80.4 points per game, easily the worst figure in Conference USA. The Frogs do put points on the board, but their No. 4 scoring ranking in C-USA lastyear was misleading. Their field goal percentage ranked ninth out of 14 teams.
This year's Frogs are 1-1 after an 87-58 victory over TexasArlington and a 74-62 defeat to Tulsa. Dougherty is using two newcomers, junior forward Aaron Curtis and freshman center Femi Ibikunle, in the starting lineup, but both players have seen limited minutes thus far and haven't made a huge impact.
If nothing else, TCU continues to be college basketball's capital for players with goofy names. In recent years, the Horned Frogs' roster featured Rebel Paulk, "Greedy" Daniels and Bingo Merriex. This year's team includes Nucleus Smith and Texas Tech transfer Marcus Shropshire.
POINT GUARD
Aaron Miles, junior, Kansas
Corey Santee, junior, TCU
Miles displayed an aggressiveness against Michigan State that he's almost never shown in his college career, seizing every opportunity he saw to take the ball to the basket. If that newfound aggressiveness and the results it produced - 17 points, 6 assists, 5-of-11 shooting - are for real, Kansas has its itself a great point guard instead of a good one. If Miles could zoom to the basket against Michigan State's defense with confidence, he shouldn't have any problem doing the same to TCU's considerably inferior schemes. Santee is the Horned Frogs' main man - he's their leading returning scorer and is tied for
ADVANTAGE: Kansas
the team lead this year with 27 points. Santee can score from anywhere on the floor and can also find open teammates and give the ball up. But Miles, as usual, will be up to the challenge defensively.
SHOTOING GUARD J.R. Giddens, freshman, Kansas
Nucleus Smith, senior, TCU
Nucleus Smith, senior, TCU the broken collarbone that Mike Lee suffered last week gives Giddens the opportunity to show what he can do with longer stretches of playing time, and there's no better game on the schedule for him to break out offensively. The game's break-neck pace will give Giddens the chance to display his vaunted athletic ability, which fans have only seen in short bursts in the Jayhawks' first two games. A few monster dunks and a couple of three-pointers aren't out of the question.
Giddens still doesn't look comfortable defensively, which could present a problem against Smith. A role player on last year's Frogs, Smith isn't a serious three-point threat but can score from inside the arc and is an excellent free-throw shooter. He also is good enough defensively to give Giddens some problems. Giddens has far more raw talent, but experience and defensive ability even this one out. Aaron Curtis might also be matched up against Giddens.
ADVANTAGE: Even
THIRD GUARD/SMALL FORWARD Keith Langford, junior, Kansas
Aaron Curtis, junior, TCU
Aaron Curtis, junior, TCU Curtis was ranked one of this year's top junior-college transfers at the shooting guard position, but he has just eight points on 3-of-11 shooting in two games. He's taking his time to get acclimated by the Division I level, as evidenced by Dougherty only using him for 15.5 minutes per game. In this type of game, a big performance from Langford is a near-guarantee.
ADVANTAGE: Kansas
POWER FORWARD Wayne Simien, junior, Kansas
Femi Ibikunle, freshman, TCU
Like Curtis, Ibikunle's been babied so far, averaging just 14 minutes per game despite starting. At 6-foot-9, 250 pounds, the Nigerian native has shown potential as a rebounder, snagging seven against Tulsa in only 15 minutes Saturday. His offensive game is nonexistent right now.
Simien's dominant 28-point performance against Michigan State served notice that he'll be Kansas' go-to guy this year. His 16-for-16 performance at the free-throw line so far is the most heartwarming item on the Kansas season stat sheet.
ADVANTAGE: Kansas
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The 6-foot-5 Valsin has started each of the first two games, meaning TCU starts only one player taller than 6-foot-5. You wouldn't think Dougherty could put that small a lineup on the floor against Simien. Padgett and Jeff Graves.
If Chinweze, who's 6-foot-7, keeps playing like he has early on, Dougherty will eventually have no choice but to insert him in the lineup. Coming off the bench,
he's tied with Santee for the team lead with 27 points, on 10-of-11 shooting. Most teams can find a way to work a 91 percent shooter into their starting lineup. Regardless, Padgett would still have a tremendous height advantage on Chinweze and has already shown he can run the floor well.
ADVANTAGE: Kansas
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Chinweze and 6-foot-9, 221-pound junior Marcus Sloan give the Horned Frogs some size on the bench. Sloan was impressive against Tulsa, logging seven points and six rebounds. Shropshire, a 6-foot junior, is a solid passer at the point guard position but had an ugly 1-for-11 shooting night Saturday. Freshmen forwards Blake Adams and Art Pierce and guard Neil P. Dougherty, the coach's son, all will probably see minutes.
The injury to Lee puts Kansas coach Bill Self in an interesting position; he has to decide who will get the majority of minutes at backup shooting guard now that Giddens becomes a starter. Kansas' three-point shooting, already a weakness, is even thinner without Lee unless sophomore Jeff Hawkins or freshman Jeremy Case start living up to their reputations as long-range bombers. Case didn't
play against Michigan State, but he'll probably see some meaningful minutes in this game.
Foul trouble continues to be a problem for Graves, a senior center, and it likely will remain a problem all year. But in a game this fast, it shouldn't be a factor unless he commits a couple of frustration fouls. Otherwise, he'll be underneath the bucket to grab a few of TCU's many, many misses.
ADVANTAGE: Kansas
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In two games, Self has established a fairly clear pattern of what his philosophy is regarding game tempo. Kansas runs off the opponent's missed shots and turnovers, but after a made basket, Miles will more often walk or jog the ball up the floor and initiate a half-court set play. After an up-tempo victory over Tennessee-Chattanooga and a slower, foul-laden conquest of
Michigan State, Self's team has already shown it can adapt to varying dynamics of a basketball game.
Kansas' biggest weakness other than perimeter shooting is transition defense, which Michigan State exploited by beating the Jayhawks down the floor for several easy baskets after Kansas scored. TCU has the athletic scorers to exploit that to a degree, and it'll certainly try.
It's safe to say the Horned Frogs have improved since last year, both defensively and overall; in both categories, it's hard to get any worse. Dougherty has some talent on his roster, but his team isn't nearly capable of pulling off an upset of this magnitude. Kansas' first road test of the season won't be much of a test.
ADVANTAGE: Kansas
PREDICTION: Kansas 96, TCU 74
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Your assignment this year is to whip your place into shape. Get rid of the stuff you don't use anymore, and replace it with new things. Stick to a budget, and add your own sweat equity. Do this instead of taking a vacation. You'll be so proud of yourself.
Aries (March 21-April 19). Today is a 7
You may not want to do a job that's waiting for you at home, but running away from it isn't a good idea. You could end up with more of a mess than you already have.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) Today is an 8
Friends may come up with a get-rich-quick scheme that's likely a waste of time. Don't go along with the sales. Advise caution, and practice it yourself. You can see more clearly than they can.
Gemini (May 21-June 21) Today is a 6
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Cancer (June 22-July 22) Today is a 6
Changes cause confusion. It's better to be careful than to be hasty now. Don't hurry to get the word out, either. You might change what you want to say.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Today is a 6 You love to be extravagant, but that's not a great idea now. Don't make promises you won't be able to keep, and don't gamble the rent. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Today is a 7
Your friends love you, but they may not go along with everything you suggest. They're not trying to annoy you; they just want to broaden your perspective.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) Today is a 7 You need to move fast, but don't forget to watch where you're going. It's important for you to be as agile as you are quick.
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You're so cute, you probably think you can get away with anything. That's not the case, however.
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If your nest is in shambles, remember what Grandma said. Old wives' tales will be helpful now as you dig your way out of a mess.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Today is an 8
You're pretty shrewd, and you're getting smarter. Keep digging for the facts. Some of the things you'll discover are startling, but that will just add to the fun.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Today is a 6
You're in a position to do pretty well financially. However, it also looks like you could go through the money quickly. It's not a good day to gamble. And check for holes in your pockets.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Today is a 6
You could get into several disagreements if you're not careful. The others aren't being any more difficult than usual;you're the one who's run out of patience. Let off steam responsibly so that nobody gets badly hurt.
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18 Freshen up
19 Basketball coach Pat
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22 Buzzing insect
23 Agassi or Citroen
24 Waters off Bali
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32 Informed
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38 Org. of Strange and Couples
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43 Of guardianship
45 Holzman or Auerbach
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48 Some musical chords
50 Butts
52 Singer Crystal
55 Gangster's gun
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60 Diet guru Jenny
63 Likewise
64 Main artery
65 Wafted
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67 Large horns
68 Searches for
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25 Countenance
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28 Omit in pronunciation
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Jayhawks get first victory The Kansas women's basketball team traveled to Oregon and won its first game of the season against Sacramento State in the Oregon Classic. PAGE 7A
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Tangerine bound
All rumors and speculations amongst Kansas football fans were put to rest Saturday evening, as the Jayhawks accepted a bid to the 14th Mazda Tangerine Bowl.
The Tangerine Bowl takes place Dec. 22 in Orlando, Fla. This will mark the Jayhawks' first appearance this season on national television, as the game is set to be aired on ESPN.
"We have spent some time over the past few weeks talking to the teams that have played in this game, and they have had nothing but great things to say about Florida Citrus Sports and the Tangerine Bowl Experience," Kansas Athletics Direct.
story by Ryan Greene
Lew Perkins said Saturday.
Kansas (6-6, 3-5) ended both its regular season and a four-game losing skid on Nov. 22 with a 36-7 victory against Iowa State.
The victory was the Jayhawks sixth of the season, making them bowl eligible for the first time since 1995 when Kansas defeated Brigham Young University in the Jeep Aloha Bowl.
"Playing a bowl game in the state of Florida has been a long time coming for our program," coach Mark Manuel said Saturday.
"There's been a certa t of anticipation among o and coaches hoping opportunity would come
McLendon However, McLendon missed four games because of an injury,and an underachieving defense led to five losses.
McLendon.
The Jayhawks final opponent of the 2003 season, North Carolina State (7-5,4-4), will be one of its toughest to prepare for.
The Wolfpack still sports one of the nation's best passing attacks. Rivers has thrown for a career-high 29 touchdowns, and senior receiver Jerricho Cotchery has caught 73 passes for 1,198 yards and seven scores.
in coach The only in
half days. Carolina Sta-
tion amount 1973 Kansas
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opponent of top quarter.
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They began the season in the ESPN/USA Today Cottonis Pull ranked 14th in the nation with a high-powered offense led by senior quarterback Filiplin Biers and
The Wolfpack finished the regular season in fourth place in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
only time Kansas and North
state have met was it
was lost that meeting 31
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tops the most intriguing sub-
species matchup is Kansas sen-
lor quartet back Bill Whitmore
finally getting his chance to
prove himself to the world in a
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Volleyball wins first NCAA bid
Members of the Kansas volleyball team celebrated after learning of their first ever NCAA Tournament berth. The team will play Thursday against Long Beach State in Malibu, Calif.
By Mike Norris
mnorris@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
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With two sweeps during Thanksgiving Break the Kansas volleyball team locked up its first NCAA Tournament berth in school history.
The Jayhawks finished 21-10 overall, and 13-7 in the Big 12 Conference, a school record.
On Wednesday the Jayhawks disposed of Baylor in Waco, Texas, 3-0, sweeping the Bears on the season.
On Senior Night Saturday the team continued its hot November play with a 3-0 victory against Texas Tech in Lawrence.
The victory gave Kansas a 7-1 record in November, and a third place finish in the Big 12.
"It's been quite a journey," Kansas coach Ray Bechard said. "We had a lot of obstacles to overcome."
Injuries to two starters during the season were the biggest hurdles for the team. Sophomore setter Andi Rozum missed the first two weeks of the season with a hip injury, and freshman outside hitter Jana Carea injured her knee halfway into the season. But the team still managed to have arguably its best season ever.
"It's been awesome how this team has overcome so many obstacles," Rozum said. "I don't think a lot of teams have had to do that."
In their last two matches of the season, however, the Jayhawks didn't have many obstacles to overcome. In the victory
"It's been quite a journey. We had a lot of obstacles to overcome."
Ray Bechard volleyball coach
against Baylor, sophomore outside hitter Josi Lima had 11 kills, helping the 'Hawks to the victory. Kansas was never challenged as it won 30-20, 30-24 and 30-22..
In Saturday's match the Jayhawks jumped out to a 7-1 lead on the Red Raiders. Senior outside hitter Sarah Rome tallied the first kill of the match, which gave her the all-time school record. She finished her career with 1,275 total kills.
Bechard took Rome out with the Jayhawks leading 28-17 as the crowd gave her a standing ovation as she walked off the Horejsi Family Athletics Center court for the last time.
"It wasn't something I've done very often, but I just thought it was appropriate," he said.
Beachard said Rome was a player who hasn't gotten the credit she deserved, but was a great leader and competitor.
By the end of the match Lima led the Jayhawks again in kills with 15, and Kansas wrapped up its season by winning 30-26, 30-23 and 30-21. The victory allowed two other seniors, middle blocker Jordan Garrison and outside hitter Abbie Jacobson, to walk off the Hore-
jsi court for the last time as winners.
Jacobson said she didn't want to think about playing her last match in Lawrence.
"I put it out of my head all week because it made me cry every time," she said. "But I think this is the best place in the country to play."
Garrison, who like Jacobson and Rome fought back tears during her senior speech, was sad to end her career, but ready for the post-season.
"I was a little nervous before the game, which doesn't usually happen," Garrison said. "I'm going to miss this place, it's a fantastic place to play, and the crowd is absolutely wonderful."
As 7 p.m. approached last night, Jay hawk coaches, players and family members huddled in a Memorial Stadium suite to find out if the team would be playing in its first ever tournament.
Rome said the attitude in the room was calm, different from last year when they didn't get in.
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Vitale toned down off-air
By Shane Mettlen
smettlen@kansan.com
Kansan senior sportwriter
It's Tuesday, Nov. 25 and Dick Vitale, the world's most famous college basketball analyst, is at Oread Books in the Kansas Union. It's 11:45 a.m. and Vitale is in town to work the Kansas-Michigan State men's hoops game later that night.
But first, he has a date at the bookstore, signing his latest book, Living a Dream.
It doesn't take long to figure out the title isn't a misnomer. Entering his 25th season on ESPN, the man has an unbridled enthusiasm for the game. It just so happens he gets paid very well to travel around the country watching and talking about roundball. He has experience as a former coach at Detroit University and with the NBA's Pistons, giving him as much credibility as any other sportscaster.
Vitale is a celebrity everywhere he goes in this country and in Lawrence, where college basketball is king, he's immediately surrounded by fans. Most want to know what he thinks about their team, and he appeases them before making his way to the signing table.
But, it's his unique delivery, irreverent to the rules of broadcasting, yet treating the sport like a religion, which sets him apart. It also brings him criticism, which he takes in stride, but today the crowd is almost exclusively admiring fans.
Hundreds of fans form a line that starts near the back of the store and winds around the book shelves to the cash register.
"The Jayhawks are gonna rock tonight."
They've come to get their books signed, some for themselves others for special Christmas and birthday gifts.
Super, Scintillating, Sensational
They already know he has declared Kansas freshmen David Padgett and J.R. Giddens "diaper dandies." They know he thinks the night's game is between two great teams, far from "cupcake city." What they don't know is what Vitale is like when the cameras aren't rolling.
But, they also have come to find out what the real "Dickie V." is like. They've seen him on television spouting superlatives and "Vitalisms."
What they find is that Rich Vitale, as he's called by his family, is similar to his on-camera persona Dickie V., but not quite the same. The Vitale spending his midday at the bookstore is just as enthusiastic about college basketball, but is a toned down version of what millions of viewers world-wide see via ESPN. More than once the line gets held up as Vitale discusses basketball with the crowd.
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ESPN broadcaster and basketball gadfly Dick Vitale signed autographs on the sidelines before the Kansas-Michigan State game. He visited the University of Kansas on Tuesday.
Kansas takes on TCU minus Mike Lee
By Chris Wintering
cwintering@kansan.com
Kansan sportwriter
The injury occurred during practice on Friday, when Lee ran through a screen set by senior Bryant Nash.
When Kansas plays Texas Christian University tonight in Fort Worth, Texas, it will do so without starting guard Mike Lee. The junior from Portland, Ore., broke his right collarbone and will be out six to eight weeks.
"This is a big blow to our team," Kansas coach Bill Self said. "Mike has done so well lately."
Lee averaged 6.5 points and 3.0 boards in 25.5 minutes per game so far this season. He is tied with junior Aaron Miles for the team lead in three-pointers made this season, with three.
"More than anything you lose toughness and experience and a guy, in my opinion, who is a serious threat from beyond the arc." Self said.
Lee was the last starter that Self decided on after a preseason competition for the final guard spot with sophomore Jeff Hawkins. However, Self said that he was leaning towards freshman J.K. Giddens in Lee's place tonight against TCU.
Giddens scored five points against Tennessee-Chattanooga and eight against Michigan State. Other than a three pointer against Chattanooga, all of Giddens' points have come on dunks. Among those were two slams on consecutive possessions last week against Michigan State.
Perimeter shooting is one of the team's weaknesses this season, Selfsaid. Through the first two games, the Jayhawks are shooting just over 23.1 percent this season from behind the three-point range.
"His two dunks gave the crowd and our team so much energy," junior Keith Langford said. "He has come so far, so fast."
While so far being the team's dunk specialist, Giddens could be one of the team's three-point threats as well. Self said. He is 1-7 this season from behind the arc.
"The thing about J.R. was he played great and didn't think threes," Self said of Giddens' play against Michigan State. "That's one thing he does really well."
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our pill or mine?
Sperm beware: Male hormonal birth control could be available within 4 years
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By Danielle Hillix
dhillix@kansan.com
dhillix staff writer
Seductive music and heavy breathing fill a darkened room. The romantic scent of roses saturates the air, and candlelight illuminates the bed.
Everything is in place for a passionate love of lovemaking.
But wait: There are no condoms! And she's not on the pill!
No problem. He is.
The search is on for hormone-controlled methods of male birth control. Researchers hope to some-day offer men a list of options similar to those available for women. Decades of investigations recently have produced significant findings and researchers hope to have a product on the market within four years.
For decades, birth control has mostly been the woman's responsibility. It is up to her to take a pill every day, wear a patch every week, or get an injection every three months.
Men, on the other hand, have limited choices and responsibility when it comes to birth control. Condoms and vasectomies are the only contraceptive options available to men. But researchers throughout the world, including two at the University of Kansas, are working to change that.
Experts are confident that new male hormonal methods can be effective at preventing pregnancy. That is, if they can get men to use them - and women to trust the men.
Mission: Sperm Shutdown
Effective, reversible and safe hormonal birth control has been available for women since the pill was introduced in 1960. Planned Parenthood said that more than 80 percent of American women will take the pill at some point in their lives. When used correctly, the pill is more than 99 percent effective.
While not as reliable, hormonal injections, implants and patches are also popular forms of birth control for women. Women can also choose sponges, diaphragms or spermicides.
Female hormonal contraceptives work basically the same way, no matter how they are administered. The contraceptive contains high doses of estrogens and progestins, hormones found naturally in the body. These hormones combine to prevent the body from releasing eggs, which in turn prevents pregnancy.
Male hormonal contraceptives would work similarly. In products currently being tested in the United States, testosterone and progestins combine to prevent the body from producing sperm, which in turn prevents pregnancy in a female partner.
Ideally, male hormonal contraceptives would reduce a man's sperm count to zero. That is no easy task, considering that a healthy male produces 1,000 sperm per second. One milliliter of ejaculate, enough to fill a thimble, contains anywhere from 20 million to 200 million sperm. A wide variety of factors, from smoking to genetics, can affect sperm count.
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Mother's diligence keeps memory alive
By Kate Nelson
knelson@kansan.com
Kansan senior staff writer
It began with a phone call.
At 6:30 a.m., the ringing woke Jeanette Stauffer from her sleep. The half-hour conversation with a Costa Rican embassy official was followed by nine more calls.
It was Mother's Day. Instead of planting spring flowers with her daughters, Stauffer learned that one of her girls had been brutally murdered abroad.
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Editor's note: This is the second in a three-part series about the murder of Shannon Martin, a Topeka senior who was killed May 13, 2001, while completing research in Costa Rica.
What has followed was two and a half years of public anguish, anger and grieving, accompanied by little relief. When Stauffer learned that her daughter Shannon Martin died that morning, local and state Costa Rican police had no clear leads. But she was soothed, she said, because investigators promised to "leave no stone unturned." But it became apparent that promise wasn't being fulfilled as the investigation lagged on for months and then years.
Initially, information about the circumstances surrounding Martin's death was scant. The 23-year-old senior had returned to Golfito, Costa Rica, for a
seven-day trip to collect fern samples for an honors thesis. She had been there the spring semester and summer before while studying biology through a University of Kansas program.
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Martin was slated to graduate with honors the next week. She planned to walk down the hill with her boyfriend, Dave Schmitz, and younger sister, Sheri, but about 1 a.m. May 13, 2001, those plans were ruined.
After spending the night salsa dancing with friends at a Golfito disco. Martin walked home alone that Saturday night. Her body was found later; she had been stabbed 14 times.
Jeanette Stauffer showed a photo of her daughter Shannon Martin to judges Nov. 24 in a goltto, Costa Rica, courtroom. The three-judge tribunal that heard the case convicted two of the three people charged with Martin's murder and sentenced them each to 15 years in prison.
Stauffer, 58, has attacked every
Zealous approach
aspect of the case with zeal to keep the investigation going, making herself a public figure both here and in Golfito. In all, she solicited countless amounts of media coverage, paid for hundreds of hours of investigative work and spent thousands of dollars — an estimated $100,000 altogether, and $22,000 during the last trip alone—so that someone would be convicted for Martin's murder.
Yet even now that two of the three Costa Ricans accused of killing Martin were sentenced to 15 years in prison
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Calendar focuses on women at work
By Paul Kramer
pkramer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
If women with character, intelligence and leadership are what you are looking for, then the Women of Distinction Calendar is for you.
The Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center is sponsoring the calendar to show women who make a difference at the University of Kansas.
Photos will show women in working in the areas that distinguish them on campus. Poses will include women behind desks, in campus offices or wherever they feel best portraits what they do.
"The pictures will highlight the
women in a setting they feel will describe their work," said Kathy Rose-Mockry, program director of the Resource Center.
The calendar will be in poster form, with the actual calendar in the middle and 16 pictures surrounding the calendar grids. If the costs are secured after this Student Senate cycle, the calendar will be available free of charge to students after winter break.
The posters will cost the Resource Center $2,212, which will be paid for by the Senate, pending approval.
The other $2,788 came from the outside sponsors from the community who supported the idea.
Comparisons might be made to the
Women of KU Calendar, whose pictures feature scantily clad women, however, Catherine Bell, student body vice president and author of a bill to help fund the new calendar, does not want to pit one calendar against the other.
"The calendar is not to discredit the Women of KU calendar," Bell said. This is more to display their achievements."
Sterner said the purpose of the calendar is to show women who want to portray themselves as leaders and not as sexualicons.
Nick Sterner, director of Community Affairs and co-sponsor of the bill, said the calendar would stand on its own, but did offer an alternative to other calendars featuring women at the University.
Bell will be part of the calendar, along with 10 students and six faculty members.
Those to be pictured were nominated and voted on, then selected by a committee.
Bell said it was an honor to be selected.
The participants have not been finalized, but among those confirmed are Casey Collier, holdover senator, Laser Ajayi, residential senator, and Kaelyn Fox from the Center for Community Outreach.
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Multiple windows shattered in recent BB gun shootings
The windows of at least 12 vehicles were shattered by what appeared to be BB gun fire, according to Sgt. Mike Patrick of the Lawrence Police Department
Most of the incidents took place on Wednesday evening. One victim was in her car in the 1700 block of East 25th Street when her rear window was shot out.
A witness told police she saw two males in a white passenger vehicle. She said she saw them shoot out the windows of several other vehicles in the area.
Patrick asked that anyone who has information about the incidents call the Lawrence Police Department at 832- 7650 or CrimeStoppers at 843-TIPS.
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Children's Holiday Party to feature toys, events
Needy children from Lawrence will receive more than 1,000 toys at the 2003 Children's Holiday Party tomorrow.
This year, more than 750 children ages 3 to 17 from the Boys and Girls Club and other after-school programs are expected to participate — 100 more than last year.
The annual event, sponsored in part by the Center for Community Outreach and NBC, has provided toys for local children for the past seven years.
In addition to toys, there will be food for the children as well as events for them to participate in sponsored by University of Kansas clubs.
In a press release, the Center for Community Outreach said it needed volunteers to serve food, hang decorations, register children and perform other
such tasks.
It hopes to have the help of more than 100 volunteers.Those interested can call Lindsay Betts at 864-4072.
The party will be from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. tomorrow at the Kansas Union Ballroom.
—Robert Perkins
The event is free, and parking will be available in the Mississippi Street Parking Garage located north of the Union.
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Immigrant license law repealed in California
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Assembly voted to repeal a law yesterday allowing undocumented immigrants to get driver's licenses, setting the stage for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to fulfill a key campaign pledge just two weeks after taking office.
Facing a threatened March ballot initiative to kill the law, the Assembly voted 64-9 to overturn what it passed only three months ago.
The measure now goes to Schwarzenegger, who was expected to quickly sign the bill.
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A21-year-old University of Kansas student reported a stolen car stereo valued at $200 between 1 a.m. and 11 a.m. Sunday from his vehicle in the 1300 block of West 24th Street.
A 21-year-old University of Kansas student reported a damaged door frame valued at $150 between 10 p.m. Wednesday and 1:40 p.m. Sunday at her residence in the 2700 block of Harrison Place.
Three tires on a KU Public Safety Office vehicle were slashed between 6 p.m. Nov. 25 and 7:30 a.m. Nov. 26 at Holcomb Park.
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Grant gives old Kansas oil fields chance at revival
By Amber Bylaray
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Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas will try to revive the state's old oil fields with a $2.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.
The University's engineering school is involved in the project through the Tertiary Oil Recovery Project.
Members of the project have developed processes that will allow engineers to get hard-toreach oil from reservoirs. Now, field tests will be done to determine how well the processes work.
The work will begin Thursday at the Hall-Gurney field southeast of Russell. The field was discovered in 1931 and has produced oil since then. The field's oil output has decreased by half in
the last decade, with only 500,000 barrels of oil produced in 2001.
Field tests will involve pumping carbon dioxide into the reservoirs. The carbon dioxide will loosen oil that is stuck in the reservoir. The rock in the reservoir is porous and oil is inside the pores in the rock, said Paul Willhite, co-director and co-manager of the Tertiary Oil Recovery Project.
To get the oil out of those pores, the scientists will put about 22 tons of liquid carbon dioxide into the reservoir daily. After six months, scientists will alternate putting in water and carbon dioxide for four years.
The water will be used to keep the carbon dioxide in the reservoir so it can displace the oil. Once the oil is loosened, it will be pumped out of the reservoir and stored in tanks. Inside the storage tanks, the carbon dioxide will be
"It's sort of serendipitous there is a power plant that produces CO2 that's near this field."
Paul Willhite
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Co-director and co-manager of the Tertiary Oil Recovery Project
released into the air, Willhite said.
"It comes out in a solution, like opening a warm bottle of soda," Willhite said.
The University of Kansas received $2.3 million to use carbon dioxide to displace oil trapped in rock. Field work for this research will take place at the Hall-Gurney field Thursday.
About 50 percent of the carbon dioxide will come out with the oil. The other 50 percent will remain underground. Willhite said.
The carbon dioxide will come from a power plant near the oil field. The plant produces ethanol, which is used in fuels. Carbon
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"It's sort of serendipitous there is a power plant that produces CO2 that's near this field." Willhite said. "We were originally going to truck it from the panhandle of Oklahoma."
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If field tests go well, the process can be used in oil fields through
out Kansas and could boost the state's economy.
Researchers for the project include University faculty and professional staff of the Tertiary Oil Recovery Project and the Kansas Geological Survey, said Martin Dubois, research geologist at the Kansas Geological Survey.
Dubois said students helped
create the process. Students are not expected to participate in the field experiments.
The project's overall cost is about $4.7 million. Matching funds from the Kansas Geological Survey and operating partners are financing the field work.
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Beef prices increase, make meals costly
By Steve Schmidt
sschmidt@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Businesses and consumers alike have a beef with increased beef prices.
In the U.S. Labor Department's latest Consumer Price Index, the price of beef and veal rose 3.8 percent in October. It was the biggest jump in 24 years.
As in similar situations with price increases, there's no one reason for the price increase. Instead, those who work in the industry point to several causes.
jim Lewis is the owner of Checkers Foods, 2300 Louisiana St. He said prices started going up when a mad cow disease scare in Canada in late spring this year caused an American ban on all Canadian beef.
He said that prices had gone down a little in the last couple of
weeks compared to a month ago, but that prices were still relatively high. For example, before the hike he could buy briskets for $1 a pound. That's now up to $1.59 per pound. In general, the beef prices have gone up about 25 percent at his store.
"It's a supply-and-demand thing," Lewis said. "We just evaluate it a week at a time."
That supply and demand has been complicated by many other factors, including nature.
Prologo said that beef prices at his store had actually gone down in the last two weeks. A month ago, his store was forced to
increase prices by about 50 percent.
A recent national drought meant farmers didn't have the luxury to fatten up their cattle as much because of higher feed prices, said Frank Prolago, meat market manager at Hy-Vee Food Stores, 3504 Clinton Parkway.
Prices on meats such as boneless rib eye and tenderloins remain high at his store but are always high this time of year, Prologo said.
It appears restaurants have taken the hardest hit, especially the main cattle consumers: steak houses.
Some of the prices on meat cuts at Hereford House have risen 80 percent during the last four months, said Doug Holiday, the manager of the restaurant located at 4931 W. 6th St.
"The prices aren't going to come down anytime soon," Holiday said.
In fact his restaurant's meat supplier projects meat prices won't be back down until 2005.
The beef increase led to Herford House raising prices $1 on most cuts. Holiday said that
because his restaurant only used choice and prime meat that the increase had been exceptionally tough to swallow.
Gary Bartz can sympathize with Holiday.
Bartz is the owner and operator of Don's Steak House, 2176 E. 23rd St. He said that even though beef prices had gone up by about 30 percent, his menu prices hadn't changed, but they might if prices didn't decline soon.
He credits the price increase mostly to an overall shortage of cattle.
The increase has had the biggest effect on the restaurant's premier cuts of tenderloin, rib loin and strip loin. Bartz said.
"Those are the things we use," Bartz said, "and those are the ones taking a beating."
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Tickets remain for show of Mo Rocca at Union
He is a chief senior political analyst on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, a commentator for VH1's I Love the '80s and a media gadfly.
At 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Mo Rocca will be in the Kansas Union Ballroom presenting "Making It Up As I Go Along: Satire in an Absurd World."
Sean Pauzauskie, Student Union Activities forums coordinator, said Rocca's comedy appealed to students.
"The show will be an extended bit of Mo's comedy à la The Daily Show," he said.
Pauzauskie said SUA chose Rocca from a list of 15 candidates, including author Sylvia Nasser, actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner, actor B.D. Wong and Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield of Ben and Jerry's ice cream.
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The testing was to be funded by a grant from Abbott Laboratories, a company from Abbott Park, Ill.
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Watkins wants to offer the free testing sometime early next semester, Smith said.
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Living wage leftist, not the answer for workers
Leftist politics are what columnist George Will calls a "sentiment competition," which is "less about changing society than striking poses." Nowhere is this more evident than the living wage campaign.
After all, who doesn't want workers to be able to support their families? What more could one ask of a movement purporting to fight poverty and advance social justice? A lot, really. Like facts and analysis.
COMMENTARY
In Lawrence, a living wage means an income high enough to support a family of three on one paycheck that's 30 percent above the poverty level. According to a Cato Institute study, fewer than one in five low-wage workers actually have families to support. Thus, the premise of the living wage movement supporting a small percentage of working families is faulty from the get-go.
Arrah Nielsen opinion@kansan.com
The living wage is merely a hiked-up minimum wage, usually 50 to 100 percent higher. The minimum wage has existed since 1938, and has since been raised 19 times. It is quite possible to study the impact minimum wage increases have on low-wage workers. More than 80 studies have demonstrated a link between minimum wage
increases and consequent job loss. This job loss falls disproportionately on the poorest and least-skilled workers.
This is not surprising. Increase the price of anything and it will inevitably lead to fewer purchases. Is it better for low-wage workers to have modest incomes or not to have jobs at all?
Another factor living wage propsnents overlook is that the marketplace automatically adjusts to the supply of money. It is widely documented that prices go up even in anticipation of a minimum wage increase. Increasing the minimum wage to 10 bucks an hour — or 100 for that matter — will merely drive up the cost of everything else (rent, food, etc.) without raising the standard
I read Nickel and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich. The author, an undercover journalist, traveled around the country taking various entry-level jobs for one month at a time to make the unsurprising discovery that it is difficult to earn enough to support even one person. Ehrenreich concluded that a living wage is needed.
of living for low-wage workers one bit.
Ehrenreich's synopsis is flawed for a number of reasons. For starters, she never worked at any job long enough to acquire skills or earn a raise. According to a Cato Institute study, "the average income of minimum wage employees of all ages increased 30 percent within one year of employment." Also, she presumes that workers are supposed to be able to support themselves on entry-level jobs, when they're not. Entry-level jobs are entry level. They are intended to be a road to someplace else, not a finishing point.
Living wage proponents assume that poverty is a permanent state for lowwage workers, but it is not. As W. Michael Cox and Richard Alm revealed in their book Myths of Rich and Poor," only 5 percent of U.S. households in the bottom fifth of the
income distribution in 1975 were still there in 1991."
It's simple: Workers who are unable or unwilling to acquire the skills and education necessary to move beyond low-wage work face problems that cannot be remedied by increasing the minimum wage.
Everything written about the living wage in the Kansan is for it. So I wonder, if the Kansan is staffed with sc many living wage proponents, why don't they pay me a living wage? After all, I do nearly as much work as professional columnists such as Dave Barry or Kathleen Parker who submit columns only every other week or so. How can they claim to support social justice and pay me a salary that scarcely covers my water bill and a bottle of cheap wine - the boxed variety?
The main accomplishment of living wage ordinances is to give leftist doodlers the illusion that they are champions of the poor, and to lure stupid people to vote for the Democratic Party. The root problem of low wage workers is not stingy employers, but lack of skills.
Nielsen is an Andover senior in anthropology.
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Lack of Middle East curriculum leaves students in dark on culture
There is one area of the world guaranteed to be on the front page everyday; the Middle East.
The current war in Iraq and the conflict between Israel and Palestine only scratch the surface of events in the Middle East that make headlines in newspapers all over the world.
With the prevailing influence of the Middle East on current events and global culture, the need for Middle East education at the University of Kansas is essential. Though a fair number of courses on the Middle East are listed in the Course Catalog, a majority of these classes are rarely offered.
After surveying the history, political science, anthropology, sociology and economics departments, department chairs pointed to lack of personnel as well as funds as the problem. Repeatedly, each person said his or her department was not big enough to cover every region of the world. Most departments are committed to the University's federally funded area studies programs, such as Latin America and East Asia.
"A curriculum without offerings in the Middle East leaves students ignorant and perpetuates the problem of uninformed world citizens."
In addition, academic departments usually hire according to topic expertise rather than regions of the world. For example, the political science department might look for someone who specializes in elections rather than Israel and Palestine.
Money is a predictable excuse at the University. Every department, program, office and student is short on cash.
While every reason given is understandable, none is excusable. The lack of faculty and funds might
prevent the University from creating a major, but other options might not break the bank. A basic class on the Middle East would offer students interested in the area a foundation for further reading and research. A lecture series could be organized at minimal cost and would offer students current news and views on the area. A film festival would take even less effort, yet it would provide students an opportunity to learn about Middle Eastern culture.
In order for students to be competitive after graduation, we must have a comprehensive education that includes knowledge of other cultures and a basic understanding of contemporary world issues. A curriculum without offerings in the Middle East leaves students ignorant and perpetuates the problem of uninformed world citizens.
Anna D. Gregory for the editorial board
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ALEXANDRA FERNANDEZ
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Jeanette Stauffer testified as police looked on during the last day of hearings against three Costa Ricans accused of killing Stauffer's daughter, Shannon Martin. Security was tightened at the courthouse after several witnesses received death threats. Pictured from left to right: Peter Majerle, translator; Stauffer; Juan Carlos Arce, Stauffer's attorney; Erick Martinez, public prosecutor and unidentified Costa Rican police officers.
MARTIN: Mother fights for longer prison sentences, federal action
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eaen, stauffer will press on. She will appeal for a longer prison sentence and ask the U.S. Congress to establish guidelines for study-abroad programs. She wants the FBI to be required to get involved immediately when a U.S. citizen is killed abroad. The issues are all topics she may touch on during a news conference she is holding today at Washburn University in Topeka.
She'll also keep soliciting funds for the Shannon Lucile Martin English Center in Golfito, a place to learn English through computer programs and tutoring to boost the town's tourism.
Stauffer has been the most public vocal member of the family. She keeps a list of many of the media outlets that have interviewed her. It includes more than 50 television, newspaper and radio news reporters from across the United States and in Costa Rica. She can rattle off the first names of reporters from Wichita, Washington, D.C., New York and Lawrence by memory.
"It if weren't for the media putting pressure on the government officials here and in Costa Rica, this would have been an easy case to drop," she said from her Topeka home, "Costa Rica doesn't want tourists to know about this. Universities don't want students to know, either."
Family bonds
Other members of the family have kept their grieving more private.
Staci, 29, and Sheri, 24, Shannon's two sisters, are KU graduate students studying journalism and English as a second language, respectively.
Both women have fond memories of their sister: singing together in the Shawnee Heights High School choir, sharing an old Buick, swing dancing at The Bottleneck, eating at the Lawrence Pizza Company on Kasold Drive.
After their sister's death, dealing with friends and boyfriends was awkward. They said people had a hard time knowing when and how to discuss Shannon.
"It's like we're expected to keep up this certain front," Sheri said. "But we're doing it for other people's sanity. They don't want to deal with a sad person, so you almost feel like you have to comfort them, make them feel better so they know everything is OK."
While juggling school, jobs, friends and grieving of their own, it was jarring to see their mother and sister on the front page of the newspaper or mentioned on the mail
"My mom ke.ps making private things public," she said, recalling when several reporters showed up when the family gathered to plant a garden for Shannon last spring. "It makes a show of it. I know it's part of her grieving process, but it gets to the point where sometimes it affects mine."
Meanwhile, their father and Stauffer ex-husband, Ross Martin, rarely talks about Shannon's death, Staci said. He was always more introverted than their
mother, she said, but Ross has shunned working on the investigation publicly or privately. He declined interviews for this story.
"Our parents are kind of at the extremes of how they are dealing with this," Staci said.
"To see what happened and to see the toll that it's taken on her family, it is very difficult," said Peter Majerle, who translated for Stauffer and her husband, Brad Stauffer, through much of the trial and investigation.
Differing opinions
The Minneapolis, Minn., native was just part of Stauffer's team of interpreters and investigators who made numerous trips to Golfito to find witnesses and persuade them to talk. During Stauffer's most-recent trip, she paid for two translators, a personal taxi driver, KBI investigator Larry Thomas and four night security guards to be there.
Jesse Ybarra was also on that team. The federal and state court interpreter from Topeka has been helping Stauffer sift through hundreds of Spanish-language court documents for the last six months. He also assisted the KBI investigation and questioning.
He calls Stauffer a tower of strength.
"If it wasn't for her, those people would have walked," he said of Stauffer's role in the conviction.
Not everyone thinks so kindly of Stauffer's efforts.
"The mother has made a lot of problems around here," said John Tyner, owner of a small bar
in the center of Golfito called Latitude 8. "She's very aggressive and has a bad reputation as being pushy. She's desperate."
Tyner is one of several dozen American expatriates living in Golfito who has been following the case closely. Originally from Minnesota, he now part-owns a watermelon farm and a brothel in a city nearby, in addition to running the bar.
Oscar Quiros, who was hired to direct the KU program Martin attended in Golfifo, said he thought Stauffer had pushed the limits when holding people accountable for Martin's death. He resented being accused of not doing enough to prevent the murder, he said during an interview in his Golfifo home.
"She was not my student," he said, noting Martin wasn't participating in the program when she died. "She wasn't my responsibility."
Regardless of how others feel about her actions, Stauffer pledges she will keep working on projects at home and abroad in her daughter's name.
It's simple, in Stauffer's mind. Globalism, ecology and kindness were all causes Martin cared deeply about.
But why carry the torch for something that has caused her so much pain?
"These were ideals that were important to Shannon," Stauffer said. "She can't do it now, but I can."
—Edited by Ehren Meditz
May 10,2001—Shannon Martin, 23-year-old senior, arrives in Golfito for a second time. She finished finals early to spend a week in Golfito collecting fern specimens.
Follow the timeline:
Long road to trial in Martin death
May 13,2001, 1 a.m. — Martin is attacked and stabbed 14 times on an airport access road 50 meters from her host family's home.
May 13, 2001, 6:30 a.m. — Martin's family learns of her death, via a phone call from the U.S. Embassy in Costa Rica.
May 16, 2001 — The University sends Susan Gronbeck-Tedesco, then interim director of study abroad, to escort the body home. Dave Schmitz, Martin's boyfriend, accompanied her.
June 2001 — The University sends Charles Stansifer, KU professor and expert on Costa Rica, to Golifto to investigate safety concerns. He declares the city safe.
July 2001 — The University sends Gronbeck-Tedesco, then interim director of study abroad, and Amy Timkar, KU program coordinator, to conduct site visits in San Jose, the country's capital, and Golfito.
July 2, 2001 — Hair samples taken from Martin's hands at the crime scene were submitted to an FBI crime lab in Washington, D.C.
July 13, 2001—Jeanette Stauffer, Martin's mother, meets with Costa Rican President Miguel Angel Rodriguez and ambassador Jaime Daremblum.
July 27, 2001 — The University announces it will continue the study abroad program in Goffito.
Aug. 29, 2001 — Stauffer travels to San José for the first time since her daughter's death. She meets with the Judicial Investigating Police, Costa Rica's version of the FBI.
Nov. 21, 2001 — Kattia Cruz Murillo, now 29, is arrested after investigators link her to the murder through a pawned earring.
through approved curriculum
May 13, 2002 — On the first anniversary of Martin's death, the University announces its plans to create a $1,000 scholarship to be awarded annually for a female student accepted into the Institute of Tropical Studies program.
July 22, 2002 — Rafael "Coco" Zumbado Quesada, now 52, and Luis Alberto "caballo" Castro Carillo, now 32, are arrested.
July 2002 — KU study-abroad officials announce the termination of the Institute of Tropical Studies in Golfoft. University officials cite shifts in the environment in Golfoft because of the upcoming trial as the reason. Oscar Quiros, director of the
Golfito program, denied any knowledge of harassment or possible danger to students.
Nov. 29, 2002 — After four months in custody, Zumbado and Castro are released because of a lack of evidence.
March 14, 2003 — OIJ officials perform DNA tests on the skin found under Martin's fingernails at Stauffer's urging.
March 16, 2003 — Stauffer appears on Costa Rican television stations in a plea for a key witness who disappeared to come forward.
March 2003 — Prosecutor Erick Martinez files charges against the three suspects, saying that Martin was killed during a robbery.
April 29, 2003 - A closed preliminary hearing is held in Golfito's courthouse, the Tribunal of Justice.
May 16, 2003 — The University awards the first Shannon Lucile Martin Memorial Scholarship. The recipient planned to apply the scholarship toward her study of Portuguese and anthropology at the University of Costa Rica in San José.
June 12, 2003 — A Costa Rican judge delayed the trial after granting Martin's family the right to formal legal representation of its own. Stauffer hired Costa Rican prosecutor Juan Carlos Arce to conduct his own investigation and file new murder charges on her behalf.
September 2003 — Staufer's attorney asks to push back the trial date so that more evidence can be tested.
Oct. 27, 2003 — The trial is delayed because judges deem that an attorney hired to defend Zumbado has a conflict of interest because he had also been hired by Cruz at one time.
Oct. 31,2003—The trial begins. Stauffer testifies about her daughter among dozens of other witnesses.
Nov. 14, 2003 — Security at the courthouse is doubled after two anonymous telephone death threats are called in.
Nov. 24, 2003—Attorneys give closing statements. The three-judge tribunal declares Zumbado and Cruz guilty of murder and sentence both to 15 years in prison. Castro was acquitted but remains in custody for the murder of a local drug dealer over an alleged territory dispute.
Sources: The University Daily Kansas, the Lawrence Journal-World, The Topeka Capital-Journal, The Tico Times and the Associated Press. Compiled by Lindsay Hanson and Katie Nelson
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male contraception
HEARD on the hill
How do you feel about the possibility of male birth control?
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- Alyson Moyes, Leawood senior
"It would depend on if I'm in a committed relationship. Hopefully I'd be able to trust him enough to use it, but I don't know."
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Rebecca Green, Chicago junior
"I would definitely have my boyfriend use it. If I trusted him enough to date him,I would trust him enough to take birth control."
Eric Schelker, Kansas City, Mo.. sophomore
"Yeah, sure I'd use it. I would do anything to prevent having a kid in college."
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Alex Garcia, Olathe junior
"If my boyfriend was taking it, I would definitely call him every day to remind him."
— Sarah Osborn, Kingman freshman
BIRTH CONTROL: KU researchers among those developing options for men
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A
John Amory works with a male contraceptive research program funded by the World Health Organization. Amory's group received a five-year, $9.5 million grant from the organization. Working out of the Population Center for Research in Human Reproduction in Seattle, the group is getting close to developing an effective male contraceptive.
"We've made so much progress," Amory said. "We're getting closer and closer to that zero sperm count."
Using the testosterones-progestins combination, Amory's team has produced a zero sperm count in close to 80 percent of study participants.
A contraceptive that completely shuts down sperm production is as effective as the pill, Amory said. However, research has shown that even sperm counts below three million per milliliter of ejaculate significantly reduce the risk of pregnancy.
"Right now, that's a reasonable short-term goal for our studies," Amory said.
Three large-scale studies of male hormonal control are under way. Oragnon, a Dutch pharmaceutical company, is conducting a study involving 300 men. The study is taking place at sites in Europe, Los Angeles and Seattle. Large-scale trials with approximately 500 participants are also happening in China.
Amory said researchers have been encouraged by the results. Participants are reporting few side effects and few resulting pregnancies. If data continues to be favorable, male hormonal birth control could hit the market within four years, Amory said.
What form the birth control will take remains to be seen. Researchers hope to one day offer men the wide range of birth control options now available to women. But that's getting ahead of the game. Amorv said.
"Right now, it's one step at a time," he said. "Right now, we're just working on getting one product on the market."
Some researchers, including Amory, say a monthly injection will be the first to reach consumers. Others think an implant inserted under the arm, similar to Norplast, will pave the
way. And there are those betting on a daily pill. Then there are trials testing possible combinations of these methods. The list goes on and on.
The largest studies are focusing on a long-acting injection, similar to women's Depo-Provera, Amory said.
After decades of birth control focused primarily on women, some researchers say it's time for men to have a role and a choice in family planning.
Why Now?
Vanessa Collins, vice president for medical affairs at Planned Parenthood, said any safe method for reducing unwanted pregnancies would be welcome.
"However long it takes, it will be
"However long worthwhile," she said.
Joseph Tash hopes it won't take long. Tash, associate professor of molecular and integrated physiology at the University of Kansas Medical Center, is working to develop a hormonal form of male birth control.
In the 1960s, there was not a lot of solid researching being done on the possibility of male contraceptives. The past few years especially have seen an explosion of research and discussion.
While attending high school in Chicago, Tash worked in the obstetrics and
"There's a greater awareness of new technologies in all fields. Now people have an idea of what we can do." he said.
Tash credits the surge of interest to a variety of things, from greater publicity to new breakthroughs in contraceptives of all kinds.
Georg and Tash are custom designing drugs that never existed before. They're manipulating and designing chemical compounds for the sole purpose of stopping sperm production.
"That was basically unheard o
Unequal choices
gynecology department at Michael Reese Hospital. He remembers seeing how women shouldered the burden of birth control.
Contraceptive methods for men:
■ condom
■ vasectomy
Contraceptive methods for women:
■ pill
■ diaphragm
■ intrauterine device
■ patch (Ortho-Evra)
■ implant (Norplant)
■ injection (Depo-Provera)
■ ring (Nuvaring)
Condoms are still the best protection against sexually transmitted diseases.
Source: www.plannedparentthoort.org
before." Tash said.
"Being a student of the '60s, I thought it would be better if this were a shared responsibility," he said.
So Tash began researching what has become his life's work; male reproduction and contraception. He is working with Gunda Georg, distinguished professor of medicinal chemistry here at the University, to develop options for men.
Three years ago, the National Institutes of Health awarded the pair a grant to fund their research. They are currently in the process of patenting their developments. Because their research has not yet been patented, Georg and Tash are not comfortable discussing the specifics.
The large number of developments in the field of female contraception has drawn attention to the lack of male birth control. Now researchers are taking what they've learned about female birth control and studying how it applies to the male body.
This new technology, and a willingness to apply it to men, has made hormonal contraceptives more feasible and increased demand for the product, Tash said.
The Cocktail Party Question
"Surveys have shown people want it." he said. "But only time will tell."
No one is sure exactly how men or women will react when male contraceptives go on the market. But Planned Parenthood and other organizations think people will be receptive.
Several large, independent surveys have shown men to be responsive to the idea. In a worldwide poll of 2,000 men conducted by the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom last year, more than 75 percent said they were "extremely interested and would highly consider using" a hormonal contraceptive. The remaining 25 percent said
"absolutelv not."
That doesn't discourage Amory, the Seattle researcher. When the alternative contraceptive methods are considered men will warm up to the idea of hormonal control, he said.
Vasectomies and condoms are still the only birth control options for men, vasectomies are considered permanent. While they can be reversed, 40 percent of men remain infertile after the reversal procedure. Couples who rely on condoms have a pregnancy rate of 15 percent per year. And condoms decrease sexual pleasure. There's not much competition for hormonal control. Amory said.
"If it's any indication, we haven't had any problems recruiting men for studies." Amory said.
Getting women on board hasn't been as easy.
Women can at least rest assured that their birth control is taken care of if they take measures to protect themselves. If and when the burden of birth control switches over to men, women will no longer have the guarantee that their birth control is under control. Researchers are still gauging how trusting women will be.
When Mr. One Night Stand says, "Don't worry, baby. I'm on the pill," will women believe it?
"That's the question I get asked at cocktail parties every weekend," Amory said.
Surveys have produced mixed results. When the University of Edinburgh polled 2,000 married women, close to 90 percent said a male pill would be a good idea. More than 97 percent said they would trust their husbands with birth control.
Single women were a different story. Georg said single women might be less likely to rely on partners they aren't committed to.
"It's important to consider individual relationships," Georg said. "A strong trust would have to be there."
Even if male hormonal birth control is not for every couple, it will benefit many people, George and Tash say. That is why they have devoted so much time and energy to its development.
"It will give people an alternative, a choice," Georg said. "And everyone deserves that."
-Edited by Andy Marso
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Ample floral choices exist for designers, consumers
By Neil Mukka and Christine Kelly
editor@kansan.com
Special to the Kansan
Floral opportunities for University of Kansas students are blooming in Lawrence.
Englewood Florist, 1101 Massachusetts St., employs Lindsay Benedict, Overland Park sophomore, to create floral arrangements.
"I look for students with a background in color and design when hiring," said Cary Engle, co-owner of Englewood Florist.
Benedict has created floral arrangements for 10 years. The 19-year-old visual education major received her start when she was a 9-year-old at her parents' flower business.
"There is a lot to working in floral shops other than the design aspect," Benedict said, "I kind of like working Valentine's Day just because it's crazy and I like the stress."
Valentine's Day is the highest-grossing holiday for the floral industry, said Debbie Antes, senior floral designer at University Floral and Greenhouse, 2103 W. 28th St. Terrace. University Floral starts planning for
Valentine's Day as soon as Christmas is over.
According to CNN's Web site, 89 million roses will be sold on the three-day period before, during and after Valentine's Day. If all of those flowers were bought from Prairie Patches, 821 Massachusetts St., at $1.50 each it would total more than $130 million. Roses are a large part of an industry that takes in $19 billion annually.
Michaela DeMaria, Overland Park, senior, started working in a floral shop during the Valentine's day rush. Now DeMaria is employed at a Flowermana franchise, 1700 W. 23rd St., the newest floral shop in Lawrence.
"It's not a job where you sit around and look at the same four walls." DeMaria said. "Everything's changing. There's personal interaction, and I get to be more involved."
Judy Brashear, owner of the Flowerama franchise, said that despite being a part of a national chain, her store would include local flavor to avoid the uniformity that people associated with a franchise.
"We are here to serve the community," Brashear said. "We'll add stuff to suit the tastes of the
Brashear said she also hired certified floral designers for her shop.
Lawrence community. There will be KU gift baskets and flowers."
One way to become a certified floral designer is to attend a professional school offering floral design instruction, such as the Kansas School of Floral Design, 826 Iowa St.
Bill Nye, owner of the Kansas School of Floral Design, has graduated 1,300 students from 35 states and eight countries in the past 25 years.
The four-week long course covers every aspect of floral design. Nye said.
Nye, who has been in the floral industry for 48 years, described floral arrangement as an art that requires innovative ideas.
"You can't harness creativity, originality and imagination," Nye said. "You could have told Rembrandt he couldn't have painted the shaft of light. He could have done one of two things; he could have listened to you, or went ahead and did what he did. And he went ahead and did his thing, and was known for the shaft of light in his paintings."
Carmen Hocking, professional wedding consultant for A Beautiful Wedding, 2814 Trail Road., agreed with Nye. She looks for floral designers with a few extra ideas when it comes time to create displays for the weddings she plans.
"A good florist should be able to tell you what flowers are in bloom that month," she said. "They should also be able to bring in flowers that won't cost a lot of money."
The floral industry has become a multi-national industry. Nye said more than 50 percent of flowers came from overseas, mainly from South America and Italy.
"There are no greenhouses anymore because they are too expensive to heat," Nye said. "They can grow them cheaper overseas, they don't need heat, and they have the ideal growing conditions. As far as labor, it is much cheaper over in those countries, and they do have a quality product."
A quality product and a good price are at the top of Katie Rubottom's priority list when she is shopping in one of Lawrence's 18 flower shops.
Flower prices around Lawrence
For a dozen red roses
Wrapped In a vase
Prairie Patches $39 II/II
Flowerama $14.99 $19.99
Englewood Florist $14.99 $19.99
University Floral $45 $50
Dillons $35.99 $49.99
Hy-Vee $30 $30
The Flower Shop $49 $55
Bittersweet $59 $59
Owens $49.99 $55
The Flower Market $36 $47
Prices vary by season
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"I buy flowers for my friends for their birthdays," said Rubbottom, Quincy, Ill., junior. "There are a lot of floral shops in Lawrence to choose from. J
usually call around to find out which shop has the best prices, and then go from there."
Edited by Nikki Overfelt
Pet allergies treatable but many go unnoticed
By Azita Tafreshi editor@kansan.com Special to the Kansan
Kody O'Neil's skin itches so much that he gnaws at until it is red and raw. His reaction to his allergies would seem extreme, if Kody were human.
At 5 years old, Kody, a Shih Tzu, is among an estimated 15 percent of dogs that suffer from atopy, a form of canine allergy. Mary Bagladi-Swanson, assistant professor at Kansas State University's Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital, said dogs were susceptible to three types of allergies. The most common form, flea-allergic dermatitis, is a reaction to flea bites. Food allergies are least common, and the third type, atopic disease, is caused by trees, pollen and house dust.
Jackie O'Neil, Kody's owner,
said when she adopted Kody he had rust-stained feet, a common
condition in dogs with atopy.
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this form of canine allergy until
she was referred to Jean Greek,
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Overland Park.
Greek said sometimes owners did not realize their dogs had allergies because they were looking for the wrong symptoms.
affected part of the body.
"There's a lot of confusion," Greek said, "in part because the way dogs manifest allergies is different from the way humans manifest allergies."
Greek said humans usually exhibited respiratory problems as a result of allergies, but 95 percent of dogs showed signs of atopy through skin problems. Symptoms included biting, licking or scratching the
Lori Lowell, a technician at the animal allergy clinic, said a skin test was used to determine a dog's allergies. This technique involved injecting allergens into the skin. Lowell said hyposensitization therapy could take up to one year to be effective, but most cases saw results in four months.
"The biggest problem we have is getting people to stick with it long enough to give it time to work." Lowell said.
Canine allergies could also be treated with shampoos, antihistamines and steroids, but Greek said hyposensitization had a higher success rate than antihistamines without the side effects. Lowell said some pet owners had reservations about giving their dog its shots, but the dog's pain was minimal.
"The needle is so very tiny that it probably seems like a flea bite, but some dogs will really play their owners about it." Lowell said.
Greek said dogs usually developed atopy between the ages of 1 and 3, and purebred dogs, especially terriers, retrievers and bichons, had a high incidence of the allergy. Greek said dogs do not build up permanent immunity to their allergies over time, even with treatment.
"He's a much happier, healthier dog. We don't have the hot spots and the chewing on the skin, and he's not itching as much." O'Neil said. "His quality of life is much better, and we're happier because he's happier."
O'Neil said that although the process of maintaining Kody's comfort would be life-long, the shots were working.
- Edited by Scott Christie
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CHESAPEAKE, Va. — The exwife of John Allen Muhammad said yesterday that she called 911 to report a car similar to the one used in the sniper spree near her home, bolstering a defense argument that she was the ultimate target.
Ex-wife of sniper claims she was ultimate target
Lawyers for teenage sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo contend last year's killing spree was part of a plan by Muhammad to kill his ex-wife, an argument the prosecutor called "nonsense."
Mildred Muhammad testified at Malvo's capital murder trial yesterday that she saw the car on Oct. 11,2002, one week after the Washington, D.C.-area sniper shootings began, near her home in the Washington suburbs as she left for work. The passenger concealed his face behind a newspaper.
"The driver just sat and stared," she said, though she apparently did not recognize him.
She called 911 and told the dispatcher that a dark car — either a Chevrolet Impala or a Caprice —
with New Jersey tags was outside her house and seemed suspicious. It was not immediately clear what action, if any, was taken by law enforcement.
Mildred Muhammad's description would match the car authorities say her ex-husband modified to serve as a "killing platform."
Malvo's lawyers are presenting an insanity defense, claiming the 42-year-old Muhammad brainwashed their teenage client and molded him into a killer. They contend Muhammad planned to kill his ex-wife and make it look as if she were the random victim of a sniper so he could regain custody of his children.
John Muhammad is refusing to testify in Malvo's trial, invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, Malvo defense lawyer Craig Cooley said yesterday.
Muhammad's trial ended last week with a jury recommending the death sentence, but he still faces prosecution in other states. The pair are charged or suspected in the killing of 10 people and the wounding of six in the Washington-area sniper
spree, along with shootings in Washington state, Arizona Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana.
Malvo's lawyers had hoped to put Muhammad on the stand this week, and asked yesterday that he still appear so jurors could see him.
"A picture speaks a thousand words. A human form standing in a courtroom speaks even more," Cooley said outside the courtroom.
Circuit judge Jane Marum Roush said she saw no need for Muhammad to make a silent appearance, though she urged the prosecution and defense to try to find a solution.
"Transporting (prisoners) around the state willy-nilly should be done sparingly" because of security risks, she said.
Fairfax County Commonwealth's attorney Robert F. Horan Jr. objected to much of Mildred Muhammad's testimony, saying the argument that she was a target is "nonsense."
"It is absolutely a red herring in this case." Horan said.
Malvo, in statements to police.
said the killings were part of a scheme to extort $10 million from the government.
Muhammad's prosecutors were prevented from making the argument about Mildred Muhammad because the judge ruled there was a lack of evidence to support it.
Horan was successful in barring testimony from Mildred Muhammad that her ex-husband had threatened to kill her in 2009 by telling her "you have become my enemy and as my enemy I will kill you." Prosecutors said the statement was hearsay.
Malvo's lawyers also played an audio tape of the event they say triggered the sniper rampage: the September 2001 custody hearing in which Muhammad lost his children.
Muhammad speaks very little during the hearing in Tacoma, Wash., in which a judge grants immediate custody of the three children to Mildred Muhammad. Authorities had taken the children from him and placed them in protective custody five days earlier.
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Exhibit chronicles Sept. 11 rubble recovery
NEW YORK — For hour after hour, day after day, month after month, they kept at it.
From the original mountains of debris down to the last quarter-inch, workers at the Fresh Kills landfill sifted through 1.8 million tons of rubble from the World Trade Center, looking to recover whatever they could.
Some of what they found from car parts to building remnants, makes up an exhibit chronicling the massive effort.
Recovery: The World Trade Center Recovery Operation at
The exhibit, featuring more than 50 objects and 65 photographs, is part of the institution's program that collects historical materials relating to the Sept.11 attacks.
The work at Fresh Kills, miles from ground zero and closed to the general public, was an important part of the Sept. 11 story that most people didn't know about, organizers said.
It took workers 10 months to accumulate the items, which range from a paperweight found during the sifting process to
vehicle parts to equipment used in the search, such as rakes and a bucket.
The photographs record the daily activities at the site, from the huge piles that had to be sorted to images of those who worked there, spending hours at conveyor belts watching for the smallest fragment of something vital to drift by.
Closed by the city in March 2001, Fresh Kills was reopened Sept. 12, 2001, a day after the attacks.
The landfill was the last stop for debris hauled by trucks and barges to be sifted one last time
for remains, personal property and criminal evidence.
At the height of the operation, 7,000 tons of material were processed each day as workers in respirators manned conveyor belts, poised to stop the flow when they spotted a bone fragment or other remains.
More than 54,000 pieces of personal property, including rings, watches, wallets and ID cards, were found.
Of the nearly 20,000 human remains recovered from the twisted ruins, more than 14,000 were found at the landfill.
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Volleyball preparing for tournament
By Mike Norris
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Kansan sportswriter
At 4 p.m. Thursday in Malibu, Calif., Kansas athletic history will be made.
The Kansas volleyball team will play in its first NCAA Tournament match.
"It's indescribable," junior middle blocker Ashley Michaels said. "No one will ever do this again."
In 1997 it looked like it would be a long time before the Jayhawks would earn that elusive first berth. The team went 9-24 overall, and 2-18 in the Big 12 Conference.
Enter coach Ray Bechard. In his first season at Kansas the team went 15-17. As his career went on, the team's record only got better. Last season after finishing 19-10, it looked as if it would be heading to the postseason for the
"It's amazing. I can't explain it, I don't know what to say."
Sarah Rome
Sarah Rome senior outside hitter on playing in Malibu, Calif.
first time.
But that invitation never came and the season ended in disappointment.
When it was announced the Jayhawks would be playing Thursday in Malibu, senior outside hitter Sarah Rome was at a loss for words.
"It's amazing," she said. "I can't even explain it, I don't know what to say."
That was about the same attitude the rest of the team had after the announcement. None of the players knew much about
their opponent, the Long Beach State 49ers, but they didn't care. They were heading to the tournament.
Beachard does know the volleyball history Long Beach State carries.
"Anytime you think Long Beach State, you think of two or three other programs maybe," he said.
Bechard said that Long Beach State played a demanding schedule and defeated No. 8 Georgia Tech, which led the nation in kills and assists. But he also said that while the 49ers had a history winning, their talent was not as strong as in the past.
"It's not a team from a talent standpoint that will overwhelm us," Bechard said. "It's not something we haven't seen before."
However, a postseason match is something the Jayhawks haven't seen before. Long Beach
State is in the tournament year after year, and will be playing in its home state.
"They have a lot less demanding travel," Bechard said. "It will be a quick turnaround, but this team is up for it."
Sophomore Josi Lima said the team's preparation would be no different than during the season.
"We're doing our routine every day, and we're ready to play who-ever."
It was easy to tell that the team would be ready to play after the joyous reaction on Sunday. But when practice started at 4 p.m. yesterday, the excitement of going to Malibu was gone. The team's attention was turned to Long Beach State.
If the Jayhawks are victorious Thursday they will play at 4 p.m. Friday against the winner of the game between Pepperdine and Manhattan.
Edited Andy Marso
Warrick's big game saves Syracuse, defeats poor-shooting Rhode Island
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim breathed a sigh of relief after his defending national champion Orangemen narrowly averted a second straight loss to start the season.
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"To get a win in these two games, the way we played, was good," Boeheim said Sunday after No. 7 Syracuse rallied for a 69-65 victory over Rhode Island.
"Now we have December to try and get ourselves better," he said. "I felt after preseason practice that we were a team that was going to struggle for a while."
And the Orangemen certainly did against Rhode Island (3-2).
Rhode Island was 1-for-24 from 3-point range, shot only 32.9 percent overall, and lost despite taking 25 more shots than Syracuse.
They won despite shooting just 39.2 percent and being outrebounded 55-41. If the Rams, who scored 44 points in the paint, hit a couple of outside shots, Syracuse might have started 0-2 for the first time since the 1968-69 team lost its first five.
"We knew we were not going to make a lot of shots from outside," Rhode Island coach Jim Baron said. "So we had to be aggressive going to the glass, and we were able to do that."
In the only other Top 25 games Sunday, No. 3 Michigan State beat DePaul 89-81, and No. 20 Stanford defeated Rice 60-56.
Hakim Warrick scored a career-high 30 points—11 during a decisive second-half spurt —to lead Syracuse.
"This is only our second game," said Warrick, who was 18-for-22 from the foul line to match the school record set two years ago by Allen Griffin. "Just having a new lineup in there and losing leadership like Kueth Duany and Carmelo Anthony, it's going to be really tough at first."
Last season, the Orangemen won 15 games — including three in the NCAA tournament — after trailing in the second half. They nearly overcame a 23-point deficit before losing to Charlotte 96-92 on Wednesday night and trailed Rhode Island by 11 in the first half.
"I think we came out a little too shaky," Warrick said. "But I think we did a good job of turning it around at the end."
Syracuse trailed 45-41 with 12:39 left after Dustin Hellenga stole the ball from Gerry McNamara and converted a three-point play. Boehme then kept signaling for Warrick to get the ball in the lane, and he took over, sparking the Orangemen on a 19-5 run.
"I knew it was coming to me," said Warrick, who also led the
team with nine rebounds.
"There was one time I got elbowed in the nose, didn't know where I was, and he was still calling my play."
Syracuse won despite a subpar performance from McNamara. He's one of the main keys to the offense and scored a career-high 34 points, including eight 3s, against Charlotte. But against the Rams he was 1-for-9 from the field, missed all six of his 3-point attempts and finished with seven points.
Boechem is counting on everybody to help fill the void created by the departures of Duany, the lone senior on the championship team, and Anthony, who jumped to the NBA after his stellar freshman season.
On Sunday, Billy Edelin helped pick up the slack with 16 points, but he was the only other Syracuse player in double figures.
Josh Pace had only four points, two assists and one steal despite playing all but two minutes. Backup center Jeremy McNeil had only one rebound and failed to score in 10 minutes, and starting center Craig Forth scored just four points, although he had five blocks and five rebounds.
"I don't think we're smooth or comfortable in what we're doing," said Boeheim, who lamented not scheduling more games earlier. "Charlotte and
knode Island had played four games and it helped them. They are veteran teams that know what they're doing."
Hellenga led Rhode Island with 16 points, and Terrence Mack had 10. Dawan Robinson, who entered averaging 15.5 points, was 1-for-15 shooting and finished with six points, all in the final 2:52.
"We see this as a big loss because we thought we could beat this team," said Robinson, who was 0-for-6 on 3-pointers. "They stayed in their zone and we just missed shots. They didn't pressure us. We just missed open shots."
No. 3 Michigan St.89, DePaul 81
At East Lansing, Mich., Kelvin Torbert scored 19 points and Chris Hill added 15 points and a career-high 11 assists for Michigan State in the championship game of the Spartan Classic.
Alan Anderson scored all 17 of his points in the second half to help the Spartans (3-1) hold off the Blue Demons (3-1).
Delonte Holland scored 27 points for DePaul.
No.20 Stanford 60, Rice 56
At Houston, Rob Little and Chris Hernandez each scored 17 points for Stanford (3-0). Jason McKrieth led Rice (3-1) with 14 points.
Solich firing upsets Cornhusker players
By Vince Kuppig Daily Nebraska via U-Wire University of Nebraska
LINCOLN, Neb. — Jammal Lord stood with his head down and a baseball cap covering his eyes.
"You've got so many emotions running through your head right now. It's hard to hold them back," said senior fullback DeAntae
On more than one occasion, Demorrio Williams shook his head in disgust.
Simultaneously, Nebraska Athletics Director Steve Pederson stood behind a podium explaining his reasoning for firing Frank Solich during Sunday's press conference at Memorial Hospital.
One player, Benard Thomas, even went as far as to interrupt the first-year NU athletics director to ask two of his own questions.
Grixby, one of about 10 players attending Sunday's press conference where Pederson announced the firing of Frank Solich as Nebraska's football coach.
"It hurts. It hurts a lot. But at the same time, we've got to move forward," he said.
Thomas, a junior defensive end, and some of the other players who stood toward the back of the room on the sixth floor of Memorial Stadium as Pederson spoke didn't appear ready to move forward just yet.
Within 25 minutes of the start of the press conference, all the players had left the room where Pederson was talking. Bo Pelini, NU's defensive coordinator, who was named the interim head coach, gathered his players.
By the time Pelini took the podium, most of the players had returned to the room.
RIVERS: QB challenges teams with strong arm, not feet
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12A
years at North Carolina State, Rivers has been known to take off on his feet a few times a game but has never been known as an elusive runner. However, his fullback-like frame makes him dangerous inside the opponents' 5-yard line, hence his 17 touchdown runs.
Keeping Things Close — North Carolina State's 7-5 record jibe with the preseason ranking of 14th in the nation, but don't think the Wolfpack hasn't been consistently competitive. Its five defeats have come by an
average margin of 4.7 points, which has never been larger than eight. The typical North Carolina State game is an offensive shootout, including a 50- 44 overtime loss at Florida State and a 44-38 early season overtime loss at then third-ranked Ohio State. Rivers has thrown for an average of 358 yards in the team's five losses, and five of his seven interceptions this season have come in those games. So don't let the record fool you. Rivers will keep things close at all costs.
Compiled by Ryan Greene. Edited by Cate Batchelder.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12A
WHITTEMORE: Quarterback's mobility will be key for Jayhawks
To go along with the 6-2 record when Whittemore played start to finish, in those eight games, the Jayhawks average 36.8 points per game compared to 15.8 when he's not there.
for some reason, the Jayhawks are a different team when Whittemore is there. That could be the most important intangible of all come Tangerine Bowl time.
Leaping To The Second Dimension
— Neither defense in this game is necessarily dominant. Kansas ranks 75th in Division I-A in total defense, but North Carolina State ranks 90th. Both teams give up
roughly 400 yards and an average of four touchdowns per game. While Rivers will try to torture the Kansas secondary with his arm, Whittimore will try to spice things up with his feet. Both defenses have struggled against the pass this year, but North Carolina State ranks 33rd against the run. Whittimore's mobility could throw the Wolfpack for a loop as a complement to the bruising Clark Green and the elusive John Randle. Kansas' game plan on offense hinges on the quarterback having at least a little success on the ground.
— Compiled by Ryan Greene. Edited by Cate Batchelder.
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Kansas takes over number one ranking after top four teams lose
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Bill Self didn't have to wait long to be No. 1 at Kansas.
The Jayhawks, taking advantage of losses by the top four teams last week, jumped from sixth to No.1 in The Associated Press men's college basketball poll yesterday.
Their move to the top was the biggest in almost 40 years and matched the second biggest in the history of the poll, which started in the 1948-49 season.
"I don't believe we're deserving of it but I don't know if anyone is right now," the first-year coach said before yesterday morning's shootaround. "There are probably 10 to 12 teams out there who could be No. 1 the way things played out last week."
Kansas (2-0) beat then-No. 3 Michigan State 81-74 in its only game last week, and combined with losses by Connecticut, Duke and Arizona (Nos. 1, 2 and 4 last week) and an unimpressive win by then-No. 5 Missouri, it meant a trip to No. 1 of the jayhawks.
Florida defeated Arizona to move up from eighth to No. 2 this week. Georgia Tech defeated Connecticut, and Purdue beat Duke, moving the Boilermakers into the rankings for the first time this season. Georgia Tech was 13th, and the Boilermakers were 20th.
Kansas was ranked No. 1 for four weeks in the 2001-02 season, its first stint at the top since getting there for five straight seasons from 1992-93 through 1996-97.
Nine teams received first-place votes this week, backing up Self's point of not being deserving of the top spot.
"Although it's very early, we'll enjoy the time we have it and we certainly hope to maintain it," said Self, who took over when Roy Williams left after 14 seasons to become coach at North Carolina.
The Jayhawks were at Texas Christian last night, their first game since starting guard Mike Lee broke his right collarbone in practice last week. He is expected to be out for up to two months.
Kansas' jump from No. 6 to No. 1 matched Duke's rise on Dec. 14, 1965, and those were second only to West Virginia's moving from No. 8 to No. 1 on Dec. 24, 1957.
The Jayhawks received 52 first-place votes and 1,750 points from the 72-member national media panel, 146 more than Florida (2-0), which was No.1 on eight ballots.
Connecticut, which was a runaway No.1 in the preseason poll and for the first two weeks of the regular season, dropped to third following its 77-61 loss to Georgia Tech in the semifinals of the Preseason NIT. The Huskies (4-1) received one No.1 vote.
Missouri, the only member of last week's top five that didn't lose, moved up one place to fourth after beating Oakland (Mich.) 90-85 in its season opener. The Tigers got three first-place votes.
Michigan State (3-1) dropped from third to fifth, while Duke (3-1) fell from second to sixth after losing 78-68 to Purdue in the championship game of the Great Alaska Shootout.
Arizona (1-1) fell from fourth to seventh with the 78-77 loss to Florida in the Tipoff Classic, while Texas, Kentucky and North Carolina rounded out the Top 10.
Texas had two first-place votes and Duke, Kentucky and North Carolina had one each.
Georgia Tech was the ninth school to get at least one first-place vote. The Yellow Jackets were No.1 on three ballots.
Illinois moved up one spot to 11th followed by Saint Joseph's, Georgia Tech, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Syracuse, Gonzaga, Wake Forest, Cincinnati and Purdue.
The last five ranked teams were Stanford, Pittsburgh, Notre Dame, Marquette and Oklahoma State.
Syracuse, which beat Kansas for the national title last year, was the other team in last week's Top 10 to lose a game. The Orangemen (1-1) were beaten 96-92 at home by Charlotte in their season opener and dropped from seventh to No. 16.
AP Top 25 Men's Basketball
The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' men's college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Nov. 30, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking:
Record Pts Pvs
1. **Kansas** (52) 2-0-1,750 6
2. Florida (8) 2-0-1,604 8
3. Connecticut (1) 4-1-1,152 4
4. **Missouri** (3) 1-0-1,487 5
5. Michigan St. 3-1-1,389 3
6. Duke (1) 3-1-1,132 5
7. Arizona 1-1,302 4
8. **Texas** (2) 3-0-1,272 11
9. Kentucky 2-0-1,234 10
10. North Carolina (1) 3-0-1,909 11
11. Illinois 3-0-1,071 12
12. Saint Joseph's 3-0-1,916 13
13. Georgia Tech (3) 5-0-874
14. Oklahoma 3-0-835 14
15. Wisconsin 3-0-720 15
16. Syracuse 1-1-692 17
17. Gonzaga 3-1-570 16
18. Wake Forest 3-0-552 18
19. Cincinnati 3-0-527 19
20. Purdue 4-0-493
21. Stanford 3-0-471 20
22. Pittsburgh 4-0-391 22
23. Notre Dame 2-0-342 21
24. Marquette 4-0-205 23
25. Oklahoma St. 3-0-117 24
Others receiving votes: Louisville 99, N.C.
State 63, Iowa 71, Maryland 59, Dayton
53, Texas Tech 32, Oregon 20, Indiana
17, Arizona St. 13, Auburn 12, Mississippi
St. 11, Providence 10, Charlotte 11, LSU 8,
BYU 5, Georgia 5, Vanderbilt 5, Butler 4,
UCLA 4, Florida St. 3, Ohio St. 3, George
Washington 2, Xavier 2, Arkansas 1,
California 1, Manhattan 1, Murray St. 1,
Nevada 1, Niagara 1
Louisville (0-1), which lost 70-69 in overtime to Iowa, fell out of the rankings from No. 17. North Carolina State (3-0) fell out from 25th despite wins over Howard and Florida A&M by an average of 25 points.
Chiefs face toughest rival in Denver
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - With all due respect to the only team that beaten them, the Kansas City Chiefs do not consider the Cincinnati Bengals the toughest outfit they've faced this year.
Coach Dick Vermeil, for one, gives that nod to Denver. A one-point victory over the Broncos Oct. 5 in Kansas City put the Chiefs (11-1) on the path to having the best 12-game record in the league and in franchise history.
Another win this week in Denver would give Vermiell's team its first AFC West title since 1997 and allow the Chiefs to retain at least a one-game lead in the struggle for home-field advantage.
"It's going to be like playing a playoff game on the road," Vermilion said yesterday. "This is a very important football game for us. I think they're the best team we've seen all year."
The Chiefs and Broncos were both 4-0 when Kansas City's Dante Hall
unleashed his most spectacular return to date, a 93-yard punt runback for a fourth-quarter touchdown just moments after Denver had taken a 23-17 lead.
Since then, the Chiefs have remained remarkably healthy and soared to six wins and one loss, at Cincinnati.
The Broncos, meanwhile, sustained several crippling injuries in the ensuing weeks and have gone only 3-4 since losing to Kansas City.
This road game is especially important to the Chiefs, who close out the regular season with home games against lowly Detroit and Chicago bracketed around a trip to Minnesota.
"Will it be a pivotal game in terms of home-field advantage if we make the playoffs? Well, we haven't made them yet," Vermeil said. "Normally when you win 11 games, you've made the playoffs. But in the AFC this year, it's a little bit tougher."
The Broncos would seem to have every reason imaginable to play hard.
For one thing, they're still scrapping
For another, they're no doubt unhappy over what happened on Hall's return, Julian Battle got away with an obvious clip.
for a wild-card spot and another loss would significantly hurt their cause.
And for yet another, it's Kansas City, an archrival the Broncos love to beat, no matter what the circumstances.
"It's tough enough to beat them any time, let alone going in there in December and trying to beat them," Vermeil said.
Vermeil said the Chiefs came out of Sunday's 28-24 victory at San Diego in fairly good shape. Only Monty Beisel, a backup linebacker and special teams ace who sustained a groin pull, was not expected to play against Denver.
"It will be a very intense, tight football game," Vermei said. "We're going to have to play our best football."
Only six points separated the two AFC West rivals in their last four games.
"It's not as bad as we first thought," Vermel said.
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KU men and women's team bowl into 3rd and 12th places
The KU men's and women's bowling teams enjoyed a successful Thanksgiving break participating in the National Collegiate Team Match Games Bowling Tournament in St. Louis, said coach Mike Fine. The men's team surged the second day to finish third in the 48-team field.
The men were situated at seventh place before the last two games of the tournament, where they competed well enough to finish at third place, tying last year's finish. They finished with a score of 12,378, just 148 less than the second-place team, Wichita State, and 519 less then first-place team, Pikeville College.
The Jayhawk men were led by Rhino Page, Wichita sophomore, who finished 10th overall with an average of 220 and Marc D'Errico, Rochester, N.Y., senior, who finished 40th and averaged 203.
The women improved from last tournament's finish of 16th of 28. They continued to show progress finishing 12th in a strong field of 36, said Fine. The women's field included 10 schools classified as NCAA varsity programs. The Jayhawks were able to finish ahead of seven of the programs.
The women were led by Kelly Zapf, Rochester, N.Y., junior, who averaged 200 on her way to her first All-Tournament award of the season. The women's team received special recognition for most improved finish, after it emerged from 28th in 2002 to 12th this year. Leanne Downey, Rochester, N.Y., freshman, also aided in the team's improvement with an average 195, placing 12th overall.
Both teams will compete Dec. 6 and 7 at the Leatherneck Classic in Moline, Ill.
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NBA finalizes six-player trade between Bulls and Raptors
CHICAGO — A six-player trade that sends Chicago Bulls forward Jalen Rose to the Toronto Raptors for Antonio Davis was finalized yesterday, two days after it was announced.
Besides Rose, the Bulls are sending forwards Donyell Marshall and Lonny Baxter to the Raptors. In return, Chicago gets Davis and forwards Jerome Williams and Chris Jefferies.
Davis, Williams and Jefferies were in Chicago yesterday taking their physicals, and the Bulls hoped to have them available for that night's game against Milwaukee.
The deal, in the works for weeks, was revealed Saturday. But it wasn't official without NBA approval, and league offices were closed over the weekend.
"The week was crazy because you got a lot of people pulling you in different directions when you know the real direction is Canada soon," Rose said.
The 6-foot-9 Davis, averaging nine rebounds and 8.6 points, gives the Bulls a veteran inside presence.
Williams also will be a steadying veteran influence. Nicknamed "Junkyard Dog," he's averaging 5.1 points and 8.5 rebounds a game.
Rose, a small forward in his 10th NBA season, is averaging 13.3 points - third best on the team - but has shot just 38 percent from the field this season.
Marshall will bolster Toronto's defense, and he can score, too. He's averaging 8.7 points and 6.2 rebounds while shooting 41.9 percent from the floor.
Monday's University Daily Kansan contained an error. In the article "Tangerine bound," it was reported that Kansas played Brigham Young in the 1995 Aloha Bowl. The Jayhawks played UCLA in 1995, and BYU in 1992.
It also stated that Texas Tech lost in last year's Tangerine Bowl. Texas Tech defeated Clemson 55-15.
I heard someone on ESPN call the Kansas football team the Fighting Manginos. That is pretty cool.
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3 Fort Hays football players, student charged with murder
HAYS — Prosecutors yesterday charged three Fort Hays State University football players and a fourth man in the beating death of another student last month.
Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline and Ellis County Attorney Tom Drees charged three football players — Bradley Deary, a 21-year-old junior from Smithville, Texas; Luis Llamas, 23, a senior from San Diego; and Christopher Ross, 19, a freshman from Wylie, Texas — and Fort Hays student Jaime Lopez III, 23, a senior from Chula Vista, Calif., with second-degree murder.
All four are accused of killing Clint Johnson, 18, of Healy, a freshman business major who was beaten in a Nov. 13 fight at an apartment complex north of the campus. Johnson died two days later at a Wichita hospital.
Deary, Llamas, Ross and Lopez were being held yesterday in the Ellis County Jail on $50,000 bond. If convicted, they face between nine and 41 years in prison.
Assistant Attorney General Stephen Maxwell will prosecute the case with Drees.
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Romance is on the menu for you this year, especially if you get your place fixed up first. Don't procrastinate — you'll soon see why. You'll have tons more fun the latter part of the year if you do all the major rearranging early on.
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Today is an 8.
If you can keep your head down just a little while longer, you'll soon have the opportunity and the energy to advance. Don't assume that your commanding officer is a jerk. He or she is smarter than you think.
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Today is a7.
You know how important it is to do what you said you'd do. You're a person who hardly ever lets a stack of stuff build up. It may have happened recently, however. Find your shovel and get to work.
Gemini (May 21-June 21)
Today is a 6.
It's best to proceed with caution until conditions become more stable. Your ruling planet, Mercury, is going into Capricorn. For the next few weeks you'll find it easier to think about investments, insurance and financial planning. Get matters resolved.
Cancer (June 22-July 22)
Today is a 6.
You're going to be asked some tough questions soon, but you can emerge triumphant. Your trick? Get the answers you'll need right now, by asking the people who know.
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Today is an 8.
Even with a recent setback, your enthusiasm hasn't dampened. You'd better pay attention to business, however. It's important.
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Don't offer your opinions unless asked. You're more likely to be heard that way. You'll find it much easier to express your love soon. Make a date.
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Today is a 7.
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You're learning rapidly, and that's making you look good in the eyes of others. Better not get cocky, though. You still could make a mistake.
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Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb.18) Today is a7.
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Joey Berlin jberlin@kansan.com
There's something bittersweet about the Kansas football team earning a bid to the Tangerine Bowl with a 6-6 record. The Jayhawks are in the postseason for the first time since 1995, which is cause for celebration. But there's also a feeling that the program's resurgence can't rise too high above this point—and that's not the Jayhawks' fault.
Playoffs would aid Jayhawks' title shot
It's the fault of college football's governing forces, which refuse to install any type of playoff system to allow up-and-coming programs a shot to win a national championship. Until that happens, Kansas likely will never get the opportunity to become a national power in football.
When I say "national power," I don't mean the Kansas State-type, where you lose two or three times, earn the occasional invitation to a Bowl Championship Series bowl and be happy with finishing sixth or seventh in the country. I'm talking about a real, Miami-type national power, where competing for a spot in the BCS title game is expected every single year.
Kansas has virtually no opportunity at winning a national title because doing so is almost impossible for all but a handful of programs.
Some playoff systems, such as in the NBA and NHL, cheapen the postseason spectacle by letting too many teams in. The BCS system is too exclusive, allowing only the top two teams in the country, as ranked by a complex computer system, to get a shot at the championship.
So what does that make the other 27 bowl games? Essentially, those games are college football's version of the NIT. The teams ultimately in contention for the title game vary little from season to season.
This year, Oklahoma is expected to win the national championship; the Sooners' last title came three years ago. Last year, perennial power Ohio State won the title; the Buckeyes were an underdog in the title game because they were playing Miami, the previous year's champion. Miami earned its title by beating Nebraska, which won three titles during the '90s. And people complain that Major League Baseball doesn't have any parity.
While the NCAA basketball tournament routinely provides fans with Cinderella teams that make deep runs in the postseason, such as Butler and Southern Illinois, college football rarely gives us any surprises. The contenders for the national championship are usually predictable. College football almost never has a Butler or Southern Illinois.
As the Kansas men's basketball team plays each year with the national championship in its sights, Jayhawk football fights merely for respect and some level of national recognition. Even as that goal is slowly being achieved, there's a sense that the most coach Mark Mangino and his crew can hope for is to be one of those teams that routinely lands in one of the NIT bowls.
A 16-team playoff, played out during December, could change all that. Top five teams, such as this year's Louisiana State team, would get the shot to beat Oklahoma or USC that they deserve. Teams that found their way into the top 15 with soft schedules, such as TCU, would get the opportunity to prove they can play with the big dogs. And theoretically, up-and-comers like Kansas would have an opportunity to make a postseason run.
Maybe someday, college football will see how much it has to gain, in both national interest and parity, from an annual playoff tournament. Until then, competing for a national championship, rather than just a bowl appearance, will never be expected at Kansas, and chances are it will never become a realistic goal. For all the work Mangino, his staff and his players have put in to revive this program, that's a shame.
Borin is a Leawood senior in journalism
Kansas 85, Texas Christian 66
No.1'Hawks defeat Frogs
By Doyle Murphy
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FORT WORTH, Texas — It's been two years since he left Kansas, but Texas Christian University coach Neil Dougherty is still learning from the program.
Playing against their former assistant coach for the first time since he accepted the coaching position at TCU in 2002, the Jayhawks handed Dougherty at 85-66 defeat last night and a lesson in second-half basketball.
Ranked the No. 1 college basketball team earlier in the day, the Jayhawks struggled midway through the first half. After gaining a 19-11 advantage on a bucket from junior guard Keith Langford, Kansas suffered a 9-1 TCU run before senior forward Bryant Nash hammered an alley-oop pass from sophomore guard Jeff Hawkins through the hoop. But neither that dunk nor another by Nash on nearly the same play later in the half could intimidate the Horned Frogs.
Led by 12 first-half points from junior guard Corey Santee, TCU (1-2) battled to within three points with 55 seconds to play in the half. A buzzer-beater by sophomore forward Chudi Chinzee that cut the Jayhawks' (3-0) lead to one point, appeared to give TCU momentum at the half. But Langford didn't think so.
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Moments later he tossed in a pair of free throws to give Kansas a 43-14 lead. The Jayhawks would not trail the rest of the game; Langford wouldn't let them. Playing in front of nearly 50 friends and family members, the Fort Worth native scored 17 points in the second half and finished with a game-high 24 points.
"It's over," he told a group of hecklers before play began again.
His performance was contagious. Filling in for injured junior guard Mike Lee, J.R. Giddens and Hawkins each had career-high point totals. Giddens, a freshman guard making his first start at Kansas, scored 12 points on 5-7 shooting, including a dunk off a lob from Langford. Hawkins became the three-point threat the Jayhawks' had missed in their first two games, hitting 5-7 from behind the arc and scoring 19 points.
"Those were unsung heroes," Kansas coach Bill Self said.
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David Padgett, freshman center,
battled against Art Pierce, freshman
forward, during the first half of last
night's game in Fort Worth, Texas. The
Jayhawks lead 39-38 at the half, but
they rallied to defeat the Horned Frogs
85-66.
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HEARD on the hill
What do you think about the Kansas men's basketball team receiving the No.1 ranking?
YOU ARE WELCOME
Drew Alingh Leawood freshman
Erin Friend Wichita sophomore
"I think it's super. Yea for them!"
"I think it's good. They'll probably get better over the season. They have good defense from coach Self. The young players like Giddens and Padgett their athleticism is going to help out a lot."
PETER BROWN
Matt Bliss
Wichita
sophomore
"It'is awesome that we got a No.1 ranking without Roy. We have an awesome team and they're coming together."
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"I think that's
Stefanie
Hayes-Murphy
Littleton,
Colo.,
freshman
"I think that's pretty awesome, especially since no one thought they would be able to do it again with a new coach and losing valuable players last year."
PETER E. BROWN
Tiffany Henke
Downs
freshman
"To show that we can win under Bill Self is totally awesome."
— Compiled by Nikki Nugent
Sizing up the quarterbacks
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These QBs could be the biggest match-up in the Tangerine Bowl, here's how they break down
Philip Rivers 6-foot-5, 240 pounds Senior, Athens, Ala.
Key Stats — Rivers has completed 311 of 438 passes, or is 71 percent. That ranks first in the nation. He is one of two quarterbacks, along with Texas Tech's B.J. Symons, to throw for more than 4,000 yards this season. Rivers tossed a career-high 29 touchdowns compared to just seven interceptions this season. Most impressively, he is second in the nation with a passer efficiency rating of 166.7. Yeah, Rivers is pretty good.
Accomplishments — The list of Rivers' feats in four years with the Wolfpack reads like that of a seasoned NFL veteran. Not only is he the school's all-time leader in passing and total offense, but he also owns those same records in the ACC conference as well. Rivers has started all 48 games for the Wolfpack over the past four seasons, throwing for over 13,000 yards and 107 touchdowns. And that's just scratching the surface.
Old School — Rivers is by no means the mold of a Generation-X quarterback who can make plays with his feet. Of Rivers' 107 career touchdowns, 17 have come on the ground, but he is not mobile. In his
He has led North Carolina State to a bowl game each of his four seasons as starter, and in the first three, he was named the game's offensive MVP in each contest. Rivers was the preseason Heisman Trophy favorite, and is a finalist this year for the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, given to the nation's top senior quarterback.
Bill Whittemore
6-foot, 205 pounds
Senior, Brentwood, Tenn.
Key Stats - Despite missing three and a half games with a shoulder injury, Whittemore has remained the sixth-highest rated passer in the nation with 163.84 passer efficiency rating.
Whittemore has only been intercepted four times this season compared to 16 touchdown tosses.
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Accomplishments — When compared with other top quarterbacks, Whittemore's numbers are not eye-popping, but in Kansas standards, they're out of this world. Whittemore's 16 touchdown passes are the single-season Kansas record, and his 47 touchdowns in just two seasons for are one behind the all-time Kansas record of 48, held by Chip Hilleary (1989-92). Whittemore was the Big 12 Offensive Newcomer of the Year as a junior in 2002. In two seasons, his 4,807 total yards rank fifth in school history in terms of total offense.
It's Just Something About Him — No one can quite explain it or stick a finger on it, but
SEE WHITTEMORE ON PAGE 8A
TALK TO SPORTS: Contact JJ Hensley and Shane Mettlen at SPORTS@KANSAN.COM
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the newspaper of the greek community
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index
the Oracle STAFF
VP of Public Relations
Billy Santoro
Laura Dakhil
Editor in Chief
Sara Garlick
Assistant Editor
Allison Viola
Writing Editor
Ben Cohen
Page Editor
Quinn Bogdan
Photo Editors
Bethany McCoy
Feature Writers
Kelly Rifenbark
Jess Sherrets
News Writers
Chris Kaufman
Mindy Osborne
Morgan Wallace
Ashley Withers
Opinion Writers
Thomas Stern
Amy Sullivan
Page Designers
Jenny Bartlett
Photographers
Adam Argetsinger
Ashley Smith
endar and Acknowledgments
Elaina Cascone
Hollywood Greeks
Ronnie Huston
The Oracle is a greek publication to promote awareness about greek life to all members of the University of Kansas community. The Oracle strives to promote the positive effects of all IFC, PHA and NPHC chapters on campus.
Any questions, comments, or story ideas can be directed to Sara Garlick at seggy@ku.edu
on the cover: Sigma Phi Epsilon gets into the Holiday spirit. Photo contributed by Laura Johnson
a look inside...
rock chalk:
Are you in or
out?
Greek chapters prepare for
fundraiser for United Way.
pg 6&7
JOUSINET
journey of hope: Brothers helping one another The men of Pi Kappa Phi bike across America to help Charity
pg 8
greek & chapter in the spotlight: This month it's Jared Gab, Jasmine Sullivan, and Delta Chi pg 11
HURST HALL
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Check Yourself before You Reck Yourself Awareness and Provent
The second annual "Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself" program was held on Monday November 3rd in Budig 120 Auditorium. The program was geared towards educating new members in the greek community about alcohol awareness, drunk driving,and the consequences of alcohol consumption.
Representatives from Watkins Memorial Health Center, the KU Police Department, KU Legal Services, IFC and Panhellenic, and members of the greek community all attended the event to inform students of the risks involved with drinking.
"The program works towards showing the down sides of drinking and how to be safe if you make the decision to go ahead and do so." said Kellen Duryea the IFC appointed GAMMA (Greeks Advocating the Mature Management of Alcohol) Officer. "I have a greater respect for people who work towards the goal of alcohol awareness."
Duryea worked with the Panhellenic Association appointed GAMMA Officer Mollie Asrat, the IFC Vice President for Risk
Management Michael Dalbom, and Panhellenic Association Vice President for Risk Management Katie Crnkovich who together
story by chris kaufman
I have a greater respect for people who work towards the goal of alcohol awareness.
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Kellen Duryea
coordinated the event.
"I felt it was a unique way of showing the consequences of drunk driving." Asrat said. "It was different being on the other side of it and seeing things from the KUPD and KU legal services perspectives."
Prominent and respected leaders in the greek community were asked to volunteer to participate in the program by drinking alcohol in a controlled environment in order to provide actual proof of what can happen while under the influence. They were asked by the KUPD to perform sobriety tests identical to those given to suspected drunk drivers. These tests included following a pen with their eyes, walking in a straight line heel to toe, reciting the alphabet, and balance tests.
The volunteers were given a physical by Dr. Myra Strother, Watkins Health Center Chief of Staff, who then determined how much each participant would consume and of what type. Participants drank either only beer, only mixed drinks, or both. They were monitored by the KUPD and Dr. Strother throughout the process.
Andrew Wymore of Sigma Alpha Epsilon was a volunteer in the program who consumed nine drinks, both beer and mixed. "The educational program provided real life examples of how alcohol affects you. It provided to the audience in living color what happens when you are intoxicated," Wymore said.
"My opinion of drunk driving hasn't changed because I don't drink and drive, but it really showed the new members the negative effects of doing so," said Steven Meyer member of Delta Chi who volunteered to participate. "I have never been put through those tests so it was interesting to see how I would respond. I definitely did not pass."
After the event the volunteers were escorted by the KUPD, and GAMMA Officers to Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity where they were monitored until they recorded a .02 blood alcohol level. Participants had to pledge to not drink twenty-four hours before or after the program
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Steven Meyer
legal services also attended to provide information what options were available to someone caught drinking and driving. They discussed the costs of receiving both a DUI and an MIP.
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news
Order of Omega Volunteers
story by ashley withers
"Order of Omega is an honor society based on academics, leadership and service," Ryan Voth Vice President of Programming explained.
Order of Omega is an Academic and leadership Honors Society for people within the Greek community who are in the top three percent of all Greeks. To become a member of the honor society, Danni Hake Vice President of Membership explained that juniors and seniors are asked to apply at the end of September each year. And, near the end of the semester, applicants are notified if they were accepted or not. The new initiates are also recognized at Greek Recognition night.
To be accepted, applicants are assessed in the areas of chapter involvement, Greek community involvement, campus activities, community service, GPA, honors and awards, and each applicant is asked to write a personal statement as well.
"Our main goal is to acknowledge the highest academic percentile within the Greek community," said president, Leslie Lukens.
She also explained that service is among one of their top goals as well.
"Service more than anything, demonstrates a connection to the community. Our aim is to promote altruistic behavior by our members," said Voth.
Following the initiation of new members, all current members participate in an annual community service project. Voth, as the Vice President of Programming, is in charge of planning service projects like this one. This year as was done last year, Order of Omega will be assisting the Center for Community Outreach and Mentors in the Lives of Kids or MILK,as it is known to many, with their holiday party. The party benefits the Boys and
Girls Club of Douglas County.
"Prior to the party we will be wrapping gifts donated by various organizations, which will be given out during the party. We are in the process of planning another service project for the spring semester too." said Voth.
"Due to a bit of chaos last year because of too many kids in a small space, the Boys and Girls Club will be showing up in shifts instead of all at once," explained Voth.
This year's holiday party will be held on December 3 from two until six in the Union Ballroom.
Flag Football the Championship story by kelly rifenbark
"They are the best teams from their schools," Green said. "It was interesting
On November 21 and 22, two teams went to the American Collegiate Intramural Flag Football Regional Championships. The games were hosted by the University of Nebraska Campus Recreation.
The Regional Championships have representatives from nine different states including Kansas and Missouri. Ashlee Green, sophomore from Alpha Chi Omega, enjoyed meeting the other teams.
Alpha Chi Omega returned for a second year to represent the University of Kansas. Alpha Chi Omega is coached by Danny Williams and Morgan Ribordy.
Julie Brown, a junior of Alpha Chi Omega, felt that the regional play was a really good experience.
"It's like playing on a whole new level" Brown said. "It's much more competitive because we have to follow stricter rules."
to compare them to the KU teams."
Another aspect of the Regional Championship was supporting the University. Although there were only two greek teams from the University of Kansas, the teams were able to support other representatives from the University.
"You bond with the other teams," said Megan Meyers, Alpha Chi Omega senior.
Delta Delta Delta also returned for a third year and are coached by Brian Horn and Kevin Kenny.
Danielle Tripp, a Delta Delta Delta junior, agreed that the tournament was a great way to support other KU teams.
"There are teams from all over," Tripp said."It was just great to see other KU teams such as coed."
The tournament is set up into pool play the first day and the teams that win out of their pool move on to the second day. The second day is a single elimina-
AXQ
photo contributed by julie brown
tion.
Alpha Chi Omega made it into the second day, but unfortunately Delta Delta Delta was eliminated on Saturday.
Although they were eliminated on day one, they still felt the weekend tournament was worth it.
"It was a great experience," Tripp said. "It was really competitive, but also really fun."
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Greeks giving to the Community during the HOLIDAYS
story by morgan wallace
photo by ashley smith
Local children went Trick-or-Treating with the help of sorority and fraternity members.
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Giving back to the community is always an integral part of Greek life especially during the holidays. As the season nears, more help is needed among the less fortunate, and there are many opportunities for students to get involved and help throughout Lawrence.
This Holiday spirit continues all year long. During the Halloween season, members of sororities and fraternities participated in local functions to ulitmately benefit the children. Some of the nursing homes allowed Trick-or-Treaters to collect candy in a safe environment. This outreach benefitted not only the children who participated, but the nursing home residents, who were reminded of their grandchildren when they saw the smiling faces on the gobblins and fairy princesses. This community service efforts extend throughout the Thanksgiving and Winter Holiday season.
The Roger Hill Volunteer Center, as a part of United Way of Douglas County. Inc., recently distributed a brochure listing many ways to "make someone's holiday season especially bright." Among the list are organizations collecting Christmas presents as the season nears.
Adopt-A-Child is taking gifts such as "clothing, CDs, electronic items books or school supplies." Adopt-A Family and Adopt A Grandparent are
also taking much needed Christmas gifts for less fortunate families and Mother to Mother is in need of "small toys for boys and girls."
The women of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc. are taking part in the Adopt A Family program from December 1-11.
"We'll have a table set up weekdays in the Kansas Union lobby for donations," said the chapter's president, Candace Haines.
Other organizations throughout Douglas county are taking donations of winter clothing as it starts to get colder.
The Community Drop In Center needs donations of "gloves, socks, knit hats, blankets and coats," according to the Roger Hill Volunteer center.
"We are collecting donations of winter clothing for the children at the Brook Creek Learning Center, a daycare for underprivileged children (ages infant-5) in the Lawrence Community" said Kappa Delta president Amy Waldron. "We are going to donate them as early Christmas presents for the children."
The women of Kappa Delta will also be collecting similar donations during the month of December.
Donating is an essential part of helping the community, but there are many other ways to help. One such way is through the Holiday Shop of the
Lawrence Arts Center, taking place December 12-13.
According to the program's coordinator, Kelly Randall, students can "dress up as elves and help kids shop for Christmas gifts for their friends and families."
Volunteers will help the children shop in set-up stores filled with donated gifts throughout the Lawrence Arts Center. Interested students can call Randall at 843-2072.
The Christmas Toy Shop of the Salvation Army is a similar community project. Volunteers are needed
December 8-12 to assist kids in shopping from December 15-17. Students interested should call 843- 4188.
Numerous other opportunities for volunteer involvement lie within community holiday meals. The Salvation Army's "Holiday Banquet for the Homeless" will be served December 3, and Jubilee Café is constantly looking for volunteers between the hours of 6am and 9pm especially during the holidays, when giving back to the community is more important than ever.
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rock chalk
left: - Andy Kim and Zach Smith rejoice after the outcome of In and Out below: - The women of Alpha Chi Omage smile at the good news. bottom: - Meg McCollister, Sigma Kappa, comforts a fellow sister after hearing Sigma Kappa and Kappa Sigma were not in Rock Chalk Revue.
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story by mindy osborne
ovember 24th has already passed and it brought with it a flurry of exultant joys as well as heavy sighs depending on exactly where you were that right.
Yes, that was the night of the annual In/Out Party for Rock Chalk Review, the evening when living organizations find out whether they attained a coveted spot which is slated to perform at the Lied Center in the spring in order to raise money for the United Way. So after all of the folders have been turned in and interviews completed, there always remains one question; Why did (or didn't) so and so get in?
The question itself is deceptively easy and has many theories behind it. One of which is the "curse/good luck theory. Like any competition that has been held for 50 plus years, Rock Chalk Review has had its share of dynasties' and "slumps." Examples from more recent year's would include the men of Sigma Phi Epsilon as well as Phi Delta Theta who have participated for many years in a row. Ramsey Mohsen, Springfield, Mo. junior, and Phi Delt Rock Chalk Director, said between 1992 and 2002 their chapter had been in Rock Chalk until last year when they were paired with Kappa Alpha Theta. On the other end of the spectrum are chapters that had not been in Rock Chalk despite repeated efforts. Chi Omega is one example when before 2000, it had been 11 years since they competed. They would call it the 'Curse of Chi O' but really I just don't think they (Chi Omega) took it too seriously. Elizabeth Bernett; one of Chi Omega's directors
A more realistic answer to the question is commitment. Many of the requirements for submission into the show revolve around participation and dedication to the cause from all members. This is especially true for the community service events. Two occasions, Karaoke night and a Duck Hunt, allowed students to help out their chapter and putting on Rock Chalk, Jacquelyn Roemeling, Witchita sophomore, participated in both and said. Both of the events were really good ideas. By design they help people get involved with other groups and have fun together while also helping out the cause. Karaoke was held at the Hawk and cover charge was donated to the production of Rock Chalk. The Duck Hunt was located between Fraser Hall.
and Wescoe with participants competing to find the ducks. The entry fee was $80 and also went toward production. One incentive included in both events was attendance from each chapter. The one with the attending would receive priority on dressing rooms way the community service events are set up wher ing rooms are awarded to the most participants is good motivation. When you have a dressing room your two chapters makes it more intimate and enj said Ramsey.
Yet another answer would tell you that professor and originality are key factors. The Rock Chalk direct from each chapter are in charge of turning in a major plan of what they would like their show to look like panel of judges. However, the format in which this must be submitted has a lot of rules and restriction CD recording must be handed in with three songs have the lyrics changed to fit the theme of the show one original song. A notebook must also be turned includes a script, plot summary, character sketches, lyrics and set design among other things addition, all of the materials must be colored by his Jordan Garcia, Wichita sophomore and Beta Theta Chalk director, said. "It is important that the note look good. I think judges can see if you have put work into them and made it original as you can. In professional, that shows that we care and want to lot in Rock Chalk."
So perhaps it is the curse/good luck theory. Or commitment must be shown. Or even originality. M likely it is all three. Who is to say? Well, apparent panel of thirteen anonymous judges who are some affiliated with the arts in the Lawrence community Whatever tickles their fancy gets into Rock Chalk At any rate the exact solution to the question might always remain a mystery. According to Garcia. Every chapter knows that there is no sure fire way or 10 guarantee that you will get in no matter what. Thus the way it is.
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features
Journey of Hope
story by sara garlick
Journey On
Brothers helping one another
another
photo contributed by adam argetsinger
photo contributed by adam argetsinger
above: - Weather did not stop the event. The men continued to help Push America.
left: - Pi Kappa Phi men from around the country, bike from California toWashington, D.C. for Charity.
magine 70 men, cycling from California to Washington D.C. in 63 days. This is exactly what the men of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity did this past summer from June 2nd to August 4th. This annual event for Push America raises funds and awareness on behalf of people with disabilities.
Two teams of 35 men, set for the approxiamently 4,000 mile bike ride, leave the from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco heading for the Capitol Building n Washington, D.C. These extraordinary band of brothers pedal through the summer heat of the desert towards a greater goal. This commitment certainly requires a drive to preform, the determination to finish, the ever-persistant encouragement to fellow brothers, and the loyalty and dedication to those people with disabilities that The Journey of Hope strives to reach out to.
The KU chapter of Pi Kappa Phi is
proud to have brothers who have participated in such an event in years past. In the summer of 2002: David Buchanan, of Wichita; Jeffery Serbus and Wes O'Neal, of Lawrence; Adam Heasley, of Overland Park; Jared Leonard, of Kansas City, KS; and Jared Harpole, of Bartlesville, OK sacrificed their summers to be a part of once in a lifetime opportunity. Buchanan, Serbus, and Heasley rode were on the North team with 32 other brothers for 3,922 miles, while their KU brethen travelled 4,120 miles. Within the 63 days and approximately 4,000 miles, the cyclists encountered much personal discoveries about themselves. In The Journey of Hope program, a perfect quote describes the dedication put forth by these men. "Where most people would want to call it quits after a 70-mile ride, the Journey of Hope team's day just begins."
When asked how the team members ate and slept, Jared Harpole replied "There were check points along the way where local sponsors bought us meals, and we generally slept in high school gymnaisums or the occasional hotels."
Major Corporations supplied sponsorship as well. Verizon Wireless provided the Wireless Communication equipment, and Bar CLIF was the Official Energy Bar for the event. Other Corporate Sponsors were: Saturn, KRG Capital, Bank of America, Case Logic, Yakima, and the Diabetic and Respiratory Supply of USA.
If you would like to find out more information on Push America, a NonProfit organization sponsored by Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity, the web address is: http://www.pushamerica.org
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Turnover: with it comes new leaders
story by jess
sherrets
just THE facts
- Location of Turnover:
Phi Delta Theta
Fraternity
- Outgoing Presidents: Shelby Gigous and Egan Wagner
- Incoming Presidents: Morgan McBee and Billy Santoro
- Term Length:
From November to November
November 20, 2003 will mark the annual passing of the gavel, a special tradition for the annual turnover ceremony of Panhellenic and Interfraternity Council executive boards. At this time all incoming officers will be welcomed by outgoing officers into the executive council board.
During this ceremony outgoing officers as well as Panhellenic and IFC advisors will give advice to their counterparts, and reflect on a year of success and hard work which will conclude the transitioning of officer installation. Following, the incoming officers will inform others of their goals and ideas for the upcoming year. One of the main goals this year will be to strengthen relations with NPHC. The ceremony will conclude with speeches from incoming presidents Morgan McBee and Billy Santoro, with outgoing presidents Shelby Gigous and Egan Wagner.
Turnover is the result of over a month long process for Panhellenic, resulting from applications and a lengthy interview process. IFC has somewhat of a similar system, although the election process consists of nominations from IFC meetings and a speech must be prepared the night of IFC elections.
In order to apply to be on the executive board for either organization, one was required to have a GPA of a 2.5 or higher, have a minimum amount of credit hours and have previous individual leadership as well as passion for fraternity and
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photo by ashley smith
Outgoing president, Shelby Gigous, hands over the gavel to incoming president, Morgan McBee. sorority life. There is no limit to how many terms one may have on IFC or Panhellenic executive board, however up until this year there has been a limit in Panhellenic bylaws that stated only one woman from each chapter may be represented on the board. This bylaw was suspended this year in order to allow two Delta Gamma women to serve during the same term.
The incoming officers are very excited and hope for a great year! Congratulations to all the men and woman for all your hard work,and good luck in the upcoming year.
Tony Danza
Sam Klien
Sigma Alpha
Epsilon
Reese Witherspoon
in "Sweet Home
Alabama"
Amy Appleyard
Kappa Kappa
Gamma
HOLLYWOOD
GREEKS
by ronnie
huston
Leigh Radcliffe
Kappa Delta
Reese Witherspoon
in "Little Nicky"
If you know someone who would looks like a Hollywood Star,
please summit their name to ronnie: nwster316@yahoo.com
Leigh Radcliffe
Kappa Delta
Reese Witherspoon
in "Little Nicky"
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opinion
the Real Greeks
opinion by amy sulivan
Far too often people think that Greeks are only interested in socializing and partying. This misconception is unfortunate because on a daily basis Greeks are giving back to the community. Greeks deserve recognition for the hard work and service given to the Lawrence community.
Panhellenic Association and Interfraternity Council offer programs such as Rock Chalk Revue, House that Greeks Built, the Blood Drive, and Natural Ties. Rock Chalk Revue is a musical production put on by Greek chapters which on average raises around $50,000 for United Way.
Another large contribution to the community is the House that Greeks Built which is planned for every other year. Greeks raise about $40,000 and come together to build a home for Habitat For Humanity.
The Blood Drive, which just recently took place on campus in October, was co-sponsored by PHA and IFC. It raised 951 pints of blood to distribute throughout the country.
Among all of the community service programs, Natural Ties merges commitment
and fun with its weekly activities. The program consists of Greek members spending time with mentally challenged citizens of Lawrence every Wednesday. Some of the activities include outings to pumpkin patches, dinner and games at Mr.Gatti's bowling, picnics, dances at The Ranch,and the list of exciting events continue.
PHA and IFC provide various community service opportunities for Greek members to get involved with the Lawrence community.
Individual chapters support national and local organizations by holding philanthropy events each semester. Kappa Alpha Theta sorority's philanthropy is the "Sun Run" which supports Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA). This organization involves adults over 21 who represent and become a voice in the courts for children who have problems at home. The adult advocate mentors the child and acts as an outlet for the child in and out of the court system. This year, well over 300 people registered for the 20th annual race. Over $8,000 was donated to CASA.
Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity sponsors a national philanthropy at KU called Push
America. This event raises around $15,000 for people with disabilities. On average, three members of Pi Kappa Phi ride bikes across the nation—beginning their journey in San Francisco, Calif. to the District of Columbia. Along their trip, the men spend time at charities and contribute monetary donations.
All chapters' encourage their members to fulfill community service hours. Kappa Alpha Theta suggests that their members complete around thirteen hours per year in service.
"It's not mandatory but it is an expectation and something we want to do," Kelly Anderson. Kappa Alpha Theta member said.
Overall, it is evident that Greek members on our campus are continuously devoting their time, effort, and funds to both local and national charities. It is now our job to change the misconception that fraternities and sororities spend their free time partying. Take the time today and volunteer at a local charity.
Free For Greek Bash
opinion by thomas stern
The Free For All in the University Daily Kansan has been an outlet for recent Greek slander. Comments like, "Greeks travel in packs," and "all fraternity guys wear sandals," have been too common. Most community members don't take these comments to heart, but some have found them offensive. What action should irritated members of our community take?
Community service is the best ingredient in the Greek system. Anyone
The answer is none. By responding to these immature and ignorant comments we would only further divide the student body. Greeks are already portrayed in a negative light, further negative response would only further hurt our reputation. There is action we can take in order to help to promote our reputation.
can throw parties and make clever tshirts,but our community service is what divides us in a positive light.I don't believe that we should look down on others for not assisting our community, but we can surely take pride in it.
Lets respond to Greek slander by proving why we are a proud community. Embrace community service programs and turn your other cheek to the misunderstood. Our commitment to bettering the Lawrence community proves our stature. Not the Free For All.
Corrections to Last Issue:
The Oracle incorrectly stated the female recipient of the ExCEL award. The actual winner was Casey Collier of Delta Gamma.
Congradulations Casey!
Any corrections can be sent to Sara at seggy@ku.edu
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Greeks in the SPOTLIGHT
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story by sara garlick
Two Greeks and one lucky chpater are chosen at random, and I mean completely random (i.e. wherever the pen drops in the phone book random) to be highlighted in each issue of The Oracle. These quick snapshots allow people to get to know one another, and maybe even find a new friend.
Facts:
Jared Gab
Triangle
Hometown: Castle Rock, CO
Class (year): Sophomore
Major: Architecture
Future Plans: Do Acoustical Design
Hobbies: Camping and skiing
One thing I can't live without? My Cello
Girlfriend: Yes
Favs:
Food: Prime Rib
Movies: Oh Brother Where Art.Thou
Clothes: Nope
Color: "I really like gray tones."
Team: KL
Store: "I hate shopping, Wal-Mart has everything."
TV Show: Fraiser
Celeb Date: Penelope Cruz
Why Triangle?: "It's the only chapter I looked at. I liked the guys that were here, and the resources that were available to me."
Most Embarrassing moment: "I honestly can't think of a time that I was embarrassed."
Jasmine Sullivan Delta Gamma
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Facts:
Hometown: Overland Park
Class (year): Junior
Major: IGraphic Design and a minor in Art History
Future Plans: Work with a Graphic Design firm like Pixart or Disney
Hobbies:: Getting involve with everything,
and involved with Print Prototype
One thing I can't live without: Diet Coke
Boyfriend: No
Favs:
Food: "I love spaghetti."
Movies: Thomas Crown Affair
Clothes: Not Really
Color: Red
Store: Anthropology on the Plaza
TV Show: Friends, and Sex in the City
Accessory: Watch
Celeb Date: Ashton Kutcher
Why Delta Gamma?:"I felt at home and there's always smiles."
Most Embarrassing moment: "I did a wipe out because I was wearing my J Crew flip-flops and everyone saw."
CHAPTER IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Chapter: Kansas
Founded: Cornell University, NY on October 13, 1890
At KU: 1923
Address: 1254 West Campus Road
House Director: Mom Lillian Barker. "She has been the House Mom for 19 years, and this is her last year here at KU."
Colors: Red and Buff
Flower: White Carnation
National contact: http://www.deltachi.org/
Philanthropy: Brook Creek Learning Center
KU events: Annual Hawk Trot in the Spring, Bid Day Car Wash, Carnival for the Elementary Schools, and
Big Brothers Big Sisters with Gamma Phi Beta
Famous Delta Chi's: Forrest Hoglund - former CO of Enron Oil and Gas (KU), Tim Crown - CO of Insider.com (KU), Robert Todd Lincoln - son of President Lincoln and Secretary of War, Sam Johnson - US Representative (R) Texas, John Calhoun - VP of Quaker Oats, William Sessions - former director of the FBI, Jerry Dozier - VP of Merrill Lynch, Kevin Costner - actor, Ashton Kutcher - actor
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December
1 Sigma Lambda Gamma - Community Service Month
2 PHA and IFC meeting at 7pm
3 Delta Gamma - Christmas Decorating Party
Sigma Lambda Gamma - Media and Self Esteem Lecture @ the English Rm of the Kansas Union, 7pm
4 Beta Theta Pi - Alumni Mentor Dinner
5 Delta Gamma - Holiday Dinner
Delta Sigma Theta - Weekend
6 Delta Sigma Theta - Weekend Phi Kappa Psi - Christmas Buffet @ Phi Psi, 7pm
7 8 9 10 11 12 STOP DAY 13
14 15 FINALS 16 FINALS 17 FINALS 18 FINALS 19 FINALS Beta Theta Pi - Christmas Open House 20 WINTER BREAK
21 WINTER BREAK 22 WINTER BREAK 23 WINTER BREAK 24 WINTER BREAK 25 WINTER BREAK CHRISTMAS DAY 26 WINTER BREAK 27 WINTER BREAK
28 WINTER BREAK 29 WINTER BREAK 30 WITNER BREAK 31 WINTER BREAK NEW YEAR'S EVE
CONGRATULATIONS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- Ashley Cheatam, of Pi Beta Phi went to New York City for this past semester to intern as a graphic designer at Kate Spade.
- Welcome Incoming Panhellenic and Interfraternity Council Executive Officers, and thank you to the Outgoing Officers.
- Those chapters selected for 2003-2004 Rock Chalk Revue: Alpha Chi Omega and Lambda Chi Alpha, Chi Omega and Pi Kappa Phi Delta Delta Delta and Sigma Nu, Kappa Kappa Gamma and Phi Kappa Psi, and Pi Beta Phi and Phi Delta Theta
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SenEx upset with calendar The University Senate Executive Committee is concerned that the Women of KU calendar might misrepresent itself as being a product of the University of Kansas. PAGE 3A
How bazaar
The Arts and Crafts Bazaar has a diverse lot of goods
to sell today and tomorrow, from acrylic paintings to candy on wire hangers. PAGE 3A
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As the Kansas Volleyball team heads to California for its first NCAA tournament, a
Kansan sportswriter answers questions about NCAA volleyball play. PAGE12A
NC State has sticky fingers
North Carolina State is quickly becoming known as one of the premier wide receiver schools in the nation. PAGE 12A
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The Kansas women's club soccer team finished its season with a second place finish in the Sport Club National Championship. PAGE 7A
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Vol. 114 Issue No.70
wednesday, December 3, 2003
SenEx approves policy
Council responds to Wagle's demands for sex class policy
By Robert Perkins
rperkins@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The Senate Executive committee of University Council approved a policy statement about the use of controversial materials in classrooms.
Sen. Susan Wagle (R-Wichita) is about to get an answer about sexually explicit materials in classes, though it probably won't be the one she wanted.
The Council of Chief Academic Officers, or COCAO, drafted the statement in response to Wagle's amendment to House Bill 2444 that called for a policy
controlling the use of sexually explicit material in human sexuality classes.
COCAO's statement is little more than a rewriting of the 1970 Statement on Freedom and Responsibility by the American Association of University Professionals.
C. D. JONES
SenEx member Steve Shawl said.
The statement affirms a teacher's right to control the presentation of his or her subject matter, provided that this freedom is balanced with responsibility.
Persistent deviation from relevant subject matter is condemned, along with trying to force students to conform to a teacher's personal beliefs.
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The statement does not directly address issues such as
Wagle
pedophilia or sexual harassment, though Wailg's amendment did.
"If they want something substantially different, then we're in for a long fight,"
Ray Davis, president of SenEx, said.
Andy Knopp, student body president, summed up the general mood of the meeting when responding to a concern that the statement didn't address what Wagle wanted it to.
"Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer," he said. "It just seems funny to me because it seems like the exact opposite of what she wanted."
SenEx unanimously approved the policy statement.
Service with a smile
From here it will go to University Council on Thursday for approval.
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Sophomores Mallorie Hinemeyer, Gardner, Jill Pflumm (left), Shawnee, make posters for the Center for Community Outreach holiday party yesterday. They took part in the event to earn Kappa Kappa Gamma Rock Chalk community service hours.
KU FIT lacks students
By Danielle Hillix
dhillix@kansan.com
dhillix staff writer
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KU FIT needs to get pumped up.
The traditionally popular exercise classes offered by Recreation Services got a late start this year and attendance has been lagging, said Jill Urkoski, fitness director for with Rec Service.
KU FIT got a new home this semester with the opening of the Student Recreation Fitness Center. But the program's move-in was delayed for several weeks while construction of the aerobics room was completed.
The classes did start, with little fanfare, on Nov. 9. Rec Services decided to go ahead with KU FIT classes, but did not promote them.
Laurel Woodhouse, a KU FIT instructor and Overland Park senior, taught a new routine in Cardio Funk class yesterday. Cardio Funk is a hip-hop aerobics class with choreographed dancing to hip-hop music.
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"We didn't want to spend a ton of money on ads this late in the game," Urkoski said.
Instead of advertising around campus as the office had done in the past, Rec Services posted signs in the Recreation Center.
Mary Tabakin, KU FIT instructor, said that attendance at her classes had noticeably decreased. Twice, no one showed up for class.
Last spring,5,751 people attended KU FIT classes. Numbers from this semester have not been totaled, but the tally is down considerably, Urkoski said.
The strategy saved money, but cost the program participants.
"By mid-senester, people have a routine," said Tabakin, Germantown, Md., senior. "They're not as willing to try
something new, especially if they don't know about it."
The classes haven't been full, but Urkoski said she was not worried about the program's future.
Classes will start on time next year, Urkoski said, at the beginning of the spring semester.
"This semester, there are a lot of students who just didn't know we started," she said.
New this year are "Low Down" and "Band and Ball." Low Down focuses on lower-body resistance training. Band and Ball uses stability balls and bands for complete body toning.
year, all at various times throughout the week.
All of the classes are free for students but are limited to 50 participants per session.
KU FIT offers 18 different classes this -Edited by JJ Hensley
Costa Rica murder still affects programs
By Lindsay Hanson and Henry C. Jackson
lhanson@kansan.com,
hjackson@kansan.com
Kansan senior staff writers
MURDER
This was the first murder of a University student abroad. The summer program was days away from leaving for the
Editor's note: This is the third in a three-part series about the murder of Shannon Martin, a Topeka senior who was killed May 13, 2001, while completing research in Costa Rica.
As Carlin, dean of international programs and graduate dean, wrestled with her decision after Martin's murder in Costa Rica on May 13, 2001, she faced mitigating factors.
Within five days of Shannon Martin's death, Diana Carlin needed to decide Should the University of Kansas suspend its summer study abroad program in Golfito, Costa Rica?
Costa Rican port city. Would students be safe? There would also be administrative costs to canceling the program. Would the Institute of Tropical Studies, as it was known, survive if she suspended it? Even without these factors, there was the emotional toll of the University grieving for one of its own.
P. B. MONROE
Carlin
In Golfito, students already on KU's study abroad program were worried, too. The local director of the program, Oscar Quiros, hastily called a meeting with the students. Some of the students
Martin
didn't know the 23-year-old Topeka senior personally, because she had studied there a year earlier. She had returned to Costa Rica and was staying with her former host parents while gathering research for a biology thesis.
Mired with final exams, the students were given the opportunity to go home. None wanted to leave.
In Lawrence, Carlin and Susan Grombeck-Tedesco, director of KU study abroad, met with the provost.
Do you think the students will be safe? David Shulenburger asked.
Carlin told him that given what had happened, students' awareness would be heightened.
It's your call, the provost said.
If you can, the present decision to send a program to Golfinio shortly after Martin's murder, Carlin would later say, was the most difficult decision she'd ever had to make.
We'll continue the program, Carlin said, but we'll keep a close eye on it.
Two months later, the University announced that the Institute of Tropical Studies, the formal title of the Golfito
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Arrest, no leads in missing N.D. college student case
GRAND FORKS, N.D. — The arrest of a convicted rapist in the disappearance of a college student produced no immediate breakthrough in the search for the young woman yesterday, but the police chief vowed: "Dru, we will find you."
Alfonso Rodriguez Jr., 50, was arrested Monday night in nearby Crookston, Minn., and charged with kidnapping University of North Dakota student Dru Sijodin, 22. Sijodin has been missing since Nov. 22, when she left her job at the Victoria's Secret at a mall in Grand Forks.
Authorities would not say exactly how they connected Rodriguez to the case, though they said it is routine to look at sex offenders in the area when investigating such crimes.
Rodriguez has convictions for rape, attempted kidnapping and aggravated assault, and has used a weapon in at least one assault, according to the Minnesota Corrections Department.
Because of his record, Rodriguez was required to register as a predatory offender—the classification for those who are believed to pose the greatest risk of committing another sex crime.
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Automakers prepare to adopt improved safety standards
WASHINGTON The auto industry is adopting standards to improve the safety of vehicles in side-impact crashes over the next five years.
The Washington-based Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, which represents 10 automakers, plans to announce the commitment tomorrow and the standards are expected to be
implemented by 2009.
The Alliance and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, which is funded by insurers, promised to develop the voluntary standards in February in a letter to Dr. Jeffrey Runge, administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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Runge has said voluntary standards can bring safety enhancements to the market more quickly, since the government's regulatory process can require years.
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Kansas suicide numbers increase after decline
HUTCHINSON —The number of suicides in Kansas rose 16.5 percent in 2002 from the previous year, making it the second leading cause of death in the state behind traffic accidents, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment reported.
KDHE spokeswoman Sharon Watson said the number of suicides had fluctuated in the past five years.
Last year, 346 people committed suicide, compared with 297 in 2001 and 331 in 2000. In 1999, 298 people killed themselves; 328 committed suicide in 1998.
Specific causes for the increase in suicides aren't clear. But mental health specialists said external factors such as the economic downturn and the war in Iraq might have created additional stress.
The suicide rate has traditionally been higher for men. Of the 346 reported suicides in 2002, 286 were men; only 60 were women.In 2001,241 were men, and 56 were women.Figures for 2000 show that 274 men and 57 women committed suicide.
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New Student Orientation will offer an information session on how to join the 2003-2004 Orientation Assistant Team at 4 p.m. today at the Gridiron Room of the Burge Union. Applications are available in 213 Strong Hall or at www.orientation.ku.edu and are due by 5 p.m. on December 19. Contact New Student Orientation at 864-4270 or at orientation@ku.edu.
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- The EMU theater company will perform And Much of Madness, an adaptation of the works of Edgar Allen Poe at 8:30 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Tickets are $5 at the door. The play is directed by Todd Schwartz, and is collaboratively written by Andy Stowers, Gwethalyn Williams, Honey Hallock, Joel Reavis and Todd Schwartz.
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The ECM, 1204 Oread Ave., is sponsoring a University Forum from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. today. The title of the forum is Sacred Choices: Contraception and Abortion in Ten World Religions with lecturer Cynthia Weems, Minister of Metropolitan Avenue United Methodist Church in Kansas City. Weems will review how diverse religious traditions present their positions on contraceptives and abortion.
The Spencer Museum of Art is sponsoring a brief lunchtime talk on Teaching from Prints: The Legacy of John Talleur from 12:15 p.m. to 12:45 p.m. tomorrow in the Kress Gallery with curator Steve Goddard.
OAKS is having a brown bag lunch for non-traditional students from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. tomorrow at Alcove B, Level 3 of the Kansas Union.
KU Ballroom Dance Club is having Latin dancing lessons at 7 p.m. tomorrow at Hashinger Hall dance studio on the fourth floor. No partner or experience required.
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SenEx next in line to oppose 'Women of KU' calendar
By Joe Hartigan and Robert Perkins
jhartigan@kansan.com,
rperkins@kansan.com
Kansas staff writers
Once again, The Women of KU calendar is creating a controversy on campus.
The University Senate Executive Committee decided to draft a letter to Janet Murguia yesterday asking her to address the issue that the calendar might misrepresent itself as being a product of the University of Kansas.
SenEx members said that they didn't know what would come of the letter, but that they thought
Murguia, as executive vice chancellor of University Relations, could deal with the issue of potential misrepresentation.
Mark Ezell, associate professor of social welfare, and several other members of Sen Ex said they wanted to do something about it if they could.
Though the calendar is in no way connected with the University, it does contain pictures of the Jayhawk and is promoted on www.kusports.com, a Lawrence Journal-World Web site.
Murguia was not available for comment.
"I know that she will be very receptive to SenEx's thoughts on
this," said Lynn Bretz, director of University Relations.
She said Murgia was involved in working on the on The Women of Distinction calendar, a new calendar compiled by the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center to showcase the accomplishments of KU women.
Andy Knopn, student body president, advised SenEx against taking too much action on the issue.
He said that The Women of Distinction calendar was a better response.
waters with it any more."
"The more we talk about it, the more gets written about it," he said of The Women of KU calendar. "I don't want to muddy the
Ray Davis, SenEx president, said Kansas athletics director Lew Perkins contacted him about the possible misrepresentation of the University and the exploitation of women.
"Good for Lew for bringing it up and being concerned with the wellbeing of the students," Ezell said.
Perkins isn't the only member of the athletics department upset by the calendar.
Jim Marchiony, associate athletics director, said as long as the department had a say in the matter, The Women of KU calendar would no longer be allowed to be shot in University athletics facilities.
"No one in the athletic department is happy about that calendar," he said.
He said the biggest issue was the calendar's portrayal of women.
Marchiony said that the calendar used the term "KU" without permission and that the photos were taken in school facilities without permission.
"As people who care about women," Marchiony said, "We're not happy about anything that portrays women as objects."
The calendar is published by the World Company, which owns the Lawrence Journal-World and Sunflower-Broadband Newschannel 6.
Ralph Gage, general manager of the Lawrence-Journal World, said the athletics department was entitled to its opinion but defended the calendar.
"I think the calendar speaks for itself." Gage said.
The Jayhawk Bookstore, 1420 Crescent Rd., dropped its sponsorship of the calendar this year for reasons similar to those given by the athletics department.
Tony Retonde, manager of the store, said sponsorship was dropped because owner Bill Muggy did not approve of the cover.
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Union art bazaar offers unique crafts, paintings
Edited by Doyle Murphy and II Henslev
By Alex Hoffman
ahoffman@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The Arts and Crafts Bazaar held in the Kansas Union not only has jewelry and paintings, it has art good enough to eat.
Katie Dalton, Lawrence graduate student; Elizabeth Milam, Wichita junior; and Norma Tena, El Paso, Texas, sophomore, were getting creative with candy at their table yesterday. Using three sizes of wire hangers, they bent them into the shape of candy canes and wreaths. They then hand-tied 75 to 300 pieces of candy on each with ribbons, depending on the size.
Sang-Woo Kim, Seoul, South Korea, freshman, tried on a cubic zirconia earring yesterday at the Arts and Crafts Bazaar in the Kansas Union. The bazaar, which continues today and tomorrow, features seven booths with items ranging from exotic wood-turned corkscrews to candy cane door hangers.
by giving $10,000. tion a fair amount of researchin close to what I like."
"I'm not very crafty, so it's harder for me," Dalton said. "But I think they make it look pretty easy."
All three are representatives of a new student organization called Students for Bilingual Education. Their table will stay all three days of the bazaar, which is sponsored by the KU Memorial Unions Programs Department. It began yesterday on the fourth floor of the Union.
They want to sell about 70 of the candy creations to raise money to attend the National Association of
Bilingual Educators conference in Albuquerque. N.M.
Up to 12 artists will be in the Union on any given day, said Chandra Dunbar, program adviser for KU Memorial Unions. Besides students, other longtime artists with ties to the University of Kansas have registered tables for the event.
Celia Smith has been painting as her life's pursuit for more than 40 years. She is the wife of Robert Smith, professor emeritus of anthropology, and she specializes in acrylic painting on paper. One of her paintings on sale is a commissioned work entitled KU Stories, displayed on an easel next to her table.
She said her work was based on the early days of the University, when blue and gold were the campus colors instead of red and blue.
The painting is a collage of images with important people and symbols of the University of Kansas and of education. Toward the top of her painting is a burning bush, a symbol of the never-ending pursuit of knowledge. Examples of people represented in the piece include Amos Lawrence, the Boston merchant who helped start the University
Although she also has holiday cards of her original designs for sale, KU Stories is her biggest project. The painting took her five months to complete, not to men-
don a fair amount of researching.
"I thought, 'Oh, this is going to be impossible,'" Smith said. "But then I started thinking about it and reading, and then I found all of these subjects that were very
The bazaar continues from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and ends tomorrow at the same time.
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Commission considers limiting Wal-Mart's size
The Lawrence City Commission discussed items regarding the construction of a Wal-Mart at the corner of Sixth Street and Wakarusa Drive at last night's meeting. Commissioners extended a moratorium on building construction at that intersection and considered a plan that would limit the store size to 80,000 square feet. They referred the item to city staff for further research.
■ Lisa Patterson, city communications coordinator, presented the Lawrence City Commission with preparations for the sesquicentennial celebration. A parade will be held Sept. 18, 2004, in honor of Lawrence's 150th birthday.
Commissioners voted to sign a contract with Pepsi-Cola Bottlers, Inc. The company will be the exclusive supplier of non-alcoholic beverages for the Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department for five years.
Commissioners approved a site for the Grassy Verge Percent for Art project. The site will feature a sculpture and will be located on the south side of Sixth Street between Massachusetts and Vermont streets.
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Phi Kappa Phi All-academic honor society is proud to announce
new member initiates
Congratulations to the 2003 Phi Kappa Phi initiates, KU's Best!
Alumni Initiate
Congressman Dennis Moore, Third District of Kansas
School of Allied Health
Faculty Initiates
Diana B. Carlin
Donald D. Stull
Catherine Odell Bayer
Rosann Mae Blackmore
Kalen MaeAlpine Fisher
Erin Dean Frazier
Lindsay Gayle Kimball
Marey M. Martin
Kristen Renee Reinert
Mary Margaret Segebrecht
Kyanna M. Shelar
Kathie Anne Shump
School of Architecture and Urban Design Lisa Pool Ryan Simmons
School of Business
Kylene L Austin.
Justin Phillip Becker
Mary Amelia Brungardt
Linda Chae
Candace Michelle Chaney
Brent A Evans.
Ryan E.Gordon
Hile Deborah J.
Sarah Elizabeth Lintecum
Amanda M.Martin
Eric Wayne Modrell
Jessica Joy Nelson
Jennifer L. Rack
Nicole R. Schumacher
Mary Strickland
Kelly Renee Wilson
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Jennifer Kay Bambara
Kyle Alton Barnard
Todd Alan Barrett
Jacqueline L. Bates
Justin Robert Bond
Abra C. Bron
Peter David Buchanan
Nathan A. Carlson
Jennifer E. Carnagey
Travis Castle
Elizabeth Anne Chabin-Edens
Leah Cummings
Tracy Lyn Cunningham
Thomas B. Diehl
Neil Dunavin
Kelly Flentie
Elizabeth A. Franklin
Julie Elizabeth Gist
Anita J. Gray
Jan M. Guth
Sarah Ann Haldeman
Ashley M. Heintzelman
Suzanne M. Hilleary
Heather L. Hunt
Jason M. Huntington
Annie Maureen Ingham
Jamie Lynn Jones
John James Lammi
Ana M Luu
John K. Mackey
Luke Maese
Jacob Titus Maxfield
Emily Anne McProud
Steven E. Meyer
Allison Mezger
Adam C. Miles
Breanne J. Patton
Katharine Piller
Tenelle J. Porter
Cara Anne Rachals
Christina S. Stauffer
Susan M. Stephenson
Rachel Elisabeth Thomas
Lauren Tribby
Dyan Vogel
Laura Elizabeth Wille
Laura A. Winzenread
School of Education
Dorian Faye Amend
Melissa Marie Chandley
Cari Ann Davis
Sara Beth Goetz
Steve A. Gordon
Patricia A. Harrigan
Jennifer K. Kelley
Sara Jane Kelly
Jessica Ann Kimple
Kelli Dean Kurle
Aimee Nicole Riegel
Kristen Bagby Zucht
School of Engineering
Michael D. Adams
Nandish Chalishazar
Jamie Michelle Fransen
Lien Gong
Christopher E. Hullman
John Robert Igo
Jacob Imber
Lena Ireland
Jianxin Ji
Pradeep Kumar Kondamuri
Theresa LaFollette
Kristin Larson
Patrick Ryan Laufenburger
Will David Lindquist
Megan E. MacDonald
Aaron Paul Markham
Jennifer Joan Nandrea
Vijaya Chandran Ramasami
Junyi Sun
Christopher M. Taylor
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This is to the guy that broke into my apartment and stole all of my change: Thanks for leaving the really cool beer mug.
when I talk with my friends at the University of Kansas, most of them ask who is winning the race. But that is the wrong question to ask. The right question is: "Which candidate is best for the Democratic Party?"
So I am thinking about bringing the side
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when I talk with my friends at the University of Kansas, most of them ask who is winning the race. But that is the wrong question to ask. The right question is: "Which candidate is best for the Democratic Party?"
Pop Rocks and beer. That would be really sweet.
It is Monday night and I am drinking at 9 o'clock. I love college.
Is it a bad thing that when I come back from break that my dorm room smells really, really bad? Just a thought.
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What is that movie with the mannequin? Oh yeah, it was Mannequin.
The Free For All sucks and the Kansan sucks.
Hey, I am from Kansas and just because we don't get drunk on the farm and go two-stepping doesn't mean that we don't know how to party.
My friend cut the tip of my cat's tail off.
Should I call a K-State vet student and see if something is going to happen?
This is to the guy publicly urinating outside of Budig around 8 o'clock; So sorry to interrupt.
If I knew a man that took the male birth control that would be really hot.
To the people from Texas who say that people from Kansas don't know how to party; I don't know if anyone has ever been to Dallas but it sucks.
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In a crowded race where talk is cheap, Kerry best candidate for Democratic party
The field for the Democratic Presidential nominee seems to lack clarity as each candidate continually struggles to establish a strong sense of identity.
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A couple of weeks ago, James Carville said he would rather have a nominee whom he agreed with 75 percent of the time get 51 percent of the general election vote than a guy whom he agreed with 100 percent get 49 percent.
As Democrats, we need to stay focused. We need to stay focused on advancing the policy that we espouse. We need to stay focused on nominating a candidate who will appeal to the evergrowing Independents in America. We need a candidate for America. Even though that sounds like the "Dean for America" slogan, he couldn't be further from the ground on which we need to stand.
The Democrats are not going to win this election by following the Democratic Leadership Council to the right. We are going to win this election by being
After each party's base is mobilized, this election will be fought among Independents. Independents will decide this election. Democrats need to stay focused on nominating a candidate who can capture these voters. This is the only way that we can advance the Democratic Party. Dem-
occrats need to nominate the best person they have for the dangerous environment that we live in.
right, and by being strong. The Brookings Institute and The Pew Research Center, in their report on the 2004 political landscape, emphatically note that the electorate is evenly divided and increasingly polarized. This means that Democrats are going to come out to vote for whichever Democrat is nominated and Republicans are going to vote for George W.Bush.
Polling firms note that foreign policy and the economy will be major issues in 2004. Additionally, polling shows that experience in the military and foreign policy are important to Independents. Among independent voters, the Democratic Party is trusted more on the economy while the Republican Party is trusted more on national security and foreign policy. Among the potential nominees, no one stands out on the issue of the economy, and every Democrat holds equal strength among Independent voters. The way to create an advantage for the Democratic Party is to be strong on national security and foreign policy.
Military experience is not a pre-requisite for the presidency, but in the post-Sept. 11 world, a firsthand perspective can't be learned in the White House situation room. George W. Bush is a great example of what happens when a man with no foreign policy experience enters the White House.
Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean has no foreign policy experience. Dean
failed his military physical because of a medical condition with his back and didn't have to serve in Vietnam. Just a short time later, he spent his winter sking the slopes of Aspen.
Sen. John Kerry served two tours in Vietnam and was awarded three purple hearts, a Bronze Star and Silver Star. He came back to America to fight against the war, leading the group Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Sen. Kerry served 19 years on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and has a distinguished record in national security.
Though this race may be crowded, there is a clear choice when we talk about advancing Democratic policy. There is a clear choice when we talk about electability.
Supporting Kerry is the Democratic Party's best hope for advancing Democratic principles and making America safer, stronger and more secure. Find more information about Kerry's presidential campaign at www.johnkerry.com.
Brauer is a Denver senior in political science. He is interning on the John Kerry for President campaign in Washington, D.C.
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No need to change status quo; Bush should stay
As college students, we are often believe in something via our emotions, without rationally or realistically thinking about that issue. Political campaign managers tend to choose "grunt workers" or "gophers" for the campaign from younger people such as us who are willing to sign up and perform hours of meaningless labor. Why? They know that some young people tend to be blindly idealistic and naïve. This idealism manifests itself every time a student aspires to something wholly unrealistic or believes - affectedly - in some odd change that he wishes performed on the status quo. Only in the most dire circumstances, however, is changing the status quo necessary and, right now, we are in no such situation.
Jonathan Sternberg opinion@kansan.com
We all tend to believe in some leadership personality, idolizing that person to a degree that, in all honesty, the person usually does not deserve. If you truly believe in what any politician tells you, then you are either deluding yourself or are more immature than you think. None of the candidates for president are wonderful, perfect people. Granted, somewhere deep down inside they probably all have America's best interests at heart and are
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Honestly, then, how many people can say that President Bush has affected their lives in an overwhelmingly negative or positive way? I am no blind admirer of the President, but I am sick of hearing some students constantly whine about his positions on issues that bear absolutely no importance on their day-to-day lives. What does it matter to your health and safety if we drill for oil in some Alaskan forest? How does our treatment of criminal, murderous terrorists impact you, here in Lawrence? Does whether or not we find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq really affect your family's well-being? 93 the French government
probably decent, but they are all equally human.
These grandiose concerns that college students love to argue about bear no real concern on us. Instead, then, when evaluating for whom to vote next year, find some issues that really do affect your daily life; the nitty-gritty, rather than the ethereal, will point you in a sensible direction. To me, fiscal politics are the most important. As H&H Block explains on their Web site, the President expanded the two lower tax brackets to higher incomes and reduced percentages for the four higher brackets. Certainly, the rich have saved more in taxes, but why does that matter to you?
You, too have saved, as the President has already created a new, lower 10 percent bracket for people like us working students. That $300 or less that you paid, times several million, adds a great bulk of consumer capital to the economy, thereby helping economic growth, as current positive financial data from Washington show. According to CNN, the Gross Domestic Product is up 7.2 percent and job
These fiscal issues are far more important to your life than the fate of the spotted owl or some such nonsense. A better economy, such as we have recently seen, creates jobs and makes the ordinary citizen more comfortable. Every democratic candidate running for president is opposed to cutting still overly-burdensome taxes, a position that would negatively affect you.
losses have slowed. Obviously, the President's plan is working.
If the President had his way, we would also have no capital gains or estate taxes, thereby both bringing overseas tax-free money back to the United States and contributing a vast amount of money toward economic growth.
I ask that you think about what really affects your life, and vote accordingly. Compared to fiscal policy, nearly all else is secondary, and the President's fiscal policy helps Americans like us. With a dash of rational thought, re-electing President Bush for another four years is the only lucid choice.
has a tiff with the American government, does that make you worse-off personally? The answer to all these questions is the same: of course not
Sternberg is a Leawood senior in history.
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program would continue. Yet, just a year later, University officials changed their minds.
Subtle changes
Carlin and Gronbeck-Tedesco knew that in more than 40 years of programs, the KU study abroad department had dealt with two student deaths.
In the early '70s, a young man drowned while on a University program in Ireland. Tragedy struck KU's study abroad programs again in 1995 when a woman was hit by a bus in Barcelona.
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But Martin's death was different for Carlin and Gronbeck-Tedesco. First, a vicious murder, not an accident, had killed Martin. Second, Martin's death technically did not occur while she was on a University program.
Though Martin's tripto Golfito was independent of a study abroad program, it was Carlin's and Gronbeck-Tedesco's offices that were asked to handle the aftermath.
The violent nature of Martin's death, coupled with the publicity Golfifo and the University have received since the murder, also forced the University's study abroad office to reevaluate its practices, the program and the safety of the town itself.
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Structural changes to study abroad since Martin's death have been relatively small. The U.S. Embassy in Costa Rica now gives students a thorough, in-country cultural orientation. Previously, they went through orientation before they left. The orientation plays up the threat of violence more than past orientation programs did, Gronbeck-Tedesco said.
But many of the changes have been subtle. Carlin said the University used the incident as an opportunity to review its procedures.
A Golffito, Costa Rica, resident rode his bike toward the mountain that looms over the port town in late October. The University of Kansas canceled the Golffito Institute of Tropical Studies. a satellite study abroad program, little more than a year after Shannon Martin was murdered there.
"It forced me to reevaluate and look at everything we were doing," Carlin said, "and say, 'Is there anything more we can do?'"
An evolving economy
result, safety precautions have been more effective.
Students also have made themselves more aware of their surroundings since Martin's murder, Gronbeck-Tedesco said. As a
The town of about 18,000 that Martin studied in has been in a state of fux since the fruit and vegetable company Chiquita Brands. Inc. pulled its plantation from the area in 1985. The local economy had thrived because of the company's strong support system, which provided employees housing and medical benefits since investors first arrived in 1938. The town's economic stability reigned during the Chiquita era — Golfiteños could even play golf at a course on the edge of town. But after Chiquita's abrupt exit, however, residents were left hanging. After the plantation closed, signs of prosperity diminished. The exoskeleton of Chiquita still dots the city's landscape. Many Golfiteños still live in former company housing, which was discarded and left to them for free.
Residents, such as Martin's host parents, Odette and Marcial Porras, said the change caused many residents to turn to drugs. They said Gifito's port provided easy access to would-be users, including the two convicted for Martin's murder, Kattia Cruz, 29, and Luis Castro, 33, both of whom have rap sheets full of drug-related charges.
"This is the heritage that the banana company left," Thomas said.
Thomas said outsiders couldn't see the town devolving into a nest of crime because of a lack of local media, but violence had never been a problem. After Martin's death, the University sent several representatives to survey crime and safety. Among them were Gronbeck-Tedesco and Charles Stansifer, KU professor and expert on Costa Rica. Residents had seen a glimmer of hope in the Institute of Tropical Studies.
The Institute became a satellite program of the University in 1998. U.S. citizens studying in the area were telling people back home about the area, and local tourism began injecting money into the sluggish economy, locals say. Though program directors never
signed a written contract with the University, said director Quiros, its affiliation looked promising. He was stunned when the University canceled the program in July 2002, he said, because the Institute's classes had even made it onto the University's timetable.
Adios, Golfito
The program ended with a single phone call, Quiros said. The University didn't have any right to shut the program down the way it did, he said. The end of the program came from Gronbeck-Tedesco, he recalled. He couldn't remember specific reasons the director of study abroad had given him, but when pressed, he said it might have stemmed from sexual harassment allegations against another Institute faculty member.
Golfito prematurely. Carlin and Gronbeck-Tedesco said they couldn't comment on Quiros or any students who may have left the program. Carlin said a variety of factors contributed to the demise of the Institute. One of the primary reasons, she said, was the changed atmosphere since Martin's death.
Quiros said he had never confirmed the sexual harassment, but he remembered that at least one student had ended her stay in
But drugs have been around for years, Quiros said, a Golfto native, resident and University alumnus. He said the environment when the program was canceled was no different than the one Martin knew when she had studied there.
KU officials had discussed
After Martin's murder, some students continued to have a good experience, Gronbeck-Tedesco said. But for the first time, some said they would not recommend the program. With Golffito under the intense glare of media scrutiny, students began to experience anti-American sentiment, she said.
another key aspect of the cancellation even before Martin's murder. Both Gronbeck-Tedesco and Carlin had been reevaluating the necessity of the Golfito program. The University wanted more concrete ties with other universities so it could offer more amenities to students.
When the program was canceled, the University strengthened its ties with the University of Costa Rica program, which shuttles students to locations around the country.
"It was too much effort for such a small program," he said.
In the end, Quiros said he was glad to have washed his hands of the situation. He had designed and supervised all the classes and travel arrangements for the students.
Only so much
University officials are careful to point out that they can do only so much to protect students from
harm. Carlin said the recent death of Eric Wellhausen, a Mount Prospect, Ill., freshman who died after falling from a ledge beneath a seventh-floor Oliver Hall window, showed the University's limits in monitoring student behavior.
"Is putting a label on the window in the dorms going to stop somebody when they're drunk from doing this again?" Carlin said. "Common sense says, if you're drunk and you go out on this ledge, you could possibly fall and kill yourself. But when you're drunk, you're not thinking rationally. We can't hold every kid's hand."
In the end, Gronbeck-Tedesco said. Martin's death was something that could have happened to anyone, irrespective of location.
"I think the lesson is about the personal risk we all take," she said.
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As he lay in a hospital bed recovering from esophagus surgery, Rick Snyder saw his theory play out firsthand.
"After talking to other recovering patients around me, it became clear that the ones with higher hope recovered more quickly," Snyder said. "The mind is the most powerful medicine cabinet in the world."
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Snyder, a distinguished professor in clinical psychology, has spent the past 15 years teaching this idea. He recently received the 2003 Honor for an Outstanding Progressive Educator award. The HOPE award is an annual award given by the graduating class to recognize outstanding teaching and concern for students.
Working with hope, Snyder seeks out, measures, analyzes and relates this seemingly immeasurable concept in terms people can understand.
Snyder defines hope as the process of thinking about one's goals, along with the motivation to move toward and the ways to achieve those goals.
But for all his passion on the subject, Snyder, who's been teaching for 31 years, hasn't always rested his convictions in hope.
"With excuses, you try to break off from the bad that you've done," Snyder said. "The work focused only on the negative and didn't allow me to connect to good things."
Snyder's previous area of work focused on excuses, which he published a book about entitled, Excuses - Masquerades in Search of Grace.
Burned out on excuses, Snyder
What he found out was that goals, specifically the pathways and motivation to achieve these goals, were what many people mentioned.
took a sabbatical from 1987 to 1988 and began talking to people to get an idea of what was important to them.
Rick Snyder, M. Erik Wright distinguished professor of clinical psychology, studies and researches hope. He said he has chosen to focus on the more positive side of human beings.
Snyder developed a scale with which he could accurately measure the degree of hope, or motivation to achieve goals, that different people possess.
"This was really the other side of excuse-making in a way," Snyder said.
The scale is based on a set of 12 statements that the test-taker assigns a score of 8 for definitely true down to 1 for definitely false. After the four "decoy" questions are discarded, scores can range from 8, the lowest hope, to 64, the highest.
Snyder said results from the hope scale tests indicated that about 30 percent of participants had high hope, 40 to 50 percent medium and 20 percent had low hope.
Snyder became increasingly active in a burgeoning new field of psychology known as positive psychology, which focuses on human strengths rather than weaknesses.
When Snyder first introduced his hope theory in 1988, others in the psychology community laughed at him, dismissing hope as something that was too vague to measure and useless to measure even if it were measurable.
Snyder ignored the jeers and continued to delve deeper into the idea of hope, honing his theory into something anchored in ideas most people could understand.
"Human beings all have two sides," Snyder said. "I chose to
focus on the positive side."
Snyder's positive outlook has contributed immensely to his effectiveness as a teacher, especially in regards to his relationship with students.
In addition to winning the HOPE award this year, he also won the award in 1991.
"I really do try to step out and go to bat for students outside of class situations," he said.
teaching," Higgins said. "He keeps things fresh from year to year so that students remain interested."
Snyder currently teaches an individual differences class which centers around how people form perceptions and react to others based on perceptions.
Snyder has what he calls a "one million mile warranty" under which students, past or present, can contact him at any time. Past students of his still contact him, some from as far back as 25 years ago.
Raymond Higgins, professor of psychology, has known Snyder since 1974 and said that it's Snyder's energy that makes him unique.
"I like to think of my classes as just the start of the relationship with students," he said. "I like to think of myself as a catalyst in the student's lives."
"He's pretty innovative in his
"I try to sensitize students within these courses on how they can get along with each other, while at the same time maintaining their own uniqueness, which is important," he said.
Snyder speaks with a certain calm confidence as he projects his views of a world where, day by day, more flexible thinking is becoming increasingly important.
Snyder said that a course like this was especially important going into a 21st century American landscape that is as racially diverse as it is.
From a teacher of hope, this seems ironically appropriate.
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The KU women's soccer club finished second in this season's national tournament in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Kansas varsity soccer was not the only team that had a great season.
The KU women's club soccer team completed its season with a second-place finish in the Sport Club National Championship Tournament.
Forward Jessica Dorsey, Topeka senior, said the team decided it was in its best interest to play without a coach. As the team president, Dorsey took on some of that role, but she said the process was democratic. She said it wasn't difficult for the team to find motivation.
"We always knew that Nationals was our biggest goal," Dorsey said. "I think we all recognized that we had the potential to do it so we tried to stay focused and work hard."
Despite playing the season without a coach and experiencing home field advantage twice at the Shenk Complex, the team went 16-4-2 on the season.
The team placed first in a tournament at Iowa State early in the season. After going 1-1-1 at the Second Annual University of Colorado Invitational, the team placed second at a tournament at Kansas State.
The team traveled to Tuscaloosa, Ala. from Nov. 20 to
22 to play in the national tournament. Unlike the NCAA Tournament, only 16 teams play in the open division of the club tournament.
Kansas won its first two games, defeating the University of Vermont 2-0 and the University of Alabama 8-0.
The team's third game of the tournament was closer. Kansas played an Arizona team that it had tied once earlier in the season.
The two teams played to a 2-2 tie in regulation. The Jayhawks advanced based on goal differential.
Kansas defeated UCLA in the semifinals of the tournament before meeting Arizona again in the final.
Playing their sixth game in three days proved to be exhausting for both teams. Midfielder Erin Leary, Lenexa junior, said the team wasn't excited about playing Arizona again.
"We just took on the attitude that we were really happy to be in the finals," Leary said. "We ended up playing the best game I think we played all season."
Arizona struck first, and Kansas tied it up. Arizona struck again, and Kansas tied it up again.
After 80 minutes of regulation, the teams were deadlocked at 2-2.
Both sides went scoreless in two ten-minute overtime periods.
The championship came down to a five-shot shootout. The shootout went to the final shot and Kansas lost 5-4.
"We ended up playing the best game I think we played all season."
Erin Leary
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"At that point it would have been great to come away with a win," Leary said, "but we were just really proud of ourselves because we definitely did better than we ever expected."
Club teams at the University receive money from Recreation Services. The amount of money each team receives depends on the amount of money it raises. The women's club soccer team received $4,500 dollars from Recreation Services. Dorsey said the funds were more than enough to cover travel expenses throughout the season.
The team holds fundraisers through the year to help support its program. They sold T-shirts earlier this season and will work in cooperation with Uno's Chicago Bar and Grill on Dec. 9 to add to their funds.
Dorsey said team members would be handing out fliers in front of Wescoe Hall. When Uno's patrons present the flier, the soccer team will receive 20 percent of the sale.
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receiving yards in a single season
Robinson made an immediate impact at North Carolina State, and bolted for the pros after just his sophomore season. As a freshman in 1999, Robinson had 48 receptions for 853 yards. He bloomed even further in his sophomore campaign, catching 62 passes for 1,061 yards and 13 touchdowns.
He became the second receiver in Wolfpack history along with Holt to rack up 1,000
Robinson was the ninth overall pick in the 2001 draft, and had a quiet rookie season for the Seahawks.
As a second-year player in 2002, Robinson had a breakout year with 78 catches for 1,240 yards and five touchdowns. He is having another huge year in 2003 for Seattle.
Next in the growing line of Wolfpack NFL wideouts is senior Jerricho Cotchery.
Philip Rivers' top target each of the past two seasons. In 2002, he became the third receiver in Wolfpack history to eclipse the 1,000-yard mark, and he repeated the same feat in 2003. Cotchery has 2,390 yards over the past two seasons as well as 16 touchdowns.
Cotchery, a senior, has been
touchdowns this season.
When Cotchery heads to the pros next season, the heir apparent will be sophomore Tramain Hall, who behind Cotchery has managed 763 yards on 65 grabs with seven
Before Torry Holt, the school had never had a 1,000-yard receiver, and since then that sort of production at that position has been a fixture year in and year out.
As the tradition continues, North Carolina State will put itself on the map with Florida, Florida State and Tennessee as college football's wide receiver manufacturers for the NFL.
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ns receptions crept up from 37 in 2002 to 41 in 2003. Like McLendon, Green will find a way to get his numbers, but he will just do it very quietly. The only thing that kept Green from being a 1,000-yard back was the emergence of freshman backup John Randle, the perfect complement to
Accomplishments — In the Jayhawks' rough 2-10 campaign in 2002, Green was named offensive player of the week on four occasions and has won it on multiple occasions this season. Green's no-nonsense and quiet demeanor has not garnered him a shelf-full of awards yet, but coach Mangino constantly raves about Green's commitment and determination. It shows in his statistics, with nearly 2,500 total yards and 11 touchdowns in two seasons as a lavihawk.
The paceetter — Coaches and analysts have been very excited this season about the progression of freshman John Randle. However, a large part of Randle's success is due to Green. Green is the one who will wear down a defense and drive through tackles. He sets the offensive tone for the Jayhawks and opens up the
passing game.
—compiled by Ryan Greene
- Watch your radar — Speedy wide receivers like Charles Gordon and Mark Simmons will be the focus for North Carolina State, whose secondary has struggled this year. However, the nation's 33rd-ranked run defense could be easily fooled by Green if Kansas is able to open up the passing game a bit. This could be Green's opportunity to truly breakout on a national stage.
MCLENDON: Runs and receives
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100-yard games compared to five as a freshman, and just seven touchdown runs. Also, McLendon's only 20-plus carry games of this season were in the Wolfpack's final two contests, compared to seven times in 2002.
Accomplishments — After a high school career that saw McLen
don set national scoring records, he was highly heralded as a true freshman in 2002. McLendon was the 10th freshman to be a first-team All-ACC performer, and he was also the conference's freshman of the year.
Breaking tradition — With McLendon's size and running style, no one would really expect him to be much of a receiving
threat out of the backfield. McLendon does not harness blazing speed, but he is sure-handed, catching 75 passes for 688 yards in two seasons. Basically, he's a nice safety when things fall through for quarterback Philip Rivers.
Handle with care — When healthy, McLendon is one of the most dangerous skill position players in college football. The key word being when. He fractured his wrist in 2002 against
Texas Tech, had surgery, and finished the year with a cast. He has had six isolated injuries in two seasons. His knack for constantly getting hurt has kept him from getting into a rhythm. He is finally starting to hit that stride, gaining 407 total yards in the Wolfpack's last three games. That stretch included more than 100 yards receiving and 100 yards rushing against Virginia on Nov. 1.
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"I enjoy being No. 1. Even though it's just a number and really doesn't mean anything, I love seeing it by our name."
- Men's basketball player Keith Langford on Kansas' rank in the polls
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Stoops gets award for strong season
The Associated Press
NORMAN, Okla. - A No. 1 ranking, a Big 12 title and a berth in the national championship game all seemed to be reasonable pursuits for Oklahoma this season.
Still, the dominating fashion in which the Sooners have gone about accomplishing those goals couldn't have been expected for a team that entered the season without a proven quarterback, running back or receiver.
In recognition for pulling it off, Oklahoma's Bob Stoops was named Big 12 coach of the year by The Associated Press.
"I appreciate that, I really do." Stoops said yesterday. "But I get way too much credit for everything that's happened here. It's just easier for everyone to put it all on one coach."
Stoops won in a landslide, receiving 17 of 19 votes in balloting of reporters who regularly cover the conference from newspapers in the league's seven states.
The only other coaches to receive votes were Kansas State University's Bill Snyder, whose team will face the Sooners on Saturday in the Big 12 title game, and Oklahoma State University's Les Miles, who won the honor last year.
The postseason honors are likely just
beginning for the Sooners.
The AP's offensive and defensive players of the year will be announced today and the all-conference team tomorrow.
Quarterback Jason White is a finalist for the Heisman Trophy and Mark Clayton is a finalist for the Billetnikoff Award, given to the nation's top receiver.
Defensive teammates Tommie Harris, Derrick Strait and Teddy Lehman are up for a host of postseason honors and kicker Trey DiCarlo remains in the running for the Lou Groza Award.
The emergence of White and Clayton offers the best proof of the depth in Stoops' program.
The Sooners entered the year needing to replace starting quarterback Nate Hybl, 1,800-yard rusher Quentin Griffin and the top four receivers from last season.
White, whose last two seasons ended with knee injuries, went from a run-first quarterback into the nation's leader in passing efficiency. Clayton emerged as the top target, breaking most of Oklahoma's significant single-season and career receiving records along the way.
"I don't know that anybody had them on a preseason All-America watch list," Stoops said.
Three years after winning the national championship, the Sooners (12-0, 8-0
Big 12) have been as dominant as any college team in recent memory.
Iney beat their five Big 12 South foes Texas, Oklahoma State, Texas A&M Baylor and Texas Tech — by a combined score of 291-50.
They boast the nation's top-ranked defense and the highest scoring offense.
Oklahoma's special teams has the nation's most accurate field goal kicker in Trey Dicarlo and a record-setting punt returner in Antonio Perkins.
Another mark of Stoops' touch on the program: In the five years before Stoops arrived in Norman, Oklahoma was 0-9 in games against teams ranked in the Top 10. During Stoops' stint, the Sooners have gone 11-1 in those games.
His staffs have been so good that three assistants have been plucked by other major schools to become head coaches: Mike Leach at Texas Tech, Mark Mangino at Kansas and, most recently, his brother Mike was hired by Arizona.
"They've assembled a really, really good football team," Missouri coach Gary Pinkel said. "You see them on TV you feel it a little bit. When you're standing on that sideline, you really feel it."
Stoops also won Big 12 coach of the year honors in 2000, his second season in Norman.
Men's basketball
Simien awarded honor of Biq 12 player of week
DALLAS — Wayne Simien's 28-point performance in Kansas' 81-74 victory over Michigan State earned him Big 12 honors as player of the week, while Texas freshman P.J. Tucker repeated as rookie of the week, the conference said yesterday
week, the conference pads by Simien, a 6-foot-9 junior from Leavenworth hit all nine of his free throws and shot 9-of-12 from the floor in reaching a career-high point total.
He's 20-for-21 from the free-throw line through three games this season.
ine through three games the series
Tucker averaged 16.5 points in two
Texas victories last week.
The 6-5 freshman from Raleigh, N.C., had 18 points and 11 rebounds against Sam Houston, then recorded a team-high 15 points along with four rebounds against Centenary.
Through the first three games of the season, Tucker led Texas in scoring with 17 points per game.
He also became the first freshman in Longhorn history to start his career with back-to-back double-doubles.
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K-State faces tough match-up for Big 12 title
The Associated Press
MANHATTAN — Kansas State University's defense has the numbers, but not the name.
Sure, the players call themselves "the Lynch Mob," and have since 1993 when Bob Stoops, now Oklahoma's head coach, was the Wildcats' defensive coordinator.
Nationally, though, the name has never caught on the way, say, "Black-shirts" did at Nebraska.
But with a strong performance against Stoops' top-ranked Sooners in Saturday's Big 12 title game, No. 14 Kansas State could earn some recognition for a defense that has spent all season hearing how good its Oklahoma counterpart is.
"It's kind of irritating to hear everybody talk about, 'OU defense this, OU defense that,'" defensive tackle Jermaine Berry said yesterday. "They get more pub, I guess, because they're undefeated and
we had that threegame losing streak."
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The Sooners
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Kansas State isn't far behind, though. The Wildcats are fifth nationally in total defense, sixth in pass defense and seventh in scoring defense, and that's with opponents scoring five touchdowns this year against the offense and special teams.
"To a certain extent, that's to be expected," defensive coordinator Bobby Elliot said. "There are going to be some points scored against you when you're not on the field, but not 55."
Over the course of its six-game winning streak, Kansas State (10-3) has yielded just five offensive touchdowns.
Two of those should carry asterisks: Jammal Lord's touchdown pass in Kansas State's 38-9 victory at Nebraska, when replays showed Lord's knee down before he threw the ball, and Brad Smith's 2-yard TD pass for Missouri in the regular-season finale after Kansas State quarterback Ell Roberson lost a fumble at his own 2.
Better practice habits helped fuel Kansas State's intensity after the three-game loss streak in which the Wildcats' defense gave up eight offensive touchdowns, end Thomas Houchin said.
"It's something we got away from at the beginning of the year," Houchin said, "but now if one person messes up on defense, our whole defense gets down and does push-ups. You get tired of doing push-ups."
Kansas State can't afford any slip-ups against the Sooners, who haven't needed much help getting into the end zone this year. They are ranked first in scoring
offense at 48.3 points per game and have gone over the 50-point mark six times.
Quarterback Jason White has come back from two knee operations to throw for 3,446 yards and 40 touchdowns.
White has been a model of efficiency, too, completing 65.4 percent of his passes with only six interceptions.
"He's a student of the game," Kansas State coach Bill Snyder said. "There are a lot of things to like about him, but that one just promotes all the others."
While the Wildcats would rather play against the pass than the run — they're 18th nationally in run defense at 107.4 yards per game — they can't ignore the Sooners' running backs.
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Kejuan Jones has rushed for 787 yards and 10 touchdowns, and Renaldo Works has eight TDs, 710 yards and a per-carry average of 5.1 yards.
"If you set your cap for pass defense and let them run, they'll take that," Elliot said.
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ten against a heavy-pressure defense in its first road game, Kansas (3-0) got big performances from a pair of young guards and an impressive homecoming by Keith Langford.
The 'Hawks are No. 1. The season will be fun. I hate Mizzou a ton. Hamburger on a bun. OK, so the last line sucks, but that is all that I could think of.
Does anyone else think that the Horned Frogs of TCU look like they are doing Little Bunny Foo Foo?
When Giddens wears his headband, it makes me feel really freaky.
ten against a heavy-pressure defense in its first road game, Kansas (3-0) got big performances from a pair of young guards and an impressive homecoming by Keith Langford.
Hell, everything in Texas has horns, even the frogs. We should be the Horned Frogs.
There is about 17 minutes left in the TCU game and I know there is time but we are only up by two. Is this a joke? I am not laughing.
--ten against a heavy-pressure defense in its first road game, Kansas (3-0) got big performances from a pair of young guards and an impressive homecoming by Keith Langford.
Hey, ESPN, our coach's name is Bill Self, not Roy Williams. Quit talking about Roy Williams.
ten against a heavy-pressure defense in its first road game, Kansas (3-0) got big performances from a pair of young guards and an impressive homecoming by Keith Langford.
Nick Collison did not deserve to have his jersey retired until he plays at least one NBA game.
--ten against a heavy-pressure defense in its first road game, Kansas (3-0) got big performances from a pair of young guards and an impressive homecoming by Keith Langford.
We are No. 1. How do you like them apples?
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Self dismisses No.1 ranking, savors third victory of season
The Associated Press
FORT WORTH, Texas — Kansas coach Bill Self is still learning a lot about his new team, which has made a quick rise to the No.1 spot.
While Self doesn't think the top ranking means too much right now, he likes what he's seen, even if things aren't perfect.
"I know that we don't play as smart as we should all of the time, but it was a good win," Self said after the Jayhawks beat TCU 85-66 Monday night in their first game as No. 1. "We've got to be a much smarter team, but I do like our team a lot."
With the post players virtually forgotten against a heavy-pressure defense in its first road game, Kansas (3-0) got big performances from a pair of young guards and an impressive homecoming by Keith Langford.
Forward Wayne Simien and center David Padgett were held to just one basket each, and Simien had just six points coming off a career-best 28 against Michigan State. The guards made up for that.
“Coming on the road, and your two starting big guys combine for two baskets ... it gives us confidence knowing guys can score from the perimeter," Self said.
Sophomore Jeff Hawkins had 19 points on 7-of-9 shooting, including five
three-pointers. Freshman J.R. Giddens, starting in place of injured guard Michael Lee (broken collarbone), had 12 points on 5-of-7 shooting.
"He made a lot of great plays and there's no substitute for good shooting," Self said about Hawkins. "And J.R. in his first college start, he's one of the unsung heroes. That's something we can build on."
Not to mention the 24-point showing on 9-of-10 shooting in 24 minutes by Langford, playing in his hometown against the TCU coach who helped recruit him. He missed most of the first half after two early fouls.
Kansas became the No.1 team in The Associated Press' poll Monday with a
jump from sixth — the biggest to the top in the poll in almost 40 years.
The Jayhawks took advantage of losses by the top four teams last week, and their only game was an 81-74 victory over then-No. 3 Michigan State.
Self said the ranking had little, if any effect on his team — especially in December.
"Poll's really shouldn't come out until after Christmas," Self said. "The BCS doesn't rank after the first week. It takes time. Certainly we had to be tested away from home and we were."
Langford put Kansas ahead to stay with a short jumper that broke a 43-all tie with 17:33 left.
The Jayhawks overcame 20 turnovers,13 of them before halftime and two more in the first minute of the second half.
That was part of a game-turning 19-8 run during which Langford had 11 points and two assists.
"If we don't handle pressure better than that, we're going to face defeat real soon," Self said. "Give TCU credit because they outplayed us the first 25 minutes, they were the better team. Then we played pretty good the last 15 minutes."
"CU is coached by Neil Dougherty, a Kansas assistant coach for seven years before taking over the Horned Frogs last season.
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Today's birthday (Dec. 9).
You're so cute this year, you'll attract a lot of attention. You're more than just a pretty face, however. You're also smart, and getting smarter. Take on a technical subject. It'll be fun.
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Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21). Today is a 6,
You're actually making progress, though it may seem painfully slow. The planning and daydreaming you're doing now will prove useful later.
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You and a loved one can get back in touch with a vision that both of you share. Visions are very important, you know. But don't risk any money quite yet.
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If you keep after the answer, you'll be successful, partially through your own skills. Carefully analyze the data. You could instigate a breakthrough.
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Wednesday, December 3, 2003
Volleyball analysis
NCAA volleyball: what to expect
Jayhawks seeded against Long Beach St., teams evenly matched in first-round play
By Mike Norris
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Kansan sportwriter
As the Kansas volleyball team's first NCAA Tournament appearance nears, questions arise.
After following the team all season, these are the answers I have come up with.
What seed does the team have? How good is its opponent Long Beach State? Can the Iayhawks advance?
How do they seed the NCAA Tournament bracket?
While the volleyball bracket contains 64 teams, it doesn't work the same way as the basketball tournament. It is like soccer where only the top 16 teams are seeded. Those teams are seeded one through 16, and all host a four-team bracket for the first two rounds.
If a team is seeded one through four it's similar to a one seed in basketball. If they are a 12 through 16 it's like a four seed.
Kansas will travel to Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif. tomorrow. Pepperdine is the number four seed and will play Manhattan University. Kansas will play Long Beach State. The two winners will play each other in the second round and will try to advance to the regional next week in Long Beach, Calif.
next week it will be in basketball, its rank would be similar to an eight or nine seed. Pepperdine is seeded four, which makes it similar to a one seed. So in the four-tem team bracket it looks like this: Kansas (8 or 9) vs. Long Beach St. (8 or 9) and Pepperdine (1) vs. Manhattan (16).
How good is Long Beach State?
They are good, no doubt about it. But they are not as good as they have been in the past. The 49ers are 44-14 under current coach Brian Gimmillaro in the NCAA Tournament, winning championships in 1989, 1993 and 1998. But this team went just 19-10 this season. It has also lost two straight first-round tournament games in 2001 and 2002.
Long Beach St. did defeat Georgia Tech, which led the nation in kills and assists, but also lost to California in the last match of the season after defeating the Bears 3-0 earlier in the season.
Liz Hudson, 3.89 kills per game, and Erika Chidester, 4.61 kills per game, are the only two players averaging over 2.25 per game.
The Jayhawks have four players averaging over 3.10 kills per game, as they use a more balanced attack.
Can the Jayhawks advance?
The 49ers are not pushovers by any means, but it's not the team it was in the 90s.
Yes. But will they? Despite Long Beach St. not being as strong as in the past, the team is experienced, and that never hurts.
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The 49ers will also be playing in their home state, which will help. But the Jayhawks went 5-5 on the road in one of the toughest conferences in the country, the Big 12 Conference.
g 12 Conference.
The key to this match is game one. It's always critical, but more so in this match. The 49ers are 0-9 this season when losing the first game, and played in only three five-game matches, going 2-1. The Jayhawks on the other hand played 12 five-game matches, going 6-6. If Kansas can win the first game or stretch the match as far as it can go, it should be to the team's advantage.
advantage. This match should be close, like a classic 8-9 matchup usually is. If Kansas can block like it's been doing late in the season and jump ahead early, it will advance.
advantage
Can they make it out of their bracket?
Let's just say Kansas should hope for a Manhattan upset. But if that doesn't happen, it won't bother the Jayhawks. They don't care who they play after being invited to their first ever tournament match.
If the Jayhawks and Pepperdine both win, the Waves will be playing on their home court with a rowdy crowd. After going 25-2 this year, It would be hard to argue they don't deserve a four seed.
So yes, Kansas can make it out of its bracket, but it will be tough. Pepperdine doesn't want to lose in front of its home crowd.
crowd. For now, the Jayhawks are focused on Long Beach St., and you can bet they don't even care that they are just minutes from the ocean.
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Senior outside hitter Abbie Jacobson bumped a loose ball during a match against Texas A&M. The Jayhawks play Long Beach St. in Malibu, Calif., in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
NC State becoming known for strong wide receivers
By Ryan Greene
greene@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
USC is known as Tailback U. Penn State is known as Linebacker U.
In the history of the program that stretches back to the 1890s, NC State has consistently pumped great athletes into the professional ranks. In recent years, the majority of those have been standout wide receivers. Two in particular, Torry Holt and Koren Robinson, have gone on to Pro Bowl NFL careers.
Pretty soon, North Carolina State may join the list as Wide Receiver U.
Holt, now in his fifth season with the St. Louis Rams, was one of five players in Wolfpack history to have his jersey
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retired. While at North Carolina State, Holt became the school's all-time leader in receptions (191), and the ACC's all-time leader in receiving yards (3,379). As a senior in 1998,
Holt caught 88 passes for 1,604 yards. As a former member of the Wolfpack he is most remembered for personally outscoring conference rival Florida State in his final two games against the Seminoles. In those two games, Holt caught 21 balls for 303 yards and six scores.
In four and a half NFL seasons, Holt has nearly 400 receptions for 6,475 yards and 33 touchdowns. As the sixth overall pick in the 1999 NFL Draft, he was an integral part of the Rams' Super Bowl run, and in 2003 he is enjoying an MVP-type season. Through 12 games, he already has career-highs in receptions (92) and touchdowns (10) and is on pace to set a new personal best in receiving vardage.
yardage.
Koren Robinson was Holt's successor as the dominant wideout for the Wolfpack. Now in his third season with the Seattle Seahawks, Robinson is becoming one of the NFLs elite young receivers.
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era of Kansas football. Doing things without much flash, flair or fanfare, Green has consistently produced for the Jayhawks' high-powered offense. This season he has been Kansas top rusher and its third leading receiver. Green's rushing numbers were up, with 881 yards this season compared to 813 in 2002, and
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Creative T-shirts could help inspire unified basketball spirits
I know I talk about Michigan way too much, so I promise this is the last time. But last week Maize and Blue mania actually sparked my imagination.
While in Ann Arbor last week, I attended a Michigan Wolverines basketball game. It was Wednesday night, the eve of Thanksgiving, and few students were still in town.
The student section in Crisler Arena, which runs along the length of the court on the lower level, was still pretty full.
But it was even more noticeable because the students all had something in common. All of the students in attendance were donning the same maize T-shirt with a large "M" emblem and the phrase "Maize Rage" below it
This was at Michigan, where basketball isn't quite what it used to be, but could you imagine the thousands of Jayhawk faithful packed into the Allen Fieldhouse student sections like sardines all in the same shirt, or even just the same color?
It's simple, but how freaking cool is that? It just seemed a lot more packed with everyone wearing the same damn thing.
in blue.
same color A prime example is the Michigan State T-shirt that reads "Welcome to the Izzone," a play off of coach Tom Izzo's name.
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Some recent inspiration told me I need to be speaking my mind. I want something like this at Kansas. That's where
I will do my best.
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vou. the readers, will come into play.
Tenvision some kind of neat, catchy T-shirt for all of the Kansas fans to wear to the games, maybe some kind of play on "Self" or "Phog," like "Self-centered," but that's lame, so you think of one.
e-mail it, draw it or whatever. Send your ideas to me at rgreene@
kanans.com, or bring them by the newsroom in room 111 at Stauffer-Flint Hall.
You come up with the idea and if it's worth trying we can try to find a way to make it happen.
Kansas students have been whining for the past few years about wanting a better student section, perhaps one that runs along the side of the court like the one at Duke.
But amongst those whiners have been fans calling for the students to create an atmosphere like they enjoy at Michigan State and Florida basketball games.
State and Florida business The seating arrangement in the Fieldhouse probably will not change any time in the foreseeable future, but this T-shirt idea is something both of those schools have.
By the student section converging and collaborating in the same color, and even the same shirt, it becomes the sixth man on the floor for the Jayhawks. There's just something about it that adds to the atmosphere.
I know there are people out there who have considered this idea as well.
Now, everyone who feels this way has a chance to put their creativity to the test. I'll do my best to think of something, and I hope you all do, too. And since the students are never going to get the entire side of the court, here your next best chance to truly make yourself feel like an even bigger part of the game.
Greene is a Vernon Hills, Ill., senior in journalism
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Hazing still found on campus despite changing greek mentality
By Abby Mills almills@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Vol.114 Issue No.71
An August hazing at Sigma Nu fraternity has focused discussion on the secret world of new-member relations in the greek community at the University of Kansas.
This was the ninth reported hazing in
“It’s been a great conversation starter,” said Angie Carr, director of Fraternity and Sorority Life at the University. “What I've seen from this incident is that organizations are coming out and saying, 'We do this, this is OK?'”
On Aug. 13, Lawrence police were called to the Sigma Nu house at 1501 Sigma Nu Drive, where Steven Weith had been knocked unconscious. The Olathe sophomore hit his head during a ritual that involved tossing pledges into the air.
the last eight years at the University, but the first since 1998. The five-year gap in reported hazing incidents may hint at a changing mentality within the greek community.
"A lot of chapters have realized that it's kind of a thing of the past," Billy Santoro said about hazing. "As the years go by, it's becoming more and more obsolete."
Santoro, Scottsdale, Ariz., junior, is the president of the Interfraternity Council.
The ritual that injured Weith had been a tradition for at least four years, said Jason Watson, Sigma Nu president. The Lincoln, Neb., senior said the tradition was tied to work week—a week in which new members and officers work together to prepare the house for the upcoming year. Everyone works at least eight hours
a day and bars and parties are off-limits.
Tradition gone awrv
By midweek, Watson said, tensions usually run high so officers surprise pledges with a night of fun.
Here's what happened that August evening, according to Watson.
The night began with beer case races, which pitted new members against old members to see which team could finish a case of beer the fastest. Then, new members sat one-by-one in a rant chair to vent all the frustrations of the past week. At the end of each rant, the new member was lifted out of the chair and tossed forward to symbolize moving past those difficulties.
Neither activity was mandatory, Watson said, and there were several members who did not participate.
Watson said Weith was the last person to participate and was just too inebriated
SEE HAZING ON PAGE 3A
Professor's film chosen for Sundance festival
By Magyle Newcomer
mnewcomer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer *
Confederate States of America, written and directed by Kevin Willmott, assistant professor of theater and film, was selected from thousands of entries to be screened in a group of 13 films called American Spectrum.
A film created by a KU professor will be featured at this year's Sundance Film Festival, Jan. 15 to 25 in Park City, Utah.
Sundance is the first festival to accept CSA. Willmott said his film would compete for the Audience Award. The film that receives the most
votes as a viewer favorite wins the prize.
Willmott said his ultimate goal was to have the film released nationally.
Matt Jacobson, assistant professor of theater and film, was the director of photography for the film. He said screening at Sundance was a huge stepping in reaching that goal.
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"It's getting your film in front of a lot of people who could help you get your film in front of a lot more people," Jacobson said.
Jacobson said making a film was like realizing a vision and all filmmakers, whether they're in Kansas or Los Angeles, wanted to share their vision with as many people as possible. He said that just screening CSA at Sundance would accomplish that goal, and if the film was bought by a distributor, it would have succeeded beyond anyone's wildest dreams.
dreams. After receiving grants from the University and the Black Filmmakers Coalition in 1997, Willmott began production of the film, which depicts the United States as it would be today if the South had won the Civil War. Slavery is alive
Willmott
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Coroner: Student died soon after fall
By Joe Hartigan jhartigan@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Wellhausen's blood alcohol content was listed at 16, twice the legal limit for persons 21 years old and older. The legal limit for blood alcohol content among
Eric Wellhausen died almost as soon as he hit the ground after falling from the seventh floor ledge beneath his Oliver Hall room on Sept. 12, said Donald V. Pojman of the Douglas County Coroner's Office.
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Friends who were with Wellhausen in the hours before he died had said Wellhausen only had a few beers before falling off of the ledge.
Wellhausen died because his heart burst and bled due to pressure from the fall,
according to an autopsy report from the Douglas County Coroner's Office that was released yesterday.
"He couldn't have lived another five or 10 minutes." Pojman said
The report indicated that someone had written a term offensive to homosexuals in black marker on Wellhausen's left cheek. Someone had also drawn male genitalia on his leg, according to the report.
Wellhausen, a Mount Prospect, Ill., freshman, had stepped out onto a ledge beneath the seventh floor of Oliver Hall to smoke a cigarette at about 1:30 a.m. Sept. 12, friends of his said.
After he fell, he lay in the grass for between 30 and 45 minutes before anyone realized he needed medical attention, said Lt. Schuyler Bailey of the KU Public Safety Office.
Wellhausen was transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital and was pronounced dead shortly after arriving.
The coroner's report indicated there were no injuries to Wellhausen's head or neck. Approximately two liters of blood filled Wellhausen's chest, according to the autopsy report.
Five students have accidentally fallen out of University residence halls in the last decade. Three other schools in the Big 12 Conference have each had one incident of a student falling from residence halls in that same time span. The other eight schools in the conference have not had any incidents.
The ledge that Weilhausen fell from is intended to block the sun from shining into the window below. It is not built for people to stand on.
Since Wellhausen's death the University of Kansas has begun a project to place stickers on the windows inside residence halls warning students of the dangers of standing on the ledge. Part of the project includes a $125 fine to students who remove the screens from their windows.
-Kansan staff writer Abby Mills contributed to this story.
Involvement key for freshman duo
by Johanna M. Maska
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Kansas saint writer
Edited by JJ Hensley
Before the interview, the room is straightened. With bed sheets neatly tucked, closets open to display dozens of hung jackets and shirts and desks completely void of work to be done, Reggie McKeithen finishes looking over his space. He's pleased.
"An interview?" McKeithen asks. "We don't know anything about an interview."
He's kidding. He and his roommate, Antwan Winkfield, have prepped the room for the interview.
Winkfield and McKeithen has always adhered to one rule: live to
impress.
McKeithen and Winkfield, Kansas City, Mo., freshmen, live together on the fourth floor of Ellsworth Hall. Both are alumni of the Paseo Academy of Fine and Performing Arts in Kansas City, Mo., and have been best friends since the eighth grade.
inseparable since their time together in the Junior ROTC program, Winkfield and McKeithen both said they wanted to be involved at the University. For Winkfield, a role in Student Senate is his goal. McKeithen plans to expand the campus National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Both are currently involved in the Black Student.
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Cara Cramer, Pratt first-year law student, spent yesterday afternoon Christmas shopping at Hobby Lobby, 1801 W. 23rd St. Cramer said she was trying to spend money she didn't have.
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Toys for Tots to collect toys Saturday at Dole Institute
The Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics will host the Douglas County Toys for Tots Drive for 500 from 1 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. The Dole Institute is located west of the Lied Center.
The Toys for Tots committee will try to collect 500 toys for children in the Lawrence community.
Residents who bring a toy donation will be invited to a free lunch provided by Hy-Vee at 4000 W. Sixth St.
They will also be registered to win door prizes, including a grand prize of two round-trip tickets to anywhere Frontier Airlines flies in the continental United State.
"There'll be a lot festivities," said Mary Jones, co-chair of the local Toys for Tots committee. "People can come by and see their neighbors."
Along with the Dole Institute, toys can be donated at any of the Toys for Tots drop boxes that will be put in various Lawrence locations during the week.
The toys will be distributed as Christ mas gifts to needy children in the community.
If you know of any children who need help during the Holiday season you can also contact:
The Salvation Army
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Senior Center
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Jayhawks On Parade statue stolen from Lawrence building
A 4-foot-5 Jayhawk has been stolen, according to police reports from the Lawrence Police Department.
The Jayhawk, part of the Jayhawks On Parade campage, was in the process of being repaired. It was being stored in a room adjacent to the US Bank Tower, 900 Massachusetts St.
The Jayhawk was discovered missing on Nov. 19 and was reported stolen to the police on Nov. 28. It belonged to Downtown Lawrence Association.
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A police spokesperson said there was a suspect in the case, but no arrests have been made.
World
KASSEL, Germany — A German computer expert — charged with killing, dismembering and eating the flesh of an Internet acquaintance — made a detailed confession at the opening of his murder trial yesterday. The accused said he was only doing what the victim wanted.
Man accused of killing, eating Internet friend in Germany
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Armin Meiwes, 42, described how Bernd Juergen Brandes, 43, replied to an Internet advertisement in March 2001 seeking a young man for "slaughter and consumption."
Prosecutors say the killing was sexually motivated and filed murder charges, despite concluding there was consent.
Meiwes' attorney argued against murder charges, saying the slaying was a form of mercy killing. Meiwes faces life in prison if convicted of murder.
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to land on his feet. None of the new members before him had fallen, but Weith landed on his side and hit his head on the floor.
He was taken by ambulance to Lawrence Memorial Hospital, then transferred to the University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City, Kan. He suffered a mild concussion and was released the next day. He is still living at the fraternity.
The University found the tradition violated the KU Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities. It defines hazing as any activity that negligently or intentionally endangers the mental or physical health, welfare, safety or academic conduct of an initiate or causes excessive fatigue, discomfort or extreme embarrassment.
Sigma Nu received penalties from its national chapter and the University for hazing and from IFC for supplying alcohol to pledges. It has to be an alcohol-free house through the end of the semester and is on University probation until December 2004.
Requirements of the probation include hosting two alcohol-free events, and evaluating all house traditions in light of risk management policies. Those findings must be reported at an IFC meeting, a Greek leadership event and to each fraternity on campus. Those results will also be published in the Oracle, the newspaper for the greek community.
Raising awareness
Eight of the nine KU fraternities that have been put on probation or suspension since 1995 were between 1995 and 1998. The mid-90s were a purging time for the University, said Danny Kaiser, director of the Center for Campus Life. Those who have been punished are less likely to repeat their behavior immediately and some chapters have closed since then, leaving the number of fraternities likely to haze lower today than 10 years ago, he said.
For more on other groups'
During the same time, hazing became more of a public issue across the nation. Michelle Finkel, a doctor at Massachusetts
initiation practices see page 5A
General Hospital, said the media had made people realize how serious the issue can be.
"Before, people thought it was a joke," she said. "Now people are realizing that people can die from hazing."
Andrew Ward knows firsthand how serious hazing is.
Ward, now a Lenexa senior and Kansan staff member, joined Phi Kappa Theta as a freshman in 1998 because his father had been a member at Purdue University in the 1970s.
Ward said he had heard about hazing, but thought it was no longer an issue. He only joined the fraternity after members told him the house did not haze.
For the first few weeks, Ward hung out with members and played video games. He said just as he was getting to know members, the hazing began.
Nearly every night, members came into the house's new member dormitory in the middle of the night playing AC/DC's Hell's Bells and made members do pushups for an hour. Ward said.
As the semester progressed, he said, the treatment got worse. Just before he left the fraternity, he said members blindfolded the new members, stripped them down to their underwear, dumped trash on them and threw ice cubes at them in the basement of the fraternity house.
Ward left the fraternity one Friday afternoon in mid-October. He accidentally hit his head on the loft in his room and fell to the floor in tears.
"It was one of those moments when everything was released and I decided this was not the place to be," he said.
Ward went home to Lenexa that weekend and with help from his parents quit the fraternity and filed a complaint against the group.
Ward said the hazing hurt his grades because he was so sleep deprived he couldn't get to his early morning classes. Ward said he suffered from depression after
Nine fraternities at the University of Kansas have been disciplined for hazing since 1995:
August 2003 --- Sigma Nu received probation for three semesters. A new member was hospitalized because he hit his head after being tossed in a ritual.
HISTORY OF HAZING
November 1998 — Phi Kappa Theta received probation after a new member complained of sleep deprivation and being forced into line-ups and personal servitude. October 1997 — Beta Theta Pi was placed on a two-year suspension. Details of the incident were never made public.
October 1997 — Alpha Tau Omega was suspended after allegations arose. Details were never made fully available, but allegations included forced boxing matches.
February 1997 — Pi Kappa Alpha was suspended for two years after a new member was taken to the
hospital intoxicated and
he left and dreaded contact with members of his former fraternity, so he spent most of his time in his Templin Hall room.
Ward still feels lingering effects such as discomfort on campus and periods of depression, he said.
Phi Kappa Theta went on probation in November 1998 after Ward complained and had to complete a rehabilitation program. Requirements included coordinating fraternity activities with probation supervisors, revising the new member education program and requiring each member to sign a sheet saying they understand University and IFC hazing policy.
Instructing through pain
The treatment Ward endured was used to teach new members how to behave by giving older members complete control.
"Hazing is about domination," said Danny Kaiser, director of the Center for Campus Life. "People have been through it, and now they want to do it to other people."
That cycle is one reason hazing has been so difficult to remove from the Greek system, Kaiser said.
hospital intoxicated and unconscious. The new member consumed multiple shots of alcohol and performed physical activities. He was injured while running on he street.
October 1996 — Delta Tau Delta was placed on a two-year probation for depriving new members of sleep.
Fall 1996 — Zeta Beta Tau was temporarily suspended because new members were required to submit to paddling, excessive consumption of alcohol and sleep deprivation.
October 1996 Alpha Epsilon Pi received a two-year probation. A new member was injured when he fell off a chair after having raw eggs smashed in his pants. Fall 1995 Delta Chi was suspended for a year after forcing pledges to perform manual labor in the summer heat after drinking alcohol. Two pledges were hospitalized.
The tradition also has military overtones, said Santoro with IFC. He said hazing was seen as a way to teach initiates the way of the fraternity by breaking them down and then building them back up as the ideal fraternity man, similar to boot camp.
Although the intention is to create brotherhood, Kaiser said, hazing actually tears fraternities apart.
"It is so detrimental to an organization," he said. "They say it's a force for bonding new members together through adversity, but the goal should be the pledge class bonding with the rest of the chapter."
Hazing essentially breaks a house into cliques that bond among themselves, Kaiser said. New members get closer out of common feelings of fear and suffering, but are alienated from the rest of the group.
Second year students still remember vividly what happened to them as pledges and treat new members as poorly as they were treated, or worse. As members become juniors and seniors, Kaiser said, they become less interested in the process and move
Teaching by example is replacing those methods, Santoro said. Everyone in the fraternity joins together to participate in activities such as study hours or community service.
away from people who haze.
But even these activities can be used to control new members, said a student who left a fraternity two years ago and declined to give his name to avoid being hassled by members of the fraternity.
He said his chapter forced new members to sit in the same place and study for hours on end. If new members got up, even to use the restroom, he said they had to ask permission from an older member and sign a sheet before leaving the room.
While older members participated in the hours, they had freedom to move about as they chose.
Gender differences
Some sororities also have group study and community service hours, but are less prone that fraternities to hazing activity, Kaiser said. No sororites have been accused of hazing at the University in at least eight years.
"Hazing doesn't happen on a planned schedule," he said. "There's a spontaneity to it and alcohol is usually involved."
Different practices, including prohibiting alcohol in sorority houses and making new members live outside the house, contribute to the difference, Kaiser said.
New fraternity members live in the house their freshman year and so are physically present more than new sorority members. Carr, with the Center for Campus Life, said different recruiting practices accounted for the different living arrangements. Fraternities usually have all their new members by July while sororites recruit the first week of school, after women have arranged housing.
The student who left his fraternity two years ago said he would not have been hazed if he had anywhere else to live. If pledges had been able to leave more easily,he said,the hazing could not have continued.
"They wouldn't have made it into the 20th century with the program they have," he said.
"They would have had too big of a drop-out rate."
Making changes
When looking at an organization found guilty of hazing, Kaiser said, the Center for Campus Life first decides if it can reform. Alumni support can be key by providing support and maturity. Organizations without that support, or another means of improving its situation, may have their charters revoked.
If the organization seems like it can improve, it will usually be placed on probation, which could last up to two years. Probation involves taking away privileges and increasing responsibilities in specific areas to bring about change. The terms of the probation are worked out by the fraternity's alumni board, the Center for Campus Life and the Dean of Student's Office.
Jane Tuttle, assistant to the dean of students, said punishments typically included provisions to educate members about hazing, such as having alumni attend house functions or making members attend lectures or watch videos about hazing.
Speakers and videos are available to all student groups through the Center for Campus Life, Carr said, but those who use them are often the people who are already the most responsible.
Ward said Phi Kappa Theta did not participate in any hazing education activities while he was there.
"They knew exactly what hazing was," he said. "They didn't need a video for that. And we didn't need it to know what was happening to us."
Programs such as these are important, Kaiser said, because hazing will creep back into the system if universities are not vigilant. He said many high school clubs and athletic organizations continued the practice and brought that behavior to the University.
"Is it something we'll ever get rid of completely?" Kaiser said. "Not likely, at least not until we're able to address the issue at a younger age."
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Don't rush through vital course evaluations
As the semester comes to a close, and with final projects, papers and exams bearing down upon us, it is easy for course evaluations to get lost in the shuffle. Course evaluations (not to be confused with online evaluations) are an important part of our experience at the University of Kansas. These evaluations allow students to voice their concerns and praises to the various departments, but some students discard this opportunity with a quick filling of circles on a bubble sheet.
g of circles on a bubble sheet. There is a tendency to rush through the evaluation process in order to finish class even more quickly. It seems as though the only students who take their time with the evaluations are those who either adored or hated the class or the professor.
Provost David Shulenburger said course evaluations were important and every department takes them seriously. He said he did not think students were abusing the system, but the largest problem with the evaluations was that students tend just to fill out the evaluation in a cursory way.
Some students think course evaluations are nothing but a token effort to appease the student body, but course evaluations have a real impact on future classes. This semester in Journalism 101, instructors made a huge change regarding research papers based on last semester's course evaluations. Was a professor too dry? Let him know through this medium. Was the curriculum too easy? Tell your professor through the evaluation. Was your professor wonderfully encouraging or unnecessarily hostile? Tell the department. These evaluations and the comments on them are kept in each professor's file and are taken into consideration when a professor is up for promotion or tenure.
Statistically, most students will have an average experience with each class, but that does not preclude someone from writing a comment or two about the experience, typical or not. However, if you have had a particularly positive or negative experience with a class, try to avoid profanity or vague compliments such as "Prof. Smith was great" or "Prof. Smith sucked." The more details you can provide, the better you convey the overall picture of class and professor to the department officials.
Everyone is busy at this point in the semester. Studying and research, and hopefully a little relaxation, are on everyone's mind. However, the editorial board urges everyone to take a few extra minutes to portray each class accurately when professors out those evaluations.
Think of the next student to sit in your seat and act accordingly.
Patrick Ross for the editorial board
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The Kansan would be a better newspaper if none of you got paid. Like, for example, Arrah Nielson. She does not need to get paid for writing that tripe.
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When it comes to the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act recently passed by Congress, the question is not whether abortion is right or wrong. The question is whether Congress has the authority to act.
To the guy that was drinking beer at nine o'clock Monday night: Why did you wait until nine?
Congress overstepped boundaries on abortion
Anna D. Gregory
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Our government is one of enumerated powers. This means that the branches of the federal government cannot just act on a whim; they are bound by guidelines. The powers of the legislative branch are laid out in Article One, Section Eight of the Constitution. Included in Congress's enumerated powers are such abilities as the power to raise and support armies, establish post offices, coin money and declare war.
In recent years, the Supreme Court has ruled that there must be a rational basis for believing an activity substantially affects interstate commerce. In United States v. Morrison (2000), the Court ruled that Congress's creation of the Violence Against Women Act was unconstitutional. Congress based its authority to create such a law on its power under the Commerce Clause. While the act was created with the intention of stopping violence, a good idea for
declare war.
Also included is Congress's power to regulate commerce "among the several states." Known as the Commerce Clause, this line has brought many challenges to the Supreme Court. In the past, Congress has used the Commerce Clause as authority to act on issues such as racial discrimination, gun control and violence against women. Legislators made the case that these activities substantially
substantially affect intercourse. The fate of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act will be no different. The act reads, "Any physician who, in or affecting interstate of foreign commerce, knowingly performs a partial-birth abortion and thereby kills a human fetus shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both" (Title 18, United States Code, Chapter 74, Section 1531). Congress bases its authority on its power under the Commerce Clause, yet the act of performing an abortion is no more economic in nature than committing a violent act toward a woman.
everyone involved, the Supreme Court found that violence against women was not an economic activity and did not substantially affect interstate commerce.
ting a violent act toward a wom-
The text of the recent abortion act
would have the reader believe that Congress has a compelling interest in preserving the life of a fetus. Again the act reads, "The gruesome and inhumane nature of the partial-birth abortion procedure and its disturbing similarity to the killing of a newborn infant promotes a
complete disregard for infant human life that can only be countered by a prohibition of the procedure." Whether this is true or not is not for me to argue. The fact remains that there is no "compelling interest" power under Article One, Section Eight of the Constitution. A good cause is not a good enough reason for Congress to legislate.
The boundaries set forth in the Constitution are essential for maintaining the balance of power among the three branches of government, between the federal and state governments and to prevent the intrusion of government upon the rights and liberties of individuals. Congress presents a large amount of evidence to make its case that partialbirth abortions are harmful and should be forbidden. While this might be true, Congress is limited by the powers given to it in the Constitution.
Gregory is a Topkea senior in history and political science. She is a member of the editorial board.
Inject faith-based system with healthy dose of reason
This past weekend, Topeka hosted a convention at the Kansas Exposcentre that might only be called a worship service to pseudoscience and new-age thinking.
This convention brought people from all over the country seeking to have their auras read, to learn about magnetic healing and to buy crystals said to grant the bearer special powers.
ant the bearer specialpepper. When I first saw this on the local television news, I was shocked. How could people be so gullible in this age? We live in a world where scientists understand enough to have constructed machines that allow humans to go beyond the reaches of our planet. We have seen the bottoms of oceans and inside beating human hearts.
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In a lifetime so dominated by mechanical and rational thought, how could such claims convince people of their truth?
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Many people find the amount of scientific knowledge that exists today to be daunting and usually confusing. It is hard enough for some to learn how to hook up a computer or figure out what foods are safe to eat without having to try to delve into physics or biochemistry. When uneducated about the workings of science, people often see it as esoteric and inaccessible to the average person.
The people who attended the gathering in Topeka are not alone. According to an opinion poll done nationwide by the Opinion Dynamics Corporation in September, 29 percent of Americans believe stars and planets billions of miles away have dramatic effects on the way their lives will play out. Thirty-four percent of Americans believe in UFOs and one quarter of people believe in reincarnation.
To put this all into perspective, 92 percent believe in the existence of a higher deity. I am not immune, failing into at least one of the statistics just mentioned.
As a nation, Americans are in an epistemological crisis. How can we know what is true and what is false? What warrant do we have for claiming that certain things meet the tests of truth? Most belief systems cannot provide many answers besides uttering the one
word that eliminates the ability to contest the belief itself. faith. The crystals will only work if we believe they will. John Edward can't talk to my loved ones who "passed on" if I don't give him reinforcement for guessing correctly. Even in the Bible, Jesus could not perform miracles in his hometown because the people there did not believe.
In the absence of understanding, people will try to pull meaning from anywhere that they can, even when they have no rational basis to support what they believe.
Some people would suggest that science is the answer to this problem. While science can tell me how I came to exist, it can never tell me how I should live. It is here that reason must step in to take the reins from faith.
Dunavan is a Topeka senior in political science and philosophy.
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The KU Women of Distinction calendar is just a full Senate vote away from getting funded after it passed committee meetings last night.
Sticking to their guns, sponsors of the KU Women of Distinction calendar argued before the University affairs committee that their calendar was not a response to the much published Women of KU calendar but an endeavor which would stand on its own.
The bill asked for $2,212 from Senate to help fund the calendar. It was passed after the Senate regulation that prohibits funding
groups not registered as campus groups was suspended. Nearly an hour of spirited debate ensued as the bi discussed.
ensued as the bill's merits were discussed.
The debate ranged from how those pictured were chosen to whether the calendar was an accurate representation of the women of the University.
Jayme Aschemeyer, off-campus senator, said the nomination process excluded a large majority of women at the University because of poor publicity. She also said the calendar included a disproportionately high number of women who are active in University activities. Aschemeyer cited women who had full-time jobs, and/or children and did not have the same amount of time to pursue visible involvement positions.
"Those women can't come sit in committee meetings and get their resumes going," Aschemeyer said.
Blake Shuart, CLAS senator, spoke in favor of the bill and said that some women wanted to see a calendar like the one up for vote. Shuart also said that the Women of KU calendar had stirred up some negative response in University offices.
"They feel that the calendar is heading in the wrong direction," Shuart said.
Shuart said that the Women of Distinction calendar was a statement, and the pictures were not important.
No matter how hard the proponents of the bill tried to distance the new calendar from the controversial the Women of KU Calendar, the argument kept returning.
Kristan Siebel, Association of University Residence Halls senator, rhetorically asked in her speech whether women should be portrayed in short shorts with shirts that do not cover their stomachs or in science labs.
"Maybe this will start some sort of dialogue about women's roles on campus;" Siebel said.
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Hazing not limited to greek system
By Abby Mills almills@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Fraternities aren't the only organizations that could have questionable relations with new members.
"In the eight years I've been here, I've never dealt with a scholarship hall, athletic group or other organization," said Jane Tuttle, assistant to the dean of students. "But let's not be naive and think (fraternities) are the only organizations that haze."
Few numbers are available on the prevalence of hazing because of secrecy and lack of research, said Michelle Finkel, who has studied the topic. Finkel is a doe-
tor at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
Alfred University in New York has published some research on hazing. Researchers reported that in 1999,80 percent of the 325,000 NCAA athletes surveyed participated in "questionable or unacceptable activities as part of their initiation." Twenty percent reported "unacceptable and potentially illegal hazing," which included reports of beating, kidnapping and abandonment.
the survey also found that 48 percent of hazed athletes were first hazed in high school. Alfred University researchers conducted a study on high-school hazing in 2000. That research found 48 percent of 1,390 surveyed high school students in organized clubs said they had been hazed.
Several incidents of hazing in the Lawrence school system, including wrapping new members in duct tape, taping new members to trees or signs and paddling have been reported in local newspapers in the last 10 years.
Many scholarship halls have traditions for initiating new members, though none have been accused of hazing.
Members of Stephenson Hall play a football game each Stop Day that puts new residents against returning and past residents.
"It's a rite of passage to become an old member," said Ryan Yeager,
Maple Lake, Minn., senior. "It creates a bonding opportunity. Years later I'll talk to people about the old man/new man game."
The event is optional, but Yeager estimated 90 percent of new members participate. Someone usually gets hurt in the no-pads tackle game and Yeager said the injured are generally freshman. He broke a finger last year and two years ago a player suffered a concussion.
The game is played in the open field next to Watkins Health Center, making it convenient for injured players to quickly receive treatment while other players continue the game.
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and well in Willmott's film because it follows the South's plan for the country if it won the war.
Willmott said although the South lost on the battlefield, it won because the North adopted the South's way of life through segregation.
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He said Kansas was a perfect example because although Kansas fought as a free state, the state was segregated after the war. He added that Lawrence, a town founded by abolitionists, was segregated and that the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education segregation case took place in Topeka.
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CSA was a big hit at its local premiere in February 2003. Additional screenings were scheduled because of public demand.
UNFINISHED FROM TAPE 194 Union and work with the Office of Multicultural Affairs.
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Civil rights are important to McKeithen and Winkfield. Growing up in an inner city neighborhood, McKeithen and Winkfield did not know anyone who was white, they said. That's a disadvantage, Winkfield said.
Roommates Reggie McKeithen and Antwan Winkfield, Kansas City, Mo., freshmen, laughed in their residence hall room Tuesday. The two friends share aspirations for University involvement in the coming year.
"We want to be cool with everybody." Winkfield said.
Disadvantage is something Winkfield has already overcome. Winkfield has multiple sclerosis. At age two, the doctor told his parents he wouldn't walk again.
He's walking, he said, all over campus. Standing about 4 feet tall, and weighing 70 pounds, Winkfield's hard to overlook. He waves a friendly "hi" to everyone. He said he was out to prove naysayers wrong and take supporters in.
Standing at about 6 feet tall, McKeithen is a good counterbalance. He said Winkfield's resilience was something he admired.
"He doesn't let anyone prede-
termine him," he said.
During the interview, the door stayed open. Floormates of all backgrounds stopped by -proof that Winkfield and McKeithen have followed through with their plan to diversify their circle.
As the interview is wrapping up, one of their new friends stops by to ask them to watch a basketball game. "Thanks," they said.
but they had to go to dinner.
they do everything together, Winkfield said, that's the way it is. Waking to each other's alarms in the morning and wishing each other a good night, the day isn't complete without the other's support, he said.
"I know I have someone right by my side," Winkfield said.
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dwell on the losses and prepared them for the upcoming game.
Mangino knew when he came here that this would be a tough program to turn around. Kansas hadn't had a winning season since 1995, and it takes a whole lot more than one game to make or break a program.
Writers and recliner analysts everywhere coined the season opener against Northwestern a "must-win" game for a program attempting to rise.
Naturally, the Jayhawks dropped the game. They made ESPN's list of the top-10 worst teams in NCAA Division 1-A football for the week, and some fans even began to say that the
season, just one game in, was already over.
Apparently, somebody forgot to tell Mangino. The next week Kansas exploded in the third quarter to blow out a UNLV team, just a week before the Rebels downed Wisconsin in Madison.
This season was full of tough losses, and the team bounced back to play hard every game afterwards. That's coaching. While he will always be judged on his victories, it was his attitude and focus during the losses that have helped shape this team into a winner.
This season was filled with the dual-mannered Mangino handling mistakes and successes in stride.
Mangino was the first to yell at Moderick Johnson for a dropped pass on an otherwise sure touchdown against Missouri. But he was also the first to congratulate him after his fourth down, nineyard catch on a slant pattern, gave the Jayhawks a first down in the same game.
While mild-mannered most of the time, Mangino goes to war for his players if he feels they have been wronged. Late in the Oklahoma State game, Mangino drew two personal foul calls for yelling at an official when Brian Luke was hit out of bounds.
ments actually mean something.
He has his generic list of things to say at press conferences, but if you listen closely enough, you'll find that his clichés say something about his character. He'll often refer to players as "tough as nails," or say that if you tell that player to run through a wall for you, he's going to do it.
It's ironic how coaches can talk for an hour at a press conference without really saying anything, but Mangino's com-
Maybe that's because their coach is tough as nails, a real competitor and the players know that he would run through a wall for them if need be. That's the sort of coach players want to play for; that's what makes him a good players' coach.
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Self's version of toughness is more mental than physical. It's not running through screens or making guys pay for every layup. It's about being first to loose balls or going after rebounds with two hands.
"The best way to run offense is that you have to defend all five spots and in the first three games opposing defenses didn't really have to do that as much." Self said. "At TCU, we made them pay for leaving guys open and now teams will start respecting that and it will open more things."
Against Texas Christian on Monday, Kansas won by playing completely differently than it played against Michigan State. Kansas' starting post players, Simien and freshman center David Padgett, combined for just two field goals, but the team managed to score 85 points.
"I despise excuses." Self said. "I have had teams complain about how tired they were, and I said 'If you are so tired then we will practice tomorrow.'"
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"If we continue to play like that, maybe we can make toughness our team's identity this season," junior forward Wayne Simien said after the game.
"We are not a tough team yet," he said, "But we are getting tougher."
Self said he hoped that the victory would give him and his staff more credibility with the players.
shot the ball consistently yet."
"Nobody is skeptical, but people want to see, 'Hey, does it work?'" Self said. "We won a muddy game. We've got to draw confidence in winning those types of games because we've not
It was the team's 10-21 three point shooting that helped win the game against the Horned Frogs. While he always wants to get his post players more involved. Self said that great teams were the ones that could score in a variety of ways.
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Lee's injury gives Miles time to improve three-point game
Mike Lee's injury is the best thing to happen for Aaron Miles.
Now, I don't mean any ill-will toward Lee. In fact, I wish for a fast, complete recovery from the broken collarbone, and I seriously doubt that Miles would hope for any serious harm toward his roommate. These next six-to-eight weeks in Lee's absence will be a big test for Miles. The junior point guard must demonstrate that he's a consistent perimeter shooter.
While it may seem early, consistently hitting the outside shot is crucial for Miles, especially in the conference season and the postseason.
Last year, Miles had a solid year as a sophomore. He was named to the honorable mention All-Big 12 Conference Team. He averaged 8.9 points per game. His 6.4 assists-per-game average was second in the Big 12 and 11th in the nation. The Portland, Ore., native led the Big 12 in steals at 2.4 per game, which was also 17th in the nation.
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But the Achilles' heel to Miles' game last year was shooting beyond the arc. He shot an abysmal 24.5 percent beyond the three-point line. Only two starting point guards in the Big 12, Frank Richards of Kansas State and Kasid Powell of Texas Tech, had a worse percentage.
Miles made multiple three-point field goals in only five games last year and failed to record a made three-point
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shot in 21 contests.
Yet Miles' weakness was under the radar of many layhawk fans because of the presence of Kirk Hinrich. Hinrich made 40 percent of his threes and ensured the team did not necessarily need Miles to make a big impact in the scoring column.
Now Hinrich is gone. Lee, who shot 50 percent as a situational three-point shooter last year, won't be there for the next six to eight weeks as a security blanket beyond the arc.
Now, Miles cannot afford to hide his flaw under any shadow. He must become more assertive and prove that his three-point shooting stats from a year ago are, in fact, a thing of the past, not a trait.
So far, after three games, Miles' scoring, assists and steals have increased. But most importantly, his three-point percentage is showing signs of improvement. He went 2-5 from three-point range against Tennessee-Chattanooga
and 1-3 against TCU. Now he's at 33 percent (4-12), which is 13 percentage points higher than last year's first three games.
The media has said that three-point shooting was a glaring weakness for Kansas and the one factor that might hinder the 'Hawks chances to compete for a national title. Keith Langford, Jeff Hawkins and J.R. Giddens are there to make sure this is not an issue.
But the wild card is Miles. In the past, opposing point guards would back off of Miles because they didn't respect his perimeter shooting but had to respect his ability to drive the lane.
Now, Miles must make these defenses pay. Before this season, Miles had received little fanfare from the national media as being one of the top point guards in the nation.
No one will question that Miles has a lot of talent and potential. He's shown he is great at dishing the ball to his teammates and playing great defense.
I know Miles has the ability to become a solid three point shooter, and I believe that's the only thing preventing him from being the best point guard in the nation. It's a deficiency he will surely overcome.
Hwang is an Overland Park senior in communication studies.
Bonds to testify to jury for drug use
SAN FRANCISCO — Barry Bonds weighed 185 pounds as a rookie in 1986, when he was a slender leadoff hitter known more for stealing bases than hitting homers.
Now he's a muscle-bound 230 pounds, a six-time National League MVP who holds the season record for home runs and is gaining on Hank Aaron's career mark.
Bonds says his increased strength comes from intense weight training, a proper diet and nutritional supplements from companies such as the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, or BALCO.
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Still, when Bonds testifies today in a probe focusing on possible tax and drug violations by BALCO, the grand jurors and fans across the country might wonder whether his muscular development has been entirely natural.
Bonds, 59, repeatedly has denied using steroids and argues that his evolution as a home run hitter has been steady.
"Go look at the back of my bubble gum card," he said after winning a third straight MVP award last month. "My numbers are consistent."
Except for 1989, Bonds has hit at least 24 homers in each of his 17 full seasons. The only dramatic jump came in 2001, when his record 73 homers marked the
only time he topped 50.
On the other hand, four of Bonds' five biggest homer totals came in the last four seasons, all after his 35th birthday.
Bonds will be the biggest name to appear before the grand jury.
basketball, swimming and volleyball — already have appeared. That includes track star Marion Jones and her boyfriend, 100-meter world record-holder Tim Montgomery, four Oakland Raiders and Olympic champion swimmer Amy Van Dyken.
An appearance before the grand jury, or being subpoenaed to testify, does not mean an athlete is a target of the probe.
FOOTBALL
Conference coaches name Kansas players All-Big 12
Twelve members of the Kansas football team were honored yesterday as All-Big 12 performers by coaches in the conference.
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For the second straight season the Jayhawks had the conference's Offensive Newcomer of the year, this time with center Joe Vaughn. Quarterback Bill Whittemore took home the honor last year.
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Vaughn, a first-year Jayhawk transferred to Kansas following two seasons at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M
He allowed just one sack all year in 372 pass attempts.
The All-Big 12 Third Team included six Javhawks.
Those players are senior quarterback Bill Whittemore, junior center Joe Vaughn, senior offensive lineman Adrian Jones, sophomore linebacker Gabe Toomey, senior punter Curtis Ansel and freshman wide receiver Charles Gordon.
The following received honorable mention: sophomore receiver Mark Simmons, sophomore tailback Clark Green, sophomore linebacker Nick Reid, sophomore linebacker Banks Floodman, junior safety Tony Stubbs and freshman tailback John Randle.
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Chiefs' Kennison sick of Broncos talking trash
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City wide receiver Eddie Kennison blasted the Denver Broncos and coach Mike Shanahan yesterday, and seemed to promise that the Chiefs would beat them this week.
Kennison, who started six games for the Broncos in 2011 and then was dismissed for quitting the team the night before a game, insisted that the Chiefs are the NFL's best team.
"You can believe that," he said. "If you think I'm not serious, I'm about to get emotional right now just thinking about it."
Controversy with the Broncos is nothing new for Kennison. He has said he walked out on the team because his wife was going through a difficult pregnancy
But many Denver players at the time expressed anger.
The Chiefs (11-1) can clinch the AFC West title Sunday and take another step toward securing homefield advantage by beating the Broncos (7-5). In Kansas City in October, the Chiefs ended the game with a one-point victory despite getting outplayed in many statistics.
Kennison said he was upset by remarks he had heard in the Denver media leading up to Sunday's game in Denver.
"They better get ready," Kennison said. "We're the best team in the NFL right now. They better understand that. They better respect it."
Kennison said he was particularly disturbed that someone in Denver had referred to the Chiefs as "frauds."
"We'd rather be 11-1 frauds than 7-5 hanging from a string for Mike Shanahan," he said. "When you're really scared, that's when you make quotes in the paper like that."
"Well, OK, then he's scared, too." he said. "Scared of what you all might write. I need to write something about him."
Kennison was unfazed when told that it was Denver Post columnist Mark Kissla and not the players who said the Chiefs were frauds.
Kennison, who has caught 42 passes for 601 yards and three touchdowns, said he was also irritated because he'd been told there was criticism in Denver of Kansas City coach Dick Vermeil.
"They talk about our coach. Ask them about their coach," he said. "Ask them what kind of person he is."
Moving defensive back Deltha O'Neal to wide receiver, Kennison said, was just a way for Shanahan to "find a scapegoat."
"He had his select few people he liked being around, he liked having," Kennison said. "Why do you think John Elway left? John Elway didn't like that guy. It was his way or no way. If it's not his way, it's the highway."
The Chiefs have also been irritated at remarks by Denver safety Kanoy Kennedy, who said, "We physically whipped them" after the Chiefs won in October on Dante Hall's 93-yard punt return.
On that play, Julian Battle got away with an apparent clip that may have helped spring Hall for his NFL-record fourth straight game with a touchdown return.
Yesterday's University Daily Kansan contained an error. The article about Kansas tailback Clark Green, labeled him as a senior. Green is a sophomore.
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SAILING
KU Sailing Club place sixth in Lake Michigan regatta
As most students went home to relax, three KU students spent their Thanksgiving break sailing in the blistering cold weather of Illinois.
The KU sailing club finished sixth out of 12 teams in the Chicago Yacht Club's 47th annual Timme Angsten Memorial Regatta. Sailors competed in two divisions in the Lake Michigan race; with Chris LaBorde, Shreveport, La., senior, competing on the A team, and Tim Fitzgerald, Wichita freshman, and Rusty Morgan, Libertyville, Ill., junior, competing on the B team. Both divisions sailed 18 races, and point totals were compiled for final results with the team with the least points winning.
Both divisions got off to a slow start Friday. With temperatures in the mid-20s and chilling 20 mph winds from the northwest, the University of Kansas finished the day in 10th place. Water froze to the boats making sailing difficult, Fitzgerald said, but Kansas finished with 128 points that day; 84 points behind leaders Boston College.
Saturday temperatures dropped near freezing as the teams sailed another six races. Winds were milder, enabling Kansas to jumped to sixth place. In one race Kansas defeated all other eleven schools and it finished within the top five consistently in the other races.
On the last day of the Regatta weather again helped Kansas. Mild winds and 40-degree temperatures made for enjoyable sailing, Fitzgerald said.
Kansas was able to maintain its sixth place position throughout the day, eventually finishing sixth overall. Boston College finished first with a total of 190 points, second was Wisconsin with 258 points, leading them to win the MCSA Fall Championship. Kansas finished with 530 points.
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Kansas football players receive All Big-12 recognition. Joe Vaughn is named Offensive Newcomer of the year. PAGE 7A
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sports commentary
Thursday, December 4, 2003
SPORTS EDITOR
Kevin Flaherty
kflaherty@kansan.com
When Mark Mangino took over coaching the Kansas football team, there were skeptics who claimed he couldn't get the job done.
Players respond to Mangino's coaching
As offensive coordinator for the Oklahoma team, Mangino was accused of losing a chance at the national championship in 2001 because of a lack of a consistent offense. And everyone ranging from newspaper columnists to anonymous callers to The University Daily Kansan's Free for All questioned how athletes would respect someone who had weight problems.
Yet today the Jayhawks are 6-6 and bowl eligible because of the job Mangino has done as a coach. He has done a fantastic job as a recruiter and surrounded himself with a talented staff. Even more than that though, Mangino was the perfect hire for the Kansas job because he is a good players' coach.
It's not often the word good is used with the term players' coaches lately. The term carries a sort of negative connotation that implies a lack of team discipline. Case in point: former Jayhawks coach Terry Allen was considered a players' coach too.
Several coaches have attempted to change their image to a more discipline-oriented focus because of that connation. John Makovic, generally considered to be a great players coach, tried to become harsher, but was recently fired for his rough ways and salty language at Arizona.
Make no mistake about it, Mangino runs a tight ship. If a player skips class, he has to face the consequences. If the player is a trouble-maker, like former Jayhawks Reggie Duncan and Mario Kinsey, he's off the team. If the player doesn't want to work, he can forget about play time.
But there is a softer side. At press conferences after the team's six losses, Mangino stayed upbeat and focused on the positives. He refused to let the team
SEE FLAHERTY ON PAGE 6A
Self: Team toughening
By Chris Wintering
cwintering@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
Despite being 3-0 and having the No. 1-ranked team in the nation, Kansas coach Bill Self said he thought his team had a long way to go before they were what he deemed as tough.
"We're not what I would consider a team full of pit bulls, although I think we're gaining on it," he said.
After the team's biggest victory of the early season, an 81-74 victory over then No.3 Michigan State,junior guard
Aaron Miles did not want to hear about toughness.
"I don't know who questioned our toughness." Miles said. "We just go out there and give it our all, that's all we can do."
But Self is not questioning his players' toughness as much as he is trying to mold them into his kind of team. For Self, that will always involve getting tougher.
Remember, this is the same coach that put his team through boot camp before this season's start. Self had his players attending two training sessions a day, with the first starting at 6:30 a.m., during
the two-week camp.
Self is also the same coach who showed up in full army fatigues and told his team, "It's time to go to war" at his first practice as the Illinois coach.
"Looking back since we started coaching, I've done some crazy things," Self said. "Thank goodness administrators didn't find out we were doing them as it went along."
SEE BASKETBALL ON PAGE 6A
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Coach Bill Self yelled at his team during the first half of the Michigan State game Nov. 25. Despite the team's ranking as No.1, Self has said he didn't think the Jayhawks were tough enough.
'Hawks to make history
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Kansas volleyball coach Ray Bechard talked to senior outside hitter Sarah Rome during Kansas' defeat of Texas A&M on Nov. 22. Kansas will play Long Beach State in its first NCAA Tournament match tonight at 6 p.m. CST at Pepperidge University in Mallibu, Calif.
Vollevball in NCAA match
By Mike Norris
mnorris@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
After 28 years of Kansas volleyball, the program will play in its first ever NCAA Tournament match at 6 p.m. CST tonight.
The Jayhawks will take on the Long Beach State 49ers on Pepperdine University's campus in Malibu. Calif
Kansas hasn't played a team from the West Coast this season. Since arriving in Malibu on Tuesday, the team has relied on game film to prepare.
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Bouch State, 8
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University in
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"They are comparable to Texas or
Defensive specialist Jill Dorsey
said the 49ers heavily relied on defense.
Texas A & M," senior Abbie Jacobson said. "We know we can play with them."
"I'm going to try and match their defensive mentality," the junior said.
Dorsey leads the team with 3.49 digs per game. She will have to do at least that for the Jayhawks to be competitive. The 49ers have two players who average more than 3.8 kills per game.
However, the more balanced Jayhawk team has four players averaging more than 3.10 kills per game.
Kansas coach Ray Bechard said there weren't a lot similarities between the two teams. They play differently on the court and have different histories. But once the teams take the court, it won't matter.
If the Jayhawks advance, they will play the winner of Pepperdine and Manhattan at 6 p.m. CST tomorrow.
tournament and went 25-2 during the season. Manhattan was one of the last teams to squeak into the tournament with a record of 25-13.
The Jayhawks, however, have turned all of their attention to their first-round match.
The players echoed each other in saying they don't care who they are playing, but Long Beach State might.
Long Beach State junior setter Jillian Mazzarella has played against the Jayhawks before. She transferred from Baylor after her sophomore year. Freshman middle blocker Natalie Uhart is from Lansing and was recruited by the Jayhawks. She chose the 49ers and now has a chance to play against a team that recruited her.
But once the first whistle is blown, the two teams won't be thinking about anything but winning the first-round match.
They have forgotten about the beach and are focused on the hardwood floor.
"It's time to survive and advance," Bechard said.
VOLLEYBALL NOTES
- Tonight's match-up will be the first ever meeting between the two teams.
- Kansas prepares to play its first ever postseason match, while Long Beach State has played in nine Final Fours and won five National Championships.
The Jayhawks head into the match having won seven of their last eight matches, while the 49ers have won six out of seven.
Pepperdine is the No. 4 seed in the — Edited by Nikki Overfelt
Tangerine Bowl 2003
Wide receivers proven, well-rounded
Jerricho Cotchery
6-foot-1,200 pounds Senior,Birmingham,Ala
Key Stats — For all of the success quarterback Philip Rivers has enjoyed the past two seasons for the Wolfpack, a lot of credit should go to Cotchery. At a school becoming known for producing outstanding NFL wideouts, Cotchery has put up huge numbers the past two seasons. Cotchery racked up just under 1,200 receiving yards in both 2002 and 2003, and is especially hot as of late. Of his six 100-yard performances this season, four of them have come in the Wolfpack's past four games.
Accomplishments — Cotchery is well on his way to becoming a two-time firstteam All-ACC performer in 2003. In 2002, Cotchery joined Torry Holt and Koren Robinson as just the third North Carolina State receiver to surpass receiving 1,000 yards in a season, and tied the school record with his seven 100-yard performances. His reception totals of 67 in 2002 and 73 in 2003 rank third and second on the school's all-time single season list, respectively.
Just In-The Nick Of Time — Everyone knows Philip Rivers is one of the nation's
top quarterbacks, but during the past two seasons, spelling him with tailback T.A. McLendon has made him more effective. In the four games McLendon missed with injuries this season, Cotchery has stepped up his play, averaging 144.5 vards in those
Cotchery
four games. That also includes a career high 217 yards on nine catches in a 47-34 victory against North Carolina Sept. 27. Cotchery has also been known to tough out his own injuries. Last season, he suffered a high ankle sprain in a loss against Maryland and was listed as "doubtful" the week after. However, he still suited up and caught eight balls for 108 yards.
A Respectable Intangible -- While wide receivers are sometimes viewed as the prima donnas of the football field, Cotchery enjoys doing the dirty work. In particular, he is one of the nation's top wide receivers for blocking. Cotchery set a Wolfpack wide receiver single-game record in 2002 with eight knockdown blocks in a victory over North Carolina.
—compiled by Ryan Greene
Charles Gordon 5-foot-11, 165 pounds Freshman, Carson, Calif
Key Stats — Where to start? First, as a receiver, Gordon led the Jayhawks with 53 receptions and tallied 696 yards with four touchdowns. Not bad for a guy who started the season as the No. 3 wideout. As a punt returner, Gordon was one of the Big 12 Conference's finest returnmen, averaging 13.1 yards per return in 25 attempts this season. Finally, as a defensive back in the season's final three games, Gordon made an immediate impression. In those three contests, Gordon had 13 tackles, one sack and two pass breakups.
Accomplishments — Gordon is a frontrunner to haul in the Big 12 Freshman of the Year honors. His 53 receptions set a new Kansas freshman single-season record. He continually impressed coach Mark Mangino with his toughness and athleticism. The ability to play three ways can be partly attributed to starring in high school basketball, baseball and football. He also became the first player in Kansas history to be named the offensive, defensive and special teams player of the game on separate occasions, all in the same season.
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Gordon
Chicks Dig The Long Ball — No, that term is not just good for baseball anymore. It is impressive to pull in a hail mary pass, but three in one season is just plain ridiculous. That's just what Gordon did in 2003.
■ Filling The Gap — When senior quarterback Bill Whittemore went down against Kansas State, Gordon stepped up to aid freshman signal caller Adam Barmann over the next three weeks. Gordon's three highest single-game reception totals came in the three weeks of Whittemore's absence. Those games included nine-reception performances against both Oklahoma State and Texas A&M.
He Takes A Lickin', And Keeps On Tickin' — The one knock on Gordon this year is that he sometimes tends to not call fair catches on punt returns and pays the price with vicious hits. It hasn't cost Kansas a turnover so far, and it obviously doesn't get Gordon off track. The 165-pound freshman can take a beating with the best of them.
---compiled by Ryan Greene
Students worried about the costs of attending the Tangerine Bowl Dec. 22 in Orlando, received good news yesterday. Athletics director Lew Perkins announced that any KU student could receive the $45-dollar ticket for free, compliments of the athletics department.
Athletics Department gives free tickets to bowl-bound
For the first time since 1995, Kansas students can watch their football team participate in a bowl game, but unlike 1995, students will get into the game for free.
Those who wish to obtain the free ticket must go to the Kansas athletic ticket office. Students must fill out a form and present their KUID to receive a voucher, which is redeemable at the Kansas will-call window at the Citrus Bowl in Orlando. Students have until 5 p.m. Dec. 15 to pick up their vouchers. The same person who picks up the voucher at the athletic ticket office must pick up the ticket at the Citrus Bowl. The seats will be in the same section as the other Kansas fans.
The tickets were not given to the athletics department from the Tangerine Bowl.
Student Union Activities is offering a travel package with STA Travel. For more information, contact STA Travel or SUA in the Kansas Union. The trip include round-trip bus transportation and hotel fees, with packages starting at $255.
TALK TO SPORTS: Contact JJ Hensley and Shane Mettlen at **SPORTS@KANSAN.COM**
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Learn the underlying message of what happens when you sleep and dream. BY JACQUELINE LENART
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18 KU student Matthew Candelaria receives one of the most coveted prizes in science fiction writing.
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THURSDAY man in black [glasses]
be-spectacled correspondent from The Daily Show with John Stewart will perform in the Kansas Union Ballroom at 7:30 p.m. You might remember Mo from his commentary on VH1 I Love the '80s series or his Mr. Goodwrench commercials. Catch a piece of his wit for $7 with a KUID or $10 without. The Fourth of July CD release show will he at The Eighth Street Tap Room, 801 New Hampshire St., at 10 p.m. Fourth of July will celebrate its latest album release with newcomer Matt Rice, recently deflowered on the Lawrence music scene after debuting at the Replay on Nov. 29. The Fourth of July was originally vocalist Brendan Hanguaers' solo project, but the Lawrence quintet is now a healthy melting pot of Lawrence rockers, featuring Andrew Conner of Ghosty, Justin Roelofs of The Anniversary and two other Hanguaers: Kelly and Patrick. This indie-rockin' fête is for those 21 and older and costs $2.
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ENSUES. The Big Jeter AV Club is
The Big Jeter A/V Club is dedicated to the preservation of two things: bad film and good hillbilly funk music. On the first Saturday of every month this secret society takes both loves to the Fine Arts Theatre, 11119 Johnson Drive, in Shawnee, for a night of weirdness and fun. It's hard to say what will happen at an A/V Club meeting, expect anything from live bands to contests to screenings of such movie classics as The Trial of Billy Jack and Godspell. All we can tell you is to just show up at midnight with your $5 entrance fee and see what happens. While you wait for the A/V Club meeting, head over to El Torreon, 3101 Gillham Plaza, in Kansas City, Mo., for Phoney Jam! This semi-regular event features Kansas City's best rock musicians playing each other's material in a musical chairs-style set. The game starts at 7 p.m. and is all ages. A price has yet to be announced.
SUNDAY tune n' zoom. Come dig the
Christmas Vespers at the Lied Center for a jump-start into your Christmas holiday. The music department will thrill you with classic renditions of your favorite holiday music and relax you with the rhythms of the season. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. and tickets are $10 for students and children. Or shop for moveable Christmas gifts at the Kansas City Fall Dream Classic, a classic car auction. Browse some pretty, pretty vehicles and, beginning at 11 a.m., place your bid to take them home. It's free to look, so head to the BTC Exhibit Hall.
1775 Universal Ave., in Kansas City, Mo., to do some dreaming.
TUESDAY philanthropy. Rock out for a good
cause tonight at the Douglas County Aids Project Benefit Concert. Rockin' rockabillies Arthur Dodge and the Horsefeathers are the featured band, supported by other great local acts: Julia Peterson, Andrew Connor, Jeff Ferrell and Matt Rice, who's awfully busy this
DC&P Douglas County AIDS Project
week. There's something for all kinds of music lovers at this show, genres range from singer-songwriter folk to catchy indie-rock. Plus,the price is right.The 18 and older show is $7 if you can't legally drink and $5 for the older than 21 set.The concert starts at 9 p.m.at Teller's,746 Massachusetts St.
WEDNESDAY ku idol
think you have the talent to wow the crowd? Open Mic Night at the Kansas Union is for you. This Student Union Activities free event will give you the opportunity to be in the spotlight, displaying your musical talent. The top performer will receive $50 and you can even sign up for your chance to become an actual star. So, show up at the Hawk's Nest at 7 p.m. and hang around
until 9 p.m., performing for others and applauding them in return. For more info, call 864-2431. Or watch the Jayhawks show off their talent on the court instead. Wander over to Allen Fieldhouse or just tune in as the men's basketball team faces Fort Hays State. Tip off is at 7 p.m.
FRIDAY crazy for EMU
Sometimes it's OK to go nuts. Lawrence's own E.M.U. The theatre brings Edgar Allen Poe to the stage in And Much of Madness, playing at 8:30 p.m. at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.The play combines farce horror and poetry to tell the story of a mismanaged local theater company attempting to stage a play about Edgar Allen Poe. Tickets are $5.Local theater takes a different meaning in Kansas City tonight at Up Against the Wall. This monthly event showcases the best short movies by Kansas City filmmakers.The films are projected onto a wall at 19th and Baltimore streets, across from the Doniphan Gallery in the Crossroads Art District, beginning at sunset. It's free, but it's also al fresco so call 913-649-0244 to make sure weather permits.
MONDAY all ages.
The Jane's Addiction show at the Beaumont Club in Kansas City is sold out tonight, but here's another veteran big-name band to check out—and it's in Lawrence! 311 is coming to Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts St. starting at 8 p.m. For $32.50, the reggae-inspired rock, ever popular in the '90s, can be enjoyed by all ages. Tonight there's also a local rock n' roll show brought to you by the friendly folks at Pipeline Productions. Poison the Well, Every Time I Die, The Bronx and Codeseven will be at The Bottleneck, 737 New
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Hampshire St. The opening bands will begin at 9 p.m for the all-age show. Tickets are $7.
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A cross between Subway and Chipotle, the mind-boggling menu at Roly Poly features more than 50 hot and cold wrap sandwiches. A vast array of veggie, turkey ham, pork, steak, roast beef, chicken and seafood wraps await, all with various cheeses, sauces or spreads in them. Some of the wraps are served warm with the help of a hot pressure plate to grill the wrap, so it's a healthy option. Try the California Turkey wrap: turkey breast, bacon, cheddar cheese, scallions, lettuce tomato, avocado, sprouts, mango chutney and ranch dressing.
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person, but when I'm expecting lasagna, I don't want tomato soup. The flavors didn't mesh well.
I haven't had Hamburger Helper since before I learned to cook, a coveted art in my family. I won't say that I am a gourmet chef; I'll just say that I can make a meal without a helper, but I have to say, I enjoyed the Zesty Italian. It was quick and easy. Just add ground beef. Would I serve it to my boyfriend over candlelight? No, but would I feed it to him over beers? Yes. I did feel the need to add salt and pepper to taste, and I added some Parmesan cheese on The Zesty Italian gets
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I like Zatarain commercials. They make everyone in Louisiana look like Emeril Lagasse. So, I bought a Zatarain's Jambalaya. I loved it. You add some sausage to the Jambalaya, and it's a whole meal. You cook it just like Hamburger Helper, but it's better because besides the meat, I didn't have to add a thing. It's spicy even without the sausage, and if you're not feeling the sausage, the box says you can add cooked chicken, ham or shrimp. It also gives you variations to lessen the spicyness. You should know that this is not a meal you can eat and go for a jog. It's filling, and I learned the hard way. I give the Jambalaya three and a half plates for taste, four plates for ease and three and a half for quickness.
The Jambalaya was definitely the best. It was tasty, easy and fast. The one that
was the most trouble was the tomato soup lasagna. It could just be me, but it wasn't impressive enough for the effort. At 15 minutes, when it was supposed to be done, it wasn't. Maybe it was my substitution. Maybe it just doesn't work.
—Brandi Garvin, Jayplay writer, can be reached at bgarvin@kansan.com
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looking for love
Homosexuals face challenges and social pressures when looking for that special someone. BY BECKY ROGERS
Relationships are tricky. They fill us with questions, doubts and worries. They play such a large role in our lives that at Jayplay we devote an entire section to them every week. But when you throw in the word gay, you introduce an entirely new set of problems and questions.
Like everyone, homosexuals are trying to navigate their way through a maze of people looking for that special someone. Like everyone, they face the challenges of meeting someone, dating and working on relationships. But unlike everyone else they have to maneuver around the stigma that society attaches to their relationship because of the words that classify them.
Meeting people, for example, is never easy. It is always hard to walk up to someone you are interested in and start a conversation, but if you are homosexual you could be putting yourself in danger, Jacqueline Weinstock, co-author of Lesbian Friendships: For Ourselves and Each Other, says. She says that before you approach someone, you need to make sure they are gay by looking for signs in the conversation or asking around.
Hitting on someone who is straight could lead to verbal or even physical abuse. "You can't just go anywhere and hit on someone," Patrick Ross, Topeka sophomore and director of Queers and Allies says. "Everyone assumes you are straight until proven gay. Even I do that." Weinstock agrees that before you approach someone you need to make sure they are gay by looking for signs in the conversation or asking around.
Events and organizations sponsored by gay and lesbian groups are the safest ways to meet other homosexuals. When Ross
was a teenager, the Internet was the only outlet he had for meeting other gay men. Sites such as gay.com and match.com as well as personal ads are good resources for meeting other homosexuals. However always make sure you take precautions to protect yourself before meeting someone face to face. Queers and Allies is also an excellent resource for homosexual students. It hosts social events such as potlucks and parties that provide an opportunity to meet other homosexuals in a safe environment. Other events such as "Family Night" at Jack Flanigans Bar and Grill, 806 W. 24th St., on Wednesdays provide a place for gays and lesbians to meet.
Once they have found someone they are interested in, same-sex couples have to deal with issues that aren't present in heterosexual relationships. Couples with one partner in the closet and another partner out have a hard time reconciling that difference. This is challenging to the partner who is out because he does not feel the need to hide his relationship. Often this is a part of the criteria for choosing someone to date, Ross says.
Another challenge is displaying affection in public. Heterosexual couples have more freedom to display affection than homosexual couples, says Kim Howard, co-editor of Out and About Campus: Personal Accounts by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender College Students. Although she has been with her partner Annie Stevens, who is also a co-editor of Out and About Campus, for 10 years, they still do not feel comfortable even holding hands in public. Public displays of affection for same-sex couples can put them in situations where others
become rude or even violent toward them, she says. Ross says even though he would feel comfortable holding hands with his boyfriend in Lawrence, he definitely would not do the same thing in Topeka.
Howard a nd Stevens advise homo-sexual couples to remember that the external pressures that are put on same-sex couples increase the normal internal pressures of a relationship. Make sure your problems have to do with what is going on in your relationship rather than outside influences.
Even with the recent attention on gay lifestyles and culture, especially in shows such as Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and Boy Meets Boy both on Bravo, homosexual relationship are still not fully accepted in society. Howard, Stevens and Weinstock agree that these shows mostly perpetuate stereotypes, but they do think that the shows have started a dialogue about gay relationships and have helped with visibility. Ross says these shows will eventually help gay relationships become more accepted.
-Becky Rogers, Jayplay writer, can be reached at brogers@kansan.com.
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Her index finger nervously taps the computer mouse as her brown eyes glaze over the screen in contemplation. After what seems to be 15 minutes, with one swift click she sends the e-mail, outing herself to a coworker. At 22, Sarah Burris faces the same fear she had at 16 coming out to herself, a high school teacher and friend turned lover - acceptance.
The Lawrence junior strongly supports gay activism and is treasurer of the University of Kansas' Queers and Allies, but she still sometimes finds it difficult to tell people she's a lesbian. Burris' sexual orientation is even a secret to one of the people who means most to her, her grandfather. Keeping it hidden from him is hard but she says she will tell him when the time is right. "Sometimes I feel like 'how can he not know?'" Burris says. "I think he'd be really accepting within time, but it's really scary."
While she's proud of her homosexuality, she hates the awkwardness and assumptions that come with it. Burris still isn't sure when to tell people she's gay and says it's prevented her from joining a sorority and getting involved in other campus activities. She says it's common for people to think she's talking about a boyfriend when she refers to an ex, and she still hasn't overcome the fear of asking if a girl she's interested in is a lesbian.
Difficulty defining lesbian relationships inspired author Mo Brownsey's Is It a Date or Just Coffee? The Gay Girl's Guide to Dating, Sex & Romance. Brownsey says it's difficult for gay women to know if they're going to a movie as a friend or a love interest. She says when two lesbians do connect, there's pressure to make that last. "We're so socialized to associate great sex with love that we have to make great lustful affairs into relationships," she says.
Burris has gone head over heels a few times while at the University but hasn't had any serious relationships other than her fantasy one with Ellen DeGeneres, whose daytime talk show she tapes daily
to watch after work. Burris says most of Lawrence's lesbians are in relationships and jokes that every few years they all break up and shift around to another girl or eventually end up getting back together with their ex. "If you're not careful you can miss the shift and end up being the single girl again," Burris says. "I always miss the shift; I think I usually sleep in those days."
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Stereotypes and stigmas cause discomfort for Burris when she's dating. In public and even around friends she's had problems being affectionate with her ex partner. Discomfort is a way of life that Burris plans on ending through her gay activism. She says her goal is to make her role as an activist obsolete, freeing gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transvestites from social barriers. She says with full confidence that those changes will happen within her lifetime.
The lesbian scene is misconceived with notions of "flannel bars" and softball games, Burris says, but she thinks that all lesbians don't fit the confinement of the femme/butch roles. Her black, thick-rimmed glasses and long dyed red hair are evidence of the unfitting stereotype. "We don't hate men nor do we want to be men," Burris says. "Shocking as it may be, some of us have flannel and lipstick and wear them both at the same time." Burris says she didn't become a lesbian because she can't get a man and hates that people think she just needs the right man to come along.
Lesbians are seen as long-nailed and lipsticked for men, Brownsey says. She says unlike gay men, women aren't a threat to male homophobes because they are erotic. Heterosexual women oppositely see lesbians as sweet and sexless. Brownsey says that women are not seen to be sexual on their own, but rather that it takes men to make that association. "If one woman is butch then there's that gender threat," she says.
—Jacqueline Lenart, Jayplay writer, can be reached at jlenart@kansan.com.
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health & fitness
dodging the bug Preventing colds and influenza is just a few simple steps away. BY LAUREN REIDY
It's ironic. By the time I sat down with physician Myra Strother to discuss how to avoid illnesses this cold and flu season, it was already too late. I was sick. Strother, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center, spoke patiently as I coughed and sniffled my way through the interview. But I found out that I wasn't alone.
"The average person suffers from an upper respiratory infection two to four times a year," Strother says. "And viruses tend to spread through larger groups of people throughout late fall, winter and early spring." Translation: your chances
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you are to get sick."
"When you sneeze and cough, you produce droplets that carry germs," Strother says. "The farther away you are from the person who is sneezing, the less likely
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For students who live in the dorms, maintaining distance can be a problem. Strother advises students to do their best. If your roommate is sick, study in the library.
"Also be really careful about putting down water and Coke bottles," she says. "You don't want to drink out of anything after someone else has taken a swig of it. You might get their cold."
If you're stuck in a small, poorly ventilated classroom, Strother suggests choosing a seat away from your classmates. Students who are sandwiched between sneezing and coughing passengers on an airplane should ask the flight attendant to
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Your kindergarten teacher was right. Washing
Step Two: Keep your hands clean
your hands is an easy and important way to kill germs and avoid illnesses. Surfaces such door knobs and classroom desks can be easily contaminated by an infected person. If you touch a contaminated surface and then rub your eyes or nose; you expose yourself to the virus or bacteria. You can even get sick by touching the sink faucet in a public bathroom.
"Push doors open without using your hands," Guinn says. "Be aware of just how many people sit in a desk before you."
Tammy Guinn, a nurse at Watkins, suggests students carry and use antibacterial cleansers or hand cloths. You don't need to be near a sink to use them and you can avoid the germs that cling to sink faucets.
Step Three: Maintain your immune system
If you're healthy, you're more likely to fight off any viruses and bacteria you're exposed to.
Follow these tips to improve your over-all health and prevent colds and influenza.
Listen to the Surgeon General; don't smoke. Smokers have four to five times more upper respiratory infections than nonsmokers, Strother says.
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Eat healthy. Contrary to popular belief, a person cannot survive on pizza alone. In fact, your body fights off viruses and bacteria most successfully when it's fueled by well-balanced meals Remember the food groups?
Get enough sleep. This can be tricky to do, especially when you have a paper to write, a final to study for and a social life to maintain. However, your body is more susceptible to illness when it is run down from lack of sleep. Most people need approximately eight hours of sleep a night.
Finally, get your flu shots. Watkins has given students approximately 2,800 shots so far this semester, Strother. These students won't have to deal with the nausea and aching muscles that accompany influenza.
If your already sick...
Students who are already suffering from cold or flu symptoms should call Watkins to determine whether they should make an appointment.
"We'll put you through to one of ourriage nurses," Strother says. "If we decide you need to come in, we'll make you an appointment. If not, we'll tell you how to take care of yourself at home."
Strother says students who are already sick should be considerate to those around them.
"Take a cough suppressant
and an antihistamine before going to class," she says. "Cough into a Kleenex. If you're coughing and sneezing, you're really doing your fellow students a disservice."
And suddenly, I felt very guilty about attending my Spanish class that morning.
Lauren Reidy, Jayplay writer, can be reached at lreidy@kansan.com.
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WARM YOUR HEART The Polar Run benefits your health and a child's. BY SARA BEHUNEK
In its 139 years, the University of Kansas has established many traditions: newspaper confetti at basketball games, waving the wheat and more recently, the cardinal blue T-shirt adorned with the ever-so-polite "Muck Fizzou." Our predecessors would be so proud. The Polar Run, a 5-kilometer walk or run and 10-kilometer run, might be the next on that list. Sponsored by the University f Kansas
Recreation Services, the first-ever Polar Run aims at collecting warm clothes for the local Ballard Community Center, 708 Elm St. The center offers outreach programs, provides assistance to families in need and offers childcare services for infants to elementary-aged kids.
Each participant pays $7 and receives a long-sleeve T-shirt.
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from the KU Bookstore. Coca-Cola, Yello Sub, Great Harvest and the Community Mercantile will cater the event with food and water for participants.
The activity benefits local organizations and promotes the Recreation Center. Students, faculty and community members who have not seen the campus's most recent pride and joy will take their first look when they participate in the
The fee will pay for the Polar Run T-shirt. Participants are encouraged to bring child-size, or at least small-sized winter items. Sign-up sheets are located at the Student Fitness Recreation Center or at a booth in the Kansas Union today and tomorrow.
Event organizer Julie Welsh will award participants with prizes such as mittens, hats and Nalgene bottles donated from Backwoods Outdoor Store, a bowling party from Jay Bowl or a gift certificate
repeat the route.
run, says Welsh, Prairie Village senior and personal trainer program manager. The 5-kilometer walk or run (3.1 miles) begins at the Recreation Center, circles to Sunnyside Ave, goes up the hill, around Jayhawk Boulevard, atop Daisy Hill and ends back at the Recreation Center. Ten-kilometer (6.2 miles) runners will
One month in the works, this event will signify the first of its kind in 10 years. "I've had some sleepless nights worrying about this," Welsh says. But with 15 Recreation Center employee volunteers, she is confident the run will be a success for the center, positively affecting KU tradition and especially children in need.
—Sara Behunek, Jayplay writer, can be reached at sbehunek@kansan.com.
- Participants will run or walk 5 kilometers, the equivalent of 3.1 miles, beginning and ending at the Student Recreation Center. Ten-kilometer runners will repeat the route.
POLAR RUN SPECIFICS
- The $7 participation fee pays for a Polar Run long-sleeve T-shirt. Participants are encouraged to bring child-size winter items.
CHOOSE YOUR POWER BY LAUREN KARP
- Participants can win prizes donated from Backwoods Outdoor Store, Jay Bowl, Jayhawk Bookstore, Coca-Cola, Yello Sub and the Community Mercantile.
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The makers of PowerBar have a section on their Web site, www.powerbar.com, under the nutrition tips, which stresses to include all of the proper carbohydrates, fat, protein and essential vitamins and minerals in your diet. One cannot live off power bars alone.
Although they are easy to grab and have good-for-you ingredients, power bars do not take the place of other foods you need that also provide much-needed nutrients. As you begin your hunt for the perfect power bar, keep in mind that each person requires different nutrients. Nancy O'Connor, director of education and outreach at the Community Mercantile, 901 Iowa St., says you should speak with a health food storeowner or a nutritionist to find out what nutrients are necessary for your body. You should also read the nutrition labels on the bars before purchasing to make sure those bars suit your needs.
like, carbohydrate-packed bar substitutes
Some newer options available include Clif Bars' Ice Series, which offers three caffeine-enhanced bars fortified with vitamins and minerals. Clif Bars also offers Luna Bars, which are marketed toward women and have the nutrients essential to a woman's needs: calcium, iron, selenium and folic acid. These bars have a fair number of carbohydrates and contain about 10- to -12 grams of protein per bar.
If a bar doesn't sound appetizing, try gulping your nutrients from a gel packet. PowerBar and Clif Bars offer these jelly-
that are sure to give you a quick burst of energy.
Power Shakes
Power Shakes Power shakes come in many different forms; you can add a little bit of power in various forms to a fruit smoothie. Vegetarians use them as a form of protein. Athletes use power shakes for extra nutrients, specifically carbohydrates. Then there are those who lack a diet, which provides them with the nutrients they need to live a healthy life. Although these shakes, should not substitute for all your meals, as long as you supplement them with other foods, it is okay to drink a shake as a meal replacement for one of your meals.
Aaron Boos, owner of the Lawrence Nutrition Center doesn't see a lot of cons in using power shakes as a meal substitute.
Boos says, "You can still get all of your vitamins and minerals and you cut your calories in half. You'll get higher amounts of protein and carbohydrates and the amount of fat will be lower."
Everyone needs to use a power shake that is geared towards him or her. Experts say soy protein is good for regulating women's hormones; it contains isoflavones for heart and bone protection, it prevents breast and endometrial cancer and it aides in lowering cholesterol. It is best to buy soy protein made with non-genetically modified soybeans. One product on the market is the Revival Soy Protein Shake.
O'Connor says when buying a power shake you have to decide if you want it flavored or sweetened. That tends to make it cost more. She says you can buy whey or soy protein for a lot cheaper and just combine it with rice or soymilk and fruit and it will taste just as sweet.
—Lauren Karp, Jayplay writer, can be reached at lkarp@kansan.com.
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Defense mechanisms
Prepare yourself mentally and physically in case of an attack. BY MAGGIE KOERTH
Alexa Redford used to walk home from work through the alleys between Tennessee and Kentucky streets. But for nearly two months the Prairie Village senior has driven the short distance. She says she is afraid of being attacked again. On Sept. 17, Redford was walking when a man pushed her against a wall and began to fondle her. Although her first response was to freeze in fear, Redford quickly began to fight back, kicking, biting and hitting her attacker. She screamed for help and when he hit her, she fought harder. Eventually, she managed to chase him off.
Redford's experience isn't unique. From the beginning of January to the end of March 2003, Lawrence police recorded 11 rapes, seven forcible fondlings, 60 aggravated assaults and 202 simple assaults, according to the Kansas Incident Based Reporting System Statistics. Redford took her safety into her own hands and didn't wait for someone to help her. Paula McCallum, executive director of The American Women's Self-Defense Association (AWSDA), says your personal survival begins and ends with you. Taking the time to learn even just the basics of self-defense is one of the most important things you can do for yourself. It isn't as hard as it sounds.
For one thing, three-fourths of self-defense is mental, not physical. Tom Moser is a police officer who owns Tactical Concepts, Inc., a self-defense center in Rolla, Mo. His center is the closest facility to Lawrence that is licensed through the AWSDA. Moser says a developing a survivor mentality is the best thing a person can do to protect herself. Redford didn't know any self-defense techniques and she'd never been trained in martial arts, but she did have the will to survive. Redford says she considers herself an activist and feminist. "I had this mindset to be angry that things like this happened to women," she says.
RESOURCES
Lawrence and Kansas City have many martial arts schools. These are resources to get you in contact with self-defense specialists.
American Women's Self Defense Association: www.awsda.org.
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Tom Moser's Tactical Concepts, Inc. - He has offered to teach classes at the University of Kansas for large groups such as sororities or student organizations. He can be reached at www.taccal.com.
Impact of Kansas City - Self-defense training facility. 4030 Broadway Ave., Kansas City, Mo., (816) 931-8022.
While mace, guns and switchblades are commonly thought of to secure safety, knowing self defense techniques can ensure students safe outings in Lawrence.
"I remember just being furious when it happened to me. Feeling that, instead of being afraid, it helped me not to freeze up." Moser says the survival mindset also affects how you present yourself. He sights research done in federal prisons that found criminals were more likely to attack a police officer if the officer's demeanor or appearance gave the impression of weakness.
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Also keep in mind that self-defense isn't the same as martial arts. Both require training, even the mentality of survival has to be taught, but martial arts is just that, an art, and it takes years of training to learn. Erin Osbourn, Olathe senior, has been training in Tai Kwon Do for 12 years. She says some moves a person could learn easily (SEE SIDEBAR), but Tai Kwon Do is more of a sport and a lifestyle and isn't necessarily focused on teaching street skills.
In contrast, self-defense training cuts right to the heart of what you absolutely need to know if you are attacked. McCallum says the goal of this self-defense training is to enable people to
protect themselves against a bigger stronger, faster opponent. A self-defense training class might be as short as eight hours, but it still provides students with options for defending themselves. The
more options you have, the more likely you'll be able to defend yourself. Look for classes taught by certified self-defense trainers. Although people can teach themselves the survivor mentality, as
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Redford did, actual physical training should be learned in a classroom, not at home. Videotapes and books that teach self-defense are available, but you aren't the only one who can buy those. McCallum says that police have found copies of popular at-home courses in the homes of habitual predators. Another problem with videos and books is that they can't teach you how to safely use weapons.
The word 'weapon' is usually associated with items such as guns, knives and mace. Shoes might not be considered a weapon, but Moser says they can be,
especially heels. He says that if you hit someone in the head or chest with a shoe they are going to feel it. Car keys are another everyday item that can be used for defense. If placed between the fingers, they function as impromptu brass knuckles, perfect for disabling an attacker's sight. But weapons, whether traditional or makeshift, need to be used with caution. They don't always work as people expect them to. "Mace is the worst gift to give a niece or grandmother," McCallum says. "If you have a goal and you are determined to do something you can fight through a chemical spray very
easily. They don't stop attackers." Another problem with weapons is that people aren't always prepared to use them. If you carry a weapon of any kind you can't hesitate to use it, McCallum says. That gives the attacker an opportunity to use it against you. You have to be ready to do whatever damage you can. You have to be confident.
Confidence doesn't mean foolhardiness. McCallum and Moser stress that even the best-trained individuals still need to be aware of their surroundings Learning self-defense enables you to not have to inconvenience yourself out of
fear. It allows you to choose how you want to live, not be forced into do or not do something because you fear violent crime. "Take back the night' has to be more than just words," Moser says. "People need to be prepared. There has to be actions to back that up."
Alexa Redford is tired of driving what would be a 10-minute walk. Soon, she'll be starting a self-defense training course that she says she hopes will help her take back the confidence she lost that night in September.
Maggie Koerth, Jayplay writer, can be reached at mkoerth@kansan.com.
STUN AND RUN
Erin Osbourn, Olathe senior, demonstrates how to escape a chokehold. Moves such as this are simple to learn, but need to be practiced again and again. The move has to be second nature before it will be useful in an actual attack.
Osbourn pushes her attacker's arms away by hitting the joints in his elbows; then she makes an offensive move to disable him. "I'm not sure how guys feel about kicking another guy between the legs," she says. "But it's something I would definitely use if I had to."
Stunning an attacker long enough for you to get away is the ultimate goal of self-defense, Tom Moser says. Moser teaches self-defense at Tactical Concepts, Inc., a facility he owns in Rolla, Mo. He says the groin, throat and eyes are some of the vulnerable areas of the body that can be used to distract an attacker. "That will give you the time you need to turn away and run screaming," he says. "Once you start doing that the guy won't want to be there anymore."
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A UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PROFESSOR IS CULTIVATING THE NEXT GENERATION OF SCIENCE FICTION WRITERS.
"I believe in my dreams for my brain works hardest when I am asleep."
Fudoki
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Kij Johnson, a creative writing instructor, showed off the first two books in a three-part series Thursday at the Oread Bookstore in the Kansas Union. Fudoki, the second book in the series, is set in Medieval Japan. Fudoki has gained acclaim as one of the best fantasy and science fiction novels published this past year.
In this chapter, Candelaria wrote from the point of view of an alien bird that has been given the opportunity to meet the first diplomatic envoy sent by Earth. He nods and takes notes on his copy. Agnew started off this time and when he finished his appraisal, Seay laughed.
"I think you're being a mammal, Harold," Seay says.
Terms like "world building," "wing taboos" and "spot-on description" fly about this group like rockets intermittently bursting towards the stars. Sitting in with them is like bearing witness to a chop shop with a cadre of the world's top international chefs. Seeing them all together: Candelaria, Seay, Kij Johnson who recently published her new novel Fudoki you experience a rare and alien creative treasure in Lawrence. Experience now, how they formed through the work of James Gunn, a moment where they shined and what may be next.
Birth and Life of a Smaller Universe
At 80 years old, James Gunn, professor emeritus and director of The Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas, sees some aspects of the future he dreamt of in decades past. He's witnessed technology progress from the day of the dime magazine to a world filled with flashing screens and racing circuitry. He's a rare link that connects science fiction's past with its future. More importantly he's the link that brought this group to Lawrence.
Today, he sits in his office flanked by books. Yellowed pulps and glossy new paperbacks crowd the bookshelves behind him. Titles such as H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds and Gunn's own series, The Road to Science Fiction are only drops in an ocean of words that fills the office space. Everything in it, from the Star Trek coffee cup sitting on his desk to the fantasy, inspired screen saver on his computer, makes this place a temple to
speculative thought and fiction. Gunn, calm and relaxed, is science fiction's equivalent to an all-knowing, soft-spoken Indian guru.
"I think science fiction today has a reached a comfortable middle age," he says as he leans slightly into his computer chair. The genre had a boom in the late nineteen sixties, he says, when the youth wanted more color in the books they read and a way to rebel against the conservatism of their parents. Because of this, schools at the time, especially colleges, started offering classes on the study of science fiction.
Gunn, in turn, having already made a name for himself in the genre by publishing numerous short stories, realized that if the genre was going to be widely taught in the schools, then teachers needed a way to be educated in it. So, in 1974, he started a summer seminar to help teach science fiction in class rooms.
As the years progressed, this turned into a conference of some the nation's leading science fiction writers such as Frederick Pohl and the late Theodore Sturgeon. Then, as sci-fi was losing popularity in the classrooms throughout America, the conference and seminar evolved into a writer's workshop. There is still an academic portion to the summer program, but the writers that the workshop produces are truly amazing.
The workshop is where the seeds of this group were planted. It began in the early '90s when a writer named Chris McKitterick, now a lecturer in the University's English department faculty and one of the bright new minds in the highly technical subdivision of hard science fiction, came to take part in the workshop. Once through it, he knew he enjoyed working with Gunn and the program. He left for few years to write technical manuals for Microsoft. Eventually he met Kij Johnson, another lecturer in the English department who has been
through the workshop, and they married. As the years passed, and they were living in Washington, they got a call from Gunn and decided to come back to Lawrence to help with center and to teach.
Then came Candelaria. He'd been involved in science fiction since he was 11 years old, he even wrote a novel at 16. When he came to Lawrence, he had no idea about the Center for Science Fiction. As he spent more time here, that changed quickly. He went through the workshop and found a mentor and a place where he knew he wanted to be. Today he works on numerous projects with Gunn, his own novel and teaches in the English department.
Eventually word of the success that writers, such as John Kessel and Patrick Cadogan, had who attended the workshop reached other striving writers. That's how Seay arrived. He'd heard of Gunn and wanted to attend a school where he could eventually perfect his craft. He too went through the workshop and now is working on his masters. He expects a short story to be published in Boys Life next summer.
Rocket On
Today they all gather again. It's the homecoming celebration and book signing for the returning hero, Candelaria. The Oread Bookstore is changed. In the back, a long table is set out with a set of books beside it there is a podium and in front of that there are about six rows of dark wooden chairs. People mill about drinking coffee. McKitterick, Johnson, Gunn, Seay and Candelaria are all there. So is Mitch Breur, vice president of sales for Galaxy Press, the publisher that released L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Vol. XIX.
Candelaria's grand prize winning story, Trust Is A Child, is the topic of discussion before things begin. In it, similar to the story he submitted to the writer's
group, he writes of a meeting between two species. One is human and the other is a gelatinous slug-like species, and they meet to come to terms on a peace treaty. Both sides are steeped in secrecy, and the story itself is filled with sense-numbing descriptions.
After a few minutes pass, people gather and the signing begins. Breur begins by explaining the contest. It was created to give unpublished writers a chance to get into the business. They have a contest every quarter of the year, and the winners from each quarter compete to win the grand prize. Every year the contest gets thousands of submissions from around the world. The top winners from the year earn a trip to Hollywood to receive their prize and to work with the masters of science fiction. Sometimes the writers get to mingle with Hollywood celebrities. When Candelaria won the grand prize he accepted the award from David Carradine of Kung Fu and Kill Bill fame. Following the explanation, Breur says that three of the last four Grand Prize winners have all been students of Gunn.
A wave of applause follows, then something special happens. Candelaria walks towards the podium with Breur. At this point, they both recognize Gunn. They present him with a massive set of books bound in glistening red leather of fiction by L. Ron Hubbard. Gunn walks up and accepts the gift, which will reside in the huge science fiction library in the Spencer Research Library. He stood there with Breur and Candelaria, bathed in the flaring camera flashes and applause. The group of writers taught and molded by Gunn beamed. It was a fine day for them. Their teacher recognized, their fellow reading and their futures limitless. They are true treasures in Lawrence, and they may just know what the future holds for them.
Patrick Cady, Jayplay writer, can be reached at pcady@kansan.com.
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By Jacqueline Lenart Illustration by Scott Drummond
We spend about one third of our lives sleeping and will have close to 100,000 dreams. Open your eyes to what your nighttime images say
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"I believe in my dreams for my brain works hardest when I am asleep." August Strindberg, Swedish playwright
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Each step echoes on the wet pavement as I run panic-stricken down a dark, deserted residential street. My pounding heart fills my body, ringing in my ears and throbbing in my fingertips. Over my shoulder I see a shadowy figure gain on me as my feet become heavier with every stride until I can no longer move. Rooted to the ground, I feel defenseless against my pursuer. Suddenly, I gasp for air, and I'm jolted awake from my nightmare.
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For three consecutive nights, I had this same distressing dream. I knew it was trying to tell me something and the third morning I figured it out: I was overwhelmed. Already worried about my school and work commitments, I accepted a second job offer though I knew it might be too much. My increased stress from the day was haunting me at night.
Unresolved issues such as test anxiety or critical parents often surface in dreams as frightening obstacles. Experts say dreams offer us information about our waking lives that we may need to confront. Taking a closer look at what we dream about can bring us self-understanding. It amazes Gayle Delaney, founder of the Association for the Study of Dreams, how insightful people are while dreaming. Delaney, who's appeared five times on Oprah and is the author of All About Dreams, says people of average intelligence can have extraordinary revelations while dreaming because their minds are working to process the patterns of their lives from a less defensive perspective.
Lack of solid sleep can prevent you from remembering your dreams. William Dement who co-discovered REM sleep, says the dream world seems to be unavoidably tied to REM. "The brain created the dream world and we have no choice but to live in it," Dement, founder of Stanford University's Sleep Disorders
As we sleep our body travels through levels of unconsciousness, from light to deep. According to the American Psychoanalytic Association, most of our dreaming happens during the Rapid Eye Movement stage, or REM sleep, which occurs about every 90 minutes. During REM there is heightened brain activity including a burst of rapid eye movement as well as increased breathing and heart rate, genital enlargement and paralysis of bodily movement.
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When you wake up, keep your eyes closed and gather as many images, feelings and impressions from your dreams you can remember, says Craig Webb, co-founder of the non-profit organization for Dream Research and Experimental Approaches to the Mechanisms of Sleep, or DREAMS Foundation. Open your eyes and immediately record them in a journal.
Your journal should be conveniently placed next to your bed along with a pen. Focus on your emotions rather than specific aspects of your dream, says Shari Just, author of The Idiot's Guide to Interpreting Your Dreams. She says to write down the date and give the dream a title. Make sure to not judge your dreams as you write them down because of embarrassment or fear Try to stick to the facts, Just says. She suggests working backwards from the point you wake up to retrace your dream steps because we often wake up at the end of a dream. Just also says to split the page into two sections, one for dream recall and one for real life recall. Writing down what's happening in your life will help you to understand what your dreams are saying when you look back at your journal entries.
bath before bed will also leave you sleepy. Itll cause blood to rush away from the brain and to skin surfaces so that when you get in bed your temperature drops, making you tired Studies show that drinking alcohol, taking certain antibiotics and having a fever can prevent dreaming.
While you were sleeping: Facts about dreams & sleep
Approximately one quarter of our sleep time, about two hours of each sleep sequence, is devoted to dreams. This means that a 60-year-old has devoted five years to dreaming, says Elii Goldberg in The Dictionary of Dreams. He says dreams cause physical
As much as 50 percent of dream information you recall in the middle of the night is lost by the morning, says Ann Faraday in The Dream Game.
According to The Idiot's Guide to Interpreting Your Dreams, foods such as milk, cheese, bananas and turkey contain the amino acid tryptophan, which will help you sleep. Sexual stimulation and orgasm also will help you relax because they release sleep-inducing hormones called endorphins. A hot
phenomena that include perspiration, hair standing on end, erection of the penis, movement of the eyelids, swallowing of saliva and reflex action of the intestines.
Sleep research subjects who were deprived of REM sleep spent a disproportionate amount of time in REM once they slept again, which makes it seem as if dreaming is a necessity to sleep, says
Clinic and Research Center, said. It's still unclear to researchers the fundamental reason why we sleep and dream, but two things they know: without sleep we'll die because it controls body heat and appetite, and everyone dreams even if we can't remember them.
Shari Just, author of The Idiot's
just, author of The Tutor's Guide to Interpreting Your Dreams. When we're dreaming we're organizing things that have happened or would like to
have happen to us. Just, also a psychologist, says she uses material from clients' dreams to help her understand some of their subconscious feelings and thoughts. "I think that we have a natural ability to heal and there are many pathways to that healing," Just says. "If we use our dreams to understand ourselves, then healing energy can be introduced through that pathway." She says paying attention to the feelings you have during and about the dream can lead to real life problem solving.
Sometimes the waking life issue that haunts your dreams is hard to pinpoint, which makes tackling the real problem harder. In my case, over commitment drove my dream and fear of being chased. Other common stress-induced dreams include falling, driving an out-of-control car or not being able to scream for help. The stressor in all these dreams is a loss of power. My loss of power is what chased me in my stress dreams, according to an interpretation
your Dreams. She says we can transform negative dream images to positive ones by focusing on our desired dream outcome. As you try to fall asleep, concentrate on the stress of your dream and how you can remove the point of anxiety during your dream. If you're being chased — the second most common dream — approach your pursuer to ask why he or she is chasing you. Thinking, "I'll approach my pursuer," as you go to sleep will help you to actually do it in your dream. The confrontation isn't considered aggressive in the dream and will stop what is fearful. Next time you dream you're driving a car with the brakes out, turn the negative to positive by flying out of the car or driving down a gentle slope to stop, Parker says.
Keep in mind that there's no one right way to record your dreams. It is important to reflect daily so you can get a true idea of consistencies. Don't get carried away and write down all of your dreams, stick to a couple a night and you'll have plenty to interpret. Just says. If you notice patterns, highlight or underline them. You might not be able to figure out what every dream means, but stay dedicated and realize that it takes time to see patterns.
—Jacqueline Lenart
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When you're unsure during turning points in life, new emotions can trigger your dreaming mind to try to help balanc e those feeli ng s. Graduating college, getting married, handling divorce th
and other large life changes can all produce new dreams, which reflect the particular struggle or excitement you're facing. The more attention you pay to your dreams, the more likely you are to see new patterns crop up for particular emotions you feel in your waking life. Some dreams will have more intense feelings than others and are possibly more meaningful and useful, Just says. Dreams that are so vivid they seem real are probably the most important. What's often most vivid isn't the experience in the dream or images but rather the feeling, Just says in her book. She calls these dreams associated with more major life events signal dreams because they trigger dream patterns. Dreams during this time of change are specific to you because they're based on what you personally associate as comforting and fearful. If your family's summer trips to the lake are some of your happiest childhood memories, it's likely these will pop up when your life is hectic to remind you of how to feel at ease and peaceful. These signal dreams can also be cautionary, cueing us to past mistakes so we don't repeat them.
A signal dream began for one of Delaney's clients when she started dating someone new. She recently had ended a long relationship with a man who criticized her appearance. Her new boyfriend
seemed nothing like her ex, but one night during dinner he criticized her hair. At the time, the woman didn't consciously register he criticism — she liked the
new guy — but later her dreaming mind did. She dreamt about her old boyfriend criticizing her, a dream that ultimately helped her treat her new relationship more cautiously. "Dreams provide us with honesty, gentle honesty, but they're honest," Delaney says. Dreams are free of our waking illusions and can allow us to see our feelings with a less-guarded perspective.
Signal dreams can also clue us to baggage we're carrying. If you're feeling guilty about a fight with a parent or cheating on a partner, it's likely it will be expressed in your dreams. Ever showed up naked to somewhere in a dream? This could be a sign of shame. Such strong emotions as shame and guilt are usually hard to shake, but being exposed, literally, in your dreams can be a sign you need to deal with it in order to move on. Just says in her book.
Keeping a dream journal will help you solve problems by helping you to notice dream patterns. By recording the details of your dreams, you actively pay attention to them and gather the details in one place so you can more easily find consistencies and themes.
We can greater understand what our dreams are telling us by using dream recall techniques, Webb says. Experts agree that the most important part of remembering your dreams is wanting to. Valuing what our dreams are saying is the first step to interpreting them, and understanding them is a step toward resolving our daily problems.
—Jacqueline Lenart, Jayplay writer, can be reached at jlenart@kansan.com.
IN YOUR DREAMS: A Guide to Common Dream Themes
Some dreams themes are universal in their occurrence and likely their meaning. All dreams even while shared in experience are specific to the dreamer says Greg Wehp, KO founder of the non-profit product Night for Dream Research and Experimental Approaches in the Mechanisms of Sleep.
DREAMS Foundation Webb suggests night about what your dreams only are so labeled at www.dreamsfoundation.hk.
■ Chase of attack. This an unnatural representation a fear and might be an exaggerated version of an innumerable number of own personality that wesimulate. Webb suggests facing and telling with all purpose to find such phrases in falling dream. Are your dreams And elongated would look transient orWhat would you sentence? How can I help your dreams DA order to be more guarded? Your then outgrow. Why should I throw things away to 104 when he infiltrates? Am I the webb says.
■ Can one of them is my working memory of print? How can I keep my thoughts from being blocked? Here's too long, all over and with great power. Webb and another person want to go on going.
■ Has your dream been a manifestation of your inner desire for something beyond your present or supernatural thing? The medium door opens to whimsical things like a dragonfly with wings. Can these things be the result of your dreams?
■ Have you ever had an experience where the world suddenly came into being? When someone else was on your life and you found that they were not there at all? Why does it happen?
If you are feeling stuck in life, Perhaps you're getting nowhere or unable to voice your feelings. Webb says. Try to know out what you can do to change the feeling. Your ideal self rests sign on percentage and elegantly peaceful action and sells excitement. Webb says.
■ Encourage to be made aware of your public though honest attempts to communicate Think about who you are feeling encouraged among passed or best friend models. Webb says. And type of dream usually possesses by the fact that the other character is a share dream goes to bed and at a glance only appears as solitary fear and usually resentfully so. Webb says. He suspects on behalf of others of using confining with who you describe him with confidence.
■ Reuse similarly dream prompts. Most common responses. What sort of my dream has stayed the same throughout the day? When we sleep, what would or should we tell?
This guide is intended to help you explore the possibilities.
■ Explore if it works for yourself. Webb says. Are you willing to experiment? Place a thought of something in your mind and try to see how it responds. Webb says.
■ Enjoying a relationship of sharing When troubling dreams allow you to see something new in your dreams. And Webb says. Are you willing to have someone else feel involved in your dreams?
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If you want to do something more than just hang out in your parents' basement this New Year's Eve, check out these exotic locales.
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5. .. 4... 3... 2... 1! At some point in time, we have all counted down and had our eyes glued to the television on January 31st, watching the pristine Waterford Crystal ball descend from the sky. The New Year's Eve celebration at Times Square has been a tradition since 1904, so there is no better time than now to head to New York City and experience the festivities for yourself. This year marks the 100-year anniversary of the event and it is estimated that more than 500,000 people will make the journey to the intersection of Broadway Avenue and 43rd Street. Remember, arriving early to secure your spot is a must and alcohol is not allowed and will be confiscated by police.
If you do want to drink some bubbly, consider going to the New Year's celebration at Planet Hollywood, located at Broadway Avenue and 45th Street in the heart of Times Square. The party features a balloon drop at midnight, the Times Square ball drop broadcasted on
16 projection screen televisions, an open bar and music that will suit anyone's taste. Three ticket packages are offered from $150 to $350 per person and can be purchased at www.newyearscelebration.com.
If your goal is to be healthier in 2004, then celebrate New Year's Eve by participating in the Runner's World Midnight Run. For the past 25 years,
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people have traded in their dancing shoes for running shoes and participated in the four-mile race through Central Park. The event begins at 10 p.m. with a masquerade parade and costume contest, followed by a
and dancing at 11 p.m. and the race, along with fireworks, culminating the evening at midnight. The entry fee before Dec.16 is $25, from Dec.17 to 30 is $30 and on race day is $35. For more information and to register, visit www.nyrrc.org/race/2003 /r1231x00.htm.
—Erica Brittain
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AN EXOTIC SHANGHAI-DEWAY
Shanghai. The name conjures up images of flashing lights, silk clad women and a bustling sea of people. The popular city in China is thriving again after its SARS outbreak and could be a fantastic spot to celebrate New Year's be it the Western, or the Chinese version.
When I first saw the city, it was nighttime, and I was amazed because it appeared as if I were delving into a city from a gothic scl-fi novel. High buildings, brilliant billboards (some in English) and just a general feeling of its massive size made the fact that its one of China's largest cities very easy to grasp.
Because it is one of the most westernized places in China, most people understand at least a little bit of English, and comparatively, the culture shock of being there is less than it might be in other parts of the country. A large community of non-easterners is always wandering around in Shanghai; you could meet British, Australian, German or more American people by just stepping out into the streets.
Once you are there though, you can visit the beautiful Huangpu River and walk along the glittering waterway known as the Bund. The Bund is lined with many small shops and restaurants and offers a breathtaking view of the city. During New
Year's Eve, Shanghai is bustling, but interestingly enough, the Chinese really go wild during Christmas and Christmas Eve.
Also in Shanghai is Asia's equivalent to the space needle. It's a 468-meter tall communications tower known as "The Pearl of the Orient." From the outside it looks fanciful with a large opalescent ball at its base and a smaller one at its apex. Inside it holds an observation deck where you can see all of Shanghai spread out before you.
Downtown Shanghai has a famous shopping street where you can visit Nan ling Road and search for silks, pearls or an amazing variety of electronics. This road is bustling, as is the town's nightlife. You can find a wide range of bars and discos to slowly let your nights drift away.
To experience the exotic on New Year's Eve or whenever you have a chance, Shanghai is definitely the get carried away.
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NEW YEAR'S EVE DOWN
Ring in New Year's Aussie style in sunny Sydney, Australia. This happening, seaside city may be a 17-hour plane flight away, but its beautiful scenery and exciting attractions make it well worth the hours of airplane-bound inactivity.
Arrive several days early and take advantage of Sydney's adventure sport opportunities. Climb up the Sydney Harbour Bridge and enjoy a breathtaking, 360-degree view of the harbour area. From the bridge's summit you can see Australia's trademark attraction, the Sydney Opera House. The guided climb takes approximately two hours, with an additional hour and a half for safety instructions. Climbs begin every 10 minutes from sunrise to sunset. BridgeClimb is closed December 30th and 31st. You can reserve tickets online at www.bridgelimb.com.
If you'd like to enjoy an equally spectacular view but prefer to remain safely indoors, visit the AMP Centrepoint Tower in the Centrepoint Shopping Complex, at Castlereagh and Market Streets. Enjoy a panoramic view of the city from the 305-meter building. When facing west, you can see past the city to the Blue Mountains. If you're tired of looking, start shopping. Visit popular department stores such as Grace Bros and David Jones or trendy shops such as Sports Girl and KOOKAI. Keep in mind that in Australia, jeans come in sizes five and up. If you ask the sales clerk to help you find a pair of jeans in a size two, she may think you're crazy. If you're longing for the familiar, wander into The Body Shop. This store
looks and smells exactly like its sister stores in the states.
When hunger strikes, walk over to Darling Harbor. This quaint area has a variety of restaurants to suit all your dining needs. Inexpensive hamburger joints are tucked in among the more expensive restaurants. Sample the swordfish at Jordons Seafood Restaurant, 197 Harbourside. The only thing better than this restaurant's food is its oceanfront view. If dining during the daylight hours, you can watch as an assortment of expensive, beautifully maintained boats sail in and out of the harbour. At night the flickering lights of the boats on the water mirror the stars in the sky. Make reservations online at www.sydney.com.au/darling-restaur-jordons.
Celebrate New Year's Eve in the Rocks. The cobblestone streets of this popular area are lined with 37 restaurants. If you're over 21, check out the area's 26 bars and pubs. If you want to make a good impression on the Australian natives, skip the Foster's, the tourist's favorite beer, and order a Tooheys New. Keep in mind that Australians often refer to bars as hotels. Establishments
such as the Harbour View Hotel offer drinks, not rooms.
For more information about things to do and see in Sydney, visit the city's Web site at www.sydney.com/au.
—Lauren Reidy
ROMANCE AT MIDNIGHT
Oui. Merci beaucoup. Voulez-vous coucher avec moi. OK, so maybe your knowledge of the French language doesn't go beyond yes, thank you and the lyrics to "Lady Marmalade." That doesn't mean you can't bring in the New Year in beautiful Paris, the city of romance. Who knows, on New Year's Eve, those might just be the only words you really need to know.
See the Eiffel Tower in its most magnificent moment of the year. The 986-foot tall structure has an amazing light show and firework display for its New Year's Eve extravaganza. Watch from the street or in high-class, formal style on the Parisian Boat. The boat party lasts from 8 p.m. until daybreak complete with a six-course meal, champagne, an orchestra and dancing. You'll sail for two hours along the River Seine seeing some of Paris' most historical monuments lit up, such as Notre-Dame, the Louvre and ile de la Cite beautifully. You'll end up in front of the Eiffel Tower with perfect seats for the midnight light show.
Remember that "Lady Marmalade" song I mentioned earlier, the one with the overt sexual connotations? You can countdown to midnight at the very establishment that inspired the song's revival, the infamous Moulin Rouge. The revue, called Feerie, runs from 9 p.m. to sunrise and includes a seven-course dinner, dancing and
a seven-course dinner, dancing at champagne.
If risqué is more your style, maybe you'd prefer an erotic New Year's Eve show near the Champs-Élyeees. The racy review, called Art of the Nude, is for adults only, as the name implies. The show includes unlimited champagne and is only two hours, so you can party it up at more than one hotspot.
For reservations or more information visit the Paris International Web site. www.paris-tours-guides.com.
-Julie Jones
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The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St., was the site of the first annual Jayplay Live. Mr. Bilistic entertained the crowd from the stage where many famous acts took their first steps.
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When you approach the large, wooden, flier-covered front door, you may notice "Lawrence's Live Music Headquarters" painted boldly on the windows that encompass the face of the building. You've just arrived at The Bottleneck. The walls are plastered with framed and signed photos of the bands such as Jewel, Goo Goo Dolls, Good Charlotte and Papa Roach to Martin Sexton, Dexter Freebish, Tripping Daisy and Bella Fleck and the Flecktones. At 7 p.m. Nov. 12, The Sheep Return was prepping the stage for its show. After setting up, the band left to find dinner and sneak in a quick nap before the show.
Over the years, Lawrence has become a must-stop tour destination in the middle of the country, and The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St., is the place to stop, says Brett Mosiman, owner of Pipeline Productions. Because of the sound quality, the crowd that it attracts and the history behind the bar, the Bottleneck appeals to many concert-goers.
In early January, The Bottleneck underwent remodeling. More seating was added with a better stage view along with structural changes to improve the look feel and sound. Mosiman says that bands rave about The Bottleneck, and it is known as one of the best-sounding rooms in the country. He says bands even request to do live recordings there.
The owners of The Bottleneck spent several thousand dollars on a new public address system during the remodeling. The PA is flush with the stage to create more room and help with sound quality. Amanda Haase, co-owner of The Bottleneck, says bands know they can come and get good sound. She says the way the stage is angled also helps with the sound. In the back of The Bottleneck, there is a poolroom with
booths and tables around the perimeter. This room was buffered so people could come and hang out and not get blown away by sound.
At 10:30 p.m., Art Alexakis, lead singer for Everclear, takes the stage. As soon as the first light begins to shine and the first note carries out from the guitar, everyone immediately rushes towards the front of the stage. They push together trying to get to that front spot less than 3 feet from Alexakis. The floor of the room is huge but they manage to squeeze into an area about the size of a 15-foot square like kittens trying to get to their mother. All but four people from the back poolroom come to join their fellow fans. The fans begin hooting and hollering like a pack of werewolves.
The Bottleneck appeals to just about anyone in search of some good tunes from any genre. You name it, they've
done it. Indie rock to punk rock to hiphop to metal — there's a little something for everyone, Nicki Geist, co-owner of The Bottleneck, says. This separates The Bottleneck from other places because there's something for every taste, says Haase. Mosiman says that it's not cliquey and all the different crowds can go and have fun. Because the venue is mid-size, Because of The Bottleneck's size, it can have small and large shows Haase says. Geist says that creates a more intimate personal feel when large acts play.
During the show, Alexakis interacted with his fans. Besides the usual singing along to well-known Everclear songs such as "Father of Mine" and "Santa Monica", he brought fans on stage for the opportunity to play music with him and pose as background dancers. About 11:30 p.m. he finished his set but returned for an encore of three songs. Alexakis says he
keeps coming back because of the memories he has made. He pointed out the picture of Everclear on the wall from 1994. "When I think of playing in Lawrence, I think of The Bottleneck," he says.
Mosiman opened The Bottleneck 18 years ago. Brad Sager, productions assistant for 96.5 The Buzz, says at the time The Bottleneck opened, there weren't any alternative radio stations in Kansas City. He says alternative bands would come to The Bottleneck to get exposure and they got a great response. Caleb Skulskie, Lawrence resident, is someone who you could find on any given night at The Bottleneck. He's been a regular for six years. He says that the company that promotes shows there, Pipeline Productions, is known for taking care of the bands. Because The Bottleneck is so well known for having big-name concerts, it has also become a well-known venue. "Most bands know what the Bottleneck is and most strive to play here," Haase says.
When Mike Watt and Eddie Vedder came to play, it was a huge show. Watt had to disguise himself and hide in the dressing room all night to avoid mobs. There were hundreds of people outside trying to figure out how to get in. Concert-goers find this encouraging. Skulskie says that there's a comfort level, for the band and the spectators, knowing all the bands that have played there. "Everyone from the East to West Coast knows about it. Almost everyone plays here on their way up," he says.
When Alexakis finally finished playing, he sat down on the stage ready to bear the horde of people and hang out. He signed autographs and answered questions for fans aspiring to be more like him.
Ashley Arnold, Jayplay writer, can be reached at aarnold@kansan.com.
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JAYPLAY LIVE
After seven bands, over fours hours of music and countless ringing ears and inebriated music lovers, the first Jayplay Live concert at The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St., on Nov. 20 was a success.
The show started a tad early as Kozmo kicked off the show at 8:50 p.m. The early start left Kozmo with a sparse crowd, but by the time the second band, Sweet Sassy Molassy, started, The Bottleneck was near its 400-person capacity. Each band brought along its own fans and friends creating a multicultural feel to the multi-genre gig. Jayplay staffers Eric Braem and Brandi Garvin filled the dead air between sets with their promotional pitches for T-shirts, prize giveaways and Garvin's desperate attempt to bring someone onstage to sing.
The audience responded to most bands' pseudo-rock style with the indie-rock head nod and spattered handclapping, but once Mr. Bilistic hit the stage the dancing really began. Although the hip-hop music was pre-recorded, Mr. Bilistic's lyrical flow, with the
help of fellow Lawrence hip-hoppers 3 A.M., gave the audience that dash of booty-shakin' too often taken for granted. Each band played original music, ranging from the girl-next-door rockabilly of Sweet Sassy Molassy to the electronic hyper-rock of Captain Overreact.
The battle-of-the-bands-style competition served the differing musical sounds well, as the winner was judged based on applause. Tri Point Paradox won the crowd over with its technical skill and Dave Matthews Band-inspired ditties.
It was great to see your peers performing live. To see an event like this pulled off for the first time with no apparent flaws, flowing smoothly from set to set, was a joy in itself. Most of the crowd stayed until the end of the show at 1:15 a.m. with the final head count at more than 300 ticket-purchasing patrons.
—Kim Elsham
To relive, or simply remember, that awesome night, check out streaming audio clips from the entire show by clicking on the Jayplay Live image on Kansan.com's main page.
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reviews in brief.
The Last Samurai R.144 minutes, South Wind 12
Poor Tom Cruise, he just can't seem to go beyond himself into a world where one forgets that he is Tom Cruise. Not that this is a terrible thing; case in point Jerry Maguire. But in The Last Samurai when he is playing someone that is supposed to be so dramatically different from our modern icon, I had hoped I could forget "I feel the need for speed" Tom Cruise and see a new character be born but alas I was disappointed.
On all other fronts The Last Samurai is fantastic. Cruise plays Nathan Algren, an American soldier skilled in battle against "savages" who is brought to Japan to train the emperor's army in Western warfare. Their new enemies are the once-cherished Samurai, headed by a charismatic but deadly man named Katsumoto (Ken Watanabe), who captures Algren during an opening scuffle between the two forces. Trapped in the beautiful samurai village, Algren learns the samurai ways and learns to appreciate the people including Katsumoto's sister Taka (Koyuki), until he is fighting right along side them.
Directed by Edward Zwick (Glory), the film is beautifully shot and is epic in all possible ways. Cruise is always a pleasure but the real star is Watanabe, whose warrior exterior and poet interior
collide to make one of the most captivating characters in a truly mesmerizing and remarkable film.
Lindsey Ramsey Grade: A-
Bad Santa
R. 91 minutes, South Wind 12
Holiday movies exist in order to brighten up the holiday movie season. In the case of Bad Santa, we see a film that does not brighten the holiday season but burns it down like a small child playing with fire.
In Bad Santa, Billy Bob Thornton plays Willie, a swearing, smoking, mess of a mall Santa, whose thirst for alcohol is matched only by his thirst for women. Why does he do it? Because he and his elf counterpart (Tony Cox) are after the department store safe, which only Willie can crack.
Come Christmas, they find themselves under a prissy manager (the late John Ritter) and a watchful security guard (Bernie Mac). But it only takes a lovable fat kid (Brett Kelly) to make Willie have even a shred of real feeling.
This is not one of those movies where "kid's love changes grumpy man," but it is a hilarious black comedy in which I was left hoping that the child involved wasn't permanently scarred from all the
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Tom Cruise plays a Civil War soldier in his latest effort, "The Last Samurai."
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foul language and dark deeds that make for a very Bad Santa.
—Lindsey Ramsey
Grade: B
The Cat in the Hat PG. 82 minutes, South Wind 12
There once lived a man named Seuss whose books were quite groovy. Now these children's stories are being whored-out as movies.
The latest tale to hit the screen is of a cat with a hat whose humor's obscene.
The original book was quite charming. But this version's cat is actually alarming.
His humor will appeal to the occasional fool
Mike Myers, comic genius some say delivers a cat wrapped in stereotypes of the gay.
or perhaps the students in middle school.
The book helped the young ones read. This film just fills Myers' attention need.
The acting is OK, in fact Dakota Fanning could become great
it's just too bad she's been type cast at age 8.
Though the special effects are eye honey, it seems Universal and DreamWorks only want your holiday money.
In the directorial debut of Bo Welch, the talent of Alec Baldwin he did squelch.
This thespian's comedic acting could not save
this film that will have Seuss spin in his grave.
Do not bother to give this film a look Just sit down and reread the book.
Cal Creek Grade: C-
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Mike Myers brings Dr. Seuss' title character to life in "The Cat in the Hat."
The Haunted Mansion PG.99 minutes.South Wind 12
While these allusions render The Haunted Mansion too disturbing for youngsters, director Rob Minkoff (Stuart Little) spins darkly magical, storybook visions for adults. The house is the real star, with Eddie Murphy and Marsha Thomason reduced to window dressing within the film's immaculate production design.
Filmmakers seem to have been heavily influenced by classic horror literature such as Dracula and The Masque of the Red Death, as well as The Breathing Method, Stephen King's gruesome short story about an evil butler with supernatural designs.
In Disney's visually lustrous The Haunted Mansion, husband-and-wife real-estate agents Jim and Sara Evers visit a big Victorian spread with their kids. Hoping to make a deal with Master Gracey, the mansion's mysterious owner, Jim and Sara end up as pawns in a plot to lift a curse on the house and restore the master's one true love.
Though Minkoff never scales the heights reached by Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, he does offer one of the most startling revelations of the movie year: Theme-park attractions make for sleek cinematic thrill-rides.
—Stephen Shupe
Grade: B-
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Timeline
PG-13, 114 minutes, South Wind 12
The Paramount Pictures adventure Timeline relies on several trite formulas that bore audiences to the point where they might avoid theaters altogether.
The Michael Chrichton-novel-based spotty plot tells the story of Chris Johnston (Paul Walker, The Fast and the Furious), the wayward son of an archeologist. When Chris' father, Professor Johnston (Billy Connolly, Head of the Class) gets trapped in France in 1375. In a far-fetched and exasperated manner, Chris must travel back in time to retrieve him. Chris brings along his father's top students and predictable action ensues.
This movie suffers from several flaws. The horrific acting delivered by Walker and his cohorts never establishes any connection with the audience. If the audience doesn't care about the characters, then it won't care that a bunch of British knights are chasing them. It doesn't help that the dialogue they deliver consists of bad puns and empty words. Audiences will groan out loud when they hear lines such as, "If that happens one more time we're history."
There are no redeeming qualities to this film. Audiences would better use their time if they just rented Back to the Future and Robin Hood and watched them simultaneously.
—Cal Creek
Grade: D-
The Missing R.135 minutes, South Wind 12
Opie has a lot of explaining to do for The Missing, a western that could be the single most offensive major release since Gods and Generals, Ronald F. Maxwell's sermonic love letter to the Confederacy.
Shockingly, humanistic director Ron Howard (Parenthood, Apollo 13) nearly outmatches Maxwell's historical bile with The Missing's vile depictions of Native Americans. Worse, his film displays so little in the way of forward momentum that it seems to run as long as the four-hour Generals did.
Luminous Cate Blanchett (The Lord of
the Rings) stars as a tough-minded widow looking after two young children in New Mexico circa 1885. When Apaches kidnap her eldest daughter, she enlists the help of her estranged father (Tommy Lee Jones), who left when she was a child to go live with the Chiricahua.
Howard has called The Missing "dark," but it's really just unimaginative. The director falls back on the same graphically violent tactics he employed for Ransom to show Native Americans as women-stomping, baby-killing savages. What compelled this usually benevolent director to make a film so full of hate?
—Stephen Shupe Grade:D+
Seabiscuit
PG-13, 141 minutes. Woodruff Auditorium. Kansas Union
Gary Ross' lengthy adaptation of Laura Hillenbrand's best seller is populated by the same chipper sitcom zombies who made the director's previous film, Pleasantville, such a sublime satiric joke.
Send-up isn't on the agenda for Seabiscuit, a stars-and-stripes fairy tale that casts a severely slimmed-down Tobey Maguire (more Skeleton-Man than Spider-Man) as Red Pollard, the troubled Depression-era jockey of an abused runt named Seabiscuit. As ever, Ross throws too many elements into the mix, from stock footage depicting the country's economic toil to a prolonged set-up that keeps the title character off screen for most of the first hour.
Performances are uniformly strong, especially Jeff Bridges' turn as Charles Howard, the wealthy automobile entrepreneur with a broken heart. Even though Ross' optimism may prove grating at times, his affections for the media and blowing money at the track have a wide-eyed subversiveness of their own.
The film's honey-dipped cinematography is by John Schwartzman, who's all but guaranteed an Oscar nomination. As for the rest of this sweet slice of mythic Americana, the underdog status of its equine hero seems particularly apt.
—Stephen Shupe
Grade: B
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Books on Tape - Sings the Blues
Books on Tape's second album Sings the Blues seems to have attracted quite a bit of attention, even though for the casual listener of electronic music, it is probably nothing to write home about.
Another KJHK DJ reviewed the album and likened it to a "poor man's Four Tet," which is a very good comparison. It is like Four Tet, if Four Tet had less depth, weaker equipment and less knowledge on how to use the equipment. Glitchy? Yes. Interesting? Most definitely. Listener friendly? Not really. It is like a precursor to Four Tet, similar to Aphex Twin's Classics, which contains tracks that Richard James was putting out on a young scene when he was no more than 20-years-old.
Again, for those already into electronic, glitchy music, this album is most definitely something to check out for reference sake and because it is interesting. For those only dabbling in electronic music, this is not probably something you are looking for.
-Collin LaJoie
KJHK DJ
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Grade: C+
G Unit - Beg for Mercy
Beg for Mercy, the first album from 50 Cent's G Unit is about as creative as grandma's formulaic 1949 cookie recipe. To Make a Gangsta Album: Make nine songs about how thuggish you are. Make four about money and/or women, and then add one about God and one about your mother, your girl or your dead/incarcerated homeboy. Continue by quoting an ol' school gangster movie, and if you are especially "hard," use the N-word to punctuate 10 percent of your declarative statements. If you are searching for originality or lyrical content, look elsewhere (DEFINITELY check out Scarface's The Fix). If you are looking to shake your ass or pretend to be a thug, G Unit picks up where 50 left off - with mindlessly catchy beats, singsong hooks and guaranteed club hits.
—Cornelius Minor, II KJHK Host of "Voice Activated" 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesdays Grade: C-
Jay-Z - The Black Album
Though the sound here is a bit different than what we are used to hearing from Jay-Z, The Black Album is the album that we all knew he could make. One senses that Jay-Z did not make this album for fans of Reasonable Doubt or Volume 1, nor did he make it for the masses that consumed everything after Volume 2. This isn't the rhyme pugilist from The Blueprint, The Black Album belongs to Jay-Z himself. It is a heartfelt battle cry at the end of a grueling campaign for respect and legitimacy, Jay-Z finally constructs success on his own terms; consequently The Black Album for Jay-Z—and for all who care to listen—is the majestic sound of victory.
Cornelius Minor, II KJHK Host of "Voice Activated"
9 p.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesdays Grade: A-
Remarc - Sound Murderer
Long before Squarepusher, Matmos, Kid606 et al. were creating mangled intelligent dance music, IDM oddities, there was a genre called jungle. Highspeed, super chopped-up beats over massive dancehall-style bass was the basic formula. The wave of jungle 12-inches released from 1992 to1996 unintentionally gave the IDM producers that would follow literally every trick they know. During this era, Remarc was the undisputed king of chopping breaks, and this new CD is a compilation of his best work. There are some upsetting track list decisions, such as why "Ricky" or the original version of "R.I.P." were omitted, but overall Sound Murderer is excellent and a must have for any IDM or jungle fan.
—Chris Shively
KJHK Host of "Superdisco
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Grade: A
The Strokes - Room on Fire
Forget about the hype. Forget about its socio-economic status. The Strokes are just five guys writing and playing exactly the type of rock music they want to play.
Their sound is a brilliant culmination of old and new influences, and it's a sound all their own. It is also a sound that a lot of people like to listen to. Room on Fire, the follow-up to its debut Is This It, is everything it should be and more. The album is sleazier, more back alley, more stylized, rawer, more diverse and better produced than its predecessor. What I enjoy most about The Strokes and Room on Fire are the little the things: the tension that builds when it drops down to just a beat and a lonely guitar line before exploding into a melodic chorus, the instantly memorable guitar solos that are so wonderfully restrained that they always leave you wanting more, the precision of the drum work that does sound like a machine at times, the honest desperation in Julian's self-conscious and detached crooning and I could go on and on... We might not be able to relate to the glitz and glamour of the NYC nightlife that The Strokes so adore, but we can relate to Julian Casablancas' fear of growing up, his struggles with the opposite sex and his excitement of being young. The Strokes don't aspire to be the next groundbreaking band; they don't aspire to be anything other than working musicians.
Peter Berard
KJHK Music Director
Grade: A
Soiled Doves - Soiled Life
Anticipation is a real bear. In the current musical climate of bootlegging, shelved albums and one-off side projects, albums that are expected to be life-affirming or -changing simply end up collecting dust. Fortunately, Soiled Doves' Soiled Life managed to avoid this fate despite the band, which was fronted by the ever-loved Blood Brothers' Johnny Whitney, breaking up in 2001.
The end result is a crunchy rocker, spliced in spots with traces of what has made the BBs Indie darlings. However, while these tracks chug along off kilter (especially "Hunter Gatherer") and dive with the best of the disjointed and disenfranchised set, this album is set apart in its deft touches: the piano at the beginning of "Death Knoll For Paper Children" and the Motown leanings of "Soiled Life." Be glad that this album escaped a much crueler fate.
—Phil Torpey
KJHK DJ
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1. HER SPACE HOLIDAY, The Young Machines
2. SHINS, Chutes Too Narrow
3. PIERRE BAROUGH, suadade
4. STROKES, Room On Fire
5. BOOKS, The Lemon Of Pink
6. KING TUBY, 100% Dub: Select Cuts
7. KID KOALA, Some Of My Best Friends Are DJs
8. INCREDIBLE MOSES LEROY, Become The Soft.Lightes
9. AESOP ROCK, Bazooka Tooth
10. MIDWEST PRODUCT, World Series Of Love
11. PROCUSSIONS, As Iron Sharpens Iron
12. ELBOW, Cast Of Thousands
14. RYUICHI SAKAMOTO, Moto.Tronic
15. LUKE VIBERT, Yoseph
13. MOUNTAINEERS, Messy Century
16. BASEMENT JAXX, Kish Kash
17. CLEM SNIDE, A Beautiful EP
18. PAUL WESTERBERG, Come Feel Me Tremble
19. M83, Dead Cities, Red Seas And Lost Ghosts
20. KINKY, Atlas
21. FITNESS, Call Me for Together
22. STILLS, Logic Will Break Your Heart
23. JESSICA FLETCHERS, What Happened To The?
24. DENALI, The Instinct
25. EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY, The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
26. STARS, Heart
27. CODEBREAKER, Two
28. JAPANTHER, Dump The Body In Rikki Lake
29. TRAVIS, 12 Memories
30. PLAID, Spokes
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Guy downstairs has whip
The guy who lives directly below you has an actual whip, your roommate reported Wednesday.
During a routine visit to ask the neighbor to turn down the bass on his stereo, a whip just like the one from Indiana Jones was spotted on the breakfast table just inside the door.
The guy, who was already known to be weird, probably has it for a joke or something. You never know, though. Speculation continues as to whether he also has throwing knives.
KUJH scraps plan for reality series based on online enrollment
KUJH program directors have decided to shelve a reality TV series based on online enrollment after test audiences found its lack of controversy highly disturbing.
The program, tentatively entitled Behind the Portal: Rock, Chalk and Enroll (Online), was deemed lame despite efforts by KUJH programmers to develop a titillating concept and hire a colorful cast.
"We had all the ingredients: the gay kid, the virgin, a renovated computer lab, alcohol," said KUJH program developer Martina Christianson, Hollywood senior. "We even had a poignant sequence in which the jaded non-traditional student drunkenly fired up his desktop and dropped all his class so he could accommodate History 399: The Samurai and HSES 108: Hip Hop Yoga. I don't know what it was that doomed the show, besides the complete lack of human interaction in online enrollment process."
KUJH is currently producing a holiday special developed by the abundant vaudevillians in the greek system. Until then, the network will run endless silent broadcasts of old KU basketball games. Gotta love that Kevin Pritchard.
New measures recommended to reduce crime, violence in city
A special task force commissioned to look at the recent crimes in Lawrence issued the following recommendations yesterday:
Government-issued media ban on "bad stuff"
Less fog on streets to improve visibility
Feed doughnuts to angry troll under Lied Center-Daisy Hill bridge
Stricter immigration/naturalization policies for wayward youth of Topeka, Tonganoxie
Reinstallment of couches on neighborhood porches so vagrants can pass out outside and not in people's living rooms
Vigilante posse led by Homer J. Simpson
Mandatory techno-dance therapy sessions called "It's Brothers Gonna Kraftwerk It Out" for all "It's Brothers" patrons.
KU Anarchists name new execs
More hugs
The KU Anarchist club has announced its new executive members for the spring semester. They are: Jim Navarro, Overland Park senior, president; Sally Kuehn, Olathe junior, vice president and Rob Addison, Lenexa freshman, director of throwing rocks at trants who drive nice cars.
"These dedicated individuals will lead the KU Anerchista to new heights of dumpster diving and stylistic uniformity." Navarro said, brandishing a bike pump. "Flight the power."
All stories by L.W. except for "Guy Downstairs Has Whip, which arrived as an unsigned AP news release.
Mazda Tangerine Bowl to boost team's vitamin C intake, health
By Ellis Burks
beak@kansan.com
Kansas sane writer
When University of Kansas quarterback Bill Whittemore went down with an injury during the K-State game, everyone thought it was a collarbone injury that sidelined the senior.
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However, coach Mark Mangino said yesterday that the real reason Whittemore missed out on four games was because of a real bad head cold.
Whittemore's body was lacking the sufficient vitamin C it needed to fight the germs he picked up at a Manhattan restaurant the night before the game.
"He was fighting some bad sinus pressure, and then his nose started running, we were all worried," said Whittimore's backup, freshman Adam Barman.
Mangino said other members of the team have battled the sniffles all season, one of the reasons the Jayhawks accepted a bid to the Tangerine Bowl.'
"With cold season coming around, you can never have too much vitamin C," he said. "And we figured what a better place to load up on vitamin C
Singer Robert Plant is set to perform the Led Zeppelin song "Tangerine" at haftime of the Tangerine Bowl. Coach Mark Mangino hopes the bowl will boost the team's health.
than the Tangerine Bowl."
The Jayhawks have ignored reports that playing in the Tangerine Bowl does not increase the body's vitamin C levels.
Mangino became confused when doctors told him to have his players eat tangerines and other citrus fruits out of a bowl in the locker room.
"I can't wait to get to Orlando and have the team step inside that stadium," Mangino said. "We'll get so much vitamin C, we won't get colds for a year. Go Hawks!"
Academics encouraged by KU football success
Football fans are not the only Jayhawks celebrating KU's defeat of Iowa State and subsequent bowl berth. In academic buildings across campus, department heads have given pep talks to their esteemed faculty emphasizing that they, too, can achieve mediocrity.
"We really think it's time to just sit in the boat and not rock it for a while," said chemistry professor Ernest Galpern. To demonstrate their commitment to averageness, KU chemists will hold a ceremony Jan. 28 in Bailey Hall to reaffirm the existence of helium.
"We found it once, and that has really been a credit to the University," Galpern said. "Why try for a breakthrough when we can go .500 and get some cheers for once?"
Linguistics department head Arlene Beckerschmidt remarked, "Ya know, once in a while we need to just cool our jets. People get sick of constant advances in the field. After all, it's just human language! 'Beak'em, 'Hawks!"
Chancellor Hemenway is expected to set the growing trend full-tilt as he announces the first A-OK Award for Satisfactory Education this spring. When asked for encouraging words, the Chancellor exclaimed, "Let's show everyone that Jayhawks—on and off the field—can really break even!"
—Sam Hopkins
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KU bathroom renovations completed
By Kevin O'Halloran
beak@kansan.com
Kansan satire writer
Taking a trip to a campus bathroom used to be a bleak experience. Not anymore.
The University has begun a multifaceted campaign to brighten the bathrooms and the smiles of those who use them. The renovation's most important feature is cutting down on unnecessary waste.
Enter any Wescoe bathroom today and you won't find any toilet paper. In a brilliant environmental move, toflet paper has been eliminated. Likewise, paper towels have been removed. You also won't find many of the toilets flushed. To preserve freshwater resources, flushing is reserved for making a number two, and sometimes not even then.
"I like the changes," said one sophomore as he dried his hands on his shirt. "America has to shed its reputation of disrespecting the environment. KU has gone Euro-style"
A Creativity Outreach program complements the environmental features of the program. Students are encouraged to bring pens and markers to add their own brand of creative energy to the walls. Kobe Tai, director of bathroom renovations, gave her philosophy behind the Creativity Outreach program.
"Each stall is not merely an object of privacy but a potential mural," Tai said. "I believe that freshman males in particular have a lot to say and they express it through their scribbling."
A plethora of messages now decorate Wescoe stalls. They include enough insightful philosophical questions, thought-provoking political voices and uplifting religious messages to rival the Free for All. They also include cute limericks about poo.
"We encourage all students to visit a campus bathroom today" said Tai.
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Music for the holidays Various campus choirs and orchestras are preparing for the 79th annual Holiday Vespers concerts. The concerts will be held at the Lied Center this weekend and will feature opera pieces and holiday standards. PAGE3A
Flu on the rise Health officials are worried about flu numbers rising at an unusually high rate this year. With the stress and sleep deficiency that finals bring, students are particularly susceptible right now.PAGE 3A
A film student tells the story of the 129th Reserve Division for his documentary short. The divisions deployment was extended, leaving families to work together to pass legislation to relieve soldiers. PAGE5A
War-inspired documentary
Victory in California
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The Kansas volleyball team swept the Long Beach State 49ers in three games in its first-ever NCAA Tournament victory. PAGE12A
Women come home
The Kansas women's basketball team is ready to play its
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Friday, December 5, 2003
Sean Smith/Kansan
A life in transition
Claven Snow, Lawrence resident,and his fiancée, Vanessa Hays, Topeka senior, smiled before kissing. Claven, 25, who was born a woman and has been taking testosterone injections for 21 months, has known Hays since before he began his physical transition to become a man.
From girl to man: Body matches mind
By Johanna M. Maska
jmaska@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The waiting room at the doctor's office is packed with men and women reading magazines. As the door opens, a few impatient faces look up.
"C.J.," the nurse calls. A man about 5-foot-6, with dark jeans, dark shirt and closely cropped hair, walks to the door.
"The left — We'll do the right cheek this time," she says. With a jab, she sticks a needle in his butt.
Jessica Matta
This biweekly injection of testosterone has become routine for Clavene. This way, he can more easily maintain his male appearance. The reason: Clavene was born a girl.
In the privacy of a sterile four-by-five examining room, Claven Snow pulls down his pants and asks the nurse, "Which cheek did we do last time?"
Born Nov. 27, 1978, Jessica Matta was the fourth of five children. She played the piano, sang in the school choir and played with toys. Like many other young girls, she had been promised equality.
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Family, friends and teachers figured lessica was a tomboy.
My mom told me I could be anything
I wanted to be, Claven recalled.
At age 6, she began cutting her hair
In the second grade her teacher asked what she wanted to be when she grew up.
snort. She didn't like dresses; she preferred G.I. Joes to Barbies; she would attach her hair bows to her shirt and wear them as bow ties.
The teacher called her parents and they agreed on treatment. Within days, her family rushed her to an institution for psychoanalysis where she was diagnosed with "gender dysphoria." The prescription was simple: "girl" stuff.
"I want to be a man like my daddy." Jessica said.
There it was.
Unusual, not unique
"They probably spent thousands of dollars on pink and white dresses, hair bows and therapy," Claven said of his parents. "I never did really feel like a girl, but I did learn to shut up for about 15 years."
Claven is transsexual. Although born a female, he is undergoing hormonal replacement therapy to look and feel like the man he is.
Transsexuality is as old as humankind, said Dennis Dailey, University of Kansas professor in social welfare, who has worked with transsexuals in his private practice as a therapist.
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THEIR SCHOOL FESTIVAL
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Left: Claven, still dressed as a woman, at a 1993 homecoming celebration at his high school in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Pictured right is his friend and date, Matt Pinkston.
Wescoe Terrace expansion set for May
By Laura Francoviglia
editor@kansan.com
Special to the Kansan
Students will have more dining options in Wescoe Terrace next fall after the building and the food court are remodeled and expanded.
"We want it to be a welcoming and warm place for students to go, but a different dining experience than the Kansas Union or the Burge Union," said Michael Myers, assistant director-retail of KU Memorial Unions Food Services.
Wescoe Terrrace will be closed by May 14,2004. Stop Day, when construction will start.
Students taking classes during the summer won't be completely disadvantaged, though. They still will be able to lunch from food carts near Wescoe Terrace.
Myers said the planned reopening was Aug. 19, the first day of school.
Wescoe's new food options will probably include Chic-fil-A, Pizza Hut and a stand that will sell Asian cuisine.
Wescoe's salad bar will be updated to include different salads, such as Caesar and pasta salads. Sushi still will be available, and the Mill Valley Deli will remain because of its popularity.
Wescoe Terrace's expansion also will include a separate convenience store, which will stay open longer for students who study at Anschutz Library. The convenience store will sell coffee and smoothies, similar to what the jittermugs store at the Kansas Union offers.
The bottom floor of Wescoe Hall will be expanded to where the patio is now. New walls will be constructed on the west and south sides of the building to allow for more space. Wescoe Terrace will be constructed into a food court with more options and more tables, similar to the unions.
"I'm not worried the unions will lose business to Wescoe Terrace, because we will have different food choices to offer students," said Jay Glatz, director of KU Memorial Unions Food Services.
Though the project is still in the planning stages, Glatz estimated it would cost $500,000.
The projects may be broken into two phases because of the high cost of renovations and building design. As a result, the convenience store may open later than the food court.
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Satirist fills ballroom with students, laughter
By Amanda Kim Stairrett
astairrett@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Mo Rocca told a crowd of more than 670 about his favorite field piece from Comedy Central's The Daily Show With Jon Stewart. The story was about a Key West, Fla., ban on cock fighting. Animal rights groups would not allow the animals to be put to sleep, and rogue roosters roamed the streets. Rocca asked a resident, "What's the best way to handle big, ferocious cocks?"
Rocca, a Daily Show correspondent and commentator from VIH1's I Love the 80s, spoke in the Kansas Union Ballroom last night. Student Union Activities sponsored the event and had to add 50 seats to the room. People had to be turned away at the door because the room was full.
Robyn Conaway, Sallisaw, Okla., senior, watched Rocca on I Love the 80s and NBC's The Today Show.
"He puts a funny spin on intelligence," she said.
He shared his opinions on the Democratic nominee for president, fondness for presidential grave sites and *Daily Show* moments. The crowd roared with laughter while watching a never-aired clip of Rocca butting in on an on-the-spot interview during the 2000 elections. Rocca gradually crept up to a politician being interviewed by another reporter, inching his microphone closer and closer to the politician's face until made contact, creating wrinkly jowls. The
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other reporter swatted Rocca's microphone away, but he kept poking. The politician kept talking through the entire incident. Rocca kept a straight face but told the audience he could hardly keep his composure.
He showed other clips from the Daily Show, including a piece with correspondent Stephen Colbert, parodying the mudslinging between CNN's Aaron Brown and Geraldo Rivera. In the piece, Colbert delivered the word "poopalanche" straight-faced. Rocca said it was the funniest word ever spoken on the Daily Show. He said he enjoyed making fun of the news although it bothered him that politicians were tripping over themselves to get on comedy shows.
Before the Daily Show, Roca wrote for the PBS children's series Wishbone. Later, he made $150 an hour as a contributing editor for Perfect 10 magazine, which features nude models without breast implants.
Rocca said his next project was developing a reality show for POX which involved released convicts and a doughnut shop to acclimate him. He said it was part Touched By An Angel, part The Restaurant.
Oh, and the best way to handle big ferocious cocks? Use gloves.
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THE O'REILLY VIDEO
Satirist Mo Rocca watched along with the audience as a video of his appearance on The O'Reilly Factor played. In the segment he facetiously defends the social benefit of lingerie-clad and pregnant Barbie dolls in a debate against Wendy Wright of Concerned Women for America. He spoke last night to a full ballroom in the Kansas Union.
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Former Westar Energy execs indicted for looting company
TOPEKA-Kansans who observe Westar Energy, Inc., were not surprised yesterday by the allegations contained in a federal indictment against two former executives, though one consumer advocate questioned why more defendants were not named.
dants were not harmed. Former chief executive officer David C. Wittig and former chief strategic officer Douglas T. Lake each face 40 counts and are accused of trying to "systematically loot" the company, the largest electric utility in Kansas.
Sears utility Wittig had faced criticism for months before he resigned as Westar's top executive in November 2002. Some allegations in the federal indictment released yesterday were first raised in regulatory hearings held by the Kansas Corporation Commission.
In May, Westar's board of directors released a 376-page report alleging misconduct by Wittig and Lake.
While he said he would not secondguess the federal grand jury that issued the indictment, David Springe, an attorney for the Citizens' Utility Ratepayers Board, said the directors' report suggested other Westar officials had some role in what happened at the company during Wittig's tenure.
during Wittig trial Attorney Jim Zakoura, who represents large Westar customers, said he believed more information about what happened inside the company would come out as the case proceeded. He said Wittig and Lake -who have not responded publicly to the directors' report -were likely to present evidence raising questions about how responsible they were for various events.
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indictment will affect Westar's operations. James Haines became CEO a year ago, and Westar is now trying to shed all non-utility assets.
USDA could allow live cattle from Canada past U.S. border
WICHITA Any decision to reopen the U.S. border to Canadian cattle should be based on science and not on trade politics, an official of an American livestock group said yesterday, even though the ban has been an economic boon to U.S. cattlemen.
the they were not. Zakoura and other Kansans also stressed that they did not believe the
Zahra Knott, Derby junior, stenciled paint onto fabric yesterday afternoon in the art and design building for her screen printing class final project creating upholstery patterns. Knott has spent about 10 hours on the project already, she said, and will probably spend another 10 before it is finished. "It's something different everyday," she said. "It's fun."
"We shouldn't use this as a way to keep the border closed for short-term gain," said Matt Teagarden, director of industry relations for the Kansas Livestock Association.
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Although Teagarden said Canadian cattle posed no risk to U.S. cattle or to consumers, the association took no official stance at its annual convention.
On Sept. 10, the U.S. Department of Agriculture began allowing imports of Canadian boneless beef from cattle under 30 months of age. The USDA is now considering allowing live cattle under 30 months to be imported from countries that have Mad Cow Disease but are classified minimal risk because of their prevention and detection procedures.
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Meanwhile, U.S. cattle producers have benefited from Canada's woes, which reduced domestic cattle supplies already tight after last year's drought forced herd reductions. Beef demand remained strong, and U.S. beef exports this year are anticipated to also set a record.
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Man prosecuting rap artist found shot, stabbed to death
was found shot and stabbed to death in a Pennsylvania creek yesterday after failing to show up at the trial of two men accused of dealing heroin.
BALTIMORE—A federal prosecutor
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan P. Luna, 38, was discovered face-down in the water behind the parking lot of a well-drilling company in Lancaster County, Pa., about 70 miles from Baltimore, Brecknock Township police said. A car was near the body, police said.
Luna was prosecuting Baltimore
rapper Deon Lionnel Smith, 32, and Walter Oriley Poindexter, 28, who were accused of dealing heroin and running a violent drug ring from their Stash House Records studio. Smith recorded under the name Papi Jenkins.
Authorities did not say whether the two men are under suspicion in the slaying. They were behind bars at the time.
Wednesday and reached a plea bargain on the drug charges at the end of the day, said U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr., who presided over the case. The men entered their guilty pleas around noon yesterday.
Smith pleaded guilty to distribution of heroin and possession of a weapon for the purposes of drug trafficking. Poindexter pleaded guilty to distribution of heroin to a government witness.
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and 36 CDs valued at $10 each stolen between 10 p.m. Tuesday and 8:10 a.m. Wednesday from his vehicle in the 200 block of Country Manor.
A 21-year-old KU student reported a speaker valued at $400.
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an amplifier valued at $200 and a damaged antenna valued at $130 stolen between 11:30 p.m. Sunday and 10:10 p.m. Monday from his vehicle in the 900 block of Ohio Street.
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Vespers concert kicks off holidays for 79th time
By Alex Hoffman
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A musical tradition continues to usher in the holiday season at the University of Kansas.
The Holiday Vespers concert will celebrate its 79th year with performances at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow and Sunday at the Lied Center. An evening show will take place at 7:30 p.m. Sunday.
The huge production provides a sampling of musical talent within the music department and from outside the University. The
"There's so many people in the Lawrence community that think of the holiday season beginning with
Vespers."
John Paul Johnson Director of choral activities
KU Symphony Orchestra, the KU Symphonic Chorus, the KU Chamber Choir and the First
United Methodist Church Celebration Ringers are among the participants.
John Paul Johnson, director of choral activities, said he loved the Vespers experience, even though it came at a busy time of year for the students and faculty.
"I really enjoy getting the opportunity to conduct concerts and watch how people react and get into the holiday spirit," Johnson said.
The concert begins with the symphony orchestra performing Polonaise from Piotr II'yich Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin. In the first of a variety of
choral performances, the Symphonic Chorus will then sing in a stereo effect by surrounding the Lied Center crowd in the balconies and aisles.
"It's an overwhelming amount of singers," Johnson said. "But for the best sound for the audience, we're going to do most of the things on the stage."
A returning favorite to the concert is Random Harmony, a men's quartet made up of students in the Chamber Choir. The group first sang at Holiday Vespers last year. It will sing a medley arranged by Michael Brown, Perry senior and one of its members.
It also plans to sing Aud Lang Syne in a barbershop style, one of the quartet's specialties.
Whisler also has the opening solo to "Ave Marla," but he most enjoys his role with Random Harmony.
"I think the crowd is going to enjoy our arrangements," said Shaun Whisler, Olathe senior and co-founder of Random Harmony. "This is probably one of our favorite events to perform at."
"It's probably made my college experience, singing with three of my best friends," he said.
As in previous years, the audience will have the opportunity to
interact with the musicians. There will be three sing-alongs of holiday standards during the concert.
"The audience will get a big kick out of it," Johnson said.
out of it, for sure," Johnson said. At 79 years, the University's concert has one of the longestrunning traditions of Holiday Vespers in the nation.
"There's so many people in the Lawrence community that think of the holiday season beginning with Vespers," Johnson said.
Tickets for all three shows still remain. Tickets cost $12.50 for adults and $10 for students.
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University team to analyze electromagnetic spectrum
Frequency study could promote efficient usage
By Amber Byarlay
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Kansan staff writer
The National Science Foundation has given the University of Kansas $1.8 million to research and organize the radio frequency spectrum.
The research project will be called the National Radio Networking Research Testbed and will include University faculty and students. The researchers will measure how much of the radio frequency, or RF, spectrum is used.
Determining this will help researchers to develop new technology and policies that will use the RF spectrum more efficiently.
Using the spectrum more efficiently is important because it is finite, said Victor Frost, computer science and electrical engineer professor.
"It's a resource, and the way
"The easiest way to think about it is with colors. TV and radio stations each have their own color they send us."
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it's allocated determines how customers can use it," Frost said.
The RF spectrum works by sending out a number of frequencies. These frequencies will cover a certain area.
"The easiest way to think about it is with colors," said professor Gary Minden, who will lead the project. "TV and radio stations each have their own color they send us."
Each frequency has its own color, and the frequency will broadcast at only that one color. But those colors can only be seen for a certain distance, Minden said.
phones, television and radio stations and satellites use specific frequencies.
Right now, these frequencies are managed by the Federal Communications Commission. To use a frequency, a company must apply and pay for a license.
Within that area cellular tele-
What Minden and his team will determine what frequencies are used and how much they are used. After they know how the RF spectrum is used, the researchers will make policy suggestions on how to use the spectrum most efficiently.
Minden said the researchers would also create technologies that would take advantage of any unused portions of the spectrum they found.
Such technology would include maps in cars that would give information about traffic jams locations or MP3 players that download music into your car as well as into the player, Minden said.
Minden said the project work would begin Jan. 1, though preliminary work had already begun.
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Colo. sees record number in early peak of flu season
By Danielle Hillix
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Kansan staff writer
More and more people are getting sick with the flu. And that has health officials sick with worry.
Flu season normally peaks in January and February, but local and national officials are reporting a peak-like number of cases now. That leaves a bleak outlook for the coming months.
"It it could get ugly," said Barbara Schnitker, director or nurses at Douglas County Health Department. "We really don't now what all might happen."
Across the United States and throughout the University of Kansas, flu season has hit hard and early. The Centers for Disease Control reports strong flu activity that has increased weekly. Watkins Memorial Health Center has treated an unusually high number of flu patients. And it is expected to only get worse.
This time of year, students tend to focus on papers and finals and forget about staying healthy. This opens the door for the flu, Myra Strother, Watkins chief of staff said. Adequate sleep, nutrition and exercise are essential to keep-
a healthy immune system and avoiding the flu.
"If you wear yourself down, you're just asking for it," Strother said.
A flu vaccination is the best way to prevent the infection. Watkins gave out more than 3,000 vaccinations at clinics this semester. Vaccinations are still available at the center, by appointment. Flu shots are the best protection against the flu, but they are not a guarantee.
The active flu season has been attributed, in part, to a second strain of influenza that was not in this year's vaccination. Because this exact strain of influenza was not in the vaccine, even those who got the shot are not completely protected from the infection.
This has lead to an increase in flu cases. Most states do not keep track of the exact number of flu cases. In states that do the number is strikingly higher than previous years.
Colorado, one of the hardesthit states, has reported 6,239 confirmed flu cases. This is more than the previous two years combined.
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means an increased likelihood for severe cases," Strother said.
Though rare among college students, influenza can develop into pneumonia or other serious infections requiring hospitalization. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment has confirmed one influenza-related death in the state.
If a flu case ever gets worse, the patient should immediately see a doctor, Strother said.
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I am at the bus stop once again and the Jayhawk Express is still not here. I am not surprised. It probably is not going to show up.
I was just wondering why Enroll and Pay makes it so freaking hard to enroll and pay. You have to go through like 20 different things to pay your bill, and they wonder why everyone gets late fees.
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People paying attention to just one issue that only affects them is a reason why this country is in the toilet. Everybody needs to take into account everything that a candidate does before they vote for them.
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Columnist used Living Wage as excuse to attack liberals
Dear Arrah:
I read your latest column with great interest, as I do all your columns. I share your view about providing more than one side of the controversy about topics that the Kansan writers address.
You had the opportunity to say something constructively critical about the Living Wage campaign here in Lawrence, but instead you chose to present another angry commentary designed to discredit anyone who doesn't see things the way George Will, Jonah Goldberg, etal do.
What a shame. I think you have the ability to write an article on this topic that would be useful for Lawrence residents interested in the issue. Why you passed up the chance to learn about this complex, important, local issue and educate your readers with an original perspective is a mystery to me.
I have to say two things about your unfounded assertion that Living Wage advocates do what they do so they can persuade "stupid people" to vote "for the Democratic Party." Here in Lawrence elected city officials, some of whom support Living Wage while others don't, are non-partisan — they represent no political party. I know of no Living Wage campaign at the national level, but I could be wrong about that.
Second, you used the word "synopsis" incorrectly in your article. It's always rude to call other people stupid, but it's also risky when you write for a college newspaper and fail to use a common word properly.
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Empower those with little hope for their future by erasing universal human rights violations
Editor's note: This is a guest commentary by Laura Barr, who is studying abroad in Ireland this semester. She is a member of the University of Kansas chapter of Amnesty International.
Amnesty International is a non-governmental organization operating in more than 150 countries. The organization researches, catalogues and speaks out against human rights violations around the world. Earlier this month, I traveled to Brighton, Great Britain, to represent Ireland at the Amnesty International United Kingdom National Student Conference, along with two other University College Cork, Ireland, students and students from Trinity, Ireland, and Dublin Institute of Technology. We joined about 300 British students to address a number of Amnesty's current campaign topics.
When was the last time you actually got chills from the feeling that you were part of something so much bigger than yourself that you can't even wrap your mind or your heart around it? Seeing and hearing these lines sung together by Palestinians,
lence Against Women Campaign will launch next spring.)
Empowerment was a more personal issue at the conference. Student involvement and direction within Amnesty was made a priority for the first time this summer at the international summit held in Mexico, and that concern is coming into immediate effect. For example, one workshop involved a discussion of the possible directions Amnesty might pursue in the future, and the opinions expressed by students were relayed from there to the Amnesty International United Kingdom Board. Increased student membership and participation is being discussed for the board as well. I'm proud to count Amnesty among a very few organizations operating on an international level that truly give a voice to students, the sole future of their success.
Let's face it; all activists, including students, have busy lives outside of volunteering. It's difficult to balance human rights concerns with families, homework, jobs, religious obligations and all
British Americans, Italians and others in a documentary screened on Saturday was neither the first nor the last time during the Amnesty International United Kingdom National Student Conference weekend that I was moved to tears by that emotion.
the other trappings of our modern lives. It's easy to begin to deprioritize the work you're doing, despite a positive conviction of its importance. This is why conferences such as these are so valuable.
Amnesty has always been about empowerment: giving hope and a voice to those who might otherwise be overlooked. I truly felt the current of this sentiment running throughout the conference. One woman spoke about how Amnestygave strength and courage when she was a prisoner of conscience in the 1970s; another asked for our continued support in empowering her people to feel safe in their home in the Niger Delta through Amnesty's ongoing Control Arms campaign; yet others addressed the need to counter the consistent disempowerment of women throughout the world, from holding rapists and killers accountable for their violations in foreign lands to eradicating the subtle societal nuances that make violence against women in the home seem acceptable in our own nations. (Amnesty's End Vio-
From this conference, I took away new friendships, a variety of new experiences, a host of new information and even a new Amnesty T-shirt. But most of all, I took with me a renewed fervor for both the necessity of human rights for every citizen of our world and the belief in the work I do. They say it is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness. When was the last time you were on fire for a cause?
For more information about Amnesty International's current US campaigns, see www.aiUSA.org. For information on getting involved in Amnesty at KU, e-mail amnesty@ku.edu.
Laura Barr is a Chicago sophomore in philosophy.
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Are marriage rights worth fighting for?
I am not sure if I will ever get to see you.
Between my natural parents, they have a combined total of six marriages and five divorces. It is no surprise, then, that I have serious doubts on the subjects of commitment and monogamy for life. I have had many relationships in my past that have unfortunately not worked out, but it's not like I blame my parents for the circumstances surrounding the break ups, they just happen in the process of dating.
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This leads me to wonder why gay couples are so anxious to gain the right to get hitched. Sure, married couples enjoy benefits that are more for financial prosperity than anything else. But when it really comes down to the nitty-gritty of marriage, what is so great about it?
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Two people can be committed to each other and not get married. Couples, or more specifically, the women and 'metrosexuals' (the new genre of heterosexual men that proudly display their feminine side) of the relationships, seem to be into the idea of marriage simply for the wedding ceremony and fabulous looking diamond rings. And of course there is always that handy record of documentation, the marriage license, which proves you went through with it.
Businesses, namely one-third of Fortune 500 companies, already provide same-sex partner benefits to
many employees. The bar definitely needs to be raised to other profitable companies, but this is a good step in the direction of sexual equality. These same standards should also be applied to hold title to community property, health insurance benefits and, later in life, Social Security benefits. These standards could all be changed without the need for marriage. But with the Massachusetts' highest court guaranteeing same-sex civil marriage as a right under the nation's oldest state constitution, it is inevitable that most likely in the future, gay men and lesbians will be able to marry.
The truth is they probably will enjoy the rights of divorce as well. More than 40 percent of first marriages in the United States end in divorce, according to columnist George Will.
Our society gasps as two men walk
As a straight, single female, it may be easy to say that marriage is for the folks from small towns and is meaningless. But even though marriage may seem meaningless to some, same-sex marriages should be treated with the same regard, and I do hope that it eventually will be. But I would also love to see the gay community rise above the conservatives and have lower divorce rates than the rest of the heterosexual public.
down the street holding hands, but breathes a sigh of relief when a fighting couple finally divorces. With more and more gays openly stating their sexuality, society will soon reject the disgrace of homosexuality as divorce was not long ago commonly coined a sin. The social stigma of divorce has dwindled but the ideal of marriage ironically continues to be upheld in reverence.
Same-sex marriage-hopefuls have nothing to worry about; they will get their chance at weddings, rings, and marriage before they know it. For now, they should enjoy the freedom of loving each other without the binding, sometimes insignificant, flimsy piece of paper, that the rest of the society still upholds as consecrated importance.
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By Meghan Brune
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The KU Pakistani Cultural Club will celebrate the end of Ramadan at 7 p.m. tonight at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.The event will be $3 for KU students and $5 for non-students.
The event is not a dinner, but will include traditional snacks and sweets such as Saimia, a sweet spaghetti served with sweet milk sauce. Many of the dishes will be catered by India Palace, 129 E. 10th St., a local Indian restaurant.
Traditionally, Muslims wear new clothes and the women adorn their hands with henna, temporary tattoos made with natural ink.
The celebration, called Eid,
marks the end of Ramadan, the month-long holiday of fasting and prayer for Muslims. Eid means recurring happiness or festivity.
Sadiq Chaudhri, president of the club, said that Eid was a social gathering especially popular with the younger generation.
Chaudhri, Overland Park sophomore, said that Eid was usually celebrated the first weekend after Ramadan.
Like the club's last event during Ramadan, Chaudhri said that the goal was to have an interfaith event where non-Muslims could learn about the culture and religion of Islamic people.
He said that Muslims were similar in some ways to other cultures in the way they celebrated their holidays, but that their differences were important.
"A lot of people might have misconceptions about Muslims and their traditions," Chaudhri said. "We are different and we want to educate people on how we are."
Samara Nazir, vice president of the club, said that another goal was to expand their presence on campus.
During Ramadan, the ECM hosted two dinners, with KU Crescent and then the Pakistani Cultural Club.
"We are trying to make people aware that we are around and that we are like everyone else," said Nazir. Overland Park junior.
Thad Holcombe, director of the ECM, said that the first event brought in more than 300 people. 70 of whom were Muslims.
Holcombe said that the other guests came to discuss and learn more about the religion.
"We had great conversations around the tables," Holcombe said. "There were no predispositions, just sharing of different perspectives."
Because of the success of the events, Holcombe said he had invited Muslim students to the ECM's yearly Candles and Carols. The event, an advent service, will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 14.
He said that he had the same hope for the Eid party.
The event has always been open to students of all faiths, but Holcombe said he wanted to especially invite Muslim students in exchange for their inclusiveness during Ramadan.
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WESCOE: Expansion aimed at improving Terrace's appearance
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Jonathan Korte, Overland Park junior, helped clean up Wescoe Terrace before its 4 p.m. closing time yesterday. KU Memorial Unions Food Services plans to expand the building and food court to offer more dining options by next fall.
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Gatz said about 1,900 to 2,000 students ate at Wescrose Terrace everyday, more than at either the Kansas Union or the Burge Union.
"This is the only place on campus I eat," Sara Katich, Lawrence sophomore, said of Wescoe.
Katich said she thought expanding Wescoe Terrace would bring more people there to eat.
Despite its high traffic, the building has not been renovated since 1988. Myers said he wanted to improve the appearance of the Terrace.
"I want students to get excited about going to Wescoe Terrace," Myers said, "not just going because it's convenient."
Erin Goodman, Houston
Glatz and Myers said they have been working closely with consultants and architects to plan the renovation. The same architects who designed the Market at the Kansas Union are designing Wescoe Terrace.
freshman, said she thought Wescoe Terrace was a good place to eat, but said it would benefit from the improvements.
"It definitely needs to be bigger, and the atmosphere could be better." Goodman said.
Glatz said the size of the food court might be limited because of ventilation problems because the building is old.
"We'll have a more specific idea of how the building will look after the next couple of months," said Glatz.
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Kansas suicide statistics fluctuate
Knowing warning signs could aid prevention
By Steve Schmidt
sschmidt@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The number of suicide deaths in Kansas went up 16.5 percent in 2002 compared to the previous year.
The Kansas Annual Summary of Vital Statistics published the figures from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. Suicide was the second-leading cause of external deaths in the state behind motor vehicle accidents, the report stated.
Out of the 346 suicides last year in Kansas, nine of them were from Douglas County. In 2001, there were 11.
Of the 346, 62 were in the 15 to 24 age range. Suicide was the second-leading cause of death in the age range, behind motor vehicle accidents. Nationally, suicide ranks third behind accidents and homicides, said Marcia Epstein, director of Headquarters Counseling Center downtown at 211 E. Eighth St. She is also a member of the Kansas State Suicide Prevention Plan Steering Committee.
Any call to the National Hopeline Network in the state goes to the Lawrence center, which is partially funded by student activities fees from the University of Kansas, Epstein said. She estimated that one-third of callers were University students.
In addition to providing a 24-hour counseling service, Epstein said the center also helped people with relationship and medical
Marcia Epstein Director, Headquarters Counseling Center
"It happens. It has a huge impact. It's a very serious issue in our country"
problems. The center also visits local schools to teach about suicide prevention.
Epstein said that suicide had a kind of a dichotomy. On one hand, she said, there is a tremendous sense of loss on a personal level to the family and friends of the person who committed suicide. On the other hand, she said that a trend was difficult to distinguish because of low numbers of suicide deaths over a long period of time.
The number of suicide deaths has actually leveled off in the last 11 years, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. After a huge jump from the '50s to the '70s, the ratio between suicide deaths and the overall proportion of death has maintained a steady rate and actually decreased in the '90s, Epstein said. The suicide death rate decreased from 13.2 people per 100.00 in 1990 to 9.9 in 2001.
In Kansas, the number of suicide deaths has gone up and down for the last five years, making it impossible to point out any trends, said Sharon Watson, public information director for the health department.
understand the causes for suicide, it was best to look at long periods of time instead of short periods of about five years.
There is one trend, though, on the state and national level: difference in gender. The statistics of the amount of men who commit suicide compared to women are overwhelming. In the 15 to 24 age range in Kansas last year alone, 53 out of the 62 suicide victims were male. Of the total suicides in the state, 286 of the 346 were male in 2002.
Watson said when trying to
Epstein said that nationally, there were 4.1 male suicide victims to every female.
Although it's hard to name specific reasons, Epstein said she thought women were more likely to seek help from a hotline or other means.
"Our culture says it's more OK for women to express their feelings and get help than it is for men," Epstein said. "We know that."
Both Epstein and Watson said there were certain warning signs to look for regarding people pondering suicide.
Epstein said there were three basic categories: behaviors, thoughts and situations.
Any dramatic changes in behavior is the first sign. An example would be someone who was usually social becoming withdrawn. Epstein said the biggest behavior sign was when an individual begins giving away their belongings.
A feeling of hopelessness is another sign. Thoughts like "It's all my fault," or "It's never going
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The number of suicides in the state of Kansas has fluctuated for the last five years.
Year Number
2002 346
2001 297
2000 331
1999 298
1998 328
Source: Kansas Department of Health and Environment
to change," and other feelings of anger, pain and sadness are some of the biggest signs, Epstein said.
The third factor deals with somebody who has experienced personal loss, such as a loved one who has a died or an end of a relationship.
Epstein said that one of the largest misconceptions of suicide was that it wouldn't hit close to home.
"It happens. It has a huge impact," she said. "It's a very serious issue in our country."
Epstein said that many suicide deaths were preventable and that it was important to look for warning signs and to know where to find help for the individual.
Those who want help with issues pertaining to suicide or any other problems are encouraged to call the National Hopeline Network at 1-800-SUICIDE.
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Soldiers' families inspire student film
By Zack Hemenway
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Kansan staff writer
The story of military injustice behind the movie A Few Good Men came from a situation writer Aaron Sorkin's sister experienced as a naval lawyer. Jake Weller, Mulvane senior, had similar inspiration for his documentary short, tentatively titled Renegades: the Story of the 129th Transportation Division.
Weller's cousin, Cindy Hollinger, is married to a members of the division, which consists of reserve officers trained in transporting goods and vehicles.
When the conflict with Iraq began, the division was sent into action in the country. Weller said reserve divisions were typically called in for six-month shifts, rotating with other reserve divisions.
However, the 129th had its deployment extended to two years. This change hit hard, lowering morale in the division.
But the news was met with even more outrage at home, as soldiers' wives and families tried
The wives and mothers of the soldiers, Hollinger included, banded together, starting a Web site at the address www.129bringthemhome.com.
They also petitioned congressmen, senators and military personnel, asking for the prompt return of the division.
Weller, enrolled in a documentary film production class, saw potential in his cousin's story.
"I knew that this conflict was not unique to my cousin," he said. "Lots of other soldiers had gone through it, and I saw that their wives had banded together to make a big difference."
Weller pitched his idea in the class, in which students work in groups on short films, but didn't receive much cooperation. For political and other reasons — some simply preferred other topics — Weller couldn't get anyone to join his group.
who were film students in other classes serving as his crew.
"Film students are always willing to help each other out," Weller said.
Jeremy Osbern, Lawrence senior, began working on the project as a favor to Weller, but after seeing footage, Osbern took a more active role.
"We talked about how to tell the story, and everyone agreed it was best to let the subjects tell it themselves." Osbern said.
Osborn, who Weller plans to credit as cinematographer, woke up at 6 a.m. Tuesday to film Weller interviewing U.S. Rep. Dennis Moore (D-Kansas).
Moore talked with the mothers and wives profiled in Weller's film and sponsored an amendment which passed the House that relieves soldiers of travel burden for rest and recuperation leave. This was an important issue for the film.
Weller said these wives and mothers were the "renegades" from his title. While he has interviewed soldiers and politicians, much of the film will focus on their actions.
"One soldier said he feels like his wife is the voice that he doesn't feel like he has as a soldier," Weller said.
Weller's short will be screened with other class projects on Dec. 13. The 20-minute cut that will be shown is not Weller's final version of the film, however. He wants to follow-up with his subjects.
The women profiled in Weller's film have plans for the future as well. Their online petition has received more than 13,000 signatures, and they have changed the address of their site. The new address conveys some of the progress they have made in bringing home the 129th: their information is now located at www.129supportingoursoldiers.com.
Weller said that the actions of the women in his film were unique and powerful.
"It's one thing to raise a little hell and put on a show," he said. "But it's a whole different thing to get policy changed."
Twelfth Interstate shooting reported in Ohio
—Edited by Erin Riffey
The Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio — In one of 12 linked shootings on Ohio highways, an Akron couple reported that one of several juveniles on an overpass had a gun and shot at a horse trailer they were towing, a State Highway Patrol report said.
The couple did not report the
Aug. 31 trailer damage until three days after the Nov. 25 shooting that killed a woman on Interstate 270.
Franklin County sheriff's Chief Deputy Steve Martin said yesterday that investigators had not discounted the couple's report, but there was no indication that juveniles were responsible for any of the other shootings.
Ballistics tests have definitively
linked four of the 12 shootings three at vehicles and one at an elementary school, but investigators believe they all are connected.
The shootings took place on or near the same short stretch of I-270 south of Columbus; the woman who was killed, Gaill Knisley, was the only person hit.
A bullet from the trailer did not come from the same gun as the
four, but the report is included with the 12 because it came from the area police are investigating. Martin said.
A sheriff's report on the damage said it happened on I-270, but Patrol Sgt. Rick Zwayer said the couple was not sure where they were driving and a witness said they were on a different highway.
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"The fact that people believe they have been born into the wrong body does not change. It's a basic physiological anomaly." Dailey said. "How people react to it changes."
Native American society is a good example of a society that reacts differently to transsexuality, Dailey said. "In our tradition it is seen as some sort of aberrant tradition, in the Native American tradition, it's seen as Shaman-like."
Ancient Roman and ancient Greek cultures also revered transsexual people as unusual tokens of their society, Dailey said.
"If you're living in a society that does not tolerate variations around sexuality, like our country, the United States, then things transsexuality, transvestitism and homosexuality are going to pick up a consistent negative reaction," he said.
At any given time, one in 30,000 males and one in 100,000 females are seeking to change their assigned sex, according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association. Those estimates are based on self reports, said Sean Morgan, professor and coordinator of counseling and school psychology at California State University, Dominguez Hills. Morgan said he believed the variance between male and female statistics is due to social stigmas.
Claven Snow, Lawrence resident, kissed his fiancée, Vanessa Hays, Topeka senior.
"It seems there's more acceptance of women being masculine than men being feminine," Morgan said.
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After Claven began hormone replacement therapy, his knuckles grew wider, his veins became more defined and the hair on his arms became darker and thicker. Other physical changes included facial hair, a deeper voice and an enlarged clitoris. Claven hadn't had his breasts removed or had genital surgery because insurance won't pay for the high costs.
Testing identity
out piped a much higher voice than I have now."
Claven remembers sitting in large lecture halls waiting for the teacher to call on him. Because his name on the roster was still Jessica, he expected confusion. So he told his professors he was transgender and to call him C.J. It wasn't enough.
At 23, Claven was living in Lawrence and a KU student. He got involved with Queers and Allies, a campus group for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students and those who support them. Claven was living as a man by this point; but legally, Claven was still Jessica. He had started going by CJ, at age 14. It was a gender-neutral name that was more fitting. Later, he said he adopted the name Claven for its root in Old English: divided.
"It was the students who were confused," Claven said. "The professor would call me sir, and
He was ready for the next step.
Evaluation
the process of a sex change begins with the Harry Benjamin Standards. This evaluation, administered by a psychologist, encompasses an in-depth analysis of personal history, a mental health evaluation and, in the end, a diagnosis of "gender identity disorder."
Sean Smith/Kansan
People with "gender identity disorder" know at an early age, said Pamela Botts, clinical director for the University of Kansas Counseling and Psychological Services.
sensing and understanding.
“This is a life-long issue for people,” Bots said. “It might not have been apparent to other people, the person could have been struggling very quietly.”
sugging for valid Counseling and Psychological Services will either oversee or refer patients requesting gender transition therapy, she said. Because it's an involved process, the clinic must ensure a psychologist has time to complete the evaluation that precedes any medical gender intervention.
Claven had been struggling both outwardly at a young age and then quietly after his experience in second grade.
His Harry Benjamin Standards showed he had a longstanding tradition of gender identity disorder, was currently living as a man and he was of age. He passed the evaluation.
Haptase Dailey said Claven's early association with male gender role activities, like playing with G.I. Joes and wearing male clothes, were to be expected from someone with a gender identity disorder.
Although expectations of people, or gender roles, vary between cultures, transsexuals work to fit the mold of the cultural norms of the times, he said. Although Jessica was born a female, she saw herself as male.
increased sex drive.
"Because of that, she wanted to do the sorts of things males do in this country." Dailey said.
Fitting in
Claven has been taking testosterone shots since February 2002. In these 21 months, Claven's accelerated puberty process has sped growth of hair on his face and body. He has lost his curves, his knuckles have gotten bigger and his muscle mass has been redistributed. Claven's voice is still deepening so it sometimes cracks. He also has a higher metabolism and an
On the whole, he is identifiably male.
The testosterone alone has caused cosmetic changes. But Claven isn't sure that he will undergo the next in the series of sex changes, because the surgeries are expensive. A bilateral mastectomy, or removal of his breasts, runs from $3,000 to $10,000, depending on the extent of chest reconstruction, said Morgan, Cal State professor. A genital reconstruction for a female to male transition is another estimated $15,000 to $70,000, he said. The cost is too much for Claven to handle.
Dailey said reconstructed genitalia were becoming more convincing. Doctors are performing plastic surgery to reconstruct the genital area so that male to female surgery is hardly noticeable. Although female to male surgery is currently more difficult, it is possible to construct a penis.
Claven's driver's license still says female. He would have to undergo surgery to change his legal status.
Unless he gets the surgeries, he will continue to bind his breasts with a bra-like chest form that makes breasts look more like a man's pectoral muscles. Claven said he didn't use other items common to transmen: a tube-like structure to use a urinal and a fake penis "packer" or prosthetic penis for tucking in underwear.
Sean Smith/Kansai
Functionality is questionable. Since the fluids don't flow regularly, transwomen must use supplemental lubrication once they've had surgery. Transmen have a few medical procedures available to construct a penis, Morgan said. A metoidioplasty creates a penis using the enlarged clitoris and female foreskin. A phalloplasty uses either skin grafts from the forearm or abdomen.
Botts said insurance in the United States largely did not cover transsexual health care operations. Insurers might pay for the evaluation, but they rarely pay for any intervention — psychotherapy or sex reassignment surgery.
Because many insurers consider a sex change "experimental," they don't have to pay for it, Morgan said.
For Claven, his testosterone is covered. Surgeries are not.
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From left: Jessica Gish, Topeka junior, Wes Teal, Lawrence resident, and Claven lounged in Claven's home Tuesday. Most of the friends at his house were Lawrence anarchists. At study group sessions this month, Lawrence Anarchist Black Cross will discuss queer issues. In this circle of friends, he said, he felt most accepted.
Born Nov. 27, 1978, Claven
Claven Snow
TRANSTERMS*
GENDER: Mindset
EX: Capitalio
SEX: Genitalia
GENDER DYSPHORIA: Clinical diagnosis of transgender people; favored term is Gender Identity Disorder.
GENDER IDENTITY DISORDER Psychological diagnosis of transgender people.
TRANSGENDER Umbrella term for all people whose gender identity or dress matches that of the opposite sex.
TRANSSEXUAL An individual who has or is transitioning biologically to the opposite sex.
TRANSFITTE An individual
who wears the clothing of the opposite sex but still identifies with the individual's sex.
TRANSITION: The process of changing one's gender and/or sex.
TRANSMAN OR FTM: Female to male; a person born with female genitalia but lives as a male.
TRANSWOMAN OR MIF: Male to female; a person born with male genitalia but lives as a woman.
TRANSVESTITE: An individual
*These definitions can be modified to the preference to the individual.
Sources: International Transgender Peer Support Web site and interviews
Snow is the fourth of five children. He writes poetry, reads books, works at Einstein Bros. Bagels and wants to raise a family. Like many other young men, he has been promised equality. These opportunities are something he hopes to pass along.
I'll tell my children they can be anything they want to be, Claven said.
First a tomboy, now a trans-
The transformation
November 27, 1978
Jessica Mana is born.
1981 — age 3
Margaret Brown dresses,
closes her eyes as bird eyes,
walks down磅 board and nurses a nurse.
1984 — age 7
Margaret Brown dresses,
closes her eyes as bird eyes,
walks down磅 board and nurses a nurse.
1987 — age 14
This graduate call has G. O.
a genus natural noose.
December 2003 — age 28
Planning a commitment ceremony with flannas.
February 2002 — age 23
Begins hormonal replacement therapy.
1984 — age 6
Don’trous Barbie dolls,
plays with G. I. Jones,
plays the piano.
1985 — age 8
Don’trous Barbie dolls,
plays with G. I. Jones,
plays the piano.
October 2001 — age 22
Starts psychological evaluation to undergo hormonal replacement therapy.
2000 — age 22
Attends the University of Kansas and begins living as Glaven, a male.
man, Claven has found his place in life, but it has been a struggle. For a while, he thought he was bisexual and he married a man thinking it would be a way to have children. It was a mistake.
He thought he could please his parents. He's pleasing himself now.
His parents aren't happy with the decision, but Claven said they are trying their best. He knows what he wants to be: A father to his children and a husband to his wife.
On Wednesday night, Claven stood before an audience of about 30 at a poetry reading. Vanessa sat in the middle of the front row.
His fiancee, Vanessa Hays,
Topeka senior, prefers Claven
how he is today — proud and
outspoken about his gender
identity.
"His poetry is why I fell in love with him," Vanessa said.
Fifteen years of silence were broken when Claven came out as trans. The emotion, he said, leads him to write. Although society doesn't always approve of gender ambiguity, he said, in this realm, he can express his experiences freely.
Before the audience, Claven spake:
"I just want to be free/ to see/ and to be angry/ to decree/ what defines he or she/ what defines me."
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"The fact that people believe they have been born into the wrong body does not change. It's a basic physiological anomaly." Dalley said. "How people react to it changes."
Native American society is a good example of a society that reacts differently to transsexuality, Dailey said. "In our tradition it is seen as some sort of aberrant tradition, in the Native American tradition, it's seen as Shaman-like."
Ancient Roman and ancient Greek cultures also revered transsexual people as unusual tokens of their society, Dailey said.
Claven Snow, Lawrence resident, kissed his fiancée, Vanessa Havs, Topeka senior
Joy and the Book
"If you're living in a society that does not tolerate variations around sexuality, like our country, the United States, then things transsexuality, transvestitism and homosexuality are going to pick up a consistent negative reaction," he said.
At any given time, one in 30,000 males and one in 100,000 females are seeking to change their assigned sex, according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association. Those estimates are based on self reports, said Sean Morgan, professor and coordinator of counseling and school psychology at California State University, Dominguez Hills. Morgan said he believed the variance between male and female statistics is due to social stigmas.
After Claven began hormone replacement therapy, his knuckles grew wider, his veins became more defined and the hair on his arms became darker and thicker. Other physical changes included facial hair, a deeper voice and an enlarged clitoris. Claven hasn't had his breasts removed or had genital surgery because insurance won't pay for the high costs.
"It seems there's more acceptance of women being masculine than men being feminine," Morgan said.
Testing identity
At 23, Claven was living in Lawrence and a KU student. He got involved with Queers and Allies, a campus group for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students and those who support them. Claven was living as a man by this point; but legally, Claven was still Jessica. He had started going by C.J. at age 14. It was a gender-neutral name that was more fitting. Later, he said he adopted the name Claven for its root in Old English: divided.
out piped a much higher voice than I have now."
Claven remembers sitting in large lecture halls waiting for the teacher to call on him. Because his name on the roster was still Jessica, he expected confusion. So he told his professors he was transgender and to call him C.J. It wasn't enough.
Sean Smith/Kensan
"It was the students who were confused," Claven said. "The professor would call me sir, and
He was ready for the next step.
Evaluation
The process of a sex change begins with the Harry Benjamin Standards. This evaluation, administered by a psychologist, encompasses an in-depth analysis of personal history, a mental health evaluation and, in the end, a diagnosis of "gender identity disorder."
People with "gender identity disorder" know at an early age, said Pamela Botts, clinical director for the University of Kansas Counseling and Psychological Services.
"This is a life-long issue for people," Botts said. "It might not have been apparent to other people, the person could have been struggling very quietly."
Counseling and Psychological Services will either oversee or refer patients requesting gender transition therapy, she said. Because it's an involved process, the clinic must ensure a psychologist has time to complete the evaluation that precedes any medical gender intervention.
Sean Smith/Kansan
Claven had been struggling both outwardly at a young age and then quietly after his experience in second grade.
His Harry Benjamin Standards showed he had a longstanding tradition of gender identity disorder, was currently living as a man and he was of age. He passed the evaluation.
Dailey said Claven's early association with male gender role activities, like playing with G.I. Joes and wearing男衣服, were to be expected from someone with a gender identity disorder.
Although expectations of people, or gender roles, vary between cultures, transsexuals work to fit the mold of the cultural norms of the times, he said. Although Jessica was born a female, she saw herself as male.
"Because of that, she wanted to do the sorts of things males do in this country." Daley said.
increased sex drive.
On the whole, he is identifiably male.
Fitting in
Claven has been taking testosterone shots since February 2002. In these 21 months, Claven's accelerated puberty process has sped growth of hair on his face and body. He has lost his curves, his knuckles have gotten bigger and his muscle mass has been redistributed. Claven's voice is still deepening so it sometimes cracks. He also has a higher metabolism and an
The testosterone alone has caused cosmetic changes. But Claven isn't sure that he will undergo the next in the series of sex changes, because the surgeries are expensive. A bilateral mastectomy, or removal of his breasts, runs from $3,000 to $10,000, depending on the extent of chest reconstruction, said Morgan, Cal State professor. A genital reconstruction for a female to male transition is another estimated $15,000 to $70,000, he said. The cost is too much for Claven to handle.
Unless he gets the surgeries, he will continue to bind his breasts with a bra-like chest form that makes breasts look more like a man's pectoral muscles. Claven said he didn't use other items common to transmast: a tube-like structure to use a urinal and a fake penis "packer" or prosthetic penis for tucking in underwear.
Claven's driver's license still says female. He would have to undergo surgery to change his legal status.
Dailey said reconstructed genitalia were becoming more convincing. Doctors are performing plastic surgery to reconstruct the genital area so that male to female surgery is hardly noticeable. Although female to male surgery is currently more difficult, it is possible to construct a penis.
C. M. P. S.
From left: Jessica Gish, Topeka junior, Wes Teal, Lawrence resident, and Claven lounged in Claven's home Tuesday. Most of the friends at his house were Lawrence anarchists. At study group sessions this month, Lawrence Anarchist Black Cross will discuss queer issues. In this circle of friends, he said, he felt most accepted.
Sean Smith/Kansas
Functionality is questionable.
Since the fluids don't flow regularly, transwomen must use supplemental lubrication once they've had surgery. Transmen have a few medical procedures available to construct a penis, Morgan said. A metoidioplasty creates a penis using the enlarged clitoris and female foreskin. A phalloplasty uses either skin grafts from the forearm or abdomen.
Botts said insurance in the United States largely did not cover transsexual health care operations. Insurers might pay for the evaluation, but they rarely pay for any intervention — psychotherapy or sex reassignment surgery.
Because many insurers consider a sex change "experimental," they don't have to pay for it, Morgan said.
For Claven, his testosterone is covered. Surgeries are not.
Born Nov. 27,1978,Claven
Claven Snow
TRANSTERMS*
SEX: Genitalia
GENDER DYSPHORIA: Clinical diagnosis of transgender people; favored term is Gender Identity Disorder.
GENDER IDENTITY DISORDER Psychological diagnosis of transgender people.
TRANSGENDER. Umbrella term for all people whose gender identity or dress matches that of an opposite sex.
TRANSSEXUAL: An individual who has or is transitioning biologically to the opposite sex.
who wears the clothing of the opposite sex but still identifies with the individual's sex.
TRANSITION: The process of changing one's gender and/or sex.
TRANSMAN OR FM: Female to male; a person born with female genitalia but lives as a male.
TRANSWOMAN OR MF: Male to female; a person born with male genitalia but lives as a woman.
TRANSVESTITE: An individual
*These definitions can be modified to the preference to the individual.
Sources: International Transgender Peer Support Web site and interviews
Snow is the fourth of five children. He writes poetry, reads books, works at Einstein Bros. Bagels and wants to raise a family. Like many other young men, he has been promised equality. These opportunities are something he hopes to pass along.
I'll tell my children they can be anything they want to be, Claven said.
First a tomboy, now a trans-
The transformation
November 27, 1978
Jessica Matte is born
1981 — age 3
Erica A. Kivelson dresses
up for her book tour,
moves to Chicago to be a board
and opens her father's studio.
1981 — age 7
Tigre A. Kivelson dresses
up for his book tour,
moves to Chicago to be a board
and opens her father's studio.
1993 — age 16
1985 people to call her G.U.
a partner neutral name.
December 2003 — age 25
Planning a commitment
ceremony with Frances
February 2002 — age 23
Begins hormonal
replacement therapy.
1994 — age 5
Destroys Barbie dolls
plays with G.I. does,
plays the piano.
1994 — age 3
Estates and her to
the countryside where she
lives with her
nephew and great-grand-
mother.
1997 — age 10
October 2001 — age 22
Starts psychological
evaluation to undergo
hormonal replacement
therapy.
2000 — age 22
Attends the University
of Kansas and begins
living as Cleven, a mate.
Hethought he could please his parents. He's pleasing himself now.
man, Claven has found his place in life, but it has been a struggle. For a while, he thought he was bisexual and he married a man thinking it would be a way to have children. It was a mistake.
His parents aren't happy with the decision, but Claven said they are trying their best. He knows what he wants to be: A father to his children and a husband to his wife.
His fliancee, Vanessa Hays, Topeka senior, prefers Claven how he is today — proud and outspoken about his gender identity.
On Wednesday night, Claven stood before an audience of about 30 at a poetry reading. Vanessa sat in the middle of the front row.
"His poetry is why I fall in love with him." Vanessa said.
Fifteen years of silence were broken when Claven came out as trans. The emotion, he said, leads him to write. Although society doesn't always approve of gender ambiguity, he said, in this realm, he can express his experiences freely.
Before the audience, Claven spoke:
"I just want to be free/ to see/
and to be angry/ to decree/ what
defines he or she/ what defines
me."
Edited by Neeley Spellmeier
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KANSAS VS. STANFORD
WHEN/WHERE: Tomorrow, 3 p.m. Wooden Classic Anaheim, Calif.
TELEVISION: 3 p.m., Channel 13
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Imagine if the writers of The Simpsons decided to kill off Homer Simpson. Could the show go on? Supporting players such as Mayor Quimby, Ralph Wiggum and Comic Book Guy could step up and keep the show solid and funny, but without Homer as a focal point, it wouldn't be the same.
Like The Simpsons without Homer, Stanford coach Mike Montgomery has enough talent
That's the predicament Stanford is in as it faces the early part of its schedule without junior guard/forward Josh Childress, who will be out until at least early January with a stress fracture in his left foot. Childress' long, lean frame makes him a threat to score from anywhere on the floor and also enables him to pull down eight rebounds per game from his perimeter position. To top it off, he sports college basketball's most awesome-inspiring Afro.
to keep the Cardinal competitive in the Pac-10 Conference. But it's unclear whether Stanford is still a Top 25 team without Childress. The Cardinal is 3-0, but it hasn't yet faced Top 25-level competition and slid by likely NIT contender Rice in its last game, 60-56.
Still, with a partisan crowd in Anaheim, Calif., the Cardinal figures to give Kansas a solid challenge.
POINT GUARD
Aaron Miles, junior, Kansas
vs.
Chris Hernandez, junior, Stanford
Cardinal players are experts at getting foot injuries. Hernandez broke his foot twice last year, missing most of his sophomore season. This year, he's run the team defy, averaging 15 points and five assists per game and hitting nine of three-pointers. Not many of college basketball's talking heads talk
about Hernandez, but if Stanford is able to maintain its place in the Top 25 without Childress, Hernandez's emergence will be the main reason.
Against TCU Monday night, Miles looked more like his old self than the player who aggressively torched Michigan State with relentless drives. Kansas will need him to play with the same kind of fire he showed last week, because Stanford is far more talented than TCU.
Advantage: Stanford
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SHOOTING GUARD
J.R. Giddens, freshmen, Kansas
Matt Lottich, senior, Stanford
KANSAS
44
GRAHAM
54
Lottich's main calling card is his long-range shooting, but he hasn't found the touch yet this year, hitting just three of 16 three-pointers. His scoring average and field goal percentages are also down, a bad sign for a shooting guard, but he's too talented for it to continue for long. When he gets hot, he's trouble.
Freshman center David Padgett tried to get a shot over Justin Ockerman Tuesday, Nov. 25, against Michigan State. Padgett enters this weekend's game against Stanford averaging 6 points and 6.7 rebounds per game.
Giddens' performance in his first career start against TCU suggested that all he needed to become a big part of the Jayhawks attack was an opportunity for extended minutes. He's still a work in progress and will make mistakes, but his combination of talent and athletic ability mean he may well have locked up the starting spot by the time Mike Lee gets back.
Advantage: Even
SWINGMAN Keith Langford, junior, Kansas vs.
Nick Robinson, iunior, Stanford
Robinson, a role player last year who averaged 4.5 points per game, has performed solidly in the unenviable position of Childress' replacement. The 6-foot-6 Robinson is averaging 8.3 points on 56 percent shooting so far. But he's nowhere near the asset Langford is.
Langford scored 24 points against both Tennessee-Chattanooga and TCU, and his 13-point second half against Michigan State may have been his most impressive performance this year. He proved foul trouble wasn't going to stop him from getting to the rim and scoring.
Advantage: Kansas
POWER FORWARD Wayne Simien, junior Kansas
Justin Davis, senior, Stanford
93
Justin Davis, senior, Stanford
Davis has good size and skills but hasn't yet played to his capabilities as a scorer; he's averaged just 8.3 points this season after averaging 10.3 while battling injuries last year. He also leads Stanford in turnovers, averaging 4.7 per game.
The zone defenses TCU took Simien out of the game. Although Stanford doesn't have the size deficiency in the post that TCU does, Montgomery will likely show Kansas a few zone looks. Still, it's a good bet Simien will bounce back with a solid game at the least.
Advantage: Kansas
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CENTER David Padgett, freshman, Kansas vs.
Rob Little, junior, Stanford
Kansas coach Bill Self seems unconcerned about Padgett's last two less-than-stellar games, saying Wednesday that he's "just going through a phase and becoming more of a complete player, even though sometimes he doesn't think he is." Even while struggling to become a factor, Padgett still grabbed seven rebounds against an undersized TCU club. If his confidence isn't eroding he'll be a tremendous player before the year is over, but he's not going to turn into Nick Collison overnight.
Little gives the Cardinal solid scoring and rebounding underneath, as well as good size at 6-foot-10,275 pounds. He's Stanford's second-leading scorer and rebounder, with 11.7 points and 6.3 rebounds, and has shot 55.6 percent from the floor.
Advantage: Stanford
Benches: Against TCU, sophomore guard Jeff Hawkins either established himself as Kansas' main three-point shooter off the bench or simply had the best game of his career. Montgomery will presumably use zones, which will give Kansas' outside shooters wide open looks, so Hawkins will get the opportunity to prove his 19-
Stanford sophomore guard Chris Hernandez leads the unbeaten Cardinal with 15 points per game and five assists per game. The top-ranked Kansas men's basketball team squares off against Stanford at noon tomorrow in Anaheim, Calif.
point performance wasn't a fluke. Jeff Graves needs to become a true factor on the boards sooner or later, and Stanford is the biggest team the 'Hawks have faced thus far. Graves' performance thus far isn't going to cut it down the road. Bryant Nash will again get the opportunity to throw down a couple of alley-oop dunks.
Sophomore forward Matt Haryasz is Stanford's top bench threat. The 6-foot-10 forward is thin but scores and grabs rebounds. Montgomery gets minutes from sophomore guard Dan Grunfeld and senior forward Joe Kirchofer, and some time from freshman forward Fred Washington and sophomore guard Jason Haas, but thus far those four have done little more than take up space on the court.
Advantage: Kansas
Coaching: Montgomery is a well-regarded coach who keeps his players' roles well-defined. Stanford rarely runs, opting for
efficient half-court scoring. That makes it an anomaly in the fast-paced Pac-10, but the Cardinal led the league in scoring defense last year. Montgomery took the Cardinal to the Final Four in 1998.
It's evident that Kansas still hasn't entirely grasped Self's philosophies, especially on the offensive end, but it's nice to be No.1 while learning.
Advantage: Even
Final analysis: With Childress, the Cardinal would be a good pick. They've got the crowd on their side and will be fired up for their first game against a big-time opponent this year. But without Childress, the game comes down to a simple practical matter: The Cardinal doesn't have enough scoring to beat Kansas. It will keep it close but won't make enough big shots down the stretch.
Prediction: Kansas 79, Stanford 73
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Program puts student athletes in different classrooms
By John Domoney
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Student athletes from the University of Kansas are making their mark in the community as well as the plaving field.
Seven Jayhawk athletes are participating in this school year's Helping Hawks program.
The program allows fifth-year student athletes or student athletes not participating in their sports because of an injury to be placed in an elementary or secondary school in Lawrence for a maximum of 10 hours per week during the academic year.
dent athletes.
Nancy Hettwer, Helping Hawks Coordinator, said the program was positive for both the Lawrence schools and the stu-
"We believe that the Helping Hawks program is a perfect example of a win-win situation," Hettwer said. "The student athletes benefit from the experience of working with children, the schools benefit from their efforts and the children benefit from the interaction with the student-athletes."
The Kansas Athletics Department started the Helping Hawks program in 1996. The first year of the program featured only one student athlete who participated.
The 2003-04 program includes seven student athletes, which is the most in the program's history.
Anson Jackson, a senior on the track team, is a member of the program. As math and philosophy major, Jackson works at West Junior High School with seventh,
"I always tell the student athletes that they need to think about commitment."
Nancy Hettwer
Helping Hawks Coordinator
eighth- and ninth-grade students who have difficulty in mathematics.
Jackson said he had found the experience rewarding and challenging as he got to know the students.
"It gives me a chance to look back and remember how I was as a kid," Jackson said. "It's a real learning experience to have to relate to all different kinds of people."
Jackson volunteers his time at
West Junior High School for four hours a day on Mondays and Wednesdays. He said the program was something he wanted to do and it provided him with a nice alternative to the normal college life.
"The kids lighten up when they see a young face," Jackson said. "But you have to love it to do this."
That is part of the message that Hettwer stresses to any student athlete who shows an interest in the program. Hettwer usually relies on word-of-mouth messages for student athletes to find out about the program.
At the beginning of each school year, she also talks with counselors in the Athletics Department about possible candidates for the program.
Once the student athlete comes to Hettw wanting to join Helping Hawks, she is careful to remind them of the responsibility that comes with the program.
"I always tell the student athletes that they need to think about commitment," Hettwer said. "The teachers will depend on them in the classroom."
The duties that come with being a member of Helping Hawks vary from being a classroom assistant and tutor to serving as a playground helper.
The teacher that the program participant is assigned to can also assign random tasks to the student athletes.
"I think this program works really well because these student athletes want to get involved in the classroom," Hettwer said. "Because they will all eventually be working full time in school."
Edited by Dave Nobles
Student Athletes in the 2003-04 Helping Hawks Program
Track — Anson Jackson, Euless,
Texas, senior Brandi Taylor, Fort
Worth, Texas, senior
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Swimming - Adam Steele, Roswell, Ga., senior
Rowing — Kristy Hainer, St Catherine's, Ontario, sophomore
Women's Basketball — Valerie Migicovsky, North Bay, Ontario, junior
Football — Glenn Robinson, Longmont, Colo., senior
BASKETBALL: 'Hawk victory important to West Coast recruits
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12A
Chenowith all are from California as are sophomore Moulaye Niang and freshman Omar Wilkes.
"We definitely need to have a presence on the West Coast, this gives us the opportunity to do so," Self said.
Kansas basketball notes
Tomorrow's game is a part of the 10th anniversary John R. Wooden Classic, Prior to Kansas-Stanford at the Pond in Anaheim, Calif., No. 3 Kentucky will play UCLA.
Self said he met the legendary coach for the first time when he received the John and Nellie Wooden Coach of the Year award in 2000 while at Tulsa.
"He is a remarkable man. The greatest coach the college game has known," Self said. "Once you spend time with him, you realize
"We definitely need to have a presence on the West Coast, this gives us the opportunity to do so."
Bill Self
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why people speak so high of him."
The team will host its annual Holiday Clinic from 9:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 27.
The clinic is for boys and girls from grades 3-8 and costs $55 to attend. For more information log ortow www.kuathletics.com.
— Edited by Dave Nobles
AMATO: NC State coach builds relationships with players, alumni to excel on, off football field; team competes against powerhouses
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12A
ways have brought the Murphy Football Center at the south endzone of Carter-Finley Stadium.
expense he pays to the school. Amato emphasizes meeting with fans, alumni and constructing solid relationships with his young men that go far beyond the football field. Want the perfect example of an emotional coach? Amato broke down in tears at his press conference when hired at NC State. Big boys do cry.
Healthy Relationships — Possibly the biggest key to Amato's success as a coach is the emotional
A Good Role Model — There's a big concern in Lawrence about how tough next year will be for the Jayhawks when Oklahoma and Texas are added back onto the schedule. Mangino can take a page from Amato's book, as North Carolina State has continually succeeded from the ground up, even with a tough schedule.
In a 2003 season that included games with Ohio State, Texas Tech, Ole Miss, Maryland and Florida State, the Wolfpack has managed to finish just a few bad bounces away from the BCS. There's something to be learned there.
— Compiled by Ryan Greene
MANGINO: Kansas coach uses past techniques to build success
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12A
offense works, then go back a little further. In three seasons as a Sooners' offensive assistant, the OU offense scored 31 or more points in 26 of 37 games and over 40 points 14 times. In its 2000 National Championship run, Mangino's offense
ranked 13th in the nation in pass offense. With his gunslinger, Bill Whittemore, and speedy receivers, the Jayhawks can last in a shootout with the best of them. Just look at a 42-35 victory at Wyoming, a 50-47 overtime loss at Colorado and a 45-33 loss at Texas A&M.
It's In The Blood, Somewhat
Just as NC State's Chuck Amato learned coaching techniques from Florida State's legendary head coach, Bobby Bowden, Mangino has learned the same way. Mangino has served as an assistant under Bill Snyder at Kansas State and Bob Stoops at Oklahoma. At Kansas State, he saw Snyder rebuild Division I-A's worst
program into a perennial powerhouse, and he witnessed the resurrection of Oklahoma's storied program in just two short seasons. He picked up some good techniques that have obviously already been applied.
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"Every time we play those guys, they're always talking noise, saying somebody's going to get hurt. When you're scared, that's when you say something." Chiefs receiver Eddie Kennison on the Denver Broncos
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Freshman starters give Jayhawks immediate punch
Something is different about the Kansas men's basketball team this year. I'm not talking about the new coach, new court or even the new uniforms. The difference is two freshmen making an instant impact for the Jayhawks this season. In contrast to last year, where Kansas relied heavily on experienced seniors, this squad has some exciting young players.
David Padgett is drawing comparisons to Nick Collison after only three regular season games. The 6-foot-11-inch, 235-pound freshman has lived up to all the expectations and has the potential to become another great post player for Kansas. Padgett is a versatile player who can run, score, rebound and create plays for his teammates with good passing skills.
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What has to excite Jayhawk fans and coach Bill Self is the way Padgett runs the floor. He possesses the same type of ability as Collison to streak down the court, which makes him a dangerous weapon on the fast break. Padgett will flourish in the high-low offense that Self has installed. He passes the ball extremely well from the top of the key and is tall enough to see over defenders to feed the ball to Wayne Simien in the low post.
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The absence of Collison has left a void in the middle, and Padgett provides shot blocking to help the Jayhawks on defense. Padgett is leading the team in blocked shots and is second in rebounding with 6.7 boards a game. The future is bright for Padgett, but he gives Kansas immediate production at the post position. Padgett has proved to be a better post player than senior Jeff Graves through two preseason and three regular season games.
As Dick Vitale eloquently said of J.R. Giddens, "He's the elevator man." After watching Giddens in the McDonald's High School All-American game
and dunk contest last year, Kansas' fans could see the potential in the freshman.
The game against Michigan State was a breakout performance for Giddens. The talented swingman proved his knack for getting to the rim and making big plays against the Spartans. Giddens came off the bench and provided, an instant scoring spark while bringing fans to their feet in Allen Fieldhouse.
The second dimension to his game is the ability to hit jumpers, which separates him from past high-flying players such as Kenny Gregory. Giddens is fourth on the team in scoring with 8.3 points a game while showing improvement in each game this season. Giddens is still weak on defense and makes some
usual freshman mistakes. However, just like Padgett, he has the ability to run the floor and finish the fast break with a punishing dunk.
Although it's extremely early in his career, Giddens has the same playing style as former Jayhawk Paul Pierce.
Both Giddens and Padgett are extremely important to the overall success of Kansas this season. With the losses of Kirk Hinrich and Collison, the Jayhawks will need support from several different players.
The freshmen have the skills and athletic capabilities to make Kansas a dangerous team throughout the season.
Ballow is a Lone Tree, Colo., senior in journalism.
Chiefs' Hall still hunting record with only four games remaining
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Like a tackler bearing down from his blind side, time is catching up with Dante Hall.
Only four regular-season games remain for Kansas City's kick returner to get that NFL-record fifth touchdown return he's been craving since a spectacular return against Denver tied the existing mark of four.
Hall seemed almost a cinch to get five, or more, after setting another record with touchdown returns in four straight games by the season's fifth week.
But in the ensuing seven games, teams have punted away from him, squibbed kickoffs down the middle or out of bounds and sent punts booming through the end zone, deciding a touchback was better than giving another touch to Hall.
There have also been some tantalizingly close calls when all he needed was one more block.
"I'm kind of thinking every time I return, if it's not a score, it's not good enough."
It's not as though Hall has been ineffective since that afternoon of Oct. 5 when his dazzling 93-yard punt return against Denver made him the only man in NFL history with TD returns in four straight games.
"I'm starting to worry," Hall said with a grin. "I want (the fifth TD return). Iain't going to lie to you, I want it. I don't want to come this close and not get it.
He leads the AFC with 1.068 kickoff return yards and 440 punt return yards. Several nice returns have helped set up important scores, such as Morten Andersen's game-winning field goal in the final seconds against Oakland.
Without him, the Chiefs (11-1) would not own the NFL's best record nor be top contenders for home-field advantage.
But that fifth TD return that seemed so certain with 11 games to go now seems to be slipping away with only four games left.
He'll have his next shot against the Broncos when the Chiefs travel to Denver this week, hoping to nail down the AFC West crown.
"Put it like this: I used to just go back and concentrate on some good field position and if the return came, great. Basically, letting the game come to me," Hall said.
"People say don't worry about it. But when the games are dwindling down, dwindling down and it's been a while since I've come really close ... I don't know."
That's not the case now, although Hall's coaches are doing all they can to calm him down.
return star, insists he's not worried that Hall might not get his record.
"They're all telling me to just be patient, be patient," he said. "But the season's going to be over with pretty soon. I'm trying to be patient, but at the same time,I'm real anxious.I'm starting to worry.
Coach Dick Vermeil, who has formed a close personal bond with his kick
Hair might make me forget "If a teammate or two had done just what they were supposed to do, he'd have two more by now." Vermeil said. "And he had a 45-yard (return) the other day. The fact it's never been before shows you how hard it is to do.
"I still believe he has a real good shot at doing it, regardless of the measures people take to punt the ball or kick the ball away from him."
Wide receiver Eddie Kennison, who created a furor on Wednesday by ripping the Broncos and coach Mike Shanahan, was held out of practice on yesterday. When approached by reporters, he walked away without a word.
"He has a sore throat," deadpanned Vermeil. "No, he's had a quad muscle that's been bothering him."
"I just said, 'Always show class.' That's what the organization is about. That's what we as a football team are about," Vermeiil said. "That stuff is not necessary. Plus, I have a lot of respect for Denver and the people there."
vermeil spoke with the entire squad about Kennison's remarks, in which he virtually guaranteed a victory over the team the Chiefs beat by only one point in their first meeting.
He said Kennison had not been fined.
He said Kennison had not been fined. "Eddie is Eddie," Vermail said. "He knows I would just as soon as him not say that. I was just a day late in saying anything."
Cardinal has arm operation
The Associated Press
ST. LOUIS — Gold Glove center fielder Jim Edmonds underwent a surgical procedure yesterday meant to rid his throwing shoulder of discomfort and should be fully healed in time for the St. Louis Cardinals' spring training, the Cardinals said.
the procedure at a suburban St. Louis-area hospital "was a general cleanup, just to clean out whatever was causing this discomfort and irritation" that the seven-time Gold Glove outfielder developed recently during workouts, Cardinals spokesman Brian Bartow said.
The surgery went well, Bartow said, and the Cardinals fully expect the left-handed Edmonds, 33, to recover and take part in spring training early next year in Florida.
Edmonds, a lifetime. 293 hitter, last season hit. 275 with 32 doubles, 39 home runs and 89 RBI over 447 bats in 137 games. In his four seasons with the Cardinals, he has averaged 35 home, 98 RIB and a.297 hitting efficiency.
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Meeting with NCAA officials reassures Mizzou president
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COLUMBIA, Mo. — University of Missouri President Elson Floyd told The Associated Press he feels "much better" about allegations of inappropriate academic help for a former basketball player after a meeting yesterday with the NCAA.
The university and the NCAA spent months investigating allegations surrounding former guard Ricky Clemone
But Floyd also said said Missouri hasn't been cleared, the long-running NCAA investigation isn't over, and he doesn't know when it will end.
"Personally, I feel much better about there not being a possibility of any academic violations having occurred."
Ellson Floyd University of Missouri president
including assertions by Clemons'ex-girlfriend, Jessica Bunge, that he received improper help with school work. Missouri coach Quin Snyder said he had no
knowledge of Clemons receiving improper academic help
"Personally, I feel much better about there not being a possibility of any academic violations having occurred, but we need to wait and see what the NCAA says," Floyd told the AP after about two hours of meetings in Indianapolis with NCAA enforcement officials.
Floyd said he sought the meeting "to get a sense of where they were, relative to the investigation — and it's unclear when they will be finishing their investigation."
The NCAA said in a letter dated Sept. 23 that it was giving Missouri formal
notice of an inquiry already under way for several months.
The NCAA and Missouri had said they expected the investigations to be wrapped up by this month, but Floyd said: "We don't know when it will end."
Under NCAA bylaws, a school is notified in writing "if the enforcement staff has developed reasonably reliable information indicating that an institution has been in violation of the Association's governing legislation that requires further in-person investigation..."
"The NCAA is still looking at all the issues that everyone has known and somewhat speculated about. There is
nothing new," Floyd told the AP. "It's a work in progress."
Questions arose about how Clemons earned 24 academic credits — enough to enroll at Missouri from a Kansas junior college — during a two-month period in the summer of 2002.
After more allegations related to academics by Clemons' ex-girlfriend, Bunge, Floyd commandeered the internal investigation from the athletic department and handed its leadership to veteran electrical engineering Professor Michael Devaney, an immediate past president of the Columbia campus faculty council.
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Today is an 8.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Today is a 7.
Best to keep a lid on your enthusiasm while you listen to what's being asked. You can do it, but it's a much bigger assignment than you first imagined.
Friends back you up when you ask for their help, and not a moment too soon. But don't let them in on all of your secrets — they don't need to know.
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You're a great talker, no doubt about that. But it's better to listen, and maybe to work more on straightening up your house.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 7.
Accept an offer of help from a person with distinct tastes. Just understand that you may get some unsolicited advice.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is a 6.
You work hard for the money, or you will for the next couple of days, anyway. Don't spend it all on books or computer programs. Save some for food and rent.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 9.
The person who's right for you doesn't want you to spend a lot of money on gifts. He or she can help you stick to a tight budget, and this person only wants love in return.
Aquarius (Jan. 20 feb. 18)
Todavis a 6.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
today is a 7.
Domestic matters take precedence tonight and over the weekend. Get your place whipped into shape now so that you can relax later.
Continue to do the homework so that you'll do well on the test. One of the paths you'll go down is a dead end. Don't be dismayed. Find out which path is which.
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5 Doldrums
10 Lubricates
14 Butterfingers' comment
15 Painter of water lilies
16 Component
17 Israeli weapons
18 Without vitality
19 Family plan
20 Of punishment
22 Dive type
24 Pairs
26 Comic Anderson
27 Quarantine
30 Mill. muddles
34 Diplomacy
35 "Back in Black" rock group
38 Struggler's sound
39 D.C. summer hrs.
40 Alternately
42 Patriotic grp.
43 Polynesian New Zealander
45 Hautboy
47 Taj Mahal site
47 Puppet's lifeline
49 Astronomer of Alexandria
51 Propelled, as a boat
54 Lather
55 Carousel
59 Coat again
62 Autobahn auto
63 Bert's Muppet pal
65 Cloud number
66 Blood formation
67 Is affected by
68 1982 Disney sci-fi film
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5 Autobahn auto
6 Unit of bread
7 Invalidate
8 Anyone home?
9 Engraver's tool
10 Last longer than
11 Calvary letters
12 Untruths
13 Leave text as is
21 Mauna ___
23 Triangle sounds
25 Tarry
27 News pieces
28 Anwar of Egypt
29 External: pref.
31 Ice cream choice
32 Neutralize
33 Wander away
36 Record a voice-over
37 Rider's whip
30 Twotwirl
41 Jersey team
41 1929 Bebe
Daniels movie
46 Like pasta
cooked less
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Remodeled 4 BR townhouses avail, now and next走 at Leaunia Mar, Reserve one now and get 1/2 mo. free rent, 3 BA, fp. all appliances, no pants. C13-7924-792
3 BR, 9 BA townhome avail. Jan. 1. Borders, West Campus, on KU bus route, Fireplace, 2 car garage, all lawncare provided, 843-6344.
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$387.50/Mo. Please call 816-679-5872.
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close to campus/downtown. Call 550-5572.
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1 Female, 3 BR, 2 BA, 9th & Emery.
$249/mo plus utilities. Sublease Jan-July.
On bus route. Call Anne at 316-617-4856
Female roommate invited for 2 BR, 2 BA
apk, Parkway Commons, W/D, full kitchen,
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+1/2 utilities. 402-210-4030 for details
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Call 760-1998.
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2 tem roommates to 3 br. 2B, 2 BA
living, dining, kitchen, family room.
All appliances and W/D: $450/mo. incl.
on KU Bus route. Call 785-312-8095.
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1 bedroom in 4 bedroom house. Wash-erdyr, dishwasher. Close to K-10. $250 plus 1/4 utilities. Call 785-249-4136.
Rooms. Grad. student rooms roommates.
4 BR, 3.5 BA close to KU campus. $375/
uill. Nice and spacious. 913-205-8774
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Room in the house
Furnished; use of laundry and full home of Christian couple. $350 incl. utilities. No pet smoking, or loud noise. 749-3523.
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Great 1 bedroom. 14th & Tenn. Cats OK, can paint, $445 per month plus deposit. Call soon, will go fast! Call 913-212-2446.
Sublease
1 BR avail. in 2 BR apt. on Mass. w/ nice view. Brand new w/ sky lights. DW, D/W. furnished. Available Jan. 1. 913-485-7999.
1 bedroom of 2 bedroom apartment for spring semester. D/W, disposal, balcony. Nice $25 per mo. +/ul (785) 393-9053.
Huge 1 BR + loft, very nice, more space for your money. Perfect for a couple. Avail- January 1st, Call 764-0043.
2 bedroom, 1 bath. Available January,
possibly sooner. $405 per month. No
pets, no smoking. Call 550-1790.
1, 3, or 4 bedroom available. $300-400
per month plus utilities. New location.
Pets.kc Cal.785-331-7171.
12th and Ohio Street, Dec. 19 - May 31.
Beautiful 4 BR house, WD, lots of living space, partially furnished. 1 BR @ $340/mo +1/4 call. CU758-760-288.
Fem. needed for very nice 1 BR in a 2 BR apt. Close to campus. Private bath, W/D, $420/m plus util. Call Enr 979-8385.
2 of 4 BR sublease available Jan.-Aug. WID, close to campus and downtown, big park. vets pk. $300/mo.Call 785-885-6655
One BR/ONE BA apt. from Jan-Aug.
$25$mm. Lots of space. Pool on KU bus
route. Please Call Jennifer 785-218-4589.
Nice 1 BR. Spring+/or summer. Furnished/unfurnished. W/D. Will paid. Greatlocation: close to campus. WI 913-244-8213.
Jeff Commons 1 BR in 3 BR apt. 3 BA DW/Avail Jan 1-Aug 10, 2004 Jan and augur free trees mcall 991-654-1592
ONE MONTH FREE RENT. 1 bedroom in
3 BR. Washer/dryer. $270 per month,
plus/13 units. No fees. 612-210-2840.
Spacious 1 BR apt. 14th & Teen. Furnished or unfinished $420/mo. Walk to campus. Available Dec. 22 Call 865-1248
Spacious 2 BR apt. $634/month, most unif. paid (gas, water, trash, cable). Avail Dec until August 2014. Call Megan 785-760-0571.
Sublease avail. Jan. 1 or sooner. 2 BR du-
plex w/ garage. Near 23rd & Kaskid. WD
hookup. CA/D, DW$/500, 760-1703
Sublease Luxury Housing + food Naiamthi
Hall. DISCOUNTED PRICE PLUS $200
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Sports
West Coast clash
The Kansas men's basketball team faces undefeated Stanford. Look at the statistics of tomorrow night's game.PAGE 7A
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Friday, December 5, 2003
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Sophomore forward Crystal Kemp muscled for position amid defenders. Kemp led the team in scoring with 10.7 points per game. The 1-2 Jayhawks will attempt to improve their record at the Jayhawk Classic this weekend in Lawrence.
Jayhawks will finally be at home
Jesse Newell
jnewell@kansan.com
Kansas sportswriter
After starting the season with three consecutive road games, Allen Fieldhouse will not be the only welcome sight for the Kansas women's basketball team.
The presence of fans — Kansas fans — will also be a refreshing change.
Kansas will finally be able to experience that home-court advantage this weekend, when it hosts the Holiday Inn Jayhawk Classic. The Jayhawks will face Cal State Fullerton at 12:30 p.m. in their first game of the tournament tomorrow. The game will be televised on the Jayhawk Television Network.
"Going away to Oregon, we probably had five or six fans in there," sophomore forward Crystal Kemp said. "It's always nice to get fans behind you, especially in a tight game."
Kemp said the team was more pleased with the loss to Oregon than it was with its victory over Sacramento State.
"We were so aggressive the whole time," Kemp said. "The fact that we were able to put it together against a great team like Oregon gave us an extra pep in our step."
Coach Marian Washington agreed that, despite the road loss, the team had gained much from the close game.
"When you're away from home, it's not easy." Washington said, "but I think, obviously, they could tell how much progress they'd made over one game."
The Jayhawks will look to continue that progress during the weekend.
Kemp and sophomore forward Tamara Ransburg are coming off strong performances in Oregon, as both were named to the All-Tournament Team after averaging double figures in scoring.
Junior guard Larisha Graves and sophomore guard Kaylee Brown have also begun to come into their own for the Jayhawks. The junior-college transfers started both games in Oregon and contributed more than 25 minutes per game.
Meanwhile, Cal State Fullerton enters the tournament winless in three contests. The Titans are led by a pair of sophomore forwards, with Amber Pruitt averaging a team-high 13.7 points and 8.7 rebounds and Tessa Moon right behind with 10.3 points and 4.0 rebounds per game.
Last year, the Jayhawks fell 48-46 to Western Illinois in the championship game of the Jayhawk Classic. Kansas last won the tournament in the 1999-2000 season.
Alabama State and UTEP will compete in the second game of the tournament tomorrow. The winners of tomorrow's two games will meet Sunday at 2 p.m. for the championship, with the losers matching up at noon in the consolation game.
"Scheduling can get you going or it can just really make you struggle," Washington said. "I am so happy to be back here."
Washington said, after a tough road stretch, she was ready to enjoy the comforts of home.
Edited by Jonathan Reeder
Size matchup favors Kansas
By Chris Wintering
cwintering@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
At 3 p.m. tomorrow in Anaheim, Calif., Kansas will put its No.1 ranking on the line against No.17 Stanford. The Cardinal, like the Jayhawks, are 5-0 this season and both are expected to contend for their conference title.
Kansas coach Bill Self said this game would be his team's first against a team with similar size.
In Kansas' first three games, all of its opponents have been undersized, which created matchup problems for the Jayhawks, usually involving a Kansas post player chasing a smaller man around the perimeter. With 6-foot-10 junior Rob Little and 6-foot-9 senior Justin Davis in Stanford's front court, Kansas will not have to worry about chasing smaller players around tomorrow.
Kansas' problem with smaller teams
was most evident Monday against TCU. The Horned Frogs took away the Jayhawks' high post, which led to only four field goals for Kansas' post players.
white Kansas' post play wasn't a major factor against TCU, its perimeter game offered major contributions especially from sophomore guard Jeff Hawkins. Hawkins scored a career-high 19 points coming off the bench, including five three pointers.
"I knew coming in Mike Lee wasn't playing, so I had to step up." Hawkins said. "I had it in my mind to do whatever it takes to win the game."
In addition to Hawkins' stellar game, freshman J.R. Giddens also marked a career high with 12 points. It was the first start of Giddens' young career at Kansas.
"He is learning an awful lot real fast," Self said. "He watches tape and spends a ton of time up in the office—he's starting to get it."
While not getting the ball to junior Wayne Simien or freshman David Padgett
didn't influence the victory against TCU. Self said his team must get the post players involved against Stanford.
Stanford coach Mike Montgomery is in his 17th season and 366-165 in his career. This season, his team is 3-0 after beating Rice, UC-Irvine and Sacramento State. Stanford has not looked good offensively in its first three games scoring less than 70 points per game partly because the team is without last year's leading scorer, junior Josh Childress.
Childress will be out until conference play with a stress fraction in the his left foot. He was a top recruit that actually turned the Jayhawks down after attending Late Night with Roy Williams in 1999.
Self said that this game was important because of the recruiting battles that Kansas has had in California in the past. Former Jayhawks Paul Pierce, Jacque Vaughn, Scot Pollard and Eric
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INNINGS
Guard J.R. Giddens shined last week against TCU, scoring 12 points. With Mike Lee out with a broken collarbone, Kansas is looking to Jeff Hawkins and Giddens to threaten from above the arc.
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Kansas' outside hitter Sarah Rome recorded one of her 17 kills in the Jayhawks' three-game victory last night over Long Beach State in the first round of the NCAA Tournament at Pepperdine University.
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Kansas sweeps Long Beach State in three games
MALIBU, Cali. — When the whistle blew to begin the match it didn't matter that this was the Kansas volleyball team's first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance and Long Beach State's 17th straight.
The Jayhawks, after seeming tentative at the start, swept the 49ers out of the Firestone Fieldhouse in Malibu, Calif. Long Beach coach Brian Gimmillaro gave credit to Kansas coach Ray Bechard.
"I'm proud of Ray and what he developed," he said. "They outplayed us in every category."
Kansas had four players with at least 12 kills, with Rome leading the way with 17. The Jayhawks had a hitting percentage of .359 after.244 on the season.
Bechard said the increased hitting percentage was a direct result of good passing. Sophomore setter Andi Rozum had a match-high 51 assists.
The Jajhawks recovered to win game one 30-23.
Long Beach jumped out to a 10-7 lead but instead of calling a time-out Bechard let his players play. The Jayhawks responded with a 10-2 run to take a 17-12 lead. When middle blocker Josi Lima recorded a kill to give Kansas a 21-16 lead the Jayhawks never looked back.
Long Beach, which was 0-9 in the regular season after losing game one, seemed determined to put an end to that streak. The 49ers jumped out to an early 6-3 lead. On the 49ers sixth point Lima came down hard on her tailbone after a block attempt. She lay on the floor for more than a minute, then bounced back up and stayed in the game. The injury didn't seem to affect her as she pounded a kill to give Kansas a 16-15 lead.
The teams then battled to an 18-18 tie, giving the Long Beach faithful an uneasy feeling.
Rome and junior middle blocker Ashley Michaels kept the Jayhawks close with stellar play at the net. Michaels recorded five kills in the game and Rome had seven.
The teams then traded points, with Kansas finally jumping ahead 29-27.
On Kansas' 29th point it appeared that Long Beach had recorded a kill for a point, but a late net-violation call on the 49ers gave the point to the Jayhawks. Outside litter Lindsey Morris then recorded a kill, sending Kansas to a 2-0 lead at the half.
Heading into game three Bechard said he knew the team needed to end to the match soon.
"I didn't want to play any longer," he said, "for them, game three would've meant momentum."
Bechard called his first time-out of the match with the Jayhawks trailing 20-15. The teams traded points again with the 49ers leading 26-22. The momentum slowly shifted Long Beach's way again, but Lima answered, flying through the air and crushing a kill that cut the lead to three.
Rome and Lima later added a kill each to tie the match at 28.
Gimmillaro called a time-out. Afterward, Morris recorded a kill and the Jayhawks were one point away from their first post-season victory. When Long Beach's Rosie Lewis attempted her twelfth kill of the night, Jayhawk volleyball history rested in her hands. She swung and smashed the ball over the net and out of bounds. The Kansas comeback was complete.
"We won a game from ahead, we won a game that was even and we won a game from behind," Bechard said. "So we won all the different ways you could win."
in the different ways. Kansas will take on the fourth-seeded Pepperdine Waves at 6 tonight. The Waves are 26-2 on the season after defeating Manhattan College 3-0 last night.
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Coaches work to recruit, build programs
Chuck Amato
son as the Wolfpack coach. Amato, who lettered for three years as an NC State linebacker in the 1960s, served as an defensive assistant for 18 seasons, including acting as the assistant coach from 1986-99. As a defensive coach for the Seminoles, Amato worked with players such as Andre Wadsworth, Peter Boulware and Derrick Brooks who all went on to the NFL. He became the NC State head coach just two days after coaching the Seminoles to the 1999 National Championship. In just four seasons under Amato, the Wolfpack program has become one of best in the ACC.
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Key Facts — At the age of 57, Amato is in his fourth season as the Wolfpack coach.
Accompailments — In 2002, his third season at NC State, Amato led the Wolfpack to the first 11-victory season in school history. Amato is just the fourth coach in the history of the ACC to lead his team to a bowl game in his first four seasons. Amato's biggest contribution, however, may be his recruiting. His current freshman class was
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Sound Familiar? — Just like Kansas coach Mark Mangino, Amato is all about building a program. Amato has built his roster with solid recruiting classes, as well as changing the physical layout of the NC State program. The recent winning
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Key Facts — In a way,
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Mangino has touched in his coaching career turns to gold. Mangino has been an integral part in helping turn the Kansas State and Oklahoma programs in the right directions as an assistant. Those stints include winning a National Championship with Oklahoma in 2000 as the offensive coordinator. Mangino is 8-16 in two years at Kansas, but he has validated his hiring by doing the little things over the past two seasons. Coach Mangino has run his program his way, has gotten rid of players who did not meet his requirements and has brought a new brand of football to Lawrence with players that fit his blue-collar preference.
Accomplishments --- Mangino has
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keyed one of college football's more impressive turnarounds in recent memory. The Jayhawks, who had five losing seasons under previous head coach Terry Allen, went 2-10 in Mangino's first season, including a winless conference schedule. Kansas' 6-6 record this
year earned the school its first bowl bid since 1995, when the Jayhawks defeated UCLA in the Alaho Bowl. This is the 10th bowl game Mangino will coach in and could be his most memorable.
Aling Things Out — As if Kansas' highly-rated pass attack does not convince people that Mangino's
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Are there any objections?
Controversial couples battle emotional and legal barriers
By Meghan Brune
mbrune@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Thirty-four states, including Kansas, have laws that ban same-sex marriages. Vermont is the only state that allows these marriages, and last month, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that it is illegal to ban same-sex marriages.
According to the Human Rights Campaign Web site, www.hrc.org, in the 2000 Census, Kansas had 3,973 same-sex households. This is an increase from the 647 same-sex homes reported in the 1990 Census.
HRC, which works to gain equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people, also reported that the Census might undercount this population by 62 percent.
Bisexual and Transgender Resource Center at the University of Kansas, said he thought the Midwest attitude of "don't ask, don't tell," made it difficult for this part of the population to be reorganized.
Vince Kirsche, director of the St. Lawrence Catholic Center, said the church welcomed the gay community, but not the idea of gay unions. He said the condition of being gay was the gift of celibacy from God. He described the only "natural marriage" as one between a man and a woman, which has two purposes: mutual love and creating new life
Here are the stories of three couples who are making their relationships work, despite the challenges that face them.
"In society we are defining marriage as only a legal agreement, but in the church we see it as more," Kirsche said.
"There are very few people who are comfortable being out on campus," Grothe said.
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The resource center is a safe zone for support and resources, such as a list of queer-friendly businesses in Lawrence.
Jason Grothe said that in Lawrence, the queer community was quiet. Grothe, the coordinator for the Lesbian, Gay,
Grothe said it was difficult in Kansas to meet other gay men. This lead Grothe to an Internet dating site, where he met his partner of four years, Rod Landreth.
Grothe, an American studies graduate student, said he and Landreth were
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Fraternity lacking younger members
By Abby Mills almills@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Theta Tau fraternity needs a few good men. And women.
The only co-ed fraternity at the University of Kansas did not recruit any new members this semester and must increase numbers or face extinction.
"By this time next semester, if we get no new members, it'll be me and one other person," said Shannon R. Cline, the fraternity's recruitment chair for Fall 2003.
The Sioux Falls, S.D., senior said the engineering fraternity, which has only 11 members, is suffering from a disproportionate number of upperclassmen. Everyone in the house is a senior, she said, and fifth-year seniors are the only reason it will last past this year.
Recruitment issues are to blame for the lack of underclassmen, said David Borys, fraternity rector for Fall 2003.
The Overland Park senior said because the fraternity is co-ed, it is excluded from the Interfraternity Council, which reduces Theta Tau's visibility when freshman go through the recruitment process. Because traditional methods of recruiting haven't worked, the fraternity recruits mostly through bringing friends of current members into the group.
Members who try to recruit are mostly older with friends their age, so underclassmen are not included in the process, Borv's said.
The group has tried to bring in new members by putting posters up around Learned Hall and hosting activities such as hot dog roasts, bowling and trips to Worlds of Fun. Cline said participation by freshmen was low at many of those events. Because most freshmen in attendance were strangers to everyone in the house it was hard to keep in touch after the initial contact.
Borys said one encounter wouldn't be enough to teach freshmen about the organization.
"What Theta Tau has to offer is unique from either social fraternities or technical organizations," he said. "We strive to give the best of both worlds."
To bring in new people, members of the group will begin attending meetings of other engineering groups to look for involved underclassmen interested in joining the fraternity, Borys said.
Because only engineering students are allowed into the group, there are always people around to help with homework, Cline said. The group also sponsors alumni functions so members can see people from the fraternity who have succeeded in the engineering world.
Apart from engineering work, members get together for social events. Borys said having women and men in the group made the activities more diverse and provided more opportunities for making new friends.
Cline said she joined the fraternity because she knew in it and because of cheap rent. Membership dues are $120 a semester and members who live in the house at 1933 Heatherwood Drive, near 22nd Street and Kasold Drive, pay $150 a month.
— Edited by Shane Mettlen
Group informs underclassmen
By Abby Mills almills@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Students educate peers about the risks associated with consuming alcohol
The University of Kansas is using students to educate peers about alcohol.
Decisions on Tap, or DOT, takes advantage of knowledge from seniors as well as people involved in alcohol regulation and distribution to help underclassmen understand risks of drinking. They do this without using scare tactics.
"We're not advocating drinking," said Michael Walker, Denver senior. "But instead of ignoring the situation we acknowledge that they will drink and
provide them with the knowledge to make responsible decisions."
Walker is one of the six senior facilitators for the program.
Work on DOT began last year when the Alcohol Task Force recruited students for a subcommittee to create a student-centered alcohol program. The task force is comprised of 14 faculty and staff members that develop policies and programs to address student drinking, such as Hawk Nights.
Barbara Ballard, chairwoman of the task force and vice provost of student success, said the key to DOT was that students had developed the program for their peers.
"If you really want to reach students, you have to get students to do it," she said.
The subcommittee developed DOT last year and launched a pilot program this year.
The program brings in people such as
Participants then break into groups led by a facilitator to relate the presentation they heard to their own experiences.
Alcohol and Beverage Control agents, police officers and bar owners to talk with students about drinking. Students learned about laws governing drinking and what happens when they are broken.
"We try to make it as comfortable as possible so they know they aren't being looked down upon," Walters said.
Susan Hochman, Midland, Texas, senior and program facilitator, said the goal of the presentations was to dispel myths about alcohol.
Walker said freshmen are often in situations involving alcohol for the first time. The novelty of alcohol and lack of information could lead to dangerous behavior. Walker said.
The senior facilitators have been through what underclassmen are facing and can give tips for succeeding. Ballard said.
Christi Walters, St. Louis freshman, said she had learned a lot from the program. For example, she said, she didn't know that when she was a designated driver she could get in trouble for alcohol her passengers brought along. Now, she makes passengers get rid of any alcohol first.
She said the program was especially helpful for her as an out-of-state student because laws in Kansas are different than in Missouri.
The program will have its last meeting of the semester at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in room 203 of the Student Fitness Recreation Center. Hochman said organizers will get evaluations of the pilot program and use them to expand and improve for next year.
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Local communities dispute Clinton Lake water rights
The state is being asked to consider taking some of Lawrence's future water rights to Clinton Lake away from the city and giving the water to burgeoning northwest Duglas County.
The conflict could become the first in Kansas to pit two entities against each other for water rights that the state has already given away. Lawrence officials say the city's growth would be curtailed if it lost the water rights. Officials of Rural Water District No. 3, which serves customers west of Lecompton, say the district needs more water from the reservoir.
Northwest Douglas County also needs the water to meet its future demands, said Cheryl Buttenhoff, public service administrator for the Kansas Water Office.
Lawrence has state-granted rights to 4.86 billion gallons of water a year from Clinton Lake, plus an additional 8.15 billion gallons from the Kansas River.
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WICHITA - The growth of cell phone use in homes is causing concern at the state's 911 centers, most of which do not have the technology to track the location of a cell phone caller.
That has long been a concern for motorists and is growing now that consumers can switch their land-line phone numbers to cell phones.
Sedgwick County will have technology soon to pinpoint home callers, but it will work only with cell phones manufactured in the last year or so.
But officials in other counties say it could be years before they can afford to
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Nation Ohio mayor makes request: $1 million for new stun guns
CINCINNATI—Cincinnati's mayor urged the city yesterday to buy stun guns for its police force in response to the death of a man following a struggle with six officers a week ago.
"I am looking for any avenue to avoid another struggle," Mayor Charlie Luken wrote in an e-mail to City Council members yesterday that asked them to find $1 million in the 2004 budget to pay for the non-lethal weapons.
"While it is unclear whether the incident would have changed if our officers had the latest technology in Tasers, I believe we must equip our police with the very best equipment," Luken wrote.
Nathaniel Jones, 41, died Nov.30 after the scuffle in a restaurant parking lot. A police cruiser videotape showed the 350-pound man lunging at one officer before he was brought down and struck repeatedly with metal nightsticks.
The coroner ruled Jones' death a homicide but cautioned that the designation did not imply police used excessive force. The direct cause of death was the struggle, the autopsy showed, but Jones also had an enlarged heart and had drugs in his blood.
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Sister of kidnapping suspect asked police to watch him
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- Center for Russian and East European Studies is having its weekly Laird Brown Bag from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday at room 318 in Bailey Hall. The topic is *The U.S. and Eurasia: 2003 with Paul D'Anier*, director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies and associate professor of political science.
The National Society of Collegiate Scholars are meeting at 7 p.m. in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union.
about the derivation and creation of unique speech and narration in his work.
The Ecumenical Christian Ministries in sponsoring a University Forum from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the ECM, 1204 Oread Ave. The title of the forum is *The Many Choices of Tom Averill*. As a fiction writer, teacher and commentator for KANU, Averill uses many styles and voices. Averill will talk
University Christian Fellowship is having a Bible study at 7 p.m. tomorrow at the ECM, 1204 Oread Ave. Contact Rick Clock at 841-3148 or at www.cfu.caU.
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KU Greens is having a meeting at 8 p.m. today at the International Room on Level 5 in the Kansas Union. Contact Amanda Harrison
Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship is sponsoring The Gathering, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Courtside Room of the Burge Union. Everyone is welcome to attend these gatherings. For more information, please call Steve at 542-1101 or go to www.chialpha.org.
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Consider comfort,purpose in headphone purchase
Whether sitting or exercising while listening, a variety of headphones are available for different purposes
By Amber Byarlay
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Kansan staff writer
They can be found throughout campus and in the new Student Fitness Recreation Center. They come in a variety of colors and styles and affect how students hear.
While headphones are commonplace at the University of Kansas, determining which headphone style one needs can be difficult.
Dustin Mitchell, Target sales associate, said most people were buying smaller headphones. The smaller headphones included bud style phones, which are inserted into the ear or clip-on style headphones. Clip-ons have a strap that goes over the ear.
The headphone speaker can either go inside the ear, as with bud style phones, or sit on the top of the ear, as with traditional headphones.
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The smaller headphones work well for sports, Mitchell, Salina junior, said. Target, 3201 Iowa St., sells bud style headphones for $4.99 to $9.99 and the clip-on style
Nicole Hall, Andover sophomore, said she used the clip-on style headphones when exercising.
HEADPHONES DIFFER IN STYLE, PRICE, ADVANTAGES
"I had the other ones, but they were a problem for running because they'd always pop out of your ears and slide off your head," Hall said, referring to bud style headphones.
HEADPHONES DIFFER IN STYLE, PRICE, ADVANTAGES A variety of headphones are designed to match the intended purposes of the consumer. Comfort, style, price and features vary in each type of headphone.
Nick Spacek, a music reviewer for several Kansas Web sites including rockkansas.com, said while the smaller headphones were popular for sports, there were several things to consider when choosing the right set of headphones.
One factor is sound quality. Bud style headphones, which go into the ear, and larger, studio style headphones will give the best sound quality, Spacek said. Studio style headphones have large speakers and padding that wraps around the ear. They have a band that goes over the top of the head and can be purchased in Lawrence for $15.77 to $49.99. These two styles of headphones give the best sound quality because they limit the amount of outside sound that can get into
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College students susceptible to mono; take precautions
— Edited by Erin Riffey
By Michelle Grinstein editor@kansan.com special to the Kansan
Shivering under his blankets and three layers of clothing, Josh Stillman drifts off to sleep in his cold, dark room in Naismith Hall.
At 3 a.m., sweat runs down his face and body as he strips down to his briefs. Stillman crawls back into bed and falls asleep. When the alarm sounds at 8:30 a.m., Stillman struggles out of bed discovering he can barely talk because his tonsils are so inflamed.
Stillman, Buffalo Grove, Ill., freshman, walks to Watkins Memorial Health Center to see the first available doctor. After a blood test, Stillman discovers
that Mononucleosis virus has infected his body.
"Mono is one of the worst feelings I could have imagined," Stillman said. "My tonsils were so inflamed they were resting on my tongue."
With winter approaching, an increasing number of KU students will join Stillman in fighting the effects of mononucleosis, or mono. Also known as "the kissing disease," mono can easily infect people through shared saliva and mucus. So far this semester, Watkins has diagnosed 82 patients with mono. In 2002, 114 patients were diagnosed from August to December.
While symptoms can include high temperatures, sore throats,
"My tonsils were so inflamed they were resting on my tongue."
Josh Stillman Buffalo Grove, Ill., freshman
headaches, swollen glands and fatigue, each person afflicted with the virus suffers differently. Some people with mild symptoms might never know they have mono, while others could be bedridden for a month.
Andrea Cobbel, Plano, Texas, senior said she never realized the harm in swapping saliva. Cobbel's long kiss goodnight ended with swollen glands and a debilitating lack of energy three
weeks later.
"Having mono made it hard on me to get out of bed," Cobbel said. "I would do one small activity and get right back into bed."
Swollen glands took over Cobbel's life. Eating and drinking became an obstacle, since Cobbel found it hard to swallow. Her diet consisted of hot tea and Ramen noodle soup. She lost 20 pounds.
William Brandenberger, Watkins physician, said college students are susceptible to mono because of close contact. Common behavior, such as kissing and sharing food and drink, increases the chances of catching and spreading the virus.
Drugs are not effective in treating the virus. Bed rest with
plenty of fluids are vital in beating the infection, Brandenberger said.
Myra Strother, Watkins associate director chief of staff, said test results for mono could be negative at first. It is often necessary to wait until a patient has been sick for five to seven days before mono tests can find the virus, Strother said.
Once diagnosed, mono doesn't respond to any known treatment. Antibiotics are not useful in treating the viral disease and neither are pills or shots.
The body should be able to successfully fight the infection on its own if patients take proper care of themselves, Strother said. Strother recommends salt-water gargles for the throat and ibuprofen for pain. Soup, crackers and plenty of fluids should be part of the diet when sick with mono, Strother said. Hot or cold tea is also effective for soothing the throat, she said.
Students with mono often miss class. Marshall Jackson, associate director of the Student Development Center, said the center could send letters to professors telling them students have mono. The center also encourages students to contact their professors.
Cobbel said she had learned a lesson from her experience with mono. Now, she said understood that a goodnight kiss can lead not only to a good relationship, but also to a long illness.
—Edited by Ashley Marriott
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Jonathan Sternberg's article in Wednesday's edition of The University Daily Kansas ("No need to change status quo, Bush should say," Dec. 3) illustrates the exact reasons that President George W Bush should not be in office. Sternberg, like Bush, has no vision and is completely selfish.
Sternberg argues that in an election year, we should not think about the burdensome issues that don't affect our daily life, but rather should only concentrate on the issues that affect us as individuals. Personally, I am left wondering if Sternberg understands the concept of community and civilization.
I agree, our policy on terrorism is not likely to have a significant impact on my life in the next four years, but I would never tell a fellow student from New York that terrorism is not a big deal. Forgive me if I care about my fellow man.
Sternberg, you as a history major should understand how much powerful leaders' decisions can affect our world, not just in the next five years, but decades and even centuries down the line. This won't be the last time that our economy is bad; economies rise and fall like the tide. But the decisions that a president makes regarding "irrelevant" issues like foreign policy and terrorism affect the world forever.
Matthew Zolton first-year law student Overland Park
Fiscal policy not main issue columnist ignored others
I am all for the expression of people's opinions, but only within the boundaries of respect for the other side. When reading Sternberg's commentary, I felt disrespect toward my own personal values — toward what I choose to live my life for. The world is run by money, yes, this is true; but I choose not to view it as the most important thing in life.
Ask those too poor to see the doctor and those ambiguously discriminated against because of race or sexual preference what issues are most important to them. I believe the answer would be equality, not fiscal policy.
Imagine if we, as college students, all aspired to get rich and accumulate wealth. Where would equality fit into the equation of society? Where would the caring teachers be, those who educate the next generation out of caring rather than greed? If fiscal policy is the most important thing and everything after is secondary, how do we proceed as a nation to have that very home of the free, the brave and the pursuit of happiness we so often as Americans gloat about?
Michael Graham education
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Nielsen's wording childish; shouldn't name-call
After reading Arrah Nielsen's column ("Living wage leftist, not the answer for workers." Dec. 2, The University Daily Kansan), I feel compelled to retort. It wasn't the argument necessarily that bothered me (however, I do think she's been reading too much Anne Coulter). It was when, in the final paragraph, Nielsen called me "stupid" that motivated me to take action.
Is calling people who vote Democrat "stupid" supposed to be her version of a sound argument? (Wow, she called me "stupid." That cuts deep. Nielsen 1, Democrats 0.) I'm no journalist, but I was always under the impression that in order to be one, you better know how to write. Nielsen wants to throw around childish names, she should wait until someone isn't sharing their shovel with her during playtime in the sandbox.
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Past artists can help soothe through experience, music
Three different times this year, I found COMMENTARY
Three different times this year, I found myself pulling up an Internet news site, opening a newspaper or watching the television and getting this same sad twinge. You see, I love music, and on every single instance when this happened I found another artist had been silenced. Before this year began, Warren Zevon, Johnny Cash and Elliot Smith were all living and breathing artists. Now, as they've all been gone for a matter of weeks, things do seem a little bit different.
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To find a bit of peace at the end of this semester, perhaps it might be good to remember them and others who have passed on. This column is for them.
As a kid, I could remember leaning into the seats of my parents' cars and listening to the music that would pour through the speakers. Often I would watch the sometimes-bland scenery of western Kansas pass by and have it all interspersed with music from The Beatles, The Doors and even Zeppelin. But always I'd get a kick out of hearing Zevon's tune, "Werewolves of London." I think it had something to do with either the unearthly howl Zevon's throat produced for the refrain or maybe just the general fascination with werewolves, vampires and the supernatural that seems to attract all kids.
I rediscovered Zevon, so to speak, a few months before he passed on. I read a news story on Yahoo! that said he was sick, and with flashbacks of his song on the car radio, I knew he was worth checking out. Unfortunately though, it slipped my mind again until I listened to NPR one day and heard some snippets from his last album, The Wind. His voice seemed more haunting and powerful on this album than it did during a 100 listening of "Werewolves." Specifically, his cover of Bob Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" was all the more moving considering the album was released mere days after he
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passed on. Man.
Then, on an average Friday afternoon, I heard the news that Johnny Cash had died. I was surprised that I had such a big reaction. The more I thought about it, the more it made sense. He was one of those great, mythical artists. In a pre-goth revelation, he wore black before black was cool, and his life in the late '60s became a constant protest to the lives, love and happiness lost during the Vietnam War.
His music, full of the great tradition of the old cowboy singers, always remained current. Especially with his cover of Hurt, originally by the industrial group Nine Inch Nails, the pain of his lost love and past poured through poignantly. Though I'm pretty stolid emotionally, the video brought a tear to my eye. I was surprised when I heard that he'd attempted the cover, but I remembered he also did a rendition of Soundgarden's "Rusty Cage." His last album is full of beautiful tracks and covers performed by his gritty, roadworn voice.
More recently, I heard of the tragic end of indie rock legend Elliot Smith. His music, too, I have known through college. His voice has reverberated through The Granada and The Bottleneck and personally touched many local residents. I always dug his melodies and song construction, and knew his tracks from countless mix
tapes. Perhaps his most widely known work is the song "Miss Misery" from the Good Will Hunting soundtrack. His final album, Figure 8, also contained the popular "Son of Sam." His is a deep loss to the ranks of modern independent music.
These people have all shaped our culture and our lives. Their work deserves to be held up and carried on to future generations. If you have time, relax to their strong voices, revel in their pain and healing and do not forget.
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Arrah Nielsen: Bottles of wine come in boxes, but boxes of wine do not come in bottles.
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I don't like that the Jayplay section of the Kansan shows girls how to knee a guy's balls. That is just not cool.
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Jonathan Sternberg writes conservative B.S. I am tired of it in this liberal town. His voice should be heard, but his commentary should be kept silent.
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waiting until he graduated to have a commitment ceremony. The ceremony is an emotional step towards a union, but the couple will not gain the benefits of a legal marriage. Landreth said that he was frustrated that heterosexual couples didn't seem to realize the privilege of marriage.
"We would have to spend several thousand dollars to get one-third of the rights two 19-year-olds could get in an hour down at the courthouse," Landreth said.
The couple still is planning for the future, regardless of what barriers face them. The two would like to have children some day. They talked about their desire for a family early on in their relationship. Landreth said.
"He would be a good dad, and I would be the disciplinarian," Landreth said.
The problem is that most states have one-parent adoption laws, said Grothe. Legally the child would only belong to one man and in the case of his death, the child would go to his family, not his partner. Landreth said that he and Grothe would have to write separate wills leaving everything, including custody of a child, to each other.
"We have to fight so hard to be together, but I don't even know who to fight," Landreth said.
Sherrie and Tami
When Sherrie Tucker was offered a faculty position with the University's American studies department two years ago, her first thought was of her partner.
She was terrified at the idea of moving to Kansas because of its conservative stereotype. She
also worried about how the University would react to giving a lesbian couple spousal hire.
Tucker said she had a friend who hadn't received tenure at another university because she was in a lesbian relationship. That couple had to live in separate cities because they couldn't risk losing their jobs.
Tucker knew it was not an option for her to leave her partner of three and a half years, Tami Albin, so when Norman R. Yetman, the chairman of the American studies department, asked her what it would take to get her, she said a job for Albin.
"We wanted very badly to get Sherrie Tucker," Yetman said. "We worked very hard to get her the position she has."
Yetman said spousal hire was
a big issue at major universities. He said he thought more and more academic people were in relationships with other a academics, making it necessary for both to be hired by a university.
Albin, who had the right credentials, was hired as a librarian in the University libraries, and the couple moved from upstate New York to Lawrence.
Tucker said she and Albin had been extremely lucky.
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Unlike the friends Tucker had described, she said she was not worried about bringing Albin to events at the University, nor about going to Albin's work functions.
One concern for the couple was finding housing. They had heard of people being turned away because of their sexuality. But for them, it was not a problem.
Their landlord had told them, with a wink, that Lawrence was a good place to live, Tucker said, laughing.
The University's nondiscriminatory policy states, "It is the policy of the university to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, marital status, and parental status."
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"There are so many way to look at couples as fragments that come together to be a whole. We are not halves and I don't want to be."
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It is also the practice of the University to help find employment for the companion of a potential faculty member it wants to hire. The Domestic Partner Accommodation clause made it possible for Tucker to accept the job in the American
the couple had to face an illness.
Albin was treated for appendicitis, and Tucker said she was worried about not being able to visit her in the hospital because she is not legally a
family member.
The couple's biggest struggle has been with citizenship. The couple is split between two countries.
But not only was she allowed to visit, the nurse found Albin a gay doctor who came looking for Tucker right after surgery, Albin said.
Albin, a citizen of Canada, has to renew her work visa every July. If they were a heterosexual couple, a marriage license would
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Red Landreth and his partner Jason Grothe relaxed in their home. Landreth said that he and Grothe would have a commitment ceremony, but would still fight for marriage benefits. "The fact that we have to prove anything is frustrating," he said.
After spending time entertaining guests, Sherrie Tucker and Tami Albin, took a break during their early Thanksgiving gathering, held the day before for friends and international students. The couple has been together for three and a half years.
allow Albin to remain in the United States for Tucker's work.
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Last summer, in the Canadian provinces Ontario and British Columbia, same-sex marriages were legalized, giving these couples the same rights and benefits as heterosexual couples.
Albin said moving to Canada might be a reality if Albin's visa was not renewed. If the two were married in Canada, the marriage would not be recognized in the United States and Albin would most likely be denied her visa.
"There are so many ways to look at couples as fragments that come together to be a whole," Tucker said. "We are not halves and I don't want to be."
"We have to consider the possibility," she said. "But once I live in Canada I can't work in the U.S. for 10 years."
Tucker said she felt the Massachusetts court was setting a precedent for the rest of the country and that she hoped other states would follow. She said American's perception of families needed to change before laws would be changed.
Mark and Chris
Mark Frossard and Chris Nierman don't care that their marriage won't be recognized by Kansas law. They want to make their relationship official.
Frossard, a senior from St. Louis, and Nierman, a graduate student from Lincoln, Neb., will have a commitment ceremony in June. The ceremony, to be held at Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St., will have traditional wedding elements — walking down the aisle, exchanging rings, a best man and a reception — but it will be adapted to Frossard and Nierman's relationship.
Neither man is religious, so they will have a friend officiate. The men exchanged engagement rings, which they will add
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The couple chose Liberty Hall for sentimental reasons. It was where Frossard and Nierman first met, and where Nierman proposed last spring.
Since then, the couple has been preparing like any other couple for the big day, booking the location, calling caterers and picking out flowers. Nierman said the difference was the worry of how people will react.
"There is always a little bit of uncertainty as to whether or not people will act negatively when they find out it is two men getting married," he said.
So far, things have run smoothly, Nierman said.
Besides the stress of planning a wedding, Frossard's main struggle is with his family. He said his parents have seen a conflict between his lifestyle and their Catholic religion.
Frossard said his parents were not comfortable with him being in a gay relationship, and he doesn't think they will come to
"My mom is trying to understand, but I don't know if it will ever happen." Frossard said.
Despite their differences, he said he knew that his parents wanted the best for him.
"Ultimately, every parent wants their child to fall in love," he said. "And that's what I'm doing, it's just with a different gender."
Frossard said he thought society had a misconception that gay men could not have a lasting relationship.
"People think that gay men date around," he said. "This relationship is a loving relationship with all the ups and downs like any other."
Nierman has the acceptance of his family, and they will be at the wedding. He said he hoped someday Frossard's parents would change their opinion of the relationship.
"We want to share the excitement of falling in love with someone, with family," Nierman said. "It is important to any relationship to have the people you've grown up with give their emotional support."
Both men will graduate in May and look for jobs, Nierman as a music teacher, and Frossard as a painter. The marriage will not be legally recognized, so the couple will not receive the legal rights of a married couple.
Nierman said he worried about not receiving the same benefits as a heterosexual couple, such as health insurance coverage for spouses.
Nierman said that these problems were constant concerns, but that he was optimistic about the future for gay couples.
"The more it becomes a norm, the less acceptable it will be to discriminate against us," Nierman said.
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KeyState - As a freshman at North Carolina State, Thomas was unexpectedly called to duty in the Tangerine Bowl in 2001 when All-American Levar Fisher suffered a broken arm. Thomas came in off the bench and totaled six tackles. After finishing third on the team in tackles as a sophomore, Thomas has had an outstanding junior campaign. Thomas was second on the team with 119 tackles, led the team in tackles for loss with 15.5, led the team in sacks with eight and led the team in forced fumbles with three.
Accomplishments - In the talent-rich world of Florida high school football, Thomas was not the head of his class, but he has worked his way to the top. In his senior season at Killian High School, Thomas had 115 tackles and three interceptions, earning him second-team All-Dade County honors. Thomas had been relatively quiet in his time with the Wolfpack until this season. His through-theroof numbers and leadership qualities for
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Creating Havoc - The Wolfpack blitz its linebackers quite a bit, and as a result, Thomas has become one of the ACC's premier pass rushers. But if Bill Whittenmore isn't careful, Thomas could be a problem.
Hitting The Books - Most would say that a middle linebacker needs to be the smartest guy on the football field. For North Carolina State, that's no concern. Thomas is a pretty smart guy, as he found himself on the ACC Academic Honor Roll as a freshman in 2001-02.
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Accomplishments - Toomey's journey to Kansas has been a long one, but he has succeeded just about everywhere he's gone. Out of high school, USA Today rated him as one of the top-four outside linebackers in the country. Toomey originally was with Oklahoma but left after a year to go home and play at Iowa Central Community College. Toomey was the 30th-ranked recruit coming out of junior college last season. His
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Getting Emotional - Even though he was an unknown to Kansas football fans when the Jayhawks took the field for their season opener against Northwestern, Toomey quickly became a fan favorite. Aside from his unusual speed and quickness at middle linebacker, his emotion and fire has consistently been the fuel the Jayhawks needed. He leads the team out of the locker room in a full sprint to start every game. Toomey is just as valuable emotionally as he is statistically.
Prototypical Throwback - There's probably a reason Toomey clicked in his one year at Oklahoma with then assistant coach Mark Mangino. Without Jash or flair, Toomey gets the job done. He is a blue-collared, no-nonsense performer whose only goal is to win. The gash at the top of Toomey's nose has seemed to open up during each game this season. Like the players of the old days, vanity is not an issue for him, and that's pretty hardcore.
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CLASSIC: Jayhawks improve to 3-2, look to Ball St.
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Coming out with a stingy full-court press at the 14-minute mark, the Jayhawks forced five straight Miner turnovers, resulting in eight unanswered points.
Burras poured in 14 points and sopho m ore forward Tamara Ransburg added double figures with 10 in the victory. "If we just keep winning and winning tournaments, I know we'll bring crowds and earn respect."
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The Jayhawks improved to 3-2 on the year, with their next action coming Saturday against Ball State at Allen Fieldhouse.
Ervin said she felt it was important for the team to perform well in its home tournament.
"If we just keep winning and winning tournaments," Ervin said, "I know we'll bring crowds and earn respect."
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WEEKEND: Kansas needs to find someone to step up on the court
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The Tigers were led by freshman Linas Kleiza who had 15 points and 13 rebounds. He hit a three-pointer while Missouri made its comeback and his three-play play with just over a minute remaining gave the Tigers the win. Kleiza took charge and showed heart in his third collegiate game.
Meanwhile, Kansas looked for someone to step up against Stanford. No one did. That doesn't mean it's time for Jayhawk fans to start pinching. Last year, Kansas
looked awful in the preseason NIT before seniors Nick Collison and Kirk Hinrich regrouped the team.
This year, the Jayhawks don't have seniors with that kind of experience and leadership. But maybe the 'Hawks can learn a lesson from the Tigers. It doesn't have to be a senior, or even a junior, that steps up. But if someone doesn't, this team could end up like many Missouri teams from years past: talented but unable to put it together.
Mettlen is a Lucas senior in journalism.
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"Those four kids come to work everyday and are extremely excited about the success," Bechard said. "It makes everybody's life easier."
They were standing by the bench celebrating every point as if it would be the last. When they did see the court, they wanted nothing more than to show they too were valuable to the team.
From an overall talent stand-point Kansas should be just as good, if not better next season.
Reserves such as Renita Davidson, Jamie Mathewson, Dani Whitman and Megan Hill rarely saw action during the season. But you wouldn't know it from their attitudes.
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That seems to be the attitude this team has taken on this season, and it's not just the regulars.
It loses three seniors in Rome, Abbie Jacobson and Jordan Garrison. But it gains 6-foot-2-inch setter Emily Brown from Baldwin City who said "No" to Nebraska to become a Jayhawk.
Cornea will also be back from the knee injury that sidelined her for half of the season. However, it will be difficult to match the togetherness of the 2003 team.
"We think we can be good over the next few years," Beachard said, "but it's going to be difficult to match the chemistry that we managed to put together over the last six to eight weeks."
FAIL: Second half
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"The worst thing you can do is stay down 4, but you have a great chance to go down 2 or 1 — and we go down 7," Self said. "That's how you lose games."
Edited by Erin Riffey
Kansas outscored Stanford 17-9 in the first 12 minutes of the second half. The run was capped off by Langford's 5-point play, which gave Kansas a 46-45 lead
The 'Hawks never got a shot off after an offensive foul by Bryant Nash. Then Hawkins fuled Stanford's best free throw shooter, sophomore Chris Hernandez, on a last-second heave with just .7 seconds left in the half. Hernandez hit all three free throws to give Stanford a 36-29 halftime lead.
with 8:23 left to go in the game.
It was the Jayhawk's first-and-only lead of the game, and it only lasted 24 seconds. The Cardinal's senior Matt Lottich hit a three-point shot to give his team the lead, and Stanford never trailed again. Lottich hit five three-pointers in the game and was his team's leading scorer with 18.
The Jayhawks were led in scoring by Miles with 11 Simien and Langford had 10 each. The juniors were Kansas' only players in double figures.
"We're better than how we played," Self said. "You can't control shooting from game to game, sometimes you make bad shots and miss good shots. That's just the way basketball is.
run falls short; 'Hawks drop game with 8:23 left to go in the game.
"You can control playing smart, you can control being able to pass the ball, and feeding the post and not making bone-head plays and things like that," Self said. "Those are the things that I'll probably will leave here the most frustrated with, more so than shooting."
The loss will end Kansas' week at No. 1 in the polls. Miles said the team was not concerned with losing the ranking as much as losing the game.
"This ranking stuff doesn't mean much, it's about playing hard and getting better as a team," he said. "We wanted to win, not just to keep the number one spot, but to win."
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"The system is what it is and we can't control it. We feel we have more than earned our way into this game and don't have to apologize to anybody." Oklahoma defensive coordinator Brent Venables after the Sooners were chosen to play LSU in the national title game, despite the fact that USC is the top-ranked team in both polls
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Two national champions likely
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College football fans, get ready to crown not just one, but possibly two national champions.
And get ready for a new round of controversy.
It's exactly what the Bowl Championship Series was designed to avoid, with the prospect of a split title certain to renew cries for a playoff.
That's because the computer rankings had Oklahoma as the country's top team yesterday while the human poll voters picked Southern California.
Despite getting walloped by Kansas State 35-7 on Saturday night, Oklahoma will take its 12-1 record to the Sugar Bowl against LSU, which won the Southeastern Conference championship by beating Georgia 34-13.
ing Google's The winner in New Orleans on Jan. 4 automatically captures the coaches' title under BCS format.
USC, which finished third in the BCS rankings, could win The Associated Press championship by beating No. 4 Michigan in the Rose Bowl.
"We're the No. 1 team in the country and we'll do everything we can to hold that spot." USC coach Pete Carroll said. "If we win that football game, we feel like we'll be the No. 1 team in the country regardless of what that other bowl is called."
The No. 1 team in the AP poll has never dropped after winning its bowl game.
The BCS was started in 1998 to create a national title game without playoffs.
When the BCS contract expires after the 2005 season, a one-game championship might be instituted after the bowls.
That would be too late to fix this year's mess.
"Unfortunately, there seems to be three teams that people would like to see and the system can't satisfy three teams," LSU coach Nick Saban said. "Unfortunately we can't have all three teams because we don't have a playoff."
In the final BCS standings, Oklahoma was first with 5.11 points based on its top spot in five of the seven computers, the 11th-toughest schedule and a quality win over Texas. The Sooners were third in both polls.
"The system is what it is and we can't control it," Oklahoma defensive coordinator Brent Venables said. "We feel we have more than earned our way into this game and don't have to apologize to anybody."
LSU (12-1) was second with 5.99, edging out USC (11-1) by 0.16 in the second closest finish in the six-year history of the BCS. Nebraska beat Colorado by 0.05 in 2001.
The Trojans got 79 of the 128 first-place votes in the polls but finished third in five computers because of a weak Pac-10 schedule.
LSU was second in the polls and six computers and edged out USC based on a tougher schedule. LSU and USC were each picked first in one computer.
The rigers' spot in the title game wasn't assured until Boise State beat Hawaii at 3 a.m. EST yesterday. The Trojans' strength of schedule was hurt because they beat Hawaii in September.
The dream matchup for the Rose Bowl, a traditional pairing of Big Ten and Pac-10 champions with national title implications, is the doomsday scenario for the BCS.
It's the third time in four seasons that a team in the top two in the polls didn't make it to the BCS title game. The BCS avoided disaster those years because No. 1 Oklahoma beat Florida State in the 2001 Orange Bowl and No. 1 Miami beat Nebraska in the 2002 Rose Bowl.
The No. 2 teams in the polls won their bowl games those years and could have won the AP title if the top-ranked teams lost. The only way to avoid a disputed finish this year is if Michigan (10-2) beats USC.
"I know there's controversy but that comes with the system," Carroll said. "Until a playoff that's what will happen."
There was talk two years ago when Nebraska made the title game without winning the Big 12 to make a winning a conference a requirement to make the championship game. There are sure to be more calls for that change because of Oklahoma.
"With the events this year, we'd be foolish if we didn't look at it again in the spring," said Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese, who runs the BCS.
The other BCS matchups have No. 10 Miami (10-2) playing No. 9 Florida State (10-2) in a rematch from the regular season in the Orange Bowl and No. 8 Kansas State (11-3) facing No. 7 Ohio State (10-2) in the Fiesta Bowl.
Champions of the ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-10 and SEC qualify for a BCS game. Oklahoma and Ohio State were picked as at-large teams.
Despite the controversy, there are still two intriguing matchups.
First up is USC-Michigan on Jan. 1 in the seventh Rose Bowl meeting between the schools. The game features two high-powered offenses. USC is sixth in the nation in scoring at 42.2 points per game and Michigan is ninth at 37.2.
Quarterback Matt Leinart leads a balanced offense for the Trojans, which features game-breaking receivers in Mike Williams, Keary Colbert and Steve Smith and a dangerous running duo of Reggie Bush and LenDale White. Michigan is led by quarterback John Navarre, who has delivered his biggest games against the best opponents this year. The Wolverines also have talented receivers in Braylon Edwards, Jason Avant and Steve Breaston, and a top running back in Chris Perry. Three days later, LSU will play Oklahoma in what will almost be a home game for the Tigers at the Superdome in New Orleans, a short drive from LSU's campus.
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I have often dreamed about plugging Wayne Simien's parking meter.
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Denver demolishes Kansas City; Portis unstoppable
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DENVER — Clinton Portis is getting better every week, keeping the Denver Broncos in the playoff hunt.
Portis had 218 yards and a teamrecord five touchdowns, leading Denver to a wild 45-27 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs yesterday that kept the Broncos within reach of their first playoff appearance in three years.
Portis impressed teammates with a 34-carry,170-yard game in the rain last week against Oakland,but was even better this time.
He had touchdown runs of 11 and 1 yards in the first half, then added scores
of 59, 28 and 53 yards in the second to turn the game into a rout. Portis had 188 yards after halftime and finished with his fifth consecutive 100-yard game — third straight with at least 160 yards.
Portis' effort helped Denver (8-5) tie Miami for the final AFC playoff spot and prevented Kansas City (11-2) from winning its first division title since 1997.
rent Green threw for 397 yards and Priest Holmes scored two touchdowns, but the Chiets struggled after a big first half to lose for the second time in four weeks after a 9-0 start.
sions in the first half, and kept rolling in the second.
Denver scored on three of four posses-
The Broncos opened with a 78-yard scoring drive, capped by Reuben Droughs' 3-yard touchdown catch that put the Broncs up 24-21.
Portis took over from there.
He broke free up the middle on Denver's next drive, freezing safety Jerome Woods with a move around the 30 before going in for a 59-yard touchdown.
Portis seemed to be bottled up at the line on Denver's next drive, but waited for the hole to open and burst through for a 28-yard touchdown.
He completed the rout on Denver's next play from scrimmage, going off left
tackle on a 53-yard touchdown that put the Broncos up 45-21.
The second half was a contrast to the first, when the teams traded scores as though it was an Arena League game.
Portis opened the game with an 11-yard touchdown run off left tackle on Denver's first drive, which was kept alive by a penalty on fourth down at Kansas City's 46-vard line.
The Chiefs answered quickly, moving 66 yards in 13 plays for Holmes' 2-yard touchdown run.
Portis put the Broncos back up on the next drive, bulling his way for a 1-yard touchdown.
Kansas City had an answer, of course.
scoring on Holmes' 1-yard dive over the top. Hall set it up with a 61-yard kickoff return to Denver's 36.
Then something odd happened: Denver had to kick a field goal. Jason Elam's 47-varder made it 17-14.
Kansas City followed with a 42-yard touchdown pass from Green to Eddie Kennison, who rankled the Broncos earlier in the week by predicting a Chiefs win and criticizing coach Mike Shanahan.
Kennison celebrated by winding up for a windmill spike behind the end zone, but it was Kansas City's final points until Green scored on a 1-yard run with two seconds left.
Missouri will take on Arkansas in Independence Bowl
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COLUMBIA, Mo. — Missouri will make its first bowl appearance in five years, playing Arkansas in the Independence Bowl on New Year's Eve.
"I've asked an awful lot of my players in the three years that we've been here," Pinkel said. "It's nice to see it pay off a little bit."
The Tigers (8-4) return to a bowl game in their third season under coach Gary Pinkel, who said the game was the reward for his players' hard work.
"This year is a huge statement of development and progress for our football program," said Ed Stewart, associate athletic director. Football really drives the engine in college athletics. It's tremendous for our coaching staff, tremendous for our kids. It's a remarkable experience."
It's only the Tigers' fourth bowl game in the past two decades. Missouri played in the Holiday Bowl in 1983 and 1997, then in the Insight.com Bowl in 1998.
The announcement was hardly a surprise as officials had said the Independence Bowl was all but a certainty for the Tigers leading up to yesterday.
Pinkel said he hadn't had a chance to look at the tape much, but did see one of the Razorbacks' early season victories.
The teams even exchanged film last week, anxious to start preparing for the game.
"They beat Texas, I know that," Pinkel said. "That got my attention fast."
Missouri has won two of the three
games between the teams over the years. The Tigers beat Arkansas 7-6 in 1963, lost 7-6 to the Razorbacks in 1944 and won 11-0 in 1906.
It's the second Independence Bowl for Arkansas, which lost 25-14 to Georgia in the 1991 game.
The game will feature two rushheavy teams. Missouri averages 236 rushing yards and 167 passing yards per game, while Arkansas rushes for 237 yards and passes for 198 yards per game.
Missouri center A.J. Ricker, a senior, said he was looking forward to finishing his career with his first bowl game.
Krupica said Missouri fits the mold of teams the Independence Bowl has been trying to lure.
"Our leadership really refocused on how we got where we got growing this bowl game, and that's picking people on the way up, just like Mizzou," Krupica said.
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Linebacker leaders See how Kansas linebacker Gabe Toomey compares to North Carolina State linebacker Pat Thomas. The two could impact the outcome of the Tangerine Bowl.PAGE 6A
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The University Daily Kansan
Monday, December 8, 2003
Shane Mettlen
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Odd results abundant in weekend matchups
That must have been the case Saturday. Kansas State, the football team that went a month this season without beating a Division 1A opponent, embarrassed Oklahoma, the team that looked unstoppable all season long. That in itself isn't enough to assume that something has gone terribly wrong and changed the makeup of the universe. Upsets do happen. Remember the same thing happened to K-State in 1998 when Texas A&M knocked off the greatest team K-State ever fielded.
Saturday must have happened in bizzaro world. Bizzaro world, as made famous by Superman and later Seinfeld, is the parallel universe where everything and everyone is the opposite.
That football game could have just been an oddity. But when you combine it with the way a couple of Big 12 Conference teams played basketball it becomes obvious something strange was going on.
Kansas took the nation's No.1 team to Anaheim, Calif. to play Stanford in the Wooden Classic, and it was an ugly basketball game. The ridiculously strict officiating made it impossible for either team to find a rhythm. Both teams became tentative as any hint of contact resulted in a foul call.
Most of the time Kansas can find a way to win a game like that. Discipline and mental toughness have traditionally been a trademark of Jayhawk basketball. Those qualities have been stressed even more under coach Bill Self. But Saturday, when the game wasn't going Kansas' way, it resorted to an every man for himself style of play. Instead of taking advantage of Stanford's foul trouble by getting the ball to Wayne Simien down low, Kansas tossed up shots from the outside. The Jayhawks took the lead, briefly, when Keith Langford took the ball to the rim in transition and was fouled. Langford made a free throw to complete the three-point play and it looked like Kansas would start playing Jayhawk basketball again. But it didn't. The team kept gunning from the outside and eventually shot itself out of the game, hitting only 3-20 from three-point range.
"We were fooled by the last game," Self said afterwards. "We shot the ball so well, we came and jacked up a lot of shots."
It wasn't the brand of basketball fans are used to seeing from the Jayhawks, but it did look oddly familiar. It looked like Missouri basketball.
Oh, the Tigers, famous under Quin Snyder fora lack of discipline and living or dying by the three-point shot, actually looked like a team with heart Saturday.
Missouri also got off to a bad start Saturday. The Tigers trailed almost the entire game and were down 56-42 with just 7:15 left in the game. But Missouri finished the game on a 21-2 run to secure a tough win on the road.
'Hawks fail to pass, shoot
By Chris Wintering
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Kansan sportwriter
ANAHIEM, Calif. — Kansas coach Bill Self called his team's shooting miserable, and its passing horrendous in the top-ranked Jayhawks' 64-58 loss to No. 21 Stanford Saturday at the John Wooden Classic.
In his first loss as Kansas' coach, Self watched the Cardinal play its 1-1-3 zone, which his team never had an answer for.
"They let us pass the ball around the perimeter and sat in the post man's lap a lot, which is smart," Self said. "That's how I'd play us too."
It was a similar strategy that Texas-
Christian used a week ago against Kansas. The difference was that Kansas, now 3-1, couldn't hit shots on the perimeter against Stanford to extend the zone.
"I think we played so passive against the zone, like we're scared to make a mistake passing the basketball." Self said. "The best way to beat a zone is to have good shooters on the floor, and tonight we just didn't shoot it very good."
The Jayhawks went 3-20 from the three-point line. Sophomore Jeff Hawkins went 1-7 from behind the arc after hitting five three-point shots against TCU.
By not making shots on the perimeter the Jayhawks were not able to stretch the zone to get their big men the ball. Against TCU, junior Wayne Simien only made
one field goal, and against Stanford Saturday, Simien only had 10 points on 2-6 shooting from the field. Self said that the team had not given the ball to its preseason All-American as much as it should vet this year.
"I feel it's all my fault — I have to find ways to get him the ball." junior Aaron Miles said of Simien's limited touches.
Miles thought that the team did too much dribbling and not enough passing. That was evident because of the Jayhawks' 6 assists, the team's lowest total since 1993.
"When a team plays zone, your assist total should be even higher." Self said. "That tells me as much as anything that we passed the ball miserably, regardless of how we shot it."
Junior Keith Langford agreed that the perimeter players struggled and needed to get the ball inside. He said that the zone made perimeter players think they were open, but shooters quickly found themselves covered when taking the shot.
"We probably relied a little too much on one pass and one shot," Langford said.
Kansas trailed the entire first half against Stanford and found itself down by as much as 12. The Jayhawks fought back and with 20 seconds left in the half had the ball with a chance to take the last shot, down 33-29.
Volleyball season ends upbeat
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By Mike Norris
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Kansan sportswriter
MALIBU, Calif. — Sarah Rome said the pain was gone. It was only 20 minutes after the Kansas volleyball team had been knocked out of the NCAA Tournament in the second round by No. 4 Pepperdine, and the senior outside hitter was surprisingly calm.
"We've accomplished so much," Rome said. "This team has nothing but love for each other."
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Despite a few tears, everything seemed OK for a team whose season had just ended.
The Jayhawks were in Malibu, Calif., had beaten Long Beach State, a five-time NCAA champion, the day before and had advanced farther than any Jayhawk team in school history. Why should they be disappointed?
"I couldn't be more proud of a group," Kansas coach Ray Bechard said. "I told them I didn't want to see tears because they lost, I only wanted tears of the fact they can't compete together anymore."
He said the chemistry of this team will be hard to replace.
A lot of teams say they have chemistry, but this team showed it.
During the season no one wanted to talk about themselves after a match because they were so busy praising each other.
Juniors Ashley Michaels, Ashley Bechard and Jill Dorsey are roommates and played volleyball together before coming to Kansas.
Sophomore Josi Lima and freshman Jana Correa played together in São Paulo, Brazil before hooking up in Lawrence.
Their ability to have fun while still competing sets them apart from other teams. You can see it in their faces.
From the excitement of beating a ranked Minnesota team on their home court, to the disappointment of losing to Pepperdine, they enjoyed themselves.
They were smiling and laughing during warm-ups before the biggest match of their lives against Long Beach.
On the other hand the 49ers warmed up with stone-cold faces, operating like machines in an auto factory.
The emotions of warm-ups carried into the match. Kansas smiled its way to the 3-0 victory, as the machine that was Long Beach fell apart.
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Beachard said there shouldn't be any complaining when you get to travel from Lawrence to Malibu in December.
"So why not enjoy it and play some good volleyball?" he said.
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Kensas' Josi Lime blocked the shot of Pepperdine's Lindsey Hache during the Jayhawks' four-game defeat to the fourth-seeded Wave. The defeat eliminated Kansas from the NCAA Tournament.
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Kansas takes first Jayhawk Classic title in four years
Midway through the second game of the Holiday Inn Jayhawk Classic, Lauren Ervin was working on a perfect tournament.
By Jesse Newell
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Kansan sportswriter
The freshman forward had made all nine of her shots from the floor, and two from the free-throw line, when she did the unthinkable; she missed a free throw.
"I work on shots in the paint all practice." Ervin said with a laugh. "I just think I'll need to work on free throws a little more and I'll be knocking them down."
One had to look hard to find fault with both Ervin and the Jayhawks over the weekend, as they defeated Cal-State Fullerton 90-46, and the University of Texas at El Paso 71-50 in the championship to take their first Jayhawk Classic title since the 1999-2000 season.
"I was really happy with the tournament as a whole," coach Marian Washington said. "We worked really hard and showed good execution."
Though she was not perfect from the field, sophomore Crystal Kemp still dominated play inside, being named the unanimous Tournament Most Valuable Player.
Kemp scored 23 points in just 22 minutes against Cal-State Fullerton, and followed with a 15-point performance against UTEP to help Kansas to the championship.
"She's very committed to trying to play a consistent season for us," Washington said. "Every game she's been able to help us in one way or another."
Ervin and junior guard Aquanita Burras were also named to the six-person All-Tournament team for Kansas. Ervin finished a perfect 10-for-10 from the floor in the two-day event.
The Jayhawks were able to take control against Cal-State Fullerton in the second half. In an eight-minute second-half stretch, Kansas outscored Fullerton
28-2, capped by sophomore forward Nichelle Roberts' layup off a no-look pass from junior guard Larisha Graves.
"The second half I felt we executed a lot better," Washington said. "We got excited for each other and it was good to see."
Ervin would later put on a show of her own. With four minutes remaining, the freshman stole a pass, raced the length of the court, then raised the ball above her head for a strong layup and a foul as Kansas extended its lead to 38.
The Jayhawks shot an incredible 85.2 percent from the field in the second half, missing just four shots.
Kansas took advantage of 22 Fullerton
Ervin added 16 points and nine rebounds to complement Kemp's team-high of 23 points. Junior guard Aquanita Burras and sophomore guard Kaylee Brown both contributed nine-point efforts.
turnovers, scoring 24 fast-break points.
The Jayhawks shifted their strength from offense to defense in the second game, allowing just 13 points in the first half to take a commanding 40-13 lead into the break.
Kansas fed off the crowd and kept its defensive intensity in the second half, illustrated in a two-minute stretch.
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Crime briefs The offices of U.S. Rep. Dennis Moore (D-Kan.) and two businesses at 647 Massachusetts St. were burglarized during the weekend. Laptops were taken from each of the three offices.PAGE 3A
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Although predictions say the Tangerine Bowl should be a high-scoring bowl,the Kansas football team wants to prepare as usual, without the extra hype. PAGE 10A
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Give me the ball Kansas junior forward Wayne Simien is not receiving the ball enough, according to coach Bill Self. PAGE 10A
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Questions about inspections
City inspectors face more than 3,000 open building permits
Joist hanger not installed
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A missing joist hanger was the cause of a porch collapse in September. The builders of the porch did not install the hangers, putting all the stress of the above platform on the nails.
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It was not unusual that the porch at 925 Arkansas St. had no record of a final building inspection — more than 3,000 structures in Lawrence have no records of final building inspections. But, for this apartment something unusual did occur early in the morning of Sept. 21, 2003.
When Lawrence-Douglas County Fire and Medical crews arrived at 1 a.m. at the apartment on Arkansas Street, they found a collapsed deck. According to the incident report, the 6-by-15 foot deck had collapsed along two sides and was held on one end by boards. The apartment's renter, University of Kansas football player Kevin Long, said there were 15 to 20 people, a keg and a cooler on the deck when it collapsed. Long was walking onto the deck but stepped back into his apartment when he heard the deck begin to collapse.
Two University athletes, Courtney Steinbock, a Lubbock, Texas, senior on the tennis team and Lindsey Weinstein, a Tarzana, Calif., junior on the softball team were treated for minor injuries after the collapse.
did not take place, said Victor Torres, neighborhood resources director for the city of Lawrence.
In Lawrence, final building inspections are required to close building permits. If a structure has not had a final building inspection, its permit is considered to be open. Having an open permit does not necessarily mean an inspection
Three possible scenarios exist as a reason for open permits; the building contractor did not call the Neighborhood Resources Department for an inspection, an inspection was conducted but
not recorded or there was a building violation and a reinspection was never requested. Torres did not know which applied in the 925 Arkansas St. incident.
However, the porch collapse could have been prevented, Torres said. The porch was not built to code, he said, although there were additional factors
"Clearly the load is what caused the collapse," he said.
Tim Pinnick, a city building inspector, was called to investigate on the morning that the porch fell. He believed the porch
causing the accident.
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Moore's appearance as speaker a no-go
By Paul Kramer
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Kansan staff writer
the semester-long battle to bring activist Michael Moore to the University of Kansas has failed, as Moore did not accept the contract offered to him.
The Center for Community Outreach had originally slated Moore as the keynote speaker for Into the Streets Week, an annual event
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designed to motivate people to get involved in their communities.
Amanda Flott, co-coordinator of Into the Streets Week, said the timeframe in which Moore could accept the contract expired and progress needed to be made to have a speaker secured in time.
Speakers failing to accept an invitation is not uncommon said Kevin Hager, co-director of CCO.
Because of his new book, Dude, Where's my Country?, Moore's busy schedule didn't allow for a campus appearance.
"It was in our best interest to pursue other options." Flott said.
Hager said it was unfortunate that Moore would not be able to come after the amount of publicity for the proposed visit, but he didn't think Into the Streets Week would be compromised.
Moore completed his fall speaking schedule and began a European book tour without speaking to his agent. Hager said.
Hager said Moore tended to polarize people, and the favorite on the new list of speakers wouldn't.
The new speaker will not be announced until later in the week, as the CCO wants to avoid announcing another candidate before the process is complete, said Becky Harpstrite, CCO communications director.
—Edited by Cate Batchelder
CANADIAN POLICE DEFENDING A WOLF IN A CITY PARK. THE WOLF IS HUNTED FOR BITCHING ON A ROOF. ITS LOCKED UP AT A VIEW POINT. THE PARK IS TREATED WITH CARE, AND A FENCING SYSTEM IS SET UP TO KEEP THE WOLF OUT OF THE PATH. THE PARK IS A WELL-KNOWN AREA FOR CAMPAIGNS AND EVENTS. IT IS ALSO USED BY OFFICIALS FOR DETAILED REPORTING.
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About 75 people were involved in a brawl outside of the Burge Union at 1:35 a.m. Sunday, according to the KU Public Safety Office.
A report from the KU Public Safety Office stated that an officer broke his finger while trying to break up the fight after a non-alcoholic Delta Sigma Theta event.
An unidentified man, who the report said was a football player, was involved in a fight with another person that the officer tried to break up. According to the report, the officer's hand was inadvertently struck and his finger broken. No arrests were made.
Mark Dupree, Kansas City, Kan., senior, who attended the event, said he disagreed with the police report.
Dupree said two men who were not from the University of Kansas became verbally aggressive with other men at the party. Because the Burge requires police at any party, officers were already there. Dupree said the officers stood to the side during the fight.
"The cop asked me to go break up the argument," Dupree said. As Dupree was walking the men,out, they started to
"We want to encourage students to have functions. We don't want to make it so they can't have any functions at all."
Lisa Kring
Conference coordinator for the KU Memorial Unions
swing again. A fight erupted outside of the Burge. Dupree said the responsible parties were not KU students.
Maj. Chris Keary of the KU Public Safety Office said protocol for situations like the brawl varied.
Keary said what likely happened was that officers did not immediately have the manpower to break up the fight. He said the officers called the Lawrence Police Department for backup before trying to break up the fights themselves. Lawrence police arrived on the scene shortly after with officers from the Douglas County Sheriff's Office.
Most of the people involved in the
Lt. Schuyler Bailey of the KU Public Safety Office said none of the people involved in the brawl could be identified because so many were fighting.
The first officer on the scene said he saw several people running out of the Burge shouting and saying they were about to fight. When the officer entered the building he saw about 15 people in a stairwell throwing punches. Some of the people were lying down in the stairwell, according to the report.
fight ran away or drove off before they could be identified, according to the KU Public Safety Office report.
People then began running out of the building to the parking lot outside of the Burge, where fighting continued.
Lawrence police and Douglas County officers arrived and people involved in the brawl began to flee.
Lisa Kring, conference coordinator for the KU Memorial Unions, said she thought the situation was handled well by the KU Public Safety Office.
The Burge will hold a meeting today to discuss what happened and how the situation was handled. A committee 'of Burge employees, public safety officers and fraternity and sorority members will discuss if the policies for hosting parties should be changed.
"We want to encourage students to have functions," Kring said. "We don't want to make it so they can't have any functions at all."
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"I want to be remembered as someone who had a positive influence on his social and sexual values of my time. And I think I've accomplished that." Hugh Hefner, telling Matt Lauer on the Today show what he wants his legacy to be after publishing Playboy for 50 years
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Clarifications
An article in yesterday's University Daily Kansan needs clarification. The article, "Are there any objections?" stated that Vermont allows same-sex marriages. Vermont allows same-sex civil unions.
An article in yesterday's University Daily Kansan needs clarification. The article, "Consider comfort, purpose in headphone purchase," had a break box mixed the bud style and clip-on bud style. The buds that have hooks on them are actually the clip-on style ear buds. The photo of headphones with no hooks are the ear bud style.
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Kansas State team to study Wakarusa River pollution
LAWRENCE — Kansas State University researchers plan to use a federal grant to find the source of pollution in the Wakarusa River, which feeds the reservoir that supplies drinking water to Lawrence and Douglas County. The $550,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will fund a research project to track sources of fecal coliform bacteria, which is often an indicator of other pollutants in a waterway.
"Hopefully, this work here is going to help us understand a little better what we need to focus on — and what we don't need to focus on— in terms of cleaning up the water," said Kyle Mankin, the Kansas State researcher leading the project.
The Wakarusa feeds the Clinton Reservoir, which is important not only for drinking water but for recreation, said Bill Hargrove, director of Kansas State's Kansas Center for Agricultural Resources and the Environment. The researchers will use a new technique to track the source of fecal coliform in the river. They will study various bacteria's resistance to certain antibiotics. Because different antibiotics are used to treat humans, livestock and pets, the resistance level should indicate where much of the contamination is coming from.
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of the contamination is coming from Once the source is determined. Mankin said, scientists can work with officials and farmers to take preventive steps. Several state and local agencies have joined with the Lawrence-based Kaw Valley Heritage Alliance to form a cleanup plan.
Kansas Reservists called up; farewell ceremony tomorrow
WICHITA- About 160 soldiers from an Army Reserve transportation unit based in Great Bend have been ordered to active duty in support of the war on terrorism. The 443rd Transportation Company will move to Fort Riley in mid-December for final mobilization, the military announced yesterday. A farewell ceremony has been scheduled for today in Great Bend. The 443rd is a heavy equipment transport unit, which moves Abrams battle tanks and similar equipment. It is part of the 89th Regional Readiness Command, headquartered in Wichita.
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Center for Russian and East European Studies is having its weekly Laird Brown Bag from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday in 318 Bailey Hall.The topic is The U.S. and Eurasia:2003 with Paul D'Anieri, director of the Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies and associate professor in political science.
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Two 18-year-old Lawrence residents have been arrested in connection with the robbery of a University of Kansas student on Sept.20.
Branden Walker and Byron Turner were arrested last week. Turner was charged Friday in Douglas County Court and Walker was charged yesterday.
The arrests stem from a Sept. 20 incident in which a 21-year-old student was robbed at gunpoint of $40. The student was outside of The Hawk, 1340 Ohio St., waiting for a ride when he was approached by the two men.
The student told police the men were friendly at first but then pointed a gun at his head and demanded his money.
Both Walker and Turner will appear at 2 p.m. tomorrow in Douglas County Court.
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Forecasters predict storm with high winds, snow
The National Weather Service expects 4 to 6 inches of snow by midnight tonight.
The weather service has issued a winter weather advisory for Douglas County starting at noon and continuing through the night.
The service expects rain to turn into heavy snow in the late afternoon.
The possible snow and winds up to 40 mph have prompted the service to warn drivers to take precautions.
The University of Kansas' inclement weather policy allows staff to come one hour late to work and leave one hour early if there is a weather advisory.
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A 27-year-old Leavenworth man was arrested for indecent exposure in the fourth floor stacks of Watson Library Sunday.
The victim, a 19-year-old University of Kansas student, contacted the KU Public Safety Office at 8:35 p.m., after the suspect allegedly exposed himself to her, according to reports from the office.
Lt. Schuyler Bailey of the KU Public Safety Office said the incident was not related to previous incidents of indecent exposure on campus.
Businesses burglarized in downtown Lawrence
Offices of U.S. Rep. Dennis Moore (D-Kansas) and two businesses were broken into this weekend.
The burglarized businesses were Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. and Chatman & Associates, according to Lawrence Police Department reports.
Though Lawrence police did not know everything that was stolen, they did know that laptops were taken from each of the three offices at 647 Massachusetts St.
Two offices in the building were not burglarized, police said.
Two of the offices burglarized were trashed, but Moore's office was not as bad, police said.
The break-in was discovered by an employee, according to police reports.
The break-in occurred between 12:20 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. Sunday.
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SenExt takes aim at cheaters
The Senate Executive Committee of University Council wants to stop students from peeking over their classmates' shoulders.
SenEx proposed forming a task force to create a Universitywide honor code.
The code would compel students to report any cheating they noticed going on in class to their teacher, and would compel teachers to report cheating to their department instead of just dealing with it themselves.
"The sense is that there's pretty widespread academic misconduct and that there's very little deterrent."
"The sense is that there's pretty wide-spread academic
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misconduct and that there's very little deterrent," Joe Sicilian, SenEx member, said.
Sicilian said that few of these incidents were ever reported, and those that did come to light
received little punishment.
SenEx members discussed various forms of cheating, including using instant-messenger services on cell phones to share answers during tests.
Despite what they believe to be large amounts of cheating going on, they said few students were ever reported and punished.
They said that even when students were caught, they thought teachers weren't necessarily reporting the misconduct to the administration so that it would show up on the student's permanent record.
"I used to think we should publish the names of cheating students and put the fear of
God into those students, but now I don't think so," Pam Houston, member of SenEx, said. She said too few students were busted to make anyone afraid.
Current anti-cheating measures the University takes include subscription to Turnitin.com, a Web site that compares students' papers to articles on the Internet to check for plagiarism.
Turnitin.com has access to more than 2 billion pages of material, updated at a rate of 30- 40 million pages per day, as well as every paper ever turned in to the Web site for checking.
— Edited by Joey Berlin
Radio comedy show wins awards
By Alex Hoffman
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One of Kansas Public Radio's most popular shows has been rewarded for its commitment to humor.
The sketch comedy series Right Between the Ears was the recipient of three Crystal Awards of Excellence at the 2003 Communicator Awards.
The show originates from KPR at the University of Kansas and has been a staple since it first aired in 1985.
"It's the most satisfying professional experience I've ever had."
The show won in three categories: Writing/Humor, On-Air Talent/Acting and Radio Programs/Live Broadcast when awards were announced last week.
Although it's an honor for the
Darrell Brogdon KPR's program director
The Communicator Awards honors the best from a variety of media, including audio broadcasts, print, advertising and video, from around the nation.
show to be recognized by peers, it's more of a delight that the actors get to be recognized for their work, said Darrell Brogdon, KPR's program director.
"It's the most satisfying professional experience I've ever had," said Brogdon, who also serves as one of the main writers of the show.
About six new installments of Right Between the Ears are broadcast each year for a live audience at Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts St. Politicians, athletes and current issues are among the sources of humor for the show, which has also been heard on National Public Radio.
The live audience brings immediate feedback to the sketches, Brogdon said.
"You want to be laughing with other people, not just yourself," he said.
Although not allowed to use the obvious four-letter words, Brogdon said the writers liked to push the envelope regularly.
In addition to the sketches, a number of commercial "sponsors" such as "Motel Sex" also help the show along. The spoof of Motel 6 says, "We'll leave the red light on for you."
"It's Saturday Night Live meets the golden age of radio," said Kip Niven, one of the eight actors on the show.
Niven, a 1968 graduate of the University, has acted on Broadway and in several feature films, notably as a police officer in Magnum Force, one of the Dirty Harry sequels starring Clint Eastwood.
But in his 33 years as an actor he's never had this much fun, he said. He said he enjoyed the
energy of the live audience as it responded to the material.
"They feed us and feed on us," Niven said. "It's a true symbiotic relationship."
The show is a rarity in radio because not much live comedy programming remains.
Radio theater was a mainstream genre before the era of television and into the 1950s. But Brogdon's interest in it has kept the show going and has been the main reason for the show's awards. Niven said.
"He is the genius behind us," he said. "If it weren't for Darrell, none of this would be possible."
The holiday edition of Right Between the Ears aired Nov. 29, but it will be rebroadcast at 6 p.m. Dec. 26 and at noon Dec. 27.
A special year-in-review show will take place Jan. 10 at Union Station in Kansas City, Mo.
—Edited by Nikki Overfelt
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You would think that Triangle, the engineering fraternity, could at least put on their Christmas lights straight.
The devil is now on earth in human form on MTV's show One Bad Trip. That is the worst thing in the entire world. How would you like it if you were followed by your parents to spring break or anytime that you went out? You are supposed to let loose and have a good time and not be worried about being followed by your parents.
A KU Women of Distinction calendar would be so much hotter than a bunch of girls in bikinis.
I am a heterosexual and I love it.
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Feminist spin on Title IX hurts men, sports
No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any educational program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.
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To any reasonable person, Title IX is a straightforward, easily interpreted amendment. So why has it led to the abolishment of hundreds of men's athletic teams? Feminists under the Clinton administration turned their sniveling, PMS-induced wrath on Title IX enforcement and made proportionally (a word never mentioned in Title IX) the only sure test for compliance.
In their view, if 60 percent of the student body is female, 60 percent of athletes must be as well. Anything less implies discrimination and leaves schools susceptible to law suits. It doesn't matter if every female athlete wanting to play sports is playing. If the percentage of female athletes does not equal the percent of females in the undergraduate population, schools are susceptible to lawsuits. Lawsuits have been filed against institutions where no complaints were made.
Consider that male intramural, club and walk-on athletes overwhelmingly
Arrah Nielsen opinion@kansan.com
New York Times issued an article that claimed the skyrocketing cost of football is to blame for cuts to men's teams. This is nonsense. Universities with large football budgets, such as the University of Nebraska and the University of Texas, tend to do better on Title IX compliance than their peers with more modest budgets. At Marquette, which has no football team, men's wrestling was cut, even though it hadn't received funding from the university since 1992. At Marquette and so many other universities, cuts to men's teams were not about football or even money but Title IX compliance.
Universities that do not have enough money or athletes to create new women's sports are forced to cut men's teams to bring gender ratios into compliance. Removing opportunities for male athletes without creating new ones for female athletes is deemed acceptable to comply with stipulations laid out by feminists — not by Title IX. Title IX feminists counter that schools are not required to cut men's teams. This may not be the requirement or even the intent, but it is the practical effect.
Proponents of Title IX gender quotas say to blame football. Last fall, The
Because it appears the current, kooky interpretation of Title IX is here to stay, I have two suggestions. First, college sports for women should be compulsory. Granted, many women may insist they don't want to play sports, but after generations of patriarchal oppression, it isn't realistic to think women really know what they want. Even if they do, it may not be what radical feminists want for them. The goal of perfectly equal gender ratios is more important than what anybody "wants."
Second, the NCAA has a long list of "women's developmental sports" that
tew of us have played or care to. Sports such as squash, badminton and synchronized swimming inspire little more than yawns and half-hearted participation. In contrast, women's hot-oil wrestling requires little skill and equipment, and has the potential to generate revenue and an enthusiastic fan base. If universities continue to cut men's sports, they should at least create women's sports the fellas enjoy watching.
Title IX bans gender discrimination in federally funded institutions. If female athletes have been discriminated against in the past, male athletes are being discriminated against in the present. This does not result in equality but merely two instances of gender discrimination. This warped interpretation of Title IX is less about providing opportunities for women than it is about gender bean counting. The fact that gender differences have been overemphasized in the past does not mean they cease to exist today. As a group, males are more interested in playing sports. They shouldn't be penalized for it.
Nielsen is an Andover senior in anthropology. She is a member of the Kansas track team.
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Brilliant scribe Burroughs deserves our recognition
The Douglas County Commission recently stalled in making what should be an easy decision to name a local creek after 1960s beat author William Burroughs.
The legendary writer spent the last several years of his life in Lawrence. His literary contributions and his association with the city are certainly enough to warrant naming a creek, otherwise known as the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Tributary, after the writing luminary.
It appears the only hang-up concerns Burroughs' lifestyle. His reputation for drug use and the death of his wife in his "William Tell reenactment" seems to worry commission members.
The excuse is a laughable response from a community that honors John Brown in the form of a modified Jayhawk on Massachusetts Street.
While Brown's abolitionist stance before the Civil War was commendable, his actions were that of a homicidal maniac. To honor someone who traveled the countryside and exacted grusome and grotesque revenge upon others for their ideology would be akin to honoring Charles Manson or some similar psychopathic murderer. Yet no one has a problem with honoring Brown.
Burroughs contributed a great deal
rough professionally.
This city has embraced former KU great Wilt Chamberlain. Chamberlain makes no secret of his dubious claim that he had sex with more than 20,000 women in his life, a questionable and embarrassing claim to say the least. Yet his name and accomplishments on the basketball court are associated with the city and nobody has a problem with it.
to society. What he did in his personal life was not intended to, nor should influence others, no matter what generation. Commissioners should not use his questionable personal past to decide how much respect to give Burroughs professionally.
It is not to imply Chamberlain and even Brown do not deserve some honor for their achievements. The implication is that the honor extended to famous people should concern their accomplishments in whatever they do.
Brown ought to be commemorated for his stance against slavery, Chamberlain for his basketball prowess and Burroughs for his outstanding literature. After all, it is their accomplishments that will stand the test of time, not activities that took place outside of what they contributed to society.
Steve Vockrodt for the editorial board.
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Dear jayne (Ascendinglyeer)
As much as I respect your assertion that marriage does not define a committed couple, I must tell you how offended and disappointed I was by your latest column.
("Are marriage rights worth fighting for?" Dec. 5, Kansan)
DeerJayme (Aschemever):
First and foremost, you entirely fail to mention the aspect of love in your discussion of the pros and cons of marriage. If I were to judge by your column, marriage seems merely to be about financial and material benefits, whether it is between heterosexual or same-sex couples. How can you entirely omit the idea that loving homosexual couples are finally receiving the opportunity to express their commitment on an equal footing with heterosexuals?
Secondly, although people sometimes marry for the wrong reasons and divorce rates are shockingly high, this is NOT grounds to suggest that homosexual couples should reject the right to marry that they have worked so hard to gain. It seems that you are suggesting that society should reject the entire institution of marriage simply because it doesn't work out in many cases!
Finally, I object fervently to your assertion that women and "metrosexuals" seem to be only in it for the wedding ceremony and fabulous-looking diamond rings." The very fact that you classify sensitive men as "different" simply encourages the idea that men should be "maclo" and never share how they feel.
Students must register to vote
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Perhaps things are different in Leawood, but from where I sit, I don't see the status quo supporting President George W. Bush in his quest for reelection. ("No need to change status quo, Bush should stay," Dec. 3, Kansan) A Gallup poll says that 33 percent of Americans have decided that they are definitely going to vote against Bush — a promising statistic, given the fact that there is not yet a strong democratic candidate.
It's important for us as citizens of the United States of America to be registered to vote, and it's our responsibility as voters to be educated about prospective presidential candidates and how they respond to the issues of greatest concern to you and the nation. There are nine democratic candidates. To learn more about them, check out the Democratic National Committee Web site at www.democrats.org.
In order to find an acceptable replacement for Bush in 2004, we need to understand what these Democratic candidates stand for, and get out there and vote in the democratic primary, which for Kansas is on March 13, and for Missouri is Feb. 3. And — correct me if I'm wrong, here — we all came to college to learn how to be able to make our own decisions. So we owe it to ourselves to make a decision and vote for the future of our country, lest we have it stolen for the next four years too.
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collapsed because of the distance between joists and the lack of joist hangers. Joists are beams that run parallel to each other to support a floor or ceiling. Joist hangers are metal brackets that hold beams of wood together. Pieces of lumber are nailed together with joist hangers to put weight on the metal brackets instead of the nails.
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Pinnick found that the hangers had been installed along the structure itself, but were not installed along the outside rim joist. It was along the outside rim joist where the porch fell. The floor joist was joined to the outside rim joist with nails instead of brackets. This put the weight of 15 to 20 people on the nails that could not withstand the weight.
Torres said the outcome could have been different had the joist hangers been in place.
"It is very likely that they would not have collapsed," he said.
The lack of hangers should have been caught during the building's construction in 1995, according to Torres. Two days after the Arkansas Street porch collapse, a permit was issued to replace the deck. All other decks at the two story, side-by-side duplex were also inspected.
On Oct. 21, the city listed addresses for 2,941 open permits issued before 2001. There are 309 open permits since then. Lawrence City Commissioner Mike Rundle is concerned about the high number of buildings with no final inspections. He said the city was misleading its residents about safety.
"We're guaranteeing people are getting sound structures," he said, inferring that they might not be safe.
Rundle said he had difficulty obtaining information about the incident at 925 Arkansas St., and he blamed Torres of playing a game of "cat and mouse."
When Lawrence experienced a construction boom in the late 1990s, the number of permit requests increased, but the Housing Resources Department did not grow. Torres admitted it was an issue that the department is facing. He said the number of inspectors would not meet the demand.
Torres said since he was named director several years ago, the department had reduced the number of open permits. In a memo to City Manager Mike Wildgen, Torres reported that nearly 1,500 open permits have
Number increasing for open permits
Number of open building permits as for each year of the last decade. If a structure has not had a final building inspection, its permit is considered to be open.
1992: 16
1993: 40
1994: 72
1995: 47
1996: 127
1997: 265
1998: 632
1999: 802
2000: 939
2001-present: 309
Total: 3,249
Source: City of Lawrence
been closed, leaving 2,941. The open permit list of structures needing final inspection includes new residential homes and businesses and remodels, including three structures contracted by the City of Lawrence, located at 445 Mississippi St., 2601 W. 25th St. and 246 Michigan St. Two on the list were new residential homes built by Habitat For Humanity at 1725 E. 17th St. and 1611 Wedgewood Dr.
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The porch at 925 Arkansas St. was repaired after it collapsed early in the morning on Sept. 21. The floor of the porch fell because it did not have the appropriate support.
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Inspection issues go beyond Lawrence
Just three months before the Arkansas Street porch collapse, a three level porch collapsed in Chicago and killed 13 people. City officials quickly blamed the June 29 event on overcrowding.
According to CBS News, the city later sued the building owner and contractor, saying the structure was dangerous.
Families of the victims sued the owner and contractor, as well as the city. Attorneys said the city did not inspect the porch and according to The Journal of Light Construction, "focused immediately on undersized joists." The Journal of Light Construction is a monthly magazine for residential and light-commercial builders, remodelers and designers.
The inspection process
Engineering officials disproved the city's theory that the porch was overloaded. The porch would have supported even more people had it been built properly, according to engineers.
In an effort to correct the problem, Chicago building inspectors looked at 700 porches after the fatal collapse. According to The Journal of Light Construction, they found 70 decks and porches that had to be condemned and 545 with violations.
Amanda Kim Stairrett
In 2002, the Lawrence Neighborhood Resources Department conducted more than 30,000 inspections. The department has four inspectors — one of each for building, electric, mechanical and plumbing. When contractors want to begin construction on a single family dwelling, they must submit a building permit application with a set of plans. The department reviews the plans to make sure they follow city codes. Once the plans are approved, the contractor is issued a building permit.
At the end of construction, contractors must contact the city for a final inspection. At that time, officials check the driveway and sidewalks. They test smoke detectors and heating and cooling systems. They make sure
that there are proper door openings and window sizes. Inspectors also look at decks. According to Torres, most of the structural components are checked during the framing inspection. The final inspection is a general overview of the entire construction project.
The City of Lawrence does not handle inspections for University buildings because they are owned by the state.
Steps to fix the system
With ongoing construction in Lawrence, Torres said the Neighborhood Resources Department's primary focus is on its current work load, not the list of open permits.
"Our number one priority is work in progress today," he said. "So if there's time that permits, we'll address these buildings as well."
The department has a process for closing open permits. A letter is sent to the property owners and they are asked to contact the city for an inspection. Residents concerned about the safety of their home or apartment can contact the Neighborhood Resources Department at 785-832-3100.
Sue Hack, city commissioner, was confident in the Department's staff.
"The inspectors that were in charge of that particular building are no longer with the department," she said. "And I am convinced that this will not happen again."
Torres said a vast majority of the final building inspections are just a formality because the structural and safety concerns were addressed during the preliminary inspections. He said the inspections for buildings on the list have turned up one thing.
"To date we have not found any safety violations of concern," he said.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs are doing something mighty strange for a team that just clinched its first playoff berth in six years.
They're ducking the media.
They're Sunday's 45-27 blowout loss at Denver, in which Broncos running back Clinton Portis scored five touchdowns, did not keep the Chiefs (11-2) from backing into at least a wild-card spot. But the team that started 9-0 is no longer in the driver's seat for AFC playoff home-field advantage.
Has their confidence been shaken?
"No question," said coach Dick Vermeil. "It better be. Mine has. You get your tail handed to you like that, it shakes you up."
Portis had touchdowns runs of 11 and 1 yard in the first half, then ripped apart what's been a
soft spot of the Chiefs' defense all year by reeling off second-half scoring runs of 59,28 and 53 yards.
His 188 yards in the second half was a team record. It added up to an extra-long film session yesterday for long-faced defensive players.
At one point, safety Jerome Woods came into the locker room and told waiting reporters, "You guys are probably going to be here another two hours. This hurts."
It was, in fact, more than an hour later before defensive players did start filtering into the locker room.
Many, when they saw the waiting media, turned and went back out. One who did not, but apparently wished he had, was linebacker Shawn Barber.
After a few questions, the normally loquacious Barber halted the interview and said he would have no more comment "for the
rest of the week."
Then, walking away but grinning slightly, he added, "I'm changing it. I have no comment for the rest of the season, not for the week, until you all start treating us better. Now get them out of our locker room."
When asked if his team's run defense was worthy of a Super Bowl-caliber team, Vermeil gave a very blunt answer.
"No."
Indeed, the revamped defense whose inadequacies were hidden during the 9-0 start by timely turnovers, as well as Dante Hall's four touchdown returns, is not playing any better than the sadsack 2002 unit. Their defensive rushing average of 5.2 yards per carry allowed is the worst in the league. In their last four games, the Chiefs have given up an average of almost 30 points.
"The four best teams in the AFC: we've given up 267 (points),"
New England 209, Indianapolis 281 and Tennessee 261," Vermeil said. "Where we're getting killed is the rushing. We're giving up 147 (yards) a game rushing. Last year at this time we were at 110. We're not as good as we were last year in terms of that big picture in stopping the run."
The Chiefs are assured of at least a wild-card bid. Even if they lose their last three games, they would have the tiebreaker over any other team that wound up with the same record.
Instead of controlling their destiny in the race for home-field advantage, the Chiefs are now looking up at New England. The Patriots are also 11-2 but have the tiebreaker over Kansas City with only one conference loss to Kansas City's two.
But the stinging loss at Denver wiped out any feeling of achievement for reaching the playoffs.
'HAWK KICK: Fans more concerned with kicking than punting
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Beck for longer field goals and kickoff duties. Brooks went 4-4 on field goals, all between 20 and 29 yards. Mangino even promised late in the season that fans would not have to witness the same kicking woes in 2004.
Accomplishments — Curtis Ansel's solid finish to his Kansas career earned him third-team All-Big 12 honors this season.
season, the biggest problem for the Jayhawks' kicking team was having kicks blocked or sail to either side because of the snap or the hold. Freshman long snapper Zack Hood and sophomore linebacker Kevin Kane have taken over the duties and all has been smooth as of late. More recently, the focus has been avoiding having punts blocked. There has rarely been a time this season when both units have performed consistently. They'll have to, though, in a game where special teams could play a huge role.
They Have Their Moments There is little concern right now with the punting unit. The area that causes fans to bite their fingernails is the kicking game. However, there is tons of potential there, and it will have to shine through against the Wolfpack. In a game that will probably see quite a few points put on the board, converting on field goals and extra points will be key. Johnny Beck can hit from long range. He hit a 51-yarder against Kansas State and has hit from
over 60 yards in practice. Jerod Brooks is nearly automatic from short range, and that has to stay the same. Also, to aid the Jayhawk defense against a high-powered offense, Beck will have to send his kickoffs deep into or out of the endzone to give North Carolina State poor field position all night. One thing that will help is that NC State ranks 111th out of 117 Division-IA teams in average kick returns with just about 16 yards per return.
Snap, Hold, ... — Early in the
—Compiled by Ryan Greene
'PACK KICK: NC State's place kicker, punter to challenge Jayhawks
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former walk-on, never relinquished the position and in 2002 was on the preseason watch list for the Lou Groza Award, given to the nation's top kicker. He's also smart, earning the Earle Edwards Award in 2001 and 2002 for having the team's highest grade point average. Herbert, now the starting
punter, was an impressive kicker in his day. He still holds the North Carolina high school record for career field goals with 37.
No Pressure — Even in the rare occasion that Kiker is called upon for a field goal, he has not had a kick blocked all season. Also, the Wolfpack has not allowed its opposition to block a
punt either. Having few problems with his special teams has allowed coach Chuck Amato to keep his focus elsewhere. Kansas coach Mark Mangino unfortunately has not had that same luxury this year.
A Little Help From Friends As if Herbert's punt average of 42.5 yards per kick is not impressive enough, the Wolfpack allows only about 9 yards per return, compared to the 14 yards the Jayhawks allow. Herbert's gunners on special teams are quick and talented, and the lack of good field position could give the Jayhawks fits. Charles Gordon is going to have to bring his A-game in terms of returning punts.
- Compiled by Ryan Greene
FOOTBALL: Team compares NC State to Big 12 rival Oklahoma State
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"We haven't really seen anybody like him."
Members of the Jayhawk offense compare Rivers and the Wolfpack offense to that of conference foe Oklahoma State, with a talented quarterback, a solid running game and big-play wide receivers.
of the situation.
Another subplot for this game that the Jayhawks are trying to put to rest is the duel between Rivers and Whittemore. Instead of being the main focus of the game, Whittemore is trying to look at the reality
"I think it's getting blown out of proportion a little bit," Whittimore said. "You know, he's doubled just about every stat I've put out there. It's not just me versus him out there. You know he'll be going up against our defense and our offense will be going up against their defense."
While the Wolfpack has put up astronomical numbers on offense this year, the one thing Kansas is refusing to do is be intimidated. With the confidence and swagger the team has this season comes
the ability to see this as just another obstacle in putting the program on the map.
"This is just another team with a different name," Simmons said. "And it's not just getting there, we have to go there and win."
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Homeward Bound — For members of the Kansas football team from the state of Florida, playing in the Tangerine Bowl is a dream come true. The only problem is finding tickets. That has been an issue so far for Tony
Stubbs, a native of West Palm Beach, who said he has more than 80 family members and friends who want to see him play. To help him out, he's been pestering teammates to donate their extra, tickets.
"I've asked about 10 or 12 people to give me whatever, because I'm going to need some extra tickets," Stubbs said. "It still hasn't hit me. I wasn't thinking about Fort Worth or nothing; I was just thinking about Florida."
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Junior forward Wayne Simien led the Jayhawks in scoring against Michigan State Nov. 25 and in rebounds against Stanford Saturday. But coach Bill Self said that his team wasn't feeding Simien the ball enough.
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are capable of stepping up and handling things offensively."
It's been his teammates lack of consistent outside shooting that has attributed to Simien's low shot totals. Kansas is 22-80 from behind the arc this season, good for last in the conference in three-point percentage (27.5 percent).
If Kansas continues to struggle hit shots on the perimeter, the Jayhawks will continue to see teams playing zone. That will continue to reduce the post player's effectiveness inside.
"We have got to get to the point where we are aggressive enough to make them guard us on the perimeter so we can pass around them," Self said.
Despite his low shot attempts, Simien's 16.3 points per game are still second highest on the team, behind Langford's 17.8.
Stanford passed the ball around the perimeter and sat in the post man's lap, Self said.
"We have got to get to the point where we are aggressive enough to make them guard us on the perimeter so we can pass around them."
Bill Self
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It's been Simien's stellar freethrow shooting that has allowed him to keep his average so high. He is now 26-27 from the line, which is good for second in the Big 12 Conference in both free throws made and attempted. Simien is behind Texas Tech's senior guard Andre Emmett in both categories. Emmett is 37-50 from the line through eight games, twice as many as Simien has played this season.
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what we heard "A lot of students have been asking me if there's room for them on the plane to Orlando." Kansas wide receiver Mark Simmons on the football team's trip to the Tangerine Bowl off the bench
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Florida takes No.1 ranking; Kansas drops to fifth in AP
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Three weeks, three No. 1s.
Florida moved into the top spot in The Associated Press college basketball poll yesterday, the third straight week there has been a new No.1 team.
The Gators (5-0) moved up one spot to replace Kansas, which lost 64-58 to Stanford on Saturday. The Jayhawks held the No.1 ranking for just one week after replacing Connecticut; the Huskies were on top for the preseason and the first two weeks of the regular season.
Stanford, which beat a No.1 team for the third time in school history, had the week's biggest jump, moving from 21st to 13th.
The last time there were three No. 1 teams in as many weeks was the end of the 1999-00 season, when Stanford, Cincinnati and Duke each had a stay on top in the final three polls.
The record for consecutive polls with a different No. 1 is seven. From Jan. 3 to Feb. 14, 1994, the top teams were: Arkansas, North Carolina, Kansas, UCLA, Duke, North Carolina and Arkansas.
Florida was No. 1 for the first time in school history last season, holding that spot for one week. The Gators lost 70-55 to Kentucky in their first game as a No. 1 team then.
The Gators host Maryland on Wednesday, and they play at Louisville on Saturday.
on Saturday. "We're in the middle of a long race, and it's just started. It's very early in the season, and I feel like we're still learning who we are as a team," Florida coach Billy Donovan said yesterday.
"We moved to No. 1, which is always great, but my total focus is for our team to continue to improve regardless of what our ranking is. We've got two very difficult tests this week and our sole focus is on improving as a basketball team."
Florida received 46 first-place votes and 1,732 points from the national media panel.
No. 2 Connecticut (6-1) and No. 3 Missouri (3-0) each moved up one place in the rankings. The Huskies got nine first-place votes and 1,593 points, while the Tigers were No. 1 on six ballots and drew 1,512 points.
Duke (5-1) moved up two places to fourth, and Kansas (3-1) — which last week soared from No. 6 to No. 1 — fell back to fifth.
Texas, North Carolina, Kentucky, Arizona and Georgia Tech rounded out the Top 10.
Seven teams received first-place votes this week, two fewer than last week. Georgia Tech had four No.1 votes, while Texas and North Carolina had three each, and Kentucky had one.
The last five ranked teams were Michigan State, Marquette, Wisconsin, Iowa and Dayton.
Oklahoma moved up three places to 11th and was followed by Saint Joseph's, Stanford, Illinois, Wake Forest, Purdue, Gonzaga, Cincinnati, Syracuse and Pittsburgh.
Iowa and Dayton are newcomers replacing Notre Dame and Oklahoma State.
The biggest drop was by Michigan State, from No. 5 to No. 21. The Spartans (3-3) lost to Duke and Oklahoma last week, and it doesn't get easier this week, with a game against Kentucky.
AP Top 25 Men's Basketball
The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' men's college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 7, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking: Record Pts Pvs
1. Florida (46) 5-0 1,732 2
2. Connecticut (9) 6-1 1,593 3
3. Missouri (6) 3-0 1,512 4
4. Duke 5-1 1,422 6
5. Kansas 3-1 1,364 1
6. Texas (3) 4-0 1,351 8
7. North Carolina (3) 5-1 1,339 10
8. Kentucky (1) 4-0 1,324 9
9. Arizona 2-1 1,212 7
10. Georgia Tech (4) 7-0 1,167 13
11. Oklahoma 5-1 0,171 14
12. Saint Joseph's 5-0 986 12
13. Stanford 4-0 941 21
14. Illinois 4-1 829 11
15. Wake Forest 5-0 754 18
16. Purdue 6-0 725 20
17. Gonzaga 6-1 693 17
18. Cincinnati 4-0 573 19
19. Syracuse 2-1 667 16
20. Pittsburgh 6-0 457 22
21. Michigan St. 3-3 417 5
22. Marquette 6-0 415 24
23. Wisconsin 4-1 373 15
24. Iowa 6-0 132 _
25. Darton 6-0 116
Others receiving votes: Louisville 60,
Vanderbilt 36, Oklahoma St. 35,
Maryland 32, UCLA 26, Oregon 24,
Auburn 15, BYU 15, Florida St. 14,
Georgia 14, Mississippi St. 14, South
Carolina 8, N.C. State 7, Virginia 6, LSU 5,
Notre Dame 5, Texas Tech 5, Kent St. 3,
Boston College 2, Murray St. 2, Niagara
2, Butler 1, George Washington 1,
Manhattan 1, N. Illinois 1, S. Illinois 1.
Men's bowling finishes fifth; women eighth at tournament
The KU men's bowling team is ranked third in the nation, and the women's team is ranked twelfth in the nation, according to Collegebowling.com. They ventured to the Leatherneck Classic in Moline, Ill., on Dec. 6 and 7.
the men's team finished fifth, for the third-straight year, in the 26-team field.
"It was a bitter ending for the men's team as they fell 2 pins out of the top 4 and missed the match play portion of the event," coach Mike Fine said.
The men's team finished with 9,524 pins, 172 pins shy of first-place Nebraska. Jason Reese, Kansas City, Kan., graduate student, led the team with an average of 207.2 and finished second overall, making the All-Tournament Team.
Marc D'Errico, Rochester, N.Y., senipr,
also aided in the men's success with an
average of 206 and finished third overall.
D'Errico also made the All-Tournament Team.
The women's team improved on its last tournament finish, from 16th to eighth in this tournament. But it was not as fortunate to improve on last year's finish of fourth at this tournament.
It finished with 8,165 pins,246 behind the next closest team, McKendree, and 1,058 pins behind first place Wichita State. Kelly Zapf, Rochester, N.Y., junior led the women's team with an average of 185 along with Sarah Roenfeldt, Dodge City junior, with an average of 170.
The teams' next action will be on Dec. 27 and 28 at the Colgate Invitational in Stratford, N.J. The men's will be seeking a third consecutive championship at the invitational.
Then the teams will head to the Keystone Classic in Allentown, Pa., on Dec. 29 and 30, where the women's team will look to improve on a second-place finish from last year.
— Jason Elmquist
K-State coach hypes Sproles for Heisman after big victory
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas State University coach Bill Snyder, often criticized for not promoting his players for national awards, seems to be changing his tune.
Moments after K-State's stunning victory over previously unbeaten Oklahoma in the Big 12 Conference title game Saturday night, Snyder uncharacteristically called upon Heisman voters to consider Darren Sproles.
Then yesterday he answered with a curt and expressive "Yes" when asked if he would be disappointed if Sproles was not a Heisman finalist.
The diminutive junior running back, already K-State's career rushing leader, dazzled then-No. 1 Oklahoma Saturday night by running for 235 yards in a shocking upset that has created chaos in the national championship picture.
Soroles, who got little preseason
Heisman hype, is probably still a long-shot.
But next season, especially if he has another good game against Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl, he could vault onto the national stage in a big way.
"Saturday night's performance was just representative for the millions of people who watched what those of us who see him every day have come to expect and appreciate a great deal," Snyder said on a teleconference. "Yes, he played well. But I
can't think of any games he hasn't played well."
Sproles didn't do anything K-State fans haven't seen all season, Snyder said.
"Not at all. You could make some highlight reels of Darren Sproles," Snyder said.
In the meantime, Snyder was still hearing from jubilant K-State fans who are calling Saturday night's victory over Oklahoma the biggest in school history.
UConn women's basketball ranks No.1
The Associated Press
Connecticut tied Tennessee for No.1 at being No.1.
The Huskies were a unanimous choice for the top spot in The Associated Press women's college basketball Top 25 yesterday, one day after rallying from a 15-point deficit for a 72-69 victory at Southern California.
Tennessee was No. 1 for the first time in the 1977-78 preseason poll and
It's the 90th poll Connecticut has topped, tying Tennessee for the most appearances at No. 1. UCom gained its first No. I ranking on Jan. 17, 1995, after beating the Lady Vols to replace them at the rankings.
WOLF
led the rankings 63 times before Connecticut first reached the top.
Louisiana Tech was third with 83 appearances at No. 1, followed by Texas
with 45.
Tennessee replaced Texas at No. 2 in Monday's poll, and No. 23 Boston College was the only newcomer. Rutgers dropped out.
Connecticut (6-0) received all 47 firstplace votes from a national media panel and had 1,175 points.
The Huskies, who won their first five games by an average of 33 points, trailed USC 37-22 late in the first half before coming back for their 73rd
straight regular-season victory
UConn is almost assured of breaking the tie for most week$ at No. 1 next week.
The Huskies don't play a game until facing Arizona State on Dec. 18.
Tennessee (3-0) had 1,111 points in
Tennessee (3-0) in the voting and moved up one place after Texas lost for the first time, 79-59 at Penn State on Sunday. The Longhorns (7-1) dropped to fifth.
Lady Volunteers
Tennessee beat Louisiana Tech 85-65 in its only game.
No. 3 Duke (5-1) and No. 4 Texas Tech (8-0) each moved up one spot. Stanford remained sixth and was followed by
Penn State, Purdue, Minnesota and Georgia.
Kansas State climbed one spot to 11th, and Louisiana Tech fell two places to 12th.
places to 12.
Then it was Ohio State, Oklahoma and UC Santa Barbara, followed by North Carolina, Colorado, LSU, TCU and Virginia Tech.
Utah, Oregon, Boston College, Auburn and Michigan State held the final five places.
Boston College (7-0), which returned two starters from a team that reached the final 16 in the NCAA Tournament, is off to the best start in school history.
Rutgers (3-3), which had been 22nd dropped out after its third straight loss, 78-68 to LSU.
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Men's Basketball vs. Fort Hays State University 7 p.m. Allen Fieldhouse
Men's Basketball vs. Oregon Feist Shootout 1 p.m. Kemper Arena, Kansas City, Mo.
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Williams steps up for Celtics ends four-game losing streak
DENVER — When Vin Baker got sick at halftime, Eric Williams stepped up for the Boston Celtics.
Williams scored a season-high 21 points, and Paul Pierce had 33 points and 10 assists to lead the Celtics to a 116-11 victory over the Denver Nuggets on Sunday night.
"He is such a warrior, one that gives you everything he has in his body every practice and every game," Boston coach Jim O'Brien said of Williams. "We had to use him at a lot of power forward because of Vin being ill and he didn't care how we had to use him."
Pierce was 12-for-22 from the field and had seven rebounds to help Boston end a four-game losing streak. Associated Boys.
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Sports
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Tuesday, December 9, 2003
Simien's shots crucial to team
The University Daily Kansan
Coach Self upset over Jayhawks inability to get ball to junior forward, ineffectiveness against zone teams
By Chris Wintering
cwintering@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
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In his team's loss to Stanford, Kansas coach Bill Self was upset because junior Wayne Simien did not get enough shots. The preseason All-American scored 10 points on 2-6 shooting from the field Saturday at the John Wooden Classic.
Self said that was unacceptable.
In the Jayhawks' 81-74 victory against the Spartans on Nov. 25, Simien scored a career-high 28 points on 9-12 shooting from the field.
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Sell said that was unacceptable.
He was equally disappointed that Simien only had four shot attempts against TCU, when the Leavenworth-native scored a season-low 6 points. However, these are not the only examples of when the coach has been disturbed at Simien's lack of touches. In fact, he doesn't think his big man has received the ball enough all year.
Simien is third on the team in shot attempts at junior Keith Langford and Aaron Miles. Self said that Simien
Senior center Jeff Graves held onto a fired-up Wayne Simien after a referee failed to call a foul during the Jayhawks game against Michigan State Nov. 25. Simien is the second-highest scorer on the team behind junior guard Keith Langford.
"It's more than two games in a row," Self said. "Go back to Michigan State where he got some touches, but he still only got 12 shots."
"I've got to find ways to get him the ball. He doesn't get enough
touches.*
Aaron Miles
Kansas guard
needed to get the ball for the Jayhawks to be successful.
be successful
“Our big guys can do a better job, but those guys are open on the post.” Self said. “You got to throw it to them. When guys are open you have to get the ball to them”.
"Ive got to find ways to get him the ball," Miles said. "He doesn't get enough touches."
Junior point guard Aaron Miles takes the blame for Simien's low shot totals. He said that it was solely his fault that Simien wasn't getting the ball.
Langford didn't think Miles shouldered all the blame for the problems in the post. He said that all the perimeter players were responsible for getting the ball inside, especially against a zone.
which Kansas saw almost exclusively against both Stanford and TCU.
Miles said that Simien should be upset about not getting the ball, but Simien thought he was as much to blame as anyone else. Simien said he thought he could work harder in the post to get open, but
his teammates could carry the team when he wasn't getting the ball.
"I draw a lot of attention, but I am not the only guy out there," Simien said. "There are four other guys with me who
SEE SIMIEN ON PAGE 6A
KU
Team not intimidated by foe
Sophomore wide receiver Mark Simmons said he expected plenty of action from both offenses when the Jayhawks meet the North Carolina State Wolfpack in the Tangerine Bowl Dec. 22. Both Kansas and North Carolina State feature offenses ranked highly and defenses ranked lowly in Division-1 scoring rankings.
The Kansas football team refuses to give into hype around Tangerine Bowl
By Ryan Greene
rgreene@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
All signs point to the Tangerine Bowl being one of the highest scoring affairs of the 2003 college football season.
the 2005 North Carolina State's Philip Rivers is the nation's second-highest rated passer, while Kansas' Bill Whitemore is fifth.
Both offenses rank in the top 40 in Division-I in scoring.
Division-in scoring Both defenses have given up more than their fair share of points this season.
Even though all that hype is around, the layhawks aren't buying into it.
"It's not going to be an offensive shootout," sophomore receiver Mark Simmons said. "I think our defense will step up to the challenge. On offense, obviously we'll have to score points to win the game, but the object is just to score one more point than them. If we can do that, we're in good shape."
There is no doubt that the Kansas defense will have its hands full with Rivers. The four-year starter owns just about every ACC passing record known to man and is one of two quarterbacks in the nation to throw for more than 4,000 yards this season. All the Kansas secondary members can do is watch the film and prepare, as this will be a new experience for them.
"He was a Heisman Trophy candidate," junior safety Tony Stubbs said.
SEE FOOTBALL ON PAGE 6A
Wolfpack holds edge on Jayhawks in kicking
Tangerine Bowl 2003
Adam Kicker — Place Kicker
6-foot, 185 pounds, senior
Wadesboro, N.C.
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Austin Herbert — Punter/Place Kicker
6-foot, 204 pounds; senior
Cary, N.C.
Key Stats — Opposite of Kansas' situation, North Carolina State's kicking situation has been consistent all season. Austin Herbert ranks third in the ACC with an average of 42.5 yards per punt, has strategically placed 18 punts inside the 20-yard line and has not been blocked. His booming kicks include a 76-yard punt. Wow.
Kiker has had things pretty easy this season. Playing for a team that is known to score touchdowns left and right, he is 48-for-51 on extra point attempts, and 12-for-16 in field goals. Kiker has not been put in a tough situation in terms of field goals this year, with only one of his attempts have come from more than 40 yards. That kick was 41 yards, and Kiker nailed it.
Accomplishments — Kiker's story is interesting, as he actually became the team's place kicker when Herbert suffered an ankle injury in 2001. Kiker, a
SEE 'PACK KICKING ON PAGE 6A
Johnny Beck — Place Kicker
6-foot-1, 215 pounds, junior
Kansas City, Kan.
Jerod Brooks — Place Kicker
5-foot-11, 215 pounds, junior
Ottawa, Kan.
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Curtis Ansel — Punter 6-foot, 210 pounds, senior Lakin, Kan.
Key Stats — Punting: good. Kicking: bad. That's been the story of the 2003 season for the Kansas football team. Punter Curtis Ansel had another stellar season, ranking fourth in the Big 12 Conference
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averaging 41.41 yards per punt. That average ranked 49th in Division-IA, but his average of just 3.67 punts per game was the lowest average of anyone in the top 50. Place kicker Johnny Beck has one of the strongest legs in the Big 12, but for the second straight year, he struggled with putting the ball between the uprights. Beck was just 8-for-15 on field goals this year, including going 0-for-5 on kicks from 40 to 49 yards, and has failed on three extra point attempts. Late in the season, coach Mark Mangino made Jerod Brooks the kicker for short field goal attempts and extra points, leaving
SEE 'HAWK KICKING ON PAGE 6A
sports commentary
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Joey Berlin
jberlin@kansan.com
Wilkes should join backcourt rotation
Every time a guard on the Kansas men's basketball team bounces another three-pointer off the rim, it gets harder for coach Bill Self to explain why he's allowing a top-100 recruit with the ability to hit that shot to sit unused at the end of the bench.
Freshman Omar Wilkes has been billed as a guard who can do a little of everything — shoot, defend, pass and handle the ball. But Wilkes hasn't gotten to do much of any of those, because he hasn't played a significant minute of action yet this season.
Before the season began, it looked like Wilkes would be talented enough to earn a spot in Kansas' regular rotation. Swingman J.R. Giddens and center David Padgett were the big prizes of this year's recruiting class, but Wilkes had drawn comparisons to former Jayhawk guard Steve Woodberry. He appeared to be more skilled than fellow freshman guard Jeremy Case and a good bet to take some playing time from Bryant Nash, who usually came off the bench last year.
Instead, Wilkes has hardly played, starting shooting guard Mike Lee broke his collarbone after two games and the team's three-point shooting has been even worse than expected. Frustrated by zone defenses that sag on its post players, Kansas has taken too many threes, 80, in its first four games while hitting only 22.
Jeff Hawkins and Keith Langford have shot respectable percentages, but five of Hawkins' six threees came against a TCU zone that dared Kansas' outside shooters to win the game, and shooting from outside the arc will never be Langford's primary role.
The real surprise is that Case, who wasn't regarded as highly as Wilkes, leapfrogged over him in the pecking order. With Lee out, Case has assumed the last spot in the rotation. He's averaging seven minutes a game in three games, scoring one basket.
a wing.
Self evidently thinks he has enough shooting guards but wants another backup point guard, and Wilkes doesn't fit that description. But with Kansas' shooting guards struggling with their long-range shots, Wilkes deserves minutes at his natural position.
Wilkes hit a three-pointer at the end of Kansas' loss to Stanford Saturday, which gave him his first basket of the season — and more points than Case in one-seventh of Case's minutes.
Self's most insightful comments about his view of Wilkes may have come last week, when he said, "I wish Omar was more of a point. Right now, he is more of a wing."
Self gave Hawkins, who didn't play much last year, an opportunity to contribute off the bench, and Hawkins has responded with adequate work so far. It's time Self gives Wilkes the same kind of opportunity to see if he can help solve Kansas' inconsistency at shooting guard. Otherwise, the comparison of Wilkes to Steve Woodberry breaks down — Woodberry played more than garbage minutes during his freshman year.
Giddens, an accomplished long-range bomber in high school, has hit just three out of 14 threes. Case, who former coach Roy Williams said was the best shooter he'd ever signed, hasn't hit a three yet in five tries. Aaron Miles is four out of 16.
When your team is lacking a great outside shooter, it's good to have as many options as possible — that way, if one guy is cold during a given game, you can try others until you find a hot hand.
Self has one usable bullet left in the chamber — Wilkes. But he's not using him. And his few comments about Wilkes in press conferences say little other than that he's "doing fine" or "is getting better."
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Wednesday inside
Enrollment change A longer enrollment period has resulted in fewer Add/Drop requests, but some students are still having trouble getting the courses they need. PAGE 3A
Rivals want sports reform
SenEx wants to join the University of Missouri in discussing potential athletics department reforms in the Big 12 Conference. PAGE 3A
Fort Hays looks for victory
Fort Hays looks for victory The undefeated Fort Hays State Tigers want to continue their winning ways tonight against the Jayhawks. They play at Allen Fieldhouse at 7 p.m. PAGE 12A
Ready to start
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After sitting on the sidelines during the Sooners' 2001 bowl victory, Gabe Toomey is prepared to take the field in the Tangerine Bowl. PAGE 12A
Announcing retirement
PETER B. WILSON
Howard Hill the voice of Kansas football and basketball for more than 20 years,will
retire once the Athletics Department finds his replacement. PAGE12A
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KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
The Student Newspaper of the University of Kansas
Wednesday, December 10, 2003
Vol.114 Issue No.75
Mind games
Story by Niki Nugent
Graphic by Zach Stinson
Athletes make use of sport psychology
Rachel Gilfillan was told to snap negative thoughts out of her mind.
Literally—the Cottage Grove, Minn., junior and forward on the Kansas soccer team, kept a rubber band on her wrist to keep herself focused on the game.
"Every time I caught myself in practice, or even throughout my day, thinking negatively about a past experience that is over with and that can't be changed now, I'd just give it a big old snap." Gifillan said.
What may sound like a strange technique has become typical of a team making use of a mental conditioning coach. Athletes from high school to professionals use mental conditioning coaches and sport psychologists to improve their performance.
Gilfillan was a little skeptical when
"One specific thing that I struggle with is past mistakes affecting my present play or my attitude."
Rachel Gilfillan Kansas soccer forward
she heard the team would be using a mental conditioning coach to help resolve mental mistakes. But she quickly accented the idea.
Kansas soccer coach Mark Francis decided to bring Angus-Mugford in to work with the team as a mental conditioning coach. Mugford met with the soccer team as a group once a week, and
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also held individual sessions with players seeking more training.
After working with Mugford, Gilfillan started to recognize some of the mental setbacks that kept her from performing to the best of her ability. In addition to the weekly team meetings, she decided to see Mugford on a one-on-one basis.
"One specific thing that I struggle with is past mistakes affecting my present play or my attitude," Gillfillan said.
Mugford suggested she put a rubber band on her wrist.
She said the visualization and a little pain reminded her that the mistake was over and that it should be snapped out of her mind.
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The University of Kansas yellow bike program has not been as well received as originally hoped. Many of the bikes are being left unattended and unused.
Lack of interest, use deflates bike program
By Zack Hemenway
zhemwenway@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The yellow bike program, which began in the spring, has had some growing pains this semester. But the program's founders think it has a future at the University of Kansas.
During the spring semester, the Student Senate passed a bill which funded a trial yellow bike program. The program, which was allocated $6,945, would choose students to participate in a test run to see if a community bicycle program was feasible for the University as a whole.
Twenty to 30 students signed up, paying a $10 entry fee to receive a key which would unlock the bikes' locks. The program's advocates said the lock/key system would provide greater security for the program.
Kyle Johnson, Wichita senior, and a student senator when the bill was passed, was president of Your Elected Leaders Lending Out Wheels, or YELLOW, a club that promoted the program
in the Student Senate. He was director of the program, supervising the spending of the allocated funds.
Johnson said the group spent most of the money on bikes, and a smaller amount on advertising. The group set aside $1,000 for maintenance, to be performed by Sunflower Bike Shop, 802 Massachusetts St.
Johnson said the program was successful in the spring, but that it had not been as effective for students during the fall semester. He attributed the decline to his and other YELLOW members' busier schedules this semester.
Johnson said the main deficiencies created by the lack of activity concerned bike maintenance. During the spring, Johnson and other members of the group would collect bikes that needed repairs and take them in to Sunflower.
This fall, without program personnel taking the bikes in, problems like flat fires have been left to individual dues-paying users of the program.
Union safety rules to stay same after late-night fight
KJ Memorial Unions' policies regarding late-night functions will not change after a fight broke out during a party Saturday night at the Burge Union.
A meeting was held yesterday at the Kansas Union to discuss the fight and the policies designed to handle such incidents.
The meeting was attended by representatives from the KU Public Safety Office, Center for Campus Life, the KU Memorial Unions and Mark Dupree, Kansas City Kan., senior, said Lisa Kring, conference coordinator for the Unions. Dupree was at the event this weekend when the fight broke out.
SEE BIKE ON PAGE 0A
The meeting consensus was that the rules do not need to be changed, Kring said.
Rules include having student IDs checked before they can enter the event, having metal detectors at building entrances, having Union employees present at events and having Public Safety Office employees present.
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New hall stickers not holding up
By Abby Mills almills@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
University of Kansas residence halls may be facing a peeling problem.
The stickers are designed to alert residence hall staff members if a screen has been removed from a window. If the sticker is torn or removed, the resident who leases the room would face a $125 fine.
Latisha Storey said she had never tried to remove the sticker on her window. Yet one of the two yellow stickers on the Mound City freshman's window is loose and beginning to peel along the edges.
Some of the stickers the Department of Student Housing affixed to window screens in late October and early November have started to peel.
Storey said she thought the fine deterred students from taking their screens off, but the stickers were not put on well.
A Kansas City, Kan., freshman, who declined to give his name because he did not want a fine, said he regularly removed his screen to dump water out the window rather than walk down the hall to the bathroom. He said if he used a blow-dryer, the stickers came off without tearing.
"You can always glue it back on," he said.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said he was not aware that the stickers were loose, but said the glue had probably not had enough time to fully affix.
"It probably has to do with the speed we put them on," he said. "We didn't go back to dry them on."
The stickers are stopping some residents, such as Nick Perry, who took of their screens in the past.
"It scared me enough not to take it off," the St. Mary's freshman said about his window screen. "That would be pretty stupid, if you think about it."
Stoner said winter break would be the first time staff would check the stickers as part of the regular inspection of the room.
Stoner said the stickers were just like bumper stickers. Before they will completely adhere, they need a few weeks to bake on.
Resident assistants will also check stickers this year and assess a fine to any room with a damaged sticker. Stoner said if the department found stickers that were peeling on their own, it would deal with those on a case-by case basis and would try to find out how to make them stick better.
The stickers were put in residence halls that have ledges in response to the Sept. 12 death of Eric Wellhausen. The Mount Prospect, Ill., freshman died after falling from the seventh floor of Oliver Hall. He had removed his screen and climbed onto the ledge below his room to smoke a cigarette.
Resident assistants check rooms at the beginning of winter and spring break when halls are closed to make sure windows are closed, appliances are turned off and other safety requirements have been met.
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Allison Covault, Shawnee freshman, walked home to Douthart Hall through the snow and ice yesterday. Covault braved the inclement weather to attend a chemistry test.
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Kansas Union to offer deals discounts during finals week
The Kansas Union will be helping students studying for finals next week by providing discounts on food, drinks and services.
services. Milton's coffee shop will offer a variety of evening specials, including a free coffee on Wednesday and free coffee reffills Monday.
The Jaybowl features free billiards from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and free shoe rental after 6 p.m. all week. During the day, nachos will be marked down to $1 at the Jaybowl.
Keith Ellis, Student Union Activities graduate assistant, said the specials were an effort by SUA to ease the stress of studying for finals while promoting the Union at the same time.
For more information on the specials and other services, call 864-SHOW or click on the Hawk's Nest at www. suaevents.com.
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Kansas high court to consider regulations on big pig farms
HAYS — In a closely watched case, the Kansas Supreme Court will consider whether counties can impose stricter rules than the state on large hog farms and other confined feeding operations.
In February 2002, Norton County commissioners adopted laws requiring a top on waste lagoons to control odor and protect groundwater, more deep-soil testing, and a distance of three miles between confined feeding operations. Later that year, District Judge Michael Barbara tossed out the regulations, ruling they violated a 1998 state law that bars counties from changing the statutory provisions governing confined feeding operations.
ling operations. But the Norton County Commission has steadfastly defended its regulations, insisting the state's rules do not do enough to protect the county's residents and natural resources.
and natural resources. The Kansas Livestock Association and several producers sued commissioners after the regulations were adopted. Allie Devine, the association's legal counsel, said counties did not have the authority to write their own animal feeding regulations.
But Norton County Attorney Doug Sebelius said Barbara's ruling disregarded the importance of local government acting to protect local citizens and the state's natural resources.
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San Franciscans elect mayor in closely monitored election
SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco voters chose a new mayor yesterday in a closely watched race between two liberal candidates, one a Green Party member and the other Mayor Willie Brown's chosen successor.
Brown's chosen successor
By midmorrow, 78,000 voters had
returned absentee ballots, an unusually
high number that likely favored Democrat Gavin Newsom.
His opponent, Green Party candidate Matt Gonzalez, said he was optimistic his supporters would more than make up for those numbers at the polls despite cold and drizzly weather.
despite cold and dizzy weather.
The tight race, coming so soon after
Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger's election as governor, has been seen as a gauge of whether California's Democrats have lost touch with their core constituents.
touch with their corpse. The candidates have such similar positions that both would be considered liberals in almost any other major city. Associated Press.
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The Ecumenical Christian Ministries in sponsoring a University Forum from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. today at the ECM, 1204 Oread Ave. The title of the forum is The Many Choices of Tom Averill. As a fiction writer, teacher and commentator for KANU, Averill uses many styles and voices. Averill will talk about the derivation and creation of unique speech and narration in his work.
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■ Ecumenical Christian Ministries and United Methodist Campus Ministry are having a finals pancake feed from 8:30 to 10 p.m. Sunday at the ECM building.
Ecumenical Christian Ministries having a Candles and Carols Advent Workshop from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Sunday at the ECM. This is a service of candle lighting, carol singing and scripture.
SUA is sponsoring the 15th annual Angel Tree at the University of Kansas. Angel Tree is a Salvation Army event that provides underprivileged Lawrence youth a happy holiday season by providing gifts
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SUA is sponsoring a Stop Day Eve Holiday Celebration from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Hawk's Nest, Level 1 of the Kansas Union. This is family event that includes free bowling, pool and video games. Holiday cooking and card decorating will be available for all attendees as well.
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Enrollment 'blackout'ends online
By Maggie Newcomer
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Kansan staff writer
There have been fewer requests to add or drop classes this semester because of a longer enrollment period, according to enrollment services.
There will be no "blackout" during winter break this year, which means students will be free to toy with their class schedule until Jan. 22, the day before spring classes begin.
This is different from years
past, said Alex Gard, enrollment assistant.
He said the enrollment center usually closed before winter break and opened again when the spring semester started. They call this the "blackout" period. Gard said online enrollment was probably the reason for the new freedom.
There have still been a few disappointed students, though, who didn't get the classes they needed.
Sarah Otte, Lincoln, Neb., junior, was locked out of a required course she needed next spring.
Otte said she had to shuffle her schedule to make up for losing a class, but as long as she took it next year it wouldn't affect her graduation.
Otte is an education major and will have to take the class next fall instead.
When students who were locked out of classes talked to their professors and requested permission to add the class, most of them were admitted, Gard said.
"Just because a class is full, it doesn't necessarily count you out," Gard said.
Many schools and departments, such as Spanish and journalism, have waiting lists for students trying to get into popular classes. If a student drops the class, people on the waiting list will be notified and will be able to enroll.
As a last resort, the Spanish department suggested that students attend the classes they need in hopes that someone would drop or the instructor would let them into the class.
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Students, bars prepare for Stop Day
By Joe Hartigan jhartigan@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
It's almost here. And it's been a long, long semester.
Friday is the day that University of Kansas students have been looking forward to since the first day of classes on Aug. 22 — Stop Day.
Ashley Marcum, Wichita senior, doesn't know what she'll be doing tomorrow night, but she knows it will be a good time.
"People kind of go nuts," she said, "I'm extremely excited because it means the semester is almost over."
Marcum said Lawrence got a bit crazier on stop nights than on normal nights.
"People know they're going to get all stressed out for finals, and they just want to have one more good time," she said.
The bars in Lawrence are getting ready for the night as well. Troy Pomeroy, bartender at the Jazzzaus, 926 1/2 Massachusetts St., said he expected a big crowd.
"Anytime college kids don't have to work the next day, it's always a big night," he said.
Pomeroy said some of the busiest nights at the Jazzhaus were the days before holidays because students were getting ready to go home and wanted to hang out with their friends one last time.
Ben Troja, manager at Johnny's Tavern, 401 N. Second St., agreed with Pomeroy. He said even though Johnny's was having its
"People kind of go nuts."
Ashley Marcum Wichita senior
usual Thursday drink special, he expected a bigger crowd than normal.
"Common sense says we're going to pick up a little bit on Stop Day," he said.
Hawk Night is a student organization funded partly by Student Senate, Coca-Cola and the city of Lawrence, O'Toole said. It sponsors alcohol-free parties at the University about once a month.
Hawk Nights will offer students an alternative to all the late-night Stop Day debauchery. It will host Holiday Hootenanny at 8 p.m. to midnight tomorrow. It will take place in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Amanda O'Toole, Wichita junior and Hawk Nights committee member, said she wanted a bigger turnout than last year's 300 people. She said more people might show up because of the bad weather.
bread-house-making contest, professional massages, EA Sports video games and a DJ. Fifty dollars will be awarded to the winner of the contest.
"Hopefully with EA Sports being there we'll appeal to a lot more people," O'Toole said.
The event will feature a ginger-
Committee to join athletic reform talks
By Robert Perkins
rperkins@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
— Edited by Ehren Meditz
The Senate Executive Committee of University Council and Tom Mulinazzi, chairman of the Athletic Board, agreed yesterday to send representatives to a meeting of the Big 12 Conference universities, which is sponsored by the University of Missouri.
At the preliminary meeting the representatives will discuss the role of athletics in an academic environment. If the attendees decide there is a need for athletic reform, they will schedule a convention to discuss a resolution to that end.
The University of Missouri wants to talk about athletic reform, and the University of Kansas is willing to listen.
The Big 10 and PAC 10 conferences have already passed similar resolutions, and the SEC is considering one.
Gordon Christensen, chairman of the Faculty Council at the University of Missouri, sent Mulinazzi a copy of a tentative resolution that Missouri had approved.
Mulinazzi said while he has seen other proposals before, this is the first one he'd be willing to consider.
The proposal targets commercialization of intercollegiate athletics, while emphasizing that student athletes are students first.
Mulinazi said he worried about universities getting so much money
from intercollegiate athletics, while some student athletes who were on scholarships could barely afford tuition and other living costs.
As a result, scholarships are only awarded on a year-by-year basis. This means students who can't perform or can't juggle school with sports can get their scholarships taken away.
Right now about 520 students attend the University of Kansas on an athletic scholarship, Mulinazi said.
The University of Missouri's proposal suggests extending athletics scholarships beyond one-year contracts, which Mulinazzi said he supported.
Members of SenEx shared Mulinazzi's concern for the students' situation.
He said many of those students were from out of state, and it was harder to adequately support them as tuition continued to rise.
"We wouldn't have an athletics department if it weren't for the students," Susan Twombly, a SenEx member, said.
Twomby volunteered to go to the initial athletic reform meeting, and she is so far the only definite University of Kansas representative.
The meeting will be Jan. 14, tentatively scheduled at the Clarion Hotel near Kansas City International airport.
City commission approves drinking establishment at La Tasca site
Edited by JJ Hensley
By Amanda Kim Stairrett
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Jackpot Saloon and Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts St., received a new drinking-establishment license at last night's Lawrence City Commission meeting. The site is the former location of La Tasca, a music club that recently closed.
In other commission news:
- City commissioners, discussed a tract of land located north of Harvard Road and east of George Williams Way. The area is zoned as an agriculture district. Landplan Engineering wants the city to rezone the land. The area is surrounded by agricultural districts and single-family residences.
After about a 45-minute debate between commissioners, a representative from Landplan Engineering said his company would be willing to postpone its plans until the city resolved its issues.
The City of Lawrence received a letter from the Kansas Water Office concerning possible reduction in the city's water contract rights from Clinton Reservoir. The city is contracted to take almost five billion gallons per year from Clinton Lake.
David Corliss, assistant city
manager, said Lawrence had not drawn its limit yet.
The commission is taking steps to reduce paper by administering a Web-based system. Each week, an extensive packet of materials, including maps, letters and other documents, is provided to each commissioner and the media. By putting the information online, paper will be reduced.
Each commissioner will get a
laptop to access the information during the meeting. Ron Hall, information systems director, said the system would be ready for a trial run on Jan. 13, 2004.
Sue Hack, city commissioner, expressed concern that the computer screens would get in the way, cutting down interaction with the public.
- There are vacancies on 12 city boards and commissions.
Some of those include the Bicycle Advisory Committee, the Lawrence Arts Commission, and Recycling and Resource Conservation Advisory Board.
Citizens interested in serving on a board or commission can send a letter of interest to the mayor's office, P.O. Box 708, Lawrence, KS, 66044.
- Edited by Neeley Spellmeier
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I just called the Free For All from my cell phone in a bathroom of JRP. I am not sure if that is really weird or if it is the best thing ever.
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I am sick of these articles about controversial couples. Stop it with this liberal crap.
To the bus driver that skipped my stop when I rung the bell: Thanks for making me walk.
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Obviously, I wouldn't call KU Info if I could go to a computer and go online to look up the information. Maybe they should have thought about that before they put a stupid girl on the phone that told me to go to a computer lab.
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I find it ironic how the Jayhawk Express is the slowest bus that there is.
I am out like a fat kid in dodge ball.
How is that chick going to go on Average Joe and not pick the average Joe? Man, those people get what they deserve.
Poor average Joe, I will date you. I will have your baby.
I motion that we vote on a Men of KU calendar. I would be happy to be Mr. December because I look damn sexy in a santa hat with red-and-white snowflake boxes.
I hate cows too.
Another campus squirrel is chesing me Damn it.
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Today's rules for dating: none
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COMMENTARY
Many of our parents followed a strict formula: Meet in college, date for a substantial length of time, marry after graduation. For many generations this prescription went neatly along with social norms, especially when it came to women fulfilling their traditional gender roles.
Now in a time where equal rights are the new societal standard, women are turning the tables and going to college for more than a chance to get married. This major change shakes up the way relationships and dating are viewed, and leaves the issue a blank slate in the hands of a modern generation.
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Ashley Smith opinion@kansan.com
Needless to say, times have changed. According the 2003 U.S. census, 56 percent of college students are women. With equal rights between the sexes a norm of modern society, the expectation for conformity has dissolved. The
The new movie Mona Lisa Smile, set in the early '50s, presents a precise depiction of the way women were expected to live for many generations. According to the movie's official Web site, it is "a story of women struggling to define themselves in a world that has already defined them." Even if a woman was an aspiring mind of her time with multitudes of opportunity, once she received an engagement ring, her personal life was expected to cease.
need for education beyond under graduate degrees also breaks up the strict formula, which now extends the duration of college life considerably.
Our dating lives today are incredibly different in comparison with those of our parents and grandparents. Women have thrown out pantyhose in favor of barely-there clothing. Men no longer formally court but go out and "take digits." We've moved from college students dating with serious intentions of marriage to college students who laugh at the thought of marrying anytime soon.
New intentions introduce the need for a new formula. The actions made by our generation will set new norms for future cohorts and can either set a high standard or mark a downfall in societal ethics. A balance must be struck between the classic ways of romantic courting and the modern wavs of open relationships.
Keeping in mind that every relationship is different, each couple must find its own way. However, keep a few things in mind: The games of who should call who and what the "waiting period" should be are completely ridiculous.
Honestly, don't take a number if you have no intentions of doing something with it. Some aspects of chivalry, like opening doors for ladies, will always be considered flattering and will never go out of style. Yet, splitting the check occasionally is now a reasonable expectation. Finally, observe that nearly every case on The Jerry Springer Show would not exist without idiots having casual unprotected sex.
Although it can sometimes be a painful process, recognize that from each relationship you walk away from, positive or negative, you learn something. You may find something you despise and can't stand to have in a potential companion, or you may find something you can't live without.
Most importantly, open communication is essential to any relationship. Dating can serve as such a valuable means of finding what you truly want in the person you want to spend your life with.
Smith is a Tulsa, Okla., sophomore in journalism.
'kansan' report card
Free tickets: The University is giving students tickets to the Dec. 22 Tangerine Bowl. Warm sun instead of sleet? Yes, please.
Pass:
The Kiosk: it rocks this semester. The CD with local music is an extra bonus.
Professor's film at Sundance Film Festival:
CSA, Kevin Willmott's satirical look at what it would be like if the Confederacy had won the civil war, will show at the festival. Wait, so someone from the University will be rubbing elbows with Robert Redford and others? Sigh...
Fail:
county commissioners' indifference: The national committee on geographic names was considering renaming a creek that ran by William Burroughs' house to honor him and wanted a recommendation from the commissioners. But they could only agree on their indifference. How lame is that?
Dude, where's Michael Moore?: Yes, we know he has bigger fish to fry, but it would have been cool. And it's funny, Center for Community Outreach reps didn't say Moore tended to polarize before he declined to come to town...
no one's going: Barely anyone's picked up tickets to the bowl game. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that Orlando, Fla., is 1,280 miles away, and it's right around the time when plane ticket prices are jacked up for the holidays?
Louise Stauffer, Kansan
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Community responsible for influencing children
Tomorrow at the Lawrence Public Library, a group of concerned people will come together in attempt to teach the children the importance of conservation, environmental diversity, the effects of deforestation and most importantly, how they can join in and take easy steps to help the earth as well. A puppet show will be the form of this lesson, and the characters are a monkey family, the ooma civilization, a wise old tree and a goofy forest ranger named Travis. The story is of a simple family of monkeys defeating the odds and ceasing the ooma construction to save the jungle.
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Ali Cullerton opinion@kansan.com
In countries throughout the world, raising a child is the responsibility of the entire community. While the family is still the primary support and provider, children are taught and loved collectively. This allows a more diverse acceptance for the child and an opportunity to experience a variety of realities. As a result, the child is educated on a broad
spectrum of conflicting, yet honest, opinions and vital survival tactics, while allowing the option of forming individual theory and thoughts unique to themselves.
In the United States, however, school teachers are often relied upon to teach our children, possibly more so than parents and family members. With this, it is assumed that children are learning what they need to be. We blindly expect that children are acquiring facts while at the
Through humor, entertainment, creativity and overall fun, we hope to positively influence the children and invite them to live more aware of their natural surroundings. Because the youngest of our audience will be 3 years old, this will be done in a simple and colorful way. The puppets and stage were built from recycled materials by a group of five puppeteers, who will also perform the show. Lawrence residents and students have come together with common goals to make this idea a reality.
same time developing a positive perspective of their surroundings, forming independent thinking skills and embracing their imaginations.
The overall objective of the show is both to give back to the community and educate future generations in a creative and enjoyable manner. We will perform at various schools, story hours and after-school programs throughout Lawrence up until January.
It is often easier to depend on someone else to take care of things than to assume the responsibility for oneself. When children are concerned, however, it is truly a communal obligation to provide adequate information necessary for a progressive future. Much more is captured through the honest eyes of a child than we realize. Most young children have the advantage of being unaffected by societal ideologies, allowing ideas to be unique and embracing a sense of self-discovery. This innocence is something we can all learn from.
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I encourage everyone, at some time, to put daily tasks aside and spend time with a child. Their contagious energy, excitement for life, innocence and honesty are traits we could all benefit from.
For more information on the puppet show dates and locations, e-mail Ali at hello@ku.edu.
Cullerton is a Chicago senior in creative writing.
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Mugford said when athletes analyze their mistakes on the field, they put their concentration and focus on the past and worry about whether the mistake might happen again in the future. He said the most difficult part of overcoming the problem is doing it in the heat of the moment. By putting a rubber band on their wrist, athletes can give it a short, sharp snap every time they catch themselves out of the moment.
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"Ideally they would use this to refocus and can combine it with saying 'snap out of it' or 'snap into it'." Mugford said.
Sport psychology is a science in which the principles of psychology are applied in a sport and exercise setting, usually to enhance performance, according to the book Sport Psychology: Concepts and Applications. Sport psychology as a field of study is young and still evolving. The practice did not begin to fully emerge as a separate and distinct study until the 1960s.
Andrew Jacobs is a clinical and sport psychologist in Kansas City. Jacobs was the first sport psychologist at the University of Kansas and worked with all Kansas varsity teams except football and volleyball from 1981 to 1985. Jacobs said the first evidence of sport psychology in the United States was in the 1920s. He said the practice died out for a while before making a resurgence in
the 1960s in East Germany and Russia. The United States fell behind until the 1970s. Jacobs was working with Bob Nideffer, a pioneer in modern sport psychology, in California.
Jacobs has his own practice in which he works with a variety of athletes. Teams such as the Kansas City Blazers swim team, the UMKC men's basketball team and Kansas' women's basketball team use Jacobs to improve the mental aspects of their game. He also works with individual high school, college, professional and Olympic athletes. Jacobs said sport psychology wasn't just about an athlete's performance on the field.
"try to work on the whole person." he said.
Jacobs tries to help athletes balance athletics with their personal life by talking to them about school, family life, personal goals, as well as self-confidence and fears.
Like Mugford, Jacobs uses focusing cues to help certain athletes deal with the mental aspects of sports. In a particular case, he worked with a basketball player who was having trouble making free throws. He used a breathing technique with the athlete that could help him visualize and focus at the free throw line.
Keith Tennant, professor and chair of the department of health, sport and exercise science, said the most important thing to remember about sport psychology was that it will not make a person a better athlete.
"It will help the them to achieve their maximum performance on a
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When Jacobs returned home to Kansas City in the 1980s, he said people were skeptical about sport psychology.
more regular basis" "Tennant said. "can't just take anybody off the street and make them an elite or world class athlete. They have to have the skill and the innate ability to start with."
"People thought it was a bunch of hocus pocus," he said.
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Tennant said that skepticism still exists, especially from clinical psychologists. Some thinksport psychology is almost too easy, he said.
"There is a push and show between clinical psychologists and sport psychologists, each coming at it from their own perspective." Tennant said.
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A common view from the clinical psychologists is that they are the counselors, so they should work with athletes. Sport psychologists say clinical psychologists don't understand athletics and the interworkings of sports teams, Tennant said.
Kansas soccer player Caroline Smith worked with a sport psychologist on her own in high school so she was not as skeptical when she heard coach Francis would be using one.
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"I remember when I first started I wasn't really sure about it," she said, "but I definitely think it makes a difference after you do it."
Angus Mugford, Cambridgeshire, England, is a doctoral student in sport psychology. Over the course of the season, Mugford met with the women's soccer team on a regular basis as a mental conditioning coach.
Smith said she was a little worried about the expectations surrounding her at the beginning of the season. Smith had injured her knee and was coming off knee surgery at the beginning of the season. With an outstanding freshman year, Smith knew expectations would be high for her sophomore season.
"Before the first game we did a lot of stuff about trying to focus on being patient," Smith said, "and not trying not to worry about too many things at once."
"It's kind of one of those things where you either buy in or you don't," she said. "If you don'tbuy, in the it's probably not going to help you that much."
Smith said she thought Mugford helped some of the team members, but it depended on the person.
Sophomore forward Caroline Smith held possession during match against Baylor on Sept. 26. Smith is a players who benefits from a sports psychologist.
Mugford is a doctoral student as well as a graduate teaching assistant in the University's health, sport and exercise science department. The term psychology is protected in the United States so Mugford is not certified sport psychologist in the United States. He is, however, accredited in Britain, and will be eligible for accreditation in the United States when he finishes his doctoral program, he said. He plans to continue teaching in a university setting while working with athletes. Mugford first began working with the Kansas soccer team last August. After spending last summer as an intern IMG Academies in Bradenton, Fla., Mugford showed an interest in working with the Kansas soccer program.
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IMG Academies is a network of multiple-sport training facilities that works with athletes of various sports as well as those interested in mental conditioning, sports medicine and performance. IMG Academies' clients range from professional and Olympic athletes to eight-year-olds who go there for summer camp. One week of training can set parents back about $1,000, said Chad Bohling, director of IMG Academies mental conditioning program.
Mugford and three other interns worked at IMG Academies last summer. They lectured on specific sport psychology topics during group sessions and also worked with individual athletes.
"We had a lot of 14-year-olds around there who were throwing tantrums and were throwing rackets." Mugford said. "It was the classic kind of John McEnroe style difficulty on the court."
Bohling used tennis to demonstrate how mental conditioning coaches at IMG worked with athletes. He said coaches tried to help beginners develop thought processes similar to those of elite athletes. They try to develop self-awareness and behaviors so that they become habit at a young age. Mugford worked with tennis players while interning at IMG Academies.
Mugford said it was common for athletes and coaches to be skeptical
"What we do is more of mental skills coaching and performance improvement, things like concentration, confidence, keeping composure under pressure," Mugford said. "I think when people are open to it, they see the difference in performances."
of sport psychology. The term psychology puts a lot of people off because it implies clinical issues, such as depression, he said.
There is a variety of exercises that a sport psychologist or mental skills coach can use to improve performance. A popular exercise is a simulated practice, which is most often used in football programs. Coaches test the players by putting them under game-like situations during practice. This helps athletes learn to properly react to urgent situations like a two-minute-drill or bad refereeing. Mugford said it was difficult to recreate a game atmosphere because of the intensity that surrounds a championship or a big game.
"The idea is to help athletes prepare for those situations by having some kind of plan or formula to be ready," he said.
Gillfillan said the meetings with Mugford were good because they regrouped and refocused the team while bringing up certain mental aspects of the game that would probably never have come up without him there to point
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"Certain things like we can't control external factors, and that's so true," she said. "We can't control the weather, or the fans, or even the other team or the referee."
Mugford regularly video-taped practices and games to be played during individual sessions with athletes. Because athletes are not used to seeing themselves play, watching a video helps them understand what aspects of their game need work. Gillfillan said she found herself thinking about some of the things Mugford covered in game situations.
"I feel like at first it actually took some thought," she said. "I had to think about it, realize it and apply it. As the season went on it was something that became more of a habit."
The Kansas soccer team had its best season in school history. The team recorded its first Big 12 Tournament victory, as well as its second bid to the NCAA Tournament. The Jayhawks won two games in the tournament, a first in school history. Mugford said he didn't know how much he factored into the team's success.
"I think the players and coaching staff have done an amazing job at keeping focus on the controllable and have worked tremendously hard to achieve what they did this year," Mugford said.
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Students with water heaters should keep the water temperature at about 120 degrees, according to the list. Water heaters are one of the most costly items on an energy bill. Ploger said.
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"When we can't take the bikes in, we have to leave it to the members to fill up flat tires," Johnson said.
Antonio Querasian, Rio Dio Janeiro, Brazil, sophomore, said flat tires were one of the few problems he'd encountered as a yellow bike member.
Querasian rides a yellow bike to and from class every day. He said that he had been pleased with his yellow bike experience.
"It's a very,very good system," Querasian said. "I think it would be good to have more bikes on campus."
Seth Weisbrook, Columbia Mo., sophomore, is another daily
user of the yellow bike system.
Weisbrook, who signed up as one of the original participants this spring, said that flat tires were not a big problem and that the system was operated effectively.
"I can't really think of any way to make it run better." Weisbrook said. "It's rare not to be able to find a bike when I need one."
Johnson is optimistic about
the future of the program. His group sponsored an interest survey that generated 70 to 80 responses earlier this semester. Johnson plans to e-mail those students in the spring and encourage them to promote the program to the senate.
"We want to help them take over the program," Johnson said.
Ultimately, Johnson and his YELLOW counterparts would like to see the yellow bike program solidified and controlled by Senate.
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They count even more when your team has NCAA Tournament potential and a remaining non-conference schedule that is favorable.
Ervin is a star, and that's just what the Jayhawks were missing a year ago.
In fact, she has the potential to be one of the brightest stars in the program's history, but she's sheltered and relegated to an undeserving season on the pine most of the time.
"To be honest, I haven't really even thought about it," Ervin said. "It might take a month, it might take a year. I know the coaches are still kind of iffy about the starting five."
She's an unselfish player, and that's a great quality to have, but it's unfair to the rest of the team and the program to keep her under wraps.
Washington considers Ervin her "sixth player," or first option off the bench, which is an upgrade from where she was two weeks ago.
Ervin puts out the impression that playing time is no big deal, which may in fact be the case for her personally.
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Research doesn't even have to be done to prove this, because it's common knowledge.
So what makes Lauren Ervin different? If Marian Washington has some secret to explain it, she might as well let us in on it.
Because there's a barrier between being careful and being overprotective.
Greene is a Vernon Hills, Ill., senior in journalism
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The only problem that has gotten Toomey in trouble physically this season is the reckless abandon he displays on defense. As Toomey himself puts it, his "switch turns on" when the game starts.
By throwing his body all over the place, Toomey has sustained napping injuries all season.
Another, which is more of a war wound than anything else, is the gash on the bridge of his nose that never seems to heal and gets opened up every Saturday.
One has been a constant problem with his right shoulder that has forced him to miss large chunks of games.
With a month to prepare for the Tangerine Bowl, Toomey will get his first chance to play at full strength in nearly two months.
"He certainly is hoping he'll feel a heck of a lot better than he did the last four or five weeks of the season."
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Having the sophomore linebacker at 100 percent will be a bonus for the Jayhawks as they get set to face North Carolina State, which has one of the nation's most prolific offenses.
"He certainly is hoping he'll
feel a heck of a lot better than he did the last four or five weeks of the season," coach Mark Mangino said. "He plays hard all of the time. The kids see the tempo he plays with and they want to emulate that."
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■ Another Day, More Awards — Freshman three-way performer Charles Gordon and freshman safety Jonathan Lamb were named by the Sporting News to its annual All-Freshman teams.
Gordon, who saw action at wide receiver, punt returner and defensive back, was named to the first team.
Lamb, whose 83 tackles ranked among the nation's best by a freshman, was honored on the second team.
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Lamb is the Jayhawks' feel-good story. The true freshman walked on to the program this season and not only became a starter, but earned a scholarship early in the season. His 83 tackles are one of the top totals among the nation's freshmen, and he also had two interceptions.
Accomplishments — In terms of honors, Lamb was the most heralded of this group in 2003. His stellar freshman season earned him a spot on the Sporting News All-Freshman second team. Latecomer defensive back Charles Gordon made the publication's All-Freshman first team.
A Nice Addition — Before the Nebraska game, with cornerbacks Ronnie Amadi and Remuise Johnson injured, and the secondary as a whole struggling, some changes were made. Freshman wide receiver Charles Gordon and freshman tailback John Randle have become multiple threats, playing on offense, defense and special teams. With Johnson and Amadi working their ways back, coach Mark Mangino constantly has fresh legs in the defensive backfield along with the emergence of safety Rodney Fowler.
Improvements — As improved as the corners and safeties have been for Kansas, they still have their vulnerabilities. Midway through the season, Mangino cited poor tackling as the biggest problem for his defense. While improvements have come late in the season, shifty receivers and tailbacks still tend to give these guys some trouble.
— Compiled by Ryan Greene
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His 20 tackles against Georgia Tech in 2002 were a team-high for the season, and one of the top totals in Wolfpack history.
Golden is seen by the NC State coaching staff as an unselfish contributor, and that was honored in 2002.
Golden took home the Wolfpack's Al Michaels Award for putting the team and his teammates before himself.
Change Of Plans — Maddox and Graham, who are essentially the safeties for the Wolfpack, are the only two remaining starters in the secondary from the preseason depth chart.
The Wolfpack have had to rely on more inexperienced corners to cover the ACC's top receivers.
NC State allows the second-most passing yards per game in Division IA, which favors a pass-happy Jayhawk offense.
- Don't Get On Its Bad Side — Even though the holes have been exposed in this secondary over and over. it is still a tough group of guys.
Maddox plays the roverback position, which is basically a hidden linebacker, and he can lay the wood like his high school teammate, the Wolfpack's all-conference linebacker Pat Thomas. Maddox is tough, too.
in 2002, he broke his nose following a collision with tailback T.A. McLendon in a preseason camp, but was back after missing just one practice.
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Vermeil, 67, was chosen on the strength of the Chiefs' start this season. The Chiefs (11-2) clinched a playoff berth Sunday
Florida fell to 10 games under .500 on May 22 and into last place in the NL East.
McKeon, 73, became the oldest manager in baseball history to lead a team to a World Series title, after a remarkable midseason turnaround.
McKeon took over a 16-22 Marlins team when he replaced Jeff Torborg on May 11.
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Florida then beat San Francisco, the Chicago Cubs and the New York Yankees to win the team's second world championship.
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Marchiony said the person must also add excitement to the game.
"I will do what they want me to do to help the new person," Hill said.
Brought to the University of Kansas as a member of Athletics Director Lew Perkins' staff, Marchiony and others have been here only since August. But Hill will be available to help them out as much as he can, even if that means continuing to announce until the end of the basketball season.
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"The person has to have a good voice, one that carries in the arena over the sound system." Marchiony said.
I'm a part of the tradition now and we don't give up our traditions easily at KU," Hill said.
Hill said he felt confident that the new person would be just fine.
"Whoever it is has to carve his or her own niche in the world, in Allen Fieldhouse and Memorial Stadium," Hill said. "But the new person will take over and do the kind of job they want to and I
"I can't comment on it now," Booth said. "They haven't contacted me vet."
When a replacement begins his or her tenure, the initial transition may not be easy in a university filled with as much basketball tradition as Kansas.
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"Whoever it is has to carve his or her own niche in the world, in Allen Fieldhouse and in Memorial Stadium. But the new person will take over and do the kind of job they want to and I think it will be just fine."
Hill has been the go-to guy for the last 20 years, and the Athletics Department plans to do everything possible to honor him with his replacement.
announcer for 10 years, is one possible candidate.
As long as the new person reflects the enthusiasm of the crowd without overdoing it, there is nothing to worry about. Hill said. The Athletics Department should shy away from announcers such as Kansas State University's Ivan Whitman, who screams, "K-State fans, are you ready? Let's get ready to rumble!" before every game, he said.
think it will be just fine."
"You don't realize how important a PA announcer is until you get a bad one," Marchiony said. "We will have the right person to follow him as soon as possible."
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--parties, to sign autographs', Davis said. "It's great for the Rose Bowl, with USC getting back to national prominence and getting back to the traditional game."
It is just me, or does J.R. Giddens look like Dr. Phil?
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Whoever said that we suck for losing to Stanford needs to be publicly shot or castrated.
Half of you people calling in about the basketball team sucking have never played basketball in your entire life.
parties, to sign autographs', Davis said. "It's great for the Rose Bowl, with USC getting back to national prominence and getting back to the traditional game."
I just want to volunteer to nurse Michael Lee back to health because I think I got what it takes to make him feel better.
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No mention of K-State football over Oklahoma but a huge article about Missouri going to the Independence Bowl. Pretty weak.
Rose returns as top BCS bowl
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LOS ANGELES — Thanks to the BCS computer rankings, the Rose Bowl is again in the limelight: a classic matchup, a national championship at stake and controversy to spice up the mix.
The USC Trojans were shut out of the BCS championship game, but they're ranked No. 1 in both the writers' and coaches' polls and could win a split national title if they beat No. 4 Michigan.
USC's last national title, 25 years ago, was split. They finished No. 1 in the coaches' voting and second behind Alabama in the writers' poll.
After drawing the smallest Rose Bowl crowd in 59 years when Oklahoma beat Washington State last Jan. 1 in Pasadena, Rose Bowl officials are delighted with this year's matchup.
"It's huge. We haven't had a Big Ten-Pac-10 game here the last two years, and we're glad to have our partners back in the bowl," Tournament of Roses president Mike
Although the Rose Bowl had about 10,000 empty seats last January and seemed to be losing some of its luster since joining the BCS, this year's game and its implications certainly have revived national interest.
Riffey said, referring to the conference alliance that dates to 1947.
"We can thank the BCS for bringing attention to USC from all around the country," Trojans athletic director Mike Garrett said, referring to the controversy caused by USC's being left out of the BCS title game in the Sugar Bowl.
Bids on some tickets being hawked on the Internet were topping $600 each. The face value is $125.
"This is our national title game."
Anthony Davis, a tailback for the Trojans when they went 2-1 against Ohio State in three consecutive appearances from 1973-75, said he's being deluged with phone calls.
"I've had people asking me about tickets, to come to tailgate
Because Oklahoma and LSU are playing in the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 4, it will be the first time in the BCS's six-year history that the No.1 team in the polls is left out of the BCS title game.
Tom Slade, the Wolverines' quarterback in their 1972 Rose Bowl loss to Stanford, said he thought USC was treated unfairly in the BCS standings. "But what that means is that the Rose Bowl is back to the classic it was meant to be," he said.
The last two Rose Bowl games didn't match teams from the Big Ten and Pac-10. Oklahoma beat Washington State 34-14 last January in a game that drew just 86,848, the lowest turnout since 1944. In 2002, the Rose Bowl had its turn in the BCS four-year rotation for the national title game, and Miami won the championship with a 34-14 victory over Nebraska.
Two free agents sign with Kansas City
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Sullivan shores up an unreliable bullpen, and Stairs likely will fill the void created by the departure of Raul ibanez.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Royals added a pair of free agents yesterday, agreeing to a $5 million, two-year contract with reliever Scott Sullivan and a $1 million, one-year deal with outfielder Matt Stairs.
A nine-year veteran, Sullivan went a combined 6-0 with a 3.66 ERA for Cincinnati and the Chicago White Sox last season and held opponents to a 205 batting average. The White Sox acquired him Aug. 21 for a player to be named.
Sullivan should help the Royals improve a bullpen that struggled last year with a 5.60 ERA.
season and $2.6 million in 2005,
and the Royals have a $2.75 million option for 2006 with a $300,000 buyout. But if Sullivan appears in 80 games in 2005 or 150 games in 2004 and 2005, it would become a player option.
Sullivan gets $2.1 million next
Stairs, left-handed hitter, batted.292 for Pittsburgh last season with 20 homers, including a 461-foot drive on April 5, the longest at the Houston Astros' new ballpark. He had 57 RBs.
After playing for six other teams in an 11-year career, he is expected to replace Ibanez, who agreed to a $13.25 million, three-year contract with Seattle.
Stairs, 35. has a career. .266 batting average with 176 homers. He is third in homers among Canadian-born players, trailing Colorado's Larry Walker and Jeff Heath, who played from 1936 to 1949.
Oklahoma QB named best player
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ST.LOUIS — Quarterback Jason White, whose Oklahoma Sooners are still vying for a national championship, was named college football's player of the year yesterday by The Sporting News.
The St. Louis-based publication also named Utah's Urban Meyer its coach of the year.Meyer led the Utes to a 9-2 record and a berth in the Liberty Bowl on New Year's Eve.
In guiding the Sooners to an 12-1 record this season, White has thrown for 40 touchdowns and more than 3,700 yards.
The Sporting News also named Florida linebacker Channing Crowder freshman of the year. Crowder has a team-high 63 tackles.
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Horoscopes
Today's Birthday (Dec. 10).
Finance isn't your favorite subject, but it's good to learn your lessons. If you can figure out a way to keep your money safe, you'll have much more time to play. Accomplish this by setting rules you can live with. Go for it — this is the year.
Aries (March 21-April 19). Today is a7.
The dilemma you're facing is whether to go or stay. You might find the latter to be more interesting if you can find ways to clean up your place. You'll have a lot more room if you toss out the stuff you don't need anymore.
Taurus (April 20-May 20). Today is an 8.
You're headed in the right direction and picking up speed. But you need to be somewhat cautious. Being overly exuberant could be to your disadvantage — until later.
Gemini (May 21-June 21). Today is a 6.
You may not have a natural talent for pinching pennies, but it's skill you can learn. Don't feel deprived. A little discipline is good for you.
Cancer (June22-July22). Today is an 8.
Success is sweet, but you're smart enough to not make a big deal of it. Celebrate with a few insiders, and get ready for your next move.
Leo (July 23-Aug.22). Today is a5. You have too much to do, but there's no point in making a fuss. If you keep your complaints to yourself, you'll appear strong and capable, even if you sometimes feel puny and weak.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Today is an 8.
Friends who know what you're going through will give you plenty of support. They'll even understand if you can't go out. Staying in may be a good idea if money's short.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22). Today is a 5.
Easy does it while you get used to the new rules. Don't offer any arguments or changes yet. That comes later.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21). Today is a9.
All of a sudden, the path to your future looks rosy and bright and serene. You and your loved one
can get to where you want to go. Count on a miracle.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is a 5.
Now comes the part where you have to be practical. You can't afford to buy everything you want. Stretch resources.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a7.
You like to be in control, but this time youd be smart to get expert advice. A partner with different experience sees things you would have overlooked.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb.18). Today is a 6.
Good thing you're rested,
because there's a pile of work big
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Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20). Today is an 8.
You're still under some pressure, but you're doing quite well. Your boss and/or your clients are impressed. There's more work coming in, but maybe that should be cause for celebration.
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5 Rascal
10 Health resorts
14 French cleric
15 Bones in forearms
16 Price of passage
17 Lower digits
18 Emulated Pisa's tower
19 Hick
20 Amuse
22 Commended
23 Approaches
24 Small woods
25 Affix
28 Barflies
29 Preceding
32 Brio
35 Tailless amphibians
36 The Greatest
37 Stage whisper
39 H.S. subj.
40 Education for the coll. bound
42 Existed
44 Warbles
45 Dry gulch
48 "The Prince's Birthday" painter
50 Use jointly
51 Bloodsuckers
55 Add to the gridlock cacophony
56 Tangle of tongues
57 Continental currency
58 Perimeter
59 White heron
60 Overwhelm with flattery
61 Tarot user
62 Tether
63 Hardy heroine
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12 "A Delicate Balance" playwright
13 Racers on runners
21 Marsh grasses
22 Army bed
24 Mechanical tooth
25 Destiny
26 Soon
27 Male affair
28 Cut short
29 Container weight
31 de-France
32 Stringed instrument
33 Worshiped one
34 Tillis and Brooks
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40 $ player
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Safe ride is seeking drivers and dispatchers for spring semester. Must be 21, have clean driving record, flixible schedule.
85-3-7.500, Call842-0544.
$250-500 per week. Will train to work at home. Helping the U.S. Government file HUD/FHA mortgage refund. No experience necessary. Call toll-free 1-866-537-2906.
Will train students to video research project in KC or Leavenworth. M-R mornings and afternoons, $8/hr plus mileage and toll. Not necessary to be avail, all times and days. Call Robin Gingerich @Robinig@ku.edu or 864-2591.
Kansan Classifieds
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Merchandise
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For Sale
Brand new in box, 17 inch iMac Apple OSX computer, paid $1800 plus $600 for extras, must sell, asking $1600. Call 913-481-8576.
Furm; couch-good condition, $10.
Dining room table $25. Coffee table $10.
Call 841-7845.
Miracle Video Fall Sale
All adult movies $12.98 & up. Large Selection. 1900 Haskell. 841-754-01
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KU BASKETBALL TICKETS
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Over 10,000 Hats & 100 Autographs
We Buy Sell, and Upgrade
KC's #1 broker now open in Lawrence
647 Massachusetts Street
Open M-R 10-7 pm
Friday 10-9 pm
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Help Wanted
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City of Lawrence
Cars from $500. Police Impoundal
Hondas, Chevys and more! For listings
call 800-319-3293 ext. 4565.
1993 Saturn SL2. New tires. PW & PL.
Asking $2,500, 81,000 miles. Call Joe
913-461-2241.
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Parks and Recreation
If you are at least 16 (lifeguards) or 17 (WSI) years of age, enjoy working with children and need flexible work hours then contact Personnel immediately to apply. Requires American Red Cross WSI or Lifeguard Training certification but training assistance is available.
Help Wanted
Apartments for Rent
Real Estate
1927 Miss. Avail now, LG 182 BR bpts.
next to stadium. Newly renovated.
$400-$490/mo. Central Air, D/W on-site.
laudry (Cupid) 843-6543.
Great I and 2 BR's left next to campus.
DW, central air, laundry on site. Call for leasing specialist George Waters Mgmt.
145 5532
$740/mo. 3 BR apt. Avail. Jan-Aug '04.
Close to campus, big bedrooms and closets.
Call 856-0798 or 766-1004.
2 BR, 1 BA at 1737 Tennessee. New paint and carpet. Close to campus. Available now $252.om$913-414-4169.
Large 1 bedrooms left next to the football stadium. Apt. have central air, DW, on site laundry. One cat may be allowed. 4400|mo. Waterways Watertown 841-5533.
1414 Tenn. available now Close to KU, 1
& 2 BR apts. Has in room A/C.
$300 $475/mo. Call 843-6543
Available in January at West Hills Apts,
Spacious 2 BR with 1 1/2 BA, balcony,
D/W, walk-in closet, high-speed Internet
avail. Great location new campus and on
bus route at 1012 Emery Rd. $353/mo.
water paid, no pets. Lease to May or July,
841-760 or 760-4788
NO Payment until 20041
$99 Deposit. 1 & 2 BR
CHASE COURT LUXURY APTS.
843-8220
Avail. Jan top floor, 1BR, furn. or unfurn.
balcony, gas water, quiet building
to campus, no pets/smoking.
$420/mo. Call 841-3192 for details
5 month lease avail. Jan. 1. Remodeled 3 BR, next to campus. All unill. paid, W/D. 106 Mississippi $775/mo. 218-4113.
1 Free BR!
near campus at west mima apa
1012 Emery Rd. $425/mo, water paid, no pets. Short lease available. 841-3800 or 760-4788.
1 bedroom. $469 per month. Available
mid-December. Close to campus.
Call 785-550-6666.
Make a Splash Come Join our Team
Get a 2 BR for the price of a 1 BR and a 3 BR, 2 bath for the price of a 4 BR ($475 & $625). Great location near 6th and lows. DW, microwave, central air, laundry on site. One cat may be allowed. George Wakeau Mount 841-5533
Available Jan - Large 1 BR in great local campus at West Hills Apts.
Swimming
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LAWRENCE Indoor Aquatic Center
1136 Louisiana
841-5533
Apartments for Rent
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Available Jan.1 at 1037 Tennessee. IBR basement apt. $250 plus security and utilities. No pets. Off street parking. 550-6812
Available now at Briarstone Apts, Spacious, sunny 1 bedroom with washer/dryer hookups, balcony, dishwasher, microwave, ceiling fan, mini-binders. $490 per month. No pets. Great location near campus and on bus route. 1000 Emery road. Call 749-7744 or 760-4788.
Charming 1-2 bedroom, 1 bath apt. inhouse,w private entrance at 930 Kencen Beautiful hardwood floors, clawfoot bathtub, lots of windows. Offstreet parking possible. Great downtown location. $88 per month.Call 785-768-0270
FOX RUN APARTMENT 3
4500 Overland Drive, B34-840-440 All Unities Paid! Unities starting at $650/mo.
Leases thru May 31st available, deluxe appliances, WD, W/D.
www.foxunapartments.com
FOX RUN APARTMENTS
Great 2 BR's
Nice 2 RB apartments near 23rd and 2dow. Dishwasher, central air laundry on site. On the bus route. $450-480. One may be allowed. George Waters Mgtm
Available Now!
$99 Deposit & Great Rent Special!
841-8468
2001 W. 6th St.
HIGHPOINTE APARTMENTS
MELROSE COURT
16th & Tennessee
2 BR w/ Washer & Dryer
Only 1 left, Free Rent until 2004.
841-8468
SUBLEASE CLOSE TO CAMPUS
BR 18/w, WD, 1726 Ohio, no pets.
$866, now $475, Call 865-8661
Parkway Commons
FREE RENT! 1 BR's Available.
328-8420
842-3840
Tuckaway Management. 1, 2, & 3 bedrooms. Call for December/January avail. 838-337 or www.tuckawaymptm.com
Malls Olde English Village
- New Leasing I&2 BRS.
* Gas, heat, water & limited cable paid.
2411 Louisiana 843-5552
1 & 2 bedroom special!
Save up to $790 on a
new 12 month lease!
Immediate move-in bonus!
TVVCR or CD/Radio - Your choice
WIR All Entailments
W/D, All Appliances
ABERDEEN
2300 Wakarusa Dr.
M-F 9-5:30, Sat. 11-3
749-1288
LawrenceApartments.com
Aspen West
2900 W. 15th. By campus, water & trash paid, laundry on-site, bus route. No pets. 24 hour maintenance. High speed cable available. AC Management. 1815 W. 24th. 1 BR $380, 2 BR $475.
842-4461
BRAND NEW 1 & 2 BRS
700 Comet Lane • 832-8805 next to Stone Creek restaurant
NO RENT until 2004
Canvon Court
709 Counsel Lane 832-8805
3
It's Time
www.firstmanagementinc.com
2004
Now
Excellent selection of Townhomes, studios,
1 Bd, 2Bd, 3Bd available.
Pet Friendly
call Kathy or Liza at
842-4200
15th and Crestline
Meadowbrook Apartment
410
to lease for 2nd semester
15th and Crestline Meadowbrook Apartments
Town Homes for Rent
2 bedroom, 1.5 bath town home available
January 1, car parage, W/D hookups,
back yard fenced in, great west location,
$465 per month. Call 423-5684 for details!
9 BR 3/12 8A home home avail. Dec. 15 at William Points. Fireplace, all appliances, cable and high speed internet paid. No pets. $00 per month 31,794-724
410
kansan.com
Town Homes for Rent
5 BR, 3 BA townhome avail, Jan 1. Borders, West Campus, on KU bus route, Fireplaces, 2 car garage, all lawncare provided, 843-6344.
Available now. Large 3 bedroom, 2 bath town homes on Adam Avenue. 1700 square feet. $252. Call 841-4785.
FREE RENTI $99 Deposit.
2 BR TH in SW $785 mo.
$380 per month.
New 3 BR @ 3439 Aldrich. 2 1/2 BA 2
car garage. Tons of space. Available Jan.
2004. $950/mo. Call (785) 843-0498.
Remodeled 4 BR townhouses avail, now and next fall at Leaunia Mar. Reserve one now and get 1/2 mo. free; 3 BA, ip. all appliances, no pell. Calls 312-7942.
415
Homes for Rent
1113 Vermont 3 BR, 1.5 BA, 1 car gar, 1 block from Mass. By park. Bay $1, 1,000/ mo. 830-0886. mminie2@hotmail.com
3 BR 1 BA, 1 garage, A/C, W/D, wood floors, fenced yard. Walk to campus.
2111 Naimith.mo/800.785-865-6024
4 bedroom , 2 bath home with fenced backyard, W/D wookup, clean, new decor.
Contact Joy for details at 766-5113.
Available August 5, 6.7 & 8 BR houses in the Oread area. Look early for best choices.Call 913-444-4169.
6 room house-1711 Alabama, 2-3 BR, 1 BA. Kitchen appliances included, W/D. $750/month. Call evenings 785-528-4876.
Very nice 4 BR 2 BA house. quiet neighborhood W/D.avail. Jan. 1, 2508 Prairie Elm $11,500. mail:911-975-9628
430
Roommate Wanted
1 female roommate wanted for a 3 BR, 1 BA fully furnished house near campus. $275/me + 1/3 util. N/S no pets. Call Jenni 913-634-3078 or 832-8695.
1 Female, 3 BR, 2 BA, 9th & Emery $249/mo plus utilities. Sublease Jan-July on bus route. Call Anne at 316-617-4856
1 roommate wanted for 2 BR. 2 BA at Pkwy Commons. Rent negotiated, all appliances included. Call 763-639-0545.
2 bedroom, 1 bathroom apartment, top floor, fireplace KU bus route, $280/month, quiet, woody location. Call 550-1539.
2 fem. roommates to share 3 BR, 2 BA duplex. Living, dining, kitchen, family room. All appliances and W/D: $450/mo. Inc.ln. On KU bus route. Call 785-312-8095.
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Fem. roommate for 2 BR apt, own BA & balcony, balcony-finished, WD, no pets, very close to campus. Call 847-971-0024. i3t mo rent, free available now.
Female roommate needed for ABR, 2 BR
apt., 9th & Mason, Avail. as at Dec
$20, $15/mo. Call Clare at 505-238-62**
Female Roommate Wanted for second semester! 2BR, 2BA, W/D, fully furnished.
$387.50/Mo. Please call 816-679-5872.
Female roommate wanted for 2 BR, 2 BAAP, parkway Commons, W/D, full kitchen, pot, hot tub, on bus route. $390/month plus 1/2 utilities. 402-210-8400 for details.
Female roommate wanted
Jan - July 31st. $285 per month, plus 1/3 utilities.
Haise W/D Please call 785-393-1086.
Furn. 1 bedroom for fem. 4 BR house for spring. 2 BA. $400 mo., paid. WID. close to campus,utl/montown.Call 550-5572.
Male roommate wanted for a 2 bedroom,
2 bath apartment. $337 per month plus
1/2 utilities. Call 765-838-8900 for details.
Mature female. Third roommate for very nice 4 bedroom, 2 bathroom house. Call 760-1998.
Roommate wanted for 2 BR, 2 BA apt:
$390/mo. plus 1/2 utilities, non-smoking,
W/D, C/A, dishwasher. Call 843-5540.
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Rooms for Rent
bedroom in 4 bedroom house. Wash-
direr/dryer, dishwasher. Close to K-10. $250
plus 1/4 utilities. Call 785-249-4136.
Rooms. Grad. student needs roommates.
4 BR, 3.5 BA, close to KU campus. $375/*
ult. Nice and spacious. 913-205-6774
440
440
Sublease
1 bedroom of 2 bedroom apartment for spring semester. D/W, disposal, balcony. Nice $225 per mo. + llw (785) 393-9083.
1 bedroom sublease in 3 bedroom apartment; $330 per month, 1st month free. Call 766-0227.
1 BR, 1733 Ohio St, $395/month, small pets OK, 1 block from campus, sublease Jan 1-July, call Josah at 785-979-7292.
12th and Ohio Street, Dec. 19 - May 31
Beautiful 4 BR house, WD, lots of living space,
partially furnished. 1 BR @ $40mo+/14. call UI 758-760-258
1st月free rent! Large 2 BR, 1 BA sublease Jan-July. Pete OK. On KU bus路. Spacious storage. Cell 856-3703
2 bedroom, 1 bath. Available January,
possibly sooner. $405 per month. No
pets, no smoking. Call 550-1790.
Female needed for 1 BR of a 3 BR, 2 BA townhouse. $300/mo, plus 1/3 util. Call 316-933-7842 or 620-480-9569
3 BR/2 BA apt, at Highpoint. Sublease avail. Jan. 1. $305/person. (785)
550-788. Cute girls live close!
2 of 4 BR sublease available Jan.-Aug.
WD, close to campus and downstairs, big
yard, pets ok. $300;mpl. C叫 785-865..**
Jeff Commons 1 BR in 3 BR apt. 3 BR/D W/Avid Jan 1-Aug 10, 2004 Jan and Aug rent-free $389 mail. Cail 913-645-1592
Fem. needed for very nice 1 BR in a 2 BR ap. Close to campus. Campus, bath, W/D, $420/mo, plus util. Call Enr at 979-8385.
LUXURY APARTMENT. 1 room of 2 bedroom for sublease overlooking Mass. Street. 2 full bath, W/D, furnished. 2 sky lights, dishwasher, trash compactor. First week free. Avail Dec 22. 913-845-7999.
Nice 1 BR, Spring+/or summer. Fur-
nished/unfurnished, W/D, Utl. paid. Great-
location; close to campus. 913-444-8213
One BR sublease available Now! New WD, DW, all utilities paid except gas and electric. $450Mo 913-221-1645.
One BR/ONE BA apt. from Jan-Aug.
$525/mo. Lots of space. Fool. On KU bus
route. Please Call Jennifer 785-218-45R4
ONE MONTH FREE RENT 1 bedroom
in 3 BR. Washer/dryer, $270 per month,
plus 1/3 unit. No fees, 612-210-2840.
Spacious 1 BR spat. 14th & Ten. Furnished or unfurished $420/mo. Walk to campus. Available Dec. 22 Call 856-1248
Spacious 2 BR apt. $634/month, most util
paid (gas, water, trash, cable). Avail Dec
until Aug 2004. Call Megan 785-750-0571.
Sublease avail. Jan. 1 or sooner. BR 2 du-
plex w/ garage. Near 23rd & Kasold. WID
hookups. C/A, DW $500./mo. 760-1703
Sublease Luxury Housing + food Naimishim
HALL DISCOUNTED PRICE PLUS $200
OFF ENTRY Please call 816-579-5872.
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Services
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Professional Services
life SUPPORT
HEADQUARTERS
Counseling Center
785/841-2345
www.hqcc.lawrence.ks.us
Eye Exams
Contact Lenses
Dr. Matt Lowenstein and Associates
Therapeutic Optometrists 841-2500
Located Next to SUPER TARGET Discount with Student ID
510
Child Care Services
Daycare assistant needed. Tuesday &
Thursday availability. References required.
Contact Crystal at 841-8522.
Part-time nanny is needed 6-10 hrs wk-
starring Jan. 5, 11/10 hr. Contact Sima at
913-782-2171 or cell 913-485-4422.
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buy it in the
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Kansan Classifieds
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Lost & Found
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REWARD - $250 no questions asked for safe return of autographed Brookie Burke picure recently stolen from Meat Market 811 New Hamshire. 856-MEAT
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Employment
205
Help Wanted
Bartender Trainees needed.
$250 per day potential. Local positions.
Call 1-800-293-3956 ext. 531.
Bartending, $300/day potential.
No experience necessary. Training provided. 800-955-6520 ext.108
Brockcreek Learning Center Teaching Assistants needed for early intervention program. Flexible hours. Must be energetic & share an enthusiasm for making a difference in the lives of young children. Apply at: 200 Mt. Hope Cl. (785) 865-0022.
CASH PAYOUTS FOR STUDENTS!
Play for cash or for fun! It's Free!
www.studentgamble.com
Dancers wanted. Big money. No experience necessary, will训. Call Whispers (Gentleman's club) 913-724-3322
Free Thursday mornings this spring? Positions avail. in our nursery and preschool rooms. Thursday mornings 8:45 AM-Noon. Pay $.50/$7.00 per hour. Call Cindy at 843-2005 to schedule interview.
Delivery Driver
Get Paid for Your Opinion!
Earn $15-$125 and more per survey.
www.paidonlinesurveys.com
Applicants must possess a Class A CDL or learner's permit, at least 18 years.
We offer competitive wages benefits & incentive programs
permit, be at least 21 years of age, able to obtain a State Sales Permit & be motivated.
Apply in person at:
Classic Eagle Distributing
2050 Packer Court
Lawrence, KS 66044
No phone calls please.
A pre-employment drug screen is required. EOE
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Help Wanted
Help Wanted
Government jobs hiring now.
Entry level to advanced positions.
Day training benefits. $11-$33 per hour.
Call 800-625-1680 ext. B70.
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UK Bookstores Textbook Clerks needed,
Customer service, stock, and inventory
ability. Mon.-Fri.; 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
$7.5/hr. Apply at Human Resources,
level 3. Kansas Union between 8 a.m.
and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday EOE.
Lawrence Helpers Inc. seeks companion for delightful elderly clients. Part time flexible hours. Excellent pay for honest, personable, employee. Julie 331-1850.
Mimi's Cate @ 135th seeking FT and PT fun energetic servers. Flexible schedules and meat discounts. 913-897-5669.
Part-time nanny is needed 6-10 hrs/wk
starting Jan. 5, $10/hr. Contact Sima at
131-782-2171 or cell 913-485-4422.
SEMESTER BREAK WORK
$17.25 Base-Apt.
Special 1-8 week work program for students-
Flexible schedule. Customer ser-
vice/sales. Apply now start after finals.
Secure a summer position. No phone or
email required. www.senestherbreakwork.com.
JCo9 613-789-8861.
wilderness camp for your
9-17, 6-17, B-call us to 1-800-CampFun,
e-mail staff2004@cheley.com or visit our
The Best Summer Job. Why hire in our back country,骑 horses on our rugged trails? If you want to be a summer long? It comes with the job. Chelley Colorado Camps, a residential
Web site at www.cheley.com
Safe ride is seeking drivers and dispatchers for spring semester. Must be 21, have clean drive record, flexible schedule.
68.35-7.00/hr. Ca81842-0544.
$250-500 per week. Will train to work at work
helping. Helping the U.S. Government file
HUD/FHA mortgage refinance.
Financing for a 1930 home. Call toll-
phone: 1-866-537-2906.
Will train students to video research project in KC or Leavenworth. M-R mornings and afternoons, $8/hr plus mileage and toll. Not necessary to be avail, all times and days. Call Robin Gingerich @ Robinng@ku.edu or 864-2591.
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Merchandise
For Sale
305
Brand new in box, 17 inch Imac Apple OSX computer, paid $1800 plus $600 for extras, must sell, asking $1600. Call 913-481-8578.
Furn; couch-good condition, $10.
Dining room table $25. Coffee table $10.
Call 841-7845.
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Miracle Video Fall Sale
All adult movies $12.98 & up. Large Selection: 1900 Haskell 841-7504.
Tickets
KU Basketball TICKETS.
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Over 10,000 Hats & 100 Autographs
We Buy, Sell, and Upgrade
KC's #1 broker new in Lawrence
647 Massachusetts Street
Open M-R 10-7 pm
Friday 10-9 pm
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Help Wanted
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Lifeguards and Water Safety Instructors
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Earn $10-$12 for Surveys
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Auto Sales
1993 Saturn SL2. New tires. PW & PL.
Asking $2,500. 81,000 miles. Call Joe
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Every Tuesday
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Cars from $500. Police Impound!
Honda, Chevy and more! For listings
call 800-319-3232 ext. 4565.
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Real Estate
Serving Every Tuesday in KU The Kansan
If you are at least 16 (lifeguards) or 17 (WSI) years of age, enjoy working with children and need flexible work hours then contact Personnel immediately to apply. Requires American Red Cross WSI or Lifeguard Training certification but training assistance is available.
Parks and Recreation
Apartments for Rent
1414 Tenn. available now Close to KU, 1
& 2 BR apts. Has in room A/C.
$300-$475/mo. Call 843-6543
1027 Miss. Avail, now LG 1&2 BR apts,
next to stadium. Newly renovated.
$400/$490/mo. Central Air, D/W on-site
laundry. Bq 834-6534.
Great 1 and 2 BR's left next to campus.
DW, central air, laundry on site. Call for leasing specials! George Waters Mgmt.
841-5533
2 BR, 1 BA at 1737 Tennessee. New paint and carpet. To campus. Available now $425/mo. 913-441-4169.
Available in January at West H峡 Apts.
Spacious 2 BR with 1/1/2 BA, balcony,
DWL, walk-in closet, high-speed Internet
avail. Great location new campus on
bus route at 1012 Emry Rd. $353/mi
841-3800 to May or July
841-3800 to 760-4788
Avail. jan top floor, 1BR, furn. or unifur-
balcy, balloon, gas water, quiet building
to campus, no pets/m smoking.
$420/mo. Call 841-3192 for details
Large 1 bedroom left next to the football stadium. Apt's have central air, DW, on site laundry. One may be allowed.
$400. George Waters Mgt. 841-5533
$740/mo. 3 BR apt. Avail. Jan-Aug '04.
Close to campus, big bedroom and closets.
Call 856-0798 or 766-1004.
1 Free BR!
5 month lease avail. Jan. 1. Remodeled 3
BR, next to campus. All util. paid, W/D.
106 Mississippi $775/mo. 218-4134
Help Wanted
NO Payment until 20041
$99 Deposit. 1 & 2 BR.
CHASE COURT LUXURY APTS.
843-8220
1012 Emry Rd. $425/mo, water paid, no lease available. WaterLEASE-1. 3800- or 7600-
7849-
get a 2 BR for the price of a 1 BR and a 3 BR, b2 for the price of a 3 BR ($475 & $255) Great location near 6th and Iowa. DW, microwave, central air, laundry on site. One cat may be allowed. George W. Ayers Montt 841-5533
1015 Mississippi
Make a Splash Come Join our Team
1 bedroom. $469 per month. Available
mid-December. Close to campus.
Call 785-550-6666.
Available Jan - Lable 1 BR in great location near campus at West Hill Apts.
SWIMMING
205
1136 Louisiana
LAWRENDE
Indoor Aquatic Center
405
Apartments for Rent
Available Jan. 1 at 1037 Tennessee. 1BR basement apt. $250 plus security and utilities. No pets. Off street parking. 550-6812.
Available now at Briarstone Apts. Spacious, sunny 1 bedroom with washer/dryer hookups, balcony, dishwasher, microwave, ceiling fan, mini-binders. $490 per month. No pets. Great location near campus and on bus route. 1000 Emery road. Call 749-7744 or 760-4788.
Charming 1-2 bedroom, 1 bath apt. in house w/ private entrance at 930 Kentucky. Beautiful hardwood floors, clawfoot浴房, lots of windows. Offstreet parking possible. Great downtown location. $85 per month. Call 785-766-0270.
FOR RENT
4500 Overland Drive, 843-4040. All Utilities Paid! Units starting at $600/mo.
Leases thru May 31 at available, deluxe appliances, WD, W/D.
www.forkunpartments.com
Great 2 BR's
FOX RUN APARTMENTS
Nice 2 RB apartments near 23rd and 2nd, Dishwash. central air, laundry on site. On the bus route. $450-180. Water may be allowed. George Meigts Mgt
HIGHPOINTE APARTMENTS
NEW!
Available Now!
$99 Deposit & Great Rent Special!
841-8468
2001 W. 6th St.
MELROSE COURT
16th & Tennessee
2 BW r Washner & Dyer
Only 1 left in stock! 2004.104.
841-8486
Parkway Commons
FREE RENT! 1 BR's Available
842-3280
SUBLEASE CLOSE TO CAMPUS
1BR w/ WD, 1726 Ohio, no pets.
$836.9, no $475.7 B宫-855-681
Tuckaway Management. 1, 2, & 3 bedrooms. Call for December/January avail. 838-337 or www.tuckawaymgm.com
Malls Olde English Village
- Now Leasing 1 & 2 BRS.
* Gas, heat, water & limited cable paid.
2411 Louisiana 843-5552
1 & 2 bedroom special!
Save up to $790 on a
new 12 month lease!
Immediate move-in bonus!
TV/VCR or CD/Radio - Your choice
W/D. All Appliances
ABERDEEN
2300 Wakarusa Dr.
M-F 9-5:30, Sat. 11-3
749-1288
LawrenceApartments.com
Aspen West
2900 W, 15th. By campus, water & trash paid, laundry on-site, bus route. No pets. 24 hour maintenance. High speed cable available. AC Management, 1815 W, 24H, 1BR $300, 2BR $475.
842-4461
Canvon Court
700 Comet Lane • 832-8805
next to Stone Creek restaurant
BRAND NEW
1 & 2 BRS
www.firstmanagementinc.com
NO RENT until 2004
30
It's Time
To lease for 2nd semester
15th and Crestline Meadowbrook Apartments
Excellent selection of Townhomes, studios, 1 Bd, 2Bd, 3Bd available. Pet Friendly call Kathy or Liza at 842-4200
410
Now
Town Homes for Rent
2 bedroom, 1.5 bath town home available January 1, 1 car garage, W/D hookups, back yard fenced in, great west location, $655 per month. Call 423-5664 for details!
3 BR 2 1/2 BA town home avail. Dec. 16 at Williams Point. Fireplace, all appliances, cable and high speed internet Internet. No pets. $900 per month. 312-7942.
kansan.com
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Town Homes for Rent
3 BR, 3 BA townhome avail, Jan. 1. Borders West Campus, on KU bus route, Fireplace, 2 car garage, all lawncare provided, 843-6344.
Available now, Large 3 bedroom, 2 bath town homes on Adam Avenue. 1700 square feet. $825, Call 841-4785.
FREE RENT $99 Deposit
2 BR THR $w$785/mo.
842-3280
New 3 BR @ 3439 Aldrich. 2/1 BA 2 car garage. Tons of space. Available Jan 2004. $950/mo. Call (785) 843-0498.
Remodeled 4 BTown homesavail, now and next fall at Leanna Mar. Reserve one now and get 1/2 mo. free 3 BA, lp. all appliances, no pell. Call 312-7942.
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Homes for Rent
1113 Vermont 3 BR, 1.5 BA, 1 car gar. 1 block from Mass. By park. Jan $1, 1/000/mo. 803, 3800, mminile2@hotmail.com
3 BR 1 BA, 1 garage, A/C, W/D, wood floors, fenced yard. Walk to campus. 2111 Naisim $800/mo. 758-865-6024
4 bedroom , 2 bath home with fenced backyard, W/D hookup, clean, new decor. Contact Joy for details at 766-5113.
Available August 5, 6, 7 & 8 BR houses in the Oread area. Look early for best choices. Call 913-441-4169.
6 room house-1711 Alabama, 2-3 BR, 1 BA. Kitchen appliances included, WD, $750/month. Call evening 785-528-4876.
Very nice 4 BR 2 BA house, quiet neighborhood W/D. avail. Jan. 1. 2508 Prairie Elm $11/50/mo. Call 911-9582.
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1 female roommate wanted for a 3 BR, 1 BA fully furnished house near campus. $25/mo + / 1/3 util. N/S, no pets. Call Jenn 913-634-3076 or 832-8695.
1 Female, 3 BR, 2 BA, 9th & Emery $249 pm plus utilities, Sublease Jan-July on bus route. Call Anne at 316-617-4856.
1 roommate wanted for 2 BR, 2 BA at Pkwy Commons. Rent negotiable, all appliances included. Call 763-693-0545.
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2 bedroom, 1 bathroom apartment, toi
floor, fireplace KU bus route, $280/month,
woody location, Call 550-1539.
2 fem. roommates to share 3 BR, 2 BA duo.
living, dining, kitchen, family room.
All appliances and W/D: $450/mo, inci
util. On KUB bus, Call 785-312-8095.
Fem, roommate for 2 BR apt, own BA & balcony, semi-finished, WD, no pets, very close to campus. Call 847-971-0024.
1st mo. rent, available now.
Female roommate needed for 4 BR. 2 BA apt., 9th & Mass. Avail, as early as Dec. $20.35/mi. Call Clare at 238-683-681
Female Roommate Wanted for second semester! 2BR, 2BA, W/D, tully furnished.
$387.50/Mo, Please call 816-679-5872.
Female roommate want for 2 BR, 2 BApt, parkway Commons, W/D, full kitchen, pool, hot tub, on bus route. $390/month plus/12 months, 402-210-840 for details.
Female roommate wanted
Jan - July 31st $285 per mo, plus 1/3 utilities.
Has W/D/ Please call 785-393-1086.
Furn. 1 bedroom for fem. 4 BR house for spring. 2 BA, $400 mo., paid. W/D, close to campus/downstreet. Call 550-5572.
Male roommate wanted for 2 a bedroom,
2 bath apartment. $337 per month plus
1/2 utilities. Call 785-338-9890 for details.
Mature female. Third roommate for very nice 4 bedroom, 2 bathroom house.
Call 760-1998.
Roommate wanted for 2 BR, 2 BA apt,
$390/mo. plus 1/2 utilities, non-smoking,
WD, C/A, dishwasher. Call 843-5540.
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Rooms. Grad. student needs roommates.
4 BR, 3.5 BA, close to KU campus. $375/+
nl. Nice and spacious. 913-205-8774
Rooms for Rent
1 bedroom in 4 bedroom house. Wash-airdryer, dishwasher. Close to K-10. $250 plus/14 utilities. Call 785-249-4136.
Sublease
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1 bedroom of 2 bedroom apartment for spring semester. D/W, disposal, balcony. Nice. $225 per mo. + util. (785) 393-9053.
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Sublease
1 bedroom sublease in 3 bedroom apartment. $330 per month, 1st月 free.
Call 766-0227.
BR, 1733 Ohio St, $395/month, small jets OK, 1 block from campus, sublease
jan 1-July, call Josh at 785-979-7292.
12th and Ohio Street. Dec. 19 - May 31.
Beautiful 4 BR house, WD, lots of living space, partially furnished. 1 BR @ $340/mo+/14 call. Unit 758-760-2886.
14m tat free rent! Large 2 BR, 1 BA sublease Jan-July. Pets OK. On KU bus route. Spacious storage. Garage 656-3703.
3 BR/2 BA apt, at Highpointe. Sublease avail. Jan. 1. $305/person. (785)
550-7888. Cute girls live close!
Fem. needed for very nice 1 BR in a 2 BR
apce. Close to campus. Private bath, W/D,
$420/mo. plus util. Call Erin at 979-839-521
Jeff Commons 1 BR in 3 BR apt. 3 BA D/W Avail. Jan 1-Aug 10, 2004 Jan and Aug rentfree $389 mail.mc913-654-1592
2 of 4 BR sublease available Jan.-Aug.
W/D, close to campus and downtown, big
yard, pet peds. $300/mo Call 785-865-655
Female needed for 1 BR of a 3 BR, 2 BA
house. $300/mo, plus 1/3 util. Call
316-793-7642 or 620-840-9569.
LUXURY APARTMENT. 1 room of 2 bedroom for sublease overlooking Mass. Street. 2 full bath, W/D, furnished. 2 sky lights, dishwasher, trash compactor. First week free. Avail Dec 22, 913-845-7399.
Nice 1 BR. Spring+/or summer. Furnished/unfurnished. W/D. Util. paid. Greatest location: close to campus. 913-244-8213.
One BR sublease available Now! New W/D, W/D, all utilities paid except gas and electric. $450/Mo 913-221-1645.
One BR/One BA apt. from Jan-Aug.
$525/mo. Lots of space. Pool. On KU bus
route. Please Call Jennifer 785-218-4589.
ONE MONTH FREE RENT. 1 bedroom
in 3 BR. Washer/dryer. $270 per month,
plus 1/3 use! No fees. 621-210-840.
Spacious 2 BR apt. $634/month, mostUtilaid (gas, water, trash, cab) Avail Dec until Aug 2014. Call Megan 785-750-0571.
Spacious 18 BR apt. 14th & Tenn. Finished or unfurnished $420/mo. Walk to campus. Available Dec. 22 851-1248
Sublease avail. Jan 1 or sooner. 2 BR duplex w garage. Near 23rd & Kaskid. WD hookups. C/A, DW $500.mm. 760-1703
Sublease Luxury Housing + food.Naismith Hall. DISCOUNTED PRICE PLUS $200 OFF RENTI Please call 816-759-5872.
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Wednesday, December 10,2003
sports commentary
Ryan Greene
rgreene@kansan.com
Women's basketball team hides rising star
Talk about a start to a Kansas women's basketball career.
Lauren Ervin is second on the team in scoring, averaging 9.6 points per game. Lauren Ervin shoots a team-high 69 percent from the floor. Lauren Ervin leads the Jayhawks in rebounding and is tied for the top mark in blocked shots.
In 30-plus years as the coach at Kansas, it has been hard to fault Marian Washington for very much. But if Ervin continues to play like she has been, keeping her out of the starting lineup, or at least not giving her more minutes, could stick out like one of those annoying girls wearing pink T-shirts in the front row at the student section of Allen Fieldhouse.
Oh yeah, one more thing.
Lauren Ervin doesn't even start. In fact, she is playing just 18 minutes per game, which is sixth on the team.
for all to year olds to show you "I think anytime you've been so highly touted, the expectation is sometimes unreasonable, so I'm always trying to be careful." Washington said. "The positive thing for Lauren is that she doesn't have to carry a team like that."
Most college coaches have some concerns about throwing highly-recruited freshmen into the mix too fast. Now Lauren Ervin was made out, mostly by the media, to be the one who was going to save the Kansas program, as well as Washington's job. That's a lot of pressure for an 18-year-old to handle.
Had that pressure been too much for Ervin to handle, then it would be understandable why she is not starting. But in her first five games as a Jayhawk, Ervin has proven something no one thought would come this early.
She is the best player the Jayhawks have, and doesn't seem to be intimidated by it.
Everyone at the games knows it. A friend of mine saw her make a move this weekend, taking the ball coast-to-coast with one hand while fending off a defender with the other.
The end result was Ervin going up going up with one hand and dropping in two points. His only response to the play was "That's something Nick Collison used to do."
Kansas won twice this weekend in the Jayhawk Holiday Inn Classic by a combined score of 160-110 over Cal-State Fullerton and UTEP. Both were convincing victories, but in a way, this team is in a state of emergency right now.
With the schedule they have played so far, the Jayhawks are 3-2, but should be 5-0, or at worst, 4-1. Kansas lost to a decent Oregon team on the road and suffered a sad defeat on the road at UMKC.
In the loss at UMKC, Ervin played just 16 minutes, but was the only Jayhawk to score in double figures with 14 points. She also led the squad with seven rebounds. Ervin said the coaches told her they were simply expecting more from the starting five.
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High scoring helps Hays
By Chris Wintering cwintering@kansan.com Kansan sportswriter
Fort Hays State coach Mark Johnson spent his Saturday afternoon cheering on Kansas, despite his team playing the Jayhawks at 7 tonight in Allen Fieldhouse.
After Stanford beat Kansas 64-58 at the John Wooden Invitational in Anaheim, Calif. Johnson started to worry.
"We didn't want to play them after a loss," he said.
Looking at the size of the two teams, Fort Hays State looks to be outmatched. The Tigers don't have a player over 6-foot-7 while the Jayhawks have four. Their biggest starting post player, senior Ryan
Shriver, is giving up 4 inches to Kansas starting freshman David Padgett and 25 pounds to starting junior Wayne Simien. Despite this, Johnson remains cautiously optimistic about tonight's game.
"You have to believe you have some sort of chance," he said.
His team has given him some reason to believe that this year. The Tigers are 4-0 and have shown an ability to score. They have six players averaging more than 9 points per game. They have an averaged more than 93 points per game and won by an average of more than 32 points this season. Granted, they were doing all of this against Panhandle State, Central Christian College, Mid-American Nazaren and Bethany College. Those are impressive numbers nonetheless.
Fort Hays State's style of play may be just what Kansas needs after its loss to Stanford. Kansas coach Bill Self said his players' style of play against Stanford was not what he coached them to do.
"By no means is it a design of ours to play slow — it is certainly not strategy." Self said on his weekly radio show Monday. "We've never once talked about slowing it down."
Self said that the slow style was not the reason for the loss. He said it was his team's poor passing, poor shooting and its inability to get the ball inside that caused the loss.
Fort Hays State is part of a rotating schedule of Division II teams in Kansas to visit Allen Fieldhouse. In addition to
Kansas Basketball Notes
the tigers, Kansas took on Pittsburg State during the exhibition season.
It was an idea that started during the Roy Williams era, but Self said he liked it. However, he would prefer the games took place in the preseason.
"From their perspective, they would rather play them as exhibition games than regular season, too," Self said. "Then they don't count on your win-loss record."
This is becoming even more likely with the ongoing legislation in the NCAA to keep team's from playing exhibition games against AAU teams. That would eliminate teams like EA Sports that Kansas has played in the past during the exhibition season.
Toomey juiced up for game
By Ryan Greene
rgreene@kansan.com
kansan sportswriter
The Dec. 22 trip to the Tangerine Bowl is a new experience for everyone on the Kansas football team.
It's even new for sophomore linebacker Gabe Toomey, who as a redshirt at Oklahoma traveled with the Sooners to the Cotton Bowl in 2001 to face the Arkansas Razorbacks.
Toomey has seen a bowl game on the sidelines, has helped his teammates prepare for the game and has experienced all of the off-field distractions. But now, as a leader of the Kansas defense, he must assume a different role from that of the observer that he enjoyed two years ago.
"It was fun, the whole idea of the gifts and the sponsors," Toomey said. "I've still got the Playstation 2 and the Palm Pilot. They spoil you, but you've got to stay focused and remember why you're down there."
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Toomey doesn't have to prove his leadership qualities.
Toomey has more responsibility to his team this time around.
In his first season as a Jayhawk, he has become the emotional leader for an improved defense and resembles the blue-collar attitude Mark Mangino craves from his players.
He recalls joking around and having no curfews with his fellow redshirts from his trip to Dallas in 2001. Now he's going to be the one trying to keep teammates in check.
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Kansan File Photo
Kansas linebacker Gabe Toomey wrapped up Kansas State running back Darren Sproles during a fall 2003 regular season football match. The Jayhawks are gearing up for their first bowl game in almost a decade. Toomey and the team will head to Florida to play NC State in the Dec. 22 Tangerine Bowl.
Key Tangerine Bowl matchups
Tony Stubbs - Safety
5-foot-10, 200 pounds, junior
West Palm Beach, Florida
nemuise Johnson - Cornerback
5-foot-8, 170 pounds, senior
Bownton Beach, Florida
Jonathan Lamb - Safety
6-foot-2, 190 pounds, freshman
Lenoxa, Kansas
Stubbs was fourth on the team with 88 tackles and tied for the team lead with two interceptions.
Stubbs also led the Jayhawks in interception return yards. His demeanor is quiet, but he has been a big presence for Kansas.
Key Stats - After a dismal season in 2002, the Kansas secondary has improved with fresh faces, finishing the 2003 campaign ranked 29th in the nation in pass defense. The kingpin of the secondary is Tony Stubbs, who is in his first year as the team's starting strong safety.
Johnson has had an interesting season following his big year in 2002. Last season, Johnson led the Jayhawks with six interceptions.
But a torn rotator cuff cut short his progress during the offseason, and he had to earn his way back into the starting lineup. Johnson has responded with 44 tackles and one interception in 10 games.
Andre Maddox - Roverback
6-foot-1, 191 pounds, junior
Miami, Florida
Troy Graham - Free Safety
6-foot-3, 193 pounds, junior
Miami, Florida
Greg Golden - Cornerback
5-foot-11, 185 pounds, junior
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
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Key Stats - Andre Maddox is the obvious star in this struggling secondary that ranks second to last in Division-IA pass defense.
Maddox led the team this season in tackles with 132, and ranked 29th in the nation with an average of 11 per game.
2003 was Maddox's second season with more than 100 tackles.
Graham, who roams the secondary with Maddox, also made an impact this season with 92 tackles. He was second only to Maddox on the team in solo tackles with 70.
Golden, who did not begin the season as one of the Wolfpack's starting corner-backs, wound up tied for the team lead in interceptions with two. He led the team in interception return yards with 71..
Accomplishments - Andre Maddox's second consecutive season of leading NC State in tackles earned him first-team All-ACC honors this year.
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Hunt begins for new announcer of Kansas sports
By Ross Fitch editor@kansan.com Special to the Kansan
The Athletics Department is beginning its first search for a PA announcer in more than 20 years.
Howard Hill, the University of Kansas PA announcer for football and basketball games, has decided to leave his post as soon as his replacement is hired. Students and faculty who may not know Howard Hill the person can recognize his voice, known for his now-famous
HIII
introduction: "Welcome to the campus of the University of Kansas, and to Allen Fieldhouse, the home of the Jiahawks!"
"I get a rush of excitement every time I hear it," said Michelle Kreutzer, Loveland sophomore. "And I always gooose bumps
Hill had discussed the possibility of retiring with his friends and family since
for some reason.'
"Nobody in the past 20 years has had to face this situation," said Mike Lickert, director of video services. "Howard has been here every game."
fall began. In November, he agreed to make the decision public. That decision has left many members of the Athletics Department unprepared.
In large part because of the suddenness of Hill's decision, the process that will be used to find his replacement has not been formulated, nor has an official committee been formed, said Jim Marchiony, associate athletics director.
People interested in the job have emailed Hill since news of his retirement went public in November. Ultimately, he said his replacement was not his decision.
A major issue that will need to be addressed for any new announcer is whether the position will remain an unpaid volunteer, Hill said.
"We're just gathering names right now." Marchiony said.
"It's my opinion that they're going to have to pay the next guy," Hill said. "There's so much more money involved
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in college athletics these days than there was when we started."
For his 20 years as PA announcer, Hill received two tickets to every home game. The issue of pay has not even been discussed. Marchiony said.
The main qualifications for a PA announcer vary depending on whom you talk to. Background in announcing is important, and if the person has a KU background, that would save the new person some time, Hill said.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Thursday, December 11, 2003
The Student Newspaper of the University of Kansas
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Lawrence fourth-grade Ellen Kyriakos and Lawrence fourth-grade Annie Reed-Westo went sledding yesterday afternoon down the hill across the street from Lewis Hall.
Winter weather returns
Kansan staff report editor@kansan.com
Snow makes wonderland for sledders, nightmare for drivers
Wearing a long sleeve shirt and shorts, a student runs out of K.K. Amini Scholarship Hall yelling and screaming as a snowstorm falls around him.
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Antonio Querasian, Rio De Janeiro Brazil, sophomore, saw snow for the first time yesterday afternoon.
"The more excited you are, you don't feel the cold," Querasian said. "Your body temperature goes up."
night play in the city today. "It's been a stressful week and it was fun to go out and play in the first snow," she said. "It was really cold though."
Jade Martens, Salina freshman, went out with Querasian and others at midnight to play in the snow and go sledding.
But the next day, it was back to work as University of Kansas students plodded through one to two inches of snow and slush on their way to class.
Despite the conditions, Noah Pogany, Lawrence freshman, wasn't really worried about slipping on the layer of ice covering everything outside on the way to his 8:30 a.m. class.
Pogany joined about 20 other fellow University students about eight hours
earlier yesterday to slide down the slopes near the Campanile.
"It it was awesome except for when you crashed and burned," Pogany said, "because it felt like needles where going into your back. It's all ice under the surface with just a little snow on top."
Brandi Evans, Manhattan freshman, said she had to walk to her class instead of taking the usual bus.
"Besides that, I've lived in Kansas all my life so I'm used to it," Evans said. "It's not that bad. It's just really cold and windy but you can't help that."
Her usual bus was not available because that bus was caught up in an accident near GSP-Corbin Hall where she lives.
The University bus collided with a car at the intersection of 11th and Indiana streets. The accident occurred downhill from GSP.
According to Sgt. Mike Patrick of the Lawrence Police Department, a white Toyota 4Runner was travelling east-bound on 11th Street, pulled out from a stop sign and did not see the bus heading northbound on Indiana street. The bus ran into the 4Runner.
The bus driver and one passenger sustained injuries. The driver was taken to
"It was awesome except for when you crashed and burned."
Noah Pogany
Lawrence freshman
Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
More information was not available because the officer who took the report was in court yesterday afternoon.
The hospital offered no information on the driver's condition.
Tim Akright, KU on Wheels coordinator, said that the KU on Wheels bus route was not affected.
"Things are running smoothly." Akright said after the accident.
Ross Janssen Channel 6 News forecaster said he's going to start to track a storm that could hit town on Tuesday.
"It's one we'll watch real closely," Janssen said, "because it had a lot of the features and characteristics that this one had."
—Reporter Amber Byarlay, Mike Norris and Steve Schmidt contributed to this story. Edited by JJ Hensley
Diabetic student passes out, wrecks
By Amanda Kim Stairretti astairrettk@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Tuesday evening, the Lawrence Police Department, KU Public Safety Office, emergency personnel in the Kansas City area and family and friends were searching for the 22-year-old Bowlin, who has type-one diabetes.
It was windy and cold as Stephanie Bowlin, Olathe senior, was leaving her job at the University of Kansas School of Business. It was about 4 p.m. and the last thing she remembered was pulling up to a stop sign.
According to the American Diabetes Association, the body does not produce insulin in a person who has type-one diabetes. Insulin takes sugar from the blood which it uses as fuel for cells.
Bowlin's blood sugar level fell, slowing her brain's processes and causing her to lose her way.
No one knows what happened, but at about 5:30 p.m., Bowlin's boyfriend Andy Pope, Lawrence senior, received an emotional phone call. He could tell immediately something was wrong. Bowlin told him that she was low and that she had stopped but was unable to tell him where she was. Pope kept probing Bowlin for clues, but she got frustrated and hung up on him.
When Bowlin is in this condition, Pope said, he has to treat her like a 2-year-old child. She gets emotional, and if he is stern, she cries.
Pope called her back but she was incoherent and babbling. Pope jumped into his vehicle and retraced the route Bowlin usually took to his house. By then, it was sleeting and his windows were too foggy for him to see. He got worried and called the Lawrence police at 5:40 p.m. He then called Bowlin's mother, Marcheta.
Marcheta said the Lawrence police contacted the KU Public Safety Office. Lawrence police contacted Verizon Wireless, Bowlin's mobile phone carrier. Verizon traced the signal to the Kansas City area and emergency personnel was contacted. They could not find Bowlin. Police in Lawrence would have to rely on manpower to find her. Marcheta called her brother in Kansas City, Mo., to help search. Pope called his friends, and they joined the search too.
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pop, pills and projects:
Fighting sleep to make the grade
By Robert Perkins
rperkins@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
POLICE
It's 2 a.m. Your eyes are drooping, your head hurts and there's nowhere you'd rather be in bed.
But your project -the semester-long all-important project that will either make or break your grade - isn't done.
Photo Illustration Megan True/Kansan
Fromright, Cory Vales, Shawnee senior; Benji Williams, Leawood senior; Patrick Hinkle, Overland Park senior; and Jacob Spence, Wichita senior; took a caffine break while working on their engineering projects early Wednesday morning in Learned Hall.
In fact, it isn't even close to being done.
A half-hour later, you're having trouble breathing, you feel like you're going to throw up, your heart is beating funny and your friends are debating whether to drive you to the hospital.
Once again you reach for the closest pick-me-up: a cup of coffee, a can of Red Bull or maybe some NoDoz pills.
Sound like one of mom's cautionary tales? Maybe mom was right.
As finals draw closer and projects near their due dates, sleep becomes a luxury that many college students decide they can't afford.
To stay up through the long hours of the night, some students turn to substances such as caffeine or amphetamines.
Though they can offer the alertness students need, they also have the potential to be dangerous and even life-threatening. In the case of some amphetamines, they can also be illegal.
With caffeine, 10 grams (roughly 100 cups of coffee) is considered a lethal dose, but it takes only 350 milligrams
(about three cups of coffee) to overdose and cause side effects that can include heartbeat irregularities.
Amphetamines can be much more dangerous, especially when taken without a prescription, said Robert Brown, a doctor at Watkins Memorial Health Center.
But for some students, all of these risks mean nothing in the face of bombing a test, or worse yet, a class.
To maintain this sleep-depriving schedule, Bhat once experimented with caffeine pills in an attempt to stay awake--a decision he regretted.
The St. Louis junior regularly works past 1 or 2 in the morning on his architecture projects, only to get up the next morning between 7 and 8 a.m. for class
Now Bhat sticks to Red Bull for his late nights in studio. But that has dangers of its own, too.
"It felt crappy," he said. "I got the shakes, I felt dizzy and I couldn't concentrate. All it did was make me realize how tired I was."
Red Bull, marketed as "the energy drink that gives you wings," contains 80 milligrams of caffeine in every 250 milliliter can.
Once during his sophomore year, Bhat used Red Bull to stay awake for seven days straight with just six total hours of sleep.
During that period, he fell asleep in the middle of Naismith Boulevard as he was crossing it, earning a honk from a driver who had to stop to avoid hitting him.
Despite that experience, Bhat continues to use Red Bull to stay awake.
"It's not a matter of whether I choose to stay up late," he said. "I have to stay up late."
The most cans of Red Bull Bhat has ever had was four in a 12-hour period, more than twice the recommended amount. It was enough to give him the shakes.
Now, Bhat saves his use of Red Bull for special occasions, like the week after Thanksgiving when he was hard at work on another big architecture project.
"I basically just use it to prevent myself from passing out outright," he said.
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"Evidently, the bomb went off by accident."
Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov on an apparently failed attempt to suicide bomb the Russian Parliament
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Campus Man shoots once,robs bank in west Lawrence,heads east
A man with a gun robbed University National Bank of Lawrence, 1400 Kasold Dr., yesterday, according to a press release from the Lawrence Police Department.
In the press release, the suspect, described as a white male in his 20s weighing about 180 pounds and standing 5-foot-9,fired a shot in the building before stealing an undisclosed amount of money.
The suspect then left the bank on foot heading east, according to the press release.
The FBI has been notified and is investigating the robbery.
Lawrence police are asking anyone who has information about the robbery to call CrimeStoppers at 843-TIPS, or call the Lawrence police Detective Division at 830-7430.
Joe Hartigan
Mia Cole, Overland Park freshman, and Sarah Elliott, Lenexa freshman, threw snow balls at Liz Lathrop, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore yesterday afternoon behind Lewis Hall. Lathrop said she couldn't wait to get out and play in the snow.
I will not allow this to happen. I will only allow you to play games and have fun in the snow.
Nation Sniper accomplice suspect declared legally insane
CHESAPEAKE, Va. — Lee Boyd Malvo was legally insane during last year's sniper spree because of intense indoctrination by sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad, a defense psychistrist Neil Blumberg testified yesterday at Malvo's trial. He examined Malvo 20 times in jail.
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concepts and that the winner in a war determines who is right and who is wrong. Muhammad likened the n制剂 attacks to a war against the United States government, which he said oppresses blacks.
Psychiatrist Diane Schetky, who twice interviewed Malvo, also testified that Malvo was unable to tell right from wrong—the legal standard for insanity in Virginia.
Schetky said on cross-examination that she believes Malvo knew right from wrong during a slaying eight months before the sniper spree, which left 10 dead in and around Washington, D.C., in October 2002. Malvo has confessed to killing Keenya Cook in Tacoma, Wash., on Feb. 16, 2002.
Defense mental health experts have said Malvo, 18, was taught by Muhammad that right and wrong are artificial
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Horan has suggested the conflicted feelings prove Malvo knew right from wrong.
PITTSBURGH—An HIV-positive man in need of a liver transplant was wrongly denied coverage under the state's Medicaid program, an administrative law judge ruled.
HIV-positive man denied wrongly denied Medicaid
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William Jean Gough's liver is deteriorating because of hepatitis C. The 46-year-old was accepted as a strong candidate for the lifesaving operation in August by Pittsburgh's Thomas E. Starzl Transplant Institute.
In a ruling made public yesterday, Judge Bernadene Kennedy dismissed the state's argument, saying that scientific advances allow people with HIV to live full lives.
In the state Department of Public Welfare, which oversees the state's Medicaid program, however, denied coverage for Gough, saying that infection with the AIDS virus is a life-limiting condition that rules out a transplant.
The judge expedited the case because Gough's condition worsens by the day and he could be ineligible for a transplant if his liver deteriorates too much.
Doctors said the Altoona man could die in nine to 12 months without a transplant. The average wait is six to 12 months.
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Gwyneth Paltrow and Coldplay lead singer Chris
Martin are married, according to the Santa Barbara County clerk-recorder's office.
Paltrow, Coldplay singer married officially Friday
Last week, Paltrow announced she was expecting their first child next summer.
expecting them first to lunch then to
County officials confirmed that the couple applied for a license last Friday,
and that appears to be the date they tied the knot, in a short, secret ceremony.
An official in the county office told The Associated Press yesterday that documents show the marriage happened but provided no other details, such as the exact date and location.
Publicist Stephen Huvane said his clients refuse to confirm or deny the report.
The Oscar-winning star of Shakespeare in Love has been dating Martin, frontman for the British band Coldplay, for a year. Both have been reticent about discussing their relationship.
This is the first marriage for Paltrow, 31, and Martin, 26.
Paltrow stars as poet Sylvia Plath in the new film Sylvia.
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Administrators denounce calendar
University officials say Women of KU producer unclear
By Maggie Newcomer
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Kansan staff writer
University of Kansas officials are studying this year's Women of KU calendar to determine whether the World Company broke any laws producing the calendar.
Janet Murguia, executive vice chancellor of University Relations, sent a letter to Ray Davis, chair of the Senate Executive Committee, yesterday in response to SenEx's concerns that the calendar might misrepresent itself as a product of the University.
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Murguia said the University had no association with the calendar, any calendar-related merchandise or KUsports.com, a Web site maintained by the
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Lawrence Journal World. She said because it used Jayhawk logos and University facilities, the calendar gave the impression that the University supported it.
But that is not the case, Murguia said.
The University requires permission to use its facilities and the Jayhawk logo for any commercial ventures by outside parties.
The World Company did not notify the University that it would be taking photographs inside Allen Fieldhouse, Horejsi Family Athletics Center and Memorial Stadium for the calendar. Some of the women pictured are also wearing licensed merchandise with the Jayhawk logo, which also wasn't approved,
But this time the calendar gives a false impression of affiliation with KU."
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according to Murgia's letter.
"We don't control the letters 'K' and 'U,'" Murgia said. "But this time the calendar gives a false impression of affiliation with KU."
Murguia said she wanted to make it clear that while it was the individual's choice to model for the calendar, the University did not condone the sexually suggestive depiction of anyone for profit. She said her only concern was clarifying that the University received no benefits from the calendar's sales.
Marlesa Roney, vice provost for student success, said she shared Murguia's concerns.
"It does look like an official publication of KU because of the title and logos," Roney said.
Roney said even though there were grade point average requirements to participate in the calendar, she thought there were better ways to portray capable KU women.
Ralph Gage, general manager of the Lawrence Journal-World, declined to comment.
In previous The University Daily Kansan articles, Jim Marchiony, associate athletics director, said the Women of KU calendar would no longer be shot in University athletics facilities.
Murguia said the administration had not decided yet whether to take legal action. She said it just wanted to explore its options.
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Senate approves distinction calendar
By Paul Kramer
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Kansan staff writer
The KU Women of Distinction calendar is now a reality, after passing Student Senate last night.
The calendar is sponsored by the Emily Taylor Resource Center, which is not a student group.
The bill did not pass without problems, as a Senate regulation prohibiting the allocation of funds to non-student groups had to be suspended.
The problems continued as many senators questioned whether the calendar, which will be sold in future years, was an entrepreneurial endeavor.
Patrick Quinn, off-campus senator, said Senate was missing an opportunity to have a student group sponsor the calendar.
Emily Taylor Resource Center will print 3,000 calendars to be distributed free of charge.
The calendars will be available in the Center for Community Outreach offices, in the Kansas Union and campus bookstores.
In other Senate news:
Speaking to senators, Provost David Shulenburger said the University of Kansas was involved in increasing student retention rates.
Shulenburger outlined four reasons why he thought the University had improved retention in the last few years and areas that would continue to be strengthened to increase the rates.
1. Increasing the efficiency of the advising center through increased staff and funds.
2. The math department has gotten serious about making intro classes more friendly.
3. The advent and continual improvement of writing centers.
Roommates spread holiday cheer with blazing lights
4. Adding money to minority programs.
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By Kevin Kampwirth
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Kansas staff writer
As the only man-made object visible from outer space, the Great Wall of China has always held a curious distinction.
A certain Lawrence house, however, seems to be challenging this.
For the second year in a row, the residents of the house at 939 Indiana St. have transferred their Christmas spirit to the 13-bedroom house, decorating it with lights, plastic reindeer and a huge inflatable snowman.
The luminous display was a joint project by all 13 roommates. Each one contributed money to buy the decorations, some giving as much as $400 for the effort.
Brett Gilmore, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, senior, is one of the 13 people that reside at the house.
Gilmore said that decorating the exterior of the house was a full two-day effort.
The idea to decorate the house began last year as a competition between the house on Indiana and some friends of theirs at a house on 1238 Tennessee St.
"I can honestly say that there's not another house in Lawrence that has put as many smiles on people's faces as 939 Indiana," Gilmore said.
"A lot of it was that we had nothing better to do," Gilmore said. "It was either that or study for finals."
There was no tangible prize for the winning display except pride, Gilmore said.
The Tennessee house residents have yet to put up any decorations and said they didn't plan to.
"We were going to do it again, but it just got too late," said Anthony
"If someone opens the refrigerator when the lights are on, it blows a fuse and everything goes out."
Brett Gilmore Calgary, Alberta, Canada senior
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"If someone opens the refrigerator when the lights are on, it blows a fuse and everything goes out," he said.
Francisco, Wichita senior and resident at the Tennessee house. "There's really no point now."
Gilmore said that the greatest satisfaction comes when children who were walking with their parents or grandparents stopped and commented on how great it looked.
Despite the hundreds of dollars in energy bills that they faced last year, Gilmore and he and his roommates decided to decorate to excess again.
tions are on.
The amount of power that the light display requires forces the roommates to keep all the lights off in the house when the decora-
At the Tennessee house, Gilmore is waiting for them to decorate.
"Apparently, no one wants to take the initiative over there to spread a little holiday cheer," he said. "It's sad really."
One of Gilmore's roommates, Alex Carr. Topeka senior, walked into the living room with the newest addition to this year's display: a 5-foot-tall dancing Santa Claus.
The residents of 939 Indiana St. spend hundreds of dollars to light up their house this holiday season. This is the second year the roommates have decorated.
As it gyrates its hips maniacally and spouts muffled strings of "ho ho ho's," Gilmore and Carr stand up with a proud look of self satisfaction on their faces, safe, it seems, in the knowledge that this year, the house will dominate
the skyline.
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perspective
I just want to thank the good samaritan that gave me a ride home last night in the 20 degree weather and the freezing ice.
Warning to all KU students: Blizzard plus alcohol plus skate board with no wheels and large hill equals concussion.
Please cancel school.
To all of those people who helped push my car up the hill in the snow on Tuesday night, thank you. I know you didn't know me and I really appreciate your help. As for the organic chemistry people who did not cancel the test I am really not that happy with you.
letter to the editor
Hazing story inaccurate denied house representation
I am writing to express extreme disappointment in the way Abby Mills' story on hazing was handled, particularly in regards to the way she covered the incident regarding Andrew Ward and Phi Kappa Theta ("Hazing still found on campus despite changing greek mentality." Kansan, Dec. 4). I am a member of Phi Kappa Theta and a former president. As a result, I know first-hand what the fraternity has done since this incident, both in re-evaluating our new member program and in trying to shed our image as a chapter that hazes.
However, nowhere in the article does it mention the work that Phi Kappa Theta has done to ensure nothing like that happens again, because Mills didn't speak to anyone in the fraternity. The people responsible for the terrible things done to Mr. Ward are long gone. In fact, other than Mr. Ward, no one even associated with Phi Kappa Theta during that time is still at KU. I mention this because I feel it is unfair that the current members, who do not haze, are now going to have to deal with the implications of the story, not those former members who actually were responsible. As I said before, Phi Kappa Theta has worked hard to make sure that we don't conduct ourselves in that way. More difficult, however, is dispelling the notion that we do. No prospective new member wants to join a fraternity that will haze him, and rightly so. This article has set Phi Kappa Theta back five years. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining. Members of Phi Kappa Theta committed these actions, and we have to take responsibility for them. But had Mills contacted us, she would have learned and reported that the current members of this fraternity do not condone that type of behavior and have long since shunned it.
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Academic freedom prevailed
The controversy regarding Dennis Dailey's class "Human Sexuality in Every Day Life" may be over — finally.
Last week, Senate Executive Committee unanimously passed a resolution affirming the University of Kansas' commitment to academic freedom. The resolution was actually made in response to Sen. Susan Wagle's (D-Wichita) request that state universities establish a policy regarding the teaching of sexuality, sexually explicit materials, pedophilia and sexual harassment.
The irony, of course, is that the resolution at the University of Kansas basically stated that instructors should be responsible but had the right to control the way they presented subject matter. Really, the resolution shouldn't surprise Wagle. This resolution is just another example of the University supporting Dailey's methods and upholding academic freedom. Last spring, Provost David Shulenberger conducted an investigation of Dailey's class. The report, released in May, was very clear: Wagle misrepresented Dailey. None of Dailey's materials fits the description of child pornography or pedophilia, as Wagle alleged.
Moreover, Shulenberger characterized Dailey's student evaluations from the last five years as "remarkable." In the past five years, only three students rated Dailey "poor" in regards to his respect for the class, while 1,368 students rated his respect as "excellent."
Opinion at the University has always favored Dailey. But if students do, for whatever reason, feel uncomfortable with Dailey's class, they should just not take it. Dailey isn't going to alter his format, nor should he have to.
Though she couldn't be reached for comment, one can only hope that Wagle has gotten the message: leave our sex class alone.
Senior suggests hints for underclassmen
Stephanie Lovett for the editorial board.
GUEST COMMENTARY
Now that I'm about to face the somewhat anti-climactic December graduation, I find myself growing misty-eyed over every ludicrous aspect of college. Every final paper, every test study session and every freezing walk down Jayhawk Boulevard now takes on the sheen of a precious moment. And, since I'm the ripe age of 22, I see the freshmen in a different light. How enthusiastic many of them are, still in awe of their ability to get drunk. I remember when I was so bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. I just want to pat them on the heads, squeeze their red cheeks and say, "Oh, you'll settle down, you'll learn." Learn what? Well, I'm not talking about calculus or organic chemistry. You'll learn about how to deal with other people and, hopefully, you'll learn more about yourself. In the mean time, here are few tips I learned after exactly 4.5 years toiling in academia.
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1. Don't be afraid to be a stinky, slimy college student
Now is the time in life to eat ramen noodles for weeks on end, take a shower while drinking a beer (as my
roommate does in the summer), stumble through the streets to Burrito King at three in the morning and to generally act like a young fool. Think of these years as your free pass to be a little reckless and crazy. Too many college students disappear their first year to the gleaning, west side of town. You have the rest of your lives to live in boring duplexes near endless strip malls. Live in the student ghetto; live with slimy roommates; eat packaged food to the point of getting scurvy. You get the idea. Sometimes, I like to daydream about what powerful people were like as college students. Did Dick Cheney survive on Mac and Cheese and drink from
beer bongs? I bet John Ashcroft was the type of roommate who didn't do his dishes.
2. Get involved
Speaking of Attorney General John Ashcroft, now is also the time in life to get involved in politics. If you feel passionate about a cause, visit the Center for Campus Life and look for an organization that fits your interests. If you find that no club fits your cause, start one up. If you don't have the time to do that, then at least stay informed. As students at the University of Kansas, you have access to five free daily papers, including The University Daily Kansan. It's unlikely that you will ever again have access to that much free news material Take advantage of it.
3. Get out of your comfort zone
Do you hate art museums? Then take art history. Are you terrible at math? Then dive into calculus for a semester. The point is that some of the classes I most dreaded turned out to be the most fun and the most engaging. The point of going to a University is not just to coast through on what you think is an easy major with easy classes. Don't wuss out
and take your Western Civilization classes at Johnson County Community College. Classes like that may take a lot of work, but they also exposes you to subjects you may never run across again. Who knows, you may end up actually liking Nietzsche's philosophy.
4. There are no clear cut answers
If you really are paying attention, you're not going to just learn facts and figures in college.
If you are really learning, you should learn something about human nature
People are hypocritical, moody, inconsistent, boring, neurotic, lovable and above all unpredictable. But life is not about filling in the blanks of a Scantron sheet. The best professor and the best friends will pose more questions than answers. Hopefully, those questions will never stop. Hopefully by the end of your own college career you"ll realize that learning doesn't really end after they hand you that diploma. It really just begins.
Leah Shaffer is a senior in journalism and environmental studies. She is managing editor.
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Let personal idealism burn through bleak days, keep hope strong and good deeds bountiful
Soon it will be the darkest day of the year.
COMMENTARY
In 10 days, on Dec. 21, it will officially be winter in the Northern Hemisphere. In Lawrence, we can expect to see only about nine hours of sunlight. Spring is still months away.
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It's dark right now in America, too.
American soldiers continue to die in Iraq at a rate of about two per day. Nearly 500 have been killed there so far.
Rachel Robson opinion@kansan.com
Nearly 500 have been killed there so far. A historic budget surplus left by the Clinton administration was converted into an even more historic deficit one that we twenty-somethings could be paying off into old age. The projected federal budget deficit for just this fiscal year is now estimated at $400 billion.
Three million jobs have been lost in the American economy in the past three years. The slight economic recovery we are now experiencing has not been enough to replace them.
The Al Qaeda terrorist organization that attacked us on Sept. 11,2001, has
still not been apprehended on destroyed. Our military is spread desperately thin.
Patriotism has been redefined as obedience, and dissenters smeared as traitors. We are more politically polarized than we have been in decades, chilling even relationships among family members who disagree.
It's easy to be a pessimist in times like these. It's easy to hibernate in a cocoon of cynicism and selfishness, waiting for the world's problems to work themselves out. It's easy to use one's own lack of power as an excuse
Most of us will never again be as free or as energetic as we are as college students. With rare exceptions, we will never again be able to indulge an interest in political or social issues the way we can now.
It's easy, and it's wrong.
And that is why, while we still can, we are morally obligated to make the world a better place.
for ignorance and apathy.
You can do this. You can volunteer at one of Lawrence's many charities. You can adopt one of the children on the Salvation Army Angel Tree in the Kansas Union. You can sign up for Alternative Spring Breaks. You can learn more about issues that concern you, and then inform others. You can help with the political campaign of a candidate you believe in. You can, in a small but significant way, change the world.
It is dark and cold in our country right now. It is, I fear, going to get a lot darker.
Don't burn out. Don't allow the darkness and the chill that has enveloped our nation to become a permanent fixture. Don't allow your idealism to be diluted with the misguided notion that you are only a college student, unable to affect any change in the world.
But a few days after the darkest day of the year is Christmas. "The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has never overcome it," declares the Christian Gospel of John. A few days after the year's darkest day is Hanukkah, a Jewish celebration of lights that didn't burn out.
We must act, knowing that our light will not be extinguished, and that spring will come.
Snow is blowing, and the nights are long. But we can't be afraid of the dark.
Robson is a Baldwin City doctoral candidate in pathology.
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Not all students satisfied with new fitness center
By Danielle Hillix
dhillix@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
It took four years and $17 million dollars, but the University of Kansas got its Student Fitness Recreation Center.
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The highly anticipated center opened its doors Sept. 29. Since then, more than 100,000 people have used the facility. Surveys indicate that most students are satisfied with the center. But some are not.
Kelly Flientie, Sabetha, senior and Brandon Lukert, Sabetha senior, played ping pong at the Student Fitness Recreation Center in October. Since it opened in late September, more than 100,000 people have used the recreation center.
Rec Services has heard a variety of responses to the center, said Mary Chappell, Rec Services director.
This is similar to what Chappell has heard from students. But she's not ready to say the center is perfect.
"We haven't had a ton of negative comments," she said. "But we've definitely had mixed reactions."
Much of the dissatisfaction with the recreation center centered on the racquetball courts. There are two racquetball courts at the new center, compared to six courts at Robinson. When the racquetball courts at the new center opened, students were no longer allowed to use Robinson's courts. This created long waits for the two available courts.
Though the majority of comments have been positive, Chappell said she knew her office still had work to do to improve the center.
"We're still working out the bugs," she said.
Throughout November, students in Maria Len-Rios's journalism marketing and media research class surveyed students about their thoughts on the new recreation center.
Mixed reactions
Of the 391 students polled, 84 percent said they were satisfied with the center.
Rec Services recently worked out a deal with Robinson that
Open court hours
After hearing student complaints, free Services made a deal With Robinson to use its reusable courts during certain times of the day.
Monday through Friday:
5.30 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.; three open courts
7.30 p.m. to 9 p.m.; six open courts
Robinson's basketball courts are also available to students.
Mooday through Friday; 5 p.m.
to 9 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday; 2 p.m.
to 5 p.m.
allows students to use the Robinson courts first come, first serve during designated times of the day.
One of the new center's racquetball courts requires reservations, but Rec Services made the other court a challenge court, which allows for a higher level of competition with a play-until you-lose rule, Chappell said.
Another source of dissatisfaction is the free weight area. The center allotted 2,000 square feet for free weights, compared to 10,000 square feet for cardiovascular machines. This has some lifters up in arms.
Keyarash Iahanian, Kansas City, Kan., freshman, spent the first month of school lifting weights at Robinson.
After hearing all the hype about the new recreation center, he said he couldn't wait for it to open.
But the lack of free weight space has disappointed him. He said the whole building was overrated.
Jahanian said that for lifters, the new center offered no advantage over Robinson.
The small area makes power lifting with barbells impossible because a large space is necessary, he said. And the area tends to get just as crowded as Robinson did.
"I'm severally offended by this monstrous piece of crap," he said.
Free weights have been a touchy subject, Chappell said. The area was simply not designed for serious lifters. But Rec Services is looking for ways to improve it.
As far as making the area bigger, that is basically impossible, Chappell said.
Instead, some equipment might be eliminated to create additional room for the more popular items. In addition, the space will probably be reorganized to accommodate traffic, Chappell said.
The cardiovascular area will also be tweaked, but not quite as much as the free weight section, Chappell said.
The changes will come after winter break, Chappell said.
More than 100 cardio machines are available to students. That number seems to be just about right, Chappell said.
The cardio area is the most popular feature of the center. No matter what time of day it is, there is someone on the cardio machines, Chappell said.
"They're here when we open, and they're here when we close," she said.
She does cardiovascular and
Jessica Fergen, Belle Plaine sophomore, is one of the students who takes advantage of the cardio equipment.
weight training exercises at the center six days a week. Fergen said having all the equipment in one place made working out easier and more efficient.
"I miss it so much when I'm not at school," she said. "I always joke with my mom that we should get a fitness center at home."
Fergen said the center kept her motivated. She said was always too lazy to brave the crowds at Robinson, she said.
Even though the new center gets crowded as well, the wait for a treadmill isn't nearly as bad as it was at Robinson, she said.
The history
What is now a 100,000 square-foot recreation center began as a petition in 1998.
Unhappy with the facilities and availability at Robinson Center, a group of students did some research.
They found that the University's recreation facilities were at the back of the pack compared to other Big 12 Conference schools.
Instead of improving Robinson, the students fought for a new recreation center.
Kevin Yoder, then student body president, and other students resurrected a failed 1996
"This was a students' grass roots movement," Yoder said in a press release at the time.
referendum for a new center. Yoder and his group collected more than 1,000 signatures on a petition in order to bring the referendum to a vote before students.
The referendum went before the KU student body in April 1999 and passed with more than 70 percent of the vote. In May 2000, the Kansas Legislature approved $17 million of bonds to be used for the center. As part of the referendum, all funds were to be paid through student fees.
Administration first increased campus fees in the fall of 2001 to reflect the change made by the referendum.
This semester, $62 of each student's campus fees goes towards the recreation center.
—Edited by Katie Bean
Because their money was used to build it, anyone who paid campus fees after the fall of 2001 is eligible to use the recreation center. Chappell said that so far 180 former students have activated an account with the center.
"They all want to know why we didn't have this when they were at the University," Chappell said.
2 bodies of teens found in cement
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HAMMOND. Ind. — A search for three missing teenagers uncovered at least two bodies buried beneath freshly poured concrete in the basement of a house, authorities said yesterday.
Both were wrapped in plastic and duct tape. Authorities have identified the corpses as white males. Pathologists did not immediately release the results of an autopsy on the first body
"The person took a long time in doing this," Lake County Coroner David Pastrick said. "It took awhile for our pathologist to remove all that was around the body."
Additional remains, possibly those of a third victim, were found yesterday morning, and investigators were working to collect them. Police Chief John Cory said an anthropologist was being brought in to examine the remains.
Investigators had searched the two-story house for about 10 hours Tuesday and removed two body bags. Cory said a tenant he described as "a person of interest" had been taken into custody and was being questioned.
He would not identify the person in custody. No criminal charges were filed.
On Wednesday, officers used ground-penetrating radar equipment and a dog trained to search for bodies, Cory said.
Officer Michael Jorden, a city police spokesman, said three male teenagers have been reported missing in the past several months. Michael Dennis, 13, was last seen Sept. 10 at a home near the one that was searched. Names of the other two, ages 19 and 16, have not been released.
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Grades, health concerns keep freshman off-balance
By Johanne M. Maska
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Kansan staff writer
The semester hasn't been kind to La*Pouchea McConico.
In and out of love, down and out with grades, McConico was overwhelmed to begin with.
But the kicker was the health issue: McConico had an abnormal pap smear and will have a colopscopy, a test for various cancers and abnormalities in women's reproductive organs.
While other students finish the semester praying for passing grades, McConico is wishing for another chance next semester. It didn't have to go this way, she said.
Her health worries have kept her from her studies.
"The only Christmas present I want is my health back," McConico said.
In the first week of school, McConico joined Black Student Union, Inspirational Gospel Voices and basketball intramurals.
She got a job working for the Freshman Sophomore Advising Center. She found a group of friends. As part of various tutoring and support programs including Hawk Link, McConico was ready to succeed. Lately her health concerns have overwhelmed her.
"I think I'm all cried out," McConico said of her failed expectations. She's to the point where she're-evaluating.
"If I pass with C's in every class, I don't care," McConico said. "I'm just happy it's over."
"The only Christmas present I want is my health back."
La'Pourchea McConico Bonner Springs freshman
When she leaves for break, McConico says she's going to calm down. She's getting the colopscopy, resting and preparing to focus on school in the next semester, pending her diagnosis. It's a scary time, she said.
Her friends, including a few supportive men, have helped McConico through, she said. McConico met a man this summer who moved to Texas, and she's been talking to him until recently.
"I loved that man," she said.
But he's fallen out of contact.
Now McConico is worried that she's falling in love with a new man.
"He reminds me of my father," she said.
But she's not sure about a relationship. She wants to focus on her school work.
Lately, McConico's grades have steadied. She's taking one incomplete, but she's pretty sure things are going OK elsewhere.
Regardless of grades, McConico said she's excited to be done. Next semester, as long as she's healthy, she's prepared to do better.
"I don't like to fail," McConico said.
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La'Pourchea McConico, Bonner Springs freshman, looked over sociology material earlier in October when she was trying to improve her grades. She is now troubled by undiagnosed health problems.
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Gratitude keeps bell-ringer busy during holiday season
By Alex Hoffman
ahoffman@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The wind whips into her face and the rain falls intermittently.
Bundled up in a heavy coat and stocking cap, the cold and progressively nasty weather doesn't keep Mary Sheppard, Lawrence resident, from ringing her bell.
The Salvation Army's annual holiday bell-ringing officially began Nov.14,but donations are picking up as the holidays near.
She greets and gives parting words of, "Have a good holiday," to customers at Dillons, 1015 W. 23rd St.
It is Sheppard's fifth year collecting money, and her bucket usually gets full enough that she needs to use another during her shifts.
When Sheppard first moved from New York state, Salvation Army was there for her by helping with the rent at a new apartment.
When she lost her job and couldn't continue paying the rent, the organization helped her again by finding housing.
Sheppard sometimes rings for full 12-hour shifts out of gratitude for the help the Salvation Army has given her. But lately she is going for eight hours as she recovers from pneumonia. For Sheppard, any work for the people at Salvation Army is good work.
"If it weren't for them, I'd be out on the streets like all these other people." Sheppard said.
"I'll just have to see how the weather looks," she said.
Kaelyn Fox, Pittsburg senior and co-director of the Center for Community Outreach, said her organization frequently kept in contact with the Salvation Army. The center connects students seeking volunteer opportunities. Ringing bells is one that it advertises. Fox said.
As of now, five students have signed up to be bell ringers, said Rochelle Montgomery, administrative assistant for the local office, 946 New Hampshire St. Last year 23 students volunteered.
Salvation Army's goal is to raise $75,000 by noon on Dec. 24, Montgomery said. Volunteers are ringing in 19 locations around Lawrence.
"We are doing very well, and we're ahead of last year," Montgomery said.
Edited by JJ Hensley
Palestinians ready for peace, blame Israeli forces for violence
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JERUSALEM — Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat yesterday dismissed as meaningless the Israeli premier's hints of evacuating some Jewish settlements, while a meeting of Israeli and Palestinian foreign ministers raised hopes for renewed peace talks.
After seeing Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Geneva, Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom traveled to Rome for talks with his Palestinian counterpart, Nabil Shaaah, the highest-level meeting between the two sides since Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia took office two months ago.
The diplomatic flurry reflected renewed efforts toward peace negotiations, with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon considering as yet undefined unilateral moves if talks on the U.S.-backed "road map" peace plan fail. The
plan starts with a cease-fire and leads to a Palestinian state in 2005.
Violence continued early today, with Israeli troops battling Palestinians in a Gaza Strip refugee camp on the Egyptian border early today. Residents said two Palestinians were wounded.
Palestinians said Israeli forces entered the Rafah refugee camp before daybreak and surrounded the house of a Hamas militant. Palestinians opened fire on the troops and threw hand grenades from the roof of the building, and the Israelis sent attack helicopters in as reinforcements, they said.
Israeli military officials said the purpose of the mission was to arrest a wanted Palestinian, and there were exchanges of fire at the scene.
Efforts continued toward arranging a first meeting between Qureia and Sharon, though the failure of contacts in Cairo among
Palestinian factions last week appeared to delay the summit plans. Qureia and Egyptian officials tried unsuccessfully to secure a declaration from the militants that they would stop attacks against Israelis, clearing the way for a demand that Israel reciprocate.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry said Shalom told Shaath that Israel is interested in renewing peace negotiations "without preconditions." At a joint news conference, Shaath called for implementation of the road map, "the only way to achieve the peace, a comprehensive and just peace."
Earlier, after meeting Mubarak, a key mediator, Shalom said, "My name is peace and we believe in peace," referring to the English translation of his last name.
Palestinians charge that Israeli military operations and restrictions are responsible for the relentless violence.
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By Meghan Brune
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Kansan staff writer
As finals end this semester,
Hanukkah begins.
Hanukkah, or the Festival of Lights, begins at sundown on Friday, Dec. 19, and continues until Friday, Dec. 26.
The Jewish holiday falls during the Jewish month Kislev, and celebrates the rededication of the Jerusalem temple more than 2,000 years ago. The Maccabees fought against the Greeks to reclaim their temple. The holiday also celebrates the miracle of a single jar of oil that burned for eight days.
And even though the holiday includes a tradition of exchanging gifts, the holiday is more than a "Jewish Christmas."
Hanukkah is an important celebration, but not one of the high holidays in the Jewish religion, said Leah Rutman, a junior from Minneapolis, Minn.
Rutman said that Hanukkah was a time for her family to get together. She said her family had a big Hanukkah party every year with all her cousins. They did
exchange gifts, she said, but not one for each of the eight nights.
"I think that is more a tradition for younger children," she said.
Rutman said that other holiday traditions included playing Dreidel, eating latke — potato pancakes — and lighting a candle in the Menorah for each of the eight nights.
The Menorah put in the window of a home to publicize the miracle.
She said that it was hard to celebrate her first year of college because she was away from home during the holiday. Hanukkah sometimes falls earlier in December because the Jewish calendar is different than the Roman calendar, commonly used in the United States.
"This year will be nice because Hanukkah starts on the first day of break so people will be at home." Rutman said.
KU Hillel, the Jewish student organization, has opportunities for Jewish students to get together, celebrate and learn about the holiday every year, Rutman said.
This year Hillel has held two pre
"In America, Hanukkah gets celebrated to a higher degree than in other countries because of its proximity to Christmas."
Christmas."
Polii Kenn
Hillel program director
Hanukkah events to prepare students for the holiday, a Hanukkahthemed Shabbat dinner last Friday and a party on Monday.
Poli Kenn, the program director of Hillel, said it was a small holiday, and it celebrated religious freedom.
"In America, Hanukkah gets celebrated to a higher degree than in other countries because of its proximity to Christmas," Kenn said.
She said that her children were sometimes confused when they did not see Hanukkah celebrated in public.
She said some Jewish families
Freshmen Aly Abrams, Leawood; Daniel Craven, Prairie Village; David Cohen, Topeka; and Rachael Glynn, Orlando, Fla.; played Dreidel, a traditional Jewish game during a Hanukkah Party at Le wis Hall last night. Hanukkah starts at sundown Dec. 19 and ends eight days later on Dec. 26. The party was sponsored by KU Hilil, an organization for Jewish students.
had different traditions such as doing community service or giving gelt, a gift of money to family.
part of which is expected to be to make it special," Kenn said. donated to charity.
Everyone has their own way — Edited by Doyle Murphy
International student: U.S. has changed since Gulf War
By Meghan Brune
mbrune@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
A tear came to his eye when Sohel Khan thought about all the people who had helped him when he was a young international student.
Khan, now working on his doctorate in electrical engineering, has been a student at the University of Kansas since 1990.
He said he had seen positive changes in the University and the attitude toward international students. He has been proactive in making efforts to educate those around them about his background, he said.
In 1990, Khan came from Bangladesh to work on his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering. Shortly after Kahn arrived, the Persian Gulf War broke out. Kahn, who lived in student housing, started to get menacing phone calls.
"I would come home to phone messages abusing me," he said.
An active student in high school, Kahn said he tried to protest the war on Wescoe Beach, but he found no support.
"Campus was not open to different opinions at that time," Khan said. "People would just shout,'Muslim,'at me."
The most frustrating part of the harassment, Khan said, was that when he was being targeted as a Muslim, he was actually atheist.
Khan said he had a hard time finding a job on campus, and he
said he thought it was because of his name.
When Kahn came to the University, his name was Sohel Islam.
In his country, the tradition is not to take the father's last name. Last names are given to reflect an individual.
After talking to his sister, who was also studying in the United States, he decided to change his name to his father's last name, Khan.
"After I changed my name, I got a job." Khan said.
Khan said it was hard as an international student to be away from home and watch the coverage of the war.
"You see all these things happening away from your country and you can't call home," Khan
said. "And here, no one was listening to our point of view."
International Student Services provided a place for him and other foreign students to go and get support, Khan said.
"It was a place to sit," he said. "The counselors were equipped with an understanding of international cultures and issues."
Khan said when he came back to the University in 1996 to begin work on his masters degree, he felt a closer tie to the Muslim religion. He began practicing, but he said he was more liberal than many of the people he saw on the news.
After the terrorist attack in September 2001, Khan said that he thought Americans were more willing to learn and not be satisfied with stereotypes. He said this attitude was different than what he had seen during the Gulf War.
"Back then they didn't know about the world," he said. "If you asked an American where South America was, they would point to Africa."
This year, Khan started a student organization called KU Crescent. The members of the group represent a variety of religions. His goal for KU Crescent was to increase awareness of the Muslim community and foster interfaith conversations.
Jennifer Duffy, the public relations chair for KU Crescent, said she met Khan her freshman year when he walked up to her in Mrs. E's cafeteria.
up to people and talking," she said. "He has an amazing gift for reaching out to other people."
Duffy, a junior from Colorado Springs, Colo., said her exposure to other cultures was minimal before meeting Khan. Now she is comfortable with other ethnic backgrounds.
"After 9-11, I think people are skeptical of Muslims," Duffy said. "They don't know any Muslims, and they are too afraid to talk to them."
Duffy said that Khan wanted to encourage people to talk and to lose their stereotypes of Muslims.
"Sohel is the most energetic, generous person I've met," Duffy said.
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Pills can replace fruits, vegetables
By Amber Bylaray
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Kansan staff writer
There's another option for students too busy to eat the daily five to nine fruits and vegetables doctors recommend.
Jice Plus+ is a pill that contains parts of 17 fruits and vegetables that are juiced, dehydrated and put into capsules. When they are taken with water they expand in the stomach, creating a feeling of fullness, said product distributor Ianell Greeley.
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The Memphis, Tenn.-based company that distributes the pills through the mail and a Web site, www.juiceplus.com, is touting the capsules as a substitute for eating the recommended daily allowance of fruits and vegetables. The company claims four pills a day, two fruit and two vegetable, is equal to six pounds of
food. They sell about 500 pills for $40.
But Watkins Memorial Health Center dietitian Ann Chapman is suspicious of the product's health benefits.
"Fluids are a benefit because fruits and vegetables help hydrate us." Chapman said.
She recommends drinking water while taking the pills to keep hydrated.
Calories that the capsules contain are also an important factor to consider, Chapman said. The pills provide less calories than normal foods, so could provide less energy. For the body to benefit from the capsules the same way it would from food, the pills would need to have at least 50 to 100 calories, she said.
Each capsule contains about 10 to 20 calories, Greeley said. The body uses the vegetables and fruit inside the capsules in
"Fluids are a benefit because fruits and vegetables help hydrate us."
Ann Chapman
Wattkins Memorial Health Center dietitian
the same way it uses other foods, Greeley said, by converting it into glucose and absorbing it.
One advantage to taking Juice Plus+ is that the fruits and vegetables put in the capsules are not commonly eaten, Greeley said. They include beets, kale and parsley.
The Community Mercantile Co-op, 901 Iowa St., carries similar products filled with garlic, cranberries or other fruit and vegetable combinations, but multivitamins are far more popular, said shift manager Amber Ashbrook, Wichita junior.
Chapman said she didn't suggest college students use Juice Plus+ as their only source of fruits and vegetables.
an student has an unhealthy diet, using this product isn't going to take care of all the different nutrients a multivitamin will provide." Chapman said.
Chapman suggested taking a daily multivitamin instead to ensure students got nutrients that are not found in fruits and vegetables. However, taking the capsules would not hurt students. Greeley said.
"You can't get too much of it because it's just food — you're body will use it like it uses food," Greeley said.
Edited by Katie Nelson
Execution stopped by Supreme Court
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas — The U.S. Supreme Court halted the execution yesterday of a condemned inmate who was part of a lawsuit that challenged one of the drugs used to carry out the death sentence.
Kevin Lee Zimmerman won his reprieve about 20 minutes before he could have been put to death for a fatal stabbing and robbery at Beaumont motel in 1987.
In a brief order, Justice Antonin Scalia stopped the punishment pending an additional order from him or the court.
"I'm disappointed," Zimmerman told a Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokeswoman, Michelle Lyons. "I was ready to go. The stay only means 18 more
months of this crap."
The lawsuit had allowed another inmate, Billy Frank Vickers, to avoid the death chamber Tuesday. Rejection of the lawsuit yesterday by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals cleared the way for Zimmerman's execution until the Supreme Court order was issued.
Citing the constitutional protection against cruel and unusual punishment, the lawsuit sought to stop use of pancuronium bromide, a drug that paralyzes muscles.
Texas, the first state to execute condemned inmates by injection, uses a combination of three drugs: pancuronium bromide, the barbiturate sodium thiopental and potassium chloride, which causes cardiac arrest.
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Sergeant Mike Patrick with the Lawrence police said everyone who was available was assigned to comb the city.
"Not only were we trying to find this person," he said. "But we were trying to handle several wreckes throughout the city."
At 6:51 p.m., amidst wind and freezing rain, Officer Kresten Spurling located Bowlin's vehicle near the southeast corner of Haskell Indian Nations University. The car was off and parked in a remote area near a cemetery.
"Tears of joy, you name it, I was happy." Pope said.
Emergency personnel arrived on the scene shortly after. Bowlin was not able to talk. She was given a fast-acting dose of glucose and transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital. People were contacted and the search was called off.
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exhausted with a massive headache shortly after they gave her the glucose. When she was found, she had a blood sugar level of 26. The average level is 100. At 40, people usually go into diabetic comas.
"It was almost like hallucinating," she said. "I came to a point where I was just crying."
Yesterday she visited the site where she ended up and tried to figure out how she got there. She didn't remember running her car into a concrete barrier.
Marcheta was thankful police responded so quickly and thoroughly. She feared Stephanie would have frozen to death in her parked car if she had not been found.
— Edited by Nikki Overfelt
Iraqi civilian casualty count to halt
The Associated Press
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi Health Ministry officials ordered a halt to a count of civilian casualties from the war and told workers not to release figures already compiled, the head of the ministry's statistics department said yesterday.
The health minister, Khodeir Abbas, denied that he or the U.S.-led occupation authority had anything to do with the order, and said he didn't even know about the survey of deaths, which number in the thousands.
Nagham Mohsen, the head of the ministry's statistics department, said the order came from the ministry's director of planning, Nazar Shabandar, who told her it was on behalf of Abbas. She said the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority, which oversees the ministry, didn't like the idea of the count either.
"We have stopped the collection of this information because our minister didn't agree with it," she said, adding. "The CPA doesn't want this to be done."
Abbas, whose secretary said he was out of the country, sent an e-mail denying the charge.
"I have no knowledge of a civilian war casualty survey even being started by the Ministry of Health, much less stopping it," he wrote. "The CPA did not direct me to stop any such survey either."
"Plain and simple, this is false information," he added.
Despite Abbas' comments, the Health Ministry's civilian death toll count had been reported by news media as early as August, and the count was widely anticipated by human rights organizations. The ministry issued a preliminary figure of 1,764 deaths during the summer.
A spokesman for the CPA confirmed the authenticity of the email, saying the occupation
authority contacted the minister by phone and asked him to respond. The CPA didn't provide a phone number, and the minister didn't respond to e-mails requesting further comment.
The CPA spokesman said the coalition had no comment.
The U.S. military doesn't count civilian casualties from its wars, saying only that it tries to minimize civilian deaths.
Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, called that policy irresponsible.
"That deliberate ignorance of the past risks condemning the U.S. military to repeating its mistakes into the future and needlessly risking further civilian deaths," he said by telephone from New York.
Roth said the government doesn't count because "politically, it's embarrassing to talk about civilian casualties in one's war effort."
The Associated Press conducted a major investigation of Iraq's wartime civilian casualties, documenting the deaths of 3,240 civilians between March 20 and April 20. That investigation, conducted in May and June, surveyed about half of Iraq's hospitals, and reported that the real number of civilian deaths was sure to be much higher.
The Health Ministry's count, which was to be based on the records of all Iraq's hospitals, promised to be more complete.
The ministry began its survey at the end of July. It sent letters to all hospitals and clinics in Iraq, asking them to send back details of civilians killed or wounded in the war, ministry officials said then.
Many hospitals responded with statistics, Mohsen said, but last month Shabandar told her that Abbas wanted the count halted. He also told her not to release the information she had already collected, she said.
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SLEEP: Trading health for grades
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--serious.
Caffeine is a stimulant, much like ephedrine and other amphetamines.
Though it is not as powerful as its over-the-counter or illegal cousins, caffeine's effects desired and otherwise are similar.
The stimulant goes to work within 15 to 45 minutes of consumption and can continue to influence sleep patterns for eight to 10 hours afterward, though these effects vary from person to person.
Brown said that its overuse could even be life-threatening, especially when coupled with heart problems.
As finals week approaches, Brown said he saw more and more patients who had taken something to stay awake and had bad reactions.
"I've seen some patients that will do anything to stay up all night and finish their project," Brown said. He said he had to refer a few people to the hospital every year with irregular heartbeats, possibly brought on by abuse of stimulants.
Brown said that during this time of the semester, as people combined stressing about school with stimulants, patients with other symptoms such as lightheadedness and tightness of breathing showed up frequently.
"They feel like they're not getting enough air, they breathe deeply and wind up making it worse," he said. "If they're going into their tests this way, it can't be conducive to thinking clearly."
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Several students from the University of Kansas admitted to using it once or twice when cramming for a test, while others used it more frequently.
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Adderall, which is illegal to take without a prescription, is another late-night study aid that is growing in popularity at universities around the country.
Normally doctors prescribe the drug to treat Attention-
Empty pop cans and coffee cups litter a corner of a computer lab in Learned Hall at 1 a.m.yesterday.The students working there had less than 12 hours until their projects were due.
Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) because it increases focus and attention span.
Some students without ADHD, however, buy Adderall from friends who have a prescription.
One University student said he used it regularly.
"It puts you in a zone," the student said. "It's hard to explain. You're really focused and relaxed and not tired at all."
The student, who asked to remain nameless because his use of the drug is a felony, started taking Adderal two years ago when a friend recommended it to him. Three friends supply him now, he said. The student said he took it about twice a month to help him study for business and finance tests.
Though he doesn't always have to pay for them, the most the student said he had ever spent on Adderall was $5 for two pills.
The student said he usually kept some Adderall stocked away just in case, and planned to use it through the rest of college, including during finals this semester.
Adderall comes in 12- and 4-hour doses. When he had finance tests at 9 in the morning, the student said he took one of the 12-hour pills at 11 p.m. the night before and studied all night up to the test.
Adderall is an amphetamine, so trafficking or owning Adderall without a prescription is illegal under chapter 65 of the Kansas statutes, said Shelley Diehl, Douglas County deputy district attorney.
Possessing the drug without a prescription is a level four drug felony that could lead to anywhere from 10 to 42 months in prison, Diehl said.
Diehl said that punishment would depend on previous offenses.
While someone caught with Adderall would probably only receive probation and treatment for the first two offenses, Diehl said a third offense would certainly land the possessor in prison.
Trafficking Adderal is a level two drug felony, which is more
Anyone caught selling the drug illegally would face jail time immediately, even if it were a first offense.
If they were convicted, they could spend between 46 and 83 months in prison, Diehl said.
--ine Raytown, Mo., senior said that he had avoided caffeine as a study aid ever since his third year of school.
Legal and health concerns aren't the only reasons some students avoid caffeine and amphetamines when working late.
Clinton Enyear is in his fifth year of architecture at the University, and he said that he had stopped taking caffeine while working on projects.
Eneyart said that once during his second year, after drinking 60 oz. of Mr. Pibb in six hours, his hand shook so badly that he couldn't draw a straight line.
"Not only is it probably detrimental to your health, it's definitely detrimental to the project because you're not able to do as good a job," he said.
**Avoid spicy foods and eating too fast.** These can cause heartburn in some people, keeping them awake.
SLEEP 101: GETTING THE REST YOU NEED
Of course,try telling that to the 20 or so chemical engineering majors sitting in their computer lab four weeks ago.
Avoid eating right before bed: A heavy stomach can make it harder to get comfortable to sleep. On the other hand, avoid going to bed too hungry — hunger pains can keep you awake too. If you must eat before bed, have a light snack.
**Avoid alcohol.** Though alcohol is a sedative and can help you get to clean faster, it will also cause you to wake up more often.
two?" one girl shrieked as she looked at a clock.
Create a relaxing atmosphere: Temperature and humidity can affect the quality of your sleep, so figure out what atmosphere suits you best.
Karen Nordheden, an associate professor in chemical and petroleum engineering, said she understood what the students were going through, but that procrastination was as likely a culprit for their late nights as their workload.
"It's not our fault if they put it off till the last minute," she said.
Nordheden did say that when she was an undergraduate in physics at Michigan State, she often stayed up until 2 or 3 in the morning for the same rea-
That kind of stress kept the students up all night, and kept them going to the coffee machine, or other sources of caffeine, to help them stay focused.
With such an important project, failing the assignment could have meant failing the class.
Try a relaxing routine: Take a hot bath or shower to loosen your muscles.
Keep it quiet Wear earplugs or listen to relaxing music to drown out noise commotions or background noise.
Source: National Sleep Foundation
Experts say that adults should get between six and eight hours of sleep every night. During finals week, sleep often comes at a premium, and rarely in sufficient quantity. Here's how to make the best of what little sleep you can get:
Several of them pulled all-nighters in the lab to complete the next phase of their semester-long project that was due the following day.
Avoid tobacco and caffeine before bed: Both are stimulants, and caffeine can affect sleep patterns for hours after use.
"I'm pretty much all on chemicals right now," said Jon Akers, an engineering student. "I cann't — it's a good thing I'm not an English major right now, because I can't say anything that makes sense."
The Kansas City, Kan., senior had just had eight cans of Coke in a half hour, he said, and had used them as part of a soda-can pyramid on one wall of the lab.
Exercise, but not right before bed: Exercise can tire you out and deepen your sleep, but because it also raises your heart rate it can disrupt sleep patterns unless done more than two or three hours before bed.
On the opposite wall, a frequently-visited coffee pot sat atop a computer tower accompanied by sugar and cream next to the computer's monitor
To try to ease the students' plight, she said that she and other C&PE professors coordinated assignments so that everything wouldn't be due on the same day.
then we have to grade all of them."
But no amount of coordination among professors would help the students if they decided to procrastinate, she said.
On good God, it's almost
--during the day to prepare for the night's work.
There are alternatives to pills and caffeinated drinks.
Nordheden admitted that even she sometimes still fell victim to procrastination.
Two Sundays ago, she had to stay up until 1 a.m. grading tests for one of her classes because she hadn't felt like working on them during Thanksgiving break.
Loud music kept Allison Johnson and her architecture studio working, the St. Louis junior said.
"It's a vicious cycle," she said.
"We give exams, you take them and
When necessity forces wakefulness, many students turn to non-chemical solutions.
Johnson said she often stayed up until 2 or 2:30 a.m. building models.
To stay entertained as sleepiness set in, she said that sometimes her friends in studio pulled pranks on each other, such as gluing the seats of peoples' chairs.
Maggie Richter, another St. Louis junior in architecture, said that she took short power naps
Both Richter and Johnson agreed that working in a group helped more than caffeine.
Some people, she said, even brought sleeping bags into studio so they could nap quickly and go straight back to work without having to drive home.
"No matter how much coffee you drink, if you're alone, it's just really easy to give up for the night." Johnson said.
The Anapolis, Md., senior said that running was the only thing that would keep him awake and ready to go to class in the morning after he finished his work.
When pulling all-nighters, long runs also helped, Ian Palke said.
In the end, Palko said that all of the sleep deprivation and hard
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Mountain Dew 55.5 mg/12oz.
Diet Coke 46.5mg/12oz.
Pepsi-Cola 37.5mg/12oz.
Sprite 0mg/12oz.
Dr. Pepper 42mg/12oz.
Brewed coffee 135mg/8oz.
Starbucks coffee 250mg/8oz.
Green tea 30mg/8oz.
Red Bull 80mg/250mL
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"I heard we get paid a lot when we get out," he said.
"Whatever," A k e r s responded, as people scurried around the computer lab where he and Palko were pulling another all-nighter. "We're going to wind up giving all our money to therapists anyway."
The Food and Drug Administration recommends that adults consume less than 300 mg of caffeine per day.
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WHEN/WHERE: Sat., Dec. 13, 1 p.m., Kansas City, Mo.
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HOW THEY COMPARE
Run. Get to the basket. Shoot a three. Run some more. When that gets old, run.
That's what the Oregon Ducks do, and the past two years, especially during the 2001-02 season, they've done it nearly as well as anyone in the nation. Coach Ernie Kent's team annually features a fast, sweet-shooting backcourt that tries to sprint and bomb opposing teams out of the building. The Ducks succeed more often than they fail, finishing 23-10 last year and advancing
to the NCAA Tournament's Elite Eight the year before.
When they do fail, it's because the Ducks never have a reliable post player to run the floor, put points on the board and stop the opposition's post scorers. Mitch Platt, a touted 6-foot-10 freshman with speed and rebounding ability, may be Kent's first big step toward ending that trend.
Win or lose, the Ducks' NASCAR pace is fun to watch, even when they're executing it in seizure-inducing, bright yellow
uniforms. The 3-0 Ducks are coming off a 90-61 blasting of Marshall and arrive in Kansas City with a devastating 46.9 team three-point percentage, which ranks fourth in the nation.
Meanwhile, the talk in Lawrence this week is about how Kansas is going to get its post star, Wayne Simien, more touches after he managed just two field goals in Saturday's ugly 64-58 defeat to Stanford. Simien has to be scoring down low for the Jayhawks to play their best game.
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Junior forward Wayne Simien battled two Michigan State players for a rebound during second half action on Nov. 25.
and Kansas can't continue to try 20 three-pointers per contest.
Kemper Arena isn't exactly a neutral court, but Kansas' inconsistent performances in Kemper in conference and NCAA Tournaments in past years show that playing in Kansas City isn't the same as playing in Allen Fieldhouse.
Point guard Aaron Miles, junior, Kansas vs
Aaron Brooks, freshman, Oregon
A rapid 5-foot-10-inch McDonald's All-American, expectations are big for Brooks as
he fills the vacancy created by the early departure of Luke Ridnour. His transition to college hasn't been great thus far; Brooks has more turnovers than assists and hasn't shot
wei. But he's a tremendous ballhandler and will eventually be a fantastic player.
Miles
Against Stanford, Miles continued a trend of showing aggressiveness on the offensive end, but when he leads the Jayhawks in scoring with an 11-point performance, defeat is a near certainty. Miles is fast enough to stay with Brooks, and he has a small advantage in size and a big one in experience.
Advantage: Kansas
Shooting guard Keith Langford, junior, Kansas
Andre Joseph, senior. Oregon
The 6-foot-3 Joseph is a good defensive player and a capable shooter and passer who's averaged 3.7 assists. He splits minutes
nicely with his backup, senior James Davis, who's shorter but a superior shooter.
Langford is coming off his first bad game of the year, but the Ducks aren't going to throw
100%
Kansas off defensively the way Stanford did. Barring foul trouble,
Langford should resume getting to the bucket and score somewhere between 18 and 24 points.
Advantage: Kansas
Langford
Third guard/small forward J.R. Giddens, freshman, Kansas
Luke Jackson, senior, Oregon
It's amazing how many college basketball players are talented enough to become All-American candidates once they get the
opportunity After spending two years as the Ducks' other "Luke" alongside the more celebrated Ridnour, Jackson is now the team's undisputed star. The 6-foot-7 Jackson leads
Giddens
the Ducks in scoring (21.0), rebounding (7.0) and even assists (5.3). His incredibly well-rounded offensive game also includes a 9-for-17 performance from threepoint range. He can hurt the opposition from anywhere on the floor, and if Oregon competes in the Pac-10 this year, he'll be an All-American honors candidate.
Kansas doesn't have an obvious defensive answer for Jackson
— Langford doesn't have the size, Giddens lacks the experience. Self will have to get creative to contain Jackson, which means using some form of zone.
Giddens will be more at home in this fast-paced type of game than he was in Anaheim, and should get some open three-point looks when Oregon goes to a zone. Because of his height, length and leaping ability, Giddens may have to guard Jackson, but if he spends extended periods of time guarding him straight up, Jackson will expose Giddens' inexperience.
Advantage: Oregon
Power forward Wayne Simien, junior, Kansas vs.
Mitch Platt. freshman. Oregon
The 6-foot-10, 270-pound Platt is questionable for this game after suffering a high ankle sprain in the victory over Marshall. He's a lower-Top-100 freshman who potentially gives Oregon something it desperately needs: A bulky post player who can both
run the floor and bang underneath the basket. His early performances have shown positive signs; he grabbed eight rebounds in 25 minutes against Marshall.
Self doesn't consider Simien's groin injury serious. It won't keep
him out of this
game. Now that
he has had a
week to digest
and analyze
how Stanford
made him a
near-non-fac-
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shake out of his
slump against
an inferior
PETER NATHAN
Simien
defensive team and turn in a performance more like his first two games. Oregon will throw some zone at him, but the Ducks don't have the interior bulk of Stanford. Simien's rampage of destruction at the free-throw line continues; he's now 26 of 27.
Advantage: Kansas
Center
Center David Padgett, freshman, Kansas vs
vs.
lan Crosswhite, sophomore, Oregon Crosswhite is a rangy 6-foot-11,
but he's not much of a true center.
The letty shooter spent a lot of time around the perimeter last year and hit 41.9 percent of his three-pointers. He's only tried three threes this year, but he's getting
1973
Padgett
plenty of chances to shoot inside the arc and is making good on them, averaging 13.7 points on 60.9 percent shooting. He'll bring Padgett away from the basket, which will keep Kansas from completely clogging the defensive glass.
Padgett is going to have one isolated breakout game one of these days that will give Kansas fans a sampling of what is to come from him. It could be this game, as Oregon doesn't have tremendous post defense. He's the type of player that was built for the "hi" component of Self's hi-lo offense, but it's still questionable how much command he and the rest of the Jayhawks have of the offense, as they didn't adapt
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Advantage: Oregon
Benches: What exactly can Kansas expect from senior center Jeff Graves, sophomore guard Jeff Hawkins, senior forward Bryant Nash and freshman guard Jeremy Case? Offensively, not more than about 15 points, which is what it got from those four players combined in the Stanford game. Graves is good for four to five rebounds but can't stay out of foul trouble, meaning that a few more minutes out of sophomore forward Moulaye Niang may soon be necessary, if not ideal. Hawkins isn't lacking for confidence as an outside shooter, throwing up seven three-pointers against Stanford while making just one. He'll be able to play solid defense on Brooks, Davis or Joseph. But any real offensive boost from the bench is a bonus, which makes it all the more important for Simien to be a factor.
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Self's top priority. Advantage: Kansas
Final analysis: This game comes at a dangerous time for the Jayhawks. Last night's demolition of Fort Hays State is a nice confidence builder, but it's not the way to prepare for a team that can destroy Kansas! questionable three-point defense. If the Ducks get cold from three-point range, Kansas will have its best chance. Otherwise, this looks like another tough outing as the transition to a new coach continues.
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Gregon 80, Kansas 77
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John Nowak/Kansas ABOVE: Kansas guard Keith Langford shot over Michigan State's Shannon Brown during the second half of the Nov. 25 game. Langford scored 13 points in 21 minutes for the Jayhawks.
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The Jayhawks prepare to face upcoming challenges
By Daniel Berk
By Daniel Berk
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The Kansas women's basketball team will play 12 games against top competition during the holiday break. Here is the rundown on the opponents.
Dec.13-Ball State (4-4)
Probable Starters:
Forward- Kate Endress, 19.0 points pergame, 5.9 rebounds pergame Center- Jessica Reiter, 9.0 ppg, 10.4 pg
Guard-Dana Collins, 5.8 ppg
Guard-Johna Goff, 2.8 ppg, 4.3
assists per game
Guard-Julie Just, 5.8 ppg
The Ball State Cardinals have had an up and down season so far. The Cardinals started 0-2, then won their next four games and are currently in a two-game losing streak. The Cardinals did capture the East Carolina Lady Pirate Invitational by defeating Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne and Eastern Washington.
Dec. 20-21 at Denver Tournament (Texas-Arlington, Denver and Lafayette)
Dec. 20 - Texas-Arlington (2-4)
Probable Starters:
Forward- Melanie Lane, 3.2 points per game
Forward-Tojijinay Thompson, 7.5
ppg
Forward- Rola Ogunoye, 13.5 ppg, 6.8 rebounds per game
Guard- Krystal Buchanan, 5.8 ppg, 3.8 assists per game
Guard- LaToya Lewis, 7.3 ppg
Texas-Arlington started the season 2-0 with victories over Texas A&M Commerce and at Oral Roberts. Since, the team is 0-4 with losses against Texas Christian
and Nebraska.
Dec. 29-30 at Dartmouth Blue Sky Restaurant Classic (Dartmouth, Fairfield and UNC Wilmington)
Dec.29 - Dartmouth (3-1)
Probable Starters:
Forward- Jaime Librizzi, 3.3 points per game
points per game Forward-Ashley Taylor, 6.8 ppg
Forward- Ashley Taylor, 6.8 ppg Center- Elise Morrison, 20.5 ppg, 9.8 rebounds per game
Guard-Jeannie Cullen, 16.3 ppg,
5.5 rpg
Guard- Angie Soriago, 8.0 ppg,
4.3 assists per game
Dartmouth is currently on a three-game win streak. Its last two victories have been against Fordham and Providence. Dartmouth dropped its first game of the season versus Charlotte 75-39.
Jan.3 - San Diego (1-5)
Probable Starters:
Guard- Tiara Harris, 5.7 points
pereg
Guard- Polly Dong, 4.2 ppg, 5.7 assists per game
Forward- Jaime Corwin, 8.5 ppg
Forward- Melissa Padgett, 8.0 ppg,
8.3 rebounds per game
Forward- Marta Menuez, 16.5 ppg,
7.0 rpg
San Diego's only victory of the season came in the second game of the season versus Nevada 96-74. Since that victory, San Diego is on a four-game losing streak.
connected on 13 three-pointers Guard- Nina Norman 9.6 points per game, 5.6 rpg
Jan.7-Texas(7-1)
Probable Starters:
Forward-Kala Bowers, 8.9 points per game
Forward- Heather Schreiber, 12.5 ppg, 5.4 rebounds per game Center- Stacy Stephens, 9.8 ppg, 5.1 pg
Jan.10-Missouri(5-1)
The Longhorns started the season with a 7-0 record and an impressive victory over powerhouse Duke. Texas also won a key road game at North Carolina State and won the Hawaiian Airlines Rainbow Wahine Classic tournament title. The Longhorns sole loss came from nationally-ranked Penn State 79-59.
Guard-Jamie Carey 13.0 ppg,
Forward- Evan Unrau, 17.3 points pergame,9.5 rebounds pergame Forward- Stretch James, 12.3 6.8rg
Probable Starters:
Center-Megan Roney, 6.5 pp
Guard-Tracy Lozier, 10.2 pp,
hit 13 three-pointers
J. Jeffery, Read, 11.5 pp
The Tigers are coming off a tournament championship as they beat Alcorn State and Tulsa to secure the Unilever Tiger Tournament. The Tigers started the season 3-0 before losing on the road to Wisconsin-Green Bay 74-66.
Guard-LaToya Bond, 11.5 ppg
Forward- Veronica Johns-Richardson, 8.8 points per game Forward- Randie Wirt, 9.6 ppg, 6.5 rebounds per game
Probable Starters:
Jan.13-Colorado (7-1)
Center-Tera Bjorkland, 22.5 ppg,
7.9 pg
Colorado is currently on a fourgame win streak and is climbing up the national rankings as the Buffaloes are ranked No. 15. Colorado's most recent victory came against No. 23 Washington 78-64. The Buffaloes only loss came in the championship game of the Subway Classic at Minnesota.
Guard-Kate Fagan, 15.3 ppg, hit
25 three-pointers
Guard-Maria Billingslev, 1.4 ppg
Guard-Maria Billingsley, 1.4 ppg
2. 41 to 1.76 per game, considering the circumstances they did okay. A lot of blocks came at key times and pumped up the crowd. GRADE:B
GRADES: Volleyball aces overall CONTINUED FROM PAGE 16A possible injury, and threeln
DIGS: The Jayhawks excelled here. Not so much statistically, but with effort. Junior libero Jill Dorsey led Kansas with 3.51 digs per game. But Rome was not far behind, averaging 3.09 per game. She also tallied a career-high 31 digs in a home match against Missouri.
Dorsey, Rome, Lima and senior Abbie Jacobson constantly ignored
Effort means something, and even though the team average of 15.46 per game wasn't outstanding, it was good.GRADE:B+
COACHING: The easiest of all to grade. Coach Ray Bechard led the team to the most victories since 1991, with 22. The best the team had finished in the Big 12 coming into the year was 10-10, and they went 13-7 this season.
There was never bickering between players on the court, and advancing to the tournament speaks for itself.
The players respected and listened to assistant coaches Christi Posey, Jill Jones Stucky and Trent Jones whenever they offered advice. There is only one choice for this category. GRADE: A+
A tournament appearance, third place finish in the Big 12 and the good chemistry of the team made it a season to remember. GRADE: A
OVERALL: Almost everything that's been mentioned has been positive. That's because there weren't many negative times during the season. A midseason slump and poor serving detracted from the otherwise good season
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SURPRISES: The season's best
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fewer touches for the senior wide receiver from Odessa, Texas, who finished with 982 yards receiving. Rashaun Woods was double and triple teamed all season, which led to him posting decent but not great numbers with 66 catches for 1,144 yards after a 1,700-yard receiving performance last year. He still managed to grab a NCAA record seven touchdown
catches against SMU. But the best wide receiver was Mark Clayton of Oklahoma. Clayton was downright couldn't be guarded for most of the season, grabbing 71 balls for 1,289 yards and 15 touchdowns. In Oklahoma's loss to Kansas State, Clayton was one of the few Sooners that showed up to play. Clayton had a breakout freshman season, but last season was slow for him as the Sooners relied on the running game with
Quentin Griffin. As soon as the Sooners switched back to the pass this season, Clayton reestablished himself as a go-to receiver and helped make the offense with quarterback Jason White, one of the conference's most explosive. With decent height and outstanding quickness, athleticism and great hands, Clayton could play on Sundays as soon as next season, but he could be a major force if he comes back to Oklahoma.
BASKETBALL: Double bonus
Flaherty is aLenexa senior in journalism.
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play to get some confidence," Self said. "Defensively, we did some good things, but don't read into the point total too much."
"Those guys deserve it, and they kick our butts in practice every day," freshman guard J.R. Giddens said.
While it's tough to read too much into a 40-point victory, Self was able to use the game to give all of his players some playing time. The Kansas walk-ons, senior forward Brett Olson, sophomore forward Christian Moody, sophomore guard Stephen Vinson and freshman guard Nick Bahe, all played at least 5
The Jayhawks were able to secure the victory without second-leading scorer, junior forward Wayne Simien. He was out with a groin injury. Self said he believed Simien would be ready Saturday when the lavihawks play the Oregon Ducks.
"Wayne has not been 100-percent healthy, not even in close, since the Michigan State game," Self said.
With Kansas' size advantage, it didn't need Simien. The Tigers didn't have a player over 6 feet 7 inches, which helped the Jayhawks dominate the glass. They out-bounded the Tigers 59-25. Two Kansas guards, Langford and Giddens, each grabbed 10 rebounds each.
"I watched some film and really wasn't going to the boards like I should have been." Langford said. "It's going to be more important for me to do that come Saturday and through the rest of the season."
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"Life is so much better than fiction." Kansas City sports personality Jason Whitlock on the release of the Ricky Clemons tapes.
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Clemons: Coaches provided money
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COLUMBIA, Mo. — Former Missouri basketball player Ricky Clemons said in taped jail telephone conversations that two assistant coaches gave money to him and other players, the Columbia Daily Tribune reported on its Web site.
Clemons also said he was told during a conversation with his attorney and one of the assistants to deny having received cash if a prosecutor asked about it, the newspaper reported Tuesday night.
The tapes were released to the Tribune and to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which also posted reports on the contents on its Web site early yesterday, by Boone County Sheriff Boehm.
Missouri coach Quin Snyder said in a statement released Tuesday night that he and his assistant coaches couldn't discuss the allegations because NCAA and internal university investigations, both previously reported, are still under way.
Athletic director Mike Alden issued a statement saying that the contents of the taped conversations "represent only a small part of the review that is taking place."
"Our basketball program has fully cooperated with the investigation and respects the due diligence that has taken place," Alden said. "I am confident in Coach Snyder's management of the Mizzou basketball program and I believe that he will address any problem areas
that have been identified through this review process."
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Clemons could not be reached for comment. But his former attorney, Wally Bley, of Columbia, told The Associated Press he never told Clemons to lie.
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reported it reviewed 24 hours of taped calls Clemons made from the Boone County Jail between July 16 and Aug. 14, when the former player was serving a sentence for two misdemeanors arising from a choking incident involving his former girlfriend, Jessica Bunge.
On the tapes, Clemons is also heard saying at least two other players, senior stars Arthur Johnson and Rickey Paulding, a preseason All-American, also received money from an assistant coach.
Yesterday, Paulding and Johnson issued identical statements through the athletic department denying that accusation.
"All I can say is that we have not ever received any impermissible benefits, including cash, from any of our coaches." the statements read.
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Boehm, who released the tapes, declined comment to The Associated Press on Tuesday evening. Media organizations had asked Boehm for the tapes last summer, but the sheriff said then that
he couldn't release them because they were part of an ongoing FBI investigation.
The Post-Dispatch reported on its Web site Tuesday night that the FBI has ended its investigation and will not file criminal charges. The FBI told the newspaper, which added information on the tapes and their content early yesterday, that it had looked into a tip that someone tried to intimidate a witness in the criminal case against Clemons, and that Clemons was not the target of the FBI probe.
Bunge told investigators in the domestic assault case that Clemons told her he received cash during visits to the Hearnes Center, the Tigers' arena. Asked about the accusation in a sworn deposition last March. Missouri assistant coach Lane Odom denied under oath any knowledge of payments to Clemons.
The Post-Dispatch also reported that the NCAA is expected to review the tapes of Clemons' phone conversations while he was jailed.
But in a telephone conversation from jail with Amy Stewart, the wife of Missouri Associate Athletic Director Ed Stewart, Clemons said while Bunge never saw him receive any money, the exgirlfriend did deposit the money into the bank for him.
Clemons also said assistant coach
Tony Harvey gave money to Johnson and Paulding, the Tribune reported.
Missouri basketball spokesman Sam Fleury said both assistants were still on Snuder's coaching staff.
"When I first got here, they did, they did everybody. I mean, they do A.J. and Rickey. If they need money, they'd go to Harvey. He, he'd get it for 'em," the newspaper quoted Clemons as telling Amy Stewart.
Clemons, a junior-college transfer, was arrested in late January after he allegedly choked Bunge in a headlock and refused to let her leave his Columbia apartment for more than an hour. He was suspended from the team for a year, with conditions imposed by Snyder and Alden for his eventual return.
But Clemons was kicked off the team in July after a judge determined he violated conditions for serving his sentence in a halfway house and ordered him to jail, where Clemons was able to make collect calls. This fall, he reenrolled at Missouri but isn't playing basketball.
In another conversation with Amy Stewart, Clemons contended he was told during a meeting with Odom and Bley at the attorney's Columbia office to deny any knowledge of receiving money or clothes. Snyder has acknowledged giving Clemons a couple of pairs of shoes and two pairs of pants he received as promotional gifts and planned to discard.
Falcons fire coach with one year left
Defensive coordinator takes over for Reeves to finish Atlanta's year
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FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — Dan Reeves was fired abruptly by the Atlanta Falcons yesterday with three games left in a disappointing season marred by star Michael Vick's injury.
Defensive coordinator Wade Phillips will take over as head coach for the rest of the season.
Falcons owner Arthur Blank told Reeves, the sixth-winningest coach in NFL history, that he would be fired at the end of the season but wanted him to coach the rest of the way. Reeves asked to be let go immediately.
"When Arthur told me he had made the decision about the end of the year, I knew it had to come to a fullness today." Reeves said. "I'm an eternal optimist, so yeah, it was a surprise. But I'm also realistic enough about coaching to understand this is how it is in the NFL."
Reeves, 59, is in his 23rd consecutive season as an NFL head coach, by far the longest tenure in the league, and he had one year left on his contract. Reeves led the Denver Broncos to three Super Bowls, losing each time.
The Falcons fell from the playoffs a year ago to one of the worst teams in the league after Vick was hurt in the preseason. Reeves was let go after the Falcons (3-10) defeated Carolina 20-14 in overtime in Vick's first start of the season.
As Blank answered questions from
reporters in one of the team's meeting rooms yesterday, Reeves stood outside in the hall and exchanged handshakes and hugs with some of the players, including Vick. Afterward, Vick and the others walked to the locker room to prepare for practice.
"Dan is a sweet guy, very sweet," Vick said. "He's a guy that really cares about his players. I think he went the extra mile
tor us, and a lot of guys are going to miss him."
Blank said he doesn't expect to hire a new coach until after the regular season. Phillips, a former head coach in Denver and Buffalo, isn't thought to be a leading candidate.
"I want to be clear that this decision is not being made based on our performance this season, we're looking forward, not back." Blank said. "This is purely about the future of the organization."
Among the possible candidates: ex-Minnesota coach Dennis Green and college coaches Bob Stoops of Oklahoma, Nick Saban of LSU, and Kirk Ferentz of Iowa. Green's former agent is Ray Anderson, the Falcons' executive vice president.
Reeves won't be around for the rest of the season. He leaves with a career record of 201-174-2, including the playoffs.
Reeves began the season with his 199th career victory, a 27-13 win at Dallas. Atlanta then lost seven in a row before Reeves finally got his 200th win at New York against the Giants on Nov. 9.
Only Don Shula, George Halas, Tom Landry, Curly Lambeau and Chuck Noll won more NFL games than Reeves.
Maryland outplays, upsets No.1 Florida
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Florida failed to make its claim as the best team on its home floor, let alone the whole country.
Travis Garrison made a jumper for the winning points in overtime last night to lift Maryland to a 69-68 victory over the top-ranked Gators and give coach Gary Williams his 300th victory with the Terrapins.
The Gators, who moved to No. 1 in The Associated Press' poll this week, fell to 5-1 and all but guaranteed there will be a new top-ranked team for the fourth straight week on Monday.
It won't, however, be Maryland (5-2), which came in unranked - a standing that showed just how unscientific the polls are.
Bigger, stronger and shooting better through the first 25 minutes, the Terraplins got big plays from John Gilchrist (18 points), Jamar Smith (12 points, nine rebounds) and Nik Caner-Medley (22 points, 13 rebounds) to build a 17-point lead.
But they went on an amazing cold streak, failing to score a field goal over the final 9 minutes of regulation. In fact, their only two baskets over the final 16 minutes came on breakaway dunks after steals - and Florida tied it at 60 to send the game to overtime.
Anthony Roberson (20 points) hit a 3-pointer and Matt Walsh took an outlet pass from Roberson to help the Gators take a 68-64 lead in overtime, but the Terps didn't give up.
Caner-Medley hit a shot standing on the 3-point line to cut the deficit to two. D.J. Strawberry made a free throw, then,
after yet another stop in a rugged, defensive game, the Terps worked the ball to Garrison, who spotted up and hit the game-winner.
Maryland sealed the win by blocking Adrian Moss' shot with 1.1 seconds left.
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It was the Terps' ninth victory over a top-ranked program in school history, leaving them one behind UCLA for the all-time lead.
Florida, meanwhile, fell to 0-2 in games after moving to No.1. The Gators fell 70-55 to Kentucky last February after moving to the top of the poll for the first time in school history.
Many felt Florida was flat in that game. That wasn't the case this time.
Maryland simply outplayed the Gators over the first half, and when Ekene Ibekwe hit a 3-pointer with 16 minutes left in the second half, the Terri- pans led 49-32.
Florida played great defense to get back in it, but blew a couple chances to take the lead late. Moss and David Lee each missed two free throws in the final two minutes with the Gators trailing by one.
That was just part of the general ugliness of this one. Suffering with an injured leg, Lee went 1-for-12 from the field and finished with nine points. Walsh shot 4-for-13. The Gators made only 31 percent of their shots after shooting better than 50 percent the first five games.
So the Kansan thinks that North Carolina State has a better kicking team than we do. That has got to be the most obvious statement in the history of journalism.
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Coaches name Kansas' Lima to All-Region volleyball team
Kansas volleyball player Josi Lima was named to the American Volleyball Coaches Association All-Region Team yesterday.
The sophomore middle blocker, who was named Big 12 Conference Newcomer of the Year last season, averaged 3.15 kills and 2.02 digs per game. She also had a .313 attack percentage.
"It was really a combination of Josi having another outstanding season and the team having great success this year. The two factors enabled one another," Kansas coach Ray Bechard said. "We look forward to having more Jayhawks earn this honor."
The Sao Paulo, Brazil, native was one of nine Big 12 players named to the 2003 Central Region First-Team.
Lima was also named to the 2003 All-Big 12 first-team for the second time in a row. She is the first Jayhawk to accomplish that feat. She joined junior middle blocker Ashley Michaels, who was named to the All Big 12 Honorable Mention Team.
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Whittaker was a member of the Jayhawks from 1993-1996 under former coach Glen Mason, choosing Kansas over UCSE and Oklahoma. He helped lead Kansas to a 10-2 record in the 1995 season and a victory in the Aloha Bowl against UCLA. The team finished ninth in the nation in the 1995 season.
The 6-foot-7-inch, 285-pound Whitaker was later signed as a free agent by the Oakland Raiders and spent two years as a backup with the team. He also played professionally for the Rhein Fire of NFL Europe, earning a World Bowl championship, and on the L.A. Xtreme in the XFL's only season.
"Those that were close to him recognize him as a fiercely loyal and great friend," former teammate Jason Brown said in an e-mail.
Whittaker had not played in the past two seasons but was considering a comeback to football before his death.
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5 month lease avail. Jan. 1. Remodeled 3 BR, next to campus. All utilized. W/D. 106 Mississippi $775/mo. 218-413.
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Town Homes for Rent
3, BR, 3, BA townhome avail. Jan, 1. Border,
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Fireplaces, 2 car garage, all lawncare pro-
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town homes on Adam Avenue. 1700
square feet. $825. Call 841-4785.
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Remodeled 4 BR townhomes avail, now and next fall at Leaunia Mar. Reserve one now and get 1/2 mo. free rent. 3 BA, lp. appliances, no pp. Call 312-7942.
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1113 Vermont 3 BR, 1.5 BA, 1 car gar, 1 block from Mass. By park, Jan 1, $1,000/mo. 830-886, mmille2@hotmail.com
Homes for Rent
3 BR 1 BA, 1 garage, A/C, W/D, wood floors, fenced yard. Walk to campus.
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6 room house-1711 Alabama. 2-3 BR, 1 BA. Kitchen appliances included, W/D, $750/month. Call evenings 785-828-4876.
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Available August 5, 6, 7 & 8 BR houses in the Oread area. Look early for best choices. Call 913-441-4169.
newly remodeled 2BR, 1BA, A/C, W/D.
wood floors, new carpet, walk to campus/
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Very nice 4 BR 2 BA house, quiet neighborhood W/D. avail. Jan. 1. 2508 Prairie Elm Dr. $1150. Call 917-9582.
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1 female roommate wanted for a 3 BR, 1 BA fully furnished house near campus. $275/mo + 1/3 unit. N/S, no pets. Call Jenni 913-344-6074 or 832-8695.
1 Female, 3 BR, 2 BA, 9th & Emery.
$249/mo plus utilities. Sublease Jan-July.
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1 roommate wanted for 2 BR, 2 BA at Pkwy Commons. Rent negotiable, all appliances included. Call 763-639-0545.
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Has W/D/W Please call 785-393-1086.
Female roommate wired up, upperclassman or graduate student preferred, avail immediately, Highpoint sgt. on KU bus route, C.A. Wld, W32D #841-7342.
Furn. 1 bedroom for fem. 4 BR house for
spring. 2 BA, $400 mo., utl. paid: W/D,
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1st month free rent! Large 2 BR, 1 BA sublease Jan-July, Pets OK. On KU bus route. Spliced storage. Gall 856-3703.
3 BR/2 BA apt. at Highpointe. Sublease avail. Jan. 1. $305/person. (785) 550-788. Cute girls live close!
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One BR/ONE BA apt. from Jan-Aug.
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ONE MONTH FREE RENT: 1 bedroom
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One BR sublease available Now! New W/D, DW, all utilities paid except gas and electric. $450/Mo 913-221-1645.
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Spacious 2 BR apt. $634/month, most utilized (gas, water, trash, cable). Avail Dec until August 2004. Call Megan 785-760-0517.
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Basketball preview Kansas is prepped to take on the Oregon Ducks. From coaches to point guards, see how they stack up. PAGE 10A
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sports commentary
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Thursday, December 11, 2003
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11 Kansas
Before the season started, I honestly believed that Kansas would go 6-6 and participate in a bowl. But, the Jahawks were stronger and faster than in years past and boasted a senior leader at quarterback. What I didn't expect was just how good this team would be. Kansas was a few gaffes away from being 8-4, and when Whitmore was in, the team played as well as anyone in the Big 12 North. Remember, Kansas was playing even with Big 12 Champion Kansas State in Manhattan and actually led in total yards before Whittemore went out. If he never was hurt, this team might have pulled out even more games. Coach Mark Mangino not receiving a single vote for Big 12 Coach of the Year is a travesty.
Kevin Flaherty kflaherty@kansan.com
2) B.J. Svmons
Kansas ranks first in surprises
Everyone talked in the off season about how Symons wasn't Kliff Kingsbury. But now the question is whether the next quarterback in line can be Symons after his 5,488 yards- and 48-touchdown season. While prolific numbers for the quarterback are a result of Texas Tech offense, Symons still managed to throw for more yards than anyone in NCAA history. With Symons at the helm, Texas Tech's offense didn't miss a beat as the team is going to its fourth straight bowl appearance. On Saturday, he was named the recipient of the Chevy Offensive Player of the Year, but a lack of team success will stop him from making a visit to the Downtown Athletic Club. What's scary is that he still has a bowl game to up his final stats. Texas Tech officials are not disclosing what Symons puts in his cereal.
The Big 12 Conference season ended in shocking fashion on Saturday with a 35-7 Kansas State triumph over Oklahoma. This wasn't the only surprise of this wild and wacky season. Here are some others:
1) Kansas
3) Colorado
Colorado had potentially the most talent in the Big 12 North coming into the season. There was a heady quarterback in Joel Klatt, running backs in Brian Calhoun and Bobby Purify, and a stable of speedy, talented wide receivers in Jeremy Bloom, D.J. Hackett and Derek McCoy. The offensive line boasted All-Big 12 performer Marwan Hage. The defense was packed full of proven playmakers such as Sean Tufts, Gabe Nyenhuis and Medford Moorer, but something went horribly wrong with the water in Boulder. The team struggled out of the gate finishing 5-7 and ineligible for a bowl. A combination of injuries and youth at key positions forced the meltdown. This team better turn around in a hurry because Colorado fans are used to being near the top of the Big 12, not the bottom.
SEE SURPRISES ON PAGE 12A
4) Conference Struggle to Strength
This season, it wasn't Roy Williams or Rashaun Woods. Both receivers are incredibly talented and have bright futures in the NFL, but circumstances prevented them from establishing their dominance. For Roy Williams, the switch to the mobile Vince Young at quarterback meant Texas was moving to a more running-based attack. That led to
Early in the season, the Big 12 had troubles with nonconference foes that made the Big 12 look weak. Texas was physically dominated in a loss to Arkansas. Kansas State struggled on the offensive line early and lost to Marshall. Both teams learned their lessons. Texas switched to freshman phenom Vince Young at quarterback while Kansas State started to feed the ball to Sproles, who now leads the nation in all-purpose yardage. Texas's only loss after the switch was to Oklahoma, while K-State dropped close results at Texas and at Oklahoma State. The result is that the Big 12 now has two teams in BCS bowls that nobody really wants to play come holiday season. A Big 12 Conference that looked to be the weakest in recent memory now appears as strong as ever.
5) Best Wide Receiver in the Big 12
Kansas 80 - Fort Hays State 40
Jayhawks trounce Tigers
By Chris Wintering
cwintering@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
When last night's game began between Fort Hays State and No. 5 Kansas, noticeable sections of seats remained unfilled. Five minutes into the game, almost all the 16,300 were in attendance, but by that time the game was already over.
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The Jayhawks began with a 12-0 run with the Tigers not scoring for the game's first 5 and a half minutes. Kansas led by as much as 22, holding a 34-19 lead at halftime despite not scoring in the final 5 minutes of the half.
Unfortunately for Fort Hays State, the second half started much like the first. The Jayhawks started on a 14-0 run, which made a game that was already out of reach into a bona fide blowout. The Jayhawks lead by much as 41 in the 80-40 victory.
Just as Fort Hays State was never really in the game, neither was the crowd. Junior guard Keith Langford said that might have been a good thing.
"I felt good about the fact that we created our own energy," he said.
Langford said the team's effort on defense was something that the team needed. Kansas coach Bill Self said that the team had played well in the past two practices, which translated into a strong
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12A Junior point guard Aaron Miles dribbles around Fort Hays State senior guard Dominique Townes last night. The game concluded in a KU victory of 80-40.
Volleyball Analysis
Report card: Volleyball passes
By Mike Norris
mnorris@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
Now that the 2003 Kansas volleyball season is over, it's not to early to reflect on a record-setting season. Here is the Kansas volleyball team's 2003 report card.
OFFENSE
ATTACKING: Freshman outside hitter Jana Correa led the team with 3.88 kills per game, before her October knee injury. Senior outside hitter Sarah Rome was right behind her with 3.52 kills per game. Two other Jayhawks finished with an average of more than 3.15 kills per game.
No one turned heads with any of those averages, but they are all solid. It never hurts to have four players with an average of more than 3.15. The team average of 15.71 kills per game was good enough
SERVING: One of the weakest points for the Jayhawks. It didn't help losing Correa, who had one of the best jump serves in the Big 12. Sophomore setter Andi Rozum's jump serve was almost as good as Correa's, but it took Rozum a while to master the serve after returning from her injury. But once she did it was as tough to return as any in the Big 12.
However, the only offensive category the 'Hawks did worse than their opponents in was service errors. They committed 360, compared to only 306 by their opponents. Service errors can kill momentum and at times this season.
for fourth place in the Big 12 Conference. Not a great finish, but middle blockers Josi Lima and Ashley Michaels both finished in the top 10 in the conference in hitting percentage. Many times Correa and Lima knocked opponents over with their kills, and that's good for something. GRADE:B+
they did. GRADE: C
PASSING: At times Kansas' passing wasn't great, but what team's always is? When Rozum started the season with an injury, junior Ashley Bechard filled in with no problems. She averaged 12.21 assists per game in 10 matches, while playing a significant amount for the first time in her career.
When Rozum came back, she needed time to shake off the rust. When she finally did, she finished averaging 11.37 assists per game, sixth in the Big 12.
Rozum also was a big reason for their first round sweep of Long Beach State in the NCAA Tournament. The sophomore had 51 assists and put the ball in perfect position for the attackers.
Neither Bechard nor Rozum struggled for a long period of time, and the team never seemed to care who its setter was. The team's average of 14.13 assists per game was almost two points higher than
its opponents' average. GRADE:A-
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BLOCKING: Statistically speaking the Jayhawks probably deserve a D. But you can't always go by stats. For the majority of the season Kansas was last in the Big 12 in blocking. When Rozum came back, and senior outside hitter Jordan Garrison saw more action because of the Correa injury, the team jumped up to ninth place. At the end of the season they were finished last with 1.67 blocks per game, but 10th in overall blocks with 328.
Another obstacle for the 'Hawks is they only had one player more than 6 foot tall who played regularly. Compare that to their second round tournament opponent Pepperdine who had three players more than 6 feet three inches tall.
So even though they were outblocked
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Defense, post play sparks Kansas
By Jesse Newell jnewell@kansan.com Kansan sportswriter
Though the Jayhawks won the Holiday Inn Classic last weekend, defeating UTEP 71-50 in the championship match, coach Marian Washington said she was still looking for a few more good minutes from her team.
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"We had about 25 or 30 good minutes of basketball," Washington said. "We're going to keep working so we can get even more minutes."
The Jayhawks' next opportunity is 7 p.m. Saturday, hosting the Ball State Cardinals in Allen Fieldhouse.
Endress is averaging 19.0 points and has led Ball State in scoring in seven of the eight contests. Meanwhile, Reiter has been a force on the glass, posting 10.4 rebounds to go with her 9.0 points per game.
Ball State comes in with eight games, posting a 4-4 record in the early season. As strong inside players, junior forward Kate Endress and senior center Jessica Reiter are standouts.
games.
In the Jayhawk Classic, inside play was also Kansas' strength. The Jayhawks were able to create fast-break opportunities, utilizing the speed of their post players.
"The thing that opened it up for us with Cal State was our post running the floor," Washington said."We were very excited about that."
Kansas had to run to obtain a goal set before the Cal State Fullerton game. Washington has set the offensive goal of 70 points, but the Jayhawks only managing 29 in the first half.
"Coach told us we needed 41 for our goal," junior guard Aquanita Burras said, "so we had to run for it."
The Jayhawks also used turnovers to their advantage. The team forced five straight turnovers in the second half against UTEP, obtaining eight of its 27 points off turnovers in the two-minute stretch to take total control.
And that's exactly what the Jayhawks did. Kansas raced for 24 fast-break points in the Cal State Fullerton game, scoring 61 in the second half of a 90-46 victory. The team finished with 36 fast-break points in the two-day event.
Larisha Graves, junior guard, dribbled around an opponent Sunday. The game concluded in a Kansas victory.
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Kansas will look to continue its strong defensive play against Ball State. The defense allowed just 16 first-half points to Cal State Fullerton and 13 first-half points to UTEP in the tournament.
Washington said she was pleased with her team's defensive effort over the weekend.
ren Ervin is second on the team with 9.6 points and has a team-high 7.0 rebounds.
"They were able to keep the intensity and keep the coverage the way they needed to." Washington said.
Sophomore forward Crystal Kemp, the Holiday Inn Jayhawk Classic Most Valuable Player, leads Kansas with 14.0 points per game. Freshman forward Lau-
The team will travel to a pair of tournaments after the Ball State matchup, taking part in the Denver Tournament on
Dec. 20-21 and the Dartmouth Blue Sky Restaurant Classic on Dec. 29-30 in Hanover, N.H.
— Edited by Nikki Overfelt
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4 EATING
Discover places where you can take big groups to eat. BY MEGHAN ERWIN
5 RELATING
Breaking up can be hard to do,
but we've got advice to make it less painful. BY JACQUELINE LENART
7 NIGHTLIFE
The annual evening of performance bids farewell to a beloved art professor. BY PATRICK CADY
8 DO IT YOURSELF
Don't give your loved ones the bird, try these gifts instead.
11 SHOP WITH US
Find gifts in Lawrence shops that can't be found in the malls.
BY BECKY ROGERS
14 FINDING YOUR PARENTS
Adoptees considering searching for their biological parents should consider all possible outcomes. BY LAUREN REID
24 GAME & GEAR
Stay entertained while you're stuck indoors with our technology gift ideas.
26 GAME REVIEWS
28 MOVIE REVIEWS
Jayplay reviewers reveal their picks for the top 10 films of 2003.
30 MUSIC REVIEWS
Collin LaJoie calls KJHK DJ Josh Powers' CD a "crowd pleaser."
31 TONGUE IN BEAK
Tongue in Beak delivers its last gasp, literally. Farewell.
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THURSDAY twas the night before
ning with a holiday celebration at the Hawks Nest in the Kansas Union. Student Union Activities sponsors free bowling, pool and video games as well as holiday cooking and card making start at 6 p.m. If you can make it over to Kansas City, Mo., in time, the Tivoli Cinemas, 4050 Pennsylvania Ave., is screening Five Years, an independent film by local artists. The film centers on discovering heroism and "the lies we tell ourselves to get by." A dialogue with filmmakers precedes the film a few doors down at Westport Coffeehouse at 6:15 p.m. and the show starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $6. Aimee's Coffeehouse, 1025 Massachusetts St., plays host to poetry readings from the University of Kansas' own art and literary magazine, the Kiosk. Copies of the latest issue are available at the event. Once you have your daily does of culture out of the way, it's time to let the end-of-the-semester celebration begin with Noon, Lawrence's weekly '80s and early '90s dance party. DJs Cruz and Konsept were forced to shut down for a while because of La Tasca's recent closing. But the Michael Jackson and Prince cuts will continue at The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St., which possesses much more space and better drink specials, but a worse dance floor and an open atmosphere that could hurt the mood unless it gets packed.
SATURDAY danceable holiday.
dig the holiday spirit and great music in many ways. First allow yourself to fall into the sounds produced by the sprightly guitars and fiddles of the Americana Music Academy's Christmas concert at Turne Hall, 900 Rhode Island St. This show will apply bluegrass, blues, jazz and host of other American-born musical styles to your Christmas favorites. Twelve bands play from noon until 7 p.m. and admission is $6 (children 12 and under free). You really don't have think too much about this next event. DJ Koncept is bringing his mad spinning style to the Ad Astra Building, formerly the Lawrence Ballet Academy, 205 W. Eighth St., along with a host of other edgy electronic entrepreneurs. You can get into these unbeatable beats for between $5 and $10, starting at 10 p.m. Not chillin' in Larrytown this weekend? You can dig the Jazz legend Jay McShann (right), who actually began his career in KC during the '30s as part of the Folly Jazz series. It should be a special event as he goes through his repertoire with friends. Along with him you even get to hear Plas Johnson, the saxophonist who blew Mancini's famous Pink Panther
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theme. The show starts at 8 p.m. at the Folly Theater, 300 W. 12th St.
Tickets range from $25 to $32.50.
SUNDAY smart
SET. Your parents asked us to remind you that they aren't sending you those checks for their health, so get out from in front of the TV and study for those finals, already. After you've spent the day studying, take a break from your books to swing by the Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts St., but don't leave your mind at home. Left E. Grove, arguably our fair city's boldest MC, will challenge your booty and your brain with smart, off-the-cuff sonnets that will leave you wishing he was writing your English paper. The show starts at 10 p.m. and tickets are only $2, but this discussion section is only open to those over age 21.
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Want to earn $100 the hard way? The Blue Room in Kansas City, Mo., 1600 E. 18th St., will hold its monthly Jazz Poetry Slam at 7 p.m. Sponsored by the American Jazz Museum, the show will wrap up with an open mic competition where the best poet will win $100 cash. Sit back and enjoy various poets and jazz musicians meshing together to create beautiful music and words at one of Kansas City's jazz hot spots. Admission is $5. If you prefer to mosh to your spoken-word music, go see Anti Flag (right) at The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St., at 7:30 p.m. A nonconformist punk concert wouldn't be complete without the openers Rise Against, Against Me, None More Black and Destruction Made Simple. For $12.50, all ages are invited to this great outlet for your finals stress.
WEDNESDAY hobbits!
It's here! It's here! The last installment of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King opens today. The better of the two trilogy-enders to open this year has three shows at South Wind 12 Iowa St.: 12 p.m., 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. Advance Wind 12, 832-0880, on
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and you need to celebrate the end of the semester. KJHK is hosting one party that is sure to be a blast. Check out Conner, Approach, Breakbotix, DJ Candlewax, Chris Shively and Ben Fuller at the Granada, 1020 Massachusetts St., tonight and enjoy yourself before finals come around. You can also party at The Pool Room, 925 Iowa St., in an old-school house party fashion. Sit and chat on couches, watch some movies or listen to some DJs spin. You can also show up a bit earlier and enjoy catered food, including chicken wings, mashed potatoes, burgers and more. This 18 and over event is $10 for the catered portion, which begins at 7 p.m. For just the party, it's $2 if you're over 21 or $4 if you're 18 to 20. You can also get $1 off with a valid student ID or if you're a Sagittarius. Fighting mice, dancing candies, flittering snowflakes and a sugar plum fairy unite in the traditional ballet, The Nutcracker, at the Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St. The second annual performance has recomposed music for a mandolin orchestra and features more than 100 local dancers and actors. The ballet begins at 7:30 p.m. and other performances are daily through Dec. 21. Cost has not been announced.
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DAU. It's the first day of finals. That wonderful day we all spend either hunched over a scantron for three hours or procrastinating, or studying, in preparation for a test later this week. Either way, this is the perfect night to de-stress at your favorite drinking establishment. Some of tonight's better drink specials include: $1.50 microbrews at Harbour Lights, 1031 Massachusetts St.; $2 Absolut mixers at It's Brothers Bar & Grill, 1105 Massachusetts St.; the ubiquitous $1.25 pint night at Free State Brewing Company, 636 Massachusetts St.; and $3 33 oz. Emerson beers at Emerson Biggins Sports Bar & Grill, 3512 Clinton Parkway.
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When family visits, eating a meal together can be a great form of entertainment. Especially if they're paying. BY MEGHAN ERWIN
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Aunt Mildred's hungry. Uncle Burt slept through your graduation while standing. And you don't even want to see Grandma and Grandpa unless you have an immediate plan of action. If this scene could be your own you'd better be prepared. Whether you are graduating in December or your family is just coming to visit, food is always the answer. I've checked out some local establishments that will not only tolerate large, sometimes demanding families but believe it or not, are happy to serve you and your extended weirdos.
counterclockwise from top: The Hereford House, 4931 W. Sixth St., offers private seating that seat from six to 14 people. Paisano's Ristorante, 2112 W. 15th St., has a banquet room available. - Taylor Thode/Kansan JB Stouts, 721 Wakarusa St., also offers private seating. - Amber Agee/Kansan
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Paisanos Ristorante, 2112 W. 25th St., is affordable and delicious. Menu items range $8 to $25. Trish Von Tersch Kearns, manager at Paisanos says a private banquet room is available on a first come first serve basis and reservations are taken for larger parties. On graduation weekends, Paisanos doesn't typically rent the private room to one family but instead seats large parties in the private banquet room. Families can order off the menu that way everyone is pleased and there is no additional charge for larger parties but a set gratuity is automatically added.
Hereford House
Deeming itself to have "Absolutely the best steak in Lawrence," the Hereford House, 4931 W. Sixth St., no doubt has excellent steaks but also has many private seating arrangements for you and your family. Hereford House has five private rooms that seat from six to 14 people and one smaller room that seats four people. These rooms are available at no extra charge. Ben Winters, employee at the Hereford House, advises students and
their families to make reservations quickly because they are getting booked for the holiday season. Order off the menu of steaks and some seafood and have an opportunity to dine in an upscale steakhouse while your parents get the bill.
JB Stouts
Although JB Stouts, 721 Wakarusa St., does not have private dining rooms, it can accommodate parties of up to 50 peo
ple. Large parties are seated at numerous tables but all are clustered together. Order off its extensive daily menu filled with entrees, salads, sandwiches and appetizers. Reservations should be made for large parties, but Kevin Anderson, employee at Stouts, said the restaurant would take reservations up until one day ahead. But remember reservations can only be made for parties of eight or more.
Meghan Erwin, Jayplay writer, can be reached at merwin@kansan.com.
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relating
heartache
Cheer up, there may be something you can learn from a breakup. BY JACQUELINE LENART
Tear stained pillows crowd the couch, covered with balled-up Kleenex, as you watch the two lovers embrace on television. Quoting their lines along with them, you're swept away from your recent lost love into the perfect movie romance. But when the last scene ends and your bonbons are gone, you're left to pick up the pieces of your relationship's not so Hollywood ending.
If your latest makeup turned into a breakup, you're not alone. Single adults continue to be the
fastest growing of all populations groups, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Even though there's supposed to be strength in numbers, feeling strong after a
breakup isn't always common. But healing is a process that you have power over.
While emotional healing won't happen over night, don't rely on time to heal all wounds, says Jeanette Castillo, author of Get Over Your Ex F.A.S.T. She says expecting feelings to heal themselves over time is a myth and unhealthy because you have to take control of your healing process or you'll prolong your pain. Each path to healing is individual, but ignoring your emotions won't help you to move
on, she says.
Accept your feelings by allowing yourself to cry if you need to, and give yourself support, Castillo says. "Be your own best friend," she says. "You have to do that for yourself and not just create more negative feelings." She says it's unhealthy to avoid your feelings about the breakup because you're only denying your ability to heal. Casual sex and alcohol are
also unhealthy coping methods because you're hurting yourself to avoid facing the pain of your breakup. The key
healing is acceptance of the situation, Castillo says. Once you've come to terms with the breakup you can start to learn from the ended relationship.
A good place to start is to write a romantic resume, says Sherry Amatenstein, author of Love Lessons from Bad Breakups. She says making a list of past partners will help you to see patterns in the personalities of the people you've dated. Those patterns will
to and help you to pinpoint strengths and weaknesses repeated in each relationship. "You have to look at your role and not blame or be bitter," Amatenstein says. "It takes two to tango, so look to see mistakes you made and
you can really get a lot out of it."
She says evaluating your role in the past relationship will help you to establish your new, independent role. It's your chance to reconnect with anything that you once loved but sacrificed for your relationship and to learn what you're not willing to give up again. Exploring your feelings through a journal might help you
to channel your anger or sadness toward acceptance. Remember that what you're feeling isn't indicative of who you are. Share your feelings with friends and talk about what worked in the relationship and what didn't, Amatenstein says.
Experts agree that you can track your healing by evaluating if you've faced your feelings about the breakup and the relationship. If you're working with your problems, then youre opening your mind to change and the possibility of a new relationship. "When a
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breakup has just happened, you have a lot of information that is fresh in your mind that will help you to heal," Castillo says. "The only way to prevent the same mistakes from happening again is to learn from your past relationships." She says analyzing and understanding what led to the breakup will put you in a good position to begin a new relationship.
You'll know it's right to move on when you understand why your last relationship ended and why you want to be
in a new one. Knowing what you're looking for in a partner will help you to find it a lot faster, Castillo says. "We can stop negative dating patterns by evaluating why good and bad things happened past relationships," she says. "Nobody teaches us how to heal, but you can find the tools to create your own process of healing."
IT'S NOT YOU...
—Jacqueline Lenart, Jayplay writer can be reached at jlenart@kansan.com.
It's over. And it seems that the whole world knows except for your soon-to-be-ex significant other. Even though you are ready to move on, breaking someone's heart is never an easy thing to do.
In order to make it bearable for your ex you need a plan of action according to Lisa Daily author of, oddly enough, Stop Getting Dumped! All You Need to Know to Make Men Fall Madly in Love with You and Marry "The One" in 3 Years or Less. A plan helps you to avoid giving the relationship another try simply because your resolve faded and hopefully steers you away from a long, drawn-out scene.
Location
It almost goes unsaid that the decent thing to do is breakup in person. Pick a meeting place that is a public space but won't be overly crowded. Daily advises making sure that escape routes are convenient. The best locations are parks, which are public enough to avoid a dramatic scene but private enough for your ex to avoid embarrassment. Restaurants are a close second but can run the risk of being too public. Think about all those times you listened in on the private conversation of someone at the next table. The absolute worst places to break up are at parties or at work."The only thing worse than being dumped is being dumped in front of people you're going to have to see on a regular basis," Daily writes.
Now that you have sidestepped some
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of the awkward situations that a location can put you in, you have to think about how to time your meeting. It seems that when you finally decide to have the talk both parties know what it's about. Try not to prolong it and get right to the point. If you have chosen a restaurant as your location, this can be tricky. Daily advises waiting until you have the check. You don't want to have to sit around in uncomfortable silence waiting for it to arrive. Daily also advises that you, as the dumper, should most definitely foot the bill. The ideal situation would be to get to the point and go your separate ways as soon as it is over.
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Nothing adds to holiday blues more than being dumped right before the start of a major one. Don't break up with someone within two weeks of a major holiday or his/her birthday, Daily writes. Around Christmas and Valentine's Day, wait about a month.
It's Me.
When telling your ex why, make sure the reasons relate only to you, Daily writes. Stick with a simple sentence such as, "This is not working for me," and keep repeating it. When you start getting specific, your ex can counter and drag you into a negotiation to work things out, even if you don't want to. The bottom line is to be sympathetic but firm. If you don't stand your ground, you'll get dragged back in.
-Becky Rogers, Jayplay writer, can be reached at brogers@kansan.com
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A performance art class pays tribute to its teacher. And no, it's not a made-for-TV movie. BY PATRICK CADY
Roger Shimomura, University of Kansas professor, prepares his class for their upcoming performance. His class will be performing in the Art and Design Gallery on the Third Floor tonight.
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Bradford Kessler, Pratt senior, glides across the classroom floor with his gown billowing behind him. A throaty feminine sigh of ecstasy pierces the air punctuated by Yo Yo Ma's forlorn cello melody. Kessler's form, in a flowing graduation gown, strikes a silhouette against the television and the grainy late-seventies era porn it radiates. His rollerblades draw him around the room in a smooth and dreamlike circle. Nothing like practice.
Weeks later, in the same area, a gray paper mache man hangs from the ceiling upside-down. An endless barrage of strobe lights pepper this installation making it resemble a twisted dadaist rendition of a modern day flasher. Everyday though, this is only an eighteenth of all that happens here.
This performance and installation were created behind thick wooden doors on the fourth floor of the Art and Design building as part of Distinguished Professor Roger Shimomura's performance art class. It was a strange yet fitting example of the practices and performances that have led to tonight's hour-long final exhibition of performance art at the Art and Design Gallery starting at 7. This performance will bring to those who experience it a tsunami of surreality, and mark the end of an artistic era. This will be the last performance led by Shimomura. He retires this year to travel the world and lecture with his wife after 34 years.
The process that has led to tonight's final performances, though, has been long and varied. Throughout the semester his class has perpetrated random happenings across the campus. Their trademark brand of artistic weirdness had led to such oddities as the elevator DJ and the man reading a newspaper with jumper cables. If you've heard the random echoing buzz of a chain saw, that also might just be their work. "I think humor plays a huge role in our art and most art," Kessler says.
The content of their art is widely varied and sprawling. The class learns to adapt all forms of media into their work. Like Kessler's piece earlier in the semester, popular music, movies and cinema are all fair game. Pushing the limits of the media is also important to them. That has been a goal of their semester to this point so they could have ample chances to refine their skills. Each of the 18 students all had their own pieces, as varied and as strange, to some, as the cello bathed roller grad. As their skills improved so did their philosophy role of performance art in general. "It shows how real reality is," Kessler says. "It's a pure art because it's there and gone in the moment; it could never be redone or resold."
The in-class activities helped also to cement the group together. It seemed natural, Kessler says, considering each time they performed they put a piece of themselves, or their ego, on the line. Despite their close-knit connections, even they don't know what everyone is doing until the day of a show. The sense of mystery surrounding a performance art exhibition then is very strong. A few days before the show even, Shimomura knows that virtually nothing in this art form, at least as far as the creative process goes, is permanent. "I know from experience that those pieces could change dramatically over the next few days," Shimomura says.
That means that tonight all the installations, monologues and happenings all are new, and a product of intense cultivation. Every single work is a separate and thought out entity unto itself — but the trick with this exhibition is that they all go at it at once.
Therefore, in the past, the performances have had the same general order and consistency as a metropolitan zoo after a hurricane. If you go you might witness the performers doing something as simple as repeating a mechanical motion, or they could be reciting an entire tragic monologue right in your face. Sometimes the performances are so wild that entire harness systems are set up so people could fly across the room, but then again, they may have something even more intense year.
Kessler hopes so, especially because this is Shimomura's last year. "We really want to end with a bang." Kessler says.
They will attempt it by designing the pieces under the theme of "colors," and taking full advantage of Shimomura's instruction. "His teaching style is a very novel one," Kessler says. "He's always very critical but helpful."
As time for the performances grows ever closer for the students, the pressure also builds for them, to finish and iron art out their ideas. Shimomura has been there before with his students, over the decades, and believes they'll be alright. "Most performance art students work best under pressure and trust their instincts on their creative decision making skills," Shimomura says.
Needless to say, the evening and the performance should be interesting. It'll be a special evening as Shimomura leads his final show, and everyone else experiences an art happening that will never happen again.
Patrick Cady, Jayplay writer, can be reached at pcady@kansan.com.
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12 days of Christmas ...well, sort of.
We couldn't think of anyone who would be interested in getting so many birds for Christmas, so in lieu of the holiday spirit, we decided to give our own spin to the song, "The 12 Days of Christmas," to give you some simple and cheap Christmas gift ideas, DIY style. You can sing along while you're reading, c'mon, we know you want to.
On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree. BY MAGGIE KOERTH
Reasoning that food has more universal appeal than Danny Bonaduce, we resisted the urge to go out and buy an old Partridge Family lunch box and focused on the pears instead. Once they're dipped in chocolate, dried pears are even more yummy than David Cassidy, and easier to fit in a Christmas candy tin. A word of warning, don't buy the Sun Maid mixed dried fruit bag. We tried that and ended up with exactly one dried pear and a lot of apricots. They were good coated in chocolate, but it throws off the song's alliteration. Opt for the dried pear package instead.
Ingredients:
One package of dried pears $1.89
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One package of chocolate bark, $1.99
Wax paper, $1.29
Total Cost: $5.17
Directions:
1. Melt the chocolate in a saucepan. Don't turn the burner past medium heat or you'll burn the chocolate.
2. Once the chocolate chunks are liquefied, turn the burner down to low. Dip the pears in the chocolate, one at a time, so that the chocolate covers half of the fruit.
3. Place the dipped pears on wax paper. Leave them alone until the chocolate hardens. Then, peel them off and put them in a recycled cookie tin or other container.
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On the second day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, two turtledoves. BY ANDREW WARD
Nobody we know eats doves, but turtles are another matter. Turtle candies - caramel, chocolate and pecan confections - are a simple treat you can make at home. All you need is an oven, a microwave and a refrigerator.
1 bag of pecan halves, $3.88
1 bag of wrapped caramels,$2.55
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips,$1.35
tsp. shortening,$1.43 for a small can
Ingredients:
Total cost: $9.21
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Line
cookie sheet with aluminum foil.
2. Make a "Y" with the pecan halves. Place unwrapped—you don't want to eat plastic—caramel in center of "Y." Repeat until you fill your sheet.
3. Place cookie sheet in oven for 10 minutes to melt caramel.
4. Melt chocolate chips and shortening in microwave. Stir the mixture. Spoon chocolate over candies. Chill overnight until firm.
5. Let the candies reach room temperature before you try them; the chilled caramel could break your teeth. This recipe makes about 30 candies.
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On the third day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, three French hens. BY ERICA BRITTAIN
There's nothing better than having some "Chick-hen" noodle soup on a cold, winter day. Get some dry soup ingredients, throw them in a jar and presto, you have a meal that will warm anyone's insides.
Ingredients:
ingredients:
1/4 cup red lentils, $.99
2 tbsp. dried onion flakes, $1.29
2 1/2 tsp. Chicken bouillon, $2.29
1 cup medium egg noodles, $1.19
1/8 tsp. Celery seed, $3.19
1/8 tsp. Garlic powder, $1.29
1/2 tsp. Dried dill weed, $2.29
Total cost: $12.53
Directions:
1. Combine ingredients in a bowl. Mix well. Spoon into Mason jar and seal lid
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tightly.
2. Attach a gift tag that reads the following:
3. Bring 8 cups of water to boil in a large saucepan. Stir in jar of soup mix. Cover, reduce heat and simmer for 25 minutes. If you would like, add 1 1/2 cups mixed vegetables and 2 cups diced chicken. Simmer for five minutes until vegetables are tender and chicken is heated through. Happy Holidays!
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On the fourth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, four calling birds. BY TABATHA BEERBOWER
If you haven't noticed, we aren't so keen on the bird thing, but to stay as true to the song as we could, we made bird picture frames.
Materials:
Picture frame, $3.97
White fake feathers, $.96
Smaller brown foul feathers, $.77
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CALLING BIRD FRAMES
Directions:
1. Pick out the color of your frame and the colors of the feathers.
2. Plug in your hot glue gun to let it warm up.
3. Try out different arrangements with the feathers, or go wild and cover the entire frame with them.
4. Apply hot glue to the frame, not the feathers, trust me on this one.
5. Press firmly on the feather after applying it to the frame, be careful not to burn your fingers.
6. Let dry.
This project took me a whole five minutes. You can also create other theme photo frames with leaves, flowers, buttons, shells or glitter. The idea for this project came from diynet.com
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5 On the fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, five gold rings. BY ERICA BRITTAIN
So, we all know that no college student can afford to buy five gold rings. Instead of spending the big bucks, we decided to make coil pots that are fun to make and affordable.
Materials:
Sculpey Oven-Bake Clay, $9.99
Directions:
1. Preheat your oven to 175 degrees.
CLAY RINGS
2. After washing hands and work area, knead clay until soft and smooth.
3. Gently roll clay back and forth, until the piece is a little thicker than a pencil and about 12 inches long. Repeat for the process until you have 10 sections. Set aside.
4. Roll out a piece of clay to approximately a 1/4 inch thick and 6 inches in diameter. This will be the base of your pot.
5. Stack the clay in circles so that they are on top of one another. Gently push down on the clay so that the individual pieces are slightly touching.
6. Place the coil formation on top of the piece made for the base.
7. Place pot in the preheated oven and bake for 15 minutes.
Let cool and you will have a gift that is ready to wrap in no time at all!
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On the sixth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, six geese a laying. BY ANDREW WARD
So the songs says the guy gave the lady six "geese a laying." If you've ever seen an area with geese in it, you know just how much they "lay," and you wouldn't want to clean up that mess. We decided to keep the goose spirit and show you how to make a synthetic goose-downfilled pillow.
Materials:
Stuffing or a pillow form, $4.99 for a
12-by-12 pillow form
1/2 yard of fabric, $1 to $4
1 spool of thread, $.50
1 needle, $.50
Directions:
Total cost: $7.99
2. Pin the two pieces of fabric together "right sides together." This means you'll be sewing the pillow inside out. The inside of each piece of fabric should be facing out at this stage. After sewing we turn the pillow inside out to stuff it.
1. Cut out two pieces of fabric to match your pillow form. You want it to be about 1 inch longer and wider than your planned pillow size. This allows space for the seams.
3. Sew three sides of the pillow together. Sew the corners of the fourth but not the entire length. It is much easier to sew
4. Stuff the pillow with pillow form, stuffing, or down.
5. Sew the last side by hand.
the corners with a machine than by hand.
You now have a goose down pillow without the mess.
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On the seventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, seven swans a swimming. BY MAGGIE KOERTH
This verse made us rethink the whole "12 days of gift giving" idea. What project could possibly go with it? Monogrammed swim caps? Feathertrimmed water wings? Then, we realized the problem wasn't us, the problem was the song. There were just too many gifts based on fowl. God only knows what kinky, Victorian trend is the cause of that. Because we here at Jayplay are dedicated to preserving your virtue, we aren't even going to speculate on the nature of those kinks. Nor are we going to perpetuate them by suggesting a project based on this lame gift.
No swans for you!
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On the eighth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, eight maids aing. BY TABATHA BEERBOWER
No maids or milking going on here. Well, there is some milk. Here is a recipe for a relaxing milk-based bath soak for anyone to enjoy.
Ingredients:
Ingredients:
Powdered milk, $2.39 for 6-ounces
Epsom salt, $.89
Total cost: $3.28
Directions:
1. In a large container or bowl, combine 3/4 cup of powdered milk and 1/2 cup of Epsom salt per batch.
2. Mix until it's homogenous.
3. Pour the mixture into jars or small decorative containers and give the gift of
SED BATH SOAK
relaxation after stressful holiday planning.
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On the ninth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, nine ladies dancing. BY TABATHA BEERBOWER
Ladies dancing ... ladies ... dancing ... OK, we got nothing. At first we thought dance lessons, but that did away with the do-it-yourself aspect of the whole thing. So, we went one step up — get it, dancing, step? OK — and created our own Teach Yourself How to Dance mat.
Materials
Mats (2 or more), 2 for $5
Leftover material remnant, $.75
Velcro strips,$1.69 for 4 tape sets
Black Sharpie,$1
Total cost: $8.44
Directions:
1. Take off your socks and roll up your pants. Trace the outline of each foot in a piece of cardboard or heavy paper. Cut out the foot shapes.
2. Place your material on a flat surface and trace a foot onto the material.
4. When finished cutting, lay all of the pairs of feet out. Take your sharpie and start numbering each foot with a big black number, starting with the first left foot cutout and alternating.
3. Cut out the material feet. Make at least 12 feet, six pairs.
5. Cut the Velcro strips to fit in the middle of the back of each foot. Attach so when the feet are laid on the mat, they won't slip during a dance lesson. You can attach the mats or just push them together to create a larger "dance floor."
6. Create a notebook with dance lessons in it. We couldn't find any Web sites that were willing to give dance moves up for free, so we suggest visiting the library to raid their step-by-step books, or talking to someone who knows how to
shake their groove thang.
10 On the 10th day of Christmas,
my true love gave to me, 10
This verse always makes us giggle. It's a nice mental image. We decided to go with a project that, if not exactly having anything to do with lords, would include things that would cause them to leap.
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Bamboo pipes can provide a younger sibling or cousin with hours of entertainment without costing you a lot of money.
John Nowak/Kansan
decided to go with a project that, if not exactly having anything to do with lords, would include things that would cause them to leap. Sadly, our editor informed us we couldn't teach you how to freebase cocaine, so we're focusing on our next favorite stimulants: caffeine and sugar. This Super Coffee Gift Basket is guaranteed to get your loved ones hopping.
You'll need:
One small basket, $2.88
Mixed nuts in the shell 1.40 pounds @ $1.99 per pound
One bag of freshly ground coffee, 1.15 pounds @ $7.99 per pound
Flavored creamer, $1.89
Cookies (we used Keebler Pecan Sandies Caramel Shortbread), $2.69
Total Cost: $19.44
Directions:
1. Arrange the bag of coffee, the creamer and the coffee beans in the basket. Pour the nuts into the basket and arrange them around the other items.
2. Wrap cookies in colored plastic wrap and tie with ribbon. Put them on top of the nuts.
This is a great alternative to pre-made gift baskets that be $20 to $50.
11 On the 11th day of Christmas, my true love gave to me,11 pipers piping. BY ANDREW WARD
We know what you're thinking, but no, we're not going to build a waterpipe. We'll leave that for next semester. We will show you how to make a set of four bamboo pipes. If you're lucky they'll make noise when you blow through them. Give these pipes your younger cousins and laugh away winter break as they
MILKSTONE
Sean Smith /Kansan
Fill a basket with yummy coffee and cookies and let someone know they aren't hyper enough.
annoy your relatives.
Materials:
1 length of hollow bamboo, at least 2 feet long, $4.99
hot glue gun, $.99
Total cost: $5.98
1. Cut four lengths of bamboo with the saw. If you want to get real fancy you could crack open a physics book to find the equation to tune your pipes. Not interested? We weren't either.
Directions:
2. Use hot glue to adhere each piece to the next.
4. Take bets on how long it will take older family members to go crazy.
3. Give to young family member.
12 On the 12th day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, 12 drummers drumming. BY ERICA BRITTAIN
Okay, as much as we know that you would love to buy Drumline on DVD and watch it 12 times consecutively, we thought that making a mix CD filled with
songs of the season would be more fun. You can pick and choose what songs you would like to put on it, but we wanted to go old school with our suggestions Here's our playlist:
1. "White Christmas" — Bing Crosby
2. "The Christmas Song" — Nat King Cole
3. "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" — Brenda Lee
4. "Blue Christmas" — Elvis Presley
5. "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" — Gene Autry
6. "Do They Know It's Christmas?" — Band Aid
7. "Feliz Navidad" — Jose Feliciano
8. "Step into Christmas" — Elton John
9. "Holly Jolly Christmas" — Burl Ives
10. "Santa Baby" — Eartha Kitt
11. "Dominick, The Italian Christmas Donkey"—Lou Monte
12. "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" — Frank Sinatra
For a more personalized touch, get creative and make your own CD cover. Just measure out the size of the CD holder on a piece of paper, break out the Crayolas and glitter and get busy!
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Zen Board $34 perfect!
LAWRENCE OFFERS A FEW GREAT GIFT IDEAS WITHOUT EVEN GETTING NEAR A MALL. PROMISE.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and that means I have a lot of Christmas shopping to do. The last thing I want to do this season is spend the hours that I am not working in a mall, shopping in a mall.
Fortunately, Lawrence has an easy solution for me. Even though brandname stores are popping up throughout the city, smaller, locally owned stores are thriving right beside them. After taking a look around these small nooks, I found a little something for everyone on my list.
So this Christmas I am going to avoid the mall as much as I can and bring my family gifts from Lawrence that aren't necessarily from the bookstore. I think that if you take a look around these shops, you will find things that are distinctive, creative and guaranteed to light up your loved ones' eyes.
to the bottles and paying $1 for gift wrapping, I had spent $30 on Mom.
Bloom also has a selection of bath beads in different colors and scents that would be fun to add to your mom's stocking. Besides its regular line of body products, Bloom carries a line of things for the kitchen such as dish soap, laundry detergent, ironing water and hand soap.
For Sisters
If you want cool, funky gifts with a retro angle, head over to Hobbs, Inc., 700 Massachusetts St. This store is chalk full of great ideas for every age and style. For my 20-year-old sister, I found the Zen Board. Think of it as an updated version of an Etch A Sketch. You dip a paintbrush in water and draw onto the silver paper surface. The water appears like ink and after a few minutes your masterpiece
THINK GLOBAL. SHOP LOCAL
For Mom
My first stop was at Bloom Bath & Body, 704 Massachusetts St. What drew me to Bloom is its custom-blend bar. Bloom offers 43 scents that you can blend with lotion, shower gel, bath salts and massage oil. After wearing out my sniffer smelling all 43 scents, I decided on a blend of orange flower and fresh flowers to be mixed into shower gel and lotion. The combination of these two should be perfect for my mom, who loves heavy floral scents. After adding pumps
fades back into a blank canvas. The Zen board goes for $34 and the gift wrapping is free when you make a purchase of $20 or more. Another one-of-a-kind gift for your list is Hobbs' collection of Ritzenhof glasses. This German company commissions local German artists to paint a line of glassware and dishware. Hobbs carries pilsner glasses, champagne flutes and martini sets, each of which is individualized by the artist. If neither of these is up your alley, Hobbs also carries pajamas, clothing, jewelry and books.
Flush, 17 E. Seventh St., a tiny shop
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Mom?
next door to Java Break, had the answer for my 16-year-old sister. This vintage shop mixes the old and new to help you create a chic, retro style. What caught my eye were the four books of iron-on designs. After picking out a T-shirt for her, I found the emblazoned logo "Mullets Rule." Thank you Ashton Kutcher for making white trash cool again. I resisted the temptation to make myself a Jem T-shirt as well. The sales clerk transferred the logo in about two minutes. After handing over $22, $8 for the decal and $14 for the shirt, I was on my way.
Next was a gift for my 14-year-old sister, who unfortunately has also taken a
This year, my sisters and I have a plan. Dad is going to get the same kind of random gifts he sometimes gives. Last year I received a Frappuccino, a night-light, a crazy straw and a Hot Wheels Racer. No doubt these were all purchased right
page from the Ashton Kutcher style book and wants trucker hats for Christmas. Not sure where to find them, I went to Shark's Surf Shop, 813 Massachusetts St. Although this store is known mostly for its large shoe collection and sporty clothing, it also carries a bunch of trucker hats. There were several designs to choose from and the cost was reasonable, only $15.
For Dad
before Wal-Mart closed on Christmas Eve. I started off at Soap Momma, 735 Massachusetts St., where soaps are made fresh everyday. The store offers a variety of fragrances and carries four or five scents that are specifically created with men in mind. For Dad I selected "Elvis is in the Building" and "St. John's Wood." Soap Momma also carries lingerie, none of which I bought for Dad. The styles it carries are fun and sexy. This would be a good place to shop for your girlfriend.
Next, I went into The Casbah, 803 Massachusetts St., because it is known for its eclectic selection. Here jewelry, items for your home, clothing, purses and odds and ends have a vintage flair.
For my sisters, I found initial keychains for $8 and got one for each of us. For my sister Carrie, I bought a silver bracelet for $24 that can be engraved with her initials. The Casbah also came in handy for some quirky gifts for Dad. A whoopee cushion and a Dinner in Mexico CD got me off to a good start on his present.
For Brothers
I was almost done but I still had to search for a gift for my 7-year-old brother who is hopelessly addicted to his Nintendo. My quest was to find something for him that would peel him away from the TV screen for at least an hour. I was really clueless as to what this could
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The Casbah:
Something quirky?
OTHER STOPS ON THE ROAD LESS SHOPPED
You will shopped on an average of 10-20 stops a day. But there are many places that may not be in your area. Here are some suggestions:
Uncle Gus:
7400 Shawnee NW, 140 Parkway
Milwaukee
The original stop is located at the intersection of Wabash and Wisconsin Avenue.
Brickside Tavern and Grill:
330 W. Kirkwood St.
Kansas City, Mo.
This small shop is situated at the brick side shopping district as a classico. This is where you go if you want to learn something here. The array toys and games that are pinned to the wall learning and snakes and noises the perfect destination store with a curious mood.
The Ramen Soup:
521 W. 18th St.
Kansas City, Mo.
Who trusts paper could be so much fun? Besides this such as cartoons, scams and stationery that are designed to be one of a kind, this stores carries great wrapping paper. It is a little bigger than what you can pick up at target but for those special presents, it will add a nice personal touch.
The Casbah:
Something quirky?
be until I stepped inside The Toy Store, 841 Massachusetts St. There I came across an assortment of boxed magic sets for all ages. I found one that had more than 50 tricks for him to learn. The magic set put me back $35 but was worth every penny. Even if he only spends one minute on each trick that adds up to almost an hour. Mission accomplished. What I liked about the Toy Store was its devotion to toys that would help to spark a child's imagination or to learn something new. These aren't the toys that you will find at Toys "R" Us. All of the items carried at The Toy Store have learning and creativity in mind such as books, building blocks and kits that
teach a child something new.
After an afternoon of shopping on Massachusetts Street I felt a lot better than if I had gone to the mall. The local stores'I went to had a great selection of products. After visiting these places, I felt that the gifts I had purchased for my family members fit them better than ones in years before. Besides that, I know they will be surprised with them. By shopping in Lawrence, I am almost guaranteed that my presents won't be duplicated on Christmas Day.
—Becky Rogers, Jayplay writer, can be reached at brogers@kansan.com.
OTHER STOPS ON
THE ROAD LESS SHOPPED
Yew Street Farm in Salt Lake City, Utah is the largest store on the road less shopped in the city. It has a wide variety of products including toys and games. There are also many crafts and hobbies available.
Upton City
7200 Shooting Star Park
Missouri
This shop is located off the corner of Shooting Star Park and near the Missouri State University campus.
Brunswick Tay and Science
390 W. 14th St.
Kansas City, Mo
This workshop shop is located in the Brunswick neighborhood district as a business. This is where you go if you want to learn something new. It carries toys and games that are great favors in school and science and stores the personal touch for all ages and occasions.
The Raven Squirrel
621 W. 41th St.
Kansas City, Mo
Whatever paper could be so much fun. Besides gifts such as calendars, cards and stationery, these desiure to be one-of-a-kind, this store carries great wrapping paper. It is a little briller than wing you can pick up at Target; but for those special presents, it will add a nice personal touch.
Toys!
Magic Set $35
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identity quest.
by lauren reidy.
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When Lindsay Gross looks into a mirror, she sees more than just her reflection. The 22-year-old KU graduate regards her caramel skin, chocolate eyes and coal-colored hair as pieces of a puzzle she's wanted to solve since she was 3 years old. Adopted at 4 months, Gross has no memory of her biological mother and has never met her biological father. She does not share blood or DNA with the parents who raised her, but she knows that doesn't matter. Experience has taught Gross that families are defined by love, not biology.
Today, Gross describes herself as a relatively happy, well-adjusted young woman. She smiles as she explains that she gets her sarcastic sense of humor from her father and her strong sense of loyalty from her mother. But she admits that she is plagued by a nagging curiosity. Whenever Gross looks in the mirror, she wonders about the two people responsible for the color of her eyes.
This constant question inspired Gross' recent decision to search for her biological parents. "For a long time, I thought I didn't need to search," she says. "I thought I could live with all my questions." But when she read an article about a girl who had searched and received closure, she decided she wanted closure and to calm her curiosities.
Gross' attitude is not uncommon, says Counseling and Psychological Services Director Francis DeSalvo. He says that adopted individuals generally want to know where they come from and the circumstances that made the adoption necessary. "They may want to regain a sense of value that their biological parents took from them by giving them away."
Adoptees like Meley Feaster have less complicated reasons for wanting to find their biological parents. "I don't want any sort of relationship with them," says the Garden City senior. "But I would like to find out my medical history."
DeSalvo warns adoptees to have realistic expectations about searching for their biological parents. "Problems can arise when a person is expecting a fantasy," DeSalvo says. "Most searches don't end with two people running through a field of clover into a big embrace."
Claremont, Calif., resident Jean Strauss advises potential seekers to hope for the best and anticipate the worst. Strauss, author of Birthright: The Guide to Search and Reunion for Adoptees, Birthparents, and Adoptive Parents, says people can find out terrible things: that they're a child of rape, their parents are in jail or deceased, their parents could refuse to see them they may never find their parents at all "You need to be prepared for all that," Strauss says.
Gross plans to take the time she needs to prepare. "I'm going to wait to actively search until I'm more stable than I am now," she says. "My parents would be really supportive, but I want to wait until I have a family of my own to help me deal with the possible rejection."
Rick Seidel made the opposite choice. The 55-year-old Albuquerque, N.M., resident did not begin to search for his biological parents until after his adoptive parents and his wife passed away. "It felt like the most important thing to do," he says. "I didn't have any expectations. I just thought it would be nice to meet them." Seidel began the process by petitioning the Children's Court of Santa Fe, N.M., to open his adoption files in 2001.
According to Marle Anderson, coordinator for The Adoptees' Liberty Movement Association, he started his search in the right place. Anderson advises any adoptees who want to find their biological parents to follow the paper trail. "Ask the adoptive parents for the petition or the final adoption decree," she says. "It will have their birth name and the name of their birth mother and father."
If the adoptive parents don't have the adoption petition, they can obtain a copy from the state or attorney who handled the adoption. Adoptees should contact the attorney or agency that finalized the
"For a long time, I thought I didn't need to search. I thought I could live with all my questions."
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adoption and ask for background information. However, adoption records don't always have the answers. Seidel's records did not list the names of his biological parents. Fortunately, he had another place to start. His adoptive parents had known the name of the doctor who delivered him.
His adoptive parents had known the name of the doctor who delivered Seidel followed the doctor's name to the small town of Hagarman, N.M. Although the physician was deceased, Seidel spoke to the town clerk and the police chief. After extensive conversations with various residents, he discovered his mother's name and the names of her family members. But he found out his mother had dies and that she had no relatives still living in Hagarman, N.M. "I came home thinking that I was finished, that I hit a dead end," he says.
However, Seidel still had a desire to know his biological relatives. He began to look up his relatives' names on the Internet. He matched the name of his biological aunt to a woman living in Michigan. "It was 10 at night in Albuquerque, so it was much later in Michigan, but I couldn't wait," Seidel says. "I picked up the phone and called the number. The woman's ex-husband answered the phone. I just asked him to listen to me."
After Seidel explained himself, he left his number with the man and hung up the phone. Minutes later, his biological aunt returned his call. "She knew about me," he says. "It was such a relief that someone knew about me. And I was able to ask her questions about my biological mother and father."
From this conversation and many others that have followed, Seidel learned that his biological father was also deceased. However, he also discovered that he had biological relatives spread out across the country. Although he has never met his aunt, Seidel still speaks with her. He hopes to meet her soon.
Seidel advises potential seekers like Gross to be persistent and keep things in perspective. "Keep at it, even when you're discouraged," he says. "And don't let it become an obsession. Know that if you didn't find your biological parents, you would still be OK."
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Adoptees who are able to locate a phone number or address for a living, biological parent face a new challenge; contacting the individual. He says that when you obtain a name and an address, it is logical to call or write a simple letter to confirm it is the person you are looking for.
DeSalvo advises adoptees to develop a relationship with their biological parents before meeting them. He says that DeSalvo is on the right track. "I really think it's important to ease into things gently so that the first physical meeting is more of a culmination of a lot of preparation, rather than a starting point," he says. "Talk on the phone over time, send pictures."
DeSalvo also advises adoptees to think of finding their biological parents at the beginning, rather than the end, of the process. He says it's important that adopted individuals understand that when they find their biological parents, it will answer a lot of questions, but that it will also raise more questions. "If you're going to go that route, be prepared to live with what you find," he says.
If a search ends unsuccessfully, DeSalvo advises adoptees to seek solace from their adoptive parents. The adoptive parents are the parents that raised the adoptee, DeSalvo says. They have all the knowledge about the adoptee that matters.
Gross knows that when she begins her search, she will be embarking on a trip of faith. "It's' really hard," she says. "I have this desire to search and to know, but I can't control the outcome. If my biological parents never want to meet me, there's nothing I can do about it."
But Gross is willing to risk that rejection. She wants to gain a better understanding of the girl she sees reflected in the mirror. She says she hopes to learn where each of her features came from and whether or not her biological mother experienced the same awkward stages during adolescence. But Gross also knows that she is complete without this knowledge. She may see herself as a puzzle, but she knows she isn't missing any pieces.
- Lauren Reidy, Jayptay writer, can be reached at lreidy@kansan.com.
"Keep at it, even when you're discouraged. And don't let it become an obsession. Know that if you didn't find your biological parents, you would still be OK."
—Rick Siedel/Albuquerque, N.M. resident
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gift destinations
Alivan's Wine and Spirits - pg. 22
Affique Bazaars II, Inc. - pg.22
Au Marche - pg.23
Babelte - pg.22
Charlotte & Tipit - pg.19
Body Works - pg. 20
Curves - pg. 21
Einstein Brothers Bagels -pg.23
Jack Flanigans Bar & Grill -pg.21
Jayhawk Bookstore -pg.20
Kansas Union -pg.18&23
Lawrence Memorial Hospital -pg.18
Mango Tan -pg.20
Mass Street Music -pg.21
Quantum Exile—pg.17
Simply Wireless-pg.22
Soap Momma—pg.23
Waxman Candles—pg.20
Wild Territory—pg.21
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Authors' note: With those massive gift-giving holidays looming in the future, we thought we'd offer you a few ideas of what to give your loved ones and what to put on your own wish list. The following products are what the Game & Gear writers feel are the top technological toys in our first-ever gift guide:
Noise-canceling earphones
If you're a music lover and want to listen to your favorite Mandy Moore CD without the droning background noise of your roommate or the campus buses, ask Santa for Aiwa's noise-canceling ear phones. According to the packaging information, they offer up to 70 percent background noise reduction. The noise-canceling mod
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—Kim Elsham
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne isn't Half-Life 2, DOOM 3 or Duke Nukem Forever. That's a good thing. The first two games in that list won't be released until next year, and the third may never see the light of day. That leaves us with a short list of potentially entertaining or disappointing games released before the holiday season.
Let's get something out of the way. You may have heard Max Payne 2 is a short game. It's true. There may be eight hours of story, but it's the best eight hours I've had since Half-Life.
In it, you play Max Payne, a New York City detective caught in the middle of a gangland war. The games bills itself as a "film noir love story" and makes good on the promise.
The game looks like a dark graphic novel, replete with comic-book style cut scenes that explain the story.
As a player, you use a third-person shooter who plays like a John Woo film from his days in Hong Kong. Think Hard
his days in Hong Kong. Think Hard Boiled. Max Payne 2's claim to fame is its "bullet time" effect. Activating this power slows down everyone else but allows your character to aim at regular speed. It makes for entertaining firefights as you dodge bullets and return fire. The graphics are good, but not DOOM 3 or Half-Life 2 good.
So to kill the time while Valve searches for its stolen source code, John Carmack plays with rockets and 3D Realms sits on its thumb, give Max Payne 2 a shot.
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The sequel to 1998's Half-Life, which won more than 50 game-of-the year awards and the "Best PC Game Ever" title from PC Gamer magazine, promises to crush the original and strip it of that title, when it finally gets released. You play Gordon Freeman, a research scientist wielding a crowbar, and soon, various other weapons, to save the world from an alien invasion you helped perpetuate at the Black Mesa Research Facility.
But Half-Life 2 is more than a firstperson shooter. It is the most realistic looking game to date, where you can control everything in your environment, and anything you manipulate affects the gameplay. Valve has worked for years to improve the sound, the look of the characters and the fluidity and accuracy of object and human movement. The artificial intelligence of enemies and allies is extraordinary. For example, your allies no longer simply follow you, they decide when it is best to move, hide or fight,
truly personifying the characters.
Valve has repeatedly delayed the release of Half-Life 2 for refinement and security reasons—part of the game code was released over the Internet. The most recent plan is to have it in stores by late first-quarter 2004, so give your loved one this coupon that they can redeem to you when the best game of all time comes out in the next few months. Or tide them over with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, a brand new version of Half-Life's biggest spin-off. But keep it away from your 10-year-old brother; the extreme reality of
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Directors Label DVDs
Palm Pictures recently released three DVDs showcasing the best of the best of music video directors and they are, hands-down, incredible. Spike Jonze, Chris Cunningham and Michel Gondry have produced amazing videos for Beastie Boys, Bjork, Weezer, Fatboy Slim, Rolling Stones, Aphex Twin, Madonna, Oui Oui and many, many more. Gondry's edition is paramount, with the three greatest videos of all time: Foo Fighters' "Everlong", Chemical Brothers' "Let Forever Be" and Daft Punk's "Around the World."
You give a lot for $14 to $15, too. Each DVD is double-sided, containing not only the artists' best music videos, but other short works they have produced, interviews, musician commentaries and behind-the-scenes documentaries. Each case also boasts a 52-page color booklet
of stories, storyboards, drawings, interviews and photographs. These DVDs will make a fantastic gift for anyone who appreciates art in music videos and not simply booty-shakin'. Amazon.com offers the trio together for $34.87.
—Eric Braem
Musicmatch Jukebox Plus and MX
Over the last few years, Musicmatch Jukebox has transformed into the best free digital music player because of the ease of organizing your music, of track tagging—including the option to add thumbnails of the album a particular song is on—of downloading music and most importantly, Artist MATCH radio. Say you scroll down your playlist and
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Musicmatch MX Platinum, which, in
addition to the preset and Artist MATCH radio stations, offers Artist ON DEMAND. This gives the listener access to entire music libraries of a growing army of 10,500 artists. You cannot burn these songs without purchasing them, but you can access them at any time on any computer for $4.95 per month. Yummy.
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Nokia N-gage
Put this one on your wish list. The Nokia N-gage can apparently do it all. This 3-inch tall by 5-inch wide hand-held device is a phone, MP3 player, wireless browser and gaming deck all in one. The 3D graphics make games like Tomb Raider and Tony Hawk actually visible although not as clear as your television at home. N-gage also has a multiplayer function that connects you wirelessly to two- to- four other players. Most of the games cannot be stored on the N-gage, but small game cards you can carry with you will hook you up. Several big name games can be played on N-gage including Madden and Red Faction. Most game cards sell for about $35 a piece. This one will cost your parents a pretty penny, though. At Target the N-gage starts at $299 and accessories and games are extra. The best deal seems to be at www.gamestop.com, where you can get the N-gage plus Tony Hawk, Sonic N and Tomb Raider for $200.
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Castlevania: Lament of Innocence
It's been 17 years since the arrival of the first Castlevania game, and now it has appeared once again on PlayStation 2. After trying out Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance, I figured I should try out Castlevania: Lament of Innocence.
One major thing that separates this title from most other Castlevania games is the use of a 3D platform rather than the traditional 2D style of play. Two Castlevania games were released for Nintendo 64, however there were a few tweaks with the game.
Lament of Innocence takes place before the first game. You assume the role of Leon Belmont, one of the most powerful knights of the 11th century. Your soon to be bride, Sara, is taken by the vampire Dracula to his castle in a forest covered in an eerie darkness. As the story unfolds, you will learn the origins of the Belmont Clan, the power of the legendary whip and the beginnings of Dracula.
The gameplay of Lament of Innocence is similar to the previous Castlevania games. Even with this game in 3D, it still has most of the components
from the side-scrolling titles. You search your way through Dracula's castle slaying monsters, solving puzzles and collecting artifacts to help you on your journey. The 3D graphics for Lament of Innocence are decent, but need some extra work. For instance, the use of different cameras is necessary when trying to explore Dracula's castle thoroughly. However, because Lament of Innocence uses a fixed camera, exploration becomes nearly impossible. I found one level-up item simply by luck. The absence of a lock-on system is really not a necessity. Because your main weapon is a whip, your attacks can cover a wide area and hit multiple targets.
Using the map system in Lament of Innocence is truly necessary when playing. In past Castlevania games, it was fairly easy to get lost in the intense 2D maze of Dracula's castle. With the use of map markers, you can place special highlights on rooms you want to remember.
The game style of Lament of Innocence is found in many action/adventure games today. Instead of pure hack and slash, the game is more "fight when necessary while solving puzzles more often." Castlevania: Lament of Innocence could become a game that goes down in Castlevania game history.
Chris Moore
Grade: B
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Chaos Legion
Once again Capcom has come up with yet another game where demons are the main course. Chaos Legion has a similar tone to that of the Devil May Cry series. The environment, the monsters and even the music resemble that of the game series.
You play the game as Sieg Warheit. You are sent on a mission to find an old friend who has become one of your enemies, Victor Delacroix. To assist you on your battles with the Underworld is a cool looking sword, as well as a slew of monsters known as Legions. As you progress through the game you will gather more and more Legions to fight alongside of you.
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As you and your Legions fight more, they can become stronger and you will be able to summon more of them. However, you can only equip two types of Legions per stage. This aspect of the game makes it more difficult. For example, some Legions are strong against metallic monsters and some are weak against them. Because you have no idea which stage has which monsters, you're left to guess which Legions are appropriate to use. Each Legion has its own special talent for certain aspects of combat.
The experience system is fairly easy to understand. As you hit more and more enemies you gain experience for your character. The way your Legions get experience is determined by how much they contribute in combat. The more they fight, they more they get. You get the chance to power-up your Legion between each stage to make it more powerful and able to withstand stronger enemies. Also when they level up, you and your Legions will obtain more useful skills.
The graphics for Chaos Legion show off a great gothic-style environment. From the buildings, all the way down to the ruins of castles are displayed vividly.
The controls are similar to that of the Devil May Cry platform style of gaming. The key to survival is to slash and dodge
attacks. It does take a little more care when controlling your Legions, but it doesn't become too difficult to control. Your Legions have different modes of combat, but once you determine what each mode does, you'll be able to control them easily.
Chaos Legion is a game that becomes addictive quickly. The style and gameplay aren't groundbreaking, but it seems to work for fans of the genre.
—Chris Moore
Grade: A
F-Zero GX
Captain Falcon returns on the Nintendo Gamecube for another round of racing at high speeds and insane twist and turns.
F-Zero GX is lot similar to its predecessor, F-Zero X for Nintendo 64. You pick a car to race and try to snatch victory in the F-Zero Grand Prix. Yet in F-Zero GX, there is an actual story mode you can play. In story mode, you play as Captain Falcon and undertake numerous racing missions. One example is where you must dress up like a silly looking magician and win a race for an old man you met at a bar. The big downside of this feature is that in order to progress the story, you must purchase each chapter in
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the item shop with tickets. The only way to get tickets is by winning the racing cups in Arcade mode. This gets aggravating when a player has to switch between story mode to arcade mode.
LOVE IT LIVE
F-Zero GX is a good futuristic racing game. However, the gameplay doesn't show any depth to the game at all. Since it's just a racing game, what more can you expect. However, it's been a good title in the past. While the graphics have definitely come a long way since the original F-Zero on Super Nintendo, it's really no different from the N64 version.
One of the greatest aspects of F-Zero GX is that players now have the ability to create their own car in the Garage option. You can use the tickets that you have won in the races to buy parts for your car. As you progress through the game, new parts open up for you to add on to your racer. You can use the car you build in the Arcade mode to see just how well it performs. With the right parts, you can get a good leg up on the competition. The only downside to this whole aspect is that you can't name your car.
—Chris Moore
Grade: B
NBA Live 2004
Plain and simple, basketball's my favorite sport. So naturally, I'd love basketball video games.
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Let me tell you, for all the commercials and all the hype NBA Live 2004 received, it hasn't really lived up to much of it. There is no sports game I have ever played before that has required the use of so many different controls just to play the game than NBA Live 2004.
Now of course, EA Sports delivered as usual with great graphics and immense attention to detail from players' faces to stadium setups. Game play wise, there weren't many changes from last year's version except for making it tougher to control who you're passing the ball to on offense. It's just one change, but in my mind, it makes the game run a lot less smoothly.
The game gets a little bit more entertaining when you're playing against a buddy and just messing around taking the ball to the rack with one of your favorite players, but if you're trying to actually take it seriously, the game is just plain frustrating.
The only thing that keeps me from giving this game a really bad grade is that EA Sports finally gave some love to my favorite player, Jermaine O'Neal, and improved his character on the game. He's simply unstoppable on the 2004 version.
All in all, this game just simply ran out
of gas from all of the advertising that EA put on its shoulders once it was released. The game is tough and frustrating, and EA Sports should focus on taking this game actually back a step so it can again be enjoyable.
—Ryan Greene Grade: C-
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004
For the years I have played video games, I have exclusively indulged myself in games of the sports genre. I would be lying if I didn't say Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004 is the most addictive video game I have ever encountered. Don't believe me? Just ask my roommate, who never plays video games, because he's more addicted than me.
Just as any other sports game, Tiger Woods allows you to pick your favorite pro and go through a full season. However, this game gets into much more gross detail. You actually have the option of making a player named after yourself and can change everything from the cut of your hair to the chubbiness of your face to the size of your beer belly.
Upon beginning your journey on the
PGA Tour, you must win pro tournaments against the tour's best and also defeat fictional characters one-on-one to earn money. With the money, you can improve your player and also buy stuff. I say stuff because it varies from new shafts for your clubs all the way to platinum teeth for your mouth. Yeah, pretty random, but that's part of the game's quirky shtick.
As far as game play goes, the courses are detailed to perfection just as you see them on television during actual PGA events. And some of the fun created courses would present a nearly impossible challenge in real life to Tiger himself.
Learning to play the game takes nearly no effort at all. Basically, that means this game is fit for an experienced gamer or someone who plays only once in awhile like myself or my roommate.
The only downside to this game actually has nothing to do with the game itself. Don't plan on playing this game if you have a heavy class load or a busy personal life. You will get yourself lost in this game and lose track of just about everything, and, in the case of my roommate, cause groans of frustration from your girlfriend.
—Ryan Greene
Grade: A+
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THE BEST MOVIES OF 2003
Orlando Bloom and Viggo Mortenson return to the big screen as Legolas and Aragon for the last time in Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, one of Lindsey Ramsey's Top 10 movies of 2004.
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1. Spider
David Cronenberg's spooky masterpiece links a boy's fascination with spider webs to a man's schizophrenia and a woman's mysterious murder. Ralph Fiennes creates his most chilling character since Schindler's List in this spellbinding examination of reality and the elusive nature of evil.
2. Mystic River
The year's most well acted and thematically edifying drama about the way childhood wounds seize upon the next generation in one fell swoop. Tim Robbins brings the walking dead rattling to life in a performance that never stops haunting you.
3. The Magdalene Sisters
For decades, the Irish Catholic locked up "wayward" girls in asylums to keep them from infecting the rest of the youth population. The outrage of Peter Mullan's grim account captures all of the conflicting emotions that made this historical atrocity possible.
4. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Intelligent, sweeping and humane this seafaring epic marks Peter Weir's most stirring direction since Dead Poets Society. Beautifully scored and photographed, the film asks big questions that seem almost out of place in today's vacuous multiplexes.
5. Kill Bill, Vol. 1
Endlessly resourceful filmmaker Quentin Tarantino continues to challenge our notions of race, fantasy and the possibilities of moviemaking in his exhilarating fourth feature.
Capturing the Friedmans
Andrew Jarecki's shattering portrait of
an American family reveals a moral abyss beneath society's desire to turn private anguish into public spectacle. Few documentaries exhibit so much power or ambiguity.
7. All the Real Girls
8. Thirteen
A sensual midwestern romance bursting with the energy and joy of young love that so often gets streamlined out of Hollywood storytelling. Director David Gordon Green is going to be a major film artist.
Catherine Hardwicke's teen powerhouse takes an unflinching look at self-mutilation, sex and rampant drug use in a modern middle school. Thirteen suggests the mass media's obsession with youth has shaped a generation of terminally hip thrill-seekers.
9. Blue Car
This is another powerful, little-seen teen drama, with wonderful performer Agnes Bruckner (Murder by Numbers) as a sensitive girl who invests too much faith in her creative writing teacher. It's a
bleak film, but one that's too truthful to be ignored.
10. Lost in Translation
Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson make sweet movie music in Sophia Coppola's uncommonly perceptive follow-up to The Virgin Suicides. The closing song sums up the warm feeling Murray and Johansson generate: "It's like honey."
Honorable mentions: Irreversible, Lost in La Mancha, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Raising Victor Vargas and Swimming Pool
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1. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Dec. 17)
If the trailer is any inclination, we're in for one of the most remarkable films ever created. With the Battle of Pelennor
fields, the giant spider Shelob and Frodo's final journey up Mount Doom, there is not one doubt in my mind that director Peter Jackson has indeed saved the very best for last.
2. Cold Mountain (Dec. 25)
An Odyssey-esque journey home toward the woman you love. Sounds good. Jude Law, Nicole Kidman and Renee Zellweger? Sounds very good. A trailer that brings tears to the eyes? Sounds amazing, and will give us an Oscar-worthy Christmas present in every way.
Gripping, gritty and dark. Intense and heart breaking. Mystic River was an emotional story between childhood friends: Sean Penn, Tim Robbins and Kevin Bacon. Penn is fantastic and the rest of the film follows in his haunting and poignant steps.
The tale of the little lost fish tugged heartstrings and made us laugh. Nemo, Marlin and lovable but forgetful Dory all made for a hilarious and touching story in a visually stunning film.
4. Finding Nemo
3. Mystic River
5. Love Actually
6. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
For all those hopeless romantics out there, all I can possibly say is that this movie made me laugh, cry and feel the happiest I have ever felt leaving a theater.
Johnny Depp pure and simple. His swagger and perfect comic timing made what could have been another Disney disaster into the most fun and funny popcorn flick ever.
7. Lost in Translation
Sofia Coppola's poetic tale of strangers is an understated work of art. The beauty of these two strangers' friendship brings a peace and elegance to a wonderfully imaginative film.
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An assault on the eyes filled with gore and surprising grace. Quentin Tarantino's sword-wielding opera was one of the most dramatic, erratic and exhilarating experiences in a theater, period.
9. The Last Samurai
Beautifully shot with battle scenes that are stirring and loaded with depth. Who is the last samurai? It doesn't matter, thereby showcasing the film's loyalty to giving us something we could honestly appreciate.
10. Elf
Will Ferrell in yellow tights is Christmas magic. This comedy proved that Ferrell has leading man status and that Christmas films can still inspire and make children and adults smile.
Honorable mentions: Shattered Glass, Thirteen, 28 Days Later, Pieces of April and The Human Stain
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1. Lost in Translation
This story of two "lost" Americans who "find" each other in Tokyo contains performances, writing and directing that bounces audiences from laughter to tears from one scene to the next. Sophia Coppola doesn't just prove herself as a director. She defines a new generation of filmmaking. Don't miss this movie.
2. Kill Bill Vol.I
Heads roll, arteries spurt and a plethora of f-bombs drop in Quentin Tarantino's fourth movie. Audiences enjoyed watching the Bride kill everybody, but Bill in this first installment. Nauseating and fun, this movie combines so many film styles to be the unique film of the year.
3. School of Rock
Richard Linklater directs Jack Black and a coterie of school kid musicians to new heights of good, clean comic fun. Black's funny without working blue,and the kid's are equally impressive musicians.
Harvey Pekar's got it rough. Fortunately, Harvey has an outlet in the comics he writes, so that others can share in his misery. Under the helm of Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, Paul Giamatti delivers the performance of his career.
5. Mystic River
A well-crafted, well-acted murder mystery never disappoints. Sean Penn, Tim Robbins and Kevin Bacon all deliver performances that drive this intense character study, set in Boston.
6. X2
This movie had little exposition, little character development and a simple plot...but, man, was it fun. High-flying mutant action makes for a quick two hours and Magneto's escape from his plastic prison is the best "bad guy" scene of the year.
7. Old School
Vince Vaughn, Luke Wilson and Will Ferrell create comic gold in this hilarious frat-boy flick. Nothing was funnier in the past year than seeing Ferrell drunkenly try to rap with Snoop Dogg.
8. A Mighty Wind
Christopher Geust and Co. deliver another hilarious, improvised look at an eccentric group of people. This time they satire folk musicians and fans as Eugene Levy, as usual, weirds the audience out while making them choke on laughs;
9. Finding Nemo
So far Pixar hasn't failed. In their latest tale a fish father's search for his son makes for a cute and life-affirming hour and a half. It might be cheesy, but anyone who's seen the movie now smiles when they here the phrase "lucky fin."
10.28 Days Later
This delightfully sickening zombie blood fest created a plausible world in which zombies could exist. Director Danny Boyle even weaves in a little bit of thought and creativity in between the bodily explosions.
4. American Splendor
Honorable mentions: Whale Rider, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Daredevil, Willard, and Secret Lives of Dentists
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Dynasty - Dynasty
Dynasty are a rather interesting new girl group produced by San Francisco techno-rap whiteboy Gold Chains. This CD ends up sounding like Le Tigre versus Gold Chains, and is pretty decent, but not as good as either of the aforementioned groups. They too often let songwriting fall to the wayside, replacing it with cheap, flashy gimmickry. This group shows tremendous potential on a few tracks, where a strange, angry, stiff, robo-punk sound — a la early Devo — emerges. Unfortunately, those high points are bogged down by what can seem like hours of hokey riot grrrl schlock.
Chris Shively KJHK Host of "Supercryptogalactica" 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Fridays Grade: B-
Josh Powers - Scene Booster
Sound System: Volume 1
"I think the production is fairly intricate. It's better than what people are putting out right now. There are no samples, only keyboards. It's against the ethics of hip-hop." - Josh Powers.
These are words of a true hip-hip connoisseur. This doesn't mean that he's a hip-hop elitist, it just means he knows hip-hop. You may recognize his name from the Replay Lounge or the Taproom on Saturday nights, or from his KJHK show, Obscured by Beats. But if you don't, you may see the name Josh Powers in the future. KJHK's own recently released his first album, Scene Booster Sound System: Volume 1, a cocktail of hip-hip beats featuring other local and Kansas City DJs.
Only 500 copies have been released and it features Lawrence artists Approach and Johnny Quest. It features a few instrumental tracks as well as the basic hip-hop voice-over, but this does not make the album basic.
Powers considers himself a purist when it comes to hip-hop. He says he prefers the hip-hop from the South and West Coast because there are more samples and not just the keyboards characteristic of East Coast and New York hiphop. With more than 5,000 records in his collection, he says he tries to pick the most obscure, cut-up beats to make something unique.
The sound of the album is laid-back; sometimes jazzy, sometimes underground, but it's a crowd pleaser. Every track on the album is equally good, but unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be one stand-out track, which is probably the only flaw, if it can be considered a flaw. If you're still not convinced, you can check out Powers at the Taproom every Saturday night, and his show, Obscured by Beats on Saturday, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on 90.7 KJHK.
—Collin LaJoie
KJHK DJ
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Mark Ronson -- Here Comes
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Known for remixes for Jay-Z, Outkast, Moby and Nelly Fertado, Mark Ronson's debut comes loaded with guest artists but few satisfying pairings. While the album sports appearances from four of hiphop's most gifted lyricists - Mos Def, Ghostface Killah and Lil' Fame and Billy Danze of M.O.P - the production is so obviously aimed at top-40 success that listeners are hard pressed to overlook such pedestrian musicality. Given the tepid jacking of Lenny Kravitz for "On the Run" and the obligatory reggae feel for the Sean Paul/Tweet vehicle "International Affair," listeners are well advised to seek out the guest artists' own
work.
—josh Powers
KJHK Host of "Obscured by Beats"
7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturdays
Grade: C-
Josh Powers
Noonday Underground Surface Noise
Surface Noise, the latest from Noonday Underground, is a swanky "retro night" affair at the hottest uptown nightclub brought down from the summit of cool in the form of 14 unapologetically hip tracks. Drawing from jazz, rock, R&B, hip-hop and dance, this album is post-soul hybridism at its finest. Fundamentally, it is the best of a lot of different things. As a whole, Surface Noise succeeds well at being its own thing - timelessly stylish. Straightforward yet experimental, familiar but inventive, this album is a celebration of organic unity and sonic contrast crammed into 35 blissful but regrettably short minutes of listening. Surface Noise, simply put, is coolness on a completely new level.
—Cornelius Minor, II KJHK Host of "Voice Activated" 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesdays Grade: B-
Stereolab - Instant O in
the Universe
In Judaism, our prayer for the dead is not a lament but rather a celebration of life and the time we share with loved ones. Stereolab's Mary Hansen died in 2002, and this five-track release is the group's first since her passing. It is a joyful collection of songs that Hansen probably would have dug, but there are no overt references to the loss. Tracks like "Good Is Me" are bubbly but intelligent and will induce dancing. Look for a full-length release from Stereolab this February.
—Sam Hopkins
KJHK Host of "Transglobal
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Grade: B+
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2. KID KOALA, Some Of My Best Friends Are DJs
4. GHISLAIN POIRIER, Beats As Politics
3. SHINS, Chutes Too Narrow
5. STROKES, Room On Fire
6. ELBOW, Cast Of Thousands
7. MIDWEST PRODUCT, World Series Of Love
8. PROCUSSIONS, As Iron Sharpens Iron
9. DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE,
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10. MATES OF STATE, Team Boo
12. LFO, Sheath
11. B0OKS, The Lemon Of Pink
14. DENALI, The Instinct
15. JESSICA FLETCHERS, What Happened To The?
13. TED LEO AND THE PHARMACISTS, Tell Balgeary,Balgury Is Dead
16. RACHEL'S, Systems/Layers
17. KINGSBURY MANX, Aztec Discipline
18. CLEM SNIDE, A Beautiful EP
19. AESOP ROCK, Bazooka Tooth
20. SOILED DOVES, Soiled Life
21. MURDER BY DEATH, Who Will Survive And What Will Be Left Of Them?
22. FITNESS, Call Me for Together
23. BASEMENT JAXX, Kish Kash
24. C-RAYZ WALZ, Ravipops (The Essence)
25. THRILLS, So Much For The City
26. MARSHMALLOW COAST, Antistar
27. SOUNDS, Living In America
28. MY FAVORITE, The Happiest Days Of Our Lives
29. BREAKESTRA, Remember Who You Are
30. TRAVIS, 12 Memories
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This page is satire. All names are made up, except in cases when public figures are being satirized. Other use of real names is accidental unless otherwise noted.
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Party bus, syllabus in tragic accident Everyone died. And then you found $10.
Headline ends in bloodshed And all that remained were the testicles.
Group's mission spreads to Out House
In an effort to help diversify its audience, the campus mission group "Bibles n' Stuff" has announced a partnership program with The Out House called "Preaching From the Pole"
The program, which started last week, involves strippers quoting Bible verses while they dance on stage to hymns. The Dut House has actually replaced its sound system with an organ.
Patrons of The Out House have already become more religious because of the program, the club owner said. He was amazed at the amount of people that called out the Lord's name when Mary, one of the club's more voluptuous dancers, took off her top and said, "Let there be light."
Preaching From the Pole also plans on starting its own philanthropic venture similar to the Marines' "Toys for Tots" campaign in which patrons bring toys for underprivileged children in exchange for lap dances. They are still having trouble coming up with a name for the program.
Pharmacology club throws kick-ass party
An unofficial KU pharmacology group was believed to have held a week end-long party, but nobody who attended could remember enough to provide details.
Student defends inalienable right to download
A new student movement is stirring controversy and gaining support campus-wide and beyond. Sophomore Kenny Nelson, founder of The National Download Association, has put academics on hold as he travels the United States delivering speeches for the NDA.
Those who support the NDA believe that file sharing is an inalienable right given to citizens by the U.S. Constitution.
"A well-regulated network of file sharing is necessary for the stability of a free state!" exclaimed Richard Palm, a Wichita junior who claimed to have three NDA bumper stickers. "We might need our downloads to overthrow the government should we be forced t do so."
New measures to ensure download safety include the ban on automatic downloading systems that are able to download more than 30 files per minute, and background checks on all those who want to file share. Nelson spoke at the NDA convention to a sold-out Lied Center crowd.
"From my cold, dead hands," he said, holding a mouse pad over his head.
FART!
That was totally you.
WES BENSON
Exile from Neverland: TIB delivers last gasp
By Lucas Wetzel
beak@kansan.com
Kansan senior satirist
The appearance of media helicopters over Michael Jackson's ranch last month was disturbing to Tongue in Beak for several reasons. Not only had our spiritual leader fallen publicly from grace, but our staff was also forced to flee our pastoral meeting area.
No more white gazebos or ornate gas lamps. No more lovingly kept lawns and flower beds. Goodbye, make-believe Indian village. Adios, Bubbles the Chimp.
After Jacko's curious fall, our humble staff decided to relocate and prove that we still have it where it counts: the Last Call dance floor.
For those of you who haven't been, Last Call is the best thing to happen to Lawrence socialites since Tremors got its mobile liquor license and became the "T" (If you don't believe me, just check out the blacklights). Last Call is a great place to meet, except that it's hard to collectively come up with funny story ideas when you're making out with 18-year-olds on the curbside of the Borders parking lot.
But what the hell. You're only Kansan satire editor once. Or twice, in my case. And with all the serious news today, it's hard to know what to do. War in Iraq, teens with guns, a poisonous water supply. Not much fun can be made out of that.
We also would have liked to have covered important campus events such as Student Senate, but to the best of my knowledge all they've done this year is put their pictures up on hotornot.com. That, and something about a magic school bus.
But student senators aren't the only ones concerned about their images. National satirists have
woooped in on our turfand stolen the spotlight. Last week's Onion featured a confused Hashie, and Daily Show correspondent Mo Rocca visited the Union and scooped all of our material with a single joke about librarians aiding the disarmament in Liberia. Drats!
Nonetheless, Kansan editors have assured me that the Tongue in Beak will thrive next semester. Only it won't be called the Tongue in Beak anymore. It will be a glossy, full-color insert called Best Buy. And instead of witty commentary, you'll see pictures of electronic crap you can purchase.
Hey, wait a minute...
Oh well. In the words of George Harrison, all things must pass. Even George Harrison. Despite the changes, I am confident humor fans across campus will still be heard exclaiming, "Dude, did you see the Onion?" Oh, Onion. We jest and are snide, but you truly are the standard and authority.
That being said, I encourage you to start your own humor publications. Just keep it original and don't underestimate the importance of having a diverse staff. All the pseudonyms in China couldn't hide the fact that we were a bunch of white kids. Still, We did our best. Hey anarchists: we kid because we care.
Before our EKG goes all the way flat, I'd like to thank my staff and all the Kansan editors and photographers who made the page possible. I'd also like to thank Joe Ass, for reading. As for me, I'm heading out on K-10 past DeSoto, all the way to oblivion. I'll leave you now with the words some girl drunkenly scribbled on my notebook in Germany so many moons ago: Happy trails to flowers and whales, with political lies and sad goodbyes. A fond farewell to you.
tongue in beak staff
Lucas Wetzel,Wes Benson,Sam Hopkins,Sean O'Grady Jeff Akin, Matt Davis, Kevin O'Halloran, Sam Amburgey Katey Birge,Mindy Osbourne, Miles Stearns Spencer Roberts, The Boston Red Sox, Geoff Bowers Graham Shafer,Mark Pacey,Zain Speldrong
My brain is fried
Staring down at the precipice of my future, I find myself particularly retrospective and contemplative as I prepare to graduate. Looking back 14 and a half years, it seems kind of silly, but I always supposed that I
By Tom Collins
to some extent I have done so.
would have experienced college in a very cinematic way—drinking beer, chasing girls, foiling "the Dean." And certainly
I remember this one time I was on a four-day Quaalude bender and was stalking this ex-girlfriend who I never really dated. To make a long story short, I ended up passing out in a pool of my own (and probably several others') filth. When I awoke, I was in the Leavenworth federal pen having served the first three days of what would eventually prove to be a two and a half-year prison sentence. Luckily I was able to audit Western Civ. and save myself an extra semester.
The point of my story is this: Qualuludes are recreational. They should not be your primary intoxicant. You know the old saying, "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse." Well, for most of my junior year, it was more like, "I'm so horribly sad and lonely I could habitually abuse horse tranquilizers."
This brings me back to my original point: Life is funny. When I came to KU, I hoped to spend the best four years of my life studying anthropology, building bridges between disparate and conflicting societies. A decade and a half later the closest I've gotten is stealing my neighbor's National Geographic to ogle the "Women of the Sahara."
Actually, upon further inspection, life isn't as funny as originally thought. But at times it certainly is weird. Believe it or not, there was a time when I thought I might never graduate. The Gulf War had just ended and I was struggling to maintain a 1.5 GPA and a job at the Kansas Union White Castle. My girlfriend had never materialized and my bursitis was flaring up. All signs seemed to be pointing me toward academic failure and a life on the streets turnin' tricks for salt-taffy.
Then I took a class that forever changed not only the way I approached school, but life as well. The class was an independent study Math 101 course, taught absently, though lovingly by Prof. James Q. Hammersteinderfeld. Each day I jumped out of bed and into the graphs and models of college algebra. With each stroke of my TI-85, I grew stronger, more confident, more certain that not only would I graduate but I would do so within the next 10 to 12 years.
And here I am, sitting dictionally before you, about to do just that: Graduate. So when I walk down the hill in several weeks...at four o'clock in the morning...by myself, I will know that, though my road is indeed less-traveled, the road I have not taken is probably the one that would have made all the difference. And if somewhere ages and ages hence, you find me sighing, it's probably because I'm tired or drunk. In either case, leave me alone.
Collins is a non-traditional student in History.
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CRAZY KU B-BALL SPECIALS!
Pool Room
STOP DAY PARTY
FRIDAY DECEMBER 12
CGZ & DJ PROOF B-DAY BASH
DOOR OPEN 7 PM
$4 18-20, $2 21+
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thursday, december 11, 2003