THE STUDENT VOICE SINCE 1904 2005 Job of do a man guard THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN ever I'm e to ride an im- ing their d for the way this do have this sea me, 42- nghorns time be- to shut brushing made it quarter-effecc Texas colorado total. nhoe gful and led Misaka and las Stateollar pur- bank for football fan orth PRESS get auths. WWW.KANSAN.COM THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2005 VOL. 116 ISSUE 71 BUSINESS Educating entrepreneurs BY ALY BARLAND abarland@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITER guest teacher's junk. Bass, Cleveland senior, has joined the ranks of many college students who have started their own entrepreneurial ventures. The growing interest from students at the University of Kansas has led to the development of an entrepreneurship program in the School of Business. James Bass has made a business out of selling other people's junk. Beginning next semester, the School of Business will offer an introductory course on entrepreneurship for any KU student, regardless of his or her major. Bass offers his services to individuals or businesses seeking to sell or liquidate excess inventory by auctioning items on eBay. His online business, www.1Moolah.com, has been up and running for three weeks and has sold about $500 worth of products so far. He got the idea for his business from a friend who asked him to sell some of her things on eBaycom because she was unfamiliar with the process. Bass profits from his business by taking a portion of the proceeds that each sale generates. Wally Meyer, director of the University's entrepreneurship program and professor in the business school, said many students were showing interest in starting their own businesses, and that the University was developing the entrepreneurship program to meet this demand. Beginning next semester, the School of Business will offer an introductory course on entrepreneurship for any KU student, regardless of his or her major. SEE EDUCATING ON PAGE 8A HEALTH POUNDS of PERFORMANCE BY RYAN COLAIANNI RCOLAIANNI@KANSAN.COM KANSAN STAFF WRITER PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY RACHEL SEYMOUR PERE PAN WELCH'S Squazzy KitKat To compete, football players must be big On this day, they have a choice of four entrées - meatloaf, mahi mahi, chicken and pork chops and an array of vegetable and sides including steamed wild rice, sautéed squash, carrots and potatoes. two stainless steel buffet tables piled with hot food greet Kansas football players in the dining room of the Burge Union each night. On this dun Members of one unit on the KU team will help themselves to more food from this all-you-can-eat feast than others. It's the unit most responsible for gaining those 10 yards - the offensive line. Together, the two tables stretch about 10 yards, the same distance the football team travels to gain a first down. SEE POUNDS ON PAGE 4A STUDENT HOUSING Fire starts in Oliver Hall BY MALINDA OSBORNE mosborne@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITER A two-alarm fire started in the fifth floor lobby of Oliver Hall at 6 p.m. Wednesday. Sara Todd, Kansas City, Mo., freshman, who lives on the fifth floor, was on her way to dinner with her roommate when she smelled smoke in the hallway. As they approached the lobby, Todd saw that it was filled with smoke, and a resident assistant from another floor pulled the fire alarm, she said. Todd has a fractured ankle, which made exiting the building unpleasant. "I didn't bring my crutches because I was just going to dinner. I had to go down the stairs like this," she said. Danielle Gabel, Hays freshman, worried more about the fire interrupting her plans for the night than any damage to her room, she said as she waited outside the building. "I need to study for a chemistry test tomorrow and I don't know when I will be able to get back in," Gabel said. "All I can do is stand out here right now. Luckily, I was smart enough to get a blanket." Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said an electrical connection to a fan unit overheated, starting a small fire that a student housing staff member was able to extinguish even before the fire department arrived. Stoner said there was no major damage or cause for concern. Rob Kort, division chief for Lawrence/Douglas County Fire and Medical, said the smoke was contained to the fifth floor. Students were instructed to stay in the parking lot or go to Naismith Hall. They were not to be let back in the building until after 7:30 p.m, Stoner said. Groups ally for HIV/AIDS Members aim for awareness Edited by Anne Burgard BY MALINDA OSBORNE mosborne@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITER Gregory Mansfield works with clients from varying backgrounds. Whether it's married women, 7-year-old children or teenagers, each has at least one thing in common: They all have HIV/AIDS. has at least one thing in common: They all have HIV/AIDS. Mansfield is the education outreach coordinator for Douglas County AIDS Project (DCAP), which serves as a local community resource in HIV/AIDS education and prevention. in HIV/AIDS education and prevention. His organization, Queers & Allies and the KU chapter of the NAACP are working together to create awareness of the virus for World AIDS Day, which is observed today. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the first HIV/AIDS diagnosis. WORLD AIDS DAY In recognition, the groups will be handing out safe sex kits containing condoms, lube and red ribbons. A discussion on the global impact of AIDS will be held at 5:30 p.m. tonight at the English room in the Kansas Union. A candlelight vigil at 8 p.m. by the Campanile also will take place. Shannon Reid, Lawrence junior and activist committee chairwoman for Queers & Allies, said the group wanted to ally with NAACP because their organizations represented the two populations most affected by the virus. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Web site, in 2001, HIV/AIDS was among the top three causes of death for African-American men between 25 and 54. It was The No.1 cause of death for African-American women between 25 and 34. For homosexual men in the United States, gay sex accounted for approximately two-thirds of all HIV infections among men in 2003, even though only 5 to 7 percent of men in the United States identify themselves as having homosexual intercourse. DCAP aims it message at the 25 and under population because its members are typically sexually active, have multiple partners SEE HIV/AIDS ON PAGE 4A Events today AIDS information table 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Wescoe Beach Table with the KU chapter of the NAACP, Queers & Allies and Douglas County AIDS Project, with information, safe sex kits and red ribbons. Discussion - "Global AIDS Perspective" Perspective 5:30 p.m. at the English room, 6th floor, in the Kansas Union A brief talk by Natabona Mabachi, graduate student, and KU graduate and former Douglas County AIDS Project board member Justin LaBerge. An open forum and group discussion follows. Free admission. Candlelight vigil for World AIDS Day 8 p.m., Campanile Candlelight vigil and gathering recognizing the 3.5 million people who died of AIDS last year, including 2.9 million adults and 600,000 children under the age of 15.Meet at the base of the carillon; candles will be provided. Source: Douglas County AIDS Project Today's weather 40 22 Mostly sunny —weather.com Friday 45 26 A LITTLE WARMER Saturday 39 22 CHANCE OF SNOW Nursing program joins trend in online classes The School of Nursing is making a Ph.D. obtainable through online classes.The online option is becoming more popular across campus.PAGE 2A Homecoming for Nevada coach Nevada men's basketball coach Mark Fox will return to Allen Fieldhouse tonight. Fox worked with the KU coaching staff during the 1993-94 season. PAGE 12A --- It's nakey time. Jayplay's Laura Snyder's article about naturists and nudist resorts will reveal just how acceptable it is to strip down and walk around in your birthday suit. Index Comics... 7A Classifieds... 9A Crossword... 7A Horoscopes... 7A Opinion... 6A Sports... 12A All contents, unless stated otherwise, © 2005The University Daily Kansan 4 2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN NEWS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1. 2005 What do you THINK BY HALEY TRAVIS editor@kansan.com KANSAN CORRESPONDENT Should Minors have to tell their parents before getting an abortion? 100% "No, I don't think they should. That's a tough one. I don't know." Meghan Monarez, Wichita sophomore "I think it depends if they are close to their family or not. It all depends on the situation, exactly how old you are and what the circumstances are." Mary Johnson, Eudora junior YOLAN DAVIDSON "No, because some people's families, for, like, religious reasons, would disapprove and if a girl is raped then she would have a better excuse than her religion to get her abortion." Ashley Ahrens, Davenport, Iowa, junior FREDERICK HENDERSON "Yes. They're still in their parents care, so if they're going to get an abortion they should tell their parents. Their parents are still taking care of them because they're minors." Scott McGee, Olathe sophomore Nursing Ph.D. joins move to Internet ACADEMICS BY GABY SOUZA gsouza@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITER Online classes and programs are becoming more common at the University of Kansas and the School of Nursing is the latest to act on the trend. The School of Nursing announced its new online Ph.D. program on Nov. 22. Students will be able to enroll in the program for the Summer 2006 semester. Online classes are becoming more popular because they give nontraditional students the opportunity to continue or begin their education without being present in a classroom. They also give traditional students the means to take classes if the on-campus classes are full. The nursing Ph.D. program is aimed specifically at students who can't leave their communities to pursue their education, said Rita Clifford, assistant dean for student affairs for the school. Most of these students have families they cannot leave, or they are in the work force, she said. Online classes are becoming more popular because they give nontraditional students the opportunity to continue or start their education without being present in a classroom. They also give traditional students the means to take classes if the on-campus classes are full. But nontraditional students are not the focus of all online programs and classes at the University. The university also markets the classes to traditional students who take all of their classes on campus, said Jim Peters, director of marketing for continuing education. The administration is encouraging professors to include more online components in their classes. Eventually, all distance learning courses will be available online, he said. The distance learning program provides students across the state and the nation an opportunity to earn credit for classes without being in a classroom. Students in the program complete course work through the mail, and classes include some online components. "It's the beauty of online classes. Anyone can take them anywhere." Peters said. MORE INFORMATION + Caters to working professionals + Students with this degree are able to teach at nursing schools and conduct research + Will start in Summer 2006 Source: School of Nursing The independent study program is one such program in which traditional students can take only online classes. It gives students more options and helps them take classes if they cannot enroll in those same classes taught in classrooms, Peters said. The provost's office is looking into defining what an online class actually is, said Bob Clark, vice chancellor and dean of the KU Edwards campus, and it is deciding what direction online classes and programs will take. Right now there are different categories of online classes. One category is purely online classes, such as the ones that will be taught in the nursing school's Ph.D. program. There is no physical classroom and students turn in homework and participate in discussions online. Partial online classes also exist, which are classes taught one-third online and two-thirds in person, Clark said. But the University has to be selective when it considers what classes to put online because it doesn't want to compromise the quality of the classes for convenience, Clark said. For example, the biological sciences are difficult to put online because of the classes that require a lab, Clark said. Social sciences are easier written work and lectures are easier to put online. This is not the first program the nursing school has offered online. It also offers a program that allows registered nurses with an associate's degree to complete their bachelor of science degrees online. Clifford said at first she was worried that students completing online degrees would feel disconnected from the school and their classmates. But she said she had received positive feedback from students who had gotten to know their classmates pretty well. But online programs are not for everyone, Clifford said. She said she reminds interested students of what the classes will be like and how different they will be from regular classes. Online classes require more time management and self-motivation and lack the one-on-one contact with teachers that some students find beneficial. "Hopefully, people will know their own learning styles," she said. Holiday festivities Edited by Anne Burgard I am very glad to see you. Kim Andrews/KANSAN Eliana Seidner, Woodlawn Elementary School first grader, gets her face painted at the annual holiday party at the Kansas Union on Wednesday. Julie Niggle, Overland Park sophomore, was one of many volunteers who helped with the party, which was sponsored by the Center for Community Outreach and Mentors in the Life of Kids. Crews cleaning up spilled coal STATE WaKEENEY - It could take crews a few days to clean up coal a Union Pacific train spilled when it derailed in western Kansas on Tuesday, a spokesman for the railroad said. Twenty-two of the train's 104 cars jumped the tracks near WaKeeney while heading eastTuesday morning. Neither of the train's two crew members were injured, Union Pacific spokesman Joe Arbona said. A section of track was replaced, and trains were again traveling on the track Wednesday. Crews also used equipment that worked like a large vacuum to clean up the coal powder, and Arbona said it could be a few more days before that job was done. Arbona said the railroad did not yet know what caused derailment. It was the second train derailment in Trego County in a month. Forty cars derailed near Ogallah on Nov. 4. THE ASSOICATED PRESS Big racks mean big payoffs for poachers HUTCHINSON — Deer poachers looking for money or bragging rights are killing thousands of deer illegally across the state, Kansas wildlife officials say. "It's a big issue," said Sam Allred, a natural resources officer with the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks. "These people want the big racks they can sell or put on the wall and brag about." Allred said he believed most poachers were in it for the money, given that the biggest deer racks can sell for thousands of dollars. The Associated Press Earlier this month, a rural Clay County man was stabbed after he caught poachers with a deer they had killed on his property. And last spring, a Butler County man who was selling deer racks or exchanging them for guns was prosecuted for poaching after wildlife officials found more than 60 deer racks and 100 turkey beards at his home. Kansas convicted 91 poachers for trespassing while hunting in 2004. But one study estimates that for the 77,000 deer taken legally in Kansas, poachers kill almost as many illegally. "For every 20 we find, there are 100 we probably don't know about," said Mark Rankin, assistant director of law enforcement for the wildlife department. Poachers find willing buyers at sporting goods stores, who resell the deer racks or put them up in their businesses. Others are sold through word of mouth and other markets, including eBay. Rankin said the department's ability to fight the problem was hampered by limited funds and staffing. The state has only 63 field officers for its 105 counties. Wildlife officer Phillip Kirkland, of St. John, said part of the problem was that penalties aren't as stiff as in other states, where poachers could be fined thousands of dollars. And sometimes, county attorneys will dismiss cases or file lesser charges. "The mindset has been these professional deer criminals are just harmless good ole boys poaching a deer or two over the limit — boys being boys," said Dan Ward, executive director of the Kansas Wildlife Federation. "There isn't an awareness that this is a way for organized crime to come into Kansas." Tell us your news Contact Austin Casten, Jonathan Keeling. At B Winikaie, Jankie Bobel, Ty Bewinkaie, Karlin at 684-4810 or editor@kanan.com. Kansas news报 111 Stauffer-FRH Hall 1435 Jayhill Blvd. B55 7785 (778) 864-4810 MEDIA PARTNERS NEWS KUJH For more news, turn to KUJH on TV on Sunflower Channel. Channel 31 in Lawrence. 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"Always the 'Best' Specials, Always the 'Most' Fun!" 4 3 A. 005 NEWS THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 3A easier the first ol has a hers aATERED deshelor THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1,2005 Military may have paid for Iraq coverage BY LOLITA C. BALDOR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The U.S. military offered a mixed message Wednesday about whether it embraced one of its own programs that reportedly paid a consulting firm and Iraqi newspapers to plant favorable stories about the war and the rebuilding effort. Lt. Col. Barry Johnson, a military spokesman in Iraq, said the program was "an important part of countering misinformation in the news by insurgents." A spokesman for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, however, called a report detailing the program troubling if true and said he was looking into the matter. "This is a military program initiated with the Multi-National Force to help get factual information about ongoing operations into Iraqi news," Johnson said in an e-mail. "I want to emphasize that all information used for marketing these stories is completely factual." Details about the program were first reported by the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday. It marked the second time this year that Pentagon programs have come under scrutiny for reported payments made to journalists for favorable press, leading Congress' Government Accountability Office to condemn one, the Education Department, for engaging in illegal covert propaganda. The Los Angeles Times quoted unidentified officials as saying that some of the stories in Iraqi newspapers were written by U.S. troops and while basically factual, they sometimes give readers a slanted view of what is happening in Iraq. Some of those officials expressed fear that use of such stories could hurt the U.S. military's credibility, the newspaper said. Defense Department officials did not deny the story's allegations, and Rumsfeld spokesman Bryan Whitman said he was looking into the program. Whitman said the department had clear principles for dealing with news organizations, "so this article raises some question as to whether or not some of the practices that are described in there are consistent with the principles of this department." He would not specify the questions he felt the article raised. Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, questioned the program Wednesday. A Jayhawk quartet EVERYONE LOVE From left to right, Jonathan Andrews, KU alumnus, Shaun Whisler, KU alumnus, Dylan Hilpman, Lawrence sophomore, and David Price, Salina junior, sing in their quartet, Against the Grain, at Central United Methodist at 16th and Massachusetts streets. They are practicing for their performance in the KU Holiday Vespers on Sunday at the Lied Center. The independent quartet has performed for one more than a year around the University and Lawrence. Doctor cleared in death ABORTION BY JOHN HANNA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TOPEKA — Regulators say George Tiller wasn't responsible for the January death of a Texas woman who received a late-term abortion, but protesters against his Wichita clinic aren't satisfied with that finding. The Board of Healing Arts closed a nine-month investigation without taking any disciplinary action. The board concluded that Tiller and his staff complied with state abortion laws and health care standards in performing the procedure on the woman. Larry Buening, the board's executive director, notified Gov. Kathleen Sebelius of the board's findings in a Nov. 23 letter. Her office released a copy of the letter Wednesday, a day after the governor received the finding. The governor received the findings. Buening wrote, referring to Tiller: "The unfortunate death of the patient was not caused by any act or failure to act by Licensee or his staff." Anti-abortion groups questioned whether the board's investigation was thorough and suggested Sebelius influenced its outcome. A supporter of abortion rights, she has received financial support in past campaigns from like-minded groups and individuals, including Tiller. "The board has now concluded all inquiry and review of the matter and closed the investigation." Buening wrote. "I know she doesn't care about the unborn, but you'd think she'd give some semblance of care to the women involved," said Mary Kay Culp, executive director of Kansans for Life, the state's largest anti-abortion group. "She is in bed with the abortionists." Tiller declined comment. He hasn't discussed the specifics of the case, citing privacy reasons but has said the clinic complies with all state laws. Abortion opponents have cited the woman's death as evidence that tougher regulation of clinics is needed, and they accused Tiller or his clinic of causing the death. The woman was a 19-year-old resident of Keller, Texas, north of Fort Worth, and according to the autopsy report, she was mentally retarded. She was 28 weeks pregnant when she had the abortion, which was completed on Jan. 11. The report said she was vomiting two days later when her family took her to a Wichita hospital. After her health deteriorated, "family members decided to provide comfort care only," the report said. The family did not complain to the state or seek an investigation of the clinic, Buening said. CORRECTION - An article in Tuesday's University Daily Kansan contained an error. The article, "Vinyl turns back technological trend," misspelled the names of Kelly Corcoran and Wayne Youngblood. ON CAMPUS ON THE RECORD ♦ Latin American Solidarity is holding a Latin American food festival at 6 p.m. Saturday at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. The cost is $7. Proceeds will benefit disaster relief in Guatemala. ON THE RECORD ◆ A 22-year-old KU student reported to Lawrence police a burglary and a theft of Apple and Hewlett Packard computers, computer monitors and other items between 3 p.m. Nov. 23 and 6 p.m. Sunday from the 900 block of Kentucky Street. The items are valued at $7,605. ♦ A 21-year-old KU student reported to Lawrence police a theft of some DVDs and other items between 10 p.m. Friday and 11 p.m. Saturday from the 1300 block of West 24th Street. The items are valued at $406. - A 19-year-old KU student reported to the KU Public Safety Office a burglary and a theft of an Xbox console and other items between 7 p.m. Nov. 21 and 9:30 p.m. Sunday from Ellsworth Hall. The console is valued at $150.The other items are valued at $85. CRIME Long-lost Vegas burglar LAS VEGAS — A former armored car driver turned herself in after more than a decade in hiding after a $2.9 million heist in Las Vegas. Heather Talchief, 33, pleaded guilty to bank and credit union embezzlement and passport fraud. She could get up to 40 years in prison at sentencing March 2, but her lawyer was confident she wouldn't receive more than 10. The Associated Press THIS WEEK ON CAMPUS December 1,2005 W Stop AIDS Keep the Promise All proceeds benefit Douglas County AIDS Project. Sponsored by AURH, Watkin's Health Center, Peer Health Educators, AbleHawks and Hawks for Health World AIDS Day December 1st is World AIDS Day. Show your support by wearing a red ribbon and by donating at the following locations: The Kansas Union, Wescoe, Mrs. E's. funded by: SUBMIT SENATE 2014 OCTOBER FESTIVAL PHOTO SHOW is a class centered around a service learning trip that will take place March 18-25. Groups of seven KU students will travel to locations across the country for a week of volunteer work. TABOR Forum: Alternative Spring Break Applications & information online at www.ku.edu/~albreaks or contact albreaks@ku.edu *Application deadline is December 2nd *$50 deposit required *Turn in Room 428 KS Union, and don't forget to sign up for an interview time! Discussion and Questions (Taxpayers Bill of Right) PAID FOR BY KU AASU and VSA Present: On a Winter's Eve Date: Friday, December 21 Time: 9:30am-5:30pm Location: Lawrence Parks and Recreation Community building 115 West 74th Street Lawrence, KS 66044 (Massachusetts and 140) Parking on Versailles Tickets: aasu@ku.edu Reserved: $12 couple,$7 single At the Door: $ 15 couple $8 single What does it mean for Kansas? Thursday,Dec.1st 7:00-8:00 What is TABOR? Big 12 Room, Kansas Union How does it affect the economy? How does it affect higher education? What does it mean for taxpayers? Answers to all of these AND MORE! 4A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN HEALTH THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2005 POUNDS of PERFORMANCE Ryan Cantrell BMI: 36 An immovable wall? Body Mass Index is a formula that relates an individual's height to his weight. An individual with a BMI above 30 is considered obese. Someone with a BMI above 35 is considered to be severely obese. All of the Kansas offensive linemen have BMIs above 30. FABRICIO MONTANEGRO David Ochoa BMI:35 PRESIDENT Cesar Rodriguez BMI: 32 THE COACH Matt Thompson BMI: 36 1 Bob Whitaker BMJ 02 Sources: Kansas Athletics Department and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ALEXANDER MICHAELS Kim Andrew/KANSAN Rodney Allen, one of KU's junior defensive lineman, fils his plate at the Burge Union for a hearty meal Monday evening. Football players must maintain a large build on and off season. Kim Andrews/KANSAN Jonathan Kealing/KANSAN Pounds CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A Linemen like 317-pound Bob Whittaker and 285-pound David Ochoa must consume 5,000 calories each day to maintain the size needed to open holes or protect the quarterback. Offensive linemen consume about 5,000 calories each day. If you wanted to eat enough food for that many calories, you'd need to eat the following: Nutritionists urge Americans to maintain a modest 2,500-calorie diet to stay healthy. During the past 20 years football offensive lines have ballooned in size with players urged to eat twice as many calories. WHAT DOES IT TAKE? ♦ 10 McDonald's double cheeseburger ♦ 21 Small McDonald's french fries ♦ 24 medium Coca-Colas ♦ 17 six-inch ham subs from Subway ♦ 60 bowl of General Mills Corn Flakes ♦ 22 slices of Pizza Hut peperoni pizza Source: Company Web sites The average weight of the starting KU offensive line was 260 pounds in 1985. This season, the offensive linemen weighed in at a whopping 293 pounds, an increase of 33 pounds in just 20 years. The growing girth of football players, especially on the offensive line, is a concern to doctors who cite heart disease and damaged joints as two health concerns related to obesity. College and professional linemen weighing more than 300 pounds, including the San Francisco 49ers Thomas Herrion, have died after games in recent years. Obesity among football players is a visible, yet little explored, corner of the U.S. obesity epidemic. The super-sizing of college football players raises serious questions about what happens to giant-sized 44 How did this increase in size occur? The super-siz football players questions about to giant-sized student athletes after they leave college and future health problems they might face. The size of linemen is apparent simply by tuning into a college football game on This summer, Herrion, a rookie offensive lineman died Saturday. The 300-pounders are tough to miss, many with their stomachs hanging over their belts. While William "The Retriggerator" Perry once stood out as an exception, it is now rare to see an offensive lineman at the professional level who does not weight more than 300 pounds. The average weight of the Kansas City Chiefs starting line for the 2005 season was 310 pounds. It is hard to say it's the healthiest lifestyle for them to weigh 300 pounds. But the reality of Division I football is that you have to weigh 300 pounds or you can't compete." after collapsing during a preseason game. He weighed 330 pounds. In the summer of 2001, the Minnesota Vikings' Korey Stringer died of what an autopsy revealed as a heat stroke. He weighed 335 pounds. Larry McGee, Kansas head team physician, is concerned with the rapid increase in the size of players. "The human race is not evolving that quickly. It has to do with the dietary thing, it has to do with the weight training, it has to do with the year-round stuff," McGee said. "I think the players just carry more weight." Larry McGee Team Physician M c G e e, who came to the University in 1983, said the increase in weight became noticeable in the mid 1990s with the arrival of two 300-pound players, offensive lineman Keith Loneker and defensive lineman Gilbert Brown. Their size was rare at the time. "They were these huge people and now you have to be that big to play on the offensive line. It is a huge amount of difference." McGee said. In order to remain competitive, KU linemen must now grow, mostly through intense diets recommended by KU's sports nutritionist. This year marks the first time that the Kansas Athletics Department has employed a sports nutritionist. Randy Bird gives recommendations to every football player about his food intake and plans the meals available at the Burge Union. For offensive linemen, Bird recommends consuming nearly 5,000 calories and 125 grams of fat per day. That's double what the U.S. Department of Agriculture recommends for an active male aged 19-30. These diets have led to every player on the Kansas offensive line being considered obese according to the Body Mass Index — a measure the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention uses to evaluate if a person is obese. A Body Mass Index score above 30 is considered obese. The lowest index score on the body mass index for a Kansas starting offensive lineman is 32, while the highest is 38. Even so, Kansas has the lightest offensive line in the Big 12 conference. The offensive line for Big 12-leading Texas averages nearly 314 pounds, compared to Kansas's 293 pounds. Kansas football coach Mark Mangino said, "You certainly would like to have a large one that is athletic. Ours are not quite as heavy but we kind of play to their athleticism." After one practice earlier this season, Mangino discussed how junior center David Ochoa arrived on campus his freshman year weighing only 260 pounds. He ran a lot during the summer to stay in shape. Mangino joked that it was not a good decision because Ochoa actually lost weight while running, even though he was in great condition. Ochoa now weighs 285 pounds. "I was never the type of athlete in high school or anything to step on the scale every day and see where I am at. I focus more on the physical conditioning aspect of anything than the actual playing weight," Ochoa said. Sophomore offensive lineman Cesar Rodriguez has put on weight even more dramatically. He finished his senior year of high school at 220 pounds, and now, just three years later, Rodriguez is up to 286 pounds — the result of 5,000-calorie diets and work in the weight room. "As soon as I got here they put me on a weight program and I will probably be on it until I leave Kansas," Rodriguez said. "I was undersized when I first got here and I am just now starting to put on more weight." Is it healthy? What long term heart heart does plavers face? Despite their large size, McGee, the team doctor, said the players were young so the weight didn't create as big a problem at it would for older people. "Youth overcomes a lot of physical problems. They are able to participate and be active carrying more weight than an older person can," McGee said. However, a report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association this year reported cause for concern with football players and increasing obesity. The report was published just a few months before Herrion's death. "You see the deaths in the NFL and, in my opinion, a lot of it has to do with the excess weight that the offensive linemen are carrying," Bird, the nutritionist, said. Mangino, however, is not concerned with the growing size of players despite the deaths that have occurred nationally, he said. Most of the players on Kansas' offensive line will not move on to play in the NFL and will instead enter the working world with large bodies and without the strenuous conditioning of practice. "I have concern long-term-wise with cardiovascular disease, with joint problems just from carrying that much weight," McGee said. "It is hard to say it's the healthiest lifestyle for them to weigh 300 pounds. But the reality of Division I football is that you have to weigh 300 pounds or you can't compete." Since last summer, all new players entering the Kansas program go through a medical screening for cardiac problems. Once in the program, however, players are not regularly monitored for heart problems, so problems that may occur after their arrival at the University may go undetected. Players already in the program still go through regular physicals and blood testing each year. 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S. sung of plea a cl worl acy and Af a pre prose Phyll sung U.S. cond lion - a crim It three price nami FA 4 NEWS THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN SA THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1. 2005 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4A Andrew Ziskind, cardiologist and president of Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, said the size of a person did not determine if players would have heart problems. The ritual of eating at the Burge Union training table gives players numerous options to maintain their weight. The meals set by Bird offer healthy options each night, he said. Ziskind said, "The question is, are they developing a lifestyle where they are going to be fat for their whole life? And then that starts to impact it as well." "The question is, are people really bulking up and getting fat? If the people are eating unhealthy, eating high fat and so forth, what it can do is increase the likelihood of developing arthrosclerosis, which is narrowing of the arteries," Ziskind explained. The difficulty of eating that amount of food each day. Ziskind said cardiologists looked at five indicators for heart problems — high cholesterol, the presence of diabetes, high blood pressure, a family history of cardiovascular disease and smoking. If a person had one of those risk factors and ate a high-fat diet for multiple years, his chance of developing cardiac problems could accelerate, Ziskind said. Those problems could include heart attack, some forms of cancers and premature death, the CDC said. McGee said players often became healthier and that body fat may actually drop after being in the program for a year, even though the Body Mass Index considers every member of the Kansas offensive line obese. Sophomore offensive lineman Todd Haselhorst missed the entire 2005 season because of shoulder injuries, but still eats the dinners each night. "It is really important because it helps you keep your weight up," Haselhorst said. Haselhorst had trouble staying in condition at times, because of the lack of physical exercise. He's been more conscious about what he eats for that reason, he said. Haselhort's mother, Becky, said that she had noticed a difference in her son's muscle build. "It is kind of amazing to see that he basically weighs what he weighed when he was a junior, senior in high school, but how much more firm he has gotten," Becky Haselhorst said. "He has got a lot more muscle. You can Once they are done playing football, their activity level is going to go down too. If they continue to eat the way they have eaten the previous four years and with the decrease in activity since they are not practicing, they are just going to get obese." “0” Randy Bird KU Sports Nutritionist Randy Bird tell that he has dropped a lot or body fat." Some members of the Kansas offensive line, such as Ochoa, have difficulty eating 5,000 calories and 125 grams of fat daily. Rodriguez, who has put on more than 60 pounds since arriving at Kansas, also has trouble with the calorie intake. "After games and stuff you have to force yourself to eat even though you might not be hungry." Ochoa said. "You kind of see the big picture that in the long run it is going to help you out and makes it a lot easier." have to study," Rodriguez said. "It's tough, but you have to do what you have to do to put on weight." "During the season you don't have time to go eat all the time because you have to go to practice, go to class, and you It's a matter of scale The combined weight of the five starting Kansas offensive linemen is roughly equal to that of a 1994 Geo Metro. The Kansas offensive line, though, is actually one of the smallest in the Big 12 Conference. THE LINEAR HOME 1965 POUNDS 1994 GEO METRO 17X3 POUNDS Rodriguez said he ate four to five meals per day to maintain the weight, and the big meals at the Burge Union helped. "It's crucial. You can go at five o'clock and not leave until seven and you can eat as much as you want. It's important to gaining weight." Rodriguez said. When Rodriguez is not eating from the training table at the Burge, he often eats at Chipotle and PepperJax, he said. The players seem unconcerned about how much they are eating or about future health problems because of their Illustrations by Jonathan Kealing weight. They said they were satisfied with the treatment they received. "They take good care of us here to get us in a position where we can compete and play and I think that it is never to a point where they put your body in jeopardy," Ochoa said. During the season, offensive linemen find it difficult to maintain the weight that they are expected to keep in order to play the position. That's why Bird gives individual players recommendations for what they should eat daily. He knows that some players will choose more fattening foods because they enjoy them more. 'The problem with them is trying to get that from healthy The biggest of the big BU CU ISU KU KSU MU NU OU OSU UT aTm TTU Each cheeseburger represents 25 pounds above a base of 1400 pounds. choices rather than going and getting the Monster Thickburger from Hardees or something like that," Bird said. Bird's diet recommendations are vastly different depending on the player's position. He tells a wide receiver or defensive back to eat 3,800 calories per day but just 100 grams of fat. Life after football, dealing with their size. Some players enjoy eating the large amounts suggested by the team nutritionist. Once the players are done playing football at Kansas, they have no need to stay on a 5,000-calorie diet. Joe Vaughn, who started an center for Kansas in 2003 and 2004 and still lives in Lawrence, said, "It's the o-line. It is what it is. You can put on as much weight as you want to, you just have to be able to get the job done. It wasn't really hard for me and it really isn't hard for o-lineman because we like to eat anyway. You just kind of gain weight until you feel comfortable." Vaughn said he still weighed the 285 pounds that he weighed when he last played. He is currently finishing up his degree and still looking to play professionally. Former players who are still aspiring to live the dream of playing in the NFL often have trouble staying in playing shape. These players no longer have the structure of practice and coaches making sure they work out. "It is different. You don't have anyone pushing you when you are on your own." Vaughn said. Bird said he was formulating a program to meet with graduating athletes to discuss different healthy eating diets for when they are done playing. "For four years or probably throughout high school, they have been trying to eat as much as they could to put on weight." Bird said. "Then once they are done playing there is no need to carry that much weight." Bird said that those not playing professionally needed to take off the excess weight they gained playing at Kansas. "Once they are done playing football, their activity level is going to go down too," Bird said. "If they continue to eat the way they have eaten the previous four years and with the decrease in activity since they are not practicing, they are just going to get obese." Edited by Erick R. Schmidt BUSINESS Samsung makes deal; pleads guilty to price-fixing charges BY MATTHEW FORDAHL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO — Samsung, the world's largest maker of computer memory chips, pleaded guilty Wednesday to a charge it participated in a worldwide price-fixing conspiracy that damaged competition and raised PC prices. After accepting the plea and a previously arranged deal with prosecutors, U.S. District Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton ordered Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd, and its U.S. subsidiary, Samsung Semiconductor Inc., to pay $300 million — the second-largest fine in a criminal antitrust case. It was the culmination of a three-year investigation into price fluctuations in the dynamic random access memory market from April 1999 to June 2002. Prosecutors said Samsung, which is based in Seoul, South Korea, and other companies conspired in e-mails, telephone calls and in-person meetings to fix the price of chips used in personal computers and other electronic devices. Earlier this year, Seoul-based Hynix Semiconductor Inc. agreed to pay a $185 million fine; rival Infineon Technologies AG of Germany agreed to pay $160 million last year. A fourth chip maker, Micron Technology Inc. of Boise, Idaho, has been cooperating with prosecutors and was not expected to face charges. On Wednesday, Samsung Semiconductor's chief financial officer, Dahm Huh, spoke on behalf of the company and answered a series of routine questions about the defendant's ability to pay, the company's understanding of the deal and the waiving of various rights. Huh answered "yes" or "no" to the questions but offered no elaboration and did not speak to reporters after the hearing. The company's spokeswoman, Chris Goodhart, also declined to comment afterward. The plea deal, which was announced in October, requires the company to pay $300 million, plus interest, in installments over the next five years. The government agreed to not pursue additional prosecutions against Samsung or most its officers and employees. Cover for canines Rhonda Steele holds a German Shepherd puppy born to a pair of German Shepherd dogs who were rescued from Hurricane Katrina, in Madison, Ala. Shortly after rescuing them, the mother had 10 puppies, which have all been adopted. Steele continues to search for homes for their parents. She took in more than 100 dogs after Hurricane Katrina forced New Orleans-area pet owners to abandon their animals. Steele, 40, operates a home-based dog grooming, boarding and daycare service in Madison. 0 UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Friday 12/2 vs. Birmingham Southern @ 6 p.m. 800-34-HAWKS Saturday 12/3 vs. New Orleans @ 1 p.m. www.kuathletics.com Basketball Faculty/Staff receive $2 tickets Friday & Saturday with KU ID! Students Admitted FREE with KU ID! THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN OPINION THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2005 WWW.KANSAN.COM CULTURE SHOCK PAGE 6A Time to give other issues a sporting chance The way we, as a society, devote our time and energy indicates what we value. Apparently, sports are our second religion with the "Divine Dollar" effortlessly retaining the highest echelon of spiritual supremacy. Tonight's top story is that Britney Spears has inadvertantly started World War III. Millions are dead. In other news, the Chiefs beat the Broncos 24-10. Oh my God! I can't believe it! Yeah, I know! I had 20 bucks on that game! The fanatical sports cult exhibited at the University of Kansas vastly overshadows more significant matters. It is not that the University is an anomaly; it is part of a global trend. As the distinguished Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Noam Chomsky stated: "Sports offer people something to pay attention to that is of no importance... That keeps them from worrying about things that matter to their lives that they might have some idea of doing something about." Commercial sports internalize the fixation deeper within society. The Associated Press reported on March 18 that college students spent an average of three hours and 41 minutes watching television each day with the ten most-watched programs for males being baseball games. A newsletter published on Texas A&M's Sport Management Web site reported that college males watched sports a weekly average of 15 hours and four minutes. Females spent slightly less time, averaging nine hours 10 minutes each week. Our very own The University Daily Kansan, in addition to having a substantial percentage of the news and opinion columns being sports-related, has a colossal section of nothing but KU sports. It likely played a factor in you coming AUTHORITY SARAH STACY opinion@kansan.com across my column at all. Every time in which my enrollment at the University is brought up in conversation with others, whether I am delivering an appetizer or making small-talk in a check-out lane, I am instantly bombarded with their outlook on KU sports. I smile and agree that our University has a legendary sports history and an outstanding program today. But the clichéd sports talk usually ventures further into statistics and predictions without them noticing the resulting vacant glaze of boredom in my eyes. These discussions with those described in "Fight Club" as "single-serving friends" leave me feeling that I am expected to revolve my time, depending on the season, around football and basketball games. They are startled when I decline to take to heart their trash talking if they happen to be Mizzou fans. Silly me, I am in college to get an education, build relationships and prepare for a career! When I first came to the University, I bought the sport pass with optimism that I would catch the contagious Jayhawk fever, but I discovered that I am immune, thanks to my incurable logic. I could not invest my emotions into an activity in which I have no stake in the outcome, my alliance is arbitrary to my current geographic location, I know no players personally and when I could put my time to more constructive use. Or I could at least be in the company of friends without the ambiance of patriarchal aggression and crowd conformity. It is not that I am against sports as there is a distinction between involvement and the cultural craze. I was an athlete before college, and participation in sports and exercise continues to be an enjoyable and indispensable part of my life. Sports can foster teamwork, improve health, bring communities together, garner funds for education and enable children to stay in school who might otherwise drop out. Of course, for the latter two points sports should not be overly praised, because they indicate shortcomings in our educational priorities. Watching sports should not take away quality time from your significant other or studies. It should not instigate fights between soccer moms or rival fans at bars. The over-emphasis of sports diverts attention away from more estimable priorities. A skillful football pass should not receive more news time than information that is applicable, such as how our tax dollars are being spent. (For example, tax money is spent to subsidize sporting arenas.) Coaches should not be subjected to harsher criticism and demanded to be more accountable to their "constituents" than our politicians. A student should not speak more passionately about a missed free-throw shot than the genocide in Sudan. We have no rational reason to lionize our basketball players so far beyond the actual service they provide. I reserve my admiration for those who truly sacrifice on behalf of others. I respect an athlete's self-discipline and physical ability, but it is not on the same level as our inspiring professors or our fellow students who spend their free time volunteering through the Center for Community Outreach, receiving no such adulation. It should not be heresy for a student to regard spectator sports as irrelevant to his life. There are plenty of alternatives to althletic fanaticism. For starters, campus life offers activities, such as intramural sports (it's more social and a better workout than remote flipping between games), organizations for any imaginable interest, lectures, museums and fine arts performances. I grasp moderate enthusiasm generated by sports because of its entertainment value and that it gives an excuse to tailgate, but beyond that, I feel like I must be missing out on whatever it is that causes people to put real life on hold to Matthew Sorvik/KANSAN idly watch a game. I challenge you serious sports fundamentalists, who are not the next up-and-coming Wilt Chamberlain or successful game gamblers, to help me understand your position better by giving some reasonable arguments to justify the time, money and energy that you exert into your obsession as opposed to pursuing other activities or interests. - Stacy is a Germantown, Md, senior in political science, Spanish, and international studies. LETTER TO THE EDITOR Don't judge private e-mail As I watched the news coverage of the recent incident involving Professor Paul Mirecki's creationism and intelligent design course, it quickly became apparent that people needed to hear the entire story. The e-mail so many have quoted was sent to the Society of Open-Minded Atheists' (SOMA) e-mail list serv, meant only for SOMA members. Someone, most likely a Christian fundamentalist, joined the list serv with the sole intention of monitoring our e-mails and using them against SOMA members. I'll come back to what this says about fundamentalist ethics and morality in a moment, but this entire situation occurred because a "mole" on our list serv unethically sent Dr. Mirecki's e-mail to some fundamentalist, intelligent design nut job in Kansas City, who started this whole thing. Mirecki has the right to put forward his opinions on any subject. I share his opinions, because I think Christian fundamentalists lack reason and logic, and they need something to wake them up. Mirecki's proposed class isn't an assault on Christianity as State Sen. Kay O'Connor would have you believe. After all, Kay O'Connor doesn't believe in the 19th amendment, so her words aren't exactly something I would ever use to support other arguments nor take seriously in the first place. Intelligent Design is not science, and its supporters, who clearly won't listen to real science, need to be dealt with by examining their claims in an academic environment. This is precisely what Mirecki will do. Just because he shares no love for these Christian extremists doesn't mean he's unfair or unqualified to teach a class on this subject. Mirecki has a Th.D. in theology from Harvard, he worked with John Strugnell in translating the Dead Sea Scrolls, and he is the last human being on Earth to find and translate an unknown gospel. What he's doing in Kansas, I don't know, but while he's here, we can all benefit from his knowledge and experience. Creationism and Intelligent Design are wrong. There is no scientific evidence to support these claims, and no amount of belief will make them true. We don't need to be sensitive to active ignorance. Mirecki is not any more of a bigot than a fundamentalist who says that secularism is wrong, morally or otherwise. The only way someone gets away with making such statements is because we live in a society where the majority is Christian, and they get to set the rules. Fundamentalists get to mock everyone and become martyrs when people fight back. Fortunately, the rest of the civilized world has turned a deaf ear to their whining. It certainly doesn't do a lot of good for the argument that religion, specifically Christianity, inspires morality when people pull stunts like this. My opinion of Christianity only continues to drop every time I witness some clearly Christian person commit some sort of offense. If a secularist committed some offense, we would all be hounded openly by every fundamentalist preacher in the country. It's hypocritical, it's wrong and it's horribly unethical to focus on Mirecki's statements and then call him a bigot. How many preachers will claim on Sunday that all secularists are immoral, terrible people? How many qualified, aspiring politicians will lose elections because they are secularists? And yet, Mirecki, a man most people have likely never met, is a bigot based upon an abstract of an e-mail he sent to a private list serv? 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Kansan editors reserve the right to omit comments. Slanderous and obscene statements will not be printed. Phone numbers of all incoming calls are recorded. Instant message the Free for All at "ukdkfreeotrall." OK, so KU's quidditch seeker should totally win the Heisman. I haven't been to class in three weeks because I am sick. Am I going to fail? I completely lost all respect for Amy Leochner's letter to the editor when I saw that she's from Oklahoma. Please tell me that I'm not the only one who has noticed the similarity between the names of Sasha Kaun and Chaka Khan. The singer, Chaka Khan. I Feel For You. Anyone? No? OK. I didn't steal your Grey Goose! Facebook.com just told me I can't be friends with myself. I respect Britney Spears. Diplomacy is the art of letting others get what you want. I saw a girl writing in her notebook, "How yourself a 'Jacob Christmas.' just thought that was odd!" I saw you in that coffee shop, breaking the fifth commandment. Congress passes these things for a reason, Lois. Hey. We have fish. We named one Free for All. So, am I the only person at KU that is a croquet addict? I've tried so hard to get in the darn Free For All but I'm just not good enough. Karl, you are the most gorgeous man alive. Those Germans really know how to make 'em! Don't be sad just because I own you in Mario Kart Duel Dash, Ashley. The guys here at KU are single, hot and smart, but you can only pick two of those traits. This goes to the Dave look-alike: You're freaking me out, man. You'd think that once you stopped dating a guy he'd stop standing you up! Today's forecast for Fish's room: 100 percent chance of handsome. Free For All, you have the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen! It's so cold I can't feel my face. It's 2005! Where are the dome cities and the climate-controlled atmosphere? I feel cheated. Your mother's a hamster. Dire Straits will never get old. OK, this is getting ridiculous. I've still got 10 Halloween Oreos. They better be gone by Stop Day. We'll have a nap,zen fire ze missiles! Brrr! If people can make fun of Christianity, then I should be able to make fun of the Hare Krishna guy doing his meditation in front of Wescoe today. And I did. I'm wearing Crest White Strips right now. Should my gums be burning as bad as they are? I want to die. I just took a test in linear algebra and it made me want to punch a baby. M' Why is Neil Diamond so rad? Because Chuck Nornis nir "Comin" to America." A My roommate is scaring me. He just took a test in linear algebra, and now he wants to punch a baby. He literally might go on a baby punching spree. You stupid, I don't like you. HAF! thuil dellit iity ww wy bein bein of al fay take your very your That You face Wor mom mee you your perior SAG Chuck Norris doesn't read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants. Why do people put their underwear in the top freeway? Who decided the top was for underwear? 7:30 classes aren't worthy of me taking a shower. ARIE ARIE ***** under you g Be w or two brain THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2005 ENTERTAINMENT PEOPLE THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 7A TAP TAP TAP TAP STAB AAAAAAAA DAMAGED CIRCUS Britney's bod returning to pre-pregnancy form PENGUINS NEW HUM...? Greg Griesenauer/KANSAN HI, WOULD YOU LIKE A NEW JERSEY NAMENT BIBLE? NEW HUM...? MY WOULD YOU LAY A NEW TESTAMENT BIBLE! NEW HUH...? WELL, I'VE BEEN LOOKING AT THE SHOEWOOD MAN. WHERE ARE YOU NOW? WHAT'S THE TIME I'M NOT NOT GETTING THE COVERAGE HERE... AA...AM I GOING TO NEED NEW EQUIPMENT IF I WANT TO YOU BUY 8... Penguins WELL, I HAPPY BIRN LOOKING AT GREETINGS BEFORE ME. WE'LL GET INTO THIS. A 'A' AND WE'LL GET INTO THIS. I'M JUST NOT ASKING THE CONVENIENCE WHEN... FRESH TIMES In my Eastern Civ. class we're discussing the Chinese Calendar and how it corresponds with animals. Do you know what animal goes with this year? AM I AM YOUNG TO NEED NEW ROOMMETIMES IN O'BRIEN CHILDREN'S HUB B... Penguins 4 Doug Lang/KANSAN Is it the year of the Monkey? Our monkey man today thought he was a boy. He saw him and felt as if he had been a boy. He did not believe that he was a boy. He did not believe that he was a boy. He did not believe that he was a boy. He did not believe that he was a boy. He did not believe that he was a boy. He did not believe that he was a boy. He did not believe that he was a boy. He did not believe that he was a boy. He did not believe that he was a boy. He did not believe that he was a boy. He did not believe that he was a boy. An old schoolboy short story told me how he made to cause no trouble for children will suffer from being bullied. A trickery began when a girl fell into a hole after she went into it with those at the school. A friend broke the hole in the Dandelion purity and so on. Britney Spears's body has bounced back after the Sept. 14 birth of son Sean Preston – and she can't wait to show it off. The singer – dressed in dark blue jeans, a teal sweater and a camisole – recently visited Venus by Maria Tash, an upscale piercing and jewelry studio in New York City's SoHo neighborhood. Spears, who's been pierced by Tash before, got her belly button piercing reinserted with an elaborate topaz and white gold piece, which cost more than $200. "I think it's part of her whole reclaiming her body thing," Tash tell us. "It's good she's readorning her body. She's known for being strong and cut." Tash says Spears is in "really good shape." THE MASKED AVENGERS People on Campus 'My Fair Brady' star proposed last June Adriane Curry and Christopher Knight revealed their engagement on the season finale of "My Fair Brady," but Knight actually proposed in June, he said recently. "It was a quiet engagement" he said. Since then, "I've noticed that she just listens to me slightly less. By the time I'm married, there will be nothing left to listen to." The couple haven't set a wedding date, but Curry, who starred on "America's Top Model," told us the ceremony will be "gothic" and in an "old-school cathedral." My family is very Catholic," she said. "I don't believe we can be married Catholic—he's twice-divorced." Guests will likely include their "Surreal Life" castmates and Knight's fellow Brady Bunch-ers. "The bird flu is bad news for everyone." Max Kreutzer/KANSAN People on Campus HOROSCOPES The Stars Show the Kind of Day You'll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, Dec. 1, 2005: You are strong, deliberate and willful. Your creativity will peak this year, making nearly anything possible. Be careful about being too self-absorbed, because this characteristic could be the downfall of an otherwise together and special year. You will learn from your mistakes, though you don't want to push your luck. Next fall, you will enter a very special period in which you find that what you wish for can happen. You also might want to consider what facets of your life need adjustment. Work on these areas in the next nine months. If you are single, you could meet that special person at that time. If you are attached, be thoughtful of your sweetie, and take plenty of time away together. You will need special periods for the two of you. If you find a SAGITTARIAN to be egotistical, look at yourself, too! Discipline that tendency. problem. Tonight: Listen to music. TAURUS (April 29, May 29) ARIES (March 21-April 19) GEMINI (May 21-June 20) ***** The New Moon helps you understand recent events. The clarity you gain puts a smile on your face. Be willing to tackle a difficult problem or two. Friends' support mixed with brainstorming will solve nearly any PAURUU • Alicia esterina music TAURUS (April 20-May 20) ★★★ You are coming from a place of security, though on some level you feel burdened by responsibilities. A discussion with a partner or an associate could help take some of the burden off of you. Are you willing to open up? Tonight: Work as a team. **** Though you might be down, others aren't. Allow the many people in your life to run with the ball. Take the high road, and you will be a lot happier. Try to get out of your skin and look at an event with a new perspective. Tonight: Allow your popularity to speak. CANCER (June 21-July 22) ***** Your imagination rocks and rolls. You see many situations in a different light than others do. Your mind takes you in a new direction. Let go of seriousness, and help others relax with you. You've got ideas. Tonight. Let your frisky personality dominate. **★★★ Your imagination plays a big role in a relationship. Understand what needs to happen with a key partnership. You cannot push someone any further away. Perhaps some nurturing could go a long way. Tonight: Get some extra sleep. LEO (July 23-Aug.22) VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ★★★★ Investigate what feels right, and follow through. Sometimes you can be very hard on other people. Chill out and decide what you want from a work or daily situation. You will be able to create just that. Tonight: Happy at home. **** Don't back back anymore. Express your imaginative side. Others want to hear more from you. An older or very serious friend plays a key role. Expressing yourself takes you in a new direction. Tonight: Talk up a storm. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) SCORPIO (Oct.23-Nov.21) SCREEN (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ★★★ Be willing to spend that extra amount to ensure that you get what you want. Sometimes you sell yourself short. Don't. Your image might need some sprucing up. Tonight: Your treat. last. You might need to follow through. Take the high road and look at what is going on. Listen to someone, but still claim your power. Investigate what seems like a wild idea. Tonight: You decide. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★★★ Resolutions made today CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Ju CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ★★★ Slow down and find some answers. Listen to others; enjoy yourselves. Take your time thinking through decisions. Visualize more of what you want. Talk through what you want. Investigate your feelings. Tonight: Move slowly. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ***** Look at your long-term desires. Think in terms of developing associations. Meetings provide a great deal of feedback. Others prove to be a bit testy or remote, but the friendly Aquarian defuses the situation. Tonight: Be a friend first. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★★ take a stand, and others will follow. Your intuition comes through. You might need to delegate more, as you are tired. You might need some time off to rest and relax. Tonight: In the limelight. ACROSS 1 Fabric border 4 Large quantity 8 Lectern locale 12 Some time back 13 Ethereal 14 Part of the foot? 15 Nat "King Cole hit 17 Old portico 18 Afternoon hour 19 Art made with lasers 21 Progenitor 24 Gregory Hines' specialty 25 Pub request 26 Final answer? 28 Circus employee 32 Bound 34 Go up and down 36 Iditarod terminus 37 Showy display 39 Scull need 41 Pinch 42 Thanksgiving veggie 44 Stations 46 Restaurant critic, perhaps 50 Mongrel 51 Jason's ship 52 Cash-related 56 Farmer's home? 57 Pindaric creations 58 Debtor's letters 59 Earth 60 Makes like Johnny Appleseed Solution time: 25 mins. I D A S A R A D E M O G O P E L I S E M I R O D E L I G H T B U L B R Q X I E Y E T S C A R D O R I S R I G H T N O W R O O T O N E S O D A S T W O ST E P N I G H T C A P Y O K E L N E E R L E A R I V A L F I G H T C L U B A G O A R E T A R E T S U B D E E M S P I T T E E Yesterday's answer 12: Solution time: 25 mins. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 | | | | | | | | | | | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | | 18 | | | | 19 | | 20 | | | | | 21 22 | | | | 23 | | 24 | | | | | | 25 | | | 26 | | 27 | | 28 | | 29 30 31 | | 32 | | 33 | 34 | | 35 | | 36 | | | | 37 | | | 38 | 39 | | 40 | | 41 | | | | | | 42 | 43 | | 44 | 45 | | | | 46 47 48 | | | | 49 | | 50 | | | | | 51 | | | | 52 | | 53 | | | 54 55 | | 56 | | | | 57 | | | | 58 | | | 59 | | | | 60 | | | | 61 | | | DOWN 1 Scenery chewer 2 "I" strain 3 Home of McGill University 4 Beauty shops 5 XIII quadrupled 6 Gaelic 7 An Earp brother 8 Vessel for washing 9 Oppositionist 10 Pedestal occupant 11 Carpet style 61 Cut off 12-1 CRYPTOQUIP DW Q RQK OJIILIILX ZLQC IBOLZEBRQK IVZLKNVE, XJ TJB IBOOJIL EL RDNEV VZT IEJO CDWVDKN? 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Instead, consider these options: Peace Prosperity Paperless Packaging 16 Shock's partner 20 Grimalkin 21 Wan 22 Kim's ex 23 Seagoing jalopy 27 Cattle call? 29 Disneyland transport 30 Send forth 31 Agents, for short 33 Employees' due 35 Disgusting 38 Highland chapeau 40 Learners' break 43 Interoffice e-mails 45 Deposit 46 Peregrinates 47 Hydrox rival 48 Tangelo 49 Bustle 53 Just out 54 Kanga's kid 55 "Uh-huh" Sunny Day Today's Cryptoquip Clue: O equals P INSTANT CASH www.zlbplasma.com Earn up to $200/month We need donors to help make life-saving therapies. Plasma is urgently needed! ZLB PLasma Services 785-749-5750 816 W.24th St. win a $250 Cash Award HAWK WEEK 2006 LOGO COMPETITION Sponsored by New Student Orientation Pick up an application in 213 Strong Hall or from our website, www.hawkweek.ku.edu Deadline for completion is 5 p.m. on December 16th in 213 Strong. ENTER TODAY! DAY! Who can participate: KU students enrolled for both Fall 2005 and Spring 2006 semesters. 8A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN SPORTS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1. 2005 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A The class capacity is set at 156 students, and 65 spots are filled. "For the first time a student from any school can learn how to start and successfully manage his or her own business." Meyer said. The University is also working to create the option of an entrepreneurship concentration for business majors and a minor for non-business students. Meyer said the increase in University students' interest was mirrored nationwide. "We've seen two trends: more and younger managers are starting their own business and many more students are getting entrepreneurship education in order to increase the odds of success in starting their own business." Meyer said. Bass, an economics major, will graduate after the summer session. He plans to use the rest of his time at the University as a trial run for his business. If he does not find success, he may pursue a career in real estate. Many entrepreneurs do find success, Meyer said. But he added that students who went through the program would improve their odds. "It's made a lot more achievable if you know the right way to do it, like most things." Meyer said. HIV/AIDS and aren't inclined to negotiate condom use or talk about sexual histories, Mansfield said. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A "College students tend to think they are bullet proof," Mansfield said. "I find that's especially true with students I meet at KU. They aren't promiscuous and may use condoms the first half a dozen times, but then they stop because they feel comfortable with their partner. When people don't know the sex histories of their partners, they are putting themselves at risk." Mansfield said his organization was particularly helpful for KU students because it offered free confidential HIV testing. Watkins Memorial Health Center offers confidential testing also, but it costs $20. Reid said this was the first time in a while her group had made a significant push to raise awareness of the issue. Everyone thinks they've heard enough about HIV/AIDS, but they mistake that for knowing everything, she said. "There is still a lot that needs to be done on educating people and changing government policy." Reid said. "Somebody's got to step up and start screaming about it." Edited by Tricia Masenthin Edited by Erin Wisdom BY ROXANA HEGEMAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ▼ KANSAS COSMOSPHERE Space relic restored HUTCHINSON — Former astronaut James Lovell Jr. peered deep inside the Gemini 12 capsule that he flew in November 1966 during the first space mission in which two spaceships docked. "All the spots on my seat are still there," Lovell said Wednesday. The last time he saw the capsule was 20 years ago when it still was enclosed in a Plexiglas shell and on display at the NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. Pointing to one seat, he told onlookers that was where Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin sat. Lovell sat in the other one. But that shell was partially removed recently at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, where preservation work soon will begin before it goes on display at the Alder Planetarium in Chicago. "It looks pretty good," Lovell said as he inspected the capsule. "It smells the same." Lovell and officials from the Alder Planetarium were at the Cosmosphere to meet with restoration experts to go over details of the restoration work. Lovell wanted to make sure it is brought back to its post-flight appearance. "We don't want it to look like a new nickel." Lovell said. "It takes away from the real artifact." Lovell lobbied to get the Gemini 12 spacecraft to Alder, which he called a "natural place for an artifact like this." He also has given the planetarium the handbook used to save the crew's lives during the near-fatal Apollo 13 mission. 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Interim coach Joe Vitt has coached the team the last six games, going 3-3 heading into Sunday's game against the Washington Redskins, and Shaw expects Vitt to finish out the year. "I would be totally shocked if Mike got cleared," Shaw said Wednesday. "At the time he left it was pretty clear to him that he couldn't come back. But he's a coach and you get anxious." On Tuesday, Martz told TV station KMOV that "This is the best I've felt. And when you feel this good, you feel like you should be working." Shaw said he's spoken several times to the infectious disease specialist in charge of Martz' case. That specialist told him he'd be feeling much better about this time of the year, but that he'd face a risk making an early return. Martz, who is at his second home in San Diego, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that he probably wouldn't press the issue. "I wouldn't feel very comfortable calling (the doctor) after all this," he said. "We'll just stay by the plan." Beyond this season, Shaw said there's no decision regarding Martz' future with the team amid widespread speculation that he wouldn't be back. Next season is the final year of his contract, and Shaw said lamed-duck status was only one of the variables to consider. Shaw would not rule out Martz, 58-39 in six seasons with the team, coaching the team next year. Martz coached the team to one Super Bowl in 2001 and was the offensive coordinator in 1999 for the franchise's lone Super Bowl championship. "Would he change his staff, would he be able to hire new coaches in the last year of his contract?" Shaw said. "When you start weighing them, you start formulating in your head what type of commitment you need to make and which direction you want to take." The biggest factor against Martz returning is an adversarial relationship with director of football operations Jay Zygmunt. Martz said after stepping down that he didn't know if he and Zygmunt could co-exist professionally. KANSANCLASSIFIEDS Shaw said a possible reorganization of the front office "will be on the table at some point." Shaw said he's been "pleasantly surprised" with the team's play under Vitt, the assistant head coach and linebackers coach. "It usually starts and ends with the head coach, he's the main piece to the puzzle," Shaw said. "Once there's a head coach, depending on who you hire and what the person's wishes are, or if you keep Mike, you start to formulate the pieces around him." "The team has played hard," Shaw said. "It's limited right now by injuries but the team plays with great energy and conviction and those are all positive things." AUTO STUFF JOBS LOST & FOUND FOR RENT ROOMMATE/ SUBLEASE SERVICES CHILD CARE TICKETS TRAVEL SERVICES PHONE 785.864.4358 FAX 785.864.5261 ADMIT ONE SERVICES TRAFFIC TICKET PROBLEMS? Free Consultation! 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Spring Hill USD230 Teaching Positions 2006-2007 Southern Johnson County, South of Olathe Applications available at www.usd230.org or contact HR, 913-592-7200. *Develop lessons for Elementary, Middle & High School grades UNITED STATES OF AMERICA USD 230 - All Areas MATH & MATH EDUCATION MAJORS NEEDED *Detailed guidelines & training provided School age teacher needed for an early education program, 3-6 M-F. Call for qualifications. 785-841-2185, 205 N. Michigan. GOS *Fee paid per lesson *On-campus office if needed *Flexible work schedule Seeking loving caregiver for a 2 and 5 year old. Flexible hours. Interests in education preferred. Call 785-979-3741. *Experience in tutoring math preferred Contact Cheryl 785.864.0760 Newly remodeled 1, 2, 3 BR available immediately, Rent specials. 814-7849. SEMESTER BREAK WORK $17.25 base-appt, 1-6 week work pro- gram, file-sched, sales/svc, all ages 18+ conditions apply. 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DECEMBER 1. 2005 10A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN NFL Broncos following on hooves of Colts BY EDDIE PELLS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DENVER — This season is shaping up as a special one for the Denver Broncos. Still, there is something disconcerting about that 9-2 record and Denver's postseason prospects. The elephant sitting in the middle of the Denver locker room — the subject everyone knows is there but very few want to deal with — is the undefeated Indianapolis Colts. You know, the Colts? The team that has plastered Denver in the playoffs the last two years by a combined score of 90-34. You know, Indianapolis? The city that coach Mike Shanahan said was imperative to avoid in the playoffs if Denver is ever going to get back to the Super Bowl. There they are, two games ahead and showing no signs of slowing. Barring a drastic change, and if form holds, all signs point to another rematch with the Colts in Indy. This time, though, it would be in the AFC title game instead of the first round of the playoffs. "They're undefeated. They're in our conference. So, I guess you have to look at them," Broncos running back Ron Dayne said. "But it's not like we spend any time worrying about it. We've got to worry about our own stuff." That, by and large, is the company line among the Broncos. Predictably, they talk about taking them one at a time and worrying about next week, not the playoffs. For the most part, that strategy has worked. At 9-2, the Broncos have so far avoided the midseason slump, the likes of which have plagued the franchise the last few years. They have a two-game lead over San Diego and Kansas City in the AFC West, with a game at Kansas City coming Sunday. Denver has positioned itself well to earn the division title, a home playoff game and a bye week. All would be monumental. The Broncos haven't earned any of those since 1998, the year they won their second Super Bowl. That Super Bowl still stands as their last playoff win. Despite all that promising news, the Broncos know if the season ended today, they would be a second seed and the Colts would be No. 1. It would mean another week of preparing for Peyton Manning. On the turf. In Indy. Sure, the Broncos have reason to believe they've improved over the last two years, when they gave up a combined 954 yards passing in a pair of embarrassments. The pass rush has improved with the addition of Courtney Brown and Gerard Warren — among others — and the return to health of Trevor Prvice. Rookie cornerbacks Darrent Williams and Domonique Foxworth have strengthened a position that got rocked in Indy last year despite the addition of Champ Bailey. Jake Plummer is playing better. Mike Anderson, Tatum Bell and Ron Dayne are a formidable running back trio. But, as their undefeated record plainly states, the Colts have clearly gotten better, too. Could it be that the Broncos have simply picked the wrong year to get really good? Indianapolis is the first team to start 11-0 since — who else? — the 1998 Broncos, who went 13 games before their first setback. The good news for the Broncos is that Indy does have a reasonably difficult schedule the rest of the way, with a home game against San Diego (7-4) sandwiched between trips to Jacksonville (8-3) and Seattle (9-2). Denver's remaining schedule is a bit easier, but far from a cakewalk because of this week's game at Kansas City (7-4) and the season finale at San Diego. ▼ NFL 12 13 9 David J. Phillin/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS St. Louis Rams quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick tries to avoid being sacked by Houston Texans' Jason Babin during the fourth quarter Sunday in Houston. From Harvard to NFL starter BY R.B. FALLSTROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ST. LOUIS — St. Louis Rams interim coach J Vitt has been coy all week about whether rookie Ryan Fitzpatrick had earned his first career start. But it was telling that on Wednesday it was the rookie from Harvard and not Jamie Martin who met with the media, usual duty for the No.1 quarterback. And that Fitzpatrick was taking snaps with the first unit while Martin, who had a concussion and blurred vision after absorbing a blow in the first quarter of last week's overtime victory at Houston, watched in sweat clothes. Regardless of Martin's status, it's been more or less an open secret around Rams Park that Fitzpatrick, a favorite of Mike Martz since he took him in the seventh round of the draft, will get the nod this week against the Redskins. And why not? It's tough to bench the NFC offensive player of the week. Fitzpatrick threw for 310 yards and got the Rams to overtime with a pair of scores in the final half-minute, before throwing the game-winning touchdown. His yardage is the third-highest by an NFL quarterback in his first game. "I know, it's unbelievable, it's like the Kennedy assassination," Vitt said after practice. "We'll make that decision later in the week." to return for the fill-in role behind injured Marc Bulger, who'll miss his second straight game with a shoulder injury and could be out for the season. Martin sustained a concussion and blurred vision in Sunday's game and still had blurred vision on Wednesday. The third-stringer is Jeff Smoker, released twice this year. Fitzpatrick didn't seem to care what happened. The decision could be a rubber stamp if Martin isn't cleared "The coaches are going to do what's best for the team and put us in the best situation," he said. "And whatever decision they make is a good decision." Since leading the comeback, Fitzpatrick has had a whirlwind of attention with an appearance on ESPN's "Cold Pizza," a mob of reporters surrounding him on Wednesday and countless telephone calls from long-forgotten school friends. "It is pretty comical," he said. "Me not doing any interviews and then being the guy with cameras in his face." "Guys respect his skill level, guys respect his intensity, guys respect his commitment," Vitt said. But he's not getting jokes about his Ivv League schooling. Vitt doesn't think he needs to work to keep Fitzpatrick's ego in check, either. "I don't think he's a nightlife guy and I don't think he's got a lot of distractions in his life." Vitt said. "He comes to work, he studies his game, he goes home and studies his game some more and gets up and comes to work." 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After he purchased another ticket, Wymore tried to re-enter. "Before I even got my foot in the door he had me in hand-cuffs." Wymore said in the June 6 Kansan. Wymore spent the next 30 minutes in the Boone County Jail before his friends bailed him out. Rich Littrell, Lee's Summit, Mo., senior, was subpoenaed as a witness for the Dec. 21 trial. "I'm glad that the charges were dropped." Littrell said. "Justice was served for him. I'm upset that nothing happened to Chief Watring." University of Missouri officials cleared Watring from assault allegations after a three-month investigation that ended May 27. "We're looking forward to putting the incident behind us," Wymore said. — Edited by Tricia Masenthin Finish strong in last regatta CLUB SPORTS BY RYAN SCHNEIDER rschneider@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITER The Kansas sailing team claimed third place at the Timme Angsten Memorial Regatta at the Chicago Yacht Club last weekend. Tim Fitzgerald, team member, said the event was one of the biggest of the season. The team of Fitzgerald and Alli Jones finished third in the A division, behind Boston College and Vermont. Evan Charles and Blake Harris finished 13th in the B division. "It's basically like a bowl game of college sailing," Fitzgerald said. "Most teams have coaches and are big-time college programs." In sailing competitions, each boat consists of two people and the A and B teams switch boats after each race. The scores from the A and B teams are combined to create an overall score. In the overall scores, the combined Kansas teams finished eighth. Fitzgerald said the team was more prepared for the cold and had more time to improve on its performance last season. This preparation enabled the A team to finish first in the beginning race of the regatta. To prepare for competitions, the team practiced on Monday afternoons for three hours. Fitzgerald said the team practiced five to eight times this semester. The team's finish at Chicago is its fourth finish in the top three this season. It won the first regatta at Wisconsin and then placed second at Texas-Austin and Texas A&M. The Kansas sailing team is done competing until next semester. Edited by Erin Wisdom 3 No pain, no game Julie Jacobson/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS New York Knicks' Stephon Marbury, right, goes up for a shot against Chicago Bulls' Andres Nocioni during the first period Wednesday at Madison Square Garden in the New York. The Knicks won 109-101. Maui CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12A Giles said he and Kaun would still run the fast-break offense, but if they did not make a play, they would move to the high-low offense. "The primary break takes over everything," Giles said of the fast-break offense. That philosophy will work tonight for the Jayhawks only if Kaun and Giles stay out of foul trouble, something they struggled to do during the games in Maui. Kaun fouled out of the game against Arizona, while Giles played with four fouls during the key minutes of the second half. Giles also picked up four fouls in the game against Arkansas. Tonight could be an even bigger challenge for the two forwards to stay out of foul trouble because they will be matched up against Nevada's power forward Nick Fazekas, who leads the starters in scoring and rebounding, averaging 18 points and eight rebounds per game. Having a ranked nonconference opponent come to Allen Fieldhouse to face an unranked Jayhawks team is an unusual situation for the Jayhawks, who were ranked No. 2 last year when they took on the Wolf Pack. "He is much better defensively than what we thought he would be," Self said. The Jajahawks will have to find a way to stop Fazekas and sophomore guard Marcelus Kemp, who leads the team in scoring, even though he has yet to start a game this season. Self said freshman forward Brandon Rush would draw the assignment on Kemp. This will be Rush's third key defensive assignment in four games. Against Arizona, Rush matched up against its best player, Hassan Adams, and he worked on Arkansas' standout guard Ronnie Brewer. "If we are successful Thursday Self said to expect the same starters from the past four games: Jeff Hawkins, Russell Robinson, Brandon Rush, Sasha Kaun and CJ Giles. night, it will be a heck of a win." Self said. "We are going to have to be good Thursday and I certainly think we can be, but this is a team that would finish in the upper tier of our league." Self said the Jayhawks knew they would play the first third of the season without sophomore forward Darnell Jackson before the news was released. Jackson was suspended for the opening one-third of the season for accepting gifts from a booster. Self said his absence had played a part in the way the Jayhawks had planned to play in the Maui tournament. Notes: "We were trying to get to where we didn't have to play so big," she said. — Edited by Theresa Montaño Jayhawks tally times in top 100 Eight Kansas swimmers have times ranking in the Top 100 collegiate swimming times. Freshman Ashley Leidigh has five top-100 times. She leads the nation in the 100 fly with a time of 53.08 and has three other times in the top 50. Freshmen Danielle Herrmann and Molly Brammer, sophomores Lauren Bonfe and Terri Schramka, junior Jenny Short and senior Gina Gnatzig all had times in the top 100 of the nation. "The individual rankings are a great reflection on how we did at the Minnesota Invitaional," Kansas swimming and diving coach Clark Campbell said. "We are really looking forward to our championship season in February and March. We have several individuals and relays that can reach the NCAA Championships and score points." Kansas competes Friday and Saturday against Harvard and Northeastern in Cambridge, Mass. The NCAA Championships are scheduled for March 16 in Athens, Ga. Ryan Schneider BASEBALL Javhawks sign 10 players for 2007 The Kansas Athletics Department announced baseball coach Ritch Price has signed 10 players for the Jayhawks next season. Kansas signed four pitchers, Andres Esquibel, San Marcos, Calif.; Hiaril Garcia, Windsor, Ontario; Walter Marciell, Jr., Kailua, Hawaii, and Thomas Marcin, Huntington Beach, Calif. The team also inked six position players: Brett Bodhy, Poway, Calif.; Aaron Breit, Hays; Brian Heere, Lawrence; Robby Price, Lawrence; Joe Servais, Omaha, Neb., and Joe Southes, Boise, Idaho. Bochy is the son of current San Diego Padres manager Bruce Body. "This recruiting class is a testimony to the improvement, not only in our facilities and program, but in our perception across America as a program on the rise". Price said. — Ryan Schneider FOOTBALL Rockhurst cornerback commits Kansas landed its 11th verbal commitment from a high school football player on Tuesday. Phillip Strozier, of Rockhurst High School in Kansas City, Mo., told recruiting Web site rivals. com that he verbally agreed to play for Kansas next season. "We talked yesterday and he told me he just felt comfortable with them," Strozier's coach Tony Severino told rivals.com. "They have done a good job of recruiting our school." Strozier is rated the eighth-best player in the state of Missouri and the 42nd-best cornerback in the nation by the Web site. Strozier turned down offers from Missouri and Houston. His brother, Noah, is a junior at Kansas State and also plays cornerback. 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Bachelors, Masters, Doctorates Personalized Announcements (min 10) in 24 hrs only at Jayhawk Bookstore ...at the top of Naismith Hill 843-3826 · 1420 Crescent Rd. order online: jayhawkbookstore.com jbs THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN SPORTS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1.2005 WWW.KANSAN.COM PAGE 12A ONE LOVE A. MARK DENT MDENT@KANSAN.COM Maui shows Kansas' potential Even though the Jayhawks played like turkeys in their Thanksgiving tournament in Maui last week, there's still plenty of reason to give thanks for this team because they showed plenty of signs of encouragement. Monday night's game against Arizona couldn't have started worse. The Jayhawks came out scared, and, heck, they couldn't get the ball past midcourt and hadn't attempted a field goal before they were down 7-0. Against Arkansas, Kansas was a little better but still lost after committing costly turnovers late in the second half. Kansas' game was full of visible holes. First of all, the Jayhawks turned the ball over an unimaginable 51 times combined against Arkansas and Arizona. They shot a miserable 10 for 36 from three-point land and shot 40 percent from the field against their first two opponents. But those problems can be fixed with a little bit of practice and, more importantly, time. The real story from Maui was the promise this young team showed. On Monday against Arizona, after falling behind by 16, the Jayhawks showed exactly what they could do when everyone's on the same page. Sophomore forward Sasha Kaun took over down low, tipping in missed shots and pulling down every rebound. Guards Micah Downs and Russell Robinson both connected from the outside, and freshman forward Brandon Rush hit leaners and lay-ups from everywhere, and, all of a sudden, the game was close. Rush is a perfect example of why to get excited about this team. If you haven't already fallen head-over-heels for Rush, then good luck ever finding love. Rush averaged 16 points and just under five rebounds for the tournament. It's not just the numbers; he's shown athletic ability that no other Jayhawk has shown in his freshman campaign. He made 20 of 36 shots and hit three of four three-point shots in the final two games. Kansas' third game gave fans another reason to hope. Chaminade may be a Division Two team, but Kansas still put up a memorable effort. The Jayhawks dulled the Swords from the getgo, riding CJ Giles' 18 first-half points to a 46-29 lead at the half. Kansas won 102-54 and out-rebounded Chaminade 50-27. Perhaps the most obvious reason for encouragement was the reassuring fact that young teams always seem to struggle early. Remember the 1999 Duke team that included freshmen Jason Williams, Carlos Boozer, Casey Sanders, and Mike Dunleavy? That team lost its first two games of the season to ranked opponents and ended up with a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Now, maybe it's too early to start reserving seats in Indianapolis, but it is obvious that this team can do something special once it starts showing the promise it exhibited during parts of the Maui Invitational. Dent is an Overland Park freshman in journalism. Match will stretch'Hawks MEN'S BASKETBALL 24 Sophomore center Sasha Kaun pulls down a rebound over two Idaho State defenders during the first game of the season at Allen Fieldhouse. Kaun and fellow center CJ Giles will be called on to defend 20th-ranked Nevada's center Nick Fazekas, last year's WAC player of the year, tonight at Allen Fieldhouse. Kansan file photo BY RYAN COLIAANNI rcolaianni@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITER For Nevada men's basketball coach Mark Fox, tonight's game against Kansas marks a return to Allen Fieldhouse, the building he called home during the 1993-94 season. Fox spent that year under former Kansas men's basketball coach Roy Williams, observing the team while he was getting his master's degree from Kansas. "I learned a great deal," he said. "I spent a lot of time with him and coach Holladay and coach Dougherty and certainly have very fond memories of my time in Lawrence." Fox grew up in Garden City but he said he was not good enough to play basketball for Kansas. So he played two seasons at Garden City Community College before transferring to Eastern New Mexico. "I grew up following the 'Hawks," Fox said. "I wouldn't say that I bleed blue, but I tend to root for both Kansas and Kansas State." Nevada has opened its season with two of its three games on the road, winning at Vermont and UNLV and trying to prepare for the environment at Allen Fieldhouse. "Nothing prepares you for Allen Fieldhouse," Fox said. "It is the best place in the world to play college basketball. There is not another arena that you can play in to prepare you for it." Nevada comes to Kansas boasting a 3-0 record and is ranked 20th in the Associated Press poll because of the play of preseason All-American junior center Nick Fazekas and sophomore guard Marcelus Kemp. Some believe that the Wolf Pack is the favorite because of its place in the rankings. The Jayhawks are unranked. But Fox thinks otherwise. "If we are the favorite in Allen Fieldhouse, then whoever made those odds should be drug-tested," Fox said. Fazekas is averaging 18 points and 8.3 rebounds per game this season. Fox said that Fazekas would be tested by Kansas centers Sasha Kaun and CJ Giles. Kansas men's basketball coach Bill Self said he has been impressed by Fazekas. "We're going to have to be very sound defensively against him or he'll make our young guys not look very good," Self said. "There's a certain way we're going to have to defend him to slow him down and not give him good looks." "He was extremely focused throughout the off-season," Fox said. "Once he was cleared to start working out, he has been extremely dedicated to get into great shape and to work on his game. He has really paid the price to play and I think that is why he is finding success." Kemp, who is returning from an ACL injury, has led the team in scoring this season with 21 points per game. - Edited by Erin Wisdom MEN'S BASKETBALL Maui on their minds Team makes changes to offense, pace BY MIRANDA LENNING mlenning@kansan.com mklengn SENIOR SPORTSWRIVER If the Jayhawks didn't know the importance of getting their post players involved offensively before the EA Sports Maui Invitational Tournament, they certainly learned that lesson in the three games they played there. Kansas men's basketball coach Bill Self said a big focus for the Jayhawks since returning from Mani. Hawaii, was integrating offensive opportunities for post players inside. Sophomore centers CJ Giles and Sasha Kaun were vital parts of the Jayhawks offense, both averaging 11 points and 7 rebounds in the Jayhawks' three-game series. Self said he wanted to get the two even more involved in the Jayhawks' (2-2) upcoming stretch of games, which starts against No. 20 Nevada (3-0) tonight at 7 in Allen Fieldhouse. With that goal in mind, the Jayhawks will most likely run more of a high-low offense, as opposed to "We're going to adjust some things to get them more touches because we didn't do a real good job of getting them the ball." Self said. Self said he wanted to utilize the team's athleticism and quickness by playing at a faster pace than in the previous years. In order to get the post players the ball more, players might have to shy away from their ball-screen heavy offense that spread the floor so the guards could penetrate and pass the ball to a post player. "I am not saying we are changing everything," Self said. "We just need to be more of a combination of something rather than a ball screen, spread it and drive it type of team." the penetrate-and-pitch style of offense that they have used most of this year 14 SEE MAUI ON PAGE 11A Freshman guard Mario Chalmers drives around an Idaho State defender in the Nov. 18 game. Kansas will play No. 20 Nevada at 7 tonight at Allen Fieldhouse. Kansas went 1-2 at the Maui Invitational last week. Kansan file photo COURTS Banner dispute at Mizzou Arena ends in dismissal BY STEVE LYNN slynn@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITER The Columbia, Mo., City Prosecutor's office has deferred prosecution of its case against Andrew Wymore, a former KU student arrested at Mizzou Arena during last year's Border Showdown basketball game. On March 9, University of Missouri Police Maj. Doug Schwandt arrested Wymore on a charge of unlawful re-entry into Mizzou Arena. Paul Aubrey, administrative assistant at the City Prosecutor's office, said the office had deferred prosecution, which meant it would not proceed with the case at this time. Wymore, Leawood resident, said his attorney, Gerald Mueller, called him Nov. 23 when he received a letter that said the case had been dismissed. Wymore's court date was scheduled for Dec. 21. "There's a part of me that wanted to stare down Watring in court," Wymore said, referring to Missouri Police Chief Jack Watring. "But it's a victory anwav." Mueller said the letter did not give a reason why the office deferred prosecution. The office could re-file the case, but Mueller didn't think it would, he said. 语法 Rose Wilbbenmeyer, city prosecutor, did not return phone calls requesting comment. An usher allowed Kaufman to hang the banner, but Watring started to remove the banner. In his statement, Watring said he started to remove the sign because it was potentially troublesome. Kaufman attempted to stop Watring, and Watring grabbed him by the collar. Schwandt escorted Wymore and Chris Kaufman, 2005 graduate, outside Mizzou Arena after an altercation between Kaufman and Watring. Kaufman and Watring were debating about a 3-by-6-foot banner that Kaufman hung from a railing inside the arena. The banner read, "Allen Fieldhouse East." Kaufman said. Shortly afterward, Schwandt approached the scene and escorted the men outside where he told Wymore his ticket was revoked. Wymore said he was confused and wondered if he had bought a false ticket. "I asked him why and he just folded his arms and said, 'It just has,'" Wymore said in the June 6 edition of The University Daily Kansan. SEE BANNER ON PAGE 11A . --- 4. Dining with roomies Making food with your roommates may have more benefits than you ever imagined. 8. Karaoke queen See how one local bartender hits all the right notes. 10. Nakey time An inside look at nudist resorts around Lawrence “I think that some nudists truly are just into nature and it isn’t a sexual thing,” says psychology and human sexuality professor, Brad Redburn Where: Abe & Jake's Landing 8 E. Sixth St. (785) 841-5855 Black Dog Coffeehouse 12815 W. 87th St. Pkwy, Lenexa (913) -495-5515 The Boobie Trap Bar 1415 SW Sixth St., Topeka, (785)-232-9008 The Bottleneck 737 New Hampshire St. (785) 841-5483 Davey's Uptown Rambler's Club 3402 Main St. (816)753-1909 Gaslight Tavern 317 N. Second St. (785) 856-4330 El Torreon Ballroom 3101 Gillham Plaza, Kansas City, Mo. The Granada 1020 Massachusetts St. (785) 842-1390 Grand Emporium Saloon 3832 Main St. (816) 531-1504 Hobbs Park 10th & Delaware St. (785)749-7394 Jackpot Saloon 943 Massachusetts St. (785) 832-1085 Jazzhaus 926 1/2 Massachusetts St. (785) 749-3320 Kemper Arena 1800 Genesee St., Kansas City, Mo. (816) 513-4000 Knucklehead's Saloon, 2715 Rochester, Kansas City, Mo., 64120 Spencer Museum of Art 1300 Mississippi St. (785) 864-4710 SUA Events www.suaevents.com Late Night Theatre 1531 Grand Ave., Kansas City, Mo. Lawrence Arts Center 940 New Hampshire St. (785) 843-2787 Lawrence Public Library 707 Vermont St. (785) 843-3833 Lawrence Visitor Center 402 N. Second St. (785) 965-4499 Liberty Hall 642 Massachusetts St. (785) 749-1912 The Lied Center West Campus (785) 864-2787 Jayplay 12.01.05 Weekly choice Cinderella Man Cave-in Rob Thomas Thurs 12/1 Fri 12/2 Sat 12/3 2 Neon. Granada, 10 p.m., 18+, $1 to $3 Cave In, Doomriders, Lorene Drive. El Torreon Ballroom, 7 p.m., all ages, $10 Chubby Carrier. The Bottleneck, 9 p.m., 18+,$8 Drag the River. Jackpot Saloon, 10 p.m., 18+, $5 Keith Urban. Kemper Arena, 7:30 p.m., all ages, $35 Kennedy Luck Club. Boobie Trap Bar, 8 p.m., all ages, $5 to $6 Tea Time. Kansas Union Lobby, 3:00 p.m., FREE Phaze II and Friends. Davey's Uptown, 9 p.m., 21+, FREE Reverend Horton Heat. Beaumont Club, 8 p.m., all ages, $18 Cinderella Man. Kansas Union, Woodruff Auditorium, level 5, 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., $2 or FREE with an SUA activity card Beauty and the Beast. Lawrence Community Theatre, 7:30 p.m., all ages, $17 for students Festival of the Trees. last day for public viewing, Liberty Hall, 10 a.m. to 8:30 pm, all ages, $2 donation asked for adult admission, children are free Avian Flu town meeting. Douglas County Health Department, 7 p.m., all ages FREE Valley of the Dolls. Late Night Theatre, 1531 Grand Ave., Kansas City, Mo., 8 p.m., $18. The Snow Queen, by Hans Christian Andersen. Crafton-Preyer Theatre, 1 p.m., $5 to $10 Peace, War and Global Change Seminar, Hall Center Seminar Room, 4 p.m. FREE First Fridays in the Crossroads Arts District. Crossroads Arts District, Kansas City, Mo., 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., FREE Night of Lights in Westport. Westport Road at Pennsylvania Ave., Kansas City, Mo., all day, FREE Kansas City World Holiday Market. City Market, 20 East 5th Street, Kansas City, Mo., 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., FREE Valley of the Dolls. Late Night Theatre, 1531 Grand Ave., Kansas City, Mo., 8 p.m., $18. Sellout. Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., 21+,$5 Terrible Two's. Granada, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., all ages,$7 The Sound and the Fury, Warlok. The Boobie Trap Bar, 9 p.m., $6 (18+), $5 (21+) Wind in Reeds, Hoots in Horns, storytelling. The Blue Room, 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., all ages, FREE Chubby Carrier, Back Porch Blues Band, Knucklehead's Saloon, 7 p.m., 21+, $15 Danielle Schnebelen. Grand Emporium, 5:30 p.m., 21+, FREE Steven Curtis Chapman, MercyMe. Kemper Arena, 7:30 p.m., all ages, $20 to $77 Tanner Walle Band. Fatso's, 10 p.m., 21+, $3 U-35 DVD Magazine. Bottleneck, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., all ages, $5 to $7 Sat 12/3 Rob Thomas with Anna Nalick. Uptown Theatre, 7:30 p.m., all ages, $42.50 Hee Bee Jeebies. Gaslight Tavern, 8 p.m., 18+ The Gaslights CD Release Party with Vago and SLIMM. Davey's Uptown, 10 p.m., 21+, $6 The Esoteric, Chloe Bridges, A River Forth. The Bottleneck, 8 p.m., all ages Embrace Today, Seventh Star, Look What I Did, Contra, The Lufthansa Heist, The 29th Mark. El Torreon Ballroom, 5 p.m., all ages The Wilders, Midday Ramblers. Liberty Hall, 7:30 p.m., $10 Truckstop Honeymoon, Drakkar Sauna. Replay Lounge, 10 p.m., 21+,$2 Head Change, Cripplefight, Censura. The Boobie Trap Bar, 9 p.m., all ages, $6 (18+), $5 (21+) The Snow Queen, by Hans Christian Andersen. Crafton-Preyer Theatre, 10 a.m., $5 to $10 2005 Holiday Art Fair. Lawrence Arts Center, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., all ages, FREE Pinocchio. First Saturday Players Presents at Lawrence Arts Center, 2 p.m., all ages, $10 for students The Nutcracker. Midland Theatre, 1228 Main St., Kansas City, Mo., Saturday/ Sunday 2 p.m., Thursday-Saturday 7:30 p.m., $23. Through December 24. Kansas City World Holiday Market. City Market, 20 East 5th Street, Kansas City, Mo. 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., FREE. Valley of the Dolls. Late Night Theatre, Kansas City, Mo., 8 p.m., $18 Weekly choice Sun.12/4 Key West Jazz Quartet. Stone Creek, 6 p.m., all ages, Free Ardys and Bradford, Bomstad. Gaslight Tavern, 7:30 p.m., 21+ The Bus Co. Harbour Lights, 9 p.m., 21+ Free Dirty Boogie. Gaslight Tavern, 10 p.m., 21+, Free Head of Femur. The Replay Lounge, 10 p.m., $2 Sunday Night Jazz at the Taproom. Eighth StreetTaproom, 10 p.m., 21+, $2 The Snow Queen, by Hans Christian Andersen, Crafton-Preyer Theatre, 2:30 p.m., $5 to $10 Beauty and the Beast. Lawrence Community Theatre, 2:30 pm, all ages, $15 for students Waxman Open House. Noon to 5 p.m., all ages, FREE Kansas City Chiefs vs. Denver Broncos. Arrowhead Stadium, 3:15 p.m., ticket information, (816)931-3330 Night of Lights in Westport. Westport Road at Pennsylvania Ave., Kansas City, Mo., all day, FREE The Nutcracker. Midland Theatre, Saturday and Sunday 2 p.m., Thursday through Saturday 7:30 p.m., $23 Through December 24 Mon 12/5 Beyond Blue Mondays. Jackpot Saloon, 5:30 p.m., 18+, Free Statuesque. Swarthout Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m., all ages, Free E. V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N. Davy's Uptown, 10 p.m., 21+ Zack Hexum, Tanner Walle. Fatso's, 9 p.m., 21+,$5 to $7 The Snow Queen, by Hans Christian Andersen, Crafton-Preyer Theatre, 1 p.m., $5 to $10 Unwed Sailor. The Replay Lounge, 10 p.m., 21+,$2 Valley of the Dolls. Late Night Theatre, 8 p.m., $18. Tues 12/6 Mass Appeal w/ Sku, Konsept and Aether. Gaslight Tavern, 10 p.m., 21+, FREE Tuesday Night Swing. Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 9 p.m., all ages, $1 Kiosk Release and Reading. Aimee's Coffee House, 7:30 p.m., all ages, FREE Little Shop of Horrors. Music Hall Kansas City, 8 p.m., $42.50 to $47.50 Children under 5 not admitted. Tuesday Night Folk Concert. Sign's of Life, 8 p.m., all ages, FREE Flashback Film Series: The Breakfast Club. Kansas Union, Woordruff Auditorium, 7 p.m., all ages, $1 or FREE with SUA Activity Card. The best reason we could think of to go see this was to brush up on your sweet 80s insult lines. Try this one (a la Judd Nelson) out soon, "Does Barry Manilow know that you raid his wardrobe?" Wed 12/7 SUA Poetry Slam. Hawk's Nest, 7 p.m., all ages, FREE Billy Spears and the Beer Bellies. Johnny's Tavern, 6 p.m., 21+, FREE Fresh Ink Poetry Slam. Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., 21+,$3 Brody Buster Band. Fatso's, 10 p.m., 21+, FREE to $3 Acoustic Open Mic Night. Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., 21+,$2 Women's Basketball vs. UMKC. Allen Fieldhouse, 7 p.m., all ages Call 800-34-HAWKS for ticket info Read table of contents --- 4 4 Bite cooking with roommates 6 Notice no love for pit bulls 8 13 Contact tales of the first date Venue Ducky, the karaoke queen 17 Reviews listen, read, watch, play Feature 19 Speak the bail bond man no clothes, no problem 10 Editor's Note If the end of semester business of college life is getting the best of you, there are plenty of ways to head back to nature, so to speak, and rejuvenate the body. Read poems by your favorite Romantic poet underneath a large tree outside of Watson Library (in a warm oversized parka). Roast marshmallows with your friends around a flickering fire in the woods Nude." (page 10) But that was before. Apparently, naturists, take the clothes- near Clinton Lake. Or, take a slow walk down the hill near Potter's Lake. But, the suggestion of walking around my apartment naked would never have come to mind before I read Laura Snyder's feature story, "Naturally free option for a variety of reasons. Some say nudity makes them feel like they're a part of nature and a part of creation. Others say they just enjoy the free feeling. I'm not so sure that I'd be ready to try the nudity thing; doing the dishes and writing out my rent checks naked might make my male But hey, if I ever end up changing my mind, I'll know just the place to go. roommate feel a bit uncomfortable. And I'm not so sure his girlfriend would appreciate it much either. - Anja Winikka JAYPLAYERS EDITOR AKA THE STAR Anja Winikka DESIGNERS MAKE PRETTY PAGES Becka Cremer Timothy Aaron Huston ASSOCIATE EDITOR CALL HIM "WILDTHING" Brian Wacker CLERK GETS AROUND TOWN Leigh Ann Foskey PHOTOGRAPHER TELL ME WHAT YOU NEED Kill Lofter BITE ALWAYS HAS THE MUNCHIES Natalie Johnson Kelsie Smith Laura Snyder CONTACT WILL HELF YOU WITH YOUR PROBLEMS Meghan Miller Chris Moore Katie Moyer VENUE HAS THE BOOZE AND THE BEAT Rory Flynn Lindsey Ramsey David Rugh NOTICE TAKES NOTE OF IT Kathyn Anderson James Foley Katy Humpert CREATIVE CONSULTANT KNOWS A LOT Carol Holstead Cover Photo: Kit Leffler On the cover; Emile Cooper and his friend Michael walk through the woods at Lake Eden, a nudist resort located southwest of Topaka SPRAP UP JUST BEND AN E-MAILTO: jayplay@khanam.com The formula is: (1st last-name last-name) @ khanam.com OR WRITE TO: Jaylane University, Daily Kansan 111 Stuffer Flint Hall 2046 East 59th Street Lawrence, KS 60048 14.07.2013 VOLUME 3,ISSUE 1 12.01.05 Jayplay 3 bite Kit Leffler/Jayplay photographer Models: Dave Stevens and Joy Lawson Family-style By Laura Snyder, Jayplay writer Sharing the cooking responsibilities with your roommates will help you bond and save some cash Gabby Quigle, Portland, Ore. senior lived with five female roommates and three three of their boyfriends her sophomore year. With classes and extracurricular activities, the roommates rarely saw one another. To make sure they had time to socialize and bond with each other, they scheduled house Jenny Gross, Auburn junior and proctor of Margaret Amini Scholarship Roommate dinner tips - Figure out what meal you want to prepare before going to the grocery store. - Make a list of the ingredients, and decide who will be responsible for each menu item. - Take turns with food responsibilities. Don't make one roommate always buy the meat while the others have less expensive items like bread or salad. dinners together two or three times a week. amm scholarship Hall, agrees that cooking together is a fun way for roommates to bond. Gross is in charge of divvying up cooking and cleaning duties for the hall's 50 residents, who take turns preparing meals - lunch and dinner on weekdays and dinner on weekends Gross says cooking for the other residents builds community. "You're cooking for your own people," she says. Stretch your dollar Quigle says her roommates saved money by each buying only one part of the meal - the salad, meat, bread or dessert -- which was cheaper than buying all of the ingredients to cook for themselves individually. Leftovers are The cost of food preparation also weighs in, says Gross. Because the residents at Margaret Amini prepare their own meals instead of paying someone else to do it, students save more money than they would on a residence hall meal plan. an added bonus. "We always had big meals with lots of leftovers that were up for grabs," she says. Make a plan for dining Susan Fee, counselor at Lakeland Community College in Kirtland, Ohio and author of My Roommate is Driving Me Crazy, suggests that roommates establish a food policy before moving in together in order to avoid conflict later. If you do decide to have meals together, how will you split the bill? Who will be in charge of cooking and clean-up? After you've answered those questions, plan out a couple weekly dinners with your roomies and get cooking. Chili and cornbread Ingredients: Ground beef Packet of chill seasoning Can of red beans Can of diced tomatoes 1 onion (chopped) 1 to 2 cups water Sour cream Grated cheddar cheese Jalapenos Fritos chips 1 box Jiffy yellow cake mix 1 box Jiffy corn bread mix Preparation: One roommate can fry out the hamburger and onion in a pot, add the other ingredients and bring to a boil. The chili should simmer for an hour or two before serving topping with sour cream, grated cheddar cheese, jalapenos and Fritos chips. Meanwhile, another roommate can make cornbread for a side. Combine the corn bread and cake mix for an extra-sweet corn bread. Follow the instructions on the back of the boxes. Taco night What you'll need: Lettuce Tomato Cheese Onion Ground beef Packet of taco seasoning Taco shells Preparation: Have one roommate brown the ground beef in a skillet and add taco seasoning while the others chop lettuce, tomato, and onion and grate cheese. Have another roommate experiment with making homemade salsa to accompany the tacos, or mix margaritas to top off your festive meal. Spaghetti dinner What you'll need: 1 box of spaghetti noodles 1 jar of spaghetti sauce Ground beef or Italian sausage Loaf of bread Salad (lettuce, vegetables, dressi Salad (lettuce, vegetables, dressing) Preparation: While the spaghetti is boiling, have one roommate brown ground beef (or Italian sausage if you want a little spice) in a skillet and add spaghetti sauce. Another roommate can chop vegetables such as peppers, tomatoes, mushrooms and onions for the salad. Someone else can slice French or Italian bread, butter it, sprinkle with garlic powder and place it under the broiler until toasty. And don't forget the wine! 4 Jayplay 12.01.05 bite Eat here Zen Zero 811 Massachusetts St. ZENIZER Zen Zero, 811 Massachusetts St., gets a lot out of a little, and you do too. The long narrow restaurant is crammed with dozens of tables, a full bar (including Fat Tire on tap) and beautifully framed ethnic art; but it doesn't seem crowded or stuffy. Where the efficiency really comes in, though, is the food. The Thai noodle shop offers massive proportions for microscopic prices and it's quality too. Zen Zero, the sister restaurant of La Parilla, offers appetizers, varied pasta dishes, both spicy and mild, a curry section and no fewer than seven vegetarian dishes; there's something for everybody. Price: $3 to $13 We recommend: Phad Thai with chicken Winner: Best Vegetarian Restaurant, University Daily Kansan, 2003 and 2004 Visit: www.zen-zero.com - Natalie Johnson Recipe corner Reese's peanut butter and milk chocolate chip blondies Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups packed light brown sugar 1 cup butter or margarine, melted 1/2 cup sugar 2 eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1 teaspoon salt 2 cups all-purpose flour 1 3/4 cups (11 oz. pkg.) Reese's Peanut Butter and Milk Chocolate Chips, divided 1/4 teaspoon shortening (don't use butter, margarine or oil) Directions (makes about 6 dozen bars): 1. Heat oven to 350°F. Grease a one-inch 15 1/2 x 10 1/2 jelly roll pan. 2. Stir together brown sugar, butter and granulated sugar in large bowl; beat in eggs and vanilla. Add flour and salt, beating just until blended. Stir in 1 1/2 cups chips; spread batter in prepared pan. 3. Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until wooden pick, inserted in center, comes out clean and surface is lightly browned. Cool completely; cut into bars. 4. Place remaining 1/4 cup chips and shortening in small microwave-safe bowl. Microwave on high (100%) 30 seconds; stir. If necessary, microwave at high an additional 15 seconds at a time, stirring after each heating, until chips are melted and mixture is smooth when stirred. 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However, based on the provided image, no additional details can be added. How new laws are taking dogs away from their owners Pictured above: Damien Annuschat's young pit bull, Rocky. Photo contribution: Katy Humpert By Katy Humpert, Jayplay writer 'I'll never forget the morning I received the phone call. On that Saturday morning, my friend Damien told me Rocky had been detained by the police in Pittsburg the night before. What had he done? I had never seen Rocky act aggressively toward anyone. He was the type of dog who immediately loved everyone he saw, choosing to smother strangers with kisses or wag his tail so fast he looked like he could fly away like a helicopter. I couldn't imagine him doing anything to merit being taken into custody. Then Damien explained the terrible truth: Rocky was in trouble not because of his actions, but because of his over-sized head, powerful jaws and muscular body. Rocky is a Staffordshire Bull Terrier, a breed of dog most often classified as a pit bull. Pittsburg is one of more than 30 Kansas towns with laws that ban or restrict pit bulls. These types of ordinances are called Breed Specific Legislation (BSL) and are a fast growing trend nationwide, with bans on pit bulls in major cities like Denver and Cincinnati. BSL most commonly targets pit bulls. As a result, more than 380 dogs were put down based on their breed this summer in Denver alone. El Dorado is another town that bans pit bulls. This law affects all pit bulls, not just strays. This means that anyone with a pit bull wanting to move to El Dorado must either get rid of the dog or move outside the city limits. Denver is facing the same problems, with some residents choosing to move rather than give up their pet. Brian Shepherd, mayor of El Dorado, says the city instated this ban in 1988 in response to a growing number of biting incidents by pit bulls in the city. He says pit bulls were specifically targeted because of their physical strength and temperament. Even though he agrees that the real problem is the owners who breed pit bulls specifically for fighting or as attack dogs, Shepherd says banning pit bulls is the only real way to protect against a possible fatal incident. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 4.7 million Americans are bitten by dogs every year, with only 12 of these bites resulting in fatality. And, while pit bulls and Rottweilers are responsible for close to 75 percent of these fatal bites, the CDC emphasizes that there is no measure to determine which breeds are more likely to kill. The American Veterinary Medical Association, the National Association for Animal Control and the American Kennel Club all agree. Pit bulls have a bad reputation. Just saying the word can evoke fear in some people who immediately recall a story about a pit bull killing a child somewhere. Jayplay.12.01.05 Courtney Brennaman, Shawnee sophomore, says she thinks pit bulls are more aggressive than most dogs. She attributes this belief to news stories about their violent behavior. "I've never heard of, like a Shetland, killing somebody," she says. Marcy Setter, director of marketing and public relations at Pit Bull Rescue Central, says the news media, along with general ignorance, is responsible for pit bulls' bad reputation. She says they have been unofficially chosen as the "current media monster." For this reason, stories about pit bull attacks make national news, while attacks by other breeds of dogs are rarely mentioned. Another problem, according to Jen- hifer Thomas, creator of www. stopbsl.com, is misinformation in the media. In 2001, Diane Whipple was mauled to death by two Presa Canarios in San Francisco. Thomas says initial news reports misidenti- fied the dogs as pit bulls. Targeted by the media 1970s - German Shepards 1980s - Doberman Pinschers 1990s - Rottweilers According to Marcy Setter, from Pit Bull Rescue Central "I still talk to people today who remember the dogs as pit bulls," Thomas says. son, legislation banning pit bulls does not ban a genetic breed, but dogs that simply look dangerous. Moreover, the pit bull breeds are not generally more aggressive toward humans than other dogs. According to the American Temperament Test Society, a not-for-profit organization that tests breeds for temperament, the pit bull breeds rank very high among other breeds for their friendly disposition. They even outrank Golden Retrievers. Lawrence has a dog ordinance that Contrary to media reports and dog ordinances, a pit bull is not a breed of dog. Thomas says a pit bull is a term that encompasses three breeds of dogs, the American Staffordshire Terrier, the American Pit Bull Terrier and the Staffordshire Bull Terrier. She adds that pit bulls come in a variety of shapes and sizes and look strikingly similar to a dozen different breeds of dogs. For this rea- seizes dogs only if it has attacked or threatened humans or other dogs. Sue Hack, Lawrence City Commissioner, says even though the commission discussed instating a BSL, research has shown 6 Regardless of a dog's genetic traits, Thomas says the dog's owner is ultimately responsible for the dog's behavior. She says any breed of dog can become dangerous through an owner's neglect or abuse. that BSL has serious flaws. "BSL deals with dangerous dogs in a completely backwards fashion; it holds dogs responsible for their owners' actions," says Thomas. Gadget notice of the week Massaging Hairbrush --- I never brush my hair, but if I did I'd use this feelgood grooming tool. The massaging styling hairbrush detangles your locks while stimulating your scalp with gentle vibrations. 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Jayhawk Bookstore home grown & owned ...at the top of the hill Voted Best Bookstore by KU students IBS MAXIM GIRL SEARCH FINALS DJ SCOTTIE MAC GIRLS 21+ NO COVER | 18 TO ENTER 2 DOLLAR ALMOST ANYTHING WWW.MAXIMONLINE.COM Coors LIGHT SATURDAY DEC. 3 MAXIM GIRL SEARCH FINALS DJ SCOTTIE MAC GIRLS 21+ | NO COVER | 18 TO ENTER 2 DOLLAR ALMOST ANYTHING THE GRANADA 1020 MASSACHUSETTS (Abe and Jake's is closed this Saturday, the Party is moving down the street) ABE&JAKES 6TH AND NEW HAMPSHIRE STOP DAY PARTY DJ SCOTTIE MAC 21 TO DRINK | 18 TO ENTER STOP DAY THURSDAY DEC. 8 Coors LIGHT ABE&JAKES 6TH AND NEW HAMPSHIRE STOP DAY PARTY DJ SCOTTIE MAC 21 TO DRINK | 18 TO ENTER STOP DAY THURSDAY DEC. 8 STOP DAY Confessions of a karaoke queen JANE SCHMIDT Duffy Wendy Casebier sings her heart out every week and she thinks you should too By Lindsey Ramsey, Jayplay writer Flashing red lights zoom across the makeshift stage. A motley crew of patrons sip beers at the bar, mildly interested in what is about to happen. Dressed all in black, Wendy Casebier, known to regulars as "Ducky," puts down her tray and takes a deep breath. She walks slowly to the DJ and makes her song selection. The TV with the words to her song is behind her but the crowd is in front, so it becomes a delicate balance between facing her audience and taking refuge in the words behind her. The music thumps out of the speakers and amidst one of the most eclectic audiences in town, she begins to wail "Let's Hear It For The Boys," from Footloose and the audience is enamored. The Topeka senior has won them over. Just another Monday at Duffy's Lounge, where karaoke rules the night. Ducky does Duffy's By day, Casebier already has a KU theatre degree and is working on a teaching degree. But by nightfall, she retreats to the Econo Lodge and to Duffy's Lounge, the oft-overlooked hotel bar. Complete with pool tables, TVs and a wooden bar. It's a little gem hidden off 6th Street. "Duffy's attracts all sorts of people. Since the bar is in a hotel we get anyone and everyone Karaoke Do's and Don'ts with, which is important to him because he doesn't want someone stiff. He wants someone who can have fun at work and, in turn, make the customers have fun, especially with Duffy's diverse crowd. "We have a wide age range, anywhere from 21 to 71. Sometimes we get old ladies out there dancing to hip-hop. The bar is just really laid back so we will try to do whatever a customer wants," Noble says. As for Casebier, karaoke is the one thing she will usually oblige the customers with. "I usually start busting it out when we are slow and the current guests want a good laugh. However, I end up surprising them a lot and sometimes myself," Casebier says. Do choose a song you know back ward and forwards here.The nice thing is that all of them can sit in the same room and enjoy," Casebier says. Do not choose a song that is too long (hello, Meatloaf) Do dance along to the song while singing; otherwise you will just look awkward Do not perform a dance you made up to the song in middle school Casebier began working at Duffy's six months ago but she wasn't always the go-to karaoke girl. She mostly works as a bartender but since her former job at Jackpot Saloon included singing karaoke, she couldn't resist the chance that Duffy's Monday nights provided. Steve Noble, manager and bartender at Duffy's, says Casebier is one of his best bartenders. He says she is friendly and fun to work Do choose a song that will make your friends laugh Do not choose a song that will alienate the entire audience with its inappropriateness or obscurity Duffy's affords Casebier a chance to brush up on her love of singing, which began with her high school choir. She started formal training during her undergraduate work and she now has four years of training with a vocal coach. She's also sung as a beer wench at the Kansas City Renaissance Festival. Casebier's friend, Lara Mann, Hays senior, says she first saw Casebier sing when they both auditioned for a Hashinger Hall production of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. "We all were out in the hall when she went in for her audition. When she started we all stopped talking and listened to her sing. She blew us all away" Mann says. Casebier says Duffy's diverse crowd often brings in customers of a different breed. One positive trait of the Duffy's clientele is that sometimes after customers hear her sing they will offer her money to sing more. She recalls one funny moment when a customer offered her $50 for a dance. She ultimately obliged just to get him off her back. ! ! ! ! ! !!!!!!!!!! 8 !!!!!!!!!!! Killing them with karaoke I am not a fan of the show. It is too loud and too crowded. I prefer to watch it at home. As a seasoned karaoke performer, Casebier says karaoke matters because people may be able to sing or perform and they didn't know it. On top of it, she says, if you are not scared to do it, others will laugh when you mess up but they laugh with you and not at you, because you're all in the same boat. "Everyone comes out feeling like they had a good time. Some people never get to have the spotlight in real life. Karaoke gives them the spotlight," Casebier says. She says first time karaoke singers should do a song that they know forwards and backwards. She also recommends that a few minutes before it's their turn they should take a shot of liquor. She says in no time they will be a karaoke pro without any "liquid courage." Just pick a song and give it a try Rob Drew, author of Karaoke Nights: An Ethnographic Rhapsody, began his love affair with karaoke after a rendition of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes' "If You Don't Know Me By Now." He says before karaoke, there weren't a lot of opportunities for public singing. A lot of singing rituals and practices faded out early in the 20th century, partly because of technologies like the phonograph. He says that it used to be that amateur choruses were abundant in the United States and most homes had a parlor piano, but by the times the Roaring 20s came along, most people were content to get their music from records and radio. So, Drew says, karaoke is unique in that it's brought back singing, using the very technologies that led to the decline of singing in the first place. For karaoke virgins, Drew says don't take yourself too seriously and don't think too much of yourself, no matter what your abilities. "In karaoke it's less important to be a great singer than to have the right attitude. Most karaoke bars have a very supportive atmosphere," Drew says. As for what makes a good karaoke song, Drew pleads that first-timers don't sing anything to long. "No 'Paradise City.' No Paradise by the Dashboard Light.' No paradise anything," Drew says. Casebier also has opinions on what makes a good karaoke song. She Aching to sing your heart out? Try these other Lawrence karaoke venues Henry T's Bar & Grill 3520 W. Sixth St.,(785)749-2999 Karaoke every other Saturday Quinton's Bar & Deli 615 Massachusetts St., (785) 842-6560, Karaoke one Monday a month, call for details Duffy's Lounge (inside the Econo Lodge) 2222 W. Sixth St.,(785) 842-7030, Karaoke every Monday or on request says it matters more on the delivery of the song than what song you choose. says it matters more on the delivery of the song than what song you choose. "For example, 'Again' was a successful one for me because I really could sing it the way Janet Jackson did. However, the song 'Strokin' I can't get to sound like the radio version, so I play with it by acting a little more goofy and getting into the song instead of worrying about perfection. People will listen to you sing if you just believe in how you are singing it," Casebier says. In other words a little confidence can lead the way to anyone's karaoke success. You just have to be willing to pick up the micronhone. You just have to be willing to pick up the microphone. !!!!!!! Barista of the week black stuff and says she enjoys serving coffee rather than drinking it. She prefers sipping on a cup of Z's fine selection of teas instead opting to preserve her beautiful voice rather than drinking a cup of Joe. Holly Wrensch Her specialty drink is a Rocky Raccoon Frappé. It consists of a blended double-shot of espresso and half and half combined with chocolate, caramel and hazelnut syrups over ice. Feeling the need for a little perk in your step? Stop by Z's Divine Espresso Downtown, 10 E. 9th St., and have friendly barista Holly Wrensch make you a drink. Wrensch has worked at Z's since last July and has since attracted quite a few caffeine-charged patrons. If you're feeling something warmer for the cold holiday season, try one of her warm egg nog chai lattés. Wrensch, from Marshfield, Wis., received her bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and then attained her master's degree from the University of Colorado. Wrensch recently received her doctorate in musical arts at KU as a classically trained vocalist. Ironically, she stays clear of the Rory Flynn Drink here POOL ROOM Since 1932 BEER - COCKTAILS - BILLIARDS 925 Iowa St. The Pool Room Though your dingy basement may seem like a rec room now that you added that secondhand ping-pong table, it's got nothing on The Pool Room, 925 Iowa St. Tucked discreetly behind The Merc, the bar is a drunk-gamer'sparadise, boasting arcade games, pinball, a dart board and two big-screen TVs. And, as the name implies, The Pool Room is chock-full of tables. The four professional- size tables go for an hourly rate of $6 and games on the two-dozen smaller tables are 50 cents each; on most nights all pool is free after midnight. Stop by on a Thursday night, grab some greasy food from the kitchen, and enjoy one of the best almost-the-weekend specials in Lawrence: $2 imports! - Dave Ruigh 12.01.05 Jayplay | G 9 On a warm afternoon Stephanie Cooke in front of a call Bible. She takes the church you next day. As the heat up, she'll -win's only protective sun - she isn't wear On a warm afternoon in September, Stephanie Cook sits at a picnic table in front of a cane shake, absorbed in her Bible. She takes notes in preparation for the church your class she'll teach the next day. As the afternoon continues to heat up, she'll use-apply sunscreen, her skin's only protection against the warm sun - she isn't wearing any clothes. In fact, no one at Lake Edun (appropriately, "nude" spelled backwards) wears clothes. Established in 1982, the 60-acre site southwest of Topeka is a refuge for naturists, a European term that means the same as nudists. "Naturism" is the preferred term of most nudist organizations because it's a little more discreet, says Nicky Hoffman Of The Naturist Society, a national association of naturist clubs across the country. Contrary to stereotypes, Stephanie and her husband Ernie, a mechanical contractors from Lenexa, don't look like aging hippies resembling Dharma's parents from Dharma and Greg. Outside of Lake Edun, the gray-haired, church-going couple is respectably dressed — like they could be your parents. In fact they are parents. The Coopers have eight children, aged 18 to 31. With all but one child out of the house, Ernie, president of the Lake Edun Foundation, enjoys living out his naturist lifestyle at home. He sleeps nude, wakes up to feed the cats and dog in the nude and only puts on clothes when it's time to leave for work. When he gets home, he showers and doesn't dress again. "I'd walk out to my mailbox nude and get the paper if I wasn't afraid the neighbors would call the police," Ernie says. The Coopers first visited Lake Edun in 2002 after Ernie learned about naturism on the Internet. Ernie says he was concerned about one of his son's problems with pornography and had been researching ways to help him when he came across the topic of naturism. He says the idea of nudity as healthy and positive struck him as odd. He continued to read about naturism and e-mailed several naturists across the country. One was Jim Cunningham from Newport, Vt., who soon became a good friend and a mentor to Ernie. Even with Cunningham's encouragement, Ernie was still a bit skeptical. "I finally asked him,'How do you deal with those naughty parts?'" Ernie says. "And he said, 'Who told you those parts were naughty?'" side nudist activities as a contrast to the rapid urbanization and industrialization of society. The pamphlet asserts that they Naturism has a long history. After all, the ancient Greeks are known to have competed in the nude during the first Olympics. In more recent times, according to a Naturist Society pamphlet, Germans during the early 1900s enjoyed out- They said it... Quotes about Naturism according to the International Naturist Society, www.clothesfree.com: "What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed?" — Michaelangelo Quoting the book of Genesis, "They were nude but they were not ashamed." Furthermore, because God created it, "The human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve its splendor and its beauty" — Pope John Paul II "Nudity is undignified and an error of taste." — Adolf Hitler believed being nude put them closer to nature. Lee Baxandall, founder of The Naturist Society, helped to develop naturism in the United States during the 1970s. However, the U.S. seems to have been slower at accepting nudity as a virtuous practice than Europe, where today nudity is not thought to be shameful or sinful. Sex and naturism Overcoming society's misconceptions about naturism is a challenge, Ernie Cooper says. Of the 75 to 100 members at Lake Edun, the median age is 54. Ernie attributes the absence of younger people to a lack of education and understanding about naturism. Myths and misconceptions give naturism a bad rap, but for some, nudity just looks natural By Leona Snyder, Joyplay writer Sai and I "KU herse again strive she h vado visit woul free s Ern ist ca "Sex mous show man that." Hot calls they a nular be thinks ing su ne w use centeu looks says. says. most to the specialization that they using nude rather to naxandall, the Natur- helped to tourism in states duri- Howev'eems to lower at aacity as a price than one today thought or sin- turism ooming concep- maturism e, Ernie members 4, Ernie r people standing Sarah Stacy, Germantown, Md., senior and member of the facebook.com group "KU Nudist Club," says she considers herself a naturist as a sort of rebellion against society's idea that women should strive for physical perfection. Although she has swum nude while visiting El Salvador, Stacy says she does not care to visit a nudist camp. "I would think that would attract perverts just trying to get a free show," she says. Ernie says there is a big myth that nudist camps involve sex or group orgies. "Sex and the naked body are not synonymous," Ernie says. "Ads and movies all show the sexual side of nudity. But as human beings, we're all a little deeper than that." Hoffman agrees with Ernie. "I get calls from radio shows all the time, and they can't believe we do the same thing at nude beaches that they do at regular beaches," she says. In fact, Hoffman thinks seeing someone in a skimpy bathing suit is more sexual than seeing someone who is nude. After all, she says, we use clothing to cover our flaws and accentuate our best parts. Almost no one looks better naked than clothed, Hoffman says. "There are no perfect tens," she says. Brad Redburn, professor of human sexuality and psychology at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, says it is possible for nudity to be nonsexual. "I think that some nudists truly are just into nature and it isn't a sexual thing," Redburn says. "However, I think there are nudists who do it for sexual reasons. I think there are people on both sides of the coin." But Lake Edun and other naturist groups have no tolerance for sexual activity in public. Sexual comments are frowned upon at Lake Edun and Ernie says anyone behaving inappropriately will be escorted out and have their name added to a "Do not admit" list. "There are going to be creeps no matter where you go in life, if they're in a coffee shop or at the beach," Hoffman says. encounter at a club or resort. Other rules of etiquette at Lake Edun help maintain its family-friendly image. Genital piercings are banned from Lake Edun. "What would a piercing be there for?" Stephanie Cooper asks. "It's there to draw attention to that area, to try to accentuate something." The myth associating nudity with sexuality can be harmful. Ernie remembers a young woman who tried out for one of Lake Edun's nude plays, only to have her boss threaten to fire her if she participated. As a result of such discrimination, naturists have an unspoken understanding not to "out" anyone they may Men new to naturism tend to fear becoming visibly aroused by all the nudity and causing embarrassment or insult, says Ernie. However, he says this rarely happens. Ernie says young men are usually too nervous to get erections. If someone does, he will be expected to excuse himself from the group or cover himself with a towel. Religious perspective A lifelong Christian, Ernie says he always bought into the idea that modest Some people actually see naturism as a spiritual practice, says Walter M. Green III, founder of the Maryland Area Naturist Association. "They see it as a connection to God and creation," he says. "When you take off your clothing, you feel like you're part of nature, part of creation." dress lead to modest behavior. He says he also sees a tendency, among conservative Christians, to associate sexual body parts with sexual behavior. "But it was never explained to me that there is a separation between what you are and what you do," Ernie says. George Franck, a 25-year-old self-employed naturist from Gladstone, Mo., believes the Bible does not condemn or condone a nude lifestyle. Franck, the public relations and membership officer of the Heartland Naturists, a Kansas City-based naturist group, describes himself and his family as "pretty religious." Citing John 21:7. Franck recounts the story of how Simon Peter, a fisherman, worked in the nude because his job was messy. Franck points out that in the biblical times, clothing was a luxury afforded only by the rich, and it was perfectly acceptable - and not at all sinful - for people like gardeners and fisherman to be nude. Family-friendly Obviously, most people in today's society do not accept nudism nor do they Continued on page 12 Naturists relax at Lake Edun, a naturist resort near Topeka. Kit Leffler/Jayplay photography 12.01.05 Jayplay --- Continued from page 11 incorporate it into their daily lives. When Ernie decided the naturist lifestyle was for him, he says he knew he had to tell his kids. With his children gathered in the living room one day, Ernie walked in naked and sat down. "I said, 'There's going to be some changes around here,'" says Ernie. The kids were surprised and a few of them say they still don't understand why their parents are naturists. "Some of the kids think I've gone off the deep end and some think I'm still in a mid-life crises," he says. Jamie, the Coopers' 24-year-old daughter, says she was initially shocked, but has since gotten used to the idea. Her parents invited her and her siblings to join them at Lake Edun and try the naturist lifestyle, but Jamie says she wasn't interested. "I'm not comfortable with doing things like that, partly because I've been raised that you always stay dressed unless you're in the shower or at the doctor's office," she says. Now that she has learned not to view nudity as sexual, Stephanie questions her past parenting approaches. "I wonder how much harm we did do the kids by enforcing the modesty thing," she says. If she could do it over, Stephanie says she would not insist that the bathroom door stay closed or place such an emphasis on privacy. Lake Edun, like many naturist resorts, is actually a family place, and children are welcome to attend with their parents. burn, psychology and human sexuality professor, agrees."I think naturism may even contribute to healthy attitudes toward one's body and sexuality in adulthood," he says. Nicky Hoffman from The Naturist Society points out research, including a 1988 study by R.J. Lewis and L.H. Janda and a 1979 study by M.D. Story, shows that children who have grown up in a naturist home are better adjusted and less likely to have problems with eating disorders or promiscuity as teens. Red- Even our founding fathers? A. G. George Franck and his wife Heather, 22, decided to raise their children, Austin, 5 and Brianna, 21 months, in the naturist lifestyle. The Francks attend the Heartland Naturists' monthly nude swims and visit Lake Edun whenever they can. George says he spent time with relatives in a rural area as a child, where nudity was accepted and nothing to be ashamed of. As a result, he says he thinks he is more secure about his appearance. In contrast, George says his brother and sister, who did not spend as much time in the rural area with the relatives, grew up with much different body images. "My brother and sister are both very worried about how they look, my sister to the point of thinking she needs to diet all the time, although she's very fit," George says. "Her confidence and self-image are based on how others view her, not how she views herself." At Lake Edun, clothing is optional for children until age 18. Hoffman says adolescents, even those raised in the naturist lifestyle, tend to lose interest or avoid participating while their bodies are changing. However, she says they typically come back to naturism when they have children of their own and want to raise them in that lifestyle. Body image and health Redburn acknowledges that while nudity may make some people feel inadequate about their bodies, it may also prevent it. "People who are comfortable being nudists seem to be more comfortable with sexuality in general," he says. - Benjamin Franklin took daily naked "air baths." While encouraging a positive body image is one reason the Francks have chosen to raise their children as naturists, George emphasizes the connection between body acceptance and a healthy lifestyle. While George admits he has a beer belly, he believes naturism aids - Presidents John Quincy Adams, Theodore Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson all enjoyed skinny dipping. - Source: www.clothesfree.com - President John Quincy Adams took a nude swim every morning in the Potomac River. Anne Royall became the first female journalist to interview a president when she followed Adams to the river and sat on his clothes until he agreed to an interview with her. self-acceptance of features such as large ears, excessive body hair and even skin color. "Accept what you can't change and work on the things you can, but don't obsess over it," he says. The Naturist Society actually offers workshops around the country about eating right and exercising, Hoffman says. "We believe that people should be healthy, but everybody's 'healthy' is different," she says. When George's wife, Heather first attended a nude swim hosted by the Heartland Naturists, she fell victim to a common misconception: naturists are all beautiful people with model-type bodies. "I was scared to death and about ready to cry," Heather, a curvy blonde, says of her first experience at a nude swim. "I thought that everyone was going to be thin and prettier. I wondered, why someone who is not very fit would go into a place completely nude and not feel ashamed of themselves?" But once Heather entered the pool area, she says she was surprised at how nice everyone was. Strangers introduced themselves and chatted with the couple. "They weren't staring at me or checking me out," says Heather. Once Heather finally realized that naturism wasn't what she thought, she says she started feeling better about herself. She noticed she had better self-esteem about her body and didn't worry as much about what other people thought of her. Stephanie Cooper learned this lesson as well. "My legs are like roadmaps, and not once has anyone said anything about my varicose veins," she says. In addition to the positive body image that comes with naturism, being nude just feels good. Hoffman says she's heard everything from the feeling of freedom to how nice it is not to get sand in your bathing suit. "Swimming with no clothes on just felt nice," says Heather Franck, referring to her first experience at the nude swim. Try it Along with the hesitance of society in the U.S. to see nudity as anything other than sinful, naturist clubs and resorts are still scarce in some areas. Nebraska doesn't have any, so naturists from Omaha and Lincoln make the drive to Lake Edun or Heartland Naturist events on a fairly regular basis. Both organizations also draw visitors from Iowa and Missouri. To attend Lake Edun, a "landed" naturist club, (meaning it actually has its own property) all prospective naturists need to do is just show up. Although Lake Edun is a membership-based club, unannounced visitors are welcome. But all visitors are asked to present identification for security purposes. New naturists may want to first attend Lake Edun on visitor weekends, with an optional clothing rule, until they decide to stay. Ernie says this is to prevent gawking, and also because clothed people tend to feel uncomfortable being the only ones not in the nude. The Heartland Naturists are a nonlanded organization, but the group holds several events throughout the year, including bowling, dinners, and a run/walk/jog, in addition to their monthly nude swims in Lenexa. George Franck says those who want to attend a Heartland Naturist event should send an e-mail to hnclub@kcsky.net. Heartland Cove at Smithville Lake in Smithville; Mo., is not an officially recognized naturist beach, but the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has so far tolerated its use as such, says George Franck. Other area naturist organizations include Prairie Haven, about 25 miles south of Topeka, and Shady Lane near Hutchinson. Kit Leffler/Jayplay photographer Naturists prefer their nomenclature over the term "nudists." They say the lifestyle has nothing to do with sexuality or perversion but rather it provides them with a better self-image. 2017 06 24 A warning, though: Green says some organizations that call themselves naturist or nudist clubs may be involved in drugs or sexual activities, which are not in alignment with naturism. A good bet would be to seek out a group affiliated either with The Naturist Society or the International Naturists Association, says Green. Before attending a naturist event, Stephanie Cooper recommends doing some research into the organization. Those new to naturism might want to find out if an organization is clothing-optional or clothes-free. Some groups are open only to couples and families, while others allow singles. And, Ernie acknowledges that naturism isn't for everyone. "I think there are people who have so many hang-ups that they just can't do it," he says. "Society has so deeply engrained that into us." If you do decide to visit a naturist organization, bring a towel. Hoffman says this is one of the most important rules of naturist etiquette - no one wants to sit on a lawn chair that your exposed genitals have touched. You may feel uncomfortable for the first five minutes until you realize no one is looking at you. NOW SHOWING Times May Change Daily Pride and Prejudice 4 20 7 00 Children 4 - 12 3 & up Adults Matinee (all show) Senior citizens Students-Wednesday WELCOME LIBERTY HA THE WILD HILLBILLY RI SAT., DEC. ALSO APPEARANCE MID-DAY RAMBLER 30p TICKETS LIB.MA Models: Edward Etts, Manhattan senior and Amy Levin, Prairie Village senior Kit Leffler/Jayplay photographer A first time for everything Bv. Chris Moore, Jayplay writer Back when Stephanie Bottoms, Omaha junior, "thought she was heterosexual," she went on a date with one of her guy friends. They went out for lunch. She had already eaten but he hadn't. "I was going for the company, not for the food" she says. She decided not to let him eat alone, so she got a salad. While waiting for the food, Bottoms took a toothpick from the table and stuck it in her mouth. "Take...that toothpick...out of your mouth," her date said rudely. When the date was over, he also criticized Bottoms for only getting a salad. There was no second date. "In short, he was a dick," Bottoms says. Criticizing your date is something you don't want to do, especially on the first date, which by nature can be a troubling experience. First dates can be scary and filled with perils, but with some help, you can make first dates work for you. By the book "If I feel that it's somebody I can have a connection with, I get nervous," says Bottoms. She says she gets that way because she has a lack of control and doesn't know how the other person feels. According to Dating for Dummies, by author and radio psychologist Joy Browne, asking for a first date is scarier than the actual first date. She says that you won't die if the person says no and that life will still go on, but it always helps the person to ask. "Remember that you're not looking for a cure for cancer," writes Browne. The first date is just the beginning When asking for a first date, Browne recommends asking in person is the best way. You can read body language and see whether the potential date looks pleased, terrified, revolting or delighted. She also recommends to give at least seven to 10 days' notice before the actual date. And don't ask for dates on Friday and Saturday nights. It's the equivalent of playing at Wimbledon without even having a lesson. Start off with a Wednesday Thursday night. People usually don't give things planned. Avoid Mondays the plague. "Everyone hates Mon." Browne writes. She also recom- doing something that doesn't in "high-ticket" people. That means long clear of doing anything with or educing your date to friends, family, kids or animals. With your.high-others around, it can feel like an ion. Drew Kreofsky, Minnesota freshman, says that the first date always feels like an interview. It's a way to get to know the person better and you can gauge whether or not you like him or her and to see if you have anything in common. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Dream date While the dream first date is hard to find, it can be achieved. Bottoms remembers her best first date well and says that she didn't even see it coming. Her date had her dress up fancily for a dinner date. When Bottoms went to her car, the date had a friend there dressed really nicely, ready to chauffer the two around all night. After a nice dinner, they had the "chauffer" take them to the Plaza and had dessert at McCormick & Schmicks. Bottoms says the amount of effort her date put forth was the most impressive thing. "She literally swept me off my feet." she says. The healthy first date is the first step to a healthy relationship. It allows you get basic knowledge about the person and attempt to form a connection. And hey, if things don't turn out well, you can always just ask someone else out. 12. 01.05 Jayplay 3 --- [Image] Censura V Hawk Come what may Mace May has had to deal with the death of his father and his best friend, but it's only made him stronger By Candice Rukes, Jayplay contributor Mace Davison May is not your ordinary 21 year-old college student. Named after his grandfather, Mace is as unique as his name. Growing up in Olathe, May never knew what his life would entail when he moved to Spring Hill his sophomore year in high school. His mother had envisioned a farm. house to board her horses and so May moved with his mother, father and sister to Spring Hill. Struggling financially and emotionally, May's parents decided to separate. May coped but says he found it difficult. During the separation, May's father was at the farmhouse standing in the kitchen on the fourth of July in 2004, and unexpectedly died of a heart attack. May was very close to his father and found his father's death devastating. But he knew he had to be strong for his mother and his sister. That Christmas Eve, May's "Life is too short, you never really know what is going to happen, there is so much I have to do before I'm gone," says May. These devastating events, among many others, opened May's eyes to pursue his dreams. From that day on, Jayplay 12.01.05 best friend died. He remembers it as a wake up call. "Life is too short you never really know what is going to happen there is so much I have to do before I'm gone." — Mace May May had always had dreams of driving sprint race cars and playing in a successful band, but thought that without the money, these opportunities were out of reach. But those thoughts left him after the deaths of his father and best friend. Pursuing his dreams, May drives his life would be busier than he could ever have imagined. race cars twice a week during the summer and works on them throughout the off season. He even has a partner in a motor building industry, Maycon Industries. He takes racing very seriously and even has to maintain a certain weight for his weight class in racing. May says has seen people hurt and even killed on the track, but knows it is his passion and that he does it despite the risks. "I love the adrenaline rush. It's all about instinct, you don't even have time to process what is happening," May says. 14 On top of his busy schedule with his business and racing, May plays in the band Censura. Censura has four members: Joe Vinduska (guitar), Chris Wood (bass), Joey Kirk (lead singer) and May (drummer). According to his band members, May has grown by leaps and bounds as a player using his digital effects pad and playing keyboards and drums simultaneously. They have traveled as far as Chicago, performing for small and large audiences. The band practices three times a week in the basement of May's townhouse. Although the current band members have only been together seven months, they consider each other family. Vinduska, band member, co-worker and May's friend says May is determined, eager and energetic. "He's not scared of anything, as much as I give him hell. I need him in my life," says Vinduska. When May is not racing or performing with Censura he is working full-time for United Van Lines moving company in Olathe, studying to keep up with his full-time student status, training his dog Wagner whom he adopted from an abused animal shelter and driving home to Spring Hill to help his mother and 13 year-old sister. May is a hard worker and busy most of the time, but when he has a free minute he says he devotes it to his family. In five years, May dreams of touring nationally with Censura. "It's my dream, but in reality I have no idea," he says. "I will work as hard as I have to, to make it big in whatever I do." Abby Babst, Wichita freshman and another of May's friends, says that he talks about his family a lot. "May's life has been pretty tough the past few years, his family means a lot to him." May's band, Censura, will be performing at the Granada on Friday. December 9th. --- NOYORK All photos by Candice Rukes From page 14 Top left: Mace May mourns the loss of his father Ed May. On July 4, 2004, while May was in Wichita racing his race car, his father collapsed of a heart attack. May often visits his father's grave in Spring Hill. Top right: The hands of Mace May, sore after two hours of band practice, show calluses from his hard work. Working since the age of 13, May spends most of his time working full time for a moving company in Kansas City, helping his mother on their farm and building race car motors. Bottom right: Performing his pre-show ritual surrounded by familiar faces, Mace May sculpts his hair into a mohawk. May says he carries out several rituals before a show. One of them is wearing his father's fraternity ring on a chain around his neck. Bottom left: Mace May praises his dog Wagner for performing several tricks that May taught him. B ZOOYORK ink flox All photos by Candice Rukes Upper Left: Mace May, percussionist for Censura multi-tasks on his drumset and his keyboard during band practice. Censura is the ninth band May has played in. The band practices three times a week. "We practice very seriously for upcoming shows," May says. Upper Right: Mace and his dog at home in Spring Hill. During May's precious free time, May makes a point to spend time at home with his mom and sisters. Along with May's family, Wagner is his life. He spends hours training him. At Left: Joe Vinduska, Chris Wood, Joey Kirk and Mace May are members of Censura, a local Lawrence rock band. The four members have been together for seven months and May considers them his second family. 12.01.05 Jayplay 15 Bitch moan SUSAN M. HUNTINGTON JESSICA JOHNSON With Brian Bratichak and Jessica Crowder Please send your questions to bitch@kansan.com I find that every time I get close to someone, I think that I'm falling for them. It doesn't matter if I'm already involved with someone or just getting out of a relationship. How can I distinguish infatuation with actually liking someone? — Riley, junior ? Brian: Here's what you need to do, Riley: grow up. It's simple. Remember when people would run around in third grade and say they were in love with this person or that person one day, a different person the next. You are still at that stage and you're twenty-something. You need to start distinguishing having a good time with someone from thinking you could spend your life with someone. Just because you feel comfortable around a girl doesn't mean you need to pursue a long-term relationship with her. If you can't get out of the mindset you're in now, you might as well go back to elementary school. Just remember, girls down there are much less experienced. Start out slowly. Jessica: Infatuation is based on lust, and lust is quick. Liking someone or potentially loving someone takes time. You have to see someone in several different lights before you can truly love them in all their glory. ? ? My boyfriend is obsessed with quickies and he wants them all the time in places where we could be caught. I want to try it, but I'm so nervous. How can we make a quickie work and still enjoy it? — Kaylee, sophomore Brian: Romantic music should only help the mood of your romantic evening, not set it. What you do before (movies, walking around, dinner, flowers, etc.) should be what sets the mood for the night. If you really want some ideas, try Boyz II Men's Legacy CD, Solomon Burke's Don't Give Up On Me or anything by one of the boys from the Ratpack: Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin or Frank Sinatra. If none of them work, stick with what you always do. Get naked and tell her what you want. I'm looking for some music that might help set the mood for a romantic evening with my girlfriend. What songs will help me get her into bed? — Ben, senior Jessica: So you're wantin' some babymakin' music? I'm fairly certain that Luther Vandross, (may he rest in peace) is the one to thank for many a man getting laid back in the day. Personally, I have to credit Marvin Gaye and Al Green as favorites who haven't failed me yet. Going along with Brian's recommendation for Boyz II Men, nothing is sexier than the bass voice serenading you in "I'll Make Love to You." Mmmm. Basically, I recommend classic, soulful R&B to do the trick. Jessica: Public quickies sound like oodles of fun, don't they? If your guy is dead-set on a publicized scene, you set up the situation. Seduce your boyfriend in the kitchen when you know that your roommates are out of town for a weekend. He doesn't have to know that, though. Play along. If he's a true exhibitionist, any sign of an audience will get him excited. When his roommates are home, pull him into the bathroom and lock the door behind you. Once again, play along as if his roommate may walk in at any moment. Use your imagination and good luck! Brian: While everyone loves the rush of possibly being caught, few people love to get caught. If you are too scared to be too public, but still want to dab in exhibitionism, try a park on a very dark night, a car in a parking lot or in the stacks of Watson library. That way you can still do your English homework while getting some at the same time. Top five things to set the mood 5. Take her out to dinner 4. Run a candle-lit bath 3. Sprinkle rose petals around the house 2. Play romantic music 1. Get liquored up - Meghan Miller M. JONATHAN MALONE A. LARRAIN SHELL B. ALFRED RAY C. MICHAEL BAYLE D. KYRIL ABBEY E. JULIE HAMILTON F. JOHN TURK G. PETER WEBSTER H. NATALIE WEBSTER I. SUSAN WEBSTER J. SARAH WEBSTER K. MARY WEBSTER L. JACK WEBSTER M. ALEX WEBSTER N. ALI WEBSTER It took a couple years for Jason Sigler and Meredith Winkelmann to recognize their love compatibility, but their friends knew it right from the start. Sigler, Leavenworth senior, and Winkelmann, St. Louis senior, both University of Kansas golfers, first met at athlete orientation their freshman year. Some common friends saw the potential Howwe met Couple: Meredith & Jason and tried to pair them up, but the two weren't up for it. It wasn't until Sigler and Winkelmann had a class together their junior year that they started hanging out. The two have been clubbin' happily together for a year and a half. - Katie Moyer Thursday $1.75 liters Since 1936 HARBOUR LIGHTS 1031 Massachusetts Thursday $1.75 liters Since 1936 MARBOUR LIGHTS 1031 Massachusetts Funds 4 Food Thursday, Dec. 1, 2005 at The Hawk Drawing at 10 p.m. • DVD Players • MP3 Players • Great Prizes Funds 4 Food Thursday, Dec. 1, 2005 at The Hawk Drawing at 10 p.m. • DVD Players • MP3 Players • Great Prizes uickies em all where night. 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If you would like to be a Wilco fan, Kicking Television isn't a bad place to start since it has songs from like five different albums plus the title track is a previously unreleased track. Truly Brothers)." You also get to hear some banter and comments from Jeff Tweedy between songs.The album features their best cuts from four nights of playing at the historic VicTheatre in Chicago. The album mostly features songs from their last two albums: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and A Ghost is Born. The band also managed to include a few gems from Summerteeth and Being There, like "Misunderstood," "Via Chicago" and "Shot in the Arm." I was slightly disappointed to see that they didn't include "I Can't Stand It," of which a pretty wicked live version can be found on a performance done on The Late Show with David Letterman. Otherwise, I thought they managed to include pretty much everything I was hoping to hear. The live recordings bring out some different colors and nuances in the songs that may have been polished over on their studio versions. MOVIES Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire PG-13, 150 minutes, Southwind Theatre ☆ ☆ ☆ 1/2 As a confessed Harry Potter fanatic, I looked upon the translation of my favorite Potter book into a movie with great anticipation. I knew this film would have to be different; J.K Rowling's story demands her characters finally grow up. The first two films were childish fluff. The third was an improvement, but director Alfonzo Curon threw too much away too carelessly. Now, there is finally a British director helming this unmistakably British tale Harry Potter THE PHANTOM OF OLDFIELD FIRE NEW YORK, 2007 ment even though he is too young to and the film is all the better for it. Harry, now returns to Hogwarts amid ominous times. Lord Voldemort's supporters are gaining strength and he is inexplicably entered into a dangerous international wizarding tourna- tough he is too young to compete. As if that wasn't enough, he is also faced with the daunting task of asking a girl out. During the tournament, Harry faces dragons, underwater creatures and a towering hedge maze where the hedges are alive. He also, ultimately, faces the death of one of his peers and the resurrection of his foe (played exquisitely by Ralph Fiennes). As the British would say, a brilliant year for Harry overall. Among the new faces are Brendan Gleeson as the crazed Mad-Eye Moody, the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher and Miranda Richardson as Rita Skeeter, the tabloid reporter who falsifies stories about Harry. There are also the students from the two other competing schools, the Bulgarian gentlemen of Durmstrang, led by Hermione's crush Viktor Krum and the French ladies of Beauxbatons, the frontrunner being Ron's crush, Fleur Delacour. Despite the new faces, the film still suffers under its source material. The book is too vivid and layered to offer up a smooth translation into a two-and-a-half-hour movie. The best parts seemed rushed and I found myself pleading the filmmakers to slow things down. But for a two-and-a-half-hour movie the film never feels tired. It fits this now dark and foreboding magical world snugly in to its place serving up plenty of laughs in between all the death and cunning deeds. Yes, this is definitely the best of the films so far but I will not give up hope that film five will learn to take its time. - Lindsey Ramsey Walk the Line PG-13, 140 minutes, Southwind Theatre ☆☆☆☆ A rhythmic and almost primal beat is heard in the opening shot of James Mangold's Walk the Line. This drumming comes from inside Folcom prison, where Cash sang one of his most successful live albums at the height of his career. It is an engaging first scene to an exhilarating film. Walk The Line,tells the life story of legendary singer/songwriter Johnny Cash from childhood to fame. We learn that Cash grew up poor in Arkansas, helped his family pick cotton and listened to the radio incessantly He also carried a heavy burden due to the loss of someone at an early age and an emotionally abusive and alcoholic father. Cash served in World War II and shortly after returning, married young and started a family. His rise to fame came slowly and left he and his family poor. After cutting a record, Cash joined a tour featuring rock n' roll legends in the making, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly and Elvis Presley. It is there that Cash meets the love of his life: June Carter, a singer/songwriter who began her career as a young girl. The scenes that follow are of the hardships and euphoria Cash faced during his rise to legendary status. His addiction to pills and alcohol is heavily documented, as is his lengthy wooing of June Carter. Cash is shown as a drug-addicted father who never sees his family, but also a lovesick and brilliant musician, all at Cash's request to filmmakers. The only true downfall of the film is its length, as too much time is spent on Cash's drug abuse.The film's success lies in the love story of Cash and June as two lost souls who find themselves in one another and through their music. Joaquin Phoenix is truly riveting as the legendary singer, in a layered and emotional part. Phoenix wonderfully captures Cash's charisma on stage. Reese Witherspoon gives the performance of her career as June Carter: a mature, wise and feisty mother of two (from a previous marriage), a loyal friend to Cash and a talented musician. She quietly loved Cash her entire life and was his best friend, guiding him through his turbulent career. Phoenix and Witherspoon both sing well and have a sizzling chemistry. In the end, Walk The Line is an enthralling, enjoyable and truthful love story with a damn good soundtrack. - Sarah Tucker 12. 01.05 Jayplay 17 --- reviews GAME Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi PS2 ☆ What in the world happened? What has happened to Dragon Ball Z? I thought this was going to be another good game in the Budokai. As always, you get to place yourself in the shoes of the greatest fighters ever to be seen in this highly popular anime game. But after playing only a few minutes of it, I quickly wanted to get out of them. The main things that I series, but all I have is disappointment. The game's three predecessors were fun to play. This one was something else — and not something good. The main things that I PlayStation 2 BRASCH JESSAR III have a problem with are the controls. Now you have to press extra buttons to fly and to launch special moves. In the first three games, it was so easy. You could launch your favorite moves such as the Kamehameha Wave and the Gallic Gun after a combo. You could even launch it by itself. In Budokai Tenkaichi, you have to hold down a shoulder button, press on a direction on the D-Pad and then hit the Ki blast button. That's just too much work for a game like this. The game reminds me of the old Dragon Ball Z Legends game. However. this one is in 3-D and you don't have three fighters fighting simultaneously on the same screen. The lock-on feature for Budokai Tenkaichi is another problem. Losing sight of your opponent in any game is always a bad thing. Why is it there? With things like that, it makes it seem less like a fighting game. I will say that the graphics for this game are perhaps the best so far in the series. It actually shows the damage your character sustains, with hunching over, bleeding and clothes ripping. That looked very well done. Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi is not a game I would recommend for a fan of the first three games. I didn't even want to try and make it past the Saiyan Saga. I couldn't stand it. - Chris Moore GAME Call of Duty 2 X-Box 360 ☆☆☆☆ Call of Duty 2, a direct port of the PC game, provides one of the best firstperson experiences available on any console. With its intense single player experience and its plethora of multiplayer modes, it serves as a great demonstration of what the X-Box 360 is capable. The game's single player mode takes place over the course of three campaigns featuring the Russians, the British and the Americans respectively. Each puts you in the role of a different soldier on the front lines and gives you a wide CALL OF DUTY 2 BIG RAND ONE variety of mission objectives in several historical battles including Stalingrad and the D-Day invasion. Combat in the game reaches a new level of intense. Players will barely have a second to rest, with waves upon waves of enemies flanking them and driving them out of cover using their advanced AI (artificial intelligence), which is admittedly pretty smart. The game presents all of this chaos with some of the prettiest graphics ever seen. Everything looks great, with detailed character models, huge environments and a fast frame rate. Even when the fighting is at its most chaotic, the game runs without a hiccup. Players with the right setup will enjoy the game even more. On a high-definition television and with 5.1 surround sound, the game experience is about as close to the front lines as most gamers will ever care to be. Even without an expensive setup, Call of Duty 2 is definitely worth checking out for anyone with an X-Box 360 and stands as arguably the best launch title for the system. Andrew Campbell 7 Randall Zwarté band AND THEIR HIT SONG “THE STURGIS ANTHEM” SAT, DECEMBER 3RD! 9:30PM, $10 COVER, 21+SHOW SLOW RIDE ROADHOUSE Fri., Dec. 2 Shawn Ward & Straight Shot 9:30 pm, No Cover 1350 N. 3rd Street, North Lawrence, KS • 785-749-2727 EXOTIC THAI CURRIES FRESH NOODLE DISHES THAI BBQ VEGETARIAN ITEMS FULL BAR | DAILY DRINK SPECIALS FREE DELIVERY FOR ORDERS OVER $20 THAI HOUSE 728 MASSACHUSETTS | 312-9991 DIELE KAUFENREST speak Bailin' out a bud How bailing a friend out of jail made for a stronger relationship and a great story Every once in a while, there are times when friendship is truly tested, a time when you have to rely on your buddies for help. During these times, friends really put the really put their asses on the line for each other. One such situation involved a common element found among hard times; drunkenness. And one particular morning this semester was no exception. I woke that morning at 9 a.m. to find my cell phone blinking, which meant I had a new message. As I listened, I heard a familiar voice break the news that he had been arrested and needed to be bailed out of jail. B Rory Flynn Jayplay writer When I arrived at the Douglas County Jail around 10:30 a.m., I found the large double doors within a small foyer locked. As I looked around the foyer, I couldn't figure out any alternative entrances to the building. I had never visited the Douglas County Jail and soon I became frustrated. Who would have thought it would have been so difficult to get into jail? "Yo Rory, come pick me up, man. Yo, you gotta pick me up man, I'm in jail," my friend said in a scratchy hung-over voice. After a few calls to his room-mates and only hearing the sound of a goofy answering machine messages, I realized I was going solo on this one. I decided to walk around to the rear of the jail in search of another entry. With no luck I came back to the front of the building, once again met with the great double doors at the front of the hard, steely building. Facing the seemingly impenetrable doors, I imagined a room full of gluttonous guards scarfing down donuts and laughing hysterically from a surveillance room inside the jail at my weak attempt to rescue my friend. Then I looked up at the ceiling and noticed a small button. There was no sign reading, "press button for admittance" or "button overhead" or "hey, look up stupid!" So I was hesitant at first to press the steel button for fear that I too would end up behind bars for violating some crazy no-button-pressing law that I was somehow ignorant of. But after realizing I was being ridiculous, I thought "What the hell?" and pressed the inconspicuous button. "What do you need?" said a seemingly annoyed voice coming from a speaker in the wall. Feeling a bit like Dorothy entering the gates of Oz, I was then given entry into the jail and led down a long hall to another locked door where I pressed another button to enter through the second door. That was when I found myself in a room like you see on TV or in the movies, where you sit in front of the prisoner and look at him through a thick glass window and have to talk through a small screen. As I faced my detained friend, the first question I asked him was what the hell happened. As he finished off a tiny box of 2 percent milk and stuffed his mouth with a piece of chocolate cake that looked less appetizing than one pulled from an easy-bake oven, he told me the story. Following some heavy drinking over the course of an entire day (in recognition of the home-opener football game the day before), he realized he was going to be late for work. So being the responsible lad he is, he knew being late was not an option. His drunken solution: bike downtown to work as quickly as possible. As he swerved along on his bicycle, a couple of police officers took notice of his unique, inebriated interpretation of the fastest way from point A to point B. And just when he thought he would make it work on time at 9 p.m., the officers pulled him over, or perhaps I should say walked him over considering they were merely on foot. They then rhetorically asked him if he had been drinking, for it was quite obvious that he was as drunk as a skunk. And the officers then asked him if he knew that it was unlawful to drink and bike and proceeded to run his information. That was when matters went from bad to worse. Upon checking his record, the officers found a warrant for his arrest from a past public disturbance ticket. "Don't ask," he muttered. Next thing he knew, he was in the slammer. Illustration by Greg Griesenauer While being booked, he actually requested a cell so he could pass out instead of contacting his friends to bail him out that night. It seems that in his state of intoxication he might as well have been at the Ritz Carlton hotel. When he woke up and sobered up the next morning, I apparently was the first person he thought of. I was also the only phone number he could remember without his cell phone directory. How sweet, I felt so flattered. As I sat face to face with my friend, we decided that contacting a bail-bondsman was the next step in the process toward his freedom. So as if we were breaking from a football team huddle, we slapped each other a high-five (through three inches of prison glass). and I headed back down the hall to make the call.The list of bail bondsmen, was conveniently attached to the wall next to the phone. Looking at the list, I realized my knowledge of bail bondsmen was equivalent to that of rocket science, I knew nothing.I decided one was as good as any and started at the top of the list:A-1 Bonds. I watched the awkward interaction between my friend and the bondsmen. After the two finished chatting, the bondsmen finished their conversation with, "Well, I hope to never see you again." As I looked at my friend's face I could tell the feeling was mutual as he said, "Let's get the hell outta here!" As I drove my friend home, I realized how good it felt to help out a friend in a bad situation. We're still great friends and laugh hard at the message I still have saved in my cell phone of his desperate, hung-over message asking to be bailed out of jail. Sometimes tests of friendship really can strengthen a relationship. Perhaps part of the reason I chose to help him was knowing that he owed my ass big time. But more so, the look of gratitude on his nauseous face was worth the while. Sometimes it takes a bad situation to really know who your true friends are. When the time comes I know I can count on him for the same help. When the bondsmen arrived he took down my information because I had the privilege of co-signing for my jailbird friend. This meant I was liable if he missed his court date and I would owe the bondsmen $500. Lucky me. But let's hope that will never happen. (through three inches of prison glass). 12. 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Nevada's Nick Fazekas scored a career-high 35 points in the game.FULL COVERAGE PAGE 10A KANSAS THE STUDENT VOICE SINCE 1904 THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2. 2005 VOL.116 ISSUE 72 WWW.KANSAN.COM BELIEFS Controversial class canceled Additional e-mails further offend public BY FRANK TANKARD 'tankard@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITER Paul Mirecki's "Special Topics in Religion: Intelligent Design and Creationism" class will not be taught next semester, University of Kansas officials announced Thursday. Mirecki, chairman of the department of religious studies, said in a statement that he withdrew the course because of public controversy about e-mails he had posted on a yahoo.com list server since 2003. The list server was a discussion board for the Society of Open-Minded Atheists and Agnostics, the 121-person student group for which Mirecki serves as faculty adviser. "My concern is that students with a serious interest in this important subject matter would not be well-served by the learning environment my e-mails and the public distribution of them have created," he said in the statement. "It would not be fair to the students." The class made national news when a Nov. 19 e-mail Mirecki wrote was disseminated to politicians and news organizations in which he referred to religious fundamentalists as "fundies" and said his class would serve as "a nice slap in their big fat face." Mirecki Mirecki, chairman of the department of Older e-mails came to light when National Review, a conservative political magazine, published excerpts from Mirecki's past e-mails on Wednesday. National Review printed one e-mail excerpt that was Mirecki's detailed description of starting rengious studies, said in a statement that he withdrew the course because of public controversy about e-mails he posted on a yahoo. com list server. to vomit after swallowing the Eucharist at a Catholic church service as a child because of the idea that he had swallowed the flesh of Jesus. ChancellorRobertHemenway issued a statement in which he said Mirecki made the right decision in withdrawing the course and called Mirecki's e-mail comments "repugnant and vile." "He has a right to free speech, but he has to realize the revelation of his past e-mails hasainted the environment for his course," he said. "He insulted both our students and the University's public, and he misrepresented beliefs of KU's faculty and staff." Hemenway said the subject matter of Mirecki's class had no bearing on the withdrawal of the course. SEE CLASS ON PAGE 4A Faculty Senate defends intent of the course Prof. Paul Mirecki withdrew his "Special Topics in Religion: Intelligent Design and Creationism" class from the spring class schedule on Thursday in light of controversy about his motives for teaching the class. In response, the University of Kansas Faculty Council unanimously passed the following resolution Thursday evening: "The University of Kansas Faculty Council reaffirms that academic freedom, including the right to offer courses that examine controversial subjects, is essential to the mission of the University: to educate students and to engage in scholarly inquiry. Open inquiry for all citizens is at the heart of a democracy. Furthermore, the University of Kansas Faculty Council acknowledges that the academic freedom enjoyed by the faculty also imposes special obligations. As stated in our Faculty Handbook, we recognize among those obligates these obligations that The public may judge us as scholars and educational officers, our profession, and our institution by our public utterances, and *We have a responsibility to be accurate, to exercise appropriate restraint, and to show respect for the opinions of others." Frank Tankard STUDENT FINANCES HOOKED Credit cards often lure students into debt By Aly Barland abarland@kansan.com Kansan staff writer 714-2600 0004 VISA Photo illustration by Ginny Weatherman the credit card company keeps calling Meghan Veatch. Her credit limit is $1,700 and her Visa card is m out. Th company calls her two or three times a day to try to collect payments, but the interest keeps accumulating. "I've gotten to the point where I recognize the phone numbers and I just don't answer it," Veatch said. When the hard drive on her computer crashed and she had to buy a new one, she was broke and couldn't use her maxed-out card, so she opened up a Dell account and charged the new hard drive to that. Now she can't pay that bill either. Veatch, Wichita junior, said she was unemployed for a month this summer after quitting her job, and her parents were unable to support her financially. Veatch's credit card debt and resulting financial predicament are all too common on college campuses. According to a 2004 study by Nellie Mae, a student loan agency, undergraduates carry an average outstanding credit card balance of $2,169. The study showed that 9 percent of undergraduates are more than $3,000 in credit card debt. Problems begin when credit card companies target college students who have little experience with fiscal responsibility and are away from home for the first time. Their debts spiral out of control because late fees and small minimum monthly payments keep students repaying their debt over a long period of time at interest rates that can be as high as 30 percent. Robert Baker, counselor at Consumer Credit Counseling Services, 2518 Ridge Court, said he saw a lot of KU students in serious debt and tried to show them how credit card debt mounts easily. IN DEBT The majority of college students possess credit cards but do not pay them off each month. 65 percent of college students carry credit card debt. ♦ 58 percent never pay balances in full or do so less than half of the time. 50 percent charge their cards to the limit some or most of the time. Source: creditcardsmagazine.com For example, he said a student who charged $1,000 for a spring break trip, always paid the 2 percent monthly minimum ($20), never missed a payment and never charged anything else would need 15 years to pay it off. The student would end up repaying $2,329 instead of $1,000 because of additional interest at the rate of 16 percent. The average interest rate is 17 percent for credit cards, but some retail store cards are higher about 21 percent. When there are significant late fees, credit card vendors can place users in a penalty fee category with interest rates as high as 30 percent. Baker said. Students carry cards with higher interest rates because they don't have established credit yet. SEE HOOKED ON PAGE 2A ENTERTAINMENT Vespers brings holiday spirit BY MALINDA OSBORNE mosborne@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITER CONCERT INFORMATION Dan Forrest was proud of "Never a Brighter Star," the song he composed that was published this spring. So when he met with choir director John Paul Johnson this summer, he wanted to offer the song for Holiday Vespers this year. But the Greenville, S.C., graduate student didn't have to try hard to persuade Johnson. "One of the first things he said was that he had found Vespers Holiday Concert Sunday, Dec. 4, 2005 ◆ Performances will be held at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. ◆ Tickets are $12.50 for general admission and $10 for students and senior citizens. For ticket information, call the Lied Center Box Office at (785) 864-2787 or the KU department of music and dance at (785) 864-3436. my song and wanted to use it for Vespers," Forrest said. "Here I was coming to pitch it, and he already had the same idea." Source: Department of Music and Dance Holiday Vespers is the KU music and dance department's annual end-of-the-year concert. This is the 81st consecutive year that the event will ring in the holiday season, making it one of the nation's longest-running holiday concerts at a college or university. Besides men's basketball and football events, this is the most-attended event at the University of Kansas. Robert Douglas Helvering, Omaha, Neb., graduate student, said he had heard the 2:30 show was virtually sold out, and the 7:30 show had 90 percent of the tickets sold already. Each show, which will be performed Sunday, can seat 2,000 people. Helvering has two pieces that will be performed, and he will be singing in the concert choir. ROCK CLUB LIFE LOCK SEE VESPER ON PAGE 4A Lauren Marshall, left, Salina senior, and Sara Koven, right, Overland Park senior, prepare Monday evening at Murphy Hall for the upcoming Vespers Holiday concert. The show will be performed Sunday at the Lied Center. Kim Andrews/KANSAN Today's weather 38 22 Partly cloudy —Sarah Jones, KUJH-T Saturday 34 20 CHANCE OF RAIN/SNOW Sunday 35 18 MOSTLY CLOUDY 3 Saturday 34 20 CHANCE OF RAIN/SNOW Texas won't look past Colorado on Saturday Colorado looks to repeat its 2001 Big 12 title upset against Texas this Saturday when the two teams meet at Reliant Stadium in Houston. PAGE 10A You win some, you lose some Business students experience the ups and downs of investing in the stock market as they invest in international companies with money given to them through the University. PAGE 4A AIRLINE First-round preparation The Kansas volleyball team is gearing up to play UCLA tonight in Los Angeles.The Jayhawks reached this match after receiving a suprising bid to the NCAA Volleyball Tournament. PAGE 10A Index Comics... 6A Classifieds... 7A Crossword... 6A Horoscopes... 6A Opinion... 5A Sports... 10A J All contents, unless stated otherwise, © 2005 The University Daily Kansan 速 4 2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN STUDENT FINANCES FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2. 2005 Source: Nellie Mae Average Student Credit Card debt $3,000 $2,500 $2,000 $1,500 1998 2000 2001 2004 Year The average amount of credit card debt has risen $290 from $1,879 in 1998 to $2,169 in 2004, but this is still a $579 decrease from the 2000 high of $2,748. From 2000 to 2004, the overall number of students carrying cards with balances over $1,000 declined, lowering the average amount of credit card debt. Jared Soares/KANSAN Joshua Bickel/KANSAN 15 College students are inundated with credit card offers, which makes it easy for them to acquire cards and accumulate debt. Older students are more likely to carry credit cards than freshmen and typically rack up more debt. CLASS COMPARISON 91 percent of final-year students have a credit card. Only 42 percent of Hooked freshman do ♦ 56 percent of final-year students carry four or more cards. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A ♦ Final-year students carry an average balance of $2,864, while freshmen carry an average balance of $1,585. Only 15 percent of freshmen do. Source: Nellie Mae The interest rate for first-time borrowers is about 20 percent. Penalty fees are a problem for many students. Baker said that 50 percent of all profits that credit card companies make off students were for late fees. More than half of credit card companies charge $39 for a late payment. It's easy to miss the notification that one has a late fee because it's on a different part of the bill, Baker said. Credit card companies make contracts more difficult than they should. Baker said about the small print. "You get the idea they don't want you to read it," he said. Veatch said she didn't even read the terms for her credit card contract and didn't know the interest rate that she was being charged. "I don't understand them at all so that's why I don't look at them. I just thought you charge it and you pay it back and that's all there is to it," she said. Veatch said she wasn't that worried about her debt at first, but now she's starting to feel the pressure. She can't go out with friends because she has no money, so it has affected her social life. help debtors pay off their debts sooner, provided they have the money for the higher monthly payment. The constant calls from the credit card company — up to 11 a day — serve as constant reminders that she owes money. Government intervention Students want to live the same lifestyle they lived before coming to college, Baker said. Once they begin college, many students are independent financially but continue to live as if they still have support from their parents. Students often don't realize that the money they are making must now go toward rent or food rather than entertainment and other discretionary spending. "The only way you can speed up paying off your card is making a higher payment." Baker said. "If you can pay the balance quicker you can pay less interest." Though the higher minimum payments were installed to help debtors pay off the debt in less time, the increase has not necessarily helped To help debtors, the government has required credit card companies to raise the minimum payments from 2 to 3 percent per month to 4 to 6 percent. This higher minimum payment will students because they have to come up with more money each month. Why so much spending? Students want to live the same lifestyle they lived before coming to college, Baker said. Once they begin college, many students are independent financially but continue to live as if they still have support from their parents. Students often don't realize that the money they are making must now go toward rent or food rather than entertainment and other discretionary spending. "Try not to live on a champagne budget if you're a poor student, and I know that's more easily said than done," Baker said. Instead of altering their lifestyles, Baker said many students began charging purchases to credit cards. Social situations made it difficult for Veatch to refrain from spending money. She wanted to eat out with friends, go shopping and hit the bars. "In social situations is when I'm worst because I don't resist very much," Veatch said. Students can use credit cards almost anywhere and for almost anything. Fast food companies like McDonald's and Sonic now accept Put it on the card plastic. Gas is a common credit card purchase and some students even use cards to pay for tuition. Credit cards are versatile and convenient, but that convenience is a double-edged sword. Credit card usage has other benefits besides convenience. Cards take up less space than cash and checkbooks. Having a credit card can encourage students to behave responsibly and be independent financially, provided they monitor the use of their cards closely and use them only when necessary. That was Veatch's initial plan, but the convenience of credit purchases led her off-track. Veatch first got her card three years ago, but had it only for emergencies. She got in a car wreck and used the card to pay her ticket. After that, she started using the card for other purchases and has done so for the past couple of years. Last spring, Veatch charged a $500 digital camera and a $200 iPod. She said she spent money on a number of smaller things as well, including a trip to a Wichita mall where she spent $50. She had planned to pay When Veatch quit her job with the Kansas Tumpike Authority in June, she was left without an income and had to use her card for every purchase. these purchases off with her tax refund but ended up using that for something else. While unemployed, she charged all daily living expenses like groceries, phone bills and gas, which added up quickly. Ironically, Veatch now has a job at Pearson Government Solutions, a call center that advises students about loans and financial aid, and said she would make payments as soon as she could afford to. Elizabeth Ault, Topeka senior, found herself in a situation similar to Veatch's. Ault first got her Visa credit card to use abroad in Spain when she was 16. "Everything was much more expensive there," Ault said. It didn't become a problem for her until she entered college. When she went back to Spain to study abroad for the 2004-2005 school year, Ault ran up her credit card debt to about $3,000. She spent money on food, clothes and travel. Ault said students were in a particularly dangerous situation when it came to credit card use because they were not adequately prepared and they do not consider the consequences of spending. "We're at a point in our lives where we just want to go out and have fun, and we don't want to worry about things." Ault said. When college students charge food and drinks they can be disappointed down the road when they have nothing to show for their purchases, Baker said. All they are left with is the bill. Students are easy targets for credit card companies because many universities allow solicitation on campus. It's the first time away from home, and students are for the most part financially inexperienced when it comes to using credit cards. Cards on campus A U.S. Public Interest Research Group study found that students who obtain credit cards from companies soliciting on campus have higher unpaid balances than others. According to PIRG, the aggressive marketing, combined with students' lack of financial experience and education, often leads to serious debt. In the survey of undergraduates by Nellie Mae, 56 percent of those with credit cards obtained them at age 18 and reported direct mail solicitation as the primary way of selecting the credit card company. Nearly 300 colleges and universities have banned credit card solicitation on their campuses. The University of Kansas still allows it but does not specifically contract with any company, according to Todd Cohen, associate director of University Relations. In 2002, Student Senate petitioned to prohibit credit card solicitation on University property, citing credit cards as a major factor in student debt and arguing that credit card vendors had no part in the university's academic mission. CONTINUED ON PAGE 3A Tell us your news Contact Austin Caster, Jonathan Kealing Anlyle Browne, Tey Beaver or Nate Karlin at 864-4810 or editor@kansan.com. Kansas newsroom 111 Stuart-Film Hall 1435 Jayhawk Blvd. 7207 W 20th St. (785) 864-4810 MEDIA PARTNERS ET CETERA NEWS KUJH For more news, turn to KUJH- TV on Sunflower Cablevision Channel 31 in Lawrence. The student produced news aits at 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., 9:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. every Monday through Friday. Also, check out KUJH online at tvku.edu. 07 KJHK is the student voice in radio. Each there rehearses nine mini-sports, talks and other content students, by students by students. Whether it's rock 'n' roll or gymnasium, sports or special events, KIKH 90.7 is for you. 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STUDENT SENATE General admission tickets are on sale at the KU ticket office, University Theater, Re61-1982, and auditor center 26A ARTS, and online lecture.com, public $10, all students $5, senior citizens and KU faculty and staff $9, both VISA and Mastercard are accepted for phone and online orders. This production is partially funded by the KU Student Senate Activity Lee. funding is also provided by the Kansas Arts Commission, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a national agency. Printed by #21 CONTI FR pus dent from accor mero Ir Shu curr card on fore ing ter. also on the linee Rege The give in so 2 FRIDAY. DECEMBER 2. 2005 STUDENT FINANCES THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 3A People deep in debt often receive multiple calls from credit card companies each day and become reluctant to answer the phone. Ginny Weatherman/ KANSAN DEBT OVER TIME Though numbers have dropped since 2001, many students still have their debt, Legal Send Students take ent appr Students with credit cards 1998 2000 2001 2004 Percentage of students with credit cards 67% 78% 83% 76% Average number of credit cards per student 3.5 3.0 4.25 4.09 Percentage of students with four or more cards 27% 32% 47% 43% Source: Nellie Mae CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4A In response, Provost David Shulenburger recommended the current policy stating that credit card solicitation is not allowed on campus during the week before and the two weeks following the first day of each semester. Credit card providers must also give students information on responsible credit card use. The University's policy meets the minimum requirements outlined by the Kansas Board of Regents. Vendors can appear on campus only if sponsored by a student organization. Students from the sponsor group must accompany any outside commercial entity at all times on campus. The company is required to give back to the student group in some way, often monetarily. Ruben Perez, director of Student Involvement and Leadership Center, said that in the year and a half that he had been director no credit card companies had come to the campus. The only time a credit card company had shown interest was during the period that the University bans solicitation, so it has not been an issue while he has been director, Perez said. Students also get a lot of direct solicitation by mail. Diana Robertson, associate director of student housing, said the University had no control over mail delivered to on-campus housing. Although the University doesn't give out student addresses to commercial entities, Assistant to the provost Jeannette Johnson said companies could use student directories as a way to find students' mailing Knowledge is power addresses. Jennifer Cook, branch manager of Commerce Bank in the Kansas Union, said that student credit card debt was becoming a big problem. To help students avoid that debt, her bank conducts a seminar called Banking 101. "We go over how you can choose them; some of the things you should ask about them," Cook said. Cook said the seminar was intended to educate students about banking and credit card use. Students will have enough debt coming out of college, and they don't need the additional debt incurred from irresponsible credit card usage, Cook said. Taking its toll Credit card debt is not the only kind of financial stress that students face. They must also worry about student loans and daily living expenses, said Pam Botts, associate director of Counseling and Psychological Services. "They "They use credit cards to try to meet their everyday needs," Botts said. "That quickly adds up and then it becomes a circular problem as those credit card debts climb." Credit cards provide the illusion that it's easy to buy things without thinking ahead about the consequences of spending. Botts said. "What students don't realize is how quickly that adds up and how hard it is to pay off," she said. Jo Hardesty, director and managing attorney for Legal Services for Students, said she counseled students who were unable to keep up with paying bills or handle the minimum CAPS counsels students for whom credit card debt is a tremendous cause of stress, she said. They've become buried in credit card debt and then don't have the resources to get themselves out. Where to turn payments. Hardesty said students charged daily expenses, like eating out with friends, instead of reserving the card for emergencies. Using a credit card makes it difficult to monitor how much money is being spent and how quickly the debt adds up. Students are more vulnerable because it seems like free money and they are just starting to learn about handling their own finances, she said. "It's kind of out of sight, out of mind," she said. "Partly the problem stems from the fact that they've never done it before." Hardestv said. Hardesty said she thought it was better for students to seek out credit card companies than for companies to seek out students. Getting back control 10 help students deal with They try to negotiate with creditors to lower interest rates or close the account entirely. Sometimes they assess whether bankruptcy is an option. "What we try to do is make a real assessment, show them what options there are and assist them in working with the creditors." Hardest said. Students in trouble can turn to financial counselors like Baker and Hardesty, but others like Ault rely on parents for assistance. Ault said that she was lucky to have her parents help her pay off the debt she accumulated. "Next time they said they won't bail me out." Ault said. Veatch had some words of wisdom for other students with credit cards. "My parents always taught me that you don't want to charge anything unless you know you can pay it off immediately," she said. "Don't spend money you don't have." - Edited by Erin Wisdom and Jayme Wiley SYSTEM OF A DOWN HYPNOTIZE PART TWO OF THE TWO ALBUM SET MEZMERIZE /HYPNOTIZE PARENTAL ADVISION PLEASE READ COPYRIGHTS AND AUDIO DESIGNER'S AGREEMENTS BEFORE PURCHASING THIS ALBUM. IN STORES NOVEMBER 22 HYPNOTIZE ALSO AVAILABLE ON DUALDISC WITH EXCLUSIVE BEHIND-THE-SCENES FOOTAGE OF THE MAKING OF BOTH ALBUMS PRODUCED BY RICK RUBIN AND DARON MALAKIAN MIXED BY ANDY WALLACE WWW.BYSTEMOFADOWN.COM PART ONE, MEZMERIZE ALBUM IN STORES NOW COLUMNWAY AND REL. 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Adapted from the 1970s play by the same name, the movie features Gary Oldman and Tim Roth, both famous Indie stars in their own rights, as the lead characters: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Based on two minor characters in William Shakespeare's "Hamlet," the plot focuses on a different view point of the now famous story, offering up a bizarre and disjointed, yet thoroughly hilarious movie. Deigned as "theater of the bizarre," the movie follows in the footsteps of the play with flavors of "Waiting for Godot," the two main characters expounding on such But students should take breaks, if only to avoid chucking a couple hundred dollars worth of books out the window. For those looking for a break, but still wanting to feel as if they're studying, there is a solution: independent films. What better way to relax, yet still feel like you are working your mind in some way other than staring at the ingredients to a bag of chips? One film of note is Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Gullidenstern are Dead," the 1990 film now on DVD. ideas as the decisions of fate, why they are what they are and why nobody gets their names right. The movie makes perfect "non-sense." Long rambling monologues on the part of Guildenstern are immediately shot down in a poof of illogic, offering comedic relief throughout a play that is always one step away from being a tragedy. With scenes of the classic Shakespeare play throughout, those who enjoy the Bard, who have a passing understanding of the play, or who were ever forced to read it in high school English class will get an extra kick out of "inside jokes" within the movie. But the movie can still be enjoyed without a background in Hamlet. Richard Dreyfuss rounds out the cast as The Player, also a minor character from within Shakespeare's play. The only character who seems to have a full grasp on what is happening around him, The Player offers the stark reality to the unreal fantasy that the two main characters seem to live in. — Edited by Erick R. Schmidt This movie is masterfully adapted by the playwright to the screenplay. Although the beginning of the movie starts out slow, it eventually picks up the pace. It slightly cerebral, so don't plug this in and expect something mindless, however it is incredibly entertaining and is worth a nice break from studying. Besides, if you feel like you're doing something smart, you can feel less guilty about those unattended Statistics homework. Student charged with inappropriate behavior A 22-year-old KU student was booked into Douglas County Jail on a charge of lewd and lascivious behavior Wednesday, according to jail records. Hamm posted a $1,000 bond and was released,the record states. A 23-year-old KU student reported he observed a man masturbating in Anschutz Library between 11 and 11:20 a.m. Oct. 26, Capt. Schuyler Bailey of the KU Public Safety Office said. CAMPUS The man was found and interviewed by police Oct. 26. He was issued a notice to appear in court Wednesday, Bailey said. Steve Lynn CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A "This unfortunate episode does not in any way diminish our belief that the course should be taught," he said. "It is the role of the University to take on such topics and to provide the civil, academic environment in which they can be honestly examined and discussed." Andrew Stangl, president of SOMA, said the remarks that appeared in National Review were taken out of context by people searching through Mirecki's past posts with the intent of showing that he was biased against Christianity and unfit to teach a class on intelligent design. Class they're going to, to ruin or discredit Dr. Mirecki," he said. "We had assumed the comments were between the list serve." "This shows the dedication State Rep. Brenda Landwehr (R-Wichita), vice chairwoman of the Kansas House of Representatives appropriations committee, said the incident called into question the integrity of the University. She said legislators would likely discuss the class when they return to session Jan. 9. "I still think the University should be accountable, both the chancellor and the professor, to respond to legislators during the session about this course or any other courses there are issues with," she said. Edited by Becca Evanhoe Overseas investments boost class's earnings SCHOOL OF BUSINESS BY GABY SOUZA gousa@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITER Millions of dollars are on the minds of the students in the Applied Portfolio Management class, but they can't personally spend one cent of it. The finance class taught in the School of Business teaches students about the basics of investments and the stock market by using real money to invest in the stock market. The class's investments equaled $200,000 in 2001; but in August, the investments met the $1 million mark. Since then, the amount has tapered off, keeping it just under the $1 million mark. The money made from the investments each semester is turned over to the next semester's class for its investments. The class recently took money out of its earnings to donate $16,000 to a basketball scholarship. This has contributed to the investment funds staying under a million dollars as well. "You like to think you have the winning formula, but in the stock market, you can never be sure," said Catherine Shenoy, assistant professor and director of the class since 2001. The class was one of a dozen in the country when it began in 1994. KU alumnus Kent McCarthy started the class by donating $200,000 to be invested in the stock market. The finance class taught in the School of Business teaches students about the basics of investments and the stock market by using real money to invest in the stock market. McCarthy, who is the president, owner and founder of Jayhawk Capital Management, based in Kansas City, Kan., became the class's first instructor. He remains an executive lecturer, flying in from his homes in Nevada and California to help the class with its projects. About 50 percent of the class's investments are in international companies, and the class has made great strides by investing in Chinese companies. The class got this piece of advice from McCarthy. Two of the invested companies are China Green, a vegetable company and Golden Meditech, which provides medical supplies to Chinese hospitals. The class meets once a week and is about one-third graduate students and two-thirds undergraduate students. The class's largest investment is in a company called Interceramic. Based in Mexico, the company produces ceramic tile. Half of its sales are in the United States and half are in Mexico. Conklin said the class was challenging, the memory of being singled out in class by an intimidating Kent McCarthy still in his memory. Brian Conklin, Shawnee Mission senior, said he enjoyed the mix of students because it helped to drive the discussion. "It's pretty upsetting, but you learn from what he's saying," he said. Conklin sees himself working in the finance department of a large company in the future. But even if it's not exactly what he wants to do, he said he was still happy to have taken the class. "You can't be in business and not understand how companies buy and sell," he said. - Edited by Jayme Wiley LEGISLATION Legislators debate taxpayers' rights Argue how to limit funding population growth plus the rise if legis BY JOHN JORDAN jordan@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITER Students and panelists used the analogy of a parent giving money to a college student to discuss the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, TABOR, Thursday night at the Kansas Union. The Student Legislative Awareness Board set up the panel because the issue pertains to students by affecting how much money could come to the University of Kansas. Proponents say students will spend more wisely if they are given less money to spend. The other side says it's better to look at the frivolous items that students spend money on rather than create a blanket cut that would affect the amount of money students can spend on tuition and books. TABOR ties increases in state spending to population growth and inflation. Kansas wouldn't be able to spend more than its Alan Cobb and Jim Mullins from Americans for Prosperity argued in support of TABOR, and State Representative Tim Owens, (R-Overland Park) and Jim Ward, (D-Wichita) spoke against the measure. The four panelists, two for TABOR and two against, spoke and answered questions in heated tones about the controversial issue in front of more than 30 students in the Kansas Union's Big 12 room. NATION Mullins said TABOR was necessary to make the state legislators curtail spending and force them to learn to make tough decisions. Ward, who spoke against TABOR, countered Mullins by saying that the answer to controlling spending wasn't to put a straight jacket on the amount legislators can spend. "We have a spending problem," Mullins said. "The legislature doesn't have the cajones to stop it." — Edited by Nate Karlin Richmond official insults alumni, donors RICHMOND, Va. — Insulting alumni and donors probably isn't the best way to show that you are trying to improve your university's national profile, as the president of the University of Richmond has found. During a "state of the university" speech in October at the private liberal arts college, William E. Cooper discussed the school's efforts to become more academically competitive by attracting more talented students. "The entering quality of our student body needs to be much higher if we are going to transform bright minds into great achievers instead of transforming mush into mush, and I mean it" he said. He later apologized for his remarks and said they were misinterpreted. Some alumni remain supportive of Cooper's vision, but he has come under fire from many others, who are calling for him to step down and are threatening to withhold contributions until he is gone. At a recent home basketball game, some Richmond fans wore buttons proclaiming, "Mush-heads Unite." The Associated Press - A 20-year-old KU student reported to the KU Public Safety Office a theft of a Trek bicycle and a cable lock between 1:30 and 4 p.m. Wednesday from Eaton Hall. The bicycle is valued at $400. The cable lock is valued at $20. - A 19-year-old KU student reported to the KU Public Safety Office a theft of some paint brushes and other art supplies between 4:30 Nov. 22 and 1:45 Monday from the Art and Design Building. The items are valued at $572. Vesper CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A $\clubsuit$ The Department of Music and Dance is putting on the 81st Annual Holiday Vespers concert at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Lied Center.Tickets can be purchased at the Lied Center box office at the price of $10 for students, children and senior citizens and $12.50 for the general public. He has had his works played in Carnegie Hall and other illustrious venues on the East Coast when he attended Westminster Choir College in New Jersey for his undergraduate degree, but he said he was still enthushed for Vespers. "I'm as excited about this as anything. Especially since so many regional musicians will be featured." he said. ♦ Latin American Solidarity is holding a Latin American food festival at 6 p.m. Saturday at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. The cost is $7. Proceeds will benefit disaster relief in Guatemala. This year's program features three works composed by KU graduate students, including Forrest's song, which will be performed by the KU Symphonic Choir and Orchestra. The KU Symphonic Choir is composed of choir members from the University Singers, Men's Glee Club, Chamber Choir, Concert Choir, Women's Chorale and Women's Glee Club. Other groups scheduled to perform are the Celebration Ringers from the First United Methodist Church in Lawrence; Sharim Netzim, KU Hillel's A Capella group; and the KU Chamber Choir. They will perform holiday classics, such as "Joy to the World," "Chanukah, O' Chanukah" and "Sleigh Ride." Against the Grain, a KU men's barbershop quartet, also will perform seasonal favorites. Candace Bailey, Lawrence junior, has performed twice for Vespers as a choir member. She said this event was important for many reasons. It's the only time the entire department puts on a show. And it's also always it is well-attended. 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He could leap tall buildings in a single bound, fly around the world to reverse time, rescue mankind from Lex Luther, and still meet Lois Lane for dinner. He was the costume for Halloween and the topic of conversation during recess. He was Superman. The hero: the one with the ability to save the world in the blink of an eve. YELENA PAVLIK opinion@kansan.com We come to find, however, that just as coloring books are replaced with Shakespearean anthologies, our definition of a hero suddenly evaporates, and is tossed into the toy chest with the coloring books. When we realized that Superman was no longer real, and that he would not swoop into save us from plummeting into Niagara Falls, our hope of a hero was washed away. It is not that the definition of a hero that has changed; people just begin to accept that one individual cannot save the world. This comfortable realization, so easy to accept, is wrong. The refusal to expand the engraved definition of the word "hero" affects the ability to see an everyday person, who truly improves the quality of existence for another, as a hero. I was painfully shy, without confidence and filled with doubt for the future. Responding to a question in class shot chills through me, and I couldn't fathom the thought of anyone reading my writing aside from my required English essays. It was not until I hesitantly walked into the journalism room as a junior in high school that I found the potential and ability I always had, but was too afraid to embrace. My journalism adviser spent hours working with me on stories and layouts preparing them for print, and preparing me for life. She selflessly helped me develop a sense of self, confidence and passion for life as well as journalism. Without appearing on the cover of "Time" magazine or raking in millions, she is my hero. She saved my world. Imagine life as a flip book. Think about the most significant events. Those that shift perspective, leave someone with a new sense of reality, or higher purpose. Think about it. Are you going to remember the score you made on your last math exam? Or will you smile at the memory of your best friend calling you three times a day that summer you broke up with your first love? passed the last piece of legislation in Congress? Or will you sit and wondrously ponder at just how your favorite teacher inspired you to chase the dreams you never thought you could? Will you think about who Are you going to recall the number of metals America won during the last Olympic Games? Or will you silently count your blessing for the time that your parents grounded you after you chose to drink and drive? Ten years from now, the winner of the Nobel Prize for molecular science will be forgotten, the baseball player with the most home runs will end up a plaque and the headlines covering the top fortune 500 company, along with last year's Mrs. America, will be in the newspaper recycling bin. The hero is not the Superman with X-ray vision, the strength of 50 or the one with the biggest paycheck and most fame. True heroes are everyday people. They do not ask for glory The refusal to expand the engraved definition of the word 'hero' affects the ability to see an everyday person, who truly improves the quality of existence for another, as a hero. or compensation, they possess nothing more than will and desire. months serving his country with nothing more then honor. They are the night janitor at the local convenience store who forges his mid-break coffee in order to give the saved buck or two to the homeless women he passes on this way home each night. They are the middle-aged father who works three jobs in order to pay his children's way through college. They are the next door neighbor who has been overseas for the past six All it takes is a single, selfless action, perhaps without forethought, to set the path in motion. The classification of a hero no longer lies within the boundaries of Superman, nor does it need to be tossed out with GIGO and Barbie. None of these actions alter time and space, nor do they save the world in a single bound. These accomplishments, however, do leave a lasting impact. Not only do these deeds validate another person's experience on this earth, but they allow someone to feel worthy, accepted and loved. Free All for Call 864-0500 Pavlik is a Plano, Texas freshman in journalism. Free for all callers have 20 seconds to speak about any topic they wish. Kansan editors reserve the right to omit comments. Slanderous and obscene statements will not be printed. Phone numbers of all incoming calls are recorded. Instant message the Free for All at "udkfreeall". + Is it cheating if I google all of the crossword hints to find the answers? Good news, Free for All. My girlfriend just called to tell me that she's not pregnant. Hurray for the Pill! In May 2003, George W. Bush declared victory in Iraq. Now, he claims we won't exit until victory is achieved. I think we're a tad bit overdue to get out. ✨ Oklahoma is the place to be. + So, I was walking to class and I saw a lady pull up in a van and take a stack of UDKs, and then drive off. Sketch Thank God for Andrew Stangl. Except God doesn't exist. The girl who works at McDonald's has a total crush on me. I know it. I just want her to tell me about it. I mean, come on. Let's be honest, drive-thru girl! The girls on the Lawrence Country Club waitstaff are the most amazing hot girls I've ever seen. + Don't you love how the KU Intramurals always puts the crappy teams against the overzealous frat teams? Give us a chance. + To the person who double parked on the roof of Corbin: The KBC is ready and waiting with their keys. Move yo' car! + Christian mythology? I didn't know how immature our faculty members could be. Just because you have a personal problem with Christianity doesn't mean you should handle it in this immature of a way. An athiest has no business heading the department of religion. I just beat my roommate at paper football! Whoo-hool! I'm going to go tear down the goalposts! Sarcasm off. Dear Kansan: Is it that hard to print the crossword puzzle above the fold? + + Can't we all just get along? RYAN HAS SPOKEN You know, Free for All, now that you're on my buddy list you're always Away. Where do you go? I miss you. ✨ What is the big deal about Chuck Norris? + Ugh, the elevator at Strong is broken. My life is now officially over. Christ-missing the point Christmas must suck for the Jews. I sat and enjoyed the bright colors and cute jingles that played until I looked over and realized that the girl sitting next to me was Jewish. A few nights ago, I was watching TV with friends and commercials came on. More specifically, Christmas commercials came on, I'll admit that I felt more than a little bad. While it's true that the majority of Americans celebrate Christmas, Jewish people still have money to spend (insert stereotypical joke here) for their own holiday. --- RYAN MULVENON opinion@kansan.com Though I was a tad hesitant I leaned over to my friend, who hadn't even flinched while the commercials played, and asked her if the lack of Jew-friendly commercials bothered her in any way. She smiled and laughed. And all she said was, "Honey, I'm from Texas. And Texans love their Jesus." Well, as far as I know, it's true. The other Texans I know do love Jesus a great deal, but that doesn't justify exclusion. Isn't this supposed to be the country that embraces the minority whole-heartedly? Christmas, at least to me, is about embracing the people around us. So to exclude a whole group of people that are around us seems to go against the "holiday spirit." The real problem is that none of the excluded seem to mind. I've asked my Jewish grandmother about it, and she couldn't have cared less. I suppose at a certain point that Jewish people have no choice but to accept the insane power of Christmas, but they should still feel free to be pissed off about it. To step back and look objectively at the two holidays, Christmas is one of the most significant Christian holidays and Hanukkah is one of the least significant Jewish holidays. Because of its proximity to Christmas, however, Hanukkah has become incredibly well-known and turned into sort of the Jewish equivalent of Christmas. I'd be pissed if every commercial was advertising a Hanukkah sale. If Christmas is so overwhelming that Jewish people have to make their own version of it, then we have a problem. It makes me think that the spiritual aspect of the holiday is gone, replaced by parents' need to buy their children as much as possible. Not that I can complain; I love getting presents on Christmas. Everyone does. But people are so gift-hungry that the entire month before Christmas is dedicated to it; the majority of our culture becomes obsessed with it. The holiday itself has lost its meaning. By treating it as an excuse to indulge in materialism, Christmas isn't that big of a deal. The Jews can let it be meaningless, and if it continues along this path, apparently so can a lot of people who actually celebrate the holiday. If people were to start emphasizing the religious aspect of the holiday and buy fewer gifts, I think we'd all be better off. Our country has enough materialism as it is, who needs an entire day devoted to the celebration of it? ♦ Mulvenon is an Olathe freshman in art history and English. Matthew Sevcik, opinion editor 864-4924 or msevcik@kansan.com Sarah Connellly, business manager 864-4014 or adddirector@kansan.com TALK TO US Austin Caster, editor 864-8544 or acaster@kansan.com Jonathan Kealing, managing editor 864-8544 or |keeling@kansan.com Joshua Bickel, managing editor 864-8544 or |bickel@kansan.com John Morgan, sales director 864-4462 or adddirector@kansan.com SUBMISSIONS Malcolm Gibson, general manager, news adviser 884-7667 or mgibson@kansan.com Jennifer Weaver, sales and marketing adviser 864-7864 or jweaver@kansan.com Jennifer Weaver sales and marketing The Kanas welcomes letters to the editors and guest columns submitted by students, faculty and alumni. The Kanas reserves the right to edit, cut to length, or reject all submissions. 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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Elis Ford, Yanting Wong, Joel Simone, Danh Hoy, Anne Wettern, Julie Parisi, Nathan McGinnia, Joan Goettling, Sara Garlick, Travis Brown, Julian Portillo, David Archer SUBMIT TO Kansan newsroom 111 Stauffer-Flint Hall 1435 Jayhawk Blvd. Lawrence, KS 68045 (786) 864-4810 opinion@kansan.com As a graduate student in religious studies and Amy Leochner's classmate, I find her recent letter to the editor both disturbing and insulting. Dr. Mirecki's e-mail expressed his private opinion in what he believed was a private forum. It should not be allowed to reflect on our department as a whole. Given that two of our faculty members are ordained clergy, a third faculty/clergy person recently retired after many years at the University and the variety of faiths represented in our student body, it is unfair and inaccurate to characterize the department as intolerant of any religious tradition. We study religion because we recognize and respect its importance. Dr. Mirecki's e-mail should I am surprised and dissapointed to be attacked from within my own department by someone who ought to know better. not be used to gauge the atmosphere in the department as a whole. In many conversations with both faculty and fellow students, I have found no one who agrees with the tone of Dr. Mirecki's e-mail. Having taken a class with Dr. Mirecki, I can attest that his personal opinions do not I am surprised and disappointed, however, to be attacked from within my own department by someone who ought to know better. impinge on his classroom conduct. I expected conflation of Dr. Mirecki's private opinion with department policy from those who make knee-jerk accusations without taking the time to think through the issue. If Amy had experienced intolerance in her classes, her accusation would be valid; however, that is not the case she makes in her letter. She wants to discredit the entire department because of one professor's personal opinion expressed in a personal e-mail. - Noelle Barrick, Wichita, graduate student in religious studies LETTER TO THE EDITOR Rumsfeld shows true colors I am utterly shocked at the complacency that ordinary citizens have exhibited in response to Donald Rumsfeld's implicit endorsement of torture. Rumsfeld, the U.S. Secretary of Defense, corrected Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Tuesday after he said that all service members were obligated to intervene during a situation of abuse. Rumsfeld claimed that physical intervention was never necessary. All anyone could do was report it and hope for the best, he said. Pace was, thankfully, curt in telling his boss that was not correct. The arrogance evident in Rumsfeld's rhetoric is typical of the autocratic right wing. Speaking of autocracy, the press conference was called for Rumsfeld to announce his desire to dehumanize insurgency by, without regard for the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff or military, changing the term of reference from insurgent to something he will decide on later. "Insurgents," though accurate, is apparently too humanizing. As if silence and the snide lack of consideration in response to the horrors at Abu Ghraib prison were not complacent enough, now our government has implicitly endorsed torture. It makes me wonder how long until our government does so explicitly? 1. ♦ A. Bryce Myers Overland Park sophomore --- 6A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN ENTERTAINMENT --- PEOPLE FRIEND OR FAUX? SETH TRACI Band members brawl in Baltimore hotel TRACI SETH CURT ▼ FRIEND OR FAUX? TRACI SETH CURT ALLY Seth Bundy/KANSAN ▼ LIZARD BOY If there is one thing... that we learn... this winter season... don't take the triple dog dare. ORAL SPEECHES TODAY Sam Hephill/KANSAN ▼ SQUIRREL I'VE COMPLETED MY CHRISTMAS WISH LIST "VOLUME ONE." SOME PEOPLE THINK IT'S BETTER TO GIVE THAN RECEIVE. YEP. I'M ONE OF THEM. THAT'S WHY I'M GIVING THIS LIST TO SANTA. Wes Benson/KANSAN ▼ THE MASKED AVENGERS Sorry to bother you on your day off...but we have a problem. If the world is populated by just two people incest is going to happen. Okay...hmm...let's make her really hot then. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 2. 2005 ALLY If there is one thing.. that we learn... this winter season. don't take the triple dog dare. ORAL SPEECHES TODAY I'VE COMPLETED MY CHRISTMAS WISH LIST "VOLUME ONE." SOME PEOPLE THINK IT'S BETTER TO GIVE THAN RECEIVE. YEP. I'M ONE OF THEM. THAT'S WHY I'M GIVING THIS LIST TO SANTA. Sorry to bother you on your day off...but we have a problem. If the world is populated by just two people inest is going to happen. Okay...hmm...let's make her really hot then. BALTIMORE — Former Creed lead singer Scott Stapp and members of the band 311 were involved in a fight on Thanksgiving in the lounge of a luxury hotel, according to hotel security staff and 311 members. 311 was in Baltimore for a weekend concert when several members ran into Stapp earlier that day, band drummer Chad Sexton told The Associated Press. Both Stapp and 311 have the same producer, and Sexton said there were no problems during the first meeting. But Stapp later came into the Harbor Court Hotel bar while Sexton and bandmates SA Martinez and P-Nut were watching basketball on television. He stepped in front of the screen and said, "311, I am ready to fight." Sexton said. Sexton said the band tried to defuse the situation, and Stapp went to the bar to drink. Later, he made "inappropriate" comments to Martinez's wife and was confrontational with Sexton. "All of a sudden, he clocked me in the left side of my face," Sexton said. "Then a huge fight broke out." Security guards eventually broke up the brawl. Police were called, but no arrests were made, according to hotel security. "It was an unfortunate incident," Sexton said. "We are not brawlers." Beth Keifetz, vice president of publicity at Stapp's label, Wind-up Records, wouldn't comment on the reports of a fight. The Associated Press ▼ HOROSCOPES The Stars Show the Kind of Day You'll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult Friday, Dec. 2, 2005: Investigate new possibilities, as you can transform your life this birthday year. Your ability to think through decisions proves to be extraordinary and a tremendous asset. You seem to be able to juggle your time and adapt to different needs. You'll see what happens if you are impulsive as well. You are in the final phases of an 11-year cycle, about to plunge into a one in fall 2006. Your luck and opportunities will be enhanced. If you are single, you could meet someone who is nefarious or mysterious, especially before the fall. Check this person out. If you are attached, take plenty of time together as if you were a new couple. Stoke the fires of love. CAPRICORN helps you make money. HAPPY BIRTHDAY for ARIES (March 21-April 19) ***** You might revise your thoughts, plans and perspective at the last minute. The question might be, What encourages this update? Some will choose to rethink a situation. Tonight: In the limelight — even if you're doing something different. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) TAUCHUS (April 20-29) ★★★ Once more, a partner does GEMINI (May 21-June 20) a twist on an agreement. You could be wondering what is going on. This person might be transforming before your very eyes. Be willing to step back, detach and see what is really happening here. Tonight: Take off and soar like a bird. ★★★ Others do a dance that intrigues you. Investigate what might be happening. Think twice about a decision involving a partner or a special friend. Someone zeros in on you. Work closely with another person. Tonight: Time with a special friend. CANCER (June 21-July 22) LEO (Julv 23-Aug. 22) ★★★★ You might need to tap into your ingenuity to find solutions. You might back off of a risk and change your mind. All the better for the moment. Snafu will tend to depress Revise your schedule, as new demands or requests come in. Think in terms of efficiency and a change of pace. Your willingness to flex separates you from many. Keep smiling, even if you feel a bit put on. Tonight: Out with friendly folks. you right now. Tonight: Plan to get plenty of R and R. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ★★★ You might have difficulty getting going this morning. As a result, you will adjust your plans accordingly. Consider taking today off, as it is the end of the week. Sometimes you are overly responsible. Tonight: Getting a second wind? LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) **** You have the wherewithal to get past problems if you just use your noggin. Sometimes feelings could drive you to a less positive path. You will be a lot happier if you think before you leap right now. Follow through on the logical path. Tonight: Make it early. ★★★ Revising your financial organization could be very important to you and those who depend on you. Your sense of responsibility needs to come out, and others will respond accordingly. Tonight: Friday-evening get-together. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★★ Don't let moodiness get the best of you. You might observe a tendency to reverse and twist in new directions. Your vision might need some updating. Your spending needs to be more conservative, for now. Tonight: Treat yourself, too. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) CAPIRCORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ★★★ Knowing when to step back might be as important as taking action. You'll keep getting the same planetary message until you absorb it. You discover that your energy soars as the day gets later. Tonight: Alm smiles. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ★★★★★ Aim for more of what you want. Review a decision with care. You might find that others aren't as direct as you would like, or what you want comes in an indirect manner. Observe the changes in your mind-set. Tonight: Early to bed. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) PRESLE 15 (March 18) ★★★ Pressure builds at the workplace. Consider a new possibility or change in the workplace. Others look to you to be a role model. Keep focusing on what you want; you will get where you want if you do. Tonight: Join your friends. 41 Set off a Geiger counter 45 Inclination 47 Previous to 48 Shakespeare's home 52 Johnson or Adams 53 Butler's love 54 — U.S. Pat. Off. 55 Office-holders 56 Dissuade 57 Storm center 58 Scotty's assent DOWN 1 Erdam 2 Very 3 Flourish 4 Employer 5 Nursery toy 6 Splendid setup 7 Computer info unit 8 Meadow 9 H.S. subject 10 Packed away 11 Lid for a lad 17 On in years 21 Troutlike fish 23 Type size 24 Swab the decks 25 Litter member Solution time: 25 mins. H E M S L E W D A I S A G O A I R Y I N C H M O N A L I A S T O A T W O E T C H I N G P A R E N T T A P A L E S U M T A M E R L E A P B O B N O M E E C L A T O A R N I P Y A M D E P O T S G O U R M E T C U R A R G O M O N E T A R Y D E L L O D E S I O U S O I L S O W S L O P *Yesterday's answer 12-2* 26 Pigs' digs 28 Model Carol 30 "Home of the brave" 31 Ram's mate 32 Afternoon social 33 Is in control of 36 Fair share, maybe 37 Fish-eating hawk 40 007 portrayer 42 TV, newspapers, etc. 43 O. 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Today's Cryptoquip Clue: U equals D Today's Cryptoquip Clue: U equals D PEOPLE Cruise's actions prove to be unpredictable THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Hollywood movie star Tom Cruise waves to fans Tuesday, followed by actress Katie Holmes in Shanghai where he is currently filming his upcoming movie, "Mission: Impossible III." Chinese newspapers said Cruise was expected to stay in Shanghai for up to 10 days. Cruise said "Put her on the phone. I want to talk to her." Cruise told the journalist, who sheepishly called someone Cruise assumed to be the man's girlfriend. HANGHAI, China — It was "Mission: Unpredictable" for Tom Cruise when a reporter pulled out a cell phone and the actor insisted on talking to the person on the other end of the line. "Hello, Xiexie. Ni hao. Are you good?" said Cruise, handling the Chinese words for "thank you" and "hello" with ease. Cruise was speaking to journalists atop the historic Bund 18 building as bells tolled and horns blared from ships passing on the Huangpu River on Wednesday after wrapping up scenes for the new "Mission: Impossible" film, due in theaters next year. “Are you good? Are you working?” he asked. “Are you going to get engaged? Soon? Maybe?” "Oh, you're married?" asked the translator, who stepped in to help the conversation along. "Tell her I wish her happiness," Asked about his own plans to wed pregnant fiancee Katie Holmes, Cruise replied, "You want to know where we're gonna get married? The exact date? The exact place? The color dress, designer?" "Xiexie, bye-bye." said the 43-year-old actor before handing the phone back to the reporter. He added: "You know, we Cruise recently said he had purchased a sonogram machine so that he and the 26-year-old actress could see the development of their baby. TELEVISION Holmes' pregnancy was announced in early October. The couple, who have been dating since April, became engaged in June. haven't set a date. ... It will happen next year." NBC plans to boost its ratings with Thursday night comedy Banished from the night, and temporarily off the air entirely, is "Joey," the spin-off that lost all of the energy and most of the viewers from "Friends." BY DAVID BAUDER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — NBC is making big changes to its primetime lineup for Thursday — the night it used to own in the era of "mustsee TV" — by instituting a two-hour comedy block led by "My Name Is Earl." Thursday's announcement represents NBC's attempt to recapture its magic on what is the most lucrative night of the week in television advertising. Through "The Cosy Show," "Cheers," "Seinfeld" and "Friends," NBC dominated Thursdays for nearly two decades, but CBS' combination of "Survivor" and "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" now rules. Starting January 5, NBC's new Thursday lineup will be "Will & Grace," in its final season; the new buddy comedy "Four Kings;" the strong freshman show "My Name Is Earl," and "The Office." "ER" will remain in its cus- "The four-comedy block plays to the history of the night," said Kevin Reilly, NBC entertainment president. He said it represents broadcast TV's only comedy night for viewers looking for something out of the ordinary. The changes were no surprise; many people in the television industry were surprised NBC started the fall season with its struggling Thursday lineup intact. NBC's announcement came the day after Fox said that it was keeping "American Idol" on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, after considering moving the "Idol" results show to Thursdays. "I think it's a step in the right direction," said Sharianne Brill, programming analyst for Carat USA, of NBC's move. "It will help them get back to their comedy roots. They've always been known for that." When "My Name Is Earl," the comedy starring Jason Lee as a loser trying to make amends for bad behavior, became a hit, NBC executives spent much of the fall debating whether to move it to Thursdays. At first they didn't want to risk alienating viewers "Joye" has been a huge disappointment for NBC, its audience only a third of that earned by "Friends" in its last season. It will be taken off the air until at least March, after NBC airs the Winter Olympics. who had just gotten used to seeing it on 'tuesdays. Reilly said "Joe" will be back. Its likely destination is Tuesday night, where NBC will run "Fear Factor" and back-to-back episodes of "Scrubs" from 8 to 10 p.m. starting in January. tomary spot at 10 p.m. ET, NBC said. After running two separate editions of "The Apprentice" with Donald Trump and Martha Stewart this fall, the boardroom will be quiet in the winter. Reilly said a Trump version of "The Apprentice" will be back after the Olympics but it's unclear where it will air. Wednesday night, where a short-run season of "The Biggest Loser" will air starting January, seems the most likely spot. Following the TV trend toward supernatural shows, NBC in January will introduce "The Book of Daniel," a Friday night drama starring Aidan Quinn as an Episcopalian minister who regularly converses with Jesus Christ. Ass Pr 12 Of Playe --- 1. (3分) Tl Free C Traffic Law O (877) 9 EN Book Meals Recei splash ** #1 prices 12th i www.5 Leisur N Q F SPRIN FREE 234-70 $300/o Trainin Get Now Raintre young to wor Monda Call 84 Class housing on race. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2. 2005 SPORTS FOOTBALL THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 7A Texas quarterback Vince Young focuses during the pregame warmup before his team's 52-17 vict- ory against Texas Tech in this file photo from Oct. 22 in Austin, Texas. Young was selected as the Associated Press Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year. TEXAS Harry Cabluck/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AUSTIN, Texas — The fourthquarter touchdown pass against Ohio State. The first victory against Oklahoma since 2000. The second-half rescue. BY JIM VERTUNO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Texas celebrates Young love Whatever No. 2 Texas needed this season, quarterback Vince Young delivered. When the 2005 season started, conventional wisdom was that the Longhorns would go as far as Young could take them. Eleven victories later, they are still on the move, playing Saturday for the Big 12 title. Another victory would send them to California for a second straight Rose Bowl, only this time with the national championship on the line. "We're so close," Young said. On Wednesday, the junior quarterback was a unanimous selection as the Associated Press' Big 12 offensive player of the year in voting by 20 reporters who regularly cover the league for newspapers in the seven states with conference teams. "We can smell the Rose right now." Young is the first Texas player to win offensive player of the year honors since quarterback Major Applewhite in 1999. In doing so, he broke Applewhite's school records for single-season total offense (3,369) and the career mark (8,450). Shedding his reputation as a run-first quarterback, Young passed for 2,576 yards and 23 touchdowns and rushed for 793 yards and eight more scores in leading the Longhorns to their to BC The night as who ussus first 11-0 record since 1983. Young's numbers and penchant for making big plays in Texas' biggest games have made him a contender for the Heisman Trophy, an award Young insists is a distant thought as he tries to lead the Longhorns to their first Big 12 title since 1996. Texas plays Colorado (7-4) Saturday in the league championship game in Houston. "What really matters is that we're out there having a good time and getting wins," Young said. Young's last-minute touchdown pass to Limas Sweed sent the Longhorns to a 25-22 victory at Ohio State in the second game. He threw for three touchdowns against Oklahoma as Texas snapped a five-game losing streak to the Sooners. The next week against Colorado, he ran for three touchdowns and threw for a career-high 336 yards. KANSANCLASSIFIEDS AUTO STUFE JOBS LOST & FOUND FOR RENT "There's no question he's the best football player in America," Kansas coach Mark Mangino said after a 66-14 Texas victory. "Nobody does for their team what Vince Young does for his." His best game came at Oklahoma State, when he ran for 267 yards, passed for 239 and scored four touchdowns to rally Texas from a 28-9 deficit to a 47-28 victory. His 80-yard touchdown run in the third quarter changed momentum in the game and perhaps saved the season. 1. Ectopic 2. Pain "If you pick the most valuable player in the country, it has to be Vince," Texas coach Mack Brown said. "We wouldn't be sitting here today without Vince." SERVICES CHILD CARE NORFONE PHONE 785.864.4358 SERVICES TRAVEL TRAFFIC TICKET PROBLEMS? Free Consultation! 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I responded in a negative manner to something that was said to me following the game," Dooley said in a post-game statement. "I certainly apologize to the Nevada program, and this is not the manner in which Kansas basketball should be represented." Fazekas scored 35 points. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10A Freshman point guard Mario Chalmers went down hard after being intentionally fouled by Nevada's Chad Bell. Chalmers would go to the locker room with what Self said was a toe injury. He would later return to the sidelines but not play. Gamer Ryan Colaianni - Kansas continued to struggle from beyond the arc, going 3-of-12 on three-point shots. The Kansas student section appeared to have many open seats in the left corner of Allen Fieldhouse. Kaun led all Kansas scorers with 19 points, but it was his counterpart on Nevada who stole the show. Kansas had no answer for Nevada junior forward Nick Fazekas. Fazekas dropped 55 points on the Jayhawks, and did it from around the court, with points in the paint, and from the outside. "Fazekas is unbelievable," Kaun said. "They are a solid, solid team." Kansas slowed Nevada down midway through the second half with a one-two-two zone defense, which helped change a 6-point deficit to a 2-point lead with fewer than 9 minutes to play. The 52-50 lead was Kansas' first since a 6-4 lead in the opening minutes. The loss was the first non conference home loss for Kansas since a January 2004 loss to Richmond. The majority of Kansas' points came on layups or from the post players. Kansas continued to struggle from beyond the arc, going just 1-of-8 on three-point shots. The Jayhawks got their points in spurts, 10 of which came from Kaun in the first half. Freshman forward Micah Downs was able to cut a 5-point Wolf Pack lead to one with back-to-back buckets on a layup and a three-pointer. Downs later hit another three-point shot with 17.6 seconds remaining in the game to pull Kansas within one, but that was as close as the Jayhawks would get. Nevada senior forward Mo Charlo converted a free throw at the other end and Kansas was unable to tie when Giles' shot was blocked with time running out. Kansas will try to rebound against Western Illinois on Saturday at 7 p.m. Fazekas frustrates Kansas KANSAS 34 Rachel Seymour/KANSAN Edited by Jonathan Kealing MEN'S BASKETBALL Nick Fezekas, Nevada junior forward, attempts to shoot over senior forward Christian Moody during the second half of Thursday night's game in Allen Fieldhouse. Fezekas finished the game with a career-high 35 points on 15-of-21 shooting in Nevada's 72-70 victory against Kansas. BY DANIEL BERK dberk@kansan.com KANSAN SENIOR SWITCHER Nick Fazekas had something to prove. Nevada's junior forward, who was the leading scorer in Thursday night's game, came into Allen Fieldhouse on the heels of what he labeled a disappointing performance against UNLV and was looking for redemption. He got exactly that by scoring 35 points to lead his team at 72-70 victory against Kansas. "I took the UNLV game personally," Fazekas said. "Coach challenged me to come out and have a strong game tonight and I'm glad I could come through." Fazekas was able to score inside against Kansas big men C.J Giles and Christian Moody, but he was also able to step outside and hit jump shots. Kansas shifted from playing man-to-man defense in the first half to playing a zone defense in the second half. The zone enabled Fazekas to have some open looks from the outside. Fazekas had a number of big plays to silence the Kansas faithful, including a three point shot that stretched Nevada's lead to a two-possession game with less than 3 minutes to play in the second half. Fazekas hit the shot right in front of his team's bench and got a pat on the back by his coach Mark Fox on his way back to play defense. "Nick is a laid-back kid," Fox said. "It seems like the louder the crowd gets, the better he plays. He played like an All-American tonight and has gotten better each game." That three-point shot came about 10 minutes after Fazekas hit a three-pointer to silence the Allen Fieldhouse crowd cheering on the Jayhawks who were down by one before the shot. Fazekas was 8-of-13 from the field, 7-of-8 from the free throw line and also grabbed 8 rebounds. He scored the first bucket of the game for Nevada and tallied his final points with 2:04 to play in the game. And he didn't lighten up in between. "It was a good feeling to be able to come in here and get a win, but we're not surprised by it," Fazekas said. "We feel we're good enough to beat anybody." 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Campbell said. The Jayhawks feel great about how they are swimming at this point in the season, Campbell said. On Wednesday, the top 100 Division 1 times in the nation were released, and Kansas had eight swimmers with top 100 individual times. Freshman Ashley Leidigh, who was named Big 12 Conference Swimmer of the Month on Wednesday, has five individual times in the top 100. Leidigh has the top time in the country in the 100-yard butterfly. She holds the eighth place time in the 200-yard butterfly and also ranks in the 50- and 100-yard freestyle events as well as the 100-yard backstroke event. In the past two months, Leidigh has captured both the Robinson pool record and the KU record in the 100-yard butterfly. Also representing Kansas in the top 100 times are freshman Danielle Herrmann, freshman Molly Brammer, sophomores Terri Schramka and Lauren Bonfe, junior Jenny Short, senior co-captain Gina Gnatzig and senior Lindsey Urbatchka. Kansas has five relays that have top 100 times. They rank in the 200, 400 and 800-yard freestyle relays as well as the 400 and 400-yard medley relays. "It's neat when the bar is as high as it is because we have everyone reaching for a higher bar," Campbell said. "It gives permission for everyone to tap into what they have." "We want the best athletes possible, and our recruiting class consists of the best athletes possible." Campbell said. On Monday, Campbell announced seven new swimmers who have signed for the 2006-2007 season. He said that they would make an immediate impact in the backstroke and freestyle events. Megan Durbin, Erin Goetz, Carrah Haley, Melissa Heyman, Ashley Robinson, Deidre Rosel and Whitney Taylor make up the seven new Kansas recruits. Leidigh said she thought the freestyle talent of the recruiting class would succeed in filling some of the freestyle talent of the graduating senior class at the conclusion of the 2005-2006 season. Although she's excited for the new recruiting class, Leidigh hasn't lost sight of the work cut out for the team this weekend against Harvard and Northeastern. "Harvard is unranked, but they should be ranked," Leidigh said. "I am nervous just because there's a lot of pressure." The Jayhawks return to Lawrence Sunday for the last week of school. Kansas will depart to Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., for its winter training trip Jan. 2-10. — Edited by Jayme Wiley FOOTBALL Bowl game could reap benefits for University BY RYAN SCHNEIDER rschneider@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITER For one night later this month, the eyes of the college football world will be on Kansas and its bowl opponent. A bowl victory would be monumental for the football program, but the publicity the University will receive is equally important. For the University, athletics is a way of promoting itself across the country because it places the University in the national spotlight. Jim Marchiony, associate athletics director, said he thought the exposure from playing a bowl game in front of a national audience would not only benefit the Athletics Department, but the University as a whole. The publicity a team receives for playing in a bowl game could potentially lead to additional interest in the school and increased enrollment. Kansas State University has seen its enrollment increase over the past decade, which may be credited in part to the success of its football team under former coach Bill Snyder. Snyder's teams played in 11 consecutive bowl games from 1993 to 2003. Kansas State's 1991 spring enrollment was 18,909, and its enrollment was 23,182 this semester. In 2001 Kansas State was named one of the top 10 "trendiest schools in the nation" by Newsweek's Guidance Counselor survey. Sports Illustrated listed the school as "Futility U" 12 years earlier. David Johnston, director of University marketing, said athletic success gave the University a way to reach prospective students and alumni across the country. "Athletics plays a major role in terms of visibility." Johnston said. "It raises the profile of the institution and helps promote the things we do on a daily basis." While the financial gains of any bowl game help a university, the potential recruiting benefits from national television exposure are important as well. "Bowl appearances are a way to show fans that you've got a program that is headed in the right direction," Marchchiy said. "It makes it easier to recruit good players, and I think it also has a positive influence on high school students." Each of the three bowls, which Kansas is being considered for, pay nearly $750,000. What's left of that money, after paying for the costs of team travel, lodging and other necessities, is forwarded to the conference and split among all 12 teams. An official announcement on Kansas' bowl future is expected after the Big 12 cConference Championship game Saturday afternoon. Marchiony said he was unsure of where Kansas' bowl game would be played. It appears likely the team will head to the Fort Worth Bowl, with the Houston Bowl and Independence Bowl also possibilities. This season's possible bowl appearance would be the 10th in program history. A berth in the Fort Worth Bowl would be Kansas' third bowl game played in Texas. Kansas previously competed in the Bluebonnet Bowl in 1961 and the Sun Bowl in 1975. Kansas players selected for All-Big 12 honors — Edited by Anne Burgard BIG 12 FOOTBALL Senior linebacker Nick Reid and senior defensive end Charlton Keith both received first-team All-Big 12 honors, Players on the Kansas football team continued to receive All-Big 12 Conference honors Thursday when the Associated Press announced its yearly selections. while junior cornerback/wide receiver Charles Gordon was named to the second team. In all, 10 Jayhawks were honored, with eight others earning honorable-mention selections. The honorable mentions were senior linebackers Banks Floodman, Kevin Kane and Brandon Perkins, junior offensive lineman David Ochoa, freshman cornerback Aqib Talib, sophomore kicker Scott Webb and junior offensive lineman Bob Whitaker. Kansan staff report Upset CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10A 793 yards and eight touchdowns. Young said earlier this week during the Big 12 teleconference that there were two things he wanted to accomplish when he came to Texas. "One of my goals when I got out of high school was to play on a national championship team and win the Heisman trophy," Young said. "Each game I have to get myself prepared mentally to play the game, and it's up to me." This will be the second time this season the two teams will play each other. Texas won the first game at home 42-17. Brown said he expected this game to be tougher. "We're not going to duplicate our earlier performance against Colorado because it was really hot, and we had a 17-play drive to start the game," Brown said. "I expect there to be a tremendous amount of emotion and a lot of knee-knocking in this week's game, and it will be just as emotional as the Texas A&M game was for us last week." Colorado enters the game with a 7-4 record and having lost its final two games of the season to Iowa State and Nebraska. After its loss last Friday to Nebraska, it appeared Colorado was out of the championship game, but Kansas defeated Iowa State one day later, putting Colorado back into the championship game. Colorado football coach Gary Barnett missed the majority of the Kansas-Iowa State game, but he caught the most important part of it. "I was feeling a little sorry for myself from Friday," Barnett said. "When the Kansas-Iowa State game went into overtime and ISU missed that kick, I started to get a little excited. I'm sure the kids were watching and getting excited as Kansas lined up to make the winning field goal." The game is scheduled for an 11 a.m kickoff Saturday in Reliant Stadium and will be televised on ABC. — Edited by Nate Karlin UCLA The UCLA offense is run by freshman setter Nellie Spicer. She averaged 12.58 assists per game during the regular season. On the attack, the Bruins are paced by a pair of young outside hitters in freshman Kaitlin Sather and sophomore Rachlec Johnson. Sather averages 3.88 kills per game and Johnson adds 3.15. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10A "They're very strong on the outside, so their right side and left side players are where the majority of the sets go." Bechard said. "We'll try to identify some tendencies that they have, but at the same time we'll try to get some matchups that work for us and what we're trying to do." — Edited by Nate Karlin MEN'S BASKETBALL Ticket pick-up period to begin this Monday The third pick-up period for Kansas men's basketball tickets begins at 9 a.m. Monday, Dec. 5. Students can redeem their tickets online at the Kansas Athletics Web site, www. kuathletics.com, or at the ticket office, at the southeast corner of Allen Fieldhouse. Games in the third pick-up period include Northern Colorado, New Orleans, Yale, Kentucky, Kansas State and Nebraska. The pick-up period ends Wednesday, Dec. 7. 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Students Admitted FREE with KU ID!! --- THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN SPORTS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2005 WWW.KANSAN.COM Nevada 72 - Kansas 70 PAGE 10A Back to the '70s Josh Kirk/KANSAN 39 31 3 5 Kansas sophomore forward CJ Gites, freshman forward Brandon Rush and sophomore guard Russell Robinson pressure Nevada sophomore guard Marcelus Kemp. The Jayhawks were forced to foul late in the fourth quarter when trailing by 3. KU falls to 2-3; first time since'72 BY RVAN COLAIanni rcolaianni@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITER CJ Giles went up for a gametying layup in the closing seconds of Thursday night's game against Nevada. He felt someone grabbing his arm. Held down, it was easy for Wolf Pack defenders to block the shot and give Nevada a 72-70 victory against Kansas. "I don't know if the officials saw it or not," Giles said. "His hands were basically holding my arm." Giles, sophomore forward, had received a pass from senior guard Jeff Hawkins. He had full control of the ball before going up, and then felt the contact, he said. Kansas men's basketball coach Bill Self ran onto the court when time expired, demanding a foul call from the officials. No call was made, and the Jayhawks dropped to 2-3 for the first time since the 1972-73 season. "I thought he got fouled, from my vantage point," Self said. "I am usually not one to complain about officiating, and I am not going to do it tonight." For the third time this season, Kansas battled back from early deficits but was unable to pull out a victory. The Jahayhus batted back numerous times. They were down as many as 6 points with 2.04 remaining, but closed the gap to 1 with 17.6 seconds to go. Kansas still was unable to come back. Held down, it was easy for Wolf Pack defenders to block the shot and give Nevada a 72-70 victory against Kansas. The team struggled during the first half, falling behind by 8 points at intermission, but appeared to be more focused in the second half. The offense performed better in the second half and shot 54 percent from the field, after shooting just 34 percent in the opening period. "Hopefully, this will give us a message that you have to come into the game and play it from the beginning," senior forward Sasha Kaun said. "We just need to turn it on right at the beginning of the game, instead of waiting for the second half to do it." Giles said. The come back in the second half was partly because of the play of freshman forward Brandon Rush, who scored 13 of his 15 points in the second半分. SEE GAMER ON PAGE 8A BIG 12 FOOTBALL UT looks to avoid repeat upset INGRAM 5 BY DANIEL BERK dberk@kansan.com KANSAN SENIOR SOUTWRIVER Colorado will again try to spoil Texas' postseason hopes when the teams meet in the Big 12 Championship game Saturday in Houston. If Texas wins, the Longhorns will gain a berth in the Rose Bowl and play for the National Championship on Jan. 4. Rachel Seymour/KANSAN That was the same scenario four years ago when the two teams met in the conference championship game in Irving, Texas. Texas was one game away from playing for the national championship, but was upset by Colorado 39-37 and was denied an opportunity to play in the title game. Four years later, with the same two coaches roaring the sidelines for the two teams, Texas football coach Mack Brown said this game would be a lot different than the 2001 game when the Longhorns had to rely on an upset to play in the Big 12 championship game. "This year we have controlled our own destiny," Brown said. "In 2001 we had to get on the phones and start calling kids to find them Saturday night before the game after Oklahoma State unset Oklahoma." Josi Lima, senior middle blocker, hugs freshman middle blocker, Savannah Noyes, after winning one of their four games against Missouri Nov. 23. Kansas lost the match, but has received a bid to the NCAA Volleyball Tournament in Los Angeles. Texas enters the game with a perfect 11-0 record and has been paced by Heisman trophy hopeful Vince Young. The junior quarterback from Houston will get an opportunity to play in from of a large number of friends and family this weekend. Young has thrown for 2,576 yards this season and 23 touchdowns. Young has also rushed for SEE UPSET ON PAGE 9A VOLLEYBALL Surprising bid leaves nothing to lose BY MATT WILSON mwilson@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITER After a frustrating season filled with injuries, the Kansas volleyball team will receive a second chance today. The Jayhawks will play their first-round match in the NCAA Tournament at 10 tonight in Los Angeles, despite a lackluster record of 15-14. Kansas also finished below Iowa State, which didn't make the tournament, despite a better Big 12 Conference record. That means Kansas will be playing with house money, so to speak, when they play the UCLA in the first-round match. Should they win, Kansas will play on Saturday against the winner of the Long Beach State-San Diego match. No matter the outcome of their tussle with the 14th-ranked Bruins, the Jayhawks are happy to extend their season at least one more week after thinking they had not played well enough to earn this chance. "Toward the end, when we lost to Iowa State, then I was kind of like 'Uh, I don't think we're going,' senior middle blocker Josi Lima said. "But when our name came up, it was a wonderful feeling." Another perk of the surprise Kansas selection was the destination. Leaving the cold weather of Lawrence for 60-degree Los Angeles was a nice assignment for the Jayhawks, who arrived there on Wednesday. Kansas is no stranger to nice locales come tournament time. In 2003, it played at Pepperdine, in Malibu, Calif. Last year, the Jayhawks escaped the Kansas winter again, playing in the Seattle pod, where Washington hosted. Despite a forecast that called for rain Friday, Lima said she was excited to play in such a pleasant place. “It’s really nice,” Lima said. “We've been so lucky every year. It's Senior setter Andi Rozum will likely miss the match because of a back injury. That will force sophomore opposite hitter Emily Brown and Lima into action at that position. Lima, who hasn't played setter since she was in high school in Brazil, said she would be ready to adapt to the new position. really good to get out of the cold weather." The regular season was physically tough on Lima. The four-time, All-Big 12 performer is nursing several injuries that she's played through all year. Kansas will also be without junior outside hitter Jana Correa, who tore her ACL in the Oct. 5 match against Kansas State. The Jayhawks lost seven games in a row after Correa's injury. "Mentally, I'm 100 percent," she said. "Physically, I'm probably like 60. I'm getting used to pain." Kansas volleyball coach Ray Bechard said that early-season victories against tournament teams Alabama, Virginia Commonwealth, Colorado and Texas A&M, plus a November victory at Kansas State, gave the selection committee enough evidence that Kansas belonged in the tournament. "I think you have to look at the 29-match season, not just the last one," Bechard said. "I know the committee looked at the entire body of work." "I think if players tell you about Pepperdine or Washington, the memories they bring back are of things that happened in the gym." Bechard said. "Even though it's a nice place to go and might be touristy for some, I think the most important part and the part the kids will remember is how it went on the court." With the nice weather, sightseeing and entertainment opportunities, Bechard said the most important issue remained volleyball. - Edited by Anne Burgard Powerhouse UCLA to test Kansas BY MATT WILSON mwilson@kansan.com KANSAN SPORTS WRITER The Kansas Jayhawks will begin their third consecutive NCAA Tournament tonight when they face off with the UCLA Bruins at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles. For the Bruins, Friday's match will begin their program's 24th appearance in the tournament. They have won six national championships, including three NCAA titles. The other three came before the NCAA began governing women's volleyball in 1981. "I have only seen a little bit of Kansas, but they appear to be pretty well-rounded in all their skills," Banachowski said. "We will go into the match emphasizing our serving and blocking and be prepared to make the necessary adjustments as the match progresses." Kansas is reeling after three straight losses to close out the regular season. Its last appearance on the court ended in a 3-0 defeat at the hands of Iowa State in Ames, Iowa, last Saturday. Breins' coach Andy Banachowski said he was impressed with what he had seen from the Jayhawks despite their lackluster finish. The jayhawks have a record of 2-2 in their two previous tournament appearances. They finished the season with a 7-13 record in the Big 12 Conference, which put them in eighth place. Kansas volleyball coach Ray Bechard said his team would have to rise to the challenge despite the injuries of senior setter Andi Rozum and junior outside hitter Jana Correa. On top of history, Kansas will have its work cut out for it with this year's UCLA squad. UCLA is ranked 14th in the nation and has won six of its nine matches in Westwood, Calif., this season. "We can't use injuries as an excuse," Bechard said. "We're limited, but you can only put six out there. So let's knock on wood and hope everybody stays healthy from here on out and people step up." The Bruins, in stark contrast to the Jayhawks, finished strong. They enter the match with an 18-10 record, including a 10-8 Pac-10 mark finalized with a 3-1 victory against California last Saturday. 102 SEE UCLA ON PAGE 9A THE STUDENT VOICE SINCE 1904 THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2005 AGE 9A VOL.116 ISSUE 73 FOOTBALL WWW.KANSAN.COM Postseason 'worth' wait Bowl Bound BY RYAN COLAIANNI rcolaiani@kansan.com KANSAN STAMP WRITER Fort Worth Bowl, 7 p.m., Fri. Dec. 23, Amon G. Carter Stadium Televised nationally on ESPN, Sunflower Broadband Ch. 33 After two weeks of speculation, the Kansas football team received an invitation to play in the bowl that many fans and analysts expected would choose Kansas all along: the Fort Worth Bowl. KU Kansas Jayhawks vs. Houston Cougars (6-5, 3-5 Big 12) (6-5, 4-4 CUSA) Tom Starr, executive director of the bowl, invited the Jayhawks to play in the Dec. 23 game against Houston, in a conference call Sunday heard at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics. TACOMS "We certainly have centered around the Jayhawks for the past few weeks here and we are so excited that it came through," Starr said. Key Wins vs. Nebraska (40-15) vs. Iowa State (24-21 OT) Key Wins at Tulsa (30-23) Members of the team, coaches and Athletics Department officials surrounded Kansas football coach Mark Mangino when he made the phone call. The game will be nationally televised on ESPN. Key Losses vs. Southern Methodist (29-24) at Kansas State (12-3) "We accept the invitation and we are looking forward to coming down to Fort Worth," Mangino told Starr. "We are excited to be a part of the Fort Worth Bowl and we want to give you a good game." Mangino said he thought all along that the third annual Fort Worth Bowl would be where Kansas would play, but he was never completely sure. The game will match two 6-5 teams at Amon G. Carter Stadium in Fort Worth, Texas. Mangino said the location of the game would lead to a large contingent of Kansas fans at the game. "We want to establish ourselves as a football program that will travel well to bowl games, and we know that our loyal fans will be there." Mangino said. Kansas' Overall Record vs. Houston 1994 at Houston W(35-13) 1995 at Lawrence W(20-13) Source: www.fwbowl.com A victory against Houston would give Kansas seven wins for the first time in a decade. Kansas went 10-2 in 1995. This will be a homecoming for senior defensive end Jermial Ashley, who is a Fort Worth native. Ashley is among 23 The bowl appearance for Kansas is its 10th bowl appearance all-time and its second in the past three seasons. KU players from Texas. "It means a lot to me because a lot of people didn't get to make the trip to Kansas due to different reasons," Ashley said. "I am back at home now so everybody can get the opportunity to come watch me play in my last college game." This will be Ashley's first bowl game. He transferred to Kansas from Tyler Community College after his sophomore season. Edited by Tricia Masenthin Students score tickets to bowl game BY RYAN SCHNEIDER rschnetider@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITER KU students have something to celebrate in addition to the football team's 2005 Fort Worth Bowl appearance versus Houston: free tickets to the game. Jim Marchiony, Kansas associate athletics director, said students could visit the Athletics Department ticket office, located at the southeast corner of Allen Fieldhouse, to complete the paperwork to receive tickets. He said students would be able to pick them up at Amon G. Carter Stadium before the game. Each student can receive one ticket. Additional tickets can be purchased through the department's online ticket office, at www.kuathletics.com, for $40 each. Students also received free tickets to the team's last bowl appearance in the 2003 Tangerine Bowl against North Carolina State in Orlando, Fla., when the lavhawks lost. Kick-off is set for 7 p.m. Dec. 23, and will be televised nationally on ESPN. — Edited by Tricia Masenthin GREEK LIFE THE GREEK DIV Cultural differences limit diversity By Louis Mora imora@kansan.com Kansan staff writer Illustration by Rachel Seymour Kelsey Schepmann Kelsey Schepmann studies the history hanging on the walls of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority house. She pays close attention to a 1915 photo of the founding women, 21 of them, in lace dresses and hair in neatly tied buns. She circles the rows of composites lining the study room. Row after row of fair-skinned women pass her by until she reaches the corner of the room where one face stands out among 151 women. It's Schepmann, the only African-American member in the chapter. The realization causes her to laugh without a smile. "We are all of the human race. What's going on?" she asked. "We have come so far but we don't have diversity?" Forty years after the University of Kansas' traditional Greek organizations removed clauses from their constitutions preventing African-American membership, University fraternities and sororities remain more than 99 percent white. Schepmann is one of only 13 African Americans among the 3,000 members of traditional Greek chapters. The student body of 26,934 has 912 African Americans, or about 3.4 percent. The Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic organizations have 32 fraternities and sororities, and 22 have no black members. While the organizations' once racially exclusive histories SEE DIVIDE ON PAGE 4A IDE Jeison Lawson Today's weather 34 16 Mostly sunny weather.com Tomorrow 25 5 FARTLY CLOUDY Wednesday 25 5 Few SNOW SHOWER It's not just The Hawk Three Lawrence bars are among the five that have been cited for violating Kansas alcohol laws most often.The other two are both now closed. PAGE2A Starters don't rise to Self's challenge in victory Kansas bounced back from its loss against Nevada to rout Western Illinois 86-57 Saturday night, but a few of the starters watched the second half from the bench after an inbound turnover. PAGE 12A Happy Christmakkah With Christmas and Hanukkah falling on top of one another this year, students from multi-faith family backgrounds are preparing to celebrate more than one holiday when they return home for winter break. PAGE 3A Index Comics. ... 7A Classifieds. ... 9A Crossword. ... 7A Horoscopes. ... 7A Opinion. ... 6A Sports. ... 12A . All contents, unless stated otherwise, © 2005The University Daily Kansan 26 2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN NEWS MONDAY, DECEMBER 5. 2005 this week in KU HISTORY dec. 5 - dec. 9 © 2005 University of Kansas Memorial Corporation. All rights reserved BY SHANKI UPSDELL editor@kansan.com KANSAN CORRESPONDENT Dec. 7,1905-Helium High What started as a well of "hot air" led to a University of Kansas discovery that would help the Allies in World War II and comprise a national strategic reserve material: helium. [Name] In 1903, the small town of Dexter uncovered "a howling gasser" while drilling a natural gas well, the American Chemical Society wrote in a 2000 booklet. Envisioning immediate industries such as glass plants and ore smelters, the people planned a public celebration. The celebration would climax, promotional materials stated, by pushing a burning When the time arrived, the flames from the burning bate movee slowly to touch the gushes then died. After repeating the procedure – with the same results – the crowd left, some calling it wind gas and others calling it hot air. "Understandably," the booklet said, "the company 'did not wish that it be given great publicity.'" bale of hay into the gusher to burst into flame and "light the entire countryside for a day and a night." Erasmus Haworth, the state's official geologist and geology faculty member at the University, heard about the well. He arranged for a sample of the gas to be sent to David McFarland, professor of chemistry. On this day, McFarland and Hamilton Cady, professor of chemistry, extracted and identified helium from the gas sample in Bailey Hall. Helium served as the "inert residue" that helped stop the flame from burning, the booklet said. Isolating helium in natural gas allowed it to be harvested in large quantities. The country would not use helium extensively until World War II when U.S. Navy patrol blimps filled with helium helped escort ships carrying supplies and troops. The Allies enjoyed a "virtual monopoly" on helium, the booklet said, because only the United States and Canada had identified gas wells that could produce large amounts of it. Commander Ronald E. Evans, 1956 graduate and KU alumnus, attended the University's Navy ROTC program and earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. Dec. 7, 1972 - Rock Chalk "Spacehawk" The first KU alumnus in space blasted off on NASA's last manned mission to the moon for the United States on this day. He journeyed into space as the command module pilot of Apollo 17. Although Evans never touched the moon's surface, he embarked on a spacewalk outside the spacecraft that lasted for about one hour. He would later recount his experience of that spacewalk to the Kansas Alumni Magazine in December 1981. Although he had to hang on to the spacecraft by his wrists, he said the experience was "actually euphoric" after he adjusted to it. Evans' commitment to the University never declined. He requested the 'fajawk Fight Song' he played in space to wake him up in the morning. But he later admitted in a University visit that although the song played three or four times, he failed to wake up or hear it. "I have come back to KU to redeem myself," he said. The Ronald Evans auditorium in Nichols Hall holds one of his keepsakes – a small flag with the University's logo on it. Evans took the flag into space with him and bequeathed it to "the men and women of KU where I took my first steps toward the moon." Evans holds the world record for the most time spent in lunar orbit - 147 hours and 48 minutes. Evans died from a heart attack April 6, 1990, in Scottsdale, Ariz. $ \diamond $ Information compiled from www.kuhistory.com,www.nasa.gov and the Spencer Research Library Archives State targets several local bars NIGHTLIFE Establishments join The Hawk on top five list BY STEVE LYNN sylnn@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITER At least three bars in Lawrence have paid thousands of dollars in fines for multiple alcohol violations in order to keep operating. The Kansas Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control has cracked down on underage drinking in Lawrence bars, and especially those open to patrons 18 and up, such as Quinton's Bar and Deli, Club 508 and The Hawk, according to records from the Kansas Department of Revenue. "I think it happens to every other bar," Jesse Del Campo, manager of Club 508, said. His mother, Severina Del Campo, owns the 18-and-up dance club on 508 Locust St., north of the Kansas River. Despite Del Campo's opinion, Club 508, Quinton's Bar and Deli and The Hawk are among the five bars in Kansas with the most violations. The other two bars, Manhattan's Shotz and Emporia's Rawdawgz, have closed. Records show a sharp rise in enforcement at two of the Lawrence bars beginning in 2004, but their owners say the ABC is stepping up enforcement at other bars. too. Tom Groneman, director of the ABC, said in the Sept. 23 edition of The University Daily Kansan that the ABC often inspects establishments in Lawrence because of the town's large population of underage drinkers. Steve Gaudreau of Quinton's 615 Massachusetts St., was fined $3,300 after he pleaded guilty or no contest to 20 different MIPs and three other alcohol law violations since 1991. In a settlement agreement between Gaudreau Quinton Enterprises, Inc., and Alcoholic Beverage Control, signed Nov. 4, Gaudreau agreed to pay $10,000 for 10 violations that occurred between March 11, 2004, and Sept. 24, 2005. Quinton's was also suspended from serving alcohol for one day on three different occasions in 1997 and 1998. The bar was also ordered to complete a training program. Gaudreau said he recently noticed an increase in enforcement at his bar and others in Lawrence. "There definitely has been an increase across the board," Gaudreau said. "I think they're going after the popular places. It's like shooting fish in a barrel." Severina Del Campo has been fined $3,600 after pleading guilty or no contest to 24 MIPs since 1996. The establishment changed its name from Los Amigos Saloon to Club 508, Jesse Del Campo said. In a settlement agreement between Severnina Del Campo and the ABC, also signed Nov. 4, the bar agreed to pay $12,000 for 13 violations between Feb. 6, 2004, and Jan. 29, 2005. Club 508 was also suspended from serving alcohol for a total of six days on two occasions in the past and was ordered to complete two training programs. Del Campo said the club had to gamble and hope that its 18-year-old patrons wouldn't drink. If an underage person is drinking, employees remove them from the bar, he said. But that hasn't worked. A record states that the State of Kansas will serve to revoke Severina Del Campo's liquor license for any additional violations. "We take the chances of letting in 18 and up." Del Campo said. "If we didn't do that, they'd go somewhere else." Most of the patrons that go to Club 508 are younger than 21, he said. The Hawk, which admits 18 year-olds, has been cited for 43 MIPs from 2003 to September 2005, records show. Seven of those violations were dropped at a hearing. John Heleniak, co-owner of The Hawk, 1340 Ohio St., said LAW BREAKERS Of the five bars in Kansas cited for violations of Kansas alcohol control laws, three are in Lawrence. The remaining two have been closed. 1. The Hawk 5. Rawdawgz (Closed) Source: Kansas Department of Revenue he would not comment. The ABC did not provide information pertaining to increased enforcement and fines paid by The Hawk. Brad Burke, assistant attorney general for the ABC, said the ABC recommended that The Hawk's liquor license be revoked. Burke said he could not comment on the specifics of the case. The ABC enters into hearings or settlement negotiations with licensees and takes the bars' histories into consideration. "If there have been additional violations after agreements, it's taken into consideration that they have been given a chance." Burke said. Edited by Jonathan Kealing No longer on the prowl BSP J. Scott Applewhite/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A man identified by Secret Service spokesman Jonathan Cherry, unseen, as Shawn A. Cox of Arkansas, left, is taken into custody by an officer of the Secret Service Uniformed Division outside the Northwest Gate of the White House facing Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, Sunday. 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BY JOHN HANNA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Center for the Understanding of Origins was a response last year to what was then an on-the-horizon debate over how evolution is taught in public schools. Its goals include bringing scientists and philosophers together and giving students a better understanding of how science works. Students have often discussed whether the universe was designed by a higher power in philosophy classes. But the debate is hotter now — and reaching a wide public audience — because of the State Board of Education's recent approval of science standards for Kansas public schools that treat evolution as a flawed theory. Intelligent design can't be ignored. educators acknowledge "There's certainly the background of the controversy," said Tim Bolton, a Kansas State physics professor who proposed creating the center last year. "Controversy is opportunity." Intelligent design advocates have complained repeatedly that their ideas — and criticisms of evolutionary theory — don't get a fair hearing on university The Kansas State center isn't friendly to intelligent design, and other Kansas courses will be in the hands of professors who don't think much of the concept, intelligent design advocates say. But getting universities to tackle the subject at all is a first step, said John Calvert, a retired Lake Quivira attorney who helped found the Intelligent Design Network. He compared past debates over evolution to a football game in which educators have assumed, "You need a security guard to keep a competitor out of the stadium." "The stadium is being opened up to a competing idea," Calvert said. "Eventually, you will have real competitors on that playing field. You will eventually have scientists rather than theologians engaged in the conversation." Santa and his all dog sleigh Willie Stewart, 5, of Bend, Ore., pets costumed chihuahuaus Coco, left, Kirby, Joey, and Cooper, right, before the start of the Jingle Bell Run in Bend on Saturday. The run preceded the Bend Christmas Parade Seth Bundy/KANSAN BENNIE'S PETS RELIGION Celebrating Christmakkah BY ALY BARLAND abarland@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITER In a few weeks, Jennifer Labovitz will be lighting the Christmas tree — and the menorah. Though the majority of students with religious affiliations celebrate the holidays of a single faith, Labovitz celebrates those of more than one. As a child, the St. Louis senior said she liked celebrating both holidays because she received more presents. Her parents gave presents for each of the eight nights of Hanukkah and also for Christmas Eve and Christmas Dav. She celebrates both Christmas and Hanukkah because her mother's side of the family has a mix of Catholics and Lutherans and her father's side is Jewish. with her mother on Christmas, but her father stays home. Jay Lewis, director of KU Hillel, said he knew students who celebrate holidays from multiple faiths, but it was not common. But a problem with celebrating both holidays, he said, was that it could be challenging to truly celebrate the religious aspects of both holidays. Labovitz attends church Rachel Stelmach, Overland Park freshman, also celebrates both Christmas and Hanukkah. She only celebrated Christmas when she was younger, but also started celebrating Hanukkah her freshman year of high school because her parents come from different faith backgrounds. "I don't necessarily consider myself Christian or Jewish," Stelmach said. Because Christianity derived from Judaism, there are several parallels that connect the two religions, said Troy Hinkel, director of theological education at St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center. He said that understanding these connections and relationships could be beneficial to students of all faiths because it would create a greater tolerance for different beliefs. Labovitz said she personally did not find it difficult to celebrate both holidays but had been criticized for affiliating with Christianity and Judaism. For Labovitz, the benefits of her belief system outweigh any negative feedback she receives. "Celebrating both faiths allows me to experience two of the most widely celebrated religions first-hand," Labovitz said. Edited by Nate Karlin THIS WEEK ON CAMPUS Have events or meetings you would like publicized? In a student group open to all students? E-mail nolx13@ku.edu for more information Contact Student Senate to place YOUR AD HERE FOR FREE!! 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Administer, interpret,and enforce all policies and election rules set forth by the Commission. .Serve as an administrative assistant to the Commission, attending and reporting on all meetings and functions,and representing the Student Senate in investigations of election misconduct. - Be available to communicate with all candidates, coalitions, and others in the University community regarding the Elections Code and Commission policies. ·Be responsible for conducting all aspects of the campaign under the authority and guidance of the Commission. Applications are available in the Dean of Students office and are due December 9. For more information, please contact Jonathan Steele by email at jsteele2@ku.edu. 4A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN NEWS MONDAY, DECEMBER 5. 2005 Divide CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A Of the estimated 3,000 members of the Panhellenic Association and Interfraternity Council, about one out of every 230 is African-American. There are a total of 13 African-American members; seven are in sororities and six are in fraternities. A FREE UNIVERSITY FOR ALL STUDENTS! --- Rachel Sevmour/KANSAN University Archives, Spencer Research Library A group of 350 people wait for Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe to address the Civil Rights Council demonstrators and university students on March 9, 1965. In September of that same year, the Kansas Board of Regents established a policy ending discrimination in all faternities and sororities at the six Kansas universities. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A make it difficult to recruit African Americans, other factors, including the cultural and economic divide, have created barriers. High costs and houses dominated by whites have African Americans looking elsewhere for housing. Traditional Greeks hail from upper-to middle-class, suburban white backgrounds while African Americans are associated with an urban, working class culture. These differences have fostered stereotypes about both sides. When Jeison Lawson, Overland Park junior, hits the Lawrence nightlife with his black friends he doesn't worry about what he says or how he acts. He can let loose to the R&B and rap beats of artists such as Kanye West, Dr. Dre and Twista. The cultural barrier The free-spirited personality he demonstrates with brothers from his own culture is shed. He can't slip into his Ebonics vocabulary when he's around men from the chapter, he said. But when he goes to the Theta Chi house, where he's the only African-American member, his demeanor becomes introverted, he said. Lawson said the decision to join an IFC fraternity or one of the black fraternities of the National Pan-Hellenic Council was the toughest decision he's made and one he now regrets. He has decided to leave Theta Chi to join a black fraternity. "When I'm around a majority of whites I have to keep my guard up and have to watch what I say," he said. The language of Ebonics, which he uses with black friends and which dominates songs he listens to. is difficult for his white fraternity bothers to comprehend, he said. He said Theta Chi provided a sense of brotherhood, but in NPHC fraternities brotherhood runs deeper than just a group of friends; it's a bond shared through common culture. "It's like going away to a place you've never been and you're kind of homesick." he said. He said if there were another African American in his chapter he would have reconsidered, but with no one to connect with culturally, living in the house was difficult. When introduced at one of the houses, she said her skin color triggered this response from a member: "My best friend is black." Emi Erekosima, Rosehill freshman and the only African-American member of Alpha Delta Pi, recalls similar feelings of displacement when sorority members reacted to her skin color during open recruitment. "I felt I was going to be the tooken." she said about that chapter Later, when they were going out for dessert, she said a member asked, "Are you going to eat vanilla? I heard all black people eat vanilla." She said at Alpha Delta Pi she wasn't treated differently, but after she joined, her black friends started to tease her about being the only black in the house. Friends upset her when they called her an "Oreo" because of her involvement in a "white" sorority. Erekosima said she has not forgotten her ethnic roots. She is a member of the Black Student Union and said she doesn't have to talk or act a certain way to be considered black. "If they could just see past the whole idea, 'I have to act this way because I have to be black,' I think they might join a fraternity or sorority," she said Sampson Yimer, Lawrence junior and the only African-American member of Sigma Chi, said the lack of diversity stems from vastly different cultures rather than skin color. Yimer said he recalled being asked by a white woman, "Well, why didn't you join a black fraternity?" His answer: Why do we expect all blacks to fit into a socially constructed box by joining members of their own ethnic culture? "Regardless of color of skin, if everybody acted the same there wouldn't be these racial hatreds," he said. "It's the difference in culture that breeds racial hatred." Freshmen dues for sorority members range from $1,016 to $2,443. Living in the house sophomore and junior years can cost anywhere from $4,600 to $7,300. The cost is far greater than dues of the historically black NPHC sororities and fraternities where members pay only $100 to $200 for dues. Urban vs. suburban The five historically black chapters at the University are much smaller, don't have lavish, pillared houses like the traditional greeks and hold meetings in the Kansas Union. Christina Strubbe, Leawood senior and 2005 Panhellenic president, said the lack of African Americans could be the result of the "ridiculous fees" traditional grecks paid. Erekosima said if cost deters African Americans from joining a sorority, it shouldn't. cial assistance are available. She said members weren't punished for missing a payment and would not be kicked out even if they did. She said scholarships and finan- "People look at the book price and don't see what they are gaining from it," she said. Strubbe said the absence of African Americans has as much to do with a clash of urban and suburban culture as it does economics. She said a majority of sorority members are from areas like Johnson County and North Shore Chicago, which are heavily populated by affluent whites. Erekosima said one's background played a role. Coming from Rosehill, where there were only three African Americans in her high school, made her feel comfortable with a group of white women who came from the same background. "I haven't met anybody who's from the ghetto," she said. Scarred by the past She said they've made strides, but admitted, "Historically, there is an uphill battle. They don't have a glowing history." The constitution of Sigma Chi fraternity in 1959 read, "No person shall be eligible to membership in the Sigma Chi fraternity who is not a bona fide white male student in the college or university in which the chapter proposing his initiation is charted." These clauses existed in other Greek houses, prohibiting black membership. Exclusion of blacks caused then-Chancellor W. Clark Wescoe to issue a statement on July 1, 1962, asking for the removal of discriminatory clauses. The last clause was removed nearly three years later when Sigma Nu fraternity received a waiver from its national council to eliminate the white only rule on March 4, 1965. The words had been removed, but discriminatory practices remained through blackbaiting tactics that included negative letters of recommendation from white alumni for black pledges and a voting system where one "no" vote eliminated a potential member. The council asked Wescoe to reassure African-American students that the sororities and fraternities no longer practiced racial discrimination by providing a signed statement from the chapters. On March 8, 1965, the segregation problem boiled over when more than 150 students from the Civil Rights Council conducted a sit-in at the chancellor's office, protesting the practices of fraternities and sororities along with other civil rights issues. The Kansas Board of Regents put an official stop to segregation practices on Sept. 27, 1965. It established a policy eliminating discrimination in all fraternities and sororites at the six Kansas universities. That racist history is still remembered by the African-American community. Erekosima's black friends reminded her about the problems they felt still existed. When she joined, her black friends warned her that sororites wouldn't let her in, because they select only a few "token" minorities, or that alumni wouldn't approve her membership. But she was invited and joined. Misunderstandings and insensitivities still exist she said. She said this year's Delta Delta Delta and Beta Theta Pi bid day party shirt reflected those insensitivities. It featured a "Dukes of Hazzard" theme with the unmistakable stars and bars of the Confederate flag. "It's a symbol of racism. It's rude," she said. "They didn't think before they made the shirt." She said they were oblivious to racial issues and should be more sensitive. 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Scott Shorten, Stillwell senior and 2005 IFC president, said all incoming freshmen receive information but recruits usually have a connection with a chapter, whether through friends or family. "There's an incentive to get the members who are the easiest to get," he said. Arrested demonstrators were greeted by sympathetic picketers as they unloaded from buses at the Douglas County Court House parking lot on March 8, 1965. The demonstrators were speaking out against racial inequality issues at the University. Chapters needed to go beyond normal recruiting methods and pursue a diverse group by finding ways to pique their interest, Bauer said. "It's a fear of the unknown," she said. "It's having the guts to step out of the box." "I don't want to force a minority to join an IFC chapter if they don't want to, just so we can better our situation." he said. effort to join the organizations. Richard Young, Overland Park junior and 2005 IFC vice president for recruitment, said informational programs could generate interest from African Americans. He said better informing African Americans so they wouldn't feel like outsiders could help, but ultimately the decision to join was on their shoulders. Yimer, Sigma Chi member, said blacks shouldn't blame the greek system because the opportunity to join exists for everyone. He said blacks have to become more open-minded and make an Stubble said it was difficult to recruit African Americans because they gravitated toward organizations that fit their culture and values. University Archives, Spencer Research Library * Huawei network in London* She said an African-American woman joined her sorority, Kappa Kappa Gamma, this year, which excited her but opened her eyes to the issue. "Is it exciting that we have an African American in our chapter or is it disappointing that we are excited?" she said. "I'm excited to get some diversity in our chapter, but it shouldn't be that way." Black members said attracting more diversity could be as simple as discussing the topic of race, which Yimer said was considered "taboo." When people can't discuss the issue, it only continues misconceptions, he said. "It's something that we shouldn't shy away from," he said. "We should confront the issue head on." Stribue said diversity or race issues were not a focus for sororities and were seldom discussed. Efforts being made by both councils to work with NPHC could help to resolve problems, she said. Stribue said that having traditional greeks participating in NPHC's step show last year and having its members involved in this year's Greek Endeavor, a retreat for freshmen in the Greek organizations, has provided exposure to cultural differences. "We are just trying to get it," she said. "Maybe we don't have a huge number of African Americans within our own council, but at least we are trying to learn more about their organization and why their culture is so important to them." Schepmann turns away from the sea of white faces staring back at her from the walls. She talks about stepping up and erasing the divide between races that has existed far too long. She said she would like to pursue a role in the Panhellenic community that would allow her to share her message with other African-American women so she could one day return to the study room of Gamma Phi Beta to find more faces that look like her. "If people work hard and people are genuine, it will change," she said. "It's not going to be easy but with enough will-power, it could." — Edited by Anne Burgard GOVERNMENT U.S. lacks security against attacks BY HOPE YEN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The United States is at great risk for more terrorist attacks because Congress and the White House have failed to enact several strong security measures, members of the former Sept. 11 commission said Sunday. THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPON "It's not a priority for the government right now," said the former chairman, Thomas Kean, ahead of the group's release of a report Monday assessing how well its recommendations have been followed. J. Scott Applewhite/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Thomas Kean, left, former chairman of the Sept. 11 commission, and former vice chairman Lee H. Hamilton, listen to comments by other panel members and reporters as they discuss progress on the recommendations of their 2004 report, during a news conference in Washington in this Nov. 14, 2005, file photo. The United States is at great risk for more terrorist attacks because Congress and the White House have failed to enact several strong security measures, members of the former Sept. 11 commission said Sunday. "It's not a priority for the government right now," said the former chairman, Thomas Kean, ahead of the group's release of a report Monday assessing how well its recommendations have been followed. "More than four years after 9/11 ... people are not paying attention," the former Republican governor of New Jersey said. "God help us if we have another attack." Added Lee Hamilton, the former Democratic vice chairman of the commission: "We believe that another attack will occur. It's not a question of if. We are not as well-prepared as we should be." The five Republicans and five Democrats on the commission, whose recommendations are now promoted through a privately funded group known as the 9/11 Public Discourse Project, conclude that the government deserves "more Fs than As" in responding to their 41 suggested changes. Since the commission's final report in July 2004, the government has enacted the centerpiece proposal to create a national intelligence director. But the government has stalled on other ideas, including improving communication among emergency responders and shifting federal terrorism-fighting money so it goes to states based on risk level. "There is a lack of a sense of urgency," Hamilton said. "There are so many competing priorities. We've got three wars going on: one in Afghanistan, one in Iraq and the war against terror. And it's awfully hard to keep people focused on something like this." National security adviser Stephen Hadley said Sunday that President Bush is committed to putting in place most of the commission's recommendations. "Obviously, as we've said all along, we are safer, but not yet safe. There is more to do." Hadley said on "Fox News Sunday." Kean said the Transportation Security Administration was wrong to announce changes last week that will allow airline passengers to Ex-commissioners contended the government has been remiss by failing to act more quickly. carry small scissors and some sharp tools. He also said the agency, by now, should have consolidated databases of passenger information into a single "terror watch list" to aid screening. "They're talking about using more money for random checks. Terrorists coming through the airport may still not be spotted," Kean said. "I don't think we have to go backward here," said Kean, who appeared with Hamilton on NBC's "Meet the Press." SCIENCE Face transplant seems a success BY ELAINE GANLEY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS — The recipient of the world's first partial face transplant was thriving medically and psychologically a week after her groundbreaking surgery, one of her doctors said Sunday. The woman, whose face had been partially disfigured by a dog, appeared relatively normal after the operation and doctors were happy about her mental state. Dr. Jean-Michel Dubernard said in a telephone interview. Doctors had been worried about the potentially negative psychological effect of receiving part of someone else's face. "She is perfect," Dubernard said. "Psychologically, she is doing very well." Dubernard, one of the woman's two lead surgeons, said that the 38-year-old would remain hospitalized in the southeast city of Lyon for four to six weeks. She must take drugs to prevent her body from rejecting the donated facial parts, which Dubernard has said carry "a slightly more elevated risk of cancer." The woman received a section of a nose, lips and chin in the 15-hour transplant surgery on Nov. 27 in the northern city of Amiens, near her home. The woman, the divorced mother of two teenage daughters, has not been identified by name. She was mauled by a pet Labrador in May, leaving her with severe facial injuries that her doctors said made it difficult for her to speak and eat. The dog was put down. The partial face was donated by the family of a woman who was declared brain dead. Her identity has also not been made public. Dubernard led teams that performed a hand transplant in 1998 and the world's first double forearm transplant in January 2000. The hand transplant recipient later had it amputated. Doctors said the man had become "mentally detached" from his new hand and failed to take the required drugs. His body rejected the limb. 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These are still ongoing struggles in this country and around the world today, but some people don't realize exactly how sensitive these subjects are. The controversy about the Confederate battle flag is one such subject. Oh, come on! They're just ghosts! You know? Like Halloween? Alpha Alpha Alpha Halloween Party 2005 The debate about the Confederate Flag has been a controversial topic, especially in the south. During the American Civil War, the South was fighting to gain its independence from the northern states. The South and North both had their flags on the battlefield, and they were similar. The U.S. flag was, and still is, known as the "Stars and Stripes." The flag of the Confederate States of America was known as the "Stars and Bars." "Stars and Bars" was the symbol of the south. GINA FORD opinion@kansan.com Most people today are under the misconception that the Confederate Battle Flag (actually the "Rebel Flag") was the flag flown by the Confederacy during the Civil War. Therefore, because the Confederacy consisted of the southern states, people say that the Confederate battle flag is a symbol of the south. Although the "Stars and Bars" is the symbol of southern pride, many people know the Confederate battle flag to be a symbol of racism, slavery and Jim Crow laws, which are all the things that the Confederacy fought to defend over a century ago. The flag was adopted by white supremacists during the period of civil rights and segregation. Dukes of Hazzard came out in theatres a couple of months ago. It was previously a TV show that aired in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Many African Americans were not happy with the release of this new film, especially because the car in the movie had a large battle flag painted on the hood. Incidentally, the KU chapters of Beta Theta Pi and Delta Delta Delta (Tri-Delt) decided to sport this symbol on their Bid-Day party shirts this year. While sitting in class one day at the beginning of the semester, I saw a girl wearing the T-shirt with what looked like a Confederate battle flag on the back. I looked to see why she could have possibly been wearing that shirt when I saw the sorority's name. The party had a Dukes of Hazzard theme. Melva Landrum, president of Zeta Phi Beta sorority shares the sentiments of many students on campus. "I hate to pass judgment on people, but when I see a Confederate Flag, I feel the same way as when I see a swastika. My blood pressure rises whenever I see that flag, even on a license plate," Landrum said. Landrum went on to describe pictures she had seen of people being lynched with the image of the Confederate battle flag hanging in the background. Since the Klu Klux Klan advocated the use of the flag, lynchings are often one of the first things people think about when they see it. "If they want to wear it they can, but it says a lot about their organization. I hope it is misinformation or ignorance. I hope it was just that they didn't realize how people feel about it, because, if out of all those people, no one saw anything wrong with putting a Confederate Flag on the back of their shirts, that's scary." Landrum said. She said it was hard to believe that someone would not know how it would make people feel "I'm a diversity educator, so I don't blame people for ignorance. I forgive and move on, and if you don't believe in it, and you are wearing it, then you need to understand the history and how hurtful it is. Maybe they just didn't know," Landrum said. Kristina Kraft, Oklahoma City freshman, partially agrees with Landrum Kraft is biracial. Her mother is white, and her father is black. She is a member of the Tri-Delt house, and has seen the Bid-Dav shirts as well. "I do look at the Confederate Flag as a symbol of racism. The flag scares me, what it stands for. But, I think people may have felt that since the party had a Dukes of Hazzard theme, it was OK," Kraft said. She described a trip she took with three of her friends to Alabama; she was the only African American. According to Kraft, there were more Confederate battle flags than there were American flags. "I was scared the whole time, and when I tried to explain it to my friends, they didn't understand. I just think it's sometimes hard for people to understand how some things affect others," Kraft said. She went on to say that she didn't feel any racism or prejudice within the house, and that they probably just didn't realize the possible implications of the symbol. "If they were racist, I don't think they would have let me join," said Kraft. Matthew Sevcik/KANSAN The topic of the Confederate battle flag is a touchy situation that can make certain people feel singled out. The flag is a symbol of hatred and malice that occurred in the south decades ago and, in some cases, even today. For this reason, it is important for people to try and educate themselves on these sensitive subjects. Just because it's on TV doesn't make it right. - Ford is a Washington, D.C., junior in journalism. ▼ LETTER TO THE EDITOR Condoms no help in Kansas to "fight hunger." As I was walking out of Mrs. E's, I passed two guys who each took a handful of condoms from the Association of University Residence Halls table and walked out, laughing. The same table displayed a sign illuminating the word "AIDS." This whole experience lasting no longer than four seconds got me really upset. Trying to combat AIDS on Daisy Hill is likened to handing out cupcakes in front of Wescoe and telling the takers The AIDS epidemic is so vast it's almost incomprehensible. All of our resources, regardless of their sizes, should be allocated to where the problem is the most concentrated: such as southern/central Africa. Funding the distribution of condoms to campus residents is doing little or nothing to promote the awareness of AIDS. The only thing they're accomplishing is taking one item off peoples' shopping list.Hundreds of agencies are available to direct the donations of condoms and other invaluable resources to Africa. If you really want to help the AURH truly make a difference, then you should drop a dollar in AURH's bowl instead of taking a condom. That way the group can pay for those condoms where they're desperately needed. - Corey Judson Lawrence freshman in microbiology LETTER TO THE EDITOR Professor's e-mail not private Andrew Stangl claims that Paul Mirecki's e-mail became public because "someone, most likely a Christian fundamentalist," was monitoring SOMA, Society of Open minded Atheists, list server. However, he advances no evidence to support this claim. Speaking as a communication scholar who studies new technology, it appears to me that there are many ways that an e-mail sent to over 90 people could have found its way into the pages of newspapers. both before and in response to Dr. Mirecki's e-mail. Making this information transparent would not only be a gesture of good faith from SOMA, but would also aid people in reaching their own conclusions about Dr. Mirecki's motives and actions. That the e-mail was forwarded by "a Christian fundamentalist" spy is not a valid conclusion. Moreover, it is generally unwise to consider any e-mail, especially one sent to a list server with many members, as a private communique. At this point, it would be helpful if SOMA voluntarily released the entire content and context of the e-mail: What the entire text of Mirecki's message was, the title of the discussion thread, and messages sent - Andrew M. Ledbetter Ph.D. student and Graduate teaching assistant in the department of communication studies. TALK TO US Jonathan Kealing, managing editor 864-4854 or jkealing@kansan.com Joshua Bickel, managing editor 864-4854 or jbicket@kansan.com Austin Caster, editor 864-4854 or acaster@kansan.com Matthew Sevcik, opinion editor 864-4924 or msevok@kansan.com Sarah Connally, business manager 864-4014 or adddirector@kansan.com John Monger, sales director 864-4Morgan or adddirector at kansan.com SUBMISSIONS Malcim Gibson, general manager, news adviser or molbison at kaneen.com Jennifer Weaver, sales and marketing adviser 984-7655 or weaver@kennedy.com 884-7607 or mgibson@kansan.com advisor 864-7864 or jweaver@kansan.com The Kansan welcomes letters to the editors and guest columns submitted by students, faculty and alumni. The Kansan reserves the right to edit, cut to length, or reject all submissions. For any questions, call Austin Caster at 864-4810 or e-mail opinion@kansan.com. GUEST COLUMN GUIDELINES General questions should be directed to the editor at editor at kansan.com. 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Instant message the Free For All at "udkfreeorall." Broaden your horizons, Free for All! A snowflake just hit me in the eyeball Why should people be sad about Nick and Jessica? She's back on the market, baby! Way to beat up Western Illinois, Donkey Kaun! It's on like Donkey Kaun. Please tell me I did not just see a Republicans for Voldemort bumper sticker. I just saw a horse eating in the Union. Who died and made Chuck Norris the Free for All God? Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the best movie ever made. I'm in love with my best friend's girlfriend. There's no way I'm going to be able to wait until March to see what happens on Prison Break Illusions, Michael. A trick is something a whore does for money. Or cocaine. Man, I am so sober! I'm sorry, I'm actually hammered. Moody Maniacs should change their name to the Jimmy Dean Maniacs Does it bother anyone else that the sauce is next to the plates rather than the spaghetti being next to the plates? Hurray! Jessica Simpson is available again! If a fat man comes down your chimney and tries to stuff you in a bag, don't freak out, because I asked for you for Christmas. This is my opinion. I'm at the bowling alley, and the girl next to me is much better than I am. Dr. Mirecki is everything that's wrong with the liberals. To the guy who helped me out on my scooter, thanks. All I'm got to say is, I wouldn't mind tasting your bath water. Case and Giddens look so much like same person, you ask one of them if they want ice cream, they both say yes. wonder if people in Canada call 50 Cent 78.2 Cent. Team Rocket, Team Rocket is blasting off again! I would name it "The Shredder." John Wilkes Booth, the actor. There was never a villain in Care Bears, except when Share Bear wasn't sharing. Kill the potholes, kill the potholes, kill the potholes. Muck my fantasy football team. You'd think he'd figure it and put two and two together, but he's a basketball player. Two and two to him is like four points. To all the freshman that attend basketball games: It's not necessary to shout obscenities every time a bad call is made. My roommate and I just cleaned our room and now we aren't depressed. It's pretty nice. M Dic of We had a total old school funk dance party in our room last night, and it was amazing! D — S a su ch mee Steven Vinson is so beautiful it makes me want to cry. Micah Downs, you're a pimp. Will you marry me? Word of advice: Don't have drunk conversations with your brother in which you try to convince him you are a thug and that you love him more than dolphins love tune. Is there any way to get my name on the liver transplant list now so that when I need a new one in 15 years I'll be at the top of the list? eth Julian Wright is Luigi to Mario Chalmer's Mario. N Spice His on th of 119 Eric Eric Most Israeli sina of p wou the they HAPI Morse wise back antic built need waya migh nicat too no. include inclu along basis asli chec relative conj. ADV. 1 --- ARIE ★★★ dunk but o left a a par ing in Your circle MONDAY, DECEMBER 5.2005 ENTERTAINMENT THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 7A SAN apple is a apple de- esses it is and nesse use right. C.. ENTERTAINMENT ▼ FRIEND OR FAUX? DO YOU THINK THAT OUR CARTOON NEEDS MORE DIVERSITY? WELL... I HAD THIS ONE CHARACTER WHO I THOUGHT WAS DEAF. Diddy answers wish of one sick patient BUT, IT TURNS OUT HE WAS ACTUALLY ILLITERATE. DO YOU THINK THAT OUR CARTOON NEEDS MORE DIVERSITY? WELL... I HAD THIS ONE CHARACTER WHO I THOUGHT WAS DEAF. BUT, IT TURNS OUT HE WAS ACTUALLY ILLITERATE. GET IT? ILLITERATE? HA! LIZARD BOY GET IT? ILLITERATE? HA! Seth Bundy/KANSAN SQUIRREL The fly is mine green one! Sam Hemphill/KANSAN DELRAY BEACH, Fla. - Sean "Diddy" Combs made a surprise visit to Chris Evert's charity tennis tournament to meet a teenage cancer patient. NICE MOHAWKS. ROBOT AND I ARE NON-CONFORMISTS. WE GO OUR OWN WAY, LIVE BY OUR OWN RULES, AND DO OUR OWN THING. YEAH, WE DON'T CARE WHAT YOU THINK. SERIOUSLY, DO WE LOOK STUPID? YEAH. THE MASKED AVENGERS For Chalon Keen, 17, of Sunrise, who for two years has been fighting a cancer that creates tumors in her muscle cells, Saturday's visit was a dream come true. Chalon, a patient at the Chris Event Children's Hospital at Broward General Medical Center, met Combs through the Make-A-Wish Foundation. The meeting lifted the teen's spirits as she and her family prepared to travel to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota to undergo tests for a possible bone marrow transplant. Evert's annual event has raised more than $13 million to fight drug abuse and help neglected and abused children in south Florida. Wes Benson/KANSAN I hate being gum. Today I got paper stuck on me. Well I got a head hair on me. I can't think of one thing worse! Paul Gum Gum Francis The Associated Press Director focuses on ethnic tensions again NEWYORK - Steven Spielberg is taking on terror. His latest film, "Munich," centers on the aftermath of the killings of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany. Eric Bana ("Troy") stars as a Mossad agent who leads a secret Israeli squad assigned to assassinate 11 Palestinians suspected of planning the killings. Spielberg and screenwriter Tony Kushner would not reveal the identity of the man Bana portrays, whom they interviewed at length. "Munich" is due out Dec. 23. Max Kreutzer/KANSAN The Associated Press 'Francis could." ▼ HOROSCOPES The Stars Show the Kind of Day You'll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Monday, Dec. 5, 2005: It might be wise to keep your head clear. Holding back could be more difficult than you anticipated. If you let tension or anger build, you could be accident-prone. You need to let off steam. Design different ways to accomplish this task. Some might take up a new hobby or exercise. Sometimes you think that communicating is enough. Actions count too. A smile and cheery hello could make or break many people's day, including your own. If you are single, you will meet people easily. Getting along with someone on a day-to-day basis is another story. Do not commit to a long-term bond this year. Also, check out people carefully. If you are attached, you will discover that your relationship benefits enormously from conversations and time alone together. AQUARIUS understands you well. ARIES (March 21-April 19) ★★★ You are in the mood to slam-dunk a project and cheer yourself on, but others might be creating obstacles left and right. Your finances, as well as a partner's perspective, could be reining in your spending. OUCH! Tonight: Your drive tosses you into the winner's circle! ★★★ You go to the head of the class, whether you want to or not. The problem with all the authority will be the many demands you get left and right. You could lose your temper, and somehow you feel locked into a pattern. Tonight: Step above all that is happening. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) ***** Your detachment will make or break your day. Others can, and might very well, be tough to deal with. Your abilities to understand others' needs and to solve situations bring a smile to your face, as well as maybe another person or two. Tonight: A mind treat. CANCER (June 21-July 22) ★★★ Work with individuals rather than grouping others together. If you keep your goals in mind, you won't be thrown off track. In fact, you will be able to achieve the kind of rapport and understanding you desire. Tonight: Fulfill a request. ★★★ You certainly can, and easily rain, on another's, or quite a few people's, parade. If you discover that someone is losing it right in front LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) of you, think about what you might have done to provoke this response. Tonight: Let others dominate. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ★★★ Your ability to function in the workplace might separate you from many. How you see a situation could radically change because of how co-workers express their feelings. News also might join you out or into a depression. Tonight: Easy does it. ★★★You could find someone unusually challenging about what he or she thinks you need to do. This situation probably involves both of you and an emotional or financial risk. Tonight: Play it cool, and you might get what you want. ★★★ You might inadvertently challenge someone, especially when you see how he or she reacts. You might want to hunker down and be a little less visible; otherwise, you could find yourself in a difficult situation. Tonight: Anchor in. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) your normal level of what needs to happen. If you are tired, take a walk. Do what you must to energize yourself. A perky smile and an understanding manner take you far. Tonight: Hang out with friends. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) **You might be pushed beyond** **You should be pushed beyond** SK NOBLE (Jac. 22-Jan. 19) ★★★ You might believe that you have a knockout answer, but, surprise of surprises, others just might not agree. Without getting involved in a dangerous risk, you can test the waters on your own. Tonight: Play the conservative Goat. Ultimately, you will be happier. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.18) **AUGUST 16 (Mon) 22-FEB 10.** **** You could easily be in the thick of things and could find it difficult to pacify a family member. A matter involving the home could keep you on your toes. Tonight: Feeling great. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) PISCES (eb. 19-March 20) ★★ Know when to pull back and follow through on what you need to do. If you don't, you could find yourself surrounded by a bit of an uproar and difficult people. Even if you are dying to blow off steam, what's left unsaid might be all the better. Tonight: Quit while you are ahead. ACROSS 1 Tangoers' move 4 Japanese noodles 9 Burst 12 Blackjack component 13 "Maria —" 14 Lawyers' org. 15 Kreskin, e.g. 17 Boar's mate 18 "Simpsons" store-keeper 19 Abyssinian baby 21 Taleteller 24 Bygone times 25 "The Greatest" 26 Lair 28 "Prince of Tides" actor 31 Wealthy 33 Potential syrup 35 Even 36 "Blossom" star Bialik 38 One of the litter 40 Droop 41 Har- vester's collection 43 Rook 43 — Curtis (hair-care brand) 47 Book- keeper (Abbr.) 48 Onassis, to pals 49 Trapeze performer 54 Wrong (Pref.) 55 Chum 56 Wish otherwise 57 Prepared 58 Town at the mouth of the Tiber DOWN 1 Weir 2 Rocks 3 Nerd-pack occupant 4 Used a scythe 5 Charms 6 "— want a hula hoop" 7 Exalt 8 Country 9 Sketcher of a sort 10 Reed instrument 11 Hock Solution time: 24 mins. G A B B R A B L E A T O W L O A R Y E N T A U F O S T R A T A G E M D U O S T A G E A L M S L Y E A M P S M A E D U G O U T E T H E L S A P P Y W E A L T H D O A T E A S T A M S E M I T S L O P E E R E S T R A T F O R D D O N O H A R A R E G I N S D E T E R E Y E A Y E Friday's answer 12-5 18 Diet soft drink 20 Jog 21 The Mac-Donald place 22 Pelvic bones 23 Arm-strong, for one 27 Siesta 29 Blue hue 30 Advantage 32 Take on 34 "La Bohème" composer 37 Rainier's home 39 Tropical fruit 42 Jurors, in theory 44 Bando of baseball 45 Radio hobbyists 46 Huron neighbor 50 Deterio-ration 51 Annoy 52 Bring to trial 53 X rating? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 26 33 34 35 36 37 38 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 12-5 CRYPTOQUIP S X E T B ' Q G X T Q M G U L T Q G H S N F X Q T W E T B Q UGHSNFZLGU OTHL, S'U MZCC SL Z U S H - Z O OT S F L WGFL. 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Caten contributed to the program's success during the past two seasons when she transferred from Barton County Community College. "They're just a great group," Bechard said. "They have been outstanding." Despite the departure of those three mainstays in the Kansas lineup, the Jayhawks have reason to be optimistic for the future. Jayhawk fans need to look no further than the match against the UCLA Bruins for evidence. Kansas used a rotation that included junior outside hitter Megan Hill, junior defensive specialist Dani Wittman, sophomore middle blocker Caitlin Mahoney, freshman middle blocker Savannah Noyes and freshman defensive specialist Liz Ingram. Noyes tallied 10 kills against UCLA, second only to Caten's 12. Hill had 8 kills and 2 blocks, and Mahoney finished with 4 and 2, respectively. Those young Jayhawks will be joined next year by sophomore opposite hitter Emily Brown and junior outside hitter Jana Correa, who were both starters this season. In addition, freshman setter Katie Martincich will run the offense after taking a redshirt this year. Bechard saw signs of their potential in the team's one-match trip to California. "That was Caitlin's first fulltime match in three years, and I thought she did a really nice job," Bechard said. "Savannah's really moving up. She looked more mature and attacked well. That undoubtedly is going to give them some confidence going into the spring knowing that they can compete at a high level." Lima said that the Jayhawks would quickly rebuild and see success without a drop-off. "All they have to do is stick together and they'll be fine," Lima said. "Katie is an awesome setter. She's going to do a really good job for KU. They're also going to have Jana coming back. They're going to be a very good team." Caten agreed, saying that she saw great improvement in players such as Noyes and Hill who learned by being forced into heavy action because of Correa's knee injury. "The team got more mature. The girls that weren't playing before are now better," Caten said. She said the way the team pulled together and fought hard, despite several badbreaks during the season, was something that she would always remember and was a good sign for the future. Edited by Nate Karlin They were sparked by an 8-1 run midway through the game that gave them a commanding 15-6 lead. UCLA's junior middle blocker Nana Meriwether symbolized the ease with which they took care of business. She recorded one of her three kills of the frame while blowing a bubble. Volleyball CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12A UCLA posted a gaudy .412 attack percentage as opposed to Kansas' .030. The Jayhawks also hurt themselves by committing four service errors. The Jayhawks looked like a completely different team in game two, a 30-26 victory that evened the match. Every Jayhawk who took the floor had a hand in the effort. Freshman middle blocker Savannah Noyes made the game's two biggest plays, a block and a kill back-to-back to give Kansas a 28-24 lead that it wouldn't relinquish. Noyes had four kills in the game. Sophomore middle blocker Caitlin Mahoney, who saw substantial playing time in Rozum's absence, added three kills. Kansas' defense was much better, holding UCLA to a .132 attack percentage. Junior libero Jamie Mathewson recorded seven digs and senior middle blocker Josi Lima had two blocks. Bechard was happy with the way his team bounced back after a blowout in game one. "We knew we couldn't get off to a slow start," Bechard said. "We played really well from the Whatever momentum the Jayhawks took to the locker room was quickly lost, however, as game three started in nightmarish fashion. The Bruins scored the first 11 points of the game behind the serving of freshman defensive specialist Blair Socci. UCLA went on to win 30-17 and take a 2-1 lead in the match. middle of the game on." The Bruins closed out the Jayhawks' season with a 30-24 victory in game four. They jumped out to a 16-10 lead and never looked back. Meriwether finished the match with 18 kills to lead all players. Meriwether had seven kills to lead the Bruins. Noyes tallied three to pace the fawhaws. Senior outside hitter Paula Caten led the Jayhawks' attack. She accumulated 12 kills in her last collegiate match. Noyes finished with 10 kills and two blocks. "They've got a few more weapons than we do," Bechard said. "They didn't panic after the second game." Josi Lima said she was proud of the way her team closed out the season despite the outcome. Beachard admitted that the Bruins were a tough match-up for the depleted Javahawks. "We played with everything we had tonight," said Lima, who ended her career at Kansas with 4.5 blocks per game. MONDAY, DECEMBER 5.2005 "We had nothing to lose and we played really hard," she said. - Edited by Jonathan Kealing WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Kansas had less than 24 hours to correct the turnover woes, which led to 14 Birmingham Southern points and a 40 percent free-throw percentage, before its game Saturday afternoon against the University of New Orleans. Poor play in game 1 rectified in game 2 BY RAN SCHNEIDER rschneider@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITER Unforced turnovers slowed the Jayhawks' fast-paced offense, holding the team to a season-low eight points in transition after averaging nearly 15 in the first games. In the game against New Orleans, trailing by one nearly five minutes into the first half, Kansas finally started to play with the intensity and focus it lacked the Bonnie Henrickson declared herself the crabbiest 4-0 coach in America after Kansas' victory against Birmingham Southern on Friday night. She had good reason. Her team committed a seasonhigh 20 turnovers and went 7-of-17 from the free-throw line in a game filled with less-than-inspired play at both ends of the court. "What I struggle with is the intensity," Henrickson, Kansas women's basketball coach, said. "We expect to be successful, but do we understand how to be successful? I'm happy with the win, but I just think right now we can be better and we need to be better." previous night. Senior guard Erica Hallman's three-pointer from the corner with 15:36 remaining in the first half gave Kansas a 10-9 lead. The basket set off a 14-2 Kansas run that essentially sealed the victory. "I thought we came out today and did a good job of being more focused and concentrating, being disciplined and taking care of business early," Hallman said. The Jayhawks committed a season-low six turnovers, hit more than 70 percent of their free throws and had six players — including all five starters — in double figures. The lone bench player in double digits against UNO was freshman forward Marija Zinic. Henrickson criticized Zinic's timid play against Birmingham Southern, when she scored six points and missed several open shots under the basket. Zinic responded with the best performance of her young career at Kansas, scoring 12 points off 50 percent shooting from the field in 17 minutes on the floor. "It's a good feeling, especially when you come off the bench," Zinic said. "We did not play well from the bench yesterday. Today we all had good effort, good in transition and we shot the ball better from the free throw line and from the field." Edited by Jonathan Kealing Sweep CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12A ed shots. During that game the starters left at the 10-minute mark after establishing a 61-36 lead. The backups struggled, and Henrickson put the starters back in with four minutes remaining in the game. Henrickson acknowledged after Friday's game that she must be "the crabbiest 4-0 coach in America." After Saturday's game, she updated her status. Henrickson singled out Sharita Smith as a bright spot for the evening. Smith, junior guard, played 14 minutes and had seven points. She made all three of her attempt- "Not as crabby at 5-0," Henrickson said. Notes: ◆ The tournament was originally scheduled to be played in New Orleans, but was moved because of Hurricane Katrina. Lady Privateers women's basketball coach Amy Champion said having to move to Tyler, Texas, for the semester had affected the team. "This was supposed to be our tournament, and here we are playing in Kansas," she said. Catic had 10 assists on Friday and set a new freshman record. ♦ Hallman had a career-high six three-pointers on Friday. Saturday she moved into third place on Kansas' all-time three-point shooting list. *Taylor McIntosh's younger sister, Marani McCurtis, sang the National Anthem on Saturday. 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AP TOP 25 The Top 25 teams in The Associated Press college football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 3, 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. Southern Cal (56) | 12-0 | 1,616 | 1 | | **2. Texas (9)** | **12-0** | **1,569** | **2** | | 3. Penn St. | 10-1 | 1,483 | 4 | | 4. Ohio St. | 9-2 | 1,375 | 6 | | 5. Notre Dame | 9-2 | 1,327 | 7 | | 6. Oregon | 10-1 | 1,241 | 8 | | 7. Auburn | 9-2 | 1,221 | 9 | | 8. Georgia | 10-2 | 1,202 | 13 | | 9. Miami | 9-2 | 1,098 | 10 | | 10. LSU | 10-2 | 1,028 | 3 | | 11. West Virginia | 10-1 | 991 | 12 | | 12. Virginia Tech | 10-2 | 943 | 5 | | 13. Alabama | 9-2 | 813 | 14 | | 14. TCU | 10-1 | 790 | 15 | | 15. Louisville | 9-2 | 644 | 16 | | 16. Florida | 8-3 | 588 | 17 | | 17. UCLA | 9-2 | 542 | 11 | | **18. Texas Tech** | **9-2** | **533** | **18** | | 19. Boston College | 8-3 | 410 | 19 | | 20. Michigan | 7-4 | 377 | 20 | | 21. Wisconsin | 9-3 | 325 | 21 | | 22. Florida St. | 8-4 | 296 | _ | | 23. Clemson | 7-4 | 240 | 22 | | 24. Georgia Tech | 7-4 | 189 | 24 | | 25. Iowa | 7-4 | 86 | 25 | Others receiving votes: Oklahoma 66, South Carolina 56, Boise St. 22, Fresno St. 18, Nevada 8, California 5, Northwestern 4, UTEP 4, Minnesota 3, Nebraska 3, Toledo 3, Tulsa 3, Iowa St. 2, Navy 1. Bowl foe has offense FOOTBALL BY DANIEL BERK dberk@kansan.com KANSAN SPORTS WRITER The Kansas football team has just less than three weeks to learn about the University of Houston, its Dec. 23 opponent in the Fort Worth Bowl. It's a good thing they have that much time, because Jayhawk football coach Mark Mangino and his players aren't familiar with the Cougars. "I think they run an empty backfield a lot and throw the ball," senior linebacker Banks Floodman said. "But I'm not even sure about that. We'll start watching film on them tomorrow and start preparing for what they bring." Houston features junior quarterback Kevin Kolb, who ranks seventh in passing yards among active NCAA quarterbacks. Kolb threw for 3.043 yards and 19 touchdowns for a solid junior season. Houston has a potent offensive attack, also boasting a 1,000-yard rusher in senior running back Ryan Gilbert. Gilbert tallied 1,050 yards on the season with eight touchdowns. Houston will enter the game with a 6-5 record. The Cougars started the season slowly but have since rebounded and are 5-3 in their last eight games. Houston's season started with a 38-24 home loss to No. 6 Oregon. The team closed out its season last weekend with a 35-18 home victory against Rice. The biggest victory for Houston this season came on the road against Tulsa. Tulsa captured the Conference USA championship, but Houston was able to defeat Tulsa 30-23. In the game, Kolb threw for 276 yards and one touchdown. Gilbert ran for 134 yards and two touchdowns. "I know they are a fine football team." Mangino said. "I haven't looked at tape yet, but we'll start this week. We know they are a formidable opponent." Art Briles is in his third season as coach at Houston and is 10-14 overall. Houston is 6-6 all time at Texas Christian's Amon G. Carter Stadium in Fort Worth, Texas. Houston and Texas Christian met regularly when TCU was still a member of Conference USA. Edited by Jonathan Kealing Basketball CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12A Notes: - Chalmers injured his toe in Kansas' loss to Nevada on Thursday. He sat out most of the second half of the game after suffering the injury, but played 21 minutes on Saturday. Self said there wasn't that could be done to treat the toe. "I guess just put a band-aid on it or something," Self said, chuckling. ♥ The Jayhawks distributed the ball effectively on Saturday. As a team, it dished out 25 assists. "To have 25 assists on 29 baskets, we are definitely sharing the ball well." Self said. - Edited by Nate Karlin Chavez Then came Saturday night. As the game started, it looked as if fans filled about 15.000 of the fieldhouse's 16.300 capacity. Some may say the team's 2-3 record, at the time, had something to do with that. But if that's true, then the fans now look worse. That would indicate that the same bandwagon jumpers that are constantly tearing down goalposts after football victories are making their presence felt at basketball games as well. Especially when you consider that this team is right where most people think they should be. The players are struggling right now because they're playing their ages some nights. But they will continue to improve and will be much better going into March than last year's team. You could say the only fears that should be felt right now are the ones that Kansas' once-envied basketball fans may be losing that remarkable quality that receives national praise year after year. Then the fans will all be saying how they knew the team would be good. Most are saying that but some are already pressing the panic button three weeks before Christmas and admitting fears of the NIT. This fear clearly won't happen because of the team's incredible talent. But then again, you could also say that Kansas is now a football school. Chavez is a San Antonio senior in journalism. Just a thought. Tone set early in easy victory BY RYAN COLIAanni rcoliaanni@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITER Kansas got off to a quick start against Western Illinois and scored 17 points in the first five minutes, propelling the Jayhawks to an easy 29-point victory. The team thought it was important to get off to a quick start after the narrow loss to Nevada last week. The tone was set on the first possession of the game after sophomore center CJ Giles tapped the opening tip to senior guard Jeff Hawkins. Hawkins then fed it back to Giles for a dunk just seconds into the game. "We have to take pride in what we are doing and come out with a little more energy," senior guard Stephen Vinson said. "When we lose a tough game like that — especially against a top 20 team — where we are close, neck and neck almost the whole game, it's real important to try and come out the next game and get a victory," freshman guard Micah Downs said. ▼ MEN'S BASKETBALL 86'S) Kansas basketball coach Bill Self said the team's 25 assists on 29 baskets showed they were sharing the basketball. Building the comfortable lead gave Self the opportunity to try different players he said he would not have utilized in close games. "Coaches sometimes don't have confidence to do certain things in tight games because they basically go with what they know," Self said. 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GREENEYE HONKWAK AND MUNZIE JIMMY JOHNS .COM --- (2005) JIMMY JOHN S FRANCHISSE INC THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN SPORTS MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2005 WWW.KANSAN.COM MEN'S BASKETBALL: 86-57 Kansas' bench shines in win PAGE 12A Vinson earns more minutes than starters BY MIRANDA LENNING mlenning@kansan.com KANSAN SENIOR SPORTSWITER At first glance, one might have thought there was an error on the statistics sheet in the minutes column from Kansas' 86-57 victory against Western Illinois on Saturday. There was no way that senior guard Stephen Vinson played 17 minutes while starting guards Jeff Hawkins and Russell Robinson saw only 14 and 10 minutes, respectively, right? Wrong. In a game where the Jayhawks' big lead was never threatened, Kansas men's basketball coach Bill Self sent a message to some of his starters who he thought did not respond to his challenge at halftime. Desite Kansas' 45-31 lead at half-time, Self challenged the team not to let down in the second half. "He basically said that we have to take some pride in what we are doing." Vinson said. Those two plays sparked Self to To start the half, the Jayhawks gave up five points in nine seconds to the Leatherncks. Western Illinois hit a three-point shot and scored off a steal at its own end of the court when Kansas turned the ball over on a simple inbound pass from Robinson to Hawkins. call an immediate timeout. "That is certainly not the way you want to start a half when you have a comfortable lead and let the other team believe they can play with you, and that is what happened." Out of the timeout, Self subbed freshman guard Mario Chalmers for Hawkins, Vinson for Robinson and freshman guard Micah Downs for freshman guard Brandon Rush. Rush played later in the half, but Hawkins and Robinson sat on the bench for the rest of the game. Self said he might not have been able to sit his starters if the Jayhawks didn't have such a significant lead. Vinson was one of those players who earned Self's confidence on Saturday. Self said Vinson was the Jayhawks' best perimeter player in the game. "We all had a pretty good idea of why were being sent in," Vinson said. "Coach was displeased with the way we were playing as a team. He thought we were not as up for a game as we should have been after a tough loss." Vinson answered Self's halftime challenge, scoring 5 points and dishing out 4 assists with no turnovers. He swished a three-pointer, which was the only field goal he shot all night. Vinson's 17 minutes marked a career high. He was wined at the end of the game, but continued to play. "I was tired at the end there, which is usually where I have fresh legs." Vinson joked of his usual role as a mop-up player. "We have a tired signal, but I don't know what it is. I've never been in the game long enough to get tired." Downs, Chalmers and freshman forward Julian Wright also took advantage of extra time on the court. Wright led the team with 14 points, which was also a career high. Downs added 10 points, and although he went only 3-of-12 from the field, he rebounded and played sound defense. He made a lay-up and got fouled after stealing an inbound pass in the second half. "I was a little off tonight," Downs said. "But coach got on me about rebounding in the first half, so in the second half I tried to get some rebounds and play better defense." After Kansas' two-point loss to Nevada on Thursday at Allen Fieldhouse, Self said the Jayhawks needed something positive to happen. He said Saturday's victory was a good start. "Certainly guys should walk out of here feeling better than they did (Thursday) night, but when I talk about something good happening, I'm talking about something hard," Self said. Kansas' first opportunity to make that happen will be Tuesday night at 6 against St. Joseph's at Madison Square Garden in New York. SEE BASKETBALL ON PAGE 11A 20 Freshman guard Micah Downs goes up for a shot in the second half against Northern Illinois on Saturday night in Allen Fieldhouse. The Javhawk ended the game with an 86-57 victory. Rachel Sevmour/KANSAN VOLLEYBALL Injured 'Hawks finish with loss BY MATT WILSON mwilson@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITER Despite a valiant effort, the 16th-seeded Bruins were too much for the injury-riddled Jayhawks to handle. LOS ANGELES — The Kansas volleyball team ended a difficult season with a 3-1 loss to UCLA in the first round of the NCAA tournament Friday night. Kansas was without the services of senior setter Andi Rozum for the second-straight match. She was missed; the Jayhawks recorded only 35 assists in the four-game match. The Bruins are now 20-10 after beating San Diego 3-0 in the second round on Saturday night. San Diego defeated Long Beach State 3-1 in the first match of Friday evening at Pauley Pavilion. UCLA advances to Omaha, Neb., to face the Big 12 Conference's regular-season champion, top-seeded Nebraska on Friday. The Jayhawks finished their season at 15-15. "I was extremely proud of our group," said Kansas volleyball coach Ray Bechard. "We competed really hard and were out there two hours against a really good team." The Bruins dominated game one on the way to a 30-14 victory. 8 SEE VOLLEYBALL ON PAGE 10A Jeff Jacobsen/KANSAS ATHLETICS Freshman middle blocker Savannah Noyes leaps up to spike a ball in Kansas' tournament loss to UCLA on Friday. Noyes had four kills in the game, which the JAYhawks lost three games to one. KU fans need to fix deteriorating image THE COLUMN Rather, it was at Kansas' game against Western Illinois on Saturday night in Allen Fieldhouse. And what is even more inexcusable is the fact that this empty corner — and it looked quite empty — was in the heart of the student section. Almost a whole section on empty seats could be seen on TV — that sounds about right if you are attending a Kansas State basketball game in Bramall Coliseum. Before I came to Lawrence, I had always considered myself a Kansas basketball fan. I was a big fan of many of the players and the coach. What had always impressed me was the loyalty and support that Jayhawk fans, especially the students, had always given the team. Allen Fieldhouse was always packed and rocking no matter who Kansas was playing. Even the smaller and weaker opponents, which nearly always yielded a blowout victory, filled all 16,300 seats in the fieldhouse. D. K. N. At the same time, Kansas ans, as opposed to those at JIMMY CHAVEZ JCHAVEZ@KANSAN.COM that university in Columbia, Mo., have always been praised for their classiness. But it's becoming more apparent lately that both those qualities - loyalty and class may be fading. Last year, students were looked down upon against Missouri, when they reversed the first letters in the famous "Muck Fizzzou" phrase and began yelling it to the point that it was easily heard on national TV. Last Thursday, after Kansas' 72-70 loss to Nevada, some fans began throwing bottles on to the floor because they thought the referees should have called a foul on the game's final play. The referees didn't call a foul in the final play because they had been letting both teams play all night. After all, it's the refs' fault that Kansas lost, right? And to make matters worse, many of the alumni — the people who supposedly should be setting an example were also throwing bottles at the refs as they hurried to the exits. That was more dangerous, because they could have actually hit someone, because of their proximity to the floor. SEE CHAVEZ ON PAGE 11A WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: 72-50, 100-50 Kansas sweeps tournament BY MICHAEL PHILLIPS mphillips@kansan.com KANSAN SPORTWRITER Shaquina Mosley took what might have been her two biggest shots as a Jayhawk with 4.7 seconds remaining on the clock Saturday at Allen Fieldhouse. The free throws fell, and a crowd of 1,720 gave its loudest applause of the day as Kansas hit the century mark in a 100-50 victory against New Orleans. It was the second victory in 24 hours for Kansas, which defeated Birmingham-Southern 72-50 Friday night. The team left the UNO Lady Privateer Classic with a 5-0 record. Kansas and Baylor are the only remaining undefeated teams in the Big 12 Conference. "It's confidence but it's not cockiness," freshman guard Ivana Catic said. That's exactly what the Jayhawks did Saturday. All five starters, along with freshman forward Marija Zinic, finished the game in double-digit scoring. Zinic scored a career-high 12 points, mostly with shots taken underneath the basket. She said she got better at establishing position near the basket after working with assistant coach Katie O'Connor. "That doesn't mean anything if we don't prove it on the court." "I just have to focus on keeping the ball high," Zinic said. Zinic wasn't the only one avoiding turnovers. The team had six turnovers, tying a school record for fewest turnovers in a game. "We valued the ball." Kansas women's basketball coach Bonnie Henrickson said. "We'd like to be able to do that every night." Senior guard Erica Hallman led the team in scoring for the third straight game. After missing her first two shooting attempts from behind the arc, Hallman made a three-pointer that triggered a 15-0 run by the Jayhawks to start the game. Coming out of the locker room, the team did not lose any of its poise, going on an 8-0 run before the game began to slow down and the bench players came in. The team had 58 points going into the locker room thanks to a half-court buzzer beater by junior guard Sharita Smith. "Today we all came focused to win," Zinic said. "We created some minutes for the bench." "It felt like we won the championship running in there at halftime," sophomore forward Taylor McIntosh said. Kansas had 90 points when bench players entered the game with eight minutes left. "I was so nervous for the last eight minutes," Zinic said. "I was like, 'come on, guys, you've got to score 100.'" It was the first time a Jayhawk team scored 100 points since 2000. For Henrickson, it was a welcome change from Friday night's 72-50 victory over Birmingham-Southern. SEE SWEEP ON PAGE 10A 4 --- 3 Chanukah explained 4 Adopt-a-family 6 Inexpensive gifts HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE 2 HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE MONDAY, DECEMBER 5,2005 100% PATRICK ROSS PROSS@KANSAN.COM It's that time of year again Our thoughts turn to our family and friends and the age-old question: What do you get for the person who already has everything? Most of us are also preparing to return home or to find ways to occupy ourselves during the long winter break. Within these pages, you'll find ideas for easy, inexpensive gift-giving as well as delicious desserts to take to family holiday dinners. So enjoy the 2005 Holiday Gift Guide and have a safe and enjoyable break. Happy Holidays from The University Daily Kansan. DANI HURST editor@kansan.com KANSAN CORRESPONDENT Dreidels, candles, When you think of Chanukah, what's the first thing that comes to mind? "Iisn't that the holiday when all the rich Jewish kids get presents for eight days?" asked Natalie Penn, Topeka freshman. She is surprisingly not alone in her assumptions. It's not insensitivity at work here, though, but rather the larger epidemic of holiday oversimplification. When most people think of Chanukah, they probably envision dreidels spinning wildly, menorahs aglow with eight tiny candles and mountains of presents wrapped in blue and silver paper waiting to be opened by little Jewish boys and girls. Granted, these are all facets of the "Festival of Lights," but focusing on these less significant components undermines the very meaning of this fun, yet sacred festival. Chanukah, according to aish.com, is the Hebrew word for "dedication." The festival of Chanukah celebrates the triumph of the Jews over their would-be "I isn't that the holiday where all the rich Jewish kids get presents for eight days?" Natalie Penn Topeka freshman opressors against all odds as well as their dedication to their culture and religion. The story of Chanukah is one passed down from generation to generation and goes a little something like this, as taken from aish.com: In the 2nd century B.C., the Syrian-Greek government attempted to lead the Jews away from Judaism by outlawing many aspects of their religion. The hope was that the Jews would eventually lose their culture and religion and be integrated into Greek culture. Some Jews did not resist the change, while others rose up in rebellion against the coercion. One such small and influential group, the Maccabees, led an uprising against the government for the sake of saving their Jewish heritage. Antiochus, the leader of the government, tried everything he could to suppress the Jews and their attempts to fight back. He sent thousands of troops to conquer the Maccabees. The troops were unsuccessful, and the Maccabees drove the soldiers back from where they came. The Jews returned to the Holy Temple in Jerusalem after their victory against the foreign troops. 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It's about remembering the bravery of those who fought and sacrificed so that we could live just as freely as everyone else. "I like Chanukah the most because it brings everyone together," Barak Krengel, Dallas freshman, said. "No matter what we're doing, we stop when its time to light the candles. I like it because it brings the family closer together." The traditions of Chanukah have survived for more than 2,000 years. Remembering the major significance of this holiday does not mean, however, that you can't still enjoy the little things. So go forth! Spin the dreidels and eat Chanukah gelt — chocolate coins wrapped in gold foil — and enjoy the eight days of gift-giving. 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The individuals will receive their holiday gifts by way of anonymous holiday adoption programs sponsored by five Douglas County organizations. The individuals will receive their holiday gifts by way of anonymous holiday adoption programs sponsored by five Douglas County organizations. The organizations accept applications and lists of items needed to make the holidays a bit brighter for needy families and individuals. The lists are then distributed with only the ages and genders of the individuals requesting each gift to the appropriate donors. The donors go shopping for the items and the food for a Christmas dinner and bring it all back to the centers where they are privately distributed to the individuals. Paul Hunt, director of resources at Ballard Community Center, is in charge of screening families and finding donors for the program that the organizations have dubbed the Holiday Bureau. Hunt said the program had been around for a number of years and was a great link for the community. "A lot of times poverty can be alienating and this reminds people that the community does care," Hunt said. "It keeps the people receiving assistance connected to the community and it helps the donors understand that poverty is real and it is not just in some far, far away place." An estimated 2,000 individuals have already signed up to receive assistance through the program. Linda Lassen, director of human resources at Penthouse, said that the organization reached its maximum of 200 applicants and stopped taking applications on Nov. 21. "We stopped taking applications because we were afraid not everyone would get adopted, but we also accept MORE INFO Contacts for getting involved in the program: Ballard Community Center: 842-0729 EKAN: 841-3357 Penthouse: 842-0440 Peilethe Center: 841-7202 Salvation Army: 843-4188 walk-ins, if there is anything left over we try to fill it in," Lassen said. Hunt said that a new program had been implemented this year to encompass the need for extra gifts. In the Star Tree program, trees are set up throughout town with ornaments listing single gifts that are needed by families who might not have signed up right away. The program also helps donors who might not be able to afford adopting a whole family. The trees supplement needy individuals with the specific gifts they are looking for this holiday. 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Though Hunt could not name individuals or groups because of the anonymity of the program, he said some of the biggest donors every year had come from the University of Kansas. "Some of our biggest donors have been residence halls that allow students to get together and pool their resources to adopt families," Hunt said. "We have also received numerous support from sororities and fraternities and from educational departments within the University." Though their contributions may be anonymous their efforts do not go unnoticed. Hunt said many families were overwhelmed after receiving their gifts and gave him thank-you notes to pass along to donors. "A lot of times the kids write the thank-you notes to the donors, thanking them for just being there for them," Hunt said. It is the thread of generosity that allows the donors to be there for those that are most in need of a helping hand this holiday season. 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No matter what your age or the event, one thing remains common throughout all of these activities: food. In third grade, the teacher brings decorated cupcakes to class and hands out candy canes to the winner of "pin the tail on the reindeer." Iced Christmas cookies line the refreshment table at the dance and an assortment of breads, cakes and fudge are brought to all holiday gatherings. I love spending time in the kitchen especially when it comes to baking. Early on, I grew fond of the activity when I helped my grandmother bake Christmas cookies. Christmas and Thanksgiving are the largest occasions for Americans to eat. The indulging begins with Thanksgiving and continues until New Year's day when people resolve to cutting back on their intake. It's easy to see why such is the case because food goes hand-in-hand with entertaining, making it a critical element to any party. She would prepare the dough and I would cut out my favorite shapes including everything from Christmas trees and bells, to reindeer and snowmen. We would mix together every color of frosting and spend the entire afternoon decorating what seemed like hundreds of cookies. Since then, I've broadened my selection to a variety of cookies, breads, cakes and pies. The possibilities to create anything seem endless today, in a society where cooking and baking are becoming easier than ever. Martha Stewart is the primary domestic woman of our generation, providing advice on entertaining, and food in particular. Since the rise of both her magazine and television show, other kitchen experts are gaining in popularity as well. Rachel Ray is currently a favorite on the Food Network. Since the beginning of her show, "Thirty Minute Meals" with Rachel Ray, she has been seen as a guest on leading television programs. Recently, I watched her make five-minute fudge on "Oprah," and explain what to do with Thanksgiving leftovers on NBC's "Today Show." Her catchy, abbreviated phrases have even created a new vocabulary, which can be heard in kitchens across the nation. Two years ago, nobody would have understood "EVOO;" however, anyone familiar with Ray could easily explain her shortened reference to extra-virgin olive oil. Although these culinary artists make baking appear "easy as pie," sometimes getting my cookies to bake for just the right length, or mixing my dough the perfect amount is challenging. But with the rise of the Internet and such television shows, finding an answer to any question is right at one's fingertips. Hershey's Web site for example, provides an abundant amount of tips and advice regarding all baking purposes. For those people who learn better by seeing rather than reading, Web sites such as kraftfoods.com and foodnetwork.com provide comprehensive how-to videos to clarify any doubts. Of course, if the exact answer regarding which pan to use when baking grandma's famous pineapple upside down cake cannot be found, going straight to the source is always the best answer. So, this holiday season venture into the kitchen and bake your favorite childhood recipe or surf the web for something new. An assortment of homemade sweets provides a wonderful gift for anyone, as well as an afternoon of enjoyment. I've included a few of my favorites on the Web to help you get started. Enjoy! Edited by Kellis Robinett the Casbah boutique. 803 Mass vintage pieces crafted into unique jewelry and accessories from vintage pieces crafted into unique jewelry and accessories from Daddy's Little Girl deserves the phone she wants. 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Controversial figure alleges attack south of Lawrence BY FRANK TANKARD ftankard@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITER KU professor Paul Mirecki was hospitalized Monday morning after two men beat him on the side of the road in rural Douglas County, he said. Mirecki said the two men beat him for about one minute with a metal object, striking him repeatedly on the head, shoulders and back. Mirecki, chairman of the department of religious studies, drew criticism from University officials and state legislators last week after e-mails he had sent to a list server became public. In the messages, he made remarks about Christian fundamentalists that some considered offensive, including the message that the intelligent design class he planned to teach in the spring would serve as "a nice slap in their big fat face." He apologized and canceled the class last week. He said the assailants made reference to the intelligent design controversy during the attack. "I had no idea who they were, but they certainly knew who I was," he said. Mirecki said he was taking a long, pre-dawn drive in the country to clear his mind in wake of the recent controversy and was planning to end his drive by stopping at a restaurant for breakfast. He said two men were tailgating him in a pickup truck, and he pulled over to let them pass. He said he got out of his vehicle, then they did the same and beat him. Mirecki said he spent between three and four hours at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, where he received X-Rays and a CT scan. He said he suffered a broken tooth but didn't specify other injuries he may have sustained. Lt. Kari Wempe of the Douglas County Sheriff's office said the incident occurred south of Lawrence at about 6:40 a.m. Wempe described the suspects as two white men between 30 and 40 years of age who left the scene in a large pickup truck. The sheriff's office reported that one of the men wore a red visor-style ball cap and wool gloves and that both men wore jeans. Anyone with information should call Crime Stoppers at 843-TIPS or the sheriff's office at 841-0007. Lynn Bretz, director of the Office of University Relations, said that she was "alarmed and concerned" by the incident and that the University had offered Mirecki assistance. Sen. Kay O'Connor (R-Olathe), who has strongly criticized Mirecki for his e-mails, said whoever beat him should be "prosecuted to the fullest." "If they try to cover themselves under the mantle of being Christian or being Christian people, sorry Charlie," she said. "They're just thugs." Staff writer Steve Lynn contributed to this story. Edited by Erick R. Schmidt Student pressure changes policy BY RYAN SCHNEIDER rsneider@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITER After complaints from students about the new ticket policy for men's basketball tickets, Kansas Athletics Department officials decided it was time for a change. Beginning with the team's Dec. 22 home game against Dec. 22 home game against Northern Colorado, the $2.50 transfer fee on student tickets will be waived, and only one person needs to be present to transfer tickets. Students have two ways of transferring tickets. Transfers can be made after 1 p.m. on gameday at the Kansas Athletics ticket office, at the southeast corner of the fieldhouse. For weekend Beginning with the team's Dec. 22 home game against Northern Colorado, the $2.50 transfer fee on student tickets will be waived and only one person needs to be present to transfer tickets. transfers can be made until 5 p.m. on Friday afternoon. The ticket can also be transferred at a special entrance, near the regular student entrance. In both cases, the student only needs to bring the two KUIDs to make the transfer. Jim Marchiony, associate athletics director, said the change occurred after the department heard students complain about the policy being too confusing. Despite the empty seats in the student section at several games this season, Marchiony said the change was not in response to dwindling attendance. "The reason the change was made was to make it easier for students to exchange their tickets," Marchiony said. Previously, both students had to be present for the transfer at the ticket office and were charged a $2.50 fee. STUDENT LIFE WELCOME TO Fabulous DEBT By Matt Wilson Illustration by Wes Benson Online gambling puts students in the RED Matt Anderson was a freshman when he got involved in a habit that took him down a path of great stress and financial hardship. He was debt-ridden because of lost bets from the previous semester. To pay off his bookie, he bet on every college football bowl game that season. But it wasn't just to pay off his debts — he also did it for the adrenaline rush. As he talks about his experience with sports gambling, the Crystal Lake, Ill., senior's face shows the pain he suffered as a result of his addiction. It started with the New Orleans Bowl, which pitted Cincinnati against North Texas. He checked the line, the number of points a team in a game is favored by, on sportsbook.com. After some research, he put $50 on Cincinnati. The Bearcats lost 24-19. Anderson, like many other college students, found the ease of gambling and the allure of a quick dollar enticing. With the ease of placing a bet online, more and more students are falling into the same trap and losing big. The limited regulation of online gambling — despite the fact that gambling on sports is illegal in every state except Nevada — only makes it easier. Most gambling Web sites operate offshore, making it nearly impossible for U.S. law enforcement to press charges against them. "Once I got started I couldn't stop," Anderson said. "It was my drug." By the end of the bowl season, Anderson had lost almost $2,000 after losing wagers on 15 of the 16 games he bet on. SEE GAMBLING ON PAGE 4A SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS Students question spending BY GABY SOUZA gsouza@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITER Students in the design department wondered where their differential tuition dollars were going. They knew their department had spent the funds, but they had no tangible proof that the money spent was benefitting them. Differential tuition is an extra fee added to credit hours within particular schools. The schools can spend the extra money on specific projects, equipment and upgrades. The School of Fine Arts, the umbrella under which the design department is found, began receiving funds from differential tuition in 2004, and continues to receive them every year, although the school did not release specific numbers. Student representatives, staff members of the department, Greg Thomas, chairman of the department of design, and Steve Hedden, dean of the School of Fine Arts, met Monday night to discuss problems with differential tuition. - Edited by Ty Beaver Student committees in each discipline of the department decide how the money will be used. Last year, Thomas spent between $16,000 and $20,000 of the differential tuition money for new equipment, and student committees in the department approved all of the purchases, which included a film scanner, a paper trimmer and cutting mats. But Katie McRoberts, Overland Park junior, said she was never able to use the equipment because it was locked in a room that, until recently, she did not have the code to access the equipment. Nothing was done to make the students aware of the equipment either, she said. "If we're not being given immediate access to it, there's no purpose," she said. Thomas said he hoped this was something that would never happen next year with anything purchased through differential tuition. The department has made some of the equipment available and will simplify the check out process. Michelle Lenihan, Overland Park senior, was concerned that about $6,500 of the differential tuition money used for department scholarships had not been received by its recipients. She said she knew at least one of six students who were supposed to receive the scholarship but had not. "The question on everyone's mind is 'where is it?'" she said. Thomas said he was not aware of any students not receiving their scholarships, but he and the department's accountant would be looking at it first thing this morning. Hedden, Thomas and other students agreed that the funds could have been handled better this year, but to effectively spend the money, they would have to move on and not dwell on the problems. Edited by Theresa Montaño Today's weather 23 8 Partly cloudy Christina Flowers, KLAH-T Wednesday 18 6 CHANCE OF SNOW Thursday 23 10 CHANCE OF SNOW Sunny Day Professor practically part of the institution 46 years later, after holding varied high-profile positions and teaching classes all along. Del Shankel can still be found in his office. PAGE2A An animated treasure for years to come Columnist Michael Phillips praises efforts by University staff and students to preserve a tradition of Allen Fieldhouse for generations and the namesake of his column. PAGE 12A 23 Freshman on the rise Freshman on the rise Ivana Catic plays with poise and consistency, even setting an assist record, though it's only her first year. Women's basketball coach Bonnie Henrickson has plans for the outstanding guard. PAGE 12A Index Comics. 7A Classifieds. 8A Crossword. 7A Horoscopes. 7A Opinion. 6A Sports. 12A --- 4 All contents, unless stated otherwise, © 2005 The University Daily Kansan V 2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN ON THE BOULEVARD NEWS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2005 At home at KU, for 46 years Many positions and many classes later, he's still here But being Mr. Everything wasn't easy. Provost David Shulenburger, who got to know Shankel in different capacities BY FRANK TANKARD ftankard@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITER Del Shankel doesn't have to come here anymore. He could be relaxing at home, playing golf, sitting on a beach. He could be anywhere. But he'd rather be in 1002 Haworth Hall, his office. Tokens of achievement line the room: three Mortar Board Outstanding Educator plaques, a few science books with his name on the title page, a game ball from a KU football game. The room reads like a remarkable resume. But shiny metal plaques and heavy hardbound books don't tell the story. As people who have been around the University of Kansas for a while know, Del Shankel seems to have held every office at the University, including two terms as interim chancellor, all the while continuing to teach classes. But Shankel's story isn't about a list of accomplishments. It's a story of sincerity and loyalty, of a man whom Chancellor Robert Hemenway says represents "all that is good about KU." Mr. Everything Shankel, now 78, arrived at the University in 1959 as an assistant professor of microbiology — then called bacteriology — with a salary of $6,000 a year. His interim duties started six years later when he filled in as chairman of the bacteriology department while the regular chairman went on sabbatical. He went on to become the University's designated pinch hitter, filling the positions (hold your breath): assistant, associate and then interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, executive vice chancellor, interim chancellor twice, interim athletics director twice, interim executive vice chancellor twice and, in 2004, interim president and CEO of the Kansas Alumni Association. In 1980, KU football coach Don Fambrough asked Shankel to speak to the players before a game against Iowa State. The team was fresh off a 54-0 home loss to Nebraska and faltering with a 1-3-1 record. "You could hear a pin drop," Fambrough said. "They just listened to every word he had to say. He was funny, he was sincere. He was just a person — he's hard to describe. I would just say all he wanted was to see the University be successful in every phase." The team won the game 28-17 and went on to win half of its remaining games. Shankel was given an autographed game ball. But being Mr. Everything wasn't easy. Provost David Shulenburger, who got to know Shankel in different capacities over the years, is serious when he says Shankel gave much of his life to KU. "It did take a toll on my home life and the time spent with the kids, which sometimes now I regret," said Shankel, who has two grown daughters, one in Spokane, Wash., and the other in Walnut Creek, Calif. "But what's past is past," he said. Shankel once considered leaving the University, when he was offered the job as chancellor at the University of Maryland's College Park campus after his first term as KU interim chancellor in 1980-81. He and his wife, Carol, stayed up until 3 a.m. discussing the job. He decided to turn down the offer. Students, friends and the KU atmosphere were too much to cut loose. He decided then that he would stay at the University of Kansas forever. "I came here like many young faculty, thinking I'd spend four or five years here, then go someplace 'better,'" he said. "Turned out that this was 'better.'" And so he stayed, all the way through retirement. Though he officially retired in 1996, he continued to teach Introduction to Biology to classes of 175 to Forever a Jayhawk "I think I could still do a good job, but at some point I can't do as good a job as I'd like to," he said. "I would rather stop teaching before somebody else really thought it was time for me to stop." He continues to come in to his office nearly every day, usually between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. He finds enough work to keep him busy: writing letters of recommendation, keeping up with science journals, serving on scholarship committees. He keeps in touch with former students such as Segaran Pillai, senior medical and science adviser for the Department of Homeland Security in Washington, D.C. Pillai earned his doctoral degree in molecular genetics with Shankel as his adviser in 1996. "He has become a lifelong friend." Pillai said. On nights and weekends, Shankel attends KU sporting events, concerts and plays. Posters of almost every KU team decorate the far side of his office. He volunteers as a faculty mentor for the KU softball team, and in the spring, he plans to be a volunteer official at the KU Reways for the 36th straight year. "I guess I feel best when I'm still contributing something," he said. JOHN E. HARRISON Kim Andrews/KANSAN Del Shankel has had a long, prolific career at the University of Kansas beginning in 1959 when he came to KU until he retired from teaching in 1996. Courses he taught ranged from biology and microbiology courses to Honors Western Civilization and Freshmen Honors Tutorials. Shankel still is involved, writing letters of recommendation for biology students, serving on scholarship committees and keeping up with scientific journals. Shankel has been here for 46 years. The University is ingrained in him, almost as deep as he's ingrained in the University. "I don't believe that many institutions have folks like Del," Shulenburger said. — Edited by Theresa Montaño top10 BY ESTUARDO GARCIA editor@kansan.com KANSAN CORRESPONDENT Top 10 ways to reduce your heating bill this winter 10. Close the damper in fireplace when not in use. Lower the thermostat when fireplace is in use. 8. Close the vents in rooms you do not use. 9. Open drapes and windows during the day to let sun heat your home and close at night for better insulation. 7. Find and fix leaks and cracks in windows, doors, pipes, electrical and phone lines and dryer ducts. 8. Insulate your attic. 5. Change to a programmable thermostat, if possible. 4. Lower your thermostat a few degrees. 3. Check your air ducts for gaps, leaks or discon 2. Replace furnace filters. 1. Lower your hot water thermostat about 10 degrees. Source: "10 Easy Tips to Save Money on Your Home heating Bills" by Greg Quincy BELIEFS Group promotes alternative forms of fun BY ERIC JORGENSEN editor@kansan.com KANSAN CORRESPONDENT Evan Toren was a different person before he was a Mountain Dewd. The Shawne senior's high school expelled him during his junior year, his parents continually kicked him out of the house, and he drank and partied too much, he said. During this time, he learned a valuable lesson. “These people who I thought were my friends weren't there for me when I needed them most.” Toren said. . . Toren decided to clean up. He stopped partying, got back into school, and no longer relied on those friends for help. In college, he quickly found more people like him who wanted to break the social norm of drinking and partying. Toren became close with his new friends, and today they are best friends. They created a social network and started a group called the Mountain Dews. The group now has more than 40 members and many more who regularly attend Mountain Dewds' events. The group now has an Oklahoma State chapter. The mission of the Mountain Dews is to "promote awesomeness." The group encourages people with the same interests to follow through with those ideals. It encourages a more civilized college lifestyle, one without excessive alcohol and promiscuity. The group has its own shirts and an unofficial parking pass and has evolved from its beginning in the spring of 2003. Many of the original members live together and their house plays base to all the activities they plan. Brian Colter, Seattle, Wash., senior and high school friend of Toren, recently started the Oklahoma State branch. The lifestyle is what makes the group members so close, as well as attracts new recruits, group members said. "We joke around and just say that everything we do is simply 'awesome,' but really, what we want is to draw people into a fun, close-knit community through what we do," said Andy Schuttler, Lenexa senior. The original members rank from undergraduates and graduates such as Toren and Schuttler to Asheville, N.C. senior and men's basketball player Christian Moody. Although the original members are devout Christians, they said religion is not the motivator of the group. Toren said some members' beliefs rubbed off onto some of the newer members, but it was an indirect cause. Schuttler echoed his friend's remarks. "Even though most of us share our faith in common, I wouldn't say we're an evangelistic group. We want to make the most of the time we're in college," Schuttler said. Toren and Nick Williamson, Kansas City, Mo., senior, both said the type of person they looked for were individuals who followed their friends to bars or parties, but didn't actually want to be there. They said many people felt pressured or obligated to go out drinking with friends, when they really had no desire to. Some of those people have found their way to the Mountain Dewds. "Outside of promoting awesomeness we try to come up with clever ways to have fun, try to stay just outside the typical college norm," Williamson said. Rather than an night of drinking, the group organizes "Twister Parties," where everyone plays twister. They also plan alcohol-free dance parties. One favorite accomplishment was getting 90 people together to attend a Kansas City Royals game, group members said. Toren said the group did not discourage drinking, but did not feel obliged to follow through with what he called the college student stereotype. "We all have the same sensibilities of the world and share the same convictions," Toren said. "We don't see anything constructive about the stereotype of college students. We've been there, and it's not for us." Toren said they looked for people who resembled them — people such as Toren — who have pasts of partying and have seen the stereotypical life of a college student, and want to find something else. He said the Mountain Dewds wanted to show them a path in which alcohol and partying was not the only option. The group is not affiliated with PepsiCo. Edited by Erick R. Schmidt Tell us your news Contact Austin Caster, Jonathan Keiling, Alyja Winkieka, Bose Billke, Ty Bessner, Nina Lin at 864-4810 or editor@kansan.com Kansas newroom 11 Stuffer-Flint Hall 1435 Jayhawk Bldg (7856) 84-4810 (7856) 86-4100 MEDIA PARTNERS ET CETERA NEWS KUJH For more news, turn to KUJH-TV on Sunflower Cablevision Channel 31 in Lawrence. The student-produced news airs at 5:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m., 9:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. every Monday through Friday. Also, check out KUJH online at tv.ku.edu. 207 1913 KJH is the student voice in radio, and it news is news, music, sports, talk shows and other content made for students. 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(785) 841-8400 TUESDAY. DECEMBER 6.2005 NEWS THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN ENTERTAINMENT 3A DiCaprio goes global Film targets environment THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — He showed up at the Oscars in a hybrid car and lobbied loudly for worldwide access to clean water. Now actor-activist Leonardo DiCaprio is making a documentary about global environmental issues. "11th Hour," a feature-length film that explores global warming and offers solutions for restoring the planet's ecosystems, publicist Keleigh Thomas said Monday. "Global warming is not only the No.1 environmental challenge we face today, but one of the most important issues facing all of humanity." DiCaprio, 31, said in a statement. He has started production on The film is scheduled to be released in fall 2006, Thomas said. Oscar nomination for his role as Howard Hughes in 2004's "The Aviator," established the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation in 1998 to raise awareness about environmental issues. The actor was also nominated for an Oscar for his role in 1993's "What's Eating Gilbert Grape." DiCaprio, who earned an He will collaborate on "11th Hour" with Tree Media Group founders Lelia Conners Petersen and Nadia Conners to produce, co-write and narrate the film. Eric Risberg/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GLOBAL Actor Leonardo DiCaprio speaks at a news conference called by Global Green USA in San Francisco on March 22. DiCaprio has started production on "11th Hour," a film that offers solutions for restoring the planet's ecosystems, publicist Keleigh Thomas said Monday. CAMPUS Professor to attend conference on aging Rosemary Chapin, professor of social welfare, has been chosen to be a representative to the White House Conference on Aging. The Conference on Aging is held once a decade, and will focus on providing policies for the aging baby boom generation. This will be the fifth conference. The 2005 White House Conference on Aging occurs as the first wave of the baby boomer generation prepares for retirement. Seventy-eight million baby boomers will begin to turn 60 in January 2006. Delegates were appointed from all 50 states, the U.S. Territories, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia. John Jordan and Gaby Souza Chapin will begin her duties on Dec. 11. KU dance professor honored for video A video that KU dance professor Janet Hamburg made to help people with Parkinson's disease better manage their symptoms won the 2005 Creative Use of Technology award last month, presented by the Association of Continuing Higher Education. The video, titled "Motivating Moves" helps those with Parkinson's improve their breathing, flexibility, sense of balance, facial expressiveness and vocal range. It features tips for solving daily movement challenges, an instructional section with computer animations of a moving skeleton and a 30-minute seated exercise routine. For the video, Hamburg collaborated with Jim Jewell, KU continuing education senior director and the Parkinson's Disease Foundation in NewYork City. Travis Robinett Graduate affairs to get promised senator The Graduate and Professional Affairs Committee will get the student senator they were promised last spring. Because of an error, the committee's associate senator wasn't included in changes made to Senate rules. On Wednesday, Senate will vote on changing the rules. CORRECTIONS "This bill is simply correcting our error from last year in an attempt at consistency," said Lauren Pierson, Prairie Village junior. Last spring, legislation was brought to allow the associate senators of all the committees voting rights, but the Graduate and Professional Affairs Committee was left off the list. Pierson wrote the legislation to make the changes. Pierson said the committee has had an associate senator who couldn't vote. John Jordan CITY Tobacco prevention effort given grant The Douglas County Community Health Improvement Project, or CHIP, was awarded $184,000 in cash by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to expand tobacco use prevention efforts. Janelle Martin, CHIP executive director, said the grant would concentrate on helping smokers quit by providing free assistance. The funds also will go toward making it harder for minors to buy tobacco products and work to make the indoor air in Kansas safer. CHIP's special committee on tobacco prevention, facilitated by Melissa Smith, created a plan three years ago to address tobacco control in Douglas County. Smith said the funding would allow the committee to fully implement the components of the plan, which covers areas from community and school programs to counter-marketing. Travis Robinett CRIME Lawrence resident charged in conspiracy Krista M. Harris, 19-yearold Lawrence resident, was charged with solicitation and conspiracy to murder as well as sale or delivery of crack cocaine during her first appearance in Douglas County District Court Monday. of West 23rd Street. Police arrested Harris at 9 p.m. Friday on the 1000 block Sgt. Tarik Khalib of the Lawrence Police Department said in a press release that the department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms had investigated a report concerning someone who solicited another to commit a murder. The suspect allegedly gave crack cocaine to the potential murderer in exchange for the service. Kansas Union jayhawk statue damaged Friday - Steve Lynn and Gaby Souza A 33-year-old KU employee reported to the KU Public Safety Office that someone damaged the blue, crimson and yellow fiberglass Jayhawk outside the Kansas Union about 7:24 Friday. Pat Beard, director of building services, said that someone broke the bird away from its base. The Jayhawk needs to be sanded and repainted to repair the damage. Beard said he hoped to have the Jayhawk back by this weekend. The damage is estimated at $500, Beard said. - Monday's The University Daily Kansan contained an error. In the story "State targets several local bars," The Hawk no longer admits 18-year-olds. - An article in yesterday's The University Daily Kansas contained an error. In "Neighbors in Need" which appeared in the Holiday Gift Guide, Penn House's name was misspelled. -Steve Lynn ON THE RECORD - A 22-year-old KU student reported to Lawrence police a window shattered between 5 and 10:30 p.m. Saturday on the 1600 block of Tennessee Street. The damage is estimated at $200. - ♦ A 21-year-old KU student reported to Lawrence police a burglary and a theft of some DVDs between 11 p.m. Friday and 10 p.m. Saturday on the 1700 block of Kentucky Street. The DVDs are valued at $900. - A KU employee reported to the KU Public Safety Office a door frame broken between 10 p.m. Friday and 10:35 p.m. Saturday at Danforth Chapel. The damage is estimated at $200. ♦ A 19-year-old KU student reported to the KU Public Safety Office a theft of a Schwinn bicycle between 11:30 a.m. Friday and 3 p.m. Saturday from a bike rack at Fraser Hall.The bicycle is valued at $400. An 18-year-old KU student reported to the KU Public Safety Office damage to a left side mirror on a Ford Explorer between between 12:30 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. Saturday in KU lot 102, next to Lewis Hall.The damage is estimated at $500. ON CAMPUS - Paul D'Amieri, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, is giving a speech called "Ukraine's Orange Revolution: One Year After" from noon to 1 p.m. today in 318 Bailey Hall. THIS WEEKON CAMPUS Join the Legislative Advocacy Network (LAN)! 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E-mail nolx13@ku.edu for more information YOUR AD HERE FOR FREE!! Contact Student Senate to place Nontraditional Student Foundation End of Semester Holiday Potluck December 17, 12:00-3:00pm At the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Please RSVP number to attend and dish you will bring or submit any questions to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nontradastudentfoundation/ Children always welcome! Need a ride? Want to save money? KU CARPOOL KU's Online Carpool Coordinator Save Money Save the Earth Meet New People www.ku.edu/~carpool e-mail carpool@raven.cc.ku.edu if you have any questions --- 4A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN ONLINE GAMBLING TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2005 A A 8 8 K K bookie. For each ticket, the collector knocked $25 off his kit before finally asking a friend for the remaining $300. He used about $800 of excess financial aid to chip away at the bill before finally a "He said if he found out I was betting again he would get the money back from me somehow," Anderson said. "That's the main reason I don't do it anymore. When I talk to him he still asks me if I'm betting." Compounding the problem for students is the ease of placing bets online. Only a user name and a credit card are needed to make a deposit and get started. Nellie Mae, a foundation that runs loan programs for college students, conducted a survey of college students who applied for financial aid through its firm. The survey showed 65 percent of under- Gambling CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A The hook Matt Anderson Crystal Lake, Ill., senior "I started betting $200 because that was the max they would allow. I just kept doing $200, $200,$200,and before I knew it I was down about $2,000." Anderson compared his addiction to alcoholism and drug abuse. Although it didn't involve toxic chemicals that harmed him physically, the hook was as strong as anything else he could have abused. He began placing bets with a bookie on campus whom he met through a fraternity. After early winnings, Anderson thought he could earn a supplemental income to help pay his expenses at school. But betting soon became about more than money. "Once I got going, I couldn't watch a Wednesday or Thursday night college football game without having something on the line," he said. "It was just ridiculous. Every NFL game had something on it, too." A recent Harvard University medical study showed that one out of every 20 college students surveyed was addicted to gambling. The study also determined that the same group had the highest rates of pathological and problem gambling. In addition, youth were introduced to gambling through sports more frequently than through any other method. students from Another study surveyed 1,700 students from six Midwestern colleges. Thirty-three percent of men and 15 percent of women said they gambled at least once per week. The study also found pathological and problem gambling rates were four to eight times higher for college students than the rest of the adult population. Francis DeSalvo, director of Counseling and Psychological Services and assistant dean of students, said gambling addiction was a repetitive behavior that often masked a person's real problems. Most of the time, DeSalvo said, reducing stress and increasing self-esteem helped those who were fighting addiction. "Gambling is different than alcohol or drugs," DeSalvo said. "Your body doesn't really need more and more and more of it. The issue is figuring out what that's all about." Just point and click During winter break of his freshman year, Anderson ran into serious trouble. He had lost badly on the bowl games and had no way to pay back his debt. Rather than stop betting, he bet more and more to try to dig out of the hole. "I started betting $200 because that was the max they would allow," he said. "I just kept doing $200, $200, $200, and before I knew it I was down about $2,000." Anderson was forced to make drastic lifestyle changes because of his "drug." He sold personal items, including DVDs, a Sony PlayStation and games. He gave blood once, and he contemplated pawning a Breitling watch that he bought for $2,400. He eventually resorted to other means of paying his debts. He collected or bought student tickets to KU men's basketball games against Arizona and Texas to give to his graduate students have credit cards, 20 percent have four or more and the average balance is more than $2,200. Hard to be responsible Although many students get out of control at the computer, others say keep it in check. Liszt, Minn., senior, to keep minimum, per week on games. He within a pre-vent say theycan ck. B r a d n- ontonka, said he tried his bets to a wagering $100 on a couple of He said staying a budget would vent problems such as Anderson's. "I'm not going to do anything that will affect my life," Liszt said. "When you have to start cutting back on other things just so you can bet on a game that weekend, that's when you have a problem." Efforts to stop Web sites The FBI estimated that nearly $6 billion was wagered on the 2002 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament alone. Only $600 million was bet legally in Nevada — meaning the rest was gambled illegally, either online via offshore operations or through bookies. He said the difference was being selective when choosing to bet. Betting just to bet is dangerous because you don't play the games with the Law enforcement agencies in the United States have no authority to pursue most offshore online gambling sites. A simple Google search reveals that most of these sites operate in locales such as London, Aruba, Costa Rica, Curacao and even tiny Barbuda. Whitney Watson, spokesman for the office of Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline, said any gambling that occurs in Kansas and isn't sanctioned by the state is illegal, including online wagering. The state would have a difficult time trying to enforce domestic laws on foreign operations. In addition, a Kansas resident who won a large amount of money would have no legal standing if the sports book refused to pay up. Legislation has been drafted over the past few years in an attempt to get a regulatory grip on the online gambling industry. In 1999, Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., proposed the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act, which would amend the Wire Wager Act of 1961 to clearly include online gambling. The Wire Wager Act banned the use of telephones to place sports bets. In 2001, a bill sponsored by Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., made it to the floor of the Senate. Named the Amateur Sports Integrity Act, the bill would have supplemented the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act by banning all gambling on NCAA or other amateur athlet- i c events. The Despite support from the NCAA and congressmen from both sides of the aisle, the bill failed. The Justice Department's concern with the language of the bill spelled doom because, under the proposed legislation, people who called in picks for office NCAA tournament pools would be safe while those who e-mailed their selections would be subject to arrest and jail time. 'ADDICTED? Gam-Anon (meets in Topeka and Overland Park) Hotline: (816) 545-4368 Web site: www.gam-anon.org Gamblers Anonymous (meets in Topeka, Shawnee, Overland Park and Leavenworth) Hotline: (816) 346-9230 Web site: www.gamblers anonymous.org mous International Web site defines compulsive gambling as "an illness, progressive in its nature, which can never be cured, but can be arrested." It says most gamblers have low self-esteem and think of themselves as weak or "just plain no-good." There is also a list called "20 questions" that can help a gambler decide if he has a problem. An issue that KU students face specifically is that there is currently no Lawrence chapter of GA. The closest chapters with weekly meetings are in Topeka, Overland Park and Leavenworth. A closer option for help is Counseling and Psychological Services. Located in Waltham Student Health Center, CAPS offers counsel- Student Health Cent CAPS offers counseling to KU students for a wide variety of issues. De-Salvo said the psychologists at Watkins rarely treated gambling addictions. Center, counsel- ents He said only one or two students received treatment last year for gambling. That was not enough patients to justify an ongoing program for problem gamblers, so the department treats patients on a case-by-case basis. Anderson said he wished he could have stopped earlier, and he cautioned people who were contemplating making gambling part of their lives. best chance of winning. Liszt said he also avoided betting on games that involved his favorite teams, something that Anderson didn't do during the 2002 KU football season. The Jayhawks were in Lincoln, Neb. to play the Cornhuskers, and Kansas was a 48-point underdog with its third-string quarterback scheduled to start. Anderson put a sizable chunk of cash on Nebraska. bill failed, largely due to Nevada lobbyists' claims it would take away states' rights and income. The NCAA and legislators such as Brownback continue to fight gambling on amateur athletics, but no laws have been passed to regulate online gambling, and no proposed bill has made it as far as the Amateur Sports Integrity Act. Logitech Help for students DO YOU HAVE A PROBLEM? Has gambling affected your reputation? Have you ever gambled to get money to pay debts or solve financial difficulties? Have you ever sold anything to finance gambling? Have arguments, disappointments or frustrations tempted you to gamble? Have you had an urge to celebrate by gambling? After the Jayhawks scored on the opening drive of the game, Anderson had to sweat all the way through the fourth quarter and won when Nebraska scored a late touchdown. Despite the win, the stress took its toll. "It's a liability," he said. "If you win, you want to win more. If you lose, you want to win it back and keep playing more. It's so addictive that you're going to lose no matter how you come out of it financially." When gamblers get out of control, curbing the addiction is often a tough proposition. The first step, and often the biggest hurdle to recovery, is recognizing that a problem exists. The Gamblers Anony- "I'm still nervous," Anderson said. "Those are the reasons I won't get started again." 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Nearly two years after NASA's twin rovers parachuted to Mars, a Jekyll-and-Hyde picture is emerging about the planet and whether it could have supported life. Officer cleared of all charges BY JOHN MILBURN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Anderson was a platoon leader in Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 41st Infantry Regiment in August 2004. Four men in his 36-member platoon were convicted of murdering unarmed Iraqi during operations near Sadr City. Two of the soldiers said Anderson had given them the go-ahead to kill civilians, including one incident that was Second Lt. Erick J. Anderson, of Twinsburg, Ohio, had been charged with two counts of murder, two counts of conspiracy, making a false statement, dereliction of duty and conduct unbecoming of an officer for allegedly authorizing the shooting deaths of Iraqi civilians by soldiers under his command. All the charges were dropped after an Army investigator who presided over a two-day hearing at Fort Riley last month recommended that Anderson not face a court martial. TOPEKA — The Army on Monday dropped murder charges against an infantry officer accused of giving soldiers in his command permission to kill two Iraqi civilians. "Right now, shock and awe is pretty much still in effect," Anderson told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. "It's been a long 18 months that this has all been going on. The reality of it still hasn't hit that it's done and over with." Four men in his 36-member platoon were convicted of mudering unarmed Iraqis ... Two of the soldiers said Anderson had given them the go-ahead to kill civilians, including one incident that was described as a "mercy killing." Prosecutors in Iraq had dropped charges against Anderson in January, saying there wasn't enough evidence to prosecute him, but left the investigation open and the case was transferred back to Fort Riley for further review. New charges were filed in October. If convicted, Anderson, 26, could have faced life in prison. described as a "mercy killing." "The convening authority has dismissed the charges and unless any new significant and substantially credible information comes to light there will be no further investigation. The case is closed," said Lt. Col. David Velloney, deputy staff judge advocate at Fort Riley, ▼ COURTS DeLay's conspiracy charge dismissed Texas Judge Pat Priest, who is presiding over the case against the Republican, issued the ruling after a hearing late last month in which DeLay's attorney argued that the indictment was fatally BY APRIL CASTRO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HIGHLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE • ACCESSIBLE • SMALL CLASS SIZE • $71/CREDIT HOUR INCLUDES BOOK RENTAL • OFFERING 50-60 GENERAL EDUCATION CLASSES 785-597-0127 hccser@highlandcc.edu AFFORDABLE EDUCATION WITHIN 15 MILES OF LAWRENCE IN PERRY, KS AUSTIN, Texas — A judge dismissed a conspiracy charge Monday against Rep. Tom DeLay but refused to throw out the far more serious allegations of money-laundering, dashing the congressman's hopes for now of reclaiming his post as House majority leader. The ruling means the case will move toward a trial next year, though other defense objections to the indictments remain to be heard by the judge. "The court's decision to dismiss Ronnie Earle's numerous charges against Mr. DeLay underscores just how baseless and "Mr. DeLay is very encouraged by the swift progress of the legal proceedings and looks forward to his eventual and absolute exoneration based on the facts and the law." politically motivated the charges were, DeLay spokesman Kevin Madden said, referring to the Democratic district attorney who brought the case. After the judge's decision, DeLay declined to speak with reporters as he entered a Houston hotel for a campaign fundraiser. In a written statement, Earle's office said prosecutors were studying the ruling and had made no decision about whether to appeal. Prosecutors have 15 days to challenge the decision. flawed. DeLay, 58, and two GOP fundraisers, John Colaryandro and Jim Ellis, are accused of illegally funneling $190,000 in corporate donations to 2002 Republican candidates for the Texas Legislature. In asking that the case be thrown out, DeLay lawyer Dick DeGuerin argued that one of the charges — conspiracy to violate the Texas election code While Monday's ruling was a partial victory for DeLay, he cannot reclaim his post. When he was indicted in September, DeLay was required under House rules to relinquish the leadership post he had held since 2003. — did not even take effect until September 2003, a year after the alleged offenses occurred. Post Deep Throat KENNEDY SCHOOL INSTITUTE OF Elise Amendola/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Journalists Carl Bernstein, left, and Bob Woodward, who broke the story of the 1972 Watergate conspiracy through the use of perhaps the most famous anonymous source in journalistic history, speak at a forum entitled "Anonymous Sources: Lessons Learned" Monday at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. SAN FRANCISCO — Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia to which anyone can contribute, is tightening submission rules after a prominent journalist complained that an article falsely implicated him in the Kennedy assassinations. POLICY Wikipedia will now require users to register before they can create articles, Jimmy Wales, founder of the St. Petersburg, Fla.-based Web site, said Monday. People who modify existing articles will still be able to do so without registering. Online encyclopedia to regulate entries BY DAN GOODIN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The change comes less than a week after John Seigenthaler, a one-time administrative assistant to Robert Kennedy, complained in an op-ed published in USA Today that a biography of him on Wikipedia claimed he had been suspected in the assassinations of the former attorney general and his brother, President John F. Kennedy. Wikipedia, often cited as a prime example of the type of collective knowledge-pooling that the Internet enables, has some 850,000 articles in English as well as entries in at least eight other languages, including Italian, French, German and Portuguese. University Christian Fellowship Tuesday nights- 7:30p.m. bible study, worship, fellowship ECM Building - 1204 Oread [one block north of the the Kansas Union] www.ucf4u.org We salute you Ms. Sports Dome BALL CAP WEARER! Purchase a hat and YOU could win a FREE CAP and be our next Sports Dome Ball Cap Wearer see store for details vital stats name: Heather S. height: 5'6" DOB: 5-20-1984 favorite team: Astros Sports Dome 1000 Massachusetts (enter off E. 10th St.) www.spdome.com ATTENTION UNDERGRADUATES Have you ever had an outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant? Nominate a GTA for a Graduate Teaching Assistant Award! 1. Get a "Student Nomination Form" from the Graduate School (300 Strong Hall). Forms are also available on-line at: www.graduate.ku.edu 2. Encourage your classmates to nominate. Only those GTAs with at least 5 or more student nominations will be forwarded to the department for consideration. All student nominations must be submitted by Friday, February 17 2006. Make a New Year's Resolution... SAFERIDE SAFERIDE Become a SAFERIDE DRIVER for the spring semester call 785.842.0544 THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN OPINION TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2005 WWW.KANSAN.COM STAND UP PAGE 6A Involvement with the opinion page yields valuable life lessons Every day you can count on one thing when you open the Kansan; two to three people will voice their opinions about a certain topic of interest. These people share their ideas with the student body and open themselves up to the criticism of others. The choices of topics are broad, ranging from racism to different vibrator styles. People write about what interests them and share their opinion with others. I am a regular columnist, and I have realized a few life lessons in the short semester while writing for the opinion page. Everyone on this campus has a voice, from Chancellor Robert Hemenway all the way down to the person who cleans the bathrooms in Budig. But of this immense population, only a small percentage of people seek to publish their opinions for others to see. There are two potential reasons for this: First, a person may not care or have a strong feeling either way on a particular issue. I am glad people like that choose not to write columns, because without passion in someone's writing, the ideas will not be expressed effectively and would consequently be uninteresting to read. Secondly, a person may not choose to publish his opinions because he is afraid of what others might think. I understand this argument fully. JOEL SIMONE opinion@kansan.com The decision is not easy as it seems because if one chooses to speak his mind, he is going to have to deal with the reprecussions of his comments. Most people do not want to become outcasts for their opinions, but a wise man once said, "I speak my mind, because biting my tongue would make my pride bleed." These columns and letters might be meaningless comments to some but life lessons to others. There is an age-old question that asks whether one would rather be liked or respected. This decision is not as easy as it seems because if one chooses to speak his mind, he is going to have to deal with the repercussions of his comments. But heading your opinions could also cause you to lose respect, maybe not from others, but from yourself. If you believe in something and choose not to be vocal about it, no one will ever criticize you for it; but consequently, no one will ever know what your ideas were. Since I started writing this semester, each column I have written has seen numerous letters and guest columns from people refuting my opinions. People have called the Free for All and said less than admirable words about me. Someone called the editor of the Kansas about a column of mine, I've lost a friendship and a lawyer representing the Miss Kansas USA pageant contacted me about the integrity of the pageant. While I am obviously upset about some of these situations, I still will not take back anything that I have said. I am the type of person whowhowould rather be honest to someone's face than act fraudulent behind his back. If you've got something to say, write in to the Kansan. Just remember that no one's writing or ideas are infallible; but contributing your letters or guest columns, you can help the University see a topic from a different perspective. It may even cause someone to change his mind about an issue. So, if you got something to say, stand up and let your voice be heard! ♦ Simone is a Chicago Heights, IIL., junior in journalism. LETTER TO THE EDITOR Criticism of class un-Christian The recent e-mail from Dr. Paul Mirecki has generated quite a stir amongst the religious crowd and the response has been over-dramatized, hypocritical and, ironically, un-Christian. Rep. Brenda Landwehr (R-Wichita) said, "If you read his e-mail, it's not a short e-mail... It's venomous." As a member of SOMA whoreceived the e-mail in question, I can say this claim is nothing short of a lie. The e-mail contained six paragraphs, of which only two sentences were the ones repeated various times by the media and could be construed as "venomous." The rest of the email is informative. It gives time, location and content of the course. It asks for input on textbooks or guest lecturers. misunderstanding of science. People who are up in arms about Dr. Mirecki's comments need to get off their high horses. His comments were meanspirited, but pale in comparison to the vitriol of the fundamentalists. The comments were made in a private forum, while fundamentalists slander anyone opposing their agenda as "evil-utionists," "God-haters," "unpatriotic" or a laundry list of other names. Dr. Mirecki's letter was not intended to offend all Judeo-Christians as has been claimed. The target of ire was only those who seek to undermine education and the scientific process through a blatant These comments are publicly and proudly displayed on the Web sites of intelligent design proponents. Christians don't want to take this "slap on the right cheek" lightly. More than one member of our legislature has discussed slashing funding for the University in response to Mirecki exercising his right to free speech. Again, this isn't a case of Christians being attacked, but instead, a reminder that what goes around, comes around. Jesus said something about turning the other cheek. Perhaps it's time for these believers to start acting like the Christians they claim to be. I don't condone the mud-slinging of either side and I'm not going to venture an opinion on who started it. Instead of acting like children, both sides need to discuss the matter in a mature manner. Forgive me if I'm mistaken, but I seem to remember that This isn't going to happen until fundamentalists realize they hold no moral high ground and are just as covered in mud as their opponents. Someone is going to have to take the first step and ignore the accusations and name-calling from the other side long enough to re-establish communication. Who bears this responsibility? I don't know. But for you religious types out there, try asking yourself this: What would Jesus do? ♦ Jon Voisey St. Louis junior in physics and astronomy. TALK TO US Jonathan Kealing, managing editor 864-4854 or ikealing@kansan.com One of the first subjects discussed in the Introduction to Evolutionary Biology class this semester is how the implications of intelligent design do not fit inside the paradigm of empirical, scientific inquiry. Under the scientific method, the supernatural cannot be used to explain the natural and vice versa. Austin Caster, editor 864-4854 or acaster@kansan.com In an institution such as the University, politics and a student's right to academic freedom should be kept well apart. There is a reason why separation of church and state is so important. It is to prevent events such a these from occurring. Don't students at a secular university have the right to take a class that is skeptical of religion? Politicians and activists may see victory in the withdrawal of this class, but there are plenty of other courses which hold intelligent design and creationism in a critical light. Sarah Connelly, business manager 864-4014 or adddirector@kansan.com may have been crude and inappropriate, but there is a deeper meaning to be found at the heart of this controversy. It is a matter of freedom versus censorship. Does freedom of speech extend only up to the point when religion is criticized? Joshua Bickel, managing editor 864-4854 or jbickel@kansan.com Matthew Sevclk, opinion editor 864-4924 or msevclk@kansan.com John Morgan, sales director 864-4462 or adddirector at kansan.edu SUBMISSIONS The fact that state legislators would even be willing to cut funding to the University over the institution of a class that questions certain religious philosophies is an outrage. All of this amounts to conservative censorship of what is viewed as liberal propaganda. Malcolm Gibson, general manager, news 84-766-796 or mgibson@kansan.com wno wants the religious studies department brought under the control of a private religious organization and the University's Society of OpenMinded Atheists and Agnostics dissolved, should raise serious concerns. - Abramovitz is an Overland Park sophomore in English and philosophy. Jennifer Weaver, sales and marketing adviser 564-7666 or jweaver@kansan.com Conservative agenda causes controversy ▼ GUEST COMMENTARY The Kansan welcomes letters to the editors and guest columns submitted by students, faculty and alumni. The Kansan reserves the right to edit, cut to length, or reject all submissions. For any questions, call Austin Caster at 864-4810 or e-mail opinion@kansan.com. Politicians and activists may see victory in the withdraw of this class, but there are plenty of other courses which hold intelligent design ... in a critical light. GUEST COLUMN GUIDELINES Maximum Length: 200 word limit Include: Author's name and telephone number; class, hometown (student); position (faculty member); phone number (will not be published) General questions should be directed to the editor at editor at kansan.com. Maximum Length: 850 word limit Include: Author's name; class, home- town (student); position (faculty member); phone number (will not be published) LETTER GUIDELINES Was there a violent cry for redress last June when Vice President Dick Cheney publicly accosted Congressman Leahy on the Senate floor with the "F" word? Or when Pat Roberts, a prominent conservative television evangelist, demanded the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on his television show, "The 700 Club?" Or when President Bush, at the Middle East Peace Summit in 2003, made an even more outrageous claim: Justifying military action in Afghanistan and Iraq as a direct divination from God? EDITORIAL BOARD Also: The Kansan will not print guest columns that attack another columnist. No actions taken for these incidents match the ones in response to Dr. Paul Mirecki's divulged e-mails. To cut to the chase, the United States is controlled and dominated by the Christian conservative right and is why critics have lambasted Dr. Mirecki so fiercely. ZACHARY ABRAMOVITZ opinion@kansan.com The words of Dr. Mirecki Elite Ford, Yanting Wang, Joel Simone, Dan Hoyt, Annie Wettermute, Julie Parisi, Nathan McGinnis, Josh Goeting, Sara Garlick, Travis Brown, Julian Portillo, David Archer SUBMIT TO Kansan newroom 111 Stauffer-Flint Hall 1435 Jayhawk Blvd. Lawrence, KS 86045 (786) 844-8190 opinion@kansan.com This whole ordeal is not a matter of a professor's ill-chosen words, but an affront against a self-proclaimed liberal whose dissent stands in direct contrast to a conservative political and social system. It is disgusting to see the ways in which politicians have interfered with the operations of an institution such as the University. Calls from conservative activist John Altevogt, A. K. SINGH Free All Call 864-0500 Free for All callers will 20 seconds to speak about any topic they wish. Kansan editors reserve the right to omit comments. Slanderous and obscene statements will not be printed. Phone numbers of all incoming calls are recorded. Instant message the Free for All at "ukidforeal.org." Cassie, I just tore your Christmas lights down with my telekinesis again! I am the Fantasy Football God! If we beat St Joseph in New York City, I'm flying to Madison Square Garden and tearing down the baskets! It's new a KU tradition right? I'd like to order some Micah Downs with some Christian Moody on the side. I want something that says, "Dad likes leather!" + To the guys who keep proposing to the red-headed girl who swipes the cards at Mrs. E's: Why are you not proposing to me? I miss Coolio. Free For All, I am making a cheese sandwich ghetto style. Oh my God, dude! Is that a box crossing the street? + To the guys in the front row at the game: our colors are blue, white, and red. Don't ever show up painted turquoise and white again. 7. 30 a.m. is an ungody time to have a final scheduled. My roommate owns a black and white polka-dotted moo-moo. + I feel sorry for Broncos fans, not because they are Broncos fans (an affliction that warrants pity from all), but because their quarterback has, at the same time, the dirtiest 'stache and the greasiest mullet on earth. My roommate just tried to beat her computer to death with a three-hole punch. The fractured royalty of Oliver strikes yet again! Everyone should watch Survivor at 7 p.m. on Thursday on CBS. Danni the KU alum is one of the final five! ✩ 1. College could be so productive if it weren't for AIM and facebook.com. So, I went to Manhattan this weekend,and I think my vocabulary shrank by 98 percent. OK, people, the creation stories of the Bible are mythology. It has nothing to do with being true or false. Get a dictionary. Here's the deal: We are the Jayhawks, not the Chiefs. If you want to have to say something at the end of the National Anthem, then at least say Eat I'm dating the drive-thru girl, so back off Let's try each other on to see if we fit. Last night, I walked around The Hawk in a formal dress. Boy do I feel classy. Clutch rocked my socks off Wednesday night, and anyone who didn't go should be ashamed. My roommate doesn't understand that 85 degrees is how hot my Grandma keeps her house. Mrs. E's has Ego waffles, and that makes me ridiculously happy. Bobby Douglass said "Rock Chalk" to me in the bathroom of Soldier Field. The Chiefs won't lose another game this year, I guarantee it! My friends and I all agree, an angry Larry Johnson could take Vin Diesel. Hey, school, it's me. I know that we've known each other for many, many years now, but I have something I need to tell you. I'm sorry, and this may or may not come as a shock, but I just don't feel the same. I just don't care like I used to, and I'm completely over you. Michelle Goodrick is my hero! + Let's keep it clean at the games and watch our mouthes. We're not trash. Dear Mr. and Mrs. All, Thank you for conceiving Free For. You guys are swell. Love, Nick. I smoke because it's cheaper than therapy and the priest won't return my emails. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2005 ENTERTAINMENT PEOPLE DAMAGED CIRCUS Doesn't she know it's cold? I tumo I think I'll go tell her... Hey! NHAK NHAK NHAK It's cold, you should put a coat on... PENGUINS Greg Griesemauer/KANSAN BOYS I'M GOING UP TO TICK YOU M... HEDDY UP BEING UP NOW COMES IS THAT ONLY ON LONDON PAD? STEPHEN IS UMMUN ON X! OH...OH REAL COOL LAND REAL COOL Doug Lang/KANSAN FRESH TIMES Oh man! I don't have enough money to pay the rent. Last years Rent. This year's Rent. Next years... Dude, yall are gay. Yes we are. FANCY COMIX Steven Levy/KANSAN Mr. Donkey Flatulent Fairy Mr. Punkins Rummy Rabbit Norm the EIF Roxy Rabbit Bill Monkeyman Fat Larry Dick Nichols Andrew Haddle/KANSAN Doesn't she know it's cold? I unnno! I think I'll go tell her... Hey! NHAK NHAK NHAK It's cold, you should put a coat on... THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 7A E-mails place Dr. Phil at heart of controversy DAMAGED CIRCUS Doesn't she know it's cold? I unno! I think I'll go tell her... Hey! NHAK NHAK NHAK It's cold, you should put a coat on... PENGUINS Greg Griesenauer/KANSAN BOY'S I'M COMING UP TO TICK YOU IN... HUDDY UP HERE MORE DONEES SHHHH... I KNOW! HURRY UP HERE MORE DONEES IS THAT WINDOW? OH LOOK AT ME STEPHEN IS USING OS X OH, OH DEAL COOL, WHAT PEAL COOL! DAMAGED CIRCUS BOYS I'M COMING UP TO TRICK YOU IN... RIFFY UP BEFORE MOM LOMES EHHHHH... I KNOW BONG I'M COMING UP TO THINK YOU ARE... HAPPY I'M BEERCUP NOW COMES BHHHH... I KNOW! IS THAT MONSTER?! OH LOOO NOY! STEPHEN IS BURNING OS X OH...OH REAL YOUR MISTER REAL LOVE! IS THAT BROOKLYN ON LONG NOT STEPHEN IS UBNAME OIS X OH... OH REAL COLLEGE... REAL COOU! LOS ANGELES — "Dr. Phil" McGraw stated in e-mails that he had "no expertise" in making the diet pills he endorsed, according to court filings in a lawsuit alleging the TV psychologist made false statements about the products. Oh man! I don't have enough money to pay the rent. Last years Rent. This years Rent. Next years... RENT Dude, ya'll are gay. Yes we are. ▼ FRESH TIMES Oh man! I don't have enough money to pay the rent. Last years Rent. This years Rent. Next years... RENT Dude, ya'll are gay. Yes we are. ▼ FANCY COMIX Steven Levy/KANSAN HOBO Pusty Sage Mr. Purkins Rommy Rabbit Norm the EIF Roxy Rabbit Bill Monkeyman Fat Larry Dickixon CABER HOBO Pouty Sage Mr. Punkins Rommy Rubbut Norm the EIF Roxy Rubbit Bill Monkeyman Fat Larry Dickie Kwon's Company Flatulent Fairy Better Bird Mr. Dankey McGraw also insisted on "the STRONGEST of disclaimers" in the products' advertisements before putting his name on the now discontinued Shape Upl diet campaign, the NewYork Daily News reported Monday, citing e-mail print-outs that are included in Los Angeles Superior Court filings. "This fleshes out our position that Dr. Phil was in charge ... he was rewriting the commercials," said lawyer Henry Rossbacher, who filed the lawsuit against McGraw in 2004 on behalf of three unhappy customers. McGraw, the TV show host, has denied the allegations. "It's a pretty silly claim," said his Dallas-based lawyer, Bill Dawson. "It's the kind of suit that makes people hate lawyers." McGraw jumped into the lucrative weight-loss market in mid-2003 with a campaign that included advice books, a prime-time special with NBC's Katie Couric on obesity and dieting, and his Shape Upl With Dr. Phil McGraw products. The plan called for 22 pills daily at $120 a month. Plaintiffs in the lawsuit are seeking class-action status to include thousands of potential plaintiffs. The judge could rule on that request next year. The Associated Press The Stars Show the Kind of Day You'll Have: 5-Dynamic: 4-Positive: 3-Average: 2-So-so: 1-Difficult HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2005: Your style of communication and friendly ways win many friends for you. Don't hesitate to reach out to others. You are greatly in tune with your needs, as well as the needs of others. Visualize more of what you want, and don't hesitate to go for just that. Often, you worry or feel insecure. Learn how to relax and become more efficient. If you are single, relationships come forward, but might not be what you want. You might be better off getting to know potential sweeties better, as a very special person will enter your life close to your next birthday. If you are attached, share more of your vulnerabilities, and you'll become much closer. AQUARIUS reads you well. ARIES (March 21-April 19) **** Use your detachment; still, don't be surprised when everything gets mixed up. Listen rather than talk. You will gather much more key information that way. Keeping others' minds straight could take a lot. Tonight: Where the crowds are, but make sure that if meeting someone, you are both carrying cell phones! TAURUS (April 20-May 20) ★★★ Although you might have the final word, you do need to encourage teamwork. A sense of mutuality produces better results, be it professionally or personally. Your ability to sort through a problem could be called tonight. Forget an early bedtime. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) ★★★Don't buck the trend. You will find that others want and will demand that they have the final say. Don't even try to interfere with associates and friends. You might be more out of sync than you realize. Tonight: Confirm a get-together before heading out. Confusion lurks. CANCER (June 21-July 22) **** A particular associate might be demanding in his or her own special style. But together, the product you create could be very impressive. Carefully work through an issue that surrounds a love relationship. Tonight: Work with someone you care about to eliminate a touch of chaos. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) ★★★ Others knock on your door. You have an opportunity to understand some of the key people in your life. Misunderstandings are likely, especially on the home front. Be careful. that your humor doesn't hurt someone. Tonight: Go along with plans. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ★★ Tension rises, especially as you see someone very differently. Pace yourself, as you might have a lot of ground to cover. Relax with someone you trust and understand. You also might need some help and support. Tonight: Whatever you choose, make it relaxing. ★★★ A money hassle could prove to be far more upsetting than you'd anticipated. Your creativity, humor and risk-taking abilities merge and might be the source of a problem. Speak your mind and share yourself with others. Tonight: Observe a financial red light. ★★★ Add confusion to the list of what might be going on. Might you not be getting the whole story? Security and finances need to become your highest priorities. Honor them accordingly. Tonight: Chill out. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Speak to others rather than SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ★★★ A friend might disappoint you. You find that you can work around a problem. Listen well to someone's suggestions. You still might want to think through what is happening around you. Co-workers could be feisty. Tonight: Be sensitive to expenses. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) question or wonder. The clearer you are, the better the results that will come forward. You could easily get your feelings hurt, or perhaps a problem evolves with someone else. Tonight: Hang out. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.18) AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ***** You're full of fun and life. Others focus on what you want. Listen to your sixth sense with a friend. Review an important matter. Consider what you need to do to make an authority figure more comfortable. Tonight: Don't take any flak. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) **PIECS (Feb. 19 - March 20)** ★★ More is going on behind the scenes than you realize. How you deal with someone could be quite different from before. Follow your instinctive reactions. You might want to be more in tune with others. Slow down. Tonight: Try to stay out of a confusing situation. ACROSS 1 Glove 5 Owns 8 Bat a gnat 12 Needling liniment 13 Sapporo sash 14 Horse play? 15 Justice Marshall 17 Crucifix 18 Diving bird 19 Obliterated 21 Too thin 24 Forehead 25 Oxidation result "i hope things work out" 30 Rage 31 Mini-plateaus 23 Roscoe 33 Indemnified 35 Sheltered 36 Tranquil 37 React to reveille 38 Moon-mission program 41 Humon- 42 Hemingway sobriquet 43 Blimp owner 48 Venetian-blind part 49 Wall climber 50 Musical Horne 51 Right angles 52 Scoundrel 53 Verve DOWN 1 Wrestling surface 2 Pronoun in a JK quote 3 Thanksgiving abbr. Solution time: 21 mins. DIP R AM E N P OP ACE E LE N A A B A ME N T A L I S T S O W AP U K I T T T E N F I B B E R Y O R E AL I D E N N O L T E R I C H S A P T I E D MA Y I M P U P S A G C R O P C A S T L E HE L E N E C P A AR I A E R I A L I S T M I S C R O N Y R U E SE T O S T I A K E N 4 Despotic ruler 5 Boxing blow 6 Blood-group letters 7 Detour, maybe 8 Spread carelessly 9 Courts 10 Lotion additive 11 Lincoln-in-law 16 Eviscerate 20 Scepters 21 Forbidding 22 Emanation 23 Second-hand 24 Center of emotions 26 Re earth science 27 Jamaican citrus 28 Poolroom supply 29 Dandling locale 31 Unit of acceleration (Abbr.) 34 Ostentatious displays 35 Diamond pattern 37 Lend a hand 38 Semicircular vaulted area 39 Cover of gloom 40 October stone 41 Hopalong Cassidy portrayer 44 Eggs 45 Wet wiggler 46 Get — for effort Solution 21 min. D I P R A M E N P O P A C E E L E N A B A M E N T A L I S I O T A P U K I T T E N F I B B E R Y O R E A L I D E N N O L T E R I C H S A P T I E D M A Y I M P U P S A G C R O P C A S T L E H E L E N E C P A A R I A E R I A L I S T M I S C R O N Y R U E S E T C S T I A K E N Yesterday's answer 12-6 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 12-6 CRYPTOQUIP Q V H Q T C O G J M H T M B Q J M Z Z T Q J Z I V J GC B O J P U Z T I I C W P ? U R C B P P U Z ' P G W J Q U M R J Z Z B M Z U T M . Yesterday's Cryptoquip: IF YOU'RE FORCED TO RESIGN FROM YOUR DESIGNATED POST, I D CALL IT A DIS-APPOINTMENT. Today's Cryptoquip Clue: P equals S INSTANT CASH www.zlbplasma.com Earn up to $200/month We need donors to help make life-saving therapies. Plasma is urgently needed! ZLB PLasma Services 785-749-5750 816 W.24th St. --- Over 40 toppings to choose from!! 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Pick up your free car key today. www.freecarkey.com Need responsible babyshower for 2 kids. Tues & Thurs (7:30am-11:15) With option of Mon/Wed/Fri (7:30am-9am) Starting in January. Call 832-0998. Raintree Montessori School is looking for young, energetic and nurturing people to work with children from 3:15-5:30 pm Monday-Friday. Salary $8.75 per hour. Call 843-6800. Part-timeweekend/semester break position available at children's museum in Shawnee, KS, CA 913-268-4176. Preschool Substitutes Varied hrs, often need 3-5:30 pm. Prefer experience & child-related courses. Sunshine Acres. 842-2223, www.ssacres.org. SEMESTER BREAK WORK Restaurant and banquet servers day and evening shifts available. Apply in person Tuesday-Saturday, Lake Quivira Country Club 913-631-4821 Sate Ride is seeking part-time drivers. Must be 21 yrs, old, clean driving record. Flex hrs. $ 6.45/hr. Apply in person at Lawrence Bus Co. 841 Pennsylvania. $17,25 base-appt. 1-6 week work program, flex sched, sales/svc all ages 18+ conditions apply. Call Now! St. Louis: 314-997-7873 KC East: 816-350-1971 KC West: 913-422-1393 Wichita: 316-267-2083 Topeka: 786-265-2605 School age teacher needed for an early education program, 3-6 M-F. Call for qualifications. 785-841-2185. 205 N. Michigan EOG. CLASSIFIEDS@KANSAN.COM JOBS Seeking loving caregiver for a 2 and 5 year old. Flexible hours. Interests in education preferred. Flexible hours. 785-795-3741 Trustworthy female needed to assist wheelchair user. Holiday hours available: $9hr, Call 766-4394. Why pay to exercise? When you can get an aerobic workout cleaning our school! Flexible late afternoon or evening hours. 2-4 hours/day 5 days/week $9.25/h. Call Rainforest School Montessori 834-680-680. STUFF Red Euro Sports Big Chief scooter. New in March 2015. Just tuned up & new battery. $7500. 785-979-9245. MIRACLE VIDEO All Adult Movies 12.98 & Lower Buy 3 VHS for the price of 2 1900 Haskell 841-754-804 AUTO 98 Cavalier. Automatic. Needs some repairs. $600 OBO. Call 913-908-1001 TICKETS ACE SPORTS & TICKETS MTCTICKETS KU Basketball Tickets) KC Chiefs & Arena Football) ALL Concerts 1st 10 rows, Lawrence 1216 E, 23rd Street, 856-5400 or Oak Park Mall 913-514-8100. BUY AND SELL BII bba & Chifs singe and seasonickets. Call 866-759-8499 Room for rent in Jeff CO1 Fully furnished, all utilities paid, except elect. KU Bus Route. $290/mo. Cal 785-218-4723. 1 BR in 48R apt. avail. asap. Call 913-908-1001 for more information. $285/mo. No pets please. FOR RENT Nowly remodeled 1, 2, 3 BR available immediately. Rent specials 841-7849. 2BR, 2BA TOWNHOMES FOR RENT private courtyard wood burning fireplace $99 deposit/person call for details 842-3280 Attached garage vaulted ceilings HIGHPOINTE APARTMENT HOMES On KU Bus Route Free DVD Rental Free Continental Breakfast 1 BR in 3 BR townhouse, 2.5 BA, W/D, garage, on KU bus route. Seeking female roommate avail. Dec. 10. Dec/Jan free rent $275/mo. 387-115-055 $99 Deposit/Person 2001 W. 6th St. 841-8468 FOX RUN apartments 1 BR open now at Briarstone. Get comfortable before winter! Sunny apt, in great location near campus at 1000 Emery Rd. 700 sq. feet with patio, DW, minibinings, walk-in closet, $500 per mo. No pets. 785-760-4788 or Briarstone@eatlink.hn www.firstmanagementinc.com 1. 2 & 3 BR apartments. West side location with wonderful park-like setting...pool, exercise facility, $300 off special Call Quail Creek Apartments 785-843-4001 1-2 BR 1 BA apartments - pool, exercise facility, on KU bus route. Large floor plan in great close location. $300 off special Call Eddingham Apartments 2 BR, 2 BA house in Prairie Meadows, 2 car garage, D/W, W/D $900 per month plus ull. Avail. January through July. Call 505-662-7087. 2 BR, 2 BA, 2 car garage, FP. All appliances incl., lawn and snow removal. Quiet West Lawrence neighborhood $750/mo until 8/105. 749-4019 or 979-3550. 2BR house Pets OK avail Jan 1st. Close to campus W/D included. $650/month. Call Mike (785)393-0402 4700 Hearthside Dr. 1943 VILLAGE SQUARE 9th & Avalon 2 BR - 1 BA small room $600.545 CALI FOR SPECIALS 842-3040 SUMMER CITY HOUSE Classified Policy: The Kansan will not knowingly accept any advertisement for housing or employment that discriminates against any person or group of persons based on race, sex, age, color, creed, religion, sexual orientation, nationality or disability. Further, the Kansan will not knowingly accept advertising that is in violation of University of Kansas regulation or law. HANOVER PLACE 200 Hanover Place Studio. 1 BR Available 12/15 or 1/12 Water Paid • Small Pet OK CLOVER BAY HOSPITAL FOR RENT CALL FOR SPECIALS! 841-1212 South Pointe APARTMENTS 26th & Iowa (785) 843-6446 Starting at $649 3 Bedroom 2 BR large, clean, W/D, CA, bus route, off street parking, pets OK, $550/mo. 785-550-7325. Apartments Available Call for Specials 843-4040 4500 Overland Dr thefoxrun.com Short Term Leases Available Excellent location, 1104 Tennessee. Near townKU, 2 BR apt in four-plex. CA, No Pets. $480 Jan 1, 842-4242. $99 Deposit 1-2-3 Bed 28R house with garage, W/D. range, refrigerator, A/C, 1305 W. 21st Street. $575/mo. Mail: 843-231-80 2 BR, 2 BA @ Tuckaway Apts. W/D, FP, cable TV Inc. Roomy & clean. Please contact Emaja @ 633-689-6089. CHEAPI 2BR duplex hrdwfd lrs., new paint, close to campus, $400/mo. No pets. 838-8244 3 BR, 2 BA $725/mo. $99 dep. Huge discount. Avail. avapl. 1 car garage, fenced, pet ok, SW locu. Julia 979-9949. 3. BR duplex, $895/mo. 2. BR townhome, $675/mo. 2.BR w/den, $595/mo. Please call 331-7821. 3 BR, 1.5 BA. $969/mo. 1537 New Hampshire, Call Lisa 913-271-3520 or Lois 785-841-1074. 3 BR, 2 BAApt. FOR RENT, near campus, 900/mo, no pets, W/D, appliances, clean, balcony, fresh paint, 913-220-5235. 4 BR, 2BA Townhome 515 Eldridge. DW, DW, 2 car gar. 4 Roommates allowed. $95/ms. Call Kate 841-2400 ext.30 REGENTS COURT APARTMENTS 19" & MASSACHUSETTS (785) 749-0445 - Spacious 3 & 4 Bedroom Units - Spacials 3 & 4 Bedroom Chairs * Available Now * Washer/Dryer Included * Close to Downtown and Shopping * Ask about our SPECIALS Email: rogents@mastercraftcorp.com FOR RENT 1420 Kentucky - Close to Campus 3 BR Hotel; 2 full BA, Hdwr flats, CA & Heat. Internet & Cable Ready; Fenced Yard. W/d incl./Pets Consid. $110/mo. dep. 505-381-0841/8050-7656-5212 1 BR avail, in 3 BR duplex. W/D. $290/mo. Located at 27th & Iowa. Call 911-515-5349. ROOMMATE/SUBLEASE Female roommate wanted. To share a 48 BR 2BA house off of Wakarawa. Washer dryer and dishwasher, Call Christi 785-817-2457. Available for sublease. Naismith Hall. Includes unlimited meals, high-speed internet, cable, pool, weight room, laundry facilities, and more. Call 816-304-9162. Female roommate needed, prefer grad student. Quiet, non-drinker/smoker. Apartment on city line. 785-749-1191. 1 BR apt. avail, for sublease, Chamberlin Council on Ohio. Off street parking, pets OK, D/W, 10 min. walk from campus. 6161. + umil Call 214-924-6161. 3 BR, 2 BA condo near campus. W/D, $300/mo. utilities paid. 550-4544 3 BR, 2 BA house seeking male roommate DW, WD $375/mo, util. included. Fully furnished. Call Anthony 856-3783 1 BR apt. avail. to sublease mid-Dec. W/D. pool, workout facility, pets welcome. Call 630-452-9052 3 BR seeking Male Christian Roommate WD, DW. $260/mo. + 1/3 ull. Partially furnished. WCD 913-865-0854. 1 BR (beautiful, historic, funky) avail, in 2R home, 923 Tennessey. Fully furnished. Six month sublease avail now! Rent free until Fiat $350 mo plus 1/2 unit. Price negotiable. Call 785-393-2044 or 785-393-4388. $200-300. Includes all its tills, free laundry, phone, fast internet. Housing coop is looking for cooperative-minded members. 814-0484 (leave msg). 1406 Tennessee ROOMMATE/SUBLEASE Seeking responsible person to share part of East Lawrence home. 1 rooms avail. $350/mo. DSL Internet & util. included. No smoking. B41-2829. Grad student m/n/s seeking roommate at Harvard Square Apts. 2BR, 1BA, $262/mo. Close to campus, 620-875-1051. All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject Sublease a room for Spring Semester! Walk-in closet, free internet, $285/mo. 785-766-3536. 1 BR avail. in 3 BR duplex beginning in January, $375/mo plus usl. Near Peterson and Kasold. Call 785-691-7938 or email Travis at wmoy@batu.edu Naimish dorm room available for spring semester. Meals, exercise facility, maid service, pool, and laundry facilities included. Call 847-691-1453. 1 BR in 4-person apt, w/private bath. All util. are paid except 1/4 electricity. Avail. at Jeff CO. Dec. 14, Call 913-208-3201. Apt. sublease avail. at The Reserve 31st & iowa, fully furn. Call John 913-709-6316 for tour or questions. 1 BR at Tuckaway, reduced rent includes WD, alarm, cache, pets OK. Ask about ApT. P12, Call 785-838-3377 Optometrist & Associates Kansan Classifieds 864-4358 classifieds@kansan.com Optometrists Dr. Kevin Lenahan Competitive Prices. Evening Hours Serving KU Studio Sublease Avail. 12/23 to 7/31 $380/mo plus elec. Call 785-749-9683 Eyewear The Spectacle 1 BR avail in 2 BR apartment Roommate needed. 2311 Lowell off of Clinton Prkwy. $375/mo. Pets welcome. Pigeon-396-3975. See our ad in campus coupons. Great Location! ☁️ Hillcrest 935 Business Park, 935 Iowa (785)-838-3200 www.lenahaneyedoc.com Let us make a Spectacle out of you! *Luscious breast* *Competitive prices* *Current invoices* See our ad in Campus Coupons! DECEMBER OLIVER PEOPLES... Paul Smith FREUDENMAN'S Hillerest 338 Suite 3 933 Iowa S32-123S TU to the Federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 which makes it illegal to advertise "any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or an intention, to Legal TRAFFIC-DUY'S-MIP'S PERSONAL INJURY Student legal matters/emergency issues & divorce law The law offices of DONALD G. STROLE Donald G. Strole Sally G. Kelsey 16 East 13th 842-5116 Free Initial Consultation Psychological KU 315 Fraser 864-4121 http://www.ku.edu/~psyclinc/ Counseling Services for Lawrence & KU Paid for by KU Psychological Clinic kansan.com The online edition of The University Daily Kansan make any such preference, limitation or discrimination." Our readers are hereby informed that all jobs and housing advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. KANSANCLASSIFIEDS In a Class of its Own. 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The Rose Bowl is perfect with Southern California and Texas, the nation's only unbeatens. The Orange Bowl is a game for the ages — and the aged — matching septuagenarian coaches Joe Paterno of Penn State and Bobby Bowden of Florida State. Notre Dame is back on the big stage, meeting Ohio State in a Fiesta Bowl soaked in tradition. Georgia gives the relocated Sugar Bowl a "home" team in Atlanta, facing a West Virginia squad that even makes the Big East look good. "I certainly understand that there are teams that are not in these four games that have had great seasons, as we have every year." BCS coordinator and Big 12 commissioner Kevin Weiberg said Sunday. "I must say that there's a lot of consensus that we have quality matchups among highly regarded teams in this year's BCS games." Only Oregon has a case to complain. Seemingly on a collision course all season, USC and Texas will decide the national title in Pasadena, Calif., on Jan. 4. in the country," Texas coach Mack Brown said of the two time defending champion Trojans. "They've just blown out people out right and left, and that will be challenge for us. But that's fun. "For Texas not to be in the national championship game for 36 years and to see where (USC coach) Pete (Carroll) has brought their program the last three years, that's where we want to be. That's where we want to go." championship instead of Okla- homa. "They do have the No.1 team The other common complaint is the BCS doesn't create compelling matchups beyond the title game. Well, it all worked out this season. The BCS has been hammered in the past for putting the wrong teams in its championship games. Two years ago, USC was left out and college football ended up with two champs. Last season, many felt Auburn should have played USC for the Yes, Texas and USC made it easy for the BCS. But remember, in the pre-BCS days the two superpowers would be going separate ways for the postseason. "Anytime we have a matchup that is widely lauded as being a great matchup in the championship game, you can really see the benefit of a system like this in which through the bowls we're able to bring together the No. 1 and 2 ranked teams that otherwise wouldn't have come together through the (old) bowl system," Weiberg said. MLB Offseason features high-profile trades Teams seek to fill rosters BY RONALD BLUM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DALLAS — The winter meetings are back in Texas for the first time since 2000, when teams spent nearly $739 million on 24 free agents, including $252 million on Alex Rodriguez and $160 million to Manny Ramirez. Relieves Billy Wagner and B.J. Ryan, first baseman Paul Konerko, outfielder Brian Giles and shortstop Rafael Furcal already have agreed to contracts, with Furcal leaving the Atlanta Braves over the weekend to accept a $39 million, three-year offer from the Los Angeles Dodgers. With many top free agents this offseason already committed, the focus this time around is likely to be on trades rather than signings. "This particular free-agent market is difficult," said New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman, stymied in his search for a center fielder. "Because of that, it's going to promote a lot more aggressive trade discussions." Top remaining players in a weak free-agent group include center fieldier Johnny Damon and pitchers A.J. Burnett and Kevin Millwood. With a paucity of top talent available to sign, there will be plenty of trade talk going on at baseball's annual swap session, which had been devoid of big-name deals in recent years. Ramirez, unhappy with life in Boston despite winning the World Series MVP award in 2004, is the biggest name available. But he can veto trades and is owed $57 million over the final three years of his contract, complicating efforts to deal him by the Red Sox,the only major league team without a general manager. LD LE C GA CLASICO MUNDIAL DE BEISBOL Tony Guieterrez/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig listens to a question during a press conference at the winter baseball meetings Monday in Dallas. MLB announced further details, including names of players that are planning to play in the first ever World Baseball Classic that will be played March, 2006. Tony Gutierrez/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS "He's still one of the top three or four hitters in baseball." Boston assistant GM Jed Hoyer said, adding that more than a dozen teams have inquired. "They haven't been able to meet the price that we would want for Manny. We're certainly not going in with the expectation that we're going to have to make a trade. Teams would have to step up and beat our expectations." Florida has been the most active team in the trade market, dealing 2003 World Series MVP Josh Beckett and third baseman Mike Lowell to Boston, first baseman Carlos Delgado to the New York Mets and second baseman Luis Castillo to Minnesota. Catcher Paul Lo Duca could be joining Delgado on the Mets. The only Home Grown Bookstore (no pesticide used) Jayhawk Bookstore ...at the top of the hill 1420 Crescent Rd AUTOMOTIVE DENSTICATIONS INC Domestic & Foreign Complete Car Care 842-8665 2858 Four Wheel Dr. everyday CUT IT OUT! Campus coupons coming soon to a Kansan near you SEEING MULTIPLES made easy with the Weekly Specials yours to keep on the back of every Jayplay CUT IT OUT! Campus coupons coming soon to a Kansan near you SEEING MULTIPLES made easy with the Weekly Specials yours to keep on the back of every Jayplay MEMO From: Bill Lumbergh To: Initech employees RE: Team-building exercise Where: Spencer Museum of Art When: Thursday, December 8 6 PM social hour 7 PM instructional video As you know, it’s the end of the semester and we’re going to need to go ahead and move you downstairs into Storage B. But first, we’re going to all get together as a group and enjoy some fine soda pop, popcorn and candy, and watch this instructional video by Mike Judge called “Office Space.” So if you all could show up and join us, that would be terrific, O.K.? Oh, and next Friday is Hawaiian shirt day so, you know, if you want to you can go ahead and wear a Hawaiian shirt and jeans. P.S.: I’m still waiting for T.P.S. reports from some of you. I’d like those on my desk, with cover sheets, A.S.A.P., O.K.? Great. *This memo—and the Office Space Student Night-brought to you by the Spencer Student Advisory Board. MEMO From: Bill Lumbergh To: Initech employees RE: Team-building exercise Where: Spencer Museum of Art When: Thursday, December 8 6 PM social hour 7 PM instructional video As you know, it's the end of the semester and we're going to need to go ahead and move you downstairs into Storage B. But first, we’re going to all get together as a group and enjoy some fine soda pop, popcorn and candy, and watch this instructional video by Mike Judge called "Office Space." So if you all could show up and join us, that would be terrific, Q.K. Oh, and next Friday is Hawaiian shirt day so, you know, if you want to you can go ahead and wear a Hawaiian shirt and jeans. P.S.: I’m still waiting for T.P.S. reports from some of you. I’d like those on my desk, with cover sheets, A.S.A.P., O.K.? Great. *This memo—and the Office Space Student Night-brought to you by the Spencer Student Advisory Board. TUI Dir SPORTS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2005 THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 11A AP TOP 25 The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' men's college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 4, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week's ranking: | Record | Points | Previous | | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | 1. Duke (53) | 7-0 | 1,767 | 1 | | 2. Texas (9) | 7-0 | 1,699 | 2 | | 3. Connecticut (9) | 6-0 | 1,693 | 3 | | 4. Villanova (1) | 4-0 | 1,593 | 4 | | 5. Louisville | 3-0 | 1,431 | 7 | | 6. Boston College | 6-0 | 1,346 | 8 | | 7. Memphis | 6-1 | 1,333 | 9 | | 8. Oklahoma | 4-1 | 1,244 | 5 | | 9. Gonzaga | 4-2 | 1,202 | 6 | | 10. Florida | 7-0 | 1,154 | 11 | | 11. Illinois | 7-0 | 1,040 | 12 | | 12. Iowa | 7-1 | 967 | 14 | | 13. Washington | 7-0 | 44 | 18 | | 14. Michigan St. | 5-2 | 833 | 13 | | 15. Kentucky | 5-2 | 614 | 10 | | 16. UCLA | 6-1 | 579 | 16 | | 17. Nevada | 5-0 | 562 | 20 | | 18. Indiana | 4-1 | 553 | 17 | | 19. George Washington | 4-0 | 488 | 19 | | 20. Wake Forest | 7-1 | 431 | 22 | | 21. Maryland | 5-1 | 367 | 23 | | 22. Alabama | 4-1 | 363 | 21 | | 23. North Carolina | 4-1 | 281 | — | | 24. Arizona | 2-3 | 170 | 15 | | 25. N.C. State | 5-1 | 127 | 24 | Others receiving votes: Bucknell 114, Houston 101, Syracuse 61, Vanderville 61, Ohio St. 54, West Virginia 52, Wisconsin 61, Michigan 29, Pittsburgh 18, Oklahoma St. 16, Ohio 114, LSU 9, Xavier 8, Arkansas 7, Hawaii 7, Cleveland 5, Iowa St. 4, Old Dominion 4, Indiana 3, Texas Tech 3, Colorado St. 2, Buffalo 1, Loyola, Md. 1, N.C.-Wilmington 1. TRACK & FIELD Director honored with award Kansas Relays meet director Tim Weaver has been named the 2005 Meet Director of the Year. Under Weaver's direction, the Relays drew nearly 25,000 in 2005. The 2005 Kansas Relays introduced the Gold Zone format, which includes a three-hour block of time featuring 33 Olympians. "This is a tremendous recognition for the hundreds of volunteers who have labored since the event's revival in 2000 for a return to prominence," Weaver said. "I would be remiss not to share this award with Lew Perkins, in particular. Without his vision and support, the successes of 2005 would not have been realized." Weaver is in his sixth year as meet director and his 11th overall at Kansas. He previously served as a track and field assistant coach. —Ruan Schniden BIG 12 FOOTBALL Click it. Or ticket. It's Fairplay Long kstate sports.com YOU BOUND YOUR BASE LOSE Charlie Riedel/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Former Kansas State football coach Bill Snyder, right, introduces his successor, Ron Prince, at a news conference Monday in Manhattan. Prince, who was offensive coordinator at Virginia, will replace Snyder who is retiring after 17 years at the helm. K-State hires coach Kansas native becomes 4th black head coach THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MANHATTAN Kansas State's search to replace the coach who turned the worst team in major college football into a national powerhouse has ended with the hiring of a man who graduated from high school just 20 miles up the road. The 36-year-old Prince, raised in Junction City, became only the fourth black head football coach in Division I-A, joining Washington's Ty Willingham, Mississippi State's Sylvester Croom and UCLA's Karl Dorrell. Snyder led Kansas State to a 5-6 mark this season, announce- He replaces Bill Snyder, who took the Wildcats from being the nation's only 500-loss team in 1989 to 11 straight winning seasons through 2003, when they won the Big 12 title. ing his retirement just days before the season finale against rival Missouri — a game the Wildcats won 36-28. A lineman at Dodge City Community College and Appalachian State, Prince spent five seasons at Virginia, the last three as offensive coordinator. He also coached at Dodge City Community College, Alabama A&M, Cornell, South Carolina State and James Madison, and spent four seasons as an NFL Minority Fellowship intern with Jacksonville, Washington, Atlanta and the New York Giants. "The most important thing for Kansas State was to find the right fit," Weiser said Sunday. "And though that could be defined in a lot of different ways, we believe that included someone who had familiarity with Kansas State football, the state of Kansas and the unique culture and tradition of the university. "In our minds, Coach Prince clearly meets all of those criteria, among many others, and we are extremely excited to be announcing him as our head football coach tomorrow." But Prince's hiring won't necessarily thrill all Wildcat faithful because he neither has any direct Kansas State ties — something Snyder had said would be important — nor does he have any head coaching experience. Two of Snyder's former assistants who had been prominently mentioned in speculation about his replacement took themselves out of the running last week. Jim Leavitt agreed to a contract extension as South Florida's head coach, and Brent Venables said he wanted to remain defensive coordinator at Oklahoma. - Men's basketball vs. St. Joseph's, Jimmy V Classic, 6 p.m., New York ATHLETICS CALENDAR TUESDAY WEDNESDAY ♥ Women's basketball vs. UMKC, 7 p.m., Allen Fieldhouse SATURDAY SUNDAY + Men's basketball vs. California, 11 a.m., Kemper Arena, Kansas City, Mo. - Women's basketball vs. Wisconsin, 1 p.m., Allen Fieldhouse FOOTBALL Free tickets to bowl game available Kansas students will be able to receive free tickets to the Fort Worth Bowl with a valid KUID. Free tickets for students must be picked up in Fort Worth, not in Lawrence. Tickets can be picked up at Amon G. Carter Stadium in Fort Worth, Texas, on Dec. 23. They will be first available at 4:30 p.m. at gate six on the east side of the stadium. Kickoff for Kansas' bowl game against Houston is set for 7 p.m. Classic Ryan Schneider CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12A St. Joseph's lost its leading scorer, Pat Carroll, to graduation after last season and is led this season by Chet Stachitas, who is averaging 18 points per game and is shooting 62.5 percent from three-point range. Coming into the game tonight, the Hawks are 3-1, with their loss coming in overtime at Davidson. Martelli said that tonight's game against the Jayhawks would be their toughest match-up thus far this season. "This is a whole different quality of an opponent than we have played," Martelli said. "We are anxious to see where we kind of fit in right now and see how our players respond to a bigger stage." Self said he had been impressed with the way St. Joseph's has shot the ball this season. For the year, the team is shooting nearly 50 percent from the floor and 45.5 percent from beyond the arc. "They have just been fabulous," Self said. "We know that it will be a very tough ball game and we are looking forward to it." Martelli said during a teleconference last week that Kansas was a young team and that it was learning. "I just think that you can't do much about being young, you can only keep playing them and keep coaching them and no one does it better in the country than Bill Self." Martelli said. Edited by Erick R. Schmidt 2511 W 31st Street Lawrence, KS 66047 785-842-0032 myownapartment.com lawrence@edtrust.com CALL TODAY FOR MORE INFO! 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"We are obviously looking forward to playing in the Garden and having a chance to play and be a part of something that is much bigger than just a basketball game and bringing awareness to a cause that is so important," Kansas men's basketball coach Bill Self said. Now in its 11th year, the annual series of basketball games has raised more than $50 million for the V Foundation to fight cancer, a disease that took Valvano's life in 1993. Valvano coached in college basketball for 20 seasons, including the 1983 season when he won the national championship, as the coach of North Carolina State. Nick Valvano, CEO of the V Foundation, said he was happy to have the opportunity to have the games broadcast on national television to create awareness. "We are very,very grateful for The trip to New York also marks a homecomore for Kansas sophomore guard Russell Robinson, who grew up in the Big Apple. This will be Robinson's first trip home since the summer. St. Joseph's coach Phil Martelli said that his team was excited to be playing in the classic and was happy to help raise money to fight cancer. "I am very excited to see my family and get back home," Robinson said. "We obviously, this time of the year, are fortunate for the gifts that we have, but our thoughts are with the people who need our help," Martelli said. "If our presence in this tournament helps us raise one extra dollar and that dollar finds a cure for this awful disease, then count us in every time." the coaches who help us achieve this " Valvano said. Robinson has never played in Madison Square Garden, but he has watched numerous games there while growing up in the city. Martelli and St. Joseph's have had the previous week to prepare for Kansas, but Martelli has not fared well against teams coached by Self. Last season, Kansas cruised to a 91-51 victory against St. Joseph's at Allen Fieldhouse. Self also beat St. Joseph's twice while he was the coach at Tulsa. SEE CLASSIC ON PAGE 10A Rachel Sevmour/KANSAN KANSAS 24 Sophomore forward Sasha Kaun dunks the ball against Western Illinois with more than 15 minutes left in the second half Saturday night in Allen Fieldhouse. Kaun scored 10 points in the 86-57 Jayhawk victory. Kansas will take on St. Joseph's in New York on Saturday in the Jimmy V Classic. The Good FORT WORTH BOWI A glance at the next opponent Andre Ware won the 1989 Heisman Trophy while playing quarterback at Houston. Wilson Whitley, former coach, won the 1976 Lombardi Award. 23 Rylan Howe/KANSAN Former Cougar quarterback Houston Quick Facts: ◆ Founded: 1927 ◆ Enrollment: 35,400 ◆ Conference: C-USA ◆ Nickname: Cougars David Klingler holds the NCAA record for most passing yards in a game with 716, and the most touchdown passes in a quarter with six. Erica Hallman, senior guard, left, and Ivana Catic, freshman guard, support their teammates from the bench during Kansas's 100-50 victory over Birmingham-Southern Friday in Allen Fieldhouse. The Jayhawks are undefeated after Saturday's game against New Orleans in Allen Fieldhouse. CBS announcer Jim Nantz and PGA star Fred Couples played golf while they were students at Houston. Houston has won nine conference titles in three conferences. Houston lost one of the greatest bowl games ever played to Notre Dame in the 1979 Cotton Bowl. Joe Montana, fighting off the bitter cold in what has been nicknamed the Ice Bowl, led the Irish back from a 34-12 deficit to defeat the Cougars 35-34 on the last play of the game. The Bad Several Houston players were involved in a brawl with Hawaii players after losing the 2003 Sheraton Hawaii Bowl 54-48 in triple overtime. Houston's hand signal, which signifies a Cougar's paw, so closely resembles the "Shocker" that it was reported by Sports Illustrated On Campus. Kellis Robinett WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Freshman guard on the rise Fresh Ivana Catic already key for offense BY MICHAEL PHILLIPS mphillips@kansan.com KANSAN SPORTWRITER The freshman guard was analyzing the numbers after Friday's 72-50 victory against Birmingham-Southern. She noted that the Jayhawks needed to cut down their turnovers — they had 20 — and could have added an additional 10 points by making all their free throws. After just five games of college basketball, Ivana Catic can already read the stat sheet like a pro. The next afternoon the team allowed only six turnovers and improved to 71 percent from the free-throw line. The result was a 100-50 victory over New Orleans. "I didn't think she'd be this consistent," Hendrickson said. "That isn't the norm; she's more of an exponent." Catic's ability to challenge herself and her teammates has been a pleasant surprise for Kansas women's basketball coach, Bonnie Henrickson, who has already made the freshman a big part of the lahawks' offense. Henrickson told her other freshmen not to worry that they aren't showing Catic's poise. Catic — pronounced CHOTi-ich — finished Saturday's game just one assist short of a double Kansas is tied with Baylor atop the Big 12 standings with a 5-0 record, but will face its toughest tests yet when it plays .UMKC on Wednesday and Wisconsin on Sunday. Both are home games. double, even though she sat out most of the second half. "I didn't even realize that," she said, "but it doesn't matter as long as we're playing this well." Henrickson continues to challenge Catic in practice to prepare her for upcoming games against bigger opponents. "What's coming down the pipe here after the first of the year is all the speed and athleticism in this league," Henrickson said. Catic's best plays are on the offensive end of the court. She has averaged 8.2 assists per game, including a freshman record 10 against Birmingham-Southern. "It feels so good when you take the ball and see everything right away and can tell if the defense is in the right lanes then try to take advantage of that," she said. Henrickson continues to encourage Catic to work on her defense, and is honest with her about what she needs to work on. Kansas is tied with Baylor atop the Big 12 standings with a 5-0 record, but will face its toughest tests yet when it plays UMKC on Wednesday and Wisconsin on Sunday. Both are home games. Henrickson said. "We're very real, and we're very honest." "She'll look you in the eye, doesn't pout, doesn't feel sorry for herself." Catic said that she loved playing for Henrickson and that was why she came to Kansas to play. Henrickson said that Catic was good at "staying in the moment," not looking ahead to future games or months but focused on how she could help the team today. After setting the freshman record with her 10 assists, she credited her teammate senior guard Erica Hallman and the shooters. She's already spreading the love, just like a pro. DANCING NACHOS Edited by Theresa Montaño MICHAEL PHILLIPS MPHILLIPS@KANSAN.COM This semester, from football to basketball and volleyball in between, there has been plenty to talk about. But today, in the final "Dancing Nachos" of the semester, I'd like to deal with another important topic: dancing nachos. For future generations the nachos shall dance I am referring to the animation that was part of the old, Lite-Brite-style scoreboard and has been transferred to the new Allen Fieldhouse videoboard. The animation consists of a few tortilla chips that conga line onto the screen, their chip bodies supported by toothpick legs and flailing arms. After a few seconds of dancing, the nachos fall into a bowl, with the word "cheese" floating above them that melts onto the nachos in a way only primitive animation techniques could allow. The dancing nachos were on the brink of extinction last spring when David Pedersen saved them. "Two of us went and set a camera up and shot all the different stuff that came up," Pedersen, assistant director of video services, said. The intention was to save them in the event of a "retro" theme night, but Pedersen had another reason to document history. "We just had certain things there that were so good and so a part of Allen Fieldhouse we really wanted to keep them," he said. The nachos did not have to wait long to make their first appearance on the video board when KU students and brothers Derek Weber and Taylor Hart came to a game dressed as the energetic edibles. Weber, a Lawrence senior, was able to convince his brother to go along with the idea. "We went to Hobby Lobby about two hours before the game," Hart, Lawrence junior, said. "It only took us half an hour to make them. the nachos were well-received by the brothers' camping group, and Pedersen took notice as well. "When those guys were there, we realized we needed to get it out," he said. Weber and Hart also are contemplating a re-creation of another classic: the referee who blows on a bubble-gum whistle to musically announce fouls. Hart said that feat would be harder. Pedersen said other vintage animations also may get some face time this season, but he does not hesitate when asked what his favorite is. "Dancing nachos. Hands down," he said. After entertaining generations of concession connouisseurs, the animation continues to find a home in the Fieldhouse. Retired University employee Dick Bennett assisted with the old scoreboard operations. He said the animation came packaged with the scoreboard, sold by Fair-Play, Inc. It is the classic story of an underdog that fought its way onto Lawrence's biggest stage. "Dancing Nachos" will continue to run in the Kansan next semester, but the dancing nachos do not belong to me. They do not belong to Weber and Hart. They do not even belong to Fair-Play, Inc. No, the dancing nachos belong to the ages. + Phillips is a Wichita junior in journalism. --- THE STUDENT VOICE SINCE 1904 THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2005 WWW.KANSAN.COM VOL. 116 ISSUE 75 ▼ SENATE FINANCE context se- des do not be- ey do Inc. s be- PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY RACHEL SEYMOUR PORK POLITICS BY JOHN JORDAN ILLUSTRATIONS BY ANDREW HADLE Student senators bring home the bacon; groups with senator members get more money --- Student Senate gave $5,460 to fund the weekly Shabbat dinner for KU Hillel and $6,670 to the Ballroom Dance Club to help hire a dance instructor and band at its annual gala dance. The KU Equestrian Team asked for $9,175 to rent horses for the club to use, but didn't get it. Ballroom Dance Club and Hillel both had student senators as members, but the Equestrian Team did not. The University Daily Kansan reviewed the $183,000 appropriated this year to student groups by Student Senate, and found that nearly $100,000, or 61 percent, went to groups that had at least one senator as a member. The Senate also allocated itself $143,000 to pay for supplies, salaries, rent and travel and food expenses. This money comes directly from student pockets through the $17.50 fee which students pay each year to Student Senate. For senators elected by a specific school or other University group, funneling money to constituents smacks of old-fashioned, pork-barrel politics: bringing home the bacon to the people who elected them. Critics say that senators who guide student money toward their own groups present a conflict of interest. Senators deny the conflict and respond that members of student government are simply active in multiple groups, and those groups benefit from well-planned and well-written requests for funding. "The idea that Senate funds only or even primarily out of self-interest is flat-out wrong." said Nolan Jones, Pittsburg junior and Senate communications director. SEE PORK ON PAGE 4A PUBLICATIONS Bound and determined 33rd Kiosk celebrates art, writing BY MALINDA OSBORNE mosborne@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITER SHEENA BLANKER Not even in the time it took to drink a cup of coffee, the 33rd edition of Kiosk, the on-campus student literary and art publication, was officially unveiled Tuesday night at Aimee's Coffee House, 1025 Massachusetts St. For 15 minutes, writers published in the student magazine had the opportunity to read their works aloud. Kim Andrews/KANSAN Hundreds of KU students submitted their art and literary works in the hopes of being published. Only 12 writers and 12 artists were selected. Paige Blair, Bartlett, Ill., sophomore, read her five-line poem, "Red Line Chicago," which was inspired by an SEE KIOSK ON PAGE 5A Megan Johnson, Lawrence senior, read her short fiction story, entitled "Life is Fine" to a small audience Tuesday evening at Aimee's Coffee House, 1025 Massachusetts St. Her piece is one of many fiction and poetry works published in the 33rd edition of Kiosk. Kiosk is a collaborative effort by English and graphic design students. Professor's attack mislabeled CRIME The Douglas County Sheriff's Office initially labeled the attack on Professor Paul Mirecki a hate crime. Lt. Kari Wempe said that the error occurred Monday morning when the attack was reported. But the office removed the title today, calling the labeling a mistake. Capt. Schuyler Bailey of the KU Public Safety Office said the office met with Mirecki yesterday and told him to give them a call if anything happened on campus. Officers wrongly transmitted the information over the police radio, she said. It is The safety office is not involved in the investigation because the beating occurred off campus, he said. now classified as an aggravated battery. Steve Lynn and Gaby Souza SCIENCE LIQUID AIR DO NOT HANDLE THEREOF University Archives, Spencer Research Library H. P. Cady, former KU professor of chemistry, with the liquid air machine he and chemistry professor David. F. McFarland used to discover helium in natural gas. They made their discovery 100 years ago today in Bailey Hall. Helium's centennial Lighter-than-air gas was heavy discovery Lighter-than-air gas was heavv discovery BY FRANK TANKARK flankard@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITER Helium — the lighter-than-air substance fills that balloons and makes you sound like Mickey Mouse — was discovered in natural gas 100 years ago today in the basement of Bailey Hall. The events leading to the discovery began inconspicuously in 1903 when residents of Dexter found natural gas in a newly dug well. They were initially thrilled by the prospect of industry that the natural gas could bring to their town. Their spirits soon dropped when the gas wouldn't burn. The gas intrigued Erasmus Haworth, a KU geology faculty member and now the namesake of Haworth Hall. He brought a large steel cylinder filled with the gas from Dexter to the University of Kansas. and of Kansas and asked a chemistry professor named David F. McFarland to analyze the gas. 310 degrees Fahrenheit. McFarland and chemistry professor H.P. Cady On Dec. 7, 1905, Cady and McFarland immersed charcoal in the Dexter gas and liquid air. The charcoal absorbed most The gas intrigued Erasmus Haworth, a KU geology faculty member and now the namesake of Haworth Hall. assorted kinds of the Dexter gas, but not the helium. Cady and McFarland looked at the helium with a spectroscope, an instrument that splits light used the University's liquid air machine in Bailey Hall, the only such machine west of the Mississippi River, to discover the presence of helium in the gas. The machine liquefied air by cooling it to minus- coming from gases into separate colors. Cady and McFarland saw the signature yellow light that comes from helium gas. SEE HELIUM ON PAGE 5A Today's weather 16 8 Heavy snow possible weather.com Tomorrow 21 9 SNOW EARLY Friday 32 19 CLEARING OUT Today's weather Youth Chorus A weekly singing practice for children at Murphy Hall has helped both the college students leading the Youth Chorus and the children. PAGE 2A Tonque in Beak Lawrence's favorite bar, The Rock, is taking a lesson from the School of Business. You won't need your ID any longer with its new honor code, which is sure to decrease underage drinking. PAGE 8A KANSAS Loss in New York The Kansas men's basketball team fell short in a 70-67 loss to St. Joseph's Tuesday night in the Jimmy V Classic at Madison Square Garden. The loss gives the team a 3-4 record for the season. PAGE 1B Index Comics...4B Classifieds...5B Crossword...4B Horoscopes...4B Opinion...7A Sports...1B --- All contents, unless stated otherwise, © 2005 The University Dally Kangan 2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN NEWS WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 7. 2005 Who's Who at KU BY ERIN WILEY editor@kansan.com Andrew Jennings and Matt Cormack Andrew Seimhack and Matt Seimhack Andrew Jennings, Silver Lake sophomore, and Matt Cormack, Lincoln, Neb., senior, are partners on the University of Kansas debate squad. What is your past debate experience? Jennings: I debated in high school at Silver Lake, and this is my second year debating at KU. Cormack: I debated three years in high school at Lincoln Southeast. What made you decide to continue debating in college? Jennings. The coaches and debaters at KU. They were a big influence, and I enjoy debate in general, so it was a fairly easy decision. Cormack: A major reason I continued to debate in college was meeting Scott Harris, KU debate coach, while attending a debate camp at the University of Michigan before my senior year of high school. Working with him was an exciting experience that got me very interested in debate and working with him in particular. What is it like to be a part of the No. 1-ranked squad in the nation? Jennings: It's tight. Everyone on the team does a lot of work, so winning rounds becomes easier. Also, a lot of the debaters are and have been some of my closest friends for a while, so it's fun to be around them so much. Cormack: It is a great honor to be on the No. 1-ranked squad in the nation. It is representative of the hard work that the entire squad has put in during the year. I am particularly proud of the KU team because none of the debaters attended prestigious high schools that competed on the national high school debate circuit. The success of this year's team really highlights the amount of hard work and talent of the debaters and the great coaches we have. What are some of your favorite things about debate? League school in an intellectual game. It shows that an ACT score isn't the be-all-end-all of being smart. Jennings: Winning in a competitive atmosphere. It's really pretty cool when you beat someone at an Ivy Cormack: My favorite part about debate is the strategizing that takes place before and during tournaments. KU is successful because many times we are able to outsmart other schools, even schools like Dartmouth or Harvard. I also enjoy the sense of teamwork and pride created as a member of the KU debate team. We have hosted several alumni reunions, and meeting old debaters and sharing stories has been a great experience. Jennings: We've been to the University of Northern Iowa, Georgia State, Kentucky, Harvard and Wake Forest. Where are some interesting places you've been while debating at KU? Cormack: Harvard University, Boston; Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C.; Catholic University, Washington, D.C.; University of Southern California, Los Angeles; San Francisco State University, San Francisco; Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. Jennings: Become a lobbyist or go to law school. Cormack: Debate skills are already helpful in classes by giving valuable research and logic skills. Regardless of my future plans, debate is a very important learning experience. I plan on working at a law firm in Washington, D.C., next year, which will no doubt require many of the skills I have learned. What do you plan to do with the skills that you have acquired from debate in the future? What is your favorite KU tradition? Jennings: Winning. Hopefully we can get back to the Final Four this year, both in basketball and debate. Cormack: The interaction of alumni and current students is a great tradition that highlights the importance of KU debate. New chorus a hit with young, old ARTS Edited by Becca Evanhoe BY LOUIS MORA lmora@kansan.com IKANSAN STAFF WRITER The piano begins to play a slow melody and 28 voices can be heard coming from the Murphy Hall practice room on Thursday evenings. The voices are not from college students, but from children grades fourth to seventh who make up the new KU Youth Chorus. The group, organized by the music education and music therapy department, allows students to gain experience working with children and the children the opportunity to expand their musical skills. "It lets us learn different songs better," said 12-year-old Yami Simpson-Banda, who's in the group. "I think it's fun." Courtney Williams, Lawrence senior, is a student conductor. She said up until this semester she didn't have an experience working with children. Now, she starts the rehearsals by leading warm-ups and explaining different musical concepts to the children. She said as she prepared to graduate next semester, the opportunity to work with children would better prepare her for teaching children after graduation. "We actually never get to get in there in the trenches and work with the kids," she said. "This is really putting me a step forward from where I would be." Debra Hedden, associate professor of music education and music therapy and director of the KU Youth Chorus, created the program to help graduate and undergraduate students gain rehearsal experience with children. The group meets on Thursday nights and has rehearsals until its final performance in early May, she said. She said two students helped her now but next semester she would require undergraduate students to work with the chorus. She said this would allow students to find out what methods worked with children and which ones didn't when teaching music. She has tried to get the word out to childrens' parents by sending information to different elementary and junior high schools across Lawrence and Topeka. She said unlike other youth musical groups, this one does not require an audition or extensive musical knowledge. Hedden said while the choir had already started rehearsals she continued to look for more children to participate. She said she could add 52 to 57 more students. "We are accessible to all children in the area," she said. Williams said the experience had been great as parents and students asked her questions. She said it made her feel like a teacher. "Knowing they are there having a lot of fun and they are helping me learn and I'm helping them learn," she said. "It's very gratifying." 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Well Dom. mixers bottles FRIDAYS $2.50 Domestic draws THURSDAYS $1.50 Well mixers $1.50 T-Bombs Fri/Sat $3 Jumbo Kenney As. Fri/Sat SATURDAYS $2.50 Bacardi mixers 1016 Massachusetts Ave. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7.2005 NEWS THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 3A ON THE RECORD A 19-year-old KU student reported to the KU Public Safety Office a theft of ε pink Gap pea coat, a cell phone and a pair of gloves between 11 and 11:15 a.m. Nov. 30 from Malott Hall. The items are valued at $263. NATION NBC Universal to sell shows on iTunes store SAN JOSE, Calif. — NBC Universal has inked a deal with Apple Computer Inc. to become the second network to sell television shows a la carte on Apple's online iTunes store, the companies announced Tuesday. That's the spot More than 300 episodes from about a dozen prime time, cable, late-night and classic TV shows are now available for $1.99 apiece, viewable on computers or downloadable on the latest, video-capable iPod. The programming spans from the 1950s to the present, including shows from "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," "Dragnet," USA Network's "Monk," the Sci-Fi Channel's "Battlestar Galactica," and "Law & Order." Sketches from "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" and "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" are also for sale. The Associated Press MASSAGE Kim Andrews/KANSAN Risa Petty, a Bodyworks Downtown, Inc. employee, gave free massages in the Kansas Union Tuesday afternoon from 12 to 2 p.m. Melanie Schneebelen, SUA employee, enjoyed her massage. GLOBALIZATION Aware of global issues? Get certified On top of the world BY ALY BARLAND abarland@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITER The University of Kansas is rewarding students who are following the trend of globalization. Jane Irungu, director of GAP, said she had been trying to inform students about the program so they would get involved. Last semester 79 students received GAP certifications, and Irungu expects about 50 this fall. The University's Global Awareness Program, which began in Fall 2004, allows students who fulfill certain requirements to receive a certification that shows up on their transcripts, demonstrating their exposure to global issues. "Our world is becoming increasingly interconnected. We're not isolated; we live in a global community," said Lacey Koester, Hoisington junior, who is working toward the certification. Spring semesters yield more participants because they apply in the semester they graduate Irungu said. Koester found out about GAP indirectly through new student orientation. Her sister attended orientation last fall and found out about the program, and after telling her about it, Koester decided to find out if she was eligible for the certification. To receive GAP certification, a student must complete two of the three components required. These include study abroad, coursework in international studies and foreign language and co-curricular activities with international focus. Koester found that her study abroad trip to Spain in Spring 2005 and her previous coursework in Latin American studies qualified her for a GAP certificate. She will receive hers this fall. Few universities offer opportunities such as a GAP certification. Boston College has a similar Global Proficiency Program. To notify students about the GAP opportunity, Irungu and student ambassadors work with the Office of Study Abroad and speak to classes. New student orientation and the Freshman-Sophomore Advising Center also inform students about GAP. Tommy Grutzmacher, Platte City, Mo., freshman, is a student ambassador for GAP and is planning on working toward the certification. Grutzmacher has helped spread the word about GAP by helping with informational booths at Wescoe Beach. He said he became a GAP ambassador as a way to get more involved at the University. Irungu said GAP certification would make students more attractive once they entered the job market because global awareness and international experiences benefited resumes. "It gives me a chance to get out and know other cultures," Grutzmacher said. The GAP is not just for students with a concentration on international affairs and foreign languages, she said. "It's a good complementary program for every student, no matter what their major is. We want them to be well-rounded." Irungu said. Edited by Becca Evanhoe CAMPUS Associate dean gets professorship The University of Kansas announced it has given Jared J. Grantham the Harry Statland Professorship in nephrology. Grantham will be given the honor Thursday at noon at the School of Nursing Auditorium, 3901 Rainbow Blvd., Kansas City, Kan. He is a 1964 graduate and is associate dean for medical graduate studies. Grantham is also the director emeritus of the Kidney Institute at the Medical Center, which he helped establish. Nephrology is the science of the kidneys. Ryan Schneider Weather precaution tips issued by city Current and upcoming winter weather is putting home water pipes in danger of freezing, so the Lawrence Utilities Department has provided cold weather precautions for frozen water pipes. The department is advising Lawrence residents to disconnect outdoor hoses to allow water to drain from the pipes, wrap water pipes to insulate them in unheated areas, repair broken basement windows and cracks to keep the pipes inside warm, leave cabinet doors open under sinks and when leaving for an extended period of time, leave the heat on in the house. Lisa Patterson, city communications manager, said water in a pipe that froze would expand, giving it the potential to break the pipe. She said another consequence of a frozen pipe was that the water inside wouldn't run. She also said if a pipe broke and the ice inside thawed, the water would continue to run through the pipes. If the pipes freeze and break, the department suggests to find the master shutoff, because turning off the valve immediately can reduce the amount of water damage caused by broken lines. The department also suggests to call a plumber. Travis Robinett Two arrested in union statue vandalism Two people were arrested and booked into Douglas County jail on charges of criminal damage to property in connection with an incident involving damage to the Jayhawk statue outside Kansas Union, records state. Capt. Schuyler Bailey of the KU Public Safety Office said one suspect returned to the scene of the crime to look for his wallet. People who witnessed the incident identified the suspect to police, who were investigating at the Kansas Union Friday. Matthew S. Lukevics of Pensicola, Fla., and Andrew H. Frostad of Laila Hawaii posted $1,500 bond each and were released from the Douglas County jail Friday night. Steve Lynn DOCKLEY GOLD Tops OfficeSpace MEMO free! From: Bill Lumbergh To: Initech employees RE: Team-building exercise Where: Spencer Museum of Art When: Thursday, December 8 6 PM social hour 7 PM instructional video As you know, it's the end of the semester and we're going to need to go ahead and move you downstairs into Storage B. But first, we're going to all get together as a group and enjoy some fine soda pop, popcorn and candy, and watch this instructional video by Mike Judge called "Office Space." So if you all could show up and join us that would be terrific, Q.K.? P. S.: I'm still waiting for T.P.S. reports from some of you. I'd like those on my desk, with cover sheets, A.S.A.P., O.K.? Great. Oh, and next Friday is Hawaiian shirt day so, you know, if you want to you can go ahead and wear a Hawaiian shirt and jeans. *This memo-and the Office Space Student Night-brought to you by the Spencer Student Advisory Board. 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HADLE 05 During Student Senate's line-item process last April, KU Mock Trial reaped $12,070 in funding — the largest chunk of the nearly $98,000 given to student groups in the line-item process. Mock Trial's president, Angela Carlson, is a student senator and a member of the finance committee — and one of the members who uses the money to travel to tournaments throughout the country. Although Student Senate has rules that prohibit groups getting money for travel, Senate allows groups to apply for exemptions. Mock Trial was granted an exemption. The group is traveling to seven tournaments this year, and the group could also travel to the National Mock Trial tournament if it qualifies. Carlon, a Shawnee senior who has studied law, said the group drives to most tournaments but flies to tournaments in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. Carlon said the funding paid for gas expenses, plane tickets and hotel reservations, and members paid for their own food. office. Carlson said Senate paid for less than half of Mock Trial's expenses. Generally, Senate follows a guideline of paying the first $1,000 and half of the rest of the costs for the events or conferences it helps fund. "I can certainly understand why you could have the misconception that crossover between student groups and Student Senate is a bad thing." Carlon said. "The reality is just the opposite." To avoid a conflict of interest, she didn't vote when the finance committee voted on Mock Trial's funding. She said that any appearance of a conflict of interest was false. Mock Trial also gets money from the School of Law, the Office of the Chancellor, the Office of Student Success, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, a Kansas City law firm and a Coca-Cola contract, Carlson said. Said Carlon, "It's a sign of good students being involved in multiple groups. Those groups do not come to Senate for frivolous funding; rather, their bills are often the most well-written. They also often spend their money in the most judicious manner." Donald Haider-Markel, associate professor in actions like science, said actions like Carlon's were a part of politics, and so was defending those actions. "One can always make an argument," Haider-Markel said about justifying more money going to groups with senators. "Who's going to buy it?" Senators getting money for special interests isn't necessarily unethical in politics, it's convenient, Haider-Markel said. Traditionally, money that goes to projects or groups who are constituents of politicians is considered government pork, Haider-Markel said. For example, money that goes to roads or airports in the politician's district can be called pork. "Individuals with access to power basically make agreements, 'You fund my group, I'll fund yours,'" Haider-Markel said. "That kind of log rolling is pretty standard." the school that elected them. For instance, the Black Student Union's senator, C'Nea Hatches, has sponsored bills to get $12,000 to help fund the Black Student Union and groups associated with its events and speakers. In Student Senate's case, more than $61,000 of the funding is going to entities that elect a senator to represent them in Senate or have connections with Another kind of pork, perhaps more questionable, is the money given to a company or interest with personal financial ties to the politician, such as Also, the group gets money to send 50 members to the annual Big 12 Conference on Black Student Government. vice president Dick Cheney's former company, Halliburton, getting lucrative government contracts. Haider-Markel said that when groups with ties to senators got the majority of funding, it had the appearance of favoritism. He said if Senate wanted to get rid of the appearance of bias, it would need to come up with a process for funding that took into account both the importance of the group to all students and rules concerning conflicts of interest. One such rule: forbidding senators to debate or vote on money for groups they are in. Besides giving most of the group funding to groups with student senators as members, Senate also allocates $143,000 from student fees to itself to pay for supplies, salaries, rent, speakers and travel for senators. The largest chunk of this money goes for salaries, to a full-time secretary in the senate office and ten students. The ten students get paid a total of $61,280 to work in the student Student body president Nick Sterner, vice president Marynell Jones, treasurer Bryan Young and Student Legislative Awareness Board director Josh Bender each earn $8,320 a year. Their salaries are based on working 20 hours per week at $8 per hour for 52 weeks per year. Six other executive staff members are paid hourly with salaries between $2,100 and $6,300. Their pay is based on $7 per hour for 50 weeks per year, with each working a different amount of hours. Students for these positions are picked from applicants by the student body president. This year Sterner, who ran with KUnited's coalition, filled six of the eight staff positions with students who also ran with KUnited in last spring's election. Senate allotted itself $3,000 for travel this year. Like Mock Trial, Senate voted itself an exemption to allow funding for travel. Last semester, four senators and executive staff used some of the money for a trip to Washington, D.C., for a United States Student Association conference. Senate paid a total of $740 for conference registration and $663 to fly there. Sterner said the most qualified applicants were chosen, and Senate got the final vote on approving the executive staff. Although Senate will not provide funding for other student groups to pay for food, each traveler was allotted $104 for meals, based on state guidelines for meals not provided at the conference. Because Senate's own money comes from block allocated funds, a section of the budget with different rules for funding, they got money for food. Senators say their own funding and the funding of student groups they are members of should raise no concern. "Because student senators are some of the most active, driven and successful people at KU, it's no coincidence that they also happen to be involved with the most successful student groups," Carlon said. Another reason could be that senators know the somewhat confusing process and rules that student groups must follow when getting money from student funds. Student groups face a daunting list of 39 rules and regulations that govern getting funding from Senate. Bogdan Pathak, a senator, senate finance committee member and member and former president of the KU Ballroom Dance Club, wrote a bill that got the club $6,600 to fund a ballroom instructor and events for the club this semester. Pathak, Albuquerque graduate student, said he knew how much to ask for, what to expect and how to succeed because he knew the ins and outs of the finance committee from serving on it for three years. CONTINUED ON PAGE 5A UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Sunday 12/11 vs. Wisconsin @ 1 p.m. 800-34-HAWKS www.kuathletics.com Basketball Chicago Acrobatic Boys Halftime Entertainment Students Admitted FREE with KU ID!! UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Sunday 12/11 vs. Wisconsin @ 1 p.m. 800-34-HAWKS www.kuathletics.com Basketball Chicago Acrobatic Boys Halftime Entertainment Students Admitted FREE with KU ID!! FOOD FROM FARMER BROWN. NOT CHIEF SCIENTIST BROWN. + GOURMET BURRITOS & TACOS — Chipotle ethall Students Admitted FREE with KU ID!! Chipotle 6TH & MONTENET STREET WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 7, 2005 NEWS THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 5A CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4A "My experience writing bills helps me avoid the pitfalls that other student groups have," Pathak said. "It was easier for us." ! Student groups with no Senate representation often need help from a senator to get through the funding process. What Senate does with student money Murali Satuluri, Vizag, India graduate student and member of KU Culture India Club, worked with Pathak and another finance committee member to get money for the club's annual Diwali, an annual cultural event featuring dances, skits and mythological stories. The group asked for funding for lighting, an audio system and advertising for the event. Satuluri estimated the group was asking for around $800. Each student pays $294.50 in campus fees each semester. ◀ Of that, it $17.50 goes to Student Senate. For this school year, Senate estimates it receives $849,950 in revenue. Here's how Senate breaks that up: Block Allocation Account $636,214 But when they went to the Senate finance committee to get funds, Satuluri said the committee grilled the group, making them account for every dollar they were asking for. Line-Item Allocation Account $134,374 - This money is "pre-budgeted" by Senate and allocated every two years. Funds typically go to big corporations and groups that have been around such as the KU Band, the Lied Center, the Graduate and Professional Association and Student Senate itself. Senate gets the largest appropriation of this money: $143,000. - This money is "pre-budgeted' by Senate and allocated to student groups in the spring as funding for the next year. Groups must have received funding from Senate before to qualify for line-item funding. Unallocated Account: $79,362 "Many groups aren't clear on what they can get funding for," Satuluri said. "Having senators surely helps in knowing the rules better, because there is someone that knows the system." - This money is available for general funding and events for all student groups. To qualify, groups must either: 1. not have received funds from Senate before, 2. have received funding from block or allocated accounts and want funds for a special event, or 3. received funds the year before after the deadlines for block and allocated funds. The group had to come back and provide more details at later meetings. Eventually, the group got the funding they requested and continues to get funding. Satuluri said without personally working with a senator, the group wouldn't have known all the rules they had to follow to get money. If a group doesn't work with people in the financial committee, it will have difficulty getting money, Saturdlr said. Student group requesting funds must be registered with the Student Involvement and Leadership Center. One group that has connections to Senate is KU Hillel. Student Senate budget book and rules and regulations The Jewish organization's president and former president are both senators. The group got $5,060 this year to fund Shabbat dinners. The group also got $400 for general expenses. The $5,060 goes to pay for rent at the Burge Union for the weekly meal, not the food itself. Nine sponsoring senators backed the bill. Melissa Horen, Overland Park junior and former president of KU Hillel, said the group needed the $5,060 to finish their fundraising Even though Senate can fund religious groups which are open to all students, not all groups ask for money. Austin Smith, Spokane Wash., senior, is president of the Midwest Student Ministries, a Christian group on campus. Unlike KU Hillel, Smith's group doesn't have any members on Student Senate and hasn't asked for any money for this year. Smith said he would like to get money for his group's barbecues and dances but the process was difficult. Smith said he didn't know how to get money or if his group had to do fundraising to qualify for funds. He said he didn't have time to be a senator and shouldn't have to be a senator to get money. Another reason groups with senators for members get funding is that senators notify their own groups that money is available, Jones admits that outreach to all student groups has been something Senate needs to improve. He said last year there was "next to no outreach." while other groups might not know how much money is out there. "Can we contact more groups? Yes, and we're always trying," Jones said. "Funding opportunities are not hidden." To reach out to groups, he said Senate was trying to get senators to contact all the student groups listed with the Student Involvement and Leadership Center. Senate also has required more outreach from senators. And because a group didn't get funding doesn't mean they can't try again. The KU Equestrian Team will be trying again for funds to rent horses next semester after the finance committee asked them to first go to Recreation Services. Until then, according to the numbers, the surest way for a group to get money appears to be having a senator among its members. Blair said this was the first time she had ever submitted one of her poems, let alone had one published. She said when she found out she would be in Kiosk, it was one of the best feelings she'd ever had. interaction with a homeless man on the subway. Kiosk CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A — Edited by Becca Evanhoe "Your friends can tell you your stuff is good, but this gives you a sense of validation." Blair said. Four writers read to a crowd of 20 in the coffee shop. Leading up to the event, a team of designers and editors labored many unpaid hours to put out this singular compilation. Joe Morgan, Wichita senior and editor in chief, said he enjoyed meeting the writers face-to-face after the 121-page Kiosk had been completed. "When working on the project, you can start to forget why you did it in the first place, but seeing them here is a good reminder," he said. Sarah Nelsen, St. Louis senior and one of the designers for Kiosk, said the theme for the magazine this year focused on the nature of collections. The designers took inspiration from entomology displays, where insects are put on pins in lighted boxes and picture frames. "All of the pictures in the magazine are from student photography, which hasn't been attempted before. I think the collection theme and photos help to give a unifying, clean look to it." Nelsen said. Morgan said things became hectic near the end, especially with getting the magazine published. Binding problems caused delays, forcing the book to be printed today. Approximately 1,300 copies were made. In the past, the free publication had the problem of ending up with too many leftover copies; either students were unaware of Kiosk itself or where to pick it up. Morgan said in an effort to get the publication into more hands, there will be four permanent locations where students can pick it up: Oread Books in the Kansas Union; The Olive Gallery & Art Supply, 15 E. Eighth St.; the English Department mail room, 3114 Wescoe, and the office of art and design, 300 Art and Design building. Jane Huschka, Garden City senior and design chief, said she was happy with the outcome of this year's Kiosk. "I think we did a good job of focusing on uniting the art and the literature. We are not favoring one artist over the other; they all deserve equal representation," Huschka said. Helium — Edited by Becca Evanhoe CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A An astronomer had discovered helium in the sun years earlier, in 1868, and it was isolated on earth in 1895, but it wasn't found in natural gas until Cady's and McFarland's discovery. "They weren't expecting to find it," said Henry Fortunato, project director and editor in chief of the KU History Project. "They were just trying to find what was in this gas from Dexter that wouldn't burn." At first, no one knew what to do with helium. The Kansas City Star reported in 1906 that it appeared to have "no practical value beyond its scientific interest." "It was not yet recognized that it could be used for lighter-than-air airships, let alone balloons, let alone the other things it's used for today." Fortunato said. Then, in 1917, the United States government called on Cady and one of his students, Clifford W. Siebel, to research For 10 years, the United States' supply of helium sat in three glass vials on a shelf in Bailew Hall. and develop uses for helium The government was interested in using the substance as a noncombustible alternative to hydrogen for filling air balloons. They would use helium to fill these balloons in World War II. The Great Plains became the world's leader in helium production. In 1963, the National Helium Plant, the largest helium plant in the world, was built near Liberal. Today the Duke Energy-owned plant is still one of the largest in the world though it only employs 21 people. Clay Butterfield, the plant manager credited the plant with bringing jobs and money to the area for more than 40 years. Helium is commonly used in rubber balloons, air balloons, deep-sea air tanks for scuba divers and in MRI machines. 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FUNNY FARM COMEDY CLUB Countries disagrees on torture ▼ TERRORISM gela Merkel said the United States had admitted making a mistake in the case of al-Masri, a German who contended in a lawsuit in Alexandria, Va., on Tuesday that the CIA wrongly imprisoned and tortured him. BY WILL LESTER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Most Americans and a majority of people in Britain, France and South Korea say torturing terrorism suspects is justified at least in rare instances, according to AP-Ipsos polling. Officials with the European Union and in at least a half-dozen European countries are investigating reports of secret U.S. interrogations in Eastern Europe. The United States has drawn criticism from human rights groups and many governments, especially in Europe, for its treatment of terror suspects. President Bush and other top officials have said the U.S. does not torture, but some suspects in American custody have alleged they were victims of severe mistreatment. on whether torture is ever justified. Most people opposed torture under any circumstances in Spain and Italy. The poll, conducted in the United States and eight of its closest allies, found that in Canada, Mexico and Germany people are divided "I don't think we should go out and string everybody up by their thumbs until somebody talks. But if there is definitely a good reason to get an answer, we should do whatever it takes," said Billy Adams, a retiree from Texas. In America, 61 percent of those surveyed agreed torture is justified, at least on rare occasions. Almost nine in 10 in South Korea and just over half in France and Britain also felt that way. 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TED PRESS 'S offers OPINION WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2005 WWW.KANSAN.COM Heart of darkness: Think of global issues PAGE 7A GOOD TO GO As I sit down to write this final column, I'm looking back at the semester, thinking about all of the things I wanted to write about. For the sake of time and space, I was unable to write about a large number of issues. I do not think highly of the University's continued emphasis on becoming a Top 25 school; I am a strong advocate of Lawrence adopting a new ordinance on marijuana possession; I am repulsed by this campus' lack of environmentally friendly and sustainable practices. All of those issues ran through my head as ways to use this final space, but I've chosen a more global issue one that has become the forefront issue in my life the N. MALCOLM RYAN GOOD opinion@kansan.com past few months and one that, while receiving a scant amount of coverage in The University Daily Kansan this semester, is ignored in this country. This issue is the children of northern Uganda. I'm betting more than 90 percent of the people reading this have no idea what I am talking about. That's the problem. Since 1986, a war between the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the Ugandan government has terrorized northern Uganda. More than 20,000 children have been abducted and forced to serve as child soldiers or sex slaves, and over 1.6 million people currently live in camps for internally displaced people (IDP camps). Jan Egelund, the United Nations Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, has called the conflict "the biggest, forgotten, neglected humanitarian emergency, in the world today." A search on cnn.com for "war in Uganda" will yield numerous articles about Live 8 concerts, black archbishops, While much of Africa is often ignored by the West, the lack of knowledge regarding the slaughter of Northern Uganda continues to astound me. fair trade issues and gay marriage in South Africa, but will not list one article regarding the LRA or child soldiering. Why is this? Students on this campus and activists across the country know about the horrors of the Darfur region of Sudan, a conflict literally right next door to Uganda. Are we simply so turned off by thoughts of 5 year-olds being raped, murdered and forced to kill their own families that we would rather ignore it than acknowledge it? Or is it that we really don't care? Last fall, shortly after hurricanes destroyed the infrastructure of a good portion of our country, I experienced something I never want to experience again. When I told a few people that I was working to raise money for Africans, they responded in disgust. How, they reasoned, could anyone in their right mind care about Africans when there were so many suffering in our country. One of my friends then informed me that, "They're only Africans. We've got our own to take care of right now." I honestly despised humanity at that moment. What makes one person's suffering worse than another's? What makes one person more deserving of help or better than another? I'm assuming you already knew about the football team being selected to play in a bowl before you picked up this paper; it's likely that you knew little to nothing about Uganda. Is that really what you want? Is someone really worth less just because they live in Africa? If you think not, go to www.ku.edu/-ku4u and read about the conflict in Uganda for five minutes. Then, spend another five minutes telling someone what you learned. Ten minutes is all it takes to help make a difference. Ten minutes is all it takes to answer no. Good is an Overland Park senior in geography, English, and American studies. He is KU for Uganda secretary. Free All for Call 864-0500 Free for all callers have 20 seconds to speak about any topic they wish. Kansan editors reserve the right to omit comments Slanderous and obscene statements will not be printed. Phone numbers of all incoming calls are recorded. Instant message the Free for All at *uikdfreeforall.* Just so you know, I just went back through this comment to make sure it is grammatically correct and contains correct punctuation. I wouldn't want to kill Tara for All would I? Free for All, On the road again, oh, I just can't wait to get on the road again. My western civ. lecturer just called Galileo his hero, To the guy I hit with the door today, I'm really really sorry about that If being a Broncos fan is such a pitiable condition, why have we both won a Super Bowl and been to the playoffs more recently than the Chiefs? Do you have a can opener? Crap, I bought soup and I can't eat it because I don't have a can opener. + I hate girls. + I'm secretly Harry Potter, don't tell Lord Voldemort. Sasha, CJ, listen up. I love you guys, but God made you seven feet tall for a reason. Dunk the basketball. + The Confederate flag is not a sign of racism! It is the Georgia state flag, and as a native of Georgia, I did not like the article saying that the flag It reprints our state and nothing else. Don't let a bunch of morons from a hundred years ago change your opinion on the Confederate flag! So, I'm glad that there's now a remote control that you talk into to change the channel, because it was so hard to change the channel manually before. + We need to order pizza right this second. I have no idea where my life is going. Maybe some day I'll be able to become the Free for All answering machine voice. Yeah. That's sure be nice. Editor's note: Follow your dreams. Anything is possible. Never try to argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. Dear Free for All, today my organic chemistry book bit my nose off. Can I sue? Why do professors give you tests the week before finals? I don't see what the big deal about Jessica Simpson is. I am not all that attracted to her looks, and by God, she is dumb. Why can't we stand on the bleachers in the fieldhouse? Is your bus pass still valid if you dye your hair? Free For All, put me to bed! Why does the perfect man have to live so far away? As we say in Omaha: I'd rather be making out. Why doesn't Gina Ford ever write about racism with other races besides African Americans? Isn't that racist? This is Micah Downs. Andrea, I will marry you. Hey, I'm just apologizing for last night You know who you are. A Who cares about Nick and Jessica? The real tragedy is that David called off our wedding because I wouldn't get him curly fries. Someone should tell Jeff Hawkins not to shoot or dribble anymore. LETTER TO THE EDITOR Sports: the greater of two evils Ah, sports. The easiest way to make thousands upon thousands of people pile into large buildings and scream for hours on end. The reason chili seasoning sees a 108 percent increase in sales every January. The only time when a 30-second commercial can cost $2.15 million. So why the obsession, you ask? Although it may seem absurd for people to obsess about sports, can any activity can be looked upon by everyone and not once be considered a waste of time? When someone breaks down and cries because Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey split up, is that not ridiculous? When people attend a Michael Jackson concert and are overcome with emotion because he might have made eye contact with them, wouldn't their time be better spent cleaning up their community or tutoring their voucher sibling? When you spend a weekend with your girlfriends, going to 29 different stores looking for the perfect dress, am I out of line to suggest that you're wasting your time? With as much diversity as our population has, is it that odd that no hobbies are accepted by all? Of course not. If I criticized every reality-show-watcher or snow-boots-and-skirt-wearer, I'd run out of breath in a hurry. Now, it's true that sports are an escape, there's no denying that. Just as music, video games, alcohol and many other popular college activities are escapes. Because it's absolutely captivating. Because it's a never-ending movie, complete with plot twists, climaxes, heroes, villains, comedy, horror, dra I'm glad that you have such admirable hobbies and that you find spending your time on anything that doesn't benefit the greater good to be an atrocity, but I'm sorry to inform you that you are indeed a rare breed. Why do people waste their valuable time watching sports, you ask? ma, action, against-the-odds victories, dominating tyranical empires, rivalries, deep and rich history and those rare moments where your heart is in your throat and your breath stops. Prarie Village freshman in computer sciences To an outsider, yes, sports seem like a complete waste of time, but such is the way with all passions and trends. Sports fans may not have their priorities in perfect order, but neither does anyone else. I wouldn't dare tell Trekkies that they're not spending their time constructively because their values are different than my own. Taylor Witt For someone who is passionate about sports, a game is hours of heart-stopping, dramatic, non-stop action. But, alas, why would we subject ourselves to such perfect entertainment when there are burning buildings to put out and countries full of people going hungry? HUMP DAY Getting over the final hump As I look back on this semester, I have many blessings to be grateful for. One of the small ones has been this column, "Hump Day." "Hump Day," along with me, unfortunately, must take a hiatus from the opinion page. I will be back, however, in full-force to write "Hump Day" next fall. Until then, there is one last thought I would like to leave with all of you. The instances I wrote about over the last semester are ones that many of us have encountered. In these moments, we often feel awkward, embarrassed or irritated. An annoying person hitting on you at a bar will not ruin your college experience. You are going to be fine, I promise. I just ask that the next time you find yourself in one the spots I mentioned, you remember what I wrote about that situation and have a chuckle. A quiet chuckle if you are sleeping next to a Bigfoot/Janet Reno offspring. ERIC JORGENSEN opinion@kansan.com JOHN PETTINGER Throughout our days as students, there are find times where we all feel small. There are hundreds of pages of reading to do, five papers to write and one day left to do them. We get lost in the chaos and monotony of the week, and barely manage a smile. I believe whole-heartedly that we take life too seriously. There is always a new "worst thing that's ever happened to me." Between school, friends, money and love, there are plenty of frustrated moments, but we often blow them out of proportion. Life is not as bad as it may seem, and there is no reason these moments should impede on you enjoiving your life. I took the job as a columnist for the Kansan for a few reasons. Firstly, I like to make The best laughs are when we make fun of ourselves. Lighten up your day with humor and have fun with what you do. As George Allen said, "It's a great day to be alive." It is time we start believing it. people laugh. My friends will echo this. From telling a joke to mooning a school bus full of fourth graders, if it makes my buddies laugh, I will do it. If I had a nickel for the number of times I ran naked with a piece of yard art in my hands ... well, I would almost have enough money to make bail. So, with a humble heart, a smile on my face and anticipation for next August, I bid you all adieu. In the mean time, make sure to find time in your day to sit back and laugh. And girls: seriously, break up with your boyfriends. You are going to get crabs. Like Arnold Schwarzenegger before me, I'll be back. TALK TO US Jorgensen is a Baldwin City junior in Journalism. 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LETTER GUIDELINES Maximum Length: 200 word limit Include: Author's name and telephone number; class, hometown (student); position (faculty member); phone number (will not be published) Maximum Length: 650 word limit Include: Author's name; class, home-town (student); position (faculty member); phone number (will not be published) EDITORIAL BOARD Also: The Kansas will not print guess columns that attack another columnist. Elli Ford, Yanting Wang, Joel Simone, Dan Hoyt, Anne Weltner, Mila Pereira, Nathan McGinnis, Josh Goeting, Sara Garlick, Travis Brown, Jallou Portille, David Archer SUBMIT TO kansas newroom 111 Stauffer-Fint Hall 1435 Kansas Bivd, Blvd. Lawrence, KS 60045 (785) 884-4810 opinion@kansas.com LETTER TO THE EDITOR Hanukkah article offends Jews In addition, the author's decision to enlarge and bold the comment made the reader focus more on the ignorant comment, than the supposed focus of the piece: to explain Hanukkah. Monday's article entitled "Hanukkah explained" was a poor attempt at describing a very special Jewish holiday. The author's use of Natalie Penn's comment ("Isn't that the holiday where all the rich Jewish kids get presents for eight days?") was inappropriate because of its inherent stereotypes; Jews are rich and snooded. Most Jews who I know re- Furthermore, the writer ignores the communal aspect of the holiday and the fact that many Jews do not experience "mountains of presents wrapped in blue and silver paper." ceived eight very small gifts. For example, I received a few chocolate coins on the last day. It is unfortunate that the author misused this valuable opportunity to teach the KU community about a minority and its traditions. - Andrea Pfeiffer is a Philadelphia graduate student in social welfare We don't know why they invited us back either. TONGUE IN BEAK WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7.2005 8A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN ▼ GOODNIGHT ▼ RESPONSIBLE BAR Letter from the editor BY OWEN MORRS tinb@kansan.com TONGE IN BEAK ENG Dear readers. This semester is coming to a close and so with it is Tongue in Beak. As some of you may have heard, or perhaps could have guessed from reading it, Tongue in Beak will not return for the spring semester. Yes, it's a sad fact that the Tongue in Beak plant is being boarded up with our jobs outsourced to India. No one is really to blame for this though. It is just that the Kansan, your daily newspaper, has decided that satire is cheapening its sacred pages and instead it wants to focus more on tough, hard-hitting news pieces such as "Sorority collects cans" or "Athlete has heart." While I am deeply saddened by this news, I want it to be known that I am not beaten. Instead, I am cutting my losses and moving on to other jobs. Bigger jobs. Better jobs. Like those at Taco Johns or Pride Cleaners. Don't worry, I'll continue to make quasi-witty, funny ha-ha but not funny laugh-out-loud remarks. Only they will be to myself and you won't be able to skim the headline of them. Of course no man can write, edit and design an entire section by himself and I feel blessed to have the tremendous staff I've had this semester. Having to tell my employees that their jobs were no more — and then beating them, caging them and having them all put to sleep — was one of the hardest things I've ever had to do in my life. They helped make this semester one of the top five or six of my college career and I owe my work ethic, strong moral values and at least one child to them. Finally to you — the reader — my sincere thanks. Your notes, kind words, e-mails and letter bombs have meant the world to me and have inspired me to never write again. I hope that you have derived a little pleasure and maybe even a laugh or two from Tongue in Beak now and then. Tongue in Beak may return someday, but that day is not the first Wednesday of next month so enjoy it while you still can. Thank you, Owen Morris The Rock to now use honor code BY OWEN MORRIS tinb@kansan.com tinb BEA WRITEER Following the example of the University of Kansas School of Business, the popular Lawrence bar, The Rock, has decided to implement an honor code to catch underage drinkers. Instead of providing identification, patrons will now have to verbally promise that they are 21. "Underage drinking is one of the largest problems this city faces," said co-owner Jim Schleenor. "So we decided to tackle this problem academically. We figured what works for KU can work for us." While an honor code has been used at many universities to discourage cheating among students, The Rock will be the first bar to use it to discourage underage drinking. Although proponents insist it will help curb underage drinking and make drinkers feel more responsible, the plan has come under fire from many critics, including local authorities, who said it would make it easier than ever for minors to enter The Rock. "I think the entire policy is ridiculous," Lawrence police sergeant Riley Tippin said. "What's to keep these kids from lying about their ages?" Co-owner Bob Doody said The Rock understood the authorities' concerns and beefed up its policy even more. "We knew some people might lie about their age so we actually made it a double-honor code," Doody said. "Not only do you have to say you're over 21, but a friend of yours has to vouch for you too." "I think it is a great idea," 21-year-old freshman Jessica Blair said. "Having to carry around my driver's license was such a hassle, but now I just leave in my dorm room." Nickey Patterson, a 21-year-old junior at Lawrence High School, agreed. "I could go to any other bar because that is what 21-year-olds like myself can do, but I choose The Rock because I really like the ... the ... drink specials," Patterson said as he finished his $4 bottle of Coors Light. The Rock has gotten into trouble in the past for possession by minors and many said it was specifically targeting The Rock after it built a jungle gym in the early 90s on its premises. Doody insisted that The Rock's main priority was catering to legal drinkers. "The Rock wants to be known as the premiere bar for all of the 21-year-olds that live in GSP and Corbin," Doody said as the bar became filled with a mixture of sweat and Axe cologne Friday night. "Everybody knows that our customers are responsible and make good choices once they enter our bar. So we assumed we'd just carry that over to identification." BAR CAMPUS NEWS Student who keeps bragging about having sex in library has obviously never had sex in the library BY OWEN MORRIS tinb@kansan.com TONGUE IN KANSAN WRITER The fifth floor of Lewis Hall was once again regaled Tuesday with Topeka senior Matt Yorke's obviously fictitious tale of having sex in the library. "I heard you guys talking about Watson, and I don't want to brag or anything, but you know, I've gotten down and dirty in the stacks." Yorke said, interrupting a conversation two floormates were having about the Pay-to-Print program. "I don't want to sound dirt...hey! Where are you guys going? You didn't hear my story!" Yorke yelled as the two men got up to leave. "It sounds just like he stole it directly from one of those Penthouse letters," his roommate, Wichita freshman Dan Gill said. "I mean, it is not even slightly believable." Gill estimated he had heard the story at least 45 times. "It started earlier this semester when he came home one night and said that he had just kissed this girl in the library. By that weekend, he had turned it into full-blown sex, and now when he tells the story it sounds like he was involved in a Roman orgy in the stacks. The dude lies about everything. He still won't tell anyone why he's a senior but lives in the residence halls." Yorke claimed that the story was 100 percent true. "Man, you couldn't make something like this up. I mean, so there I was minding my own business, when this smoking hot librarian comes up to me and is all like 'hey cutie' and then she just started grabbing me and stuff, and next thing I knew we started going at it. Then after about five minutes, her librarian friend appears, and I guess she was lonely from working all those nights in the library, and she starts licking her lips, and she asks "ooooh, can I join?" I mean, it was amazing." Yorke conservatively estimated that he has had sex with more than 900 girls even though Gill said he had never seen Yorke actually have a girl in their bedroom. SCHOLARSHIP HALL EDITORIAL Stalking is such a harsh word BY OWEN MORRS tinb@kansan.com tinb BY LAWR WRITE Whoa, whoa, whoa. Slow down, Anne. I don't know where you think you're going so fast. Your next class isn't until 3:30, and you usually show up a couple minutes late to it anyways — three minutes and 20 seconds late on average, to be exact. Now I know what you're thinking. You're thinking that I follow you around everywhere, or as you put it to Susan last Thursday in that Facebook message you sent her, you think that I'm stalking you. I thought that was harsh, but then yesterday a policeman served me a restraining order that ordered me to leave the bushes in front of your house. What gives? I thought we had an understanding. I hope you don't seriously think that I spend my every, waking moment doing nothing better than thinking about you and the way you would look dressed up in a dominatrix outfit. No, I've gotten over that. Rest assured that the leather skirt you keep on the far-right side of your closest is more than enough for my fantasies these days. Come on. I'm not some weird sicko. Now I'll be the first to admit that I'm not the most perfect guy in the world. I apologize again for breaking into your house when you were there. I had just assumed you had gone to have breakfast with Tracy like you do almost every Wednesday. Trust me, I was just as surprised to see you in your bathroom as you were to see me. Scaring people is not my style. I don't like face-to-face contact. That's just another reason you shouldn't fear me; call the cops on me or call me a stalker. Personally I prefer the term "observer." Stalking is just so politically incorrect. It has too many negative connotations, and it brings up so many memories. It makes me think of this girl named Lauren. She used to call me a stalker, too. Lauren was a lot like you, but with fewer pairs of shoes. I guess I just have a certain type of girl that I love to "observe." Annie and I had a connection — one that did not involve the police. Because Annie was so nice to me, I returned the favor by letting her pets live. Not that I am threatening to kill your pets. It's just that accidents happen, especially to people like yourself that can't appreciate some good, wholesome human interaction. ★ Tongue in Beak is satire (or at least tries to be) and should not be taken seriously. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got some observing to get back to. By the way, my car is in the shop right now, so if I could just ride in the backseat of yours for a couple of days, that would be great. Roommates stuck to the couch? Kansan Classifieds • Find them a job. • Find new roommates. • Sell the couch. Coors LIGHT PRESENTS MISS PHOGGY DONALD CONTEST When: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 9:00AM Where: 2228 IDWA STREET Winner receives trip for 2 in Mayan Nicaragua free technology & research skills workshops Paid for by KU O + - - Photoshop Dreamweaver Powerpoint Government Documents UNIX... Register on the web, by phone or email training@ku.edu or 864-0410 Schedule of free Fall workshops at www.lib.ku.edu/instruction/workshops O workshops K either. THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN SPORTS 2005 HALL uchord 1. Slow w here last. Your and you minutes minutes agreed, at you're that I fol- ere, or as thursday but then loved me a merced me of your wrought we noope you I spend not doing thing about could look trix out hat. Rest skirt you of your ugh for my e on. I'm to admit perfect guy again for se when assumed breakfast every as just as your bath- me. Scar- ce. I don't that's just idn't fear or call me WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7. 2005 the term just so has too notations my mark of this used to Lauren with fewer must have that I love I had a did not use Anc returned sets living to kill accidents people like appreciate human I, I've got back to. By shop right side in the couple of y KU mail 0410 shops PAGE 1B WWW.KANSAN.COM MEN'S BASKETBALL: 70-67 Kansas falls short in Classic loss Rvlan Howe/KANSAN KANSAS 33 Sophomore forward C.J. Giles goes up for a shot against St. Joseph's senior forward Dave Mallon on Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden during the Jimmy V Classic.The Jayhawks lost the game 70-67. Six-of-19 free-throw shooting haunts Kansas BY RVAN COLAIGNI rcolaanni@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITER NEW YORK — For the third time this season, a final shot would have either tied or won the game for Kansas. Kansas has now lost all three of these games. Freshman guard Micah Downs missed a deep three-point shot in front of the Kansas bench, which caused Kansas to fall to St. Joseph's 70-67 Tuesday night in the Jimmy V Classic at Madison Square Garden. Self said Downs was wide open earlier on the possession, but sophomore guard Russell Robinson was not able to get the ball to him quickly enough. The 6-foot-8-inch Downs received the pass only to have 6-foot-10-inch forward Dave Malton guarding him with his hands up. Downs heard Kansas men's basketball coach Bill Self telling him to shoot it with about five seconds remaining in the game. The shot didn't fall, and Kansas fell to 3-4 on the season. "We got a good look," Self said. "With that much time left you can't ask to get a much better look than that because Micah is tall enough to shoot over. We just missed it." "I wasn't open very good; I mean I had a little bit of daylight, but it just didn't fall this time," Downs said. That wasn't the only shot that Kansas built early leads of 13 and 12, but squandered the lead late in the first half. St. Joseph's went on an 8-0 run at the end of the half to cut the Kansas lead to three points. didn't drop. Kansas struggled mightly from the free-throw line, missing 13-of-19 attempts. Much of the reason for the comeback was senior forward Chet Stachitas. He scored 17 points in the second half and 27 for the game to lead all scorers. Stachitas missed just three times in the game and was six of seven from beyond the arc to fuel the Hawks' offensive attack. "If we make our free throws we probably win the game, not handily but we probably win the game," Self said. St. Joseph's guard Dwayne Lee hit a three pointer at the first-half buzzer to cut the score to 34-11. The Hawks finished the half on an 8-0 run to cut the Jayhawks' lead to three. "I think we lost that game in the first half. We had a nice lead, and we gave them momentum going into the second half," Robinson said. Kansas made up for the missed free throws by making a season-high 11 three-pointers. The Jayhawks shot 52.4 percent from beyond the arc. "What I like about Chet's three-point ability shooting is St. Joseph's would trail only once after that. Kansas got out to a quick start thanks to freshman guard Brandon Rush. Rush scored 10 of the first 17 Jayhawk points, leading to a 17-4 lead just six minutes into the game. that they are open shots, which means his teammates are delivering the ball properly and he is being properly screened," St. Joseph's men's basketball coach Phil Martelli said. Kansas took a page out of St. Joseph's play book, using the three-point shot as an offensive weapon. St. Joseph's came into the game shooting 45.5 percent from three-point range. Kansas had six three-pointers during the first half and nearly tied its previous season high of seven during the first 20 minutes. St. Joseph's continued its strong shooting Tuesday night going 10 of 21 from three-point land. Senior guard Jeff Hawkins hit three shots from distance in the first half to help the Jayhawks. Rush added three. Sophomore center Sasha Kaun picked up two quick fouls and was forced to sit for the majority of the first half. Kaun and sophomore center CJ. Giles scored just nine points. Kansas was unable to get any post play for the entire game. Rush did not score again during the half and scored three points in the second half. First-half run swings game for St. Joe's NEW YORK — Late in the first half with his team up 12 points, Bill Self used a motivational tactic and told his team that Kansas could end the half up 15 or only five. BY RYAN COLIAanni rcolaiani@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITER - Edited by Alison Peterson The half ended even worse than the Kansas men's basketball coach imagined. Kansas went into the locker room only up three points. St. Joseph's went on an 8-0 run to finish the first half. That run included a three pointer from St. Joseph's senior guard Dwayne Lee at the buzzer. "We lost the game in the last two minutes of the first half. We are up 11 and go in up three. That was the difference in the game," Self said. "Instead of having all of the momentum at halftime we gave it to St. Joe's." Kansas built leads of 13 and 12 in the game. The 13-point lead came six minutes into the game, thanks to the hot shooting of freshman guard Brandon Rush, who had 10 early points to lead Kansas to a 17-4 lead. St. Joseph's fought back and cut the lead to three. Kansas built a 12-point lead with less than three minutes remaining in the half, but Lee's shot helped St. Joe's gain momentum to start the second half. The Hawks carried the momentum of Lee's three-pointer to the second half and took the lead with 17:41 remaining in the game. That lead enabled St. Joe's to control the tempo of the game, and the Hawks only trailed once from that point on. Kansas freshman Micha Downs said the team neede ed to stay focused for two halves. "I think we never recovered from playing from behind the rest of the game," sophomore guard Russell Robinson said. He added that except for the team's exhibition games, this was the first time Kansas played a solid first half. "We put together a first half and come out like we did, but then we have to carry it over," Downs said. The Jayhawks went 4-of-14 from the foul line during the second half. Kansas didn't help its cause in the second half when it attempted to get back in the game. "I guess we will be practicing some free throws when we get back to Lawrence," Downs said. "We just have to get our heads right and focus in when we are on the line, especially when it is down the stretch like that in close games." The Jayhawks relied on the three-point shot throughout the game and received little post play from sophomore forwards C.J. Giles and Sasha Kaun. The duo combined for just nine points and four rebounds. ▼ FORT WORTH BOWI Edited by Kellis Robinett Houston Cougars 2005 regular season schedule: TAMPA BAY Date Thursday, Sept. 1 Saturday, Sept. 10 Friday, Sept. 16 Saturday, Sept. 24 Saturday Oct. 1 Saturation, Oct. 8 Saturation, Oct. 15 Saturation, Oct. 22 Saturation, Nov. 5 Sunday, Nov. 13 Saturation, Nov. 19 Saturation, Nov. 26 Opponent Result No. 6 Oregon L 24-38 Sam Houston State W 31-10 at UTEP L 41-44 Southern Miss Ppd. at Tulsa W 30-23 at Tulane W 35-14 Memphis L 20-35 at Mississippi State W 28-16 at Central Florida L 29-31 Southern Miss W 27-24 Southern Methodist L 24-29 Rice W 35-18 Houston scouting report: Houston scouting report: Average National Rank Rushing Offense 178.8 35 Passing Offense 277.6 20 Rush Defense 175.4 88 Pass Defense 209.3 47 Houston average points scored =29.45 Houston average points allowed=25.63 — Eric Sorrentino WOMEN'S BASKETBALL KANSAS Kansan file photo Kaylee Brown, senior guard, goes up for a shot against Northeastern in Allen Fieldhouse. Kansas competes against UMKC at 7 tonight in Allen Fieldhouse. Jayhawks hope to stay perfect BY MICHAEL PHILIPS mphillips@kansan.com KANSAN SPORTWRITER After a record-setting 100-50 victory against New Orleans Saturday, the women's basketball team will try to keep its momentum rolling against UMKC tonight. The UMKC Kangaroo enter the game at 2-5 after losing to Arkansas 84-57 Sunday afternoon. The game tips off at 7 p.m. Kansas will try to protect its undefeated 5-0 record. Baylor is the only other undefeated team in the Big 12 Conference. Junior center Stephanie Brown will lead the Kangaroos. She had a career-high 18 points against Arkansas last Sunday. Brown has scored in double figures five times this season. UMKC's junior forward Leigh Mead does not play like a traditional forward. She scores almost TONIGHT'S GAME What: Kansas vs. UMKC When: 7 p.m. tonight Where: Allen Fieldhouse Admission: Students: free with valid KUID; adults: $6 Source: Kansas Athletics 90 percent of her points from behind the three-point line. During the Northwest Missouri State game, Mead set a school record with 23 attempts from behind the arc — connecting on seven to finish the game with a career-high 21 points. Kansas women's basketball coach Bonnie Henrickson said it would be hard to duplicate the success of Saturday's game, in which the Jawhawk second 100 points. SEE PERFECT ON PAGE 2B --- 4 for in lN fes f f1 1 1 1 2B THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN SPORTS WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7. 2005 ATHLETICS CALENDAR TODAY ◆ Women's basketball vs. UMKC, 7 p.m., Allen Fieldhouse SATURDAY ◆ Men's basketball vs. California, 11 a.m., Kemper Arena, Kansas City, Mo. SUNDAY - Women's basketball vs. Wisconsin, 1 p.m., Allen Fieldhouse FOOTBALL Safety verbally commits to Kansas Kansas football coach Mark Mangino recruited high school safety Olaitan Oguntodu to play for Kansas next season. Mangino received a verbal commitment from the Mesquite, Texas, native on Monday, rivals.com reported. Oguntodu is a three-star recruit and is ranked 26th of all high school safeties in the country, according to rivals.com. "The fact that Kansas had been recruiting me for a long time made a big difference," Oguntodu told rivals.com. "Deciding to give a commitment to Kansas was just a gut feeling, and I decided to go with my gut. My family and I couldn't be happier with the decision that I have made." Guguntod chose Kansas over Boston College, Baylor, Houston, Oklahoma State, UTEP and Tulsa. Ryan Colaianni Perfect CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1B Henrickson said it was more for the fans than anyone else. The offense has carried the team through the season, averaging 77.8 points per game. "I think we're at a better place offensively," she said. "Last year we had a shopping list of things making me crabby." The Jayhawks will focus on improving their defense. So far, they have held opponents to 57.2 points a game, but they have a tendency to get in foul trouble. Sophomore forward Taylor McIntosh, said the difference came from the team finishing games strong. This year the team has survived a 70-68 game against Detroit on Nov.22 and a 70-65 victory against Northeastern Nov.27. Rylan Howe/KANSAN After tonight, Kansas will play Wisconsin on Sunday at 1 p.m. Both tonight's game and Sunday's will be televised on Metro Sports. Over in a New York minute N - Edited by Alison Peterson Sophomore center C.J. Giles and senior forward Christian Moody sit through the final moments of the game. Giles had seven points and Moody just two during 14 minutes of play. The Jayhawks lost to the St. Joseph's Hawks 67-70 last night at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Kansas Jayhawks notebook Freshman guard Brandon Rush confirmed that the NCAA is investigating him for actions that took place while he was considering entering the NBA Draft. deciding to play for Kansas. Rush said he did not use funds from his brother Kareem Rush to fund the trips. He said the situation had been straightened out. Rush said the NCAA interviewed him about a month ago. Rush accepted flights from NBA teams when he had individual workouts, before Sophomore guard Russell Robinson, who grew up in New York, had about 20 friends and family attend the game last night. Kansas came into the game shooting 73.3 percent, but yesterday's 31.6 percent was by far their worst performance on the season. - St. Joseph's had a large contingent of students behind a basket cheering on the team. 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Warren/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS USC quarterback Matt Leinart drops back to pass in the first quarter against Washington, in this Oct. 22 file photo, at Husky Stadium in Seattle. There were definitely some bumps along the way, but Leinart says he's never once regretted his decision to play his senior year at USC instead of becoming an instant millionaire by turning pro. He put up even better numbers than last season, when he won the Heisman Trophy. A legendary career BY JOHN NADEL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — If USC defeats Texas in the Rose Bowl, the argument can be made that Trojan quarterback Matt Leinart will finish his career as the best quarterback in college football history for one simple reason — the Troians' incredible record. Right now, USC is 37-1 with Leinart at the helm. The lone loss was a 34-31 triple-overtime setback at California on Sept. 27, 2003. "It it just feels like we can't lose with him." USC offensive tackle Winston Justice said. "He's just so poised. When other quarterbacks would probably freeze up, Matt doesn't freeze up." Leinart hadn't thrown a pass at USC when he became the Trojans' starting quarterback in 2003. He passed for 3,565 yards and 38 touchdowns with nine interceptions as a sophomore; 3,322 yards and 33 touchdowns with six interceptions last year, Although teammate Reggie Bush appears to be the front-runner to win this year's Heisman, which will be awarded Saturday in New York, Leinart believes he's much better now than he was last season. and 3,450 yards and 27 touchdowns with seven interceptions this season with one game left. USC coach Pete Carroll agrees. The answer is two. This year, Leinart has passed for 300 or more yards in six games. "There is no doubt," Carroll said. "How many 300-yard games did he have last year?" "That's just one barometer," Carroll said. "He's much more controlled. Everything about him is better, every single aspect. He is stronger, faster. His arm is great, his understanding, his confidence, his speed, his quickness, and his ability to make decisions and get rid of the football, and his ability to audible." Leinart, though, said he'll be "He's got my vote," Leinart said of Bush, whose 554 yards rushing in the last two games are the most ever by a USC player in back-to-back games. happy to present his teammate with the Heisman. As a Heisman winner, Leinart is one of the voters. "I won last year, and I'm excited to go back so I can give him the hug he gave me," Leinart said. Leinart passed up the opportunity to become an instant millionaire last January by deciding to return to USC for his senior year rather than making himself available for the NFL draft. Leinart figures to be among the top picks in April's NFL draft. He'll be remembered at USC for more than just being an exceptional player. "It's just been a blessing to play with someone like Matt," Bush said. 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The court "ordered" Canada to halt the hunt and urged other countries to boycott Canada. Animal rights activists say that baby seals are clubbed to death and often skinned alive, but sealers and government officials who monitor the hunt insist the pups die instantly, under strict guidelines. The Associated Press A "Big Noise" heard by European Union BRUSSELS, Belgium—Colin Firth presented the European Union with a "Make Trade Fair" petition with more than 10 million signatures collected by Oxfam International, a group that lobbies for fairer trade. The petition, presented Monday to EU Trade Commission, urges the EU to consider the world's poor at a World Trade Organization ministerial meeting in Hong Kong this month. Dubbed the "Big Noise", it was signed by people in more than 200 countries, more than 80 percent of them from the developing world. "We offer this as a counter to the corporate voices of opportunism," he said. 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Some of you might be concerned about finances, while others will worry about completing their to-do lists. Curb communication and/or ask a key support for help. A surprising insight heads in your direction. Tonight: Early to bed. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) ★★★★ Sometimes being a leader GEMINI (Mav 21-June 20) can be exhausting. Emphasize the richer parts of your life -- your relationships and friendships. Your efforts will ultimately make a big difference. Tonight: Happy with your friends. Someone could be full of surprises. ★★★ Touch base with others before making a decision. You might have a good sense of what is necessary to make a situation work. Emphasize others when making choices. Let others think that they are part of your directive. Tonight: Take the lead. CANCER (June 21-July 22) ★★★ If you don't like what you hear, find other solutions. Your creativity and ingenuity come out quickly. Your intuitive sense comes forward. You're unusually tuned in right now. 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Tonight: Put in that extra effort if need be. **** You have what it takes, if you just work from instinct. The end results could be very successful. Your intellect, personality and imagination merge to make you an unbeatable force. Now, what would you like to focus on? Tonight: Smile away. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) **SAGTITARIUS** (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) **★★★ Take the lead when handling** an emotional situation that permeates your day. In fact, if you tap into your intuitive side, you will naturally do and say the right thing. Your intuition rules. Tonight: Anchored. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) RECOWORK BOOK 12.14 ★★★ You get what you want just by asking. How easy is that? Tap into your imagination with friends or co-workers. What seems like a silly idea actually might become quite viable. Keep your goals in mind. Tonight: As you wish. (Yes, just ask.) ******* Your ideas stimulate those who count, as well as many of your pals. Get-together are nothing but fun right now. 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For requirements and to apply please visit: http://jobs.ku.edu/EOE/AE Employer Trustworthy female needed to assist wheelchair user. Holiday hours available. $9/hr. Gate 766-4394. 2-4 hours/5 days/week. $9.25/hr Call Rainforest Montessori School 843-6800. Why pay to exercise? When you can get an aerobic workout cleaning our school! Flexible late afternoon or evening hours STUFF Red Euro Sports Big Chief scooter. New in March 2005. Just tuned up & new battery. $7500. 785-979-9245. Pool table for sale. Great shape, recently refilled. Asking $500. Call Garrett at 785-760-1586. Kansan Classifieds 864-4358 classifieds@kansan.com TICKETS ADEDSPORTS KICKETS KU Basketball Arena, Arena B football.ALL Concerts 10 to rows. Lawrence 1216 E. 23rd Street. 856-5400 or Oak Park Mall 913-541-8001. ACE SPORTS & TICKETS FOR RENT MTCTICKETS BUY AND SELL KB kbball & Chief in and season tickets. Bkc 886 8499. 8499. CLASSIFIEDS@KANSAN.COM www.mtctickets.com FOR RENT Room for rent in Jeff CO1 Fully furnished, all utilities paid, except elect. KU Bus Route. $290/mo. Call 785-218-4723 1- 2B 1 BR apartments - pool, exercise facility, on KU bus route. Large floor plan in great close location. $300 off special Eddinghams Apartments call 1 BR open now at Briarstone. Get comfortable before winter! Sunny apt, in great location near campus at 1000 Emery Rd. 700 sq. feet with patio, DW, minibinids, walk-in closet, $500 per mo. No pets. 785-760-4788 or Briarstone@earthlink.net. 1 BR in 48B apt. avail. asap. Call 913-908-1001 for more information. $255/mo. No pets please. 1 BR in 3 BR townhouse, 2.5 BA W/ D, garage, on KU bus route. Seeking female roommate avail. Dec. 10. DecJan free rent $275/mo. 781-375-1055 1. 2 & 3 BR apartments. West side location with wonderful park-like setting, pool, exercise facility, $300 off special! Call Quail Creek Apartments 785-843-4300 2 BR, 2 BA house in Prairie Meadows. 2 car garage, D/W, WD; $900 per month plus usl. Avail. January through July. Call 505-662-7887. 4700 Hearthside Dr. 2BR house Pets OK avail Jan 1st. Close to campus W/D included. $650/month. Call Mike (785)393-0402 2B, 2A BA, car garage, FP All appliances incl., lawn & snow removal. Quiet West Lawrence neighborhood. $750/mo until 8/10/15. 749-4010 or 979-3550. REGENTS COURT APARTMENTS 19TH & MASSACHUSETTS (785) 749-0445 2 BR large, clean, W/D, CA, bus route, off street parking, pets OK, $550/mo. 785-550-7325 Newly remodeled 1, 2, 3 BR available immediately. Rent specials 841-7849. *Spacious 3 & 4 Bedroom Units* *Available Now* *Washer/Dryer Included* *Close to Downtown and Shopping* *Ask about our SPECIALS* FOR RENT Email: regents@mastercraftcorp.com Hutton Farms NOW 28R house with garage, W/D, range, refrigerator, A/C. 1305 W. 21st Street. $575/mo. Bullet 843-231-690. LEASING! (785) 841-3339 www.tuckawaymgmt.com 2 BR, 2 BA @ Tuckaway Apts. W/D, FP, cable TV incl. Roomy & clean. Please contact Emma @ 633-689-6089. CHEAP! 2BR duplex hrdwd lfrs., new paint, close to campus, $400/mo. No pets. 838-8244 1420 Kentucky-Close to Campus 3 BR House; 2 full BA, Hrdwd firs., CA & Heat. Internet & Cable Ready; Fenced Yard, W/d/Inc./Pets Consid. $110/mo. + dep. 550-318/814-8050-7652-512 38R duplex 2.5 BA, New, W/D hookups 2 carriage; All appliances & lawn care provided. Security and cable available. No pets. 727 Michigan, No pets. $925/mo, with 1/2 off first month's rent! Call 766-7730. HIGHPOINTE APARTMENT HOMES $99 Deposit/Person On KU Bus Route Free DVD Rental Free Continental Breakfast 2001 W. 6th St. 841-8468 Free Continental Breakfast www.firstmanagementinc.com MISSOURI VILLAGE SQUARE 9th & Avalon 2 BR • 1 BA small pet OK $500-545 CALF FOR SPECIAL $842-304 HANOVER PLACE 200 Hanover Place Studio, 1 BR Available12/15 or 1/12 Water Paid • Small Pet OK FOX RUN apartments Classified Policy: The Kansas will not knowingly accept any advertisement for housing or employment that discriminates against any person or group of persons based on race, sex, age, color, creed, religion, sexual orientation, nationality or disability. Pur- Access to Pool CALL FOR SPECIALS! 841-1212 1-2-3 Bed $99 Deposit Call for Specials 843-4040 4500 Overland Dr. thefoxrun.com Short Term Leases Available Leases Available FOR RENT Excellent location. 1104 Tennessee. Near town/KU. 2 BR apt in four-plex. CA. No Pets. $480. Jan1.842-4242 3 BR duplex, $895/mo. 2 BR townhome, $675/mo. 2BR w/den, $595/mo. Please call 331-7821. 3 BR, 2 BA $725/mo. $99 dep. Huge discount. Avail. avail. 1 car garage, fenced, pet ok, SW loc. Julia 979-9949. 3 BR, 2 BAApt, FOR RENT, near campus, 900/mo, no pets, WD, appliances, clean, bainroom, fresh paint, 102-525. 3. BR, 1.5 BA, $969/mo, 1537 New Hampshire. Call Lisa 913-217-3520 or Lois 881-745-1074. 4 BR, 2BA Townhome 515 Elrdidge, DW/W, D/2. car gar. 4 Roommates allowed. $295/mo. Call Kate 814-2400 ext. 30 2BR, 2BA TOWNHOMES Attached garage vaulted ceilings private courtyard wood burning fireplace $99 deposit/person call for details 842-3280 South Pointe APARTMENTS 3 Bedroom Apartments Available 26th & Iowa (785) 843-6446 Starting at $649 ROOMMATE/SUBLEASE 1 BR avail. in 3 BR duplex. W/D. $290/mo. Located at 27th & Iowa. Call 913-515-5349. 1 BR in 3 BR house 1 BA. W/D. DSL Spring lease $315/mo plus 1/3 utilities. 785-312-9568. Available for sublease, Naismith Hall. Includes unlimited meals, high-speed internet, net cable, pool, weight room, laundry facilities, and more. Call 816-304-9162. Fully furnished 1 BR in 4 BR. Own bathroom. 1/4uite. Call 847-721-3600. NAISMITH SUBLEASE Available spring semester. Includes meals, maid service, exercise facility, pool, cable internet & laundry facilities. Online price. 877-432-7603. sh99@aol.com 1 BR apt. avail, for sublease, Chamberlin Courts on Ohio, Off street parking, pets DK, W/ 10. min. walk from campus. $405 mo./ add: Call(214-924-6161) 3 BR, 2 BA condo near campus. W/D, $300/mo. utilities paid. 550-4544 ROOMMATE/SUBLEASE 3 BR, 2 BA house seeking male roommate DW, WD $375/mo. util. included. Fully furnished. Call Anthony 850-3783 1 BR apt. avail. to sublease mid-Dec. W/D pool, workout facility, pets welcome. Call 630-452-9052 3 BR seeking Male Christian Roommate. W.D. DW. $260/mo + 1/3 unit. Partially furnished. Calls 913-669-0854. 1 BR (beautiful, historic, funky) avail in 2BR home. 923 Tennessee. Fully furnished. Six month sublease avail now! Rent free until Feb! $350/mo plus 1/2 unit. Price negotiable. Call 785-393-2044 or 785-393-4388. 1 BR in 4 BR furnished apt. $257/mo plus elect. Free cable, water, & Internet. Avail. immediately! Contact 848-391-5599. Female roommate needed, prefer grad student. Quiet, non-drinker/smoker. Apartment on city bus line. 785-749-1191. Seeking responsible person to share part or East Lawrence home. 1 rooms avail. $350/mo. DSL Internet & util. included. No smoking. B41-2829. Grad student m/n/s seeking roommate at Harvard Square Apts. 2BR, 1BA. $262/mo. Close to campus. 620-875-1051. $200-300, Includes all uffs', free laundry, phone, fast internet. Housing coop is looking for cooperative-minded members. 814-0484 (leave msg) 1406 Tennessee the korean will not knowingly accept advertising that is in violation of University of Kansas regulation or issued in the newspaper is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act Apt. sublease avail, at The Reserve 31 st & Iowa, fully turn. Call John 913-709-6316 for tour or questions. Studio Sublease Avail. 12/23 to 7/31 $380/mo plus elec. Call 785-794-9683 1 BR in 4-person apt. w/private bath. All util. are paid except 1/4 electricity. Avail. at Jeff CO Dec. 14, Call 913-208-3201 1 BR avail in 2 BR apartment. Roommate needed. 2311 Lowell off of Clinton Prkwy. $375/m. Pets welcome. 913-568-3975. Nalismith dorm room available for spring semester. Meals, exercise facility, maid service, pool, and laundry facilities included. Call 847-691-1453. Sublease a room for Spring Semester! Walk-in closet, free internet. $285/mo. 785-766-3536. 1 BR avail. in 3 BR duplex beginning in January, $375/mo plus usl. Near Peterson and Kasold. Call 785-691-7938 or email Travis at wombai@ku.edu. of 1989 which makes it illegal to advertise "any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or an intention, to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination." Don't forget the 20% student discount when placing a classified. With proof of KUID Our readers are hereby informed that all jobs and housing advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. KANSANCLASSIFIEDS In a Class of its Own. There's a better way to vent. free for all 864-0500. all THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 6B THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN SPORTS WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7.2005 ▼ NFL Johnson steals spotlight in Holmes' absence BY DOUG TUCKER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Want a great running back? Just put Priest Holmes on your roster and sit back and wait. Great ones follow Holmes everywhere he goes. He was an established collegiate star at Texas when Ricky Williams showed up and stole the spotlight. A few years later at Baltimore, Jamal Lewis quickly beat Holmes out of his job and led the league one season with a whopping 2.066 vards. So Holmes again went looking for a home. He found one in Kansas City and wound up scoring an NFL-record 27 touchdowns in 2003. But then the Chiefs drafted running back Larry Johnson. Since Holmes went out for the year with head and neck trauma, Johnson has rushed for more than 100 yards five straight weeks and helped propel the Chiefs into the playoff chase. The past three games, starting with a team-record 211-yard effort at Houston, Johnson has amassed 470 yards. After spending the first half the season sharing carries with Holmes, Johnson has rocketed to sixth among the league's top rushers with 1,108 yards. His 5-yard per-carry average is exceeded by only one of the top 20 With a tough and angry running style that seems to reflect his personality, the Penn State product has led the NFL since Nov. 1, with 709 vards. rushers. A rare combination of power and speed, Johnson seems to have added the one ingredient he had been missing: cuming. "There's been some unbelievable (running backs) — Gale Sayers, Marshall Faulk. This guy is, I think, going to go into that category one day," coach Dick Vermeil said Tuesday. "I think he could become a dominating type player," Vermeil said, "because of the physicalness within his framework. And he has great stamina." 97 Ed Zurga/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Kansas City Chiefs running back Larry Johnson (27) makes his way around Denver Broncos' Ian Gold for a short gain in the first quarter Sunday. Johnson rushed for 140 yards and had two touchdowns in the Chiefs' 31-27 victory. 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DECEMBER 8.2005 FACULTY WWW.KANSAN.COM Mirecki resigns as chairman BY FRANK TANKARD itankard@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITER KU professor Paul Mirecki resigned from his position as chairman of the department of religious studies Wednesday. He will continue to teach in the department. last two weeks after e-mails he had sent to a mailing list became public. Mirecki, who joined the KU faculty in 1989, drew criticism from University of Kansas officials and state legislators in the In the e-mails, he made remarks about Christian fundamentalists that some considered offensive, including one message that the intelligent design class he YEAR OF MEMORIAL DAY Mirecki planned to teach in the spring would serve as a "nice slap" in the "big fat face" of religious fundamentalists. He apologized and canceled the class last week. intelligent design controversy. Mirecki spent between three and four hours at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. On Monday morning, Mirecki reported to the Douglas County Sheriff's Department that two men beat him with their fists and a metal object in the head, shoulders and back on a roadside south of Lawrence. He said the attackers referenced the Mirecki submitted his resignation letter to Barbara Romzek, interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He said in the letter that he decided to resign as departmental chairman because of the controversy. He also said colleagues in the department recommended that he step down. Romzek said in a statement that she was in discussions with religious studies faculty about appointing an interim chairperson. "This allows the department to focus on what's most important — teaching, research and service — and to minimize the distractions of the last couple of weeks," she said. Andrew Stangl, president of the Society of Open-Minded Atheists and Agnostics, the 121-person student group for which Mirecki serves as faculty adviser, said Mirecki told him on Tuesday that he would step down as department chairman. "It's just another symptom of what's been going on the last couple of weeks," said Stangl, Wichita junior. "As a result of Dr. Mirecki sharing private opinions of his, he became public enemy number-one in the eyes of the Legislature." SEE MIRECKI ON PAGE 5A Snow savvy TEXAS AGRICULTURE UNIVERSITY Kim Andrews/KANSAN Chelsie Foty, Hopkins, Minn. senior, has the snow removal routine down. She knew just the steps to take to get her car cleared off and running Wednesday, when Lawrence received its first significant snowfall of the year. Minnesota winters have made Foty accustomed to heavy snows. STUDENT HOUSING Alarms heeded even in snow BY JOIN JORDAN jjordan@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITER Melissa Evans left Margaret Amira Scholarship Hall at 10:45 Wednesday morning in her flip-flops and dashed over to K.K. Amira Scholarship Hall. When Evans, Topeka junior, left the hall, it was snowing and the wind chill was zero degrees Fahrenheit. She and 20 other girls waited in the lobby of the neighboring scholarship hall because of another fire alarm. Margaret Amini had two false fire alarms in less than 12 hours, during some of the coldest weather of the semester. Tuesday night, alarms went The detector in question was replaced and then cleaned and tested in the maintenance shop. off about 11 p.m. and maintenance crews weren't able to turn alarms in the residents' rooms for three hours, Evans said. Avila said the false alarms were caused by either the dirty detector or a power "bump." Avila said the cold or wind could have caused a power bump and that fire detectors were sensitive to them. The hall's problems came from a fire detector in the laundry room, said Vince Avila, associate director for housing shop maintenance. SEE COLD ON PAGE 5A BUSINESS Rachel Seymour/KANSAN LTED Tobacco groups use bars to hook students By Gaby Souza gsouza@kansan.com Kansan staff writer Just before stepping outside, the O'Fallon, Mo., senior, handed his driver's license to a young man dressed in a white T-shirt and jeans. The man slid the license through a scanner, gave it back to Kelly, and with a smile handed him a reward: Camel cigarettes. Joel Kelly couldn't light up inside the Granada, but he scored two free packs of Camels in the nightclub and joined the crowd outside holding smoldering cigarettes between their fingers. Tobacco marketers have made Lawrence bars hot spots to attract college-age customers, despite the city-wide ban on smoking in public buildings. When Kelly gave his driver's license information to a representative from Camel cigarettes, he was signing up for frequent mailings, and gifts of shot glasses, money clips and cigarette cases — each of them containing tobacco companies' logos. Long barred from television and radio advertising, tobacco companies were further restricted in how, where and to whom they could advertise by the 1998 settlement of a lawsuit brought by 46 states including Kansas. That kept tobacco companies from advertising through sponsorships in sports, such as NASCAR's Winston Cup. They were also banned from using product placement in movies, advertising on billboards and in publications circulated to individuals under the age of 18. Free samples were only allowed in Tobacco companies are 'diabolically clever' in their advertising teqchniques to students,said Linda Lee associated professor of journalism. adult-only facilities. Bars in college towns have become target locations because they offer the youngest possible candidates to become new smokers in an environment where alcohol consumption could make them more vulnerable to those messages, critics say. Young age high market Tobacco companies focus 70 percent of their advertising on 18-to-24-year-olds, according to the Federal Trade Commission. In Kansas alone, tobacco companies spend $125.9 million each year in advertising, according to the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. By that percent measure, about $88 million SEE TARGETED ON PAGE 4A Today's weather 18 8 Change of snow weather.com Friday 25 12 PARTLY SUNNY Saturday 34 17 MODERately SUNNY Bowl special section Friday 25 12 PARTY SUNDAY Saturday 34 17 MIDTOWN SUNDAY Bowl special section Kansas might not play Houston until Dec. 23 but everything you need to know about the Fort Worth Bowl is available now. PAGE 1B Players switch strengths Players switch strengths Ivana Catic's scoring and Erica Hallman's assists helped lead Kansas to a victory in last night's match-up against UMKC. PAGE 1C Jayplay Deck the halls with lots of Jayplay's! Fa la la la la la la la la la. 'Tis the season to read Jayplay! Fa la la la la la la la la la. Index Comics...10A Classifieds...9A Crossword...10A Horoscopes...10A Opinion...11A Sports...1C All contents, unless stated otherwise. © 2005 The University Daily Kansan 2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN NEWS THURSDAY. DECEMBER 8, 2005 What do you THINK? BY MEGAN PENROD editor@kansan.com KANSAN CORRESPONDENT What did you think of the intelligent design class? --- > Ali Womack, Leawood freshman "No, I don't think it should be taught as a mythology class because that makes it seem like a myth." POLYVILLE "Personally I think religion is a theory as to how the world was created, or came together or how life came to earth. Religion ... has no facts and there is no way to test it, so it would be wrong to teach it as a science, so the only way to teach it would be as a mythology or religion class." (3) - Rebecca Ralstin, Shawnee freshman "All legitimate scientific fact justifies the theory of evolution. This idea is on par with the idea of mass religion denying the legitimacy of gravity. I don't mean to devalue Christianity, but there are a lot of religions ideas that are untrue." Jonny Orlansky, Jackson, Miss., freshman TAYLOR BENDER "I think it should be brought up as a view at the same time as evolution, but not a lot of time to spend on it. It should be brought up in a scientific course because it makes people who believe in intelligent design happy." Jason Lewis, Edmond, Okla., sophomore PEOPLE Mariah Carey's comeback may lead to Grammy nominations NEWYORK - Mariah had a comeback year, 50 Cent dropped another multiplatinum album. Coldplay was hot and Kanye West beat the sophomore jinx. Gwen Stefani made us holla, Kelly Clarkson revealed in being free and the Black Eyed Peas celebrated those lovely lady lumps. But while a lot of artists combined for some memorable music this year, few dominated the music scene like in years past. So it's unlikely that one name will dominate the Grammy nominations on Thursday. "I think Mariah Carey, Gwen Stefani and Kanye West are going to be going at it for who has the most awards" says Steve Stoute, a former music industry executive who remains tapped into the scene through his company Translations, which links music superstars with commercial products. "They have songs that have song-of-the-year potential on their albums." Freshmen face returning to rules STUDENT LIFE BY LOUIS MORA lmora@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITER The Associated Press GOING HOME College is a time for freshmen to experience living on their own, away from the rules of Mom and Dad. But as the semester comes to an end, some students are packing up and heading home to live back under their parents' roofs during winter break. After living on their own, students often clash with their parents when they're expected to once again follow the household rules. Tips on how to prevent conflicts with your parents "It's kind of perceived as a power struggle," said Frank DeSalvo, assistant dean of students and director of Counseling and Psychological Services. "The issues are much more important than who's the boss at a certain address." Schedule your activities and discuss any curfews Stephanie Langley, Leavenworth freshman, said her first semester at the University of Kansas has allowed - Let parents know they are still important in your life. * Maintain a calm approach when talking with parents. Source: Coauthailing and Phycological Surveys She said partying with friends and staying up late goes against the rules her parents had for her when she was in high school. her to do "pretty much whatever you want." "It's kind of difficult to adjust," she said. DeSalvo said the key to preventing arguments is communication. He said students need to discuss the changes they've made while in college, whether it's a new smoking habit or a new religion. He said parents get frightened when it seems their children are adopting new values. He said parents often show apprehension by getting offended. He said there was a need to talk and learn. Parents shouldn't be frightened and students shouldn't get defensive, he said. Kyle Begole, Wichita freshman, said he wouldn't have that problem with his parents because he went home at least once a month. His parents understand he's a college student and allow him the same freedom he has when he's on his own, he said. Diana Robertson, associate director of student housing, said that because for the last four months students have made decisions on their own, they think they should be able to do whatever they want at home. She said students needed to manage their time to allow time for their parents, as well as old friends. DeSalvo said it's important to remember that students need their parents. But after students have been on their own, they no longer rely on their parents to fulfill their needs, he said. — Edited by Anne Burgard Time to evacuate Steam billows from Lake Vui in the volcano crater of Mount Manaro on the island of Ambae, part of the Vanuatu islands chain, this morning. Five thousand people living in the so called red zone have been evacuated to the coast because of fears of a possible mud flow if the lake wall bursts. Rick Rycroft/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAMPUS Hall's story begins with student quarantined on Kaw River island BY CHARISSA YOUNG editor@kansan.com KANSAN CORRESPONDENT Behind Watson Library stands Twente Hall. The current home of the University's School of Social Welfare, the building served the needs of physical health instead of social health when it opened in the 1930s. In 1905, a University student became infected with smallpox. Because there were no campus health services and the city hospitals weren't able to admit the patient, the student was isolated to a small cabin located on an island in the Kaw River. Students ferried food to the island, leaving it on a tree stump for the ouarintained student. Although the student recovered from the illness, harsh criticism over the treatment of the smallpox patient sparked efforts to provide proper health care for KU students. The Benefit Health Association was created because state funds were unavailable to finance student health services. Participating students paid a 50-cent fee for health insurance. As diphtheria and typhoid fever outbreaks hit the University, membership in the health association increased rapidly, raising interest and support for a University hospital. The University approved plans for a hospital in 1908. The hospital, funded entirely by voluntary student fees, originally operated out of a rented home near campus and moved several more times before Elizabeth Watkins remedied the situation. An influenza epidemic in 1928 forced the University to close campus, proving the inadequacy of hospital care for the student body. Watkins, the daughter of a doctor, offered $175,000 to fund the construction of a permanent hospital on campus. Watkins Memorial Hospital, built in memory of her late husband, Jabez B. Watkins, was built on a site near her own home, which is now the chancellor's residence. Constructed in 1932, the hospital's wings radiated from an art deco-styled central tower. The hospital's thirteen-member staff and KU Medical Center interns could treat up to 46 patients at a time. Examination, sterilizing, operating and dressing rooms along with the doctor's office were constructed on the ground floor, while the second and third floors were for patient care. Watkins chose furnishings for patients' rooms, including walnut beds with carved Jayhawk headboards. As the population of students increased over the decades, the hospital became overcrowded and unable to adequately meet students' health needs. Construction of the current, larger Watkins Memorial Hospital was completed in March 1974. Two months later, KU Chancellor Archie R. 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Jabez site near now the i n c e h i s p i t e s t u l d unable s' health current, Hospital 744. hospi- rt deco- tion's hospi- spital's Medi- at up to ination, dressing the officer's ground third wet. Wat- patients' eds with ancellor d the for- l, honor- th Twen- tment of client activ- Stauffer during the holidays. ones of are 35 Jayhawk Pod iano 00 sings 00 er's E ER ER 9pm. NEWS A new red crystal Med Center approves blood cell substitute PolyHeme, a temporary oxygen-carrying red blood cell substitute, was approved for use at the University of Kansas Hospital by the Medical Center's Human Subjects Committee. Dennis McCulloch, public relations at the Med Center, said the committee went through an extensive public input process before PolyHeme was approved. He said the Med Center educated the public and asked for their input. Travis Robinett Training medical personel to use PolyHeme began in early November. Wyandotte, Leavenworth and Douglas counties will be using the product. Michael Moncure, the principal investigator, said the counties involved would be on the leading edge of emergency response medical science, and he appreciated their cooperation. Nebraska senior dies in highway accident Ryan Ostendorf, 28-year-old KU student, died in a two-vehicle crash at 6400 E. Highway 40 in Shawnee County at 8:21 p.m. Dec. 5, said Sharon Mandel, chief medical investigator at the Shawne County coroner's office. CAMPUS Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at Zion Lutheran Church in Gothenburg, Neb. Burial will be held in the Grandview Cemetery. Visitation will be Friday between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. A press release from Blase Memorial Chapel stated Ostendorf, Gothenburg, Neb., senior, would have graduated in May 2006. He was a biology major and had hoped to become a doctor. Ostendorf also worked as a paramedic in Topeka. Steve Lynn BARCELONA 1989 Anja Niedringhaus/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Noam Yifrach, right, head of Israel's partner organization, Magen David Adom (Red Star of David), takes over the banner, which carries the new "red crystal" emblem from Blaise Godet, chairman of the 192-nation conference and Swiss Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office, early Thursday morning in Geneva, Switzerland. The 192 signatories of the Geneva Conventions approved the new "red crystal" emblem by vote after last-ditch negotiations between Syria and Israel over Damascus' demands for humanitarian access to Syrian citizens in the Golan Heights broke down. GOVERNMENT Moderates seek more sway BY JOHN MILBURN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TOPEKA — Moderate Republicans say they've formed an organization to take back the party from conservatives. First on the must-do list for the Kansas Traditional Republican Majority is replacing those on the State Board of Education who want to treat evolution as flawed science. publicans in the group is former Senate President Dick Bond of Overland Park. Among the prominent Re- "The moderates have no one to blame but themselves for letting this party drift so far to the right, and they've done that by sitting on their hands," Bond said. "They don't go to the polls." Moderates are looking to become active in the state board and House races next year. The board has a 6-4 conservative majority, with four of those six standing for re-election in 2006. Bond said changing the party and the political landscape will take time. "The moderates aren't going to flip a switch and change things overnight. It's going to take a lot of hard work and the awareness of the nonpolitical public to understand that some of the basic structures in our state are in jeopardy, in particular education," said Bond, a member of the State Board of Regents, which oversees higher education. The Board of Education has drawn international criticism for its recent changes to science standards for students. Critics say it will permit the teaching of intelligent design, which they call repackaged creationism. Supporters say it will expose students to valid criticisms of evolutionary theory and promote openness in the classroom. The KU World Choir will hold auditions from Dec. 8 to 16 for the spring semester.The class meets Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 2 to 2:50 p.m. Contact Mirna Y. Cabrera at mcabrena@ku.edu for more information. ON THE RECORD A 21-year-old KU student reported to Lawrence police a burglary and damage to a Toyota Land Cruiser between 9 p.m.Tuesday and 3 a.m. Wednesday from the 1600 block of Edgehill Road.The damage is estimated at $1,000. CITY Former KU student charged in arsons A man already convicted of setting fires in Johnson County faces additional arson charges in Douglas County David R. Jay, a former University of Kansas student, made his first appearance by closed circuit television Tuesday in Douglas County District Court. Jay is charged with three counts of aron. He told District Judge Pro Tem Peggy Kittel that he couldn't afford an attorney, so the court appointed one for him. Jay was sentenced to six years and four months in prison for the Johnson Country arsons. In Douglas County, he is charged with aggravated arson for a fire started in Watson Library in March 2004. Two other arson counts stem from fires at the Clinton Parkway Nursery and Garden Store and the Lawrence Dental Center. At Jay's trial in Johnson County, a psychologist said he was a paranoid schizophrenic who lit fires to battle the "new world order." Associated Press THIS WEEKON CAMPUS Black Student Union will be hosting our annual date auction Acquire an Acquaintance Fine ladies, gentleman and some athletes to bid on! Saturday, December 10th Kansas Ballroom Doors open @ 6:00 p.m. Show starts @ 6:30 p.m. $ *Cash only accepted if highest bidder. auction ntance on! Join the Legislative Advocacy Network (LAN)! student interests. The University of Kansas Legislative Advocacy Network aims to connect students with their state and federal legislators. By building personal, non-partisan relationships to further lobbying efforts, LAN will increase awareness for higher education and promote Drop by the Student Senate Office (410 Kansas Union) for more information! PAID FOR BY KU Nontraditional Student Foundation End of Semester Holiday Potluck December 17, 12:00-3:00pm At the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Please RBVP number to attend and dish you will bring or submit any questions http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nontraditionalfoundation/ funded by: STUDENTS SENATE WYNDHAM UNIVERSITY Children always welcome! --- Are you a student who: *is married? *is a veteran? *is 3 or more years older than your classmates? *commutes 10 or more miles to school? *has dependent children? Join the Nontraditional Student Foundation! (formerly OAKS) = http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nontradstudentfoundation/ *Graduate students also welcome! December 8,2005 Student Senate and the Elections Commission is currently looking for an Elections Commissioner for this Spring's election.The job pays $10 per hour.Applicants should have law or elections administration background. Duties will include: Administer, interpret, and enforce all policies and election rules set forth by the Commission. - Serve as an administrative assistant to the Commission, attending and reporting on all meetings and functions,and representing the Student Senate in investigations of election misconduct. Be available to communicate with all candidates, coalitions, and others in the University community regarding the Elections Code and Commission policies. Be responsible for conducting all aspects of the campaign under the authority and guidance of the Commission. Applications are available in the Dean of Students office and are due December 9. For more information, please contact Jonathan Steele by email at jsteele2@ku.edu. Have events or meetings you would like publicized? In a student group open to all students? Contact Student Senate to place YOUR AD HERE FOR FREE!! E-mail nolx13@ku.edu for more information O 4A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN NEWS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2005 CAMEL PLEASURE TO BURN SINCE 1914 DISCOVER DISCOURSE HOLDS, Bunting, Fruits Long Earpe, Heart Warmer, Foligno, And More Semiblue Productions. CAMEL PLEASURE TO BURN SINCE 1893 CAMEL PLEASURE TO BURN SINCE 1893 CAMEL PLEASURE TO BURN SUNSCON GENERAL'S WARNING: Cigarette Smoke Contains Carbon Monoxide. KU study shows marketing works Targeted CONTINUE FROM PAGE 14 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A is spent marketing to the age group of students attending the University of Kansas and other state colleges and universities. Tobacco companies spend more money on advertising now than they ever have before. The amount spent in the United States first made a big jump when it grew from $6.9 billion in 1998 to $8.4 billion in 1999, according to the Federal Trade Commission. By 2003, they were spending more than $15.2 billion. Targeting college-aged people appears to be working, according to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The percentage of smokers between the ages of 18 and 24 in 2004,23.6 percent, was more than the percentage of adult smokers overall,20.9 percent. A study by Won Choi, assistant professor of preventative medicine at the KU Medical Center, showed that students were particularly receptive to tobacco advertising. Choi and fellow researchers surveyed 365 KU students between January and May, 2001, and found more than 37 percent of student smokers in the study were highly receptive to such advertising, while almost 61 percent were moderately receptive. Receptivity to advertising was judged by whether they could name their favorite tobacco advertisement, if they were willing to use promotional items provided by tobacco companies and whether they attended concerts and clubs that featured tobacco marketing. Choi said he found that most Keeping student smokers smoking is also an aim of the companys' marketing techinques, said Won Choi assistant professor of preventative medicine. college students could identify their favorite tobacco ad, which shows just how much tobacco companies target them. Cigarette companies keep this in mind when they pick the bright colors and the young, attractive people of both sexes featured in their print ads, Choi said. Companies also carefully consider what items college students would want when they select the gifts. Even though cigarette advertising is currently banned in Canada and Western Europe, it is still legal to advertise tobacco in the United States. Whether the way they target students is ethical is another story, said Linda Lee, associate professor of journalism, who teaches a class in media ethics for both news and advertising students. Tobacco companies are "diabolically clever" in their advertising techniques to students, Lee said. By offering free samples at bars — places where alcohol is consumed and people are a little less reserved — students are more able to let go of their inhibitions about cigarettes and give them a try, she said. And it doesn't hurt that the student peers, who look like them, are handing them out. It just convinces them further, she said. Lawrence bars benefit from having the representatives give out their wares. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts St., gets paid monthly by RJ. Reynolds Tobacco Company to hand out its Camel brand cigarettes. Red Lyon Tavern, 944 Massachusetts, gets paid quarterly by Philip Morris for letting Marlboro, one of its brands, hand out lighters, said Jerry Neverve, owner of the establishment. He refused to disclose the amount, but he did say it was "very small." And if they started handing out cigarettes, he said he "did not know" if he would let CONTINUED ON PAGE 5A All credible authorities "agree that tobacco companies had lied to the American public." MARKET EXPENSES Amount spent on advertising: - 1998 $6.9 billion -1999 $8.4 billion -2000 $9.5 billion 2001 $11.2 billion -2002 2003 $12.4 billion $15.2 billion Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Congratulations Graduating University Daily Kansan Addie Staff! We'll miss you! THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8.2005 SES NEWS THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 5A rers for controlention Targeted CONTINUED FROM PAGE AA them hand out samples. Smoking is also a goal of the companies' marketing techniques, Choi said. Handing out free smokes and merchandise can result in the increased consumption of cigarettes. Also, cigarette companies offer incentives for more packs of cigarettes consumed, giving them points that can be redeemed for merchandise. "It really hinders the success of those trying to quit," he said. Megan Wesley, Hutchinson senior, has been smoking since she was 15. The weekly coupons she gets from Camel cigarettes help her cut the costs because she spends about $20 a week on cigarettes, she said. She started receiving the coupons after exchanging her driver's license information for free cigarettes in the Granada. Representatives who hand out the freebies and collect direct marketing information in Lawrence bars appear to be college-aged, but declined to give their names. They also declined to comment on the details or the ethics of their marketing techniques. The young man at the Granada said his contract prohibited him from speaking to the press. Both Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds declined to respond to questions from the University Daily Kansan, pointing out that the settlement agreement prevented them from talking to publications that cater to customers under 21 years of age. One part of the settlement agreement forced tobacco companies to spend a certain amount on anti-tobacco advertising. Those ads, including the truth.com ads, are broadcast on both the radio and television. But Linda Keller, director of the American Lung Association's Kansas chapter, said those ads were ineffective and merely a façade for a company that is really seeking to get younger smokers hooked for life. She said all credible authorities "agree that tobacco companies have lied to the American public." KU students hooked on tobacco can get information on the negative effects of tobacco from Melissa Smith, manager of the KU Wellness Resource Center in Watkins Memorial Health Center. She said once students become addicted to smoking, their health begins to deteriorate. It starts with shortness of breath, bad breath and yellow teeth. It's followed by the weakening of the immune system, an increased chance of impotency in men and problems with ovulation in women. And those are just the short-term problems. Heart disease, emphysema, and lung cancer are among the long-term effects. Unhealthy habit Health problems are usually a college student's first clue that smoking is not all that it's cracked up to be, Smith said. But by then, quitting isn't always the easiest thing to do. That's when Student Health Services steps in. During every appointment at Watkins, Smith said, the doctor asks the patient if he or she is a smoker. If the answer is yes, then the doctor hands over a pamphlet on the free smoking cessation clinics that Watkins offers. "It is the single most important thing you can do for your health," Smith said about quitting. Social smoking, skepticism Students often think they can avoid long-term health effects if they only smoke cigarettes occasionally in social situations, such as at bars. That's the attitude that makes them even more susceptible to becoming addicted, said James Grobe, assistant professor of psychology, who worked on the KU study with Choi. Grobe himself started smoking socially in college, never thinking he would get addicted. But over time, his "sometimes" habit developed into a morning, afternoon and evening necessity. Grobe quit smoking when he left college. Tobacco advertisements purposefully relate tobacco use and drinking to imply that a person needs both to have a good time, Choi said. This makes students think they will not get addicted and that social smoking is harmless. College students who smoke once or twice a month, or only when they drink, usually don't identify themselves as smokers, Grobe said. But the odds of relapse, or wanting another cigarette, increases greatly with each smoke. After one cigarette, a person is 70 percent more likely to smoke another. The second one is 90 percent more likely to lead to a third, Grobe said. Won Choi agreed that no one is safe smoking a few cigarettes. "Once they realize the harmful effects, they are already addicted," he said. "There is no one way to get hooked." Joel Kelly said he started smoking to alleviate stress. But he also likes the way cigarettes go with alcohol. He said smoking a Camel cigarette with a drink enhances his pleasure. He estimates that he spends $30 a month on cigarettes, which is more than a pack a week. And even though Kelly's family and friends worry about him smoking, Kelly said he was in no way a real smoker. "I could quit any time," he said. CAMEL PLEASURE FOR BURN CUMULUS ELEMENT'S MARKETS CPPMM Grande Carrière Carlo Weissheim Gaby Souza/KANSAN - Edited by Nate Karlin Adults who Smoke Percentages 1998 2000 2001 2002 2003 Adults 18+ Adults 18-24 The percentage of adults who between the ages of 18 and 24 who smoke on a regular basis is considerably more than the percentage of all adults who smoke. Ken Stoner, director of Student Housing, said housing staff evacuate students quickly even when it's cold. He said the goal is to get everyone out in a couple of minutes. People use space heaters and light fireplaces, Stoner said, and this could lead to real fires. So even though it may be snowing, getting out is top priority. Cold "They may be a little bit more disgruntled in the cold." Stoner said, "but they still get out quickly." Stoner said K.K. Ammi is 50 feet away and that students wait there instead of standing in the cold. He said it is important to respond to fire alarms even when weather is bad, because fires often occur in cold weather. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A The director of Margaret Amini reminded residents of this while they waited for their hall to clear out. She stressed that even though the hall had been having false alarms, being in the cold is much better than being in a fire. Even if, like Evans, a person is wearing flip-flops and it's snowing. Edited by Erin Wisdom Mirecki CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A State Sen. Karin Brownlee (R-Olathe), who met with Chancellor Robert Hemenway in Topeka about Mirecki's class before it was canceled, said, "My goal was not to see him resign or anything like that. My goal was to assure that, should the course be taught, it be taught will all perspectives fairly represented in the classroom." Brownlee added, "The issue became quite a firestorm." Mirecki declined to comment. Mirecki hasn't been around the office much, but this hasn't stopped reporters from roaming Smith Hall searching for him "I'm not talking to any media anymore," he said. "They call every 15 minutes." On Monday, Mirecki called the controversy an "unwelcome hurricane," citing the more than 2,000 e-mails he received in the last couple of weeks. He said the "vast majority" of the messages were supportive. Mirecki's voice mail in his Smith Hall office has been full for days. and anyone else willing to talk, said Margaret Rausch, assistant professor of religious studies, whose office sits directly below Mirecki's. Dennis Dailey, professor emeritus of the School of Social Welfare, said it's not easy being in the middle of a public controversy. Dailey speaks from experience. In 2003, State Sen. Susan Wagle (R-Wichita), accused Dailey on the Senate floor of promoting pedophilia and showing pornographic videotapes in class, among other things, in his human sexuality class. The University of Kansas investigated the class found her accusations to be unfounded. Dailey said he was frightened for his family when he received eight to 10 anonymous death threats during his ordeal. "I wasn't scared by the person who made all the fuss in the Legislature," he said. "I was scared of wackos who might strike out against me. I'm just thankful nothing happened." He said he was alarmed by Mirecki's alleged beating. "It's just a very frightening business that people would turn to violence in this situation," he said. Rausch said she last saw Mirecki at the religious studies department's monthly faculty meeting on Monday and noticed "big swollen spots" on his face. "It transformed his face," she said. Jesse Plous, New York senior, and Tiffany Jeffers, Shawnee senior, are enrolled in Mirecki's Dead Sea Scrolls class. They said they didn't notice bruises or scratches when they met for class at 12:30 p.m. Monday. Lindsay Mayer, Holbrook, Ariz., junior, another student in the class, said she might have seen a small bruise on the side of his face, but said injuries weren't extremely noticeable. Mirecki didn't show up for class on Wednesday. The students said Mirecki had never mentioned the controversy in class. it's a good class, it really is," said Plous. "It's too bad he's been steeped in controversy. I hope it pans out for the guy." - Edited by Katie Lohrenz LAWRENCE AUTOMOBILE DANNOSTICS INC. Domestic & Foreign Complete Car Care 842-8665 2858 Four Wheel Dr. Red Lyon Tavern 944 Mass.832-8228 Red Lion Towers What you need, plus didn't know you needed Jaybrowk Bookstore ...at the hill kansan.com L.2 The online index of the University of Calgary Kansan Not getting hit on enough? 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Solutions D I D O B A R B M O T O R E O A R I A E M U R O A N Z I P W E B A N N A A D O U L N A O V A F E M E A R N E R F R A M E D B L U E R I T A L Y L L O W A F A R A L S O E N D G V M S N E A T 22 Border 24 "Love Story" author Segal 25 Recede 26 Stout cousin 27 Skedaddle 29 West of Hollywood 30 Shade provider 31 John of "Touched by an Angel" 35 Inform 36 Nonfunctioning escalator? 39 Big wind 40 PC picture 41 Lascivious 43 Holland export 45 Shoe part 46 Passport endorsement 47 Machinate 49 Cosmo or GQ ACHOSS 1 Eat and run? 5 Blond shade 8 Thor's father 12 Lotion additive 13 Shellgame need 14 50% (Pref.) 15 Night light? 16 Frivolous one of song 17 Trojan War hero 18 Senility 20 Links warning 22 Attacks from concealment 26 Cries loudly 29 Pick a target 30 Spigot 31 Reed instrument 32 Pismire 33 Waiter's handout 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 | | | | | 13 | | | | 14 | | 15 | | | | 16 | | | | 17 | | 18 | | | | 19 | | | 20 | | | | | | 21 | 22 | | 23 | 24 | | | | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | 25 | 26 | 27 | | | 28 | | | 29 | 30 | 31 | | 32 | | | | | | 33 | | | | | | 34 | | | | 35 | 36 | | | | | | | | 37 | | | 38 | | | | | | | | 37 | | | 38 | | | | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | 39 40 41 | | | 42 43 | | 44 45 46 47 | 48 | | | 49 | | 50 | | 51 | | | 52 | | 53 | | 54 | | | 55 | | 56 | | | 53 Optimistic 54 Navy rank (Abbr.) 55 "Pretty Woman" actor 34 Non-extremist (Abbr.) 35 Hostel 36 Relin-quished 37 The minors, in baseball 40 Actress Celeste 41 Showing skill 45 “— go bragh! 47 One who gives a hoot? 49 “Casablanca” heroine 50 Ready for picking 51 Zilch 52 Requirement BOL LT AS H OD I N A L O E PEA H E M I N E O N S A L A J A X D O T A G E F O R E B U S H W H A C K S B A W L S A I M T A P O B O E A N T M N E U M O R I N N C E D E D B U S H L E A G U L H O L M A R T F U L I O N W I L L S A R I P E N I L N E E R O S Y E N S G E R E 10 “— Little Teapot” 11 Put the kibosh on 19 Astronaut Grissom 21 Resistance unit 23 Barbera's animation partner 24 Welles's role 25 Tater 26 Failure 27 “— ben Adhem” 28 Puts on a pedestal 32 Wind-flower 33 Session 35 Under the weather 36 Scoundrel 38 Bobby Goldsboro tearjerker 39 Irritates 42 Take off 43 Addict 44 Put cargo on 45 Blunder 46 Carnival city 48 Triumph Solution time: 25 mins. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 | | | | 13 | | | 14 | | | | 15 | | | | 16 | | | 17 | | | | 18 | | | | 19 | | 20 | 21 | | | | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | | | | 22 | | 23 | | | | 24 | 25 | 26 27 28 | | | | 29 | | | 30 | | | 31 | | | | 32 | | 33 | | | | 34 | | | 35 | | 36 | | | | | 37 | | | 38 | | 39 | | | | | | | 40 | | | 41 | | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 46 | | | | 47 48 | | 49 | | | | 50 | | | | 51 | | 52 | | | | 53 | | | | 54 | | 55 | | | | 41 Bottom line DOWN 1 Some choristers 2 Sought damages 3 Cat variety 4 New York city 5 Coconut meat 6 Siamese 7 Greek colonnade 8 Let in 9 Crafty 10 “This tastes awful!” 26 Flex 27 Easter treasure 28 "Common Sense" pam- phleteer 30 Tire- pressure abbr. 33 Fairy- tale villain 36 Go sight- seeing 37 Refuge 38 Catapult missile 39 Legal docu- ment 40 — glance Solution time: 21 mins. 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Four F-15s flown by the Hawaii Air National Guard roared above the bay, including one jet that veered off from the group to symbolize the 2,390 people killed. The USS Chaffee passed by the sunken USS Arizona, where more than 900 sailors remained entombed. The crowd, which included about 20 Pearl Harbor survivors, observed a moment of silence at 7:55 a.m. — the exact time the surprise attack began in 1941. "Dec. 7,1941,was not just a day of infamy. In many ways it was a day of discovery for America and for the world. It changed us, it hurt us, it made us stronger as did Sept. 11," said Adm. Michael G. Mullen, the Navy's most senior sailor. "It did not defeat us. That is why we return here, why we will always return. And that is why we must never forget the events and sacrifices of that terrible day." Mullen said. Survivors later laid wreaths in honor of ships that were destroyed. Trumpeters from the Pacific Fleet Band played taps. The crowd gathered on a grassy area outside the visitors' center from which tourists took boats to the Arizona Memorial, erected over the sunken battleship. The attack on Pearl Harbor and other military bases on Oahu lasted two hours, leaving 21 U.S. ships heavily damaged and 323 aircraft damaged or destroyed. Gilbert Meyer was 18 and asleep aboard the USS Utah when a torpedo slammed into his ship. A second torpedo jolted him wide awake and rolled the Utah over, forcing the crew to scramble out. "The Japanese planes came over and the bullets starting hitting the hull, and it made such a noise I knew I had to get the hell out," said Meyer, now 82. "Battleship row was all smoke." ... You just can't describe the chaos that existed that day." Today the USS Utah — still holding the bodies of 58 soldiers — sits half-submerged on the other side of Pearl Harbor from the USS Arizona. Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, D-Hawaii, told the crowd that America "stood up and changed the course of history for mankind" HARBOR SURVIV founded 1958 PEARL ASIA Bob Jordan/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Pearl Harbor survivor Walter Youder, 83, holds a flag during a ceremony commemorating the 64th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Wednesday, Dec. 7, days at Veterans Memorial Island in Vero Beach, Fla. after the attack. "It was a day when weaker souls would have surrendered. Out of the ashes and oil, out of the waters came a resilience, lessons of determination, an unwavering spirit of the American people," Inouye said. Inouye was 17 when he saw Japanese planes drop bombs on Oahu. He later enlisted in the Army, losing his right arm fighting in Italy with the heavily decorated 442nd Regimental Combat Team. FLIGHT SAFETY AA C. M. Guerrero/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Passengers from American Airlines flight 924 leave the plane after arriving at Miami International Airport from Colombia on Wednesday in Miami. Passenger shot, killed by air marshal BY JOHN PAIN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI — An agitated passenger who claimed to have a bomb in his backpack was shot and killed by a federal air marshal Wednesday after he bolted frantically from a jetliner that was about to take off, officials said. No bomb was found. The man, identified as Rigoberto Alpizar, a 44-year-old U.S. citizen, was gunned down on a jetway just before the American Airlines plane was about to leave for Orlando, near his home in Maitland. It was the first time since the Sept. 11 attacks that an air marshal had shot at anyone. Homeland Security Department spokesman Brian Doyle said. According to a witness, the man frantically ran down the aisle of the Boeing 757, flailing his arms, while his wife tried to explain that he was mentally ill and had not taken his medication. The passenger indicated there was a bomb in his bag and was confronted by air marshals but ran off the aircraft, Doyle said. The marshals went after him and ordered him to get down on the ground, but he did not comply and was shot when he apparently reached into the bag, Doyle said. The plane, Flight 924, had arrived in Miami from Medellin, Colombia, just after noon, and the shooting occurred shortly after 2 p.m. as the plane was about to take off for Orlando with the man and 119 other passengers and crew, American spokesman Tim Wagner said. Alpizar had arrived in Miami earlier in the day from Ecuador, authorities said. After the shooting, investigators spread passengers' bags on the tarmac and let dogs sniff them for explosives, and bomb squad members blew up at least two bags. No bomb was found, said James E. Bauer, in charge of the Federal Air Marshals field office in Miami. He said there was no suspected connection to terrorists. The concourse, where the shooting took place was shut down for a half-hour. But the rest of the airport continued operating, officials said. 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The Swords of Righteousness Brigade released a new video Wednesday showing Kember and Fox, their hands chained and their eyes taped shut. A senior Iraqi official said Wednesday that "intelligence and security efforts" were under way to win the release of Western hostages, while kidnappers reportedly extended a deadline for the threatened killing of the four captive peace activists. BY CHRIS TOMLINSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD, Iraq — Kidnappers extended a deadline until Saturday in their threat to kill four captive peace activists and posted a video of two of the hostages wearing robes and shackled with chains. The original deadline set by the group calling itself the Swords of Righteousness was Thursday. The extension was announced in a statement that accompanied Wednesday's video, according to Al-Jazeera and IntelCenter, a government contractor that does support work for the U.S. intelligence community. Norman Kember, 74, of London, Tom Fox, 54, of Clear Brook, Va., and the Canadians James Loney, 41, and Harmeet Singh Sooden, 32, were taken hostage in Baghdad two weeks ago. They were working for the Christian Peacemaker Teams, an anti-war group, and were among seven Westerners who have been abducted in Iraq since Nov. 26. The other hostages were an American, a German and a Frenchman. The other American in captivity was shown Tuesday on a separate insurgent video broadcast on Al-jazeera. On Wednesday, his brother in the United States identified the captive as Ronald Schulz, 40, an industrial electrician from Alaska. "I don't want to get my brother killed." Ed Schulz said. "But the fact that he has blond hair and blue eyes might get him killed." The brief videotape of the Christian peace activists transmitted Wednesday by Al-Jazeera did not show faces of the two robed and shackled figures. Still photos provided by IntelCenter, however, showed the two were Fox and Kember. The two other hostages were not shown Fox and Kember were blindfolded, and the stills appeared to have been made from a more complete version of the video that Al-Jazeera aired. Unlike the civilian clothing they were wearing in two earlier videos, this time the hostages were wearing orange jumpsuits. In the tape, the two captives made statements condemning the U.S. and British presence in Iraq. Both men were instructed to give their statements twice, which they did without reading a text because they were blindfolded, according to IntelCenter. As a result, each man's second statement was slightly different from his first. "I'd like to offer my plea to the people of America, not the government of America, a plea for my release from captivity and also a plea for a release from captivity of all the people of Iraq who are also suffering the same fate," Fox said in the transcript. "And that is the occupation of the American troops and the British troops which has brought me to this condition and has brought the Iraqi people to the condition they're in." In his statement, Kember appealed to British Prime Minister Tony Blair. "I ask Mr. Blair, the British government and the British people to work both for my release and for the release of the Iraqi people from oppression." A senior Iraqi official said Wednesday that "intelligence and security efforts" were under way to win the release of the Western hostages, Maj. Gen. Hussein Ali Kamal, deputy interior minister for intelligence, said efforts were "aiming and hoping for the release of those people who came to Iraq to provide humanitarian services." British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said his government would not meet the kidnappers demands. Religious and political leaders abroad — including the Rev. Jesse Jackson and former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder — called for the hostages' release. "It's a desperate situation for Mr. Kember and the fellow hostages and their families. We've had no contact (with the kidnappers) but we are obviously aware of their so-called demands." WORLD changements climatiques Adrian Wvld/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Canada's Prime Minister Paul Martin gestures as he speaks during a news conference at the United Nations Climate Change conference in Montreal on Wednesday. U.S. pressured on carbon emissions BY CHARLES J. HANLEY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Arctic natives, meanwhile, announced they had filed an international human-rights complaint against the United States, to try to pressure Washington to cap the "greenhouse gases" they blame for the melting of the glaciers in their ice homelands. "It is our belief that progress cannot be made through these formalized discussions," U.S. delegation head Paula Dobriansky told reporters as a two-week U.N. climate conference came to an end, involving more than 180 nations. Bangladesh Ambassador Rafiq Ahmed Khan, whose lowlying land faces future flooding from seas rising with global warming, spoke on behalf of the poorest nations. MONTREAL — The United States on Wednesday rejected a Canadian bid to draw Washington into future global talks on climate change, a new round that would extend mandatory cutbacks in carbon emissions. "Only strong political will can show the way," he told delegates. "These impacts are felt mostly by the people who are poor and most vulnerable." It was the first U.N. climate conference since the Kyoto Protocol took effect last February, requiring 35 industrialized countries to curb emissions of carbon dioxide other gases. Among major developed nations, only the United States and Australia rejected that agreement, Japan, and designed to produce an average 5 percent reduction of emissions below 1990 levels by 2012. Under the protocol, talks must now begin on emissions controls after 2012, and Canadian Environment Minister Stephane Dion, looking for a compromise route forward, this week proposed a plan for "discussions to explore and analyze approaches for long-term cooperative action to address climate change," with a deadline for agreement by 2008. "Surely we realize by now that a greater cost will be exacted if we lack the will or tenacity to change," he said to loud applause. 10 Attention all Tradition Keepers! FREE FINALS DINNER for Tradition Keepers members Monday, Dec. 12 Adams Alumni Center Stop by anytime between 5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. We'll dish up an awesome gourmet buffet that is sure to cure your finals woes! This event is co-sponsored by Sports Illustrated On Campus. Relax with a free shoulder massage, win prizes, and enjoy many other FREE perks! Please rsvp to traditionkeepers@kualumni.org by Dec. 8th. Stop by the Adams Alumni Center if you would like to become a Tradition Keeper member – Finals Dinner is just one of the many benefits of student membership in the Kansas Alumni Association. Rock Chalk and good luck on finals! ALUMNI ASSOCIATION The University of Kansas 1266 Oread Avenue • 864-4760 • www.kualumni.org Attention all Tradition Keepers! FREE FINALS DINNER for Tradition Keepers members Monday, Dec. 12 Adams Alumni Center Stop by anytime between 5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. We'll dish up an awesome gourmet buffet that is sure to cure your finals woes! This event is co-sponsored by Sports Illustrated On Campus. Relax with a free shoulder massage, win prizes, and enjoy many other FREE perks! Please rsvp to traditionkeepers@kualumni.org by Dec. 8th. Stop by the Adams Alumni Center if you would like to become a Tradition Keeper member – Finals Dinner is just one of the many benefits of student membership in the Kansas Alumni Association. Rock Chalk and good luck on finals! ALUMNI ASSOCIATION The University of Kansas 1266 Oread Avenue • 864-4760 • www.kualumni.org MEMO From: Bill Lumbergh To: Initech employees RE: Team-building exercise Where: Spencer Museum of Art When: Thursday, December 8 6 PM social hour 7 PM instructional video As you know, it's the end of the semester and we're going to need to go ahead and move you downstairs into Storage B. But first, we're going to all get together as a group and enjoy some fine soda pop, popcorn and candy, and watch this instructional video by Mike Judge called “Office Space.” So if you all could show up and join us, that would be terrific, Q.K.? Oh, and next Friday is Hawaiian shirt day so, you know, if you want to go ahead and wear a Hawaiian shirt and jeans. P.S.: I'm still waiting for T.P.S. reports from some of you. I'd like those on my desk, with cover sheets, A.S.A.P., O.K.? Great. *This memo—and the Office Space Student Night—brought to you by the Spencer Student Advisory Board. --- THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8. 2005 2005 CLASSIFIEDS THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 9A The following table shows the results of a survey on the opinions of students about the use of technology in their studies. ts KANSANCLASSIFIEDS TED PRESS a news intreal on ns old deli are felt who are le." i, talks missions and Ca- Minister ag for a card, this for "dis- analyze m coop- climate climate for by now be exact tenacity loud ap- climate Kyoto f Brutu- trilized sions of uses. opposed na- d States that designed percent s below STUFF ROOMMATE SURLEASE JOBS LOST & FOUND PHONE 785.864.4358 TICKETS SERVICES CHILD CARE TRAVEL TRAVEL SPRING BREAKERS Book Early & Sawel Lowest Prices! Free Meals & Parties by 11/07/05, Book 15 and Receive 2 Free Trips! Visit www.sun- splahtours.com Call 1-860-426-7710 JOBS ** #1 Spring Break Website! Low prices guaranteed. Book 11 people, get 12th trip free Group discounts for 6 months. SpringBreakDiscounts.com or www.LeisureTours.com or 800-838-8202 College Students. We pay up to $75 per survey. Visit http://www.GetPaidToThink.com. BARTENDING! $300/day potential. No experience nec Training Provided 800-965-6206 ext 10 End Your Day With a Smile! End Your Day With a Smile! Raintreet MoriSchool is looking for young, energetic and nurturing people to work with children from 3:15-5:30 pm Monday-Friday. Salary $8.75 per hour. Call 843-6800. Need respondable babystarter for 2 kids. Tues & Thurs (7:30 am-11:15) With option of Mon/Wed/Fri (7:30 am-9am).Starting in January. Call 832-0998. Preschool Substitutes Part-time Assistant teachers needed. 2:30-6 or 3:00-6 Mon-Fri. For information 749-0295 or pick up application at Kindercare 2337 Crestine Drive. Part-time/weekend/semester break position available at children's museum in Shawnee, KS, Call 913-268-4176. Varied hrs, often need 3-5:30 pm. Prefer experience & child-related courses. Sunshine Acres. B42-2,2223. www.sacres.org Get Paid To Drive a Brand New Car! Now paying drivers $800-$2000 a month. Pick up your free car key today. www.freecarkey.com Restaurant and banquet servers day and evening shifts available. Apply in person Tuesday-Saturday. Lake Quivira Country Club. 913-631-4821 Seeking loving caregiver for a 2 and 5 year old. Flexible hours. Interests in education preferred. Call 785-979-3741. 785. 864.5261 School age teacher needed for an early education program, 3-6 M-F for qualification. 785-841-2185, 205 N. Michigan 505 SEMESTER BREAK WORK $17.25 base-appt. 1-6 week work pro- gram, fx sched, sales/svc, all ages 18+ conditions apply. Call Now! St. Louis: 314-997-7873 KC: 616-355-1871 KC West: 913-422-1393 Wichita: 316-267-2083 Topeka: 786-265-2605 JOBS Safe Ride is seeking part-time drivers. Must be 21 years old, clean driving record, Flex hrs. $ 6.45/hr. Apply in person at Lawrence Bus Co. 841 Pennsylvania. The University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning Div. of Adult Studies has a student hourly position opening for an Ecobehavioral Assessment Coder/Videographer. For requirements and to apply please visit: http://jobs.ku.edu. EOE/AA Employer Why pay to exercise? When you can get an aerobic workout cleaning our school! Flexible late afternoon or evening hours. STUFF 2-4 hours/day 5 days/week. $9.25/hr. Call Rainforest Montesson School 843-6800. Red Euro Sports Big Chief scooter. New in March 2005. Just tuned up & new battery. $7500. 785-979-9245. Pool table for sale. Great shape, recently refelt. Asking $500. Call Garrett at 785-760-1586. TICKETS KU Basketball Tickets! CK Chiefs & Arena Football! All Concerts 1st 10 rows, Lawrence 1216 E. 23rd Street, 856-5400 or Oak Park Mall 913-541-8100. ACE SPORTS & TICKETS MTC TICKETS BUY AND SELL! kbbi & Chels sing & and season tickets. Call 866 6549 and buy. Room for rent in Jeff COI Fully furnished, all utilities paid, except elect. KU Bus Route. $290/mo. Call 785-218-4723. 1-2 BR 1 GA apartments-pool, exercise facility on, KU bus route. Large floor plan in great close location. $300 off special Cedling Eddinghams Apartments FOR RENT Live on Mass, Street! 2 BR, 2 BA beautiful with skylights, WD accessible, $750/mo + call. Tail 785-766-3178 2BR 2BA TOWNHOMES Attached garage vaulted ceilings private courtyard wood burning fireplace $99 deposit/person call for details 842-3280 ABS Immediate job openings in the following locations Kansas City Metro, Lawrence, Manhattan Lincoln NE, Omaha MA Alternative Business Systems, a Konica-Minolta company, focuses on creating partnerships. We are searching for Sales Consultants who will listen carefully to Prospective clients as they develop and identify specific needs for business solutions. ABS KONICA MINOLTA --- Searching for a self-starter that would like to accelerate their career and earning potential. Send resume to: jrush@abs-llc.com or fax to: 913.438.4227 FOR RENT 1 BR open now at Briarstone. Get comfortable before winter Sunny apt, in great location near campus at 1000 Emery Rd. 700 sq. feet with patio, DW, miniblinds, walk-in closet. $500 per mo. No pets. 785-760-4788 or Briarstone@earthlink.net. Newly remodeled 1, 2, 3 BR available immediately. Rent specials 841-7849. 1 BR in 4BR apt. avail. asap. Call 913-908-1001 for more information. $258/mo. No pets please. 1, 2 & 3 BR apartments. West side location with wonderful park-like setting., pool, exercise facility., $300 off special! Call Quali Creek Apartments 785-843-4300 2BR house Pets OK avail Jan 1st. Close to campus WD included $650/month. Call Mike (785)393-0402 1. BR in 3 BR townhouse, 2.5 BA. WAD, on gau KU bus route. Seekeing female roommate avail. Dec. 10. DecJan free rent! $275/mo. 785-317-1055. 2 BR large, clean, W/D, CA, bus route, off street parking, pets OK, $550/mo. 785-550-7325 2 BR, 2 BA, 2 car garage, FP All appliances incl., lawn & snow removal. Quiet West Lawrence neighborhood. $750/mo until 8/105. 749-4910 or 979-3550. 4700 Hearthside Dr. REGENTS COURT APARTMENTS 19" & MASSACHUSETTS (785) 749-0445 - Spacious 3 & 4 Bedroom Units - Available Now *Washer/Dryer Included *Close to Downtown and Shopping *Ask about our SPECIALS Email: regents@mastercraftcorp.com 28R house with garage, W/D, range, refrigerator, A/C. 1305 W. 21st Street, $575/mo. Call 843-2310. 2 BR, 2 BA @ Tuckaway Apts. W/D, FP, cable TV in room. 9139 & clean. Please contact Emma @ 913-688-6098. FOR RENT www.tuckawaymgmt.com CLASSIFIEDS@KANSAN.COM 3 Bedroom South Pointe APARTMENTS 1420 Kentucky-Close to Campus 3 BR House; 2 full BA; Hrdwd flrs., CA & Heat; Internet & Cable Ready; Fenced Yard; W/d incl;/Pets Consid. $110/mo. + dep. 550-3018/8410-8505/7621-521 CHEAPI 2BR duplex hrdwd firs., new paint, close to campus, $400/mo. No pets. 838-8244 26th & Iowa (785) 843-6446 Excellent location. 1104 Tennessee. Near town/KU: 2B apt in tour-plex. CA No Pets. $480, Jan 1. 842-4242 Apartments Available (785) 841-3339 Hutton Farms NOW LEASING! Starting at $649 VILLAGE SQUARE 9th & Avalon 2 BR - 1 BA small net APP $500-545 CALL FOR SPECIALS! 842-3040 MUSEUM OF HISTORY FOX RUN HANOVER PLACE 200 Hanover Place Studio, 1 BR Available 12/15 or 1/12 Water Paid • Small Pet OK apartments ACCESS TO OTHERS CALL FOR SPECIALS! 841-1212 Egg Donors Needed $99 Deposit Healthy women between the ages of 21-32 are needed to help couples become families. 4500 Overland Dr. thefoxrun.com Short Term Leases Available Call for Specials Call Midwest Reproductive Center at (913) 780-4300 for more information. Generous compensation provided. HIGHPOINTE $99 Deposit Foree On KU Bus Route Free DVD Rental $99 Deposit/Person Free Continental Breakfast 2001 W. 6th St. 841-8468 www.firstmanagementinc.com FOR RENT 2 BR, 2 BA house in Prairie Meadows. 2 car garage, D/W, W/D. $900 per month plus usl. Avail. January through July. Call 505-662-7087. 38R duplex 2.5 BA, New, W/D hookups, 2 car garage. All appliances & lawn care provided. Security and cable available. No pets. 727 Michigan. No pets. $925/mo, with 1/2 off month's rent Call 766-7730. 3 BR duplex, $695/mo. 2 BR townhome, $675/mo. 2BR w/den, $595/mo. Please call 331-7821. 3 BR, 2 BA $725/mo. $99 dep. Huge discount. Avail. asap. 1 car garage, fenced, pet ok. SW loc. Wilac 979-9949. 3 BR, 2 BA Apt. FOR RENT, near campus, 900/mo, no pets, W/D, appliances, clean, balcony, fresh paint, 913-220-5235. 3 BR, 1.5 BA, $969/mo, 1537 New Hampshire. Call Lia 913-271-3520 or Lois 785-1417-804. 4 BR, 2BA Townhome 515 Eldridge, DW, W/D, 2 car gar. 4 Roommates allowed. $95/mo. Call Kate 814-2400 ext. 30 ROOMMATE/SUBLEASE 1 BR avail. in 3 BR duplex. W/D. $290/mo. Located at 27th & Iowa. Call 913-515-5349. 3 BR apt. seeking female roommate for spring semester. $415 inc. utility. Own BR and walk-in closet. 216-407-3081 1 BR in 3 BR house. 1 BA. W/D. DSL. Spring lease $315/mo plus 1/3 utilities. 785-312-9568. Fully furnished 1 BR in 4 BR. Own bathroom, 1/4 unit. Call 847-721-3560. 1 BR apt. avail, for sublease. Chamberlin Courts on Ohio. Off street parking, pets OK, D/W. 10 min. walk from campus. $450/mo. + call. Civil 214-924-6161. NAISMITH SUBLEASE Available spring semester. Includes meals, maid service, exercise facility, pool, cable internet & laundry facilities at the price. 877-432-7603. sh99@aoi.com 3 BR, 2 BA condo near campus. W/D, $300/mo. utilities paid. 550-4544 3 BR, 2 BA house seeking male roommate. DW, WD $375/mo, util. included. Fully furnished. Call Anthony 858-3783 1 BR apt. avail to sublease mid-Dec. W/D, pool, workout facility, pets welcome. Call 630-452-9052 1 BR (beautiful, historic, funky) avail. in 2 BR home. 923 Tennessee. Fully furnished. Six month sublease avail now! Rent free until Feb! $350/mo plus 1/2 unit. Price negotiable. Call 785-393-2044 or 785-393-4388. 3 BR seeking Male Christian Roommate. WD, DW, $260/mo. + 1/3 utl. Partially furnished. Call 913-698-0854. 1 BR at Highpoint! Reduced rent ($595) with WD, fireplace, patio, pool, work-out room, pets welcome! Call 691-5204. 1 BR in 4 BR furnished apt. $257/mo plus elect. Free cable, water, & Internet. Avail. immediately! Contact 848-391-5599. Female roommate needed, prefer grad student. Quiet, non-drinker/smoker. Apartment on city bus line. 785-749-1191. ual orientation, nationality or disability. Further, the Kansan will not knowingly accept advertising that is in violation of University of Kansas regulation or law. $200-300, Includes all its lulls. free laundry, phone, fast Internet. Housing coop is looking for cooperative-minded members. 841-0448 (lease msg), 1406 Tennessee. Seeking responsible person to share part of East Lawrence home. 1 rooms avail. $350/mo. DSL Internet & util. included. No smoking. 841-2829. Classified Policy: The Kansan will not knowingly accept any advertisement for housing or employment that discriminates against any person or group of persons based on race, sex, age, color, creed, religion, sex- ROOMMATE/SUBLEASE Grad student m/ns seeking roommate at Harvard Square Apts. 2BR, 1BA $262/mo. Close to campus. 620-875-1051. Apt. sublease avail, at The Reserve 31 st & Iowa, fully furn. Call John 913-709-6316 for tour or questions. 1 BR at Tuckaway. reduced rent includes WD, alarm, cable, pets OK. Ask about Apt. P12. Cail 785-839-858 1 BR in 4-person apt, w/private bath. All util. are paid except 1/4 electricity. Avail. at Jeff CO Dec. 14. Call 913-280-3201. Studio Sublease Avail. 12/23 to 7/31. $380/mo plus elec. Call 785-749-9683 Naismith dorm room available for spring semester. Meals, exercise facility, maid service, pool, and laundry facilities included. Call 847-691-1453. 1 BR avail in 2 BR apartment. Roommate needed. 2311 Lowell off of Clinton Pkwy. $375/mo. Pets welcome. 913-568-9975. Sublease a room for Spring Semester! Walk-in closet, free internet, $285/mo. 785-766-3536 1 BR avail, in 3 BR duplex beginning in January, $375/mo plus util. Near Peterson & Kasold, Call 785-691-7938 or email Travis at wwwyomba@ku.edu. 2 months free rent w sublease 1 BR in 4 BR apt. private BA, fully furn. WF $339/mo. On KU bus route. Call 816-261-5424 Available for sublease. Naismith Hall, Includes unlimited meals, high-speed internet, cable, pool, weight room, laundry facilities, and more. Call 818-304-9162. 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Our readers are hereby informed that all jobs and housing advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. 10A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN ENTERTAINMENT PEOPLE DAMAGED CIRCUS Lohan fails to show for talk show appearance The main guy couldn't make it so he wanted me to tell everyone that it's been a fun semester and that well be coming back next semester. And he wanted me to give you this... NEWYORK - Even in absence, Lindsay Lohan makes news. The main guy couldn't make it so he wanted me to tell everyone that it's been a fun semester and that well be coming back next semester. And he wanted me to give you this... He waves goodbye with one finger. The main guy couldn't make it so he wanted me to tell everyone that it's been a fun semester and that well be coming back next semester. And he wanted me to give you this... He waves goodbye with one finger... PENGUINS Greg Griesenauer/KANSAN I'M I'M NOT BUMB... SANDY LET'S LIVE IN MY WORKHOUSE, WHICH ONE I WELLY PUT ON A MAP OF MY SCHOOL. THY ALL LOOK THE SAME HEY, COULD YOU BE TRIED TO MY TABLE? SOMEWHAT I WILLE BE YOURS I'M...I'M NOT BUMB... THY ALL LOOK THE SAME Penquine I'M, I'M NOT MAKE... DON'T I'M LAST GAME, WHICH ONE IS BETWEEN YOU AND ME? I'LL LUCK A WAY OR NOT MAYS? THEN I'LL LOOK THE GAME TOM... I AM NOT BARK. SOMETIMES I LATE AND MY TEENAGE IS DOING WRITER. IS DON'T WANT TO MAKE A GLASS ON MY HEATER? THEY ALL LOOK THE GAME HOY, COULD YOU TAKE THIS TO MY TABLE... GONE... WHAT TABLE IS YOURS? TOM... I AM NOT BARK. THEY ALL LOOK THE GAME Penquine HAY, COULD YOU TAKEN THE TIME TO MY TALK? GUARD... WHAT'S TALKING IN YOURS? ▼ FANCY COMIX The teen starlet missed a scheduled appearance on "Live with Regis and Kelly" Tuesday morning. Though stars frequently change appointments with TV shows, Lohan's no-show was unusual because the live program was informed minutes after showtime. I'M. I'M. I'M... THEY ALL LOOK THE GAME Penbwine Doug Lang/KANSAN HOBO HILARITIES "She has food poisoning," Philin said. "What'd they find out, about (9:05)? ... She tried to make it" YIPE! ORIGIN HOBO HILARITIES 555 555 YIPE! seepers! An angel! END! On air, Regis Philibin announced: "Lindsay Lohan is sick. She's not coming. Well, that's kind of a blow." Lohan apologized to Philbin and co-host Kelly Ripa on syndicated entertainment show "Access Hollywood:" "I know it came across really bad ... I'll make it up to you, I swear!" Jeepers! An angel! END! Andrew Hadle/KANSAN A woman is sitting on a chair in front of a fireplace. There is a table with a lamp and two cups on it. A rabbit is lying on the bed next to the table. "Good night, moon, good night clock, goodnight Michael Jackson" FRESH TIMES - The Associated Press Nicole Ritchie, DJ AM end engagement NEWYORK - Nicole Richie and her fiance, Adam Goldstein, have called off their nine-month engagement. Richie's publicist, Cindy Guangti, confirmed to The Associated Press on Wednesday that the couple had split. She said the breakup had been in the works for several days, but would not give any further details. Richie, co-star of the reality series "The Simple Life", and Goldstein, a professional club DJ who goes by the name DJ AM, had dated for a year before becoming engaged last February. innocent right? I apologise, I am not sure where this comic is going, so this is it. But it's ok. Jackson is - The Associated Press Steven Levy/KANSAN The Stars Show the Kind of Day You'll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult HAPPY BIRTHDAY for HOROSCOPES HAPPY BIRTHDAY for THURSDAY. DECEMBER 8, 2005 Thursday, Dec. 8, 2005: You might often feel tense about your family life. Learn to relax and enjoy the positives. You might be in a different mind-set by the time your next birthday rolls around, ready to start life anew in a brand-new luck cycle. Eliminate problems or issues while you can. Adding to an investment or buying real estate could prove quite lucrative in the long run. If you are single, romance seems to walk through the door. Pick and choose with care. If you are attached, you discover that your relationship will grow with more quiet time together. Truly make your home your castle. PISCES can be annoying. ABIES (March 21-April 19) TAURUS (April 20-May 20) ★★ A roadblock might cause a change in plans. Your gracious ways need to come out. Understanding will take you far -- if you just use it! Smile about what you cannot change. Work on what can be transformed. Tonight: You might want to be invisible. ★★★ Though many of you might want to really get into it with a partner, consider this a no-win situation. GEMINI (Mav 21-June 20) Focus on the positives and what your long-term objectives are. You are a winner with groups and within meetings. Tonight: Go to a ballgame. Ghettil (July 26-June 3) ★★★ Take the lead, even if others give you a lot of flak. You do well with individuals, especially a key person. Co-workers respond positively to your ideas, drive and leadership. Be sensitive to a relationship. Tonight: Make a must-appearance, though don't be surprised by others and what they do. CANCER (June 21-July 22) ***** You will be asked to go beyond the routine to find answers, and answers you will find. Trust your strength and willingness to find the right solution. Dig up an expert or two. Someone really cares. Tonight: Say that you are tired if you are. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) ★★★★ Work with others to achieve more of what you want. Though gregarious and social by nature, you will find that others respond better to your focused individual attention. Someone you are around cares much more than mic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Diffic you realize. Tonight: Make togetherness your theme. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) **** Eventually, you might wonder where matters begin and where they end. Your caring and creativity peak in the next few days. You have a way of charming others. Tonight: Go along with another's plans. ★★★ All work certainly isn't the Libran ideal of the perfect day. However, you receive such positive feedback that ultimately you feel that your efforts are worth it. Keep communication flowing despite an uptight associate or situation. Tonight: Exercise stress away. JULY 10 (Oct. 23 Nov. 21) ★★★★★ Your imagination walks you through a difficulty. It also might have you winning the lottery. If that is the case, be careful just how wild you get. Risks are fine, but a sure-bet debacle isn't. Tonight. In week-end mode a bit early ... why not? SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★ You deal with basics once more. You might express the fact SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) that you are displeased in such a manner as to distance yourself from others. You might have to play kiss-and-make-up with several people as a result. Tonight: Fluff up the pillows with the weekend in mind. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ★★★★★ You dance to the tune of others with ease. Right now, throw off obstacles that might be self-created. If you do, you'll love the end results. Once you break through, everything -- events and people -- fall into place. Tonight: Hang out. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.18) AUGARIUS (Jah. 20-eb. 16) **You might cause yourself a financial problem when you least expect it. See what happens, but be prepared to make your own decisions and not listen to a friend. Tonight: Laughter marks an interesting sharing.** PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) ******* Your personality melts away someone's resistance. You have a lot more going for you than you realize. Let someone express what he or she feels and thinks. Consider your options with care. Tonight: You decide. Others follow. 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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN OPINION THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2005 WWW.KANSAN.COM LEAVE IT TO BEAVER PAGE 11A Student newspapers must have free speech After a year of legal wrangling, current and former students of East Bakersfield High School and members of its student paper, The Kernal, are finally getting what any journalist wants: a good story in print. One might wonder why several months, a lawsuit and the graduation of some staff members might elapse before the publication of quality news. The principal at East Bakersfield banned the articles from publication because of their content — interviews with LGBT students about their experiences, relationships and thoughts on their sexuality. No, the students didn't need the time to find sources or check facts. They needed to fight for their rights. The case brings up a lot of issues, namely that of gay rights in American society. Let's focus instead on why the students wanted the stories printed. Not because they wanted to be rebellious or cause trouble. TY BEAVER opinion@kansan.com As The Kernal's former features editor, Travis Mattias, said, "It wasn't so much about gay rights. The people in the article have a right to have their stories told. We wanted to tell them." While Tinker v. Des Moines was the case that ruled that students had the right to express their political and social views in school, Hazelwood v. Kuhmeier is the precedent for high school journalism cases. It states that student-produced media are not public forums and that "educators do not offend the First Amendment by exercising editorial control over the style and content of student speech in school-sponsored expressive activities, so long as their actions are reasonably related to legitimate pedagogical concerns." And the Bakerfield's principal line of action was in practice before the 1988 decision. In 1974, the findings of a Commission of Inquiry into High School Journalism found that "fear of reprisals and unpleasantness, as well as the lack of a tradition of an independent high school press, remain the basic forces behind self-censorship." One could argue that the censorship of high school journalism isn't a concern because college newspapers and those outside academia are not affected by it. And besides, adolescents need guidance and someone looking out for their safety. But this disregards the risk that any censorship creates; ignorance. If there's any place where knowledge should not be withheld, it's in a school. By censoring The Kernal's articles, the principal is sending the message that the experiences of the students in the article are not of public interest or public use. More importantly, it tells students that they have no right, only the privilege, of expressing their views. Students are graduating from high school with no concept of what their First Amendment rights are. Even their educators are uninformed. According to a survey conducted by the Knight Foundation, only 51 percent of high school students, teachers and faculty believe that newspapers should print material without government permission. Only 25 percent of students believe one can burn the American flag legally and half of those students surveyed believe the government can censor content on the Internet. If future citizens are not taught how to use their rights properly, or are told that they are not entitled to them, how can the country survive? If students don't learn to express themselves or challenge society, no one can learn anything. High school principals should encourage their student journalists to tackle issues that affect their classmates. As the Commission discovered, "where a free, vigorous student press does exist, there is a healthy ferment of ideas and opinions, with no indication of disruption or negative side effects on the educational experience of the school." But what about student safety? Schools often assert that they need to protect their students overrides any need for freedom of expression. But The Kernal's staff asserted that several of the students they interviewed were already open about their sexuality with their classmates. The staff obtained the written permission of the other sources and the sources' parents otherwise. The interviewed students made the conscious choice to express themselves and understood there could be consequences. The staff's lawyer, Christine Sun, said, "The students don't have to choose between free expression and their safety. They have a right to both." Fortunately, the state of California saw the dangers that Hazelwood presented to the free press. In 1992, the legislature passed the Leonard Law that states that school districts "shall not make or enforce any rule subjecting any high school pupil to disciplinary sanctions solely on the basis of conduct that is speech or other communication" that is protected by the First Amendment. With this statute in place, the court saw the principal's actions for what they were: a needless restraint upon an otherwise healthy discourse of ideas. One can only hope that future cases are decided in like fashion and encourage the Supreme Court to revisit the Hazelwood decision so that students can learn to express themselves as the citizens they truly are. ♦ Beaver is a senior in journalism. He is Kansan campus news editor. Free All for Call 864-0500 Free for All callers have 20 seconds to speak about any topic they wish. Kansan editors reserve the right to omit comments Slanderous and obscene statements will not be printed. Phone numbers of all incoming calls are recorded. Instant message the Free for All at *ukfreeoforall*. My wife explained the popped-collar thing. Why in the hell is that even a topic of discussion? Uneducted Bible-thumpers: beating atheists, black people and gay men since 1861 Don't you just love Kansas? What the world needs now, is love, sweet love. It's the only thing that there is just too little of. What the world needs now, is love, sweet love. No, not just for some but for everyone! DK, listen. I do not care if you made that CD or not, drunk girl, your music sucks and I am going to change it, and no amount of drunk-girl whining is going to prevent me from doing so. I wish the sports columnists knew something about sports. I just broke up with my boyfriend to marry my roommate on facebook It's snowing! + So, I just saw a flask in the Urban Outfitters catalog that said "What Wouldn't Jesus Do?" How awesome is that? It is getting pretty bad. I just opened my fridge and the only thing in it was a half empty box of Arm and Hammer baking soda, a mustard packet and a dead cockroach lying on his back with his legs in the air. As for the comment about Kansas football teams, The Chiefs are in Kansas City, Missouri. Nice. Editor's note: Good luck, kids. You're the best. LETTER TO THE EDITOR Condoms not just for AIDS I find it most unfortunate that Corey Judd failed to find purpose in the distribution of condoms recently on Daisy Hill. Perhaps he is unaware of the necessity of a barrier during sexual encounters. Perhaps he, as well as many other Daisy Hill residents, neglect to concern themselves with the pressing health issues at hand. Unprotected sex spreads diseases just like not covering For example, if 1/5 of adults will contract an STD in their lifetime, most likely in college, then if you have 4 friends one of you is probably going to walk out of here with the clap. This isn't unrealistic thinking. Unrealistic thinking is having unprotected sex and assuming you didn't contract anwthing. your mouth when you cough or neglecting to wash your hands when ill. The AIDS epidemic is vast, but genital warts and chlamydia and genital warts are more common on college campuses than in state penitentiaries. AURH handing out free condoms at Mrs. E's to spread AIDS awareness is something worth getting upset about, but not because it might be unconstructive to the larger picture of AIDS in Africa, they were trying to help students stay healthy by practicing protected sex. Center are just trying to tell you that, as much fun as sleeping around might be, it will undoubtedly end negatively, most likely with burning', itching and lots of general unpleasantness, not to mention the loss of your potential to conceive a child or the loss of your wild sex-filled life. While AIDS awareness is important, STD awareness and condom advocacy are the real messages relevant to a melting pot of STDs like college residence halls. Don't get caught up in the issues or upset that some guys taking some free condoms isn't helping the situation in Africa. So Daisy Hill residents, take home some condoms, practice lots of safe sex, and take it to heart that you are doing your small part to prevent disease transmission. Instead take to heart that AURH, Hawks for Health and Watkins Memorial Health ♦ Kathryn Istas is an Omaha sophomore. TALK TO US Austin Caster, editor 864-4854 or acaster@kansan.com Matthew Sevick, opinion editor 864-4924 or msevick@kansan.com Joshua Bickel, managing editor 864-4854 or jbicket@kansan.com Sarah Connelly, business manager 864-4014 or adddirector@kansan.com Jonathan Kealing, managing editor 864-4854 or jealing@kansan.com John Morgan, sales director 864-442 or addirector@kanan.com SUBMISSIONS Malcolm Gibson, general manager, news advisor 864-7687 or mlibson@kanapan.com Jennifer Weaver, sales and marketing adviser 864-7666 or jweaver@kansan.com The Kansan welcomes letters to the editors and guest columns submitted by students, faculty and alumni. The Kansan reserves the right to edit, cut to length, or reject all submissions. For any questions, call Austin Caster at 864-4810 or e-mail opinion@kansan.com. General questions should be directed to the editor at editor @kansan.com. LETTER GUIDELINES Maximum Length: 200 word limit Include: Author's name and telephone number; class, hometown (student); position (faculty member); phone number (will not be published) GUEST COLUMN GUIDELINES **Maximum Length:** 650 word limit **Include:** Author's name; class, home-town (student); position (faculty member); phone number (will not be published) **Also:** The Kanan will not print guest Also: The Kansan will not print guest columns that attack another columnist EDITORIAL BOARD Elias Ford, Yanting Wang, Joel Simone, Danh Hoyt, Annie Wetmel, Juliis Parish, Nathan McGinnia, Josh Goeting, Sara Garlick, Travon Brown, Juall Portillo, David Archer SUBMIT TO Kansan newsroom: 111 Attuifer-Flint Hall 1435 Jayhawk Blvd. Lawrence, KS 68045 786) 864-4810 opinion@kansan.com GUEST COMMENTARY Student Senate allocates funds appropriately --- The reality of student politics is our Student Senate has 90 senators, 70 of which are elected by you, the student body. There are 10 appointed senator positions that are given to groups that have been traditionally underrepresented on campus, ensuring that these groups have at least one representative who is a liaison between their groups and Student Senate. These are groups such as Black Student Union, Asian American Student Union, First Nations Student Association, Hispanic American Leadership Organization and Stouffer Neighborhood Association. The reality is every one of our senators is involved in at least one if not multiple other organizations on campus. It is no surprise that many organizations that Student Senate funds have a student senator in them, because a significant portion of student organizations have student senators in them. Senate is responsible for allocating a large portion of your student fees. In order to fulfill our fiscal responsibility to the student body, we are strict with the ways in which we use this money. This is not pork politics, this is responsible government. When a piece of legislation comes before Student Senate, several criteria are considered. First, is this group open to all students? Can any student become a member of this organization and utilize the funds we are allocating? Secondly, if this group has been funded in the past, have they been good stewards of the students' money? If a group has misused or not spent the money allocated to them, they are more likely to be scrutinized by Student Senate. Thirdly, will this money benefit students in a significant way? Our job is to spend money in a way that is responsible and beneficial to all students. The money we allocate from all of our accounts is designed to allow students opportunities on this campus that they could not accomplish on their own. MARYNELL JONES OPINION@KANSAN.COM Student Senate allocates a sum to itself in order to maintain functionality and help better support students. We have a full-time staff secretary, and if any member of a student organization has ever been through our office you know how valuable Diana is and how crucial her work is to student groups who come through to spend their money. She does not work only for Student Senate; she works for all student organizations. The money that is paid to our staff is no different than that which is paid to most other student employees on campus. The difference is: it is our job to serve the student body. We spend our 20 office hours a week fighting for issues important to you. We use those hours to work on the building plans for the new Multicultural Resource Center and expansion to the Recreation Center, on lobbying at the city and state level, fighting for student issues between landlords and tenants, on providing student groups with the opportunities to fund speakers and attend conferences, on reaching out to student groups and letting them know funding is available, we work to get students more for their tuition money and make the college experience better. The money that is given to Student Senate is almost directly allocated back to the students. Do not be fooled by rhetoric that implies shady politics and unfair biases. Remember that we as Student Senators are first and foremost students, who work hard to provide a better experience for each student and do our best to spend your student money responsibly. - Jones is a Wichita senior in English. She is Student Body Vice-President. LETTER TO THE EDITOR Don't let symbols hurt you To use columnist Gina Ford's logic, most people are under the misconception that the cross is a symbol of Christianity, but people should know it to be a fiery symbol of the KKK. Some make the same projection with the Southern Cross, aka the Confederate Navy Jack or Rebel Flag. War (the Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in states that seceded). Fact check: Neither the Confederate States of America or "Confederacy" did not fight to defend nor was the Rebel Flag created to represent the Jim Crow laws. The Dukes of Hazzard's car, the "General Lee," has the Rebel Flag flanked by its nickname on the car's roof, not hood. The United States flag also represented Union states Maryland and New Jersey which didn't end their slavery until nearly the end of the Civil Why call those who have moved beyond such antagonist It only has the power you surrender to it, yet to play a victim is to decline control, defer responsibility. What is most disheartening is that the generalizing, projection and myopia Ford uses regarding the flag are the same tools racism relies on. By fearing a piece of cloth, a design or a historical flag, you concede it to racists. You make yourself a victim to that victory. Can't what Melva Landrum views as ignorance of history just as easily be viewed as a proof of a degree of sentiment detoxification toward a naval flag? assumptions to abandon that higher ground? Ever rest one leg across the other when sitting? Do you know how offensive that can be to Muslims to show the bottom of your foot, the lowest part of your body, to them? If not, "then you need to understand the history and how hurtful it is." Right? Or is it possible that many Southerners identify with the Rebel Flag like we do with the Jayhawk, as offensive as it is to Missourians who suffered at the hands of guerilla Jayhawkers just as Kansas suffered at the hands of Quantrill's Raiders generations ago? ◆ Joe Glowacki is an Overland Park senior. 12A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN NEWS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2005 CUT IT OUT! Campus coupons coming soon to a Kansan near you The semester may have ended. BUT AT MICKEY'S THE PARTY NEVER STOPS! Open 7 Days a Week 11 am - 2am Monday $1.1K Night Enjoy $1 Lalmost) anything Free Midnight Buffet Sign up to have Mr. Mickey pay your car payment top to $500! Tuesday Karaoke w/ Matt Naylor $2 Domestic Pins $2.50 Captains S Jack Daniels Wednesday $2 Sex on the beach. Sex on the bar, and Margaritas $2.50 Captain Morgan $3.50 Martins (Includes Chocolate, Apple & Cosmo) Thursday Birthday Thursday If your birthday falls after last Thursday through this Thursday, bring in three pints to celebrate with you and you receive a free slur. If Matt Naylor spills! Friday Vegas Style Happy hour Buffet 5:30 pm Enjoy $3.50 Martins $2.50 House White $2.50 pints of yoku and lemonade DI Matt Naylor spills! Check out our new Dance Floor! Hold on for dear life Snowboarder sliding down a snowy slope. Jared Soares/KANSAN Jamie Hamilton, Leawood sophomore, left, and Katie Savute, Wichita sophomore, use a lunch tray to slide down a hill adjacent to JRP Hall. Lawrence received 4 to 6 inches of snow Wednesday afternoon. GOVERNMENT Brownback calls for Congo aid BY SAM HANANEL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Back from an eight-day visit to three African nations, Sen. Sam Brownback called the humanitarian crisis in Congo "dire" and said foreign aid programs there need better coordination. The Kansas Republican said more than 1,000 people a day in eastern Congo are dying from preventable causes, like malaria, diarrhea and a lack of food and water. "The whole assistance policy really needs to be rethought and there needs to be more prioritizing and self-help involved," Brownback said. "There needs to be a lot more coordination." Brownback and Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., were on the official congressional trip to gauge conditions in Congo, Rwanda and Kenya, where they met with local officials, diplomats and aid workers. from back-to-back wars that killed an estimated 4 million people between 1996 and 2002. Thousands of Hutu rebels fled to eastern Congo after Rwanda's 1994 genocide that killed over 500,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus. Congo is slowly recovering Rwanda and Uganda have invaded Congo twice, in 1996 and 1998, under the auspices of ousting Hutu rebels. There is still sporadic fighting in eastern Congo, and Brownback said two of the most unfortunate side-effects are the use of child soldiers and the use of sexual violence as a tool of war. "Many of the women - girls, mothers, young and old - are raped multiple times," he said. At one hospital that gives medical treatment to rape victims, Brownback said he interviewed a 4-year-old girl and a 60-year-old woman who had been victims of multiple rapes. The last day of his trip was spent in Kenya, meeting with wildlife conservation officials. 2511 W 31st Street Lawrence, KS 66047 785-842-0032 myownapartment.com lawrence@edrtrust.com CALL TODAY FOR MORE INFO! 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Relive the Jayhawks journey to the Fort Worth Bowl with game-by-game recaps 2B THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN FORT WORTH BOWL THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2005 BOWL HISTORY Fort Worth Bowl will be Kansas' 10th all-time BY RVAN COLIAanni rcolaiani@kansan.com KANSAN STEFF WRITER This year's Fort Worth Bowl is the 10th bowl appearance in Kansas football history. Below is a recap of the previous nine appearances for the Jayhawks. 2003 — Tangerine Bowl Kansas met North Carolina State and Phillip Rivers and the Kansas defense was unable to stop him. Rivers passed for nearly 500 yards and threw five touchdowns on the way to a comfortable 56-26 victory, spoiling Kansas' first bowl appearance since 1995. Kansas coach Glen Mason made his second bowl appearance at Kansas, dominating UCLA. Kansas cruised to a 51-30 victory in a game that saw Kansas quarterback Mark Williams pass for three touchdowns and 288 yards. The Jayhawks were in control the whole way. 1995 — Aloha Bowl KU 8 L. WILLIAMS 99 1992 Aloha Bowl Meenan True/KANSAN Kansas fell to Mississippi State 10-0 on New Year's Eve under legendary coach Don Fambrough. Mississippi State recorded the only score it needed 12 seconds into the game on Mississippi State quarterback John Bond's 17-yard run. Kansas fumbled the opening kickoff at its own 17-yard line to set up the play. Mississippi State later added a field goal to seal the victory. 1975 Sun Bowl Three Pittsburgh running backs ran for 100 yards each and led their team to a 33-19 victory against the Jayhawks. Future hall of fame running back Tony Dorsett rushed for two touchdowns and helped the Panthers accumulate 372 total rushing yards. Despite picking up more total yards than North Carolina State, Kansas was unable to capitalize, falling 31-18. Kansas senior quarterback David Jaynes passed for 218 yards, but also threw two interceptions. 1972 — Liberty Bowl 1969 Orange Bowl Kansas appeared to have the game against Penn State in hand as the final seconds of the Orange Bowl ticked away. Kansas kept Penn State from completing a two-point conversion and kept a 14-13 lead. Referees flagged the Jayhawks for 12 men on the field, however, and gave the Nittany Lions a second chance. Penn State won 15-14. Rachel Sevmour/KANSAN KU quarterback Jason Swanson manuvered past Missouri's Lorenzo Williams during the 1st quarter of the football game Oct. 29 at Memorial Stadium. Kansas defeated Missouri 13-3 1961 — Bluebonnet Bowl FOOTBALI Kansas dominated Rice in the Jayhawks' second all-time bowl game, winning 33-7. Quarterback John Hadl was 7-of-10 for 64 yards in his final game at Kansas. Running back Curtis McClinton added a rushing touchdown, as well. 1948 Orange Bowl Kansas had a chance to score the game-winning touchdown against Georgia Tech on a first and goal from the one-yard line in the last minutes of the game. Kansas quarterback Lynne McNutt fumbled the quarterback sneak on first down, gave the ball back to Georgia Tech and gave Kansas a loss in its first-ever bowl appearance. KU faced rough road 6-0 home record saved Jayhawks COLLEGE BASKETBALL Lenexa resident Mike Auer cheers on the Jayhawks from the stands of Memorial Stadium on Nov. 5. I've been a Jayhawk fan "since I was born Dec. 22, 1969," Auer said. The Jayhawks had their last victory against Nebraska in 1968, until Saturday's game ended in a 40-15 Kansas win. BY RYAN COLAIANNI rcolaianni@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITER There has not been a season in the history of Kansas football with more ups and downs than the current 2005 season, from 3-0 to 3-4 to 6-5 and bowl eligibility. Kansas 30, Florida Atlantic 19 The season began with promise and Jayhawk fans expected nothing short of postseason play. That dream was often challenged, but in the end the Jayhawks went bowling. Here's a look back at all 11 games. Kansas started its season during Labor Day weekend with a matchup against Florida Atlantic. Kansas looked average at best and a noticeable trend was shown in the first game: shaky quarterback play. Kansas coach Mark Mangino pulled starter Adam Barmann in favor of Brian Luke, hoping to jump start the struggling offense in the second quarter with Kansas up 9-7. The move did not set the offense into motion immediately with Kansas failing to score again until a field goal from Scott Webb in the third quarter. Florida Atlantic came back to take the lead late in the third quarter with a touchdown, up 13-12. Brian Luke responded for Kansas, orchestrating a seven play touchdown drive for an 11-point victory. Kansas 36, Appalachian State 8 Luke made his first start of the season the next week but even against the lesser opponent it took until the end of the first quarter for Kansas to score. For the second consecutive game, the Jayhawks had solid play from their running backs, gaining over 200 yards on the ground. Junior running back Jon Cornish gained 104 yards on just 10 carries to pace the Jahawks. Mangino used three quarterbacks during the contest, but Luke would retain his starting job. Kansas 34, Louisiana Tech 14 Up next was believed to be Kansas' most difficult non-conference game. Luke took a firm grasp of the starting quarterback job, throwing three touchdown passes. Despite being tied 7-7 at halftime, the Kansas offense came alive in the second half with Luke's passes helping Kansas cruise to a 34-14 victory. The victory made Kansas 3-0 for the first time since 1997. The Kansas defense was dominant in getting pressure on Louisiana Tech quarterback Matt Kubick, sacking him seven times. Senior linebacker Brandon Perkins led the way, setting a school record with five sacks. Texas Tech 30, Kansas 17 Dismissing the three non-conference opponents appeared easy for the Jayhawks, but they would next face their toughest challenge yet, traveling to Lubbock, Texas. The Red Raiders came into the game nationally ranked and touted the top offense in the country. Kansas struggled early, down 20-0 at halftime. The Kansas offense helped out Texas Tech, fumbling in the end zone and giving away a touchdown. The Kansas offense was able to find success in the second half, cutting the Texas Tech lead to 27-17, but that was the closest Kansas would get, falling 30-17 and having its win streak snapped. Mangino again had trouble at the quarterback position, using three during the game, but none were able to help Kansas get a rare Big 12 road victory. Kansas State 12. Kansas 3 The offense was worse in the following game, accumulating barely 200 yards of total offense. The Jayhawks were unable to capitalize on the good field position given to them by their defense, leading to a 12-3 loss to the Wildcats in Manhattan. The Kansas defense held Kansas State to 183 yards of total offense, but the Jayhawks were unable to get yards from their quarterbacks again, completing just eight passes and using three quarterbacks. The Kansas offense hit a new low against Oklahoma. Oklahoma 19. Kansas 3 At Arrowhead Stadium, more than 50,000 fans attended a game that featured two struggling teams. Mangino had said the week before that he would stick with Luke for the entire game, which he would, but Kansas would not accumulate more than 100 yards of total offense. After the game Mangino called it the worst offensive performance he had ever seen. The Kansas offense once again gave the opposition points when a pass from Luke was intercepted on the opening drive and returned for a touchdown. Kansas never gained any offensive continuity and fell 19-3. Colorado 44. Kansas 13 The following week in Boulder, Colo., Mangino went with Luke again, but that was short-lived when senior Jason Swanson replaced him late in the first quarter with Kansas down 9-0. Swanson immediately led Kansas down the field for a field goal. In the second quarter Swanson would hit Charles Gordon for a seven-yard touchdown giving Kansas its first touchdown in more than two games and cutting the score to 16-13 in favor of Colorado at halftime. That would be the closest Kansas would come with Colorado benefiting on multiple Jayhawk special teams blunders that resulted in points for the Buffaloes. The Buffaloes went on to give the Jayhawks their worst loss of the season. Kansas came into the Border Showdown struggling, after losing Kansas 13, Missouri 3 four straight games. A bowl game was the last thing Kansas fans believed was possible at the time but for the third consecutive year, Kansas came in determined against its biggest rival. The Kansas defense was able to hold dual-threat quarterback Brad Smith in check the entire game in what Mangino called the best executed defensive game plan he had ever seen. Swanson started at quarterback and didn't put up spectacular numbers passing, but was efficient, helping the Jayhawks milk the clock late in the contest when they held to a 13-3 lead. Senior running back Clark Green was able to help the Kansas offense move the chains, rushing for 125 yards and the game's lone touchdown. The victory put Kansas back at, 500 at 4-4. Kansas 40. Nebraska 15 36 years was all the Kansas football team was able to talk about in the week leading up to its game against Nebraska. 36 was the number of straight victories Nebraska held over Kansas. Kansas had production from all three units, getting touchdowns on defense, offense and special teams. It was a two-point game midway through the third quarter with Kansas up 17-15, but then the points started to come for the Jayhawks. The game was capped off with a Kevin Kane interception return for a touchdown for a 40-15 victory, ending one of the longest losing streaks in the country. Texas 66, Kansas 14 After the Kansas defense stifled the Nebraska rushing attack to just 21 yards, it was now the top rushing defense in the nation and boasted a top five defense overall heading to Austin, Texas. The Longhorns were ranked second nationally, and were upset about Mangino's comments after last year's meeting in Lawrence when Mangino blamed officials for a lavihawk loss in the final seconds. Texas made its point and ran and passed all over the Kansas defense, accumulating more than 600 yards of total offense. Kansas 24. Iowa State 21 (OT) Kansas needed this victory to become bowl-eligible. Iowa State had plenty to play for too, needing a victory to qualify for the Big 12 championship game in Houston. Iowa State led for most of the game until Kansas tied the game at 14 at the beginning of the fourth quarter. The score was a one-yard rush from Luke, who replaced Swanson just a few plays earlier after Swanson was injured. Iowa State scored on the following drive to go up 21-14. That is where the score would stay until the final minutes when Luke hit Dexton Fields for a 15-year touchdown to tie the game and force overtime. Iowa State had the ball on its first drive of overtime, but the Kansas defense held and forced a missed Iowa State field goal attempt. The stage was set for sophomore kicker Scott Webb to kick the winning field goal. 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Instead, the Cougars will bring their 6-5 record to Fort Worth to battle the 6-5 Kansas lahawks. The Fort Worth Bowl will be Houston's second trip to a bowl game in the past three seasons. Athletic Director Dave Maggard said he was pleased with the progress of Houston and expected them to play well against Kansas. "For Houston to be in a bowl game two out of the last three years is a terrific thing for our football program," Maggard said. "It gives us tremendous exposure for our recruiting. It indicates that we're serious about getting back on the national stage. Our football program is serious about playing in a bowl game every year." Here's a look back at the Cougars' season. Oregon 38. Houston 24 UTEP 44, Houston 41 (2 OT) Houston opened its season at Reliant Stadium against Oregon, who went on to go 10-1. Its only loss came to No. 1 Southern California. Houston jumped on top early, scoring 21 first quarter points and led Oregon at the half but was outscored 21-3 in the second half. The Cougars struggled with the Bearkats early on. Sam Houston State stopped Houston on three straight possessions in the first quarter and the game was tied at seven. But the Cougars broke the game open with two quick touchdown drives and cruised to victory. UTEP 41 Houston 11 (20) Houston quarterback Kevin Holb throws a pass during a game against Mississippi State. Houston won the contest 28-16 for 134 yards and two touch past Memphis but lost two fumbles in the end the sec. Houston lost a heartbreaker to conference foe Texas-El Paso after leading by as many as 14 points. Trailing 19-5, UTEP responded with six straight scoring drives to take a 34-26 lead in the fourth quarter. Houston answered back with a late touchdown and two-point conversion to force overtime. After trading touchdowns in the first overtime, Houston held UTEP to a field goal in the second overtime but lost the game on its ensuing possession on an interception. Houston 30, Tulsa 23 After the close loss to UTEP, Houston responded by beating eventual Conference USA Champion Tulsa 30-23 on the road. In that game, Houston built its lead in the second quarter outscoring the Golden Hurricane 20-0. Despite a touchdown by Tulsa with five minutes remaining in the game, Houston was able to hold onto its biggest victory of the season. Senior running back Ryan Gilbert led Houston against Tulsa, rushing Houston 35, Tulane 14 Houston won its next game, giving the Cougars their only back-to-back victories of the season. Gilbert again led the way with 130 yards rushing and three touchdowns, including one on a 42-yard passing play and another on a 42-yard run. Memphis 35. Houston 20 BOWL HISTORY Tiger running back DeAngelo Williams rushed for 198 yards and two touchdowns, leading Memphis to a 35-20 victory. The most costly of those two fumbles came with the Cougars trailing 21-20 and driving when Gilbert fumbled with 7:37 remaining in the fourth quarter. past Memphis but lost two fumbles in the end zone, in the second half, effectively ending any chance of a comeback. Houston tried its best to rally Memphis recovered, and the Tigers scored the game-clinching touchdown on the following drive. Houston 28. Mississippi St. 16 After losing to Memphis, Houston played at SEC opponent Mississippi State and the Cougars defeated a down Bulldog team. Houston trailed 13-7 in the second quarter but broke the game open with a play on special teams. Vincent Marshall returned a punt 56-yards for a touchdown to make it 14-13 and the Cougars never looked back. Central Florida 31. Houston 29 The next week, Houston lost another critical conference game by a close margin. This time it lost by two points on the road at the University of Central Florida. Houston did not blow a big lead, but attempted to come back from a deficit. The Cougars scored two touchdowns in the fourth quarter, but missed a two-point conversion to force overtime. SMU 29. Houston 24 The Cougars suffered their most embarrassing loss of the season to the Mustangs. The game was tied at 24 with time winding down, and SMU made a field goal to effectively win the game. On the Cougars' last ditch effort, from their own 20-yard line, a bad snap turned into a safety, which lead to the five-point loss. Houston became bowl eligible the same weekend Kansas did. Houston defeated crosstown rival Rice 35-18 at home. Quarterback Kevin Kolb became Houston's all-time offensive leader as he completed 16 of 25 passes for 222 yards and one touchdown. He also rushed 11 times for 75 yards and a score. Rice scored on two early drives to take a 10-0 lead and then pinned Houston on its own two-yard line before the Cougars made their comeback. Houston drove 98 yards in just nine plays to cut the Rice lead to 10-7 on a four-yard run by Kolb with 10:06 left in the first half. The Cougars dominated from that point on and earned their trip to the Fort Worth Bowl in style. Houston brings long history to bowl against KU BY DANIEL BERK AND KELIS ROBINETT sports@kansan.com When Kansas and Houston meet in this year's Fort Worth Bowl, Houston will look to end a five-game bowl losing streak. The drought dates to 1980 when Houston defeated Navy 35-0 in the Garden State Bowl in East Rutherford, N.I. Like Kansas, this is Houston's second trip to a bowl game in the past three seasons. The Cougars missed out on a bowl game last season, finishing 3-8. - Edited by Kellis Robinett The Fort Worth Bowl will mark the 10th time Houston has played in a bowl game in the state of Texas. Houston has played four games in Dallas, four in Houston and one in El Paso. Houston is 4-4-1 in those nine games. Houston coach Art Briles said it would be important for the team to stay in Texas for its bowl game and he was pleased the Fort Worth Bowl selected his队. "I cannot even put into words how important it is to us to be playing this game in Fort Worth, both from an image standpoint and a recruiting standpoint," Briles said. "A third of our players are from the.Dallas/Fort Worth area. We recruit that area very heavily." Overall, Houston is 7-7-1 in its 15 bowl appearances dating back to 1951. 2003 Hawaii Bowl. Houston lost a triple-overtime thriller to Hawaii. Houston lost 54-48 despite tying the game at 34 with just 22 seconds remaining in regulation. After the game, the two teams were involved in a brawl after some harsh words were exchanged. Current quarterback Kevin Kolb led Houston throwing for 332 yards and two touchdowns. Current receiver Vincent Marshall had seven catches for 157 yards and one touchdown. Houston was the inaugural Conference USA champion that year, but lost to Syracuse 30-17 in the bowl. Current NFL running back Antowauz Smith led Houston that season. Smith was selected in the first round of the NFL draft. Smith plays for the New Orleans Saints and has had eight successful seasons in the NFL. 1998 — Aloha Bowl. 1998 ATHENA BOWL. Houston dropped a 24-22 decision to Washington State. 1984 Cotton Bowl. Led by Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Doug Flutie's two fourth quarter touchdowns, Boston College defeated Houston 45-28. Texas and left with a blowout loss at the hands of a superior Oklahoma team 40-14. 1979 — Cotton Bowl. 1980 — Garden State Bowl. 1981 — Sun Bowl. This might be the most famous victory in Houston football history. Trailing Nebraska 14-10 with time running out, Houston engineered a 66-yard drive that was capped off by a six-yard touchdown with 12 seconds remaining to defeat Nebraska 17-14. Navy proved no match for Houston, as the Cougars left New Jersey with an easy 35-0 victory. 1978 — Cotton Bowl, aka "The ice Bowl." If you're looking for more on this game just tune into ESPN Classic and you'll see it soon enough. Houston seemed to have this one well in hand after taking a 34-12 lead with 7:37 remaining in the fourth quarter. But Joe Montana, who had to stay in the locker room for part of the game because his body had trouble adjusting to the extreme cold in Dallas, led Notre Dame on the first epic comeback of his career. After pulling Notre Dame to within 34-28, he threw an eight-yard touchdown pass with no time remaining to defeat Houston 35-34. After winning the Southwest Conference for the first time, Houston validated its record-setting season by defeating previously undefeated Maryland 30-21. 1976 — Cotton Bowl. 1974 — Bluebonnet Bowl. 1973 — Bluebonnet Bowl. Houston had to settle for a 31-31 tie with North Carolina State in this one. There was never a doubt in this one. Houston set the record for largest margin of victory in a bowl game by winning 47-7 against Tulane. Houston travelled to El Paso, 1971 — Bluebonnet Bowl. 1971 Bluebonnet Bowl. Houston lost to Colorado 29- 17. 1969 — Bluebonnet Bowl. 1969 — Bluebonnet Bowl. The Cougars got off to a good start in what would be the first of four trips to the Bluebonnet Bowl by defeating Auburn 36-7. 1962 — Tangerine Bowl. Houston defeated Miami of Ohio 49-21. 1951 - Salad Bowl. Stop laughing, that's really what it was called. Houston made it's first bowl appearance in Phoenix, Arizona and got off to a good start by defeating Dayton 26-21. 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Kansas vs. Houston - Kansas came from behind to top Iowa State in overtime 24-21 on Nov. 26. Sophomore kicker Scott Webb booted a 34-yard game winner to send Kansas to a bowl game. Senior quarterback Brian Luke eluded the charge rushing and passing for touchdowns in the fourth quarter after he replaced senior Jason Swanson who was injured. LAST TIME OUT PLAYER TO WATCH Senior quarterback Jason Swanson. Kansas fans will know early if Swanson is completely healthy from the apparent leg injury he suffered against Iowa State. Swanson has been efficient since taking over the starting job against Colorado and will need to continue to not make critical mistakes at crucial times. 5 QUICK FACTS 23 23 Players on the Kansas roster who are returning to their home state to play in the Fort Worth Bowl. 2 2 Touchdowns, one rushing and one passing, by senior quarterback Brian Luke in the fourth quarter, leading to Kansas' come-from-behind victory over Iowa State. 106 106 Tackles this season for Big 12 defensive player of the year Nick Reid. 20 20 Seniors who will wear a Jayhawk uniform for the last time in Fort Worth. 21 LOOKING FORWARD 21 Tackles for loss for senior defensive end Charlton Keith, which leads the conference. A victory on national television would continue to show that Mangino is improving the Jayhawks and will have immense implications on his ability to recruit players to Kansas. A victory will also give Kansas seven wins for the first time since 1995. KEY TO VICTORY - Keeping the Kansas defense off the field. Houston has one of the best offenses in the country, averaging more than 450 yards of total offense per contest. If Swanson and the rest of the Kansas offense is able to run the ball effectively and shorten the game, Kansas should win. 7 p.m., Friday, Dec. 23, Amon G. Carter Stadium KU KU Kansas OFFENSE The Kansas offense provided a late fourth-quarter surge to top Iowa State last month and became bowl eligible. Kansas will need that offensive performance to last the entire game if it wishes to win its first bowl game since 1995. Senior quarterback Jason Swanson is expected to start, despite not finishing the game against Iowa State because of an injury. Swanson righted the Kansas offense after Kansas' quarterbacks struggled during the first three Big 12 Conference games. Swanson has passed for 913 yards and three touchdowns in his five games this season. KU DEFENSE DEFENSE KU KU KU KU KU KU The Dec. 23 contest against Houston will mark the last game for one of the best defenses to ever play at Kansas. Led by senior linebackers Kevin Kane, Nick Reid and Banks Floodman, the Kansas defense went from one of the worst units in the Big 12 in 2003 to one of the best during the 2004 and 2005 seasons. The Jayhawks will need one final solid performance from one of the best rush defenses in the country. The Houston offense comes into the game averaging more than 450 yards per contest and nearly 30 points per game. If the Kansas defense allows those kind of numbers, the Jayhawks may be in trouble. SPECIALTEAMS KU KU KU Sophomore kicker Scott Webb had the best game of his young career against Iowa State when his team needed it the most against Iowa State. He kicked three field goals, including the game winning 34-yarder in overtime to make the Jayhawks bowl eligible. Webb has been solid in the kicking game, missing just three field goals on the season. Sophomore punter Kyle Tucker has also been solid, averaging nearly 43 yards per punt. Kansas also blocked a punt against Iowa State, and if the Jayhawks can get good field position through punt returner Charles Gordon, the Kansas offense will have an easy time scoring. COACHES Houston KU KU KU ku There is no doubt that the strength of Houston is By becoming bowl eligibl for the second time in three seasons, Kansas football coach Mark Mangino becomes just the third Kansas coach in Jayhawk football history The leader of the defense and leading tackler is sophomore safety Rocky Schwartz. to qualify his team for two bowl games. Mangino has turned around a team this season that at one point was 3-4. Through Mangino, the team has rattled off three victories in its last four games.The bowl game now gives Mangino a huge recruiting boosts, and the opportunity to work with his team for another month and groom his young players for future seasons. --- OFFENSE — Ryan Colaianni its offense. Houston will run a wide-open style of offense that will remind Kansas fans of Texas Tech's offense. The leader of the Houston offense is junior quarterback Kevin Kolb. Kolb has thrown for 3,034 yards this season and 8,941 in his three seasons as quarterback. Kolb's favorite target on offense is senior wide receiver Vincent Marshall. Marshall has 69 catches this season for 927 yards and six touchdowns. Kolb will also look to throw to Donnie Avery. Avery has 517 yards on the season and five touchdowns. Leading the rushing attack is senior running back Ryan Gilbert. Gilbert fan for 1,030 yards this past season and had nine touchdowns. Gilbert and Marshall were both selected this season to the First Team All Conference USA. Kolb was a second-team selection. DEFENSE DEFENSE KU 9 on the season with for Lawrence to try th attempt the shorter punter. He averaged five p Schwartz is the only player on Houston to record more than 100 tackles. Schwartz had 105 tackles on the season and one interception. Junior linebacker Wade Koehl is the Cougar's most active defender behind the line of scrimmage. Koehl has recorded 14 tackles for loss and four sacks on the season. In total, Koehl has 85 tackles and one interception. Another player to watch on the Houston defense is linebacker Brendan Pahulu. Pahulu had 95 tackles on the season, nine tackles for loss and two sacks. Pahulu is only a sophomore and rounds out the trio of young players that will all be back again next season for Houston. SPECIALTEAMS Ben Bell will handle the kicking duties for Houston. While Bell did not attempt a lot of year, he was used Lions field goals, going just 7-of-11 on the field goals, going just 7-of-11 on the year, he was used heavily on extra points. Bell converted on 35-of-38 extra point attempts. Houston struggled to find a consistent field goal kicker 9 on the season with his long coming at 50 yards. Look for Lawrence to try the longer field goals while Bell will attempt the shorter ones. Justin Laird is the team's punter. He averaged 38.5 yards per punt and had bad f i v e pints land inside the 20-ward line. Ricky Wilson is the team's kick returner. Wilson averaged 21.7 yards per return and had a long of 74 yards. Wilson shares the punt returning duties with Marshall. Marshall is a threat to return one to the end zone as he is averaging 17 yards per return and has one touchdown. COACHES CCC Art Briles is in his third season as coach of the Houston Cougars. Briles is 16-19 at Houston.Briles became the first coach at Houston to have also played his college ball at Houston. Briles has led Houston to one bowl game, a 56-48 triple overtime loss to Hawaii in the Hawaii Bowl in 2003.Houston's offensive philosophy of the wide-open style of play and a lot of throwing came when Briles was an assistant coach at Texas Tech. Briles was the assistant head coach and running backs coach atTexasTech before coming to Houston. He worked on the Red Raiders' staff from 2000-2002.Before that, Briles' only experience came at the high school level. Daniel Berk UH Blitz AT A GIANCE Houston enters the game with a winning record of 6-5. The team's biggest victory of the season came at Tulsa, which went on to win the Conference USA Championship. Houston played a difficult non conference schedule featuring Oregon and Mississippi State. The team lost a pair of heartbreakers to UTEP and Central Florida by a combined total of five points. - Houston became bowl eligible in its last game against in state rival Rice. The Cougars downed the Owls 35-15. Houston quarterback Kevin Kolb threw for 222 yards and one touchdown and no interceptions. Senior wide receiver Vincent Marshall also had a solid game catching five passes for 125 yards. LAST TIME OUT Kevin Kolb. Kolb is in his third season as starting quarterback for Houston. He began his career as a starter as a freshman three seasons ago. Because the Kansas defense has had so much success this season against the run, look for Houston to air out the ball plenty against the Kansas secondary. PLAYER TO WATCH 5 QUICK FACTS 4565 108 Houston has scored 108 points in the second quarter this season while only allowing 54 points. Kansas will have to play all four quarters in this one to secure a bowl victory. 108 456. 5 The Houston offense averages 456.5 yards per game in total offence. 1,030 Senior running back Ryan Gilbert has 1,030 yards on the season. 1.030 3 Houston had three members of its team receive honorable mention freshman All-American honors. Houston is a young team, and with three weeks to prepare for the Jayhawks, the young players will have plenty of time to grow up. 11-20 2 11-20 Houston is 11-of-20 this year on field goal attempts. A victory would move Houston to 7-5 and give the Cougars their second triumph of the year against a BCS conference team. LOOKING FORWARD KEY TO VICTORY - The passing game. It is not a secret that Houston likes to throw the ball. If Kolb doesn't face a lot of pressure and is able to sit in the pocket and deliver crisp passes, it will mean trouble for the Kansas defense. Around the Big 12: Bowl Edition State Bard Game 2016 Rose Bowl January 4th Texas vs. USC The BCS finally got it right with this one. The nation's only two undefeated teams will square off in what some are labeling the early game of the century. USC is the early touchdown favorite but Texas has destroyed everyone it has played. CHAMPS BOWL Champ Sports Bowl December 27th Colorado vs. Clemson A surging ACC team that is now ranked in the Top 25 will take on a limping Big 12 team that lost its last three games of the season by wide margins. Colorado had to return most of its tickets for the Big 12 Title game, and even fewer fans are expected in Orlando. BY KELLIS ROBINETT Master Euro ALAMOBOWL Alamo Bowl December 28th Nebraska vs. Miss Braska vs. Michigan San Antonio hit the jackpot with this game. The Alamo Bowl picks fourth in the bowl order in both the Big 12 and Big 10 but came away with two national powers. Any other year, this match up would be in a BCS game. PACIFIC LIFE HOLIDAY BOWL Union Tribune Holiday Bowl 20th Oklahoma vs. Oregon The Sooners finished the year on a tear to get to San Diego but the Ducks were hoping for a BCS bid after finishing 10-1. The winner in this game could come down to which teams wants to be there. December 29th Oklahoma vs. Oregon INDEPENDENCE BOWL Missouri vs. South Carolina Independence Bowl December 30th Minnesota Mississippi to South Carolina The Tigers are back in Shreveport for the second time in three years to take on Steve Spurrier's Gamecocks. South Carolina had a breakthrough year in the SEC under its first-year coach. This will be Missouri quarterback Brad Smith's last game. Houston Bowl December 31st Iowa State vs. TCU The Cyclones missed out on a chance to play in Houston last week after they lost to the Jayhawks. They might have gotten a good deal out of the loss though by avoiding the Longhrns. TCU only lost one game all year, an early rivalry match with SMU. EV1.NET HOUSTON at&t COTTON POWER CLASSIC Cotton Bowl December 2nd Texas Tech vs. Alabar Texas Tech to Florida If you combined Texas Tech's offense with Alabama's defense you would have the best team in the country. Unfortunately, that's not possible and we're left to watch a high-powered Red Raider offense stalemate a stingy Crimson Tide defense. 4 2005 h SPORTS F e with a team's lesson on SA played a schedule ississippi air of and Cen-td total of THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2005 UT eligible in tate rival ed the cornerback yards no inter- ceiver did a solid es for TCH third back as career in three one so much inst the air out te Kansas offense ame in CTS d 108 er this g 54 play all secure a 13 11 back ils on the -of-20 this Freshman forward Marja Zinic looks to shoot over UMKC sophomore forward Alysa Klein late in the second half. Zinic scored eight points and grabbed 10 rebounds during the 73-51 win last night at Allen Fieldhouse. members of mention nons. and with the Jay- will have WARD Rylan Howe/KANSAN houston gars the year ice team. ORY not a se- to throw face a ble to sit er crisp double for IN Alabama dined Texe- ne with sense you are team Unfortu- tively possible to watch a bad Raider a stingy defense. PAGE 1C WWW.KANSAN.COM WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: 73-51 'Hawks' switch-up pays off in UMKC match Wisconsin match looms as telling test BY RYAN SCHNEIDER rschneider@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITER Although final exams loom ahead for the student body, the first major test of the season comes Sunday for the Kansas women's basketball team. Kansas, 6-0, plays its biggest game of the young season Sunday against Wisconsin, after winning consecutive victories by at least 20 points against New Orleans and UMKC. L. Kansas women's basketball coach Bonnie Henrickson thinks her team is up to the challenge of playing a Wisconsin team, who has already played two of the top 20 teams in the country. She said the Badgers would be similar to teams the Jay hawks would play from the Big 12 Conference North Division. think it's a great measuring stick for us, it will be a good learning tool for us, no matter what happens, win or lose, we'll learn a lot from the game." The game should provide a good preview to future Big 12 games for newcomers who see major minutes, such as freshman guard Ivana Catic, freshman forward Marija Zinic and junior transfer guard Shaquina Mosley. Bonnie Henrickson Kansas women's basketball coach "I think it's a great measuring stick for us," Henrickson said. "It will be a good learning tool for us, no matter what happens, win or lose, we'll learn a lot from that game." The feel of a conference-type game should be intensified by trying to stop one of the Big 10 Conference's best players. Stopping Anderson, however, won't be an easy task. Two Wisconsin guards, Anderson and sophomore Janese Wisconsin returns the reigning Big 10 Freshman of the Year, guard Jolene Anderson. Through her team's first seven games, Anderson averaged 15.6 points and 6.1 rebounds per game. Banks average double-digit point totals. "It's definitely going to be a challenge," Catic said. "It will be a test for us just to show if we're ready to play or not." SEE HAWKS ON PAGE 6C VIEW FROM PRESS ROW Young team running out of time to grow After seven games and a 3-4 record, it's clear the Kansas men's basketball team is in for a bigger rebuilding process than expected. Before the season began, every college basketball Web site and magazine agreed that coach Bill Self's squad was loaded with young talent that would make the Jayhawks a dangerous team by the NCAA tournament. While it's true that Kansas is booming with potential, it's going to take a while for that promise to turn into victories. Kansas' schedule is too difficult, the Big 12 Conference is too strong and the Jayhawks have already suffered too many losses to assume that reaching the NCAA tournament will be a lock. So long, in fact, that the Jayhawks could find themselves in the NIT. 100 If the field of 65 were chosen today, Kansas would be so far away from receiving a bid that the selection committee wouldn't even consider the Jayhawks. Unless Kansas defeats either California, 6-1, or Kentucky, 6-2, it will end the nonconference schedule without a single quality victory. KELIS ROBINETT KROBINETT@KANSAN.COM That leaves Big 12 play, where every road game will be difficult because of Kansas' youth. Of course, with three months remaining in the season, things can still change. But it does show just how much ground Kansas has to make up. It wasn't until Kirk Hinrich, Drew Gooden and Nick Collison — a recruiting class often compared to this year's — were juniors that they learned to win on the road. Even Missouri and Oklahoma State, which have already lost home games to Sam Houston State and Northwestern Middle of the pack teams like Colorado, Texas A&M and Kansas State will also push Kansas to the brink because they will see this as their year to finally beat the Javhawks. State respectively, will have enough fan support to give Kansas all it can handle. With two virtually certain losses, if even a handful of the other games that could go either way go against the Jayhawks, and they finish with a record like 16-13, they could be on the wrong side of the bubble come March. Then there's Texas and Oklahoma, both top 10 teams, that Kansas currently appears to have no chance against. Of course, if Kansas learns from its early close losses and victories — the majority of its conference games — it could be a first-round favorite in the NCAA tournament. Remember, Colorado has finished with a 10-6 conference record and missed the NCAA tournament. But the team will have to grow up in a hurry. Forwards Brandon Rush, Sasha Kaun and C.J. Giles have each showed flashes of brilliance. But for every great play the two sophomores make, they miss a lay-up by two feet or fail to properly execute a double team. Guard play is also lacking. So much so, that senior Stephen Vinson, a former walkout of Lawrence High School, has at times outplayed the guards who were McDonald's High School All-Americans. Then again, that team had Danny Manning as a senior. This team's best player is Brandon Rush as a freshman. But who knows? Even the KU National Championship squad of 1988 was 12-8 before it started clicking. Worst of all, no one seems to be able to make free throws. That's a problem that coaching can't fix by the time I graduate later this month. ♦ Robinett is an Austin, Texas, senior in journalism. He is Kansan sports editor. Players take on new roles as bench players lead team BY MICHAEL PHILLIPS mphillips@kansan.com KANSAN SPORTWRITER It was opposite day at Allen Fieldhouse, as Ivana Catie did the scoring and Erica Hallman had the assists in Kansas' 73-51 victory over UMKC. Catic, a freshman guard, came into the game leading the NCAA in assists per game with 8.2. Most of those went to senior guard Hallman, who was averaging 19 points per game. But last night, Hallman finished with seven assists and Catic had 13 points, including three 3-point shots. The game started slowly, with the score lagging at 11-8 midway through the first half. UMKC was playing a zone defense, which was something the Jayhawks had not experienced often and that they did not adjust to quickly. Catic scored eight of those points. "They played it tentatively." Kansas women's basketball coach Bonnie Henrickson said. "Without the ball we weren't ready to take a shot." "I think throughout the game we started attacking the zone more and getting more shots," senior guard Kaylee Brown said. Henrickson left the starters in through the whole first half and most of the second, saving she was allowing them to adjust to the zone. Only seven players saw time in the first 30 minutes of the game. The lineup went on a run again early in the second half when the team scored seven in a row to increase its lead to 20 and seal the victory. Most notable was freshman forward Marija Zinic, who beat sophomore forward Jamie Boyd off the bench and was just two points away from a double-double. Foul trouble had been plaguing Zinic this season, but she finished with just two fouls, which she said allowed her to become more aggressive. "Marija does a lot of really good things," Henrickson said. "I think she's going to help us out a lot." Perhaps the most encouraging sign for the team was that it did not seem to care much about the victory or the 6-0 record, but instead focused on its play and how it would hold up against Big 12 Conference competition. Catic was quick to dismiss UMKC's 28 turnovers, saying Kansas still needed work defensively. Zinic said she was trying to prepare herself for the tougher competition she will face. "Those are the numbers, but what we focus on more is how we defend our screens and how we communicate," she said. FOOTBALL SEE BASKETBALL ON PAGE 6C BY RYAN COLIAMNI rcolaianni@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITER In Banks Floodman's first year on the field at Kansas the team won two games. Senior strides benefit program Three years later, the senior linebacker and many other members of the team's senior class will be playing in their second bowl game in two years. Many of the seniors on the team were taking a chance by selecting Kansas under first-year coach Mark Mangino in 2002. Mangino said it was a chance because of the previous struggles of the football team and that players had to select Kansas based on faith. Oh, how far this senior class has come. The senior class helped end an 11-year losing streak to Kansas State in 2004 and defeated Missouri three straight times. The most important streak that the seniors helped end was the 36-year losing streak to Nebraska, which ended in November. The seniors also were perfect at home this year, going 6-0 at Memorial Stadium, a school record. Players like senior linebackers Nick Reid and Kevin Kane took that chance, and with the help of Floodman have built one of the top defenses in the country. Floodman said that the team's chemistry was vastly different from when he first arrived at Kansas in 2001. "The chemistry, as a hole. can't be matched by many teams in the past. I think we have shown that even through some adversity that our team can come together and we love to play together," Floodman said. "It has been a pleasure to play with each other. How we have been growing every year is just so much fun to see everyone go out there." After the team accepted an invitation to play in the Fort Worth Bowl, senior players talked about what it was like to be playing in a bowl game for their final college football game. “It's exciting,” Floodman said. "It's an honor to be able to play with these guys and go on top in the bowl," Floodman expects many family members and friends to attend the game due to the proximity from his home in Wichita. Before the season, the seniors talked about how important it was for the team to qualify for bowl play. The senior class feels like playing in their second bowl game in three seasons shows that they have helped build the program. "It's a big help for the program, for the future of the program," senior quarterback Brian Luke said. "For us seniors accomplishing all the things we did at home this year, you just can't help but feel good about it." SEE STRIDES ON PAGE 6C 2C THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN SPORTS --- THURSDAY. DECEMBER 8. 2005 SWIMMING Jayhawks make successful strokes Team to maintain speeds through rigorous training BY KELLY REYNOLDS kreynolds@kansan.com KANSAN SPORTWRITER The Kansas swimming and diving team has achieved much more success this season than it had at this point last season. The team is 1-0 in the Big 12 Conference and has only two dual meet losses out of seven dual meets this season, the first served to them by the nationally ranked Minnesota Golden Gophers in the first dual meet of the season. The Jayhawks also competed in the Big 12 Relays in October and in the Minnesota Invite just three weeks ago, at which they earned one automatic NCAA qualification as well as numerous lifetime best swims. Leading the way for the Jayhawks is freshman Ashley Leidigh, who, in the first three months of her freshman campaign, was named National Collegiate Swimmer of the Week by collegeswimming. com and achieved five top-100 Division I swimming times, including the fastest time in the nation for the 100-yard butterfly. To top off the first half of the semester, Leidigh captured Big 12 Swimmer of the Month in November and is the only Jayhawk to automatically qualify for the NCAA Championship meet so far this season. The Jayhawks are miles ahead of where they were at this point in the season last year, coach Clark Campbell said before the Minnesota Invite last month. Last season, the team went 1-4 in Big 12 swimming and had lost four dual meets by the time winter break rolled around. This season, their times are significantly faster fast enough to earn them a place in the College Swimming Coaches Association of America Division I Top 25 Poll at the beginning of November. This was the first time the Jayhawks had been included in the poll since 1997. As most students prepare to have a month of vacation time, the Jayhawks will spend winter break enduring the hardest training phase of the season. During this phase, they will focus on conditioning in order to maintain the speed that they have achieved this semester. The Jayhawks will practice nearly every day over break, senior Lindsey Urbatchka said. From Jan. 2 to Jan.10 the Jayhawks will be in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., for their annual team training trip. The yards per practice over winter break will increase from the current 10,000- yard range to approximately 14,000 yards by the end of the training trip. The team is 1-0 in the Big 12 Conference and has only two dual meet losses out of seven dual meets this season,the first served to them by the nationally ranked Minnesota Golden Gophers in the first dual meet of the season. "There's no class and the NCAA can't regulate hours over break," Urbatchka said. "We will increase the training load and swim long course one to two times per day on top of lifting." Amidst the intense training, the Jayhawks will keep goals for the second half of the season in mind. "Texas and Texas A&M usually run away at Big 12s," Urbatchka said. "So our goal is third place, as well as closing the gap between both Texas teams." Last season at Big 12s, the Jayhawks placed fourth behind both Texas teams and Nebraska, but by only seven points. Following the Big 12 Championship meet last season, Campbell compared the seven-point difference between Kansas and third place Nebraska to "a buzzer-beater in basketball." This year, the Jayhawks hope to tell a different story at Big 12s in February. Urbatchka has hopes of going undefeated in dual meet action next semester, a goal that she believes the Jayhawks can achieve. Urbatchka also thinks that a handful of Jayhawks will join Leidigh at the NCAA Championship meet in March, which would be an increase from the two Jayhawks—graduate Amy Gruber and current junior Jenny Short—who represented Kansas at the 2005 NCAA meet. Edited by Erin Wisdom VOLLEYBALL Season has memorable moments BY MATT WILSON mwilson@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITER The 2005 Kansas volleyball season was a tumultuous one. It was a year that started with promise quickly turned south after a slew of injuries. When the Jayhawks lost junior outside hitter Jana Correa on Oct. 5 against Kansas State, the season dramatically turned. An eight-match losing streak began that night and negated a 12-3 start. KANSAS 8 KANSAS 10 The Jayhawks saw a mini-resurgence after an upset victory at Kansas State on Nov. 5. The victory sparked a three-match winning streak that put the Jayhawks back into the NCAA tournament hunt. Kansan file photo Andi Rozum, senior setter, wipes a tear away from her eye as she stands by fellow seniors, Paula Caten, outside hitter, left, and Josi Lima, middle blocker, right, during the national anthem before their last game against Missouri at the Horesei Family Athletic Center Wednesday, which was senior night. The volleyball lost in the first round of the NCAA 2005 volleyball tournament to UCLA last week. Senior setter Andi Rozum's injury against Missouri on Nov. 2 again impeded the Jayhawks' chance at success. After backing into the tournament with a 15-14 record, including three losses to finish the season, Kansas lost 3-1 to UCLA in the first round of the tournament in Los Angeles. During the season, seniors Paula Caten and Josi Lima took home honors. Caten was named to the ESPN the Magazine/COSIDA Academic first team for district seven, which includes the Midwest region. Lima was named national and Big 12 Player of the week for the week of Sept. 12-18. She also garnered firstteam All-Big 12 honors for the fourth straight season. "I was really proud of our group this year," Kansas volleyball coach Ray Bechard said. "We had some tough breaks, but they went out and played hard." Lima said she was proud of the way the team played, as well. "We had nothing to lose and we played really hard," she said. Here is a look at some additional key matches and moments from the season. Aug. 26: Kansas 3, Alabama 0 The Jayhawks swept the Crimson Tide in the season opener behind 16 skins by Lima and 15 by Correa. It was the eighth straight season-opening victory for Kansas. Freshman middle blocker Savannah Noyes tallied nine kills in her first collegiate match, giving the fans at the Horeisi Family Athletics Center a glimpse at the future of the program. "I've never been in front of a crowd like that," Noves said. Sept. 2: BYU3, Kansas 1 The Jayhawks suffered their first loss of the season in Provo, Utah, falling to the Cougars in four games. Despite the defeat, three Jayhawks finished in double-digits in kills. In addition to her 11 kills, sophomore opposite hitter Emily Brown recorded 5.5 blocks. "BYU is a nice team and they did a good job of pressuring us with their serve and taking us out of our system," Bechard said. Sept. 14: Kansas 3, No. 15 Texas A&M 0 The Jayhawks dominated the ranked Aggies in Lawrence in the Big 12 opener for both teams. With the victory, the Jayhawks ran their record to 9-1 on the season. During game two, Kansas assistant coach Jill Jones Stucky gave birth to a baby girl — Madeline — at Lawrence Memorial hospital. After going winless in October and losing to the Wildcats earlier in the season, the Jayhawks upset the 24th-ranked team on the road. It was their first victory against the Wildcats in their last 22 attempts. Nov. 5: Kansas 3, Kansas State 1 "We had a defensive game plan that I thought was extremely efficient, and we can ried it out," Bechard said. "And offensively, we made plays when we needed to." Nov. 27: Kansas receives a bid to the NCAA tournament The Jayhawks received a surprise when they were awarded a bid into the NCAA tournament. Even though their record was better than only one other team in the tournament, they headed to Los Angeles to take on UCLA in the first round of the Omaha regional. The Jayhawks gladly accepted the award after playing such a tough schedule." I guess it shows you that if you beat your head against the wall all year in a tough conference it pays off," Beard said. — Edited by Anne Burgard ATHLETICS CALENDAR SATURDAY SATURDAY * Men's basketball vs. California, 11 a.m., Kemper Arena, Kansas City, Mo. SUNDAY ♦ Women's basketball vs. Wisconsin, 1 p.m., Allen Fieldhouse SUNDAY Astros let Rocket set off on own BY STEPHEN HAWKINS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DALLAS — Roger Clemens came out of retirement two years ago and helped his hometown Houston Astros reach their first World Series. Now that he's pondering his future again, they won't wait for his decision. With Clemens uncertain whether he will pitch again or retire, the Astros declined to offer salary arbitration on Wednesday. The move means the seven-time Cy Young Award winner can't re-sign with then National League champions before May 1. "We've had two great years, and they were special years," general manager Tim Purpura said. "The fact of the matter is Roger's 43 years old ... we're not talking about somebody in the middle of a great career. We're talking about somebody who's at the end of a great career." The Astros didn't want to risk going to salary arbitration while they awaited his decision whether to play. Clemens still intends to pitch for the United States in March during the inaugural World Baseball Classic. Clemens made $18 million this season, when he led the major leagues with a 1.87 ERA and went 13-8. He finished third in the NL Cy Young Award voting behind 20-game winners Chris Carpenter and Dontrelle Willis. MLE Still, Purpura call it "one of the more gut-wrenching, difficult decision" the Astros have had to make. "We expected this because we talked a great deal about this," said Clemens' agent, Randy Hendricks. "It's no surprise." Clemens had an injured leg and back late in the season and was forced out of his start in Game 1 of the World Series against the Chicago White Sox after only two innings. "The health is not an issue. It's the willingness of Roger to play, and we just don't know that," Purpura said. "To tie up resources for that long of a period of time would really hurt our ability to move forward." Houston's decision could lead to other teams trying to lure Clemens, such as the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox, two of his former clubs. "If anybody calls, we'll listen." Hendricks said. 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Clemens t pitch least a THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2005 'HORN BORN' 'HAWK BRED we'll lis- S S Athletic underclassmen need starting spots This year's Kansas men's basketball team is the most athletic group of Jayhawks ever, even more so than the 1997 and 2002 squads. It proved that Tuesday night during its 70-67 loss to St. Joseph's. TRAVIS ROBINETT TROBINETT@KANSAN.COM Need some examples? Freshman forward Julian Wright blocked a shot, led the fast break and dunked the basketball, all in the same sequence. Freshman forward Micah Downs crossed over his defender then hit a fade away three. Freshman guard Mario Chalmers anticipated a pass perfectly, jumped in front of the ball and jammed it to take the last lead Kansas would see at 62-61. Sophomore forward CJ Giles took a pass on the way to the basket, was fouled and still dunked it with ease. When was the last time Kansas fans saw their players make plays like those all in the same game? The starting lineup this year needs to take advantage of that athleticism. Kansas men's basketball coach Bill Self should make freshmen Brandon Rush, Chalmers and Downs and sophomores Sasha Kaun and Giles his starters. Of those left, Julian Wright should get the most minutes. Rush is the best scorer. His 10 points in the first four minutes of the game proved it. To become more consistent, Rush needs to be more aggressive with the basketball. If the Jayhawks need a basket, he should be the go-to guv. Senior guard Jeff Hawkins needs to be benched in favor of Chalmers. Chalmers has advantages over Hawkins, most importantly his speed. Hawkins entered the game against St. Joe's when Kansas was within two points, at 51-53. He guarded senior Chet Stachitas, who had 17 points at the time and ended up with 27. Twice in a row, Hawkins lost him on the court. The first time Hawkins lost him, he went to double team an inside player who had the ball, leaving Stachitas wide open. The second time, Stachitas beat Hawkins around a screen. Hawkins looked like he wasn't making it a priority to stay with him. Chalmers has a bounce in his step that Hawkins doesn't. He is faster bringing the ball up court and makes better passes than Hawkins because he has better court vision. He also has great defensive anticipation, an area where Hawkins struggled two nights ago. Sure, Chalmers needs to refine his ball handling, but he would learn from increased playing time. Kirk Hinrich didn't handle the ball well his freshman year either, but Roy Williams started him anyway. The former guard turned out just fine. Russell Robinson is currently filling the shooting guard position. He hasn't done a bad job at all, especially on defense, but he's small and only a decent shooter. Downs is a fantastic shooter. Even Dick Vitale agreed the freshmen should get more playing time. During the game, he mentioned that it would be tough to keep them on the bench. Some people might say Downs is too tall at 6-foot-8, to play defense at the guard position. Downs can use that to his advantage, though. With more height than the player he's guarding, he could leave more room to defend and still threaten to block shots. He could also use this advantage on offense by shooting over the other player. These freshmen and sophomores will be around for a while. Self should let them play more minutes than the seniors who leave after this year, so they can learn how to play as a team. The more mistakes they make now, the fewer they will make later in their careers. - Robinett is an Austin, Texas, junior in journalism. ▼ BIG 12 FOOTBALL Vince Young leads Texas players on field, in team 'flow sessions' BY JIM VERTUNO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AUSTIN, Texas — Seventh-grade Vince Young toiled away in his yard, raking leaves and piling them in bags. Each time he finished, his mother would dump them out and tell him to do it again. It was his punishment for participating in a gang fight, and it was torture. “V Felicia Young wanted him to hate it. Having struggled with drugs and alcohol for years, and with Vince's father's in jail most of her son's life, she was trying to scare the kid straight. Young is athlete I've on the field "She told me I'd end up dead or in jail," Young said, recalling his childhood in Houston, "walking with the wrong crowd and getting gunshots shot at you, trying to avoid a bullet." Vince the finest ever been with." Young's supporters see him as His top competition comes from the guys Texas will have to stop Jan. 4 — Trojans running back Reggie Bush and quarterback Matt Leinart, who won the award last season. "When I was raking those leaves, I thought about that," he said. "I started really working on football and school more, and that was that." Lloyd Carr Wolverines coach Young has led the No. 2 Longhorns to 19 straight wins and a Rose Bowl showdown with No. 1 Southern California for the national championship. He's done it in such a spectacular way that on Saturday he'll likely be in New York as a finalist for the Heisman Trophy, trying to join Earl Campbell and Ricky Williams as the only Longhorns to win the award. "That" became the unleashing of an elusive, strong-armed quarterback who became a local legend in a city as big as Houston and has become an even bigger star at the University of Texas. the best of both. As a quarterback, he's the team's leader, like Leinart, yet as a phenomenal athlete capable of making eye-popping plays, he's every defensive coordinator's nightmare, like Bush. "At this level you see a few guys with capes and S's on their chest and Vince Young is one of them," Colorado coach Gary Barnett said — before Young passed for three touchdowns and ran for another against the Buffaloes in a 70-3 victory in the Big 12 title game last Saturday. Young's won 29 of 31 starts, passing Bobby Layne — a college and pro Hall of Famer who set the standard for Texas quarterbacks back in the 1950s — for the most victories. He's accounted for 78 touchdowns in his career, breaking the school record of 76 set by Williams, the 1998 Heisman winner. His 8,705 yards of total offense is also a school record. Funny thing is, midway through last season, critics wanted him to play another position. Following a shutout loss to rival Oklahoma, Young was deided as a great runner whose awkward sidearm motion was too inconsistent. Instead of benching him or moving him to a new position, Brown left the team in the hands of a 6-foot-5, 230-pound project, flaunting his size and speed as Texas bullied teams with a "He had to move to receiver." Texas coach Mack Brown recalled recently. punishing rushing attack. The Longhorns haven't lost since. Young's breakout game was the last Rose Bowl when he ran for 20,60,10 and 23 touchdowns and threw for another in Texas' 38-37 win over Michigan. "Vince Young is the finest athlete I've ever been on the field with," Wolverines coach Lloyd Carr said afterward. As a passer, Young silenced his critics with 2,769 yards and 26 touchdowns this season. He's also run for a team-high 850 yards and nine TDs in an offense that scored 50 or more points seven times. His pass efficiency rating is 168.6, the best in the nation. "We take for granted now what he does," Brown said. "He does whatever he needs to do to win." Young's arm got Texas its biggest win of the season, a 25-22 victory at Ohio State, with a late-game touchdown pass to Limas Sweed. Then the season really started rolling. Texas ended five years of frustration against Oklahoma. Young was the center of the post-game celebration, leading thousands of fans in singing the "Eves of Texas." Three weeks later, he saved Texas' season with 506 total yards — 267 on the ground, 239 through the air — in a 47-28 win at Oklahoma State. Texas trailed 28-9 in the second quarter and Young's 80-yard touchdown run at the start of the third turned the game. "When the chips are down, he can pull something from nowhere," offensive tackle Justin Blalock said. Young is just as important a leader off the field as on it. TEXAS 10 He leads the pre-game, behind-the-scenes "flow sessions" of music and dancing that keep the players and coaches loose. Texas quarterback Vince Young runs against Texas A&M in the first quarter Nov. 25. 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The Cardinals spent much of the last week pursuing free agent A.J. Burnett, only to see him sinn with Toronto. Tonv Gutinrorz/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DALLAS — Trying to compete in the AL East, the Toronto Blue Jays pushed their pitching investment past the $100 million mark by giving A.J. Burnett a $55 million, five-year contract. One week after giving reliever B.J. Ryan a $47 million, five-year deal, the splurging Blue Jayes landed the top starting pitcher on the free-agent market, one they hope will help them overtake the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox. "Sooner, rather than later, we're going to see a new team on top there." Burnett said. On the second day of the winter meetings, the Los Angeles Dodgers filled the last open manager's job in the major leagues, hiring former Boston manager Grady Little. He's still blamed by Red Sox fans for leaving in Pedro Martinez too long in Game 7 of the 2003 AL championship series. "That's New England and it's Boston," Little said. "All they want to do is win, and that's all we were trying to do." On the trade front, the San Francisco Giants sent righthander LaTroy Hawkins to the Baltimore Orioles. The Cincinnati Reds reached a preliminary agreement to send first baseman Sean Casey to the Pittsburgh Pirates for left-hander Dave Williams, a deal subject to physicals. There also was talk the San Diego Padres would deal third baseman Sean Burroughs to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays for right-hander Dewon Brazelton, and that the Chicago Cubs would acquire center fielder Juan Pierre from the Florida Marlins. Among free agents, Cleveland was negotiating with closer Trevor Hoffman and the Seattle Mariners were said to be talking with Kevin Millwood. San Diego improved its proposal to retain Hoffman, offering a deal with a 2008 option that could become guaranteed under certain conditions. Designated hitter Mike Piazza appears to be attracting interest from the Los Angeles Angels, Seattle, Minnesota and Toronto. Officials of the New York Mets had a meeting with the Red Sox on Monday and discussed Manny Ramirez. The Mets are waiting for the Red Sox to get back to them with what it would take to put together a deal for the 2004 World Series MVP, who wants out of Boston. Mets general manager Omar Minaya also called New York pitcher Kris Benson to discuss trade rumors. Minaya said. "His name is out there, it's a hot name right now." Houston Astros officials said they wouldn't decide until Wednesday whether to offer salary arbitration to 43-year-old Roger Clemens, who hasn't decided whether to retire or pitch next year. If the seven-time Cy Young Award winner isn't offered "I'm getting calls on him," arbitration by the 11 p.m. deadline, he couldn't re-sign with his hometown team until May 1. "It's a gut-wrenching, agonizing decision," Astros general manager Tim Purpura said. "From a talent point of view, I don't want to lose him. I also realize we need to improve our clubs. It's very difficult for me to move forward in doing that if I have such uncertainty." Also, the Red Sox said 37-year-old first baseman John Olerud, who became a free agent after the season, has decided to retire. Toronto hasn't finished first in the AL East since winning the 1993 World Series. General manager J.P. Ricciardi, given a three-year contract extension through 2010 on Tuesday, has been aggressive in his pursuit of pitching. Baseball officials believe the deals for Burnett and Ryan were the first five-year contracts given to pitchers since Chan Ho Park's $65 million deal with Texas in December 2001. "One thing about the freeagent game is if you're going to get in it, you can't get in it halfway," Ricciardi said. "Either you're going to be a player or you're not." Burnett followed Josh Beckett, Mike Lowell, Carlos Delgado, Luis Castillo and Paul Lo Duca out of Florida, where the Marlins are cutting payroll because they haven't gotten funding for a new ballpark. Marlins president David Samson visited San Antonio on Tuesday as part of a preliminary search for a possible new home for the team. Samson said the city was the first stop on a tour that will last three to five months. "We're not a free-agent pitcher. We're a team looking for a right fit," Samson said. A 28-year-old right-hander with a 98 mph fastball. Burnett also was pursued by St. Louis — however, the Cardinals offered only four years. He had a 49-50 career record with the Marlins, missing almost all of the 2003 season. He returned following reconstructive elbow surgery and was 12-12 with a 3.44 ERA last season. Florida banished him during the final week after he criticized manager Jack McKeon and coaches. Rafael Furcal tries on his new Los Angeles Dodgers ballcap as newly manager Grady Little looks on, after Furcal was introduced during a press conference at the winter baseball meetings on Wednesday in Dallas. Grady was announced as manager on Tuesday Tonv Gutierrez/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Dodgers 15 Dodgers Dodgers name Grady Little new manager BY JIMMY GOLEN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DALLAS — Grady Little has 'another managing job, and he has to rush to get ready for the season. The Los Angeles Dodgers hired Little at the baseball winter meetings Tuesday, more than two months after they fired Jim Tracy. That leaves the former Red Sox manager about two months to get things in order before spring training — a lifetime considering Boston hired him in spring of 2002. "I feel like we have a long time," Little said after being introduced by general manager Ned Colletti and special adviser Tommy Lasorda. "The last job I took on, we had two weeks before opening day." Ah, yes, the last job. That would be Little's ill-fated run with the Red Sox from 2002-03. He compiled a 188-136 record there — the best winning percentage (.580) of any manager in the last 35 years. But he was second-guessed for failing to lift Pedro Martinez in the eighth inning of Game 7 of the '03 AL championship series. The Yankees tied it off the tiring ace and then earned the World Series berth on Aaron Boone's homer. Little's contract wasn't renewed, but Red Sox president Larry Lucchino said Tuesday he was glad that didn't prevent Little from getting another job. "I think that's terrific for Grady, and wish him great good luck," Lucchino told Boston reporters while other Red Sox executives extolled Little's virtues. "He's not exactly a Hollywood, L.A.-type of guy, but he has a kind of versatility that will hold him in good stead." Little laughed. "Heck, is that the same guy that thought I was going to fit in in New England," he said in his Texas draw. "I'll probably fit in as well as the ballclub does while I'm running it." Little said he didn't dwell on the Yankee Stadium collapse or the harsh commentary in Boston. "That's New England and it's Boston," Little said. "All they want to do is win, and that's all we were trying to do." Little's decision to leave Martinez on the mound may have cost him his last managing job, but it helped him get this one. "His explanation of everything gave me great confidence in who he is," Colletti said. "It's not easy being in that spot. But his way of handling it was very admirable." The Dodgers gave Little, 55, a two-year deal with an option for a third. He beat out Jim Fregosi, John McLaren, Manny Acta and Joel Skinner for the chance to succeed Jim Tracy, who parted ways with the Dodgers on Oct. 3 — the day after the club completed its second-worst season since moving west from Brooklyn in 1958. Lefty traded to pitch for Royals BY ALAN ROBINSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PITTSBURGH — Eager to get a starting pitcher who can get them deep into games, the Kansas City Royals swung a trade Wednesday for Mark Redman — the second left-handed starter dealt by the Pittsburgh Pirates in as many days. The Pirates, looking to trim some payroll after picking up first baseman Sean Casey and his $8.5 million salary from the Cincinnati Reds on Wednesday, get pitcher Jonah Bayliss and a player to be named from the Royals. Bayliss, a 25-year-old right-hander, is expected to fill one of the right-handed relievers' jobs left open in the Pirates bullpen after they chose to not bring back Jose Mesa, Brian Meadows and Rick White from a 95-loss team. Bayliss made 11 relief appearances with the Royals as a rookie this year, going 0-0 with a 4.63 ERA. He pitched recently in the Arizona Fall League and had a 3-0 record and 4.98 ERA in 11 appearances with the Surprise Scorpions. The Royals will be the sixth team in six seasons for the 31-year-old Redman, who is coming off the worst season of a career that began with the Minnesota Twins in 1999. He was 5-15 with a 4.90 ERA in 30 starts for Pittsburgh during an uneven season. strain off an overworked bullpen. Redman, given the second worst run support of any NL starter, was 4-4 with a 2.80 ERA after 14 starts but finished the season 1-11 with a 7.20 ERA in his final 16 starts. Pittsburgh sought to deal Redman before the trading deadline but could find no takers, partly because of his $4.5 million player option for 2006. By shedding Redman's salary, the Pirates have the flexibility to make more moves after adding Casey, who is expected to be the team's highest-paid player next season even if the Reds pick up $2 million of his salary. Before the winter meetings in Dallas, manager Buddy Bell said the Royals were determined to add a quality starter who could pitch a number of innings and take some Pittsburgh general manager Dave Littlefield has dealt two-fifths of his rotation in two days by trading left-hander Dave Williams (10-11) to the Reds and Redman. However, the Pirates are overloaded with left-handed starters. 2005 rookies Zach Duke and Paul Maholm, 2005 opening day starter Oliver Perez and Sean Burnett, who had a promising start to his career in 2004 before sitting out last season after having shoulder surgery are all available. The Pirates acquired Redman last winter in the deal that sent catcher Jason Kendall and much of the remaining $40 million-plus of his contract to Oakland. LAWRENCE AUTOMOTIVE DIAGNOSTICS INC Domestic & Foreign Complete Car Care 842-8665 2858 Four Wheel Dr. STSTRAVEL.COM Join America's #1 Student Tour Operator CANCUN ACAPULCO JAMAICA BAHAMAS FLORIDA SPEW WCBREAR 2006 Sell Trips, Earn Cash, Go Free! Now Hirrnn On-tompus Reps Call for group discounts STS STUDENT TRAINING SERVICES l 800-640-4009 www.ststravel.com With some money to spend for a change, the Royals have sought pitching help. 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The misery that has enveloped the Jets this season has finally rattled Edwards. The normally upbeat Edwards abruptly ended his news conference Wednesday, walking out after sounding off on critics who have targeted his conservative approach in what has become a disastrous year full of injuries and bad luck. Rams place emphasis on defense BY R.B. FALLSTROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ST. LOUIS — Better late than never, the St. Louis Rams are going back to basics on defense. Poor tackling cost the Rams (5-7) dearly last week in a 24-9 loss to the Redskins that all but eliminated them from playoff consideration. Interim coach Joe Vitt complained about several crucial missed tackles after the Redskins rolled up 257 yards rushing, the most allowed by the team since the move to St. Louis 11 years ago. So on Wednesday when the Rams resumed practice, tackling was a major emphasis. The team was in pads the first half of the workout to help them get a better feel for what should be an elementary part of the game. The day after the game, with the wounds still fresh, Vitt was more vocal about the situation. He absolved defensive coordinator Larry Marmie and secondary coach Kurt Schottenheimer, putting the onus on the players and not the scheme. "It's how you play the game, with pads," Vitt said. "We need to get better." "We're not splitting the atom in this business; we're not finding a cure for cancer," Vitt said. "It's the staple of our sport on defense, and if you can't tackle you have to go "One of the main things about tackling is you just have to want to tackle," linebacker Trev Faulk said. "That's Pee Wee football, that's one of the first things that goes with playing defense. find another profession." Players know they have nobody to blame but themselves. "It was real embarrassing for us." A few of the biggest whiffs: safety Mike Furrey took the wrong angle on Rock Cartwright's 52-yard run, cornerback Dejuan Groce tried to wait and meet tight end Robert Royal from a side angle, resulting in a 29-yard play. Rookie cornerback Ron Bartell missed a pair of easy stops. "If you don't tackle, you aren't going to win any game," linebacker Chris Claiborne said. "It doesn't matter what defense you call." Bartell said the problem was "breakdowns in technique, especially myself. It was definitely tough to watch tape of that game. I missed two tackles I definitely should have made." It's tougher for a younger player to hone his technique in practice, given that most NFL teams don't have full-contact workouts once the season begins. That's not the case in college, where most schools have an unlimited supply of bodies. Three backs better than one in Denver THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DENVER — The Denver Broncos' three-headed running attack surfaced a week ago in a 31-27 loss to Kansas City. The early reviews were as lukewarm as the collective results of Mike Anderson, Tatum Bell and Ron Dayne. "It worked out OK," Dayne said Wednesday. "Mike was designed to get most of the work and Tatum to get his." Anderson contributed a 1-yard touchdown run and 46 yards on 13 carries, though he also took a 66-yard screen pass for a score. Bell ran five times for 46 yards and Dayne had eight carries for 26 yards. "For me, it is no different than the way I have been used throughout the season," Dayne said. "I'm aware I have to stay ready. We'll have to wait and see." Bell was the focal point. "But a lot depends on what happens on a regular basis," he said. "How much guys practice and how they look during the week." Quarterback Jake Plummer said he liked the concept, but was comfortable when the running game was limited to Anderson and Bell. whole week," coach Mike Shanahan said. "I don't think that'll be something that that we do on a regular basis." "One of the reasons we used three backs was to get Tatum more carries because he was hurt (the week before) and practiced the Dayne to the mix required little or no adjustment for him. "They are coached to run the same track and read the blocking of the offensive line after a handoff." Plummer said. "Each offers a defense a different look, Tatum more than the other two, Plummer said. He said adding Individually, Anderson, Bell and Dayne rank no higher than 13th among the NFL's running backs. Collectively, they combine to represent a running attack second only to the Atlanta Falcons in the NFL. And Atlanta's numbers are bolstered by Michael Vick, a runnin- quarterback. THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 5C Chiefs peak when they need to most Injuries heal, players return BY DOUG TUCKER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KANSAS CITY, Mo. Healthy and confident, the Kansas City Chiefs appear to be peaking at the perfect time, and just in time. As they make the turn into what coach Dick Vermeil calls the fourth quarter of the regular-season, just about everything that's supposed to be up — such as yards per carry, yards per game and points scored — is going higher. Conversely, things that are supposed to be down, such as yards allowed and points allowed, are headed south. Perhaps just as importantly, good health has returned to a team that a month ago was hobbled at key spots. Left tackle Willie Roaf, who missed much of the season with a hamstring injury, has not only returned, he's regained the dominating form that took him to 10 Pro Bowls. Right guard Will Shields also has shrugged off back problems and is playing the way he did while earning 10 Pro Bowl trips himself. As a result, quarterback Trent Green is not fighting for his life on every passing down and was able in a 31-27 victory against Denver last week to have his finest game of the year. Even the defensive line has gotten a boost. Tackle Ryan Sims, out since the season opener with a foot injury, made his return last week against Denver. While he did not play much, he played well, and even had a big hand in the play of the game, when the Broncos were stopped on fourth and one near midfield with 2:01 remaining. "We've become close to what we're going to be." Vermeil said. "It took a while. We had to get healthy, stay healthy. The defense had to continue to mature. Those things have all happened." The one thing the Chiefs have not yet done is beat a winning team on the road. This week sends them to Dallas (7-5), where the Cowboys will be out to halt a two-game slide that's put them in the same position the Chiefs are facing — one game out of the lead in their division. "Dallas was 5-7 last year at this time and now they're 7-5," Vermeil said. "We were 4-8 last year at this time and now were 8-4. So both organizations have turned their seasons around and now The Kansas City Chiefs appear to be peaking at the perfect time and just in time. compete Sunday to see which one can keep it going. The only thing our performance has done right now is guarantee us eight wins." Ironically, the Chiefs launched the season thinking their toughest stretch would be early, with the New York Jets and Philadelphia Eagles coming to town along with road trips to Denver and Oakland. But as things have worked out, the Jets and Eagles are having down years and the Raiders are trailing everybody in the AFC West. But their last six are against teams with winning records who are solid playoff contenders. Already beaten in Arrowhead Stadium the past two weeks are New England and Denver. Now comes trips to Dallas and the New York Giants, followed by home games against the San Diego Chargers and AFC Northleading Cincinnati Bengals. "I believe we'll play well from here on out," Vermeil said. "I don't know how many we're going to win, but I believe we're going to play well. Right now, we're competitive enough to line up and play against anybody. Whether we can beat them or not, I don't know. Our schedule is so demanding that we can't afford a bad game." In every one of their three straight wins — against Houston, New England and Denver — the Chiefs have appeared to play better than the week before. "When you win three in a row, that's a good indication," Vermilil said. "But your concern with three in a row is that sometimes you start feeling so good about yourself, you forget how you won three in a row." Experience has taught the NFL's oldest coach to be wary of overconfidence. "The games played this late in the year, regardless of what you've done winning-wise, you have to regenerate that sense of urgency on Sunday," he said. "And sometimes it's a little bit harder coming off three wins. I've been a victim of that. I'm very much aware of it." 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Marco Sturm scored his third goal in four games since being traded from San Jose with Wayne Primeau and Brad Stuart for Boston captain Joe Thornton. The Bruins just didn't have many other good scoring chances and gave up too many at the other end to lose for the 11th time in 14 games. They are 2-2 since dealing Thornton, the Boston captain last week. - Kolesnik certainly didn't make it easy on the Bruins in what could be the start of a shakeup for the Avalanche. * Colorado called up the 26-year-old player from Kazakhstan on Tuesday after becoming frustrated with the spotty play of goalies David Aebischer and Peter Budaj. Aebischer, the Avalanche's top goalie to start the season, has a 3.37 goals-against average and was pulled after allowing four goals on 16 shots in the first period of a 6-4 loss to Buffalo on Sunday. Budaj, a rookie, is 3-4-3 with a .904 save percentage, 0-3 in shootouts and has yet to win in four games at home. Bringing up Kolesnik could be a sign that the Avalanche are looking to make a deal or it could just be that coach Joel Quenneville and the front office are looking to spark Aebischer and Budai. Either way, Kolesnik looked solid, keeping good position in the crease and knocking down some tough chances through traffic. He was particularly good during a power play midway through the first period, smothering a hard shot from the top with his body, gloving another from the left circle and sticking his skate out just in time to block a rebound. Boston's only goal came with 27 seconds left in the first period, when Sturm slipped behind Colorado's defense for a breakaway and scored off a rebound that tied it at 1-all. Boston goalie Andrew Raycroft had another tough outing after taking three games off. Heijduk scored on a power play in the first period, knocking in his third goal in 18 games to an open net after a shot by Tanguay caromed off someone out front. Tanguay put Colorado up 2-1 midway through the second, holding the puck across the crease and flipping a shot over a prone Raycroft after intercepting a pass from Bruins defenseman Brian Leetch. McLean made it 3-1 just over four minutes later with an improbable goal, beating Raycroft to the stick side after whirling around near the blue line. Liles scored his seventh of the season midway through the third, one-timing a pass from Joe Sakic past Raycroft's stick side. Raycrow has allowed 15 goals his last four games. MLB Rockies offer salary arbitration to righty pitcher, not to catcher THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2005 DALLAS — Right-hander Byung-Hyun Kim was offered salary arbitration Wednesday night by the Colorado Rockies, who refused to do the same for catcher Todd Greene and right- handers Dan Micell and Jamey Wright. Kim was 5-12 with a 4.86 ERA in 40 games (22 starts) for the Rockies this season. He allowed 42 earned runs in 84 innings at Coors Field, that 4.50 ERA being the fourth-lowest home ERA The Rockies can continue contract negotiations with Kim, who has until Dec. 19 to accept and can re-sign through Jan. 8, Greene, Miceli and Wright can't re-sign with Colorado until Mav 1. in franchise history for pitchers with at least 81 innings. Kim was 5-12 with a 4.86 ERA in 40 games (22 starts) for the Rockies this season. He allowed 42 earned runs in 84 innings at Coors Field, that 4.50 ERA being the fourth-lowest home ERA in franchise history for pitchers with at least 81 inning. Wright was 8-16 with a 5.45 ERA over 34 games (27 starts) last season. Miceli was 1-2 with a 5.89 ERA in 19 appearances. Greene spent the past two seasons in Colorado, hitting 271 with 17 home runs and 58 RBIs over 113 games. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1C Basketball "I should play with more energy in the post," she said. "In the Big 12 they will be stronger than me." The team will get its first big test on Sunday afternoon, when it takes on Wisconsin. That game tips off at 1 p.m. at Allen Fieldhouse. Senior forward Crystal Kemp left the court briefly in the second half, and freshman forward Jen Orgas went down with a knee injury shortly afterward. Henrickson said both players were fine. Overton was unhappy with several non-calls late in the game, at one point yelling out, "This is a joke." Notes: — After having only five fouls in the first half, Kansas had 13 in the second. UMKC coach Bo After the game, Overton said his 2-6 UMKC team was learning a lot by playing a tough nonconference schedule, which continues on Sunday against Kansas State. Edited by Erin Wisdom Hawks three-point percentage. Kansas leads the Big 12 and is second in the NCAA in three-point shooting percentage, knocking down more than 49 percent of its three-point shots. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1C line, a stat which Henrickson attributed to a lack of focus. Kansas shot a season-low 41 percent against Birmingham Southern. A close game, however, could spell trouble for Kansas because of its free-throw shooting. The Jayhawks only shoot 61 percent from the free-throw Sunday's game matches two of the highest scoring teams in their respective conferences. Both Kansas and Wisconsin average more than 70 points per game. Part of the Jayhawks' average 77 points per game can be attributed to their blistering In their only previous meeting, Kansas lost to Wisconsin, 73-72, in the first round of the 1995 NCAA tournament. — Edited by Anne Burgard Rylan Howe/KANSAN KANSAS 40 Senior forward Crystal Kemp takes a shot early in the first half. Kemp scored a game-high 16 points to help the Jayhawks improve to 6-0 with a 73-51 win against UMKC Wednesday at Allen Fieldhouse. Strides CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1C Some seniors will be playing in their first bowl game, because they transferred from a junior college after the 2003 season. Players like defensive ends Jermial Ashley and Charlton Keith will have that opportunity. "I have never been to a bowl game so I am really excited for it," Ashley said, who also will play in his hometown of Fort Worth for his last collegiate game. Luke believes that this bowl game will help Kansas be seen as a good football team in the future. "You kind of feel like you are leaving something for the program, that we really did help build this program and that it is on its way up in the college football world," Luke said. a football team that played hard. Mangino said that the next step for his program was to have teams in the conference calling Kansas a good football team. After the victory against Iowa State to make the team bowl eligible, Mangino talked about how teams in the conference respected Kansas more and said that they were Through the seniors on this year's team, Kansas has become a team that plays hard. 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BY DANIEL BERK dberk@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITTER Texas' closest game in the conference came in its last regular season game of the year against Texas A&M, when it won 40-29. Besides that game, Texas posted five games where it scored 50 or more points and registered 40 points in every conference game. Young threw for 2,769 yards this season and 26 touchdowns. He also beat teams with his legs, running for 850 yards and nine touchdowns. Young was named Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year last week by the league's coaches. The Longhorns were paced by their quarterback Vince Young. The junior from Houston is expected to receive an invitation this week to the Heisman Trophy Presentation in New York. Also contributing for Texas this season was freshman running back Jamaal Charles. Charles was named the conference's Offensive Freshman Player of the Year. Charles battled a leg injury for some of the season but still managed to run for 844 yards and 11 touchdowns. Texas completed its dream season when it defeated Colorado last weekend 70-3 in the Big 12 Championship game. The only game this season where the Longhorns were held to under 40 points was its thrilling.25-22 victory at then No.4 Ohio State. Young gained a lot of national attention after that game, where he tallied nearly 350 yards of total offense and threw the game-winning touchdown to receiver Limas Sweed with 2:37 to play in the game. story in the conference on the field, the biggest off the field story was the retirement of Kansas State football coach Bill Snyder. While Texas was the biggest Snyder called it quits after 17 seasons as the head coach for Kansas State, where he compiled 136 victories. Snyder retired so he could spend more time with his family. Snyder has accepted a position in the athletics department where he will serve as a special assistant to Athletic Director Tim Weiser. Texas' closest game in the conference came in its last regular season game of the year against Texas A&M, when it won 40-29. Besides that game. Texas posted five games where it scored 50 or more points and registered 40 points in every conference game. Snyder will be remembered for engineering one of the greatest turnarounds in college football history. The year before Snyder arrived at Kansas State, the team went 0-11. In just his third season as head coach, Snyder and his team went 7-4 and the coach was given Coach of the Year honors by ESPN. Things would continue to get better for the Wildcats and Snyder. Just two seasons after the 7-4 season, Snyder's team went 9-2-1 and qualified for just its second bowl appearance ever. That would mark the first of 11 straight postseason appearances for Kansas State. The 2005 Big 12 season also saw the Baylor Bears do something it had never done before. In its 10th season as a part of the Big 12 Conference, Baylor won its first ever road conference game when it defeated Iowa State. Although Baylor did miss out on a bowl game by one victory, the Bears featured a young team that will no longer be viewed as a pushover by other team's in the conference. Baylor's other victory in the conference came Forget the AP and coaches this is the real All-Big 12 team Daniel Berk has followed the Big 12 Conference for the Kansan all season. After consulting with Kansan editors and sportswriters, he selected the following players for an All-Big 12 Conference team. OFFENSE OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR Texas junior quarterback Vince Young Vince Young: QB Texas Adrian Peterson: RB Oklahoma hanna ♦ Taurean Henderson: RB Texas ♦ Taurean Henderson: RB Texas Tech ♦ J.D Runnels: FB Oklahoma Joel Filani WR Texas Tech D'Juan Woods WR Oklahoma State David Thomas TE Texas - Davin Joseph: OL Oklahoma* Jeromey Clary OL Kansas State DEFENSE DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Kansas senior linebacker Nick Reid DEFENSE - Jonathan Scott OL Texas - Tony Palmer OL Missouri Dusty Doveracok DJ Oklahoma Justin Blalock OL Texas Jonathan Scott OL Texas Mark Fenton OL Colorado Justin Blalock OL Texas Rodrigue Wright DL Texas Rodrique Wright DL Texas Nick Leaders OL Iowa State Charlton Keith D. Kansas Nick Leaders DL Iowa State Rufus Alexander LB Oklahoma Nick Reid LB Kansas Avery Morris LB Texas - Dwayne Slay DB Texas Tech - ♦ Michael Huff DB Texas - Charleston Rent DL rents * Brent Survey DL Iowa State - Chijioke Onyenegecha DB Oklahoma* at home to Oklahoma State. - LaMarcus Hicks DB Iowa State Cedric Griffin DB Texas The conference will also have to say goodbye to four senior quarterbacks who went out with a bang in the 2005 season. The other quarterbacks that will be leaving the Big 12 are Colorado's Joel Klatt, Texas Tech's Cody Hodges and Texas A&M's Reggie McNeal. Klatt was a four-year starter for Colorado and holds nearly every school record in passing. Mason Crosby Pk Colorado Headlining the group of seniors was Missouri senior quarterback Brad Smith. Smith became the first quarterback in NCAA history to run for more than 1,000 yards and pass for more than 2,000 yards in a season twice. Smith first accomplished the feat his freshman season in 2002. - Charles Gordon KR/PR Kansas Kansas fans will remember Smith most for going 1-3 against Kansas in his four years as starting quarterback and losing his last three games to the Jayhawks. ◆ John Torp PColorado Hodges was a starting quarterback for the first time this year, but had his impact felt as he threw for 4,010 yards and 30 touchdowns. Hodges will have one more game to add on to his statistics when Texas Tech plays Alabama in the Cotton Bowl. In all, it was a successful season for the Big 12 as it filled all of its eight bowl spots. Texas will be headlining the group playing in the Rose Bowl. Despite a disappointing 7-4 season, Oklahoma still gained a berth in the Holiday Bowl and will play 10-1 Oregon. Missouri, at 6-5, will play South Carolina in the Independence Bowl. Iowa State will play Texas Christian University in the Houston Bowl. 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North Side Drive I35W & North Side Dr. Exit #53 KU Rate $69.00 817-831-9200 • 1-800-456-4000 www.countryinns.com/fortworthtx 6B THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN FORT WORTH BOWL THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2005 TOU Contributed photo Going, eating and having fun Amon G. Carter stadium overflows on a gameday in this undated file photo. Kansas will meet Houston at 7 p.m. on Dec. 23 at the stadium on TCU's campus. BY KELLEI ROBINETT robinett@kansan.com KANSAN SENIOR SPORTSWITER Fort Worth won't jump out at Kansas fans when they look at a map of Texas. It's the sixth largest city in the state, but it's overshadowed in its own metroplex by Dallas, located an hour east. Make no mistake though, the city is a fun place to spend a day while waiting for Kansas football. It offers something for everyone with real cattle drives, a large downtown area and a major university. TCU, it is modern Texas. I, myself, have been there a time or two. Just to make sure I didn't miss anything, TCU students were consulted for the following entertainment guide to Fort Worth. Getting there: The Jayhawk faithful couldn't have asked for an easier drive to a bowl game. You don't need a GPS or a map to find Fort Worth. From Lawrence, or any part of Kansas, and drive 1-35 south until you see the Fort Worth skyline. It's an easy drive, about seven hours depending on stops. Set your cruise control on the high side while you're on the Kansas Turnpike or in Oklahoma, but be warned when you cross into Texas. Drive the speed limit, which drops five miles per hour at night. Keepin' full: Name a type of food and Fort Worth has it. It just depends on your budget. On the cheap: Whataburger. You've seen the commercials during Big 12 Conference basketball games; now try the best fast food restaurant in the Taco Cabana. Another 24-hour joint that is cheap and relatively quick. Just realize that it will be hard to go back to El Mezcal after eating Mexican food in Texas. countrv. It's also open 24 hours. Angelo's Barbecue. This is the place to go for Texas-style brisket and ribs. There are plenty of TVs, too, to watch other bowl games. Jack in the Box, Former Kansas guard Keith Langford, a Fort Worth-native, often said it was what he missed most about Texas. Medium Priced: Pappadeaux Seafood Restaurant. It's a chain, but offers some of the best seafood platters around. There also are plenty of special Cajun drinks you can try. Joe T. Garcia's Mexican Restaurant. One of the most famous local restaurants. It's true Tech-Mex, but bring cash. Joe doesn't take credit. Going out The Stockyards National Historic District. Don't let the name or cattle that roam the street during the day fool you. This 15-square-block area, located just north of downtown, is a fun place to drink a beer or listen to music. Where else can you find a saloon these days? Sundance Square. Located downtown, this 20-block stretch serves as anything from an outdoor mall to a performing arts center — with comedy, music and movies. Amon G. Carter Stadium. If you're going to Fort Worth thinking football and only football you can set up shop at TCU's football stadium. Every kind of tailgating is allowed there, so feel free to bring a grill and attempt to set a record for the longest KU pre-bowl tailgate. Edited by Nate Karlin VIEW FROM PRESS ROW Kansas has everything to gain from trip to Fort Worth Bowl The Kansas football team couldn't have asked for a better postseason destination than the Fort Worth Bowl. It's not glamorous or rich in tradition, but after the Jayhawks finished the year at 6-5 they are in a perfect situation. hawks should be playing in. The Fort Worth Bowl will give Kansas the opportunity to play an evenly matched opponent in Houston, play in front of a strong fan base and prove it is a program on the rise. Sure, Kansas football coach Mark Mangino probably had his sights set a little higher when the season began but let's be honest — this is the type of bowl the Jay- Had any of the other bowls the Jayhawks were in the running for invited them and matched Kansas up against TCU, South Carolina or Clemson, it would be looking at a sure loss. Two years ago, Kansas played in a slightly better Tangerine Bowl and had to play North Carolina State. The Jayhawks never had a chance to stop quarterback Phillip Rivers, now with the San Diego Chargers, and lost by 30 points. P This year though, Kansas will play a team it can beat. Houston is OK. It finished 6-5 and defeated Conference USA champion Tulsa but also lost at KELLIS ROBINETT ROBINETT@KANSAN.COM home to SMU, which is one of the worst teams in the country. Kansas will be the favorite and because it is from a vastly better conference, should win this game. One is a winning record. One is .500. Defeating the Cougars will give the Jayhawks a 7-5 record, and in the world of college football there's a difference between 7-5 and 6-6. One comes with a bowl victory. One comes with a bowl loss. One would be a monster step for Kansas. One would be only a slight improvement. Just ask senior quarterback Brian Luke how big a bowl victory would be. "It would set the foundation for KU football," he said. "And would really help this team on its way to become a powerhouse." Well, Luke might be getting a little ahead of himself but a victory in Fort Worth would certainly make Kansas an above average team. Having a winning record and bowl victory on the résumé speaks volumes on a national level. It's one of those tidbits you see on the cover of media guides, "Kansas: Fort Worth Worth Bowl. Winner." But for as big as this game will be for the football program, it will even bigger for its fans. One of the keys to being selected for bigger and better bowls is fan support. A lot of bowls even use it as tie breaker when assessing teams with similar records. That's where the location of Fort Worth becomes ideal. Fort Worth is by far the closest bowl city to Lawrence. It's only an eight-hour drive down I-35. The Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex is also home to one of the largest KU alumni bases in the country. So, fans should have no problem Two years ago, when the Jayhawks played in the Tangerine Bowl, a miserable number of fans made the trip to Orlando and it showed when the stadium wasn't even half-full on the KU side. getting to the game. A strong fan showing this year would erase that debacle, especially with no other bowls scheduled for Dec. 23, and ESPN televising the game nationally. Combine that with a Kansas victory and suddenly the Jayhawks are attractive to future bowls. ♦ Robinett is an Austin, Texas senior in journalism. He is Kansan sports editor. Kansan.com The New Look No Further You can find outstanding health care right here in Lawrence. Former head football coach Don Fambrough knows a thing or two about what goes into a winning team. That's why he has always counted on Lawrence Memorial Hospital for his health care needs. "I have a great deal of confidence in the staff at LMH, from the doctors and nurses to the administrators and everyone else," he said. "To me, they're just like good coaches. They know what they're doing and they know how to do it." When you need to find an outstanding health care team, take a close look at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. To learn more, log on to www.lmh.org. LAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL M The Right Care. Right Here. Right Now. 2 --- 2 December 8, 2005 Japlay Season's Greetings! 1ST ANNUAL NEW YEAR'S EVE PARTY at "THE RIDE" 1ST ANNUAL NEW YEAR'S EVE PARTY at "THE RIDE" All-you-can-eat buffet, 7 p.m.-midnight Complimentary bottle of champagne Great music by RACY GRACE SLOW RIDE ROADHOUSE BAR & GRILL $25 per couple, $15 per individual, 21+ Tickets available at Slow Ride Roadhouse 1350 N. 3rd Street North Lawrence, KS All-you-can-eat buffet, 7 p.m.-midnight Complimentary bottle of champagne Great music by RACY GRACE SLOW RIDE ROADHOUSE BAR & GRILL $25 per couple, $15 per individual, 21 Tickets available at Slow Ride Roadhouse 1350 N. 3rd Street North Lawrence, KS 785-749-2727 FREE POOL Mon.-Thurs. 2 p.m.-2 a.m. Fri.-Sun. 11 p.m.-2 a.m. THURSDAY $2 Imports $3 Jager Bombs $3 Guiness FRIDAY $2 Bully/ Freestate draws $2 Coronas $2 Captains SATURDAY DJ Aether & DJason 18 to enter, 21 to drink (no cover 21+) Daily Food Specials Mon: 50¢ wings Tue: Pizza, Pool, Pitcher $10 Wed: 75¢ Tacos Thur: 3 Tostadas $5 Fri: Chicken Fried Steak /Mashed/Gravy/Vegg $5⁹⁹ Sat: $1 Burgers Sun: $3 B & G, while they last $3 Nacho Supreme Grill Open Until 1 a.m. IN THE BACK OF 925 IOWA (BEHIND THE MERC) 749.5039 ... the Pool Room Read 3 Weekly choice music and events calendar table of contents 6 6 Bite holiday food 8 Notice your getaway guide 10 Contact Santa: the man, the myth Feature 12 all we want... 17 Venue a new year and no love? no problem 19 Reviews best of 2005 best of 2005 23 Speak the truth comes out Editor's note With my graduation days away, my parents moving from Kansas City to Boston and I from Lawrence to New York City, not to mention impeding finals, I've considered slipping on my fleece Santa pj's, cranking up the heat and crawling into bed for hibernation until it all blows over. I'm sure you share my sentiments. But today's Jayplay isn't going to let you or me skip over this season. Today's issue is stuffed full of holiday recipes, fun facts, stories and calendar listings to inspire and lift your spirits through finals and into the New Year. So take a deep breath, read the last Jayplay of the year, chop some firewood, go iceskating, watch holiday movies, drink hot chocolate and before you and I know, it'll all be over. And then we'll be wishing we were back pulling all night- ers while drinking coffee until our nerves are shot — maybe. Good night, KU. - Anja Winikka JAYPLAYERS EDITOR AKA THE STAR Anja Winikka ASSOCIATE EDITOR AKA WILDTHING Brian Wacker CLERK GETS AROUND TOWN Leigh Ann Foskey DESIGNERS MAKE PRETTY PAGES Becka Cremer Timothy Aaron Huston PHOTOGRAPHER TELL ME WHAT YOU NEED Kit Leffler BITE ALWAYS HAS THE MUNCHIES Natalie Johnson Kelsie Smith Laura Snyder CONTACT WILL HELP YOU WITH YOUR PROBLEMS Meghan Miller Chris Moore Katie Moyer NOTICE TAKES NOTE OF IT Kathryn Anderson James Foley Katy Humpert VENUE HAS BOOZE AND THE BEAT Rory Flynn Lindsey Ramsey Dave Rugh CREATIVE CONSULTANT KNOWS A LOT Carol Holstead Cover Photo Models: Fall 2005 Jayplay staff Photo by Kit Leffler SPEAK UP JUST SEND AN E-MAIL TO: jayplay2005@gmail.com or individually, the formula is: (1st initial+last name = kansan.com) 2 OR WRITE TO: Jayplay The University Daily Kansan 111 Stauffer-Flint Hall 1435 Jaywah Blvd. Lawrence, KS 66045 VOLUME 3,ISSUE 15 Jayplay 12.08.05 15 Weekly choice Thurs 12/08 Fri 12/09 Sat 12/10 Student Art Sale. Kansas Union Lobby, Level 4, 12 p.m. Tea Time. Kansas Union Lobby, 3:00 p.m., FREE Feature Film: Office Space. Spencer Museum of Art, auditorium, 7 p.m., FREE Stop Day Eve Holiday Bash. Kansas Union, Hawks Nest, level 1,9 p.m., FREE Beauty and the Beast. Lawrence Community Theatre, 7:30 pm, all ages, $15 for students Little Shop of Horrors. The Music Hall, 8 p.m., $42.50 U. M.K.C. Saxophone Quartet. White Hall, 7:30 p.m., FREE The Rounders, Fast Food Junkies. Gaslight Tavern, 9 p.m., 18+ Neon. Granada. 10 p.m., 18+, Free to $5 "Nice Up the Dance" with Señor Ozgood. The Record Bar, 10 p.m., 21+,$3 Photolab. Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., 21+, $3 Matt Walsh. Fatso's, 10 p.m., 21+,$3 The Pomonas, The Volunteers. Replay Lounge, 10 p.m., 21+, $2 One Man Band Competition. The Brick, 10 p.m., 21+ Black Ale Sinners. Eighth Street Taproom, 11 p.m., 21+, FREE KJHK Danceparty for Beatlovers. Jackpot Saloon.,10 p.m., 18+, $3 Thursday Night Jam with DJ Soap. Addis Ababa 10 p.m., 18+ A Kansas Nutcracker. Lawrence Arts Center, 8 p.m., all ages, $11 for students Beauty and the Beast. Lawrence Community Theatre, 7:30 pm, all ages, $17 for students Kansas City Ballet presents: The Nutcracker. Midland Theatre, 7:30 p.m., $23 Little Shop of Horrors. The Music Hall, 8 p.m., $42.50 Merry Tuba Christmas. Town Pavilion, 12 p.m., FREE. The BelAirs. Jazzhaus 10 p.m., 21+, $5 Dojo. Gaslight Tavern, 9 p.m., 18+, $3 Honeymoon Blues, Afterparty, Meat Purveyors. Davey's Uptown, 21+, 10 p.m., $6 The Famed, Eyes Catch Fire, Playing with Matches. The Bottleneck, 8 p.m., all ages, $9 Rickets, Sidewise, God Project. Granada, 8 p.m., all ages, $10 Peoples Revenue, Piston, Harmless Addiction. The Boobie Trap Bar, 9 p.m., 18+, $5 to $6 The Fantastic Toy Shop. Topeka Performing Arts Center, 7 p.m., all ages, $10 Ida McBeth. The Blue Room, 8:30 p.m., $5 TG Sheppard. The Voodoo Lounge at Harrah's Casino, 8 p.m., 21+,$12 Lecture: "The Hunt for Exoplanets." Mallot Hall, room 1001, 7:30 p.m., all ages, FREE We're not exactly sure why you'd want to go and attend a lecture about exoplanets on Stop Day, but then again, we don't know much here. If you'd rather be learning about planets orbiting stars other than the sun on Stop Day night, well sir, that is your own business. A Kansas Nutcracker. Lawrence Arts Center, 8 p.m., all ages, $11 for students Beyond Origami. Opening reception at Lawrence Arts Center, 7 p.m.to 9 p.m., all ages, FREE Lawrence Civic Choir Holiday Concert 2005. First United Methodist Church, 7:30 pm, all ages, FREE Beauty and the Beast. Lawrence Community Theatre, 2:30 p.m. and 8 p.m., all ages, $17 for students Kansas City Ballet presents: The Nutcracker. Midland Theatre, Kansas City, Mo., 2 p.m., $23 Kansas City World Holiday Market. City Market Kansas City, Mo., 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., FREE Little Shop of Horrors. The Music Hall, Kansas City, Mo., 8 p.m., $42.50 Kansas Jayhawks vs. California Golden Bears. Kemper Arena, Kansas City, Mo., 11 a.m., $40 Dead Girls Ruin Everything, Kettlin' Crude. Replay Lounge, 10 p.m., $2, 21+ 10 Years. Uptown Theatre, Kansas City, Mo., 6 p.m., all ages, $25.50 Keith Anderson, Outlaw Junkies. Beaumont Club, 7 p.m., all ages, $15 Aphasia, Marry Me Moses. Jackpot Saloon, 10 p.m., $4 to $6, 18+ Takin in Vain, Ancient Creation, Apnea. Davey's Uptown Rambler's Club, 10 p.m., 21+, $6 Tri Point Paradox. Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., 21+, $4 Millage Gilbert's Royal Blue Matinee. The Grand Emporium, 4 p.m., 21+, FREE Keith Anderson. The Beaumont Club, 7 p.m., all ages, $15 Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, Baliroot. Slow Ride Roadhouse, 9:30 p.m., 21+, FREE The Golden Republic, Roman Numerals. The Hurricane, 9:30 p.m., 21+,$10 Jayplay 12.08.05 3 Weekly choice Sun 12/11 Mon 12/12 Tues 12/13 Wed 12/14 Key West Jazz Quartet. Stone Creek, 6-9 p.m., all ages, FREE Sunday Night Jazz. Eighth Street Taproom, 10 p.m. to 1:30 a.m., 21+,$2 Normanoak, Lord Fyre, AuroraDoreyAlice, Keith Martin. Play, 10 p.m., 21+, $2 Meat Purveyors, Mike Nicolai. Jackpot Saloon, 10 p.m., 21+,$5, 18+,$7 Bombshell Girls' Rockabilly Night. Replay, 7 p.m., 21+, $2 Rasputina, Dame Darcy, Alacartoona. Granada, 8 p.m., all ages, $13.50 to $15 Dirty Boogie. Gaslight Tavern, 10 p.m., 18+, FREE 56 hope Road, Locomacheen.The Boobie Trap Bar, p.m., 21+,$5 18+,$6 Lee McBee. Jackpot Saloon, 5:30, 18+, FREE The Spanktones. Jazzhaus, 9 p.m., 21+, $2 Barry, Avenue. Replay, 10 p.m., 21+, $2 Open Mic. Bottleneck, 10 p.m., 18+, $2 If for some crazy reason you have time to take away from studying for finals, get your booty over to the Bottleneck and show everyone what you've got. E. V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N. Davey's Uptown Ramblers Club, 10 p.m., 21+, $2 Justin Ripley, Scott Schwein. Henry's On Eighth, 10 p.m., 21+, FREE Charles Williams.The Blue Room, 7:00 p.m., 21+, FREE Tuesday Night Swing. 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Pepto Bismo CHERRY 8 FL OZ (236 mL) HERSHEY'S Kit Leffler/ Jayplay photographer When your food is out to get you By Natalie Johnson, Jayplay writer Crippling diarrhea and body aches aren't normally associated with holiday cheer, but they await you if you don't take the proper precautions. E.coli, Norwalk virus and salmonella are lurking in lukewarm temperatures and unsatisfactory hand-washing, ready to garnish your table along with Cool-Whip and cheese balls. Here's a quiz to prepare you for bingeing in holiday bliss. 1. You've finished round 1, and now it's time to unbutton your pants and return for more cheese Quick tips for safety a. Not if they're kept in the trunk. b. Only if the ride's more than a 2. Convinced that your college diet consists of dollar wells and Ramen, Mom sends you back to school with a basket full of food. Should the leftovers be in a cooler on the ride back? 1. Heed expiration dates Answer: c. Debra Holtzman, author of The Safe Baby: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Home Safety, says that after two hours, food is more likely to grow bacteria. She recommends that everything from turkey to sweet potato pie to veggie trays be refrigerated after two hours. 2. Wash hands before preparing, serving and eating food. 3. When reheating leftovers, nuke them 'til they're 165 degrees Farenheit, a.k.a. piping-hot. a. You don't need to go running any time soon. 4. Eat leftovers within two to three days. and crackers and a turkey sandwich. It's safe to eat more if: Source: Debra Holtzman b. It's on ice or heat. Period. c. It's been out for less than 2 hours. couple hours. couple hours. c. Coolers are for beer, silly! Answer:b.Holtzman says putting food in the trunk doesn't ensure that it will remain cold enough to prevent bacteria. She says that as long as the food is on ice, in a cooler, it should be fine whether you're from Bonner Springs or Chicago. 3. When you see a loved one about to make holiday punch with unpasteurized juice, you should shout a. Only one bottle of vodka? What a douche! rare, it could be home to millions of dangerous bacterial b. Unpasteurized juice? Although douchel c. It's better if you mix it in the bathtub. See, we had this party... to be aware of drink labels. He says that although unpasteurized juice is rare, it does exist and cause illness from bacteria. Jayplay 12.08.05 4. You're celebrating Hanukkah.The fried food adorns the table, a cornucopia of oily goodness. Is it safe to dive in? Answer: b. Jeff Walker, Quality Assurance Manager of the Kansas Health Department, says it's just as important a. Yes. b. No. a. Yes, as long as they're in the wrappers. Answer: a. Yes. Jay Lewis, executive director of KU's Hillel House, says typical Hanukkah foods are fried ones, like potato latkes and jelly donut-type pastries called sufganiyot. Walker says that frying foods typically kills any kind of bacteria in them, but that the two-hour rule also applies when clearing them off the table. 5. You're unpacking decorations from last year and come across some ancient candy canes. Are they still safe to eat? wrapper b. Yes, as long as they aren't sprucing eyes c. After a year? No. Answer: a. Holtzman says that as long as hard candy is still in a wrapper and not moldy, it should be safe to eat. Extra precautions must be taken with chocolate, as it can get moldy, but candy canes are typically safe. So there you have it: get in all that eating in December, before time runs out and the New Year's resolutions start rearing their ugly heads. But do it safely. Don't stumble in the fancy dining room at 2 a.m. and polish off the pumpkin pie and veggie tray. Keep them in the fridge and polish them off in the kitchen. Remember that drinks should come from pasteurized products, that goes for eggnog as well as juice. And wash your hands. 3. Salmonella: found in poultry, unpasteurized milk or underchlorinated water. Symptoms include nausea, diarrhea, stomach cramps. Common foodborne illnesses and the symptoms Foodborne illnesses 1. Norwalk Virus: spread through improper hand washing. Symptoms include nausea, diarrhea, vomiting. 6 2. E. coli: typically found in ground beef. Symptoms include diarrhea and stomach cramps. 4. Campylobacter: spread through infected poultry or improper hand washing. Symptoms (if they appear) include nausea, diarrhea, stomach cramps, fever. Source: Jeff Walker. National Institute of Health Beyond Christmas By Laura Snyder, Jayplay writer recipes Chinese New Year JingPing Lu, Chinese graduate student, looks forward to celebrating the Chinese New Year on January 29. She compares the food preparation and feast to Thanksgiving in the United States. Fish and chicken are necessities on a New Year's menu, says Ling. The Chinese word for "fish" is similar to the pronunciation for the word for "extra" — and everyone wants more good things to come in the New Year. Similarly, the word for "chicken" sounds like the word for "fortune" in Chinese, which is also a good omen for the New Year. Lu says dumplings are another favorite menu item, as the word "dumpling" sounds like "time changes" — appropriate to the New Year. Lu's recipe for Chinese Dumplings ("Jiao Zi"): Jiaozi Dough: - 3 cups all-purpose flour - 1/2 teaspoon salt - Up to 1 1/2 cups ice cold water Filling: - 1 tbsp sov sauce - 1 cup ground pork or beef - 1 teaspoon salt - 1 tbsp Chinese rice wine or dry sherry - or dry sherry - 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground white pepper, or to taste - 3 tbsp sesame oil - 1/2 green onion, finely minced - 1 1/2 cups finely shredded Napa cabbage - 4 tbsp shredded bamboo shoots - 2 slices fresh ginger, finely minced - 1 clove garlic, peeled and finely minced Construction: 1. Place dumpling skin in the palm of your hand. Dip a finger in cold water then wet the edges of the dumpling skin. 2. Spoon a lump of filling (approximately 1 tbsp.) into the middle of the skin. 3. Fold dumpling in half. Pinch top of semi-circle together. 4. Push in on both sides of dumpling, so that dumplings looks like the letter "I" from the top. 5. Bend one half of each "top" of the "l" and press against middle edge of dumpling. Seal all edges of dumpling. 6. Your dumpling should look like a half-moon with a big bulge in the middle. To cook, drop into a big pot of boiling water until dumplings float to surface. Reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes. 9 Eid-al-Fitr Bazigha Tufail, Lee's Summit, Mo. junior, celebrated a major Muslim holiday on November 3. Eid-al-Fitr is a three-day celebration that marks the end of a month of fasting, called Ramadan. Muslims abstain from food and drink from sunrise to sunset every day for a month to help them sympathize with less-fortunate people. "It's also a time for meditation about how you're leading your life spiritually," Tufail says. Following morning prayer on the first day of Eid, Tu- fail says Muslims socialize, give gifts and visit friends' houses for brunch. The brunch food depends on one's country of origin, she says. Tufail's family is from Pakistan, so she says they eat a lot of desserts, including Heer, a rice pudding. Tufail's recipe for Kheer: Ingredients: - 1/2 cup raw white rice - 1 1/2 cups white sugar - 2 quarts milk - 4 pods cardamom - 2 teaspoons rose water - 1/4 cup finely chopped almonds Directions: Place the rice in a small bowl and cover with water. Soak for one hour. Drain the rice and place it in a large, heavy saucepan with the milk over low heat. Cook, covered 50 minutes, stirring occasionally, until tender. Stir in sugar and cardamom and cook 20 minutes more. Remove from the heat and stir in the rose water. Serve topped with almonds. Kwanzaa Some African-American students will be celebrating Kwanzaa Dec. 26 through Jan.1. Ayo Handy Kendi, founder and director of the African-American Holiday Association in Washington, D.C., says Kwanzaa is based on an ancient African "First Fruits" harvest celebration — named such because the first fruits of a crop are supposed to taste the best. Fittingly, fruits and vegetables are very important foods to a Kwanzaa celebration. Handy Kendi says eating meat and processed foods is discouraged at this time. Instead, only fresh, natural foods should be consumed. The sixth principle of Kwanzaa is Kuumba, principle of creativity. African- Americans are encouraged to show their creativity through dress, dance, song and of course, food on the sixth day of Kwanzaa. A "collective feast" is held, and guests contribute their own creative dishes, potluck-style. Handy Kendi makes a Kale salad that she says is very popular. - 1 head of fresh, organic kale - Spike (an herbal seasoning rnix) Handy Kendi's Kale Salad - 1 teaspoon Apple cider vinegar - Bragg's Amino Acids (tastes and looks like soy sauce) Ingredients: Optional: - 1/3 cup olive oil - 4 to 5 ripe tomatoes - 1 bunch of leeks - Sunflower seeds - Garbanzo beans - Nuts - Chickpeas *Tibouli Directions: Wash Kale and chop into very thin slivers. Dice leeks and tomatoes; put all into a bowl. Add olive oil, apple cider vinegar, two squirts of Bragg's Amino Acids and a sprinkle of Spike. Mix thoroughly. Add more oil or vinegar to suit your taste. Refrigerate for one hour before serving. Jayplay 12.08.05] SYSTEM OF A DOWN HYPNOTIZE 2023年考研英语一真题解析 PART TWO OF THE TWO ALBUM SET MEZMERIZE /HYPNOTIZE IN STORES NOVEMBER 22 HYPNOTIZE ALSO AVAILABLE ON DUALDISC WITH EXCLUSIVE BEHIND-THE SCENES FOOTAGE OF THE MAKING OF BOTH ALBUMS MIXED BY ANDY WALLACE PRODUCED BY RICK RUBIN AND DARON MALAKIAN WWW.SYSTEMQPADOWN.COM Congratulations to Brian Yazzie, winner of the last Jayplay Music Freebie of the semester! Don't forget to check back in January for new contests! Jayla [ENG]RICA COLOMBIA american **COLUMNIS** DOLUMINAIR CORDS.COM • • COLUMBIA• AND, BEG. U.G. PAT. & TM. DOLUMIAIR CD& DVD CORDS `REF MARCA REGISTRADA/ & DOCS SONY DBQ MUBIC ENTERTAINMENT KANSAN.COM/MUSICFREEBIES Coors LIGHT Coors LIGHT PRESENTS MISS PHOGGY DOG CONTEST When: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2016 Where: 2228 IOWA STREET Winner receives prize for 2 to Mayan and a customizable gift card. bite HERSHEY'S ORIGINAL Alka- Seltzer. Pepto Bismo CHERRIES 8 FL OZ (236 ml) HERSHEY'S Kit Leffler/ Jayplay photographer When your food is out to get you By Natalie Johnson, Jayplay writer Crippling diarrhea and body aches aren't normally associated with holiday cheer, but they await you if you don't take the proper precautions. E.coli, Norwalk virus and salmonella are lurking in kuwarm temperatures and unsatisfactory hand-washing, ready to garnish your table along with Cool-Whip and cheese balls. Here's a quiz to prepare you for bingeing in holiday bliss. 1. You've finished round 1, and now it's time to unbutton your pants and return for more cheese Quick tips for safety a. Not if they're kept in the trunk. b. Only if the ride's more than a 2. Convinced that your college diet consists of dollar wells and Ramen, Mom sends you back to school with a basket full of food. Should the leftovers be in a cooler on the ride back? Answer: c. Debra Holtzman, author of The Safe Baby: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Home Safety, says that after two hours, food is more likely to grow bacteria. She recommends that everything from turkey to sweet potato pie to veggie trays be refrigerated after two hours. 1. Heed expiration dates c. It's been out for less than 2 hours. 3. When reheating leftovers, nuke them 'til they're 165 degrees Farenheit a.k.a. piping-hot. 2. Wash hands before preparing, serving and eating food. b. It's on ice or heat. Period. a. You don't need to go running any time soon. and crackers and a turkey sandwich. It's safe to eat more if: 4. Eat leftovers within two to three days. Source: Debra Holtzman couple hours. c. Coolers are for beer, silly! Answer:b.Holtzman says putting food in the trunk doesn't ensure that it will remain cold enough to prevent bacteria. She says that as long as the food is on ice, in a cooler, it should be fine whether you're from Bonner Springs or Chicago. 3. When you see a loved one about to make holiday punch with unpasteurized juice, you should shout rare, it could be home to millions of dangerous bacterial a. Only one bottle of vodka? What a douche! b. Unpasteurized juice? Although c. It's better if you mix it in the bath-tub. See, we had this party... 6 | Jayplay 12.08.05 to be aware of drink labels. He says that although unpasteurized juice is rare, it does exist and cause illness from bacteria. 4. You're celebrating Hanukkah.The fried food adorns the table, a cornucopia of oily goodness. Is it safe to dive in? a. Yes. b. No. Answer: b. Jeff Walker, Quality Assurance Manager of the Kansas Health Department, says it's just as important Answer: a. Yes. Jay Lewis, executive director of KU's Hillel House, says typical Hanukkah foods are fried ones, like potato latkes and jelly donut-type pastries called sufganiyot. Walker says that frying foods typically kills any kind of bacteria in them, but that the two-hour rule also applies when clearing them off the table. 5. You're unpacking decorations from last year and come across some ancient candy canes. Are they still safe to eat? a. Yes, as long as they're in the wrapper b. Yes, as long as they aren't sprouting eyes c. After a year? No c. After a year? No. Answer: a. Holtzman says that as long as hard candy is still in a wrapper and not moldy, it should be safe to eat. Extra precautions must be taken with chocolate, as it can get moldy, but candy canes are typically safe. So there you have it: get in all that eating in December, before time runs out and the NewYear's resolutions start rearing their ugly heads. But do it safely. Don't stumble in the fancy dining room at 2 a.m. and polish off the pumpkin pie and veggie tray. Keep them in the fridge and polish them off in the kitchen Remember that drinks should come from pasteurized products, that goes for eggnog as well as juice. And wash your hands. Common foodborne illnesses and the symptoms 1. Norwalk Virus: spread through improper hand washing. Symptoms include nausea, diarrhea, vomiting. 2. E. coli: typically found in ground beef. Symptoms include diarrhea and stomach cramps. 3. Salmonella: found in poultry, unpasteurized milk or underchlorinated water. Symptoms include nausea, diarrhea, stomach cramps. Foodborne illnesses 4. Campylobacter: spread through infected poultry or improper hand washing. Symptoms (if they appear) include nausea, diarrhea, stomach cramps, fever. Source: Jeff Walker. National Institute of Health Beyond Christmas By Laura Snyder, Jayplay writer recipes Chinese New Year JingPing Lu, Chinese graduate student, looks forward to celebrating the Chinese New Year on January 29. She compares the food preparation and feast to Thanksgiving in the United States. Fish and chicken are necessities on a New Year's menu, says Ling. The Chinese word for "fish" is similar to the pronunciation for the word for "extra" — and everyone wants more good things to come in the New Year. Similarly, the word for "chicken" sounds like the word for "fortune" in Chinese, which is also a good omen for the New Year. Lu says dumplings are another favorite menu item, as the word "dumpling" sounds like "time changes" — appropriate to the New Year. Lu's recipe for Chinese Dumplings ("Jiao Zi"): Jiaozi Dough: - 3 cups all-purpose flour - 1/2 teaspoon salt - Up to 1 1/2 cups ice cold water Filling: - 1 cup ground pork or beef - 1 tbsp soy sauce - 1 teaspoon salt - 1 tbsp Chinese rice wine or dry sherry - or dry sherry - 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground white pepper, or to taste - 3 tbsp sesame oil - 1/2 green onion, finely minced - 1 1/2 cups finely 9 1 1/2 cups miltly shredded Napa cabbage shredded Nepa subgeb * 4 tbsp shredded bamboo shoots - 2 slices fresh ginger, finely minced - 1 clove garlic, peeled and finely minced 1. Place dumpling skin in the palm of your hand. Dip a finger in cold water then wet the edges of the dumpling skin. Construction: 2. Spoon a lump of filling (approximately 1 tbsp.) into the middle of the skin. 4. Push in on both sides of dumpling, so that dumplings looks like the letter "I" from the top. 3. Fold dumpling in half. Pinch top of semi-circle together. 5. Bend one half of each "top" of the "I" and press against middle edge of dumpling. Seal all edges of dumpling. 6. Your dumpling should look like a half-moon with a big bulge in the middle. To cook, drop into a big pot of boiling water until dumplings float to surface. Reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Eid-al-Fitr Bazigha Tufail, Lee's Summit, Mo. junior, celebrated a major Muslim holiday on November 3. Eid-al-Fitr is a three-day celebration that marks the end of a month of fasting, called Ramadan. Muslims abstain from food and drink from sunrise to sunset every day for a month to help them sympathize with less fortunate people. "It's also a time for meditation about how you're leading your life spiritually," Tufail says. Following morning prayer on the first day of Eid, Tu- fail says Muslims socialize, give gifts and visit friends' houses for brunch. The branch food depends on one's country of origin, she says. Tuftail's family is from Pakistan, so she says they eat a lot of desserts, including Kheer, a rice pudding. Tufail's recipe for Kheer: Ingredients: - 1/2 cup raw white rice - 2 quarts milk - 1 1/2 cups white sugar - 4 pods cardamom - 2 teaspoons rose water - 1/4 cup finely chopped almonds Directions: Place the rice in a small bowl and cover with water. Soak for one hour. Drain the rice and place it in a large, heavy saucepan with the milk over low heat. Cook, covered 50 minutes, stirring occasionally, until tender. Stir in sugar and cardamom and cook 20 minutes more. Remove from the heat and stir in the rose water. Serve topped with almonds. Kwanzaa The sixth principle of Kwanzaa is Kuumba, principle of creativity African- Some African-American students will be celebrating Kwanzaa Dec. 26 through Jan. 1. Ayo Handy Kendi, founder and director of the African-American Holiday Association in Washington, D.C., says Kwanzaa is based on an ancient African "First Fruits" harvest celebration - named such because the first fruits of a crop are supposed to taste the best. Fittingly, fruits and vegetables are very important foods to a Kwanzaa celebration. Handy Kendi says eating meat and processed foods is discouraged at this time. Instead, only fresh, natural foods should be consumed. Americans are encouraged to show their creativity through dress, dance, song and of course, food on the sixth day of Kwanzaa. A "collective feast" is held, and guests contribute their own creative dishes, potluck-style. Handy Kendi makes a Kale salad that she says is very popular. - 1 head of fresh, organic kale - Spike (an herbal seasoning mix) Handy Kendi's Kale Salad - 1 teaspoon Apple cider vinegar - 4 to 5 ripe tomatoes Optional: - Bragg's Amino Acids (tastes and looks like soy sauce) Ingredients: - 1 bunch of leeks - Sunflower seeds - 1/3 cup olive oil - Garbanzo beans - Nuts - Chickpeas *Tibouli Directions: Wash Kale and chop into very thin slivers. Dice leeks and tomatoes; put all into a bowl; Add olive oil, apple cider vinegar, two squirts of Bragg's Amino Acids and a sprinkle of Spike. Mix thoroughly. Add more oil or vinegar to suit your taste. Refrigerate for one hour before serving. 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Here are some quick, close and relatively cheap escapes that might leave you (and four of your best friends) feeling refreshed, rested and perhaps a bit hung-over. The simple life If your gas mileage leaves much to be desired, and intimacy is your thing, consider a weekend stay at a Lawrence bed and breakfast. The Circle S Ranch and Country Inn boasts 12 luxury guest rooms, accommodations that earned the inn a top 12 award on www.bedandbreakfast com, for most romantic inns in North America. Go with your one-and-only or book a slumber party. Circle S will supply the margaritas and a whole bunch of comfort food, you bring the movies, board games and tequila shots. The best amenity of the Circle S, however, is the spa which offers a slew of beautifying and relaxing treatments for guests. To warm up, splurge on a hot stone massage ($95 for an hour). Rooms start at $155. Call (785) 843-4124 for reservations. Just outside of town, the Victorian Veranda Country Inn offers French-Country luxury for the conservative spender. Basically, you can shack up there for the price of a night at the Ramada. But this place has horseback riding and a veranda (a fancy word for a porch). The bedrooms look decidedly like grandma's house: think wicker furniture and French lace curtains. The dining room, where you'll be eating a home-cooked hot breakfast, is rich-mahogany and lit by chandelier. This B & B neighbors the Free State Farm, where hayrides and wiener-roasts are a way of life. Rooms start at $80. Call (785) 841-1265 for reservations. Bust out the bathing suit If you've ever navigated Interstate 435, you've probably passed the Great Wolf Lodge, a mountain cabin of mammoth proportions, complete with guest rooms and a premier water park, with Nebraksa Furniture Mart as a backdrop. What could be greater than drinking at a bar called Camp Critter before navigating eight stories and 40,000 square feet of slides and pools? Things to keep in mind:There will definitely be hordes of screaming young children. This is where Camp Critter Bar & Grill comes in. And the mini-bar. On yeah, there's a spa too. Also, 'tis the season for the family vacation, so make reservations soon. Rooms start around $150 (with the holiday specials) and some can fit up to six. Park passes and towels are included. Call (913) 299-7001 for reservations, or visit www.kc.greatwolflodge.com for the skinny. Before there were water parks, Harry S. Truman, FDR and Al Capone hid out at the Elms Resort and Spa, where they basked in the healing powers for the Excelsior Springs. Just 30 minutes north of Kansas City, the Elms is your ticket to affordable elegance and really fancy spa treatments. Take a serenity bath ($35) with moisturizing milk and essential oils. Rooms at the $19th century hotel start at $95. Photos At top: The Great Wolf Lodge, Kansas City. www.greatwolflodge.com From Left to Right: Victorian Veranda Country Inn. www.victorianveranda.com The ElmsResort, www.theelms.com Circle S Ranch and Country Inn, www.bedandbreakfast.com 8 Javplay 12.08.05 Photos At top: The Great West Side City. Holiday histories By Katy Humpert, Jayplay writer The American story of Santa Claus Santa Claus, Saint Nicholas, Kris Kringle, Father Christmas or whatever you want to call him, is a character who transcends cultures worldwide. His American origins can be traced to the Dutch legend of Sinter Klaas, brought to the United States during the 17th century. In 1773, Washington Irving provided the first details about Saint Nicholas, describing his arrival on horseback on each Eve of Saint Nicholas. But it wasn't until writer Clement Clark Moore penned The Night Before Christmas in 1823 did Santa finally reach his true American form. Moore's poem included the names of the eight reindeer, his method of returning up the chimney by laying "his finger aside of his nose," and my personal favorite, Santa's signature laugh "like a bowl full of jelly." Santa himself was unavailable to comment on his history. He is busy this time of year. Dreidel I will play Source: Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2005. For those who aren't familiar with Hanukkah, the dreidel is a traditional top-like toy associated with the holiday festivities. Professor Jerry Shandler of Rutgers University says the dreidel originated as a medieval gambling toy.Today children spin the dreidel and play cards during Hanukkah because games of chance are permitted during the holiday. The four-sided top has, both religious and entertainment values, says Jonathan Boyarin, professor of Jewish Studies. Each side contains one Hebrew letter: nun, gimel, heh or shin. These letters either signify, in Hebrew, "a miracle happened there" or in Yiddish they stand for "nothing," "whole," "half" or "put." When a player spins the dreidel, depending on which side it lands, he will either do nothing, take the whole pot, take half the pot or has to put money or candy into the pot. It sure beats driving around looking at the neighbors' holiday lights. DUMEX 1 Know your Kwanzaa IWE NA HERI KWANZAA YENU IWE NA HERI KWANZAA YENU IWE NA HERI KWANZAA YENU o word Kwanzaa comes from the Kiswahili phrase "matunda ya kwanza," which means "first fruits," says Tasha Keatheley, KU professor of African Studies. The origins of this holiday trace far back in history to first-fruit celebrations in ancient Egypt and Nubia. Keatheley says an African-American scholar, Maulana Karenga, devised the modern-day holiday following the Watts Riots in Los Angeles in 1966. The purpose of the holiday, according to Keatheley, is for friends and family to gather together to pay tribute to their African-American heritage. She says while every family celebrates in different ways, most holiday festivities include songs, storytelling, African drums, poetry and large traditional meal. The holiday has also become increasingly popular in this past decade. Keathley says more than 20 million people celebrate Kwanzaa in the United States, Canada, England, the Caribbean and Africa. Useful notice holiday gifts for about $10 Let's face it: It's the holidays, we're all poor and still have plenty of gifts we want to buy for our friends and family. To prevent your holiday shopping from taking a toll on your checkbook, here's a list of useful, practical holiday gifts great for friends and family that cost around $10 By James Foley, Jayplay write Gourmet coffee and tea Nothing starts a chilly winter morning better than a good cup of coffee. And why should it be the freeze-dried crap they sell at the grocery store? You can find a variety of tasty gourmet coffees and any of Lawrence's coffee shops. Milton's Café, 920 Massachusetts St., sells their coffee by the pound or half pound. Price varies upon the type of coffee, but they offer several varieties at or near the $10 per pound price range. The most popular blend is Dave's Blend, which sells for $11 a pound. The coffee will stay fresher longer if you buy the beans whole and grind them as needed, but they'll also grind it for you if you desire. If the recipient doesn't have his own coffee grinder, don't buy the coffee until the day before you plan to give it. This way they'll get to enjoy the coffee at its peak flavor. House of Cha, 21 W. $9^{th}$ St., also sells plenty of affordable teas that make great gifts. They sell assorted types of oolong, green and herbal teas pre-packaged in 50 or 100 gram parcels all for less than $10. Fanny Shiang, co-owner, says Sencha is a good green tea for beginners because it's very accessible and far surpasses the quality of the green teas commonly found in teabags. They also sell more than 30 varieties of loose leave teas fot well below $10 an ounce. If giving out back issues of Jayplay won't suffice, go to Border's or any other newsstand and peruse the magazine racks. Magazines always have subscription specials, especially around the holidays. Pick up a few copies of magazines that suit the interests of your friends and family, and look for those annoying subscription cards. Chances are at least one of them will offer an introductory subscription for around 10 bucks. A quick trip to the magazine rack found subscriptions to magazines such as Rolling Stones, Details, Wired and Health for less than $13. Magazine favorites Instead of giving cheap DVDs found in the Wal-Mart bargain bin, give a month's subscription to Netflix. For $9.99 a month, you can have a DVD of your choice mailed to your door several times a month. The faster you watch them and send them back, the more movies you can see in a month. Using this stretches the entertainment value of $10 well beyond the purchase of one DVD. Unlimited movies for $9.99 Hand it off When you're on a budget and need to find a gift for a person who's impossible to buy for, try checking out the second hand stores in Lawrence. The Consignment Flea Market, 731 New Hampshire St., has a little bit of everything, from paintings and cookware, to eclectic knick-knacks and jewelry. Owner Kitty Tinsman says that about 25 percent of her inventory costs less than $10. The store's most impressive asset is its wall of books, all priced at $3 a piece. 12.08.05 Jayplay 9 contact yeeesh. I WANT SANTA! The man, the myth. the legend How did you find out Santa wasn't real? By Meghan Miller, Jayplay writer All Illustrations by Max Karter Those damn cashiers! It was the day after Christmas and my brother and mom went to the grocery store. My brother was 2 years old so he was sitting in the cart as my mom proceeded to check out. The cashier looked at my brother and asked him if Santa had come to his house last night. My brother nonchalantly said no, Santa didn't come. The lady was surprised that Santa had not come to visit and asked my brother, "Have you been bad?" My brother turned to my mother and started to cry. "Is that why Santa doesn't come?" he wailed. "Because I've been bad?" My mother, furious with the cashier, had to explain to my brother that Santa didn't come to our house because we were Jewish. We didn't believe in Santa. My brother has recovered from this traumatic childhood event, but for some, the truth in finding out Santa isn't real can be a real heartbreaker. Wanna do Squats? Sure, let me just Change. DONT! Santa works out too Santa doesn't just visit houses,he stops by athletic clubs too. At least that's what Carrie Brown, Denver alumus, used to think. Brown and her family would go to the Denver Athletic Club's Easter and Christmas brunches every year. Santa would sit with all the kids and ask them what they wanted for Christmas. One year, when Brown was 6, her brother decided to tell her the truth after they got home from brunch. He made sure their parents weren't around and then not only dropped the bomb about Santa, but also told Brown the Easter Bunny wasn't real either. Oh, the insanity. He couldn't believe that Brown would believe Santa and the Easter Bunny would make a special trip to the D.A.C. Brown was devastated as any kid might be. But then she realized something: She didn't care who got her the presents, as long as they were rolling in! Santa or not, Christmas meant presents. The kids are in college now. Should we tell them? I think they are old enough to know that Jack is a little likes a little Jack in his Cave! FOR DANTA 10| Jayplay 12.08.05 Maybe looking for presents is a bad idea Molly Ford, Lawrence Freshman, was in 4th grade when she found out Santa wasn't real. All she wanted for Christmas was a Barbie Dream Boat. Like most kids, the Lawrence sophomore snooped around the house trying to find her presents. She knew the big presents were in the garage, so she waited for her parents to leave before she began her search. When they did leave, she was off to the garage to find her presents. Ford found her Dream Boat in a huge box under a sheet. She waited the next two weeks in anticipation of her gift. Christmas morning came and there was the giant box sitting in front of the fireplace. Ford was crushed when she saw the card that read "From: Santa" because she knew it had been in the garage for weeks. Ever since that day, she has grilled her mother about the realness of Santa. Her mother still tells her that Santa is real. That's why she still leaves the big guy a treat. Ford says that when Santa comes to her house he prefers Coke in a glass bottle, so that's what she leaves for him next to the plate of cookies. what the HEEL is taking so long? How else would my presents get there? Ford and Brown have accepted that Santa isn't real. But good luck telling that to Kevin Severin.The Overland Park sophomore still claims that Santa is alive and well."Do you think that all the parents in the world would really lie to their kids about a fat, jolly man in a red suit?" he says.Severin actually knows Santa is real. He has found footprints in the fireplace where Santa landed and who else would have eaten the cookies and milk he left out? Another indisputable fact is that every time Severin sits on Santa's lap and tells him what he wants for Christmas,he always gets it. Who else could have known what Severin wanted? Severin says that even if Santa wasn't real, which is entirely not possible, believing in him makes Christmas that much more fun. There is no better feeling for Severin than to wake up at six in the morning to run down the stairs to see what Santa left him. 1 Keep on eye on the guy in the sky Santa is real to many kids around the world. And for good reason too. Kimberly Keith, parent and child counselor, says that believing in Santa Claus keeps magic in the lives of children. Believing in Santa Claus helps the child's imagination grow by allowing them to dream. Even after a child finds out Santa Claus isn't real, pretending he is, is still fun. If you're interested in watching Santa on his journey of gift giving, you can go to www. northpole.com. The website keeps track of Santa's whereabouts starting November 25. You can send him a letter from there too, figure out if you've been naughty and nice and read a Q & A with the jolly man. Go ahead, he'd love to hear from you. Keep on eye on the guy in the sky Planetary presents AmazoneClipartfor Kids.com The stars' guide to gift-giving Compiled by Katie Moyer, Jayplay writer Aries (March 21-April 19) Buy the first thing that catches their eyes. lay the first thing that catches their eyes. For your Aries guy or girl: Don't give gifts that are too practical or organizational. Instead, a gift that challenges, encourages a new project or hobby, or utilizes Aries' intense physical energy will be a sure-fire hit. Taurus (April 20-May 20) Gives stocks and bonds. For your Taurus guy or girl: Taureans enjoy the good life, so just remember that there's no such thing as too indulgent! Anything luxurious like massage gifs or jewelry is a sure winner. Gemini (May 21-June 21) Re-wraps a present he got last year. For your Gemini guy or girl: Mix and match Knit sweaters and make fudge for their friends. totally different kinds of presents that will stimulate their imagination and you'll make your diverse and versatile Gemini happy this holiday season. · Cancer (June 22-July 22) For your Cancer guy or girl: Sentimental gifts are key, so something home-made that represents your relationship will touch him or her deeply. Cancer also has a strong association with food so anything to do with cooking will be appreciated. Make charitable donations to a child from the wishing tree. TUAWWT Leo (July 23-August 22) For your Leo guy or girl: Keep in mind that Leos are rather extravagant and dramatic and have a bold, yet classy taste, so anything from opera tickets to fine jewelry and clothing in strong colors will go down well. Leos also like to gamble, so they would find a lottery ticket or trip to Las Vegas right up their street. Virgo (August 23-September 22) Focus more on impeccable wrapping than the gift itself. For your Virgo guy or girl: Virgos love simple elegance, so whatever gift you give, make it classy. Virgos are also efficient, neat and well-organized, so give the Virgo in your life something complementary, such as a calendar or handheld organizer. Libra (September 23-October 22) Will reach a decision on the perfect gift sometime next year. Scorpio (October 23—November 21) Give their partners a night to remembr For your Libra guy or girl: Libras tend to be socially inclined and more interested in other people than themselves. So why not give him something that reminds him of your relationship or friendships — maybe a scrapbook of pictures of you two and your friends or a biography of someone famous to quell their interest in other people's lives. For your Scorpio guy or girl! Gifts from the heart are especially appreciated. How about making your Scorpio some original jewelry or a home-made card? Scorpio is also the Sign of Sex, so don't be too shy about getting a more intimate present. contact Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) Distribute strange souvenirs from exotic places. For your Sagittarius guy or girl: If you want to get a big thanks from your Sagittarius partner, give him or her something intellectual. Your Sagittarius also loves to travel, so why not buy them a passport holder or something similarly nomadic? Capricorn (December 22-January 19) Showerstheir friends with engraved pens. For your Capricorn guy or girl: People born under this sign are practical and realistic, so any gift that would help them in their career. job or personal financial management would be appreciated. Aquarius (January 20-February 18) Do their shopping online. For your Aquarius guy or girl: A good gift for the Aquarius in your life is technological gadgets. They also love to learn, so books on his or her current interests will be a big hit. The key to choosing a gift for an Aquarian is novelty. Pisces (February 19-March 20) Name a star in honor of loved ones. For your Pisces guy or girl: Don't forget that Pisces rules the feet, so you could treat him or her to slippers, shoes or even a pedicure or foot massage. Source: www.astrology.com Winter fun With your sweetie or with your friends By Chris Moore, Jayplay writer THE CHRISTMAS CIRCLE TOWNSEND 1. Walk in the winter Button up and take a stroll outside in the winter weather with your significant other. Be sure to layer your clothes and keep extra close to each other. Once you get back inside, you'll have a good excuse to drink hot chocolate. 2. Stare at a fire You can sit by your significant other and watch the logs on a pyre burn away. Yes, it seems dull, but the two of you will be together, watching the blaze and that's always a good excuse for cuddling. This may seem boring to you...wait, it is boring. But it has to be done, so grab a friend and some scrapers and knock out both your cars at once. It'll be a lot more bearable with company. 3. Scrape ice off the car 4. Chop some firewood Might get cold later. So go out with your friends and take a few swings at a tree. You'll probably feel a certain sense of accomplishment. Besides, more wood to watch burn in the fire. 5. Go ice-skating Something cool to do on a cold day. Hopefully one of your friends or significant other knows how to ice skate and they can teach you (or vice versa). If you both know how then lace up the skates and hit the ice — not literally, of course. If you both don't know how, then prepare for a few falls. But don't worry, it's really funny when that happens. 6. Give to charity Gather your friends and whatever money you can spare and toss it into those red buckets or volunteer to serve food at a soup kitchen. 7. Bake cookies Nothing says loving like something from the oven. I forgot who says that, but it's true. Make some tasty treats for that special someone. Perhaps cute little gingerbread men with candy canes. You can buy a case at the store or bake them from scratch. Homemade may prove to be the better option. It shows you put time and effort into making them. 8. Make snow angels Fall down in the snow with your cutie and prepare to make a matching pair of heavenly beauties. Just lay with your back in the snow, wave your arms up and down and move your legs from side to side. 9. Snowball fights Gather up your friends, bundle up and go out to play. Divide into two teams and build a miniature fort to hide behind. Make sure to have a good distance between each teams. That'll give ample throwing distance and more area to gather up snowballs. 10. Make love Valentine's Day is not the only time for love. This season, give of yourself. Be creative when trying to set the mood. "Make love while listening to the deafening sound of the snow falling," says Malakai Edison, Olathe senior. "It's like a soundtrack." 12.08.05 Jayplay 11 Our favorite Skittles. Natalie Johnson Bite Best holiday decoration? Popcorn string. Best place for a New Year's kiss? Eiffel Tower. What is the best New Year's you can remember? 1993. I was at my grade school best friend's house and we got to stay up 'til midnight. snowboard bindings 12| Jayplay 12.08.05 Rory Flynn Venue Favorite CD to hear during the holidays? An Elvis Christmas. What celebrity would you most want to spend the holidays with? Chris Farley. A. New York apartment Lindsey Ramsey Venue Favorite holiday drink? Red wine. Best gift you never got? Pink Barbie convertible. What celebrity would you most want to spend the holidays with? Jude Law. A light saber Chris Moore Contact Best gift you never got? Apparently, this year I won't be getting a light saber. Best place you've traveled for the holidays? My best friend's house, eight minutes away. What is the best New Year's you can remember? Banging pots and pans in the back yard. A Great Dance Katie Moyer Contact Favorite holiday drink: White Russian. What does your family do to come together on the holidays? Christmas Eve picnic on the living room floor. Favorite holiday snack? Little BBQ smokies and rotel cheese. 1 M P / Fav W you t 23 things Drink: n. The Jayplay staff has been good this year. (That is if you conveniently forget about that whole incident with the donkey. Let us never speak of that again.) So we decided to publish what we want for the holidays in hopes that our parents, er, Santa is reading. Favorite holiday drink? Wassail. family another is? on ion on floor. Favorite reindeer? Rudolph. What celebrity would you most want to spend the holidays with? Steven Tyler. snack? ses and eese. Best place for a New Year's kiss? By a fireplace. Laura Snyder Bite C --- Real or fake tree? Nither. Menorah. MARY GRANT Favorite reindeer? None. Hanukkah Harry. Best holiday decoration? Jewish Stars covering the entire house. Meghan Miller Contact Favorite holiday drink: Wassail with a hint of Goldschlagger. An Adventure What lets you know the holidays are here? Isle of lights in Winfield. It's so festive. Best place for a New Year's kiss? A gondola ride in Venice. Katie Humpert Notice A trip to Italy Favorite holiday drink: Irish coffee. Best place you've traveled for the holidays? Las Vegas. Favorite holiday snack? Christmas cookies. TAXIARIST Kelsie Smith Bite Favorite CD to hear during the holidays? Elvis's Christmas album. Woncy ITALY Winter Northwest Mediterranean Sea Sardina Baltic Sea Pistol ITALY Bologna Lazio Lazio Veneto Napoli Siena Liguria Sicilia ONE A.B.B-gun Brian Wacker Stud Best gift I never got: A Nintendo PowerPad. Holiday Drink: 24 oz. cans of Busch Light. Family Get-Together: Each Year, we force my Mom,the only woman in our immediate family, to sit through an entire showing of A Christmas Story. 12.08.05 Jayplay 13 Favorite holiday drink? Don Delillo whisky. Best gift you never got? Salvation. What lets you know the holidays are here? "Black Friday," the capitalistic equivalent of herpes. How much do you spend on presents: I don't "give" gifts, per se. But I am nicer to people during the holiday season. Dave Ruigh Venue Favorite holiday drink: Two shots of whisky over three ice cubes. Favorite reindeer: Rudolph. The rest are pussies. Best gift you never got? Jurassic Park command center or a ferret. What lets you know the holidays are here? James Bond marathons on TNT. 1984 Most useful gift you've ever received? Professional corkscrew. A James Foley Notice Best place for a New Year's kiss? Well, my ears are really sensitive... Becka Cremer Designer Jameson whiskey. JAMESON IMPORTED LIQUEUR Brian Wacker Favorite holiday drink? Scotch, no water. New York City Favorite holiday song? "I Saw Mama Kissin' Santa Claus." Aaron Huston Designer Real tree or fake tree? Aluminum. Best place for a New Year's kiss? In my bed. Kathryn Anderson Notice Love You S An iBook Anja Winikka Babe What does your family do to come together on the holidays? We go to church on Christmas Eve and then eat club sandwiches and drink Ruby Red Squirt soda next to the Christmas tree. Best place for a New Year's kiss? Anywhere as long as it's with the right person. *wink* Most useful gift you've ever received? A big green suitcase with wheels. 12. 08.05 Jayplay 14 Bitch& moan With Brian Bratichak and Jessica Crowder Please send your questions to bitch@kansan.com ? I'm celebrating Christmas with my girlfriend's family this year and I'm really nervous about it. I know it's a huge step in our relationship and that it means a lot to both of us. Is there any advice you can give me for spending this holiday with her family? —Russell, sophomore Jessica: I know it's a huge step in your relationship, but relax. Chances are if you've been invited to spend Christmas with her family, they either like you judging from past visits or they know you mean a lot to your girlfriend and would like to meet you. Talk about things with your girlfriend beforehand. Let her know you're a little stressed and that this means a lot to you. Hopefully, she's understanding and can give you tips as to what the general game plan is for her family during the holidays. Some people take a laid back approach to the holidays while others are busy bees. It wouldn't hurt to ask her what's appropriate holiday attire and if you'll be attending a Christmas church service. I'm sure everything will work out splendidly if you air your concerns before the big event. Good luck! Brian: How you should act around her family should be dictated by how comfortable you are with them. If you walk into their house, and her dad pats you down before you can step into the living room, or if her mom asks you to tell her how good her famous apple pie is just to see if you like it, then you need to watch how you act around them. If they run to the door and give you a hug right after they hug their daughter, then you can assume you will be able to act as you normally would. As always, you still want to watch your manners and it's always better to be overly cautious than to over-assume what you can get away with. If you ever don't know how they feel about you there, ask if you can help with anything. It makes it seem like you really, really care about them. ? I've been with my boyfriend for about a year now and I'm pretty close with his family. Do you have any gift ideas for the significant others' parents? Erin, senior Brian: The simple fact is that parents really don't ever expect to get a present from their child's boy or girlfriend. They would look at anything you get for them as a great present and a testament to your character. Unless you decided to get something completely outrageous (i.e. a dieting book, botox injections, a case of beer), they're going to appreciate anything you get them. Just use your head. Jessica: That's mighty thoughtful of you, Erin. Since you're so close with his fam, think about their hobbies, what they do in their leisure. If his dad's a golfer, maybe a subscription to a golfing magazine or if his mom's a cook, a cookbook. It never hurts to ask your boyfriend what he thinks would be appropriate. Hit up some websites that specialize in gift ideas. Talk to your own folks about what their ideas are for someone else in their age group. As long as you don't go overboard, I'm sure they'll be gracious. ? I'm Christian and my boyfriend is Jewish. How can we celebrate both holidays together? Chanukah and Christmas happen on some of the same days this year, so we're not sure how we can make it work. —Rachel, junior Brian: Sometimes it might be more important to spend time with your family than to worry about being with your favorite person on those special days. Many couples end up being relegated to celebrating the holidays either in the days before or in the days following the holiday. Whether you exchange any gifts tomorrow or not until the week after New Year's, they are going to mean they same thing. It's also not even necessarily important you differentiate between Chanukah and Christmas gifts, as a gift is a gift whether it's for a birthday or a religious holiday. Just try not to give him something he already has, like a circumcision. Jessica: This problem is more common than you think, even for couples who practice the same faith. "How do we celebrate the holiday season together?" The answer is compromise. My sources tell me Chanukah begins on the eve of Christmas day, so you can end Christmas day with Chanukah festivities that evening. If you're wanting to spend both holidays with both families, why not spend Christmas Eve and Christmas morning with your family and the first night and last day of Chanukah with his family? If that's not feasible due to distance and travel, ask your boyfriend what days are most important for his family's celebration of Chanukah and see what you can come up with from there. As for different religious customs, talk them out so that neither of you is completely oblivious to what your respective holidays are about. It's been done before; you two can make this work. Top five 5 Holiday Pick Up Lines 5. Hol Hol Hol 4. I'll come down your chimney any time 3. You should start the new year in my pants. 2. Let me take you for a ride in my sleigh. 1. Wanna spin my dreidel? Meghan Miller Surviving holiday singledom How to overcome your solo blues over break 1. Hit up the holiday parties! But please avoid laying down your game at family gatherings. 2. Take a road trip with your friends to help your winter break pass by more quickly. 3. Avoid listening to sappy holiday songs like "Baby, It's Cold Outside." 4. Take advantage of your singleness by hanging out with the fam. 5. Just remember how much money you're saving and that'll put a smile on your face! - Katie Moyer 12.08.05 Jayplay 15 ... contact Mistletoe The story behind kissing under the mistletoe myth Rachel Seymour / Kansan photographer By Katie Moyer, Jayplay writer You're at a friend's holiday party socializing and sipping on some eggnog. You pause to chat with someone when suddenly another guest at the party approaches you without a word and puts a smacker on you. Before you can slap that smirk off his face, you look up and realize you've been victimized by the mistletoe kiss. The myth behind kissing beneath the mistletoe has a couple originations, says David Beaulieu, plant specialist at www.about.com. He says that the first explanation is derived from ancient Scandinavia and the myth of Baldur, a Norse god. An enemy discovered that Baldur could only be killed with mistletoe and tricked one of the other gods into shooting and killing Baldur with a spear fashioned from the mistletoe plant. But the gods were able to resurrect Baldur, and his mother, the goddess Frigga, vowed that from then on, the plant should bring love rather than death into the world. Happily complying with her wishes, Beaulieu says, any two people passing under the plant from then on would celebrate Baldur's resurrection by kissing under the mistletoe. The other story originates from pre- Christian medicinal folklore. Beaulieu says that mistletoe was known for being, among other things, a fertility herb. Because of this association, he says the plant became related to sexuality and evolved into the kissing plant we know today. Few people know of the story behind the mistletoe kiss, and even fewer perhaps know that mistletoe kissing etiquette does exist. According to Beaulieu, when someone steals a kiss from a person standing beneath mistletoe, they must remove a berry from the plant. And when all the berries have been removed, there should be no more kissing. Beaulieu says sarcastically, "But we have conveniently forgotten that rule!" So what good is this story for you? Well, besides expanding your knowledge, it gives you a great comeback when your mistletoe victim gets upset over your stolen kiss. Simply explain by saying, "Geez, I'm just celebrating the resurrection of Balder!" DJ SCOTTIE MAC 18 to enter | 21 to drink STOP DAY THURSDAY DEC. 8TH ABE&JAKES DJ SCOTTIE MAC 18 to enter | 21 to drink STOP DAY THURSDAY DEC. 8TH ABE & JAKES www.abejakes.com | 6th & New Hampshire THIS WEEKEND TINY UNIVERSE KARL DENSON'S SATURDAY DEC. 10th GRANADA THEATER www.thegranada.com | 1020 Massachusetts St. STOP DAY Tiny Universe KARL DENSON'S SATURDAY DEC.10th GRANADATHEATER www.thegranada.com | 1920 Massachusetts St Lend a helping hand Type of non-for-profit organization: Homeless and Housing Contact Shannon Tauscher (785) 832-8864 Hospice Care in Douglas County 200 Maine St., Suite C Type of non-for-profit organization: Helping terminally ill and their families Contact Scott Criqui (785) 843-3738 Community Drop-In Center, Inc. 944 Kentucky St. P.O. Box 1082 Lawrence Habitat for Humanity 412 E. 9th St. P.O. Box 442113 Looking to help out in your community with your abundance of free time - a full month and three days - over winter break? There are several organizations in the Lawrence community that need your help. Type of non-for-profit organization: Homeless and housing Contact Linda Klinker (785) 832-0777 Women's Transitional Care Services P.O.Box 633 Type of non-for-profit organization: Advocacy and human rights, youth and children, crisis support, women Contact Lea Carland (785) 865-3956 Headquarters Counseling Center 211 E.8th St., Suite C Type of non-for-profit organization: Feeding homeless and in-need community members. Duties include cooking, serving and cleaning up. Tuesday and Friday mornings 6 a.m.to 9 a.m. Lawrence Interdenominational Nutrition Kitchen - L.I.N.K. 221 West 10th Street Lawrence, KS 66044 Jubilee Café 10th and Vermont Streets Type of non-for-profit organization: Feeding homeless and needy community members. Contact Deb Engstrom (785) 331-3663 Type of non-for-profit organization: Youth and children, crisis support Contact Marcia Epstein (785) 841-9900 Going to be back home over break and are interested in volunteering? Lists of non-for-profit volunteer organizations can be found in your community at www.volunteermatch.org. Contact Cherise Ortiz (785) 812-3155 Rory Flynn venue Clueless about Champagne? Ah, New Year's. A time for reflection, resolution... and getting comfortably toasted drinking champagne. The holiday only comes once a year, after all, so leave the Miller Lite in home and head out with a bottle of bubbly in tow. Here are a few recommendations: - GOOD - For the economically disadvantaged (or for those who believe the level of irony is directly proportional to cost), a bottle of Andre is your best bet. Cheaper than five bucks a bottle, the sparkling wines in this line range from the ludicrous (Cold Duck, Peach Passion) to the legitimate (Spumante, Extra Dry). - BETTER - Once a relatively well-kept secret in the champagne world, cava (a type of white sparkling wine produced in Spain) has recently seen a spike in popularity. With its dry flavor and relatively low cost (around $10) it's easy to see why. Pick up a bottle of Cristaline or Freixenet to impress your parents, friends or co-workers. - BEST – If you're really serious about picking out a good bottle of champagne on New Year's, the house recommends Gruet, a brute sparing wine produced in New Mexico. It is priced at around $20 a bottle, out, hay, you've been drinking High Life all semester. You've earned it. ---more high--- Thursday $1 draws Since 1936 MARBOUR LIGHTS 1031 Massachusetts Thursday $1 draws Since 1936 MARBOUR LIGHTS 1031 Massachusetts Model: Hannah Peterson, Ottawa sophomore Alone. together Single on New Year's Eve? No problem By Dave Ruigh, Jayplay writer Fueled by booze and bliss, the party-goers raise their glasses high and their voices higher in a collective cheer. A girl, her blue eyes bouncing off her green dress, turns to the man next to her, their eyes meet and linger briefly before the two spiral into each other's arms. The happy couple is not alone: the lips of nearly every other loaded undergrad are now firmly intertwined with those of another. You are close enough to observe but too far away to relate. You are alone. And this is strikingly clear in the first few seconds of the New Year. Conceding the amorous superiority of Valentine's Day, there are few occasions with a latent emphasis on relationship-status greater than that of New Year's Eve — implied for most of the night but manifested in the commemorative kiss. Granted, many enterprising people manage to convince other single partygoers to join them for a celebratory midnight make-out session (in nearly all of these cases, though, Jungle Juice actually deserves most of the credit.) But what about the people with 18 | 12.08.05 Jayplay first-hand knowledge of the downside of New Year's hook-ups and/or moral conviction or the gargoyles who simply can't bamboozle someone for a kiss? How can you be single on New Year's Eve and still have fun? It's quite simple, really. First, don't let being single on New Year's get you down. "The more relaxed you are about being single, the more at ease you are with others," says Judy Ford, author of Single: The Art of Being Satisfied, Fulfilled and Independent. "You are not a bad person or undesirable or a loser just because you don't have a date." Ford says that instead of wallowing in doubt or self-pity, one should embrace being single on New Year's Eve. She says that planning your day ahead of time provides a structured way to have fun. Going out to dinner, getting dressed up and spending time with friends are all ways to enjoy your dateless NewYear's Eve. Of these three, the presence of friends is likely the most sound and logical component of an enjoyable evening. Going to a party in a group will make you more comfortable with yourself and will increase the likelihood that you will have a good time, especially if a few of your friends are single as well. In fact, having no romantic attachments can be a positive thing. "When you're with your friends on NewYear's Eve you can kind of let it out, in a way you couldn't if you were out with a date," says Kristin Potter, Ottawa junior. Put simply, being single allows one to roam a party freely. "New Year's isn't really the holiday where you stick with a date," says Chelsea Braden, Lawrence sophomore. "If you go to parties, you're going to be social with everyone. You should stick with your friends but try to meet people." Now this can-do spirit is all well and good, and it may pay off in the end, but there are benefits to having a date on New Year's as well. Dan Belz, Prairie Village freshman, has a girlfriend and recognizes the comparative New Year's advantages inherent in his relationship. "We'll probably go somewhere," he says, referring to his girlfriend, "and it'll be nice to have her there." So there you go: In the end, New Year's Eve can be a fun time for everyone, regardless of relationship status. "It's good to have that comfort of knowing who you'll kiss at midnight," says Potter. "But it's also fun to not know." Five things worse than being single on New Year's Eve 1. Eating blueberry pancakes whose blueberries have mysteriously been replaced with ¼" screws from Home Depot. 2. Waking from a vivid, surrealistic dream only to realize seconds later that it was, in fact, nothing but a dream. 3. Being John Malkovich. 4. Contracting the avian flu from a seemingly well-intentioned meadowlark named Tony who swore he was clean. 5. Happening upon a formula that, when employed, answers all of your existential questions (i.e. cos1.58 x a / b, where a = the number of bananas harvested that day in Guatemala, and b = the type of toothpaste you used that morning), only to forget said formula hours later while watching VH1's Best Week Ever. anomorque awaarg In a year that brought us movies like Son of the Mask and Duece Bigalow: European Gigolo, it’s hard to believe that anything of value surfaced in 2005. But our experts have sifted through the crap. Here’s what they say kicked the most ass in the year that was... Top 5 BOOKS AMY TAN SAVING FISH FROM DROWNING Where the Road Ends by Bob Kensing Dedicated by Sarah Ackman ACCORDING TO KELSEY HAYES 5. Christ the Lord, by Anne Rice Critics mostly skewered this novel, but I have to toss Rice props for her chutzpah when it came to writing about such sensitive subject matter. After years of penning novels about vampires and witches, Rice finally tackles the life of Christ with admirable sensitivity and wonder. 4. Shalimar the Clown, by Salman Rushdie I praised this book in a review earlier this year and still love it. Any sort of political statement that's made about the Middle East is relevant now, and the way Rushdie presents his narrative is very engaging. 3. Saving Fish From Drowning, by Amy Tan Tan is a contemporary titan of Asian-American literature. Unlike her previous works, which focus on family, and memory, Tan weaves a political allegory of sorts, centered on the bizarre fates of American tourists in Burma. This is not your momma's Joy Luck Club. 2. Kerouac in Florida, by Bob Kealing Kealing, an Orlando news reporter and KU School of Journalism alum, examines the later life of Jack Kerouac, the archetypal Beatnik writer of On the Road. Besides showcasing biographical research, Kealing also examines Kerouac's personal philosophy, which didn't match up with his contemporaries as much as one would think. 1. Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince; by J.K. Rowling Okay, you knew this was coming. Without a doubt the biggest literary event of 2005, the sixth Harry Potter novel generally met expectations, broke pre-sale records and appeased Potter fans that didn't want to wait until November for the fourth movie. Harry, this year was yours. 12.08.05 Jayplay 19 --- Top 5 country ALBUMS F ACCORDING TO NICK CONNELT By no means definitive, still, these releases define the past year of country music, a genre returning to its roots. The Music of Steve Miller Band 5. Alison Krauss and Union Station - Lonely Runs Both Ways A breath of fresh, pure, bluegrass air. Country's most talented musical group can't make a bad album. With crisp, clean, stirring instrumental prowess, Krauss' hauntingly pure voice, and a batch of gorgeous, rousing old-time music, Lonely Runs Both Ways is prime — evidence that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. sugarland WATCH THE SPEED OF LIFE TRISHA YEARWOOD Hopper County 2. Trisha Yearwood - Jasper County It had already been one hell of a year for women in country music by the time Yearwood's Jasper Country rolled around. Nearly every country-cosmopolitan diva had a major release: LeAnne Rimes, Jamie O'Neal, Gretchen Wilson, Sara Evans and Faith Hill to name a few. A comeback album in the truest since, Jasper County not only took Trisha to the top of the charts, it beat out all the others in solidity, originality and sheer superior quality. 4. Sugarland - Twice the Speed of Life They may be about as deep as a puddle and as sugary-sweet as the name suggests, but this Atlanta trio is one of the best new acts to take hold of the country charts in recent memory. "Something More" became the anthem to every workingman/woman who wanted just that. They play at one volume - loud - so turn it up and let loose, it's what they're good for. LEE ANN WOMACK There's More Where That Came From A METROPOLITAN HOMEBOY JUNE 2016 THE WORLD OF A LIFE MUSIC BY JONATHAN KENNEDY PART 4 HARVARD MUSICAL ENGINEERING NATIONAL SCHOOL OF MUSIC TIMBERLINE DYNAMIC DUCKS PATRONELLA ROBERTSON LAND OF THE THUNDERBIRDS SHEPHERDS AND THE GROUND GREATEST OF ALL THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ARTS, CITY OF ATLANTA JULIAN KEIWAN PART 5 THE MAN WHO DID IT ALL SUPERMAN THE LEGEND OF DAVID BROWN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ARTS, CITY OF ATLANTA JULIAN KEIWAN GARY ALLAN TOUGH ALL OVER What some saw as career resuscitation was actually more an affirmation. The popleaning, criminally overlooked and unfairly critically panned Something Worth Leaving Behind left Lee Ann Womack to the $5.99 bargain-bin fodder at Wal-Marts the nation over. Smartly, Womack gathered her bearings, followed with a solid and commercially successful Greatest Hits, and then this. 1. Lee Ann Womack - There's More Where That Came From 3. Gary Allan - Tough All Over Certainly an important album for the maker (Allan's wife had committed suicide), Tough All-Over was just as important for the audience. Whilst Toby Keith and Brad Paisley resorted to ever-reliant gimmicks and cheap hooks, and Keith Urban wrote the same song the fiftyeth time over, Allan was churning out true, heartfelt — and heartbroken — country. 20 There's More... is the spark that lit the bonfire of new-traditionalism, a sound that opened a new door to old-country leanings. Just check out Faith Hill or Martina McBride's new releases. Swathed in fiddle, pedal steel and a whole lot of twang, Womack's pure, versatile voice never sounded better. She's made the greatest album of her career, and perhaps one of the greatest country albums of all time. Top 5 MOVIES ACCORDING TO KIT FLUKER 103 5. Howe's Moving Castle I actually haven't seen Hayao Miyazaki's latest film. It was supposed to come to Liberty Hall but March of the Penguins played for so long that it was bounced from the schedule. As a result, I have to wait for it on DVD. I hope you're all happy with yourselves. 4. Thin Man DVD Boxed Set ALEXANDER RUBY A 3. Serenity Many filmmakers seem to think explosions and spaceships are enough. Director Joss Whedon doesn't skimp in that department, but it doesn't skimp in the others, either. Serenity is thrilling, hilarious, and despairing, sometimes all at the same time. It's about time. William Powell and Myrna Loy play Nick and Nora Charles, an affectionate, sardonic married couple who spend their time drinking, bantering, and solving mysteries. And ever since the first one came out in 1934, onscreen couples have been trying to keep up with the Charleses. (4) A 2. Batman Begins I will defend Michael Keaton's portrayal of Batman with my dying breath, but even I can admit that this Batman movie blows the other Batman movies — and most action movies — right out of the water. The film is an experience, from start to finish, and if you didn't see it in theatres, well, I'm sorry. 1. Pride and Prejudice The previews for Pride and Prejudice made it look like a romantic drama of the dullest kind. But the film (unlike the previews) does justice to the source material — it's funny, energetic, insightful and makes me want to set up an altar to the casting director. It doesn't hurt that star Matthew MacFadyen puts the "cute" in "cute and broody." The 40-year-old Virgin Wedding Crashers A History of Violence ACCORDING TO LINDSEY RAMSEY MUNICH 5. Munich, Brokeback Mountain, Match Point, King Kong The truth is, I think some of the best is yet to come. That's what late December is for, the studios save their best for last. Steven Spielberg's Munich looks like a return to Schindler's List form. Brokeback Mountain is causing a stir among critics. Match Point promises a new kind of Woody Allen movie and Peter Jackson and his King Kong will not and cannot let us down. JOHN WILLIAMS MARRIED CRASHERS WARNER BROS. LIFE'S A PARTY. CRASH IT. 4. Wedding Crashers If I see a film that I like, I will see it several times. Looking back, the movie I saw the most times this year was Wedding Crashers. Crass and undeniably hilarious, the story of two guys crashing weddings to meet girls was the answer to this summer's string of ho hum, so much so that I saw it six times. DE LA VIE DES LES SENSATIONS DE LA VIE ALLIE A D'AVENIR AUSSEN INCLUSIONS DES LES MÉTRES SE CONTAINANT DES TYPES 3. Jarhead Why do I, a girl with little lust for violence, find Jarhead, a film about men obsessed with violence, so intriguing? The only answer I can offer is that the characters are so complicated that I cannot help but find myself enraptured by them. In short, Jarhead is complex, funny, sad and just inexplicably good. government bureaucracy jeff daniels management we will not night in lieu of your another good night, and good luck. 2. Good Night, and Good Luck Oh those pesky journalists, always getting in people's faces and asking the tough questions. But in Good Night, and Good Luck, Edward R Murrow takes those tough questions and turns them into enough to take down Senator Joseph McCarthy. Directed by George Clooney, Good Night, and Good Luck is a smart and confrontational look at a time when journalism could still make a difference. capote 1. Capote Chilling but somehow still beautiful, Capote got me thinking. True, I knew little of writer Truman Capote going into this film but the film inspired me to find out more. Phillip Seymour Hoffman's flawless performance paired with the story of how Capote came to write In Cold Blood creates a fascinating character study about the man and his methods. ACCORDING TO JON RALSTON OLDBOY MICHAEL J. BLAKE BENNETH LAMBERT AND R. SANCHO 5. Oldboy From South Korea, Oldboy is a modern Greek tragedy — poetic, strange and emotionally raw. Min-sik Choi plays Oh Dae-su, a man kidnapped and imprisoned in a hotel room for 15 years. When he is mysteriously released without any explanation, he begins his bloody quest for revenge. But that's just where Oldboy begins. This film is not for everyone for the taboo subjects and raw violence it explores (for example, Choi eats a live squid that is still squirming as he swallows it), but it is incredibly effective and stays with you. Shawn Cauer 40 Year Old Virgin A biography of Shawn Cauer 4. The 40-Year-Old Virgin The funniest movie from this year, The 40-Year-Old Virgin shows Steve Carell, about a middle-aged man who acts like a teenager because he's never had sex, is willing to do most anything to make us keel over laughing. You know that scene where he waxes his chest? Yeah, that's actually him doing it. And who'd ever think peeing with an erection could be so funny? SUPERMEN IN THE CITY 3. Sin City Gritty. Gory. Great. Director Robert Rodriguez teamed up with Frank Miller to bring Miller's graphic novel to life. Sin City tells the inter-connected stories of three anti-heroes all dishing out their own brand of violent justice. The film is beautiful, shot in black in white with splashes of color, and the noirish voiceovers are raw and poetic. L4YER CAKE THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF JONATHAN HOPKINS "WILLIAMS AND GENUNITY SOLITUDE" 900 2. Layer Cake After watching Layer Cake, it's easy to see why Daniel Craig is the new James Bond. Here he nails suave and smooth playing a nameless antihero, a middle-man in a London drug operation. Directed by Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch producer Matthew Vaughn, Layer Cake takes the quirkiness, style and plot twists that made those two films good and slows down the action so the audience has time to take it all in and have fun watching every second of it. HISTORY VIOLENCE A REALISTIC STUDY OF THE RAPTURE AND DEATH OF A GENERAL IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE NATIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM NEW YORK, N.Y. 10026 NATIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM 249 WEST 3RD STREET NW 10026 NEW YORK, N.Y. THIS SHOW IS FREE FOR ALL VISITORS TO THE NATIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM 1. A History of Violence David Cronenberg's multilevel exploration of the worst of human nature is effective from start to finish. Are murder and violence predisposed in our genes? Or is it just an everyday part of life? Viggo Mortensen plays a diner owner in a small town in Indiana whose life is thrown out of balance when he brutally kills two robbers and is heralded a hero. When a scarred mobster shows up claiming Viggo is not the simple Midwesterner he appears, his family begins to wonder who he really is. Great performances all around. 12. 08.05 Jayplay 2 Top 5 GAMES ACCORDING TO ANDREW CAMPBELL FEAR STORIES OF A FUTURE PC 5. F.E.A.R. (PC) PC CD BATTLEFIELD 2 PC EA Starring the world's creepiest little girl, F.E.A.R. provided the scariest videogame experience of the year. Featuring cutting-edge graphics, intense sound production and a well-written paranormal story, F.E.A.R. is one of the best singleplayer shooters to come along in years, and easily one of 2005's most impressive titles. 4. Battlefield 2 (PC) The first true sequel to the already addictive Battlefield 1942, Battlefield 2 brought the warfront to modern times, along with better graphics and a revised squad system. Considering a good portion of my summer was spent on the frontlines of this exceptional shooter, it seems only fair to count it among 2005's best. PlayStation 2 WAR OF WAR 3. God of War (PS2) PlayStation 2 THE SHADOW COLOSSUS AFTERMARKET EDITION MARSHAL STATE PASIENT DE LA DÉVILLE XAPICOM One of the most morally objectionable titles to be released this past year, God of War was also one of the best. With its lightning-fast combat, memorable locales, and excellent storyline, God of War set a new standard for action adventure titles. 2. Shadow of the Colossus (PS2) It is a rare feat when art direction and gameplay come together the way they do in Shadow of the Colossus. Composed almost exclusively of boss fights, the game more than makes up for it by making these boss fights the biggest and baddest ever put to the small screen. Coupled with a simple but touching storyline, Colossus will affect you unlike any other game this year, and perhaps ever. 1. Resident Evil 4 (Gamecube) ACCORDING TO CHRIS MOORE A huge leap forward for the series, Resident Evil 4 presented a complete overhaul of the now worn-out system used in previous Resident Evil titles. It also provided the most immersive gaming experience of 2005 with amazing graphics, creepy environments, great boss fights, and above all, entertaining gameplay. This was easily the most fun I had with gaming this year, and hopefully Capcom will be able to live up to it in Resident Evil 5. PlayStation 2 EVERYONE ENJOY CAPCOM ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN ACTIVISION MARVEL PC 5. Devil May Cry 3 (PS2) Gun slinging, sword combat, slaying demons and looking cool while doing it. This game is still kicking my butt, but I enjoy every minute of it. Dante is an awesome character and his games are based on a system that works. This is a must play for any fan. Let's rock, baby! PlayStation 2 TEKKEN 5 GAMESCO 4. Ultimate Spider-Man (X-Box) Roaming freely around the city as the friendly neighborhood spider himself. This game kept the same gameplay as the Spider-Man 2 game, and it works.The cell shading graphics make you feel like you're in the comic book.The smarty comments Spider-Man makes during his fights are amusing as well. STAR WARS EPISODE III A JEDI REPRESENTATION E NGLYPHONES 3. Tekken 5 (PS2) The fighters of the Tekken Universe return for another great game. There's no need for fireballs here. The fighting is more realistic and makes you string moves together to make your own combos. The ending stories could have used some more work, but it was still amazingly done. 2. Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith (X-Box) PlayStation 2 THE WAR WAR I didn't even wait to try this game out in a rent. After hearing this game was coming out, I made sure I bought this. The versus mode was well-done, the lightsaber combat was magnificently done and being able to slay Jedi as Anakin Skywalker is wonderful. 1. God of War (PS2) By far the best game this year. This game has everything; an epic story, stellar gameplay and a badass protagonist, Kratos. I played this game until my fingers blistered each night and I couldn't press the buttons anymore. The kill system for enemies has amazing visuals. Did I mention Kratos is a badass? Top 5 ACCORDING TO CHRIS HORN 5. Sequinned handbags Covered in bright sequins, these bags feature extra glitz and glam, perfect for a night out. They provide style and function, two must-haves for every girl on the go. 4. The man blazer ALEXANDER MCKINNEY A staple in most men's closets, blazers underwent an upgrade in the fashion world this year. These simple jackets were paired with the likes of denim, corduroy, chino and other fabrics giving them an appealing and fresh look to stylish men everywhere. 3. Aviator sunglasses CCCC They were popular long before 2005, but their appeal and style adaptations have definitely earned them a title on our list. Don a pair of these babies and go from plain to trendy in a New York minute. They moved from the country to the big city and with every designer adding their own flavor, the cowboy boot has made a huge splash in the fashion scene this year. Whether they be leather or faux alligator, they're in and sure to stay in style even into the new year. 2. Cowboy boots O 1. Large-beaded jewelry 22| Jayplay 12.08.05 These accessories add pizzazz and attention to any outfit. And this jewelry is trendy, chic and ultra-cheap. So when you're walking down the street, you'll be strutting like Gisele Bundchen on the catwalk. --- speak Unwrapping the mystery When I was about 9 years old I found out the truth. I was in the car with my Mom on the way home from the doctor. We were living in Los Angeles at the time, so the sunny sky and pleasant November air gave little clue that Christmas was right around the corner. I was sitting in the passenger seat, secretly cursing the nurse who stuck me with a needle, when I broke the comfortable silence of the car ride to ask my mom if there really was a Santa Claus. She was quiet for just a moment before she asked me if I really wanted to know the answer. I told her yes. She told me the truth. When I look back on it, finding out there was no Santa didn't ruin the Christmas mystique. If anything, it made B. R. SMITH James Foley Jayplay writer mystique. If anything, it better. Now I was in on the Big Secret. My mind could rest easy, no longer having to ponder the stupefying conundrum that is Santa Claus: We don't have a fireplace, how will he get in? I didn't write him a letter, how did he know I wanted a GI Joe tent? I know reindeer don't fly, I saw them at the zoo and they were walking. Won't we hear him when that big-ass sled lands on the roof? For years we played this game, me grilling my parents, and them cleverly combating my questions. They came up with wild excuses and cover-ups for the existence of the mythical gift bearer. They'd tell me he'd squeeze through the cracks in the door of our apartment, they'd insist that reindeer had wings hidden under their fur and only flew when children weren't looking. They'd tell me it was magic and that I just had to believe. I probably had the whole thing figured out for a couple years, but my parents persistently assured me there was a Santa, having a surplus of answers to my endless challenges to his existence. The game went on for far too long, but for good reason: to protect my younger siblings. Knowing for certain that there is no Santa Claus can be very powerful and destructive information, able to ruin the magic of Christmas for any unsuspecting ears. A child younger than the age of 9 cannot wield the great responsibility to not spill the beans. I'm pretty sure I didn't let it slip. I liked being in the know. I could talk to my mom in Christmas-speak, asking what "Santa" was going to bring Jordan and Lauren. Of course, she'd never tell me, even though I was in the club. Even after all the mystery was revealed, I still enjoyed every aspect of the holiday season with my family. I remember the smells of the Pillsbury sugar cookies mom would bake on Christmas Eve and the rainbow of icing colors we got to decorate them with. We'd leave a plate out for Santa, along with a glass of milk. When we'd wake up Mom and Dad at the crack of dawn the next day, we'd find As we all got older, some of the holiday magic faded away. Jordan and Lauren eventually found out the Big Secret too. We stopped some of the rituals, like decorating cookies and waking up at 5 a.m. to open presents. But the magic didn't disappear entirely. The magic remains in all the little things that let me know the holidays are here: The annual never-ending James Bond marathon on TNT, the first smell of wintry air tinged with smoke from a distant fireplace, the dozens of irritating, motorized ornaments we've been hanging on our fake Christmas tree for years, the ridiculous sweaters, seeing my entire hometown illuminated by tiny Christmas lights. half-eaten cookies and an empty glass next to a crudely scribbled thank-you note from Saint Nick. We'd take turns opening presents, smiling for pictures, laughing at Santa for forgetting the four AA batteries to power the new Game Boy. Everybody seems happier during the holidays. We're all friendlier, warmer. It makes us act more like a family and less like a bunch of people who simply tolerate living under the same roof. Maybe this caring is what the holiday spirit really is. It's something universal, something we can all understand and appreciate. Even without Santa Claus. 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