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Street performers will fill Lawrence's main strip with bizarre entertainment in inaugural Busker Festival
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Sword swallowers, fire eaters, jugglers, magicians and musicians will gather on Massachusetts Street for the first ever Busker Festival on Aug. 22-24.
Rick Averill, drama program director at the Lawrence Arts Center, said the idea for the festival originated
with Richard Renner, owner and director of Vodvill Entertainment Co., a company that specializes in finding work for street performers.
According to Renner,
"busker" is the old English term for street performer.
Although this is the first busker festival in Lawrence, street performers can be found in cities around the country.
Robert Wolf, professional
Busker Festival Schedule
**Friday** — 8:15 p.m. to 10 p.m.
**Saturday** — 7 a.m. to 8 a.m.
and 1:30 p.m. to 10:15 p.m.
**Sunday** — 2:15 p.m. to
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sword swallower, said he learned many of his skills on Pearl Street in Boulder, Colo. Wolf will be performing at the festival with his wife, Valerie Wolf.
Wolf's show is called "The Wicked Liar," and includes sword swallowing, fire eating, magic, juggling and bullwhip cracking.
The festival will also feature a children's workshop at the Lawrence Arts Center. Kids can sign up to learn how to mime, juggling, and make music and balloon animals from the performers.
Brian Wendling, professional juggler, said he would bring tennis balls, juggling scarves and plastic bags from a grocery store to help the kids learn the basics of juggling. "There will be things flying in the air everywhere."
"It's fantastic that we get to kind of express ourselves in our show," Wolf said. "We can come up with anything we want and stick it in."
Wolf broke the world record for fire eating in 2002 with 42 torches in 60 seconds, but he said his most dangerous skill was sword swallowing.
To swallow a sword, Wolf said he must align his body and pass the sword by the epiglottis in the back of the throat, through the esophagus and into his stomach. He said the sword passed behind his rib cage and could bump his heart.
"You have to be very conscious of your body and what the sword is doing." Wolf said.
Renner said most of the artists performing at the festival were professionals from the Lawrence and Kansas City area. Each performer will be paid a stipend of $100 to cover expenses but will be relying on tips for profit.
Renner said he was unable to attend the festival because he would be performing at the Kentucky State Fair. He said one of his biggest challenges was letting go of his role as
director of the Busker Festival.
its like not being there for the birth,' Renner said. Jane Pennington, director of Downtown Lawrence, Inc., an organization that promotes downtown business interests, worked with Renner and Averill to plan the event. She said it would be a good way to bring more people downtown.
"I just think it's going to make downtown buzz with good energy", Averill said.
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The Kansas Department of Labor reported Friday that the state's unemployment rate was 4.9 percent, up half a percentage point from June. And the rate for July was higher than the rate for July 2007, which was 4.5 percent.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan's ruling coalition finalized impeachment charges against President Pervez Musharraf on Sunday and a government minister said they could be filed as early as this week if he does not resign first.
Musharraf is holding out against intense pressure to quit from political foes who swept February elections and relegated the stalwart U.S. ally to the sidelines.
With Musharrafa's utility fading the West appears less concerned with his ultimate fate than with how the crisis is affecting the new civilian government's halting efforts to fight terrorism and growing economic woes.
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supporters of Pakistan's religious party. Jamat-i I Islami, or Party of Islam, shout slogans against Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf as they take part in a demonstration in Karachi, Pakistan, on Sunday. Musharraf could be impaired as early as this week.
Sherry Rehman said.
An eight-minute segment of the argument, in which each cursed repeatedly and one student near the camera can be heard crying, was posted on YouTube on Aug. 2 and has garnered more than 100,000 hits.
If coalition leaders give a green light, "we will be presenting (the list) as part of a resolution and charge sheet in the joint houses and, God willing, that should happen this week," Rehman said.
The coalition is confident it will easily secure the required two-thirds majority in a joint session of the upper and lower houses of parliament to oust Musharraf.
"In 18 years of taking part in debates, I have never seen an incident like this one," said Gordon Stables, first vice president of the Cross Examination Debate Association, which sponsored the March tournament in Wichita where the argument took place.
They argue Musharraf should quit now to spare the nation from a divisive political showdown.
The coalition officials released no details of the charges, but a senior coalition leader, Sen. Raza Rabbani, said the charges included "a plethora of actions" taken by Musharraf in "gross violation" of the constitution.
"He should tender his resignation, pack up his bags, and go," Rabbani told reporters after the committee meeting in Islamabad. "Whatever little moral authority was left has now been completely eroded."
Stables, who is also director of the University of Southern California's debate squad, said the association was investigating.
In the video, Fort Hays State University debate coach William Shanahan is shown arguing with Shanara Reid-Brinkley, debate coach at the University of Pittsburgh, during the competition's quarterfinals.
Shanahan, who is white, and Reid-Brinkley, who is black, scream criticisms about one another's body language during students' debates.
The argument, which appears to be at least in part about race, is punctuated with frequent cursing and name-calling.
That's when a man wearing only blue boxer shorts came upstairs, grabbed her purse and ran out the door.
At one point Shanahan screams as he jumps up, then yanks his shorts down to his knees and points his rear end at Reid-Brinkley.
Burglar does laundry, flees in his underwear
Police in Wichita say it appears a man broke into a house Friday night to wash his clothes but fled in boxes, with his jeans still in the washer.
WICHITA — A Kansas burglar apparently likes to be clean — but isn't so good about clean getaways.
home, found her basement laundry room in disarray and went upstairs to call her husband.
Police Sgt. Diane Varnell says the woman chased him and recovered her purse, but the burglar is still on the loose.
Here's what happened: A woman an reported that she returned
Varnell says it appeared the man simply needed to wash his clothes.
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DeGeneres ties the knot with four-year girlfriend
The KU Public Safety Office has reported no crimes during the weekend as of Aug. 17.
In the biggest celebrity union since California legalized same-sex marriage, DeGeneres, 50, and de Rossi, 35, wed Saturday night in an intimate ceremony at their Beverly Hills home, People and Us Magazine reported.
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The ceremony was attended by 19 guests, including DeGeneres's mom Betty and de Rossi's mother Margaret Rogers, who flew in from Australia for the occasion. People.com reported Saturday night.
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At the request of the KI athletics department, renovations to the Jahayw Towers apartment buildings that were originally scheduled for fall 2009 will begin this fall.
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When basketball coach Bill Self agreed to a new 10-year, $30 million contract to remain at the University back in April, the school promised to improve housing for athletes at Jayhawk Towers.
Diana Robertson, student housing director, said plans were already set to begin renovations of the Jayhawker Towers beginning Fall 2009, but because the Athletics Department wanted to expedite the process, the housing department was asked to make arrangements to move the renovations up and begin this fall instead.
It took only three days for Robertson and her staff to reassign the 180 people living in Tower A, and plans were set to begin renovations of the tower this fall.
"When we were asked to do it, three days later we had the changes made and got that out to folks," Robertson said. "It was really kind of a phenomenal process for our assignment staff. They worked very quickly because we knew some people would have anxiety about it."
Tower A, which was for graduate students before this year, was chosen as the first tower to be renovated because it had the most year-round occupancy and had the least amount of renovations completed so far. When it reopens in Fall 2009, it will be co-ed and open to all traditional students. Robertson said that up to 50 percent of the students assigned there could be athletes.
"We approached the University because it was something that was high on our list," said Jim Marchiony, Associate Athletics Director for External Affairs. "What's good about it is that it not only helps athletics, but also other areas of the University. A lot of regular students live in that facility
and I think it was a realization that we can help not only athletics but the rest of the University if we can put this on the fast track"
All returning residents to the Jayhawker Towers were guaranteed spots in the towers again this fall, but new applicants were assigned to other residence halls on campus. Some took the new assignment, while others decided to forfeit the $300 deposit and look for housing elsewhere off-campus.
"We already had people assigned for this fall," Robertson said. "Everyone who had contracted with us got reassigned throughout the complex. Some people who had applied to come into the complex, we started issuing residence hall contracts to them with the intentions that we could get them back into the complex and we did."
Robertson said anyone who originally signed up to live in Jayhawker Towers but were moved somewhere else in April had been reassigned back to the towers, although not all were with the same roommate or building that they had requested.
Some students, such as Marc Ruiz, were assigned new, unfamiliar
roommates but decided to stay in the towers anyway after realizing that choices were limited.
"I thought about getting out, but there really aren't many other options that are this close to campus," Ruiz, Lenexa senior, said. "I would have liked to have at least known who my roommate was, being a senior who has lived in the towers for three years, but I guess that's just what happened. It wasn't really worth all of the trouble trying to find a new place at the last minute."
The renovations will include a complete overhaul of the plumbing and electrical systems as well as new cabinets and flooring. Each tower will be closed for one school year, but the work itself won't take that long. Robertson hopes another tower can be renovated during 2009-2010 school year but said that it woId probably be a few years before the other two towers would be renovated.
Robertson said that plans were in place to renovate other residence halls in the near future, with the first being GSP in two years.
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STUDENT SENATE
Committee suggests campain duration limits
BY HALEY JONES
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Student Senate is working to improve its elections process after students complained about the duration of last spring's nearly three-month-long campaigning period.
Student body president Adam McGonigle, Wichita junior, created an elections reform committee on July 16 to review and modify election rules for the spring 2009 Student Senate elections. Mason Heilman, student executive committee chairman and Lawrence junior, chairs the committee.
"One of the biggest concerns we had was the notion that students were feeling harassed, and candidates were feeling harassed having to harass them," Heilman said.
He said the committee was trying to pare down the amount of time candidates had to approach students during campaigning while still giving candidates adequate
time to give students their message if students wanted to hear it.
The panel is comprised of senators who supported opposite coalitions during the 2008 elections. Heilman said the senators met several times during the summer to brainstorm various things they felt needed to be changed in elections.
The committee plans to present a bill of elections rules at the first full senate meeting on Sept. 3. If approved, Heilman said the bill would lower the campaign spending limit and the time allowed to do campaign activities such as chalking and tabling at the Kansas Union. Heilman said students weren't necessarily adverse to active campaigning, but they were turned off by nine weeks of campaign talk and then two full weeks of candidates approaching them.
Heilman said the committee has been in agreement on most rules it would like to change, but has not come to a final decision on spending limits. Heilman said he would like the bill to be as unanimous as possible, but anything the committee couldn't agree on would be kept out of the bill and could be proposed as an amendment to the bill if it was passed.
“If students frequent Wescoe Beach during campaigning, they might be talked to multiple times every day for two weeks,” Heilman said. “Many students lost interest or faith in Student Senate and
wouldn't vote."
"Right now students just think we're annoying and that we're not important," Haverkamp said. "We definitely need to change the way we are broadcasted out there. Shortening the amount of time for campaigning will help that."
"It is my hope that committee will have very significant bill," McGonigle said. "We want to make sure we have a bill that is fair that all of Student Senate can agree on."
Andy Haverkamp, engineering senator and Hoyt sophomore, said he thought the committee was something Student Senate needed for a long time.
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Students perform tragedy 'Agamemnon'in Greece
BY SACHIKO MIYAKAWA
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A DANCE FOR THE WORLD
Heat, the absence of microphones and acting with Greek lines were among the challenges theater students experienced when they performed a Greek tragedy outdoors in Greece this summer.
KU theater students rehearse the play "Agamemnon" in an ancient amphitheater in Katohi, Greece. Thirteen students traveled to Greece during July to perform in a summer theater festival as well as learn Greek culture and modern Greek. They will restage the play at 7:30 p.m. this Saturday in Swarthout Recital Hall.
The students were in Greece as part of a study abroad program. Dennis Christilles, associate professor of theater and film at the University, directed the play, "Agamemnon," and said the Greek audience welcomed the performance.
Thirteen students participated in the study abroad program in Katohi, a rural farm town in Greece, to perform in a Katohi summer theater festival. They learned Greek culture and modern Greek along with practicing the play.
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The students will bring their production of "Agamemnon" to the University this Saturday. The play will start at 7:30 p.m. on Aug.23, in Swarthout Recital Hall. It is free and open to the public.
Christilles said the audience in Lawrence would also enjoy the performance.
"Agamemnon" is a story about a mythic Greek hero and his wife, who planned to avenge their daughter's death. Aeschylus wrote
the play in the 5th century B.C. Christilles rewrote the story, combining English and modern Greek lines, which allowed speakers of both languages to understand and enjoy it.
Spencer Lott, Lawrence junior, played Herald, a main character of the tragedy.
He said the outdoor theater was physically demanding. He had to routinely deal with heat and mosquitos, and project his voice without microphones. But he said he enjoyed the environment of the theater because it was similar to acting in ancient times. The actors wore simple but bright costumes. The stage stood on the sand and relied on the natural light and shadows.
"We performed in an ancient amphitheater," Lott said. "They just uncovered within past twenty years."
The students performed the tragedy in front of an audience of 400, mostly residents of the village.
Elizabeth Grim, Ames, Iowa, graduate student, said the audience was distracted at the beginning, but she noticed they became engaged in the story toward the climax and connected with the tragic characters.
Grim said the live orchestra enhanced the tragedy.
Christilles wrote the lines and Brian Bondari, Tifton, Ga., graduate student, composed the music for the viola, clarinet, drum
and voices.
"Music takes almost half of the play," Bondari said. "It is a unique blend between theater and music."
Christilles said "Agamemnon" was straightforward and anyone could follow the story without knowledge of ancient Greek theater.
"lealousy, revenge, lost love and loneliness," he said. "Same themes are living now as they were there."
MONEY
Weak dollar attracts students to U.S. Improving economy brings the University visitors from abroad
BY BETSY CUTCLIFF bcutcliff@kansan.com
The talling value of the dollar and the improvement of the economy abroad has opened the door for more international students to come to the University of Kansas.
Currency Units per US dollar 2000 Units per US dollar 2008 Dollar Value Percentage change
Australia Dollars 1.716 1.150 -33 %
Canada Dollars 1.482 1.062 -28.3%
Euro 1.101 0.671 - 39%
U.K. Pounds 0.667 0.53 - 20.5%
China Yuan 8.278 6.861 - 17%
U.S. Dollars 1.000 1.000 0
The low exchange rate, mixed with China's economic boom, has given students an opportunity to study abroad and become a jayhawk.
Peter Morgan, Hastings, England, junior, was one student who took advantage of the weak dollar.
"Now is the time to study abroad if you want more for your money," he said.
"The Chinese economy is improving so parents have money
While it is easier and less expensive for students around the world to come to the United States, there has been an influx of Chinese students eager to take advantage of the chance to learn in America's capitalist environment.
This year saw the University's largest international orientation, said Katelyn McGill, coordinator of this year's international student orientation. Approximately 300 international students enrolled directly at the University for the fall semester.
now to send their children to school overseas," McGill said.
Students have come from rural and urban areas all over China, studying everything from American History to microbiology. Shangnan Lin came to the University from Sichuan to study English to further her career goals.
"I want to be a successful leader in my family's company," Lin said.
Lin's family, which owns a steel
company, has benefited greatly from the expanding infrastructure in the south-central Sichuan province. Within the past few years, Lin's family moved into a bigger house and was able to afford
sending her to the University.
Youyang Xu, Jilin, was also enjoying the flourishing Chinese economy and said she knew she wanted to study in the United States when her family could afford it.
"It is a better location for studying," Xu said. At home in China's Jilin province, Xu's family is enjoying a bigger house and more luxuries. She said everyday life has improved now that her parents are
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While studying in the United States, foreign students have been taking advantage of the exchange rate by traveling around the country. Popular sites include Chicago, Los Angeles and New York, where normally high prices don't break the bank for foreigners.
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"The NIH has recognized the potential of these people and of the center."
The NIH grant is a renewal of a previous grant awarded to Hanzlik five years ago. The Institutes awarded the funding to the University of Kansas to continue development
"I was delighted of course and
BOB HANZLIK Program director
of its Center of Biomedical Research Excellence, located on West Campus.
Hanzlik said the center, which researchers refer to as the COBRE, focuses on two main initiatives. The primary focus is to recruit, support and mentor new junior faculty investigators. Most of the junior faculty members are assistant professors from each of the universities that COBRE works
with, which also include Kansas State, Wichita State and the KU School of Medicine.
The second focus of the center is to select a scientific theme to dedicate research to.
ences, said the grant gave COBRE the opportunity to hire experts in the protein research field that would improve the center's efficiency. He also said news about the renewal helped improve his outlook on research for the next few years.
"I was delighted of course and very pleased that our efforts were not futile."
The grant covers costs and development within the center during the next five years.
Kevin Boatright, director of research communications, said the amount of money awarded by the grant placed it among the 15 largest grants ever given to the University. He said the influx of early annual funding was an
"I think it is recognition of the quality of the faculty at this center." Hanzlik said. "The NIH has recognized the potential of these people and of the center."
ROBERT DE GUZMAN Assistant professor
For the COBRE, that theme is protein structure and function. With this research, the center hopes to discover or improve medications available to the public.
very pleased that our efforts were not futile." De Guzman said. "It also gave me the confidence that things will be tough, but doable." D e
Guzman said
Roberto De Guizman, assistant professor in molecular biosci-
Hanzlik, who serves as the program director and principle investigator, said the renewal of the grant is a good sign.
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indicator of the quality of research taking place at the University.
go up.
Hazlik said with constant inflation, it was only natural to see the amount for the grant
"There was a time when this would have been the largest grant ever," Hanzlik said. "They are just like track records though, inevitably they go down."
De Guzman said the renewal of the grant would not change his level of motivation when it came to his work. Even with the guaranteed funding, he said he did not feel any more at ease.
"I certainly don't feel more relaxed now than before," De Guzman said. "But my relaxation doesn't come from grants; it comes from the Robinson pool or the bike path at Clinton Lake."
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Students perform tragedy 'Aqamemnon' in Greece
BY SACHIKO MIYAKAWA
smivakawa@kansan.com
Heat, the absence of microphones and acting with Greek lines were among the challenges theater students experienced when they performed a Greek tragedy outdoors in Greece this summer.
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KU theater students rehearse the play "Agamemnon" in an ancient amphitheater in Katohi, Greece. Thirteen students traveled to Greece during July to perform in a summer theater festival as well as learn Greek culture and modern Greek. They will restage the play at 7:30 p.m. this Saturday in Swarthout Recital Hall.
The students were in Greece as part of a study abroad program. Dennis Christilles, associate professor of theater and film at the University, directed the play, "Agamemnon," and said the Greek audience welcomed the performance.
Christilles said the audience in Lawrence would also enjoy the performance.
The students will bring their production of "Agamemnon" to the University this Saturday. The play will start at 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 23, in Swarthout Recital Hall. It is free and open to the public.
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Thirteen students participated in the study abroad program in Katohi, a rural farm town in Greece, to perform in a Katohi summer theater festival. They learned Greek culture and modern Greek along with practicing the play.
"Agamemnon" is a story about a mythic Greek hero and his wife, who planned to avenge their daughter's death. Aeschylus wrote
the play in the 5th century B.C. Christilles rewrote the story, combining English and modern Greek lines, which allowed speakers of both languages to understand and enjoy it.
Spencer Lott, Lawrence junior, played Herald, a main character of the tragedy.
He said the outdoor theater was physically demanding. He had to routinely deal with heat and mosquitos, and project his voice without microphones. But he said he enjoyed the environment of the theater because it was similar to acting in ancient times. The actors wore simple but bright costumes. The stage stood on the sand and relied on the natural light and shadows.
"We performed in an ancient amphitheater," Lott said. "They just uncovered within past twenty years."
The students performed the tragedy in front of an audience of 400, mostly residents of the village.
Elizabeth Grim, Ames, Iowa, graduate student, said the audience was distracted at the beginning, but she noticed they became engaged in the story toward the climax and connected with the tragic characters.
Christilles wrote the lines and Brian Bondari, Tifton, Ga., graduate student, composed the music for the viola, clarinet, drum
Grim said the live orchestra enhanced the tragedy.
and voices.
"Music takes almost half of the play," Bondari said. "It is a unique blend between theater and music."
Christilles said "Agamemnon" was straightforward and anyone could follow the story without knowledge of ancient Greek theater.
"jealousy, revenge, lost love and loneliness," he said. "Same themes are living now as they were there."
MONEY
Weak dollar attracts students to U.S. Improving economy brings the University visitors from abroad
BY BETSY CUTCLIFF
bcutcliff@kansan.com
Money value
The falling value of the dollar and the improvement of the economy abroad has opened the door for more international students to come to the University of Kansas.
Currency Units per US dollar 2000 Units per US dollar 2008 Dollar Value Percentage change
Australia Dollars 1.716 1.150 -33%
Canada Dollars 1.482 1.062 -28.3%
Euro 1.101 0.671 -39%
U.K. Pounds 0.667 0.53 - 20.5%
China Yuan 8.278 6.861 - 17%
U.S. Dollars 1.000 1.000 0
The low exchange rate, mixed with China's economic boom, has given students an opportunity to study abroad and become a Javhawk.
Peter Morgan, Hastings, England, junior, was one student who took advantage of the weak dollar.
"Now is the time to study abroad if you want more for your money," he said.
While it is easier and less expensive for students around the world to come to the United States, there has been an influx of Chinese students eager to take advantage of the chance to learn in America's capitalist environment.
"The Chinese economy is improving so parents have money
This year saw the University's largest international orientation, said Katelyn McGill, coordinator of this year's international student orientation. Approximately 300 international students enrolled directly at the University for the fall semester.
now to send their children to school overseas." McGill said.
Students have come from rural and urban areas all over China, studying everything from American History to microbiology. Shangnan Lin came to the University from Sichuan to study English to further her career goals.
Lin's family, which owns a steel
"I want to be a successful leader in my family's company," Lin said.
company, has benefited greatly from the expanding infrastructure in the south-central Sichuan province. Within the past few years, Lin's family moved into a bigger house and was able to afford
sending her to the University.
Youyang Xu, Jilin, was also enjoying the flourishing Chinese economy and said she knew she wanted to study in the United States when her family could afford it.
"It is a better location for studying," Xu said. At home in Chinas Jilin province, Xu's family is enjoying a bigger house and more luxuries. She said everyday life has improved now that her parents are
"Now is the time to study abroad if you want more for your money."
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advantage of the opportunity to study here at nearly half the cost. According to the University's Web site, standard tuition for a nonresident for the 2008-2009 year is $16,800. The current exchange rate
"It if it was one pound to the dollar. I wouldn't have come here," Honey said. "In fact, I probably wouldn't have studied abroad at all."
—Edited by Arthur Hur
is 67 cents to the euro, compared with 91 cents per euro in 2000, and 53.5 cents to the British pound, compared to $1.50 per pound in 2000, according to www.xe.com.
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BY JOE PREINER
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Bob Hanzlik, professor of medicinal chemistry, received a $10 million grant from the National Institutes of Health this week.
"The NIH has recognized the potential of these people and of the center."
The NIH grant is a renewal of a previous grant awarded to Hanzlik five years ago. The Institutes awarded the funding to the University of Kansas to continue development
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of its Center of Biomedical Research Excellence, located on West Campus.
Hanzlik said the center, which researchers refer to as the COBRE, focuses on two main initiatives. The primary focus is to recruit, support and mentor new junior faculty investigators. Most of the junior faculty members are assistant professors from each of the universities that COBRE works
with, which also include Kansas State, Wichita State and the KU School of Medicine.
"I was delighted of course and
The second focus of the center is to select a scientific theme to dedicate research to
ences, said the grant gave COBRE the opportunity to hire experts in the protein research field that would improve the center's efficiency. He also said news about the renewal helped improve his outlook on research for the next few years.
For the COBRE, that theme is protein structure and function. With this research, the center hopes to discover or improve medications available to the public.
"I was delighted of course and very pleased that our efforts were not futile."
ROBERT DE GUZMAN Assistant professor
The grant covers costs and development within the center during the next five years.
"I think it is recognition of the quality of the faculty at this center." Hanzlik said. "The NIH has recognized the potential of these people and of the center."
Hanzlik, who serves as the program director and principle investigator, said the renewal of the grant is a good sign.
Roberto De Guzman, assistant professor in molecular biosci-
Guzman said
very pleased that our efforts were not futile." De Guzman said. "It also gave me the confidence that things will be tough, but doable."
Kevin Boatright, director of research communications, said the amount of money awarded by the grant placed it among the 15 largest grants ever given to the University. He said the influx of early annual funding was an
the center conducted cutting edge research and complex work in the protein structure and function field. He said some of the money would go to hiring specialists for research machinery in COBRE.
go up.
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Hazlil said with constant inflation, it was only natural to see the amount for the grant
"There was a time when this would have been the largest grant ever," Hanzlik said. "They are just like track records though, inevitably they go down."
De Guzman said the renewal of the grant would not change his level of motivation when it came to his work. Even with the guaranteed funding, he said he did not feel any more at ease.
"I certainly don't feel more relaxed now than before." De Guzman said. "But my relaxation doesn't come from grants; it comes from the Robinson pool or the bike path at Clinton Lake."
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BY BRANDY ENTSMINGER
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Fine Arts student Kami Brant,
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is donating six pet portraits to Art
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the Humane Society of Greater
Kansas City.
Robin Rowland, director of development at the Humane Society, said she expected Brant's work to be popular with the attendees.
Hartman said she encouraged Brant to use her love of animals in a service project because it would help to amplify the message of her work.
"I'm just so excited that this college student decided to get involved." Rowland said. "It says a lot about her personality and character."
"It seemed right that she could use her artwork as a tool that would link both her interests," Hartman said.
Brant became interested in donating her work for a good cause while taking Painting III with Tanya Hartman, associate professor of art.
Brant used six dogs from the Humane Society as models for her work and included dedications to them on the back of the portraits.
Brant said she chose the dogs because they seemed to stand out to her. The only dog she painted with a collar was her roommate's beagle because she said she wanted to show he had found a home.
She also used her roommate's adopted beagle as a model for one of the paintings.
She said she planned to spend about 30 minutes getting to know
each dog before painting, but ended up spending closer to five hours.
Eachportrait took her 12 to 15 hours to finish. She said she planned to donate 10 paintings, but
"The most rewarding is knowing I helped raise money for each dog that I spent time with," Brant said.
Rowland said the Humans
Rowland said a group of Hallmark artists put together the first Art Unleashed auction in 1997. Since then, about half of the donated work has come from local and regional artists.
"I'm just so excited that this college student decided to get involved. It says a lot about her personality and character."
ROBIN ROWLAND Kansas City Humane Society
changed the number to six after realizing how long each one was going to take.
Brant said she would like to complete more portraits and possibly donate art projects from other classes next year.
The Humane Society is a nokill shelter and Rowland said the money raised at the auction would be used for food, housing and medical costs for the 140 animals living there.
Society expected to have 800 attendees at the auction and hoped to raise $55,000. Last year the auction featured about 250 pieces from 150 artists and raised $50,000.
said Brant was the first student from the University of Kansas who donated artwork for the event.
Rowland
"Hopefully she will inspire some other KU art students to get involved next year," Rowland said.
The auction will take place from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Aug. 22 at the Uptown Theater in Kansas City, Mo.
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The elusive student voter
Board works with campus groups to encourage student voting
BY HALEY JONES
hjones@kansan.com
tions to educate students on voter registration this fall.
The KU Student Legislative Awareness Board, or SLAB, is partnering with other campus organiza-
Wescoe Beach, at Mrs. E's Dining Hall and at various Panhellenic events with materials available for students to register to vote.
Michael Gray, SLAB legislative director and Buhler, junior, said volunteers would be in the Kansas Union, on
"We want to hit the most diverse amount of people we can and follow up on people who register," Gray
"We want to hit the most diverse amount of people we can and follow up on people who register"
said.
RYAN LAWLER SLAB legislative director
Ryan Lawler, Bolingbrook, Ill., senior and vice president of SLAB, said volunteers registered 500 to 600 voters for the primary election. He said he had
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Gray said SLAB received an outstanding response from organizations that wanted to participate in the outreach efforts. SLAB has secured interest from various Greek organizations, Students for Barack Obama, Students for Dennis Moore, Students for Slattery, College Democrats of Kansas and Young Democrats of Kansas. Gray said SLAB contacted College Republicans but hadn't heard back from them yet.
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"When SLAB wanted to do this in the past, it's been the same three or four motivated people and you can't do eight weeks of voter registration with that," Gray said. "With these organizations, we can be out there as much as we want."
Lawler said SLAB planned to send two e-mails to the entire student body this fall informing them of when and where students could register to vote.
SLAB is also partnering with the Dole Student Advisory Board to register voters during Hawk Week, Aug. 17 to Aug.23.
Tom Cox, Shawnee graduate student and student assistant at the Dole Institute of Politics, said part of the reason the student advisory board wanted to focus on educating students about voting was because it was the most fundamental and important way people could be active in politics.
"It's the most valuable way for them to invest their time," Cox said.
Gray said the small number of young people who voted was what motivated him to prompt more students to register. He said when a specific constituency didn't vote, politicians didn't have to worry about that group's concerns as much.
"Until people get out and vote, we wont see our benefits increased like financial aid," Gray said. "We will be the ones politicians always cut from."
Gray said he hoped registering students to vote would encourage them to go to the polls and change the trend.
"Hopefully on the KU campus we can do our part and local politicians will see our efforts and change accordingly," Gray said.
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A swimsuit calendar is a new ally for breast cancer research this year.
Laura Woo Minn., sophomore, will be featured in the Big 12 swim-suit calendar produced by Campus Girls USA. The company, which started the calendar as a single-school pilot program in 2006, now
Laura Wood, Eden Prairie,
KU football games during the fall semester.
Breast cancer is currently the third leading cause of cancer death in the U.S. behind colon and lung cancer, according to the American Cancer Society's 2008 Cancer Facts & Figures Report.
This year, according to the report, it is estimated that breast cancer will result in approximately 40,480 deaths and more than 180,000 new cases will be diagnosed.
done anything like this before." Wood said. "So it's great to be a part of something that is for such a great cause."
Wood said the goal of the program was to raise money for breast cancer research. Campus Girls USA raised more than $12,000 since the program began and this year,
The numbers are proportionately similar within the state of Kansas. The report estimates 370 breast cancer deaths and 1,730 new
cases for this year.
the company hopes to reach $120,000, according to its Web site. Wood said she hoped she could help the company achieve that goal and looked forward to contributing.
According to Campus Girls USA's Web site, there are two main strategies for fighting breast cancer. They included early detection and treatment and finding a cure through research.
"It's a great cause and one the girls can really get their arms around. Many of the girls have dealt with the disease on a personal level."
JIM DEBTH Senior VP of sales for Campus Girls
"I've never
Samantha, a political science major from the University of Iowa, is featured as Miss July in the Campus Girls USA calendar. The goal of the calendar is to raise $120,000 for breast cancer research this year.
features students from 65 colleges across the country.
The 16-month, $15 calendar is currently available for preorder online and includes the Big 12 football conference schedule and an NCAA March Madness bracket. Wood will sell the calendars on campus and during tailgating for
Roy Jensen, director of the University of Kansas Cancer Center, said funding for research was essential to finding a cure.
Erica Brown, senior coordinator of University relations at the KU Medical Center, said that in the past four years the National Cancer Institute lost 21 percent of its purchasing power because of rising costs within the biomedical field.
Jensen said the most important factor to advance breast cancer research was to increase funding so more money was available for researchers to discover new ways to detect and treat the disease.
Funding for research has become even more important in recent years.
Jim Debth, senior vice president of sales and business development for the Campus Girls USA, said the success of the program was a testament to the efforts of the girls involved.
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jtrimble@kansan.com
Clarissa Unger never dreamed she would be a national delegate for the state of Kansas.
But next week she will be one of many supporting Sen. Barack Obama (D-ill.) at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. She was one of five applicants out of a group of 70 to become a national Democratic delegate for Kansas. Unger, Colby senior, is one of the three youngest people in Kansas to be chosen as a national delegate.
Clarissa Unger, Colby senior, will be traveling to Denver for the 2008 Democratic National Convention as a representative delegate of Congressional District 3, which comprises the eastern portion of Lawrence. Unger was initially chosen to be a district delegate in February 2008 and later chosen as a convention delegate. The national convention will take place Aug. 25 to Aug. 28.
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During the DNC, Unger and others will be able to formally vote for Obama as the Democratic nominee for president
Unger discovered a passion for Obama's campaign when she read his first book, "Dreams from my Father," a couple of years ago over Christmas break.
"I just fell in love with his policies and his plans for our country. I was incredibly fascinated by his second book as well and waited for him to announce his decision to run for president." Unger said.
year to help with the campaign.
Unger first got the chance to work with Obama's campaign in May 2007 with the KC Kickoff, where she helped prepare and set up for the event. After that she discovered an organization at the University of Kansas called "Students for Barack Obama" and immediately joined. She became the state coordinator and traveled to Iowa and New Hampshire last
Unger was surprised to receive a call from Obama's campaign staff offering her a position at Obama's campaign headquarters in Chicago.
"I dropped everything. I paid to get myself to Chicago and stay there for just over a month and I'm also paying to drive to Denver for the convention and stay in a hotel there," Unger said.
Chelsea Mertz, Topeka junior; will join Unger at the College and National conventions, held Aug. 22 and Aug. 25 through Aug. 28, respectively. Mertz won't cast a vote, but said it has always been her dream to be part of the campaign since she heard Obama's first speech in 2004.
"I've worked with Clarissa and am part of Young Democrats on campus and have been very excited about the campaign this year." Mertz said.
Diana Carlin, professor of communication studies, said she thought college students played a major role in the primaries and that they would continue to do so.
"A lot of things have happened within the past few years to have a huge impact on this generation. 9/11 had a tremendous impact as well as the 2000 and 2004 election years," Carlin said. "They've shown that votes do actually matter."
She added that many young people don't participate because they think their vote won't change anything.
"Both of the current candidates resonate with students. Whether it's environmental issues or foreign policy issues, students of this generation are listening."
Carlin said.
Carlin added that it had been a unique and exciting primary season. From T-shirts to other trends, Carlin said the outward display
students were showing was important, because young people hadn't been connected to the political scene in a while.
said. "All of the crucial issues that matter to students will encourage them to show up and vote."
"This will tie students in," Carlin
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STUDENT SENATE Discussions to include rec center expansion
Student representatives from KU administration, recreational services and the athletics department will begin discussing a potential Student Recreation Fitness Center expansion early this fall.
Adam McGonigle, Wichita junior and student body president.
said a third party consultant would then conduct a formal study to determine how each group wanted to proceed with an expansion.
McGonigle and Michael Gillaspie, Ashland senior and student body vice president, will then lead focus groups of students around campus to find out what students want from the recreation center and how much they would be
willing to pay for it.
"We're committed to making sure students have the final say and are being leaders and determining what happens at the rec center," McGonick said.
Once the Senate has a better understanding of what students want from a rec center expansion, a bill would most likely appear in the 2009 Student Senate elections.
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"Because of recent things over the summer like deaths, rape and assault, we want to make sure that we're doing our best to educate students and make sure our students are safe." Gillaspie said.
Campus safety was one of former coalition United Students' platforms during the spring 2008 elections.
Mason Heilman, Lawrence junior and student executive committee chairman, said Student Senate had 100 wireless access points left to install from the KU wireless initiative that was approved in spring 2007. So far, the $2.6 million plan has added about 600 wireless access points to the 218 existing points in an effort to make all classrooms, labs and academic areas on campus wireless.
Resource Center to increase campus safety.
More wireless areas may be coming to campus
universities to discover how they handle enrollment, textbooks and academic records in hopes of finding ways to improve the University's online Enroll & Pay system. An improved enrollment system was a platform McGonigle and Gillaspie were elected on.
Gillaspie said he planned to present his report to the Provost, Chancellor and the department of information technology with ideas for how the University's system could be improved for students.
Gillaspie to present report on Enroll & Pay
The Senate will discuss where to put the remaining access points during the next meeting.
"It does what it needs to do, but we're really working on making it easier and more educational as far as knowing what requirements they have and how those fit in with their degree," Gilaspie said.
Women's resource center hopes to improve safety
Student Senate is working with the Emily Taylor Women's
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TAL AFAR, Iraq — A series of bombings in this small but strategic northwestern Iraqi city is stoking fears of a return to sectarian conflict here and raising questions about a strategy of handing urban security to Iraqi police.
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Since April, at least four major bombings have killed about 40 people and wounded nearly 150 on this city on the main route from Mosul to the east and the
Syrian border 60 miles to the west. The deadliest was on Aug. 8, when a suicide bomber detonated a truck packed with explosives in a vegetable market in a Shite district, killing at least 20 people, police said. U.S. officials blamed the attack on al-Qaida in Iraq.
"The goal was to start sectarian violence with the car bombs," he said. "There used to be a whole brigade here and now it's less. Soon, these policies will backfire in Tal Afar and allow terrorists to come in"
The city's mayor, Najim Abdullah, fears that the removal of American troops from his city and the deployment of Iraqi army soldiers to nearby Mosul have left his overwhelming Turkoman community vulnerable.
Those concerns have emerged even as insurgent attacks and sectarian bloodshed have ebbed over the past year throughout Iraq, and as the U.S. is considering a further reduction in the 145,000-member U.S. force following the July departure of the last of the troops sent here in 2007 to curb sectarian violence.
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When Phillip Schmitz moved into the new Floyd H. and Kathryn Krehbiel Scholarship Hall on Friday, he stepped into the building for the very first time.
"I saw some pictures on Facebook the other day and it looked pretty nice," said Schmitz, Maryswille freshman. "But when I moved in, it was the first time I saw it."
Schmitz wasn't alone. Each of the 50 students who signed up to live in Krehbiel Hall had never seen the actual building until they moved in. They were told what it would look like and took a chance that it would be as nice as advertised.
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"I was up in Lawrence during orientation but it was still under construction," Brian Smith, Wichita freshman, said. "I had heard it was supposed to be pretty nice. I was anxious to see it."
Krehbiel, a twin to Dennis E. Rieger Scholarship Hall, was constructed next door to Rieger at 13th and Ohio. It became the 12th scholarship hall to open on campus when its doors swung open on Friday morning and ended a
Flovd H. and Kathy Krehbiel Scholarship Hall is the newest of the 12 scholarship halls. The hall opened on Friday morning.
plan that had been in the works for more than five years.
"It's a beautiful building," said Diana Robertson, director of student housing. "We're looking forward to adding another unique option in terms of housing options for students here. It's an exciting time for us. We're really excited to get it open."
Money for the building was donated by Carl Krehbiel, an alumnus of the University who lived in a scholarship hall during his time on campus.
Students interested in living at the facility toured similar scholarship halls to get an idea as to what Krebbiel would look like, but didn't really know the final outcome until they moved on on Friday.
"We're the first ones to live here so we kind of get to help start the traditions and stuff," Smith said. "All of the other ones have their own, but it will be cool because we will be the ones that started them here."
Members of scholarship halls pay a cheaper housing fee than students in residence halls because they assist in the daily chores of the house. Those include cooking, cleaning and other jobs to keep the hall up and running.
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"All 50 people have to work together and everyone has to do their part to make it work," Schmitz said. "I'm excited. I got into it with
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A formal dedication ceremony of Krehbiel Scholarship Hall will
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KU students, graduates work on supercollider project
BY SACHIKO MIYAKAWA smiyakawa@kansan.com
The discovery of electrons or lasers opened a new field of scientific experiment and has benefitted millions of people's lives. However, scientists wouldn't have realized their applications to computer technology or medicine when discovering them.
The supercollider project of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) focuses on basic physics like particles, energy and mass. The project's findings will embrace potentials to change lives of future generations and to uncover
the origin of the universe.
KU students and spring graduates participated in the supercol-
KU student participates project in Switzerland and France this summer. They helped two professors of physics and astronomy at the University, who have been doing research for CERN.
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of physics and astronomy, said 2500 staff from around the world worked for the project. He said the U.S.con-
"The most important goal is to study nature at the smallest scale possible and to be ready for the unexpected."
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project in 1994. associate professor
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Two beams of protons will travel in opposite directions on the ring during an experiment. They pass through detectors, which observe the movement of particles when the two beams collide. Murray and Alice Bean, professor of physics and astronomy, work on one of the two largest detectors, Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS).
"The most important goal is to study nature at the smallest scale possible and to be ready for the unexpected," Murray said. "Some things we hope to learn are what is the origin of mass, if there are extra dimensions, what is the nature of the
Heidi LeSage, Plymouth. Minn. sophomore, is among the five students who participated in the research this summer. She helped Murray build the Zero Degree Calorimeter, which is part of the CMS and measures photons and neutrons when protons collide.
"I'm very lucky to go there," LeSage said. "I think this will revolutionize the way look at physics."
vacuum."
Jennifer Sibille, Lafayette, La., graduate student, who helped Bean's research, said she enjoyed working with different scientists from all over the world.
"It's basic research," Sibille said.
"it's hard to say, like if we figure this out, we can come up with this new gadgets or solutions to some other problems. But it's more likely that you start realizing practical applications 50 years down the road."
The first major experiment using the LHC will start next month. Murray said this project would run about 10 years and it was still at the beginning.
"In the later years the goals of the experiment will change because of the new knowledge that we will have gained by then," Murray said. "At the moment we don't even know what the most important questions are to ask."
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Fay could start pelting parts of the Keys and South Florida late Monday or early Tuesday as a strong tropical storm or minimal hurricane. Keys officials issued a mandatory evacuation order for visitors starting at 8 a.m. Sunday and asked those who had not yet arrived to postpone their trips.
"We hate to inconvenience those visitors that had plans to be in the Keys the next few days, but their well-being is our top priority," said Monroe County Mayor Mario Di Gennaro, chairman of the Keys tourist development council.
Officials said hotels and businesses won't be forced to remove visitors, but should use common sense. They also said schools in the Keys will be closed Monday and Tuesday.
With the warnings, some Key West businesses began putting up hurricane shutters, but tourists and residents still strolled lazily through downtown, having coffee and eating breakfast.
"We've been living in Florida now for 10 years, so we need to get some stuff together, but we're not going to rush out of here," John Civette said as he strolled the shop-lined streets with his wife, Tonya.
Paul and Sandy Dunko, of Naples, Fla., were having breakfast with their family Sunday morning before heading home to secure their boat and put up their hurricane shutters.
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Cara McConnell is a Dallas junior in English. Cara will be writing about food politics and science. Cara cares about the environment, supporting local businesses and whether she turned the oven off.
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Adam Schoof is an Overland Park senior in English and journalism. He is writing about technology and has made a pact to never write about Ugg boots, relationships or smoking. If you have/do any of those three things, you're already bound for failure.
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Alex Nichols is an Overland Park sophomore in creative writing. He is writing about pop culture. He cares about the little things in life, like how weird it is that people care about Suri Cruise. Alex would not have made it to college if there were a Sudoku section on the ACT.
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Michael Pope is a Kansas City senior in English. Michael enjoys the challenges of being a student, such as getting up before noon after drinking himself to the edge of oblivion the night before.
At opinion columnist. A 6-foot Leawood senior in English. This is his first semester at the Kansan. Give it up for Ryan Snyder!
Zachary Graham is a Columbus, Ohio, graduate student in exercise physiology. He is writing about national politics. He cares about how far America has fallen on the global scale, caused by partisanship.
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Matt Hirschfeld is an Augusta senior in journalism. He is writing columns about the gay community. He cares about his gays, his friends and Lawrence.
Katie Oberthaler is a Wichita junior in creative writing. She is covering the science beat. Katie is of Croatian descent, not making her any more exotic than the rest of the world, just whiter. She is also the author of many science jokes.
Sonya English is an Overland Park junior in journalism and economics. She will be writing about the environment. Yelling at my roommates to recycle has proven ineffective, so let's try a well-researched column instead.
Dan Thompson is a Topeka senior in economics and political science. He is writing about local politics. He hopes to broaden the student body's awareness of city government and encourage greater interest and involvement in the Lawrence community.
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Joshua Anderson is a Perry junior in creative writing. He is a non-traditional student, having spent a decade attending various colleges and raising a family. He is writing about global politics.
Erin Brown is a Wichita sophomore in journalism and political science. Erin is writing about Student Senate.
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Adam Poole is a Wichita senior in political science and psychology. He will be writing the conservative take on the presidential election.
Bryan Marvin is a Shawnee junior in English. His column will be about tech and electronics.
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Ross Stewart is a Wichita senior in journalism. He is covering state politics. He wanted to cover the bullshit beat, but it doesn't exist ... yet. He plays in a band called Russian Discussion.
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Grant Reichert is an Oberlin graduate student in law. He is the winner of the "Good Hustle Award 1998." He is a Dillons Plus Card Holder. He has an unusual fondness for flags.
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Ben Cohen is a Topeka senior in political science. This is his fifth semester on the Kansan because no one has kicked him out yet. He is writing about the left-leaning side of the presidential election.
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Ian Stanford is a Fairway senior majoring in English and political science who will probably end up graduating in 4.5 or 5 (being traditional is boring, right?). This is lan's second semester on the editorial board,and he focused primarily on campus politics.
Alex Doherty is a Kansas
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 2008
Student experiences preparations for Olympics
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Beijing has undergone construction and pollution crackdowns in the time leading up to the Summer Olympic Games. The Chinese government spent at least 540 billion on the city in preparation. Cheenyang Zhao, 18, experienced the changes firsthand.
BY BETSY KUTCLIFF bcutcliff@kansan.com
Litter-free streets, shiny new glass buildings and a crackdown on pollution categorize the changes made during the past few years in Beijing, and international student Chenyang Zhao, 18, experienced this transformation first hand.
Zhao, who comes from China's Sichuan province, is studying English at the University of Kansas. He spent 2006 to 2007 living and studying at Beijing Technology and Business University.
"It is a very beautiful city now"
Zhao said.
The Chinese government spent at least $40 billion tearing down and rebuilding the capital city in preparation for the Summer Olympic Games, according to the Associated Press. Beijing impressed the world with its transformation, and its coming-out party at the opening ceremony of the Olympic games sealed its debut as a global power.
The Olympic Games and the city's transformation speak for the economic revolution and modernization in China, and the country's emergence as a world power, Zhao said.
"I'm very proud to be Chinese because China is developing fast. We have a higher rank in the world," he said, "Now we are respected."
The Olympic games are playing a large part in the Chinese desire to prove themselves to be a contesting world power. The Chinese men and women's gymnastic teams' earning gold medals last week solidified China's position. According to the Chinese team's spokesperson, Zhang Peiwen, this win carried extra importance for the country because of the prestige placed upon gymnasts.
"We all want to succeed and ... show ourselves that we can," Zhao said.
Peiwen told the China Daily that the Chinese were taught to compete against themselves, which, according to Zhao, is the mindset of the entire country.
As of Thursday, the Chinese had won 22 gold medals, eight silver and five bronze. Though the Olympics have shown the pride and determination of the Chinese,
Airport security was also tightened. Chinese exiting the country used to be allowed to bring liquids on the plane, but Zhao said that they were no longer allowed. Before boarding the plane to come to America last week, Zhao was patted down, checked and rechecked at least four times, he said.
To reduce pollution for the Olympics, a schedule was implemented for driving cars in the city, regulated by the last number on the license plate. Though Zhao rode the bus and wasn't affected personally, he said the streets were a lot less congested.
they have also brought out the strict nature of the country.
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Elevation 11,312 feet
CONTINENTAL DIVIDE
PACIFIC ATLANTIC
Karen Schneider of San Diego, and Linda Quinn of Wrightwood, Calif., pose with the scooters they rode across the country in support of breast cancer awareness. The group "Scootin for a Cure" raises money to participate in an uncoming cancer walk.
"The foreigners had their own special line to get through security, and the ones who had passes for the Olympics had another line," he said.
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
While he said the Olympics were very important for his people, Zhao said he wouldn't be watching most of the games because of new student orientation and the scramble to get ready for school.
- Edited by Jennifer Torline
Women travel country on scooters for cancer awareness
ACTIVISM
BY JESSE TRIMBLE
jtrimble@kansan.com
Linda Quinn of Wrightwood, Calif., and Karen Schneider of San Diego, arrived home after their 7,000 mile trek across the country on scooters just last week. The two started, "Scootin' for a Cure," a fundraiser focusing on breast cancer awareness by driving across the country on Vespa scooters. Quinn and Schneider began traveling at the beginning of July from Wrightwood, Calif., to Middletown, Va., and back. Using only back routes and small highways, it took the pair 25 days to complete the journey.
According to Erica Brown communications manager for the University of Kansas Cancer Center, the American Cancer Society releases a facts and figures report every year determining approximately how many people will die and be diagnosed from different types of cancers.
"For the year 2008" Brown says, "the American Cancer Society has predicted 370 deaths from breast cancer alone in the state of Kansas, while it predicts up to 1,700 will be diagnosed."
Breast cancer is the third leading cause of death relating to cancer in the state of Kansas, and in the United States as a whole. Lung cancer tops the list for both the nation and the state. Throughout the United States, 40,000 deaths relating to breast cancer will occur in this year alone and approximately 182,000 will be diagnosed.
"Ive had cancer in my family," Quinn said, "and then a couple of my co-workers were diagnosed with breast cancer. In January I found a lamp, and even though it was a
benign tumor and I had it removed in March, I felt compelled to raise awareness for something that affects so many people."
The journey started as a way for Quinn to raise money to enter the Susan G. Koman Breast Cancer Three-Day Walk in October, which costs $2,200. Overall, the riders made $3,210 in donations, but Quinn's personal goal is $5,000.
"I want to challenge myself to raise this money," Quinn said. "The foundation is putting the money in the right place, not just for medical and research purposes, but also for educational purposes. I think that's extremely important."
Quinn said that she wouldn't do that long of a trip again if given the option.
During the three-day cancer walk, participants will walk 20 miles a day, a total of 60 miles. Quinn is walking daily in preparation for the event.
"It reached 122 degrees at one point," Quinn said. "That was by far the worst part of the trip."
She also said that by driving 300 miles or more a day, she didn't get time to stop and smell the flowers. If given the opportunity, she'll make the next trip shorter in order to enjoy the scenery more.
**Worms vermicompost** food into organic fertilizer. Businesses such as the Waste Reduction and Recycling Division use the fertilizer and profit from the organic compost.
Kevin Quinn, Linda's husband, said during the month the two women were on the road, they met and spoke with many people and heard all kinds of stories of people who have personally dealt with cancer.
Aside from Scootin' for a Cure, the Quinnins belong to the group "Royal Bastards Scooter Club," which is a fundraising group that the two use to help out with different causes.
"Linda's a really caring person," Kevin said. "She's a fourth grade school teacher, but this trip was really just about her giving back to other people."
Quinn's Web site, www.scootinforacure.com, includes photos and a daily blog of her travels.
NATURE
Edited by Ramsey Cox
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Bug waste doesn't go to waste Worms, lady bugs, bees keep Lawrence green with their organic fertilizer
BY LAUREN KEITH lkeith@kansan.com
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Twas the night before Christmas and as Cassandra Ford would soon see, creatures were stirring, especially the pound of worms packaged under her Christmas tree.
For Ford, who is in charge of composting for the city, getting worms for Christmas was like bringing her work home. Ford maintains the city of Lawrence Waste Reduction and Recycling Division's set of worms that it uses for vermicomposting — a process in which worms break down food scraps into organic fertilizer — in addition to keeping her own vermi-composting worms at home.
"People thought I was crazy," Ford said. "But now when my parents call, they always ask me how my worms are."
Although people benefiting from bugs seems unusual, places such as the Waste Reduction and Recycling Division exploit the bugs' natural processes for the businesses' gain. Different bugs work different jobs, but all bug "employers" profit from the creepy-crawlies.
The vermicomposting worms at the department eat their body weight in food scraps each week, which reduces the department's waste. The worms produce an organic fertilizer, called worm castings, after three months.
"Sometimes we don't have enough at the office to feed them, so some people will bring their food scraps from home," Ford said.
The worms produce something else useful too: more worms. Ford said the department started with one pound of worms (about 1,000) a year ago, but worms produce offspring in just seven weeks.
About a mile down the street from the department's worm bin, other city employees are working in the old Union Pacific Depot's flower beds. The city purchased these ladybugs to fight off the growing aphid infestation.
"From a natural standpoint, lady beetles are great for feeding on aphids," Jeff Whitworth, an extension entomologist with Kansas State University, said. "When you have a large aphid population, they are like cows feeding on grass."
"The worms will die eventually, but you'll rarely have to buy worms again," she said. "You'll have to take some worms out, if anything."
"I've seen too many people put ladybugs in their garden and then they are gone," Greg McDonald, owner of Sunrise Garden Center in Lawrence, said. "But they leave because they didn't have anything to eat."
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Unlike ladybugs that leave when the food is gone, other bugs bring the food with them and rely on the keeper to give them a house.
"Every year, we never have any left over," he said.
Richard Bean, owner of Blossom Trail Bee Ranch, who has owned bees for more than 30 years, said he had seen an increased interest in beekeeping.
Although no organization tracks the number of beekeepers in the United States, the number and size of beginner beekeeping classes has increased, confirming the trend.
Bean said he hoped to create a basic beekeeping class.
A national beekeeping conference that took place in California in January registered 1,200 participants, up from about 600 the previous year, according to the American Beekeeping Federation.
"I like to see more people get started," he said. "There are getting to be a lot of beekeepers in Douglas County."
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Colony Collapse Disorder may have sparked some of the recent interest in beekeeping. The number of honey-producing bee colonies has fallen from 5 million in the 1940s to 2.5 million now, according to the Department of Agriculture, causing some people to keep bees in an attempt to be saviors of the food supply.
Whitworth said bees pollinate 80 percent of the crops in the United States.
The cause of CCD is unknown, but some attribute it to climate change, mites or even electromagnetic radiation from cell phone towers.
Bean said so far his 100,000 bees have not been affected by CCD. He said he expected about 100 pounds of honey this season, a larger-than-usual supply that he attributed to the tremendous amount of moisture and the cool spring.
Bean said a freeze last April was the worst climatic disaster he had ever seen.
Like all bug employers, Bean's business and some of his income is largely based on the temperature.
"I had a big bee population and then nothing," he said. "There was nothing for them to work with."
"The bees are such overachievers that someone has to be there to take care of them," he said.
Still, that didn't make Bean nervous.
Although people have relied on bugs to do work for them for centuries, people today have mostly swatted bugs away.
"We receive a lot of benefits that we don't realize, like the breaking down of dead organic matter," Whitworth said. "Willfully or not, we have used insects or been the recipient of beneficial aspects of insects. We have been able to use them where we need to."
Some bugs are little more than a click away.
"Now you can buy worms on eBay," Ford said. "A few years ago, you would think, 'Who would do that?' Now you can find them on the Internet and have them shipped to you overnight."
Edited by Scott Toland
THE UNIVERSITY JAIRY KANSAN
MONDAY AUGUST 18, 2008
NEWS13A
MEDICINE
Mannequin teaches students vital medical skills
Sim Man prepares students with real-life situations to apply in the classroom at KU Medical Center
CARE OF THE PATIENT
The Sim Man, named Enrique Hernandez, simulates real-life medical situations for students to react to before working on human patients. The students are not graded on their performance but do receive participation points.
BY CASEY MILES editor@kansan.com
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Enrique Hernandez is lying in his hospital bed. His mother at his side, the 10-year-old Enrique tells his nurse that he isn't feeling very well. He's sweating and his breathing is becoming more shallow.
Ten-year-old Enrique has Type 1 Diabetes, and his blood sugar levels have dropped — he is becoming hypoglycemic. Enrique's mother explains to the nurse that he didn't eat much of his dinner. The nurse needs to quickly treat his hypoglycemia before it becomes more severe.
Except Enrique doesn't really have diabetes. He isn't even a 10-year-old boy. Enrique is a lifelike mannequin, built to accurately simulate many of the functions of a real human. And the nurse is still a nurse, albeit one still in school; the student and mannequin are in the simulation laboratory at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
The School of Nursing at the center uses simulations to help teach its students useful skills. By creating as realistic of an environment as possible, the school hopes to prepare students for what they will see in the real world. Simulations and discussions help students apply what they've learned in the classroom.
The laboratory looks like any other patient's hospital room. Monitors clustered around the bed. A computer terminal to search patient records. Cabinets and drawers containing supplies. There's everything necessary to take care of any patient.
But instead of an actual patient, the laboratory houses a Sim Man
mannequin, a patient simulation mannequin made by Laerdal Medical. Sim Man is a realistic mannequin that contains several technologies designed to simulate the actions and bodily functions of human patients.
From a computer station in the next room, lab instructors can change Sim Man's heart rate, blood pressure, and respiratory rate, among other things. His chest rises and falls with his breathing. Using a stethoscope, students can listen to Sim Man's heartbeat and breathing. His pulse can be felt through his wrist and neck. Breathing tubes can be inserted into Sim Man's mouth, and an IV can be inserted into his hand. Instructors can also communicate through Sim Man using a number of preprogrammed phrases, designed to help give feedback on how Sim Man is feeling. If more detail is required, a walkie-talkie projects an instructor's voice from underneath the mannequin's pillow.
Here, professors and faculty create simulation programs, designed to reproduce real-world scenarios, for students to use as learning tools. Mary Meyer, director of the simulation lab, said the idea is to allow students to experience events that they may rarely — or never — see in years of clinical experience. She said that even with a lot of clinical experience, most emergencies are rare, and so it was important that the school exposed students to those events in a controlled setting. That way, when it occurs in real life, they will be better prepared to handle the problem, having already seen it in a simulation lab.
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CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Jennifer Ruck, Overland Park junior, said that she thought the simulations were a very valuable learning tool. She said she thought that the simulations would prepare her for situations she would eventually encounter with real clients.
Because of the one-way mirror in the simulation lab, instructors can watch everything that happens within the lab. The simulation follows a script of what actions and cues need to happen, and at what times. Two video cameras record everything that happens. Meyer said that most simulations also placed a student observer in the room, whose only job during the simulation is to take notes of what happens.
A medical student tests the heart of the Sim Man. Mary Meyer, director of the simulation lab, said that out of 40 groups, only two groups made the best decision in situations.
Many students fail in the simulation labs, Meyer said. They are not graded, but merely offered as participation points. Meyer said that in a recent lab, 40 groups participated, and all but two of them failed to make the best decision given the situation. However, Meyer said that it was the students who failed who often learned the most from the labs. Each simulation takes approximately 30 minutes to run, followed by a 30-minute discussion period.
"The real learning happens when we sit down and discuss what happened." Meyer said. She said that the student observer was one of the most helpful ways students could learn from what had happened during the simulation. Because the instructors have had so much more experience, it can be easy for them to be more critical of what students forgot in the simulation. However, a student observer has all the same knowledge as the other students. That way, the observer's notes can serve as more accurate interpretation of what students should have done in the simulation.
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"You have to be really creative," Mever said.
The professors in the nursing school often met and discussed what types of simulations each class offered. If any hole was found, the instructors worked to fill it, so that the students would have a more complete learning experience while in the school. Again, Meyer stressed the importance of exposing the students to as many situations as possible, so that in a real life situation they would know what to do.
— Edited by Matt Hirschfeld
The image shows a medical setting where a patient is lying in an intensive care unit. A healthcare professional, likely a nurse or doctor, is working on the patient's bed. In the foreground, a person is seated at a desk, working on a computer. The room appears to be a hospital room with a glass wall that allows a view of the patient inside. The environment looks clean and well-maintained.
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MONDAY AUGUST 18,2008
NEWS15A
POLITICS
Candidate uses comic to connect with voters
Kansas Representative hopeful in 15th district discusses campaign life in online comic strip
BY JESSE TRIMBLE jtrimble@kansan.com
A state representative hopeful's comic strip has made its way around the Internet during the last few weeks and he has received feedback from Kansas to Finland.
Sean Tevis is running for State Representative in district 15, the city of Olathe. A School of journalism graduate, Tevis said he
never thought he'd receive so much feedback and attention from one comic strip.
Tevis
The comic can be found at Tevis' Web site, along with
many others, and depicts his story of what it's like running for state representative.
"It took me 40 hours to create the comic: five hours to write a script and then I built the actual page and did a final." Tevis said.
He posted it online for the first time on July 16 and from there it spread, popping up on Facebook.com, Digg.com and elsewhere.
David Perlmutter, professor of journalism, said there were risks involved with such a strategy. Perlmutter said politicians wanted to create attention, but not serious attention, and they didn't want to be taken as a joke.
"Obviously, all forms of social interactive media like MySpace, Facebook and Twittering are good ways to go," Perlmutter said. "2008
is the year of trying everything in politics and media."
He added that Tevis' comic strip was a way to penetrate a very saturated market and that the comic was something fresh and different.
Tevis said he originally thought of the comic strip from his own experiences of running for state representative.
"The best way to put it is running for office is absurd." Tevis said. "I want to say it's absurd because you should be out there giving speeches and figuring out local problems. What I found out instead is that during the first two to three months of my campaign involves going door to door and asking for donations. I thought that surely there must be a better way of doing this and figured why not use the Internet."
Mark Skoglund, Olathe senior,
said he saw the comic on *Digg.com*.
He said he thought the comic strip
was a great way to bring attention
to something not normally seen
within this district.
"Without something that makes people pay attention, a lot of the time candidates go unnoticed and the underdagers are looked over," Skoglund said.
Skoglund, a
political science major, added that it was unprecedented for a candidate to receive so many donations in such a small amount of time.
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Tevis said as of now, he had surpassed $100,000, and many people have donated $8.34 or less. The comic strip simplifies his strategy of reaching larger groups of people for less money, versus fewer people
FILING TO RUN FOR OFFICE
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HI! MARY ANNE JONES?
YES?
YOU WERE BORN SEPT 28, 1970. YOU'VE VOTED IN THE LAST THREE ELECTIONS EXCEPT FOR IN 2002. YOU'RE LITHERAN. YOU WERE DIVORCED in 2001. YOU BUT CUSTODY OF YOUR SONS JEFF AND DAVID. YOUR HOUSE IS VALUED AT $64,000. YOU DRIVE A 1994 HONDA CIVIC. YOUR AVERAGE WATER BILL is $84,20. YOU'VE WORKED FOR 5-----, INC. SINCE 1994, EARNING $62,000 LAST YEAR. YOU SEE AN ALLERGIST TWICE A YEAR. YOU HAVE SIX CREDIT CARDS AND CARRY A BALANCE OF $8280 INCLUDING ONE AT 18.99% INTEREST.
WHO ARE YOU!!!
MAYBE I SHOULD RE-THINK MY APPROACH.
PLEASANTRIES FAIL SUCCESS SCARY FACTS
WHAT DO I SAY TO PEOPLE?
TELL THEM WHAT
YOU BELIEVE IN.
IT'S EASY.
HI! MARY ANNE JONES?
YES?
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"I thought that surely there must be a better way of doing this and figured why not use the Internet."
SLAM!
MAYBE I SHOULD RE-
THINK MY APPROACH.
SEAN TEVIS Candidate for state representative
MAYBE I SHOULD RE-
THINK MY APPROACH.
PLEASANTRIES
FAIL SUCCESS
SCARY FACTS
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His mother has had to make three DVDs so far.
- Edited by Elizabeth Cattell
"Politicians have learned that you need to simplify and explain complicated concepts to their audience," Perlmutter said. "A cartoon is the best way to visually illustrate and simplify a main point opposed to a long speech."
Tevis said he was ready to get back to going door to door and he was tired of the Internet for now.
At the beginning of his campaign, Tevis said he never expected to get a $500 donation from any one person, so as a joke he posted on his site that anyone who donated $500 or more
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Air quality in and around the Kansas City area has become an issue of recent concern among residents. A survey conducted by the
Mid-America Regional Council released in February found 80 percent of people were concerned with Kansas City's air quality. According to the survey, more than half of the participants said the air quality was getting worse.
Tom Gross, air monitoring and planning chief for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, said the department worried about nitrous oxides and volatile organic compounds affecting the air quality. He said the most
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The Environmental Protection Agency recently imposed new restrictions on air quality control. The new limits require that cities and industries reduce their emissions and pollution from 80 parts per million to 7.5 parts per million, or by 6.25 percent.
Stan Loeb, environmental specialist with the KU Department of Environmental Health and Safety, said that the air pollution, or ozone, limit was lowered and the buffer around the previous limit no longer existed. He said that meant that exceeding the limit would now result in violations.
Mike Russell, KU director of environmental health and safety, said the new regulations had been enforced effectively.
Air quality is most commonly measured through the Air Quality index. The index does not address long-term air quality trends, but it does provide the public with a day-to-day evaluation of
current conditions. According to the Mid-America Regional Council's Web site, the Kansas City area is usually within the healthy range for
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The University has its own air quality permit. Russell said the University currently emitted 60 percent of the limit allotted to them. He said one thing that contributed to the school's air quality successes was the upgrades made to the energy systems and equipment, which allowed them to burn fuel more efficiently.
Russell said activities such as biking, carpooling and riding the bus would all contribute to air quality improvement.
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"Every little bit a person does helps," Russell said. "If just a few more
said. If just a few more people do these things every time it'll keep getting better."
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New system was implemented in hopes of getting more registered voters, save money for voters
BY SCOTT TOLAND stoland@kansan.com
Douglas County citizens can now register to vote for upcoming elections without having to leave their homes. An online system was implemented to provide more accessibility for people in the county and could lead to an increase in registered voters.
For the first time, citizens will be able to access voter registration forms online by accessing Douglas County's Web site, which will allow them to save the time and effort of picking up a paper form. The system was implemented about a month ago.
County Clerk jamie Shew said that some people have already used the online method and that the system might result in more registered voters.
"It may, just for the pure fact that it provides more access to our office," Shew said.
"We have a very transitory population in Douglas County with commuters and the large amount of students in town," Shew said.
Shew said that accessibility was one of the main factors that went into the decision to add this new system. He also said that the system did not result in any additional expenses for the county.
"It gives them the chance to access our office without coming directly to our courthouse."
Douglas County is not the first Kansas county to install such a system, but instead is following the lead of one of its neighbors.
"We like to think we're the trailblazers," said Brian Newby, Johnson County Election Commissioner. "When we got the 'yes', we were ready to go."
Newby said that the online system is even more important for Johnson County than Douglas County because of the amount of people in the area. He also said that it allows his office to save time and money because the whole process can go much faster.
"It's a bigger deal for us than Douglas County," Newby said.
"We were probably more ready to do it because we were the ones asking them to do it."
No official figures exist that document the number of Kansas counties that now have a similar system in place, but one state official said he thought this number was on the rise.
Brad Bryant, who is in charge of elections and legislative matters
"People demand it to be on the Internet because it's more accessible."
at the Kansas Secretary of State's Office, said he definitely saw a trend when it came to voter information available online. He also said voter registration forms can still be
The process of accessing forms online may become popular with students at the University of Kansas, who will not have to leave their dorm rooms or apartments to register in time to vote.
"There still a demand for that, but everything's moving more towards the Internet," Bryant said.
"It gives them the chance to access our office without coming directly to our courthouse."
Damon Lang, Oskaloosa junior,
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obtained in every county in the state.
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idea and was certain that the system will lead to more registered voters.
just how many Kansas counties now offer forms online, but said voter information is now entered onto computerized databases instead of being filed in a catalog
Bryant said he was unsure
"I'm sure it will," Lang said. "It will make it a lot easier."
system.
"I think there are a number of other counties who have the registration card on the Web site," Bryant said. "In recent years, everyone has moved to a computerized list."
Although the online system has been met with success so far, paper forms are still available at many locations in Douglas County, including post offices and the Veteran's Affairs Office.
Newby said he thought the system was beneficial for both the public and his office and said that Johnson County has already been processing hundreds of forms each month. He said that the system requires a little extra effort for voters to get the form to the office, but said that it made it easier for both parties involved.
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"It's really good for everybody," Newby said. "I'm glad to hear Lawrence is doing it too."
Summer bear attacks leave Anchorage residents fearful
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BY MARY PEMBERTON ASSOCIATED PRESS
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Even in a city whose logo is "Big Wild Life" the summer of 2008 is testing residents' tolerance for large carnivores.
The problem is bears, black bears and bigger grizzlies. So far this summer, three people have been maudled in the city. Some people say humans are to blame for the contro
On the other side is a growing chorus of people like Devon Rees, who want something done about the big bruins.
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year," said Rick Sinnott, the area biologist for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
When those bears are hungry, they come into the city to feed on salmon in its many creeks and streams, and Sinnott said that is not likely to change.
"They are going to be cheek to jowl with us forever" he said.
Sinnott said efforts are being made to expand the hunting of bears in Chugach. The state park was off limits to hunting grizzlies for 30 years. Last year, three permits were issued but hunters were unsuccessful.
"It is pretty much unsafe to walk around at night," he said.
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On one recent evening, Rees heard splashing in the creek near his Eagle River home and assumed it was salmon. Seconds later, however, a bear rushed at him from the woods and knocked him to the ground.
Alaska Fish and Game biologists Sean Farley, left, and Rick Sinnott walk past a warning sign as they look for a bear along a path in Far North Bicentennial Park in Anchorage, Alaska on Wednesday where a jogger and a bicyclist were attacked by a sow with two cubs this summer. The attacks happened on wilderness trails trapped by humans and bears.
Killing all the bears is not a consideration, Sinnott said.
"Chugach State Park is a bear factory. It pumps out bears every
"I wasn't going to lay down and take it. The bear came and tried to fight me," said Rees, 18, who works in a meat store. "I started punching it in the head, kicking it and elbowing it ... I was boxing him using one arm to defend, one arm to strike."
Residents share the municipality — covering more than 1 million acres and with more than 360,000 people — with more than 300 black bears and 50 to 60 grizzlies. Aggravating the problem is that Alaska's largest city is snug up against the half-million-acre Chagus State Park, the third largest state park in the United States.
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"It is a state park. People that use the state park, they want to see bears there," he said.
People using the city parks need to practice some common sense, said Dave Parker, a 25-year-old resident of Wasilla, outside the municipality.
"The bears were here before we were," Parker said. "You don't go swimming in shark-infested waters and don't expect to be bit."
Alaska Fish and Game has received 500 to 600 bear complaint calls in Anchorage this summer, usually from people reporting a bear on their deck, in a neighbor's garbage or running through vards.
A week ago, runner Clivia Felz was attacked by a sow with two cubs in Anchorage's Far North Centennial Park. She had stopped to consider the orange sign with a bear silhouette that warns people way from Rover's Run trail, which follows a salmon-rich stream. But then she saw a bicyclist head down the trail, so she did, too.
"The sow found her and beat her up pretty good," Sinnott said.
Feliz was bitten on her head and neck and suffered a collapsed lung.
Six weeks earlier, 15-year-old Petra Davis was attacked by a grizzly on the same trail at about 1:30 a.m. while competing in a 24-hour bike race. She was hospitalized and treated for a crushed trachea and partially severed carotid artery.
Sinnott said he was surprised anyone thought it was a good idea to hold an all-night bike race in a park known to have bears and
along a creek filled with salmon.
"I was kind of dumbfounded," he said. '
There have been at least four other encounters within a half-mile in the park involving a sow with cubs, Sinnott said.
The city closed Rover's Run trail on Tuesday. Sinnott said the sow will be killed if she can be found, not an easy task in the 4,000-acre park. Motion-sensitive cameras have been installed on the trail. If the sow is caught, the cubs are
likely headed to a zoo.
"Most of the people who are attacked in town don't want the bear killed. They recognize she is a mom defending her cubs." Sinnott said. "We just can't let her live there because she will attack again."
The city's wildlife problem isn't limited to bears.
Mike Vogel, a 51-year-old insurance agent, was stomped by a moose in 2003 on a popular city trail. A year later, a moose charged at him near the same location, so
the 14-year resident of Anchorage shot and killed it.
"We need to kill some of these bears and we need to kill some of these moose," he said.
Vogel accuses Fish and Game of catering to "bunny huggers."
"I think the pecking order needs to be re-established with humans on top," he said. "What other city in the world has pernicious wildlife running around in its city parks?"
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U.S., Russian relations strained
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Russia is showing signs of returning to its authoritarian past and its invasion of Georgia will require the U.S. to re-evaluate the strategic relationship between the superpowers, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday.
Joining in the hard-line rhetoric, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accused Russian President Dmitry Medvedev of failing to honor a promise to withdraw troops quickly from Georgia under terms of a cease-fire he signed Saturday.
Shadows of the Cold War emerged as the Bush administration struggled for the appropriate response to Russia's aggression against its smaller U.S.-backed neighbor, which Moscow ruled for most of the two centuries before the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union.
"I hope this time he'll keep his word," Rice said after Medvedev announced the withdrawal would begin Monday.
"I think that there is a real concern that Russia has turned the
corner here and is headed back toward its past rather than toward its future, and my hope is that we will see actions in the weeks and months to come that provide us some reassurance," Gates said.
"Russia currently is not in compliance with that cease-fire," Rice said. "I don't have an explanation because I would think that when the Russian president says that a signed cease-fire accord will mean the withdrawal of Russian forces, that Russian forces would then withdraw. They did not. However, yet again, the Russian president has given his word, and this time, I hope he'll honor it."
Rice said Medvedev had pledged that when Georgia's president signed the cease-fire, Russian forces would begin to withdraw. But that did not happen.
"We obviously are going to have to re-evaluate the direction of the strategic relationship with Russia going forward, and again, that depends to a considerable extent on their behavior from this point forward."
Gates said that Vladimir Putin, the former Russian president who
shifted to prime minister when Medvedev took over this year, "clearly, as far as I'm concerned, has the upper hand right now" over Medvedev.
"I think we had seen them more as partners. And there had been a lot of signals from Putin that he was going to allow power to flow, to stay with the president, that Medvedev would be in charge, would be the person responsible for leading Russia going forward. The steps he's taken in the transition from president to prime minister in recent weeks, and now, certainly, in Georgia, at least in my opinion, bespeak more of Putin having his hand on the steering wheel than anybody else." Gates said.
"This looks frankly to me more like decisions made by the prime minister than by the president," he added.
Fighting broke out after Georgia launched a massive barrage Aug. 7 to try to take control of the separatist province of South Ossetia. The Russian army quickly overwhelmed Georgias' forces and drove deep into the country, raising tears of a long-term Russian occupation.
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COMMENTARY
FOOTBALL
A year after perfection, is there any magic left?
BY RUSTIN DODD
DODD@KANSAN.COM
Todd Reesing wandered around the turf at Memorial Stadium the other day slowly pacing
the other day, slowly pacing between the hash marks. Reeing had nowhere to be, and he looked content strutting around his field like a happy-go-lucky alpha dog admiring his lot. It was media day for the Kansas football program, and it was that awkward time when players are herded and dragged around like pet rocks, and they pose for photos, and they are asked the same questions 47 times.
Two-hundred and fourteen days after Reesing led the Jayhawks to the biggest victory in Kansas football history Reesing found himself near the 45-yard line, huddled with Kansas' quarterbacks, setting up another canned photo-op.
But one quarterback was missing.
but one quarterback was missing. "Hey," Reeing yelled. Kale Pick, Kansas' blue chip freshman quarterback from Dodge City was standing on the sideline, looking for a reprieve from the smothering July heat.
"Kale, what are you doing?" Reesing joshed. "Come on, rook."
Senior linebacker Mike Rivera (40) leads the defense at the beginning of open practice Friday morning at Memorial Stadium. Rivera and fellow seniors James Holt and Joe Mortenon return to anchor what may be one of the nations best defense teams. The Jahawks lost only two players, Aqib Talib and James McClinton from the 2007 squad that finished ranked N. 12 nationally.
There are so many questions to ask as Kansas enters this football season. The Jayhawks are in the precarious position of being ranked No. 15 in the USA Today/Coaches' poll, while seemingly being underrated and overrated all at the same time.
Some think this season's harder schedule will prove last year a fluke, while others are banking that Kansas will validate last season by beating the big boys of the Big 12 this year.
But there's one question you really want to ask Reeing.
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Now what?
Does the kid they call Sparky have any magic left in those stubby arms and legs?
It all seemed so easy last year. Reeing made play after play. Kansas rode a hodgepodge crew of unheralded recruits to an Orange Bowl title. And three months later, Bill Self saw Mark Mangino's Orange Bowl and raised him a national title.
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With a tough schedule ahead, Jayhawk football hopes to repeat last season's success
BY B.J. RAINS bjrains@kansan.com
How do you top the greatest year in school history? That's the task facing coach Mark Mangino and the Kansas football team as they prepare to host Florida International in the season opener next Saturday.
The Jayhawks will face a much tougher schedule in 2008 and also will be without several key players including Aqib Talib and Anthony Collins, who left school early for the NFL. Add in the hype and expectations surrounding a team coming off of a 12-1 record and an Orange Bowl Championship and it figures to be an almost impossible task for Mangino and the Jayhawks.
Don't tell that to the players though, who seem to have an extra bounce in their step.
"We have that swagger," safety Darrell Stuckey said.
And as the Jayhawks look to repeat the success of last year's record-breaking year,
they are doing it with a different kind of 'swagger' that hasn't been seen around this town in a long time.
"We have a selves," quarterback "Not that we lacked confidence before, but we really expect to be on the big stage now."
"We have a lot of confidence in ourselves," quarterback Todd Reesing said.
The Jayhawks will definitely enter the big stage this fall, starting the year ranked 13th in the USA Today Coaches poll. ESPN2 has already picked the Jayhawks for a nationally-televised Friday night game at No. 21 South Florida in the three season of the week
again in 2008, they will have to find new playmakers to step up and take over for the veteran group who departed after last season. In addition to Talib and Collins, second team All-American defensive tackle James McClinton is gone, as is the team's leading rusher Brandon McAnderson and leading receiver Marcus Henry. Tight end Derrick Fine is now a member of the Buffalo Bills and kicker Scott Webb and punter Kyle Tucker are both missing as well.
"We have a lot of confidence in ourselves. Not that we lacked confidence before, but we really expect to be on the big stage now."
But if the Jayhawks want to taste success
"We're excited by that," Reesing said. "To have the opportunity to play in big games and play on national television, it's exciting for us, because it's somewhere that this program hasn't been in a while."
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visible than Talib, whose flashy play and swagger on both sides of the ball helped put Kansas on the national scene.
Nobody's absence, however, will be more
The lajhawks seem to be better prepared to fill the holes on defense, with only Talib and McClinton not returning from a squad that finished 12th nationally in
total defense. All three linebackers Joe
Mortensen, James Holt, and Mike Rivera
— are back and will anchor what should be one of the nation's best defenses again in 2008.
The challenge will be tougher on offense, where the Jayhawks must replace five starters including both tackles, a tight end, running back and wide receiver. More than 2,000 yards of offense, including more than 1,000 receiving yards from Henry and 1,000 rushing yards from McAnderson, must come from other players this fall.
"We have a lot of guys who played last year and made a lot of big plays for us," quarterback Todd Resing said. "Just because we lost a tight end and a receiver to the NFL, which were two huge players for us, we still have a lot of guys who can fill those voids. They might not be as good at certain things as those guys were but they are going to bring their own potential and capabilities to the table."
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MEN'S BASKETBALL SUMMER IN REVIEW
Self inks new deal
BY CASE KEEFER ckeefer@kansan.com
So far this offseason, Self has signed a contract to keep him at Kansas until 2018. Arthur was cleared of any high school eligibility issues, Case joined the coaching staff, and five Jayhawks were drafted by NBA teams.
Kansas Athletics Director Lew Perkins announced that Kansas coach Bill Self would lead the Jayhawks for years to come in an April press conference.
He wasn't lying. Self signed a new contract to stay in Lawrence that runs through 2018.The details of the deal were released two weeks ago.
The contract provides a financial boost too. Self will make $3 million per year, nearly doubling his old contract that paid him $1.6 million. He could make up to an additional $425,000 each year by reaching incentives.
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Kansas' national title is in no way tainted.
Concerns arose at the end of May when a Dallas television station reported that former Kansas star Darrell Arthur's grades had been changed while in high school to keep him eligible to
play basketball. If the allegations made by Winford Ashmore, a math teacher at South Oak Cliff High in Dallas, were true, then Arthur wouldn't have raised high schools
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But the Dallas Independent School District cleared Arthur's name last week when it released a statement saying no improprieties had occurred. The school district started an investigation into the allegations after the release of the story in May.
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Collins faces civil suit
Junior guard Sherron Collins will have to wait seven more months before his legal troubles are settled.
A civil lawsuit against Collins is set to be heard in April 2009. Jessica J.Brown, a former Jayhawker Towers employee, accused Collins of exposing himself and rubbing onto her in a complex elevator in May 2007.
he filed a civil lawsuit against Collins three months ago. Collins never responded to the claim and a Douglas County judge ordered him to pay Brown more than $75,000 in a default ruling.
The judge has since rescinded the default ruling. Criminal charges won't be filed as the county said it has insufficient evidence.
"I am 100 percent innocent of any inappropriate behavior," Collins said.
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quote of the dav
"When I went to the Olympics, I had every intention of shaving the mustache off, but I realized I was getting so many comments about it - and everybody was talking about it - that I decided to keep it."
Mark Spitz, former U.S. Olympic swimmer
Kansas senior wide receiver Dexton Fields, who has 109 career receptions, needs 47 receptions this season to pass former Jayhawk Mark Simmons as the career receptions leader at Kansas. Fields, a native of Dallas, had 63 catches in 2007. Simmons finished his career at Kansas in 2005.
fact of the day
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trivia of the day
Q: How many nations took part in the first mondern Olympics in Athens, Greece, in 1896?
A:14
THE OTHER OLYMPICS
BY MARK DENT
mdent@kansan.com
There's badminton sometimes.
Maybe some trampoline jumping or fencing. None of that Michael Phelps or Redeem Team stuff,
that's for sure.
Late-night hours provide the best times for Olympic viewing. Try it while you still can.
Yes, after about 1 a.m., MSNBC shows Olympic Obscurity. All the events people say shouldn't be events get to shine. It's just a shame MSNBC didn't exist about 100 years ago. Then we really would've gotten a treat in strange Olympic sports. Britain's The Observer made a list of several of these ancient oddities.
We'll start with the 1900 Paris Olympics. There were only 19 events, yet these games lasted about five months. One of the events
was live pigeon shooting. Whoever shot the most birds in a certain time won.
Now, I'm sure there are plenty of New Yorkers who wouldn't mind seeing this on the streets every day. But sadly, they haven't done this event since the inaugural pigeon slaying. I wonder if one of the swimmers in 1900 pulled an Amanda Beard and posed nude to bring attention to the animal cruelty.
Motor boating was another one-Olympic wonder. In 1908, people actually raced in motor boats. Sort of. They sped through the waters off Southampton in Britain at about 19 miles per hour.
Other weird events throughout the years have included tug of war, rope climb and pistol dueling. Don't worry — they shot at dummies with bullseyes on their chests, not at people.
Those events all took place in the early 1900s, but with the '80s being the '80s, one very strange, almost scary, game started in 1984 and lasted until 1992. It was called solo synchronized swimming.
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Edwards sweeps week in Michigan
BY MIKE HARRIS ASSOCIATED PRESS
BROOKLYN, Mich. — Look out Kyle Busch, here comes Carl Edwards.
David Ragan and June Michigan winner Dale Earnhardt Jr. had stayed on track and were running 1-2, but Edwards easily passed them on the restart on lap 183 to retake the lead, then held off Busch on another restart with
Edwards completed a weekend sweep at Michigan International Speedway on Sunday, beating NASCAR Sprint Cup points leader Busch off pit road on their last stops and driving off to his fifth Cup win of the season and second in the last three races.
Busch, who has eight Cup wins, was just ahead of Edwards when they pitted under caution on lap 180 of the 200-lap 3M Performance 400, but Edwards beat the 23-year-old star out of the pitts.
two laps to go and gave Roush Fenway Racing co-owner Jack Roush his 20th overall victory on the 2-mile Michigan oval.
Edwards, who turned 29 on Friday, also won the Nationwide Series race Saturday, becoming only the second driver to win both races. Former Roush driver Mark Martin did it in 1993.
"The key was my crew today," Edwards said. "My guys did an unbelievable job getting me off pit road.
"This is unbelievable. We're winning races. We're gearing up for the Chase. I'm feeling stronger than ever. We're here to win championships. That's what we're shooting for.
With just three races left until the start of the Chase for the championship, Edwards moved a little closer to Busch in the seeding process, which gives drivers making the 10-race postseason a 10-point bonus for each victory.
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Former Tiger earns silver
BEIJING — The U.S. track and field team thought they had an opportunity to sweep the medals in the shot put. Instead, the only man to win a medal was a former Missouri Tiger.
Christian Cantwell, a former University of Missouri athlete, won the silver medal in the shot put with a throw that went more than 69 feet. It was Cantwell's first time at the Olympics. He failed to make the team in 2004. Poland's Tomasz Majewski won the gold.
Rovals fall in New York
NEW YORK — Jason Giambi hit a grand slam, Alex Rodriguez sent a three-run hounc bounce.
ing into Monument Park and the New York Yankees battered Brian Bannister and the Kansas City Royals 15-6 on Sunday to salvage a split of the season series.
Cody Ransom added a two-run homer and Xavier Nady also went deep for the Yankees, who began the day six games behind Boston for the AL wild-card spot. Rodriguez finished 3-for-3 with five RBIs, and Derek Jeter went 4-for-4 and scored three times.
Ross Gload hit a two-run homer and Billy Butler had a two-run double for the Royals, who wasted two chances over the weekend to win their first season series against New York since 1999. Instead, they've lost nine of 11 after a modest three-game winning streak.
Favre debuts with Jets
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.
EAST ROTHERFORD, NJ. — Brett Favre was having fun again.
His tearful retirement and tumultuous offseason were tucked away in his memory. Favre was back where he's always been happiest: in the huddle with thousands of cheers providing a perfect soundtrack.
"It's like starting all over again," the New York Jets' new quarterback said. "I had some feelings that I haven't felt in 17 years."
After throwing a touchdown pass to cap his second series against Washington, Favre urged coach Eric Mangini to let him play some more.
"He said, 'Let me think about it,' Favre said. "As he turned away, he turned back and said, 'I thought about it.'
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The Buffs have plenty of work ahead to stay competitive in 2008.
BY TAYLOR BERN
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It's easy to ignore the history of football success at Colorado.
The Buffalooes went to four Big 12 championship games from 2001-05 and won the title in 2001. However, this occurred in the dark ages of the Big 12 North, a time that witnessed unprecedented mediocrity from its six teams.
In fact, Colorado probably felt more like lambs being led to slaughter than title contenders in '04 and '05, when it lost to Oklahoma and then Texas by a combined score of 112-6.
As for Colorado's glory days in the early 90s? That was so long ago that it's impossible for most fans today to imagine the Buffs as national champions, which they were in 1990. No, instead Colorado is the team often seen just hanging around that has little to say at the end of the year.
The Big 12 North is no lon
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ger for bottom feeders, and coach Dan Hawkins, former head man at Boise State, understands the difficult situation he put himself in when he took over Colorado before the 2006 season.
"I just think there has to be a certain amount of reinvention in a person in being able to put yourself up against it and see what you're all about," Hawkins said. "So as my dad told me when I came here, 'You asked for it, buddy, and you got it.'"
Hawkins likened his opportunity with the Buffalooes to a gardener cleaning out the weeds and planting a new crop, but all he pulled in year one was a rotten welcome to the Big 12. Colorado lost its first six games and eventually finished the year at 2-10.
Colorado head coach Dan Hawkins: "I'm not a very patient guy, and so I expected to win 10, 11 or 12 our first year out of the gate. I took a lot of years off my life in '60 I think."
"I'm not a very patient guy, and so I expected to win 10, 11 or 12 our first year out of the gate," Hawkins said. "I took a lot of years off of my life in '06 I think."
In an effort to reclaim some of those years, Dan tadhern his son Cody, a redshirt freshman, as the 2007 starting quarterback. This was no inside job as Cody was an Elite 11 quarterback coming out of high school and his teammates
awarded him the Offensive Scout Award after the '06 season.
Cody threw six interceptions in his first four games, but in his Big 12 debut the younger Hawkins threw two fourth quarter touchdowns to defeat No. 3 Oklahoma, 27-24. Buffalo fans flooded Folsom Field following one of the biggest upsets in school history, and Dan realized that his team was on its way.
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Colorado went on to play Kansas to a close loss at home and then won at Texas Tech and Nebraska. Hawkins' squad finished the year 6-7, but he saw the makings of a much improved team.
"So much of life is made up of the details in the little things," Hawkins said. "We were a scosche from winning 10 games a year and also a scosche from winning two, again, as horrific as it sounds."
Colorado's up-and-down season followed the uneasy arm of Cody, who threw for 22 touchdowns and 3,015 yards, but also fired 17 interceptions. His play should get better with experience, and also there to help will be incoming freshman running back Darrell Scott.
Scott was the No.1 rated running back in the nation, and on the last day to sign a letter of intent he opted for Colorado over Texas. Scott figures to get immediate playing time in Boulder and with some guidance, senior defensive tackle George Hypolite said he sees more than just that in his future.
"As seniors and leaders, we have to show him how to play football," Hypolite said. "We have to show him how to prepare, how to work, how to be a smart football player in practice and all those things."
"If we do that, say in three years,
if I'm worthy my salt in doing that.
Buffalo wide receiver Josh Smith pulls in a pass during football practice. He caught 23 passes for 451 yards in 2007.
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BY JIM VERTUNO ASSOCIATED PRESS
AUSTIN — Oklahoma and Missouri are the favorites to meet in the Big 12 title game at the end of the season. It's only fitting they're the highest ranked teams in the league before it starts.
Oklahoma, last season's Big 12 champion, is No. 4 in the Associated Press preseason rankings released Saturday, Missouri, the defending North division champion, debuts at No. 6.
For Oklahoma and coach Bob Stoops, the Sooners are aiming for their sixth conference title. They were the only team to beat Missouri — twice — last season, including a 38-17 victory in the league title game.
Other Big 12 teams in the rankings are No. 11 Texas, No. 12 Texas Tech and No. 14 Kansas.
Win another Big 12 title and the Sooners could get a crack at another national championship. Some voters thought them worthy
of the top spot now, giving the Sooners four votes for No. 1.
Missouri could be the team to spoil all that. The Tigers have quarterback Chase Daniel, who was a finalist for the Heisman Trophy this season, and a taste of how close they came to success last season. The Sooners aren't on the regular season schedule this year, but the Tigers' season could hinge on a trip to Texas (Oct. 11) and their annual rivalry with Kansas.
It's the South division where the sparks could really fly.
The Longhorns are trying to get over the 10-3 hump of the last two seasons after an undefeated national championship season in 2005. Last season's three conference losses were the most since 1997, and they lost to both Oklahoma and Texas A&M for
Oklahoma may be the highest ranked team in the division, but the annual match-up with Texas (Oct. 4) and against Texas Tech (Nov. 22) loom large again.
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Tech returns 18 starters, 10 on coach Mike Leach's pass-pappy offense that can pile up huge points. Graham Harrell to Michael Crabtree is the most dynamic pass-catch combination in the country.
The Red Raiders play host to Texas on Nov. 1 and travel to Oklahoma three weeks later. But the Red Raiders have never beaten both UT and OU in the same season under Leach.
The Red Raiders could be the wild card. Their No.12 preseason ranking is their highest since they were No.8 to start the 1977 season.
Kansas went 12-1 last season, the Jayhawks' only loss coming against Missouri. They have a much tougher road this year with Oklahoma, Texas and Tech
— three teams they didn't play last season — all on the schedule.
he will be a Heisman Trophy winner."
"Every team that plays us this year, No. 1 is going to know what Colorado football means," Hypolite said. "We're going to hit you hard, we're going to play hard and we're going to die bleeding black and gold."
"I really believe that if we're able to reach down in the hearts and minds of young men and push the right buttons and do the right things, you can develop that
Scott's unlikely to secure the Heisman his freshman season, but Rashaun Salaam, Colorado's 1994 Heisman-winning running back, has been put on notice. So has his former teammate, Buffalo quarterback Kordell Stewart, whose records aren't safe with Cody controlling the skies.
dominant teams of the early '90s. Those teams may have been forgotten or overlooked, but the pride is back in Boulder and the Big 12 has been put on notice.
Hypolite, senior safety Ryan Walters and senior linebacker Brad Jones anchor the Colorado defense. With that much experience on his team, Hawkins isn't prepared to wait around for a break through season.
In fact, Hawkins' 2008 squad has a lot in common with Colorado's
kind of chemistry and that kind of magic and make (success) happen," Hawkins said.
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Spikes, Hatch win battle at offensive tackle
One of the biggest position battles coming into camp seems to have been decided. Coach Mark Mangino announced after Friday's practice that Jeremiah Hatch would start at right tackle and Jeff Spikes would start at left tackle.
Hatch, a 6-3, 311-pound redshirt freshman from Dallas, Texas, came to Kansas as the 13th-ranked center nationally by ESPN.com in 2007 but beat out Matt Darton for the spot at right tackle. He replaces Cesar Rodriguez, who started more than 40 games during his career at Kansas before graduating.
"He's one of the hardest working and hardest playing guys we have on the team," Mangino said of Hatch. "What he lacks in experience, he'll make up with grit and toughness and hard work."
Spikes has sat atop the depth chart at left tackle since the spring game and has stayed ahead of Ian Wolfe during fall camp. The 6-6, 314-pound red-shirt freshman from Painesville, Ohio, was ranked as the seventh best lineman in the state of Ohio by Rivals.com coming out of high school in 2007 and will face the task of replacing first-team All American Anthony Collins, who left school early for the NFL after last season.
"He's one of the most athletic linemen we've had here," Mangino said of Spikes. "Of course he's young and has a lot to learn but he's coming along fine. He has a chance at the end of the day, when he's done here to be one of the better offensive line man we've had at Kansas."
Punt returner battle
One of the other intriguing battles going into camp was at the punt returner position, where the Jayhawks struggled in 2007. Three players — freshman Daymond Patterson, redshirt freshman Isiah Barfield, and senior Dexton Fields — are in a heated competition for the right to return punts.
"They are all doing pretty well," Mangino said. "We went from a situation where we struggled last year to a situation this year where we may have more than one capable returner. I feel pretty good about it. They all need repetitions and are getting better."
Mangino was not ready to name a starter after Friday's practice but it appears that Patterson, who has impressed Mangino at wide receiver as well, has a slight lead on the other two.
Mangino also announced that after a short battle with Kerry Meier, sophomore transfer Alonso Rosjo will replace Kyle Tucker at punter. Rojas, who took a year off from football last year after playing a year at Bowling Green, booted several 50-yard punts during the open practice.
"He's a little rusty but every day he kicks it better and better," Mangino said. "I think by the time we're ready to go, he will be pretty smooth. I like what he does, he has a strong leg, he can turn the ball over. We think we're going to be ok there with him."
2009 schedule released
The Jayhawks released their 2009 schedule last week and the nonconference schedule continues to get harder. Kansas will play host to Northern Colorado, Duke and Southern Mississippi and travel to UTEP during the team's first four games next fall.
The Jayhawks will play the same conference schedule in the same order as this year, but all home and road games will be flipped. Kansas will end the season against Missouri for the fourth consecutive year.
Jayhawks in the polls
Kansas enters the preseason Associated Press Top 25 poll at No. 14, its second highest preseason ranking in school history.
The Jayhawks are ranked 13th in the USA Today Coaches' poll.
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| 1. Georgia (22) | 11-2 | 1528 |
| 2. Ohio State (21) | 11-2 | 1506 |
| 3. Southern Cal (12) | 11-2 | 1490 |
| 4. Oklahoma (4) | 11-3 | 1444 |
| 5. Florida (6) | 12-2 | 1266 |
| 6. Missouri | 12-2 | 1266 |
| 7. LSU | 12-2 | 1135 |
| 8. West Virginia | 11-2 | 1116 |
| 9. Clemson | 9-4 | 1105 |
| 10. Auburn | 9-4 | 968 |
| 11. Texas | 10-3 | 966 |
| 12. Texas Tech | 9-4 | 786 |
| 13. Wisconsin | 9-4 | 771 |
| 14. Kansas | 12-1 | 707 |
| 15. Arizona State | 10-3 | 631 |
| 16. BYU | 11-2 | 590 |
| 17. Virginia Tech | 11-3 | 578 |
| 18. Tennessee | 10-4 | 509 |
| 19. South Florida | 9-4 | 496 |
| 20. Illinois | 9-4 | 483 |
| 21. Oregon | 9-4 | 366 |
| 22. Penn State | 9-4 | 293 |
| 23. Wake Forest | 9-4 | 227 |
| 24. Alabama | 7-6 | 89 |
| 25. Pittsburgh | 5-7 | 85 |
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How easily Long forgets that Kansas won a BCS bowl against national football power Virginia Tech and lost by just eight points to the No. 3-ranked team in the country in its lone defeat.
"It doesn't bother me at all," Mangino said of the schedule talk. "Tell me when there was a time when Kansas's football program could beat the likes of Nebraska, Texas A&M, Colorado and Virginia Tech and you have to sit and defend your schedule?"
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Also going against the Jayhawks in 2008 is their schedule, which looks to be much tougher than a year ago. Many writers and broadcasters still question the difficulty of the Jayhawks' schedule last season, with some openly questioning how good Kansas really was.
The Jayhawks' 2007 schedule was a topic at the Mountain West Conference Media Day a few weeks ago, when New Mexico coach Rocky Long openly took a stab at the quality of their opponents.
"I mean, who did Kansas play last year?" Long said.
As Mangino points out, a closer look will show that the lajawhays
schedule wasn't nearly as bad as advertised. The victories against Colorado and Texas A&M both came on the road on two consecutive Saturdays, and the 76 points that Kansas scored against Nebraska were the most ever scored against the Husker program. In all, the Jayhawks played six teams that went on to play in a bowl game.
"I'm not going to get into scheduling because I can't control that," said quarterback Todd Reesing. "I play whoever is on the schedule and that's really all it comes down to. The only thing 'I'
layhawks won't play the three worst south teams of Baylor, Oklahoma State and Texas A&M and will play the heavyweights — Oklahoma, Texas and Texas Tech.
Kansas will play host to Texas and Texas Tech in Lawrence, a place where the Jayhawks are 18-2 since 2005, but the October 18 matchup against Oklahoma is in Norman and certain to be the Jayhawks' toughest test in 2008. The schedule gets even harder with the week three road game at South Florida.
And though Mangino said he wasn't in the business of making predictions for the upcoming season, he knows that it could be another special season for his squad.
"We think we're going to have a pretty good football team again." Mangino said.
The jayhawks, who are a combined 0-6 against the Sooners, Longhorns and Red Raiders during Mangino's tenure, now have their chance to prove that last year's suc
"We want to be able to play against the best teams in our league and be able to beat them. That's the test for our program."
say is we play in the Big 12 and there are a lot of good teams, so it doesn't matter which three you're playing."
A year after just wanting to get enough wine to make it to a bowl game, the Jayhawks and their fans have much higher goals this season. The thought of a Big 12 Championship or high-profile bowl game no longer seems like that much of a dream.
This year, the three actually may matter for Reesing and the Jayhawks. Because of the rotating Big 12 South schedule, the
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"We've always said that we want our program to be able to compete with the best teams in the league," Mangino said. "The fact that we are picking
cess was not a result of a weak schedule.
defeat those teams as well."
up Oklahoma, Texas and Texas Tech is something that we look forward to. We want to be able to play against the best teams in our league and be able to beat them. That's the test for our program. We will never truly get over the hump, in my eyes, until we are able to
"Times have changed, haven't they?" Mangino said.
Junior running back jake Sharp, left, looks on as Jojos Crawford trains with the KU football team. After being named the 2007 National College Offensive Player of the Year, Crawford may become one of the teams' strongest running back this year.
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As the 2007 National Junior College Offensive Player of the Year, Joocjew Crawford came to Lawrence with a great deal of expectations. Whether he'll ultimately live up to those remains to be seen, but after two weeks of practice Crawford appears ready to step in at the top running back.
Crawford and junior Jake Sharp, who rushed for 821 yards and seven touchdowns in 2007, split the carries at practice when camp opened, but lately Crawford has taken more and more reps with the first-team offense.
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"I think as he's learning the system here, he becomes more and more confident," coach Mark Mangino said. "He's a very talented guy and he runs the ball hard."
Mangino said he instructed his defenders to get a firm grasp on Crawford because he's an expert at breaking tackles and then using his speed to get down the field.
"He has a lot of tools, and I think it's just a matter of him continuing to learn and getting comfortable in the system," Mangino said.
Last year Brandon McAnderson led the rushing attack with 190 carries for 1,125 yards and 16 touchdowns. That averaged out to 5.9 yards per carry. Sharp wasn't far behind, tallying 5.6 yards per attempt.
That kind of production is hard to ignore and although Crawford seems to have a leg up right now, Sharp is definitely still in the conversation.
"I wouldn't look for any one guy to shoulder the load," Sharp said. "I can do whatever I'm asked to do."
The offense will break in two freshmen at offensive tackle but the three inside lineman — center Ryan Cantrell and guards Adrian Mayes and Chet Hartley — return and should help maintain a constant running attack.
"I think we'll be able to run the ball as much as we want, plus our pass game provides creases and opportunities to run the football," Mangino said.
Joining Crawford and Sharp in the hunt for playing time is junior Angus Quigley. Quigley rushed for 98 yards and two touchdowns in spot action last year.
Outside of those three the running back pond has dried up as two former Jayhawks transferred away last week. Sophomores Donte Bean and Carmon Boyd-Anderson each asked Mangino to be let out of their scholarships. Bean plans to join the Washburn University team while Boyd-Anderson is still undecided.
Bean figured to get only a few carries late in games while coaches were considering redshirting Boyd-Anderson.
Recently Mangino reacted after a practice when asked if he was concerned about his depth at running back.
"There's no strength in numbers, it's the quality of the players not the quantity."
Fourth on the running back depth chart after the recent departures is redshirt freshman Rell Lewis. Lewis has a body size similar to Sharp and should get any carries that would have gone to Bean.
"Why?" Mangino said. "You got two guys who hardly ever played. I don't have a problem with what we have, to tell you the truth."
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Case joins staff; Mario Chalmers' father resigns
Guard Jeremy Case was the oldest Jayhawk on last year's championship ship
ready spent five years in Lawrence
Now, Case will spend at least one more year at Kansas. Self announced that Case would serve as a graduate student
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Case wants to go into coaching, and the gig at Kansas could be invaluable to his future career.
"Jeremy has the potential to be an outstanding coach," Self said. "This will hopefully jump-start his career in coaching."
Case will replace Michael Lee, who held the job last season after graduating in 2005.
The position is similar to the one Self had on former coach Larry Brown's staff in 1985.
Self will also have to find a new director of basketball operations. Ronnie Chalmers, father of Mario, resigned from his position last week to pursue other interests.
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Two months after winning the national championship,the Jayhawks made history one more time.
Five Jayhawks drafted
Kansas became only the third team ever - alongside the 2007 Florida Gators and the 2006 Connecticut Huskies - to have five players selected in the NBA Draft.
Brandon Rush was the first Jayhawk selected at No.13 to the Portland Trailblazers, who promptly traded him to the Indiana Pacers. The one swap was nothing compared to what Darrell
Arthur went through.
He fell to No.27 overall because of a question regarding his health and was traded four times. He wound up on the Memphis Grizzles. The Minnesota
Timberwolves drafted Mario Chalmer in the second round and traded him to the Miami Heat while Sasha Kaun and Darnell Jackson both are acquired by the Cleve-Lawrence valleys after trades. He will play professional basketball in Russia next season for CSKA Moscow, but could return to the NBA after this contract is up in three years.
Jackson is the only drafted Jayhawk who has not signed a contract yet.
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Kansas coach Bill Self has to assemble an entirely new starting lineup and help seven newcomers adjust at the beginning of the season.
And the Jayhawks' schedule isn't going to make the process any simpler. Kansas will play seven teams that made the NCAA tournament in its nonconference schedule to open the season.
"It will be a great test for one of the youngest teams in the country."
Self called the schedule as daunting as any the Jayhawks have lined up in his five seasons in Lawrence.
Self said. "Certainly, we're going to have to grow up fast."
Kansas' first four games will be part of the O'Reilly Auto Parts CBE Classic. The Jayhawks will play two games at home, Nov. 16 and Nov. 18, as part of the tournament before traveling to the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo., on Nov. 24 and Nov. 25 for two more games.
In Kansas City, Kansas will face two of three teams - Florida, Syracuse and Washington. Kansas will also play at the Sprint Center on Dec. 16 against Massachusetts, last year's National Invitational Tournament runner-up.
Other highlights of the nonconference slate include road contests against Arizona and Michigan State and home dates with Tennessee and Temple.
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"Kansas has always received great television exposure," Self said. "But certainly after winning the NCAA title last year, it gives us a chance for even more TV exposure."
Four of the nationally televised games will be a part of ESPN's Big Monday telecast with the first coming January 19 in a game with Texas A&M.
The Big 12 Conference season begins the week before in a January 13 game against Kansas State in Allen Fieldhouse. The Jayhawks will also wrap up the conference season in Lawrence on March 7 with a meeting against Texas.
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Kansas will play four exhibition games. In addition to the traditional two at the start of November, the Jayhawks will travel to Ottawa, Ontario, Canada during Labor Day Weekend to play the University of Ottawa and Carleton University.
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Best year ever. At least,according to numerous t-shirts.
It was a crimson and blue Christmas in January — and February and March and April and so on.
So now what?
Three years ago, Todd Reesing was just looking for a place to play. He had compiled outrageous passing numbers as a junior at Lake Travis High School in Texas. He flung the football around Texas high school stadiums like it was a Nerf Vortex, throwing for 40 touchdown passes.
He did the same his senior year. Still, nobody wanted him.
College coaches sighed. He didn't look like a Big 12 quarterback, and nobody wanted him.
The kid was just too small.
But he was smart too. He had good grades. He got some interest from academic powers Duke and Northwestern.
But Duke and Northwestern play football like the French swim Olympic relays.
And for a while it seemed like that was about as good as it would get.
"During that whole process, I was trying to get anyone's attention, really," Reesing says.
Luckily for Reesing — and Kansas — a highlight tape of Reesing ended up in front of Kansas coach Mark Mangino.
He saw a football player
As Mangino watched, he saw this little kid from Austin carving up defenses with his right arm and running circles around bigger, stronger defenders.
That's why you want to talk to Reesing. The kid was an epiphany last season, and his numbers were equally sublime. Thirty-three touchdown passes and just seven interceptions. At one point, the kid threw 213 straight passes without an interception.
So what's the problem? Reesing might have been too good.
How good is that? Kansas State's junior quarterback Josh Freeman has averaged one interception for every 29 pass attempts during his first two seasons.
Like a band that releases a classic debut album, or an actor who wins an Oscar in his first movie, Reesing may have nowhere to go but down.
So how will the kid handle a season where he throws only 25 touchdowns and wins only eight games?
And how will we handle it? How will we handle the losses? How will we handle it when the rest of the country points their snobby fingers towards Lawrence and says, "Told you so. Look what happened when Kansas played a tougher schedule."
--increased expectations. All of it. Fambrough lived it in 1969.
So here's the scene. On a sunny summer day in Los Angeles, Mario Chalmers is in his hotel room. He dresses himself in an expensive suit, hops a ride in a limousine, and drives to the Nokia Theater, the site of this year's ESPY Awards.
Ninety-nine days after Chalmers led Kansas to its third NCAA basketball title, Chalmers strolls down the red carpet and runs into former
"What up, champ? "Pierce says, smiling.
Jayhawk Paul Pierce.
Chalmers smiles back, a shy-kid smile.
Chalmers walks backstage and sees Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Terrell Owens. Owens wants to talk about "The Shot."
Chalmers smiles again.
A few feet away, Chalmers bumps into two-time NBA MVP Steve Nash. Nash congratulates Chalmers and asks where Chalmers is playing now.
"Miami," Chalmers says.
Of course, all this happened during a pre-packaged backstage segment for ESPN's broadcast.
But you get the feeling Mario deals with this a lot. All these people wanting to talk about "The Shot." His life has changed a lot in the past four and a half months. He's playing for the Miami Heat now. He's hitting South Beach with new pal Michael Beasley. He'll make more than $2.5 million during the next three years.
And that's why you want to talk to Chalmers. You want to ask him if he's tired of talking about "The Shot" yet. Is he worried that he'll never be able to escape the legacy he's created for himself at age 22?
Chalmers sat on that podium at the Final Four, just minutes after the shot that made him a college basketball immortal. He seemed so oblivious to history.
"It was just a lucky shot," he would say nonchalantly.
So you want to ask him. How is he going to handle playing 10 minutes per game this season as an NBA rookie? How is he going to handle being known forever as the guy who made that shot?
And how will we handle this basketball season? Kansas has seven newcomers. Five freshman and two transfers watched on television as Chalmers swished a three-pointer over the outstretched hand of Derrick Rose.
How will we handle it when they struggle, when they make freshman mistakes, when they play timid? How will we handle it when the young kids wearing the uniforms of the defending champs post a double-digit loss season?
--increased expectations. All of it. Fambrough lived it in 1969.
Don Fambrough just got out of the hospital. His voice is scratchy and dried out. But he has a story to tell.
He's in his 80s now, and it's been more than 25 years since Fambrough was the head coach of Kansas' football program.
But 40 years ago in 1968, Fambrough was on the sidelines as Kansas greats John Higgins and Bobby Douglass led the Jayhawks to the Orange Bowl for the first time. That team finished 9-3, tied for first in the Big Eight. They were one play away from beating Penn State in the Orange Bowl.
Kansas coach Pepper Rodgers was doing the unthinkable. He was turning Kansas into a football school.
"We felt like we had it made," Fambrough, a line coach under Rogers at the time, now savs.
Fambrough knows what Reesing and the rest of his teammates are going through.
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Sure, Kansas lost Douglass, and a bunch of other players from the Orange Bowl team graduated and moved on. Still, Rodgers and Fambrough and rest of the coaching staff never anticipated what would happen in 1969.
They had done so much the previous year. They'd thumped Nebraska in Lincoln, they'd beat Missouri, who was ranked No. 13 at the time, and most thought they should have beat Penn State at the Orange Bowl.
But when Kansas lost at Texas Tech in week one, something didn't feel right. They shut out Syracuse the next week 13-0. But after a week three loss at New Mexico, the Jayhawks could never find the magic from the previous year.
They folded in close games, losing 26-22 to K-State and 21-17 at Nebraska in successive weeks. The losses kept mounting, and the season was punctuated with a humiliating 69-21 gutt-punch from Missouri on the last day of the season. They finished the season 1-9 after an eight game loss streak.
There were plenty of reasons for the meltdown in '69.
"We went from the castle to the outhouse in a hurry," Fambrough says.
Coaches were overconfident, some players felt satisfied after 1968, and they just didn't have the weapons.
Mario Chalmers makes a drive for the basket during a game last year. After helping his team win the national championship last year, Chalmers left for the NBA.
"We learned a great lesson." Fambrough says. "In football, or anything else, when you stop working you go to the bottom."
--title defense goes better than his.
How do you defend a title?
How do you climb Mt. Everest — two times in a row? How do you defend a title when your best player sprints off to the NBA? How do you defend a title when fans need to buy a program for the actual purpose of figuring out who's on the team?
Scooter Barry may be able to answer those questions. Barry is 42 years old. He lives in California now. But in 1989, Barry was a starting guard on a Kansas team coming off a national championship. Barry thought his senior year would be defending the title he helped win in 1988. But then the NCAA told Barry and his teammates they wouldn't be defending their title. They were getting banned from the NCAA tournament for recruiting violations, and it was all very confusing because nobody on the team had anything to do with any of it. Not the coach, not the players, not anybody.
That 1989 team didn't really look anything like the 1988 championship team.
All American Danny Manning was gone, off to play in the NBA. Senior Chris Piper was gone too. And maybe the biggest change was the guy on the sideline. Larry Brown, the architect behind the NCAA title, had skated off to coach the San Antonio Spurs, and in his place was a dark-haired, fresh-faced assistant from North Carolina named Roy Williams.
And things got real complicated when, just weeks after Williams replaced Brown, Barry found out Kansas was banned from the 1989 NCAA tournament because of some improper benefits given to former recruit Vincent Askew two years earlier.
But Williams rallied his team, and it won some games to start the season. But then came a rash of injuries, and it didn't help that Manning was gone, and Kansas finished 19-12. They missed the NCAA tournament, of course. They were the first defending champs to be banned from the tournament, and '89 was the last year Kansas didn't participate in the NCAA tournament.
"We had no idea what to expect," Barry now says.
So Barry would like to answer the questions about defending a championship. But he can't really answer them. He never got the opportunity.
So Barry, a captain on the '89 team, was stuck trying to defend a championship he couldn't defend.
But he can feel for the returning players on this year's team. And the new ones.
"They're starting over and they have to carry the burden of a title," Barry savs.
It's a burden that will be thrust on a group of five freshman and two transfers. The new guys have to defend a title they didn't win.
If nothing else, Barry hopes this
--football team and the 1989 basketball team are still lorking on Mt. Oread.
So what's it all mean,all these little stories?
It's tough defending NCAA championships. We all know that. Heck, it's tough enough winning one.
And sustaining football success at Kansas has never been easy either. There's a reason the Jayhawks have never gone to bowl games in consecutive seasons.
Maybe it's that Kansas has such a poor history of following up championship seasons.
Maybe it'd be nice to see Mario Chalmers walking around campus, his hat slightly askew, just like it was at the Final Four.
Maybe the ghosts of the 1969
Maybe tic be nice see Aqib
Talib lined up at cornerback in the football team's home opener on Aug. 30.
But Mario's in Miami, and Brandon, Darnell, Sasha, Darrell, and Russell are gone too.
And Talib's in Tampa, playing in the NFL with Derek Fine, Marcus Henry and Anthony Collins.
The best year ever is over. And all that's left are the T-shirts.
Maybe that's the problem. If last year was as good as it gets, then what do people have to look forward to?
And that brings us back to Reesing, standing on that 45-yard line.
Because people want to believe there is more to look forward to. People want to believe that there's more magic left.
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Scott Russell prepares to release the javelin during the final round of a competition in the Kansas Relays in 2007. Russell, a graduate student from Windsor, Ontario, will compete in the javelin throw in Beijing on Wednesday as a member of the Canadian Olympic team. Russell qualifies for the team after finishing first in the Canadian Track and Field Olympic trials for javelin throw with a throw of 83.02 meters, or 272.97 feet.
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A dog barked for the second time, and Scott Russell apologized. Being an Olympian doesn't mean you're exempt from babysitting your pooch.
"I'm sorry," Russell said. "I'm trying to let my dog outside."
That was a month ago, when Russell was still in Lawrence. He's in Beijing, China, now, or at least close to it. In two days, Russell will step into the Bird's Nest — the nickname for the Olympic Stadium
— in Beijing and try to throw a javelin higher and farther than he ever has before. He'll need to if he wants to win.
Russell, graduate student and a former Kansas javelin thrower, has been thinking about this moment for years. He thought about it when he was a junior in high school in Windsor, Canada. He thought about it when he was named All-American during his career at the University of Kansas. And he thought about it when injuries kept him off the Canadian Olympic team in 2004. The time for thinking is done. Russell's Olympic odyssey begins on Wednesday. The 6-foot-9, 270-pound Russell is about to step out on the biggest stage in the world.
--his Olympic dream.
The throw that qualified Scott Russell for the Olympic Games in javelin is immortalized on YouTube — albeit with a slight caveat.
Through grainy home video, you can see Russell skipping down the javelin run-up, reaching full stride and uncorking a violent throw punctuated with a grunt. The result? A throw of 83.20 meters, or 272.97 feet, and a throw long enough to give Russell the Olympic A standard. The translation? Russell had qualified for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
This is where the caveat comes in. In order to earn a spot on the Canadian Olympic team, Russell had to go through a little formality known as the Canadian Track and Field Olympic Trials. But because Russell was the only Canadian javelin thrower to earn the Olympic A standard, he just needed to finish in the top four.
"I was the most relaxed I've ever been for an Olympic Trials or for a national championship," Russell said.
And it showed. In his hometown of Windsor, Ontario, in front of nearly 40 friends and family members, Russell finished first at the trials on July 5 with a throw of 74.74 meters.
"The pressure was being in front of my family and friends," Russell said.
One man in the Russell clan stood a little taller than the rest on that day in Windsor. And to understand all of Russell's triumphs and failures, all his records and injuries, you have talk to his father, Dan Russell.
--his Olympic dream.
His phone rang back in Windsor on June 15. The person on the other end said just one word and Dan knew exactly what had happened.
"Bangarang," Scott said from miles away in British Columbia.
"When he said 'bangarang,' I knew exactly what he meant," Dan said.
With the home camcorder recording, Russell had thrown the javelin 83.20 meters that day. He was that much closer to realizing
Dan had always steered his children toward the basketball court. He had grown to love the game
in high school and went on to play basketball in college. He coached his children as they grew up — and up. Dan's son, Scott, would grow to be 6-foot-9. Russell had game, too. Hed
make two all-city teams in high school and he attracted interest from the University of Windsor and the University of Detroit-Mercy.
"I was the most relaxed I've ever been for an Olympic Trials or for a national championship."
realized that his future was in track and field and not on the basketball court.
But by that time, Russell had
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Former Kansas javelin thrower
Russell started throwing javelin
"This isn't my game," Russell told his dad.
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javelin would help his basketball.
But at the urging of his Dad, Russell stuck with it. Dan hoped the
"You'll get in the weight room and you'll get stronger," Dan said to his son.
If you listen to Dan long enough, he'll tell you all about his son's successes. Russell won the All-Ontario javelin and discus titles during high school. He was an All-American at Kansas. He set the Canadian
javelin record in front of 45,000 Canadians in the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton. And he's won seven of the last eight National Canadian javelin championships.
But Dan talked about the setbacks
performances.
With his funds dwindling, Russell nearly gave up on his dream. But sitting out at dinner one night
too. There was the groin injury that hampered Russell's attempt at qualifying for the 2004 Olympics in Athens, and the period in 2005, when Athletics Canada quit funding Russell after a string of poor
"It's just a relief to finally accomplish a life-time dream."
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Beijing's night sky explodes with color during a firework show for the 2008 Olympics Open Ceremonies. The Opening Ceremonies also featured a cast of 15,000 performers completing acrobatic acts and synchronized drumming routines inside the National Stadium. Most of the 11,028 athletes participating in this year's games, including former Kansas athlete Scott Russell, participated in the traditional Opening Ceremony parade inside the Olympic stadium.
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in 2005, Russell's former coach h a n d e d him a letter. Enclosed was a $2,500 check from an anonymous donor who wanted to see Russell continue to
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pursue his dream.
"Other people cared enough about him and had enough confidence in him to do something like that," Dan said, "Imagine, what are they thinking right now?"
A month after receiving the check, Russell set a new Canadian record of 84.41 meters or 276.94 feet.
Russell's funding returned and he began to look towards the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
He had to choose between the Olympics and Scott's upcoming wedding. He'll follow the games from home, and if he wants to see his son's Olympic throws, he may have to upload another grainy YouTube video
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Russell walked into the Bird's Nest on August 8 under the red and white Maple Leaf.
Dan was thousands of miles away, in Canada.
He says if his son makes top 12 in Beijing, the trip will have been a success.
To do more than that, Dan says, his son may have to throw farther than he ever has.
"Possible? Maybe it's possible"
Dan said.
Anything seems possible when your son is an Olympian.
And as Russell says, "It's just a relief to finally accomplish a lifetime dream."
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Former Hawks looking for new homes in NBA
BY JESSE TEMPLE
itemple@ku.edu
Summer league games in the NBA certainly won't be confused with the league's regular season contests that begin in late October.
In the summer, the superstars are still at home. Rosters generally consist of rookies, other young players and basketball journeymen trying to make a team. And the rules are a bit lacking, too, as players are allotted 10 fouls instead of the usual six.
That doesn't mean the Kansas hoopsters taken in the 2008 NBA Draft didn't get anything out of it.
In fact, perhaps no player benefited more from participating in the summer league than former Jayhawk Mario Chalmers.
This year's version of the summer league was split into two sec
tions. The first was a six-team league from July 7 to July 11 in Orlando, which included Chalmers' Miami Heat team. The second was the bigger, 21-team field in Las Vegas, which concluded July 20. Both Darrell Arthur and Darnell Jackson played in Las Vegas for their respective franchises.
Chalmers played so well for the Heat that he earned second-team all-league honors in Orlando for averaging 15.8 points and 5.4 assists in five games. He also was rewarded for his play with a three-year, $2.3 million contract, even though by getting selected in the NBA draft's second round. Chalmers was not guaranteed any money.
Heat general manager Randy Pfund told The Kansan in July that the summer league played a pivotal role in determining Chalmers' value.
"He kind of proved what we
optimistically thought was good about Mario with his play in the Orlando Summer League", Pfund said. "He handled the ball very well as a point guard, shot the ball well and defended very well against a couple guys drafted very high."
Pfund was referring to Chalmers' match-ups with No. 1 overall draft pick Derrick Rose and No. 4 pick Russell Westbrook. Against each player, Chalmers scored 11 points and averaged five assists.
"We already were very high on him, but it kind of validated the pick we made with Mario and led to us being convinced that doing a three-year contract with him made the most sense," Pfiund said. "Getting those five games under his belt was a great opportunity to get some experience under fire."
jackson made his pro debut at the Las Vegas Summer League
for Cleveland, Selected No. 52 in the draft by Miami and traded to Cleveland, Jackson is expected to sign a two-year contract worth about $1.2 million. Cavaliers assistant general manager Chris Grant
said the summer league was a good opportunity for Jackson to show what made him so valuable while at Kansas.
"We expect him to compete at a high level, defend and be open to coach-
on 4-of-9 shooting with eight rebounds.
Arthur also made his professional debut in Las Vegas, playing for the Memphis Grizzlies. He struggled mightily in his team's first
"We expect (Jackson) to compete at a high level, defend and be open to coaching. It's the first time around the block. So we're learning as much as they're learning."
ing," Grant said. "It's the first time around the block. So we're learning as much as they're learning."
CHRIS GRANT Cleveland Cavaliers assistant GM
In his first game with the Cavaliers, Jackson scored 10 points
his former Jaylawk teammates, Brandon Rush, the No. 13 overall pick, didn't play in an NBA summer league. Rush's Indiana Pacers began the Orlando Summer
three games, committing a whopping 26 fouls. Arthur b o u n c e d back, however, to score 23 points with six rebounds in a later contest, this time picking up five fouls.
Unlike the
League on July 7, but Rush — who was traded from Portland to Indiana on draft night — did not officially join the Pacers until July 9. Shortly after, Rushed signed his contract, which will pay him more than $3.1 million during the next two seasons.
Indiana president of basketball operations Larry Bird said he was certain that missing summer league wouldn't affect Rush's NBA readiness. As a lottery pick, Rush had much less to prove by attending the summer league than other KU players.
"With his talents, I think once real practice starts, he'll get a better feel for it." Bird said. "But he'll be here most of the summer. Just having him here this summer, getting acclimated to the city, that's a major factor."
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Fresh faces with big experience fill young Jayhawk team
The top junior college prospect, a community college national champ and twin tower power forwards are a few of the next big things
BY CASE KEEFER ckeefer@kansan.com
forward
Hometown: Chicago
MARIO LITTLE
(Junior college transfer)
Position: shooting guard/small
Hometown: Chicago
Scouting report: Little could help ease the loss of Brandon Rush, playing the same position and possessing similar qualities. Little, the nation's top junior college prospect, is considered an outstanding rebounder and defender.
Bill Self's take: "He's a very good scorer and he will bring an element of toughness to our program."
TYRONE APPLETON
(junior college transfer)
**Position:** point guard/shooting
guard
Hometown: Gary Ind
Scouting report: Appleton likes to win. He led Midland Community College to a national championship two years ago, and doesn't mind sacrificing his own statistics for the betterment of his team. That's the profile of an ideal player for Self.
Hometown: Gary, Ind.
Self's take:"Tyrone has been well drilled and I am sure the transition will be smoothed with him coming into our system."
TYSHAWN TAYLOR
Position: point guard/shooting guard
Hometown: Jersey City, N.J. Scouting report: Taylor has
caught the attention of all who have watched him play in scrimmages or the Kansas City Pro-Am League this summer. Taylor, a guard known for versatility, scored 47 points and recorded 17 rebounds in one of the Pro-Am league games.
Taylor speaks:"I've never been on a losing team in my life. I just can't do it."
MARCUS MORRIS
Position: small forward/power forward
Hometown: Philadelphia
Scouting report: Marcus Morris has a smooth shot that can be
lethal from anywhere on the floor but he's also big enough to grind out points in the paint. He averaged 27 points per game in high school.
Self's take:"Marcus is a very skilled, do-everything wing when he has the ball. He is a tall perimeter player that can also go inside."
MARKIEFF MORRIS
Position: power forward/center
Hometown: Philadelphia
Scouting report: Markieff Morris should add depth to the depleted Jayhawk frontcourt. Markieff may not be as skilled a scorer as Marcus, but is known for rebounding. He averaged 15 rebounds per game as Marcus' teammate at Prep Charter High School.
Self's take: "Markieff is a big forward that can play either spot on your front line. He is a very good low post player."
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No longer do the Royals and their owner view the free agent draft as a way to save money rather than acquire greater talent.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The longwoefel Royals and their put-upon fans may look back on Aug. 15, 2008, as one of their best days ever, a 24-hour period that signaled the end of an era, the death of a dark and dreary time.
Remember Dermal Brown? Dan Reichert? Has anyone heard lately from Juan LeBron? Those are just a few of the first-round picks who were drafted way too high because Royals officials were forced to concentrate on signability.
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Scouting report: Thomas hasn't developed into a consistent scoring threat but is a physical rebounding force below the basket. Former Jayhawk and current NBA player Julian Wright raved about Thomas' board-grabbing abilities after playing with him this summer.
Self's take: "Quintrell will give us an element of toughness and his defensive rebounding will be something we look to early in his career."
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But now KC has a new general manager, Dayton Moore, and a new philosophy of spending money.
Nothing illustrates the new way of doing business at Kaufman Stadium than the signing, on the same day, of pitcher Tim Melville and powerhitting first baseman Eric Hosner.
Hosmer, drafted third overall, is a 6-foot-4 first baseman who dominated high school pitching. He goes into a minor league system that already features Mike Moustakas, another power-hitting infielder. There's no way of knowing whether Moustakas, Melville and Hosmer will ever be stars, or even advance to the majors.
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Jamaica's Usain Bolt crosses the finish line to win gold in the men's 100-meter final in the Beijing Olympics Saturday. He finished the race in a world-record time of 9.69 seconds, finishing his previous world record of 9.72 set in May.
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BEIJING — Imagine if he had really tried. Pounding his chest, turning up the palms of his outstretched arms, mugging for the cameras before he even crossed the finish line, Usain Bolt rewrote the record books again and captured his first Olympic medal Saturday, toying with the field and running the 100-meter dash in a stunning 9.69 seconds.
"It wasn't planned," the newly crowned "World's fastest Man" said of his running celebration. "My aim was to come out and win. When I saw the time, I'm celebrating. I'm happy."
His left shoe was untied when he crossed the finish line. Not that it mattered much. He could've walked across.
It was a blowout, a rout, no contest, as the 21-year-old jamaican took a huge lead halfway through the race and finished upright, looking to his right to find not a challenger but instead a bunch of photographers recording history.
He broke his own record, set in May in New York, by .03 seconds and became the first spinner to set the world record in the Olympics since Donovan Bailey ran 9.84 at the 1996 Atlanta Games.
"No one will get near it," fellow Jamaican Michael Frater, the sixthplace finisher, said of Bolt's record.
Bolt beat Richard Thompson of Trinidad and Tobago by 0.2 second — more than a body length
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— while American Walter Dix was third. The race marked the first time six runners broke 10 seconds in the Olympics. There was no wind — the reading was 0.0.
Asafa Powell, the Jamaican who held the world record for three years before Bolt grabbed it, continued his string of disappointments in big races, fading to fifth for the second straight Olympics.
U.S. women dominate New Zealand in final pool-play game 96-60
American Tyson Gay, who was supposed to be the third part of a so-called dream race, didn't even make the final, eliminated with a fifth-place finish in his semi.
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the shortest sprint.
New Zealand's guard Kate McMeeken-Russo defends Team USAS Cappie Pondexer during the second quarter of their women's preliminary basketball game at the Beijing Olympics Sunday. The U.S. team will play South Korea on Tuesday.
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Bolt's specially has been the 200 meters, and he will be a heavy favorite to win that one next week in what would be the first men's Olympic sprint double since Carl Lewis in 1988. But Bolt persuaded his coach 13 months ago to let him try the 100, too — and what quick progress he has made.
"Usain was spectacular." Powell said. "He was definitely untouchable tonight. He could have gone a lot faster if he had run straight through the line."
BEIJING — Another game, another rout.
Bolt is 6-foot-5, one reason he was never really pegged to run the 100 — men that tall aren't supposed to be able to get out of the starting blocks fast enough to win
The U.S. closed out pool play in the same fashion as all its other games in the Olympics with a blowout.
Tina Thompson scored 10 of her 15 points during a 21-10 run in the second quarter and the U.S. women's basketball team beat New Zealand 96-60 on Sunday night.
Mills liked the 400, thought Bolt was better built for that. Bolt didn't like that kind of work — too gruel-
scored on Jillian Harmon's jump from the corner just at the halftime buzzer.
The Kiwiis missed eight straight shots and had three turnovers during the drought.
Bolt actually skidded from the blocks in this one — not perfect, but then again, he didn't really need to be. He needed 41 strides to cover the 100 meters and practically loped past the finish line, looking to his right but finding no other runners there.
The Americans won the five games by an average of 43 points. With the exception of a rough first half against Spain and the first 3 minutes against the Czech Republic, the U.S. looked unbeatable.
New Zealand was able to stay close with the U.S. for a quarter behind hot shooting. They were 8-for-16 in the first quarter and only trailed by five at the end of the period.
The U.S. will play South Korea in the quarterfinals Tuesdaynight. The South Koreans advanced to the next round by holding off Latvia 72-68 on Sunday.
The U.S. extended its lead in the third quarter to 38 in the third quarter behind Katie Smith, who had eight of her 13 points in the period.
Lisa Leslie started the run with a layup and then Thompson hit three layups and two jumpers over the next 5 minutes as the U.S. stretched out its lead. Delisha Milton-Jones' reverse layup ended the run with 18 seconds left in the half and put the Americans up 50-22.
The U.S. took over in the second quarter turning up their defensive intensity.
Lisa Wallbutton's jumper with 7:29 left in the period cut New Zealand's deficit to 29-22 before the Americans scored 21 straight points.
Angela Marino led New Zealand with 17 points and Wallbutton added 14.
Seimone Augustus added 12 points and Tamika Catchings had 11 for the U.S.
New Zealand (1-4) finally
When he crossed, he kept running about halfway around the track. He did a hip-swiveling dance, blew kisses to the crowd, clowned around with arms out like a bird in flight, and held up the Jamaican flag. Later, he took off his golden spikes, which will, of course, look great next to his gold medal.
Bolt had always seemed Olympic champion material in the 200 meters, and there was long and spirited debate between him and his coach, Glen Mills, about which other race to make part of his program.
The U.S. also held an incredible turnover margin over New Zealand.
The Americans had only 10 compared with New Zealand's 21.
In other games Sunday, Australia defeated Russia 75-55, China beat the Czech Republic 79-63, Spain routed Mali 79-47, and Brazil beloved Belarus 68-53.
So he committed to working on his starts, so important in these races. After less than a year of training in earnest, he lined up on Randall's Island in New York and routed Gay to set the world record at 9.72 seconds.
Even then, Bolt and Mills played games about whether he would go for the double at the Olympics. They were just messing with everyone. A guy this fast doesn't say no when the chance is there.
After he set the world record the first time, Bolt said he was happy to have it but wanted the Olympic gold as well. Records, he said, can be broken. Olympic golds last forever.
Bolt, of course, has both but insists he was only going for the win this time.
"I didn't come here to run the world record, because I was the world record-holder," Bolt said. "I came here to win."
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BY BARRY WILNER
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Romania's gymnast Sandra Izbasa is kissed by her coach during the apparatus finals at the Olympics in Beijing Sunday. Izbasa won the gold medal.
BEJIING — Once more, the gold medal was within Shawn Johnson's reach. April.
was snatched away.
Two days after Nastia Liukin edged Johnson for the all-around title, Romania's Sandra Izbasa — the very last competitor — grabbed the floor ever
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cise gold that was almost in the American's hands.
"I had a little bit of hope inside of me, but seeing how beautifully she executed her routine, I knew."
After Johnson went in the unenvirable first spot Sunday night and saw her 15.50 stand up through six other finalists, including Liukin, only Izbasa remained. But the Romanian wowed the judges with her soaring somersaults and solid landings, earning a 15.65.
That left Johnson, the 2007 world champion, with three sil-
SHAWN JOHNSON American gymnast
in three years. The gold medalist at the last three world championships landed on her knees on her second attempt, leaving the competition wide open. North Korea's
ver medals in Beijing, and gave Liukin, who took bronze, one of each. Not a bad haul, with more event finals to come.
Johnson, gracious as always,
wore a bright smile all night.
"After the all-around I was excited to have made the floor finals and a bronze medal feels great."
The men's event finals were — here's a shock —
— the first gymnastics medal for her nation.
and gave several competitors big hugs when they finished their routines. She barely finched when Izbasa's mark came up, and the 16-year-old American also had a hug for the winner.
"After the all-around, I was excited to have made the floor
The biggest upset of the night came in women's vault, with China's Cheng Fei losing for the first time
"I had a little bit of hope inside of me," Johnson said, "but seeing how beautifully she executed her routine, I knew."
And not at all disappointing for the U.S. women, who now have five medals. Johnson and Liukin had a hand in all of them.
Hong Un long stepped in with two solid vaults and clean landings to win the title
dominated by China. Zou Kai won the floor exercise and Xiao Qin took pommel horse, making the hosts 4-for-4. Add in the women's successes, and it's been a medals feast for the Chinese.
NASTIA LIUKIN American gymnast
finals and a bronze medal feels great," Liukin said.
Neither of them competed in vault. where Cheng followed the best effort of the night, a 16.075, with her huge error ending
up with the bronze behind Oksana Chusovitina of Germany. Cheng also fell during her floor routine, then burst into tears as her coach tried to console her on the sideline.
Chusovitina, competing for Germany for the first time but in her fifth Olympics, won silver. A native of Uzbekistan and now a German citizen, the 33-year-old Chusovitina said she "feels 18."
"Today I concentrated only on my moves, not the medals," she said. "I felt that I had a very normal performance without surprises, and
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that is why I got a silver medal."
American Alicia Sacramone, who has three world championship medals in vault, felt she deserved a medal, but finished fourth.
"I'm disappointed, especially since third place had a fall and I made both of mine," she said. "I can't change her score." 'Tl theirm'
team competition, when she fell off the balance beam, then struggled on floor as the United States finished second to China.
her score. The judges made up their minds."
"I definitely had to pull myself together a little bit the
Sacramone was hoping to atone for her weak performance in the
"I definitely had to pull myself together a little bit the last few days. I'm sure someday I'll appreciate what I did. I still have to get to that step."
The Chinese men just kept stepping all over the competition.
Zou zipped through a series
ALICIA SACRAMONE American gymnast
of pretzel-like twists and lightning-quick somersaults to easily beat Spain's Gervasio Defern in the floor exercises. The Spaniard took the silver with a
powerful series, then threw kisses to the crowd. Russia's Anton Golotsutskov got the bronze.
"It is amazing to go to three
"I was struggling during those 10 minutes. I was worried that I wouldn't get the gold medal.
last few days," Sacramone admitted. "I'm sure someday I'll appreciate what I did. I still have to get to that step."
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Chinese gymnast
go to three Olympics and get three medals," said Deferr, the 2000 and 2004 vault winner.
W or l d ch a m p i o n Diego Hypolito of Brazil seemed headed for a medal until he
fell on the landing of his final pass. Hypolito then sat nearly in tears, shaking his head back and forth.
"I'm sorry," Hypolito said,
before breaking down, his body shaking as he cried. "I'm sorry to all the Brazilians."
Three-time world champ Marian Dragulescu of Romania fell on his second tumbling pass.
On pommel horse, even though world champion Xiao had a break in form and was hardly overwhelming, his 15.875 easily beat the eight-man field.
"I was nervous when I was watching the other gymnasts competing after me," Xiao said. "This is a competition, so two or three mistakes are pretty common. I was struggling during those 10 minutes. I was worried that I wouldn't get the gold medal."
Filip Ude of Croatia won the silver. His 15.725 score tied with Britain's Louis Smith, but Ude won the tiebreaker with a higher execution score, 9.325 to 9.025, earning Croatias first-ever gymnastics medal.
Smith had a strong, clean routine to take the first Olympic gymnastics medal for his nation since a 1912 team bronze.
All-around winner Yang Wei of China was fourth.
China now has won the men's team, the all-around with Yang, the pommel horse and the floor exercise.
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Junior says U.S. Women's Open experience beneficial
BY CASE KEEFER ckeefer@kansan.com
Emily Powers doesn't want to remember the golf she played in the U.S. Women's Open in Edina, Minn., in late June, but she'll never forget what she went through to get there.
The Kansas junior, who missed the cut at the tournament after finishing 19 over par, was one of the final golfers to qualify for the event in May.
On May 18, Powers received an invitation to a sectional qualifying tournament that began at 7 a.m. the next day in West Bloomfield, Mich. — nine hours away from her hometown. Quincy, Ill.
Emily Powers, Quincy, Ill., junior, lines up her shot at the Marilynn Smith-Sunflower Invitational ini 2007. Powers played in the U.S. Women's Open in Edina. Minn. in June
The Powers family got to the qualifying course as fast as they could, but they arrived only minutes before the tournament began
— leaving no time for Powers to play a practice round. She didn't need it.
the first hole and clinched a spot in the U.S. Women's Open.
Powers played 36 holes and posted scores of 76 and 78, adding her name to a nine-player playoff the next morning. Powers parred
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So that's the story she keeps telling — not how she finished 153 out of 156 in the actual Open, alongside world-renowned golfers such as Annika Sorenstam and Se Rak.
She also got to experience the Open, which was played at Interlachen Country Club, with two of her closest confidants by her side.
Emily's father, Tim Powers, served as her caddie, and Kansas coach Erin O'Neil traveled from Lawrence to watch her play.
"It was neat to see her in that atmosphere and just to see how she carried herself," O'Neil said. "It seemed like she fit right in."
The problem the course presented to many golfers was its excessive length. At 6,789 yards, Interlachen Country Club is the longest course to ever play host to a U.S. Women's Open.
Both Emily Powers and O'Neil agreed, however, that it didn't affect her game. They blamed her
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Powers would like to play in the LPGA full-time someday. Seeing the inner workings of a major tournament and how professionals handle themselves could be beneficial to reaching that goal.
"You get there and you say, 'Whoa, this is a major.' Tim Powers said. "This is one of the biggest tournaments for men or
woes on poor course management. Powers hit only eight of 18 greens in her first round and took 36 putts in her second round.
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OLYMPICS
Nadal wins gold for Spain; Williams sisters take doubles
BY STEVEN WINE ASSOCIATED PRESS
In tennis, he is.
BEIJNG — As Rafael Nadal stood in front of the medal podium, his nation's flag draped across his back like a cape, he looked a little like a Spanish Superman.
Already assured of the No. 1 ranking, Nadal was No. 1 at the Olympics. He won a gold medal Sunday, overcoming two set points in the second set and holding every service game to beat Fernando Gonzalez of Chile 6-3, 7-6 (2), 6-3.
for Spain in Olympic tennis, and another milestone in an astounding summer surge by Nadal, who will officially end Roger Federer's $4\frac{1}{2}$-year reign atop the rankings Monday. Nadal has won 38 of his past 39 matches, including victories over Federer in the finals at the French Open and Wimbledon.
The gold medal was the first ever
"Nowhere in my best dreams I can imagine something like what I did this year," Nadal said. "I know how difficult it is to win these things, and especially here, because you only have one chance every four years."
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Elena Dementiava earned the gold in women's singles, taking advantage of 17 double-faults by fellow Russian Dinara Safina to win 3-6, 7-5, 6-3.
In women's doubles, Venus and Serena Williams of the United States won the gold, beating Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual of Spain 6-2, 6-0. The sisters celebrated with shrieks, then shared a hug.
The Williams sisters failed to medal in singles but found considerable consolation in doubles, improving their lifetime Olympic record as a team to 10-0. They won the doubles gold at Sydney but didn't play in Athens four years ago because Serena was hurt.
"It does mean more for me to win it with Serena, to share this kind of moment with your sister," Venus said. "I mean, we are practically joined at the hip."
Yan Zi and Zheng Jie of China beat Ukraine's Alona and Kateryna Bondarenko for the bronze, 6-2, 6-2.
Russia swept the medals in women's singles when Vera Zvonareva beat Li Na of China 6-0, 7-5 to win the bronze. That victory made Russia the first nation to win all three medals in one tennis event since Great Britain did so in the 1908 women's singles.
Tennis was not a medal sport between 1924 and 1988.
Men's singles has traditionally been an upset-filled event at the Olympics, and Nadal is the first
player ranked in the top five to win the gold. He stayed in the athletes' village and said the experience rejuvenated him.
"I arrived very tired," he said.
"The reason probably I won this title is because I have a fantastic time here enjoying a lot in the village. That was amazing experience for me. Always was a pleasure to know new people, no?"
He took charge against Gonzalez from the start, breaking serve in the second game. Nadal didn't face any break points until the 12th game of the second set, when he was down 5-6, 15-40.
Gonzalez failed to convert the set points, pushing a volley wide and putting a forehand in the net. The Chilean made five unforced errors in the tiebreaker to give Nadal a commanding lead.
Nadal ripped a backhand passing shot to break at love for a 3-1 lead in the final set, and erased two more break points to hold for 5-2.
He needed four match points to close out the victory, ripping one last Olympian forehand that Gonzalez could barely reach. Nadal collapsed to his back in jubilation.
"I think I played almost perfect match," he said.
Gonzalez settled for a silver medal after winning a gold in doubles and a bronze in singles four years ago in Athens.
"I have chances in the second set, and I didn't take it," Gonzalez said. "After that, Rafa was dominating. He was make me run a lot. He's a great champion, because he has been winning every important tournament in the past months."
Another test is around the corner, and now expectations will be high.
Even though Federer has won four consecutive U.S. Open titles, Nadal will be seeded No. 1 when the tournament begins Aug. 25.
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OLYMPICS
Jamaicans win, U.S. disappoints in women's 100
BY EDDIE PELLS ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIJING — When it comes to Olympic sprints, nobody does it better than the Jamaicans. Yeah, mon.
The Caribbean island of 2.8 million people capped the first gold-medal sweep of men's and women's 100-meter dashes since 1912 with a rare 1-2-2 sweep of the women's race. After never winning Olympic gold in the 100, Jamaica got two in as many days.
Shelly-Ann Fraser won the women's dash, pumping her fist as she was clocked in 10.78 seconds. Teammates Sherone Simpson and Kerron Stewart finished in a dead heat for the silver, 0.20 second back — the same margin Jamaica's Usain Bolt won by when he hot-dogged to the finish in 9.69.
Fraser knew she had won and smiled wide, showing those braces, and then went to pick up the green, yellow and black jamaican flag. It was the widest margin of victory in an Olympic women's 100 final since 1988, when Florence Griffith-lover set the world record.
"When I was thinking about it, I was getting ahead of myself." Fraser said about a gold medal. "I was like, 'Calm down. First you need to go out there and do it.'"
She did, and after she crossed the finish Line more than a body length in the lead, reggae music played in the background during a three-minute delay while judges looked at the photo finish. There was no way to split the difference, so Jamaica got the top three spots and didn't even have to settle for a bronze.
"It's about time," Stewart said when asked what the sweep meant. "We've been waiting on this. So many great athletes have come so close."
Torri Edwards last. Lee, the only one of that U.S. trio with another chance for an individual medal — in the 200 — said she thought there was a false start.
Jamaica's big win turned into a giant disappointment for the United States. Lauryn Williams finished fourth, Muna Lee fifth and
Edwards said she thought she herself had fuse-started.
The American team filed a protest, though it was swiftly rejected.
"It was a flagrant and a blatant false start that was not recalled and had tremendous impact on the race," said Lee's coach, Vince Anderson, just before the rejection. "But they're not going to rerun the Olympic 100. Anyone who knows anything knows that."
Williams didn't sound like someone who felt she had been cheated.
"We've dominated for years, and now it's their time." Williams said.
Making it even more impressive is that the woman widely considered Jamaica's best at this distance, defending world champion Veronica Campbell-Brown, wasn't even in the field, after failing to qualify at the country's Olympic trials.
Her spot essentially went to Fraser, the least accomplished of the Jamaican sprinters — at least until now. She is only 21 — same age as Bolt — and didn't have a time under 11 seconds before this year. The highlight on her resume before now was the silver medal she won as part of the Jamaican relay team at last year's world championships.
Speaking of relays — it's not hard to pick a favorite for that women's 400 relay.
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Simpson and Campbell were part of a gold-medal team in Athens four years ago, though it was hard to know whether Jamaica was truly the fastest team because Williams and Marion Jones botched their handoff and the traditionally strong American team didn't finish the race.
The women's 100 wasn't the only U.S. disappointment at the
Bird's Nest on the third day of the Olympic track meet.
In the men's 1,500, the American success story of Bernard Lagat, Leo Manzano and U.S. team flagbearer Lopez Lomong — all naturalized citizens competing for their new country for the first time at the Olympics — came to a sudden halt. All three failed to advance to the final.
Shelly-Anna Fraser of Jamaica jumps in celebration after winning the women's 100-meter dash during the Olympics in Beijing on Sunday. The Jamaican's victory marked a major disappointment for the American sprinters, who finished fourth, fifth and last in the race as Jamaica swept the ton three spots. Jamaican runners won gold in both the men's and the women's 100 meters.
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Lomong and Manzano each finished last in their semifinals. Lagat, the reigning world champion, finished sixth in his — one place out of the final automatic spot and .02 second behind the final wild-card qualifier.
It was a stunning setback for Lagat, who won a bronze and silver medal in the event at the last two Olympics for Kenya. He still has a chance in the 5,000, but his opportunity to become the first American to win both races at the Olympics is gone.
"There was a lot of boxing and a lot of pushing," said Lagatt, never able to put on his trademark kick. "I was worried about someone going down. I gave everything I had."
In other preliminaries, Americans LoLo Jones, Dawn Harper and Damu Cherry also made it through the first round of women's 100-meter hurdles — with Cherry overcoming flu-like symptoms to earn a wild-card spot and the other two making it by finishing in the top two.
In the women's 400, three-time U.S. national champion Sanya Richards won her semifinal in 49.90 seconds to move into the finals, where she'll go for an individual gold to go with the relay gold she won at the Athens Olympics. Americans Mary Wineberg and Dee Dee Trotter each failed to advance.
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The night also brought the second world record of the 10-day meet, when Gulnara Galkina-Samitova of Russia finished the first Olympic women's 3,000-meter steeplechase final in 8 minutes, 58.81 seconds to beat the mark she already held by nearly 3 seconds.
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In the night's final event, the men's 10,000 meters, Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia defended his title, finishing in an Olympic
- unable to cash in on his decision to skip the marathon because of Beijing's pollution and focus on the shorter race.
From left, Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser, gold, and silver medal winners Kerron Stewart and Sherone Simpson celebrate after the women's 100-meter final during the 2018 Olympic in Beijing on Sunday. Stewart and Simpson will second for place, finishing .20 seconds behind Fraser, who led Jamaica to its first 100 meters gold medal sweep. Usain Bolt won the men's race Saturday.
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OLYMPICS
Phelps sets record with eight
Michael Phelps surpasses Mark Spitz's 1972 Munich feat of seven gold medals; Australia's Hackett fails to win third straight; Torres finishes with three silver medals
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United States' Michael Phelps swims the butterfly leg of the men's 4x100-meter medley relay final to win gold during the swimming competitions in the National Aquatics Center at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Sunday.
BY PAUL NEWBERRY ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEJIING — Michael Phelps locked arms with his three teammates, as though they were in a football huddle calling a play, then hugged each one of them.
It took a team to make him the grandest of Olympic champions. And one last big push from Phelps
himself.
Going hard right to the end of a mesmerizing nine days in Beijing, Phelps helped the Americans come from behind Sunday in a race they've never lost at the Olympics, cheering from the deck as Jason Lezak brought it home for a world record in the 400-meter medley relay. It was Phelps' history-making eighth gold medal of these games.
"Everything was accomplished," he said. "I will have the medals forever."
Phelps sure did his part to win No. 8, eclipsing Mark Spitz's seven-gold performance at the 1972 Munich Games.
Aaron Peirsol got the Americans off to the lead in the backstroke, but Brendan Hansen — a major disappointment in this Olympic
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By the time Phelps dived in for the butterfly, the U.S. was trailing Australia and Japan.
year — slowed them down with only the third-fastest breaststroke leg.
That's when he really went to work.
"I was thinking not to blow the lead. I was really nervous."
With his long arms whirling across
the water like propellers, Phelps caught the two guys ahead of him on the return lap and passed off to Lezak a lead of less than a second for the freestyle. The Australians countered with former world record-holder Eamon Sullivan as their anchor.
JASON LEZAK U.S. Olympic swimmer
3:30.04, also under the old world record of 3:30.68 set by the U.S.
"I was thinking not to blow the lead," Lezak said. "I was really nervous."
Sullivan tried to chase down Lezak and appeared to be gaining as they came to the wall, but Lezak finished in 3 minutes, 29.34 seconds — Phelps' seventh world record in his personal Great Haul of China.
The Aussies took silver in
in Athens four years ago, while Japan held on for the bronze.
Spitz's iconic performance was surpassed by a swimmer fitting of this generation:
a 23-year-old from Baltimore who
loves hip-hop music, texting with his buddies and wearing his cap backward.
"I don't even know what to feel right now," Phelps said. "There's so much emotion going through my head and so much excitement. I kind of just want to see my mom."
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cheeks, her two daughters by her side. After getting his gold, Phelps quickly found his family, climbing through a horde of photographers to give all three a kiss.
Mom put her arm around his neck and gave him a little extra hug.
Her son sure earned it.
"The Beijing Olympics has witnessed the greatest Olympian of all time — Michael Phelps of the USA," the announcer said as Phelps posed with his teammates.
The Americans still had to wait a couple of tantalizing minutes for the official results to be posted. Finally, it flashed on the board.
World record.
"There's so much emotion going through my head and so much excitement.I kind of just want to see my mom."
MICHAEL PHELPS
U.S. Olympic swimmer
ting in the stands at the Water Cube, tears streaming down her
Gold medal No.8.
"Nothing is impossible," Phelps said. "With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination, and that's something I learned and something that
helped me."
Phelps, who won three relays in
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United States' Michael Phelps celebrates winning his 8th gold medal after the men's 4x100-meter relay final during the swimming competition in the National Aquatics Center at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Sunday.
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Beijing along with five individual races, gave a shout-out, to all his
eliminates for helping him take down Spitz.
"Without the help of my teammates this isn't possible," he said, "I was able to be a part of three relays and we were able to put up a solid team
effort and we came together as one unit.
Phelps set seven world records and one Olympic record, doing a personal best time in every event.
It's been nothing but an upwards rollercoaster and it's been nothing but fun."
"For the three Olympics I've been a part of, this is by far the closest men's team that we've ever had. I didn't know everybody coming into this Olympics, but I feel going out I know every single person very well. The team that we had is the difference."
MICHAEL PHELPS U.S. Olympic swimmer
"It can't be described. We'll never, ever see it again," said Australian distance king Grant Hackett, who came up short in his bid to win a third straight 1,500 freestyle title.
Beforehand, Hackett figured Phelps was likely to win six golds, just as he did in Athens four years ago when the first attempt to beat Spititz's record came up just short.
last few years I've never seen him change"
"Everything lined up for him incredibly," Hackett said. "He's a nice guy, a good bloke, and the
Back in Baltimore, some 10,000 fans hung around after an NFL preseason game to watch the relay on the stadium's big screen.
"I think he's going to be a legend forever." Ravens fan
Ann Williams said.
Phelps won some races by ridiculously large margins, others with the closest of finishes — most memorably, his seventh gold by one-hundredth of a second over Serbia's Milorad Cavic in the 100 fly. Along the way, he became the winningest Olympian ever and left
China with 14 career golds — five more than anyone else with at least one more Olympics to go.
"It's been nothing but an upwards roller-coaster and it's been nothing but fun," Phelps said.
Ditto for Dara Torres, who capped her improbable comeback with two more silver medals, missing gold by one hundredth of a
second in the 50 freestyle.
The 41-year-old Torres, a five-time Olympian and the oldest American swimmer ever, also anchored the American women to a runner-up finish in the 400 medley relay. She got silver in all three of her races in Beijing, giving her 12 medals in a remarkable career that began at the 1984 Los Angeles Games — a year before Phelps was even born.
"I go home extremely thrilled." Torres said.
Germany's Britta Steffen nipped Torres at the wall to complete a sweep of the women's sprint events in Beijing. The middle-aged American smiled, her head dropping back, when she saw a time of 24.07 — just behind Steffen's winning effort of 24.06. The German added to her gold in the 100 free.
"I go home extremely thrilled."
Torres received her silver, then
DARA TORRES
U.S. Olympic swimmer
hustled back to the locker room to grab her cap and a pair of old-fashioned goggles that were probably older than some of her teammates. She was trailing as she took the anchor leg
and couldn't catch Libby Trickett on a frantic sprint to the wall, with China claiming the bronze.
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Michael Phelps, right, Aaron Peirson and Brendan Hansen, left, of the United States celebrate after winning the gold medal in the men's 4x100-meter medley relay final at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Sunday.
had retired a second time after the 2000 Sydney Games, then got the urge to compete again after having her first child two years ago
Torres got off to a good start in the 50 and appeared to be leading midway through the race, a frenetic sprint from one end of the pool to the other.
As they came to the wall.
"It's like 90 yards of a touchdown. It was so close, but I didn't have much of a response."
Torres and Steffen were stroke for stroke. The German reached out with her left hand and Torres stretched with her right. Steffen's fingertip got there first.
Completing a race for all ages, 16-year-old Australian Cate Campbell earned the bronze in 24.17.
GRANT HACKETT
Australian Olympic swimmer
Schipper and Libby Trickett — took the gold with a world record of 3:52.69. The Americans claimed
silver with the second-fastest time in history, 3:53.30 while China took the bronze.
Australia's relay women — Emily Seebohm, Leisel Jones, Jess
"It's like 90 yards of a touchdown. It was so close, but I didn't have much of a response," Hackett said. "It's disappointing I didn't win. I have no regrets, it certainly was a close race."
Mellouli held off Hackett in the closing meters of the grueling race. Hackett earned the silver in 14:41.53, well off his 7-year-old world record of 14:34.56.
"He's never hung on like that in the past," Hackett said of the winner "He was the better competitor."
Mellouli, who trains in Southern California, was coming off a suspension after testing positive for amphetamines.
Hackett failed to become the first man to win the same event at three straight Olympics.
Magnuson. Coughlin received her sixth medal of the games, giving her 11 in her career.
The Aussie was upset in swimming's version of the mile by Ous Mellouli, who won Tunisia's first Olympic gold at the pool in 14:40.84.
Ryan Cochrane of Canada took the bronze in 14:42.69.
After receiving his eighth gold, Phelps received another award from FINA, the sport's governing body, as the best swimmer of the meet.
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Don't forget the lesser-known stars
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Katie Martinick, then-sophomore setter, goes for a dig during the volleyball match against Texas A&M on Nov. 6 at the Horejsi Family Athletics Center. Martinick was a B12 Sportsperson of the year in 2007.
BY ANDREW WIEBE
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todd Reesing hogs the spotlight. Bill Self and Mark Mangino? Media darlings.
You can't really blame them. When you win the Orange Bowl and the national championship, attention comes with the territory.
But while Kansas Athletics Inc's prized possessions bask in the glory of arguably the greatest seasons in University of Kansas football and basketball history, non-revenue athletes often find themselves overlooked and underappreciated.
Need proof? Quick, who is Emily Powers? Does Nickesha Anderson's name ring a bell? What about Brad Hopfinger and Katie Martinicch?
Nothing? You aren't the only one. Powers, Anderson, Hopfinger and Martincich have something Reesing, Self and Mangino will never have in Lawrence. Relative anonymity.
It doesn't have to stay that way. Take Powers for example. Just a junior this year, the All-Big 12 performer competed in the U.S. Women's Open in July as a 20-year-old amateur.
Powers didn't make the cut after posting a 19-over-par 165 after two days, but competing face-to-face with the likes of world No. 1 Lorena Ochoa and Annika Sorenstam can only help the game of the Jayhawks' most consistent performer from a year ago.
An even younger athlete seized the reins of a rebuilding men's golf program during an incredible freshman campaign. Brad Hofinger isn't a household name. He wasn't even the most decorated freshman to join coach Kit Grove's team last year.
But after finishing tied for tenth at the Big 12 Championship
in April, the rest of the conference would be wise to monitor his progress.
Hopfinger led the Jayhawks in scoring average by more than a stroke at 73.39. Along with fellow sophomore Nate Barbee, Kansas seems to have the young, talented nucleus in place to improve on its sixth place finish in last season's Big 12 Championship — it's highest in eight years.
While Powers and Hopfinger led Kansas on the links, Anderson dom'nated Big 12 women's sprinting like no other Kansas athlete before her.
The Jamaican-born transfer from Missouri Baptist University hit the ground running in her first track season in crimson and blue. Anderson recorded seven first-place finishes in 2008 in the
60- and 200-meter dashes, and set Kansas records in both events.
It was enough to earn her AllAmerican honors in both events. Anderson topped it all off with a Big 12 indoor title in the 60 meters, and she wasn't finished there.
At the NCAA indoor track championship in Fayetteville, Ark., Anderson nearly walked away a national champion in the 200 meters. Only 22 hundredths of a second separated her from Kansas' first ever national championship in the event.
And then there's Martinicich,
Unlike most student-athletes, the Shawnee junior is more known for what she does off the volleyball court than on it.
That's not to say she isn't talented.
After all, Martinicin is the Kansas
volleyball team's returning start setter. But unlike Anderson, she is no All-American.
Martinicch received an even more prestigious honor last season. She was named the Big 12 Sportsperson of the year for her work with Habitat for Humanity and the Susan G. Komen Foundation.
Powers, Hopfinger, Anderson and Martinecich aren't Orange Bowl champions or national champions. Odds are you won't find their faces emblazoned on magazine covers like Reesing. They won't ever sign multi-million dollar contracts like Self and Mangino.
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That's fine. Revenue dollars can't buy respect. Their accomplishments speak for themselves.
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Warner surprises with performance against Kansas City Cardinals beat'punchless'Chiefs 27-17
his second possession, capped by rookie Tim Hightower's 4-yard touchdown run around right end.
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"It's been awhile since I've played," said Warner. "Just to manage the game, to see
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Matt Leinart may be facing more competition from Kurt Warner than Arizona fans had thought.
Coach Ken Whisenhunt raised a few eyebrows Saturday night by giving Warner the start against Kansas City. And the 11-year veteran threw some nice passes, directing a 78-yard touchdown drive in the Cardinals' 27-17 victory over the punchless Chiefs.
"They both conducted drives that scored, which I thought was important," said Whisenhunt, who didn't play Warner at all in last week's game against New Orleans. "On the surface, I would say they both played well. The best thing about it today is to win on the road."
Warner completed six of nine passes for 54 yards for the Cardinals (1-1) and directed a 13-play drive on
things, to get comfortable in the pocket again, all those things. I felt very good for the limited action I got. It's always fun when you get out there."
"I felt pretty comfortable out there.I think overall I had a decent game. I can always get better."
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"You always want to try to get a drive going and we stumbled a little bit," said Leinart. "We couldn't make some plays, myself included. I wanted to get a good drive in and we did in the second half, a nice long drive, converted on third down and got a touchdown."
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Brodie Croyle directed the Chiefs (1-1) on a scoring drive on the opening possession for the second week in a row. But the offense of first-year coordinator Chan Galley produced only three field goals for the first 59 minutes of Kansas City's first appearance in Arrowhead Stadium since losing its last nine games of 2007.
"It was good to come out two weeks in a row and get a sustained drive and some third-down conversions," Croyle said. "But we want touch-downs. We don't want field goals. We've got to eliminate the three-and-outs."
Leinart got off to a horrible start and was almost intercepted twice. But he wound up going 7-for-11 for 62 yards, including a 14-yard touchdown pass to Steve Breaston.
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In the third period, Brian St. Pierre hit Tim Castille with a 24-yard
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The Chiefs' two rookie cornerbacks, Brandon Flowers and Brandon Carr, both got a good workout from the Cardinals' receivers.
With less than 2 minutes to go, Dennis Keyes, a free agent rookie safety, intercepted a pass from Kansas City backup Tyler Thigpen and returned it 84 yards for a touchdown.
"I felt pretty comfortable out there. I think overall I had a decent game," he said. "I can always get better."
Carr, a fifth-round pick out of Grand Valley State, was practically twisted into the turf as Breaston turned a short pass into an 11-yard gain.
"Tim, every time he's gotten an opportunity, has shown to be a pretty strong runner," Whisenhunt said. "I think he's got a good knack around the goal line of finding a way to get the ball in."
Flowers said he couldn't wait to get in the film room to study how he'd done.
"I thought he did good," Chiefs coach Herm Edwards said. "The first play, we knew they were going to go deep on him. He's a competitive guy. It wasn't too big for him."
Flowers, a third-round choice out of Virginia Tech who's already locked down the right cornerback job vacated by the retired Ty Law, made a nice play when he broke up a long pass intended for Anquan Bolton on Arizona's first possession. But Larry Fitzgerald juked him on a first-half play that went for a 9-yard gain.
Hightower, a rookie from Richmond, made a good argument for himself with several impressive runs.
Nick Novak may have separated himself a bit from rookie Connor Barth in the Chiefs' battle for a job as place kicker. Novak hit field goals of 40 and 33 yards while Barth connected from 35 yards but had a 46-yarder hit the right crossbar.
Thigpen got the Chiefs' lone TD on a 14-yard TD pass to Sergio Joachim with less than 1 minute left, and Dantrell Savage ran in the 2-point conversion.
Defensive tackle Glenn Dorsey, the Chiefs' first-round draft pick who sprained a knee in the second week of camp, made his first appearance, playing one series.
Savage, a rookie free agent running back from Oklahoma State, made a bid to win another job that's up for grabs when with a tackle-breaking 45-yard kickoff return after Leinart's TD pass.
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"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" Senior Foreign Correspondent Rob Riggle rides a rickshaw in China while covering Olympic Games.
Riggle goes to China for 'Daily Show'
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NEW YORK — Foreign correspondence on the fake news of "The Daily Show" usually amounts to someone standing in front of a video screen on the New York set, a few steps away from Jon Stewart's desk.
But to coincide with the Olympics, the show's Rob Riggle, a KU graduate, went to China. Really. His skewed travelogue unfolded last week on the Comedy Central hit.
That's when they find out whether they've created any international incidents.
"It was an opportunity to go over to China and do something that has probably not been done in the past — go to China and do some comedy," said Riggle, a former U.S. Marine who served in Afghanistan and is still on reserve.
Riggle, who last year traveled to Iraq for "Operation Silent Thunder," started planning by applying in January for a journalist's visa. With the intercession of MTV executives in China, he got the go-ahead less than 24 hours before his plane was due to leave on July 29.
Other times when police expressed concern about what the crew was doing Clements essentially hid behind the language barrier.
Trying to explain what "The Daily Show" did would have been
"There were days when we got promising news and days when we got not-so-encouraging news," said Glenn Clements, field producer and Riggles' traveling partner. "But we decided to stick it out until the end, and it paid off."
"Our motto was 'Let's just go until they tell us to stop,' Riggle said.
They were able to film segments on the Great Wall of China and within Tiananmen Square, the latter historic site the focus of debates with Chinese authorities over access.
Riggle and his crew were followed almost everywhere by Chinese police, although only once was a hand placed over a camera lens cap and they were told to go away. It was a moment the comedy writers probably couldn't
have made up: They were filming the outside of a 7-11 convenience store.
But anytime Clements' crew tried turning the camera around and speaking to Chinese citizens, the crowds would scatter. They would literally turn and run away, Riggle said. As a result, only a foreign journalist and Chinese newscaster were interviewed for
the series.
Even for an ex-Marine, the police state atmosphere was intimidating.
"There were moments where you were just being watched very closely," he said. "We still did what we wanted to do, but I was hurrying it up, saying 'Come on, come on, let's go.' It was a subconscious thing."
His first segment, on Monday, was a mock "up close and personal" look at Riggle and his journey to the Olympics. They also took a tongue-in-cheek look at the exotic and mysterious places in China, hence the trips to 7-11 and malls. The team will also took some shots at the Chinese authoritarian government and a critical look at history, much the same way as "The Daily Show" satirizes the U.S. government, Clements said. The four segments, prepared over the weekend between bouts of jet lag, were called "Rob Riggle: Chasing the Dragon."
Riggle also had the somewhat unexpected experience of being recognized on the street. Twice. One young Asian couple came up and said how much they enjoyed watching him on Stewart's show, leading him to wonder where they had seen it.
"Jon always has a very good sense of what's in good taste and bad," he said, "and we'll try to stay within the bounds of what we think is good taste. We didn't go in there to make fun of the Chinese people at all."
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If the show mimics the hot bodies, hip fashion and angst-ridden affluence of "Beverly fills, 90210," it will also play edgier and less preachy, says co-executive producer Gabe Sachs.
"Look, we're not stupid," Sachs says. "We know people are probably expecting a cheese-fest and that's just not what we do."
Sachs and partner Jeff Judah cut their teeth as producers on the quirky yet short-lived teen series "Freaks and Geeks" and "Life as We Know It."
CW tapped the duo to produce its rich-kids reprise after Rob Thomas, creator of moody teen drama "Veronica Mars," dropped the project.
"The truth is, Jeff and I write how we write," Sachs says. "Everything's got to come out of real emotion. We want to deal with issues and show consequences, but not the issue of the week and pound you over the head."
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Front rrow from left, Ryan Eggold as Ryan, Jessica Stroup as Silver, Michael Steger as Navid; mid row from left, Jessica Walter as Tabitha, Tristan Wilids as Dixon, Annalynne McCord as Naomi; and back rrow from left, Rob Estes as Harry, Lori Loughlin as Debbie, Shenae Grimes as Anne and Dustin Milligan as Ethan, make up the cast of CW's new series "9021", a spin-off from the popular "905" TV show "Beverly Hills," 90210.
But despite her announced participation, Tori Spelling (yet another star in the original series as well as daughter of the late TV mogul) isn't expected back.
To help spin the spin-off, original cast members Shannen Doherty, Jason Priestley and Jennie Garth will reprise their roles as special guest stars on "90210." Joe E. Tata will return as Peach Pit cafe owner Nat.
"Earlier in the summer we anticipated that she was going to appear in the show, but those plans were postponed for personal reasons on Ms. Spelling's behalf," CW spokesman Paul McGuire. In June, Spelling gave birth to her second child with husband Dean McDermott.
The original hooked a generation of viewers on trendy teen melodrama honed by creator Darren Star and executive producer Aaron Spelling.
"But I can never ever knock the original '90210," Sachs says of the series that ran from 1990-2000, trading on youth issues from addiction to pregnancy and amping the fortunes of the fledgling Fox network.
There currently are no plans for the 35-year-old actress to be part of the new series, according to McGuire and Spelling's publicist, Meghan Prophet.
Heading into its third season, CW is aiming "90210" straight at its advertiser-coveted target audience, cool-conscious female viewers from 18 to 34 who buzz about CW's "Gossip Girl."
Like the original, "90210" is a fish-out-of-water tale about a Midwestern family transplanted to Los Angeles, the land of freeway jams and perpetual tans.
Although the original series' core family, the Walses, were from Minnesota, the Wilson clan hails — with shades of Wizard of Ozian irony — from Kansas. Like siblings Brenda and Brandon Walsh (Doherty and Priestley), Annie Wilson (Grimes) and adopted brother Dixon (Tristan Wilds of "The Wire") are gorgeous, yet more grounded than their classmates at West Beverly
Among Annie and Dixon's new best friends are bad little rich girl Naomi (AnnaLynne McCord of "Nip/Tuck") and top jock Ethan (Dustin Milligan).
Hills High School.
There's Silver, a "Gossip Girl" type (Stroup), who produces her own tell-all video series on YouTube, and dirt-dishing, high-school newscaster Navid Shirazi (Michael Steger).
The Wilson parents (Rob Estes and Lori Laughlin) seem hip and handsome in ways the Walsh parents (Carol Potter and James Eckhouse) were not.
"This has the glitz of an Aaron (Spelling) show, but at the same time Gabe and Jeff have taken it and given it a sense of humor — they really flip it on its ear sometimes," says Estes, who starred on
The "90210" formula will also include product placement "as long as it doesn't hit you over the head," Sachs says. "I think it's important to show what kids really use."
But at the core of "90210," it's all about fresh faces, and who will break big.
Spelling's "Melrose Place" from 1993-1999.
"And they're also like 12-year-olds, you know?" Estes says. "They completely understand the electronic world, like texting."
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Grammy-award winner Rock hall-of-famer Hayes paved the way for other singers songwriters, actors in the 20th century
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In this 1971 picture, Isaac Hayes speaks during an interview in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles describing how he had lost $5 million to record pirates and hired ex-FBI agents to fight the practice. Hayes, the pioneering singer, songwriter and musician, died in Memphis, Tenn., on Aug. 10, the Shelby County Sheriff's office said. He was 65.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Isaac Hayes apparently died of a stroke, officials with the sheriff's department said on Aug. 12.
The deep-voiced soul singer died on Aug. 10 after he was found unconscious at his Memphis residence.
No autopsy was performed, but paperwork filed by Hayes' family physician, Dr. David Kraus, lists the cause of death as a stroke, sheriff's spokesman Steve Shular said last Tuesday.
Deputies were among the emergency crews that responded after a 911 call, and sheriff's department detectives were looking into the death.
Kraus told investigators that he had been treating Hayes, 65, for high blood pressure. Shular said.
Family members found Hayes lying on the floor of his home beside a treadmill that was still switched on.
Meanwhile, a memorial service will be today at Hope Presbyterian Church in Cordova from 11 a.m.
to 2 p.m.
His family issued a statement last Tuesday, saying: "While he was an iconic figure to many, to us he was husband, father and friend. We will ever miss his love, wisdom, humor and the familiar comfort of his voice."
The baldheaded crooner, who
laid the groundwork for disco and whose "Theme From Shaft" won both Academy and Grammy awards, was elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002.
He also acted in movies and provided the voice of Chef, the school cook, on the animated TV show "South Park."
He had recently finished work on the upcoming movie "Soul Men," in which he played himself. The movie stars Samuel Jackson and Bernie Mac, who died on Aug. 9.
Hayes was hospitalized in 2006 for treatment of exhaustion, family friends said at the time.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19) ★★★★
You might want to hide out and deal with a problem more completely. You are looking at some big changes, and stopping, reflecting and getting more information could not be more appropriate. Tonight: Get some extra R and R.
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Zero in on what you want, scheduling appointments and meetings accordingly. What might seem a little out of sync in the morning could be A-OK later on. The unexpected keeps occurring. Do not resist. Work with trends. Tonight: Where people are.
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Take a stand. You might be asked to do more than your share of the work. Your abilities to make a difference and to sort through information come through. Others might be spooked by these traits. Help those people relax and feel less insecure. Tonight: Burn the candle at both ends.
CANCER (June 21-July 22)
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Could you be wondering what is going on? You, as one of the most emphatic signs of the zodiac, could be startled by some insights, even when walking in another's shoes.
Try not to hold together a project or situation that needs to unravel. Tonight: Relax your mind. It is working overtime.
LEO (July 23-Aug.22)
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Others need to express their views, though actually you could be startled by what you hear. Do protect your assets more carefully. You might realize that you no longer want to be tied up with a certain person. Back out with grace. Tonight: Evaluate a move.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
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Others seem difficult, but then you might be more challenging than you realize. Pull back a bit and disengage, especially if there are some disagreements. You come up with answers quickly and effectively. Tonight: Let someone else do his or her thing without a comment.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
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Others ask for and expect a lot from you. You could be overwhelmed by what goes on between you and another person. You feel invigorated and excited. Listen to news that filters through an unexpected source. Tonight: Happy at home.
have. Remain confident in your abilities. Tonight: Swap ideas.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
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Your creativity might be necessary. You could be surprised by some of the offbeat ideas that might come up. You do not need to follow through on every wild thought you
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
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You could be overwhelmed by everything that is happening. Do not be surprised if you want to cocoon. Others do the unexpected, and you might respond in kind. Try to center before making a decision. Tonight: Screen calls. Recharge.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
★★★★
Discussions prove to be animated and not always agreeable. Remember that different opinions make projects and relationships stronger if they're respected. You do not always want someone who says "yes," do you? Tonight: Hang out at a favorite spot.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
★★★
Listen to news more carefully, and deal with someone more directly. You discover just how much is going on in which your finances could be implicated. Step back, and do your own thinking. You might be surprised! Tonight: Take a hard look at your budget.
Others might seem to be reactive.
Do ask yourself just how much you are triggering. Step back and decide what might be the most appropriate direction to head in. Your humor helps to ease up a situation. Tonight: Follow your inner voice.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
★★★★
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Groups protest film 'Tropic Thunder'
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Timothy Shriver, right, special Olympics chairman and chief executive officer, holds a sign criticizing the upcoming film "Tropic Thunder" across the street from the film's premiere in Los Angeles on Aug. 11.
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LOS ANGELES — "Tropic Thunder" is pushing the boundaries of good taste too far for groups representing the mentally disabled.
Dozens of people from organizations such as the Special Olympics and the American Association of People with Disabilities protested the movie-industry spoof across the street from the film's Los Angeles premiere at Mann's Bruin Theatre on Monday. The protesters held up signs with slogans such as "Call me by my name, not by my label" and chanted phrases like "Ban the movie, ban the word."
"I think it's open to interpretation and that's the great thing," Robert Downey Jr., who stars in the film, told AP Television at the Monday night premiere. "You know, if I want to protest something because it offends me that's my right as an American, and it's also any artist's right to say and do whatever they wanna do."
The groups are outraged over scenes featuring the liberal usage of a disparaging term used to describe the mentally disabled. In the movie, director and co-star Ben Stiller plays a fame-hungry actor cast in a war movie who previously had a role as a mentally disabled character named Simple Jack.
“When I heard about it, I felt really hurt inside,” said Special Olympics global messenger Dustin Plunkett. “I cannot believe a writer could write something like that. It’s the not the way that we want to be portrayed. We have feelings. We don't like the word 'retard.' We are people”
"I have a sense of humor," said Imparato. "There were parts of the movie where I laughed, but it seems to me that the movie tried really hard to go too far and then
Andrew J. Imparato, president of the American Association of People with Disabilities, said he and other advocacy groups met with DreamWorks co-chair Stacey Snider and watched a private screening of the film Monday morning. Imparato called the movie "tasteless" and said it was "offensive to start finish."
pull back on everything that was offensive except the issue of people with intellectual disabilities. I just think Ben Stiller and the people involved in this movie just didn't think it was going to be offensive."
Following the original complaints from the advocacy groups, DreamWorks pulled some promotional materials, including a Web site that promoted the film-within-a-film starring Stiller's character which contained the tag line "Once there was a retard." DreamWorks spokesman Chip Sullivan previously said in a statement that "no changes or cuts to the film will be made"
"If you want to pick on people, as the old playground saying goes, pick on people your own size," said Timothy Shriver, chairman of the Special Olympics, who is calling for a boycott of "Tropic Thunder" along with the other groups. "This population struggles too much with the basics to have to struggle against Hollywood. We're sending a message that this hate speech is no longer acceptable."
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Duo settles past arguments to reunite for first time in more than 25 years
Cheech and Chong prepare for tour
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Cheech Marin, left, and Tommy Chong pose together at Sunset Strip Music Festival opening night tribute event in Los Angeles. Now that their feud is up in smoke, Cheech and Chong are high on plans to reunite for their first come-to-die tour in more than 25 years. Cheech Marin told AP Radio that he and Tommy Chong "looked at each other going. 'If we're ever going to do something it has to be now because you're not getting any younger and neither am I.'"
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BY EDWIN TAMARA ASSOCIATED PRESS
"We had such a legacy, such a history. We couldn't escape it, even if we tried," Tommy Chong told reporters at a news conference Wednesday at the Troubadour, the Los Angeles nightclub where the pair were discovered more than 35 years ago.
The duo said their "Light Up America" tour would kick off Sept. 12 in Philadelphia.
"it's going to be very theatrical," said Cheech Marin.
If Wednesday's news conference was an indication, it won't spare the pothead humor, either.
"We're definitely still smoking," Chong said when asked.
"I get transfusions now," quipped Marin.
"I like the taste" Chong said. "I'm old fashioned."
Marin told AP Radio earlier this month that he and the 70-year-old Chong had recently decided that if ever they were to reunite the time was now because, "You're not getting any younger and neither am I."
They tossed around some ideas and figured a comedy tour would be "the most fun" and "the least hassle," the 62-year-old Marin said.
Marin and Chong, who broke up amid creative differences, have tried to reunite before, but have always fought too much.
During their original run, Marin and Chong released nine comedy albums between 1972 and 1985, were nominated for four Grammy Awards and won one. They also starred in eight feature films, almost always portraying a pair of comical stoners.
"We've gotten to the age where we don't feel like fighting anymore." Marin said, "because the end is a lot closer than the beginning."
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Beatles contract may sell for big bucks
BY ROBERT BARR ASSOCIATED PRESS
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LONDON — Brian Epstein's copy of his management contract with The Beatles, a pact that proved to be worth millions, is being offered for sale in London next month.
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The four-page document, signed Oct. 1, 1962, by John Lennon, George Harrison, Paul McCartney and Richard Starkey — Ringo Starr's real name — carries an estimated price of $480,000. The Fame Bureau auction house said Tuesday it had scheduled the sale for Sept. 4 at the Ide Generation Gallery.
The contract, also signed by Harold Hargreaves Harrison and James McCartney on behalf of their underage sons, gave Epstein a 25 percent cut of the band's earnings, provided they made more than $400 each per week.
"The word is that he made more money than the Beatles did during his period of time," said Ted Owen, managing director of The Fame Bureau.
He said the contract was offered for sale by a northern England businessman and Beatles collector who has asked to remain anonymous.
Brian Epstein's copy of his management contract with the Beatles, a pact that proved to be worth millions, is being offered for sale in London next month. The four-page document, signed on Oct. 1, 1962, by John Lennon, George Harrison, Paul McCartney and Richard Starkey — Ringo Starr's real name — not shown, carries an estimated price of 250,000 pounds (US$480,000). The Fame Bureau auction house said last Tuesday it had scheduled the sale for Sept. 4 at the Idea Generation Gallery.
The contract marked the moment when all the pieces were in place for a global outbreak of Beatlemania.
Epstein first heard of The Beatles when a customer went to his record store in Liverpool asking for "My Bonnie," in which the group backed
singer Tony Sheridan.
After arranging to hear the group perform at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, Epstein was impressed.
"They were fresh, honest and had, what I thought, a sort of presence and star quality, whatever that is," Epstein later recalled.
Epstein had been guiding the group since December 1961, and had secured a recording contract with EMI. With a nudge from producer George Martin, Epstein fired drummer Pete Best in August 1962 and brought Starr into the group, and their first big hit, "Love Me Do," was ready for release.
"Brian put us in suits and all that and we made it very, very big." Lennon once said. "But we sold out, you know."
"We were in a daydream till he came along. We had no idea what we were doing."
Epstein died from a drug overdose in 1967, at age 32.
According to the Brian Epstein Web site, http://www.brianepstein.com, a first, five-year contract was signed by the group on Jan. 24, 1962, but Epstein did not sign it.
Epstein managed several other successful acts from Liverpool, including Gerry & The Pacemakers, Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas and Cilla Black.
Also up for auction: a Bechstein grand piano that can be heard on The Beatles' "White Album" and "Hey Jude."
Owen estimated the piano will sell for $570,000 or more.
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to broaden its reach
BY SARA KUGLER AND JOE MILICIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is going on the road to New York — the city that spawned hip-hop and gave Bob Dylan and the Ramones their start.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg was expected to announce Wednesday that the Cleveland-based museum is opening an annex in downtown Manhattan. It is the first of several planned outposts that will take its collection of artifacts to a wider audience, possibly as far as the Middle East.
Billy Joel and Clive Davis were expected to join the mayor at the location in SoHo.
The 25,000-square-foot annex will house Bruce Springsteen's 1957 Chevy and will feature a number of different exhibits, including one with New York City sites that have musical significance.
revenue streams, attract more philanthropy dollars and entice more people to visit the hall of fame in Cleveland.
Museum officials are counting on the branches to provide new
Another annex being planned for Las Vegas will be located on or near the Strip and will be less focused on rock artifacts and more entertainment oriented, according to Terry Stewart, president and CEO of the rock museum. A city has not been selected for the proposed Middle East branch.
The annexes mark the museum's first effort to build a presence outside of Cleveland. The concept follows a trend set by other museums like the Guggenheim and the Louvre, and comes in a year when the hall has announced some notable changes, including a major interior renovation of its lakefront museum and the return of the induction ceremony to Cleveland in 2009 after more than a decade-long absence.
The New York annex will be open for a minimum of two years, longer if it proves successful. It's backed financially by
Running Subway Productions, a New York-based entertainment company known for "Bodies ... The Exhibition" and the Broadway production of "How the Grinch
Among the planned exhibits is "New York Rocks" which is dedicated to Big Apple artists such as Joel and the Talking Heads' David Byrne.
The exhibit will feature an interactive map of musically significant Manhattan locations such as Studio 54 and the landmarked Chelsea Hotel, whose guests and residents have included many famous artists and musicians including the Sex Pistols' Sid Vicious. The front awning and cash register of the recently closed club CBGB will be on display.
A number of exhibits that appeared in Cleveland will also make their way to New York, beginning with the museum's look at the Clash.
Other exhibits will give visitors a sample of the hall's collection and prod visitors to either visit the
main museum or provide philanthropic support.
For the most part, the rock hall's induction ceremonies are held in New York City.
Attendance at the rock hall was 451,000 in 2007, up 8 percent from 2006, but still way down from the 872,700 who visited in 1996, its first full year in operation.
Admission at the New York annex will be $26 for adults. The Cleveland museum charges $22 for adult admission.
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Actor, comedian Bernie Mac dies at 50
Comedian Bernie Mac died at age 50 from complications of pneumonia. The award-winning star marred in his own TV series, "The Bernie Mac Show," and several movies, including "Ocean's Eleven" and "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle."
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Childress, 30, is his only child, and has a 1-year-old daughter. She said her mother, Rhonda McCullough, and Mac were married for 32 years.
"He was a hard man and he made no apologies for that," Childress said. "When it came to me and my mother and my daughter he was the softest."
"Initially when he was hospitalized we expected him to come back home, but as the weeks went on, I kind of knew," Childress told The Associated Press.
Recently, Mac's brand of comedy caught him some flak when he joked about menopause, sexual infidelity and promiscuity at a July fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Obama's campaign later said the jokes were "inappropriate."
Mac also suffered from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory lung disease, but he had said the condition went into remission in 2005. His publicist, Danica Smith, has said the pneumonia was unrelated to the sarcoidosis.
Mac, born Bernard Jeffrey McCullough in Chicago, got his start doing standup as a child. His successful career included his own Fox television series, "The Bernie Mac Show" and starring roles in "Ocean's Eleven," "Bad Santa," "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" and "Transformers."
Childress said Mac was a loving father, husband and grandfather.
"I kind of figured he was going to get a lot of backlash." Childress said. "Telling that joke at that time probably wasn't the best idea, but that's him."
CHICAGO — Comedian Bernie Mac's family had expected him to fully recover from the bout of pneumonia that put him in a hospital three weeks ago, his daughter said last Sunday.
Childress said Mac had been at Northwestern Memorial Hospital since the middle of July.
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Childress said there was always laughter in their home.
"I think he will always be remembered so one of the original kings of comedy," Childress said. "I think what made him special to people was that even though he was a celebrity he just seemed so down to earth and so much like a part of your family."
She said funeral arrangements were pending.
However, Jeniece Childress said that as time passed she and her mother braced for the possibility that he could die.
BY JENNY SONG ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mac, 50, died Aug. 9 from what his publicist said were complications from pneumonia.
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A graphic novel titled "Presidential Material" features cartoon cover artwork of presidential candidates John. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama. Comic book biographies of McCain and Obama will hit shelves one month before the presidential election.
Candidates get animated
Comic book bios of McCain,Obama hit shelves, cellular telephones before presidential election
BY DAVID TWIDDY ASSOCIATED PRESS
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Trading sound bites for word balloons, the presidential race is coming to the world of comic books this fall.
A month before voters cast ballots, comic book biographies of John McCain and Barack Obama will hit book stores and be available for reading on cell phones.
But don't expect Captain America-versus-Superman hijinks or super-villains threatening the electoral process. The books purport to tell McCain and Obama's true life stories, independently researched and illustrated by a team of veteran writers and artists.
IDW Publishing in San Diego, better known for stories of robots ("The Transformers") and vampires ("30 Days of Night"), commissioned the books with no input
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uClick already sells a service allowing customers to view comics over their phones but the presidential comics will be part of a push to begin allowing customers to order whole books over their phone, said Jeff Webber, vice president of product development.
IDW will sell the books through cell phones with the help of Kansas City-based uClick, the digital arm of newspaper feature distributor Universal Press Syndicate.
"We'll be looking at how many people download to phones versus read them in print, which IDW should find interesting, as well as
"We're not doing anything that is sensational here," said IDW special projects editor Scott Dunbier. "We're sticking to the facts."
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"We're not in the business of doing textbooks, but I think comic books really do have the great potential to inform and teach"
SCOTT DUNBIER IDW special projects editor
biographies have been written before — Marvel Comics had a best-seller in 1982 with a biography of Pope John Paul II. And books intended to be read on cell phones have been gaining popularity worldwide this year and last.
Dunbier said the company is breaking new ground getting out fully researched comics on two candidates before Election Day. And the nontraditional storytelling and visuals of comics may reach some voters more effectively than other types of media can.
which (book) gets download- ed the most," Webber said. "This is a great opportunity to show people that there are comics on the phone."
"We're not in the business of doing textbooks, but I think comic books really do have the great potential to inform and teach," he said.
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behind a smiling McCain looks ominous, while Obama followers are unhappy their candidate's expression is stern.
sions of the books, due out Oct. 8,
online through IDW.
The McCain book, with art by Stephen Thompson, is being written by Andy Helfer, who helped develop the books that later became the movies "Road to Perdition" and "A History of Violence." He also wrote comic-book biographies of Ronald Reagan and Malcolm X.
Obama's biography is being written by novelist Jeff Mariotte, who has done comics on Superman, Spider-Man and Star Trek, and artist Tom Morgan.
J. Scott Campbell, who did both covers, said it was inevitable they would generate controversy. Some online commenters already are saying the reddish tinge to the sky
"I was really trying to go out of my way to be extra sensitive to the fact that I didn't want anything like that (bias) to come across," Campbell said, saying he based his depiction of the candidates on photographs he found on the Internet. "That wasn't the purpose of the book."
"My objectivity is in finding support, multiple kinds of support, for whatever I state," he said, adding that both books will include a full section of annotations. "I'm trying to create — as much as you can in 28 pages — a portrait of a human being. I think it's a balanced portrait of the guy."
Helfer and Mariotte said they consulted the candidates' own books, books by others, news articles and other sources — including a documentary on a disastrous fire aboard the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal in 1967, during the Vietnam War.
Mariotte said he too kept to specific scenes in Obama's life, although he said he sometimes touched on some of the rumors of Obama's past that continue to resonate among his critics.
Helfer said he couldn't help but be moved by McCain's war experience, including being imprisoned by the Vietnamese. But he said he also included less-flattering experiences from McCain's youth as well as political setbacks during his time in Congress.
"I think anyone who reads it will see it's heavy on facts, light on opinion," he said. "I did kind of glance off some of those rumors just to point out this happened and this didn't, but I didn't dwell on those."
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Former Mizzou guard stars in film
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Missouri's Jimmy McKinney screams in frustration after losing a ball out of bounds during Missouri's 2005 loss to Sam Houston State. The former guard has embarked on a second career in acting as the star of "Streetballers," an independent film that mirrors his inner-city upbringing.
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ST. LOUIS — All that drama during the Quin Snyder meltdown at Missouri must have rubbed off on Jimmy McKinney.
The former guard and sometime scapegoat for the teams' woes during those tumultuous years, while refusing to give up on his dream of someday making it to the NBA, has embarked on a second career in acting. He's the star of a well-received independent film called "Streetballers," in a role that plays to his strengths while somewhat mirroring his life as a kid who made it out of a rough inner-city upbringing.
"On the screen with a camera right in your face it's totally different," said McKinney, a four-year starter at Missouri from 2003-06. "But I can be more myself, so that makes it easier."
The film took the second place jury prize at the recent Hollywood Black Film Festival, played to a receptive crowd at the Tivoli Theater in suburban St. Louis last month and will be shown in September at the Urban World Film Festival in New York City. The story centers on two junior college basketball players coming from broken homes in St. Louis, one from the south side and one from the north side, both hoping to use sport as their escape.
"This could be any neighborhood in the U.S," said Matthew Krentz, the film's writer, director and co-star opposite McKinney and Patrick Rooney. "There's hundreds of thousands of athletes who aren't going pro, who are just trying to get scholarships and coping with life on a daily basis.
"And there's a lot of stuff in their environments that are holding them back."
In one scene, McKinney lay on the court the night before the game while getting accustomed to surroundings, a feeling he'll draw on during the pressure of the game.
"No lights on, not a soul in the place," McKinney's character says. "When the game starts, I can always back to the same place when I need to, You dig?"
McKinney, 24, was a standout at Vashon High School before coming to Missouri as a highly heralded do-it-all recruit. Though his college career was somewhat frustrating, he's been successful in three seasons playing professionally in Germany.
McKinney averaged 19 points last season even after rupturing a ligament in his right wrist three months before the season ended. He's needed each offseason to recover from an injury, hampering his NBA hopes, yet remains optimistic.
"I'm one of the fortunate ones," McKinney said. "It's a very slim chance, to make it. And I'm still going to reach my goal."
McKinney refuses to secondguess a Missouri career that after a promising start never seemed to take off.
"I don't regret anything, because I learned from it." McKinney said. "I learned a lot from it. But I don't think of it as a great career, because my standards are real high."
McKinney is part of an all-St. Louis cast in a two-hour movie that was wrapped up in a tidy 28 days but also is the culmination of a marathon effort, given that Krentz began writing five years ago. Krentz, 28, also is a former player at Rockhurst University in Kansas City. He was determined to film in familiar locations.
"It had to be very real and all the characters had to be believable, and that's a difficult thing to find." Krentz said. "I'm sure I wouldn't have found that in Los Angeles, and that's why I stayed in St. Louis to do it."
Krentz is hoping positive exposure will attract a major distributor, although he plans a St. Louis release in any case. McKinney describes the gritty tale, which includes a street match fight and a near lynching and in which Rooney plays Krentz' alcoholic brother just out of jail after a drunk-driving accident that killed a child, as a 90 percent accurate depiction.
Besides co-starring in the film, Rooney, 29, is one of the producers. And like Krentz, who pays the bills as a waiter, he has scraped to get by while following his dream, working as a delivery man and as a YMCA spinning instructor.
"We just get by," Rooney said. "This is what I enjoy doing, being creative."
Several rough spots were edited after the film was screened for several focus groups, and Krentz said he was able to address 95 percent of viewer's concerns and suggestions.
"It got to the point where nothing was funny to me, nothing was cool, because I'd seen it a thousand-plus times," Krentz said. "But you've got to trust your instincts at some point.
"Now, if a studio wants to put up a bunch of money and change a little bit, that would be all right."
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Los Angeles police chief William Bratton speaks at news conference following a hearing about paparazzi behavior July 31 in Los Angeles. Bratton called the hearing a fare. He told KNBC-TV that the city has had fewer problems with paparazzi since Britney Spears, in his words, "started wearing clothes."
LOS ANGELES — The police chief says Britney's been behaving herself, Lindsay may be distracted by love and Paris is — "thank God," in his words — out of town. Others say it's the photographers, not their targets, who should calm down.
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During a marathon complaint session Thursday, those who blame the paparazzi — from city officials to John Mayer — began working on ways to tame them.
"They act like a pack of wolves," Los Angeles City Councilman Dennis Zine said at a meeting he convened Thursday to discuss the issue. "The behavior of the paparazzi is out of control, it needs to be reined in."
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Zine, a former Los Angeles police sergeant, is spearheading the attempt to regulate the paparazzi, a cause he took up when he learned it cost a reported $25,000 for police to accompany Britney Spears to the hospital when she had a breakdown earlier this year.
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The meeting came at a slow period for the paparazzi. Spears' behavior has stabilized under the conservatorship of her father; Lindsay Lohan has been keeping a lower profile and spending considerable time with gal pal Samantha Ronson; and Paris Hilton told AP earlier this year that she was "always traveling."
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"If you notice, since Britney started wearing clothes and behaving; Paris is out of town not bothering anybody anymore, thank God, and evidently, Lindsay Lohan has gone gay, we don't seem to have much of an issue," Bratton told KNBC-TV on Thursday.
Without the paps' top targets in action, Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton dismissed Zine's efforts as a "total waste of time."
He later called a news conference outside police headquarters to clarify his position on the paparazzi. When asked about the Lohan remark — which followed
months of tabloid speculation that Lohan and Ronson, a DJ, are dating — Bratton said his sister is gay and he is a huge proponent of gay rights. Bratton and his wife recently donated money to Equality California, a group that aims to block a ballot measure seeking to ban same-sex marriages.
Across the street in City Hall, Zine led a more than three-hour session on the problems associated with the paparazzi. Speaking to an ad hoc panel of elected officials from area cities and the county sheriff, three entertainers spoke out about their experiences being followed by photographers.
"There are currently on the books sufficient laws, rules and regulations," Bratton said. "(Zine) doesn't know what the hell he is talking about."
Singer-songwriter Mayer said late at night, cars without license
The chief also took several jabs at Zine and said he was wrong that it cost $25,000 to take Spears to the hospital.
plates frequently followed him to his house, not even stopping at red lights.
"You are in danger," Mayer said. "Without know who is following you, you do not know why you are being followed, which brings about a very really possibility of suffering harm."
Mayer was joined by actors Eric Roberts and Milo Ventigilia, who also described negative encounters with the paparazzi. Ventigilia likened some photographers to stalkers and said he had lost confidence in current laws. Roberts said he spent $100,000 defending a lawsuit filed against him by a paparazzo for what he said was a frivolous claim following a shove to the photographer's lens outside a cinema.
Mayer said photographers should be credentialed and regulated, and all paparazzi should be required to display "a big white P" on their vehicle license plate.
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Rapper performs more than crunk
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BY NEKESA MUMBI MOODY ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Lil Jon is known for crunk music, but he's hoping his upcoming album will show that he has a broader appeal.
"It's not just music for the United States; it's world music." Lil Jon sad of his new sound in an intei view.
"I'm touching so many different kinds of people on this album as well as keeping my core fan base at the same time."
Lil Jon, a producer and rapper, best known for hits like "Get Low", Usher's "Yeah" and Ciara's "Goodies," is working on a new album following his release from his longtime label, TVT Records. TVT filed for bankruptcy earlier this year and its assets were purchased by the digital entertainment company The Orchard.
The working title of the CD was
"Crunk Rock," but Lil Jon says he's thinking of changing the title to reflect the album's new direction — and his new freedom.
"It's totally given me a new energy, a new everything," he said of his release. "When you have a lot of stress and negativity around you, when you cut that away, you cleanse."
Lil Jon, 37, said he was looking to incorporate different musical styles in his synth-rap sound, working with dance acts, soca musicians, rock stars and more.
"I want people to say it's a breath of fresh air from everything that's out there," he said. "It's still going to be me and what they know me for, but it's still going to be newer."
But Lil Jon is still searching for a new label to release his record. He said he was open exploring different ways to get his music out — even a Radiohead-type deal in which he would put his music out on the Internet for a pay-what-you-wish system — but he's more interested in a bigger label.
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"With my fan base being broader and larger now," he said. "I'm looking to somewhere where somebody can really take advantage of that and take it to the next level."
Rapper LiJ lonnie arrives at the Samsung GLEAM Private Dinner and party hosted by Pharell in Las Vegas. Lilj hopes his new album will appeal to a wider range of listeners.
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A Los Angeles Superior Court judge settled a dispute between David Hasselhoff and ex-wife Pamela Bach, putting their house on the market for $5.95 million.
Hasselhoff wanted it listed at less than $5 million; Bach thought it was worth nearly $8 million. The 10,000 square-foot spread, including two guest houses, sits on an acre and a half in Encino, Calif.
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Actor David Hasselhoff arrives at the premiere of the film "Step Brothers" in Los Angeles, Tuesday, July 15. Hasselhoff's home in Encino, Calif., is on the market for $9.95 million.
Judge Robert A. Schnider's ruling was publicly released on Aug. 12. Hasselhoff and Bach divorced in 2006 after 16 years of marriage.
Bach had also been seeking to vacate her settlement with the former "Baywatch" star, arguing that he improperly allocated $1 million. Schneider dismissed that claim.
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MIAMI — Paris Hilton didn't do enough pledging for a 2006 sorority comedy, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
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Worldwide Entertainment Group Inc. filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Miami, alleging the 27-year-old model-actress-heirs owes $75,000 in damages for not fulfilling promotional obligations.
Hilton entered into an agreement in 2004 for the production and distribution of the movie "National Lampoon's Pledge This!" according to the lawsuit. Hilton starred in the film and received credit as an executive producer.
The Miami-based concern said it paid Hilton and her company, Paris Hilton Entertainment Inc., $1 million for "Hilton's acting services" and for "reasonable promotion and publicity" for the movie, which was released in 2006 and featured Hilton as the president of an exclusive sorority.
While most famous for her tabloid exploits and reality TV series "The Simple Life,"
Hilton has appeared in the films "Bottoms Up,""The Hottie & the Nottie" and "House of Wax."
She's slated to appear next in the movie musical "Repo! The Genetic Opera" and the tentatively titled MTV reality series "Paris Hilton's My New BF!"
Phone calls and e-mails to Hilton's manager, Jason Moore, were not immediately returned Aug 12.
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SAN DIEGO  Former Blink-182 bassist Mark Hoppus sued a father-and-son business Aug.11, alleging they pocketed his investment in a venture to install automated checkout machines at McDonald's restaurants.
The lawsuit in San Diego Superior Court says Ed Mitchell and
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Hoppus' attorney, Howard King, said in a news release that other investors included golfer Phil Mickelson and former Blink-182 members Tom Delonge and Travis Barker. After Blink-182 disbanded, Hoppus and Barker formed Plus-44.
Jeff Mitchell lined their pockets with more than $1.5 million. It alleges their company — Missicom LLC of San Diego — does not have any contracts to install the machines to take orders and collect payments at McDonald's or anywhere else.
Hoppus, currently a member of the pop-punk band Plus-44, invested $600,000 in Missicom in October 2003, according to the complaint.
The lawsuit says the Mitchells raised nearly $3.4 million and solicited millions of dollars from "prominent, well-known figures."
The lawsuit, alleging gross negligence and breach of fiduciary duty, seeks unspecified damages against Missicom and the Mitchells. It amends a complaint that Hoppus filed in 2006 against former business manager Louis Tommasino over the soured investment. That complaint is scheduled for trial Sept. 8.
Attorneys for Missicom, the Mitchells and Tommasino did not immediately respond to phone messages.
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NEW YORK — Britney Spears tells OK! magazine she's focused on family life these days, looking forward to her two sons meeting their new cousin, daughter of her sister, Jamie Lynn Spears.
"She's going to come out here for the kids' birthdays," Spears, who lives in Beverly Hills, Calif., says of Jamie Lynn in the Aug. 25 issue of OK! "It will be the first time the cousins meet. I'm sure the boys will be like big brothers to Maddie," who was born June 19.
Spears, 26, flaunts her maternal side in photos with sons Sean Preston and Jayden James on the cover and inside pages of the magazine. There are shots of the family in Spears' pool, including one showing the pop star enjoying a swim with her once-estranged mother, Lynne.
After several years of custody battles, estrangements and high-profile meltdowns, Spears reports life with all family members is calm and pleasant.
Her relationship with her mother, soon due out with a book about the family's life, is "really, really good. I went through a stage when I was in high school when it wasn't
so good, but now I'm at a stage where I really appreciate her a lot more."
She says she's also getting along with her father, James, who's been in control of her personal and professional matters as her legal conservator.
As for being an aunt, it did take a little getting used to, says Spears, who was a little "shocked" while visiting her 17-year-old sister and actress Jamie Lynn in the hospital for the birth of her newborn daughter.
"That was special, but it was also strange because she's always been the baby, and now the baby was having a baby," Spears says. "It was mind-boggling. I was shocked a little bit."
Spears appears to have cleaned up her act in recent days. Last month, she settled a long-running custody dispute with ex-husband Kevin Federline, which allows her additional visits with her children.
She also appears fit and confident in promotional ads for the upcoming MTV Video Music Awards — the opposite of her widely panned appearance at last year's ceremony, MTV has said they are in talks to have the singer appear at this year's Sept. 7, ceremony.
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Cast of 1970s 'Dallas' reunites
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DALLAS — J.R., Bobby, Sue Ellen and other members of the Ewing clan are getting back together for a "Dallas" reunion party.
Cast members of the popular prime-time soap opera that ran from 1978-91 will return to the Southfork Ranch north of Dallas on Nov. 8 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the show. Several key actors, including Larry Hagman, Linda Gray and Patrick Duffy, have confirmed they will attend.
Hagman, who played central character J.R. Ewing, a scheming oil baron and cattle rancher; said he was looking forward to the event.
"I may not be able to do the 40th," said Hagman, 76, in an interview with The Dallas Morning News. "Thirty years is pretty good, and the show is still very popular."
The reunion, at the ranch in suburban Parker, north of Dallas, is open to the public. Tickets go on sale Aug. 22 and will cost between $100 and $1,000. The event will include fireworks, a country music concert, a question-and-answer session with the cast and tours of the mansion.
The show is perhaps best known for the "who shot J.R.?" cliffhanger that concluded the 1979-1980 season in which Hagman's character was blasted within an inch of his life.
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Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Susan M. Speer made her ruling Wednesday afternoon based on a
Cusack
The judge made his ruling based on the recommendation of a court-appointed psychiatrist who evaluated Leatherman and said she was "delusional" and "paranoid."
Leatherman sobbed in court and repeatedly talked over Speer, prompting the judge to issue her several warnings. The judge appointed an attorney to represent Leatherman during her trial, which she says can begin Sept. 9.
trial, but could not represent herself.
psychiatrist's evaluation of Emily Leatherman.The 33-year-old was arrested earlier this year outside of the actor's home.
LOS ANGELES — A judge said a woman accused of stalking John Cusack was competent to stand
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This week in history
Monday
Today's highlight in history:
On Aug. 18, 1587, Virginia Dare became the first child of English parents to be born on American soil, on what is now Roanoke Island, N.C. (However, the colony she was born into ended up mysteriously disappearing.)
On this date:
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In 1838, the first marine expedition sponsored by the U.S. government set sail from Hampton Roads, Va., the crews traveled the southern Pacific Ocean, gathering scientific information.
in 1894, Congress established the Bureau of Immigration.
in 1846, U.S. forces led by Gen. Stephen W.Keaney
sold Sequoia Fort S.M.
In 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution which guarantees the right of all American women to vote, was ratified as Tennessee became the 16th state to approve it.
In 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King dedicated the Thousand Islands Bridge connected the United States and Canada.
In 1963, James Meredith became the first black student to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
In 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair ended in Sullivan County, N.Y., with a mid-morning set performed by Jimi Hendrix.
In 1983, Hurricane Alicia slammed into the Texas coast, leaving 21 dead and causing more than $1 billion worth of damage.
In 1976, two U.S. Army officers were killed in Korea's demilitarized zone as a group of North Korean soldiers wielding axes and metal pikes attacked U.S. and South Korean soldiers.
Ten years ago: A day after his grand jury testimony, President Clinton left Washington on a vacation with his family. Meanwhile, some lawmakers called for Clinton to resign in the wake of his admissions concerning Monica Lewinsky, while a spokeswoman for Hillary Rodham Clinton said the first lady "believes in this marriage."
Five years ago: A senior French health official resigned after Frances' health minister admitted that as many as 5,000 people might have died in a heat wave. The Liberian government and rebels signed a peace accord. Islamic extremists freed 14 European tourists six months after they were kidnapped by an al-Qaida-linked group in the Algerian desert.
One year ago: Alarmed tourists Jammed Caribbean
airports for flights out of Hurricane Dean's path as the monster storm began sweeping past the Dominican Republic and Haiti. NASA, meanwhile, ordered space shuttle Endeavour back to Earth a day early out of fear Dean might disrupt flight operations. A seven-alarm fire ripped through an abandoned skyscraper next to ground zero in lower Manhattan, killing two firefighters who responded to the blaze. Michael K. Deaver, a close adviser to President Reagan, died in Bethesda Md., at age 69.
Today's birthdays. Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter is 81. Actor Robert Redford is 71. Actor Christopher Jones is 67. Agent Henry G. Sanders is 66. Rhythm-and-blues singer Sarah Dash (Labelle) is 65. Actor-comedian Martin Mull is 65. Rock musician Dennis Elliott is 65. Come-
dianyl Eanney Boooser is 56. Actor Patrick Swayer is 56. Country singer Steve Wilkinson (The Wilkinsons) is 53. Actor Denis Leary is 51. Actress Madeline Stowe is 50. News anchor Bob Woodruff is 47. Actor Craig Bierko is 43. Rock singer-musician Zac Maloy (The Nixons) is 40. Hop-hip artist Everlast is 39. Rapper Mastilla Killa (Wu-Tang Clan) is 39. Actor Christian Slater is 39. Actor Edward Norton is 39. Actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner is 38. Actress Kaitlin Olson is 33. rock musician Dirk Lance is 32. Actor-comedi-ian Andy Samberg (TV: "Saturday Night Live") is 30. Artist Peter McKenna Penney is 13
Tuesday
Today's highlight in history:
Thought for today: "New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common." — John Locke, English philosopher (1632-1704).
On Aug. 19, 1812, the USS Constitution defeated the British frigate Guerriere off Nova Scotia during the War of 1812.
On this date:
In 1807, Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat arrived in Albany, two days after leaving New York.
In 1934, a plebiscite in Germany approved the
in 1918, "Yip Yip! YipYankh", a musical revue by Irving Berlin featuring Army recruits from Camp Upton in Yankh, N.Y., opened on Broadway.
in 1929, the radio comedy program "Amos n' Andy," starring Freeman Godsen and Charles Correll, made its debut on the NBC Blue Network.
housing of sole executive power in Adonii Hitler. In 1942, during World War II, about 6,000 Canadian and British soldiers launched a disastrous raid against the Germans at Dieppe, France, suffering more than 50 percent casualties.
In 1955, severe flooding in the northeastern U.S. claimed some 200 lives.
In 1960, a tribunal in Moscow convicted American U2 pilot Francis Gay Powers of espionage.
In 1976, President Ford won the Republican presidential nomination at the party's convention in Kansas City. Mo.
In 1991, Soviet hard-liners announced to a shocked world that President Mikhail S. Gorbachev had been removed from power. (The coup collapsed two days later.)
Ten years ago: President Clinton spent a quiet 52nd birthday with his family on Martha's Vineyard, Mass., as controversy continued to swirl over his admissions to a grand jury concerning his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.
Five years ago: A suicide truck bomb struck U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, killing 22, Including the top U.N. envoy, Sergio Vieira de Mello. A suicide bombing of a bus in Jerusalem killed 22 people.
One year ago: Hurricane Dean, which had already killed eight people on its destructive march across the Caribbean, pummeled Jamaica with gusting winds and torrential rains as a Category 4 storm. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner paid an unannounced and highly symbolic visit to Baghdad — the first by
a senior French official since the war started. Elvia Arellano, an illegal immigrant who had taken refuge in a Chicago church to avoid being separated from her U.S.-born son, was deported to Mexico.
Today's birthdays: Actor L.Q. Jones is 81. Author Frank McCounty is 78. Actress Debra Paget is 75. Tennis coach Renee Richards is 74. Actress Diana Muldaur is 70. Rock singer Ian Gillan (Deep Purple) is 63. Former President Clinton is 62. Tipher Gore, wife of former Vice President Al Gore is 60.Actor Gerald McRaven is 60. Rock musician John Deacon (Queen) is 57.Actor Jonathan Frakes is 56.Actor Peter Gallagher is 53.Actor Adam Arkin is 52.Singer-songwriter Gary Chapman is 51.Actor Martin Donovan is 51.Football Hall-of-Famer Anthony Munoz
is 50. Rhythm-and-blues singer Ian Neville is 49.actor Eric Lutes is 46.Actor John Stamos is 45.actress Kyra Sedgwick is 43.Actor Kevin Dillon is 43. country singer Lee Ann Womack is 42. TV report tabulah Soren is 41. country singer-songwriter Mark McGuinn is 40.Rapper Nate Dogge is 39.actor Matthew Perry is 39.Country singer Clay Walker is 39.Rapper Fat Joe is 38.Olympic gold medal tennis player Mary Joe Fernandez is 37.Actress Tracie Thoms is 33.Country singer Risi Palmer is 27.Actress Erika Christensen is 26.Country singer Kai Osborn (SHeDAIYS) is 24.Actor J.Evan Bonifant is 23.Rapper Romey is 19.
Thought for today: "One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it." — Elizabeth Bowen, Irish author (1899-1973).
Wednesday
Today's highlight in history:
On Aug. 20, 1940, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill paid tribute to the Royal Air Force, saying, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
On this date:
In 1833, Benjamin Harrison, 23rd president of the United States, was born in North Bend, Ohio. In 1866, President Andrew Johnson formally declared the Civil War over months.
United States, was born in North Bend, Ohio. In 1866, President Andrew Johnson formally declared the Civil War over, months after fighting had stopped.
in 1914, German forces occupied Brussels, Belgium, during World War I.
In 1920, pioneering American radio station BMK in Detroit ( later WVU) began daily broadcasting.
In 1948, the United States ordered the expulsion of the Soviet Consul General in New York, Jacob Lomakin, accusing him of attempting to return two consular employees to the Soviet Union against their will.
In 1964, President Johnson signed the Economic Opportunity Act, a nearly $1 billion anti-poverty measure.
In 1977, the U.S. launched Voyager 2, an unmanned spacecraft carrying a 12-inch copper phonograph record containing greetings in dozens of languages, samples of music and sounds of nature.
In 1986, postal employee Patrick Henry Sherrill went on a deadly rampage at a post office in Edmond, Okla., shooting 14 fellow workers to death before killing himself.
In 1988, eight British soldiers were killed by an Irish Republican Army land mine that destroyed a military bus near Omagh, County Tyrone in Northern Ireland.
Ten years ago: Retaliating 13 days after the deadly embassy bombings in East Africa, U.S. forces launched cruise missile strikes against alleged terrorist camps in Afghanistan and what was described as a chemical plant in Sudan. Monica Lewinsky went before a grand jury for a second round of explicit testimony about her White House encounters with President Clinton.
Five years ago:The United States won the women's overall team gold medal at the World Gymnastics Championships in Anaheim, Calif.; Romania took the silver medal and Australia, the bronze.
One year ago: Tens of thousands of tourists fled the beaches of the Mayan Rivera in Hurricane Dean roared toward Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. A roadside bomb killed the governor of the predominantly Shiite Muthana province in Iraq. A China Airlines Boeing 737-800 exploded in a fireball at an airport gate in Okinawa seconds after all 157 passengers and eight crew had safely evacuated. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama expressed irritation with the "Obama Gift" Web video, saying it had upset his daughters. He magnate Leona Helmsley died in Greenwich, Conn., at age 87.
Thursday
Today's highlight in history:
Today's birthdays: writer-producer-director Walter Bernstein is 89. U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas is 73. Broadcast journalist Connie Chung is 62. Musician Jimmy Pankow (Chicago) is 61. Rock
singer Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin) is 60. Rock singer Doug Fieger (The Knack) is 64. Country singer Rud Gattilian is 65. Singer-songwriter John Haiti is 64. actor-director Peter Harton is 55. TV weatherman Al Roker is 54. Actory Ajavecone is 53. Actress Joan Allen is 52. TV personality Asha Blake is 47.actor James Matsers is 46. Apper KRS-One is 43. rock singer Fred Durst (Limp Bip) is 38. rock musician Brad Avery is 37. actor Jonathan Ke Quan is 37. rock singer Monique Powell (Save Ferris) is 33.
In the early hours of Aug. 21, 1968, the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations began invading Czechoslovakia to crush the "Prague Spring" liberalization drive led by Alexander Dubcek.
On this date:
In 1911, Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" was stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris. (The painting turned up two years later, in Italy.)
Insurrection in Virginia. (He was later executed.) In 1858, the first of seven debates between Illinois senatorial contenders Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas took place.
hought for today; "I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature; and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, griee, Give, give!" —Abbigail Adams, American first lady (1744-1818).
In 1878, the American Bar Association was founded in Saratoga, N.Y.
In 1944, the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union and China opened talks at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington that helped pave the way for establishment of the United Nations.
In 1940, exiled Communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky died in Mexico City from wounds inflicted by an assassin the day before.
In 1959, Hawaii became the 50th state as President Eisenhower signed an executive order, five months after he'd signed the Hawaiian statebill bill.
In 1983, Philippine opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino Jr., ending a self-imposed exile in the United States, was shot dead moments after stepping off a plane at Manila International Airport.
In 1991, the hard-line coup against Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev collapsed in the face of a popular uprising led by Russian federation President Boris N. Yeltsin.
Ten years ago; Samuel H. Bowers, a 73-year-old former ku Klux Klan leader, was convicted in Hattiesburg, Miss., of ordering a 1966 firebombing that killed civil rights activist Vernon Dahmer. (Bowers died in prison in November 2006 at age 82.)
Today's highlight in history:
In 1846, Gen. Stephen W. Kearny proclaimed all of
New Mexico a state; after the United States.
In 1787, inventor John Fitch demonstrated his steamboat on the Delaware River to delegates from the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
Friday
In 1485, England's King Richard III was killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field. ending the War of the Roses.
On this date:
In 1851, the schooner America outraced more than a dozen British vessels off the English coast to win a trophy that came to be known as the America's Cup.
On Aug. 22, 1968, Pope Paul VI arrived in Bogota, Colombia, for the start of the first papal visit to South America.
Five years ago: Alabama's top judge, Chief Justice Roy Moore, refused to back down in his fight to keep a Ten Commandments monument and lashed out at his colleagues who'd ordered it removed from the rotunda of the state judicial building. Palestinian militants abandoned a two-month-old truce after Israel killed a Hamas leader in a missile attack. The French government acknowledged that as many as 10,000 people might have died in the country's heat wave. Paul Hamm put together a near-perfect routine on the high bar to become the first American man to win the all-around gold medal at the World Championship in
in 1904, Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping was born in Sichuan province.
in 1910, Japan annexed Korea, which remained under Japanese colonial rule until 1945.
In 1956, President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon were nominated for second terms in office by the Republic National Convention in San Francisco.
In 1978, President Kenyatta, a leading figure in Kenya's struggle for independence, died; Vice President Daniel arap Moi was sworn in as acting president.
One year ago, Hurricane Dean struck Mexicos coast as a Category 5 storm. The postwarirajib tribunal former Saddam Hussein aides
In 1985, 55 people died when fire broke out aboard a British Airtours charter jet on a runway at Manchester Airport in England.
In 1989, Black Panther co-founder Huey P. Newton was shot to death in Oakland, Calif. (Gunman Tyrone Robinson was later sentenced to 32 years in life of prison.)
Ten years ago, President Clinton, in his Saturday ad address, announced he had signed an
opened its third proceeding, putting former Defense Minister Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as "Chemical Ali," and 14 other men on trial. Space shuttle Endeavour safely returned to Cape Canavel, Fla.
Today's birthdays: Actress Kim Cattrall is 52. Rock singer Serj Tankian (System of a Down) is 41. Actress Carissa-Anne Moss is 38. Rock musician Liam Howlett (Prodigy) is 37. Actress Alicia Witt is 33. King Kelis is 29. Singer Melissa Schuman is 24.actor Cody Kasch is 21. Actress Hayden Panettiere is 19. Actor RJ MITT (TV; "Breaking Bad") is 16.
radio address, announced he had signed an executive order putting Osama bin Laden's Islamic Army and two of his main lieutenants on a list of terrorist groups.
Five years ago. Alabama's chief justice, Roy Moore, was suspended for his refusal to abuse a federal court order to remove his Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of his courthouse, Texas Gov. Rick Perry pardoned 35 people arrested in the 1999 Tulia drug busts and convicted on the testimony of a lone undercover agent. (The agent, Tom Coleman, was later found guilty of aggravated perjury and sentenced to 10 years probation — he's been appealing his conviction.) In Brazil, a rocket exploded on its launch pad during tests just days before liftoff, killing 21 workers.
Thought for today: "Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues." — Count Basie, American band-leader (born this year in 1904, died 1984).
One year ago: President Bush, addressing the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Kansas City, Mo., offered a fresh endorsement of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, calling him "a good guy, good man with a difficult job." A U.S. helicopter crashed in Iraq, killing 14 soldiers. Hurricane Dean slammed into Mexico for the second time in as many days. The Texas Rangers became the first team in 110 years to score 30 runs in a game, setting an American League record in a 30-3 rout of the Baltimore Orioles in the first game of a doubleheader.
Today's birthdays: Author Ray Bradbury is 88.
Baseball Hall-of-Famer Carl Yatzsemski is 69.
Actress Valerie Harper is 68. Football coach Bill
Parcells is 67. CSN newsman Steve Kroft is 63.
Actress Cindy Williams is 61. Musician David
Marks is 60. Country singer Holly Dunn is 51.
Rock musician Vern Reid is 50. Country singer Ricky Lynn Gregg is 49. Country singer Collin Raye is 48. Actress Regina Taylor is 48. Rock singer Roland Czrabial (Tears For Fears) is 48. rock musician Debbi Peterson (The Bangles) is 47. rock musician Gary Lee Corner (Screaming Trees) is 46. Singer Tori Amos is 45. country singer Mila Mesa is 45. Rhythm-and-blue musician James DeBarge is 45. tennis player Wats Miller is 44. Rapper GZA/The Genius is 42. Actor Ty Burrell is 41. Actor Rick Yune is 37. rock musician Paul Doucette (Matchbox Twenty) is 36. Rap-reggae singer Beenie Man is 35. Singer Howie Dorough (Backstreet Boys) is 35. Actress Leigh Green is 34. Rock musician Jef Stinco (Simple Plan) is 30. Actress Aya Sumik (TV: "Numbars") is 28.
Thought for today: "If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth." — Logan Pearls Smith, Anglo-American essayist (1865-1946).
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To kick off the year as a Jayhawk. join KU Hillel and the KU Alumni Association for the inaugural Crimson and Blue Shabbat. Services will be held as usual at 6 p.m. in the Kansas Union, but we are going to spread the crimson and blue spirit at the Adams Alumni Center with free dinner and lots of giveaways! Rock Chalk!
Questions? Contact Stefani Gerson (sgerson@kualumni.org, 785-864-4760) or Jay Lewis (jlewis@kuhillel.org, 785-749-5397)
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6 Campus traditions 35 Study abroad
9 Refund checks 36 ECM
11 Football facilities 38 EGARC
13 Greek life 40 New basketball players
14 Withdrawal 46 Best of campus
15 Organizations 46 Beauty pageants
17 Hawk week 47 Jaybowl
18 Intramural sports 48 Bars
20 Religious groups 50 Entertainment
21 Steam whistle 51 Restaurant guide
22 Rec center 52 New restaurants
25 Budget 53 Voting
25 Student senate 54 Food prices
27 Boathouse 55 Drinking consequence:
29 Fire alarms 56 Kansas City
30 International students 59 Vodka
31 Beak-em bucks 59 Video games
32 Residence halls 61 Freshmen
33 Campus jobs 62 GLBTIQ community
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Staying healthy will help you meet your goals this semester. You've got a partner in Student Health Services.
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You need to be healthy in order to handle your busy schedule.That's why Student Health Services makes it easier for you to achieve and maintain your health goals by being open 7 days a week with a convenient location right on campus.
Most office visits are already prepaid by the required campus fees, which means your wallet will thank you. And, with a highly qualified staff of medical professionals that specializes in college health, you'll have the peace of mind knowing your health care needs will be met.
Sure, we can handle sore throats and coughs, but did you know we also have a Pharmacy that's open 7 days a week, physical therapy services and a travel clinic? We're here to help, so call 785.864.9507 to make an appointment when you need us.
Student Health Services...because healthy living is vital to success.
Our comprehensive list of services include:
- Allergy Injection Clinic
- General Medicine
- Gynecology
- Immunization & Vaccination Services
- Laboratory & Testing Services
- Nutrition Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Radiology
- Physical Therapy
- Travel Care & Consultation
Get healthy living tips at hawkhealth.ku.edu!
- Urgent Care Clinic
- Wellness Resource Center, offering CPR classes and Smoking Cessation programs
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Buses are free for students with a KUID and the cost is compensated for by the $64 each student pays in student fees.
BY KRISTIN HOPPA
khoppa@kansan.com
The University Transit Commission is on a roll with new changes for the KU on Wheels bus system this fall.
When classes resume Thursday, students can expect to see changes when it comes to their commute around campus.
On campus, all students, faculty, staff and retirees may ride any bus for free. Off campus, riders will only need to show their valid KUID to board. Passengers without a KUID will pay $1 to ride.
This decision came after the Spring 2008 election when students passed the fare-free bus system by a 64 percent margin.
Although students with a valid KUID will no longer be required to pay the one-dollar fee to board a bus, each student pays $64 per semester in student fees whether they ride the bus or not.
Danny Kaiser, assistant director of Parking and Transit, said the fees took care of operational and bus purchasing costs. Kaiser said operational costs increased $16 from last year, but the bus purchasing cost remained the same.
An additional $10 fee included in the required campus fees will support the SafeRide and SafeBus system.
Route changes and names of
routes will also start in August. A two-bus route will operate to Sixth and Crestline streets as well as a two-bus Park and Ride addition that will operate during peak demand.
Another new route will merge the 23rd and
Bus Route Name Changes for 2008-2009
- Naismith/Oliver merger with 23rd and Louisiana — Stewart/Louisiana
* Sixth and Crestline — Sixth Via Emery
* 15th and Crestline — Bob Billings & Kasold
* 24th & Ridgecourt — 25th & Melrose
Louisiana route with the Naismith/ Oliver stop. The new service will provide both stops with a 30-minute stop frequency.
New Park & Ride Stop at Daisy Hill
Southwest side of Engel and Irving Hill Roads
Detours
Because of construction, southbound buses to the Kansas Union will be redirected up Mississippi Street. Northbound buses will stop at the Spencer Museum of Art, north of the museum. JRP circulator will be redirected through Lot 91 down by the Memorial Stadium.
Student fees covered operational and bus purchasing costs. The operational costs increased $16 for last year, but bus purchasing cost remained the same.
For additional updates, check http://www.parkandride. ku.edu/
The Night Campus Express route willbe removed duringthe2008-2009
school year. Students must use Park and Ride for service to and from Daisy Hill.
Students who use the Park & Ride service will also experience new changes.
Park & Ride route times changed for
the fall semester, ranging wait times between bus stops.
Park & Ride permits prices were lowered to $90 per year starting
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in the fall. The permit will no longer include a bus pass since KU on Wheels buses will be free with a valid KUID.
Derek Meier, KU on Wheels student transportation coordinator, said that all the changes would be to the benefit of students.
"The goal of KU on Wheels will remain to get students to and from class effectively and efficiently," Meier said.
Valid KUID holders will also be able to travel around town for free in August.
The Lawrence City Commission unanimously agreed June 24 to approve a proposal that will allow students, faculty and staff to ride the Lawrence Public Transit, or the T, for free if they show a KUID.
The new policy will also allow city residents who purchased a T bus pass to ride the University buses for no fare.
Cliff Galante, Lawrence Public Transit Administrator who has been working closely with University officials during the last three years, said working together, the city and University will be able to offer more public transportation options to students and T riders.
"I'm sure that cash strapped students that may have trouble paying to put gas in their cars will find the newly adopted policy between the city and University to be beneficial," Galante said.
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Campus traditions unify Jayhawk mindset
BY REBEKAH SCAPERLANDA
rscaperlanda@kansan.com
It's that time again. You're standing before a game and the people next to you put their arms around you. No, they're not being extra friendly because of pregame activities. It's time to sing the Alma Mater. If this is one of the University's traditions you have yet to learn, you're in luck, because the lyrics are displayed on the big screen. There are many other KU traditions for students to learn, and whether the history behind them is folklore or fact, it's important to familiarize yourself with them.
Jennifer Jackson Sanner, senior vice president for communications of the KU Alumni Association, said learning KU traditions was like learning how Grandma and Grandpa met: it's part of your KU family history.
'I'm a Jayhawk'
"Learning the origins of our traditions is just as important as the knowing the lore of your own family," Sanner said. "The Jayhawk family prides itself on its history and on the traditions that new generations add to the KU story."
CHORUS:
Talk about the Sooners The Cowboys and the Buffs, Talk about the Tiger and his tail, Talk about the Wildcats, and those Cornhuskin' boys. But I'm the bird to make em weep and wail.
KU Info and KU Alumni
'Cause I'm a Jay, Jay, Jay, Jay, Jay, Jayhawk,
Fountain
Up at Lawrence on the Kaw 'Cause I'm a Jay, Jay,
Jay, Jay, Jayhawk,
With a sis-boom, hip hoorah.
Got a bill that's big enough
To twist the Tiger's tail
Husk some corn and listen
To the Cornhusker's wail-
'Cause I'm a Jay, Jay,
Jay, Jay, Jayhawk,
Riding on a Kansas gale.
Association helped make the stories behind these traditions as clear as the water in the Chi Omega fountain.
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Students are allowed to swim and wade in the Chi Omega fountain, which was a gift from Chi Omega sorority in 1955. The tradition of swimming in the fountain was spread by word of mouth.
FIGHT SONG
Stadium and the Kansas Union as well as World War I memorials.
According to KU Info, the KU fight song "I'm a Jayhawk," was written by George "Dumpy" Bowles in 1912. Bowles, a student with the class of 1892, produced musicals for the University. In 1912 "I'm a Jayhawk" appeared in one of Bowles' shows.
The song was dormant until 1920 when the song added to the fund raising efforts for the Million Dollar Drive, which funded both Memorial
Fifty years later, the clapping began. Clapping along to the fight song began as a cheer that KU flag corps created. Apparently it took several years to catch on, but now students and alumni participate in the clap at every game.
If you're not exactly clapping coordinated, listen to an mp3 of the fight song on the KU Info Web site and practice before a game. Visit www.kuinfo.ku.edu, and search "clap."
SWIMMING IN THE CHI OMEGA FOUNTAIN
This refreshing tradition may not be found on KU Web sites or info pages. KU Info said the unofficial
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The Chi Omega Fountain itself was a gift from the Chi Omega Sorority in 1955. KU Info said the fountain holds 8,500 gallons of water. A KU tour brochure said "since its installation it has been an irresistible Mecca for youthful springtime frivolity."
"After we beat North Carolina during march madness, my friends and I were walking home from Allen Fieldhouse," said Jenny Mohwinkle, Topeka senior. "There were a whole bunch of people splashing around in the fountain. I definitely think it's a KU tradition worth taking part in."
WALKING THROUGH THE CAMPANILE
Curtis Marsh, KU Info program director, said walking through the Campanile was one of the traditions where the facts got a little fuzzy. The first commencement for the University was in 1873, but they didn't start walking down the hill until 1924. Walking down the hill for graduation is a tradition from
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when the classes graduating were much smaller. He said the' students used to walk through campus.
The walk through the Campanile started a little later. The Campanile was dedicated as a war memorial in 1951. Marsh said it was very likely that soon after the campanile was built, the tradition of walking through started. It's been a unique tradition for KU students since. KU Info does say that for College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and graduate students, it takes about 300 steps to make it from the entrance of Campanile to the bottom of the
hill where the two trails combine to enter the stadium.
Graduates from the professional schools have 28 stairs at the beginning of their walk making about 330 steps total for them. Rumor has it that if you walk through the Campanile before your commencement, you won't make it to graduation. So undergraduates, steer clear.
Jackson Sanner of the KU alumni association said that walking through the campanile at Commencement was KU's most cherished tradition, because KU grads for generations
Alma Mater, 'Crimson and the Blue'
Far above the golden valley Glorious to view, Stands our noble Alma Mater, Towering toward the blue. CHORUS: Lift the chorus ever onward, Crimson and the blue Hail to thee, our Alma Mater Hail to old KU.
Far above the distant humming Of the busy town, Reared against the dome of heaven. Looks she proudly down.
Greet we then our foster mother, Noble friend so true, We will ever sing her praises, Hail to old KU.
(REPEAT CHORUS)
(REPEAT CHORUS)
have looked forward to this rite of passage and no other school boasts such an unusual ceremony. Walking down the Hill connects us all.
"At KU, people don't ask whether you've graduated, but whether
(Follow with Rock Chalk Chant)
you've walked down the Hill," said Stefani Gerson, coordinator of student programs for KU Alumni Association and a two-time KU graduate. "The phrase is part of our Jayhawk language."
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ALMA MATER AND ROCK CHALK CHANT
KU Info said Professor George Barlow Penny wanted the Glee and Mandolin Club to sing a school song in 1891. He didn't find a song that pleased him until right before leaving on tour, when he thought of Cornell's "Far Above Cayuga's Waters." Barlow Penny changed some of the words to fit the University, taught it to the glee club and the campus has been singing our alma mater, "Crimson and the Blue," ever since.
Following singing of the alma mater at games is the Rock Chalk Chant, the chant that President Teddy Roosevelt called the greatest college chant he had ever heard.
Although it's now gained in popularity, the chant started in 1886 when the KU science club officially adopted it. As the story goes, chemistry professor E.H.S. Bailey and some of his colleagues were on a train back to Lawrence returning from a conference. They were
discussing the need for a "good, rousing yell," and the train wheels suggested a nice rhythm.
The first version of the chant was yelling "Rah, Rah, Jayhawk KU," three times. An English professor later suggested "Rock Chalk" in honor of the limestone found on Mount Oread. The rest is history.
"We're lucky to have game day traditions that provide an adrenaline rush many times throughout the year," Sanner said. "The Rock Chalk Chant can give you goose bumps no matter what the season."
WAVING THE WHEAT
Marsh said KU Info had done a lot of digging and couldn't find the date that this tradition began, but there was evidence that it had been happening since the late 1920s.
Regardless of the original date, students "wave the wheat," or wave their arms over their heads, when scores are made during football games, when an opponent's player fouls out during a basketball game, and at the end of victories in both football or basketball. The sea of students and alumni waving with their arms in the air look like a field of wheat waving in the wind.
— Edited by Sachiko Miyakawa
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A KU band leader pumps up the KU band and students during a football game. The band plays the KU fight song to invigorate the crowd and keep up Javhawk spirit.
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pick up refund checks from their tuition. Starting this fall, refunds will either be directly deposited into students' bank accounts or mailed to them.
Jeanne Rooney, associate comptroller, said the bur-sar's office had already seen a
She said last spring about 700 students picked up checks, com-
decrease in the number of students who were picking up checks.
"We thought the students were saying, 'We want to do direct deposit,' Rooney said. "The money
pared to 2,200 students two years ago. She said about 7,000 total students received refund checks
"We think the students are just telling us,'Just give us the money the fastest way possible."
JEANNE ROONEY associate comptroller
soon as their refund is calculated. Rooney said that in the past when students didn't pick up their checks, the checks weren't mailed out until several days later.
instantaneously hits your bank account, which is the direction we want students to go because you directly get your money."
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that tasia Rayton, Austin, Texas,
senior, will receive a refund check.
"We thought, let's go ahead and speed the whole process up for everybody," Rooney said. "We think the students are just telling us, 'Just give us the money the fastest way possible.'"
"I don't think people will mind as long as their money is getting to them."
She said she set up a direct deposit account and wouldn't have picked up
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She said she thought students wouldn't care about not being able to pick up their check.
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New sports complex upsizes Kansas
The University's new Anderson Family Football Complex provides some clout against competing schools such as Kansas State and Oklahoma.
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MIDDLE SCHOOL CENTER
Coach Mark Mangino's new office overlooks Memorial Stadium. He can control all of the electronic features of the office from his desk.
Video taken from the practice fields or Memorial Stadium can be streamed directly back to these screens. This room also controls the complex's 58 high-definition flat-screen televisions.
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The Kansas football team just couldn't keep up with its Big 12 Conference competitors for more than a decade.
The Jayhawks had never put together a winning conference record since the Big 12's inception in 1996 until last season. But Kansas' staunch competition off the field was just as significant.
Nearby universities such as Kansas State and Oklahoma could lure recruits to their programs by showing off multi-million dollar football facilities. Kansas didn't have that luxury.
Until now. The $33 million, 80,000 square-foot Anderson Family Football Complex, where the team just moved into two weeks ago, changes everything. Associate Athletics Director Chris Howard said Kansas' football facility was now one of the two best
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"We will not lose a recruit because of facilities." Howard said.
The athletics department did its best to make sure of that. The room
straight ahead from the front door is dedicated to making sure recruits enjoy their visits to Memorial Stadium on game days.
It's loaded with a pull-down projection screen television, plaques of the 11 Jayhawk All-Americans and a balcony overlooking Kivisto Field.
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And it certainly contains the technology to rival any other football teams facility. Fifty-eight highdefinition flat-screen televisions are sprinkled throughout the facility.
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From the video room, a coordinator can type in a message that will scroll across all 58 TVs. The same room contains piles of video recording equipment, making it easy to compile film scouting upcoming opponents for all of the v
for all of the players.
of the necessary equipment to treat injuries on the spot.
"If it's that severe of an injury, we can take them straight to the X-ray room," Associate Athletics Director Brad Nachtigal said.
The technological trend continues with workout options in the facility. The athletics department purchased the most advanced hydrotherapy pool
"People don't realize how good of a stadium we have. Now, this last piece is really going to put us in a whole new hemisphere."
LEW PERKINS Kansas Athletics Director
But recruits might be most impressed by the player's lounge on the lower level. It's a living-room sized area dedicated solely to the players. Three 35-inch flat screen televisions are mounted on the wall and accompanied by game systems.
Parents of the recruits don't have to worry about their children being hauled off to a hospital in case of an injury. The complex contains all
in the world where players can work out with adjustable water and current levels. If the player is rehabbing from an injury, the pool can film his workout so a trainer can make sure recovering is going according to plan.
Perkins thinks the combination of the atmosphere at Memorial Stadium during game days and the newest football facility in the nation makes Kansas an attractive destination for high school football players.
"People don't realize how good of a stadium we have," Perkins said. "Now, this last piece is really going to put us in a whole new hemisphere."
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Greek community connects students with traditions, people
The greek community offers tradition and opportunities for students to gain leadership experience and participate in service learning.
PARKSIDE THEATRE
Members of the greek community perform in the annual Rock Chalk Revue, a large fundraiser opportunity on campus. Members of fraternities and sororities team up to put on skits in a competition at the Lied Center.
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Freshmen and transfer students have multiple opportunities to get involved in campus life. Joining a fraternity or sorority is one of the most popular ways for new students to immerse themselves in the tradition and school spirit on campus.
Going Greek at the University is a choice made by roughly one in every five students on campus.
The Greek system is made up of three governing bodies: Interfraternity Council (IFC), which oversees fraternities, National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC), which consists of the historical African-American fraternities and sororites, and Panhellenic Association (PHA), which oversees the sororites.
Male students can choose from 25 fraternities, 21 IFC and 4 NPHC, and female students can choose from 16 sororities, 13 PHA and 3 NPHC.
The Greek community began at the University in 1873 when Beta Theta Pi Fraternity and Pi Beta Phi Sorority opened their doors.
During the last 135 years, the Greek community has been an agent of service, leadership and school
spirit on campus.
Each house has a philanthropy chairperson, who organizes community service projects to help the Lawrence and the University communities. Greek houses also play a major role in the annual homecoming parade by chalking campus sidewalks and building floats for the parade.
These projects serve as opportunities for Greek members to show leadership skills and demonstrate their commitment to the University.
"I learned so many invaluable lessons participating in Greek projects like Rock Chalk Revue and DG Anchor Splash," said Lindsay Fetter, St. Louis senior, and former member of Delta Gamma.
Fetter said Greek leadership experiences also helped her while interviewing for real world jobs.
The Greek community also provides students a chance to apply their competitive spirit through intramural sports.
"For a guy like me who misses high school sports, inter-fraternity competition is the next best thing," said Jake Finnicum, Omaha senior.
These extracurricular activities are advantages to joining a fraternity or sorority, but the most lasting experience that truly satisfies the community's members are the lifelong bonds that students make while living in the houses.
"The friends I made at Delta Gamma are by the most important thing I will take away from living in a sorority," Fetter said.
Formal rush for fraternities has already taken place, but the Interfraternity Council sponsors informal rush throughout the fall semester.
The Panhellenic Association's formal recruitment for sororites began from August 15. The eight-day process will give women a chance to visit each house and meet the women of each sorority.
Students interested in National Pan-Hellenic Council fraternities and sororities can participate in informal recruitment throughout the entire year.
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Students will no longer need permission from their professors to withdraw from a class;'WF'and'WP' marks will also be replaced with a W'mark.
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dsampat@kansan.com
This year, students who want to drop a class will see a different mark on their transcripts and won't have to get their instructor's permission.
University Senate passed a new withdrawal policy, which will be implemented in the fall. Instead of receiving a "WF," withdrawn passing, or a "WF," withdrawn failing, after students drop a class, they will simply receive a "W," withdrawn. Also, students will no longer be required to obtain a signature to drop a class from their instructor. Instead, they must follow the drop procedures required by the specific school in which they are enrolled.
Joan Hahn, assistant registrar at the Office of the University Registrar, said when a student dropped a class, they automatically received a "W." She said she thought students would benefit from the new policy because it would provide consistency in marks and because it eliminated the use of discretion by the instructor.
"It provides more opportunity for equity for the students," Hahn said.
Rick Levy, former president of Faculty Senate, said the Academic Policies and Procedures Committee recommended the change of policy for two reasons. He said instructors had no consistent understanding of what warranted a "WF" or "WP" mark. For example, some instructors would give students a "WF" if they never came to class, even if they meant to drop the class but just forgot to do so.
"The intention was not to penalize students but help students that withdrew." Levy said.
Another reason for the revision was the hassle of obtaining instructors' signatures to drop a course. Levy said that many times students
were waiting until the last minute to drop a course and were unable to get a signature by the deadline.
"Students weren't necessarily planning far enough in advance," Levy said. "They didn't know whether the faculty member was going to be in town or out of town."
Marianne Berry, University Senate president, said she didn't have a strong opinion about whether to change the policy, but she thought the new policy would make the withdrawal process more convenient for students because they didn't have to obtain an instructor's permission to drop a class.
"It makes it more straightforward," Berry said. "They could do it more quickly and be in charge of their own destiny."
Levy said the original proposal had to be reworded to clarify ambiguities. The revisions to the proposal clarified that a mark of "W" would not be included in a student's grade point average, that neither an instructor nor a school could withhold a student's withdrawal in the second withdrawal period, and that it was the student's responsibility to complete the withdrawal procedures of his or her school.
"None of those changes were actual changes to the policy," Levy said. "Those were all things that were understood but not explicit."
Geraldo de Sousa, chair of Academic Policies and Procedures, said University Senate showed widespread support for the policy change.
"The new policy greatly simplifies the course withdrawal process," he said.
The withdrawal policy affects students who drop a class in the second withdrawal period, which is the 16th though the 60th instructional day of the semester.
— Edited by Mandy Earles
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Organizations offer unique experiences
YOGA
Lindsay Major, Chicago, Ill. senior, practices yoga with the Yoga Club in the Burge Union. Yoga Club offers free yoga every Tuesday for students who are interested.
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Student can get involved with more than 500 groups on campus this year.
BY SACHIKO MIYAKAWA
smiyakawa@kansan.com
Students can make friends, experience diversity and gain leadership skills through extracurricular activities.
Aaron Quisenberry, associate director of Student Involvement and Leadership Center, said 560 student groups registered at the center last year.
"Campus is a big place and some students are overwhelmed," Quisenberry said. "The big campus can start to become manageable if you participate in a student group. It makes you feel like you belong here."
Quisenberry said students could talk to representatives of student
Quisenberry said the center's Web site would give an overview of KU student groups and guide students to their best matched group, based on their interests, majors and goals. For example, if a student is interested in campus political organizations, the student could go to the directory of student organizations and try the category search. This would narrow down the student's options.
groups during Hawk Week.
One hundred of the groups will participate in two information fairs during the week.
One is scheduled on Aug. 19 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. in front of Wescoe Hall.
The other is on Aug. 22 from
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Kansas Union. He said any student would be welcome to the fairs.
The 560 available groups cover a variety of topics, from dance to outdoor activities to cultural activities.
The Ball Room Dance Club offers beginner level and intermediate level classes for dances like the salsa. Members will pay $30 a semester and take up to 15 lessons.
AARON QUISEBNERRY Associate director of SILC
Voss said ball dance could be
"The big campus can start to become manageable if you participate in a student group."
"We don't do competition," Voss said. "We just promote ball dance and have a fun time."
the waltz and tango.
Kellen Voss Shawnee graduate student and president of the club, said beginners were always welcome and could participate in either the salsa lesson or the beginners' lesson, which features different forms of dances like
athletic and a good workout.
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Brandon Hidaka, Overland Park senior and president, teaches Yoga in the Burge Union once a week for free. He started the Yoga Club a year and half ago to increase the awareness of Yoga on campus.
Hidaka said Yoga would improve health through a blend of breathing and stretching. It has also calming effect and relives stress.
Groups like the Nontraditional Student Foundation connect students who share similar interests or backgrounds.
Trish Jackson, Sterling graduate student, finds it hard to split time between raising her son and socializing with her classmates. Although
"People in all shapes and sizes can join. Whether you are flexible or strong doesn't matter," he said. "It improves what you already have."
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Jackson became the president of the Nontraditional Student Foundation, hoping to create more connections and communication among members who have different backgrounds, including veterans, parents and older students.
two information fairs every year and recruits members.
Jackson said she planned to organize more social events to encourage this year. She said meeting and talking people who shared similar experiences could make them feel connected to campus and encouraging for their academics.
The foundation serves as a repository of information for nontraditional students on campus. It holds
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University ranks in top five in 12 out of 27 categories
BY DEEPA SAMPAT dsampat@kansan.com
The teaching environment and sense of pride toward the institution were two of the reasons the University was named one of the "Great Colleges to Work For" by the Chronicle of Higher Education.
"This recognition confirms what we know — KU is a great place to be," Chancellor Robert Hemenway said in a statement. "And it is a tribute to our community of students, faculty and staff who create and
support the KU environment."
H e l e n Alexander, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, was featured on the cover of the magazine, which came out July 14. She said the magazine was looking through file
"Honestly, I have no special involvement in the story," she said. "I do think KU is a great pace to work and is deserving."
"I think the size of the town and the sense of community helps you integrate your personal life and professional life," Klayder said.
"This recognition confirms what we know KU is a great place to be."
Alexander cited the University's faculty, staff, students and facility as top reasons she liked working for
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ROBERT HEMENWAY Chancellor
"I've carved out a niche of what I've really liked to do and received complete support from
After looking at the criteria for the survey, Mary Klayder, University honors lecturer, wasn't surprised that the University made the list.
the University.
Klayder said she also thought that the University let faculty explore their interests.
the University," she said, noting that she had created two study abroad programs and was encouraged by the University to do so. "If something strikes your fancy there seems to be a lot of support."
The survey
was based on responses of more than 15,000 administrators, faculty and staff members of 89 universities. The University was named top five in 12 out of 27 categories for large universities.
- Edited by Matt Hirschfeld
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A week of Jayhawk fun awaits everyone Ice cream socials, movies, laus, theater auditions and poster sales are all parts of Hawk Week.
BY BRYAN CISLER bcisler@kansan.com
MONDAY, AUGUST 18:
Ice Cream Social: From 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. in front of the Alumni Center enjoy free ice cream with other ice cream enthusiasts. Students also get the opportunity to tour the Alumni Center.
Traditions Night: Learn how to wave the wheat after KU touchdowns, because you will more than likely be doing it a lot at the K-State game this year.
A special twist this year will be a concert afterwards on top of the hill. SUA worker Lauren Lakebrink thinks the concert will be a memorable moment for students.
"Walking up the hill will be a significant time to start their careers at KU as it will be when they walk down the hill four years later for graduation." Lakebrink said.
Personal class schedules will be available Monday through Wednesday.
Personal class schedule tours: Current students will show incoming freshmen and new transfer students how to get around campus by bus and how to get to classes and between
buildings in the most efficient ways possible.
On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, you take your schedule to the bronze Jayhawk in front of Strong Hall in the center of Jayhawk Boulevard, and the department of New Student
"While a lot of people go because they want to win stuff, I just want to catch up with old friends."
TUESDAY, AUGUST 19:
Beach 'n' Boulevard featuring Info Fair: Now that you have been away from home for several days now,
Orientation will lead the tours, which begin at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. each day.
CARA LAUSTER Overland Park sophomore
Night on the Hill concert: Ben Kweller headlines this free event on Campinle Hill after Traditions Night in Memorial Stadium. The estimated start time is 9 p.m. and the concert will wrap up at 10:30.
the next step is to get involved. More then 400 student groups will be on the lawn in front of Strong Hall SUA worker Susan Hoffman said the fair was a good opportunity for college students to take advantage of what the University has
to offer.
"You don't want to be out of college and think 'Wow, I wish I would have gone to that,'" Hoffman said.
If you feel overwhelmed by the numerous people trying to recruit you to their organization, take a break and head to Wescoe Beach
where you will find volleyball, badminton and sno cones.
Red Dog's Dog Days: Lawrence community members gather at Memorial Stadium at 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday for hour-long workouts. Every person works out at his or her own level and speed. You must sign a waiver in order to participate, but the workouts are free.
Hawk Link Block Party: Gather on Wescoe Beach from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. for a hoppin' mix of R&B, Hip-Hop, Latin, and Reggaeton music. Win free giveaways and learn about Hawk Link, a multicultural retention program.
Rock-a-Hawk: To continue the good times into the morning hours, head over to the Visitor Center, attached to Templin Hall, from 10 p.m. to 12 a.m for a dance party with music, snacks and games.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20:
University Theater Rally: Whether
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 21:
First day of school: Get to class! The fall semester gets under way with the first two days of class this week before the usual two-day weekend gives students an immediate break before entering the grind of the semester.
Hawk Week Film: Back to the Future — If you still haven't found a way to break the ice with your roommate, head to the Spencer Museum of Art auditorium at 7:00 p.m. for a free showing of Back to the Future, because if your roommate can't respect Marty McFly and Doc Brown, then maybe its time to think about switching rooms.
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BY JESSE TEMPLE jtemple@kansan.com
You don't have to be a varsity athlete to participate in competitive sports at the University. That's because the University offers plenty of options for students at the intramural sports level.
Brian Van Horn, Overland Park sophomore, goes in for a layup during a championship game at Allen Fieldhouse. The University offers multiple intramural team and individual sports for students.
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Last year, 11 team sports and nine individual sports - including tennis, racquetball, table tennis and golf were offered during the course of the fall and spring semesters.
"It is a chance to meet new people and try new things," said Ben Prahl, graduate assistant for intramural sports at KU. "We try to offer at least one thing that appeals to everyone."
Prahl said that about 11,000 students participated in intramural sports at the University during the 2007-2008 school year, and he was hoping to see that number increase this year.
So is new intramural sports coordinator Matt Beck, who held the same position at Oklahoma State before coming to Kansas.
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One way Beck hopes to drive up participation is by looking into the possibility of getting lights and adding field turf to the Shenk Complex at 23rd and Iowa streets. The outdoor venue gives priority to KU student sporting events, and lights would allow for more teams to participate in intramurals at night.
In order to sign up for an intramural sport, students must follow the steps online. The captain of each team must also agree to pay a basic entry fee. For the bigger sports, such as flag football, soccer and basketball, that fee is $20, which Beck said
Beck said he was working on a way to increase participation numbers at Kansas. He said Oklahoma State's numbers were about 5,000 more than Kansas.
was comparable to other schools. He said Ohio State and Louisiana State even charged upwards of $100 per team for basketball. Smaller sports such as sand volleyball, dodgeball and 3-on-3 soccer cost $10 per team at the University.
But no intramural sport is more popular than basketball at Kansas. Beck said there were 230 teams that competed in basketball last season, which was 120 more teams than the second most popular sport, flag football. The intramural program offers smaller basketball tournaments in the fall and a larger league during the spring.
"Basketball is the biggest thing," Beck said. "It's one thing that I really enjoy here. All games have three officials per court. No other school in the country can claim that because they can't afford to. But KU has put an importance on basketball here."
Mark Capo-lagli, 2006 graduate participated in intramural basketball for four seasons at the University and said he enjoyed his experience.
The highlight came when he got to play in Allen Fieldhouse, the site of all intramural basketball championship games.
"If you can make Allen Fieldhouse, it's like a whole new experience," Capodagli said. "You feel like a KU star."
Brittney Swift, Oklahoma City, Okla. senior, has played on six intramural basketball teams in her first three years at KU — three on a co-ed team and three on an all-girls squad — and she said she had been to the finals in Allen Fieldhouse all six times.
Swift said she played on intramural basketball teams with friends at both Oklahoma and Oklahoma State, but nothing compared to Kansas.
"it's not as big as it is here," Swift said. "The competition here is really
good, and I think people take it to another level. The whole basketball tradition here is pretty important, even in intramurals."
Beck said that despite basketball's popularity at the intramural level at the University, he wanted students to know that there were many more
options — and he was trying to bring in even more.
"Some people like playing football, air hockey, cards, chess or video games," Beck said. "We want to be able to market to everybody. We want to be activities and not just sports."
Capodagli said the key to getting
involved in any intramural sport was being organized.
"Make sure you've got everything ready for sign-up," he said. "It goes faster than you think, and sometimes you get left out."
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BY GRETCHEN GIER
ggier@kansan.com
As part of their back-to-school preparations, religious organizations sent e-mails and posted Facebook messages to potential synagogue
and church members. Cultivating a relationship with students before August is as important as welcome barbecues and Sunday School.
Jay Lewis, executive director of KU Hillel, said his goal was to contact 200
ence at Naismith Hall, where many Jewish students live, during move-in and a welcome back BBQ on traditions night.
"Hawk Week culminates in a crimson and blue Chabad, a big kickoff dinner, to welcome and connect
"We want to make the transition from their home communities to the KU community as seamless as we can."
JAY LEWIS
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Jewish freshmen during the summer via e-mail and Facebook.
"We want to make the transition from their home communities to the KU community as seamless as we can." Lewis said.
Hillel will also have a strong pres-
freshmen to the KU community. Lewis said.
Beseau said that St. Lawrence reached out to incoming freshmen through Facebook, and that the Catholic Center would be present at orientation.
Father Steve Beseau, director of St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center, said he wanted to make students happier and healthier by creating a space for them in the Catholic community.
"In a situation like KU, which is so large, it's a place where people can
feel at home" Beseau said about the center.
The center plans to use its opening barbecue during Hawk Week to encourage Catholic students to contact St. Lawrence and get involved.
Lutheran Campus Ministry pastor, Shawn Norris, used e-mails and phone calls to let freshmen know they had a Lutheran link to the University.
Norris said Lutheran Campus Ministry would help new students with move-in day, and invite them to an end of Hawk Week barbecue.
"We're down-playing beer at the welcome barbecue because it excludes freshmen," Norris said.
Lutheran Campus Ministry's ultimate goal is to help freshmen explore their faith tradition and develop relationships.
"We're not beating-people-over-the-head-with-a-baseball-bat Christians," Norris said. "We want them to know we're here, and how we can connect to them."
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Campus whistle sparks mixed feelings
BY MIKE NOLAN mnolan@kansan.com
The loud blast that rings throughout campus every 50 minutes might startle those new to the University, but campus rookies should not be alarmed. It is no
this should not reason to take cover; it is just the University's not-so-subtle way of signaling the end of the class period.
The whistle has blown on campus for nearly 100 years. According to KU Info, the
The whistle, which sits on top of the power plant next to Watson Library, is the third version of the original whistle.
each class period.
The first whistle lasted until World War II in the early 1940s. The second whistle survived for
"I could hear that thing blow when in my apartment at Tuckaway, and when I was playing softball in East Lawrence."
WILL ALLEN
2008 Alumnus
University originally used the steam whistle to signal curfew for students, but in 1912 it began using the whistle to announce the end of
almost 60 years until it suffered an unfixable crack in January 2003.
The campus went silent from Jan. 22, 2003 until April 25, 2003.
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aying softball in East Lawrence," said Will Allen, 2008 graduate.
The steam whistle has been a question of concern for some students, but they admit it serves as a nice reminder throughout the
"I cannot stand the sound of that thing, but I think I would feel weird if I didn't hear it at the end of class," Erik Harms, Springfield, Mo., senior, said. "It's a nice cue to leave class."
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No matter what students think, the steam whistle will continue to blow throughout the school year and for most students it will be a reminder of good news: class is over.
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The "freshman 15" can be a harsh reality for new students. However, that doesn't have to be a concern if students take advantage of workout options provided by the Student Recreation Fitness Center.
The $6.3 million expansion to the recreation center, which began in May 2007, is slated to be completed by mid-September. New additions include four multipurpose courts, a martial arts room, two racquetball courts and a virtual golf course.
"What's really fun about it is it's all student initiative," said Mary Chappell, director of the recreation center. "Students are here wanting to make the University better."
The expanded portion will open on Oct. 24, which is the Friday of Homecoming weekend. The recreation center will also be formally renamed the David A. Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center at a naming ceremony the same day. Ambler was former vice chancellor of student affairs. He held the position from 1977 to 2002.
Another addition to the recreation center was provided by the 2008 senior class. The senior class gift, a "KU" inlay, will be placed in the sidewalk in front of the center.
"Overall, people think it's a nice symbol for students to give back to the University," Lori Reesor, associate vice provost for student success and senior class adviser said.
Students pay $74.50 in student fees for the recreation center. Chappell said students should take advantage of the recreation center because they were paying for it.
"Every student has ownership in
Emily Hendricks, Overland Park senior, walks the track as a cool down after her workout at the Student Recreation Center. Hendricks primarily uses the track but wishes there were more weights and cardio equipment available. Hendricks also said that she "would probably just use the expanded track; I do not really play the other sports," in regards to the new expansion at the Student Fitness Recreation Center.
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The recreation center will continue to offer its past programs. One of the most prominent features in the recreation center, the rock wall, is part of the outdoor pursuits program. Backpacks, tents, canoes and kayaks are all available for rent.
"It's pretty cheap to go on a canoe trip for the weekend," Chappell said. "During the Wakarusa Festival all the inventory was out."
The KU Fit program offers more than 40 aerobic exercise classes, all taught by students. Lexi Childs, Wichita senior, teaches a Pilates class and a cardio dance party class.
"It's a blast helping other people work out and helping them work out in a fun atmosphere," Childs said. "It gets bored working out at the same level on machines. When you're in a group setting it makes it a little more fun."
Stacey Pope, Topeka junior and kickboxing instructor, agreed that
exercising in a group provided a different dynamic than working out alone.
"There's a sense of solidarity within all the girls in the class," she said.
Forty free personal training sessions are offered every two weeks. All the personal trainers are also students and are health, sports and exercise majors or have certification. Childs said she recommended students take advantage of the personal training sessions to help them develop a workout routine.
"A lot of times people aren't motivated because they might not know what to do," she said. "You have an instructor motivating you instead of you motivating yourself."
Chappell said that no matter where students exercised, it was important that they get in the habit of working out.
"It's a lifestyle hopefully everyone can engage in," Chappell said.
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Budgeting important for students College life brings new expenses for students to consider
BY CHRISTINE D'AMICO
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COLLEGE BUDGETING
Congratulations! You've successfully entered the ranks of college and begun the path to join 34 percent of U.S. citizens with a college degree.
But that's not all you've signed up for. You've also landed a four-year tuition bill of $27,510, or if not a Kansas resident, $72,246.
But let's be honest. It's doubtful you'll stay in a dorm room for four years. With bars, restaurants, parties and new friends, disposable income costs are high as well.
Budgeting is part of growing up. But in college, with multiple distractions, it can be hard to ground your spending.
Margie Gallaway, Overland Park
mother of an incoming freshman, is preparing to send her child away to Lawrence for college. Gallaway and her daughter have begun to discuss spending in the form of a monthly stipend, like most of her friends are receiving. According to the Student Monitor, the average monthly allowance for an undergraduate at a four-year college is $208.
In order to stretch those dollars as far as possible, here are some tips to tailor budgets to a college environment.
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Jenny Mohwinkle, Topeka senior, learned that hard way that the grocery store saves money.
"I don't buy anything I don't need." Mohwink said.
Unfortunately, her slimming
down at the grocery store led to more and more eating out. To really pinch pennies, make the grocery store part of your weekly routine. You'll save money and maybe even learn to cook.
Another way to watch your wallet at the grocery store is to buy generic brands. They taste just as delicious and leave you with more money.
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If you take out the cash you need from your account and only spend the cash, leaving you card at home, you'll come out ahead at the end of the night. Credit cards or debit cards can be swiped mindlessly, whereas when money starts to disappear
you'll notice.
If you leave your parking spot at the dorms, there is a good chance that another one won't be available. Carpool if you need to run an errand. It saves the grief of trying to park your car, along with gas money.
Your parents might push for good grades, but there might be more incentive than that. The better scores you receive the more chances you have for scholarships.
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Before there is a party, there is usually a pre-game. During the pregame, students save money by purchasing a bottle of alcohol together. That way bar bills don't get out of
control.
Above all, when out on the town. avoid opening a tab. Tabs run up quickly and can be a devastating receipt to wake up to the next morning.
One solution to tight budgets is the college job. John Hale, Kansas City, Kan., father of an incoming freshman, said he encouraged his soon-to-be freshman daughter to take on financial responsibilities of her own. Although he doesn't want her grades to drop, he doesn't want to foot all of the college bills either.
"She's worked before." Hale said.
"It it's for her to work again."
— Edited by Sachiko Miyakawa
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BY DEEPA SAMPAT dsampat@kansan.com
Under a new policy Student Senate leaders will now receive an award compensation funded by a University Endowment Senate account. Adam McGonigle, Wichita junior and student body president, said the new policy had passed through the necessary channels and would be implemented this fall. Senate leaders will no longer be granted tuition sponsorships by Student Success funds.
The new policy, proposed by former student body president Hannah Love and former student body vice president Ray Wittlinger, provided compensation to six Student Senate positions. The student body president and vice president will receive $3,000 per semester; Student Executive committee chair, legislative director and graduate affairs representative will receive $2,000 per semester and student body treasurer will receive $1,500 per semester.
McGonigle said he first learned that Student Success would not provide tuition sponsorships last April. The tuition sponsorships provided leaders with in-state tuition. He said that's when Love and Wittlinger came up with the new proposal.
"It was too late in the year for student senators to consider any sort of compensation increase on their own," McGonigle said.
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New boathouse for rowing team excites team, prospective members
The team's upgraded home from a 'cage' is more comfortable, puts faith back into rowing team.
BY CASE KEEFER ckeefer@kansan.com
Inclement weather has frequently inconvenienced junior rower Stacy Rachow during the past two years.
If it was raining too hard or was too windy, the rowing team either had to leave its Burcham Park headquarters and come back to campus to work out or wait to see if the weather would calm down.
That's not the only nuisance the team had to deal with. Rain created puddles in the outdoor cage where Rachow and her teammates would have to go daily to get the boats out for practice.
"Your socks would get all wet," Rachow said. "It would be freezing outside so you'd have wet socks and you'd be rowing. It would be a pain."
Rachow has dry socks to look forward to — and a lot more — before the spring season begins for the Jayhawks. That's when the rowers will move into their new $6 million boathouse at Burcham Park, Second and Indiana streets.
All the team's boats and workout equipment will be stored there, making it a more comfortable place to practice. The 2,000-square-foot building will also contain a locker room, study room and team room.
"This is a tribute to the people that believe rowing is going to be an important part of the athletic future at the University of Kansas," Chancellor Robert Hemenway said at the boathouse's groundbreaking ceremony.
But it's not only the University's rowing team that will benefit from the new facility. The KU club crew team will also have access to the building and will store its boats there.
Will Hecht, president of the club crew team, said the club already possessed credibility for its tradition and performance. But with a brand new facility to show off, the team has more to look forward to than ever before.
"It's going to help our membership a whole bunch," Hecht said. "Because whenever we actually show people the place we call home, it just makes us seem that much more legitimate."
While the club team hopes to impress incoming students, the University squad hopes the boathouse
courts rowing recruits. Rachow said one of the most exciting parts of the new facility was that it would provide something for coach Rob Catloth to sell to prospective team members.
In addition to its indoor amenities, a unique infrastructure accompanies the boathouse. It's being designed to be able to withstand floods of up to eight feet so that even if the Kansas River rises to a higher level than normal, everything inside will be safe.
Rachow can't wait to move in. Everything about the building sounds exciting to her. But more than anything, she said her teammates were happy that after nearly 15 years, the Kansas rowing team has a building of its own.
"They are all just really excited to have a place we can call home other than a cage." Rachow said.
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False fire alarms frequent campus
The common prank occurs most in residence halls, punishment could include fines up to $2,500 and a year of jail time
BY CHRISTINE D'AMICO cdamico@kansan.com
It was a spring day on campus and Pat, who prefers to remain anonymous, just bombed an accounting test. In moments of great desperation such a this, Lawrence used to offer a little piece of heaven known as The Crossing.
Pitchers of beer and an enticing front porch greeted guests and helped to comb over problems of the day.
Pat decided to cool off from his accounting test with a cold brew.
However, it was midday on campus, and all the partygoers were locked in classrooms. Class or no class. Pat wasn't going to drink alone.
His friend was in the middle of a lecture at Wescoe Hall when he texted him his master plan.
Pat walked through the lower floors of the building, found a fire alarm, pulled on the handle and walked calmly away. But it was his first time in the building and he had trouble finding his way out.
"I kept trying to leave but it took me a while to find an exit," he said.
As the sirens went off, Pat took a seat outside Strong Hall and patiently waited for his friend to arrive.
"When the fire trucks got there we decided to head out," Pat said.
Pulling the fire alarm has become a popular prank on college campuses. False alarms in residence halls wake students at all hours of the night and force them to sit outside while no fire is found.
Diana Robertson, director of student housing, said fire alarm pranks could usually be linked to frequent pullers. In the past, a student who has pulled the alarm once will usually do it again. In her years as director, she has seen the frequency of false alarms fluctuate.
"It's an annoying prank," Robertson said. "Usually students will report whoever is pulling the alarm because they get tired of it."
"Usually students will report whoever is pulling the alarm because they get tired of it."
According to Robertson, false fire alarms are usually set off by someone's cooking catastrophes or faulty
DIANA ROBERTSON director of student housing
alarms. Prank alarms are low but carry heavy consequences.
Students sometimes get lulled by false alarms and find a way not to evacuate, Robertson said. Unfortunately, when there is a real fire, the students who remain in the
building could risk their lives.
If an alarm is pulled, the office of student housing and police work together in order to prosecute offenders to the fullest extent of the law.
The department of student housing holds educational meetings about fire safety every year. The meetings emphasize the importance of responding to alarms in a routine pattern for student safety.
Rich Barr, division chief with Lawrence Fire and Medical, assists with the educational meeting every fall. He said there had been years where the fire department had responded to upwards of 80 residence hall calls. He said most alarms were pulled during midterms and finals.
"We want students to understand that it may be fun to hear sirens and upset friends, but that someone could be harmed," Barr said. "It takes 1 of 900 residents to upset a building."
Although false alarms on campus do happen, by far the most false alarms are from the residence halls. Barr said Oliver, McColum and Naismith halls had alarms pulled most
often.
This college prank carries legal consequences as well. In Kansas, giving a false alarm is a class-A misdeanor. For a get-out-of-a test-free card, offenders could land themselves in jail for up to a year. It could also cost offenders with fines going up to $2,500.
Pat and his friend left without so much as a question.
The next day he picked up the campus paper, while reading the free for all, one entry in particular caught his attention.
"For whoever pulled the fire alarm in Wescoe yesterday, thanks," the entry read.
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From left, Natalie Aaron, St. Louis graduate student, Mustafa Yilmaz, Izmir, Turkey, Claudio Jimenez, Concepción, Chile, post doctoral researcher, and Rebecca Welch Weigel, Lawrence graduate student, discuss the metric system during a meeting of an Applied English Center Conversation Group. The groups help students of English practice conversation in a more casual, natural setting.
Cultural clubs help introduce foreign students to college life other students around campus
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More than 30 groups serve as cultural ambassadors on campus, including international and area studies clubs. International students can share their experiences and find friends from their home countries and domestic students can explore different cultures through the activities of the groups.
Yong Zhang Chengdu, China, sophomore, recently started a student group, All About Chinal, to respond to students' increasing interests in China and promote better understanding about the country.
Zhang said the group would collaborate with Chinese Students and Scholars Friendship Association and organize cultural workshops in the fall. The group sponsored a
T-shirt design contest in the summer to raise money for victims of the Sichuan earthquake in China.
Zhang said although more American students showed interest in China, some of them had misunderstandings about the Chinese.
"Some of them think all Chinese are brainwashed by the Chinese government," Zhang said. "They think we are not so open-minded."
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Dinesh Raveendran, Chennai,
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Allen Lien, Taipei, Taiwan, graduate student, said that while the Taiwanese Student Association served to help Taiwanese students
at the University, it held events to inform people of Taiwanese culture. Lien, former vice president of the association, said the Chinese new year was one of the biggest events. The event featured a dinner party, game night and a show of Taiwanese performances.
He said the dinner party attracted many people, and many Americans
"I think I'm repaying what I got. When I got help they just told me you don't have to pay back to me, pay back to newcomers."
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gained interest in Taiwan after they ate food or enjoyed Taiwanese dancing and songs.
"I think the easiest way is food," Lien said.
"I think most Americans try food first."
He said anyone was welcome to join the association and attend the
events. He said the association served as a bridge to connect Taiwanese students to different groups of people on campus, including American students who practiced their language skills and other international student groups.
Bonkyoung Ku, Seoul senior;
said the Korean Student Association focused on supporting Korean students on campus. The members of the association holds social events and talk with students when they have problems.
Ku, president of the association said when new students came to the University, he would pick up them from the airport, show them around Lawrence and help them find a place to live. If they did not have a car, the members provided a ride for shopping.
"I think I'm repaying what I got," Ku said. "When I got help, they just told me you don't have to pay back to me, pay back to new comers."
Ku said he picked up new students from the Kansas City airport more than 10 times in the past fall semester. He said he had written a check for their housing several times because the housing office didn't accept any cash and many Koreans didn't have a banking account when they just arrived.
"This is kind of too much, but we usually do like this," Ku said. "I think this is a good tradition for Korean Student Association, and I just try."
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They're as good as cash on campus and off
Students can use Beak 'Em Bucks instead of money and get rewards
BY KRISTIN HOPPA
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Eating around Lawrence continues to get a little tastier for KU students this fall.
Students can use their KU Card
Beak 'Em Bucks account to eat at several on- and off-campus locations instead of carrying cash or using a debit card.
Beak 'Em Bucks is a stored-value account that students can deposit money into and then
use on campus for various services. Students may also use their Beak 'Em Bucks account at off-campus locations and for pizza delivery.
The Beak'Em Bucks account is automatically set up for students when they receive their KU cards.
The student accounts can earn Beak 'Em Bucks reward points every
time the account is used at specific locations.
Beak 'Em Bucks rewards are earned through purchases made on the account. Students must sign up online to activate the rewards account. As points add up, students
can view prizes they are eligible for on the KU Card Web site.
There are more than 20 locations where students can use Beak 'Em Bucks accounts, including Bigg's BBQ, 2429 Iowa St., Chili's Grill & Bar, 2319 Iowa
StL, CVS Pharmacy, 2300 Iowa StL, and SunKissed Tan, 2540 Iowa StL.
On-campus purchases can be made at food, coffee and Hawk Food Stop locations as well as vending machines, residence hall laundry
facilities and libraries for printing and photocopying.
The Beak 'Em Bucks account is automatically set up for students when they receive their KU cards. Students may then add money to their account online, by cash-to-cash machines on campus or through optional campus fees.
Nancy Miles, director of KU Card Center, said the Beak 'Em Bucks account provides a convenience factor to students.
"Not all students have a debit card." Miles said. "Most students always carry their KUID cards on them."
Miles said the Beak 'Em Bucks accounts act similar to debit cards but can also be used for services that normally do not accept debit card payments, like on-c Campus printing and photocopying.
to purchase tobacco or alcohol products.
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but there was a downside.
"It can be a pain in the butt to go online and put money on your card," Archambault said. "But it just depends on how you budget."
Students can go to the KU Card Center Web site at http://www. kucard.ku.edu/beak_em_bucks/ for updates on participating Beak 'Em Bucks merchants.
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Gumby's Pizza - 1445 W. 23rd St.
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On the Border Mexican Grill & Cantina - 3080 Iowa St.
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Living in a new surrounding with new people and new cultures could be difficult to adjust to. You could face difficult roommates and loud neighbors. Here's some sound advice and knowledge of how to survive the dorm life.
To students living in the residence halls, life can be fun and possibly overwhelming. Staff and resident assistants try to make students feel welcome.
Erica Rowe smiled when she thought of her first year in the residence halls.
"I would say it was good. They did good welcoming incoming freshman," Rowe said.
Rowe, Kansas City, Mo., graduate of 2008, lived in Lewis Hall her first
semester and moved to Ellsworth Hall the second semester. She said one thing she liked about living in the residence halls was the help she received.
"The upperclassmen were there if we had any questions," she said.
Rowe said she liked how convenient living on campus was. She said that she had the option of riding the bus or walking to school. She said that although she lived on campus, she was still able to separate herself from the University.
Rowe said she was glad to stay on campus her first year and thought all students should experience it.
"Living in the dorms force you to meet new people," Rowe said.
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"We made an agreement for when we wanted to study," Salisbury said. "We didn't have company over on the days we studied."
She also said that living on campus was a good way to meet people. She met friends in the community bathroom.
"It's weird, but you get to know a lot of people that way," she laughed. "You kind of get to know when people go to the bathroom."
Salisbury said she thought freshmen should live in the residence halls at least once.
"I think it's an experience you should have. You get to know a lot of people in the same situation as yours," Salisbury said.
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Brittney Chandler, Kansas City, Kan., senior, lived in GSP-Corbin Hall her freshman year in school. She said she learned how to make time for studying. She said if students slacked off on their grades, it would definitely show.
"Study, don't party like a rock star," Chandler said. "Because getting your GPA up is no joke."
Chandler, psychology major, said her dorm life was a good one. She said she was at advantage from other residence halls on the hill because she didn't have to experience as many disturbances.
--said he spent a lot of his time at the residence halls because several of his friends lived there.
Lawrence native Noah Hoelscher, junior, never lived on campus, but
Although Hoelscher didn't live there, he said he enjoyed going to visit friends. He said he heard good things about living on campus.
"Everybody I know had a positive experience," he said.
He's also heard the not so good things.
"Ive heard stories of getting stuck with bad roommates," Hoelscher laughed.
Despite what has been said, Hoelscher said he would have liked to live on campus and he thought everyone should.
"It might have been more fun to stay on campus," Hoelscher said. "It's a good way to meet people."
— Edited by Sachiko Miyakawa
Security increases in on-campus housing
New card swipe system ensures limited access to residence halls
BY BRIEUN SCOTT bscott@kansan.com
KU Student Housing took precautions to assure the safety of students living in residence halls by installing a card access system.
Students living at residence halls will use KUID cards to enter into building. Students visiting the residence halls can use courtesy phones located near the entrance to be allowed access.
Jennifer Wamellink, associate director of Student Housing, said the purpose for the access system was to provide additional security for students. She said student housing had planned to install a new access system, but the Virginia Tech incident confirmed the decision.
"We want to be able to balance the security of getting access to the building."
Wamelink said.
The system was instated in residence halls in fall 2007 and spring 2008.
Billy Massey, desk manager at Hashinger Hall, said he felt the key card machines were serving the purpose of providing extra security.
"It will keep people we don't know out," Massey said.
Massey, Hoyt senior, said within hours of getting the machines, he had an incident and the machines helped minimize the time it would have taken to resolve the problem.
Hashinger was the last residence hall to get the key card machines installed. Massey said he would try to prepare employees to assure the safety of students living in Hashinger.
"I'll definitely say that I'm going to train employees to not let any unknown person in the dorm," he said.
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Allie Cleary, Council Grove freshman, swipes her KUID card to enter Ellsworth. A new card system was installed in residence halls last year.
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Jobs of all trades exist for students
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Naomi Wilferd, Boston, Mass., junior, hands back a student identification card after checking in a basketball to Brandt Pyle, Halstead, Kan., sixth year undergraduate. Wilferd has worked at the Student Recreation Center for one year and said she "liked it a lot. It is a good environment."
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The University offers a variety of jobs including anything from an active job such as a personal trainer to a more discreet job such as stocking shelves at the libraries.
The KU Public Safety Office is hiring for its security monitoring position. Schuyler Bailey, captain of the police support unit, said they were looking to fill this position year-round.
"Students will monitor the student cameras, assist at athletic events and work security at the library in the evening hours." Bailey said.
Bailey said this job was ideal for any "night owls" because the hours were usually from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. He said the job was also beneficial to those who wanted to get into law enforcement because it would give them the
inside scoop on how it was done.
For a more laid-back atmosphere, students may also want to check out the four positions open for the KU Libraries.
Rebecca Smith, director of communications and advancement for KU Libraries, said they had positions for just about every type of student. She said some positions required students to work closely with other students while other positions were more solitary because students spent time restocking shelves.
"Students who work for the libraries get a leg up on research," Smith said. "They learn how to utilize the libraries and know what services are available for them."
Ann Hartley, associate director of the University Career Center, said the University made sure students had other options besides on-campus jobs. She said the University posted off-
campus positions through the Web site, kucarerhawk.com. She said that by August, the site should have more than 150 postings.
Students also can find convenient jobs in the same place that they live. Jennifer Wamelink, associate director for Residence Life, said Student Housing had several different positions open for the spring semester.
Wamellink said students working where they lived had its benefits.
"You live at the dorms and can go down the hall to work," Wamelink said. "It is also more flexible because we work with students' schedules."
Another department that might offer more unique opportunities for students is the Student Recreation Fitness Center.
The recreation center is currently hiring for two positions. Mary Chappell, director of KU recreation services, said that the positions didn't
necessarily require previous experience.
"Most of the positions have on-the-job training," Chappell said. "We will take most anyone."
Chappell also said one of the benefits of working for the recreation center was being able to cross train. She said if students started out with yoga classes, they could switch to kickboxing or anything else they might be interested in.
Chappell said the big benefit was working on campus.
"You can work for a few hours, go to class, and come back and work a few more hours," Chappell said.
The largest employer on campus is also hiring and always has open positions for every type of job imaginable. KU Dining Services has more than 500 student employees, and about 40 of those students work for The Underground, a food court located in
the lower level of Wescoe Hall.
Jason Arnett, manager of The Underground, said they were always looking to hire new students throughout the semester, and that students didn't need previous experience for most positions.
Alecia Stultz, assistant director for Retail Dining Services, said the best part about working at The Underground was the environment for students.
"It's a real community, like a family," she said. "It can be a lot of hard work, but it can also be a lot of fun."
Stultz said maybe the best benefit for students was the location. She said it was in the middle of campus, and if students spent a lot of their time on campus, they might as well work there too.
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Watkins Memorial Health Center has many options for students to take advantage of when feeling under the weather or need a routine checkup. The center offers a pharmacy, lab, Wellness Resource Center and counseling services for students.
The campus health center features pharmacy, lab, the Wellness Resource Center, counseling and other amenities.
BY BRIEUN SCOTT bscott@kansan.com
Watkins Memorial Health Center offers students services to help get through the school year.
Watkins has 13 departments where students can get information and services.
Student Health Services is comprehensive within the student college life, offering various services such as general medicine, pharmacy physical therapy and lab. There are 10 state board certified physicians on staff to assist students with any health concerns.
Heidi Garica, manager of the Wellness Resource Center, said that the location of the services was convenient for students because it was located under one roof. Watkins, 1200 Schwegler Dr., is north of the Student Recreation Fitness Center.
Amanda Steffan, Lawrence sophomore, said that she often went to Watkins for its resources. She said
she went this summer for counseling and liked how convenient it was to get in and see someone.
"It was nice to go somewhere where you can get an unbiased opinion" Steffan said. "The staff was very
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The Wellness Resource Center is another part of student services offered at Watkins. The resource center offers assistance to students in areas from on where to go to get help on a paper to helping resident assistance with their bulletin boards.
Garcia said that aside from those things, they did have five priorities, which were alcohol and drugs, tobacco, nutrition, sexual health and stress reduction.
Throughout the school year, Garica said student services did different events and programs to give students information and make them aware of the resources. She said one of the most popular was the Health Hut, which would be located throughout campus.
"We're here for the students," Garcia said. "We want students to realize it's the student health center."
Other resources offered within Student Health Services are dietician counseling, which requires an additional fee, and the tobacco program called KanUquit, implemented last December by Ken Sarber, administrator at Watkins.
The Watkins Memorial Health Center welcomes back students with health events and resources on how to have a productive school year.
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Student Health Services will have a booth set up in front of Strong Hall. Students get to experience all of what Student Health Services has to offer. The student services will talk about how to stay healthy.Watkins will be joined by other student services such as Student Recreation Fitness Center and The Emily Taylor Resource Center.
KU Smoke-out Week Sept. 17 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
During this event, a booth will be set up in front of Wescoe Hall and the Student Health Services will encourage students to give up tobacco and enjoy a smoke-free life. They will give information on additional smoke-free programs.
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On the first floor of Watkins, Student Health Services invites Pinnacle Career Institute to give free massages to students and talk about the campus resources on how to relieve stress. Carole Guillaume, physician at Wakins, specializes in sleep disorder and will inform students on how to handle sleep disorders. The Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) will also be in attendance.
Garcia said that Student Health Services was always available for students.
"Students should be proactive in there health care," she said. "Somebody is always here to help."
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Watkins physician discusses seasonal health tips
BY BRIEUN SCOTT bscott@kansan.com
It's the first year of college, but it's also a time for re-occurring viruses and illnesses. With students from different places and backgrounds, encountering different sicknesses is expected.
Alice Zarda, Manhattan freshman, said she couldn't believe that she had to get a meningitis shot to prepare for college.
"I freaks me out that we have to get a "shot to live in the dorm." Zarda said.
But this is one precaution students should take to prepare themselves for school.
Patricia Denning, physician and chief of medical staff at the Watkins Memorial Health Center, gave recommendations on how to prepare and avoid viruses and disease for the
school year.
Denning said the best way for students to prepare for school is to get an update on their health status.
"Students should make sure they're updated with all medications and shots before school," Denning said.
She said she also recommended students visit their regular physician.
FALL
The start of the school year always opens with various outdoor activities to welcome both new and returning students.
Denning said the fall was the peak season for outside-related illnesses such as allergies, asthma, poison ivy and sport injuries.
She said for students who didn't ordinarily live in Kansas, allergies could be a problem. She said students should be aware of symptoms and should try to remain indoors if they noticed them.
Poison ivy is at its peak during the start of the semester.
"Students should recognize what it looks like and should avoid getting in contact," Denning said. "If leaves are three, leave it be."
She said long sleeve pants and long sleeve shirts are good for areas where poison ivy would be located.
WINTER
The chill of winter brings in various colds and viruses. The most common during this season are the flu and stomach viruses.
Denning said the best way students could avoid viruses was making sure they washed their hands after coughing or sneezing and before eating. She said students should also avoid eating and drinking after friends.
Jennifer Jensen, Goodland senior, said she avoided illnesses by staying away from heavy-traffic areas.
"Any place where it's populated,
you should be concerned about viral things." Jensen said.
Jensen said she also regularly washed her hands and used hand sanitizer to minimize her exposure to germs.
Denning said getting a flu shots was another way to assure a virus-free school year.
The flu vaccination clinics, which will be set up in various locations around campus, will open from late October to early November. The clinics are also available in early January when students return from the holidays.
Denning said it would be convenient and cheaper for students than people not attending the University. Flu shots were $15 last year.
SPRING
This is the time of the year when students spend more time outside, socializing and enjoying the nice
weather. It's also the time for high hormones.
Denning said Watkins see more cases during spring of students coming in for sexually transmitted infection, or STIs, and pregnancy.
One way to avoid unplanned pregnancies and STIs is to get checked regularly.
Denning said that the health center had a gynecology department for women and the Wellness Center offered counseling for all students on how to be sexually safe. She said staff at the health center first tried to encourage abstinence, but different departments were available for students for guidance on safe sexual methods.
Clinics and counseling are also offered throughout the school year for students traveling abroad.
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Weak U.S. dollar slows KU study abroad program
BY ASHER FUSCO afusco@kansan.com
The KU Study Abroad program is not growing as quickly as it used to, partly because of the weak U.S. dollar, which has made necessities such as food and transportation more expensive for students.
Susan Gronbeck-Tedesco, director of the Office of Study Abroad, said the weak dollar had caused a noticeable decline in study abroad interest.
"Summer 2008 enrollment is just 0.6 percent over Summer 2007,
Normally, we would expect a greater increase"
According to the KU Office of Study Abroad, participation in the program grew at an average of 8 percent each year from 2004 to 2007.
While the basic cost of enrollment in study abroad programs has not changed drastically, the dollar's weak exchange rate has raised the cost of overseas goods in comparison to domestic items. As of Monday, one euro was worth $1.56, meaning the dollar has depreciated by about 20 cents in the past year.
Jordan Kallas, a 2008 graduate who studied abroad in Australia last year, said the cost of food made his trip more expensive than expected.
"I'm still recovering from the trip, and it was a year ago" Kallas said.
John Keating, professor of economics, said that the exchange rate usually levels out in the long-run, but could be unpredictable in the near future — a bad sign for students planning summer or fall travel.
"When the value of the dollar goes down your dollars aren't going to buy as much foreign currency," Keating
said. "The consequence is a much bigger cost of living. It's got to be painful to go overseas right now."
In a national poll conducted last spring by the Institute of International Education, 43 percent of students said they had changed their travel plans because of the weakening dollar. Institute president Allen Goodman said studying abroad could be affordable if students altered their approach.
"Students should look for destinations like India or Southeast Asia, where their dollar will go further" Goodman said. "There are a lot of
ways to make it work."
Because of students like Kallas, who said his trip was worth the financial strain, studying abroad — expensive as it may be — has not gone out of style. According to the Institute of International Education, more than 2,000 students from the state of Kansas studied abroad last year.
"You want to travel when you study abroad," Kallas said. "You want to make the most of the trip, and that means spending money."
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Gorres' dedication to social justice and environmental causes are creating a new direction for programs at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries.
"I'm the first ever intern to work with Rev. Thad Holcombe at the ECM," Gorres said. "I share my organizing skills and learn about campus ministry life while I consider seminary."
Scheduled to begin this fall is Cloud Watching and Music Jam for Peace. Once a week, people are invited to bring their blankets, drums and guitars, and watch the clouds roll by at they sing for peace. Making music for justice and world peace is part of the ECM's vision of hospitality it embraces to make the building a comfortable gathering place for all people.
Thad Holcombe said the hospitality vision was a result of the growing numbers of people who gathered to eat and drink at the ECM and used its space for community projects. The vision is also based on a message from the Center for Progressive Christianity, that states.
"We have committed ourselves to equipping one another for the work we feel called to do: striving for peace and justice among all people, protecting and restoring the integrity of all God's creation, and bringing hope to those Jesus called the least of his sisters and brothers."
There are also plans this fall to grow a garden on the front lawn of the ECM, to help feed the growing number of attendees to Veggie Lunch on Thursdays. The produce is another way to promote sustainability by eating locally grown food.
"Of course, we'll be doing regular programming like Eco-Justice, Sexuality, and Alternative Breaks," Gorres said. "But KU students should expect to see winter vegetables coming up!"
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Jonathan Perkins, director of EGARC, said the center served to support students and instructors of humanity courses through the use of technology.
EGARC stores a variety of DVD and VHS collections, including foreign films and educational resources about languages, humanities and social studies. The collection has more than 30 categories. Language and humanity departments selected the collection of videos and often use them for class. Students can check out a video overnight if it is not in use.
Perkins said EGARC's collection was stronger for European regions. For example, the Russian collection has more than 500 titles and the French collection has about 400 titles.
Gilles Viennot, Paris graduate student and instructor of French, said EGARC had a good selection of French movies, especially classic ones. He sometimes shows those films in his class. He said he encouraged his students to learn French through movies and helped interested students find movies at EGARC.
Viennot said most movies of the center had subtitles and could be a good practice for students' listening skills.
Viennot said students could learn French culture from a film and could find different values looking at the behaviors of characters. He said sometimes students found French films slower and less visually dynamic than American films.
"It's still challenging for first-year students to understand the language. You don't hear proper French," Viennot said. "Learning culture is important for them."
Perkins said 70 percent of EGARC's collection was on VHS. The center received a fund to buy more DVDs each year. He said he wanted to add more variety and also needed to replace VHS tapes with the same titles of DVDs.
"It's for language learners," Perkins said. "But I think anyone who's interested in the culture and the country, this is the way to get real information very quickly from the country"
program allowed them to adjust the speed if they found it too fast.
Students can also learn a foreign language and culture without going to the center. EGARC provides a world news program named SCOLA Satellite Service on its Web site. It offers five channels, broadcasting news and entertainment TV programs from different regions, including Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia.
Perkins said this would be a good way for students and instructors to learn foreign languages because they could hear a live language. The
SCOLA stores programs for a week after their broadcast.
Perkins said since EGARC introduced the online SCOLA service in 2006, the program had been used for 440 hours, which he said was not much. He said he might have to discontinue the program if more people didn't use it.
"The visual is worth a million words, being able to see how they dress, what they do, what their actions are," Carlson said. "This is very useful."
For more information about the services of EGARC, check the Web site at http://egarc.ku.edu/index. shtml.
Maria Carlson, professor of Slavic languages and literature, used SCOLA to show a Ukrainian news program about neopagans' celebration in her Slavic folklore class.
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Travis Releford sightings have been scarce this summer at the Releford household in Kansas City, Mo.
Releford, an incoming freshman on the Kansas basketball team and one of seven newcomers to the program, settled into the Jayhawker Towers in June, enrolled in summer classes and started preparing for his first season of college basketball. Releford's younger brother, Trevor, has hardly seen him since.
Of course, that's partly because Releford spent the last three weeks playing for USA Basketball at the 2008 FIBA Americas Under 18 Championship in Formosa, Argentina. The U.S. won the silver medal.
Let's see: 18 years old, athletically gifted and traveling in Argentina. Sounds like a pretty nice way to spend the summer, huh? But according to Trevor, going to Argentina wasn't the real thrill.
"He's played in China and
Germany before," Trevor said, so big brother wasn't easily awed by international travel.
No, the real joy came from surviving the team's tryout camp in Washington, D.C., earlier this month. Releford proved himself against some of the best young players in the country.
"He made it over Lance Stephenson," Trevor said. "So he was real excited about that."
For the uninitiated, Stephenson is one of the top high school players in the 2009 recruiting class.
Releford and his teammates won their first four games at the championships, advancing to the gold medal game. But they had to settle for silver after losing 77-64 to Argentina in the final. Releford scored 12 points on 5-of-8 shooting against Argentina, and averaged 7.2 points per game during the tournament.
Releford returns home this week, but Trevor still might not be seeing much of his older brother. Growing up in Kansas City, it didn't take much for Releford to say no to a list of schools that included Missouri and Oklahoma amongst others.
Releford's mother, Venita Vann,
said Releford leaned toward Kansas.
"There were other choices, but he was going to go with KU all the way," Venita Vann said in January while watching her son finish up his high school career at Bishop Miege in
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And thanks to the departure of five Kansas guards from last year's team — Russie Robinson, Brandon Rush, Mario Chalmers and Roderick Stewart — Releford, a 6-foot-5 guard, should get ample opportunity for
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Freshman has a lot to live up to Incoming guard Appleton was a former national champion
BY CASE KEEFER ckeefer@kansan.com
Incoming guard Tyrone Appleton and the eight Jayhawks returning
from last year's team have something in common they're all former national champions.
Appleton led his junior college team, Midland College, to a national championship his freshman year. Now, the junior joins a team defending the Division I national title next season.
"It's a big adjustment." Appleton said. "But if you're a basketball player, you've got to get used to it."
Appleton
Championships aren't where the similarities between Midland and Kansas end. Much like the Jayhawks last season, the Chaparrals relied on a number of players to score equally instead of following the lead of a superstar.
Appleton was the second leading scorer on the team with 13 points per game. He also dished out five
10
assists and grabbed nearly two steals per game. Kansas coach Bill Self said he thought Appleton would fit right in as a Jayhawk.
"Tyrone has won big at the junior college level and certainly has sacrificed individual statistics for the betterment of his team," Self said when he signed Appleton. "We were sold on Tyrone when we first came into contact with him."
Self also likes that Appleton's game is versatile. Appleton can play any
appleton can play any guard position on the floor.
But he prefers playing point guard. His only weakness is said to be his jump-shot. Appleton, however, said his shot was fine. He said he gained the reputation because hed rather penetrate the lane than pull up for a shot.
Fellow junior college transfer Mario Little agreed that Appleton could shoot if he had to. Little played
"I can shoot it." Appleton said. "But I'm more of a drive-first type guy. Look-first, pass-first."
against Appleton in junior college and the two have played regularly this summer.
They also grew up near each other. Appleton comes from Gary, Ind., less than an hour away from Little's native Chicago.
"He's a tough city kid," Little said. "He'll bring toughness to the team."
And Appleton is just getting tougher. He said the biggest adjustment from junior college to Kansas so far was the sessions in the weightroom.
Strength coach Andrea Hudy is keeping Appleton busy between attending classes and playing pick-up basketball this summer.
"As a JUCO, you hit the weights a little bit," Appleton said. "But our strength and conditioning coach here — she's real tough."
Appleton is hoping the hard work will pay off. As a junior, he's one of the only veterans on the team and Self said he expected Appleton to serve as a leader. He's got a championship to prove he's capable of it.
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Will twin talents bring double the points?
BY ASHER FUSCO afusco@kansan.com
MARCUS
Kansas has plenty of questions to answer heading into next season. After all, losing an entire starting lineup tends to shake things up.
One of the new Jayhawks could provide an answer to the team's personnel problems at more than one position. Freshman forward Marcus Morris is big enough to battle in the post and athletic enough to play on the perimeter.
Morris played the role of scorer at Prep Charter High School in Philadelphia, averaging 27 points and 12 rebounds per game. Rivals.com ranked Marcus the 29th-best overall player and eighth-best small forward in his class.
"My best strength is that I'm versatile," Morris said. "I can play a lot of positions on the court, and I'll play wherever coach Self puts me."
ESPN.com's recruiting service said Morris was a reliable shooter but lacked advanced ball-handling skills. But freshman guard Tyshawn Taylor said the 220-pound Morris had the athleticism necessary to play away from the basket.
If Marcus secures a place in the Jayhawks' rotation, he would probably play alongside his brother, Markieff. He said the connection he had with his brother felt like second-nature.
At 6-8, Morris is three inches taller than Little and five inches taller than Reed. He is two inches taller than Rush, who was big enough to create mismatches against smaller wing players.
"Marcus is 6-8 but he can play on the wing." Taylor said. "If you put a big on him, he'll beat him off the dribble. If the defender is small, he can post him up."
In the absence of NBA draftee and former Jayhawk Brandon Rush, Morris could fight for an immediate spot in Kansas' starting lineup. Morris will compete against junior college transfer Mario Little and sophomore guard Tyrel Reed for minutes, against whom he has a distinct advantage: height.
Morris said friendly summer pickup games with his new teammates were not the toughest part of his summer — he said he was more concerned with adjusting to college life off of the court.
"It's special," Marcus said. "We've been playing with each other all our lives so it's never anything different. I always know where he is going to be — it's just always been that way."
"I'm just not used to being at college yet, but KU is a great place," Morris said.
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Markieff Morris speaks in subdued tones, his deep voice granting brief glimpses of the freshman forward's demeanor. When asked about his basketball skills, he strays from adjectives in favor of the humble basics.
Marcus, left, and Markieff Morris both averaged more than 20 points and 10 rebounds at their Pennsylvania high school, and both could contribute early in their Jayhawk careers.
According to one of his more talkative teammates, the power forward's ability to take his cool and collected style onto the court is a positive.
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"Whenever Markieff is in the post, he's really smooth," said freshman guard Tyshawn Taylor. "A lot of big guys get worked up and get too aggressive down low, but he's got some finesse. He's polished around the basket."
Markieff is the larger and lessheralded half of the Morris twins, a pair of incoming freshmen brothers from Philadelphia.
aged 23 points and 15 rebounds per game. Earlier this year, playing for post-grad school APEX Academy in Pennsauken, N.J., he posted 37 points and made 10 three-pointers in one game.
At 6-foot-10 and 230 pounds, Markieff is cut from the same physical cloth as former Kansas standout Darrell Arthur. Though Morris didn't draw as much praise as Arthur through high school, their specialties are similar.
In 2007 at Philadelphia Prep Charter High School, Morris aver-
"I can do a lot of things, whether I'm in the paint or anywhere," Morris said. "I scored a lot in high school, but I'll do whatever coach needs me to do. I just want to get out there and play."
Morris should have ample opportunity to play early in his career at Kansas. The departure of top posts Arthur, Sasha Kaun and Darnell Jackson means Kansas coach Bill Self will divide playing time between Morris, sophomore center Cole Aldrich and freshman forward Quintrell Thomas.
Aldrich played well down the stretch last season and put himself in position to start this season. Recruiting Web site Rivals.com lists Morris as the 50th-best prospect in the 2008 class and Thomas at 150th.
When Markieff committed to Kansas in November, Self said he thought Markieff was one of "the most underrated players in the country" Self said the forward's ability to play inside and out was his best skill.
"Markieff is a big forward that can play either spot on your front line," Self said. "He is a very good low post player."
Neither Markieff nor his brother Marcus have met the NCA's academic qualifications yet, but are finishing up their first summer school sessions at the University. Marcus said they were "very close" to qualifying, and that they needed to finish one core course to become eligible.
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Mario Little rated best junior college player in nation; expects to "step up big in big games"
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Mario Little, a junior guard, makes a shot. Little was recruited by Kansas coach Bill Self to join the Jayhawks and has often been compared with former Jayhawk Brandon Rush. "He's long and athletic so he can give people fits on the defensive end," said Julian Wright. NBA forward and former Jayhawk.
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He's 6-foot-6 and weighs 210 pounds. He can play multiple positions and says defense is his biggest strength.
No, not Brandon Rush — he's gone. But junior college transfer Mario Little's profile does sound like a duplicate of Rush's.
It's no easy task following one of the greatest Kansas basketball players of all time, but Little isn't worried about it.
"That's what I've been doing all my life — stepping up big in big garnies." Little said.
Little, a junior guard, will have an opportunity to step up right away for the Jayhawks this season. Kansas coach Bill Self recruited him to do just that.
Rated as the No.1 junior college player in the nation last year by Rivals.com, Little led Chipola College in Marianna, Fla. to a 35-2 record and a tournament appearance.
But he played his last game as an Indian in March. He started to concentrate on schoolwork and qualifying academically for the next three months, which left barely any time for basketball.
His Kansas debut in June was even more impressive considering he hadn't played regularly. Only a little more than 12 hours after moving to Lawrence, Little played in a scrimmage game with teammates and alumni as part of Self's youth basketball camp.
The campers chanted the name of current NBA forward Julian Wright when he entered the gym. The player who had to guard Wright, Little, didn't garner any applause.
But Little got the best of Wright on that day. Little's team won the game after he held Wright to three rebounds.
Fellow junior college transfer Tyrone Appleton had no trouble remembering him. Appleton's junior college, Midland, beat Little and Chipola in the junior college national championship two years ago. Appleton said he joked with Little about it but that he looked forward to being teammates at Kansas.
"He's coming here and expecting to produce," Wright said. "I think that's the thing he's going to do. He's long and athletic so he can give people fits on the defensive end."
The scrimmage wasn't Wright's first run-in with Little. The two used to play together on a Chicago-based AAU team. Wright said some people made a mistake and forgot about Little after he went to junior college.
"We should be pretty good together this year," Appleton said. "He's a great player and I like to play with good people."
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Kansas coach Bill Self ventured from the fruited plains and found four top prep players along the Jersey turnpike.
Incoming guard Tyshawn Taylor played at St. Anthony in Jersey City, NJ, and incoming forwards Marcus and Markieff Morris — who actually
Beware Kansas fans, the bad puns involving the state of New Jersey are coming shortly. That's what happens when four of the seven newcomers to the Kansas basketball program played their high school basketball in the Garden State.
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New recruit Taylor rides victory streak
BY JESSE TEMPLE jtemple@kansan.com
Tyshawn Taylor reaches back into his basketball-playing memory bank, searching for an answer.
Asked to name the last time he played on a losing basketball team, the University's newest point guard prospect is coming up blank.
No season stands out during his elementary school days in Hoboken, N.J. His junior high teams in Clearwater, Fla. were pretty good,
too.
He didn't lose much with the Westchester Hawks, his AAU team in high school. Defeat rarely occurred when he played for St. Anthony High School in New Jersey — perhaps the winningest program in high school basketball history.
He settles on his freshman year in high school, before he moved back to New Jersey. At the time, Taylor was attending Countryside High School
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Freshman guard Tyshawn Taylor was part of the undefeated No.1 high school team in the nation last year at St.Anthony in New Jersey. He called the University's winning tradition "incredible."
in Florida. And even that team finished either 10-9 or 10-8, Taylor said.
"I've never played on a losing team in my life," Taylor said. "I just can't do it."
It should seem only natural then that Taylor's winding recruiting path led him to Kansas. Originally committed to Marquette University, Taylor opted out in April when the coach there left for another job. Taylor then became enamored with the Jayhawks — a team that hasn't finished with a losing record in 25 years. That's seven years before Taylor was even born.
"This is a winning tradition," Taylor said of the University. "I think it is incredible."
Last year, Taylor's St. Anthony team finished as state champions in New Jersey at 32-0. The Friars also ended their season as the No. 1-ranked high school basketball team in the nation in both the USA Today and ESPN polls.
The University, meanwhile, didn't perform too shabbily, either, going 37-3 and winning its first national championship in 20 years.
That means only Taylor can lay claim to going from the high school national champion to the college national champion.
It sounds like a match made in crimson and blue heaven. But will the lanky, 6-foot-3 guard's play mesh as seamlessly on the court at the University as his winning background does?
"I know when he gets to college he is going to play because he is hungry, he's team oriented and he has a lot of intangibles," said Bob
Hurley, Taylor's high school coach at St. Anthony. "I don't know if all these
other players have those things that he possesses. I think he is going to
find his way."
Taylor brings what he has dubbed an "east coast swagger" to Kansas, displaying a quiet confidence on the court, precision passing skills and nasty blow-by moves on defenders to get to the rim — all qualities that helped St. Anthony to an 86-4 record during Taylor's three seasons there.
"He's unique," Hurley said of Taylor, who averaged 10 points and five assists per game in high school last season. "He's one of those few guys that can be on both ends of an alley-oop dunk."
According to KU assistant coach Kurtis Townsend, Taylor has also demonstrated two important intangibles since arriving at the University for summer classes last month: a strong work ethic and a willingness to learn.
Townsend, who isn't allowed to watch Taylor or the six other KU newcomers until classes begin in the fall, said he had heard only positive reviews about Taylor. He said Taylor had been spending hours in the weight room to bulk up his thin, 170-pound frame.
"He's a guy getting everyone together trying to play pick up," Townsend said. "He seems like a natural leader and a guy who wants to get better everyday and will do whatever it takes."
Fairly or unfairly, the comparisons of Taylor's game have already begun to match up against two of the University's recently departed guards from that national championship team: Russell Robinson and Mario Chalmers. Taylor, who should see plenty of their minutes next sea-
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earlier this summer. Thomas was physical and an active rebounder, although while standing next to former Jayhawk Julian Wright, Thomas showed he might be closer to 6-foot-6 than the 6-foot-8 he has often been listed at.
But it's Quintrell Thomas, a 6-foot-8 incoming freshman forward, who can be blamed with starting the trend.
Thomas, a native of Elizabeth, N.J., committed to play at Kansas last October. The Morrisises and Taylor followed, and now Kansas is stocked with East Coast talent, a commodity that was once quite scarce in Lawrence.
hail from Philadelphia — played ball at Apex Academy in Pennsauken, N.J.
With Darnell Jackson, Sasha Kaun graduated and Darrell Arthur's early entry into the NBA draft, sophomore Cole Aldrich is Kansas' only returning front court player.
As an undersized power forward, a few recruiting experts have likened Thomas' game to that of former Jayhawk Darnell Jackson. Thomas showed glimpses of that game at two alumni scrimmages
The Jayhawks may need Thomas to play an important role early on in his career. And if Thomas and mates from New Jersey are successful, fans may hope Self journeys out to the Jersey shore more often.
son and is two inches taller than both, brings an east coast toughness to Kansas just as Robinson did. And Taylor will wear Chalmers' old digits next season — No.15.
— Edited by Matt Hirschfeld
"He might have the leadership qualities of Russell," said Townsend, not wanting to bunch the three guards together. "I don't know if he quite shoots it as good as Mario, but he knows how to score. I think he's got some qualities the other guys have, but I think he's going to be his own player."
Taylor said the toughest part of moving to the Midwest was leaving his family members behind. Maintaining a winning tradition at the University just as the previous guards did should make him feel right at home.
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BEST PLACE TO SLEEP
Bottom floor of Anschutz Library: It's air conditioned, quiet, and if you wake up wanting to read engineering literature from the 1950s, well, you have it all right there. It is pretty much an ideal spot if you need to squeeze in a nap between classes. Tish Barnett, Ozark, Mo., senior, said the best time to go was at night.
"No one is ever there and it is so quiet," Barnett said.
Back row of Budig Auditorium:
Usually you have at least three empty rows between you and the next person, so you don't have to worry if you accidently snore. Plus, if you sleep into the next class, the auditorium is so big you can quietly excuse yourself and nobody will know.
Fourth floor of the Kansas Union: The biggest asset the Kansas
Union has is plenty of couches. Also, if you come at the right time of day, you can grab some doughnuts and orange juice put for the high school kids who visit. It's pretty much like a free bed and breakfast. How can you not love that?
BEST PLACE TO PEOPLE WATCH
In front of The Wheel:
Technically it isn't on campus, but it's close enough. The best time to watch is when the bars get out at 2 a.m. Some nights you can watch a fight on one side of the street, and a drunk girl tripping over a curb on the other. It's good to have options.
Wescoe Beach: This is an easy one. You can watch White Owl scream about KU athletics or listen to different preachers tell us we're all going to hell. You will always see something new at Wescoe Beach.
KU buses: From the girl talking
too loud on her cell phone about her awful roommate or the people running to catch up to the bus. There is always something going on.
Budig restroom: It does get a lot of traffic, but there are plenty of stalls so there's never a line. One feature stands out the most to Emily Hendricks, Overland Park senior.
"There is a full length mirror, need I say more?" Hendricks said.
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First floor of the Kansas Union: With all the new visitors and prospective students who walk through that area, you know these bathrooms are kept clean. Also, they're located close to the bowling alley, so you won't miss your turn if nature calls between frames.
Anschutz Library, first floor: It is so far out-of-the-way it gets only a few users a day. It's a great place if you like to do your business in peace.
BEST PLACE TO TAN
Chancellor's fountain: Before the fall kicks in, enjoy the sun while you can. The best place to get a tan is the Chancellor's fountain, located next to his house. Hendricks said it was one of the more underrated tanning places on campus.
"It's really unknown to most students but it is secluded and peaceful," Hendricks said.
And you never know,you could see the chancellor out there soaking some sun as well.
Chi Omega fountain: Sure you might get a whiff of car fumes if you decide to get your dose of sun by the University's most famous fountain, but you also get one of the prime tanning locations on campus. For Amanda Steffen, Shawnee sophomore, the fountain also has one more perk.
"I like it because it's next to all the fraternity boys," Steffen said.
Grass in front of Watson Library: With the tall trees it's an easy spot to find some shade if you get too hot. Just watch out for the ultimate frisbee games that tend to break out in that area.
Brellas: A good place to take your family or friends visiting campus. One of the only sit down restaurants at KU, it has a variety of food options to choose from and great service.
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**Pizza Hut:** The main advantage of Pizza Hut is that it's cheap and you hardly ever have to wait in a line. Sure the pizza taste like grease and cheese, but who doesn't like bread sticks?
Chick-Fil-A: The only one of its kind in Lawrence, and it's on campus. It's cheap, and the chicken nuggets make a great snack for class.
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Beauty pageants more than just a hand wave
BY BRYAN CISLER bcisler@kansan.com
Staci Klinginsmith can't help it, but when the National American Miss Kansas Pageant rolls around next month she knows she will be on the edge of her seat. Klinginsmith, Overland Park senior, has been
competing in beauty pageants since she was young, but the last several years she has put her performing dreams on hold.
To help pay for college, Klinginsmith now trains younger contestants for the pageant.
"I get more nervous watching the girls compete than when I actually compete because I invest so much time and energy in helping them succeed," Klinginsmith said. "It feels like they are my children on stage."
One thing that bothers Klinginsmith is the stereotypes others have regarding beauty pageants.
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"People just think we are pretty girls without anything going on upstairs," Klinginsmith said.
Klinginsmith, who plans to graduate next year with a business finance degree, said that beauty
Natalie Hays, one of the girls Klinginsmith trains, said before she started competing, she was terrified of public speaking, but now because
pageants helped prepare girls for life in the real world.
"People just think we are pretty girls without anything going on upstairs."
STACI KLINGINSMITH Overland Park senior
"It is just putting these girls one step ahead," Klingensmith said.
Klinginsmith trains the girls in everything from helping them prepare for the judges' questions during interviews to aiding the girls with picking the right dress. Klinginsmith said it had been easy adapting to her new role.
of the pageants she said she has become a better communicator. Klinginsmith said the pageants were designed to teach girls self-confidence.
"I am more critical of them than I was on myself when I competed because I want them to do so well," Klinginsmith said. "I try to watch every little detail I can think of so they can go in with their best foot
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had benefited greatly from pageants.
"She is learning life-long lessons," Hays said. "The process has really prepared her for the future."
Klinginsmith also serves as a judge for pageants. She said being on the other side of the table for one-on-one interviews would be an experience that would help her when she decided to compete again after college.
"I won't be as nervous during the interview process, because it is not as stressful of a situation as I thought it was before," Klinginsmith said.
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BY DEEPA SAMPAT dsampat@kansan.com
Jaybowl patrons will not be able to sip a beer while bowling, despite a proposal passed by the Memorial Union Corporation Board last semester.
The proposal for cereal malt beverage sales in the jaybowl was recently rejected by Provost Richard Lariviere.
"Given the social issues regarding alcohol and the serious nature of alcohol abuse among college students, it is not in the University's best interest to resume the sales of alcohol in the Kansas Union," Lariviere said in a brief memo to the board.
Aly Rodee, member of the board and Wichita senior, said she wasn't surprised by the Provost's decision but was happy to hear a final decision. She said the proposal was a way to show students they could drink socially without getting intoxicated.
"Drinking isn't a horrible thing"
Rodee said. "You can drink one or two beers and be responsible. I guess
he didn't see it that way."
The proposal would have allowed students at least 21 years old to purchase 3.2 percent alcohol beer, which is a lower alcohol content beer than sold in liquor stores. Students would have
Lynn Bretz, director of University communications, said Provost Lariviere carefully looked at the proposal and considered several factors in his decision.
been limited to two beers. Jaybowl employees would have scanned students' IDs and given those at least 21 years old a wristband to prevent underage drinking.
"He thought the proposal was well prepared and thoughtful," Bretz said. "He acknowledged they looked at the issue in great detail."
Bretz said in making his decision, the Provost also took into account that the Jaybowl was open to high school, middle school and
"It is not in the University's best interest to resume the sales of alcohol in the Kansas Union."
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grade school students. Also, a survey conducted by David Mucci, director of KU Memorial Unions, found that only four of the Big 12 schools served alcohol.
Bill Walberg member of the
board and El Dorado Hills, Calif., senior, said he was initially disappointed with the Provost's decision, but could understand why he rejected the proposal.
"It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation," he said.
The board will discuss the Provost's decision at its Aug. 23 meeting.
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Unique atmospheres attract a variety of customers, provide live music, dancing, entertainment
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Lawrence has a plethora of bars and several of the best are located downtown off Massachusetts Street. Here are some of current and former students' favorites:
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beer and barbecue. The patio is packed on summer nights. Outdoor heaters keep the smokers warm in the winter. The Replay has a live band almost every night, so a $2 cover is standard. The friendly environment for
"There are a lot of freaks here. It's the best people watching ever.Most people here are pretty approachable and interesting to talk to.
smokers and indie rockers attracts Lawrence's alternative crowd.
JAMIE SUPICA Olathe senior
Jamie Supica, Olathe senior, said he liked to people watch at the Replay.
Supica said. "Most people here are pretty approachable and interesting to talk to."
"There are a lot of freaks here.
It's the best people watching ever."
The Sandbar 17 E. Eighth St.
The Sandbar has beach party scenery with fish tanks, sand, mermaids and a nightly hurricane reenactment. That tropical ambiance costs $2 to get in.
Tracy Simon,
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said her favorite
part was the sand floor upstairs and a drilled called the Shark Attack.
"I feel like I am away from Lawrence when in the Sandbar," Simon said. "Because it is always like a beach party."
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Henry's on Eigth features a lower-level coffee shop and second-floor bar that opens in the evenings. Students often head there in the afternoon to sip on a latte and finish homework before going upstairs for some classic rock 'n' roll music and relaxing.
REPLAY
The Replay Lounge is well-known even outside of Lawrence. Esquire Magazine named the Replay to its list of the top 50 bars in America in 2007. With its location on Massachusetts Street, students and Lawrence residents often frequent the place.
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Henry's on Eighth 11 E. Eighth St.
Henry's is a European style coffee shop on the first floor. The second floor bar opens at 5 p.m. The small building lends itself to calm and quiet groups. Classic rock 'n roll music plays while several small groups of friends gather around tables.
Matt Brown, 2006 graduate, said he liked Henry's because it was different from other Lawrence bars.
"It's not as obnoxious as other bars in Lawrence," Brown said. "It's laid back and it's not Brothers."
It's Brothers Bar and Grill 1105 Massachusetts St.
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"Brothers is a perfect hangout for dancing," Vanna said. "It's very chill and not so clubby."
Brothers is one of the most popular bars for younger people. Crowds of at least 15 people can be seen waiting to get in Thursday through Saturday after 11 p.m. A dance floor and cheap drink specials draw crowds.
At Brothers every night is ladies night. There is no cover charge for women, but a $5 cover for men. Surprisingly, this does not dissuade men from going to Brother's, which could have to do with the large beer-on-tap selection, darts and pool
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Louise's Downtown 1009 Massachusetts St.
Louise's is a smaller dark bar with a few pool tables and intimate booths. It is a good bar to unwind at before going home.
Erin Graham, Neodesha senior,
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"It's chill and relaxed." Graham said. "It's a place to have a good time and not have to hooch out."
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Coming to college for the first time, freshmen may feel excited about their newfound freedom. Instead of wasting parent-free time, plenty of activities exist for freshmen to take part in.
GO TO SPORTING EVENTS
The University has an amazing atmosphere for sports. When you go to a football or basketball game, go all out. Wear your Jayhawk T-shirt with pride, sport a temporary tattoo and make a day of it. Meet with your friends beforehand to have your own pre-game tradition. Maybe you watch basketball videos on YouTube before heading to Allen Fieldhouse or maybe you all go out to eat for barbecue before walking to Memorial Stadium. Whatever tradition you choose, make it your own. Take advantage of your on-campus location while you can — you don't have to worry about parking,
Team members bowl side by side during Monday's bowling practice. Members of the KU Bowling team can be found practicing at the Jaybowl five days a week.
BOWL
Lucky for us, the University has its very own bowling lanes right on campus. The Jaybowl on the first floor of the Kansas Union is open year round for students to enjoy. For students, bowling is $2.50 per game or $18 for an hour per lane. Friday and Saturday from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Jaybowl has "cosmic bowling," which is bowling under a black light and free for students.
ENJOY THE THEATRE
The University has both University Theatre productions and Lied Center productions right at our fingertips. Students can enjoy a taste of the Big Apple with the Lied Center's "Broadway Series." Five Broadway style musicals are coming to Lawrence this year including "Sweeney Todd." Students can also attend productions with student actors put on by The University Theatre. The University Theatre season includes four shows each semester. If you feel you're better suited on stage rather than watching the stage, brush up your monologue and prepare for the spring round of auditions. Auditions are not just for theater students, any student can get involved in University Theatre.
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at 3 p.m. Tea and cookies are served in the lobby of the Kansas Union. If you're more of a rocker than a tea connoisseur, enjoy free music on the Union plaza at noon on Fridays.
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SUA preferred student cards help you get access to all entertainment put on by SUA. Most Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays SUA shows movies in the Union at 8 p.m. The preferred student card allows you to see these for free. Card holders are also given first priority and discounts in purchasing tickets on concerts and guests coming to the University through SUA. The card costs $30.
CHECK OUT 18+ VENUES
The Bottleneck hosts two weekly events open to those who are underage. Every Sunday at 8:30 p.m. people
can come to "Smackdown Trivia and Karaoke." Those who dream of being on a game show can show off their skills at the weekly trivia game featuring grammar, academia and pop culture. The $5 cover goes toward the winners earnings. The Bottleneck also hosts NEON dance party every Thursday at 10 p.m. Dancers can move to hip-hop, rap, pop, funk and even disco. Cover is $5 for people under 21.
ESCAPE TO KANSAS CITY
There are plenty of activities to enjoy in our neighboring city. Take a day to go shopping at Country Club Plaza and take advantage of the large concert venues. Coldplay will perform at the Sprint Center on Nov. 13 and Maroon 5 and Counting Crows will perform with Augustana on Sept. 26 at the Starlight Theatre.
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Lawrence restaurants provide good eats for hungry students
From upscale dining to rowdy sports bars, Lawrence eateries provide lots of opportunities to treat your taste buds.
BY MIKE NOLAN mnolan@kansan.com
One of the best ways Lawrence shows off its charm and its character is in its restaurants. From The Wheel down the hill from campus, to the sports bars on Massachusetts Street, Lawrence provides a variety of great places to grab a bite to eat, get a drink and bask in the congeniality of this mid-western college town.
No one will go through four years at the University and make to every restaurant in town, but if nothing else do not miss Jefferson's, 743 Massachusetts St.
Jefferson's has great wings, chicken fingers and burgers. With an "everybody knows your name" environment and a great location, Jefferson's is the fundamental college sports bar. And don't forget to bring markers because at Jefferson's, patrons can decorate a dollar any way they want, and have it added to collage of dollar bills that covers the walls.
"Jefferson's is the perfect college town restaurant and bar," Bob Sherrets, Lincoln, Neb., senior, said. "Its location and school spirit make it perfect for hanging out and enjoying college."
Other great spots in the Jefferson's category, which should not be missed, are The Yacht Club, 530 Wisconsin
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Restaurants spring up during summer
New venues offer good eats ranging from Coney Island cuisine to burgers with tons of toppings.
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While students left Lawrence for internships and vacations, several restaurants sprung up in Lawrence over the summer.
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Five Guys Burgers and Fries, 2040 W. 31st Street, opened in late June adjacent to Best Buy and Longhorn Steakhouse.
The Virginia-based chain, which started in 1986 and now claims 292 franchises, offers a "straightforward menu with great hot dogs and burgers,"
according to co-owner Mike Richev.
Richey said Five Guys Burgers
and Fries was a no-frills restaurant that stuck to grilling burgers, fries and hot dogs instead of dabbling in salads and desserts. The restaurant offers 15 free toppings on burgers and hot dogs — Richey said bacon was the most popular topping.
by restaurants such as Backyard Burgers and Steak *n* Shake, Richey
"We feel like the response has been good and people seem to enjoy the product. Now we're just anxious to see some of the students coming back to town."
Despite competition from near-
MIKE RICHEY Co-owner of Five Guys Burgers and Fries
said Five Guys Burgers and Fries' business has been robust in its first few weeks.
some of the students coming back to town"
"We feel like the response has been good and people seem to enjoy the product," Richey said. "Now we're just anxious to see
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Holiday Plaza shopping center is home to Paisano's Ristorante, one of Lawrence's top date-night destinations. As of early July, the strip mall also has a more laid-back dining option: The Hut, 2116 W. 25th St..
The Hut is just what it sounds like: A small hut that wouldn't seem out of place at the state fair. But its small size belies its fairly diverse menu.
The restaurant serves a variety of simple foods, including open-faced roast beef sandwiches, frito pies and sloppy joes. Owner Barry Rogers
said The Hut's specialty was Coney Island-style hot dogs miniature hot dogs served with onions and hot sauce.
"The Coney Island hot dog obviously comes from the region in New York, but it has become more popular in the South," said The Hut owner Barry Rogers. "We're hoping it'll catch on here."
Rogers said Coney Island-style food was particularly popular in Tulsa, Okla., where he previously owned a restaurant.
The Hut's most expensive item costs less than $5.
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The Yacht Club is not the snobly boating community its name refers to, but actually a rabid sports bar that has a standing room only crowd on football and basketball games days. Plus the food is excellent.
Johnny's Tavern, another classic Lawrence sports bar, has served Jayhawk fans since 1957 and offers great burgers and fantastic pizza. It sits just north of the Kansas River, but if there ever was a reason to travel to north Lawrence, Johnny's was the reason.
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To partake in a Lawrence tradition and to experience the University's most famous bar head to the Wagon Wheel, 507 14th St., on weekday afternoons between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. The Wheel serves great burgers, chicken sandwiches and fries
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"Ten is the best place to go to on a date. I love the intimate setting and the food is awesome."
City, MO., 2007 graduate. "If you don't go at least once you are missing out on a special Kansas tradition."
From an ethnic standpoint, Lawrence provides some great locally-owned options. Jade Mongolian Barbeque, 1511 W. 23rd St., is a terrific blend of Mongolian grill and
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With an all you can eat buffet,
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For students looking to class it up, two fine dinning options are Ten at the Eldridge Hotel, 701 Massachusetts St. and Yokohama, 811 New Hampshire St.
Ten serves great steaks, pastas and seafood and it might be Lawrence's finest restaurant. It also might be a little out of the price range for typical college students. Save Ten for special occasions or maybe parents weekend. The atmosphere is as elegant as elegant gets in a college town and makes for a great date restaurant or celebration spot. Plan on spending $20 to $35 in order to truly enjoy Ten.
Yokohama makes customers feel like they walked out of Lawrence into a cozy bistro in Tokyo. The best place to go for sushi in Lawrence, Yokohama recently moved to its current location and created a fashion forward and stylish restaurant that complements the quality of the food. Yokohama is neither overly lavish nor overpriced, but it will definitely cost more than an average meal in Lawrence.
This is by no means a comprehensive survey of the Lawrence restaurant scene, but it marks the highlights, and each of the aforementioned establishments deserves a visit from anyone new to Lawrence.
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Election Day involves more than showing up to vote
Register before Election Day, get up-to-date on the issues to make a vote count
BY RAMSEY COX
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The 2008 Presidential Election is Tuesday, November 4. That may seem like a ways off, but a student's busy schedule can make the voter registration deadline sneak up. If a voter is not registered by their state's deadline, they can only cast a provisional ballot in the Presidential Election, which may or may not be counted.
The deadline for voter registration in Kansas is Oct. 20.
"Of all the years to become engaged in the electoral process, this is the year," said Jenny Davidson, communication director for the Kansas Democratic Party. "Especially as a young person — we're facing record gas prices, rising food costs, an out-of-control health care system and month after month of job losses. As young Americans, we can't afford to let the country continue to head in this direction, but nothing will change if we don't go to the polls and vote for change."
The Kansas Democratic Party and student groups like Young Democrats, University of Kansas Students for Barack Obama, KU College Republicans and Students of Liberty plan to register students on campus. Students can also find voter registration forms at the local library, post office, city hall and online at the Kansas Secretary of State Web site www.kssos.org.
David Greenwald, Overland Park senior and KU College Republican, worked on Republican campaigns, registering voters during the summer.
"It's important to vote because 18- to 24-year-olds are under represented," Greenwald said. "If we don't, politicians don't address issues relevant to our age group."
If a student is already registered to vote, but wants to change where they are registered because they have
moved to a different district or state, they need to fill out the same voter registration form by the deadline. The same form is also used to change party affiliation.
Some students register for advanced mail ballots for convenience or because it is easier to vote in their home state or district while living in Lawrence for school. The Kansas advanced mail ballot registration deadline is Oct. 31. The advanced mail ballot forms are available in the same places as the regular registration ballots. Mail ballots are usually sent out 20 days before Election Day and must be mailed by noon the day before Election Day.
"I think advanced ballots are wonderful," said David Jones, Kansas City, Kan., senior, and community outreach worker for the Kansas Democratic Party. "It provides an opportunity to research the people running who you might not know about."
Adam Wood, Lawrence senior and President of Students of Liberty, said he though students moving to Lawrence from swing states like Ohio should stay registered in their home state as an absentee voter because Kansas would always vote for a republican for president through the Electoral College.
"Kansas is most likely going to McCain," Wood said. "Getting out the vote is great and all, but when uneducated people vote, bad things happen like we elect George Bush."
Political knowledge is not a requirement to vote, but for first time voters an ID is required. A driver's license, bank statement, paycheck, utility bill, military ID, student ID or passport can be used as ID at Kansas voting polls.
Wood said it was important to know about the candidates and issues before voting.
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Lost among laptops, textbooks and pens is a back-to-school necessity that has become more expensive recently — food.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, food costs are rising because of stronger global demand, weather problems in some regions and the increased use of some foods to create biofuels. Because of the rising cost of food commodities, grocery stores and KU Dining facilities have raised prices since last school year.
"Any sort of food establishment, whether it's fast food or fine dining, is feeling the impact," said KU Dining Services Marketing Manager Shant Thomas.
Thomas said students could expect slightly higher food prices at oncampus locations such as the Kansas Union and Wescoe Underground. He said KU Dining Services only raised prices enough to offset its own rising expenditures.
According to the USDA, the cost of dining out is about 4 percent higher than it was one year ago.
The meal plans offered by KU Dining have increased by an average of almost 10 percent since last year, but Thomas said the rise in meal plan pricing was not triggered by food prices. He said a reorganization of the University's meal plans based on customer comments may have led to the increase.
Grocery stores have not escaped increased food costs. According to the USDA, purchasing foods at the
supermarket became nearly 6 percent more expensive in the past year.
"Food price inflation is running the highest it's been in 20 years and a lot of people aren't used to it," said USDA economist Ephrain Leibtag. "It's not ridiculous, but it's noticeable."
The most noticeable price spikes occurred in eggs, dairy and products made with wheat or corn. The price of eggs rose about 18 percent in the past year, and cheese costs inflated 14 percent. Cereal and bakery food prices jumped nearly 11 percent.
A 10 to 15 percent price push
each year could punish students' pockets in the long run, but some aren't concerned yet.
"I'm not too worried about it," said Justyne Swiercinsky, Clarkston, Mich., freshman. "I worked in high school to save up money for college."
Leibtag said continuing issues with the production of biofuels would keep grain prices high in the long-term, but the prices of other foods could stabilize in the near future.
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Drunken nights lead to dishing out the dough
College students who find themselves partying too hard can end up paying for it in more ways than one.
BY CHRISTINE D'AMICO cdamico@kansan.com
College has long been depicted as the one place in your life when drunken debauchery is accepted. The antics of John Belushi in "Animal House," Will Ferrell in "Old School," and Paul Rudd in "Clueless" have set a benchmark of trouble-making that college students have tried to mimic ever since. But how much do the standard activities cost if Johnny Law decides to crash the party? Here's a run down of common offenses undergraduates collect.
STREAKING THROUGH THE QUAD
Cody Chaplin, Wichita senior, is a self-proclaimed Dallas Cowboys fanatic. It was November and the Cowboys had won in overtime with
a field goal.
"I was so excited I pulled my clothes off and ran around the block," Chaplin said.
Chaplin said the November run through the student ghetto was quite invigorating.
It was all fun and games for Chaplin because he didn't get caught. But if the police had happened to cruise by, the next morning Chaplin would have been greeted by more than a hangover and a cold.
Streaking is considered by Kansas law to be a lewd and lascivious act. It is classified as a class B non-person misdemeanor that runs offenders $200 to $500 and 100 hours of community service.
However, if you're still willing to risk it, make sure to cover up around people 16 and younger.
If you streak past a child you'll land yourself a level 9 person felony, getting you jail time and a spot on the Kansas Sex Offender registry.
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There was no way Nick Nieses,
23, Wichita, was leaving a KU basketball game for a bathroom break.
But he couldn't quite make it back to his friend's place to relieve himself either. There was, however, Wescoe Beach.
Nieses wasn't caught either, but if the KU police had been combing the area, he would have received a lewd and lascivious charge, classified as a class B non-person felony and a minimum $500 fine.
TRYING TO GET LUCKY WITH THE FRESHMEN
They're young and cute, but dangerous, and Erin Alonso, 21, Topeka, used to be one of them. Her senior year in high school she attended a party at a twenty-something's house and ended up with more than she bargained for.
The previous weekend, police had been called to the house following the report of a false rape claim. Unaware of the circumstance, the next weekend Alonso and a group of friends attended the party.
Soon after they arrived, the same police who investigated the report the weekend before came to serve the twenty-something with a furnishing to minors ticket.
While on the couch, one of the women officers broke into tears about their safety at a house like that.
"She was like, 'I don't want to see any of you getting hurt,' which was weird because we could hear the guy who owned the house getting tazed outside in his front yard," Alonso said.
After the tazing, the twenty-something landed a furnishing alcohol to minors violation, or a class B person misdemeanor. Consequences for this violation yield a $200 to $500 fine with 100 hours of community service.
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"I knew the cops had targeted me." Rhoads said.
Stephanie Rhoads, Topeka senior, was out last year with her boyfriend and a group of friends. After finding a place to sit down at a local bar, Rhoads noticed her friends running to the back porch and her boyfriend's face go blank.
The police officer escorted Rhoads outside of the bar to further question her on the events of the night. While on her way out the door, she managed to throw her fake ID onto the patio of Buffalo Wild Wings.
She was able to finagle her way out of admitting she had entered the bar with a fake ID, but the doorman of the establishment overheard the conversation and tried to assist.
"He was trying to be ever so helpful and went to get the tapes that proved I showed him a fake ID, so he could get out of letting a minor into the bar," Rhoads said.
Rhoads got slapped with an MIP, carrying a punishment of $100-$250 fine and a maximum 30 day jail sentence. However, by managing to ditch her altered ID, she escaped a level 8 non-person felony.
According to the Student Monitor, the average monthly allowance for an undergraduate at a four-year college is $208. Roughly speaking, all of these violations will force their offenders to forfeit partying for at least a month, not to mention the community service hours that will undoubtedly cut into any party schedule, to pay off the government.
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The Plaza shopping area in Kansas City, Mo., is well-known as one of the best shopping districts in the Midwest. On Thanksgiving, a lighting ceremony marks the beginning of an iconic holiday lighting spectacle that lasts through the winter.
The medical center, Edwards Campus and University alumni are located in and around Kansas City where 'you can't throw a rock on campus without hitting someone from Kansas City.'
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Jayhawks grinned and Tigers cringed. All because Hall-of-Famer and former Kansas City Royal George Brett made a proclamation — on national television no less.
"Living in Kansas City, you got to be a KU fan," Brett said on-air to a reporter, as Brett watched a Kansas basketball game last winter at Allen
Fieldhouse.
Apparently Brett's wife went to school here, and Brett lives in Mission Hills, an affluent suburb of Kansas City and prime Jayhawk territory.
Did you know?
On average it only takes 40 to 45 minutes to hit downtown Kansas City from Lawrence. But that short trip still might burn a hole in your wallet. With gas prices
hovering around four dollars per gallon, that 80 mile round trip to Kansas City can cost you more than $15 just in gasoline, and that's if you're driving a car that gets 20 miles for every gallon of gas.
So while Missouri fans in Kansas City shouted blasphemy, maybe there was — and is — a little truth to Brett's sideline remarks.
Throw in that more than 40 percent of the University's student population comes from Johnson County, which sits in the shadow of Kansas City, Mo., and you start to see where Brett was coming from.
The University and Kansas City, Mo., have seemed intrinsically linked for years. The University of Kansas Medical Center is in Kansas City, Kan., the KU Edwards Campus is in Overland Park, and more University alumni live in Kansas City and its suburbs than any other city in the country.
In some ways, the University is as much a Kansas City staple as barbecue or fountains.
"The Kansas City influence is everywhere," said Todd Brown, Shawnee senior. "KC is a KU town and you can't throw a rock on campus without hitting someone from Kansas City."
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- Kauffman Stadium: The Kansas City Royals have discounted tickets for college students on Wednesday nights. Or go on Buck Night. The Hot Dogs are a dollar — albeit a little soggy.
- Liberty Memorial, 100 W. 26th St.: Great monument and great museum. Just be careful there at night — not that there's anything wrong with that.
- Negro Leagues Museum, 1616 E. 18th St.: This Museum celebrates an entire piece of baseball that some people forget. Rest in peace Buck O'Neil. Kansas City misses you.
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Taking a shot at the Vodka business
2002 KU graduate Cory Brock, and partner Josh Burnett, are turning heads by producing Honor Vodka right here in Lawrence.
BY MIKE NOLAN
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Three years ago Cory Brock's phone rang. He heard the voice of his friend Josh Burnett, who was in Lynchburg, Tenn., at the Jack Daniels factory, the headquarters of the world famous whiskey.
Burnett learned in Tennessee that Jack Daniels started making his own whiskey as a teenager. He was inspired to call Brock. When Brock answered his phone in Kansas, Burnett asked him to be a partner in the whiskey-making business.
When Brock received Burnett's
phone call he loved the idea of making alcohol, but he recommended that they make vodka instead.
"Josh likes to drink whiskey so he said whiskey," Brock, a KU alumnus, said. "Me, I am more of a vodka drinker so I said let's make vodka."
What started as a phone call has grown into Honor Distilling, a Lawrence company that produces and bottles vodka. The popularity of the vodka is growing and spreading to neighboring states.
Brock had a more scientific reason for encouraging Burnett to try making vodka instead. Whiskey needs to be aged in a charred barrel, while vodka only needs to be distilled and mixed with purified water.
The two settled on vodka and started researching. Brock said he found information in multiple places, and after three years of research with trial and error he finalized a recipe. Brock called the final product Honor Vodk, which is also the name of his company.
"Honestly, our recipe and our process is a conglomerate of tons of research," Brock said.
Sixty-three tries later, Brock finalized his recipe, which got bottled and put on the shelves.
Their recipe consists of a corn and wheat blend, which is distilled with 100 percent grain alcohol and then mixed with purified water.
Brock said the Midwest made for a good place to distill vodka because of the abundance of grains.
"We chose corn and wheat, but you can actually use any grain product to make vodka," Brock said.
"We were scared of the first batch," Brock said. "We looked at each other like I'm not drinking that."
Brock, who graduated from the University of Kansas in 2002 with a
The process didn't come easy. Brock said he and Burnett didn't get it right on the first try or even the 50th try.
business degree, knew soon after college that corporate America was not for him. He moved to Minnesota and worked for a mortgage broker, but the job did not motivate him.
"I always knew I wanted to own my own business," said the 30-year-old Brock.
During college he managed the Jayhawk Cafe, also known as The Hawk, and bartended at the Ranch. After working in Minnesota he owned a company that did promotional work for the Dallas-based alcohol-distributing company Glazer's.
"The thing about starting your own business is that you have to have a lot of people that are willing to help you out," Brock said.
These experiences gave Brock confidence that if he could make a good product,he knew enough people in the industry to get the product in the stores and bars.
In order to even begin Honor Distilling, Brock and Burnett filled
out a mountain of paper work to gain a federal and state license to produce alcohol. They do not have a license to sell alcohol, so they sell to the distributor Glazer's, which then sells Honor to liquor stores.
Brock said the whole project "was just a hobby that got out of control," Brock said.
In just two months of operation, Honor has already spread from Lawrence into Missouri and received good reviews.
Dan Blomgren, owner of the Cork & Barrel liquor stores, said Honor is better than comparably prices vodkas.
"I did a taste test at Quinton's and Honor beat Absolut and Skyy hands down," Blomgren said.
Brock and Burnett are working on getting a patent for their process, which Brock thinks will take the company to a new level.
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Gamer'Nutt'attempts to recreate the feel of old-school arcades
Lawrence resident Gene Nutt has turned the second floor of his store, Game Nut, into a palace for area gamers.
BY MIKE NOLAN
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Gene Nutt used to drive more than an hour from his hometown of New London, Mo., to the nearest mall to do what he loved most: play video games. Fast-forward a couple decades and Nutt has turned a childhood passion into a livelihood and is attempting to bring the dying breed of arcades back to life in Lawrence.
As the owner of Game Nut, 844 Massachusetts St., Nutt's attempt at recreating the feel of a video game arcade turned into a reality during the past six months.
Nutt entered the video game
industry in 1990 working at Software Etc., a now obsolete video game chain. He then worked in management at EB Games before realizing he could go into business for himself.
"After watching someone else do something for long enough, you learn how to do it yourself," Nutt said. "It's simple, buy low and sell high."
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Three years ago, he left Topeka for Lawrence and opened his own store. When he purchased the property three years ago, he planned to turn the second floor into a video game lounge. He also sold pre-owned merchandise and collected obscure video game artifacts.
In December 2007, Nutt opened the Gamer Loft on the second floor of his store. The loft features 14 HD TVs equipped with every video game console ever sold. Gamers play anything from the original Nintendo, released in 1985, to Playstation 3.
released last year. Nutt offers a snack bar to keep gamers refreshed as they compete in video games. He said most of the gamers were men ages 18 to 25.
Nutt said he did not intend to make a profit with the Gamer Loft, but wanted to give gamers a place where they could play together like he did in the arcades.
"I grew up in arcades," Nutt said. "They do not really exist anymore and there has been nothing to replace them, I just wanted to try and bring it back."
As the host, Nutt does not compete with the gamers who come to the Gamer Loft, or participate in any gaming tournaments.
"It wouldn't be fair if I went up there and schooled everyone," Nutt said.
Nutt said places like the Gamer Loft existed on the East and the West Coasts, but in the Midwest there was nothing like it. Nutt said that if he could play host to national gaming tournaments at his store, people from neighboring states would drive hours to participate.
He said online gaming reenergized him for playing new video games. New games feature online gaming, where players around the world compete against each other in popular games like Grand Theft Auto IV, Call of Duty 4 and Halo 3.
Nutt's next step is to try and link gamers at the Gamer Loft with other gaming communities around the nation and be a host site for national tournaments.
When he is not attending to other gamers at the Gamer Loft or working downstairs in his store, Nutt is a
married father of three girls. He said being a family man forced him to balance his gaming time with family time, but still found time to continue gaming.
Nutt said he played Atari when he was a kid and Asteroids was his favorite game. Today he owns an Xbox 360, which he uses to play popular first person shooter titles such as Call of Duty 4 and Halo 3.
"I just want to shoot stuff," Nutt said.
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Chatting with freshmen about incoming college life Four freshmen talk about expectations and concerns for their first year at a major University
BY RUSTIN DODD dodd@kansan.com
Two girls sit at a table in the corner of the Kansas Union fourth floor. One unfolds a pamphlet offering information about Jayhawk traditions and when the libraries open. Young faces float around the rest of the floor.
Kylinn Gerstner and Paige
Stephens are in no hurry.
"We're just hanging out," Stephens said.
They're just waiting. You sit around a lot when you go to summer orientation.
Stephens and Gerster learned the truth about summer orientation on a humid July day. They chose classes, finalized living arrangements and waited. But they'll never have to do it again. They're about to be freshmen, full-time students at the University.
and members of the class of 2012.
They're two of thousands, part of a group on the precipice of college.
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Stephens and Gerstner's home town, Colby, is home to five to six thousand people.
"6,000 on a good day," Gerstner says.
The University can almost multiply that number by five.
But Gerstner's not worried. She's thinking about majoring in biochemistry. She wants to go into medicine. But mostly, she is looking forward to dorm life - she's living in McCollum - and a "wide selection of guys," Gerstner says.
In July, Gerstner had talked to her roommate once.
"She seems nice," she said. But she's worried about living
with someone she's never met.
Stephens is worried too. But for another reason. She says she doesn't want to live at G.S.P, and as of July, that's where she was scheduled to live.
Stephens will be on the KU Crew team, and she's a second generation Jayhawk. Her mom went here. Her sister is coming here too, a transfer from Colby Community College.
"It'll be nice to have her," Stephen's said.
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Gina Cohen listens to music on her headphones amidst the organized chaos of orientation. She's from Overland Park, just 30 minutes away.
Cohen's brother will be a senior this year. Her older sister already graduated. She didn't need to take
one of those campus tours, she says. She knows Lawrence, and she loves it.
"I like the vibe," Cohen said. "It has a lot of culture, even though it seems like a small town in the middle of nowhere."
But Cohen says another thing pulled her to the University. She was at her Overland Park home in early April, with the television on. She watched Kansas beat Memphis for the National Championship and she saw how the students reacted.
"I was thinking, I'd like to go there," Cohen said.
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Up the stairs from Cohen, Tim Ellis, an incoming freshman from Manhattan, waits for his Mom. He's about to walk into another presentation.
Mario Chalmer's shot didn't affect Ellis' college decision.
The University just gave him more scholarship money than anywhere else, he says. He's majoring in chemical engineering. He wants to go medical school, or maybe just focus on research, he says. His test scores and grades put him in the honors placement program. He's a little concerned about taking sophomore English as a freshman. But he said he was looking forward to living off-campus with friends and being on his own.
The presentation is about to begin, and Ellis needs to go.
"Yeah," he says. "Just being in college."
For Gerstner, Stephens and Cohen, it's the same feeling. College, at last.
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Tami Albin said she was tired of hearing stereotypes about Kansas, especially regarding the lives of gay and lesbian people. Some people showed Albin, KU undergraduate instruction and outreach librarian, pity once they learned she lived in Kansas.
"They made comments, just derogatory comments that had no basis," Albin said. "Kansas, full of tumbleweeds, a wasteland, nothing was happening here. There wasn't any kind of progressive politics happening in the entire state."
In response, Albin started an oral history project, "Under the Rainbow", in the past year to challenge stereotypes about gay and lesbian people living in Kansas. She interviews gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer people, or GLBTIQ.
in Kansas to find out how they feel about living in the state. She received several research grants, including a two-year fund from the KU Center for Research.
"I think this project will create a better understanding." Albin said. "Progress can be gained through understanding stories of people living in Kansas."
About 72,500 gay, lesbian and bisexual people lived in Kansas as of 2005, according to the Williams Institute at University of California Los Angeles School of Law.
Albin talked to more than 20 people, including Gilbert Baker from Wichita, who created the Rainbow Flag in 1978. Albin said more than 90 people across the state had contacted her and wanted to share their stories. She plans to travel to western Kansas this summer to conduct more interviews.
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and do as many as I can in my spare time," she said. "If people want to talk to me, I should listen."
Albin plans to open a database on the KU ScholarWorks in September. Her oral and visual interviews will be available to any researcher who is interested in GLBTIQ issues in Kansas.
Holly Mercer, interim coordinator for scholar services, said the database was an innovative use of the KU ScholarWorks.
"That's a really nice component not to just read someone's story but to be able to hear them talk about their stories themselves," Mercer said.
Milton Wendland, graduate teaching assistant of women's studies, contributed research material to the database along with his students. Wendland taught the course "Gay and Lesbian Cultures in the United States" last spring. His students
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worked on research projects related to GLBT people in Kansas.
He said the research topics varied from domestic violence in same-sex relationships to the Gay Games to how fraternities and sororities at some Kansas schools had dealt with homophobia.
"Not all LGBT history happens in New York, L.A. and San Francisco," Wendland said. "This database, I hope, is going to be like a gold mine for scholars who are interested in starting to look beyond the coast."
Matthew Blankers, Claremont, Calif. junior, conducted research about violence against queer people in Kansas and created a bibliography that would help researchers to learn
about the issue.
"One of the biggest things I've learned is how difficult it is to find a lot of information about various queer people in Kansas," Blankers said.
Albin said she hoped the project would help researchers and also people who thought they might be gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex or queer.
"When you are realizing that you might be gay or lesbian or any of these categories, it's a really hard and lonely process," Albin said. "Having access to material that other people have gone through same things is very, very helpful."
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Rachael Trader's friends couldn't believe it when she tried out for a roller derby league in Kansas City. At the time, Trader was a 19-year-old biology major working for Sprint — hardly the image of a typical roller derby girl.
is no 'that type of girl.' We have people of all kinds doing this," Trader said.
"When I tell people I do roller derby, they say, 'I don't see you as that type of girl,' but really there
Once a month at Hale Arena in Kansas City, Mo., 80 girls lace up their skates and compete for the Kansas City Roller Warriors. Each player has
Mary Burleson drove from Arkansas to cheer on The Knockouts in last Saturday's event. Burleson, who sported a white wig and a long blue dress, serves as the team's unofficial mascot, and has been a fan of
Roller derby fans are also passion- ate about the league.
a skater name; Trader, a member of the Dreadnought Dorothys, skates in front of thousands of people as she unleashes her alter ego, Archie Lee. She said it gave her an opportunity to show fans an aggressive side to her personality.
The league was started four years ago when the girls would practice in parking lots filled with broken glass and debris. Word spread about the women, and the league quickly drew fans. An average crowd at Hale Arena ranges from 1,000 to 3,000 people. There are even plans for a reality TV show about the league, that will air on Metro Sports in Kansas City next fall.
"You really are a different type of person, and that is the joy of having a different kind of name." Trader said. "It is a different feeling to have an outlet to blow off that steam because a lot of us don't have a way outside roller derby to get rid of that stress."
"You have girls beating up on each other. There is no greater entertainment if you ask me."
the league since it began.
"You have girls beating up on each other," Burleson said, "There is no greater entertainment if you ask me."
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The league is trying to showcase its athletic side, and shed unwanted stereotypes from its past. In the 1970s, bouts were scripted, putting roller derby in a category with pro-wrestling, rather than an actual sport.
Tonya Hagedorn, Lawrence resi
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arm in tryouts.
"We don't work this hard in practice to not try our hardest to win," said Hagedorn, who made the team despite breaking her
The girls practice three times a week, and injuries range from torn ligaments to concussions.
of three, said she thought the league finally had the right mix of girls.
this in terms of how physical this is," Durham said. "You have to be a serious athlete to play roller derby, you can't just do this for fun."
"Knowing that there is 80 girls that come back week after week and give it their all is what is so special about this league," Leavitt said.
For Trader, roller derby changed her life. She is transferring out of the University and moving to Kansas City, Mo., in part, so she can focus
on roller derby, and be a part of the sport as long as she can.
For Joy Durham, also known as DurHammer, roller derby takes a lot more effort than people think.
"I played soccer for eight years and that was nothing compared to
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New city law allows alcohol outside
Patrons of Lawrence bars can now take beverages in plastic cups out of venues, onto sidewalks
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Lawrence bar-goers will no longer have to abandon or finish their drinks when going outside for a cigarette.
According to an ordinance passed by the city commission Tuesday night, many
Lawrence bars will now be able to allow customers to enjoy their drinks on the sidewalk.
Frank Reeb, city clerk, said the demand for outside privileges began when the smoking ban was implemented in July 2004. The ban forced guests of bars and restaurants to abandon their cocktails when they wanted a cigarette.
Under the new ordinance, bars could allow people to take their drinks outside with them, as long as they were contained in plastic cups. Glasses and bottles would not be allowed outside at bars.
Reeb said the ordinance provides a more relaxed policy through lower regulations.
He said it lowered the necessary food and non-alcoholic sales percentage from
70 percent to 55 percent of the establishment's total sales. This means local establishments with alcohol sales comprising less than 45 percent of total sales will be able to let guests drink on the sidewalk.
The ordinance passed with a four-to-one vote at the city commission meeting.
Mike Amyx, city commissioner, said the rules established in the ordinance made sense, in light of the success Lawrence businesses and police had during March Madness last spring. After the tournament's semifinal and final people were allowed to dink alcohol outside as long as it was in a plastic cup.
Amyx said the city would allow restaurant such as Teller's on Massachusetts
Street, an establishment with a high percentage of food sales, to continue serving wine and food outside.
For bars, the ordinance allows the consumption of alcoholic beverages outside as long as at least six feet of unobstructed sidewalk is available for public use.
Despite that limitation, Jerry Neverve, owner of the Red Lyon Tavern on Massachusetts Street, said he was pleased the city commission finally approved the ordinance.
"I think it's fabulous," Neverve said. "We've been trying to get this passed for three years. It'll just be better for us."
bring their drinks with them when stepping outside for a cigarette.
Benjamin Lloyd Morgan, Lenexa junior, said the ruling would improve the social aspects of downtown nightlife.
"I think it's going to be awesome," Morgan said. "People want to be outside when they go out, especially during the summer. It will definitely make the social scene better."
Neverve said he had already started Red Lyon's application process required to obtain the license made available by the ordinance.
The ordinance will be effective immediately, but individual establishments must apply for the proper license to follow the new rules.
ATHLETICS
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Members of the KU football team can now be viewed practicing on the newly-constructed practice field from the vantage of the Mississippi Street parking garage. The team has started practicing inside Memorial Stadium so onlookers can't watch practice.
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Football team chooses to practice in Memorial Stadium for privacy
New facilities next to the Mississippi Street parking garage afford fans a view that athletics staff don't want them to have
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In contrast to the football team's old practice fields, which were tucked behind Allen Fieldhouse and Hoglund Ballpark, the new fields were built next to the Mississippi Street parking garage, where passing fans can easily stop and watch practice.
"There was no real concern expressed," Jim Marchiony, associate athletics director, said of the new practice fields being positioned in plain view from pedestrians.
But now that the fields have been built and the team has begun practicing on them, officials' opinions have changed.
Fans can stand in the garage and get an unobstructed view of the team while it is practicing. The old fields were visible from some of the rooms in Oliver Hall and a few other small locations, but not nearly as many views were as clear as those of the new fields.
Campanile hill, the Kansas Union, Mississippi Street and several other spots all offer a clear view of the fields. Many locations even allow onlookers to clearly hear coaches' instructions to the players.
Coach Mark Mangino and his staff had been asking onlookers to leave at the beginning of August, but were informed that they no longer would be able to do
that.
"Mississippi Street is a public street," Marchiony said. "We can't throw someone off of a public street."
During his tenure, only a few minutes of practice each week were open to the media and the team held only two open practices for fans during training camp.
Mangino even told former running-back Brandon McAnderson's dad, Ramon McAnderson, that he couldn't watch practice after Ramon had been watching with binoculars from the apartments that overlook the old fields.
Fans who watch practice on the new fields could post updates on the Internet
about players' injuries and other information that Mangino could want to keep private, like new variations to his offense, such as Kerry Meier showing up on the field as wide receiver last year.
"Most of the practices have been in the morning so I couldn't go because of work," Mark Hays, Overland Park senior, said. "But my friends and I plan on watching some from the parking garage once school starts. It's pretty cool that we can watch practice because my friends don't even have tickets to the games so this will be a way for them to see them play."
Because it won't be allowed to keep people from watching practice, the team
has practiced almost exclusively inside Memorial Stadium.
"I'm not concerned about that kind of stuff," Mangino said. "I've got more important things to do."
Marchiony said that the whole situation had been "irritating" to both the football team and the Athletics Department. He also said that everybody was aware of the situation before the fields were built, and that nobody should be surprised with the way things turned out.
"It's not keeping anybody awake at night," Marchiony said.
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CAMPUS
Libraries improve Web site librarian accessibility
The KU Libraries made changes this semester to improve library services and make them more convenient. New online search tools enable users to search multiple databases simultaneously. Students can also
talk to librarians through text messaging, and a relocated circulation desk at Watson Library increases staff visibility.
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Topeka freshmen Chris Spain, left, and Sean Gutzwiller help heft University of Kansas mascot Big Jay onto the shoulders of the crowd at the KU Alumni Association's ice cream social Monday night in an effort to garner T-shirts and other giveaways from the event's master of ceremonies. The ice cream social was part of Hawk Week, which encourages underclassmen to become involved in University events and introduces them to KU traditions.
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KU MEDICAL CENTER Commuter bus connects Lawrence. KC campuses
A trial commuter bus route running directly from the University of Kansas Lawrence campus to the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., is set to begin Sept. 2.
The trial study is the result of an increase in requests for transportation to the new bioengineering center that opened at the medical center.
The trial study, conducted by the School of Engineering, will be
open to KU students, faculty and staff only.
Ron Dougherty, professor of mechanical engineering, said the new bioengineering program offered by the University caused demand for a bus service to increase significantly.
One-way tickets can be ordered for $4 online and must be picked up using a valid ID at Eaton Hall in Lawrence or Murphy Hall at the KUMC campus.
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9-foot tapeworm leads to $100,000 lawsuit
CHICAGO — A man who says he got a 9-foot tapeworm after eating undercooked fish has sued a Chicago restaurant.
In the lawsuit filed Monday, Anthony Franz said he ordered salmon salad for lunch from Shaw's Crab House in 2006 and fell violently ill. He later passed the giant parasite, which a pathologist determined came from undercooked fish, such as salmon.
Franz's lawsuit seeks $100,000 from Shaw's and its parent company, Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, contending the restaurant's staff was negligent in serving him improperly cooked fish.
But Carrol Symank, vice president of food safety for Lettuce Entertain You, said the tapeworm didn't come from Shaw's.
"We have done a thorough investigation and we're confident the restaurant is not the source; he said.
According to the Web site may oclinic.com, tapeworms can grow to be as long as 50 feet.
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California Legislature wants noisier electric cars
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Electric and hybrid vehicles may be better for the environment, but the California Legislature says they're bad for the blind.
Vehicles says more than 300,000 of the vehicles are on state roads. Officials say they don't keep statistics on pedestrian accidents involving those vehicles.
It has passed a bill to ensure that the vehicles make enough noise to be heard by visually impaired people about to cross a street.
The measure would establish a committee to study the issue and recommend ways the vehicles could make more noise.
The bill has been sent to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has not taken a position.
Noise complaint quiets kindergardeners'dance
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A group of children rocking out to kiddle tracks at a kindergarten disco party were told to turn down the tunes or face a shut down of their party by noise control officials who raided the soiree.
The raid — called "absurd" by one teacher — happened Friday night at One Tree Hill Kindergarten in Auckland, New Zealand's largest city.
As parents and the gaggle of children blasted the theme song to "Bob the Builder"and the "Chicken Dance'an irate neighbor spoiled the fun by calling noise control.
The state Department of Motor
Teacher Jenny Skerritt said Tuesday that officers — who were "a little red faced" — suddenly appeared at the door with a noise abatement notice.
Skerritt said there was some noise, but not enough to disturb several babies, who snoozed through it all.
"I don't think it was that ragey, but it's all a matter of perspective I guess" she told National Radio.
They wound down the sound for the last half hour of the disco, which finished at 7 p.m.
The annual disco had never before attracted any other noise abatement complaints, said head teacher Lisa Gordon. "We're planning to frame the notice," she said.
On Aug. 20, the KU Public Safety Office reported that:
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— On Aug. 16, a woman was shot with a BB from an airsoft rifle near Jayhawker Towers. Police located the alleged shooter and issued him a notice to appear in court after he admitted to firing the weapon.
— On Aug. 17, a male KU student reported that five males offered to help him move into his dorm room, then stole $1,200 worth of personal electronics. The victim later reported that the items had been delivered to the wrong room.
— On Aug. 18, someone removed a textbook valued at $50 from Learned Hall. The book was later resold to the KU Bookstore.
— On Aug. 18, two separate burglary of scientific equipment were reported in Learned Hall. The first instance was valued at $1,000 and the second was valued at $1,600.
— On Aug. 18, a printer and miscellaneous computer equipment worth $1,542 was stolen from a laboratory in Haworth Hall.
On Aug. 20, the Lawrence Police Department reported that:
— On Aug. 16, three different KU students reported $200 worth of criminal damage to each of their cars.
— On Aug. 16, a KU student reported $50 worth of criminal damage to her car.
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— On Aug. 17, KU student Brian Hastert reported the theft of a laptop valued at $500.
— On Aug. 17, a University employee reported a burglary and loss of $150 in possessions.
— On Aug. 17,a KU student reported the theft of a moped valued at $300.
— On Aug. 17, a KU student reported $1,000 in criminal damage to a Nissan Maxima.
— On Aug.18, a KU student was the victim of battery.
— On Aug. 18, a KU student reported the theft of a Schwinn bicycle and lock valued at $110.
— On Aug. 19, a KU student reported $160 in criminal damage to a vehicle.
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Diocese prepares to settle sexual abuse claims
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Roman Catholic diocese has tentatively agreed to pay $10 million to settle 47 pending sexual abuse claims against the diocese and 12 of its priests.
Kansas City-St. Joseph Diocese Bishop Robert W. Finn on Wednesday apologized for the abuse that occurred at the hands of current and former clergy members, and promised that steps are being taken to make sure such abuse never happens again.
"A priest is ordained with the privilege of celebrating the church's sacraments by nothing less than a holy order," Finn said at a news conference. "The behaviors attributable to certain priests involved in this matter not only betray those holy orders, but diminish the stature of the faithful and responsible priests who dispatch their ministry effectively and faithfully day in, day out."
The deal will settle all current sexual abuse lawsuits pending in Jackson County against the diocese and 12 current or former priests for incidents alleged to have occurred between 1951 and 1992.
Finn said he would recommend to the Diocese Tribunal and to the Vatican that the accused priests have their holy orders removed, an action known as laicization.
Priestsnamedinthelawsuitsare retired Wyoming Bishop Joseph Hart, John Tulipana, Thomas J. Ward, Earl Johnson, Stephen Wise, Francis E. McGlynn, Hugh E. Monahan, John C. Basketk, Thomas J. O'Brien, Thomas J. Reardon, James Lawbaugh and Sylvester Hoppe.
Finn said he would consult with two diocese boards on Thursday — a stipulation of church law — and then sign off on the settlement.
In a letter sent to priests late Tuesday night, Finn said the deal was in the best interest of the diocese. He said Wednesday most of the settlement money would be paid by insurance carriers, with any remaining balance possibly derived through selling undeveloped church assets.
Along with the money, the deal calls for the diocese to meet 19 nonmonetary conditions, including publicly announcing and acknowledging the wrongfulness of sexual abuse by its priests.
"That is one of the many non-monetary stipulations in which we were in total agreement," Finn said.
Attorneys for the plaintiffs say it is those nonmonetary conditions that make the proposed settlement so important.
"Our clients are trying very hard to right the unrightable wrong," Rebecca Randles, a Kansas City attorney representing the plaintiffs, said during a news conference Tuesday night. "The civil process is not something that is amenable to righting this kind of wrong. But they're working very hard to try to come to a process where children in the future are protected."
While the deal has not been finalized, both sides said they have been operating under the assumption that it will be. Victims have been in arbitration hearings since Monday to determine how much of the settlement they will receive. Those hearings are expected to continue for about two weeks.
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Because of a coding error, the United States Department of Education accidentally sent an unknown number of University of Kansas students' applications for financial aid to the Dallas County Community College District in Texas.
BY HALEY JONES hiones@kansan.com
Ann Hatch, director of media relations for the Dallas district, said the Dallas district received files for KU students through secured transmissions.
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Jack Martin, deputy director of University Communications, said the Dallas district also had a secure system for records.
Maigaud said her office was in contact with both the education department and the Dallas district throughout the situation.
On July 31, officials at the Dallas district sent a letter to students who had applied for financial aid but had not yet enrolled in one of the district's eight colleges. Some KU students whose information was wrongly sent to the district were included in this mailing.
"There is no reason to believe KU student information was unsafe or at risk of being disclosed outside of that system at any point," Martin said.
The district realized it had financial information for the wrong students when it began receiving e-mails and calls the following week from confused KU students.
Hatch said the Dallas district sent a follow-up letter on Aug. 1 to KU students that explained the district had received their financial information. She said the Dallas district assured KU students their records were safe and would be purged from its system the following week.
Hatch said the education department treated the error as a customer service issue and all KU student records were deleted from the Dallas district's system on Aug. 5.
Herman said she could not contact anyone regarding the e-mail because she was abroad.
Rochelle Herman, Pittsburg junior, said she was studying abroad in Greece when she received e-mails from the Dallas district explaining that they were waiting for her to apply for admission. Herman said she was very nervous when she received the e-mails and she thought she had made an error when she had applied for financial aid.
"I'm not very good with computers, so I didn't know if I had to start paying money for that college or something," Herman said. "I was just really confused."
delayed in reaching the University and were processed normally.
Brenda Maigaard, director of the University Office of Student Financial Aid, said the records sent to Dallas were not
Martin said students who had concerns about their information should contact the University Office of Student Financial Aid.
Edited by Becka Cremer
POLICE BRIEFS Campus police go green with Seqwavs. E-85 cars
University students may notice campus police traveling in new ways this semester, most notably with the use of three new Segway scooters.
The electric-powered units, which cost about $5,000 each, were paid for in part by Student Senate.
The expenditure, made by the Campus Safety Advisory Board and matched by the University, was in response to an expressed desire by the KU student body for increased safety.
"The idea was to increase the visual presence that KU Public Safety has on campus," said Student Body Treasurer Alex Torte, Great Falls, Va., junior. "I think students just wanted to feel safer on campus, and I think a police presence does that for them."
The KU Public Safety Office also has rolled out environmentally friendly patrol vehicles that run on E-85 fuel, according to Capt. Schuyler Bailey of the safety office. E-85 is a gasoline-ethanol mixture that is up to 85 percent ethanol.
Officers with the KU Public Safety Office are making use of an electric car in the evenings, which travels at speeds up to 25 mph and uses no gasoline.
LPD will be more visible early in fall semester
[Image] A police officer points a gun at the driver of a car. The car is parked on a street at night, and there are lights illuminating the surroundings.
Officers with the Lawrence Police Department will have an increased presence on the city's streets during the first few weeks of the fall semester. The enforcement effort known as the Special Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP), which began on Aug. 14, will run through Sept. 1. According to Sgt. Bill Cory, the public information officer with the LPD, the purpose of the program is "to put additional officers on the street to concentrate efforts towards traffic enforcement and impaired driver detection."
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Lawrence Police Department officer Matthew Weidl scans passing traffic with a radar gun from his patrol car parked off Massachusetts Street Wednesday night. The LPD is conducting Special Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP) measures though Sept. 1, and will include saturation patrols and sobriety checkpoints on Saturday and Sunday.
It will include "saturation patrols" and sobriety checkpoints on Saturday and Sunday, according to a statement released from the LPD Traffic Division.
The STEP enforcement project was first implemented six years ago. According to the LPD 2007 annual report, there were a total of 85 arrests for OUI/DUI.
Four new stop signs built to improve safety
The stop signs are located at the west end of Jayhawk Boulevard near the Chi Omega fountain
Four new stop signs have been installed on campus in an effort to improve pedestrian safety and manage traffic entering and exiting campus.
roundabout; the intersection of Sunflower Road and Sunnyside Avenue; the intersection of Jayhawk Boulevard and 14th Street near the Student Union; and at the north end of Mississippi Street near the entrance to Memorial Stadium.
Public Safety Office reports electronics theft
Between July 28 and Aug.
Between July 28 and Aug.
18, the KU Public Safety Office reported three computers, two digital cameras and assorted scientific research equipment stolen from academic halls on campus. Two of the computers were Apple laptops that were taken from the Dole Human Development Center and Stauffer-Flint Hall and were later returned. With the exception of an Apple iMac reported stolen from the Art and Design building on July 31, none
of the thefts coincide with reports of forcible entry, and appear to be a result of a simple failure to secure the items.
Capt. Schyler Bailey said that the series of thefts do not represent an unusual trend. Bailey said that an increase in computer theft was the result of their increased prevalence on campus.
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First black congresswoman to represent Ohio dies at 58
EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first black woman to represent Ohio in Congress and a strong critic of the Iraq war, died Wednesday after a brain hemorrhage, a hospital spokeswoman said.
Tubbs Jones, 58, died of a brain hemorrhage caused by an aneurysm that burst and left her with limited brain function, said Eileen Shell, a spokeswoman for the Cleveland Clinic, which owns the Huron Hospital in East Cleveland where Tubbs Jones died.
"Throughout the course of the day and into this evening, Congresswoman Tubbs Jones' medical condition declined," Sheil said in a statement from the clinic and Tubbs Jones' family.
the liberal Democrat, first elected in 1998, suffered the hemorrhage while driving her car in Cleveland Heights Tuesday night,
said Dr. Gus Kious, president of Huron Hospital.
Several news organizations had reported earlier in the day that Tubbs Jones had died. That report, citing a Democratic official, was corrected a few minutes later when a hospital official held a news conference to say she was in critical condition.
Tubbs Jones represented the heavily Democratic 11th District and chaired the ethics committee in the House.
She was the first black woman to serve on the powerful Ways and Means Committee, where she opposed President Bush's tax cuts and his efforts to create personal accounts within Social Security.
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"Stephanie Tubbs Jones was a gifted trailblazer with a spirit as big as the city she loved," Ohio Democratic Party Chairman Chris Redfern said in a statement. "Her incredible legacy will never fade from our memories."
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2008
Artist offers survivors peace through hypnotherapy
Art professor volunteers time, uses hypnosis to ease psychological pain of trauma victims
BY BRANDY ENTSMINGER
bentsminger@kansan.com
Tanya Hartman teaches art at the University of Kansas during the week. On weekends she uses hypnosis to help war survivors.
Hartman, an associate professor of art, volunteers at the St. Louis Center for Survivors of Torture and War Trauma. She said she first became interested in working at the center because her grandparents were German refugees during World War II.
"I've always felt a fascination and a kinship with anybody who has survived a political upheaval," Hartman said. "I thought it would be interesting to work with survivors of current conflict."
Hartman became certified in hypnosis last fall and started volunteering at the center this spring. Since then, she has worked with clients from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia, Iraq and Iran. She said she had to use translators with many of the clients.
Kristin Bulin, executive director of the St. Louis Center, said many of the clients were refugees and suffered from anxiety, fear and flashbacks.
Although the center uses a variety of techniques to help clients with post-traumatic stress and chronic pain, Hartman is the first hypnotist to volunteer there.
"With her skills she can have them be relaxed enough to be in a peaceful place and guide them through some very painful things," Bulin said.
Hartman said hypnotism was an attempt to disengage the conscious mind and speak directly to the unconscious mind. She said she used the repetition of calming words and phrases to engage the clients in guided imagery.
"It's like you create a waking dream for them," Hartman said.
Hartman said she created scripts for guided imagery between visits to
"I've always felt a fascination and a kinship with anybody who has survived a political upheaval. I thought it would be interesting to work with survivors of current conflict."
TANYA HARTMAN Associate professor of art
the center. She said the scripts had to be unique for each client because an image that created peace for one could create terror for another.
Linda Gentry, owner and founder of the Missouri Institute of Hypnotherapy, trained Hartman at the Midwest Center for Hypnotherapy in Warrensburg, Mo.
Gentry said dealing with emotions from a traumatic experience could be like being surrounded by helium balloons and trying to push them down. She said hypnotherapy helped people set aside emotions and reach understanding and forgiveness.
"When they deal with it, they're done with it," Gentry said.
Hartman said one of the most challenging parts of working at the center was hearing the stories and seeing the level of psychological suffering many of the clients were experiencing.
"I think sometimes you can't fix it," Hartman said. "You can only offer a momentary moment of peace."
Hartman said another challenge was the five-hour commute by car and train to St. Louis, but said she always left the center feeling joyful.
"With art it's so hard to know if you've done anything of value, but this is tangible," Hartman said.
One of the issues Hartman said she tried to address both in her work as a hypnotist and her work as an artist was how people handled collective political experiences and unheavals in their daily lives.
Although Hartman grew up in New York, she said the summers and holidays she spent with her grandparents, who had relocated to Cuernavaca, Mexico, were an inspiration for much of her work.
"My artwork has always tried to address nostalgia for a lost homeland and the experience of displacement, cultural displacement," Hartman said
Hartman said she hoped to create a piece based on her work at the center, but was just treating the clients for now.
"She's one of the most exceptional people I have trained in hypnosis." Gentry said. "She's going to help a lot of people."
Edited by Becka Cremer
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Tanya Hartman, associate professor of art, poses for a portrait in her art studio in the Art and Design building. Hartman received her certification for hypnotherapy from the Midwest Institute of Hypnotherapy in Missouri) and volunteers as a hypnototherapist at the St. Louis Center for Survivors of Torture and War Trauma.
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IRAQ WAR
Negotiators finish draft withdrawal agreement
BY QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA
Associated Press
BAGHDAD — Iraqi and U.S. negotiators have finished work on a draft security agreement that would see all American troops leave Iraqi cities by June 30 and the rest of the country by the end of 2011, Iraqi officials said Wednesday.
The deal still needs approval by both governments — and some members of Iraq's Cabinet oppose some of its provisions.
An Iraqi official who was involved in the protracted negotiations said the latest draft was completed last week and sent to the two governments.
In Washington, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said talks with the Iraqis were ongoing and "we are trying to bring the agreement to a close".
The official said a compromise had been worked out on the contentious issue of immunity for American troops from prosecution under Iraqi law, but he did not give details.
He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not supposed to release the information.
While Iraqi negotiators signed off on the draft, another official close to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said the country's political leadership objected to parts of the text, including the immunity provision.
"There are different points of view," he said. "We have given ours. The other side has given theirs."
He would not elaborate and spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
A third senior Iraqi official said al-Maliki himself had gone through the text personally and made notes with objections to some undisclosed points. He also spoke on condition of anonymity.
U. S. officials recently reported progress on the timeline for troop
withdrawals but said the immunity issue was a snag.
The security deal is to govern the status of the more than 140,000-strong U.S. military force after the U.N. Security Council mandate for its mission expires at the end of this year.
Iraq's Cabinet must sign off on the deal and then refer it to parliament for final approval. The Shiite-led government has been pressing for some sort of timeline for the departure of U.S. troops, saying that is essential to win legislators' approval.
The decision to refer the agreement to parliament followed demands by the country's most powerful Shlite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, that any formula to keep U.S. troops on Iraqi soil — even for a limited period — must have broad political support.
President Bush had long refused to accept any timetable for bringing U.S. troops home. Last month, however, he and al-Maliki agreed to set a "general time horizon" for ending the U.S. mission.
As the talks dragged on, American officials said the Bush administration was losing patience with the Iraqis. Bush stood by al-Maliki when Washington's Sunni Arab allies were privately urging he be replaced because of the government's ties to Shiite-dominated Iran and Shiite militia attacks on Iraqi Sunnis.
Talks were supposed to have ended by the end of July but differences over immunity and other issues dragged out the process.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and al-Maliki had a long and "very difficult" phone conversation about the situation early this month during which she pressed the Iraqi leader for more flexibility, particularly on immunity, one U.S. senior official said at the time.
"The sovereignty issue is very big for the Iraqis and we understand that. But we are losing patience," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. "The process needs to get moving and get moving quickly."
Bush's shift to a timeline was seen as a move to speed agreement on the security pact.
The official could not say how long the call lasted but said it was "not brief" and described it as "tense at times".
JUSTICE
Iraq's position in the talks hardened after a series of Iraqi military successes against Shite and Sunni extremists in Basra, Baghdad, Mosul and other major cities and after the rise in world oil prices flooded the country with petrodollars.
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KU Libraries improve services,increase convenience
BY SACHIKO MIYAKAWA
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Students will find library services more convenient and userfriendly, thanks to changes that KU Libraries made this semester.
Some of the changes include a new function on the library Web site that allows students to search multiple databases, a text messaging system to "Ask A Librarian" and a relocated circulation desk in Watson Library.
The updated library Web site will be simpler and more functional for researchers. New search tools on the main page allow users to search many popular databases at once. Holly Mercer, head of KU Scholar Services, said the new tools saved time for users and were helpful for interdisciplinary research. She said about 120 databases were available through the new search service and the number would grow over time.
"It's a quick way to get started," Mercer said. "It will help you identify some good databases for starting points to do research."
Users can narrow down databases or see more specific subjects on the "Articles and Databases" page. Once users select a subject, the Web site will list relevant databases, Web sites and librarians who are familiar
MADRID, Spain — A Spanish airliner bound for the Canary Islands at the height of the vacation season crashed, burned and broke into pieces Wednesday while trying to take off from Madrid, killing 153 people on board, officials said.
Spanish airliner crashes during take off, kills 153
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There were only 19 survivors of the mid-afternoon crash, Development Minister Magdalena Alvarez said. It was Spain's deadliest air disaster in more than 20 years.
A police officer said the bodies were so hot that police could barely touch them and told El Pais newspaper the shattered wreckage bore no resemblance to a plane.
Dozens of ambulances rushed to the site as columns of smoke billowed from the wreckage. The prime minister broke off his vacation in southern Spain and rushed back to Madrid, heading straight for the airport.
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"The scene is devastating," said Pablo Albella, an emergency rescue worker. "The fuselage is destroyed. The plane burned. I have seen a kilometer of charred land and few whole pieces of the fuselage. It is all destruction."
Spanair spokesman Sergio Allard told a news conference the cause of the crash was not immediately known. The airline said the plane carried 172 people in all.
El Pais said the plane left an hour late because of technical problems. It eventually managed to get slightly off the ground but crashed near the end of the runway, El Pais said, quoting an employee of the national airport authority AENA.
Helicopters and fire trucks dumped water on the plane, which ended up in a wooded area at the end of the runway at Terminal 4.
A makeshift morgue was set up at the city's main convention center, officials said.
Mats Jansson, the chief executive of Spanair's owner, Scandinavian Airlines, said he had no information about the toll or the accident itself.
with the subject.
In Germany, Luthansa said it issued tickets to seven people who checked in for the flight, and that four of those were from Germany. It was unclear whether they were German citizens.
Sweden's Foreign Ministry confirmed that two Swedes were onboard the aircraft. One of them has been located at a hospital while the other is unaccounted for, ministry spokeswoman Gufran al-Nadaf said.
The plane was an MD-82 on a codeshare flight with Lufthansa's LH255, Spanair said. Departures from Madrid's airport were suspended for several hours.
The KU Libraries also added text messaging to the "Ask
"What we people to the right resources," Mercer said. "Our goal was to simplify the process as much as we could."
"What we want to do is guide people to the right resources. Our goal was to simplify the process as much as we could."
HOLLY MERCER Head of KU Scholar Services
Anschutz and Watson libraries.
A Librarian" service. The service also includes the options to ask by phone, online instant messaging, e-mail or in person.
Fran Devlin.
KU Libraries coordinator of reference services, said librarians would respond to questions as soon as they could.
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Erin Ellis, KU
Libraries coordinator of instructional services, said she hoped the texting service would make students more aware of librarians and feel less intimi-
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Davis Morgan, Newton junior, works at the new circulation desk in Watson Library Tuesday afternoon. Morgan said that he had worked at the library for three years and that the new desk was "quite spacious."
"What I'd like to see is students feel more free to ask questions," Ellis said. "They can text in a stack, like, 'I can't find this book'"
"The desk itself is really gorgeous," Smith said. "We're really trying to increase the aesthetic appeal of Watson. We want to make
place they enjoy being."
Watson very comfortable for students and faculty and make it a
Rebecca Smith, KU Libraries director of public relations, said the new desk location improved staff visibility. The circulation desk provides the same service as last year, but Smith said remodeling allowed patrons to talk to staff more casually.
Watson library also remodeled its circulation desk and moved it to the immediate left of the entrance.
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LeRoi Moore of the Dave Matthews Band performs with the band at New York's Roseland Ballroom in May 2005. Moore died on Tuesday from injuries he received in an ATV accident in June.
BY RAQUEL MARIA DILLON
Associated Press
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LOS ANGELES — LeRoi Moore, the versatile saxophonist whose signature staccato fused jazz and funk overtones onto the eclectic sound of the Dave Matthews Band, died Tuesday of complications from injuries he suffered in an all-terrain vehicle accident, the band said. He was 46.
Moore died at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, where he was admitted with complications that arose weeks after the June 30 wreck, according to a statement on the band's Web site. It did not specify what led to his death, and nursing supervisor Galina Shinder said the hospital could not release details.
The band went on with its show Tuesday night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, where lead singer Dave Matthews dedicated the entire show to Moore.
On June 30, Moore crashed his ATV on his farm outside Charlottesville, Va., but was discharged and returned to his Los Angeles home to begin physical therapy. Complications forced him back to the hospital on July 17, the band said.
"It's always easier to leave than be left," Matthews told the crowd, according to Ambrosia Healy, the band's publicist. "We appreciate you all here."
Saxophonist Jeff Coffin, who played with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, had been sitting in for Moore during the band's summer tour.
Moore, who wore dark sunglasses at the bands' many live concerts, had classical training but said jazz was his main musical influence, according to a biography on the band's Web site.
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Lead singer Dave Matthews credited Moore with arranging many of his songs, which combine Cajun fiddle-playing, African-influenced rhythms and Matthews' playful but haunting voice.
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“LeRoi was just super important to the band,” Shawn Harrington said before the concert. “That's how the band came to be.”
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Taurus (April 20-May 20)
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As you complete old tasks, you'll notice that you feel a lot better.
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Gemini (May 21 - June 27)
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You have resources you haven't even tapped yet. This goes for friends and relatives as well as material goods. Review, and feel well blessed.
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Celebrate recent accomplishments before going on to the next project. This does not have to be expensive. Group hugs work just fine.
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It's time to take more control over your situation. Make the commitment, even if you'll have to make a few adjustments at home. Your family supports you in this.
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Be reassured that there will be enough to go around. This goes for everything you need. There's not enough to waste, however, so don't be ridiculous.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FROM THE EDITORIAL BOARD
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HONORING PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA AND HER DEFENSE SUPPORTERS
Does Sebelius really have the veep potential?
YES
Gov. Kathleen Sebellus' gender alone will help bring around the still-
bitter Hillary. Clinton supporters and unite the party base.
As someone who's been cutting red tape and eliminating egregious spending since taking office, Sebelius shares Sen. Barack Obama's political values of practicality and honesty.
Sebelius is a Democrat, but she has been effective at running a Republican-dominated state for two terms. She knows how to mediate problems between the parties; and she has a lot less baggage than Clinton.
Beyond offering a long-shot chance to win in Kansas, Sebelius would reinforce Obama's messages of outsiders bringing change. She has served exclusively in Kansas and her only real connection to national politics in Washington was her response to President Bush's State of the Union address this year.
NO
As tempting as it is for Democrats to want to draft Gov.
Kathleen Sebelius as Barack Obama's running mate, taking that path would not really help the Democrats in the long run.
Both Sebelius and the Democrats would be better off if she finished her second term as governor, further reviving and solidifying a Democratic base in a state where the red has run deep for decades.
This isn't the first time the Sebelius for-VP has occurred. Some thought she would be John Kerry's running mate in the 2004 election.
Plus, Sen. Sam Brownback said he is not seeking reelection in 2010, so why not attempt a Senate run, where she can really make a difference? If she was elected, she would end a trend that hasn't been broken since 1938: a Democrat elected as senator for Kansas.
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Phelps may deserve 'greatest Olympian' title
The athlete for this generation is Michael Phelps.
Once in a lifetime, there comes an athlete who accomplishes the impossible.
JOHN MILLER
On Sunday, the U.S. swimmer won his eighth gold medal in these games in a breathtaking march that has set new world record marks and demolished opponents.
We are awed by his accomplishments, yet the seeming contradictions and complexities of this gifted 23-year-old also make him intriguing.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
He's a ferocious competitor but also a good sport (which shouldn't be contradictions but often are).
He's a self-effacing, regular guy who is anything but normal once he hits the water. He has prepared himself with a superhuman training regimen yet makes racing, winning and smashing world records all look so casual.
Is he the greatest U.S. Olympian of all time?
The debate will rage over technological and training improvements and money in sports that allows athletes to be full-time professionals. You could talk all day about which sports are harder on the body and which make it easier to rack up multiple medals by virtue of relay opportunities.
We'll never agree on the superlatives, but we agree on one thing: Seeing Phelps swim has been a rare opportunity to watch a phenomenal athlete create history.
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Pope: With the first day of classes finally here, a new batch of freshmen has descended on campus, ready to vomit all over your SafeBus seat. This has led me and my colleague Ryan to thoughts of our early college years — a time of strange hair growth, odd feelings towards cootie-infested females and the lack of education regarding zombie survival techniques on campus.
Statistics show that 87 percent of students are caught mid-lecture when zombies burst forth from their graves. You may be sitting in Budig, desperately trying to tune out your professor's monotonous rambling, when you discover that your usual chemistry lesson is now comprised of guttural moans and the gurgling of a rotting esophagus. If you have a preferred door for leaving class early, here is yet another good time to use it.
Ryan: Here are the procedures for surviving the undead uprising.
BUDIG:
CAMPANILE:
Force your way to the top of the Campanile, where you can observe the destruction of all mankind. When it's all over, remember to exit the tower from the side you came in on. The last thing you need after riding out an undead swarm is to never graduate.
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Ignore your first instinct to head to your dorm. It's hard enough to make it through a semester without catching the clap from your classmates, so don't expect to survive in one of those disease-infested tenements.
PARKING DEPT.
ALLEN FIELDHOUSE:
Move quickly through the hordes of brain-eating monsters to the nearest safe haven. This is simple, given one crucial detail — basketball superstud Matt Kleinmann. Find him quickly and enlist his aid. He will instinctively supply you with a clear route with his signature move, the Zombie Pick, screening hundreds of zombies in quick succession.
FRASER:
Another option for hiding is Fraser Hall, the highest point on campus, where any distress beacon will be visible for miles.
WESCOE:
After barricading Fraser's stairways and elevators, you should sit back and enjoy watching the plight of everyone who thought they should hide in Wescoe. If zombies don't get them, a brain tumor from staying in the building too long will finish the job.
Pope: From our time spent educating the most inattentive of crowds, we understand most of you may not be fully convinced that any of this is possible.
Rvan: Why should you care? Skeptics, picture this.
Pope: Early morning. A sleepy campus wakes as the new day's sun showers its golden rays upon a deserted Wescoe Beach. A small rabbit attempts to cross vacant Jayhawk Boulevard but stops in its tracks, eyes wide with fear as it is slowly engulfed by the approaching shadow from an army of shuffling figures, their faces gaunt, their eyes murky pools reflecting the emptiness beneath. The rabbit turns to flee, but it is pointless. Soon the area is overrun by the living dead.
Ryan: Zombie apocalypse or an average morning on campus?
Pope: Don't say we didn't warn you. You're welcome.
Pope is a Kansas City senior in English. Snyder is a Leawood senior in English.
Why aren't people afraid of reading books about murder?
Easily Entertained
KATIE BLANKENAU
I once developed a wonderful method of killing someone with a tea bag. I was making tea at the time, standing by the sink with a dripping packet of Raspberry Zinger dangling from one hand, when inspiration dawned on me.
After that, I don't think she was eager to drink tea with me again. But the excuse for my somewhat eccentric line of thought was an overdose. Not, as might be assumed, a tea overdose, but rather a far more dangerous drug: mystery novels.
If the result of my addiction is a future as an ax murderer, at least I'll have company. The mystery genre is intensely popular. It may have begun in the 19th century with Edgar Allen Poe's "Murder in the Rue Morgue," but the genre is still going strong in the 21st. It's evolving, too: in the "Library Journal" Random House declared mysteries their most popular audiobooks.
"Hey," I said to my roommate. "I just thought of the greatest way to murder someone with a tea bag."
Author Agatha Christie recently lured me into the genre, and after devouring her books I moved on to others without pause. It took about 120 murders or so before I realized how I was entertaining myself. I was whiling away time with death.
The ever-steady demand for the genre seems odd, given that most mystery novels concern what few want to think about: death.
"The better fictional homicides today are accomplished — like those in real life — by shooting, strangling, stabbing, pushing (off cliffs and buildings and into water), bashing, and poisoning; not necessarily in the order named," Howard Haycraft writes in "Murder for Pleasure," a study of the mystery genre.
Writers have quite the menu of murder options but, no matter what the method, homicide is still nasty. So why do we revel in doing away with our own kind?
Perhaps the genre's modern success is rooted in its exploding variety. Today's mysteries, like
magazines, cater to niche demographics. Murder is committed in 17th century Japan and space stations in the future. The detectives are anything from hardened cops to elderly women.
"The mystery genre is just enormous and can satisfy anything you're looking for," said Lisa Stockton, a KU student and one of the owners of The Raven bookstore in downtown Lawrence, which specializes in selling mystery novels.
Stockton offers another reason for the genre's popularity, saying, "There is a grisly aspect to it, but you regain a sense of order and justice" at the end.
The clue to the mystery genre's success, then, is that ultimately the mystery is always solved. In a mysterious world with few explanations and death perhaps the most inexplicable of all, it's reassuring to know that at least in mystery novels it will all make sense in the end.
As for my own brilliant murder method, I'll discuss it with anyone interested over a nice cup of tea.
Blankenau is a Lincoln, Neb. sophomore in journalism and English.
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Season will likely bring surprises
BY STEPHEN MONTEMAYOR
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The first day of classes falls in the heart of one the most dangerous times of the year.
Aside from the freshman crazies waking naked and penniless in the front lawn with their first college experience under their belts, we are in the midst of a full leading up to the kickoff of the 2008 football season.
We can watch and read about as much practice as wed like and devour every last drop of coachspeak Mark Mangino can serve up.
Much of what has been written up to now has been reflections on the University's sports renaissance that was 2007. Everything else has been speculation and foreshadowing the year ahead with questions.
Can they do it again? All we can do is speculate, predict and anticipate this rare and beautiful season upon us. The Jayhawks enter next Saturday's opener against Florida International as the reigning Orange Bowl champs and ranked 13th in the USA Today coaches poll - underrated or overrated, depending on whom you ask.
Me? I think this paper has addressed the issue enough. My directive is to provide proper perspective leading up to the Aug. 30 tailgating party/aggradated assault that will be the Florida International game.
The same hacks that have pegged the Jayhawks to be raped and pillaged this year were caught with their pants down last season when Todd Reesing engaged in an arms race with Chase Daniel deserving of CNN coverage. But that's all right fellas, Jimmy Clausen and our boys at Notre Dame will turn it around this year. Pete Carroll could drive a semi into a USC practice and the mangleed All-Americans that survive would still be worthy of a top 3 spot.
Best she-runner up for the third straight year. Whoa, way to make a first impression, Stephen. You've veered hopelessly off track and may have scared a few of our softer-hearted readers off already.
But I truly mean well this week. This is a long-term relationship we're starting and by God I am going to sustain it.
That is precisely why we need the right mindset in the next nine days. The hype of this college pigskin season ahead of us is reaching its peak and could shatter our skulls if we let it.
There isn't much to divert our attention and keep our fragile minds occupied in the coming days. All we have by means of University sports is tomorrow's women's soccer tilt against Purdue at 5 p.m.
After Sunday we won't even have the Olympics. This is why I urge you to take any prognostications with a grain of salt. Or a glass of Kentucky Deluxe for that matter
Look, I'm guilty of annually dropping eight bucks for a college football preview rag and a fantasy football forecast published three months before the season.
That and devouring every bit of football media leading up to the season are natural media that can be expected once you've whipped yourself into a frenzy during the college sports drought that is the months of May, June, July and August.
But there is a reason many of these rags are thrown away by midseason.
Last year's USA Today Coaches Poll had 10 preseason Top-25 teams finish the season unranked and 10 teams that were unranked in the preseason finish in the Top-25 — including No. 5 Missouri and No. 7 Kansas, two teams that an entire nation of college football experts severely failed to evaluate.
Additionally, four preseason Top-10 teams — the teams supposedly with the best shot at the BCS crown — slid at least six spots, including Florida falling 13 spots and Michigan and Wisconsin sliding 14 places.
Fearless forecasters? Maybe. But also reckle, careless and often thoughtless.
All we have to speculate now is whether the Jayhawks will pound the Golden Panthers by 40 or 50 points next Saturday. Last season's tally was 55-3 and I'm betting on more of the same. But that is if you bet on such a diversion, which is an entirely different story and supposedly illegal around these parts.
Edited by Scott Toland
FOOTBALL
Redshirt quarterback moves to tight end position
BY B.J. RAINS
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A. J. Steward wears a different color jersey in practice these days. Gone is the red.
no contact jersey that quarterbacks wear. Now, Steward's no. 11 jersey is white—he's now fair game for tacklers.
"The guys will try to test me," Steward said. "They think I'm just a soft quarterback. I want to try and let them know
M
Steward
that's not what I am."
Steward, a redshirt freshman who sports a tattoo of his hometown St. Louis on his left arm, has made the switch from quarterback to tight end and has been taking a lot of the snaps with the first team offense. He was slowed by a bruised shoulder last week at the open practice but is figured to be in the mix for playing time when the season opened next Saturday against Florida International.
"I'm picking everything up pretty good. Everything is pretty much just second nature, just learning the blocking schemes and everything." Steward said.
"The toughest thing has been getting that
physical mentality, coming from being a quarterback. You have to kind of get a meanness about yourself."
At 6 feet 4 and 228 pounds, his body seems more suited for a tight end than a quarterback. And with the departure of Derek Fine, a fourth-round draft pick by the Buffalo Bills, the Jayhawks are looking for a new tight end. Sophomore Bradley Dedeaux and true freshman Nick Plato are competing for playing time as well.
"He's doing well," Mangino said of Steward. "He's learning on the run but he absorbs things. He's a tenacious competitor. He doesn't take crap from anyone out there. He's a competitive guy."
Steward was named All-Metro as a quarterback during his senior year at Riverview Gardens when he had 33 touchdowns (22 passing, 11 rushing) and passed and rushed for more than 1,000 yards each. As a defensive back, he was named to the All-State First Team after intercepting seven passes.
Also, he was named All-Conference in both baseball and basketball and was an honorable mention All-State basketball selection as well.
OLYMPICS
Mangino and offensive coordinator Ed Warinner met with Steward during the
SEE STEWARD ON PAGE 6B
A RUN TO REMEMBER
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OLYMPIC GAMES
OCT.10-24
TOKYO 1964
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Former Jayhawk Billy Mills won the impossible gold in the 10-k race in 1964.
BY MARK DENT
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It was late Sunday night in Beijing, and the men's 10-k race was about to start on the track. His race.
The man chosen by the gods sat in the stands of the Bird's Nest like any other spectator, his wife of more than 40 years, Pat, beside him.
Hours earlier, a freak of nature named Usain Bolt slept in, ate chicken nuggets, watched TV and ate more chicken nuggets. Then he won the 100-meter dash. Before that, Michael Phelps pumped his arms for one more stroke in the 100-meter butterfly and tapped the wall one-hundredth of a second before the seemingly frozen-in-time Milorad Cavic.
Other moments: Shawn Johnson balanced on the narrow suede beam like a tight rope walker and finally won her gold medal. And Jason Lezak made the French relay team look like a bunch of cream puffs.
Those have been the stories of these Olympics. Thirteen days in, just three left, and they've captivated continents. Billy Mills, the chosen one who watched the 10-k on Sunday from the bleachers, ran the same race faster than any American previously had a generation ago. His tale is like any good family tradition. It will never be forgotten.
The 1964 Tokyo Olympics belonged to him. Mills, a former KU All-American, a Lakota Sioux who lost both his parents at an early age, an unknown distance runner who matched up with four gold medallists at the starting line of the 10-k, unexpectedly did something no American man had ever done and has never done since.
Billy Mills is featured on a poster depicting the 1964 10-k Olympic race. Mills came from third in the last seconds of the race to beat Australian 10-k world record-holder Ron Clarke and Tunisian Mohammed Gammoudi.
He won that race. And he continues making magic today.
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--electricity, and the life expectancy is about 30 years lower than the national average.
Bob Timmons tells you he's sorry. He doesn't mean to blur his words. It's just that he gets a little emotional when he talks about Billy Mills.
Timmons, a championship KU track and cross-country coach, never coached Mills. He knows him well though. Knows about the poverty, knows about the discrimination, knows how Mills worked as hard as anyone Timmons has ever met.
Mills grew up on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota About half of all people there lived under the poverty line. To this day, some people on the reservation lack running water and
"For him to achieve such a high level"
"Timmons said, 'it's almost impossible.'"
Mills could tell you about this. Cancer took his mother away from him when he was eight. In the following months, his
Hed read Mills stories about athletes: those who jumped, those who ran, those who competed at the Olympics. One of the
father comforted him by embedding the Olympic dream into his spirit.
articles said the Olympians were chosen by the gods.
That's what Mills wanted. He wanted
SEE MILLS ON PAGE 5B
Freshman basketball player faces battery charges
BY CASE KEEFER ckeefer@kansan.com
Markieff Morris, a freshman forward,
received a notice to appear in court this weekend after he allegedly fired an Airsoft rifle BB gun at the laywahower Towers.
The KU Public Safety Office filed an offense report Saturday night
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Morris
after a 47-year old woman from Mequon. Wis., was hit in the arm with a BB near the building. Police confiscated an Airsoft rifle and a bag of BBs at the scene.
Jim Marchiony, associate athletics director, said the athletics department wouldn't comment on the incident.
"KU's housing office is gathering facts about the incident," Marchiony said. "Until that process is complete, we can't say anything."
The police report also indicated that Morris was suspected of being intoxic
The twins and Kansas officials have
cated at the time of the incident. Morris' Lawrence Municipal Court date is set for Sept. 10, when he will face battery charges.
"Until that is complete, we would ask people not to jump to conclusions," Marchiony said.
Markieff and his twin brother, Marcus, arrived on campus this summer in late June and took classes during the second session of summer school. The NCAA, however, has not cleared the Morris twins to play in the upcoming basketball season.
remained adamant that the duo will qualify academically in time to play in the upcoming season. At the end of July Marcus said he and his brother were "very close" to being cleared.
Markieff becomes the second Jayhawk with a looming court case. Junior point guard Sherron Collins will face a civil lawsuit in April 2009 for allegations of sexual assault made by a former Jayhawker Towers employee.
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quote of the day
"He's a bad mamma-jamma. The guy came out and made this the best Olympics of my lifetime."
U - S. Olympian Shawn Crawford on Jamaican gold medallist Usain Bolt
fact of the day
The United States will not have a spinner on top of the podium in the 100 or 200 meters for the first time at the Olympic Games since the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. Usain Bolt of Jamaica won the 200 meters on Wednesday morning, adding to the 100 meter gold medal he won on Aug. 16 in Beijing. The United States boycotted the 1980 Olympics for political reasons. The United States failed to win gold in the 100 or 200 meters during the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, as well.
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Q: What is the record for most touchdowns thrown in one season by a junior quarterback at the University of Kansas?
A: 15, by David Jaynes in 1972. Junior quarterback Todd Reesing threw 33 touchdown passes during his sophomore season in 2007.
BASEBALL Royals put Hochevar on disabled list
CLEVELAND — The Kansas City Royals placed pitcher Luke Hochevar on the 15-day disabled list Wednesday because of a rib injury.
The 24-year-old had an MRI, which showed a right rib contusion.
Left-hander Josh Newman was recalled from Triple-A Omaha to replace Hochevar. right-hander Kip Wells.
COMMENTARY
Reesing down with getting down
BY RUSTIN DODD
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Some stories just have to be told. This one includes Kansas quarterback. Todd
Reeasing, an out- of state reporter and dancing.
So a few weeks ago at Big 12 media day, a reporter from Reesing's home state of Texas — at least I think
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Kansas football media guide
That's all the guy needed.
"So Todd," the reporter asked. "I see you list dancing as one of your hobbies. Can you expound on that a little bit?"
If the reporter thought Reeing was being sarcastic, Reeing quickly dispelled that theory.
"Hey, I just like to dance every now and then, go out and have fun on your own time." Reesing said with a smile.
And with that, here's a morning brew head nod to Reeing.
And about that little rave Reesing had before the Orange Bowl?
What normal college kid doesn't like to sech every now and then?
According to Reesing, that's what he does before every game.
Now as for the camera that caught Reeing mid groove?
Reesing says he didn't see it until
it was too late.
But that's not the end of the story. After Reeing admitted he loves to go out and get down, the reporter wanted to know if Reeing had ever ballroom danced?
"Absolutely not." Reesing said.
The Morning Brew
You tell 'em Todd, ballroom dancing is so Matt Leinart in 2005. If you recall, Leintar, the Heisman Trophy winner in 2004 as a junior, returned to USC for his senior season and enrolled in one class, ballroom dancing.
Probably a good move, Reeing tried not to associate himself with Leinart. Since Leinart left USC, he's been a borderline NFL bust and he's spent more time working hot-tub parties than he's spent on the field.
A NIGHT AT THE MOVIES
Staying in the football department, the Kansas football team spent Monday night at the movie theater, where they watched an advance screening of "The Express," a new movie based on the true story of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy.
The movie stars Dennis Quaid and Rob Brown - otherwise known as the kid from "Finding Forrester" - as Ernie Davis. But look for a special performance from Charles S. Dutton as Davis' grandfather. If you remember, Dutton played Fortune, the stadium grounds keeper, in the classic college football film "Rudy."
And he's still responsible for the greatest line in football movie his
tory - "You're 5 foot nothin', 100 and nothin', and you have barely a speck of athletic ability..." You know the rest.
As for the movie? "It was outstanding." Kansas coach Mark Mangino said.
MANGINO IN K.C.
Speaking of Mangino, Kansas' coach will be in Prairie Village tomorrow for a KU Kickoff Rally at the Corinth Square Parking lot, 83rd Street and Mission Road. The rally goes from 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. It's free for all University alumni, friend, and most importantly, students. Mangino will talk about the upcoming season and the KU Spirit Squad. KU Pep Band, Big Jay and Baby Jay will all be there.
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Ron Prince figured that if it worked for Bill Snyder, it could work for him. That was at least part of the Wildcat coach's rationale for bringing in 19 junior college players for the 2008 season.
Snyder built Kansas State into a national power, often relying on juco talent to fill his needs rather than waiting for freshmen to mature. Prince hopes to follow the same blueprint to similar results, but even Snyder never brought in this many juco players.
OFFENSE
The Wildcat offense returns seven starters from a unit that scored 35.2 points per game last year, the 18th most in the nation. Leading the
attack is junior Josh Freeman, whose 3,353 passing yards in '07 set a school record and convinced his coach that there's no one better.
"I would not trade our quarterback for any quarterback in the country," Prince said. "There's a lot of really good ones, but I think our quarterback's right up there with the very best ones nationally."
Freeman's progress thus far has been impressive, but Kansas State lost a lot of production from last year's squad. Wide receiver Jordy Nelson, who caught 11 of Freeman's 18 touchdown passes and amassed 48 percent of his passing yards, will be playing at Lambaue Field on Sundays this fall. Despite everything he did for the team, Freeman said he won't miss Nelson on the field.
"We won't have to rely on a guy like Jordy," Freeman said. "When people say 'Jordy was your offence',
we take that as a slap in the face."
Insult or not, Nelson was a huge part of the offense and is not easily replaceable. Also missing is running back James Johnson, who rushed for 1,106 yards and 12 touchdowns.
Trying to fill those roles will be senior wideout Deon Murphy, whom Freeman game a ringing endorsement, and junior running back Leon Patton.
While Murphy seems to have the No. 1 wide receiver position locked down, Patton is far from a sure thing as juce transfer Daniel Thomas could step into the role.
DEFENSE
This is where a lot of Prince's incoming juco players could see some significant playing time in a hurry.
The Wildcat defense was atrocious down the stretch last year, surrendering 30 or more points in six of the last eight games. That included a 73-31 loss to previously anemic Nebraska.
The one bright spot on defense is senior Ian Campbell, who'll move back to defensive end after playing linebacker in '07. Campbell's an excellent pass rusher and his move to the defensive line will create room for a pair of talented uo linebackers.
Juniors Hansen Sekona and Ulla Pomele were very impressive in the spring game. Paired with returning starter Reggie Walker, this trio could help turn around Kansas State's defensive misfortunes. And that's exactly why Prince brought in so many luco transfers.
"We want to move through that stage and into a place where we can be a veteran team," he said.
Sophomore cornerback Josh Moore missed all of '07 with academic issues, but now he returns to aid a
depleated secondary. Without Moore's playmaking ability, teams will be able to pass at will.
Kansas State needed to win only one of its final four games to become bowl eligible last season. Instead the Wildcats dropped all four and stayed home for the holidays.
SEASON OUTLOOK
That could be a recurring theme as the Big 12 North is regaining power and leaving Kansas State behind. Their schedule won't help the Wildcats, as games in which they could contend are on the road (at Texas A&M, at Colorado), while home games are wasted on opponents they couldn't beat if they were spotted 21 points (Texas Tech, Oklahoma).
Prince returns a lot of talent but there's so much unknown about this
squad because of all the juco transfers. No one really knows what they'll be able to do until they actually get out on the field and compete.
That's a scary thought but it also gives Wildcat fans hope and excitement for what could happen.
The goal for Kansas State is to reach a bowl game, and an important step to reaching that goal comes on Sept. 17 when it plays at Louisville. This is the only decent non-conference matchup and it's a great opportunity for Prince's squad to pick up a solid win. The Big 12 season won't be kind to the Wildcats and they need to enter their conference schedule at 4-0 to have a chance at a bowl.
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Jayhawk basketball players will not only start attending fall classes today, but will also participate in their first practice.
Well, most of them. Junior guard Sherron Collins, who is recovering from an April knee surgery, might not be able to participate in the week of practices leading up to the team's trip to Ottawa, Canada. The Morris twins, Marcus and Markieff, won't be able to practice until the NCAA rules them academically eligible.
The Jayhawks will practice in Lawrence until next weekend when they leave for Canada to play in three exhibition games. Kansas will play McGill University and Carleton University on Aug. 30, and the University of Ottawa on Aug. 31.
The three exhibition games will serve as the debut for incoming freshmen Tyshawn Taylor, Travis Releford and Quintrell Thomas and junior college transfers Mario Little and Tyron Appleton. The Morris twins could also play for the first time as Jayhawks if they are cleared in time.
Spending a week with players who are already Jayhawks might feel new to Kansas coach Bill Self. He's spent the last month across the nation recruiting potential players for the 2009 team.
According to Rivals.com, six of the nation's top 10 high school players are considering playing basketball at Kansas.
ON THE RECRUITING TRAIL
The top player in America, point guard John Wall from Raleigh, N.C., still has Kansas on his short list, which also includes Baylor, Memphis and Oklahoma State. Oklahoma City guard Xavier Henry,
rated as the third best player in the country, is reported to be choosing between Kansas and Memphis. Henry will visit campus for Late Night in the Phog in October.
Self's other targets include Los Angeles swingman Jordan Hamilton, Tacoma, Wash. guard Avery Bradley, New York guard Lance Stephenson, Los Angeles big man Renardo Sidney and Jersey City, N.J. guard Dominic Cheek, who was a high-school teammate of current Jayhawk guard Tyshawn Taylor.
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MILLS (CONTINUED FROM 1B)
Billy Mills tours Beijing during this summer's Olympics. Mills was an All-American runner at the University before winning the gold in the 10-k at the 1964 Olympics.
to be a chosen one. That's how he could set close to her.
"I thought if I was chosen by the gods," Mills said, "I would see my mom again."
His father passed away about four years later. At age 12, Mills was an orphan. He wanted to be an athlete. That's how he could get close to his father, too.
He wasn't very fast at first, but distance running rewards work and sweat and pain. Soon Mills was one of the best high school runners. The boy who never could've afforded college had scholarship offers to several schools. He chose Kansas.
Mills became an All-American three years in a row but still faced discrimination. He was asked to sit out of a picture at the national championships because of his race.
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It was just another obstacle. He kept running. In 1964, he made the Olympics.
--mates for an assembly and saw that a hero had come to speak to them. Mills. He addressed the crowd at the tiny school in North Dakota.
Australian Ron Clarke was the 10-k word record-holder. Soviet Pyotr Bolotnikov won the 10-k at the 1960 Olympics. New Zealander Murray Halberg was the defending champ in the 5-k. And Tunisian Mohammed Gammoudi was ahead of his time, a great African distance runner before Kenyans and Ethiopians began dominating the sport.
Mills was Mills. The unknown.
An accomplished American no doubt, but at a starting line stocked with the world's best in Tokyo, no one expected him to medal.
The gun goes off. The unknown sticks with the leaders for 15 laps and with 10 laps to go, he's still up there. With just a few laps to go, only Clarke, Mills and Gammoudi are together in the lead. The rest have fallen off.
The race gets hectic now. Clarke's been trying to kill the competition with surges. He's done one on almost every lap. He's the king, the world record holder. His best time is 28 minutes 15 seconds. Mills' best is 29:10. Gammond has never broken 29 either. Clarke can't shake them.
The historic happens with one lap to go. The bell rings with Mills in front, 27:24. A diabetic, Mills could tell he was low on blood sugar. He didn't have much left.
Clarke steals the inside lane and pushes Mills to the outside, and now Mills is in third, behind Clarke and Gammoudi.
Backstretch. Gammoudi sprints several meters ahead of Clarke and Mills. Mills isn't even in the camera frame with less than half a lap to go. The three runners arrive at the home stretch. It's Gammoudi, Clarke then Mills. They're about to lap seven runners.
Mills is boxed in by a German. The runner moves to the fifth lane, clearing the fourth for Mills. He sprints by and glances at the German's jersey. Mills swears he sees the German insignia, an eagle. It's a sign from his dad.
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Nickesha Anderson, a junior spinner at Kansas and a native of Jamaica, is on the Jamaican women's 400-meter relay team. The Jamaicans are loaded with sprinters, and if the squad advances and she's picked for it, she'll compete in the event finals on Friday, Aug. 22.
Aarik Wilson, a volunteer assistant for the Kansas track and field team, competed on Monday, Aug. 18 in the triple jump. Wilson, who trains in Lawrence, failed to qualify for the finals.
Scott Russell, a former track and field athlete and current graduate student, is competing in the javelin in Beijing.
Before he died, he gave Mills this message: follow your dreams and you'll have the wings of an eagle.
"My thoughts became wings of an eagle," Mills said. "I can win, I can win, I can win!"
The German passes Mills and continues on for his final lap, and he wants to get another glimpse of the eagle on the runner.
He pushes through. Thirty meters left. Still in third. Twenty meters left. He passes Clarke. Ten meters. He passes Gammoudi.
"His achievement," Timmons said, "was the greatest of anything I've ever seen."
Mills looks for it. But it's not there. The Olympic rings are the only symbol on the German's jersey.
Mills touches the tape. He wins with a time of 28:24.
Mills was the opposite. He was one of them. From the Dakotas, from tougher circumstances than Gipp could even imagine.
Olympians weren't usually like Gipp and his friends. They thought the best athletes came from far away exotic places, like California or Florida.
Gipp, now the track and cross-country coach at Haskell Indian Nations University, hung on Mills' every word as he retold the story of his Olympic race and showed the famous clip. He remembered hearing about the bump.
Mills told the students how he got pushed by Clarke late in the race and kept running. It was like life.
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"That was the thing," Gipp said. "Hey, you're still in the race even though you might get bumped a little bit."
Mills has been sharing that same message ever since he won the gold medal. He gives more speeches than former presidents, co-wrote a book that's about discovering happiness through a spiritual journey and is the spokesperson for Running Strong for American Indian Youth.
Al Gipg gathered with the rest of his Fort Yates High School class-
Sometimes it's as simple as providing pencils and backpacks for children. Running Strong has also built community gardens, food centers, cultural institutions, museums, houses and water wells.
Dropout rates, suicide rates and alcohol abuse rates are much higher for Native Americans than most other racial groups. Mills tries to make a difference.
You've read about Billy Mills' race, now see a video of it. Just type "Billy Mills 1964 Olympics" into YouTube and watch one of the wildest finishes in Olympic history.
And of course, the organization promotes activity and youth sports. Mills wants the children to pursue their dreams. To gain their eagle wines.
The Olympics gave Mills his truest feeling of belonging, a sense of global unity, that everyone could relate to each other if they tried to
understand the different cultures.
watch the finish
He wants everyone to gain that same feeling in their own way. To feel like they've been chosen by the gods.
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USAS Kobe Bryant, right, shoots as Australia's Andrew Bogut defends during their men's quarterfinal basketball game at the Beijing 2008 Olympics on Wednesday.
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This is what goes down as a "tough test" for the U.S. squad of NBA All-Stars: A five-point lead in the second quarter that turned to 12 by halftime... and was never close again.
“Sooner or later we'll impose our will,” U.S. point guard Chris Paul said. “I don't know if you can keep up with us for 40 minutes.”
Australia sure couldn't. After a tight game into the fourth quarter on Aug. 5, the Aussies hung with the American until the middle of the second quarter but that was it. Kobe Bryant scored nine points during a 14-0 surge to open the second half and the only question after that was how much they would win by. It wound up being 31 points, 116-85.
Next up will be Manu Ginobili and defending champion Argentina on Friday night,
with a spot in the gold-medal game going to the winner. The Argentines beat Greece 80-78, with the Greeks missing a potential winning 3-pointer in the final few seconds.
The Americans sure seem locked in toward their first gold medal in a major international competition since the 2000 Sydney Games.
China's run before its adoring home fans ended with a 72-59 loss to Lithuania.
"I'm really happy, but also a little sad about our result," said Yao, who battled back from an NBA season-ending foot injury in the spring to be ready for the Beijing Games. "We were determined to fight, but were limited by our capabilities."
Lithuania advances to play Spain in the semifinals Friday night. The Spaniards advanced with a 72-59 victory over Croatia, led by 20 points from Paus Gasol.
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Hoge leaves Kansas football team
BY B.J. RAINS
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Another day and another transfer for coach Mark Mangino and the Kansas football team.
Kicker Stephen Hoge has left Lawrence and returned home to Oklahoma City to focus on getting
medical school,
his mother
Carolyn Hoge
confirmed to
the Kansan.
"Football just took a lot of his time and he just really felt like his career needed to come first."
ing his senior year of high school in 2006 when he went a perfect 16-16 on extra points and hit 12 of 16 field goals. Hoge, who had contemplated the decision the past few weeks, was battling sophomore Jacob Branstetter and transfer Grady Fowler for the kicking position during camp and appeared to
"It was not an easy decision but it's something that he felt he needed to do."
Carolyn Hoge said. "He has plans to get into met school. It was a decision he made, but he made it with our support. We told him we would support him in whatever he decided. It was not an easy decision but it's something that he felt he needed to do."
CAROLYN HOGE Mother of Stephen Hoge
He was named a Prepstar Magazine All-American follow-
Kansas kicker Stephen Hoge has decided to leave the football team so he can focus on his career goals. Hoge was projected to be the starting kicker for this year's team.
Hoge, a 6-4, 227 pound redshirt freshman who was listed as Kansas' starting kicker on the preseason depth chart, will take classes at a local community college this fall before enrolling at Oklahoma in the spring.
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According to reports, Branstetter is facing eligibility issues stemming from his transfer from the Air Force Academy and may not be eligible to play
either. He appears to be five credit hours short of being eligible but his parents have filed paperwork with the NCAA in hopes of getting him cleared to play.
If Branstetter is ineligible to play, that would leave Fowler, a transfer from Butler County Community College, as the only kicker on the team's roster.
Fowler was an honorable mention All-America selection during his one season at Butler County but connected on just eight of 12 field goals. He did hit 53 of 55 extra points and scored 77 points on the season.
Hoge joins running backs
Carmon Boyd-Anderson and Donte Bean as players who have transferred in recent days, but he appeared to be the only one of the
three who could have seen signifi cant playing time.
Edited by Scott Toland
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BEIJING — Arms churning high, face twisted in pain as he sprinted toward the finish line, Usain Bolt kept glancing at the clock.
Showing just what he can do when he goes all out start to finish, Bolt forged the greatest race ever run Wednesday night under the hazy lights at the Bird's Nest, heaving his chest toward the finish line — not simply to beat someone for the gold, but to become a part of track's glorious, and sometimes troubled, lore.
The win in the Olympic 200 meters was a given, his second gold medal of the Beijing Games assured. This was now about a world record. About racing against history.
He finished in 19.30 seconds to break Michael Johnson's 12-year-old world record, one of the most venerable in the books.
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Steward's teammates voted him the funniest player on the team but he is also, as Mangino said, one of the most competitive.
say I'm a sore loser. I just want to win at all times, and I hate losing. I just want to help the team and do whatever I can do to help the team be successful."
"I'm a different person when I get on the field," Steward said. "I hate lossing. I guess you could
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Cultural Cocktails. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., all ages, FREE. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
Hawk Week Film: "Back to the Future." 7 p.m., all ages, FREE. Spender Museum of Art.
Spoon Boy/Lonnie Fisher and the Funeral. 8 p.m. m.all ages, $3-$5, Solidarity! Revolutionary Center & Radical Library, 1109 Massachusetts, Lawrence.
Verizon Back to School Party,
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Neon Dance Party. 10 p.m., 18+,
FREE-$5. The Bottleneck, 737 New
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10 p.m., 21+, $2-4. Fatso's, 1016 Massachusetts, Lawrence.
The Gunshy/This is My Condition/Hawley Shoffner. 10 p.m., 21+, $2-3. The Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence.
Loglady/Cargo Cult Missionaries. 10 p.m., 21+ $3.The Gaslight Tavern & Coffeehouse, 31/7 N. Second, Lawrence.
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We're thrilled we get to spend the semester with you, and as you set out to define yourself on campus, in the community and in the world, we'll be here doing everything we can to keep you current with information you can use and with stories that matter to you
In this issue, we've got the lowdown on life with a roommate, sex and relationship advice in our Bitch and Moan
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MANUAL
Brew-It-Yourself
How to reap the rewards of homemade beer
by Josh Patterson
A typical Friday night for many KU students begins with a trip to the liquor store, though some students and faculty have taken drinking into their own hands. Malcolm Gibson, professor of journalism and self-confessed "beer snob." started brewing by accident when his son-in-law gave him a home-brewing kit."I make darker brews that are pretty hoppy," Gibson says. "My next batch will be a nut brown ale."
Adam Bowman, Lawrence graduate student, began brewing by buying his father a home-brewing kit for Christmas. "I got it for him and then sort of took it away from him," Bowman says. After commandeering the brewing kit Bowman began brewing his own beer. When it comes to a favorite brew, Bowman says he's always experimenting. "I change it every time. It may not come out tasting exactly like, say, a pale ale should taste, but it always comes out tasty and drinkable," Bowman says.
Home brewing is a popular hobby and a great way to broaden your palate to the many different styles of beer. If you can't seem to find a beer that you like at the store, trying making it yourself.
Ingredients
The basic building blocks of beer are water, malted barley, hops and yeast. The factors
that determine the style of beer are the type and
amount of malt being used,the amount and method used when adding the hops,and the strain of yeast used to ferment the beer.
Malting is the process by which enzymes and sugars, such as maltose, are extracted from barley or other grains. Hops are the female flower cones of hop plants. Their role in the beer-making process is to add flavor. Brewer's yeast is a fungus. The yeast cells take in simple sugars and produce carbon dioxide and alcohol as waste products. Next time you drink too much, attribute your bad decisions to too much yeast poo.
The brewing process
The basic brewing process consists of soaking malted barley in hot water to release the malt sugars. This malt sugar solution is then boiled with hops.The unfermented mixture is called the wort, pronounced "wert." The wort is allowed to cool, and then yeast is added to begin the fermentation process. Yeast, being the ravenous little critters they are, quickly consume the sugars. The by-product of their feasting makes people think it's a good idea to put lamp shades on their heads.
Large canning pots work well, too. The fermenter can be as simple as a 5-gallon plastic bucket. Simple home-brewing kits with everything you need to get your brew on start at $40.
Equipment
The equipment needed to brew beer at home is surprisingly simple. For the brewing, the basic piece of equipment is a boiling pot.
Sounds easy, right?
If only it were that simple. The fact that you like drinking beer does not make you a ready-made brewer. Brewing is equal parts art and science. "At each step there are places you can screw up," says John Palmer, author of How to Brew: Everything You Need To Know To Brew Beer Right The First Time. Palmer has been brewing is own beer for 18 years. He started home brewing after moving from Michigan to California and finding the local beer selection to be lacking. "I came out to California and everything was Corona. That wasn't the beer I wanted to drink, so I started brewing my own." Palmer says.
There are more than 80 styles of beer. Many great beers can be made at home, though two in particular are especially challenging. According to Palmer, the hardest styles of beer to brew at home are the Belgian sour beers. They're made with sour bacteria cultures in addition to yeast, and can take up to two years to mature. And a lot can go wrong in two years.
The other style that thwarts novice brewers are American lagers, such as Budweiser and Coors. The flavors in these light beers are delicate and readily apparent, Palmer says, so there's no room for error.
Sound like something you'd be interested in, but you don't know a lager from an ale? The Lawrence Brewers Guild is the place to start. Chuck Ferguson, president of the Lawrence Brewers Guild, says new members
are always welcome.The guild holds monthly meetings, and each meeting begins with a brewing-related seminar and concludes with socializing and home brew tasting. For more information, visit the group's Web site at www.lawrencebrewers.org.
While home brewing isn't cheaper than picking up a case of your favorite beer at the store, it does have its advantages. "The biggest advantage is taste," Palmer says. "When compared to mega breweries, if you're interested in beer flavors or matching beers with meals, that's where home-crafted beers come into play."
In the end, brewing it yourself is like any other hobby: It doesn't necessarily save you money; it's just a way to spend time doing something you enjoy.
Tips for first-time home brewers
- Make sure your equipment is as clean as possible. Fungus and bacteria love to feed on the nutrient-rich wort.
- Before you begin, research the style of beer you're wanting to brew. Palmer's book, How to Brew, is available free at www.howtobrew.com.
- Pay attention to fermentation temperatures: 65 degrees for ales and 55 degrees for lagers. If you go hotter, you will generate "off flavors."
- Start by making small batches, or you may end up with a lot of really bad beer.
- Let the beer settle for two to three weeks before bottling and drinking.
TODAY'S EDITORIALS
Geoff Deman, brewer for Free State Brewing Company 636 Massachusetts St., checks gages, hoses and the transfer of beer from boiler to vat in the company's brewhouse Free State Brewing Company opened in 1989 as the first legal brewery in Kansas since the state withdrew prohibition in 1949.
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So, to put it simply, I love sex and I try to do it as often as possible. Being a girl, this seems to make me a skank. I'm safe, I don't have a ridiculous number of partners, and I'm having the time of my life. Is the double standard a negative thing in society, or am I just feeding a stereotype? Should I suppress my sexuality or just continue to do what I want?
—Julie, senior
Matt: My anatomical makeup makes me hesitant to approach this question, so I'll turn to Ann E. Cudd, professor of women's studies and an expert in women's oppression, to get the "bed a-rockin'." Cudd says you are, in fact, playing into a stereotype, but you're just going to have to deal with it. Saying it's not fair is not enough. She commends you for asking for advice—you have confronted the situation and are actively seeking information. Cudd says no one can tell any individual how much sex is appropriate.
You say you are having the time of your life. And I'm guessing your partners are, too. Okay, maybe not the time of their lives, but at least for an hour or so. I see you as a contribution to society. I couldn't imagine stifling my own sexuality for society's sake. Enough standards must be followed to succeed on a daily basis, be it in your job, education, the economy, Western Civilization I and II. Sexuality exists on a personal level, and as long as you can deal with the fallout of a potentially clingy man or an awkward morning after, more power to you.
Francesca: I think most women have a higher libido than they are willing to admit to because of guilt derived from religious teachings and the stereotypes that have resulted from them. My grandmother actually told me little baby Jesus cries every time I "give the milk away for free" when she found out I was moving in with my boyfriend. When I found out my boyfriend was accepted into the military, one of my first thoughts was,"No sex for weeks at a time?" And after that,"He might die!" When I finally put aside my embarrassment and told one of my friends about my sad situation, she confided in me that part of the reason she had a low number of sexual partners was because she owned a vibrator; I soon found out that I was the only girl in my circle of friends who didn't masturbate. So it's not that other women have lower libidos. They are only substituting an equally stereotyped, but more private, sexual activity in place of sex. You shouldn't hide your high libido. Sitting at home on a Friday night masturbating to a picture of David Beckham—someone who doesn't even know you exist and probably wouldn't screw you if he did—seems way more dysfunctional than having sex with someone who wants to screw you, too.
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It was a mandated makeout that could have resulted in transmission of diseases, but, thankfully, only phone numbers were swapped and six months later, the couple is still together.
Ashleigh Garcia, Topeka senior, was visiting her friend, Eryn, in Manhattan, and conversation turned into talk about Eryn's desperation to randomly makeout with a stranger. Enter Eryn's brother, Erik Woofter.
Eryn introduced the two, and after a few minutes,Ashleigh took Eryn's proposition and suggested to Erik that they should makeout.
"So we kissed and exchanged phone numbers and just went our own way," Garcia says.
"We were texting throughout the night and we planned on meeting up, but didn't."
After a couple weeks of text-flirting, the two finally met up for a Kansas City Royals game. Garcia says a dull moment was never present during their first date, and the conversation is still going on to this day.
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"Do not sleep on my bed again, idiot. If you do, you will be cursed."
The dark red letters stared back at me, scrawled on a white sheet of computer paper; strategically placed on the center of my roommate's bed at Jayhawker Towers.
About four weeks earlier, my friend and I had enjoyed a night out while my roommate was out of town. Our evening ended in a drunken walk back to my apartment, leaving my friend with nowhere to sleep but my roommate's bed.
It seemed like a good idea at the time.
After spotting the angry note, I became afraid to say anything to my roommate, so I did the most logical thing I could think of: I switched apartments.
Looking back, I realize my former roommate and I probably could have avoided this disagreement. Our main problem was miscommunication, which Susan Fee, licensed counselor and author of My Roommate Is Driving Me Crazy, says is the biggest problem for new roommates.
Fee decided to write her book after hearing of two roommates who, after having a disagreement, sat in a room together and argued. Their heated words were not spoken, however. They were sent via instant messenger. When Fee asked one of the girls why she didn't just turn around and communicate with her roommate the old-fashioned way, the girl answered. "I could never say these things to my roommate's face."
As this new semester begins, you've likely found yourself in one of two roommate situations: living with a stranger or living with a friend. But no matter which situation, communication is key, and whether you've had countless roommates or have never lived with anyone before, here are some basic guidelines everyone should follow when moving in with someone new.
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After living in McCollum Hall her first semester at the University, Yalanda Jackson followed in my footsteps and switched rooms before the end of the school year. Jackson, 2008 graduate, says her roommate was both messy and disrespectful. After dealing with moldy dishes and underwear strewn about the room, Jackson decided she could no longer live with such a messy person. "I wasn't raised to let bowls lie around until they created mold." Jackson says.
About 60 percent of KU students choose to live with someone they don't know their freshman year, says Jennifer Wamelink, associate director for residence life for the Department of Student Housing. Students opt to do this for a variety of reasons. For Jackson, though she knew a few people also coming to the University, she says she didn't know anyone well enough to live with them.
Unless a student submits a roommate request to the Department of Student Housing. roommates for residence halls and Jayhawker Towers are assigned based on a computer system.
You won't cover every topic right away, Fee says. Unfortunately, many issues won't come up until you experience them firsthand. Make sure to be open and honest about any problems that may arise, and be especially open to the possibility that your roommate is different than you.
"This contract is meant to encourage each roommate to figure out their needs and wants," Wamelink says. "Most issues between roommates boil down to a lack of communication and a lack of expectation."
Fee suggests being up-front about as much as you can when you meet your new roommate. Start out with the facts: Find out about each other's academic interests, personal interests and relationship status. Follow up the basics with specific roommate-related questions: What are your cleaning habits? Where do you study? When do you expect privacy in the room? What mood are you usually in when you wake up in the morning?
Don't be self-conscious about admitting your honest behaviors. "It's like dating." Fee says. "Ask these kinds of questions, but also be willing to share stuff about yourself."
All on-campus roommates begin the semester by filling out a roommate contract, which outlines detailed agreements to help roommates address issues such as property division, sharing guidelines and expected sleeping behaviors.
To get to know your roommate,Wamelink suggests attending Hawk Week activities hosted at the beginning of the semester, as well as any dormitory events.
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Forty percent of KU freshmen choose to live with a friend, Wamelink adds. If you've decided to do this, start by identifying your expectations. Do you expect your friend to meet new people at the same time you do? Do you expect your friend to spend all his or her time
with you? Make sure your expectations are reasonable, and remember that it's always wise to make new friends. "You're going to have times when you don't like your roommate," Fee says. "If you haven't made new friends, then you will have no one to hang out with."
Also, don't choose to live with your friend because she has a TV and you have an entertainment center. "When looking for a roommate, young students tend to
"She wasn't my mother and I wasn't married to her," Dreher says. "I shouldn't have had to tell her these things."
Ryan Dreher, Drexel senior, says he had no expectations when he moved in with a friend, and adds that his living arrangement was fine until about three months into the semester. One night, he arrived home very late and found his roommate impatiently waiting up for him. She asked him where he had been and said it would have been common courtesy to call her in advance and let her know he would be home late.
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Find a roommate whose habits and lifestyle match your own.
Joint Effort
If you and your roommate are having difficulties, make sure to try your best to make it work before starting the daunting task of moving. If there is a specific problem that needs to be addressed, don't use the word "you." By accusing your roommate with phrases such as "you are a slob" or "you don't respect me," you are attacking the person and not the problem. Make sure to separate the person from the behavior so as to elicit the desired behavior. Also, focus your conversation on the facts and not any nasty feelings you may have about your roommate at the time.
compromise, because living with another person is all about reaching agreements.
If you continue to have problems after speaking up and trying everything you possibly can, it may be time to move out. However, it's a common misconception that all roommates don't get along. Not every situation can be anticipated, but by trying your hardest from the beginning, living with someone new might turn into a positive experience.
"Your roommate may not end up being your best friend forever," Wamelink says. "But they won't stay your enemy forever, either."
Does that mean my curse has been lifted? Let's hope so.
And remember to
CONVERSATION STARTERS
Have you found yourself living with your polar opposite? Personality clashes don't have to destroy living situations. Instead, try using these six conversation starters from Susan Fee's book, My Roommate is Driving Me Crazy, which features more than 250 additional conversation starters. These tactics are sure to tone down any irritating habits between the pair of you without getting offensive.
1. You've probably noticed I'm not as talkative as you. It's not that I mind conversations, but I can't talk first thing in the morning until I really wake up.
2. I'm willing to clean my dishes. It just may not be as soon as you do yours. Can we compromise?
3. I can tell you're spontaneous,but I'm more of a planner. When it comes to having parties in the room,can we talk about how I can have some advance warning?
4. It's cool that we're different. I don't
want to change that. I just want to figure out a time when it can be quiet in the room so I can study.
5. We definitely have different tastes in music. I'm not asking for you not to play yours, but I want to be able to play my stuff too. What can we do when we're both in the room at the same time?
6. You have a lot of friends on campus who want to hang in our room. When I'm done with classes, I like to chill by myself. Is it possible to not have any visitors at least for an hour?
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Nintendo Wii: Does it have health benefits?
Nintendo Wii has been one of the most popular video game consoles since its release in 2006. It has recently become even more popular thanks to the addition of Wii Fit, which allows you to exercise via the video game system hooked up to your television.
With Wii Fit's popularity, recent release and the fact that it's an exercise game, people are turning to Wii Fit to get their exercise. Even the Westin Hotel chain has started to use Wii Fit in its WestinWORKOUT program.
Wii Fit allows a person to exercise using a balance board and to choose from 40 different exercise games in four categories: yoga, aerobics, balance and strength training. Wii Fit allows you to create your own character, called a Mii, and track your fitness progress through your Body Mass Index (BMI). Users can play a variety of games such as hula hooping, boxing, running, yoga, basic aerobics and more.
While many people and places are using Wii Fit for their exercise needs, health experts aren't sure how much the Wii Fit can actually help people lose weight and stay healthy.
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"Electronic games like the Wii are not substitutes for regular exercise," says Joseph Donnelly, director of the Energy Balance Laboratory at the University of Kansas. "They cannot give you the same workout as a regular workout."
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In fact, some health experts have estimated that it would take six to eight hours on Wii to expend the equivalent amount of energy of a regular 15- to 30-minute workout.
But while Wii Fit may not be an alternative to regular exercise, it could, however, be a great complement or a way
From your living room to your TV screen. Working it out Wii-style can help you look and feel great, though it's still no substitute for an old-fashioned workout.
to start exercising, and it can also help with arthritis.
John Moores University in Liverpool, England, conducted a study on Wii and concluded that while Wii Fit games burn a decent number of calories, they're not comparable to regular workouts.
For example, a game of Wii tennis burns approximately 179 calories per hour, while an actual game of tennis burns 270 calories per hour. The Wii doesn't compare to regular exercise, but it does beat out its rival, the Xbox, by burning more calories while playing than the Xbox does.
But perhaps most importantly, the release of Wii Fit has promoted a greater awareness of fitness and healthiness. Experts agree this is a great product for people wanting to get started exercising, and especially good for children.
So, if you're looking to get into shape, burn some calories and have fun while doing it, get yourself in step with Wii and Wii Fit.
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Take another look at that chicken sandwich you had for lunch. Soon that meat could come from a chicken that never lived.
This doesn't mean "living" in the existential sense. It means the chicken would simply be a hunk of flesh, cultivated in vitro in a lab, which is an idea being pushed by the animal rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, better known as PETA.
The group recently challenged the scientific community by offering a $1 million dollar prize for creating the first lab-grown meat. Not a soy or micro-protein product, but real meat, grown from a lab procedure and not from a live animal. PETA's challenge has brought to the forefront controversial questions of the ethics and the dangers of genetic science.
According to an article published in April on the National Public Radio Web site, www. npr.org, in order to win PETA's prize, the labgrown meat "must have a taste and texture indistinguishable from real chicken flesh, be produced in sufficiently large quantities to be sold commercially, and successfully sold at a competitive price in at least 10 states."
What are the implications of lab-grown meat for the average consumer? While it's unlikely that such a product would hit the shelves anytime soon, the success of Boca, Morningstar and other brands of "fake" meats hints that this could be a viable industry.
"I think it's an interesting idea," says recent KU graduate Mikey Fletcher, who has been a vegetarian for the past five years. "I don't think it will get many vegetarians to switch, though. There are already a lot of fake meat products out there, and many vegetarians aren't looking to get meat back into their diet."
Fletcher says he likes that people who had not considered vegetarianism before
might be turned on to it through PETA's work. However, Fletcher says going vegetarian is just one part of the larger puzzle of being environmentally conscious and caring about animal rights.
Danica Pollard, a chef at Lidia's in Kansas City, Mo., says the idea is too weird for her to try. "But restaurants would definitely use it," Pollard says. "There are cutting-edge places that would want to be the first to offer that kind of choice."
Pollard says that while she wouldn't eat it, she does like the idea that lab-grown meat could reduce animal suffering and lower the risk of diseases, such as the bird flu and mad cow disease, for consumers.
The United States has historically been a leader in technological innovation, and this would mark a milestone in food production. The impact of alternative meat could affect layers of society and could create new financial markets and rewards for newly created companies.
University of Kansas anthropology professor Don Stull explores the topic of meat packing workers and the problems hovering around the industry in his 2003 book Slaughterhouse Blues. Many slaughterhouse workers are immigrants and are often paid low wages for their repetitive, gruesome and grueling work.
Slaughterhouse Blues examines how the American meatpacking industry has changed since the 1970s.The location of the industry has switched to rural areas and many people are disconnected from their food's source.
The book focuses on the historical perspective of the meat industry. It investigates modern meat production and the industrialization, which has encouraged factory farming in place of family-run farms.This effect can be measured by workers and the so-called, "Human Price of Our Meat." Stull and coauthor Michael Broadway noticed the trend for low-paid workers (salaries often under
$20,000 per year) and injuries on the job.
The PETA challenge questions the ethics and practices surrounding the meat industry.From Burger King to The Jungle, people respond to investigative reporting that sheds light on sensitive subjects. But not everyone is optimistic about the announcement.
Animal rights activist Tyler Davis thinks PETA is missing the point. He says that while it was good for PETA to be focused on the smaller goal of getting people to stop consuming meat, PETA was overlooking the dangers of aligning themselves with companies such as Boca and Morningstar who are owned by Phillip Morris. Plus, they would be tampering with the food supply, the consequences of which would need to be studied over a period of many years to know if the modified food was truly safe.
Davis said he would much rather see PETA support sustainable farms.
"I would like to see PETA highlight the real alternatives like small, sustainable farms and show people the real problems with the meat industry," Davis says. Not just animal cruelty but the health concerns with meat and the lack of transparency in the industries that deal with meat and alternative meat products.
KFC Canada has implemented "vegan" chicken into some stores after protests about cruelty in slaughterhouses that KFC was connected with. The events that play out in the next few years could shape the future of food in America.
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For most people, animals like elephants and rhinoceroses are always safely behind a thick wall of glass. For Andrew Stallard, the only thing separating him from these massive creatures is a few meters of open plain.
Stallard is a senior mammal keeper at the San Diego Wild Animal Park. He spends his days feeding, caring for and cleaning up after animals such as giraffes, elephants and black rhinos.The park is "free contact," which means there is
Stallard says two things he watches carefully are an animal's behavior and its immediate surroundings. A docile rhinoceros could easily be spooked by other animals or an approaching vehicle, and Stallard says even though these animals appear slow and cumbersome, they can move very quickly. "These are animals that could kill you quickly and without effort," he says.
nothing separating Stallard from these animals.
Stallard says his job is difficult, but it does have its perks. The park breeds its animals to keep up zoo populations. Stallard says seeing a successful birth is very rewarding. He says the park often returns animals to the wild as well, and such successes remind him why he does his job."Those are very rewarding times." Stallard says.
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keep yourself fed while ridding your lawn of dandelions. The whole plant is edible: The flowers can be used as a garnish or fermented to make wine, the leaves can be boiled like spinach or added to salads, and the roots can even be used as substitute to coffee.
Combine the ingredients in a bowl and stir.
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MOVIE: Tropic Thunder
Ben Stiller, who also directed the movie, plays down-and-out action star Tug Speedman, who is trying to revive his career. Jack Black, comedian Jeff Portnoy, and newcomer Brandon T. Jackson round out the cast.
The opening scene rolls into a movie shoot full of missed explosions and actors butting heads. Sharing the title of Tropic Thunder, the Vietnam-era movie within the movie is in the hands of rookie director Damien Cockburn, played with prima donna angst by Steve Coogan.
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Tropic Thunder is not nice or in any way appropriate. It is a bloody comedy that will surprise you every step of the way. Make sure and get there for the opening "previews," and to keep an open mind throughout this movie that loves making fun of itself.
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"The edge, there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
MOVIE: Gonzo
And with that, the documentary Gonzo: The Life and Work of Hunter S. Thompson begins its whirlwind adventure,and viewers are instantly immersed in the visionary world of the infamous and renowned journalist.
Gonzo is no ordinary documentary With Johnny Depp—who starred in 1998's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, based on Thompson's novel of the same name—narrating legendary Thompson quotes to Thompson's two wives commenting on his seemingly manic behavior, Gonzo delves deep into the intricate and, at times, troubled mind of an American icon.
The film explores Thompson's work through his idealistic mindset on the promise of hope for America.The movie opens with scenes from September 11, signifying that the War on Terror was Thompson's ultimate breaking point in his inability to cope with a surmounting loss of hope. From here, writer and director Alex Gibney traces the early years of Thompson's life, attempting to understand what drove the writer to take his own life in 2005.
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Despite its title, The Wackness is by far one of the dopest movies I have seen this year.
While it may not have the special effects or hype of many of the blockbuster movies released this summer, it more than makes up with its excellent cast and well-written script. The story centers around recent high school graduate and drug dealer Luke Shapiro, played with an impressive performance by Josh Peck, who is best known for his role on the Nickelodeon show Drake and Josh. It is set in summer of 1994 in New York City where Peck plays an angst-ridden pot dealer who trades weed for therapy sessions with Dr. Jeffery Squires, played admirably by Ben Kingsley. Peck has just graduated high school and has little direction in life other than his love of classic hip-hop, selling drugs throughout the city from an ice cream cart and getting laid. In the midst of lives that seem to be failing to live up to the hopes of those living them, Peck begins pursuing Stephanie, played by Olivia Thirlby, who happens to be the daughter of his therapist, Kingsley.
The movie explores what it means to grow into adulthood, whether you are 18 or 50, what it means to be in love and the nature of friendship between people who are kindred souls despite having very different lives. The humor in this movie, although very dark, allows for several laugh-out-loud moments. It also provides an opportunity
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MUSIC: The Faint, Fasciination
With their original, electronic sound and dance-punk beats, The Faint have long been one of Omaha, Nebraska's most influential and remarkable bands. The band established their new wave, synthesized sound with their 1999 release Blank-Wave Arcade, and since that time, the buzz around The Faint has been anything but faint. In 2001, Danse Macabre arrived in the form of dance-ready synth rock, and in 2004, the ambitious Wet From Birth added a twist to The Faint's already unique sound with the addition of synthesized strings. During the four-year hiatus between Wet From Birth and Fasciination, The Faint built their own recording studio and began their own record label, blank.wav, parting from their label of the past ten years, Saddle Creek Records, a label which, with the signing of The Faint and a few other well-known Omaha bands (Cursive, Bright Eyes), helped jumpstart the now flourishing Omaha music scene.
The Faint hint at themes used on previous albums (sex, anyone?) and don't disappoint when it comes to unique—and sometimes nauseating—lyrics. "Fish In A Womb" arranges lurid lyrics like "That slice in my neck, its oozing jelly clear as glass" against the backdrop of a beautiful melody, which can be distracting. The Faint also seem to have departed from Wet From Birth's busy, layered sounds with an album more simple
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Jennifer Bertrand, winner of HGTV's "Design Star" poses in front of her mural at Salon Reaction in Overland Park on Wednesday. Bertrand designed much of the salon, including the sinks and lamps.
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Jennifer Bertrand reached the peak of exhaustion after six weeks of design competitions. She hadn't had a day off during the competition and her emotions were high. She was anxious to create the best design for her client on Home and Garden Television's "Design Star" television show.
Her final assignment for the show was to design and build a kitchen, dining room and living room for a family whose house was damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
"I didn't even think about the fact that it was the final to win the show." Bertrand said. "I thought more about the family, and this family hadn't had a kitchen for three years."
Bertrand, 1998 graduate and designer from Olathe, won HGTV's "Design Star" competition earlier this month. She also received her own HGTV show, which will start in January.
Bertrand auditioned for "Design Star" because she always dreamed of having her own show and didn't want to regret not taking the chance.
Bertrand said she would look forward to teaching design, decor and art.
"I always thought I wanted to do something on a big scale" Bertrand said.
Hosting her own show combines two of her sessions designing and teaching.
"All my worlds collide and everything comes together," Bertrand said.
Lee Skoglund, Bertrand's sister, said the best words to describe Bertrand were "fun" and "energetic."
Bertrand was always around art. Her father is the director of a museum in Saint Joseph, Mo. Her mother is a sculptor.
Bertrand learned about other cultures and different beliefs and values, while traveling to other countries.
"As a kid, I grew up going to all the different castles and chateaus in Europe," Bertrand said. "That's where I started to fall in love with design."
Bertrand earned a degree in visual arts education from the University in 1998. She belonged to the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority and juggled multiple jobs along with
"When you are a designer, you can just design the way you want to," Bertrand said. "I have to be able to change my style to fit to whoever I'm working with."
the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City, Mo. She said being on television brought more business opportunities to her firm. She said she would continue to work for the firm
academic responsibilities. She said the University allowed her to meet a variety of people and exposed her to different art media.
She went back to the University to continue her studies while she was working full-time on her business. She earned a master's in education in 2007.
Bertrand taught art
What made her the best candidate is she really cares about what people want and how the design will function.
Bertrand taught art in the Shawnee school district and in Italy before she became a full-time designer.
LEE SKOGLUNG Jennifer Betrand's sister
She runs a small design firm in Olathe with her husband, Chris Bertrand. They design everything from interiors of residential homes to restaurants and condos on
after the show began in January.
Chris and Jennifer Bertrand now spend a lot of time working together and they sometimes have to work on weekends. He said they both had strong wills and sometimes they clashed during work. But he said he always enjoyed working with her.
"She has an amazing ability to connect with people," Chris said, "She's good at making people feel comfortable."
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Paintings by Jennifer Bertrand make up much of Salon Reaction, in Overland Park. She designed the interior with her design firm. Bertrand recently won HGTVs "Design Star" and will have her own show on the network.
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EMPORIA, Va. — Barack Obama says he's decided on a running mate, but he won't say who. "I've made the selection, that's all you're gonna get," Obama told reporters while campaigning in Virginia Thursday. Obama didn't say whether he's informed his pick yet.
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WAUKEGAN, III. — The Lake County sheriff is behind bars — voluntarily.
Curran said he's also trying to draw attention to the fact that jails are overpopulated with the mentally ill, the uneducated and repeat offenders. Rehabilitation needs to be a focus, he said.
Sheriff Mark Curran said his goal is to talk to inmates so he can see the jail from their perspective. That way he can try to solve potential problems, such as safety issues, and better understand the inmate experience, he said.
"I want some introspection but let's be realistic. I'm never going to be able to completely create that scenario" Curran told The Associated Press by telephone from jail.
Unlike the other inmates, Curran gets to leave on a date he chooses. Aug. 27.
Real inmates bunk together in a cell, but Curran will sleep in his own cell for safety reasons. He was locked up Wednesday.
So far Curran said he has met several inmates, not all of whom appeared to realize he was sheriff. For those who do recognize him, he said he'll have to work to gain their trust.
"There might be some skepticism amongst them," he said. "You break down the walls as much as you possibly can."
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FARMINGTON, Utah — Lose a bet, kiss a horse.
He told the mare: "This is more for you than me."
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to watch their boss kiss a farm animal. This year, the county employees won — county staffers lost 397.6 pounds, just slightly trimmer than the hospital workers.
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FLINT, Mich. — There are loyal customers, and then there's Joseph Macko.
"He does, but I don't," she said.
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WASHINGTON — John McCain may have created his own housing crisis.
Hours after a report that the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting didn't know how many homes he and his multimillionaire wife own, Democratic rival Barack Obama launched a national TV ad and a series of campaign stops aimed at portraying McCain as wealthy and out of touch.
With the economy ranking as the top issue in the race, Obama sought to turn McCain's gaffe into one of those symbolic moments
Think John Kerry sailboarding or the first President Bush wowed by a grocery store checkout scanner, Michael Dukakis riding in a tank or Gerald Ford eating a tamale with the husk still on.
"I think — I'll have my staff get to you," McCain told Politico when asked Wednesday how many houses he owns. "It's condominiums where — I'll have them get to you."
that stick in voters' minds
Later, the McCain campaign told Politico that McCain and his wife, Cindy, have at least four in three states — Arizona, California and Virginia. Newsweek recently estimated the two owned at least seven properties.
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on the record
On Aug. 21, the Lawrence Police Department reported that:
-On Aug.19, a KU student reported a stolen credit card.
- On Aug. 19, a KU student reported $250 in criminal damage to a pickup truck.
-On Aug. 19, a KU student reported three instances of the unlawful financial use of an overseas credit card, totaling $1.045 in loss.
-On Aug. 20, a KU student was the victim of disorderly conduct.
-On Aug. 19, a KU student filed a complaint of criminal trespass.
NATION Restrictions on wireless microphones proposed
Consumer groups alleged in a complaint last month that users of the ubiquitous microphones, including Broadway actors, mega-church pastors and karaoke DJs, are unwittingly violating FCC rules that require licenses for the devices
WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission is proposing a ban on certain types of wireless microphones and has begun an investigation into how the industry markets its products.
The Public Interest Spectrum Coalition accused manufacturers of deceptive advertising in how they market and sell the microphones, which largely operate in the same radio spectrum as broadcast television stations.
The agency, in a notice released Thursday, said its enforcement bureau had opened an investigation. The FCC also is proposing that the sale and manufacture of some of the devices be banned.
"These actions would ensure that low power auxiliary operations do not cause harmful interference to new public safety and commercial wireless services in the band," the agency said Thursday.
Most owners of the microphones are unaware that FCC rules require them to obtain a license.
The FCC rarely enforces the licensing requirements on the microphones because there have been so few complaints. The microphones are programmed to avoid television channels.
Wireless microphones that operate in the same frequency bands as broadcast TV stations are intended for use in the production of TV or cable programming or the motion picture industry, according to FCC rules — not karoke.
Channels 52 through 69 in the UHF television band, currently used by broadcasters, will be vacated as they convert to digital broadcasting. The government sold that section of airwaves for $19 billion in the FCC's most successful auction in history. Other parts of that spectrum will be used by paramedics, police and firefighters.
The concern is that microphones that operate in that range may cause interference for the new licensees. It's not known how many wireless microphones operate there, but Harold Feld, a lawyer for the consumer groups, says the total is likely more than 1 million, based on a trade journal estimate.
But the looming transition to digital broadcasting, which takes place Feb.17, has forced the FCC to act.
Associated Press
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Security office sends warning about fraudulent e-mails
BY HALEY JONES
hjones@kansan.com
For the first time, the KU Information Technology Security Office sent an e-mail alert to all University faculty and students Aug. 4 that warned of a spear phishing e-mail targeting KU network users. The e-mail directed KU network users to verify their usernames and passwords to keep their accounts from going dormant.
Bill Myers, director of assessment and outreach for Information Services, said the office received reports of e-mails appearing to come from "KU Online Services" with an address of onlineservices@ku.edu and a non-KU reply address.
Julie Fugett, information security analyst for Information Services, said this was the first e-mail warning the office sent to avoid filling the inboxes of University students and faculty.
"You cry wolf too many times and people will be like, 'there they go again.'" Fugett said.
Myers said the office received hundreds of reports a week of phishing messages and thousands of attacks on the University's network.
Fugett said some people even reported the office's alert e-mail to abuse@ku.edu as spam.
"People really hate getting these things," Fugett said. "They get tired of it."
Fugett said fewer than 10 people replied to the last spear phishing message, which the office considered a threat.
Fugett said spear phishing messages were first reported to the office last March. She said each round of phishing attacks looked a little different.
what's phishing?
Phishing is a fraudulent e-mail that looks like it was sent by a legitimate business to get the recipient to give out private information.
Spear phishing is a fraudulent e-mail targeted at a specific person that looks like it was sent by a person or organization familiar to the recipient.
"Since people change their tactics, we are playing catch-up to update our defenses," Fugett said.
Fugett said after four to five reports of a specific phishing message, she would begin to draft an alert to post at the office's Web site, www.security.ku.edu, and its beseKUre blog site, www.besekure. ku.edu.
Links to the security alerts are also posted on student portals and occasionally on Outlook Web Access.
The office works loosely with the University Privacy Office to handle phishing and spear phishing messages and their potential threats. Jane Rosenthal, privacy coordinator and custodian of records for the privacy office, said her office handled University information security issues.
"Security and privacy go hand in hand," Rosenthal said. "If there were a phishing message of some flavor and it gave out University information, we would step in."
— Edited by Kelsey Hayes
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INTERNATIONAL Florida deals with wildlife left in storm Fay's wake
MELBOURNE, Fla. — As if a fourth straight day of rain from Tropical Storm Fay wasn't enough, weary residents are now dealing with quintessentially Floridian fallout: alligators, snakes and other critters driven from their
National Guardsman Steve Johnson was wading through hip-deep water Wednesday night when his flashlight revealed an alligator drifting through a sea of flooded mobile homes.
swampy lairs into flooded streets, backyards and doorsteps.
"I said, "The heck is that?" and there was an alligator floating by," Johnson said. "I took my flashlight
and was like, 'You've got to be kidding me, a big old alligator swimming around here.'$^{68}$
The erratic storm has dumped more than 2 feet of rain along parts of Florida's low-lying central Atlantic coast this week. The system continued its slow, wet march Thursday.
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Global warming gives far north new sea route
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BARROW, Alaska — Rapidly melting ice on Alaska's Arctic is opening up a new navigable ocean in the extreme north, allowing oil tankers, fishing vessels and even cruise ships to venture into a realm once trolled mostly by indigenous hunters.
The Coast Guard expects so much traffic that it opened two temporary stations on the nation's northernmost waters, anticipating the day when an ocean the size of the contiguous United States could be ice-free for most of the summer.
"We have to prepare for the world coming to the Arctic," said Rear Adm. Gene Brooks, commander of the Coast Guard's Alaska district.
Scientists say global warming has melted the polar sea ice each summer to half the size it was in the 1960s, opening vast stretches of water. Last year, it thawed to its lowest level on record.
The rapid melting has raised speculation that Canada's Northwest Passage linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans could one day become a regular shipping lane. And there is a huge potential for natural resources in a region that may contain as much as 25 percent of the world's undiscovered oil and gas.
S'ill, conservative estimates indi- cate the Arctic Ocean will be icefree in the summer within 20 years, although some scientists believe that will occur much sooner.
But scientists caution that it could be centuries before the Arctic is completely ice-free all year round.
As it thaws, the receding ice has made ocean travel along Alaska's northern coast increasingly alluring, but ships can still be trapped
by ice.
Earlier in August, three oil industry vessels bound for Canada became stuck in ice about 60 miles north of Point Barrow. The Coast Guard sent the icebreaker Healy to help, but before it could arrive from 300 miles away, the wind shifted and pushed the ice apart, freeing the vessels.
"They were able to get away," Brooks said. "The problem with this ice is it's very unpredictable."
Because of such risks, the Coast Guard established temporary bases this month in Barrow, the country's highest-latitude town, and at the North Slope's Prudhoe Bay, the nation's largest oil field. The bases will operate for a few weeks while Guard officials evaluate the need for the agency's services.
"It's amazing to me when I go to the pole how thin the ice is, huge open spots of water in some areas," he said. "Before, you spent more time getting there and more time in the ice. Wed have helicopters looking for breaks in the water for us."
The thaw has added urgency to the race among neighboring nations to claim a piece of the North Pole's resources. The U.S. is compiling mapping data that could bolster any claims for drilling rights.
Chuck Cross has been leading excursions to the North Pole with his Bend, Ore.-based Polar Cruises since 1991, and he's noticed a big change over the years.
The Northwest Passage is also increasingly popular with tourists.
Many countries have launched scientific expeditions, hoping to take advantage of a provision in international law that allows nations to claim rights over their continental shelf beyond the normal boundary of 200 nautical miles, if the claim can be supported with geologic evidence.
that the increasing volume of ship traffic brings greater potential for oil spills, lost boaters and other mishaps.
"We have to ask ourselves whether we're prepared for these ships coming to our shores," said Mead Treadwell, who chairs the U.S. Arctic Research Commission. He testified in Congress this summer about the need to build new Coast Guard icebreakers to better protect traffic in its Arctic waterways.
The Coast Guard is concerned
Before the Coast Guard opened its base in Barrow, the nearest station where ships could stop for fuel and provisions was Alaska's Kodiak Island, almost 1,000 miles away.
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New exhibit at Spencer Museum of Art explores time
BY BRANDY ENTSMINGER
bentsminger@kansan.com
An art exhibition exploring the representation of time throughout history and within cultures will open at the Spencer Museum of Art on Aug. 23.
Top: Kris Ercums, curator of Asian art at the Spencer Museum of Art, works Tuesday at the museum in preparation for the Time/Frame exhibit. The exhibit is expected to open this week and coincides with the museum's showing of the movie "Back to the Future" on Thursday night.
Right: Richard Klocke, exhibition designer at the Spencer Museum of Art, prepares for the Time/Frame exhibit Tuesday alongside some of the artwork.
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The exhibition, Time/Frame,
was organized by graduate student
interns at the museum.
Kate Meyer, curatorial assistant at the museum, said the exhibition was divided into four sub-themes: Short Time, Long Time, Lifetime and Behind Time.
"We all worked together to make it seem like it was coming from one uniform voice," Meyer said.
Meyer said visitors would enter the exhibition through an area that featured a series of clocks. One of the clocks is a Hawaiian necklace that measures time as it burns. The necklace is made of nuts that each take 15 minutes to burn.
The Short Time category of the exhibition addresses increments of time and includes pieces such as a stop-motion photograph of a squash game.
The Long Time category focuses on different representations of cyclical events such as seasons. It features both a series of 17th
century Dutch paintings and a series of Japanese paintings from 1895. Meyer said it was exciting to see how different cultures depicted the seasons.
Meyer said the Lifetime
beginning with eggs and finishing with skeletons.
The fourth sub-theme, Beyond Time, features abstract concepts such as meditation, death and time travel.
We all worked together to make it seem like it was coming from one uniform voice.
KATE MEYER
Curatorial assistant
category focused on measuring time through personally significant events. One series of works is arranged to represent a lifetime,
Ellen Raimond, Naperville, Ill., graduate student, worked on the exhibition and said the lifetime series showed how much fun the interns had putting it together.
"It's playful but at the same time there is a seriousness to it," Raimond said.
Meyer said this was the first
show where pieces from the Spooner Hall collection of over 10,000 artifacts had been included.
the show to demonstrate the continuity of time.
Recent graduate Stephanie Teasley worked with the artifacts and said they were integrated into
Graduate student interns Robert Fucci, Shu yun Ho, Lauren Kernes, Lara Kuykendall,
together to work on a collective project.
"It was exciting to see all our different interpretations of time," Raimond said.
Raimond and Teasley began work on the Time/Frame exhibition last August.
Meyer acted as project manager and said this was the first time interns at the museum had come
It's playful but at the same time there is a seriousness to it.
Meyer said the idea for Time/
NAME ELLEN RAIMOND Graduate student
frame began with a planned exhibition and artist talk by Wendell Castle, artist and University graduate. The exhibition will consist of five clock sculptures created by Wendell.
The Time/Frame exhibition will run through Dec. 14 and the Castle exhibition will open Sept. 20.
— Edited by Arthur Hur
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New health insurance plan offers more benefits for students
BY JOE PREINER
jpreiner@kansan.com
A newly revised student health insurance plan is now available to KU students looking for coverage this academic year.
The new plan, which the Kansas Board of Regents oversees, offers coverage for students for less than $1,000 per year.
The injury and sickness insurance plan is designed specifically to cater to international, health science and graduate students. While many graduate students are eligible for GTA/GRA coverage, the ones who are not can apply for the new plan.
Diana Malott, assistant director of Student Health Services at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said she was pleased with the
changes the new plan included, such as raising the dollar amount for which students would be covered.
"Coverage is just much better with the new plan," Malott said. "We've really seen enrollment start to climb."
Malott said she didn't have enrollment numbers because the plan is so new.
Though Malott said many health insurance plans cost less than the one being offered, she said cheaper plans usually come with fewer benefits.
One goal the insurance company, United Health Care and Student Resources, wanted to achieve was to keep the price for the revised plan less than $1000.
"What we want to really do here is provide students with what they
need," Malott said.
Hannah Hendricks, El Dorado first-year pharmacy student, recently applied for the new insurance plan. She said that the plan was cost-effective, which worked well for students who are short on cash. Although she had not had any serious medical issues, she said having the insurance made her feel more secure.
"I went four years without insurance," Hendricks said. "Don't go without it because something will happen, believe me."
Some students are covered by their parents' health insurance policy. Malott said most insurance policies discontinue that coverage when individuals reach age 23.
Andrea Gore, assistant supervisor of records and regulations at Watkins, said her son attended the
University and was nearing that age. She said she would encourage him to look into getting health insurance, and that she would suggest the new plan. Gore also said the plan was reasonable and a good idea for people still in school but cut off from their parents' plan.
Students can apply for the health insurance plan online or by mail. Applications are available in Watkins during business hours. Students can buy the policy annually or by semester on the United Health Care Web site at www.uhcsr.com, with prices varying accordingly.
The plan will be effective immediately for students needing quick coverage.
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$921 for student plus spouse
$818 for student and all children
$1559 for student, spouse and all children
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$5117 for student plus spouse
$4546 for student and all children
$8665 for student, spouse and all children
Source: www.uhcsr.com and Watkins Memorial Health Center
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Forum features Iraq experts
Students will be able to question guest speakers on aspects of the war Sunday night at the Dole Institute
BY JESSE TRIMBLE
jtrimble@kansan.com
The Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics will begin its Dole Forum
series this year with "Iraq: What Went Wrong? What's Next?"
The event will feature three expert speakers on the war in Iraq.
Wright
The speakers
include Adrian R. Lewis, professor of history, retired Col. Kevin Benson and Donald Wright, author of "On Point II: Transition to the New Campaign. The U.S. Army in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, May 2003 to January 2005," the Army's official history of the war in Iraq.
Bill Lacy, director of the Dole
Institute, said he wanted to remind students of the importance of the Iraq War in the upcoming presidential election.
"I think, number one, that this is arguably the most pressing issue the next president is going to face," Lacy said. "What we tried to do is structure a program that would focus on what hasn't worked, what's gone wrong and at the same time, what we can do about it."
Wright said he thought the lecture would be important to dispel many of the false assumptions concerning the war.
"There has been a lot of questioning during this period," Wright said. "All of it has forced Americans to ask themselves 'What are we willing to do in the name of national defense? Give up rights to make our nation more secure?'"
Wright's book focuses on the Army's reaction to the war. He said the book's readers have been surprised that the Army would disclose unfavorable information about itself.
"The purpose of the book is to tell the story and for the Army and its members to learn from it," Wright said. "Civilians sometimes don't understand that the Army is trying very diligently to learn from its mistakes."
Lewis, also the director of the University's Fort Leavenworth Program, soon to be called the
Office of Graduate Professional Military Education, said he thought people were a bit confused as to what was really going on in the war.
"There are a lot of myths about the war in Iraq, I see it on TV all the time and it's completely wrong," Lewis said.
As a liaison between Fort Leavenworth and KU, Lewis helps push certain programs to help officers earn advanced degrees related to special operations, local government and special agencies, and areas and cultures of the world.
Benson will also be a speaker at the forum. As a retired colonel for the Army, Benson, was director of plans at the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom from July 2002 to July 2003.
Lewis said the forum would raise issues that should be important to students.
"This country is at war and people aren't really paying attention because there isn't a draft," Lewis said. "We are spending over $100 billion a year on this and it translates to money that doesn't get spent on health care, highways, universities even. It affects every American."
The forum begins at 5:30 p.m. on Sunday at the Dole Institute.
—Edited by Brieun Scott
Recycling on campus increases as KU becomes more sustainable
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Program's services contribute to rise in conservation
BY SACHIKO MIYAKAWA smiyakawa@kansan.com
halls. The program also added more cardboard recycling locations.
The University of Kansas increased the amount of garbage it recycled last year by 5 percent.
The University recycled 542.4 tons of garbage, including paper,
The amount of cardboard recycled last year increased more than 10 percent from the previous year, according to the tonnage report.
KU Recycling is funded by student fees, Facilities Operations.
aluminum and cardboard, in the 2008 fiscal year. That was an increase from the previous year, when 517 tons of garbage were recycled, according to the KU Recycling tonne report.
We encourage waste reduction, which is, I think, just as important as recycling.
JEFF SEVERIN Director, KU Center for Sustainability
Celeste
Hoins said the service helped the University achieve its sustainability goals.
Hoins, administrative manager of the Environmental Stewardship Program, said the program's new services increased the convenience of recycling on campus. The recycling project, funded by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, promotes paper recycling in the offices of several campus buildings, including Strong, Haworth and Summerfield
"We employ students, and KU student
government has proved that they want campus recycling by supporting recycling through student referendums and fees," Hoins said.
Hoins said the stewardship program wanted to add new recycling locations.
The Environmental Stewardship Program also works with student groups to raise awareness about the importance of recycling.
KU Environs, one of those student groups, collaborated with the stewardship program to start electronic waste recycling at the University in the fall.
Ryan Callihan, Lenexa senior and vice president of KU Environns, said the University provided a good recycling system and many students learned the benefits of recycling, but that some people could put more effort in recycling.
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He said that people could recycle in their homes and could drop off their recyclables while running errands.
Jeff Severin, director of the KU Center for Sustainability, said the center updated checklists on its Web site to promote sustainability at work and at home, including tips for recycling and waste reduction.
"We encourage waste reduction, which is, I think, just as important as recycling." Severin said.
For example, he said, reducing the margin of Word documents and printing on both sides of paper would contribute significantly to reducing paper waste.
— Edited by Rachel Burchfield
3 companies vie for casino management opportunities
Kansas law requires review board to choose company that will bring most money, tourists to state
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On Thursday, the sevenmember Lottery Gaming Facility Review Board questioned three applicants vying for the Sumner
TOPEKA — After a day of questioning applicants, a state review board planned to vote Friday on which companies will manage state-owned casinos in Cherokee and Sumner counties.
negotiations. The Lottery will own the new casinos.
The review board votes Sept. 18 and 19 on four applicants for Wyandotte County and two for Ford County.
Much of Thursday's discussions focused on how each applicant
County contract
Harrah's Entertainment Inc., Penn
National Gaming Inc.
and Marvel Gaming.
Penn is the sole applicant for Cherokee County.
Board chairman Matt All said he wouldn't be surprised by unanimous votes on the final selections.
Any applicant selected by the review board would still undergo a background check by the Kansas Racing and Gaming Commission.
Harrah's casino would be in Mulvane, while Penn and Marvel have staked out locations near Wellington.
Board chairman Matt All said he wouldn't be surprised by unanimous votes on the final selections. Kansas law requires the board to consider which contract will bring the state the most revenue, best promote tourism and be in the best interest of the state, he said.
"We have to follow the law, and following the law, and doing what the law requires us to do, is different from doing what we want to do." All said. "We may want to vote for a particular facility, but the law requires us to vote for another, or we may want to vote for a particular casino but the law requires us to send it back for more negotiations."
The board has the option of rejecting all applicants and sending their proposed contracts back to the Kansas Lottery for more
sultants agreed.
would finance its project. All three applicants said they had the financial ability to build and operate the casino over the life of the 15-year contract, and the board's con-
According to Lottery officials, Harrah's said earlier that it wanted to change the contract it signed in May to remove about $50 million in proposed retail facilities.
Dan Biles, th said the idea was rejected because it wouldn't be fair to the other applicants. He said Harrah's and other applicants are bound by the terms of the contracts they signed with the Lottery.
Dan Biles, the Lottery' attorney.
Penn continued to push what it called its "southern strategy"casinos in both Cherokee and Sumner counties. Steve Snyder, Penn senior vice president for corporate development, said operating both casinos would generate more revenue than two facilities with different managers.
Charles Atwood, vice president of Harrah's board.
But consultant William Eadington, of the University of Nevada-Reno, said, "I don't place much credence in the southern strategy. It's probably overstated as presented."
Snyder again told the board that Penn would move forward in Cherokee County if it gets the Sumner County contract but would have to rethink its position if that didn't happen.
A new casino that opened on the state line by Oklahoma's Quapaw Nation this summer is expected to cut into Penn's potential revenue.
Harrah's later called the situation a misunderstanding and that there never were plans to cut back.
The board has the option of rejecting all applications and sending their proposed contracts back to the Kansas lottery for more negotiations.
"It's no longer an issue. We solved it in a different way," said
Consultants estimate first-year revenue in Sumner County at $186.5 million for Harrah's, $132.6 million for Marvel and
In Cherokee County, consultants estimate revenue for Penn at $30.2 million, and the state's share would be 22 percent. Penn had projected revenues of $57.4 million.
$123 million for Penn. Harrah's and Marvel initially would pay 22 percent of their revenue to the state while Penn would pay 25 percent. They would pay
more as revenues increase.
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Seinfeld to endorse Microsoft
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NEW YORK — Junior Mints, Yoo-hoo, Drake's Coffee Cakes, puffy shirts; These are all things Jerry Seinfeld has endorsed — at least in his alter ego on his classic sitcom. Now, add Microsoft software.
Seinfeld will be a key pitchman in a planned $300 million fall advertising campaign for the software giant, a person familiar with the plans confirmed to The Associated Press on condition on anonymity because the deal has not been formally announced.
The Wall Street Journal first reported the plans. Citing people close to the situation, it reported the comedian will be paid $10 million for appearing in ads with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates.
It's Microsoft's latest move to try to capture some of the cool quotient that rival Apple has appeared to win so effortlessly.
But for younger consumers especially, can Seinfeld turn the image tide for Microsoft?
sonfeld does represent sort of a challenge," says Brian Steinberg, television editor for the weekly advertising magazine Ad Age. "He's not Dane Cook. He's got a more sophisticated everyday take on things. He often comes across as a questioner of conventional wisdom but also can be kind of a crank. It's a fine line to walk when you're dealing with a younger person."
Steinberg did point out that the firm producing the spots — Crispin Porter and Bogusky — is known for creating commercials that appeal to young males, particularly in its campaigns for Burger King.
Seinfeld has shown himself to be a superior promoter in the past, particularly for American Express (which also featured Patrick Warburton as Superman) and in selling his Dreamworks animated film "Bee Movie" last summer.
For "Bee Movie," which Steinfeld co-wrote, co-produced and voiced, he also created 20 "TV juniors";
which seemed less like commercials than one-minute bite-sized bits of comedy. The extensive promotion of the film began with him dressing up as a giant bee at the Cannes Film Festival.
able with that aspect. I don't feel like it's beneath me to sell what I did."
But Seinfeld's greatest triumph — the nine seasons of "Seinfeld"
— ended more than 10 years ago, which means that many young computer users were still watching cartoons during his pop culture dominance.
Of course, the show is still on nightly reruns and Seinfeld has been active on the standup circuit.
He's not Dane Cook. He's got a more sophisticated everyday take on things. He often comes across as a questioner...
There have even been efforts to bring "Seinfeld" to younger demographics. Sony Pictures Television, which distributes "Seinfeld" in U.S. syndication, is holding a 26-city promotion in a
"You gotta sell it," Seinfeld told the AP last year. "I've never been uncomfort-
BRIAN STEINBERG TV editor, Ad Age
ager went unreturned Thursday.
Vista, Microsoft's latest operating system that launched with the slogan "The Wow starts now," has received mostly negative publicity since its release last year. But sales have been strong, since more than 90 percent of PCs sold worldwide run Windows.
cross-country bus tour of colleges.
Calls to Seinfeld's agent and man-
Steinberg said this latest campaign by Microsoft shows that the rivalry between the software company and Apple is reaching the intensity of Coke and Pepsi's cola wars of years ago.
Apple's ad campaign "Get a Mac" pits a coat-and-tie clad older guy (John Hodgman) representing a PC, against jeans and T-shirt-wearing Justin Long, who plays the Mac. The commercials have also poked fun at Vista.
It's also possible Seinfeld seems more like a Mac guy, Steinberg said.
After all, it's a Macintosh that's seen in the background of his apartment on "Seinfeld."
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Today is a 7
You're entering a very busy phase. No worries. It's actually going to be fun, most of the time. You can also make lots of money, which certainly helps.
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Today is a 9
You may feel like a million bucks, but you still practical. This will help you keep from falling for a silly scheme. Have high hopes, but also do the math.
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Today is a 6
You're entering a four-week domestic phase. You're not really hiding out; you're getting energized. You're not lazy, you're resting. And enjoying your home.
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Today is a 9
Today is a 9
You can clearly see what will work and what will fail. Stick with the practical plan. Don't waste your time on unsubstantiated fantasies.
Today is a 7
Consider your responsibilities, it'll be good to bring in a little more money. Reassure your partner that you can do so without stressing the relationship.
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You'll have the advantage for the next four weeks, although there will be challenges. It ought to be very interesting, actually. Make a list of what you accomplish.
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You can be a very practical person, if you put your mind to it. You don't have to tell anybody, though. Let them think you have fabulous wealth.
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Today is a 9
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Ignore whatever it was that you've been worried about. Let somebody else handle that, for now. Concentrate on what you're doing well, and go for mastery.
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54 Work unit
55 Suspend
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4 Hitch-cock classic
5 Shakespeare, for one
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7 Heavy weight
8 Passover meal
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10 Pennsylvania port
11 Gotta have
12 Whiz preceder
20 Stickum
22 TV's "French Chef"
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Let gas prices drive you to mass transit
Even though gas prices have waxed and waned recently, they seem to have temporarily settled around $3.55 in Kansas, a 30 percent increase from last year, according to GasBuddy.com.
Luckily, KU students last year voted to pass a referendum that opened bus transport to all with the addition of a student fee. With these changes, students can move toward negating at least two long lasting complaints, a lack of parking on campus and the high price of gas.
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More importantly, though, students can move towards instilling a progressive support for public transit at the University and in Lawrence.
Starting with the first day of school, students can board buses on campus without needing to show any ID. Students catching the bus off campus must provide a KUID. The Lawrence Public Transit System, known as the T, is also free to students who have the updated KUID.
All of these moves are designed to increase bus ridership and should resolve longstanding grievances about parking on campus.
Parking issues have become especially contentious since construction of a football practice facility began. During construction, 667 parking spots were supposed to be replaced, but 222 spots still have not been replaced Even back in 2005, Chance Management Associates, a professional parking consultant, said parking on campus was inadequate.
Regardless of talk from the Parking or Athletics departments, parking will always be limited on a campus built on a hill. Buses hold the long-term key to parking problem on campus.
Most of the failures of mass transit come from a lack of information about how the system works. KU On Wheels should increase knowledge about routes and times to the student body by distributing maps on campus or including a prominent link on the University's homepage. Student understanding and acceptance of the system is critical to ensuring the success of public transit.
The city of Lawrence, especially south of 23rd Street and west of Iowa Street, has been
designed for the car. Miles of roads paved the way for expansion into western and southern Lawrence and the construction of massive student apartment complexes. All of this has led to sprawl and low population density: the twin enemies of effective public transit.
Although mass transit is especially important for international students, who typically don't own cars, it benefits anyone who would otherwise pay for gas. Reducing overall gas consumption in Lawrence would also help the city maintain its environmentally friendly mantra.
Students may hold the key to saving the T, which will be scrapped if a sales tax is not passed on the November ballot. If students increase their use of the KU bus system and the T, they would see the necessity to save Lawrence's only method of mass transit.
Alone, Lawrence's T System has not been effective at reducing the number of drivers coming to campus. The University and the city of Lawrence have discussed integrating their systems, but current efforts have stalled in the face of possible financial problems for the T.
Students should take advantage of a system that they are required to pay for. Many students come from cities where public transit isn't a viable option, but by experimenting with the KU and city bus systems, they may find a few less issues to complain about.
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Do our cops really need to use Segways? ("Campus police go green," Aug. 21) Can't they just walk or ride a bike? What about when they have to arrest someone? How will that work out with a Segway?
They could have spent our $15,000 better — on programs that actually work or hiring additional security forces. Buying bicycles for campus cops would have been a lot cheaper — probably in the neighborhood of $1,500.
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for those incoming freshmen (Fans get sneak peek of football practice, Aug. 21). The Athletics Department's work on this monstrosity not only was a burden to those trying to get to and from classes, (especially those in the Spencer) but it has demonstrated its complete disregard for what the real Jay-hawks need. I'm talking about those of us who attend class, do our own work, and work hard to have stable careers and futures from the work done on our backs and not on everyone else. We came after you last year, and we're coming after you again. Thanks for the ammunition.
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If America is addicted to oil then we're addicted to corn. And as with oil, those with the lowest incomes are hit the hardest when prices of gasoline and food go up.
Remember dear, college is not about having fun! You need to do your homework, study hand, stay sober, and most of all, remember to call me everyday to tell me about what you had for dinner. And...
Grocery store prices show problems with ethanol
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NICK MANGIABACINA
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As college students, a lot of us are in that low-income bracket.
Investment in alternative energy sources is a good thing, but only provided that those alternatives are better than what we have now.
Mangiaracina is a Lenexa senior in journalism.
Other countries have started using both for energy. Brazil has taken the lead on sugar cane ethanol, and France produces beet-based ethanol.
However, since its unlikely ethanol use is going to go away entirely, it would at least make more sense if the United States abandoned corn-based ethanol and started using other crops, such as sugar cane or beets. Both crops are about twice as energy efficient as corn and beets don't have the problem like corn and sugar do with competing with the food supply.
Though the corn ethanol industry is not going to disappear overnight, eliminating the subsidies for it and mixing requirements are the first two steps in encouraging alternatives. According to Slate magazine, subsidies paid for ethanol were $37 billion from 1995 to 2003.
Don't worry though, the government has your back. Washington has responded to the problem with another solution in the form of stimulus checks. Wait, you already spent yours?
but his request was rejected. Citing skyrocketing corn feed prices, Perry argued the ethanol mandate was bankrupting cattle producers in his state.
To make matters worse, while people are increasingly experiencing "sticker shock" at the grocery store, the government continues to encourage the use of ethanol through subsidies and mixing requirements. Along with the increase in the price of oil, America's increasing reliance on corn ethanol has significantly increased the cost of food.
Ignoring that it's less fuel efficient than gasoline, requires more energy to produce than is gained and that it won't support the amount of fuel necessary to fuel the economy, at best the use of
corn-based ethanol has saved no money. Any money claimed to be saved at the pump as been lost at the grocery store.
Poultry, beef, pork, cereal, soft drinks and many juices also rely heavily on corn products in their production. Corn for fuel is increasingly competing with corn for food.
So not only are taxpayers paying to pay more at the grocery store, but are headed to pay even more for higher prices as the corn supply is further strained. Last year, The Boston Globe reported that food prices were increasing at the fastest rate since 1990.
In December, Congress increased the amount of ethanol that states are required to mix in gasoline. The new bill mandates that 36 billion gallons of ethanol be mixed with gasoline by 2020. That's 27 billion gallons more than the 2009 requirement.
In 2006, a bushel of corn was $2,
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry spent the last few months unsuccessfully lobbying the Environmental Protection Agency to cut the ethanol requirement to Texas in half,
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Because the new fields can be clearly seen from nearby streets, coach Mark Mangino moved practices to the slightly-more-seccluded-but-not-really Memorial Stadium to keep apparently classified plays from being leaked. The lines painted on the field look similar enough to lines in a parking lot, so maybe students can reclaim some of our lost territory.
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Standing at the podium in Mrkonic Auditorium of Kansas' brand new state-of-the-art Anderson Family Football Complex, coach Mark Mangino fielded questions about the team on its media day on Aug. 5. There were the typical questions that media and fans alike wonder about in the preseason.
What's the situation at running back?
How are the large receivers looking this season?
What are your thoughts on your linebackers? Who will be the kicker this season?
What's your favorite color? Just kidding on that last one. Sort of.
Media days are basically a time when reporters can get a feel for what to expect of the team in the upcoming season. The questions are usually straightforward, no nonsense and to the point, and so are the answers. It's almost as if both reporters and coaches rehearsed their questions and answers beforehand.
One question that Mangino has been asked repeatedly about is last season's success being a result of a "cupcake" schedule. Mangino's response was just about the same as his response to the question at Big 12 media day.
"Just stop and think for a minute that Kansas' football coach has been asked about his 2008 schedule not being tough in a year where they defeated Nebraska, Texas A&M, Colorado and Virginia Tech," said Mangino. "All that tells me is that we're making progress, if you're asking me those questions."
Mangino makes a good point. Virginia Tech, Kansas' opponent in last year's Orange Bowl, played for the national championship in 2000. Kansas' coach after the 2000 season was Terry Allen, who had a 20-33 record in five seasons with the Jayhawks before Mangino replaced him. Had Doc Brown from "Back to the Future" rolled up in a DeLorean powered by plutonium and told him they would beat those teams, Allen would have asked, "Does that mean I get to keep my job?"
But Mangino has a point; even if it is rehearsed. Allen's 2000 team went 4-7 (2-6 Big 12), which means there has been a changing of the guards in the Big 12 and Kansas has made progress. ESPN's Big 12 writer Tim Griffin, who has covered the Big 12 teams for 24 years, also thinks so.
("The) Jayhawks could be better than last season — even if their record won't reflect it," he said on Aug. 5.
And progress is what Mangino and the Jayhawks have done and hope to continue to do. In 119 years of Kansas football, there has been no greater opportunity for the team to do something it has never done: go to back-to-back bowls. Sure, Kansas may have had an easier schedule than they will have this year because they have to play AP ranked No. 4 Oklahoma, No. 6 Missouri, No. 11 Texas, No. 12 Texas Tech and No. 19 South Florida.
"Yes, does the schedule get a little tougher? It sure does," said Mangino at Kansas' media day. "All I'm looking for here is continuously getting better."
With Mark Mangino's "one game at a time" approach the Jayhawks took to reach a 12-1 record last season, progress can be made.
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At 6-foot-6, 314 pounds, Jeff Spikes wouldn't be your typical kicker.
Freshman offensive lineman Jeff Spikes, left, squares off against senior offensive lineman Adrian Mayes during a back-and-forth hitting drill at Friday morning's practice.
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But because the number of kickers on the roster continues to dwindle, coach Mark Mangino figures to go looking for a backup kicker anywhere he can find him. And though Spikes has already nailed down a starting spot at左助 tackle, he'd gladly step back and launch a few kicks if called upon.
"I actually kicked in high school," said Spikes, a redshirt freshman from Painseville, Ohio. "It's funny because most of my teammates don't believe me, but I kicked off and had a lot of touchbacks. I kicked one extra point when our field goal kicker got hurt during the game. It went off the goalpost and went in. I'm always willing to do whatever I have to do to help my team."
Spikes joked about the possibility two weeks ago when the Jayhawks had four viable kickers on the roster, but the matter may not be as funny now that the Jayhawks appear to be down to just
one kicker.
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seniors Missy Geha, Jessica Bush and junior Estelle Johnson look to start off the season better than last year's 1-7-1 disaster. They will get their first chance to start the 2008 season on the right foot today when they play Purdue.
Jessica Bush saw the frustration and heartbreak on the faces of last year's seniors after a miserable start derailed their final campaign in crimson and blue.
She saw just how quickly NCAA Soccer Tournament dreams slip through your fingers when seven of the first nine games end in defeat.
Now the senior midfielder finds herself in the same position. One year left, only 19 games remaining and no second chances to fall back on.
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"It's really emotional knowing going into your senior year that this is it," Bush said. "In four months everything you worked for pretty much your whole life is going to be done, and you don't want to see what happened last year happen to you."
Today Bush and fellow seniors Missy Geha, Kristin Graves, Sara Rogers and Stephanie Baugh get their first chance at redemption against the nationally ranked Purdue Boilermakers at the Jayhawk Soccer Complex.
Kansas returns eight of 11 starters from the team that finished third in the ultra-competitive Big 12 Conference last season despite a disastrous 1-7-1 nonconference record. Nevertheless, this is different squad than the one coach Mark Francis had at his disposal in 2007.
For starters, the Jayhawks have reloaded offensively after being shut down eight times last season and averaging barely better than a goal per contest. Freshman forwards Emily Cressy and Kortney Clifton should step in and start immediately to support junior forward Kim Boyer if Saturday's 3-0 exhibition win against Drake is any indication.
Cressy's debut simply couldn't have gone any better. After redshirting last season, the Ventura, Calif., native scored twice against the Bulldogs in her first game as a Jayhawk. Complementing her predatory instincts in front of goal is Clifton, who finished his high school career as the state of Kansas' most prolific scorer and figures to see significant time as a true freshman.
"Goal scoring is just a knack," Francis said. "You either can do it or you can't."
Emily is a goal scorer. That's why we recruited her. Kortney Clifton is a goal scorer. That's why we recruited her.
Kansas' revamped offense should be bolstered even more by the formation change Francis and associate head coach Kelly Miller began tinkering with this spring. The team previously employed Geha as a lone holding midfielder while two attacking midfielders pushed forward into the final third.
Upon Miller's suggestion, Francis said they began toying with pairing the defensive-minded Geha with Bush to bring more balance and flexibility to the middle of the field.
Against Drake the duo showed off the kind of familiarity and combination play that comes with more than three years together in Lawrence. While providing cover for the defense, Bush's incursive runs through midfield will give Kansas
a dynamic force from midfield that it lacked in 2007.
Geba said sharing defensive responsibilities with Bush allowed them to defend together and pass their way out of trouble along with opening opportunities for both to get forward.
Along with junior midfielder Monica Dolinsky, Francis said this is the deepest midfield he has had in nine years at the helm. UCLA transfer Sarah Salazar could also see time along with returning sophomores Erin Elfleson and Rachel Morris.
"They are really the engines," he said of what has become a crowded stable of quality players. "I think if those guys are playing well then we'll play well."
Meanwhile, Francis shouldn't have to worry about depth or talent defensively either only a year after being forced to throw freshman Katie Williams into the fire.
Williams responded so well that Soccer Buzz named her to the Central Region All-Freshman Team after starting 18 matches and scoring three goals. Junior Estelle Johnson was a third team all-region selection as well. Junior Jenny Murtaugh, a 2006 Big-Ing 12 Second Team selection who took a redshirt last year due to injury, also returns to give the Jayhawks depth where they sorely lacked it last season.
Johnson have assumed the role of defensive leader, and said she looked forward to seeing the results of having continuity in the back for a full season with Williams.
"It's relieving because last year we had to throw Katie in the middle, but I think she's adjusted well," she said. "She's
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An unconditioned Collins may not play in exhibition game; Aldrich could head team
Sherron Collins, wearing a white practice jersey, slowly walked into the Kansas
locker room after the hayhaws first practice of the season Thursday night.
It might have looked like the junior guard just practiced with his teammates, but he hadn't. And the problem wasn't his
knee. Collins spent the last four months recovering from surgery, but doctors declared his knee healthy enough to play three weeks ago.
But Collins didn't condition well enough during the recovery and was in poor shape. Kansas coach Bill Self said it was bad enough that he couldn't practice.
"He's a month behind where I thought hed be at this stage." Self said.
Add another chapter to the well-publicized battle Collins has faced keeping his weight down. Self said he didn't know how much Collins weighed at the moment, but it wasn't his ideal playing size of 195 pounds.
But Self has his doubts. He said Collins didn't make a good first impression on his
Fans expect Collins, who is the only returning player who averaged more than 10 minutes per game last season, to be the leader of the defending national champions.
coaches or teammates by having to sit out of practice. Self doesn't know if Collins can be the leader.
"I'd like for him to become that, but based on him not reporting back in shape doesn't go very far in him becoming that with me," Self said. "That's how I see it"
Collins spent the two hours and twenty minutes of practice with trainers to help
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"The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer there are for a player to break."
Hall-of-Fame NFL coach John Madden
The Madden NFL video games have generated $2.4 billion in sales since 1995, and financial analysts estimate that John Madden makes more than $2 million annually from the video games series.
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A: 1988. The game was originally titled John Madden Football and designed for the Apple ll computer
Players upset with video game
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Junior running back Jocques Crawford could not wait to check out
"NCAA Football 2009" on his Play Station 3.
Crawford was certain he'd call up the Kansas running back depth chart and find a player listed with iersey
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No. 3 — the video-game version of himself. Only he didn't.
"I wasn't too happy because I don't know where I am on the game," Crawford said. "I don't know if I'm that No. 21. I don't know who
The only way to identify players on the game is by their jersey numbers. EA Sports, the company that created the game, cannot use real names of players because it would violate NCAA rules. The
that is — maybe it's me."
absence of his number upset Crawford.
"I don't think they rated anyone right," Crawford said. "Our guys have more abilities than what they put on the game."
But that's not the only pro blem Crawford had with the game. Even if No. 21 is supposed to be representative of him, he thinks the ratings are off. The game rates each player on
Crawford's roommate, sophomore receiver Rod Harris, had a solution for the ratings disparity.
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a number of categories, with b being the worst and 99 being the best. No.21, for example, has an 87 speed rating and a 74 strength rating. If No.21 is supposed to be Crawford, he thinks he should rank higher.
store Harris went home to Bryan, Texas at the end of July, he changed all the Jayhawk players' overall rating to 99.
video game because it would be unfair.
When he recently played against sophomore receiver Dezmion Briscoe, Crawford opted to play with West Virginia. He thought
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the combination of speedy quarterback Pat White and playmaking running back Noel Devine would be enough to beat Briscoe, who picked to play with Clemson.
Crawford was wrong. He said Briscoe stuffed the Mountaineer running game and marched to an easy victory. Most of the layhawks cited Briscoe as the best NCAA '09 player on the team.
"He said he was the 'truth of the game," Crawford said. "Obviously, he is."
Senior receiver Marcus Herford isn't ready to jump to the same conclusion. Herford says he's a pretty good "NCAA Football 2009" gamer as well. He said he hadn't played Briscoe before but would challenge him in the future to find out who was the best.
Herford agreed that most of the Jayhawks didn't receive appropriate ratings. Instead of changing everyone to a 99 rating, however, Herford just went player-by-player and adjusted the numbers based on his own opinion.
Even Jayhawks who don't play the game were offended by the ratings. Junior safety Justin Thornton, who prefers playing Madden video games, said fans shouldn't pay too much attention to the player ratings.
"How are them guys going to know how we work and how things really go on around here?" Thornton asked. "They can go off the stats and what they've seen but they really don't know what goes on and the work we put in."
One player who should have no beef with the ratings is junior quarterback Todd Reesing. Reesing, or No. 5 quarterback in the game, has an overall rating of 92 — the team-high.
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OLYMPICS
Performance in finals approaching for Russell
Scott Russell is one round closer to his Olympic javelin dream.
On Wednesday in Beijing, the former Kansas track and field athlete and current KU grad student advanced to the finals of the javelin competition at the Olympic Games.
Russell, a Windsor, Canada, native, threw 80.42 meters -- 263.1 ft. — on his first attempt, qualifying him for the finals. After qualifying on his first throw, Russell passed up his next two attempts to save energy if the final.
"I made the final and I'm ready to run," Russell told the Windsor Star.
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Russell, who won multiple national championships in track and field while at Kansas, qualified sixth.
Vadims Vasilvskis of Latvia, silver medallist four years posted the top qualifying throw, heaving his javelin a distance of 83.51 meters.
Russell will throw sixth in the finals, which are scheduled to begin at 6:10 a.m. Saturday.
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"We'll just see," Russell said. "I've never been a gambler, although I do like poker."
Russell's dad told the Kansan before the Olympics that while making the finals was a realistic goal, anything beyond that would be bicing on the cake.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Rookie receiver Will Franklin limped off the Kansas City Chiefs practice field Thursday with a right knee injury.
Franklin, a fourth-round pick
"I took a little weird step and I felt a little slick sweat," Franklin said. "It was just a little awkward movement. I went to get (safety Jarrad) Page and the knee just gave out."
out of Missouri, was to see a doctor later Thursday to learn the extent of the injury.
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Franklin had three catches for 37 yards in the first two preseason games.
"You can't prevent injuries, they happen and life goes on," Chiefs coach Herm Edwards said. "The next guy gets an opportunity. He's had a good camp. He played well for us. Hopefully, it's nothing serious and hopefully, he can get back."
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Dodaers beat Rockies
LOS ANGELES — Derek Lowe knew he faced a difficult assignment against the Colorado Rockies. Not only were the defending NL champions on a roll, but they match up well against him.
So the 35-year-old right-hander did his best to keep the Rockies guessing.
The strategy worked.
Manny Ramirez contributed with a stolen base, of all things, as the Dodgers completed their 10-game homestand with a 7-3 record and moved within $1\frac{1}{2}$ games of NL West-leading Arizona, which played visiting San Diego on Thursday night.
Lowe cooled off Colorado by allowing one run in 6 1-3 innings. James Loney homered and drove in two runs, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Rockies 3-1 Thursday to salvage the finale of a three-game series.
"I think they have one of the best offenses we face, especially against me. They're all low-ball hitters," Lowe said. "I threw a lot of breaking balls and tried not to be so predictable, throwing sinker away, sinker away. You have to command your off-speed pitches against this lineup I was fortunate to keep it to one run.
"Manny got a stolen base to get us going. The bulpen did a great job."
The loss snapped a five-game winning streak for the Rockies, who scored 36 runs in three wins
in Washington and two more at Dodger Stadium. It also ended Colorado's four-game winning streak against the Dodgers.
Lowe (10-10) allowed four hits with two walks and seven strikeouts before relieved by Hong-Chih Kuo after issuing a one-out walk to Jeff Baker in the seventh.
Kuo then retired the Rockies in order in the eighth, and Jonathan Broxton worked the ninth for his 10th save in 11 chances since taking over the company's role last month when Takashi Saito went on the disabled list.
"When he's hitting his spots like that, he's tough," Colorado's Ian Stewart said of Lowe. "It seemed like (Dodgers catcher Russell) Martin never moved his glove from where he set up."
Broxton was the losing pitcher Wednesday night when the Rockies scored a run in the ninth for a 4-3 victory.
After that, the Rockies didn't appear to have a chance.
Kuo struck out pinch hitter Troy Tulowitzki before Clint Barmes blooped a double to right. With the tying and goahead runners in scoring position, pinch hitter Willy Tavares popped to first to end the inning
"It was a stupid pitch on my part," Broxton said of the ball Stewart hit."
The Rockies scored their run in the first when Barmes singled, stole second, took third on an infield out and came home on Matt Hollday's sacrifice fly.
The Dodgers tied it with an uneared run against Jorge De La Rosa (6-7) in the fourth when Ramirez reached on an error by third baseman Stewart, stole second without a throw and scored on Loney's out-out single, the first Los Angeles hit.
Matt Kemp hit a two-out double in the fifth and scored on Andre Ether's single to put the Dodgers ahead for good.
Lowe, who threw 107 pitches on a hot day, worked out of a two-out, two-on jam in the fourth by getting De La Rosa on a fly to left.
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contribute has him counting down the days until the Jayhawks play host to Florida International next Saturday.
"I'm overwhelmed with excitement," Spikes said. "Last year was something that couldn't be traded for anything, and hopefully we do what we have to do to make it back there again and I can contribute and felt good about it."
Spikes sat atop the depth chart at left tackle since the spring game and beat out Ian Wolfe for the spot during camp. He was ranked as the seventh best lineman in the state of Ohio by Rivals.com coming out of high school in 2007, and impressed Mangino and the coaching staff right away.
"He's one of the most athletic linemen we've had here." Mangino said. "Of course he's young and has a lot to learn but he's coming along fine. He has a chance at the end of the day when he's done here, to be one of the better offensive lineman we've had at Kansas."
Just being a starter as a redshirt freshman is hard enough, but having to replace a First-Team All American in Anthony Collins makes Spikes' job almost impossible.
"It's going to be hard; filling his shoes will be a great challenge," Spikes said. "I learned a lot from A.C. He was a wonderful player. Every time he came to the field he was always energetic and loud and some people thought it was kind of annoying but in my mind, it was
something that helped us get ready for practice or the game and I am trying to take that from him."
Spikes will join Jeremiah Hatch as newcomers to the offensive line this fall. Hatch, a 6-foot-3, 311-pound redshirt freshman from Dallas, was listed on the preseason depth chart as the second string left guard, but Hatch beat out Matt Darton for top right tackle spot. He replaces Cesar Rodriguez, who started more than 40 games during his career at Kansas before graduating last spring.
"He is one of the hardest working and hardest playing guys we have on the team," Mangino said of Hatch. "What he lacks in experience, he'll make up with grit and toughness and hard work."
Joining Hatch and Spikes on the offensive line are three returning starters in center Ryan Cantrell and guards Adrian Mayes and Chet Hartley. Despite losing two starters on the line, Mangino is confident that the group will be more than capable of protecting quarterback Todd Reeing.
"I have confidence in all five kids up front," Mangino said. "The tackles are really developing and coming along, I'm pretty pleased with that. I think that we will be able run the ball as much as we want. Plus, our pass game provides creases and opportunities to run the football. They kind of complement each other pretty well."
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a big part of the team now, and she knows what I want from her and I know what she wants from me."
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Bush knows what she wants too. After arriving in Lawrence on the heels of three NCAA Tournament appearances in four years, the team has failed to make the postseason in each of her three years on Mount Oread.
Today marks the first step towards finally recapturing that success, something that doesn't escape her attention.
Big 12 coaches picked the Jayhawks to finish sixth out of 11 teams in 2008. Kansas finished third in 2007. Francis said he didn't pay attention to preseason rankings, but Johnson said it would serve as motivation.
"This is a huge game for us," Bush said. "I have been waiting for this game for a long time."
"I can't tell you where I think we should be because I haven't seen all the other teams," Johnson said. "But judging from last year, I definitely don't think we should be sixth. I think that is going to be motivation for all of us to go out and knock some girls around."
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Sophomore defender Katie Williams is ineligible to play today against Purdue after receiving a red card against Oklahoma State in the Big 12 Tournament last fall. Williams started 18 games for the Jayhawks last season, scoring three goals.
WILLIAMS SUSPENDED
Francis said Wednesday that UCLA transfer Sarah Salazar hadn't passed the team's fitness test and could be ineligible to play today unless she passed the test at practice Wednesday afternoon or Thursday. Salazar represents a major recruiting coup for Francis. She was the No. 12 ranked recruit in the nation by RISE Magazine in the class of 2007 before spending last year as a member of the Bruins.
SALAZAR YET TO PASS FITNESS TEST
GRAVES STATUS
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Senior defender Kristin Graves did not dress for Saturday's exhibition against Drake, and Francis refused to elaborate on her injury or status for today's game. Graves started 15 of the final 16 games of 2007.
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NFL lineman,union leader Gene Upshaw dies at 63
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NEW YORK — Gene Upshaw, a towering lineman on the football field who went on to win untold millions of dollars for NFL players as their union leader, has died at age 63.
a team that won two of the three Super Bowls it reached during his 15 years in a black and silver jersey. But his work as executive director of the NFL Players Association over a quarter-century was even more important. It changed the business side of the league.
Upshaw died Wednesday night at his home near California's Lake Tahoe, of pancreatic cancer, the NFL Players Association said Thursday. His wife Terri and sons Eugene Jr., Justin and Daniel were by his side. NFLPA president and Tennessee Titans center Kevin Mawae said Upshaw only learned Sunday that he had the disease, after he fell ill and his wife took him to the hospital.
"Gene was a great player. He was an All-Pro. He was a Hall of Famer. If you look at the history of the NFL you're going to find out that he was one of the most influential people that the league has known. He did so much, not only for the players, but also for the owners, the teams, and the game of pro football." John
Madden, who coached Upshaw when Oakland won its first Super Bowl, said in a statement.
"This is deeper than head of the union passing away, and it's deeper than an ex-player. This is missing someone that is and was like family. It's a tough day for all of us."
Upshaw's death reverberated throughout the NFL, a shock to owners and players alike, even those who had made him the focal point for their complaints over pension and health benefits for retired players.
As a player, the seven-time Pro Bowler was one of the best ever, elected to the Hall of Fame in 1987, the first time he was eligible.
That also was the year Upshaw led the second players' strike in five years, a short walkout that led to the embarrassing spectacle of games with replacement players, or "scab football" as it was jokingly called at the time.
By 1989, while the union was pressing in court for a settlement, the league implemented a limited form of freedom, called Plan B. A new, seven-year contract was finally worked out in 1993, bringing in a new age of free agency and salary caps.
That will go down as Upshaw's legacy because it brought prosperity to both union members and owners, leaving many of today's players appreciating Upshaw as a labor
leader without knowing much about his playing career. Brandon Moore, the New York Jets player representative was 2 years old when Upshaw retired and said simply: "From what I hear, he was a pretty good player"
What Upshaw did for Moore, and his counterparts is make them money — the salary cap for this season is $116 million and the players are making close to 60 percent of the 32 teams' total revenues, as specified in the 2006 labor agreement. The players will be paid $4.5 billion this year, according to owners.
That sum led the owners to opt out in May from the collective bargaining agreement, meaning that if no new deal is reached, there will be an uncapped year in 2010, the season before the contract is expected to expire.
Upshaw, who had often been criticized for his close relationship with Paul Tagliabue, the former commissioner, and Roger Goodell, the current one, had been talking tougher than usual about upcoming negotiations, vowing that if the cap was ever abolished, he would never accede to a new one.
Upshaw's death raises a big question mark about negotiations although the union's executive committee tried to answer it quickly by appointing the unions most experienced official, Richard Berthelsen, as the interim executive
director.
Berthelsen, the NFLPA's chief counsel and Upshaw's top aide, has been involved in labor negotiations for 37 years and is expected to steer the union through the negotiations and then make way for a younger man, probably an ex-player such as Trace Armstrong or Troy Vincent, two past presidents, or former Minnesota running back Robert Smith, who has expressed an interest in the job.
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Self said he didn't think Collins would be ready for at least another week.
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Self, however.
wouldn't rule out the possibility of Collins playing in the layhawks' three exhibition games next weekend in Canada. Kansas will play against McGill University, Carleton University and the
University of Ottawa in Ottawa on Aug. 30 and Aug. 31.
Aldrich
Self said Collins simply "didn't live up to his end of the bargain," during the
"I'm not going to put him out there until the doctors tell me, 'Hey he's in the condition he needs to be to go play.' Self said.
summer. He's deferring the decision of whether or not he'll play in Canada to the team's medical staff.
SO WHO CAN BE THE LEADER?
He's the teams leading returning scorer with 9.3 points per game last season and the only player who has started a game for Kansas. If Collins truly won't be the leader of the team, Kansas might lack anyone who can be. Right? Not the way Self sees it.
"Cole, right now, I'd say would lead our team hands down," Self said. "He would be the guy."
Behind Collins, the Jayhawks are noticeably short of players with significant college basketball experience.
Self said he knew exactly who the rest of the Jayhawks could look up to — sophomore center Cole Aldrich.
Aldrich averaged eight minutes, three points and three rebounds per game last season. Aldrich saved his best game for the Final Four contest against
North Carolina where he guarded national player of the year Tyler Hansbrough, grabbed seven rebounds and recorded four blocks.
EXTRA RUNNING
Aldrich gasped for breath as he walked toward the locker room. Sophomore guard Tyrel Reed put his head down toward his sweat-soaked shirt and junior guard Tyrone Appleton limped toward the door.
Kansas looked like theyd just completed a marathon - not a basketball practice. Self said the exhaustion came from 20 minutes of running he added to the end of practice.
"We had a couple of reasons to maybe do some extra conditioning at the end of our workout," Self said. "They're probably not too happy with me right now."
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Self didn't want to discuss the recent report filed against freshman forward Markieff Morris, but did say he would handle the matter at the appropriate time.
"I think there's probably more to the story than what was on the original report, no question," Self said. "He'll be punished."
Morris received an order to appear in court last weekend after he allegedly shot a woman with an Airsoft rifle at the lavwhack
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New Nebraska football coach embraces defense, tradition
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Nebraska head coach Bo Pelini, left, instructs defensive end Barry Turner, second right, on the first day of football practice on Aug. 4 in Lincoln, Neb.
Pelini, the former LSU and Nebraska defensive coordinator; takes over in Lincoln after Bill Callahan was run out of town. The Cornhuskers' biggest error last year was their atrocious defense, while Pelini's defensive unit in Baton Rouge led the Tigers to a national title. Sure, LSU currently has superior athletes, but Pelini's schemes can do wonders for any squad.
Senior Joe Ganz isn't technically a returning starter, but he does bring back starting experience. The senior quarterback threw for 1,399 yards and 15 touchdowns in the final three games after taking over for Sam Keller.
OFFENSE
"He can make all the throws and he can also do some things with his feet," Pelini said. "I feel really comfortable having him as our starting quarterback and I think he's set up to have a really good year."
Joining him in the backfield is senior Marlon Lucky, who amassed 1,743 all-purpose yards last year. Together they make a formidable duo that will keep the Cornhuskers in most games.
Last season Nebraska's offense averaged nearly 470 yards per game, the ninth most in the country. In addition to the backfield, Pelini welcomes back four starters on the offensive line and senior receiver Nate Swift.
It won't be the option attack that made them a national power, but Pelini's willingness to adopt the shotgun spread means the Cornhuskers offensive attack is headed in the right direction. And according to Ganz, they could reach their destination this season.
"If we don't think we can win the Big 12 North, there's no reason to play," he said.
DEFENSE
Pelini's defensive units during his time at Nebraska were solid. Nebraska defeated Michigan State 17-3 in the 2003 Alamo Bowl, when Pelini served as interim head coach.
Pelini's defenses ranked in the
top 15 every year when he was the defensive coordinator at LSU.
Now he gets to dig in and try to revamp a unit that ranked in the bottom 10 in scoring, total yards and turnover margin last year.
Nebraska returns its entire start
ing defensive line, including end Barry Turner. Turner was taken aback by his new coach's interest in his players' lives and not just their performance on the field.
"He talked to every single player on the team in a one-on-one conversation — just wanting to know you, wanting to know the player personally," Turner said. "He asked me about my daughter and how my daughter is doing and my family."
Family is very important in Lincoln, as in the family of former football players. Callahan turned away former players from practice, which used to be a time-honored Cornhusker tradition. Now former greats are welcome anytime and the pride that once came with playing for Nebraska is returning.
Part of that is the once-dreated Blackshirt defense. The Cornhusker defense used to be a tenacious and feared unit, but last year they were stripped of their traditional Blackshirt practice jerseys. Pelini is bringing back that defensive fire and everyone around the team is taking notice.
At spring practice the defense made a big play and Ganz saw Pelini bolt over to them.
"He was going out there and head butting people and pushing people around," Ganz said. "He's just like one of us."
SEASON OUTLOOK
The first year of a coach's tenure is rarely a pretty one, but Pelini's team has most of the pieces in place for a successful campaign.
The offense will score points, that we know. The question is whether the defense can stop anybody.
Nebraska surrendered a school record 76 points to Kansas in November, but they're unlikely to continue with that kind of record-breaking performance. So, the question you've got to ask yourself is, 'Do I feel Lucky?' Well, do you Pelini?
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BY JOSH BOWE
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While most 24-year-olds are adapting to life without college, or playing a sport, Natalie Uhart is still going strong, just as long as her body lets her.
The sixth-year senior from Lansing is ready to show how talented this year's Jayhawks volleyball squad is, even if they've encountered some bumps and bruises along the way.
Uhart recently came back from a congenital heart defect that forced her to sit out for 20 matches last
year, "I go through phases of being frustrated," Uhart said. "Then I just get used to it."
Uhart is used to her fair share of injuries. She suffered a knee injury that forced her to miss her entire junior year. The NCAA granted her a medical redshift early last season, giving her a sixth year of eligibility. But more recently a heart condition limited her playing time last year, although she still led the team with 1.71 blocks per game and a 271 hitting percentage.
"It never crossed my mind that I would stop playing," Uhart said. "But I thought about if I was going to live till 40."
With all the injuries she's had to endure, Uhart said she contemplated a switch to her high school number 15, thinking her college number was jinxed, but decided to stick with it. Even being named to the preseason All-Big 12 coaches' team hasn't added any pressure to Uhart.
Kansas coach Ray Bechard understands the value of having a player with Uhart's talent and experience.
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same sentiments as their coach about Uhart and what she brings to the table.
"She can do everything, help anywhere on the court," senior middle blocker Savannah Noyes said.
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Uhart, Noyes and the other veterans will help with leadership and maintaining the chemistry of the team.
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"Natalie has her place; I have mine," Noyes said. "And the younger players offer help too, when it's their area."
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Kansas can boast a healthy squad that will see the return of junior middle blocker Brittany Williams, who tore her ACL last season, and the Jayhawks return experienced sophomores Melissa Menda and Jenna Kaiser as well. But an NCAA tournament birth isn't guaranteed. A league with Nebraska, who went to the Final Four last year, and Texas, a top 10 school, will prove difficult.
"We will be very disappointed if we are not playing in December," Bechard said. Kansas hasn't been to the NCAA tournament since 2005.
"We want to make it to December," Williams said. "We can feel confident."
Uhart also has her own checklist for what she wants done so
Williams agrees with her coach's expectation.
Natalie Uhart, returning senior middle blocker, jumps to block a spike from a texas hitter. Nov. 7, 2007 in the Hosei First College Athletics Center.
she can walk away from the game happy, like proving the team's low ranking was wrong.
"I want to prove a lot of people
wrong". Uhart said, "Shut a lot of people up, who rank us low."
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Young runners to lead team in new era
All-American Colby Wissel is gone. So is Paul Heferon. But Kansas cross country coach Stanley Redwine spoke nothing but positive remarks at the Jayhawk Olympic Media Day on Wednesday. Despite having a relatively young team, Redwine said that the men's cross country team was in good shape even after only three practices. The team lost four
seniors from last season, including Hefferon and Wissel, the only Jayhawk to make it to the NCAA Championship, placing 39th overall. But Redwine, who welcomes 11 new runners to the team, sees opportunities for the runners.
"They know that's its there turn now to step up." Redwine said of the returning guys on the team. One of the guys who will be stepping up is Bret Imgrnd. The junior from Shawnee, Kan., had strong performances during last year. Imgrnd
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"Obviously to do well and keep pushing myself." Imgrow said. "But the other is to get the team to where it needs to be and bond and grow as a team."
On the women's side, the team will be led by Lauren Bonds. The Hutchinson junior finished first in every meet she competed in last year. Her best performance was at the NCAA Midwest Regional where she finished 25th.
"She's very competitive and a hard worker she wants to win." Redwine said about Bonds. He said he thought she had the potential to make it to the NCAA Championship this year after her performance at the Midwest Regional.
Redwine also said sophomore Amanda Miller could be an influence. As for the men's team, Irmund said sophomore Dan Van Orsdel could contribute as well.
Both teams will compete in their first meet on Aug. 30 at the Bob Timmons Classic at Rim Rock Farm.
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No longer will bystanders wanting to watch football practice be able to stand on Mississippi Street and get a clear view. Soon, the only way to see the action on the new practice fields will be to climb a tree.
The Athletics Department announced on Friday that it is paying 980,000 to have 100 pine trees planted around the fields to help hide the team while it practices.
"I think it will help tremendously to reduce the likelihood of distractions," said Jim Marchiony, Associate Athletics Director. "We had discussions with the football office and they wanted to be able to practice in an atmosphere that was more
conducive to less distractions."
The trees are the result of a collaboration between the football office and athletics department, which were working for a solution to conceal the practice fields from people watching.
The 10- to 20-foot-high pine trees will start to arrive sometime this week and will be planted along Mississippi Street, the north side of parking lot 91 and the west side of the practice fields.
At an alumni kickoff rally in Prairie Village on Friday evening, football coach Mark Mangino spoke about the field issue.
"I'm not at all concerned about that kind of stuff," Mangino said. "I think it's a tempest in a teapot. Much ado about nothing. I'm not concerned about it at all. You can
probably find something better to write about than trees around a practice field, I would hope."
The trees will likely block the view from Mississippi Street and some of the low-level locations, but the top floor of the parking garage and the windows of the Kansas Union will probably still provide at least a partial view of the fields.
The team began practicing on the new fields when training camp opened on Aug. 1, but fans stopped and watched practice from Mississippi Street and other areas that surrounded the field. Mangino and his staff asked onlookers to leave, but soon after, the department told them they no longer could tell anyone to leave a public street or area. The team then didn't want
to practice on the fields because the location allowed anyone to watch their plays, including people who could be spies from other teams.
The team began practicing exclusively inside of Memorial Stadium in early August so no onlookers could watch practice, leaving two new fields empty.
The fields were part of at $31 million project to improve the University's football training facilities by constructing a new building next to Memorial Stadium and constructing the practice fields.
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Keith Wainwright (left) and Steve Foster, both of Central Mechanical Construction, worked Tuesday night on the roof of Wescoe Hall. The construction crews, who are installing a new air transfer system in Wescoe Hall, work between 4 p.m. and 2:30 a.m. to avoid causing disruptions to the many classes that meet in the hall.
The University is installing a vertical duct through all levels of Wescoe Hall to improve ventilation and airflow in the building.
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The construction came on the heels of a yearlong study that was conducted by John Neuberger, professor of preventive medicine, and released in July 2007. Neuberger performed the study to determine the health conditions in the academic building after reports of staff in the building developing brain tumors. Upon completion, he said he found no links between the building and the tumors, but the study concluded that airflow in the building needed to be addressed.
Todd Cohen, director of university relations, said the University took the results of the study seriously and began work to correct the ventilation problems immediately. The construction visible around Wescoe Hall is improving the heating, ventilation and air conditioning, or HVAC system, which the study deemed inadequate.
The HVAC system will improve the air quality inside the building by increasing the airflow on each floor. It will make the conditions safer and healthier for people working or attending classes in Wescoe Hall. Cohen said the changes were meant to improve the overall working conditions for faculty and staff members.
The necessary construction within the building presented a problem for the University because it had to relocate hundreds of staff and faculty members. Many offices had to be closed to free space for the construction.
Don Steplews, vice provost for scholarly support, said 235 people were forced to
move. He also said that those people generally ended up scattered around campus, whether they were put in Watson Library, the Military Science Annex or simply doubling or tripling up in other Wescoe Hall rooms. Despite the inconveniences of moving, Steeples said the process had gone smoothly.
"Given the magnitude of the disruption, there have been relatively few complaints."
Steeples said. "We greatly appreciate the cooperation and patience of those affected by this series of moves."
Steeples said the move caused a decrease in productivity for both faculty and staff. He said that on a positive note, it had also forced people to get rid of nonessential items, helping to clear space in offices and eliminate clutter. Steeples said the moves would continue with the ongoing construction, causing some people to move as many as three times in two years.
According to Cohen, the construction is on schedule, which he said has helped avoid any major hassles.
The construction will continue through the school year and finish in June, with the majority of the work being performed after classes to avoid disruptions in learning. The construction company finished work
on Aug. 15 on the renovated first floor, updating offices. Other changes regarding the two-year, $3 million project, such as the closed east entrance, were detailed in an e-mail sent to all KU students, faculty and staff last Monday.
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POLITICS
VP hopes dashed for Sebelius; Biden chosen as running mate
Early Saturday morning Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), announced his running mate for the 2008 election. Although Kansas' own Gov. Kathleen Sebelius was on Obama's short list of potential vice presidents, Joe Biden (D-Del.) will be the name beside Obama's come November.
Members of KU's Young Democrats, as well as a chairman of the Douglas County Democratic Party, thought it was Sebelius' lack of knowledge on foreign policy that had caused her to be overlooked.
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Fall formal recruitment featured a new schedule and two new events this year. The week also drew 900 prospective members, 200 more than last year.
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The "Miss Sister 2008" contest will start in September on a blog run by the Rev. Antonio Rungi and will give nuns from around the world a chance to showcase their work and their image.
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"Nuns are a bit excluded, they are a bit marginalized in ecclesiastical life." Rungi told The Associated Press after Italian media carried reports of the idea. "This will be an occasion to make their contribution more visible."
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OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma officials say a typo resulted in a state employee receiving a bonus of $850,000 — but it was only temporary.
Jo Harris was supposed to receive an $850 longevity bonus for working at the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission for seven years. But a misplaced decimal point turned that into a six-figure windfall.
Officials say they caught the error before the $850,000 left state funds.
Harris's original paycheck issued in February was canceled and a new one was issued with the correct bonus. Officials told Harris about the mistake and asked her to watch her personal bank account.
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LEWISTON, Maine — People worried about the high cost of keeping warm this winter will draw little comfort from the Farmers' Almanac, which predicts below-average temperatures for most of the U.S.
"Numb's the word," says the 192-year-old publication, which claims an accuracy rate of 80 to 85 percent for its forecasts that are prepared two years in advance.
The almanac's 2009 edition, which goes on sale Tuesday, says at least two-thirds of the country can expect colder-than-average temperatures this winter, with only the Far West and Southeast in line for near-normal readings.
"This is going to be catastrophic for millions of people," said almanac editor Peter Geiger.
The almanac predicts above-normal snowfall for the Great Lakes and Midwest, especially during January and February, and above-normal precipitation for the Southwest in December and for the Southeast in January and February. The Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions will likely have an unusually wet or snowy February, the almanac said.
The almanac — not to be confused with the New Hampshire-based Old Farmer's Almanac which is 26 years older — attributes its forecasts to reclusive prognostica-
In contrast, the usually wet Pacific Northwest could be a bit drier than normal in February.
tor Caleb Weatherbee, who uses a secret formula based on sunspots, the position of the planets and the tidal action of the moon.
Weatherbee's outlook is borne out by e-mails the almanac has received in recent days from readers who have spotted signs of nature they say point to a rough winter, Geiger said.
These folklore signs range from an abundance of acorns already on the ground to the frequency of fog in August.
The almanac is at odds with the National Weather Service, whose trends-based outlook calls for warmer than normal weather this winter over much of the country, including Alaska, said Ed O'Lenic, chief of the operations branch at NOAAs Climate Prediction Center.
The almanac and the weather service are in sync; however, in pointing to a chance of a drier winter in the Northwest.
O'Lenic wouldn't comment specifically on the almanac's ability to forecast the weather two years from now, but said it's generally impossible to come up with accurate forecasts more than a week in advance.
"Of course it's possible to prepare a forecast with any lead time you like. Whether or not that forecast has any accuracy or usable skill is another question," he said.
Geiger sticks to his guns, saying the almanac was on target in the 2008 edition when it said the Northeast and the Great Lakes would have a long, cold winter with lots of snow.
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On Sunday, the KU Public Safety Office reported that:
— On Aug. 20, someone punctured two tires on a vehicle parked on the KU campus.
— On Aug. 20, two vacuum cleaners valued at $500 each were removed from Haworth Hall. A third vacuum cleaner, valued at $200, was removed from Fraser Hall.
— On Aug. 20, an unspecified number of suspects broke a window on the third floor of McColum Hall in order to gain roof access.
— On Aug. 21, responding to a 911 call, officers arrested a possible suspect in a possible battery of a female in the Stouffer Place apartments.
— On Aug. 21, a 50-inch plasma television, valued at $1,200, was removed from the media room in Memorial Stadium.
CAMPUS Students must update contact information
Beginning this semester, the University is requiring students to update their contact information.
When students log in to Enroll and Pay, the first screen will ask them to review and update their address, phone number and emergency contact. Students cannot proceed on Enroll and Pay until they confirm the information. The screen also asks them to subscribe to an optional emergency text messaging.
Joan Hahn, assistant university registrar, said the University would use the information during the times of crisis and emergency.
"If your information is correct, then you just check the box and go on." Hahn said. "It allows students the opportunities to review their information. If there are changes, then go ahead and make changes."
Hahn said the University would ask students to review their information again sometime later this semester. Previously the University wanted to ask for updated information regularly but could not because the technology was not available.
She said the new process was simple and should not create any confusion. Students can contact the Office of the University Registrar if they have questions.
— Sachiko Miyakawa
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MONDAY, AUGUST 25 2008
GREEK LIFE
Sorority recruitment undergoes changes
New schedule and events mark largest turnout in recent years
BY BRANDY ENTSMINGER
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Keri Henning and Sarah Duarte, Hutchinson freshmen, and Leanna Mooney and Kelsey Charles, Overland Park freshmen, scream in excitement as they open their bid cards in the Union Ballroom on Saturday evening. Duarte was accepted to Chi Omega sorority, the same sorority of which her sister is a member.
The Panhellenic Association's annual Fall Formal Recruitment featured more participants, a new schedule and two new events this year.
Leslie Rhoton, Lawrence senior and Panhellenic president, said more than 900 women took part
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Rhoton said the higher number of women participating was mostly because of a larger class of incoming freshmen to the University, but that the higher number also reflected a stronger focus on recruiting by current sorority members.
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Maggie Gremminger, Shawnee senior and Panhellenic Vice President of Recruitment, said the recruitment schedule began a day earlier than it did last year to allow participants to focus on the first few days of school.
The new schedule left the first two days of school free for activities other than visiting school houses. On Thursday the recruitment staff
held a mocktail party for active sorority members, where non-alcoholic drinks and food were served and a DJ provided music for chapter members to dance to at the Holdome.
On Friday, the recruitment staff hosted an event for prospective sorority members called "Go Greek Sneak Peek" at the Kansas Union, where potential new members
learned about Greek life, specifically the sorority community's four pillars of leadership, scholarship, service and sisterhood. The event
featured a moonwalk, massages by local salons and a nationally recognized speaker. Dr Lori Hart Ebert.
Molly Herd, Wichita junior, served as a recruitment counselor this year and said Hart Ebert did a good job relating to the prospective members.
"She was real to us about the whole thing," she said.
The "Go Greek Sneak Peek" also featured a room where prospective members could participate in service projects, such as writing letters to soldiers in Iraq.
Rhoton said the two new events were introduced to give both active
and prospective members a chance to relax after a stressful week of recruitment activities.
Aside from Friday night's event being held at the Kansas Union the building became the home of recruitment headquarters last week. In the past the recruitment
staff has lived at the Holidome for the week of recruitment, but this year the women relocated to a group of alcoves in the Union.
Rhoton said the change made it easier for staff to respond to the needs of the chapters during the week. Staff was also able to
respond to the needs of prospective members and recruitment counselors more quickly because of the Union's close proximity to sorority chapter houses.
"If we ever needed anything, they were there 100 percent," Herd said.
Saturday night marked the end of this year's Fall Formal Recruitment, when prospective members found out which sorority they had been invited to join.
- Edited by Rachel Burchfield
TRANSPORTATION
KU on Wheels changes fares and routes
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Students can ride buses on and off campus for free this semester by using their KUID. In addition to the new free system, KU on Wheels has eliminated and combined different routes to increase efficiency.
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Students, faculty and staff can take a KU bus and city bus for free this semester.
In the spring, students voted to eliminate bus passes, which cost $140 per year. The new fare-free system required all students to pay $20 more per semester through student fees.
KU buses are free for anyone at on-campus stops. Passengers off campus are able to ride the bus with their KUID.
Derek Meier, Independence, Mo., sophomore and transportation coordinator, said the free fare would reduce parking congestion on campus.
"The more students who leave their cars at home and ride the bus, the more parking stalls available for those who do not live on bus routes." Meier said.
The Lawrence Public Transit, or the "T", is also free for students, faculty and staff with KUID but they will need the new, redesigned KUID after Oct. 1. Students can exchange their old KUIDs for new ones for free at the KU Card Center in the Kansas Union.
The University's Transit Commission and the Lawrence City Commission agreed on the new policy this summer. City residents with a "T" bus pass also have free access to the KU buses.
Cliff Galante, public transit administrator of Lawrence, said the city buses allowed students to participate in the community and events offered on and off campus.
"Not every student who comes to KU can afford an automobile," Galante said. "It provides more mobility options to everybody."
Xiaosen Zhou, Chengdu, China, senior, said she sold her car last year because she couldn't afford high gas prices. She said she would use her KUID to ride the T to go grocery shopping and downtown.
"If a city bus is free, why not use it?" Zhou said.
CHANGING ROUTES
KU on Wheels routes and schedules changed this semester to increase efficiency of the KU buses and avoid construction zones around campus.
Passengers without a KUID pay $1 to ride the "T" or a KU bus at off-campus stops.
The adjustments include a merger of two routes, three new route names, the southbound route stop change and elimination of the Night Campus Express.
The Naismith and Oliver route and 23rd and Louisiana route merged into Stewart and Louisiana. The route stops at the same places as the previous two, but now one bus covers them all. The buses are scheduled to come every half hour.
The construction of the Oread Inn at 12th Street and Oread Avenue means that instead of stopping in front of the Kansas Union's entrance, buses now stop at Spencer Museum of Art on Mississippi Street, which is behind the Kansas Union.
The Night Campus Express is no longer available this year. Meier said students who lived on Daisy Hill could take the Park and Ride buses. The Student Recreation Fitness Center and IRP Hall circulator also serve main campus until 10:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
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KU on Wheel changed the names of some routes 25th and Melrose replaced
— Southbound routes entering campus stop at Spencer Museum instead of the main entrance of the Kansas Union
— The Night Campus Express is no longer available
New service and changes of bus system this semester — KU buses and city buses are free for students, faculty and staff with their KUID The Oliver and Naismith and 23rd and Louisiana routes were merged into Stewart and Louisiana
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'Thunder' rumbles with second No.1
BY DAVID GERMAIN ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES — The action comedy "Tropic Thunder" weathered a rush of new movies to remain No.1 for a second-straight weekend with $16.1 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
"Tropic Thunder" came in just ahead of Sony's campus comedy "The House Bunny," which debuted in second place with $15.1 million. "The House Bunny" stars Anna Faris as an ostracized Playboy bunny who becomes den mother
The Paramount-DreamWorks release — starring Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr. and Jack Black as actors caught up in real battle while shooting a war movie — raised its 12-day total to $7.6 million.
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Universal's "Death Race" — an update of 1975's "Death Race 2000," with Jason Statham starring as a driver in a kill-or-be-killed auto race of the future — opened at No.3 with $12.3 million.
The weekend's other wide wide releases, Ice Cube's sports drama "The Longshots" and Rainin Wilson's music comedy "The Rocker," opened weakly.
"The Longshots" — an MGM-Weinstein Co. release starring Ice Cube as a former high school star coaching his niece, the first girl to play Pop Warner football — came in at No. 8 with $4.3 million.
20th Century Fox's "The Rocker," starring Wilson as an over-the-hill heavy-metal drummer who gets a chance at stardom with a high school band, to take in $2.8 million
to finish at No.12.
After a run of blockbuster weekends, late summer was proving the usual dumping ground for modest movies as business slowed and audiences eased into back-to-school mode.
That opened the door for "Tropic Thunder" to repeat as the weekend's box-office leader.
"There isn't that divide where there's a couple of huge movies coming every week," said DreamWorks spokesman Chip Sullivan.
Summer's biggest hit, "The Dark Knight," continued its climb up the box-office charts, placing fourth with $10.3 million. The Warner Bros. Batman sequel has taken in $489.2 million on its way to becoming the second film ever to top $500 million, after "Titanic" ($600.8 million).
MUSIC
Madonna gets political during new 'Sticky'tour
BY JOEL RYAN ASSOCIATED PRESS
CARDIFF, Wales — Even at 50, the queen of pop just can't stop courting controversy.
As Madonna kicked off her international "Sticky and Sweet" tour Saturday night, she took a none-too subtle swipe at the presumptive Republican nominee for U.S. president.
Amid a four-act show at Cardiff's packed Millennium Stadium, a video interlude carried images of
destruction, global warming, Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, Zimbabwe's authoritarian President Robert Mugabe — and U.S. Senator John McCain. Another sequence, shown later, pictured slain Beatle John Lennon, followed by climate activist Al Gore, Mahatma Gandhi and finally McCain's Democratic rival Barack Obama.
The rest of the show had the usual Madonna fixtures: sequins, fishnets, and bondage-style outfits drawn from the 3,500 items of clothing reportedly whipped
together by 36 designers specifically for the tour. Dancers sauntered across stage in top hats and tail coats, and Madonna tried her hand at break-dancing and pole-dancing.
Madonna's tour was eagerly anticipated in Britain, where the pop superstar has made her home, and fans weren't disappointed.
It is Madonna's first tour since striking a deal with concert promoter Live Nation Inc. worth an estimated $120 million over 10 years.
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Aries (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 6
This is a full-on workday, with barely time for lunch. Better pack a couple of power bars and a protein drink. Besides, the traffic is awful. Be careful out there.
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10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
Move quickly to win the race, and the juicy prize. Don't be sidetracked by a critic's snide comment. Use it to your advantage or ignore it completely. You choose.
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If you take on more responsibility in the community, you may have to put off doing something in your private life. Talk it over with your family. You'll do best with their support.
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Conditions are good for crunching the numbers. You could even feel motivated to write letters demanding money. You're pretty good at that, when you get going. Shake things up over there.
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Everybody's a little bit on edge. They're vying for position and control. Put yourself in a place where you can keep an eye on the valuables. Be first in line for a bargain.
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If you didn't take care of business yesterday, hurry and do it now. You're up against the deadline, as you already know. If it's not that, something is about to break. Look around. (19)
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb.18)
Today is a 6
You'd just as soon stay in bed late this morning, but it looks like there's work to be done. Shake the sleep cut of your eyes before you get into trouble.
Controversy rages on almost every subject. Is it something somebody said, or something in the air? Probably the latter. Don't let it interfere with your fun.
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We hear it nonstop when we come to college. Change is a lot of what college is about. In my two years so far, there has been quite a bit of change.
Change has become a vogue word. We like change. This mantra of change that Sen. Barack Obama has been running on is why he has appealed so much to people our age. More so than the fact that he is relatively young for a presidential candidate. The word invokes new and exciting thoughts in our heads. It makes us dream of exploring new frontiers and making a difference with people and changing lives.
It is also made the main theme of any freshman orientation. "You are going to change in college," we are told, and of course it is true. The question isn't so much a matter of if, because it is impossible not to, or even how much, because the college years are seminal years, so we are all going to change a lot. Rather the question is how or in what way we are going to change, and maybe even more so, why or for what reason are we changing.
To me, changing without knowing how is irresponsible, and changing without knowing why is stupid. People don't want to change just for the heck of it. Instead, they need to know why we need to change and how it is going to be done.
This is why Obama is doing poorly in recent polls. He has told us all why we need to change, mainly because we don't like President Bush, but he hasn't
explained how we are going to do that. It is near impossible to force people in a different direction if they don't know what is in that direction.
So it is important for us to examine how we have changed over time, just as it is important for us to examine the change that a candidate might promise.
For a lot of people in college, if they examined how they have changed so far during college, it would probably be an increased tolerance to alcohol. Good, but maybe not what they should be going for.
In order for the best change to happen while in college, it is important for us to have a good idea of where we are, and probably more importantly, where we want to be in four years.
Obama seems like a lot of freshmen: He doesn't really know where he wants to be in four years, besides being the president. Fortunately, for all of you freshmen, you have some time to decide. Unfortunately, for Obama, he doesn't.
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A federal-state task force created to address the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico originally pledged to reduce it to a quarter of its size by 2015. There has been no reduction. It is still growing.
Scientists, the fishing industry and the media in this country have reported extensively on the huge dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. In 2006, it covered almost 6,700 square miles. Last year, it reached nearly 8,000 square miles, one of the largest in history. This year, researchers say it could grow to 10,084 — the largest in almost 25 years.
The zone is created
primarily by soil erosion, fertilizer runoff from farms along the Mississippi River and its tributaries, urban runoff and dumping of sewage into the river. These elements deplete oxygen in the water, killing fish and bottom-feeding marine life.
The journal Science reports that more than 400 dead zones occur around the world, double what the United Nations reported two years ago.
It is time to take the search for a solution to the dead zone problem worldwide. There could be new information and approaches if a global task force brings together global expertise
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Running Trope stands over the slain buffalo, holding its still-bearing heart aloft. Blood runs down his forearms as he jams the spurting, arterial clump into his mouth.
Toni Bergquist, sales manager
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"I am a man now!" he screams through mouthfuls, as John Williams conducts the orchestra into a poignant swelling of brass and winds, lest the spiritual transformation go unnoticed by readers.
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The evolution of coming-of-age rituals
Toni Bergquist, sales manager
864-4477 or tbergquist@kansan.com
That, my friends, is a coming-of-age ritual. Swift and senseless violence followed by the devouring of raw organ meat.
But with the near-extinction of buffalo and the prevalence of cheap, personal cooking devices endorsed by George Foreman, our society found a new way to come of age.
Welcome to KU
CONGRADULATIONS
CHOOSE YOUR PATH WISELY.
And that way is college. College is a time of self-discovery, a time for finding oneself, albeit often in a ditch, caked with vomit consisting of foods you've never eaten. Immediately after is the self-discovery of one's car, wallet and phone.
We return to Extended Metaphron from the beginning of the column, as he stands over the slain buffalo. Blood runs down his forearms as he shakes his pounding head and swears he will never drink Jager again. Then, he remembers the cryptic words of wisdom the elders told him: "Ramen is better than organ meat, and there's always grad school."
Anthropologists marvel at the role that nihilistic drunkenness plays in the moral instruction of America's young adults. In one popular ritual, the initiate ingests a sacred intoxicant laced with a powerful, non-herbal stimulant, while letting out a cry of "lager bombs!"
Although the successful completion of this Jager ritual often results in the answering of "yes" to such questionable inquiries as "Wanna go to a rest stop and sleep sleeping truckers?" many still take part.
Before you condemn these people with a major in liberal arts and a minor in possession, know it is they who ensure a supply of the office drones necessary for continuing the American bureaucracy.
There is no one way to come of age in college, but if you leave college with immediate employment prospects, you have failed. There is even a special term for people like that: engineers. The rest of us take our coming of age much too seriously to ever let it happen.
Reichert is an Oberlin graduate student in law.
Students will hurt if Lawrence loses the 'T'
YOUR HUMBLE LAWRENCIAN
DAN THOMPSON
"It's quite convenient," he said. "I don't know what I'd do without it."
When I climbed aboard the Number 8 bus at 31st and Iowa, I had a hard time finding a seat. The bus was crowded with returning students, mostly international students, who carried bags of food, clothing and electronics and chatted with each other in Spanish, Urdu and Putonghua. I struck up a conversation with a marketing major from Chengdu, China, and asked him what he thought about the "T", Lawrence's bus system.
But he may be to do without the T" if Lawrence voters do not approve a proposed sales tax increase this November, which would be genuinely unfortunate.
Traffic congestion will decrease, especially around campus, more parking, and, of course, taking the bus is much better for the environment. A sales tax — a fairly regressive form of taxation — is not an ideal way to fund public transportation, but this is certainly better than the alternative of not having the system.
two questions on the Nov. 4 ballot, a 0.2 percent increase in the city's sales tax, which would supplement the T's 2009 operating budget, and a 0.05 percent increase, which would provide funds for the eventual replacement of aging buses.
Next year, the T will face a million dollar operating deficit. The city commission voted to place
As voters consider the T's value, they should keep in mind the benefits of its proposed merger with KU's bus system, which will result in a more efficient service. The city and the University have tentatively agreed to combine their operations by July 2009, and as a first step, all KU students can now ride free of charge on all city buses.
Thompson is a Topeka senior in economics and political science.
To put that into perspective, if these measures are approved, the cost of your Big Mac would increase less than a cent.
The T will be forced to shut down without this funding.
But this merger is contingent on whether the T can secure funding. For the plan to move forward, voters must approve the first ballot question, and perhaps the second.
When you vote in November, keep the T alive.
The T is an invaluable asset to our community, especially to those who depend upon it as their only viable means of transportation.
like many foreign students at KU.
As is the case with most public transit systems, the market itself does not support the T. It is a good idea to subsidize public transportation because it does not only benefit those who purchase its services but confers tremendous advantages to the whole community.
A 2007 on-board passenger survey found that 78 percent of riders said they currently did not have an alternative vehicle available. As driving becomes more expensive, the number of people who cannot afford cars will certainly increase.
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A couple weeks ago, I took a walk with my 3-year-old daughter through campus. Before too long we happened upon a large group of men playing football in their new practice facility.
"What are they doing?" asked my daughter.
If you build it, they will... not use it?
"That's called football," I said. "Want to watch?"
I took her out of her stroller and put her on my shoulders so she could get a better view.
Soon, we were approached by a man wearing too many articles of clothing with little Jayhawks on them. He informed us that this was a "closed" practice and that we would have to leave. If
we wanted, we could return in a week to watch an "open" practice
As I care very little about football (yes, people like me exist), I decided not to mention to the man that I was on a public street, and that there was nothing that he could legally do to remove me from it, and I moved on.
As I walked, I craned my neck up at the parking garage, and wondered how in the world they were going to keep people from watching them develop their top secret football skills.
After reading the Kansan, I learned that the geniuses in the Athletics Department have decided to go ahead and not practice on their $31 million practice field. Brilliant
Apparently, according to the
Kansan article, everyone "was aware" of the situation, and so nobody should be "surprised" at the current situation. In other words: the Athletics Department knew they were going to spend $31 million for nothing, so why is everyone complaining? Jim Marchiony, associate athletics director, has essentially said that spending $31 million for nothing isn't "keeping anybody awake at night." These folks must have a lot of cash floating around if they don't bat an eyelash at 31 mil.
I'm starting to wonder: Is KU a school with a sports program attached to it, or a bloated Sports Corporation with a languishing academic program in its shadow?
Joshua Anderson
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If it ain't on Facebook, it ain't official. Sorry to break the news to you.
To people who take Facebook relationship statuses seriously: Get off the computer, and face reality for a change.
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Bring back the whistle, so my teacher will know when to shut up.
Maybe instead of trying to win over students by telling them how the bus is better for their wallet, you should make sure the buses show up according to the schedule, not whenever they feel like it.
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How many people are going to get texted Obama's veep choice and then realize they just wasted money to hear information two minutes earlier than everyone else?
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THE UNIVERSITY OF DAILY KANSAN MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 2008
VOLUNTEERISM
students spend weekend volunteering locally
BY RYAN MCGEENEY
rmcgeeney@kansan.com
About130 KU students arrived at the Kansas Union at 10 a.m. Saturday. Some bustling with energy, some still bedraggled from a late night, the students came ready to participate in Volunteer Day, organized by the Center for Community Outreach.
Alison Zeigler, Los Banos, Philippines, junior, CCO co-director, said the annual event was part of Hawk Week and provided students a chance to establish a sense of community before the semester became too hectic.
"We want students to be asking themselves about what their community is," Zeigler said. "What do you want to give back to it? How
do you want to create that sense of change in your own life? Hopefully, that's what you can take with them as they leave college."
Students signed up to volunteer with one of three different organizations: the Lawrence Adopt-a-Park program, Habitat for Humanity of Lawrence and the Boys and Girls Club of America. They were then bussed to the various locations around Lawrence.
Volunteers with the Adopt-a-Park program collected trash and chalked sidewalks in "Dad" Perry Park. Volunteers with Habitat for Humanity sanded and painted exterior and interior surfaces on a home nearing completion in North Lawrence's Comfort Lane area, where Habitat for Humanity has already completed a number
of homes.
Volunteers for the Boys and Girls Club went to four Dillons Grocery stores around the city to encourage shoppers to participate in the "Round Up" program, in which shoppers round up their bill to the nearest dollar and donate the difference to the Boys and Girls Club.
While some of Saturday's participants were new to volunteering, others had lengthy histories of community service.
David Wilcox, Manhattan junior, said he had participated in alternative breaks, where students dedicated their time during academic breaks to volunteer service.
He said he planted trees in Salt Lake City and worked with developmentally disabled people
at Misericordia Heart of Mercy hospital in Chicago.
"The people you meet volunteer are usually the people you'd like to hang out with anyway," said Wilcox, who participated in the Adopt-a-Park program. "What else are we going to be doing from 10 to 2 on a Saturday?"
Mark Brooks, construction manager for Habitat for Humanity in Lawrence, said he was always happy to have the extra hands available.
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"KU kids are just wonderful for us," Brooks said. "I mean a real gold mine of enthusiasm and willingness to come serve. I think that if we're willing to use their energy and grace in the way we do to get these houses built, then the least we can do in return is try to
Blake Mankin, Dallas freshman, adds a coat of paint to the window trim on a Habitat for Humanity house in North Lawrence on Saturday. Mankin, along with about 130 other KU students, participated in Volunteer Day, an annual event organized by the Center for Community Outreach.
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POLITICS
BY JESSE TRIMBLE
jtrimble@kansan.com
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Among the other potential running mates for Obama were the governor of Virginia, Tim Kaine, and Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.), according to The New York Times.
Julia Groebblacher, McPherson junior and former president of KU Young Democrats, said that based on recent polls of Obama supporters, the likelihood of Sebelius becoming vice president had been low.
"Unfortunately, I think it's because she's so new to the scene nationally," Groeblacher said. Groeblacher said she would have liked to see Sebelius step up to the role of vice president because of Sebellius' knowledge of the economy and education.
"The country at large is facing a lot of problems now that Kansas faced many years ago," Groeblacher said.
Tom Hartley, chairman of the Douglas County Democratic Party, said the main reason Sebelius didn't receive the nomination was because Obama had to consider how to win more electoral votes.
"From a political standpoint I didn't think she shed be a nominee, because I don't think she wins him a lot of votes on a political point from electoral strategy," Hartley said. "She's a phenomenal choice and definitely a bridge divide between the parties, but at the end of the day it comes down to who is going to help him win."
Amanda Applegate, Wichita senior and member of KU Young Democrats, said although Sebelius got bonus points for policies with the economy, health care and education, she was missing a very important element for a vice presidential candidate.
"She lacks foreign policy experience, which would greatly benefit her right now," Applegate said.
Experience is something for which supporters have praised Biden.
Biden has been in the Senate since 1973 and currently serves as Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.
Applegate said that Sebelius also wouldn't pull enough electoral votes for Obama, and that it was hard for Democrats to run in Kansas, a primarily Republican state.
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Russell's first trip to the Olympic games ended in a whimper. The former KU javelin throw finished 10th after his longest throw in the javelin finals plummeted to the earth after just 80.90 meters.
The gold medal went to Andreas Thorkildsen of Norway, who won the javelin event with an impossibly long throw of 90.57 meters. It was an Olympic record. His throw seemed to challenge gravity, soaring up and up, and for a second it looked like it might fly out of the Bird's Nest in Beijing. It flew more than 297 feet, just shy of the length of a football field.
BY RUSTIN DODD
dodd@kansan.com
That's the Olympics for you. So much has to be perfect. Four years of preparation and sweat and focus, and then it all come down to a couple of throws in front of 90,000 people in a stadium in China.
While Lawrence slept in on Saturday morning, Scott Russell was miles away, trying to do the impossible in front of 90,000 people.
Russell's 29-year-old body wouldn't let him. His knees were shot.
And in the preliminary round, Russell delivered. The pride of Windsor, Canada, stepped out onto the javelin runway. The rain was pounding down and Russell's soaked blond hair was matted down by a backwards baseball cap.
Russell hopped down the runway, stopped for a split second, and uncorked a majestic throw through the rainy Beijing air.
The javelin landed 80.42 meters away from Russell. It was the sixth-longest throw of the preliminaries. With one throw, Russell had qualified for the finals.
But this was the Olympics. And in the finals, Russell had to throw against guys like Thorkildsen. Guys who grew up throwing the javelin in countries where the javelin is a national pastime.
To medal, Russell needed to throw a javelin longer than he ever had.
His body wouldn't allow him.
In the past two weeks, we've seen an American swimmer defy the limits of human endurance. We've seen a Jamaican sprinter run so shockingly fast that we have to ask ourselves if anyone will ever run that fast again. We've seen so many radiant performances, that, after a while, you become numb to their brilliance.
And you forget that athletes are human and they have limitations.
A groin injury kept him out of the Olympics in 2004. He had surgery on his knee last fall.
"My body let me get to the finals," Russell would say to members of the Canadian press.
And that was all his body would allow. He's battled nagging injuries ever since he finished his All-American career at Kansas.
Russell knew he would throw his best on one of his first two throws. And in the finals, with his competitors throwing javelins inconceivable distances, Russell sputtered and finished 10th.
Edited by Adam Mowder
That's the Olympics for you. Some dreams were realized, but thousands more were left to die in front of 90,000 people.
"It's bittersweet," Russell would say. His mind told him he should be competitive. But his body wouldn't allow it.
And that's where the story ends. Olympic medals are awarded in maddening four-year cycles. Russell still has hopes of continuing his Olympic dream in four years. The 2012 games will be in London.
But Russell will be 33, ancient by Olympic standards. And who knows what his body will allow.
FOOTBALL
Kansas prepares for opener
Despite past success, Mangino still tense about first game
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BY B.J. RAINS rains@kansan.com
Mark Mangino has coached in the Orange Bowl, the Cotton Bowl and even the Fiesta Bowl. But one game in particular worries him more than any - the first one.
As the Jayhawks prepare to open the season this Saturday against Florida International, Mangino is beginning to sleep less at night knowing that the season opener is just five days away.
"I've said it before, the first game makes me more uneasy than any other game of the year," Mangino said. "Even more than a bowl game or a championship game."
Mangino and his staff don't have any 2004 film on FIU, but they will surely dig into last years box to find tape on the Golden Panthers
- including the 55-3 trouncing by the Jayhawks in Lawrence. FIU was 1-11 last year, but don't tell that to coach.
"The first game is always the toughest in terms of knowing what you have." Mangio said. "There's no preseason games in college football, no exhibition games or preseason scrimmages. You line up and play for keeps
from day one. And you really have to make sure that you have the right people in the right spots. The first game is always a challenge."
At a Friday pep rally in Prairie Village, Mangino also talked about one of the best position battles going into camp, the punt returner spot. The battle seems to have been decided, but Mangino wasn't quite ready to announce who has come out on top.
"There's probably a guy in my mind that will be the returner," Mangino said. "But I want to keep competition at that position because you need more than one of those guys, and I want to just keep it going and keep it competitive. I really haven't named anybody but I have a pretty good idea of who it will be."
Mangino also said that nothing had changed regarding the eligibility of kicker Jacob Branstetter. Branstetter appears to be five credits short of being eligible stemming from his transfer from the Air Force Academy, but his parents submitted paperwork to the NCAA to try to get him cleared to play.
"We'll be fine at that position. I'm not concerned at all," Mangino said of a kicking corps that also lost potential starter Stephen Hoge who transferred last week. "In fact, I think
we've improved ourselves in the last few days. I'm not going to
body at this point in time because I want to stay open-minded about it. I want to continue the competition."
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KU soccer team shuts out nationally ranked Purdue
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BY ANDREW WIEBE
Mark Francis may want to consider letting the team's associate head coach, Kelly Miller, take over halftime speech duties.
Francis was forced to take in the action from a camera tower just behind the field because of a red-card suspension from the last season's final game, leaving his longtime assistant to take the reins in Kansas' opening game of 2008.
KU redshirt junior defender Jenny Murtauh, left, and senior midfielder Jessica Bush, right, struggle upfield against Purdue's Loredana Riverso during Friday night's onnine name at the KU Soccer Complex.
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But the Jayhawks didn't miss a beat, bouncing back from a sluggish first half to defeat nationally ranked Purdue 3-0 at the Jayhawk Soccer Complex Friday afternoon behind three second-half goals.
Kansas was fortunate to limp into halftime without conceding a goal after absorbing pressure for the better part of the first half while battling 93-degree heat. But it was the Jayhawks who came out in the second half determined to break open the game after Miller challenged them to retake the momentum and push for a goal.
"I talked to Kelly, and he talked to them at halftime about wanting it more because I felt we took our foot off the gas a little bit," Francis said. "In the second half our mentality was completely different, and I thought we were consistent with that mentality and not backing off."
Back off they didn't, putting three past the Boilermakers in a 27-minute stretch. Freshman Emily Cressy scored her third goal in two games to go along with an assist, and senior Missy Geha and junior Kim Boyer each found the back of the net as the Jayhawks outshot their opponents 9 to 3 in the second half. The victory marked Kansas' second consecutive 3-0 result following an exhibition game against Drake last weekend.
Geha broke the deadlock in the 54th
minute when she bundled the ball in from a corner kick. Freshman Kortney Clifton flicked Shannon McCabe's service toward the back post where Geha muscled her way in to stake the home side to a 1-0 advantage.
Cressy followed that up 12 minutes later, latching onto junior goalie Julie Hanley's booming punt and slotting the ball just inside the far post on the half volley. It was the kind of poacher's goal Cressy has shown a knack for in two games during which she has found herself in the right place at the right time to score three times.
Luky as it may have seemed, Cressy said the play was something the two had discussed before the contest.
"Before the game, Julie and I had a talk," Cressy said. "She would kick it over, and I would just shoot it. So, I was really thinking about it the whole entire game, waiting for it at the right time, and it just came."
Cressy gave Kansas another boost later on when she assisted on Boyer's
goal in the 82nd minute. With her back to the goal, Cressy flicked yet another Hanley feed into the path of the onrushing Boyer, who drove the ball low into the bottom left corner.
Kansas returns to action next Sunday when Auburn travels to Lawrence for an afternoon matchup.
— Edited by Adam Mowder
VOLLEYBALL
Injury-plagued team wins alumni scrimmage
BY JOSH BOWE jbowe@kansan.com
As with any team sport, opening scrimmages and exhibition games are generally for knocking the rust off before the season officially starts.
And for the Kansas volleyball team, it's no different.
"We knew thered be some rough spots, and there were a lot," Bechard said. "But there were some bright spots too."
Coach Ray Bechard watched his team through some sloppy moments in the team's scrimimage on Saturday, although his team ended up successful over an alumni squad, winning in three sets.
The Jayhawks, Bechard said, tended to be inconsistent most of the night, following a great play with one that made
Bechard scratch his head. The team is using these scrimmages, as well as an inter-squad match that Bechard thought was equally important, to hammer out these mistakes - one being a more consistent offense - before the Jayhawks open their season at the VCU Invitational this weekend.
"I thought wed have a little bit better flow offensively," Bechard said, noting that the Jayhawks were playing against a far more experienced alumni team, which threw them off balance.
Senior middle blocker Natalie Uhart echoed her coach's sentiments.
"There were some kinks here and there," Uhart said. "We do need to communicate better."
Another main concern for the jayhawks was how Uhart and junior middle blocker Brittany Williams moved and played
after experiencing major injuries last year. Williams missed most of last season with a knee injury, and Uhart missed 20 matches with complications from a congenial heart defect.
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"I thought Natalie did fine." Bechard said.
"Brittany's very comfortable. I was very pleased, I think she'll continue to get better."
Jibert and Williams
both contributed to the Jayhaws' effort Saturday. Uhart had a team-high four blocks and seven kills; Williams had nine kills of her own. Uhart said she felt fine, although "a little rusty," and Williams noticed that she felt fatigued toward the end of the match, but understood that is part of the process of getting back into
Sophomore outside hitter Jenna Kaiser, who led the team in kills last year as a freshman, did not participate in the scrimmage because she is recovering from an elbow injury. Bechard said she could be out "for a couple more weeks."
game shape.
As for the rest of the team, sophomore outside hitter Karina Garlington led the Jayhawks with 11 kills, helping stop any momentum the alumni had in the second and third sets, the only sets the Jayhawks trailed in.
Freshman outside hitter Allison Mayfield also looked sharp, finishing with nine kills and taking advantage of the playing time from Kaiser's injury.
Edited by Rachel Burchfield
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quote of the day
"If people want to say we're a one year wonder, they can say whatever they want. We'll come out here working hard every day, and we'll play the best that we can. And we will, we'll be ready to go every game. Whatever happens, happens."
—Todd Reesing,
at Kansas football media day on Aug. 5
fact of the day
Kansas football has won its last four home games by a combined score of 152-47. The Jayhawks last opening game loss came in a 28-20 home loss against Northwestern in 2003. Kansas crushed Central Michigan 52-7 in the Jayhawks' home opener last season.
trivia of the day
—Kansas football media guide
Q: Who scored Kansas' first offensive touchdown of 2007?
A: Former tight end Derek Fine scored on a three yard pass from Todd Reesing in Kansas' home opener against Central Michigan. Kansas would go on to score a school-record 556 points in 2007.
MLB
Angels beat Twins, split the series
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Francisco Rodriguez earned his 50th save, and the Los Angeles Angels got RBI triples from Vladimir Guerrero and Gary Matthews Jr. in the eighth inning to rally past the Minnesota Twins 5-3 Sunday for a split of their four-game series.
Trailing 3-0, the Angels got on the board when Mark Teixeira led off the sixth with his third home run of the series and seventh in 23 games since joining the AL West leaders.
Jason Kubel hit a high, arching drive down the right-field line that was called a home run by first base umpire Hunter Wendelstedt in the Twins eighth. While Kubel rounded the bases, Mike Scioscia came running from the Angels dugout to ask Wendelstedt to get help from his crew.
The ruling was overturned, and Kubel struck out against reliever Jose Arredondo (6-1).
White Sox beat Rays in tenth inning
CHICAGO — Alexei Ramirez singled home the winning run in the 10th inning after A.J. Pierzynski's bizarre trip around the bases, and the White Sox rallied to avoid a sweep.
Jim Thome hit his 534th homer, Carlos Quentin also connected and the White Sox tied it at 5 in the ninth on pinch-hitter Paul Konerko's two-out single off fill-in closer Dan Wheeler.
Pierzynski led off the 10th with a single against Jason Hammel (4-4), then tagged up and went to second on a flyout to center.
Reed, Aldrich are 'two wild and crazy guys'
BY MARK DENT
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Their reality show would be called "The Unbelievably Simple Life"
Meet Tyrel Reed and Cole Aldrich, the most low-key, chill roommates in the history of this school. They roomed together in the Jayhawker Towers as freshmen last year and are doing the same for their sophomore years.
Reed is a devoted Christian. His favorite musician is Jeremy Camp, a contemporary Christian artist. By comparison, Aldrich is a regular James Dean.
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sill dives on pizza.
This summer, you couldn't get these guys away from Allen Fieldhouse. Reed and Aldrich were there almost everyday, lifting weights whenever they could squeeze time out of a day filled with summer classes and pick-up games.
When that got to be too much, and Reed just had to have some fun he went home. Back to Burlington.
"It's a small town." Reed said. "I just kind of relaxed."
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"No," he said. "I used to when I was a kid but now it's just basketball."
As recent news items have shown, not everyone else on the team is quite as laid-back and well-behaved as Aldrich and Reed.
DROP THE CHALUPA
Still-ineligible freshman Markieff
Morris was ordered to appear in court for allegedly firing BB at another student-athlete's mother at the Towers. His lawyer has said Morris was innocent. It will be a while before anyone knows the truth, but Morris' incident brings back memories of other ridiculous crimes involving KU athletes. Here's a quick rundown of some of the strangest, or dumbest.
Jeff Hawkins, former basketball guard, gets a point for timeliness for this one. About a day before a home game against Baylor in February 2006, he cut-off a woman's car in the McDonald's drive-through on
Sixth Street and struck her car. The woman told police Hawkins blamed her for the accident before leaving. Kansas coach Bill Self suspended him for the game.
Reggie Duncan and Mario Kinsey, former football players. In the summer of 2001, a KU student reported a stolen purse, including her credit card from Bailey Hall. She found out a pizza was purchased with the card and called the pizza shop. The restaurant told her the pizza was delivered to Kinsey and Duncan's apartment. The lesson here, aside from don't steal, is please get DiGiorno and not delivery if you're using a stolen card.
Dion Rayford, former defensive end — funny how all these incidents have to do with food. Rayford must have been a hungry man on the night of Nov. 18, 1999. He was at the Taco Bell on 23rd street and when the workers forgot to include his Chalupa, Rayford, all 260 pounds of him, allegedly climbed through the window, attempting to confront the employees. He later pled guilty to a criminal damage to property charge
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BEIJING — China proved an acquisitive first-time Olympic host, topping the gold-medal chart with one of the most dominating and diverse performances ever. The United States, Britain and an array of small nations also had reasons to celebrate.
China's haul of 51 gold medals was the largest since the Soviet Union won 55 in Seoul in 1988. Fielding athletes groomed since childhood in sports academies, it won medals in 25 different sports, including its first ever in sailing, beach volleyball and field hockey.
Not since 1936, when Nazi Germany prevailed at the Berlin Olympics, had a country other than the U.S. or the Soviet Union/ Russia led the gold medal list.
The United States trailed well behind the Chinese in golds with 36, the first time since 1992 it didn't lead the category. But the Americans did break their own mark for total medals in a nonboycotted Olympics; they won 110 in all, two more than their previous high set in 1992 and 10 ahead of China's overall tally this year.
Britain, getting an early jump on its host role for the 2012 Summer Games, had its best Olympics in a century with 19 gold medals — good for fourth place behind the Russians. Its cyclists and sailors were the class of the field, and 19-year-old Rebecca Adlington stunned the swimming world with two golds in distance events.
It was also a satisfying Olympics for many of the world's weaker sporting nations. A record 87 nations won medals, seven more than the previous high in Sydney in 2000, and a dozen nations won either their first-ever gold medal or first medal of any color.
If there was a prominent loser at the games, it was Russia, whose team was deprived of 10 athletes due to doping accusations. The Russians finished a distant third
in both gold medals, with 23, and overall medals with 72 — down from 27 and 92 four years ago in Athens.
The United States was disappointed by its boxing team (one bronze medal) and a lack of golds by its sprinters, but was delighted by breakthroughs in lesser sports such as fencing, as well as by the historic eight golds for record-smashing swimmer Michael Phelps.
"Both on the field of play and off, this will go down as one of the greatest performances ever for a United States Olympic Team," spokesman Darryl Seibel said Sunday.
Overshadowing the entire U.S. effort, however, was a recognition of China's arrival as the dominant Summer Olympics power.
"China has been systematically targeting every single available medal, and we're going to have to do that in the future," said U.S. Olympic Committee chairman Peter Ueberroth.
China, of course, has the largest population pool - 1.3 billion people - from which to recruit athletes. Several far smaller nations distinguished themselves in medals per capita.
"The resources that they put toward their Olympic team and the population base and the dedication is fantastic," he said.
Jamaica's sprinters and hurdlers — led by triple-gold sensation Usain Bolt — won 11 medals, one for every 245,000 of its 2.7 million people.
Kenya, despite election-related unrest which killed hundreds and disrupted its preparations, had a great games with five golds and 14 medals overall. Ethiopian runners Kenenisa Bekele and Tirunesh Dibala each won rare double golds in the 5,000 and 10,000.
There were other breakthroughs — Tunisia and South Korea won golds in swimming for the first time; long jumper Mauren Higa Maggi became the first Brazilian women to win a gold in track.
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*Tail Gunting KXSSA Iowa State Wide Receiver R.J. Sumrall lunges at a pass during Iowa State's 45-7 loss against Kansas last November, Iowa State 3-9 in 2007, but coach Gene Chizik hopes to turn things around in 2008.*
BY TAYLOR BERN tbern@kansan.com
At Big 12 media days in July, Gene Chizik used one word over and over to describe his players and his team: solid.
Perhaps he was looking at a different roster or is just overly optimistic, but Chizik's rebuilding process in Ames is far from complete. Things can't get much worse than last season's 3-9 display, but they can stay at the same pitiful level.
There's young talent to work with and reason for hope from the Cyclone faithful. However, with youth comes youthful mistakes and right now Iowa State is not on the same level as their Big 12 North counterparts.
OFFENSE
Last year Iowa State tied with Air Force, Maryland and Navy for the fewest touchdown passes in the NCAA. Brei Meyer threw nine touchdowns and now he's gone, which means Chizik doesn't have a single player on his roster that has thrown a D-I touchdown.
Recently sophomore Austen Arnaud was named quarterback. Arnaud saw a little action in '07, completing 20-of-37 passes for 267 yards. Chizik may decide to platoon Arnaud with sophomore Phillip Bates, a converted wide receiver.
Bates is too athletic to leave on the bench and a two-quarterback system could help alleviate pressure from each plaver.
Wide receivers R.J. Sumrall and Marquis Hamilton each bring some experience back to the position, but the Cyclones will live or die with the running game.
Chizik has a stable of able backs, led by sophomore Alexander Robinson. Robinson emerged late in the year, rushing for 391 yards and six touchdowns in the final four games. Iowa State won two of those contests. Also in the backfield are seniors lion Scales and J.L. Bass.
"I don't think that one running
back that I will talk about means any more to our football team than another," Chizik said. "We've got to take a collection of running backs that we feel good about."
Scales is a punishing runner while Bass is lightning quick, at least when he's not in Chizik's doghouse. Bass was suspended in the spring for failing to meet team requirements and only recently earned his way back onto the roster.
DEFENSE
The strength of the Cyclone defense is in their secondary, where they return all four starters.
Cornerback Chris Singleton and free safety James Smith lead the unit and Singleton led the team last year with four interceptions.
Iowa State lost a lot of production with the graduation of linebacker Alvin Bowen, but the strength of the secondary and the emergence of defensive end Kurtis Taylor should make up for it. Taylor notched a team-leading 6.5 sacks last year and is a brutally
physical pass rusher.
Junior Rashawn Parker is a solid starter at the other defensive end position. Chizik's problem is that he has no experience up the middle. That's bad news for a team that relied on stopping the run to keep it in games.
Sophomore Bailey Johnson and junior Nat Frere seem to have a leg up in the defensive tackle battle, but the position may remain fluid.
SEASON OUTLOOK
Iowa State starts the season with very winnable games at home against South Dakota State and Kent State, but last year it had a similar situation and lost its first two games to Kent State and Northern Iowa. While they should start 2-0, the Cyclones could drop one of those contests.
If so, Chizik may not get a legit shot to improve on his team's three-win campaign. The Big 12 is arguably the best conference in the country and Iowa State is arguably its worst team.
"We feel like the foundation has been laid for what we're trying to do down the road." Chizik said. "But in a certain degree, that's a lot of window dressing, a lot of feel-good stuff. Because at the end of the day, you have to look back and say you had a 3-9 season."
The only conference games the Cyclones could be favored in are both on the road (at Baylor, at Kansas State), as is their intrastate match with the Hawkeyes. Chizik said despite the struggles he can see a positive future for his squad.
4-8, chilling in Iowa for the winter.
As a member of the coaching staff at Texas, Chizik became accustomed to winning games. Now as the man in Ames, he's got to learn humility and how to cope with losing. Either that, or he can keep pretending his team is solid until they actually start playing like it.
PREDICTION
— Edited by Adam Mowder
our first game and we need every practice, I don't think we're a finished product by any stretch. We have a lot of work to do and a lot of areas to improve. We're moving in the right direction."
FOOTBALL (CONTINUED FROM 1B)
Players have been waiting for Saturday's game to come since the end of last season. But add in hot
two-a-day practices and a four-week training camp, and kickoff can't come any sooner.
"We're ready," said defensive tackle Jamal Greene. "We're just waiting and counting down the days."
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Ohio State's Wells a Heisman favorite
BY RUSTY MILLER ASSOCIATED PRESS
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State fans would love to have tailback Chris "Beanie" Wells win the Heisman Trophy this season. For two reasons.
First, what fans wouldn't want one of their favorite players to win the top individual honor in college football? But more importantly, they want to see Wells win it so that 2007 winner Florida quarterback Tim Tebow does not repeat.
That would preserve the distinction of Ohio State's Archie Griffin as the only two-time winner of the award.
Griffin remains an iconic figure in Ohio's heartland, a smallish guy with a big heart who slashed and dashed for 5,589 yards from 1972 to 1975, capturing the Heisman his final two seasons.
"I'm sure they're rooting for me for both reasons," Wells said with a laugh on Friday.
"I've heard that quite a bit, actually," he said. "But as I've said for a long time, records are meant to be broken. I certainly thought that by this time someone would have won it twice."
Griffin admires Tebow — just a junior, so a threat to become the first three-time winner — and considers him a very worthy recipient. At the same time, he doesn't try to hide his
He remains above the fray when it comes to denying Tebow a second Heisman.
allegiance to his alma mater, admitting that he'd like to see an Ohio State running back bring the award back to Columbus for a record-setting eighth time.
"He certainly is a viable candidate," Griffin said of Wells, a 6-foot-1, 237-pound junior who rushed for 1,609 yards and 15 touchdowns in 2007. "I thought that the way he ran a year ago was extremely impressive. I thought maybe he should have gotten some consideration even last year."
Wells is awed by the fact his name is even brought up when the conversation turns to the Heisman.
"It's an honor and a blessing to even be mentioned in the same sentence with the Heisman Trophy," he said. "For guys like Archie to say something like that, that's incredible."
Griffin said he won't be upset if Tebow wins it again. He said his unofficial title will just have to be changed a little.
"You know what? You can always say you're the first (to win two)," he said with a laugh.
Griffin, now president and CEO of Ohio State's alumni association, says he has faith that the Heisman voters will get it right.
"If Tim Tebow has the kind of season that's deserving of another Heisman, then let him have it. He's an outstanding young man and he's done some tremendous things on the football field and in the community," Griffin said. "But what it's boils down to: the best man wins."
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Duckworth wins first Major League start in two years
Kansas City Royals catcher Miguel Olivo, left, tags out Detroit Tigers' Magglio Ordonez as Ordonez tries to score on a Carlos Guillen double in the first inning of a baseball game Sunday in Kansas City, Mo.
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KANSASCITY, Mo. — Brandon Duckworth had an easy time keeping emotions in check during his first major league appearance in almost a year. His body was a different story.
Despite falling behind 3-0 after seven batters, Duckworth settled down and went five shaky innings as Kansas City rallied to beat Detroit 7-3 on Sunday and snap a seven-game losing streak. It was Duckworth's first major league win as a starter in more than two years.
"I was just trying to slow my body down. My body was getting out in front of me," the veteran right-hander said.
"It seems like a long time, I know that," he said.
Mark Teahen, back at third base this weekend for the first time since 2006, drove in three runs as the Royals beat Kenny Rogers (9-11) and won for just the third time in 17 names.
"It seemed like months since wed had a four-run lead," said manager Trey Hillman.
It's been even longer since Duckworth notched a victory.
Duckworth (1-0), brought up on Sunday from Triple-A Omaha, faced 24 batters and 11 reached base, on seven hits and four walks.
He did not record a strikeout in getting his first major league win as a starter since beating Milwaukee on June 24.2006.
"My arm wasn't getting up, which made the ball run all over the place," he said. "Early on, it wasn't the prettiest of lines or the prettiest of things. But I was able to kind of calm down a little bit and keep us there, make some
pitches so they didn't get anything too out of hand. Guys were making good defensive plays. Just to hold them right there was big."
The four-year major league vet-
Kansas City Royals' Mark Teahen watches his two-run single to left in the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Detroit Tigers on Sunday in Kansas City, Mo.
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Rogers gave up eight hits and seven runs in six innings.
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While striking out four and walking four, the veteran left-hander fell to 1-3 with a 6.55 ERA
the runners moving to second and third when left fielder Marcus Thames bobbled the ball for an error. Esteban German tied it 3-all with a sacrifice fly and
then Aviles, after going to third on the play, put the Royals on top 4-3 on Rogers' wild pitch. One of the runs was earned.
With Jose Guillen on first base in the sixth, Thames had another costly misadventure when he misjudged Billy Butler's drive, first
coming in on the ball and then not recovering in time to stop it from sailing over his head.
The play was ruled a double and a moment later pinch runner Joey Gathright slid home safely from third on Miguel Olivo's grounder to shortstop Edgar Renteria.
Teahen then hit a two-run single to left. With the bases loaded, Thames ended the inning with a fine diving catch of David DeJesus' sinking liner.
"These are the ones you've got to nail down, when you've won two in a row here and got three runs in two innings," said Detroit manager Jim Leyland. "We came out smoking. We just didn't get that one extra hit. We made too many mistakes. You can't give extra outs at the major league level."
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MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 2008
Redeem Team faced more challenges than original
BY BEN ASHWORTH
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The Redeem Team probably does not care about comparisons. They are halfway across the world, sporting smiles the size of the large gold medals plastered upon their chests. This Redeem Team is finally enjoying standing up straight after having a large monkey on its backs for the last three years. However, back home, the comparisons cannot help but be echoed by most basketball enthusiasts.
But alter that question to ask, what feat was more impressive? And you may find a more diverse set of answers.
Is the Redeem Team better than the Dream Team? The answer is quite simple: probably not. One-fifth of the NBA's All-Time Top 50 players contributed to the outright shellacking of their hapless opponents at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992.
The world is getting better at basketball. This much is obvious. Teams other than the United States are stacked with NBA ability. Dirk Notizki led the German team, former number one pick Andrew
Bogut played center for the surprising Australians, and the Spanish team contained a bevy of talent, including NBA All-Star Pau Gasol. Compare that to the competition that the 1992 Dream Team faced.
Ioni "The Croatian Sensation"
Kukoc and Detlef "I don't have
a nickname, but I do have a cool name" Schrempf of Germany were two of the only notable players who represented their countries.
This time, Spain had not only certifiable NBA talent, but they're young enough to be favorites to return to the medal rounds in 2012.
The Gasol brothers are both big men with a variety of low post moves, Rudy Fernandez was draining three-pointers in Kobe Bryant's face, and Juan Carlos Navarro was making floaters look as easy as passing KU's bowling class. The Redeem Team was still able to look in the face of this upgraded competition and find a way to win at all costs.
The pressure on the United States to win this year was enough to make lesser men not want to get out of bed in the morning. The term "win or go home" has become one of the most clichéd phrases in sports, up there with "nobody believed we could do it."
The Americans were fed up with losing. We all watched as a Carlos Arroyo-led Puerto Rico squad beat us by 19 in 2004, followed by a disappointing loss to Manu Ginobili and the Argentines in the semifinals. Carlos Arroyo was a backup point guard on the Utah Jazz. Meanwhile, Tim Duncan and Allen Iverson were NBA superstars. It boggled the mind.
But the Redeem Team truly was in a "win or go home" situation. Anything less than a gold medal would have meant a complete
failure. Anything less than a gold would have meant that after three years of hard work, the future of American basketball in international play would have once again gone into disarray.
The 2008 American team not only had to prove to itself that it was a different team than those in years past, but it also had to prove it to the entire country. With the weight of the United States on its shoulders, it was able to take the gold.
In 1992, opponents were awed just to play the Dream Team. In 2008, opponents knew they could win and gave everything they had every night.
In the end, the result was the same.
The Redeem Team was able to fight doubts, pressure and increased difficulty to become the world champion and that achievement trumps the Dream Team's domination.
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China ends Games with ceremony, prelude to 2012 Games
Celebrities highlight closing ceremony as China hands Olympic reins to London
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BEJIING — China completed its stint as Olympic host Sunday with a superstar-studded closing ceremony that capped a 16-day
pageant of state-of-the-art logistics and astounding athletic feats, set out for a curious world. The games did little, though, to erase concerns about the emerging superpower's approach to human rights.
Tenor Placido Domingo was on hand, joining a Chinese soprano in a lyrical duet. Soccer icon David Beckham and graying Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page were there, helping London take the reins as host-to-be of the 2012 games.
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Yet even as the International Olympic Committee was praising itself for awarding Beijing these Olympics, the U.S. Embassy urged China to free foreign activists jailed for protesting at the games. China, the embassy suggested, should have used its moment in the global spotlight to show "greater tolerance and openness"
China nonetheless achieved its paramount goals: a dominant effort by its athletes to top the gold-medal standings for the first time and near-flawless organizing that showcased world-class venues and smiling volunteers to the largest-ever peaceful influx of foreign visitors.
As a bonus, not just one but two athletes gave arguably the greatest performances in Olympic history — Michael Phelps with his eight gold medals in swimming, Jamaica's effervescent Usain Bolt with three golds and three world records in the sprints.
Delighted on the on-field competition, the IOC insisted its much-debated selection of Beijing back in 2001 had been vindicated.
"Tonight, we come to the end of 16 glorious days which we will cherish forever," IOC President Jacques Rogge told the capacity crowd of 91,000 at the National Outdoor Stadium, and a global TV audience. "Through these games, the world learned more about China, and China learned more about the world."
The head of the Beijing organizing committee, Liu Qi, said the games were "testimony to the fact
"These were truly exceptional games," he said, before declaring them formally closed.
that the world has rested its trust in China." He called them "a grand celebration of sport, of peace and friendship."
Before and during the games, Rogge and the IOC were criticized by human rights groups for their reluctance to publicly challenge the Chinese as various controversies arose over press freedom and detention of dissidents. Athletes shied away from making political statements, and "protest zones" established in Beijing went unused as the authorities refused to issue permits for them and detained some of the applicants.
But at the atmosphere was festive at the stadium as fireworks burst from its top rim — and from locations across the vast capital city — to begin the closing ceremony. After an army band played the Chinese national anthem, swarms of gaily dressed dancers, acrobats and drummers swirled onto the
field, then made room for the athletes, strolling in casually and exuberantly from four different entrances.
Two-thirds of the way through the ceremony came the pulsating show-within-a-show by London, complete with break dancing, hip hop and ballet. From a stage formed from a red double-decker bus, Page played the classic rock hit "Whole Lotta Love" as British pop sensation Leona Lewis belted out the lyrics. Beckham, in a stylish black sweat suit, booted a soccer ball into the surrounding throng of athletes on the stadium floor.
Former Olympic runner Sebastian Coe, now chairman of the London organizing committee, was elated.
"What we have witnessed in Beijing is a truly spectacular Olympic Games," he said. "We have a once in a lifetime opportunity to build on this moment."
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Ticket sales: from in line to online
SHOOTING HALL OF FASHION
Students line up outside Allen Fieldhouse to buy tickets to the KU vs. MU football game last year. Some students waited in line for hours and others even camped out the night before so that they could be first in line to get seats.
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BY B.J. RAINS rains@kansan.com
Matt Willems remembers waiting in line for hours last year to get his ticket for the Kansas-Missouri football game at Arrowhead Stadium. Willems, Lawrence senior and long-time KU sports fan, remembers watching as people walked up to the window with as many as 100 KUIDs and bought a ticket with each one of them. And he remembers going to the game, having no fun and telling himself that he wouldn't be going back next year.
To avoid last year's muddled ticket distribution, which caused some students to wait in line for more than six hours to secure their ticket for the Border Showdown, the Athletics Department has changed how it will sell student tickets for this year's Nov. 29 matchup against Missouri. No longer will students wanting to buy a ticket for the game have to wait in line. Instead, the coveted student tickets will be sold exclusively online at www.kuathletics.com.
"It was by far the worst ticket procedure pickup that I had ever had, either at KU or somewhere else," Willems said. "The whole ticket process last year kind of soured me on the whole game and it turned out to just be a prelude to the real problem, which was the game itself. I think they kind of heard the cry of the masses and changed it enough that now, the people that want to go have a fair shot at getting a ticket to go this year."
Tickets will sell online for $10 from Sept.
8 to Sept. 12. Only 3,000 tickets have been set aside for students, though more than 8,000 students have bought season tickets in past years. Students who buy their tickets online must print out a voucher and take both the voucher and their KUID to Arrowhead Stadium on game day to receive their ticket. Students wishing to sit with friends must go
to the ticket window at Arrowhead at the same time.
Jim Marchiony, associate athletics director, said the new system would work better for students.
"This is certainly an easier and fairer way to do it," Marchiony said.
All-Sports Combo ticketholders should receive an e-mail from the department soon with details about the purchase procedure. The tickets will also be available to any student who wishes to buy one because the game is not a part of the University's season ticket package.
going to the game with a friend and scalping the other 13 tickets like last year," Willems said. "I think as far as distributing tickets, this was the way to do it."
Last year, there was no limit to how many tickets students could buy for the Missouri game as long as they had a KUJD for each ticket they wanted to purchase. As the line outside the Allen Fieldhouse ticket office stretched down Naismith Drive, students cut in line with their friends or held spots for friends who were in class.
Now students will be able to purchase only one ticket for themselves, and they won't be able to receive the ticket until right before they enter the stadium on game day.
"There won't be people buy 15 tickets with their friends' student IDs and then
In addition to problems obtaining tickets, fans faced crowded parking lots and lengthy traffic jams before last year's game. With ongoing construction at Kauffman and Arrowhead stadiums, this year could be even worse.
"If everyone shows up two minutes before the game then obviously they are going to be late," Marchiony said. "We're encouraging people to get there early, especially because
of the construction going on out there. It would really be wise to get there early and get into the stadium early."
When tickets go on sale next week, one person who won't be buying one will be Willems. Instead, he plans on going to a local bar and watching the game with friends.
"Besides the whole ticket problem, the parking and crowd control were both terrible as well," Willems said. "The whole game experience was just awful last year. I don't plan to go."
KUPEDIA
KU wiki moves to a new Web location
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Site drops prefix, ties to former Student Senate coalition to form independent organization
BY HALEY JONES hjones@kansan.com
KUpedia, formerly WiKUpedia, was renamed and changed its Web address as the site's administrators refocused their efforts to be an all-in-one resource about everything related to the University.
The wiki was originally an initiative of former Student Senate coalition ConnectKU during the 2008 Student Senate elections. After the elections, the project was removed from the ConnectKU
The site's administrators are bulking up information on student organizations to help incoming freshmen get involved in student life in Lawrence.
Web site and administrators registered a domain name of www.kupedia.org. Jack Connor, Overland Park senior and KUpedia president, said KUpedia was its own entity and no longer had connections with the former coalition ConnectKU.
He said the site already had 73 articles about various student organizations.
Caleb Zahnd, St. Joseph, Mo., alumnus and KUpedia administrator, said he contributed regularly to the site's general information about the University.
Dan Holmes, Olathe senior, said the section on KU history was another area the site's administrators wanted to improve. Holmes said the site was updated often and that just last weekend, students contributed several new articles to the section.
"We have a pretty decent section, but we don't have every single one." Connor said.
"Since I'm an alumni, I was there several years before anybody who is there now." Zahnd said. "So I have somewhat of a more historical perspective on certain things."
The wiki is written by students and community members and managed by the KUpedia Project, a registered student organization.
Connor said the main thing administrators and editors of the site were working on
was getting the word out about how easy it was to use, edit and add to the site.
KUpeda has a partnership with KU Info. Connor said Curtis Marsh, KU Info director, liked the KUpeda Web site and wanted to do cross promotions with it to increase awareness of both sites. KUpeda features a KU Info Tip of the Day on its home page. The KU Info site also has a link to KUpeda.
Zahnd said anyone could edit or contribute to KUpedia, but he strongly encouraged people to register as users because of the benefits.
Unregistered users have to enter a confirmation code every time they want to make a change and are not able to edit certain pages like Chancellor Robert Hemenway's page or football coach Mark Mangino's page.
Zahnd said pages were protected if they had been vandalized or were a strong candidate for pranks. The site tracks the IP addresses of visitors' computers to discourage abuse of the wiki.
He said KUpedia was still in the development stage.
"We're working on student awareness and getting everything covered," Zahnd said. "It's not even hardly a year old yet.
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"It's how the University really is as seen through students and alumni and people that really matter there," Connor said.
Connor said the wiki offered a student's view of the University to other students.
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Three-month-old tiger cub Zoya, rejected by her mother, plays with German Shepherd puppy Frida of the same age, in a special enclosure at the zoo in Warsaw, Poland, on Aug. 13.The dog owned by a zoo employee, was introduced to the tiger so that she could have a companion for the next few months.
ODD NEWS Puppy scares three bears, guards family from attack
A 15-pound cocker spaniel-poodle mix named Pawlee scared off a mother bear and her two cubs Sunday morning after they strayed into his owners' back yard.
His bark was worse than his bite, but Pawlee's tactic worked just fine. The three bears got the hint and took off.
"We had just let him out for the morning and he ran into the yard and started barking his head off," owner Fran Osiason said.
His barking drove the two cubs up a tree, and they eventually climbed down and hopped over a fence with their mother and retreated into the woods.
Osiason said her 9-year-old son, Jacob, went outside to see what the commotion was about and came running back in to report there were bears in the yard
Osiason said she, her son, husband Andrew and 6-year-old daughter Eden have had Pawlee since he was about 8 weeks old. She marveled at his fearlessness.
"He's a little fur ball," she said.
She was worried that the mother would come after Pawlee to protect her cubs, but the pugnacious pup, just 8 months old, had other plans.
Northern New Jersey seems to breed feisty pets: In 2006, a tabby cat named Jack chased a bear up a tree in his West Milford yard.
Bears are not uncommon in Wyckoff, but Osiason said her family has lived there for about 10 years and had not seen any until Sunday.
With Pawlee on guard, they might not see another one anytime soon.
Italian priest organizes "Miss Sister 2008" contest
ROME — An Italian priest and theologian said Sunday he is organizing an online beauty pageant for nuns to give them more visibility within the Catholic Church and to fight the stereotype that they are all old and dour.
The "Miss Sister 2008" contest will start in September on a blog run by the Rev. Antonio Rungi and will give nuns from around the world a chance to showcase their work and their image.
"Nuns are a bit excluded. They are a bit marginalized in ecclesiastical tical life," Rungji told The Associated Press after Italian media carried reports of the idea. "This will be an occasion to make their contribution more visible."
Each nun will fill out a profile including information about her life and vocation, as well as a photograph. Each will choose whether to pose with the traditional veil or with her head uncovered.
Rungi, a theologian and schoolteacher from the Naples area, said that visitors to his site will have a month to "vote for the nun they consider a model."
"We are not going to parade nuns in bathing suits," Rungi said by telephone from his town of Mondragone. "But being ugly is not a requirement for becoming a nun. External beauty is gift from God, and we mustn't hide it."
Rungi said the idea was first suggested to him by nuns with whom he regularly prays and works. He hopes there will be dozens of submissions once the Web site is started.
"It's an initiative that be-littles the role of nuns who have dedicated themselves to God," the group's president, Alberto Giannino, told Italy's ANSA news agency on Sunday.
Train runs out of fuel causes two-hour delay
The contest drew criticism from the Association of Catholic Teachers.
SAN DIEGO — A quick train trip down the coast turned into a long haul for more than 80 Amtrak passengers when their train from Los Angeles to San Diego ran out of fuel Sunday night.
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Amtrak spokesman Cliff Cole said the train sat for about two hours on the northern edge of San Diego before another engine came along to push it the last several miles to the San Diego train station.
A train running out of fuel is "an unusual occurrence" and Amtrak officials will be looking into how it happened, Cole said.
The train, which had left Los Angeles at 8:30 p.m., didn't get there until 1:15 a.m. Monday, two hours late.
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Valerie Rock poses with her cat Yoda. Tad and Valerie rock said they've been tended with television offers and media inquiries since their son posted a photo of their smoke-colored cat on a Web site, which turned the four-eared feline into an Internet celebrity.
It wasn't quite love at first sight, but the Rocks felt sorry for the cat and offered to adopt the kitten from the bar's owner, who kept the animal caged atop the bar for his customers' amusement.
Ted and Valerie Rock said they've been inundated with television offers and media inquiries since their son posted a photo of their smoke-colored cat on a Web site. That turned the four-eared feline from a suburban animal oddity into an instant Internet celebrity.
ance and calling him names such as "Devil Cat" and "Beelzebub."
Auctioneers find military explosives at estate sale
DOWNERS GROVE, III. — The owners of Yoda — a cat with four ears — could use a couple extra hands to answer their telephones.
The Rocks, from the Chicago suburb of Downers Grove, have fielded calls from "Good Morning America""Fox News"and"The Tyra Banks Show."The cat's photo has graced the London Guardian and a British tabloid. The Daily Mail said if Batman had a cat, it would be Yoda.
Yoda's extra ears give him a hint of a devilish appearance. The Rocks said they found him in 2006 while watching a Chicago Bears game at a Blue Island bar.
MAYFLOWER, Ark. — Auctioneers preparing for a backyard estate sale Saturday morning made an explosive discovery among the china and other items up for bid — a suitcase full of military-grade explosives.
Some in the bar were passing the then-eight-week old kitten around, making fun of his extra set of ears, mocking his appear-
The rusted, padlocked suitcase sat alongside a porcelain coffee service set, decorative enamel-finished eggs and a vintage gas-powered model of the 1965 Chaparral II race car prototype.
Auctioneers got the suitcase open just before the sale on Saturday and found three blocks of military-grade C-4 plastic explosive, two tubes of a similar plastic explosive, a blasting cap and some dynamite.
Workers quickly called 911. The Conway Fire Department's bomb squad put the aging explosives inside a special container and drove them out to an isolated spot to destroy them, district chief Jon McMahon told the Log Cabin Democrat newspaper.
Faulkner County sheriff's office Maj. Andy Shock said the explosives had deteriorated over time and likely were at least 15 years old. Shock said that age put the C-4 at the outer limits of its shelf life, meaning the explosives were unstable and even more dangerous.
The auction went on as planned.
The items at the estate sale belonged to a U.S. Navy veteran who died recently, Shock said. Deputies continued to investigate the incident, but charges weren't likely as the presumed owner of the explosives is dead, he said.
Typo gives employee $850,000 longevity bonus
Jo Harris was supposed to receive an $850 longevity bonus for working at the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission for seven years. But a misplaced decimal point turned that into a six-figure windfall.
OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma officials say a typo resulted in a state employee receiving a bonus of $850,000 — but it was only temporary.
Harris said she would let state officials know right away if the extra money entered her account because, "I don't go to jail for anybody."
Harris's original paycheck issued in February was canceled and a new one was issued with the correct bonus. Officials told Harris about the mistake and asked her to watch her personal bank account.
Officials say they caught the error before the $850,000 left state funds.
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On Aug. 23, a KU student was the victim of battery.
On Aug.22, a KU student was the victim of domestic battery.
On Aug. 23, a KU student reported missing a purse and its contents, valued at $135.
On Aug. 23, a KU student reported $1,100 in criminal damage to a vehicle.
On Aug. 23, a KU student reported the theft of an iPod valued at $300.
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Teams test project using zero gravity
12 students travel to NASA's space center in Houston for experiments
BY SACHIKO MIYAKAWA
smiyakawa@kansan.com
Connor McMullen, Plainville junior, describes his zero gravity experience as riding a rollercoaster in slow motion.
"Everything you feel is amplified much more," he said.
McMullen was part of a group of 12 students who worked with NASA this summer and performed research projects in zero gravity.
Three teams from the University of Kansas were among 32 from across the country that participated in the NASA Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program. In the program, undergraduates tested their experiments in NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston.
NASA started the program in 1995 to broaden student interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, said Douglas Goforth. NASA's Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program manager.
different levels of gravity.
"The project introduces young scholars to careers with NASA and the space program, encouraging research and testing of serious scientific and engineering ideas," Gorffoth said.
"That was pretty cool for us to have three teams represented," said Emily Arnold, Hillsboro senior.
Emily Arnold, Hillsboro senior, floats in an aircraft during a reduced gravity flight. Arnold, along with 11 other KU students, used NASA's microgravity equipment at the Johnson Space Center in Houston to test their projects and hypotheses in a zero-gravity environment. NASA chose the three teams from the University, which were part of 32 teams chosen from around the nation, based on the teams' research ideas and proposals.
The students designed their projects on campus and then applied to NASA to test them because NASA had the equipment needed to test
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Each KU team consists of four to five students from engineering and physics. The teams spent about a year to preparing for their projects.
Laura Stiles, 2008 graduate, said the program allowed her to experience all of the phases of an engineering project: the conception, design, building, testing and data analysis.
The teams brought their projects to Johnson Space Center during summer to test them in a microgravity environment, which meant that gravity was present but had little effect.
Each of the KU teams spent two weeks at Johnson Space Center. The teams conducted their experiments in a high altitude research aircraft, which created a microgravity environment. They took training lessons to avoid motion sickness and to learn how to deal with the different environment before they went aboard.
Aron Terrell, New York City senior, said the aircraft changed gravity inside by adjusting its altitude and angle. He said free-falling from high altitudes created a zero gravity environment.
"It's the closest thing to outer
space for zero gravity simulation"
Terrell said.
This was Stiles and Terrell's teams' second year participating in the program.
"The microgravity environment is very foreign and hard to maneuver in," Stiles said. "This year we designed from what we learned and had a very successful flight."
Their team found the arm could operate better in a microgravity environment than the gravity of Earth. She said the experiment verified their hypothesis.
Jackie Paschang, Stilwell senior.
said networking at NASA was another benefit she gained through the program. She met students who participated in the program from different schools as well as KU graduates. She said she would like to be an astronaut, and the program brought those hopes closer to her.
"It's a great feeling getting to know engineers and scientists and people who work for NASA," Paschang said.
WHAT IS IT? Microgravity defined
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Microgravity, also called weightlessness or zero gravity is the absence of gravity. It is best illustrated by astronauts floating in their spacecraft. They are floating because they are in a microgravity environment. Aside from astronauts, many people experience micrograv-
ity every day by riding roller coasters or jumping off diving boards. It is the "free fall" period of these activities when the microgravity occurs and of course only lasts for a short period of time.
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ied satellite photos of thousands of cows around the world.
RESEARCH
Most cattle that were grazing or resting tended to align their bodies in a north-south direction, a team of German and Czech researchers reports in Tuesday's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
And the finding held true regardless of what continent the cattle were on, according to the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany.
"The magnetic field of the Earth has to be considered as a factor" the scientists said.
Student veterans may receive more money from new GI bill
BY JESSE TRIMBLE
jtrimble@kansan.com
President Bush passed a new GI bill in June that could cover all college costs for veterans who served after Sept. 11.
The new GI bill, known as the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008, will replace the old Montgomery GI Bill but will not go into effect until August 2009. Student veterans currently using the old GI Bill may be able to receive money from the new GI bill.
The old bill paid portions of tuition, room and board, books and supplies, but it was usually not enough to cover all college expenses. Under the new bill, as long as the veteran served for 90 days after Sept. 10, the veteran is eligible to receive benefits of the new bill. Veterans who served 36 months will receive $6,700, the amount that the government considers the cost of tuition and fees. The less time a veteran served, the less money he or she is eligible for.
Darwin Lujan, Wichita sophomore, is a 24-year-old theater major and will be eligible to receive the benefits from the new GI Bill once it goes into effect. But for the next year, Lujan will still receive the benefits of the old GI Bill.
"The old GI Bill is unrealistic," Lujan said. "My part of the rent for my apartment is $350 alone, and then you add in gas, food, bills. It all adds up."
He said he could really use the extra money from the new bill.
On the Montgomery GI bill,
Lujan receives $1,100 for all college expenses.
"It doesn't cover everything," Lujan said. He said he also had a scholarship granted to him by the Kansas Board of Regents that helped him pay for school and books.
Betty Childers, veterans affairs certifying official at the University, said she wasn't sure how the new Gi Bill would affect student veterans.
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ment isn't sure how it will be implemented." Childers said.
The bill may be revised before it takes its final form next August.
"We're not sure how it will be implemented because the govern-
"The new GI Bill hasn't been fully explained to us, simply because it may not be 100 percent approved yet," said Sgt. 1st Class Michael Straw, station commander at the Army Recruitment Center in Lawrence.
With the old GI Bill, active duty members would pay the government $100 a month for 12 months to support the program, resulting in a total payment of $1,200. Straw said there was also discussion about eliminating the $100 payment from active members.
As far as Lujan knows, he'll be included in the benefits of the new GI Bill. Lujan signed up for the Marines in June 2002 upon graduating high school. Lujan said he joined to pay for college, but also because he wanted to fight for his country.
Part of a provisioned rifle platoon, he served in Ramadi and Fallujah, Iraq, from September 2004 to March 2005. Because of his service in Iraq, Lujan said he should get all educational expenses paid for by the new GI Bill.
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Eligibility Requirements
- Veterans will receive benefits up to 15 years after their last day of active duty.
NEWS
No bull: Cattle have keen sense of north
- Eligible veterans must have served at least 90 days of continuous active duty after Sept.11,2001.
- Veterans can receive up to $1,000 for books and supplies each year.
- -The new Gi Bill will cover undergraduate, graduate and vocational/technical training.
- Monthly housing allowances will be paid depending on basic housing allowance.
- Veterans can get payments for up to 36 months. The percentage is determined by the length of active duty. However, the amount cannot exceed the most expensive institute undergraduate tuition.
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What are you doing, El Gato?
I am writing a post-apocalyptic short story set after the polar ice cap melt. Santa Claus loses his reindeer on an ice drift, so he is stuck on the now-steamy North Pole!
El Gato, there already is a Christmas Island. It's in the Indian Ocean!
Look it up! LIES!
Easter Christmas Island
Santa applied snow
sunshine and rain
but in bark, little
did the know ...
Sisters were there
alent blood thirsty
rabbits that both
fruits with salty
chocolate creme
cream syllabular
Sara Mac
I call it "Christmas Island!
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American Idol adds judge
Fourth judge says she can handle Simon's wrath
BY ERIN CARLSON ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Scooching in between Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson sounds intimidating, if not a little scary.
But Kara DioGuardi, the newly-installed fourth judge on "American Idol," is confident she'll find her niche within the bickering, tests-tested judges' panel where the line between love and hate is blurred with every critique.
Kara DiDiuGuard celebrates being named Co-Songwriter of the Year during the 55th Annual BMI Pop Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., in a Tuesday, May 15, 2007 photo. Grammy-nominated songwriter DiDiuGuard has joined "American Idol" as a fourth judge and will sit alongside Paula Abdul, Simon Cowell and Randy Jackson at the judges table. The eight season of "American Idol" premieres in January, 2009, on FOX.
"I'm just gonna speak to Simon the way I speak to everybody," DioGuardi told reporters during a teleconference Monday. "I'm just gonna have my opinion, be honest, and I don't foresee any problems. I'm really excited about this, and up for the challenge."
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The Grammy-nominated songwriter will make her debut when the eighth season of "Idol" premieres in January, the Fox network said Monday.
"It's really flattering too, you know, to think that ['Idol]' even thought about me," she said. "I mean, when I got the call, I thought they were calling the wrong person. So I'm the new kid on the block, and I'm hoping everyone's gonna go easy on me — and that I bring a lot to the table."
It's not yet clear how ties will be broken in the audition process — in past seasons, two out of three judges had to agree to advance aspiring pop stars to the Hollywood round. And something will have to give during the telecast that barely has enough time to fit in three judges' opinions.
"I'm maybe not a household name, but people know of me in the industry," said DioGuardi, who co-owns the Los Angeles based company Arthouse Entertainment, which is now producing music by recent "Idol" runner-up David Archuleta.
DioGuardi, now the youngest "Idol" judge at 37, said she leads a "low-key" life. In that case, she'd do well to prepare for the instant celebrity that comes with appearing on the most popular — and lucrative — reality show on television.
Which bighs the question: Who IS Kara DioGuardi?
DioGuardio's songs have been recorded by Kelly Clarkson, Christina Aguilera, Gwen Stefani, Celine Dion, Faith Hill, Carrie Underwood and Pink, among others. Her recent Top 40 hits include Stefanis "Rich Girl", Aguilera's "Ain't No Other Man", Clarkson's "Walk Away" and Dion's "Taking
In 2000, the New York-born songwriter and longtime friend Abdul co-wrote the dance tune "Spinning Around" for Aussie pop star Kylie Minogue.
Chances."
Her TV experience includes appearing as a judge on the short-lived ABC reality series "The One: Making a Music Star" in 2006.
DioGuardi begins her "Idol" journey Tuesday during auditions in New York. It will be the judges' first time together in one room; DioGuardi said she only just met host/ringleader Ryan Seacrest on Monday morning.
"We are turning the heat up on 'Idol' this year and are thrilled to welcome Kara to the judges' table," said creator and executive producer Simon Fuller in a statement. "She is a smart, sassy lady, and one of Americas most successful songwriters. We know she will bring a new level of energy and excitement to the show."
"You'll have to see if there are fireworks tomorrow," she cooed in her smoky voice.
Which begs another question: Why mess with chemistry that's working?
Executive producer Cecile Frot
"We had originally intended for 'American Idol' to have four judges," she said. "We've seen from our international series that having a fourth judge creates a dynamic that benefits both the contestants and the viewers."
Coutas said a fourth judge isn't a new idea.
As an "idol" viewer, she said she's disagreed with each judge at one point — although admits that Cowell's criticism is generally "spot on." Some of her favorite past contestants were Clarkson and season-seven finalist Brooke White.
"I'd say I'm honest," she said.
"I'd say I believe in what I believe in, and I willing to fight for it. And I'm pretty feisty."
DioGuardi plans to be a straight shooter. She wants to help contestants succeed, but she will be harsh when need be.
"What makes an artist is somebody who's unique," she said. "That when their song comes on the radio, I know exactly who it is. ... It's not about vocal acrobatics."
A difficult job tests your patience.
Don't do it because somebody told you to. Do it for your family, and so you can go play with your friends.
She hopes to find the The Next Big Thing.
HOROSCOPES
10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Let the drama begin.
Today is a 10
Be ready for a spectacular breakthrough in your understanding. You find the puzzle piece or the clue that completes the picture. The mystery is solved.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21) Today is a 6.
Today is a week.
You're always buying things for your family, and you'll probably do that again. Get something nice for yourself while you're out there. You've done without long enough.
CANCER (June 22- July 22)
Today is an 8
Continue your studies; you're doing just fine. You're not only getting smarter, you're gaining independence. Freedom's a beautiful thing.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is a 5
Wrap up old business and collect on some debts. A little reminder phone call to those be all it takes. Say it's best to keep agreements.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Today is E
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is a 9
Today is 9 a. Friends look to you for advice, especially when scheduling. Think about their problems ahead of time, so you'll be ready. Devise a plan that works for you, too.
Today is a b
If you have a disagreement, don't bring it up right now. If somebody else brings it up, just smile. Avoid confrontation. The odds are good the other person will offer a compromise.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 6
Travel conditions are good, especially if you're going with friends. If it's simply impossible for you to get away, start making plans. Projects begun now will turn out well.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov.22-Dec.21)
Today is a 6
Slow and easy does it. You can sell, but don't do much buying. Collect as much wealth as you can and postpone distribution. In this situation, more is better.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.19) Today is 8
Your mate wants to be in charge, but you need to stay in the process. Your partner's decision looks right at first, but isn't quite. Be ready to make corrections, quickly and quietly.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.18) Today is a 5
You're about to find out what's what. Keep nosing around, asking questions and taking notes. Follow the money trail, and make an amazing discovery.
PISCES (Feb.19-March 20)
You're in the groove, or can be quickly if you move a few things around. You're in control, in a quiet, invisible way. That's just how you like it. Enjoy.
ACROSS
1 Actor Pitt
2 Canto preceder
3 One of the gang
12 Mark replacement
13 Earlier than
14 River of England
15 Jacob's brother
16 Bounces a basketball
18 Wilma's daughter
20 Flooded
21 Depressed
22 Raw rock
23 Doctrine
26 Fishermen's hopes
30 Expert
31 Wire measure
32 High mountain
33 Talks turkey?
36 Gauche
38 Tier
39 WWE surface
40 Texas A&M athlete
43 Lawrence Welk trade-mark
47 Nitpicks
49 Count counter-part
50 Cease to exist, old-style
51 Hearty tree
52 Old portico
53 Quite some time
54 Get nosy
55 Criterion
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18 Parcel
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No citations were issued because the car was a rental.
Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore says the deputy became concerned when several men approached the vehicle. The deputy unholstered his gun, and the situation quickly cooled down.
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Police officer pulls gun on Diddy's crew
LOS ANGELES — Make
LOS ANGELES — A sheriff's deputy pulled a gun on members of Diddy's entourage during
a routine traffic stop over the weekend, but the situation was quickly resolved and a spokesman for the entertainer said the deputy was professional and respectful.
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The actor is expecting a child with wife Brooke Muelle, Sheen announced Monday in a statement.
"Brooke and I are thrilled" the star of the CBS hit "Two and a Half Men" wrote. "She's the best stepmom Sam, Lola and Cassandra could ever hope for."
Sheen has three daughters:
Sheen and Mueller, a real estate investor, tied the knot in late May.
25-year-old Cassandra Jade Estevez, whose mother is Sheen's former girlfriend Paula Proft, and two girls with ex-wife Denise Richards. Sheen and Richards are still embroiled in a bitter custody battle over 3-year-old Sam and 2-year-old Lola.
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The Kansas Energy Council is considering a proposal to decrease maximum Kansas highway speeds from 70 to 65 mph in order to conserve gas. Not only does 65 sound pretty slow, it also grinds against core American values of progress, freedom and individuality.
Reducing speed limit not big enough of a solution
But before grabbing your pitchfork and doing 100 all the way to Topeka, consider a forgotten American value — sacrifice.
During World War II, thousands of men accepted conscription, women took up factory jobs and volunteer posts, taxes spiked, unions signed no-strike pledges, and food and other items were rationed. During the 1973 oil crisis, the Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act reduced the national speed limit to 55 mph, and gas was available only on an alternate day basis. A national conservation campaign used the slogan "Don't Be Fuelish."
Sacrifice; the government used to require it, and Americans used to wholeheartedly accept it for legitimate crises. Today we aren't asked to sacrifice anything for
country. Throughout the War on Terror, rhetoric of sacrifice has been replaced by President Bush telling us to fly and take vacations, go shopping and feel warm and fuzzy when you receive your stimulus check in the mail.
Despite acceptance that peak oil is nearing, the notion of curtailing our gaudy lifestyle seems as foreign as the Middle East.
A reduced speed limit isn't a long-term solution to our energy problems. We must continue to work toward alternative energy and improve intrastate mass transportation.
In the mean time, however, if having to slow down on highways doesn't seem worth conserving a couple year's worth of oil, consider the notion that the idea behind the cut may be more important in the long run than the cut itself.
In a world with scarce resources, the current American mindset of endless consumption without real consequence is frightening. Americans need to relearn sacrifice, and accepting that it will take 10 extra minutes to drive to back to Johnson County is an encouraging, albeit small, start.
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John McCain and Barack Obama disagree on many things, but in response to Russia's invasion of Georgia, they both knew that the United States should reddouble efforts to bring Georgia into NATO.
They're wrong, and dangerously so.
Consider that if President Bush had gotten his way over European objections, Georgia would already be a NATO member country. The recent Russian invasion would have committed NATO to go to war with Russia which, despite its weakened state, still has a sizable army and thousands of nuclear missiles to defend Georgia.
Are Americans willing to engage in a shooting war with Russia over this former Soviet republic? What is the U.S. interest at stake worth paying that kind of price?
Others say that were Georgia in NATO, Russia never would have invaded. If the U.S. is not prepared to fight for Georgia, it has no business extending security guarantees to it.
Georgia's fight with Russia is not our fight, nor should it be. Russia has drawn a line in the sand, right in its own back yard. We would be prudent not to cross it.
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Despite what some scientists claim is the next great mass extinction, a new species has emerged after Sen. Barack Obama was named the presumptive nominee for the Democratic Party. This fierce new species, called the PUMA, is a mammal in the Hillary Clintonte family and is native to the Americas.
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This new breed of PUMA lurks in the deep, dark depths of the "comments" section of the Cafferty File blog, one of their most common habitats. They are most active around dawn and dusk, infiltrating the dense underbrush of the Internet. They feed on rationality, and are known for their shrill cry, which sounds somewhat like "Second place is the same as first place".
Where to spot: The pack has temporarily relocated to the Denver area for the Democratic Convention this week, but these PUMAs can be spotted around the country.
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This contingent of Sen. Hillary Clinton supporters began referring to themselves as PUMAs. PUMA, as I came to learn after a great deal of confusion, stood for "Party Unity My Ass." They quickly became known for their baseless rants, annoying threats and strong hind legs for catching up with quicker prey.
ZooCards: the PUMA
After amusing myself by reading inane comments for a few weeks, I started to wonder: Who are these people, really? Surely, not everyone who voted for Clinton in the primaries is that riled up about her narrow defeat to Obama that they would try to form some subversive group to distract the party from its goal of reclaiming the White House.
I've read a lot about the supposed 18 million voters who apparently want Clinton running on the Donkey Party, or they will switch their votes to Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee. This seems unrealistic to me, since Clinton is much closer ideologically to Obama than to McCain. If people wanted so badly for her to run the country, it doesn't make sense that their second choice wouldn't be somebody whod have an at least relatively similar administration.
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According to the PUMA tracks that were left on the Cafferty File blog, the leadership in the Democratic Party had somehow anointed Obama their candidate when he did not deserve it. Reasons for this include the number of super-delegates who declared their support for him, after many of them were believed early on to be in favor of Clinton. And, of course, there was the fiasco involving the delegates from Michigan and Florida. When the two states had their delegates stripped for holding their primaries before Super Tuesday, a privilege that had only been granted to a few states, "Count Every Vote" became, for a brief period, a popular slogan.
But I think I may have discovered a secret facet of the species.
I spent a fair amount of my summer perusing the comments on CNN.com's various blogs, which are apparently the natural habitat of PUMAS. For every story, even ones which had absolutely nothing to do with the presidential election (therefore, not the fun ones), I was told that Obama and his mean, nasty supporters are rich, elitist snobs who hate America, women, blue-collar citizens and fluffy little kittens.
Natural habitat native to the United States, primarily in Democratic-leaning states
Call it a cave-in to an extremely vocal minority (which is what I call it), but ultimately, it seems necessary to bring the Democratic Party back together in time to win back that prime habitat called the White House in November.
My favorite conspiracy theory is that the PUMAs who have overtaken the Internet are actually covert McCain supporters, using subterfuge to help their candidate.
Admittedly, this is unlikely for the organization as a whole. I've read about organized PUMA groups that number around 2 million members, so there have to be a few legitimate sore losers in the pack.
The organizers of the Democratic National Convention have agreed with that sentiment and have stated that not only will Clinton get a prime speaking time in Denver, but her pledged delegates will also be able to cast their votes for her, despite her suspending her campaign over the summer.
In truth, I see the rise of the PUMA as a need for ventilation after an extremely heated primary. It isn't unreasonable, considering that toward the end, it became almost as intense as the general election will be.
Cohen is a Topeka senior in political science.
Energy solutions for U.S. economy include drilling
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The beginning of a new school year means a lot of things. We catch up with our friends, find out which of our professors are evil, and realize that the only thing more expensive than our textbooks is the gas we spend driving back from wherever we call home.
Outrage over gas prices is nothing new. I have been moaning and whining about over-paying since prices rose 10 cents to $1.59 per gallon right when I needed to fill the tank sometime around 2004. Farther back some might remember the fuel crisis of the '70s and the misguided price control schemes of the Carter era that only resulted in long lines at the pump.
renewable and more environmentally sound than oil. For the sake of our economy and our energy independence (and, consequently, our national security) we must invest in these alternative energy sources. American ingenuity is what made this nation great. In the last century it was innovative ideas for use of oil that helped us prosper; in the next it will be wind, solar, biofuels, nuclear... you name it.
Today, we are far from weaned of our "addiction" to oil. Let's face it: It will be decades before our reliance on oil significantly phases out. This is not to say that we cannot do anything about the current problem. There is much that can and must be done. Presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama has told us that we cannot simply drill our way out of this problem. In the long term, he is absolutely right. There are numerous alternative sources of energy, much of which is
While we transition into the next generation of energy there are still millions of vehicles and homes that rely on oil. For many, the cost is unbearable, so in the short-term we must utilize our resources for the sake of our economy. That is exactly what the American Energy Act (H.R. 6566), which Congress needs to debate, proposes. The bill financially encourages alternative energy research while allowing environmentally responsible drilling.
When it comes to drilling, the two main areas in dispute are the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR) and the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). Unfortunately, both Sen. John McCain and Obama oppose drilling in ANWR. Despite the fact that there are billions of barrels of oil to be produced, the drilling sites and the pipelines would take up less than 1percent of the land. Finally, congressmen who have visited the area have stated that wildlife in the arctic region have flocked to current pipelines and thrived.
support drilling in OCS. Of course, this was not always the case. While McCain has supported it for some time, Obama opposed it from the start. That was until he caught wind of the national poll stating that approximately 70 percent of Americans favored drilling in OCS. That was enough to change his tune in a heartbeat. To be fair, in an election year any politician would have done the same.
Fortunately, both candidates
Opponents of drilling have claimed that the oil from either ANWR or OCS would not actually come online for as late as 10 years from now. In fact, 10 years is the long estimate. The average estimate for OCS is about five years and could be as soon as three. Even three years is too long a wait for gas prices to go down. Fortunately, because of speculation, the price drop would be virtually immediate and significant.
It seems pretty clear that in order to solve our energy problem we have got to do all of the above. And it just so happens that the American Energy Act is essentially an "all of the above" solution. For all of our sakes, this legislation must pass. We must do all that we can, not only to bring prices down in the short term, but to encourage innovation and energy independence.
Poole is a Wichita senior in political science and psychology.
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BAGHDAD — Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki dug in his heels Monday on the future of the U.S. military in Iraq, insisting that all foreign soldiers leave the country by a specific date in 2011 and rejecting legal immunity for American troops.
Last week, U.S. and Iraqi officials said the two sides agreed tentatively to a schedule that includes a broad pullout of combat troops by the end of 2011 with the possibility that a residual U.S. force might stay behind to continue training and advising Iraqi security services.
Despite the tough words, al-Maliki's aides insisted a compromise could be found on the two main stumbling blocks to an accord governing the U.S. military presence in Iraq after a United Nations mandate expires at the end of the year.
But al-Maliki's remarks indicated his government was not satisfied with that arrangement and wants all foreign troops gone by the end of 2011.
That cast doubt on whether an agreement is near and suggested al Maliki is playing to a domestic audience frustrated by the war and eager for an end to the foreign military presence.
"There can be no treaty or agreement except on the basis of Iraq's full sovereignty," al-Maliki told a gathering of Shiite tribal sheikhs. He said an accord must be based on the principle that "no foreign soldier remains in Iraq after a specific deadline, not an open time frame."
Al-Maliki said the U.S. and Iraq had already agreed on a full withdrawal of all foreign troops by the end of 2011 — an interpretation that the White House challenged. Until then, the U.S. would not conduct military operations "without the approval" of the Iraqi government, al-Maliki said.
White House spokesman Tony Fratto said negotiations with the Iraqis were continuing and repeated the U.S. position that the withdrawal must be linked to conditions in Iraq — a clear difference with al-Maliki's interpretation of what had been agreed.
Attacks and casualties down in Iraq
"Any decisions on troops will be based on the conditions on the ground in Iraq. That has always been our position and continues to be our position," Fratto said Monday in Crawford, Texas. "There is no agreement until there is an agreement signed."
High profile attacks in Iraq are down more than 70 percent from the peak in March 2007, while U.S. troops reached new lows.
Explosion attacks, May 2006 to May 2008
Fratto said the U.S. was "optimistic that Iraq and the U.S. can reach a mutual agreement on flexible goals" and allow "Iraqi forces to provide security for a sovereign Iraq."
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Last month, however, Bush reversed course and agreed to set a "general time horizon" for bringing troops home, based on Iraq's ability to provide for its own security. But the Iraqis insisted they want a specific schedule.
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"We find this to be too vague," a close al-Maliki aide told The Associated Press on Monday. "We don't want the phrase 'time horizons.' We are not comfortable with that phrase," said the aide, who
President Bush has long resisted a timetable for removing troops from Iraq, even under strong pressure from an American public distressed by U.S. deaths and discouraged by the length of the war that began in 2003.
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spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the negotiations.
Another top al-Maliki aide, also speaking on condition of anonymity for the same reason, said the Iraqi government had "stopped talking about the withdrawal of combat troops. We just talk about withdrawals," including trainers and logistics troops.
officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, but the plan appeared in line with a U.S. strategy to turn urban security over to Iraqi police.
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U. S. and Iraqi officials said last week they had agreed to remove American combat troops from Iraq's cities by next June, withdrawing to bases where they could be summoned if necessary. The
During his Monday address, al-Maliki also suggested the question of legal immunity for U.S. military personnel or contractors remains a sticking point in the negotiations.
The draft agreement provides that private U.S. contractors would be subject to Iraqi law but the Americans are holding firm that U.S. troops would remain subject exclusively to U.S. legal jurisdiction. The U.S. has ruled out allowing American soldiers to face trial in Iraqi courts.
Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, center, attends a tribal conference in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Monday no security agreement with the United States could be reached unless it included a "specific deadline" for the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq.
But al-Maliki said his country could not grant "open immunity" to Iraqis or foreigners because that would be tantamount to a violating the "sanctity of Iraqi blood." He did not elaborate.
U. S. officials in Washington have privately expressed frustration over the Iraqi stand in the negotiations, which were supposed to have ended by July 31. The agreement must be approved by Iraq's factious 275-member parliament, where opposition to a deal is strong.
One of the al-Maliki aides said he believed language could be found to overcome differences over the withdrawal schedule but immunity was a tougher issue to resolve.
It appeared al-Maliki was seeking to bolster his nationalist credentials ahead of provincial elections late this year and a national ballot in 2009.
Al-Maliki's Shiite allies face a strong challenge from followers of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, long an opponent of the U.S. presence. The prime minister's strong statements in support of an end to immunity and for a firm withdrawal timetable would make it difficult for him to accept an agreement that falls short of his public demands.
In violence Monday, an American soldier was mortally wounded in a shooting attack on his foot patrol in north Baghdad, the U.S. military said. An Associated Press tally shows at least 4,147 U.S. military personnel have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003.
NEWS
Convention opens with Kennedy, Michelle Obama
DENVER — Democrats opened their national convention on Monday, seeking peace in the family as they pursue victory in the fall for Barack Obama and his historic quest for the White House.
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An appearance by the ailing, aging Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and a prime-time speech by Obama's wife, Michelle, headlined the convention's first night.
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Yet the opening gavel fell with Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton still struggling to work out the choreography for the formal roll call of the states that will make him — a 47-year-old senator bidding to become the first black president — the party nominee.
Florida delegates Wilma Silver, left, and Percy Johnson, front, dance as the delegation has some fun on the floor during the Democratic National Convention in Denver Monday.
"There is no doubt in anyone's mind that this is Barack Obama's convention," the former first lady told reporters. And yet, she said, some of her delegates "feel an obligation to the people who sent them here" and would vote
As the deli egates took their seats in the Pepsi Center, Obama campaigned in Iowa, the first in a string of swing states he is visiting en route to Colorado. He arranged to watch his wife's speech on television later from Kansas City, then speak briefly to the convention via a huge TV screen.
BILLIARDS AND FOLKLORE
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Tropical storm Fay moves farther along Gulf coast
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The remnants of tropical storm Fay spread over a wide swath of the South on Monday, bringing heavy rain and wind from Georgia to Louisiana that many
ing more than 30 inches of rain along the central Atlantic coast. Republican Gov. Charlie Crist, dressed in blue jeans and a golf shirt, helped an elderly woman out of a boat that had taken her from her inundated home.
Floridians,meanwhile,continued to mop up floodwaters created by the storm that stuck around for a week and made a historic
hoped would help land parched for months by drought conditions.
"It just started raining and it didn't want to stop," said the.
four landfalls, dump-
woman, Hazel Hayes.
In Georgia, farmers began assessing damage to crops. The storm's high wind and torrential rain seemed to take the heaviest toll on Georgia's $128 million pecan crop, especially in southern counties along the Florida line, according to preliminary assessments. Pecan grower Tom Stone's well-tended orchards were in shambles.
The National Weather Service said the vestiges of Fay would deluge northern Georgia on Monday and Tuesday with 3 to 5 inches of rain expected in the Atlanta area and up to 8 inches in northeast Georgia. In Alabama, flash flood and tornado warnings were posted.
Broken coalition throws country into chaos
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The ruling coalition that just a week ago drove U.S. ally Pervez Musharraf from the presidency broke apart Monday, throwing Pakistan into political turmoil just as it faces an increasingly difficult fight against Islamic militants.
The collapse of the fragile alliance threw more power to Asif All Zardari, the widower of assassinated ex-leader Benazir Bhutto and a corruption-tainted former polo player who now becomes the front-runner to replace Musharraf.
Fulfilling a threat he made last week, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif pulled his party out of the coalition after a dispute with Zardari over whether to restore the chief justice of the Supreme Court, Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudry, who was ousted by Musharraf.
There was concern within Bhutto's party, the Pakistan People's Party, that such a restoration would lead to the prosecution of Musharraf — and perhaps even Zardari — and that a fight would weaken the government's ability to fight militants.
Sharif's withdrawal will cost Zardari and the PPP their majority in parliament. But Zardari is expected to rally support from allies and form a new government with the help of small parties.
Russia refuses to honor separate Georgia regions
TBILISI, Georgia — Russian lawmakers on Monday urged the Kremlin to recognize the independence of two separatist Georgian regions, heightening tensions with Georgia where the government said hundreds of Russian soldiers remained at checkcoints.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev did not immediately respond to the unanimous votes in both houses of Russia's parliament, but he has said Moscow
would support whatever choice the people of Abkhazia and South Ossetia make about their future status.
Western countries warned Moscow that recognizing the breakaway regions of Georgia, an allied nation pressing for NATO membership, would prompt international denunciation. The U.S. said Russian recognition "would be unacceptable."
"Russia needs to respect the territorial integrity of Georgia," said State Department spokesman Robert Wood.
But Medvedev signaled the criticism was of little concern to the Kremlin.
NATO needs Russia more than Russia needs NATO, Medvedev said, and it would be "nothing frightening" if the Western alliance were to sever all ties. NATO has suspended operations of the NATO-Russia Council over the Georgia crisis, which has broadened Europe's post-Cold War fault lines.
Endangered whales slow commercial Atlantic ships
WASHINGTON The government on Monday recommended a speed limit for commercial ships along the Atlantic coast, where collisions with the endangered right whale threaten its existence.
About 300-400 of the whales are left in the wild, and they migrate annually between their southeastern Atlantic breeding grounds to feeding areas off the Massachusetts coast, intersecting busy shipping lanes.
The head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Monday the new limit, the first to be instituted on the East Coast for a marine creature, was needed to assure
its survival. The rule would set a speed limit of 11.5 miles per hour (10 knots) within 23 miles (20 nautical miles) of major mid-Atlantic ports and throughout the whale's breeding and feeding areas. The new regulation would cover ships 65 feet or longer and expire in five years if not renewed. Boats from federal agencies would be exempt.
"The bottom line is that this critically endangered species needs our help," said retired Navy Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher, the agency's administrator.
But the latest version of the so-called ship strike regulation differs from a draft released more than a year ago that was delayed in part because of objections from Vice President Dick Cheney's office and White House economists over the accuracy of the science linking ship speed to whale deaths.
"NOAA's decision on these measures is based on the best data and scientific understanding available"; White House environmental adviser James L. Connaughton said Monday.
Infections in womb may trigger premature births
WASHINGTON — Infections may play a bigger role in premature birth than doctors have thought, says a new study that found almost one in seven women in preterm labor harbored bacteria or fungi in their amniotic fluid.
The research used specialized molecular testing to uncover microbes that ordinary methods miss, and thus uncovered more women with simmering infections than previously estimated.
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New York Jets quarterback Brett Favre passes the ball during the second quarter of an NFL preseason football game against the New York Giants Saturday, Aug. 23, 2008, at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.
Fantasy football preview
The good, the bad and the potential to be injured
BY KELLY BRECKUNITCH
kbreckunitch@kansan.com
Let's talk about an issue I know everyone is dying to tackle: Brett Favre. You haven't heard enough about his career over the summer, right? Sarcasm aside, I want to look at Favre's melodrama from another angle. How effective will he be considering the lingering effects of the Madden Curse?
Everyone will now be watching Favre's season very closely, not just because of the three-ring circus he created over the summer, but also to see if the Madden Curse will live on.
Electronic Arts must be kicking itself for choosing Favre as its cover boy. It probably thought it could get past the stigma of the Madden Curse by putting a retired athlete on the cover. Then Favre decides he isn't done playing football after all.
Maybe Favre thought he could avoid the curse by being traded. From a fantasy stand point I am really wary of Favre. He could have a pretty good season, at least better than either one of the Jets' previous quarterback options, but the Madden Curse has proven time and time again that it is bent on wrecking havoc on some of the best players in the NFL. Favre may end up being a more legitimate bench quarterback for your fantasy team this year. Take him in one of the middle rounds of your draft and exercise caution in playing him.
I know you're tired of hearing about Favre, so let's take a look at some other players that switched uniforms and how effective they could be for your fantasy team.
ALGE CRUPLER,
TIGHT END,
TENNESSEE TITANS
Alge Crumpler was one of the top tight ends in the NFL while he played with Michael Vick for Atlanta. Theabsence ofVickcreated harsh times forCrumpler and his
numbers suffered. The addition of deep-threat wide receiver Roddy White also contributed to diminishing Crumpler's role in Atlanta's passing game. Now Crumpler is in Tennessee where the wide receivers are a bit more lackluster when compared to the Falcons, and he is working with another mobile quarterback similar to Vick — Vince Young. Crumpler should see his numbers come up dramatically after a disappointing year last season for Atlanta. You can put off taking a tight end until about the eighth round if you wait for Crumpler and bide your time drafting some of the top running backs and wide receivers.
Projected Stats:
763 receiving yards, 68
receptions, 7 touchdowns
Javon Walker has been injury prone throughout his career in the NFL, that's no secret, but when he is healthy he is one of the best wide receivers in the league. Three years ago, the Packers couldn't risk any more of his injury problems and the Broncos traded for Walker at a fairly low price. Walker has only played two complete seasons, but they have both been stellar with more than 1,000 receiving yards and at least eight touchdowns in each season. If the Raiders get the same success that the Broncos got from Walker in his first season with the team, Walker could be a steal between the seventh and ninth rounds
JAVON WALKER,
WIDE RECEIVER,
OAKLAND RAIDERS
Projected Stats:
1,134 receiving yards, 82 receptions, 9 touchdowns
THOMAS JONES
RUNNING BACK
NEW YORK JETS
Thomas Jones didn't get traded or sign with a new team, but the talent the jets have surrounded him with are high enough to get excited about the possibility of Jones as a viable fantasy threat. The Jets added one of the best fullbacks in the game in Tony Richardson as he's combined with all Pro left guard Alan Faneca and right tackle
Damien Woody. The revamped line and Richardson should help clear a lot of running room for Thomas Jones. And then there's Favre. Don't be afraid to take Jones in the third round because he may be gone by the time you draft in the fourth round.
ISAAC BRUCE,
WIDE RECEIVER,
SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS
Projected Stats: 1,327 rushing yards, 312 carries, 10 touchdowns
Isaac Bruce is getting old and I would normally advise you to avoid old wide receivers like the plague, but Bruce may be in for one last hoorah. He teams up with his old head coach, Mike Martz, who is now the offensive coordinator in San Francisco. Bruce has been overshadowed in the past by Torry Holt in St. Louis, but none of San Francisco's receivers are a major threat to decrease Bruce's playing team.
In fact, his gracefulness and superb route running will be a welcome addition to the San Francisco passing game. It is only a question of how effective the quarterbacks can be in San Francisco that could make or break Bruce's season. Bruce is projected as a tenth round pick. It is doubtful he will go that high, so look to draft him if he is still available in the thirteenth round.
988 receiving yards, 78
receptions, 8 touchdowns
Projected stats:
Jared Allen won't make an individual difference on your fantasy roster, but he could make all the difference on the Minnesota Vikings' defense. The Vikings were the best-run defense in the league last year. Allen will bring pressure to opposing offenses in the Vikings' pass defense. The secondary is serviceable, but the heat Allen can bring to opposing backfields will give wide receivers less time to get away from Minnesota's secondary. If you can wait to take a defense in the eleventh or twelfth rounds, Minnesota should still be there.
MINNESOTA'S DEFENSE
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In this Dec. 1, 2007, file photo, Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford looks to pass against Missouri in the first quarter of the Big 12 Conference championship football game in San Antonio. Bradford led the Sooners to yet another Big 12 title and threw an NCAA freshman record 36 touchdown passes. He also led the county in pass efficiency with a rating of 176.5.
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With a freshman quarterback and a plethora of new players on defense, Oklahoma was supposed to take a dip last season. Not under coach Bob Stoops' watch.
The Sooners suffered a couple of tough losses but still carved out an 11-win season and reached a BCS bowl game for the sixth time in eight years.
Now the national championship talk is everywhere in Norman, Okla., and Stoops' crew is more than capable of bringing home the hardware.
The Sooners will return eight starters from a unit that scored 42.3 points per game, the fifth most in the nation.
OFFENSE
As a freshman, Sam Bradford put up video game-type numbers while directing the Oklahoma offense. He completed 70 percent of his passes for 3,121 yards.
The video game part? Bradford threw 36 touchdowns and only eight interceptions. Before he's done, Bradford will likely re-write all of Jason White's school passing records.
Also returning in the backfield is sophomore running back DeMarco Murray. Last year, Murray was Allen Patrick's backup but averaged more yards per attempt (6.0 to 5.8) and scored more touchdowns (13 to 8).
"DeMarco is an explosive, exciting player," Stoops said. "He's one of those special athletes that everyone sees the great speed and the moves he has, but he's a physical guy, too."
His numbers could have beer even better, but Murray missed the last three games of the year because of a knee injury. Stoops said Murray is at full strength, but if the knee causes a problem there is another back ready to step in.
Junior Chris Brown amassed 611 rushing yards and nine touchdowns in third string duty and filling in for Murray at the end of the season.
No matter who's carrying the ball, you'll do so behind a beastly offensive line. Oklahoma brings back five senior starters who average about 6-foot-6 and 317 pounds. It will be a disappointment if OU doesn't average more than 200 rushing yards per game.
A pair of seniors who helped their young quarterback mature return at wide receiver. Juaquin Iglesias and Manuel Johnson have
as much to do with Bradford's success as he does, the trio should all help each other out this year.
DEFENSE
At least one of Oklahoma's players in each defensive unit could be considered the best player in the Big 12 at his position.
Defensive end Austin English, middle linebacker Ryan Reynolds and strong safety Nic Harris are all elite playmakers and lead the Sooner defensive attack.
Oklahoma's defensive line is its best unit, and English is the best one among them. A speedy pass rusher, English led the league with 9.5 sacks last season.
The linebackers are young (freshman Travis Lewis is a projected starter) and Reynolds has fought injuries throughout his career. However, he's looked strong and sharp in practice, and he said he knew his leadership was needed following Curtis Lofton's graduation.
In the secondary, Harris' violent hitting should help ease the loss of corner back Reggie Smith.
Harris is versatile and could play any position in the secondary, as can free safety Lendy Holmes. Stoops will have to rely on these two experienced players to guide his otherwise youthful secondary.
SEASON OUTLOOK
Stoops was probably searching
for the reset button a few times last season.
Despite all of the talent they put on the field, the Sooners often looked uninterested in what they were doing. The consequence of which was a tough loss at Texas Tech and embarrassing defeats at Colorado and against West Virginia in the Fiesta Bowl.
In any other season, Oklahoma's 27-24 loss in Boulder would have been the upset of the year. Fortunately for Stoops, 2007 was the year of upsets, and his team was able to slip under the radar and back into the national picture.
Oklahoma will be favored in every game it plays and should Missouri advance out of the North, Bradford and crew will have plenty of confidence after winning both contests last year.
Injuries to a few key players or another case of not taking every game seriously could be a problem, but all of the pieces are in place. The only Big 12 team that could get in their way is themselves.
This year the expectations in Norman are Big 12 and national championships or bust.
PREDICTION
BASEBALL
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Nelson Cruz had three hits including a three-run homer in his season debut, and the Texas Rangers beat the Kansas City Royals 9-4 Monday night.
Cruz, promoted from Triple-A Oklahoma earlier in the day, homered in the third with Josh Hamilton and Marlon Byrd aboard. Cruz hit .342 with 37 home runs at Oklahoma and led the minors with a .693 slugging percentage.
Last July 28, Cruz was recalled from the minors and had two
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Rangers beat Royals with 4-run eighth
Milton Bradley, Michael Young and Joaquin Arias also had three hits and the Rangers had 19—one shy of its season high. Every Rangers starter had at least one hit and six had at least two to help Texas win for the second time in eight games.
homers and five RBIs at Kansas City in his first game of the season for Texas.
Bradley drove in three runs, giving him a career-high 68 RBIs. Chris Davis led off the eighth with his 13th run.
The Royals have lost eight of nine and 15 of 18.
Royals right-hander Gil Meche (10-10) gave up a career-high 14 hits, allowing five runs in 6 1-3 innings to lose for the first time since July 2. He had been 4-0 with a 2.17 ERA in seven starts since the All-Star break. Meche is 0-4 against the Rangers since last beating them on April 28, 2005, while with Seattle.
The Royals were within two after seven innings, but the Rangers sent eight men to the plate in a four-run eighth, which included a run-producing single by Josh Hamilton, bringing his RBI total to a major league-leading 116.
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Soccer coach follows Mangino's lead
Easier non-conference schedules lead to success; football fans should step-up manners
BY ASHER FUSCO
afusco@kansan.com
University of Kansas football coach Mark Mangino laid out a simple lesson plan during last year's 12-1 romp of a season: Play weak competition, win games, haul in coaching awards. It seems one of his colleagues was taking notes.
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After struggling through last year's lackluster campaign marred by tough opponents and inconsistent offense, Kansas soccer drew inspiration from Mangino in designing its 2008 slate.
Instead of traveling to Hawaii and facing powerhouses such as Portland and California, Kansas scheduled less prominent programs such as the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Loyola-Chicago. Kansas coach Mark Francis said he hoped his team could add a few victories
to its resume in non-conference play before jumping into Big 12 Conference play.
"We've got to have more wins on the board," Francis said. "Our non-conference schedule this year is still tough, but there's definitely games in there we can win."
Going light on the early-season challenges certainly worked out well for Mangino, who built his team's confidence with blowout victories against Florida International and Southeastern
Louisiana. By the time Todd Reesing and friends reached the Big 12 schedule, they were on a roll, a 6-6 team transformed into a 12-1 gugnault.
Kansas soccer could use a similar turnaround. The Jayhawks went 2-8-1 in the non-conference season, and couldn't find their way to the NCAA Tournament despite a third-placed finish in the Big 12.
In fairness, Francis didn't keep his team's schedule completely vanilla: Kansas defeated No. 20 Purdue 3-0 last Friday. The Boilermakers are rebuilding after a 20-2-3 season, but any victory over a ranked team is a good one for the Jayhawks.
SPEAKING OF CUPCAKES...
The big question heading into week one of the football season isn't whether Kansas will defeat Florida International (1-11 last season, including a 55-3 throttling at Kansas), but whether anyone will stick around until the game's conclusion.
The buzz surrounding Jayhawk
football is at fever pitch. The quarterback, Todd Reesing, is a bigger regional celeb than any of the basketball players — excluding Sherron Collins — and the Athletics Department is planting trees around practice fields in a desperate scramble to keep onlookers at a distance. This isn't the Terry Allen era.
Despite the hubbub, Kansas football fans — mainly students
have become more famous for early exits and embarrassing goalpost shenanigans than for transforming Memorial Stadium into an ear-shattering, earthmoving, lion's door of hostility.
Come Saturday, Reesing will turn in a few memorable plays, junior running back Jocques Crawford will most likely shine in his debut, and Joe Mortensen will lay the wood to a few unlucky Golden Panthers.
The football team will do its part. Will the fans follow suit?
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Travis Metcalf was three days away from a homecoming of sorts. Metcalf, an infielder in the Texas Rangers organization, was recalled from Triple-A on Aug. 1 and stayed with the big league club for three weeks. But Ranger infielder Hank Blaylock came off the disabled list on Friday, and the Rangers optioned Metcalf back to Triple-A. Too bad for Metcalf. The Rangers begin a three-game series with the Kansas City Royals tonight at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., but Metcalf, a Manhattan native, will miss out on the festivities.
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Nadal proves he's No.1
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Rafael Nadal of Spain keeps his eye on the ball during his match with Bjorn Jupon of Germany at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York Monday. Nadal, playing for the first time as the No. 1-ranked tennis player in the world, beat Thau in three straight sets.
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2. Washington at #21 Oregon
3. #24 Alabama at #9 Clemson
4. #18 Tennessee at UCLA
5. Appalachian State at #7 LSU
6. Oklahoma State at Washington State
7. Syracuse at Northwestern
8. Michigan State at California
9. Idaho at Arizona
10. TCU at New Mexico
11. #18 Tennessee at UCLA (with score)
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9-year-old 'too good' to play youth baseball
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Nine-year-old Jericho Scott is a good baseball player — too good, it turns out. The right-hander has a fastball that tops out at about 40 mph. He throws so hard that the Youth Baseball League of New Haven told his coach that the boy could not pitch any more. When Jericho took the mound anyway last week, the opposing team forfeited the game, packed its gear and left, his coach said.
Officials for the three-year-old league, which has eight teams and about 100 players, said they will disband Jericho's team, redistributing its players among other squads, and offered to refund $50 sign-up fees to anyone who asks for it. They say Jericho's coach,
Wilfred Vidro, has resigned.
"He's never hurt any one," Vidro said. "He's on target all the time. How can you punish a kid for being too good?"
But Vidro says he didn't quit and the team refuses to disband. Players and parents held a protest at the league's field on Saturday urging the league to let Jericho pitch.
NEW YORK — Olympic champions Rafael Nadal and Elena Dementieva showed their mettle at the U.S. Open, overcoming early challenges to win Monday in the start of what's expected to be a wide-open tournament.
The controversy bothers Jericho, who says he misses pitching.
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enport and Svetlana Kuznetsova also opened with straight-sets victories. Many of the stars like to hurry through the first round; it takes seven wins for the title, and any rest is welcome.
Playing for the first time as the world No. 1, Nadal swatted his very first shot wide against No. 136 Bjorn Phau. The Wimbledon and French Open champ was two
points from dropping the first set when he surged and, despite needing to bandage a nasty blister, won 7-6 (4), 6-3, 7-6 (4).
Nadal got much more of a test from the German qualifier than many anticipated, and shook his head near the end of a match that lasted nearly 3 hours.
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Sophomore players now lead the pack Aldrich and Reed will be most experienced Jayhawks on team for upcoming season
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Sophomore center Cole Aldrich spotted his roommate, sophomore guard Tyrel Reed, from afar as he strolled down campus Friday afternoon.
Aldrich took out his cell phone and called Reed. The 6-foot-11 Aldrich had a simple question for his buddy — "Do you see me?"
"Of course, I see you." Reed responded.
"You're the tallest guy on campus."
It's becoming easier than ever to notice Aldrich — and not just because of his height. With nine players gone from last year's national championship squad, Aldrich enters this season as one of the layhawks' most experienced players Reed too.
Aside from junior guard Sherron Collins, who coach Bill Self hasn't allowed to practice since the team began Thursday because he's out of shape. Aldrich and Reed are the leading returners in minutes
played. They are veterans on this team.
It doesn't seem right, but it's true.
"It sounds kind of weird if you want to know the truth," Reed said. "I don't consider myself a veteran yet."
Maybe that's because Reed only averaged five minutes per game last season. He didn't play more than two minutes in any of Kansas' six NCAA Tournament games and scored only 47 points all season.
Aldrich played more than his roommate last season, but not by much. He averaged eight minutes per game and scored a total of 112 points.
If Reed and Aldrich are worried about experience, they can begin to ease into their veteran roles when the Jayhawks play three exhibition games in Ottawa, Canada, this weekend.
Aldrich will be the main cog below the basket for Kansas this season because of the departures of Darnell Jackson, Darrell Arthur and Sasha Kaun. Reed will compete for playing time in the guard rotation, which lost five of six players after last season.
They will both have to be leaders and help the seven newcomers to adjust to playing Division-I basketball. Aldrich and Reed both said they were trying to be more vocal in practice. To Aldrich, the challenge comes as no surprise.
"Just being viewed upon as one of the better guys on your team, that's one thing you're expected to do is lead by example, and lead by saying stuff," Aldrich said.
Kansas coach Bill Self doesn't necessarily think it's a bad thing that Kansas has to count on sophomores for veteran leadership. He mentioned that last season the Jayhawks didn't know who their leader was most of the time.
But most of those guys had played two or three years worth of games as Jayhawks. They had started games and played extended minutes. Aldrich and Reed haven't.
"I wouldn't say 'stinks,' but I've certainly coached more experience before," Self said. "None of them have really played much."
That doesn't mean Self doesn't believe in them. Self called Aldrich's first practice "great." Self said, as of now, Aldrich would
unquestionably be the leader of the team.
Aldrich is fine with carrying that distinction. He said he became used to being a leader at Jefferson High School in his hometown of Bloomington, Minn., where he was a three-time selection on the all-state team.
The fact that it was only two years ago doesn't bother Aldrich, or Self for that matter. Aldrich likes the thought that before long he won't only be the tallest guy on campus, but also the most recognizable.
"I'm one of the main guys on our team now," Aldrich said. "It's real exciting to go through the transition."
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Then-freshman center Cole Aldrich defends the basket during the Final Four game against North Carolina April 5 in San Antonio. Aldrich now finds himself to be one of the most experienced Jayhawks on the team.
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Clint Bowen, defensive coordinator, yells instructions as junior safety Darrell Stuckey brings down sophomore wide receiver Tertavian Ingram during open practice Aug. 15 at Memorial Stadium.
His long list of coaching duties have included being a high school coach, an assistant director of football operations and a graduate assistant. He has been the special teams coordinator and has coached the tight ends, running backs and safeties. But now, after 10 seasons of coaching, Clint Bowen enters this one with his greatest job title vet: defensive coordinator.
A football standout at Lawrence High School. Bowen has been a life-long Lawrence resident and a life-long Jayhawk. After waiting for his time and paying his dues, Bowen was chosen this offseason by coach Mark Mangino to replace former coordinator Bill Young as the man to lead one of the nation's top defenses.
"He is dedicated, loyal and he loves the University of Kansas," Mangino said. "When I first came here, I realized this wasn't just a job for him. He has a passion for the football program here at Kansas."
Young left for the same position at the University of Miami soon after the Jayhawks' 24-21 win against Virginia Tech in the Orange Bowl. Mangino began interviewing candidates for the job soon after. Mangino eventually decided to promote Bowen, who had been grooming for the job for the past few seasons as co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach.
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"I thought I had a good chance but he had his decisions to make." Bowen said. "Fortunately, he chose to keep me on. From the beginning, coach always treated me very fair and was honest with me in letting me know where I stood and what the plan was."
As a defensive back, Bowen helped lead Kansas to an 8-4 record, a No. 22 national ranking and a win over Brigham Young University in the 1992 Aloha Bowl. In his
senior season in 1993, he led the Kansas defense in tackles with 114, a figure that remains third on the single season tackle list by a Jayhawk defensive back.
He then spent a year as a defensive graduate assistant at the University of Minnesota under his college coach, Glen Mason, before returning to Kansas to start his climb up the coaching latter. He was promoted to co-defensive coordinator before the 2006 season.
"A lot of the schemes we did last year were from him," said linebacker Joe
Mortensen. "Coach Young was a great coach and we wish him well at Miami, but I was glad we didn't bring anybody else in. I was really glad that coach Bowen got the job. He's a great coach."
Bowen and all of the defensive coaches bring a youthful atmosphere to practice each day.
kids feel comfortable coming and talking to us."
"Our whole defensive staff, we're young." Bowen said. "We try to emphasize our kids that we're in this together and that we're just like them. We're just here to get them to play hard and well, I think the
"He is very intelligent and he's very smart in the way that he deals with the players," Mangino said. "He can be tough on them, but they understand him. He has been a guy that, behind the scenes, has played a major role in coverages and blitz
Onlookers at a Jayhawk practice won't have to look hard to find Bowen. His high-energy style of coaching lets players know when they did both something right or wrong.
packages. He's been a major player on that side of the ball for us so it was just a natural choice."
As Bowen readies the defense for Saturday's season opener against Florida International University, he has the confidence and backing of both the coaching staff and the players.
"He's a defensive genius," Mortensen said. "Don't tell him I said that though."
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As expected, true freshman Daymond Patterson won the job as punt returner. Coach Mark Mangino said that he was impressed with what Patterson had been doing in camp.
"He has the kind of speed that can change a game around." Mangino said after a recent open practice. "He's still learning. He's picking up things. He's putting himself in position where he's gonna play."
The other intriguing position that doesn't have a starter is at placekicker, Stephen Hoge left the program last week, and Jacob Branstetter may be ineligible, leaving Grady Fowler as the only listed kicker on the Jayhawks' roster. On the depth chart, Fowler and starting punter Alonso Rojas are tied at the top for the kicker position.
The Kansas football team released an updated depth chart on Monday that met expectations, but also had a few surprises.
"We will be fine at that position," Mangino said on Friday. "I'm not concerned at all. In fact, I think we've improved ourselves in the last few days."
In a somewhat surprising revelation, junior Jake Sharp beat out junior-college transfer Jocques Crawford for the starting running back spot. Both running backs will see significant time, so the move shouldn't be too alarming for Crawford fans.
One of the surprising names not listed on the top of the depth chart was sophomore Jamal Greene, who was listed on the preseason depth chart at first-team defensive tackle and had been practicing with the top unit during most of camp. Richard Johnson Jr. was listed on the preseason depth chart as the backup to Caleb Blakesley, but beat out Greene for the second starting defensive tackle spot. Johnson, Blakesley and end Russell Brorsen make up three of the four starting defensive line spots. Jeff Wheeler and John Larson are still battling for the other defensive end spot.
Another position battle was at tight end, where sophomore Bradley Dedeaux took the top spot over freshman AI Steward.
Twenty-four underclassmen appear on the new two-deep, including seven freshmen or redshirt freshmen.
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Wide Receiver 88 — DEXTON FIELDS 28 — Daymund Patterson 81 — JOHNATHAN WILSON 85 — Roderick Harris, Jr.
Left Guard 66 — ADRIAN MAYES 59 — Sal Capra
Center 50 — RYAN ANTRELL 59 — Sal Capra
Right Tackle 77 — JEREMIAH HATCH 70 — Matt Darton
Quarterback 5 — TODO REESING 10 — Kerry Heier Tailback 1 — JAKE SHARP 3 — Jocques Crawford Fullback 31 — STEVEN FOSTER
Right Guard 79 — CREET HARTLEY 68 — Carl Wilson
Wide Receiver 10 — KERRY MEIER 4 — Gary Green 80 — DEZMON BRISCOE 2 — Raymond Brown
Left Tackle 74 — JEFF SPIKES 63 — Ian Wolto
Strong Safety 25 — DARBELL STUCKEY 7 — Patrick Rebby First Safety 46 — JUSTIN TMONTON 26 — Phillip Strozier
Right Cornerback 16 — CHRIS HARRIS 35 — Corrigan Powell
Middle Linebacker 8 — JOE MORTENSEN 45 — Justin Springer
Weak Side Linebacker 40 — MIKE RIVERA 51 — Dakota Lewis
Left Defensive End 81 — RUSSELL BROARSEN 91 — Jake Laptad
Left Defensive Tackle 94 — CALEB BLAKESLEY 99 — Jamal Greene
Right Defensive Tackle 97 — RICHARD JOHNSON 91 — Darius Parish
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Mike Phelps of Jayhawk Guttering winds up to throw a runner out at first base. His team finished first in the Kaw Valley Kickball League tournament. The tournament featured 28 teams from the Lawrence area.
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Students, residents end summer season with championship game highlighted by comeback
BY ANDY GREENHAW
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Beer, base-running and big balls — that's what students saw Sunday night if they attended the Kaw Valley Kickball Championship at Hobbs Field, where Jayhawk Guttering made a ninth-inning comeback to defeat Sun Creations 13-11.
Kaw Valley Kickball is an underground, summer kickball league made up of KU students and Lawrence locals. Teams meet every Sunday during the summer at fields all over Lawrence to drink beer and play kick ball. Sunday night marked the end of the summer playoffs, which began Aug. 17.
Sunday's championship game went back and forth all night, beginning with Jayhawk Guttering taking an early 7-2 lead. Sun Creations tied the game at 7-7 in the bottom of the sixth. They later kicked
in four more runs, bringing the score to 11-7 by the end of the eighth inning. Down four runs with two outs, Jayhawk Guttering made a last-inning comeback to take the lead as they scored six runs in less than six minutes with an inside-the-park homerun that put them in the lead. Jayhawk Guttering prevented Sun Creations from scoring in the bottom of the ninth, sealing its victory.
Jayhawk Guttering stormed the field throwing up high fives and pouring beers on one another moments after the third out was called. Cort Rolfingsmeier, who kicked the inside-the-park home run, was named the MVP for Jayhawk Guttering.
"It feels great. I want to thank the Lord, my mom and say hi to her — hell yeah," he shouted as he hugged his mom after chugging beer from the championship trophy.
Paul Peach, a KU alumnus, said he'd almost lost hope as his team entered the ninth inning, down four runs with two outs.
"I thought we were cooked, to be honest with you," Peach said. "Then we came back and it all happened so fast; I thought we were cooked."
The game kicked off after the third-base
umpire, dressed in a Winnie the Pooh costume, kicked a pregame line drive into the outfield and circled the bases while chugging a Fabst Blue Ribbon beer in front of hundreds of cheering fans. Pooh, a man in a burger costume and a man in a chicken costume circled the bases again during the
seventh-inning stretch as the crowd sang "Take Me Out to the Ball Game."
What might seem like ridiculousness to an outsider is just another game to the regulars of the sport, which is infa-
sides — just like baseball.
The pitcher rolls a big, rubber ball to the kicker, who tries to put the ball in play. Once the ball is in play, the kicker runs around the bases and tries to score at home plate. The defense makes outs by either catching a ball that's been kicked, throwing a runner out at a base or simply throwing the ball at a runner who's not on base. Three outs and the teams switch
mous for its crazy costumes, wide-scale binge drinking and loyal fans. The game is played similarly to how students might have played it in their fourth-grade physical education classes — if those classes were made up of people in their 20s who smoked cigarettes and drank beer.
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"Sometimes it's about going out and trying to win, and sometimes it's about just getting drunk and getting injured," McCoy said. He said a lot of the injuries included pulled hummus strings, bro
ken fingers, broken toes and dislocated shoulders from diving for balls.
"When you get a lot of people who are out of shape and smoke a lot and try to play kickball, there tends to be a lot of injuries," he said after his team, Rangelife Records, lost in the second round on Sunday, Aug. 17.
Abby Dotson, fifth-year graduate student who played for Astrokitty, said she injured herself one or multiple times every game. She said her injuries usually included scrapes and cuts from sliding, which forced her to get a tetanus shot last
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Brit Nieder of Jayhawk Guttering, far left, makes an attempt to kick a bump pitch at the plate. Mike Harder, left, gets intense on the sidelines as his team falls behind midway through the game. Jayhawk Guttering made a last-inning comeback, scoring six runs in less than six minutes.
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At the direction of the Office of the Provost, all University departments have adopted comprehensive policies in the past year dealing with the disposal of paper documents and electronic data that contain sensitive personal information about students, including names, grades and student identification numbers.
The new policies, which includes a revised privacy policy and a new e-data disposal policy, were in part a response to an incident in September 2007, when documents containing sensitive student data, were discovered behind Snow Hall. They were then anonymously delivered to three newspapers, including The University Daily Kansan. The documents, which belonged to the department of mathematics, had not been properly disposed of or shredded.
"In that particular instance, they really just didn't have good office procedures on what to do once you're removing data from files," said Jane Rosenthal, University Privacy Officer.
Gloria Prothe, an administrative professional in the mathematics department who was implicated in an unsigned letter that accompanied the documents sent to the Kansan, disagreed with that assessment.
"We always had a policy, it just wasn't written down. People were sent e-mails and told verbally, and we did have a shredding machine that people were supposed to shred documents into," Prothe said. "Now we have a several-pages-long departmental policy on record retention and disposal of private information."
"It was a failure to have a good, everyday practice in place," she said.
Subsequent to an investigation by the University into the matter of
the documents last October, a written disciplinary form was attached to her employee file, and Prothe was placed on one-year probation.
Like many departments, the department of mathematics has ceased its use of shredding machines in favor of using Iron Mountain, the sole vendor approved for the disposal of sensitive documents.
According to Jack Martin, deputy director of University Relations, 57 departments at the University contracted with Iron Mountain in fiscal year 2008, with expenditures for the service totaling almost $26,000. The number of departments using the service more than doubled since the previous fiscal year, when only 26 departments participated.
Sensitive documents are collected in secure bins placed throughout academic departments. Both the number of bins and their size are tailored to the needs of the department. Though the mathematics department, which offers more than 30 separate courses, uses 14 bins, the department's neighbor on the fourth floor of Snow Hall, the department of economics, uses only three.
Michelle Huslig-Lawrence, an administrative associate with the department of economics, said that use of a contractor was a practical alternative to manual shredding. Huslig-Lawrence it took three days alone to dispose of the sensitive paper waste produced by Economics 104 in one semester.
"It's a lot of man-hours for me to stand there and shred things," Huslig-Lawrence said. "This is, time-wise, easier for us, and it's about the same amount of money wed be spending shredding the stuff ourselves anyways, because wed have to buy supplies and the oil, and everything else to keep our stuff working properly."
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ODD NEWS Priest decides against idea for beauty pageant
ROME — An Italian priest backtracked from his idea to organize an online beauty pageant for nuns, saying Tuesday he had been misunderstood and incurred the protests of the faithful and local religious authorities.
The Rev. Antonio Rungi had thought of the beauty contest to give nuns more visibility within the Catholic Church and to fight the stereotype that they are all old and dour. The "Miss Sister 2008" contest was supposed to start in September on a blog run by the priest, who is a theologian and schoolteacher from the Naples area.
But he changed his mind after seeing reports that suggested nuns would be metaphorically put on a catwalk. He said what he had in mind was not just external beauty but what he called "overall beauty."
"Instead, they made it look like it was a catwalk a la Miss Italy," he said. "I have been misunderstood."
vocations, one where everybody could bring their own experiences," Rungi said by telephone from his town of Mondragone, about 35 miles north of Naples." I wanted to create a showcase for the pastoral experience of nuns."
The reverend said attacks against him, phone calls and e-mails prompted him to cancel the plan, as well as reported unease of his religious superiors over the idea.
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FEDERAL WAY, Wash. — A judge has decided that a suburban Seattle woman who registered her Australian shepherd-terrier mix to vote has spent enough time in the legal doghouse.
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plea agreement last year. A King County judge dismissed the charge Monday after Balogh showed that she had paid $240 in court costs and completed community service.
Balogh says she registered her dog Duncan to protest a loophole in the law that she says makes voter registration so easy a non-existent person could be added to the voter rolls.
She says she made no secret of her action after the fact, telling a number of elected officials she had registered her dog.
De QUEEN, Ark. — Firefighters were right on top of this blaze.
And she says Duncan never voted.
Firefighters surprised by fire at their station
The De Queen fire station is closed on weekends, so when a call is received the firefighters go to the station to get their gear before heading out.
"One of the firemen called me and said the place was full of smoke. I thought he was joshing me. He said 'We've got a fire at the fire station,'" De Queen Fire Marshal Dennis Pruitt said.
But when they gathered at
the station Saturday to answer a call about a burning utility pole, they discovered they had another problem on their hands.
Firefighters called a dispatcher to get the Southwestern Electric Power Co. to disconnect the station's electrical service.
"We told them the fire department has a fire. SWEPCO said 'Yeah, the fire department has a fire.' The dispatcher told them, 'No it's the fire station on fire!' Pruitt said.
Authorities say the blaze was started by lightning.
Much of the station's equipment was saved by surge protectors. Pruitt said.
"We fuss and fuss at people to get surge protectors and they do work," Pruitt said.
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On Aug. 26, the KU Public Safety Office reported that a suspect was arrested for attempting to manufacture a controlled substance in a laboratory in Malott Hall.
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The workshop "Introduction to Personal Computing with Mac OS X" will begin at 9:30 a.m. in the Media Lab in Budig Hall.
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CATAWBA, Wis. — A 1991 Chevrolet Silverado that has traveled more than 1 million miles is still on the market, its owner says, though it failed to fetch the premium price that he had hoped for.
Frank Oresnik said he failed to sell the 1991 truck during a 10-day auction on eBay that ended Sunday. He had placed a minimum bid of $30,000, and said all he got was a couple of feelers.
But he's not giving up.
The 58-year-old Oresnik said he is going to put the truck back on eBay later this week with no minimum bid.
Oresnik bought the truck 12 years ago when it had 41,000 miles. He used the vehicle to deliver seafood in three states, putting on about 85,000 miles a year.
When the odometer hit a million miles earlier this year on a road near Fond du Lac, Wis., the feat brought him national attention.
Throughout the years, the truck has had four radiators, three gas tanks and six water pumps, but the engine is still original. He practiced such car-friendly techniques as always letting the engine warm up first, even in summer, according to the Web site www. roadsbridges.com.
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Plus/minus grading could affect academic standing
BY HALEY JONES
hjones@kansan.com
A new plus/minus grading scale will change the way professors grade the 17,000 students enrolled in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences this fall.
The College Academic Council approved the new grading system last year to describe intermediate levels of performance between letter grades.
Professors can choose whether or not they use the new system, which changes grades so that a C-falls below the minimum requirement for maintaining good academic standing.
Where there were once only straight A's, B's and C's, there are now potential pluses and minuses for each letter grade, with the exception of A+. A grade with a plus or minus will be calculated as 0.3 grade point units above or below the letter grade.
In the new system, a student who receives an 81 percent would get a $B_{2}$, worth 2.7 grade points, and a
student who receives an 89 percent would get a $ \mathrm{B} + _ {x} $ worth 3.3 grade points. With the former grading scale, both students would have received a B, worth three grade points.
Almost half of the students at the University earn their bachelor's degrees from one of the 53 departments and programs in the college.
Kim McNeley, assistant dean of Student Academic Services in the college, said a 2.0 grade point average was still required to maintain good academic standing in the college. She said the policy was most common at the undergraduate level.
The college has programs in history, literature, art history, foreign language, anthropology, political science, chemistry, biology and mathematics, among others.
In the previous system, any grade equal to or above 2.0 and below 3.0 was considered a C. Now, a grade of C- is weighted at 1.67, which is considered a failing grade. A cumulative GPA below 2.0 is grounds for academic probation in the college and endangers any
federal financial aid a student may be receiving or eligibility requirements for campus organizations.
She said she hoped students would be more motivated because the policy enabled students to improve their grades from a hypothetical B- to a B.
The College is the last of the 14 academic divisions at the University to adopt the plus/minus scale. The School of Law has not made the change.
Chris Crandall, professor of psychology and Chair of the Committee of Undergraduate Studies and Advising that approved the policy, said the new system improved grading accuracy and unified the college's grading with the rest of the University.
Crandall said the policy was expected to have a GPA-neutral effect because as many students would earn plus grades as would earn minus grades.
Crandall said he tested the new grading system using his 500-student psychology class as a model. He said the overall course GPA was 0.01 grade points lower than
the overall GPA using the previous system.
Crandall said the only students likely to be harmed were those who received a B- grade in most of their courses.
"For every one of those there will be students who always get B+." Crandall said. "The consequences are people will get the grades they deserve, and that can only be a good thing."
Brenna Daldorph, Lawrence junior, said she had experienced both grading systems because she majored in both journalism and French with a minor in art history.
Daldorph said although she thought the policy would promote better work in classes and hold students more accountable, it made her feel less secure about her grades.
"I'll have to say, 'What type of A is it?' since it's not just a straight A," Daldorph said.
McNeley said the council did
She also said she was concerned students might contest their grades more often with the more specific grading scale
plus/minus (+/-) grading scale
plus/minus (+/-) grading scale Grade Point numeric value
A : 93 percent and above A : 4.0
A- : 90-92 percent A- : 3.7
B+: 87-89 percent B+: 3.3
B: 84-86 percent B: 3.0
B-: 81-83 percent B-: 2.7
C+: 78-80 percent C+: 2.3
C: 75-77 percent C: 2.0
C-: 72-74 percent C-: 1.7
D+: 69-71 percent D+: 1.3
D: 66-68 percent D: 1.0
D-: 63-65 percent F: 0.0
F: less than 63 percent
not approve the college's request to implement an "A+" in the grading scale because students were concerned that an A+ might diminish the value of a straight A on their transcripts. An A- is worth fewer grade points on the new scale, and the A letter grade on a transcript is easier to earn with the new system.
Crandall said the dean e-mailed all college faculty telling them to inform their students of which system they would use.
On the first day of class, several professors in the college had not
yet determined which system they would use.
Crandall said the University had no way of monitoring which professors in the College adopted the new system, but he hoped everybody would use it.
Daldorph said that even though it was hard for her to make a judgment on whether the policy was good or bad, it would make her work harder in classes.
CAMPUS
— Edited by Brenna Hawley
Task force to assess teacher evaluation methods
BY JESSE TRIMBLE
jtrimble@kansan.com
The University of Kansas plans to restructure its methods of evaluating its faculty members' teaching styles.
University Senate created a task force at the request of the Kansas Board of Regents this past spring. The task force was supposed to present findings by this fall, but Dan Bernstein, director of the Center for Teaching Excellence and chair of the task force, said the study should be completed by December.
In the past, the University selected random seniors and interviewed them about their college
experience with faculty members. This year, the University took the year off to research new ways to evaluate the quality of teaching on campus and determine which method of evaluation is the most effective.
"This year was a time to pause and reflect," Bernstein said. "Presumably, our decision will be influenced by what we learn over the course of this reflection period."
The task force has developed two possible methods: evaluating faculty on general education criteria based on students' sample work and evaluating faculty based on student portfolios kept during each student's time at the
University.
Bernstein said the latter option would allow students to reflect on their work and would also benefit the professors.
"The idea is not to create extra work for the student," Bernstein said. "There is no extra work in having a term paper they've written read by someone else to effectively
to graduate, every senior would be required to take a kind of standardized test, but Bernstein said the standardized testing was not being considered.
"The idea is not to create extra work for the student."
evaluate the professor."
evaluate the profession.
Last year many students were
under the impression that in order
DAN BERNSTEIN Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence
Rick Levy, professor of law and former Faculty Senate president, said the University was exploring every option for evaluating faculty.
ing isn't to determine if students are deserving of degrees — it's to determine teaching abilities of the
"The purpose of test-
However, if a new testing system was implemented, motivation would be a key issue to address for students. Tiffany Craner, Paola senior, said she would be more motivated to keep a portfolio of her work if money were involved.
teachers," Levy said. "It's not about doubting the students. Students are in the best position to assess faculty teaching."
"I wouldn't want to keep all of my work longer than I'd have to," Craner said.
Bernstein said that the University interviewed seniors to judge their progress through college during the past 20 years. Three faculty members interviewed 100 randomly selected seniors for an
hour, asking questions about how and what they learned in college. Students who participated in the interviews received $50 and the faculty members were given a free meal at the Kansas Union.
Levy said the purpose of the process was separate from the individual evaluation forms students fill out at the end of semester-long classes. He said that as a professor, he never received suggestions for ways to improve himself and his teaching. The new assessment would allow teachers to evaluate their own teaching styles and adjust the ways they teach their classes.
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Are you watching rhythmic gymnastics?
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Clooney, Pitt to promote their charity in Venice
FUNDRAISING
VENICE, Italy — George Clooney and Brad Pitt, whose schedule now includes the care of newborn twins, were expected to make two appearances at the Venice Film Festival this week.
The Hollywood stars were slated to appear Tuesday night at a fundraising event for their charity, Not On Our Watch. Then they were to return to the red carpet today when the Coen brothers film "Burn After Reading" opens the 65th edition of the festival, which runs through Sept. 6.
Not On Our Watch has raised more than $7 million to help victims in the Darfur region of Sudan and after the cyclone in Myanmar, according to executive director Alex Wagner.
The charity, which was launched last year by the stars and some of their "Ocean's Thirteen" colleagues, uses their star appeal to bring attention to human rights abuses, but it isn't so easy to get even two of the founders together because of filming and family demands, Wagner said.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
... so there was a brainstorming session," she said.
"Scheduling is very difficult. Two of them happened to be in Venice at the same time because of the 'Burn After Reading' premiere
Clooney will discuss the issues and where the charity puts its money at the fundraising dinner on Venice's Giudecca island, which will be attended by some 200 industry insiders and Italian VIPs, Wagner said.
Among the group's donations was a $500,000 grant in March to keep helicopters and airplanes flying aid into Darfur — topping off a $1 million donation a year earlier for the same program.
Pitt's partner, Angelina
Jolie, gave birth last month to
twins, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline Jole-Pitt. The couple have four older children: Maddox, Pax: 4, Zahara: 3; and Silhob: 2.
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 10
You're an excellent listener,
especially now. Do that, and
you'll be entrusted with a
loved one's secret. You can
help, and even heal, simply by
being there.
To get the advantage, check the day's rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
Today is a 5 Shop carefully so you can get something for everybody. It might not be much, but if it's delicious, it'll be appreciated. Perhaps a little something in chocolate chip?
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 5
You're making progress,
though it may seem way too
slow. Funny thing is, you cheer
right up when friends come by.
Schedule fun for Friday.
HOROSCOPE
CANCER (June 22-July 22)
Today is an 8
Make plans for a trip or a business expansion. Start by listing all the problems you'll have to overcome. Then, get going.
You're hot.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is a 6
Do you really know what you have, and how much it's worth? You may think you do, but think again. Better get another appraisal before you sell.
You're pretty good with words, when you're in the mood. But avoid going into a rant now, if you possibly can You're liable to trip over your tongue and hurt yourself.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 27)
Today is a 9
Take a leadership position in your community. You're the one with the management skills. And you're well organized. They need you.
Go ahead and delegate, while continuing to pay attention. Let the others get some experience, but be there if anything goes wrong. You're naturally very good at this. It'll be fun.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Todav is a 9
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.18)
Today is a 5
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 5
It's a good idea to keep your opinions to yourself. You're not liable to change the other person's mind, or vice versa.
Practice your self-discipline; it will serve you well.
Today is a 5
Be careful, thorough and even a little bit secretive. You're gathering information, not distributing, remember? Keep your own counsel. Nobody else needs to know.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is a 5
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is an 8
You're incredibly lucky now,
if you don't lend money to
friends. You've probably
already stopped doing that
many years ago. If not, stop
doing it now.
Today is a 9 Continue sailing smoothly toward your destination. You're making great progress effortlessly and not all by yourself. Make sure the others know how much you appreciate their assistance.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 9
ACROSS
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4 Bake-sale org.
7 Give the cold shoulder
8 Radium discoverer
10 Bikini, e.g.
11 "Hair-spray" actress Bynes
13 Queen's attendant
16 Caustic solution
17 Search
18 Gratuity
27 Interjection in "Cathy" comics
28 Oyster's prize
30 Man-handle
33 1967 Audrey Hepburn film
36 Address bitingly
37 Cousins' moms
38 "The final frontier"
39 The Bee —
40 Prepared
41 Right angle
Solution time: 21 mins.
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P E B B L E S A W A S H
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R O W M A T
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U N B E O A K S T O A
A G E S P R Y T E S T
19 "See ya"
20 Opposed to
21 Rodents of South America
22 Dr. Robert, with an eponymous diet
23 Darjeelin dress
24 Loot, as the Vikings did
25 Legislation
26 Photo finish?
28 Erstwhile larvae
29 Establist as 25-Down
30 Game-show group
31 Crafts' partners
32 Yr. divisions
34 Spigots
35 One-on-Prima
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ENTERTAINMENT Dr. Dre's son found dead in family's Calif. home
LOS ANGELES — Dr. Dre's 20-year-old son has died, the rapper's publicist said Tuesday.
"Dr. Dre is mourning the loss of his son Andre Young Jr." publicist Lori Earl said in a statement.
Young Jr., who was named after his father, was found dead Saturday by his mother at their home in suburban Woodland Hills, county coroner's Lt. John Kades said.
An autopsy was performed Monday, but the cause of death wasn't likely to be determined for eight weeks while toxicology tests are done, Kades said.
Haley Joel Osment to star in new Broadway musical
NEW YORK — David Mamet's "American Buffalo," a robbery tale set in a Chicago junk shop, has found its third partner in crime — Haley Joel Osment, who will be making his Broadway debut in the production.
The 20-year-old Osment, who was an Academy Award nominee for "The Sixth Sense," joins John Leguizamo and Cedric the Entertainer in the revival that opens Nov. 17 at the Belasco Theatre. Preview performances begin Oct. 31."American Buffalo" will be directed by Robert Falls of Chicago's Goodman Theatre.
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GUINNESS
University should rethink approach to binge drinking
The college-students can-go-to-war but-cant-drink argument has become trite over the years, but one group is breathing life back into the age-old argument.
The group, called Amethyst Initiative, has 128 signatures from university presidents and chancellors and argues that it's time for lawmakers to reconsider the drinking age.
It is disappointing, however, that Chancellor Robert Hemenway and the University have decided to abstain from the initiative.
There is no need to argue that the alcohol culture among America's youth is unhealthy. Both Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the lobbying group that pushed for the higher drinking age in 1984, and Amethyst Initiative are in agreement about that. However, they disagree as to how to improve the situation.
MADD has become a "neo-prohibitionist group." And those words are Candy Lightner's, the group's founder. MADD refuses to have an open dialogue, and its zero-tolerance approach demonizes alcohol, effectively transforming it into a forbidden fruit.
OUR VIEW
A lack of discussion does not teach America's youth a healthy approach to alcohol. When young
adults finally come in contact with it, the results are devastating.
When irresponsible drinking among
students causes 1,700 deaths each year, something isn't working. When students all over the country buy fake IDs without even a twinge of ethical remorse, something is wrong.
Simply reducing the drinking age is not enough to change our destructive alcohol culture, but it is one of the steps necessary. The current misguided policy quashes new ideas — whether they are by schools, the government or families — that make sure young people deal responsibly with alcohol. A new approach is imperative.
These university presidents have acknowledged that need, and they should be commended for proposing a dialogue to reevaluate failed efforts.
It is a shame that our chancellor has decided not to be a part of that conversation.
Patrick De Oliveira for the editorial board
editorials around the nation
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Whistleblowers
deserve protection
A federal shield law for journalists has become essential in this era of trolling prosecutors and civil lawyers looking for shortcuts to make their cases.
Despite passing by a large margin in the House, the Free Flow of Information Act failed to get enough support to be debated on the Senate floor late last month.
The Society of Professional Journalists reported that the measure was held hostage by senators who were trying to force amendments onto an energy bill.
When senators return, they should pass the bill on its merits.
The shield law would give journalists the qualified right to protect confidential sources without the threat of going to jail except in certain situations
The exceptions include cases where national security is at stake. Journalists could be forced to testify when a court is convinced that all non-media sources are exhausted and the testimony is essential to the investigation or case, the SPJ noted.
Without the protection, whistleblowers would be far more reluctant to step forward, and Americans would learn less about how their government is actually functioning.
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CARA MCCONNELL
Vitamin Water sucks.
Don't get me wrong: There's a lot to love about Vitamin Water. It tastes relatively good, especially for something termed "water", which really should not taste like anything at all. It is brightly colored, which allows it be elevated to the level of fashion accessory.
On the downside, it exemplifies everything wrong with food in America.
We want it to be high in vitamins, protein, calcium or whatever nutrient is currently in vogue. We want it to be low in calories, even lower in fat, and we don't care what we have to substitute to get it there. And we want it to come with microwave instructions.
Now Americans want two things from what they eat: nutrition and convenience.
Convenience may work in some instances, but it's clearly not cutting it in the realm of food. Paying faux-attention to nutrition in a gullible "if it says it's fortified with vitamin X it must be good!" sort of way is clearly not working in a nation populated with weight obsessed, vitamin-popping fad-environmentalists with health problems too numerous to list.
Which is what makes Vitamin Water so damn great. It takes two health buzz words that any person who knows a single thing about health (and only a single thing about health) cannot argue with, puts them together, and suddenly you have a product that is seemingly incredibly beneficial and guilt free. And convenient!
Vitamin Water is the icon of blind religious fanaticism for easy nutrition. Thou shalt not take into consideration how foods interact with each other when digested. Thou shalt ignore the empty calories on the backs of which these vitamins ride. Thou shall replace real food with things that are colorful and come in packages with witty sales pitches on the label.
When I go to the grocery store.
ELECTROLYTES
AKA: Calcium and potassium
Vitamin? No, but getting closer.
vitamin water beverage
nutrient enriched
20 FLOZ • 591 mL
WHAT'S INSIDE?
I don't need my food to make me laugh. I guess that's why I'm not the target demographic for "Grapples," grape juice-infused apples.
Food has gotten so messed up it's no wonder we need health gurus to point us the way through the processed, over-sweetened, hydrogenated, whole grain, fortified, dyed, infused wasteland that is every grocery store across the country.
Glaceau Multi-V Vitamin Water Ingredients
Back in the day, you could read ingredients and understand what everything was. But then again, back in the day we cooked with lard. Ironically, though, we weren't lard-asses. Makes you wonder what
NATURAL FLAVOR
AKA: Stuff that makes something else taste good Vitamin? No, primary function is flavoring rather than nutritional, according to the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations
CRYSTALLINE FRUCTOSE
AKA: Purified sugar
Vitamin? Only if potato chips go in the "vegetable" part of the food pyramid.
CITRIC ACID
AKA: Flavoring
Vitamin? No, but it’s
found in some fruits.
VAPOR DISTILLED WATER
AKA: Good ol' H2O
Vitamin? No, but we need the second part of the Vitamin Water equation.
ASOCBIC ACID
AKA: Vitamin C
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Vitamin? Yes, but this is typically found in fish oil and dairy products.
The goal of this series is to make sense of what should be a nononsense subject: food and eating. If all goes well, as you bite into your next value meal, you'll have a slight twinge of fear that you're destroying all that used to be good and holy and holy all, simple.
McConnell is a Dallas junior in English.
we're doing wrong.
Americans should pay actual attention to what they're ingesting, which is what this column is for: reiterating food lessons.
The dirt on the turf: keeping up with KU Athletics
The Cynical Optimist
NICK MANGIARACINA
Welcome to the wide world of college sports. I'm Nick Mangiaracina, your host. Joining me tonight is Bob Bobbins.
"Hello Lawrence, we have got a great show for you tonight."
"Yeah, let's start with coach Mark Mangino. This guy last season lead the team to a 12-1 record overall, capping its phenomenal season with an Orange Bowl victory against Virginia Tech. Talk about a powerhouse coach — his attitude has been 'take no prisoners,' and they've done just that."
There's so much to talk about with this Kansas football program.
Well, where to start, Bob?
Not only that, Bob, but Mangino's wife is simply the greatest woman in the world. I can't say enough about what a great person she is. She's just so great.
"Yeah, truly a wonderful woman. Let's talk about the fans, though. Without the support of the fans, would the layhaws have flown as high as they did last year?"
"Yeah, I couldn't agree with you more. Since we're talking about the fans, let's talk for a minute about Associate Athletics Director Jim Marchiony, a guy who's been under fire from fans recently."
their service to this world. They are great people.
No doubt they wouldn't have. I've been all over the country, and I can honestly say that these are the best fans in the nation, not only in their support for the team, but in
I hate to say this, but Marchiony is not a fan favorite and has been playing like a rookie lately. Marchiony is a veteran in the field of making nothing out of something, but lately he's been in a slump. He's getting old and just can't keep up with the younger guys anymore. There's been talk that he should retire, though some are worried he'd just come back. Like Brett Favre, he just loves the game too much. He just can't give up the plattitudes, clichees and disregard for the will of students.
"I don't think it's a slump. This guy's been on the decline for a while. First there was the guarantee that the new practice fields wouldn't cost any parking spaces on campus, and then there was his gleeful response after local business owner Larry Sinks was fined $127,000 for using the color blue and the word "hawk" on his sports T-shirts. In both cases the fans have booed Marchiony and booed him loudly."
As for the booing, maybe he thought they were saying. "Woo" You know, the two are pretty close. Regardless, Marchiony will continue not to care what the fans
have to say as long as he can say that he cares about what the fans have to say. To his credit, he definitely cares about what the rich ones have to say. This year, for the first time ever, for only $2,500 fans can watch the game from near the sideline while sitting in a red leather recliner. Talk about lifestyles of the rich and famous!
"Yeah, he may be no Robin Leach, but the fans view him as at least a leach. Still though, the fans are not happy about losing 222 parking spaces to a practice field that won't be used."
Well, not exactly. For $90,000, trees are going to be planted around the perimeter since the new field is visible to the public. Though Marchiony said the team knew this before construction began, he said, "It's not keeping anybody awake at night." Hey, it's a lot cheaper than the $30 million the new athletic complex cost to build. At least they won't have trouble with any dads attempting to watch their sons practice anymore.
"Hey, he could've been a spy from Mizzou who dressed like the player's father."
"It looks like another interesting year of KU football."
And that's all the time we have for today. Enjoy the rest of the Olympics reruns.
Haha. Good one there.
Mangiaracina is a Lenexa senior in journalism.
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--late.
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I have to wonder why the non-fraternity are so self-conscious and can't stand the fact that fraternity people are so much better than them.
Sorry for all of you who have to take COMS 130. I took debate in high school.
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When did KU replace toilet paper with paper towels? My butt hurts.
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I live in a house with 10 other guys. How long before we go insane?
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I haven't been on a bus this week that has been less than 10 minutes late. The worst was one that was 25 minutes
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Buses are considered to be "on time" if they get to the stop within 5 minutes of the timed time.
Hey, lonely people on campus, don't be afraid to open up and socialize.
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WOMEN OF DISTINCTION
Calendar honors KU student, alumni leaders
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2008 edition of the poster-style calendar is available to students at Kansas Union
BY JOE PREINER
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The new KU Women of Distinction poster-style calendar for the 2008-09 year is now available.
The calendar acknowledges University of Kansas women, students and faculty for their accomplishments at the University and in the community.
The Women of Distinction program, which is sponsored by the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center, is in its sixth year of calendar production. The program was initially launched in 2003 to
combat the stereotypes reflected in the Women of KU Swimsuit calendar.
The poster portion of the academic calendar is filled with photos and short profiles of this year's selected women.
Aly Rodee, Wichita senior, is among the women featured in the
calendar. The Center selected Rodee because of her involvement in campus politics.
She was the communications director for Student Senate and was active in campaigning during Student Senate elections
and hopefully our recognition will inspire others to lead around campus."
"Being a part of this project is bigger than me. It shows that we have many distinguished women around campus."
Rodee said being named a woman of distinction was humbling.
Hannah Love, 2008 KU graduate and former student body president, is also featured in the calendar. She said the calendar was a great way for the University to honor its outstanding women. She
"Being a part of this project is bigger than me," Rodee said. "It shows that we have many distinguished women around campus,
ALY RODEE Wichita senior
said that few awards were available for women and that she was excited to be part of the project.
site for anyone to submit nominations. After the Center gathered the nominations, a board reviewed the candidates and made its selections.
The calendars are available at the bookstore in the Kansas Union for students and the general public. The calendars are free of charge, but
Forms were available on the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center Web
the Center welcomes donations.
Kathy Rose-Mockry, program director for the Center, said the calendar was a wonderful way to illuminate the importance of the women on campus.
Rodee said she hoped the calendar would inspire other student leaders on campus to look for opportunities for success and to try to improve life both on and off campus.
If she had to give advice to women, Rodee said she would tell them to "always lead selflessly and understand why you are doing what it is you are striving for"
"If you lose sight of your goals as a leader, then you will probably lose sight of what it is that is important to you," she said. "Always remember your goals and lead with integrity."
Chancellor Robert Hemenway will be present Thursday at a reception for the Women of Distinction in the Malott Room in the Kansas Union. The reception begins at 4 p.m.
POLITICS
- Edited by Lauren Keith
Officials at DNC debate improving broadband coverage
BY FRANCESCA CHAMBERS
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KU students enjoy free highspeed Internet access in most buildings on campus and in their residences, yet when students move out of Lawrence, it's unlikely they will have this technology at their fingertips.
Few U.S. cities currently offer free high-speed Internet, but Democrats hope to change that if Barack Obama is elected. U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-Wa.) stressed on Tuesday morning the importance of creating the infrastructure to provide high-speed Internet,
or broadband, to every home in America at the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
"I have watched as the United States went from world leader to lagger in the world broadband ranks. I am embarrassed," Rockefeller told the audience.
access, listed behind countries such as Denmark, Iceland and Sweden.
"I have watched as the United States went from world leader to lagger in the world broadband ranks."
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Americans by 2007, but he also said that was no longer a good
excuse.
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"It has to be done" Rockefeller said.
Rockefeller said if private companies and the government were able to negotiate a way to provide broadband access to every school and workplace like they did with the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the two should be able to provide the same service to private citizens.
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Irving said the reason broadband Internet technology was not at the forefront of policy-making in the U.S. was because it was not a "sexy issue."
Larry Irving, president and CEO of the Irving Information Group, a consulting firm for telecommunications and information technology companies, said the government needed to take the initiative even further and provide free wireless Internet access to all U.S. residents. Irving said only one in 30 people had wireless Internet at home.
Wireless Internet is only one form of broadband. Broadband also includes Ethernet and DSL and is faster than lower-speed Internet access, such as dial-up.
He said he thought it should be a top government priority, though, because applications such as Google Maps and Pandora, an internet radio program, can be accessed on cell phones using broadband Internet.
Katz also said widespread broadband access would be too expensive.
Michael Katz, former chief
economist of the Federal Communications Commission, said data ranking the U.S. as 15th was skewed, and that the U.S. actually ranked eighth in the world.
"I don't want to be eighth at anything in life," Irving replied. "I don't think eighth got a bronze, silver or gold."
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year after receiving a wound that wouldn't heal. She bruised her knee when she dove in to score at home in the first round last Sunday.
"I put a lot of pressure on myself because I'm insanely competitive," Dotson said. "If I have a bad game then it brings me down for the rest of the night and if I have a good game then it's totally worth it."
The championship game is about as serious as the league ever gets, but a lot of the teams come out for the sole purpose of hanging out with friends and having fun.
Ashley Janzen, Wichita senior,
said her favorite part of kickball
was the camaraderie. Her team
— the Dead Cats — immediately huddled together and started a "Drink" chant after it lost to Ranglife Records last Sunday.
Natalie Collar, KU senior, said she didn't play, but had been a kickball fan for about three years.
"The motto is to drink a lot of beer, have a really good time, try to play the best and play with some balls," Janzen said.
"I always have friends that play on different teams and it's funny because there's always this kind of pseudo heckling with each other about the other team, but everyone is ultimately friends," she said. "And it's really organized. Nobody's getting paid for it and everyone's just doing it out of fun."
Collar said that students who were interested in playing should get involved in the Lawrence community.
Students who are interested in playing for next summer's Kaw Valley Kickball League can visit its Web site to check out the list of local businesses that play in the league. Students who want to start their own team must pay a $100-entry fee and buy three rubber kickballs. All the money is used to cover the cost of equipment, renting fields and to help pay for a party at the end of the season.
"Everyone involved in kickball is part of a local, downtown or outside-of-downtown business, so anyone who wants to get involved with kickball should really try to work for or get to know somebody who works for a local business," Collar said.
This year's party will be held at Liberty Hall at 9 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 29. It will feature a video replay of the championship game on a giant movie screen. The party is open to the public and costs $5 to attend.
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Sophomore wide receiver Dezmon Briscoe, senior wide receiver Dexton Fields and junior wide receiver Kerry Meier have high expectations for 2008 on their shoulders.
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Darrell Stuckey knows just how good the Kansas wide receiving corps will be this season. Heck, after practicing against them for four weeks during training camp, he's ready to let another team's defense try and stop them.
"They could be one of the best wide receiver corps in the nation," Stuckey said. "I firmly believe that. They are very competitive and aggressive and just have a passion for trying to help each other out and get the most yards possible. They are a phenomenal unit."
The trio of senior Dexton Fields, sophomore Dezmon Briscoe and junior
Kerry Meier should form at least one of the top wide-receiving groups in the Big 12 Conference, but it's Fields who is set to potentially be in for a record-breaking year.
Fields needs only six touchdowns to become the Kansas career touchdowns leader, and he needs 962 yards receiving to become the school's all-time leader in receiving yards. His 837 receiving yards last year were the most ever by a lavwhack junior.
Meier wasn't even a wide receiver when last season began but became one of the team's most consistent weapons by the end of the year. He had 26 catches for 274 yards and two touchdowns, one of which came against Nebraska and earned him a spot on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
Then there's Briscoe, who had one of the best freshman seasons in school history in 2007. He started 11 of the team's 13 games and was third on the team with 496 receiving yards. His seven touchdowns were a school record for a freshman in a single season.
"My coaches helped me improve one of my weaknesses last year, which was dropping a lot of balls," Briscoe said. "I have been working a lot on that in practice, catching balls when I'm tired and."
A year ago, Fields, Briscoe and Meier joined Marcus Henry, who was drafted in the sixth round by the New York Jets.
when I'm tired, and drills like that."
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and could play a lot because the layhawks spread the field often with four and five receiver sets. Patterson, who won the job at punt returner, has impressed coach Mark
In addition to Fields, Briscoe and Meier, sophomore Jonathan Wilson and freshman Daymond Patterson could both see time at wideout as well. Wilson is listed as a starter in the four-wide receiver set on the depth chart
Mangino with his speed and also could see some time at wideout.
Stuckey and fellow safety Justin Thornton have been facing the challenge of covering the wide receivers during training camp. Like Stuckey, Thornton knows that opposing defenses aren't going to enjoy lining up against Kansas' receivers.
"We're going to be real good at wide receiver," Thornton said. "We run that spread offense, and it doesn't even really matter who is in there at wide receiver because we have a handful of guys who can come in and make plays. Who ever is in there is going to have a chance to make plays."
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FOOTBALL
Running back strives for 2,000-yard season Crawford counts on strong offensive line
BY B.J. RAINS
rains@kansan.com
Don't tell Jocues Crawford, but only 13 times in NCAA Division I football has a running back rushed
for more than 2,000 yards in a single season.
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The junior college transfer, who rushed for 1,935 yards on 283 attempts last year at Cisco Junior College, has his sights set on that elite number.
Crawford
"When I talk to my family, a personal goal I set for myself is that I want to rush for 2,000 yards," Crawford said. "I don't know if
I'll achieve it, but that's my goal."
Crawford, who once had 45 carries during a game at Cisco, will split carries with junior jake Sharp, similar to how Brandon McAnderson and Sharp shared the job a year ago. Still, Crawford knows that whether he does it by
FIU quarterback Wayne Younger attemptps to evade Kansas defenders during last year's 55-3 loss on Sept. 22 at Memorial Stadium. Younger and junior Paul McCall are still competing for the starting quarterback position under FIU's new offensive coordinator.
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running backs," Crawford said. "But after working with my offensive line and seeing the holes that they are opening up against our ones, I just feel that it's something that we or lake can accomplish — getting 2,000 yards together. We have a good line so we're going to have a lot of rushing yards this year."
The depth chart released by the football team Monday listed Sharp as the starter over Crawford, but coach Mark Mangino confirmed Tuesday that both will see significant playing time this Saturday against Florida International.
"Jake Sharp is a veteran guy who knows the system and knows what to expect," Mangino said. "Jocques is new with us. He's still learning. But he's going to play,
"I can only imagine how many yards I can rack up with an offensive line like this."
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"That's a special, high number for college
himself or not, he and Sharp are both capable of reaching that elite 2,000-yard mark together after having success during practice against Kansas' starting defense.
JOCQUES CRAWFORD Junior running back
believe me. He's going to get a lot of carries and he's going to play and play a role in this game. But based on maturity, dependability and understanding the offense right now, we feel like jake Sharp can handle that load of being the starter at this point. But don't worry.
Jocques will play a lot. He will play significantly.
The 6-foot-1, 230-pound Crawford
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FOOTBALL
FIU's offense could pose challenge New offensive coordinator from Purdue changes play strategy
BY TAYLOR BERN
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tbern@kansan.com
Kansas has had plenty of time to size up its opening weekend opponent, FLU, but has little idea how to best do so.
That's because the Golden Panthers have a new offensive coordinator, which means there's no film of their new system in a real game. Furthermore, there still a quarterback battle down in Miami.
Sophomore Wayne Younger, who started against Kansas last season, and junior Paul McCall are each vying for the starting job. Coach Mario Cristobal might have an idea who his guy will be, but he told the Miami Herald on Thursday that he wasn't going to tip his hand.
"Both present a couple of different packages, so we'll let Kansas prepare for both," he said.
At his press conference yesterday, coach Mark Mangino said his team was preparing to combat all different styles of
play and admitted he was keeping an eye on FIU.
"We have followed their program very closely, and all indications are that they're a highly disciplined team," Mangino said. "They're well-coached, well-organized and they have some talented players."
"We don't really know what to expect. We're kind of going into this game blind."
JUSTIN THORNTON Junior safety
Mangino said the first game of the year made him more nervous than any bowl game ever could, simply because he didn't know what to expect from his team. This
intensified, because although his team thrashed the Golden Panthers 55-3 last year, he doesn't know what to expect from them.
"We know to a degree, but we don't know completely because we haven't seen them since they changed coordinators." Mangino said.
The new coordinator is Bill Legg, who was at Purdue for the past five years and spent the past two seasons as its co-offensive coordinator. All the unknown factors
surrounding Saturday's tilt haven't been lost on Kansas' defense.
"That's tough. It really is," junior safety Justin Thornton said. "We don't really know what to expect. We're kind of going into this game blind.
"We watched Purdue for the schemes, then we watched Florida International for what kind of players we're going to be matched up against."
Mangino said he thought the Golden Panther attack would closely resemble the Boilermakers' in the way they spread the field, but Legg had more running backs at his disposal and could rely on them heavily.
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quote of the day
"The rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does."
—Phil Woosnam,
Welsh soccer player and manager
Cinderella season deals momentum
fact of the day
Q: How many members of the women's soccer team are from the state of Kansas?
Freshman soccer player Emily Cressy scored a goal in her Kansas debut last Friday, but she's still quite a few goals away from Caroline Smith. Smith, who played soccer at Kansas from 2002 to 2005, is Kansas soccer's all-time leading goal-scorer with 51 career goals. Her career totals ranks fifth all-time in Big 12 history.
A: 12, including five who grew up in Overland Park.
trivia of the day
After nearly 50 years of mediocrity, a bowl of oranges may have awakened a sleeping giant
Countless storylines spawned from the perfect storm that was Kansas football in 2007.
For starters, there was the tale of a certain overlooked, but irrepressibly confident, young quarterback named Todd Reesing. Dubbed "Sparky" by coach Mark Mangino, Reesing captured Lawrence's imagination while setting no less than 21 offensive records in his first season as a starter.
Then there was the coaching clinic put on by Mangino and his staff, prompting The Associated Press to name him 2007 National Coach of the Year after a school-record 12 victories.
And it's impossible to overlook the football fever that enveloped the University as merchandise and ticket sales soared and pride made a triumphant return to Memorial Stadium.
But one number defined the Jayhawks' unprecedented success more than any other: 14,246. That's the number of days that passed between Kansas'
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Orange Bowl trip in 1969 and last January's 24-21 victory over Virginia Tech in Miami.
For those of you counting at home, that's 20,514,240 minutes of the kind of mediocrity that comes with the likes of Bud Moore, Terry Allen and Bob Valesente at the helm.
Maybe that kind of drought was acceptable for the last 40 years, but the football landscape in Lawrence has changed drastically since Bobby Douglass led that 1968 squad to within two points of beating Penn State.
Expectations have changed, and mediocrity is no longer acceptable. Mangino has a sparkling new football complex that came with a $31 million price tag. Reesing is a year older, and the
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Jayhawks no longer have to settle for overlooked or unorthodox recruits.
For the first time in years, national pundits are actually paying attention to the Jayhawks, even if the spotlight is on last season's supposedly cream-puff schedule.
Meanwhile, Jayhawk highlights have found a place they haven't been since Glen Mason patrolled the sidelines, spliced in with
those of traditional powerhouses to promote national broadcasts
It's a different era in Lawrence, and like it or not success is expected.
Last year put Kansas on the college football map. This year, Mangino's challenge is entrenching his program among the nation's best while dealing with the loss of All-Americans Aqib Talib and Anthony Collins and playing a daunting slate of games
Rest assured the new breed of Kansas football fans won't accept almost 15,000 days of disappointment anymore.
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Last weekend I found out exactly what it take to persuade students to attend non-revenue sporting events: free hot dogs — and lots of them.
At least I think that's what brought 623 fans, most of them students, to last Friday's women's soccer game against Purdue. Those who stuck around after the grilling at halftime saw
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the Jayhawks overwhelm the Boilermakers with three second-half goals.
There won't be free processed meat products when newly minted No. 25 Kansas takes on Auburn on Sunday at the Jayhawk Soccer Complex. But there will be an explosive brand of attacking soccer that has produced six goals in two games thus far, and in my book that is far more satisfying.
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MEN'S BASKETBALL Self fills final coaching spot with former player
Kansas will leave for Ottawa, Ontario Friday without any spots to fill on its coaching staff.
"Brett has been with us the past five years and has done a
Coach Bill Self announced Brett Ballard, former video coordinator, would be promoted to director of basketball operations Tuesday. Ballard takes over for Ronnie Chalmers, who held the position for the last three seasons before resigning last week
fabulous job,"Self said."He certainly deserves this title."
"Being at Kansas, having played at Kansas and getting the opportunity to work at Kansas has been great," Ballard said. "I feel very fortunate and blessed."
Ballard has served on the Kansas coaching staff for the last five seasons after graduating from the University. He became a student assistant in 2003 before being promoted to video coordinator the following year.
Kyle Keller will fill the vacancy left by Ballard by serving as the new video coordinator. Self said
he had known Keller for the last 20 years and was confident he'd be a great addition to the staff.
Keller has worked at Oklahoma State for the past nine seasons. He held various positions under coaches Eddie and Sean Sutton, including an assistant coaching position for the past two seasons.
"I'm really excited to get the opportunity to work with Coach Self" Keller said. "He is one of the top coaches in all of basketball and has a great staff."
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BOSTON — The Boston Celtics signed their first-round draft pick J.R. Giddens on Tuesday.
NBA Celtics add former Jayhawk Giddens to roster
The 6-foot-5 point guard, the 30th pick in the draft, averaged 16.3 points and 8.8 rebounds for New Mexico during his senior season.
The 23-year-old Giddens brings a reputation as a strong defender to the defending NBA champion Celtics.
Giddens said he has matured in the last few years.
He pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor battery charge after being stabbed at a bar fight in May 2005 while playing for Kansas.
He transferred to New Mexico, where he was suspended twice in his first season.
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ACCORIATEN DBECC
United State Ryder Cup captain Paul Azinger stands next to a placard with the top eight team members at Oakland Hills in Bloomfield Township, Mich., on Aug. 11. Azinger will announce his four captain's picks on Sept. 2. The Ryder Cup will be played Sept. 19-21 at Valhalla Golf Club in Kentucky.
Captain won't name top 4
Top choices look slim as only one has won in six months
ASSOCIATED PRESS
If nothing else, Paul Azinger deserves credit for making sure the United States fields its best team in the Ryder Cup.
The revamped criteria identifies the best Americans in a Ryder Cup year. Six of the eight qualifiers have combined to win 10 tournaments this year. The other two are Jim Furyk, steady as ever, and Ben Curtis, perhaps the hottest player
at the moment.
"If we win, I'll go down as having the lowest IQ of any genius who ever lived." Azinger said last month.
Real genius,
is figuring out what
to do with his
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four captain's picks.
Like it's any easier now?
Azinger believed his team would be even stronger if he could double the number of his picks to get the hottest players. But with one tournament remaining before he has to choose, he might as well put on a blindfold and throw darts.
"I'm really happy that I don't have to pick four players this morning, I can tell you that."
Of the next 25 players in the standings, only one of them — rookie Chez Reavie — has won in the last six months. The best American last week at The Barclays was Kevin Sutherland, whose only PGA Tour victory came six years ago in Accenture Match Play Championship. And if Azinger is looking for experience, only four of the next 40 in the standings have ever played in a Ryer Cup.
To offer the captain help he doesn't need, 23 golf writers were asked to submit four picks each.
The writers were told they would not be identified, but comments from one longtime Ryder Cup scribe as he struggled to come up with four picks summed up Azinger's problems.
"I'm really happy that I don't have to pick four players this morning, I can tell you that," Azinger said the morning after the PGA Championship, the old deadline for his captain's picks. "It would have been very difficult to know what to do."
PAUL AZINGER
Ryder Cup Captain
"I'm looking for the hottest players, but they don't play for the United States."
There wasn't much consensus with them, either.
Steve Stricker led the list with 17 points, followed by Rocco Mediate (15), Hunter Mahan (12) and J.B. Holmes (11). Behind those top four
were Brandt
Snedeker with
seven votes,
Sean O'Hair
with five,
then Scott
Verplank,
Woody
Austin and
Zach Johnson
with four.
Eighteen players, from
rookie Kevin Streelman to veteran
Pak Govouds, received votes.
Azinger declined an invitation to submit his four names, but he sent an e-mail saying his choices "might be narrowing." What that means is anyone's guess, although the e-mail arrived on Friday when Stricker was leading the Barclays and playing in the final group with Mahan. They combined to play the weekend at Ridgewood in 11-over par.
Holmes closed with a 66 at Barclays, but timing is everything. He sure could have used a round like that at Oakland Hills, where he shot 81 in the final round of the PGA Championship when he had the 54-hole lead.
Darren Clarke just won in Holland for his second victory in the last four months, winning the KLM Open by three shots over Paul McGinley (you remember McGinley — he's the Irishman who made the winning putt for Europe in 2002). Paul Casey was one shot out of the lead going into the final round of The Barclays and tied for seventh.
The winner in Greensboro? Carl Pettersson of Sweden. The winner
of the last two majors? Padraig Harrington of Ireland. The only American to win a major this year was Tiger Woods, who clinched a spot on the team one week before season-ending knee surgery.
Azinger said he would continue the points list after the PGA Championship "so I can look at the top 12 guys and maybe make a choice just based on that."
Of the top 25 who did not make the team, nine missed the cut at The Barclays and none finished among the top 18.
The one criteria that Azinger said might need changing for the next U.S. team is the majors, which offered double points in the current year. If any American had won the PGA Championship — including a club pro — he would have been eligible for the team.
Good luck.
The double points at majors — Azinger believes $1 \frac{1}{2}$ points would be better — enabled Curtis to make his first Ryder Cup team with his tie for second at the PGA Championship. That worked out well, for Curtis is playing as well as anyone. In his first tournament since Oakland Hills, he finished one shot out of the playoff at The Barclays.
Considering that the new points system identified the best players, was four picks really necessary?
"Maybe not," Azinger said. "I don't know. If you look down that list, I like the next four guys a lot."
He likes a lot of players.
Whether they can help the United States win the Ryder Cup is another matter.
The Deutsche Bank Championship, which starts Friday on the TPC Boston, could go a long way toward firming up Azinger's four picks. He will announce his selections next Tuesday in New York. One can only hope he doesn't have to go the way of one writer, who left this message after giving his four names.
"It was more a case of settling on who I didn't want than necessarily who I wanted. Good luck, Mr. Azinger."
NFL
Giants shuffle around lineup Questions still linger about Strahan's retirement status
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New York Giants linebacker Mathias Kiwanuka covers tight end Kevin Boss at the team's training camp in Albany, N.Y. The Giants moved Kiwanuka back to defensive end to replace the injured Osi Umenyiora on Monday, that decreases the already slim chances of the Super Bowl champions needing to make a push to get seven-time Pro Bowler Michael Strahan out of retirement.
The more pressing question for the Super Bowl champions is whether seven-time Pro Bowler Michael Strahan wants back in after a very brief retirement.
"They want to see if there is any interest there," agent Tony Agnone told The Associated Press. "I have to talk to Michael."
With fellow Pro Bowler Osi Umenyiora out for the season with a knee injury, the Giants contacted Strahan's representative Monday to see if No. 92 would return for a 16th season.
Strahan is on vacation in Greece. Agnone said he has not talked to him about the Giants' inquiry.
"Part of the talk was about Osi," said Agnone, who also represents Umenyiora.
Agnone described the Giants' call as a courtesy — for now — and noted the two sides did no negotiating.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Strahan turned down a $6 million contract offer in the offseason. He then signed with Fox Sports to work on its NFL pregame show.
With Strahan's status uncertain, the Giants shuffled their defense Monday and moved Kiwanuka back to end from his strongside linebacker spot.
"I was told all along that if something were to happen that this is a position I could find myself in," Kiwanuka said. "I am ready to step in and hopefully there won't be a let-down at all."
A 2006
first- round
draft choice.
"The guy still looks great, hell of a player," Favre said at the Jets' facility in Hempstead, N.Y. "I would have done whatever to try to get him back initially, but now, how could you not want him back?
General manager Jerry Reese said earlier Monday that the Giants were looking at all their options.
Jets quarterback Brett Favre, recently unretired himself, said the Giants should do whatever possible to get Strahan back.
Kiwanuka was switched to linebacker 17 months ago so the Giants could get their best 11 defenders on the field.
"As I know it, he is probably on a beach somewhere sipping on some pina coladas, so I doubt football is the first thing on his mind today."
"We are going to go forward with the players that we have," coach Tom Coughlin said. "And we are always looking for and searching for people who can help our team. And nothing is going to change with regard to that."
Whatever happens with Strahan, it seems certain that Kiwanuka is going to be a defensive lineman this season, even if Strahan returns.
Giants teammates had their doubts about Strahan returning.
"Wouldn't that be something, he comes back and we start a trend?"
"As I know it, he is probably on a beach somewhere sipping on some pina coladas, so I doubt football is the first thing on his mind today;"
said Justin Tuck, who replaced Strahan at left end.
Defensive tackle Barry Coffin said Strahan gave no indication he wanted to play again when he visited training camp in Albany, N.Y., less than two weeks ago.
JUSTIN TUCK Giants' defensive end
"He has not been bouncing back
bouncing back and forth like Favre." Cofield said. "He has been pretty happy. We saw him up here and he said he missed it but he was content. He has decided to go on to the next phase of his life so I don't look too strongly into
that (him playing again).
Danny Clark, a nine-year veteran who was signed as a free agent in the offseason, will move from weakside linebacker to the strong side to replace Kiwanuka. Gerris Wilkinson will start at weakside linebacker.
Kiwanuka started nine games at
defensive end as a rookie and had four sacks. He played in 10 games last season at strongside linebacker before breaking his leg against Detroit in November. The former Boston College product played linebacker in running situations last season, but was switched to the line in passing situations.
"It is something that he, all of us, really want, but obviously we didn't want these circumstances for him to get back." Tuck said of Kiwanau, known as "Kiwi" to teammates. "It is a good thing for him. It is a good thing for this team. He is definitely a D-lineman at heart, and hopefully he can just come back in and not miss a beat."
Defensive players got a chance to talk to Umenyiora on Monday. The two-time Pro Bowler tore the lateral meniscus in his left knee and is scheduled for surgery Tuesday.
"His spirits are still high." Tuck said. "He is another one of those infectious personalities, so his personality and his mind-state are always going to be at the utmost highest, so I am not worried about him on that point."
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2008
Instant replay now allowed
Video will help umpires double-check home run calls
BY RONALD BLUM ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Major League Baseball reversed its long-standing opposition to instant replay and will allow umpires to check video on home run calls in series that start Thursday.
The start date comes nearly 10 months after general managers voted 25-5 to use the technology.
and following MLB agreements with the unions for umpires and for players.
"I believe that the extraordinary technology that we now have merits the use of instant replay on a very limited basis"
commissioner Bud Selig said. "The system we have in place will ensure that the proper call is made on home run balls and will not cause a significant delay to the game."
"The system we have in place will ensure that the proper call is made on home run balls and will not cause a significant delay to the game."
Three series are scheduled to start Thursday, with Philadelphia at the Chicago Cubs, Minnesota at Oakland and Texas at the Los Angeles Angels. For other games, replays will be available to umpires starting Friday.
potential home runs were fair or foul and whether there was fan interference on potential home runs.
Selig, who opposed replay in the past, said he wouldn't allow its use to expand to additional types of calls.
For now, video will be used only on so-called "boundary calls," such as determining whether fly balls went over the fence, whether
BUD SELIG MLBcommissioner
"My opposition to unlimited instant replay is still very much in play," Selig said. "I really think that the game has prospered for
well over a century now doing things the way we did it."
Video from broadcast feeds will be collected at the office of MajorLeague Baseball Advanced
Media in New York, where it will be monitored by a technician and either an umpire supervisor or a retired umpire. If the crew chief at a game decides replay needs to be checked, umpires will leave the field, technicians at MLBAM will show umpires the video and the crew chief will make the call, overturning the original decision only if there is "clear and convincing evidence".
Leaving the dugout to argue a call following a replay will result in an automatic ejection.
Selig said the use of replies may shorten games because it might
eliminate some arguments.
"While the use of instant replay is an experiment, we hope that over the balance of this season it will prove to be a success," players' union head Donald Fehr said.
union need Donald Pen said.
The players' association agreed to replay for the balance of the season but retained the right, through Dec. 10, to ask for additional bargaining for future years. If players don't, the replay agreement will run through 2011.
Baseball had been the last holdout among the major professional sports in the United States. Replays were first used in the NFL in 1986.
In the NHL, video review has been in place since the 1991-92 season to check whether the puck crossed the goal line completely, went in before time expired or the net was dislodged, and wasn't kicked or batted in intentionally.
In the NBA, replays have been viewed since the 2002-3 season to decide whether players got off shots before time expired and since last season to aid decisions following altercations and flagrant fouls. In grand slam tennis tournaments, a Hawk-Eye system has been used to decide close line calls since the 2006 U.S. Open.
International soccer has refused to embrace aiding referees, with FIFA's International Football Association Board voting last March to stop all experiments with technology that could determine whether balls cross goal lines.
TENNIS
Fashion rules on U.S. Open courts Tennis players incorporate flashier styles for matches
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BY SAMANTHA CRITCHELL
NEW YORK - Models have the runway, actresses the red carpet and - when it comes to showing off their latest styles - tennis players have center court.
OLYMPICS
One emerging trend is to incorporate a cocktail-attire look into their performance clothes, especially if they're playing at night. And, says tennis star Maria Sharapova, there's no better place to pull out the stops than the U.S. Open.
“It’s the place to do something fun and a little out of the box,” says Sharapova, the 2006 U.S. Open champ who is nursing a shoulder injury and not competing this year. “It's the biggest crowd and it's what people are talking about. I was fortunate to play — and win — in the Audrey Hepburn dress.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Maria Sharapova of Russia hits the ball during a 2007 match against Casey Dellacqua of Australia at the 2007 US Open tennis tournament in New York. One emerging trend is to incorporate more of a cocktail-attire look into their performance clothes, especially if they're playing under the lights at night. And, says tennis star Maria Sharapova, there's no better place to pull out the stops than the U.S. Open.
That dress, with its sparkly neckline, satin-bow waistline and keyhole openings down the back, started a wave of red carpet-worthy ensembles. Tiffany & Co. even outfits Sharapova in jewelry for tennis events, and an earring collection, called Tiffany for Maria Sharapova, is sold in stores around the world.
This year, Serena Williams, who has sometimes been a fashion rebel, has a U.S. Open dress that also has a sophisticated cocktail-dress vibe. It's red with a slim bodice, dropped waist and pleated skirt.
On the men's side, Roger Federer, who last year played night matches in a tuxedo-style outfit,
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party atmosphere like no other Grand Slam, said Nike senior designer Colleen Sandierson. Whereas Wimbledon is very traditional and Paris is more fashion-forward, fans at the U.S. Tennis Center likes to see the best athletes look like stars.
"It's the place to do something fun and a little out of the box."
MARIA SHARAPOVA Tennis player
At the 2007 U.S. Open, Sharapova had two custom-made Nike dresses in the same silhouette but one was white with a black
play.
It was an acknowledgment of the changing conditions the day can bring; hot and steamy under the sun and cooler in the evening.
Sharapova explained. The crowd's mood changes as well, with a more casual audience during the day and a dressier crew at night.
Designers are working on a similar look for the home athlete.
Golf-clothes designer Linda Hipp, whose label Lija is launching tennis clothes this spring, said an increasing number of athleticwear customers want to be able to wear their outfits even off the court. An
evening player might be on a date or enjoying time with her spouse and might want a little more fashion in her outfit.
But among amateurs, the look isn't quite a grand slam yet. Nadine Wolff, an avid tennis player from Port Washington, N.Y., has a closet full of tennis clothes, but she chooses outfits based on weather — not the time of day.
Though tennis dresses are unlikely to be mistaken for a bona fide cocktail frock, there's no reason not to incorporate a ruffle or ruching to make a flattering, flirty garment.
"Evening tennis has a more live- social component," she said.
"For the real world, you wear the same type of attire day or night. I have a lot of tennis clothes and I don't separate them," she says. "Maybe I do wear more white during the day, but that's because it's hot."
MLB
Rancho 5
St. Louis Cardinals' Brian Barton runs to first for a single, his third hit of the day, during the sixth inning of a game against the Atlanta Braves on Sunday in St. Louis. Barton left the game after the hit with an apparent injury, pointing to his side.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cardinals keep rookie player
Injury ensures outfielder Barton's spot on team's roster
BY R.B. FALLSTROM ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tuesday with a strained right side muscle. Now, they're guaranteed to retain him.
ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Cardinals were virtually home free with Rule 5 draft pickup Brian Barton before the reserve outfielder went on the 15-day disabled list on
The Cardinals have to keep the 26-year-old rookie on the roster the
vated an allure sore side muscle beating out a bunt for a single during a career-best three-hit game on Sunday and has four hits in his last four at-bats.
"I probably seem a little down right now," Barton said before the start of a two-game series against
"We're in a pennant race and I want to be a part of it. I don't want to be out for two weeks."
BRIAN BARTON
Cardinals outfielder
Barton is hitting .269 with two homers and 13 RBs in 130 at-bats, and is a .303 pinch hitter with 10 hits in 33 at-bats with a homer and three RBs. He agra-
entire season or else offer him back to his old team — the Cleveland Indians — for $25,000. Placing him on the DL with what is believed to be a somewhat minor injury ensures he'll make it through the year in the majors, given that teams can expand their rosters on Sept. 1.
the Milwaukee
Brewers. "We're
in a pennant
race and I want
to be a part of
it. I don't want
to be out for two
weeks.
"Int two weeks, you'll probably see a smile on my face."
Both the Cardinals and Barton think he can be back in 15 days. Outfielder Nick Stainoha, batting .337 with 16 homers and 74 RBIs at Triple-A Memphis, was recalled for his third hit with the team. He was batting .200 (5-for-25) with four RBIs with St. Louis.
"September 1 is just around the corner, but we just can't play short," manager Tony La Russa said.
with his rookie season.
"Regardless of the role you have, you can do better," he said. "I feel like I've given my all, but at the same time I feel like I can do better. If I was batting, 400 I feel like I still would feel that way, probably."
The Cardinals were 3 1/2 games behind the Brewers for the wild card entering the final two games between the teams this season. La Russa thought the series was more important for the Cardinals because they're the pursuers and won't see Milwaukee again.
"It's our last two games against them," he said. "I think it's more important for us than for them, they've got the lead. But neither one of our October chances are determined by this series. There's a lot ahead."
Brewers manager Ned Yost said it was every bit as important for his team.
"We try to put as much distance from a (darn) good team as we can," Yost said. "These guys haven't gotten, to my understanding, the credit they've been due since the first day of spring training.
"That's a good team over there, capable of flying past us in a heartbeat."
NFL
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reserve, release three
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs placed wide receiver Kevin Robinson on the physically-unable-to-perform
reserve list Tuesday and released three other players.
Released were defensive tackle Maurice Murray, defensive end Jonal Saint-Dic and tackle Ken Shackleford.
Robinson was one of two sixth-round picks in the 2008
draft out of Utah State. Murray and Saint-Dic were signed as rookie free agents and Shackleford came into the NFL as a sixth-round selection by St. Louis in 2007.
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CRAWFORD
(CONTINUED FROM 1B)
rushed for more than 200 yards in five different games last season, including a 328-yard, three-touchdown performance against Trinity Valley. His 1,935 yards were the most by a junior college running back since 2000.
Sharp rushed for 821 yards and scored seven touchdowns on only 147 carries last year as the backup to McAnderson. He rushed for more than 100 yards three different times and ranked 12th in the Big 12 Conference in rushing with an average of 65.15 rushing yards per game.
"We're both very confident in what we can do for the team," Sharp said. "It's going to be a good deal for us, I think. He does a lot of things very well, and I can bring my game to the table. It's just going to be a real good package for us, I believe."
The Kansas rushing game last season was 31st in the nation and fifth in the Big 12, with an average of 188.8 rushing yards per game, thanks in large part to the offensive line. Redshirt freshmen Jeremiah Hatch and Jeff Spikes will make their debuts at the tackle positions and, with returning center Ryan Cantrell at center and Adrian Mayes and Chet Hartley at guard, should form another strong unit capable of producing large numbers on the ground.
"It's probably going to be the best offensive line I've ever played with," Crawford said. "I can only imagine how many yards I can rack up with an offensive line like this."
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FIU seniors 'Amod Ned and Julian Reams and junior Daunte Owens could all get carries in the backfield.
The lack of information about FIU's offense is a problem for some, but junior safety Darrell Stuckey sees it as an advantage.
"It's less stressful mentally because you just have to go out there and react to the football," he said. "In some cases you get teams' film and you figure out their tendencies, then you get overwhelmed with tendencies and they throw something else at you. At the same time, if you're out there and you don't know exactly what to look for, then you have to understand the game as a whole."
Either way, the jayhawks will be heavy favorites and shouldn't have too much trouble putting away the Golden Panthers.
No matter which quarterback lines up under center or what system he runs, Thornton says the only team that can get in Kansas' way of starting out 1-0 is itself.
"As long as we go out there and eliminate all of our mistakes we'll be just fine." Thornton said. "It's not about what they're going to do, it's about how we play and how we execute and I think that's going to be what matters."
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U.S. OPEN
NIZEN
Ana Ivanovic of Serbia serves to Vera Dushveina of Russia during their match at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York on Tuesday. Ivanovic, ranked No. 1, almost lost in the first round of the tournament. Maria Bueno had the worst start ever for a No. 1, ranked woman when she had a bye first round and then lost in the second round.
No.1 player almost upset in first round play
Serbian Ana Ivanovic wins match at U.S. Open despite not practicing because of a hurt thumb
BY BEN WALKER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Ana Ivanovic recovered in a hurry Tuesday to avoid becoming the first top-seeded woman to lose in the first round at the U.S. Open, rallying past Vera Dushevina 6-1, 4-6, 6-4.
Out of whack lately because of an injured right thumb, the world No. 1 was out of sorts for much of the match against the Russian, who was ranked No. 57. Down 3-2 in the third set, the French Open champion suddenly found her confidence — and her winning strokes.
"I could feel some shots; lack of practice," Ivansi said.
The 20-year-old Serbian star played only two matches since Wimbledon in mid-july while
her thumb healed. The injury forced Ivanovic to withdraw from the Olympics before they began and kept her from practicing until last week.
"Happy finally to be without the pain," she said.
The worst start ever for a No. 1 woman at the U.S. Open came in 1967 when Maria Bueno drew a first-round bye and then lost in the second round. The last top-seeded man to lose in the first round at Flushing Meadows was Stefan Edberg in 1990.
Serena Williams was scheduled to play her first-round match later in the afternoon. Roger Federer, aiming for his fifth straight U.S. Open title, and Venus Williams highlighted the night action.
Sixth-seeded Dinara Safina of Russia, No. 9 Agnieszka
Radwanska of Poland, No.13 Agnes Szavagy of Hungary and No.16 Flavia Pennetta of Italy advanced in morning matches.
On the men's side,
No. 14 Ivo
Karlovic of Croatia
won, but No.
22 Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic lost to Sam Querrey 6-3,
6-1, 6-2.
Arthur Ashe Stadium, they saw a possible upset take shape.
The worst start ever for a No.1 woman at the U.S.Open came in 1967 when Maria Bueno drew a first-round bye and then lost in the second round.
Ahead 4-2 in the second set,
Ivanovic rushed to a 10-15 lead
Once fans started to fill
Rafael Nadal was out early Tuesday, practicing minus his shirt. A day after his win, the top-seeded man worked in solitude — he hit before the crowds were allowed on the grounds.
— one of her 40 unforced errors.
and seemed on her way to a comfortable win. At deuce, she charged forward but put an easy overhand smash into the net of her
After that, her problems really flared.
"I dropped my concentration," she said.
Soon, Ivanovic was tentative on backhands and failed to finish forehands. Gone was her signature fist pump after winning key
points. Instead, she spent more and more time looking into her family box during breaks.
By the final set, Ivanovic was moving better, covering the court and pressuring Dushevina into misses.
Even so, she made it tough on herself, double-faulting while trying for a match point.
Ivanovic certainly wasn't worn down from her recent hours on the court. Her travel time, however, took its toll — she left Beijing to see her doctor in Australia and then came to New York.
Despite winning her first Grand Slam championship this year, Ivanovic sensed her limited practice session would make it tough to take this title.
"I think at the moment it's a lot to ask for," she said.
MLB
Five bidders chosen for the Chicago Cubs
BY CANDICE CHOI ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Tribune Co.
CEO Sam Zell said Tuesday
that the media conglomerate has chosen five bidders for the Chicago Cubs.
Zell said during a conference call with lenders that separate bids had been made on sto-
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the buyout.
"We hope to have a deal to MLB by the end of the year," said Zell, the real estate mogul who led a $8.2 billion buyout of the company last
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Tribune already repaid $807 million in principal in the second quarter, using mostly the $600 million it gained from selling the Long Island daily Newsday to Cablevision Systems Corp.
Zell also said the company was continuing to evaluate ways to squeeze money from its real estate holdings, including the iconic headquarters building in Chicago, Tribune Tower.
To trim costs, Tribune has made hundreds of layoffs at its papers and decreased the page count of print editions.
Zell said the company was still trying to figure out "what a newspaper of the 21st century should look like." While redesigns should produce "more exciting and cheaper" versions of its papers, he said the company would have to readdress the matter if the revamped papers don't get a positive response.
Fitch Ratings cut Tribune Co.'s credit rating further into "junk" status Friday — to "CCC" from "B-” and said more reductions may come within a year if newspaper advertising revenue declines keep accelerating.
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BUDGET
University plans for worst after Regents' suggested cuts
BY HALEY JONES
hjones@kansan.com
The University of Kansas is considering ways to lower its budget by about $5.5 million next year because of possible stateordered budget reductions.
If the reductions suggested by the Kansas Board of Regents are approved, the University will have to reduce its overall budget by about 2 percent next year. The Lawrence campus budget would decrease by about $3.1 million and the Medical Center budget would decrease by about $2.4 million.
In July, Governor Kathleen Sebelius asked state education institutions to plan on spending 1 to 2 percent less than the state had approved for the 2009 fiscal year.
Kip Peterson, media coordinator for the Kansas Board of Regents, said that if a budget reduction was necessary, the University would face the biggest cut, because it was the largest of the six state universities.
Peterson said the health of the Kansas economy would determine whether Sebelius decided the budget cuts were necessary. He said the state consensus revenue estimates that would be released in November would be helpful in determining the health of the state's economy.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway said 65 percent of the state's expenditures were on education.
"We know that education is very important to the future of the state," Hemenway said.
Hemenway said in a letter to the Regents that a 7 percent reduction in the state budget for education institutions by 2010 would erase all gains in state funding the University had received during the past three years. That cut would mean that in 2010 the University would be operating on the same budget as it did in 2006.
Hemenway said that if the cuts passed, the University would be concerned about maintaining its computing and wireless capabilities.
"We want to maintain the degree of computing we have," Hemenway said. "If that capability is cut, it's going to affect how efficiently people learn."
Hemenway said in the letter that the proposed budget cuts would mean a reduction of $70,000 for the School of Pharmacy expansion and the School of Medicine-Wichita.
The Regents suggested a 5 percent cut for 2010 in addition to the 2 percent cut for
SEE BUDGET ON PAGE 3A
KANSAS BOARD OF REGENTS
POSSIBLE WAYS TO REDUCE
2009 STATE BUDGET
$3,539,937 $388,000
$4,412,628
$7,803,435
Shift expenditures to other revenue sources
Reduce expenditures for personnel
Reduce expenditures for equipment/supplies/operating expenses
Other budget actions
$3,539,937 $388,000 $4,412,628
$7,803,435
Shift expenditures to other revenue sources
Reduce expenditures for personnel
Reduce expenditures for equipment/supplies/operating expenses
Other budget actions
KANSAS BOARD OF REGENTS TARGETS FOR BUDGET REDUCTION
$ (in millions)
University of Kansas
Kansas State University
Wichita State University
Emporia State University
Pittsburg State University
Fort Hays State University
Wauburn University
Community Colleges
Technical Colleges
Graph by Drew Bergman
IMAGES AND ICONS
Tibetan artist to dicuss role of politics
BY BRANDY ENTSMINGER bentsminger@kansan.com
That mixture of politics and art will be
Born in Tibet, Gyatso includes political themes in his artwork that wouldn't sit well with the Chinese government.
Gonkar Gyatso left his home country for the freedom to pursue his art.
That mixture of politics and art w the focus of a talk Gyatso will give tonight at the Spencer Museum of Art.
Kris Ercums, curator of Asian Art at the museum, said Gyastso, who moved to England in the early 90s, blends images and icons of traditional Buddhism with references to popular culture.
Penny
Gyatso
Many of Gyatos's current pieces feature the silhouette of a Buddha
created from small stickers of familiar figures and characters such as Spiderman.
"It's colorful and fun and immediately recognizable," Ercums said. "But under the surface of it are all of these issues that it brings out."
Some of the Buddha silhouettes feature images such as the hammer and sickle, the symbol of the Communist Party. Ercums said much of Gyatso's work had political
undertones.
One example of a political theme in Gyatso's work is "Puzzle Buddha." The piece is an outline of a Buddha covered by a blank crossword puzzle. The clues for the puzzle are written in Chinese and related to political controversies and problems in Tibet.
"This is work that could not be done
in China or Tibet because it's so political." Ercums said.
Gyatso also completed a series of four self-portrait photographs titled "My Identity." In each photo Gyatso represents a different Tibetan identity: a traditional Tibetan, a Chinese Tibetan, a Tibetan in exile and a wealthy Tibetan in London.
"He really understands a lot of different perspectives." Ercums said.
Bill Woodard, director of communications at the museum, said the visit would bring a greater awareness about the situation in Tibet to the Lawrence community.
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"We're providing a forum for a, perhaps, disenfranchised voice," Woodard said.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEE ARTIST ON PAGE 3A
Leslie Vonholten, program assistant
Nepalese police detain Tibetan exiles during a protest outside the Chinese embassy in Kanduman, Nepal, on Aug. 10. Tibetan artist Gonkar Katyar explores political themes and events, such as protests, in his artwork.
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Tibetan artist Gonkar Gyatso combines popular culture, politics and tradition in his artwork. With the recent Olympic games and controversy surrounding Tibet and China, the Spencer Museum of Art decided to bring a Tibetan artist to attend at the museum.
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A reveler throws tomato pulp at another during the annual food fight, the Tomatina, in the small Spanish town of Bunol, Spain, Wednesday. Each year tens of thousands of people hurt truckloads of tomatoes at each other, sending knee-deep rivers through the small Spanish town. Local lore says it began in the mid-1940s with a food battle that broke out between youngsters near a vegetable stand on the town square in Bunol.
Identity theft: how to prevent it
TECHNOLOGY
BY SAMANTHA FOSTER editor@kansan.com
After returning home to Kansas from a family vacation in Missouri earlier this month, I started up my computer to do the thing I had
been putting off for weeks:
pay my tuition.
Without thinking much about it,
I typed in the URL for my bank and signed in to view my accounts. A few seconds later, I was shocked to discover that my money had disappeared. I was confronted with
of several phone calls to the Fraud Department and the beginning of what would turn into multiple trips to the bank.
Thus I have become a victim of identity theft. As defined by the Federal Trade Commission, iden-
According to the Federal Trade Commission's 2006 Identity Theft Survey Report, an estimated 8.3 million American adults approximately 27 out of every 100 discovered that they were identity theft victims in 2005.
records of several recent, unauthorized purchases from Home Depot, Wal-Mart, Dillards and other businesses all located in Laredo, Texas.
I immediately called the toll-free number on the back of my debit card (which was still in my possession), and after a few minutes on hold I found myself speaking with a fraud specialist and explaining that I had not spent nearly $950 in Laredo. The specialist told me that she would file a claim for each fraudulent transaction on my account and reassured me that I had zero liability for the charges. She explained that I would be issued provisional credit within seven to 10 business days and that I would receive a fraud statement, which I was to sign and mail back immediately. This was only the first
tity theft "occurs when someone uses your personally identifying information, like your name, Social Security number or credit card number, without your permission, to commit fraud or other crimes."
It is not an uncommon occurrence.
According to the FTC's 2006 Identity Theft Survey Report, an estimated 8.3 million American adults — approximately 27 out of every 100 — discovered that they were identity theft victims in 2005.
The FTC categorizes types of identity theft in three groups: existing credit card fraud, existing non-credit card fraud and new accounts and other fraud. Non-credit card fraud, which includes the misuse of checking and savings accounts, telephone service, e-mail accounts, and internet payment accounts, occurs most frequently. Of the survey's respondents, 1.5 percent said they had experienced this type of fraud.
As technology increases in sophistication, so does thievery. Identity thieves have many ways to gain access to personal information.
One method that has recently appeared in the news is called "skimming," which uses a storage device connected to where people slide their credit or debit cards. The information obtained from any of the cards is then used to create a duplicate of a card.
On Aug. 5, federal prosecutors announced the indictment of 11 members of a global identity theft ring. The suspects allegedly obtained 40 million account numbers by hacking into the network systems of major retailers, including Barnes & Noble, OfficeMax, and TJX Companies, which operated T.J. Maxx. The suspects were also allegedly running a global distribution center for the stolen card numbers out of Eastern Europe and
Asia. They allegedly used a theft method called "war driving," which consisted of driving around with a laptop to find accessible wireless computer networks. According to an ANC News report, Attorney
box. When it comes to the Internet, you should use updated computer security programs and be aware of any Web site's security status. Although none of these precautions are foolproof, they will help to keep your information safe.
General Michael Mukasey is calling this "the single largest and most complex identity theft case that's ever been charged in this country."
If you do become a victim of identity theft, the FTC suggests four general steps which should be taken immediately upon becoming aware of the fraud. The first step is to review your credit reports and set a fraud alert on them. Secondly, you should terminate accounts that have been tampered with or opened without your permission. When you open new accounts, use different PINs and passwords. You can also file a complaint with the FTC. Law enforcement officials can then use the information from your
On Aug. 5, federal prosecutors announced the indictment of a global identity theft, whose members allegedly obtained 40 million account numbers by hacking into network systems of major retailers.
Considering the prevalence of identity theft, it is important to consider ways to protect yourself from identity theft. The FTC recommends that you shred any trash — such as charge receipts, bank statements, expired charge cards and pre-approved credit offers — that contain your personal information. Do not carry your Social Security number with you, and refrain from letting your mail sit in your mail-
from your claim to track down identity thieves, and further action can be taken on your claims. This can also entitle you to certain protections such as keeping negative information off your credit report.
The final step that the FTC recommends is to visit your neighborhood police department and file an identity theft report.
If you would like further information on what to do if you are a victim of identity theft or additional tips on how to responsibly protect your personal information, visit the Federal Trade Commission's Web site at www.ftc.gov and the Web site for the Identity Theft Research Center, a non-profit organization, at www.idtheftcenter.org.
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On Aug. 27, the KU Public Safety office reported six separate instances of fraudulently using stolen checks to make purchases, totalling abut $567.
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2009. If the 5 percent cut for 2010 were approved, it would reduce the University's budget by $19.2 million: a $10.7 million reduction in Lawrence and an $8.5 million reduction at the Med Center.
The proposed cut for 2010, the Chancellor said in the letter, would surpass the entire general use budget for the School of Pharmacy, for example, which is $9.4 million.
Hemenway said the Lawrence campus was still looking at what
kind of reductions in revenue it might have to deal with. This summer the Med Center declared a 90-day delay in hiring any new faculty or staff to prepare for possible budget reductions.
Hemenway said the Lawrence campus hadn't made a hiring decision yet, because it operated on a different hiring schedule than the Med Center.
"They're studying it, which is the responsible thing to do, to make sure
they get themselves ready to deal with any cuts" Hemenway said.
Hemenway said the University would consider raising tuition only as a last resort, and that it had not entered into the tuition compact lightly. The compact ensures incoming freshman pay a fixed tuition rate for four years.
Lynn Britz, director of University communications, said the administration was hoping for the best but planning for the worst.
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with the Center for East Asian Studies, helped plan the visit and said Gyatso's lecture would give students the opportunity to hear a personal story from Tibet.
"It's certainly an experience much different than a lot of people in Kansas have endured," Vonholten said.
Ercums said it would also provide students with an opportunity to discuss the events in Tibet and gain a broader understanding of a different culture. He said Marsha Haufler, acting director of the
Center for East Asian Studies, contacted him about finding an artist to speak on campus.
Ercums said the museum first considered looking for an artist from China because the visit was planned to coincide with the Olympics. The museum decided to go with a Tibetan artist after the controversy surrounding Tibet and China and the riots in Lhasa last March.
"I hope that it really helps students to begin to think about themselves in relationship to the
In addition to the lecture, Gyatso will be present for a meet and greet with interested students and faculty on Aug. 29 at the museum. He will also participate in a facilitated discussion at the Kansas City Art Institute H&R Block Artspace on Aug. 30.
world at large," Ercums said.
All of the events are free and open to the public.
Edited by Jennifer Torline
GLOBAL WARMING Arctic Ocean ice levels may reach record lows
WASHINGTON — More ominous signs Wednesday have scientists saying that a global warming "tipping point" in the Arctic seems to be happening before their eyes: Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is at its second lowest level in about 30 years.
The National Snow and Ice Data Center reported that sea ice in the Arctic now covers
about 2.03 million square miles. The lowest point since satellite measurements began in 1979 was 1.65 million square miles set last September. With three weeks left in the Arctic summer, this year could wind up breaking that record, scientists said.
Arctic ice always melts in summer and refreezes in winter. But over the years, more of the ice is lost to the sea with less of it recovered in winter.
Within "five to less than 10 years"; the Arctic could be free of
sea ice in the summer, said NASA ice scientist Jay Zwally.
"It also means that climate warming is also coming larger and faster than the models are predicting and nobody's really taken into account that change yet," he said.
The most recent ice retreat primarily reflects melt in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska's northwest coast and the East Siberian Sea off the coast of eastern Russia, according to the center.
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Michael Dellaven, Topeka graduate teaching assistant, works Wednesday afternoon in a Wescoe Hall classroom that has been converted into office space for GTAs working in the Department of German. Several other departments, including the departments of English, Slavic languages and literature, history and philosophy, have also seen their offices moved because of construction at Wescoe Hall.
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Ali Brox shared her office on campus with two people last year. That number has more than quadrupled this year.
Other new office locations include Watson Library and the Military Science Annex.
"There were only three of us in my office last year," Brox said. "We were spoiled."
The Department of French and Italian moved all of its GTAs and lecturers from Wescoe Hall to the Military Science Annex, located behind the Military Science building.
Brox, graduate teaching assistant for the department of English, is one of 235 GTAs and faculty members who have had their offices displaced by construction at Wescoe Hall. Some were moved into buildings around campus. Others, including Brox, were grouped together in classrooms on the fourth floor of Wescoe where as many as 20 GTAs share the same room.
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Sarah Greenwood, office manager of the Department of French
Gilles Viennot, Paris GTA for the Department of French and Italian, was among 30 instructors from the department whose offices were moved to the annex. He said he worried that the new location discouraged students from visiting him during office hours.
She also said there weren't enough computers in the new office for all the people who had been moved there.
Greenwood said some people confused the annex with the Military Science Building or the new Sabatini Multicultural Resource Center next to the Kansas Union because the annex housed the Multicultural Resource Center last year.
Some humanities departments, including English, history and East Asian languages and cultures, have moved their offices into former classrooms on the fourth floor of Wescoe hall.
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The Department of English has its GTA offices in two classrooms in Wescoe and in small rooms on the fifth floor of Watson Library.
She said that although the big room could be noisier, it was a good place to socialize with other GTAs who were teaching the same course and often taking the same classes.
Don Steeples, vice provost for scholarly support, said those who had been displaced should be back to their previous locations by August 2009.
Chen said the noise level in her shared office forced her to use a separate conference room in Wescoe when meeting with students.
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"It's a little difficult to communicate with people who don't know the place." Greenwood said.
and Italian, said she received mixed responses from GTAs. She said some of them liked the isolation and quiet environment of the Annex, but others thought the building's distance from their classes in Wescoe Hall was inconvenient. Greenwood also said some students were confused about the new location of the GTAs' offices.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 2008
City springs for free shuttle to home football games
BY BETSY CUTCLIFF
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Beginning Saturday, a free shuttle, provided by the city of Lawrence, will charter fans from downtown to Memorial Stadium for home football games.
starting two hours before kickoff, the bus will shuttle fans from the garages at Ninth and New Hampshire streets and Sixth and New Hampshire streets to Memorial Stadium. The buses will continue for one hour after the game ends. The two designated garages are the lower level of the Riverfront parking garage and the entire Ninth and New Hampshire garage. Both will be free on home game days.
City Manager Dave Corliss, who helped approve the busing plan, said the shuttle was an easy decision.
"A lot of it has to do with the success of the football team," Corliss said. "We've always had problems with people parking in the surrounding neighborhoods."
City ordinance prohibits cars
from blocking driveways and parking within 30 feet of a curb, but during football games some fans ignore traffic laws.
The new football complex replaced the parking lot east of Memorial Stadium, initially eliminating 678 spots, said Donna
Hultine, director of Parking and Transit. Hultine said the University added more parking spots west of the stadium, which brought the total loss of spots to about 300. She said the football shuttle would help get people situated for game
the shuttle was a great idea and would benefit not only the football fans, but the city itself.
"It attracts people to the home games, and you draw more people to the city," she said. "It may make people more likely to come out rather than watching it on TV."
"We are always looking to increase use of our downtown. Now people can shop and eat before they go to the game."
"It's really smart of them to do, to give people more options for parking, because before it was either pre-sold or toll," Hultine said.
DAVE CORLISS
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Naomi Wilfred. Boston junior, tried to go to every football game last year, and planned to do the same this year. She said she thought
Corliss also anticipated more business in the downtown area because of the shuttle.
shop and eat before they go to the game"
"We are always looking to increase use of our downtown," he said. "Now people can
But not everybody thinks the shuttle is a good idea. Louie Disney, door manager of Abe and Jake's Landing, said he was upset at the city's decision to use the bottom level of the Riverfront garage because it was the designated place
for bar patrons to park.
"The biggest problem I see is that this is taking away parking spaces for people who want to come to Abe and Jake's," Disney said. "It will force them to park upstairs in the hotel parking lot and get their cars towed."
Disney also said he was worried about those who chose to leave their cars in the parking lot overnight.
"People won't be able to leave their cars there on Friday nights, and instead of calling SafeRide of getting a ride home, they will just drive drunk," he said. "It isn't fair for our customers to have to park somewhere else."
Corliss said the idea was brought up only a few weeks ago and that it would be paid for with city parking funds and other tax funds.
The shuttle will run for each home football game, and will continuously make only three stops: the two parking garages and the stadium. The buses will be marked "Downtown/Football Shuttle."
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"I can only characterize this as an extremely rare incident, and an unfortunate one," Cohen said.
was released later on Monday after posting a $15,000 bond. He is scheduled to appear in Douglas County court on Sept. 8, according to the Douglas County Sheriff's Office.
Todd Cohen, director of University Relations, declined to comment on the specifics of the incident, citing University policy regarding public disclosure of personnel issues.
According to Captain Schuyler Bailey, public information officer for the KU Public Safety Office, Prisinzano contacted authorities after becoming concerned about suspicious aspects of Schmidt's research in the Malott laboratories.
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OUTSIDE GORI, Georgia — A Russian military convoy defied a cease-fire agreement Wednesday and rolled through a strategically important city in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, which claimed fresh looting and bombing by the Russians and their allies.
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Political organizations strive for increased registration
BY JESSE TRIMBLE
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Efforts to register students to vote on campus are in full swing.
The last day to register is Oct. 20. Campus organizations such as KU Young Democrats, KU College Republicans and Student Legislative Awareness Board are dedicating the next two months to reach as many students as possible.
Andrew Toth, Colby sophomore and president of KU Young Democrats, said it was not just about getting people to vote for Democratic candidates, but rather about overall civic engagement.
"We want this to be a bipartisan effort. We want people who can vote to vote and students who can register to register," Toth said.
where to register
Toth said KU Young Democrats will set up a booth on Wescoe Beach on Sept. 2-4 and Sept. 9-11, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
On Campus:
Wescoe Beach Sept. 2 - 4 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Sept. 9 - 11 at the same times
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Douglas County Clerk's office, 1100 Massachusetts St., (785) 832-5147
Douglas County Health Dept., 200 Maine St, Suite B,
(785) 843-0721
Toth said KU Young Democrats is working in conjunction with Students for Barack Obama, SLAB and Students for Boyda and Moore. He said KU Young Democrats plan to set up tables in Mrs. E's before the voter registration deadline.
Michael Gray, Buhler junior and legislative director of SLAB, said that he was surprised by the number of students who registered last week.
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"This is a third of what was done last year within the first week," Gray said. "I think we've done an excellent job just getting the word out to students."
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between 100 and 150 students this past week. The group is also reaching out to the Greek and scholarship hall communities in an effort to involve even more students.
Ryan Lawler, Brolingbrook, Ill., senior and SLAB community affairs director, said the main goal for SLAB was to do more than sit on Wesco Beach.
"We want to reach out to students where they live, where they are comfortable and where they are accessible," Lawler said. "We're reaching out instead of sitting back and just considering the circumstances this year."
SLAB has been meeting with several sororities, fraternities, scholarship hall communities and residence halls.
stance on issues like abortion, gay marriage, gun rights and capital punishment. SLAB also included polling locations and instructions for absentee ballots in the packets. The Department of Student Housing distributed the packets through the residence halls.
College Republicans and Delta Force are also joining the effort to help register students.
Toth said increased numbers of students were interested in registering this year compared with previous years.
"People are excited about this. There's a lot of enthusiasm, especially from freshmen," Toth said. "This whole election season is making everyone enthusiastic about civic engagement and involvement."
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Sex offender sentenced to death
BY REBECCA BOONE
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The jurors' recommendation was binding on U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge, who thanked them, dismissed them and then sentenced Joseph Duncan III.
BOISE, Idaho — A longtime sex offender was sentenced to death Wednesday for the 2005 kidnapping, torture and murder of a 9-year-old northern Idaho boy after federal jurors who watched video of some of the brutality deliberated for just three hours.
Relatives of the victim, Dylan Groene, remained somber as the jury's decision was announced. Duncan murdered Dylan's mother, older brother and his mother's fiance to kidnap him and his younger sister, who was sexually abused along with her brother but survived.
"We're happy with the verdict, but it's a shame — this should have been limited to one death," said Steven Groene, the father of the children. "He should have had the courage and the guts to kill himself before killing anyone else."
Duncan showed no reaction other than smiling as the verdict was passed to the judge.
He took Dylan and the boy's then-8-year-old sister, Shasta, to a remote western Montana campsite where he raped, tortured and threatened them before shooting Dylan in the head and burning his body. Jurors viewed horrifying video Duncan made of him sexually abusing, torturing and hanging Dylan until the boy lost consciousness.
"This defendant is dangerous. He is a predator who takes pride in his work," prosecutor Traci Whelan said. "He earned this day. His actions call out for the death penalty."
Duncan acted as his own attorney but had offered no response to prosecutors' closing argument.
"I have no argument," he told the court.
With an eye toward kidnapping the two children, Duncan stalked their family. In 2005 he entered their Coeur d'Alene-area home and used a hammer to fatally bludgeon their 13-year-old brother, Slade Groene, his mother, Brenda Groene, and her fiance, Mark McKenzie.
Duncan pleaded guilty in December to 10 federal charges involving the kidnappings and the murder of Dylan. He pleaded guilty to the other three murders in state court, where he also could be sentenced to death.
Duncan was arrested and Shasta rescued weeks after the kidnappings when a waitress at a Denny's in Coeur d'Alene called police after recognizing the two as they ate.
After the verdict, the jurors were whisked away from the federal courthouse in two white vans
so they could avoid the phalanx of media covering the hearing.
"The jury speaks the mind of the community." U.S. Attorney Tom Moss said. "By the verdict today, they have given voice to the victims."
In closing arguments, Whelan reminded the jury of Duncan's lifelong "pattern of violence" including a conviction for raping a boy at gunpoint in 1980. Duncan has told investigators he killed two half-sisters from Seattle in 1996, and he is charged with killing a young boy in Riverside County, Calif., in 1997.
Duncan may now be brought to Riverside County to stand trial in the death of Anthony Martinez.
Darlene Torres, Brenda Groene's mother, said she is glad the federal case is over.
"Justice has been served," Torres said. "It's been very painful."
She said that when she saw Duncan in court, "I seen nothing but an evil, empty, coldhearted shell."
It's hard to tell if the end of the federal case will offer any comfort to Shasta, her father said.
"I can't speak for Shasta. I can't get inside her head," Groene said. "Possibly now we'll have to be dragged through a court proceeding in California. If they go ahead with the prosecution, it would be such as waste of taxpayer money because he'll never spend a day in a California prison."
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DENVER — Former President Clinton forcefully endorsed Barack Obama's bid for the White House on Wednesday, telling delegates to the Democratic convention that Obama is "ready to lead America and restore American leadership in the world."
Clinton was by turns funny, nostalgic and womish, touching on issues like health care and pension benefits.
"With Joe Biden's experience and wisdom, supporting Barack Obama's proven understanding, insight and good instincts, America will have the national security leadership we need," Clinton said.
Clinton pushed back on attacks — initiated by himself and his wife during the bitter primary campaign, and later taken up by Republican John McCain — that Obama is ill-prepared for the White House, especially on matters of national defense.
Clinton campaigned feverishly for his wife, Hillary Rodham
Clinton, in her long-fought primary battle against Obama, and took her loss hard. He had not spoken out as strongly in support of Obama since he clinched the nomination in June. B u n t
Clinton, ever mindful of himself, likened Obama's presidential quest to his own bid for the presidency in 1992, when "Republicans said I was too young and too
But Wednesday,
"...supporting Barack Obama's proven understanding, insight and good instincts, America will have the national security leadership we need."
Jabbing a finger at thousands of cheering delegates, he declared: "I want all of you who supported her to vote for Barack Obama in November."
he was unambiguous in passing the torch of Democratic leadership to Obama.
BILL CLINTON
Former U.S. president
Running just over 20 minutes, the speech by the godfather of the Democratic Party whipped thousands of delegates into an exuberant frenzy. Where a night before they had hoisted "Hillary" banners, on this night they waved American flags.
The delegates stood on their feet and roared for nearly $3\frac{1}{2}$ minutes when Clinton walked on stage. The former president basked in their affection, but after several false starts at his speech, commanded: "Sit down!"
inexperienced to be commander in chief."
is on the right side of history."
"Sound familiar?"
Clinton said.
"It didn't work in 1992, because we were on the right side of history. And it won't work in 2008, because Barack Obama
He allowed that the primary campaign had generated "so much heat it increased global warming."
The former president's wideranging speech also attacked Republicans for an "exploding" national debt and misguided foreign policy.
Clinton's address elicited some nostalgia of its own among the delegates.
"He can still mesmerize a crowd," said Oregon delegate Sam Sappington.
Standing nearby, Lloyd Henion,
who came to Denver as a Clinton
delegate from Oregon, said the former president "hit a 500-foot home run. He hit all the points."
"That was as clear a message as you could get as to why Barack Obama should be president," Henion said of Bill Clinton's speech.
During the primary race, the former president tried to raise doubts about whether the first-term Illinois senator had the experience to lead the country. He said Obama's opposition to the Iraq war was a "fairy tale."
Clinton's challenge Wednesday night was tall, because he himself had questioned Obama's credentials.
"I mean, when is the last time we elected a president based on one year of service in the Senate before he started running?" Clinton said on "The Charlie Rose Show. "In theory, we could find someone who is a gifted television commentator and let them run."
Last fall, he dismissed Obama as totally unqualified.
Last winter, Clinton said that after "all the mean things" the Obama campaign had said about him. "I should be the last person to defend him. (But) if he wins this nomination, I'm going to do what I can to help him win."
Since Obama clinched the nomination in June, Clinton has seemed less than passionate about an Obama presidency, giving only lukewarm endorsements.
Clinton was departing Denver on Thursday morning, hours before Obama gives his acceptance speech.
Aides said this was standard practice for Clinton, and not a snub. Clinton did likewise at the 2000 and 2004 conventions.
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What are you doing, El Gato?
I am writing a post-apocalyptic short story set after the polar ice caps melt. Sand on ice loss hits reindeer on an ice drift, so he is stuck on the now-stanley North Pole!
El Gato, there already is a Christmas Island. It's in the Indian Ocean!
Look it up! LIES!
Easter Island
So she asked me to surprise her and did what I knew.
Other people there think about blood thirsty rocals that bleed with blood.
Coral was with coral when we were out.
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MUSIC
Snoop awaits visa for tour
BY TANALEE SMITH ASSOCIATED PRESS
SYDNEY, Australia — The immigration department said Wednesday it was conducting a character assessment of Snoop Dogg, including his criminal history, as Australia considers whether to grant the rapper a visa for a concert tour later this year.
A department spokesman said the rapper, whose birth name is Cordozar Calvin Broadus Jr., applied for a visa in July and the department carried out a preliminary assessment. Snoop Dogg and fellow hip-hop star Ice Cube plan an Australian concert tour in October.
"The department has now decided to do a full assessment of the character of Mr. Broadus, and the department has begun this assessment," the spokesman said, speaking on condition of anonymity as required by the department.
The spokesman said the rapper had visited Australia three times in 1998, 2006 and 2007, without incident, though he did overstay his visa by two days on the last visit.
Snoop Dogg withdrew his application for a visa to Australia last year when he failed to pass the character requirements.
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Singer Snoop Dogg poses at the 2008 CM Awards in Nashville, Tenn. The rapper plans an Australian tour with Ice Cube in October.
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If your mate is getting more argumentative, get used to it. There will be more competition, too, for the next few weeks. You can hold your own.
HOROSCOPE
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 7
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Today is an 8
Put off a major purchase for just a little while. Do a few more hours' work and what would now be a stretch will become affordable. It's wonderful, how that happens.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21)
Todav is a 6
It's getting easier to express your true feelings again. This is especially true when you're with somebody you love. In fact, you can bet on it. Set a romantic scene.
CANCER (June 22-July 22)
Today is a 9
Today is a 9
Ask for what you've got coming,
and you're liable to get it.
Then, ask for what you want,
just for the fun of it. Be charming
and win big.
During the next few weeks,
you can make a lot of money.
Don't spend it all on toys. Get
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update your skills.
LEO (July 23-Aug.22)
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is an 8
Don't take on the majority of the work; spread it around. It's true, you can do most jobs better than anyone else, but don't. It's important for them to learn.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 7
You're learning new ways to express yourself. This is a wonderful thing. People will find it easier to understand your brilliant perceptions. A picture is worth at least a thousand words.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 7
An opportunity to advance in your career is coming up soon. You'll gain the inside track by finishing something you've already promised to do. You know what it is.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is a 6
New energy from far away spurs your team to greater success. Your team is getting smarter too, and that never hurts.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is an 8
You'll be asked to report on what you've recently learned. How can you apply this education in a practical sense?
You'll have to stand back and let somebody else perform for a while. Rely on your partner to achieve the next success for you both.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is a 7
There's a little more work involved now, but it's certainly not going to kill you. It's the push that sends you over the top.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is an 8
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5 Weekend abbr.
8 Convince
12 Henry VIII's sixth wife
13 — Beta Kappa
14 Employ
15 Out of the storm
16 Operated
17 Omar of "House"
18 Shrimp recipe
20 Harvard rival
22 Sunrise
26 Un- embellished
29 Have a bug
30 Have a balance
31 Describe
32 Muppets creator Henson
33 Fervent following
34 Scepter topper
35 Take a chair
36 Rwandan people
37 See 36- Down
40 Cameo stone
41 Balloon fill
45 Diamond corner
47 Altar affirmative
49 Highly rated
50 Satan's forte
51 Greek consonants
52 Use a teaspoon
53 Transaction
54 Understand
55 Fill till full
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2 Post-bath application
3 Vicinity
4 Glitch-causing gnome
5 Piece of parsley
6 "I thought so"
7 Cratchit kid
8 Ledge
9 Obliterated
10 Dadaist Jean
11 "Absolutely"
19 Brooch
21 "You've got mail" biz
23 Part of Hispaniola
24 Puncturing tools
25 Bigfoot's cousin
26 Trudge (on)
27 Old Italian coin
28 Food of the gods
32 Putting a whammy on
33 Pirate's weapon
35 Firmament
36 With 37- Across, Batman
38 Final bell?
39 Spirit
42 Tittle
43 Monad
44 No more than
45 Founda- tion
46 Rd.
48 Pavable
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BOLLYWOOD Warner Bros. sues film for copying Harry Potter
MUMBAI, India — Bollywood producers set to release a film called "Hari Puttar: A Comedy of Terrors" are working to fend off a lawsuit filed by Warner Bros. that shows the movie title hews too closely to their mega-famous boy wizard franchise. While Bollywood films often borrow liberally from Western movies, producers of "Hari Puttar: A Comedy of Terrors"
say their movie bears no resemblance to any film in the "Harry Potter" series.
Munish Purii, chief executive officer of Mumbai-based producer Mirchi Movies., said Hari is a common name in India and "puttar" is Punjabi for son.
The film is not a tale of a wizard, but rather a story of an Indian boy left home alone, who fights off burglars when his parents go away on vacation — a plot more reminiscent of the film "Home Alone," starring Macaulay Culkin.
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Guns don't belong in school, period
What if you walked into your first class this week, sat down, got out some paper to scribble notes on and then you noticed that the professor at the front of the room is strapped with a 9-millimeter handgun on their belt? What would be your first reaction? Some say this occurrence should take place in every classroom in the country. Those some are also from the great state of Texas - the biggest bunch of "freedom" loving, church-going, gun-toting folks will ever meet.
The school district in Harrold, Texas will allow all staff members to carry concealed weapons starting this fall. The district's superintendent, David Thweatt, said that the schools are at a disadvantage in the case of an emergency because the nearest sheriff's office is 30 minutes away. He also says that the district is near a very busy highway which could increase the chance of being targeted in a school shooting.
The teachers and staff would have to take a crisis management training course and obtain a concealed weapons permit. Concealed weapons permits aren't exactly the be-all and end-all of gun responsibility.
Anyone who wants to carry a gun around can go to the nearest gun show and sit through a two-hour crash course on gun laws and safety tips. The state runs a background check and barring any prior felonies, restraining orders or mental illnesses, the gun nut receives their license to carry a deadly weapon with them at all times.
the federal government started making schools gun-free zones, that's when all of these shootings started. Why would you put it out there that a group of people can't defend themselves? That's like saying 'sic' em to a dog."
While it is true that Congress tried to ban weapons from schools with the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990, the Supreme Court subsequently shot that down in the case of United States v. Lopez where they ruled that the act was an unconstitutional exercise of Congressional authority. Therefore it is left up to each institution (or school district in this case) to decide whether to allow legally carried guns into schools.
Thweatt told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, "When
Students and faculty at the University of Utah are allowed to carry weapons on school premises, but that has been highly contested by anti-violence groups who say that guns should be limited to trained public officials like police officers. The University of Utah actually preferred to have neither students nor faculty carrying weapons at all and instituted a weapons ban, but the issue was brought before the Utah Supreme Court and the ban was struck down in 2006.
There is absolutely no reason for anyone other than police officers or security officials to have guns. Allowing the average citizen to carry a weapon into a school only increases the potential for tragedy. Miscommunication could lead to disaster. A teacher may interpret a student's body language to be threatening or vice versa and then chaos ensues.
— Central Florida Future Aug.27 editorial
letter to the editor
Dear Students,
This Saturday evening, we will open the 2008 season by hosting Florida International University on Kivisto Field at Memorial Stadium.
As always, our players and coaches appreciate the great support of our students. There is no doubt our student section has a reputation for being one of the most enthusiastic in America.
very exciting season. However, we'll need your help. Cheer loud and get the stadium
DANIEL A. MCKINNEY
We expect 2008 to be a
Again, thank you for your loyal support and please cheer responsibly.
rock'n the whole game!
-coach Mark Mangina
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In 2003 women's rights advocate Gloria Steinem wrote an article titled "The Feminist To-Do List," where she outlined five of the most important issues that women's movements should be focusing on. That article shed light on how many problems the term "women's issues" encompasses.
CAITLIN THORNBRUGH
Women's issues encompass much more than presumed
The items in her list were:
"Demand hydrogen" as an energy alternative; "make this a real democracy" by getting more citizens to register to vote; spread condoms and stop the spread of AIDS; "fix healthcare;" and put an end to smoking.
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Steinem's to-do list addresses significant problems in society, and introduces the idea that women's issues can by a myriad of unconventional topics. We should still be working on solving the problems she presented, and to add to the workload here are the top five things on my own feminist to-do list.
1. Decrease Poverty.
dar wrap in between classes. But, if it lowers the risk of a mastectomy it's worth it.
Volunteer at a shelter, throw away your copy of Cosmo and find out the meaning behind the pink ribbon. In two years I will be trying to find a job in a work force that already wants to give me less money than the guy sitting next to me. I hope by then some of the things on my to-do list will be crossed off.
In a world where, according to Estelle Freedman's No Turning Back, 70 percent of people living in poverty are women, how can working toward a solution not be on the list? Ending poverty is a long way off, but start by volunteering at the Lawrence Community Shelter. Serving a meal at the homeless shelter downtown may not seem to help immensely, but when you begin to talk to the residents of the shelter you will see that just acknowledging the problem makes a difference.
Thornbrugh is a Lenexa senior in journalism.
From an early age women are bombarded with thousands of advertisements telling them to have smaller hips, bigger breasts, tanner skin, expensive clothes, longer eyeslashes, blonder hair and smoother legs until you end up with a carbon copy of a Barbie doll who has almost no self-esteem and wants to spend $10,000 on breast augmentation followed by another $4,000 on a new nose. Body image in America needs its own makeover before all women become cosmetic junkies looking for their next Ken doll and collagen injection.
2. Unlearn the Unrealistic Image.
3. The new S.O.B.: Save our Breasts!
According to Freedman two-thirds of those who are illiterate are women. The National Assessment of Adult Literacy found in 2003 that 11 million adults in the United States who were illiterate. This problem is extremely close to home and demands a reform in education.
In 2008, the National Cancer Institute estimated there were 182,460 new breast cancer cases in women in the United States and 1,990 new male cases. An estimated 40,930 deaths caused by breast cancer will occur in the U.S. this year. This has become an epidemic which needs more than a pink ribbon. To start preventative measures the Mayo Clinic recommends maintaining a healthy weight, reducing alcohol intake, exercising and limiting the amount of fat in a diet. In college it can be hard to find the time to work out or to skip the crunchy chicken ched-
Sen. Hillary Clinton conceded by saying "Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it." The glass ceiling may have cracks in it, but it is a long way from being shattered completely. According to the National Women's Law Center in 2006, women earned 76.6 percent as much as men. It is even worse when looking at Hispanic women who earn 52 cents per dollar and African-American women who earn just 64 cents to every dollar earned by white men.
4. Mind the Gap... maybe even close it?
5. Reform Education.
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Nauseating Democrat speeches in Denver
Yes We Can!
I had the honor and privilege of watching about 90 minutes of the Democratic National Convention on Monday night as I ate dinner. Although it was an appalling display of trickery laden with false promises and emotional appeals, I did feel a little better after learning that Barack Obama is going to single-handedly solve a majority of the world's problems and that Ted Kennedy enjoys sailing. Even more heartwarming. Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, JFK's daughter, says that all the kids in the family know that the "best cookies and the best laughs are at Uncle Teddy's house." That sounds delicious; are they peanut butter or chocolate chip? I'm voting for Barack Obama because his friend Uncle Tedy is funny and he likes cookies.
I suppose that kind of appeal to an idiot's emotions is to be expected at that sort of event, and will no doubt enjoy a large presence at the Republican National Convention as well. I'll jump them for it when the time comes. Meanwhile, we have the Democrats to
pick on.
Although the Convention in Denver is designed to lack substance, what little substance exists is enough to make one roll his eyes and/or holler at the television set. What irked me the most was when the speakers would repeatedly refer to one's "right" to health care. It is Uncle Teddy's contention that health care should be a "fundamental right and not a privilege." There's a fundamental problem with that claim.
Compare other rights to the alleged right to health care. The right to free speech gives me the right to say what I want. I have that right until someone comes along and forces me to
shut up. I have the right to work for an employer of my choosing; I have that right until someone forces me to work elsewhere. I'm not talking about constitutional rights here; it's simply the natural way of things. You have freedom until someone takes it away.
Health care isn't like that. I don't have health care until someone agrees to treat me. If I say that I have a right to health care, what I'm really saying is that I have a right to slaves who will be forced to provide it for me. I don't want slaves, and I certainly don't want to be someone else's.
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Man, all of my professors keep teaching past the whistle. On that's right, the whistle isn't blowing.
Shit, I just got Bel Air'd by the UDK comic strip.
--fall into this trap..
Dammit, Watson.
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I've been married to your mother for 100 years!
--fall into this trap..
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I live in a house with 10 other guys. How long before we go insane?
--fall into this trap..
I like to think of a frat call as an Easter egg hunt.
So, since mopeds can take up our precious yellow spaces does that mean I'm allowed to ram my car into the bike racks in front of Budig now?
--fall into this trap..
The Greek life is for stuck up people who can't make any friends otherwise.
--fall into this trap..
I love you. I always have and I always will. I hate knowing that I am no longer the person that makes you smile. Maybe someday you'll realize what we had.
--fall into this trap..
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I just keep getting caught in this never-ending cycle. Why does this keep happening to me? Or maybe I should ask how I keep letting myself
I think the UDK is seriously falling short this year on news stories. Get with it.
I lost my keys on campus today. They have a pink and black penguin keychain. I think I lost them in or around Haworth Hall. If you found them please let me know where you left them. Thanks
--joy.
Does anyone else love people-watching on campus? I try to decipher if people are down to earth or douchebags based on the way they dress, walk, and talk. This gives me
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Thanks for keeping me updated on the nun fashion show UDK.
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feelings about being passed over for the vice president position, but said she was delighted to have had the spotlight on Kansas and its achievements.
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Saturday that Joe Biden would be his running mate, rumors have circulated that Sebelius would likely be offered a cabinet position.
But Sebelius gave nothing away about her future plans, repeating statements she made when asked if she would be Obama's running mate.
"I love my job, and I'm not looking for a new one," she said. "Right now I am not even going there."
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Sebelius' second and final term as governor will end in 2010. Sebelius is unable to run for a third term by state law.
She also rejected rumors that she would run for the Sam Brownback's U.S. Senate position. Brownback (R-Kan.) recently announced he would not seek reelection.
Sebelius said her only concern was continuing to make progress in Kansas and she was not looking that far into the future.
Democratic National Convention.
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius helps pack medical supplies as part of a service project for delegates attending the Democratic Convention. Sebelius said she was glad the spotlight had been on Kansas recently because it brought attention to the state's achievements.
She denied to comment on her
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Sebellus, who is co-chairwoman of the convention, participated in a discussion of the Democratic Party's health care policies Monday. Tuesday she gave the evening's first primetime speech, not allowing her the opportunity to meet with Kansas delegates until Wednesday.
"I'm sorry that I have not spent as much time with you at this convention as I would have liked," she told the delegates at breakfast.
She reminded delegates that their work was not finished vet.
"When you leave Denver I want you to be ready to roll up your sleeves and go to work," she said, pointing out that there were only 68 days until the general election on Nov. 4. "That's really not a lot of time."
After breakfast, Sebelius accompanied the delegates to the convention's first-ever Delegate Service Day. Delegates from each state were
assigned to various service projects, many which benefit Denver but also some that had international reach.
organization that collects and distributes medical supplies to countries in need.
Kansas delegates were assigned to Project C.U.R.E., a non-profit
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Biden says he and Obama 'share a common story'
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DENVER — At first Joe Biden's demeanor was calm and controlled as he made his first speech as the official Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Wednesday night.
It seemed political commentators were wrong when they predicted he would play the role of attack dog in the Obama campaign. But slowly, Biden's voice got louder
and angrier, plateauing when he told the audience, "John McCain was wrong, and Barack Obama was right," about the war in Iraq.
"In the Senate, John sided with President Bush 95 percent of the time. Give me a break," Biden said.
Republicans and analysts wondered if Biden would make a detrimental slip of tongue, but the only mistake Biden made was what he called a Freudian one: He referred to John McCain as George Bush.
Biden even embraced his previ
ous, questionable behavior saying. "Failure at some point in everyone's life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable."
Biden also emphasized his compatibility with the Obama campaign, citing he and Obama's common, humble backgrounds, anti-Iraq war policies and belief in change.
"Barack Obama and I took very different journeys to this destination, but we share a common story," Biden said.
After his speech Biden was joined on the stage first by Barack Obama, who made a surprise appearance, and then by his family. The convention's band played "We are family."
Biden was officially nominated as the Vice Presidential candidate Wednesday evening when Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi suspended the convention rules and nominated Biden by acclimation instead of taking a vote.
Clinton stopped the roll call after New Mexico. At that time she had received 341.5 votes and Obama had received 1,549.5 of the 2,210 needed.
Obama was also formally nominated yesterday, when Hillary Clinton put a stop to the state delegations' roll call votes.
Clinton received six of Kansas' 37 votes.
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New Orleans gets ready for hurricane Gustav
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NEW ORLEANS — On the eve of Hurricane Katrina's third anniversary, a nervous New Orleans watched Wednesday as another storm threatened to test everything the city has rebuilt, and officials made preliminary plans to evacuate people and pets in an attempt to avoid a Katrina-style chaos.
Forecasters warned that Gustav could grow into a dangerous Category 3 hurricane in the next several days and hit somewhere along a swath of the Gulf Coast from the Florida Panhandle to Texas — with New Orleans smack in the middle.
"I'm panicking," said Evelyn Fuselier of Chalmette, whose home was submerged in 14 feet of floodwater when Katrina hit. Fuselier said she's been back in her home one year this month, and called watching Gustav swirl toward the Gulf of Mexico indescribable. "I keep thinking, 'Did the Corps fix the leves?' Is my house going to flood again?"
Taking no chances, city officials began preliminary planning to evacuate and lock down the city in hopes of avoiding the catastrophe that followed the 2005 storm. Mayor Ray Nagin left the Democratic National Convention in Denver to return home for the preparations. Gov. Bobby Jindal declared a state of emergency to lay the groundwork for federal assistance, and put 3,000 National Guard troops on standby.
Reginald Lee cuts grass around white flags at Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans Wednesday. The flags represented people who died during Hurricane Katrina.
If a Category 3 or stronger hurricane comes within 60 hours of the city, New Orleans plans to institute a mandatory evacuation order. Unlike Katrina, there will be no massive shelter at the
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It was unclear what would happen to stragglers. Jerry Sneed, the city's emergency preparedness director, said officials are ready to move about 30,000 people. Nearly 8,000 people had signed up for transportation help by late Wednesday.
At a suburban Lowe's store, employees said portable generators, gasoline cans, bottled water and batteries were selling briskly. Hotels across south Louisiana reported taking many reservations as coastal residents looked inland for possible refuge.
Superdome, a plan designed to encourage residents to leave. Instead, the state has arranged for buses and trains to take people to safety.
"Everybody learned a lesson about staying, so the highways will be twice as packed this time," Weaver said.
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Steve Weaver, 82, and his wife stayed for Katrina — and were plucked off the roof of their house by a Coast Guard helicopter. This time, Weaver has no inclination to ride out the storm
Katrina struck New Orleans on Aug. 29, 2005, and its storm surge blasted through the levees that protect the city. Eighty percent of the city was flooded.
Though pockets of the New Orleans are well on the way to recovery, many residents still live in temporary trailers, and shuttered homes still bear the 'X' that was painted to help rescue teams looking for the dead.
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The storm triggered flooding and landslides that killed 22 people in the Caribbean. It weakened into a tropical storm and appeared headed for Cuba, though it is likely to grow stronger in the coming days.
Since the storm, the Army Corps of Engineers has spent billions of dollars to improve the levee system, but because of two quiet hurricane seasons, the flood walls have never been tested.
Gustav formed Monday and roared ashore Tuesday as a Category 1 hurricane near the southern Haitian city of Jacmel with top winds near 90 mph, toppling palm trees and flooding the city's Victorian buildings.
Floodgates have been installed on drainage canals to stop any storm surge from entering the city, and levees have been raised and in many places strengthened with concrete. But they are not built to withstand a storm stronger than Katrina.
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Fantasy football: the stuff of memories
BY STEPHEN MONTEMAYOR
mayor@kansanjm
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Nearly every family has them: heirlooms, traditions, coming of age moments. A father gives his son his lucky fishing pole or a watch his great grandfather passed down.
One such moment transpired this summer when my dad relinquished the reins of Frank's Fantasy Football League to me. You'd be hard pressed to find a prouder pigskin prognosticator in Lawrence.
Growing up, I knew each year when football season was near by the sight of my house packed in the basement, garage and living room with fire-hazard amounts of friends and family.
And just as often as I was in awe of my dad achieving fantasy football glory, it was my mom who was in the middle of the wickedness, meticulously crafting a team that would put grown men to shame a few months later.
Rustling pages of their Fantasy Football Index and hurling insults, praise and beer cans after each draft pick, my dad and his friends made the annual draft became a spectacle in itself.
More than 20 years old, the FFFL is actually young considering fantasy football has been around for nearly 50 years.
Amidst the smell of homemade chili that permeated the house, my little brother Kevin and I took cover and hunkered down to watch the crazies in action.
So why does it still have that aura of a growing phenomena?
For one, lazy sportswriters and editors who cannot think of anything fresh to run in periods of relative sporting inactivity like to write "trend stories" or features on what they perceive to be an up-and-coming entity in sports.
So each year we are likely to see "fresh" takes on fantasy football's meteoric rise in popularity. Maybe headers along the lines of "Groups of Friends Gathering for Fantasy Drafts in Every State."
Stop the presses.
Truth is, fantasy football has grown substantially every year of its exis-
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Cole Aldrich grew up about six hours south of Canada in Bloomington, Minn.
He traveled to northern Minnesota a few times over the years and came as close as 15 minutes away from the Canadian border. But he never ventured across it. He never had any reason to.
That's going to change this weekend when the sophomore center and his teammates travel to Ottawa, Ontario, to play three exhibition games against Canadian universities. Kansas will play against
McCill University and Carleton University on Saturday and the University of Ottawa on Sunday.
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ROOKIE
Sophhore punter Alonso Rojas practices punting during open practice Aug. 15 at Memorial Stadium. Rojas transferred to Kansas from Bowling Green and could see time as a place kicker this season.
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Rojas seizes opportunity to help team Punter might also share place-kicking duties with Grady Fowler
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As a freshman at Kilian High School in Miami, Fla., seven years ago, Alonso Rojas joined the football team to fulfill a lifelong dream. He wasn't sure what position to play, but he just knew that he wanted to play football
Rojas was taking reps at linebacker one day when the coaching staff told the team that they needed a kicker. As someone who said he would always do whatever he needed to do to help the team win, Rojas knew he might be a decent candidate for the job.
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my coach, looking for him a kicker, and I told him that I played soccer," Rojas said. "That's basically how I got into it."
"My coach was looking for a
Rojas became the team's kicker and punter and never looked back, becoming www.scout.com's top rated prep punter by the time he graduated in 2006. Rojas played a year at Bowling Green as a true freshman in the fall of 2006 and averaged 35.6 yards per punt on 56 attempts. He also attempted three extra points, hitting two of them and kicked off four times. But following the season he decided to transfer, saying on Tuesday that he didn't want to discuss the reasons for his decision.
Rojas
After sitting out a year in 2007 and working on his punting at clinics and camps
I you got one guit quit and one guy ineligible, that's one way to separate yourself." Mangino said of Rojas and juco transfer Grady Fowler, who have now become the top two kicking candidates. "Sounds like a plan to me."
As of now, Fowler will handle the kicking duties and Rojas
around the country, Rojas signed with Kansas to replace Kyle Tucker as the team's punter this year. He had planned to just punt, but after two kickers left the program during training camp, he began taking reps at his old position of kicker as well.
As of now, For the kicking du will handle kickoffs and punts, but
"If wed had had Alonso take every rep from the beginning of camp, he'd be the guy lock, stock and robe" Mangino said of Roia's
Mangino made it clear that Rojas' kicking abilities will keep him in the mix.
"My coach was looking for a kicker, and I told him that I played soccer. That's basically how I got into it."
The 6-3, 220-pound Rojas cautioned that he had plenty of time in practice to work on both kicking and punting and that neither
chances at place-kicker. "But we have other responsibilities. He's gonna punt. He's gonna be the kickoff guy. He's new here. He's never played a game for us here at Kansas so we didn't want to load him down."
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Rojas has a stronger leg than Fowler, as evidenced by his duty as the kickoff man, meaning a situation could arise where
aspect of his game should struggle because of the added workload. Fowler struggled early in camp but won the praise and confidence of Mangino and the coaching staff with his ability to bounce back.
"He could have gotten down and felt bad for himself, but he didn't," Mangino said. "And that's the thing that jumps out to us coaches. Every day he kept coming back and working on his fundamentals, and the next thing you know, he's kicking the ball pretty well."
Fowler would handle the short kicks and Rojas, who said his ange was anywhere from 40 to 50 yards, could be called upon for the longer ones.
"I'm just looking forward to helping the team out as much as I can." Rosjas said. "Whether it be with field goals, kickoffs or
punts, my job is to do what the coaches ask of me to do, and that's what I'm planning on doing."
Because after all, Roias is doing what he wanted to do his whole life: He's playing football.
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quote of the day
"It seems like my whole life I've been this little Canadian kid dreaming somebody would give me a chance."
—Steve Nash, two-time NBA MVP and Canadian citizen
fact of the day
Ottawa boasts the world's largest naturally frozen ice rink according to Guinness World Records. The 4.8 mile long Rideau Canal Skateway winds through downtown Ottawa, and is usually frozen from late December to early March. The skating surface is the equivalent of 90 Olympic hockey rinks.
trivia of the day
Q: What was the inspiration behind the University of Ottawa's unique nickname, the Gee-Gees?
A: Gee-Gee is a horse racing term for the first horse out of the starting gate. It also refers to the university's colors, Garnett and Grey.
TELEVISION
Phelps to host SNL
LOS ANGELES — Butterfly, freestyle, relay — monologue? Michael Phelps is trading the pool for the "Saturday Night Live" stage.
The record-breaking swimmer, who took home eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics, will host the 34th season premiere of NBC's long-running late-night sketch-comedy series on Sept. 13.
Joining the 23-year-old athlete as musical guest will be rapper Lil Wayne. It will be the debut "SNL" appearances for both.
The network will air seven new "SNL" episodes before November's presidential election. The Sept. 13th premiere will mark the beginning of four new "SNL" shows in a row. NBC will also air three prime-time episodes of "Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday"
Patterson to make debut
Daymond Patterson loves PlayStation, loves sleeping, and
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loves Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Johnson. Makes sense, Johnson may be 6-foot-1 and Kansas' freshman wide receiver is only 5-foot-9, but like Johnson, Patterson is a burner.
"He can flat run." Kansas coach Mark Mangino said on Tuesday.
Because of his speed, Patterson may be able to fill a crucial role for Kansas this fall. Right now, Mangino has tabbed Patterson to start at punt returner this Saturday when Kansas begins its season against Florida International.
We'll see how
We'll see how much Patterson plays on offense, but who knows? Perhaps Patterson, a true freshman from Mesquite, Texas, could give the Jayhawks their own version of Jeremy Maclin, Missouri's play-making dynamo. Or maybe at least Jeremy Maclin-lite
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BY RUSTIN DODD
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Mario Cristobal, the head coach of Kansas' week one opponent Florida International, is one of the most tech savvy coaches in the country. Sure, Cristobal's team was lousy last year - they went 1-11. But Cristobal is part of a growing trend of football coaches who maintain their own blog on their school's athletic website.
Cristobal's blog, titled "Cristobal's Corner," gives fans an inside look at Florida International's football program. Sure, Cristobal probably isn't doing much of the "maintaining" during the season, but it still brings up an interesting point.
With the explosion of the internet, athletes and coaches have become extremely more transpar-
Professional athletes like Tiger Woods, Curt Schilling and Gilbert Arenas can have their own personal
websites and dispense information to the public without involving any of the old-school media types.
What's it all mean? Well for one, it means my parents are starting to think I picked the wrong major. But really, all this new technology means is that fans can follow their favorite teams easier, which is good.
But "Cristobal's Corner" made me think, could a Mangino blog be far behind? And what you call it? Send suggestions to morningrekwansan.com.
ent. And it's become effortless for them to contact their fan base without using any of the old media channels.
A TRIP TO THE GREAT WHITE NORTH
CHICAGO — Chicago Sun-Times columnist Jay Mariotti has resigned "to pursue other opportunities," the paper said.
RESIGNATION Sports columnist resigns
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Texas Rangers right-hander Vicente Padilla will miss his scheduled start Friday against the Los Angeles Angels with inflammation in the muscle joint between the neck and shoulder.
Padilla was put on the disabled list in July with a stiff neck and missed an August start with the injury.
Padilla, who leads the Rangers
hoping he can make his next scheduled start Sept. 3 against Seattle. Plus, rosters can expand to 40 on Monday.
with 12 victories and has a 4.98 ERA in 25 starts, couldn't throw bullpen sessions Tuesday or Wednesday
"He's not going to make it Friday," Rangers manager Ron Washington said. "This is frustrating. We want to win as many games as we possibly can."
Washington said the Rangers are not planning to put Padilla on the disabled list, instead
"We'll get (Dustin) Nippert prepared for Friday,"Washington said.
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This week's games:
1. #20 Illinois at #6 Missouri
2. Washington at #21 Oregon
5. Appalachian State at #7 LSU
3. #24 Alabama at #9 Clemson
8. Michigan State at California
4. #18 Tennessee at UCLA
6. Oklahoma State at Washington State
7. Syracuse at Northwestern
10. TCU at New Mexico
9. Idaho at Arizona
11. #18 Tennessee at UCLA (with score)
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Technicians look over computers and screens at the network operations center at MLB.com in New York on Wednesday. Umpires will be allowed to check video on home run calls starting today after Major League Baseball, guardian of Amerira's most traditional sport, reversed its decades-long opposition to instant replay.
NEW YORK — Baseball's repay center is an 18-by-24 foot room on the fifth floor of a former baking factory in Manhattan's Meatpacking District that's crammed with so many computers and television screens that it looks like NASAs Mission Control.
Five monitors stretch across the top of the wall, and beneath are eight 46-inch screens split into two rows. Each television can show one picture, or be split into nine, 16, 25 or 100 angles at once.
In the third row are two white Macintosh computers with 19-inch screens, each adjacent to a 26-inch TV. And, finally, below that are dozens of buttons on a router panel. Some are blue, some green, some red, some yellow. This is where the technicians and supervisors will sit.
The room is called the NOC — the Network Operations Center for MLB.com. It's where video from the 30 major league ballparks is already being collected, and will be made available to umpires starting today to help them with home-run calls. Technicians can zoom in on replays, run them at any speed.
"Pretty soon, we'll wonder how we got along without it, and we won't even be noticed." Jimmie Lee Solomon, executive vice president of baseball operations in the commissioner's office, said as reporters got a tour Wednesday.
Baseball spent $2.5 million and two months installing fiberlink lines, monitors and dedicated telephones to link every ballpark with the NOC. Major League Baseball Advanced Media will now collect both teams' video feeds from each game and send them here.
For the 20 to 30 games each year with no telecast, MLBAM already is sending its own production truck, with six to eight cameras. And just in case there's a power failure at the NOC, the control room has emergency battery power just behind the wall and a generator on the roof with at least 12 hours of fuel.
The transformation is dramatic for a site where Oreos, Mallomars and Animal Crackers used to be cooked up — and the change is about as radical for MLB.
Baseball was the last replay holdout among the major U.S. professional leagues, one so conservative that National League president Len Coleman chastised umpire Frank Pulli for consulting a monitor in May 1999 before awarding Florida's Cliff Floyd a double rather
than a home run in a game against St. Louis.
"You can slow a picture down so much that you can see the grains of sand and the clay around the bag. You can see whether or not a person has shaved that day," Solomon said. "The commissioner has come around and he's embraced it, because the technology is undeniable. I'm sure there was a time when all of us watched baseball on black and white TVs. Now I bet you everybody in the room has a high-def TV."
For now, umps can use replays to aid decisions only on whether potential home runs cleared fences, were fair balls or were interfered with by fans. MLB estimates it will take 2 minutes, 30 seconds for replays to be reviewed, and that so
far this year about 18 calls would have sparked video checks.
If a similar botch were made today, there would be an outcry for commissioner Bud Selig to expand the use of replay.
Solomon said MLB will never expand the types of decisions replays can be used for. But what happens if there's a blown call on the bases in the postseason, such as when Don Denkinger called Kansas City's Jorge Orta safe in Game 6 of the 1985 World Series? It gave the Royals a leadoff runner, and they overcame a one-run deficit to win the game, then went on to beat the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 7.
"The commissioner has been very clear. We're not going any farther than we've gone," Solomon said.
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Brady, Manning might not meet in re-match
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. Don't bother looking for an emotional Super Bowl rematch when the New York Giants and the New England Patriots meet in their preseason finale at Giants Stadium on Thursday night.
The starters won't be on the field either long enough or at all for anyone to get too wound up.
And to be blunt, the only thing players are concerned about is leaving the game healthy as they look forward to their regular-season openers.
loss to the Giants in the title game, open at home against Kansas City on Sept. 7.
Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is a question mark for the game because of a training-camp long injury to his right foot. Eli Manning and the Giants' first-team offense are going to be on the field for 10 plays.
Friday closes the preseason schedule and features Denver at Arizona, San Diego at San Francisco and Oakland at Seattle.
"It is a waste," Giants middle linebacker Antonio Pierce said of the preseason finale. "We don't need to be playing these games. Obviously you see in the league that guys are getting hurt. You don't need to play. Obviously with us having a long season last year, going to the Super Bowl, playing more games in the preseason and having a risk of injuries is not smart."
The Super Bowl champion Giants (1-2) kick off a week from Thursday in a nationally televised game against the Washington Redskins. The Patriots, whose only blemish last season was their 17-14
In other preseason action Thursday, Detroit at Buffalo, New York jets at Philadelphia, Cincinnati at Indianapolis, Jacksonville at Washington, Atlanta at Baltimore, Carolina at Pittsburgh, Chicago at Cleveland, Tennessee at Green Bay, Minnesota at Dallas, Tampa Bay at Houston, Miami at New Orleans and St. Louis at Kansas City.
The foot injury has prevented Brady from playing in the preseason, which explains to a great extent the Patriots' 0-3 record.
New York is particularly concerned about injuries after losing two-time Pro Bowl defensive end Osi Ummyiora to a season-ending knee injury last week against the jets.
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Kansas City Royals' Jose Gullen swings for the game-winning RB1-single off Oakland Athletics' Huston Street in the tenth inning of a baseball game on July 30 in Oakland, Calif. The Royals won the game four-3, sweeping the three-game series from Oakland.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Royals general manager Dayton Moore said he met with Jose Guillen after the outfielder confronted a heckling fan Tuesday night.
"It's an unfortunate situation. It really is," Moore said Wednesday. "Jose has got to remain focused to what happens on the baseball field. It is certainly inappropriate to engage in any conversation with the fans during a game. You need to ignore it and respond in a way that doesn't draw attention to yourself. We'll just continue to work with Jose about managing what he says and how he responds. It is something we continue to manage."
Guillen had to be restrained by catcher Miguel Olivo, third-base coach Luis Silverio and others when a fan down the right field line harassed him in the fourth inning of a 2-1 loss to the Texas Rangers.
This is Guillen's fourth public outburst this season. He has called his teammates "babies" during a 12-game losing streak in May, has made profanity-laced comments in June saying he could "care less about" fans who were booing him, and has had to be separated from pitching coach Bob McClure on July 5 in a clubhouse confrontation in Tampa Bay.
"The fans have a right to act and say things as long as it doesn't infringe on the rights of the other fans". Moore said. "Hopefully, it gets to the point in a society where fans don't accept rude behavior."
Guillen, who at $12 million per season is the highest paid player in franchise history, entered Wednesday hitting .249, but led the club with 17 home runs and 80 RBIs.
"I understand who I am and the money that I'm making," Guillen said.
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Instability marks playoffs
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NORTON, Mass. — Padraig Harrington has won the last two majors and is considered the favorite to be voted player of the year on the PGA Tour.
But if he doesn't play well the next two weeks, he might not even make it to the Tour Championship.
Then there's Kevin Sutherland, who hasn't won in more than six years and has never made it to the Tour Championship in his 13 years on tour.
The tour wanted more volatility in the second year of its playoff system.
But Sutherland will tee off Friday in the Deutsche Bank Championship at No. 3 in the FedEx Cup standings.
But this much?
"It's definitely created some excitement among the players," Brett Quigley said Wednesday at the TPC Boston, site of the second round of the PGA Tour Playoffs.
He later was asked for a different description than "excitement," and Quigley smiled.
"Concern ... interest," he said. "I think last year they didn't have the points system quite right with guys not being able to move enough, a la Rich Beem. And this year, it seems like the players think it's a little too much movement.
"But certainly, they've created some drama. Some guys are going to be thinking about just making the cut this week; guys wouldn't probably be thinking about that normally."
A year ago, Beem tied for seventh at The Barclays and barely advanced to the second round, moving from No. 134 to No. 113. Under this year's points system, Beem would have moved up to No. 70.
The top 120 made it to the Deutsche Bank Championship.
and only the top 70 after this week advance to the third round in St. Louis.
There are only 115 players at the TPC Boston because of injuries (Tiger Woods, Luke Donald, Alex Cejka) and two Europeans who are playing in Scotland this week (Lee Westwood, Justin Rose).
Kenny Perry, who effectively began this postseason as the No.1 seed with Woods out for the year, already began complaining about having three victories and not making it to the Tour Championship. But he tied for 48th and slipped only to No.7.
The one who should worry is Harrington, the British Open and PGA champion, who missed the cut last week at The Barclays and plunged all the way from No. 4 to No. 23. Another missed cut at Boston and he'll be out of the top 30.
But the Irishman isn't worried at all.
He actually likes the wild shifts in the standings.
"I think it's a fair reflection that I dropped about 20 spots by missing the cut," Harrington said. "I think it should be very volatile. That's what a playoff system should be like. You've got to go produce."
If he could change one thing, Harrington would make it even more combustible by awarding big points to the top 10 finishers in a tournament, minimal points for those barely making the cut.
Either way, he came to one conclusion in Year Two of this system.
"I think the FedEx Cup is working," he said. "It's got more players out here playing, more players interested at this time of the year. It's creating a bit of a buzz.
"If players aren't exactly happy with the system at the moment ... no press is bad press. Something like that. People are talking about it, and that's the main thing."
Vijay Singh won The Barclays last week in a playoff over Sergio Garcia and Sutherland, and they now are Nos. 1-2-3 and will be in the same group the first two rounds on the TPC Boston.
Perhaps the biggest surprise — and the poster boy for how quickly the standings can change — is Martin Laird.
Laird then tied for seventh at The Barclays and moved all the way up to No. 67.
The rookie from Scotland was at No. 164 going into the last tournament before the playoffs, then tied for fourth in Greensboro to barely qualify at No. 128.
"I was thinking of going home to Scotland probably for 10 days or so over those first two tournaments, seeing the family, taking a break, recharging and coming back," Laird said. "But those plans changed."
Count him among the proponents of change.
"Obviously, I love it," he said. "And I'm sure there's a few guys that don't love it. But you know, it's the playoffs. It's like any sport. You play to get there, and when you get there, it's whoever is playing best at that time that comes out on top."
But there was another wrinkle that some grad students over at MIT might what to calculate.
Two-time U.S. Open champion Lee Janzen was the 144th and final player to qualify for the postseason.
He tied for 48th last week, moving up to No.119 to barely get into the Deutsche Bank. Say he finishes 10th the next two weeks and narrowly makes it to the Tour Championship, where he finishes last.
"Is it possible that Janzen could qualify for the Tour Championship, but still not earn enough money at the end of the year to finish in the top 125 and keep his card?" Quigley said.
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Padrai Harrington, of Ireland, celebrates with his wife, Caroline, and sons, Patrick, left, and Ciaran, after he won the 90th PGA Championship golf tournament on Aug. 10 at Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Township, Mich.
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ST. LOUIS — Trent Green will get his first preseason start for the St. Louis Rams on Thursday, but still hasn't decided which helmet he will wear.
The Rams (2-1) travel to Kansas City (1-2) for the annual Governor's Cup game. Rams coach Scott Linehan will not play starter Marc Bulger, opting to save him for the Sept. 7 opener at Philadelphia. Instead, Green will get the bulk of early duty.
The choice of head gear is important for Green, 38, who is in his second stint in his hometown of St. Louis. Each of his past two seasons were cut short by concussions when he was with the Chiefs in 2006 and the Dolphins in 2007. He didn't play after suffering a concussion in the fifth game last year.
"Trent has really had limited work and I think could use some time out there on the field," Linehan said Wednesday.
This preseason, Green has been experimenting, wearing a different helmet in each of the first three games.
"When I came back from the concussion a year ago, I wore the same helmet. I did everything the same," Green said. "Unfortunately,
I had another one last year, so this year I've had three different helmets I'm experimenting with, just to find one that is comfortable."
"There is air, there is liquid, some are bigger, some are smaller, some have more depth, some protect the jaw more." Green said.
"As crazy as this sounds, no"
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the starter in 1999 but suffered a season-end knee injury in the next-to-last preseason game. That opened the door for Kurt Warner's storybook grocery clerk to Super Bowl hero season — the Rams, behind Warner, went 13-3 and beat Tennessee 23-16 in Super Bowl 34.
Does he worry about getting another concussion?
Each one is a little different, Green said.
Green is in his 15th NFL season. He signed with the Rams as
The Rams traded Green to Kansas City prior to the 2001 season. He guided the Chiefs to two playoff appearances and earned two Pro Bowl invitations before being traded to Miami prior to the 2007 season. He signed with the Rams this past offseason.
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St. Louis Rams quarterback Trent Green, center, launches a pass as head coach Scott Linehan, left, and offensive coordinator Al Saunders, right, look on during Rams football training camp at Concordia University on July 28 in M骄, Wis.
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Cincinnati Reds 'Brandon Phillips, left, is ongregated by teammates Jay Bruce, center, and Jobert Cabrera, right, after hitting a three-run home run off St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Jaime Garcia in the seventh inning of their baseball game in Cincinnati on Aug. 17.
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ST. LOUIIS — The St. Louis Cardinals added a power bat to their bench on Wednesday, purchasing Josh Phelps's contract from Triple-A Memphis.
Rookie left-hander Jaime Garcia, 1-1 with a 5.63 ERA in 10 appearances, was optioned to Memphis and left-hander Mark Mulder was transferred to the 60-day disabled list from the 15-day DL.
The 30-year-old Phelps was batting .291 with 31 home runs and 97 RBIs, tied for third-best in the Pacific Coast League. He had 64 extra-base hits, tied for second in the league, but had been stuck in the minors because his best position is first base where the Cardinals have Albert Puols.
The Cardinals are likely to use Phelps, a right-handed hitter, primarily as a pinch hitter, although he could be used at the corner outfield spots and third base as well as first base. Phelps starting on opening day last year for the
"It's a welcome surprise, I'll tell you that," Phelps said. "I get to put on a major league uniform again. I had to earn it, it wasn't given to me, and that's usually the best way."
New York Yankees and batted. 306 with seven homers and 31 RBIs in 94 games in 2007 for New York and Pittsburgh.
The 22-year-old Garcia allowed three runs in one inning in Tuesday's 12-0 loss to the Brewers, and will return to the rotation for the end of the minor league season. He started one game for the Cardinals, allowing three runs in five innings against the Padres on July 20.
Teams can expand rosters on Monday and Phelps figured to be on that list.
some," manager Tony La Russa said. "He came here on an emergency basis to help us and he did. But he's a starting pitcher, he's not really a left-handed reliever."
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The move left the Cardinals with a 12-man pitching staff, and with Ron Villone the lone left-hander. La Russia said the need for two left-handers isn't pressing the next few series.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 2008
Conference prepares for rule changes
BY TAYLOR BERN
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A new season brings with it a new set of rules, and the one change that Big 12 coaches have their eye on most is the new play clock.
The old 25-second play clock has been scrapped in favor of the 40-second running clock used by the NFL. The goal is to try and shorten the college game to keep the viewing public's attention.
Instead of a 25-second play clock that starts when the ball is marked ready, the 40-second clock will start as soon as the previous play is whistled dead.
On an out-of-bounds play, the clock will start on the referees' signal as opposed to the snap of the next play.
That second rule is void in the last two minutes of each half, when the clock won't start until the play begins, just like the NFL.
Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops sees the change as a way to standardize the clock rules, because it will no longer hinge on how quickly a referee places the ball.
"I think as much as anything, it's
going to make a consistent pace of play" Stoops said.
Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy said that since most teams in the conference were going to a no-huddle or hurry-up offense anyway, the new clock rules wouldn't have any negative effects and could allow more plays per game.
STUCK IN NEUTRAL
Three Big 12 teams have difficult first games on neutral fields—sort of.
On Saturday afternoon, Oklahoma State will play Washington State in Seattle. The game is technically a home contest for the Cougars, but their fans will certainly outnumber the Cowboy faithful.
Gundy isn't judging Washington State by its 5-7 record from a year ago, but more at the level of competition that it faced.
"They play in a BCS conference and they're athletic," Gundy said. "We don't have any idea what they're going to do."
No. 6 Missouri's Saturday evening match-up with No. 20 Illinois in St. Louis is the marquee game
of the week. The Tigers' national championship hopesdepend on winning this game.
"We're certainly going to find out real fast where we're at," Coach Gary Pinkel said.
Pinkel will likely have to win without a pair of Alexanders. Pinkel said wide receiver Danario Alexander is out with an injury and linebacker Van Alexander is doubtful but will still travel with the team.
Sunday afternoon Colorado will battle Colorado State in the teams' annual rivalry game in Denver. Last year the Buffalooes won 31-28 in overtime.
NEW SUBSCRIBER?
During Tuesday's Big 12 coaches teleconference, Kansas State coach Ron Prince was asked if he would subscribe to Playboy after the gentleman's magazine ranked his team No. 22 in its preseason poll.
Prince laughed off the question and the following comment that he could claim he only wanted it for the articles.
"I guess that's nice that someone thought that we're putting in the
work to have a nice season". Prince said.
In other Wildcat news, Prince said he's finally found a starting running back.
After injuries and disciplinary issues left him with a depleted unit, Prince announced that junior Keithen Valentine has planted himself as the top tailback.
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Valentine, a walk-on from Mississippi Delta Community College, ran for 104 yards on 15 carries in the spring game. Prince said he knew then that Valentine was a great speed runner, but didn't realize how versatile he was.
"What I didn't know he was capable of was to run with power, which he showed in our training camp." Prince said. "That was probably our most pleasant surprise.
"He just seems to get the most out of every single run."
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U. S. OPEN
Jankovic narrowly escapes upset
HARRY S. WATERMAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Jelena Jankovic bent over her racket, leaned against a back wall with a towel pressed to her face, and sprawled on her stomach in the middle of center court.
Then the No. 2 seed gutted her way into the third round of the U.S. Open.
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Jelena Jankovic of Serbia reaches for a shot from Sofia Arvidsson of Sweden during their match at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Wednesday. Jankovic won in three sets to advance to the third round.
Jankovic outlasted Sweden's Sofia Arvidsson 6-3, 6-7 (5), 7-5 Wednesday on yet another uncharacteristically mild August day in Flushing Meadows.
The combination of not being in match condition following a summer knee injury and an array of hard forehands and well-placed drop shots by Arvidsson left Jankovic fighting to get her wind during the 2 hour, 44 minute match at Arthur Ashe Stadium.
"That was a really tough one," said Jankovic, who has reached the fourth round in the first three Grand Slam events this year. "As you can see, I am completely out of breath. She really pushed me to the limit."
Jankovic twice served for the win in the middle set against Arvidsson, yet couldn't put her away — even with a match point in reach. Jankovic held off Arvidsson in a back-and-forth third set when both had trouble holding serve.
When Arvidsson fired long on
the final point, Jankovic had her third service break of the third set and eighth overall. There was suddenly a spring in her step as she waved and blew kisses to the crowd.
Even with the squandered chances on her serve, Jankovic still had an opportunity to advance without going the distance. She jumped to a 3-0 lead in the second set tiebreak before losing six straight points.
Jankovic extended the set by winning two points on her serve, but fired wide as she approached the net — drawing an exuberant "Yeah" from Arvidsson.
Several times, Jankovic hunched over and leaned on her racket but didn't appear to be in distress. The Serb, who held the No. 1 ranking
If anything ailed her other than fatigue Wednesday, it wasn't evident in the decisive third set when she raced to a 3-0 edge. Jankovic doubled over again when a fortuitous shot by Arvidsson crept over the net after it smacked the cord in the fourth game, but that appeared more out of exasperation than discomfort.
earlier this year, lost in the fourth round at Wimbledon after injuring a knee in the previous match.
After a drop shot eluded her dive, Jankovic dropped to the court face down and stayed there for several moments. If anything, it gave her a brief rest.
"I'm still not yet at my full potential, but I'm trying my best," said Jankovic, whose serve was broken twice in each set. "I am still a long
way from where I want to be."
While Jankovic escaped an early exit, No. 8 seed Vera Zvonareva couldn't. Zvonareva was upended by Tatiana Perebiyinis 6-3, 6-3 in the tournament's biggest upset yet. Svetlana Kuznetsova shook off an early break and rallied to a 7-6 (3), 6-1 victory over Sorana Cirstea.
In men's first-round play, fifth-seeded Nikolay Davydenko beat Dudi Sela 6-3, 6-3, 6-3; No. 18 Nicolas Almaso eliminated Frank Dancevic 6-3, 6-4, 7-5; and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, the No.19 seed, moved on with a 6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-2, 6-3 win over Santiago Ventura.
The afternoon session on Day 3 at the Open also featured No. 3 seed Novak Djokovic, who followed countrywoman Jankovic onto center court.
tence, and we likely could know the effects of fantasy football on office productivity after devouring the Wall Street Journal's "latest" findings.
COMMENTARY (CONTINUED FROM1A)
Fantasy football's continuous ascent into becoming one of sports fans' greatest obsessions has a great deal to do with this Information Age we live in.
Every NFL snap on television broadcasts is now succeeded by a graphic popping out of the scoreboard with each player's stats. Larry Johnson: 1 rush, -2 yards. Larry Johnson: 2 rushes, 1 yard...
We can also draft, trade and set our lineups via cell phone. And of course there is the Internet: A vast plain of knowledge for us to track each touchdown, knee sprain and arrest.
No longer must league owners stay up late each Sunday and calculate the stats of each fantasy leaguer's team as my dad did. Today our computers do our work for us after every play.
No, phones still had cords then and those cords were usually wrapped around the neck of the poor schmuck who picked Barry Sanders ahead of my dad.
Fantasy football will always have a sense of nostalgia with me. Peering out of the hallway in our awkward footie pajamas, Kevin and I didn't see our dad scanning his iPhone for draft advice.
So on the eve of fantasy football's 47th season, this theoretical sport inches closer to overtaking real football as America's New New Favorite Pastime.
- to watch Adrian Peterson and LaDainian Tomlinson go on their touchdown benders.
Meanwhile, our homes and the sports bars of America will become the real stage for this new sport as we don the jerseys of players from our fantasy teams and cheer and jeer at every moment of every game.
Chiefs coach Herm Edwards is ahead of the curve. In his attempt to put positive spin on the Chiefs upcoming season, Herm alluded to personnel decisions as being "like fantasy football."
Because with fantasy football, at least one person will have something at stake every minute of each season.
Edwards, an NFL coach, just compared reality to fantasy.
Each season, as ticket and parking prices grow more obscene at NFL stadiums, corporate executives and other big wigs will fill the luxury boxes — which will soon replace all other seats
Perhaps he's on to something. When he is fired by Carl Peterson in Peterson's last attempt to save face in Kansas City, Edwards can become a head coach in America's most popular sport.
CANADA (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
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Like many of us already are.
"It's going to be exciting," Aldrich said. "We're really trying to work on practice. We've got such a young team. We're trying to get a lot of things in before the season starts."
Practice. That's the buzz-word surrounding the Jayhawks' trek to the Great White North. Kansas coach Bill Self and his players have stressed that their trip to the land of maple leaves and "Terrance and Phillip" isn't going to be treated the same way a regular season road game would be treated.
leading up to them to help eliminate those same mistakes when the season rolls around in three months.
Self knows his team is young. He expects them to make mistakes. But he also expects the three games and the week of practice
"If we take advantage of these eight days, I think that could help us
"If we take advantage of these eight days, I think that could help us a lot come December."
Self was unsure if Collins would be able to play in Ottawa. The NCAA hasn't ruled incoming freshmen Marcus and Markieff Morris academically eligible yet. Unless the Morris twins are cleared in the next two days, they won't play either.
games. Junior guard Sherron Collins, the only player on the roster with starting experience at Kansas, hasn't practiced since the team began Thursday because he's not in good enough shape.
Even without them, five newcomers will make their first official appearances as Jayhawks. Junior college transfers Mario Little and Tyrone Appleton should
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lot come December," Self said. "I don't want to wear our guys out by any means, on the flip side, we've got to get a baseline on how we're going to play."
It would appear that Self also needs to get an idea of who is going to play. All the starters from last year's national championship team are gone. These games in Ottawa could serve as the perfect opportunity to tinker with lineup combinations for Self. Then he might have a better idea of potential starters come November. Right? That's not the way Self is looking at it.
"I could care less," Self said. "I don't even care to have a mindset of 'hey, this will be our best lineup' at all."
A few key players might not participate in the exhibition
receive significant minutes in the front-court. Fellow guard Tyshawn Taylor, who scored 47 points and recorded 17 rebounds in one amateur league game
this summer, will try to continue on his impressive summer.
Kansas City native Travis Releford will play in his first game since competing for Team U.S.A. in the FIBA Americas Under 18 Tournament this summer. Freshman forward Quintrell Thomas will be the only scholarship player down low, other than Aldrich, if the Morris twins don't qualify in time.
Teams are only allowed to travel to Canada for exhibition games once every four years. Self said he was glad Kansas could go this year because of how inexperienced its roster is.
"I think this is the best time we could possibly do this." We said.
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10 KERRY MEIER The Jayhawks'renaissance man
3 Kansas brims with confidence after last year's success
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8 Look who's growling again, Chase and the Tigers
19 Tips for Kansas on how to avoid a letdown
20 A look at KU's 2008 schedule
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Letter from the editor
Mark Mangino starts every meeting right on time, down to the second. He's minutely detailed and he's guarded, hiding his mustacheo face behind a pair of sunglasses. Kansas' football coach doesn't like attention, he'd prefer to work in shadows. But Mangino loves college football, he loves college campuses and he loves the students that populate them.
"I'm kind of old school on this." Mangino said. "College football is still for college kids on college campuses, and it should be the center of attention.
"Because part of the college experience is spending an afternoon or an evening in your football stadium on your campus and having a good time."
On Saturday, Mark Mangino will walk on the field at Memorial Stadium and begin his seventh season at Kansas. And he's never been more right.
We hope you find this Kansas football preview helpful. We've spent the past month producing a thorough and comprehensive guide on the 2008 Kansas football team.
BY RUSTIN DODD
dodd@kansan.com
And we hope you read every inch. But here's a small piece of advice. After you finish reading about Todd Reesing, Jocques Crawford and the rest of the Big 12 — forget it all.
Don't think about how many games Kansas is going to win. Don't worry about how many touchdowns Todd Reesing will throw. Don't worry about the loss of Aqib Talib.
Wake up on Saturday, take a deep breath and walk over to the Campanile Hill. Grill a hotdog, drink something cold, and watch the sun go down over Memorial Stadium.
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Above: Safety Justin Thornton celebrates with Mike Rivera, left, and Maxwell Onyegule, right, after picking off a pass in KU's 24-12 Orange Bowl victory against Virginia Tech. Left: Darrell Stuckey and the Jayhawks' only loss in an otherwise perfect season came against Missouri and its quarterback Chase Daniel.
They've never felt like this before
Jayhawks say they have a new swagger as this season starts and expect a repeat from last year, when they went 12-1 and won the Orange Bowl
BY B.J. RAINS rains@kansan.com
Just talk to a Kansas football player for a few minutes about the upcoming season and you'll notice something different.
It's hard to pin-point exactly what it is, but there seems to be a different feeling around the program these days. And why not? Coming off the best season in school history, it's only natural that players and coaches seem to have a little more bounce in their step as they walk to meetings or to the practice field.
"We have that swagger," safety Darrell
Stuckey said.
And as the Jayhawks look to repeat the success of last year's record-breaking year, they are doing it with a different kind of 'swagger' that hasn't been seen around this town in a long time.
"We have a lot of confidence in ourselves," quarterback Todd Reeing said. "Not that we lacked confidence before, but we really expect to be on the big stage now."
The Jayhawks will definitely enter the big stage this fall, entering the year ranked 13th in the ESPN/ USA Today Coaches poll and anywhere from 10th to 20th by anyone and everyone that put together a pre-season poll. ESPN2 has already picked the Jayhawks for a nationally televised Friday night game at No. 21 South Florida in week three.
"We're excited by that," Reesing added. "To have the opportunity to play in big games and play on national television, it's exciting for us, because it's somewhere that this program hasn't been in a while."
A year after just wanting to get enough
wins to make it to a bowl game, the Jayhawks and their fans have much higher goals this season. No longer does the thought of a Big 12 Championship or high-profile bowl game seem like that much of a dream.
It's a big difference from when coach Mark Mangino arrived at Kansas in 2002. Then, the program had no expectations, and the games were merely a way for the basketball-crazed Jayhawk fans to pass the time until hoops season got underway.
"That was a terrible feeling." Mangino said. "It was bad for the players, the coaches, when nobody expects you to be successful. That's not a great feeling, and after experiencing that the first few years, we embrace any expectations that people have for us now.
"Nobody outside of this program has higher expectations for this team than the kids that play here. They have high expectations. They want to win. They set the bar high for themselves."
Those expectations might be as high this year as they have ever been when it comes to
Kansas football. It's been a while since opposing teams looked at their schedule to see when they were playing Kansas, knowing that it would be one of the toughest games of their season.
"As we started to win more games during the season, we started to get everybody's best shot," Mangino said. "We will get it from the first game this year all of the way through. We'll get everybody's best shot if we continue to play at a high level, but I told our players the top teams in the country are used to that, used to getting every team's best shot and if we can't handle that then we're not going to be as good as we want to be."
And while Mangino said he wasn't in the business of making predictions for the upcoming season, even he knows that it could be another special season for his squad.
"We think we're going to have a pretty good football team again." Mangino said.
Just one of many who seem to think the same thing.
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A 5-foot-11 quarterback for the University of Kansas used to be able to walk around town in relative anonymity. With nearly 3,500 passing yards and an Orange Bowl title, Todd Reesing forever changed what it meant to be the Jayhawks' signal-caller.
The tiny Texan's sophomore season stuck a jam in the revolving door under center for Kansas, and now his task is to try and improve on the greatest season in school history. The first step to conquering that obstacle is handling the unfamiliar position of being the unquestioned starter.
"This year, coming in, I'm the returning starter and guys look to me to be the one to lead the offense," Reesing said. "There's more responsibility, there's more people looking up to you and looking to you to be the leader and be the one to take that step forward and work hard."
Last year the preseason talk about the quarterback position was whether or not Reesing could unseat Kerry Meier. Reesing eventually won the job and after his stellar season was named to the All-Big 12 second team as well as a semifinalist for the Davey O'Brien Award.
This time around the team expectations are heightened and although Reeing said it's fun not looking over his shoulder, coach Mark Mangino has stressed that handling success can be as tough as handling failure.
"For Todd, the challenge is to be able to manage all this attention that he's received," Mangino said. "Everybody in Lawrence, Kansas, wants to say that they know him and that they pal around with him and he's their buddy.
"I think if he continues to do a good job of managing going from being a player that was not well known, who was competing for a position last year at this time, to being somebody that's highly respected as a player in our league, that's the key (to success)."
Life off the field has and will continue to get more difficult for Reesing, who can't go to the grocery store without attracting a crowd. Reesing said he doesn't mind most of the time because people just want to wish him good luck and he likes signing autographs for kids. Still, he didn't mind the time when he could walk around unrecognized.
Life on the field only got better with his celebrity, because as the No.1 guy Reesing has spent more time understanding the nuances of his top wide receivers. The increased reps have had a positive effect for both sides.
"It helps because we're able to get the timing down, and we don't have to worry about the different flaws in a quarterback's game," senior wide receiver Dexton Fields said. "Having one quarterback is really what we've been looking for ever since I got here."
Fields added that the reason Reesing accomplished what no other Jayhawk passer in recent history could was his "will to win."
"He doesn't have a favorite guy that he throws to. He just does what he has to to win games," he said.
In fact, Reesing swears that the only stat he ever pays attention to is his team's number of wins.
"If I throw for 1,200 yards or 4,400, whatever helps us win the most games is what I'm going to do," Reesing said. "Statistics don't really mean anything, and if that's all you care about then something's wrong."
Whether he cares or not, Reeing has always had spectacular stats, dating back to high school. A native of Austin, Texas, Reeing earned the Texas 4A Player of the Year as a high school junior and Central Texas Player of the Year as a senior. Still, his hometown Longhorns never gave Reeing a legit opportunity to make the team. On the other hand, Mangino offered him a scholarship the day after the two met.
That's one reason Reesing has circled Nov. 15 on his calendar, the day Texas comes to Memorial Stadium.
"From a football standpoint it's just another game on the schedule, I'm supposed to say. But it may have a little something special to me because I have a lot of friends from back home that go to UT and I think my dad has already reserved about 25 to 30 hotel rooms for that game," he said. "Playing against a team that you grew up in your hometown watching, it means a little something more."
That will be an emotional game for Reesing, and if things go their way that could be a very meaningful game for the Jayhawks in terms of a Big 12 title. After two years of playing South opponents Baylor, Oklahoma State and Texas A&M, Kansas squares off with Oklahoma, Texas and Texas Tech.
Basically the Jayhawks swapped out the three bottom teams of the South for its three best, and most preseason predictions have them losing one if not all of those match-ups. That's just fine with Reesing.
"That's where we want to be, we like to be the underdog," he said. "We want to be overlooked because it's a lot more fun playing when people don't want you to succeed. It's a little something inside that makes you work that much harder."
The other factor that's kept him going in the offseason is that obnoxious little one in the loss column.
"When you're a game away from playing for a conference championship game or winning the Big 12 North, it sucks," Reesing said. "I think we used that loss as motivation to get really ready for the Orange Bowl, and we came out in that game really fired up and ready to prove that we deserved to be there. All this talk about us not deserving it was a bunch of baloney."
Despite its 2007 success and largely because
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Junior quarterback Todd Reeing returns to the field in 2008 with a newfound celebrity. The previously overlooked gunfigler from Texas began last season in a position battle and ended the year with his name splattered across the Kansas record books.
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of its difficult schedule, Kansas' hype level is nowhere near that of Oklahoma, Texas Tech or archrival Missouri. Each of those schools, and their quarterbacks, has been predicted to win the national championship, Heisman Trophy or both.
One successful season didn't put Kansas on their level in the minds of people outside the program. However, it did wonders for the
under-sized, under-recruited but no longer under-the-radar phenom taking snaps for the crimson and blue.
"I'm not looking to get hype or get predicted to do this or that," Reesing said. "I'm happy with where I am, I have my Orange Bowl ring and it doesn't really matter what anybody else says. It matters what you do out there on Saturday."
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Rockier road lies ahead this season
Skeptics called Kansas' 2007 schedule too easy but this year's slate promises a tougher test
BY B.J. RAINS
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A year after going 12-1 and defeating Virginia Tech to win the FedEx Orange Bowl, Kansas coach Mark Mangino is still stuck defending his team's 2007 schedule.
Seven months removed from the greatest season in the history of the program, writers, broadcasters and even opposing coaches still question the schedule that produced a schoolrecord 12 victories for the boys in crimson and blue.
Somehow, the Jayhawks' schedule was even a topic at the Mountain West Conference Media Day last month, when New Mexico coach Rocky Long — whose team lost four games last year, including a 10-6 loss to UTEP and a 37-0 thrashing by lowly TCU — openly took a stab at the quality of their opponents.
"I mean, who did Kansas play last year?" Long said.
How easily Long and those bashing the Jayhawks schedule forget that Kansas won a BCS bowl over a national football power and lost by just eight points to the No. 3-ranked team in the country in their lone defeat.
"It doesn't bother me at all," Mangino said of the schedule talk. "Tell me when there was a time
when Kansas' football program could beat the likes of Nebraska, Texas A&M, Colorado and Virginia Tech and you have to sit and defend your schedule. Times have changed, haven't they?"
As Mangino avidly points out, a closer look will show that the Jayhawks' schedule wasn't nearly as bad as advertised. The victories over Colorado and A&M both came on the road on two consecutive Saturdays, and the 76 points that Kansas scored against Nebraska were the most ever scored against the storied Husker program. In all, the Jayhawks played five teams that went on to play in a bowl game.
"They're going to be gunning for us. And we're ready for the challenge."
"I'm not going to get into scheduling because I can't control that," said quarterback Todd Reesing. "I play whoever is on the schedule and that's really all it comes down to. The only thing I'll say is we play in the Big 12 and there are a lot of good teams, so it doesn't matter which three you're playing."
This year, the three actually may matter
for Reesing and the Jayhawks, who because of the rotating Big 12 South schedule have dropped the three worst South teams in Baylor, Oklahoma State and Texas A&M and have added the heavyweights — Oklahoma, Texas and Texas Tech.
The Jayhawks, who are a combined 0-6 under Mangino against the Sooners, Longhorns and Red Raiders, now have their opportunity to prove that last year's success was not a result of a weak schedule.
"We've always said that we want our program to be able to compete with the best teams in the league," Mangino said. "The fact that we are picking up Oklahoma, Texas and Texas Tech is something that we look forward to. We want to be able to play against the best teams in our league and be able to beat them. That's the test for our program. We will never truly get over the hump, in my eyes, until we are able to defeat those teams as well."
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Kansas will host Texas and Texas Tech in
Lawrence, a place where the Jayhawks are 18-3 since 2005, but the October 18 matchup against Oklahoma is in Norman and certainly seems to be the Jayhawks' toughest test in 2008. Add in a weekthree road game at South Florida, and nobody will be able to doubt the level of difficulty that Kansas will face this fall.
"It forces us to not be complacent, seeing that our schedule changed so much," safety Darrell Stuckey said. "Anytime you have a team where they go 12-1 and they turn around and play the exact same teams the next year, you could see them becoming complacent. 'Oh, we beat them last year' or 'Oh, we did this to them last year.' But seeing that our schedule in the south has changed, it gives us new goals, a new challenge. It opens our eyes and makes us see that we still have a lot further to go."
And regardless of how easy the Jayhawks' schedule actually was last season, a 12-win season definitely will have opposing teams circling the matchup with Kansas on their schedule for 2008.
"They're going to be gunning for us," said senior linebacker Mike Rivera. "And we're ready for the challenge."
A challenge and a schedule that looks to be much harder than a year ago.
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Top: Kansas last faced Oklahoma in 2005 at Arrowhead Stadium, where future NFL star Adrian Peterson gained 122 yards in the Sooners' 19-3 victory.
Below: Quarterback Vince Young and Texas beat Kansas 66-14 in the teams' last meeting, in Austin, Texas, in 2005.
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Big shoes to fill Loss of All-American Talib and others will provide tough challenge for Jayhawks
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Wide recevier Marcus Henry is one of several offensive performers missing from last year's team. Henry led the team in receptions and receiving yards and was a draft pick of the New York Jets. He's one of the biggest absences from the offense, along with lineman Anthony Collins. Aqib Talib and James McClinton are gone from the defense.
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It would be tough for any team to repeat a season in which it went 12-1, won the Orange Bowl and enjoyed the best season in school history.
But throw in the loss of eight key players, including first team All-American's Aqib Talib and Anthony Collins, and the task becomes all but impossible for coach Mark Mangino and the Kansas Javhawks.
But as the Jayhawks prepare to open the season against Florida International on Saturday, that's exactly the task that they must somehow overcome.
"It's going to be tough," said linebacker Mike Rivera. "Those guys were great players. There's going to have to be some guys step up and fill those roles."
In addition to Talib and Collins, second-team All-American defensive tackle James McClinton is gone, as is the team's leading rusher in Brandon McAnderson and receiver in Marcus Henry. Tight end Derek Fine is now a member of the Buffalo Bills and kicker Scott Webb and punter Kyle Tucker are both missing as well.
Nobody's absence, however, will be more visible than Talib's, whose flashy play and swagger on both sides of the ball helped put Kansas on the national scene.
"When you walked into the locker room and you saw him, he was the star," cornerback Chris Harris said of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers first round draft pick. "It's weird not seeing him, but it's time for new stars. It's been a lot quieter without him around, that's for sure. A lot less jokes."
The Jayhawks seem to be better prepared to fill the holes on defense, with only Talib and McClinton not returning from a squad that finished No.12 nationally in total defense. All three linebackers - Joe Mortenson, James Holt, and Rivera - are back and will anchor what should be one of the nation's best defenses again in 2008.
"The impact they left on our defense was amazing, just the standard that they showed that needs to be reached," safety Darrell Stucky said of Talib and McClinton. "It's one of those things where we will be better because of them, but I also think we can be better even though they left."
The challenge will be tougher on offense, where the Jayhawks must replace five starters including both tackles, a tight end, a running back and a wide receiver. Over 2,000 yards of offense, including over 1,000 receiving yards from Henry and 1,000 rushing yards from McAnderson, must come from other players this fall.
"We have a lot of guys (returning) who played last year and made a lot of big plays for us," quarterback Todd Reesing said. "Just because we lost a tight end and a receiver to the NFL, which were two huge players for us, we still have a lot of guys who can fill those voids. They might not be as good at certain things as those guys were but they are going to bring, their own potential and capabilities to the table."
And with the absence of skilled playmakers such as Henry and McAnderson, Reesing knows that he can't put too much pressure on himself and must instead trust the newcomers to be able to fill the voids that they left.
"That's one thing that I have to try not to do," Reesing said. "I can't take on more of a role than I have to. I can't put more pressure on myself or allow other people to put more pressure on me. I can't do too much, just stay within the offense and do what I can. I'll rely on the other 10 guys out there to make plays.
"We have a lot of good guys and it will be a lot of fun. We will see what happens."
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Derek Fine catches one of his 46 passes from last season. This one came against Texas A&M.Fine, a tight end, finished the year with 394 yards and four touchdowns. He now plays for the Buffalo Bills.
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Jocques Crawford won't run from the hype
The JUCO transfer wants to make people forget his troubled past and give the KU backfield depth and star power
BY CASE KEEFER
ckeefer@kansan.com
Heads turn and people follow Jocques Crawford as he searches for a seat in Mrkonic Auditorium to participate in Kansas Football Media Day.
The junior running back sits at the end of the first row and immediately cameras and microphones are placed right in front of his
face. The media wants Crawford to explain the aura surrounding his arrival in Lawrence.
There are the accolades - Crawford received the National Junior College Player of the Year Award at Cisco Community College in Texas last season. There's the hype - rivals. com ranks Crawford as the best recruit in coach Mark Mangino's new class.
And then, there's the number. Crawford is wearing a blue Jayhawk jersey like the other
25 players in the room, only his is imprinted with the No. 3 in the middle.
"I've always wanted to wear three," Crawford says. "I've worn three since high school."
But that number carries an extra significance in Lawrence lately. The last two Jayhawks to wear the digit - Charles Gordon and Aqib Talib - became college stars and now play in the NFL.
"I've been told," Crawford says.
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Crawford admits that inheriting Talib's number brings extra pressure. But he's not worried about it. Crawford has gone through too much to reach this point, where he's the center of attention on the defending Orange Bowl champions, to stress about something as trivial as what's on the front of his jersey.
--reduced to misdemeanor simple assault, but the damage had already been done on Crawford's football career.
'Memphis' is tattooed down Crawford's left triceen in bold black letters.
Crawford is proud of where he comes from. But that doesn't mean he wants to go back.
"The only thing I miss about Memphis;" Crawford said, "is my family"
Memphis isn't only Crawford's hometown, but also the place where he thought his football dreams had ended twice in less than a year.
Before his senior season at Cordova High School, Crawford and two friends were arrested and charged with felony aggravated rape. The charges were
"I'm putting it behind me and just staying focused. I came here to go to school and play football JOCQUES CRAWFORD Running back
said.
--gives me a goal to set for myself."
The Memphis School District suspended Crawford from athletics for the upcoming semester. He would miss the football season.
In a controversial decision, however, the school district changed its ruling. Crawford and his mother had appealed and won. Some Memphians were outraged by the decision and labeled it as a classic case of an athlete receiving special treatment and escaping punishment.
Crawford committed to Texas Tech before the 2006 season. That was just months before the something else happened that made Crawford question if he would ever have a real opportunity to chase his dreams of an NFL career.
Crawford said some might still hold what happened three years ago against him in Memphis. He doesn't really know, though. Nor does he care.
By averting the disaster of potentially missing his senior season of high school football, everything seemed to fall into place for Crawford. He couldn't be stopped when he ran the ball and rivals.com ranked him as one of the best high school running backs in the country.
"I'm putting it behind me and just staying focused," Crawford said. "I came here to go to school and play football."
Crawford had never heard of a junior college football player going on to a successful career. He didn't think they existed.
His grades came shortly after he completed high school at Cordova. They weren't high enough to play Division-I college football. Crawford wouldn't be moving to Lubbock, Texas, to play for the Red Raiders his freshman year of college.
"I felt like my life was over," Crawford
Then, Xavier Crawford, Jocques' father who played college football for Memphis in the 1980's, told his son the story of one of his best friends.
Xavier told Jocques about Issac Bruce, who currently plays for the San Francisco 49ers after 14 seasons with the St. Louis Rams. Bruce had played at two junior colleges in
California before transferring to Memphis and being drafted in the NFL.
Jocques had met Bruce many times before. He just never knew about his junior college career. By hearing about it, Crawford re-focused once again.
"I see people like that who went to junior college and still became successful," Crawford said. "It kind of drives me and
Crawford decided to attend Cisco Junior College in Cisco, Texas - a ranching community with a population about equal to the number of students who attended Crawford's high school.
There, he could concentrate on school and football. He intended to make himself better so in two years he could head west and attend Texas Tech like he originally planned.
Those plans changed. The Red Raider coaches told Crawford they wanted him to play defense even though he led the nation in junior college rushing yards and averaged nearly seven yards per carry.
Texas Tech had a star freshman running back. His name was Aaron Crawford, Jocques' brother. When Jocques told the coaches he didn't want to play defense, they offered to let him play in the backfield with his brother. Jocques didn't like that idea, either.
"Tech doesn't run the ball much at all and I wanted my brother to have just as much success as I do, if not more," Crawford said. "So I just felt I need to let him be there and let him do his own thing."
--sites still listed him as committed to the Red Raiders. It might have been because of his reputation. Whatever it was, it wasn't for lack of production.
Crawford laughs about it now. At the end of last November, he sat in his dorm room in Cisco and watched No. 2 Kansas and No. 3 Missouri battle it out at Arrowhead Stadium on ABC.
He had no idea hed commit to Kansas in two months at the time. Crawford hadn't received much recruiting attention after telling Texas Tech he wouldn't be coming to Lubbock.
Crawford said he heard it was because Web
Crawford rushed for 1,935 yards and 19 touchdowns his sophomore season at Cisco. But he wanted to play in the Big 12 Conference his next year and didn't have any offers.
Enter Kansas. Crawford liked that starting running back Brandon McAnderson had graduated. He bonded with head coach Mark Mangino and offensive coordinator Ed Warriner. He enjoyed his visit to Lawrence. He committed.
"He was recruited because we were hoping he'd have an immediate impact," Mangino said shortly after Crawford signed.
Now, Crawford is in the middle of a position battle with junior running back Jake Sharp and saying all the right things about it.
Crawford says he and Sharp aren't treating it like a fight for playing time and are close friends. He says Sharp has helped ease his transition to Kansas by acting as a confidant on the practice field.
"I know how hard it is to come in here and play right away," Sharp said. "It's no easy feat. He's been working hard and I've been helping him any way I can."
With Crawford and Sharp, the Jayhawks could have one of the better 1-2 punches of running backs in the Big 12. That's exactly what Crawford and Sharp say they envision.
Mangino describes Crawford as a powerful running back - the opposite of Sharp who is more of a quick, small threat out of the backfield. He still expects him to play right away.
"We have high expectations for him," Mangino said. "Like any other player who comes from junior high or high school, he has to prove that he can play at this level every down. I think he will."
Crawford, who has sat straight up with good posture and talked for 55 straight minutes, leans back in his chair and takes a deep breath.
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The hour allotted for players to talk to the media is wrapping up at Mrkonic Auditorium.
It's been exhausting sharing his story with everyone who asks. But Crawford is used to reflecting.
"Everyday I sit back and think about the things I had to do to get to this point right now," he said.
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Jocques Crawford says he wears No.3, the same number as former KU stars Aqib Talib and Charles Gordon, because he's worn it since high school. Crawford was the National Junior College Player of the Year last season.
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A LESSON IN RESILIENCE
A heart condition forced him to redshirt, Todd Reesing took his quarterback job, but Kerry Meier stayed strong, and transformed himself into the Jayhawks' most versatile weapon
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BY B.J. RAINS
rains@kansan.com
When Kerry Meier steps on a football field, he no longer takes it for granted. He learned the hard way that there's more to life than football.
There's more than putting on the pads each day and going to practice with his teammates. There's more than being on the cover of Sports illustrated or being recognized as the pride of Pittsburg, Kan. And there's surely more than rising on the depth chart at an unfamiliar position and helping lead Kansas to the greatest season in school history.
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For Meier, who was diagnosed with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome in 2005, just having a healthy heart is an accomplishment that he knows he will never top.
"Anytime you have a scenario like that in your life, it kind of hits you and really opens up your eyes to not just football, but life in general." Meier said. "I went from talking about playing to having heart surgery It was a big-time eye opener."
When Meier arrived in Lawrence from the southeast Kansas town of Pittsburg in the summer of 2005, he was hailed as the next great Jayhawk quarterback. Many observers
Kerry Meier (leaf) leaps for a ball against Missouri during Kansas' 36-28 loss to the Tigers last November. Meier, who started at quarterback in 2006, moved to wide receiver in 2007 and caught 26 passes for 274 yards and two touchdowns.
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expected him to immediately battle for the starting job as a freshman. But that all changed when tests administered to incoming football players showed that Meier suffered from Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, or WPW, a condition that affects the electrical system of the heart.
Instead of battling for the starting quarterback job
than 5 percent of patients who underwent the same procedure.
"It was a pretty complicated thing, I still don't fully understand it," Meier said.
on the practice field, Meier was on an operating table undergoing a lengthy procedure in which doctors entered his body through his groin and worked their way up to his heart.
"We were thankful that KU had some sort of screening mechanism because he had absolutely no symptoms, nothing ever showed up on any of his routine physicals," said Kerry's father, Dennis Meier. "It was out of the blue, and we were very thankful it was observed."
According to www.mayoclinic.com, WPW is diagnosed in about 1 percent of the general population. The condition causes the heart rate to rapidly increase about one or two times a week, usually returning to its normal speed and rhythm after a few minutes. But though rare, the rapid heart rate can sometimes result in sudden death.
Doctors informed Meier that as soon as the problem was cured, he would be free of any lingering effects and would be able to live a normal and healthy life. According to www. mayoclinic.com, the syndrome reappears in less
Meier's procedure corrected the problem and allowed him to return to the practice field just 10 days later.
The injury may have been a blessing in disguise for Meier, the youngest of four Meiers to play football in college, and whose family wished even before the injury that Meier would be able to sit out the season with a redshirt, learn the offensive system and gain the experience needed to be a starting quarterback in the Big 12.
"I said, 'This kid is way too talented to be standing here next to me. Let's find a way to get him on the field.'"
MARK MANGINO Kansas football coach
"Everything just kind of happens for a reason and that's how we looked at it," Dennis Meier said. "It was our hope that he would be able to redshirt. All of the other boys had gone through a redshirt year and his brothers kind of had him convinced that it was probably a positive thing to redshirt versus getting thrown out there, especially at the quarterback position. There's just a certain level of maturity and confidence that you build during that redshirt year."
Fans pleaded for Meier as the Jayhawk offense struggled later that season, but Mangino kept Meier on the bench, refusing to burn a year of his eligibility for a quick fix in a couple of games.
The strategy paid off the following year. Meier started eight games at quarterback as a redshirt freshman in 2006 and passed for
1,193 yards and a Kansas freshman record 13 touchdowns. He was also second on the team with 346 rushing yards. A shoulder injury cut short his season and allowed Todd Reesing to break onto the scene and emerge as prime competition for Meier heading into last season.
The two former roommates battled for the starting spot, but eventually it was Reesing who came out on top. It was a crushing blow to Meier, who had dreamed of being a starting quarterback all of his life. And while some thought Meier might seek a transfer to a school where he could be the starter, Meier had no thoughts of leaving town.
"A lot of the music I listen to has bongos in it so I just decided to buy some myself," Meier said. "I kind of do my own thing, make my own beats. It's a great way for me to get away and get my mind somewhere else. I just play the drum and let the rhythm roll."
An avid music fan, Meier searched online and soon purchased a set of bongo drums off of eBay. Instead of finding his solace on the field, he found it off.
"No, never," Meier said emphatically. "I came here to get a good education, and I really enjoyed Lawrence and the people. It's just far enough away from home that my parents and everybody can't bother me, but they are close enough to stay in contact too. But no, transferring never crossed my mind."
Meier said that it took him about a day to get past the disappointment of not being named the starter and that he used it as motivation to get better. As he stood on the sideline and watched
as Reesing led the Jayhawks to two impressive victories, coach Mark Mangino and offensive coordinator Ed Warinner began working on a way to somehow get Meier onto the field.
"I realized that standing next to me during the game was one of the most talented athletes on our entire roster," Mangino said last year. "I said, 'This kid is way too talented to be standing here next to me. Let's find a way to get him on the field.'"
Meier's role as the secret weapon had begun. He appeared in 10 games as wide receiver, including five in which he started and caught 26 passes for 274 yards and two touchdowns.
Meier found the field in week three against Florida International when he entered the game in the first quarter as a wide receiver. Reesing found Meier for a 15-yard completion on the first play and on the next play, Meier motioned into the backfield and took a pitch from Reesing for a six-yard run.
"He's a natural athlete, and when you put an athlete in a position to compete he's going to do well." Reesing said. "What was shocking was how quickly he picked it up. He went out there the first day as a wideout and he looked like he had been doing it all year."
Meier also saw action in eight games as quarterback and was 25 for 29 for 275 yards and three touchdowns. He became the first Jayhawk since Garfield Taylor in 1981 to have a passing touchdown, receiving touchdown and rushing touchdown in the same year. Add in his four punts for a 32.2-yard average and he became the ultimate utility player.
"He's the definition of a team player. He's going to do whatever he has to do to help the team out." Reeing added. "When he came in last year towards the end of the year and started playing wideout, he made a big impact. He's going to be a guy who's going to make a lot of
plays and surprise a lot of people."
Dennis Meier played baseball at the University of Missouri-Rolla and his father played in the Yankees organization, but despite the baseball bloodline in their family, all four of his sons eventually decided to go with football. Shad played tight end at Kansas State, Adam played quarterback at Pittsburg State and Dylan was a quarterback at Kansas State before the youngest Meier ended up at Kansas.
"Kerry was always a very athletic kid, and with his brother being a tight end and having the success that he did, there was no doubt in my mind that Kerry could pretty much play quarterback, wide receiver, defensive back. I mean there was no question he has always been a very good athlete."
And now, as Meier prepares to start this season as one of the Jayhawks' starting wide receivers, he can't help but think about three years ago, and the heart condition that could have ended his life.
"Honestly, it does, it creeps back into my mind," Meier said. "It can't help but creep into your mind, having heart surgery, but I feel like my body is in great condition and I'm just happy with the way things turned out."
"We may have burned them out when they were young playing too much baseball. I don't know that to be a fact," the elder Meier said. "Back when they were pretty young, about 9 or 10, they were playing on traveling teams and stuff like that so they played quite a few games. I think they just liked football the best. They pretty much played all of the sports in high school but they saw their opportunity in football as they gathered up some size and maturity.
- Edited by Jessica Sain-Baird
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A guide to the rest of the Big 12
BY TAYLOR BERN
Missouri is the North favorite with its Heisman-caliber quarterback, but Oklahoma beat the Tigers last year and has a talented group again. The Sooners will be challenged in the South by Texas and Texas Tech, which has one of the top receivers in the nation. Up North, Nebraska wants a solid debut season from coach Bo Pelini, and QB Josh Freeman expects to lead K-State to a bowl, a year after losing seven games.
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Colorado
Head Coach: Dan Hawkins (3rd year)
2007 Record: 6-7 (4-4)
Key Players: Cody Hawkins So-QB, George Hypolite Sr-DT, Brad Jones Sr-LB
Key Losses: Hugh Charles RB, Jordon Dizon LB, Terrence Wheatley CB
Consider the Buffaloes rebuilt. Coach Dan Hawkins' tenure in Boulder hasn't always been pretty (read: 2-10 in 2006), but last year's squad made huge strides in the right direction. Colorado defeated Oklahoma and Nebraska at home and also won in Lubbock and Waco. Freshman quarterback Cody Hawkins took his bumps and threw 17 interceptions. But with experience, that number could fall while his 3,000 passing yards and 22 touchdowns could increase. Defensive tackle George Hypolite has the ability to take some pressure off of the linebackers, which lost All-American Jordon Dizon. The offense has balance and big-play ability, but its x-factor is freshman running back Darrell Scott. Scott was the No. 1-rated running back by Rivals.com, and his presence could make Colorado the Big 12's surprise team this season.
Coach's Take:"I really believe that if we're able to reach down in the hearts and minds of young men and push the right buttons and do the right things, you can develop that kind of chemistry and that kind of magic and make (wins) happen."
Dan Hawkins is in his third year as head coach of the Buffaloes. They went 2-10 in his first season, made a bowl last year and are expecting better this fall.
Iowa State
Head Coach: Gene Chizik (2nd year)
2007 Record: 3-9 (2-6)
Key Players: Alexander Robinson So-RB, RJ. Sumrall Sr-WR, Kurtis Taylor Sr-DE
Key Losses: Todd Blythe the W, Bret Meyer QB
No one expected year one of the Gene Chizik-era to go smoothly - and it didn't. The Cyclones opened the season with back-to-back home losses to Kent St. and I-AA Northern Iowa, Iowa St. rebounded with a 15-13 victory against Iowa then dropped another six games in a row.The one bright spot came at the end of the season when then-freshman running back Alexander
Robinson led ISU to two late-season victories. Against Kansas St. and Colorado, Robinson totaled 188 yards and scored four touchdowns. He also rushed for 149 yards on 21 carries in a 42-28 loss to Missouri. Iowa St. doesn't play Oklahoma, Texas and Texas Tech for the next two seasons, but it's the only North school that hasn't named its starting quarterback.
Coach's Take:"We will have more growing pains. We don't have a lot of players that 'add water, instant player."
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Wide receiver R.J.
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Cyclones in receiving last year with 54 receptions for 434 yards. He is one of the veterans coach Gene Chizik is counting on to lead this year's team. So far, Chizik has yet to announce who will be the Cyclones' starting quarterback.
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Missouri
Head Coach: Gary Pinkel (8th year)
2007 Record: 12-2 (7-1)
Key Player: Chase Coffman Sr-TE, Chase
Daniel Sr-QB, Jeremy Maclin So-WR, Sean
Weatherspoon Jr-LB
Key Losses: Will Franklin WR, Martin
Rucker TE, Tony Temple RB
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Quarterback Chase Daniel led Missouri to a victory against Kansas last year, clinching a Big 12 North title for the Tigers. This season, the Tigers want to win the Big 12 and compete for the national championship.
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It's hard to believe how far coach Gary Pinkel's team has come in 12 months. Last year nobody was too sure what to expect, and 8-4 would have been a successful season. Now Missouri returns 17 starters, including a Heisman finalist, from a squad that scored nearly 40 points a game and only lost to one team all year. Amazingly, anything short of a BCS berth in 2008 would be a disappointment in Columbia. With Oklahoma off the schedule, the most important regular season games for Missouri will be its first and last, a pair of neutral site games with rivals Illinois and Kansas. Barring any injuries, the Tigers should be stellar on both sides of the ball which will help them push forward while
Coach's Take:"We certainly haven't arrived. We won the Big 12 North last year.
University of Missouri hasn't won a Big 12 championship yet."
Nebraska
Head Coach: Bo Pelini (1st year)
2007 Record: 5-7 (2-6)
Key Players: Joe Ganz Sr-QB, Marlon
Lucky Sr-RB, Ndamukong Suh Jr-DT
Key Losses: Courtney Grixby CB/KR,
Maurice Purice WR
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Quarterback Joe Ganz will captain the offense for the Huskers again, after throwing for 1,435 yards and 16 touchdowns last year in limited time. His new coach, Bo Pelini, is known as a defensive specialist.
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Rebuilding is a word Nebraska fans don't like to hear associated with their team, but they might as well get used to it. While the Tigers and Jayhawks have emerged as Big 12 powers, the traditionally powerful Cornhuskers fell to the wayside under Bill Callahan. Their defense was particularly atrocious in 2007, as it ranked in the bottom 10 in rushing, scoring and total defense. Enter Bo Pelini, the defensive coordinator at LSU and former defensive coordinator and interim coach with Nebraska. As interim coach, Pelini won the 2003 Alamo Bowl 17-3 before accepting the coordinator position in Baton Rouge. Pelini's Tiger squads were consistently one of the best defensive units in the country, and he'll need that experience to get the Cornhuskers back on the right track.
Coach's Take: "We try to have an offensive mentality on defense. We want to attack. We want to dictate to the offense as much as they're trying to dictate to us."
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Mascot Willie the Wildcat might be the best known face for Kansas State this year. Defensive end Ian Campbell and quarterback Josh Freeman are two of the few returning players among a large number of newcomers, including 19 junior college transfers.
Kansas State
Head Coach: Ron Prince (3rd year)
2007 Record: 5-7 (3-5)
**Key Players:** Ian Campbell Sr-DE, Josh Freeman
Jr-QB, Deon Murphy Sr-WR
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What started as a promising season in Manhattan turned into a whopping disaster. Kansas State lost its final four games by a combined score of 198-112, including a 73-31 defeat at Nebraska. One win in any of those final four games would have made coach Ron Prince's team bowl eligible. Instead the Wildcats stayed home for the holidays and their defense should be blamed. To remedy the situation Prince brought in 19 junior college players, an unheard of number even at a school known for recruiting juco players. Shifting Ian Campbell from linebacker to defensive end should help the run defense, but the secondary is still in shambles. It's very difficult to judge how juco talent will translate into D-I, so Kansas State could be in for a wild ride up or down the polls.
Coach's Take:"The recruiting philosophy was to really do what Kansas State is best at and what they've always done, which is to really have a unique mix of high school players and community college players."
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Quarterback Blake Szymanski is slated to Baylor's starter. He beat out three other players for the top spot.
Coach: Art Briles, first year
Baylor
2007 Record: 3-9
Key Players: Junior safety Jordan Lake, junior linebacker Joe Pawelek, junior receiver David Gettis, senior receiver Thomas White Key Losses: Running back Brandon Whitaker, safety Brandon Stiggers, linebacker Nick Moore
Don't do it. That's what everyone told new coach Art Briles as he contemplated leaving his job at Houston to become the 25th coach in Baylor history. His own daughter thought he was crazy when he signed a contract to coach the Bears. After all, turning the Baylor football program around is the equivalent of making western Kansas a vacationing hot-spot. The Bears haven't put together a winning season in 13 years and are 11-85 all-time in Big 12 Conference games. But Briles has a vision and thinks he can turn the Bears into contenders within a few years. This year, however, might be tough. There's a four-way battle for the starting quarterback spot between Miami transfer Kirby Freeman, last year's starter Blake Szymanski, junior-college transfer Jeremy Sanders and walk-on Ryan Roberts. Baylor's defense will need to be its strength as the Bears return their two leading tacklers from last season.
Coach's Take:"If I walked through the room and 11 other head coaches from the Big 12 walked through the room, there probably wouldn't be a whole lot of people pointing at me and saying,"There goes Baylor football."That's what we're out to change."
Oklahoma
Coach: Bob Stoops, 10th year
2007 Record: 11-3, Big 12 Champions
Key Players: Sophomore quarterback Sam Bradford, sophomore running back De-Marco Murray, junior defensive end Auston English, senior safety Nic Harris
Key Losses: Linebacker Curtis Lofton,
receiver Malcolm Kelly, cornerback Reggie Smith
The Sooners don't want to talk about it, but everybody else does. Oklahoma has lost four straight BCS bowl games - including two national championship games. In a year when the Sooners are expected to compete for a national championship, it's fair to ask them what has gone wrong lately. But the players and coaches will stick to clichés and say they're taking it one game at a time and not worried about the end of the season. The Sooners will deal with it at the end of the season - assuming they live up to the lofty expectations that accompany a No. 4 national preseason ranking. Oklahoma is loaded at nearly every position. Sam Bradford, the nation's most efficient passer, and Auston English, the preseason Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year, are the leaders of their respective units.
Coach's Take:"Overall, we've been in six Big 12 Championships and we've won five of them. We are doing something right. We know how to win those games and we'll manage these others the best we can."
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Oklahoma State
Coach: Mike Gundy, fourth year 2007 Record: 7-6
Key Players: Senior quarterback Zac Robinson, senior tight end Brandon Pettigrew, senior cornerback Jacob Lacey, junior linebacker Patrick Lavine
Key Losses: Receiver Adarius Bowman, running back Dantrell Savage, safety Donovan Woods
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Mike Gundy has an inexperienced team this season except for returning quarterback Zac Robinson. Robinson must stay healthy and lead the young offense.
in the Big 12 last season, and Adarius Bowman, the fourth leading receiver in the Big 12 despite missing his two final games because of injury. Sophomore running back Kendall Hunter and sophomore receiver Dez Bryant are among those who must progress quickly to keep the Cowboys' offense potent. Robinson did everything last year, passing for more than 2,800 yards and rushing for more than 800. But he may have to cut down on the rushing attempts this season because Mike Gundy can't even imagine what would happen if Robinson went down with an injury. How worried is the coach? He's already losing sleep over the thought.
Coach's Take:"I worry about that every night, just before I take a sleeping pill to go to sleep."
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Coach: Mack Brown, 11th year
2007 Record: 10-3
Key Players: Junior quarterback Colt McCoy, senior receiver Quan Cosby, senior defensive end Brian Orakpo, senior linebacker Rashad Bobino
Key Losses: Running back Jamaal Charles, receiver Limas Sweed, safety Marcus Griffin
For the first time in three years, the Longhorns aren't receiving much national attention headed into the season. There's no Vince Young to talk about, no national championship to defend and no second-year quarterback who put up Heisman-like numbers as a freshman.
Quarterback Colt McCoy wants to return to his freshman-year form, when he threw 29 touchdowns and only seven interceptions.
Yes, quarterback Colt McCoy regressed last season. He threw 18 interceptions as compared to only seven his freshman season and completed three percent less of his passes. McCoy said he learned a lot from his rough sophomore season and would return to form this year. McCoy isn't the primary concern for coach Mack Brown, though. The Texas defense returns only four starters from last year's team. Brian Orakpo dealt with injuries all of last season but is one of the conference's best pass rushers when healthy.
Coach's Take:"This is the first time we've been considered an underdog for a while. It's a different role for us and seems to be motivating our guys to work really, really hard."
Texas Tech
Coach: Mike Leach, ninth season
2007 Record: 9-4
Key Players: Sophomore receiver Michael Crabtree, senior quarterback Graham Harrell, senior safety Darcel McBath, sophomore linebacker Brian Duncan
Key Losses: Receiver Danny Amendola, running back Shannon Woods, safety Joe Garcia,
Texas Tech and its 41 points per game are no longer the Big 12's secret. The nation is starting to take notice. That happens when a freshman receiver, Michael Crabtree, is named an All-American after scoring 22 touchdowns and gaining nearly 2,000 receiving yards. Quarterback Graham Harrell isn't bad, either. He completed 72 percent of his passes for 5,705 yards and 48 touchdowns last season.
But for Texas Tech to compete for its first Big 12 Conference title, its defense needs to continue to progress. Ruffin McNeil took over as interim defensive coordinator in the middle of last season, and the Red Raiders ranked first in the conference in total defenseduring the last nine games. Leach expects that trend to continue this season as he named McNeil the permanent defensive coordinator in the off-season.
Coach's Take:"I've never coached in a game in the Big 12 when before the game started, I didn't think we were going to win."
Wide receiver Michael Crabtree, left, and quarterback Graham Harrell will likely hook up on pass plays several times this year. Last season, Crabtree totaled almost 2,000 receiving yards.
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Coach: Mike Sherman, first year
2007 Record: 7-6
Key Players: Junior running back Mike Goodson, senior tackle Travis Schneider, junior cornerback Jordan Pugh, senior defensive end Cyril Obiozor
Key Losses: Tight end Martellus Bennet, linebacker Mark Dodge, defensive tackle Red Bryant
The Aggies will still wear maroon and white this season, but that might be the only thing Mike Sherman isn't planning on changing. The former Green Bay Packers coach came to College Station, Texas, after being hired to replace Dennis Franchione and immediately started a
Quarterback Stephen McGee is back, but his role could change under new coach Mike Shrerman.
transformation of his team. He told senior quarterback Stephen McGee, who had started for three straight years, he would have to beat out sophomore Jerrod Johnson for the starting job. He informed 285-pound running back Jorvorskie Lane that he must lose weight and would be moved to fullback. And he's changing the offense completely. Defensively, the Aggies will look different as well with a new linebacking corps. Junior Matt Featherson and sophomore Von Miller are among the new linebackers who have to replace Mark Dodge and Misi Tupe, who combined for 214 tackles last season.
Coach's Take:"I feel strongly about the university and the leadership there and the potential that is within our grasp at some point. I look forward to achieving that potential, getting that potential to fruition."
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The Big 12 has as many good quarterbacks as any conference. K-State's Josh Freeman, Oklahoma State's Zac Robinson, Kansas' Todd Reesing, Oklahoma's Sam Bradford, Colorado's Cody Hawkins, Texas Tech's Graham Harrell and Missouri's Chase Daniel are earning the Big 12 national recognition. Daniel could be the best of the group. Last season, he was on the All-Big 12 First Team and was named a Heisman finalist. Reesing was on the All-Big 12 second team and threw for 33 touchdowns last year.
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This season might just be the year of the quarterback in the Big 12; at least seven of them could be candidates for all-conference honors
Zac Robinson sat in the corner of a crowded hotel ballroom in late July, arms folded, eyes politely focused on the microphones in front of him.
BY RUSTIN DODD by dodd@kansan.com
His 6-foot-3, 210-pound frame and orange shirt were a dead giveaway. Robinson looks like a starting quarterback. But if you saw the boyish, brown-haired Oklahoma State quarterback on the street, you'd probably need a Cowboy football program to recognize him.
Doesn't matter that Robinson was one of just three quarterbacks in the country to pass for 2,800 yards and rush for 800 yards last season. Doesn't matter that one of those other guys was named Tim Tebow, Florida's sophomore Heisman Trophy winner.
If Robinson played in any other conference, he'd probably be a household name. But Robinson plays in the Big 12, a conference where nearly every team owns a quarterback with prodigious talents and video game stats.
Most Big 12 coaches can't remember a time
when their conference - or any conference - was stocked with so many A-list quarterbacks. That may be because the Big 12 is treading into uncharted territory.
"There's at least eight in our conference that are very confirmed on the national level as far as their ability and have the resume to back it up," said Kansas State coach Ron Prince.
That was partly because Missouri's Chase Daniel and Kansas' Todd Reesing ignited a dual football renaissance among two of the nation's oldest rivals. Daniel was named First Team All-Big 12 by the Associated Press and was a Heisman Trophy finalist, and he's back for his senior season, attempting to top the 4,306 yards and 33 touchdowns he tossed in 2007.
Prince believes his own quarterback, junior Josh Freeman, is one of those eight. But like Robinson, Freeman was shut out of any postseason awards last season.
And it's not just a Big 12 north phenomenon. Texas Tech's Graham Harrell led the Red Raiders' explosive spread offense and finished first in the country with 48 touchdown passes in 2007. And all Oklahoma's Sam Bradford did during his freshman season was lead the
Reeing returns as well, of course, and Kansas' resident funslinger will try to duplicate a season where he earned Second Team All-Big 12 honors, while throwing for 33 touchdown passes and just seven interceptions.
country in quarterback rating, while tossing 36 touchdown passes.
Throw in Texas' Colt McCoy, Colorado's Cody Hawkins, Texas A&M's Stephen McGee and Nebraska's Joe Ganz and the Big 12 has 10 returning quarterbacks who started games in 2007.
--similar spread offenses, while Oklahoma, Texas, and Oklahoma State - among others all use elements of the spread.
Pelini, who was an assistant coach at Nebraska in 2003 and Oklahoma in 2004, remembered the black and blue ground offenses that ruled the league in the late 90s and early 2000s, when running backs such as Ahman Green, Ricky Williams, Cedric Benson and Adrian Peterson reigned over the conference.
But then in 1999, an assistant from Kentucky named Mike Leach took over the offensive coordinator position at Oklahoma and installed his pass-happy spread offense. Leach used as many as five wide receivers, attempting to stretch defenses all across the field.
"It's changed," Pelini said. "It's gone from option football to zone read and spreading the field and fast-break type offenses."
Bo Pelini hardly recognized the Big 12 when he took over the reins at Nebraska last winter.
One year later, Leach became the head coach at Texas Tech and took his offense with him. While it seemed a novelty at the time, eight years later Missouri and Kansas both employ
"The bottom line is every spread offense is different. And there's not one—there's very few that are the same," Pelini said.
"It's not just the Big 12, but it's college football in general," Pelini said.
Cartoonish offensive numbers have come with the spread, and those numbers have brought attention back to the quarterbacks.
And perhaps no quarterback in the Big 12 is grabbing more headlines than Missouri's Daniel. After being propelled into the national spotlight with a flurry of huge games last November, Daniel's mug was splashed on the cover of Sports Illustrated earlier this month, and the coaches named him preseason First-Team All-Big 12.
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So for now, Robinson will start the season in relative anonymity, another Big 12 quarterback with strong arms and dangerous legs in a conference loaded with them.
Robinson can scramble around the pocket, he can throw the deep ball and he's ready to get noticed. But as Robinson says, "You see a lot of guys around the conference like that."
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Tigers find place among Big 12 elite
Missouri's quick-striking offense drives team near top of conference
BY TAYLOR BERN tbern@kansan.com
Though it seems like an overnight success story to some, Missouri's trip up the Big 12 ladder has been a long process.
Last season coach Gary Pinkel's squad went from unranked to one win shy of the BCS National Championship game. With 15 returning starters, including 2007 Heisman finalist Chase Daniel, the Tigers are expected to remain at that elite level and maybe even bring home the crown.
All of this was made possible by Pinkel's
decision to effectively combine the two hottest offensive philosophies in the country, bringing the no-huddle spread offense to Columbia.
"The way that whole thing came down originally, I felt we needed an edge," Pinkel said. "I looked at what Mike (Leach) has been doing in Texas Tech, and certainly a version of his spread offense, and
going to bowl after bowl after bowl."
"The way we're going and the way we're working, it could be a special season."
Before making his decision, Pinkel also spoke with defensive coordinators from across the country and asked them what offense drove them nuts. The most common response he heard was that defensive coaches hated trying to stop the spread.
From there he worked on perfecting his own version of the spread, talking to other coaches who run spread-oriented offenses like Florida's Urban Meyer and Bowling Green's Gregg Brandon.
Missouri offensive coordinator Dave Christensen then came up with the idea of combining the spread with a no-huddle scheme. The result? Last year the Tigers offense averaged 39.9 points per game (ninth in the nation) and 490.3 yards per game (fifth in the nation).
"We want to be an offensive football team that gives, dictates a little bit what the defense does as the Cotton Bowl did," Pinkel said.
In the 2008 Cotton Bowl, Missouri running back Tony Temple used the spread to cut up the Arkansas defense for 281 yards and four touchdowns.
at as many as four different backs to carry the load, and he also must replace a pair of starters from the offensive line. Like his defensive line last year, Pinkel said his inexperienced O-line would have to mature.
Temple will be the most difficult player for Missouri to replace as there's not one clear guy ready to step in. Pinkel said he's looking
"Our offensive line as we look at them are going to have to be a lot better in October and a lot better in November than they were at the beginning," he said.
CHASE DANIEL Missouri quarterback
Pinkel added that he's not too worried, because he has Daniel to help take any pressure off his voune line and tailbacks.
Daniel, who finished fourth in last year's Heisman vote and figures to be heading to
New York again this year, is the steady hand of the offense. He made clutch plays all year and guided the Tigers to their best season in school history.
However, Daniel said he understands that it will take an entire team effort find success again this year.
"What made us really good last year was that our guys who were returning
stepped up and got better," Daniel said. "Our veterans have to get better in order for us to get where we want to be."
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Some of those veterans who figure to step up are senior tight end Chase Coffman, junior linebacker Sean Weatherspoon and sophomore wide receiver Jeremy Maclin. Though still young, Maclin has lots of experience.
Last year he led the Tigers with 1,055 receiving yards, and Maclin's also one of the top return specialists in the country.
The only team to beat Missouri in 2007 was Oklahoma, which did so in the regular season and in the Big 12 title game. This year the Sooners and Tigers won't meet unless each squad can duplicate last season and again make the conference title game.
In a stacked Big 12, that's not an easy thing to do, but with their super offense in place and a plethora of returning starters on defense, the Tigers are starting to feel the magic once again.
"Now we have to take the next step," Daniel said. "This year's already been a lot more intense, but we don't need to talk about it. We know our goals are out there for us. The way we're going and the way we're working, it could be a special season."
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Missouri quarterback Chase Daniel enters the 2008 season as a Heisman Trophy contender, and the Tigers could vie for the national championship. Daniel finished fourth in Heisman voting in 2007, while Missouri fell one victory short of the BCS National Championship game and then soundly defeated Arkansas, 38-7, in the Cotton Bowl.
Heisman Trophy contenders
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Florida, junior, quarterback The list starts with Tebow, last year's Heisman winner. Tebow, a junior, accounted for 55 touchdowns — 32 in the air and 23 on the ground — in 2007. If Florida stays in the national title hunt, Tebow will stay in Heisman conversations.
CHRIS "BEANIE" WELLS
Ohio State, junior, running back A workhorse in Ohio State's ground game. Wells ran for 1,609 yards last season and has the added advantage of playing in a glamour program.
CHASE DANIEL
Missouri, senior, quarterback A Heisman finalist a year ago, Daniel's hopes this season rest on Missouri staying relevant nationally.
PAT WHITE
West Virginia, senior, quarterback White's old head coach, Rich Rodriguez, left for Michigan. But White returns for his senior season as the best dual threat quarterback this side of Tim Tebow.
KNOWSHON MORENO
Georgia, sophomore, running back
If Moreno can avoid the sophomore jinx and carry Georgia to a national title, he may be the second sophomore in a row to win the Heisman.
MICHAEL CRABTREE
Texas Tech, sophomore, wide receiver
Wide receivers are at a natural disadvantage in the Heisman race, but Crabtree's numbers last season — 134 catches and 1,962 yards — are too gaudy to ignore.
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Mark Mangino answers questions at Big 12 media day July 22, in Kansas City, Mo. After leading Kansas to an Orange Bowl title in 2007, Mangino and Kansas face a tougher schedule in 2008. But a winning season this year means Kansas will get invited to a bowl game for the second consecutive year.
BY ALEX DUFEK
ADUFEK@KANSAN.COM
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"We're just getting started." This is the motto the Athletic Department adopted for the 2008 Kansas football season. A bold statement considering the Jayhawks had their best season in school history a year ago.
As we all know by now, Kansas has had a problem with consistent success in football. Evidence lies in the fact that the school has never appeared in back-to-back bowl games.
National exposure, expectations and doubters are already looming over Lawrence and things won't get easier once the season begins.
A dangerous non-conference match-up at South Florida in week three, and an improved Big 12 south schedule feature three teams ranked in the AP preseason top 15, guarantees a more difficult road to greatness this season for the Hawks.
But fear not, if Kansas can hurdle over a few of these obstacles the promised land may not be far away.
Having two University of Wisconsin- Madison alums for parents, I have heard many similarities drawn between the current state of Kansas football and the state of Wisconsin Badger football in the early 1990s, when its program was "just getting started."
Likewise, following a 2006 season where the Hawks finished 6-6 with no bowl berth, Kansas surprised many in 2007 as they finished 12-1 and captured the Orange Bowl title that eluded the program in 1969.
In 1993 the Badgers burst onto the Big 10 scene as well as the national landscape in an almost identical fashion to how Kansas did one year ago. After finishing 5-6 in 1992, Wisconsin made the leap to 10-1-1, snaring a Rose Bowl title they had been denied three times before.
However, things weren't always great in "America's Dairy Land." During the 30 seasons leading up to 1993, the Wisconsin program averaged a lowly 4.2 wins per season. Things were equally sub-par in the "Sunflower State."
In the 30 seasons before last year's campaign, Kansas averaged an almost identical 4.4 victories per season.
The Badgers followed their Rose Bowl success by going 8-3-1in 1994, capping the season with a Hall of Fame Bowl victory, only the second back-to-back bowl trip in Wisconsin's history at the time.
Since then the Badgers' program has blossomed into one of the most consistent in college football.
Over last 14 seasons the Badgers have averaged 8.4 wins per season, played in 12 bowl games, suffered only two losing seasons and groomed a Heisman trophy winner in Ron Dayne.
Although the majority of Wisconsin's success is only 15 years in the making, the tradition in Madison is strong. The fans are dedicated and enthusiastic, the band is famous for its "5th Quarter" and the break between the third and fourth quarter is easily the most exciting in the nation as fans always go wild when they hear House of Pain's "Jump Around."
This is an example of turning a program around in its purest form.
In fact, their home venue, Camp Randall, is so respected that the videogame "NCAA
Football 2009" ranked Wisconsin's home turf as the eighth toughest stadium in college football. Not too bad considering they were placed ahead of traditional powers USC, Michigan and Nebraska.
Now how can Kansas model Wisconsin's success?
The Kansas Athletics Department has done its job by building the new football facilities and extending head coach Mark Mangino's contract. The fans have chipped in by setting season attendance records each of the past three years. And the coaches have recruited talent, developed it and established a winning atmosphere in Lawrence.
However, Kansas has come all too close to changing the national perception of the program in the past. The 1996 season carried a lot of optimism as Kansas entered the year ranked 25th in the AP poll after a successful 1995 campaign in which the Jayhawks capped off a 10-2 season by blowing out UCLA in the Aloha Bowl.
All started well in 1996 as the Jayhawks jumped out to a 3-1 record, but things turned sour fast following the Jayhawks 52-24 shellacking of Oklahoma in week four. The Hawks went on to drop six of their last seven and
finished the year a disappointing 4-7. Kansas coach Glen Mason ventured north to the University of Minnesota and the program didn't find itself back in a bowl until 2003.
A 2008 season without a bowl berth, regardless of the schedule or the newfound national attention, would be another huge setback. With all the momentum in the world pushing Kansas forward this year, players, coaches and fans need to keep the gears in motion.
That means the team must overlook no opponent and at the same time not be intimidated to walk into Norman, Oklahoma, or Lincoln, Nebraska, and beat the traditional powers in their houses. It also means fans must stay at games through their entirety regardless of the score, if they ever wish to have an environment that rivals the great venues across the country.
The foundation has been laid down by Mangino, Lew Perkins and Co., and if it's not supported now, the program they've done a terrific job building will most likely crumble.
However, if Kansas can push through this year and win seven-plus games, earning a bowl berth, maybe students at Memorial Stadium will also find the urge to celebrate, mimic Wisconsin and "Jump Around."
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Florida International
Aug. 30 at 6 p.m.
This game should be more clinic than contest, although it will be hard to improve on last year's 55-3 rout. Kansas has an advantage at every position and fans should enjoy this ceremonious start to the season.
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Louisiana Tech
Sep. 6 at 6 p.m.
Last season Kansas beat its four non-conference opponents by a combined score of 214-23. That brought a lot of scrutiny about scheduling cupcakes and the Bulldogs are only a small step up from the usual pastries.
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Sep. 12 at 7 p.m.
This is Kansas' first real test of the season as the Bulls have won nine games in back-to-back years behind junior quarterback Matt Grothe. In 2006, Kansas held off South Florida 13-7 in Memorial Stadium.
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Sep. 20 at 7 p.m.
The last time Rhett Bomar played Kansas, he was wearing an Oklahoma jersey and he led his squad to a 19-3 victory.
Three years later he returns with the I-AA Bearkats and should be in for a long night.
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Colorado
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This game starts one of the most difficult and important six game stretches in the Mangino era. The Jayhawks could, and probably should, be undefeated heading into this game and the Big 12 title still goes through Norman.
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The Red Raiders defense returns eight starters from a decent unit last season, but its still vulnerable. If you can't simply over-power Tech, which Kansas likely can't, then the best route is to air it out and beat Graham Harrell at his own game.
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The Wildcats could be in for an ugly season and they'll be looking for at least one big win to hang their hats on. Records won't matter in this contest and the Jayhawks must focus on protecting their home field advantage.
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Kansas' last trip to Lincoln was a memorable 39-32 overtime loss, and few KU fans will ever forget last year's 76-39 beat down. The Jayhawks can't take this game for granted because the Cornhuskers always get up for home games.
Texas
Nov. 15 at IBA The Jayhawks final two games could each feature two teams battling for a bid to the Big 12 title game. Texas won 10 games last year but lost to Kansas State and at Texas A&M. Texas' Colt McCoy will have his work cut out for him.
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Associated Press Top 25 Poll
Team (1st place votes) 2007 Pts.
1. Georgia (22) 11-2 1528
2. Ohio State (21) 11-2 1506
3. Southern California (12) 11-2 1490
4. Oklahoma (4) 11-3 1444
5. Florida (6) 12-2 1266
6. Missouri 12-2 1266
7. LSU 12-2 1135
8. West Virginia 11-2 1116
9. Clemson 9-4 1105
10. Auburn 9-4 968
11. Texas 10-3 966
12. Texas Tech 9-4 786
13. Wisconsin 9-4 771
**14. Kansas** 12-1 707
15. Arizona State 10-3 631
16. BYU 11-2 590
17. Virginia Tech 11-3 578
18. Tennessee 10-4 509
19. South Florida 9-4 496
20. Illinois 9-4 483
21. Oregon 9-4 366
22. Penn State 9-4 293
23. Wake Forest 9-4 227
24. Alabama 7-6 89
25. Pittsburgh 5-7 85
USA Today Coaches' Poll
1. Georgia (22) 11-2 1,438
2. USC (14) 11-2 1,430
3. Ohio State (14) 11-2 1,392
4. Oklahoma (3) 11-3 1,329
5. Florida (5) 9-4 1,293
6. LSU (3) 12-2 1,163
7. Missouri 12-2 1,143
8. West Virginia 11-2 1,008
9. Clemson 9-4 999
10. Texas 10-3 979
11. Auburn 9-4 888
12. Wisconsin 9-4 747
**13. Kansas** 12-1 714
14. Texas Tech 9-4 644
15. Virginia Tech 11-3 568
16. Arizona State 10-3 560
17. BYU 11-2 547
18. Tennessee 10-4 506
19. Illinois 9-4 422
20. Oregon 9-4 399
21. South Florida 9-4 350
22. Penn State 9-4 313
23. Wake Forest 9-4 203
24. Michigan 9-4 112
25. Fresno State 9-4 91
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thursday,aug.28
Tea at Three. 3 p.m., all ages, FREE, Kansas Union Lobby.
Obama Acceptance Speech Watch Party. 6 p.m.to 11 p.m. all ages, FREE. Liberty Hall. 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence.
The Junkyard Jazz Band. 7 p.m.to 8:30 p.m., all ages, American Legion, 3408 W. 6th, Lawrence.
Bob Dylan. 7:30 p.m., all ages,
$61.50, Uptown Theater, 3700
Broadway, Kansas City, Mo.
Retro Ladies Night with DJ
Retro Ladies Night with DJ
Biz. 9 p.m. to 130 a.m. 21+, FREE+
$2, Crimson & Brews, 925 Iowa
Street, Lawrence.
Lights & Siren/Paper Owis/
Aubrey. 9 p.m., 18+, $5-$7, The
jackpot, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence.
Neon Dance Party, 10 p.m., 18+,
FREE-$5. The Bottleneck, 737 New
Hampshire, Lawrence.
Champagne with Friends. 10
p.m., 21+. $3. The Jazzhaus, 926 %
Massachusetts, Lawrence.
**SUPERFRESH!** 10:30 p.m., 21+,
$2, The Eigth Street Tap Room, 801
New Hampshire, Lawrence.
friday,aug.29
FREE PLAY at The Replay.
3 p.m. to 6 p.m., all ages, FREE. The Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence.
American Idols Live. 7 p.m., all ages, $39.50-$68.50, Sprint Center, 14th and Grand, Kansas City, Mo.
Andy Frasco. 8 p.m., 21+,$4.
The Jazzhaus, 926 ½ Massachusetts,
Lawrence.
The Roseline/The Whipsaws/
The Gaslights. 9 p.m., 18+, $+$-7,
The Jackpot, 943 Massachusetts,
Lawrence.
Ghosty. 10 p.m., 21+,$2, Eighth Street Tap Room, 801 New Hampshire, Lawrence.
Cosmic Bowling. 10 p.m., all ages.
FREE, Kansas Union, Jaybowl.
Open Mic and Jam. 7 p.m., 21+.
FREE. Cross Town Tavern, 1910 Haskell Ave., Lawrence.
Patties, Pong and PBR. 9
p.m., all ages, FREE. Nice Cafe, 803
Massachusetts, Lawrence.
Friday Nights @ Liquid. 9:30 p.m.
to 2 a.m., 18+, $5-$8. Liquid, 806 W
24th, Lawrence.
Downtown Lawrence Farmers' Market. 7 a.m.to 11 a.m., all ages, FREE. 8th and New Hampshire, Lawrence.
saturday,aug.30
Americana Music Academy
Americana Music Academy Saturday Jam. 3.p.m.to 5 p.m., all ages, FREE.. Americana Music Academy, 1419 Massachusetts, Lawrence
Salsa Saturdays. 8:30 p.m., 21+,
Westport Beach Club, Pennsylvania
Avenue and Westport Road, Kansas City,
MO.
Cosmic Bowling. 10 p.m., all ages.
FREE, KANES Union, Jawbow.
Stereo Saturday's with DJ Proof. 10 p.m., 21+, Fatso's, 1016 Massachusetts, Lawrence.
Undercover KS. 10 p.m. 21+ $4.
The Jazzhaus, 926½ Massachusetts,
Lawrence.
The Global Warmers. 10
p.m., 21+,$3. The Gaslight Tavern & Coffee shop, 3117 N. Second, Lawrence.
Common People Dance Party
& Social with DJ Yours Truly.
10 p.m., 21+, FREE-$2. Louise's
Downtown, 1009 Massachusetts,
Lawrence.
Ratatat. 8 p.m., all ages, $13-$15,
The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts,
Lawrence.
sunday, aug. 31
The Conformists/Beard, 10
p.m., 21+, $2, Replay Lounge, 946
Massachusetts, Lawrence.
smackdown1 8:30 p.m. | $1+$5, Bottleneck,
Bottleneck 7:37 New Hamphshire.
Hip Hop and Hot Wings, 9 p.m.,
21+,$2. The Peanut, 41B West 9th
Street, Kansas City, MO.
monday,sept.1
Rural Grit Happy Hour, 6 p.m.
to 9 p.m., 21+,$3. The Brick, 1727
McGee, Kansas City, MO.
"Augusti Osage County." 7:30 p.m., all ages, FREE, Lawrence Arts Center, 940 N Hampshire St.
Rock Band Mondays with Metal Mark. 8 p.m., 21+, FREE. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, Kansas City, MO.
The Spanktones Open Jam.
10 p.m., 21+ $2. The jazzhaus, 926 %
Massachusetts, Lawrence.
tuesday, sept. 2
Tuesday Night Folk Concerts.
7:30 p.m., all ages, FREE, Signs of Life,
722 Massachusetts, Lawrence.
Tuesday Nite Swing, 8 p.m. to 11 p.m., all ages, FREE.The Kansas Union, 6th Floor
Karaoke with Natalie. 9 p.m.
18+, $3 The Jackpot Music Hall, 943
Massachusetts, Lawrence.
System and Station. 10 p.m.
21+, $2. The Replay Lounge, 946
Massachusetts, Lawrence.
wednesday, sept. 3
Chess Night. 7 p.m., all ages.
FREE Aimee's Coffee House, 1025 Massachusetts, Lawrence
Pride Night. 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., 18+,
$5. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts,
Lawrence.
The Dirty Disco. 9 p.m., 21+.
FREE: $2. Fatso's, 1016 Massachusetts,
Lawrence.
ShoutShimmySoul Night (on the patio). 10 p.m., 21+ $1. The Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence.
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editor's note
I'm not a movie buff or a red-carpet fashion enthusiast.
but the Academy Awards ceremony is my must-see TV event of the year.
It's not the glitz or the glamour or the anticipation of who'll win that's fascinating. For me, it's watching celebrities effortlessly pull off acceptance speeches before an audience of millions—celebs who just days before were photographed in unflattering moments of
spontaneity and debauchery now standing calm and composed, eyes focused, shoulders back, voices suddenly rapt with confidence and articulation.
How do they do it? Where does someone as unstable as Amy Winehouse get the composure to speak candidly before the world? I get tongue-tied, flushed and shaky just giving a speech before an audience of 15 in Bailey Hall.
And I'm not alone: Scientific surveys abound that place public speaking atop the list of Americans' worst fears, though I doubt it tops being buried
alive or experiencing a power outage during the Oscars.
But never fear, dear readers, because whether you need to prepare the perfect wedding toast, pen a riveting political speech or just survive COMS 130, Heather's story on page 13 has got you covered.
While most of our public speaking skills will never be on par with those of, say, Martin Luther King Jr., Oprah or even a tipy jack Nicholson on Oscar night, we can all master basic skills and strategies to make getting up in front of a crowd a little less formidable.
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Melanie Johnson, left, struggles to overcome instructor Mark Taylor from the disadvantage of Taylor's headlock during a Krav Maga training session at Premier Martial Arts in Lawrence. The Krav Maga (literally "close combat" in Hebrew) fighting style was developed in Israel.
Photo by Ryan McGeeney
Try a variety of martial arts for empowerment, health and self-defense
By Matt Bechtold mbechtold@kansan.com
Krav Maga. Hap Ki Do. Aikido. Kuk Sool Won. Kumdo.
These are just some of the martial arts you might not be familiar with, and if you've ever thought about studying a martial art, your choices are probably a lot more diverse than you thought.
When most people think of martial arts, they picture fight scenes from popular Hollywood blockbusters or televised mixed martial arts matches. But in addition to these more recognizable fighting styles, there are countless traditions and philosophies from around the world that make up martial arts today.And, here in Lawrence, we're fortunate to have a rich, diverse selection to choose from.
Several martial arts even have clubs at KU. Active clubs include Ki-Aikido, kendo, fencing, judo, karate and Tae Kwon Do. KU Recreation Services sport club director Jason Krone says there's a chance that a Brazilian ju-jitsu club will be forming this semester, too. In addition to the clubs you'll find on campus that offer inexpensive training, most martial arts schools in Lawrence offer discounted rates for college students.
Krav Maga
Don Booth, a seventh-degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do, is the head instructor at Premier Martial Arts, where he also teaches Kray Maga.
Krav Maga is an unarmed combat fighting system designed to teach maximum effectiveness in a minimal amount of time -something Booth says he found useful as a police officer in California. It is a non-traditional, no-nonsense, modern self-defense system developed by the Israeli Defense Forces for the hostile world they faced.
"Anybody can come and do this," Booth says. "We promote a non-intimidating program. If I'm your partner, the better I can make you the better I'm going to be. It's not about knocking you down to build me up."
Along with his wife, Susan, who is a sixth-degree black belt, Booth offers what he says few other schools can claim: bringing male and female perspectives to the teaching and training of martial arts.
"We work with KU right now, contracted to do women's self-defense classes, so I think that they're looked around and did their own evaluation, and found that we did practical self-defense, rather than silly stuff. It works." Booth says.
Kuk Sool Won
While the modern art of Krav Maga places its highest value on sheer effectiveness, other schools offer different
philosophies and a broader range of techniques.
Kuk Sool Won, for example, takes its techniques from ancient Korea and blends arts practiced by the Korean royal court, Buddhist monks, and tribal warriors. These three aspects give modern Kuk Sool Won schools a diverse syllabus. While striking, kicking, and weapon systems such as the sword, staff and spear are common in the martial arts world, Kuk Sool Won teaches the use of more unusual weapons as well, such as the folding fan and belt, which are remnants of the Korean royal court.
"I have some martial arts experience in kickboxing and jiu-jitsu, and this is a lot different for me," Says Jason Gregory, Herington graduate student."There's an etiquette side to this and more of a focus side beyond just the raw intensity of hitting a bag or opponent. It's a little more refined than kickboxing."
Walter Dimmick, professor of biology and head instructor of Kuk Sool Won at the Lawrence Athletics Club, says Kuk Sool Won's diversity of technique stems from the three-pillar origins of Kuk Sool Won, rather than cobbling together styles from multiple schools like modern mixed martial arts.
Dimmick says the best thing that comes along with martial arts training is a strong mind and an ability to remain calm in the face of stressful situations.
Aikido and Iaido
Aikido is a style that differs from many martial arts. It places peaceful resolution as its highest ideal and is purely defensive in nature. Rather than jarring blocks and counter-attacks, Aikido uses an attacker's energy against him, neutralizing the attack while doing as little physical harm possible
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Photo by Alex Bonham-Carter
Pam Jones watches Jana Rittenhouse flip in the air while practicing Ki-Aikido, at the Kansas Ki Society in Lawrence, KI-Aikido is a form of martial arts that is grounded in body and mind instead of brute force.
to the attacker.This philosophy has made it popular with police forces around the world.
Andrew Tsubaki, professor emeritus of Asian studies, is a fifth-degree black belt and teaches a style of Aikido called Ki-Aikido.This style of Aikido emphasizes not only technique, but also the development of one's "ki" or mental energy, which allows a defender to better "connect" with an attacker in order to redirect the attack into a throw or a pin. This emphasis is made clear by the fact that there are two ranking systems: one for technique and one for ki development.
Tsubaki warns that first-time visitors may be puzzled, because kicking and punching is what they expect to see in martial arts. But when they see Aikido for the first time, they see an attack being diverted and thrown away, or redirected to the ground and pinned. It looks easy, but Tsubaki says this can be misleading.
"Sometimes, for untrained eyes, it's so simple," Tsubaki says. "It looks like nage, the one receiving the attack, does hardly anything, and that uke, the attacker, throws himself. But the observer is failing to catch what is causing the attacker to fail."
laido is a Japanese art involving the swift drawing, cutting, and re-sheathing of a sword. Initially, it was a practice of samurai to train in this way so they could respond immediately to surprise attacks. Unlike martial arts that pit two opponents against each other, modern laido has become more of a meditative art with martial origins, designed to be introspective and to help develop calmness of mind.
Grand Master Ki-June Park is head instructor at the Lawrence Tae Kwon Do School, where he teaches Tae Kwon Do, Hap Ki Do, Kumdo, Sun Do and self-defense clinics for women.
Han Ki Do
Most people familiar with martial arts have seen spectacular high-kicking, board-breaking demonstrations of Tae Kwon Do. But fewer are familiar with Hap Ki Do, a Korean art that focuses on falling and rolling, throwing and joint-locking, Kumdo, the Korean name for Japanese Kendo,
Martial Arts in Lawrence
More information about all KU martial arts clubs can be found on KU Recreation Services' Web site, www.recreationku.edu.
Kraw Maga:
Premier Martial Arts
3201 Clinton Parkway Ct., Lawrence
785-749-4400
www.pmalwrence.com
Kuk Sool Won:
Lawrence Athletics Club
3201 Mesa Way, Lawrence
785-865-5169
www.lawrences.net
Aikido and laido:
Kansas Ki Society
711 W. 23rd St. #14, Lawrence
785-843-8419
www.kanskaiakido.org
Tae Kwon Do:
Lawrence Tae Kwon Do School
1846 Vermont St., Lawrence
785- 841-5661
Those looking for other uncommon martial arts not mentioned above might consider making the short drive to Olathe and the Wu Tong Academy, which teaches Wing Chun, Tai Chi Chuan, Escrima (Filipino stick fighting), Muay Thai Kickboxing, Six Elbows Gung Fu, Pentjak Silat (an Indonesian fighting style), Shaolin Animal Gung Fu, Hawaiian Kempo, Praying Mantis boxing, mixed martial arts and free women's self-defense classes. More information can be found at www.wutongma.com.
which is a full contact sword-fighting art practiced in armor, or Sun Do, a yoga-like meditative discipline for ki development that, according to Park, is the root and ultimate goal of martial arts.
"We as martial artists have to respect each different martial art," Park says. "Each martial art has their own culture and heritage and tradition and method. We have to keep a respectful manner."
That said, Park says there are two types of schools to avoid: those who teach "hodge-podge" mixed martial arts without a sense of tradition, and anyone advertising quick-fix self-defense courses. True self-defense skills, he says, can only come after months and years of training.
The best option for you
Not surprisingly, all of the instructors say the best way to decide on a martial art is to go watch a class or take an introduction class to see how the the instructors teach.
Booth of Premier Martial Arts suggests looking for a balance between price and the quality of instruction when choosing a class. He also says look at higher-ranked students and instructors at a school to see what you might look like someday, and what you're getting for your money.
Ultimately, finding the right martial art for you—both in technique and philosophy—could bring greater empowerment, discipline and health benefits to your life. There's one out there for you, and it might be closer than you thought possible.
Tai Chi
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Wii love Harry Potter
Companies often capitalize by modeling video games after successful blockbuster movies, and the Harry Potter series, obviously a huge success in print as well, is no exception. Electronic Arts, the company that produces video games for Warner Bros., has announced the July 2009 release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince for Nintendo Wii.
EA has previously released Harry Potter games for PlayStation 2 and Xbox, but the company has had a more difficult time creating a game for Nintendo Wii because the system is controlled via physical movement.
Billy Stalcup, sales associate at Game Nut Entertainment, 844 Massachusetts St., says EA will have problems trying to integrate wand actions and broom flying into the Harry Potter game for Wii. Stalcup says such actions will take a great deal of precision, and with said precision comes the possibility of creating yet another EA "flop" like Red Steel. One of the first releases for Wii, Red Steel failed to utilize the versatility and response of the "Wii note," and, in turn, many facets of the
game turned out to be disappointing.
The completion of J.K. Rowling's series has put more pressure on Warner
Bros. and EA to continue to attract Harry Potter customers. By producing the movies and video games, these companies now take on the full weight of the Harry Potter market. Lucky for them, children and adults alike tend to devour
Wii
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Question Answer
with Mike Tuley of Ad Astera Per Aspera
With music that can at once sound both chaotic and skillfully orchestrated,Ad Astra Per Aspera has become one of Lawrence's most unique local acts.The band is headlining a show at the Granada,1020 Massachusetts St., on September 6. Frontman Mike Tuley took time to chat with Joyplay.
How did you get into playing music?
When I was 9, I saw the movie La Bamba, and I thought playing guitar looked like a fun lifestyle. It was my first real exposure to rock music. My parents had sold most of their rock records when I was a kid, so I definitely didn't grow up with The Beatles or anything like that. A lot of my friends did, but I didn't ever listen to The Beatles until I was in my 20s. Then I got into metal and Easy E in fifth and sixth grade. I had friends who would make me secret tapes. We'd skateboard and smoke cigarettes and listen to Anthrax and Easy E and our parents would find our tapes and break them. Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth, Mudhoney--all those bands kind of came into our orbit when we were like 14, and then that's when I started taking guitar lessons.
Do you play other instruments besides guitar?
Right now I play in three bands.I play drums in a hard-core band called Dark Ages,and I play bass in a band called Hairy Belafonte.
What kind of music do you listen to?
I listen to a lot of music from Africa, like Afro-pop. I was really into Ethiopian jazz and Nigerian funk and all kinds of stuff. But also, touring with Dark Ages, I hear a lot of hard-core and punk.
What do you do when you're not playing music?
I just started going back to school.I graduated from college with a BA in 2004, but I'm going back now,I'm going to get a BA in history.
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Where are your favorite spots in Lawrence?
I really like the Love Garden. I didn't really drink much when I lived in Lawrence until the last year I lived there, but I definitely liked going to The Replay Lounge. We used to walk along the river and just kind of follow the train tracks out of town sometimes and walk through farmers' fields.I like the fact that in Lawrence you can literally walk out of town.
How would you describe Ad Astra Per Aspera's sound?
People always say we are experimental. I think that gives people the impression that we are difficult to listen to. I don't really think that's the case at all. I think we play some really catchy stuff. I would just say we're a weird, fun rock band.
What is in Ad Astra's future?
We're really into projects right now. We've decided we want to do four seven-inch records. Additionally, this fall we are forming the Ad Astra Arkestra, which is going to be a 15-piece orchestra. We're going to record an EP under that name.I think it's going to be fantastic. I'm excited to see where it goes.
—Sean Rosner
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Falling with style
How jumping out of a perfectly good airplane can be a great idea
By Chris Bell cbell@kansan.com
the drone of the engine reverberates through the small plane as you prepare yourself for what's to come. Your coach double and triple checks the harness holding the two of you together. The attention to detail calms your frayed nerves a little bit, considering he's the one wearing the parachute.
Before you know it, the door opens and you're sitting on the edge of the plane, about 10,000 feet above the ground. You can feel the buzz as adrenaline pumps into your blood.The wind whips around you
at more than 90 mph, and the roaring engine fills your ears. Your coach is behind you braced against the door frame. He calls out, "Ready, set, GO!" and pushes off from the plane.
The next 35 seconds seem to go on forever. Your adrenaline spikes from the rush of the free fall as you try to take in your surroundings. It's exciting and terrifying all at the same time.The ground rushes up at you at 120 mph, but it doesn't really seem to be getting any closer.The coach signals for you to pull the chute. You grasp the handle and give it a yank, expecting a sharp jerk upwards as the canopy opens above you. Surprisingly,you only feel a gradual deceleration as the parachute slows your descent.
For the next few minutes, your coach guides you through the landing process. Once on the ground, he releases you from the harness and shakes your hand. "Congratulations," he says with a smile. "You just completed your first skydive."
The earliest use of a parachute dates back to China in the 1100s, according to the United States Parachute Association (USPA) Web site. Skydiving first emerged as a sport after World War II, when former soldiers began using surplus parachutes to
jump as a hobby. The popularity of the sport has increased since then, with more than 2.1 million jumps reported by the USPA in 2007.
For KU students, skydiving is very accessible. Students interested can join the KU Skydiving Club or just schedule a jump with Skydive Kansas, a drop zone located only an hour away in Osage City.
When you arrive at the drop zone, you're immediately required to sign a waiver before you can jump."It feels like you're signing your life away" says Emily Reimer, Wichita senior and president of the KU Skydiving Club. After that, you watch a 30-minute training video and work with an instructor to practice the form and function of the actual jump.
The first jump
Jen Sharp, an instructor for Skydive Kansas, says it's like learning to drive a car. Sharp has been a skydiving instructor for 16 years, and she has logged more than 2,000 skydives. Reimer, who had her first jump in 2006, has more than 200 jumps logged. Sharp says that the adrenaline rush does fade a little
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as you get used to jumping regularly, but she says that connecting with people and seeing the excitement they get from the sport makes regular jumping worthwhile.
All first-time jumpers are required to jump tandem, which means you are strapped to a coach for your jump, and the coach is strapped to the parachute. You don't actually get attached to your tandem instructor until the plane is in the air, which can be nerve-wracking when everyone else has their chute checked and equipped before boarding. Reimer says.
The plane ride lasts about 25 minutes. The atmosphere inside the plane can change from day to day, Sharp says. Occasionally, everyone is quiet and meditative, while other times they are bursting with excitement. Sharp says the plane ride can have a meditative feel to it, helping her focus."You don't have a phone call, you don't have this and that," she says."You're just there."
Reimer says the interior of the plane is always loud with the sound of the engine and the rush of the wind, as well as being about 30
or 40 degrees colder than it is on the ground. Plane rides in cold weather can be quite miserable, she says.
At 10,000 feet, the real excitement begins. The door of the plane opens up and suddenly it's time to leave this perfectly
good airplane behind."That realization when the door opens is pretty huge for those on their first jump." Sharp says.
"Caution isn't cowardly.And not having fear doesn't make you courageous."
The actual experience of jumping out of an airplane can vary. "It's a really indescribable feeling," says David Wilson, Lawrence sophomore and vice president of the KU Skydiving Club. "People feel like they should feel like they're falling. You don't really feel that."
Sharp says the reason you don't feel like you're falling is because you're going from 90 mph horizontally in the airplane to 120 mph vertically, only a 30 mph difference. Sharp adds that the lack of apparent motion towards the ground also influences that feeling. When jumping from 10,000 feet, the ground doesn't seem to be approaching as fast as it really is.
— Jen Sharp, skydive instructor
Sharp says students are allowed to take as much or as little control as they want at Skydive Kansas, so if you're not comfortable with pulling your own chute or orchestrating the landing, your tandem coach will take care of all that for you. Students are encouraged to take more responsibility in the jump to get
the most out of the experience. Sharp says students who try to stay aware of what's going on around them and want to do more than hold the basic form are the most fun people to jump with.
Free fall in tandem skydives only lasts about 30 seconds. Sharp says. It seems to last longer, however, because of the amount of information your brain is trying to process in that short amount of time. "It's like a sensory overload," Reimer says.
After 30 seconds, it's time to pull the chute and prepare for landing. Contrary to popular belief, Sharp says you don't jerk upward when the chute is pulled. Instead, you feel a strong but steady deceleration. The approach takes five to seven minutes, which you can spend either maneuvering the chute for a roller coaster-like experience or just taking it easy, Sharp says. Once the parachute is deployed, the rate of descent drops to a little over 10 mph, though high winds and downdrafts can increase the speed. By the end of the descent, Sharp says the goal is to have mostly horizontal speed to
lessen the force of the landing.
Once on the ground,
it's time to celebrate
your victory over gravity.
Reactions to a jump can be
mixed."Some people
just never want to do it again," Reimer says.
"And some people, like me, are like.'When do I get to go again?'"
Now all that's left is to head home, grab some friends, and plan your next jump.
Students who decide to jump multiple times can work toward a license. The first license skydive students can obtain allows them to jump on their own. Skydive Kansas' training program requires at least 25 jumps, starting with tandem jumps and culminating in solo jumps with a coach in the air with you, but not attached to you. Students are also required to attend classes on the ground to master all the skills they need to obtain a license.
Is it safe?
Safety is a primary concern in skydiving, so it's surprising that some people don't even ask about it when they jump. Sharp says."People trust you with their lives,and they don't usually ask a lot of questions," she says.
Part of safety comes with being well-equipped for the jump. All skydivers must undergo extensive training when they jump, and equipment must be kept up-to-date and properly tested. Sharp says all the equipment
SKYDIVING
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used by Skydive Kansas is no more than three years old.
Sharp says she strives for safety when giving skydiving lessons instead of pushing for "no fear," and one of the most important factors in being safe is understanding how to use your equipment.
Weather is another factor that can turn an exciting skydive into a dangerous, 10,000-foot drop to the ground. Even mild weather conditions can delay or stop a jump. Reimer says that 15 mph winds are the most that students are allowed to jump through, though
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Finally, Sharp says that Skydive Kansas always gives people the option not to jump if they don't feel comfortable, even if they're already suited up and in the plane.
she adds that, with experience, it becomes relative to your own comfort zone. It's also illegal to jump through clouds, Reimer says, so a low cloud ceiling could result in a little more time on the ground.
Skydiving is not without its dangers, however. According to the USPA Web site, 853 injuries and 18 fatalities were reported in 2007 out of more than 2.1 million jumps. Ed Scott, executive director of USPA, says injuries are usually a result of poor landings rather than equipment malfunctions. Scott says the type of parachute used by skydivers today is very forgiving and maneuverable, but can be mishandled. He says that injuries and deaths occur when people land hard under a fully-open parachute. Most of the time, he says these people are intentionally landing very fast, which can cause the skydiver to hit the ground before he or she is prepared for landing.
Scott says students don't usually have to worry about injuries, as student parachutes are larger and more forgiving than the standard parachute. He says these parachutes are designed to make it hard for students to maneuver in ways that would lead to trouble, and students are also often provided with some kind of in-air support, guiding them through the descent and landing.
Sharp says one of the biggest misconceptions is that being too careful means you're scared. "Caution isn't cowardly." she says. "And not having fear doesn't make you courageous."
Students interested in trying out the sport can contact the KU Skydiving Club. Reimer, the club president, started the club in spring 2007.She says the club holds occasional meetings at the Kansas Union to introduce prospective members to the sport. People can get information about the club at the info fairs at the beginning of each semester or from its Web site groups.ku.edu/~kuskydiving.
If you don't want to go the club route or are only interested in jumping with a couple of friends, you can contact Skydive Kansas through its Web site, www.skydivekansas.com. The price is a little higher, but the experience is just as impossible to describe.
Skydiving isn't cheap, however. According to the KU Skydiving Club Web site, the first tandem jump costs $165, even with the club discount.As you continue to gain experience, the price starts to decrease, but the sport still requires a decent amount of cash.
Wilson, club vice president, says the goal of the club is to get members interested in the sport and hopefully work for their license, which allows members to skydive solo. He says the club tries to go for jumps about once a month, though members are free to go on their own whenever they want.
There are benefits to jumping as a club member.The club jumps with Skydive Kansas, which offers discounts to club members,and Reimer gives free parachute packing lessons during meetings.
Next time you're looking for something new and exciting to try out, give skydiving a shot for an experience you'll never forget.
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How long should you wait before you give it up?
—C., junior
Matt: I had more of a "that's it?" reaction my first time around. Sure, the sex was great, but I didn't feel as if some burden was lifted or I was more accepted because someone found me attractive enough to spend an intimate hour or so with me. It was a check off my to-do list that couldn't have come faster. That check, though, means a lot more to some than others.
If you're waiting for religious reasons, then consult some kind of religious figure. What God wants from me in the bedroom has been a mystery to me since my first "Amen." For medical reasons (sex isn't always the cleanest recreational activity), a nurse or doctor at Watkins Memorial Health Center would be glad to help.
And finally, if it's more of a "right person" situation, you'll know it when you talk to him or her about it. If your significant other laughs at your hesitations, is so horny he or she gets jittery when sex is mentioned, or doesn't want to talk about it, wait for another time or person.
Fran: This may sound trite, but you should wait to have sex until you are dating someone you can't live without—and you should be sober. You really are "giving" your partner a part of you when you have sex, even if you later realize you made a mistake.
I lost my virginity to my second serious boyfriend when I was a senior in high school. My boyfriend and I had been dating only two weeks when we had sex, but somehow I knew the timing was right—that and I might never have the opportunity to have monogamous sex with a guy that hot again.
The sex itself was not mind-blowing, but the emotions I felt were. I'm still dating the same guy. At first I wondered if the sex was so fulfilling because I have a high libido
or if my boyfriend was just well-endowed. But two times while we were broken up, I slept with other people, and the sex was awfui. One of the men was even my first love. Both times I waited until I had been seeing the guy for about two weeks before taking that step, and both times I was really into said guy. But once in bed, I felt nothing, except disgusted afterwards because I had added a number to my list and had nothing to show for it. That was when I realized the sex with my current boyfriend was amazing because of our connection. Keep waiting. You'll be glad you did.
What should I do if this guy and I decided that we'd just have fun all summer because we knew it had to end when he went back to NYC, and now that he's back in NYC I can't stop thinking about him?
Steven, senior
Fran: Slow down and be realistic. Stop thinking about your boy in the Big Apple long enough to think about the Big Picture. You are a senior: You have less than a year to find a job and decide what you are going to do with your life. Before you consider beginning a relationship with Mr.NYC—or anyone else for that matter—you need to decide what you see in your future. If your interest's interests don't align with yours, then you need to move on. I am an extreme romantic, but unfortunately the economy is not. I doubt it is in your life
plan to work 50 hours a week at a 2-star restaurant in New York City while you look for a job you can apply your major to, until you just give up because it is impossible to get a job in NYC with little to no experience. Do you really know anything about Mr. NYC? Sure, his favorite color is baby blue and you and he like to take long walks on Wescoe Beach, but what about his long-term career plans? How does he feel about children? What is his relationship like with his family? I doubt these were topics you discussed with your summer fling, and why would you when you are expiration dating? I hate to say this, but that honeymoon period talk is more than just a myth from my personal experience, and I would imagine that is even more true of a summer love. Do you honestly think you can sustain a life-long relationship off of what you had? The honeymoon period of life is almost over; and the real world is about to begin. To end on a positive note, though, if he is worth it to you, then go for it. Sure, it will be hard having a long-distance relationship. I feel your pain. I am about to embark on a long-distance adventure myself—wish me luck. But with the right person, it is possible to have a stronger
relationship because of the distance. Cut out going to the bars, sex and watching TV, and then tell me how amazing your boyfriend is.
**Matt:** You sound like an "in the moment" kind of guy, and you are stuck in a moment that you need to get out of. Now, Yes, absence does make the heart grow fonder, but your heart sounds like it's about as soft as jelly, and this NYC situation is about to puncture it.
Fran mentioned something about a relationship.iFuni is not a relationship.A "fun" relationship consists of cutey texts and drunken nights.You have moved passed fun and on to serious.Your NYC man, though, is still in his fun state of mind.
I recommend getting off your chest whatever you're bottling up, listen to NYC man's reaction, and go from there. I'm assuming that because NYC man lives in NYC, he would have told you how he felt first (if any serious feelings existed). I can barely keep up with East Coast people, and your fond heart needs to slow it down.
Bitch and Moan should not be taken as a substitute for professional, expert advice.
Send your sex and relationship questions to bitchandmoan@kansan.com.
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Sarah Kerby
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What's the most annoying thing about the opposite sex?
They're so messy!
Probably national security and the war and the way the world perceives the United States.
The economy. There's a recession happening right now, and I definitely feel it.
Why did you choose KU?
A few reasons: It was three hours away from my parents, it's a great school and I got a scholarship. And then I found out later that I liked journalism and it worked out great!
I'm actually pretty easygoing, but I would say that one of them has got to be cutting in line on the Interstate when there's construction. If everyone would get into a single-file line, things would move much more quickly.
I paid $240 for a yellow permit and I have to fight off the parking vultures—those people who circle around the lot, looking for a place to park, and they always take up the whole damn aisle.
What famous person, dead or alive, would you want to spend the day with?
George W. Bush, because I'd just love to see what goes through his mind. It would explain a lot.
Bob Dylan. He's such a great writer, and he's such a weirdo. I'd love to hang out with him and see how he writes his songs.
the it factor: tv shows
All Over It
Survivorman. "This guy goes out on different scenarios and survives for a week. I go camping and would like to know how to survive if anything happens."
—Rachael Iden, Lenexa senior
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Survivor. "It's basically the same thing every season with just a different setting!"
—Shannon South, Lenexa freshman
Jacked. "It's about car jacking and it takes place close to my hometown. I'm convinced one of these days I'm going to see someone I know jacking a car."
—Molly Iler, Summit, N.J., sophomore
Survivor. "It seemed to get stupider every year."
—Clay Larson, Lawrence freshman
—Matt Hirschfeld
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MANUAL
How to conquer the public speaking phobia
Try these simple tips to speak like a pro
By Heather Melanson hmelanson@kansan.com
I'm a nervous person, and when I found out I needed to take a public speaking course, I panicked. I panicked while I prepared for speeches. I panicked immediately before giving speeches and panicked while delivering them.
My public speaking course taught me the basics, but if I had had the guidelines I'm about to relay to you, speeches could have been easier.
First: It's okay to be nervous if you have to give a speech.
Communication studies professor Diana Carlin says it's natural to be nervous, and if you aren't, then you should be worried. Carlin, who teaches a speech writing, class, says one way to help ease your nerves is to practice your speech beforehand. She says knowing your introduction well will get you off to a good start.
Before you can plan your speech,you need a topic. Your topics may be limited if you're giving a speech for a class, but try to pick something that interests you.
Carlin says to search for model speeches on the Web and find what makes them good. Tutorials and textbooks are other ways to learn what makes a good speech, she says.
know your audience, and second, understand the audience's expectations for the type of speech you're delivering. For example, she says during Commencement, the audience expects the speaker to congratulate the graduates.
Carlin says to start by organizing your points and put them into an outline, a manuscript or a combination of both.
Barbara Ballard, associate director for civic programming and outreach at the Dole Institute of Politics, says to try to have fun with your speech. Ballard says even if the speech is about a serious matter, there are still ways to engage your audience. She says one way is to ask the audience a question, pause to let them ponder the question and then answer the question.
Student body president Adam McGonigle says it's important that your message is meaningful to the audience.
"If you want people to have an enthusiastic response to what you're saying, then you need to say it in an enthusiastic way," McGonigle says. "You need to be able to energize people around your message."
Ballard says to know your subject matter and audience. She also says it's best to make an odd number of points, like three or five, because it's easier for the audience to remember.
"If you're well-prepared, then the nervousness sort of goes away," Ballard says. "If you're not prepared, I think you stay nervous because you're not sure exactly how it's going to go."
says even though athletes have practiced, they're still nervous, but they know they can perform.
Ballard also says to make eye contact. She says people don't like to be read to, so the more natural your speech seems, the more the audience will pay attention. If you can interact with the audience, then they will feel like they are a part of what you are saying. Ballard says.
It also helps to familiarize yourself with the setting. What type of room will you be in? Is it big or small? Will you be addressing the audience from a lectern on a stage or on the floor directly in front of them? Ballard says these are all things to consider.
Electrical engineering senior Jamie Hines gives recruitment speeches for the School of Engineering. She says a good way to practice is to videotape yourself delivering the speech. This makes you aware of your flaws, she says. Hines says she recorded herself and noticed that she would rock while giving her speech. She was then able to work on eliminating that distracting habit.
Hines also says if you appear confident, then your audience will think you're confident. She says be honest, clear, concise and try not to sound like you're giving a sales pitch.
Carlin says public speaking is the No. I fear for most people, and it's not easy to give a speech. She says even if you make a mistake, audiences are forgiving—just laugh it off. Also, if you make an unnoticeable mistake, just keep going, she says. No one will know the difference.
Tips for public speaking
Keep these tips in mind from communications studies Professor Diana Carlin when giving special occasion speeches.
Wedding toast—Some speakers go overboard when toasting newweds and focus on their personal relationship with the bride and groom. Remember the wedding guests have a relationship with the couple, as well. In the toast, recall something positive you've observed about the couple's relationship and wish them well. There's no need to recall how they met each other while drunk at a bar.
Eulogy—There are three things to remember when giving a eulogy. First, summarize the high points of the person's life and their qualities. Second, comfort the family. Third, offer words of encouragement. Also, make sure to include that the person who died has a legacy that will live on, despite his or her death.
Activism speech—When you're trying to encourage people to do something, the introduction needs to grab the audience's attention.Tell why your cause is important and how it relates to them. Tell the audience what you want them to do and how they can do it.
Ballard compares giving a speech to an athlete performing in the Olympics. She
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Jan Hudzicki, clinical assistant professor at KU Medical Center, says the three biggest infection risks from beer pong are strep throat, pneumonia and meningitis, which is potentially fatal and can be contracted by sharing beer cups.
Most people don't go around picking up dirty things off the floor and plopping them into their can of soda or glass of milk. But on many nights, college students do just that: They pick up beer pong balls from the floor and throw them into each other's cups of beer.
What pongers don't realize is that they are exposing themselves to harmful, or even deadly, bacteria.
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A common excuse students use is that the alcohol in beer kills any lurking germs. But Hudzicki says this simply isn't the case. Alcohol in its purest form takes up to 20 seconds to kill bacteria.The alcohol content in beer is greatly reduced, and we all know there isn't enough time during an intense beer pong match to wait for all the germs to die.
Hudzicki also suggests pouring the beer from the cup on the table into your own separate cup before drinking it, which keeps players from drinking from the same cup after each other.
Another myth students believe is that rinsing the balls off in a water cup will kill any germs.This does no good, however because the beer in the playing cups is what's contaminated.Hudzicki says students' best bet is to use Clorox disinfecting wipes to clean the balls after they hit the floor. This will reduce—but will not eliminate—the chance for infection.
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It's past one in the morning, and your eyes feel like someone's burning a hole in them with a laser. As you peel your contacts out—dried out after 18 hours of wear—you rack your brain to try to remember the last time you threw out that old pair and put a fresh set in. Was it two weeks ago? Three weeks? Or was it six?
Crandon says an eye that doesn't
The effects of wearing your contacts for longer than the recommended time may not be noticeable at first, but make it a habit and you risk serious damage to your eyes. Brent Crandon, Lawrence optometrist, says the area of the eye where contact lenses are worn is one of the few areas of the body that has no direct blood supply. Because of this, the tissue in the eye needs exposure to fresh air to survive. Contacts do allow oxygen to pass to the eye, but the older they get, the less oxygen they let through.
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receive enough oxygen can begin to swell. In some cases, fragile blood vessels that bleed easily grow across the entire eyeball.
The lack of oxygen also weakens the eye and opens it up to infection. Some people develop a corneal ulcer, an infection in which bacteria eat away at the eye. Crandon says a corneal ulcer will feel like a huge speck of dirt under the contact and will make the eye red and irritated. Eyes with corneal ulcers will also become sensitive to light and will often discharge mucus. Crandon says people who leave corneal ulcers untreated risk losing their eyesight within three to four days.
So, how many weeks has it been since you've changed your contacts? Can't remember? Then it's probably time to ditch them.
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MUSIC: Xavier Rudd,
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With his new Dark Shades of Blue album, released August 19 on SaltX records,Australian singer-songwriter Xavier Rudd now stands with big-name acoustic artists like Jack Johnson and Ben Harper, for whom he was once an opening act.
Rudd's latest work differs from his usual acoustic guitar tracks and takes a turn for the darker and distorted sounds of his electric guitar. Rudd teamed up with sound mixer Joe Barresi, who is known for his work with acts like Tool. The result is a powerful and psychedelic sound similar to artists like John Butler and Ben Harper. While the album is much more aggressive than Rudd's previous work, he still manages to lyrically convey his optimistic perspectives and progressive politics through the music.
I am so proud of you. I will be a part of your life forever.
Tracks like "Edge of the Moon" mix Rudd's relaxed lyrics with his new electric sound."Edge of the Moon" features a catchy, distorted guitar riff accented by some upbeat, anthem-like vocals.Also excellent are "Up in Flames" and "Black Water," which showcase Rudd's incredible slide guitar skills.
Rudd belts out strong vocals over the mellow arpeggio of his electric guitar on "Shiver" for a relaxing change of pace from the rest of the album. The track's vocals tell a meaningful story of a young man at an important crossroad in his life, and help make it the best song on the album.
Overall, Dark Shades of Blue is a very good album, and Rudd's new sound proves he can do much more with a guitar and belongs next to great guitarists like Keller Williams and John Mayer.
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MUSIC: Conor Oberst, Conor Oberst
Conor Oberst, in a song called "Eagle On A Pole" from his new, self-titled album, sings,"I tried so hard to settle down."
Settling down is clearly not something he's good at. Oberst, under the moniker Bright Eyes, has long been known as Omaha's golden child, a beacon of creative hope in a town otherwise known only for its zoo and the College World Series. But Oberst has been spending a lot less time in the city, recording his newest album in Teopotlán, Mexico. He even chose to release it on Merge Records rather than his longtime label, Saddle Creek Records, which he helped form.
The change seems to have done him good, however, as Conor Oberst is his best release since 2005's I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning, and a serious improvement from 2007's Cassadaga.
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The story goes that Oberst and crew found a hotel made up of a few houses, rented it out, and went about recording, hanging out and meeting the locals. The album reflects this with its relatively mellow vibe and a strong focus on string instruments and big band numbers. It's reminiscent of a jam session attended only by people who are incredibly talented. On several tracks the listener can even hear
insects and people in the background. It's perfect music to play while spending a night with friends, or to have on in the background during a study session.
The songs also show a marked improvement in songwriting, something that's always been Oberst's strong suit. Songs are much more structured than they have been in the past, and Oberst's vocals are also stronger, especially in his lower register.
This album is a solid effort, and Oberst has pushed his own boundaries to offer fans something new and refreshing.
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—Elise Stawarz
MOVIE: Mamma Mia!
As a rule, films patch-worked from old musicians' greatest hits albums rarely strike any serious chords with an audience.The familiarity is nice,but nostalgia alone does not a good movie make.Mamma Mia! breaks this trend by combining the catchy tunes of ABBA with a viable storyline which, despite its flaws, acts as a perfect canvas for both the songs and performers.
The movie tells a story as old as time. A young woman (Amanda Seyfried) about to be married doesn't know her father's identity. However, thanks to her free-lovin' mother's (Meryl Streep) oddly specific diary our ingénue can narrow it down to three successful men—played by Colin Firth, Pierce Brosnan and Stellan Skarsgard. She invites all three to her wedding which, needless to say, ends up causing quite a stink. Everyone gets so worked up, they just can't help singing about it.
The film's charm lies in its sense of humor. Though no actual winking occurs, the cast is clearly performing with tongues firmly planted in cheek. Complete with an impeccable chorus of singing and dancing elderly Greeks, a duo of over-the-hill sex-starved biddies, and an empowering parade of women singing "Dancing
Queen." Mamma Mia! will make even the most masculine man giggle with delight. But lest you think all is fun and games, there is a poignant side to this
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Theater performs unique act
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ul Stephen Lim, playwright and professor of English, founded the English Alternative Theater. He will be directing a concert reading of "August: Osage Country", a Pulitzer Prize and Tony award winning family melodrama on Monday.
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Alcoholism, drug abuse and incest are the issues faced in "August: Osage County", a Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning play coming to campus on Sept. 1.
Paul Stephen Lim, professor of English and founder of the English Alternative Theatre, said the play featured a dysfunctional family that students and the community could identify with.
Cast member Roberta Gingerich said the play focused on one woman's relationship with her three adult daughters. She said all of the characters in the play struggled with problems such as alcoholism, drug abuse and incest.
"The stories that are told are fairly universal." Lim said.
"They are not the pretty issues of our society?" Gingerich said.
The English Alternative Theatre will present the play in a new way: as a concert reading.
Lim said concert readings were unique because they helped bring works of literature and theatre to a broad audience without the use of a full set, such as scenery, or costumes.
"It's like letting the words jump off the page," Lim said.
With a concert reading, the actors generally hold their scripts and sometimes remain seated on stage until their scene begins.
Jim Carothers, professor of English and cast member, said the biggest challenge of a concert reading was bringing the story to life for the audience. He said it helped the performers to imagine they were performing a radio drama because the tone of their voices carried the emotion of the play.
Amy Devitt, professor of English and cast member, said actors should know the play thoroughly for a concert reading so they could focus on interacting with the other actors.
"It's a challenge to just interact with your voice and not your body" Devitt said
University faculty, retired faculty alumni and local actors will make up the production's cast. Many of the actors have performed together before.
Lim said it helped for the actors to be familiar with each other because it would be easier for them to find the chemistry needed to play a family.
He said it would also be helpful since they had such a short time to rehearse before the reading. The cast will begin rehearsals on Saturday.
"I know what they're capable of and they know how I work so we can talk in a kind of shorthand," Lim said.
Lim said the majority of new American
plays are limited to five or six cast members and a small set because of the cost. "August: Osage County" is unique because it calls for a three-story set with an attic and 13 cast members.
The English Alternative Theatre presents concert readings of current plays free of charge every Labor Day. Lim said it
made theatre affordable for KU students.
The concert reading will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Monday at the Lawrence Arts Center.
—Edited by Brien Scott
Construction, renovations has coaches, players excited
BY B.J. RAINS
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Construction on the new basketball practice facility and renovations to the men's and women's basketball locker rooms still won't be completed for more than a year, but women's coach Bonnie
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This graphic rendering shows what the new building will look like when completed in 2009. Renovations include new locker rooms, renovations to Allen Fieldhouse and a donor atrium.
Henrickson is already keeping a daily tab on the building's progress.
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"Every couple hours I get up and walk around and see what's going on," Henrickson said. "You always talk about facilities and construction but everyone really gets excited when you see dirt and shovels in the ground. They are working outside my window right now, lay-
jewel of the project is a new 11,600 square-foot basketball practice facility that will be squeezed into an open space among Wagnon Student Athlete Center, Horejsi Center, Anschutz Sports Pavilion and Allen Fieldhouse and will connect the four buildings as one.
ing a pipe of something. We cleaned Construction began recently on a $38 million project that will help improve the overall quality of the Athletics Department's facilities. The football program completed a $31 million project this summer, which gave them a new complex and two new practice fields. Now, the focus for renovations has switched back to basketball.
"We're just excited for our kids because these kids have been recruited with a promise of having new and upgraded facilities."
"We're just excited for our kids because these kids have been recruited with a prom-
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ing a pipe or something. We're excited."
The teams will each get renovated locker rooms and office space, but the crown
Center court from the 2008 Final Four floor in San Antonio will hang on the wall and the building will
ise of having new and upgraded facilities," Henrickson said. "It sends a message loud and clear about the commitment that this administration has for the kids and for having first-class facilities."
"It's going to be a really nice looking facility that is devoted to basketball," said Jim Marchiony, associate athletics director. "More and more national programs have these types of facilities. I think our fans would agree that we have enjoyed having Kansas at the forefront of college athletics
feature a court-and-a-half setup with seven basketball goals. It will have lighting and flooring similar to that of Allen Fieldhouse.
and we need to do everything possible to ensure that Kansas remains in the forefront of college basketball. This will help in that effort."
Construction on the project is set to be completed on Oct. 15th, 2009, which coincides with the start of the next basketball season. The project will also provide other renovations to Allen Fieldhouse, new locker rooms for other smaller sports that don't currently have their own, and a donor atrium in the area between the Fieldhouse and Horejsi Center.
"This comes at the cornerstone of our five-year strategic plan which we released two years ago," Marchiony said. "It's academic excellence and athletics excellence. Part of the athletic excellence portion of that plan is to try to give our coaches and student athletes the means by which they can achieve success on the national level. It helps the other sports because it provides more space for them — space that they really need."
Currently, both the men's and women's basketball teams share practice times at Horejsi Center and Allen Fieldhouse. Add in the volleyball team and their needs at Horejsi, and it causes some schedule jumbling and inconveniences for the athletes.
"Coach Self and I get along really well and our staffs do too," Henrickson said. "We coordinate practice times and practice needs and we share conflicts so that hasn't
really been an issue. Both of us respect that when volleyball is in season, they have a priority to the practice facility.
"Sometimes it's a burden on the kids, having to practice early in the mornings and stuff. It's been manageable, but it will be a lot more convenient and student-athlete friendly once we get the third facility."
Players for both the men's and women's teams have seen the drawings and are counting down the days until the facility opens next season.
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Lacy Mysir, Mission Woods nontraditional student, registers to vote at the Barack Obama acceptance speech watch party at Liberty Hall on Thursday night with help from George Dungan, Lienb. Neb., Junior, and Bene Garcia, Uylyssen, Kau. Junior, Members of the KU Young Democrats and Douglas County Democratic Party volunteered at the event to register voters and sign up volunteers.
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Diaper breaks boy's fall saves his life
SAO PAULO, Brazil — A disposable diaper has saved the life of an 18-month-old boy, breaking his fall from a third-floor apartment window, officials said Thursday.
Caua Felipe Massaneiro survived a 30-foot fall because his diaper snagged on a security spike embedded in the concrete wall around his apartment building in the northeastern Brazilian city of Recife.
The boy dangled from the spike for a moment, then "the diaper opened and the baby fell to the ground, but at a much slower speed," a police officer said. "The diaper obviously lessened the impact of the fall and saved the baby's life."
"It was a miracle," said the officer who declined to be identified because she was not authorized to speak to the press. "He could also have been killed by one of
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The child was treated for minor fractures at the Hospital Memorial Sao Jose, where spokesman Gilberto Tenorio said he was in stable condition.
Police have opened an investigation to determine how the toddler fell out the window and "if parental negligence was one of the causes," the police officer said.
The Folha de S. Paulo newspaper quoted Caua's father, 23-year-old Alexandre Cesar Massaneiro as saying that his son climbed onto a sofa underneath the window he fell from - "something he had never done before."
"It wasn't the diaper that saved him," Massaneiro told the newspaper. "It was God."
Town uses scarecrows to try and break record
HOSCHTON, Ga. — This small northeastern Georgia town's population boom is frightening. In a bid to break a world record for scarecrows and scare up some fun for the fall season, thousands
of straw-stuffed newcomers are creeping across town.
There's a scuba diver, the Georgia Bulldogs football team and — of course — the cast of the Wizard of Oz. Even likenesses of Jesus and Elvis popped up.
The 1,700 real residents of Hoschton hope to nearly triple their population with 4,000 scarecrows and break the Guinness World Record for "Most Scarecrows in One Location."
The title belongs to the Cincinnati Horticultural Society's Cincinnati Flower and Farm Fest, which set the record in 2003 with 3,311 scarecrows.
Antique dealer Robbie Bettis and her husband, Fred, are leading the effort for the town's fall festival, which begins Monday.
On Wednesday they watched over an assembly line at an old downtown train depot, where about 20 people passed wooden frames among tables of dingy clothes, yellow milk jugs, plastic grocery bags, old hats, twine, ribbon and other donated materials
"We thought if we gave people something fun to do then maybe they will forget about the difficult economy,"she said."Winning the world record is just a byproduct."
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Crows and criminals beware: Two men caught knocking over scarecrows were sentenced to build 25 of them, lest they face trespassing charges, Mayor Bill Copenhaver said.
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"If you cannot multitask, or communicate without being passive aggressive, don't even bother replying," Rebecca Land Soodak, a mother of four on Manhattan's Upper East Side, wrote Aug. 19 in her advertisement on Craigslist.
Soodak, a 40-year-old painter whose husband owns a wine store, eventually hired Christina Wynn, a 25-year-old University of Virginia graduate, to take care of Rubin, 12; Ellis, 9; and Shay and Cassie, both 6.
"I made a commitment to stay in the job for at least a year," Wynn told the Times. "I met the oldest child, but not the others, which my mother said was crazy — to accept the job without meeting all the kids. So we'll see." She noted that one of the pluses is that the children are all in school for several hours each day.
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Candidate for the House chooses to be honest
POTTSTOWN, Pa. — A candidate for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives is bringing up his arrest for domestic assault — in his own campaign materials.
Democrat Jim Prendergast says telling voters about his 1996 misdemeanor assault conviction "to be honest with the people I'm going to work for." He also says he wants to explain the arrest on his terms, rather than have his opponent bring it up in an attack ad.
Prendergast calls the incident a turning point in his life. He says he didn't strike his then-wife, but grabbed her roughly with both hands during an argument. He says he and his ex-wife are now on friendly terms.
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Rocking out with your hawk out will be even easier for fans of KU football this year thanks to the Rock the Block pregame tailgate.
GSP-Corbin Hall, located about a block from the stadium, will hold the event two and a half hours before every home football game this season.
Tailgaters will have access to a wide range of entertainment activities, including a disc jockey, prize giveaways and lawn games such as ladder golf. Students and KU fans who arrive to the party early will receive free T-shirts.
Tracey Condon, GSP-Corbin complex director, said people
in the Department of Student Housing had high hopes for Rock the Block.
"We would really like to see this event become something fun for students to attend where the focus is enjoying themselves and the excitement that surrounds KU football." Condon said.
Planning for the event began last spring after the Alcohol Priority Committee proposed the idea. Jocelyn Maul, assistant complex director of Corbin, said alcohol-free tailgating provided students with an alternative to the typical parties that surrounded the stadium on game days. Maul had headed the planning of the event and said she hoped to attract a large crowd.
"We hope to see lots of people coming by and having a place to hang out before the games," Maul said. "I'm hoping for a couple hundred people at each Rock the Block tailgate."
She said she hoped give-aways of prizes such as iPods, DVD players and theater systems would help attract students. Maul also said students should
The tailgate will also offer food
said the package would include a hotel stay and limousine ride to the Border Showdown.
"We hope to see lots of people coming by and having a place to hang out before the games."
JOCELYN MAUL Assistant complex director, Corbin Hall
keep an eye out for a getaway package for the Kansas-Missouri game at Arrowhead Stadium. She
that students and other fans can buy using cash or their KU meal plans. Chicken wings and bratwurst will be among the items available for hungry football aficionados.
The event will employ volunteers from each of the residence halls in an effort to involve the entire Department
of Student Housing. To encourage students to help with the event, the Rock the Block tailgate will end 30 minutes before kickoff so everyone involved will have the opportunity to watch the games.
John Hagen, Leawood freshman, said he planned on attending the event. He said that he thought the alcohol-free aspect of the tailgate was probably a good idea, and that it would give new students a chance to meet and hang out away from an academic setting.
The Rock the Block inaugural tailgate begins at 3:30 p.m. Saturday.
—Edited by Kelsey Hayes
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Thai protesters clash with police, demand prime minister's resignation
BY SUTIN WANNABOVORN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BANGKOK, Thailand — Thai anti-government protesters occupying the grounds of the prime minister's office forced several hundred policemen off the compound early Friday and promised more action in their bid to oust the leader.
Police exercised restraint when the demonstrators — some armed with golf clubs, batons and bamboo sticks — pushed up to 400 officers out of the Government House grounds at about 1 a.m.
"We can relax now, but please be cautious, they might return soon," protest organizer Samran Rodpetch announced from a stage.
Protesters celebrated by dancing to rock music, a sharp contrast to the tensions Wednesday before when they feared a raid and threw up makeshift barricades.
Thousands of supporters of the conservative People's Alliance for Democracy spent a third night encamped at Government House in support of their campaign to force Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej from office.
The alliance accuses Samak's government of serving as a proxy for former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a 2006 coup and faces several pending corruption cases. Thaksin is in self-imposed exile in Britain.
After Thaksin was deposed in the bloodless coup, his party was dissolved and he was banned from public office until 2012.
But Samak led Thaksin's political allies to a December 2007 election victory, and their assumption of power triggered fears that Thaksin would make a political comeback on the strength of his continued popularity in Thailand's rural majority.
The number of protesters in and around the government compound has varied from a few thousand most mornings to a high of 30,000 who staged demonstrations at several locations Tuesday across Bangkok.
The alliance promised a "final showdown" this week, but has suffered several setbacks, including when it sent several dozen masked thugs Tuesday to take over a government-controlled television station. The band surrendered to police and video of the bullying tactics were broadcast repeatedly.
Police issued arrest warrants Wednesday for nine of the group's leaders on charges of insurrection, conspiracy, illegal assembly and refusing orders to disperse. Insurrection, the legal equivalent of treason, carries a maximum penalty of death or life imprisonment.
Another court issued an order late Wednesday demanding that the protesters leave the government compound immediately and stop blocking streets. On Thursday, a court rejected the alliance's appeal of the order to vacate Government House, which was seized Tuesday.
One of the top alliance leaders, Chamling Srimuang, told reporters Thursday night that protesters would continue to rally at the compound despite the court order.
Chamlong, one of the nine leaders sought by police, insisted the protesters were doing nothing wrong.
"We are staging a protest because the government has made too many mistakes and has no legitimacy to run the country," he said. "From now on, it will be stickier. Our political rallying will get stronger because more of our supporters from upcountry will come to help us. We will not back down."
The alliance's best known leaders are Chamlong, an influential former politician and army officer, and Sondhi Limthongkul, a media mogul.
stoppages by Thai railway workers on several lines Thursday after an unknown number of employees took immediate two-day sick leaves.
"We can withstand any difficult conditions if we can topple Samak," said Kitja Usaiphan, 43, a fisherman who has been camping at the government compound since Tuesday.
In what appeared to be a related development, there were work
Thousands of additional protesters poured into the site in response to the court orders, and many formed a human chain overnight around the group's top leaders to prevent them from being taken away.
Chamlong claimed he and other leaders were ready to be arrested, but encouraged supporters to stay on the grounds.
"You must remain here and continue fighting," Chamlong said. "If you leave the Government House, that means we have been defeated."
Samak, who refuses to resign, has accused the protesters of trying to provoke violence.
"They want bloodshed in the country. They want the military to come out and do the coup again," Samak said.
The military has said it is not planning a coup. Thailand has had 17 constitutions since 1932—a reflection of the political instability and military coups that followed the drafting of the first charter that created a constitutional monarchy. The last coup was in 2006, when Thaksin was ousted.
The conditions at the government compound were deteriorating — bags of trash piled up and protesters hung laundry from buildings. The grounds were mostly covered with sleeping mats and some protesters could be seen lounging in the hallways of buildings.
A number of ambulances parked outside the site, anticipating the possibility of violence.
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POLITICS
Obama accepts nomination, 45 years after MLK Jr. speech
The Voice of the People
Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-III., prepares to address the Democratic National Convention at Invesco Field in Denver. Thursday
BY DAVID ESPO AND ROBERT FURLOW ASSOCIATED PRESS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
DENVER — Surrounded by an enormous, adoring crowd, Barack Obama promised a clean break from the "broken politics in Washington and the failed policies of George W. Bush" Thursday night as he embarked on the final lap of his audacious bid to become the nation's first black president.
"America, now is not the time for small plans," the 47-year-old Illinois senator told an estimated 84,000 people packed into Invesco Field. a huge football stadium at the base of the Rocky Mountains.
He vowed to cut taxes for nearly all working-class families, end the war in Iraq and break America's dependence on Mideast oil within a decade. By contrast, he said, "John McCain has voted with President Bush 90 percent of the time," a scathing indictment of his Republican rival — on health care, education, the economy and more.
Polls indicate a close race between Obama and McCain, the Arizona senator who stands between him and a place in history. On a night 45 years after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I have a Dream Speech," Obama made no overt mention of his own race.
"I realize that I am not the likeliest candidate for this office. I don't fit the typical pedigree" of a presidential candidate was as close as he came to the long-smoldering issue that may well determine the outcome of the election.
Campaigning as an advocate of a new kind of politics, he suggested at least some common ground was possible on abortion, gun control, immigration and gay marriage.
Obama delivered his 44-minute nominating acceptance speech in an unrivaled convention setting, before a crowd of unrivaled size — the filled stadium, the camera flashes in the night, the made-for-television backdrop that suggested the White House, and the thousands of convention delegates
seated around the podium in an enormous semicircle.
Obama and his running mate, Sen. Joseph Biden. of Delaware, leave their convention city on Friday for Pennsylvania, first stop on an eight-week sprint to Election Day.
McCain countered with a bold move of his own, hoping to steal some of the political spotlight by spreading word that he had settled on a vice presidential running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty canceled all scheduled appearances for the next two days, stoking speculation that he was the one.
Rep. John Lewis of Georgia spoke first of the anniversary of King's memorable speech.
"To tonight we are gathered here in this magnificent stadium in Denver because we still have a dream," said the Georgia lawmaker, who marched with King, supported Obama's primary rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton, then switched under pressure from younger black leaders in his home state and elsewhere.
Obama's aides were interested in a different historical parallel from King — Obama was the first to deliver an outdoor convention acceptance speech since John F. Kennedy did so at the Los Angeles Coliseum in 1960.
In his speech, Obama pledged to iettion Bush's economic polioy
— and replace it with his own designed to help hard-pressed families.
"I will cut taxes for 95 percent of all working families. Because in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class," he said.
The speech didn't mention it, but Obama has called for raising taxes on upper-income Americans to help pay for expanded health care and other domestic programs.
of them."
He did not say precisely what he meant by breaking the country's dependence on Mideast oil, only that Washington has been talking about doing it for 30 years "and John McCain has been there for 26
"I will rebuild our military to meet future conflicts. But I will also renew the tough, direct diplomacy that can prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons," he added.
As he does so often while campaigning, Obama also paid tribute to McCain's heroism — the 72-year-old Arizona senator was a prisoner of war in Vietnam — then assaulted him.
judgment, but really, what does it say about your judgment when you think George Bush was right more than 90 percent of the time?
"Sen. McCain likes to talk about
Former Vice President Al Gore picked up on the same theme. "If you like the Bush-Cheney approach, John McCain's your man. If you want change, then vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden," he declared.
The much-discussed stage built for the program was evocative of the West Wing at the White House, with 24 American flags serving as a backdrop. A blue carpeted runway jutted out toward the infield, and convention delegates ringed the podium. Thousands more sat in stands around the rim of the field.
The wrap-up to the party convention blended old-fashioned
speechmaking, Hollywood-quality stagecraft and innovative, Internet age politics.
In a novel bid to extend the convention's reach, Obama's campaign decided to turn tens of thousands of partisans in the stands into instant political organizers.
The list of entertainers ran to Sheryl Crow, Stevie Wonder and will.i.am, whose Web video built around Obama's "Yes, we cat" rallying cry quickly went viral during last winter's primaries.
They were encouraged to use their cell phones to send text messages to friends as well as to call thousands of unregistered voters from lists developed by the campaign.
In all, Obama's high command said it had identified 55 million
unregistered voters across the country, about 8.1 million of them black, about 8 million Hispanic and 7.5 million between the ages of 18 and 24.
Those are key target groups for Obama as he bids to break into the all-white line of U.S. presidents and at the same time restore Democrats to the White House for the first time in eight years.
Obama's hopes of victory rely on holding onto the large Democratic base states such as California, New York, Michigan and his own Illinois, while eating into territory that voted for George W. Bush. Ohio tops that list, and Democrats have also targeted Montana, North Dakota, Virginia and New Mexico, among others, as they try to expand their Electoral College map.
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Kickapoo clinic faces funding crisis
TOPEKA, Kan. — Leaders of the Kickapoo Indian Nation have declared an emergency as they face a shortage of funds to keep a health clinic open.
The northeast Kansas tribe has asked the U.S. Indian Health Service for $150,000 to help keep the clinic open through Sept. 30, the end of the current fiscal year. That's when new federal funding will begin.
Angie Thomas, a nurse at the Kickapoo Nation Health Center, draws blood for Hope Waupoose, Wednesday, Aug. 20 in Horton, Kan., as part of her ongoing care of her diabetes. The health center is facing a funding crisis.
"There has been no response to our letter," said Josephine Bellonger, clinic director. "That's put us in a bind. It's really getting to a critical stage."
Robbin Williams, spokeswoman for Indian Health Service's region that includes Kansas, said the Kickapoons weren't alone this time of year.
"So close to the end of the year," Williams said, "they're life and limb."
The Kickapo's clinic serves 2,900 American Indians in Brown. Doniphan and Jackson counties in Kansas and Richardson County in southeast Nebraska. Eighty percent of the center's $1.5 million budget comes from federal sources, with tribes contributing $300,000.
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Kickapoo Tribal Chairman Steve Cadue said the persistence of the health crisis leads him to despair about the future.
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Dianne Dawson, spokeswoman at Indian Health Service headquarters in Rockville, Md., said the federal government struggles to keep pace with demand for health care among American Indians.
"Indian people are dying across this country from inadequate health care," he said. "It seems as though they believe a certain number of Native American people are expendable."
"There is an unmet need, obviously," she said.
Rep. Norm Dicks, a Democrat from Washington state, blames President Bush for proposing an Indian Health Service budget of $3.32 billion, or $21 million below current spending. It is estimated that those cuts would prohibit 200,000 outpatient visits to tribal clinics.
Cadue, a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Denver, said he would use that forum to raise awareness of tribal health issues.
Officials say growing demand for services was in part to blame
for the budget shortfall. Many new patients also have serious medical conditions that tax resources.
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Putin: U.S. instigated military conflict in Georgia
He accuses Americans of being present in combat zones, alleges conspiracy related to U.S. presidential election
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin participated in an interview with CNN correspondent Matthew Chance in Moscow on Thursday. Putin has suggested the United States pushed Georgia toward war and said he suspected a connection to the American presidential campaign.
BY STEVE GUTTERMAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOSCOW — Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused the United States on Thursday of pushing Georgia toward war and said he suspected a connection to the U.S. presidential campaign — a contention the White House dismissed as "patently false."
In another sign of untraveling Russia U.S. ties, Putin said that 19 U.S. poultry producers will be barred from exporting their products to Russia.
Putin, the former president and architect of an assertive foreign policy that stoked East-West tension even before Russia's war with the U.S.-allied ex-Soviet republic, suggested in an interview with CNN that there was an American presence amid the combat with a potential domestic U.S. political motive.
"We have serious grounds to think that there were U.S. citizens right in the combat zone," he said in the interview broadcast on state-run Russian television. "And if that's so, if that is confirmed, it's very bad. It's very dangerous."
Putin's acid attack on the United States came as Moscow's bid to redraw Georgia's borders hit an obstacle among its Asian allies. France, meanwhile, said the European Union is considering sanctions against Russia for its conduct in the Caucasus.
The Russian leader said the poultry decision was unrelated to the Georgia issue. He said that the unnamed American producers ignored demands that they correct alleged deficiencies after examinations by Russian inspectors last year.
"We try and keep our industry out of politics and into marketing opportunities, but sometimes it's very difficult to separate the two," said Jim Summer, president of the U.S.A. Poultry & Egg Export Council. He said Russia is a major market for American producers.
Putin said that Russia had hoped the U.S. would to restrain Georgia, which Moscow accuses of starting the war by attacking South Ossetia on Aug. 7. Instead, he suggested the U.S. encouraged the nation's leadership to try to rein in the separatist region by force.
"The American side in fact armed and trained the Georgian army," Putin said. "Why hold years of difficult talks and seek complex
compromise solutions in interethnic conflicts? It's easier to arm one side and push it into the murder of the other side, and it's over.
"It seems like an easy solution.
In reality it turns out that it's not always so," he said.
The United States has close ties with the Georgian government and has trained Georgian units, including for service in Iraq. But Russian officials have made statements aimed to convey the idea that Americans may have directly supported Georgia's offensive.
At a briefing Tuesday, the deputy chief of Russian military general staff, Col. Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn, showed off a color copy of what he said was a U.S. passport found in a basement in a village in South Ossetia among items that belonged to Georgian forces.
"We found a passport for Michael Lee White," Nogovitsyn said. "He's a Texan."
The U.S. Embassy in Georgia said it had no information on the matter.
Putin appeared to link claims of an American presence amid the combat with a potential domestic U.S. political motive.
"If my guesses are confirmed, then that raises the suspicion that somebody in the United States purposefully created this conflict with the aim of aggravating the situation and creating an advantage ... for one of the candidates in the battle for the post of U.S. president." Putin did not name a party or candidate.
White House press secretary Dana Perino called Putin's contentions "patently false." She said "it also sounds like his defense officials who said they believe this to be true are giving him really bad advice."
She added: "To suggest that the United States orchestrated this on behalf of a political candidate just sounds not rational."
Perino said Russia is facing the consequences of a diminished global reputation and that "there will be other" consequences as well. She refused to say what they would be and said there is no timetable.
Putin said the imminent ban on imports from 19 poultry producers was "purely economic." He said another 29 producers would receive warnings.
U. S. producers supply nearly 75 percent of the total poultry import quota set by Russia, which stands at 1.2 million tons. Russia represented
Summer said he expected the alleged plant deficiencies to be corrected within weeks or a few months and said the stoppage would not have a major impact on U.S. producers.
In Tajikistan, China and four Central Asian nations joined Russia in criticizing the West. Wary of separatists and restive religious groups at home, however, they stopped short of heeding Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's call to carve out two new nations in a volatile region at the crossroads of Europe and Asia.
the largest export market for chicken broilers made by U.S. producers in the first half of this year, said Jum Sunser, president of the U.S.A. Poultry & Egg Export Council
Medvedev had appealed to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization — whose members are Russia, China, and four Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan — for unanimous support of Moscow's response to Georgia's "aggression."
But none joined Russia in rec-
peace and cooperation in the given region"
But Alexei Malashenko, an analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Center, said the summit highlighted Russia's isolation, noting that not even U.S. foes Cuba and Venezuela have followed Russia's lead on recognizing South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
"The Soviet Union was not so alone even in 1968," he said on Ekho Moskov radio, referring to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia that crushed a liberal reform movement in the Warsaw Pact nation.
Western leaders have added condemnation of Russian recognition to their accusations that Moscow
ognizing South Ossetia and another breakaway Georgian region, Abkhazia, as independent countries.
The EU is "trying to draw up a strong text signifying our unwillingness to accept" Russia's stance, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Thursday.
used disproportionate force in its Georgia offensive and has fallen far short of its withdrawal commitments under an EU cease-fire deal.
"Sanctions are being considered
"Sanctions are being considered ... and many other means as well." Kouchner told a news conference. The Foreign Ministry said later that France was not behind a sanctions proposal and that France's role would be to help reach a common EU position.
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"The participants ... underscore the need for respect of the historical and cultural traditions of each country and each people, and for efforts aimed at preserving the unity of the state and its territorial integrity," the declaration said.
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Clooney, Pitt get personal
VENICE, Italy — George Clooney and Brad Pitt: bachelor and family man.
I inevitably, a news conference Wednesday promoting their new Coen brothers film, "Burn After Reading," turned to the birth of Pitt's twins with partner Angelina Jolie, and whether his good friend would ever settle down.
Clooney, 47, put on a look of mock bemusement.
"I am so surprised to hear that question. That is honestly the first time I have been asked that," Clooney said. "I am getting married and having a child today."
Pitt, whose brood has grown
to six children with the birth of twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline last month, offered to share his children with Clooney, adding deadpan: "I'll have two more by next year."
The movie, which premiers Wednesday at the Venice Film Festival, is a tale about idiots — and what happens when their worlds collide.
Pitt, 44, looked flustered as a Spanish TV journalist pushed her way to the front of the press conference dressed in red gym shorts similar to garb he wears as a gym trainer in the film. She asked Pitt if he would help her work out.
"It's a movie," Pitt reminded her.
"I think we're more likely to be running away from you," Clooney replied to laughter.
Several times Clooney goodnaturedly ran interference for Pitt, who was peppered with questions about his personal life. Asked about the infants, Clooney intervened: "The twins are fine," then joked that he and Pitt were sitting at opposite ends of the podium because of a restraining order.
"Would you run after me?" she asked Clooney and Pitt.
And when another questioner asked if they would rather win an Oscar or fall in love with an Italian woman in Venice, Clooney warned: "Don't answer that, Brad."
HOROSCOPES
Today is an 8
If a co-worker's nerves seem to be on the edge, don't take off. It probably has nothing to do with you. Be nicer than usual, just to help.
10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
Aries (March 21-April 19) Today is an 8
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Today is an 8
Today is an 8
Your job's getting a little easier.
You'll be able to figure out what needs to be done more quickly, and to do it in less time. The next few weeks could even be fun.
Gemini (May 21-June 21)
Today is a 7
You've recently gone through a phase that involved several uncomfortable situations. That's over, or will be very soon. You'll life. Life will become a lot more fun.
Cancer (June 22-July 22)
Today is a 9
Financially, you're doing well. You don't have to talk about it. Enjoy what you've already got and get something else sweet for your family.
Today is a 7
You're about to be fascinated by a new topic. You should be familiar with this phenomenon by now. You'll be ravenous to learn, and you will. It'll be fun.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Today is a 7
Start to think more about how you're going to spend all the money you'll earn. Draw up a plan with targets for the coming year. You do best when you have jucy goals.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Today is a 7
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is an 8
Venus, your ruling planet, is going into your sign. From now through most of next month, you'll be even luckier, cuter and more charming. Use this power wisely, for the public good.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Todav is a 7
There's no need to tell your friends about your plums quite yet. Give yourself a little room, in case you change your mind. Don't show any dummies your unfinished work.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Todav is a 7
Friends keep pestering you to come and help or simply play. You have other things to do, of course, but you always will. Better make some time for this crew before all the fun is used up.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan.19) Today is a 7
Hold off on new endeavors for a little while. Count up your assets and figure out what you can sell or borrow. You'll be wise to know how much you can spend before you shop.
You provide the encouragement. Somebody else does the work. Actually, if you've picked the right person, it's more like play. You provide the applause and possibly the paycheck.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb.18)
Today is an 8
By now you should start seeing tangible results. Hold on to whatever you get. Save it up; don't give it away. Let it accrue interest. It's OK for you to have it.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 7
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The founder of bankrupt Death Row Records posted $19,000 bail Wednesday and promised to appear in Las Vegas Justice Court on Sept. 26 on felony assault and drug charges.
Police arrested the hip hop mogul on Wednesday morning after officers say they saw him beat his girlfriend while brandishing a knife in a parking lot near the Las Vegas Strip.
The woman was not stabbed but she was treated at a hospital for injuries that were not life threatening.
Police say Knight had the drugs Ecstasy and hydrocodone when he was arrested.
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FRIDAY AUGUST 29.2008
Bandwidth limits hinder Web's growth
EMBRACE OPEN-SOURCE BRYAN MARVIN
The beautiful thing about the Internet is its simplicity. If you want to go to a Web site, you open your browser and type in the address. If you want to see a picture of a cat, but don't know a Web site that has one, you just go to a search engine and type in "cat," and you have 962 million options. However, the simplicity of the Internet doesn't go much further than that, especially when it comes to companies whose business models are the Internet.
The three largest Internet Service Providers, also called ISPs, in the country may switch over to a service that includes a cap on how much data can be transferred in a given time (usually one month), called bandwidth limits or consumption-based billing.
This is especially poignant because of the business policies of Lawrence's local ISP, Sunflower Broadband.
The cheapest service Sunflower provides is a $14.99 plan that has a six gigabit limit.
What does that mean? The average file size on Youtube is 10 megabytes, meaning you get to watch approximately 600 videos a month as long if they are close to the average size. That's not a problem. There's no way Idade wade through 600 music videos, rickrolls and instructional videos in just 30 days, but again it isn't that simple.
Every single teeny-tiny bit of information transferred gets thrown into your bandwidth total. All those annoying ads, all those Facebook photos, every single letter on every single Web page — all of them go toward your total. And once your total hits 6.01 gigabytes, you get to pay extra for every gigabyte you
go over.
Sunflower Broadband is not alone in this practice. They are simply following the best business plan for the short term.
But bandwidth limits are a short-term solution. Sunflower claims to have one of the fastest Internet connections in the country at 21 megabytes per second. This may be true, but being the best in a country known for having horrible Internet speeds (and a ridiculously low growth rate on that speed, somewhere in the realm of 0.4 megabytes per second a year) is the same as being the best athlete on a team that doesn't make the playoffs.
Who cares? Hell, the average Internet speed in Japan is as much as 61 megabytes per second, according to PCWorld.com.
There's more to the issue than pure dollars and cents, however. If simplicity makes the Internet beautiful, innovation makes it great. From streaming video rentals from Blockbuster and Netflix to phone calls from a computer using Skype, the Internet is changing the way everything is done.
In the end, ISPs are just protecting their interests. They are trying to increase speeds, as well as revenue, and bandwidth limits are the easiest way to do just that.
But if ISPs look on this as a long-term business model, though, the United States will quickly fall behind the rest of the world in online capabilities.
Companies will continue pushing the limits of the Internet's capabilities, and the rest of the developed world has already shown that they are ahead of our curve on infrastructure development.
Before you know it, Europeans will be going to highdef.youtube.com. and we'll be visiting stoneage.youtube.com.
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Changing drinking age would hurt high schools
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While railing against MADD you did nothing to support your point (Editorial: University should rethink approach to students' drinking, Aug. 27). Lowering the drinking age is a bad idea. It will make some high school seniors legal. It will make a bad high school drinking scene worse. It is irresponsible of these colleges' chancellors and presidents to suggest that the drinking age is what contributes to binge drinking.
You are correct that the University should rethink its approach, but the answer is not jumping on the 18 bandwagon. It is about what it has always been about: education and peer pressure.
—excerpted from a comment by empirelucas
Allow drivers to speed if they want to pay for it
I'm all for people slowing down and driving more efficiently; however, I don't think the government should be the one doing it (Editorial: Reducing
speed limit not big enough of a solution, Aug. 26).
People's pocketbooks are already slowing them down, with many people driving under the speed limit on the interstate in an effort to save gas money.
If I want to drive my Honda at 80 mph down the interstate, I should be allowed to.
You are more than welcome to drive however slow you want to. Why shouldn't I still have the freedom to spend less time driving?
—excerpted from a comment by sischlaq
The problem is that your freedom limits the rest of our freedoms in the long term. I reluctantly have to support this. Peak oil is going to be reached any year now if it hasn't been reached already, and life is already starting to get a little harder. This will only continue in the next few years.
Peak oil should prompt energy conversation
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ALEX NICHOLS
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These days, celebrities ooze out of every pore of the face of American culture. Gossip about who's dating who or what was found in which actor's glove box or which actress adopted a baby from what impoverished nation has infiltrated our TV shows, newspapers and the Web in a slow, sad march toward ubiquity. Celebrities have created a giant zit that no amount of Clearasil will be able to vanquish.
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"Surely, you may be saying aloud to the newspaper while everybody around you stares in confusion, "I can still play video games without seeing Fergie's face!"
How wrong you are.
EA's concoction of celebrity and video games is more akin to a combination of sewage and pure sugar: Neither serves much purpose alone, but together they go beyond being pointless and become harmful. Each element removes whatever redeeming qualities the other may have had before their unholy marriage.
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The creator was later vindicated after his creation was proven to be delicious, but EA is unlikely to receive the same validation.
The necessity of this game is questionable. The convergence of these two cultural forces has been unseen since the maker of Reese's Cups was accused of witchcraft after somehow getting peanut butter into chocolate and vice-versa.
Earlier this month, Electronic Arts unveiled a Nintendo Wii game called "Celebrity Sports Showdown." Gamers select a star from a vaunted roster that includes Kelly Furtado, Avril Lavigne and Keith Urban to compete in sports like slalom skiing, curling and "smash badminton," so called in an apparent attempt to make badminton sound exciting. That succeeds about as well as calling a live session of Congress on C-SPAN "smash filibustering."
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But never has the idea of putting big names in ridiculous situations been so interactive. The same faces that stare back at us every time we wait in line at the grocery store now threaten to invade the activity many of us use to escape them. The same people who sell pictures of
To be fair, inane celebrity competition is far from a novel concept. America has always liked to see its famous folks do random, stupid crap. Look at the 1970s, when "Battle of the Network Stars" pitted Mr. Kotter and Kojak against each other in an epic tug-of-war battle that until that point had only been a reality in the feverish dreams of television addicts. Look back even further to 1804 when Aaron Burr competed against Alexander Hamilton in the pistol duel as part of an ill-conceived "Get Out the Vote" campaign (a public stunt that would serve as a predecessor to Diddy's less literal "Vote or Die" movement two centuries later).
Nichols is an Overland park sophomore in creative writing.
Fight the star power. Pop the zit.
their children for millions are now licensing their names and likenesses for more cash and exposure.
Our society doles out fame to people desperate enough to keep themselves in the spotlight. We're letting people profit just for existing. This points to a culture that worships names and not accomplishments. We award recognition to people because we recognize them. It's a trend that must be stopped.
But it's not as easy as just not buying the game. We need to make sure nobody buys the game when it comes out this holiday season. If we don't march on Best Buy with picket signs that read "Get outta my Wii, LeeAnn Rimes!" soon we will have no choice but to obey our celebrity overlords as they destroy the Constitution and replace it with People magazine.
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Cost in dollars to park in Lot 90 and 72 for football games last year. This season, visitors must pay $20 to park in these lots.
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The new price may deter some people from driving to the opening game, which may help clear campus out sooner, but the University has yet to address parking for students, faculty and staff who need to use the buildings around these lots for academics. We should not be forced to pay to use campus buildings.
THE BIG PICTURE
THE CONTEXT
Percent of 18- to 24-year-olds who are registered to vote, according to the 2004 census.
THE BIG PICTURE
Multiple groups have been urging students to register to vote and claim to have seen increased numbers of interested students. But the length of this presidential campaign season may be turning some members of the younger generation off. Turn off your TV until mid-October, and you'll probably still be caught up on all of the political "news." But vote.
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The amount in millions of dollars that the University is looking to cut from its overall budget next year.
THE BIG PICTURE
As the largest of the state universities, KU will face the harshest cuts. There is no good place to take money from, and the University says it will raise tuition as a last resort but is "planning for the worst." Faculty and staff positions are likely to be cut, but students should keep a close eye on what stays and what goes.
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Moore: Party must unite
Kansas representative reaches out to Clinton supporters throws support behind Obama's presidential campaign
BY.FRANCESCA CHAMBERS
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DENVER — Rep. Dennis Moore (D Kan.) gave Sen. Hillary Clinton supporters from Kansas the OK to support Sen. Barack Obama on Thursday morning.
Moore told Kansas delegates at the Democratic National Convention at a breakfast that he was originally a Clinton advocate, but once it became obvious Obama would win the nomination, he changed his vote.
Moore's speech came after six delegates voted for Clinton in the formal presidential nomination process Wednesday evening, though she had told her supporters to vote for Obama on Tuesday.
Clinton, who was the headline speaker Tuesday evening at the convention, stressed the importance of party unity, saying she would rather see Obama as president than the presumptive Republican candidate. Sen. John McCain.
Moore reiterated her message to
the Kansas delegation.
"I wanted to see us unite as a party," Moore said. "I hope and pray that everyone in this room feels the same way."
He said from what he had seen of McCain's campaign so far, McCain would continue the policies of the Bush administration.
Moore said, among other negatives, Bush's attitude had run down the good will of people from around the world toward the U.S. after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Moore commented on Michelle Obama's speech as well, rejecting claims by news networks that the Democratic Party had wasted an evening of the convention by selecting her as Monday's main speaker.
"It's important for people to get to know the entire Obama family," Moore said. "I think that's going to have an impact on the election."
Moore also addressed rumors that Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, who co-chaired the convention, would be offered a Cabinet position in Obama's administration if
"I've not had a discussion with her about that," Moore said, but added, "I would not be surprised at all if she got a Cabinet position."
Moore said that Sebelius would be a good fit in any Cabinet position, naming The Department of Health and Human services as a possibility.
Thursday was the final day of the Democratic National Convention. The convention came to a head with a speech by Obama and a tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.at INVESCO Field, home of the Denver Broncos.
The Republican Party will gather in Minneapolis-St. Paul for its presidential nominating convention next week.
KU Students who did not attend the Democratic National Convention will have the opportunity to meet Moore on Sept. 5 when he takes a tour of the University's campus.
Edited by Kelsey Hayes
LATIN AMERICA Bolivian voters to decide on new constitution
LA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivian President Evo Morales has announced that a hotly disputed draft constitution will be put to voters in a referendum.
Morales is seeking a new constitution to give power to the country's long-marginalized indigenous majority. The opposition says the document does not represent all Bolivians.
The proposed charter would
also allow the re-election of sitting presidents.
A presidential decree was issued Thursday night, setting a Dec. 7 date for the vote.
In an August recall referendum, Morales won approval from 67 percent of voters.
Abortion remains legal in Mexico's capital
MEXICO CITY — Mexico's Supreme Court has upheld legal abortion in the capital.
Mexico City is one of only a
handful of places in Latin America that allow abortion without limitations in the first trimester.
Thursday's 8-3 vote supporting the Mexico City law opens the possibility that similar measures could be adopted elsewhere in Mexico. It might also inspire other leftist Latin American cities to follow suit.
The Roman Catholic church has declared itself in mourning over the expected ruling and says church leaders will redouble their efforts to fight abortion in Mexico.
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POLITICS
BY FRANCESCA CHAMBERS
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DENVER — The Democratic Party aired a tribute video to Martin Luther King Jr., Thursday evening, showing Americans who did not experience segregation the progress the nation had made by choosing Barack Obama as a presidential candidate.
But Isaac "Bud" Stallworth did not need a video to understand the significance of Obama's selection. Stallworth remembers what it was like to be a second-class citizen.
Stallworth, who played basketball at the University and is now the budget manager of KU's Design and Construction Management office, was raised in Hartselle, Ala. He was 18-years-old when Martin Luther King Jr. was shot in April 1968. If Stallworth had attended the University of Alabama he would have been its first black basketball player.
Stallworth traveled to Denver this week with the Kansas delegation for the Democratic National Convention. He was not a delegate, but he still wanted to show his support for Obama.
Stallworth played basketball professionally for six years before ending his career in sports.
He was the first-round draft choice the Seattle Supersonics, playing for them from 1972 to 1974. He played for the New Orleans Jazz from 1974 to 1977.
He then worked in the restaurant business in California before returning to Lawrence in 1987.
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Stallworth said Obama shared some of the same qualities as Martin Luther King Jr., particu-
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"He will have a better life," Stallworth said. "He will be able to enjoy some of the fruits of his grandfather's labors and put himself and put his family in the position to be successful."
basketball was an activity, not a career," he said. "It served its purpose. It gave me the opportunity to live my dream."
Stallworth said if Obama accomplished his goals, his grandson, Mikea, would have a future
Not only did basketball give Stallworth a chance to live his athletic dream, but his academic one as well. He is one of only three KU basketball players to be selected as both an All-American athlete and Academic All-American.
largely his ability to cross racial lines.
King ultimately paid the price for his views, though. Stall worth said that he was not worried
about Obama being assassinated because people are not in control of the earth.
"What Barack wants to do is make a difference ... Your life is just part of the deal," he said.
But Stallworth said Obama's race was not the only reason he supported him.
"I think he is the most qualified leader at this time to be president of the United States."
Edited by Ramsey Cox
INTERNATIONAL
90 killed in Afghan village raid
BY FISNIK ABRASHI AND JASON STRAZIUSO ASSOCIATED PRESS
KABUL, Afghanistan Afghan officials said Thursday that a deadly U.S.-led special forces raid on a remote western village last week was based on misleading information provided by a rival clan.
It was the latest twist in a tangled debate over what happened. U.N. officials say the raid killed up to 90 civilians, most of them children. A NATO official said U.S. and Afghan troops were fired on first, touching off a battle of several hours that killed 25 militants and five civilians. The U.S. government is mess-
The U.S. government is pressing for a joint U.S.-Afghan probe in hopes of reaching a common conclusion. Two Pentagon officials said Thursday a U.S. review concluded civilian deaths were far fewer than claimed by others. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the report had not been made public, said
the findings were given to Afghan leaders.
Evidence from all sides has been scant, with no conclusive photos or video emerging to shed light on what happened in Azizabad on Aug. 22. But the claim of high civilian casualties, also made by Afghan officials, is causing new friction between President Hamid Karzai and his Western backers.
Claims of civilian deaths can be tricky, however. Relatives of Afghan victims are given condolence payments by Karzai's government and U.S. military, providing an incentive to make false claims.
Karzai has castigated Western commanders over civilian deaths from military operations, saying they create anger among Afghans that the Taliban and other insurgents use as leverage to turn Afghans away from the government.
Three Afghan officials said Thursday that U.S. commanders were misled into striking Azizabad, a village in Shindand
district of Herat province.
They said U.S. special forces troops and Afghan commandos raided the village while hundreds of people were gathered in a large compound for a memorial service honoring a tribal leader, Timor Shah, who was killed eight months ago by a rival clan.
The officials said the raid was aimed at militants supposed to be in the village, but they said the operation was based on faulty information provided by Shaiks rival, who they identified as Nader Tawakal. Attempts to locate Tawakal failed.
U. N. officials later said that up to 90 civilians may have been killed, but a U.N. official said Thursday that the world body did not conduct an exhaustive and conclusive investigation. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly, said such a study was being done by the Afghan government.
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The good and bad of Kansas football
With Kansas football kicking off its season this Saturday, there are several things to expect. If you plan on attending the game, there will be some good things and some bad things about the spectacle of college football at Kansas. To brace you for this event, I present to you the good, the bad and the ugly of the Jayhawks football home opener.
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THE GOOD:
Great Expectations
When the band, The Zombies, sang "Time of the Season" in 1968, they were certainly not referring to Kansas football, but the words apply. Coincidentally, the Jayhawks had their best season in 2007 since the year the hit song was released. Given that the preseason AP No.14 ranked Jayhawks had such success, this year may be the most anticipated in Kansas football history. With this in mind, it is definitely the time of the season for college football in Lawrence.
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From the student body singing the alma mater to Big Jay and Little Jay, to the warm weather, everyone in attendance is excited for the season to start. From the overzealous fan that has been antsy for football ever since the Orange Bowl in January, to the casual fan who is along to enjoy the game with their friends, it will definitely be a joyous occasion for Jayhawk fans.
The atmosphere
If you don't believe me, just wait until November 29, when Kansas plays Mizzou at Arrowhead Stadium when it is no longer t-shirt and shorts weather. Imagine yourself freezing to the core standing next to a tall burly, tobacco chewing Mizzou fan in camouflage overalls named Bubba. It will be at this point that you'll long for games like the one this Saturday.
THE WAIT IS FINALLY OVER
THE BAD:
Drunk fans
In the 1966 film "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," Clint Eastwood's character, Blondie, said, "I've never seen so many men wasted so badly." He was referring to the carnage of war. You, on the other hand may be referring to the group of guys standing next to you that are obliterated on Natural Light freaking out over a rare incomplete pass by junior quarterback Todd Reesing.
“Put in Tyler Lawrence, that pass was Garbage!” says the guy next to you wearing a “Muck Fizzou” t-shirt.
"You suck Reesing!!!" says his smelly buddy who's BAC at the moment is probably higher than his GPA.
If you do happen to get stuck next to this group of fans, simply ignore them. If it gets too out of hand, it maybe best to move to another section.
"Rip his f - - - ing head off!"
For whatever reason, it has become tradition at Kansas' home games for students to scream this phrase at kickoff. This Saturday, you may be tempted to join the majority and belt out the words yourself, but think about this. Would you want to be the unknown guy for Florida International with the Jersey No. 6 returning kicks in a stadium where everyone wants to rip your head off?
THE UGLY:
Odds makers in Las Vegas favor Kansas to beat Florida International by 36 points. If Saturday's game is anything like the 55-3 blow-out the Jayhawks put on the Golden Panthers last year, things will get ugly.
The score
With this in mind, the theme to "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly," which sets the mood for a prolific showdown between to guns, will not apply until Kansas plays AP No. 19 ranked South Florida in week three. Instead, the game should be more reminiscent of the bloody ending to the 2007 film "There Will Be Blood."
Team ready to impress
BY B.J. RAINS rains@kansan.com
As he prepares to put on his No. 3 jersey for the first time tomorrow evening
at Memorial Stadium. Jocques Crawford knows that all eyes will be on him.
The National Junior College Player of the Year has brought with him high expectations and a lot of hope that has everyone
counting down the seconds to kickoff.
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"I do feel the buzz a lot, especially when I'm out," Crawford said. "I see people who recognize me. They say they can't wait to see me play. I can't wait to see myself play."
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Never a man shy of saying what's on his mind, Crawford brings with him a personal goal of 2,000 yards rushing. He also has been labeled as a key piece of the Jayhawks offense this year, one that is expected to be one of the best in the country.
In 2007, Kansas finished second in the nation in scoring offense with an average of just under 43 points per game. Only Hawaii scored more points per game than Kansas last season.
On defense, the Jayhawks were just as impressive by allowing only 16 points per game, the fourth lowest total in the nation.
have to talk about last year a lot because it was so out of the norm but everyone's focus is on this year. We know that last year's not going to do anything for us this year and we've turned our focus and our attention towards this season and if
Together, the two units formed a juggernaut that was only stopped by one team, Missouri, which defeated the Jayhawks by only eight points.
But players know that last year's success is in the rearview mirror and that the slate is wiped clean starting tomorrow.
"Everyone understands what's going on," said quarterback Todd Reesing. "We
we can keep the same approach, we should be just fine."
In addition to Crawford, the Jayhawks will debut true freshman Daymond Patterson at punt returner and
transfer Alonso Rojas at punter. Both have a lot of weight on their shoulders but more so on Rojas, who might end up doing some field goal kicking as well.
FIU lost their first 11 games last season, including a 55-3 trouncing by Kansas, but won their last game of the season over North Texas to finish 1-11 on the year.
The Golden Panthers offense was dead last in scoring offense.
Wayne Younger and Paul McCall have both been battling for the starting quarterback job and Kansas coach Mark Mangino said the team had been preparing for both. Younger played the first 11 games before missing the last game with an injury. McCall led the team to their lone win over North Texas.
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"We've prepared for both so we're not going to get all worried about who the quarterbacks going to be," Mangino said. "We've spent plenty of time working on the strengths of both quarterbacks. That shouldn't be a big issue." Kickoff is set for 6 p.m. Saturday at Memorial Stadium.
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The Kansas football team will get its season started against Florida International on Saturday evening. The game will begin at 6 p.m. Saturday at Memorial Stadium.
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Defender stages comeback — mask and all
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BY ANDREW WIEBE
It's a muggy August afternoon, and soccer practice is winding down outside Anschutz Sports Pavilion. Kansas has the day off tomorrow, and players talk and laugh as they make their way toward the coaches and trainers.
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Junior defender Jenny Murtaugh, "Tots" as everyone there calls her, walks towards her gear, slowly unstrapping the clear, plastic mask that has covered her face since a Drake player's foot missed its mark during Kansas' opening exhibition game.
Murtaugh barely knows who Richard "Rip" Hamilton is, but her teammates seem to have a pretty good idea. Ever since the junior defender started wearing the custom-fitted, protective mask, she keeps getting compared to the Detroit Pistons sharpshooter.
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Junior defender Jenny Murtaugh wears her protective face mask in an Aug. 22 match against Purdue. Murtaugh needed months of rehabilitation after tearing ligaments in her left knee.
"I hate the mask," Murtaugh said, holding back a smile.
Months of grueling rehabilitation and a medical redshirt followed as she watched her teammates struggle to recover from a terrible nonconference record. Without
Despite her teammates' ribbing, it's a welcome alternative to the situation Murtaugh found herself in this time last season. When the Jayhawks take on Auburn on Sunday at the Jayhawks Soccer Complex, it will be almost a year to the day after Murtaugh's junior season screeched to a halt when she tore ligaments in her left knee while playing BYU in the third game of 2007.
"Tots," the Jayhawks became perilously short on defensive experience, forcing freshman Katie Williams to adapt to the college game on the fly.
Williams eventually caught on, and Kansas turned things around enough to claw to a third-place Big 12 finish. But the hard work was just beginning for
Murtaugh.
After starting 39 games in her first two
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VOLLEYBALL
Women a solid team, to be favored at VCU Invitational
BY JOSH BOWE
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For teams looking for a NCAA tournament birth and an excellent season, first thing's first: take care of weaker opponents.
That's exactly what the Jayhawk Volleyball team is looking to do this weekend, as they enter the VCU Invitational for the third season in a row, opening with Virginia Commonwealth tonight and finishing up with North Carolina State Saturday morning.
The fayhaws should be favored in both games, with their opponents com-
blined record from last season an abysmal 15-50. NC State had just 3 victories last season, and a 28 game losing streak.
Even with their disastrous season a year ago, coach Ray Beachard isn't going
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"It's very important that if we set a tone on how we want to play, we can be very successful this weekend," Bechard said. "But we have to pay attention to the things we've been concentrating on the past couple of weeks."
Bechard also noted how both VCU and NC State were looking to make a "jump" this year. Like the Jayhawks, VCU returns 5 starters and NC State hopes to improve its young core, which gained a lot of experience last season.
The jayhawks, however, fall into the middle ground, with a solid core of
both young and talented freshmen and sophomores, and experienced and battle-tested seniors such as Natalie Uhart and Savannah Noyes. It's how the newer players handle the college game that will swing the favor of the jayhawks season,—something Bechard will look for in this tournament.
"We'll have a couple of freshmen playing quite a bit," Bechard said. "We got a few of those jitters out against the alumni,
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"I would have loved to take a nap on court because I was really exhausted. But rules are rules and I had to keep going."
— Jelena Jankovic following her marathon tennis match with Sofia Arvidsson.
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On this day in 1978, the United States Tennis Association National Tennis Center opened in Flushing, N.Y. Jimmy Connors dispatched Swede Bjorn Borg in straight sets in the men's singles final, his third US Open title. Chris Evert won the women's singles title.
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OLYMPICS Liukin, Clay newest pair of Wheaties champions
MINNEAPOLIS — First the gold, then the Wheaties.
At the Olympics in Beijing this month, Nastia Liukin followed in the footsteps of Mary Lou Retton and Carly Patterson, the two other American gymnasts who have won Olympic gold in the all-around competition. Now she and American decathlete Bryan Clay follow them onto the Wheaties cereal box.
Liukin and Clay will get their own special edition Wheaties boxes, General Mills Inc. announced Thursday.
Liukin, who is from Parker, Texas, won five medals in the Beijing Olympics, including helping the U.S. win silver in the team competition.
Clay, a native of Honolulu who lives in Los Angeles, was the first American to win the decathlon since Dan O'Brien brought home the gold in 1996. Two other Americans — Jim Thorpe and Bruce Jenner — have won the event
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After Olympics Games, Phelps's star still rising
LOS ANGELES — He does comedy, writes books, and mixes it up with the hottest stars in music and Hollywood. With all this, who needs swimming?
Certainly not Michael Phelps — not anymore, at least. But as a presenter at the 2008 Video Music Awards, all that fresh Olympic bling will certainly help.
The swimmer who took home a record-breaking eight gold medals from the Beijing Games joined Miley Cyrus, Scarlet johnsons, Lindsay Lohan and Ciara as presenters at the Sept. 7 VMAs telecast from Los Angeles.
Kansas, Canada school connected through Naismith
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It doesn't seem like Kansas' exhibition basketball game against McGill University at 11 a.m. Saturday in Ottawa carries any special significance.
After all, it's a college basketball game in August between two teams from different countries. But closer inspection reveals that the Jayhawks and the Redmen share a linked history.
They share the history of a man named James Nasmith. The inventor of basketball, who coached at Kansas for nine years, graduated from McGill in 1887.
Naismith famously created basketball four years later in
Massachusetts before coming to Lawrence and starting the Kansas basketball program in 1898.
Kansas and McGill have, not surprisingly, never played against each other in basketball. Although Kansas will be a heavy favorite in the game, McGill played well against American college teams last season. The Illinois Fighting Illini traveled north to Canada to face McGill and only escaped by four points in double overtime. Alabama beat McGill 97-88 in an exhibition match last season.
The McGill Redmen's basketball Web site, however, reports the last time they beat a Division-I college team was 1985 against Maine. But you can't trust everything on their website - just read the description of the lavwhacks for proof.
"Kansas, a Big 12 school from Lawrenceville, Kan," it reads.
I'm not familiar with a Lawrenceville in Kansas -- although I have traveled through
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the northeastern Atlanta suburb of the same name.
Naismith certainly wouldn't have appreciated the McGill Athletic Department's hiccup with the town's name. But who would he root for in tomorrow's game? His alma mater or the school with its court named after him?
It's hard to tell. The only thing that's certain is, in some weird way, a historical basketball match-up
will take place in Canada Saturday morning. Call it the "Naismith Bowl."
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL ... ERGH, I MEAN FIU
FIU, Kansas' first football opponent of the season, doesn't want to be referred to as Florida International or Florida International University.
The Golden Panther game notes indicate that they are not to be called anything other than FIU by the media. But that's not all FIU would like to change about its football program. The Golden Panthers are also still trying to shed their football team's reputation.
FIU football is known primarily for two things - both of them negative. Until the Golden Panthers' final game of last season against North Texas, they held the nation's longest losing streak. It reached 23 straight games without a victory before FIU
beat North Texas, 38-19.
FIU also garnered negative publicity in 2005 when a benchclearing brawl broke out during a game against Miami. The Golden Panthers suspended 16 players and dismissed two following the fracas.
But one of the most infamous figures of the fight, running back Amod Ned, is still on the team.
Ned
Ned, a senior this season, got in the middle of the fight despite being injured and on crutches. He has since become an Internet sensation.
videos of the brawl is still available on YouTube.
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In split decision, Nevada court rejects trial delay for O.J. Simpson
BY BRENDAN RILEY
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CARSON CITY, Nev. — A request from OJ. Simpson's last remaining co-defendant to delay the Sept. 8 start of the pair's armed robbery and kidnapping trial was
rejected Thursday by a divided Nevada Supreme Court panel.
In a 2-1 decision, Justices Bill Maupin and Ron Parraguirrre refused to stay Simpson and Clarence "C.J." Stewart's upcoming trial, and rejected Stewart's petition for a separate trial.
The brief majority order salo justices "are not satisfied that this court's intervention by way of extraordinary writ is warranted at this time."
ed, saying he would have granted the stay. He called for an answer from prosecutors to the petition for separate trials.
Stewart's attorney, Robert Lucherini, did not return calls seeking comment on whether he would ask the high court to reconsider.
Lucherini appealed to the Supreme Court after Clark County District Judge Jackie Glass refused to halt proceedings. Glass delayed the start of the trial once in April
and vowed not to postpone it again.
Lucherini argued it will be impossible for Stewart to get a fair trial sitting next to Simpson, the NFL Hall of Fame player, actor and advertising pitchman who was acquitted in 1995 in Los Angeles of criminal charges that he murdered his ex-wife and her friend. Simpson was later found liable for the deaths in a civil case.
face 12 charges, including felony kidnapping, armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. A kidnapping conviction carries the possibility of life in prison with the possibility of parole, and a robbery conviction would mean mandatory prison time.
Simpson maintains that he went to the hotel room to retrieve items stolen that had been from him, that he didn't ask anyone to bring guns and that he didn't know anyone in the room was armed.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A little luck and a little hustle were all the Texas Rangers needed to pull off their first three-game sweep this season.
Jarrod Saltalamacchia scooted home when pitcher Brian Bannister flubbed a popup, giving Texas the go-ahead run in their 3-2 win over Kansas City on Wednesday night.
"Give him 10 more of them and he won't drop them," Rangers manager Ron Washington said. "Salty didn't take it for granted the ball was going to be caught. It worked out well for us."
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Matt Harrison won for the fourth time in August, pitching the Texas Rangers to a 3-2 win over the crumbling Kansas City Royals.
The Royals have lost 10 of their last 11 games and 17 of 20, falling
to a season-worst 21 games below .500.
This one got away in the seventh inning. Chris Davis and Saltalamacchia hit two-out doubles to tie it, then Saltalamacchia came home when Joaquin Arias' routine popup went off the heel of his glove.
Harrison (6-3), a 22-year-old rookie left-hander, went 4-1 in five August starts. He held the Royals to two runs, one earned, on seven hits in 6 2-3 innings, giving the Rangers their first franchise sweep of more than two games at Kansas City.
Frank Francisco worked a flawless ninth to log his first career save.
Francisco was 0-for-6 in save opportunities this season before retiring the Royals in order in the ninth, striking out two.
The Royals stranded seven runners and went 2-for-10 with runners in scoring position.
"Obviously, the error hurt, but it shouldn't have been as close as it was either." Royals manager Trey Hillman said. "A lot of that has to do with lack of run production when we should produce. Third inning, runner on second, nobody out, and we don't get him over. Fourth inning, runners on second and third with nobody out and we don't score a run out of that, too."
Bannister (7-14), who struck out a career high eight, has not won in 11 starts since a June 23 victory over Colorado. He has not defeated an American League club since Cleveland on June 1. Bannister gave up three runs, two earned, on six hits and a walk. Not to mention the error.
"It just didn't catch it," Bannister said. "It should have been caught and you don't get a lot of practice at it. It should have stuck in the glove and it didn't. It's kind of unexpected."
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Veterans and rookies combine forces for Rim Rock meet
BY JASON BAKER
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Kansas football won't be the only sport going on in Lawrence this Saturday — KU cross country will sponsor the Bob Timmons Invitational at Rim Rock Farm. It's the team's first meet, and its only home contest.
Many team members trained over the summer; some even trained
with each other. Freshman Rebeka Stowe, a newcomer on the team, trained with sophomore Amanda Miller over the summer.
"She forced me to get up every
morning and run," Stowe said. "But it's good to have that kind of leadership"
Stowe said she looked up to Miller and sophomore Lauren Bonds a lot.
"I can talk to her about anything from T-shirt sizes to what to do at practices. It's good to have someone there that you're comfortable talking to," she said of Miller. "Lauren's definitely a hard worker. It's good to have that at practice."
The team is ready for the season to get underway.
"We're all excited to see how our training translates into our racing and get an idea of where we're starting the season," Laura Nightengale, freshman, said.
This year's team has several
underclassmen and a couple of transfers as well. Junior Isaiah Shirlen transferred from the University of North Carolina-Charlotte to take a bigger step in competing.
"The Big 12 is probably one of the two or three toughest conferences in the nation; it should be interesting," Shirlen said.
With all the new faces on the team, some of the returning runners have been given the opportunity to step up and be leaders.
"As you get older, you feel more responsibility to lead." Levi Huseman, senior, said. "As far as running goes, that's Bret (Imgrund) and Nick (Caprario), but vocally I trv and step up" he continued.
The concern for the freshman was the transition from running
high school distance to a much longer collegiate distance, but a lot of the freshmen said they were excited to compete in their first collegiate meet and didn't feel much pressure.
"There's not too many teams at this one," Don Wasinger, freshman, said. "We can get our feet wet and make the transition."
The team members said they've been pushing each other.
"Everyone's trying to make the travel team and varsity; we don't have any slackers," Sam Bird, freshman, said. "Everyone's pushing each other and working hard. It helps yourself feel faster and be a better runner."
Bird said that he'd always been a long-distance guy and that this should be in his favor for the season. He said that he looked up to former runner Colby Wissel, who practices with the team.
"He makes it sound more down to earth and relaxed, and (there's) not as much pressure as you think," Bird said, talking about Wissel's attitude about racing at the collegiate level.
For some of the returning runners, living up to what Colby Wissel and Paul Heferon accomplished is a concern.
"We have to live up to the Kansas name since they put us on back the map," said sophomore Dan Van Orsdel. "Hopefully we can fill their shoes."
Sophomore Nick Caprario said he was also feeling the pressure to live up to his own expectations.
"I think there's always been a
chip on my shoulder," Caprario said. "Especially freshman year, having to get out there and prove myself. But I feel confident in my ability."
This year's race will be different. The course will not include the Billy Mills hill. This cuts the women's race from a 6K- to a 5K-long route, but the men's race will stay at the 8K distance. Bonds said it was definitely a good thing, but a lot of the returning men didn't agree.
"It's the main thing in the course; we look forward to it and it makes the course tough," Van Orsdel said.
The men's team will compete at 9 a.m. and the women's team will compete at 10 a.m.
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Carlos Villanueva's arm-raising, in-your-face gesture after escaping a bases-loaded jam in the seventh woke up the Cardinals against a team that's handled them all year, leading to a four-run rally in the eighth inning of a 5-3 victory against the Brewers on Wednesday night.
Ryan Ludwick lacked a triple for the cycle and drove in two runs, including Albert Pujols to start the big comeback. Pujols had taken a few menacing steps toward the celebrating Villanueva before being steered away by home plate umpire Phil Cuzzi, and then he answered with a double off David Riske (1-2) to open the eighth.
"When you start pointing to the dugout and saying all the things that he was saying, a guy that respects the game like I myself, I didn't appreciate it and I had to let him know," Pujols said. "I guess he did us a favor. He woke up a sleeping giant."
Rebounding from a 12-0 rout Tuesday, the Cardinals pulled within 3½ games of the Brewers for the NL wild-card lead. That's where they were starting a two-game series that was their final shot against Milwaukee.
The Brewers took the season series 10-5 and had won seven in a row against the Cardinals before Wednesday.
"There's days we're not good enough, but we really try," manager Tony La Russa said. "We have more talent than people think."
St. Louis Cardinals' Aaron Miles hits an RBI-single to put the Cardinals up 4-3 over the Milwaukee Brewers during the eighth inning of a baseball game Wednesday, in St. Louis. The Cardinals won 5-3.
The Cardinals were held to four hits in the first five innings and had a scoreless streak of 19 innings against Milwaukee pitching dating to July before Ludwick's 32nd homer off Manny Parra in the sixth. They left the bases loaded in the seventh when Joe Mather fouled out against Villanueva, who celebrated demonstratively while facing the St. Louis dugout.
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but until you really put them out there against an opponent you can't tell for sure."
Allison Mayfield, one of those talented freshmen looking to get substantial playing time this weekend, hopes to get rid of some of those jitters and experience an actual college game and not just a scrimmage.
"I'm trying to work on the nerves and get them all out this weekend," Mayfield said. "It's a lot bigger than high school, so there's nerves."
Besides getting the usual butterflies out for the first game of a season, Bechard said he knew you couldn't predict everything you would encounter the first time out.
"You see some things that you
Senior middle blocker Savannah Noyes said she believed the team was well prepared and it was hungry to open the season strong. The Jayhawks have been consistent in August under Bechard, registering a 12-4 record during his tenure.
Noyes said that passing, setting the tempo, and being fearless would be keys for winning the tournament.
"After the alumni match, we figured out where we were struggling." Noyes said. "We've been working on them this week and I think we're well prepared."
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"I was in the training room about three times a day doing rehab," Murtaugh said. "I had a couple mental breakdowns in the middle because it just seemed like it never ended."
seasons in Lawrence and garnering All-Big 12 Second Team honors as a sophomore, she found herself practically living in the training room instead of joining her teammates and friends on the pitch.
Coach Mark Francis certainly has faith in her ability to bounce back from adversity. It could have seemed a little like déjà vu for both Murtaugh and Francis when she was forced to leave the field with a towel over her face against the Bulldogs on Aug. 16.
But that notion didn't last long. She was back in practice and back in the lineup a week later, putting in her typical 90 minutes in a 3-0 victory against Purdue.
"She is just tough," Francis said. "She keeps battling on, and (leaving against Drake) really didn't faze her. Maybe with somebody else I
would have been a little bit more concerned."
Twelve months after the injury she said she felt fine, although direct contact with the knee still bothered her sometimes. The purple bruise that resides under Murtaugh's left eye thanks to a cleat still lingers, but it's beginning to fade, too. As for the mask, it comes off in a month.
But for now, Murtaugh and the Jayhawks are focused on the task at hand: beating an Auburn team that lost only one starter after participating in the NCAA tournament last season. Ironically enough, the Tigers were the last team Murtaugh played a full game against before the injury.
But "Tots" is back on the field now. Murtay said she hasn't decided whether or not to stick around for her final year of eligibility. She is technically a senior after all.
"Looking back, I can't believe it has been a year since (the injury)." she said.
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Clemson quarterback Cullen Harper (10) hands off the ball to James Davis (1) during the second half of a college football game against North Carolina State in Raleigh, N.C. The ninth-ranked Clemson team enters the 2008 season as clear favorites for the Atlantic Coast Conference title. Clemson plays No. 24 Alabama at home on Saturday.
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The Chiefs also said IMG will manage a Kansas Citybased sales and marketing team.
The Chiefs announced Thursday they have entered into an agreement with the sports and entertainment company IMG to find a naming rights holder.
Arrowhead, built in 1972, has a capacity of almost 79,500 and is the third-largest in the NFL. It's undergoing a $375 million renovation project for completion in 2010.
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NORMAN, Okla. — Former Kansas State standout Kendra Wecker is now a member of Oklahoma's women's basketball staff.
BASKETBALL Former K-State player joins Oklahoma staff
NFL Chiefs to sell naming rights to Arrowhead
Oklahoma coach Sherri Coale said Thursday that Wecker will be the Sooners' graduate assistant coach.
Wecker is from Marysville, Kan. She earned first-team All-Big 12 Conference honors three times as a player and was the Big 12 player of the year and a first-team All-America selection as a senior in 2005. She holds Kansas State career records for scoring and rebounding.
She later played for the San Antonio Silver Stars and Washington Mystics of the WNBA. She was waived by Washington on Aug. 12.
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Luice仁, of France, hits to Ana Ivanovic, of Serbia, during their match at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York. Thunder, Coin won the match, upsetting the top-seeded Ivanovic.
NEW YORK — Top-seeded Ana Ivanovic lost in one of the biggest upsets in tennis history Thursday, stunned by 188th-ranked Julie Coin 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 in the second round of the U.S. Open.
Coin screamed when Ivanovic's last shot sailed out, then hoped for joy and hit an extra ball high into the stands. Ivanovic quickly gathered her gear and left the court, her hopes of winning another Grand Slam championship dashed.
Even after Ivanovic showed the effects of a bad thumb and struggled in the opening round, there was no way to see this coming.
Coin spent much of the year playing in minor league events, and the 25-year-old Frenchwoman nearly got knocked out of a qualifying event to merely make it into the Open.
Asked later whether she'd thought such a win was possible. Coin gave a simple answer.
"No," she said.
Not since 1967 had the No. 1 woman lost in the second round of the U.S. Open. That came when Maria Bueno drew a first-round bwe and lost in the second round.
too.
During the first four days at the U.S. Open, almost all of the favorites had won. Mostly in romps,
But when the Ivanovic-Coin match was moved from the smaller Louis Armstrong Stadium to the main Arthur Ashe Stadium, fans hardly knew what was in store.
Ivanovic seemed to regain her edge midway through third set. The French Open champ led 40-0 in the fifth game and was about to break Coin's serve when suddenly the momentum shifted. Coin came
back to hold, and won 10 straight points to take control.
Ivanovic tried to hold off Coin in the final game, but it was too late. Coin won on her third match point — quite a result for someone playing in her first tour-level event.
Coin had tried to qualify for the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon and never made any of them.
FOOTBALL Clemson gives coach another year for ACC title
CLEMSON, S.C. — Clemson star tailback C.J. Spiller laughs at the question: How often did people tell you not to join the Tigers because coach Tommy Bowden would get fired?
"Oh yeah, I heard that a lot," said Spiller, a junior.
Well, only days away from Bowden's 10th season, the coach some Clemson fans love to grouse at, isn't going anywhere. He's walked the sidelines at Death Valley longer than anyone but modern program patriarch Frank Howard and national championship icon Danny Ford. He's got a deal that ties him to the school through 2014, the backing of his bosses and some of the skistest talent in college football.
The one thing Bowden doesn't own is a championship, and that, perhaps, is what has kept his coaching seat hot no matter how many blue-chippers he attracts.
"This is a tough profession to stay for 10 years," Bowden says.
runners James Davis and Spiller finished 1-2-3 for the league's preseason player of the year. They stand ninth in the national rankings, their highest starting spot since 1991, also the year of the school's last ACC crown.
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NORTON, Mass. — Phil Mickelson's star presence at the Deutsche Bank Championship was evident Thursday by the company he kept at the TPC Boston.
He played the pro-am with tournament host Seth Waugh, the CEO of Deutsche Bank Americas; New York mayor Michael Bloomberg and New England Patriots owner Bob Kraft. Such is the VIP treatment typically afforded the highest-ranked player in the field.
FedEx Cup playoff standings aside, that honor still falls to Mickelson.
He is No. 2 in the world ranking, although it's easy to forget that. Because while Tiger Woods has been out of sight for two months after his season-ending knee surgery, Mickelson at times has been MIA.
Some thought he would take advantage of Woods' absence by piling up victories, perhaps another major or two, and giving himself a chance to win the money title or PGA Tour player of the year for the first time in his career.
But it hasn't worked out that way.
Mickelson has played four times with only one serious chance at winning, when he had a one-shot lead until bogeys on three of the last four holes at Firestone to tie for fourth. He had to rally to make the weekend at the British Open, was steady but not spectacular in his tie for seventh at the PGA Championship and opened the PGA Tour Playoffs for the FedEx Cup last week with a tie for 19th.
"I've played the same way I've played throughout the year," Mickelson said. "I just haven't been scoring the way I would like. Even though I feel like I'm playing better, the little shots around the greens have cost me. But I'm starting to get that turned around, and I expect to have a much better week."
By most standards, Mickelson has had a good year. He won at Riviera and Colonial, and he is third on the money list, a little more than $1 million behind Woods. With three more $7 million events, a money title is not out of reach.
This would be a good place to turn it around, even if the cast of characters has changed.
A year ago, Mickelson surged into FedEx Cup contention with perhaps the most exciting playoff event at the Deutsche Bank Championship. He played the first two rounds with Woods and Vijay Singh, then hooked up with Woods in the final round and closed with a 66 and beat Woods and two others by two shots.
Asked how he remembered last year, Mickelson broke up the room by saying only, "Very fondly."
"It was a fun tournament last year, and I loved the opportunity to have won the tournament," he said. "But I also love the way it happened, with the opportunity to play three rounds with Tiger."
Woods hasn't played since winning the U.S. Open in a playoff, and the tour has had a taste of life without the world's most famous athletes. Attendance has been noticeably down in recent events, and television ratings have plunged, as to be expected.
Someone asked Mickelson if he wondered what golf would be like if Woods wasn't around. He
figured he would be No.1 in the world and "I'd be making half as much as I am now."
That was a reference to Woods being responsible for such big purses on tour.
"I'm very thankful he's in our sport, and he's had the success and the charisma and the lure to attract corporate America, as well as fans, to the game," he said.
Interest now is driven by a slow elimination amid volatile change in the standards and the FedEx Cup heads to a conclusion next month with $10 million going to the winner.
Singh took over the lead with a victory at The Barclays last week, while the two guys he beat in the playoff at Ridgewood — Sergio Garcia and Kevin Sutherland — are right behind.
Mickelson, who is at No. 4 and feeling good vibes from the TPC Boston, is hopeful of making a move.
"I feel like I'm hitting the ball pretty good," Mickelson said. "The key is going to be — again — scoring, getting up-and-down around the greens that I miss and getting those birdie putts to drop."
As much focus as there is at the top, equally important this week is the bottom. The second round of the playoffs is for the top 120 players, with only 70 advancing to the third round next week in St. Louis for the BMW Championship.
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GAME DAY
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY AUGUST 29, 2008
KU KICK-OFF AT A GLANCE
Kansas plays its first game as defending Orange Bowl champions in front of what should be a sellout crowd at Memorial Stadium. The Jayhawks lost several key contributors but return the team's most important player, quarterback Todd Reesing. If the Jayhawks can stay healthy, they should be in store for another big season in 2008.
COUNTDOWN TO KICK-OFF
BY THE NUMBERS
(2007 Averages and National Rank)
42. 8 ppg - 2nd scoring offense
291 ypg - 17th passing offense
94. 8 ypg - 8th rushing offense
16. 38ppg - 4th scoring defense
PLAYER TO WATCH
Daymond Patterson. The true freshman won the job as aunt returning out of
camp and possesses a rare quality: speed. The 5-9, 175 pound Mesquite, Texas native returned.
BABY
Patterson
punts in high school and had an average of 21.6 yards per return. Patterson should help greatly improve the Jayhawks' punt return game, which was one of the worst in the Big 12 a year ago.
QUESTION MARKS
Will Florida International score? The Kansas defense was one of the top in the nation in 2007 and FIU was dead last, 119th out of 119 teams in the FCS, in scoring offense. They managed a field goal against the Jayhawks last season and they might be lucky to get another one again this time around.
Will there be a letdown? After winning the Orange Bowl and coming into this year ranked in the top 15, it would be natural for any team to look past a lesser opponent. But that shouldn't be a problem for Kansas, a team that is always kept focused on the game at hand by coach Mark Mangino.
THE SEASON BEGINS
GAME DAY
Kansas looks to continue winning way in 2008 opener
KANSAS VS. FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL 6 p.m. Saturday, Memorial Stadium
Kansas 0-0,0-0 Big 12
OFFENSE
The Kansas offense was the No. 2 scoring offense in the country last year, . They lose five starters, however, including offensive tackles Anthony Collins and Cesar Rodriguez, tight end Derek Fine, receiver Marcus Henry and running back in Brandon McAnderson. Redshirt freshmen Jeremiah Hatch and Jeff Spikes are taking over at the tackles and sophomore Dezmon Briscoe could break out at wide receiver. Add in junior college Player of the Year Jocques Crawford, who said this week that his goal is to rush for over 2,000 yards, and the offense could actually be even better in 2008.
★★★☆
FIU
0-0, 0-0 Sun Belt
DEFENSE
The defense loses only two players from last year's unit that ranked fourth in the nation in scoring defense. But both of those players were All-Americans, making the void a little bit harder to fill. But sophomore Chris Harris, the 2007 Big 12 Defensive Newcomer of the Year, should have an All-Big 12 type year. Senior linebackers Joe Mortensen, Mike Rivera and James Holt combine to form one of the strongest and most experienced group of linebackers in the country. Kansas allowed teams to score an average of only 16.38 points last year, and there's no reason why they can't put up a similar number this year.
OFFENSE
The biggest question mark going into 2008 for the Jayhawks is, without question, special teams. Alonzo Rojas, a transfer from Bowling Green, will handle the punting and kickoff duties, and junior college transfer Grady Fowler will handle the field goals. They must replace kicker Scott Webb and punter Kyle Tucker, who had anchored the positions for the past few years. True freshman Daymond Patterson won the job at punt returner. Coach Mark Mangino said that Patterson has the one thing that you can't teach: speed. All-American senior Marcus Herford will handle the kick-return duties.
★★★☆
The 2007 Golden Panthers amassed the second fewest yards per game (269.7 ypg) and scored the fewest points per game (15.1 ppg). FIU's incredibly difficult nonconference schedule — it played five BCS foes, four of which went to bowl games — skew those stats, but they still hint at just how bad this unit was. New offensive coordinator Bill Legg has a trio of talented tailbacks and an experienced offensive line. However, coach Mario Cristobal has yet to name a starting quarterback. Sophomore Wayne Younger and Junior Paul McCall are still battling for the starting role.
SPECIAL TEAMS
★★★★★
★★★☆★
Could a team have any more momentum than Kansas has entering Saturday's game against FIU? Sure, it's the first game of the season, but after winning the Orange Bowl last year and completing the best season in school history, the Kansas players seem primed for a big win on Saturday. Add in the preseason hype surrounding the team and the national rankings and attention, and Kansas seems ready to steamroll past an undermanned FIU squad.
MOMENTUM
DEFENSE
FIU must replace its best player, cornerback Lionell Singleton. Without him the defense is in the hands of junior linebacker Scott Bryant and sophomore cornerback Anthony Gaitor. At 5-foot-10 and 220 pounds, Bryant packs a lot of weight into a small package, which makes him a vicious hitter. Gaitor's the youngest and most talented player in the secondary. Junior safeties Jeremiah Weatherspoon and Ashlyn Parker have to tighten their coverage or Todd Reeing will have a field day. FIU needs its veteran defensive line to apply quick quarterback pressure to alleviate its inexperienced secondary.
★ ★ ★ ★
SPECIAL TEAMS
Gaitor is slated to handle punts while Weatherspoon will return kicks, but a few other guys may also get into the mix. The Golden Panthers should have returning starters at both punter and kicker, but the situation is complicated. Junior punter Chris Cook will likely take a medical redshirt this season because of back problems. Meanwhile, kickers Chris Abed, the 2007 starter, and Dustin Rivest each missed spring practice "while taking care of some issues," according to coach Cristobal. Their absence opened the door for junior walk-on Carlos Munera. Rivest is back on the team as Munera's backup at both punter and kicker.
★ ★ ★ ★
KANSAS 1
COACHING
MOMENTUM
You wouldn't think that a 1-11 team could have any momentum heading into the next But when that one win comes game of the year, then there's at feeling of accomplishment to the players. FIU's late-season vic-North Texas was the last college game in the Orange Bowl, and a 26-game losing streak, which Cristobal made some type of ment.
It doesn't get any better than being named National Coach of the Year, just as coach Mark Mangino was after last year's record-breaking season. Mangino earned the honor from 10 different organizations. Ed Warner returns as offensive coordinator and should have even more tricks up his sleeve. Clint Bowen takes over as defensive coordinator after serving as co-coordinator for the past two seasons. The coaching edge certainly goes to Kansas.
★★★
COACHING
B. J. Rains
In his first year as FIU coach, Mario Cristobal got the ball rolling in Miami by halting a losing streak that spanned across parts of three seasons. Cristobal cut his teeth at Rutgers, helping coach Greg Schiano build the foundation for what's now a consistent Big East contender. Then Cristobal returned to Miami, his alma mater, to join Larry Coker's staff. While there, Cristobal built up a reputation as a tremendous recruiter, and he's used those Miami ties to bring athletes to the Golden Panthers. Legg performed wonders at Purdue, turning its offense into a top-30 unit.
★★★★
Mark Dent
FIU KICK-OFF
AT A GLANCE
FIU has some young talent, including its coach, but it's still well behind most programs in the country. This is only the fourth year of D-I football for the Golden Panthers, and the team is still searching for a program-defining victory. They're unlikely to get it in week one, but this team, at least on paper, is better than the 2007 version and that should be reflected on the field.
150. 58 ypg - 117th passing offense
(2007 Averages and National Rank)
15.1 ppg - 119th
scoring offense
BY THE NUMBERS
119. 1 ypg - 98th rushing offense
39. 1 ppg - 115th scoring defense
243. 6 ypg - 80th passing defense
203. 8 ypg - 105th rushing defense
PLAYERTOWATCH
Sophomore cornerback Anthony Gaiter. A speedster out of high school powerhouse
Miami Northwestern,
Gaitor started
11 games
as a true
freshman.
He recorded
two interceptions and a freshman-
half.
Gaitor
high 56 tackles. Coach Mark Mangino mentioned him as someone the Jayhawks would need to keep their eyes on.
QUESTION MARKS
Who's going to play quarterback? Cristobal told the Miami Herald last week that he wouldn't announce his starting quarterback before the game, forcing Kansas to prepare for both Younger and McCall all week. Younger is a scrambler who completed less than 50 percent of his passes while McCall led FIU to its only victory with three touchdown passes.
Can FIU make it a 30-point game? With three losses by 48 points or more last season, a 30-point loss to a team of Kansas' caliber would be a step in the right direction. If the FIU defense can at least slow down Todd Reesing and Co., maybe the new clock rules will shorten the game before it gets too out of hand.
BIG 12 SCHEDULE
Time (CT) Channel
Oklahoma State at Washington State 2:30 p.m. No TV
No.4 Oklahoma vs. Chattanooga 6 p.m. No TV
No.11 Texas vs. Florida Atlantic 6 p.m. No TV
No.12 Texas Tech vs. Eastern Washington 6 p.m. No TV
Nebraska vs.Western Michigan 6 p.m. No TV
Texas A&M vs. Arkansas State 6 p.m. No TV
Kansas State vs. North Texas 6:05 p.m. No TV
No.20 Illinois vs.No.6 Missouri 7:30 p.m. ESPN
Game
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Georgia Southern at No.1 Georgia Youngstown State at No.2 Ohio State No.3 USC at Virginia Hawaii at No.5 Florida Appalachian State at No.7 LSU Villanova at No.8 West Virginia No.24 Alabama at No.9 Clemson Louisiana-Monroe at No.10 Auburn Akron at No.13 Wisconsin Northern Arizona at No.15 Arizona State Northern Iowa at No.16 Brigham Young No.17 Virginia Tech at East Carolina Tennessee-Martin at No.19 South Florida Washington at No.21 Oregon Coastal Carolina at No.22 Penn State Bowling Green at No.25 Pittsburgh
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