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Evidence of evolution in lizards' limbs
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Cameron Siler, Denver graduate student, left for the Philippines on Sunday to continue his research on reptiles and amphibians. His work at the University is mostly with limbless lizards, but while in the Philippines, he works on mapping species and doing research with their genes.
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Scavenging for tadpoles in a Denver pond as a child, Cameron Siler always knew he was different. Siler's childhood fascination with reptiles and amphibians paved the way for his innovative evolutionary research on lizards in Southeast Asia.
- Genus of skinks
- Though they are all lizards, some species are limbless and look like worms or small snakes while others have four limbs and look like a typical lizard
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Siler, Denver graduate student, departed Sunday for a 10-month research trip to the Philippine Islands. Siler's field research, funded by a $23,000 Fulbright-Hayes scholarship, focuses on the evolution of limbless lizards in the Philippines. Fulbright-Hayes scholarships are funded by respective host countries; only 25 to 35 scholarships were available in Southeast Asia, Siler said.
Siler said there were 15 to 20 species of lizards that had evolved to become limbless. Siler's dissertation concentrates on lizards within the genus Brachymeles, which has three known limbless species. These lizards had evolved from above-ground reptiles to reptiles that burrow beneath the soil, Siler said.
"In a burrowing lifestyle," Siler said, "you can move using much less energy without limbs."
Siler's adviser, Rafe Brown, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, said Siler's research would provide living evidence of the existence of transitional forms of evolution. Some of the lizard species have large legs, some have only stumps for limbs and others have no limbs at all. Brown said the research demonstrated "missing links" to the existence of a common ancestor.
"Because of its clear and easily understandable results." Brown said, "I think Cameron's work will
be of intense interest to evolutionary biologists, and the public in general."
Jen Humphrey, communications director for the Natural History Museum and the Biodiversity Institute, said most of the 60 graduate students in the institute conducted field work, but a single trip as long as Siler's was unusual.
Brown described Siler as a fun person to work with, which made him well liked by overseas collaborators.
ers.
"Cameron is an extremely effective graduate student with a takeo-prisoners attitude and a very healthy work ethic," Brown said. "These traits combine to make him one of the most productive students I have ever known."
Siler said he would look for an apartment in the capital city of Manila upon arrival. He said he would conduct much of his research while camping in the Philippine forests, where he would collaborate with local research-
Much of the research will aim at educating the local population about the diverse natural life within in the forests of the Philippines, Siler said.
While in the field, Siler will produce photographic field guides to identify the lizards, frogs and snakes in the Philippines. The
guides will be translated into English and several languages native to the Philippines then distributed to Philippine government agencies and universities.
"It's much easier to try to get people to conserve their forest when they know how special the life within it is," Siler said.
Siler said he hoped to become a tenure-track professor, to continue studying Southeast Asian wildlife and to promote international collaboration through scientific research.
Upon receiving his doctorate,
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To follow the progress of Cameron Siler's field research in the Philippines, check out his blog at tinyurl.com/chzce.
ECONOMY
Career Fair comes to campus Annual event brings 82 employers from across the nation
BY RACHEL BURCHFIELD
rburchfield@kansan.com
Eighty-two employers are currently registered to take part in the 2009 University Career Fair. It will be from 2 to 6 p.m. on Feb. 11 at the Kansas Union on the fifth floor.
The Buckle, 805 Massachusetts St., is one of the employers sending representatives to the career fair. Leah Grady, a team leader at the store, said she had seen firsthand that The Buckle had been able to recruit great students from its presence at the event.
"We participate in the career fair because we're always looking for new people to bring new ideas, new fashions and new styles, especially since the majority of students who work here are college students," Grady said.
who will be there
The career fair is co-sponsored by the University Career Center and the Office of Multicultural Affairs.
Alegent Health AT&T Bank of Kansas City BNSF Railway Company Dallas Police Department Greater Des Moines Partnership Hills Pet Nutrition Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Kansas State University Liberty Mutual Metlife
Megan Hill, UCC associate director, said the UCC had coordinated the career fair for more than
NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
Peace Corps
Social Security Administration
State of Kansas
United States Marine Corps
US Border Patrol
Wells Fargo Financial
10 years. It decided to partner with the OMA in 2006 to bring the event to campus. Annually, between 700 and 1,500 students participate, Hill said.
For a complete listing, visit the UCC's Web site, KUCareerhawk.com.
"It's important because students need to know how to conduct an effective job search and also need to be informed about existing career opportunities," Hill said. "The purpose of the career fair is to educate students about their options, to help them practice job search and
Tali Friedman, Cleveland, Ohio, senior, is considering attending the career fair. Before graduating in December, the theatre and film major said she wanted to find a job where she could work in some aspect of theatre, whether as an actress or backstage. She said she would attend the career fair look-
networking, skills, and ultimately, to find employment."
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Jake Busted, a third-year graduate student and graduate teaching assistant in the American Studies Department, discusses themes of his American Identities class with students Friday morning in Bailey Hall. The class is one of several at the University that is part of the Learning Communities program. Learning communities will be discontinued in July because of budget cuts. The University will save $302.741 by cutting the program.
bpfannenstiel@kansan.com
Effective July 1, the Department of Student Success will discontinue thematic learning communities because of budget cuts.
Learning communities are designed primarily for freshmen and are composed of groups of about 20 students who enroll in two core courses and a seminar course that focus on a particular theme. Students enroll in learning communities in addition to their regular course schedule.
Learning communities this semester have themes such as "Business and Society in East Asia" and "Gender Matters: Women Creating a Life of Meaning." Students are connected with a peer adviser, participate in study groups and attend seminars with their professors that often focus on career and professional development. Some communities are even assigned to live on the same floor at residence halls.
Christa Curette, Port Arthur, Texas, junior and peer educator for the LC program, said the program was a great tool for
academic success and it was also effective in helping freshmen transition into college life.
"I think it's just a positive influence overall," Curette said. "We can show them that we're upperclassmen and we've been through the freshman year and we're here if they need to talk or need any kind of guidance."
Administrators cut the program in order to help meet the state-mandated budget cuts.
Each academic department at the University has been asked to reduce its budget by about 7 percent for the 2009 fiscal year. By cutting the LC program, the University will save $302,741.
"One of the challenges with any decision like this is that we feel like we have a lot of programs that are doing a good job
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1. Oil fire leaves 89 dead,
more than 200 injured
On Wednesday, a massive fire swept through a supermarket in downtown Nairobi, killing at least 25 people.
After the supermarket blaze, the Daily Nation said Nairobi's 3 million people are served by just one fire station situated close to a traffic-choked business district.
MOLO, Kenya — An oil spill from a crashed truck erupted into flames Saturday in Kenya, killing at least 89 people who were trying to scoop up free fuel, officials said.
Relations between the two Koreas have been strained since
Patrick Nyongesa, the regional manager for the Kenya Red Cross, said more than 200 were injured.
2. Tension between North and South Korea grows
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea warned Sunday that South Korea's confrontational policies may trigger a war on the divided peninsula, a message coming two days after the communist country vowed to abandon all peace agreements with its southern neighbor.
Local newspapers have criticized the government for poor safety regulations.
conservative President Lee Myung-bak took office nearly a year ago in Seoul, pledging to take a harder line on the North. Tension heightened Friday when the North said it was ditching a nonagression pact and all other peace accords with South Korea.
DAVOS, Switzerland — Mired in indecision and uncertainty, the world's foremost gathering of the best and brightest in government and business failed to come up with any new plan to stem, much less reverse, the global financial meltdown.
The tension may lead to "an un avoidable military conflict and a war," North Korea's main Rodong Sinmun newspaper said.
The North has accused Lee's government of preparing to stage a war, which South Korea denies.
3. Leaders fail to develop plan for financial crisis
The five-day World Economic Forum wrapped up the day with the conclusion that the depth of the crisis is still unknown and the solution remains elusive.
"No one seems to have a clear understanding of how big this crisis is and what we need to do to get out of it," Kishore Mahbubani, dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore, said.
NATIONAL 4. Ice storm causes death power outages in South
Kentucky was hit hardest by the ice storm that paralyzed wide areas from the Ozarks through Appalachia early last week. Officials blamed or suspected the storm in at least 42 deaths nationwide, most from hypothermia, traffic accidents or carbon monoxide poisoning from improperly installed generators or charcoal grills used indoors.
CANEYVILLE, Ky. — Thousands of National Guard troops swinging chainsaws cut their way into remote communities Sunday to reach residents stranded by a deadly ice storm.
The soldiers went door-to-door as authorities ratcheted up the relief effort for what Gov. Steve Beshear called the biggest natural disaster ever to hit the state.
5. Lawsuit accuses circus trainers of animal abuse
WASHINGTON — After more than eight years of legal skirmishing, a trial is scheduled to open Wednesday in a lawsuit filed by animal welfare groups alleging that Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus routinely abuses its performing elephants
The plaintiffs including the
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Animal Welfare Institute allge that trainers' use of sharp tools called bullhooks and the prolonged use of chains on the Asian elephants add up to an egregious violation of the federal Endangered Species Act.
Ringling Bros. and its parent company, Feld Entertainment, have defended themselves aggressively since the suit was filed in 2000, contending their treatment of all circus animals is state-of-the-art.
6. Stimulus bill heads to Senate floor for debate
WASHINGTON — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday the massive stimulus bill backed by President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats could go down in defeat if it's not stripped of unnecessary spending and focused more on housing issues and tax cuts.
The Senate version of the bill, which topped out at nearly $900 billion, is headed to the floor for debate. The House bill totaled about $819 billion and earned no Republican votes, even though it easily passed the Democratic-controlled House. At some point lawmakers will need to compromise on the competing versions.
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"The catch from last year's Super Bowl, where the quarterback from the Patriots was about to get sacked and threw the ball up in the air and the receiver jumped up in the air and with one hand and caught it against his helmet and managed to keep it."
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The Supreme Court case District of Columbia v. Heller made history last year as it questioned the words of the Second Amendment.
Ultimately, the court ruled that an individual's right to keep guns at home for self-defense is protected by the amendment.
Attorney Clark Niely, who served as co-counsel for the plaintiffs on the case, is visiting the School of Law from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. today to deliver a speech and answer questions
The free event, which is sponsored by the KU Federalist Society, will be held in 104 Green Hall and is open to the public.
"We thought it'd be really interesting to see what his perspective was," Joshua Goetting, Leavenworth second-year law student and member of the Federalist Society, said. "He has a particular insight as to what arguments work."
The society expects between 50 and 100 people to attend.
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New group hopes to teach students fiscal responsibility
BY BRIANNE PFANNENSTIEL
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Students for Prosperity, a new student group, said it aimed to inform students about how to be more fiscally responsible in the wake of an economic decline.
Andy Haverkamp, Hoyt sophomore, student senator and SFP member, said the group planned to host seminars for students that would bring in finance professionals to teach students about personal finance. The seminars would show students how to do things such as balance bank accounts, take out loans and purchase housing.
"For a person to manage their money and use it and save it wisely is something every student should learn," Haverkamp said. "There's no reason to be living from paycheck to paycheck. In an economic climate like we're in right now, every student needs to have an understanding of where their money is going."
Another way SFP plans to keep students informed about their money is to shed light on the way Student Senate spends student fees, which currently cost students more than $400 a semester.
"I've been here for five years now and I've noticed that the student fee keeps increasing," said Mike Conner, Shawnee grad student and SFP chair. "There's not really a voice on campus asking why we're increasing particular fees."
Conner said the group planned to use the Web site KUpedia to make senators' voting records more accessible. Currently, students can access voting records through the Senate Web site, but there is no explanation of the bill that was voted on.
Conner said the updated version would allow students to see a senator's name and the bills they had voted for and against. Students will also be able to sign up to receive voting information in e-mail newsletters. Conner said both measures would increase transparency within Senate, keep students updated on how their money is being spent and give students the information they need to make informed decisions in the April elections.
lack Connor, Overland Park senior, student senator and SFP member, said the group would like to remain nonpartisan and would not be endorsing a specific coalition. Connor ran with ConnectKU last year, but said that senators from opposing coalitions had already joined the group.
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"Coalitions don't really have a stance one way or the other regarding student fees," Connor said. "They're like minded people who oppose waste and oppose fees. It's
Students for Prosperity will be hosting a membership drive in the fourth floor lobby of the Kansas Union this week where students can sign up to be on a mailing list. Its first meeting is at 8 p.m. on Feb. 8 in the Pine Room in the Kansas Union. For general information and meeting updates, visit the Students for Prosperity group on Facebook.
about coming together and finding common ground."
On Thursday, the Senate Finance Committee approved SFP's request for the $200 in general funding that every student group on campus is eligible to receive. However, after this initial funding, SFP plans to
stay financially independent from Senate by having fundraisers and seeking funding through its national counterpart organization, Americans for Prosperity.
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This photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a black-footed prairie dog near its burrow. On Monday, the environmental group Wild Earth Guardians is releasing its annual report card on the efforts made over the past year by three federal agencies and a dozen states to protect prairie dogs. Most of the states received falling grades. North America's five species of prairie dog have lost more than 90 percent of their historical range because of habitat loss, shooting and poisoning according to the group.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. While groundhogs will get all the attention Monday, a report being issued by an environmental group says their cousins, the prairie dogs, are in dire straits across the West.
WildEarth Guardians says in its report to be released Monday that North America's five species of prairie dogs have lost more than 90 percent of their historical range because of habitat loss, shooting and poisoning.
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It grades three federal land management agencies and a dozen states on their actions over the past year to protect prairie dogs and their habitat.
Not one received an A.
Most grades even dropped from the previous year, but Arizona improved to a B — the highest grade of all the states in prairie dog country. That state reintroduced 74 black-tailed prairie dogs to a small southeast parcel in October.
the group said, state wildlife officials weren't actively conserving prairie dogs.
New Mexico, home to the Gunnison's prairie dog and black-tailed prairie dog, earned a D — the same as last year — because,
"It's hard to see the prairie dogs that are missing when you drive across the West because our modern society has no perception about what it was like before we started poisoning prairie dogs," said Lauren McCain, WildEarth Guardians' desert and grassland projects director.
McCain said prairie dogs were an important part of a grassland ecosystem. They are food for hawks, golden eagles, foxes and endangered black-footed ferrets, and their burrows offer shelter for a variety of other species.
Of the five species, the Utah prairie dog is classified as threatened and the Mexican prairie dog as endangered. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has issued preliminary findings that the black- and white-tailed prairie dogs may warrant federal protection, and the Gunnison's prairie dog is a candidate for protection in part of its range.
McCain said all the animals needed federal endangered species protections.
Until Arizona's reintroduction, the animals had not been seen in that state for nearly 50 years.
Many people in the West, especially ranchers, consider prairie dogs varmints that destroy grass and cause erosion.
McCain said misperception had resulted in wasteful government programs. She said various agencies had financed and encouraged the poisoning of prairie dogs for years while other agencies pumped millions of dollars into recovery efforts aimed at other species that rely on the prairie dog.
"We're hoping that the report card will highlight some of the these inconsistencies in government management of wildlife," McCain said. "These are species that we really do need to protect instead of wasting taxpayer dollars, which is a big concern for a lot of people."
Of the federal agencies, the Bureau of Land Management received the lowest grade: D-minus, the same as last year. The report accuses the agency of exempting energy development companies from complying with rules that would protect prairie dog colonies
and habitat
Bill Merhege, deputy state BLM director for lands and resources in New Mexico, said the agency took numerous steps, such as moving well pads and roads to avoid prairie dog colonies and prohibiting prairie dog control on land it manages.
"We do what we can on public lands," Merhege said. "Unfortunately, with interspersed landownership, what you do on one section doesn't necessarily follow through on another."
The group graded the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at a C, up
from D the previous year, while the U.S. Forest Service stayed at a D grade.
The group gave an F grade to Kansas, Nebraska and North Dakota. Colorado, Montana, South Dakota and Utah got D grades, and Wyoming earned a D-plus.
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CRIME Family looks to clear wrongfully accused man
LUBBOCK, Texas — A Texas man's family will return to a courtroom this week with the hope that they'll be able to clear his rape conviction from more than two decades ago.
Tim Cole was sentenced to 25 years in prison on charges that he raped a Texas Tech student in 1985,but DNA from the crime scene showed last year that a convicted rapist,not Cole,had committed the crime.
The vindication is bittersweet: Cole died in prison of an asthma-induced heart attack in 1999. He was 38 years old.
Still, his family will ask an Austin judge on Thursday to overturn the conviction, paving the way
for a pardon by the governor and, eventually, expunging Cole's record.
"That's vindication," said Cory Session, Cole's brother. "We need exoneration. We are extremely hopeful that this process will actually get him cleared."
The case against Cole relied primarily on identification by Michele Mallin, the victim in the attack. The Associated Press does not identify rape victims, but Mallin has come forth publicly to help clear Cole's name.
Attorney Jeff Blackburn of the Innocence Project of Texas along with others working on Cole's behalf allege the photo lineup used in 1985 was flawed. Mallin picked Cole out of a photo array of standard jail mug shots except for Cole's photo, which was a Polaroid.
Blackburn said Mallin planned to attend Thursday's hearing, and so would Jerry Wayne Johnson, the man that the DNA test indicated was Mallin's actual attacker.
Johnson, who is serving time in a Snyder prison for two other rapes during the 1980s, has been trying for more than a decade to convince authorities that he raped Mallin. In 2007, he eventually sent a letter to Cole addressed to his mother's home in Fort Worth, admitting to the rape and offering to help prove Cole's innocence.
"If this letter reaches you, please contact me by writing so that we can arrange to take the steps to get the process started," wrote Johnson. "Whatever it takes, I will do it."
Cole's family received the letter and contacted both a reporter
and the Innocence Project.
"We're anxious to hear what (Johnson) has to say," Session said. "It'll be a very emotional court hearing, and it will take us all back."
Lubbock County prosecutors have acknowledged the DNA test shows Cole was not the rapist. No one is expected to oppose the effort to overturn Cole's conviction, Blackburn said.
The hearing Thursday in the 299th District Court in Austin is the first step in the process.
For now, Session said, the family is just concerned with having Cole's name cleared. However, he did not rule out pursuing civil damages for his brother's wrongful conviction.
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Cheerleaders, dancers also place in top 10 at competition
BY ADAM SAMSON
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The last two weeks of winter break, the cheerleaders and Rock Chalk Dancers prepared their routines, while Big Jay worked on shaking his tail leathers. That work paid off after they took part in a national competition from Jan. 16 to 18.
Big Jay sends in a video each year to the Universal Dance Association (UDA), auditioning for the College Nationals competition. This was the first time that UDA chose Big Jay to participate, in Orlando, Fla.
Big jay placed ninth out of 22 Division-IA mascots. Big Jay has participated in the Capital One Bowl mascot competition, but never an official national championship.
In his skit, Big Jay used an ESPN "The Ocho" theme, with spoofs of different types of competitions. The skit included Big Jay in a hot dog eating competition that ended with him regurgitating the hot dogs into a Jayhawk head; a karakoke competition; a walk-off competition similar to a Zoolander walk-off, where he pulled out Big Jay underwear from under his shorts; a strength competition where Big Jay jaws a phone book apart; and a
dance competition.
Big Jay, who keeps his student identity hidden, said he had high expectations going into the competition, but felt good about his first-ever UDA competition.
"It's pretty amazing if you sit back and think about it. We got ninth and were disappointed about that," Big Jay said. "But when you think about it, we're the first ones to ever do it."
In addition to Big Jay's top 10 finish, the KU Cheer Squad took fifth place at the Universal Cheerleaders Association college nationals competition. The squad sent 16 cheerleaders and two alternates.
After placing first in the Mid- American Region cheerleading competition for the first time in school history, the squad received a fully paid bid to nationals. The fifth-place finish at nationals was the highest in University history.
Lizzie Bellinger, Plano, Texas,
junior cheerleader, said the wanted
to place well, but cared most about
nailing the routine.
"I don't think anyone was expecting to place top five, so that a huge accomplishment for us," Bellinger said. "In the past, we've never really done too well at this competition so when we found out
we got the full-paid bid, that was awesome"
The Rock Chalk Dancers also accompanied Big Jay and the cheerleaders to Orlando to participate in the Universal Dance Association college nationals, held in conjunction with UCA.
First-year head coach Mandy Pruett and the Rock Chalk Dancers placed ninth in the hip-hop category and 11th in the jazz category out of 28 teams in the Division-IA competition. Last year the dancers placed fourth in jazz and sixth in hip-hop.
Considering the dancers had to pull a hip-hop routine together in two weeks, Darcy Stanger, Davenport, Iowa, junior dancer, said they felt good about their jazz and hip-hop routines this year.
"The caliber and level of dancing that goes to nationals are unreal." Stanger said. "Going there and finishing in the top 10 is an honor."
The Rock Chalk Dancers and the cheerleaders placed highest among the big 12 Conference schools. Chip, the University of Colorado's mascot, finished highest out of Big 12 mascots.
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Kansas mascot Big Jay leads the Rock Chalk chant at court court Saturday afternoon during the Colorado basketball game at Allen Fieldhouse. Big Jay earned a spot at the Universal Dance Association national competition, a University first, and placed ninth.
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Lacey Baxter, Lawrence senior, coaxes cheers from the crowd at Saturday's game against the Colorado Buffaloes as she stands atop the shoulders of another member of the KU Cheer Squad. The squad placed fifth in national competition, the highest in University history.
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Seven Chinese tourists killed in tour bus accident in Arizona
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BYFELICIA FONSECA AND AMANDALEE MYERS Associated Press
DOLAN SPRINGS, Ariz. — Federal investigators on Sunday closely examined a stretch of rural Arizona highway near Hoover Darn looking for clues to the cause of a tour bus crash that killed seven Chinese tourists.
The six investigative team members would be measuring and photographing the site, evaluating the condition of the highway, and looking for skid marks and other clues. National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Peter Knudson said.
"These markings can be very important in telling the story of what happened," Knudson said.
The bus crashed Friday on a straight stretch of U.S. 93, about 70 miles southeast of Las Vegas.
The tourists had left Las Vegas early Friday on a trip to the Grand Canyon, and were returning when the bus veered right and then left across the median, rolling at least once before resting across the southbound lanes of the highway.
Along with the seven people
killed, 10 others were injured.
After inspecting the crash site, the investigators planned to head south to Kingman to evaluate the bus.
That will include checking whether the wheels and brakes were in good working order and whether any mechanical malfunctions may have caused the accident, Knudson said.
they likely will have some preliminary results this week.
He said the investigators also plan to interview the 48-year-old bus driver, who was in fair condition at a Las Vegas hospital, and the surviving passengers.
"Was it mechanical failure? Was it driver error?" DPS spokesman Lt. James Warriner said. "All that will come with looking at the vehicle and conducting interviews."
Warriner said of the weather at the time of the wreck that it was a "nice, clear day"
The DPS said the bus belonged to D.W. Tours of San Gabriel, Calif., which didn't respond to an e-mail from The Associated Press seeking comment.
The investigation will take 12 to 18 months to complete, with the bulk of the work being conducted at the NTSB's headquarters in Washington, Knudson said.
Representatives of the Arizona Department of Public Safety said
Five people remained hospitalized Sunday at University Medical Center in Las Vegas. Two were in critical condition.
Hospital spokesman Rick Plummer said the victims' injuries ranged from spinal and head injuries to bone fractures. "It ran the
whole gamut of injuries," he said.
Volunteers from the Chinese community in Las Vegas crowded the hospital's trauma unit Saturday, hoping to help with translation and taking food to the families of the injured.
Huang Xiaojian from the Chinese consulate in Los Angeles also was at the hospital but said she would not discuss details.
"I am here to visit the patients," she said.
Two others — an 18-year-old woman and a 57-year-old man in fair condition Sunday — were at Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas, according to hospital spokeswoman Ashlee Seymour.
Another was still being treated at Kingman Regional Medical Center, hospital spokesman Ryan Kennedy said.
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with excellent staff and the learning communities were one of those programs," said Kathryn Nemeth Tuttle, associate vice provost for student success.
Tuttle said the learning communities were cut because freshmen weren't always aware of the option, which made it difficult to get a large number of students involved.
the coursework is so difficult," said Curette, who campaigned to keep the learning communities running. She said the support that learning communities provide to any students, not just engineers, was a vital part of success.
"We understand the difficult decisions that all of us are having to make right now," said Ian Cahir, communications coordinator for the School of Engineering. "But from our point of view this is just about making a positive move for the School of Engineering."
the university are trying to fill the void that will be left by the learning communities in other ways.
Faculty and administrators at
David Gaston, director of the University Career Center and facilitator for the international careers community, said his class has gone to London over spring break for the past three years to visit with employers, companies and graduate schools. He said it had been very beneficial and that several of his students had gone on to pursue careers abroad.
"The part that we're going to miss is the opportunity to put our
She said the learning, communities were part of a labor intensive program that also required a large time commitment from faculty and staff.
learning into practice over spring break." Gaston said. "But as far as attaining and developing the knowledge, we will still be there."
However, the School of Engineering has decided to continue its learning communities on its own budget after a group of students approached the school and asked for the program to continue.
"Probably half of the students in engineering either leave or change majors and the other half take five or six years to graduate because
Gaston said a lot of what was covered in classes could be addressed on an individual basis by making an appointment with the Career Center.
Tuttle said she hoped to build on the orientation seminars, called PRE 101 in the course catalog. These classes focus on, helping students make a successful transition to the University.
Tutoring services are also
offered through several places on campus, including the Academic Achievement and Access Center Web site and Student Senate Web site.
Students can also sign up to be a tutor or to work with one through the Academic Achievement and Access Center or on the Student Senate Web site at www.studentsenate.ku.edu.
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ENTERTAINMENT
Couric addresses music, politics
BY DAVID BAUDER Associated Press
NEW YORK — Imagine what might have happened to Katie Couric a couple of weeks ago if she hadn't kept her briefing books straight.
Tuesday she interviewed Lil Wayne, bowling with him and inviting the rap superstar to watch from the control room as she anchored the "CBS Evening News." Wednesday she talked to President Obama. Thursday she did reported news outside on a frigid night overlooking the Hudson River landing site of a damaged jet, and anchored a report on former President Bush's farewell to the nation.
Then she flew overnight to Los Angeles, where she spent time hanging out with Justin Timberlake, on Friday.
The collision between music and politics came because of a pre-Grammy Awards special Couric is hosting on Wednesday (9 p.m. EST). Besides Timberlake and Lil Wayne, featured artists are Katy Perry and Taylor Swift.
Couric's been on a nice run lately, at least in part because she and CBS seem to have recognized the futility of keeping her to 20 minutes of reading news each night.
The Grammys air Feb. 8 on CBS, directly after a "60 Minutes" edition in which Couric has the first interview with Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, the pilot who guided stricken U.S. Airways Flight 1549 to that safe Hudson River landing.
"When Katie is seen as having diverse talents, as she does, everybody wins," says Susan Zirinsky, executive producer of the Grammys special.
Versatility was not only a job requirement at the "Today" show, it was something Couric found necessary. She enjoys covering public policy and the Obama administration, but also loves following pop culture. She's proud that she didn't need a tutorial from her daughters to talk to the young music stars.
"These multiple platforms provide me with an opportunity to satisfy all of my interests, and this was really just a fun outlet for me," says Couric, who was impressed by how savvy and interesting the musicians were.
"Sometimes people in show business get a bad name, that they are somehow shallow or vapid or not people of substance," she says. "And, they all were (substantive) in their different ways. One thing they do have in common is they were all incredibly persistent and tenacious in a business where it's easy to get eaten alive."
It's the second straight week in prime-time for Couric. CBS aired a special edition of the evening news at 8 p.m. Wednesday and, up against "American Idol," its audience of 6.5 million was actually less than she's been getting in her regular slot.
Yet if many of those viewers were not regulars of the "CBS Evening News", then the network has achieved its goal of giving her more exposure.
It's beginning to appear that CBS' evening newcastle is becoming more like its morning show, perpetually fated to third place, as the cable news networks increase their influence each year. That said, Couric's broadcast is showing modest signs of ratings growth over the past few months after two years of relentless bad news.
While ratings obviously matter to the networks for advertising revenue, Couric's interview with Sarah Palin last fall demonstrated that if important work is done, people will seek it out. Millions watched the interview online, probably Couric's signature moment since she joined CBS.
Palin, who came off poorly in the interview, apparently holds a grudge, saying recently to an interviewer, "Katie, the world does not revolve around you."
Couric had no interest in firing back. "She's trying to explain that interview from her perspective and I don't hold that against her," she says.
Couric plans to travel to Charlotte, N.C., on Monday to interview Sullenberger and his crew.
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"I would hope to meet anyone and everyone that I could," Friedman said. "If someone can't help you they may know someone who can."
Friedman said she heard from friends who attended in years past it was a great networking opportunity and a good chance to put yourself out there.
"If you have the opportunity, you should definitely take advantage of it," she said.
Robert Page, OMA director, said the career fair served as a link of communication between companies and students seeking employment.
Page said career fairs were important to students' progression toward graduation because they allowed students to look at multiple options for their futures.
Grady said although the majority of positions at the Buckle were already filled, impressive candidates still had a shot at becoming a part of the team.
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"If you're good, we'll hire you, even if we have a full staff," she said.
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CHICKEN STRIP
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Yeah man I get high on the daily.
Swear to me.
Okay, man whatever you want!
I wish you would find a more civil way of testing your flight suit prototypes, Master Wayne.
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Sup. Jack.
New cat?
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Meow.
'Sup, Jack. New cat?
Yep.
Meow.
I adopted him, but so far he's torn up my couch, eaten my lunch, and ordered a mail-order bride, ruining my credit rating.
That sucks. What's the destroyer's name?
The Professor.
Worth it.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 7
TAURUS(April 20-May 20)
Today is a 7
You're stronger now, but can you stand up to powerful opposition? Sure you can. You're stubborn. You never give up. Besides, you have friends who will help.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21)
Today is a Z
Something you've been avoiding is lurking there in your box. You know what it is. There's a financial benefit to you when you get it done, so stop procrastinating.
CANCER(June 22-July 22)
Today is a 7
Friends can help you find the perfect person for the job. That applies to everything from anteater to zebra tamer. It might even work for a soulmate, if you need one of those.
LE0 (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is an 8
Today is an 8
Cast caution to the winds and forge ahead with enthusiasm.
This advice pertains to your work, not to your entertainment. Follow it and you'll earn a decent living.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sep. 22)
Today is an 8
When you're working with people you love, you get a lot more done. You talk about places you'd like to go and things you'd like to see. Save your money so you can.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 7
You can get what you need for your home at a pretty good price, so do it. Don't wait until something breaks down. Fix it before that happens. You know what it is, too.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a Z
If you hang out with knowledgeable people, you get a lot smarter yourself. Some people don't talk about what they know. Then you have to watch. That's the situation now.
SAGITTARIUS(Nov.22-Dec.21)
Today is a 7
The work's going well and the money does appear to be coming in. How much seems to depend on you. Are you in sales? If not, you should find something to sell. You're a natural.
Your motivation is good and the path ahead is clear. You've been thinking about doing something especially romantic, and now is the time to act. Really mean it, though. This could last.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.18) Today is 6
You've been very busy lately.
Make time to kick back and relax. There are plenty of quiet things to do at home like taking an extra nap. Don't do that at work, however.
it's getting easier to bring the money in. You'll notice that more and more over the next few weeks. This alleviates the stress under which you've been laboring. Very little bit helps.
PISCES (Feb.19-March 20)
Today is a 7
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13 Legume
14 Nastase of tennis fame
15 Frost
16 Bill
17 Ball of yarn
18 Office mail receiver
20 Milne bear
22 Tear
24 Vitamin O source
28 Delicate
32 Fracture
33 Entice
34 Tibetan ctert
36 Moon-struck state
37 Reserved
39 Dangled carrot
41 Bicycle parts
43 Combat
44 Ready for the picking
46 Miniature
50 Cohort of Ringo
53 German pronoun
55 Sandwich cookie
56 Stereo hookup
57 Letter after pi
58 Skaters' venue
59 Press clothes
60 Very long time
61 Payable
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2 Not "fer"
3 Barber's tool
4 Likely
5 Harvest
6 For-bid-den
7 Controversial comedy legend
8 Under the weather
9 "A curse upon thee!"
10 A handful
12 Controversial comedy legend
19 Noon, in a sense
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25 Tidy
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with
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31 Consume
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Wallach
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Kappa
51 Atmosphere
52 E.T.’s
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54 Sweetie
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--into my car.
My roommate comes up with a new rule for our apartment every day and then writes it on the dry erase board. Now I'm doing a cost-benefit analysis on if I should light her bed on fire or not.
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To the sorority girls that were crossing the street near Green Hall: You need to look before you start walking because I was already in the crosswalk when you almost walked right into my car.
I just saw a flyer that said there's going to be a hundred free pizzas at Hashinger next Thursday. Bad ass.
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I just saw this girl in Malott wearing a K-State shirt and it threw me way more than I ever expected it would.
--give home court winning streak. The 36-game streak is the product of great teams, and also great fans and great tradition. The new basketball pregame, however, breaks with our appreciation for tradition.
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Today the guy that sat in front of me smelled like bug spray.
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So who do you think would make a good villain in the next Batman movie? It would definitely have to be a half-shaven hamster with a watermelon for a face.
--give home court winning streak. The 36-game streak is the product of great teams, and also great fans and great tradition. The new basketball pregame, however, breaks with our appreciation for tradition.
I am the same age as Boulevard Unfiltered Wheat Beer, and that is cool.
--give home court winning streak. The 36-game streak is the product of great teams, and also great fans and great tradition. The new basketball pregame, however, breaks with our appreciation for tradition.
For all the girls who get rides from their boyfriends to Budig, get off your asses and walk. Seriously!
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How are we watching Kansas State and North Carolina but not the Jayhawks? This is a problem.
--give home court winning streak. The 36-game streak is the product of great teams, and also great fans and great tradition. The new basketball pregame, however, breaks with our appreciation for tradition.
It's like arthritis, but in your eye.
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Are you taking care of your most important asset? Are you taking care of your brain?
--give home court winning streak. The 36-game streak is the product of great teams, and also great fans and great tradition. The new basketball pregame, however, breaks with our appreciation for tradition.
If you were a crayon, what color would you most like to make out with?
--give home court winning streak. The 36-game streak is the product of great teams, and also great fans and great tradition. The new basketball pregame, however, breaks with our appreciation for tradition.
Ryan McGeeneve/KANSAN
I am selling the plasma in my blood for alcohol money.
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Seriously though, am I the only one worried by the fact that so far it looks like the only qualified Cabinet appointee is a holdover from the Bush administration?
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I cried while I was watching the Australian Open trophy ceremony. I love Rafa so much but when Federer started crying, I lost it.
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--give home court winning streak. The 36-game streak is the product of great teams, and also great fans and great tradition. The new basketball pregame, however, breaks with our appreciation for tradition.
I am happy I met you last night, because you are all I can think about now.
I hate pro football.
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A beam of sunlight in Allen Fieldhouse illuminates a swath of fans during the Jayhawks Jan. 31 game against Colorado. Fans have criticized the new basketball pregame schedule for breaking momentum.
EDITORIAL BOARD
New pregame spoils momentum, tradition
The Kansas men's basketball team has the nation's longest home court winning
The Athletics Department has changed the order of the pregame activities that are intended to whip Allen Fieldhouse fans into a frenzy as tipoff approaches. Now, instead of methodically building excitement, the pregame schedule joils its way toward an unnatural, forced apex.
"It really kills the momentum going into the game; there's too much downtime" said Wes Gapp, Clinton, N.Y., graduate student.
The new pregame starts with the alma mater followed by the Rock Chalk chant, which is a
break in tradition.
Then there's downtime with bored fans listening to the pop band play pop tunes. Next, the players come out and the excitement builds only to be slowed again by the national anthem. By the time the countdown starts, people are no longer pumped for the game.
The old pregame tradition
involved a buildup for 12 consecutive minutes beginning with slower patriotic and school songs and dimaxing with the countdown into the game.
KANSAN'S
OPINION
The reason for the change stems from wanting both teams on the court for the national anthem, according
to Jim Marchiony, associate athletics director. The change was "recommended unanimously by the coaches of the league," Marchiony said. That makes sense. But that's no reason to remove the buildup from the original pregame
tradition.
This new pregame schedule hasn't any flow to it. It breaks tradition at what is supposed to remain a tradition-rich school.
"Counting down gets the crowd ready to go, but now we have to wait a long time," said Shane Lennon, Branson, Mo, junior.
Fan support plays a major role in the home court advantage in which this university takes pride. What may seem an insignificant alteration could actually diminish that advantage. Certainly, it destroys a beloved KU tradition.
— Kansan Editorial Board
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THERE IS NEW MERCHANDISE
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YAY! OBAMA'S
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YAY! OBAMA'S FACE MEANS QUALITY!
TYLER DOEHRING
Turning people into products
On my weekly target run, I found some intriguing items hardwired and
keeps nakedryers and plates with Hannah Montana's face plastered on them, and a children's book called (seriously) "Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope." That item might be topped only by the Yes-We-Can-Opener featured last December on 'Jav Leno.'
Maybe I pulled a Rip Van Winkle and have been asleep for years, waking to find out Harnash Montana discovered the cure for cancer, and Obama single-handedly saved the economy. Or maybe I misread the Bible and Obama really is the Messiah.
The answer is over-marketing.
Last time I checked, Hannah Montana is a television character and "singer," and Obama has been in office for two weeks. What does it show about our society when we put certain celebrities on a pedestal? If we do believe in change, why didn't we slap Mother Teresa's face on coffee mugs? Where is the I-Have-a-Dream Catcher?
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JENNY HARTZ
Why else would their faces be on every inanimate object?
Too many products make us forget about the person. Marketing is about money. But money is not why these people do what they do (or so they say).
The answer is over-marketing.
In addition to diminishing what the person is trying to accomplish, over-marketing makes us forget that the person is a person. We expect the over-marketed individual to be superhuman, and are disappointed when everything he or she touches does not magically turn into gold.
Obama cares about fixing the nation. Ms. Montana wants to make music and be a normal teenager (if any teenager can be normal; if one is; he or she should be studied immediately).
We do the same with books as well as celebrities. The "Harry Potter" and "Twilight" series have kids running to the aisles to buy costumes and action figures. Have the kids missed the meaning of the books? Are they so obsessed with trying to recreate the magical worlds that they forget to live in the real world? They don't realize
How weird would it be if every 11-year-old had my face decorating his or her room? It would probably make me miss my Facebook stalker.
Over-hyping can also turn off audiences. A lot of students, for example, like the underground and Indie music scenes because the bands are not over-marketed and controlled by money-hungry producers.
that they can use the lessons the characters learn and apply them to reality without waving fake wands and wearing Hermione Granger wigs.
The musicians have the freedom to make and focus on their music instead of turning themselves into icons. They still advertise their music, but they try to sell their music, not their bodies. If Beyonce were a boy, as she sings about in her current single, I bet she wouldn't sell half the CDs she does.
The trick is finding the fine line between advertising and selling one's craft without compromising who one is and what one is trying to accomplish with one's work. And a children's book about a two-week-old presidency is definitely crossing that line.
Letting Ty Inc, make beanie dolls that have the same names as and look exactly like Obama's daughters, however, is not overmarketing. It is pure coincidence.
Hartz is a Stilwell senior in creative writing.
ECONOMICS
Our economy was drunk
ruly comes such as exercise and healthy food. We can make ourselves feel good by obtaining a high blood-alcohol content, but the next morning sucks. A quick-fix, feel-good solution doesn't achieve truly healthy results. The same is true for the economy. A healthy economy comes from the natural interaction of supply and demand, not through heavy doses of government intervention. Here's how it works.
Consumers use their wealth to purchase the goods and services they demand. Necessities will naturally have the highest demand, so the consumers will first spend their wealth on such items. On the other side, the producers first spend their resources to supply the goods with the highest demand. The interaction of supply and demand will result in the greatest quantity of goods that can be produced at the lowest sustainable price. Then, some producers will get smarter and make the goods more efficiently, increasing supply. A larger supply will drive market prices down and force other producers to adopt more efficient strategies or close up shop. This more efficient means to production makes the consumers wealthier by increasing their purchasing power; consumers can buy the same amount of goods with less of their wealth. In an all-natural economy, the aggregate result is an economy that produces what the consumers demand by the most efficient means, thus maximizing wealth, or health.
American economic policy has not followed the all-natural approach for some time, if ever. Congress, the Federal Reserve, and the Bush and Clinton administrations all thought they could do better than supply and demand. They intervened in the housing market. The Federal Reserve lowered the price of lending by increasing the money
VIDSON
FOLLOWING THE INVISIBLE HAND TODD DAVIDSON
supply. Congress and presidents steered the price of homes by forcing increased demand via the "Ownership Society" agenda. The result was artificial home equity and an unnaturally low interest rate. We thought we had wealth, so we borrowed against that wealth and bought plasmas, iPods, Boxes, and lots and lots of coffee. The increased demand for these goods built coffee shops, Wal-Marts and factories that employed Joe, Jan and Jimmy. This price controlling couldn't go on forever and it didn't. The market saw the excess supply of housing and started a very violent correction, one that wiped out all that home equity we used to by plasmas, iPods, Boxes, and lots and lots of coffee. Now that we can't buy all that stuff, Joe, Jan and Jimmy are sent home.
Essentially the economy got drunk and ended up in a strange bed. Then the sun came up and nothing was as beautiful as it seemed last night. Years of artificial economic growth was built by government manipulation of housing prices and interest rates. Huge increases in GDP were built on this artificial wealth. Now that the fake wealth is gone, our economy cannot sustain that high GDP, so it's coming down.
We can become healthy the natural way, or we can put off the pain with another bottle of liquor. Natural policies will let consumers and producers determine supply and demand. On the other hand (or in it) is a trillion-dollar bottle of liquor, a debt-driven stimulus package of more government manipulation of supply and demand.
Davidson is a Tonganoxie senior in economics.
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JAYHAWKS DEFEAT THEMSELVES AGAIN
Aggies slid past Jayhawks in second half. WOMEN'S BASKETBALL I 6B
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MANGINO GIVES OUT AWARDS TO PLAYERS
COMMENTARY
Darrell Stuckey led recipients with three awards. FOOTBALL 17B
Collins continues to shoot
KANSAS 66, COLORADO 61
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BY MATT ERICKSON merickson@kansan.com
Sherron Collins just kept shooting. That's what he does. It didn't matter that
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does. It didn't matter that shot after shot failed to go in, or that Collins, a junior guard, was 1-for-10 from behind the three-point line against Colorado on Saturday. The next shot was going in.
Collins is Kansas' Best Player. This is essentially an official title. This isn't something you need to deliberate; you don't make any head-to-head comparisons, pro- and con charts or anything like that. He's the team's Best Player. It's etched in stone somewhere.
Collins wasn't the best player against Colorado. That would be sophomore center Cole Aldrich, though you wouldn't know it from how rarely he got the ball in the second half when the game got close.
It just wasn't Collins' day. He shot 4-for-16. He rarely got into the lane against Colorado's zone defense. He looked tentative. At halftime, he had as many fouls (2) as he had points. Hed been scoring an average of 18.7 points per game before Saturday.
Collins said his shot felt fine, that the ball felt good when it left his hands every time.
"I just try to forget about it," Collins said. "Coach told me to just keep shooting, keep shooting. That's what I did, and it just wasn't falling."
So he kept shooting. That's what a team's Best Player does. He doesn't let silly things like a 25-percent shooting day get to his head.
Kansas coach Bill Self agreed Collins's shot looked fine.
But Collins reminded everyone that he's this team's Best Player. That's why, even after two straight uninspired efforts against mediocre opponents, fans can still feel good about this team as it heads into the tough stretch of its Big 12 schedule.
"That's what scorers are supposed to think — that there's probably something wrong with the ball," Self said. "I'm sure he'll think that the ball had too much air in it or something, which is the way they should think. The next one's going in."
It didn't change the fact that Collins had a bad game.
So though Collins wasn't his usual electrifying self on Saturday, he was the one who finally put the game out of reach at the end.
With about 30 seconds left in the game,4 seconds left on the shot clock,and Kansas ahead 62-59, Kansas called time-out. Self drew up a play that he said was designed to get the ball to Aldrich or Reed.
"It made me think the basket was opening up for me again," Collins said. "It had a lid on it at first."
After Colorado scored on its next possession, Collins got fouled and made both his free throws, and the game was over.
But Aldrich and Reed were covered, so Collins got open outside the three-point line. He got the ball and held on to every last sliver of those 4 seconds on the shot clock as he hit jeried his way to a few feet from the basket. He floated the ball above the Colorado defense, and it went in.
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Junior guard Sherron Collins attempts to steal the ball as Colorado's Dwight Thorne II drives for an open lane to the basket during the second half of Saturday's game in Allen Fieldhouse. Although Kansas was expected to easily overpower Colorado, the team struggled throughout the game, narrowly escaping with a 66-1 victory.
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Kansas climbs sluggishly to win
BY CASE KEEFER ckeefer@kansan.com
Kansas coach Bill Self has a theory about talented teams.
Self says teams with "really good players" — like the laywahows — can win games in two different ways. Preferably, they play great and cruise to victory. If not, they play poorly and are forced to make something happen late when it matters. There's not much in between.
For the second straight game.
Kansas used the second option. It resulted in a sluggish 66-61 victory against Colorado on Saturday in Allen Fieldhouse.
"Individually, we played terrible. It wasn't very good." Self said. "We're a lot better basketball team than we played today."
Self shared similar feelings after Wednesday's 68-62 victory against Nebraska. If Kansas (17-4, 6-0) doesn't play up to its potential again at 8 tonight against Baylor at the Ferrell Center, it could result in its first Big 12 Conference defeat.
Collins, who finished with 11 points on 4-for-16 shooting. missed seven of his first eight shots.
For now, the Jayhawks are happy they escaped the Buffalooes. Kansas extended the nation's longest home court winning streak to 36 despite an off-day from junior guard Sherron Collins.
"It was just one of those games."
Although Collins came into the game shooting 40 percent from three-point range, he missed nine of his 10 three-pointers Saturday.
Collins said. "My teammates carried me — especially Cole"
Sophomore center Cole Aldrich particularly carried the Jayhawch for the first 21 minutes. Aldrich, who wore a mask to protect the broken nose he sustained against Nebraska, scored 15 points with 10 rebounds one minute into the second half.
Aldrich appeared to be making up for Collins' rough start as the Jayhawks led 46-25. The Buffaloes
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SUPER BOWL
CU
Steelers defeat Cardinals with last-minute play
BY BARRY WILNER
Associated Press
TAMPA, Fla. — Their Steel Curtain shredded, Ben Roethlisberger and the Pittsburgh offense ended a Super Bowl of incredible swings with a final-minute touchdown for a historic victory.
Santonio Holmes made a brilliant 6-yard catch deep in the right corner of the end zone with 35 seconds remaining Sunday night, lifting the Steelers to a record-setting sixth Super Bowl win, 27-23 over the Arizona Cardinals.
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Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Santonio Holmes catches a touchdown pass as Arizona Cardinals safety Aaron Francisco and his teammate Ralph Brown watch during the fourth quarter of Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa, Fla.
"Scramble right, scramble left, find someone open," Roethlisberger said.
It was one of the most thrilling finishes to the NFL title game, certainly equaling last year's upset by the New York Giants that ended with Plaxico Burress' TD catch — with 35 seconds left, too.
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The Steelers (15-4), winning their second Super Bowl in four seasons, led 20-7 in the fourth quarter, only to see Kurt Warner and the Cardinals stage a remarkable rally to go in front 23-20 with 2:37 remaining.
But this one was even wilder.
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Fitzgerald could only watch from the sideline as Roethlisberger engineered a 78-yard drive to win it in what resembled Heinz Field South. With waves of twirling Terrible Towels turning Raymond James Stadium into a black-and-gold tableau — Steelers fans supporting their beloved team, the economy be damned — Pittsburgh's offense rescued the title.
Larry Fitzgerald in stride for a 64-yard touchdown with 2:37 left. Already owning a slew of post-season receiving marks this year, Fitzgerald sped down the middle of the field, watching himself outrun the Steelers on the huge video screen.
Warner hit All-Pro receiver
throw haymakers of their own.
Big Ben and Holmes struck the last blow, and when Warner fumbled in the final seconds, the Cardinals' dream of winning their first NFL crown since 1947 were gone.
Holmes was selected the game's MVP.
"I said it's now or never, I told the guys all the film study you put in doesn't matter unless you do it now." Roethlisberger said. "I'm really proud of the way they responded."
"Great players step up in big-time games to make plays," Holmes said. "I kind of lost a little composition, you know, but I knew our defense would give us a chance to make it back."
The stunning swings overshadowed Pittsburgh linebacker James Harrison's record 100-yard interception return for a touchdown to end the first half. That looked like the signature play until the final quarter, when both teams shook off apparent knockout punches to
The Cardinals (12-8), playing in their first Super Bowl and first championship game of any kind since 1948, lost their composure after Harrison's heroes. They had three penalties to keep Pittsburgh's 79-yard drive going, a 16-play match that ended with Jeff Reed's 21-vard field goal for a 20-7 lead
And they couldn't get Fitzgerald free until very late. But boy did he get free.
The All-Pro who already had set a postseason record for yards receiving and had five touchdowns in the playoffs was a nonentity until an 87-yard fourth-quarter drive he capped with a leaping 1-yard catch over Ike Taylor. He made four receptions on that series on which Warner hit all eight passes for all the yards.
It seemingly had when Roehlisberger's short run was ruled a TD. Whisenhunt challenged, and the score was over-
Pittsburgh looked like the offensive juggernaut to open the game, smoothly driving 71 yards in eight plays. But the 72nd yard that would have given the Steelers a touchdown never came.
passes — and one huge play.
Warner had enough time to shine the NFL Man of the Year trophy he received just before kickoff, then hit Anquan Boldin streaking from left to right. He was upended at the Pittsburgh 1, and Warner's lob to Ben Patrick got Arizona on the board. It was the tight end's first touchdown this season.
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"I knew it was a touchdown 100 percent. My feet never left the ground. All I did was stand up on my toes and extended my hands."
— Santonio Holmes about his last-minute touchdown catch in Super Bowl XIII IX
Arizona and Pittsburgh's 162 combined penalty yards were the second most in Super Bowl history. Only Dallas and Baltimore combined for more penalty yards with 164 in Super Bowl V.
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Q: In what state has Pittsburgh won half of its Super Bowls?
A: Florida. The Steelers lead the NFL with six Super Bowls and three of those came in the Sunshine State. They won Super Bowls X and XIII in Miami and Super Bowl XIII in Tampa.
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Kansas' second-half miscues and looks at another impressive, yet overlooked, performance by Danielle McCray.
Warner bags groceries and MVPs
COMMENTARY
Eggs on top. Cans on the bottom. Frozen foods all go together. Don't forget to double bag.
to double bag.
That was the play Kurt Warner ran over and over as a grocery bagger at Hy-Vee in my home-town of Cedar Falls, Iowa. Back then, the only audible he called was paper or plastic.
To truly appreciate where Warner is, you have to look at where he was. And that starts as a benchwarmer at the University of Northern Iowa.
That's right. The two-time NFL MVP couldn't even crack a Division I-AA lineup until his senior season, when three-year starter Jay Johnson finally graduated.
Former UNI coach Terry Allen watched Warner bide his time. Allen said he wouldn't have been surprised if Warner transferred or quit altogether. But every day the Burlington, Iowa, native came back and slung it all over the field.
Warner was the Gateway Conference Offensive Player of the Year in 1993. Then he graduated and moved to the back of the line again.
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"He represents perseverance," Allen said.
Booted by the Green Bay Packers, Warner came back to his college town and started working at Hy-Vee. He bagged groceries, stocked shelves and flashed a helpful smile in every aisle.
On a Sunday afternoon after church, before we went home to watch football, Warner bagged my mother's groceries.
Hopefully, I can still play some football. Warner said.
What are you going to do, my mom asked.
Five years later Warner was back in Cedar Falls to watch UNI play Central Washington. Trent Green's knee was still swollen and Warner had just started his first regular season game as a St. Louis Ram. The team was on a bye week.
After the game my mom and I went to talk to him on the field.
You've come a long way,my mom said.
Nine years, three Super Bowl appearances and two teams later. Warner still seems like a guy who expects to wake up from euphoria at any minute.
I'm living a dream, Warner said.
When you're post-collegiate years are spent stocking toilet paper, the Lombardi Trophy is more of a sick joke than a goal.
That's why he was still smiling Sunday night, even after watching San(An)tonio Holmes steal his second Super Bowl MVP in the waning seconds.
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MORNING
BREW
Don't misunderstand. He hurts just as I, and most of the state of Iowa, hurt for him. It's just that when you were never supposed to make it out of Iowa, it's a little easier to gain perspective on the whole thing.
Warner said he may retire. And without a second Super Bowl title, he may not get inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
No matter. He still the greatest I-1 AA quarterback turned grocery worker turned Super Bowl MVP who ever lived.
And if he needs a job, the Cedar Falls Hy-Vee is always accepting applications.
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BASKETBALL Leo Lyons back in lineup, scores career high of 30
COLUMBIA, Mo. — After one game in street clothes and four games coming off the bench, Leo Lvons got another chance.
Even after Lyons responded with a career-high 30 points against Baylor, Missouri coach Mike Anderson suspects he'll be tested again by the 6-foot-9 senior.
"It used to be if a coach told you to run through a brick wall, they would do it," Anderson said. "Now, kids question everything and that's how it is."
"Sometimes you have to be
a psychologist, the dad, the coach, the teacher, and the guys who do that the best, kids will respond to."
Lyons topped his previous best by three points in the 89-72 victory Saturday and gave Missouri (18-4, 5-2 Big 12) its first 30-point game since Thomas Gardner scored 30 against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Dec. 10, 2005. He hit his first eight shots, went 14-for-15 from the free throw line and became the school's 38th 1,000-point scorer
Missouri won its first four games after Lyons was suspended for failing to pay a traffic ticket, an oversight discovered when he was stopped for driving with his lights off at night. Lyons
said he's been trying to win back his spot in practice, and a deflating loss at Kansas State on Wednesday gave Anderson a reason to shake up the lineup.
"Ive got to work hard every day and I've just been trying to make an effort to work hard and be a better leader," Lyons said. "I guess he knows that and he gave me another chance."
SUPER BOWL Soldiers cheer on teams mid-morning in Iraq
CAMP VICTORY, Iraq — With its six big-screen TVs, assorted beer and a menu of chicken wings and pizza, it looked like any bar hosting a Super Bowl
party. But this was the chow hall at Camp Victory, the sprawling U.S. military base on the outskirts of Baghdad.
The kickoff was at 2 a.m. Monday, but that didn't stop some 660 raucous soldiers from cramming into the dining hall to watch the Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Arizona Cardinals 27-23. Cardinal fans sat on one side while Steelers fans congregated on the other, many swinging their yellow "Terrible Towels."
"It was definitely a nice break to give people something to look forward to," said Capt. Brooke Rhode, 28, from Hustisford, Wisc.
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BY JOHN PYE Associated Press
Federer in tears after Australian Open loss
MELBOURNE. Australia — Roger Federer had nowhere to hide.
Rod Laver was about to present the cup to Australian Open champion Rafael Nadal, Federer stood on the court, having just missed his first chance to equal Pete Sempra's record 14 Grand
Slam singles titles.
He was sobbing. He couldn't speak.
"In the first moment you're disappointed, you're shocked, you're sad, then all of a sudden it overwhelms you." Federer finally said, referring to his 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (3), 3-6, 6-2 loss to Nadal in a momentum-swinging, 4-hour, 22-minute title match Sunday night.
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Nadal, the first Spanish man to win the Australian Open, beat Federer in Grand Slam finals on clay and grass last year. He added the missing link Sunday with his first major title on hard courts.
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Even this time, he had to struggle to make the last weekend. He held off a fellow Spanish left-hander in Fernando Verdasco on Friday in 5 hours, 14 minutes — the longest match in the tournament's history.
Federer went into the final on straight sets wins over No. 8 Juan Martin del Potro and No. 7 Andy Roddick after having to rally from two sets down to beat Tomas Berdych in the fourth round.
Nadal ranked this title high on his list of six majors.
"Very special, for me," he said. "A dream win here, one Grand Slam on hard court. I worked very hard ... all my life" to improve "outside of clay. Today was really lot of emotions on court. I was there with the best player I ever saw."
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| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Brady Morningstar | 3-7 | 2-6 | 4 | 0 | 10 |
| Tyshawn Taylor | 1-4 | 0-1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Marcus Morris | 1-2 | 0-0 | 7 | 2 | 6 |
| Sherron Collins | 4-16 | 1-10 | 1 | 4 | 11 |
| Cole Aldrich | 5-10 | 0-0 | 13 | 1 | 15 |
| Quintrell Thomas | 0-1 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Tyrel Reed | 2-4 | 2-3 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| Markleff Morris | 4-5 | 0-0 | 4 | 3 | 10 |
| Mario Little | 1-2 | 0-1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Travis Releford | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Team | | | 1 | | |
| Total | 21-51 | 5-21 | 37 | 13 | 66 |
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Jermyl Jackson-Wilson 6-9 0-0 5 1 12
Austin Dufault 2-5 1-3 4 0 7
Nate Tomlinson 3-4 1-2 0 2 7
Cory Higgins 6-16 0-3 5 5 15
Dwight Thorne II 6-9 3-4 2 2 18
Javon Coney 0-1 0-1 0 0 0
Levi Knutson 1-3 0-1 3 0 2
Casey Crawford 0-3 0-2 0 0 0
Trey Eckloff 0-1 0-1 4 0 0
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11/11 vs. Emporia State (Ex.) W, 103-58
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11/18 vs. Florida Gulf Coast W, 85-45
11/24 vs. Washington (in Kansas City, Mo.) W, 73-54
11/25 Syracuse (in Kansas City, Mo.) L, 89-81 (OT)
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12/1 vs. Kent State W, 87-60
12/3 vs. New Mexico State W, 100-79
12/6 vs. Jackson State W, 86-62
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12/23 at Arizona L, 84-67
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1/03 vs. Tennessee W, 92-85
1/6 vs. Siena W, 91-84
1/10 at Michigan State L, 75-62
1/13 vs. Kansas State W, 87-71
1/17 at Colorado W, 73-56
1/19 vs. Texas A&M W, 73-53
1/24 at Iowa State W, 82-67
1/28 at Nebraska W, 68-62
1/31 vs. Colorado W, 66-61
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2/7 vs. Oklahoma State 2:30 p.m.
2/9 at Missouri 8 p.m.
2/14 at Kansas State 2:30 p.m.
2/18 vs. Iowa State 7 p.m.
2/21 vs. Nebraska 3 p.m.
2/23 at Oklahoma 8 p.m.
3/1 vs. Missouri 1 p.m.
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look destined to suffer their 26th straight loss at Allen Fieldhouse.
"I wouldn't say it was in the bag," Aldrich said. "But it was kind of on the brink."
Until Aldrich disappeared. He didn't score for the rest of the game and only grabbed three more rebounds to finish with 15 points and 13 rebounds.
Meanwhile, Colorado out-scored Kansas 27-8 over the next 13 minutes. The Buffaloates cut the score to 54-52 when forward leremy] Jackon-Wilson scored over Aldrich.
Self said although Aldrich played poor defense in the second half, it was the guards' fault for not getting him the ball in the post.
"We forgot who the best player in the game was for us," Self said. "That's frustrating because Cole should have gotten touches, if not every possession, then every other possession."
Without Aldrich dominating in the second half, the freshman forward Morris twins filled in to help Kansas to its 39th victory in its last 40 tries against Colorado. Marcus Morris made two free throws in the middle of a 8-0 run that made the score 62-52.
Markieff Morris made four baskets, all of which came on putbacks. Together, Marcus and Markieff combined for 16 points, 11 rebounds and five assists. Their statistics are added together because that's how they like it. That's what they're used to.
"Coach even puts us together Markieff said. "And he says, 'You need this many rebounds or that many points a game'"
Colorado put together one last lunge for an upset. Buffalo guard Nate Tomlinson made a contested three-pointer from the corner with less than a minute remaining to make the score 62-59.
Self's hypothesis, one of a talent ed team slipping by with key plays comes in here. Collins maneuvered his way from the top of the key to the basket with 24 seconds remain
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"I was able to get past the first guy," Collins said. "At least that was one of my shots that I knew was going."
Collins shook his head and called the performance "nonchalant" after the game. But sometimes, that's how talented teams win.
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The one-game-at-a-time mentality in Kansas' locker room means that the next opponent rarely comes up in a postgame press conference. That time is normally reserved for reflection on the game that was, not for forecasting the game that will be.
"We've got to get off our feet and get some rest," junior guard Sherron Collins said. "Baylor is very good. It's going to take a lot of effort from everybody."
However, on Saturday, Kansas coach Bill Self and players addressed the media after an ugly victory knowing that there was just a little more than 48 hours until their next game.
Kansas and Baylor are scheduled to tip off at 8 p.m. in Waco on ESPN's Big Monday.
It's the layhawk's second Big Monday match-up. While the first one, a 73-53 drubbing of Texas A&M, turned out to be more of a normal Monday, tonight is loaded with big game potential.
The Bears score 81,7 points per game — third most in the league — and five players average at least 10 points per game.
Coach Scott Drew can't fix that with one game, but a win over 6-0 Kansas would do wonders for his team's confidence.
That's because it's desperation time in Waco. The Bears are on a three-game skid and a team with preseason hopes of a conference title now rests in the middle at 3-4.
Self knows that his team hasn't played well in the last two games, especially giving up a 21-point lead on Saturday. That's why he's glad there no time for his team to dwell on the negatives before getting back on the court.
"I'm glad it's a quick turnaround," Self said. "We're going to
have to play better against Baylor and I think we'll be excited to play on Big Monday against a really talented team."
"They can score from all five spots and they've got a guy off the bench who's probably about as good a scorer as anybody in our league." Self said.
That's LaceDarius Dunn, who's good enough to start anywhere,
Like the layhawks, Dunn and the Bears played on Saturday. But it's a different scenario when you're going home on short rest as opposed to traveling into hostile territory.
but provides a huge spark off Baylor's bench.
In order to get ready, freshman forward Markieff Morris said he would try to pretend he's playing club basketball again.
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"It's just like AAU," Morris said. "In AAA you play four games in one day, so just look at it like that."
Four Big 12 games in one day would be a daunting task, but two in less than 72 hours with significant travel time isn't easy, either.
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One is that Kansas will have to make a quick turnaround on the road twice more, including next week's Big Monday in Columbia, Mo., and a final Monday night showcase in Norman, Okla., on Feb. 23. Those trips will be routine once the lajawhacks do it once.
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Also, as Self said, limited prep time means there's not time to dwell on bad performances. Collins, who shot 1-for-10 behind the three-point line, couldn't agree more.
"I'm looking forward to making this quick turnaround so I can get back on track," Collins said. "I'm ready to get this out of the way."
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IT WAS OVER WHEN ...
Colorado point guard Nate Tomlinson fell over trying to guard Sherron Collins with 24 seconds remaining. After Collins beat Tomlinson, there was little doubt he would finish with a basket to finally finish off the Buffaloes. That's just what Collins did after eluding a couple more Buffaloes. He tossed the ball in with his right hand to make the score 64-59 and Allen Fieldhouse erupted.
GAME TO REMEMBER ...
Freshman forward Markieff Morris
Well, maybe. If Markieff builds off his solid performance against the Buffaloes, he could look back on it as the turning point of his season. If not, it will be remembered as a decent performance. Markieff, however, did look motivated Saturday. He had 10 points, four rebounds, three assists and two blocks. Fouling continues to be an issue as Markieff recorded three in 12 minutes of playing time.
Morris
GAMETO FORGET ...
Junior guard Sherron Collins
SINGHALA W.
Collins
Collins seemed off the entire game. If he ever shoots 4-for-16 from the field again this season, it's likely the Jayhawks will lose. The defensive letdown in the second half also started with him and Self said he was disappointed with his effort on that end of the floor, Good news is Collins is experienced enough to not let one bad game get him down. By now, it's a distant memory.
STAT OF THE NIGHT ...
65 percent. That's Colorado's field goal percentage in the second half. Self said it was the worst defensive effort he could ever remember from one of his Kansas teams in the second half. That statistic does nothing but support Self's claim.
PRIME PLAYS
Case Keefer
FIRST HALF
— this time driving for an easy layup. That would be Collins' only make of the first half, though, and he went on to have one of his worst games of the season.
19:43 — For the second straight game, Sherron Collins scored within the first 20 seconds
6:17 — Colorado's Cory Higgins couldn't do anything against Brady Morningstar. As soon as Tyrel Reed stepped in to guard him, Higgins hit back-to-back buckets. Coach Bill Self called a timeout and used most of it to yell at Reed.
4:08 — The first half was still tight until Morningstar hit a jumper to put Kansas up 10. That triggered a 10-2 Kansas run to close out the half.
0:07 — Morningstar blocked Higgins, gathered the rebound then hit a three-pointer to put Kansas up 16 at halftime.
SECOND HALF
18:13 — Nate Tomlinson drove the lane and banked a high layup over Cole Aldrich. It was Tomlinson's first field goal in 52 minutes against Kansas this season.
6:08 — Underneath Colorado's basket, Mario Little leapt out-of-bounds to save a loose ball. However, the Buffers' Jermyl Jackson-Wilson corralled the save and layed it in to cut the Jayhawks' lead to 54-52.
4:39 — What Tyrel Reed is to clutch shots, Morningstar is to hustle. A loose ball was headed out-of-bounds until Morningstar snatched it and tossed it to Collins. Morningstar ended up on top of press row while the play resulted in a pair of Marcus Morris free throws.
0:22 — With four seconds on the shot clock and the game hanging in the balance, Collins juked his way to the lane and beat the buzzer with a floater to push Kansas' lead to 64-59.
— Taylor Bern
GAME NOTES
FOOTBALL FLAVORED
Sure, it was a basketball game but the Kansas football team also stole some of the attention.
The Jayhawks were recognized and presented with the Insight Bowl trophy at halftime of the game. A number of players walked to center court led by junior quarterback Todd Reesing, senior linebacker Joe Mortensen and senior linebacker Mike Rivera. Coach Mark Mangino then addressed the crowd.
Watching from the stands was Shane Gordon, a three-star linebacker recruit from Weston, Fla. According to Rivals.com, Gordon already gave a soft commitment to Pittsburgh but was on an official visit to Kansas before Tuesday's signing day.
STREAK CONTINUED
Junior guard Sherrron Collins has now made 29 straight free throws after sinking two at the end of the game.
It is the third longest streak in Kansas history — trailing only Wayne Simien's 34 in 2004-2005 and Calvin Thompson's 33 in
It's becoming increasingly difficult for Collins to not pay attention to it as teammates have begun to marvel at his efficiency from the line.
SELF, BZDELIK SUPPORT COACHES VS. CANCER
1984. A reporter kept asking Collins about the streak after the game, but Collins has said he doesn't want to discuss it.
"I don't even know how many I need," Collins said. "I think about it, but I don't even really count it."
Kansas coach Bill Self and Colorado coach Jeff Bzdelik didn't purposefully dress like slobs Saturday.
Self and Bzdelik both wore tennis shoes with their normal game attire to support the American Cancer Society's Coaches vs. Cancer campaign. Saturday was the annual "Suits and Sneakers" event where coaches around the country unite by wearing tennis shoes to raise cancer awareness.
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TRACK & FIELD
ansas falls to Nebraska despite strong performances
BY JASON BAKER
jbaker@kansan.com
Saturday was the return of the Kansas track and field team on the indoor track after taking a week off for training. The Jayhawks expected to bounce back at the Adidas Classic in Lincoln, Neb.
Instead, the women's team took second behind Nebraska with 138.22 points, while the men's team took fourth with 60 points. However, the weekend was highlighted by several impressive performances by the team.
Coach Stanley Redwine said this meet, compared with the Missouri meet, was much better.
"The team got their legs under them a little bit more and competed better." Redwine said.
On the track, senior Victoria Howard took first place in the 200-meter with a time of 24.27 seconds and second in the 60-meter with 7.69 seconds. Howard said getting second in the 60-meter was a breakthrough because in previous years, she hadn't had much success.
Senior Charity Stowers received a victory in the 600-yard dash with a time of 1:22.96. Stowers said she was more determined to have a better performance for the Jayhawks after the defeat by Missouri.
"That meet was a little disappointing to see Mizzou come out on top," she said. "We came out at the practices after that with a different mindset. That it's time to get it done."
said he felt there was room for improvement and for more focus in order to earn a qualifying time for the indoor championships.
For the men, freshman Keith Hayes took fourth in the 60-meter with a time of 8.07 seconds. Hayes
In the men's 3,000 meters, senior Colby Wissel ran with a time of 8:08 to take second place.
"It was disappointing, but I know that I'm taking the steps in the right direction," Wissel said about his performance.
In the women's 5,000 meters, freshman Rebeka Stowe took second place with a time of 18:38.81.
"Running a 5K indoors is tough, 25 laps on a track can be mentally tough, especially when there's not many people," she said.
The highlight on the track came during the women's 4X400, when the team of seniors Sha'Ray Butler, Stowers, sophomore Kendra Bradley
"I feel really honored to run with them and know that they have so much experience." Wilson said.
and freshman Shayla Wilson, received a victory with a time of 3:49.78.
On the field, junior Jordan Scott repeated his performance from the Kansas home meet with a jump of 5.50 meters.
In the long jump, senior Eric Fattig took second place with his best jump of 7.22 meters. Despite a solid performance, Fattig fouled on three straight jumps.
"I still have technical problems that I need to work on," he said. "If I fix that then I'll be happy."
The team will travel next weekend to compete in the New Balance Invitational in New York City.
Edited by Jesse Trimble
Men: 4th,60 points High jump
notable performances
600-vard dash
Shot put
4. Keron Toussaint 1:12.19
8. Nate Scherzer 1.95 meters
8. Brian Bishop 14.84 meters
800-meter run
7. Bret Imgrind 1:58.05
10. Kaleb Humphreys 2:03.77
4. Danny Van Orsdel 15:28. 81
6. Isaiah Shirlen 15:43.47
5,000 meters
Women: 2nd, 138.22 points Shotput
Weight throw
2. Stephanie Horton 14.44 meters
7. Emily Reimer 13.32 meters
Weight throw
1. ZlataTarasova 17.60 meters
Highjump
5. Elizabeth Beisner 1.66 meters
6. Kelsey Erb 1.61 meters
Polevault
6. MacKenzie Wills 3.55 meters
4X400 relay
1. Kansas 3:49.78
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Kansas' turnovers lead to A&M victory
BY JAYSON JENKS
jjenks@kansan.com
The losses are wearing on the layhawks.
Kansas has lost four games in a row and five of its last six. Junior forward Danielle McCray is fed up. The Jayhawks have lost games in which they were expected to lose and games they should have won. They've lost because of poor shooting and they've lost because of turnovers.
But McGray said all the losses — including Saturday's 73-60 defeat at Texas A&M — share one trend. In all the games, the Jayhawks have beaten themselves.
After missing two and a half games with a Grade 2 concussion, junior guard Sade Morris started on Saturday against Texas A&M. Morris played 40 minutes and scored 11 points against the Aggies, but she also committed seven turnovers.
"You can find some positives but when you lose because of yourself you can't take anything positive from that," McCray said. "I mean, I don't know. Right now, at this point in time, you can't look at the positives. You just have to find a way to win."
Kansas coach Bonnie Henrickson noticed a big difference with her second-leading scorer back in the lineup.
"She just penetrates and creates," Henrickson said. "We just play differently than when we don't have her in."
Saturday's game at No. 7 Texas A&M is the most recent example of Kansas' miscues costing the it a victory. On the road, against a top 10 team expected to compete for the Big 12 title, the layhawks controlled nearly every facet of the game for 32 minutes.
Kansas led 35-29 at halftime and perfectly pieced together Henrickson's gameplan. For 32
minutes, the Jayhawks played better defense, shot the ball at a higher percentage and out-rebounded the Aggies.
"They turned it up at the 10-minute mark," Henrickson said. "And when they did, we didn't have the toughness to handle the pressure."
The flaw that has most haunted Kansas, and the one that the Jayhawks said couldn't persist if they were to compete in the Big 12, returned on Saturday.
Perhaps as much as any game this season, turnovers played a role, if not the role, in Kansas' loss. A week after committing a seasonlow 10 turnovers against Kansas State, Kansas had 26 miscues — the second highest total this season — against Texas &M.
"It was like the whole play in the first half kind of went down the drain," McCray said. "We were playing so well and then all the turnovers ... we didn't give ourselves a chance."
In the first half, both teams turned the ball over at a rather high rate; Kansas had 12 turnovers before halftime; Texas A&M had eight. In the second half, though, the Aggies' ball handling sharpened while the Jayhawks seemed to get sloppier.
That Kansas committed 14 turnovers in the second half is bad. That those turnovers allowed Texas A&M to crawl back into the game is worse. Three Kansas turnovers late in the second half fueled a decisive 11-0 run by Texas A&M.
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"They turned up the heat," Henrickson said, "and we didn't respond."
There's little doubt that Kansas played better than Texas A&M for the majority of the game. But, down the stretch, the Jayhawks carelessness with the ball halted any chance at sneaking away with a victory.
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On a night when Kansas made 56 percent of its attempts, the Aggies managed 17 more second-half shots than the Jayhawks — a stat that clearly reflects the impact of Kansas' turnovers.
"Sometimes you just can't control certain things," McCray said. "But we can control these things. It's just very frustrating. If we were just to focus a little more, we could control it."
Edited by Realle Roth
PGA
PGA Perry defeats Hoffman in 13th PGA tour win
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Kenny Perry finally finished off Charley Hoffman in a playoff, making a 22-foot birdie putt on the third extra hole Sunday in the FBR Open.
After Perry bogeyed the final hole of regulation to set up the playoff, the two bogeyed and parred the first two extra holes. Perry then rolled in the long putt on the 332-yard, par-4 17th to end the second straight playoff in the event.
Perry closed with a 2-under 69 to match Hoffman (67) at 14-under 270 at TPC Scottsdale. It was the 13th PGA Tour victory for Perry, the 48-year-old Kentucky player who won three times last year and played on the winning U.S. Ryder Cup team.
Kevin Na (68) finished third at 13 under.
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Mangino presents awards
Players receive 15 awards from coaches for their performance in the weight room, classroom, community and on the playing field
BY STEPHEN MONTEMAYOR
smontemayor@kansan.com
As he sent off his latest senior class at Saturday's award ceremony, coach Mark Mangino made no mistake about his expectations for a program that has continually progressed.
("The seniors) left their mark and I wish those young guys the best as they take on life's challenges now," Mangino said. "For the other classmen we have much work to do but I'm excited about it. I'm looking forward to winning a championship."
"If you sum it all up, it seems to me the season finished with a great sense of pride and a great sense of respect for what the Jayhawk team has achieved." Hemenway said. "And that's what I want to thank you for, the fantastic season you had and the chance for the rest of
In all, 15 awards were doled out in the ceremony hosted at the Lied Center. Interspersed with the presentations were brief addresses by Mangino, Athletics Director Lew Perkins and — for a final time — Chancellor Robert Hemenay.
The Kansas soccer team handed out its annual awards on Sunday morning at Allen Fieldhouse in front of friends and family. The awards were voted on by the team.
The junior class collected three of the five individual awards, and the Jayhawks' six seniors were recognized for their career accomplishments.
Kansan staff report
soccer awards
us to take pride in what you do."
Junior midfielder Monica Dolinsky was named Offensive MVP following a season in which she scored nine goals to go along with 10 assists. Junior defender Estelle Johnson was named Kansas' Defensive MVP and junior forward Shannon McCabe was awarded Most Improved Player. Freshman forward Kortney Clifton was named Rookie of the Year as well.
Junior safety Darrell Stuckey led recipients with three awards: Outstanding Performance in the Weight Room, Special Teams MVP and
the nolan Cromwell Award for Leadership , which he shared with junior quarterback Todd Reesing.
Reesing and Stuckey were not the only pair to share an award. Reesing's favorite targets, wide receivers junior Kerry Meier and sophomore Dezmon Briscoe, shared the award for Most Improved Offensive Player and Meier and junior running back Jake Sharp were named Co-Most Courageous Player.
Kansas' senior linebacker corps was commemorated a final time with Mike Rivera taking home the award for Exemplary Service to Campus & Community. Meanwhile, James Holt was named
"I'm so proud of our football team and our coaches and what they've done..."
LEW PERKINS
Athletics director
Defensive MVP and earned the award for Most Tackles for the Season. However, he was not on hand to receive his award as he competed earlier that day in the Texas vs. The Nation All-Star Game.
Other recipients
senior offensive lineman Adrian Mayes for Offensive Lineman of the Year and senior defensive end Russell Brorsen for Senior Academic Scholar Award.
"I'm so proud of our football team and our coaches and what they've done, but more important to me as athletics director is the quality of young men we have at our program." Perkins said. "They represent our University with the highest integrity."
during the night included sophomore defensive end Jake Laptad for Most Improved Defensive Player.
It was a night for celebration — the audience erupted when Reeing connected with Meier on the highlight video as if they were back at Arrowhead Stadium — yet it was also a time for Kansas to give credit where it was due in 2008 and assess the year ahead.
"Players know it's no fun talking about the ones you lost," Mangino said. "What we do is we'll watch videotape, learn in the winter and spring and we'll be better because of it."
Edited by Realle Roth
Phelps sorry for behavior
OLYMPICS
Photo in newspaper shows Olympic athlete smoking from pipe at a house party; some sponsors may reconsider financial deals
BY PAUL NEWBERRY
Associated Press
Olympic great Michael Phelps acknowledged "regrettable" behavior and "bad judgment" after a photo in a British newspaper Sunday showed him inhaling from a marijuana pipe.
In a statement to The Associated Press, the swimmer who won a record eight gold medals at the Beijing Games did not dispute the authenticity of the exclusive picture published Sunday by the tabloid News of the World.
"I engaged in behavior which was regrettable and demonstrated bad judgment." Phelps said in the statement released by one of his agents. "I'm 23 years old and despite the successes I've had in the pool, I acted in a youthful and inappropriate way, not in a manner people have come to expect from me. For this, I am sorry I promise my fans and the public it will not happen again."
News of the World said the picture was taken during a November house - party while Phelps was visiting the University of South Carolina. During that trip, he attended one of the schools football games and received a big ovation when introduced.
While the newspaper did not specifically allege that Phelps was smoking pot, it did say the pipe is generally used for that purpose and arnomously quoted a party-goer who said the Olympic champion was "out of control from the moment he got there."
The party occurred nearly three months after the Olympics while Phelps was taking a long break from training, and his actions should have no impact on the eight golds he won at Beijing. He has never tested positive for
banned substances. The case is unlikely to fall under any doping rules.
Phelps' main sanctions most likely will be financial — perhaps doled out by embarrassed sponsors who might be reconsidering their dealings with the swimmer.
Phelps was in Tampa, Fla., during Super Bowl week to make promotional appearances for a sponsor. But he left the city before Sunday's game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals, abandoning his original plan to be at Raymond James Stadium.
The U.S. Olympic Committee said it was "disappointed in the behavior recently exhibited by Michael Phelps," who was selected the group's sportsman of the year. He also was honored as AP male athlete of the year, and his feat in Beijing — breaking Mark Spitz's 36-year-old record for most gold medals in an Olympics — was chosen as the top sports story of 2008.
"Michael is a role model, and he is well aware of the responsibilities and accountability that come with setting a positive example for others, particularly young people," the USOC said in a statement. "In this instance, regrettably, he failed to fulfill those responsibilities."
USA Swimmingsaid its Olympic champions were "looked up to by people of all ages, especially young athletes who have their own aspirations and dreams"
"That said," the governing body added, "we realize that none among us is perfect. We hope that Michael can learn from this incident and move forward in a positive way."
Phelps was part of a group of elite athletes who agreed to take part in a pilot testing program
designed to increase the accuracy of doping tests. His spot in the program could be at risk, said Travis Tygart, head of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.
"For one of the Olympics' biggest heroes it's disappointing, and we'll evaluate whether he remains in that program," Tygart said. "But some good education comes from this because he's going to suffer some penalties."
Marijuana is viewed differently from performance-enhancing drugs, according to David Howman, executive director of the World Anti-Doping Agency. An athlete is subject to WADA sanctions only for a positive test during competition periods.
Phelps returned to the pool a couple of weeks ago. He plans to take part in his first post-Olympics meet in early March, a Grand Prix event in Austin, Texas.
This isn't the first embarrassing episode for Phelps after an Olympic triumph. In 2004, a few months removed from winning six gold and two bronze medals in Athens, the swimmer was arrested on a drunken driving charge at age 19. He pleaded guilty and apologized for the mistake.
In his book "No Limits: The Will to Succeed," Phelps recounted how his first phone call was to his agent, and not his mother or coach Bob Bowman, because he knew they would yell at him.
Later, he called Bowman, who was supportive but told him, "Michael, just because you want to blow off some steam doesn't mean you can be an idiot."
Debbie Phelps, his mother,
cried at the news.
"That hurt worse, maybe, than anything," Phelps wrote. "I had never seen my mother that upset."
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ATAGLANCE
For the fifth time in school history, Kansas has started Big 12 Conference play with six consecutive victories. But some would question the validity of the achievement because of the teams the Jayhawks have played. Texas A&M is the only team not at the bottom half of the standings that Kansas has beaten. Last week, Kansas struggled with Colorado and Nebraska — teams with a combined Big 12 record of 4-9. If Kansas can beat Baylor at the Ferrell Center, all concerns will disappear. Although the Bears are 3-4 in conference, they are still considered to be one of the most talented teams in the Big 12.
The game in Waco could prove Self clairvoyant if Little breaks out. Up to this point, it's clear Little isn't quite 100 percent. He played only
A few weeks ago, Kansas coach Bill Self said Little would be fully healthy and playing his best on Feb. 1. Well, that was yesterday.
PLAYER TO WATCH
Junior guard Mario Little
11 minutes in the victory against Colorado Saturday after logging a career-high 30 against Nebraska. He'll be valuable to the Jayhawks in this game against the guard-heavy Bears.
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PERFECT ROAD TRIP?
QUESTION MARK
What's wrong with Tyshawn Taylor?
Kansas looks to go 7-0 in Big 12 play
Since scoring 20 points to open Big 12 play against Kansas State, Taylor has been largely ineffective. In the last two games, he's scored only a combined 10 points with seven turnovers. Kansas will lose if Taylor can't turn it around in Waco. He needs to be the Jayhawks' third scoring option and careful with the ball. It's a heavy burden for a freshman to have to bear. But it's one he'll have to carry.
HEAR YE, HEAR YE
"We haven't played our best the last two games, but we won. I don't remember a team that we've had here that's played great every game. But certainly, we're going to have to play better against Baylor. We'll be excited to play on Big Monday against a really talented team."
KANSAS VS. BAYLOR 8 p.m., FERRELL CENTER, Waco, Texas, ESPN
COUNTDOWN TO TIP-OFF GAME DAY
"It is going to be really tough. They are really talented and it's an away game for us. It's going to be really tough."
— Kansas coach Bill Self
Sophomore center Cole Aldrich
JOHN WAYNE
Collins
KANSAS (16-4) STARTERS
Sherron Collins, 5-foot-11 junior guard Collins went 4-for-16 from the field against Colorado, but even a disastrous performance can't knock him down from a top rating.
★★★★★
A. K. Mwangi
Taylor
Tyshawn Taylor, 6-foot-3 freshman guard
Taylor might be the key to this game because he'll be matched up with one of Baylor's explosive guards all night. In other words, he needs to play better than he has lately.
V. V. Kulikova
★★★☆☆
Morningstar
Brady Morningstar, 6-foot-3 sophomore guard
Morningstar has served as arguably as the Jayhawks' most valuable player in the last two first halves. Time for him to put together a complete game.
★★★☆☆
Morris
Marcus Morris, 6-foot-8 freshman forward
If Mario Little is ready for a full night's work, look for Marcus' minutes to be limited. His strengths don't match up as well with Baylor's small, quick lineup.
Jerrells
★★☆☆
4111
Aldrich
Cole Aldrich,6-foot-11 sophomore center
last three games. Maybe tonight they actually will.
Self has practically begged his guards to not forget about Aldrich and told them to keep passing the ball into the post the
Mario Little, 6-foot-5 junior guard
★★★★
number of opportunities for pull-up midrange jumpers in transition. That's what he's best at.
Little
Little should get a number of opportuni-
la
M. ELIZA KARIMO
SIXTH MAN
Dugat
PETER WILLIAMS
BAYLOR
Case Keefer
★★★☆☆
(9-10) STARTERS
Curtis Jerrells, 6-foot-1 senior guard Jerrells is a point guard with a 37-inch vertical leap who averages 16.8 points per game. That creates more than a few match-up problems for opposing guards.
★★★★
Carter
Henry Dugat, 6-foot-0 senior guard
Dugat (pronounced DOO-got) is a well-rounded scorer who excels off the dribble. Dugat also uses his athleticism on defense, leading the Bears with 41 steals.
★★★☆★
★★★☆☆
Tweety Carter, 5-foot-11 junior guard
Carter rivals Nebraska's Cookie Miller for best name in the Big 12. Though his real name is Demond, he goes by Tweety because that's what his grandmother called him after hearing his chirp-like cries as a baby.
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An inexperienced player on this senior-laden team, Acy is the only starter who averages fewer than 10 points per game. His career goal is to start a business, but first he may want to start making shots.
Acy
★★★☆★★
Kevin Rogers, 6-foot-9 senior forward
This teammates say that Rogers is one of college basketball. That's great, but Rogers all-around game ensures that he won't just be known for his slam.
★★★★
I
FREDERICK SMITH
SIXTH MAN
LaceDarius Dunn, 6-foot-4 sophomore guard
Rogers
KANSAS
12
Dunn averages 16.7 points per game and he's arguably the best sixth man in the conference. Out of high school he was rated No.24 overall by Scout.com. The Baylor athletics Web site says: that's his "highest rated Baylor
nigrite in memory,which could mean in history or significantly less if you have amnesia.
Brady Morningstar
BENNETT MAYE
★★★☆
Dunn
— Taylor Bern
BU
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AT A GLANCE
Last year the Bears were an underdog and they could sneak up on teams for surprising victories. This time around there were expectations and Baylor has failed to live up to those lately. An 11-point loss at Texas A&M on Jan. 14 could have been no more than a fluke. But now Baylor is in the midst of a three-game slide and it's 3-4 in Big 12 play. Think coach Scott Drew would like to be an underdog again?
PLAYER TO WATCH
Senior forward Kevin Rogers
If you haven't seen Rogers play, imagine a flashier version of Darrell Arthur. They both played at South Oak Cliff High School in Dallas and they're a similar size. The biggest difference is Rogers' efficiency. The 6-foot-9, 250-pound senior hits 53 percent of his shots.
Rogers
Against Missouri, he scored 18 points on 7-of-13 shooting. Even more impressive is that Rogers is averaging a double-double in conference play.
QUESTION MARK
Can Baylor play for 40 minutes?
The answer since Jan. 24 has been no. Against Oklahoma, Baylor never had a chance as it trailed 58-31 at halftime. In their last two losses the Bears suffered little lapses that prevented victory. Baylor suffered through two disastrous second-half droughts in a 78-72 loss to Texas while the first four minutes of the second half turned a close game into an 89-72 loss at Missouri. Baylor just needs to get out of its own way and play well for an entire game instead of 20 or 30 minutes.
HEARYE, HEARYE
"That was an uncharacteristic game for Curtis (Jerrells), but I'm confident that he'll bounce back and play well."
— Baylor coach Scott Drew to the Waco Tribune Herald. Jerrells hit 2-of-10 from the field and committed nine turnovers.
"We'd like to go back and redo the last five minutes. But other than that, I thought Missouri played a very hard-fought game."
— Drew to the Waco Tribune Herald
BIG 12 SCHEDULE
Game
Time (CT) Channel
Time Time (CT) Channel
Tuesday
Iowa State vs. Kansas State 7 p.m. FSN
Wednesday
Texas A&M vs. Oklahoma 8 p.m. Big 12 Network
Texas Tech vs. Oklahoma State 8 p.m. ESPNU
Nebraska vs. Colorado 8:30 p.m. FSN
Missouri vs. Texas 8:30 p.m. ESPN2
BIG 12 CONFERENCE
FERRELL CENTER WILL BE SILENT IF ...
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
Kansas opens the game with a prolonged run. It's simple, but time-tested and the best way to minimize a raucous crowd's effect. Against Baylor, the key to being able to do that will be high-energy defending and limiting fastbreak opportunities. That's how the Bears thrive and the environment will be calling for it tonight.
PHOG ALLEN WILL ROLL OVER IN HIS GRAVE IF ...
Baylor makes 10 more three-pointers than Kansas. Laugh now, but it wouldn't be that much of a surprise. Kansas failed to make a three-pointer in last year's game against Baylor, while the Bears made 12. It kept the game close until the end. Baylor averages nearly nine three-pointers per game this year and relies on the shot in tough games. Kansas, meanwhile, struggled behind the three-point line in the last game and went for 5-for-21.
Prediction:
BAYLOR 85, KANSAS 82
Date Opponent TV Time
Feb. 7 OKLAHOMA STATE ABC 2:30 p.m.
Feb. 9 at Missouri ESPN 8 p.m.
Feb. 14 at Kansas State ABC 2:30 p.m.
Feb. 18 IOWA STATE Big 12 Network 7 p.m.
Feb. 21 NEBRASKA Big 12 Network 3 p.m.
Feb. 23 at Oklahoma ESPN 8 p.m.
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GARNERING FAME FROM ANOTHER'NET
Teahan's spoof draws 57,000 views
Video plays off sophomore's similarity to Zac Efron
BY ADAM SAMSON asamson@kansan.com
A wink, lip synching and looks similar to Zac Efron were all it took for Conner Teahan to become a YouTube sensation. "Jayhawk Musical."
of "High School Musical" starring Teahan, has been viewed 56,000 times to date on YouTube, not to mention it was featured on Sportsillustrated. com's "Hot Clicks" section.
"It's just more people have seen this video, making me kind of look like the High School Musical man."
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After coming up with the high School Musical idea for the skit, Martincicch and her teammates sought help from Teahan and his teammates. Martincicch said she
CONNER TEAHAN Kansas guard
Leawood sophomore and men's basketball player, had heard plenty of times that he was a Zac Efron look-alike, but his performance in the layRock skit added to the comparisons.
went to high school with had seen it because they had heard about it from someone else."
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JayRock is an annual variety show put on by student athletes. This is the fourth year the show has run.
Volleyball player Katie Martinicich, another in the skit, thought the video would be viewed only by friends and family.
thought it would only be funny if Teahan was involved because of the Zac Efron comparisons.
"It was fun to actually see other people's reactions," Martincich, Shawnee junior, said. "People 1
TyrellReed, Teahan's teammate, who was also in the skit, said Teahan received some teasing because of his part in the skit.
Just one week after JayRock coordinator Matt Baysinger loaded the video onto YouTube, the video attracted more than 50,000 viewers and 30 comments.
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"He's gotten quite a bit of flak from us because he does look like the character Zae Efron", Reed, Burlington sophomore, said.
he thought that it should be the other way around. Teahari took credit for having his long, shaggy hair before the High School Musical movies came out.
but you know he did it all out of fun and he can have a sense of humor about it."
graphic courtesy of YouTube Kansas basketball player Conner Teahan performs part of his dance from the "High School Musical" spoof "Jayhawk Musical" The video has received more than 50,000 views in just a few days.
Jimmy Traina, senior producer for Sportsillustrated.com, receives reader e-mails with pop culture references and decides what to put on his "Hot Clicks" section. Traina will feature an item in his section if it is unique. Like the Kansas video.
Teahan thought no one would find out about the skit, so he said he didn't think his participation was going to be a big deal
"It's just more people have seen this video, making me kind of look like the High School Musical man," Teahan said.
Instead of people comparing Teahan to Zac Efron, Teahn said
Traina said he thought this type of video made fans realize athletes were human and had a personality off the playing field.
"More athletes should be aware of that," Traina said. "Fans really want to embrace athletes. We got into this mode where you can't have any contact with fans."
Tranna said he saw a trend of athletes creating blogs and doing
"You know he did it all out of fun and he can have a sense of humor about it."
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things outside their sports that made them seem more approachable and more than just athletes.
Teahan said he saw the importance of activities like this outside of his sport.
that people really don't get to see that often." Teahan said. "I think that's good for people to understand that we do have a different side."
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It kind of shows a different side of us
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look-alike comparison
Conner Teahan's favorites:
Corner Teenan's favorites:
TV Show: South Park
Movie: 300
Musician: Lil' Wayne
Food: Taco Bell
Athlete: Lebron James
Zac Efron's favorites: TV Shows: American Idol, World Series Of Poker
Movies: Dumb and Dumber,
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BY LAUREN HENDRICK
lhendrick@kansan.com
In her 20 years of working at Watkins Memorial Health Center, physician Patricia Denning has never seen such a long delay in the influenza season. Last week was the first time during the 2008-2009 school year that a student went to Watkins and tested positive for it. Normally, Watkins sees cases in late October and mid-November.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, influenza reaches its peak in January and February, but most states report the flu as early as September. On its Web site, the CDC also reported that five percent to 20 percent of the U.S. population is infected with the flu each year.
The spreading of certain viruses causes influenza, commonly called the flu. It is a highly contagious respiratory illness, often contracted when infected people cough, sneeze and don't wash their hands.
"Unfortunately an average of 36,000 people die every year," said Alieen Porcell, CDC spokeswoman. Additionally, an average of 200,000 people are hospitalized each year and thousands of people
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**MATERIALS REVIEW**
A woman stands in front of a large screen displaying an abstract, grayscale artwork. The screen shows a layered composition with various textures and shapes. Below the screen, a laptop is placed on a table, with its screen visible. The room appears to be a conference or meeting space, with a neutral color palette and minimal decor.
Graphic design, drawing, creating and recording music; these are a few of Ryan Wing's favorite things. He puts a lot of passion into his creative endeavors — and into studying economics.
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Using examples from scientific journals and newspaper articles, Professor Beverly Mack shows students of the "Creative Impulse" Honors Commons course examples of non-traditional creativity in Spooner Hall Monday afternoon. The new course seeks to broadly examine creativity in all facets of experiences and disciplines.
Wing, San Jose, Calif., junior, grew up with a passion for visual art and pursued a career in music recording before deciding to follow his interest in sustainability issues into a degree in economics.
The merger of creativity and fields such as economics will be one topic discussed in a new lecture series sponsored by the University Honors Program, which starts tonight. With the lecture series and a corresponding class, the University Honors Program is working to explore where ideas and innovation come from and to promote interdisciplinary discussion and transfer of ideas.
Wing said creative and technical pursuits were often seen as separate things to be done by separate people, but said scientists needed arts just as much as artists needed science.
"But if you're creative but you can't come up with a market for your creations, you're not going to be creative for very long — you'll be broke."
"Too often, our knee-jerk response is to assume 'creativity' is only in the fine arts, but there is creativity in every field." Mack said.
Beverly Mack, professor of African and African-American studies and the instructor of the lecture series' corresponding course, said creativity and economics merge.
Sarah Crawford-Parker, associate director of the Honors Program, said now was a better time than ever to discuss creativity as a way to promote new solutions to the country's economic and political challenges.
Sarah Frazelle, lecturer of economics; is researching creativity in economics at the University (or the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Frazelle said entrepreneurship was a crucial part of economic erowth and was a big part of her
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1. Protester throws shoe at China's prime minister
CAMBRIDGE, England — A protester hurled abuse and then a shoe at China's prime minister Monday while he delivered a speech on the global economy at Cambridge University at the end of his trip to Britain.
The gray athletic shoe missed its intended target.
The protester leapt up from his seat near the back of a crowded auditorium, blew a whistle and yelled that Prime Minister Wen Jiabao was a "dictator" before throwing the shoe toward the stage.
2. Alleged election fraud angers Iraqi tribal sheiks
BAGHDAD — Iraq's military clamped a vehicle ban Monday on the Sunni-dominated province of Anbar after tribal sheiks sent gunmen into the streets claiming Sunni rivals linked to
ADDIS ABABA Ethiopia—Moammar Gadhafi of Libya was elected Mondayas leader of the African Union, apositionlong sought by the eccentric dictator who wants to push his oil-richnation into the internationalmainstream afteryearsof isolation.
the Shiite-led government stole votes in last weekends elections
Anbar was one of 14 of the country's 18 provinces in which Iraqis chose members of ruling councils, which in turn select governors.
3. Libyan leader elected chairman of African Union
Although there were allegations of election irregularities in many provinces, the complaints seemed more serious in Anbar, an areawhere most families own guns and where tribes maintain their own armed forces.
Libya has never held the chairmanship in the 46-year-history of the African Union.
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RALEIGH, N.C. — More than 70 people have been arrested in a cookfighting ring in central North Carolina to watch a $40,000 tournament so grusome that one of the roosters splattered blood on the investigators' search warrant, authorities said.
5. Study finds teens worldwide smoke less pot
The county's animal control officers took possession of 130 live roosters. The sheriff's office said investigators also seized 73 vehicles, two firearms and cash. They also found cocaine and marijuana at the scene.
CHICAGO — Kids on both sides of the Atlantic are smoking less pot and going out less often at night, a study of 15-year-olds in 30 countries found.
The double declines occurred in the United States, Canada and
mostly European countries from 2002 to 2006.
Reasons for the declines are unclear, but the researchers said drug prevention efforts and technology may have contributed.
Instant messaging, e-mail and cell phones "may have partly replaced face-to-face contacts, leading to fewer social contacts in the evenings," Kunstche said.
6. Man kills bulldog, saves woman from attack
DES MOINES, Iowa — A good Samaritan armed with a knife stabbed a dog to death as it was attacking a 77-year-old woman in her front yard, officials said.
Kevin Daub told Omaha, Neb., television station WOWT that he stopped his truck and jumped out when he noticed the bulldog attack. He grew tired while struggling with the dog, so he pulled out his pocketknife and killed it, he said.
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When most KU students are still sleeping Saturday morning, Megin Sevier, Laramie, Wyo., graduate student, is busy at work.
Sevier works diligently every
Monday through Saturday as part of Studio 804, one of the studio graduate programs for students in the architecture program.
"it's overall a really good experience," Sevier said. "In most studios it's kind of a competition, but in Studio 804 you are working
time with a husband or getting chores finished around the house.
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as a group. Everyone tries to band together, and the work reflects that."
"I have a supportive husband," Sevier said. "We get to see each other for 10 minutes before bed and I try to spend half of Sunday with him. We keep in contact via e-mail."
Studio 804 focuses on designing a sustainable house in Kansas City, Kan., by the KU Medical Center. Although buying brand new materials would be easy, the students focus on being environmentally friendly by making conscious efforts at being green.
"We all keep saying we are 'using the whole buffalo' by reusing this beautiful wood from the Sunflower Ammunitions Building and implementing it into the structure and aesthetics," Sevier said. "We have to minimize waste, recycle and try to buy as locally as possible."
On top of working on this project every day of the week, Sievier tries to balance married life. Working so many hours a day does not leave many hours in the day for quality
Even with so much work to complete, Sevier still finds time to finish everything and help others. Sevier's attitude remains positive through it all, which never goes unnoticed by other students within her studio.
"I've known her for her entire grad school tenure," Frank Lindemann, Topeka graduate student, said. "The key aspect I noticed about her is her willingness to work with others. She's still able to be serious while being social and friendly."
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KMBC, KCWE return to Sunflower Broadband
Sunflower Broadband and KMBC reached an agreement Friday allowing Sunflower to once carry KMBC channel 9 and KCWE channel 17 on its lineup.
Rod Kutemeier, general manager of Sunflower Broadband, said the agreement was a result of a week of negotiations between the two companies. The agreement was reached Friday afternoon and Sunflower Broadband began broadcasting the channels
"We are very pleased that these two stations are back on our lineup and we're once again allowed to transmit the signals," Kuteemer said.
at 4:30 p.m. that day, Kutemeier said.
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The "Citizen Diplomacy in Russian American Relations" lecture will begin at 12 p.m. in 318 Bailey.
The KU Libraries Book Sale will begin at 9 a.m. in the Main Floor of the Watson Library.
The Blackboard Strategies and Tools workshop will begin at 9 a.m. in 6 Budig.
The "The Latest in White Dwarf Cosmochronology: astro-ph/0901.2901 will begin at 12:15 p.m. in 1089 Malott.
The Excel 2007: Introduction workshop will begin at 1:30 p.m. in the Budig PC Lab.
The Introduction to Personal Computing with Windows workshop will begin at 1:30 p.m. in the Instruction Center in Anschutz Library.
The Calligraphy Night workshop will begin at 6 p.m. in the Spencer Museum of Art.
The Hitting Academy: Session #2 baseball event will begin at 7 p.m. in Hoglund Ballpark.
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The SUA: Grocery Bingo event will begin at 8 p.m. in the Ballroom in the Kansas Union.
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die as a result of serious flu-related conditions such as pneumonia.
"Flu season is making a slow start this year. It usually wraps up in February." Porcell said. According to the CDC, last year's flu season peaked in March.
While doctors recommend patients receive vaccinations in September, this year's delayed flu season has Denning telling her patients to get one now.
"it's much cheaper than becoming ill in the classroom" she said
Ben Leach, Overland Park senior, said he had been sick since last week with flu like symptoms.
"I usually never get sick and I got a flu shot," Leach said. "So this is very unusual."
Leach said he received a flu shot every year around Thanksgiving, but still managed to get sick after his girlfriend had the same symptoms.
"You guys at the university level should get it," Porcell said of the flu shot. "You're germ spreaders."
According to the CDC's Web site, some viruses and bacteria can survive 2 hours or more on surfaces such as tables, doorknobs, and desks.
"I always wash my hands," Joey Williams, Denver junior, said. Williams has been sick since this past weekend. He said he has been able to keep up with classes and work despite feeling ill.
Williams said he thought his illness originated from a lack of sleep and exposure to large groups of people. Though Williams has had flu shots in past years, he said he didn't get around to it this season.
Flu viruses are continually evolving, and a person's antibodies may not recognize the new virus, which means a person can contract the flu more than once. According to the CDC, vaccines are usually updated yearly to account for new virus strands.
Denning said that many students needed antiviral medication once they contracted the flu. Some of these medications, such as Tamiflu, are effective against new strands of flu viruses.
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medications at cheaper rates than other pharmacies, but the price of antiviral medication could still be as much as $110, depending on a student's medical insurance.
Watkins offers flu shots for $15 and a nasal mist vaccine for $10. Denning said students should call in advance for an appointment, before they get sick.
Denning said that people with the flu should stay at home and avoid contaminating others as
much as possible. If they have to go out, they should carry tissues with them, cover their noses and mouths with their elbows when coughing and sneezing, and wash their hands frequently. Healthy students should to do their best to stay as such by getting enough rest, paying attention to their nutrition and refraining from smoking and drinking.
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research on ways to spur growth in third-world countries.
"The conventional wisdom is that entrepreneurship leads to innovation, which leads to economic growth." Frazelle said.
Dawn Marie Guernsey, professor of art, said economics and creativity came together in arts education, which prepared students for the kind of creative business thinking that Frazelle and Wing said was so important.
Guernsey also said artists aimed to introduce ideas for solving national problems like the economic downturn in their work.
"Artists are the weather vanes for the times and the eyes and the ears of culture," Gurmzey said.
The lecture series opens tonight with a talk by New York visual artist Chakata Booker at 7:30 in Spooner Hall.
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French professor accused of genocide
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Rwandan professor Leopold Munyakaki shows documents he says prove he wasn't involved in the 1994 genocide in his home country, in an interview on Monday. Munyakaki was recently removed from teaching French at Goucher College after the school became aware he was wanted in his home country on genocide charges.
BALTIMORE — A Rwandan professor has been suspended with pay from teaching French at Goucher College while officials there investigate claims that he was involved in the 1994 genocide in his home country.
College President Sanford Ungart told faculty and students in an e-mail Saturday that Professor Leopold Munyakazi was removed from teaching after officials learned he had been indicted in 2006 on genocide charges in Rwanda.
More than a half-million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed in 1994 after the then-president's plane was shot down as he returned from negotiating with Tutsi rebels.
Munyakazi, a Hutu, said in an interview Monday at his home that he has been persecuted by the Rwandan government because his wife is tutsi and he protected her and her family during the killings.
"I'm not hiding, I was never involved in genocide," Munyakazi said. "In my conscience, I am free of any guilt."
Munyakaki said Goucher sent him a letter Dec. 15 stating he was suspended with pay and it would be best if he staved off campus.
Ungar said in the e-mail that he removed Munyakazi from his teaching duties because the allegations are so serious, but the removal "in no way reflects a judgment about Dr. Munyakazi or about the charges that have been made."
The accusations came to Unger's attention in December when he was approached by an NBC News producer working on a story that involved Munyakazi.
"Some people knew that he had expressed controversial views," Ungar said in an interview Monday. "But in colleges and universities you don't think it's a bad thing to express controversial views. Nobody knew there were charges of that nature."
He said a U.S. Justice Department official stressed to him that an indictment in Rwanda is a statement of a prosecutor's views, not the result of a grand jury proceeding. Officials in Rwanda
were not available for comment.
"Evidence that would either convict or exonerate Dr. Munyakazi beyond a reasonable doubt simply does not exist at this time, or if it does, I have not seen it," Ungar said.
Munyakazi started teaching in September at Goucher College. He was contracted for two semesters through the Scholar Rescue Fund, which provides fellowships for scholars whose lives and work are threatened in their countries.
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President Barack Obama said he was "absolutely" sticking with his nominee for health secretary, and a key senator added an important endorsement.
WASHINGTON — Fighting to salvage his Cabinet nomination, Tom Dashle pleaded his case Monday evening in a closed meeting with former Senate colleagues after publicly apologizing for failing to pay more than $120,000 in taxes.
The White House both underscored the magnitude of the problem and tried to downplay
it in the space of seven words.
"Nobody's perfect," said press secretary Robert Gibbs. "It was a serious mistake..."
Nobody was predicting defeat for Daschle's nomination as secretary of health and human services, but it was proving an unsavory pill to swallow for senators who only last week confirmed Timothy Geithner as treasury secretary despite his separate tax-payment problems. It's an issue that strikes a nerve among lawmakers' constituents who are struggling with their own serious money problems.
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Caitlin Hornbeck, Lawrence native, enjoys Saturday hula-hooping in South Park. Hornbeck is a member of the Hop Mamas, a troupe of local mothers who get together once a week to hula met. Hornbeck said hooping was both a form of exercise and expression. The troupe met outside Saturday to enjoy Lawrence's 70-degree weather.
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Reality can be difficult when you'd rather live in your fantasies.
The trick is to achieve a balance that's inspiring as well as practical. You can do that now, and win big.
10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
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Today is a 7
Go around the obstacle and reach your destination. It'll be kind of tricky, but you can certainly do it. Look forward to the challenge. Your chances of success are good.
**Summary (May 21-June 21)**
Today is a 7
Continue with a project already begun. Push it to completion.
Keep in communication with the boss, to make sure you're doing right. You're also gaining favor.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Today is a 7
If you don't have time to make the call, get your partner to do it. There's something that needs to be said that you're too polite to say. Your teammate doesn't have that problem.
Make sure your co-workers are on track, but don't tell anyone else what you're building or producing. Maintain your creative edge.
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Keep your nest eggs safe and warm so they'll hatch in wonderful things. Care and tending are required, but you're good at that. Participate in creation.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
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Shop around for the best price.
Don't just buy on impulse. Of course, if you find just the perfect one, you might be to do that.
Do your homework first.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is a 7
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is an 8
Continue to pay attention to what others are trying to say. Be an active listener, offering encouragement. You're very good at this, as you may already know.
When business is going well, you make it look so easy. That's how it's supposed to be right? That's why you worked so hard before. If you haven't yet, pay your dues.
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The University of Kansas
Make plans for the future, but never forget about the here and now. The shared passion is the only fuel that accomplishes any of this. Let the good times roll!
Degree
The Agnes Wright Strickland Award
The Class of 1913 Award
*The Rusty Leffel Concerned Student Award
*The Leffel Award is not limited to graduating seniors
The Donald K. Alderson Memorial Award
The Alexis F. Dillard Student Involvement Award
The Caryl K. Smith Student Leader Award
You should be starting to feel a little better by now. You might not want to leap into action quite yet, and that's OK. You have plenty to think about before then. You'll know when the time is right.
Chancellor's Student Awards Committee
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.18)
Today is a 7
is accepting nominations and applications for the following graduating senior awards:
it's easier to concentrate now. You'll remember what you learn. Use the information to jump to a whole new conclusion. By the way, this is not a bad thing to do, when you're right.
Nomination and application forms are online at: http://www.vpss.ku.edu/awards
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 7
Nominations must be received by Friday, February 13, 2009, at 5:00 p.m. Applications must be received by Friday, February 27, 2009, at 5:00 p.m.
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2009
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Eric Holder approved as first black Attorney General
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Eric Holder won Senate confirmation Monday as the nation's first African-American attorney general, after supporters from both parties toured his dream resume and easily overcame Republican concerns over his commitment to fight terrorism and his willingness to back the right to keep and bear arms.
The vote was 75-21.
Holder's chief supporter, Sen. Patrick Leahy, said the confirmation was a fulfillment of civil rights leader Martin Luther King's dream that everyone would be judged by the content of their character.
"Come on the right side of history," said Leahy, D-Vt., chairman of the judiciary Committee.
Holder becomes the only black in President Barack Obama's Cabinet. Three other African-Americans were named to top administration positions, but are not Cabinet secretaries.
judge and the No. 2 Justice Department official in the Clinton administration. Even his critics agreed that Holder was well-qualified, but they questioned his positions and independence.
Holder was a federal prosecutor.
The debate turned partisan in its first moments, when Leahy expressed anger that a few Republicans demanded a pledge from Holder that he wouldn't prosecute intelligence agents who participated in harsh interrogations.
Leahy singled out Texas Republican John Cornyn as one who wanted to "turn a blind eye to possible lawbreaking before investigating whether it occurred."
"No one should be seeking to trade a vote for such a pledge," Leahy said.
When Cornyn rose to announce his vote against Holder, he did not make such a demand. However, he accused the nominee of changing his once-supportive position — on the need to detain terrorism suspects without all the rights of the Geneva Conventions — to one of
harshly criticizing Bush administration's counterterrorism policies
"His contrasting positions from 2002 to 2008 make me wonder if this is the same person," Corynn said. "It makes me wonder what he truly believes."
To the satisfaction of Democrats and consternation of some Republicans, Holder told his confirmation hearing, "Waterboarding is torture."
Cornyn and Sen. Tom Coburn said Holder was hostile to the right of individuals to own guns, despite a Supreme Court ruling last June affirming the right to have weapons for self-defense in the home.
Holder said at his confirmation hearings: "I understand that the Supreme Court has spoken." But he added that some restrictions on guns could still be legal.
Holder's confirmation will trigger reviews — and changes — to the most controversial Bush administration policies, from interrogation tactics to terrorism trials and warrantless surveillance.
DEIRP
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) pats Attorney General-designate Eric Holder on the back Tuesday, Jan. 15, during a break in Holder's confirmation hearing before the Senate Judicial Committee. Holder was approved Monday as the only African-American in Barack Obama's cabinet.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CRIME
Boulder police reopen Ramsey case
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOULDER, Colo. — The investigation of JonBenet Ramsey's slaying has been returned to Boulder police, who say they will apply new technology and expertise in hopes of solving the 12-year-old case.
The decision, announced Monday, came six years after police transferred the probe to the district attorney amid criticism of how it was handled.
December 1996.
"Some cases never get solved, but some do," Police Chief Mark Beckner told the Camera newspaper in Boulder. "And you can't give up."
lonBenet, a 6-year-old beauty pageant- contestant, was found bludgeoned and strangled in the basement of her Boulder home in
L. Lin Wood, an attorney for Jon Benet's father, John Ramsey, said the decision was a "positive sign in terms of my hope that the Boulder Police Department will take not only a new review in terms of a cold case review, but that it will go in this time with an objective review."
Wood and Ramsey have been critical of previous police efforts, saying they unfairly focused on the family and ignored other evidence.
Patsy Ramsey, JonBenee's mother and John Ramsey's wife, died in 2006 after a long battle with cancer.
Beckner said he and newly elected District Attorney Stan Garnett agreed that police should lead the investigation again. Beckner said he has invited a team of veteran investigators from state and federal
agencies to join an advisory task force to "explore all possible theories about what happened the night JonBenet was killed."
The group will meet in the next few weeks to review the evidence and identify additional testing that might be done.
Beckner said he wants to go into the first meeting with no preconceived notions.
"We are open to all possibilities," he said.
Garnett's predecessor, Mary Lacy, last year cleared Jonbenet's family in the slaying, saying male DNA found on the girl's clothing almost certainly came from her killer, and that it didn't match anyone in the family.
Beckner informed John Ramsey of the change in the investigation in
a letter, but gave no hint that police would back away from that finding.
"Nor could any objective investigation back away." Wood said. "(The DNA evidence) is compelling if not conclusive."
Lacy said the reason her office took over the case in 2002 was that the Ramsey family had no confidence in the police. "It wasn't that they were incompetent," she said of the officers.
Lacy said she is "absolutely" hopeful the case will one day be resolved.
"I believe the DNA (that cleared the Ramsey family) is the most significant piece of evidence, and hopefully, as with some cold cases, there will eventually be a hit on it," she said.
STATE NEWS Casino delays in Kansas may help competitors
WICHITA — Kansas leaders' plans for state-owned casinos drawing visitors and much-needed revenue to the Sunflower State are on hold while Indian-owned casinos in Oklahoma flourish.
Problems in the financial markets forced developers in three of Kansas' four gaming zones to scrap their plans. That has forced the state to restart the process, falling further behind its potential competitor to the south.
Kansas Lottery director Ed Van Petten said he doesn't think their head start will affect plans in Summer or Wyandotte counties.
Oklahoma's growing roster of casinos, however, will certainly be a temptation to visitors determining where to place their bets.
"Right now it's more an economic problem than a competition problem," Van Petten said.
Leaders debate big cuts to state court budget
TOPEKA — With lawmakers looking at a billion-dollar deficit by the end of the next budget year unless major cuts are made, everyone is subject to scrutiny, even the state court system.
When Gov. Kathleen Sebelius proposed her budget cutting ideas last month, she called for cutting $562,000 from the judiciary's current state revenue budget of about $112 million.
Senate leaders first called for cutting another 3.4 percent for everyone. The House Appropriations Committee on Friday whittled it to 1 percent, or about $1.1 million.
At this point, it's anybody's guess what the final numbers might be by the time negotiators come up with the version going to the governor.
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Markieff Morris 9
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Sherron Collins 6
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Brady Morningstar 2-4 2-3 3 1 6
Tyshawn Taylor 3-8 0-1 2 4 6
Marcus Morris 5-9 0-1 6 0 13
Sherron Collins 5-13 0-2 3 6 17
Cole Aldrich 4-7 0-0 8 0 9
Tyrel Reed 1-1 0-0 2 1 3
Markieff Morris 4-8 1-1 9 0 9
Mario Little 4-7 0-0 3 1 12
Total 28-57 3-8 36 13 75
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<table border="1"><tr><td>Player</td><td>FG-FGA</td><td>3FG-3FGA</td><td>Rebs</td><td>A</td><td>Pts</td></tr><tr><td>Curtis Jerrells</td><td>0-7</td><td>0-4</td><td>4</td><td>5</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td>Kendall Wright</td><td>0-0</td><td>0-0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>Kevin Rogers</td><td>6-9</td><td>0-0</td><td>6</td><td>1</td><td>15</td></tr><tr><td>Quincy Acy</td><td>2-7</td><td>0-0</td><td>5</td><td>0</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td>Josh Lomers</td><td>0-0</td><td>0-0</td><td>3</td><td>1</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Henry Dugat</td><td>4-10</td><td>2-3</td><td>3</td><td>1</td><td>15</td></tr><tr><td>LaceDarius Dunn</td><td>2-6</td><td>2-4</td><td>4</td><td>0</td><td>13</td></tr><tr><td>Tweety Carter</td><td>4-12</td><td>4-11</td><td>1</td><td>3</td><td>12</td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"></td></tr><tr><td>Total</td><td>18-51</td><td>8-22</td><td>26</td><td>11</td><td>65</td></tr></table>
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11/4 vs. Washburn (Ex.) W, 98-79
11/11 vs. Emporia State (Ex.) W, 103-58
11/16 vs. UMKC W, 71-56
11/18 vs. Florida Gulf Coast W, 85-45
11/24 vs. Washington (in Kansas City, Mo.) W, 73-54
11/25 Syracuse (in Kansas City, Mo.) L, 89-81 (OT)
11/28 vs. Coppin State W, 85-53
12/1 vs. Kent State W, 87-60
12/3 vs. New Mexico State W, 100-79
12/6 vs. Jackson State W, 86-62
12/13 vs. Massachusetts (in Kansas City, Mo.) L, 61-60
12/20 vs. Temple W, 71-59
12/23 at Arizona L, 84-67
12/30 vs. Albany NY W, 79-43
1/03 vs. Tennessee W, 92-85
1/6 vs. Siena W, 91-84
1/10 at Michigan State L, 75-62
1/13 vs. Kansas State W, 87-71
1/17 at Colorado W, 73-56
1/19 vs. Texas A&M W, 73-53
1/24 at Iowa State W, 82-67
1/28 at Nebraska W, 68-62
1/31 vs. Colorado W, 66-61
2/2 at Baylor W, 75-65
2/7 vs. Oklahoma State 2:30 p.m.
2/9 at Missouri 8 p.m.
2/14 at Kansas State 2:30 p.m.
2/18 vs. Iowa State 7 p.m.
2/21 vs. Nebraska 3 p.m.
2/23 at Oklahoma 8 p.m.
3/1 vs. Missouri 1 p.m.
3/4 at Texas Tech 8:30 p.m.
3/7 vs. Texas 3 p.m.
MEN'S BASKET
Collins secures game once again
BY TAYLOR BERN
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Whether it's instinct woven into his DNA or a tiny alarm inside his body, Sherron Collins always knows when the Jawhaws need him.
More than any player in recent Kansas history, Collins senses when he needs to take the game over and then does it without hesitation.
Monday night it came with 5:36 left and Kansas clinging to a 60-55 advantage. Collins dribbed across halfcourt and searched for an outlet pass, but found none.
"They did a good job of denying, so I just kept counting off and stretched the floor," Collins said. "I knew it was going to go to me. I had to get in the paint and draw a foul."
Like he did in a similar situation at Nebraska last Wednesday, Collins killed his opponent at the free-throw line.
He drained the clock 40 feet from the basket, gently striding back and forth then pouncing on the defense like a tiger.
The junior bulled past his first defender and set up Baylor's Henry Dugat with a pump fake. The whistle blew and Collins hit both free throws to push the lead to seven.
On the next possession, Collins passed to Brady Morningstar then ran a circle around the court before taking the ball back at the top of the key. Collins sensed that he was needed and wouldn't let anyone else decide how the play would end.
"That's just me!" Collins said. "Late in the game I want the ball in my hands. Rather than making a basket I just want to make the play."
Kansas coach Bill Self said the biggest difference in the second half was his team's willingness to attack the rim with greater force. Freshman forwards Marcus and Markieff Morris, junior guard Mario Little and freshman guard Tyshawn Taylor all made a difference with impact drives, but it was Collins leading the charge.
Collins drove to the basket and drew another foul.
"Those guys played great, everybody contributed." Self said, "but Sherron was fabulous. That was one of his better games."
Both of those possessions and subsequent drives occurred while Taylor and sophomore center Cole Aldrich rode the bench with four fouls apiece. Taylor sat down with 5:36 to play, the exact time Collins' instinct, tiny alarm or whatever kicked in and triggered another heroic performance.
Collins dropped his second pair of free throws to go up 64-55.
Self also noted that Collins' team-high 17 points didn't come at the expense of his defense. Self said he talked to the Chicago native before Monday's game about refocusing on his defensive play.
"He challenged me to cut their head off and Jerrells' is the head of the team." Collins said.
Curtis Jerrrell entered the game as Baylor's leading scorer at 16.8 points per game. Against Collins and the Jayhawks he missed all seven of his shots and scored just four points with late-game free throws.
With 1:43 to play Collins made his third pair of free throws. The sixth swish was Collins' 35th consecutively made free throw. That breaks Wayne Simien's 2005 school record for consecutive free throws.
Collins went to the line once more with 51 seconds to play and missed his first attempt.
"I thought I missed the record when I missed that last free throw," Collins said.
His instinct held on just long enough.
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Freshman forward Markieff Morris and Baylor guard Curtis Jerrells exchange words after a conested play during the first half of Monday night's game in Waco. Markieff and his brother Marcus both turned in strong performances.
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the game was effectively over. Self said despite the team effort, Collins — who also made his 35th consecutive free-throw to set the Kansas record — played one of his greatest individual games.
The Jayhawks ran to the locker room clapping after the first half. Of course they did. Despite trailing for most of the half, Collins tossed in a floater at the buzzer to give Kansas a 30-28 lead.
All five Jayhawk starters scored at least four points in the opening half. But their most impressive accomplishment came on — where else? — the defensive end.
The Morris twins were key. Despite Baylor's lineup of speed guards, Marcus and Markieff were able to hold their own and contribute to the jayhawks' defensive effort.
the Big 12 Conference in scoring and prefer to push the pace early. Kansas wouldn't allow it.
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Baylor isn't used to getting off to slow starts. The Bears rank third in
Then came the second half where Marcus and Markieff pulled Kansas away from Baylor. Together.
For more men's basketball coverage, check out Case Keefer's "Blog" Allen on Kansan.com. If you would rather kick back and rest your eyes, listen to the postgame edition of The Jay Report podcast.
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"If he's doing good, I'm going to try to match his intensity," Markieff said. "I'll pick up his slack and he'll pick up my slack. We talk about that."
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39 — Baylor's Quincy Acy sheds a baseline dunk to put the ars up 20-15 leading to this change between my friend Trofs 11.
Me: "How much do I owe you?"
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Me: "Too bad Acy ain't in arge no more."
Sophomore guard Tyrel Reed lunges through a tangle of Baylor defenders under the Jayhawks' basket. The Jayhawks were able to outbreuffle the Bears 36-26 in a game where defense made a big difference for Kansas.
3:48 — My friend Todd: "What opened to Aaron Bruce?" (edi's note: Aaron Bruce, a former vlor guard from Australia, educated last year.) Trofs: Did you say what happed to Aaron Brooks? Todd: "No, but what DID hap to Aaron Brooks? Look it up"
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9:29 — Another three-pointer from Baylor. And Kansas' lead melts to 48-44. Yep, this one's down to the wire.
9:27 - LaceDarius Dunn knocks down a three to draw Baylor within eight at 46-38, and Tyshawn Taylor answers with a jump shot on the other end.
9:41 — Somehow, Cole Aldrich commits his fourth foul with 8:16 left in the second half. We're looking at a four-guard lineup with Markieff Morris at the five spot, and for some reason, I love it. I wish more teams did this. It kind of feels like an intramural game where nobody wants to go inside.
9:43 — Curtis Jerrells unbelievably throws the ball out of bounds. Listen to this line. With seven minutes left, Jerrells is zero for five from the field with one point. Yo Curtis, what's wrong? You been hanging with Michael Phelps or something?
9:54 — After three hacks in a row, and a massive over the back from Markieff Morris, Mario Little finishes a layup and the Jayhawks go up 66-55. If you're Bill Self, you hate to play without Cole Aldrich, but Baylord might be one of the few Big 12 teams where you can get away with a four-guard line-up.
10:01 — Fran Fraschilla nearly got through the entire game without any goofs ... until now. After LaceDarius Dunn flopped the floor trying to draw a foul,
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10:03 — Say what you want
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10:07 — The Rock Chalk Chant is clearly audible on the television. Great road win for Kansas. The layhawks improve to 18-4 and 7-0 in the Big 12 Conference. So what's the new ceiling for this team? Is a 12-4 Big 12 finish a disappointment now? If Kansas can hold serve at home against Oklahoma State on Saturday, Kansas will be 8-0 in the league. You have to think that 13-3 is a realistic possibility.
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10:15 — Well, we're out of pretzels and we're not sure we'll ever do this again.
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IT WAS OVER WHEN ...
Sherron Collins swiped the ball away from Baylor with 2.40 remaining. A comeback seemed far-fetched at that point, but Collins destroyed any hopes of it. He missed a layup after the steal, but junior guard Mario Little pulled down the rebound, got fouled and made both free throws. The score became 69-59 and the Bears were doomed.
GAME TO REMEMBER ...
Freshman forward Marcus Morris
Two weeks ago, this would not have seemed possible. Marcus was low on confidence and high on fouls. He struggled not only to play well, but also to figure out his role on the team. That was all a distant memory for Marcus Monday. He finished with 13 points and six rebounds.
Morris
GAMETO FORGET ...
Sophomore guard Tvrel Reed
Reed
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This isn't an indictment of Reed as much as praise for his teammates. Out of the eight Jayhawks who played significant minutes against Baylor, Reed was the only one without a signature moment. He did his part — tried to get open behind the three-point line and added three points and an assist. The rest of the Jayhawks simply played so well that they didn't need Reed.
STAT OF THE NIGHT ...
17. That's the combined points scored by Baylor guards Curtis Jerrells and LaceDarius Dunn. Coming into the game, Jerrells averaged 17 points and Dunn averaged 16. Holding the two to nearly half their usual output was the most notable accomplishment by the Jayhawk defense so far this season. Baylor can't win without Dunn and Jerrells. Kansas proved it.
- Case Keefer
FIRST HALF
PRIME PLAYS
8:58 — In a play sure to make the season lowlights, Markieff Morris was swatted twice on one possession. Morris failed to keep the ball above his head and the Bears picked up two of their four first half blocks in a single play.
0:01 — Kansas now has a first half buzzer-beater in three of its last four games. This time Collins capped a 9-2 Jayhawk run with a floater on the lane.
6:54 — Fresh out of a media timeout, Quincy Acy — the only Baylor starter who averages fewer than 10 points — slammed a putback dunk to force a Kansas timeout.
6:40 — Still feeling the funk from Saturday's game, it took Sherron Collins almost 14 minutes to score his first points in Waco. He snapped the streak with a layup out of a Kansas timeout.
SECOND HALF
12:29 — Already hot from beyond the three-point line, Tweedy Carter buried his third treewet half and fourth of the game. It brought Baylor within 48-47.
18:20 — Following Collins' missed layup, Marcus Morris grabbed a rebound and layed it in. It was Morris's sixth point of the second half and it sparked Kansas' second 9-2 run.
8:16 — Curtis Jerrells — Baylor's leading scorer — scored his first point of the game at the free throw line. Jerrells drew the fourth foul on Cole Aldrich and his free throw made the score 56-52. However, the Bears would never get closer.
3:37 — The ball bounced off of almost every player on the court before ending up in Mario Little's hands for a wide-open layup. Baylor fans were irate that no foul was called while Kansas cruised with its 11-point lead.
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RECRUITING UPDATE
Baylor didn't beat Kansas Monday night, but the two schools are still battling for Rivals.com's top-ranked recruit in the nation.
John Wall — a 6-foot-4 point guard from Raleigh, N.C. — is deciding between seven schools, according to Rivals. Joining Kansas and Baylor are Memphis, Duke, North Carolina State, Oregon and Miami. Wall will not decide until after his after high school season at Word of God Christian Academy is completed.
KANSAS RANKED AGAIN
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For the first time since December, Kansas is ranked in both the Associated Press and ESPN/USA Today Coaches' Poll.
The Jayhawks are ranked No.21 in the AP Poll, while the coaches slotted them at No.24. The rankings are released weekly on Monday and three Big 12 Conference teams were included in the latest set.
Oklahoma was the highest in the Big 12 at No. 2 in both polls. Texas ranked No. 16 in the AP, while the coaches dropped it to No. 17 after an overtime defeat to Kansas State Saturday.
BRACKET PROJECTIONS
The tournament might be more than a month away, but it's never too early for experts to start predicting the NCAA Tournament field.
ESPN's "Bracketology," released Monday, projects Kansas as a No. 4 seed in the Midwest Regional. ESPN has the Jayhawks playing the 13th-seeded Northern Iowa Panthers in Boise, Idaho, in the first round.
Meanwhile, Bracketography. com gives Kansas a projected No. 6 seed in the East Regional. Strangely, the Web site's projections also feature Northern Iowa as its first round opponent.
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Huskies move to No.1 spot
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It's Monday, there must be a new No. 1.
This time it's Connecticut at the top of The Associated Press' college basketball poll, the fourth straight week with a new No.1.
The Huskies (20-1) moved up from second to replace Duke (19-2), which fell to fourth after losing on a last-second shot to Wake Forest in its one week on top.
Wake Forest (17-2) was No. 1 two weeks ago, but the Demon Deacons lost to Virginia Tech and fell out. They had replaced Pittsburgh (19-2), which was No. 1 for two weeks before losing to Louisville. North Carolina (19-2) was a unanimous No. 1 in the preseason poll and for the first seven weeks of the season before losing to Boston College.
The five teams which have been No.1 this season are from two conferences: North Carolina, Wake Forest and Duke of the Atlantic Coast Conference and Pittsburgh and Connecticut of the Big East.
The record for consecutive weeks with a different No. 1 is seven in the 1993-94 season.
This is Connecticut's first appearance at No.1 since March 2006, and it is the Huskies' 25th week on top, all since 1995.
"I look at it like winning a good in-season tournament like Maui. It's an accomplishment for a minute, a day an hour, a week or whatever, but you, want to be there in April," Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun said Monday.
The Huskies' time there will be challenged immediately as they played at No. 5 Louisville on Monday night.
Connecticut received 64 first-place votes from the 72-member national media panel to easily outdistance Oklahoma (21-1), which moved up from fourth. The Sooners were last ranked No. 2 in the 2002-03 season. The Sooners were No. 1 on five ballots.
Connecticut is also ranked No.1 in the women's poll, the fourth season in which both programs from that school have been on ton.
Just as the top of the poll keeps
changing, so does the bottom. Three teams moved in this week. Minnesota returned after a one-week absence. Defending national champion Kansas had been out seven weeks. Utah joined for the first time this season.
The last five ranked teams were Kansas, Washington, Illinois, Arizona State and Utah State.
Georgetown (12-8) dropped out from 25th after losing its fifth straight game. The Hoyas were ranked all season, getting as high as No.9, which was when the Losing streak began.
With Georgetown out the, Big East is down to six teams in the
Top 25. The 16 team league set the record earlier this season with nine teams in the poll in one week. The ACC and Big Ten both have four teams in the rankings.
Kentucky's absence means the Southeastern Conference does not have a team in the poll for the first time since March 7, 1989, when it was still a Top 20. Tennessee, Florida and Kentucky of the SEC were all ranked at some point this season.
Kansas (17-4), which had to replace all five starters and a top reserve from the team that won it all last season, moved in at 20th having won six straight games.
State department sends badminton team abroad
SPORTS DIPLOMACY
Trip meant to improve relations between U.S. and Iran
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WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is sending a women's badminton team to Iran this week as part of a broad bid to engage the Iranian people through educational and cultural exchanges, the State Department said Monday.
Amid a wide-ranging review of U.S. policy toward the Islamic Republic, the trip is the new administration's first foray into such exchanges that began while President George W. Bush was in the White House. Past exchanges have involved athletes from other sports, artists, academics and professionals.
The 12-member team — eight female players and four coaches and managers representing USA Badminton — will be in Tehran from Tuesday until
Feb. 9 to participate in the Iran Fajr International Badminton Tournament, which begins on Friday, the State Department said in a statement.
It said the U.S. squad was invited by the Iranian Badminton Federation and that they hoped to extend an invitation to Iran's national team to come to the United States in July. This week's trip is being sponsored by the State Department, which since 2006 has promoted people-to-people exchanges with Iran.
More than 250 Iranians, including artists, athletes, and medical professionals, have participated in exchange programs in the United States, the department said.
Previous sports exchanges, which started in Jan. 2007, have included wrestlers and weightlifters as well as basketball, table tennis and water polo players. Since
then, the department has sent 32 American athletes to Iran and brought 75 Iranian athletes and coaches to the United States.
The badminton trip is the first to take place under the Obama administration, which is considering new approaches to Iran. Those include direct official dialogue and the appointment of a special envoy to deal with Iran, which has not had diplomatic relations with the U.S. since 1979.
With tensions high over Iran's nuclear program and alleged support for extremists, the Bush administration in late December expressed grave concern about the detention and interrogation in Iran of an American academic who was participating in an exchange. The incident led the National Academies of Science to suspend educational exchanges with Iranian institutions.
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Dramatic setting for 2010 Games Vancouver boasts rich natural beauty and a West-Coast lifestyle
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back West Coast lifestyle, a place where visitors can literally ski in the morning, and sail in the afternoon. And, now, Vancouver is preparing to host the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.
With its sandy beaches, Pacific waters, lush rain forests and a glittering downtown full of skyscrapers, Vancouver considers itself a world-class destination on par with cities like Sydney, Australia, or San Francisco.
The region embodies the laid
It's the most populous destination ever to host the Winter Olympics, with 2.1 million people in the greater Vancouver regional area, according to Canada's 2006 census. It's also Canada's third time to welcome the Olympics, having hosted the Montreal 1976 Summer Games and the 1988 Calgary Winter Games. No
Canadian has ever won a gold medal on home turf.
The Vancouver region has been home to First Nations peoples, and it's a heritage that's celebrated throughout British Columbia.
Europeans arrived in British Columbia in the 18th and 19th centuries with the advent of the fur trade and several gold rushes which brought prospectors from around the world.
Now, the region boasts a multiethnic makeup and vast cultural diversity. Several influxes of Asian immigrants have made it home to one of the largest Chinese populations outside China.
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This is the heart of old Vancouver, which grew up quickly around a makeshift tavern established in 1867 by gold prospector "Gassy" Jack Deighton.
Visitor should be careful not to stray too far south of Gastown lest they wind up in the city's notoriously squalid and poverty-striken notorious Downtown Eastside where drugs and prostitution are rampant.
For the less well-heeled, the surrounding area is home to a number of hostels and cheap eateries.
The area was an early "skid row," a term said to have originated in Seattle, where, as in Vancouver, logs were "skipped" along roads to sawmills.
Galleries in other areas are worth a visit. The Vancouver Art Gallery hosts international shows as well as a permanent exhibit of the work of Emily Carr who documented West Coast native life.
The gallery steps are a focus of the city's leisure crowd, lounging to take in the scene and watch street performers.
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From there, it's a short hop to casual Kitsilano, where Fourth Avenue was Vancouver's 1960s hippie haven. It's now home to an eclectic assortment of restaurants and one-of-a-kind shops.
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And, at the bottom of the cliffs is Wreck Beach, in warm weather one of North America's favorite nude hangouts.
The night buzz in Vancouver is on glittering Robson Street, the city's Rodeo Drive North, lined with top-name boutiques, oyster bars and java joints. For the more adventurous, the award-winning restaurant atop Grouse Mountain accessible by a gondola offers unparalleled views of Vancouver and its harbor.
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The University should allot more time for students to receive a 100 percent refund on their tuition when dropping a course at the beginning of a new semester. Currently, a 90 percent refund policy begins the first day of class, so a student loses the opportunity for a refund on a class before even attending.
Therefore, if you go to class on the first day and the syllabus outlines a work load you can't handle, your TA doesn't speak English, you decide to be an engineer instead of a creative writer, you discover learning Mandarin Chinese isn't for you, or any of the other valid reasons one could have for dropping a course, you are losing 10 percent of what you paid. Essentially students are losing money for showing up for a syllabus and plagiarism/attendance talk. The University rationalizes this policy as one that ultimately benefits students.
"It is the University's responsibility to manage its academic resources so that they benefit the largest number of students," said Jill Jess Associate Director of News and Media Relations. "When a student does not intend to attend or complete a class but remains enrolled after the semester begins, he or she may deprive another student of a place in that class. The refund policy helps remind students of the importance of finalizing their plans for the semester in a timely manner."
But having the 100 percent refund extend into the first week of the semester is not going to prevent a student from enroll
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The University wants students to make the best decisions possible, but they are not giving students the proper resources to do so. Students are responsible enough to "finalize plans in a timely manner" and be refunded the money they deserve.
ing in a class they really want to take, even if the class doesn't have an open spot until after school starts exploration. In addition to this, students do not have a clear understanding of class expectations until actually going to class. If the policy is going to remain as it is, syllabi need to be available
The University receives its largest portion of money directly from students paying tuition, and should be treating
students accordingly.
This is the only Board of Regents-accredited university in Kansas that doesn't allow at least some class time before offering less than a full refund, and the policy has been like this for at least a decade. It is time for a review of this policy, which is
If you want the University to extend the period it offers full refunds for classes, contact the Registrar's office at (785) 864-4423.
inconsistent with students' needs, and with other schools' standards. Kansas State University allows 14 days of class before the 100 percent refund period ends. Emporia State's 100 percent refund extends for 15 days, and Wichita State allows five days.
If the University wants to continue being a forerunner in Kansas this money hoarding policy needs to be adjusted to better serve students.
— Caitlin Thornbrugh for The Kansan Editorial Board
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Step out of box a leap into something new
Some people are simply gifted. Things just come naturally to them. The rest of us have to work as hard as we can to keep up. But that's exactly what we need to do. When I first applied to write for The Kansan, I knew I would have to renew my commitment to writing. The people on staff were obviously more gifted than I, so I would have to work twice as hard to be as good as them. And anyone who knows me knows this would not be so easy.
People who simply have natural talent often discourage me. I read their work — the Rick Reillys, the Mitch Albams — and think I could never be that good. But that's wrong. When someone does something better than us, their accomplishments should inspire us to strive to be better, to try harder, to not settle for being just another person who shrugs his shoulders before giving up. Whether in your field of study, in pick up games at the rec center, hell, even in beer pong, you should want to be the best or better than you ever thought possible. (Maybe beer pong is a stretch, but you gotta begin somewhere.)
Then I came to the University. I thought I was the best writer on staff when I was in Garden City. But I used to read The
I began as a writer on my community college newspaper, a biweekly publication with very few staff members. I became editor-in-chief in addition to writing sports, news and commentary about anything that struck me. Ideas weren't hard to come by for these commentaries. I simply sat down and wrote about the first thing that came to mind. I thought it was that easy. And it was.
JAN LUCERO
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Kansan regularly and was in awe of what the stuff writers would think of. I marveled at the way everything was put together. I never thought I would have the opportunity to be a part of a publication like that.
Now here I sit, writing my first column for The Kansan. Anticipations and expectations run wild through my head. I know good columnists write for a purpose. They write with their audience in mind, hoping their message will affect someone in some way. I realize my audience members probably won't change their lives in response to the words that appear under my name. I can promise, however, that every time I write, I believe I'm working toward communicating something greater than myself. I write with the intent that I might be able to make a difference. And as someone who comes from a small town in New Mexico, writing for The Kansan is what I am doing to get out of my comfort zone and move toward being the best writer I can be.
I realize it can be daunting when you see someone better than you think you ever can be; however, don't look at his or her talent as a threat, but as an opportunity. An opportunity to work harder and better yourself, because you never know when you'll be the person others are looking to for inspiration.
Lucero is a Farmington, N.M., junior in journalism.
FROSH THINKING
Guantanamo prisoners should make move to Ft. Leavenworth
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The terrorists are coming! Well, actually they're terror suspects. I mean, technically, we call them enemy combatants. But let's not get lost in hugely important distinctions.
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In his second full day in office President Obama signed an executive order beginning the process of closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. It is likely that some or all of the inmates will be brought onto American soil.
Enter Leavenworth.
The fort houses the United States Disciplinary Barracks, and according to the Leavenworth Convention and Visitor's Bureau Web site, it is the only long-term prison in the Department of Defense. Commentators have cited Fort Leavenworth as a possible location to hold current Guantanamo inmates.
According to the Leavenworth Times, although many local officials have come out against the possibility, opposition is not universal.
Kansas politicians do not agree. Most politicians are working vigorously to find any and every possible argument against such a move.
Republican Sen. Sam Brownback, in an opinion piece on CNN.com, argued that relocating inmates to Leavenworth would be a mistake. He noted that as the prison is rated as medium-security, civilian housing is only feet away from the existing facility.
MARIAM SAIFAN
Although the logistical challenges of housing the prisoners would be real, stopping such a plan because of those challenges would be an opportunity lost. Kansas might be seen as a more progressive state for making a necessary sacrifice to guarantee American safety.
That was the mood I received when I approached a group of college students at the Harbor Lights Coffeehouse in Leavenworth.
Jeni Schneider, Leavenworth junior at the University of St. Mary, works at the Command and General Staff College, located in Fort Leavenworth. She said she had no problem with the possibility.
Laurie Haney, also a junior at the University of St. Mary, was unmoved by the prospect of detainees coming to Leavenworth. Haney said that those at Leavenworth were used to lots of prisoners.
"They already have very good security," Schneider said. "I never feel insecure at Fort Leavenworth. I feel safer at Fort Leavenworth than in Leavenworth."
Housing the prisoners in Kansas could make a positive difference. The extra resources needed would undoubtedly create jobs, both directly and indirectly related to housing the prisoners.
But despite of the issues to be addressed before Kansas could undertake such an operation, there is still the thorny fact that the detainees have to go somewhere. I've always viewed Kansas as a state that welcomes challenges. The default view of our politicians should be to ask how we can meet this challenge, not how we can avoid it. If not, we might end up forfeiting an opportunity.
Shorman is a McPherson freshman in journalism.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"I messed up and I hurt a lot of people. I mean, I really messed up ... I cheated because I was weak. I'm not in denial; I cheated. I take responsibility and, unfortunately, the consequences have really been terrific."
Former Baylor coach Dave Bliss to the Rocky Mountain News
FACT OF THE DAY
Bliss' successor Scott Drew has an overall record of 73-86 in his five-plus years in Waco. The Bears had their first season over .500 last year for the first time since Drew arrived in Waco. Baylor went 21-11 (9-7), finished tied for fourth in the Big 12.
Q: Where has Bliss landed after being banned from coaching by the NCAA Infractions Committee?
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
A: Bliss is the president and co-founder of Interactive Occupational Training inc. The 2-year-old company develops online training programs for businesses and organizations.
— Scripps Howard News Service
NCAA WOMEN
N.C. State coach Yow buried in hometown
GIBSONVILLE, N.C. — North Carolina State women's basketball coach Kay Yow was laid to rest a week after her death following a long fight against cancer.
Yow was buried Saturday in her hometown, about 70 miles west of Raleigh. The Hall of Famer coached at nearby Elon for four years before taking over at N.C. State in 1975 and piling up more than 700 career wins.
Associated Press
COMMENTARY
The best of the Big 12 Conference
With the nonconference schedule and nearly half of the Big 12 Conference season behind us, it's high time for a midseason awards briefing.
Big 12 Player of the Year: Blake Griffin, Oklahoma forward
This one is a no-brainer. Griffin is Michael Beasley, minus a reliable jumper, plus a will to compete. Griffin is easily the conference's best rebounder and among its most efficient scorers.
Runner up: Cole Aldrich, Kansas center
Big 12 Newcomer of the Year: Denis Clemente, Kansas State guard
The crop of incoming transfers is thin this season in the Big 12. So much so that Kansas forward Mario Little (12 minutes per game) might have snagged this one if not for Clemente's 44 point explosion this past weekend in a Kansas State victory at Texas. The Miami transfer is Kansas State's best scorer and bestpermeter defender.
Runner up: Mario Little, Kansas forward
BY ASHER FUSCO
afusco@kansan.com
Warren's transition from high school stud to starter at Oklahoma hasn't consistently smooth,
Big 12 Freshman of the Year:
Willie Warren, Oklahoma guard.
but the rugged 6-foot-4 wing is improving by the game. Warren is hard to stop when he drives and he gets plenty of open outside shots when defenses double-team Griffin.
Runner up: Jamar Samuels,
Kansas State forward
Midseason All-Big 12 team:
Obi Muonelo, Oklahoma State guard — Chronically overlooked. Muonelo is a 41 percent three-point shooter who grabs nine rebounds per game.
Sherron Collins, Kansas guard — The layhawks would have a few more in the loss column if not for Collins' heroes.
Craig Brackins, Iowa State forward — Kansas fans saw Brackins at his versatile best two weekends ago when he dropped 42 points and 14 rebounds in a losing effort.
ward — He's a force of nature around the basket.
Blake Griffin, Oklahoma for-
Andrea Riley, Oklahoma State guard — The Cowgirls have disappointed a bit, but Riley averages 24 points per game.
Women's Midseason All-Big 12 team:
Cole Aldrich, Kansas center — Aldrich could be the nation's most improved player. He's come from eight minutes per game as a freshman to being the second most productive player in the Big 12.
Honorable mention:
Cory Higgins, Colorado guard; James Anderson, Oklahoma State guard; Curtis Jerrells, Baylor guard; DeMarre Carrol, Missouri forward; Damion James, Texas forward.
Shalee Lehning, Kansas State guard — Lehning is a threat to
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Danielle McCray, Kansas guard — McCray carries Kansas night in and night out.
Danielle Wilson, Baylor forward
- Top 10 in the Big 12 in scoring and rebounding.
Courtney Paris, Oklahoma forward — A double-double machine.
Edited by Susan Melgrem
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It's part blog, part column, part pop-culture melting pot. It's The Morning Brew. A daily dose of Kansas sports, college life and pop culture.
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NCAA WOMEN
Connecticut stays at No.1
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Connecticut remains in a class by itself.
The Huskies were a unanimous No.1 in The Associated Press poll for the 10th straight week Monday. They blew out then-No.6 Louisville last Monday before routing Georgetown on Saturday.
UConn (21-10) is the lone unbeaten team, winning by an average of 34 points. On Tuesday, the Huskies face Big East rival Rutgers, which fell out of the
rankings last week.
Oklahoma stayed at No. 2 after winning at Baylor on Wednesday. The Sooners host No. 12 Tennessee on Monday night as Lady Vols coach Pat Summit goes for her 1,000th victory.
Connecticut received all 45 first-place votes for 1,125 points from the national media panel. Oklahoma totaled 1,079 points.
Connecticut is also ranked No. 1 in the men's poll, the fourth season in which both UConn programs have been No. 1 at the
California moved up four spots to No. 3. The Bears were third for two weeks earlier in the season. Duke fell one place to fourth after losing to Florida State in overtime. Despite losing to Connecticut, Louisville moved up to No. 5 for its best ranking ever.
Auburn fell to sixth after losing its first game of the season to Georgia. Stanford climbed two places to seventh. Baylor dropped four spots and was tied for No. 8 with North Carolina.
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Connecticut's Tina Charles shoots the ball against Georgetown's Lilia Mage during the first half of a game on Saturday in Washington. Connecticut won 80-61 and remains the only unbeaten team.
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Postgame from the Kansan couch
BY RUSTIN DODD
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8:08 p.m. — Greetings, we're live from the KAK for Kansas' Big Monday matchup with Baylor. We're making history here. It's the first ever University Daily Kansan game diary, bloggy, column thing. Or something like that. Let me set the scene. We got a room full of dudes, two couches, a Kansas basketball media guide and a bag of pretzels. So let's get this thing started...
Twins play a breakout game
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8:14 Brady Morningstar hits a three-pointer and Kansas is on the board. And somewhere, the legions of people who inexplicably loathe Brady Morningstar just let out a collective groan.
8:20 — OK, are you listening, Baylor fan with the "Not In Kansas Anymore" sign? Are you? Here's the deal. I know you think you're funny. Yeah, yeah, we get it. Wizard of Oz, Judy Garland, yellow brick road, and all that. But you live in Waco, Texas. WACO! That is all.
8:23 — With Kansas trailing 9-5, Cole Aldrich goes to the free throw line and we get the obligatory highlight of
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Freshman forward Marcus Morris struggles to execute a layup during Monday night's game in Waco. Kansas managed its second narrow victory in a row, beating the Bears 75-65.
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Marcus and Markieff provide strong effort for Kansas on offense, defense
BY CASE KEEF ER ckeefer@kansan.com
WACO, Texas — They do everything together.
Freshman forwards Marcus and Markieff Morris wear the same clothes, eat at the same places and take the same classes. So it's only appropriate that the Morris twins both compiled breakout games in a 75-65 Kansas victory against Baylor at the Ferrell Center.
"Coach always groups us together and says if one of us plays good, the other plays good and if one of us plays bad that means we both played bad," Marcus said. "Today, he told us we played awesome."
Marcus scored 13 points and had six rebounds. Markieff added nine points, nine rebounds and two blocks. More importantly, they combined for 11 points during a 16-7 run at the beginning of the second half that separated the Jayhaws from the Bears.
Markieff made the third three-pointer of his career from the top of the key to cap off the run and put Kansas ahead 43-33. When Baylor coach Scott Drew called a timeout immediately afterward, Marcus ran out on the court to congratulate his brother with a chest bump.
"When they're getting hyped," junior guard Sherron Collins said, "there isn't any limit to what we can do."
At least, there wasn't Monday. The game was never the same after the twins' energetic start to the second half. Although Baylor went on a 9-0 run over the next three minutes to cut the lead to three, it never got any closer than that to beating Kansas for only the second time in 15 all-time games.
The victory improved Kansas to 7-0 in the Big 12 Conference and 18-4 overall, but this was about
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more than that. This was about the jayhawks playing their best game of the season.
And it all started the way Kansas coach Bill Self wanted it to – with defense. The Jayawhacks Baylor's leading scorer, senior guard Curtis Jerrells, to four points on 0-for-7 shooting from the field.
"We challenged all of our guys to give up yourself and guard first," Self said. "When you focus in on that, other things happen more naturally."
While jerrells wont scoreless for the first 32 minutes of the game and never took control, Kansas leader did the opposite. Collins meant everything to the layawhacks.
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He scored 17 points with six assists in 39 minutes. He defended jerrells for most of the night. With Baylor rallying and attempting to cut it to a two-possession game with three minutes remaining. Collins stole the ball from Baylor guard Henry Dugat.
The Collins steel translated into two points for the jayhawks and
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Jayhawks look for good in four-game losing streak
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Junior forward Danielle McCray battles to put up a shot during a series of misses against Kansas State last month. McCray had been experiencing a slump since the start of Big 12 play, but has recently gotten back into her groove.
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Kansas' turnovers, lack of bench points contribute to string of losses
BY JAYSON JENKS
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Stuck in a four-game losing streak, and with multiple chances to grab victories having slipped away, the Jayhawks wanted little to do with the positives after a disappointing 73-60 loss at Texas A&M on Saturday.
After losses this season, coach Bonnie Henrickson and her players often engage in talks about their missteps, but also quickly pointed to the positive trends to build on.
Still, to be fair, The Kansan looks at both the ups and downs during the jayhawks' recent skid.
RE-EMERGENCE OF DANIELLE MCCRAY
At one point three weeks ago, much of Kansas' postgame attention focused on the slump and struggles of junior forward Danielle McCray.
McCray has scored at least 20 points in four consecutive games while making 44 percent of her shots. And, most importantly, McCray is scoring when the Jayhawks need it most.
"Her poise and composure has been really good," Henrickson said. "She's played tough."
Not anymore.
NO BENCH CONSISTENCY
Before conference play began. Henrickson noted the improvement of Kansas' bench from a year ago.
"We need some other kids to step up and make some plays too," Henrickson said.
So far, that hasn't been apparent on the court. In the first six games of the Big 12 season, Kansas has had only one game in which a bench player has scored in double figures. And, against Nebraska on Jan. 21, Kansas' bench produced zero points.
THE APPEARANCE OF KRYSTEN BOOGAARD
For the simple sake of creating balance, sophomore center Krysten Boogaard is a vital piece of Kansas' offensive strategy.
At times, Boogaard has played the part of inside scorer perfectly. Against Nebraska, Boogaard scored 12 points. Then, facing a quick and tall Texas A&M team on Saturday, Boogaard added eight first-half points.
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF KRYSTEN BOOGAARD
HardertoeexplainthanBoogaard's successes are her abrupt stretches of little production. On Saturday,
True, defenses seem to make a mission to take away Boogaard inside. But without her, the Jayhawks become one-dimensional and easier for other teams to defend.
In the past two games, Jacobs has flashed a unique ability to drive and score in the lane against talented defenses.
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Jacobs has averaged 10.5 points in the last two games and has given Kansas another much-needed threat on offense.
Boogaard followed a solid first half against Texas A&M with just one point after the break.
TURNOVERS
"I think she's capable of doing that every game," McCray said. "It's not surprising to me she's played that well. She just needs to bring that all the time."
Few Jayhawks have handled the ball thoroughly throughout Kansas' four-game losing streak. While Kansas had only 10 turnovers in a loss to Kansas State on Jan. 24, turnovers cost the Jayhawks victories against Nebraska and Texas A&M.
"She has to sit down, demand the ball and call for a pass," Henrickson said.
In junior guard Sade Morris' absence, Henrickson made little attempt to hide Morris' importance to Kansas. And it's no surprise: She drives, she makes three pointers and she's the Jayhawks' best one-on-one defender. Morris suffered a Grade 2 concussion on Jan. 17. In her first game back on Saturday, Morris played 40 minutes and scored 11 points.
And it's a problem that has repeatedly resulted in Kansas losses this season.
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"You can't pinpoint one team that has just killed us," McCray said. "We've just been beating ourselves and throwing the ball away."
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"I'ts just great to have her back," McCray said. "And she gives us another defensive presence."
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Since then, however, Smith has made just two threes, while averaging 3.3 points in her last four games.
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Community members discuss budget cut possibilities
LAWRENCE
BY MICHELLE SPREHE msprehe@kansan.com
Lawrence could face a budget cut of $1.1 million for the 2010 fiscal year.
Dave Corliss, Lawrence city manager, suggested preparatory measures in response to the budget Gov. Kathleen Sebelius proposed for the state in January. More than 50 community members were on hand to discuss the plan at the city commission meeting Tuesday night.
Cortisl' recommended cuts would reduce funding for organizations
To view Gov. Sebelius' fiscal year 2010 budget report, visit: http://budget.ks.gov/gbr.htm
To view a list of city manager
Corliss' recommended reductions visit:
such as the Lawrence Arts Center, the Lawrence Community Shelter and the Lawrence Boys and Girls Club. The reductions would also eliminate paid school crossing guards and city band concerts in South Park, as well as close Prairie Park Nature Center
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said Mjike Amyx, city commissioner. "But you start preparing early just in case."
He said the Kansas Legislature was debating all parts of the budget.
"We're going through a process now on what the effects will be," Amyx said.
Tuesday was the first time the
cuts had been addressed at a commission meeting since Corliss introduced them on Friday.
The proposed budget would cut about $96,000 from the Lawrence Boys and Girls Club's budget, leaving little money for activities.
April Rand, Missouri Valley, Iowa, graduate student, volunteers with the organization and said she realized how the possible cuts could hurt the club.
"If they received less funding, I think the first thing to happen with children is they would lose art supplies and not go on field trips."
Rand said. "It may get to the pon where they'd have to close a site."
Every Tuesday and Wednesday, Rand coaches basketball at the club, but if the club gets less funding she may have to find another way to keep the kids active.
"We're going to really have to tighten our belts," Leamon said. "It's not just us — everybody is."
David Leamon, executive director of the Lawrence Arts Center, attended the meeting to speak on behalf of the center.
The arts center is facing a potential loss of approximately $29,000
"There will definitely be an impact on us," Leamon said. "Any loss of funding makes it difficult to do what we do well."
from general funding and $13,000
from special recreation funding.
The city commission will make an official decision about the budget cuts after the state budget is set in May.
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REMEDY ROOMS
Shannon Sulivan, Ottawa senior is painting a mural in a children's therapy room at the Elk Grove Village Civic Centre. Jon Goering/KANSAN
Shannon Sullivan, Ottawa senior, is painting a mural in a children's therapy room at the Elizabeth Layton Center in Ottawa. The bright colors and designs can help increase tranquility in young patients.
Bright walls brush on good moods
Paint schemes can lift spirits and offer a different form of expression
BY KAYLA REGAN
kregan@kansan.com
Students between the ages of 18 and 30 are more susceptible to the depression and stress of Seasonal Affective Disorder, the National Mental Health Association found in its most recent survey of SAD. The Mayo Clinic suggested that those suffering from a case of the winter blues could brighten their lives by brightening their rooms.
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in Ottawa, said painting was as much about the process as the finished product. "When, we paint," Drake said, "it's easier to express emotion and to let emotion out. It's therapy."
Diane Drake, executive director of the Elizabeth Layton Center, a mental health service and program center
Shannon Sullivan, Ottawa senior, is painting a fairy tale mural for Chloe's Corner, a
child therapy room in the center. The mural features mostly green and blue, which are commonly associated with tranquility and relaxation. Sullivan said she usually painted with warm, dark colors but she found using
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Green: Clear perception, self-recognition, compassion
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Tim Webly, St. Louis senior, said the law would be a good change because some people didn't realize they were buying weaker beer.
"They go to a gas station and think they're getting full-strength beer." Webly said, "when they're really getting piss-water."
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The proposed bill would enable grocery and convenience stores to sell 4 percent beer by weight instead of 3.2.
A hearing for those supporting the bill starts today at 10:30 a.m. at the state capitol. The opposition will have a public hearing tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. at the same location.
The Kansas House and Senate will soon vote on a new bill allowing supermarkets and convenience stores to sell beer with higher alcohol content.
Currently, Kansas allows supermarkets and convenience stores to sell only 3.2 beer, which is beer containing 3.2 percent alcohol by weight or 4 percent by volume. The origin of 3.2 beer comes from the Blaine Act.
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Months before prohibition ended in 1933, the Blaine Act was approved by the U.S. Senate. The Blaine Act allowed the sale of 3.2 beer as a non-intoxicating liquor and was labeled a cereal malt beverage.
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Bill could permit sales of drinks with higher alcohol content in convenience stores
After prohibition ended, Kansas wanted to remain a dry state and
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INTERNATIONAL 1. Iran launches satellite using rocket technology
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran sent its first domestically made satellite into orbit, the president announced Tuesday, a key step for an ambitious space program that worries the U.S. and other world powers because the same rocket technology used to launch satellites can also deliver warheads.
For nearly a decade, Iran has sought to develop a national space program, creating unease among international leaders already concerned about its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
A U.S. counterproliferation official confirmed the launch and suggested the technology was not sophisticated.
2. Leader releases new stimulus plan in Australia
CANBERRA, Australia — Australia's leader unveiled a new stimulus package Tuesday to try to shield the economy, promising 42 billion Australian dollars ($26
billion) in spending that will send the budget into the red for the first time in nearly a decade.
The package comes on top of one launched late last year worth 10.4 billion Australian dollars (S7.4 billion) and underscores the threat the downturn poses to Australia's resources-based economy, which has shuddered to a near halt since the worldwide financial turmoil began.
3. Militant attack blocks supply lines temporarily
PESHWAW, Pakistan — Militants blew up a bridge in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, cutting the major supply line for U.S.-led troops in Afghanistan with an explosion that turned the narrow span into a jagged metal "V"
It was the latest, and perhaps most serious, attempt to block supplies to the U.S.-led mission against the Taliban.
A NATO spokesman in Afghanistan said supplies along the route had been halted "for the time being," but stressed the alliance was in no danger of running out of food, equipment or fuel.
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DENVER — A United Airlines jet returned safely to the Denver airport Tuesday after a bird struck one of its engines shortly after takeoff.
The engine that was struck continued to operate and the second engine wasn't affected, airline spokeswoman Megan McCarthy said. A passenger said the bird hit the right engine.
None of the 151 passengers and crew were injured.
5. GM prepares to offer buvouts to union workers
NEW YORK — General Motors Corp. will offer buyouts to all of its hourly employees, a spokesman confirmed Tuesday, as the troubled automaker continues to slash costs.
GM spokesman Tony Sapienza said the buyouts will mainly target GM's 22,000 retirement-eligible hourly employees, though any union employee can take the offer.
News of the buyouts first broke on Monday.A union official told The Associated Press then that GM would offer $20,000 in cash and a $25,000 car voucher for workers who retire early and those who simply leave.
6. MySpace announces removal of sex offenders
RALEIGH, N.C. — MySpace says about 90,000 sex offenders have been identified and removed from its huge social networking Web site.
North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper said Tuesday the new figure is nearly double what MySpace officials originally announced last year.
Cooper and Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal have led efforts to make social networking Web sites safer.
Last year, the attorneys general got MySpace and rival Facebook to implement dozens of safeguards. That included limits on older users' ability to search the profiles of members under 18.
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Jayhawk Shuffle
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"It's pretty eclectic and random. I have everything from soundtracks, to rap, hip-hop and even classical music."
The first 10 songs on shuffle on her iPod:
1. "Come A Little Closer" by Lila McCann
2. "From the Inside Out" by Aaron Pelsue Band
3. "Won't Back Down" by Mat Kearney
4. "Here Comes the Sun" by The Beatles
5. "Heart-Shaped Box" by Nirvana
6. "Set Me On Fire" by Aaron Pelsue Band
7. "Drive" by Incubus
8. "One" by Creed
10. "Never Going Back to Ok" by The Afters
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The Access 2007: Introduction workshop will begin at 1 p.m. in the Budig PC Lab.
The Dreamweaver: Getting Started workshop will begin at 1 p.m. in the Instruction Center in Anschutz Library.
The Faiths of Our Founders seminar will begin at 2 p.m. In Continuing Education.
The Tea Time public event will begin at 7 p.m. in the Centennial Room in the Kansas Union.
The "America's First Look at China — van braaam's Painting Albums, 1790-1795" lecture will begin at 5 p.m. in Room 211 in the Spencer Museum of Art.
"The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial" production will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Lied Center.
The "What Darwin Started: Evolution and the Fossil Record" public event will begin at 7 p.m. in the Panorama Gallery in Dyche Hall.
"Barbara Jordan: Speaking the Truth with Eloquent Thunder" will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Regnery Hall Auditorium on the Edwards Campus.
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On Jan. 28, a KU student reported a burglary.
On Jan. 30, a KU student reported theft of a wallet.
On Jan. 31, a KU student reported criminal damage to a vehicle window. Another KU student reported burglary of a 12-inch subwoofer and box.
On Feb. 1, a KU student reported criminal damage of a coffee mug and table.
On Feb. 2, a KU student reported battery.
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The orange reticulated python, the world's longest snake species, and a second python, measuring 13 feet, escaped from a terrarium in their owner's home Sunday night.
Police warned residents that the snakes were large enough to make meals of young children or pets. Both had been captured by Monday afternoon.
Police said the snakes owner will not be cited.
"There is no leash law for snakes," said police Sgt. Kurt Hixenbaugh.
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Housing looks to conserve
Towers and scholarship halls hold conservation competitions
BY AMANDA THOMPSON
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For the first time, some campus housing is using the month of February to inspire residents to think about sustainable living through a competitive atmosphere.
The towers program is called "Towers Going Green"
The Jayhawker Towers and scholarship halls have started programs to inspire residents to reduce energy and water usage for the month.
Megan Gerwick, Derby junior and senior staff resident assistant for the towers, said she would work with two other resident assistants to head up the towers' efforts on green campus living. Gerwick said fliers would be posted around the towers each week with suggestions on how residents could reduce their effects on the environment. This week's tip: Reduce shower time by two minutes and save 180 gallons of water a month.
"With the info we're showing, it's kind of eye-opening to realize how much water and energy were using and how much we can save by changing really small habits," Gerwick said.
To gauge the success of the program, Gerwick said, the program leaders collected the water and energy bills for the month of February from the past two years. They will average the two bills and set that average as the number to beat. Gerwick said results would be calculated in the middle of March.
Travis Kimple. Beloit sophomore, is the All Scholarship Hall Council environmental chairman. The scholarship hall program Kimple leads is called "Rock Chalk Turn it Off". This is the first year the halls are participating in a conservation program and all 12 halls are getting involved. Similar to the "Towers Going Green" program, the competition among the halls emphasizes the reduction in energy and water usage based off the previous year's February energy and water bills.
The results for each scholarship hall will be calculated by the percentage decrease in use from the February 2008 totals. Kimple said the scholarship hall with the highest percentage drop in energy and water usage would receive atrophy.
"It's actually going to be a big indoor plant." Kimple said. "It will have a plaque on it recognizing the winning hall, so there's definitely incentive."
Kimple said he wanted scholarship hall residents to remember the tips put around the building for longer than just a month.
"What I'm primarily looking for, and I think most residents understand this, is that this program is designed to change your lifestyle." Kimple said. "This isn't just some silly competition. We all know it's an exercise in lifestyle, and that's really what it's all about."
Tyler Enders, Leawood sophomore, had a new vision for a campus wide green living competition that would take place after spring break. Enders said he wanted all campus housing, including Greek houses and residence halls, to participate in a competition similar to that of the towers and scholarship halls called Green Wars.
Enders said he got the idea from LeaderShape, where students came up with ideas that could change campus. Enders said that after LeaderShape his inbox was flooded with offers for help from other LeaderShape members. He said the positive support for his idea made him feel responsible for following through with it.
"The support made me much more gung-ho about it." Enders
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- Turn off lights when leaving a room — no one needs a light if no one is there.
Don't spend too long in the shower, even though it's tempting with cold weather.
Turn off printers. Printers are often left on, and they can use a sizeable amount of energy.
said. "A fire has been lit under me."
For the Green Wars competition in the spring, Gerwick said she would team with Kimple, as well as a representative of Greek housing and a representative of the residence halls, to start the program.
Gerwick said she hoped to make saving money on energy and water a habit for towers residents by the time Green Wars started.
"We think of it as a continuation of what we're doing now" Gerwick said.
Kimple said the scholarship hall program would act as a test to see how the larger campus-wide competition would work. He said that although the competition was still in the planning process, he didn't think the scholarship halls would participate in a second official round of the green housing competition.
Enders said he hoped the findings from the scholarship halls would translate well to Greek housing, and the findings from the towers would translate into valuable numbers for the residence halls.
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Witnesses testify in Cowley County murder trial
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WINFIELD — Jurors in the capital murder trial of a man charged with abducting and killing a Cowley College student traveled Tuesday to sites connected with the case and heard from witnesses who testified the man had stalked them.
Justin Thurber, 25, of Arkansas City, is accused of kidnapping, raping and strangling 19-year-old Jodi Sandherm in January 2007. Thurber could be sentenced to death if the jury in Cowley County District Court convicts him of capital murder.
The jury saw photos and videos of the Kaw Wildlife area where Sanderholm's battered body was
discovered several days after her Jan. 5 disappearance. They had also seen pictures of nearby Cowley State Fishing Lake, where her car was found submerged.
But prosecutors wanted the jurors to get a firsthand look at those scenes.
In the courtroom earlier Tuesday, prosecutors focused on events before Sanderholm's disappearance. They called three women who bore a resemblance to Sanderholm to testify about being stalked and harassed by Thurber.
Lori Leggiter, who was a member along with Sanderholm of the Cowley College dance team, testified that a car matching the description of Thurber's followed her after she got off work at a restaurant in the days leading up to
Sanderholm's death.
On the day Sanderholm disappeared, Legleiter said, she noticed Thurber in his car while she was parking for dance practice. After the practice, she and Sanderholm walked to their cars together.
Also testifying Tuesday was an Arkansas City police office who stopped Thurber for failing to yield the right of way on the Cowley College campus during the time Sanderholm would have been in dance practice.
Prosecutors allege Sanderholm was abducted near her home shortly after the practice ended.
Testimony Wednesday is expected to focus on what happened after Sanderholm's abduction.
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continued to sell only 3.2 beer, which anyone 18 years and older could drink, Kansas later repealed its dry status in 1948, allowing people 21 years and older to buy full-strength beer and liquor, while those aged 18 to 20 could still purchase 3.2 beer. In 1985, the state raised the drinking age to 21 to prevent the loss of federal highway funding.
Ken Holloway, Miami junior, said no one would buy convenience store beer because liquor stores were allowed to sell full-streight beer.
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Alex Melville, Rochester, N.Y., junior, said he would still go to the liquor store for beer because it was closer to his house.
"With the state of the economy, you can't go far on gas, you know." Melville said.
Jon Smiley, owner of Cork and Barrel, 2000 W. 23rd St., said the bill was hard to take seriously because similar bills had been proposed each year.
"I'll deal with it if and when it ever does happen." Smiley said.
"They will just keep sponsoring them until they win," jensen said.
Jeff Jensen, owner of Jensen Liquor, 620 W. Ninth St., agreed that there had been many similar bills in the past, but said for bills to be proposed so many times, someone had to sponsor them.
Jensen said that if the bill were passed it would have an adverse effect on his business, but he said he could still compete because of
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the alcoholic selection liquor stores offered.
"You never get quite the selection that you do in a liquor store," Jensen said. "People looking for interesting beers would still have to come to a liquor store."
Joe Hagger, Overland Park graduate student, agreed with Jensen's
logic.
"I primarily go to the liquor store just for selection purposes," he said. Hagger said he preferred imported beers, which were not carried by many convenience or grocery stores.
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brighter colors to be a rewarding process.
"I had no idea something so separate from my life could be so satisfying." Sullivan said. "But it's a simple concept. Creation in itself is therapeutic."
Dawn Guernsey, chairwoman of the department of art, said that as needs and personalities changed, updating room colors was crucial for everyone, no matter where they were in life or what season it was. By choosing an appropriate color scheme, Guernsey said, students could create a more personalized and comfortable environment and ultimately improve their well-being.
"It's part of the human condition." Guernsey said. "It's proven that images keep people from getting depressed, and people need visual stimulation to be healthy."
Stacey Pope, Topeka junior, said that when she first moved into her apartment, she painted her room a bright reddish-orange color. Pope said that the color caused stress and that she decided to repaint her room light blue for a more tranquil environment. Pope said the shade of blue she chose became boring and she ultimately went with "candle yellow" walls. She said the search for an appropriate paint color was a trial-and-error experiment.
"When I moved into my apartment, I wanted to make it very warm and a place where you really
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"Now, I think painting has become something I like about myself and something I do when I want to start over," Pope said.
loved being there." Pope said. "But whenever I painted it was so spontaneous. Now I think it is going to pay more attention to colors and if they could clash."
Like Rose, Pope will move out in August, but she said she would repaint the walls of her apartment white. She said that although she first thought the white paint was depressing, it was actually a reward.
Mark Rose, Wichita senior, painted six of the nine wooden panels in his room different colors. Four of the panels feature original designs, such as a portrait of his girlfriend and a panel with graffiti designs. Rose said he was proud of the personality and atmosphere he had created in his room. He said he planned to move out in August and thought the incoming residents would appreciate his art-inspired room.
"I've been working on painting for a really long time, and my friends usually think my room is pretty cool," Rose said. "I hope the people moving in are cool with it."
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The scientist's 200th birthday marks more than a century of evolution disputes
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NOV. 24, 1859 Charles Darwin publishes 'On the Origin of Species', putting forward his theory of evolution by natural selection.
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Darwin's"The Descent of Man" is published, explicitly applying his theories of evolution to humans.
Catholicism and evolution, as long as there is no attempt to apply evolution to issues of faith.
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Although Charles Darwin has been buried for more than 100 years, his ideas haven't rested with him.
Henry Morris founds the Institute for Creation Science as the primary voice for creation science.
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Feb. 12 marks the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth. This year also marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin's "On the Origin of Species," in which he proposed his theory of evolution through natural selection.
Several events are scheduled at the University to celebrate Darwin's work.
Bruce Lieberman, professor of geology and curator of invertebrate paleontology at the Natural History Museum, will present the lecture "What Darwin Started; Evolution and the Fossil Record," at 7 p.m. at the Natural History Museum.
Lieberman said he would survey Darwin's work and the new discoveries that had shaped the theory of evolution since Darwin's time. He described evolution as a cornerstone to scientific knowledge.
"All scientists accept the fact that humans evolved," Lieberman said.
Despite the apparent consensus in the scientific community, creationism and intelligent design remain two popular alternatives to Darwin's theory of "descent with modification."
In a May 2008 Gallup poll, 44 percent of respondents said they believed "God created man in present form," which is the basis of creationism.
In the same poll, 36 percent of respondents said they believed "man developed, with God guiding," a
statement more in line with intelligent design. Forty-four percent of respondents said they agreed "man developed, but God had no part in the process."
These conflicting viewpoints remain present at the University.
EVOLUTION
"To put it very simply," said Leonard Kristalka, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, "Darwin established once and for all that all organisms, including humans, shared a genetic ancestor."
Kristalka said Darwin dismissed the idea that humans were a breed separate from other organisms.
"Just as Galileo discovered that the Earth was not at the center of the solar system," he said, "Darwin discovered that humans were not at the center of any kind of creation."
Kristalka said creationism and intelligent design went against all modern science, mistaking people's religious faith for scientific evidence.
"If people want to believe in creationism or intelligent design, that is fine," he said. "But to confuse that
INTELLIGENT DESIGN
with knowledge is ignorant and arrogant."
According to Natural History Magazine, intelligent design was a widely accepted explanation of the natural world until the publication of Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" in 1859. Tony Bedora, a local minister with Campus Christians, said his beliefs were most closely aligned with intelligent design, the belief that biological systems resulted from purposeful design by a creator.
"I don't think I would say that evolution isn't a possibility." Bedora said. "God could have used evolution to create living things."
Kassidy Spring, Garnett sophomore, said she agreed with microevolution, the idea that small changes occurred within species over time.
Spring said she took issue with macroevolution, however, which describes major evolutionary changes that occurred at the level of species.
She said she didn't believe humans evolved from another spe-
cities, but that evidence showed things had changed over time.
She also said she believed dinosaurs and humans coexisted at some point in time.
Jennifer Harness, Ottawa senior, described herself as a creationist. She said she took the first two books of Genesis "quite literally" and believed the world had been in existence for 18,000 to 50,000 years.
"I think the only explanation for the fact that we live in an environment that is so perfect for us, that our bodies function with near perfection, and that our natural world works in perfect order." Spring said, "Is that there had to be something that designed and created it all?"
CREATIONISM
According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, creationism, the belief that an absolute god created all living things as they now exist, wasn't a major part of the religious scene until after the Civil War.
in our thinking," she said.
Lieberman acknowledged that science and popular opinion were not exactly on the same page.
"There may even be things existin today that we think are extinct that would create a paradigm shift
Harness said her skepticism of evolution stemmed from her personal faith.
"Science is not necessarily a popularity contest," Lieberman said. "We're in a time where this debate is politically charged. Science should be and tries to be outside the realm of politics."
"In my opinion," she said, "we can't prove that all life on earth began as an accident."
In addition to the lecture, the Natural History Museum will host a birthday party for Darwin at 4 p.m. on Feb.12.
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The Kansas City Star is reporting on its Web site that 31-year-old Juanita Sykes was arrested after firefighters discovered the alleged gas theft
Kansas City Police Officer Darin Snapp says Sykes has been charged with theft of utility services in the amount of $605.08.
Snapp says firefighters determined that the fire started because the improperly installed meter had no regulator.
Tuesday morning's fire displaced eight children, including a baby who was treated at the scene for smoke inhalation. Snapp says the children were turned over to the woman's sister.
Kansas City Fire Battalion Chief Joe Vitale says the fire did about $35,000 worth of damage to the home.
Senate approves higher limit on contributions
TOPEKA — The limit on campaign contributions for State Board of Education candidates would double to $1,000 under a bill approved Tuesday by the Senate.
The 40-0 vote sent the measure to the House.
Donations to candidates for the Board of Education and the Kansas House are now capped at $500. The limit is $1,000 for Senate candidates and $2,000 for candidates for governor and other statewide offices.
Proponents noted that each of the 10 board districts consists of four Senate districts.
Sen. Steve Abrams, an Arkansas City Republican who served on the board 14 years before winning his legislative seat last year, said the $500 limit makes it difficult to raise enough money to pay for travel and advertising.
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Overland Park senior Brittany Vaughn lives with three boys, Michael Michelson, Jake Pannenster and the one who doesn't pay rent, Tuxedo. Vaughn deals with her pet allergies year-round to be able to keep Tuxedo, her 3-year-old black and white cat.
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When Brittany Vaughn arrives at her apartment after a hectic day of class, she knows who will be at the door to greet her.
"It's really nice to have a companion," Vaughn, Overland Park park senior, said. "Being in college can
Tux, her cat.
be super lonely sometimes. It's nice to know that he is always there when I get home."
A March 2008 report published by the Anthrozoos Journal, a member of the American Psychological Association, compared results from participants reports of their relationships with pets and relationships with romantic partners.
The Web-based survey of 192 pet owners found that relationships with pets were more secure in every aspect and that they were a consistent source of attachment security.
Rowland said pets provided the unconditional love humans yearned for.
Robin Rowland, director of development at the Humane Society of Greater Kansas City, said people often spent more time with their pets than with their families.
"Every time I come home, my dog is leaping in the air for joy," Rowland said. "Our families are happy to see us, but they don't have the same physical reaction."
"I would have felt lost the whole time I was having problems with my ex." Sbezzi said. "Even though they can't talk or give you advice, they are there to comfort you and tell you everything is going to be OK."
Maryann Sbezzi, Sacramento, Calif., sophomore, has had her dog, a Shih Tzu named Samantha, for two months. She said her dog helped her through a recent breakup.
"It's really nice to have a companion. Being in college can be super lonely sometimes."
TJ Haynes, Shawnee junior, said his cat, Niko, was considered a member of the family by his parents.
"Whenever I bring my cat home to my parents, they always refer to themselves as the grandparents," Haynes said.
Haynes said he spent between $80 and $100 each month on his cat and often purchased toys for Niko to play with.
Sbezzi said she spent about $200 each month on her dog, which included veterinarian bills. She works two jobs to help pay for the expenses.
"I give my cat tons of attention," Haynes said. "He is spoiled rotten."
spending money to have fun, now I have to save some of that money for my dog," Sbezki said. "But I think it is completely worth it to have a lifelong companion."
Vaughn said that she didn't spend much money on her cat, but that she always made sure his needs were taken care of.
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"I have to think about him and if he has all the things that he needs
BRITTANY VAUGHN Overland Park senior
before I get the things that I want," Vaughn said. "In a sense it's like having a child because you have to take care of something else that is depending on you."
Rowland and her staff at the humane society match pets
Simply walking or spending time with a pet releases endorphins and strengthens the bond. Rowland said pets were a lifelong commitment because most people had their pets for 15 to 20 years.
with people who share similar personalities and lifestyles. She said people bought pets for companionship and reliability.
"Most people have their pets longer than they have their cars." Rowland said.
"It's really comforting knowing they are always going to be there," Vaughn said. "You can make mistakes and do things incorrectly, and they will still love you. They still depend on you."
Vaughn said she treasured the relationship she had with her cat.
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Shirley Sengmany, Garden City senior, and Lam Tran, Wichita junior, prepare mango salad Monday night at the Ecumenical Ministry Center. "Asian Cooking 101" was part of Asian Pacific Heritage Week and events are being held through Saturday night.
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The Asian-American Student Union, in cooperation with about 10 other student organizations, is hosting an Asian Pacific Heritage Week of events called "Transitions from Traditions." The week features events designed to educate, break Asian stereotypes and share different Asian cultures with KU students and Lawrence residents.
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Tony Nguyen, Wichita senior and AASU senator, said AASU had hosted a week of events called "Taste of Asia" every year for 16 years. Tony Nguyen said that as more Asian traditions influenced Americans, it was common to see Asian cuisine, art and customs integrated in American culture.
"Lawrence has always been a haven full of diversity." Tony Nguyen said. "Which is an ideal place for AASU and other student groups to reach out and enlighten the community on cultural issues."
The title "Transitions from Traditions" reflects the transitions Asian-Americans have made from the original traditions of their home countries. Tony Nguyen said the AASU wanted to concentrate on getting students interested in learning more about Asian culture on a larger scale.
Samantha Nguyen, Wichita junior and AASU internal president, said the AASU board chose each event to show the
Taking part in the weekly activities, the Spencer Museum of Art will hold an exhibit on different eras of Asian art Thursday. Friday, AASU will hold a dinner banquet with homemade food and donations from restaurants such as Peking Taste and Thai House.
Chastity Richmond, Iowa grade student and AASU advisor, said the students organizing and hosting the events prepared many of the meals themselves and tried to show a variety of Asian cultures every year.
"They take a great deal of pride in what they do," Richmond said.
interesting traditions of their various cultures.
"There is a stigma that all Asians are the same, or do the same things," Samantha Nguyen said. "That is not true. Asia is a continent containing many different ethnic groups and cultures, each varying on their traditions."
The "Transitions from Traditions" variety show, the final event of the week, will be Saturday from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tony Nguyen said it was the best example of the AASU's presentation of the diversity of Asian cultures on campus. The variety show includes performances by the Hong Kong & Macau Student Association, Korean Student Association, Japanese Student Association, South Asian Student Association, KU Cultural India Club
Samantha Nguyen said the event this year was different from previous years because of the large amount of support and input from other students organizations.
"By committing ourselves to strive for the best method to spread awareness and educate the public," Tony Nguyen said, "AASU and its supporters can break down misleading and sometimes controversial stereotypes."
"I really have high hopes for a big turnout. We've tried our best to make each event convenient, affordable and enjoyable to all students," she said. "I love setting up these events to show and break myths about Asian-Americans."
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You like to tell your friends everything, and everybody's your friend. Therefore, don't even apply for that job at the CIA. And don't talk about your business to those who have no business knowing it.
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Today is a 6
You and your partner need to review your financial situation. Get some expert advice while you're at it. You do well by yourselves, but a new perspective wouldn't hurt.
Today is a 6
Be careful with your shopping.
You want to impress important people, but don't do it by going into debt. You wouldn't respect yourself, and that's more important.
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Today is an 8
The hard part should be over soon, providing an excellent reason to celebrate with your friends, as if you needed a reason.
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Today is a 9
Everything seems possible again.
While this euphoria lasts, make a list of what you can do to make all those dreams come true. Be prepared when opportunity knocks.
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Conditions are good for making your home more comfortable now. Stop by the stores. There are still a few awesome sales going on. Fluff up a few new pillows.
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You're growing less and less satisfied with the status quo. There must be more to life than this, and there is. Lots more. Keep asking and you'll find out. Be bold.
The work is coming in, and so is the money. You decide how hard you want to push yourself. There sure is a lot to be done though, isn't there? Jump in!
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Get your plans sorted out and organized. There's work to be done, and it'll get better if everyone knows their part. You see the big picture. Break it into bite-sized pieces for the others.
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Oread's outdated zoning laws allow risky conditions
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Housing and the laws that govern it in Lawrence and Douglas County became a national story last month involving Judson King and his hedgehog. Judson, an 11-year-old Lawrence resident, successfully petitioned the city commission, during a period of three years to allow ownership of hedgehogs within the city limits. Though Judson's request might seem more lighthearted than other housing and zoning battles, it is a testament to the power of someone traditionally outside the planning and zoning process. Students must seize the opportunity to change the neighborhood dynamic that reigns in the Oread. If an 11-year-old can change things, students twice that age can too.
Last semester, The University Daily Kansan reported the story of six women whose house the city
electrical outlets and a dangerous attic bedroom lacking a fire escape. According to the inspector, violations were fixable, albeit extremely dangerous, but occupancy limits were non-negotiable; the six women would have to become four or face eviction. Occupancy limits in Lawrence prohibit more than four non-related people in a dwellings unit in multi-family zoned areas, or three non-related people in single-family zoned areas.
Brian Jimenez, zoning code manager, described most of the Oread as multi-family residential. This allows higher density development such as subdivided houses and apartment complexes but
maintains the occupancy limit per dwelling unit. The result is a confusing situation where large houses are divided to reach full occupancy legally, but large, undivided houses, along Ohio, Tennessee, Kentucky that students might rent in groups of eight or nine, are technically in
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Jimenez said the city did not actively enforce occupancy violations and that action
violation of occupancy limits
was usually only taken when a neighbor complained or an inspection exposed a problem. This being the case, it is irresponsible of the city to facilitate a state of de facto negligence of its own codes among landlords, by letting it be known that the codes aren't actively enforced, but to then turn around and threaten eviction of students and renters when they report possibly life-threatening violations.
It is up to the renters and students to rectify this situation. Poor maintenance and occupancy limits are among the pet peeves of some residents of the Oread. Those residents should stand up and petition for changes that make their neighborhoods more enjoyable.
TO CHANGE zoning laws contact Michelle Leininger, Area and Neighborhood planner at:
(785) 832-3163 or mleininger@ ci.lawrence.ks.us
Fortunately, students have an opportunity to propose these changes. Michelle Leininger, area and neighborhood planner with the City of Lawrence, has started work on a new plan for the Oread that will seek input from involved groups, including the Oread Neighborhood Association, KU Student Housing and students. With this new plan, students can bring their interests into play, replacing the current system of neighborhood associations and landlords that currently run the Oread. As Jimenez put it "Hey, you guys have got to get together and decide which position you stand for."
Alex Doherty for The Kansan Editorial Board
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Good evening, friends. I tell you, in the midst of this economic blight, we have nothing to fear. Scholarship funding may have been slashed, learning communities abandoned, and I may be leaving all you suckers soon, but keep your chins up our basketball team is doing GREAT!
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Adkins could unite GOP
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Luckily she isn't new to the scene. With years of political experience, Adkins has long been a GOP leader, though not necessarily part of the Capitol's who's list. She has previously worked on Capitol Hill as a staffer for many years, worked at the Heritage Foundation, and managed the successful campaign of Sen. Sam Brownback's reelection campaign in 2004. It is worth noting that Brownback received the largest number of votes ever in Kansas history for a candidate running for a state wide office.
As Amanda Adkins starts her new job this week as chairwoman of the Kansas Republican Party, she will be walking into a political firestorm involving everything from the budget to abortion to the elections in 2010, none of which will be easy.
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Adkins will need all the experience she's got for this job. She must begin to build the bridge between moderates and conservatives. Typically, this bridge is needed for the issue of abortion.
Abortion has become an issue that has seriously divided the GOP for years, but Adkins may be getting a break from the most unlikely of sources: Washington, D.C. Currently Congress is debating a bill called the "Freedom of Choice Act", which would allow "on-demand" abortions across the country. Conveniently for Adkins, this act would make state abortion
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laws obsolete and take power on this issue from the state and hand it over to the feds. Passage of this act would give Adkins some room to navigate the turbulent waters that are the Kansas Republican Party.
With abortion off the table for the state GOP, Adkins may be able to heal the party and move forward. She will need to revamp the party's platform and, using conservative principals, refocus the party to do what is right for Kansans. This idea of doing what is right for the people will not only be good for the state but will also be good for the party. If she is able to implement these ideas into the platform, then Adkins may have an easy election season in 2010.
Patton is an Olathe junior in business and finance.
POLITICS
Beliefs about Gaza should be more than taking sides
"T there's battle lines being drawn" Buffalo Springfield
once sang. "And nobody's right when everyone's wrong." I've been thinking about this lyric, from the song "What's Going Down" quite a bit lately, and I think it is the best way I can sum up my feelings on a particular issue.
You see, there is one topic that I've struggled for a long time to take a side on. Every time I log on to Facebook, one of my friends has updated his or her status to tell everybody what the death toll has risen to in the conflict in the Gaza region of the Middle East. Some people, using something called QassamCount, will list the number of rockets Hamas has fired that day from Gaza into Israel, while others reference how many homes have been destroyed by Israeli air strikes.
It isn't exactly news to anybody that there has been an ongoing territorial conflict between Israel and Palestine, and recent hostilities about Gaza have pushed it back into the international spotlight. Say what you will about what caused this most recent spat of violence, be it Israel's apparent desire to get a few licks in on its Hamas-led enemy before the typically supportive President Bush left office, or Palestinian frustration boiled over. But the past several weeks have been as ugly a time as any in the conflict's history.
There are two sides to me that make fully supporting either Israel or Palestine impossible. On the one hand, because I am Jewish, Israel represents the center of my faiths culture. Opposing it, joining in the ignorant cacophony which calls it a criminal state for defending itself, would be a betrayal of my religious identity. On the other hand, I am a liberal, and a humanitarian. Much as I groan
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about how support for Palestine on the left is fashionable, the fact remains that military strikes have hurt and killed countless civilians. Regardless of the motivation for those strikes, I can't fully endorse a campaign that pays so little attention to collateral damage.
What to do? Give in to peer pressure and take a stance on this issue, knowing that, no matter what, there will be a part of me that isn't comfortable? I can't do that. Neither side, at least among American supporters, has proven itself to be truly superior. Israel is clearly overzealous with its military actions, but Palestine's government is controlled by a known terrorist organization. One country launches rockets into the other's cities, while the latter sends tanks into civilian neighborhoods.
In the end, all I can do is step away. Emotions run high when I discuss the situation with Israel and Palestine with my friends. Many other Jews see criticism of Israel's actions as thinly veiled anti-Semitism, which is a gross over-simplification. Many other liberals beat the drum of the Palestinian cause without understanding the opposite side.
And so, unwilling to sacrifice one part of my identity to appease the other, all I can do is refuse to take a side. It's just like Buffalo Springfield sang about, nobody being right when everybody is wrong. Only when people acknowledge this will the conflict find any kind of resolution.
Cohen is a Topeka senior in political science.
'Tip' doesn't stand for 'Thanks, I pass'
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
When I began my training as a server, I was told by the experienced server who trained me,
"Your job is to wait on these people hand and foot." That has been my mentality every time I walk into work. My job,
in my opinion, is to improve the customer's dining experience. Sometimes this may include the occasional flirt and sometimes it means leaving two people to work out an issue that has forced one or both patrons into tears. Either way, I do all that is in my power to provide an atmosphere one will want to return to.
After all is said and done, however, the expectation of a tip is a part of the sit-down and dine-in experience. In my opinion, if you come into a restaurant, sit down and inhale your water, order your food (no tomato, easy on the mayo, with two sides of honey mustard
and an extra four napkins) from a person who is running around trying his or her best to make you and your friends happy, and who then cleans up after you, a tip is not only expected, it is deserved.
I have found that a good portion of people with no serving experience don't know what servers get paid, the amount of work they do, or the ridicule they encounter to receive the mere $2.13-per-hour wage that they get. If you are a person who believes tipping someone is not necessary, I want to inform you that I am offended and take it personally when a tip line on a credit card receipt is left blank. Tipping is not an option; it is an expectation. My wish is simply for people who feel the need to stiff their waiter or waitress to call ahead and order to-go.
Amber Nelson is a sophomore from Golden, Colo.
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Kansas football commitments
According to Rivals.com as of Tuesday:
Prinze Kande ★★★ 5, 5-11, 182 pounds, Euless (Texas)
Trinity
Kansas' highest-touched recruit, Ranked 36 among all Texas recruits. Played in the Offense-Defense All American Bowl.
Toben Opurum ★ ★★ ★ FB, 6-2, 229 pounds, Plano (Texas)
East
Quinton Woods ★★★ DE, 6-6, 245 pounds, Bakersfield (Calif.) JUC0
Recorded eight touchdowns and 8.2 yards per carry in senior season. Short-yardage back ranked third among nation's full-backs and 48 in Texas preseason top 100.
New D-Line coach Kerry Locklins first visit. Originally signed with Michigan out of high school.
D.J. Beshears ★★ * WR/DB, 5-9, 185 pounds, Denton (Texas) Ryan
Ranked as Top-100 receiver, told Jayhawkslant.com Kansas recruited him to play defensive back. Caught 88 passes for 1,450 yards and 21 touchdowns senior season.
Randall Dent ** * DE, 6-4, 256 pounds, South Grand Prairie (Texas)
Strong-side defensive end surprised Kansas with commitment on first visit despite offers from Minnesota, Nebraska, Oklahoma State, Oregon, Texas Tech and Arizona.
Gavin Howard *★★* OL, 6-5, 260 pounds, Owasso (Okla.) Ranked in Oklahoma postseason Top-25 and 72 among offensive tackles nationwide. Good footwork but will need to bulk up to handle D-I defensive linemen.
Julian Jones ★★★ LB, 6-2, 253 pounds, Lawton (Okla.)
MacArthur
Ranked 65 among nation's linebackers and 20 among Oklahoma recruits. Coaches laud his athletic ability. Came on the scene with 76 tackles and eightsacks in 2008.
Darian Kelly $ \star $ $ \star $ DB, 6-2,195 pounds, Girard (Kan.) No. 22-ranked safety and No. 2 recruit in Kansas. Also heavily recruited to play basketball.
Dexter Linton ★★ ★ DB, 6-0, 185 pounds, Arlington (Texas)
Bowie
Ranked one spot behind Kelly on nation's safety rankings. Labeleda hard hitter and had 103 tackles as a junior.
Christian Matthews * * * QB, 6-3, 180 pounds, Arlington (Texas) Bowie
Yes, is Linton's teammate. Dual-threat quarterback averaged 654 rushing yards in three years of high school play — including 84 yards per carry in 2008. Averaged 9.6 rushing touchdowns. Finished 2008 with 19 passing TDs and six interceptions.
Erick McGriff ★★★ WR, 6-4, 190 pounds, Tampa (Fla.) Jesuit Will initially spend time on campus dodging stories about being former MLB slugger Fred McGriff's son. Has good hands and size comparable to Kansas' Dezmon Briscoe.
Chris Omigie * ** WR, 6-5, 185 pounds, Arlington (Texas) Martin
Committed alongside McGriff. Somewhat symbolic, as the duo will join A.J. Steward and Tim Biere as team's tallest pass catchers. At 6-5 Omigie is the tallest. Despite being featured in a run-heavy offense, had 55 receptions for 937 yards and nine touchdowns.
Tyler Patmon * * * DB, 5-11, 180 pounds, Cedar Park (Texas) Vista Ridge
Should be ready to go despite torn labrum during senior year. Named First Team All-District after just three games.
Calvin Rubles * ** DB, 6-2, 180 pounds,Tyler (Texas) JUCO Clocked running a 4.4-second 40-yard dash. Was also recruited by UCLA and UAB.
Deshaun Sands * * * RB, 5-9, 175 pounds, Coconut
Creek (Fla.) Monarch
All-State as a junior when he rushed for 1,486 yards and 13 touchdowns.
Tyrone Sellers ** ★ ★ DE, 6-4, 215 pounds, McCook (Neb.)
Top ranked player in state of Nebraska, was named First Team
All-Nebraska as a junior.
Travis Stephens * ** DT, 6-3, 265 pounds, Blinn (Texas)
JUCO
First Team All-America selection. Had 29 tackles for loss last season and has bulked up since playing at 215 pounds as a freshman.
Huldon Tharp ★★★ LB, 6-0, 208 pounds, Mulvane (Kan.) Missed senior season with ACL tear but recovery has progressed nicely and shouldn't be a problem.
Jacoby Thomas ★★★ DE, 6-3, 223 pounds, Texarkana (Texas) 76 tackles, eight sacks and four forced fumbles landed him in Texas' Top 100. Expected to play linebacker.
Jordan Webb **** QB, 6-0, 204 pounds, Union (Mo.) Was Missouri's No. 9-ranked player and 28th among nation's pro-style QBs. Already enrolled at KU and will take part in spring football. Committed after junior season in which he passed for 4,308 yards, 55 touchdowns and rushed for 633 yards and 11 touchdowns.
Kevin Young ★★★ DE, 6-4, 227 pounds, Olathe North Chose Kansas over 10 other offers. Ranked 32nd among nation's strong-side defensive ends. No. 5 among players in the state of Kansas.
Tom Mabry $ \star $ OL, 6-5, 270 pounds, Althoff (III.) All-City and All-State as a junior. Also received offer from Kansas State. Third offensive lineman signed by offensive coordinator Ed Warinner — his first two were Jeff Spikes and Ben Lueken.
Riley Spencer $ \star $ OL, 6-6, 270 pounds, Hesston Helped his team to 10-1 last year. Ranked ninth among Kansas recruits.
— Stephen Montemayor
Rivals.com Big 12 Team Rankings National rank in parentheses
1. Kansas (4), total commits: 20, 5-stars: 3, 4-stars: 11, 3-stars: 6
2. Oklahoma (12), total commits: 22, 5-stars: 0, 4-stars: 10, 3-stars: 11
3. Texas A&M (18), total commits: 27, 5-stars: 1, 4-stars: 4, 3-stars: 21
4. Nebraska (25), total commits: 21, 5-stars: 0, 4-stars: 5, 3-stars: 16
5. Oklahoma State (27), total commits: 24, 5-stars: 0, 4-stars: 6, 3-stars: 12
6. Kansas (31), total commits: 23, 5-stars: 0, 4-stars: 3, 3-stars: 18
7. Texas Tech (T33), total commits: 25, 5-stars: 0, 4-stars: 4, 3-stars: 16
8. Missouri (35), total commits: 25, 5-stars: 1, 4-stars: 1, 3-stars: 15
9. Colorado (45), total commits: 16, 5-stars: 0, 4-stars: 3, 3-stars: 6
10. Baylor (57), total commits: 26, 5-stars: 0, 4-stars: 3, 3-stars: 13
11. Kansas State (70), total commits: 20, 5-stars: 0, 4-stars: 1, 3-stars: 10
12. Iowa State (73), total commits: 23, 5-stars: 0, 4-stars: 1, 3-stars: 10
Rivals.com 2009 Team Recruiting Rankings Projections as of Tuesday
School Total 5-star 4-star Avg.
1. Ohio State 26 2 16 3.77
2. LSU 22 4 10 3.82
3. Texas 20 3 11 3.85
4. Alabama 21 3 9 3.71
5. USC 17 4 9 3.88
6. Michigan 21 1 13 3.67
7. North Carolina 29 1 13 3.34
8. Florida State 19 2 9 3.68
9. Miami 20 2 9 3.6
10. Georgia 17 1 12 3.82
Rivals.com Top-Ranked Recruits 2009
Name Position Hometown Commitment
1. Bryce Brown RB Wichita Miami
2. Rueben Randle WR Bastrop, La. Undecided
3. D.J. Fluker OL Foley, Ala. Alabama
4. Sheldon Richardson DT St. Louis, Mo. Missouri
5. Matt Barkley QB Santa Ana, Calif. USC
6. Trent Richardson RB Pensacola, Fla. Alabama
7. Russell Shepard QB Houston, Texas LSU
8. Devon Kennard DE Phoenix, Ariz. USC
9. Vontaze Burfict LB Corona, Calif. Undecided
10. Jelani Jenkins LB Olney, Md. Undecided
11. Dre Kirkpatrick DB Gadsden, Ala. Undecided
12. Manti Teo LB Honolulu, Hawaii Undecided
13. Ray Ray Armstrong ATH Sanford, Fla. Miami
14. Alex Okafor DE Pflugerville, Texas Texas
15. Jacobbi McDaniel DT Greenville, Fla. Florida State
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Jayhawks fail to close out games
BY JAYSON JENKS jjenks@kansan.com
Junior guard LaChelda Jacobs can't explain it.
Kansas' inability to piece together a complete game has been a season-long dilemma. Yet, pinpointing the root of the problem has been just as difficult as correcting it.
"Right now, the biggest problem with us is the second half," Jacobs said. "We play 20 minutes, and then the second half ... I don't
know. It was this way last year.I don't really know. We just need to finish games"
And Kansas (12-7, 1-5) will need to correct those flaws if it is to defeat Colorado (10-9, 2-5) tonight at 7.
In four of Kansas' seven losses this season, the layhawks have played well for considerable amounts of time in the first half only to watch a sloppy stretch after halftime result in a loss.
In the most recent example, at
Texas A&M on Saturday, Kansas held a lead — and played well — for 32 minutes before a lackadaisical final eight minutes cost the Jayhawks a victory.
However, facing Nebraska on Jan. 21, Kansas' solid first half was completely overshadowed by a turnover-filled second half.
"What's consistent are episodes of lack of focus and concentration," coach Bonnie Henrickson said. "You make bad decisions because you aren't focused and concern
Kansas (12-7, 1-5) vs. Colorado (10-9, 2-5)
P No. Kansas Ht. Yr. PPG
G 3 Ivana Catic 5-8 Sr. 2.7
G 4 Daniele McCray 5-11 Jr. 19.3
G 20 Sade Morris 5-11 Jr. 12.2
F 24 Nicollette Smith 6-2 So. 6.7
C 14 Krysten Boogaard 6-5 So. 10.4
trated. You're out of control in the sense that you're not making the right decisions."
When/Where...
Tipoff scheduled for 7 p.m. Wednesday at Allen Fieldhouse.
Throughout the season, the Jayhawks have repeatedly discussed the need to play well for the game's entirety.
Oops, she might do it again. Puns aside, Colorado sophomore Brittany Spears has a knack for stepping up in the clutch. She hit a game-winning layup last week and is among the top scorers in the Big 12. She is a dynamic player with the ability to both drive and shoot.
Who to watch for...
What to expect...
Colorado has a knack for keeping games close, against both superior and inferior competition. They lost to Oklahoma, which is playing perhaps the best basketball in the country, by just 14 and won a sloppy game against Nebraska by 2.
Why Kansas will win...
P No. Colorado Ht. Yr. PPG
G 1 Alyssa Fressle 5-10 Fr. 8.8
G 22 Brittney Blythe 5-9 So. 2.5
G 2 Bianca Smith 5-9 Jr. 11.1
F 22 Brittany Spears 6-1 So. 18.2
C 44 Kara Edwards 6-4 Sr. 12.0
Kansas was leading Texas A&M, the then-No. 7 team in
the country, on the road with less than eight minutes to go. They obviously have the talent to beat Colorado, and if they play well they could pull away early. They just need to keep their turnovers to a minimum. If they do so, they will defend their home court.
It hasn't been one specific problem persistently costing Kansas, though.
How the game is important...
25. 5 — Spears is averaging 25.5 points in her past two games. And they came against two teams that defeated Kansas earlier in the season, Nebraska and Texas Tech. They saw first-hand she is All-Big 12 capable. The Jayhawks will too.
This is possibly the easiest game remaining on the Jayhawks' schedule: a home game against one of the worst teams in the Big 12. They need a win just to break their four-game losing streak and gain some confidence going into the stretch run.
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Junior guard LaChelda Jacobs, left, and Kansas have failed to put together a complete effort for the past four games, resulting in four straight defeats. Tonight Kansas will face Colorado in Allen Fieldhouse at 7 p.m.
Magic number...
In some cases, too many turn- overs resulted in a loss. In others, it was poor second-half defense.
— Clark Goble
"Full 40 minutes means we play the same way we played in the first half," junior guard Sade Morris said. "Against Texas A&M, we played great in the first half. That means you have to finish it off. If we would have played the same way, we would have come out with a different story."
Perhaps more than any game this season. Saturday's 73-60 loss at Texas A&M best illustrates the Jayhawks' knack for reaching the highs and lows.
For much of the game against Texas A&M, Kansas played better defense, grabbed more rebounds and simply executed better on offense.
Now, Kansas is left searching for answers before playing host to Colorado. One thing is for sure, though: The Jayhawks must begin
"It all about playing disciplined and being tough about things;" Morris said. "They made a run. So what? Answer their run and continue to play. Don't just stop doing what you're doing."
But then turnovers and an inability to get a stop on defense allowed the Aggies to take — and hold — a lead.
to make changes and they must do so quickly.
"We'll do the same thing over and over again. We have to realize, 'Hey, that didn't work, we can't do that again.' Henrickson said.
"That's the definition of insanity; Keep doing what you're doing and expect something different."
MCCRAY DEALING
Coach Bonnie Henrickson said
junior forward Danielle McCray had been wearing an air cast during practice to help her deal with shin splints.
McCray has to wear the cast only during practice and will not miss any games.
"It displaces the weight when she comes down," Henrickson said. "But I've been calling her Forrest Gump. It just relieves pressure."
Edited by Jesse Trimble
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He swished the second of two free throws to give Kansas its biggest lead at 74-61.
Collins found out after the game. The record-setting free throw came with 1:45 remaining.
Wrong. That free-throw attempt was Collins' seventh of the game. He had already made his first six and therefore possessed the record.
His two free throws on that trip to the line could be considered the dagger from which the Bears never recovered. When Kansas coach Bill Talks about Collins' free-throw shooting ability, those are the kinds of moments he discusses.
"The biggest thing," Self said,
"is he's made them when they've counted the most."
Like in the two Jayhawk victories before Monday. Collins helped the Jayhawks hold off a late Colorado surge Saturday
with two free throws in the last five seconds to ensure a 66-61 victory.
Perhaps the best example came against Nebraska. The Cornhuskers cut' the score to 63-62 with one minute remaining before making a costly mistake — fouling Collins — twice. Despite the pressure, Collins calmly converted all four attempts and Kansas won 68-62.
"It's definitely impressive," sophomore center Cole Aldrich said. "It's really helped us win some close, tight ones on the road."
Collins has made 84 percent of his free throws on the season — fifth best in the Big 12.
Collins might not have made 100, but he is happy to hold the record. And even happier that he doesn't have to talk about it anymore.
Edited by Grant Treaster
BEECHER (CONTINUED FROM 12A)
Now it's time for lucky No. 3. This time, there are no surprises. He places the final hat on his head and smiles.
But the photo opportunity is short-lived. The local media is first into the fray, firing questions at the young man they've covered since junior high. They're answered politely, but dismissingly.
He is shuttled off to a vacant classroom as soon as a path can be cleared. There, a camera awaits, manned by someone with an ESPNU credential.
Once the connections are verified, he goes on air opposite ESPN analyists Todd McShay and Tommy Tuberville. He talks about how tough his decision was and how grateful he is for it all to be over.
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"I've found prayers work best when you have big players."
FACT OF THE DAY
— Rivals.com
Mark Mangino's staff has already received three commitments from four-star recruits for the class of 2009 with another four-star prospect expected to sign tomorrow. That is the most four-star recruits Mangino has signed in his tenure at Kansas.
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: Which 2009 Kansas recruits his father hit 49.3 home runs in Major League Baseball for the Toronto Blue Jays and Atlanta Braves among other teams?
A: Three-star receiver Erick McGriff is the son of Fred "Crime Dog" McGriff.
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The Give and Go: Cereal, Batman and Robin, and Brittany Spears. What more could you ask for in a women's basketball podcast? Oh yeah, there's some good anime to
the give and go
Courtside: Everyone's just trying to hang with the Sooners, and they keep dominating.
Also check out Clark's early picks for the All-Big 12 team.
BEWARE OF "THE BLOG"
"Blog" Allen: Missed yesterday's game against Baylor? Check out Baylor "Double Overtime" for everything you may have missed about Kansas victory in Waco.
Time to give Chalmers his due
COMMENTARY
We're going to play a quick game.
Which NBA player is having the better season: Player A or Player B?
Player A is 22 years old. He's averaging 9.8 points, 4.6 assists and 1.9 steals per game.
He's started 47 games and he's playing 31 minutes per game at point guard for a team with a record of 26-21. He's shooting 42 percent from the field and 37 percent from the three-point line.
Player B is 20 years old.
He's averaging 15 points, 4.9 assists and 1.4 steals per game.
He's started
Westbrook
He's started 31 games and he's playing 31 minutes.
BY RUSTIN DODD
rdodd@kansan.com
per game at point guard for a team with a record of 11-37. He's shooting 41 percent from the field and 31 percent from the three-point line.
So which one is having the better season? Oh, one more thing:
Player A is making $700,000 this season, while Player B is making $3,493,680.
Does that make a difference?
Which player would you rather have?
out, Player A is Mario Chalmers and Player B is former UCLA guard Russell Westbrook Chalmers,
As you may have figured
Channels of course, fell to the second
Chalmers
round of the NBA Draft. The Miami Heat snatched him up with the 34th pick and he has proved to be one of the steals of the draft.
Conversely, the Oklahoma City Thunder took Westbrook with the fourth overall pick.
the brew goes digital
It's part blog, part column, part pop-culture melting pot. It's The Morning Brew. A daily dose of Kansas sports, college life and pop culture. You can read daily postings from
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I bring this up because there seems to be a large contingent of Kansas fans who believe that Chalmers got jobbed when he wasn't selected to play in the NBA's annual Rookies vs. Sophomores game during the NBA's All-Star weekend.
Chalmers, who has always been shy around reporters, didn't hide his disappointment.
Still, Chalmers and former K-State star Michael Beasley joined a cast of veterans in Miami and they've re-energized the Heat franchise. We're talking about a team that went 15-67 last season.
The Brew can see it both ways Gordon and Westbrook are having solid rookie seasons, and Rose and Mayo have shown All-Star potential.
NBA assistant coaches voted on the teams and passed over Chalmers for the Bulls' Derrick Rose, the Grizzlies'O.J. Mayo, the Clippers' Eric Gordon and the aforementioned Westbrook.
So did Chalmers get jobbed? Probably not. But if The Brew owned an NBA team, wed definitely take the cheaper Chalmers over Westbrook and his $3.4 million salary. After all, these are tough economic times.
"I thought I'm having just as good a year as they are," Chalmers said last week to the Florida Sun-Sentinel.
Now one year later, Miami is 26-21 and in fifth place in the Eastern Conference.
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Speaking of the recession, let's take a moment to raise our coffee mugs to Manny Ramirez.
THURSDAY
YOUTUBE SESH
Manny turned down a one-year, $25 million contract from the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday.
And anytime somebody has
We scoured YouTube for a worthy video of Manny and we found this one: It's Manny translating an interviewer's questions for former Kansas City Royals shortstop Angel Berroa. Of course, nobody told the poor reporter that Berroa speaks English.
the cajones to turn down that much skrill during one of the worst economic downturns ever, well, we have to raise our mugs and salute
Domingo
Ramirez
Type "Manny and Angel Berroa" into YouTube and enjoy.
THIS WEEK IN KANSAS ATHLETICS
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TODAY
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Women's basketball Colorado, 7 p.m. Lawrence
Men's golf
Hawaii-Hilo Invitational
Kona, Hawaii
Golf
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Men's golf
Hawaii-Hilo Invitational
Kona, Hawaii
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Illinois, 2 p.m.
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Softball UTEP, 2:30 p.m. Phoenix, Ariz.
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Iowa State, 6 p.m.
Lawrence
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Men's golf
Hawaii-Hilo Invitational
Kona, Hawaii
MEN'S GOLF
MEN'S GOLF Golfers will open season at invitational in Hawaii
The Kansas men's golf team will open its spring schedule today at the Hawaii-Hilo Invitational in Kamuela, Hawaii as they have for the past eight years.
Kansas hopes to build on a successful fall 2008 campaign in which the team placed in the top five in two of the four tournaments it played.
The invitational runs through Thursday with 17 teams competing, including Big 12 foes Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas Tech.
"We are very excited to get the season going," coach Kit Grove said in a statement. "With our new building the guys have been able to get far more work in than they have in years past."
MLB
Citigroup confirms deal for Mets stadium rights
NEW YORK — The New York Mets and financially troubled Citigroup said Tuesday that their $400 million naming rights deal for the team's new stadium is still on, despite a published report that Citi may be looking to back out.
was exploring the possibility of backing out of the 20-year marketing partnership, which includes naming the new ballpark Citi Field. The report quoted unnamed people familiar with the matter as saying Citigroup had made no final decision.
The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that Citigroup
Citigroup Inc., which has received $45 billion in federal bailout aid and late last year said it planned to cut 53,000 jobs worldwide, said in a statement: "Citi signed a legally binding
agreement with the New York Mets in 2006." The bank said that none of the bailout money would be used for Citi Field.
Mets Chief Operating Officer Jeff Wilpon said, "Citi is fully committed to their contract. We're fully committed to them. There's no change in status whatsoever."
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DIRECTOR'S CUT
FILM CREATES SUNDANCE BUZZ
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KU professors Robert Hurst, supervising sound editor, Kevin Willmott, director and producer, and Matt Jacobson, director of photography, just returned from the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Willmott was showing his new independent film, "The Only Good Indian," which was one of 118 films chosen out of the 9,000 films that were submitted to the festival. The film is about Haskell Indian Nations University in the 19th century.
BY JENNIFER TORLINE
jtorline@kansan.com
Kevin Willmott describes "The Only Good Indian," his film that made it to the Sundance Film Festival, a "mini-epic" because it was a big film made on a small budget.
Willmott, associate professor of theatre and film, and a group of students and professors returned last week from Sundance, one of the world's largest independent film festivals. At the festival, they promoted the "mini-epic" and networked with distributors.
"All of our screenings were sold out before we got there,"
Willmott said. "I think we were one of the buzz movies of the festival."
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More than 9,000 films were entered in the festival. "The Only Good Indian" was chosen as one of 118 films screened at the festival, which took place from Jan. 15 to 25. The crew is now trying to distribute and sell the film.
"We got some nibbles at Sundance," said Matt Jacobson, the film's director of photography and associate professor of theatre and film. "There has been some initial work toward international and national sales, and we'll have to see how everything works out in the next couple of weeks."
Read this story online to view a trailer for the film "The Only Good Indian"
The film, which was shown at Sundance in January, will have a local screening in the coming months so that students can see it.
Robert Hurst, assistant professor of theatre and film, was the supervising sound editor for the film. Hurst, Willmott and Jacobson used "The Only Good
Indian as a way to teach their students. More than 30 of their former and current students helped in the production and editing of the film at Oldfather Studios, 1621 W. Ninth St.
"The only way
to really become a filmmaker is you have to go and make films," Willmott said. "It's a nice experience for them to see a real movie being made."
"All of our screenings were sold out before we got there. I think we were one of the buzz movies."
To support the film and their professors, 12 students piled into a van and drove 20 hours to Park City, Utah for Sundance. They met up with other students and spent a week helping the crew of "The Only Good Indian."
"We decided that if they were going, we were going to take
KEVIN WILLMOTT Associate professor
and spotted celebrities such as Robin Williams, Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor.
The students also watched other independent films
"It was pretty amazing to be able to go there with a film as a student," Jon Tenholder, Topeka senior, said. "It was a really valuable experience, and it helped my knowledge with the industry."
But before reaching the Sundance Festival, the crew of "The Only Good Indian" spent
more than a year on the film from start to finish.
It all began when Thomas Carmody, a Lawrence resident and KU graduate, wrote the script and asked Willmott in 2007 to direct the film.
"The Only Good Indian" is based on the history of Haskell Indian Nations University. It follows a Native American teenager who is taken from his home and placed in a boarding school during the early 1900s. Willmott said the people who ran such boarding schools forced Native Americans to assimilate into white culture.
"These were people who thought they were doing the right thing," Willmott said. "Unfortunately they did not understand that trying to turn someone into someone else is always a bad thing."
More than 100 students, pro-
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STUDY ABROAD
Student participation ranks 11th nationally
BY JENNIFER TORLINE
Daniel Knox attended Wednesday's Study Abroad Information Fair with one goal in mind: to find a European program where he could travel and study historic architecture.
jtorline@kansan.com
The University of Kansas was recently ranked 11th among public universities in the nation for study abroad participation. The University also ranked 16th among public universities for short-term
"I want to see the world," Knox, Overland Park sophomore and architecture major, said.
The University's rankings come from the Institute of International Education's 2008 "Open Doors" report, which was based on numbers for the 2006-2007 academic year. The report stated that about 27.5 percent of undergraduate students studied outside the United States during the 2006-2007 academic year.
Nancy Chaison, associate director for the Office of Study Abroad, said during the 2008-2009 school year, more than 63 short-term
study abroad participation.
kansan.com/videos. You can hear a KJHK podcast about study abroad at kansan.com/ podcasts.
BALKENSTADT, N.J.—Students and faculty of New Jersey State University have been studying the effects of a high-speed internet connection in the classroom. A study conducted by the university's computer science department found that students who had access to an internet connection were able to complete their homework faster than those without it. The study was published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Behavioral Sciences on June 28, 2014.
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Zach Timme, Pittsburg, Kan., junior, talks with Jennifer Weghorst, a program director for the Office of Study Abroad, during the Study Abroad Fair on Wednesday.
SEE ABROAD ON PAGE 5A
To see a KUJH video about the Study Abroad Fair, go to
ENVIRONMENT
Students encourage bars to try recycling
BY AMANDA THOMPSON
athompson@kansan.com
"That would all have been thrown away without us," Stanley said. "And that's just one night."
Saturday morning, Andrew Stanley and fellow students took 145 pounds of glass to be recycled at the 12th and Haskell Bargain Center. All 145 pounds came from Wilde's Chateau 24, 2412 Iowa, and were the result of one Friday night of business.
Stanley, Overland Park senior,
is president of Students for Bar
Recycling. He said he began form-
ing the group in December, but
this was the group's first active
semester. During start-up efforts,
Stanley said he estimated group
members called 30 bars around
Lawrence and asked them if they
recycled glass.
"We don't have the resources in group membership and money to help bars have the resources to do that," Wasserman said. "So we're mainly just trying to get bars connected with recycling companies."
None of them did.
"They just said no and didn't want to say much after that," Stanley said. "They said that it was just a pain, basically."
The group has touched base with bars around Lawrence, but Stanley said it had yet to sign its first official client.
Kate Wasserman, Flower Mound, Texas, senior and vice president of SBR, said glass recycling was the group's main focus. Wasserman said the group was trying to be a source of information for bars.
Chris Scafe, owner of Sunflower Curbside Recycling, said if bars agreed to it, he and his crew would regularly pick up glass and take it to the 12th and Haskell Bargain Center, 1146 Haskell. Scafe said the charge for glass pickup would depend on how much needed to be carried away, but he would charge about $6 to $7 per pick up.
Stanley said it wasn't likely the glass pickup service would happen every night, but he said most bars in Lawrence would use the service no more than four days each week. At that rate, Stanley said it would probably cost a bar about $1,200 each year for the recycling service.
Scafe said many bars didn't want to deal with the logistics of storing glass, working out pickups and training staff to make sure everything was placed in the correct containers.
"There's not much of a financial incentive for bars to recycle," Scafe said. "But having said that, I think that if they advertised that they
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On Feb. 1 someone entered a vehicle and stole a flashlight, sunglasses, and a bag of change.
On Feb. 2 a student was reported to have falsely added money to a Beak'em bucks account.
On Feb. 3 damage to two vehicles were reported and a backpack was stolen from a storage area in the Oliver Hall Dining Facility.
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1. Medvedev says Russia will cooperate with U.S.
MOSCOW — President Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday that Russia and its ex-Soviet allies wanted to cooperate with the United States on stabilizing Afghanistan.
Saying Moscow and its allies "are ready for full-fledged, comprehensive cooperation," the Russian leader seemed to imply that Moscow's help in Afghanistan was contingent on a broader list of changes it wants from the new U.S. administration.
These include a halt to NATO enlargement in Europe and the cancellation of plans for a U.S. missile-defense system on Russia's western borders.
2. Heavy rains in Australia send wildlife indoors
SYDNEY — Rain-battered residents in northeastern Australia were on alert Wednesday for snakes in their bathrooms and crocodiles in the road following repeated storms that have sent local wildlife in search of dry land or a safe haven.
More than half of Queensland state was declared a disaster area Tuesday because of the rains that started in late December and are expected to continue.
BERLIN— Documents have surfaced in Egypt showing the world's most-wanted Nazi war criminal, concentration camp doctor Aribert Heim, died in Cairo in 1992, Germany's ZDF television and The New York Times reported Wednesday.
The report said Heim was living under a pseudonym and had converted to Islam by the time of his death from intestinal cancer.
3. Proof of most-wanted Nazi war criminal found
4. Investigation continues for '82 Tylenol poisonings
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Federal agents on Wednesday searched the home of a man linked to the fatal 1982 Tylenol poisonings in the Chicago area.
No one was ever charged with the deaths of seven people who took the cyanide-laced drugs. The FBI would not immediately confirm that the search at the home of James W. Lewis was related to the Tylonel case, only that it was part of an ongoing investigation.
Lewis served more than 12 years in prison for sending an extortion note to Johnson & Johnson.
5. Army contractor pleads guilty to manslaughter
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — An Army contractor is facing up to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to
manslaughter in the shooting death of a handcuffed Taliban member in Afghanistan who had just set one of the contractor's colleagues on fire.
Don M. Ayala, 46, of New Orleans, struck a plea bargain Tuesday in federal court in Alexandria, avoiding murder charges.
6. 5th-grader found dead in school bathroom
EVANSTON, III. — A 10-year-old boy died after reportedly being found hanging from a hook in a school restroom, and police on Wednesday would not confirm the school district's contention that the death was accidental.
The mother of Aquan Lewis said Wednesday that she was still waiting for an explanation of what happened to the fifth-grade at Oakton Elementary in the Chicago suburb of Evanston.
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RECRUITMENT PLAN Tuition bill offers break for out-of-state students
A new recruitment plan that encourages out-of-state future Jayhawks to attend the University of Kansas is being considered. Jack Martin, deputy director of communications, said if House Bill
2007 was passed it would allow the Board of Regents to consider KU's plan called "Jayhawk Generations Tuition Plan."
Under this plan, out-of-state students with family ties to KU would be eligible for reduced tuition.
"We want to encourage students who have existing relationships to KU through their parents or grandparents to come to KU and then stay in Kansas after they graduate," Martin said.
Martin said the cost of tuition for these students would be more expensive than in-state tuition, but still significantly lower than out-of-state costs.
could not comment on when the University would bring its plan before the Requests.
If passed, the bill would amend a current statute that only allows the Regents to consider a limited range of recruitment techniques.
KU officials who spoke in favor of the bill said it would allow KU to extend its recruitment to out-
of- state students.
KU officials testifying included Provost Richard Lariviere; Danny Anderson, vice provost for academic affairs; Marlesa Roney, vice provost for student success; and Kevin Corbett, president and CEO of the KU Alumni Association. The full testimony presented is available at the Government Relations Web site.
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Martin said he hoped the legislature would pass the bill before April or May, but said he
The Lucia Orth lecture on her new novel, "Baby Jesus Pawn Shop" will begin at 10:30 a.m. in the Conference Hall in Hall Center.
The Geography Brownbag Series lecture will begin at noon in 210 Lindley Hall.
The KU Libraries Book Sale will begin at 9 a.m. on the Main Floor in Watson Library.
The Graphics: Foundations workshop will begin at 1 p.m. in the Budig PC Lab.
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The "SUA: Tea Time" social event will begin at 3 p.m. in the lobby in the Kansas Union.
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The Gerontology Faculty Collequium public event will begin at 4 p.m. in 2023 Haworth Hall.
The*Pitching/Catching/Infield Acadamies; Session #2" baseball event will begin at 7 p.m. in Anschutz Sports Pavilion.
The EndNote Bibliographies and Cite While-You-Write workshop will begin at 2:30 p.m. in the Instruction Center in Anschutz Library.
A student was arrested Tuesday afternoon by KU Public Safety officers in connection with a reported rape. Captain Schuyler Bailey said the investigation was still ongoing. The crime was reported between 1 a.m. and 1:30 a.m. in Oliver Hall early Sunday morning.
Charles Branson, Douglas County District Attorney, said no charges had officially been filed and said he was awaiting further investigation regarding the case.
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GRADUATION
Grad Finale will provide caps, gowns, announcements
BY RACHEL BURCHFIELD
rburchfield@kansan.com
Seniors, mark your calendars and grab your checkbooks — in less than two weeks. Grad Finale will be here.
For six months, KU Bookstores and lostes, a company that sells
grad gear
graduation regalia, have planned what KU Bookstores marketing coordinator Kelly Stazyk called a one-stop graduation shop for graduating students. Grad Finale will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Feb. 17, 18 and 19 at the Ballroom on the fifth level of the Kansas Union.
- Cap: $5
- Gown: $20
- Tassel: $5
- Hood (for those earning a Master's degree): $20
- Graduation Announcements:
  $65-$80
- Diploma Frame: $165-$323 (for Doctoral diplomas)
- Men's class rings: $375-$690
- Women's class rings: $305-$485.
Alumni Association Membership: First year is free as a graduation gift from the Alumni Association and Endowment, and for the next four years graduates are considered "recent grads" and pay $25 per year.
Senior Class T-Shirt: $10 suggested donation
Source: KU Bookstores, Alumni Association
"Graduation can be overwhelming because you can't show up at the ceremony without previous planning," Stazyk said. "The KU Bookstores can help students walk through the process at Grad Finale or anytime."
senior class T-shirts and to pick up her cap, gown and graduation announcements.
Courtney Brax, Hutchinson senior, said she was a little overwhelmed about her May graduation. Brax said she would attend Gradle Final to help pass out
"I just want to be a little more prepared for graduation and get everything ready ahead of time," Brax said.
Todd Wiedenmeyer, territory sales manager for lostens, said he hoped to see 70 percent of graduating seniors attend the Grad Finaire. He said University offices such as
who will be there
Alumni Association
Balfour Rings
Classic Photography, Inc.
the University Career Center, the Office of the University Registrar and the Office of Student Financial Aid would attend the graduation fair, as well as retailers including Balfour Rings and Classic Photography, Inc.
Endowment Association
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jennifer Alderdice, assistant vice president of student programs for the Alumni Association, said she would attend Grad Finale on behalf of the Alumni Association. Alderdice said the event's setup was beneficial for students.
University Career Center
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es available to them in a one-stop shop atmosphere," Alderdice said. "Students really can benefit from having everything they might need for graduation in one room. Plus, it's a lot of fun and an exciting time to plan for their big walk down the hill."
Stazyk said even if students couldn't attend Grad Finale, they could still log on to the KU Bookstores' Web site, kubookstore. com, for information and links to some of the vendors.
"I think that the grad fair is so important for students to attend because there are so many resourc-
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information about the Grad Finale and prices for caps, gowns and other graduation materials. The Grad Finale will take place in the Kansas Union on Feb. 17, 18 and 19.
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Tents for illegal immigrants
Separate housing supposedly cuts cost
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PHOENIX — The self-pra claimed "toughest sheriff in America" has announced plans to keep illegal immigrants separate from the rest of the inmate population at tents in Phoenix that house prisoners.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
A few of the nearly 200 convicted illegal immigrants handcuffed together Wednesday in Phoenix, are moved into a separate area of Tent City, by orders from Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Paiao, for incarceration until their sentences are served and they are deported to their home countries.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio accompanied about 200 inmates — along with members of the media — from an area jail to Tent City on Wednesday.
"This is a population of criminals more adept perhaps at escape," Arpaio said in a news release. "But this is a fence they won't want to scale because they risk receiving quite a shock, literally," he said, referring to the electric fence.
Arpaio said housing the illegal immigrants separately would save money, although he did not explain how other than to say it's cheaper to house inmates in tents than at traditional jails.
He said his office has received $1.6 million funding from the state that will go toward tackling illegal immigration.
"I expect more arrests," Arpaio said. "I expect to put more tents up."
Arpaio said the move would be more convenient for consulate officials visiting foreign inmates and for Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents charged with deporting the inmates after they have served sentences in county jails.
Aside from their residency status, he said the inmates would be treated just like everyone else housed in the tents.
Arpatio's announcement has appalled some officials in the area.
Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox said she thinks Arpaio could potentially be violating the immigrants' rights by keeping them separated, and that shed like to talk to the Justice Department.
"Any time you treat people differently for no reason, you stand to violate rights," she said. "We treat people equally in America. I think it's wrong."
She said the move is a publicity stunt and that Arpaio has done nothing to show the supervisors how it would save money.
Alessandra Soler Meetze, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona, said although Wednesday's move wasn't unconstitutional, it was degrading and unnecessary to shepherd prisoners in front of media.
"You're sort of giving the message that it's OK to treat these inmates differently. It's OK to treat them like circ animals." Soler Meetze said. "He didn't have to make a spectacle. He could've moved them on buses."
The Tent City is part of a tough atmosphere that made Arpaio nationally famous. His jails also feature chain gangs and pink underwear for male inmates. Arpaio was recently featured in a Fox Reality Channel show called "Smile ... You're Under Arrest!"
POLITICS
Released detainees: most-wanted Pentagon calls terrorist rehabilitation programs highly effective
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CAIRO — Saudi Arabia said Wednesday that 11 men released from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay are now on the kingdom's most-wanted list despite having attended its touted extremist rehabilitation program.
President Barack Obama has signed an executive order closing the detention center at the naval
base in Cuba,
leaving countries
scrambling over
what to do with
released detainees.
Saudi Arabia and terror experts defended the program for terror suspects, saying it is largely effective.
The 11 were on a list of 83 Saudis and two Yemenis wanted for their connections to al-Qaida issued Monday by the Saudi government. The government knows where the rest of the 106 former detainees are.
Among the 11 were two Saudis who have emerged as the new leaders of Yemen's branch of al-Qaida. The two appeared in a militant video last month calling
"I think it would be a mistake to view the program as a failure."
BROCE HOFFMAN
Terror expert
The Pentagon has said it'sunlikely to change its policy on prisoner transfers to the kingdom.
Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and home to 15 of the 19 Sept. 11 hijackers, has pursued an aggressive campaign against militants but also sought to rehabilitate those it believes can abandon their violent extremist beliefs and reintegrate into society.
"Besides the 11 people (on the wanted list) who came from Guantanamo, there are still 106 people who have gone through this rehabilitation program and are doing OK," al-Turki told the Associated Press by phone. Three others committed suicide in Guantanamo.
These rehab programs — and the kingdom's assurances that they are effective — have been a major reason why most of the Saudis have been released from Guantanamo. Only 13 of the 133 Saudis detained there remain, said Saudi Interior Ministry spokesman, Gen. Mansour al-Turki.
for attacks against Arab governments and Western interests.
"Imprisonment only increased our persistence in our principles for which we went out, did jihad for, and were imprisoned," said Ali
Al-Shhrii said during the video. Al-Shhrii was jailed for six years in Guantanamo after his capture in Pakistan, and said he resurfaces as the branch's leader after completing the Saudi rehab program.
The Saudi rehab program placed former Guantanamo detainees insecure compounds with facilities such as gyms and swimming pools. Imams gave them lessons on moderate Islam, and
they met with psychologists and sociologists.
Georgetown University terror expert Bruce Hoffman stressed that the vast majority of those going through the program have not rejoined extremist groups.
not gone back to terror. ... I think the success has been remarkable," he said.
"I think it would be a mistake to view the program as a failure. Instead of looking at the 11, concentrate on the (others) who have
The Pentagon also has said it is unlikely to stop prisoner transfers to Saudi Arabia. After the video of al-Shihri was released on extremist Web sites in January, Pentagon spokesman Navy Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon said the U.S. sees the Saudi rehab program as admirable.
"If you turn'em loose and they go kill more Americans, who's responsible for that?"
"The best you can do is work with partner nations in the international community to ensure that they take the steps to mitigate the threat ex-detainees pose," Gordon said.
But Obama's Jan. 21 decision to close Guantanamo within a year has unleashed a debate in the U.S. about what to do with the remaining 245 inmates, some of whom are considered very dangerous. On Wednesday, the European Parliament said EU countries should help the administration accept Guantanamo inmates.
DICK CHENEY
Former Vice President
Obama's announcement came about a week after the Pentagon issued a report saying that increasing numbers of those released have rejoined militant organizations and carried out attacks. Figures from December indicated that 61 of the former detainees have rejoined militant movements, up from 37 in March, it
Former Vice President Dick Cheney has cautioned against closing Guantanamo, claiming the remaining inmates are "hard-core".
said, without detailing the nationalities of the 61.
"If you turn 'em loose and they go kill more Americans, who's responsible for that?" he told Politico in an interview.
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Symposium addresses human rights
Closing Guantanamo Bay and detainee cases among topics to be addressed
BY BETSY CUTCLIFF bcutcliff@kansan.com
Questions about human rights and President Obama's decision to shut down the controversial detention center Guantanamo Bay will be addressed at Friday's Human Rights Symposium in Green Hall.
The conference, sponsored by three School of Law groups, will host six distinguished professionals speaking about issues surrounding Guantanamo Bay, procedures for prosecuting and defending alleged criminal terrorists and the future treatment of prisoners of war.
Dana Watts, Syracuse second-year law student and president of the International Law Society, said the questions surrounding the closing of Guantánamo were a main theme of the symposium.
"This is a very current event, and there are still lingering questions on where these detainees will go, will anyone be prosecuted, and how will
they be prosecuted." Watts said.
Though a few court cases involving Guantanamo detainees have already begin, Watts said there was speculation about how these types of international cases would be judged in the future.
"As future lawyers, we are still learning about this," she said. "These cases are totally new to everybody."
Oneofthespeakers will be Brent Mickum, lawyer to Guantanamo
detainee and suspected terrorist Abu Zubaida. The U.S. government alleged that Zubaida was a top al Qaida lieutenant and he was the first suspected terrorist to be detained after Sept. 11. Zubaida said he was waterboarded during his detention, a method the United Nations Council on Human Rights
considered torture.
Mickum said that people should've been more aware of what was going on behind the barbed wire and that they didn't question the Bush administration's actions
"These people are not the worst of the worst. Some were just in the wrong place at the wrong time."
BRENT MICKUM
Lawyer
because of an innate desire to trust the government.
ists.
Mickum said he would correct the myths about Guantanamo Bay at the symposium, and emphasized that the majority of the people detained weren't international terror-
"These people are not the worst of the worst," he said. "Some were just in the wrong place at the wrong time."
Prisoner treatment was the main concern for Samantha Snyder, Topeka senior and president of KU Amnesty International. She said she
hoped the symposium would make students and teachers think about what really went on.
"Because of the light shed on the nature of the war on terror, questions need to be raised about the situations at Guantánamo Bay," Snyder said.
On Jan. 23, the United Nations Council on Human Rights issued a press release denouncing the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay and commending President Obama's order to close the facility.
In the release, Leandro Despouy, special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, called the Bush administration's treatment of detainees a "violation of international human rights norms"
Other speakers at the symposium will address different aspects of how the legal system is shifting in order to accommodate these new types of crimes. Topics will include refugee asylum, international human rights and the laws of war.
symposium schedule
WHAT: Second Annual Human
"National Security and Individual Liberty: Whose Rights at What Cost?"
WHEN: 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Friday, Feb. 6
WHERE: 203 Green Hall
WHERE: 203 Green Hall
Panel 1: Guantánamo Bay
8-8:30 a.m. - Registration opening remarks
8:30-9:10 a.m.
Douglass Cassell, University of Notre Dame
'Adios, Guantánamo?'
9:10-9:50 a.m.
9:10-9:50 a.m.
Brent Mickum, Spriggs & Hollingsworth
"Guantanamo: The Myths and the Reality"
Panel 2: Criminal Terrorism Prosecutions
10:20-11 a.m.
Jordan Paust, University of Houston
11-11:40 a.m.
Wadie Said, University of South
Carolina
Panel 3: Perspectives on Terrorism
1-1:40 p.m.
1-140 p.m.
Christina Wells, University of Missouri
"National Security and the 'Information' Problem"
1:40-2:20 p.m.
Richard Levy, University of
Kansas
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"As I think everybody here will agree, this is only the first step." Obama said of the bill that reauthorizes the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
"Because the way I see it, providing coverage to 11 million children through CHIP is a down payment on my commitment to cover every single American," he said to applause before turning to the economic recovery bill.
"It won't be easy; it won't happen all at once," Obama said. "But this bill that I'm about to sign, that wasn't easy either."
Obama and his advisers see the economic crisis as his window to push through many of his campaign pledges. Renewable energy, financial regulation and even rural Internet access all have been tied to repairing the nation's fractured economy. In the process, Obama has exposed his plan to criticism and questions that threaten to jettison the first major legislation his team has assembled.
"I refuse to accept that millions of our children fail to reach their full potential because we fail to meet their basic needs. In a decent society, there are certain obligations that are not subject to trade-offs or negotiations, and health care for our children is one of those obligations." Obama said.
Obama has faced a difficult week, his second full one in office, Daschle, the former Senate Democratic leader, withdrew his nomination as secretary of health and human services after acknowledging he failed to pay taxes on a car and driver provided by a Democratic fundraiser. His departure also left in the president's team a large gap for someone to usher through sweeping reform Obama has promised.
The children's health bill calls for spending an additional $32.8 billion on SCHIP, which now enrolls an estimated 7 million children. Lawmakers generated that revenue by raising the federal tobacco tax.
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there are about 8 million to 9 million uninsured children in the United States.
The bill went to the White House fresh from passage in the Democratic-controlled House, on a vote of 290-135. Forty Republicans joined in approval.
Most Republicans, though, criticized the cost of the legislation. They also said it will mean an estimated 2.4 million children who otherwise would have access to private insurance will join the State Children's Health Insurance Program instead.
"The Democrats continue to push their government-run health care agenda — universal coverage, as they call it," said Rep. Pete Sessions (R.Texas).
The bill's passage has long been a top priority of Democratic lawmakers. In late 2007, President George W. Bush twice vetoed similar bills. The Senate passed the same bill last week. Obama made it a top priority in his first 100 days and one step in his push for universal coverage by the end of his first term.
"President Obama and Congress are demonstrating that change has come to Washington, and we are moving forward to improve the quality of life for American families struggling during these hard times," said Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.
SCHIP was created more than a decade ago to help children in families with incomes too high to qualify for Medicaid but too low to afford private coverage.
Federal money for the program was set to expire March 31. To cover the increase in spending, the bill would boost the federal excise tax on a pack of cigarettes by 62 cents, to $1.01 a pack.
Opponents of the bill complained that the tobacco tax increase hits the poor the hardest, because they are more likely to smoke than wealthier people. Many also took exception to expanding the program and Medicaid to children of newly arrived legal immigrants.
Republicans said they supported SCHIP and providing additional money for the program. However, they argued that Democrats were taking the program beyond its original intent and encouraging states to cover middle-class families who could get private insurance.
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programs and 50 semester- and year-long programs were available for students. A short-term program takes place during a summer, winter or spring break.
"The study abroad program has really dedicated itself to finding kinds of opportunities that will work for students in a variety of programs, not only in content and location, but also in dura-" Sue Lorenz, interim direc
tor for the Office of Study Abroad, said.
Lorenz said short-term study abroad programs were a University strength because they gave students more flexibility.
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University careers and would later study abroad again through longer programs.
Shiflett said she enjoyed her experience so much that she spent the following spring semes-
enable a lot of students to be able to study abroad in a way that fits their academic schedules, curriculum and their budget," Lorenz said.
Such is the case for Stephanie Shiflett, Overland Park junior, who participated in The London Review with Mary Klayder, honors lecturer, during spring break of 2007.
"You can learn more in the span of time you are in a different country than you can in four years at the University."
Lorenz said students often participated in shorter study abroad programs early in their
RACHEL GRAY Kansas City, Mo., Junior
ter studying in Angers, France.
"Traveling in and of itself makes you feel so alive," Shiflett said. "There's so much to look at and think about."
year continued to grow, which she attributed to an overall aim from departments and schools to provide international experience for students.
Lorenz said the number of students participating each
With the economy faltering and students struggling financially, Lorenz said the Office of Study
Abroad continued to try and offer study abroad options without raising costs. Chaison said although the economy was tight in the United States, the value of the dollar was stronger in some countries. Students would be able to find some study abroad programs cheaper than last year.
To help students financially, the Office of Study Abroad offers scholarships. Students can also use financial aid, such as student loans, toward studying abroad. Chaison said many departments within the University also offered scholarships for study abroad and that the Office of Study Abroad had financial aid advisors for students.
"Students are able to accomplish their goals and save the money they need to save or find the aid they need to find when they've done some careful planning," Chaison said.
top ten programs
- Angers, France
- Australia
- Bonn, Germany
- Great Britain Direct Exchange
- Humanities and Western Civilization (Italy/France)
Rachel Gray, Kansas City, Mo., junior, said she used a loan from the Kansas University Endowment Association to help pay for The Costa Rica Experience, a two-week study
- Italy Consortium
- Leicester, England
- San Jose, Costa Rica
- Santiago de Compostela,
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- Trier, Germany
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abroad trip in January. Gray said the trip helped her interact with students she normally wouldn't meet.
During the 2008-2009 academic year, the Office of Study
During the 2008-2009 academic year, the
Abroad has offered:
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-4 spring break programs
-54 summer programs
-50 semester-and year-long programs
Other numbers:
-50: the number of countries in which the Office of Study Abroad offers programs
Abroad offers programs
-25: the number of languages in which the Office of Study
Abroad offers programs
-27.5: the percentage of KU undergraduates who studied abroad during the 2006-2007 academic year
"You can learn more in the span of time you are in a different country than you can in four years at the University," Gray said.
Jenna Sheldon-Sherman, a 2006 graduate who studied abroad five times, said studying abroad could give students skills to use beyond graduation. Sheldon-Sherman now attends Stanford Law School and said her study abroad experiences helped prepare her for career-related issues involving international law and human rights.
"A lot of people at Stanford are from other countries and for me to bring something to the table in terms of my personal experience is great," she said. "To have experienced that for myself gives me more perspectives."
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"It's such a collaborative experience," Hurst said. "It's really interesting because everyone has an opinion and the more ideas you have, the better the film gets."
Jacobson said the crew shot the film in many different areas of Kansas — from town scenes in Old Cowtown Museum in Wichita to the Watkins Community Museum of History on Massachusetts Street to a ranch outside of Cottonwood Falls. Jacobson said some challenges during the filming included extreme heat and late summer rains.
Muriel Green, Pittsburg senior was a second unit camera operator for the movie. She said the professors made it a priority to let students help with the movie because they could learn more on a set than in the classroom.
"It might have been more efficient for them to hire professionals, but they wanted students to have the opportunity to work on the set". Green said.
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Willmott and Jacobson had previously worked together on "C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America", which made it to the 2004 Sundance Festival.
Willmott said he was proud of the crew's work on "The Only Good Indian" not only because of the film's success, but because the crew made what he called a "bold move" in producing the film.
"You have to believe in who you are and what you're doing." Willmott said. "There are no guarantees, but not doing it is
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To promote the movie locally, Willmott said he was planning a hometown screening with the
University and Haskell sometime during the coming months so that students could see the movie.
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recycled, that will bring in a certain clientele"
Stanley said one way the group would affiliate itself with the bar would be by displaying its logo in the bar window. It would signal to customers that the bar was a "green" bar.
he hoped to get exposure for the bars by organizing green pub crawls.
Stanley said he hoped an incentive like this would generate competitive momentum for other bars to join the network. Stanley also said when enough bars signed on
"I really think this is an issue students care about," Stanley said. "It's a chance for them to show the Lawrence community that they're committed to recycling."
Scafe said if the majority of bars were to start recycling, collection centers in lawrence could become overwhelmed with the influx of glass. But Stanley said
starting in May, Kansas City, Mo., would have its own glass recycling plant. He said the proximity of the new plant would lower recycling costs.
Wasserman said she hoped businesses would have a better incentive to recycle glass.
"I've always felt that recycling is one of the easiest and smallest ways we can all do our part," Wasserman said.
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Georgia State Senator John Bulloch, R-Ochlocknee, holds up a jar of peanut butter while proposing food processors be required to share internal reports with state inspectors; during a legislative session in the senate chamber Thursday in Atlanta. Recent salmonella cases have been tracked back to a processing facility in Georgia.
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W When the news broke that peanut butter was linked to salmonella.
ews broke ut butter was linked to salmonella, I felt a sick sense of glee. Not because, according to Scientific American, hundreds of people were sick with the vomiting and diarrhea that comes with poisoned food, or because I think a handful of deaths is funny. It's because for the first time, people were beginning to see peanuts the way I see them every day; as the enemy
According to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, 2 percent of the population is allergic to peanuts. In most cases, it's a lifelong allergy that only worsens with each exposure.
And by exposure, I don't mean eating a Snickers bar, or even a whole peanut, although that'll definitely do it. I mean eating something that was "processed on the same equipment as peanuts," or a dish that came in contact with the same spoon used to stir something with peanuts. I mean being kissed on the cheek by someone who ate a handful of mixed nuts and having a rash break out in the shape of puckered lips.
Perhaps part of the reason I became so interested in food and nutrition is because I was trained at an early age to read label after label of every product I ate. My allergy is the reason I own so many Asian cookbooks. I haven't ordered Chinese takeout for more than 10 years because it's too high of a risk.
In the last few years, there have been quite a few stories about elementary schools banning peanuts from lunchrooms or establishing allergen-free tables where kids are sequestered to eat in safety.
The last time I got sick was a few years ago on vacation, when I asked a waiter three times if there were any peanuts in any of the dishes I had ordered. The second time I asked was when I took one bite of my salad. I don't really know what peanuts taste like exactly, I just know their presence by the terror that accompanies that smell, that taste. I laid my fork down, turned to my mom, and said, "Get the waister — I know something's up."
But tactics such as these do more harm than good. Sure, it educates parents that it's not okay
to tell a kid to "pick the peanuts out" of a snack, and it's probably prevented quite a few accidental allergy attacks. But it also takes the pressure to be careful off the kid with the allergy. This kind of training is dangerous because in the real world the only allergy-free zones are a couple of shelves in a health supermarket stocked with special cookies and energy bars.
By the third time I asked, I could feel my mouth swelling
up, my throat itching, and my stomach tense with the fear of what might be to come. It was only then that the embarrassed but rather nonchalant wafter reported that occasionally they substituted peanut vinaigrette on the salad.
An hour later, I was in the hospital with an IV in my arm, luckily more scared than sick. But even then, I knew my reaction had gotten worse, and that I was edging towards anaphylactic shock, the symptom that makes peanut allergies the most common cause of food-related death.
Eventually the salmonella recall will be lifted, and peanuts will once again be safe to spread between two slices of bread or to munch between classes. But right now, I'll relish each bite knowing there are fewer peanuts contaminating my world.
McConnell is a Dallas junior in journalism.
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In Rome: Football but not futbol
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ROME — Scholar's Pub was packed. Moving from a table to the bar meant a couple of minutes, a few bumped elbows and a stain from someone's spilled beer on the way there. Drink prices were nearly doubled. Every TV featured football, not the usual futbol.
BY MARK DENT
They wore black and gold, waved Terrible Towels and worshiped the No. 7, the digit of their quarterback and their team's trip to the Super Bowl. They were Pittsburgh transplants, mostly Duquesne students in Italy for the semester abroad. They took up nearly one side of the bar, save for about five loud men.
This was Europe — Rome — but the crowd was more Mississippi River than Mediterranean Sea. These were Americans, all of them staying up for a midnight kickoff for a game that's celebrated as a holiday back in the States.
In the left corner, a group shouted "Let's go. Steelers" every few minutes.
Americans too, these young men sang a harmonic chant for the Cardinals, something you might hear at a soccer match. Perhaps they were at the bar earlier to see the last minutes of the Lazio-Milan game.
Midnight. Kickoff inched closer.
This was the big night. This was the
Super Bowl. Everyone knew it.
away from the Steeler fanatics, two Britons on the middle two stools in front of the bar, soaking in an atmosphere they'd never experienced and enjoying the first half of a game that the mother had no idea about until she started asking questions.
They sat in the action, a few feet
Except for a mother and a son.
"So," she asked, "how do you score a goal in football?"
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STUDENT LIFE
Mount Oread, we have a (column) problem
Pope: Hey, Ryan. I've got a problem.
Snyder: What's on?
Pope: Well, not me personally, but some friends of mine. As columnists for their university's newspaper, the Collegiate Nightly Nasnak, they had this really great idea to spice up their section. All they asked in return was for a little help from their loyal fans, but in a cruel twist of fate they were betrayed and ignored.
Snyder: Wow, that's terrible. Judging from your description, these guys seem like they're both extremely talented and devilishly handsome. Who could be so cold and callous?
Pope: The worst part is that it would only take their readers a few minutes out of the day to help these guys out, and they would be rewarded with quality entertainment.
Snyder: To be fair, they could be doing so many other things with those few minutes, such as making a delicious Hot Pocket and then throwing it up, that are equally rewarding. Besides, if I wanted to spend that much time in thought I would actually go to class. I'm not surprised that they haven't received any help.
Pope: That's not entirely true.
I've been told that a few tremendously bored individuals have made attempts to contribute, though their suggestions weren't that great. I mean, does anyone really want to read a debate about the winner of a fight between a shark and a tiger in zero-gravity?
Snyder: Of course not. It's obvious that the shark would win.
so that the shark would win.
Pope: Are you kidding? A shark has just its mouth to attack with, while the tiger has that and four claws! That's a 5-to-1 attack ratio. The only way the
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tiger could lose is if it were from Missouri. They can't win anything.
Snyder: Don't throw your fancy education at me. That has no business in this argument. In fact, this argument has no business here to begin with! It's no wonder those guys feel betrayed; who could work with that?
Pope: The thing I can't understand is why people would be hesitant to have a say in what they read in their daily paper. Isn't that the reason Facebook and iGoogle are so popular? Because they tailor information to suit specific interests? If I ever had the opportunity to get my name put in print, by golly, I'd do everything I could to make that happen — rob a bank, punk a puppy, write a subpar opinion column. Nothing would stand in my way.
Snyder: Plus, there's the chance that by writing in, some of the columnists' greatness could rub off on the reader. And maybe, just maybe, they would want to rub off on the columnists, too. Ladies.
Pope: You know, this whole situation has taught me a valuable lesson. You shouldn't be afraid to voice your own opinions and become an active consumer of media, especially when it's easy to do so.
Snyder: Besides, if you don't, we will unleash a gravity-defying tiger and shark to destroy you. Be thankful for such generosity.
Pope: You're welcome.
P.S. - Please, for the love of everything holy, read the little box and send us ideas. We're dying here!
Pope is a Kansas City, Kan. senior in English. Snyder is a Leawood senior in English.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Faith and evolution don't have to clash
Wednesday's article on the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin showcased several points of view, but neglected a major one shared by many cutting edge scientists and theologians — namely, that there is no conflict between faith and science.
This point of view, known as theistic evolution, contends that God created the universe and used evolution as a means of creating life. As a Christian who was raised to be skeptical of biological evolution, I have come to recognize that the evidence for biological evolution is overwhelming, but that it does not provide answers for other major questions such as: Why are we here? Is there a such thing as objective morality? What is the purpose of life? I see no conflict between modern
science and Biblical passages that were written poetically to convey the wonder of nature and God's power to an ancient audience, not to convey specific scientific facts.
Francis Collins, former head of the Human Genome Project and a devout Christian, wrote a wonderful book called "The Language of God" defending theistic evolution. He fits evolution within a Biblical framework and encourages Christians to consider it as an alternative to creationism. But he also reminds scientists that science and faith can coexist. I would recommend the book to anybody who finds the notion of an either-or proposition of science versus faith ultimately unsatisfying, and who is open to the idea that the two can be harmonized.
Dan Halmes is a senior from Olathe.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2009
Bingo helps lighten the load on students' wallets
Game night at the Kansas Union offers a chance to win groceries, gas cards
BY MICHELLE SPREHE msprehe@kansan.com
Any money-saving alternative sounds more appealing than clipping coupons or making a budget. On Tuesday night, 169 students discovered they could keep money in their pocketbooks by shouting, "BINGO!"
Student Union Activities hosted
Grocery and Gas Bingo at the
Kansas Union Ballroom where
students competed for the chance
to win groceries or gas cards worth
$20, $25 and $30.
Eric Jury, Lake Quivira senior
and games coordinator for SUA, helped organize the event.
"With the economy, people realized they could save a few bucks on groceries so they came out," jury said.
About 5300 worth of groceries and gas cards were purchased from Checkers Food, 2300 Louisiana St., and local Conoco gas stations for students to win.
"We're trying to help people out at the pump as well as food." Jury said.
In the past, winners of the event could take a bag full of groceries. But on Tuesday, winners could only choose two grocery items to take home.
"With the rising cost of food right now, we want to give students an option to win so we give out more items now and less bags of groceries," turs said.
To attract more students, gas cards were randomly given to winners for the first time. Esterenia Armento, Jarkarta, Indonesia, sophomore, was the committee head for the event.
"We are trying to make something new every year so it's not boring." Armanto said.
Megan Do, Wichita sophomore, won by forming a "U" shape on her bingo card.
"I have horrible luck," Do said.
"It was the first time I'd ever won at bingo."
Do won a box of macaroni and cheese and a box of cereal, which she gave to a friend.
Jury said between 30 and 40 students walked away with prizes. A full bag of groceries and a $50 gas card were also given away.
"My favorite part of the night was to see how excited people got." Do said. "At times people were getting a little intense."
SUA will host Grocery and Gas Bingo again on March 27 at 8 p.m. in the Union Ballroom.
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Bowe Neuenschwander, Hoxie senior, and Jon Huffmaster, St. Louis senior, wait for the next number to be read at SUA's Grocery Bingo night. Huffmaster needed one more space filled to win the round. SUA holds Bingo night each semester and entertained a record crowd of 169 on Tuesday night.
SENATE
Greek community remains a constant on Senate ballots
BY BRIANNE PFANNENSTIEL
bpfannenstiel@kansan.com
Student Senate coalitions have announced their presidential aid vice presidential nominations as they gear up for spring elections, but some things haven't changed from previous years. Namely, the presence of multiple Greek candidates.
During the last five Senate elections, including this year's race, only two of the major coalitions have run without a greek candidate for either president or vice president. Delta Force ran once in 2006 and again in 2007 without a greek presidential or vice presidential pick. They lost both elections.
So what does it take to win a Student Senate election?
IT'S ALL POLITICAL
During the past two years the nation has watched Barack Obama go from senator to president of the United States. His campaign was
revolutionary in many ways. But in the end, it boiled down to the same principles that have been guiding politics for decades: It was about winning.
Those same principles that govern national elections have been at play in campus politics for just as long.
"All elections are the same," said Mark Joslyn, associate professor of political science. "It's a matter of looking at voters
"It often comes down to where you have connections."
president choice is strategic in terms of attracting demographics," Joslyn said. "They all try to balance the ticket in an ideological and in a practical sense."
and what they want and what they need and making yourself look like them."
Joslyn said Student Senate's tendency to pick greek candidates to run for the top spots mirrored national elections and the need to appeal to an important constituency of voters.
JJ SILER Overland Park junior
In the ideological sense, Joslyn
"Usually the president's vice
said, a president would look for someone who balanced out his political strengths and weaknesses. For instance, President Obama chose Senator Joe Biden as his vice presidential pick because of his years of experience in national politics and foreign affairs. But Joslyn said another important factor was practicality — candidates needed to appeal to a wide range of voters.
THE GREEK COMMUNITY
The greek community, which comprises 14 percent of the student body, can be a big player in Student
Senate, More than 3.500 students are involved in greek organizations.
J. J. Siler, Overland Park junior and Envision's student body president candidate, said coalitions tended to campaign heavily to the greek community because Greeks consistently turned out to vote every year. Siler said connections to houses and suggestions from fellow house members might help motivate members of the greek community to vote more often.
"It often comes down to where you have connections," Siler said. "I've been involved in the Greek com
Michael Gillaspie, Asbland senior and student body vice
munity during my time here, so definitely I'll campaign to them a little bit harder"
president who ran with United Students, said that United Students generally ran with a greek student on the ticket because of a continuous partnership that had developed over the years.
"Coalitions that try to emulate other coalitions that have won in the past," Gillaspie said. "So if you've been representing the greek community for the past 30 or how-
"I think students should expect ideas and plans from their candidates."
ADAM MCGONIGLE Wichita junior
WHAT DOES
THIS MEAN
FOR
STUDENTS?
Senate elections is infamously low. In fact, there has yet to be an election in which voter turnout exceeds 20 percent. During the past five years, turnout has ranged
between 13 and 16 percent. Last year's turnover was 14.5 percent.
"I don't think there's an organization like Senate anywhere else in the world, where people give you $400 and don't care what happens to it." Siler said.
Adam McGonigle, Wichita junior and student body president, said he didn't feel one constituency was being overrepresented on campus. He said the best way for students to have their voices heard was to vote and to ask their candidates to provide them with solid ideas and platforms.
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Envision
Alex Porte — Tau Kappa
Epsilon
JJ Siler — Beta Theta Pi
2009
United Students
Mason Heilman — Not
greek
May Davis — Alpha Chi
Omega
Students of Liberty Adam Wood - Not greek
Students of Liberty 7%
Adam Wood — Not greek
Eric Hyde — Not greek
2008
United Students 49%
Adam McGonigle — Not
greek
Michael Gillaspie — Sigma
Phi Epsilon
ConnectKU 44%
Austin Kelly — Not greek
Jason Oruch — Alpha
Epsilon Pi
2007 - United Students 51%
Hannah Love - Not greek
Ray Wittlinger - Theta Chi
Delta Force 40%
John Cross — Not greek
Liz Stuewe — Not greek
(replaced Ryan Rowan, who was a member of Phi Beta Sigma, when he had to drop out of the race.)
2006 — Ignite 53%
Jason Boots — Not greek
Melissa Horen — Alpha
Gamma Delta
Delta Force 40%
Studie Red Corn — Not greek
Bridget Franklin — Not greek
2005 KUnited 55%
Nick Sterner — not greek
Marynell Jones — Kappa
Alpha Theta
Delta Force 36%
Elaine Jardon — Alpha Chi Omega
Stephanie Craig — Alpha Gamma Delta
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Jayhawk football coach Mark Mangino speaks with reporters during a press conference held in the Anderson Family Football Complex Wednesday afternoon. Mangino discussed some of the team's new recruits for the fall 2009 season, as well as the effects of 2008's Orange Royl victory and the new facilities on recruitment.
Mangino hauls in best class yet
Kansas'recruiting class ranked 31st nationally, includes four four-star recruits among 24 total
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BYSTEPHEN MONTEMAYOR
Keeping his decision under wraps until Wednesday, wide receiver Bradley McDougald of Dublin, Ohio, was the first to fax his letter of intent to Kansas on National Signing Day.
Despite the rankings — Rivals
corn has Kansas' class ranked 31st
nationally — Mangino introduced
McDougall, a four-star signer, became the first of 24 recruits to sign with Kansas and the fourth four-star recruit in this year's class — more than any in coach Mark Mangino's tenure.
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his latest recruiting class in usual fashion.
"I'll tell you today what I have everyyear that I've been here at this program, that we think we've got some talented kids but you never know until they get on a Big 12 field what they're going to do." Mangino said.
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Kansas received letters of intent from six defensive backs and five defensive linemen following a season in which five of the nations top 10 scoring offenses hailed from the Big 12. The Jayhawks finished seventh in the Big 12 in total defense last season.
"We went out to find some people
McDougald fourth four-star signee
in the secondary that can change direction well and help in the short term," Mangino said "Some of these kids have the ability to be outstanding players in the Big 12 on the defensive side of the ball."
McDougald
His college choice unknown until Wednesday morning, wide receiver Bradley
McDougald
of Dublin, Ohio immediately jumps to the head of this year's class with his decision to sign
with Kansas.
McDougald was initially classified at safety — where he was ranked 11th nationally by Rivals.com — but coach Mark Mangino has him penciled in at wide receiver.
"He is very talented, has good range, runs well and is very athletic," Mangino said.
McDougald's letter of intent made it four-four-star signees for Kansas this year — most
MARK MANGINO Kansas coach
"...we think we've got some talented kids but you never know until they get on a Big 12 field..."
Mangino said cornerback D.J.
Beshears — a three-star signee from Denton, Texas — is good enough to also contribute at receiver if needed. Four-star signee Prinz Kande of Euless, Texas, joins Kansas product Darian Kelly of Girard and Dexter Linton of Arlington.
Texas, to comprise one of the
ever in the Mangino era.
McDougald saw playing time all over the field at Scioto High School. He recorded 37 tackles and one interception in seven games as a senior. On offense he rushed 87 times for 432 yards and six touchdowns and caught eight passes for 135 yards and one score. He also returned punts and kickoffs.
nation's top safety classes. Kande drew Mangino's attention as an asset in combating Big 12 offenses.
"I like everything about Prinz," Mangino said. "He closes to the football like a rocket. His instincts are great. If he's playing zone or man or run support, he's going to be on the ball."
Mangino said he and his staff believe they've helped themselves on the defensive line in this class as well. Four-star defensive end
Quintin Woods of Flint, Mich., is one of three junior college players to sign and is among the players Mangino expects to contend for immediate playing time.
"His frame reminds you a little bit of Charlton Keith," Mangino said. "He comes off the ball with quickness, and he's an athletic kid."
Mangino also believes the two
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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Kansas overcomes slow start to defeat Colorado
Danielle McCray scores 24 points to help the Jayhawks collect second conference victory
BY JAYSON JENIKS
jienks@kansan.com
At the first media timeout, four minutes and one second into Kansas 65-54 victory against Colorado on Wednesday night, the layhawks jogged to the berch with coach Bonnie Hendrickson displaying a stare of complete disbelief.
True, Kansas trailed by only one point at the time. But the Jayhawks' sluggish and uninspired start left Henrickson shocked.
"It was like we were in a corn," Henrickson said. "Both ends of the floor we were terrible and not executing. I was irrited. I just didn't understand why."
Neither did Kansas' players Coming off their best performance on the road this season at No. 10 Texas A&M on Saturday, the
layhawks turned the ball over and looked out of sync on the offensive end.
For a team attempting to snap a tour-game losing streak, that's not what Henrickson or her players expected.
"It felt like we were in shellshock or something," junior forward Daniele McCray said "I don't know what was happening. It was just slow and we were missing shots and coming late to
Midway through the first half,
though, Kansas began playing more
"Man, I feel like when we play defense, that makes our offense so much easier."
While Kansas never trailed by more than five at any point, the Jayhawks struggled early with offensive consistency.
things. After that media timeout, I
think we got things going."
SADE MORRIS junior guard
During the game's opening four minutes, Henrickson pleaded with her team to pick up the intensity.
like a team desperately in need of a win. Sparked by two players who combined for six points in Kansas' last two games, junior guard Kelly Kohn and sophomore forward Nicollette Smith, the Jayhawks outscored the Buffaloes 21-4 to end the first half.
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Kohn hit two three-pointers and Nicollette Smith added another in helping Kansas to a 32-18 halftime lead.
like a must win game," junior guard Sade Morris said. "We knew if we want to make the tournament, we had to win this game. We were like 'look, let's put this behind us, play some defense and get up in them.'"
Kansas' defense created turnovers and forced Colorado to settle for bad shots in the first half. The Buffaloes made just 29 percent of their first-half shots and committed 21 turnovers.
"We knew that this was kind of
That's exactly what Kansas did.
And during Kansas' run to end the first half, defense provided a spark.
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"Man. I feel like when we play defense, that makes our offense so much easier," Morris said. "We get in a really good flow and then everything goes right for us."
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Junior guard Sade Morris takes the ball to the basket for two points Wednesday against Colorado. Morris put up 13 points in Kansas' 65-54 win over the Buffaloes.
COMMENTARY
Even the unheralded recruits find their place
Here's hoping you have a half dozen or so grains of salt on hand today
It's a doozy. Best of coach Mark Mangino's career, they say. And why shouldn't it be? This is the first class recruited on the heels of Kansas' 2008 Orange Bowl victory. The completion of the $31 million Anderson Family Football Complex last summer also made Kansas competitive over the Notre Dames, Nebraskas, Floridas and Michigan's of the recruiting world.
when examining this year's football recruiting class.
BY STEPHEN MONTEMAYOR
smontemayor@kansan.com
Were looking at the nation's third ranked fullback. One prostyle and one dual-threat quarterback. Two towering receivers in the mold of former Jayhawk Marcus Henry.
Somewhere lies one of college football's great conundrums. Look closely. It's in the stars.
Notable 3-star recruits from 2002-07: Nick Reid, Mark Simmons, Bill Whittimore, Brandon McAnderson, Scott Webb, James McClinton, Mike Rivera, Marcus Herford, Kerry Meier, Darrell Stuckey, Todd Reesing, Jake Sharp, Dezmon Briscoe.
Notable 2-star recruits since
2002-07: Cornish, Derek Fine,
Charles Gordon, Cesar Rodriguez,
Joe Vaughn, Ryan Cantrell,
Anthony Collins, Dexton Fields,
Joe Mortenson, Aqib Talib, Russell
Brorsen, James Holt, Lake Lantad
In sports we tend to enjoy measuring athletes and accomplishments with comfortable numbers. Five hundred home runs are good for a slot in baseball's Hall of Fame. A three-and-a-half point spread in Vegas can end a life, a marriage or just as easily lead to early retirement. High school athletes are assigned star rankings by recruiting services to forecast future success in college.
Four-star fullback Toben Opurum could bowl over Big 12 linebackers from day one. Four-star safety Prinz Kande has the potential to break up a play in the backfield or cover the spread offenses of the Big 12 into oblivion. But Mangino and Co's recruiting history circa 2002 suggests we may also want to take an equally close look at this year's pair of two-star recruits; offensive linemen Tom Mabry and Riley Spencer.
With example No. 3 in mind, it is as strange to declare that the class of 2009 could be better than any of the recruiting classes Todd Reesing or Aquib Talb were on as it would have been to predict seven years ago that Mangino would mold two- and three-star recruits to be among the best to wear crimson and blue.
Say what? Let's go to the books.
Hype all you want, but Mangino and his staff lead the nation in recruiting categories that don't fit so conveniently in charts and graphs. That is in the categories of character, discipline and intelligence. It just so happens Kansas' coaching staff is adept at turning overlooked athletes into champions.
We all have potential — it's what is made of it that counts.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 5, 2009
"I'm just looking forward to going up there and being able to play as soon as I can. My goal is to play right away."
— Kansas signee Prinz Kande, a four-star recruit from Euless, Texas
FACT OF THE DAY
Ole Miss coach Houston Nutt hauled in the largest recruiting class of 2009. Nutt signed 38 players, including one five-star, eight four-star and 22 three-star recruits.
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: How many Texans will be on Kansas' roster in 2009?
A: 34. Eleven Texans signed to play at Kansas yesterday, which means the Lone Star State will have the most players from any state on the Jayhawks' roster. Kansas is second with 26.
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COMMENTARY
Beckham's LA days may soon end
I
less than two years after David Beckham manta arrived in the United
States, the global icon is pushing for a permanent move to AC Milan.
And I say good for him.
As much hype as Beckham generated for Major League Soccer at a time when the league really needed the publicity, he just isn't the type of player to take American soccer to the next level.
The initial media frenzy has died down, and, in a country that views soccer as a second-class professional sport, Beckham's ubiquity, but
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Beckham
undersated — skills were never to be enough to hold the casual sport fan's interest. People want to see the amazing, the mind boggling.
Beckham still may be the best crosser in the world. His dead-ball skills have never been disputed. But he was never going to be Pelé. Taking on opposing defenses just isn't his thing, and as time went on it became obvious Beckham was frustrated with the complete lack of talent surrounding him in Los Angeles.
His recent performances with Milan show he still has the ability to perform at the highest level. Who could blame him for wanting to squeeze the most out of an already decorated career?
KU SOCCER ANNOUNCES 2009 RECRUICTING CLASS
On a day dominated by college football insanity, that other "football" team at Kansas hauled in a decorated recruiting class of its own.
Although the laj Hawks boast nine returning starters from a team that made the NCAA Tournament, the six players coach Mark Francis signed should have a chance to put their stamp on the program in year one. Francis has a history of giving freshman significant minutes if the situation is right for both player and team.
Seniors Jessica Bush, Missy Geha, Jenny Murtaugh all started
from the time they set foot on campus as did juniors Monica Dolinsky, Estelle Johnson and Shannon McCabe. The incoming freshman will face an uphill battle, but if history is any indication, playing time could come earlier rather than later.
Tori Baldridge, 5-foot-9 defender (Le Crescenta, Calif.)
Whitney Berry, 5-foot-5 forward/midfielder (Wichita)
Nicole Chrisopulos, 5-foot-3 midfielder (Rowlett, Texas)
Amy Grow, 5-foot-8 forward (Edmond, Okla.)
Shelby Williamson, 5-foot-6 midfielder/defender (Colorado Springs, Colo.)
Logan Reed, 5-foot-10 goalkeeper (Dallas, Texas)
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As a longtime Jim Rome hater
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Rome
A little background informa
tion is needed to really understand what happened. Rome had made a habit of not using Everett's first name, instead calling him Chris Ewert in a reference to the female tennis player. Rome was mocking what Rome perceived as Everett's unwillingness to take a hit, and apparently Everett didn't appreciate it in the least.
When Everett appeared on Rome's ESPN2 show, "Talk2," in 1994, Rome — in his usual charming fashion — continued to call his guest Chris to his face despite repeated warnings, leading to a physical confrontation on the set of the show.
Plug "Jim Rome, Jim Everett" into Youtube, and enjoy one of sports radio and television's most pompous talking heads getting what was coming to him.
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ST. JOHN — A high school basketball coach has been told he can't hypnotize his players anymore because it sends the wrong message to other schools and could get the students hooked on hypnosis.
The St. John High School boys team — the same team that won state two years ago and finished second last year — was just 7-6 through last week when coach Clint Kinnamon decided to bring in a hypnotist.
Letters were sent to parents asking them to sign permission slips for their sons to participate in the hypnosis sessions.
"It won't be going on any more at school," said superintendent James Keworthy. "if parents want their child to do that, they can contact the licensed therapist on their own."
On Monday night, the St. John School Board voted to end the hypnosis sessions.
Kenworthy said he has requested a transcript of the session, and is concerned that hypnotizing students sends the wrong message.
The Kansas State High School Activities Association has no rules regarding hypnosis.
The night after the board ordered the hypnosis to stop, St. John beat Western Plains 53-43 in Ransom.
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Freshman guard Tyshawn Taylor, seen here in Kansas Feb. 2, game against Baylor University in Waco, is one of six freshmen playing for the Jayhawk basketball team this season. The Jayhawks are making significant use of their freshmen in terms of minutes on the court, especially unusual in a team that is currently 7-0 in conference play.
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It was an innocent question.
"Relatively?" Self quipped.
After Kansas' 75-65 victory against Baylor Monday, a reporter asked Kansas coach Bill Self in the postgame press conference whether his "relatively" young team's success surprised him.
It's easy to forget that five of the eight players who appeared for at least a minute in the victory at the Ferrell Center didn't play for the Jayhawks at all last season. It's hard to remember that only one of them — junior guard Sherron Collins — averaged more than 10 minutes per game on the national championship team.
Those facts tend to be overlooked lately because the Jayhawks are 7-0 in the Big 12 Conference and tied with Oklahoma for first place. Their hot start to the conference season — last year's team only won their first five conference games before losing — has everyone surprised. Even the players consider themselves ahead of schedule.
"I'm impressed, but I can't be too impressed," Collins said. "This is what we expect."
The victory against Baylor helped legitimize Kansas as a contender for the Big 12 Conference championship. Coming into the game, the Jayhawks' schedule allowed reason for doubt.
Although the Jayhawks had won their first six games, they had not beaten any teams in the top half of the Big 12 standings and were only 4-4 away from Allen Fieldhouse.
"I think our 6-0 record in the league going into this, some people probably viewed it as 'Well, they had a favorable schedule', or whatever," Self said. "Which, before the season, you don't know it's going to be favorable."
But before the season, the road trip to Baylor certainly looked like one of the most daunting assignments. The Bears are among the
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most talented and experienced teams in the Big 12.
eight-man rotation — Collins, freshman guard Tyshawn Taylor, sophomore guards Brady Morningstar and Tyreel Reed, junior guard Mario Little, freshmen forwards Marcus and Markieff
"I'm impressed, but I can't be too impressed. This is what we expect."
Morris and sophomore center Cole Aldrich — and received the desirable result.
Each of them scored at least three points and played sufficient defense. Call it coach-speak, but Self described it as a "team effort."
"Those guys played great," Self said. "Everyone contributed."
SHERRON COLLINS Junior guard
But Self is cautious and quick to point out that February will be a tough month. After playing Oklahoma State Saturday at Allen Fieldhouse, Kansas takes on both Missouri and Kansas State on the road next week.
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"We've had some things happen to us that we didn't like going through, but we probably knew we had to go through it," Self said. "We're still not as tough and hard as we need to be."
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2. Oklahoma - Rivals.com National Ranking: 13, Top signee: Oddly no five-star recruits this year but four-star defensive tackle Jamarkus McFarland passed up offers from Texas, USC and LSU.
Members of the 2007 Jayhawk football team celebrate their 2008 Orange Bowl victory at Dolphin Stadium in Miami. The victory is credited for helping to bolster the University's recruitment efforts for the upcoming 2009 season.
1. Texas - Rivals.com National Ranking: 5, Top signee: Five-star quarterback Garrett Gilbert hails from the same high school that produced Todd Reesing and is listed as the No. 2 pro-style quarterback in the nation.
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4. Nebraska - Rivals.com National Ranking: 28, Top signee: Four-star quarterback Cody Green is listed as the No. 2 scram bling quarterback and the No. 6 dual-threat quarterback. Could immediately start at vacant position.
8. Missouri - Rivals.com National Ranking: 41, Top signee: Five-star defensive tackle Sheldon Richardson more than welcome in Columbia. Recognized as nation's fourth best overall player.
3. Texas A&M - Rivals.com National Ranking: 24, Top signee: Five-star running back Christine Michael reached the end zone 80 times in three years of varsity play despite splitting time for two of those years.
7. Oklahoma State - Rivals.com National Ranking: 35, Top signee: Four-star athlete Dexter Pratt among top-10 athletes nationally and top-15 recruits out of Texas.
9. Colorado - Rivals.com National Ranking: 48, Top signee: Four-star defensive end Nick Kasa chose Colorado over Florida. At 6-7 is ranked as third best defense end in nation.
5. Kansas - Rivals.com National Ranking: 31, Top signee:
Four-star wide receiver Bradley McDougald was a welcome addition Wednesday morning.
6. Texas Tech - Rivals.com National Ranking: T33, Top signee: Four-star running back Eric Stephens could split time immediately. Ranked as the sixth best all-purpose back.
11. Iowa State - Rivals.com National Ranking: 72, Top signee Four-star wide receiver Darius Reynolds was nation's 34th ranked juco player. Played quarterback in junior college.
10. Baylor - Rivals.com National Ranking: 55, Top signee: Four-star offensive guard Ivory Wade chose the Bears over Missouri and Texas A&M. Ranked as ninth best guard in the nation.
12. Kansas State - Rivals.com National Ranking: 94, Top signee: No four- or five-star players signed. Three-star safety Carlton Callender chose Kansas State over offers from Louisville, Pittsburgh, West Virginia and Colorado State.
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Offensively, Kansas adds size on both the line and at several skill positions. Three-star wide receivers Erick McGriff of Tampa, Fla., and Chris Ormige of Arlington, Texas, measure 6-foot-4 and 6-foot-5. Four-star running back Toben Opurum of Plano, Texas, was ranked as the country's third-best fullback but at 6-foot-2, 229 pounds will line up at running back.
"Toben Opurum is the big, strong running back that we have been looking for, Mangino said. "He not only has speed and agility and great vision, but he has the power to go along with it."
"Both throw the ball very well, both are intelligent and both can beat you with their feet," Mangino said.
A pair of three-star quarterback signees enter the conversation as to who will succeed Todd Reeseing after 2009. Jordan Webb of Union, Mo., is one of four players already on campus and Christian Matthews of Arlington, Texas, brings speed to the position.
“There’s no question that having a nice facility helped,” Mangino said. “But our selling point here is the people, and that has never changed since I've been here. I continue to work as hard as I can to get the best assistant coaches and support staff around me that care about the kids.”
This year's class is the first group recruited after Kansas' 2008 Orange Bowl victory and the completion of the $31 million Anderson Family Football Complex. While those developments have indeed put Kansas on more highly-regarded athletes' short lists than ever before, Mangino maintained that they aren't his program's selling point.
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rival classes
As signing day drew to a close both Missouri and Kansas State found themselves in the bottom half of the Big 12's 2009 recruiting classes.
The Tigers did have a marquee signing with the nation's fourth ranked athlete, five-star defensive tackle Sheldon Richardson.
Bill Snyder's first class since returning to Kansas State will need a miraculous turn of events to land Rivals.com's top player, running back Bryce Brown. Kansas State finished Wednesday with no four- or five-star signees.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Right-hander Brian Bannier and the Kansas City agreed Wednesday to a one-year contract worth $1,737,500 and avoided a salary arbitration hearing.
Bannister signs new deal with the Royals
MLB
Bannister made was 9-16 with a 5.76 ERA in 32 starts for the Royals last season. He was third in 2007 AL Rookie of the Year voting after going 12-9 with a 3.87 ERA in 27 starts.
Bannister earned $421,000 last year and asked for $2,025,000 in arbitration when he exchanged proposed salaries with the Royals last month. The team offered $1.45 million.
In addition to his salary,
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Tite Ortiz bottom, attaches a triangle hook on Lvoto Machida during their Ultimate Fighting Championship Light Heavyweight match at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on May 24, 2008.
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WASHINGTON - Ultimate Fighting Championship has come to Washington to engage in the city's ultimate sport: lobbying.
The biggest name in mixed martial arts, UFC is a multimil-
ness that fills arenas, broadcasts events on pay-per-view and has deals with cable networks such as Spike TV. The sport, which combines刃juitsu, juido, karate, boxing, kickboxing
"Back then, it was no holds barred, marketed as two men walk in one man walks out."
and wrestling, has put off some critics with its ferocity, including such tactics as kicks to the head
vince Congress that the sport has cleaned up its act since the 1990s, when it drew the opposition of Sen. John McCain R-Ariz. He once referred to it as "human cockfighting" and called for it to be banned.
"Back then, it was no holds
MAKAN DELRAHIM UFC lobbyist
The sport's owners are concerned that it could come under federal regulation by a proposed new commission to regulate boxing that two senior lawmakers are pushing. To help head that off, the Las Vegas-based UFC spent $240,000 last year lobbying Congress.
It's biggest task, said lobbyist Makan Delhram is to con-
it, it was no holds barred, marketed as two men walk in, one man walks out," said Delrahim, a former deputy assistant attorney general in the Bush administration. Now, he said, it's a mainstream sport that is sanctioned and regulated by athletic commissions.
37 states. Delrahim said his clients don't care whether boxing is regulated, as long as their sport isn't included.
McCain, who is sponsoring the boxing legislation in the Senate, declined to be interviewed. In a statement, he said the bill would "better protect professional boxing from the fraud, corruption and ineffective regulation that have plagued the sport for far too many years and that have devastated physically and financially
many of our nation's professional boxers."
The bill's House sponsor is Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., who often spars in the boxing ring. He said there was no intent to cover mixed martial arts when the bill was drafted, and he didn't think the legislation would apply to it. He said hed prefer to keep the bill focused on boxing, because adding mixed martial arts might complicate chances for passage.
The proposed legislation would establish a U.S. Boxing Commission under the Commerce Department, charged with protecting the health, safety and general interests of boxers. The commission would oversee all professional boxing matches and license boxers, promoters, managers and sanctioning organizations.
McCain and King have pushed the legislation for years and came close to success in 2004, when it passed the Senate but not the House.
In 2005, the Justice Department sent a letter to the Senate Commerce Committee, expressing "serious constitutional objections to several provisions of the bill," such as one that would limit the president's authority to remove members of the boxing commission. That letter was signed by William Moschella, an assistant attorney general; Moschella has since left the government and is now part of UFC's lobbying team.
Congress has taken steps in the past to help boxers. In 1996, it established minimum health and safety standards for professional
"Those federations are always promising to do it next week. I'm still waiting."
PETER KING U.S. Representative
boxing, which were expanded by the Muhammad Ali Boxing Reform Act of 2000. In 2004, Ali testified in favor of McCain's bill; his testimony was read by his wife, Lonnie Ali, because Ali suffers from Parkinson's disease.
King said the legislation is needed to protect boxers.
going from state to state, getting brain damage. So we have to have coordinated rules. There has to be national standards set. There should be the ability to penalize athletic commissioners that don't comply."
The boxing industry is fighting back.
"Our position is that the federal government, especially in times like we're having right now with a trillion-dollar deficit, doesn't need to create a new federal agency to regulate a sport," said Noah Reandeau, who Iobbies against the bill on behalf of both the International Boxing Federation and the World Boxing Federation. He said the IBF has taken a leading role to establish uniform standards in the states.
Reandeau said that his clients would support a more Limited boxing bill, aimed at requiring states to have minimum standards before professional boxing matches could be held.
King wasn't buying that. "I've been a boxing fan for almost 60 years," he said. "Those federations are always promising to do it next week. I'm still waiting."
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The 33-year-old English midfielder announced his intentions Wednesday after playing in Milan's 2-2 exhibition tie at Glasgow Rangers. Beckham has scored twice for Milan and been included in the team's 25-man roster for UEFA Cup games against Werder Bremen on Feb. 18 and 26.
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"At the moment my lawyers are not talking to the Galaxy," Beckham said. "But I have expressed my desire to stay at AC Milan now, and it's just down to Milan and Galaxy to come to an agreement."
"I have enjoyed my time here," he added. "I knew I would enjoy it but I didn't expect to enjoy it as much as I have and do as well as I have."
"At this point it's out of my hands," the 33-year-old star said. "I've said what my feelings are to both clubs."
Beckham is about two years into a $32.5 million, five-year contract with Major League Soccer. The Galaxy had no immediate comment.
Since coming to Italy, Beckham has scored twice and helped to lift Milan to second place in the Series A standings.
Beckham needs one appearance to tie defender Bobby Moore at 108 for the second-most international games in English history, trailing only goalkeeper Peter Shilton's 125, and wants to play for England at next year's World Cup in South Africa.
"To be given the chance again to play at this level at my age is pretty incredible and I've enjoyed it so much I would like to continue it," he said. "I think people have seen the way I've been since playing at this level again."
"It's nothing against the MLS and the football over there because it's a game that will grow, but it will take quite a few years," he added. "I'm still confident that will happen eventually, but I want to have a chance of being involved in 2010 and I believe my best chance of doing so is to remain here."
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For the fifth consecutive game, McCray paced Kansas offensively, scoring 24 points. Unlike previous games, though, McCray received help from him.
teammates.
Morris added 13 points and freshman forward Aishah Sutherland chipped in 12 points and five rebounds off the bench. At different times in the game, McCann
striking distance. The Jayhawks committed 12 turnovers in the second half, allowing the Buffaloes to cut their lead to seven late in the
"It feels good to have a smile on your face again."
DANIELLE MCCRAY junior forward
Morris and Sutherland each scored points in bunches.
For stretches in the second half Kansas' carelessness with the ball allowed Colorado to remain within
But McCray scored the game's final four points to seal Kansas' first victory in almost three weeks.
second half.
"It feels good to have a smile on your face again." McCray said. "I think that we came out with a purpose tonight and
crew that we needed to do things we were capable of doing to get a win"
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<table border="1"><tr><td>Player</td><td>FG-FGA</td><td>3FG-3FGA</td><td>Rebs</td><td>A</td><td>Pts</td></tr><tr><td>Krysten Boogaard</td><td>1-6</td><td>0-0</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>Nicollette Smith</td><td>3-5</td><td>1-3</td><td>4</td><td>2</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td>LaChelda Jacobs</td><td>0-1</td><td>0-0</td><td>2</td><td>5</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>Ivana Catic</td><td>0-0</td><td>0-0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Danielle McCray</td><td>10-21</td><td>1-4</td><td>6</td><td>4</td><td>24</td></tr><tr><td>Kelly Kohn</td><td>2-2</td><td>2-2</td><td>2</td><td>1</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td>Aishah Sutherland6-8</td><td>0-0</td><td>0-0</td><td>5</td><td>0</td><td>12</td></tr><tr><td>Sade Morris</td><td>6-10</td><td>0-1</td><td>4</td><td>3</td><td>13</td></tr><tr><td>TEAM</td><td></td><td></td><td>6</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Totals</td><td>28-53</td><td>4-10</td><td>30</td><td>15</td><td>65</td></tr></table>
COLORADO (10-10, 2-6) BOX SCORE
Player FG-FGA 3FG-3FGA Rebs A Pts
Brittany Spears 5-13 0-1 7 2 10
Kara Richards 7-13 0-0 7 2 17
Alyssa Fressle 1-3 1-1 2 2 5
Bianca Smith 2-9 1-5 3 5 5
Britney Blythe 2-5 1-3 1 3 5
Hannah Skildum 1-1 0-0 0 0 2
Julie Seabrook 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Kelly Jo Mullaney 2-2 1-1 0 1 5
Courtney Dunn 2-3 1-2 3 0 5
TEAM 4
Totals 22-49 5-13 2.7 15 54
notes
Three-pointer shooters return
Along with junior guard Kelly Kohn's two three-pointers, Smith's three in the first half provided Kansas with a much-needed cushion against Colorado.
Sophomore forward Nicollette Smith couldn't remember the last time she hit a three-pointer. But she won't have a hard time remembering now.
"It felt good to finally hit one," Smith said. "And it felt good that Kelly hit some too. She's that energy off the bench that we need."
Turnovers good, then bad
In the first half, despite a sluggish start, Kansas committed just four turnovers.
But, as junior forward Danielle McCray said, it seemed that the Jayhawks became satisfied with that number.
Kansas turned the ball over 12 times in the second half.
"I think we all looked up and saw we only had four tumovers and got too happy," McCray said.
Junior guard LaChelda Jacobs scored just one point against Colorado on Wednesday. But Jacobs' still played a significant role in Kansas' 21-4 run to end the first half.
Jacobs distributed five assists before halftime, including the assists on both of junior guard Kelly Kohn's three-pointers.
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Junior guard LaChelda Jacobs shuffles with a Colorado guard on defense. Jacobs had one steal and five assists in the Jayhawks 65-54 victory
Kansas shuts down Buffs' Spears
BY TAYLOR BERN
tbern@kansan.com
Win or lose, Colorado's Brittany Spears almost always impacts the game.
The sophomore forward ranks third in the Big 12 with 18.2 points per game, and she's only scored fewer than 11 points once this season.
However, not since that disastrous November outing at No. 17 Virginia has Spears been such a non-factor as she was against Kansas.
points in 19 minutes. Wednesday night she didn't score a field goal until seven minutes into the second half and turned the ball over five times.
In that game, she scored just four
Asked what was the key to silencing Colorado's weapon, Kansas coach Bonnie Henrickson immediately answered Sade Morris.
"I think it's as good a defensive performance as she's had since the Iowa game," Henrickson said. "I was proud of Sade for stepping up to that challenge and really single-handedly slowing her down."
In just her second game back from a concussion, Moriat played
33 minutes and shadowed Spears throughout the game.
Spears shot 0-of-7 in the first half and Morris' defensive intensity rubbed off on the rest of the javhawks.
"When you know someone's working hard on defense then it makes you want to work even harder just to reward her," junior forward Danielle McCray said.
"Once one person is on fire defensively then it gets the whole team excited," sophomore forward Nicollette Smith said.
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As a team, Kansas forced 21 turnovers and held Colorado to 45 percent shooting.
In addition to Morris' stingy defense, Henrickson commended Nicollette on her ability to contain Buffs guard Bianca Smith.
Junior forward Danielle McCray takes the ball under the basket for a reverse layup. McCray led the Jayhawks with 24 points and five rebounds, shooting a perfect 3-3 from beyond the arc in the Jayhawks 65-54 victory over Colorado.
Bianca hit 7-of-10 behind the three-point line in Saturday's 75-73 victory over Nebraska. Against Kansas she was 2-for-9 and drained
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iust one three-pointer.
"The most important thing was for her to not get off threes," Nicollette said. "All week that's been an emphasis, just to keep a high hand and if anything make her put it on the ground."
Spears eventually broke through to score 10 points, but that's still her second-lowest total of the season and those buckets came in garbage time at the end.
Morris said that her one job in Wednesday's game was to frustrate Spears and let her teammates feed off it. That's exactly what happened.
Once Kansas overcame its zombie-like start to the game its defensive gameplan went to script.
"Sade is a special person and that defensive intensity is what she brings to our team," McCray said.
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Former San Francisco Giants baseball player Barry Bonds arrives at the federal courthouse in San Francisco, Calif., in June 2008. The government's case against Bonds includes several positive drug test results that prosecutors say belong to the former slugger. That evidence was part of hundreds of pages of court filings by prosecutors and Bonds' attorneys that a federal judge opened today.
Bonds faces more scrutiny
Transcript of steroid conversation could become evidence in trial
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SAN FRANCISCO Prosecutors in Barry Bonds' trial intend to introduce notes seized from Greg Anderson's house and a clubhouse tape recording of the personal trainer discussing injections in an effort to get around his likely refusal to testify against the home-run king.
Among hundreds of pages of documents opened Wednesday was a transcript of a taped conversation between Anderson, Bonds' personal trainer and then personal assistant, Steve Hoskins, discussing injecting the slugger, plus a list of current and former major leaguers, including lason Giambi, who are
scheduled to testify for the government at Bonds' upcoming trial.
Among the evidence was a positive test for amphetamines in 2006 in a urine sample Bonds gave to Major League Baseball.
"See, the stuff that I have...we created it...You can get it anywhere else."
Bonds' attorneys
want all that evidence suppressed, and U.S. District Judge Susan Illston is to rule today. Anderson, jailed several times for refusing to answer questions before a grand jury, appears to be at the heart of the government's case.
Hoskins, Bonds' childhood friend and personal assistant, tape recorded a 2003 conversation at the Pac Bell clubhouse with Anderson in which injections are discussed.
Anderson: "No, what happens is, they put too much in one area, and what it does, it'll, it'll actually ball up and puddle. And what happens is, it actually will eat away and make an indentation. And it's a cyst. It makes a big (expletive) cyst. And you have to drain it. Oh yeah, it gnarly ... Hi Benito ... oh it's gnarly."
GREG ANDERSON Bonds' personal trainer
Hoskins: "He said his (expletive) went ... that's why he has to, he had to switch off of one cheek to the other. Is that why Barry's didn't do it in one spot, and you didn't just let him do it one time?"
Anderson: "Oh no. I never. I never just go there. I move it all over the place."
The former San Francisco Giants star is charged with lying to a grand jury in 2003 when he said he never knowingly used performance-enhancing drugs. Federal prosecutors allege that Bonds knowingly used steroids, including a once undetectable designer drug.
Bonds' lawyers moved to suppress 24 drug tests from 2000-06; more than two dozen drug calendars; BALCO log sheets; handwritten notes; opinion evidence on steroids, human growth hormone, THG, EPO and Clomid; witness descriptions of Bonds" physical, behavioral and emotional characteristics" — including acne on
His trial is scheduled to start March 2.
his back, testicle shrinkage, head size, hat size, hand size, foot size and sexual behavior — recorded conversations that didn't include Bonds; and voice mails allegedly left by Bonds on the answering machine of former girlfriend Kimberly Bell.
According to records prosecutors took from BALCO, Bonds tested positive on three separate occasions in 2000 and 2001 for the steroid methenelone in urine samples; he also tested positive two of those three times for the steroid dandrolone. Prosecutors want to use those test results to show Bonds lied when he told a grand jury in December 2003 that he never knowingly used steroids.
In addition, a government-retained scientist, Dr. Don Catlin, said he found evidence that Bonds used the designer steroid THG upon retesting a urine sample Bonds supplied as part of baseball's anonymous survey drug testing
in 2003, when the designer drug was not yet detectable. Federal investigators seized them in 2004 from the private laboratory used by Major League Baseball before they could be destroyed, which the players were promised.
Catlin said the sample also tested positive for Clomid and foreign testosterone.
Included in the evidence was a letter from baseball independent drug administrator Bryan Smith that Bonds tested positive for an amphetamine during a drug test on July 7, 2006. There also was a letter from baseball commissioner Bud Selig to Bonds that Aug. 1 informing him of the positive test and telling him that he will be subject to six more tests over a one-year period.
The government said the Giants had Bonds give blood samples to St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center and to Chandler Regional lab, and the government obtained those test results. The government said liver enzymes and cholesterol levels in those results were indicative of steroid use.
Anderson also worked with those players and maintained so-called doping calendars for them. Prosecutors allege that Anderson maintained a similar 'calendar for Bonds.
The court documents also showed the prosecutors' plan on calling to the witness stand Jason Giambi and his brother and former major leaguer Jeremy Giambi. The government also plans to call Bobby Estalella, Marvin Barnard and Benito Santiago, all former teammates of Bonds'.
Documents taken from Anderson's house detail steroid distribution from Anderson to Bonds from 2000-03, according to a government brief. And Anderson also discusses steroids with Hoskins
during that March 2003 clubhouse chat.
Court papers stated that Hoskins recorded the conversation on his own initiative with no government prompting. And federal prosecutors said that Hoskins will be a key witness at the trial.
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According to Hoskins, the following excerpt took place between himself and Anderson in approximately March of 2003 at Pac Bell Park near the defendant's locker.
Hoskins: "Right."
Anderson: "... everything that I've been doing at this point, it's all undetectable.
Anderson: "See, the stuff that I have .. we created it. And you can't, you can't buy it anywhere. You can't get it anywhere else. But, you can take it the day of and pee ."
Hoskins: "Isn't that the same (expletive) that Marion Jones and them were using?"
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Anderson: "So that's why I know it works. So that's why I'm not even trippin', so that's cool."
Hoskins: "Right, right."
Hoskins: "Every week. Right, right."
Anderson: "And they test them every (expletive) week"
Bonds' attorneys argue "there is simply no portion of what Anderson states in reply to Hoskins' questioning that unambiguously refers to Mr. Bonds."
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Chiefs running back Larry Johnson, fresh off a problem-plagued season, said he wants to leave Kansas City.
Speaking Wednesday morning on 610 Sports Radio, Johnson said he thinks it's time for him and the Chiefs to "break ties."
Chiefs spokesman Bob Moore said there was nothing that came out of the interview that hadn't been talked about before. Johnson, who has spent his six-year career in Kansas City, said in December that he felt he had no future with the Chiefs.
Kansas City Chiefs' Larry Johnson stands on the sideline during a Chiefs game against the Jacksonville Jaguars on Oct. 7, 2007 in Kansas City, Mo. Johnson recently said he wanted to leave the team.
"They can go on and find what they want. And I can try to go on and rebuild my career and find what I want." Johnson said.
"Larry Johnson is a member of the Kansas City Chiefs under contract with the Kansas City Chiefs," Moore said in an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday night. "Nothing said about this matter has changed that fact in any way."
During the past season, Johnson was benched for three games for violating team rules and suspended by the league for a fourth game for violating NFL player conduct rules. He also faces a March trial date on charges that he pushed one woman at a bar and spit drinks at another woman.
any younger and the team is getting a lot younger, so I'm not sure I fit in the scheme of things."
Johnson also expressed concern about his role as the Chiefs are overhauled after going 2-23 in their last 25 games.
"I'd rather just, you know, play somewhere else, because like I said, you know this is a rebuilding team, you know, and I don't really think I belong in this rebuilding team," Johnson said.
"This is the way the league works, you know. I've done what I've done for Kansas City, and I'm not getting
Johnson said Wednesday he was told he would get most the carries when he signed a long-term, $45 million deal with the Chiefs before the 2007 season. But he said he was unhappy with his diminished role in the shotgun offense.
Johnson is from State College, Pa., and said football there at Penn State. He said he would prefer to play somewhere on the East Coast so he could be closer to his family.
But hed also like to play for Dallas, he said, noting that his mother is a Cowboys fan.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 5, 2009
SWIMMING & DIVING
Medley relay team unites, hopes for qualifying time
Morgan Stokes, 24; Nicole Cotter, 25; Julie Stern, 26.
lulia Kuzhil, Cherkasy, Ukraine, sophomore, Danielle Herrmann, Itasca. ILL., senior, Ashley Leidigh, Merriam senior,and Maria Mayrovich, Novorossiysk, Russia senior,practice their own strokes individually,then work out kinks during team practice.The medley relay team is trying to qualify for one of the 16 spots in the NCAA Swimming Championships in March.
Individual and solo practices prove to be an effective strategy
Jerry Wang/KANSAN
BY HALLEI MANN hmann@kansan.com
One minute and 38 seconds is a short amount of time. For the Kansas medley relay team, it barely short enough. Sophomore Iulia Kuzhil and seniors Maria Mayrovich, Danielle Herrmann and Ashley Leidigh will have to swim that time or better at the Big 12 Championships if they hope to qualify for the NCAA Championships in March.
The medley relay is one of two team events for Kansas. The relay has four swimmers, each swimming one of four strokes: butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle. This race is the first event of any meet, and Herrmann said it helps the team to get pumped up early.
"It would be awesome to start the meet off with a win or to qualify for NCAA," Herrmann said.
Herrmann and Leidigh have been on the medley relay team since their sophomore year. This will be their last chance to qualify for NCAA Championships. Leidigh said the team aspect of the medley relay was what made it more interesting than other races.
"It's more fun when you're swimming for three other people and not just for yourself." Leidigh said.
Practice doesn't always involve the entire team. In fact, each swimmer practices her own event separately.
They run the race as a team as it gets closer to the meet. It may seem strange for team members to practice solo, but the strategy is effective — Kansas has won the medley relay the last four out of five times they raced in it.
Finding four swimmers who excel at each stroke is hard, said Mayrovich. Kansas' lineup will
have to make individual performance and team chemistry come together to reach that 1:38 goal.
IULIIA KUZHIL, BACKSTROKE
Coach Clark Campbell brought Kuzhil from Cherkasy, Ukraine. The youngest member of the team
Kuzhil has only been in the United States for five months. Kuzhil said she had several options for university study but decided on Kansas after talking with the coaches.
"They needed a backstroker so that's what I worked on when I got here," Kuzhil said.
Kuzhil is finishing her English studies but doesn't know what she
wants to major in yet. After graduation, Kuzhil says she wants to continue swimming and stay in the United States.
DANIELLE HERRMANN,
BREASTSTROKE
As much as Hermann loves swimming, she eventually wants to work in a hospital as a pharmacist. Herrmann finished her PCAT
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Herrmann said she thought she might continue swimming after
about an hour before the medley relay team opened the meet against South Dakota and Northern Iowa with a 12.31 second victory.
"It's more fun when you're swimming for three other people and not just for yourself."
this year while she finished working on her pharmacy degree.
"You can never look too far ahead because everything can change." Herrmann said.
studying, Herrmann said, she and her friends like to play Rock Band or play basketball at the Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center.
When she's not swimming or
ASHLEY LEIDIGH Merriam senior
ASHLEY LEIDIGH, BUTTERFLY
college. Leidigh is a journalism major and wants to work in the sports industry after she finishes at Kansas.
Leidigh, the other veteran swimmer on the relay team, wants to take a break from swimming after
"I don't want to do anything right after college," Leidigh said, "I thought I might move to Arizona with my
"I just felt like I had to get here. I would still pick Kansas again if I was given the choice." Mayrovich said. "Not every university has the same level of confidence and spirit as KU." Mayrovich said.
dad and just relax a bit."
plans to keep swimming after college. Mayrovich said that after she completes her degree in economics, she would like to train with the team and swim on the national swimming circuit. Mayrovich said she knew that she was supposed to come to Kansas when Campbell contacted her.
Mayrovich spends her little free time talking to her friends back home on Skype or Facebook. She also enjoys reading inspirational books and is reading Michael Phelps' book right now.
"It's just really interesting to read about other people who have worked so hard and become so successful," Mayrovich said.
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A. M. R.
It was my first semester living with roommates out of the dorms. I'd lived by myself for a semester, and an opportunity for some summer
roommates at a cheap price opened up. It was just two months of cohabiting with three girls. What could go wrong?
A few qualms about unwashed dishes and laundry arose in the first couple of months, but nothing that wasn't solved with some tough love.
The dried food-infested dishes weren't, of course, mine, and I refused to wash them. I worked my way around the kitchen, avoiding the mess at all costs, and the rooms finally cleaned them only after they resorted to spooning cereal out of coffee mugs with serving utensils. Passive-aggressive on my part? Maybe, but I still didn't have to lift a finger to clean up their mess.
I approached the laundry situation a tad differently. It was inherently impossible for the roomies to remove their wet laundry from the washer and transfer it two feet to the right and into the dryer. If it did miraculously make it to the dryer, it didn't make it to their rooms. Even after a dozen friendly reminders, nothing changed. So once, when the wet laundry stayed in the washer for more than 24 hours, I scooped it out and sloppily placed the drenched clothes in the middle of their bedrooms. It wasn't quite eye for an eye, but I settled with sloppy for sloppy.
editor's note
I eventually had to deal with the hair in the shower situation. I shared a bathroom with one of the roomies, and understood that most girls had much longer hair than me.After each of her showers, though, you would have thought she sheared a sheep in there.She was much more accommodating, though, than with the dish and laundry situations, and she cleaned it the best she could.I never really inquired how she did it, but it got done and that's all I cared about.
I witnessed how she did it once, and it will forever be burned into my now-traumatized memory. I was in the bathroom with her and casually mentioned the wool sweater that was forming at the bottom of the drain. She obliged and grabbed her toothbrush. She headed for the drain, and I yelped an uber-dramatic, slow-motion "NOOOOOOO." She told me to relax—she was going to use the handle, not the bristle end. As if this was going to calm me down, I turned away in disgust, grabbed my toothbrush and stormed out of the bathroom.
Later, she tried to show me the Yeti that she pulled out of the recesses of our shower. I declined. And I also kept my toothbrush out of harm's reach in my room for the rest of my time in the apartment.
Take a look at Kristopher's Out & About on page 15 for more disgusting and cringe-worthy stories from KU students about their past and current roommates.
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Playing with your gum
Twirl, pull, twirl, pull. We have all seen it: the "gum pulver," the person who thinks it is OK to yank that sticky piece of glycerin and sweetener, then take the stretched-out chewing gum and construct a perfect coil around the index finger. Then comes the most daring part of all: The gum goes back in the mouth.
According to the U.S. Department of Energy, millions of bacteria, fungi and viruses are on your hands.The hand comes in contact with more foreign objects than any other part of your body.Some of these bacteria-bearing places include the toilet seat and handle, door knobs, telephones, and, worst of all, others' hands.
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"It's basically like sticking your entire finger in your mouth. The same bacteria sticks to your gum and then you chew on it all day and it is
Photo illustration by Megan Weltner
Keep it classy and less germ-infested to boot: Playing with your gum is like sticking your finger in your mouth.
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nurture by nature Warm milk
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Milk is a great sleep aid for two reasons:
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2. Tryptophan is the ingredient present in turkey that's responsible for making you sleepy after a hearty Thanksgiving feast. A glass of milk has a large amount of this natural sleeping aid.
But does the milk need to be warm to induce sleep? Dr. David Edelberg of the Whole Health Clinic in Chicago says milk should be warm.
"Warming the milk helps because it breaks up the protein molecules making it more readily available to the body," Edelberg says. "Also, you don't want to drink something cold right
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Nighty night: Milk contains calcium, magnesium and tryptophan, which all help relax the body or serve as natural sleeping aids.
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What's hot about curry?
By Sachiko Miyakawa smiakawa@kansan.com
A recipe for health, and an invitation to the world of spice
As cumin seeds splatter with oil on a heated pan, Vaishali Gala adds vegetables. She quickly stirs them on the pan and puts in a blend of spices.
Gala, Hays senior, cooks curry once a week when she craves spicy foods. But for her, curry is more than just food.
"I grew up eating curry every day, so whenever I eat it, it reminds me of home," says Gala, whose parents emigrated from India. She learned a variety of recipes from her mother and aunts.
Gala sometimes cooks curry for her American friends. They enjoy her curry but are often surprised because it is different from what they have eaten in restaurants. Gala says many Indian restaurants in Kansas serve Punjabi curry. Curry tastes different from region to region. Hers is a Gujarat style and is more dry, she says.
Gala defines curry as "a dish that has a lot of spicy east Asian flavors." She says "curry" is an umbrella term that includes various Indian cuisines. It originated in India, but was also adopted by other East Asian cuisines, such as Thai and Japanese.
Secrets of curry ingredients
Turmeric, cumin and chill pepper—a combination of many different spices creates curry flavor. But the roles of spices go beyond seasoning. Many studies reveal potential health benefits of such spices. Among them, turmeric increases attention, says Suzanna Zick, naturopathic physician and researcher at the University of Michigan Health System. She says many studies found anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer properties in curcumin, a substance found in turmeric.
Ingredients in curry, such as ginger, garlic and basil, can bring you other health benefits. Zick says ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon and pepper can warm up your body and lower your blood pressure.
Fresh garlic can also
lower your blood pressure and cholesterol, she says. Basil, which is often used in Thai curry, helps fight colds. Zick says basil is high in antioxidants.
Cook your own curry
1. Search recipes
A number of recipes are available on Curry recipes (www.curry-recipes.net) or CurryFrenzy.com. Dana Schmidt, president of the KU Culinary Club, cooked prawn madras curry with the club. Schmidt, Wichita junior, found the recipe on CurryFrenzy.com. The recipe uses curry powder mix, which makes cooking easier, she says. Many of the club members like curry, but they had only eaten it in a restaurant and didn't know how to cook curry. Schimdt says the prawn madras curry was easier to cook than she thought and was well-received by the club members.
2. Buy spices and curry paste
A variety of curry ingredients are available at Quick Stop, 1000 W.23rd St., and the Mediterranean Market & Cafe, 3300 Bob Billings Parkway.You can cook curry from scratch with multiple spices, but using curry paste is
easier for beginners. You can find Indian, Thai and Japanese curry paste at several locations in Lawrence, including Checkers Food, 2300 Louisiana St., World Market, 3106 Iowa St., and The Community Mercantile, 901 Iowa St.
Curry addicts anonymous: Vaishtai Gala, Hays senior, serves up curry. Gala, whose parents emigrated from India, sometimes makes curry for her friends.
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Those pastes provide instructions for cooking. Vitaliy Karakuts, 2008 graduate, quickly learned how to cook curry, thanks to the pastes. He often cooks Indian curry and eats it with brown rice.
Photo by Jerry Wang
tables and using leaner meat makes the dish healthier. Invite your friends and boost your health with this zesty cuisine.
Putting a lot of vegete-
Photo by Jerry Wang
Hot and healthy:The ingredients in curry can bring you health benefits. Ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon and pepper can warm you up and lower your blood pressure, and basil, which is high in antioxidants, helps fight colds.
Aloo Gobi (Potato and Cauliflower)
Vaishali Gala shares a recipe, which she learned from her mother.
Ingredients
4 potatoes
2 cups gobi (cauliflower florets)
2 tablespoons oil
I teaspoons cumin seeds
I chopped green chili
I teaspoons coriander paste
1/4 teaspoons chili powder
I teaspoons cumin paste
1/2 teaspoons turmeric paste
1 teaspoon chopped coriander leaves salt to taste
1. Cook the potatoes in a large saucepan of boiling water for 10 minutes. Drain well and set aside.
2. Heat the oil in a large frying pan and fry the cumin seeds for about two minutes, or until they begin to splutter.Add the green chili and fry for one more minute.
3. Add the cauliflower florets and fry, stirring for five minutes. Add the potatoes, the ground spices and salt and cook for seven to 10 minutes, until the vegetable are tender.
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I dated a girl two summers ago who now goes to school in Georgia. Recently, she came out of the blue about how much she wants me to come visit her for spring break. I'm tempted—we got along extremely well and only broke up because of the distance. She has been my 'what if' for a while. But, it's a 17-hour drive or at least a $200 flight. Is it worth it? Josh, junior
Elliot: Let's get one thing out of the way from the start. The many states separating you two will not miraculously disappear. So, even if you have an amazing time with Ms. Right, you're still going to have the substantial distance to deal with. That said ... go for it, dude! Mind you, I'm a sucker for the chivalrous and romantic gesture. I love the idea of you taking a chance and flying halfway cross the country. If you go there, meet up with your old flame, and things click ... that's great. You're off to the races.
If, however, you go there and it's not what you'd like, you'd still get to spend some quality time with a friend. Now is the time in your life when taking a trip on a whim makes the most sense. You're not tied down to anything (because of spring break) and any work you have to do you can take with you. You're probably about three semesters away from graduating. If you're going to take a crazy trip, now's the time.
Carly: What if you go there and nothing romantic happens between you and your former flame? Would you consider that a waste? You need to think about what you really want to happen before you buy a ticket or pack up your car. Sure, it's easy to say now, "Oh, I really don't care what happens, I just want to see an old friend." But I think we both know that's a load of crap. This girl is, as you put it, your "what if," and her asking you to come visit is giving you the impression that she might be having the same thoughts.
If you go up there and she just really wanted to see you as a friend, you'll leave Georgia confused and frustrated that she sent you (what you see as) mixed signals. Plus, you'll be out $200 and that just adds to the blow. If you can say with confidence that you wouldn't mind it being a completely platonic trip, then go. If there's a little bit of doubt, stay.
My boyfriend and I got in a fight the other morning. We didn't speak to each other all day.Later that night, we didn't talk about our fight and all he said was that he loved me and that's all that mattered. Is that a cop-out answer? And should I bring up the fight again even though we are both past it? Janet,junior
Elliot: Seems to me that your boyfriend left it at "I love you" because he was probably stopping himself from saying something regrettable. In that regard, I don't think it's a cop-out. We've all be in that situation where we're so pissed off about something that we're inches away from saying something incredibly hurtful. I think he was smart to step on the gas, take a deep breath, and try to focus on the most important thing. That being said, it's never a good idea to go to sleep angry, especially if you're doing so in the same bed as the person you're arguing with. Trying to clear the air (at least a little) before settling in for the night would have been a good thing to try. What do you have to gain by letting that ill will sit inside you when you're supposed to be at your most peaceful? So, in the event that he tries to respond that same way again, you should look him straight in the face and say, "And because you love me, we're going to talk this out."
Carly: There are a lot of circumstances that would affect my answer. The big thing that's missing is what the fight was about. I can understand your frustration if your boyfriend was the one that blundered and he just said that to get it over with. However, if the two of you had conflicting views and couldn't reconcile the difference of opinions, then I wouldn't consider it a cop-out. Sometimes, you just have to agree to disagree. The love is still there, and that really is what matters. Also, there is one key phrase that you used: "We are both past it." I'm assuming this means the fight is resolved and you have both moved on. So why bring it up again? There is nothing more aggravating than rehashing old fights when there is a more pressing issue at hand. It could make a small fight turn into something much bigger.
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How We Met
Love at first sight can be thought of as a terrible cliché. But for Marcela Telles, a Recife, Brazil, senior, meeting and falling in love with her fiancé, Elias Cabus, was just that simple.
The couple met in July 2006 when Marcela was home in Brazil for winter break. Elias was in Brazil working as a DJ. Returning to Lawrence after spending an entire month falling for one another, Marcela was forced to wait until the following March to see him.
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The couple met up in Miami for the Ultra Music Festival in March. "It was as if it were the next day," she says. Each year, the festival showcases some of the world's best electronic and dance music, which both Marcela and Elias love.
So there, in the middle of the festival, Elias got down on one knee and proposed.
"We didn't have a relationship," Marcela says."We just got engaged."
Since then, Elias has lived in both New York and Brazil while Marcela was in Kansas going to school. When he was in the country, Marcela would fly out every other weekend to see him. But finally, Marcela says, Elias decided that he needed to be closer. As of this summer, the
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The couple was engaged on March 21, 2007, and will dance their way to the aisle December 27.
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Looking to the future, the two Brazilians have quite a year ahead of them. Marcela graduates in May and the wedding is set for December 27.
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Left on Northwood, from left: Todd Anderson, Joe Marshall, LeRoy Pristach, Mike Dye, Cody Stapleton. The band will release their new album this March.
Todd Anderson, drummer and founder of band Left or Northwood and 2008 graduate, moved to Lawrence to join the local music scene and get an education to boot. Left on Northwood's mix of punk and hard rock prowess gives the band aspirations of the Big Time (they travel across the country for shows and are releasing an album, Gut Check Personality, on iTunes and Rhapsody on February 24), but Left on Northwood still humbly appreciates their music roots in Lawrence and the openness that the local music scene offers its partakers.
What's the best part about being a band in Lawrence?
Lawrence gives you the freedom to express yourself musically on any kind of plane. Everyone's open to rock, rap, country, independent, house, anything. Lawrence is just a hodge podge of all kinds of music and not a lot of places in America are like Lawrence, Kansas, in that respect.
What's the band's favorite venue?
The Bottleneck because a lot of the early '90s influences played there and have their pictures hanging on the wall. To know that Weezer, Bush, Nirvana, Blink-182 have all played in The Bottleneck makes it a really special place to play.
You graduated from KU with a degree in music therapy. What do you miss the most about college life?
I don't miss the parking department, that's for sure, but I do miss the sporting events. It was such a big deal on such a big level, almost like the local music scene: Everyone is so passionate about it.
There are probably a few Jayplay readers who don't know who you guys are. What's something you'd like them to know about Left of Northwood?
I want them to know that we're not only a band that records music to listen to, but we're also a band that loves to play live, whether it's in front of two people or 2,000 people. We not only express our music through our instruments, but also through our bodies, through our interactions with people. Our live shows take our music to whole new level.
Is there anything non-musical that inspires the band?
I'd like to call these guys my brothers and not just because I have to. We've grown up around each other and we all come from the same place. We all have had the same hardships, and I really consider them family. Having them as friends is inspirational. That's what gives us such great chemistry: We care about each other on a loving, family level before a musical level.
If you could spend a day with one person, who would it be?
Keith Buckley from a band called Every Time I Die. I'd love to spend a day with that guy to really find out how to live.
In one year, I see us with a released E.P. and a new full-length album almost done in the studio. I'm hoping for a few tours along the way. If we work the way we are working and write the way we are writing, I see a very successful future.
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Far left: Paisley, Jan Broxerman's 4-month-old golden retriever puppy, sits patiently in the library of Libertyview Elementary school. Broxerman substitute teaches at the elementary school and takes Paisley with her to help the dog become accustomed to small children and large crowds.
Left: Broxterman sits with Paisley until the puppy calms down. Paisley is in the first phase of her training. The KSDS program has three stages of training, the first of which is when the dog is trained by a volunteer.
Right: Spilled candy provides an impromptu training session for Larry Braddy's dog, Cinnamon. Guide dogs and service dogs cannot be distracted or tempted by food on the ground, so they must be taught to ignore it.
oursfornow By Becka Cremer bcremer@kansan.com [ raising puppies for service ]
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She has slept through my history class and peed at the Gap.
And the one time she went to church, she talked through the entire service.
So when I decided to take my puppy to a movie, I was—understandably—a little nervous.
I walked into the movie theater with the speech I give at least 20 times a day running through my head:"This dog is a service dog in training.I'm her puppy raiser:Part of what I do is make sure she is exposed to as many different things as possible ..."
But the manager of the movie theater just waved us toward the ticket counter, where I bought a ticket to Last Chance Harvey. (I couldn't risk the commotion Marley & Me or Bolt might
KSDS pups' future jobs
Guide dogs help people who are blind or visually impaired.
Service dogs perform tasks such as opening doors, retrieving dropped items and pulling manual wheelchairs for people with physical disabilities.
Social dogs are trained to work with professionals in education, counselling medicine, rehabilitation, retirement or specialty agencies. They do not have the same access rights as guide and service dogs.
Source: KSDS Puppy Rater Manual
cause.)
I am a puppy raiser for KSDS, Inc., a nonprofit organization that breeds and trains golden retrievers and Labrador retrievers as service dogs for individuals with disabilities. Someday, my puppy, Trego, will join the more than 400 working dogs placed by KSDS since 1991.She will work as a guide dog, a service dog or as a
social dog. In about 18 months—when Trego is 2 years old—I'll drive two-and-a-half hours to the KSDS training facility in Washington, Kansas, and hand over her leash. But until then, she'll live with me. My job is to keep her safe and happy and
Becoming a volunteer
I applied to be a puppy raiser for KSDS about two years ago. After a surprisingly easy application—two pages and two letters of reference—and a long wait, I was handed a 10-pound puppy on September 5, 2008. She was 2 months old. I was 22.
to teach her how to behave in public.
So when I get ready to leave the house each day, I strap Trego into her puppy in training vest and clip a leash onto her collar. Then I grab my doggie diaper bag and check my pockets: Dog food. Puppy ID. Poop bag.
That's why Trego goes everywhere with me—to the movies, to the mall and even out to eat. She needs to be exposed to as many different situations as possible, so that when she works with someone who is blind or in a wheelchair, she'll be comfortable doing her job in public.
KSDS looks for people who love dogs and are willing to take the time, energy and money to raise these puppies. They also need to be emotionally able to give the puppy up when it is called back for formal training. Debbie Tegethoff, KSDS puppy coordinator says.
they're not here because we're Paris Hilton showing off our fuzzy dog
As a puppy raiser, I am responsible for the first phase of Trego's training, the growing up
part. When I take Trego back to KSDS, she will be health and temperament tested before beginning advanced training. Then she will be paired with the person she will help and the two of them will go through team training to learn how to work
together.The entire process takes about three years.
Right now, about 100 volunteers are raising KSDS puppies, Tegethoff says, and 50 of us are in Kansas.The rest are scattered around the country, mostly in the Midwest.
We all get 'the look'
Lisa Beck and her puppy, Willow, are Lawrence residents just beginning the puppy raising process. For the past three months, Beck has been thinking about the places she'd take Willow after the dog was vaccinated for rabies and received a vest. Beck, associate director of operations for the Office of Admissions and Scholarships, plans to begin taking Willow to work every once in a while soon. She hopes the hubbub of the Office of Admissions and Scholarships will help Willow learn how to behave in public.
Now that I've been taking Trego out in public
for a few months, I'm less anxious about finding places for her to learn new things. In the beginning, though, I kept lists. Animals she needs to meet. Types of people she needs to be around. Sounds. Smells. Modes of transportation. Now, I'm much more relaxed, focusing on providing extra exposure to the types of things that make Trego uncomfortable. In the past few weeks, for example, I've vacuumed my house nearly every day and we've spent a lot of time around power tools, because Trego doesn't like loud noises.
Like me, Larry Braddy plans his day around his puppy. He takes Cinnamon places that will help the puppy learn, such as restaurants, shopping centers and the bank.
"We all get 'the look,'" says Braddy, vice chairman of the KSDS puppy raiser board."Like, What's that dog doing here?" These dogs are not just pets, Braddy says. They are working dogs that need to be allowed to do their job, whether they're at a restaurant or a bus stop.
"They're not here because we're Paris Hilton showing off our fuzzy dog," he says.
People have a lot of reservations about any dog being anywhere, and Trego and I rarely go anywhere without being stopped every few feet. Some people just want to tell me how cute she is—and she is cute—but others want an explanation."Is that a service dog?"people ask, sometimes not very nicely.I'm quick to explain what we're doing and to reassure people that, yes, it's legal to allow us to be in public places. Still, puppies in training aren't always welcome, and Kansas law does not give puppies in training the same access rights as service dogs.
When Braddy was raising his first KSDS puppy, Goblin, he says, he had to leave the dog behind when he visited his mother in the hospital. The funny thing about that, Braddy says, is that Goblin's partner has multiple sclerosis and
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Catalpa, a KSDS puppy, waits under a table at T.G.I.Friday's in Shawnee while her puppy raises eat dinner. In Kansas, businesses are not required to allow puppies in training access; but as long as the puppies are wearing their vests, it is legal for them to be in restaurants.
takes Goblin to the hospital all the time.
The visit to Braddy's mom would have been an opportunity to teach Goblin about being in a hospital.
"It doesn't make sense," Brooke Langdon, Abeline junior and former puppy raiser, says. "Nothing changes about the fact that they shed and that they're a dog just because they graduate."
After raising three KSDS dogs, Langdon understands something I sometimes forget: As impressive as their future jobs are, these dogs are still dogs. And Trego is still a puppy.
When we're out in public, I have to be aware of Trego's tail—the Labrador's No. I weapon. And, even though she is potty trained and usually asks to go out, I always have a poop bag in my pocket. Just in case.
During our trips out, I am constantly correcting her, asking her to walk nicely on a leash, to ignore bits of food and pieces of trash on the ground and, most importantly, to pay attention to me. We work on basic obedience—sit, stay, heel, etc.—but with the added distractions of new people, smells and sounds. It would be impossible to teach Trego these things at home, because our environment is too controlled; she needs to know how to pay attention to me whatever our surroundings.
With Trego in tow, even a simple trip to Target becomes a training opportunity. We spend extra time in the toy aisles, for example. I push
College students considering committing to puppy raising need to understand that it isn't just something you can do on the weekends, says Dave Downing, professor of aerospace engineering and former puppy raiser. He says raising a puppy for service requires a lifestyle change similar to that of having children, but just for a short time.
It's like having a child
the buttons on every electronic toy I can find, working to make sure nothing she'll encounter as an adult will scare her and distract her from doing her job. Soon, Trego will attend her first concert and go to her first bar. I hope we'll get a chance to attend a keg party and a basketball game this semester, too.
When Trego and I walked into church on the Sunday before Christmas, I was armed with the Missouri law—puppies in training have the same access rights as assistance dogs—and pamphlets about KSDS. I thought I was prepared for anything. But when the band started playing and Trego joined in, I began to panic. Just wait it out. She'll stop singing when they stop. I told myself it was going to be OK, that she would calm down when the service began. Then, the pastor released the children to go to their children's church activities. Oh no.
Trego's favorite people are ones who are
I've had this puppy for five months and I can't think of a better analogy.
quickly won out. I walked Trego away from the congregation and into a stairwell in the back of the church and fought tears as I tried to calm her down.
less than three feet tall. She especially loves children who smell like food or scream and run around a lot. The mass exodus of children made Trego bark even more loudly. Mom! Do you see the kids? Look! Kids! They're leaving! LET'S GO! Her yelps and whines were very clear: She wanted to go to children's church, too.
I tried everything I could think of to get Trego to stop barking, but my embarrassment
A young mother, carrying her child, approached us. "We all go through this," she told me. I wiped tears out of my eyes and replied. "But no one thinks you should have left yours at home."
puppy manners
A dog's vest signals to people—and to the dog—that it is working. Whether the dog is in training or with a partner, it's important to ask the person who is with the dog for permission before talking to or touching the dog.
In most cases, a puppy raiser will allow people to interact with the puppy, but only if the dog is behaving Larry Braddy says he makes a point of allowing children to pet Cinnamon, the dog he's raising for KSDS, but only if the child asks first. This way both the child and the dog learn something about interacting with each other, says Braddy, vice chairman of the KSDS puppy raiser board.
But after a dog has graduated, when it is in public with its partner, the dog cannot be
distracted. If a dog has a sign that says something like, "I'm working, please don't touch." Braddy says, don't be offended. The dog just needs to be able to work distraction-free. Beth Sakumura, 1983 graduate, compares talking to a dog that is working to grabbing the steering wheel of a car when someone else is driving. Distracting the dog puts the person in danger; she says.
In addition to understanding that the dog is doing its job, people should be aware that the person relying on the dog is living his life, says Nancy Giossi, executive assistant in the office of the director of the department of continuing education. "They've got their lives," she says. "They're already busy. You're just one of 10 people to stop them that day."
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Sometimes, especially in the beginning, puppy raising feels like that: parenting a child no one else wants around. But more recently I've collected a lot of success stories, not the least of which was Trego's first trip to the movies.
Jan Boxterman pulls her puppy in training. Paisley, in close to calm her down after she gets excited at work.
Trego sat through all of Last Chance Harvey with only a few whimpers. She thought (and I have to agree) that the middle of the movie was kind of boring. As we walked out of the theater that day, several people stopped us to say they didn't even know there was a dog in the theater until they saw us leave. Score.
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It's obvious to me that the time I put in to taking Trego out is paying off. Giving any dog constant and consistent correction helps the dog behave better, and makes each day a bit easier. And after spending so much time with these puppies, the mental and emotional bond is incredible, says Jan Broxterman, a puppy raiser from Overland Park.
Giving them back
But puppy raisers have to be careful about how they think about that bond, because when the puppies are between 18- and 24-monthsold, KSDS sends each puppy raiser "the letter." The letter tells the puppy raiser that it's time to bring the puppy back.
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"The day they go back is the worst, but it's the best at the same time. You're so attached, and you don't even know how attached you are." Langdon says.
Braddy doesn't know when he'll get the letter about Cinnamon,but he's guessing it will be sometime next month. Then Braddy will load Cinnamon into his car for the drive back to Washington,Kansas, making sure to take along one of Cinnamon's favorite toys.
After an exit interview, during which the puppy raises answers questions about the puppy's progress and shares information that will help the dog's transition to living at the training facility go smoothly, the puppy is taken away. It's sad. Braddy says, but you want your dog to go off to doggie college to learn how to do its job.
After the dogs are called back, they are sent to Kansas State University, where their eyes and hips are tested to make sure they don't have any problems that will keep them from having a long career. The dogs are also temperament tested every day.Tegethoff of KSDS says. The trainers at KSDS watch the puppies closely. They decide which track the dog will take—service dog, guide dog or social dog—based on what tasks the dog is good at performing and what it seems to enjoy doing.
Some dogs, Tegethoff says, aren't ready to begin advanced training as soon as they get back to the training facility."Some of the dogs are kind of like teenagers. They don't know what they want to do," Tegethoff says.
Pairing up
After advanced training, each dog is paired with a person whose needs, personality and lifestyle are appropriate to the dog's skills and personality. Then, the dogs and their partners go through team training, which lasts between one and three weeks, depending on what type of service the dog will be doing.The dogs and their partners are taught to work together before the dogs graduate.At graduation, the puppy raisers present the dogs to their partners and the KSDS community celebrates the teams' success.
These dogs are sent to the Topeka Correctional Facility where they spend about 30 days with teams of female inmates who are able to spend more time with the dogs than puppy raisers or the trainers at KSDS are, Tegethoff says. The teams are usually made up of three women and the leaders of the teams have passed both written and practical tests to ensure that they are equipped to help train the dogs. After time at the Topeka Correctional Facility, the dogs return to KSDS for formal training, which lasts between six and nine months.
"You get to see that joy that they are experiencing and they're scared because they're going home with this dog—sometimes it's the first dog they've ever had. You get to see all of those emotions," Braddy says. "You get to see that feeling of hope. They now have hope that their lives will be more independent."
Trego is my first KSDS puppy, so I don't have a graduation story of my own yet. Instead, when people ask how I will give Trego up, or why I am a puppy raiser, I tell them about Challenge Air, an event during which pilots donate their time and their private planes to take children with physical disabilities for short flights. Trego and I volunteered at the KSDS booth at the event. We applying for him with Trego solidified the thought.
Alex and his mom soon moved on, allowing other children to talk to Trego. I was figuring out how to hold a leash and unscrew the cap from my water bottle at the same time when Alex came running back to Trego and me. He had left his braces behind in his excitement and was struggling to stay upright, but he was in a hurry to tell us about his flight.
"I got to FLY the plane!" he told Trego. I told him that neither Trego nor I had ever flown a plane, and he showed us the flight wings the pilot had given him. The pilots at Challenge Air had their way of letting these children experience the freedom of motion I feel every day. Raising Trego is mine.
assistance dogs on the Web
For more information about service dogs and puppy raisers, check out these websites.
KSDS, Inc.
www.ksds.org
Lawrence/Kansas City area puppy raiser website
http://web.mac.com/lisalrick/iWeb/KSDS/Horne.html
Assistance Dogs International
www.assistancedogsinternational.org
International Association of Assistance Dog Partners
http://liaadp.org
were there to introduce children and their parents to the idea that a service dog could change their lives,but the children I met there changed mine.
One of the first people Trego and I met that day was a 6-year-old named Alex. When he saw us, he dropped the braces that were attached to his arms and fell to his knees to play with Trego, who, at 3 months old, was still swimming in her vest. Alex told Trego that he was about to fly in an airplane while I talked to Alex's mom. She told me she had been planning on applying for a dog for him already, and seeing him with Trego solidified the thought.
assistance dogs on the Web
For more information about service dogs and puppy raisers, check out these websites.
KSDS, Inc. www.ksds.org
Assistance Dogs International www.assistedogsinternational.org
Lawrence/Kansas City area puppy raiser website http://web.mac.com/lisalrick/iWeb/KSDS/Home.html
International Association of Assistance Dog Partners http://iaadp.org
Photo by Allison Richardson
Cinnamon, a KSDS puppy in training, puts his front paws on a counter.
assistance dogs on the Web
For more information about service dogs and puppy raisers, check out these websites.
KSDS, Inc.
www.ksds.org
Assistance Dogs International
www.assistantdogsinternational.org
Lawrence/Kansas City area
puppy raiser website
http://web.mac.com/lisalrick/Web/
KSDS/Horne.html
International Association of Assistance Dog Partners
http://liaadp.org
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"Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta" by Geto Boys. I heard it one time and thought it summed up my life. I wake up come to school, I hustle, this is how I do it. It's my creed.
Chase Johnson, Chicago sophomore
"Free Bird" by Lynard Skynard, because I'm pretty much a free spirit and that's kind of what that song's about. Plus, I love Lynard Skynard. They rock.
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"Crazy Bitch" by Buckcherry, because it's just a good song to me. It gets me going, gets me in the drinking mood, gets me in the zone.
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"Learning to Fly" by Tom Petty. I like the lyrics. You can kind of interpret them however you want and it's just about rising above things and getting through them.
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"Scarlet Begonias" by Sublime, because it's just about being a free spirit and doing whatever you want and that's kind of what I do. Ashleigh Meyer, Shawnee freshman
"Let's Go" by Trick Daddy featuring Lil Jon, because I'm usually pretty on top of things and just have to go for it and try to do my best at everything.
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"Over" by Katharine McPhee, because the song talks about starting over and leaving the past behind and looking for a brighter future. Taylor Hovorkn, Kansas City sophomore
Bo Gapske, Lenexa freshman
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"California" by Phantom Planet because it's about going somewhere new and trying new things and that's what I like to do.
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"Everything Hits at Once" by Spoon, because it always seems like when something happens in my life it's followed by a whole bunch of other bad stuff or a whole bunch of good stuff all at once.
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For as long as she can remember, Cheri Lu Woods has been writing poetry. It is only recently, however, that Woods has begun transforming her writing into lyrical performances on stage.
Woods credits the birth of this new style to the days when she used to work as a courier in Kansas City.
"It was inevitable that my gesturing, harsh words to other drivers and the talking to myself that I did while driving around town actually turned into some pieces that I felt were fit for recitation," Woods says.
One such poem-turned-song relates to observations on various bumper stickers that she encountered during hours of commuting, including such phrases as "Your Boss is a Jewish Carpenter;" "Mean People Suck" and "My Child is an Honor Student."
Woods has found sources of inspiration for her writing through authors such as Charles Bukowski and musicians such as Jim Croce and Bob Dylan.
"He's as much a poet as a songster"
Woods quickly asks, regarding Dylan.
More than anything, it's about transcribing the moment onto paper—whatever happens to be on her mind at the time, Woods says.
"...where I went and how I got there.
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has turned her poems into songs.
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some attraction I have for someone, failed attempts at love, some oddball I saw on the street, some oddball that is me, my desire to define truth so that I might embrace it. My disdain for the world and my disappointment in myself," Woods says.
Woods will be performing on stage tomorrow night at The Slap and Tickle Gallery between 6 p.m. and midnight at the Second Annual Erotica Art Show-featuring erotica art from over 30 artists from Kansas City and New York—located at 504 E. 18th St. in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Behind shelves lined with assorted groceries, steam rises from a back corner in excited plumes. A bearded gentleman with a youthful step bounces between a noisy side room and the mysterious thermals, bowls in hand.
Charlie Porubsky, manager of Porubsky's
Grocery in Topeka, mans the old four-burner stove—supporting stockpots of chili filled to the brim—with steadfast grace; much like his father, the late Charlie Sr., did when he opened the establishment back in 1947.
Photo by Tanner Grubbs
Nestled in the "Little Russia" district, at 508
Let's eat: Porubsky's has been open since 1947 and serves it's food Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Northeast Sardou Avenue, Porubskys has been a mainstay among Topeka locals for its famous chili for over half a century, recently finding a broader audience with a February 2008 article in Gourmet magazine, which described the family-owned eatery as a destination for "committed chili-heads."
To complement the renowned chili, Porubsky's also offers cold-cut sandwiches, ham salad and cold plates consisting of sliced deli meats and cheesees.
Oh, and the pickles.Very. Hot.
Pickles—perhaps just as synony-
mous to Porubsky's as its chili.
With an order of pickles to go, Charlie imparts a very succinct farewell, devoid of any noticeable jest:
"Be careful with those pickles. We've got a hot batch today."
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"Have any more?" Connor asks, following a swift recovery.
Porubsky's has a narrow window in which food is served, so plan accordingly: Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Chili is available only from Monday through Thursday.
Upon tossing a modest segment of pickle into his mouth, Overland Park senior Jack Connor, experienced mild contortions of the face before jumping about and releasing a cathartic, "YOOP!"
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Gonna make you sweet: Porubsky's hot pickles will have you clamoring for ice-cold water.
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It's gonna blow! Chili is available only from Monday through Thursday at Porusbik's Grocery.
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Walking is the hard part By Becka Cremer mer@kansan.com
An easy guide to setting up a slackline
It may look as if they're tightrope walking, but the barefoot students you see walking about four feet off the ground are practicing another sport entirely: slacklining. A few carabiners and about 100 feet of nylon webbing is all it takes to set up a slackline. With this handy guide and a few days of practice, you'll be ready to show off your skills.
What you need
—Three climbing carabiners ($10 each). The self-locking type are the safest, says Noah Hoel-sher; rock climbing expert at Sunflower Outdoor and Bike, 804 Massachusetts St.
— 60 to 80 feet of 1-inch climbing webbing ($24-$32)
— Two 10-foot pieces of climbing webbing ($12). Hoelscher recommends two-inch webbing for the shorter pieces, which are used to anchor the line to two trees. The wider webbing is more difficult to find, he says, but is gentler on tree bark than one-inch webbing.
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Choose some trees
Find two sturdy trees or similar objects about 30 to 40 feet a part. The shorter your slackline, the more stable it will be and the easier it will be to walk on, Hoelscher says.
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Figure 1
Set the anchors
Each of the 10-foot pieces of webbing will anchor one side of the slack-line to a tree.
1. Tie an overhand knot on a bight at each end of each of the 10-foot pieces of webbing (see Figure 1). This will create a loop on each end of each anchor piece
2. Wrap one of the anchor pieces around a tree and thread one loop through the other (see Figure 2).
3. Hook a carabiner to the empty loop (see Figure 2).
4. Repeat on the other tree.
Figure 2
Overhand Knots
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Hook the line to one tree
The long piece of one-inch climbing webbing will form the part of the slackline you walk on.
1. Tie an overhand knot on a bight at one end of the line.
2. Clip the loop from that knot onto one of the anchor carabiners. Close the carabiner.
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Set up tightening device
1. Walk toward the other tree, holding the webbing. Make sure it's not twisted. When you're about 10 feet from the other tree, use a clove hitch to hook the third carabiner to the line (see Figure 3).
Figure 3
2. Feed the excess webbing through the carabiner on the free anchor.
3. Loop the webbing through the carabiner attached to the line.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3, tracking the line under the previous loops so it will stay in place (see Figure 4).
Tighten the line
1. Make sure your slackline is about four feet off the ground.
2. Pull on the loose end of the webbing until the line is tight. There is not a set rule for how tight the line should be, Hoelscher says, but generally, a tighter line is easiest to walk on.
Figure 4
Graphics by Becka Cremer
4.
Hop on
Some expert slackliners can perform back flips and 360-degree spins on the line, but everyone starts the same way: by standing up. Kick off your shoes and ask a friend to sit on the line behind where you want to get on. Hoelscher says. Your friend will help keep the line stable and make standing up easier. Then, focus on a spot that isn't moving so you don't lose your balance.
"If you look at the line when it's moving, shaking back and forth, you'll fall." Hoelscher says. "And if you look at your foot you'll fall."
Some beginning slackliners put crash pads under the line to break their falls, says Mark Perry, the outdoor pursuits graduate assistant at the Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center.
Don't get discouraged if you can't walk on your slackline right away. Keep practicing. Hoelscher says.
"Most people can stand on one foot and take a couple of steps in a couple of afternoons," he says. "It seems to be pretty intuitive." JMP
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A museum guard
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Photo by Adam Schoof
Photo by Adam Schoof Don't touch that! Rose Kopf, guard at the Spencer Museum of Art, has seen her fair share of oddities on the job.
Dalton Howard, a security guard at the Spencer Museum of Art, watched as a guest knelt before a statue of Jesus, gripped his rosary and held an impromptu Catholic mass.
Howard, who has been a guard for more than 15 years, says the man was a regular at the museum for a while. Unorthodox behavior is common at the Spencer; Rose Kopf, a guard for two years, once found someone talking to a person in a painting.
One would think museum guards spend their time strolling the galleries, making sure kids don't spit on the Rembrandts, but the job requires much more. All guards at
the job requires much more. All guards at the Spencer are trained in first aid and CPR, says Don Langdon, a guard for three years. Also, guards must be ready to evacuate or lock down the museum at any moment, Kopf says.
Additionally, the job requires a "naturally giving" personality, because you are helping the public, Howard says, and because guards spend much of their time giving directions. However, Howard has been "chewed out" by guests who felt he was being too strict with museum rules.
"I've been called a nasty old man," Howard says.
However, he says he is proud to protect the only comprehensive art museum in Kansas.
"It doesn't look like you're doing anything, but if you weren't here, you wonder what would be happening." Howard says.
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MUSIC: Andrew Bird, Noble Beast
Andrew Bird opens his fifth solo album and latest release, Noble Beast, with a track titled "Oh No," a name that doesn't seem to fit the song's lighthearted, easy manner, which he achieves with his carefree whistling and Shins-like melodies. Bird's frequent use of whistling can be heard throughout the entire album alongside various other instruments, including a violin, as well as a wide and diverse vocabulary—Bird's song lyrics occasionally read like a foray into his bedside dictionary. The way he plays with rhymes, sounds and syntax gives his songs an even more unique quality.
"Anonanimal" is a perfect example of Bird's fusion of instrumentation and language, with a melancholy violin part, a rolling, repetitive guitar line, percussive loops and word play all rolled into one. "Fitz and Dizzyspells" is an invigorating and lively track, while "Natural Disaster" has a slower, more enchanting feel. "Not a Robot, But a Ghost" is strangely electronic but not at all out of place, and the album closes with a minute of beautiful orchestral harmonies. Noble Beast's craftily detailed, multifaceted features work well together, and
Andrew Bird
Bird makes complexity seem so simple, adding a personality and individuality to his tunes that few others could achieve.
★★★
— Amanda Sorell
BOOK: Nami Mun, Miles From Nowhere
In Nami Mun's Miles From Nowhere, joon, a 13-year-old runaway, walks the isolating streets of New York City as if something good is waiting for her. Masking the abuse, suffering and addiction with independence, she fights to find the acknowledgement and happiness absent in her short-lived childhood. Her progression from young girl to young adult is not without its painful obstacles.
With every self-infliction, Joon's bleeding love spills over forgotten family and friends. Throughout the novel, Joon makes futile attempts to connect to something concrete, instead falling at the hands of failed jobs, hits of meth, and lovers promising false hope. The subject matter sounds like it would deter readers from relating to the characters and their internal struggles, but in fact the honest beauty and brutality make the harsh situations sympathetic, and not as shocking as they should seem.
The characters are rough around the edges,but soften into compassionate friends and allies on the gritty streets. Although tough to take at times,readers will understand Joon's pain and interpret it as their
Miles from Nowhere
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own, making Miles From Nowhere a simple attempt to spell out every individual's endless pursuit of happiness.
★★★☆
— Kelci Shipley
MOVIE: The Wrestler
Mickey Rourke gives a tour de force performance in The Wrestler. Tour de Force is defined, according to www.dictionary.com, as an exceptional achievement by an artist, author, or the like, that is unlikely to be equaled by that person or anyone else.
Rourke plays Randy "The Ram" Robinson, a middle-aged, washed-up pro wrestler who has nothing to show of his former glory other than his scars and a dirty trailer. Rourke is captivating, not only slamming men in tights with folding chairs, but also trying to rekindle a relationship with his wayward daughter (Evan Rachel Wood).
Rourke's powerful performance coupled with director Darren Aronofsky's masterful cinematography makes The Wrestler feel almost like a documentary rather than a major Hollywood film. Aronofsky, who also directed Requiem for a Dream and Pi, makes a movie film so powerful and poignant one forgets they are watching middle-aged men giving each other suplexes and half-nelsons.
Marisa Tomei also gives one of her best performances ever as Cassidy, a single mother and stripper who plays Randy's love interest.
It is Rourke's performance, however, that makes this movie so incredible. No
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MUSIC: Umphrey's McGee, Mantis
The genre of "jam band" takes on new meaning when applied to Umphrey's McGee. The six-piece group based out of Chicago takes a different approach to their music than the typical Grateful Dead or Allman Brothers improv. Umphrey's is immaculate in their technique and sound, and original in their song development and creation.
With a massive fan base, thanks to more than 10 years of aggressive touring across the country, the group shows a new level of maturity and musical creativity on their fourth studio album, Mantis.
Mantis was written entirely in the studio—a new technique for Umphrey's, who typically road tests their songs before releasing them on studio albums. The result is interesting. Though Mantis lacks the familiar euphoric and lose jams found on earlier Umphrey's albums, it boasts an array of incredibly well structured and thickly layered songs that leave listeners refreshed with a good dose of originality.
Highlights on the album include the rock symphony that is "Mantis," the album's title track. The song is filled with incredible transitions between glorious harmonic high-points and mellow, funky grooves. Guitarist Jake Cinger's ability to take the music in new directions with his tremendous guitar work is also noteworthy throughout the track.
"Cemetery Walk" is another great song. A creative and rhythmic piano/guitar riff is developed in every imaginable way on the track, and guitarist Brendan Bayliss' vocals are excellent. as well.
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Overall, the album is awesome. While long-time Umphrey's fans might be surprised by the new, more strictly structured tunes, they will soon realize that Umphrey's stays true to their roots on Mantis by creating a truly original and head-banging piece of art.
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By Sachiko Miyakawa
smiyakawa@kansan.com
"I'm a journalism student. I want to interview somebody in the office ..."
I tried to explain the purpose of my interview. Two receptionists looked at each other, puzzled. What was wrong with the sentence? How come they didn't understand me? I was panicked.
"I'm taking a reporting class at KU and our assignment is to interview a person who works behind the scenes and deserves to be noticed," I said.
I restated my purpose slowly, searching for a hint of recognition in their faces.
I stood in a hallway of Strong Hall, murmuring sentences that I jotted down on a piece of paper. I repeated the sentences until I memorized them. The paper was wet from my sweaty hands. I took a deep breath and entered the Office of the International Student and Scholar Services to talk with a staff member.
It was the very first interview I conducted in my reporting career. I was a junior and had just gotten into the journalism school.The interview stressed me out so much that I wondered if I could survive the major.
I came to KU three years ago after graduating from high school in Tokyo. Good journalism programs and cultural and ethnic diversity attracted me to study in the United States. I was thrilled to travel as a journalist one day and write stories about people from different cultures. I had never visited the United States or spoken English well, but I was optimistic. I figured, using English every day in the United States, that I would become a native speaker in a few years.
My English, however, didn't improve so quickly. I could understand English well, and learned different idioms and slangs. But I was never comfortable speaking English, especially when I had to explain complicated things. When I had a complaint about my classmates or roommates, I kept it to myself to avoid misunderstanding and confrontation. I hesitated to participate in a class discussion unless I came up with perfectly grammatical sentences. I rehearsed in my head what I would speak, but before I could raise my hand, an instructor would move on the next question.
My insecurity turned me into an introvert. My boyfriend once told me I was like a wallflower because I became quiet in front of a
group of people. I was more articulate and sociable when I was living in Japan.
Being a journalism major and reporter was like shock treatment for my insecurity. I reported for The University Daily Kansan in Fall 2008,
which forced me to be outgoing. I had to write three stories and interview about 10 people a week. One of my nervous habits was speaking too fast.After a number of interviews,I learned people could understand my accented English better when I slowed down and articulated each word.
The 2008 election was the hardest story I worked on as a reporter for The Kansan. I was assigned to go to the Republican watch party in Topeka and cover the congressional race of Kansas' 2nd district. It was the first presidential election I observed in the United States, and I didn't even know what a "watch party" was.
When I arrived at the watch party in the Topeka Capital Plaza Hotel, hundreds of people filled the hotel's ballroom. Among the crowds, I had to find a spokesman for U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins, and some KU students to interview. I called her spokesman several times, but was directed to an answering machine. I asked around to middle-aged men in suits where I could find Jenkins. They told me she was somewhere in the hotel. It was past 11 in the evening. I desperately called one of my editors, who told me I couldn't leave the hotel until I talked to the spokesman.
Being a reporter helped improve my English and boost my confidence. I also found myself enjoying meeting different people and conducting in-depth interviews. I was surprised many people were willing to help me out and share their stories, some of which were very personal. They didn't hesitate to express their opinions on wavs to improve community and
The pressure to finish the story forced me to be aggressive. I asked a Kansan photographer to come along and recklessly stepped into an elevator, not being sure where we would go. We looked through each floor of the hotel, until we finally found a room where Jenkins and her supporters waited for the election results. Right after we got there, incumbent candidate Nancy Boyda conceded the race. People in the room screamed, cheered and hugged. When I interviewed Jenkins' spokesman, I wasn't shy or conscious of my English at all. Questions came out of my mouth one after another.
society. I found it my responsibility to develop journalist: writing about people who live in those issues and address them to the readers. different cultures or have uncommon stories I didn't travel around the world for The Kan- to tell san, but it reminded me of my passion to be a
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Biting the bullet: Sachiko now knows she needs to be more aggressive and not let the fear of being misunderstood stop her from asking the right questions and writing the best stories possible.
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CRIME
Student arrested on animal cruelty charges Sophomore to appear in court today
BY ALEXANDRA GARRY agarry@kansan.com
Lawrence police arrested a 20-year-old KU sophomore on charges of animal cruelty and criminal sodomy Wednesday. The man, Cerm Basoflas, will appear in court today at 3 p.m.
Douglas County Emergency Communications received a call regarding suspicious activity at a residence in the 2100 block of Heatherwood Drive at 9:59 a.m. Wednesday, according to a media release from the Lawrence Police Department. At approximately 3 p.m., the suspect arrived at the residence and officers questioned him regarding a substance consistent with blood found within the residence. The officers' investigation then led to the arrest.
For continuing coverage, check www.Kansan.com.
CRIME
McCollum robbery leads to two arrests
BY JENNIFER TORLINE
jtorline@kansan.com
Two suspects were apprehended by KU Public Safety officers after two robberies on Thursday night at McCollum Hall, Capt. Mark Witt said.
The incident occurred shortly after 10:15 p.m. Witt said one of the robberies was an aggravated robbery with the possibility of a hammer involved.
Witt said when the two suspects
saw police arrive at McColum Hall, they fled the scene in a car and crashed near the intersection of 15th Street and Engel Road. One suspect was apprehended at the scene of the collision, and the other suspect fled on foot before being caught by KU Public Safety officers.
"We're still trying to sort every thing out," Witt said.
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Meeting to address student qhetto's issues
BY MIKE BONTRAGER mbontrager@kansan.com
Students living in the Oread neighborhood, commonly referred to as the student ghetto, can discuss problems they'd like addressed in the first new neighborhood plan since 1979 at a public meeting Monday. Zoning
The meeting will take place at Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St., from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
and development issues are on the meeting's agenda as well.
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Michelle Leininger, area/neighborhood planner, said the event is open to everyone and will address
Warming up to the weather
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Aaron Woens, Paola sophomore, left, Mikah Antwine, Oawatomie sophomore, Aaron Semaan, Kansas City, Kan., Junior and Ryan Sheppard, Kansas City, Kan., junior eye the ball as it momentarily hangs above the basket behind the Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center Thursday afternoon. The day's mild temperatures and sun marked another change in the weekly climate rollercoaster that has defined the past month.
FINANCE
Stimulus bill could ease school costs
BY BETSY CUTCLIFF
bcutcliff@kansan.com
Finding funds for college may become easier if the Senate approves the proposed $825 billion stimulus package. If passed, an education clause in the proposed bill would provide increased funding for federal grants and student loans.
The allotted funds would more than double the U.S. Department of Education's budget of $56 billion in 2008.The House of Representatives proposed the package to offset the 7.2 percent unemployment rate and to increase opportunities for education.
"We get half the people jobs for an immediate blast of cash, and keep the other half in school to build the economy later," said Michael Lynch, assistant professor of political science.
With college tuitions rising and the banking bubble bursting, a college degree is becoming increasingly unaffordable.
Total aid received by KU students
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■ Pell grants
■ Work study
■ SEOGs
■ ACG and SMART Grants
Funds
granted by KU
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TOKYO — In the past six months, four wrestlers have been kicked out of the ancient sport of sumo wrestling for allegedly smoking marijuana, creating the biggest drugs-in-sports scandal that Japan has ever seen.
INTERNATIONAL 1. Man charged with slitting throat of tourist
2. Sumo wrestling faces marijuana scandal
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A Puerto Rican man whose mother once slit the throats of two children was charged Thursday with killing a pregnant U.S. tourist in the same way after stuffing her in the trunk of his car.
Eliezer Marquez Navedo also faces two counts of rape and one count of kidnapping after police said he ambushed the woman, Sara Kuszak, while she jogged in the eastern coastal town of Fajardo.
Critics welcome the words, but they say little has actually been done to reconcile the groups.
Although three of the wrestlers who have been expelled from
President Mahinda Rajapaksa has consistently expressed support for a deal to give the ethnic Tamil minority on this South Asian island nation more say in a government long dominated by the Sinhalese majority.
the sport were from Russia, the arrest last week of a 25-year-old Japanese athlete who goes by the ring name of Wakakirin for possession of marijuana has raised concern that use of the drug may be more widespread than originally thought.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — The Sri Lankan government is poised to crush the Tamil Tiger rebels and end a quarter-century civil war that has killed tens of thousands. But it still faces a major challenge beyond the battlefield: resolving the ethnic conflict that fueled the uprising.
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Three former turkey farm workers who were videotaped stomping on birds' heads and wringing their necks have been indicted on 19 counts of animal abuse, 11 of them felony charges that could carry significant jail time.
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PHILADELPHIA — A private prison transportation company lost an attempted-murder suspect somewhere between
Norfolk, Va.-based People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which had an undercover operative film the abuse last fall at Aviagen Turkeys Inc. in Lewisburg, said Thursday it believes the felony counts are the most severe such charges that U.S. factory farmers have faced. Farmworkers have in the past been charged with misdemeanor abuse.
Florida and Pennsylvania,leading to a search for the cuffed and shackled inmate and drawing complaints that such companies are poorly regulated.
The discovery Thursday was at least the second escape in six months involving an inmate being moved by Prisoner Transportation Services of America LLC.
6. Lab workers may have used animal medicine
DES MOINES, Iowa - A scheme in which federal veterinary lab workers allegedly obtained low-cost medicine intended for animals and used it for themselves and their relatives may have been going on for years, a top federal official said Thursday.
The drugs, primarily antibiotics, blood pressure medications and pain relievers, generally cost less than the same drugs packaged for human use.
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Phad Thai... $6.95
Type of restaurant: Asian (cuisine from Nepal, Tibet, Thailand, Vietnam and Japan)
Overall star rating: 4 out of 5
Signature dish: Phad Thai, $6.95
Tastes like: Thai House
Price range: $7-13
the one-room restaurant fills with the sounds of clanging pans and hissing fire from the kitchen. The noisy addition of conversations from patrons at the bar or those sitting at the 20 or so close-packed tables makes the atmosphere anything but calm.
ZEN ZERO
With the constant hustle and bustle, Zen Zero is a great place to grab dinner with friends or just sit at the bar with a drink and munch on the complimentary shrimp chips.
What I ate: Thai-style Sweet and Sour with fresh vegetables, pineapple, cucumber and tomato. Served with jasmine rice. $6.95 (add tofu $1.00, chicken or pork $1.50, beef $2.00, or shrimp $2.50);
Review: Zen means meditation, but you won't find any babbling water fountains or peaceful music at Zen Zero. On a Saturday night
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meat to sauce. The menu offers several specifically vegetarian options, and most of the other dishes can be ordered sans meat as well.
The food combines several different Asian cuisines, with the majority of the dishes centered on Thai food. The dish I ordered, Thai-style Sweet & Sour, was basically what I expected from the descriptive menu. The sauce had a strong rich flavor, but I would have preferred less of it. Most dishes come with a side of steamed rice or noodles to balance out the bold sauces, but there should be a more equal proportion of vegetables and
The majority of dishes at Zen Zero, 811 Massachusetts St., are priced between $6.95 and $8.50, making it a place that the budget-bustin college student can frequent.
Zen Zero has fast, reliable service. Plus, you don't have to worry about mispronouncing the name of your dish because you order by number.
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Tom Curley, president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press, will speak at 1:30 p.m., Friday, Feb. 6, 2009, in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union. Please join us at this free, public event.
Among recognition during his tenure at the AP are the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography, awarded to AP for its work in Iraq, and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography, awarded to AP for a West Bank photo. Curley has received numerous national awards for his dedication to the freedom of the press, the public's right to know and his work to push for more openness in government.
Curley is the recipient of the 2009 William Allen White Foundation's national citation.
Visit www.journalism.ku.edu for more information.
OBITUARY Lawrence resident who blogged his struggle dies
Jeff Young, Lawrence resident, died Feb. 4 at age 32 after a three-year battle with colon cancer. Young was featured in a Kansan article last July.
The article, written by Asher Fusco, described Young's struggle with the disease. Young said in the story that support from his wife, the kindness of strangers and walks with his two dogs helped him stay positive.
The story can be found at http://www.kansan.com/stories/2008/jul/04/cancer/.
1:30 p.m. Monday in the mortuary chapel. Final arrangements will be posted to Young's blog once they are available.
Young and his wife Abby chronicolled his fight against cancer on their blog, http://beatingcancerstill.blogspot.com/. The blog updated readers on Young's health, as well as the couple's dav-to-dav life.
Condolences may be sent to 2525 Belle Haven Dr., Lawrence, KS 60640.
Tentative arrangements have been made with Warren McElwain Mortuary & Cremation Services at 120 W. 13th. The visitation is planned for 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday, with the service at
PORTLAND, Ore. — Kellogg Coa said Thursday that it will drop its endorsement deal with Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps following his acknowledgment he inhaled on a marijuana pipe.
BUSINESS Kellogg Co. drops deal with swimmer Phelps
The 23-year-old swimming star has apologized after a photo appeared Sunday in the British tabloid News of the World that showed Phelps inhaling from a marijuana pipe.
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Most of his major sponsors stood by the athlete following the news, even if they didn't condone his behavior.
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The Human Rights Symposium will begin at 8 a.m. in 203 Green Hall.
The "An Introduction to Career Mapping" workshop will begin at 9 a.m. in 204 JRP.
The "National Security and Individual Liberties, Whose Rights at What Cost?" student group event will begin at 8:30 a.m. in 203 Green Hall.
The "Introduction to Personal Computing with Mac OS X" workshop will begin at 9 a.m. in the Budig Media Lab.
The "SAS Enterprise Guide- More than just point and Click" lecture will begin at 2 p.m. in 547 Fraser.
The "Black History Month Brown Bag: Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks"public event will begin at 12 p.m. in Room 116 in the Sabatini Multicultural Resource Center.
The "Transfer Day" public event will begin at 9 a.m. in the Kansas Union.
The "War For the Union and Freedom of All Men: Organizing African-American Units in Kansas" seminar will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Seminar Room in the Hall Center.
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The "Taste of Asia Dinner" will begin at 7 p.m. in the ECM Center.
The "SUA: Swing Soiree" dance event will begin at 7 p.m. in the Hashinger Theater.
The presentation of Gilbert & Sullivan's "Patience" will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
The "SUA Feature Films: Quantum of Solace" showing will begin at 8 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
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On Feb. 4 three people reported theft. One was a small bag from the women's locker room at the Student Recreation Center. Another was the burglary of an ipod nano and change from an unlocked vehicle in parking lot #121. The other was a purse from a lab in the Multidisciplinary Research Building.
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TRANSPORTATION
K-10 Connector to raise ticket costs
Popular route fights to survive budget cuts
BY KAYLA REGAN
kregan@kansan.com
Whenever she needs an inexpensive ride home, Rachel Gibson takes the K-10 Connector.
"It's really just a nice way to get home," Gibson, Overland Park freshman, said. "Gas is really expensive and the bus is just a $5 round trip or $15 for 10 rides."
This rate will likely change soon, said Chuck Ferguson, deputy transportation director of Johnson County Transit. He said bus passes account for 12 percent of total revenue for the department. They aim to increase this figure to 16 percent, Ferguson said, possibly by increasing the fare to $25 for 10 rides later this spring.
"Unfortunately, even though it has high ridership, that's the route that has the most service," Ferguson said. "It's not just the K-10 connector rate that will change, all of them will, but that one in particular will probably be changing in the near future."
Ferguson said the rate increase was not meant to create profit. Johnson County Transit, with a tight budget this year, hopes the increased revenue will help meet expenses. Ferguson said bus passes account for 12 percent of the department's total revenue.
An average of 482 people took the K-10 connector each day this January, its highest ridership since the service began in 2007. The K-10 connector consists of 14 busses that travel from Lawrence to Johnson County and back. The busses run
in 30-minute intervals from 7 a.m.
until 7 p.m, with continuing limited
time until 11:35 p.m.
The K-10 Connector was created as an experiment to assess the demand for the service. Because of this, K-10 Connector rates are as cheap as the department can make them, Ferguson said. With more assistance, Ferguson said the department would have been better equipped to avoid raising the cost of bus passes.
"Right now, more so than ever before, were watching every dollar that goes out the door." Ferguson said.
The department asked the University, the City of Lawrence, Douglas County, Johnson County Community College and the state of Kansas to help with financing K-10 Connector. So far, Ferguson said only the state responded with a one-time-only $500,000 grant.
Jessica Mortinger, intern for KU Parking and Transit, said the University considered the route an important service, especially given the route's popularity routes with students. Mortinger said the University's budget was too tight to assist Johnson County Transit.
"We realize that KU is the main destination for the ridership of the K-10 Connector coming to Lawrence," Mortinger said. "But the reality is our service is already at capacity."
Allie Mahoney, Overland Park junior, works in Johnson County and said she had taken the route to work for the past year. Mahoney said she wouldn't mind paying a few extra dollars if it meant an easier commute.
"I'm stuck with it," Mahoney said.
"It's too convenient."
—Edited by Justin Leverett
TIMES SPORTS
Wife withdrew thousands before divorce
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CRIME
Marcus Schrenker and his wife Michelle Schrenker pose for anad foran Indianapolis Lexus dealer. Schrenker, whose ill-fated flight from ruin was halted when investigators interrupted his suicide attempt at a Florida campground Tuesday night, faces the prospect of bankruptcy, divorce and other problems.
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INDIANAPOLIS — The estranged wife of an indicted Indiana money manager withdrew tens of thousands of dollars from bank accounts that also included investor money in the week before she filed for divorce, a judge ruled Thursday in freezing her assets in hopes that clients can recoup their losses.
Businessman Marcus Schrenker, 38, has been jailed in Florida since his arrest Jan. 13 at a Tallahassee-area campground, two days after authorities say he parachuted from his airplane and left it pilotless over Alabama in a bid to fake his death to escape mounting business and personal problems. He has pleaded not guilty to charges of deliberately crashing the aircraft, which ended up in Florida, and making a false distress call.
State attorneys pursuing separate charges related to his business dealings in Indiana pressed for his assets and those of his wife, Michelle Schrenker, to become part of a court-controlled receivership. They said Michelle Schrenker's assets are crucial because she is listed as chief financial officer in one of her husband's companies and has been living in the couple's suburban Indianapolis home assessed at $1.4 million.
Mary Schmid said she would appeal Judge J. Richard Campbell's ruling.
"The judge has not followed the law and the facts as he is written them in the order are also incorrect," Schmid told The Associated Press.
Her attorney disputes the ruling that she withdrew the money, saying her husband took it out himself and used some to fly to Key West, Fla., with his girlfriend
Records show $66,500 withdrawn in Michelle Schrenker's
name from an investor account between Dec. 23 and Dec. 30, the day she filed for divorce. The next day, Indiana police served a search warrant on the Schrenkers' home and Marcus Schrenker's office, seizing computers, tubs full of financial documents and evidence of recent document shredding.
The records show another $14,622 came out of the same account to pay credit card and other bills in the same period.
"The fact that she was overpaid for limited duties, the fact that she permitted Marcus Schrenker to put their assets in her name, the fact that she personally withdrew funds from the corporations' accounts" all suggest she violated Indiana securities law, Campbell wrote in freezing the couple's personal assets and those of Marcus Schrenker's three businesses.
County Superior Court in suburban Indianapolis, noted that Michelle Schrenker received $10,000 a month for her role as CFO.
A tearful Michelle Schrenker, emerging from a court hearing on her divorce petition shortly after Campbell's ruling, said she was being treated unfairly.
A former girlfriend of Schrenker's Kelly Baker, testified before Campbell on Jan. 30 that over two months ending in early December, the businessman and stunt pilot gave her nearly $20,000 in gifts.
"I have done nothing wrong," she told WTHR-TV. "The only thing my husband did was give me a glorified title in that company."
Campbell, a judge in Hamilton
An administrative law judge last month permanently revoked Schrenker's Indiana insurance
license after investors testified Schrenker had forged signatures on investment documents, charged exorbitant fees and removed money from their accounts without authorization, costing them hundreds of thousands of dollars. Schrenker also lost a $533,000 judgment to an insurance company in December.
Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita, who oversees securities regulation in the state, said people continue to come forward claiming Schrenker bilked them out of investment money.
The ruling, he said, will allow his office and the court-appointed receiver "to continue identifying and preserving any assets that have been built up through illgotten gain."
GOVERNMENT
Justice has surgery for pancreatic cancer
BY MARK SHERMAN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had surgery Thursday for pancreatic cancer, raising the possibility that one of the ideologically divided court's leading liberals — and its only woman — might have to curtail her work or even step down before she had planned.
Ginsburg, 75, has been a justice since 1993. She has been increasingly vocal in recent years about the court's more conservative stances, especially after the appointments made by President George W. Bush.
Pancreatic cancer is often deadly, although the court said doctors apparently found Ginsburg's growth at an early stage.
In 1999, she had colon cancer surgery, underwent radiation and chemotherapy, and never missed a day on the bench. Statistics suggest this could be a tougher fight.
Ginsburg underwent the surgery at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. She will remain in the hospital for seven to 10 days, said her surgeon, Dr. Murray Brennan, according to the court. The justices hold their next private conference on Feb. 20 and return to the bench from their winter break on Feb. 23.
If Ginsburg or another justice leaves the court, it falls to Obama to pick a successor. Anyone he might choose to replace her probably would be as liberal as she, if not more so, keeping in place the 5-4 conservative tilt of the court.
President Barack Obama expressed hope for her speedy recovery, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday, and offered his thoughts and prayers.
Ginsburg is only the second female justice in the nation's history. The other was Sandra Day O'Connor, who retired in 2006, and Ginsburg has lamented being the only woman on the court.
The court offered few details about the operation or her anticipated course of treatment.
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most deadly cancers. Nearly 38,000 cases a year are diagnosed and overall less than 5 percent of patients survive five years.
RUZIE RUSSELL
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg reads from a book version of the U.S. Constitution in Princeton, N.J. Binsburg has been hospitalized for a surgery for pancreatic cancer.
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Curley was also previously the president and publisher of USA Today and senior vice president of Gannett Co.,Inc., which publishes 100 daily newspapers in the United States.
Tom Eblen, foundation chairman, said Curley was chosen by board members of the foundation, who think he's doing significant work in journalism.
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anationalal reputation and the reputation is understood here as well as elsewhere; Eblen said.
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CRIME
Car bomb leaves medical board member injured
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Federal agents investigating a car bombing that critically injured a state medical board official focused Thursday on atire the victim reportedly was trying to move from his driveway just before the blast.
Dr. Trent P. Pierce, S4, remained incritical condition at a hospital Thursday, a day after the bombble up in West Memphis as he prepared to leave for work. The chairman of the Arkansas State Medical Board is left
eye in the blast, suffered burns and was pelted with shrapnel.
Pierce "is conscious and responding;" board member Joseph Beck told colleagues Thursday at their previously scheduled meeting in Little Rock. "I know our thoughts and prayers are with Dr. Pierce and his family."
Dr. Scott Ferguson, a family friend, said Pierce's family told him a tire had been left in the way of Pierce's hybrid Lexus sport-utility vehicle Wednesday. Ferguson said Pierce apparently leaned down to move the tire out of the way just before the explosion.
Pierce can't talk to detectives because doctors have placed an oxygen tube in his throat, Ferguson said.
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I do have a PhD, after all technically, that means I'm more educated than you are. Quite possibly, I'm more well-versed on top of that.
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Judge throws out lawsuit filed against 50 Cent
Manhattan State Supreme Court Justice Carol Edmead dismissed Shaniqua Tompkins' claims to half of 50 Cent's assets.
NEWYORK — A New York judge has thrown out a $50 million lawsuit filed by an ex-girlfriend of 50 Cent who claimed the rapper promised to take care of her for life.
The judge said the relationship was "an unfortunate tale of a love relationship gone sour"
PHILANTHROPY Jolie speaks out for rights of refugees in Thailand
Jolie visited Thailand's Bani Mai Nai Soi refugee center Wednesday.
GENEVA — Angelina Jolie has called on Thailand's government to give more freedom to tens of thousands of Burmese refugees it has kept locked inside camps for up to 20 years.
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"It was saddened to meet a 21-year-old woman who was born in a refugee camp, who has never even been out of the camp," Jolie was quoted as saying by UNHCR.
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What students are saying about Dons
After being parked at the airport for Thanksgiving Break, I went to turn my car on and it was dead. I remembered Don's Auto from the UDK and my Dad wanted me use the longest, most reliable Auto Service. Not only did Don's Auto fix my car, but called me several times in the process of doing so they could save me the most money.
Lauren Bloodgood, Junior Dallas, TX
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--natural doesn't really apply. Nature provides many things that can be both dangerous and unhealthy. The deadly fugu and sticks of organic butter are "all natural," yet no physician would recommended going on the butter-blowfish diet. We need to rely on logic and science, not nature, to help us determine what really is healthy.
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My ears are larger than average.
--natural doesn't really apply. Nature provides many things that can be both dangerous and unhealthy. The deadly fugu and sticks of organic butter are "all natural," yet no physician would recommended going on the butter-blowfish diet. We need to rely on logic and science, not nature, to help us determine what really is healthy.
--natural doesn't really apply. Nature provides many things that can be both dangerous and unhealthy. The deadly fugu and sticks of organic butter are "all natural," yet no physician would recommended going on the butter-blowfish diet. We need to rely on logic and science, not nature, to help us determine what really is healthy.
The therapist on the Tyra Banks Show just said, "Invite your peeps."
You asked me for my sign, but I never got yours. Do we make a good match?
--natural doesn't really apply. Nature provides many things that can be both dangerous and unhealthy. The deadly fugu and sticks of organic butter are "all natural," yet no physician would recommended going on the butter-blowfish diet. We need to rely on logic and science, not nature, to help us determine what really is healthy.
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So almost 53 percent of those who voted in 2008 are an insult to American intelligence?
--natural doesn't really apply. Nature provides many things that can be both dangerous and unhealthy. The deadly fugu and sticks of organic butter are "all natural," yet no physician would recommended going on the butter-blowfish diet. We need to rely on logic and science, not nature, to help us determine what really is healthy.
No soup for you!
--natural doesn't really apply. Nature provides many things that can be both dangerous and unhealthy. The deadly fugu and sticks of organic butter are "all natural," yet no physician would recommended going on the butter-blowfish diet. We need to rely on logic and science, not nature, to help us determine what really is healthy.
To the girl throwing chocolates at boys on Valentine's day; where and when?
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So I walked into a bathroom at JuCo and realized it smelled like any sorority house on the KU campus — like alcohol and cheap perfume.
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The girl who did the last roll-call at the Fieldhouse on Wednesday should probably do some HookedonPhonics.
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Am I the only one who goes back on the Free for All page to see what I missed while I was asleep?
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I just got news that Blink-182 was getting back together to present at the Grammys. Does this give any possible hint of them reuniting for good?
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--natural doesn't really apply. Nature provides many things that can be both dangerous and unhealthy. The deadly fugu and sticks of organic butter are "all natural," yet no physician would recommended going on the butter-blowfish diet. We need to rely on logic and science, not nature, to help us determine what really is healthy.
To the guy sitting over there reading the paper: You're kind of nice
--natural doesn't really apply. Nature provides many things that can be both dangerous and unhealthy. The deadly fugu and sticks of organic butter are "all natural," yet no physician would recommended going on the butter-blowfish diet. We need to rely on logic and science, not nature, to help us determine what really is healthy.
To the beautiful biracial fellow who rode the 31st and Iowa Tuesday around 3:15 HI.
--natural doesn't really apply. Nature provides many things that can be both dangerous and unhealthy. The deadly fugu and sticks of organic butter are "all natural," yet no physician would recommended going on the butter-blowfish diet. We need to rely on logic and science, not nature, to help us determine what really is healthy.
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SCIENCE
'All-natural' food not necessarily nutritious
Fugu is a delicacy in Japan. It is large, gray blowfish prepared by the finest chefs and eaten by the bravest customers. The reason this succulent fish comes with a side of danger is because, if it is not prepared properly, eating it can kill you. The liver and gonads contain a toxin called tetrodotoxin, which, if eaten, will block nerves from firing, paralyze muscles, and kill by asphyxiation. Though most people would cringe at the thought of eating something that could also be their last meal, would they still order it if it were labeled as "all-natural"?
In many, that label inspires confidence in the health or safety of a product, but the adjective "natural" on products from cereal boxes to bottles of vitamins doesn't really guarantee any level of merit. "Natural" means only that what you are eating came from a natural source, and nature certainly isn't looking to do you any favors. Fugu fish, after all, are willing and able to enact their revenge on the humans who eat them.
What people really want is assurance that their food is safe and healthy, and whether something is
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On the other hand, many artificial compounds work well as preservatives or drugs, keeping you from getting botulism from your food and treating you correctly if you do. New health foods go out of their way to state that they have been made with "no preservatives," but the only impact the consumer will see is the product's shortened shelf life. Preservatives keep bacteria and other bugs from eating our food before we do, which is one of the perks of being an industrialized nation. The consumer has nothing
to fear from preservatives. Because we are ingesting them in such minute concentrations, they have a negligible effect on us.
There are two authorities who should, and do, guide your health and safety choices: the Food and Drug Administration and your doctor. The former has a watchful eye over what gets sold in supermarkets, casting a large net in preventing anything harmful from entering the market, as well as recalling anything dangerous already being sold (for example, spinach with "all-natural" E. coli). The latter has a close relationship with your well-being and can tell you what your diet should contain, such as more Vitamin A or less cholesterol. This duo is really responsible for keeping all of us alive and healthy, and we should respect their opinions about any "all-natural" product. A quick purchase in the natural foods aisle at the grocery store cannot substitute for getting exercise and truly eating right.
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STUDENT LIFE
With opposing fans like these, we can just give up
The other night I was watching the Baylor game on television when, as ESPN typically does before a commercial break, the camera cut to the most raucous fans in all of Waco. Texas.
You see, this Baylor fan managed to mine two lodes of fundamental comic effectiveness. First, he derided what is our apparent inability to find our own butts with our hands.
That was when I saw it. The most brilliantly antagonistic sign I'd ever seen. Written not by mortal hands on mere poster board, nay, this sign was written by the gods themselves: forged of the finest composite recycled white papers in all the land, scrawled with markers of the most pure green and incandescent yellow ever created. This was no more ledger to announce that SportsCenter was coming up next. No. This was something of a more cosmic, divine inspiration.
THESE THINGS I BELIEVE ANDREW NEURAER
"You're not in Kansas anymore!" Sheer, unadulterated, unmitigated brilliance.
"Wait — I'm not in Kansas anymore? But I thought — oh no, they just scored 50 points while I was distracted."
Second, he went straight for the
ANDREW NEUBAUER
jugular with a reference to a movie that came out before most of our parents were twinkles in our grandparents' eyes.
The sad truth is that people have thought of this joke many, many, many times before. It seems that every time someone thinks that it would make an instantly unforgettable sign, there's inevitably a cameraman nearby who finds the sign inspired and original. I've counted signs with the exact same phrase at least 12 times this school year. You would think the networks would stop rewarding this behavior.
At the Orange Bowl I counted no fewer than three signs that informed me that I was no longer in Kansas (admittedly I did, for a time, assume that Miami, Fla., was a few miles south of Coffeyville). At some point you would figure that the director would realize they played the same joke three times. He was probably too busy
"It's funny because it's true! They're NOT in Kansas! You see? Like the movie!"
doubled over in fits of hysterical laughter.
I should begin lurking at sporting events with a sign that says "This Joke hasn't been Funny Since 1939." Every time the cameras cut to someone with the sign, I will slow-motion dive in front and let the world know how I really feel: annoyed that people can't come up with anything better than the beat-to-death horse that is the "Wizard of Oz" joke.
I wonder whether Kansans get this kind of treatment anywhere else in the world. I can totally imagine Nancy Pelosi going down the roll in the House, when suddenly her eyes get just a bit ahead of the name she's calling. Impishly looking up from the list, she asks for Dennis Moore's attendance before belting out a mighty, "Hey Moore! You're not in Kansas anymore!"
She would bring the house down.
Neubauer is a Lynn Haven, Fla., senior in journalism.
STUDENT LIFE
Meet the 'man-child'
It's hard for me to expect guys to be particularly responsible, ambitious or monogamous. In my experience, very few young men have all these qualities and the ones who do are surely badgered by their friends. A "Nice Guy" will go to extremes to prove his manliness to friends through activities like beer Olympics. This peer pressure is only getting worse. But what I never knew is that this annoying trend is strongly influenced by women.
It seems these days that everything from magazines to box-office smashes are revolving around the crude behavior of males. Men glorifying their near-alcoholism, sleeping with as many women as possible and retaining immaturity far into adulthood are not only accepted, but embraced. How did guys get this way? When did a man in his mid-20s stop being consistently financially stable, with his own house and family, and turn into a video game-obsessed bar hopper living with fellow bachelors well after college?
What no one ever considered during the feminist movement of the 1970s or the "Girl Power" phase of the '90s were the potentially negative effects that the changing roles of women could have on men. Kay S. Kymowitz of the City Journal wrote a captivating piece on the "New Girl Order" — a distinct group of women in their twenties and early thirties characterized as hyper-achievers: They have college degrees, reside in urban areas and view marriage as an option, not a necessity. Currently, more women than men are attending college not only in the U.S., but also the U.K., Australia, Germany and other countries. Only 25 percent of 25-year-old women in 2000 were married with children, as opposed to 75 percent in 1970. The days of attending college for an MRS degree are quickly dying out, but rather than compete with women for jobs or each other for a lovely and intelligent
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Kymowitz calls them "Man-Children." A typical Man-Child likely has or is obtaining a college degree, and lives with pals in an apartment decorated with posters of half-naked girls. He has a love affair with a favorite sports team, avoids meaningful relationships at all costs, never misses an episode of South Park, and idolizes professional Man-Children such as Tucker Maxx. He sounds like basically every guy I know. Their mentality: Without marriage, a house mortgage, kids, etc., what's the rush in growing up?
After looking at it in this perspective, I quickly gained clarity on the traits I hear girls gripe about most when it comes to relationships: "He was so drunk he threw up in my bed last night." "He said he doesn't remember, but he made out with her in front of me." "He's a sixth-year senior, but he had a rough semester — or four." Not the most appealing qualities, but I must admit Man-Children aren't completely terrible. They can be good fun as friends, even if they're a nightmare to date, and with boys sleeping off hangovers until 4 p.m., girls are getting an even bigger jump-start on the future. Bottom line, guys are really only harming themselves. Ladies, let them skip class to smoke pot and play Halo until their eyes bleed. We'll be busy taking over the world, then getting married (to someone at least a decade older) when we're bored.
Buser is a Columbia, III., junior in journalism and English.
lady's hand, young men have decided to extend adolescence for as long as possible.
Freedom versus fear-mongering
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Don't take my word for it, read the actual legislation: "It is the policy of the United States that every woman has the fundamental right
She misrepresents the legislation by suggesting that it would put a variety of restrictions on everyone from medical professionals to state governments. Instead, FOCA lifts the restrictions anti-choice legislators have put on a woman's right to choose since the Roe v. Wade decision.
On Jan. 29 The Kansan ran a letter to the editor about the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) that started out by talking about the "very scary American future" that the writer believes FOCA represents. She began in that way for one very simple reason: Opponents of the Freedom of Choice Act are trying to scare people.
to choose to bear a child, to terminate a pregnancy prior to fetal viability, or to terminate a pregnancy after fetal viability when necessary to protect the life or health of the woman."
If Tara Elpers is against abortion, it is her right to choose not to have one. It is not her right to make that decision for anyone else. All FOCA does is ask us to trust women with their own lives. I am almost always willing to choose freedom over fear-mongering. That's why I support FOCA.
FOCA is about making sure that women have control over their own bodies by stopping undue governmental interference with what is quite possibly the most personal decision a woman could ever have to make.
Andrea Peterson is a junior from Manhattan
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Aside from tuition, students also have to worry about other fees, including books and organization fees.
Phil Hoefer, Hutchinson junior, relies on student loans to pay for college. He said his parents couldn't afford to pay his tuition and he received a minimal amount of money from grants.
"I think grants be used use way more." Hoefer said. "It puts
a lot of stress on me to know how much money me and my parents have to pay back from loans."
While Hoefer received some aid from the government, he said it wasn't enough to cover his tuition and fees.
In the current version of the bill, Pell Grant maximums would be increased from $4,850 to $5,350.
"I was dead set on coming to KU, so we took out private loans," Hoefer said.
Like Hoefer, students turn to private lenders when their federal aid runs out. Donna Ginther, associate professor of economics, said. But when the banking industry fell, the flow of cash for student loans stopped, making private loans less available. Ginther said including money for higher education in the stimulus package was necessary because of the clog in private lending and the necessity for students to stay in school. She said a college education would benefit the economy in the long run because of the skills learned.
"Take science degrees, for example," Ginther said "Science is the future of new development."
Lynch said that while the majority of the stimulus package was aimed at boosting the economy by creating jobs, the education portion would ultimately fit that goal by providing job training programs and easy access to college degrees.
"The goal is to get people working, and to get people to go to college who normally wouldn't go." Lynch said.
While the majority of the education clause is directed at primary education, Ginther said it would still help higher education indirectly. She said states were required to fund primary schools, but not higher education institutes.
"If the stimulus package provides money to the states for primary education, there will be less of a need to cut funding for higher ed," Ginther said.
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by the numbers
Number of students enrolled for 2007-2008 school year
Total: 29,260
Undergraduate: 20,828
Graduate: 8,432
Average tuition and fees for 2007-2008
Resident undergraduate: $7,398.86
Graduate: $8,120.44
Nonresident undergraduate: $16,905.86
Graduate: $15,511.44
The average cumulative debt for December 2007 and May 2008 graduating seniors with federal loans (omits parent loans but includes private/alternative loans) was $20,902.
Source: Office of Institutional Research and Planning
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FBI: New leads in 1982 poisoned Tylenol case
FBI agents carry boxes out of the apartment building in Cambridge, Mass., Wednesday after searching the apartment home of James W. Lewis, who was linked to the fatal 1982 Tylenol poisonings that triggered a nationwide scare.
BOSTON — James W. Lewis has a habit of getting into trouble. And a knack for getting out of it, too.
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He was charged with killing and dismembering a man in Kansas City, Mo., in 1978, but the case was thrown out. He was jailed on rape charges decades later in Massachusetts, but went free when the victim refused to testify.
And while authorities in Chicago have long suspected Lewis was responsible for the deadly 1982 Tylonen poisonings, the only thing they ever pinned on him was an extortion attempt against the maker of the pain reliever. No one was ever charged in the seven cyanide deaths.
Now the FBI says there are new leads in the Tylonel case and on Wednesday seized a computer and boxes of files from Lewis' Boston-area home. The mysterious and sudden flurry of activity has raised hopes of a long-awaited break in the sensational 26-year-old case.
"Up until yesterday, I thought this would never be solved in my lifetime or ever," said Jack Eliason, whose sister, Mary McFarland, a 31-year-old mother, died after swallowing poisoned Tilenol.
Exactly why investigators have suddenly taken so much interest in the self-proclaimed "Tylenol"
In a space of three days beginning Sept. 29, 1982, seven people who took cyanide-laced Tylenol in Chicago and four suburbs died. That triggered a national scare and a huge recall, and eventually led to the widespread adoption of tamper proof packaging for over-the-counter drugs.
Caught after a nationwide manhunt in late 1982. Lewis gave investigators a detailed account of how the killer might have done it, and eventually admitted sending a letter demanding $1 million from the manufacturer of Tylenol to "stop the killing."
But he said he was only trying to exploit the crisis, and denied he had anything to do with the deaths. He was convicted of extortion in 1983 and spent 12 years in prison, getting out in 1995.
Lewis's life both before and after his prison sentence is full of strange and disturbing twists.
Police said that he was arrested in 1973 and 1974 for fighting with his stepfather and spent time in mental institutions.
In 1978 he was accused of dismembering a 72-year-old man
who had hired him as an accountant. The charges were eventually dismissed because the cause of death was not determined and some evidence had been illegally obtained. Lewis denied killing the man.
He and his wife, Leann, moved to the Chicago area in the early 1980s, their activities shrouded in secrecy. Authorities said Lewis was chameleon-like in his ability to change his identity, using at least 18 names and posing as a freelance writer, real estate salesman, computer assistant and importer of Indian tapestries.
In 2004, Lewis was charged with kidnapping and raping a woman. He was jailed for three years while awaiting trial, but prosecutors dropped the charges after the victim refused to testify.
Lewis is listed as a partner in a Web design and programming company called Cyberlewis. On its Web site, he complains about being known as "the Tylenol Man."
enjoy twisting and contorting what I say into something ominous and dreadful which I do not intend.
"Somehow, after a quarter of a century, I surmise only a select few with critical minds will believe anything I have to say," he says in an audio clip. "Many people look for hidden agendas, for secret double entendre, and ignore the literal meanings I convey. Many
"That my friends is the curse of being labelled the Tylenol Man. Be
that as it may, I can NOT change human proclivities. Listen as you like" Lewis said.
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"It's horrible, this place tears your car up." Stoll said.
Kraig Stoll, Mulvane junior, lives in the Oread neighborhood. Stoll's main concern was street conditions.
"Our main goal is to brainstorm and prioritize the strengths, weaknesses, issues and opportunities of the neighborhood." Leininger said.
"I see so many girls eat it," Norton said.
Alexandra Norton, Chicago senior, said the broken, uneven sidewalks combined with and poor lighting created a dangerous situation.
any concern
Dan Hamilton, Baldwin City senior, doesn't live in the area, but said he had been visiting Lawrence since he was young.
Norton doesn't have any noise complaints. She said she expected to hear rowdy noises and deal with drunken people because it's a student neighborhood.
"We have always called this the ghetto," Dan Hamilton, Baldwin City senior, said.
Hamilton said parking was sometimes troublesome, especially on streets that don't have alleys, such as Ohio Street.
Jennifer Stanton, Wichita senior, said students living in the area knew what they were getting into when they moved into the student ghetto.
She found some of its problems endearing.
The Oread neighborhood is east of campus and ends at Massachusetts Street. Its outer boundaries lie between Ninth and 17th streets.
"It makes it feel more like a college atmosphere," Stanton said.
Stanton said she thought students in the area didn't care much about how well the neighborhood was maintained because most only lived there for a short period of time.
Norton agreed with Stanton and said the neighborhood was great for students because it was close to campus and had a large student population.
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ELECTION Franken asks Minn. court to give him Senate seat
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Lawyers for Democrat Al Franken told Minnesota's highest court Thursday that he should be certified as the winner of his tight Senate race with Republican Norm Coleman without waiting for the outcome of his rival's legal challenge.
The Minnesota Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Franken's request for a certificate of election now, at least on an interim basis, so that Minnesota's empty seat can be filled without waiting the months it may take for the courts to resolve Coleman's separate lawsuit over the recount, which gave Franken a 225-vote advantage.
The justices took the case under advisement and didn't say when they might rule, but their many questions suggested they were skeptical of Franken's arguments.
GOP Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Democratic Secretary of State Mark Ritchie have rejected Franken's demand for the certificate, which he would need under Senate rules to take the seat Coleman had to vacate early last month as the new Congress convened.
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Track team heads to New York City for New Balance Collegiate Invitational.
Senior swimmers prepare for final home meet against Nebraska.
Softball to begin season against four ranked teams in Kajikawa Classic.
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BY KELLY BRECKUNITCH
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A quick glance at the KU softball schedule may look like a spring break sampler to some, but it will be a rugged test for the Jayhawks.
"Everyone wants to jump in the suitcases with us and go," coach Tracy Bunge said. The warm weather though is just a façade. This is no vacation. The only reason that so many warm weather tournaments are on the schedule is because of the unpredictable weather in Kansas during this time of the year, Bunge said.
"You never know what you're going to get," said Bunge. "It's kind of like a box of chocolates."
The Kansas weather has held the team back from practicing outside, and Bunge said that's why many players are looking forward to the first tournament.
HOME SWEET FIELDHOUSE
"I think that everybody's excited to get into warmth," Bunge said.
Maybe the Jayhawks bring the bad weather with them though.
"Of course, now they're calling for rain." Bunge said of the week end forecast in Tempe, Ariz.
The talent level in the tourn-
aments is sure to prepare the
Jayhawks for the rest of the season.
Four of the five teams they will face
in Arizona are ranked, but Bunge
said the team is prepared.
Bunge said she knows the team can take a couple games from ranked opponents if they stay focused on the task at hand.
"We felt with an experienced group, we were at the point where we needed to improve our RPI a little bit," Bunge said.
"We're not looking down the road." Bunge said.
The competition is one reason the layhawks are looking forward to these tournaments, but there are some other reasons they lined up the schedule they way they did.
"We also like to try and go where our players are from." Bunge said.
Senior pitcher Valerie George is from Arizona and the Jayhawks have not been out to Arizona since she's been on the team, so Bunge said that was a factor in getting George an opportunity to play in front of family.
Bunge also said that these trips are big recruiting opportunities for the team and that is a big reason they are going to Texas later this month.
"Our time is spent between sleeping, eating, or being at the ballpark." Bunge said.
"By the time we hit Palm Springs, we're going to be a little bit tired of already being on the road," Bunge said
Although the Jayhawks are playing in vacation areas, they do not get anytime to enjoy the cities.
The trips also keep the team away and traveling for quite a while
It isn't a joy ride, even if they are flying all across the country. You may envy the players for getting to escape to cities like Tempe, Ariz., Orlando and Palm Springs, Calif., but it's all business for the Jayhawks who are out to prove they can hang with the big dogs of college softball.
—Edited by Sam Speer
THE FIGHT FOR THE BACKYARD
Kansas Jayhawks huddle before the tipoff of their Jan. 19 game against Texas A&M in Allen Fieldhouse. Kansas currently holds the longest-running home-court winning streak in NCAA Division I basketball, with 36 consecutive victories at the University.
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There's no place like the Phog
BY CASE KEEFER ckeefer@kansan.com
Sherron Collins tells his teammates the same thing before every game in Allen Fieldhouse.
More specifically, he yells the same thing. After Collins' name is announced, he runs through the tunnel and the rest of the lajayhaws circle around him. They ignore the deafening noise of the home crowd and listen to the message they know is coming.
"I just tell them it's our house," Collins, a junior guard, said. "And we don't lose at home"
Kansas hasn't lost in Allen Fieldhouse in two years. The Jayhawks will be attempting to win their 37th consecutive home game Saturday when they play the Oklahoma State Cowboys at 2:30.
The Jayhawks currently hold the nation's longest home winning streak at 36 games. Kansas last
lost in Lawrence on Feb. 3, 2007
against Texas A&M, 69-66
That's one of only two home losses — the other was a 78-71 loss to Oral Roberts on Nov. 15, 2006 — Collins and sophomore guard Brady Morningstar have experienced since coming to Kansas. The other six rotation players have never lost on Naismith Court.
This is coming from Self, who doesn't care much about streaks. Self says he never brings up individual streaks — like Sherron Collins' record 35 consecutive free throws — to the players.
But this is different. The home winning streak is already the third longest in school history. The Jayhawks won 62 in a row at Allen
"That's something the players should obviously take great pride in." Kansas coach Bill Self said. "Not because it's the longest in America now, but because there's a lot of guys that spent a lot of hours to get it to that length."
Fieldhouses from 1994-1998 and 55 capsectively from 1984-1988.
Collins remembers that sensation from when he was a youngster in the Kansas lineup two years ago. But he also remembers the pregame huddles he found solace in.
Even for Morris. Self said it could get so loud at the end of a close game that the Jayhawks could feel more pressure than the away team because they don't want to let the fans down.
"It's tough to beat us in here once the fans get into the game," freshman forward Marcus Morris said. "It gets loud. It gets tough to concentrate."
If Kansas kept winning, it likely wouldn't have a chance to break the record until the 2010-2011 season. But that's irrelevant. What matters to Self and Collins is that the young Jayhawks are beginning to understand the importance of winning at home.
"It was the same way," Collins said. "I wasn't the one talking in the huddle, but it was a home game and we didn't lose at home."
"It's tough to beat us in the Fieldhouse because we bring our A-game," Morris said. "It's a great feeling to have that winning streak."
Perhaps someday, Morris will be the one delivering the inspiration before the game. For now, he's focused on prolonging the streak.
Edited By Sam Speer
Collins up for award
Sherron Collins is a finalist for the Bob Cousy Award. The award, which recognizes the nation's top point guard, released its list of 17 finalists Thursday and included Collins. He was the only finalist from the Big 12 Conference. But the winner has come from the Big 12 the past two seasons. Texas' D.J. Augustin won it last season and Texas A&M's Acie Law IV took it in
2007 — when Kansas' Russell Robinson was a finalist.
Fans can vote for whom they want to win the award at www.cousyaward.com.
The fan's collective pick will receive one vote. The other voters include coaches, media members and college basketball experts.
Case Keefer
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Actions speak louder with teammate's words
SUTHERLAND
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BY JAYSON JENKS
jjenks@kansan.com
Sophomore forward Nicollette Smith is always talking.
Since day one, when Kansas began preseason individual workouts, Smith has shouldered the responsibility of communicating with the Jayhawks' most athletic — and raw — player: freshman forward Aishah Sutherland.
And Kansas will need Sutherland's athletic ability tomorrow at Missouri at 1 p.m.
Coach Bonnie Henrickson gives freshman forward Aishah Sutherland instructions during a pause in the Jayhawks Jan. 24 game against Kansas State at Allen Fieldhouse.Sutherland is recognized as one of the most athletic, yet quietest, members of the team Ryan McGeeney/KANSAn
"I see how much talent she has and I try to talk her through everything." Smith said. "She doesn't like to talk that much, and that's why people have to talk to her a lot if you're on the court. If you don't talk, it'll be quiet."
On the court, when coach Bonnie Henrickson barks corrections on defense, Sutherland simply nods. With reporters surrounding her after games, Sutherland's responses are short and direct, barely audible above the other conversations.
Indeed, Sutherland's quiet nature is easily noticed.
WHAT: Kansas vs. Missouri
WHERE: Mizzou Arena,
Columbia, Mo.
WHEN: 1 p.m.
TV: FSN, Channel 36
That's why Smith keeps talking.
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"I make it a point of emphasis that whenever I'm with her, I'm just talking with her," Smith said. "I know that one day, if not this season then next season, she's going to be able to talk through something on her own. That's going to help us tremendously."
At times this season,
Sutherland's impact on the
Jayhawks has been loud and clear.
In Kansas' loss to Kansas State on
Jan. 24, Sutherland surprised many
by playing 32 minutes, scoring nine
points and grabbing 12 rebounds
off the bench.
Then, on Wednesday,
Sutherland's sheer athletic ability was on display again. Facing a Colorado team unable to match her size and quickness, Sutherland scored a career-high 12 points and dominated stretches in the second
.
half.
And as impressive as Sutherland's development has been, Smith's maturation may be more so.
"She talks her through
1
everything." Henrickson said. "Even coming to a timeout, she's in her ear talking about, 'Hey, we need to play it this way.' That's where that kid has grown. She has
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"I never thought you could look at the box score and see somebody with 50 with a triple-double, but it's happened."
— LeBron James after recording 52 points,
11 assists and 10 rebounds at Madison
Square Garden Wednesday night
FACT OF THE DAY
LeBron James' 52 points were the most in a triple-double since the NBA-merger. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 1975 was the last player to score 50 points in a triple-double.
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: Besides LeBron, who's the only player with multiple 50-point games in Madison Square Garden?
A: Michael Jordan. His Airness had a few 50-point outings in the Garden, but the most memorable was a 55-point performance shortly after he returned from his first retirement. That was the highest scoring total by an opposing player in MSG until Kobe Bryant scored 61 on Monday.
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The Jay Report: After doubt ing the Jays' in Waco, the guys explain why Kansas will keep the nation's longest winning streak alive against Oklahoma State.
The Jay Report
BEWARE OF "THE BLOG"
"Blog" Allen: Look for Case Keefer's always insightful "Double Overtime post following Saturday's game.
Courtside: With their four-
game losing streak in the past, the Jayhawks travel to take on the Tigers on Saturday. And Jayson Jenks breaks down the matchup.
The Give and Go: Finally with out Clark, the Jayhawks stop
the give go
their losing streak.
Unfortunately, he's back for a preview of Missouri.
FOOTBALL
Illinois defensive coach fills vacant Kansas job
Former Illinois defensive line coach Tom Sims was announced Thursday to join Kansas at the same position. Sims replaces Kerry Locklin who was hired on Jan. 20 but has since left to join New York Jets coach Rex Ruan's staff.
Sims brings 12 years of coaching experience and a seven-season stint in the NFL — including the 1990-92 and 1996 seasons with the Chiefs — as a defensive tackle.
"We are glad to have Tom on our coaching staff," coach Mark Mangino said in a prepared statement. "He brings great experience as a coach and former NFL defensive lineman."
Associated Press
Graduation coming early for OB Lawrence
Signing a decent quarterback or two for Kansas' 2009 recruiting class made more headlines than news that redshirt sophomore Tyler Lawrence would graduate early, this coming summer.
Lawrence's departure means Kansas' top two quarterbacks on its projected 2009 depth chart — Todd Reesing and Kerry Meier — will be seniors with Kale Pick next in line as a sophomore.
Kansas signed Jordan Webb of Union, Mo., who is already on campus, and Christian Mathews of Arlington, Texas.
"Both throw the ball very well, both are very intelligent and both can beat you with their feet," Mangino said. "We got quality at that position."
Stephen Montemayor
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COMMENTARY
Hard-hitting recruits common in SEC
Rivals.com bestowed 33 high school senior football players with the top recruiting honor — a five-star ranking.
The scary part? Fourteen of them signed with Southeastern Conference schools. That's nine more than in any other conference — the Big 12, Pac-10 and Atlantic Coast Conference grabbed five each.
Before expelling more negative energy about rivals.com's recruiting rankings, realize you're wrong. Sure, the Web site gives some players two stars and they turn into first-round picks in the NFL Draft. That's expected. Evaluating thousands of players perfectly and accounting for their maturation isn't going to happen.
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ckeefer@kansan.com
But when a player gets five stars, it's usually indicative of future success. Ask Vince Young, Reggie Bush or Adrian Peterson — all of whom went on to illustrious careers after rivals. com gave them five stars. Want defenders? Rivals.com ranked LaMarr Woodley, Ernie Sims and Haloti Ngata at the top of their classes. Now, they're all NFL standouts.
This means the SEC dominated the recruiting circuit this
season almost as well as it has dominated on the field in the last half-decade.
Alabama snagged running back Trent Richardson. Louisiana State kept wide receiver Rueben Randle in state Georgia got cornerback Branden Smith, Florida signed linebacker Jelani Jenkins. Get ready to hear these names a lot over the next four years.
Ten SEC teams — everyone except Vanderbilt and Kentucky
Before criticizing the team rankings, realize Florida, USC, LSU, Georgia and Notre Dame were the only schools to be ranked in the top 10 in each of the last three years. Throw out Notre Dame and that's an impressive list that includes three
— hauled in classes that rivals, com ranked in the top 25 in the nation. Alabama and LSU ranked No.1 and No.2, respectively. Georgia and Florida ranked No.9 and No.10, respectively.
national championship teams and eight teams that have won BCS bowl games.
These juggernaut recruiting classes ensure that the best football will continue to be played below the Mason-Dixon Line for years to come. Next year, the SEC will try to become the first conference ever to produce four straight national champions.
The only question is, which team will it be? It's going to happen. In every aspect, the SEC is ahead of the rest of the college football world.
THE MORNING BREW
RECOMMENDED VIEWING
Hooray for Kansas' second Big Monday game in a row next week, when it will play Missouri on the road.
Why is this something to cheer about? Because if Kansas
didn't play Monday, it would play Wednesday and conflict with a new episode of ABC's Lost.
Lost's fifth season kicked off last month and has once again proven to be one of the two best shows on network television. The other? NBC's Friday Night Lights, which airs new episodes at 7 p.m. on Fridays.
Luckily, Kansas never plays on Friday nights.
Edited by Justin Leverett
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Nolan Manfield, Voohee, N.J., sophomore, pitches a fistball during a scrimmage Wednesday afternoon. The club baseball team is heading to Tampa on Thursday to compete against Arizona State.
CLUB BASEBALL
BY BRETT PHILLIPPE
bphillippe@kansan.com
Jerry Wang/KANSAN
Mark Hays and his KU club baseball team would not usually even ponder hitting the diamond right now, considering Kansas' harsh weather conditions. But in October they got a phone call from Arizona State University.
Arizona State's club team asked Hays, Overland Park senior, if Kansas' team would be interested in playing a weekend series in early February. The laylahaws had won their conference the previous season, and the Sun Devils told Hays they wanted to build a nonconference schedule filled with conference champions from around the nation. After talking it over at their next club meeting, the laylahaws decided the series would be a tremendous opportunity to gain valuable experience and bond as a team.
"The most important thing about this trip is team bonding since we did not get many games during the fall semester."
After signing on to play the series, the teams had a lot of work to do. Kansas and Arizona State spent the next couple of months debating who would pay for rental vans and who would pay for hotel expenses.
But now all that work is out of the way and the team can focus
on playing.
"This is a very exciting time for the team," Hays said. "We only lost two seniors from last year, and with thirteen returning, it should not only be an incredible weekend, but an exhilarating 20-plus game season."
After winning the Mid-America South Conference championship last season, the Jayhawks are the heavy favorite to be repeat champions this year and ultimately content for a spot in the NCBA World Series. High expectations to repeat this year
Hays seems very excited about the season. "With the majority of the team coming back we should be able to compete at a very high level and contend for another conference championship," Hays said.
mean everyone in the conference will be gunning for Kansas, including teams such as Saint Louis University, Missouri State, Kansas State, and of course the Missouri Tigers.
And with the upcoming weekend of games against the Sun Devils, they are sure to get a.
WHAT: Kansas club baseball vs. Arizona State club baseball
WHEN: Today at 5 p.m.
and 7.30 p.m. (seven-in-
ning doubleheader) and
Saturday at 10 a.m. (nine-
inning game)
substantial jump on the competition, win or lose.
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PLAYER TO WATCH
Freshman forward Tyshawn Taylor
This isn't the Oklahoma State of old. New coach Travis Ford brought an up-tempo style and
the Cowboys now play at a faster pace than almost every team in the nation. Exactly the way Taylor prefers to play. He'll be the fastest player on the
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QUESTION MARK
Can the Jayhawks slow Obi Muonelo?
Someone will have a big game for the Cowboys. When a team averages as many possessions as they do, at least one player is bound to put up big numbers every game. Kansas needs to make sure it isn't Muonelo. He's the kind of player who has given the Jayhawks trouble this season — a big guard who plays a lot of his minutes in the post. Muonelo averages nearly 15 points and nine rebounds. To hold him below that, it's going to take a strong defensive effort from whoever guards him.
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"We've got to get prepared to play a really good Oklahoma State team that can beat anybody on any night because of the way they play. They shoot so many threes and when they're hitting, they can beat anybody. They've got four guys who are as good as shooters as anyone in our league."
Kansas coach Bill Self
"We're learning and everyone is buying into coach's system. We're just finding out who we are and getting better day by day." —Junior guard Sheron Collins
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SELF'S FORMER SELF Coach will face off with the alma mater that wanted him back
Sherron Collins, 5-foot-11 junior guard Collins thinks the Jayhawks can get better. But can he? Collins already averages 18 points and five assists per game.
STARTERS
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Tyshawn Taylor, 6-foot-3 freshman guard Taylor has scored less than 10 points in three straight games and seems poised to explode for a big game any time now.
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Morningstar played 40 minutes in the victory against Baylor Monday. Yes, that means he didn't come out of the game at all.
Marcus Morris, 6-foot-8 freshman forward Morris's shooting ability makes him hard to guard and Self is allowing him to play an expanded role offensively.
★★★☆☆
PETER MILLER
★★★☆☆
Morris
Cole Aldrich, 6-foot-11 sophomore center
For the first time this season, Aldrich failed to reach double digits in either points or rebounds Monday against Baylor. As long as the guards get him the ball Saturday, the streak won't continue.
Aldrich
★★★★★
Little
BIRTH MAN
Mario Little, 6-foot-5 junior guard
Little made the most of his 13 minutes against Baylo.
scoring 12 points
and adding three
rebounds. Like
Taylor, he
looks primed
for a break
out sometime soon.
SIXTH MAN
Case Keefer
OKLAHOMA STATE (9-10)
Eaton
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STARTERS
★★★☆☆
Byron Eaton, 5-foot-11 senior guard Eaton is the motor that runs coach Travis Ford's Cowboys. If he wasn't around this team probably couldn't win a single conference game.
★★★☆
Harris
WESTERN HORSE
Terrel Harris, 6-foot-5 senior guard
2014 A ...
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Eaton scored eight of Oklahoma State's final 10 points against Texas Tech and it was Harris who poured in the other crucial points with 1:45 to play. Harris scored 22 points against the Red Raiders.
Muonelo
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Obi Muonelo, 6-foot-5 junior guard
★★★☆
Muonelo is the leading rebounder on a team that doesn't get to the glass well. He pulls down 8.8 boards per game and also pours in 14.7 points per game. He's the Cowboys' most balanced offensive threat.
James Anderson, 6-foot-6 sophomore guard
Anderson is an athletic freak who can double as a forward in this diminutive lineup. He won the Arkansas state high jump twice and his 16.8 points per game lead the Cowboys. Anderson also leads the way with 20 blocks.
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Anderson
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Marshall Moses, 6-foot-6 sophomore forward
In just his third start of the year, Moses exploded for 18 points against Texas Tech. Going into the game he averaged 4.8 points per game. He's only 6-foot-6 but Moses is as good as it gets for Oklahoma State in the post.
★★☆☆★
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SIXTH MAN
Moses
Keiton Page, 5-foot-10 freshman guard
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No Big 12 player looks like he belongs in Division-I basketball less than Page. The 168-pound freshman lacks in skill he makes up for with scrappiness and pimples.
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Page
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★★☆★★
OSU TIPOFF AT A GLANCE
Oklahoma State isn't a Big 12 bottom feeder, but it's close. The Cowboys are a small step above the bottom three teams. On the other hand, they're just 16 points from a 6-1 conference record.
An overtime loss at Baylor and then close losses to Missouri and Oklahoma have perplexed coach Travis Ford. How could a team that nearly beat two of the conference powers lose by 12 at Texas A&M? It's a difficult question and Ford sure doesn't have the answer. He's just grateful that Okie St. snuck out a victory over bottom feeder Texas Tech on Wednesday.
PLAYER TO WATCH
Senior guard Byron Eaton Like Sheron Collins, Eaton is a little engine who can steamroll
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his way to the basket and finish at the rim or the free-throw line. The diminutive guard has attempted the fifth-most freebies in the conference and he makes them
Eaton
at a 73 percent clip. The Dallas native also leads the Cowboys with 122 assists and 50 steals. Guys like Eaton and Collins prove there's room for the little guy in college basketball, and they'll do it against each other on Saturday.
QUESTION MARK
Can pint-sized Oklahoma State harass Cole Aldrich as Nebraska did?
Aldrich has said that he prefers playing against another big man instead of a bunch of swarming guards. That's easy to understand after watching him struggle against Nebraska.
The Cornhuskers hounded him every time the ball entered the post and Aldrich finished the first half with zero points and zero rebounds for the first time all season.
If they're smart, the Cowboys will run a similar zone defense to frustrate the big man on Saturday.
HEARYE, HEARYE
"He isn't going to let you play dead the whole game. He's going to make you feel that if you don't pick it up, there's going to be consequences."
— Oklahoma State guard Terrell Harris on coach Travis Ford
"Lawrence is a tough place to play. We have to go out and have fun like we did tonight in the second half, but do it for the whole 40 minutes."
Oklahoma State guard Byron Eaton
BIG 12 SCHEDULE
Game Time (CT) Channel
Colorado at Oklahoma 12:30 p.m. Big 12Network
Texas at Nebraska 1:00 p.m. ESPN
Kansas State at Texas A&M 3:00 p.m. Big 12Network
Missouri at Iowa State 5:00 p.m. MSN/CTN
Baylor at Texas Tech 7:00 p.m. ESPNU
BIG 12 CONFERENCE
ALLEN FIELDHOUSE WILL ROCK IF...
Kansas throws down a couple alley-oops. Maybe change "if to when," Against Oklahoma State, the lob passes are going to be open when Kansas has a numbers advantage in transition. Sherron Collins and Tyshawn Taylor might connect with Marcus Morris or Cole Aldrich early to stimulate the crowd. Marcus also likes to lob passes down to Aldrich.
PHOG ALLEN WILL ROLL OVER IN HIS GRAVE IF ...
Byron Eaton gets back into his groove. You know, the one he found last year against Kansas. Kansas' last loss of the 2007-2008 season came in Stillwater, Okla., because of two reasons: 1. It played its worst game of the season. 2. Eaton dominated. He scored 26 points and had four assists in the 61-60 victory. Eaton had no trouble getting into the lane and creating for the Cowboys. The Jayhawks can't let that happen again.
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
Prediction:
KANSAS 84,OKLAHOMA STATE 79
Date Opponent TV Time
Feb. 7 OKLAHOMA STATE ABC 2:30 p.m.
Feb. 9 at Missouri ESPN 8 p.m.
Feb. 14 at Kansas State ABC 2:30 p.m.
Feb. 18 IOWA STATE Big 12 Network 7:00 p.m.
Feb. 21 NEBRASKA Big 12 Network 3:00 p.m.
Feb. 23 at Oklahoma ESPN 8 p.m.
March 1 MISSOURI CBS 1 p.m.
March 4 at Texas Tech ESPN2 8:30 p.m.
March 7 Texas CBS 3 p.m.
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Still, sandwiched between Sutherland's two solid performances was a freshman lape. Against Texas A&M last Saturday, Sutherland played just 10 minutes because Henrickson said she didn't possess the same energy and intensity that made her so effective against Kansas State.
In some games, Sunderha has provided a spark on both ends of the court. In others; she doesn't appear completely focused, often wandering on offense.
"My anxiety level and my gray hair ... I just wish shed be really good in practice tomorrow, that would help," Henrickson said. "It's pretty obvious early if she's with it or not. It was pretty obvious early she wasn't with it atA&M and pretty obvious early (Wednesday) that she had good focus and concentration."
After her impressive performance in the Colorado game, consistency became a key word for Henrickson and teammates
"I'm not surprised that she played like that tonight, but it's just her consistency," junior forward
Danielle McCray said. "Once she keeps being consistent for us, that's when we're going to keep winning games."
On Wednesday night, Sutherland scored 10 points — many on put backs — and grabbed four rebounds in the second half. At the time, Colorado was slicing into Kansas' lead, but Sutherland's baskets helped reassert the lahawks.
"Now, I think, 'Just get a rebound.'" Sutherland said. "The game is that simple; get a rebound and put it back up. Don't think too much about a play, just play basketball."
Yet, for those times when Sutherland needs a little direction. Nicollette Smith's voice is often the first she hears, shouting directions or defensive assignments.
"Her teammates stay on her because they know she's good enough to help us win, so they get frustrated with her," Henrickson said. "She really responds to that in a good way. She doesn't want to let them down."
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Season starts 3-0, Svistun's style helps
BY JUSTIN HILLEY jhilley@kansan.com
TENNIS
KU senior tennis player Yuliana Svistun has a certain style of winning. Since she joined the team in the spring of 2006 as a freshman, Svistun has been brandishing her style for weeks at a time, even months. And now she is doing it again.
"I'm starting a streak right now hopefully because I want to achieve what I did my sophomore year. I want to do that this year since it's my last year," Swistun said.
Last weekend, the Jayhawk tennis team had three schools — UTEP, Drake and St. Louis — pay
In the spring of 2007, Svistun won seven consecutive singles matches from Feb. 4 to March 10, which was followed by another streak (5-0) from April 1-18. In addition, that fall she posted a 7-0 stretch in which she became the 2007 Hoosier Classic Singles Champion.
them a visit, and each one was sent back home with another loss on their record, resulting in a 3-0 start (best since 2000) of the season. The entire team contributed heavily to Kansas weekend sweep as senior Edina Horvath and sophomore Maria Martinez also began their streaks by going 3-0 in singles matches and 2-1 in doubles.
So why is the Swistun's weekend performance worthy of distinction? Swistun has two streaks in progress: one is in singles (3-0) and one is in doubles (3-0). And her partner, freshman Kate Morezova, has a lot to do with the latter.
The lahayhs currently lead the Big 12 standings with an overall record of 3-0. This weekend they will be shooting for 5-0 when they encounter Illinois and Illinois-Chicago in nonconference play in Champaign, Ill.
"We just like to play together. We just played well. We were very consistent for every ball. We had to work." Morozova said.
The Russian duo compliments one another not just with words, but with court play.
"Kate is really fun to play with. I like to play with her because I like the speed and she is really powerful," Swistun said.
The streaks are modest, but when you consider Svistun's past, you realize the modesty may continue into March or perhaps April.
Before her sophomore success in 2007, Swistun created a jolt her freshman year by winning her first four singles matches and then embarked on a doubles winstreak (6-0) that lasted from January 28 to April 8, helping the squad to an 11-6 dual match record during that same time period. In 2008 she, along with Horvath and junior Kuni Dorn, assisted in achieving KU's best conference record since 2002; all three had at least 10 dual match victories.
When asked if her undefeated singles streak will last this entire
season, Julie laughed - but not so much to think it impossible.
"It's gonna be fun. I think if I stay at the number five position it's doable, but if coach decides to move me up to four or three, it's gonna be a lot harder." she said.
- Edited by Sam Speer
Wherever Swisst play, she and the team will be doing it in style.
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At the first appearance hearing
A KU student charged with one count of felony animal cruelty remained in custody at the Douglas County Jail Sunday evening.
for Cem Basolas, Turkey sophomore, on Friday, Pro Tem Judge James George set bond at $12,000 with the stipulation that, if released, Basolas would not be allowed to have any contact with any animal and would have to surrender his passport. As of 11:05 p.m. Sunday, no one had posted Basolas' bond.
Bassoflas was arrested Wednesday afternoon after maintenance crews found a large quantity of blood in his apartment in the 2100 block of Heatherwood Drive, Sgt. Bill Cory, Lawrence Police public information officer, said on Thursday.
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Lawrence Police said the alleged incident involved one dog, which is now dead. Cory said on Friday that the investigation was ongoing and that officers would continue to look for evidence at the scene of the arrest.
Basafos has another pending animal cruelty charge stemming from an arrest on Aug. 19, 2008. According to court records, he failed to appear at the case's first hearing.
The court date for both charges has been set for Feb 24 at 2 p.m.
Basolas' defense attorney, Sarah Swain, was retained in August following the first charge.
For continuing coverage, check Kansan.com and Tuesday's Kansan.
More charges may be filed against Basollas in the next week depending on the results of the investigation, according to a Friday press release from Charles Branson, Douglas County district attorney.
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Cem Basoflas, Turkey sophomore, makes a first appearance before Pro Tern Judge James George wa video teleconference from the Douglas County Jail on Feb 6. Basoflas was arrested Feb. 4 on charges of animal cruelty and criminal sodomy with an animal. Bond was set at $12,000, with the stipulations that he have no contact with animals and that he surrender his passport. Basoflas' next hearing is scheduled for Feb. 24 at 2 p.m. Basoflas was already scheduled to appear in court Feb. 24 on a previous charge of animal cruelty that was filed in August.
DRESSING UP
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Amy Virginia Buchanan, Stillwater, Okla. senior, prepares her makeup for the dress rehearsal of "Eurydice," a University Theatre production that will run from Feb. 9 to 16 in Inge Theatre. The play is told from Eurydice's point of view.
Students perform'Eurydice'with a new twist
An old myth from a new perspective debuts tonight
BY JENNIFER TORLINE jtorline@kansan.com
University Theatre is taking a new look at an old Greek myth.
Beginning with the opening night performance this evening;
University Theatre will be performing Sarah Ruhl's contemporary version of the Greek myth "Eurydice" every evening this week until Sunday.
The play is directed by Chandra O. Hopkins, Cornelia, Georgia,
doctoral student, and features a cast of all KU students.
Mackenzie Wiglesworth, Olathe senior, portrays the heroine, Eurydice, and Spencer Holdren, Topeka senior, plays the villian, the Lord of the Underworld.
The University Daily Kansan spoke with Hopkins, Wiglesworth and Holdren about the play, their characters and what's next after this production.
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ACCIDENT
Student killed on overpass in collision
Student was helping a disabled vehicle
BY MIKE BONTRAGER mbontrager@kansan.com
A 23-year-old KU graduate student was killed in a car collision early Saturday morning.
Merriam Police responded to the accident on Shawnee Mission Parkway at Interstate 35 at 3 a.m. The student was declared dead at the scene.
The student was killed when a Dodge Dakota collided with a disabled vehicle the student was helping move off the overpass. The man the student was helping inside the car at the time of the accident and was taken to the hospital with minor injuries.
Steven Kyle Cummins, 25,
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The name of the victim will not be released until the family is notified.
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Tires slashed on 22 cars near fraternity house
Sigma Alpha Epsilon members victims of anonymous crime
BY MIKE BONTRAGER mbontrager@kansan.com
Early Sunday morning, 22 cars had their tires slashed at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house at 1301 W. Campus Rd. The cars belonged to fraternity members. current rushes and three guests.
The crime occurred some time
Pat Thomsen, Shawnee junior and a Sigma Alpha Epsilon member who had his tires slashed, said he knew it happened some time after 4:45 a.m. because one of the cars vandalized had returned from Manhattan at that time.
between 4:45 a.m. and 7 a.m.
Most of the cars involved had their front right tires punctured. The puncture wounds on the tires varied from a tiny slit in the wheel wall to giant gashes across the tire. Mike Moore, Overland Park senior and a Sigma Alpha Epsilon member, had two tires of his truck slashed. Moore had his tires slashed
last semester, but said he thought the two acts were not related. He said he guessed that members of Delta Chi, the fraternity located next to Sigma Alpha Epsilon, were responsible.
Thomsen said there had been a rivalry between Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Delta Chi for 30 to 40 years.
Alex Stamos, Blue Springs, Mo., junior and a Delta Chi member, said there was bad blood between the fraternities, but no one really knew why. He said no one in Delta
"It's pretty obvious this time," Moore said.
Chi had come forward to take responsibility for the tire slashing.
Sgt. Monroe of the Lawrence Police department said the investigation was ongoing.
Edited by Sonya English
Pat Thomsen, Shawnee junior, exchanges information with a tow truck driver before his 1997 Ford Monte Carlo is hauled away for repair. Thomas's car, which Thomsen was had owned for about five years, was one of 22 vehicles that suffered slashed tires on the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house early Sunday morning.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil — Four people at the rear of a plane that crashed in a muddy Amazon river managed to open an emergency door and swim to safety as the aircraft sank, dragging at least 24 others to their death.
Authorities said they would investigate whether the plane, with a capacity of 21, had too many passengers.
Divers recovered two dozen bodies from the twin turboprop plane that plunged into the Manacapuru river in a heavy rain-storm Saturday afternoon.
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CLIFTON, N.J. — Five fortunate organ recipients are meeting the New Jersey family whose loss became their gain.
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With Valentine's Day in a few days, people can choose from a variety of gifts to give their sweet-hearts, including the gift of knowledge. Devin Moss, Memphis graduate student, is hosting an event offering free, non-blood HIV tests for KU faculty, staff and students Tuesday at the Kansas Union.
The free event, "True Love is a Valentine's Day AIDS Test" is meant to inspire people to get tested for the HIV virus, Moss said.
"I decided on the name because I personally feel the best gift of love is proving to someone that you love them enough to keep them safe and healthy," Moss said.
The event, hosted by the Student Involvement and Leadership Center, is sponsored by Queens and Allies, OUTLaws and Allies, and the Douglas County AIDS Project. The Douglas County AIDS Project contacted Moss to plan a day when people could take advantage of the free service and get tested.
"I personally get a sense of comfort from individuals knowing their HIV status," Moss said. "I believe that if you are sexually active or involved in other risky behaviors, you should know your status."
Sara Schwermer, Spring Hm third-year law student and president of OUTLaws and Allies, said the group was sponsoring the event because it believed education about HIV and AIDS was important to have on any campus and for any individual, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. Schwermer said offering the testing with such easy access meant there was no excuse for not getting tested.
"Unless you know the background of every sexual partner and use protection every time, it could happen to you. Not to frighten anyone, but just go get tested," Schwermer said. "Personally, comforts me that people find out good or bad whether they have HIV/AIDS. And god forbid they are infected, they can be careful not to spread it to others."
Darryl Monteau, Lawrence graduate student, said she thought it was important for students to use
resources like AIDS testing, as the opportunities allowed students to gain knowledge and fight against AIDS.
"I do feel that it should be offered at no cost or minimal costs to students if at all possible." Monteau said. "Unfortunately, students are often oblivious or think they are invincible in the sense that 'it won't ever happen to me.'"
The test offered on Tuesday consists of a free oral swab. The test is less intrusive than the common blood test, and completely confidential. People who submit to the test usually find out the results within a week. The Douglas County AIDS Project oversees the results and contacts the people tested individually.
"If you are sexually active, you should want to know your status and your partners' status as to protect each other," Moss said. "Being healthy is important and knowing your HIV status will only add to your confidence that you are in good health. It is fun to know your status."
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CONCORD, N.H. — College freshman Elizabeth Hebert's choice of a four-year school suddenly got too expensive. George Haseline already has a business degree, but he concluded after several layoffs that he needed more training to get work.
So, in the middle of this school year, both landed at New Hampshire Technical Institute, which, like other community colleges across the country, has suddenly grown a lot more crowded.
Tuition covers just 25 percent of the cost of education in Maine's system. Other community colleges vary, but all depend on counties or states that in many cases are cutting their funding.
president of Maine's community college system.
"Community colleges are built on access, so for us to turn someone away is like a surgeon saying 'I won't operate on someone who is having a heart attack,'" said Norma Kent, spokeswoman at the American Association of Community Colleges.
But community colleges aren't exactly cheering in this down economy: Tuition doesn't come close to covering costs, and the state funds that used to make up the difference are drying up.
The two-year schools are reporting unprecedented enrollment increases this semester, driven by students from traditional colleges seeking more bang for their buck and by laid-off older workers.
"People can't understand, with more customers, why that isn't good news," said John Fitzsimmons.
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WASHINGTON - Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is near the top of President Barack Obama's list of candidates to head the Health and Human Services Department, at least partially on the strength of her long and close working relationship with the president, a senior administration official said.
Other candidates, including former Clinton White House chief of staff John Podesta, remain
Obama searches for candidate to help with health care plan
Advocacy groups like the consumer watchdog role Sebelius played as insurance commissioner for eight years before she became governor.
in the mix. A decision is not imminent, a senior administration official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss
Sebelius, 60, signed on early with the Obama campaign, backing his candidacy over that of Hillary Rodham Clinton, Obama's rival for the Democratic nomination and now secretary of state. Sebelius worked tirelessly for Obama's bid and was a top surrogate to women's groups, especially after Republicans picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as their vice presidential nominee.
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tender. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not officially authorized to speak for the governor.
The loss of Daschle has many worried about the fate of any quick action on health care reform, one of Obama's top early priorities and a complex legislative effort that seemed to require the heft of someone like Daschle to push it through. As a result, most believed Obama needed to move quickly to replace Daschle, and yet the White House was so committed to that pick that it had little in the way of a backup list when he dropped out.
admission he had not paid all his taxes, including on a car and driver, since leaving Congress as a Democratic leader.
Sebelius would be Obama's second choice for the slot. Former Sen. Tom Daschle had to withdraw his name amid an
White House Reid Cherlin said Saturday no decision had been made.
It took Obama almost a month to find a new commerce secretary nominee when his first pick dropped out. He named GOP Sen. Judd Gregg last week, the same day Daschle withdrew, to replace New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, who had stepped aside for the post in early January amid a grand jury investigation into a state contract awarded to his political donors.
A Kansas Democrat close to Sebelius said she had not spoken about the post in recent days but appeared to remain a strong contender.
Those close to the White House also mentioned Podesta as a candidate. The leader of Obama's transition team and head of the liberal think tank Center for American Progress, he was the fourth and final chief of staff to serve President Bill Clinton.
The two-term governor remains popular in her state and comes from a strong political family. Her father, John Gilligan, was a Democratic governor of Ohio in the early 1970s, and her late
Sebelius' trip was planned before Daschle bowed out as nominee for health secretary as a result of fallout from about $140,000 in back taxes and interest he paid last month.
Sebelius was in Washington last week to give a pair of speeches, one on clean energy jobs and the other at the National Education Association. She also met at the Ritz Carlton hotel with Obama aide Valerie Jarrett, one of the president's top advisers and confidantes.
father in law, Keith Sebelius, was a Republican congressman from Kansas for 12 years.
December that she had removed herself from consideration for a Washington job, citing Kansas' budget problems that needed her attention.
Her name had been floated for several Cabinet posts right after Obama won in November, but she announced in early
Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen was another candidate, although some advocacy groups were lining up to oppose the Democratic governor. He remains under consideration but was not as likely as Sebelius to make the final cut, the senior official said.
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Still, sandwiched between Sutherland's two solid performances was a freshman lapse, Against Texas A&M last Saturday, Sutherland played just 10 minutes because Henrickson said she didn't possess the same energy and intensity that made her so effective against Kansas State.
In some games, Sutherland has provided a spark on both ends of the court. In others; she doesn't appear completely focused, often wandering on offense.
"My anxiety level and my gray hair ... I just wish shed be really good in practice tomorrow, that would help." Henrickson said. "It's pretty obvious early if she's with it or not. It was pretty obvious early she wasn't with it at agA&M and pretty obvious early (Wednesday) that she had good focus and concentration."
After her impressive performance in the Colorado game, consistency became a key word for Henrickson and teammates.
"I'm not surprised that she played like that tonight, but it's just her consistency," junior forward
Danielle McCray said. "Once she keeps being consistent for us, that's when we're going to keep winning games."
On Wednesday night, Sutherland scored 10 points — many on put backs — and grabbed four rebounds in the second half. At the time, Colorado was slicing into Kansas' lead, but Sutherland's baskets helped reassert the lavahaws.
"Now, I think, 'Just get a rebound.'" Sutherland said. "The game is that simple; get a rebound and put it back up. Don't think too much about a play, just play basketball."
Yet, for those times when Sutherland needs a little direction, Nicollette Smith's voice is often the first she hears, shouting directions or defensive assignments.
"Her teammates stay on her because they know she's good enough to help us win, so they get frustrated with her." Henrickson said. "She really responds to that in a good way. She doesn't want to let them down."
Edited by Sonya English
BY JUSTIN HILLEY jhilley@kansan.com
Season starts 3-0, Svistun's style helps
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KU senior tennis player Yuliana Svistun has a certain style of winning. Since she joined the team in the spring of 2006 as a freshman, Svistun has been brandishing her style for weeks at a time, even months. And now she is doing it again.
Last weekend, the layhawk tennis team had three schools UTER, Drake and St. Louis — pay
"I'm starting a streak right now hopefully because I want to achieve what I did my sophomore year. I want to do that this year since it's my last year," Swisun said.
In the spring of 2007, Svistun won seven consecutive singles matches from Feb. 4 to March 10, which was followed by another streak (5-0) from April 1-18. In addition, that fall she posted a 7-0 stretch in which she became the 2007 Hoosier Classic Singles Champion.
them a visit, and each one was sent back home with another loss on their record, resulting in a 3-0 start (best since 2000) of the season. The entire team contributed heavily to Kansas' weekend sweep as senior Edina Horvath and sophomore Maria Martinez also began their streaks by going 3-0 in singles matches and 2-1 in doubles.
The Jayhawks currently lead the Big 12 standings with an overall record of 3-0. This weekend they will be shooting for 5-0 when they encounter Illinois and Illinois-Chicago in nonconference play in Champaign, Ill.
So why is the Swistun's weekend performance worthy of distinction? Swistun has two streaks in progress; one is in singles (3-0) and one is in doubles (3-0). And her partner, freshman Kate Mozova, has a lot to do with the latter.
"We just like to play together. We just played well. We were very consistent for every ball. We had to work." Morozova said.
The Russian duo compliments one another not just with words, but with court play.
"Kate is really fun to play with. I like to play with her because I like the speed and she is really powerful," Swistun said.
The streaks are modest, but when you consider Svistun's past, you realize the modesty may continue into March or perhaps April.
Before her sophomore success in 2007, Svistun created a jolt her freshman year by winning her first four singles matches and then embarked on a doubles winstreak (6-0) that lasted from January 28 to April 8, helping the squad to an 11-6 dual match record during that same time period. In 2008 she, along with Horvath and junior Kuni Dorn, assisted in achieving KU's best conference record since 2002; all three had at least 10 dual match victories.
When asked if her undefeated singles streak will last this entire
season, Julie laughed - but not so much to think it impossible.
Edited by Sam Speer
Wherever Swistum plays, she and the team will be doing it in style.
"It's gonna be fun. I think if I stay at the number five position it's doable, but if coach decides to move me up to four or three, it's gonna be a lot harder," she said.
"We have great practices and great communication. The coaches do a lot for us. For every practice, they provide us with everything, and that helps a lot too," Sivistun said.
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Animal cruelty charge filed
Basoflas in custody with $12,000 bond and a court date set
BY ALEXANDRA GARRY
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VOLUME 120 ISSUE 95
A KU student charged with one count of felony animal cruelty remained in custody at the Douglas County Jail Sunday evening.
At the first appearance hearing
for Cem Basofasl, Turkey sophomore, on Friday, Pro Tem Judge James George set bond at $12,000 with the stipulation that, if released, Basofasl would not be allowed to have any contact with any animal and would have to surrender his passport. As of 11:05 p.m. Sunday, no one had posted Basofas' bond.
Basolas was arrested Wednesday afternoon after maintenance crews found a large quantity of blood in his apartment in the 2100 block of Heatherwood Drive, Sgt. Bill Cory, Lawrence Police public information officer, said on Thursday.
Lawrence Police said the alleged incident involved one dog, which is now dead. Cory said on Friday that the investigation was ongoing and that officers would continue to look for evidence at the scene of the arrest.
Basilofas has another pending animal cruelty charge stemming from an arrest on Aug. 19, 2008. According to court records, he failed to appear at the case's first hearing.
The court date for both charges has been set for Feb. 24 at 2 p.m.
Basoflas' defense attorney, Sarah Swain, was retained in August following the first charge.
More charges may be filed against Basoflas in the next week depending on the results of the investigation, according to a Friday press release from Charles Branson, Douglas County district attorney.
For continuing coverage, check Kansan.com and Tuesday's Kansan.
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Cem Basoflas, Turkey sophomore, makes a first appearance before Pro Tem Judge James George via video teleconference from the Douglass County jail on Feb 6. Basoflas was arrested Feb. 4 on charges of animal cruelty and criminal sodomy with an animal. Bond was set at $12,000, with the stipulations that he have no contact with animals and that he surrender his passport. Basoflas' next hearing is scheduled for Feb. 24 at 2 p.m. Basoflas was already scheduled to appear in court Feb. 24 on a previous charge of animal cruelty that was filed in August.
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**Amy Vitrinia Buchanan Stillwater Okla senior prenaree har makeup for the dross rehearsal of "Furdure" a University Theatre production that will run from Feb. 9 to 16 in Inge Theatre. The play is told from Furdyce's point of view.**
Students perform'Eurydice'with a new twist
An old myth from a new perspective debuts tonight
BY JENNIFER TORLINE
jtorline@kansan.com
University Theatre is taking a new look at an old Greek myth.
Beginning with the opening night performance this evening,
University Theatre will be performer Sarah Ruhl's contemporary version of the Greek myth "Eurydice" every evening this week until Sunday.
The play is directed by Chanda O. Hopkins, Cornelia, Georgia,
doctoral student, and features a cast of all KU students.
Mackenzie Wiglesworth, Olathe senior, portrays the heroine, Eurydice, and Spencer Holdren, Topeka senior, plays the villian, the Lord of the Underworld.
The University Daily Kansan spoke with Hopkins, Wiglesworth and Holdren about the play, their characters and what's next after this production.
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ACCIDENT
Student killed on overpass in collision
Student was helping a disabled vehicle
BY MIKE BONTRAGER mbontrager@kansan.com
A 23-year-old KU graduate student was killed in a car collision early Saturday morning.
Merritt Police responded to the accident on Shawnee Mission Parkway at Interstate 35 at 3 a.m. The student was declared dead at the scene.
The student was killed when a Dodge Dakota collided with a disabled vehicle the student was helping move off the overpass. The man the student was helping was inside the car at the time of the accident and was taken to the hospital with minor injuries.
Steven Kyle Cummins, 25,
was the driver of the Dodge Dakota.
Cummins was taken into custody Saturday morning and charged with driving under the influence and involuntary manslaughter Sunday.
The name of the victim will not be released until the family is notified.
Edited by Liz Schubauer
CAMPUS
Tires slashed on 22 cars near fraternity house
Sigma Alpha Epsilon members victims of anonymous crime
BY MIKE BONTRAGER mbontrager@kansan.com
Early Sunday morning, 22 cars had their tires slashed at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house at 1301 W. Campus Rd. The cars belonged to fraternity members, current rushes and three guests.
The crime occurred some time
Most of the cars involved had their front right tires punctured. The puncture wounds on the tires varied from a tiny slit in the wheel wall to giant gashes across the tire. Mike Moore, Overland Park senior and a Sigma Alpha Epsilon member, had two tires of his truck slashed. Moore had his tires slashed
Pat Thomsen, Shawnee junior and a Sigma Alpha Epsilon member who had his tires slashed, said he knew it happened some time after 4:45 a.m. because one of the cars vandalized had returned from Manhattan at that time.
between 4:45 a.m. and 7 a.m.
last semester, but said he thought the two acts were not related. He said he guessed that members of Delta Chi, the fraternity located next to Sigma Alpha Epsilon, were responsible.
Thomsen said there had been a rivalry between Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Delta Chi for 30 to 40 years.
Alex Stamos, Blue Springs, Mo,
junior and a Delta Chi member,
said there was bad blood between
the fraternities, but no one really
know why. He said no one in Delta
"It's pretty obvious this time." Moore said.
Chi had come forward to take responsibility for the tire slashing.
Sgt. Monroe of the Lawrence Police department said the investigation was ongoing.
Edited by Sonya English
Pat Thomsen, Shawnee junior, exchanges information with a tow truck driver before his 1997 Ford Monte Carlo is hauled away for repair. Thomsen's car, which Thomsen said he had owned for about five years, was one of 22 vehicles that suffered slashed tires behind the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house early Sunday morning.
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1. At least 24 people die in Amazon plane crash
SAO PAULO, Brazil — Four people at the rear of a plane that crashed in a muddy Amazon river managed to open an emergency door and swim to safety as the aircraft sank, dragging at least 24 others to their death.
Most victims were members of a single family that chartered the plane to travel to a birthday party, authorities said Sunday.
Divers recovered two dozen bodies from the twin turboprop plane that plunged into the Manacapuru river in a heavy rain-storm Saturday afternoon.
Authorities said they would investigate whether the plane, with a capacity of 21, had too many passengers.
2. New Zealand takes light pollution initiative
TEKAPO, New Zealand — Where other places greet the night by lighting up their streets, this one goes the other way — low-energy sodium lamps are
shielded from above, and household lights must face down, not up.
The town of 830 people on New Zealand's South Island is on a mission to protect the sight of the night sky, even as it disappears behind light and haze in many parts of the world.
HEALESVILLE, Australia — The landscape was blackened as far as the eye could see by the deadliest wildfires in Australia's history.
The ultimate prize would be UNESCO's approval for the first "starlight reserve."
It's estimated that about one fifth of the world's population and more than two-thirds in the U.S. cannot see the Milky Way from their homes.
Marysville was one of several towns in the country's Victoria state devastated by the inferno, which destroyed 700 homes. Some victims were burned in their homes, others died in their cars as they fled.
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LINCOLN, Neb. — Lawmakers in 12 states are considering bills that would offer or require ultrasounds before a woman gets an abortion;
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— Kansas: A doctor would have to tell a woman at least 30 minutes before performing an abortion that she has the right to view an ultrasound image and listen to the heartbeat.
— Missouri: A doctor or other "qualified professional" would have to offer the woman the chance to see an ultrasound and hear the heartbeat. They'd also have to provide a list of services that perform ultrasounds free.
5. Sales of pills increase after awareness efforts
WASHINGTON — Two drug-makers spent millions of dollars last year to raise awareness of a murky illness, helping boost sales of pills recently approved as treatments. Key components of the industry-funded buzz over
the pain-and-fatigue ailment fibromyalgia are grants — more than 56 million donated by drugmakers Eli Lilly and Pfizer in the first three quarters of 2008 — to nonprofit groups for medical conferences and educational campaigns, an Associated Press analysis found.
Fibromyalgia draws skepticism because the cause is unknown and there are no tests to confirm a diagnosis.
6. Organ recipients meet family of shooting victim
CLIFTON, N.J. — Five fortunate organ recipients are meeting the New Jersey family whose loss became their gain.
They were attending a memorial service Sunday for 25-year-old Dennis John Mallosseri. He died in a shooting in Clifton last November.
His heart, liver, both kidneys, pancreas and lungs were donated. The five recipients attended the memorial.
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A deputy checked the car and found the boy in the trunk.
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. — A Michigan judge says he's learned a lesson about locking his car after a 16-year-old prisoner who escaped from a courthouse cell was found hiding in the vehicle's
trunk.
Sheriff's deputies searched for about an hour until a security officer became suspicious when he saw a picture that had fallen
The Macomb Daily reports the teen had vanished Friday after appearing in juvenile court in Mount Clemens on a probation violation.
and cannibals to hoffles LONDON — A British prosecutor says an elderly milkman supplied customers with cannabis as well
Milkman delivers milk
as bottles of milk
Robert Holding, 72, delivered marijuana as he made his daily rounds in the town of Burnely, in northwestern England.
Prosecutor Sarah Statham said Friday that Holding offered drugs to elderly customers suffering from aches and pain.
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The New Staff Orientation workshop will begin at 8 a.m. in 204 JRP Hall
The SUA Valentine's Day Open House will begin at 11 a.m. in the Kansas Union Lobby.
The Jesse B. Semple Brownbag Series public event will begin at 11:30 a.m. in Alcove J in the Kansas Union.
The "Encouraging Student Contributions to Wikipedia" workshop will begin at 12 p.m. in 135 Budig Hall.
The Judicial Appointments student group event will begin at 12:30 p.m. in 104 Hall.
The "Supersstrings, Supersymmetry, and the Fate of the Universe" lecture will begin at 4 p.m. in 2074 Malot Hall.
The Research and Graduate Studies Convocation public event will begin at 3 p.m. in Alderson Auditorium.
The Research and Graduate Studies Reception will begin at 4:30 p.m. in the Traditions Area in the Kansas Union.
The "Eurydice" performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. in William Inge Memorial Theater in Murphy Hall.
Students interested in contributing to an improved bus system can weigh on issues today at 3 p.m. in the McCook room in the Union. This meeting will discuss routes and schedules. The city and KU are working to coordinate efforts between the Lawrence Transit system and KU on Wheels and are looking for input from students who use the bus system.
BUSES KU on Wheels and city to hold meeting
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With Valentine's Day in a few days, people can choose from a variety of gifts to give their sweet-hearts, including the gift of knowledge. Devin Moss, Memphis graduate student, is hosting an event offering free, non-blood HIV tests for KU faculty, staff and students Tuesday at the Kansas Union.
The free event, "True Love is a Valentine's Day AIDS Test" is meant to inspire people to get tested for the HIV virus, Moss said.
"I decided on the name because I personally feel the best gift of love is proving to someone that you love them enough to keep them safe and healthy," Moss said.
The event, hosted by the Student Involvement and Leadership Center, is sponsored by Queens and Allies, OUTLaws and Allies, and the Douglas County AIDS Project. The Douglas County AIDS Project contacted Moss to plan a day when people could take advantage of the free service and get tested.
"I personally get a sense of comfort from individuals knowing their HIV status," Moss said. "I believe that if you are sexually active or involved in other risky behaviors, you should know your status."
Sara Schwermer, Spring Hill third-year law student and president of OUTLaws and Allies, said the group was sponsoring the event because it believed education about HIV and AIDS was important to have on any campus and for any individual, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. Schwermer said offering the testing with such easy access meant there was no excuse for not getting tested.
"Unless you know the background of every sexual partner and use protection every time, it could happen to you. Not to frighten anyone, but just go get tested," Schwerner said. "Personally, it comforts me that people find out good or bad whether they have HIV/AIDS. And god forbid they are infected, they can be careful not to spread it to others."
Darryl Monteau, Lawrence graduate student, said she thought it was important for students to use
resources like AIDS testing, as the opportunities allowed students to gain knowledge and fight against AIDS.
"I do feel that it should be offered at no cost or minimal costs to students if at all possible," Monteau said. "Unfortunately, students are often oblivious or think they are invincible in the sense that 'it won't ever happen to me.'"
The test offered on Tuesday consists of a free oral swab. The test is less intrusive than the common blood test, and completely confidential. People who submit to the test usually find out the results within a week. The Douglas County AIDS Project oversees the results and contacts the people tested individually.
"If you are sexually active, you should want to know your status and your partners' status as to protect each other," Moss said. "Being healthy is important and knowing your HIV status will only add to your confidence that you are in good health. It is fun to know your status."
ECONOMY
— Edited by Liz Schubauer
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Students at New Hampshire Technical Institute walk to class in Concord, N.H., Thursday. Across the country, community colleges are reporting unprecedented enrollment increases driven by laid-off older workers and students looking for a bigger, quicker band for their bark.
Community college enrollment increasing but tuition doesn't make up for state cuts
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CONCORD, N.H. — College freshman Elizabeth Hebert's choice of a four-year school suddenly got too expensive. George Haseltine already has a business degree, but he concluded after several layoffs that he needed more training to get work.
So, in the middle of this school year, both landed at New Hampshire Technical Institute, which, like other community colleges across the country, has su-
denly grown a lot more crowded.
But community colleges aren't exactly cheering in this down economy: Tuition doesn't come close to covering costs, and the state funds that used to make up the difference are drying up.
president of Maine's community college system.
Tuition covers just 25 percent of the cost of education in Maine's system. Other community colleges vary, but all depend on counties or states that in many cases are cutting their funding.
The two-year schools are reporting unprecedented enrollment increases this semester, driven by students from traditional colleges seeking more bang for their buck and by laid-off older workers.
"People can't understand, with more customers, why that isn't good news," said John Fitzsimmons.
"Community colleges are built on access, so for us to turn someone away is like a surgeon saying 'I won't operate on someone who is having a heart attack,' said Norma Kent, spokeswoman at the American Association of Community Colleges.
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Sebelius
Obama searches for candidate to help with health care plan
private administration deliberations.
Other candidates, including former Clinton White House chief of staff John Podesta, remain
WASHINGTON — Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is near the top of President Barack Obama's list of candidates to head the Health and Human Services Department, at least partially on the strength of her long and close working relationship with the president, a senior administration official said.
in the mix. A decision is not imminent, a senior administration official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss
Advocacy groups like the consumer watchdog role Sebelius played as insurance commissioner for eight years before she became governor.
Sebelius, 60, signed on early with the Obama campaign, backing his candidacy over that of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Obama's rival for the Democratic nomination and now secretary of state. Sebelius worked tirelessly for Obama's bid and was a top surrogate to women's groups, especially after Republicans picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as their vice presidential nominee.
A Kansas Democrat close to Sebelius said she had not spoken about the post in recent days but appeared to remain a strong contender. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not officially authorized to speak for the governor.
White House Reid Cherlin said Saturday no decision had been made.
spokesman
Sebelius would be Obama's second choice for the slot. Former Sen. Tom Daschle had to withdraw his name amid an
admission he had not pay all his taxes, including on a car and driver, since leaving Congress as a Democratic leader.
The loss of Daschle has many worried about the fate of any quick action on health care reform, one of Obama's top early priorities and a complex legislative effort that seemed to require the helm of someone like Daschle to push it through. As a result, most believed Obama needed to move quickly to replace Daschle, and yet the White House was so committed to that pick that it had little in the way of a backup list when he dropped out.
It took Obama almost a month to find a new commerce secretary nominee when his first pick dropped out. He named GOP Sen. Judd Gregg last week, the same day Dassleh wrought, to replace New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, who had stepped aside for the post in early January amid a grand jury investigation into a state contract awarded to his political donors.
Her name had been floated for several Cabinet posts right after Obama won in November, but she announced in early
A Kansas Democrat close to Sebelius said she had not spoken about the post in recent days but appeared to remain a strong contender.
December that she had removed herself from consideration for a Washington job, citing Kansas' budget problems that needed her attention.
The two-term governor nor remains populariin her state and comes from a strong political family. Her father, John Gilligan, was a Democratic governor of Ohio in the early 1970s, and her late
father-in-law, Keith Scolius, was a Republican congressman from Kansas for 12 years.
Those close to the White House also mentioned Podesta as a candidate. The leader of Obama's transition team and head of the liberal think tank Center for American Progress, he was the fourth and final chief of staff to serve President Bill Clinton.
Sebelius was in Washington last week to give a pair of speeches, one on clean energy jobs and the other at the National Education Association. She also met at the Ritz Carlton hotel with Obama aside Valerie Jarrett, one of the presidents top advisers and confidantes.
Sebellus' trip was planned before Dashle bowed out as nominee for health secretary as a result of fallout from about $1-40,000 in back taxes and interest he paid last month.
Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen was another candidate, although some advocacy groups were lining up to oppose the Democratic governor. He remains under consideration but was not as likely as Sebelius to make the final cut, the senior official said.
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The post office is no longer the only place to apply for a passport. The Passport Acceptance Center, which will provide a full range of services to obtain a passport, will open on Feb. 16 at the University of Kansas. The center is located in 300 Strong Hall and is operated by International Programs. It is open to students, faculty, staff and the public. The center is one of 9,000 passport acceptance centers in the United States and the University is the only college in Kansas to offer this service.
Opening: Feb.16 Hours: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. by appointment To make an appointment: E-mail oip@ku.edu Visit International Programs, 300 Strong Hall Call International Programs, (785) 864-6161
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"We thought that it would be a great service for KU to offer," Watkins said.
Alison Watkins, communications director for International Programs, said the idea for the center came about when one of the international staff program members visited Texas Tech University and learned that it had a Passport Acceptance Center on campus.
After a year of working with the U.S. State Department, the center is making its final preparations in anticipation of its opening. The center will be open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Appointments can be made by phone or online through the International Program Web site. Watkins said she hoped this will
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Passport book — $75
Passport card — $20
Expediting fee — $60
Processing fee — $25
Photos — $15 for two
Students at the University of Kansas will be able to obtain passports in Strong Hall starting on Feb. 16. "We thought it would be a great service for KU to offer," said Ailson Watkins, communications director for International Programs.
make the process of obtaining a passport easier for students, faculty and staff.
"More than 900 students usually study abroad in the summer and a lot of those students don't have passports," Watkins said. "This means that they don't have to go downtown to the post office. They don't have to stand in line. They can simply come to Strong Hall in between classes or make an appointment and take care of it."
Sue Lorenz, interim director for the Office of Study Abroad, said that previously students were faced with the possibility of not even getting a passport because of the long lines that were present at the post office. She said with the addition of this service on campus, not only would the task of obtaining a passport be easier to accomplish, but it would also broaden students' horizons of studying abroad.
"As a university, one of our goals is to encourage international knowledge and experience for our students," Lorenz said. "When you make getting a passport a more visible and regular part of what you might do in your life it actually fits in with encouraging students overall to consider studying or traveling abroad."
Victoria Faulkner, Junction City senior, studied abroad for two weeks in Ghana. She said that she would take advantage of the on-campus convenience of the center.
"There would be no question in my mind," Faulkner said. "It would make it a lot easier."
Faulkner said that normally obtaining a passport requires a lot of time. She said this would make it less of a hassle.
"When I was getting my passport there was a lot of back and forth," Faulkner said. "This makes
it more accessible to me. I can go in between classes and get it taken care of. I wouldn't wait until the last minute to get things done."
Susan Gronbeck-Tedesco, associate vice provost for International Programs, said it was necessary to expand some of the services
available to give students and faculty who study or conduct research abroad the opportunity to travel overseas.
"I've been really excited about this operation coming to campus," Gronbeck-Tedesco said.
additional costs to the University to have the Passport Center.
Watkins said there were no maior
"In the big picture it is a small expenditure for something we think is a valuable service for the campus," Watkins said.
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POLITICS
Stimulus plan to provide more financial aid to students
BY JUSTIN POPE Associated Press
DURHAM, N.C. — The stimulus plan emerging in Washington could offer an unprecedented, multibillion-dollar boost in financial help for college students trying to pursue a degree while they ride out the recession.
It could also hand out billions
to the states to kick-start idled campus construction projects and help prevent tuition increases at a time when families can least afford them.
But cuts of $40 billion for state and local governments in the Senate version were a big disappointment for college leaders.
Both the House and Senate bills call for the largest ever funding
increase for Pell Grants, the government's chief college aid program for low-income students.
The package would also increase next year's maximum award by up to $500, to $5,350, starting July 1. That's the biggest increase in history and would cover three-quarters of the cost of the average public four-year college.
Most Pell recipients come from
families earning less than $40,000.
"Long-term, if we want a better economy, we need more people going to college," Education Arne Duncan told The Associated Press last week.
College leaders meeting in Washington this week for the American Council on Education's annual meeting will be grateful for the student aid boost. But they'll
be closely watching how Congress bridges the huge gaps between how much the House and Senate versions propose spending to bail out state budgets and prevent drastic education cuts.
Colleges are hoping Congress will agree restarting idled building projects is an efficient short- and long-term investment. As they lose revenues from state support,
endowments and tuition, hundreds of projects are on hold nationwide, from a library extension at Fresno State to new dorms at Washington University in St. Louis and a biology lab at Yale.
One other benefit notable for families: The Senate bill would also allow families to spend money from 529 college savings plans on computers.
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Unemployed find more time to spend at home
Jay Capelle, 60, speaks his *H fond du Lac, Wis*, home Tuesday. Capelle has been unable to find a job since losing his maintenance mechanic position at Mercury Marine in May 2008.
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FOND DU LAC. Wis. — Jay Capelle would give anything to get back his factory job of 32 years. At the same time, he's grateful to have extra time on his hands these days to care for his ailing wife, stay in shape and work on a long-planned baseball documentary.
An idled auto worker in Wisconsin cherishes extra time with his kids, and his guitar. A former communications worker in Virginia finds time for hiking as a distraction from the job search. But two jobless friends in North Carolina who've played plenty of golf together say enough is enough: they're ready again for the joy of earning a paycheck.
The unemployed are stressed out about unpaid bills, dashed retirement plans and the loss of workplace camaraderie. But many say life minus work also has its bitter-sweet upsides, including spending more time with family and friends, learning new skills, focusing on their health and pursuing hobbies.
All of these people said they would give up their newfound free time in a heartbeat if they could land jobs. And most spend hours
There is a wide range of opinions, of course, about just how sweet, or bitter, the experience has been.
Alex Swain, 36, of Leesburg, Va., said his fruitless search for work has been discouraging. Since losing his job last April at a wireless communications company, Swain has applied for more than 200 jobs, gone on 10 interviews and has not had a single offer.
"You can't stay in the house all day or you'll lose your mind," he said.
each day trying. But as unemployment spells drag on longer than anticipated, they have allowed themselves to enjoy activities not directly related to the job hunt without feeling guilty.
Others are spending time in the classroom.
But rather than sulking in front of the television when he's not searching online job postings, Swain forces himself to keep up with hobbies like playing music, painting and hiking.
Andre Lovato, 55, of Waukesha, Wis., who was laid off from his job at a signmaking company in 2006, earned a degree in printing and publishing from a technical college in December. Lovato, who has applied for 35 jobs since then without any luck, devotes his free time to woodcarving, sketching and computer illustrations.
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"I miss showing my work and having people say, 'Hey man, you did pretty good stuff,'" he said.
Brad Palzkill, 39, was laid off from the General Motors plant in Janesville, Wis., last June. This means the family can't afford to eat out as often, and the kids' Christmas gifts were less extravagant last year.
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Describe the story line of this play.
Wiglesworth: It's a classic Greek myth usually called "Orpheus and Eurydice". It's about two lovers and then they get married. Eurydice dies and Orpheus is so upset he goes and finds her in the underworld to get her back.
How is this contemporary play similar to or different from the Greek play?
Hopkins: Ruhl creates the character of Eurydice's father and she creates a really beautiful decision that Eurydice has to make: Whether to stay in the Underworld or to go back to the land of the living to stay with her lover, Orpheus. In the original myth that doesn't happen. All the characters in this version speak in very contemporary language. It is still very poetic, but it's in very accessible contemporary language.
Why should KU students come?
Wiglesworth: This play is told from Eurydice's point of view. People have only seen it from Orpheus and not from Eurydice's point of view. You get to see more what her dream is and what it's like for her. It's completely modern and it has elements of the Greek tragedy, but it's not written in verse. It's kind of set in universal time.
Hopkins: It's very funny and poignant and I think it reminds us what it means to be alive and what it means to live. The set's incredible. We have water on the stage. I think they will all really enjoy it. The costumes and set visually are a treat to look at. It's just kind of a visual feast.
Wiglesworth: It's a classic story but also it's a story that still applies to everybody today. It's good theater and if you haven't really seen theater before, I think that this is a show that everyone walks away
from with some ideas
What part do you play?
Describe your character.
Wiglesworth: Eurydice is a young woman who is very much in love with her soon-to-be fiance, Orpheus. They are one of those couples where not exactly everything is the same, but they complement each other very well. She's into books and learning things and words are fascinating to her. Her lover is all
Wiglesworth: Eurydice is basically like three different characters. You see her alive with her lover and you see her after she dies and she's lost some of her memories. She's more of a blank slate and she starts gaining some memories and then she loses some again. It's interesting to try and figure out the three different Eurydices.
Holden: In the first part, I play the "nasty interesting man." For the rest of the play, I play Lord of the Underworld, the antagonist.
about music, and that just doesn't really make sense to her.
Holdren: The playwright is very economic in the way that she writes and there is very little subtextual stuff to work with. Just being bold enough and going with something and seeing if it really works with the action of the play.
CHANDRA O. HOPKINS Doctoral student
"All the characters in this version speak in very contemporary language."
What is the hardest part of playing your character?
I think there is something in both of them that people identify with even if they don't want to. They represent the darker side of human nature, kind of that drive and lust and want for power. For a good portion of the play, the Lord of the Underworld is actually a little boy. He rides around on a tricycle. It's very interesting to portray that kind of character as a child. It's creepy and interesting at the same time.
you been involved with?
Wiglesworth: I have done other shows with University Theatre. I was in "A Flea in Her Ear" in October and "Jonathan Livingston Seagull." Over the
What other productions have
Hopkins: I'm primarily first an actor. I was an actor in my undergraduate career. I wrote and directed my master's thesis. This past summer I worked as an assistant director at Georgia Shakespeare Theater in Atlanta.
summer I went to Greece to study abroad and I did "Agamemnon."
Last season I was in "Twelfth
Holdren: This is my 7th production with KU. Most recently I was in "A Flea in Her Ear."
Night" and "The Music Man."
I was in "Pageant," "Jonathan Livingston Seagull," and "Lily Plants a Garden."
What's next after this play?
Hopkins: I've got to really buckle down and do more coursework. I'm in coursework now, but my next focus is that I have to take the foreign languages. And I don't know the next play I'll work on. It may be a while before I get through this next year of study.
Wiglesworth: After I graduate, I'm going to stay in Kansas City for a year and live at home and save up money. And after that, I'm going to Chicago to audition and try to act. I like acting and directing. I'm going out there to see what I can do.
**Holden:** I'll be graduating in May. However cliche it sounds, I think I'm going to try and move to New York. I have friends there. I'm going to give it a try and see what professional life offers me and what I offer it.
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NEW YORK — Etta James says she was joking when she said she "can't stand Beyonce" and would "whip" the singer for performing James' hit "At Last" at an inaugural ball for President Barack Obama.
Even so, James says it stung that she wasn't asked to sing her most famous song on the historic night.
The 71-year-old singer tells the New York Daily News she "didn't really mean anything" by her remarks at a concert last week.
James says: "Even as a little child, I've always had that comedian kind of attitude. ... That's probably what went into it."
James says she liked Beyonce's version but thinks she could have done a better job.
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Beyonce portrayed James — and sang the 1941 song written by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren — in the film "Cadillac Records" last year.
NEW YORK — Actor Vincent Pastore, who played a gregarious gangster on "The Sopranos," testified Friday that he wept when he realized his former fiancee, who is accusing him of assault, did not love him.
Lisa Regina, 47, is suing Pastore in a $5.5 million civil lawsuit alleging that he hit her during a dispute in April 2005.
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10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
You'll have to pick and choose. You might be able to have everything you want, but not all at once. Set priorities and don't get all rattled if you have to wait a while.
ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19)
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Discuss your next big decision with your family before you act. They're involved too, and it'll be easier if they're on your side. Give something up to make that happen.
GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 21)
Continue to act as translator. This isn't an easy job, by the way. But you have natural talent. You are good at helping others resolve their conflicts. You teach objectivity.
CANCER (JUNE 22-JULY 22)
Today is a 5.
Should you save or should you spend? That's the big dilemma. There are a few things you really need, but don't get the specialty items. No caviar or champagne this time.
LEO (JULY 23-AUG.22) Today is a 7
Your discussion' devolves into an argument at times. You see your position clearly, but the other person doesn't. Explain the concept more simply.
VIRGO (AUG.23-SEPT.22)
Today is a 6
Today is a day of
Communication is starting to flow more easily, and that's surely a blessing. Other things are breaking down, though. Schedule your personal break for later tomorrow.
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If asked to a fight you can win.
If asked, you may help mediate.
Wait until they ask you, though.
Otherwise, stay out of their way.
Make cookies, instead. Or go buy some.
SCORPIO (OCT.23-NOV.21)
Today is a 5
The others may still be obstinate, but you can make a few suggestions. They write down in a letter perhaps, or discuss them directly. Dont bother to tell the combattants; they aren't listening yet.
Make a plan, but also determine the plans that others have made. That should be easy to figure out, because they're trying to convince you to change. Keep your own objectives in mind.
CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN.19) Today is a 5
If all you can do is keep talking, that's good enough for now. Rome wasn't built in a day and it didn't crumble in a day, either. Doesn't that make you feel better?
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB.18)
Today is a 7
The funny thing is, the more you fight, the better you understand where that other character is coming from. Sort of. Well, that's a clean, group-therapy sort of fight. Do the best you can.
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Obama artist arrested for graffiti
BY JAY LINDSAY
Associated Press
BOSTON — A street artist famous for his red, white and blue "Hope" posters of President Obama has been arrested on warrants accusing him of tagging property with graffiti, police said Saturday.
Shepard Fairey was arrested Friday night on his way to the Institute of Contemporary Art for a kickoff event for his first solo exhibition, called "Supply and Demand."
Two warrants were issued for Fairey on Jan. 24 after police determined he'd tagged property in two locations with graffiti based on the Andre the Giant street art campaign from his early career, Officer James Kenneally said. Fairey, 38, of Los Angeles, is scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Brighton District Court, said Jake
Wark, a spokesman for the Suffolk District Attorney. Wark said Fairey would also be arraigned on a default warrant related to a separate graffiti case in the Roxbury section of Boston.
Fairey has spent the last two weeks in the Boston area installing the ICA exhibit and creating outdoor art, including a 20-by-50 foot banner on the side of City Hall, according to a statement issued Saturday by the museum.
The museum said Fairey was released a few hours after his arrest. Boston police confirmed Fairey had been released, but did not know exactly when or the amount of his bail.
"Shepard Fairey was completely unaware that there were any warrants for his arrest. Had he known, he would have resolved all such issues before the opening of his art exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston," his attorney, Jeffrey. Wiesner, said in an e-mail.
Fairey has been arrested numerous times for drawing on buildings and other private property without permission.
His Obama image has been sold on hundreds of thousands of stickers and posters, and was unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington before Obama's inauguration.
The image is the subject of a copyright dispute with The Associated Press. Fairey argues his use of the AP photo is protected by "fair use," which allows exceptions to copyright laws based on, among other factors, how much of the original is used, what the new work is used for and how the original is affected by the new work.
A California lawyer who has represented Fairey didn't immediately respond to an e-mail seeking comment on the arrest.
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Peanut Butter Guy and Girl, I enjoyed your conversation. I think I will buy my girlfriend peanut butter chocolates for Valentine's Day now!
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"I" before "e" except in Budweiser.
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If I grow a goatee, does that mean the parallel universe me goes through a series of similar circumstances and shaves his?
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To the girl who went running on Friday in nothing but a sports bra and body shorts:
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Union board should force cigarette sales off campus
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Marlboro, Camel. Parliament, American Spirit. All these recognizable cigarette brands can currently be purchased from the Hawk Shop in the KU Memorial Union. Because the University is an establishment of higher education, all cigarette sales should be removed from campus. Although all students have the right to choose whether to smoke, the University should not be profiting from a product that is damaging to the students it is here to serve
The decision to sell the cigarettes at campus convenience stores ultimately rests with the Union, which operates under the guidance of the Union Board. The board is composed of 11 students, five alumni, three staff and three faculty members who meet four times per year. The last time the board discussed this issue was two years ago.
David Mucci, director of KU Memorial Unions and a voting board member, said "I was surprised ... students [on the board] looked at the issue and didn't see it as a health issue."
"Everyone knows th health issues, but students felt they should be able to make that choice — they didn't want the University making it for them."
Removing cigarettes from campus will not take away the right to choose whether to smoke. It will simply show that the University does not profit from a choice that is a risk to students.
University. Some of the Unions profits are used for student activities and go back to the University for programs such as student orientation.
The money from the Hawk Shop goes directly back into the Union, which is separate from The
The University would not say how much money it made on cigarette sales. But it said the profits did not represent a substantial sum.
"We're not afraid to lose the money," said Mucci.
In an obvious pandox, not only can students buy cigarettes on campus, they can also receive assistance to quit smoking through
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is still selling the product behind it.
"It makes it too convenient for students to buy cigarettes, but students are going to buy them whether they are sold on campus or not," said Ken Sarber, administrator of the Kan-U-Quit program. "I'm not completely against it, but
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As a leader in education and progress, the University should not benefit from or support a product that is ultimately a heath risk for students. Having them behind the counter is condoning and enabling the habit. The right to smoke remains in the hands of the students; however, this debate should end with the decision to remove all cigarette sales from campus.
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STUDENT LIFE
Plenty of possible money savers, if we live with less
it's hard to ignore the turmoil that has been our
economy for the past few years. Gas and food prices have been fluctuating and remain unstable, and pretty soon a lot of us will be entering a shrinking job market that continues to downsize.
Being broke these days isn't uncommon, especially for students. In addition to our economic struggles, we already lead stress-filled lives with part-time jobs, exams and pending graduations. But it's how we deal with the stress and hardships that is important.
During the past few months, our papers have been littered with accounts of Americans who have buckled under the pressure. Crime rates have increased, and so have the number of suicides. All in all, there are a lot of pissed-off, stressed-out, broke people. Although most of us are not suicidal or on the verge of breaking the law, I just want to remind everyone that there are ways to save cash, and your sanity, without going to extremes.
There is an endless list of little things we can do to save extra cash here and there. Not cranking the heat to 80 degrees after that half-hour shower is one thing. On Jan. 26 The Kansan featured a story, "House appliances in standby drain energy," that offered tips on how to save money on your energy bill by way of appliances. I now unplug my microwave when it's not in use.
One amenity that I chose to give up about a year ago was cable. It's been hard living without my weekly doses of "Prison Brick" and "King of Queens"; it used to be my favorite form of procrastination. But instead, I choose to continue to live a somewhat sane life during this economically trying time that has proved fatal for so many.
We can all learn from others, too. Ask your grandparents what it was like during the first recession. They could tell some boring, yet helpful, stories. Personally, mine are quick to tell a "Back in my day" story where the moral is always that less is more. Or, you can find a broke friend and ask them how they manage the bills and weekend activities on a budget.
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ANGELIQUE MCNAUGHTON
Whether it's switching from name brand to generic or making sure it's dollar night and that there are drink specials, there are a myriad of money savers. Ultimately, throughout the past couple of years I've discovered that cutting back on the things that seem big allows for a little more freedom and a lot less stress.
McNaughton is a Topeka senior in journalism and English.
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Too many juveniles sent to prison
FEDERAL
Erica Olivares, 26, draws pictures with labeh Hutchinson, 4, at the Casey Family Programs building in Cheyenne, Wyo. on July 28. Olivares is an alumni of the juvenile justice system and helps to mentor a child upon for up to an hour.
Federal law subject to change after examination by the Senate Judiciary Committee
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BY MEAD GRUVER
Associated Press
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — When Erica Olivares ran away from home at age 16, the penalty was not a stern lecture — it was a month in Laramie County jail. Soon, under the tutelage of adult criminals, she was addicted to drugs.
"Methamphetamine. I'd never even heard about that. And I heard about that in there," said Olivares, now 26.
Legally, she should never have been in a position to learn such harsh lessons. Runaways are not supposed to be put in jail, let alone meet adult lawbreakers on the inside, under a 34-year-old federal law called the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act.
Yet year after year, some state disregard key parts of the law with little consequence, an Associated Press examination has found. Those states included Wyoming, Mississippi, South Carolina and Washington in 2006, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act.
The federal law provides funds for compliance, money that can be withheld for failure to comply, just as millions in federal highway funds can be lost by states not setting a drinking age of 21. But the
The U.S. Department of Justice, which administers the act, has a policy of not naming publicly the noncompliant states and not disclosing how those states have run afoul of the law. As a result, many kids become victims, advocates say.
"Methamphetamine, I'd never even heard about that. And I heard about that in there."
ERICA OLIVARES
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act provides far less grant money — from $600,000 to about $7.5 million annually per state. This is less than the cost of building juvenile lockups and hiring guards trained to work with juveniles. States feel less public pressure to comply, juvenile advocates say.
D. C.-based group that lobbies to keep youths out of jail. "They can be harmed in adult jail; they can be harmed in juvenile correctional facilities."
"Kids' lives are litterally at stake," said Liz Ryan, executive director of the Campaign for Youth Justice, a Washington.
The Senate Judiciary Committee began debating renewal of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act in 2008. The process bogged down but is expected
to resume in the new Congress. Ryan said she's hopeful that the Obama administration will be on board to improve the law significantly and release to the public more information gathered under the act.
— Second, if they are put in an adult jail — for an adult felony or if space isn't immediately available at a juvenile facility — they must be separated from adult inmates.
First, juveniles generally should not be held in adult tail.
The law contains four core areas:
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than other kids.
— Finally, states should not lock up minority youth at a higher rate
In 2006, Mississippi locked up nearly twice as many youths for crimes related to their age and sent eight times as many youths to adult jails as the federal standard allows. In addition, Mississippi has run into trouble year after year for jailing too many minority youths.
should not be locked up for age-specific crimes, such as running away or possessing alcohol.
LIZRYAN Executive director of the Campaign for Youth Justice
"... they can be harmed in juvenile correctional facilities."
Mississippi officials said they're working to get the state back on board. They're hoping to get more state funding for new facilities and employees to work with troubled kids.
As it is, Wyoming locks up youth at a rate $2\frac{1}{2}$ times the national average and has the second-highest rate of jailing juveniles in the nation.
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The Agnes Wright Strickland Award The Class of 1913 Award
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Nominations must be received by Friday, February 13, 2009, at 5:00 p.m. Applications must be received by Friday, February 27, 2009, at 5:00 p.m.
Drunken driving laws examined
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Board concludes system needs overhaul
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WICHITA — A state board appointed to examine drunken driving laws in Kansas has concluded that the whole system needs a major overhaul.
The Kansas Substance Abuse Policy Board says the state's system for punishing drunken drivers is "so complex and so dysfunctional that it is likely impervious to quick fixes."
"I can assure you that every member of this board was somewhat surprised at how ineffective the system is." Russell Jennings, board chairman, said.
"If it's the 14th or the fourth offense, the penalty is the same under our law" Jennings said.
The report, distributed to legislators last month, is especially critical of the lack of an enhanced penalty for multiple offenders after their third DUI conviction.
While state law makes a third DUI conviction a felony that is
The board also said the state has too many jurisdictions — 416, including 31 state judicial districts and 385 municipal courts — with each jurisdiction setting its own standards for substance abuse treatment and education.
The board's report mentioned two specific DUI cases, one of which involved an Oct. 1 crash in Wichita in which Claudia Mijares and her 4-year-old daughter were run over and killed as they walked to the girl's preschool.
supposed to be prosecuted in state court, Jennings said the law seems to reward municipal courts for overlooking a conviction if it lets them collect more court costs and fines.
Jennings said the report recommends that legislators resist the temptation to "cherry pick" improvements to the state's DUI laws and instead review the whole system.
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Pilot interviewed after saving lives
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The interview with Sullenberger and the other four crew members was broadcast Sunday, their first since US Airways Flight 1549 landed in the frigid water Jan. 15.
Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger said in an interview with CBS "60 Minutes" that the sound of the geese hitting the plane and the smell of burning poultry entering the cabin was "shocking."
NEW YORK — The pilot who ditched his jetliner in the Hudson River and saved the lives of everyone on board said he had a "sickening" feeling when a flock of birds disabled both engines with violent thuds, crippling the plane at 3,000 feet over the nation's most populous city.
Sullenberger said that in the aftermath of the emergency landing, he lay awake at night second-guessing his performance, even
though all 155 people aboard survived.
"The first few nights were the worst," Sullenberger said. "When the 'what ifs' started."
He said he initially had trouble forgiving himself because he thought he could have done something different in that "critical situation."
Sullenberger landed the plane near two ferry terminals, and rescue boats appeared within minutes to take the 150 passengers and five crew members to safety.
He said he no longer regretted his actions that day, calling his decision to land in the river "the only viable alternative" to attempting a return to LaGuardia Airport or landing at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey.
When the pilot got official confirmation that everyone had survived, "I felt like the weight of the universe had been lifted off my heart," he said.
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BAGHDAD — Iraq's state minister for women's affairs has quit to protest a lack of resources for a daunting task — improving the lives of "a full army of widows" and other women left poor or abandoned by war.
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In an interview Sunday with The Associated Press, Nawal al-Samarraie described how her office's budget was so tight that she often found herself dipping into her own pockets for the women who came begging for help.
She said she finally submitted her resignation last week in part because her budget was slashed from $7,500 to $1,500 per month
Nawal al-Samraaie talks to The Associated Press about her decision to resign as Iraq's state minister of women's affairs during an interview in Baghdad Sunday. Women lawmakers called on al-Samraaie to reverse her decision to resign. Al-Samraaie, a Sunni, said that she had asked to step down because her office was not a full ministry and had been given insufficient authority and resources to help the widows and other women facing great hardship in the country.
part of overall government spending cuts forced by plunging oil prices. The figure didn't include staff salaries.
"I reached to the point that I will never be able to help the women" said al-Samraraie, whose job lasted just six months. "The budget is very limited ... so what can I do?"
Al-Samarraie's resignation has cast a spotlight on the overwhelming problems facing Iraqi women, tens of thousands of them left poor or widowed by war.
An untold number have lost their husbands or other male relatives to violence or detention since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, often leaving them alone with children and virtually no safety net or job opportunities.
Al-Samaraire claimed Iraq had 3 million widows, calling it "a full
All Iraqis have undergone difficulties, but women face the additional danger of being sidelined in a male-dominated society. Widows in Iraq, for example, traditionally move in with their extended families.
army of widows, most of them not educated." The figure, which she said came from a government survey, includes those who lost their husbands under Saddam Hussein's regime and was impossible to verify.
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TOPEKA - The Kansas Army National Guard has discharged its first homosexual soldier under the federal "don't ask-don't tell" policy.
Topeka woman discharged after seen kissing in a store
Amy Brian, who served nine years in the guard, including a stint in Iraq, was investigated
and "separated"
last month after a civilian co-worker told authorities they had seen her kissing a woman in a Wal-Mart checkout line.
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Brian joins almost 12,500 other lesbian, gay and bisexual service members who the Pentagon has discharged from 1994 to 2007.
"I'd never really tried to hide my homosexuality to the close people 1.
worked with" Brian said. "And they didn't seem to care or think any different of it."
The Washington-based Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, a nonprofit organization formed in response to the "don't ask-don't tell" policy, said women are discharged at a rate disproportionate to their presence in the military.
In 2003, for example, women made up 33 percent of all discharges tied to homosexual conduct but made up only 15 percent of all military personnel. Those numbers, based on the most recent statistics available, were gathered from the government under the Freedom of Information Act.
"Everyone I went with (to Iraq) knew I was gay and no one had a problem with it."
"I was not separated because of any type of misconduct but plain and simply because someone else had a problem with my sexuality," Brian said.
Between her enlistments, she
Brian joined the Kansas Army National Guard in 1991, wanting to follow in her father's footsteps. She served until 1994 and re-installed in 2003.
AMY BRIAN
Former Army soldier
got married, had a baby and divorced. She kept her secret for many years but told her family she was gay when she was deployed to Iraq.
During her first six months in Iraq, she was part of a maintenance crew at Camp Anaconda at Balad, working 12-hour shifts beside other American troops and
civilians from other countries. She later was asked to narrate award ceremonies, write evaluations and do office work.
In October 2005, she returned to the states and went back to her full-time job at the U.S. Property and Fiscal Office warehouse in Topeka. There she was eventually promoted to oversee the reorganizing of the Kansas Army National Guard's government purchase card program, which she said had been penalized for late payments and was losing rebate money.
"Everyone I went with (to Iraq) knew I was gay, and one no one had a problem with it," she said.
engine in business administration and training to become a purchasing and contracting officer. She was selected president of the employee committee and, in December 2007, became one of three people
She also began taking classes at Friends University for a master's
But last July another gay Guardsman told Brian "somebody has it in for you" and recommended she delete her MySpace page, which indicated she was a lesbian.
to ever receive the USPEO for Kansas Award of Excellence.
told her she was being investigated for homosexual conduct. Brian said someone sent several anonymous e-mails to her superiors, including the Kansas Adjutant General's Office, talking about her sexual orientation and a networking Web site that included her photo.
"I had so many gay friends in the military I know (my discharge) probably made them nervous ..."
Jared Maag, a major in the Kansas Army National Guard and deputy solicitor general with the Kansas Attorney General's Office, was appointed Brian's counsel. He said he understood that "the e-mails in and of themselves were not credible" but that the civilian's statement was enough for the Guard to begin an investigation.
In August, a Guard lieutenant
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Sharon Watson, a spokeswoman for the Kansas Adjutant General's Office, said the office became aware of the statement against Brian in August and looked into whether the case should go to a three-member administrative discharge board.
Watson said separation because of homosexual conduct is "not based on performance but based completely on federal law"The law requires the military to have proof of the conduct, an admission from the soldier or an attempt or successful application for same-sex marriage.
Brian waived her right to a board hearing and Maj. Gen. Todd Bunting, Kansas Adjutant General, signed off on the separation in December. It became effective Jan. 13.
She was given
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"I had so many gay friends in the military," Brian said. "I know (my discharge) probably made them nervous all of the sudden."
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LOS ANGELES — A tearful Jennifer Hudson won her first Grammy, thanking her family "in heaven and those who are with me today" to kick off an evening already stoked with drama when police said they were investigating double nominee Chris Brown for an alleged assault on an unidentified woman.
Brown and longtime girlfriend Rihanna, each nominated and slated to perform, separately dropped out of the Grammys at the last minute and their whereabouts were not immediately known Sunday night. The victim of Brown's alleged assault wasn't identified, and it wasn't immediately clear whether Rihanna's absence was related to Brown's.
Hudson, 27. made no direct reference to the killings of her mother, brother and nephew that kept her in seclusion until just this month. But while fighting back tears, she made it clear that her family was foremost on her mind.
"I first would like to thank God who has brought me through." said Hudson, also an Oscar winner, as she accepted her award from Whitney Houston.
While Hudson's emotion was front and center, drama unfolded behind the scenes when police said just 90 minutes before the show began that they were investigating the 19-year old Brown. His performance was subsequently removed from the show, though it was unclear if he bowed out or was dropped.
Hudson later performed "You Pulled Me Through," a dramatic song about overcoming deep despair, with the lyrics: "When I was drowning, when I was so confused, you, you pulled me through." As she sang the last note, she looked directly into the camera and dissolved into tears once again.
According to the police report, Brown and a woman were in a vehicle in the ritzy neighborhood of Hancock Park when they began to argue around 12:30 a.m. Sunday. Brown stopped the car and both got out, whereupon the argument escalated, the report said.
Then, minutes before U2 opened the telecast by zipping through its new single, the Recording Academy said Rihanna had scratched her performance as well. The couple could be seen sitting together at a Grammy pre-party the night before in Los Angeles.
The woman, who had visible injuries when police arrived, identified Brown as her attacker, but he had left the scene, the report said.
The absences of both performers put a huge hole in the Grammy telecast, but the Recording Academy found able replacements in Justin Timberlake, Al Green, Boyz II Men and Keith Urban as they all sang Green's classic hit, "Let's Stay Together." No mention was made on the broadcast about the switch.
With all the drama going on onstage and behind the scenes, the awards seemed almost like an afterthought — but the awards went on all the same. Coldplay, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss and Lil Wayne each won three apiece — Coldplay's win included song of the year for "Viva La Vida."
Plant and Krauss, also nominated for album of the year for their collaboration "Raising Sand," took home an award for country collaborations with vocals and contemporary folk/Americana album.
"We've never had so many Grammys in our life," said lead singer Chris Martin, perhaps so excited he got confused (they had already won four over the years). "We feel so grateful to be here. I'm going to tear up."
Lil Wayne was the nominations leader with eight, and won best rap solo performance for "A Mill," rap song for "Lollipop" and rap/sung collaboration for "Swagga Like Us," an all-star song featuring Jay-Z, T.I. and Kanye West.
But the prolific rapper won't be going home with eight trophies; he was competing against himself in two categories that he won and lost another. He still has a chance to win the evening's top prize, album of the year, for his best-selling disc "Tha Carter III."
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Self says game left 'bad taste' despite win
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He had enough choices.
Kansas coach Bill Self could have focused on a number of positives that transpired for his team in a 78-67 victory against Oklahoma State on Saturday.
Option A: For the first time this season, junior guard Mario little led the team in scoring with 13 points.
"I did?" Little asked. "Aborigintime."
Option B: SophAmore center Cole Aldrich recorded a career-high 18 rebounds — the most by a Jawhawk since Wayne Simien had 20, four years ago against Kansas State.
"It's tough," Aldrich said. "It takes a lot out of you to get 18 boards."
Option C. Junior guard Sheron Collins held Okiahorma State's Byron Eaton to eight points on 2-for-6 shooting, preventing a repeat from last season when the Cowboys beat the Jayhawks 61-60 because of a career-high 26 points from Eaton.
"We just weren't going to let that happen." Collins said. "Especially not in our house."
None of the above.
"We finished the game miserably," Self said. "The last taste I have in my mouth is how we finished the game."
So, which did self choose after the victory that improved Kansas to 8-0 in Big 12 Conference play and increased its home court winning streak to 37 games?
The layhawks couldn't have started much better. They stormed out to a 22-12 lead eight minutes into the game behind two three-pointers from Collins. Oklahoma State never trimmed the deficit below 10.
After freshman guard Travis Releford threw down an alley-op from Collins – who finished with 12 points and four assists – with nine minutes remaining in the game, Kansas had its biggest lead
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Sophomore center Cole Aldrich hangs on the rim after slamming down a dunk Saturday afternoon. Aldrich finished with 12 points and 18 rebounds in the Javahighs 78-67 victory over the Cowboys.
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COLUMBIA.Mo. — The halftime speech coach Bonnie Henrickson delivered inside Mizzou Arena Saturday afternoon was standard: cut the lead, make a run.
With Kansas trailing Missouri by 11 at halftime, the simplicity of Henrickson's talk didn't invalidate its importance.
Not only was a season sweep of a rival up for grabs, but, thinking of the big picture, the Jayhawks needed to secure a second consecutive conference win to keep realistic NCAA tournament hopes alive.
Kansas' response after halftime? An offensive foul, two turnovers and one made free throw on its first four offensive possessions, forcing Henrickson to call a timeout to "stop the bleeding."
"Once they felt good about them.
selves, they started pressuring us more," junior forward Danielle McCray said. "And we kind of just crawled under our shell and let them dictate how we're going to play. They got more aggressive as the game went on and we just rolled over"
After their 74-60 loss, the layhawks didn't have an explanation for their perceived lack of intensity. Coming off their first victory in five games earlier in the week, Kansas viewed the Missouri game as a chance to build.
Turns out, the Tigers only sent the Jayhawks in reverse.
Instead of appearing eagerly in need of a victory, Kansas simply went through the motions in every facet of the game.
"This is a game we thought we could win and needed to win if we want to make the tournament," junior guard Sade Morris said. "We didn't come out and do that today."
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At the halfway point in the Big 12 season, Kansas finds itself 2,6, again, for the second straight year. And for the second straight year, the Jayhawks have yet to win a conference game on the road.
In Kansas' last two road games
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Balanced attack keys Jayhawks victory
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Sherron Collins never flipped on his famous kill switch Saturday.
For the first time this year, the Kansas Jayhawks looked like a team, rather than Collins & Co.
It was a performance similar to ones seen last year (although last year's team actually fell to the Cowboys) in that there was no dominant offensive performance by an individual. The whole, as the saying goes, was greater than the sum of its parts.
"That's what made our team so good last year," sophomore center Cole Aldrich said. "It wasn't one team member. It wasn't Mario, it wasn't Sherron, it wasn't Brandon or Sasha or anybody who dominated every game. It was a whole collective group effort."
The layhawks' team performance was highlighted by a superb defensive effort in the first half. Kansas increased its lead to 22-12 on a triple by junior guard Mario Little and never looked back from there. Aldrich, whose 18 rebounds were a career high, led the defensive effort and the layhawks held Oklahoma State to 26.5 percent shooting in the first half.
A previously unseen balance on the offensive end also contributed to the win. Collins, Aldrich and freshman Tyshawn
"I don't think they got a lot of good looks the first, maybe, 25 minutes of the game," coach Bill Self said. "We got out to a lead and they never cut it to single figures, so there were some good things that happened."
Taylor each contributed 12 points while Little led the team with 13. Two others — Brady Momirgutar and Marcus Morris — added nine points.
"That third score is pretty much going to be Mario most of the time," Collins said. "He knows how to score. He knows how to play the game."
Kansas was criticized often early in the season about its lack of a third consistent scoring option. The emergence of a healthy Little for the Jayhawks has them thinking they may have found their man.
Little's presence has certainly been felt recently. After struggling through the final three games of non-conference play with injuries hobbling both his left leg and left hand, Little has found his stroke in Bie 12 play
"He's just got a natural feel to slither around in (the middle of a zone)." Self said. "He took a couple of marginal shots, but he's getting better and he's getting more comfortable."
But Little was just the front man on Saturday. It was the first time this season that the layhawks had seen such a balanced offensive front.
"That's one thing that we're trying to do this year," Aldrich said, "is just get everybody involved."
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"The thing that matters most is what our team believes that they can do. This team believes in themselves."
— Kansas softball coach Tracy Bunge at media day. Kansas opened the season with a 5-1 victory over No. 7 Arizona.
FACT OF THE DAY
In Val George's first game against her hometown team, the Tuscan native allowed just four hits and struck out eight batters to defeat No. 7 Arizona 5-1. Kansas' senior pitcher posted a 1.96 ERA last season.
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Q: Before Friday's victory, when was the last time that Kansas softball defeated Arizona?
A: May 24, 1979. Kansas defeated Arizona three times in 1979. Since then, the Wildcats were 10-2 against the Jayhawks before losing 5-1 on Friday.
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Favorite: The team predicted to win.
Underdog: The team predicted to lose.
Line or Spread: The number set by a sports book. In order to win, the favorite must win by more than the number while the underdog must finish within the number.
Backdoor Cover: When a favorite leads down the stretch but allows the underdog to sneak within the spread without threatening to win. See: Saturday's men's basketball game.
I didn't gamble a cent on Kansas' 78-67 victory over Oklahoma State. Nor would I bet on any basketball game that I cover.
However, knowing the point spread of Saturday's game turned an otherwise cathartic matinee into a thrilling drama that went down to the final shot.
The line set Kansas as 12 point favorites and the Jayhawks spent most of the second half above that number. Kansas bumped its lead to 20
BY TAYLOR BERN
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with 8:47 left and it looked like coach Bill Self's crew would easily cover the spread.
But the Jayhawks didn't build on their advantage and the Cowbirds slowly chipped away. They never put enough possessions together to threaten the Jayhawks, but they did cut the lead to 13 with 2:30 remaining.
The score stuck at 75-62 until only 40 seconds were left on the clock. Then, all gambling hell broke loose.
Oklahoma State's Marshall Moses drove the lane while Kansas' defenders — not wanting to commit a foul — stepped aside and watched him throw down a dunk. 75-64. Advantage: Underdog.
Oklahoma State called a timeout and tried to make a steal on the inbounds pass. Once that failed, it sat back and let Sherron Collins wind down the clock.
But the shot clock was five seconds lower than the game
clock. Instead of holding the ball and waiting for a shot clock violation, Collins chucked up a three and drilled it. 78-64. Advantage: Favorite.
It could have ended there, but the roller coaster had one more hill to climb.
As the final five sec
onds ticked off the clock, Oklahoma State's lames Anderson sprinted to the right wing. Standing off-kilter in front of the Cowboy bench, Anderson snatched the ball and hurled it towards the basket.
Oklahoma State's leading scorer was a miserable 1-of-8 behind the three-point line before that shot. And he was a miserable 2-of-9 after it swirled through.
The shot didn't make Anderson feel any better or Kansas any worse. In fact, it didn't impact the players or coaches at all. It just swung the
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Final Score: Kansas 78, Oklahoma State 67.
Loser: Favorite Jayhawks, who actually won the game.
Winner: Underdog Cowboys, who actually lost the game.
Real Loser: Anyone who bet more than $10 on a regular sea son basketball game.
Real Winner: Any objective viewer who enjoyed the roller-coaster ride.
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NEW YORK — As Barry Bonds prepares to defend his name, the slugger who may eventually surpass him as the all-time home run leader has become ensnared by the Steroids Era: Alex Rodriguez.
Rodriguez tested positive for two anabolic steroids during his MVP season with Texas in 2003, Sports illustrated reported on its Web site Saturday.
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Major League Baseball and the players' union issued statements Saturday, refusing to confirm or deny the report, citing player confidentiality.
An e-mail from The Associated Press to Rodriguez's agent, Scott Boras, was not immediately returned. The Yankees and Rangers declined comment.
The SI revelations come at a time when baseball's focus on drugs has concerned Bonds and the legal maneuvering leading to the start of his trial March 2. The government is trying to prove Bonds lied when he told a grand jury he never knowingly took performance-enhancing drugs.
A three-time AL MVP, Rodriguez has hit 553 career homers. At age 33, the All-Star third baseman is the highest paid player in baseball and regarded by many as the most likely to break Bonds' record of 762.
With this latest report, Rodriguez joined a growing Who's Who lineup of dainted-tained stars that includes Bonds, Roger Clemens, Mark McGwire, Rafael Palmeiro and Jose Canseco.
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In his 2008 book, "Vindicated: Big Names, Big Liars, and The Battle to Save Baseball," Canceo claimed he introduced Rodriguez to a steroids dealer. Canceo, who has admitted using steroids, subsequently said he had no knowledge
The drug allegations follow an already bunny offseason for Rodriguez, marked by further talk of his dalliance with Madonna and clubhouse gossip stemming from Joe Torre's book in which some teammates referred to him as "A-Fraud."
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Rodriguez's name appears on a list of 104 players who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in a 2003 baseball survey, SI said. He reportedly tested positive for Primobolan and testosterone.
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THE UNIVERSITY OF DARRY KANSAN
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2009
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JAYHAWK STAT LEADERS
Points
MARK LAMBERT
Mario Little 13
Rebounds
PETER BRUNSTEIN
Cole Aldrich 18
Assists
KANSAS (19-4,8-0)
Brady Morningstar 6
<table border="1"><tr><td>Player</td><td>FG-FGA</td><td colspan="2">3FG-3FGA</td><td>Rebs</td><td>A</td><td>Pts</td></tr><tr><td>Marcus Morris</td><td>2-4</td><td>0-0</td><td>4</td><td>0</td><td>9</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Cole Aldrich</td><td>6-12</td><td>0-0</td><td>18</td><td>0</td><td>12</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Sherron Collins</td><td>4-12</td><td>4-8</td><td>5</td><td>2</td><td>12</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Brady Morningstar</td><td>3-8</td><td>3-7</td><td>2</td><td>6</td><td>9</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Tyshawn Taylor</td><td>3-5</td><td>2-3</td><td>2</td><td>4</td><td>12</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Tyrel Reed</td><td>2-5</td><td>1-3</td><td>4</td><td>2</td><td>6</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Markieff Morris</td><td>0-3</td><td>0-0</td><td>3</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Mario Little</td><td>6-8</td><td>1-1</td><td>5</td><td>3</td><td>13</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Travis Releford</td><td>2-4</td><td>0-1</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>5</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Tyrone Appleton</td><td>0-0</td><td>0-0</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Team</td><td></td><td></td><td>2</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Total</td><td>28-61</td><td>11-23</td><td>46</td><td>19</td><td>78</td><td></td></tr></table>
OKLAHOMA STATE (14-8, 3-5)
<table border="1"><tr><td>Player</td><td colspan="2">FG-FGA</td><td colspan="2">3FG-3FGA Rebs</td><td>A</td><td>Pts</td></tr><tr><td>Marshall Moses</td><td>9-16</td><td>0-0</td><td>8</td><td>0</td><td>18</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Byron Eaton</td><td>2-6</td><td>1-3</td><td>4</td><td>10</td><td>8</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Terrel Harris</td><td>1-8</td><td>1-7</td><td>3</td><td>0</td><td>9</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Obi Muonelo</td><td>7-16</td><td>5-9</td><td>6</td><td>2</td><td>19</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>James Anderson</td><td>3-13</td><td>2-9</td><td>9</td><td>0</td><td>10</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Anthony Brown</td><td>0-2</td><td>0-0</td><td>2</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Keiton Page</td><td>1-4</td><td>1-4</td><td>0</td><td>3</td><td>3</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Nick Sidorakis</td><td>0-0</td><td>0-0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Team</td><td></td><td></td><td>1</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Total</td><td>23-65</td><td>5-17</td><td>33</td><td>10</td><td>67</td><td></td></tr></table>
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Date Opponent Result/Time
11/4 vs. Washburn (Ex.) W, 98-79
11/11 vs. Emporia State (Ex.) W, 103-58
11/16 vs. UMKC W, 71-56
11/18 vs. Florida Gulf Coast W, 85-45
11/24 vs. Washington (in Kansas City, Mo.) W, 73-54
11/25 Syracuse (in Kansas City, Mo.) L, 89-81 (OT)
11/28 vs. Coppin State W, 85-53
12/1 vs. Kent State W, 87-60
12/3 vs. New Mexico State W, 100-79
12/6 vs. Jackson State W, 86-62
12/13 vs. Massachusetts (in Kansas City, Mo.) L, 61-60
12/20 vs. Temple W, 71-59
12/23 at Arizona L, 84-67
12/30 vs. Albany NY W, 79-43
1/03 vs. Tennessee W, 92-85
1/6 vs. Siena W, 91-84
1/10 at Michigan State L, 75-62
1/13 vs. Kansas State W, 87-71
1/17 at Colorado W, 73-56
1/19 vs. Texas A&M W, 73-53
1/24 at Iowa State W, 82-67
1/28 at Nebraska W, 68-62
1/31 vs. Colorado W, 66-61
2/2 at Baylor W, 75-65
2/7 vs. Oklahoma State W, 78-67
2/9 at Missouri 8 p.m.
2/14 at Kansas State 2:30 p.m.
2/18 vs. Iowa State 7 p.m.
2/21 vs. Nebraska 3 p.m.
2/23 at Oklahoma 8 p.m.
3/1 vs. Missouri 1 p.m.
MEN'S BASKET
--game he hadn't played significant minutes since Kansas' last loss, a 75-62 drubbing at Michigan State, and for the first time in his career he didn't play at all in Monday's game at Baylor.
Self sees room for improvement
BY TAYLOR BERN
Travis Releford hears the cheers.
Releford, freshman guard and Kansas City, Mo., native, can tell the Allen Fieldhouse crowd gets extra pumped when he enters the game. He also said it's more than just cheering for the local boy.
"A lot of fans like my style of ball," Releford said. "I see them outside of school and they'll say, 'You're really good' or 'You're my favorite,' and stuff like that."
Problem is those cheers mostly rain on Releford once the game is already decided. Before Saturday's
Instead, Kansas coach Bill Self left sophomore Brady Morningstar on the court for 40 minutes. The move showed that Self didn't trust Releford to handle himself in a hostile environment against a quality team.
"How many of our turnovers led to threes on the other end?" I asked. "I bet you they got 12 points just off of bad turnovers like that, so we've got to correct that."
At home against Oklahoma State. Self decided to let Releford back into the rotation. He responded with five points on two-of-four shooting in seven minutes.
It's not much, but that's the type of production Self needs while Morningstar, who played 32 minutes, catches his breath on the bench.
Besides Releford, self gav first-half minutes to litt guard Tyrone Appleton. Adhadr played since the go Colorado on Jan. 17.
"Travis really made the most out of his minutes," Self said. "I thought Travis did pretty well."
That's not to say Self was entirely pleased. He pointed out that Reelford's second-half turnover was exactly the type of play that will keep him from significant minutes. Reelford drove to the baseline with nowhere to go before coughing it up to Oklahoma State's Obi Muonelo.
The Cowboys converted the
steal into a James Anderson pointer.
The junior's stat line of two turn-overs and one foul in three minutes wasn't too flattering, but Seth said it wasn't as bad as it seemed.
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Sophomore center Cole Aldrich pulls down a rebound on the offensive boards before putting it back up for a two point basket. Aldrich pulled in 18 rebounds Saturday, two off the offensive glass with 12 points in a 78-67 win.
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"I thought I was going to get more than I'm getting." Releford said.
It boils down to a trust issue. Self has called Morningstar the Jayhawks' anchor and Self needs to know that his replacement is at least a life preserver.
"I just need to stay mentally strong and do everything he wants me to do off the court and during practice," Releford said.
Sherron Collins' pass was ontarget and Relefond finished the alley-oop with an emphatic slam to give the Jayhawks their biggest lead of the game at 64-44.
Obviously he did enough to get another chance on Saturday, Right before his turnover, Releford snuck behind defenders and soared toward the basket.
Allen Fieldhouse erupted while Releford jogged back to the other end with a big grin slapped on his face.
Those are the types of cheers that brought him to Lawrence.
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Freshman Travis Releford goes for two points under the net during Saturday afternoon's game against the Oklahoma State University Cowboys in Allen Fieldhouse. The Jayhawks defeated the Cowboys 78-67.
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the OSU Cowboys in Allen Fieldhouse. The Jayhawks defeated the Cowboys 78-67.
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to his 18 rebounds, was exceptional from the beginning. He scored the game's first points after posting up Oklahoma State's Marshall Moses. At halftime, Aldrich had already grabbed 12 rebounds.
Before the second half, the
"They come up with the littlest things to tease me," Aldrich said.
scoreboard showed a pre-recorded video of Aldrich prompting the fans to make some noise. Teamsmates like Collins and freshman forward Marcus Morris laughed at Aldrich's motivation attempt. Freshman guard Tyshawn
Taylor even walked over to Aldrich and made fun of him.
He powered the Jayhawks to their 20-point lead in the second half with more rebounds, a dunk and a hook shot.
No one, however, joked about Aldrich's performance.
Little, who finished with five rebounds and three assists to go with his 13 points, was his primary companion. Self
spoke highly of one play Little and Aldrich combined to create with 13 minutes remaining.
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Little dove on the floor between two Cowboys for a loose ball rebound after sophomore guard Brady Morningstar missed a three-pointer. He jostled the ball away and tossed it to Aldrich, who converted an easy dunk that made the crowd scream louder than a video ever could.
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Little, who has still played limited time while recovering from a stress fracture in his lower left leg, logged 26 minutes and said he felt better than ever after the game. Self concured.
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"It was an efficient win," Self said. "Until the last seven minutes or so."
Self planned to watch game film of Missouri for the rest of the weekend to prepare for tonight's game. And to get his mind off of the Jayhawks finish against the Cowboys.
"He's getting better," Self said. "He's getting more comfortable."
Edited by Jesse Trimble
VIEW FROM PRESS ROW
IT WAS OVER WHEN ...
Sophomore guard Tyrel Reed fought for a loose ball and turned it into a three-point play with 14 minutes remaining. Reed never fears contact and the shot he took from Oklahoma State's Obi Muonelo during the layup illustrated it. Unshaken, Reed sank a free throw to make the score 54-35. It capped off a 9-0 run that decided the game. Oklahoma State at least hung before that stretch. Reed ended any realistic comeback chances for the Cowboys.
GAME TO REMEMBER ...
Aldrich
Sophomore center Cole Aldrich
Sophomore center Cole Aldrich
Aldrich said he had recorded 18 rebounds before. It's true. But he did it in an exhibition game in Canada before the season began. Not quite on the same scale as a Big 12 Conference game in the middle of the season. If Aldrich sticks around for another year, he'll have a lot of chances to grab more than 18. But for now, it seems safe as his career-high. And therefore, something to remember.
GAME TO FORGET ...
Junior guard Tyrone Appleton
Appleton
Appleton, who hadn't played in the last five games, checked in less than 10 minutes into the game. This was his shot to show he belonged at Kansas. This was his chance to earn more playing time. It didn't work out. Although Appleton grabbed a rebound and an assist, he committed two turnovers trying to penetrate the lane. He also committed a foul. Not surprisingly, he didn't re-appear in the game after his three-minute stint.
STAT OF THE NIGHT ...
16. The number of defensive rebounds Aldrich gathered. That's the most a Jayhawk has compiled in a regular season conference game in 20 years.
Case Keefer
PRIME PLAYS
FIRST HALF
11:51 — Tyrone Appleton enters the game. It's his first appearance at home since the Big 12 opener against Kansas State. The junior doesn't make the most of it, though, coughing up two turnovers in three minutes.
19:43 — Cole Aldrich started the game with an easy turnaround jumper in the lane. It put Kansas up 2-0 and the Jayhawks would never trail in the game.
0:45 — The Cowboys' Marshall Moses corralled a missed layup and stuffed it in for a one-handed slam. Moses' tip slam was a punctuation mark on an otherwise awful first half for Oklahoma State.
2:10 — Following James Anderson's missed three-pointer, Aldrich grabbed his 10th rebound of the first half. Aldrich finished with a career-high 18 boards with 16 of those coming on the defensive end.
SECOND HALF
14:01 — After making a steal at midcourt, Tyrel Reed chased down the loose ball and made a layup while drawing a foul. The play juiced up the crowd and Reed's free throw put Kansas up 54-35.
3:01 — Kansas is tremendous when the clock is winding down. This time it was Tyshawn Taylor who beat the shot clock with an off-balance three-pointer as the crowd counted down to one. Taylor just shrugged as he ran down the court.
12:55 — Three possessions after Reed's hustle play, Mario Little dove to the ground and wrestled the ball away from two Cowboys. Little then dished it to Aldrich who threw down a monster slam.
8:40 — Travis Releford flashed some of his skills with a nifty alley-oop dunk from Sherron Collins. Releford's slam gave Kansas a 20-point lead, its largest of the game.
— Taylor Bern
GAME NOTES
COLLINS NAMED
WOODEN CANDIDATE
The awards committees loved Sherron Collins last week.
Two other Big 12 players — Oklahoma's Blake Griffin and Texas' A.J. Abrams — made the list. Last year, Kansas' Mario Chalmers and Brandon Rush were both included on the list.
A day after being named a finalist for the Bob Cousy Award, Collins was named to the John R. Wooden Award list as one of its top 30 candidates for the award given annually to college basketball's best player Friday.
OKLAHOMA STATE LED BY FORMER KANSAS TARGETS
Oklahoma State's two leading scorers this season — Obi Muonelo and James Anderson — were both recruited by Kansas coach Bill Self. . .
Draft after the 2005-2006 season. Rush stayed at Kansas and both Muonelo and Anderson wound up at Oklahoma State.
Self said neither became Jayhawks in part because of the uncertainty surrounding whether or not Brandon Rush would declare for the NBA
Self is impressed with the players both Anderson and Muonelo have turned into. Self said he saw it coming.
"I'd say they're both where I thought they'd he" Self said
"They're both really good players."
MISSOURI ON THE MIND
Asked if he's prepped his team for the environment that awaits them Monday at Missouri, Kansas coach Bill Self looked puzzled.
"Why, they don't like us or something." Self asked jokingly. "We'll get into it. But they don't care for us much and the feeling is very mutual."
Self said he had already received a prank phone call from a Missouri fan and described the perpetrator as "friendly."
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KANSAS (13-8, 2-6)
Player FG-FGA 3FG-3FGA Rebs A Pts
Nicollette Smith 3-7 0-1 6 3 8
Krysten Boogaard 3-6 0-0 4 0 6
Ivana Catic 0-2 0-1 2 1 0
Danielle McCray 8-18 2-4 1 1 20
Sade Morris 0-4 0-1 4 1 3
LaChelda Jacobs 4-9 0-0 1 1 13
Aishah Sutherland 2-7 0-0 8 0 5
Kelly Kohn 1-2 1-1 1 0 3
Porscha Weddington 0-0 0-0 0 0 2
Total 21-55 3-8 27 9 60
MISSOURI(11-11.2-7)
| Player | FG-FGA | 3FG-3FGA | Rebs | A | Pts |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Marissa Scott | 5-9 | 0-1 | 2 | 1 | 10 |
| Shakara Jones | 7-10 | 0-0 | 3 | 2 | 15 |
| Bekah Mills | 2-8 | 0-2 | 6 | 4 | 4 |
| Alyssa Hollins | 6-13 | 3-5 | 4 | 2 | 15 |
| RaeShara Brown | 1-4 | 1-1 | 7 | 2 | 4 |
| Bailey Gee | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Amanda Hanneman | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jessra Johnson | 6-8 | 1-1 | 3 | 1 | 20 |
| Jasmyn Otote | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Toy Richbow | 1-1 | 0-0 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| Kendra Frazier | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Christine Flores | 1-2 | 0-0 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Team | | | 2 | | |
| Total | 29-55 | 3-10 | 32 | 15 | 74 |
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Lack of competitive spirit irks coach
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
BY ANDREW WIEBE
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COLUMBIA, Mo. — Bonnie Henrickson closed her eyes as she approached the podium inside Mizzou Arena 20 minutes after Kansas' demoralizing 74-60 loss to Missouri.
She was clearly frustrated. Frustrated with the lajhawk's defensive effort. Frustrated with Kansas' offensive rhythm. Most of all, Henrickson was frustrated by what she perceived as her players' complete lack of competitive drive.
"Players have to play," she said. "We did it last year and talked about that. And then you're just not competitive. That's an insult if you're an athlete. I've got some noncompetitive kids it looks like."
"Both ends of the floor, I thought we were soft," Henrickson said. "No toughness on either one."
Henrickson's message was clear. The Tigers wanted it more. It showed in their body language. It showed in the way they continued to push for more even after the Jayhawks fell behind by double digits.
Missouri simply pushed Kansas around. The Tigers nearly doubled the jayhawk's points in the paint (30 to 16) and never trailed after the first five minutes. Four Missouri players scored in double digits. The team shot 50 percent and scored 24 fast-break points to keep Kansas from trimming its lead.
even more baffling was just how thoroughly Kansas dominated Missouri in the team's first meeting, a 75-58 victory in Allen Fieldhouse on Jan. 14.
What made the performance
On that night, Kansas was the more motivated squad, holding its rival to 40 percent shooting while bouncing back emphatically from a 33-point loss to Kansas State four days before.
"When we played them at home, we were flying around, disrupting everything that they ran," junior forward Danielle McCray said. "I think tonight our intensity wasn't there."
That lack of intensity was most apparent during a two-minute stretch with seven minutes remaining in the second half. Kansas turned the ball over on three consecutive possessions, leading to three uncontested Missouri layups that stretched the home team's lead to 19.
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It just seemed Kansas had given up in a game that likely extinguished any hopes for an NCAA Tournament bid. And that's what frustrated Henrickson most. She knows what her players are capable of, and she knows her messages aren't falling on deaf ears.
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"If you sat down with them, they'd repeat everything I say," Henrickson said. "But they don't do it. Nobody cares what you say. Everybody cares what you do. And we're not doing it."
head coach Bonnie Henrickson argues a call during Saturday afternoon's game. The layhawks fell to the Tigers 74-60.
— Edited by Liz Schubauer
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the Jayhawks played well — at least for stretches. Against Missouri on Saturday, that wasn't the case.
The layhawks lacked any flow or organization on offense, carelessly turned the ball over too many times and didn't aggressively pursue offensive rebounds.
"Not much poise offensively to
take what the defense gives us," Henrickson said. "We had a lot of kids that just wanted to play and do what they like to do."
But those flaws shrivel in comparison to Kansas' defensive performance. The Jayhawks allowed the Tigers countless easy layups and, for the first time all season, didn't show any signs of demanding a defensive stop.
That 30 of Missouri's points came inside the paint perfectly displays Kansas' most glaring shortcomings on defense.
Henrickson said.
"Poor effort, poor focus, poor concentration, poor performance,"
"We have no poise on the offensive end and we don't have the toughness to go rebound. Then defensively, we have no heartbeat. We're playing 100 miles per hour on the offensive end until the shot goes up. Then everybody just wants to jog back. Defensively, we're walking and standing. We don't even play things right."
In the second half, instead of cutting into the lead, Kansas allowed Missouri to extend its advantage. The Tigers held a double-digit cushion throughout the second half, never leaving the end result in
For the Jayhawks, though, questions at the forefront include: Where to go from here? What exactly went wrong? What's left for this team?
For Henrickson, many of those answers simply begin with Kansas' top players and their desire to fix the situation.
"The looks on their faces ... you have to have leaders," Henrickson said. "Those kids in that junior class, (Sade) and (Danielle) in particular who play all those minutes, they have to step up and carry us."
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Swimmers shatter records in two-day meet against ISU
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Big 12 standings
The Kansas swimming and diving team already started filling up the new record board in Robinson Natatorium on Saturday.
Team Record Ranking
Kansas 11-3 NR
Texas A&M 9-2 8th
Texas 8-1 3rd
Iowa State 6-5 NR
Missouri 5-5 NR
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Maria Mayrovich leads the 150-yard free style Friday evening against Iowa State. Mayrovich finished first in her event and went on to break the pool record for 50-yard free style with a time of 22.72.
"We got a new board and we like to put up new records," swimming coach Clark Campbell said.
Kansas broke the 200-yard freestyle relay, the 200 medley relay and the 50 freestyle pool records against Iowa State.
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Senior Maria Mayrovich led the jayhawks in record breaking. She was on both relay teams and broke the 50-yard freestyle record with a time of 22.72 seconds, a 26-year old pool record. After winning the 200-yard medley relay team on Friday night, Campbell pushed Mayrovich and her teammates to break the 200-yard freestyle relay.
"We got to wear the speed suits and it helps mentally and physically to get you motivated," Mayrovich said. The full-body speed suits have been used by Olympians and significantly reduce race times.
For the Senior Day meet, Mayrovich was not the only senior finishing her home career with a splash. Senior Danielle Herrmann won the 100-yard breaststroke, the 150-yard breaststroke and the
100-yard individual medley. Senior Ashley Leidigh took first in the 150-yard butterfly and the 50-yard butterfly. Both swimmers were also on the record-breaking 200-yard medley relay team.
"Today was really special and I never thought this day would come," Leidigh said.
Kansas beat Iowa State 182-113 over the two-day meet. This matchup has been a special tradition between Iowa State and Kansas. The coaches have devised an untraditional line up of events. Coach Campbell said that the races were done at different distances than traditional races. It served as a good practice format for the four day conference meet coming up.
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"It's great because they have no idea what the times mean," Campbell said, "They just go out there and race."
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Kansas' divers struggled on Friday in the 3-meter diving event. Sophomore Erin Mertz took second and placed highest for Kansas. Diving coach Eric Elliott attributed the weaker performance to a hard training day on Friday but was optimistic about the future.
"We're not really rested at all today but with some fine tuning and rest we should be good to go for conference," Elliott said.
On Saturday, Kansas divers won three out of the top four spots in the 1-meter diving event. Senior Hannah McMacken took fourth, junior Meghan Proehl took second and Mertz took first with a personal best score of 295.04. Coach Campbell said he thought this performance was "more like KU diving."
"I like lifting weights before a meet because it makes me feel
stronger but my head wasn't really in it on Friday? Mertz said.
Freshman Shannon Garlie had strong performances among her upperclassmen teammates. Garlie won the 400-yard and 800-yard freestyle with times of 3:58.76 and 8:19.73 respectively.
"Shannon has really peaked at the right time and she's setting up for a good meet at conference," Campbell said.
Garlie said she will miss the seniors and aiding their performances at the meet. She said the 200-yard freestyle relay was particularly exciting.
The layhawks will compete in the Big 12 Conference championships Feb. 25 to 28 in Columbia, Mo.
NFL
— Edited by Realle Roth
Fitzgerald shines in NFC's Pro Bowl victory in Honolulu
BY JAYMES SONG
Associated Press
HONOLULU—Larry Fitzgerald played as if the Super Bowl never ended.
Fitzgerald caught five passes for 81 yards and two touchdowns, 44-year-old John Carney kicked two fourth-quarter field goals, and the NFC rallied to a 30-21 victory over the AFC.
The Arizona Cardinals' All-Pro receiver, coming off a record-breaking postseason and a spectacular Super Bowl in a loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers, earned MVP honors. He caught a 46-yard scoring pass from Drew Brees before the half and a 2-yard TD pass from Eli Manning for the go-ahead score with 4:07 to play.
Fitzgerald said the victory over the AFC, which featured three
members of the Steelers' defense, didn't case the pain from the Super Bowl.
"No, not one bit," he said.
Manning, making his Pro Bowl debut, was 8-of-14 for 111 yards. While big brother Peyton had better stats, 12-of-17 for 151 yards and a TD, Eli got the win.
"He didn't play the whole second half, so it's not about beating my brother, it's just about having fun,"
The Manning brothers were the first quarterback brothers in Pro Bowl history. And Carney, who was a perfect 3-for-3, became the oldest player in the game's history. He booted a 48-yarder with 2:06 remaining to make it 30-21 and sealed the win with a 26-yarder with 32 seconds to go.
Sunday's all-star game ended a successful 30-year run at Alba
Eli Manning said.
Stadium, with a sellout every year. The Pro Bowl will be played in Miami next year, a week before the Super Bowl. The NFL, which has been looking to increase the profile of the game, hopes to bring the game back to Hawaii.
The players, who spent most of the week by the beach sipping umbrella-adorned mai tails, were pretty unanimous in wanting the game to return.
On a sweltering day, with 60 percent humidity, Kurt Warner started for the NFC and played just one series before making way for Brees. Warner was just 1-of-2 for 8 vards.
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The question now is whether this was Warner's final game in the NFL or, as a free agent, will he opt to continue playing at age 38?
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TRACK & FIELD
Wissel achieves provisional qualifying time
Team struggles overall despite senior's successful one-mile special
BY JASON BAKER
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Colby Wissel was looking for a confidence booster. For the past few races, the Elm Creek, Neb., senior had been trying to qualify for indoor nationals in distance to no avail. However, this weekend Wissel got one step closer.
While most of the team com
peted in New York at the New Balance Invitational. Wissel and some of the Kansas track and field team returned to Lincoln, Neb., to compete in the Husker Invitational. The previous week end the whole team competed in Lincoln at the Adidas Classic.
While many on the team struggled in their events this weekend, Wissel's performance in the one-mile special was the highlight for the lajhwawks as he took first place with a time of 4-minutes, 1.92 seconds. That meets the provisional qualifying time for nationals.
There were two different one-
mile events. Wissel competed in the "special" race because it consisted of runners who were considered faster. Wissel said it was also much later than the regular one-mile event.
Wissel said it was nice for him
"It was a confidence booster moving on to the latter part of the season."
"In a way I'm happy to run well," Wissel said. "It was a confidence booster moving on to the latter part of the season."
COLBY WISSEL Elm Creek, Neb., senior
to not have to take the lead at the beginning of the race. He moved to the front after 800 meters and stayed in front of the pack for the remainder of the race. Wissel ran the last 800 meters in 1:58.
It's the second
time this season Wissel has run the one-mile race. He took second at the Kansas vs. Missouri Dual back in January with a time of 4:12.27.
"I'm in much better shape than I was competing against Mizzou." Wissel said. "I was more worried about putting in a good hard effort and I thought I wouldn't get it if I didn't take the lead."
Wissel said the talented field as well as his own cheering section of family and friends, helped push him.
"The crowd's enthusiasm helps during a race," he said. "It was nice to do it in front of friends and my family."
With the team's struggles this weekend, Wissel said he hoped the team would see his performance as an example of working hard to where you're happy with your performance.
Next up for the senior is taking a shot at breaking the school record in the 5,000-meter run in either Ames, Iowa at the Iowa State Classic or in Fayetteville, Ark., at the Tyson Invitational.
Wissel said that he was trying to qualify for indoor nationals for his final indoor season in either the one-mile, the 3,000- or 5,000-meter runs but that he only had two more chances before competing at conference.
"It's hard to tell how my rille time will play out," he said. "I don't have many opportunities left, so I need to take advantage of them."
— Edited by Brandy Entsminger
HUSKER INVITATIONAL RESULTS
Women Men
Pole vault One-mile special
11. McKenzie Wills 3.45 meters
11. Abby Jones 3.45 meters
One-mile
3,000 meters
8. Donny Wasinge 4:19.74
7. Rebeka Stowe 10:30.33
12. Kaleb Humphreys 4:22.95
13. Riley Wetenberger 10:44.20
600-yards
Distance medley relay
10. Corey Mims 1:15.29
3. Kansas 12:25.23
1,000 meters
7. Clay Schneider 2:32.49
Heptathlon
8. Jacob Breth 4,537 points
Women
NEW BALANCE COLLEGIATE INVITATIONAL RESULTS
3,000 meters
3. Amanda Miller 9:53.31
9. Kara Windisch 10:05.60
500-meters
7. Stephanie Horton 14.47 meters
Men
13. Charity Stowers 1:15.93
Shot put
4x400 relay
9. Kansas 3:49.54
Weight Throw
6. Zlata Tarasova 17.58 meters
10. Kansas 3:20.53
10. Kansas 3:20.53
4X400 relay
500-meters
18.Jarrell Rollins 1:05.62
21. Keron Toussaint 1:05.85
Triple jump
Pole vault
3. Corey Fuller 15.12 meters
11. Bret Imgrund
13. Patrick McGowan
One-mile
2. Jordan Scott 5.30 meters
15. Kirk Cooper 4.90 meters
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Team splits matches in Illinois over the weekend
Players bounce back to beat Illinois-Chicago after defeat
BY JUSTIN HILLEY jhilley@kansan.com
Kansas' tennis team lost to Illinois, 7-0, on Friday, but bounced back to defeat Illinois-Chicago, 4-3, on Saturday at a meet in Champaign, Ill.
The squad is now 4-1 overall for the season.
In a match that was closer than the score would indicate, the Jayhawks took the 36th ranked Fighting Illini to the edge as the doubles tandems of senior Edina Horvath and junior Kuni Dorn, as well as
coming into another team's home facility and playing, but I felt like we put it out there."
During singles play, Illinois' Megan Fudge (6-2, 6-0) defeated Horvath, and Chelcie Abajan (6-3, 6-3) put away Svistun shortly thereafter. Freshmen Erin Wilbert and Morozova, as well as sophomore Maria Martinez,
"It's hard coming into another team's home facility and playing, but I felt like we put it out there."
AMY HALL-HOLT
Coach
"Illinois is a great team," coach Amy Hall-Holt said. "We came out and we competed, and we played hard — it just didn't fall our way. There were some tough three-set matches. It's hard
senior Yuliana "Julie" Svistun and freshman Kate Morozova, narrowly lost, resulting in an early Kansas loss.
could not finish what they started after winning their first sets, eventually succumbing to a calm, yet powerful, Illinois team in three sets.
Afterward, Hall- Holt said the girls were disappointed with the loss, but
not discouraged. She added that these types of matches would get them ready for the Big 12 matches in March.
Saturday's match play started off on an unsteady note with the Jayhawks once again losing the crucial doubles point. The duo of Svistun/Morozova was the only KU doubles team to earn a victory. The two are now 4-1 for the season, a team best.
"Maybe the girls took UIC a little lightly in doubles, but UIC is a good team. And I feel that Julie and Kate, who won at No. 2 doubles, are playing wonderful," Hall-Holt said.
Wilbert (6-0, 6-2), Martinez (6-0, 6-1), and Morozova (6-4, 6-0), who played at the No.1 position, revealed no remnants of the previous day's difficulties as they each triumphed over UIC's Ulrikke von Ubisch, Ilinca Critescu and Amy Jellish, respectively.
Dorn and Horvath struggled on Saturday, losing their singles matches. Svistun, however, swiftly achieved her fourth singles victory of the season by defeating UIC's Jenna Reisch. The victory gave the Jayhawks their fourth point for the day and a dual match comeback win for the weekend.
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Svistun and Morozova continue to perform to their potential.
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"Kate went three sets with Illinois' number one player and had every chance of pulling that one out. She was a freshman competing against a ranked singles player in the NCAA. She put it all out there," Hall-Holt said. "I just see that Kate's getting more and more comfortable with her game. And Julie won 6-0, 6-1 in singles, and I think there is a lot of confidence that they're playing with."
Please submit names of nominees to Susann Richardson, (srichardson@ku.edu), Office of the Provost, no later than 5 p.m., Friday, February 13, 2009.
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Kansas softball opened its 2009 season beating nationally ranked teams No. 7. Arizona and No. 9 Northwestern back-to-back during the Kajikawa Classic in Tempe, Ariz.
The layhawks finished the tournament 2-2, losing to both Texas at El Paso, or UTEP, and No. 11 Stanford. The team's fifth and final game against Nevada on Sunday was cancelled because of inclement weather. In the season opener the Hawks fell to UTEP 3-1, Senior outfielder Dougie McCartley led the Kansas offense going 2-3 with the team's only run, scoring on an RBI
single from senior third baseman Val Chapple. The offensive attack wasn't enough, however, as the Jayhawks were hit by the Miners 9-4. Defensively the Jayhawks
played tight, committing only one error during the game. Junior pitcher Sarah Vertelka was tagged with the loss.
In game two the Jayhawks made a statement, beating the Arizona Wildcats 5-1.
off the fourth inning with a leadoff double, scoring on an RBI single from sophomore outfielder Liz Kocon, which gave the Hawks a 2-1 lead. The Kansas offense provided
"I'm extremely proud of our team in the way we bounced back against top 25 competition ..."
Senior pitcher Val George pitched a complete game, striking out eight as she held the Wildcats to just one run on four hits. Chapple started
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some cushion in the top of the seventh inning as McCauley was issued a walk with the bases loaded followed by a two RBI ground rule double by senior catcher Elle Pottorf.
back against top 25 competition after losing a tough game to UTEP, coach Tracy Bunge said in a post-game interview "We did a lot of
"I'm extremely proud of our team in the way we bounced
things well but we still have some things to iron out and work on"
Kansas softball followed one impressive win with another, upsetting Northwestern in its first game on Saturday. The layhawk offense began the game scoring seven runs in the bottom of the first, led by junior outfielder Ally Stanton, who blasted a three-run home run, her third career home run.
Northwestern battled back in the top of the sixth inning, tying the score at seven apiece. Sophomore Kolby Fesmire, pinch running for freshman pitcher Sarah Blair, scored the winning run in the bottom of the sixth on a sacrifice fly from junior second baseman Sara Ramírez.
ment with an 11-0 loss to Stanford in the second game on Saturday after its Sunday match-up with Nevada was cancelled. Bunge said she was pleased with the effort but said, as always, there was much to work on.
"Overall we had a great weekend; it was a great effort. Offensively we played well; we just need to find a way to put the hammer on and gain some distance," Bunge said. "Defensively we haven't had enough time on the dirt. We need to get outside and have some more repetitions at game speed."
The Jayhawks ended the tourna-
Kansas softball will travel to Orlando, Fla., for the UCF Invitational Feb. 13 to 15.
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KAJIKAWA CLASSIC SCORES
Friday
UTEP----3
Kansas----1
No. 7 Arizona — 1 Kansas — 5
Saturday
No.9 Northwestern — 7 Kansas — 8
NBA
No.11 Stanford----11 Kansas----0
Cavaliers lose first home game to L.A.
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CLEVELAND — No second All-Star. No triple-double for LeBron James. And now, no more home winning streak.
It's been a rough few days for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Lamar Odom scored a season- high 28 points, Kobe Bryant added 19 and the streak breaking Los Angeles Lakers handed Cleveland its first loss at home this season, 101-91 on Saturday.
The Cavaliers came in 23-0 at Quicken Loans Arena, but were stopped by the Lakers, who ended Boston's 19-game winning streak on Christmas Day and halted a 12-game run by the Celtics earlier this week.
James finished with 10 points on just 5-of-20 shooting for Cleveland, which had lost at home since Game 5 against Washington in the first round of last season's playoffs.
The Lakers weren't intimidated in the NBAs rowdiest arena and went 6-0 on a road trip that also included stops in Minnesota, Memphis, New York, Toronto and Boston.
made just six turnovers — none over the final 19:28. The Lakers' trip started rocky with center Andrew Bynum injuring his knee against the Grizzlies, but it couldn't have ended any better.
CLEVELAND 23 ODDOM 7
Pau Gasol added 18 points with 12 rebounds for Los Angeles, which played a solid all-around game and
Zydrunas Ilgauskas scored 22 to lead Cleveland. Mo Williams, whose All-Star snub had infuriated the Cavs, scored 19 and James finished with 12 assists and eight rebounds. It was James' first game since his apparent historic triple-double at Madison Square Garden was downgraded when the league took away one of his 10 rebounds.
Odom, who added a season-best 17 rebounds, scored 15 in the third quarter, when the Lakers out-scored the Cavaliers 31-16 to turn a 10-point deficit into a 82-77 lead entering the fourth.
Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James dunks over Los Angeles Lakers forward Lamar Odom in the second half of an NBA basketball game, Jan. 19 in Los Angeles, The Lakers won 105-88.
Odom scored 13 of Los Angeles' last 16 points to close the quarter, capping his one-man scorefew with a two-handed dunk off a miss in the final second as the Lakers became just the fourth team this season to lead Cleveland at home.
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The Lakers pushed their lead to 10 before the Cavaliers rallied and closed to 93-89 on two free throws by ligauskas with 3:06 left. But Bryant, who was battling flu-like symptoms, hit a high-arched fade away, and Gasol dropped one of two
MEN'S GOLF
No breaks in Hawaii at first spring tournament
BY NICOLAS WEBER
nweber@kansan.com
free throws to make it 96-89 when the jumbo scoreboard above mid-court inside Quicken Loans Arena went dark, a symbolic moment for Cleveland's players and fans.
Tough conditions along with a tough course were too much for the Kansas men's golf team last week. The Jayhawks finished 15th out of 17 teams at the Hawaii-Hilo Invitational. The Jayhawks played their best on the last day of competition, shooting a 301 after scores of 309 and 314 the previous two days.
These scores put Kansas at a total of 924 for the tournament, 73 strokes behind Southern California, who topped the team leader board at 851, followed in second by Washington at 862. Other Big 12 teams competing had more success than the Jayhawks in Hawaii. Colorado finished in 6th place with an 874 while Texas Tech followed closely at 876 in eighth place. Oklahoma tied with Florida State at 890.
James was stripped on the Cavs' next possession, and Gasol made two more free throws and scored on a putback as the Lakers put an exclamation point on one of their biggest wins this season.
Individually for the Jayhawks,
sophomore South Dakota native
Nate Barbee was the top score with a 231, including a team best 73 in the final round. This put him tied for 69th in the overall leader board. Other Kansas scores were Walt Kooelbel at 232. Blake Giroux with 233. Andrew Storm in with 238, and Ian Anson finishing at 241.
Winning individual medalist honors for the tournament was Nick Taylor out of Washington who finished with a 210. This placed him just one stroke ahead of second place Jaime Lovemark from Southern California and two strokes ahead of Washington teammates Richard Lee and Chris Killmer.
After a rough outing in Hawaii, the men's golf team has a monthlong break to prepare for their second spring tournament. March 9 and 10, the Jayhawks will play in the Louisiana Classics tournament in Lafayette, La.
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MONDAY FEBRIARY 9 2000
KU
TIPOFF
ATAGLANCE
Missouri forward DeMarre Carroll told reporters Saturday that this game means more to him than the national championship. Yes, that's how gigantic tonight's Big Monday match up is. Missouri might have its best team in the last decade. By winning its first eight conference games, Kansas is off to its best start in the Big 12 in four years. And the two arch-rivals collide tonight at Mizzou Arena. The young Jayhawks have never experienced an environment like they will tonight. Are they ready for the challenge?
PLAYER TO WATCH
Sophomore center Cole Aldrich Kansas coach Bill Self practically begs his team to get the ball to Aldrich on every possession when
they are on the road. Tonight, it will be especially important. Aldrich is at least two inches taller than every player in the Tiger's rotation. if he gets into
Aldrich
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a rhythm, he could dominate. Aldrich is also coming off a marquee performance against Oklahoma State where he scored 12 points with 18 rebounds. He'll need a couple blocked shots, too, against Missouri's vaunted frontcourt.
Will the Jayhawks be able to control their emotions?
QUESTION MARK
The Morris twins have taken part in a couple of skirmishes this year. Sherron Collins regularly jaws with opponents. The opportunities for situations like those to happen will be endless tonight. The Mizou Arena crowd won't only be hostile. It will be relentless. The Tigers will feed off of it and won't think twice about getting physical with the Jayhawks. Collins has to ignore it for the most part — and make sure his teammates do the same.
HEARYE, HEARYE
"I love DeMarre Carroll, I just think he's so active and gives them something. He doesn't have to score to play great. He gives them kind of a personality, an identity. They're doing a great job." —Karen coach Bill Self
—Kansas coach Bill Self
"They don't care for us much and the feeling is very mutual."
—Kansas coach Bill Self
COUNTDOWN TO TIPOFF GAME DAY
Jayhawks take on rival Tigers with almost mirroring records
BORDER SHOWDOWN
KANSAS VS. MISSOURI 8 p.m., MIZZOU ARENA, Columbia, Mo., ESPN
KANSAS
Collins
PRESIDENT
(19-4) STARTERS
Sherron Collins, 5-foot-11 junior guard
Sherron Collins, 5-foot-11 junior guard What's more important to tonight's game: Collins'playing ability or Collins'leadership ability Both are equal.
★★★★
M. BOWEN
Tvshawn Taylor, 6-foot-3 freshman guard
Taylor
Tyshawn Taylor, 6-foot-3 freshman guard Taylor had one of his most consistent games against Oklahoma State with 12 points, four assists and two steals. The Jayhawks need an encore.
★★★☆★
M. I. N. KUBRATOVICH
Morningstar
Brady Morningstar, 6-foot-3 sophomore guard
Bill Self calls Morningstar the Jayhawks"anchor"
In other words, they need him on the floor.
Expect him to play at least 35 minutes tonight.
★★★☆☆
Marcus Morris, 6-foot-8 freshman forward
PETER LEE
Marcus played his best game of the year the last time Kansas went on the road — scoring 13 points with six rebounds against Baylor.
Morris
★★★☆★
Cole Aldrich, 6-foot-11 sophomore center
Put simply: He's the key to the game. If Aldrich can score more than 20 points with about 12 rebounds, Kansas' chances at victory improve exponentially.
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(20-4)
STARTERS
Aldrich
★★★★★
J.T. Tiller, 6-foot-3 junior guard
★★★☆☆
YOUNG
Tiller would follow Missouri coach Mike Anderson anywhere he may roam. Tiller committed to UAB out of high school, and then followed Anderson when he moved from Birmingham to Columbia.
Zaire Taylor, 6-foot-4 junior guard
Taylor is good at everything but great at nothing. He plays more than 25 minutes per game and pours just a little into almost every statistical category.
English
gimin 6-foot a freshman guard English was immersed in an ugly shooting slump until he snapped it at Iowa State on Saturday. Against the Cyclones, English drilled four-of-five behind the three-point line and finished with 16 points.
Kim English, 6-foot-6 freshman guard
★★☆☆
★★★★
DeMarre Carroll, 6-foot-8 senior forward
SIXTH MAN
Last year's Big 12 Newcomer of the Year would be a front-runner for Player of the Year if Oklahoma's Blake Griffin wasn't around. Carroll is very versatile and he's a threat to score 30 points every night.
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Carroll
Mario Little, 6-foot-5 Junior guard Even if he doesn't start, L will probably get starters' minutes. The way he can hit
Leo Lyons, 6-foot-9 senior forward
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Marcus Denmon, 6-foot-3 freshman guard
Denmon is a great guy off the bench late in games. He's Missouri's top free-throw shooter at 82 percent.
Sherron Collins
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MU
TIPOFF
AT A GLANCE
Though it's slipped up a couple of times on the road, Missouri is one of the most dangerous teams in the Big 12. Since getting blown out in Manhattan the Tigers have won three in a row. That includes two decisive victories over Baylor and Iowa State, as well as a 69-65 win at then No. 16 Texas. Coach Mike Anderson's club is undefeated at Mizzou Arena. In fact, the Tigers average margin of victory at home this season is 28.5.
PLAYER TO WATCH
Senior forward DeMarre Carroll Kansas coach Bill Self said he's a "big fan" of Carroll. Self may appreciate the senior's game, but that means he also has every
reason to fear him. Carroll is averaging 18.1 points in conference play, the third most in the league. In the same time he's hitting 58 percent of his
Carroll
shots and grabbing 7.8 rebounds per game. That makes him the second-most efficient Big 12 player, right behind Oklahoma's Blake Griffin.
Can Kansas keep Missouri under 80 points?
QUESTION MARK
The Tigers average a league-best 84.2 points per game and they've scored more than 90 points in seven of their 14 home games. A lot of those points come on easy baskets because Missouri also leads the Big 12 in turnover margin (+6.58).
It's not easy to slow down the Tigers but that's the only way to beat them. What's the best way to accomplish that? Constantly switch up defenses. Kansas can't let DeMarre Carroll get comfortable offensively.
HEARYE, HEARYE
"Oh my God! People thought they saw something when Baylor was there. This means more than the national championship to us." — Missouri forward Leo Lyons to the Kansas City Star on the Border Showdown
"The team is still growing and learning. As they grow and learn, they get confident. You win, you get confidence."
— Missouri coach Mike Anderson to the Kansas City Star
BIG 12 SCHEDULE
Game
Time (CT) Channel
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Tuesday
Iowa State vs. Kansas State 7 p.m. FSN
Wednesday
Texas A&M vs. Oklahoma 8 p.m. Big 12 Net.
Texas Tech vs. Oklahoma State 8 p.m. ESPNU
Nebraska vs. Colorado 8:30 p.m. FSN
Missouri vs. Texas 8:30 p.m. ESPN2
BIG 12 CONFERENCE
MIZZOU ARENA WILL BE SILENT IF ...
Sherron Collins shines. Collins has put together a fantastic year. One of the best in the nation, actually, as proven by the Wooden Award's decision to list him as one of the top 30 candidates for the award given to the nation's most valuable player. But he hasn't played in a game like this yet this season. If Collins thrives, Kansas should escape with a victory.
PHOG ALLEN WILL ROLL OVER IN HIS GRAVE IF ...
Missouri gives Kansas 40 minutes of hell. That's the name of the full-court pressure defense Missouri coach Mike Anderson runs. Kansas has dealt with it well in the past, as Anderson has never beaten it since taking over as Missouri's coach. The Jayhawks can't commit mindless turnovers and expect to stay undefeated in the Big 12 at Mizzou Arena.
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
Prediction KANSAS 76, MISSOURI 74
Date Opponent TV Time
Feb. 9 at Missouri ESPN 8 p.m.
Feb. 14 at Kansas State ABC 2:30 p.m.
Feb. 18 IOWA STATE Big 12 Network 7 p.m.
Feb. 21 NEBRASKA Big 12 Network 3 p.m.
Feb. 23 at Oklahoma ESPN 8 p.m.
Mar. 1 MISSOURI CBS 1 p.m.
Mar. 4 at Texas Tech ESPN2 8:30 p.r
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CRIME
Student charged with felonies released
District attorney's office says Basoflas could be charged with more counts of animal cruelty
BY ALEXANDRA GARRY agarry@kansan.com
A KU student charged with two counts of felony animal cruelty was released on bond from the Douglas County Jail on Monday afternoon as Lawrence police officers continued to investigate an alleged pattern of abusive behavior from the
suspect in the case.
Cem Basoflas, identified on a Web site about him as an Istanbul, Turkey, sophomore, was released about 3 p.m. The release came with the stipulations that he have no contact with or possession of any animal and that he surrender his passport, as set by Pro Tem judge James George at Basofas'
first appearance hearing on Friday.
Bas of las was arrested Wednesday afternoon after maintenance crews found a large quantity
M. REMER
Basoflas
a large quantity of blood in his
apartment in the 2100 block of Heatherwood Drive, Sgt. Bill Cory, Lawrence Police public information officer, said Thursday.
A representative of the District Attorney's office said Monday that more charges might be filed as the investigation continued. David Melton, the assistant district attorney prosecuting the case, said on
Friday that the state intended to prove "extreme violence" against multiple animals.
Basoflas has another pending animal cruelty charge stemming from an arrest on Aug. 19. Police records for that incident listed Sarah Geisler, a nurse with the Lawrence
SEE CRIME ON PAGE 3A
MISSOURI 62, KANSAS 60
COLUMBIA, MISERY
Turnovers 27 of them doomed the Jayhawks, who had led by as many as 14 points in the second half against the Tigers but gave up a 9-0 run in the game's final minutes. For full game coverage, see page 1B.
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Sophomore center Cole Aldrich catches a full-court pass and gets a final shot up during the closing seconds of the game against Missouri. Aldrich missed the shot and the Jayhawks fell to the Tigers 62-60.
OBITUARY
Students grieve for car crash victim
BY LAUREN HENDRICK
lhendrick@kansan.com
Dimitri Mavridorakis, a graduate student in the School of Business, died Saturday when he was struck by car on the shoulder of Shawnee Mission Parkway in Merriam. He was 23 years old.
Mavridorakis was found on Shawnee Mission Parkway at 3 a.m. and pronounced dead at
Mavridorakis
Mavridorakis
the scene.
He was pushing a disabled vehicle when he was hit by an alleged drunk driver.
Mavri dorakis was
Dee Steinle, administrative director of the business master's program and academic adviser, said Mavridorakis was a special student to the program.
"He was one of those people you wanted to know," she said.
Mavridorakis was one of 80 students in the master's program in the School of Business. Steinle said he brought a unique European perspective to the school.
ROTC
"He was a brilliant student and very dynamic in the classroom" she said. "My heart breaks for his parents."
James Lemieux, assistant professor of business, said he had helped Mavridorakis complete his job applications in recent weeks. Mavridorakis had aspirations to work for Apple.
SEE OBITUARY ON PAGE 3A
Student's dream of military service also boasts practicality
BY RACHEL BURCHFIELD
rburchfield@kansan.com
As children, many people dreamed of what they wanted to be when they grew up: an astronaut, a firefighter, a ballerina or a teacher. Josh Thomas' dream for as long as he could remember was to fly jets.
But unlike most people, whose fanciful childhood dreams eventually give way to stark adult realities, Thomas said he was working every day to ensure his lifelong dream came true.
Thomas, Lexington Park, Md., senior, will graduate and pursue a career in the military. It is in his blood — his father was a flight engineer in the Navy and his grandfather, uncle and aunt have made the Navy a family profession.
Thomas said that when he ventured from Maryland to Kansas to study at the University, he wanted to carry on the family tradition.
Today, in light of a struggling economy and growing unemployment rates, more Americans are opting to take the oath and pursue a career in military service.
By the end of his freshman year, after talking with a pilot in the Marines, Thomas's plans changed slightly — he knew he wanted to be a Marine.
According to a Jan. 27 broadcast on National Public Radio, for the first time since 2006, the military is meeting or exceeding
"You know, everyone has their own calling to the military or whatever career they decide to follow," Thomas said. "The military, regardless of the branch, has something about it that is a little more intimidating than most jobs where you can just throw down the towel and say, 'I quit.'
its recruitment goals. Thomas said he put a lot of thought into the decision.
"It's called commitment. When you join, that's it — you're in it for at least four years. Needless to say, it takes some thinking about before you raise your right hand and swear an oath."
Maj. Ted Culbertson, Army ROTC officer and Kansas Army National Guard liaison, said there
were several reasons for the Army's recruiting boom. He said a college graduate entering the Army as a Second Lieutenant could expect to make roughly $43,000 as a base salary.
Lt. Juri Groenland, Navy ROTC adjunct instructor and aviation advisor, said a college graduate with no prior service would earn approximately $31,000 per year, but said the benefits to service were not just monetary.
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"The tangible benefits are a very solid career with a steady paycheck, excellent health care benefits and training," Groenland said. "The unspoken benefits vary from individual to individual — things like a
Josh Thomas, Lexington Park, Md., senior, looks forward to his deployment with the Marines. Thomas says he plans to serve for 20 years but must finish flight school before his first deployment. Thomas said of his flight training, "I always wanted to be an aviator now but being exposed to the Marine Corps, I've realized that there is a lot more to it than just individual goals."
SEE ROTC ON PAGE 3A
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THE UNIVERSITY OF JAHY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 8, 2009
KU
TIPOFF
ATA GLANCE
Missouri forward DeMarre Carroll told reporters Saturday that this game means more to him than the national championship. Yes, that's how gigantic tonight's Big Monday match up is. Missouri might have its best team in the last decade. By winning its first eight conference games, Kansas is off to its best start in the Big 12 in four years. And the two arch-rivals collide tonight at Mizzou Arena. The young Jayhawks have never experienced an environment like they will tonight. Are they ready for the challenge?
PLAYERTOWATCH
Sophomore center Cole Aldrich Kansas coach Bill Self practically begs his team to get the ball to Aldrich on every possession when
they're on the road. Tonight, it will be especially important. Aldrich is at least two inches taller than every player in the Tigers rotation. If he gets into
PETER HUGO
a rhythm, he could dominate. Aldrich is also coming off a marque performance against Oklahoma State where he scored 12 points with 18 rebounds. He'll need a couple blocked shots, too, against Missouri's vaunted frontcourt.
Will the Jayhawks be able to control their emotions?
QUESTION MARK
The Morris twins have taken part in a couple of skirmishes this year. Sherron Collins regularly jaws with opponents. The opportunities for situations like those to happen will be endless tonight. The Mizou Arena crowd won't only be hostile. It will be relentless. The Tigers will feed off of it and won't think twice about getting physical with the Jayhawks. Collins has to ignore it for the most part — and make sure his teammates do the same.
HEARYE, HEARYE
"I love DeMarre Carroll. I just think he's so active and gives them something. He doesn't have to score to play great. He gives them kind of a personality, an identity. They're doing a great job."
Kansas coach Bill Self
"They don't care for us much and the feeling is very mutual."
—Kansas coach Bill Self
COUNTDOWN TO TIPOFF GAME DAY
BORDER SHOWDOWN
Jayhawks take on rival Tigers with almost mirroring records
KANSAS VS. MISSOURI 8 p.m., MIZZOU ARENA, Columbia, Mo., ESPN
KANSAS
(19-4) STARTERS
JOHN A. BOWMAN
Collins
Sherron Collins, 5-foot-11 junior guard
Sherron Collins, 5-foot-11 junior guard What's more important to tonight's game: Collins' playing ability or Collins' leadership ability? Both are equal.
★★★★
PETER BECKMAN
Tyshawn Taylor, 6-foot-3 freshman guard
Taylor
Taylor had one of his most consistent games against Oklahoma State with 12 points, four assists and two steals. The Jayhawks need an encore.
★★★☆☆
M. SELENIYA
Brady Morningstar, 6-foot-3 sophomore guard
Morningstar
Bill Self calls Morningstar the Jayhawks "anchor"
In other words, they need him on the floor.
Expect him to play at least 35 minutes tonight.
★★★☆☆
Marcus Morris, 6-foot-8 freshman forward
Marcus played his best game of the year the last time Kansas went on the road — scoring 13 points with six rebounds against Baylor.
Cole Aldrich, 6-foot-11 sophomore e center
Put simply. He's the key to the game. If Aldrich can score more than 20 points with about 12 rebounds, Kansas' chances at victory improve exponentially.
★★★☆☆
Tiller
TUCKER
Morris
Taylor
★★★☆☆
MISSOURI (20-4) STARTERS
Aldrich
Tiller would follow Missouri coach Mike Anderson anywhere he may roam. Tiller committed to UAB out of high school, and then followed Anderson when he moved from Birmingham to Columbia.
★★★★
J.T. Tiller, 6-foot-3 junior guard
Zare Taylor, 6-1004+ junior guard
Taylor is good at everything but great at
nothing. He plays more than 25 minutes
per game and pours just a little into almost
every statistical category.
Zaire Taylor, 6-foot-4 junior guard
PETER SANDERS
★★★★
SIXTH MAN
Kim English, 6-foot-6 freshman guard English was immersed in an ugly shooting slump until he snapped it at Iowa State on Saturday. Against the Cyclones, English drilled four-of-five behind the three-point line and finished with 16 points.
★★★☆☆
English
Last year's Big 12 Newcomer of the Year would be a front-runner for Player of the Year if Oklahoma's Blake Griffin wasn't around. Carroll is very versatile and he's a threat to score 30 points every night.
Kim English, 6-foot-6 freshman guard
Mario Little, 6-foot-5 Junior guard Even if he doesn't start. Little will probably get starters' minutes. The way he can hit
DeMarre Carroll, 6-foot-8 senior forward
THE EAGLE
★★★★★
Little
Carroll
the way he can hit shots from anywhere on the floor could drive the Tigers crazy.
Leo Lyons. 6-foot-9 senior forward
Lyons is the perfect sidekick to Carroll. He possesses similar offensive talent and picks up the scoring load anytime Carroll struggles.
Lyons
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SIXTH MAN
Case Keefer
Sherron Collins
Marcus Denmon, 6-foot-3
Denman is a great guy off the bench late in games. He's Missouri's top free-throw shooter at 82 percent.
★★★☆☆
Denmon
Taylor Bern
MU
TIPOFF
AT A GLANCE
Though its slipped up a couple of times on the road, Missouri is one of the most dangerous teams in the Big 12. Since getting blown out in Manhattan the Tigers have won three in a row. That includes two decisive victories over Baylor and Iowa State, as well as a 69-65 win at then No. 16 Texas, Coach Mike Anderson's club is undefeated at Mizzou Arena. In fact, the Tigers average margin of victory at home this season is 28.5.
PLAYER TO WATCH
Senior forward DeMarre Carroll Kansas coach Bill Self said he's a "big fan" of Carroll. Self may appreciate the senior game, but that means he also has every
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reason to fear him Carroll is averaging 18.1 points in conference play, the third most in the league. In the same time he's hitting 58 percent of his
Carroll
shots and grabbing 7.8 rebounds per game. That makes him the second-most efficient Big 12 player, right behind Oklahoma's Blake Griffin.
Can Kansas keep Missouri under 80 points?
QUESTION MARK
TheTigers average a league-best 8.42 points per game and they've scored more than 90 points in seven of their 14 home games. A lot of those points come on easy baskets because Missouri also leads the Big 12 in turnover margin (+6.58).
It's not easy to slow down the Tigers but that's the only way to beat them. What's the best way to accomplish that? Constantly switch up defenses. Kansas can't let DeMarre Carroll get comfortable offensively.
HEARYE, HEARYE
"Oh my God! People thought they saw something when Baylor was there. This means more than the national championship to us." — Missouri forward Leony Lions to the Kansas
Missouri forward Leo Lyons to the Kansas City Star on the Border Showdown
"The team is still growing and leaning. As they grow and learn, they get confident. You win, you get confidence." --Missouri coach Mike Anderson to the Kansas
Missouri coach Mike Anderson to the Kansas City Star
BIG 12 SCHEDULE
Time (CT) Channel
Game Time (CT) Channel.
Tuesday
Iowa State vs. Kansas State 7 p.m. FSN
Wednesday
Texas A&M vs. Oklahoma 8 p.m. Big 12 Net.
Texas Tech vs. Oklahoma State 8 p.m. ESPNU
Nebraska vs. Colorado 8:30 p.m. FSN
Missouri vs. Texas 8:30 p.m. ESPN2
BIG 12 CONFERENCE
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
MIZZOU ARENA WILL BE SILENT IF ...
PHOG ALLEN WILL ROLL OVER IN HIS GRAVE IF ...
Sherron Collins shines. Collins has put together a fantastic year. One of the best in the nation, actually, as proven by the Wooden Award's decision to list him as one of the top 30 candidates for the award given to the nation's most valuable player. But he hasn't played in a game like this yet this season. If Collins thrives, Kansas should escape with a victory.
Missouri gives Kansas 40 minutes of hell. That's the name of the full-court pressure defense Missouri coach Mike Anderson runs. Kansas has dealt with it well in the past, as Anderson has never beaten it since taking over as Missouri's coach. The Jayhawks can't commit mindless turnovers and expect to stay undefeated in the Big 12 at Mizzou Arena.
Prediction KANSAS 76, MISSOURI 74
Date Opponent TV Time
Feb. 9 at Missouri ESPN 8 p.m.
Feb. 14 at Kansas State ABC 2:30 p.m.
Feb. 18 IOWA STATE Big 12 Network 7 p.m.
Feb. 21 NEBRASKA Big 12 Network 3 p.m.
Feb. 23 at Oklahoma ESPN 8 p.m.
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CRIME
Student charged with felonies released
District attorney's office says Basoflas could be charged with more counts of animal cruelty
BY ALEXANDRA GARRY agarry@kansan.com
A KU student charged with two counts of felony animal cruelty was released on bond from the Douglas County jail on Monday afternoon as Lawrence police officers continued to investigate an alleged pattern of abusive behavior from the
suspect in the case.
Cern Basoflas, identified on a Web site about him as an Istanbul, Turkey, sophomore, was released about 3 p.m. The release came with the stipulations that he have no contact with or possession of any animal and that he surrender his passport, as set by Pro Tem Judge James George at Basoflas'
first appearance hearing on Friday.
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apartment in the 2100 block of Heatherwood Drive, Sgt. Bill Cory, Lawrence Police public information officer, said Thursday.
Friday that the state intended to prove "extreme violence" against multiple animals.
A representative of the District Attorney's office said Monday that more charges might be filed as the investigation continued. David Melton, the assistant district attorney prosecuting the case, said on
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Turnovers 27 of them doomed the Jayhawks, who had led by as many as 14 points in the second half against the Tigers but gave up a 9-0 run in the game's final minutes. For full game coverage, see page 1B.
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Sophomore center Cole Aldrich catches a full-court pass and gets a final shot up during the closing seconds of the game against Missouri. Aldrich missed the shot and the Jayhawks fell to the Tigers 62-60.
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Students grieve for car crash victim
BY LAUREN HENDRICK
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Dimitri Mavridorakis, a graduate student in the School of Business, died Saturday when he was struck by car on the shoulder of Shawnee Mission Parkway in Merriam. He was 23 years old.
Mavridorakis was found on Shawnee Mission Parkway at 3 a.m. and pronounced dead at
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He was pushing a disabled vehicle when he was hit by an alleged drunk driver.
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from St. Etienne, France, and had been studying at the University since August 2008. He was working toward earning his master's in business with an interest in marketing.
Dee Steinle, administrative director of the business master's program and academic adviser, said Mavridorakis was a special student to the program.
"He was one of those people you wanted to know," she said.
"He was a brilliant student and very dynamic in the classroom," she said. "My heart breaks for his parents."
James Lemieux, assistant professor of business, said he had helped Mavridorakis complete his job applications in recent weeks. Mavridorakis had aspirations to work for Apple,
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Student's dream of military service also boasts practicality
BY RACHEL BURCHFIELD
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As children, many people dreamed of what they wanted to be when they grew up; an astronaut, a firefighter, a ballerina or a teacher. Josh Thomas' dream for as long as he could remember was to fly jets.
But unlike most people, whose fanciful childhood dreams eventually give way to stark adult realities, Thomas said he was working every day to ensure his lifelong dream came true.
Thomas, Lexington Park, Md., senior, will graduate and pursue a career in the military. It is in his blood — his father was a flight engineer in the Navy and his grandfather, uncle and aunt have made the Navy a family profession.
By the end of his freshman year, after talking with a pilot in the Marines, 'Thomas' plans changed slightly — he knew he wanted to be a Marine.
Thomas said that when he ventured from Maryland to Kansas to study at the University, he wanted to carry on the family tradition.
According to a Jan. 27 broadcast on National Public Radio, for the first time since 2006, the military is meeting or exceeding
Today, in light of a struggling economy and growing unemployment rates, more Americans are opting to take the oath and pursue a career in military service.
"You know, everyone has their own calling to the military or whatever career they decide to follow," Thomas said. "The military, regardless of the branch, has something about it that is a little more intimidating than most jobs where you can just throw down the towel and say, 'I quit.'"
"It's called commitment. When you join, that's it — you're in it for at least four years. Needless to say, it takes some thinking about before you raise your right hand and swear an oath."
its recruitment goals. Thomas said he put a lot of thought into the decision.
Maj. Ted Culbertson, Army ROTC officer and Kansas Army National Guard liaison, said there
were several reasons for the Army's recruiting boom. He said a college graduate entering the Army as a Second Lieutenant could expect to make roughly $43,000 as a base salary.
Lt. Juri Groenland, Navy ROTC adjunct instructor and aviation advisor, said a college graduate with no prior service would earn approximately $31,000 per year, but said the benefits to service were not just monetary.
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Josh Thomas, Lexington Park, Md., senior, looks forward to his deployment with the Marines. Thomas says he plans to serve for 20 years but must finish flight school before his first deployment. Thomas said of his flight training, "I always wanted to be an aviator but now being exposed to the Marine Corps, I've realized that there is a lot more to it than just individual goals."
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The blast occurred as U.S. vehicles were passing near an Iraqi police checkpoint in Mosul, Iraq's third largest city and the last major urban battleground in the war against al-Qaida and other Sunni insurgents.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — A suspected Tamil Tiger rebel who pretended to be a war refugee blew herself up Monday as Sri Lankan soldiers frisked her at a checkpoint. Twenty troops and eight civilians died.
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Adkisson was scheduled to stand trial next month in the July 2008 rampage at the Tennessee Valley United Unitarian Church, but decided to enter a plea deal that virtually guarantees he will never leave prison alive.
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Every Thursday afternoon, room 208 in Murphy Hall is filled with student actors and their directors — first graders from elementary schools in Lawrence. Rachael Beaumont doesn't mind playing the dog. In fact, she was also directing big college kids when she was in the first grade.
"Children and Drama" is a class offered to elementary school children for free. The class explores elementary-age children's potential in dramatic arts. Students and children work in groups to perform a given story each class period. It is taught by Jeanne Klein, associate professor of theater and film, with help from KU theater or education major students enrolled in the class. Beaumont, Lawrence junior, helps teach the class.
Beaumont said she still vividly remembered her days as one of the little kids in the class. She did a newscast wearing a bathrobe and big rubber gloves, and talked about the president.
Beaumont also appeared in a Men's Warehouse commercial, which encouraged her to continue studying drama. She participated in the class every semester until the sixth grade.
"I didn't feel restrained. There was no director or stage manager that would tell you where to move, or how to move. It's about expressing your creativity."
"Taking this class, I'm just inspired again," Beaumont said.
After six years of drama classes at the University, Beaumont decided to let her passion for drama thrive. She became involved in more drama-related activities in junior and senior high. Now as a theater and film major at the University, Beaumont is taking the same class again, but as a big kid who helps children perform their own interpretation of the story.
"Rachael is an example," said Klein, who has been teaching the class for 20 years. "We think kids are creative, but you might be as imaginative as those children."
Through interacting with the children, Beaumont said the energy and creativity that came out of the children affected everyone in the class.
"I'm supposed to observe them, but I feel being sucked back to the first grader" Beaumont said. "I'm amazed at how much creativity can come of a child."
Beaumont plans on participating in Teach for America or teaching children's drama classes after she graduates.
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The apartment of Cem Basoflas, Istanbul, Turkey, sophomore, is located at 23rd and Kasold streets. Basoflas was absent from his apartment from Wednesday until Monday, when he was released from jail on bond.
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The cat is now living at the Lawrence Veterinary Hospital, Geisler said.
veterinary Hospital, as a witness. Geisler said the August police report was filed after Basfosla brought a cat into the hospital. Geisler said veterinary technicians found that the cat had nine fractured ribs and a fractured sternum and was struggling to breathe because of a punctured lung. Geisler described the incident as the worst case of animal cruelty she had ever seen.
Midge Grinstead, director of the Lawrence Humane Society, said the humane society had investigated Basoflas before the August incident but did not have enough evidence to bring its suspicions of abuse to the police.
Aaron Weatherby, an upstairs neighbor to the apartment at which police arrested Basoflas, said he had noticed a foul odor in the apartment building for about six months. Weatherby said the smell was "like a dead rat."
Grinstead said the humane society was involved in the current investigation and thought Basoflas had exhibited a pattern of abusive behavior.
Grinstead said she thought Basoflas obtained the animal or animals involved in the alleged cruelty incidents through Web sites such as Craigslist and Larryville.com.
Another neighbor, Anthony Fowler, said he never noticed an odor. Fowler said that he had heard a dog barking from Basoflas' apartment Tuesday night and that he knocked on Basoflas' door but there was no answer. Fowler said he thought Basoflas had owned the dog for only about a week before Wednesday's arrest.
A management representative of Pepperette Apartment Complex, near 23rd and Kasold streets, where Basfolas lives, said there had been no complaints concerning Basfolas
before his arrest. The management also said it had a rigorous screening process for residents that included criminal background checks.
Basoflas has been registered as a student at the University since January 2008 and was listed as having the intention to major in physics. He was registered as a student at Fort Hays State University from August 2006 to December 2007.
While at Fort Hays, Basoflas was involved with the Model United Nations Club. Jason Weaver, the president of the club at the time, said Basoflas was eager to contribute to the club's research and was always studious and friendly.
The club was assigned Turkey as its country of focus in competition during the time Basoflas was involved, and Weaver said Basoflas contributed positively to the group's activity by sharing his perspective as a Turkish national on cultural and political issues.
"He was really cool when I got to know him." Weaver said.
Weaver said the only other interest he knew Basoflas had was in computers.
Weaver and Basoflas, said Basoflas was eager to learn and to help the group. Linton said she was surprised by the allegations because she didn't think the alleged incident fit Basoflas "sweet demeanor"
Jade Linton, another Fort Hays
student involved in Model UN with
Linton said that Basfolas seemed upset and apologetic about leaving Hays for Lawrence at the final Model UN meeting, but that the level of his distress seemed slightly off with the actual relationship between the club's members.
"He was very sad about leaving and very 'we can still be friends' about leaving, but I didn't really know why — the club wasn't very tight-knit," Linton said.
Some of Basoflas' neighbors at Peppertree said they did not see Basoflas often and that when they did, he kept to himself, talking only on occasion.
Police officers are still investigating and have not yet released any details about evidence involved in the case beyond that the second charge involved one dog, which is now dead.
Basoflas' next court appearance is set for 2 p.m., Feb. 24.
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Athletics Director's speech part of week dedicated to integrity
BY MICHELLE SPREHE msprehe@kansan.com
This week the National Society of Collegiate Scholars is spreading a message of integrity on campus.
To help the cause, the group invited Athletics Director Lew Perkins to speak on integrity at 7 p.m. today in Alderson Auditorium at the Kansas Union.
"We decided on someone from the Athletics Department because how big that is at our school." Matt Hudson, Humboldt senior and social chair of NSCS's KU chapter said. "Not only would students like to hear from him, but held have some good things to say about integrity."
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Nathan Blaine, Haysville sophomore, said he was thinking about being an athletics director after graduating and said he planned to attend Perkins' speech to listen to his experiences and insight.
"When you're in the limelight, you have to show a lot of integrity," Blaine said. "You have to show integrity in everything you do to get where you want to go in life in an honest way."
Signing the banner helps raise awareness of the importance of having integrity, Rachel Weihe, Shawnee senior and president of NSCCe said.
This is the first year NSCS has dedicated an entire week to focusing on integrity. In the past, the society has only spent a day on integrity.
"Every chapter is encouraged to have events to promote not only academic integrity, but personal integrity," Hudson said.
In addition to Perkins' speech, NSCS members stood on Wescoe Beach Monday morning to promote integrity week. Students were encouraged to ask questions about integrity.
"The idea of integrity is kind of cloudy," Hudson said. "Stopping by to talk about it is a good way to clear it up."
Approximately 75 students on Monday signed the integrity banner, which was given to the chapter by the national office.
"It's to remind people that it's something that needs to be in the back of their minds." Weihe said.
Last year, NSCS had about 400
Frances Lyons, chapter adviser for the National Society of Collegiate Scholars KU Chapter, signs an integrity banner Monday morning at Wescoe. Members of NSCS ask students to sign their banner to help promote integrity week. The banner will be available to sign again on Thursday from noon to 4 p.m. on Wescoe Beach.
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q&a with Lew Perkins
What major points are you going to talk about?
Perkins: Integrity is about being honest and doing the right thing - personally and professionally. I'll share some personal
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you or aren't you a good source to talk to about integrity? Perkins: Anyone who has as many years of experience as I do has some good stories to share.
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What or who has influenced your integrity? Perkins: My parents and my coaches have been my best teachers. I've learned much by their examples over the years.
How do you think integrity can apply to not only athletics, but academics and beyond? Perkins: You're only as good as your word — and that's whether you are in school or in the workplace. Decisions our students make now will follow them through academics and athletics as well as into the workplace.
signatures on the banner. Though signatures are collected all semester, most of them are signed during integrity week. The banner will be
Perkins: Every decision – whether big or small, matters. Follow-through and honesty are essential to success in life.
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What do you hope students learn from your speech?
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"He was quite a jovial and witty guy, cracking jokes and making puns whenever he found an opportunity," Lemieux said. "I know the other students liked him a lot."
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she had with Mavridorakis. She said their carpools were never short of enjoyable and Mavridorakis was warm and free-spirited.
Mavridorakis' college in France released this statement:
"He had a great charisma," she said. "It's tragic someone died because someone was reckless."
Mavridorakis' family is expected in Kansas later this week and services are being arranged.
"Dimitri was an MBA student selected for a scholarship to participate in the exchange
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program between the KU School of Business and the Groupe ESC Clermont in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Dozens of students from Kansas and France have participated in this program, which has a 60-year history."
sense of purpose, honor, duty and patriotism."
Thomas said he thought an unspoken benefit would be the ability to see the bigger picture.
He said he used to just think about his personal goals as an aviator.
able to sit back and think, 'You did it right,' Thomas said. "I really hope that I will be able to make a positive influence on many people's lives."
But, since joining the ROTC, he had become more unselfish and more willing to serve the Marines to the best of his ability.
"When I retire, I want to be
Megan Hill, associate director of the University Career Center, said she would encourage students researching the military to speak with those who have previously served.
Thomas said pursuing his lifelong dream would not be easy.
He said the thought of going
into combat made him nervous and that he worried how long deployments could affect his marriage and family life down the road.
"The military is not for everyone, but that's what makes it so unique," Thomas said. "We get the very best — serving our country and protecting the rights that we have been so fortunate enough to have."
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LOS ANGELES — Chris Brown's ad campaign with Wrigley was suspended Monday until his criminal case is resolved, and reports surfaced that pop superstar Rihanna, his longtime girlfriend and a fellow no-show at the Grammy Awards, was the woman who accused him of assault.
The Los Angeles Times, citing law enforcement officials familiar with the case and other sources it did not name, reported that Rihanna, whose full name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty, was the woman who told them that Pam.
A police statement released Sunday afternoon said Brown and an unidentified woman began arguing while riding in a car following a pre-Grammy party where they were spotted together Saturday night.
had hurt her the night before the Grammy Awards.
The fight escalated when they got out of the car in the ritzy Hancock Park neighborhood, the
The report indicated that the woman was injured, but Brown was booked only on suspicion of making a criminal threat, a felony, after walking into a police station Sunday night.
report said, and Brown was gone by the time officers arrived.
Authorities said the district attorney could choose to expand the charges.
A district attorney spokeswoman said police had not yet presented a case against Brown. Brown was released after posting $50,000 bail.
Los Angeles Police Chief
les Police Chief William Bratton said he expects detectives to present their case to prosecutors in the next day or so.
He added Brown received no special considerations before his arrest or when he was booked.
"We dealt with him like we deal with"
Brown was released after posting $50,000 bail. Both he and Rihanna had backed out of their scheduled performances at the Grammy Awards, where producers scrambled to fill their slots.
everybody else," Bratton said.
The Los Angeles Police Department would not confirm the reports, citing state laws that protect the identity of abuse victims.
Several celebrity Web sites such as TMZ.com, Radaronline.com, Us Weekly and People, citing sources neither named nor characterized, also reported that Rihanna was the woman involved.
Rihanna's publicist declined to say why the singer did not appear.
Brown
night with Brown's attorney, Mark Geragos, were not returned Monday.
Wrigley said in a statement Monday that it was suspending its ad campaigns featuring Chris Brown as its spokesman for Doublemint gum until the situation was resolved. Wrigley stopped short, however, of saying they would drop the troubled R&B star completely.
A company statement expresses concern about "serious allegations made against Chris Brown," but added that the 19-year-old should be "afforded the same due process as any citizen."
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and Brown representatives also refused to discuss the allegations or his arrest.
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More research is required. But where should you start? Begin by asking your partner what he or she would do. No need to reinvent the wheel. Build on somebody's experience.
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Again, you must be cautioned not to blab your business secrets to those who don't need to know. That applies to just about everybody, actually. Don't ruin the surprise.
As the pressure eases, find somebody who understands you, or tries to, anyway. A snuggle cup of tea and a reaffirming chat should be part of your relaxation ritual.
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Today is a 7
Getting paid in promises is nice, and you can even do it sometimes. Get the terms all down in writing, of course, and yes, one other thing. Only do it with folks you can trust.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 7
There's a good opportunity nearby. Let your network know what you want. Odds are good you can find someone who has it to trade or sell cheap. Commerce is alive and well.
Look around. There's a way out you didn't notice before. It's near a place you've already used, and that should help a lot. For starters, it'll help you find it.
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Listen in on a conversation between experts. These folks understand the situation on a highly detailed level. You see what has to be done; they see how to make it happen.
MOVIES Disney, Dreamworks reach long-term deal
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 7
BURBANK, Calif. — The Walt Disney Co's motion picture arm said Monday it had agreed to a long-term exclusive distribution deal with Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks SKG movie studio after a similar agreement between DreamWorks and Universal Pictures fell apart last week.
Walt Disney Studios said it would handle distribution and marketing for six live action DreamWorks films a year under its Touchstone Pictures brand beginning in 2010. The company did not disclose financial details of the agreement.
Associated Press
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LOS ANGELES — Movie fans were into "He's Just Not That Into You" as the ensemble romance got a jump on Valentine's Day to lead the weekend box office with a $27.5 million debut, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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The movie, whose cast includes Jennifer Aniston, Scarlett Johansson, Ben Affleck, Drew Barrymore and Jennifer Connellly, knocked off the previous weekend's top flick, the abduction thriller "Taken" which dropped to second place with $20.3 million.
With Valentine's Day falling in the middle of next weekend, the movie released by the Warner Bros. banner New Line Cinema is positioned for another solid showing, said Dan Fellman, head of distribution for Warner Bros.
"The biggest bump you can ever get for a romantic comedy is when Valentine's Day falls on a Saturday" Fellman said. "We'll see the girls, female power, drag the guys back in next Saturday"
"Taken" distributed by 20th Century Fox, raised its 10-day total to $53.4 million, its second-weekend gross dropping just 18 percent from its debut. Top films often can drop 50 percent or more in their second weekend.
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Focus Features' "Coraline" opened at No. 3 with $16.3 million.
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The high pressure zone has come in and there is climate change and I like it.
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I hate Western Civilization, but I'm forced to say stupid things because participation is 25 percent of my grade.
I may be a "GDI," but at least my tires are still intact!
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Stop having band practice at midnight
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I ain't got nothin' but lovin' eight days a week.
Just had the best Facechat sex ever.
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I think I keep getting blocked and unblocked. My friends keep changing but I am not adding or unfriending. Ha.
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I un-friend people all the time; I even deny the people I know. It's not like we talk anyway. Why would I be your friend?
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EDITORIAL BOARD
Proposed beer law would harm local liquor stores
Jerry Wang/KANSAN
The Kansas legislature will be voting on a new law this month that would allow gas stations and supermarkets to sell regular beer, as opposed to the "cereal malt beverages" that they are now permitted to sell - beer with 3.2 percent alcohol by weight.
This change will do more harm than good, disadvantaging small, locally owned liquor stores while benefiting the large chains that operate most gas stations and grocery stores.
Michael Myers, the owner of Mom & Pop's Liquor, 19th and Massachusetts, said that the passage of such a law would have a hugely detrimental impact on small, locally owned liquor stores such as his own and could potentially force many of them out of business. He said that under current state law, liquor stores were not permitted to sell mixers, cups, cigarettes — literally nothing but beverages containing alcohol. Gas stations and supermarkets, with their wide selection of complementary products, would be given a markedly unfair advantage.
Specifically, the new law would increase the amount of alcohol
markets to sell beer with the same alcohol percentage by volume as liquor stores, and beer companies would no longer have to produce two separate products.
Yet this reclassification could have unforeseen consequences. Marci Francisco, 2nd District State Sen., argued that changing the current definition of a cereal malt beverage would most likely lead small, local liquor stores across the state
technically "non-intoxicating." If the case were to reach the Kansas Supreme Court, there is a high likelihood that the justices would determine cereal malt beverages were indeed intoxicating, which is quite obviously the case. The resulting elimination of the current classification would decrease the
— in an attempt to preserve their market share — to legally challenge this new definition of cereal malt beverages, which would still be
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likelihood that the state would once again allow 18- to 21-year-olds to consume 3.2 beer. This classification for cereal malt beverages was concocted in the 1930s to circumvent Prohibition, which persisted in Kansas until 1948. Beer with slightly lower levels of alcohol was deemed to be non-intoxicating and therefore exempted from the ban. And before 1985, Kansas permitted 18- to 21-year-olds to legally consume cereal malt beverages, but prohibited their consumption of other types of alcohol. It was only in 1985, after the federal government threatened to withhold highway matching funds, that the state raised the legal drinking age to 21. Under current Kansas law,
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however, the age of consumption for cereal malt beverages would automatically return to 18 if the provisions penalizing states were rescinded.
Despite the potential benefits of slightly more intoxicating beer and a better alcohol selection at gas stations and supermarkets, this law should not be passed. It would disadvantage privately owned liquor stores and put in peril the future of many Kansas small businesses, as well as the chance, although slim, that 18 or 19-year-olds would once again be permitted to drink cereal malt beverages.
— Dan Thompson for The Kansan Editorial Board
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"The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" opens at the Lied Center on Thursday. Tickets are available on the Lied Center's Web site
A simple movement of dance, a line from a play, the swirl of colors and shapes with the power to evoke a range of emotions: This is art, and you might be missing it.
Art is often viewed as separate from academics and is hardly held to the same standard as other areas of study. Elementary schools often emphasize mathematics or science, and the realm of creativity is usually at the bottom of the agenda. Young students attend music lessons every other day and draw only when other assignments have been completed. Knowledge seems to be valued over creativity, when in fact creativity stimulates and encompasses knowledge.
The world of art, whether the lyrics to a song or the characters of a play, helps connect people with each other and express human emotion. Music, dance, theater and sculpture all present beauty in abstract ways and enable the mind to grow. Art is important to human development and enables people to experience different aspects of life. Engaging in and supporting the arts should be a priority for KU students.
The Lied Center presents high-quality performances from groups and companies across the country, as well as shows from the University and well-known speakers. Students often receive discounts on tickets to some of the best events in Kansas. For example, on Thursday, the Tony Award-winning musical "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" will come to the Lied Center. General admission is $40 to $49, but KU students can attend for only $20 to $25.
Students have several resources available to immerse themselves in art. Not only is the city of Lawrence a well-known supporter of the arts, but we also have the University of Kansas. The Spencer Museum of Art is located on campus and is free to KU students. The Lied Center is also located on campus, and the University has
departments of art, design, music and dance.
The University of Kansas provides students with many opportunities for success. In addition to the resources the University offers to plan future careers, it also allows for the growth from child to adult. The years spent in college teach young adults how to become functional
Students have no reason not to support the arts, with great deals and close proximity to a wonderful facility.
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members of society. To become well-rounded and educated, students should use facilities, such as the Lied Center and other venues, to establish creativity in addition to knowledge. No one should graduate from college without at least an introduction to what the artistic world has to offer
Our University provides us with opportunities seldom seen at any other stage of life. Right now is the time to take advantage of these opportunities and grow to our full potential, not only to learn mathematics and history but also to expand into the world of art, and to gain knowledge and creativity.
Brown is a Wichita sophomore in journalism and political science.
POLITICS
Subsidies hurt Kansas farms, environment
Subsidies are a form of financial assistance
mational assistance designed to reduce the risks and costs of endeavors that would otherwise fail or suffer. They remain one of economists' preferred methods for correcting the well-understood inefficiencies of the market place. Problems do arise, however, when subsidies are driven by a powerful few with personal interests in mind. The Kansas farm is such a place, where we find this discriminator subsidization; and here we can see how this has led to the marginalization of the public and the environment.
According to information from the United States Department of Agriculture, 39 percent of Kansas farmers did not receive any of the $622 million in subsidies distributed in 2006.
Of those receiving subsidies, the top 10 percent collected 67 percent, yielding a yearly average of $31,745. That left a mere $931 yearly average for the bottom 80 percent of farmers.
The subsidy program has done more than simply shift money around. It creates an abundance of cheap calories. Farmers are encouraged to produce far more than the country can use, depressing prices, increasing subsidy payments, and leaving a surplus of commodities.
Farmers have eliminated the surplus food in wasteful ways. Cows no longer eat grass, but rather are fed corn, the top crop for federal assistance. In fact, according to the National Corn Growers Association, 80 percent of corn grown in the U.S. is consumed by domestic and overseas livestock, poultry, and fish. Only about 12 percent ends up in foods that are either consumed directly or indirectly. "Indirectly" includes such things as high fructose corn syrup.
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Actually, the farm subsidies do little to encourage the production of food that we actually eat. Farmers receiving subsidies are restricted from growing "specialty crops" — farm-bill language for fruits and vegetables.
The overproduction of cheap food — done mostly on monocrop farm factories kept afloat by fossil-fuel based fertilizers and pesticides — exacts a terrible cost on the environment and our health.
Writing for Time magazine, Michael Grunwald effectively summarized the subsidization as a "welfare program for the megafarms that use the most fuel, water and pesticides; emit the most greenhouse gases; grow the most fattening crops; hire the most illegals; and depopulate rural America."
It should not come as a surprise that such programs exist, when our culture of individualism encourages us to seek out what is best for ourselves (based on the assumption that this leads to what is best for the many). Instead of progress, we find ourselves in a system that affords all the comforts of socialism for the rich, while reserving rough and unforgiving capitalism for the rest of us.
In the subsidy program, the costs and risks of the few are subsidized by the many. Only the few are allowed to collect the profit in the good times, but all bear the costs in the bad.
Kenny is a Leavenworth senior in civil and environmental engineering.
days after the Super Bowl and national title game, respectively.) It seems pretty ironic that after one of the biggest shots in NCAA history, KU is not a part of ESPN's reflection on all the major sports champions.
Jayhawks absent from SportsCenter montage
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Something has been bothering me since the Jayhawks won another national title. Taking the title home again was a great feeling for all of Lawrence and every KU follower. However, I'm sure I'm not the only one who has noticed that for some reason the Hawks are nowhere to be found in the five-to-10 second clip that starts SportsCenter and many other shows on ESPN and ESPN2.
The clip opens with the Phillies, Steelers, Lady Vols, Boston Celtics, Florida Gators and Jimmie Johnson. Almost a year after its victory, the University of Kansas is not getting the recognition it deserves. (Pittsburgh and Florida were added the
I hate to bring MU into it, but anybody who watches ESPN regularly knows that there are a lot of MU graduates walking the halls.
People may call the complaint too picky, but any national exposure is great for the University of Kansas, and this exposure is deserved. I no longer live in Lawrence, but it would be great to see some sort of petition brought to ESPN
Rock Chalk Jayhawk!
Matt Cross is an alumnus from Lee's Summit, Mo.
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STATE
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2009
Governorship may open up
BY BETSY KUTCLIFF bcutcliff@kansan.com
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is rumored to be at the top of President Barack Obama's list of candidates for Health and Human Services Secretary. If chosen, Sebelius would head to Washington and leave the state in the hands of Lt. Gov. Mark Parkinson.
Sebelius
News about Sebelius' possibly
Cabellare
replacing Tom Daschle as the nominee for HHSSecretary began buzzing when she visited with Obama aide Valerie Jarrett on a routine trip to
Washington. While the governor's office in Topeka hasn't announced anything, the Associated Press reported that Sebelius was a top contender for the position. Bolstered by her strong ties with women's rights and eight years experience as Kansas insurance commissioner, AP said she would be Obama's second choice for the vacancy.
As of right now, the staff in the governor's office has no knowledge of possibly being given a new boss.
"As far as staff members are concerned, we work for the state as usual," Stacy Elmer, Topeka graduate student, said. Elmer works in Sebelius' office and said she could not comment on the possibility of Sebellus moving to Washington.
Should the move happen, David Gottlieb, professor of law and Parkinson's former instructor, said he had confidence Parkinson
would make a good governor.
"I think he's someone who's been very well-respected on both sides of the aisle his whole career," Gottlieb said.
Parkinson graduated from the University's School of Law in 1984 at the top of his class and moved on to private practice. His political career began when he was elected to the Kansas House of Representatives in 1990 and then to the Kansas Senate in 1992. He joined Governor Sebelius' ticket for office in 2006, and was recently appointed as Chairman of the Governor's Military Council, which advises any Kansas military actions ordered by the Department of Defense.
Burdett Loomis, professor of political science, said that the clear line of succession made transitions smooth, and that Parkinson would have no trouble functioning as governor. Loomis said Kansas citizens would probably
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not notice any sort of direct change if the shift in leadership occurred.
While Sebelius announced in early
December that she wasn't considering any cabinet positions and wanted to focus on Kansas' budget problems, Loomis said she would be an ideal candidate for HHS Secretary.
"She has been extraordinarily interested in health care, and has eight years as insurance commissioner under her belt." Loomis said.
Edited by Casey Miles
Stop Day may come to end
CAMPUS
Calendar Committee considers eliminating day off and adjusting breaks
BY BRIANNE PFANNENSTIEL bpfannenstiel@kansan.com
Stop Day may be on the chopping block as the University Calendar Committee proposes changes to the academic calendar. The University Senate Executive Committee is holding an open meeting at 3:30 p.m. today in the Provost Conference Room in Strong Hall to discuss possible changes.
The majority of proposed changes to the calendar are aimed at reducing the number of class days from 150 to 148. Stop Day would be eliminated to condense the academic year so classes could begin on a Monday instead of a Thursday.
"Things add up," said George Bittlingmayer, professor of business who sits on the calendar committee. "You have one day here and one day there, and then instead of starting class on a Monday you have to go back to the previous Thursday."
University Calendar Committee chairwoman Barbara Phipps said the committee was considering cutting Stop Day because it was no longer relevant. Stop Day began when finals started on a Wednesday and students were given Tuesday off to study.
"Administrators and faculty feel that it's not as necessary as it used to be," Phipps said. "Very few universities have a Stop Day. Most do what we're proposing."
While some professors agree that Stop Day is no longer necessary, others argue that having a day off can be beneficial for students.
"I actually favor having a longer break between classes and exams or even putting a break in the middle of exams," said Daniel J. Bernstein, professor of applied behavioral science and director of the Center for Teaching Excellence. "There's a lot of integration that needs to be done and I find that students are tired and not being reflective when they're rushed from one thing to another."
The calendar committee's proposal would eliminate Stop Day and continue classes through the Friday before finals week.
Stop Day would be replaced by a "15th Week Policy," which would prohibit professors from giving exams worth more than 10 percent of the course grade during the week before finals.
Papers and projects could still be due as long as they were assigned in writing before the eighth week of the term.
Robert C. Umholtz, who sits on the calendar committee, has been a professor of mechanical engineering for 56 years and said he always held a dead week before finals in which he didn't assign anything.
He said he thought the "15th Week Policy" was similar and would be enough to keep students happy without Stop Day.
Some students,however,think the policy won't do enough to lessen their workloads.
"Even if a professor isn't giving a test that we there can still
be a significant amount of coursework due that wouldn't allow students to utilize that time to study," said student body president Adam McGonigle. "It only gives students two days to prepare for five days of finals."
McGonigle sits on the University Senate Executive Committee, which will make the final decision about the calendar committee's proposal.
Phipps said the committee would discuss Stop Day as well as possible changes to fall break during its meeting today.
She said the committee had considered combining fall break with Thanksgiving break so students would have a full week off in November, but said the committee was divided on the issue.
The calendar committee plans the calendar several years in advance and any changes made would not go into effect until the Fall 2012 semester.
- Edited by Casey Miles
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The proposed calendar changes are intended to reduce the number of class days from 150 to 148. Classes would begin on Monday.
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judge denies lower bond for nurse connected with 59 drug overdose deaths
Associated Press
WICHITA — A judge refused Monday to lower the cash bond for a jailed nurse who, along with her husband, is accused of wrongfully prescribing drugs at a clinic linked to 59 drug overdose deaths.
But the Pain Relief Network, a patient advocacy group that supports Linda Schneider, said just minutes after the ruling that family and friends have come forward
with the money. Network president Siobhan Reynolds said Schneider, who has been jailed for more than a year while awaiting trial, could be released within days.
U. S. Magistrate Judge Donald Bostwick ruled Monday that nothing has happened to change his earlier finding that Schneider is a flight risk. He said the additional $100,000 cash bond — on top of a $325,000 unsecured bond and electronic monitoring — is necessary to ensure she appears in court and
to protect the community.
Schneider and her husband, Dr. Stephen Schneider, were arrested in December 2007. They are charged in a 34-count indictment with conspiracy, unlawful distribution of controlled substances, unlawful distribution of a controlled substance resulting in death, health care fraud, health care fraud resulting in death and illegal monetary transactions.
The doctor was released on an unsecured bond in April. But Linda
Schneider had been held without bond after Bostwick determined she had the desire and means to flee to Mexico.
Bostwick set bond last week because the trial has been delayed while prosecutors appeal another judge's ruling limiting the case.
While the indictment links the couple's Haysville clinic to 59 overdose deaths, U.S. District Judge Monti Belot has ordered prosecutors to limit the trial to just four deaths.
Bostwick said their appeal of that ruling will delay the trial for at least another year.
In refusing to reduce the bond, Bostwick noted Linda Schneider's prior conviction on a Social Security fraud case involving an illegal immigrant. He also pointed out that she has both a home and bank accounts in Mexico.
Since the hearing, prosecutors filed a request to modify the bond conditions to require a secured $325,000 for each of the defendants, citing inconsistent reports to the court and financial institutions about the value of their assets. They also now want the defendants to disclose how they spent money not seized by the government.
DISASTER
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Prosecutors contend the Schneiders either lied to the court about their assets or committed bank fraud by submitting false loan applications to various financial institutions indicating they didn't have mortgages on their homes in Kansas, Oklahoma and Mexico.
Aussie wildfire toll hits 173
BY TANALEE SMITH
Associated Press
WHITTLESEA, Australia — Disaster teams found charred bodies on roadside and in crashed cars — grim signs of the futile attempt to flee raging wildfires fed by 60-mph winds, record heat and drought that caught even fire-savvy Australians by surprise.
A Whitlessea, Australia, farm house was destroyed by wildfires Monday. The deadliest wildfires in Australia's history wiped out entire towns, officials discovered as they reached farther into the fire zone. The death toll stood at 173 Monday night.
The fires near Melbourne in southeastern Australia destroyed more than 750 homes, left 5,000 people homeless, and burned 1,100 square miles of land, the Victoria Country Fire Service said.
The death toll rose Tuesday to 173 in Australia's worst wildfire disaster.
a nation that endures deadly firestorms every few years. Officials said panic and the freight-train speed of the walls of flames probably accounted for the unusually
The scale of the disaster shocked
"I cannot fathom in my mind anything more hellish, firewise," said Jim Andrews, senior meteorologist at accuweather.com.
high death toll.
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Missouri's Laurence Bowers passes out of a trap from sophomore center Cole Aldrich and freshman forward Marcus Morris during the first half of Monday night's game. Bowers and Missouri escaped with a 62-60 victory.
Jayhawks let a victory in Columbia slip away in the final seconds
BY CASE KEEFER ckeefer@kansan.com
COLUMBIA, Mo. - No matter how imminent a Jayhawk victory appeared Monday night at Mizzou Arena, Kansas coach Bill Self always had a feeling it would end like this.
Missouri's 62-60 victory was far from a surprise to him. It wasn't that Self dreamed of fans clad in gold
and black rushing Norm Stewart Court or predicted Missouri guard Zaire Taylor's game-winning shot, but Kansas' turnovers certainly warned Self it might be coming.
Kansas committed 27 turnovers. Self blamed that for causing Kansas (19-5, 8-1) to drop its big Big 12 Conference game of the season.
"Obviously, that was a big deal." Self said.
"We did a pitiful job — pitiful
job — of handling any kind of pressure"
It was extra frustrating to the Jayhawks because of how well they followed the outline of winning a conference road game.
They took control early,leading by as many as 14 points in the first half. They weathered Missouri runs in the middle of the second half — Missouri went on two separate 8-0 runs without taking the
lead or tying the game.
Kansas lost in the details, the same ones Self stressed — turnovers and defense.
"We didn't play defense," junior guard Sherron Collins said. "There's not much else to say."
Still, Kansas led 58-51 with four minutes remaining after sophomore center Cole Aldrich made
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COMMENTARY
Same old bad feeling returns
BY RUSTIN DODD
dodd@kansan.com
COLUMBIA, Mo. We've seen this before. We've seen Missouri's
home floor spill over with kids in yellow T-shirts.
We've seen Kansas' players walk slowly off the floor, dazed in defeat.
And we've felt this before too.
We've felt that helpless feeling, that feeling of overwhelming numbness that accompanies a loss to your biggest rival.
It was all there on Monday night on the floor of Mizzou Arena. It all came out in a blur of scratches and sweat and those darn yellow T-shirts.
And Bill Self has felt this before too.
"It's one that we had in our grasp, and let slip away," Self said, minutes after Missouri handed Kansas a 62-60 punch to the gut.
Self was rather composed after this one. He'd watched his team cough up an 11-point lead in the final eight minutes of the second half, and you could tell the loss hurt.
Sometimes other teams make plays. And, of course, it hurts when you turn the ball over 27 times.
"We just didn't hold our composure," said Cole Aldrich, who finished with eight points and 15 rebounds.
Now you can add this game to the arrals. A memory that Missouri will relish, and a feeling that Kansas will try to forget.
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Thousands packed Mizzou
Arena to see if Kansas and
Missouri could resurrect a
buried basketball rivalry. To see
if the Tigers could make this
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Lack of low-post strength has Kansas struggling to score
GIPSOM 51 KANSAS 14 KU
Sophomore center Krysten Boogaard attempts to block a two-point shot from Kansas State's Marlies Gipson during a Jan. 24 game in Allen Fieldhouse.
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BY JAYSON JENKS
jjenks@kansan.com
Twenty minutes or so after watching her team struggle inside for the third consecutive game, coach Bonnie Henrickson revealed a small scrap — or maybe more appropriately a scrap heap — of Kansas' offensive game plan.
"We haven't had a low post presence in two weeks." Henrickson said. "None. We don't even run the stuff we used to run because we've struggled so much."
A slight overstatement? Maybe.
An alarming development?
Definitely.
In Kansas' three games before playing Missouri on Saturday, the Jayhawks received partial contributions from low post players. Freshman forward Aishah Sutherland scored 12 points against Colorado and sophomore center Krysten Boogaard scored eight points in the first half against Texas A&M.
But the root of the problem
is consistency. Sutherland and Boogaard, Kansas' best two inside options, have played impressively for portions of games. Then, for somewhat murky reasons, Boogaard and Sutherland seem to fade.
In Kansas' 67-58 loss at Nebraska on Jan. 21, Boogaard scored 12 points, while nearly posting double-digits in rebounds. Yet, Boogaard managed just six second-half points and four of those points came in the game's final minute.
("Boogaard) has to sit down, work around the rim and get a high-percentage shot," Henrickson said. "She has to play like a 6-5 kid and get in front of the rim."
Kansas led by one at halftime and, not coincidentally, struggled with any production on the offensive end in the second half.
Without a consistent ability to score inside, the Jayhawks have relied almost exclusively on settling for jump shots and one-on-one drives by guards. Those options, while effective at times, leave little
To heap much of the blame on the post players, though, is unfair. While Boogaard, Sutherland and sophomore forward Nicollette Smith often don't demand the ball, Kansas' guards haven't made the situation much easier.
Missouri outscored Kansas
Missouri's two top inside players, forwards Shakara Jones and Jessra Johnson, combined for 35 points, six rebounds and made 13 of 18 shot attempts.
At times, the Jayhawks pass inside when the post isn't in favorable scoring position or, as was the case at Missouri, they simply make an errant pass.
"We were making passes we didn't make all season, just making bonehead plays," McCray said. "We didn't play our game the whole night."
room for error.
"Right about now, we can't rely on our perimeter," junior forward Danielle McCray said. "We have to go inside. And that's something that we're lacking right now."
30-16 in the paint, almost scoring at will inside.
Indeed, the Jayhaws appeared physically outmanned by the Tigers
"We needed to get stops and here we are letting them get easy buckets," junior guard Sade Morris said. "We have to box out and get the rebound. We weren't doing that (Saturday)."
— a drastic and distinct change from Kansas' 75-58 handling of Missouri earlier in the season.
In that game, Boogaard scored nine points and grabbed 11 rebounds. Sure, those numbers aren't staggering, but because of guards' inabilities to get her the ball or Boogaard's inability to create openings, she didn't get many touches.
For the past four games, those same problems have persisted.
"We get nothing inside," Henrickson said. "Guards don't look, but we don't have a post that says 'throw me the ball.'"
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TRIVIA OF THE DAY
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 10,2009
Q: After Monday's loss, what is Missouri coach Mike Anderson's all-time record against Kansas?
A: 1-5. Before Monday, Anderson was winless in against the Jayhawks while coaching Missouri and UAB.
KU Athletics
FACT OF THE DAY
After Monday's loss, the Jayhawks are 166-94 all-time against the Tigers, winning 85 of 118 meetings in Lawrence, 63 of 116 meetings in Columbia, Mo., and 17 of 23 meetings in Kansas City. Mo.
Source: Kansas Basketball Media Guide
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"You read about how they're calling this the Missouri-Kansas Showdown. Showdown my ass! it's (expletive) war! They started the war! They sent that (expletive) (William) Quantrill over here! That (expletive) killed all the men, raped all the women, burned the town down!"
Don Fambrough, former Kansas football coach
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Through the Uprights:
Former
Jayhawk
Justin
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discusses
his Super
Bowl win
with the Steelers and offers a few words of advice for 200 football seniors.
The Full Monty: Sports columnist Stephen Montermayor managed to find something positive about the Pro Bowl. The FUL.MONTY
THIS WEEK IN KANSAS ATHLETICS
TODAY No events scheduled
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WEDNESDAY
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ISU Class/Tyson
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Ames, Iowa/
Fayetteville, Ark.
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Softball:
South Carolina, 10
a.m.
Orlando, Fla.
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Western ill., 11 a.m.
lowa City, lowa
Track & Field:
ISU Classic/Tyson
Invitational
Ames, Iowa/Fayetteville,
Ark.
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Men's basketball:
Kansas State, 2:30
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Softball:
Bradley, 4:30 p.m.
Orlando, Fla.
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St. Louis places infielder Kennedy on waiver wire
ST. LOUISE — The St. Louis Cardinals released Adam Kennedy on Monday, leaving the second base job up for grabs with just a week to go before spring training.
The team requested waivers on Kennedy that will expire Wednesday, when he'll become an unrestricted free agent. That means the Cardinals will assume the S4 million remaining on the last year of his three-year contract.
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COMMENTARY
Softball team's upsets impressive
Plus a look at the best of the Big 12 basketball coaches and top highlights from Sunday's Grammys
If the Kansas softball players thought last weekend's trip to the Kajikawa Classic in Tempe, Ariz., would grant them respite from brutal Kansas winter weather, they thought wrong.
Temperatures grazed the 70s in Lawrence while the Jayhawks endured a windy Saturday and rainy Sunday in the southwest.
The unfortunate and unexpected conditions must have motivated Kansas, as it defeated No. 7 Arizona and No.9 Northwestern
back contests.
The victory against Arizona, which came Friday evening, was Kansas first against a ranked
PARKER
Chapple
opponent in nearly two years. The Saturday afternoon defeat of Northwestern gave the Jayhawks their first back-to-back triumphs against ranked teams in almost three years.
Senior third baseman Val Chapple ignited the Kansas offense in the two contests, going
BY ASHER FUSCO
afusco@kansan.com
3-for 6 with a double, and senior Valerie George showed why she's considered the team's top pitcher.
George went the distance against Arizona, allowing one run in eight innings. The next day, she stepped in and pitched
two scoreless innings to seal the game against Northwestern. Kansas lost to UTEP and No. 11 Stanford over the weekend to leave the
Jayhawks at 2-2 overall, and 2-0 against Wildcats.
BIG 12 COACH OF THE MIDSEASON
George
Bad news: The Jayhawks won't face any Wildcats among their five opponents this weekend at the UCF Invite in Orlando, Fla.
In doing out midseason Big 12 basketball awards last week, we overlooked the coaches. And they're pretty important boys. So
better late than never, Bill Self takes the Big 12 Coach of the Midseason trophy.
Solf
ing into his relentless system and Kansas State has won five straight under Frank Martin to make the Big 12 North en vogue once more.
Oklahoma's Jeff Capel is pulling off a miracle considering the number of average players on his roster (it helps to have forward Blake Griffin, of course).
PETER KINNEDY
But compare Kansas near the
Anderson
beginning of the year to Kansas today and Self's skill is evident.
The layhawks grew out of their road-game nervousness to take games at Colorado, Iowa State, Nebraska and Baylor.
SERVICES
Martin
Kansas leads the Big 12 in offensive points per possession
and points allowed per possession, basketball's standout stats. Only Missouri and Oklahoma
- both veteran squads with at least two
1
Capel
— come close to Kansas. Bill Self knows how to coach.
TUESDAY
YOUTUBE SESH
Watching the Grammys even in small intervals can be taxing. Sunday's show entailed three-ish hours of performances
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by the Ionas Brothers, Kenny Chesney and Sugarland. (I didn't know Sugarland existed before last night; ignorance was bliss.) In case you didn't make it through those numbers, don't worry. The good stuff is on YouTube.
The best five minutes of the night was Radiohead performing its ambitious and off-kilter "15 Step" with the assistance of the University of Southern California marching band.
Another moment worth searching for is nine-months pregnant rapper M.I.A. providing backup vocals for Kanye West, Jay-Z, Lil Wayne and T.I. on "Swagga Like Us."
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SPORTS
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TRACK & FIELD
Despite struggles, team places in East Coast competition
BY JASON BAKER
jbaker@kansan.com
weekend."
Coach Stanley Redwine tries to find the good in any situation. Despite the majority of the Kansas track and field team struggling at the New Balance Invitational in New York City, he's proud of some of the performances and how they will help in the future.
"People are starting to perform better," Redwine said. "Week by week they're getting better, so we're looking forward to the next
During the two day trip, the team had some highlights in the distance races.
Sophomore
A m a n d a
Miller took
third place in
the women's
3,000-meter
run with
a time of
9 minutes.
KAILLIE
Miller
53. 31 seconds, Junior Bret Inglorm and senior Patrick McGwain also
placed 11th and 13th respectively in the men's one-mile run. Imgmrd finished with a time of 4:15.86, and McGowan finished in 4:15.90.
But things didn't go as hoped for senior Victoria Howard, who placed 22nd in the 200-meter dash and missed the cut for the finals for the second straight year.
"It wasn't a performance that I was happy about, but I could build off of it for the next meet and for conference," Howard said.
Howard was happy with her performance in the 4x400 relay, helping her team win its heat and place ninth overall. Howard ran as anchor with a time of 56.30 seconds for the
team. She was filling in for fellow senior S h a' r A y Butler who had to attend to family matters.
In the field events, junior
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Jordan Scott was not able to match his best jump of 5.50 meters (18
Howard
feet) and took second place with 5.30 meters (17 feet 4 inches) in the men's pole vault championship.
"It's dis-
appointing,
but you can't
always have a
good day," he said.
Scott said it was great that they invited French pole
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vaulter Renaud Lavillenite to compete at the event. Lavillenite took
Scott
first place jumping 5.70 meters (18 feet 8 inches).
Redwine said that this weekend was a learning experience.
"I think the athletes learned an awful lot and sometimes racing on the East Coast is a little bit more different than racing in the Midwest," he said. "They're a little bit more aggressive on the track and our athletes take what they learned and take it to the next meet and make themselves better."
- Edited by Susan Melgren
OLYMPICS
Report contains blistering critique of USA track & field
8
ASSOCIATED PRESS
They asked for a candid review of their problems and they got it
- 69 pages of unflattering details, uncomfortable advice and a laundry list of possible solutions for the U.S. track team.
A task force commissioned by USA Track and Field released its report Monday, lashing out at the American relay system, recommending streamlining Olympic trials and calling for a more stringent policy for dopers who want to be reinstated.
The report came in the wake of a disappointing showing at the Beijing Olympics. Americans led all countries with 23 track and field medals but their seven golds were the lowest total since the 1997 world championships.
The task force is called "Project 30," a nod to the goal of winning 30 medals at the 2012 London Olympics.
United States' Torri Edwards, right, and Lauryn Williams drop the baton during a relay race at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. A task force lashed out at the relay system, calling for across-the-board changes.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
"We're headed toward having single digits in the next few Olympics if we don't make the changes," said Carl Lewis, one of the nine members of the task force.
The panel decried an overall "lack of accountability, professionalism and cohesion" among staff, coaches and athletes. The group suggested athletes focus more on winning Olympic medals, acting like professionals and possibly creating a union, and less on things
such as appearance fees and access to TVs in the Olympic village.
To spearhead the changes, the task force called for the hiring of a general manager to oversee all aspects of USATE
Chief executive
Doug Logan said he would decide how to respond to the panels 10 key recommendations by the time of the next USATF board meeting in March.
"This report has and will produce a significant amount of discomfort and the change that comes with it will produce a significant amount of discomfort," Logan said.
"But it's the only way the institution can change and get better."
The task force covered the doping issue even though it wasn't asked to, saying it was the single most important issue in the sport.
It called for current anti-doping standards to be augmented by the USATF, saying cheaters should be reinstated only if they provide depositions under oath "detailed what went into their decision to cheat, how they obtained and used
"We're headed toward having single digits in the next few Olympics if we don't make the changes."
CARL LEWIS Member of task force
their drugs, and who contributed to their cheating."
The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency said it was pleased to see the task force take such a strong stance but noted that some of the recommendations now in the
anti-doping program.
"Of course, we look forward to assisting the USATF Task Force in developing specific programs that they believe will address and improve their unique sport issues," USADA spokeswoman Erin Hannan said.
Officials at the U.S. Olympic Committee applauded the report.
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MU 62, KU 60
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XII
KANSAS
TUESDAY,FEBRUARY 10,2009
30 30-60
MISSOURI
16 46-62
Points
JAYHAWK STAT LEADERS
POINTS
Tyshawn Taylor 11
Rebounds
Cole Aldrich
Cole Aldrich 15
Assists
ASSISTS
KANSAS (19-5; 8-1)
Sherron Collins 3
Player FG-FGA 3FG-3FGA Rebs A Pts
Marcus Morris 0-4 0-1 3 2 2
Cole Aldrich 3-8 0-0 15 0 8
Sherron Collins 4-13 0-4 4 3 9
Brady Morningstar 1-3 0-2 3 2 2
Tyshawn Taylor 5-6 0-0 3 2 11
Tyrel Reed 2-7 2-7 5 0 8
Markieff Morris 1-3 0-0 3 0 2
Mario Little 4-7 0-1 4 0 9
Travis Releford 3-4 0-0 2 0 9
Team 6
Total 23-55 2-15 48 9 60
MISSOURI (21-4, 8-2)
| Player | FG-FGA | 3FG-3FGA | Rebs | A | Pts |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| DeMarre Carroll | 8-13 | 1-1 | 7 | 1 | 22 |
| Leo Lyons | 5-15 | 0-0 | 1 | 3 | 13 |
| J.T. Tiller | 1-6 | 0-2 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| Zaire Taylor | 2-6 | 1-3 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| Kim English | 3-8 | 0-2 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| Miguel Paul | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Marcus Denmon | 0-4 | 0-3 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Keith Ramsey | 1-2 | 0-1 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| Laurence Bowers | 0-0 | 0-0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Justin Safford | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Matt Lawrence | 2-4 | 0-2 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Team | | | 2 | | |
| Total | 21-59 | 2-14 | 28 | 14 | 62 |
SCHEDULE
Date Opponent Result/Time
11/16 vs. UMKC W, 71-56
11/18 vs. Florida Gulf Coast W, 85-45
11/24 vs. Washington (in Kansas City, Mo.) W, 73-54
11/25 Syracuse (in Kansas City, Mo.) L, 89-81 (OT)
11/28 vs. Coppin State W, 85-53
12/1 vs. Kent State W, 87-60
12/3 vs. New Mexico State W, 100-79
12/6 vs. Jackson State W, 86-62
12/13 vs. Massachusetts (in Kansas City, Mo.) L, 61-60
12/20 vs. Temple W, 71-59
12/23 at Arizona L, 84-67
12/30 vs. Albany NY W, 79-43
1/03 vs. Tennessee W, 92-85
1/6 vs. Siena W, 91-84
1/10 at Michigan State L, 75-62
1/13 vs. Kansas State W, 87-71
1/17 at Colorado W, 73-56
1/19 vs. Texas A&M W, 73-53
1/24 at Iowa State W, 82-67
1/28 at Nebraska W, 68-62
1/31 vs. Colorado W, 66-61
2/2 at Baylor W, 75-65
2/7 vs. Oklahoma State W, 78-67
2/9 at Missouri L, 62-60
2/14 at Kansas State 2:30 p.m.
2/18 vs. Iowa State 7 p.m.
2/21 vs. Nebraska 3 p.m.
2/23 at Oklahoma 8 p.m.
3/1 vs. Missouri 1 p.m.
3/4 at Texas Tech 8:30 p.m.
3/7 vs. Texas 3 p.m.
MEN'S BASKET
MEN'S (CONTINUED FROM 1B)
two free throws. Aldrich was the reason Missouri (21-4, 8-2) seemed destined to suffer its sixth-straight defeat to Kansas.
Aldrich finished with 15 rebounds and five blocks, but only eight points on eight shots. Self thought Aldrich's offensive inefficiency wasn't his fault.
"Our players did a real good job guarding Cole because they didn't get him the ball." Self said. "That was frustrating."
After Aldrich made his two free throws, Kansas only needed a couple solid possessions to ensure victory. It didn't happen. Turnovers did.
Missouri forward Leo Lyons wrestled the ball from Aldrich on the next possession to force a jump ball that went to the Tigers. Collins fumbled the ball while driving 40 seconds later. Sophomore guard Brady Morningstar followed it with a pass the Tigers picked off.
Suddenly, Missouri was on a 9-0 run. Suddenly, the score was 60-60.
"That's one thing we didn't do too good a job of." Aldrich said. "We didn't limit their runs when they went on them."
Collins had a chance. Collins, who finished with nine points on 4-for-13 shooting with six turnovers, went to the free-throw line with 1:48 remaining and missed both shots.
Less than a minute later, Missouri took its second lead of the game when J.T. Tiller made a jumper. Junior guard Mario Little, who had nine points and four rebounds, answered with a fadeaway to tie the game at 60.
It all came down to Missouri's final possession. Zaire Taylor had the ball on the right wing against sophomore Guard Tyrel Reed.
"He shot-faked me and went around me," Reed said.
Taylor released. The shot was good with less than two seconds remaining to play.
Morningstar rocketed an inbounds pass the length of the floor to Aldrich, who heaved a 10-foot buzzer beater. It clanked off the backboard. No good.
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"It's going to be one of those games that lingers for the longest time," Aldrich said.
Because it looked so promising at the beginning. The Jayhawks found a way to take over.
Everyone did their part for Kansas in the first half. Aldrich grabbed nine rebounds. Reed hit a three-pointer. Junior guard Mario Little showed off his midrange game with an 18-foot jumper. They closed the half with a 20-5 run and went into the locker room with a 30-16 lead.
But it's never sure thing — especially not with 27 turnovers.
"As a coach." Self said, "you feel like you need to win those games."
Edited by Susan Melgren
For more men's basketball coverage, check out Case Keefer's "Blog" Allen on Kansan.com. If you would rather kick back and rest your eyes, listen to the postgame edition of The Jay Report
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COLUMBIA, Mo. — As Tyrel Reed scuffled through the depths of Mizzou Arena in the wake of Monday night's 62-60 defeat, he was left with only one thought: The scouting report was right.
On Missouri's final possession, Reed's assignment was to guard the Tigers' Zaire Taylor. Leo Lyons ran the clock down 30 feet from the basket before passing to J.T. Tiller, who then dished it to Taylor just inside the right wing.
"I closed out on him way too hard and he shot-faked me and went around me," Reed said. "I should have known that he's more of a driver than a shooter, so I take that responsibility on that last play."
Reed forgot to obey his pregame notes, but for a second it didn't look like his slip-up would doom the lahwakes.
Taylor's shot caromed off the right side of the rim and bounced straight up into the air.
"I was hoping it came off because I was right there to grab the rebound," sophomore center Cole Aldrich said.
Standing near the free-throw line, junior guard Sherron Collins had a perfect view of the rim.
"I thought it was going to overtime." Collins said.
The ball hung up long enough for all 15,061 in attendance to gasp in anticipation.
"It seemed like the ball was up there forever," Collins said, "but then it dropped in"
Taylor's shot dropped with 1.3 seconds remaining. With no timeouts, Brady Morningstar took the in-bounds pass and heaved it three-quarters of the court in the
That includes a pair of free throws Collins missed with less than two minutes to play.
There were a number of things to blame for Kansas' first Big 1.2 defeat: too many fouls, a season-high 27 turnovers and poor three-point shootings, among others. But Collins said none of those would matter if Kansas had just played defense.
"It was just kind of try to grab, see where the rim was at and try to get it up there if I could." Aldrich said. "I didn't even know if I was going to be able to grab the ball out of the air. It wasn't the most pretty shot."
general direction of Aldrich. In traffic, Aldrich snatched the pass with enough time to shoot for a miracle.
Aldrich's desperation shot clanked off the backboard and the student section stormed the court before the ball could even bounce a second time.
"If we would have guarded, then we wouldn't have been in position
where we would have had to make free throws," he said.
Kansas coach Bill Self called out his defense for failing to finish on the last play. He also pointed out that Collins failed his assignment on the possession before that when Tiller put Missouri ahead 60-58.
"Sherron's ball watching so Tiller back cuts him and he gets an eight-footer," Self said. "We did not defend the last two possessions very well."
With 243 remaining, Missouri's DeMarre Carroll fired up a threepointer. Like Taylor's shot, it caught the rim and hung in midair for just a second before slipping through the net.
Sometimes a perfect plan is ruined by poor execution, like Reed's blown assignment. Other times, a bouncy sphere decides when it's going to play ball.
"We didn't get those same bounces on our end," Self said, "but that's basketball."
- Edited by Justin Leverett
rivalry — well, an actual rivalry again.
DODD (CONTINUED FROM 1B)
All those people in those damn yellow T-shirts. It all added up. Kansas and Missouri were both ranked for the first time since 2003.
And by some twist of the divine they couldn't be any closer. Kansas was ranked 16th, Missouri was 17th.
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This used to happen all the time, of course. We used to have a lot of these colossal midseason battles.
Remember the improbable 1989-90 season, when Kansas and Missouri matched up twice as the top two teams in America? Of course, Missouri won both of those games.
Freshman guard Tyshawn Taylor jokes for a slam to give the Jahavaka a 2-1 lead at the start of the game Monday night at Nikeu Arena. Kauai can't say victory, though fall 62-60.
And remember the epic border clash in 1997, when Kansas had the nation's best team?
That Kansas team walked into the older Hearnes Center 22-0. Fifty minutes later, Roy Williams' most talented team walked out beaten, taken out in a double-overtime classic.
And every year, it seemed like
the same thing. Another Kansas team would enter the old Hearnes Center and get knocked out by an inferior Missouri team. Can you
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A little of that old magic returned on Monday night. The Jayhawks and Tigers exchanged body blows and you could feel the bitterness, you could feel the passion.
And then when all those kids in their damn yellow T-shirts finally cleared off the floor, and Mizzou Arena was nearly empty, the scoreboard still read: Missouri 62, Kansas 60.
And that old feeling returned. We've felt it before. But it still hunts.
"It couldn't have been scripted better for us!" Sell said, before the long bus ride back to Lawrence, "if we had finished the game like I thought we should have."
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IT WAS OVER WHEN ...
Missouri guard Zaire Taylor hit a game-winning jumper with 1.3 seconds remaining. And not a minute before. Missouri hadn't led since eight minutes into the game and as the second half wound down, it became clear the game wouldn't be decided until its final moments. After Taylor's jumper, Kansas had time to get an in-bounds pass to the other end, but Cole Aldrich's last-second heave had little chance of actually going in. Taylor will forever be remembered as a Missouri hero.
GAME TO REMEMBER ...
Freshman guard Travis Releford
Releford
When Kansas played its last road game - at Baylor last Monday — Releford didn't enter the game. Not only did Releford play against Missouri, but he played a lot. And he played well. Releford finished with a career-high nine points and two rebounds. He scored in a number of ways. Releford went 3-for-3 from the free-throw line and added two layups in transition. Expect Releford to continue receiving more playing time as the season goes on as a result of Monday night.
GAME TO FORGET ...
Freshman forward Marcus Morris
It might not have ended up costing the Jayhawks, but Marcus Morris' technical foul in the first half was shameful. That's one thing a team cannot do in a conference game on the road. It happened near the end of the first half. The referee called a loose ball foul on Morris that he didn't agree with and he argued as he walked off the court. Morris finished with two points and three turnovers. Those are not the kind of statistics Self expects out of Morris, who also air-balled a three-pointer.
PETER A. MCKAY
STAT OF THE NIGHT ...
4-for-29. That's what the two teams combined to shoot from three point range. Kansas went 2-for-15. That didn't lose the game for the Jayhawks, but it certainly didn't help their cause.
Case Keefer
PRIME PLAYS
FIRST HALF
14:46 — Immediately following a Zaire Taylor three-pointer, Kim English hustled back on defense to block Sherron Collins' shot.
16:37 — The teams combined to start the game 0-of-10 from the floor. That ended when Kansas' Tyshawn Taylor hauled in a pass from Marcus Morris and punctured it with a dunk.
8:01 — Tyrel Reed spurred Kansas' impressive first half with a hustle play to save a possession. Reed bounced the ball out of bounds off a Missouri defender. On the subsequent play he drilled a deep three-pointer to put the Jayhawks up 22-13.
0:01 — Another game, another first-half buzzer-beater. With less than nine seconds to play, Cole Aldrich dribbed up the court and dumped a pass to Taylor under the basket. Off-balance, Taylor threw up a shot to beat the clock and cap Kansas' 20-5 run.
19:21 — Marcus Morris' quick technical foul spawned a rash of second-half Kansas fouls. Missouri took two free throws with every foul for the last 10 minutes of the game.
SECOND HALF
5:34 — DeMarre Carroll played like a man possessed in the second half. For his 20th point, Caroll dropped a three-pointer that bounced off then rim then rattled home. It was just Missouri's second made three of the game.
0:29 Collins' pass to Morningstar nearly soared out of bounds. The only thing Morningstar could do with it was dump a pass to Mario Little, who then nailed an 18-foot jumper to tie the game at 60.
0:01:3 — Zaire Taylor's jump shot looked like a clanger at first, but the ball dropped back down through the net. Cole Aldrich tried a desperation turnaround jumper but it missed the rim, and Kansas suffered its first Big 12 defeat of the season.
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The game turned into a matchup pitting ranked opponents against each other Monday afternoon.
Before the new Associated Press and ESPN/USA Today Coaches' polls were released, Missouri was not ranked. But the AP rewarded the Tigers with a No.17 ranking, and the coaches slotted them at No.19.
Kansas moved up eight spots in both polls — from No. 24 to No.16. Oklahoma was the only other Big 12 Conference team ranked, at No.2 in both polls.
TIGERS, JAYHAWKS DOMINATE BIG 12 AWARDS
The Big 12 gave three players honors Monday. All of them played in the Big Monday game.
Junior guard Mario Little took
Missouri forward DeMarre Carroll garnered Phillips 66 Big 12 Player of the Week honors after scoring a career-high 31 points at Iowa State Saturday.
his first Phillips 66 Big 12 Rookie of the Week award after averaging 12.5 points and four rebounds in two Jayhawk victories last week.
The downside? Little shared the award with Missouri junior Zaire Taylor for his career-high 17-point performance in a victory at Texas on Wednesday.
REUNION FOR RELEFORD
For freshman guard Travis Rei-
eford, it's all hard to believe.
A year ago, he was one of the most heralded high school players out of the Kansas City area at Bishop Miege high school. It's a similar story for Missouri freshman Marcus Denmon, who went to Hogan Prep.
Releford and Denmon grew up playing against each other. They had another meeting Monday — albeit on a bigger stage.
"We played summer ball," Releford said. "We never really hung out, but I know he's a good guy and a good player."
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Pittsburgh's DeJuan Blair, right, grabs a rebound in front of West Virginia's Wellington Smith in the second half in Pittsburgh on Monday. The No. 4 Panthers ripped the top rival Mountaineers 70-59 over four trouble for Blair for most of the game.
After scoring more than 90 points in each of the past three games, Pitt wins 70-59
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PITTSBURGH — Sam Young scored 20 points as No. 4 Pittsburgh seized the lead with a
late first-half run and went on to beat rival West Virginia 70-59 on Monday night.
Young followed up a 22- point game in Pitts' 79- 67 win at West Virginia two weeks ago, making seven of 12 shots and adding seven rebounds, nine Fields had 13
Alex Ruoff scored 17 points and Devin Ebanks 16, but West Virginia (16-8, 5-6) lost its sixth in seven games against ranked Big East teams even though Pitt's Deluan Blair was in foul trouble most of the game.
points and seven assists to help the Panthers (22-2, 9-2 in Big East) win their fourth in a row and sixth in seven games.
Especially not with Blair sitting out most of the first half after drawing his second foul with 15:14 remaining in the half. The
sive average.
Pittsburgh, known for its defense and not its offense, had scored 90 points or more in succession against DePaul, Robert Morris and Notre Dame. That wasn't going to happen against West Virginia, which came in leading the Big East with a 61 points per game defen-
Alex Ruoff scored 17 points and Devin Ebanks 16, but West Virginia lost its sixth in seven games against ranked Big East teams.
6-foot-7 Blair was coming off a 32-point, 14.-re bound game against DePaul on Saturday and was averaging 24.3 points and 14.7 rebounds in his previous three, but didn't
score until getting Pitt's first two baskets of the second half.
Pitt fell behind by as many as four with Blair out, but a Young-led 13-3 run helped the Panthers open a 29-22 lead with 1:12 remaining before halftime.
West Virginia had foul problems of its own - Ruoff.
Blair finished with 8 points and 9 rebounds in 16 minutes.
The Panthers pushed their lead to 15 points not long after that with a 10-1 run that occurred even as Blair left after drawing a technical foul for protesting an offensive foul call with Pitt up 52-40.
with 7:18 remaining.
Ruoff made one of the two free throws but West Virginia couldn't score on the ensuing possession after the technical and Fields came back with a left-handed layup and two free throws the next two times Pitt had the ball.
The Mountaineers didn't have enough offense to catch up in losing their third in four games, not with Blair repeatedly limiting them to one shot per possession when he was in the game. The Mountaineers shot 40.4 percent.
The Panthers pushed their lead to 15 points with a 10-1 run that occurred as Blair drew a technical foul for protesting a call with Pitt up by 12.
who scored 24 points against Providence on Saturday, drew his fourth foul near the midpoint of the second half and fouled out
21-of-52, and were outrebounded 39-23.
West Virginia is 2-7 overall against Top 25 opponents and has lost four in a row at Pittsburgh.
Pitt, 15-0 at home this season.
swept the basketball version of the Backyard Brawl for the second time in three seasons despite making only 4 of 13 three-pointers.
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COLLEGE BASKETBALL Connecticut stays on top for two weeks in a row
Coach-player contact tricky
Oklahoma and North Carolina remained second and third, and that's where the changes began after a week that saw 14 ranked teams lose at least one game.
After a month of a new No. 1 every week, Connecticut is on top of the poll for a second straight week.
Pittsburgh and Louisville
were fourth and fifth, followed by Duke, Wake Forest, Memphis, Michigan State and Marquette.
The Huskies (22-1) beat Louisville and Michigan last week to stay on top of the Associated Press' college basketball poll
Top 25 on Monday. They moved to the top last week, the fourth No.1 in as many weeks following Pittsburgh, Wake Forest and Duke.
Kansas was No. 16, jumping up five spots from last week.
Missouri and Ohio State made returns to the poll, while the Florida State Seminoles entered it for the first time since 1998.
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ketball. Then after the game a dangerous thing happens: The player and his parents walk up and try to have a conversation.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A coach travels hundreds of miles to watch a high school student play bas-
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What's a coach to do?
According to the NCAA, the coach must immediately end the encounter if it's during noncontact periods, and most Big 12 coaches say it's one that's nearly impossible to follow.
"It happens a lot," said Oklahoma coach Jeff Capel. "The parents may wave at you and say hello. The kid may walk by and speak and say hello. You don't engage in conversation or you very politely say, 'Hey, look, we're not allowed to talk to you right now.' Then you move on."
During Monday's Big 12 conference call, most coaches said encounters such as that involving Kansas coach Bill Self and one of the nation's top high school prospects at a recent tournament in southwest Missouri are common.
"I think you'd shut all the schools down in the country if you didn't allow that," said Texas A&M coach Mark Turgeon. "I've seen a lot of it happen, and I've done it a few times."
The encounters can be so innocent, the coach doesn't even know it's happening, said Baylor's Scott Drew.
"You can be coming out of a restroom after a game and a parent or somebody could be coming in and say, 'Hey, thanks for coming,' said Drew. "And you say thanks and not even know if it was the parent. Or after the game's over and you're talking to the coach and the kid walked by and said, 'Hey, coach.'"
Self has admitted he shook hands with prospect John Wall, a 6-foot-4 guard from Word of God Christian Academy in Raleigh, N.C., and the pair briefly spoke after a tournament last month. Self has said Wall, who is rated the No. 1 overall recruit in the class of 2009 by Rivals, com, approached him while he was talking to coaches.
Kansas said it would look into the matter. But most of Self's conference rivals did not seem to think a major infraction had been made.
"I think that was, in my opinion, blown a little bit out of proportion," Capel said Monday. "As a coach, you're kind of caught in between a fine line because you don't want to be rude, if you're rude, then maybe you don't get that kid. But you hope the family understands and the kid understands."
Capel said many parents may not understand the rule or think it's too silly to obey.
"A mother may come over, and maybe you've developed a pretty good rapport, a good relationship,
"It makes it a little bit uncomfortable, but at the same time, what are you going to do? Do you run that hug away? Do you just turn and not speak? It's a really fine line for coaches. You go see a game, you stay after to speak to the coach because you want to have a good relationship with the coach and if you stay and speak with the coach then you may happen to speak to a kid."
and say, 'I know the rules, but I'm still going to hug you. That's how I was raised.'
Texas coach Rick Barnes said there have been times when he thought someone might have felt offended because he had declined to have a conversation.
“Sometimes you say, 'Hey, look, I can't talk to you,' and they say, ‘Oh, don't worry about it. It's no big deal with us.’ But you've got to say, 'Well, I can't do that,' Barnes said. “And some people just don't understand it. But what happened with Bill, that's happened with everybody that's been out there recruiting.”
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Yankees' star says he faced pressure to perform when he was with Texas Rangers
In this video frame grab provided by ESPN, Alex Rodiguez is interviewed by ESPN's Peter Gammons on Monday. Rodriguez admitted that he used performance-enhancing drugs from 2001 to 2003, saying he did so because of the pressures of being baseball's highest-paid player.
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NEW YORK — Alex Rodriguez, the player who would restore integrity to baseball's home run record, admitted Monday to using performance-enhancing drugs.
The All-Star third baseman said in an interview with ESPN that he used steroids with the Texas Rangers for three years, from 2001-03, in an attempt to justify his status as the game's highest-paid
player after signing a 10-year, $252 million contract.
"Back then it was a different culture," Rodriguez said. "It was very loose. I was young. I was stupid. I was naive, and I wanted to prove to everyone that, you
know, I was worth, you know — and being one of the greatest players of all time."
"You know, I'm just sorry. I'm sorry for that time. I'm sorry to fans. I'm sorry for my fans in Texas."
He said he quit after 2003, his first of three AL MVP seasons, because "I've proved to myself and to everyone that I don't need any of that." He was traded to the New York Yankees before the 2004 season.
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The admission came two days after Sports Illustrated reported on its Web site that Rodriguez was among 104 names on a list of players who tested positive for steroids in 2003, when testing was intended to determine the extent of steroid use in baseball.
The results weren't subject to discipline and were supposed to remain anonymous.
"When I arrived in Texas in 2001, I felt an enormous amount of pressure. I felt like I had all the weight of the world on top of me and I needed to perform, and
perform at a high level every day, Rodriguez said.
"And I did take a banned substance and, you know, for that I'm very sorry and deeply regretful. And although it was the culture back then and Major League Baseball overall was very — I just feel that — You know, I'm just sorry, I'm sorry for that time. I'm sorry to fans. I'm sorry for my fans in Texas. It wasn't until then that I ever thought about substance of any kind."
Rangers owner Tom Hicks said the admission caught him by surprise.
"I feel personally betrayed. I feel deceived by Alex," Hicks said in a conference call.
"He assured me that he had far too much respect for his
own body to ever do that to himself. ... I certainly don't believe that if he's now admitting that he started using when he came to the Texas Rangers, why should I believe that it didn't start before he came to the Texas Rangers?$^4$
The 33-year-old Rodriguez ranks 12th on the career list with 553 homers, including 52, 57 and 47 in his three seasons with the Rangers. He is 209 behind Barry Bonds' record 762.
Now, though, he's on top of a much different list — the highest-profile player to confess to doping, joining teammates Jason Giambi and Andy Pettitte.
Rodriguez's admission is in stark contrast to the denials of former teammate Roger Clemens and Bonds.
Bonds, a seven-time MVP, is scheduled for trial next month on charges he lied when he told a federal grand jury in 2003 that
he never knowingly used performance-enhancing drugs.
Another federal grand jury is considering whether to indict seven-time AL Cy Young Award winner Clemens on charges he lied when he told a congressional committee last year that he never used steroids or human growth hormone.
SI.com reported Rodriguez tested positive for Primobolan and testosterone.
"It was such a loosey-goosey era. I'm guilty for a lot of things. I'm guilty for being negligent, naive, not asking all the right questions," Rodriguez said. "And to be quite honest, I don't know exactly what substance I was guilty of using."
Rather than hold a news conference, as Giambi and Pettitte did for their confessionals, Rodriguez chose the controlled setting of an interview with ESPN, one of Major League Baseballs television partners.
ESPN was scheduled to broadcast the full interview later Monday.
Monday's ESPN interview directly contradicted a December 2007 interview with CBS's "60 Minutes," when Rodriguez said "No" when asked if he had ever used steroids,
human growth hormone or any other performance-enhancing substance.
In his 2008 book, "Vindicated:
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Canseco claimed he introduced
Rodriguez to asteroids dealer.
Canseco, who has admitted using steroids, subsequently said he had no knowledge of any drug use by Rodriguez.
"They are looking in the wrong places," Canseco said in a text message to The Associated Press. "This is a 25-year cover-up. The true criminals are Gene Orza, (union head) Donald Fehr and (commissioner) Bud (Selig). Investigate them, and you will have all the answers."
Sports Illustrated said that Orza, the union's chief operating officer, tipped off three players in September 2004 that they would be tested. Orza has repeatedly denied that he tipped off players, saying he merely reminded them late in the season that if they had not yet been tested, baseball's drug agreement required them to be tested by the end of the regular season.
Orza, who has been widely criticized by media since the Sports illustrated report, said in an e-mail to The Associated Press that he didn't care what the media said.
"I know the facts." Orza wrote.
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Tiger Woods, shown here with his wife Elin Nordegren, announced on his Web site Monday that he and Elin had welcomed a boy, Charlie Axel Woods. The Woods family also has a daughter, 2-year-old Sam Alexis.
Woods welcomes his second child
Baby named Charlie Axel Woods
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On the day Tiger Woods usual- ly hosis a trophy at Torrey Pines, the world's No.1 golfer was busy with the birth of his first son.
Woods announced on his Web site early Monday that his wife, Elin, had given birth to a boy, Charlie Axel Woods. It is the couples second child following the birth of daughter Sam Alexis in June 2007 on the day after the U.S. Open.
"I also want to thank our doctors, nurses and the hospital
"Elin and I are thrilled to announce the birth of our son, Charlie Axel Woods, who was born on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009," Woods wrote in the statement. "Both Charlie and Elin are doing great and we want to thank everyone for their sincere best wishes and kind thoughts. Sam is very excited to be a big sister and we feel truly blessed to have such a wonderful family.
staff for their personal and professional care. We look forward to introducing Charlie to you at the appropriate time, and again thanks from all of us for your kindness and support."
The 33-year-old Woods is a six-time winner of the Buick Invitational, where he also won the U.S. Open last summer for his 14th career major. That was the last tournament he has played because of knee surgery a week later that ended his 2008 season. He is expected to return before the Masters, possibly as early as the Accenture Match Play Championship on Feb. 25.
He wrote in a newsletter last week that his return to golf would depend largely on the birth of his second child.
Woods was the only child born of his parents, Earl and Tida Woods. He had said after his marriage in 2004 that he looked forward to having more than one child.
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Students can make their Valentine's Day not only red-hot, but also green. Here's how to enjoy alternatives to the run-of-the-mill candles, wine, chocolate and roses with the environment in mind.
A CLEANER BURN
Traditional candles are paraffin-based, which means they are made with petroleum. According to the American Lung Association, burning paraffin candles can contribute to particle pollution in the home.
Jill Camerlinck, sales associate with Waxman Candles, 609 Massachusetts St., said she thought burning soy-based candles was better than burning paraffin candles.
"Whenever you burn paraffin, when you blow the candle out you have the soot that comes off it," Camerlınck said. "But with the soy, it's a little puff of smoke but not as much. It's a much cleaner burn."
Waxman Candles makes its candles on site in the back of the store. Camerlinck said the process of making soy and paraffin candles is the same, but the smell of the soy is different.
"To me it kind of smells like a doughnut," Camerlinck said.
Soy candles available at Waxman range from small votives to larger candles, and range in price from $1.75 to $25.
A GREENER GRAPE
Organic and biodynamic wines can be found at Cork and Barrel, 2000 W. 23rd St. John Smiley, the store's owner, said biodynamic wine differed from normal organic wine because of the
way the grapes were grown. Grapes for organic wine are grown without the use of pesticides.
"For biodynamic wine the fertilizer you use has to be organic that came from a cow that was fed only organic materials," Smiley said. "Anything that touches the grape has to be organic through a long chain of items."
Smiley said he didn't think organic wines were the most popular wines sold at Cork and Barrel, but he could sense definitely.
growing in popularity. Smiley said the taste of organic and biodynamic wines helped boost their popularity.
"There's definitely a taste difference," Smiley said. "A lot of them are softer, with not as much bite."
Smiley said organic and biodynamic wines were priced similarly to other wines sold at Cork and Barrel and usually sold from $12 to $15 dollars per bottle. Organic wines are available in merlot, cabernet. chardonnay and pinot noir. The biody-
namic wine available at Cork and Barrel is called Hedges.
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Lora Wiley, owner of Au Marche, said the taste of these chocolates was important.
"I have found that it is important to some of our customers to have fair-trade options available, but for the most part we carry these chocolates because of their excellent flavor and quality," Wiley said.
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Wal-Mart has announced that its new location near Sixth and Wakana streets will open in late April. Wal-Mart is accepting applications for about 230 jobs.
Wal-Mart will begin accepting applications today for about 230 jobs at its new location at Sixth Street and Wakarusa Drive, officials said Tuesday. The store is set to open this summer.
Anyone interested in applying can begin the process online at Walmart.com/apply, said Cheryl White, supervisor at the Lawrence Workforce Center, where Wal-Mart is setting up a hiring location.
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begin to call applicants into the center for interviews and will probably work on hiring individuals from there for about six weeks, White said. Potential applicants can also register with the center and use its computers to begin the application process.
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Exhibit spotlights climate issue
KU Libraries showcases an interdisciplinary approach to global ecological observation
BY KEVIN HARDY khardy@kansan.com
A new exhibit on the world's environment featuring a blend of the arts, engineering and the social sciences will debut Thursday at Watson Library.
KU Libraries will hold a grand opening of the new exhibit,
Rebecca Smith, director of coming the department of dance, EcoHawks, the Institute for Policy and Social Research, C-CHANGE, the department of design, the School of Engineering, the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, and the Spencer Museum of Art.
"Environmental Change; an Interdisciplinary Perspective," at 5 p.m. on the third floor.
Several University departments and organizations contributed materials to the exhibit includ-
munications for KU Libraries, said the new exhibit was the first project of the newly founded library exhibits committee. The committee plans to rotate five exhibits each year; the current exhibit will run until April 2, Smith said.
Smith said the exhibit's installation did not affect the general study layout of the library. The
"All these environmental issues impact everything in life, even the humanities."
Sarah Goodwin Thiel, associate librarian and chairwoman of the library exhibits committee, said the world's ecological situation seemed an obvious topic for the first exhibit. Goodwin Thiel said she hoped the exhibit would increase awareness of climate
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committee installed a new plasma television, repainted walls, refinished exhibit cases and installed new flooring, at a cost of about $6,000. The exhibit program is funded by private donations made to KU. Endowment
for library funding, Smith said.
change and other environmental concerns.
"All these environmental issues impact everything in life," Goodwin Thiel said, "even the humanities."
In addition to highlighting library collection pieces, the exhibit will feature student work. Goodwin Thiel said the department of dance contributed video of interpretive dance with an environmental image.
Sunny Sanwar, Kansas City, Mo., senior and EcoHawks member, submitted computer-aided drawings of an auto project to the exhibit. Sanwar said his team had been working on making a Volkswagen Beetle more efficient since August. The group is experimenting with biodiesel and ethanol engines to make the most efficient vehicle possible, Sanwar said.
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"We're really just recycling an old vehicle to make it much more eco-friendly." Samwar said.
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Committee, arrange documents for the
"Environmental Change" exhibit in the display case installed on the third floor of Watson Library. The exhibit will run until April 2.
The team of 16 engineering students redesigns different parts of the car to make them more
streamlined and efficient. Sanwar said the group hoped to have the car completely finished by mid-May.
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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's president said Tuesday the world was "entering an era of dialogue" and that his country would welcome talks with its longtime adversary, the United States, if they are based on mutual respect.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's announcement during a rally celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution comes a day after President Barack Obama said his administration was looking for opportunities to engage Iran and pledged to rethink United States' relationship with Tehran.
The hard-line Iranian leader said terrorism, the elimination of nuclear weapons, restructuring the U.N. Security Council and fighting drug trafficking could be topics for the two sides to talk about.
2. Vehicle sales in China surpass those in the U.S.
SHANGHAI — China's monthly vehicle sales surpassed those in the United States for the first time in January, moving this country closer to becoming the world's biggest auto market, data released Tuesday showed.
With its growing middle class and vast potential as a consumer market, China is vital for General
Motors Corp., Volkswagen AG and Toyota Motor Corp. as they count on demand here to offset weakness in the U.S. and elsewhere.
China's vehicle market has grown dramatically in recent years, overtaking Japan in 2006 to become the world's second-largest by annual sales. With 1.3 billion people, China will inevitably leapfrog the U.S., with a population of 300 million, into the No.1 spot, industry experts say.
3. Safety features slow startup of atom smasher
GENEVA — Additional safety features being added to the world's largest atom smasher will postpone its startup until the end of September, a year after the $10 billion machine was sidelined by a simple electrical fault, the operator said Tuesday.
The cost of the repairs and added safety features has yet to be determined, but it will be covered by the regular budget of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, spokeswoman Christine Sutton said.
The massive machine was built to smash protons from hydrogen atoms into each other at high energy and record what particles are produced by the collisions, giving scientists a better idea of the makeup of the universe and everything in it.
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OKLAHOMA CITY — Severe storms knocked down power lines and damaged structures Tuesday afternoon in central Oklahoma.
Tornado sirens were activated, and television news video appeared to show a tornado and debris in the air in a rural area. School children were being kept in locked-down schools until the storm passed.
Lara O'Leary, a spokeswoman for Emergency Management Services Authority, said one injury had been reported so far, of a person who was cut by glass.
5. Police chase ends when suspect shoots self
LOS ANGELES — An assault suspect led Los Angeles police on a chase in a luxury sedan for more than three hours before shooting himself in the head as he sat in the car surrounded by armed officers, police said. He died hours later.
The low-speed pursuit covered several Southern California freeways Monday night before the man came to a stop on a street near Universal Studios very close to where the chase began.
About 90 minutes later, television news video showed three large armored vehicles surround the car and SWAT team members
approach it with guns drawn. They broke the white sedan's pas senger window and opened the door, but the man had already shot himself.
Police said the man was suspected of assault with a deadly weapon on his girlfriend. They also suspected from the start of the chase that he was armed.
6. Army deserter returns, may face criminal charges
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Sporting a dragon tattoo on his forearm and skulls on both biceps, Cliff Cornell looks tough. But he dissolves into tears as he reflects on his return to the Army four years after he fled to Canada to avoid the war in Iraq.
Cornell, 29, of Mountain Home, Ark., turned himself in to military police Tuesday afternoon at nearby Fort Stewart, where he'll likely face criminal charges for abandoning his unit before it deployed to Iraq in January 2005.
He said he fled because he doesn't think the war has improved the lives of Iraqis, and he couldn't stomach the thought of killing.
"During my training, I was ordered that, if anyone came within so many feet of my vehicle, I was to shoot to kill," said Cornell, who enlisted in 2002 but never deployed to war. "I didn't join the military to kill innocents."
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Black Student Union celebrates 100 years of black history with symposium
This month also holds a special importance for the African-American Community because Thursday is the 100-year anniversary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
BY BETSY CUTCLIFF
bcutcliff@kansan.com
During this year's black history month, students and professors alike said, they hoped to draw new attention to the history of African-Americans.
To memorize the month's events, the Langston Hughes Center for African-American Studies is hosting a symposium Friday.
Speakers will give presentations about the NAACP throughout American history and the effects the organization have had on African-Americans today.
"It's a really good time to have pride about our history," Koga Moffor, Overland Park senior and president of the KU Black Student Union, said.
Shawn Alexander, professor of African-American Studies, said speakers would specifically highlight the future tasks of the NAACP by promoting civil rights and upholding the 14th and 15th amendments.
Alexander said he wished students better understood the link between African-American history and American history.
"When you see the watershed events, you'll see that black history is American history," Alexander said.
He said that before the composition of the Constitution or the Revolutionary War, race relations had been an issue in America.
Joel Cowart, Los Angeles junior, agreed with Alexander and said he wished more emphasis was placed on the role of African-Americans throughout history.
"When you sit in the majority of your history classes, you don't hear about black history even though it is such a huge part of American history." Cowart said.
Alexander said he hoped the symposium would bring more awareness to the black experience, and said the election of Barack Obama and the NAACP's centennial only added to the pride and importance of this particular month.
Alexander said he was afraid that the election of a black president would call people to think racism was less of an issue.
He said students needed to know that electing a black president didn't nullify the "bloody history of race relations in America"
"We elected a president who
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White Ovington, the founders chose Thursday to unveil the new organization because the date was former President Lincoln's birthday.
Why: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded in 1909 to pursue equal rights. According to an article written in 1914 by co-founder Mary
The creation of Black History Month originated as "Negro History Week" in 1926 because the month of February held the birthdays of two prominent figures in black history: Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, an abolitionist and former slave.
PIECES OF HISTORY
point for refugees was the ferry landing at bar Abe and Jake's Landing at Second and New Hampshire streets. Conductors hid runaway slaves at the former Miller family home and smokehouse, located at 19th and Haskell streets.
Race relations have been a part of Kansas history since the First African-Americans arrived in the 1820s.
The territory was dubbed "Bleeding Kansas" during the Civil War era because it had become a battleground over slavery with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1864, which defined the states of Kansas and Nebraska and stated the citizens could vote to make slavery legal or illegal in their state.
In 1860, Kansas' constitution banned slavery and in 1861 joined the Union
In 1954 Kansas broke the education barrier with the landmark legal case Brown v. the Board of Education, overturning the previous ruling the public schools must be segregated.
Lawrence was a depot station for the underground railroad. A major receiving
BLACK STUDENT UNION EVENTS
Events take place at 7:30 p.m. at the Relays Room in the Burge Union
Feb 18: "We've Got To Do Better" discussion about how we can continue progressing as a people
Feb 16: Kappa Alpha Psi: Women's Appreciation Calendar
Feb 19: BSU Study Session
Feb 17: Motown Movie Night
Feb 22: Soul food dinner
happens to be black," Alexander said. "That won't erase racism."
Moffor said the Black Student Union was holding its own events to invite students to discuss current issues within black culture.
"One issue is how black women are portrayed on TV," she said.
"We want to look at and talk about things that affect us in everyday life"
Moffor said the events were open to anyone who wished to participate.
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Schimke said the VeriFlora certification ensured good working conditions for workers and emphasized growing flowers in a natural and sustainable way, with little to no use of pesticides.
Jozie Schimke, one of the Earth Flowers growers, said VeriFlora, a sustainability certification program, certified all the flowers she grew.
Although the VertFlora certification does not guarantee that the flowers are certified organic, Schimk said the process was generally pesticide-free.
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"We're just trying to get people to think about how inefficient the auto industry is" Sanwar said.
will showcase at the exhibit.
Sanwar said EcoHawks was pleased with the library committee's choice of climate change as its first exhibit theme. He said EcoHawks hoped to receive visitor feedback on the computerized design plans of the car the group
Smith said the new exhibit's environmental theme would complement other campus exhibits such as the "Climate Change at the Poles" exhibit at the Spencer Museum of Art.
"I think it's a good step forward because everything we see on TV is about global warming, and how we're not going to have enough energy for the future," Sanwar said. "So this project is definitely important to society as a whole."
"The libraries see that they have an important role in showcasing scholarship happening all around campus", Smith said.
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Firefighter David Tree shares his water with an injured Australian koala at Mirboo North after wildfires swept through the region on Monday.
BY ROHAN SULLIVAN
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SYDNEY — It was a chance encounter in the charred landscape of Australia's deadly wildfires. A koala sips water from a bottle offered by a firefighter.
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David Tree noticed the koala moving gingerly on scorched paws as his fire patrol passed. Clearly in pain, the animal stopped when it saw Tree.
"It was amazing, he turned around, sat on his bum and sort of looked at me with (a look) like, put me out of my misery," Tree told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "I yelled out for a bottle of water. I unscrewed the bottle, tipped it up on his lips and he just took it naturally."
"He kept reaching for the bottle, almost like a baby."
ly firestorms swept southern Victoria state.
The team called animal welfare officers to pick up the koala Sunday, the day after dead-
"I love nature, and I've handled koalas before. They're not the friendliest things, but I wanted to help him," Tree said.
Often mistakenly called koala
bears because they resemble a child's teddy bear, the marsupial is actually a rather grumpy creature with a loud growl.
The fires also razed farmland, killing or panicking sheep and cattle.
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Keep track of the money that's coming in and what it's coming for. You'll notice this isn't from gambling or a gift from a rich relative. It's from your own smart work.
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Don't worry about the money; that'll take care of itself. Once you figure out what needs to be done and how to do it, you'll get the best deal you can. It usually works.
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Take some much-needed R & R.
You'll get more accomplished tomorrow, when you're in the mood. Hang out as much as possible with a person you really like.
CANCER (June 22-July 22) Today is a 8
GEMINI (May 21-June 21)
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
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You are definitely the brains behind this operation. They have the structure and energy. All you have to do is crack the whip, metaphorically speaking, of course.
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Keep track of your income and outgo. That's very important now. Keep track of the costs of materials and the number of hours you work. This takes practice, and perhaps new habits, but it will be worth the trouble.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is an 8
Push now and you'll pop right through. The Force is with you.
It won't be as much to tomorrow, so do not hesitate. If you're not sure where to push, test until you are.
Keep asking questions and snooping around. Check the want ads and the Internet. More and more great bargains are turning up. You're in a good place to find them.
Let somebody else ask the questions. Be a mouse in the corner. The competition doesn't need to know you the brains behind the operation. Stay under cover, and watch.
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Lew Perkins giving a speech on integrity is like Rod Blagojevich giving a speech on responsible governance.
I just passed by this kid on the Wescoe stairs that smelled like he hadn't showered in months. I threw up in my mouth a little.
Hey professors, maybe you should worry a bit more about teaching and a little less about name-dropping your books and trying to make yourself look good. You aren't out to impress anyone.
Spotted: White Owl on the steps of Wescoe.
--support for higher education in the state because of a record budget shortfall, which means the University has been forced to make some difficult decisions about how to cope with the loss of funding. Next fall, students will begin to feel the tangible repercussions of this shortfall, mostly likely through a reduction in the variety of the courses the University offers, and an increase the size of those that remain.
--support for higher education in the state because of a record budget shortfall, which means the University has been forced to make some difficult decisions about how to cope with the loss of funding. Next fall, students will begin to feel the tangible repercussions of this shortfall, mostly likely through a reduction in the variety of the courses the University offers, and an increase the size of those that remain.
Showering at a frat and getting walked in on by all my friends — my second-best blackout story. Get on my
--support for higher education in the state because of a record budget shortfall, which means the University has been forced to make some difficult decisions about how to cope with the loss of funding. Next fall, students will begin to feel the tangible repercussions of this shortfall, mostly likely through a reduction in the variety of the courses the University offers, and an increase the size of those that remain.
To the girl who lost her phone in the Union: Your mom says.
--support for higher education in the state because of a record budget shortfall, which means the University has been forced to make some difficult decisions about how to cope with the loss of funding. Next fall, students will begin to feel the tangible repercussions of this shortfall, mostly likely through a reduction in the variety of the courses the University offers, and an increase the size of those that remain.
To the guy sitting next to me in my behavioral sciences class: You're a huge douchebag. How about you get in your Hummer and drive home to Johnson County.
--support for higher education in the state because of a record budget shortfall, which means the University has been forced to make some difficult decisions about how to cope with the loss of funding. Next fall, students will begin to feel the tangible repercussions of this shortfall, mostly likely through a reduction in the variety of the courses the University offers, and an increase the size of those that remain.
I wish I could drive a monster truck on campus. Then maybe people would actually look before they cross the street.
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To the kid in my Italian class with the receding hairline and yellow shoes: Are you gay? If so, can I have your number?
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Why do people with receding hair lines try to grow their hair out? WTF? They look like shit.
--support for higher education in the state because of a record budget shortfall, which means the University has been forced to make some difficult decisions about how to cope with the loss of funding. Next fall, students will begin to feel the tangible repercussions of this shortfall, mostly likely through a reduction in the variety of the courses the University offers, and an increase the size of those that remain.
I have the Pope and Martin Luther as my two roommates.
--support for higher education in the state because of a record budget shortfall, which means the University has been forced to make some difficult decisions about how to cope with the loss of funding. Next fall, students will begin to feel the tangible repercussions of this shortfall, mostly likely through a reduction in the variety of the courses the University offers, and an increase the size of those that remain.
Whatever happened to the Rhombus House?
--support for higher education in the state because of a record budget shortfall, which means the University has been forced to make some difficult decisions about how to cope with the loss of funding. Next fall, students will begin to feel the tangible repercussions of this shortfall, mostly likely through a reduction in the variety of the courses the University offers, and an increase the size of those that remain.
Did anyone else notice that when the camera panned to Missouri's football coach, Pinkel, he was picking his nose?
--support for higher education in the state because of a record budget shortfall, which means the University has been forced to make some difficult decisions about how to cope with the loss of funding. Next fall, students will begin to feel the tangible repercussions of this shortfall, mostly likely through a reduction in the variety of the courses the University offers, and an increase the size of those that remain.
The beer is colder, the girls are prettier, and the tests are harder when the sun is shining.
--support for higher education in the state because of a record budget shortfall, which means the University has been forced to make some difficult decisions about how to cope with the loss of funding. Next fall, students will begin to feel the tangible repercussions of this shortfall, mostly likely through a reduction in the variety of the courses the University offers, and an increase the size of those that remain.
I want to start a ska band, and I need a horn section. Any takers?
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--support for higher education in the state because of a record budget shortfall, which means the University has been forced to make some difficult decisions about how to cope with the loss of funding. Next fall, students will begin to feel the tangible repercussions of this shortfall, mostly likely through a reduction in the variety of the courses the University offers, and an increase the size of those that remain.
--support for higher education in the state because of a record budget shortfall, which means the University has been forced to make some difficult decisions about how to cope with the loss of funding. Next fall, students will begin to feel the tangible repercussions of this shortfall, mostly likely through a reduction in the variety of the courses the University offers, and an increase the size of those that remain.
University should inform students on elective cuts
EDITORIAL BOARD
The Kansas Legislature is drastically cutting back its support for higher educa
Danny Anderson, assistant dean of academic affairs, said this will
most likely mean that elective courses will be cut, while core courses — those required for the completion of majors — will be preserved. It is up to the head of each academic department to decide how best to deal with reduced resources, which classes will be cut and which will be ke
The administration must be forthright and transparent about exactly how these budget cuts will affect students — in terms of course selection as well as academic services. Given the circumstances, they have so far taken the right approach — promising to preserve its core academic mission, cutting administrative staff before reducing
the number of lecturers and professors. However, we would like to see the administration make more of an effort to communicate to students exactly what the effects of these cuts will be.
Lynn Britz, director of university communications, said 80 to 85 percent of the budget goes to salaries, and much of the rest pays for essential operating expenses — heating our classrooms, for example. This means the University will have to reduce the number of people it employs.
The University has already cut 11 positions, mostly administrative
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jobs, and declined to fill 110 vacant positions, many of which are academic. Danny Anderson said the University has put
on hold 55 searches for new faculty members, which will have a direct and lasting impact on the quality of education provided. New professors constantly revitalize the University's academics with new ideas and novel perspectives, but as old professors leave it takes time to integrate the new faculty into life at the University. In a sense, this freeze will create a gap that will take years to repair.
With fewer faculty members, many departments will be forced to cut the variety of elective classes
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offered, and it may mean teaching larger introductory courses with smaller discussion sections, but it is ultimately up the heads of each department to decide how best to utilize their limited resources.
To add to these difficulties, the University is experiencing its second year of record enrollment. More students will be vying for space in fewer classes. More people are applying to graduate school, as well, because of the economic recession.
The University will have to make some tough choices in the coming year, but it must make every effort to keep students well-informed about the painful process by being forthright with information and not speaking in generalities in regards to the cuts.
— Dan Thompson for The Kansan Editorial Board
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Twittering stars take fun out of celebrity
Last week, Grammy-winning singer Erykah Badu gave birth to a healthy baby girl. Of course, if you're one of Badu's 4,000 followers on Twitter, you already knew that the moment it happened.
Badu and her boyfriend Twittered the whole thing, from labor to crowning. As a result, Twitter, that perfect marriage of consensual invasion of privacy and short attention spans, has evolved into a broadcast venue for the play-by-play of pivotal and extremely personal moments in the lives of famous people.
One bittersweet aspect of Web 2.0 is that celebrities, what with their MySpaces and WordPress blogs and Twitfers, have less mystique than ever before. Sure, it's cool to be able to read about Kanye West's trip to Paris on his blog or interact with Jim Gaffigan on his Facebook.
But at the same time, much of what made famous people so cool — separation — is now almost completely gone. They talk to us on the same level, like we're equals. They congregate at the same places on the Internet that we do; there's no more VIP section to daydream
UNDER OBSERVATION
ALEX NICHOLS
Clearly, had Twitter been handed down from heaven along with the Ten Commandments, it would have completely removed the mystery associated with so many celebrities of the past. Who would want to imagine that?
about entering.
Me, that's who. Here are some excerpts I dug up from Twitter accounts gone-by.
mo' money, mozart: putting the final touches on #13... this serenade is gonna rock your shit!
17:87 from web
--honest abe: @SouthCarolina:
don't even THINK about it 18:60
— in Prague... this place is tight!
17:91 from txt
— anybody got a few bucks I could borrow? 17:89 from web
— have you ever gotten a rash that just won't go away? 17:91 from web
--honest abe: @SouthCarolina:
don't even THINK about it 18:60
— glad that war's over, time to take in a play with the wifey 18:65 from web
— brb, emancipatin' the slaves 18:62 from web
— @SouthCarolina: oh it's on 18:60 from web
from web
--neil not louie: earth looks crazy from up here...check out the pix on my Flickr July 18 from space
— killed another one Sep. 8 from web
Jack_the_Ripper: killed one Aug. 31 from web
— killed two more! Sep. 30 from web
— out for tea... Oct. 15 from txt
— aaaand killed another one.
Nov. 9 from web
--neil not louie: earth looks crazy from up here...check out the pix on my Flickr July 18 from space
- @Houston: eagle has landed,
btw July 20 from moon
— one small step for man... one giant leap for mankind July 21 from moon
*a man July 21 from moon
Nichols is an Overland Park sophomore in creative writing.
CAMPUS
Students take part in Honors director search
THIS WEEK'S
SOUNDTRACK OF A LIFE
SONG:
"OURTEAM"
BY THE BEACH BOYS
For three nights last week, I felt as if my opinion mattered. Whether for appearance's sake or actual interest in student opinion, the search committee for the next University Honors Program director held three hour-long interactive sessions that attracted about 10 students each night to discuss thoughts and ideas with the candidates and offer their opinions (via survey) about who should fill the position.
The Honors Program had sent students copies of the candidates' resumes and I remember Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett's had page after page (after page) of experience. Needless to say, McCluskey-Fawcett, professor of clinical child psychology and senior vice provost for academic affairs, had developed a clear vision for the program. She explained her networking capabilities and proposed a peer mentor program inspired by Big Brothers, Big Sisters.
I returned the next night for Jonathan Earle's interview. It's hard not to be a huge fan of the brilliant, highly engaging Earle, professor of history and associate director for programming at the Dole Institute.
In the first five minutes, he covered every point that had been asked or suggested by students the night before while adding some of his own. He wanted to increase collective experiences for honors students via nighttime programming in Nunemaker Hall. He suggested creating single-hour senior tutorials to match those currently required of freshmen and providing more interesting courses that challenge both student and teachers. I was impressed.
SOUNDTRACK OF A LIFE
TYLER HOLMES
Afterward, I stayed and talked with some of my peers, who applauded McAllister's pragmatism and assured that he would listen to student ideas. I wished Earle's emphasis on ideas received more consideration. McCluskey-Fawett also received support, but McAllister appeared to be the presumptive choice of the room. Agreeing with Earle's emphasis on the power of creative thinking, I stuck with him.
MES
The last interview with Steve McAllister, former dean of law and an honors alum, was the most practical. McAllister laid out a three-point plan: 1) raise the program's profile; 2) have a top-to-bottom review, engaging students and faculty to outline a core mission for the future; 3) expand the amount of resources.
The search committee meets today to make a recommendation to Joseph Steinmetz, dean of liberal arts and sciences. Though I have my favorite, I know whoever gets the job (hopefully partly because of our surveys) will help the program.
I can only hope that the University continues to listen to students when making significant decisions, and that students step up when offered the opportunity, so that all can become a part of "our team." Rock Chalk.
Holmes is an Overland Park freshman in political science.
Cigarette sales benefit the University
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
On Monday, I opened the Kansan to see"Union board should force cigarette sales off campus."The reason why the author believes that KU shouldn't sell cigarettes in the union? "The University should not benefit from or support a product that is ultimately a health risk for students."But if you think the University isn't profiting from a health risk already,you are sadly mistaken.
Consider this: I can get high-intensity UV exposure, ranch-drenched, cheddar-filled fried chicken wraps, energy drinks packed with cafeine, taurine, L-cartinine, creatine, and every other "ine" you can think of, and diet sodas packed with artificial sweeteners all in the same building. Yet when a minority of students choose to smoke, they're the ones killing KU? The Hawk Shop also sells condoms. Of course, if you don't want to pay for them, the Union Programs office (funded through Union
money) has condoms sitting out in the lobby for students, free of charge. Why not tell the unions that promiscuous sex is a risk to students? What about diabetes, obesity and skin cancer? If I wanted someone to make my purchasing decisions for me, I would've stayed at home with mom.
Every dollar spent on "dangerous products" at the Hawk Shop goes back into the Union. By buying a pack of cigarettes from the Union and not their off-campus competitors, you're giving money to the Jaybowl, SUA, KJHK and a host of other student organizations on campus. Seeing the huge budget crunches in the Uni Programs office, the unions should be concerned with losing money, not to mention tax revenue for the state.
So light up, eat your fattering wrap, drink your toxic concoctions, and get your daily dose of UV rays — in reality, you're helping everyone at KU.
Brian Gilmore is a sophomore from Topeka.
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Justin Goff, Baldwin City senior, holds his hand to his head while looking at his crashed Ford Mustang. Goff escaped through the driver's-side window after colliding with a Rueschoff Locksmith employee van at the intersection of 12th and Kentucky streets. The accident occurred around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday. No one suffered serious injuries in the crash.
KU senior involved in rollover
BY ALEXANDRA GARRY
agarry@kansan.com
A KU student was involved in a two-car accident that resulted in a flipped car at about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.
A red 1997 Mustang belonging to Justin Goff, Baldwin City senior, landed on its roof at the intersection of 12th and Kentucky streets.
Witnesses at the scene said
the driver of a van belonging to Rueschoff Locksmith tried to make a right turn onto 12th Street from the left lane and hit the Mustang.
Goff climbed out of the driver-side window and walked away with minor scratches on his head and arms.
He said he was surprised and pleased his injuries weren't worse.
"Even the medics were like,
I'm surprised everything wasn't
worse," Goff said.
Goff said that both air bags deployed and that he thought he saw smoke but realized later it was dirt from a patch of grass the car hit as it flipped.
"When I realized what happened, I just knew I had to get out," he said.
Both the Mustang and the van were towed from the scene. The van appeared to have only minor damage to the headlight; Goff said
the Mustang was totaled.
Scott Rosell, Wichita senior, saw the accident from his home at the corner of 12th and Kentucky streets and ran to the Mustang to help Goff get out.
Rosell said he was surprised Goff wasn't severely injured.
"The car just flew," Rosell said. "It looked like it was really bad, but he was OK."
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INTERNATIONAL Human rights organizations condemn civilian deaths COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — At least
16 patients being treated at a makeshift hospital in the northern Sri Lankan war zone were killed by shelling, the Red Cross said Tuesday.
The United Nations, mean- while, said it was outraged by the "unnecessary" deaths of hundreds of people inside rebel territory and urged both sides to avoid
fighting in civilian areas.
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International human rights groups say more than 200,000 civilians are believed trapped in the patch of territory still under rebel control.
French president praises Irag during his first visit
The French leader, who met later with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, praised Iraq for dramatic improvements in security, including provincial elections held last month without major bloodshed.
BAGHDAD — President Nicolas Sarkozy paid the first visit to Iraq by a French head of state Tuesday, smoothing over lingering resentment about France's opposition to the war and positioning his country to cash in on lucrative arms and oil deals.
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Committee plans to discuss buses
Gagnon said he was satisfied with the bus system overall, especially compared to the time he spent in Chicago where it could take 45 minutes to board a bus.
Students can participate in open meeting
TRANSPORTATION
The Public Transit Advisory Committee is looking for student input on coordinating the Lawrence Transit system and KU on Wheels. The committee will hold an open meeting from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. today in the Courtside room in the Burge Union for students to voice concerns and give suggestions on how the bus system could better serve them.
Matthew Gagnon, Hutchinson senior, said his main concern with the bus system was the amount of empty buses he saw around campus.
"I just saw the visitor bus go by and I wondered. 'How many times does that get filled?' you know?" Gagnon said. "Is that really a necessary bus?!"
Tom Braddock, assistant transportation planner with Olsson Associates, will attend the meeting today to listen to student feedback.
Since the sales tax passed last year, said Casey Toomay, budget manager and interim transit administrator, the city has promised to work to coordinate the Lawrence Transit system with KU on Wheels to better serve the community. The city hired Olsson Associates this year to coordinate route and schedule design.
"Students are full stakeholders in this process." Braddock said.
The city has already planned some changes for the transit system. Braddock said small chang-
take place at the beginning of the Fall 2010 semester.
A recent survey of 111 Lawrence residents ranked the priorities of coordinating the transit system. The top three areas were efficient service, frequent service and accessibility.
Major changes such as adding more stops around town and increasing bus frequency will
The city has promised to work to coordinate the Lawrence Transit system with KU on Wheels to better serve the community.
Gina Herrera, Dallas junior,
Efficiency and accessibility are the main concerns for Andrew Rossell, Lansing freshman.
Luke Tuner, Topeka senior.
Rossell suggested having free movies on buses as an improvement.
**WHAT:** Public Transit Advisory Committee meeting to coordinate KU on Wheels with the Lawrence Transit system
**WHO:** Students concerned with improving the bus system to fit their needs
**WHERE:** The Burge Union, Courtside room
She said it was also important to hear from non-riders because the goal of the project was to entice more people to use the bus system.
uses the Park and Ride system. He said he had problems with full buses but said the frequency of buses made it manageable.
WHEN: 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
WHY: Student input is vital to coordinating the Lawrence Transit system with KU on Wheels. Riders can give their perspectives on the current bus system and non-riders can give suggestions for accommodating more riders into the program.
said she was concerned about the amount of pollution the buses produced, but she said the buses might actually be helping to cut down emissions.
Toomay said cutting down on environmental damage and becoming more economically efficient were vital to making an effective transit system for Lawrence.
Braddock said more than 30 meetings with different community groups were scheduled this week to gain perspective on what people wanted in a transit system.
Toomay stressed the importance of feedback from students and others who used the bus system.
"It's a lot better than people driving on campus in their individual cars,"
Herrera said.
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Former Jayhawk Mario Chalmers (right) has taken his shot-making skills to the Miami Heat. Chalmers has cracked the starting lineup and is near the top of this year's NBA rookie class.
Chalmers, Rush turn to NBA All-Stars for guidance
BY TIM DWYEF
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INDIANAPOLIS — Brandon Rush fakes a drive, steps back, buries a fade-away three and walks off the court.
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"Yeah," a Pacers assistant says. "Hit that one, stop, then go buy a lottery ticket."
Rush laughs off the comment, but luck doesn't have anything to do with it. He can flat-out shoot.
earlier, but Rush, along with AllStar swingman Danny Granger, is putting in extra time — they are the last two on the court. Rush has been knocking down shots since the practice started.
"... To hear my name called and know that I'm going to be in this league for a while — that was special."
The Pacers' morning shoot-around ended maybe 10 minutes
Rush's dream of playing in the NBA took its first step toward reality on June 26 last year when his name was called in the 2008 NBA Draft. Selected
13th by the Portland Trail Blazers, he was promptly traded for former Arizona guard Jerryd Bayless,
But this story starts before then.
BRANDON RUSH
Indiana Pacers guard
Rush didn't care. He was playing in the NBA.
picked two spots ahead of Rush by the Indiana Pacers.
Since then, he has tried to settle into a role he is admittedly still not used to. The Pacers had Granger, who is one of the best wings in the league, slotted into the position Rush is used to playing. More than that, though, there
"It really hit me when I got drafted," Rush said. "When I was going through that whole process — to hear my name called and know that I'm going to be in this league for a while — that was special."
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COLLEGE CHAMPS START CAREERS
Four of Mario Chalmers and Brandon Rush's teammates made the leap from Kansas to professional basketball along with them. Here's how they are faring:
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Darrell Arthur
19.9 min, 5.6 points, 4.4 reounds, 0.5 assists,
0.7 steals, 0.6 blocks
Arthur has started 38 of 46 games for the Gizzlies, and his 4.4 rebounds rank him ninth among all rookies. Arthur recently broke out of a 16-game slump in which he averaged just more than four points per game with three games of double-digit scoring in a five-game period.
Mario Chalmers Miami Heat NBA
31. 2 min, 9.9 points, 4.6 assists, 2.5 rebounds, 1.9 steal Chalmers has emerged as the surprise of the 2008 draft and is seeing the most success of any former Jayhawk. After grabbing the starting point guard spot in the preseason, Chalmers hasn't looked back. His steals and assists numbers put him at second on the team behind all-universe guard Dwyane Wade and at first and third, respectively, in his rookie class.
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Sasha Kaun
CSKA Moscow, Euroleague 8.3 min., 1.9 points, 2.3 rebounds Kaun, after being drafted 56th by the now-defunct Seattle SuperSonics and having his rights traded to Cleveland, opted to home his game in his homeland, Russia. He has played in 17 games for CSKA Moscow, which is a perennial threat to claim the Euroleague title.
Darnell Jackson Cleveland Cavaliers, NBA 6.7 min. 1 point, 1.2 rebounds Jackson's Cavaliers are the owners of a 39-9 record, second in the NBA behind the Los Angeles Lakers. Jackson, who was the 52nd pick of the draft, sees limited minutes for the Cavs as the third power forward on the depth chart.
Brandon Rush Indiana Pacers, NBA 20.5 min., 6 points, 2.3 rebounds, 0.9 assists, 0.6 steals, 0.4 blocks Rush, who said his time in the NBA had been "everything I hoped for, saw time as an emergency starter when Mike Dunleavy was out for the first 34 games of the season. Rush started five, but has otherwise come off the bench for the Pacers. It is the first time he has ever been out of a starting lineup, but said, "It's part of being a rookie."
Russell Robinson Reno Bighorns, NBA Developmental League 25.6 min., 9.4 points, 2.3 rebounds, 3.1 assists, 1.9 steals Robinson, the only Jayhawk from last year's class to go undrafted, has seen Instant success In the NBDL, the developmental league of the NBA. Robinson signed with the Houston Rockets but was cut after summer-league play. He briefly played in Turkey with Erdemia Zonguldak before signing on with the Bighorns, an affiliate of the New York Knicks and Sacramento Kings.
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Missouri fans rush the court to celebrate with the players following the Tigers' 62-60 victory against Kansas on Monday night at Mizzou Arena.
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Cole Aldrich has seen an opposing team's fans rush the court in celebration after beating Kansas only three times, but he remembers all of them in vivid detail.
The first two came last season in road defeats to Kansas State and Oklahoma State. It happened a third time Monday after Missouri beat Kansas 62-60 at Mizzou Arena.
Aldrich, a sophomore center,
won't forget about it anytime soon.
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"It's one of the worst feelings you could ever feel," Aldrich said.
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Kansas coach Bill Self had the most optimistic outlook.
trailed for less than a minute the whole game. The layhawks spoke in subdued tones after the game and expressed uncertainty on how they would respond to the loss.
"We can handle a loss and move on," Self said. "Heck, that's basketball. Everybody goes through that."
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But multiple Jayhawks used the word "linger" when describing the effect they thought the defeat would have on the team. Even Self softened his stance a few seconds
Aldrich said the latest one felt even worse because it was against a rival and marked Kansas' first Big 12 Conference loss of the season. The way the Jayhawks lost didn't help, either.
They led by 14 at halftime and
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COMMENTARY
Difficult to point out positives in Mizzou loss
BY ALEX BEECHER
abeecher@kansan.com
It's not that I haven't tried myself. I've spent the bulk of my time since the final buzzer sounded trying to find a way to write a generally positive column. I wanted to find an angle on the game other people would miss, one that would allow Kansas fans to take some comfort in the loss. It's too easy to be overly cynical, too easy to damn a losing team. Given that, I really wanted to find that silver lining.
If Monday night's loss at the hands of Missouri is a cloud hanging over the Jayhawks, then I'm begging you to find the silver lining.
But the thing is, I just can't do it.
Losing to Missouri is always difficult for Jayhawk Nation to stomach, not surprisingly, given the intensity of the rivalry. The teams hate each other, you can throw out the records, etc. I don't need to reiterate the clichés; anyone reading this already knows them. The simple fact is a loss to Missouri is much more significant than a tally in a column. Granted, Missouri is ranked and undefeated at home. Were it some other team — any other team — that might be enough to make this loss palatable. But Missouri is different.
Part of being the man is making the shots others don't want to take and willing your team to victory in circumstances like Monday's. Collins is a great player, no doubt, but he's got to deliver.
All that holds true any time Kansas loses to Missouri, though. It lacks the specific context in which this loss took place. That context matters, because this loss puts Kansas a game behind Oklahoma in the Big 12 title race. With the win, Missouri crept to within a half-game of Kansas' second-place spot.
Perhaps worst of all, the late-game dramatics that felled Kansas likely could have been avoided all together if Sherron Collins had simply made two free throws. I say simply, but they were anything but. Missouri's fans provided ample distractions, and the pressure was immense. No doubt, his job was a difficult one, but it's one he's expected to perform. This is Collins' team He's said as much and publicly taken the responsibility that comes with being "the man."
But it's not enough that Kansas lost — it had to unfold in the way it did. The Jayhawks had the Tigers at arm's length for most of the game only to surrender the lead late. Mario Little provided a moment of solace, until Zaire Taylor's midrange jumper bounced home. The ball couldn't just go in, mind you. The malicious thing had to milk the moment, antagonizing Kansas fans for as long as possible before driving the dagger home.
Find a silver lining yet? If not, the reason may be that there isn't one to find. But even a cloud with no silver lining eventually drifts away and dissipates.
ror Kansas, that's the good news. The team will have another shot at winning a road game against a rival this Saturday, when it plays Kansas State. Further on the horizon is Missouri's visit to Allen Fieldhouse. And it's worth noting that getting revenge always trumps finding a silver lining.
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"You know, that's something we're trying to figure out ourselves. And we better figure it out soon because we can't continue to lose road games."
Junior guard Sade Morris after Kansas lost to Missouri on Saturday
FACT OF THE DAY
In 2007, the Kansas women's basketball team beat Texas 50-49 in Austin. The team has won just one conference road game since then, a 76-66 victory at Missouri.
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: Since the Big 12's inception, what is the women's basketball team's record against Texas?
A: 7-8. Kansas won five of the first six meetings before dropping six in a row. The Jayhawks and Longhorns met three times before the Big 12 with Texas taking all three matchups.
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Courtside: Following tonight's game against Texas, check
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Victory is closest thing to title for MU
Sometimes actions say more than words. Take Missouri fans
S
mobbing Norm Stewart Court following Monday's down-to-the-wire victory against No. 16 Kansas and the events that preceded it.
By now you are probably familiar with the comments Tigers forward Leo Lyons made regarding just how much fans in Columbia were looking forward to Monday's matchup with the Jayhawks on ESPN's Big Monday.
But just in case you missed it, here is what Lyons told the Columbia Tribune regarding the Border Showdown following a victory against Iowa State Saturday.
"Oh my God," Lyons said. "People thought they'd seen something when Baylor was there. I just know this means more to them than a national championship does. I know it's going to be packed."
BY ANDREW WIEBE
awiebe@kansan.com
Now, I can excuse Lyons for his obviously flawed comment. He was speaking in the heat of the moment. Clearly, Lyons and Missouri fans have no idea what a national championship means or feels like. You can't when you haven't won one.
Lyons was just excited about what would be the biggest game of the year thus far. Reporters have a way of coaxing quotes out of their subjects that don't always reflect the reality of the situation. He gets a free pass.
But I can't come to grips with hundreds of students rushing the court after winning a game they were favored to win — Missouri was a 4.5-point favorite. Come
The only thing more pathetic is Kansas fans' tearing down the goalposts three separate times during a seven-win season in 2005 that included a victory against Houston in the Fort Worth Bowl.
Imagine what Norm Stewart was thinking in the stands as the Missouri student body rushed the court that bears his name. This should have been just another key win in the Tigers' quest to win the Big 12 north and return to the NCAA Tournament.
on, guys. That's just amateur fandom.
from The Morning Brew guys at Kansan.com/blogs/morning_brew, and if you have any questions or comments, please give us a holler at morningbrew@kansan.com.
Instead, they cemented the notion that beating Kansas is enough to define a successful season.
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Tonight marks the beginning of World Cup qualifying for the United States national team, against arch-rival Mexico, no less (ESPN2, 6 p.m.).
Mexico will be without young phenom Carlos Vela, suspended for dangerous conduct against Honduras. Coach Sven-Goran Erikkson is feeling the heat from the Mexican media for the team's lackluster performances, and a loss could signal the end of his reign, as former Atletico Madrid and Mexico manager Javier Aguirre waits in the wings.
teams. Even more damning for the Mexican cause is that Mexico has failed to win on American soil in its past 10 tries (8-0-2).
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The game will be played in Columbus, Ohio, at Crew Stadium, and U.S. fans have plenty of reasons to feel confident that the Americans will defeat their neighbors to the south. First of all, the U.S. is 9-2-2 in the past 13 meetings between the two
the newly released ESPN.com/ USA Softball poll. The Jayhawks received 32 votes after upsetting then-No. 7 Arizona and No. 11 Northwestern in the Kajikawa Classic last weekend.
Nevertheless, this game represents a major test for an American team that can cement its status as the region's alpha dog. A victory vaults the team into World Cup qualifying with confidence. A loss proves Mexico really can compete in the United States.
— Edited by Grant Treaster
SOFTBALL
SOFTBALL Kansas now ranked 25th after two top-10 unsc
Kansas softball replaced Virginia Tech as the 25th-ranked team in the nation, according to
10, and Northwestern maintained its ranking. Feb. 10 marks the first time since June 2006 that Kansas softball has been listed as a top-25 program. The Jayhawks travel to Orlando, Fla., this weekend to participate in
Arizona fell three spots to No.
the UCF Invitational. There they will have an opportunity to upset yet another ranked opponent in No. 12 Tennessee, whom they play Saturday at 6:30 p.m.
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Royals' 2003 draft pick still waiting to make big-league debut
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School in Schwenksville, Penn.
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"This year I'm really focusing on shortening my swing and cutting down on the strikeouts," he said Tuesday. "I feel if I do that, my average will go up and I'll hit for even more power and everything will kind of come together."
Kansas City has not added Lubanski to the 40-man big league roster.
He likely will start the season at Triple-A Omaha, where he hit .242, including just .159 against left-handers, in 2008, striking out 130 times in 393 at-bats.
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BY DAVID CRARY Associated Press
NEW YORK — Snap, crackle ...
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Bursting with indignation, legions of marijuana advocates are urging a boycott of Kellogg Co., including all of its popular munchies, for deciding to cut ties with Olympic hero Michael Phelps after he was photographed with a pot pipe.
The leader of one of the biggest legalize-pot organizations, the Marijuana Policy Project, called
Kellogg's action "hypocritical and disgusting," and said held never seen his membership so angry, with more than 2,300 of them signing an online petition.
"Kellogg's had no problem signing up Phelps when he had a conviction for drunk driving, an illegal act that could actually have killed someone", said Rob Kampia, the group's executive director. "To drop him for choosing to relax with a substance that's safer than beer is an outrage, and it sends a dangerous message to young people."
the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, Students for Sensible Drug Policy and the Drug Policy Alliance. They encouraged their members to contact Kellogg to vent their views.
Also urging a boycott were
In one sign of the campaign's impact, the Phelps saga took precedence over the tainted peanut butter outbreak in the recorded reply on Kellogg's consumer hot line Tuesday.
"If you would like to share your comments regarding our relationship with Michael Phelps, please press one to speak to a representative," said the recording. "If you're calling about the recent peanut butter recall, please press two now."
From Kellogg's media office, there was no immediate reply to a request for an assessment of the boycott campaign. A Kellogg spokeswoman, Kris Charles, said by e-mail, "Our contract with Michael Phelps was set to expire at the end of February and we made a business decision not to extend that contract."
Last week, the company announced his contract would end and described Phelps' conduct as
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NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. has found a lot to complain about regarding the state of his sport in recent days. He has criticized track promoters for wanting drivers to help sell tickets and taken exception to organizations using his name without nominating him.
Earnhardt states his frustration with NASCAR
BY MARK LONG
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. Dale Earnhardt Jr. never wanted to be the voice of NASCAR, the one getting all the questions and shoul dering the responsibility for speaking for teammates, colleagues and everyone else in the garage.
"I just wanted to drive, but that's not all there is to it," Earnhardt said.
Not even close
Earnhardt has figured that out, evidenced by all he's done leading up to the Daytona 500. He took track promoters to task, suggested ways to make races more affordable to fans and even offered to drive for free if his team needed to cut costs in a foundering economy.
NASCAR's most popular driver the last six years, the guy who gained instant fame because of his iconic father and grandfather, has reluctantly accepted his position atop the sport.
"I feel like I take a big role in this
sport," Earnhardt said. "I am glad to be part of this sport, I am glad to represent the sport, either on my good days or my bad days."
Lately, Earnhardt has found more unfair.
He ripped track promoters last week for demanding more of drivers' time to help sell tickets. Bruton Smith, chairman of track conglomerate Speedway Motorsports Inc., and his chief lieutenant, Texas Motor Speedway president Eddie Gossage, criticized drivers for not helping create buzz and fill seats.
"That's not true," Earnhardt said. "We're constantly doing things every week for this guy and that guy to help racetracks. ... They gotta take a little responsibility for themselves."
Earnhardt's annoyance started in the offseason, when promoters at Memphis Motorsports Park offered Earnhardt free ribs for life from the track-sponsored barbecue restaurant if he raced in their Nationwide race. Earnhardt was upset they didn't ask him if they
could use his name.
He also took exception with billboards in Texas and Las Vegas that offered rewards for something Earnhardt does on the track.
"I like those kind of things, but damn, you know, notify us a little bit," he said. "Let's get a little more creative."
Some thought his move from Dale Earnhardt Inc. to Hendrick Motorsports before last season might prevent him from ever taking on a leadership role.
Would team owner Rick Hendrick try to turn Earnhardt into a clone of clean-cut, rarely controversial drivers Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon?
"From the very first time we talked, I told him, 'Be yourself. We want you to be comfortable being you and we won't change you.' Hendrick said. "That's what the attraction is to him. When you get around him, you find out what a neat person he is and you find out why the people gravitate toward him.
MLB
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All-Star shortstop Miguel Tejada has been charged with lying to Congress about steroids. Tejada, the AL MVP in 2002, faces a year in jail if convicted. He is scheduled to appear in court today and is expected to plead guilty.
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WASHINGTON — All-Star shortstop Miguel Tejada has been charged with lying to Congress about steroids, the latest baseball player to get caught up in an extensive web of cheating and juicing that has stained the sport.
Tejada is scheduled to appear in court today where he is expected to plead guilty.
The charges against Tejada, who currently plays for the Houston Astros, were outlined in documents filed in Washington federal court Tuesday.
The documents indicate that a plea agreement has been reached with Tejada, who won the 2002 American League Most Valuable Player award while playing for the Oakland Athletics and is a five-time All-Star. The court papers were filed a day after superstar Alex Rodriguez acknowledged past use of performance-enhancing drugs. The New York Yankees third baseman does not face charges.
Tejada faces as much as a year in jail if convicted on the misdemeanor charge of making misrepresentations to Congress.
The charge came in a legal document called a "criminal information," which only can be filed with the defendant's consent and typically signals a plea deal. A hearing is scheduled for 11 a.m. EST Wednesday in Washington, and Tejada and his lawyer plan to hold a news conference later in the day in Houston.
Under federal guidelines, he would probably receive a lighter sentence.
Messages left for his attorney, Mark Tuohey, were not immediately returned.
In the documents filed Tuesday, Tejada is charged with lying to investigators for the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in 2005. Congressional staffers did not place Tejada under oath when they
questioned him, but they advised him "of the importance of providing truthful answers," according to the court papers.
During the interview, Tejada denied knowledge of an exteammate's use of performance-enhancing drugs.
The teammate is not identified in court documents, but is referred to as having played with Tejada on the Athletics.
The court papers filed by Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Durham charge that during spring training in 2003, Tejada had purchased a substance believed to be HGH from the player, giving him payments of $3,100 and $3,200.
Tejada "unlawfully withheld pertinent information from the committee because defendant Tejada, before and during his interview with the committee staff, then and there well knew that player ..1, one of his teammates on the Oakland Athletics, had used steroids and HGH," the papers state.
In the Mitchell Report, which examined steroid use in baseball, Oakland outfielder Adam Piatt is cited saying he discussed steroid use with Tejada and having provided Tejada with testosterone and human growth hormone.
The Mitchell Report, issued in December 2007, also included copies of checks allegedly written by Tejada to Piatt in March 2003 for $3,100 and $3,200 — the same payment amounts in Tuesday's court filing.
Tejada came under scrutiny after another ex-teammate, Baltimore Orioles' Rafael Palmeiro, testified before the House committee.
In January 2008, the House panel asked the Justice Department to investigate whether Tejada lied to committee investigators when he was interviewed in connection with the Palmeiro steroids case.
The committee looked into whether Palmeiro should face periury charges but eventually dropped the matter.
When that same House panel held a hearing in March 2005, Palmeiro jabbed a finger at lawmakers and declared: "I have never used steroids, period." Palmeiro was suspended by baseball later that year after testing positive for a steroid.
Palmeiro said his positive test must have resulted from a B-12 vitamin injection given to him by Tejada.
That prompted Congress to talk to Tejada.
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BY JAYSON JENKS
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The last time Kansas boarded a plane destined for the state of Texas, freshman forward Aishah Sutherland heard, but didn't fully grasp, the hype.
Teammates and coaches, all of whom had served witness to the indescribable athleticism possessed by teams residing in Texas, tried to warn the naive freshman of what was awaiting her once the plane landed and the ball was tossed in the air.
Yet, after that game on Jan. 31, when Kansas lost 73-60 at Texas A&M, Sutherland fully understood her teammates' warnings.
"I've been telling her that talent alone is not enough. You can't just focus on your athletic ability;" junior forward Danielle McCray said.
But it's a lesson Sutherland won't need reviewed when Kansas plays at No. 13 Texas today at 7 p.m.
"I think she's been realizing that because A&M was a big shock for her. I don't think she ever played against girls that can play like that. It's that whole thing that freshman don't know about. Until you come into the Big 12, you don't know until you play."
Similar to Texas A&M, Texas possesses a tall, quick team capable of being one of the best in the Big 12. At first, such circumstances intimidated Sutherland.
In high school, Sutherland's speed and jumping ability allowed her to dominate. But in the Big 12, one of the best women's basketball conferences in the country, those skills alone aren't enough.
"I just feel that all the teams we've played on the road are very athletic and I'm just not as good against athletic players." Sutherland said.
In practice, coach Bonnie Henrickson notices an increased excitement level from teammates
"Yeah, I'm very athletic but when it comes to other people, they jump just as high as me. They're fast like me; they have quick feet. I just have to find a way to stop them."
Much has been made of Sutherland's development: Some games she shows improvement, but in others she appears to backtrack. But, especially against the Big 12's top-level teams, Sutherland's contributions are often key for the Javahaws.
Kansas (13-8, 2-6) vs. Texas (17-5, 5-3)
P No. Kansas Ht. Yr. PPG
G 3 Ivana Catic 5-8 Sr. 2.4
G 4 Danielle McCray 5-11 Jr. 19.6
G 20 Sade Morris 5-11 Jr. 11.7
F 24 Nicollette Smith 6-2 So. 6.6
C 14 Krysten Boogaard 6-2 So. 9.6
When/Where...
Who to watch for...
Tipoff scheduled for 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas.
Junior guard Brittainey Raven. The Longhorns have a lot of balance in their scoring, but Raven is the most consistent of the bunch. She's just third in three-point attempts, but she can hit when she sets her feet. She shoots more than 40 percent from deep.
What to expect...
Texas will come at the Jayhawks in waves. Ten players average more than 10 minutes per game. And this isn't balance because the starters are below-average. It's balance because the Longhorns are deeper than a public pool diving well.
Simply put, Danielle McCray is sick of losing.
Why Kansas will win...
The Jayhawks arguably played their worst game of the season at Missouri, and in order to even dream about a tournament bid, they will need to upset a Big 12 South team like Texas. Why not tonight?
| P | No. Texas | Ht. | Yr. PPG |
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| G 3 | Carla Cortiago | 5-7 | Sr. 7.2 |
| G 33 | Ashleigh Fontenette | 5-8 | Fr. 6.3 |
| G 10 | Brittainey Raven | 6-0 | Jr. 13.7 |
| G 5 | Kathleen Nash | 6-2 | So. 13.6 |
| C 22 | Ashley Gayle | 6-4 | Fr. 4.4 |
Magic number...
How the game is important..
Kansas is at its lowest point of the season They don't necessarily need to beat Texas, but they need to stay competitive to keep their season afloat.
110 — Number of points scored by Texas in an early-season win against St. Mary's. They have the second-ranked offense in the Big 12. Kansas will have to play better defense if it hopes to stay with the Longhorns.
"I've been telling her that talent alone is not enough. You can't just focus on your athletic ability."
when Sutherland pieces together a solid effort.
— Clark Goble
During games, a similar situation occurs when Sutherland grabs an offensive rebound or blocks a shot.
"I think how she does it is impressive with just having that
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One of Kansas' points of emphasis heading into the Texas game has
been the continued work on the inside game — both offensively and defensively. In Kansas' last game, Henrickson said, Missouri's post players went 18-for-28, but Kansas' posts made just 6-of-20 attempts.
To improve those lopsided numbers, the Jayhawks marked off a taped box around the basket. Defensively, no player should catch the ball inside the box. On offense.
the box represents the ideal position for Kansas' past players.
The Jayhawks have used the box throughout the season, but after the Missouri loss, they are reemphasizing it.
"That's just ridiculous to have no effort and no pressure on the ball," Henrickson said. "The box is to keep people out. You can't let them catch it in front of the rim."
As the conference season has worn on, Sutherland said she had developed a better comfort level playing against top athletes. For a player clearly capable of providing Kansas a spark off the bench, confidence is just as important as Sutherland's skills.
Part of that responsibility will fall with Sutherland.
"When I first started out I was feeling pretty nervous," Sutherland said. "But now, I'm feeling more comfortable with it."
MCCRAY EAGER TO PLAY RANKED TEAM
Strange as it sounds, junior forward Danielle McCray is excited for the challenge of playing a ranked team.
The last time Kansas played a ranked opponent, the layhawks nearly knocked off Texas A&M before the Aggies pulled away late.
"Personally, I love playing against ranked teams and people that are really good," McCray said. "It just shows you how much you have to improve and gives you the chance to beat them."
Playing on the road for the second consecutive time, McCray said the Jayhawks needed to change their mindset.
"We need to have our own energy on the road and our own intensity," McCray said. "We have to know that we only have ourselves. What we brought on the bus is all we have. We just have to focus on that more."
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Indiana Pacers guard Brandon Rush (right) fouls Orlando Magic guard Mickael Pietrus during the second half of the Jan. 27 Pacers loss. Rush has a mentor in Indiana's Danny Granger, an all-star player this year.
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just wasn't room for Rush in the starting lineup. That had never happened to him before.
His uneasiness at the prospect of coming off the bench showed early. Rush averaged nearly eight more points in the five games when, because of injuries, coach Jim O'Brien was forced to put him in the starting lineup.
"I've never come off the bench before," Rush said about the discrepancy in his numbers. "This is my first time ever experiencing it. I guess it's that comfort zone. As a starter you hit your first couple of shots and really get into that flow. Coming off the bench, you come in and miss a couple and get taken out. You really don't know when — if you're coming back in."
Lately Rush's minutes have been cut even more with the return of Pacers guard Mike Dunleavy from an injury that kept him out for the first half of the season. But Rush says he knows he belongs in this league, citing Granger as an example.
"In the future I want to be a Danny Granger type," Rush said. "When he was a rookie he was going through a lot of the same things I'm going through right now. You know, he just got better and better every year. I want to have that kind of career."
Careers, though, take time. Rush has demonstrated the potential to be a lethal scorer in the NBA. In his five starts this year he has averaged 13 points a game, and scored a career-high 22 against New Jersey. But he is still just a rookie.
"They got me doing things I never thought I would do," he said. "I'm getting McDonald's every morning for the guys, singing happy birthday to everybody, dancing and stuff. It's a big difference."
But misery love company, and Rush has plenty of that. Four of his former Kansas teammates were drafted along with Rush on that night in late June.
Among them was point guard Mario Chalmers, who was in Indianapolis Friday for the same reason Rush stayed late at practice that morning.
Chalmers' Miami Heat were set to take on Rush's Pacers that night. Rush said it was a dream come true for all of them.
Though the friendship is still strong — Rush took Chalmers out for a steak dinner the night before the game — both know that it's all business once they get on the court.
"It's one of those we talked about over the years," Rush said, "being able to play each other in the NBA. It's a lot of fun; were always joking with each other. You definitely root for them."
"It's fun to go up against a guy like Brandon," said Chalmers, who has started all 47 games at point guard for Miami. "But at the same time we're going to make each other work hard for everything we get."
Chalmers, who averages 31 minutes per game compared to Rush's 20, plays a major role for the Heat, one that he described as "just trying to get everybody involved in the offense, keep us going on defense
and really bring that energy."
His importance to the Heat was exemplified early in their game against Indiana. The Pacers won the tip, but a quick turnover led to the Heat's first possession. Less than 30 seconds into the game, Chalmers helped the Heat get on the board. He was forced to the baseline but found Dwyane Wade in the middle for a 15-foot jumper and his first of five assists.
Afwepossessions later, Chalmers took advantage of a weakness in the Pacers defense. He sliced through three Pacers defenders — all above 6-foot-9-inches — for an easy left-handed layup. It was a play Rush saw coming.
"I've just got to pick up our system and how we play defense," Rush said at lunch before the game. "With Self it was just blitz everything. ... With coach O'Brien it's jamming everything, trying to force the guy with the ball to the baseline. It's kind of tough because you open up the gate, straight to the hole, for a great offensive player."
Chalmer's inexperience showed shortly after the layup. Seven minutes into the first quarter, Chalmers was forced to check out because of foul trouble.
With Chalmers able to play only a minute and a half in the second
quarter, the Heat's deficit quickly grew from three to 17. Despite logging only 13 minutes in the game, Chalmers tallied a respectable nine points and five assists.
"You can go on and on about somebody's impact," Wade said about Chalmers' foul trouble. "We had guys come in who should've been able to step in and do the job, but you always miss a guy like that when they're not on the floor."
Wade's relationship with Chalmers is an interesting one. Wade, who was one of the stars of this summer's Olympic goldmedal-winning Team USA, was coaching Chalmers at every possible opportunity.
He would retreat down the floor to talk to Chalmers on the bench during free throws and talk to him on the court during timeouts. Whenever the two were together on the bench they would sit next to each other and run imaginary plays with their hands, pointing out spots on the floor and using their hands to make phantom cuts to the hole.
"Dwane, you know, he's the one that took me under his wing at the beginning of the season," Chalmers said. "He's just tried to show me the ropes, make the game a little bit easier for me. That's the person I go
A similar relationship has evolved with Granger and Rush.
to when I've got to ask questions
stuff like that. He's my vet."
"I try to emulate his game," Rush said. "The coaches want me to do that and I want to do that for myself because he's a great play
— he's an All-Star now — and I want to be at that level.
It's easy to mistake the two on the court. Granger, a 6-foot-9 swingman out of New Mexico, has a few inches on the 6-6 Rush, but their frame — and game — are eerily similar.
Granger, the Pacers' first-round pick in the 2005 draft, has developed from a reserve and emergency starter into one of the top players in the league, averaging more than 25 points per game.
Rush, at the moment, is trapped in the reserve and emergency starter role, as Granger was in his rookie season, but his numbers hover right around what Granger put up that first year.
"It's a different level when you're going against all-stars every night," Rush said. "But I'm picking it up."
He doesn't have to go buy a lottery ticket, as his coach suggested.
tery ticket, as his coach suggested. He's already won it.
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FORMER HAWKS AROUND THE NBA
The four Jayhawks from last year's team playing in the NB joined seven others who had already established themselves in the league. They are
Nick Collison
Collison
Oklahoma City Thunder, Class of 2003
Season: 8.4 points, 6.8 rebounds, 0.9 assists
Career: 8.2 points, 6.9 rebounds, 1 assist
Collison, who formed one of the most prolific tandems in school history with Kirk Hinrich in his four years at Kansas, has become a mainstay in the Thunder's starting lineup. Despite Oklahoma City's struggles, Collison has proved to be a reliable power forward in the NBA.
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Drew Gooden
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Chicago Bulls, Class of 2002
Season: 13.1 points, 8.6 rebounds, 1.4 assists
Career: 12.1 points, 8.0 rebounds, 1.2 assists
Gooden has become known just as much for his varying facial hairstyles as for his reliable play for the Bulls. He joined fellow Jayhawk Kirk Hinchin in Chicago after being traded from the Cleveland Cavaliers last year, Gooden, in his seventh year in the league, is improving most of his career numbers in his first full year in Chicago.
Gooden
Kirk Hinrich
Chicago Bulls, Class of 2003
Chicago Bears, Class of 2003
Season: 9.1 points, 2.3 rebounds, 4.5 assists, 1.3 steals Career: 14.1 points, 1.5 rebounds, 6.3 assists, 1.3 steals Hinrich was Chicago's starting point guard for the past five years, but when the opportunity arose for the Bulls to select hometown hero Derrick Rose with the first pick of the draft, they jumped. Hinrich is widely believed to have the talent to be a starting point guard, and his name, according to ESPN.com, is being thrown about in trade discussions.
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Raef LaFrentz
Portland Trail Blazers, Class of 1998
Season: 1.7 points, 1.7 rebounds, 0.2 assists, 0.4 blocks
Career: 10.1 points, 6.1 rebounds, 1.1 assists, 1.6 blocks
LaFrentz is on the downstroke of a successful NBA career.
He has spent time with Denver, Dallas, Boston and, for the past two years, Portland, and may very well retire a Trail Blazer. The sweet-shooting big man has hit threes at a 36 percent clip for his career.
LaFrentz
Boston Celtics, Class of 1998
Paul Pierce
Season: 19.5 points, 5.8 rebounds, 3.8 assists, 1.1 steals Career: 22.9 points, 6.3 rebounds, 3.9 assists, 1.6 steals Pierce's scoring average has dropped during the past two years as a result of the Celtics finally building a winning team around him. After struggling through some bad years with the Celtics, last year Pierce broke through and won the NBA title. He was voted Finals MVP, becoming the second Jayhawk, after Jo White, to win the award with Boston. Pierce has had a borderline Hall of Fame career.
Pierce
Jacque Vaughn
San Antonio Spurs, Class of 1997
Season: 2.6 points, 2.3 assists, 0.8 rebounds
Career: 4.5 points, 2.5 assists, 1.3 rebounds
Vaughn, like LaFrentz, will likely be leaving the NBA within the next few seasons. After spending time with Utah, who drafted him 27th overall in 1997.
Atlanta, Orlando and New Jersey, the 33-year-old point guard has found a home with the San Antonio Spurs.
Vaughn
Julian Wright
Susan Wright
New Orleans Hornets, Class of 2007
Season: 2.9 points, 1.8 rebounds
Career: 1.6 points, 2.0 rebounds
Wright is still looking to break into a lineup that
features sharp shooter Peja Stojakovic and all-star
David West starting in the two forward spots that
Wright would likely occupy. As a reserve, he is
averaging 10 minutes per game.
Wright
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after promising Kansas would be fine.
"I don't know how we'll handle it," Self said. "It's probably a good thing we have five days off, to be honest with you."
Kansas' only solace seems to
be the looming matchup against Kansas State on Saturday in Manhattan. Self and the layhawks are impressed with the Wildcats' current five-game winning streak
— which includes an 88-72 victory against Missouri.
They know Bramlage Coliseum will be everybit as hostile as Mizzou Arena. And if the Jayhawks were to lose their second game in a row, they would likely see another court flooded with opposing fans.
To Kansas, a victory in Manhattan would get its season back on track. That's why the players adopted a motto after the loss in Columbia, Mo.
But it's about more than that.
"You can't turn one loss into two," sophomore guard Tyrel Reed said.
It almost sounded rehearsed as Aldrich and junior guard Sherron Collins described the game against Kansas State the same way.
None of them thought motivation would be a problem. Not only because it's a showdown against
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Although the image of fans in black and gold flooding the court after a loss isn't going anywhere, Aldrich said it must be used as a positive.
"We've got to learn from it," Aldrich said. "That's the bottom line"
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Last week, former Jayhawk and current Pittsburgh Steelers center Justin Hartwig became the 13th Kansas player to win a Super Bowl. After the game he said he recognized the honor of being a part of that elite group.
"Just to even be mentioned as accomplishing something those guys have is really special," Hartwig said. "I look back fondly at my days at KU and appreciate where I came from and it definitely made me a big part of who I am now."
Before he graduated from the University, an adviser asked Hartwig what his career plans were. When he mentioned professional football, the adviser told him to come back and talk with the advising center if it didn't work out.
"My career could have easily been over when I was done at KU." Hartwig said. "I said I'm looking at playing in the NFL and they looked at me like I was ignorant or crazy"
After finding playing time hard to come by, Hartwig started his final three seasons and was an All-Big 12 Second Team
selection in 2001.
Former Jayhawk teammate Danny Lewis, who currently works at the Adams Alumni Center, said Hartwig was one of the best linemen he had crossed when at the University. In those three seasons, Hartwig started at offensive tackle.
"I never saw him lose a one-on-one drill when I was playing at KU." Lewis said. "He was leagit"
Lewis said he wished Hartwig could have been around for the great football staff that is in place now.
"He is doing pretty good for himself," Lewis said. "I wish he was able to see and experience KU football as we know it now instead of the dark days of Terry Allen."
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Although the Jayhawks never went to a bowl game in Hartwig's time at Kansas, his versatility as an offensive lineman led the Tennessee Titans to draft him in the sixth round of the 2002 NFL Draft.
A little less than seven years ago, Hartwig was sitting in a plane on his way to Tennessee reading ESPN magazine when he saw it: A photo of Titans defensive lineman Jevon Kearse, as Hartwig said, "breaking a player in half."
"I was like holy crap, I'm on my way to go down and block him right now," Hartwig said.
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Guest speaker to tackle tough topic
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The Department of Student Housing often invites authorities on topics such as fire prevention, campus safety and stress management to come talk to students.
Today, the department will host a lecture on a very different topic: homosexuality.
John Corvino will give his lecture, "What's Morally Wrong with Homosexuality?" at 7 p.m. in the Hashinger Hall theater. Corvino, a columnist for 365gay.com, said he hoped students from all backgrounds and opinions would attend the lecture. Much of the speech, Corvino said, was devoted to answering questions or concerns people had with homosexuality.
"This is an issue that, despite tremendous increases in visibility, people still have a hard time discussing." Corvino said. "I think it will give KU students an opportunity to look at the issue with greater
focus and rigor, and thus better understand the topic.
By openly discussing homosexuality, Corvino said people from any background would gain a better understanding of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues. Corvino, who began lecturing on the subject in the early 1990s,
said the speech was an in-depth but humorous response to some of the common arguments against homosexuality. He said his lecture addressed issues such as supporting the LGBT community and gay marriage.
said the group was helping Student Housing present Corvinio's lecture. Campbell, host of KJHK's Dick and Dyke show, said he used his program to help spread the word about the lecture. He said his program, like Corvino's speech, operated on the same belief that open conversations facilitated greater understanding of the LGBT community.
"The lecture addresses that difficulty, not by sidestepping the moral questions, but by confronting them," Corvino said.
"This is an issue that despite tremendous increases in visibility, people still have a hard time discussing."
Ryan Campbell, Olathe senior and Queers and Allies president,
"When you reach out to an audience that isn't familiar with the concept of homosexuality, if someone is willing to openly discuss the topic, you're much more able to change minds," Campbell said.
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Rick Lofgren, assistant complex director for Lewis Hall, said students from all backgrounds and sexual orientations lived together in the dorms. Lofgren said Housing was only furthering its mission statement by adding to the diversity of
the university and helping students become more socially-educated.
"We are not the experts, so we wanted to bring in the expert," Lofgren said. "What's cool about Corvino is he actually encourages students to have a different understandin"
Corvino's lecture is scheduled during Freedom to Marry week, which advocates active discussion to promote marriage equality.
Luke Matheis, Overland Park junior and membership coordinator for KU College Republicans, said he supported equality and understanding of the gay and lesbian community. Because he isn't homosexual, Matheis said he didn't feel directly involved in issues such as marriage equality.
"I don't consider it my fight," Matheis said. "Gay marriage will come in its own time. I agree more with letting people be."
Corvino said he understood why
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Student Senate failed a bill that would limit the amount of money Senate could allocate to student groups after nearly two hours of debate during last week's meeting.
The bill came as a response to the over-allocation of funds within Senate during the fall semester. Its sponsors saw the bill as a step toward fiscal accountability, and its failing signified to them a lack of responsibility within Senate. Others saw the bill as hurried and ineffective.
Eric Foss, Overland Park third year law student and author of the bill, said he wrote the legislation because he noticed a continued trend of allocating more money to groups during the fall semester, leaving Senate, and consequently student groups, strapped
"I wanted to put funding caps in so it didn't matter when you came in; each group would be limited to a certain amount of money", Foss said.
for cash in the spring.
If the bill passed, it would have limited the amount of money student groups could receive from Senate. Events and speakers would have been eligible to receive as much as $6,000. For academic projects through groups such as the Experimental Balloon Society, Senate would have given the group 50 percent more than what the associated academic department was willing to provide, so long as the amount didn't exceed $5,000.
Mason Heilman, Lawrence junior and student executive committee chairman, voted against the bill and said he didn't think the bill had been given
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MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities found five abandoned, bullet-riddled and bloodstained vehicles on Wednesday, fueling their hunt for killer gangs following a wave of border-region slayings and clashes with soldiers that left 21 people dead, an official said.
2. People long skirmishes around the town of Villa Ahumada on Tuesday were part of a wave of drug violence that has engulfed parts of Mexico, and has even spilled across the border as the army confronts savage narcotics cartels that are flush with drug money and guns from the U.S.
President Felipe Calderon said more than 6,000 people died last year in drug-related violence.
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British Foreign Secretary David Miliband announced that a doctor and other British officials would visit Binyam Mohamed at the prison camp. Mohamed has been on a hunger strike for more than a month and is being force-fed. He launched the strike to protest his continued detention. Charges against him were dropped last year
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HARARE, Zimbabwe — President Robert Mugabe swore in his longtime rival as prime minister Wednesday, cracking his nearly three-decade stranglehold on power and conceding they must work together to rescue Zimbabwe from economic and humanitarian disaster. The opposition leader has been beaten and was once nearly thrown from a 10th floor window by suspected government thugs. Morgan Tsvangirai promised to begin repairing the economy and healing the country's other wounds.
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BELLEFONTAINE, Ohio — A fourth-grade teacher had a side job as a prostitute, and even skipped class after using a school computer to arrange an afternoon tryst at a motel, authorities said Wednesday.
Amber Carter, 35, left school early on Tuesday and was arrested in a motel parking lot in Bellefontaine, where authorities had set up a sting operation.
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In humans, there are four tiny areas of the brain that some researchers say form a circuit of love. Acevedo is part of a team that has isolated those regions.
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people didn't feel connected to the gay marriage movement, but issues such as equality should be important to everyone in a community, not just gay rights supporters.
"The debate over same-sex marriage really didn't become prominent until the turn of the century," Corvino said. "What I discuss is the importance of 'coming out', not just for gay people, but for anyone who is supportive of gay marriage."
Jeremy Adkison, Leavenworth sophomore, is one of the members of Queers & Allies helping sponsor Corvino's lecture. Adkison said he believed civil unions could be a step towards marriage equality.
Still, Adkison said gay and lesbian couples cared more about the idea behind marriage than the benefits that came with it.
"The truth is it's the word marriage. It's not the rights," Adkison said. "The 14th Amendment gives everyone equal rights, but people can't get married or extend insurance to their children because they're not considered the same."
Matt Kennitz, formation director of St. Lawrence Catholic Church, said gay marriage was wrong because acting on homosexual tendencies, not being homosexual in itself, was a sin. Corvino said he would respond to such beliefs tonight.
"I'm definitely going to address this disconnect," Corvino said. "I."
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"Even if people in the audience have made up their minds on certain things, they haven't on everything," Corvino said. "Part of the dialogue we have with each other is to give the audience something to think about."
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HARTWIG (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
"You know you can play in college, but the guys you're going against in the NFL are older and smarter and in some cases physically bigger than guys you've been going against."
In his first year, the coaches moved him from tackle to guard. The next year he made a permanent switch to center. Although Hartwig went through multiple transitions in his football career,
none of them may have been as big as his switch to the center position.
In football, the center is an empowering position because the center has to know the offense and blocking schemes better than anyone on the line.
Park freshman, who is a Steelers and a Jayhawks football fan, said he thought Hartwig's position switch was impressive.
"I think that the ability to switch from playing tackle in college to center in the NFL speaks a lot to his overall ability as a football player," Gallagher said.
Hartwig compared the moves in his first two seasons to the growing process he experienced
"I look back fondly at my days at KU and appreciate where I came from..."
JUSTIN HARTWIG Steeler's center
Because of his versatility, Hartwig didn't have a problem playing a position on the line he had no experience with.
"I had never snapped the ball before and five days later I was starting my first preseason game against the Cleveland Browns," Hartwig said. "They moved me to center because I was playing really well and they said I would be their fifth best lineman."
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as a freshman at the University.
"Going into a college football team where there are 22 and 23-year-old seniors, you kind of get thrown into the fire." Hartwig said. "Just from a growing up point, on the field and off
the field I had a lot of great experiences at KU and especially learned a lot about myself."
POST TENNESSEE YEARS
After leaving the Titans in 2005, Hartwig signed with the Carolina Panthers for the 2006 and 2007 seasons. After those seasons, the Panthers released him.
center. When Hartwig interviewed for the job with coach Mike Tomlin, Tomlin said if he came to Pittsburgh he would have a realistic chance to play for a Super Bowl every year.
Hartwig said he was extremely excited at the beginning of the 2008-09 season when the Steelers picked him up as their starting
Tomlin wasn't lying.
Late in the fourth quarter of this year's Super Bowl, a holding penalty on Hartwig in the end zone resulted in a safety. The Cardinals took advantage and scored quickly, but the Steelers and Hartwig remained poised. They got the ball back with a minute and a half left on the clock and drove down the field.
"The holding call definitely took the wind out of my sail for sure," Hartwig said. "But our calling card all year was winning all our close games and we did what we had to do."
The Steelers pulled out the come-from-behind victory, 27-23 over the Cardinals, and left Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla., as Super Bowl champions.
"There was just a really weird vibe in the air like I've never felt before," Hartwig said. "My adrenaline was absolutely sky high. It was a lot of fun, because you know that the whole world is watching and there is so much buildup to the game."
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SENATE (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
enough thought.
"If we're going to put a spending cap in place it needs to be done with a lot of thought, a lot of people involved in the process and it needs to be done at the beginning of the academic year," Heilman said. "This bill zoomed through committees and was only authored by one person."
Supporters of the bill said it would take important measures to funnel students requesting large chunks of money through the line item allocation process that happens once a year. When students apply for this type of funding, the groups appear together at one time before the Senate so that the senators can get a bigger picture of which groups on campus need money. Foss said that when groups who knew they would be requesting large amounts of money didn't go through line
item, it could cause problems down the road.
"During line item and block allocation we have a set amount that we give to block groups and a set amount that we hold over for nonallocated, so when these groups don't go through line item it catches us off guard," Foss said.
This past semester, layhawk Motorsports and Black Student Union missed the line item allocation deadline and Senate still chose to fund the groups $10,085 and $10,000, respectively. Those funding bills accounted for a quarter of spending for the fall semester.
Alex Porte, Great Falls, Va.
senior and student body treasurer.
Koga Moffor, Black Student Union president and Overland Park senior, said a bill like the one proposed would motivate her group to go through line item funding.
said the bill would have helped prevent similar things from happening in the future.
"It was disappointing to me that the Senate failed it because I felt it was very hypocritical for Senate to have a two hour debate on that bill about fiscal responsibility and then no more than half an hour after that we passed a $2,000 funding bill," Porte said.
Several senators expressed hope that something would come out of the discussion.
Michael Wade Smith, Goodland sophomore and deputy communications director, voted against the bill.
"I think a task force or some kind of committee needs to be formed that has more than four or five people working on it," Smith said.
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Vegas mayor wants apology
Oscar Goodman calls Obama's critical comments harmful for Sin City
BY OSKAR GARCIA Associated Press Writer
LAS VEGAS — The mayor of Las Vegas told President Barack Obama in a letter that his criticism of companies using taxpayer money to visit Sin City is harmful to the tourist-dependent destination.
Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman didn't directly ask the president for an apology and retraction in the letter obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press, as he did in interviews.
"It expect him to address it and to correct it," Goodman told the AP.
"Whenyoumake a casual, although not malevolent remark, it can have ramifications which affect the industry as well as all of the citizens who live in southern Nevada," he said. "It's affecting some of these people's lives."
In the past two weeks, two financial institutions that received a combined $35 billion in federal bailout money pulled out of large events in Las Vegas at the last minute. Obama, who has been mustering public support for economic stimulus legislation, said during a town hall meeting this
week in Indiana that companies shouldn't hold such events at taxpayers' expense.
"You can't get corporate jets, you can't go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayer's dime," Obama said.
Goodman said he is worried that Obama's comments are discouraging travel to a city already suffering a steep drop in tourism business and revenue.
"Mr. President, I understand the enormous burden you carry in dealing with the worst economy since the Great Depression,"
"...your comments are harmful to the meetings and convention industry as a whole and Las Vegas specifically."
OSCAR GOODMAN Mayor of Las Vegas
Goodman wrote in the letter, sent late Tuesday.
"I also understand the need for accountability, but your comments are harmful to the meetings and convention industry as a whole and Las Vegas specifically," he said.
The White House has not reacted to Goodman's comments.
U. S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said on the floor of the U.S. Senate on Wednesday that he spoke with White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel about Obama's remarks.
"He made it clear to me that the president's criticism was aimed at
the potential use of taxpayer funds for junkets, and in no way reflects his thoughts about any one particular city," Reid said.
The number of visitors to Las Vegas was down 4.4 percent in 2008 compared with a year earlier, and visits in December alone declined nearly 11 percent. State gaming regulators reported Wednesday that Nevada casino winnings were down almost 19 percent in December, compared with the same month a year ago, dropping taxable revenues for the period almost 23 percent from 2007.
In a statement Rep. Shelley Berkley, D>Nev., asked Obama and others in Congress to refrain from making comments that harm Las Vegas and other destinations whose economies rely on business travelers.
"Please, let's stop the attacks, let's call a cease-fire and let's recognize the true cost of these words in real dollars lost as a result of canceled meetings and other functions that will not be held in Las Vegas." Berkley said.
"Mr. President, I support your efforts to curb corporate excesses in your recovery plan, but from the neon lights of Las Vegas to the Chicago skyline, from the white sands of Hawaii to the Kansas heartland, tourism means jobs," she said. "We need your support and we need the business more than ever before."
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Intelligence committee spokesman Philip LaVelle said approval came Wednesday during a closed committee meeting
Panetta was President Barack Obama's surprise pick to head the committee, but the Senate panel approved him without opposition.
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The full Senate is expected to confirm Panetta soon.
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Cheyenne Tree treats a koala nicknamed Sam that was saved from the bushfires in Gippsland at the Mountain Ash Wildlife Center in Rawson, 100 miles east of Melbourne, Australia. Workers were scrambling to assist possums, kangaroos and lizards on Wednesday. More than 180 people were killed in the weekend's fires, and on Wednesday, the scope of the devastation to Australia's wildlife began to emerge, with officials estimating that millions of animals also perished in the inferno.
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Wildlife rescue officials on Wednesday worked frantically to help the animals that made it through Australia's worst-ever wildfires but they said millions of animals likely perished in the inferno.
Kangaroos that survived are suffering from burned feet, a result of their territorial behavior. After escaping the initial flames, the creatures — which prefer to stay in one area — likely circled back to their homes, singing their feet on the smoldering ground.
"It's just horrific," said Neil Morgan, president of the Statewide Wildlife Rescue Emergency Service in Victoria, the state where the raging fires were still burning. "It's disaster all around for humans and animals as well."
as they emerge to find their food supply gone, said Pat O'Brien, president of the Wildlife Protection Association of Australia.
The official human death toll stood at 181 from the weekend's deadly fires and authorities said it would exceed 200. While the scope of the wildlife devastation was still unclear, it was likely to be enormous, Rowdon said.
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Some wombats that hid in their burrows managed to survive the blazes, but those that are not rescued face a slow and certain death
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Gillian Armstrong's bike has been her primary mode of transportation for about four years.
Armstrong, Manhattan senior, said she rode to work, to class and often to run errands.
"It's good exercise for one thing," Armstrong said. "You don't have to pay for gas, and it's better for the environment."
The federal government is giving people like Armstrong a new incentive to ride their bikes. Attached to the bailout plan that passed on Oct. 3, the Bicycle Commuter Act went into effect
Jan. 1. Under the Act, employees could receive $20 per month incentive to ride their bicycles to work. Lawrence businesses are now working to take advantage of the Act.
Andy Clark, executive director of the League of American Bicyclists, said the passage of the Act was a relief for his organization. The Act had been in front of Congress for seven years.
"We were delighted with that," Clark said. "Now we've been working to figure out what it really means and how it will actually be implemented."
Clark said there were three different ways in which employers could use the Act to benefit their employees.
Clark said government agencies and non-profit organizations would be the most likely to use this option. He said he planned on implementing this for his own employees.
He said a business could decide to give employees $20 per month, writing off the extra expense as a tax deduction. A second option for businesses would be to offer the employee $20 per month with no tax benefit to the company or the employee.
"We don't get any benefit except that our employees will be happy that we're doing it," Clark said.
The third option is for businesses to give employees the option to take $20 per month off their pay and have it paid pre-tax into a
card or voucher they can redeem to help with the cost of upkeep for their bicycles.
Steele said he had been an avid bicyclist for decades, and contacted the director of human resources at the University, Ola Faucher, to ask about the possibility of University participation in the Act. He said he was disappointed when Faucher said the benefit was not available to state employees, including people employed by the University.
Clark said he encouraged people to get in touch with the human resource departments of their employers to take advantage of the benefit. Merrill Steele, senior lock systems specialist, did just that.
"The state of Kansas was unable to offer the pre-tax benefit to its employees because the benefits plan for the state had already been finalized when the act was formalized," Faucher said in an e-mail. "We are hopeful they may consider the benefit in the plan next year, but that doesn't begin until January 2010."
"To me this is not about the $20 a month," Steele said. "It's the principle of the thing."
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According to the League of American Bicyclists, 40 percent of all car trips are within two miles of people's homes. The organization also said 60 percent of pollution from automobiles happened in the first few minutes of operation because it took more power to start a car than it did to keep it running.
Dan Hughes, owner of Sunflower Outdoor and Bike, said he first heard about the Act at the National Bicycle Summit last March. Hughes said he was waiting to hear back from his accountant about the possibility of setting up the program for his employees.
Steele said he encouraged other University employees to e-mail Faucher to express interest in participating in the program.
The League of American Bicyclists announced its first annual ranking of Bicycle Friendly States in 2008. Scoring was based on 70 different factors, including legislation, education, programs and infrastructure. The highest and lowest scoring states overall were:
Top 5
1. Washington
2. Wisconsin
3. Arizona
4. Oregon
5. Minnesota
"We have about 80 to 95 percent of the staff ride their bikes to work no matter what anyway," Hughes said. "We're already doing it. I just need to figure out a way to reward employees for it."
48. Alabama
49. Georgia
50. West Virginia
Bottom 5
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46. North Dakota
47. Mississippi
Kansas was ranked 25 out of 50. Out of platinum, gold, silver and bronze ranking levels. Lawrence received a bronze ranking.
Hughes said the $20 per month incentive is small compared to the importance of getting people out of their cars and on bicycles.
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Police ran Barbel's name through the state warrant system and discovered he had outstanding warrants on charges of driving with a suspended license, leaving the scene of an accident, threatening to commit a crime and making annoying phone calls.
Sweeney said police removed the cuffs — then slipped on a new pair to arrest him. They never confirmed his story about the party.
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The settlement was announced Tuesday just before Pastore, 62, was to testify for the second day in Manhattan's state Supreme Court in the assault trial filed by
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Lawyers for both sides said the terms of the settlement were confidential.
Pastore, who played gregarious, genial mob killer Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero on the htBO series, said little as he left court.
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ACROSS
1 Seed covering
5 Shrill bark
8 State with conviction
12 Conflageation
13 Leading lady
14 Bygone VHS alternative
15 Oriental nursemaid
16 Scratch
17 St. Louis landmark
18 Call a spade a shovel?
20 Price
22 Woman of letters'
26 Horsey laugh
29 The whole enchilada
30 Gear tooth
31 Benedict XIV, e.g.
32 Expert
33 Enthusiastic
34 Tackle the comestibles
35 "Whadja say?" 1 Some-where out there
36 Wise lawgiver 2 Frost
37 Staff-meeting prop. 3 Persia, now
often
40 Options list 4 English Channel port
list
41 Render defenseless 5 Mocha's country
less
45 Leno's prominence 6 Actress Gardner
nence
47 Pi follower 7 Fabric used for sheets
follower
49 Otherwise 8 Disconcert
TV clown 9 Upright
pinch 10 List-ending abbr.
exploding star 11 "Go, team!"
crystal gazer 19 Wrestling
collection
agvoy surface
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21 Pussy-cat's partner
23 Topped chip
24 Not "for here"
25 Big Apple cardinal
26 Jet forth
27 Ancient mariner?
28 Make as good as possible
32 Moderate brown shades
33 Unexpected blessing
35 Coop denizen
36 — Lanka
38 Choir member
39 Take as one's own
42 Burn soother
43 Answer an invite
44 Vegan's no-no
45 Couric's employer
46 Weeding tool
48 Waste not a moment
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Yesterday's Cryptoquip: DO YOU THINK THE DEMOCRATIC DONKEY AND REPUBLICAN ELEPHANT COULD BE CONSIDERED PARTY ANIMALS?
Todav's Cryptoquip Clue: M equals P
FINANCE
Will Smith tops Forbes' list
of bankable celebrities
NEW YORK — Will Smith was voted the most bankable star in Hollywood in a survey of industry professionals by Forbes.com.
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out of 10 for his bankability in its first "star currency" list, compiled by surveying more than 150 industry professionals.
The Forbes survey, which acknowledged that it was "subjective;" also took into account a star's ability to attract financing for a project. The list was released Tuesday.
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Opinion
WILSON: TECHNOLOGY TROUNCES ROMANCE
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2009
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I guess you know that it's going to be a bad day when getting up for an Organic Chemistry lecture sounds more appealing than sleeping in while your sorority sister snores like a drowning elephant next to you.
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I'd rather have KU basketball than a boyfriend. Why is that wrong?
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Women, if you expect your guys to do something expensive then you suck. However if you would be OK with something economically friendly and semi-sweet, then you're a keeper.
you're a keeper
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I'm hoping to get a pajama
garment this year for Valentine's
Day. Do you think they have
feeding?
--and Sciences should have been elected to the committee. CLAS is comprised of at least 1,400 faculty and graduate teaching assistants, and more than 17,000 students. According to the CLAS Web site, almost half of the University's students earn their bachelor's degrees from this college. Because this college represents such a large portion of the students and faculty, it deserves to be involved in the recruitment of the University's next chancellor.
--and Sciences should have been elected to the committee. CLAS is comprised of at least 1,400 faculty and graduate teaching assistants, and more than 17,000 students. According to the CLAS Web site, almost half of the University's students earn their bachelor's degrees from this college. Because this college represents such a large portion of the students and faculty, it deserves to be involved in the recruitment of the University's next chancellor.
Then I'm a keeper! I'd rather something creative be done than something expensive. Oh, but wait, I'm not a Johnson County girl, so that may be why.
I'm from Johnson County. That must mean that I don't care about anything but money and am completely shallow. Wow, I'm glad my geographic location has offered so much insight into my personality.
--and Sciences should have been elected to the committee. CLAS is comprised of at least 1,400 faculty and graduate teaching assistants, and more than 17,000 students. According to the CLAS Web site, almost half of the University's students earn their bachelor's degrees from this college. Because this college represents such a large portion of the students and faculty, it deserves to be involved in the recruitment of the University's next chancellor.
--and Sciences should have been elected to the committee. CLAS is comprised of at least 1,400 faculty and graduate teaching assistants, and more than 17,000 students. According to the CLAS Web site, almost half of the University's students earn their bachelor's degrees from this college. Because this college represents such a large portion of the students and faculty, it deserves to be involved in the recruitment of the University's next chancellor.
Hey Mizzou, I remember when I had my first beer.
Hey lady — the one who nearly hit the guy on the black motorcycle today — I hope that extra five seconds was worth it to you, because it almost killed me.
--and Sciences should have been elected to the committee. CLAS is comprised of at least 1,400 faculty and graduate teaching assistants, and more than 17,000 students. According to the CLAS Web site, almost half of the University's students earn their bachelor's degrees from this college. Because this college represents such a large portion of the students and faculty, it deserves to be involved in the recruitment of the University's next chancellor.
I just saw the best oxymoron to walk on campus: A girl wearing shorty shorts with Uag boots.
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--and Sciences should have been elected to the committee. CLAS is comprised of at least 1,400 faculty and graduate teaching assistants, and more than 17,000 students. According to the CLAS Web site, almost half of the University's students earn their bachelor's degrees from this college. Because this college represents such a large portion of the students and faculty, it deserves to be involved in the recruitment of the University's next chancellor.
You know how you don't know where all your purple pens are? I do.
--and Sciences should have been elected to the committee. CLAS is comprised of at least 1,400 faculty and graduate teaching assistants, and more than 17,000 students. According to the CLAS Web site, almost half of the University's students earn their bachelor's degrees from this college. Because this college represents such a large portion of the students and faculty, it deserves to be involved in the recruitment of the University's next chancellor.
Yes, I do, and your khaki pants.
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People who are more concerned with the K-State game on Saturday than Valentine's Day are sad, pathetic people who will probably die alone.
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To my friend who joined the "I hate fat people" Facebook group: I'm gonna knee you in the nuts for this.
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I already have a Valentine of three years, but I still wanna speed-date!
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Everyone should just enjoy their Valentine's Day however they choose. Why can't we all be friends? Except K-State.
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The bus driver should stop hitting on GSP girls.
EDITORIAL BOARD
Chancellor search committee needs more students, faculty
In the process of hiring a new chancellor to replace Robert Hemenway, a chairman and search committee were chosen by the Board of Regents to recruit possible candidates.
We think the search committee should have included an additional student member and an additional faculty member, specifically from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Currently, the search committee does not accurately represent academics as a priority.
There were three students on
There were three studies the 1994 search committee that brought Robert Hemenway to the University: the student body president, the 1994 Truman scholar, and a second-year medical student. Since then, enrollment has increased and is now at a record high, yet this year's committee includes only one student.
Pittsburg State University and Kansas State University are both currently searching for presidential candidates and have similar search committees acting as recruiters. Pittsburg State's committee includes two students, and Kansas State's has three student members.
KANSAN'S OPINION
We also think a representative from the College of Liberal Arts
In an article in the Lawrence Journal World on Dec. 30,2008, it was clear the chairman was not selected for his academic qualifica tions.
selected by Regents Chairwoman Donna Shank, Regents Vice Chairwoman Jill Docking, Regents CEO and President
Reggie Robinson and Search Committee Chairman Duc Jennings. The Board of Regents then approved it.
"His previous business, volunteer and leadership experience is such an invaluable asset," said Shank. "As a former CEO, Drue has a wealth of business and executive experience."
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This kind of business experience is necessary in the search for the next chancellor, however the committee members should make up for what the chairman is lacking in academic experience. It is essential to have both business and academic interests represented in the committee in order to maintain balance and ensure a priority on education is not forgotten. Unfortunately, the 18-member committee does not meet these standards.
The current search committee is a reflection of giving precedence to athletic, business and economic gain. Along with these, the first priority of the University should always be education and academic excellence. The search committee, as well as the next chancellor should reflect that.
— Caitlin Thornbrugh for The Kansan Editorial Board
STUDENT LIFE
AMERICANS...
DUDE, PARIS HAS THE
BEST BOOZE. DID
YOU SEE WHAT I DID
TO THAT PAINTING
OVER THERE?
YEAH, I KNOW. I THINK
IT'S PRETTY ORIGINAL.
JAMESFARMER
More than 'study' abroad
Students miss opportunities by avoiding interaction with locals
I remember feeling uncomfortable when my Taiwanese friend brought up Japan's military conquests in Asia before World War II. She said her grandmother still didn't like the Japanese because of Japan's occupation of Taiwan from 1895 to 1945.
I didn't know how to respond at first. We then talked about what we learned in our history classes. She said her Taiwanese history textbook described Japan's colonization of Taiwan for pages. My Japanese history textbook, however, referred to the event only for a few paragraphs.
I found the conversation interesting. This was one of the moments I took advantage of being abroad and interacting with non-Japanese people.
The Institute of International Education recently reported that 27.5 percent of KU undergraduate students completed study abroad programs before their graduation. According to the Office of Study Abroad, 1,365 KU students studied abroad for the 2006-2007 academic year. This was a 47 percent increase, compared with the number of students who studied abroad five years ago. The increase is partly due to a variety of programs that the University offers, said Sue Lorenz, interim director of the Office of Study Abroad. Students can choose programs that fit their schedules, budgets and interests. Some programs allow students to study overseas during winter break,
FILLING
THE GAP
SACHIKO MIYAKAWA
For example, before coming to the U.S., I thought many Americans were overly patriotic, believing America was the best and forcing the rest of the world to follow American ways of life. I based my perception about the U.S. from the Japanese mass media. Later, I realized it was a misconception after talking to American students and observing different types of activism on campus.
Though this flexibility makes study abroad programs more accessible, it is hard to benefit from overseas experiences if one doesn't speak the language or stay longer than a few weeks. While planning to study abroad, students should be aware of their constraints and maximize their opportunities. As an international student, I encourage students to interact with local people and other foreign exchange students as much as possible. One can't learn deeply about a different country and culture without observing that country's people and actually talking to them.
or take classes in English without requiring them to know another language.
My experience studying abroad also helped me understand how
Americans and other people from different countries think about Japan. When I was in Japan, I heard a lot of news about U.S. Japanese diplomatic and economic relations. In the major American media, however, I find very little news about Japan every day. I was surprised when some American students once asked me if I spoke Chinese in Japan or if we had our own language. Experiences like these made me realize that Japan was not the center of the world affairs. This broadened my world view, and study-abroad students from America and other countries will benefit from learning that their own nations are not the end-all of international affairs.
While abroad, it's good to step out of your group of American friends and immerse yourself in the local environment. Don't worry about your language proficiency (or lack thereof), but be a good observer, pay attention to what people talk about, care about and laugh about. Ask questions that you're interested in. Politics, religion, sex — some issues can be taboo, but people are usually willing to share their opinions, as long as you approach the subject with the right attitude and don't force your view. Plan ahead to step out of your comfort zone and make your trip meaningful.
Miyakawa is a Tokyo, Japan, senior in journalism.
SCIENCE
Darwin day recognizes evolution's importance
Today marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and
Darwin birth, and despite mountains of evidence, many Americans still do not accept the biological theory of evolution. Kansans have had a particularly bad relationship with evolution ever since the school board tried to remove it from the curriculum nearly 10 years ago. Most of those who object to the theory may do so on ideological grounds, but many more seem disinterested in how the theory of evolution could have any importance in our modern society. Do Darwin's evolving finches of the past really affect the world of the future? Doctors, scientists and others need to understand the importance of evolution, because the next generation of major medical challenges will require an understanding of Darwin's controversial theory.
Because evolution is such an all-encompassing theory, sometimes it is easy to overlook its peripheral effects. Such is the case with many of our drugs. Aspirin was first extracted from the bark of willow trees, paclitaxel (an anti-cancer drug) was discovered in Pacific yew trees, and Botox is derived from the bacteria that cause botulism. Although these drugs may differ in many ways, they are all natural products of evolution. Developing new drugs for any illness, from cancer to viral infection, relies very heavily on natural products, the availability of which is due to the diversifying effect of evolution on all earthly life. Evolution is providing the raw resources in our fight against a wide variety of illnesses.
A prime example is our reliance on and overuse of antibiotics, which has bottle-necked many species of deadly bacteria into resistance. In the early days of antibiotics, infections from bacteria could be treated with simple penicillin without complications. Today, bacteria have quickly evolved to have a resistance to these drugs, forcing us to develop novel antibiotics at an alarming rate. There are already cases of lethal bacterial infections that are resistant to antibiotics. The most famous is MRSA. The Center for Disease Control has reported that, in 2005, this bacterium was responsible for more deaths per year than AIDS. And even as we implement one of our newest antibiotic drugs, Vancomycin, cases of resistant strains are already being reported.
Evolution is propagating this resistance as natural selection works to weed out weaker, less-resistant strains of bacteria. The only way to begin combating this growth of antibacterial-resistance is for scientists and doctors to understand the mechanisms and processes of evolution.
Our knowledge and treatment of viruses is also heavily dependent on our knowledge of evolution. The most infamous virus capable of potent evolution is HIV. This virus can mutate so quickly that there is diversity among strains within a single individual with HIV. The reason so many HIV drugs need to be given to patients is that the virus can quickly adapt resistance to them via evolution. Understanding the subtleties of evolution was absolutely essential in the development of these drugs.
From bacteria to drugs, evolution is inseparable from the practice of medicine. Clearly, when it comes to combating this next generation of medical challenges, everyone will need a solid understanding of the unifying principle of life: evolution.
Folmsbee is a Topeka junior in neurobiology.
Grammys neglected musical legend Moore
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
The Grammys aired Sunday night. They had their usual lineup of pop icons and current flavors of the month. Time was taken to let Blink-182 to announce a reunion and for Green Day to announce a new album. And as always, there was the memorial piece, a look back at the musicians and artists who passed away in the last year.
Among those mentioned were Isaac Hayes, Bo Diddley and Danny Federici, the organ player for Bruce Springsteen's band. But not included among these esteemed artists was one of the founding member of the Dave Matthews Band, LeRoi Moore.
Apparently there was not enough time to include Moore in the televised segment. This is atrocious, and a statement on the severe wrong turn music
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integrity has taken in the last few years. Not only is Moore a legend and a Grammy-winning artist, but he changed the way a sax player was viewed in a band and he led a humble, tabloid-free life.
If you are as outraged as I am, whether you are a fan of DMB's music or not, contact the Recording Academy. Let your voice be heard, and maybe they will appropriately recognize Moore for all his musical accomplishments. As Neil Young once sang. "The king is gone, but he's not forgot." R.I.P., LeRoi Moore.
Brian Clausen is a junior from Overland Park
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BITTER MIZZOU LOSS NOT SELF'S WORST
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Distinction goes to back-to-back losses four years ago. MORNING BREW I 2B
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2009
BRETT FAVRE LEAVES JETS AFTER A SEASON
The quarterback's retirement ends an eventful18-season career. NFL16B
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Freshman guard Travis Releford tries to snatch the ball from OSU guard Obi Muonelo during the Jayhawks' Feb. 7 78-67 victory in Allen Fieldhouse. Releford has been seeing more playing time, with better results, as the season progresses.
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With each game, freshman guard makes significant improvements, logs more playing time
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BY CASE KEEFER ckeefer@kansan.com
Freshman guard Travis Releford stood outside of the Kansas locker room at Mizzun Arena minutes after the best performance of his career.
But he was in no mood to reflect.
His career-high nine points weren't enough to escape a 62-60 defeat to Missouri, which meant they were meaningless to Releford.
"I'm not worried about how I played. No one is going to remember how I played," Releford said. "They're just going to remember Missouri beat us."
True, but Releford has put himself in a position where he could compile a memorable game in the near future. A week ago, it wouldn't have been possible.
Releford didn't appear in Kansas' 75-65 victory against Baylor
on Feb. 2. It bothered him. It's not that Releford expected to log significant minutes this season, but he at least figured hed contribute.
That didn't happen against Baylor, and Leford said everyone
around him could tell he was disappointed about it, including Kansas coach Bill Self. Later in the week, Releford stopped by the coaches' office like he does every morning when Self approached him.
"He just stopped
me and said, 'I know you're down about your playing time.' Releford said. "But just keep your head up and keep working."
The meeting only lasted a few minutes, but Releford has clearly produced at a higher level since.
In the two ensuing games — the Missouri loss and a 78-67 victory against Oklahoma State — Reelford has played 15 minutes and scored 14 points.
"No one is going to remember how I played. They're just going to remember Missouri beating us."
That's exactly what Self is looking for out of Reiford. Self needs Reiford to be able to check in for spurts while sophomore guard Brady Mornin-rests rest.
TRAVIS RELEFORD freshman guard
When Releford is in the game, his focus should be on the details. As Self says, Releford needs
"He needs to get to where I have more confidence in him by being a great defender, a good rebounder, taking care of the ball, understanding what we're doing
to do the little things right to prove he can be trusted.
defensively and offensively," Self said. "He's gotten better, There's no doubt about that."
Releford never envisioned the transition to college being this tough. He was a four-star recruit last year — ranked No. 70 in the nation by rivals.com — and the top player out of Kansas City.
He broke out in one of Kansas' exhibition games in Ottawa, Canada, last August with 25 points. But Releford has struggled to hold down a rotation spot since the season began. Teammates think it's a consistency issue.
"The thing is playing mistakefree out there and he makes a mistake, to forget about it," junior guard Sherron Collins said. "Overall, though, Travis will be good."
Perhaps the only people more excited than Releford's teammates about his improved play lately are
the fans. Releford has noticed how loud Allen Fieldhouse gets when he checks in — even if it's late in the game with the outcome already decided.
When he throws down a dunk like he did in the last home game against Oklahoma State, the crowd's cheers reach deafening levels.
"A lot of fans like my style of ball," Releford said. "I see them outside of school and they'll say, 'You're really good,' or 'You're my favorite,' and stuff like that."
If Releford continues to play like he did against Missouri, he'll become even more of a fan favorite. After two of his better performances, Releford knows he is capable.
"When I get in," Releford said. "I make things happen."
Edited by Carly Halvorson
COMMENTARY
Your hero on drugs, big deal or no biggie?
BY STEPHEN MONTEMAYOR
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recent events involving a certain Olympic hero and slugger may for some of
us, feel akin to the moment we first saw our parents in the nude or when we realized Santa was no more real than the bearded transient at the mall.
Reality is harsh. Once lost, innocence cannot be regained through any exorbitant stimulus package.
The Michael Phelps and Alex Rodriguez episodes have had ample time for dissection from all angles. That considered, I hope the majority of us have been able to take away the following lessons or similar conclusions.
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- However sincere or not, concise or murky, we have been treated to two admissions of guilt. Safe to say, it is time for us to drop any holder than thou arguments — we are, after all, college students. Legal or not, we or someone we know have and will partake in activities not unlike the ones depicted in Phelps' High Times audition photo. A pair of former students come to mind: Mario Chalmers and Darrell Arthur. With no history of foolishness and a respectful demeanor, the two saw their symposium ordeal quickly become an afterthought. Mario's Miracle remains his prevailing legacy — a testament to a reputable history of behavior and accountability for one's actions.
- Big Brother isn't watching us — we are. Recall how the Michael Phelps "Up in Smoke Tour" began in the first place. A photo was snapped at a South Carolina party and was subsequently shipped to a British tabloid more than eager to publish the evidence. We cannot begin to come close to delving into a comprehensive analysis of past and present stars exposed by the Web or citizen journalism. What is more important is the real-
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Kansas falls 74-66 to Texas despite second-half comeback
BY JAYSON JENKS
jjenks@kansan.com
On the road, facing an athletic top-25 team, Kansas walked off the court at halftime with a choice: fold up or grow up.
That Kansas ended up losing to No. 13 Texas 74-66 isn't the complete story. There's no doubt that the Jayhawks' sights were set on pulling an upset as the game tightened down the stretch.
But without their leading scorer and with the Longhorns holding a seemingly insurmountable lead considering the circumstances, the Jayhawks scrapped, defended and slowly worked their way back into the game.
For coach Bonnie Henrickson, that resiliency represented a change from Kansas' previous losses.
For much of this season, the Jayhawks have struggled after halftime, surrendering leads or letting opponents pull away. But on Wednesday night Kansas switched its fortunes after the break.
"I just couldn't be more proud of them," Henrickson said. "I thought they battled and competed. They had some fight, some toughness and they played for the front of the jersey."
"I think everybody tonight made the decision that we weren't going to stop fighting regardless of what the score was or regardless of how much we got down," sophomore forward Nicollette Smith said.
Before halftime, Kansas had little answer for Texas on defense or offense. The Jayhawks went on an 8-2 run to start the second half to cut the Longhorns' lead to 41-33.
Kansas kept slicing into Texas' lead, closing the gap to four on several occasions. With 4:53 left, junior guard LaChelda Jacobs' jumper cut the Longhorn's lead to 60-57 — the Jayhawks' smallest deficit of the game.
Foul trouble forced McCray to sit on the bench in the first half for the second consecutive game. With slightly more than five minutes gone in the first half, McCray picked up her second foul when she lowered her shoulder while driving toward the basket.
Kansas did so without junior forward Danielle McCray, the team's leading scorer, for much of the game.
Then, after scoring five of Kansas' first six points after halftime. McCray picked up her fourth foul six minutes into the second half.
"Obviously, we're disappointed in Danielle's performance," Henrickson said. "But I thought of those kids grew up."
In McCray's absence, Smith and junior guard Sade Morris picked up the slack. Smith scored 18 points, while Morris added 14.
McCray fouled out with slightly more than seven minutes left, tying her season-low with seven points.
"Everybody contributed." Henrickson said. "Everybody guarded, everybody rebounded."
But the game didn't start promising for the lavwhaws.
The Jayhawks committed 14
In the first half, Texas' pressure defense completely disrupted Kansas' offense. The Longhorns used a variety of traps and full-court presses to force turnovers and score easy points.
At different stretches in the first half, the Longhorns had an 11-0 run and a 9-0 run, creating separation from the Jayhawks.
first-half turnovers, allowing the Longhorns to run and utilize their athleticism.
"We were throwing a lot of passes that they were getting hands on because of how long and athletic they are." Smith said. "I think that was a big problem for us in the first half."
Still, in cutting the Longhorns' lead, the Jayhawks showed toughness — something Henrickson said was lacking in a 74-60 defeat to Missouri on Saturday.
"I thought those kids battled, competed and played their tails off," Henrickson said. "I just couldn't be more proud of them."
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Photo Courtesy Jordan Sothmothermon《The Daily Texan Junior forward Danielle McCray guards a Texas player during Wednesday's 74-66 defeat in Austin, Texas.
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MU loss not worst feeling of Self era
COMMENTARY
Monday's loss to Missouri might have been hard to bear.
but it doesn't compare to what might be Bill Self's worst week at Kansas.
It started on a chilly Saturday in January 2005. Kansas played host to Kansas State and somehow fell 59-55 in an afternoon match-up at Allen Fieldhouse.
Forty-eight hours later, Kansas traveled to Columbia, Mo., and lost to Missouri 89-86 in overtime. That was, of course, the game in which Christian Moody missed two free throws at the end of regulation that would have sealed the win for Kansas.
It was a stunning weekend. Kansas was coming off the Bucknell loss at the end of the 2004-05 season, and Bill Self's young
BY RUSTIN DODD
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on last night's game against
nucleus - the nucleus that would eventually win an NCAA crown - was losing its way. The Tigers knocked Kansas to 10-6 and it looked like the Jayhawks were in serious of danger of missing the NCAA tournament.
Of course, we all know what happened next. Kansas would win 15 of its next 16 games, win the Big 12 tournament with a thrilling victory against Texas, and claim a 4-seed in the NCAA tournament.
The Bradley loss would bring more heartbreak, but it seemed, at
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I thought about that weekend while walking through a mob of crazed Missouri fans inside Mizzou Arena on Monday night.
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You could sense the disappointment as Kansas' players solemnly walked to their bus, exhausted and beaten.
Now Kansas travels to K-State on Saturday,trying to avoid another disastrous week.Bramlage Coliseum will be juiced and hostile and Kansas will face more adversity.
But even if Kansas loses, even if the K-State students storm the floor again, it probably won't feel as devastating as that week back in 2005.
And that might be the best anecdotal evidence of the state of the Kansas basketball program.
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I thought about that while walking through that mob of Missouri fans on Monday night.
victory, I looked up toward the rafters of Mizzou Arena.
And at that moment, I saw that Missouri hung banners for advancing to the NCAA tournament. Just getting to the Big Dance warranted a banner.
And for some reason, that just seemed kind of silly.
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DAVIE, Fla. — Bill Parcells, whose escape clause with the Miami Dolphins was expanded before the sale of the team was completed on Jan. 20, can now leave at any time and collect the $12 million balance due to him.
The contract gave Parcells a 30-day window to depart with full pay if the team was sold, but outgoing owner Wayne Huizenga said he removed the window before the sale.
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Cleveland's Williams added to East's lineup
Parcells has said he planned to remain as executive vice president of football operations through at least the 2009 season.
NEW YORK — Cleveland Cavaliers point guard Mo Williams was chosen by NBA commissioner David Stern to replace Toronto Raptors forward Chris Bosh in the NBA All-Star game.
Bosh will miss the game because of a sprained right knee.
Williams wasn't chosen by Eastern Conference coaches as a reserve, then was bypassed by Stern in favor of Boston's Ray Allen Orlando's Jameer Nelson had to be replaced because of injury.
The Cavaliers were upset that they were the only top-five team that didn't get multiple All-Stars.
Williams is averaging 17.1 points and will make his first AllStar game appearance.
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Outspoken hockey player hopes to rebuild career
HARTFORD, Conn. — Controversial left wing Sean Avery is resuming his hockey career with a New York Rangers' affiliate, hoping to return to the NHL.
Avery hasn't played since his NHL suspension in December for making a crude remark about other hockey players dating his former girlfriends. He completed treatment in a league counseling program last weekend and cleared waivers Monday.
The 28-year-old player spent parts of two seasons in New York before signing a $15.5 million, four-year deal with Dallas. The Stars, who don't want him, are the only NHL team without a primary affiliate and could have sent him to any willing team.
TENNIS Sharapova's injury leads to more tourney pull outs
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PARIS — Maria Sharapova's return to the WTA tour is still on hold. Even she is not sure when her injured right shoulder will be ready.
After missing the past two Grand Slam tournaments, Sharapova pulled out of this week's indoor event in Paris, and next week's hard-court event in Dubai.
Sharapova has not played competitively since pulling out of a tournament in Montreal in late July after winning a nearly three-hour match.
Medical tests later found a torn rotator cuff tendon in the Russian's shoulder.
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United States midfielder Michael Bradley heads the ball over Mexico forward Carlos Ochoa during the first half of a World Cup qualifying soccer match on Wednesday in Columbus, Ohio. Bradley scored twice to lead the USA to a 2-0 victory.
USA defeats Mexico 2-0
Michael Bradley scores twice to continue America's domination
BY RUSTY MILLER
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On a wet and windy night at Crew Stadium — under the threat of a tornado watch — the Americans
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Michael Bradley scored twice to lead the United States to a 2-0 victory over Mexico in a World Cup qualifier Wednesday night, preserving the Americans' domination in the series over the last nine years.
ran their record to 9-0-2 on U.S. soil against Mexico since 2000. Tickets had sold out in 90 minutes, with many of the 23,776 fans showing up hours before to stand in the rain while waving flags and wearing their national colors.
national colors.
After both teams played cautiously at the outset, the Americans finally broke through.
"It was a great corner from Beans, and Landon did a great job heading it back," Bradley said. "It was not so hard for me to put it in."
That touched off a wild celebration just a few feet from the redclad Sam's Army, which danced in the aisles and threw confetti up into the jet stream winds.
DaMarcus Beasley's corner kick found Landon Donovan at the far side of the 6-yard box, with Donovan heading it back into the scrum. Oguchi Onyewu's header was stopped by diving Mexico goaltender Oswaldo Sanchez, but the rebound came right into the path of Bradley, who kicked it in from 6 yards.
On a wet and windy night at Crew Stadium, the Americans ran their record to 9-0-2 on U.S. soil against Mexico since 2000.
Then, in second-half stoppage time, Bradley took a pass from Donovan and his shot from 28 yards dipped under Sanchez's arms. It secured the third straight 2-0 win for the Americans over Mexico at Crew Stadium in World Cup qualifying.
Mexico captain Rafael Marquez was ejected in the 65th minute when he went high to spike goalkeeper Tim Howard as they went
for a loose ball. Howard, who angrily threw the ball down while he flexed his leg, also picked up a yellow card for delay of game on the ensuing free kick.
The loss could mean more trouble for Mexico coach Sven-Goran Eriksson. His team, with just one win in its last seven outings, barely made it into the final round of qualifying. A former manager of England, he had been brought on to stop what many Tricolores fans
consider an almost unforgivable sin: losing to the United States. Mexico easily controlled the series for decades, but the U.S. team has now gone 13-7-8 since 1990 to narrow Mexico's advantage to 29-15-11.
"We did a real nice
The match was the first of 10 in the final round of qualifying for each team. The United States next plays at El Salvador on March 28 before taking on Trinidad and Tobago on April 1 in Nashville, Tenn. Mexico entertains Costa Rica on March 28.
The United States' best early scoring chance came in the 22nd minute after a foul just outside the box. From 22 yards, Donovan's hard, low kick was just wide left.
job of getting after them and not letting them breathe," Bradley said.
Both teams played somewhat guardedly in the opening minutes, thrusting and parrying to determine how the ball would react in
Mexico had one strong scoring chance stopped by Howard's leg save and another shot was high over the crossbar in the first 6 minutes.
the windy conditions and what the opposition strategy was.
The Americans also had another prime opportunity in the 31st minute when Donovan headed the ball to Clint Dempsey for a hard shot
that Sanchez deflected with the lower part of his body.
Bradley then broke the impasse. Mexico's best shot at tying came in the 71st minute when Carlos Ochoa was wide right on a kick from 34 yards.
The weather was relatively calm once the game got under way. A steady rain pelted the stadium most of the afternoon. Then around 90 minutes before the start, a mammoth storm front rolled through, shaking the windows around the stadium, blowing away anything that wasn't tied down and reducing visibility to almost nothing.
Bradley then broke the impasse.
"We did a real nice job of getting after them and not letting them breathe."
MICHAEL BRADLEY U.S. midfielder
qualifiers
Shortly after, crews came out twice to squeeze the field. Stadium officials warned the early-arriving spectators to seek shelter under the stands after a violent lightning strike not far away.
Fans from 43 states, the District of Columbia, Canada and, of course, Mexico snapped up the tickets. Hours before the game, the fans were singing, chanting, drumming and blowing on horns while wearing 3-foot wide sombreros, national flags and Uncle Sam hats.
With temperatures throughout the day in the 60s, a cold front came through to create dangerous possibilities. At gametime, it was 52 degrees.
The United States has not lost a home match to a continental rival since 2001, going 37-0 with
10 draws. Included in that domination is a sterling record at Crew Stadium, home of the 2008 Major League Soccer champions. The Americans are unbeaten in eight international games (5-0-3) in Crew Stadium and are 4-0-2 in World Cup
On Feb. 28, 2001, the Americans won 2-0 in 28-degree weather, with ice fringing the field — a match now called Guerra Fria, or the Cold War. They won by the same score in much warmer weather in September 2005 to help secure a spot in the 2006 World Cup.
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United States players celebrate after Michael Bradley scores a goal against Mexico during the first half of a World Cup qualifying soccer match on Wednesday in Columbus, Ohio. The U.S. has not lost to Mexico on American soil in 11 games.
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ization that none of us are immune to this. We are all at risk of having unflattering exploits circulate over the Internet. Current or prospective employers can choose to fire or not hire us should our own damning content be made available. Just this week, eight arrests have been made in connection to Phelps' pot party
— seven on possession and one on distribution. It could just as easily be us.
- At your fingertips is one of the most useful technological tools any generation has had — the Internet. It is frequently evolving and also must be put to good use and proper perspective. It is far
too easy to lament our current sporting idols. Too easy to declare baseball forever tainted and every major accomplishment in the Olympics more deserving of an asterisk than a medal. It is as if generations past — ones we never were a part of — were so much more right and true than the one
we live in now. This is wrong. If blogs and cell phone cameras were rampant in the 1950s and 1960s what exploits of Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, Muhammad Ali and Mickey Mantle would have been captured? We'll never know.
In sum, there are those in sports as in any part of society—who
wish to do injustice. Yet I can think of few deterrents as effective as the watchful eye of the Web. One can cut corners to get ahead one day only to find themselves rolling out a tearful apologetic press conference the next.
There are still games to be played and memories to be made.
The highs will be as fervently documented as the lows. And for us students (sports fans or otherwise), a chance to realize that how we carry ourselves outside our homes can be watched, rewarded or punished quicker than ever.
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Alomar accused of endangerment
Ex-girlfriend files suit against former star
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NEW YORK — An ex-girlfriend of Roberto Alomar filed an explosive lawsuit alleging the former baseball star insisted on unprotected sex for four years despite having AIDS.
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ed and tested positive for HIV in February 2006.
Dall said she was angered by the disclosure and was tested herself; the result was negative. She said follow-up exams determined that Alomar had full-blown AIDS.
Dall said the ordeal caused her severe emotional and mental distress and fear she may one day test positive for HIV herself.
By then, she said Alomar had purple skin, was foaming at the
Ilva Dall is seek
ing at least $15 million in punitive damages from the 41-year-old former infielder. Alomar spent 17 years in the majors and was one of the game's great second basemen.
Chelsea's Frank Lampard, left, and Hull City's Deiberson Geovanni battle for the ball during the English Premier League soccer match at Stamford Bridge, London, on Saturday. The match ended in a 0-0 draw. Chelsea dismissed Brazilian manager Luiz Felipe Scoli on Monday after falling behind league leaders Manchester United by seven points over the weekend.
Calls seeking comment from lawyers for Alomar and Dall were not immediately returned. Alomar lawyer Charles Bach told the New York Daily News the allegations are "frivolous and baseless."
Hands-on defense
Dall said the two began dating in spring 2002 and had unprotected sex for the next four years. She said that on several occasions during that time, Alomar refused to get tested for HIV, despite severe fatigue, sores on his mouth and throat, a constant cough and an infection of the esophagus that is associated with AIDS.
mouth and was too sick to walk, forcing him to use a wheelchair to get around at an airport.
She said Alomar finally relent-
Dall said the ordeal caused her severe emotional and mental distress and fear she may one day test
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She called the conduct of Alomar "outrageous with wanton reckless disregard of the health, safety and well-being" of Dall.
positive for HIV herself.
The lawsuit does not say why Dall continued to have unprotected sex with Alomar. Dall said the couple lived together until last year.
Alomar was one of baseball's best players in the 1990s, making 12 straight All-Star appearances and winning two World Series with the Toronto Blue Jays.
A career .300 hitter with 10 Gold Gloves, Alomar broke in with the San Diego Padres in 1988 and also played for the Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians, New York Mets, Arizona Diamondbacks and Chicago White Sox. He was out of baseball by 2005.
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SURPRISE, Ariz. — Willie Bloomquist, a former utilityman for the Seattle Mariners, is hoping to become the Kansas City Royals' new second baseman.
"I'm very excited about this season," Bloomquist, who spent the past six years with Seattle, playing every position but pitcher and catcher, said Wednesday. "I haven't been this excited to report to camp in a long time, just knowing the situation and the opportunity that is going to be
presented. For me, it gives me a little bit of extra motivation, so I am excited."
Although Kansas City does not officially open spring training until Friday, when pitchers and catchers report, they have a weeklong volunteer mini-camp before that. Bloomquist, who
signed a two-year $3.1 million contract with Kansas City in January, was among the early arrivals.
The Royals have a vacancy at second base because Mark Grudzielanek, who had handled that position the past three years, filed for free agency. Bloomquist will compete with Alberto Callaspo, who hit .305 in 74 games,
and Mark Teahen, who started primarily in the outfield last year, for the job.
"I saw that opportunity with a chance to possibly evolve into maybe a starter and win a job." Bloomquist said in explaining why he signed with Kansas City.
Bloomquist hit .279 with a 377 on-base percentage and 14
stolen bases in 17 opportunities last season with the Mariners, but his season ended on Aug. 9 with a right hamstring injury, which has healed. Bloomquist, 31, has a career .263 batting average, but never had a position to call his own with Seattle.
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Quarterback says he's honored to have played with 'outstanding' organization
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New York Jets quarterback Brett Favre throws against the Kansas City Chiefs during the first quarter of an NFL football game in East Rutherford, N.J., on Oct. 26. The 39-year-old Favre instructed agent James "Bus" Cook to tell the team Wednesday that he won't return for a 19th NFL season and second with the jets.
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NEW YORK — Brett Fave is done slinging passes with his rocket right arm — may be for good.
The 39-year-old quarterback told the New York Jets on Wednesday that he was retiring after 18 seasons, ending a record setting career in which he became one of the NFL's all-time greats.
"We had an all-encompassing conversation," owner Woody Johnson said of his discussion with Favre. "He told me at that point that he had made his decision to retire and thanked everybody and talked about what a great experience he had with the New York Jets."
Favre's decision came six weeks after his only season with the lets ended in disappointment as New York failed to make the playoffs. In an e-mail to ESPN, Favre said he has no regrets about finishing his career in New York and praised Johnson, general manager Mike Tannenbaum and fired coach Eric Mangini.
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"My time with the Jets was short, but I'm honored to be given that charge," Fayre wrote in the e-mail.
If this is indeed it for Favre, he leaves the game with a slew of records, including career touchdown passes (464), completions (5,720), yards passing (65,127), regular-season victories (169) and interceptions (310).
Favre tearfully retired last March then changed his mind, prompting a bitter divorce with Green Bay. He was traded to the jets in August and
was a Pro Bowl selection despite an overwhelmingly disappointing season that cost Mangini his job.
"With Brett, there was always the possibility that he wouldn't play the second year," Johnson said. "We were hoping to get one good year out of Brett Favre. We picked him based on, in our opinion, his giving us the best chance to win last season. We were disappointed not to have made the Super Bowl, but we did some very good things with Brett."
And the team doesn't expect Favre to change his mind.
"He did not ask to be released." Tannenbaum said. "Everything he said was, he is done playing football. We have our plan according to that, and we're going to move forward."
When asked if the door might be open to Favre if he again decides to come back, Tannenbaum said he wanted to stay away from hypotheticals.
"He felt he had given us everything he had, and it was time for him to move on," Tannenbaum said Favre told him.
Running back Thomas Jones and safety Kerry Rhodes were critical after the season of Favre and his performance. The lets went from 8-3 to missing the playoffs, Favre threw nine interceptions as the lets went 1-4 down the stretch, and a torn right biceps might have contributed.
Still, Favre had nothing but positive things to say about his Jets experience.
"Mike and Woody, as well as
the entire organization, have been nothing short of outstanding." Favre said in the e-mail. "My teammates — Thomas (Jones) and Kerry (Rhodes) included — were a pleasure to play with. Eric could not have been any better. I enjoyed playing for him."
As did All-Pro kick returner running back Leon Washington.
"The longevity of his career and
his love for the game is truly inspiring," Washington said. "I'm privileged to have played with not only a Hall of Fame QB, but also a great role model."
New York hired former Baltimore defensive coordinator Rex Ryan to replace Mangini, and he, along with Johnson and Tannenbaum, repeatedly said they wanted Favre to return. Instead, Favre
spent several weeks after the season at his home in Kiln, Miss., away from football before deciding to retire — again.
New York now will move forward with a new quarterback, whether that will be Kellen Clemens, Brett Ratliff, Erik Ainge or perhaps a veteran free agent such as Jeff Garcia, Kerry Collins, Byron Leftwich or Rex Grossman.
"We've got three quarterbacks on the roster, and I think we feel pretty good that in a competition among those guys, we'll end up with a pretty good quarterback," Johnson said.
Favre had two years left on his contract and was due $13 million for next season, clearing a chunk of salary cap space for the Jets.
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Tejada lies to Congress about drugs
Houston Astro shortstop pleads guilty and may face deportation after March sentencing
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WASHINGTON All-Star shortstop Miguel Tejada pleaded guilty Wednesday to lying to Congress about the use of performance-enhancing drugs and admitted buying what he believed was human growth hormone.
Appearing before a federal magistrate, the 34-year-old starter for the Houston Astros admitted that he lied to congressional investigators who had asked about steroid use by major league ballplayers. Tejada also acknowledged purchasing the drugs while playing with the Oakland Athletics.
He said he had second thoughts and threw the drug away without using it. Prosecutors said they had no evidence to contradict his claim.
Tejada, who was born in the Dominican Republic, listened through headphones to a simultaneous Spanish translation to the court
proceedings. As he pleaded guilty, his voice cracked and one of his attorneys patted him on the shoulder.
The misdemeanor charge of making misrepresentations to Congress can lead to as much as a year in jail. But federal guidelines call for a lighter sentence.
Federal Magistrate Judge Alan Kay said he would sentence Tejada on March 26, which falls during spring training. The Astros are not scheduled to play an exhibition game that day.
The terms of the plea deal were outlined in a letter to Tejada's attorneys dated Feb. 5, and he was given a deadline of Feb. 23 to respond. "His guilty plea in this case may subject him to detention, deportation and other sanctions at the direction of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement," the letter said.
An agency spokeswoman said it individually reviews cases of legal permanent residents convicted of a
crime to determine if they should be deported. She said the agency would not talk about Tejada's status because it doesn't discuss individual cases.
The judge asked Teiada whether he had used any alcohol or drugs, legal or illegal, in the last 24 hours that could affect his decision. Tejada answered softly, "Last night I took a couple of drinks." But he told the judge he wasn't currently under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
Tejada and his two lawyers declined to answer questions as they left the courthouse. They scheduled a news conference in Houston later in the day.
Tejada was the American League's Most Valuable Player in 2002 while playing for the Athletics.
Federal authorities also are investigating whether Roger Clemens lied to Congress when he denied using steroids or human growth hormone.
Charges against Tejada were detailed in documents filed in court
Tuesday, a day after superstar Alex Rodriguez acknowledged past use of performance-enhancing drugs. The New York Yankees third baseman does not face charges.
Clemens and Rodriguez are atop a list of drug-tainted stars that includes Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire and Jose Canseco, whose actions cast doubt on their on-field accomplishments.
In the court papers, Tejada was charged with lying to investigators for the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in 2005. Congressional staffers did not place Tejada under oath when they questioned him, but court documents say the investigators advised him "of the importance of providing truthful answers."
Tejada came under scrutiny after another ex-teammate, the Baltimore Orioles Rafael Palmeiro, testified before the House committee and declared that he'd never used steroids.
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Michelle Wie watches her drive off the first tee during the Pro-Am for the LGPA T跑 SBS Open golf tournament at Turtle Bay Resort on Wednesday in Kahuku, Hawaii. Rookie golfers Jiyai Shin, Stacy Lewis and Kevin Hurst will join Wii's side in the tour.
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KAHUKU, Hawaii — At nearly every turn at Turtle Bay, there are posters of Annika Sorenstam covered in leis, proudly celebrating the 70th of her 72 titles in her spectacular LPGA Tour career.
With the 2008 SBS Open champion enjoying retirement, several youngsters are vying to make their mark, including a special class of so-called "rookies."
The group includes Jiyai Shin, Stacy Lewis, Vicky Hurst and Michelle Wie, who was happy to be home, confident and looking for a fresh start to her career when play begins Thursday in the season-opening event.
"These four rookies that we talk about headlining the rookie class, every single one of them feel capable of sweeping the LPGA," tour commissioner Carolyn Bivens
said. "They're fearless. They're not typical rookies."
Wie appeared relaxed during her pro-am round Wednesday, joking with her caddie, signing autographs and comfortably crushing drives like in years past.
"I'm going in with an open mind, seeing how the first tournament goes and then take it from
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"I feel like it's a whole new beginning for me. It's a completely new slate," Wie said. "I'm not going to think about the past and not even going to think too much of the future. I'm just really excited for this week, for tomorrow, and I'm just going to think about what I can do best for each moment."
While the rookies have all made a name for themselves through winning on different levels, none of them come close to having the endorsement deals, bank account and fame of Wie, who for years has been looking to add to her
trophy case.
Wie, who first played an LPGA event at age 12, is trying to change that and said she's been working on her game "constantly".
"The game's a funny thing. One day it feels really good and other days you have to work hard on it," she said. "But I've been working on it really hard ... So hopefully my game's a lot better than it was, ever before. I'm really excited to show that."
Wie said the rookies are all unique in their own way with different histories, but she realizes the competition is getting stiffer. She is surrounded by young up-and-coming stars.
include the Women's British Open and the season-ending ADT Championship. She also has 20 titles on the Korea LPGA.
Lewis, who turns 24 next week, is the oldest of the four rookies. The Q-school winner turned pro in June and competed in seven LGA events. She had two
top-10 finishes, including a tie for third in the U.S. Women's Open. Before turning pro, she went 5-0 in the Curtis Cup last summer and also starred at the University of Arkansas, where she won 12 events and was the 2007 NCAA champion.
Hurst dominated the Duramed Futures Tour last season, winning five times in 13 starts to earn rookie and player of the year honors.
The 18-year-old Hurst, from Melbourne, Fla., said she feels no resentment "at all" toward Wie.
"I just try to stay focused with my plan and my goals and stay
focused on what I want to achieve this week and this year," Hurst said. "We've all taken different paths, all the rookies this year. I think you can never say who's done it better."
Hurst said she's now competing on a whole new level, but she's just trying to keep the attitude that she made it here just like everyone else.
"I'm going in with an open mind, seeing how the first tournament goes and then take it from there," Hurst said. "Probably previous years when I played LGPA events it was more intimidating, but now that I'm out here, this is my new family."
That makes Wie her older sister, by nine months.
The SBS marks Wie's first event as a full-fledged member of the LPGA. It also is her first LPGA start since July when she was disqualified from the State Farm Classic, one shot behind going into the final round, when it was determined she left the scoring area without signing her card after the second round.
She played the first SBS in 2005 as a 15-year-old amateur and tied for second at Turtle Bay with Cristie Kerr, two strokes behind winner Jennifer Rosales. Wie was the lone amateur in the field and
She also opened 2008 in Hawaii at the Fields Open, where she closed with a 6-over 78 to tie for last among the 74 players who made the cut.
"I guess it's the home factor. I just play well (here)," said Wie, who grew up about an hour-drive away.
Then came wrist injuries in 2007 that shook her confidence and her promising game. But she ended 2008 at Q-school on a high note, where she earned her LPGA card.
the only player to shoot under par for three rounds.
It also was at Turtle Bay in 2006 that she became the first female to win a local qualifying tournament for the U.S. Open. She earned the first of three spots into the sectionals.
Besides the talented rookies, there are several seasoned veterans like 2007 champion Paula
Creamer, who finished second on the money list behind top-ranked Lorena Ochoa last year after winning four events.
"It's hard to believe. I'm 22 and considered a veteran now," Creamer said.
Yani Tseng, the 2008 rookie of the year and LPGA Championship winner, also is entered. A year ago at Turtle Bay, Tseng was ranked 133rd in the world. Today, she's No. 2.
The SBS is the first of 30 events on the LPGA Tour this year, down from 34 in 2008. The loss of the four events represents nearly $10 million in prize money being erased.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Jimmie Johnson came to Daytona International Speedway with a new beard and a cut finger, two topics that have so far overshadowed his status as NASCAR's three-time defending champion.
So just how overlooked is Johnson's on-track achievements? Carl Edwards was picked over Johnson to win this year's Sprint Cup championship.
"What about me?" Johnson wondered Wednesday, the first full day of preparations for the season-opening Daytona 500. "I just thought, 'Damn, if you won three championships in a row, you'd think you'd be a favorite.'"
Johnson earned a spot in NASCAR's record book last season, tying Cale Yarborough's 30-year-old mark as the only driver to win three straight Cup titles. He's won 40 races in his seven seasons and has crushed the competition through consistency: a bad day for Johnson is finishing outside the top 10, which he did only 14 times last season.
"He's such a damn good guy, that I think he gets overlooked a lot," said good friend and former teammate Casey Mears. "Here's a guy that has done something nobody has done in a long time, in an era that isn't even close to how it was in the past. It is competitive, but not near as competitive as it is now. So to do what he's done in these days is ridiculous.
"But he's not one of those guys who is jumping up and down saying 'Look what I did.' He's not asking for that attention."
Yet there's a perception that Johnson's achievements are overlooked, even though no driver has figured out how to catch him.
The end result is an unusual level of interest in both his close-cropped new beard and the left middle finger he sliced with a
kitchen knife last month.
The beard isn't all that peculiar for Johnson, who has occasionally grown one during offseason vacations. But until this year, he's never dared report to work with anything but a clean-shaven face.
He's spent years relying on his buttoned-up image to help him crash corporate cocktail parties in his constant quest for sponsorship. A beard, particularly one speckled with patches of gray, probably would have hampered his fund-raising.
Johnson didn't really feel like shaving after a lazy December, and debuted his new look at a commercial shoot last month.
Team owner Rick Hendrick and primary sponsor Lowe's have yet to complain, so Johnson's razor remains tucked away in a drawer.
Judged by offseason souvenir sales, Johnson will likely have a strong fan following this weekend. His championship merchandise sold at a 20 percent improvement over gear for his second title, and at a time when the economic crisis was in full effect.
Johnson could very well be a threat to win his second Daytona 500 on Sunday. He had the sixth-fastest car in time trials, and is a contender to win one of Thursday's twin qualifying races that determines the starting order for the season-opening event.
But they've also earned him a glaring spotlight, evidenced by the attention paid to his sliced finger.
Maybe those three championships have earned Johnson an occasional free pass.
The boost helped Johnson jump from fifth to second in merchandise sales, trailing only teammate Dale Earnhardt Jr., NASCAR's most popular driver.
To Johnson, that proves his on-track work is appreciated.
"I think in general, it's tough to appreciate things that are taking place now and it usually takes awhile to get ahead of it and reflect
back on it," Johnson said. "But I feel great about everything, I don't know where that whole idea came from of being underappreciated, but it's going well and one big indicator of that is if you look at souvenir sales."
Still, Hendrick sees the slight toward his driver. He knows Johnson is respected by his peers, and has heard rival competitors tracking Johnson during a race.
But there's still something holding Johnson back from breaking through to the highest levels of popularity.
"I think he's overlooked," Hendrick said. "I don't think from the people — the crew chiefs, the car owners, the competitors and drivers — they know. But he's so silent. He doesn't make a lot of noise. He just kind of goes along. He doesn't have an entourage of buddies, he's not on all the side shows and that stuff.
Johnson doesn't seem to mind.
"I've been overwhelmed by a variety of situations," said Johnson. "So from my standpoint, I think it's running a great course."
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Denver Nuggets end losing streak
Orlando hits season low, loses 82-73
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ORLANDO, Fla. — Carmelo Anthony had 29 points and eight rebounds, and the Denver Nuggets ended a 15-game losing streak in Orlando with an 82-73 win over the Magic on Wednesday night.
Dwight Howard had 16 points and Rashard Lewis scored 12 for the Magic, who finished with a season low in points, a season high 24 turnovers and were held to a season-low 30.4 percent shooting from the floor.
Kenyon Martin scored 13 points, Nene added 12 and Chaucey Billups had 11 points for the Nuggets, who hadn't won in Orlando since March 10, 1992.
The Nuggets built
Anthony and J.R. Smith each had technical fouls in the period, and the Magic used a heavy dose of free throws to cut the Nuggets' lead to 63-51 heading into the fourth quarter.
a 20-point lead early in the third quarter, but then things got testy.
The Magic's previous high in turnovers this season was 19 against Minnesota on Dec. 3, and their previous low shooting percentage was 36.8 percent against Atlanta on Oct. 29.
And things would get closer.
But this one was about defense.
Lewis hit a 3-pointer with 2:06 left to tighten Denver's lead to 77-71, and the team's traded baskets before Denver extended clinched it with free throws.
Playing physical and unafraid to foul, the Nuggets had Howard and Orlando frustrated all night.
The Magic's previous high in turnovers this season was 19 against Minnesota on Dec. 3, and their previous low shooting percentage was 36.8 percent against Atlanta on Oct. 29.
The teams combined for 14 turnovers, 14 fouls — plus a technical against Lewis for arguing a call — and an airball by Martin in the first quarter. The Magic were 1-for-5 from 3-point range in the period and
The 3-point shooting Magic were held to 9-for-31 from beyond the arc and struggled again to control the ball without All-Star point guard Jamee Nelson. He tore the labrum in his right shoulder Feb. 2 and is still deciding whether to have season-ending surgery or attempt rehabilitation.
The game was a sloppy from the start.
struggled to get Howard involved early, while the Nuggets were getting to the hoop with ease.
Smith's jumper capped a 16-4 run that helped Denver take a 24-17 lead after the opening quarter. His 3-pointer ended the second quarter with the Nuggets on a 14-4 spurt, going ahead 46-29 at the half ard. sending the Magic to the locker room with a chorus of boos from the home crowd.
It was the fewest points Orlando scored in a first half as well as in a game all season. The previous lows came in a loss to Boston on Jan. 22, when they managed 36 first-half points and were held to 80 for the game.
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thursday, feb 12
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
The Lied Center, 7:30 p.m.
$20/students, all ages
Beat Pirates with the Gleaners The Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., $3, 21+
The Delta Spirit/Other Lives/Dawes
The jackpot Music Hall, 10 p.m., $8,21+/$10,18 to 20
Cyrus D and Godilla
The Eighth Street Tap Room,
10 p.m., $3.21+
Dark Castle/Stull
The Replay Lounge, 10 p.m.
$2.21+
Neon Dance Party The Bottleneck, 10 p.m., prices neck, 18+
friday,feb 13
Sellout
The Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., $6, 21+
Badfish—A Tribute To Sublime
The Granada, 8 p.m., $14 advanced/$16 door; all ages
Murder by Death/The Builders & The Butchers/Fake Problems
The Bottleneck, 8 p.m., $12,
18+
Ohi Mr. Valentine's Day
with Cowboy Indian
Bear/Suzannah Joh-
annes/The Volunteers
The Jackpot Music Hall, 10
p.m. 5,21+/$7,18 to 20
Ebony and Ivory's
Friday the Thirteenth!
The Eighth Street Tap Room,
10 p.m., $3.21+
Fresh Fridays with DJ Proof
Fatso's, 10 p.m., $3, 21+
Monta at Odds/Larkin Grimm
The Record Bar, 10 p.m., $7,
21+
The jazzhaus, 10 p.m., $6.21+
saturday, feb 14
Sellout
Cross Canadian
Ragweed
Ragweed
The Granada, 8 p.m., $25,
all ages
Cicada Rhythm Valentine's Bash with Somasphere/The Floozies
The Jackpot Music Hall, 10 p.m. $10, 18+
Family Groove Co./
Lubriphonic
The Bottleneck, 10 p.m., $7,
18+
Candlepants and Gloria
Vanderbilt's Valentine's Dance
The Eight Street Tap Room,
10 p.m., $5, 21+
A Sonic Douche Valentine's Cuddle Party
The Replay Lounge. 10 p.m.
$3.21+
The ACBs/C.E.S. Cru/
Bayno/Brandon Draper
The Record Bar, 10 p.m., $7,
21+
The Uptown Theater, 6:30 p.m., $39.75, all ages
Frank Caliendo
sunday, feb 15
Maze Featuring
Frankie Beverly and
Keith Sweat
Municipal Auditorium, 7:30
p.m.; $45 to $55, all ages
The Love Hang Over
The Record Bar: 8 p.m.
$7,21+
Liberty Hall, 8 p.m., all ages
Disco Biscuits
The Coppella Project
A Clown Ballet in
Three Acts
La Esquina, 8 p.m., $10,
all ages
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The Eighth Street Tap Room, 10 p.m., $3, 21+
Smackdown Trivia
The Bottleneck, 8 p.m. $5,18+
and Karaoke
William Inge Theatre, 7:30 p.m., $10 to $12, all ages
SRS Orlando Ruiz,
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Swarthout Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m., free, all ages
trumpet
DJs Joc Max and Miles Bonny
The Phoenix Jazz Club, 8 p.m., free, 21+
Clay Cumble/Roots &
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The Bottleneck, 9 p.m., 18+
Dollar Bowling
Royal Crest Bowling Lanes, 9 p.m., $1, all ages
The Record Bar, 10 p.m. free, 21+
DJ Just
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Music Alliance presents "I See You."
La Esquina, 7 p.m., $5, all ages
Kansas Union, 8 p.m., free, all ages
Brody Buster Band
Tuesday Nite Swing
The Jackpot Music Hall, 10 p.m., $5, 21+/$7, 18 to 20
The Aural Exciter
The Record Bar, 10 p.m., free, 21+
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John Lomas
The Eldridge Hotel, 7 p.m., all ages
Peking Acrobats
Fitting Arena
Voodoo Lounge, 8 p.m., $25 to
$35, all ages
Felt-A-Palooza Talent
The Bottleneck, 9 p.m. $5, 18+
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was nothing fancy, but it fueled my obsession with making mix CDs.
editor's note
I can pinpoint the conception of my anal retentiveness. My parents had finally budged and bought a desktop computer. It
From late grade school to late middle school, I made mix cassette tapes. I recorded whatever popular jams happened to be playing on the radio when I was near my stereo. Sometimes, I would even hold my dad's old tape recorder to a TV's speakers to record the music from music videos. I had a pretty stellar collection of tapes by the time that desktop entered my life.
The tapes, though, were spoiled with missing beginnings, cut off endings and fuzzy recording qualities. I quickly adapted to burning CDs instead, and I now had play counts, numbered tracks and 80 minutes to make the mixes of my dreams. My mix CD collection would put those Now That's What I Call Music! CDs to shame.
My musical taste hadn't changed much since the mix tape days (whatever was on the radio and pleasing to the ears was good enough for me), so I just downloaded the music on the computer rather than waiting for the radio to
play a song I liked.
Each of my orderly CDs would have put an expression of awe on even Martha Stewart's mug.The CDs were all 18 tracks and no artist was repeated on each CD.They were numbered and I had a typed listing for each disk.I made sure I had a backup of each CD, just in case. If someone listed off any song from the CDs, I could name which disk it was on (and usually even the track number).
I know now that I had all my mixes wrong. I mashed together songs in favor of orderliness rather than flow. I had pop next to rock with hip hop thrown somewhere in the mix. Elliot's story on page 6 explains what makes a good mix of music, from flow to format, for a significant other or for yourself.
My first vehicle, a bare bones truck, had only a cassette player and a radio. I dug through my middle school memorabilia and pulled out those tapes. I may have been jamming to five-year-old tunes for most of my high school years in that truck, but never had I been more thankful for a piece of outdated technology.
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Perfect gifts for every stage in your relationship
Ah,Valentine's Day:a day dedicated to sharing love with a significant other. But whether it's a new relationship or a more comfortable one, the right Valentine's Day gift is crucial for lovers at every stage of their relationship. Instead of winging it this Valentine's Day, choose a gift that can accurately reflect your current relationship standing.
With emotions running high for this February 14 holiday, lovebirds are saying that finding the perfect gift is their biggest concern.
According to Business Wire, nearly four out of 10 people reassess their romantic relationships between the end of December and Valentine's Day. It's a period that's been called "National Break-up Season."
To help with this stressful task of gift buying, here's a guide to choosing a Valentine's gift for every relationship stage.
One to two months:
Butterflies and starry-eyed
Everything is fun and fresh going into Valentine's Day at this stage. Expectations are not high, so no diamonds to buy or vacations to plan. Traditional gifts are welcomed, such as chocolates, picture frames and flowers. Go get dinner or just get dessert. The key is to show you appreciate the other person.
Katie Loyd, 2008 graduate from Lawrence met her boyfriend, Alex Rock, three and a half
years ago. For their first Valentine's Day, she says, they went to dinner at The Eldridge, 701 Massachusetts Street, and gave each other picture frames.
"It was really laid back and there was no pressure," Loyd says. "It shouldn't be for your first Valentine's Day together."
Going out to dinner is an easy way to generate conversation, allowing you to get to know the other person better, and in turn, feel more comfortable with him or her.
The Eldridge restaurant, The Jayhawker, features a Valentine's Day menu, and flower bouquets are offered so you can kill two birds with one stone. If dinner is not in your plans, but flowers are, Prairie Patches,821 Massachusetts Street, offers flowers and chocolates at a college student-friendly price.
Cinda Garrison, owner of Prairie Patches, says college students tend to be quite conservative and unsure about Valentine's Day gifts.
"Guys come in saying they just met a girl and have no idea." Garrison says. "They tend to be safe and just get flowers."
Going the traditional route at this stage is a timeless way to let the other person know you're into them.
Three to six months:
Goin'steady
The heat is turned up in this stage. Valentine's Day gifts at this level should reflect what you and your partner know about each other. Show you have been listening and buy gifts that spark personal interest in the other person, such as cooking items, music, movies or outdoor wear.
Sunflower Outdoor & Bike Shop, 802 Massachusetts Street, has gifts from $10 water bottles to $165 North Face jackets for you or your outdoor-loving partner. Store employee Andrew Stark says the store has received a lot of special orders for Valentine's Day.
"College kids come in before Valentine's Day and say to their boyfriend or girlfriend, What do you want?" Stark
For those who do know what they want, hinting before Valentine's Day only makes the gift-buying process that much easier for your partner.
Loyd and Rock, for their second Valentine's Day, say they made the mistake of not getting personal gifts for each other and instead stayed at a bed and breakfaStreet
"I do not recommend it," Loyd says. "I would have rather done something we knew we would both like."
Six months to one year:
Hip huggers
Need to know for Valentine's Day
At this point, you're a definite item. You probably do everything together; so now it's time to give gifts that come from the heart Personalized jewelry, or mini get-away trips are gifts that help show your commitment to the relationship.
With the big day upon us, editor of Happenmag.com, Judy Dutton, turned to restaurant reviews and surveys from 1,500 people to help lovers decide what to do for Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day survey results
Valentine's Day survey results
Valentine's Day popularity
26 percent: fans of the holiday
39 percent: just all right
20 percent: should be abolished
16 percent: shrug it off as just another day
Getting your love high quality jewelry is good for this stage in your relationship, but make sure the cost and type of jewelry is appropriate to where you both think you are in your relationship.
Dining price
People tend to spend an average of about
$100 per person, but couples under 35
spend the least amount, at about $92
How far ahead to make reservations
43 percent: three or more weeks in advance
30 percent: one or two weeks ahead of time
3 percent: the day before
7 percent: take the chance of being a walk-in
What to drink?
15 percent: wine
24 percent: champagne
Prairie Patches sells Silpada jewelry on an
What makes a romantic atmosphere?
64 percent: quiet atmosphere
53 percent: soft lighting
37 percent: a beautiful view
Who to bring?
13 percent: someone they just met
74 percent: three or more dates
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Throwing a wrench into the relationship: Valentine's gifting is an important way to show the proper respect for one another in a relationship. Sometimes, a poorly chosen gift can lead to serious relationship damage or upset feelings.
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individual basis in the price range of $17 to just more than $100, says Garrison, Prairie Patches owner.
"It's so much fun to get away for Valentine's Day," Loyd says. "The concert was a little cheesy, but so fun."
"It's a great quality, and the pieces are beautiful." Garrison says. "Very reasonable, but some of the bigger pieces are more expensive."
For the non-jewelry-type lovers, a mini-vacation is always fun for Valentine's Day if you're lucky enough to have a few extra bucks. Head to a concert or go stay on the Plaza in downtown Kansas City, Missouri.
One to two years: Devoted
For Loyd and Rock's third Valentine's Day, they made the trip up to Minnesota to see Katie's favorite band, The Fray, play.
Even though you've made it to this stage in your relationship and the expectations are higher, there is no need to forget the fun in it. So relax, no one is expecting a ring ... yet.
For this level of commitment,you want to give a gift that truly captures the love in your relationship. You have done everything else, so how about relaxing together with a couples' massage? Or maybe a night with just the two of you in a fancy hotel?
Loyds fourth Valentine's Day with Rock is following the same theme this year. "We
moved to NYC, so dinner is not an option.Valentine's day in NYC is a circus." Loyd says.
Instead, Loyd and Rock have decided to spend the day together getting couples' messages, then ordering sushi and having wine at their apartment. JP
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Photo Illustration by Alex Bonham-Carter From Valentine's Day to Doomsday: Don't cause a fight on your special day by buying an off-the-mark gift for your significant other.
How We Met
Being set up on a blind date can be unpredictable and unsuccessful. For Matty Price, though, it marked the first day of the rest of her college dating life.
Matty, Chicago native and a junior at the time, was asked to accompany her friend to a fraternity date party, and without hesitation, she responded, "I refuse." After some quality Facebook time and persuasion, Matty agreed to be Brian Tagg's blind date to his November 30, 2007, Christmas date party.
Brian, Overland Park native and sophomore at the time, says he was nervous about the blind date because she was older, "but I figured I would never talk to her, or see her again," he says. The date party was an overall success both Matty and Brian say, and it led to Matty returning the favor and asking Brian to her sorority date party the following weekend.
Though they had been to many organized functions together, their first actual date was at Jefferson's, where Brian started the night off right by spilling his full glass of water on Matty. After about a month of casual dating, Brian and Matty decided to make it official on January 5,2007. Thirteen days later, Matty left for Italy for five months.
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Take a chance on me: Matty Price and Brian Togg met
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Their overseas relationship succeeded, and the chance of a blind date paid off.
This love is not blind.
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My boyfriend is abroad. A few weeks ago, I went to a bachelor party for a guy friend of mine and we ended up at a strip club. A friend of mine paid for a lap dance from a female dancer for me. And when my boyfriend found out, he flipped. He knows I'd never cheat on him and that I like only guys, but he still freaked out. If anything, what should I have done differently?
Eva, junior
Carly: Nothing. Seriously. You didn't do anything wrong. What was his argument? Was he mad about the lap dance or that you went to a bachelor party? Actually, it doesn't even matter. If your boyfriend knows that you're faithful and only attracted to guys, then he has no reason to flip out. Unfortunately, reason and being rational aren't things at play here. Your boyfriend is probably jealous that you're out having fun while he's so far away. He is also probably uncomfortable with the idea of you going out with a bunch of guys. This can cause anyone to flip out normally—being abroad exacerbates the situation. I hope that your boyfriend has since apologized, citing the reasons I just mentioned as why he got upset. If he hasn't, you deserve an apology. You were honest with him about what you did, you didn't cheat on him, and you're not letting his being abroad stop you from living your life. What more could he ask for?
**Elliot:** Eva, I'm guessing your fella's just jealous. Maybe he wishes he could've been there with you. Maybe he just doesn't like the idea of anyone grinding anywhere near you except him. Whatever the reason, I think you should at least recognize the situation you put him in. No matter your sexual orientation, going to a strip club and letting someone (and a scantily clad someone at that) into your personal space is a very intimate experience. Even if he knows you wouldn't run off with [insert incredibly clichéd stripper name here], just knowing you let someone else be near you in that way may have been enough of a betrayal for him. Am I saying you did something wrong? No.Am I saying you've inherently broken some sacred oath of relationships? No.What you should've done differently is what you didn't seem to do. You didn't look at this from his perspective or consider what he'd think or feel.And, to be clear, I would hold him to the very same had the roles been reversed.
Have relationship questions or need some advice?
E-mail bitchandmoan@kansan.com.
*Bitch and Moan is not to be considered as a substitute for professional help.
My roommate recently started hooking up regularly with one of our friends. From the start, I knew it was a bad idea. I had talked to her previously about this guy she had dated who blew her off and completely played with her emotions. She said she wanted a good guy, and then started messing around with my roommate—who I knew was bad news. Out of optimism, I let it go, but then he cheated on her with an ex. She found out, got pissed, but a few days later was back on his arm. What's the deal?
Matt, sophomore
Carly: Honestly, who knows? Common sense would dictate that your friend leave the guy and find someone who gives her what she needs. However, as mentioned above, we're not always rational beings. I understand that your friend got upset when she found out that your roommate hooked up with an ex. She's not in a relationship with your roommate, though, so there's not a commitment to not sleep with other people. Is there a mutual understanding that they'll be exclusive or are they working off of conflicting assumptions? If your friend and your roommate want to continue this arrangement, they need to set some boundaries. Just to note: it sounds like you did your part by warning her in the beginning. You can only prevent people from making mistakes for so long. Your friend obviously has a deeper connection to your roommate than you can battle against, so don't worry too much about it.
**Elliot:** OK, Matt. Time for some brutal honesty. The deal is simple: people can be stupid, weak and impulsive. Clearly your friend cares more about having someone than having someone who respects her. People can be so starved for attention and affection that they'll go running back to someone (like your roommate) who deliberately disrespected them in the first place, just because that person will give them some momentary attention. But that's not really why you wrote us with a question. You wrote because clearly this upsets you in some way. Either you feel something for this friend or just object to jerks like your roommate on principle. Whatever the case may be, trust me when I say that you don't want to get involved. You might think that once you give either party a piece of your mind that the situation will get better. It won't. If you bring it up with your friend, she'll feel like you're telling her what to do. If you mention it to your roommate, you're in for an incredibly awkward living situation.
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How to make the perfect music mix for that special someone
You're at a stalemate. You know you like her and you're pretty sure she likes you. Or, you know he likes you but you're not sure how to proceed. Flowers? Too much. A card? Too impersonal. And so you arrive at the age-old vehicle of so many declarations of affection: the mix tape.
Odd as it might seem, finding the person to make the tape can be one of the hardest parts of the process. For Mark Roseberry, assistant manager at Kief's Downtown Music, 832 Massachusetts Street, making a mix tape for a person was the initial plunge into an eventual relationship." I never made a tape for someone that I didn't want to be a girlfriend," he says.
Just reaching that threshold can take a lot, he says. By the time you start dreaming up lists of songs to communicate how you feel about that special someone, you want to be confident in your decision. But then what?
Choosing your format
The second important decision any mixers have to make is how they should channel their creativity. "I find it amusing and meaningful that they're still referred to as mix tapes," says Roberta Freund-Schwartz, associate professor of musicology. She has a point. From making an actual mix cassette tape to whipping up a mix CD to publishing an iMix playlist on the iTunes music store, audiophiles have more options than ever before. And with the cassette technology being phased out, tapes are more expensive than ever.
Also, your choice of format may say a lot about you as a music fan. Building a mix from taping from vinyl to a cassette means you appreciate old school rock and roll, while e-mailing someone a collection of mp3s could communicate that you don't get hung up on possessing a huge, physical collection.
Follow the rules
Graphic by Drew Stearns
Music to your honey's ears: Finding the right mix of songs and choosing the right format for a mix of music can be difficult, especially when making the mix for a significant other.
"First of all, you're using someone else's poetry to express how you feel," Hrabe says, quoting the music-centric film High Fidelity. And not only do people need to find songs that speak for them, they also have to find songs that express their overall taste. That way, when recipients react to any given tape, they're responding to their feelings but also to their overall identity as a music fan.
Every time he decides to make a mix, he filters through his voluminous vinyl collection and starts selecting albums with standout songs he hopes will speak to his audience of one. He's a sucker for lyrics, he says, and is acutely focused on making sure the words match his thoughts.
From opening the mix with an attention getter to avoiding repeats of artists on one tape, lan Hrabe believes in the rules. Hrabe, Olathe senior and music director for KJHK, says he spent most of his teens and all of his early 20s trying to perfect his tape-making technique.
"If they didn't like my taste, then they'd have to like me for me," says Roseberry, assistant manager at Kief's Downtown Music.
Then, after making sure your choices speak for you as well as about you, make additions that you know the person is going to like. It's just as much about them as it is about you, Hrabe says. Be sure to build and decrease tempo methodically.
Another aspect that Matt Falkenstein, Lawrence senior, likes to keep in mind is retaining subtlety. If he's trying to implant romantic ideas in the ears of his audience, he doesn't bust out overt classics, such as Marvin Gaye's "Let's get It on."
Six simple tips to creating a successful music mix
Suggestions from Mark Roseberry, Ian Hrabe and Roberta Freund-Schwartz
1. Don't start your mix with a song that opens its respective album.
2. Try to avoid repeating artists. If you must, set a track at each end of the mix to bookend it properly.
3. Unless you know a person's taste very well, try to limit your selections to one era or genre.
4. Be very mindful of a mix's flow. Jumping from an acoustic ballad to a heavy metal shredfest won't do anything but jar your audience.
5. If you're going to include a person's favorite artist in your mix, try to find an obscure or rare track that they haven't heard.
6. Take the time to do it right and with a personal feel.
The personal touch
Once you have your track list and your chosen format ready to go, one part that's a must is to add a personal touch. Roseberry would record his voice over instrumental breaks on his mixes and make them sound like radio broadcasts. Hrabe designs new album artwork for every mix he makes.
Freund-Schwartz has gone so far as to record bits of dialogue off a television in hopes of referencing an inside joke. For the recipients, going the extra mile means everything. JP
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A trip to the Paul Brown Stadium would be more than an experience for Aaron Emrich. It's the place of his dream job—working for the Cincinnati Bengals.
Brooke Badzin and Aaron, both seniors, had been dating about two years when she decided to make his dream a reality. Brooke, of Leawood, surprised Aaron, Wichita native, with fake tickets at their anniversary dinner in November to the Bengals game on December 28, 2008, against the Kansas City Chiefs.
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Sitting in the sixth row, at the 30-yard line. Aaron remained in awe.
Aaron is a sports management major and
Contributed photo Brooke Badzin surprised her boyfriend, Aaron Enrich, with a trip to Cincinnati to see his favorite team, the Bengals, play.
Once she had gotten the real tickets, she flew both of them to Cincinnati, Ohio, for a two-day trip.
"He was in complete shock," Brooke says.
sports fanatic, so this anniversary present was more than he could have asked for.
Aside from having a great time at the game, Brooke says they went out in Mount Adams, Cincinnati, and ate at two great sushi and seafood restaurants.
Brooke says."We had a great time and absolutely loved the city of Cincinnati."
"It's the best date both of us have ever had."
Stephanie Schneider
Taking your friends' advice sometimes isn't the best idea when considering asking someone out on a date. Shea Steacker, senior, learned this the hard way.
Shea was back in his home state, Minnesota, and at his favorite restaurant, Ichiban, when he noticed the cute hostess named Bailey. With hesitation, Shea walked up to her to ask her out on a date, but froze and left the restaurant with his friends instead.
"My friends made fun of me for being a wimp." Shea says. "So we pulled back up to the restaurant and I hopped out."
Shea says he got back into the restaurant and asked her out on a date, and to his surprise, she gladly accepted the offer. The two met the next day at Starbucks, where the shock then settled in.
"She turned out to be a crazy liberal, treehugger type, who was gorgeous," Shea says.
The first half an hour was enjoyable for Shea, but then for the next two and a half hours, he says she wouldn't stop talking about politics
and world policies. Ouch
"It was just too much for a first date," Sheas says.
After the date, Bailey kept calling Shea despite the fact that he would never answer.
Shea says she assumed he enjoyed the political debate between them as much as he did. But in debates, a loser always emerges.
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Eric Melin
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I am a visual artist. I love to paint and explore the world through art.
Nicole Tichenor St. Louis senior
If you were forced to listen to only one song for the rest of your life, which would you choose?
What would your secret service codename be?
It has to be the Beatles. Probably 'She Said She Said'. It's the perfect melody.The hook is amazing.I could hear it forever and not get tired of it.
Who's your favorite super villain?
'How to Disappear Completely' by Radiohead.There are so many nuances You hear something new every time you listen.
What was your favorite book read to you as a child?
I read a lot of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in sixth grade.That's as far back as I can remember.
All of the Berenstain Bears books.I love the illustrations.
I'm unreasonably excited and worried about the Watchmen movie.The idea of Dr. Manhattan being portrayed just perturbs.
Heath Ledger's Joker. He's the most brilliant super villain ever.Either him or President Bush.
It's got to be the name people give me when I've had too much to drink: Mean Melin.
Who shot John F. Kennedy Jr.?
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It was Chevy Chase as Gerald Ford. He shot JFK on accident.
Lee Harvey Oswald.I'm not a conspiracy theorist.
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Mind your millennial 'p's and 'q's By Madeline Hyden mhyden@kansan.com
Technology use is no excuse to let your social graces slide
Grocery shopping is a peaceful time for me. I get much pleasure from leisurely strolling up and down the aisles, planning my meals for the week and looking for bargains. The other day I was just about to crack the case of crunchy vs. smooth when I hear Beyonce's "Single Ladies" blare from a girl's cell phone in the next aisle. I spent the rest of my shopping outing hearing about who made out with whom at The Wheel, why she needed to lose 10 pounds, and whether her boyfriend's chest hair was sexy.
Technology has given us the ability to share our lives with the general public. From cell phone conversations to blogs to Facebook status updates, personal information flows across lines of communication faster than you can say, "TMI." No information is sacred anymore, and worse, a set of rules to follow that explain the rights and wrongs of technology use aren't set in stone.
A lot has changed since Emily Post first wrote her book on etiquette in 1922, but manners still remain a stronghold in modern society. With technology thrown into the mix, manners are more necessary than ever. Here's
an updated guide to handling everyday situations with the utmost tact and consideration.
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Keep your voice down. Vans Copple is sick of all the screaming. The Salt Lake City junior says there's nothing worse than someone talking obnoxiously loudly on his or her cell phone.
"There is only an inch of space between the phone and mouth. Why is it necessary to yell? It's called volume control; all phones have it." she says.
Vibrate is not silent. Turn your phone on silent or turn it off if you don't want it to be heard.
Do not answer texts or calls when you're with someone. Nick Harbert, Wichita sophomore, says he hates it when friends talk, text or check Facebook when they're together.
"Once, OK, maybe you had an important phone call or something, twice you are getting on my nerves, but by the third time I just want to smash your phone," he says.
I'll be there. I'll be there.
Avoid using your cell phone in the bathroom. Erin Wolfram,certified etiquette specialist,says that it's rude to the other people in the bathroom and to the person on the other line.
Respond accordingly. If someone calls you, call them back—do not text them. Respond in the same format that was used to contact you.
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Netiquette
Absolutely never use your phone in the following places: elevators, restaurants, libraries, cemeteries, places of worship, wedding ceremonies and receptions.
Catty chit chat: Inconsiderate actions, such as talking on a cell phone at an unnecessary volume, shows bad manners and a lack of respect for other people.
Greet and Degreeet. What is rude in real life is also rude on the Web. Not saying hello, goodbye or thank you in e-mail is just as rude as doing it to a person's face.
Always begin an e-mail with "Hello" or "Dear" and always sign off with "Sincerely," "Best" or "Regards." Avoid writing in short fragments to avoid sounding angry, says Patsy Rowe, author of Business Etiquette: Achieving a
competitive edge in business.
Use subject lines effectively, especially in a business setting. Briefly say what the e-mail contains in the subject line so the recipient can judge its importance.
Be aware of tone. Rowe says that without a voice, face or body language to convey your message, the recipient has only your words to go on, which is why the tone of e-mail can be easily misunderstood Geoff Folker, Kansas City, Missouri graduate student, says that regardless of how accustomed we get to technology as a means of communication, no amount of emoticons can replace a genuine smile, frown or look of indifference.
Keep it timely. Always respond quickly to an e-mail. If the message requires a response, send a quick reply right when you open the e-mail and respond more fully when you have time, just so the sender isn't waiting
Dining Etiquette Dos and Don'ts
Courtesy of Excuse Me, But I was Next ... by Peggy Post, the great-granddaughter of Emily Post.
— Don't lean back on the hind legs of your chair
Order drinks accordingly. If the rest of the table is drinking iced tea, tequila shots may be inappropriate
— Don't use a toothpick at the table.
Don't eat anything that has dropped on the floor, regardless of the five-second rule
Don't take a drink when food is still in your mouth (unless you are choking)
— Don't rearrange the cutlery if you are left-handed
— Don't lick your knife or fork
— Don't leave personal items on the table, including purses and phones
Always be grateful. Thank the host at the end of the meal and follow up with a phone call or e-mail
on you. Reply to all business e-mails within a half-day and social e-mails within 24 hours.
On the job
Always send a hand-written thank you note after an interview.
Rowe says that even if you don't get the job, you'll still be remembered by your thoughtful gesture. An e-mail is an acceptable backup.
Sell yourself, don't talk about yourself. Kalem Kopf, Lawrence senior and president of the Society of Human Resource Management, says he often sees students get personal in job interviews or cover letters. He says that it's important to focus on explaining what you can do for them, not just what you can do.
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"I've seen students go off on tangents about how much they love KU basketball without mentioning anything about the program they're applying for," he says.
Stay off personal e-mail and Facebook while at work.
Recognize the generation gap. There's a good chance that the people you will work for will be from a generation where formal manners and professionalism were valued more highly than they are today. Remember that before you throw "loi" into e-mail.
Good manners and etiquette essentially come down to awareness. It's easy to get wrapped up in text messaging or e-mailing, but recognizing the needs of those around you is the first step in courtesy.
Patsy Rowe says good manners contribute to well roundedness and it takes more than being "good on paper" to achieve success.
"I feel that some young people have the idea that their professional learning, their educational qualifications alone, will carry them through life without understanding there has to be a balance. Their personal and interpersonal skills have to be honed.The combination of charm, style and good manners is a pretty hard one to bear, and the good news is, all three can be learned," she says. JP
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Virginia-based duo The Clipse (Gene and Terrence Thornton) hooked up with Marc Ecko's Complex Magazine to commemorate the December launch of their new clothing line, Play Clothes, by releasing Road To Till The Casket Drops, a free, downloadable prelude to their upcoming LP (Till The Casket Drops).
The mixtape goes hard from the get go, with Pusha T spitting the mixtape's most memorable punch line: "It's the hood's Obama, shoveling McCain/Out the project window the drama's insane/The rap game's upside down like David Blaine/You fans is Times Squared for following them lames." The true highlight of Road To Till The Casket Drops are tracks five through seven where the duo's cold, raspy flows mesh perfectly over minimalist production, most notably on "Pop Champagne." "Numb It Down" marked the first time that Lupe Fiasco has allowed another artist to use the rights to one of his beats, and The Clipse didn't take that opportunity for granted.
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Pusha T begins the bass heavy track: "Feel this, I'm fearless, now hear this/Tackled it after Lupe killed it/Push Ton the last son of Mildred/ Stumbled upon the rock like a pilgrim."
The Clipse has released Road To Till The Casket
Drops to celebrate the release of their clothing line.
The tape rounds out with The Clipse solidifying their swag on "S.I.U." and "Swing Ya Rag" and shouting out every known drug dealer in Virginia on "Feds Taking Pictures." Running just under 37 minutes,The Clipse have just enough time to prove why they have earned the title of being hip-hop's cocaine kings.
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A man and a guitar bring an otherwise busy room to a standstill. People say rock and roll is dead. I say the kegger is dead—well maybe not dead, but damn boring.
No beer pong here. No Guitar Hero. No red solo cups. No (celebrated) binge drinking. Just a small house. About 80 people. Lots of music. No set structure. No fuss. Something different.
What I experienced is referred to as a Wonka House party, held at the home of Christopher Luxem, Topeka senior, and Kent Szauderbach, Wichita sophomore. The party gets its name from the physical build of their house.The house is a straight shot.You can see from one end to the other,and as you walk through,the ceiling slopes and—over the span of four rooms—drops three feet. No two
door frames are alike—there are five different kinds of wood paneling—it's got that Willy Wonka feel.
The party gives people the space for a night to listen to and play live music. The event has no structure and everyone is welcome to play, including the audience members who are supplied with various auxiliary percussion such as shakers and tambourines, which lie about the house.
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Mellow out, dude; Tyler Gregory, Lawrence resident, performs "Ain't No Sunshine" for a crowd at the Wonka House on January 18. A wide range of musical acts and welcoming atmosphere drew a crowd of around 18 to the house that evening.
"There's no reason that we all can't work together and achieve this mass counterculture," Luxem says. "A counterculture that celebrates life, celebrates experiencing our senses and enjoying ourselves through music and visual experience."
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When I entered the party, the house was vacant enough to actually walk around in it. About a dozen people were already there, but within an hour and a half, at about 10:30 p.m., close to 80 people packed in the two-bedroom house. No one was collecting money at the door, and the traveling musicians earned gas money by passing around a hat after a set.
I watched four different performers' sets spanning acoustic folk to full band pop. Every set involved a give-and-take with the audience. Performers opened their occasionally clenched eyes making eye contact with the audience—made some of them blush, made some of them sing along. There wasn't a feeling of,"I'm here to entertain you." It was a feeling of,"Oh, you like this too?"
Even after the house filled up, it was so quiet you could hear the appliances in the kitchen. The sets performed were at a comfortable listening level. In the background one could hear the slow hum of the fridge and the sink running in a bathroom two rooms over. It was packed, but intimate.
"It's much more, 'Here's my music. Let's have a night,'" says Andrew Frederick, Shawnee junior, and singer and drummer for Frederick and the Six Angry Telephones."We'll have a night and we will remember the night. We have many passing nights in the Wonka House, I guess you'd say."
It's less of a concert to the audience and more of an event, a happening; something participatory that pulls you in. It's not that underground. It's not that weird. It's just people having a good time.
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Christopher Luxem, Topeka senior, performs at the Wonka House on January 18. Luxem, who has lived at the house since August 2007, says his main motivation for hosting musicians was "to make a space available for performance in Lawrence for people I knew that would be traveling through, or other people that I would meet while living here could play at."
FOR THE PERFORMERS
The excitement of playing a house show comes with the setting: the house. Houses are already intimate in nature:They are places people eat, sleep and live.People naturally feel at ease in a home,so when a performer plays a house, an air of ease surrounds the performance.People come to the house to hear them perform, not just to drink.
That doesn't mean that the fridge did not see its fair share of six packs, but that the overall concern of the night was keeping the music going; moments of silence for applause were the only non-music filled points of the evening. This crowd didn't frown on drinking. Those who participate in this movement aren't against keeggers or other parties.The performers visibly enjoyed that. They fed themselves on it, the energy and pulsing of the moment.
"God, I'd rather play somewhere that's nice, that lends a nice glow to people's faces that look like they're having fun rather than super drunk," Frederick says. "It's fantastic."
People were still drinking and enjoying themselves, but there was a communal feeling to the event. Performers met and talked to the audience after sets. They then became a part of the audience for other's sets, which entailed either listening intently, dancing or playing along in the audience. They got silly, but it wasn't the kind of silly one sees at a kegger. It was the kind of silly that you see in a preschooler. Excited. Uninhibited. Fun.
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The performers explained how they got involved in playing shows like the one at the Wonka House. I had imagined this intricate social web that included an online presence. Turns out that they're all just friends in one way or another. They've met either playing at events or through hosting them. I poked and prodded the hosts on how others could get involved and know when these are happening. The answer was simple: Instead of going out and searching for these parties, people should just make them for themselves.
"If you get a strong enough sense of community about Lawrence then places will start popping up and you can start going to all these great places. It just seems like a no brainer. Just do it," says Szlauderbach, Wonka House resident.
The next time you're looking for fun, you could look to your friends to provide it. Everyone knows someone who plays guitar. Have them over, invite some friends and make it a night. If you're worried about not having a name for your house party like the Wonka House, Luxem gives some good advice:"If you want your house to be called something, give it a name." JP
Photo by Ryan Weggoner Subtle swooning: Christopher Luxem, Tapela senior, sings and plays guitar while Leonor Correia of Portugal looks on at the Wonka House on January 18.
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That doesn't mean that the fridge did not see its fair share of six packs ...
things to remember when throwing a { counter kegger }
01. Have guests leave their shoes at the door.
02. Provide percussion to pass around: shakers, tambourines, hand drums or wood blocks.
03. Put away valuables and the fine china.
See page 14 for more photos from this party, and view an audio slideshow with this story at www.kansan.com/jayplay.
04. Decorate with Christmas lights to set the mood.As Christopher Luxem,Topeka senior,says,"Add some twinkle lights and then you've got a party going."
05. Invite enough people who want to perform so that there isn't an awkward lull in the flow of the evening.
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Christopher Luxem, Topeka senior, says he usually books the musicians for Wonka House shows through friends of friends, or "through my past friends who I've gone and traveled to their cities and played shows in their apartments or their houses."
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The crowd at the Wonka House listens to Luxem perform. Luxem says he hopes guests at his house shows would "be immersed within a musical experience as opposed to just being a spectator to a certain experience."
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Jamie Lacore, Topeka junior, watches performers at the Wonka House.
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Leonar Correia of Portugal, and Carey Scott, Hoxie senior, listen as Bobby Sauder, 2008 graduate, sings along with one of the many musical acts at the Wonka House.
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Sitting on her couch in Lawrence, 23-year-old Cathy Dinh laughs at comedian Anjelah Johnson's stand-up bit called "nail salon" on YouTube.
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"Hon-nee, why you don't lie-ke? Pedicure it make look na-i. It so sexy. It better for you," says Johnson, imitating a nail technician with a thick "Asian" accent.
SHE'S A MOM
The bit highlights the stereotype of nail salon customers not understanding the short and grammatically incorrect speech of nail technicians with an accent.
Color me beautiful Cathy Dinh, nail technician, is aware of customers sometimes stereotyping her profession.
"At first I was so offended by it." Dinh says when it ends, "but then I was like, 'It's so true.'"
Dinh is a nail technician in Lawrence, but she doesn't fit the stereotype. Although she has the dark almond eyes that reflect her heritage and is fluent in Vietnamese, she is also fluent in English. She is from Dodge City and goes to college in Lenexa.
Former coworker and friend of Dinh, Matt Truong, says the boss of Nail Citi discourages workers from talking in Vietnamese. Truong says that the ideal customers are those who feel comfortable and act like themselves. That, Truong says, is what being at a nail salon is all about.
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James Bond has strayed from his gambling roots in his recent film, Casino Royale. Bond plays Texas Hold 'em, which is a variation of poker. Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, though, devoted almost an entire chapter to explaining the rules of baccarat in his Casino Royale novel.
Baccarat is not difficult. You play it like you would blackjack, but the number you are hoping for is nine. You get two cards with an option for a third. Face cards and tens are worth zero, and aces are worth one; all other cards are worth their numerical value.
For example, an ace and an eight would equal nine, just as a nine and a queen would equal nine.
There are three major variations of baccarat: Punto Banco, Chemin de Fer and Baccarat Banque. Bond plays Chemin de Fer. In this variation, there is a set of rules for how you must play your cards. If you have an eight or a nine in the first two cards you draw, then you turn them up. This is called a "natural" and you will win unless someone else has a higher natural. You can stand on a seven or
six, meaning you don't have to draw another card. You can choose to stand or not to stand on a five, but if you have four and below then you must draw another card.
Casinos may have house rules, so you should ask the croupier, or dealer, about them before you start gambling.
Adam Schoof
green it! Bum a ride online
Photo by Adam School
Shaken, not stirred: Learn how to baccarat just like James Bond, though it probably won't be as thrilling
Brian Bass was filling up his car with gas and was watching the numbers steadily grow. He came up with an idea for a carpooling website after his patience hit the limit.
Bass created Ridesearch.com, which is a website that connects people with similar commutes with each other. However, instead of making a website with ads for carpooling, he decided to make it more friendly.
"We're more of a social network," Bass says. "By being social, people get to know one another before ever setting foot in a car"
Therefore, you won't have to wonder who you'll be riding with because you can communicate with them extensively beforehand.
If you are looking for an environment where you can only place ads, then Erideshare.com is just that. Craigslist.org also has resources for carpooling ads under "rideshare."
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Carpooling saves money in this stagnant economy because you are sharing costs with others. If it makes economic sense for you to give up some of your flexibility in order to save some cash, then you should consider carpooling.
Wei Wu, assistant professor of psychology, prefers carpooling for a variety of reasons. She says it saves her money, cuts greenhouse gases and gives her someone to talk to.
— Adam Schoof
Contributed photo
Dude, where's my car? Save some dough and wear and tear on your car by searching for a carpool online.
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This Weekend Roller Derby
DICRENTS
HORNETS
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Smashing good time: Watch the roller derby girls in action Saturday at the Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri.
The authentic taste of MEXICO is just down the street.
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Flying around a circular flat track at break-neck speeds, Yvette Yerass and Bomb Pop love what they do. Sexy, anti-corporate, incredibly fast-paced and tremendously violent, who wouldn't love a little roller derby in their life?
This Valentine's Day could be brutal, but not because you got turned down ... again. The Kansas City Roller Warriors league presents the third annual Bloody Valentine bout at Municipal Auditorium, 301 West 13th Street in Kansas City, Missouri.
Four teams, including the Black-Eye Susans, the Dreadnought Dorothys, the Knockouts and the Victory Vixens, will battle it out in thrilling girl-on-girl roller action.
Lawrence resident Tonya Hagdorn (a.k.a. Yvette Yerass) says the sport is addictive for players and fans.
"It's pure intensity from the start," Hagedorn says. "After the first time you watch it, usually you are hooked."
Knockouts jammer Shawn Frazier (a.k.a. Bomb Pop) says the bumps and bruises these women stomach during competition motivates them.
"Last year, during a bout. I got drilled from the side by a blocker and flew in the air," Frazier says. "I landed on my knee bad and sparks flew. Everyone thought it was pretty sweet. I jumped up to get a piece of that girl."
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Advance tickets for the event are $13 or you can put tickets at the door for $16. Doors open at 6 p.m. with the first bout of the evening beginning at 7 p.m.
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[stagepresence]
Big Stack Daddy
Staggering to the stage, Big Stack Daddy's eclectic band of characters makes you wonder:What kind of music am I in for?
daddy's
es you won-
for?
Nicolas
Photos by Kristopher McDonald
ry's
von-
JIM LEE
SANTO ANTONIO
The two original members of the group, Byron James, 53, and Michael Paull, 47, have been playing together for nearly six years under the moniker Big Stack Daddy.
Just three months ago, the pair decided to expand the group, hoping to appeal to a younger audience.
Peter Longofono, Topeka junior, and Colby Earleywine, 25, auditioned and made the cut after a few minutes of groveling to with the elder statesmen of the group, James jokingly says.
Two old, two young: Big Stack Daddy decided to appeal to a younger audiences by adding two younger band mates. Check out more about the band at www.myspace.com/bigstackdaddy and www. bigstackdaddy.com
"The truth is they attracted chicks in from the college to watch us," James says, "and Peter knows plenty of attractive girls."
All jokes aside, the two young musicians made the cut based on their ability. Paull says.
"Peter and Colby are both very talented and were
exactly what we were looking for" Paull says,
"The just fit for us."
After the taking time to gel, the group has begun to venture out into the Lawrence music scene, playing at the Jazzhaus and the Replay Lounge recently.
James and Paull say the change has been positive for the group and everyone seems to be meshing well.
However, ask the group to describe its music and everyone has a difficult time.
"Singer/songwriter-style rock and roll"
Paull says.
"Lyrical electric," Earleywine says.
"And a little jazz," Longofono adds.
While they try to figure it out, Big Stack Daddy will also keep trying to "perpetuate the myth" with their onstage antics, Longofono says.
- Kristopher McDonald
Out&About
[ what is your best or worst Valentine's Day experience? ]
"My best was probably when I had dinner at the Plaza and a carriage ride afterwards."
Kirsten Kwon, Chicago junior
YOUNG
"My worst Valentine's Day was when my mom got me a present." Ben Antes, Overland Park junior
"My best was when my boyfriend baked cookies for me at his house. We had been broken up a couple months before that and he asked me out again. We have been together for a little over four years now." Brianne Burlin, Stilwell freshman
I am a proud member of the Varsity Cheerleading team. I will be happy to represent my team in all of our competitions and events.
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"As an insensitive male, most of my Valentine's Day experiences have been bland."
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"My most memorable would have to be when my boyfriend took me out to dinner. I dumped him on the car ride home."
Alex Surface, Kansas City, Missouri, freshman
"My worst Valentine's Day was last year's. My boyfriend of four years broke up with me on that very day, I've hated Valentine's Day since I've been little, but I have to say I hate it even more now." Allie Tyner, Council Grove sophomore
"My favorite Valentine's Day had to have been when I was in Florence last year. We drank a bottle of wine as we crossed the Arno River on our way to a friend's apartment. Our professors even came. It was incredible."
Amanda Janssen, Wichita senior
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Sexual intercourse in unsanitary conditions and places, such as in a car or the outdoors, can expose you to a higher risk of genital yeast infection and urinary tract infection (UTI), says Jenny McKee, health educator at the Wellness Resource Center. Yeast infections can cause itch and irritation in genitalia. UTIs can create pain and bleeding during urination.
Cars, in particular, can be dirtier than your average sex location because of leftover food messes and shoes transferring bacteria from the outdoors.
Photo illustration by Sachiko Miyakawa! No! That's the gearshift! Cars are usually harbor unsi- nary environments, which expose you to more diseases.
Researchers, however, don't have strong evidence that urinating after sex or regular hygiene routines prevent UTIs, says Deborah Wing, a specialist in maternal fetal medicine at the University of California, Irvine. Even on your bed or after taking a shower, you may get UTIs through sexual intercourse.
McKee says women are more prone to these infections, but regular hygiene routines, such as washing hands and taking showers, can reduce the risk of infection. Urinating after sex can also prevent UTIs, according to the National Kidney Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse.
McKee says a UTI is not uncommon. Twenty percent of women develop a UTI during their lifetime, according the National Kidney Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse.
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Good plant companions refresh your mind, brighten up your room, and clean the air in your breathing zone.
Houseplants can absorb airborne pollutants through their leaves and biodegrade them into a source of food for the plants, according to How to Grow Fresh Air by B.C. Wolverton, former NASA research scientist Such pollutants include chemical toxins and bacteria.
Lady palm, rubber plants and English Ivy are among the houseplants that are easier to grow and more effective at removing airborne pollutants, according to the book. Flowers, such as Gerbera daisy,are also effective at removing pollutants but require more maintenance. Wolverton says plants absorb more airborne pollutants, grown in soil-free medium than commercial postting soil.
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Among various houseplants,Tonia Schoen, greenhouse assistant of Sunrise Garden Center,1501 Learnard Avenue,recommends English lvy and philodendron.The plants tolerate different levels of lighting,and if you forget to
Photo illustration by Sachiko Myikawake Smell the roses: Keeping fresh plants around the home helps remove pollutants in the air.
water them, they will not wither easily, says Schoen.
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— Sachiko Miyakawa
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start passing notes
Bring the middle school cattiness of note passing back in vogue. Rather than doodling nonsense in the margins of your class notes, turn to the back of your notebook and start a note.Write to someone you are seeing right after class or someone who you haven't spoken to in awhile.
Sending a message on Facebook is messy and messages to friends can
get lost. Countless messages from events, either changing times or venues, clutter up inboxes and they eventually become black holes of unread messages. When you finally get around to reading all the unread messages, a few pop up that would have been nice to read weeks ago when they were sent.
To: Mrs. Baird
From: Blanche Baird
Break out an old pen and paper
and get to writing. And a love letter to your lover on Valentine's Day is a lot more intimate than an e-card or e-flowers.
Photo illustration by Tyler Waugh
Pass it on:What's so exciting about chatting on Gmail? Passing notes is a more personal way of writing to your friends.
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MUSIC: The Fray, The Fray
It's been nearly four years since The Fray indulged fans with its mellow, cinematic sounds. Now the band is back with its self-entitled sophomore album in hopes of intriguing fans once more.
The Fray swooned, courted and wedged its way into the hearts of music lovers with songs such as "How to Save a Life" and "Over My Head." The Fray's attempt to bring the same melodious sounds that were first produced is now a disappointment.
the FRAY
Almost each track starts off with the tuneful sounds of the piano, with the exception of "Syndicate" and "Absolute." Later the rich timbre of lead singer, Isaac Slade, flows through, followed by the guitar and drums. The Fray aims for a more dramatic sound, but fails to pull it off with the repetitive, dreary tunes.
In the first single, "You Found Me," the group's attempt to swoon fans was thwarted by the not-so-poetic lyrics of finding "God on the corner of First and Am仕ad/ where the West was all but won." In "Happiness," the lead vocalist makes an unpleasant sound by slurring the words for more than a minute while the chorus and instrument tune out each other. Ballads, such as "Ungodly Hour" and "Never Say Never," drag on as dull and repetitive.
Overall. The Fray does not produce the hit-making songs such as on the first album. The album is dull and lacks originality, falling into the endless category of temporary music with lack of variety. In the words of the Fray in "Never Say Never";"Pull it together again."
★☆★★
Brieun Scott
BOOK: Lisa Genova, Still Alice
Words such as "heartbreaking" and "haunting" come to mind after reading Lisa Genova's debut novel Still Alice. Thoughts about who I was, what makes me me, and what it would be like to lose it all followed me for days.
When respected Harvard professor Alice Howland begins forgetting things, she thinks it's the onset of menopause. But after consulting her physician, she is devastated with her diagnosis: early-onset Alzheimer's. Experiencing the memory-stealing disease through the intelligent and practiced mind of a renowned psychology professor, readers can expect a pleasant change of point from the usual caregiver's perspective. However, don't expect to learn much about the schematics of Alzheimer's itself. Even though Alice is married to a biologist, the science of what's happening to her is barely skimmed in comparison to the focus on her emotional and situational dilemmas.
As Alice wrestles with handling the difficulties of her dementia, Genova explores the relationships we choose with lovers, family and our careers. The unexpected ending might satisfy some and upset others. Either way, the story spotlights the struggle of those living with this still-mysterious disease. Though the dialogue is lumbering. Still
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STILL ALICE
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Alice is a thought provoking pioneer in the unexplored land of fiction narrated someone affected by Alzheimer's.
★★★☆
Meghan Nuckolls
MOVIE: Milk
In celebrating the life of Harvey Milk—the first openly gay elected official to hold a major political office—the filmmakers behind Milk portray a real man who cared about real issues without glamorization. Sean Penn's Harvey Milk is centrally located in the gay rights movement of the 1970s; not so much a leader but a projection of a moving force that grows as Milk and his team gain more and more ground at a time when homosexuality socially registered as deviancy.
For such a lyrical film, Milk strangely lacks intimacy to its titular character. We are given scenes between Harvey's inner circle and pillow talk between his lovers, but these scenes never develop much about him; rather they serve to reinforce the role he plays in the movement. Director Gus Van Sant shoots Milk from a distance, giving the viewer an odd mix of detachment and fascination.
This may have been a goal writer Dustin Lance Black and director Van Sant had in mind when constructing the movie—to put Milk's message of acceptance at the forefront—but this lets the film slip into biopic tropes and character sketches.
However, as a portrait of a person in context, Milk succeeds. Sean Penn again
SEAN PENN
MILK
SMU NURSE, JODI BROOK, DIRCO LUNA ... JAMIE FRANCE
SEAN PENN
MILK
EMILE NINBACH  IODH BRODIN  BIRDO LUNA  ... JAMES FRANCE
proves himself as one of the United State's best living actors and the supporting cast delivers excellent performances.Van Sant's use of archival footage deepens the movies sense of place and time, which let Milk's actions resonate more in a film that is culturally relevant.
★★★☆
— Chance Dibben
Milk is playing at Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts Street.
MOVIE: Push
This is not an action movie. Push is the marriage of X-Men and Heroes set in gritty Hong Kong gone bad. You have the watchers (fortune tellers), the stitch (a healer), the movers (telekinesis), the pushers (plant thoughts in your head) and a set of angry, screaming Chinese brothers who can cause a brain to bleed. The intent of the movie is another issue. It seems a select few in the world have the previously mentioned abilities. The U.S. government wants to round them up, inject them with a catalytic-type drug to make their abilities stronger, and create an army. The only problem is that each person they inject with this drug dies seconds after the injection. Kira, played by Camilla Belle, is the one exception. Agitated, she steals the drug and escapes from the institution.
In comes teen rebel Cassie Holmes—a watcher. Played by Dakota Fanning, Cassis is a no-nonsense kind of girl who can see her impending doom. She teams up with Nick Gant (Chris Evans), a mover, to take down those responsible for the drug in order to alter the future into a better tomorrow.The enemy, played expertly by Djimon Hounsou, in turn wants to take the drug back to U.S. government.
Between gritty Hong Kong, the different abilities and the constant switching of
PUSH
loyalties, Push tries to be something it is not. It is not The Matrix as it tries to be, and the only action comes at random moments that often prove unnecessary. The one good thing I can say about this movie is that Fanning is no longer a child. With this movie, she transitions beautifully into the world of teenage angst.
★★☆★
Mia Iverson
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Push is playing at Hollywood Theatres 14,6200 Sixth Avenue in Topeka.
February 12,2009
speak
Hair grows
By Becka Cremer
bcremer@kansan.com
When I'm not sure who I am, I change my hair
I fought the tears threatening to stream down my face as I sat in a cold metal folding chair in the front row of seventh-graders in my middle school's gym. Our parents and siblings filled the bleachers for the end of the year awards assembly. My vice principal—a bald man who was a stickler for rules—had just finished yelling at me. He said I was a disgrace to Trailridge Middle School. I was an embarrassment. He was so disappointed in me.
I could see his point: I had straight "A"s and had placed in multiple math competitions and science fairs, but I had dyed my hair purple.
That day, my mom stood up for me. She—all 5-feet-2-inches of her—asked the principal to step into the girls' locker room where her yells echoed off the cinder block walls and into the hallway outside. I heard her ask him to compare me with the half-naked girl sitting next to me in the front row in the gym. Wasn't her strapless mini-dress more offensive than my purple hair? Weren't the piercings that decorated another girl's face more embarrassing for the school? Shouldn't my awards and honors eclipse my hair color?
I spent the next year alternately smiling and sobbing in the principal's office. I made honor roll. I dyed my hair green. I scored particularly well on a standardized test. My hair was pink. Community service award. Purple streaks. Science fair medal. Blue.
Most of my peers knew me as the girl with the colored hair—not as the overachiever—and that was how I defined myself, too. It was typical teenager stuff: striving to find an identity, blah, blah, blah.
And then, in ninth grade, when my hair was fried to hell and crunchy platinum blonde, I had it shaved off. My stylist even used her dad's nose hair clippers to carve a butterfly design in the back. The new hairstyle made me hard to miss, but also very hard to see.
When I think about my first few years of high school, they're divided into neat little chunks, defined by hairstyles: blonde, red, striped, spiked, crimped, short, shorter, shortest and, my personal favorite, white with pink and purple streaks. Sure, I joined a few clubs and was involved in some activities—and I was
still on the honor roll—but those things were a minor part of who I was and how I experienced high school. I had my gimmick. I was the hair.
During my junior year, I reverted to my natural hair color—mousey brown—and a basic bob. I had let my guard down long enough for people to see past the hair long enough to become my friends. Once they saw beyond the hair, it didn't matter as much. It was too late to hide behind it.
I had thought I was finished with Manic Panic hair dye and unusual hairstyles, but last year, as my relationship with my best friend was falling apart, I dropped more than $600 on six extra inches of hair—fusion extensions. For 11 months and 11 days, I had hair that reached past my shoulders. The upkeep ended up costing me more than $2,000, but I didn't care. I could wear it in a ponytail; I curled it; I even bought makeup and new clothes to match it.And it made me feel better about the failure of one of my most important relationships.
But I had started doing it again. I let my hair define who I was.
For the first part of those 11 months, I loved it. I loved running my fingers through my long, blonde locks. I loved
the comments I got each time someone new noticed how quickly my hair had "grown." I loved answering questions, especially "Is that your hair?" (Yes. It's mine. I paid for it.)
But then I had a hair epiphany. In the 11 months that I had had extensions, I had allowed myself to live like a different person—a person I wasn't sure I liked very much. I went from being a glass-of-wine-with-dinner girl to drinking more than my fair share at townie house parties and at concerts of bands I hated. In 11 months, my relative age went from 42 to about 19, and far too many of my decisions were based on what other people thought.
The new hair and the new personality masked the hole that the end of a friendship had left in my life,but they didn't fill it.When I realized I had been using my hair
(again) to distract me from loneliness, I knew the extensions had to go.
So in September 2008, my sister and I took pliers and scissors to my hair. We carefully pulled out each of the 10-inch, white blonde extensions and cut my hair to a reasonable length. We're slowly darkening the color back to what I've always considered mousey but my sister insists is "chocolate."
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Fifty of them.
Kelsey Huff and her boyfriend will be spending Valentine's Day with their friends.
Instead of taking the conventional route of dinner and a movie, Huff, Aledo, Texas, junior and her boyfriend, Kenny Hollo-
the tradition of throwing a party on Valentine's Day. This is the third year the bash will take place. Huff said her freshman year they all wore red, and last year, they drank red drinks. She said the get-together was a way for all of her friends to be included in the celebration.
"We can all do something together," Huff said. "My single friends don't have to sit around and watch TV."
Students continue to celebrate Valentine's Day in typical and nontraditional ways.
Huff and Holloway have been together for a year. She said they decided to ignore the romantic side of the day and focus on it being a fun holiday.
"There certainly is pressure for it to be a special day," Huff said. "Maybe there is too much pressure because there is always a
"I treat it like my anniversary. It's a day to celebrate togetherness."
KENDAL LEWIS Lawrence senior
chance of being disappointed. It shouldn't be taken so seriously."
Ryan Campbell, Olathe senior and executive director of Queers and Allies, will be attending the Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender Ally College Conference. He said his weekend would consist of learning about the progress and issues of the gay community during the last year as well as how to strengthen Queers and Allies at the University of Kansas, Campbell said that although he had always been single on Valentine's Day, the meaning behind the day was much broader than simple romantic relationships.
enjoying the company of friends with a bottle of red wine. This year will be different. MBLGTACC will be hosting a dance for all of the conference participants on Saturday evening. Campbell said he was looking forward to it.
"It is a really good reminder to be thankful for the people in your life," Campbell said.
Kendal Lewis, Lawrence senior, said she and her husband would spend Valentine's
"There will definitely be more shenanigans than in years past," Campbell said.
SEE RELATIONSHIPS ON PAGE 3A
In past years, Campbell has spent Valentine's Day
Lawrence is for lovers—of art, music, dancing or whatever the heart may desire this holiday
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That's because art galleries, performers, and local businesses and organizations love it when Valentine's Day falls on a weekend. Those looking for love, a place to take a valentine or just something to do are sure to find their perfect match this year.
A hub for one-of-a-kind Valentine's gifts, the annual Van Go Mobile Arts "Have a Heart" show features artwork by students enrolled in the JAMS program. JAMS, Jobs in the Arts Make Sense, pays at-risk teens to create art. Jewelry, cards and glass plates are among the types of artwork that will be for sale. Most will cost less than $50 and all proceeds will support the artists.
There are also some V-Day events specifically for singles, such as the Mix 93.3 Bitter Ball in the Power and Light District in Kansas City, Mo.
"It's a good way to make a social contribution and buy a great gift," Lynne Green, executive director of the show. said.
Movies showing this weekend offer something for singles and couples alike, said Jon Ratzlaff, manager of the Hollywood South Wind 12 Theatres at 3433 Iowa St.
"It's all about a bunch of singles having fun," said Jamie Harris, marketing director. "The singles often get forgotten during this holiday."
See "He's Just Not That Into You" and
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"Confessions of a Shopaholic" to celebrate with a romantic comedy. But two not-so-traditional Valentine's Day movies, "The International" and "Friday the 13th," will better suit those looking for a thrill this
SEE EVENTS ON PAGE 3A
BUDGET
Chancellor testifies on budget cuts to legislators
BY BRIANNE PFANNENSTIEL
bpfannenstiel@kansan.com
Chancellor Robert Hemenway testified before the Kansas Senate Ways and Means Subcommittee on Higher Education Wednesday reagarding looming budget cuts and their effect on the University.
The University has already implemented a round of cuts totaling $4.6 million on the Lawrence campus and $3.7 million at the University of Kansas Medical Center, by trimming funds for student jobs, laying off 11 employees, leaving 110 other positions vacant and cutting the learning community program.
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' proposed cuts for fiscal year 2010 would remove an additional $10.8 million from the Lawrence campus budget and $11 million from the Med Center, which is more than the yearly budget for the School of Nursing.
"Cuts of the magnitude proposed in the governor's budget ... would undoubtedly harm our ability to maintain the promise of a quality, affordable education to our students," Hemenway said in his testimony.
Hemenway warned that cuts above the 10 percent proposed in the governor's budget would significantly harm students by
SEE BUDGET ON PAGE 6A
CRIME
Alumnus pleads guilty to explosions
BY ALEXANDRA GARRY agarry@kansan.com
A December business graduate has been convicted of a federal explosives charge for blowing up a mailbox in the 2400 block of 24th Street in November 2007 and faces
no fewer than five years in prison, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday.
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of Leawood,
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FACT OF THE DAY
The British Navy built a ship named Friday the 13th. On its maiden voyage, the vessel left dock on a Friday the 13th, and was never heard from again.
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1. Montemayor: Somebody is watching them and you
2. Bill may make grocery beer stronger
3. Holmes: Students take part in Honors director search
4. Dodd: That old feeling comes back again
5. Graduate student killed in car collision
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STATE Projects ready to use federal stimulus money
Officials said yesterday they had some 230 projects on their list but that would be reduced after they found out exactly how much money the state wouldw get for transportation projects. They said the state could get between $317 million and $401 million.
There are about $1.2 billion of proposed projects on the list. The $789 billion economic stimulus legislation is on track for a final vote in Congress.
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1. Satellite collision has scattered debris in space
MOSCOW — The collision between U.S. and Russian communication satellites this week
— the first such crash — has created speeding clouds of debris that threaten other unmanned spacecraft in nearby orbits. Russian officials and experts said yesterday.
The smashup 500 miles over Siberia on Tuesday involved a derelict Russian spacecraft designed for military communications and a working U.S. Iridium satellite, which serves commercial customers as well as the U.S. Department of Defense.
The collision scattered space debris in orbits 300 to 800 miles above Earth, according to Maj-Gen. Alexander Yakushin, chief of staff for the Russian military's Space Forces.
2. Earthquake triggers tsunami warning Tuesday
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Strong aftershocks continued to follow a
powerful earthquake off eastern Indonesia that briefly triggered a tsunami warning yesterday, causing a stampede of residents to higher ground. Hundreds of buildings were damaged and at least 42 people injured, some seriously.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the shallow, 7.2-magnitude quake struck off Sulawesi island's coast at around 1:34 a.m., shaking people from their sleep.
3. Police arrest suspect in connection to wildfires
Police did not release any details about the suspect, but a newspaper report said he was a 39-year-old man who would likely be charged with arson causing death in what police call the Churchill fire.
YEA, Australia — Police arrested a suspect today in connection to one of the deadly wildfires in southern Australia that killed more than 180 people and left about 7,000 homeless.
At least 21 people died in that fire, one of hundreds that swept across Victoria state on Feb.7.
NATIONAL
SATSUMA, Fla. — Investigators were treating the disappearance of a 5-year-old north Florida girl as an abduction and continued searching for the child yesterday.
4. Child's disappearance treated as an abduction
The Putnam County Sheriff's Office said investigators assume Haleigh Cummings was abducted because house-to-house searches of the neighborhood Wednesday found no evidence that she wandered away.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — It could cost as much as $825 million to clean up a river and a rural neighborhood after a massive spill of coal ash sludge from a Tennessee Valley Authority power plant,
5. Sludge spill will cost millions to clean up
Haleigh was last seen Monday night in her father's mobile home in a heavily wooded area north of Satsuma. The doublewide mobile home with a screened-in front porch was blocked off with police tape yesterday.
the utility's chief executive said Thursday.
It was TVA's first board meeting since 1.1 billion gallons of coal ash sludge broke out of a containment pond Dec. 22. No one was hurt, but 300 acres were covered with up to 9 feet of grayish muck.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Authorities in the South Carolina county where Michael Phelps was photographed smoking from a marijuana pipe have been arresting people as they seek to make a case against the superstar swimmer, lawyers for two arrested people said Thursday.
6. Others arrested where Phelps photo was taken
Attorney Joseph McCulloch and Dick Harpootlian told The Associated Press they each represented a client charged with possession of marijuana who was questioned about the party Phelps attended near the University of South Carolina campus in November.
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Cuisine Critique Students' view on the food
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Type of food: Pizza
Overall star rating: 4 out of 5
Location: 704 Massachusetts St.
Signature dish: Pocket Zea (calzone), personal to large size $4-8.95
Tastes like: Nothing before. Has its own taste.
Price range: $5-20
What I ate: Monster slice of cheese pizza, $2.80; Medium Pocket Za, $6.20
always gone to national chains such as Pizza Hut, Papa John's or Domino's. Rudy is inviting when you first walk in, with a decorative fountain in the entryway. Depending on the time of day you go, the pizzeria can jump from quiet and romantic, to a bar and grill environment. The service overall is fantastic. Patrons go to the front of the restaurant to order where they are given a specific playing card. When the order is ready, the waiter or waitress will bring it straight to your table and take the card with them. The pizza had a fresh taste that you cannot get from anywhere else. It tasted like no pizza I had ever had before. For a restaurant with such delicious tasting pizza, the price is very reasonable. From its "monster" slices at $2.80 and its sixteen-inch large pizza at $12.60, to its numerous specials running throughout the week, Rudy's is easily one
Review: When it comes to finding a meal after a concert, for a cheap date night, or even with a gathering of friends, look no further than Rudy's Pizzeria. It has the perfect environment for college students, located in what looks to be a basement. I had never been to a locally owned pizza place before. I had
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Campus mourns death of Dean Brill's husband
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DONALD S. BENNETT
Larry J. Schmitz, husband of Anne Brill, Dean of Journalism and Mass Communications, died early yesterday morning at age 64 from complications of lung disease. He received a lung transplant in 1993, and was the longest living recipient of a lung transplant. Brill and Schmitz
One of Schmitz' joys in life was his Catholic faith. Before marrying Brill, he served as a Franciscan
Schmitz
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anniversary on New Year's Eve.
Schmitz believed helping others would improve a person's life, as well as the lives around them. To honor his memory, Brill will offer an award to a journalism student who shares Schmitz' desire to better the world.
Province for 30 years. After moving to Lawrence, Schmitz worked at the Regional Alcohol and Drug Addiction Counseling Services as a social worker.
Schmitz is survived by his wife.
three brothers, one sister and his nieces and nephews. Contributions may be made in his name and sent to KU Endowment for the Schmitz Service Journalism Award. A service will be held 10:30 Saturday morning, at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, located at 1234 Kentucky St. A reception will follow in the church's basement.
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The "FIGHT FOR FREEDOM: A Century of the NAACP and the Struggle for Racial Equality" conference will begin at 8 a.m. in Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
The "Emotional Intelligence" workshop will begin at 9 a.m. in 204 JRP.
The Center for Science Education Monthly Meeting will begin at 1:30 p.m. in 135 Budig.
The "Blackboard Strategies and Tools" workshop will begin at 1:30 p.m. in 6 Budig.
The "Freedom to Marry Day" student group event will begin at 11 a.m. in the Lobby in the Kansas Union.
The "Development of Novel Stereoselective Synthetic Methodologies toward Functionalized Cyclopropanes" seminar will begin at 3:30 p.m. in 1001 Malott.
The "Landscapes of Power: Storm King, the Hudson River, and the Emergence of Environmental Law, 1960-1980" seminar will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Seminar Room in Hall Center.
The "Performance, Parades,
Publics: Queering Northern
Irish Identities" seminar will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Conference Hall in Hall Center.
The "Eurydice" performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. in William Inge Memorial Theater in Murphy Hall.
The Gilbert and Sullivan's "Patience" performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall,
The "SUA Feature Films: Role Models" showing will begin at 8 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
ODD NEWS Dud grenade brought to elementary school
EULESS, Texas — Officials cleared out a Dallas-area elementary school briefly yesterday morning after a second-grade student brought a deactivated hand grenade for show and tell.
Euless police Lt. John Williams says the student walked into his classroom with the grenade at Oakwood Terrace Elementary School. The teacher took it, placed it on a desk and notified the principal.
The school was evacuated until police arrived.
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Day in the conventional manner, with dinner and a movie. She said they didn't focus on gifts but instead focused on spending time together.
"I treat it exactly like my anniversary," Lewis said. "It's a day to celebrate togetherness."
Lewis said because her husband's birthday was five days after Valentine's Day, last year, it posed a problem with the couple spending time together. She was upset when her in-laws decided to spend Valentine's Day weekend with them.
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"This year I was adamant about no company, no chores, no bills, nothing," Lewis said. "Today is just about the two of us enjoying each other and having fun."
The meaning and reasons why people recognize the day vary from person to person.
"I think the romanticism of Hollywood movies over the last 70 years has really driven people to believe that life should be incredibly dramatic and romantic," Campbell said. "People expect that in their lives."
Lewis said Feb. 14 was a day she could be selfish about spending time with her husband.
"Being on the female side of the relationship, I feel like I can say you have an obligation — you have to do this and he can't argue about it. At the same time he does it willingly, so I am not being a complete jerk to him."
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أَنْ يُقَدِّمُ مَا أَحَبُّهُ مِنَ الْحَرَّةِ وَإِنَّهُ عَلَى
The number of dating service establishments nationwide as of 2002.
Source: 2002 Economic Census
57% and 60%
The percentages of American women and men, respectively, who are 18 or older and married (includes those who are separated).
Source: Families and Living Arrangements: 2007
2.2 million
The number of mar-
The number of marriages that took place in the United States in 2007 That breaks down to a little more than 6,000 a day.
Source: National Center for Health Statistics
126.354
The number of marriages performed in Nevada during 2007. So many couples tie the knot in the Silver State that it ranked fifth nationally in marriages, even though its total population that year among states was 35th. (California ranked first in marriages.)
Source: National Center for Health Statistics
holiday, "I can't remember the last time we opened a horror movie on Valentine's Day," Ratzlaff said. "I'm curious to see how it does."
Still don't know where to spend Valentine's Day? Here's a list of ideas.
EVENTS
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PERFORMANCES "PATIENCE"
"PATIENCE
**What:** A KU Opera performance of an updated version of Gilbert and Sullivan's libretto, set in Lawrence during the 1920s.
**When:** 7:30 p.m. Saturday
**Where:** Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall
**How much:** $7 students, $15 adults
How much: $7 students, $15 adults, $10 seniors
"EURYDICE"
**What:** A new twist on the Greek myth about two lovers, performed by the University Theatre.
**When:** 5 p.m. Saturday
Where: Inge Theatre in Murphy Hall
How much: $10 students, $11 faculty and staff, $12 for public
"THE ICE WOLF"(7.9)
**What:** A play based on an Inuit legend of a girl who is rejected by her tribe because she is different.
**When:** Two performances at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday
**Where:** Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St.
**How much:** $6.50 students, $8.50 adults
SPENCER MUSEUM OF ART (1)
What: Two climate-change themed exhibitions: "Climate Change at the Poles" and "A Greenland Glacier: The Scale of Climate Change",which features photographs by Terry Evans When: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.Saturday Where: Spencer Museum of Art How much: Free
EXHIBITS
What: "Crossroads of My Doorstep": A father-son exhibition featuring the works of John Gaunt Sr., an artist and the dean of the School of Architecture, and his son John Gaunt Jr., a professor of painting at Minneapolis College of Art and Design
LAWRENCE ARTS CENTER
When: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday
Where: Lawrence Arts Center,
940 New Hampshire St.
How much: Free
VAN GO MOBILE ARTS (3, 5, 6,
8)
**When:** 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday
**Where:** Van Go Mobile Arts, 715 New Jersey St.
What: "Have a Heart": The annual Valentine's show where students enrolled in Van Go programs sell their artwork. The programs are designed to help young underserved teens.
How much: Free admission. Art prices vary. All proceeds support the young artists.
BARS AND BANDS
CICADA RHYTHM VALEN-
TINE'S BASH WITH SOMAS
PHERE AND THE FILO GOTIES
What: A night of love-themed rock and dance music.
When: 10 p.m. Saturday
Where: Jackpot Music Hall, 943
Massachusetts St.
How much: $7-$10
A SONIC DOUCHE VALEN TINE'S CUDDLE PARTY
What: Live music and a cuddle party, where people are encouraged to bring anything to cuddle with - a boyfriend/girlfriend, blanket or stuffed animal.
When: 10 p.m. Saturday
**Where:** The Replay Lounge, 946
Massachusetts St.
How much: $3
LOVE HANGOVER WITH
LOVE HANGOVER WITH CANDLEPANTS AND GLORIA VANDERBILT
What: A dance party featuring music from two local DJs.
When: 10 p.m. Saturday
Where: Eighth Street Tap Room, 801 New Hampshire St.
How much: $5
OTHER EVENTS NEAR AND FAR
"SONGS FOR SWEETHEARTS"
What: Dinner at Macell's, silent auction, and musical entertainment from Lawrence Community Theatre.
Where: Maciel's, 1031 New Hampshire St.
When: Doors open at 6:15 p.m.
dinner starts at 7 p.m.
How much: $60 per person (includes meal and entertainment). Reservations are required and can be made by calling 785-843-7469.
THE NELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART (4)
What: "The Photographs of Homer Page": An exhibition featuring Page's work in New York from 1949 to 1950.
**When:** 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday
**Where:** The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak St., Kansas City, Mo.
How much: Free
When: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. tonight
Where: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak St, Kansas City, Mo.
What: "Second Friday Happy Lonely Hearts Club," hosted by The Museum's Young Friends of Art. The event is an evening of art, cocktails and activities to help singles meet each other.
How much: Admission to the museum is free until 9 p.m. and there will be a cash bar with discounts for museum members.
COUNTRY CLUB PLAZA (10)
When: Hours vary depending on store or restaurant
What: Several stores and restaurants on the plaza are having special Valentine's Day events and offering discounts.
Where: Country Club Plaza, Kansas City. Mo.
To see a list of restaurants and stores, go to www.countryclubplaza.com.
MIX 93.3 BITTER BALL
What: An anti-Valentine's Day party for singles, featuring drink specials, games and other mixers for singles to meet each other.
When: 8 p.m. Saturday
Where: Tengo Sed Cantina, 1323 Walnut St., Kansas City, Mo. (in Kansas City's Power and Light District)
How much: Admission is free
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how to take action
Some students say they would be worried if the University had to begin cutting student jobs.
necessitating more layoffs, which would result in larger class sizes with fewer course offerings.
Zack Camacho, Independence senior, works at the Ambler Student Recreation and Fitness Center and said on-campus jobs provided students an important opportunity to work with an employer that understands its employee's academic responsibility.
Concerned students should consider writing to their state representatives to let them know how these cuts will affect them. Teri Chambers, graduate secretary in the department of economics, and a senator on University Support Staff Senate, said students from western Kansas should be especially vocal.
"With on-campus jobs they'll work with your schedule more, but at the other ones they just want you working." Camacho said.
"Here we go to the University and work at the University, but western Kansas representatives don't necessarily see what the University does for them." Chambers said. "It's those students that need to let their senators know. They may be from Garden or Liberal but they're here getting an education and that lack of services will affect their ability to get a good education."
Teri Chambers, graduate secretary in the department of economics and a senator on University Support Staff Senate, said if these cuts were approved students on the Lawrence campus should expect to see the effects directly. She said she expected a decline in the resources and programs that were previously available to students through support staff and unclassified professional staff.
"Staff is in charge of the little things that seem insignificant," Chambers said. "The most important people are the lowest paid people on campus. There are people out chipping ice off the sidewalks that we don't notice until we fall on our butts."
The budget would be met at the Med Center by eliminating 76 positions, 47 of which are currently occupied. Twenty-nine other positions would switch from full to part time and 300 more would transfer to other sources of funding. In addition, there would be a reduction of $2.3 million in expenditures for new equipment, maintenance and program
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"KU recognizes the need for budget cuts during these difficult economic times." Hemenway said. "But we must also recognize the need for prudence and balance in those cuts to ensure our state's long-term prosperity is not damaged by cuts needed to close short-term budget gaps."
Jack Martin, deputy director of University Communications, said each department would be responsible for determining where cuts would be made.
the chancellor emphasized the University's commitment to students as well as the importance of higher education in equipping the state with a solid workforce.
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What (definitely) not to do this Valentine's Day
W whether you love it or hate it,whether you're single.
dating, straight, gay, asexual or somewhere in between, here are 20 things NOT to do on Valentine's Day.
1. If you're in a relationship,
don't forget that V-Day is
tomorrow. For anyone who did,
Hallmark is located at 2329
lowa — they're open until 8
p.m.
2. Do not attempt to go to the residence of your unrequited love and stand outside his or her window holding a boombox above your head playing "In Your Eyes" by Peter Gabriel. It's been done.
3. Do not give your significant other a pen as a gift. Even if you think it's cool that it writes upside down or underwater or in outer space.
4. If you are attempting to burn all of the leftover stuff from your ex, make sure you are in a well-ventilated area. We suggest not burning anything that cost more than $50. Unless you were cheated on.
5. Do not plan a date that revolves around video games, even if it is the Nintendo Wii.
If you find yourself on a video game date, do not stay on it just
because you don't want to be alone on Valentine's Day.
6. Do not attempt to play a musical instrument you have no previous experience with in front of someone else because you think it might be romantic
7. Find out whether your valentine is allergic to chocolate, because you could wind up looking like an idiot or in jail for manslaughter.
8. Just because it's a movie now does not mean that girls really like hearing. "He's just not that into you."
11. Do not attempt to find out whether replacing sex with chocolate actually works. After 25 bonbons, it's time to stop.
9. Don't let anyone convince you to not use a condom because it's a "special occasion."
10. If you really can't stand your significant other, we suggest waiting until Sunday to break the news.
12. If you go on date, do not talk about how much you love your mom or how much you love Miley Cyrus.
13. Do not give your significant other a coupon book for "Insert your name here lovin."
14. Do not take 20 pictures of your date and yourself and
then make a photo album on Facebook that night. Enjoy the evening. Do not attempt to leave romantic wall posts — they are obnoxious, not endearing.
15. Do not attempt to write a love sonnet, Billy Shakespeare said it all about 400 years ago, and he will laugh at you because yours will be bad.
16. If you really need advice about your upcoming big date or want to talk about how well it went afterward, do not call your only single friend.
17. If you're going to cook, do not attempt to make anything with a name you can't pronounce.
18. Do not show up to your date drunk. If you do get drunk, do not drunk-dial your ex.
19. The fact that it's V-Day does not mean you get to hook up, make out or just get it on in public. Standard PDA rules still apply. And remember, the person who chose to ignore number 15 could be around.
20. Do not text someone to tell them "Happy Valentine's Day." If you do, you are lame.
RELATIONSHIPS
— Caitlin Thornbrugh for The Kansan Editorial Board
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I KNOW, IT'S LIKE I CAN TEXT ANYTHING TO YOU!
BEN COLDHAM
Technology tramples romantic relationship
With Valentine's Day coming up, I find myself more inclined
In a world where technology has become our No. 1 means of communication, people are starting to forget real social skills. I find it hard to believe that couples who met through an Internet venue such as Facebook or MySpace possess any real ability to partake in a face-to-face conversation with each other successfully. I cannot imagine the awkwardness one would feel during the first date in person, or the difficulty of expressing one's self verbally after hiding behind a computer screen. Online dating gives a false impression of what the relationship scene
to consider the possibility that romance is in fact a dying art. Technology seems to be killing off, or replacing, all creativity and thoughtfulness that used to be associated with Valentine's Day. It has become acceptable to substitute hand-written cards or valentines with a simple text message or e-mail, and it's becoming quite common to send party invites via Facebook. I admit that technology is more convenient and often less expensive, but are we really willing to give up romance to fit our busy schedules?
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Furthermore, communication with the opposite sex by way of technology is just plain confusing, especially early in a relationship. It is hard to decipher the tone in a text message or e-mail and difficult to distinguish a serious comment from a sarcastic one. Texting allows us to send brief, bland messages that actually say nothing at all, whereas at least in phone conversations we can tell whether people are sincere. Women in general would much rather hear, "I love you" than see it typed, "I luv u," in that ridiculous excuse for the English language. I personally would be more appreciative of a handwritten note like the ones we passed back and forth in middle school than of a three-word text or Facebook message. Hell, write it in purple ink with little doodles all over it, as long as it is made personal and shows that it took more than three seconds of your time.
ANN WILSON
I would like to say optimisti-
cally that the decline of romantic interaction is simply a generation thing. But, sadly, our parents' generation is partaking in this style of communication, or lack thereof, as well. I was horrified when I heard one of my professors telling the class about his plans to send his wife an e-card for Valentine's Day. If that is all I have to look forward to in 10 to 20 years, you can count me out.
There is definitely a place in today's world for technology and it seems to be growing with each passing day. I agree that it is the fastest and most efficient way to relay messages, but communication with your loved ones through technology is damaging the intimacy or personal interaction that should be present in every relationship. Valentine's Day is supposed to be devoted to celebrating our love for others. Everybody likes to feel special and appreciated every once in a while, so at least for one day out of the 365, communicate without that Blackberry messenger and make a real effort to bring some romance back into your life.
Wilson is a Hutchinson freshman in journalism and English.
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Don't let the haters ruin your V-Day love
A lot of people hate Valentine's Day, both those who are single and those who are part of a couple. Anti-Valentine's Day celebrations seem to be on the rise, with events, parties and even cards. The reason seems clear enough: When you're single, especially recently so, there's nothing more stomach-turning than watching a parade of couples all staring deeply into each other's soul. They read lines to each other from romance novels while buying up a year's supply of flowers, chocolates and teddy bears bigger than a flat-screen TV. All this is for the purpose of making their partner even more disgustingly in love with them.
And for those in a couple facing their first or 50th celebration with their significant other, things can seem just as ghastly. The pressure to shell out an entire month's worth of beer money on one of the previously mentioned obnoxiously large teddy bears can make any relationship seem high-maintenance. Even the plainest of dates can involve a plethora of expected presents, a nice dinner out and a movie. But the expense of the night isn't the harsest part — you're also expected to be romantic.
On any given Saturday evening, one might feel a little worn down after a hard day at work or a stressful week. But, like it or not, on Valentine's Day we're expected to shape up and be a loving, romantic and passionate better half.
I understand all the objections, but I have a secret: I love Valentine's Day.
Valentine's Day is what a holiday should be; it's a break from normal, everyday life. It's a celebration of someone you love.
CLOSSIN
COLLEGATE
COUPLING
TAYLOR CLOSSIN
It's the one day I can be mushy with my boyfriend in public. I can go out to a nice restaurant with one hand holding his across the table in a gooey show of affection without the rest of the restaurant gagging on their dinner because we are being just a nauseatic cute couple. It's just expected. The people who don't want to see it don't go to low-lit, fancy Italian restaurants on Valentine's Day.
It's also the one day of the year devoted to showing our love to each other. Besides, romantic dinners for the cash-lacking college couples usually amount to a quick bite at a fast food restaurant where romantic is not having to hand-wash the silverware afterwards.
The day does come with a lot of high expectations and a lot of disappointments, but with the right person it can be a wonderful memory. Singles don't have to miss out on all the hearts and flowers, either. Growing up, Valentine's Day meant dinner out with my family and cards from friends and classmates. I celebrated with the people I loved and cared about. Valentine's Day love doesn't have to be about romantic love, just about love. The holiday may be largely commercial, but the people in your life are real and true. So take the excuse and celebrate someone you care about.
Clossin is a Wichita sophomore in education.
FROM CONNECTICUT
JOHN BAILEY The Daily Campus U. Connecticut
Valentine's Day has me red in the face
I hate Valentine's Day Can you blame me? Depending on your particular misanthropy, Valentine's Day is either a commercialized greeting card nonevent, or a day to com-memorate your eventual lonely, unmourned death. Or, you just have to eat those sawdust candy hearts, which apparently no longer speak proper English and, instead, say things such as "UR COOL D8."
Valentine's Day is such an obvious load of buffalo leces. It's just food, candy, hugs, smiles and maybe some gross drink made with greenadine. It's another excuse to have some lurk party. It's a venue to show how much you care, or at least how many stuffed white Dachshunds embroidered with "I love you
THIS much, Valentine!" you're willing to pay for. I hate caring.
But it gets even worse if you're single. You have to go to even more parties. The last time I was at a Valentine's Day party, everyone was eating snacks, having drinks and talking! And some girl tried to kiss me! No, I'm not kidding, that's actually what she tried to do. I'm allergic to snacks! I'm allergic to kisses! This stupid crappy greeting card holiday isn't just a crass celebration of pointless consumerism, it causes my physical harm! Bart!
And don't get me started on the chocolate. Can you think of a worse thing to put in your mouth? No, you can't, because chocolate also shrinks your brain. True fact: every time you eat chocolate, your brain cells actually wither away like salted slugs.
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Citing plummeting advertising
Message board takes over where JuicyCampus leaves off
After advertisers pulled the juice from juicyCampus.com, all that was left for the controversial gossip Web site to do was fizz out.
BY RACHEL BURCHFIELD
rburchfield@kansan.com
"The Anonymous Confession Board, or the ACB, is quickly becoming the central hub of college campuses around the country, giving students the freedom to voice their opinions and ask questions about any facet of college life," a press release on CollegeACB.com said. "It is the campus center, the dorm room, the cafeteria, and the lecture hall, all combined into a single, easily accessible forum where everyone is invited to converse openly, without fear of reprisal or reprimand."
So it is out with JuicyCampus and in with CollegeACB.com, where JuicyCampus.com visitors will be redirected if they try to visit the Web site. Anonymous Confession Board is the answer to JuicyCampus regulars who still need to get their fix.
revenue and dissolving venture capital funding. JuicyCampus folded on Feb. 5, despite its more than one million visitors every month.
Mark Campbell, Leawood sophomore, said he used to visit JuicyCampus about once a week and that he would miss the Web site because of the anonymity it brought. Campbell used to look for posts on his fraternity and said he would only switch his loyalties to CollegeACB if the Web site became well known.
"If it gets popular I'll visit it, but if no one knows about it then I'm not going to waste my time." Campbell said.
Matt lvester, founder and CEO of JuicyCampus, said in a Feb. 4 press release he hoped the Web site — which sparked its share of lawsuits and, more commonly, hurt feelings
would be remembered fondly.
"While there are parts of JuicyCampus that none of us will miss — the mean-spirited posts and personal attacks — it has also been a place for the fun, lighthearted gossip of college life,"'bewer said. "'I hope that how is it remembered."
CollegeACB, owned and operated by Peter Frank, a freshman at Wesleyan University in Middleton, Conn., offers new features missing from JuicyCampus, including a user-moderation button, where any post deemed by any user to be threatening, libelous or otherwise illegal is immediately brought to the webmaster's attention.
Pam Botts, associate director of, the University's Counseling and Psychological Services, said JuicyCampus' maliciousness seemed pointless to begin with.
"We always encourage people to treat other people with respect, and anything that interferes with that is probably negative," Botts said. "It sounds like JuicyCampus was a negative activity that served no useful purpose."
Ivester said the JuicyCampus faithful didn't have to worry about having their identities exposed.
"junicyCampus will maintain the same policy we have always enforced — IP addresses will not be released without a lawful subpoena," Ivered say.
Edited by Sam Speer
HEALTH
On obesity, panel chimes in
Life Span Institute hosts discussion on keeping weight off
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BY LAUREN HENDRICK
lhendrick@kansan.com
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Dr. Cary Savage, right of the University of Kansas Life Span Institute, explains how food portions have gotten bigger over the years in a panel discussion Wednesday at the Edwards Campus. The panel featured presentations by Dr. Savage, Christie Befort, left, Dedra苏华和 Joseph Dunneley.
"Remember the commercials saying, "This is your brain on drugs?" Cary Savage, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, asked an audience at the KU Edwards Campus Regnier Auditorium on Wednesday night. "Well, this is your brain on food."
Savage, a researcher at the Edwards campus, was one of four guest panelists at the KU Life Span Institute's biannual community conversation. "Considering Obesity: Brain, Body, Behavior." John Colombo, director of the Life Span Institute, said there were two goals for this year's conversation.
"One is to raise consciousness about the issue of obesity." Colombo said. "And the second goal is to make the community aware that there is research going on."
Savage is one of these researchers. He uses magnetic resonance images, commonly called MRIs, to look at how a person's brain reacts to various pictures, called cues, before and after they start a diet.
He uses photographs of "appetizing foods," such as brownies, and "unappetizing foods," such as live animals, to monitor brain activity in response to the photographs. Savage said cues could be pictures of any addictive substance, like drugs and alcohol, depending on the study.
STAYING ON TRACK
Obesity is characterized by a
"Most diets are proven successful, but only a minority of people are able to keep the weight off," Savage said. Savage's previous studies have shown 70 to 90 percent of dieters are successful in their programs, but 79 percent usually gain the weight back.
Set goals: Make specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-bound goals.
"I've been here many years and I'm noticing an increase in obese students," she said. Chapman said she consulted with patients throughout the week who were concerned about their weight. While most of her patients are self-referred, she said a number of them came in because of a doctor's request.
Recommendations from Debra Sullivan, KU associate professor of dietetics and nutrition & Christie Befort, assistant professor of preventative medicine and public health
Monitor yourself: Document what you eat and how you exercise. "It increases awareness of what you're doing." Befort said. "Our memories of what we eat are fairly forgiving."
According to the Oct. 2008 edition of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, young adults in college are more likely to gain weight than the rest of the general population. It reported that the average weight gain among college students is four to nine pounds during freshman year. Ann Chapman, KU registered dietitian, said she wasn't surprised.
Make small changes: Eat healthier snacks, drink lots of water and cut down on dining out.
Cut the fat: Fats have twice the amount of calories of carbohydrates.
Stick with your plan: "it doesn't matter what weight loss strategy you try, it matters if you stick with it." Sullivan said.
body mass index of 30 and above. A BMI is the measurement of body fat based on height and weight. People with BMIs of 25 and above are considered overweight.
"You have an increase for disease with a high BMI," Chapman said. "It's a huge issue on campus." To avoid weight gain and obesity, Chapman said developing healthy eating habits was crucial, especially during the first year of college.
Chapman said college students usually had a difficult time managing their weight for a number of reasons. She said boredom, depression, anger and stress were common emotions that triggered eating.
"Eating to soothe an emotion is an automatic response," she said. Chapman recommends that people who eat based off of an emotion replace foods for different, healthier behaviors.
"It can't just be exercise" she said. "It has to be more specific."
"If you're a stress eater, that's tough because you'll have to come up with alternative behaviors to soothe stress," she said. She recommends taking a bath, watching a clip from a funny movie or jumping rope for 30 minutes.
Savage said people use the limbic system, a set of brain structures that determine behaviors and
emotions, to make health-related decisions every day. Healthy eating and regular exercise are not priorities for college students, and strong emotions put them at a high risk for rapid weight gain.
Wilcox lives in Corbin residence hall. She said she exercised portion control when she ate in the GSP cafeteria and always walked to campus.
Marie Wilcox, St. Charles, Ill., freshman, said she thought a number of people were obese, but that there were a number of resources on campus for students to stay in shape.
"I've seen girls on my floor gain the freshman 15," she said. Wilcox said she didn't think the frequent buses on campus were doing any one any favors.
The discussion Wednesday evening also featured KU professors Joseph Donnelly, Debra Sullivan and Christie Befort, who gave advice to students about how to keep off the weight they have successfully lost. Donnelly directs the Center for Physical Activity, Nutrition and Weight Management, which provides clinical treatment aimed at helping people keep weight off in the long term.
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SOME RIVALRIES JUST WON'T DIE
A tale of two Minnesotans
Aldrich to play against high school opponent
BY CASE KEEFER
ckeefer@kansan.com
Cole Aldrich noticed two things when he found his seat on an airplane headed to Kansas City from Minneapolis after winter break.
First, he realized it was on an exit row. Then, he saw an unlikely companion sitting in the seat next to his. It was Kansas State forward Darren Kent.
"Oh, jeez," Aldrich, a sophomore center, said. "I've got to sit next to another K-State guy?"
Kent laughed before offering a retort. "Oh." Kent said, "I've got to sit next to a Kansas guy?"
Aldrich said they spent the flight joking with each other and occasionally trash talking. It was all in good fun, of course. Aldrich and Kent's rivalry always has been.
The two competed in the same conference in high school. Aldrich played for Jefferson in Bloomington, Minn., and Kent for Eastview in Apple Valley, Minn.
Aldrich said their schools played against each other four times when they both were in high school, and he thought they each won twice. Since coming to Kansas, Aldrich and Kent have faced each other three times. Aldrich's layhawks have won twice. Kent's Wildcats have won once.
Aldrich and Kent will square off again during Saturday's game between Kansas and Kansas State at 2:30 p.m. at Bramlage Coliseum.
- both cities are southern suburbs of Minneapolis.
"I've played against him since my freshman year of high school so it's just a fun way to see another Minnesota guy I played with," Aldrich said. "It's good to see him doing well at another school."
Kent and Aldrich have both excelled this season and played major roles in their teams' successes.
Aldrich has started in every game for the Jayhawks (19-5, 8-1). He's one of only two players in the Big 12 Conference — the other is Oklahoma's Blake Griffin — averaging a double-double with 14 points and 10 rebounds.
Kansas coach Bill Self's only complaint with Aldrich is that he doesn't get the ball enough. And that's not even Aldrich's fault. Self blames it on the guards for not passing
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A key to the game Saturday will be the Javahawks' ability to find Aldrich — who will wear a new facemask Saturday to protect his broken nose — posting up on Wildcats like Kent.
"I think our big guys can certainly do a better job of making themselves available." Self said. "But Cole, for the most part, does a good job of that. He's a big target and he's hard to guard."
Kent's emergence has coincided with Kansas State's five-game winning streak. The 6 foot-10 junior struggled when the Wildcats (17-7, 6-4) lost 87-71 at Allen Fieldhouse a month ago with only three points and two rebounds in nine minutes.
Since then, Kent has scored at least 10 points in all but two games. He's also averaging six rebounds.
Kent's turnaround does not surprise Aldrich.
"Not at all." Aldrich said. "I knew from last year's season when he played well at the end of the stretch, when we played them and going into this year, I knew he was going to play well."
Aldrich will likely be forced to guard Kent at times during Saturday's game. Aldrich said that presented a challenge because Kent is smaller and has three-point range.
"He's one of those where you have to get back in transition to find where he is." Aldrich said. "And on pick-and-pops, you have to know where he is."
If not, Aldrich might hear about it on the next flight back from Minnesota.
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BASEBALL
Freshmen keep amateur statuses to refine skills
BY JOSH BOWE
bowe@kansan.com
For countless nights, Zac Elgie stayed up with his mom and dad, discussing where he would start his future after high school.
Either take the offer to start a major league career, or take some more time to refine his game in the college ranks.
more experience under your belt," Elgie said. "I don't necessarily think I was quite ready yet for Major League Baseball."
"I finally came to the decision to go to college and get some
Elgie was taken in the 12th round by the Oakland Athletics, but the freshman catcher wasn't the only one faced with that decision. Freshman pitcher Lee Ridenhour was drafted in the 31st round by
Elgie
"Zac Eligie is a tremendous talent," Price said. "He had a really bad fall, but he's made great
F
the Minnesota Twins. Both share similar reasons for choosing college first, and coach Ritch Price
Ridenhour
is ecstatic by both of their decisions.
strides in the last month. The ball jumps off his barrel."
Ridenhour shared similar reasons as Elgie for choosing to keep his amateur status. The huge transition from high school to living on his own and proving himself in
"Ridenhour probably has the best arm of any freshman that's ever walked on this campus since I've been here," Price said.
Price was quick to mention the potential of Ridenhour as well.
SEE FRESHMEN ON PAGE 3B
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Consistency needed to win
COMMENTARY
Morris must step up when McCray is out
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BY JAYSON JENKS
On the eve of Kansas' 74-66 loss at Texas on Wednesday, coach Bonnie Henrickson looked at junior guard Sade Morris during a team meeting and, with every intention of stirring a reaction, "called out" Morris' less-than-imPRESSIVE performance on Saturday.
"I said 'listen, when Danielle (McCray) went out, you never took a shot,'" Henrickson said. "You passed up shots and you weren't aggressive. I looked at her and said 'you've got to go.'"
Go she did.
In response to Henrickson's prying, Morris scored 14 points, grabbed six rebounds and added five assists against Texas. And she did so mostly without the contributions of junior forward Danielle
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Junior guard Sade Morris drives past a Missouri defender during a Feb. 7 game in Columbia, Mo.
Collegiate team golf improves its players
BY KELLY BRECKUNITCH
kbreckunitch@kansan.com
There is no "I" in team, but there is an "I" in iron and golfers carry at least five of them around in their baes.
Is that why golf is such an individual sport? Most likely no, but it makes me question why, at the college level, golf is a team sport. You don't see Tiger Woods out on the course on Sundays, bending down next to Phil Mickelson, telling him the green breaks left to right.
Professional level golf is all about the individual, but in college it's about the team.
Where does the team dynamic come from, though? College golfers still compete as individuals during tournaments.
Men's golf coach Kit Grove said that a lot of the team members spend their downtime together and that they all live fairly close to one another. Grove also said the team chemistry is at the best level he's seen since he's been at Kansas.
Senior Walt Koelbel said team practices help to build the team mentality because the golfers will be out on the course for four or five hours just talking and trying to help each other improve.
"If I see someone doing something that's maybe not technically right with their chip, I try to help them out," Koelbel said.
In that respect, maybe the golf team is better off. Grove said his practices were unlike most sports teams' practices and that could be a good thing. When teammates have the time to stop and help each other improve the fundamentals of their game, it can only benefit the group's results. In football, there are designated coaches for each position to tell players what to do, but on the golf team players can take that role on whenever needed to help their teammates.
Koelbel mirrored Grove's statement about the team bond and said the team does hang out on the weekend and watch golf. Now they even have a former teammate to cheer on in former Jayhawk Gary Woodland.
Grove said the tournaments also help the guys who travel grow together. He said that they have a lot of downtime, unlike other athletic teams, and that helps the team bond.
Still, no matter how great the team chemistry is, the success depends on individual performance.
"If you play well, everything takes care of itself." Grove said.
Maybe I'm making much ado about nothing on the issue of team chemistry. You play to win the game? Either way, the golf team makes itself better every day in practice. With a month off before their next tournament, the competition between teammates out at practice should boost the performance of the players when they make their way down to LaFayette, La., for the Louisiana Classics.
Edited by Chris Hickerson
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"We have some really good athletes going to Arkansas. There's going to be great competition there."
— Kansas track and field coach Stanley Redwine
FACT OF THE DAY
US spinter Tyson Gay, a favorite to win the 100 in Beijing before suffering a hamstring injury, finished his collegiate career at the University of Arkansas. Before that, Gay ran at Barton County Community College in Great Bend, Kansas
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Arkansas Athletics
Q: How many times will Kansas's track and field team compete in Fayetteville, Arkansas this year?
A: Five. Kansas already competed at the Razorback Invitational and this weekend select competitors will go there for the Tyson Invitational. Later, the Jayhawks will also compete in the Arkansas Last Chance meet, the Arkansas Twilight and those who qualify will go to Fayetteville for the NCAA Outdoor Championships in June.
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Mizzou moves back one game, awarded publicity
game, awarded publicity ST. LOUIS - Missouri's agreement to move its game with Nebraska to a Thursday night will lead to much more exposure than just one ESPN game
In exchange for playing the Big 12 opener on Oct. 8 — five days later than originally scheduled — coach Gary Pinkel said the defending North champions will get two more games nationally televised by ESPN in the first five games.
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If we stay No.3,we may not play in KC
COMMENTARY
Mike Slive, chairman of me NCAA tournament selection committee, announced Tuesday that the state of the economy would not change the landscape of the NCAA Tournament.
Slive said teams would not be geographically placed closer to home to make it financially easier for fans to travel. This could be bad news for Kansas.
The Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo., is one of eight locations hosting first and second round tournament play. Playing less than an hour away from Lawrence would be an obvious advantage for the lavhawks.
Slive's announcement means it won't be any easier for Kansas to be assigned to play in Kansas City. Kansas coach Bill Self never thought about it to begin with.
"We're not mature enough to be thinking like that," Self said. "That's not something we've ever even remotely discussed with our team is where regional or sub-regional sites are."
In other words, Self left it to the Morning Brew to do the honors. Here are the eight first round sites Kansas City; Minneapolis; Dayton, Ohio; Philadelphia; Greensboro, N.C.; Miami; Boise, Idaho; and Portland, Ore.
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ckeefer@kansan.com
Barring an epic collapse. Kansas (19-5, 8-1) will be in the 65-team field. Depending on who you ask, the Jayhawks are somewhere in the range of a three to six seed right now.
Only top four seeds get geographical consideration. But it's usually only the top two that are rewarded — meaning as of right now, the Jayhawks playing at the Sprint Center is a long shot.
ESPN.com's bracketology, compiled by expert Joe Lunardi, projects Kansas as a No. 3 seed in Boise at the moment. What does Self think about that? Doesn't care, of course.
"There's a reason why it's done," Self said. "But I think all coaches would tell you it's pretty ridiculous that bracketology is coming out in December."
It's done because it's fun for fans to speculate where their favorite teams will wind up. It's done because the NCAA
Tournament is one of the most anticipated sporting events of the year.
For those reasons, let's contem plate how Kansas could defy the odds and land an hour up I-70 come mid-March. The Jayhawks need to lose no more than two more games in the regular season and cap off their season with the Big 12 Conference tournament title.
If they do that, a No. 2 seed looks in reach. If they do that, Slive's announcement will have no effect on them.
JACKSON BACK WITH CAVALIERS
That was fast.
The Cleveland Cavaliers sent former Jayhawk Darnell Jackson down to the Erie Bayhawks of the NBA Development League Monday. Jackson played in one
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game — a 102-89 victory against the Utah Flash — and scored a game-high 26 points with six rebounds. Then, the Cavaliers called him back.
"They sent me down there to get some work in," Jackson told the Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Basically, it's the same system down there. It was fun to get in the rotation with those guys and get some contact."
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Shotgun misfire explanation not accepted by family
BY SHELIA BYRD Associated Press
LUCEDALE, Miss. — The family of star Mississippi high school football player Billey Joe Johnson isn't done pressing for an explanation of how the 17-year-old accidentally shot and killed himself with his own shotgun during a traffic stop, as a grand jury has concluded.
Thursday, "We are going further and we are going higher."
"I aint buying that," said his mother, Arnette Johnson, after the 16-member grand jury ruled
Her pursuit is joined by her attorney, who plans to continue his own investigation, and the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which said it would submit evidence to the U.S. Justice Department and ask for a federal probe.
Johnson, a junior at southern Mississippi's George County High School, died of a wound to the left side of his head on Dec. 8 after a deputy pulled him over for running a red light. After an initial investigation, authorities said the wound was self-inflicted.
The grand jury, after listening to 30 witnesses and looking at forensic evidence for weeks, concurred, saying the teen accidentally shot himself. The report said no evidence, including DNA, indicated the deputy who pulled Johnson over had fired the shotgun and that no other people were involved in the shooting.
"The grand jury finds ... that Deputy Joe Sullivan was in his patrol car at the time of Billey Joe
The mystery surrounding the death has inflamed suspicion, with Johnson's family and the NAACP rejecting any notion that the black teen committed suicide. They said the talented running back, once clocked at 4.3 seconds in the 40-yard dash, had too much to live for, including a chance at playing in college and maybe the NFL.
Johnson Jr.'s death," the ruling said.
Johnson family attorney Jerome Carter said he was glad the grand jury did not rule the teen committed suicide but still had concerns that make his own investigation necessary.
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"Ed and Brandon are very deserving of these promotions." Mangino said in a prepared statement. "They will continue to have a positive impact on our offense with their expanded responsibilities."
Warinner — offensive line coach and run-game coordinator from 2003-04 — returned to Kansas to serve at his current position in 2007 after having spent 2005-06 with Illinois as offensive line coach and run-game coordinator. Under his tutelage, the 2007 Jayhawk offense finished second in the NCAA in scoring with 42.77 points per game and eighth in total offense with 479.79 yards per game. Last season Kansas was eighth nation-
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the minors was a task he was not ready to take on.
"I have never lived on my own before, and I haven't gone through many life experiences," Ridenhour said. "Plus I feel really comfortable with the coaches and the school, it's just a really good fit for me."
With an extremely young team, which includes 13 freshmen, both Elate and Ridenhour expect to be
thrown into the mix fairly quickly and to contribute to the team early on. But neither feels any added pressure to perform well.
"It's a whole different level of baseball than where I was playing up in North Dakota," Elgie said. "I'm starting to feel more comfortable, we've been working on some little mechanical things with my swing, I feel a lot more confident than when I started."
With Price's earlier praise of Ridenhour, it would be easy to assume that the former Gatorade Kansas Player of the Year would feel the need to produce early and often. Especially since Kansas' rotation was devastated from graduation last year, with only two proven starters returning.
But Ridenhour already understands his role, and won't try to do too much.
"Obviously I want to grow as well as I can, get as many wins for us as I can."
"Obviously I want to grow as well as I can, get as many wins for us as I can," Ridenhour said. "I want to hopefully be successful and with the team around me I think I have a pretty good shot."
Another similarity between these two diaper dandies is their expected shuffle of positions. Price said that Ridenhour will open up the season next week against Air Force as a pitcher. One of the harder throwing freshman Price has encountered, Price raved on about Ridenhour's ability to reach the low 90s on his fastball and his effective slider.
Elgie however will rotate positions more often than Ridenhour. His natural position is first base, but he also expects to see some time behind the plate.
first base."
Senior first baseman Preston Land is currently holding the starting spot, but Price alluded to Elgie snagging most of the playing time if Land continues with last season's struggles.
"He's going to pressure Preston to play at a high level and if he (Land) doesn't he's going to play early as a freshman." Price said. "I see him (Elgie) catching a little bit, playing DH a lot, and also playing
Price also said he wanted to develop Elgie as a catcher because that's where he is expected to be in the major leagues. But before Elgie can become a full-time catcher he has to refine his defense.
LEE RIDENHOUR Freshman pitcher
"He doesn't block the ball very well yet so that's the area that we're trying to improve his game defensively," Price said. "He has all
the tools."
Elgie doesn't seem to mind the flip-flopping of positions; he expressed a team-first mentality when discussing where he would play this season.
"I've played around and played
different positions," Elgie said. "Just wherever I can be more comfortable is where I'll be more successful."
Kansas needs these two players to show their big league potential if the Jayhawks want to compete in a Big 12 Conference, which includes top five teams Texas and Texas A&M. A two-week gauntlet to start the season includes games against both teams. Price expects these freshmen to not act like freshmen after playing in these environments.
"I think that when we walk into A&M that first time and there's 7,000 people in that triple deck stadium my freshmen are going to be in awe." Price said. "Also you rise to that level of play because you haven't seen anything like it your entire career"
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FRESHMEN
DRAFTEES
WHO: Zac Eglie
ROUND DRAFTED: 12th
TEAM: Oakland Athletics
WHO: Lee Ridenhour
ROUND DRAFTED: 31st
TEAM: Minnesota Twins
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McCray, who was forced to the sideline because of foul trouble.
A vastly similar situation unfolded last Saturday against Missouri, when fouls again relegated McCray to the sideline for segments of the game. In that game, which Kansas lost 74-60, Morris scored just three points and missed all four of her attempts.
"When Danielle not in, who's going to be that person to step up?" junior guard LaChelda Jacobs said. "And I think Sade really did that on Wednesday."
If Kansas wants to compete with No. 2 Oklahoma tomorrow, though, Henrickson's team will need all-around performances from McCray, Morris and the rest of the Jayhawks.
More so than any team Kansas has faced this season, Oklahoma is a supremely talented squad that has played and defeated — some of the best teams in the country.
"We're going to need our starting five, our bench, everyone," lacobs said.
Throughout the conference season, Henrickson has continuously stressed the need for balanced scoring.
In games Kansas has experienced success, multiple players have made significant contributions. In games they've struggled, though, the Jayhawks have relied heavily on one or two scorers.
Against Texas, Morris and sophomore forward Nicollette Smith paced Kansas on offense. The duo combined for 30 points and made big shots to keep the score close in the second half.
"Well, I think (Sade) took it upon herself and held herself accountable," Jacobs said. "And I think Nic also did that. They took it upon themselves to do that for our team."
Yet, as impressive as Kansas' second-half effort against Texas was, Kansas can't let that serve as their highlight. Sure, Morris and Smith played well down the stretch. But against a team as talented as Oklahoma, playing one good half is not enough.
All of Kansas' pieces must play consistently well for the entire game to compete against Oklahoma. And the Jayhawks know they're in for a challenge against the Sooners on Saturday.
"Time to battle again, we gotta find a way," Henrickson said. "We'll compete, play our tails off, try to hang in there and find a way to win at the end."
— Edited by Sam Speer
Kansas (13-9, 2-7) vs. Oklahoma (21-2, 9-0)
THE
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AT ALVAMAR
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COMING SOON
ALVAMAR
| P | No. | Kansas | Ht. | Yr. | PPG |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| G | 3 | Ivana Catic | 5-8 | Sr. | 2,5 |
| G | 4 | Danielle McCray | 5-11 | Jr. | 19,0 |
| G | 20 | Sade Morris | 5-11 | Jr. | 11,9 |
| F | 24 | Nicollette Smith | 6-2 | So. | 7,1 |
| C | 14 | Krysten Boogaard | 6-5 | So. | 9,7 |
P No. Oklahoma Ht. Yr. PPG
G 13 Danielle Robinson 5-9 So. 13.0
G 25 Whitney Hand 6-1 Fr. 9.7
F 21 Amanda Thompson 6-0 Jr. 6.7
E 5 Ashley Paris 6-3 Sr. 13.9
C 3 Courtney Paris 6-4 Sr. 15.9
When/Where ...
When ...
Tipoff scheduled for 7 p.m.
Saturday at Allen Fieldhouse.
The game is also being broadcast by MetroSports.
Who to watch for ...
Senior center Courtney Paris. While it's apparent Paris is having a down year, averaging nearly 16 points and 14 rebounds a game, it speaks volumes about her previous seasons. A three-time consensus All-American, Paris is as real as it gets. However, in last year's meeting Kansas was able to hold Paris to "just" 10 points and 13 rebounds. Employing a Hack-a-Shaq type approach may be effective. Paris shoots just 51 percent from the free throw line, 10 percent worse than her field goal average.
What to expect ...
Very few second chances. The Sooners hold a 11.2 advantage in rebounding for the season so far, and the Paris sisters account for most of that. Kansas will have to shoot well.
OK, stay with me. Oklahoma is without question the second best team in the country. But Kansas was able to hang with Texas on the road Wednesday. Sophomore Nicolete Smith's jumper may have returned, and a three-point barrage will keep the game close at halftime. If the Jayhawks can keep it close for 30 minutes, they might be able to run a halfcourt offense and sneak out a win.
Why Kansas will win .
How the game is important ... Simply, if Kansas beats Oklahoma, they are back in the tournament picture. But rationally, Kansas just needs to establish consistent play.
Magic number.
9 — Turnovers by Danielle Robinson in last year's game against the Jayhawks. She averages more than four a game this year. If the Kansas perimeter defense can get some steals and easy buckets on the fast break, they will stay with Oklahoma until the very end.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Jeff Gordon and Kyle Busch both celebrated in Victory Lane, far away from the real winners of the Daytona 500 qualifying races.
Jeremy Mayfield choked back emotion. Al Allmendinger hid his tears behind sunglasses. Scott Riggs felt as if hed just won NASCAR's biggest race.
None of them are a threat to win the Daytona 500, but at least they'll be in the show.
Allmendinger, Mayfield, Riggs and Regan Smith earned spots in the season-opening race in Thursday's Gatorade Duels.
"It ites absolutely awesome. It's like we just won the race," said
Riggs, who finished eighth in the first qualifier.
None of the four drivers had rides a month ago, piecing together any opportunity they could to get them to Daytona International Speedway. Allmendinger was let go from Red Bull Racing late last year, and is clinging to an eight-race deal with Richard Petty Motorsports. Riggs became unemployed when Tony Stewart took control of his race team and revamped the driver lineup.
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Team could move up in ranking with another upset at UCF
BY TOM POWERS
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No. 25 Kansas (2-2) looks to keep the upsets rolling, facing No. 12 Tennessee Saturday in Orlando during the UCF Invite.
In a five-game, three-day stretch.
the lajhawks play
South Carolina
and Western Carilina on Friday.
Bradley and No.
12 Tennessee on Saturday and finish the tournament with a game against Bowling Green on Sunday.
Kansas is hoping to continue the trend of upset victories and have a prime opportunity to gain some ground in the rankings.
The team proved it can win big
games last weekend in Tuscon, Ariz., notching both of its victories against ranked opponents. No. 10 Arizona and No. 11 Northwestern. The No. 12 Lady Volunteers have a 4-1 record, suffering their only loss to then-No. 15, now No. 7 Washington, in a 2-1 upset. Kansas is hoping to continue the
trend of upset victories and have a prime opportunity to gain some ground in the rankings. To do so, the Jayhawks will have to play just like they did against Arizona and Northwestern, getting it done offensively while shuttling out their opponents from the circle in
clutch situations.
Offensively, Kansas hopes that these are the kind of teams that show up at the UCF Invite and not the ones fielding their losses to UTEP and No. 8 Stanford. In the two games combined, the Jayhawks went 4 for 38 at the plate with one
RBI, striking out 20 times and walking only once.
Jayhawk hitters left nine on the base paths on their way to being outscored 14-1. The bright spot in the losses was the defense, committing only two errors while totaling 15 assists on 36 putouts.
Kansas has had a few nice days
WEEKEND SCHEDULE
Today
South Carolina, 10 a.m.
Western Carolina, 2:30 p.m.
Saturday
Bradley, 4:30 p.m.
No.12 Tennessee, 6:30 p.m.
Sunday
Bowling Green, 12 p.m.
this week to practice and hopes to improve its standing in rank and record this weekend. The Jayhawks stepped up and played big in pivotal games, and now they're ranked. In order to stay that way, every game is crucial. With a newfound confidence, and some
Last weekend's key stats
KU vs, ARIZ — 6/24 hitting, 5 RBI, 4 BB, 4 K, 6 assists, 6 LOB, 2E
KU vs. UTEP - 4/22 hitting, 1
RBI, 1 BB, 7 K, 11 assists, 5 LOB,
1 E
KU vs. NW — 6/22 hitting, 8 RBI,
7 BB, 6 K, 9 assists, 5 LOB, 2 E'
KU vs. STAN — 0/17 hitting, 0 RBI, 0 BB, 13 K, 4 assists, 4 LOB, 1 E
TEAM (averages per game):
AVG.: 190 3.5 BRI 3 BB, 7.5
K, 7 assists, 5 LOB, 1.5 E
much-deserved national recognition. the Jayhawks could have a strong outing.
Edited By Sam Speer
NSAS
Junior pitcher Valerie George throws a pitch against a Texas Tech batter during a March 29, 2008 game against Texas Tech.
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Team splits up to attend two weekend meets
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For his 20th birthday, sprinter Keron Toussaint would love to get
a victory at one of the toughest track meets in the country. "I'm going to win both of them," Toussaint said about competing in the 400-meter dash and 4x400 relay.
Toussaint, Lawrence sophomore and some of the Kansas track and
"It will be good competition, so we'll be used to it and we won't be scared and hopefully we go out and compete with the best of them."
VICTORIA HOWARD Senior sprinter
"The surface at Arkansas, most people will get a faster time", coach Stanley Redwine explained. "The majority of the middle-distance and distance runners will go to
The Tyson Invitational is not just a college meet: it
Iowa State because it's an oversized 300 meter track and it's closer to running outdoor (season) so they'll produce faster times."
The team is split up with most of the sprinters heading to Arkansas while the mid-distance and long-distance runners go to Iowa State.
Senior sprinter Victoria Howard
"We're really excited to see her compete against some of the best in the country" sprints coach Elisha Brewer said about Anderson.
will also feature professional and Olympic track athletes in the invitational events.
One lajahw will have the opportunity to compete with some of the best. Senior sprinter Nickelsha Anderson will compete in the women's open 200-meter dash.
believes this meet is a good experience going into the Big 12 Conference Championships.
"It will be good competition, so we'll be used to it and we won't be scared and hopefully we go out and compete with the best of them," Howard said. Howard will be competing in the 200-meter and the 60-meter dash.
The women's 4x400 relay has been successful for the past two meets, taking first place at the Adidas Classic in Lincoln, Neb. This weekend, the four-person squad will have senior Sha'Ray Butler back after she missed last weekend's meet.
"The work you put in, it comes out on the track. Whether you run for Nike or Butler Community College."
Butler, who has run on the Arkansas track in the past, says it can be tricky the first time.
"If you haven't run on it before,
KEITH HAYES Freshman
Butler, who is also running in the 400-meter dash, said she was looking forward to coming back and moving up
it can be challenging just to get adjusted to how high it is and coming down and going up on the bank." Butler said.
on the Big 12 list of top sprinters in the 400-meter.
In the distance events, senior Colby Wissel will attempt to break the school record in the 5,000 meter run at the Tyson Invitational. Last weekend, Wissel provisionally qualified in the one-mile at the Husker Invitational.
In the triple jump, freshman Corey Fuller got a personal best in New York of 49 feet 7 inches. Fuller said he was happy with his performance and is looking to get a jump of 51 feet 6 inches in Arkansas.
On the field, junior Jordan Scott is looking to bounce back in the Pole Vault. Scott said he's been working on technical adjustments to be able to jump 18 feet. Last time in Arkansas, Scott got a provisional jump of 5.40 meters (17 feet 8 inches.).
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Senior Patrick McGowan and junior Bret Imgrind look to repeat the success they had in the mile at the New Balance Invitational by taking on the men's 3,000-meter run.
After finishing third in the women's 3,000 meter, sophomore Amanda Miller will take on the 5,000-meter run in Ames, Iowa, along with freshman Rebeka Stowe and senior Hayley Harbert.
"I'm not quite where I want to be at the end of the season, but we're making strides in the right direction," McGowan said.
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"The work you put in, it comes out on the track," Hayes said. "Whether you run for Nike or Butler County Community College. It's all going to show no matter what."
Edited by Liz Schubauer
In the middle distance, senior Corey Mims will be competing in the 600-meter along with junior Jacob Breth and sophomore Anna Barber.
This weekend the team is looking to show the world who Kansas Track and Field is and freshman Keith Hayes believes that they are ready to do it.
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KU TIPOFF
ATAGLANCE
Kansas slaughtered Kansas State 87-71 a month ago. So mark Saturday's matchup down as an easy win, right? Not even close. Aside from the obvious fact that the rematch will be played at Bramlage Coliseum, the game will also be tougher because Kansas State has improved dramatically. Heck, it's practically a different team. The Wildcats are on a five-game winning streak after starting Big 12 Conference play 0-4. But as long as junior guard Sherron Collins and sophomore center Cole Aldrich play effectively, Kansas is still the more talented team.
for a technical foul. The referee told Self that Marcus intentionally bumped into him. Upon watching the game film, Self realized
Self benched Marcus for the final 17 minutes of the Missouri game after the referee called him
Freshman forward Marcus Morris
PLAYER TO WATCH
Morris
the contact was inadvertent, Self won't be looking to punish Marcus any further. Look for Marcus to start and log around his average of 16 minutes. The question is if he can make the most of them like he did in Kansas' last road game at Baylor last week.
Mike Lester
How many rebounds will Cole
\Idrich grab?
QUESTION MARK
Basic, yes, but Aldrich has recorded 18 and 15 boards in Kansas' last two games, respectively. Those are ridiculous numbers. Aldrich is averaging a double-double in Big 12 play with 12 points and 11 rebounds. The Wildcats don't have a big man to match up against Aldrich, which means his third big game in a row could be on the horizon. He scored 15 points with eight rebounds in Kansas' first game against Kansas State.
KANSAS VS. KANSAS STATE 2:30 p.m., BRAMLAGE COLISEUM, Manhattan, Kan., ABC
Despite KU's earlier 16-point win, Saturday's game will be tough
HEARYE, HEARYE
KSU LOOKS FOR PAYBACK
"I've always thought the Missouri game was more hatred and the Kansas State game was more of a rivalry, a respective rivalry, maybe for a better word. That's how I've always viewed it since I've been here."
"I was barely missed one year over there. I think we had four or five thrown down there. I'm sure they were intended for somebody else and just happened to land by me."
Self on Kansas State fans throwing chickens onto the court
COUNTDOWN TO TIPOFF GAME DAY
- Kansas coach Bill Self
Collins
A. KUWANI
KANSAS (19-5) STARTERS
Sherron Collins, 5-foot-11 junior guard The last two games Collins is only 8-for-25 from the field with 21 points. If Collins can't find his shot again against Kansas State, Kansas is in trouble.
★★★★
Taylor
Tyshawn Taylor, 6-foot-3 freshman guard
If Kansas would have beat Missouri,
Taylor would have been hailed as the hero.
He scored a team-high 11 points, including
four during a key stretch near the end of the
second half.
★★★☆
M. KIMIER
Brady Morningstar, 6-foot-3 sophomore guard
Morningstar
Morningstar played poorly against Missouri with two points and three turnovers in 34 minutes. Morningstar, however, has bounced back from rough games all year.
★★☆★★
Morris
Kansas State's frontcourt is weak. Morris needs to take advantage by attacking the basket and going up strong, instead of tentatively.
Marcus Morris, 6-foot-8 freshman forward
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KANSAS STATE (17-7) STARTERS
Denis Clemente, 6-foot-1 junior guard
Clemente is a fiery little rocket who can speed past defenders if he gets the right angle. He was a horrid 3-of-13 against Kansas on Jan. 13 but he's been money since then.
★★★☆☆
Clemente
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Jacob Pullen, 6-foot-0 sophomore guard
The target for most of coach Frank Martin's rage. Pullen leads the team with 79 assists and also 75 turnovers. He hits just 38 percent from the floor but still averages 13.6 points per game.
Pullen
★★★☆☆
Dominique Sutton, 6-foot-5 sophomore forward
Kansas, Wake Forest and Illinois all offered Sutton a scholarship, but he spurned them for Manhattan. Sutton started to emerge at the end of last season and he's performed ably this year, notching 7.8 points and 4.9 rebounds per game.
★★★☆★
★★☆☆☆
BALDWIN
Darren Kent, 6-foot-11 senior for ward
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Kent was a complete non-factor in Lawrence. He scored just three points and committed two turnovers in nine minutes. However, he's averaging 13.7 points in the last three games.
Cole Aldrich, 6-foot-11 sophomore center Other than Oklahoma's Blake Griffin. Aldrich might be the most devastating force in the Big
12. As long as Kansas can get him the ball, he's unstoppable.
★★★☆☆
10
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Kent
SIXTH MAN Mario Little, 6-foot-5 junior guard
Luis Colon, 6-foot-10 junior center
Little
Self trusts Little to hit big shots, as evidenced by his jump-
Little
Colon's numbers have great balance. He averages 5.3 points and 5.2 rebounds per game. Colon also leads one team category; foul outs. He has six.
ter to tie the Missouri game at 60. Little still needs to fix his fouling propensity as he had four against the Tigers.
★★★☆★
Case Keefer
Wilson
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Colon
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SIXTH MAN
Fred Brown, 6-foot-2 sopho-
more guard
Brown is a marksmans behind the three-point line. He's attempted
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the second-most threes on the team (4109) and he hits them at a 45 percent clip.
Brown
★★★☆☆
-Taylor Bern
KSU TIPOFF AT A GLANCE
Something snapped in the Wildcats on Jan. 24. On that day, Kansas State pulled out a 77-75 overtime victory at Colorado. It should have been an easy victory, but the Buffaloes' Dwight Thorne II scored a career-high 30 points to push the Wildcats to the brink. A loss would have put Kansas State at 0-5 in the Big 12. Instead, coach Frank Martin's bunch battled back to win, and they've won every game since. Kansas State (6-4) is playing some of the best basketball of any Big 12 team right now.
Senior forward Darren Kent
PLAYER TO WATCH
Senior forward Darren Kent Why watch the 6-foot-11 fence post? Because he'll be the most entertaining player on the court. Kent couldn't move your grandmother off the block, but he still
DANIEL PARKER
Kent
manages to pour in 9.2 points and 5.9 rebounds per game. His wingspan surprises opponents and he hustles after loose balls. But the real reason to watch him is
his spectacular failures. Example:
In last year's Sunflower Showdown at Bramlage Coliseum, Kent fell down twice, pushed his own player to force a traveling violation and bounced a three-pointer off the top of the backboard. What will he come up with to top that?
QUESTION MARK
Will Bramlage get nearly as hostile as last year?
Hate breeds in environments like last year's game in Manhattan. There's always tension between these two schools, but the 2008 brawl in Bramlage Coliseum was an extreme example. It got downright ugly in the stands and occasionally on the court.
Without Michael Beasley to spur Kansas State it may not be so hostile, but the Wildcats are playing well right now. The purple-clad crowd needs to reenact last year's meeting in order to avenge a 16-point loss at Allen Fieldhouse earlier this season.
HEAR YE, HEAR YE
"Do you look forward to play a Bill Self team? Not me, but you like the challenge."
Tyshawn Taylor
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"The one thing I did say:'I don't mind getting beat if I know I have another opportunity to go beat them.'We have a chance Saturday."
— Kansas State coach Frank Martin to the KC Star about his 16-point loss in Allen Fieldhouse on Jan. 13
BIG 12 SCHEDULE
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Texas at Colorado 12:00 p.m. ESPN
Nebraska at Missouri 12:30 p.m. Big 12 Network
Texas Tech at Oklahoma 12:30 p.m. Big 12 Network
Texas A&M at Baylor 5:00 p.m. FSNSW
Iowa State at Oklahoma State 3:00 p.m. Bin 12 Network
BIG 12 CONFERENCE
BRAMLAGE COLISEUM WILL BE SILENT IF...
The fans start to leave the arena before the end of the game. That would mean Kansas has a commanding lead with minutes to play and it's the only way the crowd will be quieted. Kansas State fans look forward to this game all year. Even if the Wildcats fall behind, there will be plenty of heckling of the Jayhawks.
PHOG ALLEN WILL ROLL OVER IN HIS GRAVE IF...
Kansas can't stop Denis Clemente. The junior guard from Puerto Rico has cured Kansas State's turnaround by averaging 17 points and three assists per game in Big 12 Conference play. In an upset against Texas, Clemente tended a Big 12 record by scoring 44 points. If Clemente — the second-cousin of Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Roberto Clemente — gets into a rhythm, Kansas could lose its second straight at Bramlage Coliseum.
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
Prediction:
KANSAS 71, KANSAS STATE 70
Date Opponent TV Time
Feb. 18 IOWA STATE Big 12 Network 7:00 p.m.
Feb. 21 NEBRASKA Big 12 Network 3:00 p.m.
Feb. 23 at Oklahoma ESPN 8 p.m.
March 1 MISSOURI CBS 1 p.m.
March 4 at Texas Tech ESPN2 8:30 p.m.
March 7 TEXAS CBS 3 p.m.
CITY COMMISSION CANDIDATES DISCUSS STUDENTS' CONCERNS
A meeting featuring all eight candidates will be held tonight and is open to the public. LAWRENCE 13A
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CREATING A LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
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The Hale Achievement Center will feature 24 tutor rooms and 16 staff offices, and its construction is an expansion of the Wagnon Student Athlete Center. the associate athletics director for student support, Paul Buskirk, said that the dev elopment would help student athletes succeed academically and athletically.
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Large study areas, tutoring rooms could create calmer atmosphere for student athletes
BY ADAM SAMSON asamson@kansan.com
The Hale Achievement Center is getting a makeover.
By June, the construction that led to detours and a loss of spaces in the Burge Union parking lot will be completed.
Athletics Director Lew Perkins went to Paul Buskirk, associate athletics director of student athletic support services, and told him the Athletics Department would have
the opportunity to create a new academic facility that could benefit student athletes for the next 20 years.
The new facility, located in the Wagnon Student Athlete Center, will have 24 tutor rooms and 16 staff offices that can be used for tutoring at night. There will also be some larger study areas and an atrium space where students can do homework.
"Honestly, space and doors is all I want." Buskirk said.
Katie Martinicich, Shawnee senior, described the current Hale Achievement Center as an open environment where it could be hard to concentrate.
Martinecich, who has been named to the Athletic Director's Honor Roll three times, said the construction of the new facility showed how the Athletics Department continued to make academics a vital part of the student athlete experience.
"Not only does it stress how
important our athletic department feels academics are for us as kids, it also just gives us other ways to achieve success in the classroom." Martincic said.
On Monday through Thursday nights, Buskirk said, the Hale Achievement Center transforms into a "beehive."
"Our operation has changed and grown in expectations," Buskirk said. "We outgrew this space long ago."
The growth of the student athlete support services is visible. Last fall the student athletes averaged about 1,000 hours of tutoring a week.
Buskirk said he saw the opportunities to achieve at a higher level.
"I'm hoping and expecting that the space gives us the opportunity that we can be more accommodating to the times of when students
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Veterans, experts discuss Iraqi film
BY BETSY CUTCLIFF
bcutcliff@kansan.com
Students can learn about the Iraq war from a variety of perspectives tonight in the Kansas Union. Student Union Activities is hosting an Iraqi documentary about the war, and a panel of veterans and professional experts.
Through the event, SUA wants to encourage dialogue about the war; said Arnold Phommavong, Spring Hill, Ark, senior and SUA assistant coordinator for social issues.
The film, "Dreams of Sparrows," is a documentary directed by Hayder Daffar of the Iraqi filmmaking group Iraq Eye Group. The film presents the views of Iraqi civilians in Fallujah after U.S. forces entered the city.
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According to a 2008 press release from the U.S. embassy in Iraq, during the first two years of the war in Iraq, Fallujah was known as a hotbed for insurgents and the deadliest place in the country. Daffar filmed scenes for "Dreams of Sparrows" after the 2004 U.S. assault on the city.
The discussion afterward will consist of six panelists: a student from the Collegiate Veterans
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WHO: Hosted by Student Union Activities
WHAT: "Dreams of Sparrows"
WHEN: Tonight from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.
WHERE: Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union
COST: Free
Grad student discusses American Indians in media on C-SPAN 2
Rhonda LeValdo,
Rhonda LeValdo,
Acoma, N.M.,
graduate student,
recently appeared on C-SPAN 25"Close Up at the Newseum" to discuss the role of American Indians in american society
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and media. Le- Valdo, who teaches video production at Haskell Indian Nations University, also hosts a weekly radio show, "Native Spirit,"
on Kansas City's 90.1 KKFI and was recently recognized as a runner-up in YouTube Project: Report, for which she produced two original videos.
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BY KEVIN HARDY khardy@kansan.com
Although about three million American Indians live in the United States, they are underrepresented in national media, according to Rhonda LeValdo The Acoma, N.M., graduate student spoke about the issue on C:SPAN 2s "Close Up at the Newseum" on Friday.
LeValdo's work aims at changing the involvement and perception of American Indians in the media. The segment also featured a news video that she had produced for the PBS OnLine NewsHour. LeValdo teaches video production as an adjunct faculty member at Haskell Indian Nations University, in addition to studying journalism at the University of Kansas. She said teaching was a great way to encourage more natives to get involved in the mainstream media.
As an Acoma Pueblo, LeValdo said she thought it was important for her and other American Indians
"I don't think people realize children see these mascots and then grow up to believe them to be true," she said. "Were lawyers, doctors and journalists."
Barbara Barnett, assistant professor of journalism, said underrepresentation was an issue for many minorities, especially American Indians.
to be involved in the media in order to counteract longstanding stereotypes. She said she worried that people associated American Indians with sports mascots.
"Native Americans are pretty much invisible in the media," Barnett said.
Barnett said stereotypes were one of the largest barriers American Indians faced in the media. She said stereotypes were often effective in advertising because they were easy to remember.
"It kind of puts people in pockets," Barnett said, "and you don't really get to know them very well."
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Jeff Harjo, executive director of
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the Native American Journalists Association, said the only way to change perceptions of American Indians within society was to have more American Indians such as LeValdo working within the media.
Harjo said LeValdo's work was making American Indian journalists more valuable to members of the mainstream media.
"We're having stories about us natives written by non-natives who don't understand what it is to be an Indian," Harjo said.
"I wish we had about 100 more rhondas." Harjo said. "The world
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1. Peace deal reached with Pakistan and Taliban
ISLAMABAD — Pakistani officials on Sunday hammered out a peace deal with a Taliban-linked group that could lead to the enforcement of elements of Islamic law in parts of the northwest, prompting militants in the blood-soaked Swat Valley to declare a 10-day cease-fire as a goodwill gesture.
The agreement, expected to be formally announced today, could re-spark U.S. criticism that Pakistan's truces with insurgents merely gives them time to regroup. Although several of its past deals failed, Pakistan says force alone cannot defeat al-Qaida and Taliban fighters sowing havoc in its northwest and attacking U.S. troops in neighboring Afghanistan.
2. New species of animals found in Antarctic, Arctic
BANGKOK, Thailand — A marine census released Monday documented 7,500 species in the
Antarctic and 5,500 in the Arctic, including several hundred that researchers believe could be new to science.
"The textbooks have said there is less diversity at the poles than the tropics, but we found astonishing richness of marine life in the Antarctic and Arctic oceans," said Victoria Wadley, a researcher from the Australian Antarctic Division who took part in the Antarctic survey. "We are rewriting the textbooks."
3. Naval ships capturing pirates around the world
ABOARD THE USS MAHAN — American warships off the lawless Somali coast are using unmanned drones to hunt pirates threatening one of the world's most important shipping lanes.
For years, the U.S. has used drones to track potential terrorists among Somalia's warlords, but the Navy said more and more of the planes are now being used to fight piracy.
Pirates attacked more than 100 ships last year with a success rate of nearly 50 percent.
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4. Remains of satellite collision showering Texas
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DALLAS — The Federal Aviation Administration has received numerous reports of falling debris across Texas, which could be related to a recent satellite collision.
Some of the callers around midmorning Sunday reported what looked like a fireball in the sky.
The FAA notified pilots on Saturday to be aware of possible debris after a collision Tuesday between U.S. and Russian communication satellites.
5. Oil officials predict gas prices will skvrocket
NEW YORK — Crude oil prices have fallen to new lows for this year. On Thursday, for example, crude oil closed just under $34 a barrel, its lowest point for 2009. But the national average price of a gallon of gas rose to $1.95 on the same day, its peak for the year.
The benchmark for crude oil
prices is West Texas Intermediate, drilled exactly where you would imagine. That's the price, set at the New York Mercantile Exchange, that you see quoted on business channels and in the morning paper.
"We're going definitely over $2, and I bet we'll hit $2.50 before spring," said Tom Kloza, publisher and chief oil analyst at Oil Price Information Service. "This is going to be an unusual year."
6. Sin City officials ponder decline in tourists, money
LAS VEGAS — Sin City is worried that its well-honed style is cripping its business.
In the past two weeks, at least four major companies canceled meetings in Las Vegas worth hundreds of thousands of dollars — not because of costs but because of appearances. Even President Barack Obama questioned the propriety of flying off to Las Vegas if taxpayers were helping foot the bill.
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WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE PRESIDENT?
SADIE WIECHMANN Overland Park freshman "Abe Lincoln, because he is honest ... like 'honest Abe.'"
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"Grover Cleveland, because his name is Grover."
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"Abe Lincoln, because he made our world the place it is now between African Americans and white people."
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Wichita sophomore "Bill Clinton, because the economy was doing good, and it just kind of went downhill from there."
Children write to Obama to express their concerns
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NEW YORK — End war, forever
Make the planet greener. Please
help my dad find work. Make it
rain candy!
Most had tall orders for the new guy in the White House.
President Barack Obama in letters and drawings as part of a worldwide project, with 150 chosen for a free e-book being released on Presidents Day.
Thousands of kids detailed their hopes and expectations for
Anthony Pape, 10, of Du Bois,
Pa., offered: "I hope that we will
have no war ever again. I mean
Fellow 10-year-old Sasha Townsend of Soquel, Calif., had a similar request, and then some.
"I would appreciate it if you would try to make this a greener planet and try to bring home the troops and end the war," the fifth-grader wrote. "I am very lucky
because I am not part of a military family, but it saddens me to hear about all the people who die in Iraq and know that somewhere In the world people are greiving over a lost family member"
The project was a joint effort between the National Education Association and kidthing.com. - Associated Press
ON CAMPUS
The Multicultural Visit Day for high school students will begin at 9 a.m. in the Kansas Union.
The "Blackboard Strategies and Tools" workshop will begin at 9 a.m. in 6 Budig Hall.
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Learning in Your Courses"
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135 Budig Hall.
The "PS5S I: Getting Started" workshop will begin at 1 p.m. in the Budig PC Lab.
The "Philosophy of Nature in the Prose and Poetry of Varlam Shalamov" seminar will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Seminar Room in Hall Center.
The Black Achievement & Awareness Day event will begin at 6 p.m. in the Sabatini Multicultural Resource Center.
The "Linguistics Colloquy: Verb Telicity Affects On-line Sentence Comprehension" lecture will begin at 3:30 p.m. in 206 Blake Hall.
The KU Wind Ensemble with the Lawrence High School concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. at Lawrence High School.
The "Jewish-Pagan Dialogue" lecture will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Hall Center Conference Hall.
The "Eurydice" performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. in William Inge Memorial Theater in Murphy Hall.
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Friday's brief "Campus mourns death of Dean Brill's husband" misspelled the name of Ann Brill, dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications.
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Candidates discuss student issues before April elections
Candidates for city commission will speak to the public at 7 p.m.at City Hall today. The general elections will take place on April 7.Before the meeting,the candidates answered questions about how the city commission could affect students'lives.
BY MIKE BONTRAGER mbontrager@kansan.com
Amyx: Foot patrols from the police department. We have a big crowd downtown from Thursday to Saturday. The crowds themselves have got to be good citizens when they are in downtown.
The candidates for city commission are Mike Amyx, Price Banks, James Bush, Dennis Constance, Aron Cromwell, Lance Johnson, Tom Johnson and Gwendolyn Klingenberg. Constance and Cromwell did not respond in time for publication.
1. How can the city ensure a safe downtown environment at night?
Banks: There is a need to continually maintain open lines of communication between city government, including law enforcement and fire officials and downtown business owners. There needs to be a continual analysis of issues relating to public safety. When problems are identified, they should be dealt with promptly and fairly. One mechanism that should be evaluated and discussed is video surveillance in key areas.
Bush: I would support the city by doing the following:
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Klingenberg
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- Inside the parlor and rooftop.
— Establishments that continually add to unsafe activities should be held accountable.
T. Johnson
— An increase in police presence
through bike patrol and foot patrol.
- Working with social service agencies in moving homeless out of downtown to places better able to accommodate those in need.
L. Johnson: First, let me say, that
Amyx
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our downtown is one of the things that sets Lawrence apart from other communities. It is a great place to spend time and get the true feel of what makes Lawrence unique. If downtown is not safe, then people will leave and then stores will follow. It needs to be safe both at night and during the day. I feel the best way the city can provide a safe environment is through a visible and well-staffed police force downtown and active and engaged businesses downtown.
Banks
T. Johnson: I think that it is the best interest of the city and KU to work on the issue together. KU student senate and other KU organizations are working together on this through safety programs. It's the city's responsibility to make sure the Lawrence police have the resources they need.
Klingenberg: More activity — crimes drop when witnesses are present. Thus, preserve existing stores and restaurants; bring new ones downtown.
Amyx: There are all different kinds of jobs that people want and need. There has been a lot of discussion concerning industrial ground. I think the city is doing a couple of things — We put a bid on the old farmland, the co-op side east of town. There will be an opportunity there for industrial development. We have been able to make some headway into sites available for new business. I'm a believer of the living wage. Employees who are going to work for companies need to have a wage that they can take care of their families.
Bush
PETER WILSON
2. What can the city do to facilitate job growth in Lawrence
Banks: We have a unique opportunity to grow jobs via the federal stimulus programs. I do not believe this is a one-shot effort. I was a leader in local government in the '70s when we were faced with a similar downturn in the economy. The programs initiated then continued in one form or the other for many years. The stimulus programs will fund public works, which can be a major method to channel federal funds directly to private employers and to the persons necessary to do the real work involved. I do not believe we need to grow jobs in local government; however, existing human resources in local government can be put to work implementing the programs.
Bush: I support the following:
- Support for the Lawrence public library plan for a small & independent business incubator.
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- Change the environment for doing business in Lawrence - less hostility.
- Change policies that keep Lawrence off the site selector lists.
- I. Johnson: job creation/growth is my main platform that I am running on. I think it is vital to the future of lawrence. Without job growth, our community is in jeopardy of losing the quality of life we enjoy here and the things that make Lawrence great (i.e. strong and vibrant downtown, parks and recreation opportunities, social service organizations, great schools and community hospital, good retirement services, etc.).
- level the playing field for growing businesses.
L. Johnson
- The process for new business and expanding business should be predictable, fair, and quick.
T. Johnson: I think that the city needs to do more to provide decent paying jobs for people 18-to-35 with a focus on small, agile new business growth in Lawrence.
Klingenberg: Land - ample but not excessive. Education - enhance the quality of the workforce. Financing - stand ready to provide bond financing especially now in a time of credit market shutdown. Purchasing co-ops, introduce new business entrepreneurs to retiring business owners, revolving small business loans, tax incentives, leave nothing off the table for discussion, buy local, support the libraries business center, connect retirees who move here with KU students, incubator business programs and develop neighborhood commercial center co-ops.
Banks: Student residences provide some of the same challenges as the downtown environment. Maintaining open lines of communication between city government, including law enforcement and fire officials, and students and landlords is absolutely essential. We need fair and effective enforcement of existing codes, as well as continuing analysis of issues.
3. How can the city make student dwellings safer from fires and crimes?
Amyx: There is an item that is coming up at the city commission meeting on Tuesday that deals with rental registration that falls in the 50 years and older right now. What we do have is a program that allows anyone, students included, to file a complaint if they believe their housing is unstandard with Neighborhood Resources.
The University should provide inspections of student dwellings, even those off-campus, and privately owned — perhaps limit to residences within a certain radius to KU.
The University can add some basic programs that offer assistance to students living away from home for the first time.
Bush: As a commissioner I would support the following:
— If the problem continues, the University can require first and second-year students to live in campus housing.
L. Johnson: The city needs to have up-to-date codes and enforce those codes both on existing dwellings as well as new construction. As far as crimes, again it goes to having a visible and well staffed police force. We need to try to prevent the criminal before they get to someone's door or window.
T. Johnson: This is collaborative issue. I am in favor of annual inspection of rental properties to make sure that landlords are providing students with code compliant housing. In terms of crime this is an issue where police resources and crime prevention education are helpful, while keeping an eye on the broader reasons that crimes occurs.
4. How important are University students to your campaign for city commission?
Klingenberg: Rental inspections.
I try to tell students this is a community and community means the University. If you're a registered voter here you should be involved. Everything that we provide, a student is going to use.
Amyx: I think pretty important. Obviously through my business I come in contact with a lot of students. I have a couple of classes that I go to on-campus every semester. I get the opportunity to visit with them in the classroom and at my business. I would love to have them all participate in the elections along with everyone in the community.
Banks: Students across the nation have awakened to politics. They are a substantial percentage of the city's population and constituency. KU in many ways defines Lawrence and KU is defined by students.
Bush: Very important. This is my second run for city commission. Students were a part of my campaign then as they are now. In addition, I have visited with students to expand the partnership between the student body and the community. I am committed to Lawrence becoming an affordable option to KU students to live here after graduation.
L. Johnson: They are very important. I am a KU graduate. I earned both my Bachelor's and Master's degrees in civil engineering from KU. I love KU, and consider myself born a Jayhawk. My dad played football at KU in the mid '60s and there never was a question where I would attend college. I hope the students get involved in the local election. I think it is very important. You can really have an impact in a city election and this is where decisions are made that directly affect you, your friends, neighbors and community.
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Franco, whose mother is Jewish, said he was not raised Jewish. He said he once told The New York Times he felt deprived because he never had a bar mitzvah. "Yeah, I guess I wasn't a man until tonight," he joked Friday.
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On opening day — which fell on Friday the 13th — the remake pulled in $19.4 million, slightly more than the $19.1 million it cost to make the movie.
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The rapper wrote Saturday that her baby is "healthy, fine, beautiful" and the most amazing thing on this planet.
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--because they can't give consent."
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I got my hat signed by Mario Chalmers at the women's basketball game. When I put it on, they made a three-pointer. Coincidence? I THINK NOT!
--because they can't give consent."
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--because they can't give consent."
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If I got college credits for drinking, I would be a doctor.
For all you dumbasses who apparently didn't learn this in driver's ed: You're supposed to use your turn signal before you turn, not after turning.
I thought my Valentine's Day was going badly, and then I received a gift in the mail from my mom. It was a DVD version of "Elegy of the Body" by Pope John Paul II.
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Teenagers still underage, even though sending pornography
What do you do when child pornography is for, made by and sent by the kiddies themselves?
Overland Park teenagers have recently discovered the consequences of sending raunchy photos of themselves, according to the article "What to do when children send nude photos via their cell phone" by Laura Bauer and Joe Lambe in The Kansas City Star on Feb. 7. An Overland Park high school student was investigated for sending naughty pictures of herself to her boyfriend. After they broke up, he distributed them to his friends. Sending nude or partially nude photos of minors with a cell phone is called "sexting," according to the article.
I don't think minors should engage in this behavior, but if they do, state law should not charge them.
This phenomenon is not limited to Johnson County. A girl in Ohio was charged for sending nude photos of herself to classmates. If she is convicted for felony charges, she may have to register as a sex offender for 20 years.
In The Kansas City Star article, Deputy Tom Erickson, spokesman for the Johnson County Sheriff's office, said, "Nude photos of offender kids are still child pornography, no matter how you slice it. Whether or not the child did it voluntarily doesn't matter
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Not only are adolescents' bodies changing, but so are their brains. High-schoolers frequently do stupid things that the school administration (and everyone else on the planet) does not understand. Teenagers are not inherently stupid — their reasoning skills and maturity levels are in the works. With the technology available, it was only a matter of time before they discovered sexting
because they can't give consent. By "child," the law means any person under age 18, which includes both pre- and postpubescent children. There is quite an anatomical difference between a middle-schooler and a highschooler.
Charging "children" the same as adults who distribute child pornography does not seem to add up. And which of the "children" involved should be charged?
Our culture is to blame for kids' exposure to a lot of sexuality, especially in movies, music and magazines. Kids get the idea that to have a real romantic "relationship," they should be sexually promiscuous. Cosmopolitian's
headlines never read “10 Ways to Get to Know Him;” they say “10 Ways to Make Him Wanna Rock Yo’ Body.” Teens start to come to the conclusion that being sexy means showing off everything they’ve got (hey, it worked for Britney Spears).
The state should not charge the person who sends pictures of himself or herself, or the recipient of the unsolicited photos if the recipient is also underage. However, anyone who forwards the photos without the consent of the original sender should be punished.
And the punishment should fit the crime. Take away cell phone and Internet privileges — privileges the kids care about if they are gone. Or sentence them to community service or make them give a presentation to their peers about the potential consequences of engaging in child pornography.
Only if these measures do not significantly decrease sexting should states begin thinking about new laws to deal with these kiddie porn stars.
Parents and school administrators should dole out the punishments instead of taking up valuable time and money in the already overloaded court system. They are the ones who know the children and will influence their behavior.
Hartz is a Stilwell senior in creative writing.
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Dating made easy with economics
Competition in the movie rental industry has made me a rich man. In the
pre-Redbox movie rental days I had to go to Blockbuster and rent a movie for $4. Because I was a poor student, my dates weren't appealing to the ladies. I'd rent a movie for $4, the girl would come watch the movie and then leave, to be seen again only in awkward random moments around campus. After a few failures I realized ladies just weren't pleased with only a movie. They wanted more and had no sympathy for my empty pockets. But dinner and a movie just wasn't possible when renting a movie cost $4. But then the glorious Redbox was invented. Movies could be rented from a vending machine at McDonalds for only $1.
There, I told you my secret to success but I didn't ruin my chances of ever dating on this campus again for no reason. There is a moral to this story: Everyone benefits from competition. Competition drives businesses to increase their productivity. Productivity is derived from efficiency and technology. In the Redbox example it's easy to see that the machine was the technology, which led to the more efficient allocation of resources. The machine made the movie rental industry more capital intensive and less labor intensive. This reallocation significantly lowered the long run average cost for Redbox. Redbox in turn was able to maximize
My dates got so much better. Redbox saved me so much money that I could now get a movie and two Totino's pizzas, one for me and one for the lucky lady. I could see myself looking back years from now, thanking Redbox for helping me win over the woman of my dreams.
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The enhanced productivity of Redbox has freed up $3 for every movie rented According to a 2006 Harris Interactive survey, 18 to 24-year-olds watch 88 DVDs each year. That means Redbox allowed average students to spend $24 a year on something they otherwise would have gone without (there is a real stimulus). I bought pizzas with my extra dough. What did you do with yours?
But it is also easy to see the discomfort created by ever-present competition. Redbox doesn't need any cashiers, so my enhanced ability to woo you fine ladies was offset by Blockbuster Bob's unemployment. Concern for Bob is understandable, but, ladies, don't feel guilty for enjoying that delectable pizza. The economy is not a zero-sum game. The extra demand for Totino's pizza will force Totino's to expand; maybe it will hire Bob (or he will be hired by the industry you spent your extra $261 on).
We have to resist the urge to hold back competition. Doing so undermines productivity and wastes resources. Think of where we would be if we kept the producers of typewriters, wagon wheels and VCRs around. Without competition it would be a lot harder for poor guys like me to afford a night of Redbox and Totino's for one lucky lady.
Davidson is a Tonganoxie senior in economics.
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Interracial relationships opportunities for growth
I am a Pilipina dating a white guy. Contrary to popular belief, interracial relationships are still difficult endeavors to undertake. Sure, relationships in general are tough, but interracial dating requires a lot more effort for both parties to understand each other.
Though it can happen to women of color are constantly being fetishized, commodified and exoticized. Were seen as something other than the white standard.
It would probably be a lot easier for me to date a Pilipino. I could wake up in the morning craving spam, eggs and rice and probably be met with equal enthusiasm. Meetings with the family would probably be easier as well. Nonetheless, the fact
that people come from different backgrounds means there is more room to grow through crosscultural exchanges.
While I sometimes feel agitated by the need for me to teach my boyfriend about the struggles of people of color, he teaches me a lot as well. He has taught me that sure, he's white and that it inevitably affords him numerous privileges and opportunities, but he comes from an Eastern European background which is different than a Western European heritage.
If there is one piece of vital information I can offer to people in an interracial relationship, it's that color doesn't define how much a person will care for you, respect you, motivate and inspire you. And it's these aspects more than anything else that really make a strong relationship.
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Association, a student from Iraq Veterans Against the War, two students from the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth and two KU faculty members from the political science and sociology departments.
Phommavong said finding differing opinions was important because of the nature of the event. The committee for SUA wanted to host something about the Iraq War, but had difficulties agreeing on what type of event to host, Phommavang said. The final decision was to show a film and invite students to ask questions from a panel of students and faculty who were familiar with the conflict.
"We had a list of ten films, and
went though and read the description of each one, and us and the films committee put it to a vote and decided on "Dreams of Sparrows" Phommvong said.
Felix Zacharias, Wichita senior and representative for the Collegegate Veterans Association, said he was enthusiastic about participating in the event, but was apprehensive about certain elements of the film. He said some of the footage that particularly unnerved him was of Iraqi insurgents calling themselves the protectors of Fulham.
"I thought that was my job while I was there," Zacharias said. "But I guess I was wrong."
Zacharias said he was worried about some of the tension the nature of the event would cause. Phommavong agreed, but said it wasn't the panelists he was worried about, it was the audience. He described an incident last semester
during a debate about marijuana.
"We hosted one former DEA agent and one former editor for High Times Magazine," Phommavong said. "The two panelists were great, but there were some audience members who weren't quite appropriate."
Samantha Snyder, Topeka senior, said though she was going to support the Iraq Veterans Against the War, she was looking forward to hearing different perspectives. She said she hoped to see some common ground between the different viewpoints.
"Dreams of Sparrows" will be showing at 6:30 p.m. today in Woodruff Auditorium at the Kansas Union. The panel will begin its discussion at 7:45 p.m.
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and tutors are available," Buskirk said. "The students who have been able to get the job done sitting in the beehive, just think what they could get done if they actually had some space and some quiet."
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The NCAA requires every Division I athletics department to have some type of academic support program. Buskirk said the University's student athlete support services were second to none.
"We could do the minimist but we're well past that," Buskirk said.
of the larger picture for the development of student athletes.
"This is all part of the plan to do everything we can to provide the student athletes what they need to be successful and that's the thought process behind what you see here," Marchiony said.
Jim Marchiony, associate athletics director of external affairs, said the new academic center was part
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would be a much better place."
In January, LeValdo worked as a National Minority Consortia fellow in Washington, D.C., where she produced three videos for the PBS Online NewsHour.
minority employment in newsrooms
While in D.C. she was also recognized as a runner-up in YouTube Project: Report, a contest for aspiring journalists. LeVallo reported on the effect of the proposed South Lawrence Trafficway on the Haskell-Baker Wetlands and produced a profile of her grandmother, who lives on the Laguna reservation in New Mexico.
Dick Nelson, lecturer and KUII-TV News general manager, said LeValdso media skills were
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advanced, with video production in particular.
"I don't think she cares about her own personal gain," Nelson said. "She just cares about helping others."
LeValdo also serves as vice president of the Native American Journalist Association and hosts the weekly radio show "Native Spirit" on Kansas City's 90.1 KKFI. Despite her success, LeValdo said she had no interest in being a famous journalist.
"For me, I don't see anything I do as pushing my own career to the forefront, I see it as pushing our people to the forefront." LeValdo said. "I have no interest in being a superstar."
LeVaido said she hoped to teach video production at Haskell or another tribal school upon receiving her master's in May.
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Senator Roland Burris, D-Ill., speaks during a press conference in Chicago, Sunday. Burris fielded questions about a major omission from the testimony he made in January to a state House committee investigating former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's impeachment.
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CHICAGO — Just as Illinois was moving past the agony and embarrassment of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's ousting, the fellow Democrat whom Blagojevich appointed to the U.S. Senate was hearing calls for his own resignation Sunday amid allegations he lied to legislators.
Based on federal law, the state Senate could argue that Burris was a temporary appointment, then pass a bill calling for a special election to name a permanent senator, Netsch said.
Freshman Sen. Roland Burris released an affidavit on Saturday that contradicts his statements last month to a House committee investigating Blagojevich's impeachment.
"I can't believe anything that comes out of Mr. Burris at this point," Rep. Jim Durkin, the impeachment committee's ranking Republican, said at a news conference Sunday. "I think it would be in the best interest of the state if he resigned because I don't think the state can stand this anymore."
"I'm not aware that anything quite like this has happened in any state before," she said.
But Gov. Pat Quinn's hands may be tied.
But an adamant and sometimes emotional Burris told reporters later Sunday that he hadn't done anything wrong and never misled anyone.
"I've always conducted myself with honor and integrity," he said. "At no time did I ever make any inconsistent statement."
It's not clear what action state legislators could now take against Burris, said Dawn Clark Netsch, a Northwestern University law professor and former Illinois Comptroller.
"I don't see anything that the current governor could do, except to ask for legislation to ask for a special election," Netsch said.
Saturday's disclosure by Burris reflects a major omission from his testimony in January when an Illinois House impeachment committee specifically asked if he had ever spoken to Robert Blagojevich
or other aides to the now-deposited governor about the seat vacated by President Barack Obama.
"Clearly, it would have been better if Senator Burris had provided this information when he first testified," said Jim Manley, a spokesman for U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who was among the Democrats who only consented to seat Burris on the belief that there was no chance of "pay for play" politics surrounding Burris' appointment.
Manley and Christina Angarola, a spokeswoman for Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, both said Sunday that Bufris informed the senators of the affidavit on Friday, but Angarola said Burris didn't provide a copy.
But Burris explained Sunday that he voluntarily gave the committee a Feb. 4 affidavit disclosing the contact with Robert Blagojevich because questioning during his January testimony abruptly changed course and he never got a chance to answer a
direct question about Blagojevicns brother.
Transcripts of Burris' testimony, however, show he had opportunities to provide a full response to Illinois legislators.
The affidavit, released Saturday by Burris' office after it was first reported by the Chicago Sun-Times, said Robert Blagojevich called him three times — once in October and twice after the November election — to seek his fundraising assistance.
Burris said Saturday he told Robert Blagojevich he would not raise money because it would look like he was trying to win favor from the governor for his appointment. But he said he did ask the governor's brother "what was going on with the selection of a successor" to Obama in the Senate and "he said he had heard my name mentioned in the discussions."
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MANHATTAN — Cole Aldrich rarely shows emotion on the court
But Aldrich, a sophomore center, couldn't help it after he made a made a shot under the basket while being fouled near the end of Saturday's 85-74 victory against Kansas State.
He flexed, yelled and turned around to greet junior guard Sherron Collins with a chest bump.
"It was a big play" Aldrich said. "It got me excited."
The only thing more surprising than Aldrich's outburst was the fact that Kansas coach Bill Self didn't have a similar reaction. Self has complained all season that the Jayhawks got away from passing the ball in to Aldrich when the game is on the line.
He couldn't complain Saturday at Bramlage Coliseum. The Jayhawks relied on their big man to will them to victory.
Aldrich's three-point play that inspired his uncharacteristic celebration came in the middle of a two-minute stretch in which he scored seven points. Before Aldrich's takeover, K State trailed only 67-65 with 5 minutes and 30 seconds remaining. After the play, the Wildcats were never able to cut it to a one-possession game again.
Early in the game, it looked as if Aldrich would never get the chance to make a difference for the Jayhawks. K-State dominated.
"We couldn't get the ball into our offense for a while so we just said, 'Hey, we're going to bring everyone high and throw it over the top.' Self said. "And he delivered."
Aldrich led the Jayhawks with 21 points, seven rebounds and a block. For once, Self could praise Kansas for sticking to the plan of getting Aldrich the ball.
Wildcat guard Denis Clemente
coured 16 points in the opening 15
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Junior guard Sherron Collins celebrates with center Cole Aldrich after the sophomore draws a foul while hitting a jump shot that put Kansas up by four. Aldrich led the Jayhawks to an 85-74 victory on Saturday in Manhattan with 21 points, seven rebounds and two assists in 36 minutes.
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Jayhawks take back Coliseum prevent Wildcats from starting their own streak
BY ANDREW WIEBE
awiebe@kansan.com
M ANHATTAN - Deep inside the concrete bowls o
concrete bowels of Bramlage Coliseum, Bill Self congratulated his triumphant players on their way to the visitors' locker room, a wide grin stretched across his face.
The joyous postgame banter between Kansas' players and their coach was, for the most part, pretty predictable following a gutsy 85-74 comeback victory. There were plenty of 'atta boys' and pats on the back to go around.
But amid the celebration, one jubilant reaction said far more than the rest.
"This is our house."
For the 20th time in 21 games, Bramlage Coliseum belonged to Kansas. One year after finally breaking the layhawks' 24-game winning streak in Manhattan, the Wildcats had looked poised to create their first winning streak against their in-state rivals in their own building.
Kansas State was as hot as any team in the Big 12. Six consecutive conference victories had fans and media alike forgetting the four consecutive losses that marred the Wildcat's disastrous conference start.
Before the game, lines of rowdy students smaked along the parking lot, accosting anyone seen wearing Kansas apparel and even chanting "Lawrence sucks" in response to a Channel 6 vehicle driving past on its way to media parking.
The stands themselves were filled to the brim, and homemade signs poking fun at junior guard
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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Low shooting percentage frustrates offense against OU
BY JAYSON JENKS
jjenks@kansan.com
Saturday night, No.2 Oklahoma rolled into Lawrence with a 17-game winning streak, a large contingent of crimson and cream-clad supporters and a team as talent-rich and skilled as any in the country.
Yet, unexpectedly and against general consensus, Saturday's game wasn't another Boomer Sooner highlight tape as has been the case many times this season. Instead, the lesson from Kansas' 69-54 loss is one the Jayhawks have experienced before: another chance at victory, another chance missed.
"We've certainly missed opportunities," coach Bonnie Hentrickson said. "We've missed opportunities to pick up victories. We've played well in stretches and, in stretches, I couldn't have been more proud of how tough we've been and how we've battled. But we have to string halves together."
In nearly every facet of the game.
But against Oklahoma, Kansas made just 26 percent of its shots, including an almost unimaginable 19 percent in the first half. Without a doubt, those numbers represent the reason the Jayhawks lost.
Kansas competed equally with Oklahoma. The layhawks grabbed more offensive rebounds, committed fewer turnovers and received more points from their bench.
To focus solely on Kansas' shooting problems on Saturday night, though, disregards a bigger problem — one that Henrickson dissected in her postgame press conference.
"We did everything well, we just couldn't knock down shots," junior guard Sade Morris said. "I think if we knocked down shots, we could have won that game."
In losses this season — Texas, Texas A&M and Marquette to name a few — Kansas has kept the score close, giving every indication a victory is forthcoming. But, in too many cases this season, the Jayhawks have experienced a subbar stretch of play
or a crippling trend, namely turnovers or untimely poor shooting, that has led to a loss.
"We've got to play consistently from half to half and everybody has to show up." Henrickson said. "We've let a few slip away. Those are games you look at as must-wins and gotta wins and we haven't gotten it done."
Still, the frustrating part for Henrickson and the Jayhawks is not that the competition is that much better; it's that Kansas has been consistently in games only to consistently let chances slip away in a seemingly different way each game.
As much as any women's basketball conference in the country, the Big 12 is unforgiving and relentless. Kansas' recently completed three-game stretch serves as a perfect example: at rival Missouri, at No. 13 Texas and No. 2 Oklahoma at home
"We've been through games where we've shot 60-some percent on the road, but then we turn it over," Henrickson said. "Then, we've gotten ourselves in foul trouble on the
Saturday night, an unimpressive shooting night left Kansas with its third consecutive loss. On several occasions, Oklahoma rattled off unanswered scoring runs simply because Kansas failed to make a shot.
For the lahayhus, no player shot better than 38 percent.
"It felt like there was a lid on the rim tonight," junior forward Danielle McCray said. "We just couldn't get the point blank shots to go down. We just didn't shoot the ball well at all."
road and not turned it over."
Indeed, many of Kansas' attempts were either open shots or close to the basket. Throughout the game, though, the Jayhawks routinely missed, remaining in the game because of scrappy defense and free throws.
Still, Henrickson said the attitude and mindset hasn't changed. Kansas has shown its capable of competing with the best teams in the conference. Now, the Jahawks must show
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they're capable of defeating those teams.
"We've got to keep fighting." Henrickson said. "I mean, these kids aren't down. You wouldn't walk into our practice and think everyone is trying to jump off the ship. It's not that. We've just got to continue fighting and competing every day in practice."
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"We felt that we had this game in our hands and even in the second half when we made our run to get back into the game and were down one, we thought we had that game. I don't think that will hurt our confidence at all. As a team, we know we are capable of beating them and know that we'll get another chance in Oklahoma City (at the Big 12 Tournament)."
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Jacob Pullen on whether Saturday's loss will shake Kansas State's confidence, K-State Athletics
Kansas' last loss before its 24-game win streak Manhattan was in 1983. The Wildcats won 58-57 on January 29, 1983 in Manhattan and completed the season sweep in Lawrence on Feb. 26. The two victories gave Kansas State a five-game winning streak over their in-state rival, although Kansas won the next 10 games in the series.
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Q: Kansas collected its 20th victory of the season against Kansas State. How many consecutive seasons have the Jayhawks won 20 games?
A: 20. Kansas has won at least 20 games each season dating back to the 1989-90 season.
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Searching for Kansas' second-best arena
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BY TAYLOR BERN
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Allen Fieldhouse is the best college basketball venue in Kansas, if not the nation. The latter statement could spark a great debate while the former is fact.
But what's the second-best college basketball building in Kansas?
On Saturday, I double-dipped my basketball chip in search of the answer. After covering the Kansas State-Kansas game in Bramlage Coliseum, I sped* south for a Wichita State-Northern Iowa nightcap in Charles Koch Arena.
*The top speed of a 1990 Oldsmobile 98 Regency Brougham is about 92 mph, in case you were wondering.
To compare the two contenders, I've come up with a few categories based on Saturday's games:
The Team
A basketball arena is nothing without the team that plays in it.
These teams combined for a disastrous 0-10 start in conference play. However, since mid-lanuary they've gone 13-3.
On Saturday, they were playing in equally important games, but only one came out on top.
Wichita State defeated UNI, the top team in the Missouri Valley Conference, to move up to sixth in the MVC standings. No team ranked lower than sixth has ever won the Valley tournament, so the Shockers kept their slim NCAA Tournament hopes alive.
BY TAYLOR BERN
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On the other hand, Kansas State fumbled away its chance to secure the marquee victory that would have placed it squarely inside the NCAA Tournament bubble.
Both teams were one-point underdogs on their home courts. Both teams led 26-13 midway through the first half. Wichita State won and Kansas State didn't.
Advantage: Charles Koch
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Wichita State dropped the ball here. All the students had were a couple of Twilight Zone-ish pinwheels."
Signage
Kansas State had a few clunkers (see: Always Believe in the Cats) but mostly the student section came through with thought-out insults. My favorite: 'Sorry Sherron, I'll take the stairs'
Advantage: Bramlage Coliseum
This one's EMAW vs. The Shocker.
Local Tradition
ever risked life and limb to paint it over the KU Athletics sign on 1-70.
EMAW, or 'Every Man a Wild-cat,' doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. Although, props to who-
The Shocker* doesn't need advertising. Plus, it's still hilarious to see black-and-gold-clad grandmas hoisting The Shocker without a clue what it means.
*If you're one of the seven college students who doesn't know what The Shocker is, ask the nearest male student and prepare to be appalled.
Advantage: Charles Koch
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Since basketball is obsessed with rankings, try this one: No. 37. That's the March 2008 ranking for Charles Koch in Forbes Magazine's list of the world's billionaires.
In Manhattan the namesake is KSU graduate and philanthropist Fred Bramlage. What he lacks in
Koch, who inherited Koch Industries from his father, ranks three spots ahead of college dropout Michael Dell. You might be reading this on one of his machines.
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Advantage: Bramlage Coliseum
A coliseum in Kansas? Count me in.
Wildcard
I know that Bramlage rarely, if ever, gets as crazy as it does when Kansas comes to town. Still, it's hard to ignore the sensational sounds when the Wildcats are roaring.
Winner: Bramlage Coliseum
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Rainy weather shortens Daytona 500
After awaiting NASCAR's decision, Kenseth was given victory for first time since 2007
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. The rain was coming, and Matt Kenseth knew it was time to get going.
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Dale Earnhardt, Jr (88) drives past as cars slide through the grass after a crash on the backstretch during the NASCAR Daytona 500 race at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach. Flg., Sunday.
It was the Daytona 500, a race where drivers wait until the very end to make their big move for NASCAR's biggest prize.
Only this time, nobody knew when the end would be.
The rain that had threatened Sunday's season-opening race all day finally rolled in moments after Kenseth slid past Elliott Sadler for the lead. Then the former NASCAR champion was forced to wait out a 20-minute delay before claiming victory after 152 of 200 laps. It was just the fourth rain-shortened 500 in the race's 51-year history.
"It's going to be really wet out here, because I'm crying like a baby," the usually cool Kenseth said as he choked back tears.
Coming off one of the worst seasons of his career, Kenseth's 2009 start seemed to be headed in the wrong direction, too. He
wrecked his primary car, had to go to a backup and started at the back Sunday.
Had rain not been forecast, he might still have been running at the back of the field with 54 laps to go, because that's where veterans usually wait out the dicey Daytona racing before making a late charge.
But the weather radar showed the rain was coming, and crew chiefs up and down pit road urged their drivers to go for it.
After two laps under caution, NASCAR stopped the race and brought the drivers to pit road.
Kenseth did not, choosing instead to sit silently inside his Ford away from his nervous supporters. He began to cry when NASCAR gave him the victory, his first in the Daytona 500 and first since the 2007 season finale.
Most climbed from their cars to await NASCAR's decision.
It was also the first Daytona 500 win for team owner Jack Roush.
"I tell you what, after last year, winning a race means a lot to me," Kenseth said. "Man, I don't know. Winning the Daytona 500
is definitely a dream moment. It's just an unbelievable feeling."
Harvick, who used a push from Kenseth to win the 500 in 2007, finished second and said Kenseth would be a popular winner among his competitors.
"I think Matt's obviously a pretty stand-up person and a great race car driver," Harvick said. "I think he's one of those guys that he can win seven or eight races in a year and never receive any credit. He's a really good race car driver. He's a champion, Daytona 500 champion."
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BY JASON BAKER
jbaker@kansan.com
Keith Haves has a saying: The grass is greener on the other side of the fence. However, after
this weekend in Arkansas,
the freshman spinner feels like he is straddling that fence.
Redwine
Members of the track & field team traveled to
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Arkansas this weekend to compete in the Tyson Invitational.
The team sent its best sprinters to compete against some of the top schools and fastest times in the nation.
Coach Stanley Redwine said that he believed that the meet went well overall for the lahwakes.
"Some athletes did well while some didn't." Redwine said.
their mistakes.
"We don't want them to go into areas not being able to achieve their goals."
"We don't want them to go into races not being able to achieve their goals," he said. "If they go in hesitant, they don't know where the mistake is."
For those who didn't fair too well this weekend, Redwine said he wanted them to learn from
STANLEY REDWINE Coach
Hayes competed in the 60-meter hurdles, where he took fourth place with a time of 8.17 seconds in his preliminary heat. His time was strong enough to place him 16th overall. The top 16 finishers in a preliminary race continue competing. The top eight go to the final round and the bottom eight finishers compete in a consolation round.
"It didn't feel all that great."
Haves said about his perfo
mance. "It's great that I got a second chance, but it wasn't that great."
Hayes said that he was glad to be able to get past the preliminary rounds because in the past couple of meets. Hayes has failed to qualify in the top 16 and felt like he has
Women
been running into a wall.
Hayes said while he was competing, he wasn't thinking about
60-meter dash
36. Victoria Howard 7.81
seconds
"I hopefully I can break out of that at conference." Haves said.
37. Aubree Dorsey 7.82
TYSON INVITATIONAL
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37. Shayla Wilson 57.36 seconds
48. Kendra Bradley 58.54
53. Sha'Ray Butler 58.88
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Men
43. Jarrell Rollins 49.39 seconds
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5. Keith Hayes 8.06 seconds
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Women
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15.Rebeka Stowe
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10. Allison Knoll 5:12.48
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5. Lauren Bonds 4:43.74
minutes
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With the Big 12 Indoor
Men
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15. Corey Mims 1:14.70 minutes
"To me, everybody is doing the same thing. It's just different schools with different color uniforms," Hayes said.
Pole vault champion
3. Jordan Scott 5.20 meters
10. Kirk Cooper 4.90
1-mile non-seeded
7. Donny Wasinger 4:16,01 minutes
Championships just two weeks away in College Station, Texas. Hayes said his primary goal is to be able to score points for the team.
3,000-meter seeded 17. Bret Imgrund 8:27:16 minutes
"In the past couple meets, we haven't been all that successful in the poi its standings." Hayes
said. "Hopefully we can knock out some teams and come out on top."
Redwine said that the next couple of weeks will go toward preparing for the Big 12 Indoor Championships.
things that need to be corrected, Redwine said. "It's a very competitive meet and we want our athletes to be able to step up."
"Right now we have to finalize
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SOFTBALL
George, Crisosto lead offense
Coach Burge says defense needs more practice after 2-3 weekend
BY TOM POWERS
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The No. 25 Jayhawks were just one out away from another huge upset Saturday. Up 2-1 against No. 11 Tennessee in the top of the seventh inning senior pitcher Val George got two quick outs, striking out right fielder Danielle Pieroni and getting second baseman Nicole Kajitani on a ground out to third baserman Val Chapple. Pitcher, Ashton Ward, then stepped up to the white jersey and beaten up.
double down the left field line, eventually scoring on a game-tying RBI single from Jen Lapicki. In the eighth inning, Tennessee put up two more
George
runs, beating Kansas 4-2.
"Leading up to the Tennessee game, we had not played well all weekend but we played this game with a lot of energy and confidence," said coach Tracy Bunge in a postgame interview. "After the game, the girls were down. It was a very tough loss, but looking at the positive side, we swung the bat really well and had a great outing from pitcher Val George."
Throughout the game, the lajhawks played well both offensively and defensively. Hitters had eight hits and committed no errors in the field. George pitched all 8 and two-thirds innings, striking out eight.
Kansas bounced back Sunday versus Bowling Green, winning the game 9-0 in five innings. George pitched a five inning, one-hit shutout, while the offense chipped in with nine hits and nine runs, averaging .380 for the game. Defensively, the team played its second consecutive game without an error and helped to end the UCF Early Bird Tournament on a positive note.
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The Jayhawks began the tournament 1-2, notching a 7-6 victory in their second game against Western Carolina and losing two close games, 3-2 against South Carolina in nine innings and 2-0 against Bradley. The team played well in the win over Western Carolina, hitting .370 while driving in seven runs, but defensively played poorly, committing three errors. In the two losses, Kansas committed three errors and went six for fifty-six from the plate, a .110 average.
Bunge commented on the play of the defense. "We did not look good defensively. We need some more repetitions and time out on the dirt. I'm hoping for good
Friday
South Carolina — 3
Kansas — 2
Western Carolina-6 Kansas-7
Saturday
Bradley — 2
Kansas — 0
Tennessee — 4 Kansas — 2
weather and a good practice. Tuesday, so we can work out the kinks before flying to California on Wednesday."
Sunday
Bowling Green — 0
Kansas — 9
George and shortstop Stevie Crisosto were tournament all-stars for Kansas. George pitched 21 and two-thirds innings and had a 1.6 ERA, striking out 24 to only three walks issued. Crisosto led the offense with a .500 average during the tournament's five games, racking up three RBIs, two
runs, five walks and two stolen bases.
The 4-5 Jayhawks travel to Palm Springs, Calif., on Wednesday to participate in the Cathedral City Classic, which takes place Thursday through Sunday. The Hawks play six games, facing North Carolina, Oregon State, Brigham Young, USC Santa Barbara, California and Cal Poly.
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2009
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LAYHAWK STAT LEADERS
Points
Cole Aldrich 21
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P. S. NELSON
Assists
Marcus Morris 7
KANSAS (20-5,9-1)
Sherron Collins 6
ASSIST
<table><thead><tr><th>Player</th><th colspan="2">FG-FGA</th><th>3FG-3FGARebs</th><th>A</th><th>Pts</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Cole Aldrich</td><td>8-13</td><td>0-0</td><td>7</td><td>2</td><td>21</td></tr><tr><td>Sherron Collins</td><td>5-11</td><td>2-5</td><td>1</td><td>6</td><td>19</td></tr><tr><td>Brady Morningstar</td><td>4-5</td><td>4-4</td><td>4</td><td>1</td><td>12</td></tr><tr><td>Tyrel Reed</td><td>1-3</td><td>1-2</td><td>2</td><td>0</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td>Mario Little</td><td>0-0</td><td>0-0</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Quintrell Thomas</td><td>0-0</td><td>0-0</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>Tyshawn Taylor</td><td>1-2</td><td>0-0</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td>Markieff Morris</td><td>1-2</td><td>0-0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>Marcus Morris</td><td>4-7</td><td>1-1</td><td>7</td><td>4</td><td>15</td></tr><tr><td>Travis Releford</td><td>1-1</td><td>0-0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td>Tyrone Appleton</td><td>0-0</td><td>0-0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Team</td><td></td><td></td><td>1</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Total</td><td>25-44</td><td>8-12</td><td>27</td><td>19</td><td>85</td></tr></tbody></table>
KANSAS STATE (17-8,6-5)
<table border="1"><tr><td>Player</td><td>FG-FGA</td><td>3FG-3FGA</td><td>Rebs</td><td>A</td><td>Pts</td></tr><tr><td>Luis Colon</td><td>1-3</td><td>0-0</td><td>5</td><td>0</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td>Dominique Sutton</td><td>3-10</td><td>0-0</td><td>6</td><td>3</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td>Darren Kent</td><td>5-13</td><td>0-2</td><td>2</td><td>4</td><td>12</td></tr><tr><td>Jacob Pullen</td><td>5-11</td><td>4-9</td><td>3</td><td>2</td><td>22</td></tr><tr><td>Denis Clemente</td><td>9-18</td><td>4-8</td><td>5</td><td>3</td><td>26</td></tr><tr><td>Fred Brown</td><td>1-1</td><td>0-0</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>Chris Meriewether</td><td>0-0</td><td>0-0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Jamar Samuels</td><td>0-2</td><td>0-0</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Ron Anderson</td><td>1-1</td><td>0-0</td><td>4</td><td>1</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>Team</td><td></td><td></td><td>2</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Total</td><td>25-59</td><td>8-19</td><td>29</td><td>14</td><td>74</td></tr></table>
SCHEDULE
Date Opponent Result/Time
11/16 vs. UMKC W, 71-56
11/18 vs. Florida Gulf Coast W, 85-45
11/24 vs. Washington (in Kansas City, Mo.) W, 73-54
11/25 Syracuse (in Kansas City, Mo.) L, 89-81(OT)
11/28 vs. Coppin State W, 85-53
12/1 vs. Kent State W, 87-60
12/3 vs. New Mexico State W, 100-79
12/6 vs. Jackson State W, 86-62
12/13 vs. Massachusetts (in Kansas City, Mo.) L, 61-60
12/20 vs. Temple W, 71-59
12/23 at Arizona L, 84-67
12/30 vs. Albany NY W, 79-43
1/03 vs. Tennessee W, 92-85
1/6 vs. Siena W, 91-84
1/10 at Michigan State L, 75-62
1/13 vs. Kansas State W, 87-71
1/17 at Colorado W, 73-56
1/19 vs. Texas A&M W, 73-53
1/24 at Iowa State W, 82-67
1/28 at Nebraska W, 68-62
1/31 vs. Colorado W, 66-61
2/2 at Baylor W, 75-65
2/7 vs. Oklahoma State W, 78-67
2/9 at Missouri L, 62-60
2/14 at Kansas State W, 85-74.
2/18 vs. Iowa State 7 p.m.
2/21 vs. Nebraska 3 p.m.
2/23 at Oklahoma 8 p.m.
3/1 vs. Missouri 1 p.m.
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Juniorguard Shenon Collins fights off two Kansas State defenders to maintain possession with time running out. The Javahawks won 85-74 Saturday afternoon at Brampton Colleg
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minutes. Avits peak, K-State led 30-
14afterClementblewpastfreshman guard Travis Reelford for alawyn.
Self told the Jayhawks that if they calmed down and played defense, they could cut their deficit to seven or eight points at halftime. Collins
For Self, this was hard to watch.
He didn't like the looks on his players' faces. Their defensive inability frustrated him. Self called a timeout.
"We were letting them totally dictate what was going on out there," Self said. "It's one thing to not play well, but another thing to let it happen. We were letting it happen."
They both underestimated. Sophomore guard Brady Morningstar swished a three-pointer — Morningstar went a perfect 4-for-4 from three-point range for 12 points — two seconds before halftime to cut the score to 43-42.
"Amazing that we could come from 16 down to one at halftime," Self said.
But the heroes weren't over. K-State jumped back on top after halftime at 49-44.
Then, Kansas went on a 17-2 run. The height of the stretch came when Collins floated a pass from half court down to Aldrich at the other end
Aldrich felt a slight push on his
was optimistic. He thought the could get it to six.
back from freshman guard Tyshawn Taylor and knew he had to get the ball. He leapt up and threw down a crowd-silencing alley-oop.
"I knew it was the right pass." Collins said. "I even jumped after I threw it. I was just waiting for Cole to go get it." Collins finished with 19 points and six assists.
Moments after Collins' lob, Clemente — who finished with a gamehigh 26 points, five rebounds and three assists — received a technical foul for intentionally elbowing Morningstar in the back.
Collins made both free throws and sophomore guard Tyrel Reed made a three-pointer on the possession awarded for the penalty. Clemente's gaffe was a five-point swing for
Freshman forward Marcus Morris played a key role and finished with a career-high 15 points with seven rebounds. Most importantly the Jayhawks went to Aldrich when it mattered.
"It turned out to be a pretty big play for us." Self said.
the Jayhawks.
Self said it was probably the bes road victory in his tenure at Kansas Aldrich put it another way.
"The best way to say it is, we're maturing as a team," Aldrich said. "We're growing together."
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Kansas State guard Denis Clemente discusses his intentional technical fault with a referee. Kansas went on a 7-run after the foul.
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Seven minutes into the second half, Clemente had 20 points and his team trailed by two, 53-51.
MANHATTAN — One ill-advised, elbow-tossing reaction destroyed everything that Kansas State guard Denis Clemente worked for on Saturday.
Then, while Kansas attempted to inbound the ball, Clemente and Kansas' Brady Morningstar got entangled. Morningstar was called for a foul, but as they separated Clemente threw an elbow into Morningstar's back.
The referee was on top of the players and whistled Clemente for an intentional technical foul. The ramifications of that mistake — his only foul of the game still beaten.
Clemente after the game.
"We were down by two and then I got a technical foul and they shot two free throws and we were down by four," he said. "Then they got the ball back and shot a three and we were down by seven. We go down and miss and then they come back and shoot a three and take a 10-point lead.
"I think that's the game right there."
"That's the greatest thing about a rivalry game ... We just love to beat up on each other."
If Clemente's elbow had never met Morningstar's spine, Kansas State may have tied or taken the lead on its next possession. Instead, the Wildcats were forced
to dig out of a double-digit hole that proved to be just a little too deep.
"That was a big deal," Kansas coach Bill Self said. "Usually the ball goes back to K-State, but because the type of technical it was it goes to the other team. It turned out to be a pretty big play for us."
A regular technical would have given the ball back to the Wildcats with a four-point deficit after Sherron Collins' free throws. But because it was an intentional technical, Kansas took the ball and Tyrel Reed drilled a three-pointer. Collins hit another one
COLE ALDRICH Kansas center
Clemente said his foul — which is all he could talk about despite scoring a game-high 26 points
on the Jayhawks' next possession
said. "I'm not going to let anybody punk me in my house."
— was a reaction to a cheap shot from Morningstar.
"He elbowed me in my stomach." he
Whether that's true or not, kids on a playground know the second person to attack is going to be the one to get in trouble.
"Denis was taking a stand," Kansas State coach Frank Martin said. "He's a very prideful kid who doesn't like to lose or back down from anyone."
Collins — who scored 10 of his 19 points after Clemente's foul — said the scuffle fired him up.
upset, but it just pushes me forward and makes me want to play harder."
"When a team comes after one of your players, one of the young guys, it's my job to protect them out there," Collins said. "I get
As the final seconds ticked off the clock, Clemente looked at the scoreboard and started to weep. Would be tears of joy streamed down his face in sadness.
Kansas center Cole Aldrich. whose mask shows he knows something about misplaced
elbows, said that play and the teams combined 49 fouls were what made the game special.
"That's the greatest thing about a rivalry game," Aldrich said. "Everybody's going at it. We just love to beat up on each other."
Edited by Jesse Trimble
WIEBE (CONTINUED FROM 1B)
Sherron Collins' questionable behavior in elevators and freshman forward Markieff Morris' marksmanship with an airsoft gun dotted the white-clad student section.
Even the Kansas Athletics billboard on Highway 70 between Lawrence and Manhattan showed signs of purple. Four enormous painted purple letters — EMW or 'Every Man a Wildcat' — dominated the advertising space intended to promote the Javahaws.
K-State fans were confident before tipoff, but even they couldn't have predicted how thoroughly their team would dominate the first 12 minutes and 25 seconds. Denis Clemente's layup gave the home team a 30-16 advantage, and Kansas' heads went down
Through the resulting din, you could sense what the crowd was thinking. Allen Fieldhouse West was no more. This was their house, and today would be the day they finally excised the final demons The Streak had hung over their heads, proving last year's victory wasn't a fluke.
Thirty-one seconds later, sopho more guard Brady Morningstar buried one of his four three-
pointers to cut the lead to 13. By the time Kansas capped off a 28-13 run with another Morningstar three, closing out the second half trailing by one, the mood inside Bramlage had changed completely.
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In the second half, Clemente's and Jacob Pullen's three-point strokes dried up and the Jayhawks' triangle-and-two defense began doing its job. Kansas' young players drew on the composure of Self and the dominating play of Aldrich, and the end result was never in doubt after Clemente's elbow sparked a 7-0 run from the visitors.
On the Kansas State bench, Clemente held his head in his hands, the tears flowing freely. Fans shuffled out of the building, and those remaining sarcastically cheered when Aldrich was called for his first foul with just over 30 seconds remaining.
This was, after all, Kansas' house for all intents and purposes. One loss to Michael Beasley and Bill Walker wasn't going to change the fact that the Jayhawks had owned the Wildcats in their own building for more than two decades.
The Streak is over, but, as with anything else, there are always new beginnings.
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IT WAS OVER WHEN ...
Freshman guard Travis Releford missed two free-throws with 1:29 remaining and the Jayhawks still got the rebound. The score was 78-72 and if Kansas State would have come down with the board, it could have conceivably cut it to a one-possession game on the other end of the court. Instead, freshman forward Marcus Morris batted the ball back to sophomore guard Tyrel Reed. The Wildcats fouled Reed and he made both free throws to clinch the game.
GAME TO REMEMBER ...
Freshman forward Marcus Morris
Marcus
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Kansas coach Bill Self said this was what he has waited for from Marcus, who had a career-high 15 points with seven rebounds, four assists and three steals. Marcus also drained his only three-point attempt made six of his eight free-throws. With such a well-rounded game, what was Marcus happiest about? Well, the fact that he didn't shoot an air ball He hates air balls, which he has a number of this season.
GAME TO FORGET ...
Freshman forward Markieff Morris
PETER HARVEY
Markieff played a season-low five minutes in the game. He can blame his brother. With Marcus playing so well, Self didn't feel much need to rotate in different power forwards. Marcus played 28 minutes and prevented Markieff from getting onto the floor much. Markieff didn't play awful when he did appear. He gathered two points, two fouls and a steal in his five minutes of action.
Markieff
STAT OF THE NIGHT ...
15. That's the number of offensive rebounds Kansas State had. But it was only able to create 13 points from them. Both are perplexing numbers — 15 because it is high and 13 because it is low.
Case Keefer
PRIME PLAYS
FIRST HALF
16:09 — Mario Little bounced a pass behind his back to Cole Aldrich, who finished the nifty pass with a dunk to put Kansas up 11-10. The Jayhawks wouldn't lead again until the second half.
10:02 — Kansas State's Denis Clemente missed just his second three-pointer of the game, but an offensive rebound gave him another shot and he swished his third to go up 26-13.
SECOND HALF
0:03 — Kansas continued to stake its claim as the nation's best team at the end of the first half. This time the buzer-beater came from Brady Morningstar, who pulled the Jayhawks within 43-42 with his third three.
1:38 — Marcus Morris pulled up at the top of the key — his favorite spot on the court — and drilled a three to tie the game 38-38. Morris finished with 15 points, seven rebounds, four assists and three steals.
14:12 — Sherron Collins' pass came from halfcourt and Aldrich — with a little boost from Tyshawn Taylor — leapt into the air to throw down another emphatic slam. It put the Jayhawks up 53-49 and they would never relinquish the lead.
13:12 — A foul on Morningstar was trumped by an intentional-technical on Clemente. In the subsequent 72 seconds, Kansas extended its lead to 10.
5:35 — The Wildcats' Jacob Pullen, who finished with 22 points, hit a three-pointer while drawing a foul on Morningstar. Pullen's free throw completed a four-point play and pulled Kansas State within 67-65.
4:26 — Aldrich flashes some little-seen emotion after hitting a turnaround jump shot and drawing a foul. It was Kansas' first field goal in more than seven minutes and the free throw put the Jayhawks up 72-67.
— Taylor Bern
GAME NOTES
NEW STARTING LINEUP
For the first time in the last eight games, Kansas coach Bill Self used a different starting lineup.
He inserted sophomore guard Tyrel Reed in place of freshman guard Tyshawn Taylor and junior guard Mario Little in place of freshman forward Marcus Morris.
It was Little's third start of the season and Reed's second.
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"I think Marcus Morris as much as anybody and Tyshawn Taylor keyed that stretch," Self said. "Those two guys, I wasn't very happy with and they didn't play much early. Then, the last eight minutes I thought they were fabulous."
But Taylor ended up playing 22 minutes — three more than Reed's 19. Likewise, Marcus Morris played 28 minutes as opposed to Little's nine. Judging by Self's post-game comments, the move might be short-lived.
TAYLOR TAUNTS CROWD
Tyshawn Taylor is tricky.
Ask the Kansas State student
section. Like at many schools, the Wildcat fans chant "left, right, left" when a player who fouls out walks to the bench and caps it off with a "sit down" when they sit down.
After Taylor fouled out late in the second half, he didn't sit down. He faked it and the student section didn't know what to do. He finally sat down while a Kansas State player shot free-throws, meaning the crowd couldn't yell "sit down."
His playfulness was not funny to the Wildcat fans, as a number of them flipped Taylor off after he refused to sit down.
SPOTTED IN THE CROWD
Former Jayhawk Russell Robinson attended the game at Bramlage Coliseum and sat behind the Kansas bench.
Robinson's NBDL team, the Reno BigHorns, is on break for the All-Star game. Robinson has started 14 games for the Big-Horns and averages nine points and three assists.
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<table><thead><tr><th>Player</th><th>FG-FGA</th><th colspan="2">3FG-3FGA Rebs</th><th>A</th><th>Pts</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Nicollette Smith</td><td>3-8</td><td>1-2</td><td>11</td><td>3</td><td>8</td></tr><tr><td>Krysten Boogaard</td><td>2-7</td><td>0-0</td><td>4</td><td>0</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td>LaChelda Jacobs</td><td>1-6</td><td>0-0</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td>Ivana Catic</td><td>0-1</td><td>0-0</td><td>0</td><td>2</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Sade Morris</td><td>3-10</td><td>0-1</td><td>2</td><td>2</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>Aishah Sutherland</td><td>2-10</td><td>0-0</td><td>10</td><td>0</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td>Kelly Kohn</td><td>0-0</td><td>0-0</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Danielle McCray</td><td>6-23</td><td>2-5</td><td>7</td><td>1</td><td>23</td></tr><tr><td>Team</td><td></td><td></td><td>4</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Total</td><td>17-65</td><td>3-8</td><td>40</td><td>9</td><td>54</td></tr></tbody></table>
OKLAHOMA (22-2,10-0)
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Ashley Paris 4-8 0-0 7 0 8
Amanda Thompson 7-10 0-0 2 4 16
Courtney Paris 3-7 0-0 15 2 9
Danielle Robinson 3-4 0-0 4 5 6
Whitney Hand 2-5 2-3 2 1 6
Nyeshia Stevenson 3-7 1-2 0 0 8
Abi Olajuwon 2-3 0-0 2 0 5
C.Roethlisberger 2-5 0-2 3 0 4
Lauren Willis 0-2 0-0 0 0 0
Carolyn Winchester 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Rose Hammond 0-0 0-0 2 0 0
Jasmine Hartman 2-4 0-1 3 3 4
Jenny Vining 1-3 1-3 2 0 3
Team 2 2
Total 29-58 4-11 44 15 69
Jayhawks struggle making shots
BY CLARK GOBLE
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Against Oklahoma, the team could not make the hard, or easy, shots necessary to win
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Although looking at the first-half shooting statistics might suggest it, the Allen Fieldhouse staff did not raise the goals to 11 feet or coat the basketballs in honey for Saturday night's game against Oklahoma.
The layhawks shot just over 19 percent from the field for the first half on six-of-31 shooting, their worst field goal percentage in a half this season, all on their own.
And it didn't get too much better in the second half. Kansas finished the game shooting a little better than 26 percent from the field, its worst of the season
"We missed a lot of shots we are capable of making," coach Bonnie Henrickson said.
to their poor shooting percentage. She said she thinks her team missed a lot of easy shots too.
Henricksonrecognized that Oklahoma is a big and athletic team, but also realized that it wasn't just missing bad shots that amounted
REMAINING SCHEDULE
Henrickson referenced freshman Aishah Sutherland's shooting problems as an example of the rest of the team's.
"We missed a lot of shots we are capable of making."
Whether it was the Jayhawks rushing their shots due to the Sooners pushing the tempo or just poor shooting, it was a flatout off night for Kansas, epitomized by the last play of the game.
Henrickson said she also thought the lack of offensive rebounding
"She's a taker, not a maker," Henrickson said, referring to her belief that Sutherland is shooting just to shoot instead of focusing on scoring.
Juniorforeward Danielle McCray said she thought the shooting problems may have been a result of Oklahoma's insistence on playing a faster game, especially early. She said she thought they weren't setting their feet off of screens and needed to calm down.
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Junior forward Danielle McCray drives to the basket for a two point basket. McCray shot just 6-23 from the field leading the Jayhawks with 23 points and seven rebounds in a 69-54 loss to Oklahoma Saturday night.
After McCray found an open shooter, sophomore Nicolete Smith, on the left wing, Smith's rushed jumper glanced off the front of the rim. McCray snagged the long rebound, tried to spin on her defender, and put up a shot that hit the side of the backboard a few moments before the final buzzer sounded.
Feb. 18 at Colorado
Feb. 22 Iowa State
Feb. 25 at Oklahoma State
Feb. 28 Nebraska
March 4 Baylor
March 7 at Iowa State
hurt the layhawks in the first half. They pulled down just five of their 26 misses in the first half.
And after hitting just one shot on seven attempts in the first half, it appeared McCray was able to settle down a bit. She came out of the locker room at halftime to bury a three-pointer on the way to
"We couldn't make a first shot, and no one's going to chase down the second or third," Henrickson said.
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"We need to shoot more layups I guess." Henrickson said.
a 15-point half.
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McCray starts game on bench
In a surprising move, junior forward Danielle McCray started the game on the bench for the first time this season.
After entering the game less than two minutes into the first half, McCray played 38 minutes and scored 23 points on 6-of-23 shooting.
"It was a coach's decision and it's over and done with," Henrickson said. "I thought she handled it very maturely and I'm proud of her handling it that way."
Henrickson said McCray will start on Wednesday at Colorado.
Point guards struggle
Dealing with a half court trap, senior Ivana Catic and junior LaClaelda Jacobs both struggled with getting Kansas into offensive sets in the second half.
Coach Bonnie Henrickson continuously rotated the duo unsatisfied with either point guard. Jacobs and Catic combined for 1-of-7 shooting, six turnovers and three assists.
"Turn it over, sub. Bad shot, sub." Henrickson said. "I mean, just point guard play. If you can't play well, we'll just keep subbing."
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Ludwick wants to avoid arbitration hearing but remains optimistic
JUPITER, Fla. — Cardinals outfielder Ryan Ludwick has purchased the ticket and will have his bags packed. He just hopes he needs neither.
Ludwick, who arrived at camp Sunday, is prepared to fly to Phoenix on Monday for an arbitration hearing after hitting 37 home runs and driving home 113 runs in his first full season in the majors.
The Cardinals are offering $2.8 million and Ludwick is seeking $4.25 million. Ludwick, though, is hoping to avoid the process.
"Hopefully, we'll get something worked out," Ludwick said. "I'm optimistic."
That optimism stems from teammate Rick Ankiel's contract, which was reached hours before his schedule arbitration last Thursday. Ankiel and the Cardinals agreed to a $2.825 million contract, midway
between what the club offered and
what Ankiel sought.
Ankiel flew from West Palm Beach, Fla., to Phoenix for a hearing that never happened.
"I'm fired up that I flew all the way out there for dinner," Ankiel said. "It was 30 grand worth of dinner."
Ludwick, who lives in Texas,
wasn't sure if he should come to
camp before Tuesday's reporting
day because of his hearing. That
changed after a conversation with Ankiel.
"To see where they were and how his whole deal went down I think that's what leads to optimism on my side," he said.
Cardinals manager Tony La Russa is pleased when any player avoids arbitration.
"It's an unnecessary evil and its a distraction." La Russa said about
salary arbitration. "This game is tough enough, and it's distracting enough, that any time you can avoid one distraction you're a little better off. Rick's a little better off and we're a little better off because of it."
Ankiel, 29, said the Cardinals were aware for a week that he was willing to meet in the middle. Still, he was just grateful the two parties
did not have to sit through what can be an uncomfortable hearing.
"I didn't know how it was going to go but everybody I've talked to, they say it's not a fun process," Ankiel said.
Ludwick, 30, will not allow the outcome — whether a deal is signed early or its decided by an arbiter — affect his attitude.
BIG 12
Missouri's Matt Lawrence takes lesser role in lineup
The senior sharpshooter has been every bit as valuable coming off the bench for the 17th-ranked Tigers. Lawrence had 13 points in 22 minutes in Saturday's 70-47 blowout over Nebraska.
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Missouh has won nine of 10 since Matt Lawrence lost his startin job. Yet it's turned out to be a win-win situation.
Lawrence's acceptance of a lesser role behind freshman Kim English has been a key to Missouri's climb into contention in the Big 12 race. He was one of nine players logging 14 or more minutes against Nebraska, and one of eight players getting 16 or more minutes in last Monday's come-from-behind victory over Kansas.
A less than positive attitude from Lawrence could have dulled Missouri's momentum. Instead, he's embraced Anderson's often-repeated stance that it doesn't matter who starts for a team contending for the Big 12 title.
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The fifth-year senior takes leadoff position in the batting lineup
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Senior center fielder Nick Fauce lays down a bunt that landed him on first base. Fauce was driven in off a two run shot by John Allman. Fauce finished the game one-for-two at the plate, contributing one run in the Jayhaws' 8-1 victory over Tabor College on Tuesday afternoon.
BY JOSH BOWE
jbowe@kansan.com
To say Nick Faunce is familiar with the Kansas baseball program might be an understatement, but his familiarity with the fans? Not so much.
But this season, the fifth-year senior in center field will also take center stage for the outfield in the clubhouse, and Kansas fans will pay attention.
Faunce will lead a mostly inexperienced group of outfielders into this season while also batting leadoff. Although Faunce started 37 games last year, he wasn't regulated to a leadership role. Left fielder Jon Allman did most of the talking with his bat, as he led the Jayhawks in hitting last year. Faunce understood that this season would be his time to step up.
"I specifically need to step up and take more of a leadership role." Faunce said. "I have been here the five years and so I have a little bit more of a better grasp on what to expect than a lot of these younger guys"
Faunce doesn't expect the challenge of batting first to be too daunting of a task. Last year, batting primarily first, Faunce hit .326 with a .401 on base percentage. He could improve on his walk total, with only 15 last year, but he expects good things to happen with himself batting at the top of the order.
"I'm pretty confident in myself
batting first," Faunce said. "People attack you differently and I like that because they come with a lot of fastballs which is what I like. I have no problem with that role."
Jason Burnansky and redshirt sophomore Brian Heere.
As for the other younger outfielders, coach Ritch Price says he expects to have the most growth out of them. Price specifically mentioned the talent of freshman
"Jason Burnansky is a really talented young man. He is going to get a lot of playing time." Price said. "Brian Heere is going to open the season and he had a tremendous fall. I'm really pleased with his development."
The development of those two,
the lineup
TOM MCDONALD
Projected starting outfield (last season statistics):
Left field:
Freshman Jake Marasco
Faunce
(n/a). Center field; Senior Nick Faunce (.326 avg. 3 HR 13 RBI).
Right field; Sophomore Brian Heere (.238 avg. 0 HR 2 RBI).
In the mix: Freshman Jason Burnansky, sophomore Jimmy Waters, sophomore Casey Lytle
The Kansan's Take: Faunce and Heere should hold down
BASINES
the center field and right field spots consistently all season. Left field could end up being
Heere
a carousel with two highly touted freshmen in Burnansky and Marasco. Marasco gets the start for now, but Price has raved on Burnansky's athletic ability and talent. Burnansky could compete with Faunce for center field, but if Faunce plays well expect Price to find some
time for
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else-
where.
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will see
a lot of
time at
DH after
his strong
his strong
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finish to last season while also seeing some playing time in left field. Lytle will see some significant time as well, Price said. Expect him to platoon right field with Heere.
Josh Bowe
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Texas A&M
Preseason ranking: No. 1
(Baseball America)/No. 5 (USA
Today/ESPN Coaches Poll)
The Aggies could likely prove the toughest test of the season in 2009. After finishing first in the conference and 12th in both polls last year, Texas A&M returns four preseason all-conference players. Senior first baseman Luke Anders is one of those players. Anders hit .349 with 58 RBIs and 16 home runs last year in getting selected as an All-Big 12 and All-Midwest Region for the second year running. Joining him on last year's all-conference team was then junior-outfielder Kyle Colligan. Colligan was named MVP of the NCAA College Station Regional as well. He led the team with four home runs in the postseason series. The Jayhawks face the Aggies in a three-game series from March 27-29.
Texas
Preseason ranking: No. 4/No. 9
Preseason ranking: No. 4/No. 9
The Jayhawks open conference play in Lawrence against the top-ten Longhorns on March 20. With their first four conference series against
teamsranked in the top-25, the Jayhawks face a difficult start in the Big 12. Head coach Augie Garrido, the winningest coach in history, has been suspended indefinitely as a result of a January driving while intoxicated arrest. Garrido, 69, has 1,629 career victories — the most ever in major college baseball. He has led the Longhorns to five national titles and five of the last eight College World Series. The Longhorns are expected to challenge Texas A&M for the conference title.
Tim Dwyer
in addition to freshman Jake Marasco, will be key in the outfield's success. Price also mentioned how Heere was a good runner and may see some time batting behind Fauncle in the two hole.
lineup. He will take the leadership role with no doubt, and expects that by the time this season is over, the young group of players will have surprised more than just ljayhawk fans.
But Fauncie will be the catalyst for more than just the batting
MLB
"We have some really good young players and when they hit
their stride were going to spark some intrigue and we're going to scare some teams," he said. "It's going to be fun to see them not know where we're coming from and hit them in the teeth."
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SURPRISE, Ariz. — Heading into his club-leading 11th season as a Kansas City Royal, pitcher Jimmy Gobble is looking to avoid the mental blocks that made 2008 a year to forget.
strikeouts in 2006.
Gobble said he's thankful that the bulk of his 2008 season didn't end his career with the Royals. During his tenure, he's served under two general managers, four managers and four big league pitching coaches.
He attributed the problems to an initial run of bad performances, which he said he made worse by overcompensating to show thenrookie manager Trey Hillman that he still had the goods. He was 4-1 with a 3.02 ERA in 74 relief appearances in 2007 and led the team in
MLB
"You have good years, you have bad years and some years you just don't have it at all," said Gobble, 27. "Hopefully, I can rebound from that and learn a lesson from what happened last year. Obviously, it can make me a better pitcher in the long run."
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The state of Kansas employs 42,455 people, more than 10,000 of whom work for the University of Kansas. But if Republican legislative leaders have their way, none of those employees, including student workers, will be getting paid until Gov. Kathleen Sebelius signs the 2009 budget sent to her after approval from the Kansas House and Senate.
Republicans demanded Sebelius sign the 2009 budget before they would issue a certificate of indebtedness. This certificate would allow money that exists in other accounts to be transferred into the one used for paying bills on time.
These certificates have been approved every month for the past decade. Without one for the month of February, the legislature will be unable to pay state employees, issue income tax refunds or make payments to health care providers and public schools on time.
Students employed by the University rely on paychecks from the state to pay for groceries, tuition and monthly bills.
Alex Miller. Bonner Springs junior, works 26 hours per week at the Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center. He said he counts on his biweekly paychecks to pay his bills.
"We're already in a recession so not getting paid for a few weeks would really suck." Miller said. "I believe there's a little bit of room left on the credit card if it comes down to it."
Sebelius said she would not sign the budget bill without reviewing it closely, even in the face of such demands from the legislature.
"The problem is, due to the slow action by the legislature, the bill has not been delivered to my desk, so I have nothing to sign." Sebelius said in a press release. "Furthermore, because this bill deals with hundreds of millions of dollars affecting almost every Kansan — once it is delivered — it would be prudent for me to review it thoroughly with my staff to make sure there are no errors in the text of the bill, as there have been in the past."
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Jessica Levy eats sushi two to five times each month. Her favorite restaurant is Yokohama Sushi and her favorite roll is the Rookie Roll: Spicy crab with cucumber, topped with avocado. She also loves spicy tuna, and has been ordering a lot of rolls with eel lately.
Levy, Dallas senior, says she orders her rolls based on taste.
in then mouths because of environmental factors. The Blue Ocean Institute, a national conservation organization, recently released a guide on how to make sure the sushi on your plate is sustainable. The
guide ranks the environmental friendliness of fish based on farming and catching methods, the risk of overfishing and health concerns. A green ranking is the best, followed by yellow-green, yellow, orange and red for worst.
While Levy said the environment didn't usually enter her mind when looking at the menu, she said shed consider changing her waws.
Students can print a pocket-sized sushi guide at www.blueoceaninstitute.org. They can ask their
"If I had the information in front of me, I would definitely try to make better choices on which fish I eat," Levy said.
The guide ranks the environmental friendliness of fish based on farming and catching methods, the risk of overfishing and health concerns.
favorite sushi chef what kind of fish is used in his restaurant, and then base orders off sustainability and taste.
THE BEST AND WORST OF TUNA
Skipjack tuna, called Katsuo on menus, is one of the most ocean-friendly tuna varieties according to the guide. They breed quickly and are more abundant than other tuna populations. Albacore tuna, called Binnaga maguro, is another good variety. Like the skipjack, it has a high reproduction rate
and is found easily in tropical waters. But the sushi guide emphasizes the importance of knowing how the fish is caught. Albacore is sometimes longline caught, a process that can often snag and kill
seabirds, sea turtles, sharks and other fish by accident.
Kokoro, 601 Kasold Dr,
and Yokohama Sushi, 811 New Hampshire St. use mostly bluefin tuna, one of the worst-rated fish on the sushi guide. The bluefin population is extremely endangered and has been overfished in most oceans, according to the pocket guide. Bluefin tuna can also contain levels of mercury or Polychlorinated Biphenyls, PCBs, that could pose potential health
Hla Moe, sushi chef for Sushi with Gusto at the Underground, said he uses albacore or bluefin tuna, depending on what's available.
risks.
Kevin Shin, owner of Kokoro, said tuna and salmon were the most popular fish ordered in his restaurant. He said he was aware of some of the risks in certain types of tuna, but said he didn't think Kokoro received any dangerous varieties in its shipments.
THE BEST AND WORST OF SALMON
Wild Alaskan salmon is the top-rated fish on the sushi guide. The wild salmon comes from a fairly clean and healthy habitat, and is certified sustainable by the Marine Stewardship Council. Wa, 740 Massachusetts St., uses wild salmon imported from Scotland, which is not a place mentioned in the sushi guide. Sushi with Gusto, the sushi offered at the Underground and in the Union, uses only wild salmon. Yokohama Sushi uses farm-raised salmon. Along with bluefin tuna, farm-raised salmon is one of the worst-rated fish on the guide. The sushi guide says salmon farming pollutes ocean waters and can spread disease to wild fish in the areas near salmon farms. The guide says all Atlantic salmon sold in the U.S. is farmed. Shin said Kokoro carried wild and farm-raised salmon, depending on the market.
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The rice would ferment in the hot climate and give the fish a tart flavor. This style of sushi spread through China before reaching Japan and eventually led to the popularity of nagiri, Nagiri is a slice of raw fish eaten on top of a small ball of sushi rice.
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More honors students, less cash
While many University departments are facing budget shortfalls, the KU Honors Program is struggling to fight a surplus.
A surplus of applicants, that is.
After receiving a record number of applicants this year, the honors program is considering raising the bar on its admissions standards. The honors program is also facing the possibility of eliminating
some honors classes as a result of budget cuts.
A surplus of applicants, that is.
John Daly, associate director of the honors program, said more than 2,400 incoming freshmen to date had applied to the honors program for next fall.
After reviewing every applicant, 303 freshmen were admitted, Daly said.
Daly said the current application process had no minimum
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LONDON — Nuclear submarines from Britain and France collided deep in the Atlantic Ocean this month, authorities said Monday in the first acknowledgment of a highly unusual accident that one expert called the gravest in nearly a decade.
JERUSALEM — Tzipi Livni, who hopes to be appointed Israel's prime minister-designate, said Monday Israel must give up considerable territory in exchange for peace with the Palestinians, drawing a clear distinction with her rival, Benjamin Netanyahu.
2. Leader says Israel must exchange land for peace
Officials said the low-speed crash did not damage the vessels nuclear reactors or missiles or cause radiation to leak. But anti-nuclear groups said it was still a frightening reminder of the risks posed by submarines prowling the oceans powered by radioactive material and bristling with nuclear weapons.
As major companies cut their work forces in the economic downturn, many Japanese workers are finding themselves out on the street because they have to move out of company-run dormitories.
TOKYO — In corporate Japan, losing your job can mean losing your home as well.
Labor officials cannot follow what happens to all those who lose their employment, but of the 45,800 who have been tracked, the government found 2,700 became homeless.
Llivi told the Conference of Presidents of Major American Organizations that Israel must take the initiative and come forward with its own peace plan to head off international programs.
3. Loss of jobs leads to homelessness in Japan
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TURLOCK, Calif. — Hundreds of thousands of America's dairy cows are being turned into hamburgers because milk prices have dropped so low that farmers can no longer afford to feed the animals.
Dairy farmers say they have little choice but to sell part of their herds for slaughter because they face a perfect storm of destructive economic forces.
Prices for milk now are about half what it costs farmers to produce the staple, and consumer prices are falling.
5. Wildlife officials plan to kill mountain lions
RENO, Nev. — State wildlife officials have announced a plan to kill more mountain lions to help increase the deer population, a move criticized by animal advocates who say drought and
development are more important factors in the decrease of deer numbers.
Ken Mayer, director of the Nevada Department of Wildlife, said his agency would use science to figure out the number of lions to be killed in areas where the predators have been found to adversely affect deer numbers.
6. Mourners honor100 victims of nightclub fire
WEST WARICK, R.I. — The survivors of a nightclub fire and relatives of the those who died in the 2003 blaze gathered Sunday to recite the names of the dead and honor them with 100 seconds of silence, one second for each victim.
Some mourners noted that the number of people coming to pay their respects has shrunk as years go by. Lawsuits resulting from the fire also have delayed work on a memorial at the lot where the club once stood.
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Jordan Watson
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Jordan Watson, Cheney junior, was never really into politics in high school.
"I liked to think of myself as a person who was well informed, but I never really had an opinion on a lot of things," Watson said.
Now that's all changed, because Watson interns at the governor's office in Topeka. Since the summer, he has worked in the Constituent Services office, which helps citizens communicate with the governor's office and state government.
Parts of his job include answering phones and communicating with callers.
"When a person wants to talk to the governor they call our office first," Watson said. "We get them to the people or the agency that they need to talk to about their problems."
In high school, Watson had other activities, such as forensics, theater and journalism to occupy his time.
Then, a year ago, Watson was a student at Butler Community College and wrote his own weekly column on politics.
"I really feel like my political views were established because of that, and by sophomore year I had my own opinions on issues," Watson said.
With his newfound interest in politics, he started campaigning last spring for Marcey Gregory, Kansas house candidate for District 93 in Sedgwick County.
There he worked with other people who had interned for the governor. They suggested that he submit a resume to the governor's office and apply for a position as an intern.
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But he found that there was much more to it than he thought.
"I quickly learned that in this job you can never know enough. Someone can call you and ask anything," Watson said.
Jordan Watson, Cheney junior, shakes hands with Gov. Katherine Sebelius. Winters intern in the Constitutional Services office, where he answers citizens' phone calls to the governor.
Watson's future aspirations have some political aspects to them.
"I would like to become a staff member working in policy at some point in my life." Watson said.
For now, Watson appreciates his current position.
"This experience has really opened my eyes to the inner workings of government," Watson said. "The job comes with a real sense of gravity."
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Panel considers making cockfighting a felony
TOPEKA — Kansas has become a haven for cockfighting because the crime is only a misdemeanor in the state, the Senate Judiciary Committee was told Monday.
The panel heard testimony on a bill that would make cockfighting a felony, as it is in 38 other states—including all of those that surround Kansas.
A misdemeanor is punishable by a fine of up to $2,500 and a year in jail. Making cockfighting a felony would allow a fine of up to $100,000, although anyone convicted of the crime would face probation instead of prison.
"If we don't pass this bill, we're a magnet for these kind of operators, and we don't want them operating in Kansas," Sen. Julia Lynn, an Olathe Republican who is pushing for the measure's passage, said after the hearing. The committee took no action.
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Monday night's voice vote followed amendments to exempt the gambling floors of casinos and racetracks.
Private clubs that were in operation on Jan.1 of this year would also be exempt.
TOPEKA, — The Kansas Senate gives first-round approval to a bill banning smoking in most public places throughout the state.
Places where smoking would be banned include bars, restaurants, workplaces and government buildings.
This is the third time Kansas lawmakers have considered a statewide smoking ban. Opponents argue that limiting smoking is best handled locally.
A final vote is expected Tuesday, and Senate leaders predicted the measure will pass and go to the House.
Members collect money to help preserve church
LAWRENCE — Members of a historic church that poet Langston Hughes once attended are collecting money to preserve the nearly 100-year-old building.
St. Luke African Methodist Episcopal Church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. Hughes, the Harlem Renaissance author and poet, has said the church influenced his writings.
B billturtle Jr., professor emeritus at Kansas University, said the church is "literally falling down."
Some of the formerly enslaved men and women to first settle in Lawrence established the congregation in 1862, during the Civil War. The present-day structure was built in 1910
The group hopes to complete its fundraising before the church celebrates its centennial.
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requirements for admission, so all applications were at least looked over. According to the honors program's Web site, applicants with an ACT score of 30 or better and an unweighted GPA of 3.75 "are more likely to be considered favorably."
Megan Gust, Overland Park freshman, said she came to the University because of the honors program after considering Duke University and Northwestern University. She said the honors program made feel like she was part of
a small liberal arts college. Gust said she thought some people in the honors program might not have deserved to be admitted.
"I think some people are in it for the wrong reasons," Gust said. "So maybe raising the standards might be a good idea."
BY THE NUMBERS
Students in KU Honors Program: 1,321
Sam Anderson, Olathe freshman, said the honors program was her reason for coming to the University after looking at smaller colleges.
Anderson said she thought changing admission standards
Number of high school senior applicants to the Honors Program for Fall 2009, to date: 2,601
might deserve to get in."
would be a tough choice to make.
"If you let everyone in, it kind of takes away the luster," Anderson said. "But then again, if you worked really hard in high school, you
Mathew Shepard, Norton sophomore, said he thought it might be beneficial to make the application process tougher.
"The application process isn't that difficult," Shepard said. "It's just an application, transcript and an essay."
Sandra Wick, associate director of the honors program, said the honors program had not been asked to make cuts in its budget. Wick said if they were asked, they would probably be forced to cut the number and size of honors classes.
She said honors courses traditionally had smaller class sizes throughout varying areas of study.
"It's going to be hard to find honors classes in the sizes we want." Wick said.
Shepard said losing honors classes would be a step backwards for the program.
"I think having the honors classes is the best part of the honors program," Shepard said. "And losing those smaller classes would definitely hurt the program."
In addition to smaller honors classes, Nunemaker Hall is available for honors students to meet, study or just hang out. Daly said. The honors program also offers lectures, honors advising and workshops for its students. Daly said some small scholarships from KU Endowment were offered to honors students for books, study abroad and unpaid internships.
Wick and Daly said the committee of academic standards would review any recommended changes, which wouldn't be enacted until Fall 2010.
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menus, is given a green ranking on the guide. Mackerel produce a lot of offspring, allowing for an abundant population of the fish.
Spanish mackerel, called Sawara on menus, has the same positive points as Saba. But Spanish mackerel has shown to have levels of mercury or PCBs that could be dangerous according to the sushi guide.
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Red snapper, which is served at Wa, Yokohama, Kokoro and Kobe, 2907 W. 6th St., received a red rating on the guide. These fish grow and reproduce slowly and have long life spans, making it easy for populations to be overfished. Freshwater eel, called Unagi on merus, is served at Wa, Yokohama, Kokoro, Kobe, the Union and the Underground. Eel was given a red ranking on the guide for the way it is farm-raised. Eels are usually farmed in pens that can cause serious environmental damage because of the untreated eel waste. Eels are also carnivorous, and require a diet of many other fish. Populations of wild eel are declining because eels are often caught while young and put into farming pens.
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KU graduate puts English degree to work
BY MICOLE ARONOWITZ maronowitz@kansan.com
Polly Rolston has the ability to take a questionnaire and transform it into a 14-line Shakespearian sonnet.
Rolston, a 2007 graduate, is a professional poet and the creator of Polly Poetic Press, a business she started her sophomore year of college. She currently operates her business from Hawaii, where her fiancé, Sam MacRoberts, a graduate of the KU School of Law, is a practicing attorney.
Rolston, MacRoberts and Ann Hartley, associate director of the University Career Center, discuss jobs for English graduates and staying true to individual talents.
What was the inspiration for starting your business?
Rolston: I always liked poetry. I was kind of a poetry nerd in high school. I won awards for it. In college, I was looking for a way to make extra money and my mom suggested that since I was so good at writing poetry, it would be perfect if I could write poems for people. It kind of seemed natural that I would make a company out of it.
What is the creative process like?
Rolston: The form that they give me has a place for their loved one's name and information, including physical appearance, nicknames
and inside jokes — anything they want to tell me about the person. Then I take that information and I go through and find really good bits of it. When I am reading them, sometimes, there will be one really good line that I love. I have just about every Shakespeare sonnet that's ever been written. I have a lot of poetry collected so I just go through and find words that are interesting words to rhyme so that the poem is unique to them.
How did you develop your talent for writing sonnets?
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I wish such things your eyes on me
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Rolston: You just get a feel for the rhythm of a sentence. I was an English major at KU and we talked about this all the time. You just know how a sentence is going to sound before you even know the words you are going to put in it. It's kind of like there's music behind language. You know the sound you want that line to make or you know the feeling behind it.
MacRoberts: She writes sonnets fairly often for me. Sometimes they are very sweet and other times they
How long does it take to write one sonnet?
Rolston: It takes me usually about 30 to 45 minutes to write a sonnet. Sometimes I will get started on it and then I have to step away for a little bit because it is just not working or making sense. When I come back to it, it just clicks — this sounds good, this is what I should be saying.
are fun and playful. The first sonnet she wrote me was when she was studying for finals at 8 a.m. She had written it at 5 a.m. She sat down and wrote a fun little sonnet.
Are you living your dream?
Why is there a stigma for English graduates to be able to use their degree?
Rolston: Yes, actually, it's funny because being an English major there is always a joke about what you're going to do with that degree
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— starving artist and that kind of thing. It's just really nice to say that I am pursuing what I love to do. I'm doing it in a way that other people are able to benefit from my talents and my passion. It's a good thing to know that I am not just wasting any talents that I might have on a job that doesn't have to do with my degree.
Polly Rolston, professional poet, writes poems for customers based on their loved one's name, appearance, nicknames and other information. Rolston spends about 30 to 45 minutes on each poem or sonnet. She started her poetry business during her sophomore year of college.
Why do you think there a stigma for English graduates to be able to use their degree?
Hartley: That's true not only with English majors, but a lot of liberal arts majors. Of course, you are studying in that field, but you are not being trained for a particular profession, like in professional schools, such as business and education. It takes some more personal effort to do that exploration and find the niche and what you want to do.
Do English majors have a lot of job opportunities? What field are English majors going into?
very marketable skill to have. I do see English alums going into the publishing field. Some of them go and get jobs in business. It really varies a lot.
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NEW YORK — The iconic painting that depicts George Washington crossing the Delaware River is getting even more dazzling. The plain frame that held the room-size painting is being replaced with an ornate recreation of its original.
The masterwork's current frame "minimized it," said Carrie Rebora Barratt, the Met's curator of American paintings and sculpture, although it's difficult to imagine how the painting, more than 21 feet by 12 feet, could be missed.
A recently discovered photograph showing Emanuel Leutze's "Washington Crossing the Delaware" with an elaborate border during an 1864 exhibition inspired the Metropolitan Museum of Art to replace the plain frame.
Leutze painted the masterpiece in 1851, depicting Washington and his companions crossing an ice-strewn Delaware River from Pennsylvania to New Jersey. Washington crossed the river on Dec. 25, 1776, in a surprise attack during the Revolutionary War.
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Singer Brown apologizes, says he's in counseling
LOS ANGELES — Chris Brown, who was arrested a week ago in connection with a domestic violence investigation, said Sunday he is "sorry and saddened" by what happened and is seeking counseling from his pastor and loved ones.
The 19-year-old R&B singer also said much of what has been reported of the incident is untrue, but wouldn't elaborate.
"Words cannot begin to express how sorry and saddened I am over what transpired. I am seeking the counseling of my pastor, my mother and other loved ones and I am committed, with God's help, to emerging a better person," Brown said in a statement issued through publicist Michael Sitrick.
Brown surrendered to Los Angeles police on Feb. 8 and was released on $50,000 bail after being booked for investigation of making a criminal threat, a felony. He has not been charged by the district attorney's office, which is still investigating the case.
His arrest reportedly stemmed from an argument with his girlfriend, fellow singer Rihanna, shortly after they left a pre-Grammy Awards party.
He also said he has not posted any comments about the incident on Facebook or any other Web site. "Those posts or writings under my name are frauds," he said.
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Governor needs to raise auto emissions standards
EDITORIAL BOARD
Last year, Kansas and Gov. Kathleen Sebelius took a bold step forward in climate change management by regulating $ \mathrm{C O_{2}} $ emissions. Remarkably, no state or government in the entire country had yet taken an effective stance on $ \mathrm{C O_{2}} $ regulation, leaving Kansas at the forefront of the issue.
A year later, Secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment Roderick Brennby's decision against allowing coal plants still stands, but new opportunities for action have arisen. The Obama administration has ordered the EPA to review a decision it made during the Bush years, which declined a waiver to California to enforce stricter CO limits.
Under the Clean Air Act, California has the unique ability among states to request a waiver from the EPA to adopt stricter air emissions requirements. The quick order of review signals a likely overturning of the Bush decision and a new era of carbon administration.
The governor should move quickly to keep Kansas at the forefront of environmental regulation, along with the many other states that have adopted or will adopt the California standards.
Robert Glicksman, Wagstaff Distinguished Professor of Law, thinks no great legal roadblock lies
If KDHE adopts these regulations, Bremby would have to believe that C0<sub>2</sub>, presented, "a substantial endangerment to the health of persons or to the environment." That language comes specifically from Kansas statute 65-3012, which grants the secretary of KDHE broad power to regulate substances that could endanger people or the environment. This is the same statute that Bremby cited in his HoLcomb power plant decision last year, and according to Glicksman, it has formed the basis of much of KDHE's power to regulate air emissions.
The governor's support is the keystone that will hold together a progressive environmental future, without which previous progress will crumble. Veto power gives her the legislative ability to accomplish these goals, but it is unknown whether she is willing to again push forward a policy of environmental protection. In response to questions concerning the new standards, the governor's Spokeswoman, Beth Martino, said, "The governor is hopeful the Legislature will work
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The governor held a far tougher line in supporting Bremby's denial of the Holcomb plants. The decision split the state down its traditional geographic division, east versus west, over issues that are always critical in Western Kansas: growth, jobs and capital.
If the governor believes strongly enough in carbon regulation to sacrifice near-term growth for longer term, smarter growth in her own state's economy, then new auto regulations are an almost free next step. No jobs would theoretically be delayed in Kansas, but Kansas would be able to continue its leadership, along with 13 other states that have already adopted or will adopt California's standards. Looking back would cost much more than another difficult step forward.
Alex Doherty for The Kansan Editorial Board
EDITORIAL CARTOON
BEFORE THE ELECTION,
I SAID THAT I GO TO BED WORRIED,
NOT THAT I MIGHT LOSE THE ELECTION,
BUT RATHER THAT IWOULD WIN IT.
...THOSE WERE THE DAYS...
...NOW I DON'T GO TO BED AT ALL.
VICHOLAS SAMBALUK
ECONOMY
Consumers 'vote' when dropping their dollars at Wal-Mart's door
The other day, as I was driving down Sixth Street, I noticed a new building sitting just off the corner of Sixth and Wakarusa streets. The building looked rather familiar and after a little research I found that, as I had suspected, another Wal-Mart was going in on the northwest corner of that intersection.
It really is quite simple, as simple as supply and demand. If there were no demand for the goods and services provided by Wal-Mart, it would not, and could not exist. This demand is provided by all those who shop there. It makes little sense to deride Wal-Mart for providing what consumers want.
Wal-Mart has become one of the most recognizable symbols of big business. Because of this, it has drawn the fire of courthouse people who want to see it destroyed. Undoubtedly, nearly everyone has heard the arguments against Wal-Mart. "It destroys all the mom and pop shops," says one. "They practice predatory pricing" claims another. These arguments go on and on. If it didn't border on obsession, it might actually be funny. Unfortunately, all those who attack Wal-Mart don't seem to understand that Wal-Mart exists because the majority of people want it to.
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Look at Lawrence, for example. On the demand side, the population of Lawrence, particularly the large student segment, demands many basic necessities at a cheap price. On the supply side, this is precisely what Wal-Mart provides. By providing this, Wal-Mart capitalizes on the surplus of consumers.
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Now, I'm sure many are still unconvinced and believe we would all be better off without Wal-Mart. I argue that few people actually agree with this. I'll use an analogy that we should all be familiar with, given that we just had an election this past November; voting. Under American capitalism, every dollar spent is equivalent to casting a vote. Thus, every dollar spent at a Wal-Mart is a vote for its continuance, expansion and success. If no one shipped there it would quickly go out of business. Given that Wal-Mart continues to open new stores, it seems quite obvious that people are indeed shopping there, thus voting for its
continuance. No one would argue that the winner of an election should be the loser. That makes no sense. Similarly, as people continue to "vote" for Wal-Mart, it makes no sense to argue that it should not exist.
If, however, one remains unconvinced that Wal-Mart is positive for consumers, there is something that can be done about it: Don't shop there. It really is that easy. The only way to fix the perceived problems created by Wal-Mart is to cease shopping there and force it out of business.
Many will say that there is no way that only one consumer can make that kind of difference, and they are right. Individual consumers can, however, organize large portions of their communities to direct their purchasing power to Wal-Mart's competitors. This is the only opportunity for those who so avidly oppose Wal-Mart to drive it out of business. On the other hand, Wal-Mart's detractors may find while trying to organize people in opposition that the vast majority of people support Wal-Mart, because it supplies what they demand, at prices they can afford.
O'Neill is a Topeka junior in economics and history.
ENVIRONMENT
Campus green initiatives forget about Lawrence
Editor's note: The columist is a member of the Students for Bars Awareness group.
If you exit campus and enter Lawrence proper on a winter evening, the glare of the streetlights overhead changes. The University has used an environmentally friendly and energy efficient exterior lighting system since a deal with Chevron Energy Solutions in November 2005. The city of Lawrence, on the other hand, adheres to standards set by Westar, Inc. — the company that installs and maintains Lawrence public lights. The less efficient make and bulb of these lights causes light pollution.
Here we see the division between campus and community. While many students trumpet green initiatives, they seem to be concerned only with making these changes within the very small radius of the KU campus.
Unfortunately, down the hill, Lawrence seems to be having trouble going green of late. And it isn't just the lights. Last week, the newly created Mayor's Task Force on Climate Protection named the creation of a Director of Sustainability position as its No.1 priority. The director would ensure the efficient and environmentally friendly use of resources by the city. However, it seems that Lawrencians are not in favor of this position. In a Lawrence Journal-World poll of 761 readers, 73 percent said no to the creation of this post. The naysayers said the directorship would be a waste of money without realizing that part of the director's job would be to cut energy costs — which would surely cover his or her salary ultimately.
In Fall 2006, the provost created a similar task force on the KU campus. Unlike the Lawrence task force, this one was successful. On Jan. 29, 2007,
THE HILL AND THE VALLEY BRENNA DALDORPH
the KU Center for Sustainability opened its doors. Jeff Severin is the current director.
The first objective listed on the KU Center's Web site is that it will "serve as an avenue for students and student organizations to collaborate on sustainable initiatives and provide input to processes that promote sustainability on campus." It is not until the fourth objective that a passing nod is given to community outreach. But we have been lighting the way, literally and figuratively, for years and have not made a significant effort to promote change in the community so intrinsically tied to ours.
Some groups, such as Students for Bars Awareness, are reaching into the community with green ideals in mind. Recognizing that Lawrence bars depend on students for revenue, student members of the club are prompting local bars to recycle Those students are trying to use the relationship between the student body and the community to make positive change. More of us should, do that, especially in light of the negative responses to the task force's recommendations. The issues being discussed by the Lawrence task force affect the lives of KU students. When the proposal is presented to the city government in March, we have a responsibility to ensure that these environmental initiatives are enacted, especially if we want to live in a place where more than just the top of the hill is green.
Daldorph is a Lawrence junior in journalism and French.
In defense of capitalism private property
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
species.
In his January column "New wave of changes still not radical enough", John Kenny wrote against private property and the economic system that it is based on. Attributed to capitalism was the exploitation of the masses, the magnification of inequality, and the widening of the "wealth gap." It is implied that President Obama's proposed wealth redistribution schemes are not grand enough and that all the resources of our country should be collectivized under government control. Such statements should not stand without response: they are socialism.
Capitalism is an economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and the role of government is merely to protect the peace so that trade may occur. Obviously, pure capitalism has never been established. But the extent to which private property has been protected and governments have been limited in their power is the degree to which we have prospered and progressed as a
We are all innately unequal in ways that are largely unknowable to those around us. Property does not magnify these differences; property rewards our use of these differences in our attempt to individually prosper. As we individually prosper and trade the products of our effort, we all benefit. Look at history for examples of what lowly statuses man has endured under systems without the protection of property rights, or when most property was seized regularly by the state.
The so-called wealth gap exists only because the protection of private property has allowed vast amounts of wealth to be created. We are all growing wealthier in spite of the government-created business cycle, trillions of dollars of inherently wasteful government spending, and hundreds of billions in regulation that all result in "externalities" far worse than those created by economic freedom.
Joshua Condon is a sophomore from Mulvane
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From the Inside Out, a student organization dedicated to promoting positive body images on campus, is sponsoring Nadeau's appearance tonight at the Wooldruff Auditorium at the Kansas Union in honor of "Celebrate EveryBODY Week" in conjunction with National Eating Disorders Week, which runs Feb. 22-28.
positive body images, to examine the way women are portrayed in the media and to try to diminish stereotypes.
Leslie Latham, Republic junior and president of From the Inside Out, said the week would provide a number of opportunities to learn how to combat negative media messages and eating disorders.
Nadeau, who described herself as curvy, said it was important for all women to feel comfortable in their own skin.
"My goal is to make more women feel great about themselves and widening the stereotypical definitions of beauty," she said.
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Tuesday, Feb. 17:
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7:30 p.m.
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10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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Celebrate Activity Day.
3 to 5 p.m.
Receive useful health information at the Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center. Prizes available.
"Critical Conversations" panel discussion, 7 p.m.
Get questions answered regarding eating disorders and body image issues at the Corbin Lobby.
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Have a photo taken with positive affirmation posters in the Kansas Union. Prizes available.
Intervention episode about eating disorders. Big 12 Room
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The most recent report by the American Psychological
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Celebrate Food Day
Better Bites entrees and smoothies will be featured in eateries all over campus.
"Fearless Friday" - a non restrictive eating day in the dining halls.
Programs are sponsored by the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center, From the Inside Out and Homebase.
The Dove advertisements feature women of different shapes and sizes who are meant to debunk female stereotypes.
"I think the media portrays women as usually being skinny and perfect," Coffe said. "Women and girls see images of what they're supposed to be and are disappointed when they can't measure up."
"I think the Dove campaign has inspired a lot of people," Latham said.
Audrianne Coffer, Wichita junior, said she liked the Dove advertisements because she thought the women were realistic looking.
Association concluded that eating disorders were one of the three cognitive consequences of female sexualization in the media. The other two are depression and low self-esteem.
"I think women compete against other women," Clare Higgins, Topea freshman, said.
Higgins said in high school she had friends who struggled with eating disorders. She said she appreciated seeing commercials featuring women with imperfect bodies.
"They're still beautiful," she said.
Donna Adams, a graduate intern at the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center, said female celebrities experienced societal pressures too. She said she was disappointed by the recent tabloid
"We're all affected by body image." Adams said.
attacks on singer Jessica Simpson's weight.
Sam Stepp, Mission Hills graduate student and one of the few male members of From the Inside Out, said men could help affect the way the media portrayed women by spending more time with their girlfriends and female friends and less time watching shows such as "The Girls Next Door," a reality TV show about life at the Playboy Mansion.
"Rejecting the objectification of women should be common sense," he said, "It's all about respect."
In a survey conducted by Dove, 81 percent of women felt the media placed unrealistic physical expectations on women.
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Memorial Health Center dietitian, said she often visited with women who had eating disorders.
Chapman said it was important to acknowledge that women experienced weight fluctuation because of hormonal changes that occur on a day-to-day basis. Chapman said that on any given day, a person's weight could fluctuate by three or four pounds.
Nadeau said one of her goals was to address the extremes women go through to achieve a certain image.
"Women have surrendered to diets and insane eating habits to live up to social stereotypes for too long," she said.
Nadeau is sponsored by Coca-Cola, Student Senate, the Multicultural Education Fund, the Student Involvement and Leadership Center and the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center.
POLITICS
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Clinton warns North Korea Country to test what is suspected to be a long-range missile
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton smiles poses for photos with athletes of the Special Olympics athletes in Tokyo, Japan on Monday. Clinton arrived in Tokyo for her first trip abroad as President Barack Obama's chief diplomat.
TOKYO — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's first official overseas trip was overshadowed by harsh North Korean rhetoric, epitomizing how new administrations often can be hemmed in by problems inherited from their predecessors.
At the outset of her Asian trip, Clinton declared in Japan: "I have come to Asia on my first trip as secretary of state to convey that America's relationships across the Pacific are indispensable to addressing the challenges and seizing the opportunities of the 21st century."
"We will be looking for ways to collaborate on issues that go beyond just our mutual concerns to really addressing global concerns," Clinton said at a ceremony to commemorate the arrival of the first secretary of state ever to make Japan her first overseas stop.
Yet her message was in danger of being eclipsed by Pyongyang, which just hours before vowed to press ahead with test-firing what wary neighboring governments, particularly Japan and South Korea, believe is a long-range missile.
Japan, with an unpopular government and struggling with deep economic woes, is particularly jittery at the moment and Clinton aims to reassure the country of its importance in the international arena.
"The bilateral relationship between the United States and Japan is a cornerstone in our efforts around the world," she said.
On Tuesday, she is expected to announce that she will send a special U.S. envoy to a Japanese-hosted donors conference for Pakistan.
In addition to meeting with top government officials and members of the opposition, Clinton will sign
an agreement to move about 8,000 of the 50,000 Marines on the island of Okinawa to the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam.
But, North Korea looms large over her visit. She has promised to meet with the families of Japanese citizens kidnapped by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s. "We do want to press the North Koreans to be more forthcoming with information," she said en route to Tokyo.
Last week, she had warned North Korea against any "provocative action and unhelpful rhetoric" amid signs the Stalinist nation was preparing to test fire a missile capable of reaching the western United States.
But on Monday, the 67th birthday of North Korean leader Kim Jong II, Pyongyang claimed that it has the right to "space development" — a term it has used in the past to disguise a missile test as a satellite launch.
ers aboard her plane that North Korea needed to live up to commitments to dismantle its nuclear programs, saying Washington was willing to normalize ties with it in return for nuclear disarmment.
She also implicitly criticized the Bush administration for abandoning the so-called 1994 Agreed Framework with North Korea, reached during President Bill Clinton's first term in the White House, which called for the North to give up its plutonium-based weapons program.
The framework collapsed when the Bush team accused Pyongyang of maintaining a separate highly enriched uranium program, about which Secretary Clinton said there was still great debate.
"The North Koreans have already agreed to dismantling," she said. "We expect them to fulfill the obligations that they entered into."
When North Korea test-fired a long-range missile in 1998, it claimed to have put a satellite into orbit.
NATIONAL Obama to decide number of troops for Afghanistan
As a result, she said, the North had restarted and accelerated its plutonium program, allowing it to build a nuclear device that it had detonated in 2006.
On Sunday, Clinton told report-
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's chief spokesman said Monday that he will make a decision "within days, not weeks," on how many additional troops to send to Afghanistan, and when.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs made the observation in a chat with reporters Monday aboard Air Force One as Obama and his family flew back to the Washington area after a long weekend in his hometown.
Obama has been widely believed likely to send fresh forces to the Afghan battle even as a wide review of U.S. strategy and goals there gets fully under way.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates told a Pentagon news conference last week that Obama "will have
several options in front of him" Gates suggested that the ground commander in Afghanistan would eventually get all the forces he has asked for, but no more.
Lt. Gen. David McKiernan wants more fighting forces and support troops such as helicopter crews to push back against the Taliban in Afghanistan's increasingly dangerous south and eastern regions.
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NATIONAL
Ice a possible cause of Buffalo plane crash
CLARENCE, N.Y. Investigators have located key components that might help reveal what the pilot did to try to save Flight 3407 during its final desperate seconds, when the plane plunged to the ground so suddenly that sending a mayday was impossible, an investigator said Monday.
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After a seemingly routine flight, the airplane endured a 26-second plunge before smashing into a house in icy weather about six miles from Buffalo Niagara International Airport on Thursday night, killing 49 people on the plane and one on the ground.
National Transportation Safety Board member Steve Chealander said investigators have located the steering column, or yoke; all the propeller blades; five of six deicing valves; and rubber bladders designed to protect the tail from ice.
The cause has remained elusive in part because there was no distress call from the pilot, no mechanical failure has been identified and the plane was so severely damaged.
The crew had
"They were trying to save their lives and the lives of everybody on that airplane."
STEVE CHEALANDER National Transportation Safety Board member
turned on the plane's deicing system 11 minutes after leaving Newark, N.J. Shortly before the crash, they notified air traffic controllers that they were experiencing significant ice buildup.
Chealander acknowledged that it was possible that the pilot overreacted by yanking the yoke back, further destabilizing the plane, but he said that was one of an almost unlimited number of possibilities.
Kirk Koenig, president of
Chealander said Sunday that the pilot appeared to ignore recommendations by the NTSB and his employer that the autopilot be turned off in ice conditions.
Expert Aviation Consulting of Indianapolis and a commercial aviation pilot for 25 years, said the airplane may have been in a predicament that would challenge even the most experienced pilots.
the autopilot remained on until an automatic system warned that a stall could occur, pushed the yoke forward and shut the autopilot off.
For example, if ice were forming on the wings, the pilot would want to put the nose of the plane down and increase power; if the icing were on the tail, the opposite would have been required, pulling the nose up and reducing power.
"Things happened so quickly and they were so low to the ground that it would not have mattered if Chuck Yeager and Neil Armstrong were flying the plane; there wouldn't have been a different outcome." Koenig said.
Chealander agreed, saying the pilots had their hands full and had no time to send a distress signal.
"They were trying to save their lives and the lives of everybody on that airplane," Chealander said.
The plane's deicing system was
apparently working, the NTSB has said.
That system includes strips of rubber-like material on the wings and tail that expand to break up ice, then contract and expand again to break up new ice.
The victims' relatives that visited the scene Monday left red roses dangling from temporary fencing and in a semicircle on the ground.
The site of the house on a quiet, tree-lined street in a middle-class neighborhood is now an almostempty dirty lot.
All that is left are a garage with a scorched door, a basketball hoop, four steps leading to nowhere, a mailbox — the numbers 6038 on its side — and the plane's enormous tail.
Chealander said half the plane had been removed by Monday, when the engines were lifted by a crane onto the road and studied.
He said a preliminary analysis of the engines was "consistent with high-powered flight," a sign that they were operating properly at the time of the crash.
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Officials forced to choose a limited number of projects to receive funds
John Dailey, Sr., left, owner of JRD Contracting, poses with employees Caleb Cooper, center, and Curtis Scarbrough, Sunday in Camden, Ala. Dailey has laid off 12 of his 45 hourly employees, and hopes the economic stimulus package will put some employees back to work on road crews.
BY BETH FOUHY Associated Press
NEW YORK — It may sound like a nice problem for states — figuring out how to spend the billions in infrastructure funding they'll receive as part of President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan.
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But the task is more complicated than it seems, as state officials try to set priorities while managing competing pressures from communities, watchdog groups and federal regulators over how the money is allocated.
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Under the plan Obama is expected to sign into law early this week, states will divide $27 billion to build and repair roads and bridges. That is less than half the $64 billion in projects states told the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials late last year that they had ready to go.
The law also requires that half the money be spent on projects that have been vetted by the federal government and deemed "ready to go" in 120 days, as a way to jolt the economy and create jobs. That means state officials are under pressure to make decisions quickly on which projects to fund and which to bussess
While many states have made their lists of "ready-to-go" infrastructure projects available online for public review, others have resisted, in part because the limited stimulus funding means only a fraction of the projects will receive
money. Watchdog groups say it's likely that state officials fear angering constituents if a project appears on a wish list and then is struck from the final allocation.
"There will be huge internal battles in states about priorities," said Phineas Baxandall of the Public Interest Research Group.
In California, for example, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office rejected a request by The Associated Press for a detailed list of "ready-to-go" projects. The AP sought the information under the California Public Records Act, but the governor's office last week said the documents were internal drafts, adding "disclosure would chill critical communications to and within the Governor's Office, thereby harming the public interest."
The sheer volume of money directed toward state projects has fueled calls for transparency, with journalists, interest groups and others demanding a full accounting of which projects receive the funding, which are rejected, and why.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick addressed that sentiment last week when he named a local real estate developer to oversee bidding for the stimulus money. Patrick also set up a new Web site with information on every project that receives the money.
"The task before us now is to identify the projects that will do the most to get people back to work."
"I don't want to send a mistaken impression there are pet projects,"
M. JODI RELL Connecticut governor
Patrick said.
the governor appeared with the state's attorney general, Martha Coakley, who also will help track the stimulus funds.
"An ounce of prevention in handling the money is worth a bound of
grand jury investigations and civil litigation down the road," Coakley said.
Mindful of the accelerated time table they face, states are moving
quickly to develop mechanisms for identifying priority projects and disbursing funding for them.
Some have created oversight commissions while others are leaving decisions to state transit officials. Some are required by law to involve state legislators, while legislators in states that don't require their participation are pressing to have input.
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, a Democrat, has retained a former U.S. diplomat as a temporary, unpaid "infrastructure czar" But the Republican-controlled Senate, concerned that Strickland could try to push stimulus funding through the state's Controlling Board instead of through the legislature, has drawn up a separate "spending blueprint" for the federal
stimulus money.
Alabama Gov. Bob Riley, a Republican, has hired two former state finance officials to oversee the stimulus money. New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch, a Democrat, tapped a former attorney general to manage the funds, while Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle established a state Office of Recovery and Reinvention led by the president of a local electric utility and a vice chancellor of the University of Wisconsin.
In Virginia, Gov. Tim Kaine, a Democrat, is taking a grass-roots approach, setting up a Web site seeking input from residents, local governments and community groups as to how the money should be spent. Nearly 600 suggestions poured in on the first day alone,
In Colorado, 11 transportation commissioners will determine which projects to fund, in part based on recommendations from local governments and city planners around the state. No vote of the legislature is needed to spend the money.
Legislative input also is not required in Maine, but state lawmakers have pressed for involvement and Democratic Gov. John Baldacci says he will seek their guidance. He plans to present a plan for spending the stimulus so that legislative leaders can review it.
Montana's constitution requires that the state legislature appropriate all spending. Lawmakers there are trying to determine whether
to go through the normal appropriations process or accelerate it in some way.
The state's governor, Democrat Brian Schweitzer, told the AP that lawmakers are likely to make changes to the $3 billion list of projects the state has identified as eligible for the stimulus money.
Gov. M. Jodi Rell of Connecticut, a Republican, created a working group of municipal officials, business leaders, legislators and state agencies to determine the final list of projects.
"The task before us now," Rell said, "is to identify the projects that will do the most to get people back to work, get our economy moving again and position us for success when the national business climate improves."
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Cookbooks increasing calories
BY J.M. HIRSCH Associated Press
CONCORD, N.H. — It's not just fast food restaurants that have Supersized the way Americans eat — cookbooks share the blame.
So-called portion distortion, the trend of eating larger and larger servings, is as much a problem with recipes as it is restaurants, and has been going on even longer, a study published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine found.
The study, which looked at how classic recipes have changed during the past 70 years, found a nearly 40 percent increase in calories per serving for nearly every recipe reviewed, or about an extra 77 calories.
"So much finger pointing is going on at away-from-home dining it really takes the focus off where we could probably have the most
immediate influence," said Cornell University marketing professor Brian Wansink, who directed the study.
The study identified the trend in numerous cookbooks, but it focused on American kitchen icon "Joy of Cooking," first published during the '30s and regularly updated with new editions since then, most recently in 2006.
Those editions gave researchers a continuity of recipes from which to draw their data, Wansink says.
Of the 18 recipes published in all seven editions, 17 increased in calories per serving. That can be attributed partly to a jump in total calories per recipe (about 567 calories), but also to larger portion sizes.
Only the chili con carne recipe remained unchanged through the years. The chicken gumbo, however, went from making 14 servings at 228 calories each in
the 1936 edition, to making 10 servings at 576 calories each in the 2006 version.
Most excess calories in the American diet still come from food eaten outside the home, said Marlon Nestle, professor of nutrition and food studies at New York University. But she said the study was yet another illustration of how accustomed people were to eating ever increasing quantities of food.
And changes in "Joy of Cooking" have been going on for a while. Increases in overall calories per recipe have been gradual, but portion sizes tended to jump, first during the '40s, again during the '60s, and with the largest jump in the 2006 edition.
The first significant signs of restaurant portion inflation didn't show up until the late '70s, Wansink said.
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SPORTS
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 17, 2009
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"I'm going to wait a few days to gather my thoughts before I say anything."
Former Phoenix Suns coach Terry Porter when asked about his recent firing
FACT OF THE DAY
A report by the New York Times two months ago found that if you exclude Jerry Sloan and his 20-year tenure in Utah, the average NBA coach lasts just 1.3 seasons with one team.
— nytimes.com
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: Including Porter, how many NBA coaches have been fired this season?
A: Eight. At the All-Star Break, exactly 25 percent of teams in the NBA had fired their coaches. Porter is the shortest-tenured of those eight. He lasted just 51 games as the Suns' top guy.
Big 12 teams rely on big players
Much has been made of the Big 12 Conference embracing "small ball"
COMMENTARY
this basketball season. Teams are pushing the pace of play and throwing some tiny lineups on the court, with interesting results.
Truth is, it's much ado about nothing.
The numbers bear several facts: The Big 12 isn't an especially guard-centric conference, and any team with a shot at the NCAA Tournament has a capable big man or two.
Oklahoma, undefeated in conference play, has one transcendent player carrying a few role players to victory. That transcendent star is Blake Griffin, a 6-foot-10 blueprint of a big man. He's the best player in the nation and the reason Oklahoma could end up with a No.1 seed come March.
Kansas, the conference's second-best squad, gets its best offense and defense from sophomore center Cole Aldrich. Junior guard Sherron Collins scores often, but his efficiency isn't in the same neighborhood as Aldrich's.
Missouri is supposedly guard-
BY ASHER FUSCO
afusco@kansa.com
driven because it plays fast. In reality, the Tigers are Sweet Sixteen contenders because of their incredibly effective front-court duo of DeMarre Carroll and Leo Lyons. The conference's best one-two post punch shoots 54 percent and accounts for 37 percent of Missouri's scoring.
The conference's backcourt focal teams have struggled. Oklahoma State, Nebraska and Colorado, the only Big 12 teams with players smaller than the national average, are ranked 10th, 11th and 12th in rebounding percentage and fifth, sixth and 12th in victories, respectively.
It's sometimes tough to appreciate professional basketball until the college season is over,
RECOMMENDED
READING
The picture-heavy book, written by the guys who run the basketball blog Free Darko, uses advanced statistics and highbrow literary references to examine 18 of the NBA's most intriguing players. It sounds odd, but give it a try. After all, you've got to do something to pass the time between Kansas basketball games
but there are plenty of reasons to take in some NBA action. Just ask the authors of "The Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball Almanac."
Tangentially related NBA note: LeBron James continued to make a convincing case for his coronation as "Most Awesome Guy Ever," by donning a spiffy yellow cardigan and aviator sunglasses Saturday while taking in the NBA Slam Dunk Contest.
ON-CAMPUS BOOK SIGNINGS
THE
MORNING
BREW
University of Kansas graduate and sportswriter Ken Davis will sign copies of his new book, "The University of Kansas Basketball Vault: The History of the Jayhawks," on campus twice this week.
The signings will take place from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at Allen Fieldhouse and from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the KU Bookstore at the Kansas Union on Saturday, Davis' book is the sort of no-holds-barred resource that would make a perfect very, very late Christmas present for an alumnus of the University. It goes to great length to detail the 110-year history of Kansas basketball, complete with replicas of ticket subbs and pennants. The book is current through the 2008 national championship run, so if you're having a hard time brushing the party cobwebs from last March and April, you can refresh your memory.
Edited by Melissa Johnson
BASEBALL
Closer has confidence in experienced bullpen
BY JOSH BOWE
jbowe@kansan.com
To be a closer requires a certain set of qualities: Toughness, short memory and a little bit of attitude.
It's a high-pressure position and a role that senior pitcher Paul Smyth has relished his entire career.
the lineup
"I do think that mentally I am one of the tougher guys," Smyth said. "A lot because of the experience I've had in the bullpen."
Kansas Bullpen:
As Kansas creeps closer to its season opener Friday against Air Force, the young team will rely heavily on Smyth to help guide it. Three pitchers graduated last year and two pitchers have recovered from last season's injuries, leaving the team with an almost fully revamped rotation.
Smyth feels confident in the bullpen, however, and expects his pitchers to deliver him a lead to protect.
Coach Ritch Price likes the chances of his bullpen pitching
2008 statistics
"For me, I rely a lot more on my movement," Smyth said. "In terms of quality innings I'm able to go through it one time and after that I think it becomes a little rockier, so one time through is good."
Closer:
Senior Paul
Smyth (5-5,
3.73 ERA,
51 SO,12
BB, 10 SV)
P
Smyth
"I've just been riding my boy Brett Bochy about being my setup guy," Smyth said. "I've got the two Brett's in front of me, and they're both quality pitchers."
Smyth is also not your prototypical Big 12 closer in a conference that has seen great fireballers such as Texas' Houston Street or Missouri's Kyle Gibson. Smyth said using more off-speed stuff allowed him to get batters off balance, especially if the lineup only saw him once.
Setup men: Sophomore Brett Bochy (0-0, 5.94 ERA, 18 SO, 9 BB), Junior Brett Bollman (2-3, 5.83 ERA, 32 SO, 20 SB, 1 SV).
Junior Thomas Marcin (0-0,4.38 ERA,13 SO.
In the Mix:
Freshmen Kelson Boyer,
Kevin Burk and Colton
Murray and Junior Travis
Blankenship
PARKS
The Kansan's Take: Smyth is the unquestioned closer and leader of this bullpen. His suc-
Bochy
cess will be measured by how
many wins Kansas has this season. Bochy, Bollman, and Marcin will all see time as setup men, with Bochy having
S
Smyth's consent to be the main setup man. All three will have to improve from some of last season's collapses. Blankenship
Bollman
B
used in spot situations,
and possibly start. Of the other freshmen, Colton Murray is the one to watch.
is the only lefty in the bullpen
Price has expressed interest in molding Murray into a future closer after Smyth departs.
Marcin
BIG 12 CAPSULES
Baylor Bears
Preseason Ranking: No. 8 (Baseball America) / No. 17 (USA)
Josh Bowe
Today/ESPN)
The Bears, the third of four Big 12 teams in Baseball America's top ten.
BAKER
BEER
are also the third Big 12 team on the Jayhawks' schedule. They are also Kansas' third conference series. After opening with No. 4 Texas and a road trip to No. 1 Texas A&M, the heat stays
on for the Jayhawks when Baylor comes to town April 3-5. Third baseman Shaver Hansen returns for his junior campaign after leading the team in batting average, hits, runs, triples, RBI and total bases. He was one of only three Bears to appear in all 58 games in 2008, starting 57 of them. Hansen will likely hit leadoff after starting the majority of last season in that role.
Oklahoma State Cowboys Preseason Ranking: Unranked (Baseball America) / No. 13 (USA Today/ESPN)
Oklahoma State returns a potent offensive attack from last year's squad that led the
ALABAMA
STATE
conference in batting average and home runs. They were second to Texas
A&M in triples, RBI and runs scored. This year the Cowboys bring back wunderkind second baseman Tom Belza, who led the conference with a .386 average in 50 games as a freshman in 2008. The Cowboys also bring back a power bat from the left side of the plate in junior
"I think we are more solid in the bullpen than we were a year ago," Price said. "The potential's there."
this season. With Smyth anchoring a core group that boasts a good amount of experience, Price has great expectations.
outfeilder Neil Medchill, who was fourth on the team with 11 home runs while hitting. 349 and earning All-Conference honors. Among pitchers with more than 20 innings pitched, junior left-hander Andrew Oliver led the team last year with a 2.20 ERA and a 7-2 record. Oliver looks to return to form this year and was selected by Baseball America and Rivals.com as a preseason All-American. The Cowboys visit Lawrence for a three-game series on April 10-12.
"So I would hope that when we get into the three-game weekend set that we'll be able to set people up to get to Smyth and not have the game blow on us," Price said. "It blew up on us two or three times last year."
lead far too often before the ball could be handed to Smyth.
A problem with last year, Price said, was that the team blew the
To promote team chemistry,
assistant coach Ryan Graves often groups together the starters and relief pitchers during workouts and practices. He will often throw in competitions between the two to keep the team engaged and working its hardest.
Tim Dwyer
Smyth welcomes this approach and said he felt that it would pay off in the long run.
"He likes to put a lot of competition out there and he's a competitive-natured guy." Smyth said. "I find that, especially with this group of guys, our team doesn't really back down from competition."
Edited by Sonya English
Men's basketball Iowa State, 7 p.m. Lawrence
Women's basketball Colorado, 8 p.m. Boulder, Colo.
Women's golf Central District Inv. Parrish, Fla.
TODAY
THURSDAY
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THIS WEEK IN KANSAS ATHLETICS
Softball
North Carolina
12:30 p.m.
Palm Springs,
Calif.
Softball
Oregon State, 8
p.m.
Palm Springs,
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Phelps has called his judgment bad and said he would learn from his mistake.
The photo surfaced in a British newspaper, News of the World, on Feb.1.
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USA Swimming suspended Phelps for three months in the wake of the photo, and Kellogg Co. said it would not renew its endorsement deal with him.
FRIDAY
The photo showed Phelps smoking from a marijuana pipe at a party in November when he visited the University of South Carolina
Baseball Air Force, 1 p.m. Millinaton, Tenn
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Sam Young had 25 points for Pittsburgh, which lost all 13 games it had played against No. 1 teams, the last three against Connecticut over the last 11 years.
photo but defended his investigation.
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The minutes leading up to Fields' big shots was as intense as college basketball gets. The lead changed hands four times and there was a tie in the 2½ minutes
"Michael Phelps is truly an American hero ... but even with his star status, he is still obligated to obey the laws of our state," Lott said.
Softball BYU, 2:30 p.m. Palm Springs, Calif.
Baseball
Memphis, 4 p.m.
Milkington, Tenn.
Pittsburgh finished with a 48-31 rebound advantage, the first time the Huskies were outrebounded this season.
Tennis
DePaul, 10 a.m.
Iowa City, Iowa
Both his 3-pointers were wide-open shots when Connecticut couldn't switch fast enough on screens, and they seemed to take the wind out of the Huskies, who came up empty on both possessions around the threes.
Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said he couldn't ignore the
Baseball
Bradley, 1 p.m.
Miltoning, Tenn.
Men's basketball
Nebraska, 3 p.m.
Lawrence
SWIMMING Phelps won't face charges for marijuana incident
SATURDAY
A. J. Price had 18 points for the Huskies (24-2, 12-2), who started their third week at No. 1 earlier Monday and had their 13-game winning streak ended.
Connecticut, which leads the Big Ease in scoring defense (60.5) and field goal percentage defense (37.3) held Pittsburgh to 7-of-25 shooting until Fields suddenly got going.
The game was expected to be physical down low and it was with the 6-foot-7 Blair flipping the 7-3 Hasheem Thabeet over his back in the first half, sending him to the bench for about 4 minutes. Blair got a dose back in the second half when he had to leave the game for almost 3 minutes after taking an elbow to the face.
leading up to those shots.
HARTFORD, Conn. — DeJuan Blair had 22 points and 23 rebounds and Levance Fields scored all 10 of his points in the final 3:09 as No. 4 Pittsburgh beat No. 1 Connecticut 76-68 on Monday night, the Panthers' first win ever over a top-ranked team.
Jennifer Clark+23 (87, 80)
Meghna Bal:
+11 (77, 78)
Softball
UC Santa Barbara,
7:30 p.m.
Palms Springs,
Calif.
Pitt took a 36-33 halftime lead behind Blair's 15 points and 13 rebounds and Young's 12 points.
Associated Press
Fields missed his first seven shots from the field but the senior guard gave the Panthers (24- 2, 11-2 Big East) the lead for good with a 3-pointer with 3:09 left that made it 64-61. He added another 3 with 2:21 left to make it 67-61, and he added four free throws in the final minute.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL Panthers defeat top team for first time in history
TENNIS
Emily Powers: +10 (80, 74)
P
Kalynd Carson:
+11 (78, 77)
Connecticut fell to 40-8 as a No. 1 team and the loss kept them from the best start in school history. The Huskies remain tied with the 1995-96 team at 24-1.
Sydney Wilson:
+17 (84, 77)
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women's golf CENTRAL DISTRICT INVITATIONAL
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Kansas +49 (12th of 15 teams)
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina sheriff said Monday he was not going to charge swimmer Michael Phelps after a photo of the 14-time gold medalist showed him smoking from a marijuana pipe.
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ON THE BALL
Might someone give Vick a chance?
BY ANDREW WIEBE
AND TAYLOR BERN
awiebe@kansan.com;
tbern@kansan.com
The Atlanta Falcons have announced they want to trade Michael Vick as his 23-month prison sentence comes to a close. Vick was indicted in July 2007 and has spent most of his sentence in the U.S. Penitentiary in Leavemouth.
Taylor: I'm not going to condone anything that Vick did or said in retends to Bad Newz Kennels.
With that said, once he's released from prison, I would be more than happy for my favorite NFL team, the Chicago Bears, to take a chance on him.
I never thought Vick was much of a quarterback. But just imagine Vick taking snaps out of the Wildcat and running the option with Devin Hester. That thought alone is worth the bad press that would inevitably come with giving Vick another chance.
His legal troubles are well documented,but are they really that much worse than someone who killed someone drunk driving such as Leonard Little?
Andrew: The issue with bringing the best rushing quarterback of all time back to the NFL is not what you call bad press. It's the media horde that would threaten to derail just about any training camp he finds himself in.
Taylor: That's a legitimate concern, but it doesn't really matter if your team doesn't have a chance to do anything without him.
I think Vick deserves another chance, but any team that decides to take a flyer on his freakish athletic abilities better be confident its players can handle playing second fiddle to the inevitable comeback stories his return would generate.
Michael Vick is a mystery box,
and anybody who's seen "Family
Guy" knows that you can't choose
the boat — even if it's exactly what
you want — over the mystery box.
I know what I get from Kyle Orton, and it's rather mediocre (and drunk). Vick could end up being a complete bust, but his skills are worth the distraction.
Andrew: But what skills are we talking about?
Sure he can beat people with his legs, but you mentioned the word quarterback before. If Vick can still be an average NFL quarterback after almost two years in a prison cell, he is even more physically gifted than anyone originally thought
I think the real possibility — if Vick is willing to do it — is for him to transition to running back or receiver. Something to take advantage of his prodigious athletic ability. But to think he can be an NFL quarterback is pretty hopeful if you ask me
Taylor: I didn't ask you, but I also never said he would play every down.
Vick is such a great athlete that even if his speed has deteriorated it would be enough to burn most defensive backs. He was a glorified running back at Virginia Tech and he could step back into that role pretty easily.
Andrew: Maybe so. I guess we will find that out once, or even if, he finds himself in a NFL training camp. Either way, I'm dreading the 24-hour continuous coverage ESPN will no doubt hit us with when that time comes.
Morris shows 'the real Marcus'
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Freshman forward Marcus Morris drives under the basket for a reverse layup. Morris finished with 15 points, shooting four-for-seven from the field and six-for-eight from the free throw line, during the Jayhawks' Feb. 14 85-74 victory over Kansas State in Manhattan.
Self and team saw Morris perform closer to his potential against Cats
BY CASE KEEFER ckeefer@kansan.com
Marcus Morris felt relief after Kansas' 85-74 victory at Kansas State Saturday.
Not because he rebounded after being benched for the final 19 minutes of the defeat at Missouri last Monday and not starting for the first time in seven games against Kansas State. And not because he broke out of a slump with 15 points, seven rebounds, four assists and three steals.
Morris had one air ball in each of Kansas' last two games before Saturday and numerous others this season. It gnawed at him. The guy hates air balls.
Think simpler.
"Good thing I didn't shoot an air ball this game," Morris, a freshman forward, said. "I think I'm on a roll for air balls every game."
But he tried not to think about it against the Wildcats. He didn't want to think at all. Morris tried to attack and not worry about anything else.
That's what Kansas coach Bill Self wanted him to do. That's why Self said Morris was the difference in the game.
"I think he's played safe up until this point." Self said after the game. "He's played not to screw up, but today he went out and made plays."
He made a lot of them. Marcus drained a three-point shot from the top of the key to tie the score at 38 in the first half.
By the time the game was in its crucial stages in the second half, Morris was asking teammates for the ball. He scored four points during a 10-2 run in the final minutes that pulled the Jayhawks away from the Wildcats.
Morris got to the free-throw line four times and made six of his eight attempts. Calling his performance "a complete game" would be an understatement.
"That's the real Marcus,"
junior guard Sherron Collins said. "Aggressive, making plays, hitting threes, hitting jumpers, posting, doing it all."
Self and Collins always believed Morris was capable of contributing at this level, but had personal obstacles to overcome. At the beginning of the season, Self complained that Morris didn't exert enough effort at practice.
Although Self is pleased with the progression of Morris' practice habits, Marcus still thinks he can get better.
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"Every day I talk to coach when we're in practice and he tells me I don't go hard and I need to make more plays." Morris said.
Morris still started six of the Jayhawks' first eight games before Self opted to insert Markieff Morris in the lineup instead. Self said Marcus didn't understand his role on the team.
At times, he focused too much on getting open shots and not on grabbing rebounds or playing defense. But Morris still showed flashes of improvement, such as in the first Kansas State game when he had seven rebounds. He was inconsistent.
"He kept teasing us a little bit, showing us glimpses of it," Collins said. "But I think he's coming around, turning the corner. Look forward to see more of that from him."
Collins said he thought Saturday's game could be a turning point in Morris' season. Morris agreed and said the key would be to play with more motivation on the defensive end.
Of course, it will also help if Morris continues to be aggressive and forgets about potential miscues such as air balls.
"Marcus Morris is a really talented player, but we've been waiting for this;" Self said. "Today was almost like, forget it I'm going to go play."
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Sutherland's growing maturity shows against top players
BY JAYSON JENKS
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For a few brief seconds on Saturday, the hype, the accolades and all the publicity showered on Oklahoma senior Courtney Paris overwhelmed freshman forward Aishah Sutherland.
But, once the action began, the normalcy of any other game quickly replaced those feelings of mystification.
"You can't have time to think about it," Sutherland said. "You go in there and you better play. There's not anything overwhelming, you just have to play."
Three weeks ago, a younger, greener Sutherland may have balked at her ability to compete with Paris or any other top-tier player.
In the world of women's college basketball, it doesn't get much bigger — or better — than Paris, a two-time Big 12 Player of the Year and consensus first team All-American.
On Saturday night, though,
Sutherland not only showed
increasing confidence; she proved
More than any statistic, that sentiment reflects Sutherland's maturation process.
that she's fully capable of competing against the best the Big 12 has to offer.
"Now, I just know what I can use against them and its easier," Sutherland said. "It gets easier."
In Kansas' last four games, Sutherland averaged 7.5 points and eight rebounds while playing nearly 25 minutes a game. And she did so against a variety of players: Texas' posts were long and athletic, while Colorado's were big and bulky.
So it appears.
Sutherland made just 2 of 10 attempts, including many near the
Yet Sutherland and coach Bonnie Henrickson were quick to point out that there was room for improvement.
Still, not much compares — both physically and skill-wise — to Oklahoma's frontcourt. Paris is joined by her sister, Ashley, who may be just as talented. Against two of the best post players the Big 12 has to offer, Sutherland scored six points, grabbed 10 rebounds and had a highlight-worthy block.
"She went at them; she wasn't scared of them," junior guard Sade Morris said. "There were times when she fell away from the shot, but she was like 'Whatever, they're post players just like me. I can go at them.'"
"She's a taker; I need her to be a maker," Hendrickson said. "She takes shots, but she doesn't make a lot of shots because she alters them and shoots it just to shoot.
Indeed, Sutherland has demonstrated a smooth shooting touch. Late in the first half on Saturday, Sutherland received a pass on the baseline, squared to face the basket and calmly knocked down a mid-range jump shot.
"When she sits down and is on-balance, she can make shots. I mean, she's skilled. It's not like she's throwing a shot put up there."
For Henrickson, that's the approach Sutherland must employ on every shot.
Part of correcting the problem is simply developing more confidence against the best teams and players in the conference.
But by playing more minutes — and contributing regularly in Kansas' last six games — Sutherland seems to be building toward that point.
"That's a good thing for our team," junior forward Danielle McCray said. "She's feeling better, she has to get better and she's been committed to getting better."
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State expects to be able to pay workers
Republicans say they will allow money transfers to pay employees
BY BRIANNE PFANNENSTIEL
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As University students and faculty waited anxiously to hear whether they would be paid this week. Gov Kathleen Sebelius announced at a press conference Tuesday she had signed the budget reduction bill
passed by the state Legislature.
payments to health care providers and public schools. Without a certificate, state employees, including about 5,000 student employees of the University as well as about 5,000 faculty and staff members, would not be paid this Friday.
Republicans in the Legislature had previously refused to issue a certificate of indebtedness until Sebelius signed the budget bill. That certificate would allow the state to transfer internal funds into the account used to pay state employees, issue income tax refunds and make
After signing the bill, Sebelius called a meeting of the State Finance Court.
oil for 2 p.m. today to ask legislators to issue $22.5 million in certificates of indebtedness to pay state employees and handle other obligations.
State Republican leaders said they would sign the certificates today and Sebelius has instructed budget director Dume Goosen to begin processing paychecks for state workers.
"With legislative cooperation at the meeting tomorrow, our obligations can be met in a timely fashion," Sebelius said. "It's important that we pay our bills."
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By the end of his seven-year career at the University, Malakai Edison had become something of a campus celebrity.
He wore colorful clothing. He rode a yellow bike everywhere he went. He
appeared on Department of Student Housing posters around campus, Edison. 2008 graduate, may not be at the University anymore, but he is still visible around Lawrence.
"I'dote like I get recognized all the time," Edison said. "My friends make fun of me when people approach me to tell me that they see me everywhere. I just tend to stick out at KU. I have never been interested in looking like others and I tend to be outsmen."
Edison enrolled at the University in August 2001 and graduated in May 2008. In his seven years as a student, Edison completed two bachelor's degrees and a minor, stud-
ed abroad in Cuba and Mexico, studied two languages and took as many art and film classes as he could. Despite the University's efforts to encourage students to graduate in four years, some, such as Edison, tend to linger on campus.
Tammara Durham, director of the University Advising Center, said it made sense for some students to stay at the University longer. She said that if students wanted to study abroad, work on a year-long political campaign or participate in a co-curricular activity that would enhance their college experience, they should be allowed to do that.
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"We cant force anyone to graduate we can only provide resources", Durham said. "But we can help people find themselves and move along. We want them to get through their college experience in a reasonable amount of time."
Durham said she would rather see students take longer to graduate with a degree they were passionate about than have them suffer through classes they didn't enjoy to complete degree requirements.
"I don't like to see students give up on their passions." Durham said.
"I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do as a younger guy." Dellasega
Chris Dellasega, Pittsburg sophomore, originally thought his passion was graphic design. His father was in the graphic design business, and he enrolled at Pittsburg State University in August 2004, first as a history major and then as a graphic design major.
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BY MIKE BONTRAGER
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Wal-Mart received more than 200 applications the first day it started hiring for its new store at Sixth Street and Wakarusa Drive.
Ryan Edwards, store manager,
said the store would accept applications through March 23, which is the deadline for hiring more than 250 staff members. Edwards said jobs requiring the most training would be hired first. He said those hoping for jobs with less training,
Amanda Burgen, Lawrence sophomore, has been working at Lawrence's other Wal-Mart, 3300 Iowa St., for more than a year. She said she liked working at Wal-Mart because the store helped her balance the job and school.
"I think it's a great job." Burgen said. "They are really flexible. If you need time off most likely they give it to you."
such as cashiers, would be notified closer to the April 29 opening.
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KU athletes no longer able to drink six Vitaminwaters
BY ADAM SAMSON asamson@kansan.com
The Kansas Athletics Department chose to have six flavors of Vitaminwater with banned or impermissible substances taken out of the vending machines within the athletics department as of Feb. 14.
Vitaminwater's remaining seven flavors will still be available within the athletics department, and all 13 flavors will still be sold elsewhere on campus.
Associate athletics director Jim Mar-
chiony said the removal was an easy decision because the six flavors had ingredients with the potential to affect a student athlete's eligibility.
"It was a simple decision because it has impermissible contents," Marchiony said.
"The best way to prevent it is to not bring the items into an area where they can inadvertently get it."
Ingredients in Vitaminawater, a sports drink in the same line of products as Ga-
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KABUL, Afghanistan — The number of civilians killed in Afghanistan's worsening conflict jumped to a new high last year, and more than half of the deaths were inflicted by Taliban insurgents and other militants, the United Nations said Tuesday.
The U.N. said a record 2,118 civilians died from violence last year, up from 1,523 the previous year.
TOKYO — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton talked tough on her first overseas trip as America's top diplomat, delivering a sharp warning to North Korea on Tuesday over its threat to conduct a missile test.
After Clinton's warning, North Korea repeated accusations that Washington intends to attack it and warned the U.S. of 'destruction' if it does so. Successive U.S. administrations have said they
2. North Korea looms over Clinton's Asia trip
have no intention of attacking the North.
Clinton heads to Indonesia on Wednesday hoping to refocus attention on the Obama administration's broader agenda for Asia, after two days in Japan dominated by North Korea.
3. Cruise ship pushed onto land by high winds
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — A cruise ship with 64 passengers and 41 crew members aboard ran aground near an Argentine base in Antarctica on Tuesday.
The Bahaman-flagged Ocean Nova ran aground about one mile (two kilometers) from the San Martin base, pushed by "extremely high winds" into craggy rocks, Quark Expeditions president Patrick Shaw told The Associated Press.
The Norwalk, Connecticut, company that operates the 240-foot long (73-meter) Danish-built ship said in a news release that "an initial assessment of damage indicated that there was no imminent danger and no threat to lives."
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WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — A Pennsylvania dog groomer has been ordered to stand trial on animal cruelty charges for selling "gothic kittens" with ear, neck and tail piercings.
A prosecutor said Holly Crawford inflicted pain on the cats, which were listed for sale on the Internet. Crawford's attorney said state law said nothing about piercing cats or docking their tails.
5. Jury recommends death sentence for killer
WINFIELD — A jury on Tuesday recommended the death penalty for a man convicted of killing a 19-year-old college student two years ago.
The jury deliberated for about four hours over two days before deciding that Justin Thurber should be executed. Judge Jim Pringle, who set Thurber's sentencing for March 9, still could decide to sentence him to life in
prison without the possibility of parole instead.
Prosecutors said Thurber, 25, of Arkansas City, abducted Jodi Sanderholm and drove her around for more than four hours before finally walking her into the woods, where he raped, sodomized and strangled her. The body was found several days later in a wildlife area near Arkansas City.
6. 'Honor killing' may have role in wife's murder
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Muzzamill "Mo" Hassan is accused of beheading his wife, Aasiya Hassan, last week, days after she filed for divorce. Authorities have not discussed the role religion or culture might have played, but the slaying gave rise to speculation that it was the sort of "honor killing" more common in countries half a world away, including the couple's native Pakistan.
On Feb. 12, Hassan went to a police station and told officers his wife was dead at the TV studio they founded together.
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Vanessa Sanburn, Wichita graduate student, hopes to be elected to the Lawrence School Board. Sanburn is working toward a master's degree and is a full-time mom to 6-year-old Nadia, a student at Lawrence's Woodland Elementary.
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Most students have a hard time balancing school and a social life. Vanessa Sanburn not only handles working toward a master's degree and being a full-time mom, but she also wants even more responsibility. Sanburn plans to run for a position on the Lawrence public school board.
Sanburn, Wichita graduate student, decided to run when she discovered no one had applied to fill the position.
"I thought that was really sad." Sanburn said, "because I think it is really important that people stand up and work really hard to make sure the school system here stays really great."
Seven others have since joined the race for the seat.
Sanburn sad she thought the lawrence school system was facing many difficult decisions because of budget cuts made this year. The most important issue, Sanburn sad,
is making student achievement the school board's first priority.
"There's a direct relationship, a one-to-one relationship between how much money you put in the system and how well students do," Sanburn said. "If we are pulling money out, we don't want the students to stop achieving, so we are going to have to be really careful and really deliberate in what decision we make."
Sanburn acknowledged the need for community feedback in decision-making
"I think it's important that we have maximum input from the public and from the stakeholders who want to talk." Sanburn said. "Talk to the teachers, talk to the students, talk to everyone."
As faras reforms in the Lawrence public school system, Sanburn said she thought the mandates on teaching human sexuality education should be addressed.
"It doesn't have clear guidelines as to what that means or how that needs to be done," Sanburn said.
"Adolescents, especially, deserve a fundamental right to what can keep them safe regarding human sexuality."
Sanburn moved to Lawrence from Wichita, where her 6-year-old daughter, Nadia, attended a private preschool.
Sanburn and her husband, lake said they chose Lawrence because of the "excellent" public school system.
Both her husband and daughter are supportive of her running for the school board position.
"I think she has the leadership and dedication to be a great candidate," Jake said. "I'm a community member too, and I have a stake in making sure there are qualified people in charge of our public school system."
The day before the presidential inauguration, Sanburn told her daughter she was running for a spot on the school board. The next day, Nadia gave her mother's first campaign speech. Nadia explained to her class how important the day was
because of Barack Obama's inauguration, and she encouraged her classmates to tell their parents about her mother's run for a seat on the school board.
Sanburn realizes being a member of the school board is a big responsibility, but she thinks she will have enough time to dedicate to the position between being a student and a mother.
Kenna Heim, a teacher at Woodlawn Elementary, the school Nadia attends, said Sanburn is an involved parent.
"She would work hard to help our education system," Heim said. "She's always willing to pitch in."
Sanburn is working toward her master's in social work. In the past, she has worked for Planned Parenthood as a health educator and community organizer.
The election is April 7; advanced voting begins March 18. Three of the board's seats are up for election.
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DETROIT - General Motors and Chrysler asked the government for an additional $14 billion in aid, a dramatic acknowledgment that conditions in the U.S. auto industry have grown significantly worse in just two months.
Meanwhile, the United Auto Workers union said it had reached a tentative agreement with Chrysler, GM and Ford Motor Co. on modifications to labor contracts. Such
GM presented a survival plan that also calls for cutting a total of 47,000 jobs globally and closing five more U.S. factories. That represents the largest work force reduction announced by a U.S. company in the economic downturn. Chrysler said it would cut 3,000 more jobs and stop production.
concessions were also a condition of the government bailout.
GM said it could need up to $30 billion from the Treasury Department, up from a previous estimate of $18 billion. That includes
without new funds.
"Today's plan is significantly more aggressive because it has to be."
GM's request includes a credit line of $7.5 billion to be used if the downturn in the auto industry is more pronounced than
$13.4 billion previously allocated and $9.1 billion in new loans. The world's largest automaker said it could run out of money by March
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Chrysler LLC requested $5 billion in new loans on top of the $4 billion it received in December. The company had said it might need an extra $3 billion.
President Barack Obama's top spokesman told reporters aboard
AirForce One on Tuesday that you wouldn't rule out bankruptcy for the Detroit automakers.
The GM job cuts include 10,000 salaried and 37,000 blue-collar positions, amounting to 19 percent of its current global work force of 244,500. A total 26,000 of the cuts will come from outside the U.S. The cuts would take place by the end of this year.
GM Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner said the plan submitted Tuesday was more aggressive than the one presented to the government on Dec. 2 because in two months, the global economy and auto sales had deteriorated.
"Today's plan is significantly more aggressive because it has to be," Wagoner told reporters. "We have taken stronger actions, we needed to."
Chrysler had 54,007 employees at the end of 2008, so Tuesday's cuts would equal about 6 percent.
Auburn Hills, Mich-based Chrysler said the economy and the market for new cars had deteriorated significantly since its initial request. Chrysler said it now projected that automakers would sell 10.1 million vehicles in the U.S. this year, the lowest level in four decades.
models, according to company president Jim Press.
Chrysler will eliminate three
GM is also evaluating options for a sale of its Hummer division and sought buyers for its Saab unit.
Selling or eliminating those brands would leave GM to focus on Chevrolet, Cadillac, GMC and Buick, with Pontiac reduced to one or two models.
GM Chief Financial Officer Ray Young said the company hoped to exchange two-thirds of its roughly $28 billion in unsecured bond debt by the end of March. Bondholders, he said, signed a letter saying that they were making progress with the company.
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WAL-MART (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
Burgen said the pay was decent and the store was always hiring new employees.
Jay Benedict, Roseland senior, has been looking for a part-time job in Lawrence since Jan. 24. He said he wanted a job so he could pay the bills and have some spending money.
Benedict said he had tried finding a job using several resources such as jobsku.edu and Craigslist. He said that he hadn't heard of Wal-Mart hiring, but that he would prefer not to work at Wal-Mart because he had read that the store had poor working conditions.
"If I can avoid it, I want to," Benedict said. "If it's a final option, I'll look into it."
— Edited by Brandy Entsminger
Students still seeking employment can apply to Wal-Mart Monday through Friday at the Lawrence Workforce Center, 2540 Iowa St.
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President Barack Obama, right, and Vice President Joe Biden tour the roof of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science with Blake Jones, left, CEO and president of Namaste Solar, to view the solar panel installation in Denver on Tuesday, before the signing of a $787 billion economic stimulus bill.
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DENVER — Racing to reverse the country's economic spiral, President Barack Obama signed the mammoth stimulus package into law Tuesday and readied a new $50 billion foreclosure rescue for legions of Americans who are in danger of losing their homes.
There was no recovery yet for beleaguered automakers, who were back in Washington for more bailout billions. General Motors Corp. said it was closing plants, Chrysler LLC said it was cutting vehicle models and both said they were getting rid of thousands more jobs as they made their restructuring cases for $5 billion more for Chrysler and as much as $16.6 billion more for GM. The United Auto Workers union said it had agreed to tentative concessions that could help Detroit's struggling Big Three.
Anything but reassured, Wall Street dove even lower. The Dow Jones industrials fell 297.81 points, closing less than a point above their lowest level in five and a half years.
Obama focused on the $787 billion stimulus plan, an ambitious package of federal spending and tax cuts designed to revive the economy and save millions of jobs. Most wage-earners will soon see the first paycheck evidence of tax breaks that will total $400 for individuals and $800 for couples.
The stimulus package was a huge victory for Obama less than
one month into his presidency. But he struck a sober tone and lowered expectations for an immediate turnaround in the severe recession that is well into its second year.
"None of this will be easy," he said. "The road to recovery will not be straight. We will make progress, and there may be some slippage along the way."
Still, he declared, "We have begun the essential work of keeping the American dream alive in our time."
Underscoring energy-related investments in the new law, Obama and Vice President Joe Biden flew separately to Denver where the president signed it at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science before roughly 250 people, including alternative energy
business leaders. Earlier, the pair examined solar panels on the museum's roof.
On Wednesday, Obama will outline another big piece of his recovery effort — a $50 billion plan to help stem foreclosures — in Arizona, one of the states hardest hit by the mortgage defaults that are at the center of the nation's economic woes.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner mentioned the housing program last week as he rolled out a wide-ranging financial-sector rescue plan that could send $2 trillion coursing through the financial system. Obama is expected to detail how the administration plans to prod the mortgage industry to do more in modifying the terms of home loans so borrowers have lower monthly payments.
LIFETIME (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
said. "I've always been interested in art, and that's why I decided to go that route after a long time of just not being really sure."
After his best friend committed suicide, Dellasega stopped going to his classes and went to work in the graphic design industry. He realized that he wanted to finish his degree and did so, putting himself through school while still working as an entry-level graphics manager. He graduated from PSU in May 2007 with a bachelor's degree in graphic design but soon realized that his passion was weightlifting and figuring out how the body works. He began contemplating the idea of seeking a second bachelor's degree.
"It's always interested me, and I decided since KU had an exercise science degree, and since I'm not married and I don't have any kids,
I should do it," Dellasega said. "It is my passion and its what I live for — everything about exercise physiology and sports performance training."
Dellasega said that about a year before he completed his graphic design degree, he knew that something wasn't quite right.
"It's kind of searching yourself and realizing what it is that you really, really are passionate about," Dellasega said. "You can have so many interests and want to be as knowledgeable as possible in all of them. You really need to find that out. The quicker you find out what it is you want to do, it will lead to everything else."
Even if that means taking the long way around.
"it's not what you do but how you do it that defines you," Dellasea
said.
Dellasega, who entered the University in July 2007, said he hoped to complete his degree by December 2011.
Edison said that he would always miss Hashinger Hall, where he lived for five years, and that he still visited campus. Edison works as an AmeriCorps VISTA and at Van Go Mobile Arts in Lawrence. Although he has no plans to return to the University, he does want to further his education.
"I won't ever be back to KU," Edison said. "I plan on pursuing my MFA from another university in the future. I need something new — new faculty, new campus, new demographic, new city."
Edited by Realle Roth and Carly Halvorson
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torade and Powerade, do not necesarily make an athlete test positive.
In a recent statement, the NCAA clarified its position that an average-sized man would have to drink 10 20 oz. bottles of Vitaminwater Energy or Rescue flavors before a competition to reach the level that could create a positive urine test.
The NCAA statement also said that eight flavors, including one the Athletic Department pulled, contained no impermissible or banned contents. "Banned" means athletes are not able to use them at all. "im-permissible" ingredients are fine for athletes to use, but universities cannot provide them.
Randy Bird, the University's sports nutritionist, said six Vitaminwater varieties had impermissible or banned contents.
Bird said the two products with banned ingredients were Energy tropical citrus and Rescue green tea, because they have added caffeine, which is on the banned substance list.
"Caffeine is conditionally ban ned, meaning athletes can take products like coffee and tea that have caffeine in it, but if they get too much and have too much caffeine excreted in their urine for a drug test, they can test positive," Bird said.
According to Bird, caffeine is banned by the NCAA because of the possibility that it could enhance an athlete's performance both physically and mentally.
“Getting an energy drink, you honestly don't know how much caffeine is in there, and usually there's a lot,” Bird said. “Companies can add to it and really spike the caffeine content. That's when athletes run the risk of testing positive, getting too much.”
The reason for concern with the caffeine in Vitaminwater is that the amount of caffeine is not described on the bottle, whereas a bottle of pop identifies how much caffeine it contains.
Four other flavors — Power-C dragonfruit, B-relaxed jackfruit-guava, Vital-T lemon tea-teoibos and Balance cran-grapefruit — contain impermissible substances such as taurine, Lthelanine, rooibos tea extract and glucosamine Vital-T was not mentioned in the NCAA statement as one of the flavors to watch out for, but the University has removed it from the athletics department anyway. A spokesperson for Glaceau Vitaminwater said Vital-T flavor was still on the market but only in select retail areas, including at the University.
Bird said he thought the reports circling around the banned-substance rule had been negative for Coca-Cola and the Vitaminwater products.
"It is hurting Vitaminwater's business and reputation because of all this bad press about Vitaminwater and potential for having banned and impermissible substances," Bird said. "You think about everything going' on with A-Rod and baseball, people immediately jump to steroids and think that Vitaminwater is going to make people test positive for anabolic substances and that's not the case."
Bird said he sent an informational e-mail on Feb. 11 to all KU head coaches and administrators alerting them about the decision to pull the flavors from athletics department shelves.
Bird couldn't recall a time at the University when any athletes had tested positive for high caffeine levels in their urine. Although no cases have occurred, Bird said he would like to see more control over the supplement industry.
"It's really ballooned out of control," Bird said, "especially within the collegiate population."
— Edited by Chris Horn
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
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The answer can be found by a roundabout method. Go through a friend to get what you want, if you can't get it for yourself. Use the network you've built.
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Your loved ones are full of great suggestions about how you can improve your lot. It won't hurt to listen, maybe write them down. There's something in there you could use.
You know money doesn't grow on trees. You do know what to do to earn it though, and you can whenever you want. There never has been such a thing as "fixed income" for you. Never has been, never will be.
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Your cloudy thinking is about to clear up. You'll be curious again.
You'll have amazing ideas pretty soon. You've done this before, and you love it. Fix up your study room.
Finally, you discover the answer you've sought for so long. How did this happen? The clue is that you found it. You must be getting organized.
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You're gaining confidence, but you still need to consider possible consequences. Make solid plans and know you will modify them later. That always happens when you go from the thinking to the doing phase.
Today is an 8
During the next four weeks,
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in more money. This will not be
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Students can't afford to ignore their Senate
This semester, every KU student in Lawrence must pay $414.70 in campus fees. Student Senate determines the amount of these fees and how they are spent, but many students haven't a clue what happens to their money, and, alarmingly, most don't seem to care. Last year, a paltry 12.7 percent of students voted in Senate elections, according to a report by Matt Shaw, student
Adam McGonigle, Wichita junior and student body president, outlined an impressive list of programs Student Senate has initiated, improved or funded during the past decade, including the Student Recreation Fitness Center and its recent expansion, wireless Internet on campus, Fall Break and Stop Day, the student minimum wage, SafeRide and Safebus, Legal Services for Students, bluephones, increased lighting around campus, the tuition compact and more. Senate has served as the essential intermediary between the student body and the University administration, acting
as the voice of the students on countless academic policy change
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Alex Porte, Great Falls, Va. junior, student body treasurer and student body vice presidential candidate with Envision, said that with a budget of more than $20 million — paid for by by student fees Senate has the ability to fund programs around campus that can provide tremendous benefits to students
This school year.
Senate spent half of its annual budget in less than 28 calendar days,
and 70 percent in a
mere two months, according to Porte. Much of that went to pay for a costly and controversial engineering balloon project.
With so much to gain, and to lose, students should be more mindful of what Senate does with their money. Ultimately, they must vote. Mason Heilman, Lawrence junior, chair of the student executive committee and student body presidential candidate for United Students, called the perennial trend in low voter turnout disheartening. He admitted that the student demographic was prone to low turnout, a trend
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amplified by the hyper-local scale of Student Senate elections. But this needn't be the case, especially given how ludicrous easy it is to vote. All a student needs to do is log on to the University's Web site, enter his or her ID, and spend a few minutes selecting candidates. The cost of a year's worth of fees is $829.40.
Ultimately, voting is about holding elected officials accountable for their actions and this applies to Student Senate. Students have a vested interest in how their money is spent, and for that reason, The Kansan implores students to take a few minutes to vote on April 15 and 16.
Dan Thompson for The Kansan Editorial Board
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Gov. Kathleen Sebelius talks with reporters about the prospect of her appointment as Secretary of Health and Human Services. A possible role for Sebelius in the Obama administration has been a topic of speculation since her name was mentioned as a potential running mate for Obama.
Sebelius should stay on for now to save Kansas Democratic Party
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There were a lot of interesting rumors floating around last year regarding the future plans of Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. As a consistently successful Democrat in the traditionally Republican-leaning Sunflower State, Sebelius has garnered attention during the past few years.
Rumors last summer about Barack Obama picking Sebelius as his running mate did not pan out, but she was given a position as a chairwoman for the Democratic National Convention in Denver. And when Obama won the election in November, Sebelius was high on the lists for a couple of Cabinet positions.
2010 will be Sebelius' last year as governor. In that same year, Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) will finish what he has promised will be his last term in Washington. It has also been speculated for some time that Sebelius would run for Senate after her time as governor was complete. Brownback's pledge gives her a prime opportunity to do that without having to deal with
The governor herself shot down speculation about the Cabinet positions, saying her priority was to remain in Kansas. This prompted some rather absurd speculation that she was angling herself to become the next chancellor of the University, because she said she would not accept a Cabinet position around the same time Robert Hemenway announced his impending retirement.
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All that was speculation enough, but now a new issue has come up. President Obama's choice for Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tom Daschle (D.S.D.), withdrew his name from consideration because of apparent tax problems. Once again, Sebelius has been mentioned as a likely selection, and this time other potential candidates haven't gained as much steam.
For Kansas, though, and especially for the state's Democratic Party, it could be disastrous. Lt. Gov. Mark Parkinson is capable enough to hold the job for the remainder of the territ, but he has said he is not interested in running for governor himself. Even if he did, his more moderate views and status as not only a former Republican but a former state party chair have never pleased some Kansas Democrats. He likely would not be able to energize Democrats the way Sebelius did,
It seems it would be difficult for the governor to pass up this position. It would complete her ascension to the highest echelons of American government and would let her focus on a field where she has made her name in Kansas, as Insurance Commissioner in the 1990s and as governor.
and Brownback could easily walk into the governor's position.
But the Senate race is where Sebelius' absence would be missed most. Two prominent Kansas Republicans, Todd Tiahrt and Jerry Moran, have expressed interest in the seat. The Kansas Democratic Party may not have anyone strong enough to challenge either for a position Republicans have held exclusively for decades. Having already proven herself capable of handling powerful state GOP candidates such as Jim Barnett and Phill Kline, Sebelius could easily defeat Moran or Tiahrt in that campaign.
Sebelius, the KDP, and Kansas as a whole face a conundrum: What should Sebelius prioritize? A place among Washington's power elite is tempting, but she could easily attain that next year. A long-awaited Democratic victory in the U.S. Senate would also keep the slow rise of the Democratic Party in Kansas moving, something that could pay dividends for her on a larger level in 2016 if she were interested in running for an even higher position. Running for Senate would make the wait to hold an executive position in Washington longer for Sebelius, but it would be better for the KDP and could still work for her in the long run. Whether she takes that path or simply goes for what may be a guaranteed spot is her decision.
Cohen is a Topeka junior in political science.
CAMPUS
Cutting learning communities unfortunate but right choice
The University is eliminating learning communities in an effort to meet budget cuts mandated by the state. Any budget cut to higher education is fortunate and should be avoided; however, with the current economy the University is forced to take these drastic measures.
I participated in a Latin American Studies learning community the first semester of my freshman year. The learning community had me enrolled in Elementary Spanish I and Comparative Politics. Because these classes were held at several different times, nobody from my learning community had enrolled in the same time slots as I did. Therefore, I did not have a core group of students to study and discuss with, and consequently I did not feel the
A learning community consists of a group of students enrolled in the same core classes who usually meet for a seminar once a week. Learning communities are meant to help students (usually freshmen) adjust to college and give students resources to succeed in college academics. The goals of learning communities seem simple achievable and beneficial; however, these goals are not always met.
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ERIN BROWN
I realize my experience does not represent all learning communities. My experience simply illustrates a system that was not fine-tuned to reach all its goals. Unfortunately, because of these mistakes, I did not benefit from my involvement in a learning community.
once-a-week seminar was helpful. Moreover, I felt my experience in a learning community was simply a waste of my time.
Any budget cut in the realm of academics will hurt several people. Nobody wants to see programs cut and faculty laid off. Unfortunately this is our reality and we must face this crisis. I hope the University will be able to bring learning communities back in the future and will be able to work out the small problems in order to make them more beneficial for all students involved.
Brown is a Wichita sophomore in journalism and political science.
University should take position on budget crisis
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Editor's note: This letter was sent to Nancy G. Kinnersley, president of Faculty Senate, and as a letter to the editor.
I am appealing through you, as president of the Faculty Senate, to the Faculty and Senate Executive Committees, for you to take immediate action to express to the KU administration, our elected Kansas Senate and House representatives, Senate President Steve Morris, House Speaker Mike O'Neal, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and the media a solid and forthright position on the current state budgetary crisis in Topeka.
This morning I have expressed to the offices of Barbara Ballard, Marc Francisco, Steve Morris, Mike O'Neal and Gov. Sebelius my total outrage at the position currently being taken by the Republican leadership in both Kansas legislative chambers on the issue of whether the governor should be authorized or allowed to transfer money temporarily from one portion of the State coffers to another, for the purpose of averting a situation unprecedented in my memory as a member of the KU faculty, namely that our checks be withheld on Friday.
Whenever Kansas is covered in the national media, as it is today, it almost always makes us look like a bunch of reactionary fools, except, of course, when it comes to basketball.
I believe we should at the present time express our complete support of Gov. Sebelius' position to veto the recently
passed Kansas budgetary bill which would not only exact crippling budgetary reductions on the state's institutions of higher learning but, what is perhaps even more importantly, the bill would force Kansas public schools to dismiss large numbers of teachers, drastically increase class sizes, and otherwise fail to adequately service the public educational system in this state.
My three grandchildren, who attend Belinder School in Prairie Village, will be directly and adversely effected if this situation does not improve. Even tax increases (God forbid!) should be considered seriously in dealing with the Kansas budgetary shortfall.
If such appeals do not have the desired effects, i.e., get state employees paid on time, get state residents their tax refunds, and minimize the budget cuts that will be forced upon both higher education and K-12 education, then more direct action will be in order, such as strikes, demonstrations in Topeka and elsewhere, and calls for the impeachment of House and Senate leaders.
In addition to addressing you and FacEx with this appeal, I take the liberty of sending copies to the chancellor, the provost, the Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the chair of the Faculty Senate Committee on Faculty Rights, Privileges, and Responsibilities, of which I am a member, and the local newspapers.
— Gerald E. Mikkelson is a professor of Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies
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Partying in St. Louis for Mardis Gras
BY MICHELLE SPREHE
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Binge drinking, bead-flinging and body flashring will set the scene this weekend, but not just in New Orleans.
St. Louis has the second-largest Mardi Gras celebration in the nation after New Orleans, according to Stouis.com. On Feb. 21, the city will have its annual parade, as well as a Bud Light party tent and performances by a DJ and other musical guests.
Blair Tudas, Leawood senior, leaves Friday to celebrate in St. Louis for the fourth year in a row.
"It's pretty much the same as any bar you'd go to, except this occasion everyone is drunker and people are showing body parts for beads," Tudas said.
About three inches of snow covered the ground last year, but that didn't discourage Tudas and his friends from celebrating.
Clayton Holden, Overland Park junior, accompanied Tudas last year and said he remembered some wild moments.
"I saw a guy in a full Cat in the Hat costume walking down the street drinking with Thing One and Thing Two." Holden said.
Holden and Tudas said their friends were also a source of amusement. One friend dropped his phone in a portable toilet and reached in to retrieve it. Another friend was so intoxicated that he briefly passed out in the snow.
"It was like babysitting, but really fun at the same time," Tudas said.
Ashley McMinn, St. Louis senior, has participated in St. Louis Mardi Gras activities in the past, but last year, she experienced the holiday while studying abroad.
Mardi Gras, called Carnival in Europe, highlights the color, variety and pleasure available throughout the year, said Crystal Hall, assistant professor of Italian.
"Whether or not people know the history of the celebration, Carnival is a period of release," Hall said. "It's a time to do many of the things we don't make time for during the year, or shouldn't do during Lent."
Mardi Gras and Carnival are fun ways to explore a culture and see what it has to offer. Hall said.
When McMinn stepped off the train in Venice to celebrate Mardi Gras last year, she was greeted by a face-painter who
HISTORY OF MARDI GRAS
■ Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, is a Roman Catholic celebration that occurs the tuesday before Ash Wednesday, which is the start of Lent.
It was first celebrated in the United States near New Orleans on March 3, 1699.
gave her a mask of green, black and white paint, accented with gold glitter.
"They try to play up around your eyes like how a mask would be," McMinn said. "It's about celebrating like they do."
Among the differences between the celebrations in the U.S. and Italy, McMinn noticed the use of masks and elaborate costumes in Venice.
"It's more of a production." McMinn said. "They have a huge performance and a lot of traditions and street performers."
This year, McMinn plans to celebrate in St. Louis again. She is staying in a
The official colors of Mardi Gras are:
Purple, which represents justice
Gold, which represents power
Green, which represents faith
Future Mardi Gras dates are:
Feb. 16, 2010
March 8, 2011
Feb. 21, 2012
Feb. 12, 2013
March 4, 2014
Source: Historv Channel
hotel, even though her home is about 30 minutes from downtown.
"Because of parking problems and being there all day, it's just easier to find your way back to a hotel room than to make it back all the way home," McMinn said.
Tudas and Holden said they also planned to stay in a hotel and expected to spend about $400 during the weekend.
"Nothing's free at Mardi Gras." Holden said.
Edited by Heather Melanson
Planning a last minute trip to St. Louis to celebrate?
Here's what you need to know:
Here's what you need to know:
Weather:
Ways to get there:
Megabus
12 degrees Saturday — Cloudy, high of 31 degrees, low of 20 degrees Sunday — Sunny, high of 37 degrees, low of 22 degrees
Friday — Partly cloudy, high of 42 degrees low of 25 degrees
Outbound Trip from Kansas City
■ Departat: Friday, 11:30 a.m.
Arrive: 4:20 p.m. in St. Louis
$27 per person
■ Departat: Friday, 8:45 p.m.
Arrive: Saturday, 1 a.m. in St. Louis
$27 per person
Arrive: 7:50 p.m. in Kansas City, Mo.
$30 per person
Return Trip from St. Louis
Depart: Sunday, 5:30 a.m.
Arrive: 10 a.m. in Kansas City, Mo.
$15 per person
Depart: Sunday, 5:30 a.m.
Depart: Sunday, 3 p.m.
Outbound Trip from Kansas City
■ Depart: Friday, 7:30 a.m.
Arrive: 1:10 p.m. in St. Louis
$26 per person
■ Depart: Friday, 4 p.m. by bus
Arrive: 6:55 p.m. in Jefferson City, Mo.
■ Depart: 7:03 p.m. from Jefferson City, Mo.
Arrive: 9:40 p.m. in St. Louis
$26 per person
Return Trip from St. Louis
■ Depart: Sunday, 4 p.m.
Arrive: 9:40 p.m. in Kansas City, Mo.
Driving Milage and Time from Lawrence to St. Louis
291 miles
4 hours, 30 minutes
4 hours, 30 minutes
Check out St. Louis' Mardi Gras Web Site.
www.mardigrasinc.com for information on:
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service were unaffected — some stations and call centers reported a steady stream of questions from frustrated callers. Many wondered how to get coupons for converter boxes that translate digital signals for older TVs — or how to get the devices working.
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The way Kansas coach Bill Self looks at it, Craig Brackins' trip to Lawrence tonight isn't all bad news.
"We've left ourselves some wiggle room to try to hold him under 42." Self said.
Brackins scored 42 points against the Jayhawks when they traveled to Ames, Iowa, to play the Cyclones in January. From Self's perspective, it can't get much worse when Kansas (20-5, 9-1) takes on Iowa State (13-12, 2-8) at 7 p.m.
Self said he was convinced that was part of the issue in Kansas' 82-67 victory against Iowa State earlier in the season. Brackins' outburst wasn't totally the jayhaws' fault.
But Self isn't offering any predictions. Not when it comes to Brackins' production. Self knows that if Brackins gets into a rhythm, he can be unstoppable.
"After watching the tape, he made some hard shots," Self said "We probably guarded him better
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than what I thought, but he was really good that day.
The first problem for Kansas is matching up with Brackins, a 6-foot-10, 230-pound forward from Palmdale, Calif. All of Kansas' forwards are at a disadvantage against Brackins.
Freshmen forwards Marcus and Markieff Morris aren't great defenders, and Brackins is quicker than both of the twins. Self uses junior guard Mario Little as a forward, but Brackins towers over the 6 foot-5 Little.
Marcus might be the best option because he spent most of the first game guarding Brackins. Marcus said he could use what he learned
in that game to improve in the sec round.
"I know what kind of a player he is now," Marcus said. "I know that the best thing is not even letting him catch it."
Throughout the season. Self I's usually opted to stick sophomore guard Brady Morningstar on the opposing team's best player. Self says Morningstar is the Jayhawks' best defender.
So could Morningstar get a shot at guarding Brackins? Nope. The size disadvantage would be too much for the 6-foot-3 Morningstar.
"He might be a little too tall" Morningstar said. "The first game, obviously, he just had a back of a game and killed us in every way. Hopefully this Wednesday we can contain him a little better."
Morningstar's suggestions for slowing Brackins include denying entry passes and getting a hand in his face to contest every shot. The layhawks also need to keep him
PAGE 1B
Kansas State suspends Clemente for one game
Denis Clemente has managed to add more fire to the rivalry between Kansas and Kansas State.
SEE BRACKINSON PAGE2B
Kansas State coach Frank Martin suspended Clemente,
a junior guard, from playing Tuesday against North Carolina Central for a slap that officials didn't
CHEMISTRY
notice during Saturday's 85-74 Kansas victory.
Clemente
Kansas coach Bill Self said the slap was obvious on the tape.
Clemente received a technical foul for elbowing sophomore guard Brady Morningstar on Saturday, but replays of the game showed that Clemente also slapped sophomore guard Tyrel Reed on the head after making a free-throw attempt.
but he also said he wasn't doing anything about it.
"I'm not calling attention to it," Self said. "But yeah, I saw it. You can't help but see it if you watch the tape."
The Jayhawks said they were not concerned about i
"I didn't know anything about it until today when people started talking about it" Reed said Monday. "It's over and done with."
An issue that has irked Self, however, is an allegation made by GoPowercat.com editor Tim Fitzgerald. On his online show, "The Overdrive," Fitzgerald said players on Kansas' bench insulted Clemente by asking about his green card.
Self said that wasn't true. The player's said they knew nothing about it.
"Racial slurs, that's not us. That's not even in our character," junior guard Sherron Collins said. "I don't know where that came from, don't know anything about it."
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Duo working on weaknesses Juniors Danielle McCray and Sade Morris taking steps to improve
Before practice on Monday,
coach Bonnie Henrickson and
juniors Danielle McCray and Sade
Morris spent 25 minutes analyzing
the past.
The routine is normally reserved for point guards, but Henrikson wanted to watch — and actively discuss — every offensive play from Saturday's 69:54 loss against No.2 Oklahoma with her two most experienced players.
"We call them Batman and Robin all the time," Henrickson said, "but they have to play better together and set each other up."
In Kansas' loss to Oklahoma, McCray and Morris combined for 33 points and nine rebounds. But the duo also combined to make just nine of 33 shots and committed six turnovers.
"I refer to both of those two as juniors playing senior minutes," Henrickson said. "We have got to be able to be more consistent. And that's what good teams have. They have kids that are not consistently great or perfect, but you
After lunch Monday, Henrickson watched an edited version of the game to reinforce the need for Morris and McCray to effectively lead the jayhawks when they face Colorado tonight in Boulder.
have to be able to bring what you can bring."
After the game, Henrickson voiced her displeasure with McCray on the defensive end. McCray's offensive numbers have been near the top of the Big 12 throughout the year. But defensively it has been a different story.
The loss to Oklahoma highlighted some of those individual problems for both players.
"That's what great players do; they pay attention to small things every play and don't take a play off." McCray said. "That's where I have to grow my game and not
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COMMENTARY
Jayhawks can't take Iowa State for granted
BY ALEX BEECHER
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Bill Self and I don't have too much in common. He's wealthy, I'm not. I
But all those distinctions are unimportant compared to the disparity in our respective motivational abilities.
Self has led four teams to Elite Eight berths.
was a star basketball player in his younger years; I was a star debater. He has a borderline obsession with rebounding and team defense, whereas I obsess over ... other stuff
Self crafts athletic young men into well-rounded student athletes
I came really close to reading a book last night.
Self has a national championship and the highest winning percentage in all of college basketball since arriving in Lawrence.
And that's a good thing, because Self will need all of his motivational talents tonight.
You read that right. Bill Self has a difficult task on his hands. He has to convince his young team that they aren't guaranteed a victory. He has to convince them that merely showing up won't be good enough, and that Iowa State could win if the Jawhaws lay an egg.
It sounds easy. How hard can it be to get players fired up to take the court at Allen Fieldhouse? How hard can it be to convince them that every game is a must-win when a conference championship is at stake? It may sound easy, but if it were, the Bill Selfs of the world wouldn't make the money they do.
After all, there are plenty of reasons why teenagers and 20-something would overlook Iowa State. First of all, the game is at Allen Fieldhouse, which has been an impregnable fortress since Acie Law willed his Texas A&M Aggies to victory 37 games ago. Surely Iowa State couldn't be the team to end that streak.
Not the same Iowa State that sits near the bottom of the Big 12 with a 2-8 conference record.
Not when Craig Brackins' 42-point explosion wasn't enough to notch a victory in Ames. Not when Hilton Magic was made to look like a boax last month.
As if that wasn't enough, the game is slotted anonymously on a Wednesday evening that just so happens to take place during the week after Kansas traveled to Columbia and Manhattan, and the week before it travels to Norman
There is substantial wreckage in the rearview mirror and a titanic obstacle looming in the middle of the road. Kansas' young players could hardly be faulted for overlooking the speed bump that Iowa State represents.
This is where Self comes in to the picture. Big coaches are paid big money at big programs to win big games, no doubt about it. But even the most loyal fans grow weary of their teams falling victim to upsets. Sure, fans and boosters love beating ranked teams. But it's even better to be one of those ranked teams. To get there, you have to take care of business on nights where you'd rather just stay home.
Perhaps more than anything else, Self has shown he can motivate his teams to do just that.
Edited by Carly Halvorson
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Alex Rodriguez, after he admitted to using steroids from 2001-03
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Phelps' legal woes come to end
Now that the Michael Phelps witch hunt is officially over, it's time to take a critical look back at what amounted to an enormous waste of taxpaver money.
Richland County (S.C.) sheriff Leon Lott announced yesterday that his department would no longer consider pursuing charges against Phelps for smoking from a glass bong at a University of South Carolina party the Olympic champion attended more than three months ago.
"We had a photo and we had him saying he was sorry for his inappropriate behavior. That behavior could've been going to a party." Lott said at the press conference announcing charges would not be pursued against Phelps. "He never said, 'I smoked marijuana.' He never confessed that."
And this took more than two weeks to figure out! I thought this investigation was under the control of professional investigators.
The facts were apparent from the very beginning. Even Phelpy didn't dispute what happened.
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though he never came out and explicitly said he smoked marijuana.
He attended a party when he visited South Carolina's campus in November. He smoked something — which one can guess was probably marijuana — from a glass bong. He drank. He acted like a 23-year-old letting off a little steam after the years of training, promotions and worldwide travel that allowed him to win eight gold medals this summer in China.
He admitted it. He was wrong. He knows it. I know it. And Leon Lott knows it. But to pursue charges or even entertain the thought? That was blatant self-promotion by a public official elected to protect and serve the 340,000 residents of Richland County.
Come on, Leon. How many people are smoking pot in Richland County as if type this? Go after them. Go after violent criminals. What how about dead beat dads? Forget even them. Sexual predators deserve your utmost attention, Mr. Lott.
Put money into preventive measures. Do something, anything, productive, Just don't drum up national media attention for something so inconsequential.
PERFECT TIME FOR CLEMENTE SUSPENSION
Is it just me, or did this whole Denis Clemente disciplinary issue come at exactly the right time for Kansas State?
Wildcats coach Frank Martin had to discipline his junior guard in some way after two heavily publicized incidents involving Clemente during Saturday's Sunflower Showdown, one with Brady Morningstar and another with Tyrel Reed.
Luckily for K-State, Clemente's conduct came one game before a scintillating matchup with North
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Carolina Central Tuesday night, for which he was suspended.
Wait ... North Carolina who?
Here is a brief glimpse of what the Wildcats had to overcome without Clemente.
The North Carolina Central Eagles are 2-24 this season following Tuesday night's defeat. Not surprisingly, they are also 0-17 on the road, including losses to Kansas State, Wake Forest, Arkansas, Michigan and South Carolina, among others.
If the Wildcats go on to earn an NCAA Tournament bid, they can look back at this stroke of luck as a small part of what helped get them there.
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Morris, Kansas' second-leading scorer, has been less aggressive on offense since her return from a concussion on Ian. 31. While it's unlikely the two are directly related, Morris needs to return to being the attacking, drive-to-the-basket player she was before the injury.
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Morris has the opposite problem of McCray.
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"It's something we both need to work on." Morris said. "Danielle needs to get better on her defense, and I need to get better on my offense."
Now, McCray and Morris must put those lessons into action against Colorado tonight.
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G Ivana Catic 5-8 Sr. 2.4
G Sade Morris 5-11 Jr. 11.8
F Danielle McCray 5-11 Jr. 19.2
F Nicollette Smith 6-2 So. 7.2
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Kansas vs. Colorado
When/Where...
Tipoff scheduled for 8 pm at the Coors Events Conference Center in Boulder, Colo. Radio: 1320 AM (KWLN).
Who to watch for...
"What we can do is take from each other. I can learn from her on how great she is on offense, and she can learn from me how good I am on defense. Once we do that, we'll be all right."
What to expect..
An extremely close game. Colorado's best player, forward Brittany Spears, didn't play well in the last meeting. Expect Spears, and subsequently the Buffaloes, to show improvement this time around.
Ashish Sutherland. Colloquial post players are more bulky than quick — a trend that greatly benefits Sutherland's athletic style of play. She scored 12 points and grabbed five rebounds in the last meeting and could easily improve upon those numbers.
Edited by Andrew Wiebe
Why Kansas will win..
It's not that difficult to understand: Kansas is simply a better team than Colorado. The Jayhawks are looking for their first road victory since Feb. 18, 2006. That alone should be enough incentive for Kansas.
P Colorado Ht. Yr. PPG
G Brittney Blythe 5-9 So. 2.6
G Bianca Smith 5-9 Jr. 10.0
G Allyssa Freles 5-10 Fr. 8.4
F Brittany Spears 6-1 So. 18.0
C Kara Richards 6-1 Sr. 11.8
How the game is important...
this game is about pride. No, it isn't going to greatly affect the standings, but neither team wants to slip further down in the Big 12.
21 — Turnovers by Colorado in the first meeting between the teams on Feb. 4. The Jayhawks must force a similar amount of turnovers to keep the Buffaloes from getting into their effective half-court offense.
Magic number...
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Marcus, who fouled out in 19 minutes against Brackins in January, is trying to keep all that in mind. Marcus knows how important guarding Brackins will be.
off the free-throw line, as Brackins made 17 of 21 attempts in the first game.
"If we take him out of the game, it's going to be hard for them to beat us," Marcus said. "I think that's going to be the main thing I focus on — forget about scoring — just defending him."
Brackins will score. The only question is how much. If Kansas
could hold him below his Big 12 average of 22 points, it would be a success.
Brackins takes 36 percent of his team's shots. He has scored in double digits in 23 of the Cyclones' 25 games this season. This is why Self won't make any guarantees. He's promising only effort.
"We'll try to come up with some ways to limit his good touches, but he's going to score some points," Self said. "He's scored pretty much against everybody."
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Junior second baseman Roby Price (right) is adapting well to working with new shortship David Narodowski. Narodowski, a junior, transferred to Kansas from Vernon College in Vancouver, Canada, after batting. 420 as a sophomore.
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Compared with other players on the team, the Kansas infielders look like old, grizzled veterans. With four of five starters returning, the layhawk infield is easily the most experienced group of players on the field.
"There's a lot of potential out there," said junior second baseman Robby Price. "That continuity is obviously something that's good to have in an infield."
Price will be joined in the infield this season by plenty of familiar faces.
Senior Buck Afenir returns behind the plate at catcher, senior Preston Land returns at first base, and sophomore Tony Thompson is settled in at third base.
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Junior David Narodowski will try to fill the shoes of the great Kansas shortstops of the past.
Narodowski, who is a native of Vancouver, Canada, transferred from Vernon College following an impressive effort during his sophomore season. Batting .420 to go along with eight home runs and 42 RBIs, he has coach Ritch Price particularly giddy at what he can accomplish.
"He has a chance to be as good as anybody that we've had," Coach Price said. "He can handle the bat, he's a good runner and solid defensively."
and many putouts.
also said
Coach Price that although Narodowski didn't posses the arm strength that is normal at the position, he makes up for it with his speed and skill.
The relationship between a second baseman and the shortstop is vital to the chemistry of the
"There's a lot of potential out there. That continuity is obviously something that's good to have in an infield."
ROBBY PRICE
Junior second baseman
infield, because the two have to be on the same page for double play
is new to the team,
Narodowski has meshed well with
Robby Price, and the pair has chemistry.
"Dave's a great player he comes with a lot of experience." Robby Price said. "He's done really well for himself, so hopefully he can keep it long
throughout the year."
waver when asked about the pressures of being a part of the team's most-experienced group.
Robby Price never seemed to
He said he still would like to see some improvements, but he said he already expected the best from himself and his teammates.
"We need to catch the ball a little bit better than last year," Robby Price said.
"Every day it seems like someone is making more progress here and there, and there's some talent and I think they'll be some very good baseball players when it's all said and done."
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Projected Starting Infield:
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**Catcher:** senior Buck Afenir (.253 avg. 9 HR 42 RBI)
**First Base:** senior Preston Land (.221 avg. 5 HR 31 RBI)
**Second Base:** junior Robby Price (.296 avg. 1 HR 25 RBI)
**Shortstop:** junior David Narodowski (.420 avg. 8HR 42 RBI)
**Third Base:** sophomore Tony Thompson (.276 avg. 5 HR 18 RBI)
In the Mix: sophomore Greg Herbst, junior Brett Lisher, freshman Jordan Dreiling.
Price
freshman Zac Elgie, freshman James Stanfield, sophomore Joe Lincoln, freshman Chris Manship
Narodowski
The Kansan's Take: Plenty of bench players are expected to play key roles in the infield this season. Look for Elig, who got drafted in the 12th round of the MLB draft, to take some time at catcher as well as first base if Land doesn't produce. Catchers Lincold and Manship will see spot time at catcher with Manship being a promising offensive threat. Lisher will back
TEXAS RANGERS
Thompson
up Land at first base as well with Herbst giving Thompson a rest every so often. Dreiling will learn from Price to mature at second base and Stanfield will back up Narodowski. The infield is almost 100 percent set for its starters, so don't expect to see the starting lineup switch around nearly as often as the outfield. The only pothole could be if Land continues last season's struggles. Price has said that Elgie will take his spot if that happens.
BIG 12 CAPSULES
— Josh Bowe
Texas Tech Red Raiders 25-30,9-18 Big 12 in 2008
Preseason Ranking: Unranked. Eighth in the Bia 12
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from Larry Hayes, who stepped down this summer after 22 years. Spencer, 42, has spent 11 seasons at Oregon State, the last three as associate head coach and pitching/catching coach. Spencer was a three-year letterman at Tech as a player in the 1980s. He inherits a team coming off a dismal
season, finishing last in the Big 12 in 2008. Kansas swept the Raiders in three games in Lawrence last year, but this year the team will head to Lubbock from April 17 to 19.
Missouri Tigers-
Missouri Tigers —
39-21, 16-11 Big 12 in 2008
season Ranking: No. 10
Preseason...
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Big 12
HARVARD
Missouri loses its pitching ace, Aaron Crow, and arguably its best bat in Jacob Priday. Crow was a first-round draft pick and Priday is the school's all-time leader in home runs and RBIs. Though Priday
provided the heart of the order last year, Missouri has plenty of bats left for a potent offensive attack. Junior outfielder Aaron Senne led the team with a .347 average, and senior Ryan Lollis was second on the team, hitting. 339.
The Tigers rose as high as second in the rankings last year before stumbling down the home stretch and finishing the season at No.19. The Jayhawks and Tigers square off at Kaufmann Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., on April 22 before traveling to Columbia for a three-game series beginning May 8. The teams split their four games 2-2 last year.
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TIPOFF
AT A GLANCE
Here come the traps. Kansas has a monstrous matchup with No. 2 Oklahoma five days from now on ESPN's Big Monday. But the showdown will lose most of its luster if Kansas trips up tonight against Iowa State or Saturday against Nebraska. Kansas coach Bill Self isn't worried about his team's focus. He notes that the Jayhawks should be excited to play at home as it is nearly two weeks since the last game in Allen Fieldhouse, where they have won 37 consecutive games.
Sophomore guard Brady Morningstar
PLAYERTOWATCH
goal percentage. He currently leads the Big 12 in three-point shooting percentage. Against Kansas State Saturday, Morningstar made all four of his three-point
attempts. Guarded or not, it didn't matter. Morningstar had the touch and simply wasn't missing. If his hot streak continues Wednesday, the Cyclones might be in trouble. It's nearly impossible to adequately defend Morningstar's shooting ability while still keying on keeping Sherron Collins from penetrating and Cole Aldrich from dominating down low.
BATTLING BRACKINS AGAIN
Which power forward will hog the minutes this time around?
Kansas needs to stop the Iowa State forward, who scored 42 in Ames.
Morningstar is shooting 47 percent from three-point range. That's a point better than his field
QUESTION MARK
Self clearly has a method for which big man he uses next to Aldrich. He goes with whomever has the hot hand. Against Kansas State, it was freshman forward Marcus Morris, who played 28 minutes and had 15 points, seven rebounds, four assists and three steals. Two games ago, junior guard Mario Little played the best and logged the most minutes. Freshman forward Markieff Morris seems to be the odd man out, but that could change if he gets off to a quick start.
KANSAS VS. IOWA STATE 7 p.m., ALLEN FIELDHOUSE, Lawrence, Big 12 Network
HEAR YE, HEAR YE
"This has been a fun group to be around. I've probably enjoyed this group the last couple months about as much as any group I've had. I see growth every day."
- Kansas coach Bill Self
"I don't think we're great offensively. But I didn't think we would score as many points as we're scoring. We turn it over way too much. We've shot the ball at a pretty good clip."
COUNTDOWN TO TIPOFF
GAME
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STARTERS
Collins
Sherron Collins, 5-foot-11 juniorguard
Collins scored 19 points against Kansas State, but Self was just as pleased that he took only 11 shots. Collins has learned he doesn't have to do everything for the Jayhawks.
IOWASTATE
(13-12, 2-8)
STARTERS
★★★★★
PRESIDENT
Tyshawn Taylor, 6-foot-2 freshman guard
Diante Garrett, 6-foot-4 sophomore guard
Brackins gets his points and dominates the game, but it is Garrett's performance that often decides how Iowa State actually plays. If he's on, then the Cyclones can generally hang with their opponent into the second half.
Garrett
Taylor
Taylor lost his starting spot last game, but Self praised his defensive performance and poise after the game. That probably means he's gained it back.
★★★✩
★★☆☆
V. A. M.
Morningstar
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Bryan Petersen, 6-foot-1 senior guard
Petersen averages 6.1 points, four rebounds and 2.8 assists per game. He is also second on the team with 18 steals.
★★☆☆☆
I am a resident of the city.
Bradly Morningstar, 6-foot-3 sophomore guard
Self says Kansas is at its best when Morningstar is on the floor. And it's even better when he's on the floor and not missing a single threepointer.
★★★☆★
Petersen
Marcus Morris, 6-foot-8 freshman forward
Is Marcus done teasing fans with flashes of potential and ready to play the prominent role Self expects him to? All signs point to yes, but it's impossible to know with Marcus.
★★★☆★
Staiger
Lucca Staiger, 6-foot-5 sophomore guard
PETER DAVIS
Colle Aldrich, 6-foot-11 sophomore center
Aldrich is one of the mos dominant big men in the country. He's first in the Big 12 in blocks, second in rebounds and 13th in points.
the Germany native, who notches 8.4 points per game, is a fan-favorite in Ames, but it's doubtful that he'll get a similar reception tonight. In fact, odds are there will be at least one David Hassellhoff joke thrown in his direction.
★★★☆☆
Aldrich
Craig Brackins, 6-foot-10 sophomore forward
Everyone knows Reed can shoot, but he also might be Kansas' best hustle player. He regularly dives on the floor for loose balls and scraps for rebounds better than any guard on the roster.
★★★★
Tyre1 Reed, 6-foot-3 sophormore guard
Brackins is Iowa State host singer
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Before transferring to Brewster Academy in Hew Hampshire for his senior year, Brackins played ball at Boys to Men Academy in Chicago. Surprisingly, it's not a boy-band factory, though scouting reports suggest
Brackins
best singer.
SIXTH MAN
Case Keefer
Reed
★★★★
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Justin Hamilton, 6-foot-11 fresh
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When they last met, Kansas center Cole Aldrich poured in 16 points and grabbed 12 rebounds over Hamilton. Expect more of the same this time around.
Hamilton
★☆☆☆
SIXTH MAN
Charles Boozer, 6-foot-3 sophomore guard
Boozer looks like a miniature version of his big brother Carlos. If he could emulate his brother on the boards -- Charles averages just 1.3 rebounds per game
— then maybe he could see same more playing time.
SALVATORE CLEMENZI
★★★★★
Boozer
Cole Aldrich
— Taylor Bern
ISU TIPOFF AT A GLANCE
There's little reason for Cyclone fans to be excited about the direction their team is taking right now. Iowa State is one rung above the bottom of the Big 12, although Colorado's lone conference victory did come against Iowa State in Boulder. The Cyclones repaid the favor with a 70-42 whipping last Wednesday, but beating up on the Buffaloes doesn't do much as far as national respect goes. Iowa State is stuck in a position where it must measure progress not by wins and losses, but how close the loss was.
PLAYER TO WATCH
Sophomore forward Craig Brackins
Without Brackins, Iowa State would likely be the worst team in a BCS conference. Even with him the Cyclones are only slightly
above that plateau, but he makes them worth watching. Brackins, a 6-foot-10 forward, averages 19.7 points and 9.1 rebounds per game.
M. ABU DHAWIA
Brackins
Those numbers rank second and third in the conference. He also hits 49 percent from the field, a remarkable stat considering he's responsible for single-handedly carrying the offense. Iowa State likely won't be good for another couple of years, but Brackins still makes a Cyclones game entertaining once in a while.
QUESTION MARK
Can a Cyclone not named Craig Brackins score at least 10 points?
It sounds simple, but in Iowa State's loss to Kansas on Jan. 24, Brackins scored 42, Jamie Vanderbeeken scored eight and Luca Staier scored five. Brackins outscored the rest of his team by 17.
Diante Garrett is the second-best option with 9.9 points per game, but against Kansas he mustered just two points on 0-for-5 shooting. It's not a lot to ask and it probably won't have much affect on the outcome, but at least it would show that Iowa State made some progress as a team.
"In the end, we couldn't score enough points to stay with them."
HEARYE, HEARYE
— Iowa State coach Greg McDermott after Saturday's 86-67 loss at Oklahoma State
"It was really tough to guard him. He has really good moves, and he hesitated well, and it was tough for me to read him."
- Iowa state guard Lucca Staiger on trying to guard Oklahoma State's Byron Eaton
BIG 12 SCHEDULE
Game Time(CT) Channel
Nebraska vs. Colorado 8 p.m. ESPNU
Texas Tech vs. Oklahoma State 8:30 p.m. ESPN2
BIG 12 CONFERENCE
ALLEN FIELDHOUSE WILL ROCK IF...
The walk-ons get in the game. Truth be told, this could be the last opportunity for players such as sophomores Conner Teahan and Chase Buford, and freshman Jordan Juenemann to get into a game. Look for a few of them in garbage time if the Jayhawks are ahead by more than 20 with a couple of minutes to go. It's certainly possible, maybe even expected.
PIHOG ALLEN WILL ROLL OVER IN HIS
GRAVE IF...
Kansasruins next week's faceoff at Oklahoma with a defeat. Monday's game at the Lloyd Noble Center is shaping up to be the Big 12's biggest regular season game of the year. Think the equivalent of Kansas-Texas from the past two years. If Oklahoma beats Texas Saturday, it will be the No.1 team in the nation. But if Kansas wins out, it will win its fifth straight Big 12 regular season championship.
REMAINING SCHEDULE
Prediction: KANSAS 80, IOWA STATE 57
Date Opponent TV Time
Feb. 21 NEBRASKA Big 12 Network 3 p.m.
Feb. 23 at Oklahoma ESPN 8 p.m.
March 1 MISSOURI CBS 1 p.m.
March 4 at Texas Tech ESPN2 8:30 p.m.
March 7 TEXAS CBS 3 p.m.
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BUDGET
State moves money to make payroll
BY BRIANNE PFANNENSTIEL
bpfannenstiel@kansan.com
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and legislative leaders Wednesday approved the redistribution of $225 million into the state's main bank account during a meeting of the State Finance Council. The move allowed the state to officially resume paying income tax refunds and meet the payroll deadline for state workers this week.
Students and faculty alike said they were relieved the legislature had reached a compromise.
"I was really worried on Monday," said Megan Oliver, Overland Park freshman who works on campus. "I kind of freaked out because I'm already a college student and it's tough in these economic times."
Despite the state's budget problems, The New York Times reported Wednesday that advisers saw Gov. Sebelius as the top pick for secretary of health and human services.
AWARDS
Student's photos take third place
BY KEVIN HARDY khardy@kansan.com
WHERE THE JAYHAWKS ARE
Goering placed third out of 69 applicants. He submitted four photos, three shot last summer in Ethiopia
Jon Goering, Grand Forks, N.D. senior, took third place in the January 2009 photojournalism competition of the national Hearst Journalism Awards Program.
and the fourth at the Feb.17,2008 KU women's basketball game.
Goering and the School of Journalism will receive a $1,000 award. Goering
and 9 other winners will submit portfolios to Hearst in May. Hearst will then choose six finalists to travel to San Francisco in June for the National Photojournalism Championship.
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Peter Curzon imagines that his work buddies are getting pretty sick of his bragging about his alma mater.
Though he puts in long hours as an analyst at an investment bank in San Francisco, his mind is never far from the University and Lawrence. He said that when his parents — both KU aums — visited him in San Francisco last Halloween weekend, they commented that they felt as though they were in a college town, and Curzon agreed. He said he found many similarities between San Francisco and Lawrence.
Many animal lovers between San Francisco and Lawrence. "San Francisco makes for a pretty smooth transition, aually," Curation said. "It has many of lawrence's best attributes such as active, interesting people, great nightlife and music scenes and a youthful crowd."
The biggest difference, he said, was the responsibility of a full-time job.
"I think all of my recently graduated classmates would agree that there is a noticeable step up in expectations after college," Curzon said. "Whereas 93 percent accuracy garnered an A in college, in the professional world anything less than 100 percent is an F — sounds extreme, but that's the truth."
San Francisco is just a temporary home, Curzon said. He said he loves San Francisco, but one day, he would like to own a home with a yard.
Students may leave, but stay loyal to their roots BY RACHEL BURCHFIELD rburchfield@kansan.com
Not everyone is in Kansas anymore.
Not everyone is in Kansas anymore. The KU Alumni Association reports that 147,604 former KU graduates still reside in Kansas, but many Jayhawks choose to flock elsewhere. Here are three 2008 graduates who may have moved on, but whose hearts will always be in Lawrence.
Through her job as a leadership consultant for her sorority, Alpha Delta Pi, Aubrey Ramsey has done nothing but visit college towns since she graduated last May.
She's been to the University of Arizona, Villanova University, and Wake Forest University, just to name a few - but none, Ramsey said, compared to Lawrence.
"Lawrence is a completely unique town — I haven't found another college town like it," Ramsey said. "I don't know how to describe it other than Lawrence is a true college town. Everything you need is easily accessible and there is always something to do. Lawrence is so friendly and welcoming to the college students. You don't find that."
the college students. You don't find that everywhere." Ramsey said she worked a typical college student's hours — minus the all-nighters. Last semester, she said, she traveled from one Alpha Delta Pi chapter to the next, getting to know the women in the chapters and working with them to be the best sorority chapter on their campus. This semester, Ramsey is at Wake Forest University helping its Alpha Delta Pi colony, a chapter in its early stages, get off the ground.
"Being at a colony is one of the most rewarding parts of my job." Ramsey said, "I get to see a new group of women build their sisterhood from the ground up."
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An appreciation of history made Ray Wittlinger, former 2007-2008 student body vice president, especially enjoy his job as an intern at Congresswoman Nancy Boyd's (D-Kan.) office in Washington, D.C.
Wittlinger spent the summer of 2008 doing constituent services, which included giving daily tours of the Capitol and taking visitors to the National Archives so they could see documents such as the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Wittlinger — who lived about a 10-minute walk away from the Georgetown area — walked the National Mall on off days and said he visited as many monuments and memorials as possible.
Life moved faster in D.C. than in Lawrence, Wittlinger said. He said that he missed the feel of a college town and its more relaxed pace.
"In DC, everything moves quickly and if you don't keep up you can get honked at, yelled at, left behind, and pushed, literally," Wittlinger said. "Strangers are so much kinder and courteous to each other walking down Mass. Street or on campus than at the D.C. Metro shops or a crowded corner market."
Wittling is now back in kansas, working at Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' constituent service office.
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ENVIRONMENT
Going green slides down priority list
According to a survey, Americans are most concerned with the growing economic issues
BY AMANDA THOMPSON athompson@kansan.com
Concern for the environment is on the downslide.
The Pew Research Center surveyed more than 1,500 Americans and asked them to name their top priorities for 2009. The economy and jobs were the top two priorities, while environmental concern ranked 16 out of the top 20 priorities, falling 15 percentage points from the same survey conducted last year. The environment experienced the biggest drop of any concern on the list.
J. Christopher Brown, director of the environmental studies program, said he didn't think environmentalism was any lower at the University. He said since he came to the University in 2001, he had not seen a more environmentally conscious campus than he saw now.
Brown also said the environmental studies class he taught last semester was filled to capacity.
"Environmental groups are as active as ever." Brown said.
Michael Harry, IT Consultant to the office of the University Registrar, said there were 199
"That shows me that people are hungry for these discussions," Brown said. "From my perspective as a professor, there's a lot of interest in the environment."
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Heather Putnam, graduate research assistant, said lessening general consumption by making your own household items could help the environment while not hurting your wallet. This Web site, www.tipking.co.uk/Use_stuff/Make_your_own/ offers recipes for how to make your own items from aftershave to liquid soap to sore throat remedies.
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1. AIDS takes top spot as deadliest disease in China
2. Guatemalan president regrets role in Bay of Pigs
But last year, health authorities said sex had overtaken drug abuse as the main cause of HIV infections.
BEIJING — AIDS was the top killer among infectious diseases in China for the first time last year, with 6,897 people dying in the nine months through September, a state news agency said.
About 1,500 Cuban exiles trained under CIA guidance in Guatemala
The HIV virus that causes AIDS gained a foothold in China largely because of unsanitary blood plasma-buying schemes and tainted transfusions in hospitals.
HAVANA — Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom apologized to Cuba on Tuesday for his country's having allowed the CIA to train exiles in the Central American country for the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion.
before invading the island beginning April 17, 1961, in an unsuccessful bid to overthrow Fidel Castro's communist government.
DUNGU, Congo — The failure to protect the people of Dungu and other towns from attack by the Lord's Resistance Army is a sign of the collapse of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in this sprawling Central African nation.
The invasion ended after less than three days, with about 100 invaders killed and more than 1,000 captured by Cuban forces.
Aid workers and others say the U.N. force and Congolese military received almost daily alerts of attacks as the death toll mounted and the rebel offensives multiplied.
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Critics say the 17,000-member U.N. mission has floundered despite being the largest and most expensive in the world - and with the strongest mandate ever issued to U.N. troops to use force to protect civilians.
3. Critics say U.N. mission to protect Congo is failing
4. Florida jury rewards widow of chain smoker
NATIONAL
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Philip Morris was ordered by a jury to pay $8 million in damages to Elaine Hess, the widow of Stuart Hess, who died of lung cancer, in a case that could set a standard for some 8,000 similar Florida lawsuits.
Stuart Hess died in 1997 at age 53 after decades as a chain smoker.
The Hess case was the first to go to trial since the Florida Supreme Court in 2006 voided a $145 billion class-action jury award in the so-called Engle case, by far the highest punitive damage award in U.S. history.
HARTFORD, Conn. — Geronimo's descendants have sued Skull and Bones — the secret society at Yale University linked to presidents and other powerful figures — claiming that its members stole
5. Geronimo's family sues secret society for bones
— claiming that its nests
Geronimo's remains decades ago
and have kept them ever since.
Harlyn Gerontino, great-grandson, said his family believes Skull and Bones members took some of the remains in 1918 from a burial plot in Fort Sill, Okla.
According to lore, members of Skull and Bones dug up his grave when a group of Army volunteers from Yale were stationed at the fort during World War I.
BOSTON — Volunteer organizations such as the Peace Corps and Teach for America say the floundering economy and President Barack Obama's call for service have led to a major increase in applications.
6. Volunteer groups see increase in applications
Teach for America received a record 14,000 applications by November, an almost 50 percent increase over the previous year. And Peace Corps applications rose 16 percent from fiscal year 2007 to 2008, with a big spike registered around the time of Obama's inauguration.
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ODD NEWS Marijuana stash makes SUV's gas tank half-full
SANDY, Utah — A stash of grass can take the place of a lot of gas, but it won't do anything for mileage.
A Utah man took his newly acquired used SUV to a mechanic to find out why the gas gauge always read half-full.
The mechanic looked inside the gas tank and found about 35 pounds of marijuana in plastic-wrap packages that filled about half of the tank's volume.
Police estimate the pot is worth about $35,000.
The Nissan Armada has had several different owners and was once a rental car.
Sandy police say the current owner is not a suspect.
Investigators in the town south of Salt Lake City say the drug packs could have been in the tank for months.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2009
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EMPLOYMENT
Students find fierce competition for campus jobs
Working on campus is ideal but some are forced to look elsewhere
Zack Borth, Arlington junior, works at the Art and Design Gallery Tuesday afternoon. He is a full-time student who has two jobs and volunteers ten hours a week.
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"I have to work," Borth, Arlington junior, said. "I have to pay the bills."
He is triple maloring in art history, African-American studies and humanities, with a minor in peace and conflict studies. He works two jobs, one at the Bursar's Office and the other at the Art and Design Gallery. Plus, he volunteers 10 hours each week. Zack Borth is busy.
According to the Office of Institutional Research and Planning, as of fall 2008, the number of student employees on campus, including graduate teaching assistants, was 4,807. That number has increased each year since 2006.
Ann Hartley, associate director of the University Career Center, said there was a demand for on-campus jobs. In January, there were 127 campus job openings and 3,193 applicants.
"I fairly competitive to get a job on campus." Hartley said.
Hartley said the benefit for students working on campus was the convenience. She said on-campus employers could be more flexible with students' schedules than off-campus employers.
Borth recommended finding a job on campus because of that flexibility.
"If you can, an on-campus job is best because they really do work with you." Borth said. "They understand you are a student. So if you have to work, work on campus."
But because competition for campus jobs is high, some students are forced to find work elsewhere. Others prefer off-campus employment.
"If you can, an on-campus job is best because they really do work with you."
Junior Navarro, Belle Plaine junior, has worked at Applebees, 2520 Iowa St., as a server for a year and a half.
to juggling his hectic schedule.
He said his typical day, split between work and class, began at 7 a.m. and ended around midnight. He said managing his time was key
"It's a lot of willpower," Navarro said. "I get up early so that I can do my homework, I really have to take advantage of that time."
Navarro said he didn't have to work, but he chose to work between
ZACK BORTH
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20 to 30 hours each week
Navarro's advice to other students looking to work while in school is to practice effective time management.
balance of work, school and fun," Navarro said. "If you don't have that balance you're just going to be overwhelmed, always stressed and eventually it is going to catch up with you. You need something to look forward to."
"You definitely have to have that
Borth said work provided an escape from class and vice versa.
"I feel that working balances out my stress from school and school balances out stress from work," Borth said. "Truly, each has its own
outlet."
Hartley said students were able to work as many as 30 hours a week without being classified as full-time employees.
She said the main reason for students to work while in college was driven by financial need. But she said there were other influences, such as gaining specific experience.
"A lot of time students take a job during college to help build their resume and get some additional skills other than what they are doing in the classroom." Hartley said.
Aside from work, Borth volunteers at the Douglas County Dental Clinic, Douglas County AIDS Project and the Spencer Museum of Art. He said his reason for volunteering was that it served as a release from the other stressors in his life.
"That's where my motivation comes from," Borth said. "Once I get done with work, I get to go volunteer. I love helping people."
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students currently enrolled with environmental studies BS, BGS and BA degrees. This number has increased about 33 percent from the spring 2008 semester, when there were 133 environmental studies majors.
Courtney Brennaman, Kansas City, Kan., senior majoring in environmental studies, said that although many people thought buying greener food products from stores such as the Merc was expensive, she disagreed that students must buy specific products in order to be environmentally friendly.
"The less you buy, the greener
you are," Brennaman said. "In a way, the economy has made me more earth-friendly because I won't buy excessively packaged products for convenience anymore."
Heather Putnam, Los Angeles graduate research assistant, said the survey results sounded too simplistic to her, and questioned the method with which the Pew Research Center survey was conducted.
"I'm convinced that the relationship with people and the environment is more complicated than that," Putnam said.
Putnam said economic struggles could bring about different
responses from different people.
"In a place like Lawrence where people are tightening their belts, you have two different reactions to that," Putnam said. "Some people will install solar panels to try to lessen their energy consumption in the long run, and some will stop driving their cars, and won't take their recycling in to Wal-Mart anymore."
Putnam also questioned the way in which questions were phrased in the survey.
"When you're asked to rank something, you don't think about it in ways like I'm three times less concerned with the environment than the war," Putnam said. "It all really depends on what's going on in your life."
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2) Jobs- 82 %
3) Terrorism- 76 %
4) Social Security- 63 %
5) Education- 61 %
6) Energy- 60 %
7) Medicare- 60 %
8) Health Care- 59 %
9) Deficit Reduction- 53 %
10) Health Insurance- 52 %
11) Helping the Poor- 50 %
12) Crime- 46 %
13) Moral Decline- 45 %
14) Military- 44 %
15) Tax Cuts- 43 %
16) Environment- 41 %
17) Immigration- 41 %
18) Lobbyists- 36 %
19) Trade Policy- 31 %
20) Global Warming- 30 %
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2009
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Presentation discusses black women in the media
BY DAVID UGARTE
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In an effort to uncover and dispel stereotypes about black women in the media, the Black Student Union and a group of students will hold a presentation and open discussion tonight as a part of Black History Month.
Rayshawn Holland, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore, said she thought the issue was important because many people overlooked it. As a black woman, Holland said she thought it was important for people to see there was more to black women than the negative
stereotypes shown in media, such as the portrayal of black women as being loud and vulgar.
"I grew up seeing these things on BET, but it's important to show positive aspects," Holland said. "Students only see what is on TV and movies, but there is more than that in black women."
Cameron Johnson, Kansas City. Kan., sophomore, is coordinating tonight's event.
Johnson said he was interested to hear what different people thought of the media's portrayal of black women.
The event will explore themes such as misogyny. Johnson will use
TV shows, movies, news articles and music videos to show how the media affects public opinion of minorities, especially black women.
"Black women are looked down on and I think we need to address that," Johnson said.
LeAndrea Wilson, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore, helped Johnson create the presentation and will help lead the discussion. She said the presentation would focus on positive and negative portrayals of black women because not all portrayals were detrimental. There are some television shows, music videos and movies, such as "Soul
Food," that show black women supporting each other and not being degraded as sex objects, Wilson said.
"Watching hip hop music videos or degrading shows like "Flavor of Love" as a younger person made me think that's how black women are supposed to act," Wilson said. "But coming to college and seeing a new aspect of how woman act and carry themselves has matured me."
Wilson said the issue was important for undergraduates to discuss because they were in a transitional period from high school to college. She said it was
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good for students to see that being a responsible, mature woman could make someone a positive role model for younger black girls.
"It has always been an important issue, but we feel that it should be addressed head-on." Wilson said.
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Embattled U.S. Sen. Roland Burris, D-III.) speaks at the City Club of Chicago Public Policy Forum on Wednesday.
BY DEANNA BELLANDI
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CHICAGO — Should he resign?
Can he be forced out? Will he face criminal charges?
Illinoisans who thought they had put one big mess behind them with the ousting of Gov. Rod Loebgievich are getting that queasy, here we-go-again feeling from Sen. Roland Burris, who has given shifting accounts of how he came to be appointed to the Senate.
"I think he should resign," Ian Treptow, 58, a registered nurse in Chicago, said Wednesday. "He seems to have lied. We've got enough dishonesty."
A preliminary U.S. Senate Ethics Committee inquiry is under way. Illinois lawmakers have asked local prosecutors to look into perjury charges. And the chorus of calls for his resignation grows, even from his own party.
"Our state and its citizens deserve the whole truth, not bits and pieces only when it is convenient," Rep. Phil Hare, (D-Ill), said Wednesday in calling on Burris to step down.
Blagojevich was arrested on
Dec. 9 on charges he plotted to sell President Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat for campaign cash or a plum job for himself. Before he could be impeached and removed from office, he defied lawmakers by appointing Burris to the Senate.
Now Burris is accused of lying to an Illinois House committee back in January when he testified that he hadn't had contact with key Blagojevich staffers or offered anything in return for the seat.
Last weekend, Burris released an affidavit saying he had spoken to several Blagojevich advisers, including Robert Blagojevich, the former governor's brother and finance chairman, who Burris said called three times last fall asking for fundraising help. This week, Burris admitted trying, unsuccessfully, to raise money for Blagojevich.
Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the U.S. Senate's No. 2 Democrat, said Wednesday that Burris' statements "need to be looked at very carefully."
"His sworn testimony in Springfield did not satisfy our requirement in that it was not complete and we need to have the complete story before the final conclusion that we reach," Durbin said.
At a City Club of Chicago luncheon Wednesday, a fiery Burris asked guests to stop the rush to judgment.
"If I had done the things I been accused of, I would be too embarrassed to stand up here in front of you because you all are my friends," Burris said, adding that during his decades of public service there was "never a hint of a scandal."
Burris then said he would no longer speak with the media.
The Senate Ethics Committee could recommend disciplinary action up to and including expulsion, though the final decision would rest with the Senate as a whole.
That may be the only way, short of resignation, to remove Burris, whose seat would be up at the next regular election in November 2010.
There has been some talk of holding a special election sooner to fill the seat, but the constitutionality of that is questionable. And a special election would give the GOP a chance to snatch the seat away.
University of Illinois in Springfield.
That leaves Democrats with no good options, said Kent Redfield, a political science professor at the
"Blagojevich really hung them out to dry," Redfield said. "So the Democrats are going to make the best of a bad situation and Republicans are going to milk it for all it's worth."
In an editorial Wednesday, the Chicago Tribune called resignation the only honorable action left for Burris. And in Washington, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Burris needed to explain the circumstances surrounding his appointment.
"If you don't like him, throw him out at the election," said 77-year-old retiree John Fussell, as he waited for a burger at the Kerner Kafe in the St. Louis suburb of Cahokia. "I think everyone should just shut the hell up and let it run. How much damage can he do in less than two years?"
Some Illinoisans said Burris should be allowed to serve until the next election.
Fussell figured Burris "wasn't as straight as he could be" when he testified before the state panel. But he said he was willing to give the 71-year-old Burris a pass, because "his memory may not be what it should be."
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Former inmate Joshua Kezer, 34, right, talks with Scott County Rick Walter after being released Wednesday from prison in Jefferson City, Mo. Kezer had been imprisoned in 1992 for the murder of a college student but Tuesday it was determined he had been wrongly convicted.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A man who spent half of his life in prison for a 1992 slaying was freed Wednesday after a judge ruled that he was wrongly convicted and had to be retried or released.
Joshua Kezer, 34, left the Jefferson City Correctional Center on Wednesday afternoon when Scott County prosecutor Paul Boyd said he would not seek a new trial.
In his ruling, Cole County Circuit Judge Richard Callahan criticized the special prosecutor who helped persuade a jury to convict Kezer of second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of Angela Mischelle Lawless, a 19-year-old nursing student at Southeast Missouri State University. Callahan ruled that special state prosecutor Kenny乳卢hofsh improperly withheld several key pieces of evidence from Kezer's defense attorneyse.
Callahan also said Kezer met the legal burden of "demonstrating actual innocence by clear and convincing evidence. ... Confidence in his conviction and sentence are so undermined that they cannot stand and must be set aside."
The state's prosecution was based on the testimony of another suspect in Lawless' death who said he saw Kezer at a nearby convenience store on the night of the killing. But Mark Abbott, who is serving a 20-year drug sentence in federal prison, gave conflicting testimony in police interviews and subsequent statements.
Three Cape Girardeau County jail inmates also claimed that Kezer had confessed to killing Lawless, but they later acknowledged lying in hopes of getting reduced sentences on their own charges.
Hulshol persuaded the trial judge to keep that reversal out of court, arguing that Kezer's defense attorney coerced the statements by threatening the inmates.
Hulshof, a former member of Congress who now works for a Kansas City-based law firm, said in a statement Tuesday that he remained "convinced that Joshua Kezer, a member of the violent Latin Kings gang, is guilty of this crime."
A Hulshof spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment after Kezer's release.
Kezer called on the prosecutor to take responsibility.
"Hulshof has to live with his own actions and take responsibility for his own deeds," Kezer said. "His refusal to take any accountability is a shame."
Scott County Sheriff Rick Walter, who discovered Lawless' body in her idling car in 1992, had assigned a team of investigators to reexamine the case after his election to sheriff in 2004. The probe turned up evidence that contributed to Kezer's release.
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Johnny's a middle-class student who worked hard to get good grades and a high SAT score. Jane's record isn't as good, but her family is low-income, and without help she might not be able to go to college at all.
Who should be first in line for help from the government to pay for college?
It's a debate that hits hot-button questions about fairness and opportunity, and lately, many experts think the middle class has been winning.
But the economic meltdown could be shifting the playing field, as the government and colleges themselves are forced to focus on helping the neediest students and try to head off a wave of dropouts.
Some experts think
that could prove one of the few beneficial outcomes of the downturn.
"The most efficient way to spend the money is to focus on the margins, people who wouldn't otherwise go."
WILLIAM DOYLE
Vanderbilt professor
Nevada has already moved money out of a program that gave as much as $10,000 to top high school graduates.
Merit-based aid, meanwhile, has taken a hit in several states. New Jersey recently imposed tough standards and cut back on its Student Tuition Assistance Reward Scholarship. Michigan may have to reduce its Promise scholarship.
While ideally college would be cheaper for everyone, he said, the research is clear that "the most efficient way to spend the money is to focus on the margins, people who wouldn't otherwise go"
lies through college, with the largest increase ever to the Pell Grant program, which mostly supports students from families earning under $30,000 a year.
Over the last decade, nearly every state has started or expanded politically popular "merit aid" programs that reward students with high SAT scores or GPAs, even those whose families could afford college costs.
Colleges have done the same with their own money, dangling financial aid to attract students who will improve the college's ranking and reputation. But sometimes that means well-off students get a free ride.
"For a long time, the discussion was about the middle-income squeeze — wealthy people could pay for (college), poor people were getting grants, people in the middle were having a hard time," said Vanderbilt University education professor William Doyle.
The federal stimulus package President Obama signed into law Tuesday, however, was notably focused on helping the poorest fami-
Cutting merit aid won't necessarily translate into more need-based aid in these tough times. But there are signs it's a higher priority. In Virginia, Gov Tim Kaine's proposed budget would boost need-based aid $26 million even as it imposes big cuts elsewhere to where to take a t.
year, $2.9 billion budget hole.
Some educators criticize merit aid programs for distributing public money where it is not necessarily needed, but they also do a lot of good.
They raise the academic reputations of state universities by keeping bright students from moving elsewhere. And they encourage high school students to work hard, knowing there's a financial reward.
And of course, students from low-income families who get good grades are eligible, too (in some states, merit scholarship programs have need-based components).
But many people are surprised to learn how much financial aid ends up helping families who aren't necessarily the neediest.
Twenty-eight percent of state financial aid was awarded for merit in 2006-2007, up from 15 percent a decade earlier, according to the National Association of State Student Grant & Aid Programs.
The trend is more pronounced when colleges hand out their own money. Families earning more than $100,000 get grants that average $6,200, the most recent federal figures show. That's $1,500 more than colleges' average award to families earning under $20,000.
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Job seekers stand in line at the National Career Fair job fair at the Radisson Martinique On Broadway Hotel on Wednesday in New York as hundreds lined up to get an opportunity at finding employment. The Federal Reserve said unemployment rates were now expected to reach nearly 9 percent this year. In November, the Fed projected only 7 percent unemployment.
BY JEANNINE AVERSA AND MARTIN CRUTSINGER Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve warned Wednesday that the nation's crippled economy is even worse than thought and predicted it would deteriorate throughout 2009, with no sign that the housing market will stabilize.
The Fed's bleak estimates indicated that unemployment could climb as high as 8.8 percent this year and that the economy would contract for a full calendar year for the first time since 1991.
The central bank's latest projections came hours after a separate report showed that new home construction and applications for future projects both fell to record
lows last month.
Still, some economists saw a silver lining in the otherwise dismal housing report: Scaled-back building should reduce the number of unsold homes and contribute to an eventual housing recovery.
The reports raise the stakes for the plan President Barack Obama announced Wednesday to curb foreclosures and ease the broader U.S. housing slump that sent the economy into recession.
The Fed's latest forecast says the unemployment rate will climb to between 8.5 and 8.8 percent this year. The old prediction, issued in mid-November, estimated that the jobless rate would rise to between 7.1 and 7.6 percent.
Many private economists believe the current 7.6 percent jobless rate — the highest in more than 16 years — will hit at least 9 percent by
early next year even with the $787 billion stimulus package signed into law Tuesday by Obama.
The Fed also believes the economy will contract this year between 0.5 and 1.3 percent. The old forecast said the economy could shrink by 0.2 percent or expand by 1.1 percent.
The last time the economy registered a contraction for a full year was in 1991, by 0.2 percent. If the Fed's new predictions prove correct, it would mark the weakest showing since a 1.9 percent drop in 1982, when the country had suffered through a severe recession.
The grim outlook represents the growing toll of the worst housing, credit and financial crises since the 1930s. All of those negative forces have plunged the nation into a recession, now in its second year.
"Given the strength of the forces
currently weighing on the economy," Fed officials "generally expected that the recovery would be unusually gradual and prolonged," according to documents on the Fed's updated economic outlook.
In another sign of the troubled economy, production at the nation's factories, mines and utilities fell 1.8 percent last month, more than economists expected. That figure, the third monthly drop in a row, was dragged down by a 23 percent drop in production at auto plants and their suppliers.
Meanwhile, construction of new homes and apartments plummeted 16.8 percent in January from the previous month, the Commerce Department said, falling to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 466,000 units, a record low. Analysts expected a pace of 530,000 housing units.
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The Agnes Wright Strickland Award
The Class of 1913 Award
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*The Leffel Award is not limited to graduating seniors
The Donald K. Alderson Memorial Award
The Alexis F. Dillard Student Involvement Award
The Caryl K. Smith Student Leader Award
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — If Heath Ledger is named best supporting actor at Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony, his daughter, 3-year-old Matilda Rose Ledger, will become the owner of the statuette. But it won't really be hers until her 18th birthday on Oct. 28, 2023 — and even then.
only if she signs a contract.
Matilda, daughter of the late Ledger and actress Michelle Williams, has been designated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as the eventual owner of her father's Oscar, should he win for his portrayal of the Joker in "The Dark Knight."
ger wasn't married, and Matilda is his only child.
Academy tradition calls for a posthumous statuette to go to the spouse, or, if there is no living spouse, to the oldest child. Led-
When Matilda is old enough, she can claim ownership by signing the agreement. If she does so, she'll become the official owner and will be legally bound not to sell her Oscar; if she opts not to sign, the statuette will revert to the academy without any payment.
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They say if you do what you love, the money will follow. That's because you'll probably do it very well, eventually, if you're not quite there yet, keep practicing.
Aries (March 21-April 19) Today is a 7
Accept an invitation to do something entertaining. If a friend doesn't call pretty soon, work this the other way around. You think of something that will be fun and call up a bunch of them.
Gemini (May 21-June 21)
Today is a 7
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Make sure everybody knows how much you appreciate what they've done for you. Be sincere about it, of course, but lay it on pretty thick. They love getting your approval.
Cancer (June 22-July 22)
Today is a 7
Your agent can get through where you can't, just sit back and wait. That's after you've let him or her know just exactly what you want.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Today is on 8
t it might seem like the honeymoon's over. It's time to get back to work. Actually, if you get the right partner, the honeymoon's just beginning. Hard times forge strong love.
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 19,2009
The objective is to find a balance between work and play. The trick is to do it while making enough to easily pay the mortgage or rent. And have some money left for food.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is 7
Today is a 7
You're getting into a creative phase, whether you want to or not. This is good, since you'll be getting some things done you've been thinking about. You work well under pressure.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 7
The sun is easing over into Pisces now, in your solar Fifth House of love and games and children. I'll be about about 30 days. Does this give you any ideas? Make a list.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is an 8
Conditions are definitely changing.
The money is coming in. This is a shower, not a downpour.
Resist the temptation to splurge.
Fix something at home and save the rest.
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You have an old, moldy dream,
but you don't have to throw it
away. You can clean it up, fumi-
gate it or whatever, and learn
how to make it happen. You
didn't do that before.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is a 7
The more you think about it, the more practical you'll become. It's natural, because you want to actually achieve your goals. Sure, you're an idealist, but you also have to be thrifty. And you can
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Today is a 7
You've passed the most recent test. You can celebrate with your friends. Accept congratulations and a lot of great suggestions. An older person helps you stay practical, and that's good.
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47 Protuberance
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Did the article about sushi make anyone else crave some suchi for dinner?
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Dear dorm neighbor, if you keep me up another night crying about how you are failing your classes. I might have to tell you to start going to class and actually take notes, then hit you in the face.
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The guy who rides the micro scooter around campus is straight pimpin'.
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--state accounts to another, in order to meet bill payments in a timely manner. Monday, Sebelius was told this would not be all unless she signed the 20 bill.
EDITORIAL BOARD
State payroll should never be in jeopardy
Tax refunds and paychecks for Kansas employees were called into question Tuesday during a political faceoff in Topeka. Republican legislative leaders issued an ultimatum to Democratic Gov. Kathleen Sebelius that could have ultimately ended in withheld paychecks for state employees this Friday. The University employs more than 10,000 state employees.
In a routine proposal, Sebelius wanted to move funds from full
This is a bill she had previously vetoed because of the detrimental effects it would have on Kansas education.
Republican legislators used the urgency of the issue to get their bill passed with complete disregard to what it meant for Kansas employees.
Sebelius signed the bill late Tuesday evening to settle the dispute but reduced the amount of money to be cut from schools.
Sebelius said in a statement released Monday, "Through
their refusal to act today, the Republican legislative leadership is jeopardizing our citizens' pocketbooks for no other reason than to play political games — games in which the only ones set to lose are Kansas families, workers and schools."
The senate president's response to the accusations that paychecks were being threatened contradicted the governor's opinion.
"I don't think that paychecks were ever in jeopardy" Senate
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President Steve Morris, (R-Hugoton), said. "The governor chose to spin it that way. She has other
mechanisms to meet payroll."
Yet Morris and Senate Majority Leader Derek Schmidt were quoted in a Lawrence-Journal World article Tuesday as saying that a meeting needed to be convened, "so that taxpayers can get their refunds and state employees can be nailed on time."
Republican leaders should never have used the paychecks of Kansas workers as a bargaining chip in their political strategy.
Sebelius should have been allotted more time to review the proposed budget bill, this ultimatum was a rush to pass something still permeated with harmful flaws.
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Gerald E. Mikkelson, professor of Russian language, literature and culture, expressed his concern.
"Student government should be involved." Mikkelson said. "We all need to put pressure on these people to not give up on the schoolchildren of the state."
Republican legislative leaders in Kansas should not be allowed to treat the livelihoods of constituents, including the 5,000 student employees at the University, as an insignificant factor in their decision-making.
The paychecks are how many of us pay for rent, food and utilities. To ensure that a similar situation does not occur again, students should contact their representative as a voice of dissent against politics interfering with subsistence.
Caitlin Thornbrugh for The Kansan Editorial Board
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Pristine produce raises concerns
FOOD
When I was growing up, the best part of my summer was coming to Kansas to stay with my grandparents, two of whom lived on a farm outside my parents' hometown of Independence, Kan. For two weeks I would run around in muddy and stained clothes helping my grandfather, and at the end of the day sit down to dinners that highlighted the best a Kansas farm can offer.
Though everything was delicious, it was the bright red and juicy tomatoes that stood out to my young taste buds. What always temporarily turned me off about the tomatoes, however, was that they were usually the ultra-ripe rejects that hadn't been sold. They often had spots that had already started to decompose. My grandmother would slice off any bad parts and serve them. When I questioned her, she would explain that one bad spot didn't ruin a tomato.
As I stare down the tomatoes in the grocery store this time of year, I've begun to think that, in fact, a few bad spots are just what produce needs. It seems as though grocery-store produce has stopped going bad, and too-perfect produce is a sign of trouble.
FARM FRESH POLITICS CARA MCCONNELY
It's hard enough to get Americans to purchase raw ingredients rather than easy and convenient prepackaged meals. Produce that doesn't spoil as fast sounds
great — it's cost effective for the grocer and the consumer, neither of whom wants to trash molded peaches or rotten zucchini.
Among the many strange and harmful tactics employed to "protect" crops (but more often profits), the answer to the mystery of the missing rot is actually quite simple: If you remove what the bacteria want, they won't attack.
Every other creature on the planet seems to be substantially less bogged down with such dilemmas as "Nacho Cheese or Cool Ranch?" They tend to be unconcerned with what price has been slapped on which variety of apple, and they could care less about what the FDA has deemed healthy. Bacteria care about one thing: keeping themselves alive and reproducing. To do that, they need nutrients.
Here's the catch, though. What bacteria, fungi and bugs want is what we want, or at least should want; nutrients.
To that end, they're going to spoil whatever's got the goods.
An orange sitting on your table?
They're on it. Frosted Strawberry
Milkshake Pop Tart? Don't hold your breath. In fact, stick it in a time capsule, and with maybe a little bit of added staleness, your grandchildren can dine with confidence on what only our species would ever dare to call sustenance.
Fruit and vegetable growers pull off this little nutrient bait-and-switch by harvesting produce long before it's ripe and at its nutritional peak. They then use techniques such as gassing the produce to create a product that's aesthetically ripe but nutritionally devoid. The bacteria see it coming, but most consumers think they're getting the healthy benefits of produce that they've sacrificed the convenience of faster foods for.
Like most grocery store shoppers, I'm used to having access to a wide variety of produce without any concern for seasonality, which is why I can buy tomatoes in January. A few days ago I found my January tomatoes hidden behind some jars, larking there for who knows how long, but still belemish-free as the day I bought them.
I chopped them up and tossed them with some pasta. They were grainy, watery and awful, a world apart from my grandfather's.
McConnell is a Dallas junior in journalism.
POLITICS
Tale of two forums Global economic forums widely different
Every year for the past decade two world forums take place to discuss and elaborate solutions to economic and social problems plagu ing the world. The first one takes place at Davos, an elite Swiss Alpine resort and is by invitation only. The second one has been held in cities in South America, Africa and Asia, and is open to all those who wish to participate
They are, respectively, the World Economic Forum and the World Social Forum.
In Davos, the mood seemed to reflect the cold weather of the Alpine city. The event, which has been held since 1971, is characterized by a strong neo liberal approach to economics — placing faith on capitalism, corporations and free trade. This year, however, the faith seems to have been a bit shaken by the world economic crisis. News stories about the event were permeated with anecdotes about how people were searching for someone or something to blame and how pessimism seemed to set the tone. An article by Bloomberg News reported that only "one in five of 1,124 chief executives in 50 nations said they were very confident about prospects for revenue growth in 2009," while more than a quarter were pessimistic.
This year both forums took place at the end of January, and even though they were both concerned with the current economic crisis, the atmosphere and attitude in each place were significantly different.
However while the rich and the powerful were moping and trying to make sense of the crisis, another group carried itself more gleefully. According to an article by the Guardian, the unofficial motto of this year's World Social Forum, which was held in Belem, Brazil, was, "We told you so."
The World Social Forum started in 2001 as a counter to the neo-liberal ideology of the World Economic Forum. From the start it has been open to groups that were excluded from the deliberations at Davos; workers, indigenous groups, students and various forms of social movements. The World Social Forum has a democratic character (this year more than 100,000 people participated) that starkly opposes the elitism of the World Economic Forum. It has also featured prominent intellectuals such as Noam Chomsky and Joseph Stiglitz and leaders such as Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
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DE OLIVEIRA
From the very first, participants in this forum had been issuing warning sirens against the current structures. Unrestricted capitalism was not producing the desired effects; it was marginalizing large sectors of society in all countries of the world. And in 2001 these people decided to speak.
The World Social Forum has had its share of unfortunate events. According to news reports of this year's forum, after a meeting between the presidents of Paraguay, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador and Venezuela, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez proceeded to start a chant of "Fidel, Fidel, Fidel!"
But none of this compares to the hubris at Davos, which only now is starting to fall apart.
This year the theme at Davos was "Shaping the Post-Crisis World," but those at the World Social Forum were aware of the crisis all along, when in 2001 they established in their permanent charter that "Another world is possible."
Maybe this time the big shots at the top of the mountain heard the echoes from the rest of the world.
De Oliveira is a Belo Horizonte, Brazil, senior in journalism, history and French.
Campus media overlooked Lincoln
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
I was very disappointed when I opened last Thursday's edition of The University Daily Kansan and found no mention of Abraham Lincoln. On the 200th birthday of arguably the greatest president in the history of the United States, I was expecting to see his name appear at least once in the newspaper. Lincoln was not mentioned in any articles, editorials or even the Fact of the Day section.
But it wasn't just the paper that failed to recognize this great leader. The University's Web site featured Charles Darwin on its home page to draw attention to a new exhibit at the Natural History Museum. I read articles about Lincoln that appeared in regional and national publications throughout the day, and I was surprised to see Darwin take precedence
over our 16th president in our campus media.
During the day, I asked three of my friends if they knew why the day was of historical significance. All three of them knew that it was someone's 200th birthday, but that someone turned out to be Charles Darwin. After I asked them if it was important for any other reason, only one was aware that it was Abraham Lincoln's birthday.
It seemed strange to me that people seemed to know more about a British naturalist than a man whose actions helped set the stage for the recent election of Barack Obama. For a man who brought our country out of the Civil War and signed the Emancipation Proclamation, it felt like he was almost being forgotten.
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Nancy Hoch, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, senior, Student Union Activities and Kansas Memorial Unions helped put together the first International Film Festival at the University of Kansas. Students submitted short films for the festival, which runs Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 7:30 p.m. Awards will be given out to the students for first, second and third place.
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Nancy Hoch knows what it's like to help with the largest film festival in Latin America. She knows about the different genres of films and the post-production process.
But most importantly, she knows how difficult it is for young filmmakers to get their work recognized in the industry, which is why she decided to help organize the University of Kansas' first International Film Festival.
"I want to do something for my generation of film students," Hoch, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, senior, said.
The festival is a combined effort among Hoch, Student Union Activities and Kansas Memorial Unions.
Hoch's family owns the Expression en Corto international film festival, Latin America's largest film festival, and she decided to bring some of the award-winning films to the University's festival this weekend.
To coincide with the festival, SUA organized a student film competition. Before the international films are screened, the third, second and first place winners will be announced and shown on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, respectively.
"I was really amazed by the caliber of the films the student competition brought out," Joe Day, Derby junior and SUAs film coordinator, said. "It's a great showcase for our film department."
The Expression en Corto films that will be shown at the festival have all won awards, Hoch said. Each night will feature about an hour and a half of short films ranging from animation to experimental to documentary.
"The good thing about shorts is that if you don't like one, another one starts in five minutes," Hoch said.
Hoch's mother, Sarah, began Expression en Corto, meaning "in short expression," 11 years ago as a festival for international, short and documentary films. Since then, Hoch said, it has continued to grow in
size and now has submissions from more than 70 countries each year.
Hoch said the festival attracted more than 80,000 people each year and took place in Mexico during the last week of July.
Hoch is a fifth generation KU student, and with her family's ties to the University, she decided to bring part of the festival here. Her family paid to have the films shipped here for the festival and some of them will attend this weekend.
"We're all used to working as a family unit, and it was natural to continue that way," Hoch said.
The planning for the festival began in October, when David Mucci, director of Kansas Memorial Unions, approached Hoch and Day about the idea for a film festival at the University.
Day said SUA sent out a call for film entries from KU students and received seven submissions earlier this month. Day said the KU films were less than 15 minutes long.
Day said the students who won first place would be able to submit their film to this year's Expression en Corto without paying the application fee. The Expression en Corto festival's jury would then decide whether the film would be screened
Following each night's screenings, Day said a reception with hors doeuvres would promote discussion of the films and increase the cultural awareness of the program.
"My niche, whether it's in front of or behind the camera, is I love to entertain people," Babbitt said.
"It's a good festival atmosphere that we're trying to present," Day said. "It's not just come and watch a movie and leave. It's come, watch a movie, discuss it, hang out and maybe watch another one."
Hoch said she hoped the festival would give people a chance to enjoy international films as well as appreciate the work of local filmmakers. "We do have future filmmakers at KU, and we want to see their material while they are in college." Hoch said.
in Mexico, Day said second and third place winners would get prizes from Apple Inc.
Edited by Heather Melanson
Grant Babbitt, Lenexa junior and film production major, entered three films in the competition. He said he loved to make films and wanted to submit his own to a local festival.
WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday
THE UNIVERSITY'S FIRST INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Festival themes:
Friday — "The Best of Expresión en Corto from 2007-08"
Saturday — "The Best of Mexican Shorts Over the 10 Years of Expresión en Corto"
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inspiration
What films inspired you to be a filmmaker?
Some of the KU students who entered SUA's film competition talk about what motivated them to make films.
-Kitley Jewell, Lawrence senior and film major
"The first live action movie that I ever saw was 'Dick Tracy!' It combined comic books and reality and made me want to make movies. It was the first time I saw movies and was excited about what I was seeing."
"My dad was very interested in films and he does video work. He would often get me to see a film a different way. He made me want to make films, and looking through his eyes I could see why it was cool. Movies like 'Apocalypse Now,' The Matrix' or 'The Fountain' I could appreciate because of growing up under him. His interests sparked my interests."
-Micah Brown, Kearney, Neb.. senior and film major
"I love to watch a film that has a love story that is uncommon or not typical. Movies like, 'Me and You and Everyone We Know', 'Punch-Drunk Love' and 'The Science of Sleep'. Movies that tell a love story in a new way, that sometimes make the audience not sure if the hero wins. Most of these movies have a weird way of making you feel hopeful for the characters, but at the same time makes you question the traditional concept of a love story. What can I say, I'm a sucker for them."
-Grant Babbitt, Lenexa junior and film production major
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Start the campaign for stars to stay here
BY STEPHEN MONTEMAYOR
smontemayor@kansan.com
Something about Kansas' 72-55 win over Iowa State last night got my political juices flowing again.
Haul out the ubiquitous vard signs and bumper stickers, for last night marked a call to arms for the Collins-Aldrich 2009 campaign to begin. It's time to get a little selfish in Lawrence.
Surely NBA scouts this season have discussed Sherron Collins' and Cole Aldrich's lottery prospects and, if so, they are surely aware. Any more twin 22-point nights — with 11 rebounds from Aldrich — will make the prospect of two big holes in Kansas' 2009-10 starting lineup frighteningly realistic.
Aldrich's game was a 27-minute study of resiliency. Benched early after amassing four first-half turnovers, The Man in the Plastic Mask brought the house down with a thunderning one-handed dunk seven minutes removed from seeing his team's lead shrink from 17 points to five yet again.
Sixty-one percent of the layhawks' offense came from a duo unquestionably anointed the team's leaders before the season — a billing that's of course often rewarded by default when dealing with the only two significant contributors left from the prior season.
Aldrich's performance was a more than welcome complement to Collins' usual theatrics on as anemic a night Allen Fieldhouse has seen in recent memory.
"We tried to feed him more and get him more touches," Collins said. "He's going to draw double teams. Sometimes late in games we get away from feeding. This game we kept feeding him though."
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Sophomore center Cole Aldrich pounds fists with Travis Releford. Aldrich led the Jayhawks with 22 points and 11 rebounds during 27 minutes of play. The Jayhawks beat the Cyclones 72-55 to improve to 21-5 overall and 10-1 in the Big 12.
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Kansas blows past Cyclones
Aldrich and Collins step up offensive game while Marcus Morris contributes strong defense
BY CASE KEEFER ckeefer@kansan.com
The consensus is that the Jayhawks are Sherron Collins' team.
The consensus might be wrong. For the second consecutive game, Kansas relied on sophomore center Cole Aldrich — not junior guard Collins — to carry it to victory. Aldrich scored eight straight points midway through the second half to separate Kansas from Iowa State in a 72-55 victory Wednesday night. Aldrich credited his teammates for getting him the ball.
"They've done a great job the last few games throwing the ball inside," Aldrich said. "They see
that it's tough for other big guys around the league to guard us"
Aldrich scored 22 points and added 11 rebounds — his 14th double-double of the season. But it was Aldrich's timing that made the most difference against the Cyclones.
lowa State cut the Kansas lead to 43-38, the lowest it had been since the opening minute of the game, with 12:30 to play. Then, Aldrich demanded the ball.
He made a hook shot, a onehanded dunk over Iowa State guard Diante Garrett, a 17-foot jumper and two free throws in the next three minutes. While Aldrich exploded for eight points in the stretch, Iowa State went scoreless.
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It made the score 51-38 and the Cyclones never trailed by less than eight again.
"Tonight was one of those games where we knew we had to keep feeding him," Collins said.
"That's going to continue for the rest of the year."
Collins had his moments, too. He finished with 22 points, six assists and two steals. But nine of his points came after Aldrich's three-minute extravaganza with the game already decided.
Ask Collins what the difference in the victory was and he'll say Aldrich, without hesitation. Collins has noticed that Aldrich has shifted into being Kansas' primary weapon when the game is tight. And Collins embraces it.
"It doesn't bother me at all." Collins said. "It helps me. It takes pressure off of me."
Against the Cyclones, Aldrich took the pressure off everyone. He
energized the layhawks when the Cyclones started to steal momentum.
Like a bumblebee intruding on a summer picnic, Iowa State wouldn't go away for the first 28 minutes of the game. Kansas flew out to a 24-7 lead behind two three-point shots from sophomore guard Brady Morningstar, but it didn't deter Iowa State.
Cyclone forward Craig Brackins, who scored 20 points with 11 rebounds, willed his team back into the game. Kansas coach Bill Self took a timeout after Brackins converted on a baseline jumper to
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Bonds places fifth in Iowa State Classic one-mile run
Junior relay runner Lauren Bonds (right) passes off to senior Lisa Morrisey in the women's 4x800 meter relay Saturday. Kansas' relay team finished in 9:29:99 and took second place overall behind Seton Hall University.
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BY JASON BAKER
jbaker@kansan.com
She's one of two female athletes in Kansas history to earn All-Big 12 honors in cross country. She currently holds the school's record in the one-mile and she's the captain of the track and field distance team. Is there anything that junior Lauren Bonds can't do at this point?
Parking jokes aside, the Hutchinson junior has had quite the success this year in both the cross country and indoor track seasons. Last weekend in Ames, Iowa, at the Iowa State Classic, Bonds took fifth place in the one-mile run with a time of 4:43.74.
"I can't park," Bonds said. "If you ever see a white car that's taking up three spots, that's usually me."
That time was enough to provisionally qualify her for the NCAA Indoor Championships.
"It's probably what I felt has been my best race since I've been in college at KU." Bonds said.
Bonds said it was exciting that she took four seconds off from her previous best and wanted to continue to get faster.
"That's how our training is designed. It's kind of discouraging at the beginning of the year when other people are running much faster than me, but I just know to keep it all in perspective." Bonds said.
Bonds said that running the one mile felt more comfortable and natural for her than the 6K that she runs during the cross country season.
It was about the same time last year when Bonds provisionally qualified in a one-mile run with a time of 4:47.91.
"I feel like I got some breathing room under the mark and that feels good," Bonds said.
"I do like cross country, but I have to work very hard to be the best at it — be the best on our team at it." Bonds said.
Bonds' hard work paid off this fall season when she finished first for the team in every event. The highlight for her came this fall during the Big 12 Championships when she placed 12th overall with a time of 21:31.
At Big 12 Championships, placing in the top 15 means receiving All Big 12 honors. Bonds became the second female to get AllBig 12 honors in the University's history. The last time Kansas got AllBig 12 honors on the women's side was with Laura Lavoie in 2002.
Bonds said receiving All-Big 12
honors was a big step for her in cross country because of the competition.
"It's like we have the national champions in our conference," Bonds said. "That was really special to be in the top 15 in such a strong conference."
Running has been a part of life for Bonds and her family. Her sister Morgan ran track and cross country at Kansas State University from 2004 to 2007.
She was primarily a mid-distance runner, specifically in the 800 meter.
"She hated cross country," Bonds said of her older sister. "That was way out of her element because she's more of an 800- and 400-meter runner. I feel like I have a more positive attitude toward it than she did."
Like her sister, Bonds has become the team captain on the distance team. Bonds said it wasn't not too difficult of a job because they all worked hard.
Bonds said as captain she put on fun activities for the team to do, as well as made sure that everyone's okay.
Bonds also shares some of the responsibility with fellow teammate
"I'm kind of the go-to between the group and the coach." Bonds said. "I'm the one who usually goes 'Coach, we can't do this' or 'Coach, we're thinking of this.' That's my main job."
and sophomore Amanda Miller.
"Amanda gives me so much help," Bonds said. "She's a really good leader as well."
Although Bonds has provisionally qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships, it doesn't guarantee her a trip to go. The NCAA takes the top 16 runners and Bonds said she's probably not up there yet.
"it's the first step to getting there. I'm going to have to run faster if I want to go." Bonds said.
Bonds will have a chance to make it official at the Big 12 Indoor Championships on Feb. 27 and 28 in College Station, Texas. Bonds said she was uncertain which event she would participate in. Bonds could either run in the 1,000 meter, the one-mile or 800-meter run and would love to make up for not going to the cross country championships last November.
"I feel like I'm right in the same place that I was in cross country," Bonds said. "I'm close, but I'm going to have to get closer. So hopefully I can do it this time."
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THE UNIVERSITY DAHY KANSAN
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2009
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"I am not familiar with the notion of firing someone for failing to sign an extension to a contract."
— Texas tech coach Mike Leach, Leah has two years left on his contract, but if he doesn't sign an extension soon the school may fire him.
Last year Leach earned Big 12 and AP coach of the year honors after going 11-2.
TTU Athletics
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: If Leach signs Texas Tech's current offer, how much would he owe the school for interviewing for another job without permission?
A: $1.5 million. This is the stipulation that Leach said bothers him the most about Tech's contract offer. Said Leach, "I don't have to have hall passes on this one."
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MLB Royals think they can compete in AL Central
SURPRISE, Ariz. — The Kansas City Royals have not been in the playoffs since winning the 1985 World Series but general manager Dayton Moore is saying his team could compete in the AL Central this season.
The Royals won 75 games last season and escaped last place in its division for the first time in five years. In the offseason they added Mike Jacobs, Coco Crisp and Willie Bloomquist.
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Academy Awards not just for the ladies
COMMENTARY
Randy "The Ram" Robinson
"You know in this life you can lose everything you love, everything that loves you. Now I don't hear as good as I used to and I forget stuff and I can't as pretty as I used to be, but god damn it I'm still standing here — I'm 'The Ram.'"
I'm not sure how it started, I'm not sure who coined the phrase and I don't know when it was. But some time ago, somebody started calling the Academy Awards "The Super Bowl for Women."
Of course, the Academy Awards are this Sunday, and yes, there are a lot of reasons women might love the Oscars. There's the celebrity factor — the designer dresses and the red carpet close-ups of Brad and Angelina. And there's the whole schmaltzy emotional vibe. You never know when somebody might break down and start blubbering Reese Witherspoon style.
So yeah, normally there are plenty of reasons for women to go Oscar-crazy.
BY RUSTIN DODD
rdodd@kansan.com
But I'm not so sure about this year. In fact, some might consider this year "guys night at the Oscars." And you can thank Mickey Rourke.
Rourke, of course, is nominated for Best Actor for his role as Randy "The Ram" Robinson in the "The Wrestler." The Morning Brew has been lavishing praise on "The Wrestler" for months. It's a raw and authentic portrayal of a beaten-down former professional wrestler
Rourke is a tour de force. He IS "The Ram."
who is still hanging on.
You probably know Rourke's incredible story. In the 1980s he was an immensely-talented young actor. But because of some poor career decisions and a self-destructive personality, Rourke soon found himself banished from Hollywood's inner circles. College translation: The man partied too hard and cashed his career.
So he turned to professional boxing, a sport he pursued in his youth. Soon, Rourke left boxing and had, more or less, fallen off the acting grid. His story was a cautionary tale to young actors.
Now he's back. And if his name is called on Sunday when they present the Oscar for Best Actor, as it should be, expect one of the most entertaining speeches in Oscar history.
There something special about the relationship between movies and sports. The studios in Hollywood have been making great sports movies for decades. Sports movies have shown up at the Academy Awards, too.
The Oscar for Best Athlete.
Hilary Swarkwon BestActress in
2004 for her role in "Million Dollar Baby." Will Smith was nominated for Best Actor for his portrayal of Muhammad Ali in 2001. Robert De Niro won Best Actor in 1980 for his portrayal of boxer Jake Latta in "The Raging Bull" "Rocky" won Best Picture in 1976. You get the point.
But here's the thing. I love sports movies. But I love it even more when professional athletes show up in movies.
Here's The Morning Brew's Top Active Performances by Athletes
First the honorable mentions: Brett Favres cameo in "Something About Mary." Dennis Rodman in "Double Team," Jim Brown in "Mars Attacks!" the entire cast of "Space Jam," and lastly, a special honor to Dan Marino in "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective." Marino gave us the best line from an athlete in movie history when he said, "Having a little trouble with the ladies, Ace?"
No. 5 former boxer Tommy Morrison in "Roky V"
The worst Rocky movie had a unintentionally hilarious performance from Morrison, who played Tommy Gann, Rocky's new protege.
No. 4. former NBA star Penny
Hurdaway in "Blue Chips"
Shaquille O'Neal also starred in "Blue Chips," one of the best college basketball films ever, but Hardaway was magnificent as Butch McRae, a high-profile recruit from Chicago.
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No. 3. Former Boston Brain Cam Neely in "Dumb and Dumber"
But did you know the guy who played Sea Bass — Cam Neely — scored more than 300 goals in the NHL and had his number retired by the Bruins?
Yes, you've seen the movie, and you probably know the scene. "If that guy's name over there is Sea Bass?"
No. 2. Boston Celtic Ray Allen in "He Got Game"
in this Spike Lee Joint, Allen starred opposite Denzel Washington as high profile basketball recruit Jesus Shuttlesworth, and it's still the best movie name ever.
No. 1, O.J. Simpson in "Naked Gun"
Simpson showed great comedic chops as Nordberg in the "Naked Gun" trilogy. But here's what confuses me. It was funnier to watch "Naked Gun" in 1991 and say, "I can't believe O.J. Simpson, a former Heisman Trophy winner, is playing that role?" Or is it funnier to watch it now and say, "I can't believe O.J. Simpson, well, you know..."
Edited by Andrew Wiebe
SWIMMING & DIVING Swimmers' work in the
classroom earns honors
While the Kansas swimming
and diving team was training and competing last fall, its efforts in the classroom also paid off.
The team was honored last
The Broadway hit of 1961, winner of seven Tony Awards and the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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Kansas finished the semester with a combined grade point average of 3.33,the second highest in the Big 12.
week by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America as an Academic All-American Team for the fall 2008 semester.
Kansas had eight members with a 40 grade oint average.
Among them were seniors Jessica Brozek, Anne Liggett, Hannah McMacken and sophomores Amanda Maez, Alyssa Potter and Brittany Potter.
Of the 30 team members,22 of Kansas' swimmers and divers finished with a 3.0 grade point average or higher last semester.
The team also has 18 athletes eligible for Academic Big-12 honors which are announced at the beginning of each semester.
Kansas placed 17 swimmers on the Academic All Big-12 Team for the 2007-2008 season.
This is the third consecutive semester that Kansas has been named an Academic All-American Team.
Last year senior Danielle Herrmann was an Academic All-American honoree and junior Emily Lanteigne was an Honorable Mention Academic All-American honoree.
FOOTBALL Sophomore receiver transfers to Delta State
Hallie Mann
Sophomore wide receiver Xavier Rambo transferred to Division I Delta State University prior to the spring semester, Kansas associate media relations director Mike Strauss and Delta Web's Site confirmed.
The transfer culminates a disappointing tenure with the Jayhawks for Rambo.
Rambo arrived at Kansas in 2006 from South Oak Cliff High School in Dallas. An All-State honoree as a high school senior, Rambo redshifted his freshman year and did not see any game action in 2007 or 2008.
Despite not contributing on Saturdays, Rambo was named Scout Team Offensive Player of the Week once in 2007 and on two occasions in 2008.
Delta State is located in Cleveland, Mississippi, and its football team won the Gulf South Conference in 2007 and 2008 and the NCAA Division II national championship in 2000. The Statesmen advanced to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division II football tournament before falling to North Alabama 55-34 last season.
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Bonnie Ball
the give and go
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MLB
Fans say A-Rod shouldn't be in the Hall of Fame
More than half of baseball fans surveyed say Alex Rodriguez shouldn't make the Hall of Fame after admitting that he used steroids. And as for the game's halloweed records? Those same fans seem to care less and less.
An Associated Press-GFK poll released Wednesday also showed this: Fans are losing interest in the whole steroids issue.
With 553 home runs, Rodriguez is considered likely to break Barry Bonds' career record of 762. Five of the top 12 home run hitters in history — Bonds, Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire, Rafael Palmeiro and Rodriguez — have been tainted by allegations of steroid use.
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| Player | FG-FGA | 3FG-3FGA | Rebs | A | Pts |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Marcus Morris | 3-7 | 0-2 | 6 | 1 | 8 |
| Cole Aldrich | 9-12 | 0-0 | 11 | 0 | 22 |
| Sherron Collins | 9-17 | 4-6 | 2 | 6 | 22 |
| Brady Morningstar | 2-5 | 2-4 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| Tyshawn Taylor | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Tyrel Reed | 1-5 | 1-4 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| Markieff Morris | 2-2 | 0-0 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| Mario Little | 0-5 | 0-0 | 6 | 1 | 2 |
| Travis Releford | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Tyrone Appleton | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Team | | | 3 | | |
| Totals | 28-56 | 8-18 | 39 | 17 | 72 |
IOWA STATE (13-13, 2-9)
Player FG-FGA 3FG-3FGA Rebs A Pts
Craig Brackins 7-21 1-3 11 0 20
Justin Hamilton 0-2 0-0 1 0 0
Lucca Staiger 0-4 0-4 2 1 0
Diante Garrett 2-9 0-2 0 5 4
Bryan Petersen 3-6 3-5 3 3 11
Charles Boozer 0-1 0-1 0 0 2
Dominique Buckley 0-0 0-0 1 0 0
Sean Haluska 1-3 1-2 1 2 3
Alex Thompson 0-1 0-0 2 0 0
Jamie Vanderbeken 5-9 5-9 5 2 15
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Totals 18-56 10-26 29 13 55
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11/4 vs. Washburn (Ex.) W, 98-79
11/11 vs. Emporia State (Ex.) W, 103-58
11/16 vs. UMKC W, 71-56
11/18 vs. Florida Gulf Coast W, 85-45
11/24 vs. Washington (in Kansas City, Mo.) W, 73-54
11/25 Syracuse (in Kansas City, Mo.) L, 89-81 (OT)
11/28 vs. Coppin State W, 85-53
12/1 vs. Kent State W, 87-60
12/3 vs. New Mexico State W, 100-79
12/6 vs. Jackson State W, 86-62
12/13 vs. Massachusetts (in Kansas City, Mo.) L, 61-60
12/20 vs. Temple W, 71-59
12/23 at Arizona L, 84-67
12/30 vs. Albany NY W, 79-43
1/03 vs. Tennessee W, 92-85
1/6 vs. Siena W, 91-84
1/10 at Michigan State L, 75-62
1/13 vs. Kansas State W, 87-71
1/17 at Colorado W, 73-56
1/19 vs. Texas A&M W, 73-53
1/24 at Iowa State W, 82-67
1/28 at Nebraska W 68 - 62
1/31 vs. Colorado W 66 - 61
2/2 at Baylor W 75 - 65
2/7 vs. Oklahoma State W 78 - 67
2/9 at Missouri L 62 - 60
2/14 at Kansas State W 85 - 74
2/18 vs. Iowa State W 72-55
2/21 vs. Nebraska 3 p.m.
2/23 at Oklahoma 8 p.m.
3/1 vs. Missouri 1 p.m.
3/4 at Texas Tech 8:30 p.m.
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cut the layhawks' lead to five.
Self saw what he feared would happen before the game — a lack of energy from his team.
"I don't think we were as juiced as what we should be playing at home." Self said. "I had to run them during shoot-around today. That doesn't happen very often — our focus wasn't auite great."
But freshman forward Marcus Morris' was, Self said Morris was one of the brightest spots of the game. He scored eight points with
six assists and two steals.
His greatest contribution, however, came on the defensive end. Morris guarded Brackins, who scored 42 points against the Jayhawks in January, for most of the game. Although Brackins scored 20 points Wednesday, he shot only 7-for-21 from the floor. Morris contested nearly every shot Brackins attempted.
"I'm trying my hardest to turn the corner." Marcus said. "I'm trying my hardest to contribute to the
team. I don't worry about scoring.
Scoring is not important to me."
That's the way Self wants it. That's the way Self got it against Iowa State.
With 44 combined points, Aldrich and Collins contributed 60 percent of the Jayhawks' offense. Their production allowed role players like Morris to focus on defense and rebounding.
"It was Sherron and Cole's game offensively," Self said. "I was really happy with how they both played
"That's what we've been doing the last couple of games and he's been producing," Collins said. "We've got to keep doing that, and he's going to keep producing."
offensively."
Collins deflected questions about his 22 points after the game toward Aldrich. Collins wanted to talk about how Aldrich has grown to take over games.
Edited by Carly Halvorson
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Lack of energy plaques Jayhawks' shoot-around, game play and even the crowd in Allen Fieldhouse
BY TAYLOR BERN tbern@kansan.com
Coach Bill Self screams to be heard over the Allen Fieldhouse crowd during a timeout in Wednesday night's game against Iowa State. The Jayhawks defeated the Cyclones 72-55.
Self said his team was making sloppy passes, wasn't hustling after loose balls and simply didn't look ready to play a game in a matter of hours.
When Kansas showed up to Allen Fieldhouse for its shoot-around before Wednesday night's game against Iowa State, coach Bill Self wasn't impressed.
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So, Self decided to teach his team a lesson. He turned one of the most relaxed basketball traditions into a conditioning session, running his team up and down the court.
Junior guard Sherron Collins, who
didn't look any more winded than usual at the end of the layhawks' 72-55 victory, said the team wasn't focused when it stepped on the court Wednesday afternoon.
"We didn't come ready to shoot-around," Collins said. "Shoot-around is not a day to waste — it's a day where we've still got to get better. Today we weren't bettering ourselves, so I think we deserved it."
A lack of energy before playing the second-worst team in the Big 12 isn't too surprising. However, this was Kansas' first home game since a Feb. 7 victory over Oklahoma State. Eleven days apart generally makes a team long for its first game back in a familiar setting. Still, the Jayhawks came out flat Wednesday afternoon, causing Self to work the Jayhawks harder during their shoot-around.
"We've got a great environment and the crowd will just get you energized for when the game starts," freshman forward Marcus Morris said.
Self said he rarely puts his team to work hours before a game day. Collins echoed that, saying he couldn't remember it ever happening.
"Sometimes it creates room for error, so we start to turn the ball over a little more or shoot some contested shots." Morris said. "We've just got to play through that."
Brady Morningstar's three-pointer midway through the first half extended the lead to 17.
After that, Kansas seemed content with its lead and lost some of the juice from the opening minutes. Morris said that was the problem with attaining such a big lead so early.
As loud as the Fieldhouse seemed at tipoff, Self said the electricity wasn't there for much of the game.
The unorthodox pregame prep worked wonders in the first seven minutes of the game as Kansas stormed out to a 16-2 advantage.
"There wasn't a lot of energy in the
That was directed at Self's bench as much as the crowd. He saw no energy in the afternoon and witnessed only spurts throughout the game.
Kansas got by on talent against Iowa State, but on Saturday Nebraska comes to Allen Fieldhouse. The Cornhuskers took the Jayhawks to the wire on Jan. 28, and Self said he expected more of the same this weekend.
building," Self said.
That could mean another shootaround turned into sprints. More than likely, though, Self will try to re-energize his team through conditioning or some other physical means long before Kansas steps on the court Saturday morning.
"Our guys weren't as focused tonight," Self said. "I think we'll be able to get on them hard enough where they'll be more excited to play Saturday."
Edited by Susan Melgren
Sophomore guard Brady Morningsting and Iowa State's Bryan Petersen watch the ball go lose after the two collided at midnight in the second half of the game. Morningstar scored six points and contributed three rebounds and three assists.
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Collins clearly did not go hungry against the Cyclones either Coach Bill Self said he thought the game belonged to the junior guard. Collins may have scored a number of his points late, including two three-pointers in the last 90 seconds — one to send the fans home, the other to bring in the subs — but Self was pleased with those developments.
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Saturday's game at Nebraska is all that stands between arguably the year's biggest challenge — Feb. 23's trip to Norman to face Oklahoma in what will do much to decide the Big 12 regular season champion. Add to that a possibility, which looks quite possible after tonight, that Aldrich could stuff a Player of the Year candidate in Blake Griffin.
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We should hope Aldrich and Collins are on campus one year from now. There are no obvious candidates for successors and without the two we are left with an immensely green team yet to find itself.
An early jump to the pros by either will be a huge life decision. It will be made after counsel from one of the nation's best coaching staffs and with the knowledge that the player will earn a multimillion-dollar contract in a piss-poor economy.
For all intents and purposes, nothing makes more sense than that, and such a move would be worthy of support. But for Kansas fans, those prospects should be scary. There's little time to waste in rallying the base for our selfish campaign.
Edited by Chris Horn
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IT WAS OVER WHEN...
Sophomore center Cole Aldrich made a hook shot with 12:15 remaining in the game. It only made the score 45-38, but it foreshadowed Aldrich's personal 8-0 run against the Cyclones. By the time Aldrich finished his three-minute assault on Iowa State the score was 51-38 and Kansas was comfortable. For good measure, Aldrich scored six more points before the end of the game.
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This is getting repetitive, but no one else stood out for the Jayhawks against the Cyclones. Aldrich rescued Kansas from a sluggish performance with his 22 points and 1.1 rebounds. He also managed to out-play Iowa State's stud big man, Craig Brackins, who finished with 20 points, but went 7-for-11 from the field. The Jayhawks defended Brackins, who scored 42 against Kansas in January, more effectively this time around and Aldrich was part of it. Aldrich guarded him for part of the game, including the end when Brackins recorded his fourth foul.
Freshman guard Tyshawn Taylor
GAMETOFORGET...
There was no lack of candidates in this section. Sophomore guard Tyrel Reed shot 1-for-5 from the field and played poor defense. Junior guard Mario Little went 0-for-5 from the field. But Taylor might have put on the most disappointing performance. He committed two turnovers and four fouls and never got involved in the offense with only three points. When Kansas is at its best, Taylor is providing a spark on offense and defense. He didn't do that against Iowa State.
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STAT OF THE NIGHT...
32 percent. That's Iowa State's field-goal percentage. Although Kansas didn't play its best offensive game, it guarded the Cyclones well. They rarely had open looks.
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18:10 — Sherron Collins stole the ball at the top of the key and shuffled down court for an easy layup. It put the Jayhawks up 8-0 and set a dominating tone that carried for much of the first half.
1:33 — The Cyclones were starting to crawl back into the game, and Jamie Vanderbeeken's second three of the game pulled them within nine.
9:16 After Iowa State tried and failed to save the ball, Collins cruised into the lane and kicked out to Brady Morningstar on the wing. Morningstar hit his second three to put Kansas up 17, its largest lead of the game.
0:01 — Collins' missed jumper looked like it would end Kansas buzzer-beating prowess, but there was Cole Aldrich to clean it up and preserve the Jayhawks' claim as the nation's best team at the end of the first half.
SECONDHALF
18:07 - Iowa State's Craig Brackins hung in mid-air to avoid Tyshawn traynor and dropped in a nothing-but-net layup. Brackins' bucket brought the deficit to 36-30 and forced a Kansas timeout.
12:34 — With Markieff Morris in his face, Brackins nailed a turnaround jumper pull within 43-38. However, the Cyclones would fail to draw any closer.
10:49 — The highlight of the game. Tyshawn Taylor dribbled to the right side of the lane, then tossed it back to Aldrich, who was crashing to the rim. Aldrich took the pass and posterized Iowa States' Diante Garrett with a one-handed slam.
0:31 — Collins really extended his range in the final three minutes. During that time, Collins knocked down three treys.
— Taylor Bern
STARTING LINEUP BACK TO NORMAL
GAME NOTES
Both freshman guard Tyshawn Taylor and freshman forward Marcus Morris started against the Cyclones after being benched in the Kansas State game.
Taylor and Marcus replaced sophomore guard Tyrell Reed and junior guard Mario Little, who started in front of them in the last game.
It was the 14th time this season Kansas coach Bill Self has used a starting lineup of Taylor, Marcus Morris, junior guard Sherron Collins and sophomore center Cole Aldrich. It was also the eighth time in the last nine games.
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For the second straight year, no Kansas commits will play in the McDonald's All-American Game, an annual showcase of the nation's best high school players.
Neither of the recruits signed to play for Kansas next season — Las Vegas guard Elijah Johnson and Washington D.C. forward
Thomas Robinson — were among the 24 selected to play in the game Wednesday.
Rivals.com ranks Robinson as the 18th best player in the nation and Johnson came in at No.28. The All-American game will be held on April11 in Miami and aired by ESPN.
RECRUITING UPDATE
One player who will be appearing in the McDonald's All-American Game is Lance Stephenson, a 6-foot-6 swingman from New York.
Stephenson, whom Rivals.com ranks as the ninth best player in the nation, still hasn't decided where he will attend college next year. And he's still considering Kansas.
In fact, Stephenson will make his official visit to Lawrence Saturday when the Jayhawks play Nebraska.
According to Rivals.com, Stephenson is choosing between Kansas, Sainth John's, Maryland, UCLA and Wake Forest.
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Senior Val George pitches during a game last season. George ranks third in the Big 12, and just pitched a no-hitter against Bowling Green. This weekend's Cathedral City Classic could put the team back in the ESPN/USA Softball rankings, after falling off of them Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors have interviewed Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte as they
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Two people familiar with the case told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Pettitte was in
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The same week prosecutors
If the Jayhawks win at this weekend's tournament in California, they could recover their lost Top 25 status
BY TOM POWERS
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Kansas softball fell from the ESPN/USA Softball rankings Tuesday, but it has a tremendous opportunity to get back in the mix as the team travels to Palm Springs, Calif., for the Cathedral City Classic this weekend.
The team is coming off of a tough weekend at the UCF Early Bird Tournament, where it won two and lost three. The 4-5 Jayhawks need to play tighter on both sides of the ball if they want to get their winning percentage back up above .500.
Kansas ranks second to last in the Big 12 defensively, committing 13 errors in nine games and has a
Over the course of the weekend long tournament, the Jayhawks will play six games in four days.
They kick off the tournament today with a pair of games against No.21 North Carolina and tournament host, Oregon State.
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The offense, despite having come up huge in clutch situations, has accumulated 53 strikeouts in 221 at bats while possessing an average of .222 overall, ranking it dead last in the big 12.
The Jayhawks have showed some promise, however, in their work from the circle and their patience at the plate.
Kansas leads the Big 12 in walks drawn with 26 and is second in doubles with 13. The pitching staff has been able to strike out 61 batters in more than 60 innings, good enough for second in the Big 12.
Senior pitcher and team ace Val George (3-3) is coming off of a no-hitter against Bowling Green and has a 1.78 ERA, issuing seven walks to her 36 strikeouts in 32 and one-third innings pitched, third best in Big 12 rankings. Freshman Blair Blair (0-1) has a 1.29 ERA and three strikeouts to zero walks issued.
The Cathedral City Classic will
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be a difficult challenge for Kansas: Two of the six teams are ranked in ESPN/USA Softball's top 25 ranking. North Carolina and No. 10 California, and five of the six have winning records.
On Friday the Hawks have a single game against BYU followed by another one Saturday against UC Santa Barbara. To finish the tournament, Kansas plays another pair of games against California and Cal-Poly.
If the Jayhawks can muster a couple of upsets and come away with a winning record in the tournament, they should be able to regain their spot in the top 25 rankings.
The team has already shown it can beat tough opponents earlier this season, winning two of its four games against ranked opponents No. 11 Arizona and No. 12 Northwestern in the Kajikawa Classic.
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under oath to Congress that he took performance-enhancing substances.
Much of what investigators wanted to know Pettitte had already told Congress.
Word of his recent involvement in the case came as Yankees superstar third baseman Alex Rodriguez answered questions at spring training camp in Florida about his own past use of performance enhancers.
It was unclear whether Pettit has been called before a grand jury. Because Pettit has already given a sworn statement, prosecutors do not necessarily have to use the grand jury to make their case.
Personal trainer Brian McNamee has told federal agents, baseball investigator George Mitchell and a House committee that he injected Clemens more than a dozen times with steroids and human growth hormone from 1998-2001.
Pettitte, who was at the Rodriguez press conference, was asked later about his meeting with prosecutors. "I can't talk to you about that." Pettitte said.
"I'm just prepared that it might happen," Pettitte said at the time. "There's nothing I can do. Until somebody tells me to go somewhere, I can't do anything."
Around this time last year, Pettitt acknowledged that he might be questioned by the Justice Department.
"I have never taken steroids or HGH," the 354-game winner told a congressional committee a year ago.
Clemens denied it, testifying that he did not use performance-enhancers.
Pittette and another former Yankee, Chuck Knoblauch, both acknowledged to Congress that McNamee was correct when he said they used performance-enhancers.
The he-said, he-said nature of the sworn testimony given to Congress by McNamee and Clemens prompted lawmakers to ask the Justice Department to investigate whether the former pitcher lied.
The case was brought before a grand jury after an 11-month FBI investigation.
Clemens last pitched in the major leagues for the New York Yankees in 2007. Pettitte signed a one-year, $5.5 million contract to pitch for the Yankees this year.
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Hall to lead new starting rotation for Jayhawk pitchers
Junior pitcher will likely be important in this season's success
BY JOSH BOWE
jbowe@kansan.com
Shaffer Hall has been through a lot to get to this point.
Hall, a junior left-handed pitcher, was drafted in the 28th round by the Texas Rangers in the 2006 amateur draft. He transferred from junior college to Kansas after his freshman year. And now after all that, Hall has found a home in Kansas and will be the starting pitcher for the Jayhawks' season opener this Friday against Air Force.
"Having that experience from last year, and knowing what type of hitters that are in our league will probably help a lot," Hall said.
This season Hall will lead a radically different rotation from last year and will likely be an important player for the Jayhawks. In a conference as deep in talented teams and players as the Big 12 is, he will know
not to underestimate any hitter.
"You can't take any hitter lightly," Hall said. "From one to nine they're going to be tough."
In addition to Hall, sophomore T.J. Walz will be the number two starter and freshman Lee Ridenhour will likely be the number three pitcher. The three players combine for only 17 career starts with Kansas, a shockingly low number for a unit that is to be counted on. But Hall thinks the young pitchers will perform well.
"They're talented. I mean if they weren't, I don't think they'd be here," Hall said. "I think coach Graves expects a lot out of them this year."
Coach Ritch Price hinted that Ridenhour might see some time in the bullpen this year. Although Ridenhour won the Gatorade Kansas Baseball Player of the Year in high school as a starter, he has spent most of his baseball playing days bouncing back and forth between starting and relief pitching. But Ridhenson cares less about where and how he plays, and more about playing and pitching in general.
But with the way Price was impressed with Ridenhour's talents, a long session in the bullpen seems unlikely.
"Either one is fine for me, I just want to get out there and pitch as much as I can," he said.
"He's got a great future ahead of him." Price said. "We've got great hopes for him."
Price said his team's pitching has to improve if they have any change of success. "Obviously we're going to have to pitch better than we did last year". Price said. "I don't expect us to score the same kind of number of runs from a year ago."
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Junior pitcher Sheafer Ferl hall throws the first pitch of the game against Wichita State University on April 1, 2008. Hall will start Friday's game against Air Force and will lead the starting pitching rotation for the season.
— Edited by Susan Melgren
Weston White/KANSAN
starting pitchers
HALL
Hall
Projected Starting Rotation:
2008 statistics
10
1. Junior Shaffer Hall (4-2
5.13 ERA 46 SO 21 BB)
2. Sophomore T.J.Walz (4-1
5.00 ERA 39 SO 21 BB)
3. Freshman Lee Ridenhour
(n/a)
In the Mix: juniors Wally Mar-
Walz
DANIEL BRENNAN
The Kansan's Take: Marcel and Marks are overcoming significant injuries from last year. Price said Marcel is ahead of schedule from Tommy John surgery and could be back in April if he is 100 percent better. Marks has had numerous inju-
ciel and Andy Marks, freshmen Kevin Burk and Kelson Boyer
ries and could be back this year as well, even if just to help out the bullpen if the rotation is solidified. Burk and Boyer will get spot starts to give any of the regular starters a rest, which means the top three starters will have to carry the majority of the workload this season.
— Josh Bowe
BIG 12 COMPETITION
Nebraska
Preseason Ranking:
Unranked, 7th in Big 12
which has lost three
everyday starrs from last year's team, is looking to continue its recent run of
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success after making its eight NCAA regional in nine seasons in 2008. The Huskers anticipate the return of switch-hitting Jeff Tezek, who was forced to take a medical redshirt last year after being named second team all-conference designated hitter in 2007, hitting .335 with 37 RBIs.
In seven games before taking the redshirt last season, Tezek hit only .190. The pitching staff will be led by senior Erik Bird, who went 5-1 overall and 4-0 with a 2,14 ERA as a starter. His 58 appearances are by far the most on the staff. The Huskers come to Lawrence April 24-26.
Oklahoma
Preseason Ranking:
Unranked (ESPN/USA Today)/
No. 16 (Baseball America),
6th in Big 12
Oklahoma looks to avenge a 2008 Lawrence sweep as Kansas begins May with an eight-game road trip starting in Norman. The Sooners return over 200 collective starts in the
infield, as veterans Aaron Baker, Matt Haraughty and Bryant Hernandez return to hold down the first base, second base
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and shortstop positions. Senior catcher J.T. Wise returns to guide a pitching staff that saw some struggles last season. Sophomore Ryan Duke led the staff last season with a 3.77 ERA and a 7-5 record in 22 appearances, 10 of them starts. After finishing eighth in the conference last season with a 36-26-1 record, Oklahoma looks to turn it around this year.
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Griffey remains absent at first Braves workout
No, it wasn't Ken Griffey Jr.
It might be? It could be?
KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Long after the Braves had called it a day, a gleaming black luxury SUV pulled into the parking lot beyond the right-field wall at Atlanta's spring training stadium.
There was no sign of Junior on Wednesday, even though everyone seemed to think the fifth greatest home run hitter in baseball history would be in camp as the Braves held their first full-squad workout of the spring.
Griffey was apparently in seclusion, trying to decide if he wanted to play for the Braves — a longtime dream, by all accounts — or return
to Seattle to finish his illustrious career with the team that gave him his start. Though a couple of media reports Tuesday said Atlanta was his choice, he had not signed with anyone more than 24 hours later.
His agent, Brian Goldberg, did not return several messages sent to his cell phone Wednesday after saying a day earlier that Griffey had not decided where he wants to play in 2009.
"It one of those things where he's contemplating his decision," Braves general manager Frank Wren said.
The Braves still seemed confident that Griffey would be joining them in the next day or two, especially third baseman Chipper Jones. The NL batting champ has made several calls to his fellow slugger, lobbying him on the benefits of playing in Atlanta.
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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 19, 2009
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Kansas falls short in final minutes
COLORADO 2 KANSAS 4
BY JAYSON JENKS
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Kansas' Danielle McCray (right) drives past Colorado's Bianca Smith in the first half at the Coors Event Center on the University of Colorado campus in Boulder on Wednesday. The Jayhawks lost 69-62 and missed five straight shots in the final minutes.
Before boarding a plane headed for Colorado, junior forward Danielle McCray plainly — and accurately — laid out the key to success in the Big 12.
"Right about now, in our league, it's about whoever shows up," McCray said on Tuesday. "It's all about who shows up."
But in those final two minutes, with the game tied and Kansas attempting to grab its first road victory since Feb. 18, 2006, Kansas' strength quickly turned into a glaring weakness.
All season, the Jayhawks (13-11,
2-9) have tried to bury their knack
for inconsistent play during critical
stretches of games. In Kansas'
69-62 loss at Colorado (11-12, 3-8)
last night, that nagging trend reappeared at the most inopportune of times.
The Jayhawks missed their final five shots and committed two costly turnovers down the stretch as
For 38 minutes, shooting allowed Kansas to compete — and even hold leads — against Colorado.
"It's frustrating that these games keep slipping away from us in the last four minutes," sophomore forward Nicollette Smith said. "And that's the most frustrating part.
the Buffaloes pulled away for the victory.
Making those late-game shooting struggles more frustrating is the Jayhawks' precision shooting
Coach asked us "Can we beat Colorado in a three-minute game with us up by two?" And we all said yes. But..."
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Chelsea Dale (bottom) and Kansas' LaChelda Jacobs (right) fight for the ball during play at the Coors Event Center on the University of Colorado campus in Boulder on Wednesday. Jacobs finished with seven points and three assists.
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For much of the second half. Kansas' shooting percentage hovered around 70 percent. But the Jayhawks never seemed capable of consistently generating defensive stops, and the Buffalooes made 55 percent of their shots in the second half.
Kansas and Colorado traded baskets throughout the second half as neither team held more than a five-point lead until the final minutes.
"We needed to get stops on the defensive end," Smith said, "and we didn't get them."
Midway through the first half, Colorado pieced together a 10-2 run to take a 20-9 lead. During that stretch, the Jayhawks committed five turnovers that helped spark Colorado's run.
But down the stretch, Colorado found ways to score, while Kansas simply missed shots.
"We were knocking down shots, and we were getting people open shots and everything," Smith said. "But it came down to turnovers, and that's what killed us."
Kansas answered Colorado's run later in the half, rattling off a 9-0 run to cut the team teams lead.
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COLORADO 31 38 - 69
KANSAS (13-11, 2-9)
Player FG-FGA 3FG-3FGA Rebs A Pts
Danielle McCray 5-13 1-7 5 3 11
Nicollette Smith 5-7 1-2 2 1 15
Krysten Boogaard 6-9 0-0 4 0 13
Ivana Catic 0-0 0-0 0 4 0
Sade Morris 4-9 1-2 2 2 10
LaChelda Jacobs 2-6 0-0 10 3 7
Aishah Sutherland 2-4 0-0 2 0 4
Kelly Kohn 1-1 0-0 1 0 2
Team 2
Totals 25-49 3-11 28 13 62
COLORADO (11-12,3-8)
<table border="1"><tr><td>Player</td><td>FG-FGA</td><td>3FG-3FGA</td><td>Rebs</td><td>A</td><td>Pts</td></tr><tr><td>Brittany Spears</td><td>6-13</td><td>0-0</td><td>7</td><td>0</td><td>18</td></tr><tr><td>Kara Richards</td><td>3-4</td><td>0-0</td><td>10</td><td>2</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>Alyssa Fressle</td><td>1-7</td><td>0-2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td>Bianca Smith</td><td>5-9</td><td>4-6</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>18</td></tr><tr><td>Kelly Jo Mullaney</td><td>5-11</td><td>0-0</td><td>3</td><td>1</td><td>13</td></tr><tr><td>Britney Blythe</td><td>0-0</td><td>0-0</td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Hannah Skildum</td><td>2-4</td><td>0-1</td><td>2</td><td>1</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td>Julie Seabrook</td><td>0-0</td><td>0-0</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>Chelsea Dale</td><td>0-1</td><td>0-0</td><td>0-0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Team</td><td></td><td></td><td>3</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Totals</td><td>22-49</td><td>4-9</td><td>30</td><td>10</td><td>69</td></tr></table>
Still, the layhawks trailed 31-28 at halftime despite making 48 percent of their shots.
Neither team handled the ball with extreme care. The Jayhawks committed 22 turnovers, and Colorado had 20 miscues.
Smith led Kansas with 15 points, while three other Jayhawks scored in double figures — the type of balance coach Bonnie Henrickson has been searching for all season.
For the Jayhawks, though, the real story revolved around turnovers.
"Turnovers are what always kills us," Smith said. "Whether it's a tight game or whether we lose by 10, we always look at turnovers and say 'If we had those possessions back, it wouldn't have been a close game.'"
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1st International
Woodruff Auditorium, 7:30 p.m., free, all ages
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Collegium Musicum
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Witherspoon just won. She traipsed up to the stage in her second-hand dress and accepted her Oscar for
Walk the Line. "Well deserved," I thought. I'd never seen any actual footage of June Carter Cash, but I assumed Witherspoon deserved it.
editor's note
I was watching the 2006 Oscars and making a mental list of the nominated movies I missed out on in 2005. I really cared only about two movies back then, though. Brokeback Mountain and Crash.
Philip Seymour Hoffman was next up. His performance in Capote was astonishing and he was a shoe-in for Best Actor. He gave a typically humble speech.
Two races were left in the program: Best Picture and Best Director. Both Brokeback and Crash were up for each award, and each film had won two Oscars so far that night.
Brokeback needed to win—I would hear nothing to the contrary. I shared a certain affinity with the movie (and no, it's not a likeness for cowboys or Western gear) and I thought it was a better movie overall.And
despising Crash fueled my biased feelings even more.
The next award announced, Best Director, made my day. Ang Lee won for Brokeback and I let out a sigh of relief. Throughout Oscar history, Best Director and Best Picture have lined up about 75 percent of the time.
Only Best Picture presenter Jack Nicholson stood in the way of making my night. Brokeback and Crash were front-runners for the award and I was so sure Brokeback had it in the bag.
And then Jack ruined it all. He opened the envelope and uttered that one-word movie title. Nicholson raised his eyebrows with a surprised expression as the cameras quickly zoomed in on the producers of Crash and its cast.
I furiously gave the remote a nice little click before the producers made it to the stage. I was in a negative disposition for the rest of the night. I lived alone at the time, so only my Beagle sensed my bitter wrath.
None of my friends share my interest in awards season. It doesn't matter to them who won a Golden Globe or a SAG award and who is favored to win at this Sunday's Oscars. Kelly's story on page 5 can get you and your friends talking about who's nominated at this
year's Oscars and how to have your owned Oscar-themed get-together.
And just in case any of you are interested, here are my predictions for this year's main races:
Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire
Best Director:Danny Boyle.
Best Actress: Kate Winslet, The Reader
Best Actor: Sean Penn, Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger;
The Dark Knight
Best Supporting Actress:Viola Davis Doubt
I'm picking Slumdog over fellow Best Picture nominee and gay-interest movie Milk. I will never concede that Brokeback was inferior to Crash, but I've learned sometimes you've got to set aside personal preferences in favor of the big, or—in this case—best, picture.
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For Ben Markley, music is a family matter. Both of his parents taught music for a living. Markley, who hails from Chapman, says he started taking piano lessons at the age of three. He didn't accept music as his calling, though. "I wasn't music full speed ahead in my high school years," he says. Even in college, Markley didn't gravitate toward a music major. He says he received a golf scholarship to Fort Hays State University and focused on sports and other things in his first few years of college.
In his junior year, though, he finally settled on music."I guess I wasn't really finding a lot of fulfillment in the other things that I was doing and music seemed to do that," Markley says.
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Markley and says he likes performing in Kansas because he can get feedback from those people most familiar with his music; his family and friends. "They, more than people I don't know, have seen me evolve," he says. Markley fought against music for a while but now he's in the groove and enjoys his profession. "For
Family matters: Ben Markley enjoys performing in Kansas because his family and friends can give him honest feedback.
me, it's the journey of music," Markley says.
Markley will be performing at the Folk on Mass House Concerts, 1646 Massachusetts Street, on Friday at 7:30 p.m.
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[ what is the most awkward thing you have ever walked in on? ]
"My roommate doing his thang."
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"My roommate doing the dirty with her boy." Hannah Lowry, Wichita freshman
"I opened a door and started talking to someone but it wasn't who I wanted."
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Sarah Murphy, Atchison sophomore
Emily Soetaert, Olathe sophomore
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"My roommate engaging in, umm, you know, sex." Batya Meyer, Dallas senior
"I walked in on my friend's mom finishing up giving her husband fellatio. They tried to act innocent,but the damage had already been done. Whoops!"
Heidi Schmidt, Prairie Village junior
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"At my former job, I walked in on my boss sleeping in the break room." Tyler Janzen, Lindsborg senior
"The worst of the worst ... I saw my parents having sex."
Michael Poe,Wichita freshman
JOHN MCGUYEN
I am very happy to be here. I have a wonderful time at the university. I will always remember my time there.
"I walked in on my suitemate pleasuring himself." J.T. Craig, Junction City senior
"My roommate and his girlfriend having sex on the kitchen counter." Branden Tinker, Wichita junior
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"I went into a room where they were going to have a wake-I didn't know about it—and started eating the food.I felt really awkward when I realized it was for the wake." James Cook, Lawrence senior
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Host your own glamorous Academy Awards party and invite your friends as your own personal'A'-list
The Academy Awards ceremony is an extravaganza. Eric Melin, film critic and founder of www.scene-stealers.com, knows all about the excitement of the night. In fact, he gets into it every year by hosting an Oscar party of his own.
"For me, the Oscars is my Super Bowl." Melin says.
Kelli Berry-Szrot, owner and principal designer of Red Door Event & Design, 941 Pennsylvania Street, says though the Super Bowl leads to a different party, an Oscar party can be similar in some ways, especially when friends are rooting for different movies. "There's that quiet competition of,'This is who I'm supporting, this is who I'm backing', and you know,'My guy against your guy,''Berry-Szrot says.
The tension is a lot more evident at his parties, Melin says. "They're taunting each other to see who's doing better than who," Melin says.
Alex Backus, Lawrence junior and media relations contact for KU Filmworks, says the awards spark conversation between friends. "Whichever one wins, we can debate about it or talk about it," Backus says.
All three recommend watching the Oscars with friends because it's just a better
experience. Backus says being a film student it gives his friends and him a chance to discuss the films in more detail, especially because they have a keener eye when watching films.
Melin says you almost have to watch the Oscars as part of a group because of the length of the program.
He knows from experience. Melin says he has been hosting Oscar parties since 1992 and he enjoys being able to do it.
Melin used to live in Manhattan, but he still remembers the last Oscar Party he threw there. "We had a big giant cardboard Oscar that we mounted on the roof and we put spotlights up there and we had a big red carpet," Melin says.
Berry-Szrot says his partner at Red Door picks a different theme each year based on a film nominated for Best Picture. She says one year her partner chose a Brokeback Mountain theme and everyone came dressed as cowboys and her partner served some elk chili. Berry-Szrot also says her partner comes up with a specific cocktail tailored to the theme each year.
Berry-Szrot says in terms of planning your own Oscar party, you can be as creative as you want. "Films are such a creative medium as it is that there's so many different directions you
can go," Berry-Szrot says.
A lot of times people dress up for Oscar parties as well. Berry-Szrot says that shouldn't be a problem for college students. "It can be elegant without being extravagant," she says.
Maybe you don't want to stay home and watch the Oscars with your friends. If not, you can still watch it as a group at the Granada Theater, which is where Backus and KU Filmworks are hosting their Oscar party this year. Backus says there will be prizes and ballots for guests who predict the winners.
If you do stay at home though, make sure ballots are available. It's something all three have noticed as a staple of Oscar parties.
We all watch movies with our friends, so why not watch the awards ceremony for those movies with friends as well?
Melin says films can really be as much of a hot topic as anything else friends may talk about. "The way people talk about sports, it's kind of funny to hear them talk about movies the same way," Melin says.
FRIENDLY
Melin has even seen people start fights and get kicked out of bars over the Academy Awards. He says at the Scene Stealers' last Oscar party, when Crash won best film, some attendees started fights in the bar where the party was hosted and were thrown out.
Photo Illustration by Chance Dibben
And the winner is ... The Academy Awards can be tension-filled time when watching the show with friends. The Oscars are at 7:30 p.m. Sunday on ABC. Throw your own viewing party to celebrate the best movies of 2008.
The Academy Awards may not be the Super Bowl, but it still gets people talking. You don't want to predict the winners alone, so round up some of your friends and get your own Oscar party together. It's really not that hard. Please, though, just don't punch anyone if Frost/Nixon wins Best Picture. JP
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Milk
Milin says:"Suffering a little bit from the common biopic hazards, Milk doesn't always have a plot that propels itself forward effectively especially in the beginning.
Like Harvey's life, though, the movie finds its direction and positions its main character as a symbol of hope without a preachy mentality. ...Van Sant's agile movie, full of fresh performances and vigorous life, should go a long way towards making people examine how they feel about human rights." Grade: Solid rock fist up
Best Pic rundown
Eric Melin, film critic, can help you catch up on the Best Picture nominees with synopses
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from his reviews of the Best Picture nominees. If you want to read the entire review, you can find it on his website, www.scene-steelers.com, which is the only place you can check out his video review of
nominee The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
(Grade: Minor rock flist down).
Frost/Nixon
PROST
NIXON
Melin says:"Because of the flat, reality-style presentation of the movie, I still couldn't help but wondering why I was watching a movie based on a play based on a TV interview.
And while I normally don't complain too much about facts getting distorted in movies for better drama, Howard's format inherently seems like it's trying to pass itself off as reality, and that really bugged me." Grade: Minor rock fist up
The New York Times
Bestseller
The Reader
The Reader
Melin says:"As it stands,
The Reader at least has a
perspective on the Holocaust
and deals with a subject that
most films won't—the idea
of a national conscience and
responsibility vs. personal relationships:"
Grade: Minor rock fist up
Slumdog Millionaire
Shooting Cinematography
Melin says:"[Director] Boyle has made one of those rare movies that brings to life the sights, sounds, and smells of one specific place while also making a film that anyone
anywhere can relate to. If you are wondering why I haven't mentioned subtitles up until now, it's because I almost forgot there were any. Foreign films are so commonly associated with 'great, slow-moving works of art' that I almost forgot I had to read subtitles throughout Slumdog Millionaire.
Grade: Rock fist way up
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Good for you Bad for you
Eating raw cookie dough
A fine combination of textures and flavors tempts us to taste raw cookie dough. Some people like to eat dough more than its baked counterpart.
Cookie dough containing raw eggs carries the risk of a salmonella infection, says Bill Picking, professor of molecular biosciences. Salmonella infection can cause stomachaches, diarrhea and cramps. The risk of getting salmonella from uncooked dough is low. Picking says, but if young children or the elderly get infected, the symptoms can be severe.
If you still crave raw cookie dough, check out Recipezaar (www.recipezaar.com), which lists egg-free dough recipes.
But what about cookie dough ice cream? Picking says such ice cream sold in a store usually uses pasteurized eggs, so the chance of getting salmonella is much lower than eating homemade cookie dough.
VERDICT: BAD FOR YOU
— Sachiko Miyakawa
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Photo illustration by Sachiko Miyakawa Unbaked goodness: As delicious as raw cookie dough can be, a risk of salmonella infection can leave a bad taste in your mouth.
Lawrence is a town full of rockers. However, little do these guitar-playing, drum-banging artists know, their favorite pasttime could mean big problems in the future. Peter E. Shapiro, specialist in otolaryngology—the study of the ear, nose and throat—says the constant exposure to loud music will most likely lead to permanent hearing loss.
When the ear is exposed to loud music, the sound vibrations damage the tiny hairs in the cochlea (organ in the inner ear) and lead to hearing loss. Generally, this type of hearing loss is reversible, but over time constant exposure can cause permanent damage.
Shapiro used the example of musician Mick Jagger. Jagger might play in a concert and hear a little ringing on his way home from the Sprint Center, but that will most likely go away. It's 10 to 15 years later that he will notice the permanent loss.
So for all of you who like to rock out, you might think about investing in some earplugs. A pair of effective earplugs costs about $100 to $200. The price may seem steep, but it's quite
Rocking out to loud music
MRSA
Photo Illustration by Weston White
Keep'em plugged. Repeated exposure to loud music can cause permanent ear damage and eventual hearing loss.
reasonable compared with the financial and physical toll of wearing a hearing aid.
VERDICT: BAD FOR YOU
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All's fair in love and fitness By Megan Weltner mweltner@kansan.com
Why staying fit in a relationship is not easy
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Perfect candlelit calorie count: Red wine—in moderation—and healthy meals can be good for your body when spending time with a significant other cuts time out of your exercise schedule.
Photo Illustration by Weston White
A bottle of wine (or two), an order of calamari, a nice filet, and of course, chocolate cake. Sounds like the perfect romantic, candlelit dinner, right? Not necessarily. These romantic dinners could be doing more harm to your body than good for your relationship.
Laura Delcore, Leawood senior, says some of her favorite evenings with her boyfriend, Patrick, are spent dining at The Eldridge. However, these dinners can make it a challenge for her to maintain a slim physique. When Delcore started dating Patrick a year ago, she wondered if her health habits would have to take a backseat to their relationship. Delcore is not alone in her struggle to balance healthy eating and exercise with her relationship.
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According to The Obesity Society, young women in romantic relationships gained an average of 15 pounds over five years and men saw similar upward trends.
Students in relationships may have a hard time finding activities to do together that are healthy. In the beginning of Andrew Wank's relationship, the Leawood senior says he tried to impress his girlfriend, Kristen Conway,
Photo Illustration by Weston White
Hand holding for your heart: Take your date to the fitness center to stay in shape while also buttering up a lover.
Your partner's health habits can have a large influence on your diet and exercise routine, too."Oftentimes our behavior is shaped by the people around us," says Jenny Prohaska, M.A.in clinical psychology."When one member of the relationship is more sedentary than the other, the lazy person influences the more active."
by taking her out to dinner and to movies. Both found it hard to continue their healthy diet and exercise habits with meals at restaurants and movie popcorn every weekend.
"I transferred from a school where my only focus was tennis. When I came here, I no longer played a sport and I spent more time with her so I got away from diets," Wank says.
However, as a beauty pageant competitor, it was not a choice for Conway to let her diet and exercise go. Being in the pageants kept Conway motivated and showed how the trend of conforming to your partner's habits can work both ways.
This fall, Conway suggested they make a commitment to having a healthier relationship. "We both had to be ready to do it for ourselves before we could do it for each other." Conway says.
Since then, Conway and Wank spend time
going on walks, playing tennis and cooking dinner for each other. It is a far cry from the fat-laden meals and hours spent in front of the TV that consumed their relationship before. Cori Colombe, holistic health counselor with Your Wellness Connection, says this is a perfect example of how to resolve a diet-related relationship issue.
Colombe says communication is the key. She says people have a hard time understanding when their partner says "ugh, I'm fat ..." Colombe says it is much more effective to say you want to be healthier or have more energy. From there you can find things you would enjoy together, such as yoga, golf, tennis and the gym.
Some suggestions for maintaining a healthy and fit romantic relationship include taking up a new sport together, parking farther from dinner or exploring new, healthy recipes at home. Colombe recommends going back to what made you happy as a child—being outside, playing sports, or playing a simple game of tag.
No one is saying you have to throw those romantic dinners out the window,just modify them. In the end you will be a happier and healthier couple. JP
The perfect healthy date
1. Head to a fitness center to play a set of tennis.
2. Back home for a quick shower and then browse the Web for a delicious healthfilled recipe. Once you have found your recipe, it's off to The Merc to pick out your groceries.
3. Set a romantic table with candles and spend the evening together preparing your meal and sipping a glass of heart-healthy red wine.
4. After cleaning up, take a walk to the movie store, head home and kick up your feet with the satisfaction of knowing that a romantic afternoon and evening can be good for your health as well as your heart.
Some of these healthy recipes can be found at www.yourwellnessconnection.com. Click on Resources, then Recipes.
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The company takes used guitar strings from rock, pop, jazz and country artists and hand makes the strings into bracelets. Artists include Carlos Santana, Elvis Costello, John Scofield, Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, Slash, Bonnie Raitt and John Mayer, and Wear Your Music constantly updates its website with new artists.
Hannah Garrison, president and designer of Wear Your Music, says 100 percent of the profits from each bracelet goes to a charity of the artist's choosing. The bracelets range in price from $50 to $500, depending on the level of the artist's stardom, and each bracelet is hand-engraved with the star's initials.
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Girl 1: Is 'quip' even a word?
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My foot twitched nervously as I sat alone in the quiet waiting room. I was nestled between a sage-colored wall and a stack of tattered health magazines. I watched the ladies behind the reception counter whisper to one another and I tried to convince myself that I wasn't anxious. But I was. Needles were fine when they were used for vaccinations or blood tests, but seemingly arbitrarily jabbing them into my flesh? I wasn't buying it. Just when I was about to bolt, Dr. Khosh walked out to greet me. He shook my hand and smiled warmly.
"Don't be nervous," he said, and led me back to his office.
Alternative medicine is the use of unconventional techniques to alleviate discomfort and illness, without disrupting the body's natural flow of energy. This means swapping cough syrup for herbs and anti-anxiety drugs for meditation.
Alternative medicine consists of ancient healing processes that have been in practice for thousands of years. It is considered any practice that deviates from orthodox medical treatments, such as prescription drugs and surgery, and can be used to replace or used alongside standard medical care. Alternative medical practices include acupuncture, acupressure, chiropractic, herbal medicine, meditation and yoga.
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Shanna Nguyen always felt like something was missing from her pre-medicine studies at KU.
"I didn't want to be a conventional doctor and I didn't want to do conventional practices," the Kansas alumna says. "I constantly asked my professors, 'What are my alternatives? What can I do in the 21st century to better the health care system?'""
After graduation, she skipped medical school and looked into other options. While she was a student at KU in the mid- als alternative medicine was considered an orthought to traditional medicine, but she has a niche in alternative medicine education the East Coast. She now attends the city of Bridgeport in Connecticut for a degree in acupuncture. Her concern is health care and insurance industries so believe the general public was being all of proper medical care. She says medicine forces patients to adhere industrial complex" that uses invasive tissues and unnecessary chemicals that treat the body as one interdependent
Alternative medicine focuses on holistic healing. According to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, the
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body is made up of 14 meridians, along which $ q i $ (pronounced "chi") flows. $ Q i $ is vital energy that is essential for living a healthy life. If there is pain or a blockage in the body, the $ q i $ flow is disrupted. Alternative medicine works to keep $ q i $ flowing freely along patients' meridians at all times.
"May I see your tongue?"
"You have a qi spleen deficiency," he said.
Dr. Khosh furrowed his brow as he stared at my mouth.
Kristie Martin can tell you if you're congested, if you're wearing the wrong size of shoe, or if you're having digestive problems just by glancing at the bottom of your foot.
He told me I had severe discolorations on the back of my tongue, which led him to say that the qi flowing through my spleen was blocked. Dr. Khosh explained to me that the human body is a huge jigsaw puzzle and all the pieces have to fit together perfectly in order for it to work to its full potential. If one piece is missing or broken, the puzzle isn't complete.
Martin is a licensed reflexologist and the owner of A Quiet Sole Reflexology in Overland Park. Reflexology is the practice of applying pressure to various parts of the feet or hands that stimulate correlating organs.She says reflexology shouldn't be confused with a simple foot or hand massage.The bottoms of the feet and palms of the hands act as roadmaps for the rest of the body, and by stimulating those areas of the feet and hands, energy can flow more easily to other parts of the body. While acupuncture clears $ q_{i} $ by stimulating meridians with needle pressure, reflexology clears $ q_{i} $ by stimulating pressure points on the feet and hands.
"As cliché as it sounds, the soles are the windows to the soul," she says. "If a client doesn't tell me something about their health, I'll find it on their feet."
Martin sees clients with a range of health concerns and oftentimes works with people undergoing cancer treatments. She currently has a client in the midst of chemotherapy for leukemia, and regular reflexology sessions help relieve pain from her patient's chemotherapy side effects, such as nausea, fatigue and muscle pain. In fact, the First International Symposium on Reflexology and Cancer was held last October, and reflexologists from around the world discussed reflexology's effect in aiding cancer treatment symptoms.
"I know I can't cure her with reflexology. But I'm helping her body heal itself," Martin says.
Photo illustration by Jerry Wang Even though acupuncture needles are approved by the FDA, many don't consider it a valid form of medicine.
Dara Sims, Olathe senior, notices immediate results after her regular reflexology treatments. She says that after looking at her feet, her reflexologist noticed she had sinus congestion. After the reflexologist stimulated the areas of her feet connected to her sinuses and lungs (usually the second toe and central area above the arch), she felt her congestion lift. Sims also noticed nausea during her reflexology treatments.
"If you sit up too fast you can end up throwing up. [Reflexology] stimulates all of your organs and bodily functions," Sims says.
A DIFFERENT APPROACH
When Dr. Khosh led me back to his office, I wasn't greeted with cold medical tools or lab coats, but rather a cozy, warmly lit room. I sat down on a cushy leather couch, and Dr. Khosh asked me about myself. He asked about my eating habits, my stress levels, my lifestyle. He asked how much time I spent on my feet and how many hours of sleep I was getting.
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He asked about my balance and any sort of pain—physical, emotional or spiritual—I was experiencing. It felt more like a therapy session than a consultation. My fear and anxiety quickly melted away as I spilled to Dr. Khosh about my chronic neck and shoulder pain and my severe allergies.
The actual acupuncture room was anything but the oftentimes intimidating exam rooms I was used to visiting in a doctor's office. There were no boxes of latex gloves, blood pressure monitors or tongue depressors—not even a stethoscope around Dr. Khosh's neck—just a bed, a peaceful painting of an ocean on the wall and a tray of glistening needles.
He told me to lie on my stomach. I barely felt the prick when he pressed six thin needles into the back of my neck and ankles—I felt more relaxed than anything else. Dr. Khosh turned off the light and told me to breathe deeply and let my body heal.
"I don't want you to get cold."
He stopped to put a blanket on my feet before walking out the door.
Because alternative medicine relies on holistic healing, practitioners examine every aspect of a person's physiology and mental health—even if it's just to alleviate a headache. Extensive consultations are necessary before an initial visit.
Amanda Assaf, Wichita junior, became interested in alternative medicine after she started regularly doing yoga and began receiving acupuncture for shoulder pain.
"I think that the fact that I was becoming more conscious of my body made me not want to put anything into it that would disturb its natural balance," she says.
She says her pain subsided immediately after her first treatment and she began understanding the importance of natural healing.
PLACEBO
Because alternative medicine practices have only been included in the Western medical realm since the 20th century, they have generated skepticism from both the general public and the medical community. Though acupuncture needles have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration as medical tools, most herbs and herbal supplements have not been approved because of high testing costs of the FDA and many alternative medicine practitioners' inability to receive patents on their products.
Some think alternative medicine is based on nothing but a placebo effect. I'll admit finding medical evidence to back up the claims of alternative medical success was nearly impossible. $ Q_{i} $ and meridians are not defined as anatomical processes; they are explained as more of a guidance tool for practitioners. It's clear that people have found huge success from alternative medicine, but figuring out how
exactly that success is attained is a little fuzzier.
It wasn't until the next afternoon after my appointment that I noticed my shoulders felt better. I sat through a lecture for the first time in years without feeling a twinge of pain shoot down my scapula. I immediately wondered if it was all in my head because I just couldn't find a way to explain the absence of discomfort. A pain that had become a sort of hated companion in my life was just ... gone.
Shanna Nguyen is aware of the stigma and assumption of a placebo effect attached to alternative medicine.
"People label it as some sort of witchcraft or voodoo practice," she says."And I do think about a possible placebo effect, like we're just helping the person believe they can help themselves."
But its followers swear alternative medicine has life-changing abilities and monthlong waiting lists at acupuncture centers, chiropractors and reflexologists give evidence that there may be something to all of this "voodoo witchcraft."
The 2007 National Health Interview Survey, conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and released last December, indicated that four out of 10, or 182 million, U.S. adults and children had used some form of alternative medicine treatments in the past year, compared with the 2002 survey where three out of 10, or 101 million people, sought alternative medicine care.
"I don't know how to explain it other than saying that I simply feel healthier" she says."And when I do get sick I feel like the reflexology, through the stimulation of organs, helps me to recover quickly and without medications."
Sims cannot pinpoint how her reflexology treatments have provided her with relief, but she knows something positive is happening to her body.
Many practitioners strive to combine alternative medicine with traditional, Western medicine. Kim Nguyen, a licensed acupuncturist and herbalist, works for East West Medicine in Falls Church, Virginia, where an M.D. works downstairs and licensed acupuncturists work upstairs.
"My goal and vision is that they can exist is the same realm, offering health care services to the public," she says.
She says having a medical doctor under the same roof has given her exposure to traditional medicine, which enhances her own alternative medicine practices. Medical care should always be the choice of the patient. She says it's not up to any particular field to decide what path of healing is best for a person.
Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, opened its Integrative Pain Management clinic six years ago and offers patients alternative medicine options such as acupuncture, reflexology, therapeutic massage and hypnosis as an adjunct to their traditional medical treatments. Joy Weydert,
Photo Illustration by Jerry Wang
Alternative medicine uses healing techniques, such as acupuncture and reflexology, to address a person's entire being, not just his or her physical health.
M. D. and chief of the clinic, says patients' underlying problems aren't often addressed with medical care alone. She says alternative medicine brings balance to a person's life by attending to physical, mental, emotional and spiritual components of his or her being.
The beauty of alternative medicine is that it is what it says it is: an alternative choice. Health is not black and white and the path to wellness
may require different options and different attitudes.
After talking to Kristie Martin about her reflexology business and hearing story after story of people finding relief from her services, she said to me before we wung up. "You have a promising future, Madeline. I can just feel it."
Pain or no pain, I'll take that kind of reassurance over an immunization any day.
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Here's my constant dilemma. I go out with a lot of girls, but it usually doesn't make it past the first date or two. After I decide I don't want to date them, I always get confused about how to proceed. Do I just stop answering their calls and texts, which seems rude? Or, do I have to actually tell them that I'm not interested, which again sounds rude and a little presumptuous after just a date or two. I'm trying to do the mature yet polite and kind thing.
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Carly: Kudos for wanting to do the "mature yet polite and kind thing." As far as what exactly the "mature yet polite and kind thing" is, I'm not sure. As you said, ignoring calls and text messages is rude. Plus, it puts extra—and unnecessary—stress on the girl, who will wonder why you're not calling. If I were one of these girls, I would appreciate a direct approach. It may seem rude, but it's effective. This may sound heartless and very anti-girl of me, but a simple text would suffice. There really is no reason to make a big production out of things—it has only been one or two dates. Just say something like, "I had fun with you, but I didn't really feel a connection." My only word of caution is to make sure you say something that won't make a chance encounter with this girl extremely awkward. Keep it plain and simple.
Elliot: Look, if you're not interested after two dates, you're not interested. Also, stop with the false modesty. If you were really beating yourself up for being presumptuous, you would have changed your standard operating procedure by now. As for how to share your point of view with the person, it's fairly simple: be honest and tactful. Point out that you like her but not in a romantic context. In all likelihood, the other person will agree. If not, then the dynamic was flawed from the start. You can't simply ignore phone calls. That's when things devolve from an understandably dead-end dating situation into you being an asshole. Man up. Answer the phone and speak your mind. The honesty you're showing these potential mates will only build and strengthen so that, by the time you've found someone with potential, you won't self-sabotage by being less than truthful.
My brother just got out of a long relationship. The other night, he called me, telling me he thought he was suddenly bisexual because so many girls were hitting on him and he wasn't interested in any of them. What do I tell him?
Amanda, freshman
Carly: Your brother is freaking out a little bit. I'd tell him to take a breath and calm down. If he just got out of a long-term relationship, of course he wouldn't be interested in other girls. However, if his recent ex called him up and asked for a post-breakup booty call, I'm sure he'd go over there running. Your brother isn't bisexual; at the risk of sounding cheesy, he's just heart-broken.Tell him to quit being such a baby about these girls hitting on him. If anything, it should be comforting. Just because they're hitting on him does not mean he has to accept their advances. He should take it as a sign that there are plenty of fish in the sea, as the old saying goes, and when he's ready to start diving again, there will be someone waiting for him.
Elliot: Your brother is not bisexual. He's an emotional train wreck. After people get out of long relationships, it takes a long while to find out which way is up again. Your brother didn't want any of the girls who hit on him because none of them were his ex. And, of course, they never will be. For a while, it may seem to him as if women aren't attractive. Tell him that this too shall pass and that things will heal. Time and time again, people write Bitch & Moan questions that address the same universal theme: things take time. And whether your brother spends that time having fun and meeting people is his choice. If it were me, I'd choose fun. Your role in all of this will be giving him a healthy dose of perspective in any way he needs. Later on, he'll thank you for it.
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The two met when placed into the same team for a group scavenger hunt. "I noticed him right away," Kyle says. "I thought he was really cute."
John also noticed her immediately. He told all the other guys in the group to keep their distance.
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Throughout the course of the scavenger hunt, the two teased one another, argued over who got to ride shotgun, and generally flirted until Kyle decided to pull a prank on John at one of the final stops. A clue on the scavenger hunt was to take a picture of the Chi Omega Fountain. But Kyle, reading to John, interpreted the instructions differently.
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When her job working at a daycare became too stressful, Allison Ortego started looking for something a little more fun. Now, the Wichita senior gets paid for sitting behind a cash register surrounded by dildos and condoms and for helping people pick out vibrators.
Ortego works at Crilla's, 1026 West 23rd Street. Most of her job is helping people at the register, she says, but when people ask for a recommendation. Ortego knows what she's talking about. She says that her bosses didn't really give her much training about the products, but that she wouldn't have applied for the job if she didn't already know what most of the products in the store were.
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Lily Allen's second album, It's Not Me,It's You, is a whirlwind of Allen's emotions and commentaries on the world around her, from fame to family and from drugs to religion. For her second album.Allen has become more reflective but still delivers her fun,candid songs with the same wit and sarcasm seen on her first album, Alright, Still.
In her first single, "The Fear," Allen sings, "I don't care about clever/I don't care about funny". However, she still manages to be both. When her boyfriend fails to "make her scream," she sings about it (as in "Not Fair"). She sings about the good relationships and she sings about the bad. Allen's serious topics, such as her remarks about pills and cocaine in her track "Everyone's At It," are balanced by light-hearted lyrics like the ones in "Chinese," about her desire to "get Chinese and watch TV" with her boyfriend.
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MLB Front Office Manager brings a new aspect to the realm of sporting games. The gamer no longer plays as the athlete, but as the general manager who hand-selects the 40-man roster of a baseball club. Sounds intriguing, right? Sadly, it is too good to be true. As the general manager, the gamer is able to negotiate contracts with players, develop trades with rival teams, create the pitching rotation and make calls in a game. Front Office Manager does not lack in choices. The gamer is even able to scout in Japan and partake in bidding wars.
Though this game is entertaining in the beginning, the game's downfall is how time consuming and complex it becomes. Playing more than 100 individual games of baseball becomes repetitive and the hundreds, of players makes a trade take too long.
However, the game isn't completely negative. Gamers can make calls in an actual game. Unlike a regular baseball game, the gamer can control how the team plays. Using knowledge and strategy could easily increase the probability of a successful season.
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William Elliott Whitmore's voice is quite deceiving. Just listening to him, you'd think he was a seasoned blues musician who grew up in the Mississippi Delta during some of the toughest times in American history.
Not so. Instead, Whitmore is a Lee County, Iowa, native who has just barely crossed the 30-year-old threshold. Before the release of his record, Animals in the Dark, on February 17 and the beginning of his tour on Valentine's Day, Whitmore took a few minutes from a day off to chat with Jayplay.
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William Elliott Whitmore will be at the Jackpot Music Hall on February 23.
After one of my friends heard you for the first time, he said, 'Who knew a white boy could produce such soulful blues?' Do you get that reaction a lot?
(Laughs) I do, and you know, I'm honored that anyone would be caught off guard by it. I'm just thankful that anyone would want
to listen, first of all. I'm not sure what [that comment] means, but I take it as a compliment that they think I'm going to be a 90-year-old black guy. That's a kick ass compliment when you're a musician and an aspiring songwriter.
On your new CD, you have a bigger band playing with you than on previous CDs. Are you going to be touring with a band this year, or can we still expect just you on stage?
During the first week of the record release shows, I'll be playing with some really good friends of mine. They're in a band called The Shadow Government. They're going to open for me and play with me as well. But I will be playing a lot of the set by myself. That's how I enjoy it most. It's what I'm used to doing. I thought it'd be interesting to have a band play some of the songs like they are on the new record. I want to keep it new for people, keep it fresh and maybe have it be a bit challenging
as well. But I don't want it to be like Bob Dylan showing up with an electric guitar and all you wanted to hear was "Blowin" in the Wind."
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Anyone who listens to even a tiny bit of your music knows your love for whiskey. What do you prefer to drink?
Hell, I don't know any of the really nice brands. I'd have to say my favorite is Templeton Rye. It's made right here in Iowa, which is how I got turned on to it. It's the only distillery—well, the only legal distillery—in Iowa. The word is that it was one of Al Capone's favorites, and he would drive to Iowa just to bootleg it back to Chicago. But I don't discriminate. I'll drink any kind.
What do you like to do when you stop in Lawrence?
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William Elliott Whitmore plays the banjo and acoustic guitar. He has sampled Snoop Dogg, Rockmaster Scott and The Dynamic Three.
Oh man, I love coming to Lawrence. It's like a second home to me. I like to go play some pinball at the Replay and have a few beers. I'll
go instrument shopping at the various local music shops. I go record shopping at the Love Garden. It's one of my favorite record stores in the world. I hang out down by the river.There's a great park down by the river that I like to go to and get some peace of mind.And then of course,I get to the show and have a grand time.
Is it hard to play a show when people keep giving you shots on stage? Do you ever just wish they'd stop?
What's one thing you want people who haven't heard you before to know about you and your music?
(Laughs) Actually, that happens a lot in Lawrence. I've got so many good friends down there and I've played so many times over the past 10 years. I love it in the fact that it's people reaching out to you in a certain way. They might not know what else to do—especially guys. We don't know how to communicate sometimes, so the shot does the talking. It's like saying, 'Hey buddy, nice work.' But shit, iain't 21 no more. I do love my whiskey but I can't be blacking out on stage. It used to be that I didn't care at all. I would down every single one faster than you can hand it to me. But I want to put on a good show for people.
They should know that everything I write comes from my heart, and I want to share it with the world. I want to put my little drop in the ocean of great music out there in hopes that maybe someone can draw something positive and thought-provoking out of it. Music
is my religion, and I really enjoy making music. Anyone that can take someone positive from it makes me so happy. If people love it, then there's love all around.
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Twin sisters, Emily and Alex Akers, Prairie Village seniors, are opening up their own dueling piano bar in downtown Lawrence. They hope to provide a classy atmosphere that welcomes more than just college students.
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Duo's bar to have dueling pianos
BY MICHELLE SPREHE
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Ivory and beer will come together when The Barrel House, a new dueling piano bar, opens in Lawrence in March.
Twins Emily and Alex Akers, Prairie Village seniors, spoke with their business partner Danny Williams on New Year's Day about opening the bar. It will be located at the corner of Seventh and New Hampshire streets, where Last Call used to reside.
Now, construction and painting are under way, and the young entrepreneurs are looking for nine to 12 pianists to play at the bar.
"They obviously have to have a huge personality and can't be slay." Alex said. "And they have to know
what they're doing and how to get the audience involved
The dueling piano concept features two pianists sitting at pianos facing each other as they play song requests from the audience. Requests accompanied by tips go to the top of the list the bigger the tip, the faster the song will get played.
"For the majority of dueling piano bars, there's a list of about 300 songs the player has to know," Alex said. "And weld love for the players to know most of those."
Last year, Emily went to a dueling piano bar in San Antonio during the Final Four, an experience which helped inspire the sisters' business venture.
Faris from all four of the teams were there competing with tips to get their fight song played. Emily said.
"We think that every college town should have one, especially with Kansas and K-State and Mizouall being so close and playing here," Alex said. "The rivalry is just intense and to have basketball and football during that time and people in here, it'll be a blast."
Inside the bar there will be four V.I.P. balconies — two smaller and two larger — which will overlook the stage. Barrels will be placed all around the bar and the walls will be painted with red, black and some tan to give the bar an "old classy feel."
Alex said the name Barrel House, which was what the clubs were referred to about 70 years ago, came from a family friend.
"Back in the 1930s and 1940s, they were underground jazz clubs and eventually in the night they
would break out into improv piano music." Alex said.
The money to get the Barret House running came from three private investors and will be paid back, Alex said.
To ensure that Alex and Emily would have financial security, their dad made a rule that each of them has to find an additional job.
"I don't know if that's going to happen quite as early as bed like," Emily said. "My biggest worry I've had is finding a job after college — and it's here."
Wallace Meyer, director of entrepreneurship programs at the School of Business, said although starting a business is hard work, it can be rewarding for entrepreneurs to do what they love.
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The Barrel House is scheduled to open March 26.
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Students' fees won't increase next year
BY BRIANNE PFANNENSTIEL
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Students paid $414.70 in required campus fees this year, and for the first time in nearly a decade, that number won't increase next year.
Student Body President Adam McGonigle announced Thursday that Student Senate would not be raising student fees by any percentage.
"We want to be sensitive to the pocketbooks of students who can't afford any increase and who are already struggling." McGonigle said.
The Kansas Board of Regents said in a December meeting that it only had plans to increase tuition by a minimal amount next year. Required campus fees are figured into any tuition increase approved by the Regents. By not requesting a fee increase, McGonigle said, all of the increases proposed by the Regents would go to tuition, which directly funds academics.
"In these economic times we have to prioritize academics over campus life aspects of the University right now." McGonigle said. "We've had a lot of fee increases that have done great things for the University but it's not responsible to do that right now. Not when teachers are losing their jobs."
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Some students say they are pleased the University has decided to do something about rising fee costs.
"I think that's a great compromise that the University has reached," Kayleigh Nichols, Independence senior, said.
Certain organizations on campus, however, will need an increased budget in order to maintain the level of services they currently provide to students. These organizations include the Amber Student Recreation Fitness Center and Watkins Memorial Health
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Students' artwork on display
Red Door Art Gallery teaches behind-the-scenes work, gives experience
BY JENNIFER TORLINE jtorline@kansan.com
"It was so epic that I felt that I needed to draw it," Kelly, Tulsa, Okla., senior and printmaking major, said.
For Alicia kelly, it all started when she took a bite of durian, a type of Malaysian fruit.
For student artists with drawings in the "Salty Dogs" exhibition of The Red Door Art Gallery, inspiration came in forms ranging from politics to books to nature.
Kelly recreated the image of the durian in what would become one of her biggest and most progressive
The Red Door Art Gallery is a student-run gallery in Kansas City's Crossroads Arts District where students can learn the behind-the-scenes work of an art gallery, said Kristi Arnold, gallery director and artist lecturer. Arnold said it also gave the students the chance to venture out of the Lawrence area and gain experience with the art scene in Kansas City.
Her drawing has joined an exhibition of 40 other pieces of artwork by KU students at the Red Door Art Gallery located at 1735 Walnut Ave. in Kansas City, Mo.
The exhibition, "Salty Dogs,"
drawings.
features drawings and two-dimensional artwork by students who took associate art professor Michael Krueger's "Advanced Drawing" course last fall. The show opened on Feb. 6, during Kansas City's First Fridays event, and will be open through Feb. 28.
"The work displayed is really a mixture of approaches to contemporary drawing," Krueger said. "The students stayed true to themselves with the utmost integrity."
After featuring some of the student drawings in Lawrence galleries, Knueger said he requested to
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Alicia Kelly, Tulsa, OKla., senior, shows one of her four pieces of artwork she chose for "Salty Dogs." The exhibition stays open until the end of the month. Students, faculty and alumni can submit work to be put on display at the gallery.
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Kerry did not meet with anyone from Hamas, which the U.S. shuns as a terrorist group, and used the visit to urge the group to end its violent campaign against Israel.
2. Tourists able to escape violence in Caribbean
BASSE-TERRE, Guadeloupe Tourists stuck at hotels as violent protests swept this Caribbean island began flying out on Thursday after police pulled down barricades following a third night
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy made a televised appeal for an end to the violence and announced a $730 million financial package to help development in the overseas parts of his nation, including Guadeloupe and Martinique.
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KRAKOW, Poland — U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday played down Kyrgyzstan's moves to kick the United States off a strategic air base and said he was willing to negotiate higher rent to stay.
Speaking hours after Kyrgyzstan's parliament voted 78-1 to evict the U.S. military, Gates said the Central Asian base — which sends some 500 tons of supplies to the Afghanistan war each month — is important. But he said it's not irreplaceable.
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MERTZON.Texas — Millions of wild pigs weighing up to 300 pounds have been tearing up crops, trampling fences and eating just about anything in their path in Texas. But now they had better watch their hairy backs.
A state lawmaker is proposing to allow ordinary Texans to shoot the animals from helicopters.
For years, ranchers in the Lone Star State have hired professional hunters in choppers to thin the hogs fast-multiplying ranks. Now state Rep. Sid Miller of the Fort Worth area wants to bring more firepower to the task by issuing permits to sportsmen.
5. 9-year-old boypleads guilty in homicide case
ST. JOHNS, Ariz. — A 9-year-old boy accused of methodically
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Under a plea agreement, he pleaded guilty in the death of the roommate and charges of premeditated murder for both deaths were dropped. Police said the boy used a .22-caliber rifle to shoot the men as they returned home from work Nov. 5.
6. One killed, 16 injured in tornadoes Thursday
ATLANTA — One person was killed and at least 16 were injured when fierce thunderstorms swept Georgia and Alabama, bringing tornadoes, hail and lightning and downing trees and power lines, authorities said Thursday.
At least three tornadoes touched down in central Georgia.
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Terrebonne Po-Boys and Desserts 805 Vermont
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**Signature dish:** Po-Boys, $7-$8
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The po-boy is a sandwich that has a spicy Cajun sauce and lettuce on it. Usually they have some kind of seafood on them. The food is made-to-order, so there is waiting time involved.
The pleasant employees take the time to chat with guests while making their meals, and although there is one table where guests can eat, it seems most take their meals on-the-go. The restaurant is open for lunch during the week and lunch and dinner on the weekends.
Review: Terrebonne does a different take on traditional lunch. Since almost all its food is carryout, guests walk In and order at the counter from a diverse menu of homemade soups and salads, sandwiches, barbecue
The po-boy tasted just as expected: delicious alligator, with a strong seasoning, but not too much bite. The alligator basically tastes like fried chicken, only a bit chewier.
The grilled cheese was a pleasant surprise because of the pesto and pepper flavoring. Their homemade desserts are always changing.
Terrebonne Bo-Po-Boys and Desserts, 805 Vermont, is a nontraditional to-go restaurant offering a diverse menu. It specializes in Cajun-flavored po-boys.
Terrebonne is also a great value because some sides, such as
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This restaurant would make a great pick for anyone looking to have a value gourmet lunch on the run.
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A cast of seven women, wearing dresses in seven colors of the rainbow, will take the stage this weekend to delve into the many shades of complicated issues.
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Koga Moffor, Overland Park senior, Cali Gilman, Olathe alumna, and Brittany Barney, Paola sophomore, rehearses Tuesday for the Multicultural Theatre Initiative's production of "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered When the Rainbow is Enuf." The play runs Friday and Saturday pitts, and Sunday afternoon at the Lawrence Arts Center.
This weekend the Multicultural Theatre Initiative will present its second production, "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf," a play written by Ntozake Shange. DeAndrea Herron, executive director of the MTI, said the play illuminated the identity of women in America as the characters revealed themselves — their lives, triumphs, hardships and ultimately their discovery of inner strength and love.
WHERE: Lawrence Arts Center
The play is a compilation of monologues, poetry and music. The characters describe their relationships with men, friends, their community and themselves. It is set in a time when segregation
"It is a lot about coming into your own; whatever you have gone through as a woman, it's about finding yourself," Moffor said.
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Koga Moffor, Overland Park senior, is playing the Lady in Blue. She said she thought the situations portrayed would resonate with audience members, whether they knew someone who had gone through something similar or experienced it firsthand.
Doors open 30 minutes before the show begins.
and prejudice were prominent. The play addresses issues such as abortion, bad relationships, virginity and rape.
"You have to give your whole self to this and jump in feet first, not being afraid to fall," Herron said.
Some actresses are veterans, while this will be Moffor's first acting experience.
"We have a wide array of experience in acting going on in this play. I think that makes it very real," Moffor said. "Not only is the material interesting, funny, heartbreaking, empowering, and striking, but also you will see an amazingly diverse cast and seasoned actresses and other people who are completely new to it. It should be great."
Herron said that she had wanted to either perform the play or direct it and that this experience was a dream come true.
"This has been an amazing expe-
frience for all of us. The cast is simply beautiful and I sincerely mean that," Herron said. "They bring so many diverse qualities to this show. It has been a journey for all of us."
women voice the events in their lives, but the play gives a voice to some topics that have been silent. Herron said.
Herron said she saw herself and women in her life portrayed through stories in the play. Not all
"Being surrounded by women in my life who have been pushed to the limit but have stood strong and come out on top is why I do this
Felicia Fairley, 2008 graduate, is playing the Lady in Red. Fairley said the play had strong language and adult content, and a profound message for those mature enough to handle it.
show', Herron said, "If they can make it, we all can."
"Although I have graduated from the University, I still get the satisfaction of being a part of a wonderful production," Fairley said. "This is a powerful piece that I feel all students should see."
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Lawmakers promise to oppose tax hikes, citing bad economy
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Why did it take California lawmakers so long to pass a budget to close the state's $42 billion deficit? To find one reason, look about 3,000 miles east to an office in Washington.
Anti-tax advocate Grover Norquist has been persuading lawmakers across the country to sign a pledge to vote against any and all tax increases.
Norquist said one in six state
"Serve and protect the state not loot it," the president of Americans for Tax Reform said in an interview this week.
lawmakers across the country has signed his Taxpayer Protection Pledge. Members of Congress, governors and attorneys general also have signed it.
In California, 40 of the 44 Republicans in the Legislature — and not one of the 75 Democrats — have signed on. And nearly every one of the GOP lawmakers refused to break their vow even as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a fellow Republican, warned of "financial Armagedon" unless the two-year tax-raising budget was approved. He said that the deficit was so big it could not be closed with cuts alone and that those who thought so had "a big math problem."
The final spending plan to close California's shortfall from June 2010 includes $12.8 billion in higher sales, personal income and auto taxes.
"I'm not voting for the budget because I signed a tax tangle; I'm
not voting for the bill because raising taxes will devastate our economy for all Californians," said state Sen. Tony Strickland of Thousand Oaks, one of those who kept their word.
Some Democratic lawmakers see the no-tax pledge taken by their counterparts as irresponsible and an obstacle to compromise.
"The signature clearly abrogates the legislative responsibility which voters entrusted to them," said Sen. Mark Leno, a Democrat from San Francisco. "It's as stupid as my signing a pledge that I'll never make cuts."
As if to underscore that point, many of those who signed Norquisit's pledge are finding they have to backpedal as the nation's recession deepens and they are left with few options to close gaping budget deficits.
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exhibit the work at the Red Door Art Gallery.
Since its opening in August, the gallery has held seven exhibitions featuring artwork from KU students, faculty and alumni.
The "Salty Dogs" title for this month's show came from Andrew Burkitt of Lawrence, who graduated in December and took Krueger's class. Burkitt said that the title came from a 1930s blues song that connected with the show's artwork.
"A lot of drawings in the show have a little saltier way to looking at things than typical fine art." Burkitt said.
Burkitt said some of the "saltier" artwork included a drawing of a girl throwing up in a toilet and a drawing of someone's head with gutters for guts.
Burkitt has four drawings in the show, all of which have an ecological theme and center around the environment. He used colored pencils, watercolor and pen and ink to create one drawing of children in a landfill and another piece of art inspired by the clean coal issue in Kansas.
Images of Teddy Roosevelt and Arnold Schwarzenegger are present in Andrew llikas three drawings in the exhibition.
Jilka. Salina senior and print-making major, used pen and ink and colored pencil to create drawings that deal with hyper-mascu
linity and how it has shaped the way Americans think about life.
"Everybody to an extent can
relate to drawings because at some point everybody has made a drawing, even if you were four years old" he said. "It makes it a little easier to relate to the audience if it's a medium they're familiar with."
"The work displayed is really a mixture of approaches to contemporary drawing."
MICHAEL KRUEGER Associate art professor
Kelly said one of the joys of creating art was seeing where it took
two-dimensional surface.
Kelly's durian drawing is one of four pieces she chose for the show. She said a lot of her artwork featured organic and abstract shapes from nature. She often sees above her pen and ink drawings to create a three dimensional texture on a
her and watching it progress, even if her artwork often feels unfinished.
The "Salty Dogs" exhibition is open
by appointment only. To make an appointment, contact Kristi Arnold at klarnold@ku.edu.
"I think that's how it should be because it's like stair steps," Kelly said. "You're constantly striving for the next step"
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In order to make up for those costs without raising fees, McGonigle said, all required campus fees would be closely scrutinized over the next month by a fee review board of student senators. Some fees would have to be cut or reduced in order to provide more funding to those organizations that need an increased budget.
There are several fees that can't be reduced because they fund construction projects that have not yet been paid off. Some
of these include the Student Union building fee and the fee to fund recreational facilities.
McGonigle recommended to the fee review committee that the campus media fee and the campus safety fee be closely scrutinized. If both fees were to be cut it would free up $5.75 from each student's semester total. That money could be redistributed to Watkins and the recreation center.
Brian Hardouin, Topeka graduate student and chairman of the Fee Review Committee, said those fees were being looked at because they did not directly affect people's jobs.
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A smiling, outgoing man wearing plastic devil horns jokingly heckles the small audience in front of him. He's trying to get them to part with more of their money — for a good cause, he says.
"Come on, guys," he says, urging them to increase their bids in an auction for the rights to his own soul. "Satan says community service is good."
The man is Joey Ralph, Hutchinson sophomore and vice president of the Society of OpenMinded Atheists and Agnostics. He's hocking his soul — or rather, his commitment to serve 50 hours of community service with the group of the winning bidder's choice — to raise money for the Douglas County AIDS Project.
Ralph organized and served as devilish auctioneer of SOMA's fifth annual "Soul Auction." held
in the Kansas Union last night. Group members selling themselves committed to various services such as tutoring, cooking, cleaning, doing community service, going out on dates and attending church services in exchange for donations, half of which went to SOMA and half to DCAP.
The event, Ralph said, was part of the small but longstanding groups recent and upcoming efforts to bolster its size and increase awareness of its message.
"There's a perception out there that people who don't have religion don't have very good morals," Ralph said. "We're trying to put out a good name out there for atheists and agnostics."
A 2008 study by the Pew Research Center found that 54 percent of Americans questioned said they had "an unfavorable view" of people without religious beliefs. Ralph said his group was small, but growing, and that he felt negative perceptions were slowly
but surely decreasing.
Paul Mirecki, associate professor of religious studies and SOMAs faculty adviser, said the auction was the group's "tongue-in-cheek" effort to poke fun at negative stereotypes of atheists and agnostics as "soulless" people.
"It's a humorous idea to people who don't believe — how can they auction off something that they don't have?" Mirecki said. "It's playing into the idea of the soul as a social conception, but it's not meant to offend."
Mirecki said challenges to the religious majority in America "are not usually appreciated."
"This is unfortunate," he said, "because these kind of institutions should be open to criticism — after all, what would America be without challenging the system?"
Clayton Perkins, Overland Park junior and SOMA president, said one of the group's main aims was to provide a social network and community for students interested
in getting involved in a club but not interested in religion.
The student involvement and Leadership Center has more than 15 registered campus groups relating to religion, many of which are related to Christianity.
Jason Badgett, Paola junior and president of campus Christians, said he didn't support a lack of religious faith, but did support the group and its fundraising efforts
"I don't think anybody should feel rejected or feel like they don't have a place to belong," Badgett said.
Ralph said SOMA had been poorly organized in the past, but that he and Perkins were excited about the group's future and plan to hold bigger and more ambitious events, including hosting religious speakers and more social events.
Ralph's 50 hours of community service went for $30. In total, the group raised $193.
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MIAMI — A one-time security guard was convicted Thursday of murder, kidnapping and other charges for his role in the 2007 hijacking of the "joe Cool" charter boat at sea and killing of four people whose bodies were never found.
Guillermo Zarabozo, 21, sat stonefaced as he was found guilty of 16 charges, including four first-degree murder counts that carry mandatory life sentences.
Zarabozo was convicted of plotting the "loe Cool" takeover with Kirby Archer, 37, an Arkansas fugitive who previously pleaded guilty. Authorities say they paid $4,000 for what was supposed to be a short trip to Bimini, Bahamas, then fatally shot the boat's captain, his wife and two crew members and changed course for Cuba.
Zarabozo's mother, weeping and visibly distraught, declined to speak with reporters, as did Zarabozo's defense attorneys. U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta issued a short statement praising the efforts of prosecutors Karen Gilbert, Jeffrey Tsai and Michael Gilfarb and investigators from various agencies.
Killed were captain Jake Branam, 27; his wife, Kelley Branam, 30; and crew members Scott Gamble, 35, and Samuel Kairy, 27. The Branams left behind two small children who now live with Kelley Branam's sister.
lake's cousin, Jonathan Branam,
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Their scheme failed when the boat ran out of fuel a few miles outside Cuban waters. The two men were eventually rescued adrift in the life raft from the "Joe Cool."
Zarabozo was convicted of conspiracy; four counts each of first degree murder and kidnapping
robbery; hijacking and violence aboard a ship; and four weapons charges.
"He took four people who were very close to me away from me," Jonathan Branam said. "This is a
big closure for me. I'm really happy it's over."
U. S. District Judge Paul Huck set sentencing for May 6.
Testifying in his own defense, Zarabozo blamed the killings soley on Archer and said he thought they were going to Bimini for a lacurative security job that would lead to CIA work in Cuba. Zarabozo admitted bringing his 9 mm Glock pistol aboard the boat but said he never shot anyone, and that Archer threatened to kill him as well.
Both men initially told investigators the "Joe Cool" had been set upon at sea by Cuban pirates who had killed the four people, but Archer later admitted that was a lie.
Prosecutors, however, had evidence that Zarabozo was a willing participant in the plot. New evidence for the second trial included computer messages and chats between Zarabozo and his friends indicating he was planning a trip to Cuba and might turn up on news reports as a missing person.
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CHARLIE HOOGNER
How are classes going?
Okay, I feel as if I am right on the cusp of something
Oh yeah?
If someone would just take me under their wing, I could learn a lot more and unlock what I've been intellectually seeking
Don't you already have wings?
I never thought of it like that
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SKETCHBOOK
Through gritted teeth, I told 'em.
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WRITER'S BLOCK PARTY
That was the best metal concert I've even been to!
Most brutal
Ya know, I really don't see how people think that metal can be a negative influence.
Truly, it is the burden metal must bear.
I kinda want to buy a black hood and sacrifice a goat!
I'm going to find the nearest guillotine vendor!
JASON HAFLICH
TELEVISION
Tearful Del Toro headlines
9 dismissals from 'Idol'
LOS ANGELES — Tatiana Del Toro had something else to cry about. The emotional 28-year-old crooner from San Juan, Puerto Rico, was one of nine "American Idol" seminalists booted Wednesday.
Del Toro, whom judge Simon Cowell called a "drama queen"
after her performance Tuesday, bawled after she wasn't selected to continue in the "Fox" singing competition.
"It's up to America," she told host Ryan Seacrest before the results. "It's up to the power of love."
No tears were shed by the first three finalists of season eight:
Alexis Grace, the soullful 21-year-old single mother from Memphis,
Tenn.; Michael Sarver, the beefy 27-year-old oil rig worker from
Recent widower Gokey overwhelmed the judges with Mariah Carey's "Hero" at the conclusion of Tuesday's episode. They were also impressed with Grace's take on Aretha Franklin's "Never Loved a Man."
Jasper, Texas; and Danny Gokey, the spikey-haired 28-year-old church music director from Milwaukee. The tri received the most viewer votes.
10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
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You don't really like being told what to do, but maybe you need the coaching. Accept advice from a person who's already achieved the skills you admire. Don't argue.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 7
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Today is an 8
A lucky break for a friend is also to your benefit. Of course, you love it when something good happens to somebody special. Do even more than help them celebrate.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21) Today is 6
Today is a 6 Better get back to business again; big money could be at stake. Barter for good benefits now. They're what's available, and they're worth their weight in gold.
CANCER (June 22-July 22)
Today is an 8.
Your life ought to be easier for the next few weeks. It's also a good time to travel and sign up for online classes. Expand your mind and also your experience.
Today is a 7
How can you cut expenses to keep your business viable? There are lots of ways, actually, and it's up to you to choose. If you don't do it, nobody will.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is a 7
Go through the items on your lists, and cross off whatever you can. Set priorities and feel confident. You're on the right track now. Or pretty close to it.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 7
It's tough, but you have the support from people you respect. They think you can do it, so prove them right. It'll be a win for all concerned.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is an 8
Today is an 8
You're almost compelled to succeed. You're getting a tailwind. It's easier now. So stop with the ruminating, OK?
Take creative action. Follow your passion.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is a 7
Take care of family first and they'll take care of you. That's the time-honored way and, amazingly, it still works. This might deplete your cash in hand, but it also increases your comfort.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 10)
Today is an 8
Your curiosity has been aroused. You're not sure what you're looking for, which shouldn't bother you in the least. You don't even know what you don't know. You're in the discovery process.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.18) Today is a 6
One of the problems with being really creative is the tendency to take off in several directions at the same time. You have a plan. Work the plan. Don't get goofy now. Avoid distractions.
Something you've been saving has been increasing in value. You can cash it in, if you want, or hang onto it a while longer. Now figure out what it is.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is an 8
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13 Will Smith biopic
14 Impressive setup
15 Recede
16 Human-lion-dragon hybrid
18 Copper head?
19 Villain's look
20 Radiator noise
22 Historic time
23 "Bye Bye Birdie" song
27 Frequently
29 "Deal or No Deal" host
31 Acid type
34 Spacious
35 Way
37 Moment
38 Shetland, for one
39 Midafternoon, in a way
41 Beneficent
45 Bread
47 — juice (milk)
48 Woody Allen movie
52 Present topper
53 Wanted-poster datum
54 Time of your life?
55 Work with
56 Furrier's wares
57 Wield a needle
58 Conger or moray
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1 West Indian magic
2 Synagogue VIP
3 Infants
4 St. Louis squad
5 Mars, e.g.
6 Clemen-tine's dad, e.g.
7 Poker holding
8 Joan of —
9 Expert
10 Anvil site
11 Alternative to white
14 Down, e.g.
21 One of the Corleones
Solution time: 27 mins.
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Have you ever had second thoughts about checking somebody out on campus? did
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According to my Strength of Materials professor today, relationships are no good if the length isn't several times the diameter.
Is it me, or has it been getting colder ever since the president of the United States signed the giveaway handout package?
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Dear English teacher: How about for once you show up to class.
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An old bald guy is sleeping in my class. Why would he go to college to fall asleep again?
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The wind is my ultimate pet peeve.
Is it bad that my girlfriend watched gay porn with my dealer?
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An empty bed gives you room to stretch. I love my nice big empty bed
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To the guy in Physics 211: it's nice to have someone say hello to me every day.
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Anyone want to bowl with me? I have White Russians ..
To the gorgeous brunette who sits behind me in English 209: I would love to take you out for a very nice dinner.
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Dear English student: Be happy you don't have to go to class. Sincerely, everyone else at XU.
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STUDENT LIFE
THE SPENT EIGHT YEARS AT COLLEGE AND
EARNED TWO DEGREES.
MEET JANE. HER PARENTS WERE WELL-OFF, AND NOW
SO IS SHE.
JANE
JAMES FARMER
Internships, for a price
Parents, student and others gladly pay thousands of dollars in college tuition
doubars in college tuition to ensure a financially sound existence after graduation. The American dream is founded on the ideal that if a person works hard enough, he or she can achieve anything. A student must spend countless hours studying, network like crazy, land a few internships along the way, complete a degree and then maybe with some luck a job offer will appear. Persevere, we're told, and it'll pay off. But what if no matter how much effort you put into your aspirations, there were people out there without the grades, ambition or skills who could still snatch up opportunities you deserve?
Starting-level jobs achieved through internships are a common form of employment for fresh graduates. For most of us, achieving our dream jobs will require a combination of experience, personal zest for a subject and a decent GPA. Pretty soon "a few extra thousand dollars" may be added to that list
Turns out there's a fast track where some students get to skip over all the aches and pains, but still achieve the goals of their more dedicated peers.
In her article "internships For Sale" in the Wall Street Journal, Ellen Gamerman exposed the disturbing tactic some are using to get ahead. Rather than applying for an internship position the
THINGS OF RELEVANCE RICHELLE BUSER
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old-fashioned way, ritzy parents now have the option of buying their child an internship at auctions across the U.S. Of course these auctions are usually found at only the most elite universities and high schools. These parents are willing to spend ridiculous amounts of money. For example, a one-week internship at Electronic Arts sold for a whopping $4,000 during an auction at the Urban School of San Francisco. This is an absolutely unfair advantage.
Sadly, auctions are just the beginning Timothy Noah of Slate magazine writes in his article "Opportunity for Sale" that organizations like University of Dreams will guarantee an internship — for a price. Of course, University of Dreams says students are simply paying a "tuition fee" ranging from $5,000 to $10,000. That's not far from the cost of in-state tuition for a semester at the University. As if those who can afford to buy internships aren't already benefiting from their financial stability (i.e., affording the best universities, tutors and housing).
With the current economic
situation, many students are feeling the pressure to ensure jobs after graduation. Terrified at the thought of another summer without an internship, desperate students may do whatever it takes to build a resume and eventually land a job, even if it means forking out some extra cash. Companies taking advantage of students' desires to succeed by selling internships is just wrong.
I thought the point of an internship was to give students experience that would assist them when establishing a career — not put them deeper in debt. I can't imagine how these companies justify exploiting an adolescent's goals.
But the students are at fault, too. After all, what is the point of spending so much money to attend college if you still have to buy your way into the work world? I also can't help but wonder how much respect interns who got their positions via mommy and daddy's money would have if their peers were aware of their situation.
If you can't land an internship on your own,maybe you should re-evaluate your dedication to school and your major — not take opportunities away from qualified individuals or encourage dishonorable companies.
Buser is a Columbia, III., junior in journalism and English.
ECONOMY
Looking for economic boosts in our backyard
R are times often elicit rare measures. It is clear our college years apply.
We may be in the midst of one of the country's most pronounced recessions, but it is far from our first or last. If history is any indication, we will recover only to find ourselves dealing with another economic mess — say in 2040.
And with exorbitant bailout and stimulus packages in Washington, and Kansas lawmakers using state employee paychecks and income tax refunds as political pawns, clearly fresh ideas will forever be welcome in dealing with economic plights at home and abroad.
"This burger is delicious," I thought, "and it's healthier than the diabetes-inducing patties at McDonald's to boot. All of its ingredients are grown and harvested locally, so could this concept be further expanded to help cure some of our local economy's ills?"
One such thought occurred to me two weeks ago between bites of an elk burger downtown at Local Burger.
Going local is often inspired by ecological concerns, but another "green" was on my mind that day. Did that burger represent an example of untapped economic potential?
Local Burger owner Hillary Brown's entrepreneurial spirit has
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led the restaurant to grow during its more than three and a half years. Community building and transparency and accountability in food production are among her top aims, but she does see a possibility for prosperity should more Lawrence businesses follow suit, she said.
"There is so much potential," Brown said. "If regions focus on what they do best and create the best products with them, then there will also be an increase in ecotourism."
Another theory often attached to buying local is that, the theoretically, if the stars aligned and we all purchased local products, producers will in turn reinvest those earnings into the local economy. Alas, with all theories nothing is guaranteed and we are more likely to find legislation pushing protectionist measures in the near future to attempt to save jobs and boost local economies.
"If local residents choose to consume more services locally, then this will indeed expand the local economy," said Joshua Rosenbloom, professor of economics. "If, however, the idea is to restrict people's choices to
How then can we prevent protectionist measures but also boost our local community's well being? And how can we boost our local economy while at the same time continuing to encourage a global market — one in which foreign companies set up shop here thus creating more American jobs?
force them to buy more goods locally this will raise costs and result overall in a loss of well being"
Localism is not to be discouraged, yet those who choose to exclusively employ local resources comprise a small portion of the population — their benefits are often a sense of personal well being rather than a true boost to the community's economy.
Though the majority of us students can do little to sway anybody on Capitol Hill, as consumers we can do our part around Campanile Hill. If we choose to buy anywhere from 10 to 50 percent (or more) of our supplies locally, we will supplant those who do so exclusively, giving local merchants an extraordinary boost and increase the chances that they do reinvest this money at home.
We still yet have the potential to play a role in helping grow our community without the need for bureaucratic imposition.
Montemayor is a Mission junior in journalism, political science and economics.
STUDENT LIFE
Banking on bread or the bottle
Pope: I can't believe it! We actually got an e-mail — I mean, I have finally chosen a submission from the 3.292 (but who's counting) possible arguments our dear readers have sent since our last desperate plea What is this feeling? Could it be love?
Snyder: I don't care what it is, just don't clog the toilet again. Let me see that letter. It looks like it's from a Mr. ... Joe Pancake? We have the best readers. Anyway, Joe faces a rather interesting predicament. With the economy tanking, he cannot decide which love deserves the last vestiges of his savings — booze or food. I know which one I'd choose.
Pope: What? Sorry, I'm three sheets to the wind right now. Since it's our first user-submitted argument, I feel this calls for a little extra something.
Pope and Snyder:
SUB-HEADING TIME!!!
**Pope:** This is going to be too easy. If you think creatively, booze can be classified as food *and* drink, which makes it much more economical than either of them separately. It practically sells itself. It's the ShamWow of vices
COST
Snyder: The last time you thought creatively, it ended with five angry policemen, your pants in a tree and a whole lot of emotionally scared third graders.
Pope: Whatever, that was the best magic trick ever.
**Snyder:** Getting back on topic, once you've calmed the rage that its commercials stir within, it becomes clear that the $5 you-knowwhat is a much better deal. Eat one every day until you die of scurvy and think of all the money you'll save for the funeral!
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Pope: I don't think I need to illustrate just how enjoyable alcohol can make even the most mundane activities. Heck, it even makes Nicolas Cage movies darnear watchable. Is there anything it can't do?
Snyder: Yeah, it can't improve your abysmal dancing skills. But while entertainment via inebration is a relatively new experience
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for most of us, playing with food has been a lifelong pastime. "Here comes the choo-choo train" was enough for us to eat our vegetables, and food fightings made the most wretched of cateria meals enjoyable. Who knows, with a little imagination maybe you could make yourself a Mrs. Joe Pancake.
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Pope: Normally, I would advise against sipping the dangerous cocktail of lectures with a booze chaser, but sometimes a little Bailey's in your coffee can really help jump-start the day.
Snyder: More like *dumpstat* your day, right? That's two poop jokes in one column. And they said it couldn't be done.
Pope: Plus, alcohol has this wonderful effect of making everyone more attractive, and honestly, who wouldn't enjoy a campus full of beautiful people? Not that it isn't already, ladies. (Call me.)
Snyder: The attractiveness only goes one way, buddy. After you show up to class drunkenly screaming for a field trip to Jimmy Johns, don't be surprised when nobody calls.
Pope: I hope we've helped answer your question, Joe. Just know that, no matter which industry you choose to support, it will be a much better investment than giving that money to Wall Street.
Snyder: You're welcome.
FROM NEW JERSEY
Pope is a Kansas City, Kan., senior in English. Snyder is a Leawood senior in English.
The cult of the Collegiate Nap
CAMILLE FRAMROZE Princeton The Daily Princetonian
You know the drill. You have a 10-page paper due at 4 p.m. With much reluctance, you sit at your desk, open up your laptop and glare murderously at the computer screen. You haven't the faintest idea what to do. You decide that the 10 minutes of intense strategyizing merits a break, and you realize that you have time for a nap! One-and-a-half hours later, having turned off the alarm, you groggy look at the time: 4:10 p.m.
The Collegiate Nap seems less like a habit and more like a crucial feature of our culture. The first thing that I did after finalizing my schedule was to check which days would offer optimal napping privileges.
One of my friends precedes each nap with a request to wake her up. But when we try, she responds venomously. "My lab got rescheduled!" "My lecture's canceled!" None of these is true. It's a weakness that she calls "sleep lying" because she never remembers saying any of this when she wakes up, furious and frantic, seven hours later.
When confronted with an essay, 200 pages of reading and a problem set, perhaps the only reasonable response is to humbly accept defeat, close your eyes and sink into blissful slumber. It makes one wonder how we'll get through the stresses of an actual job without a pillow stowed under the desk, conveniently placed for the essential six naps during an eight-hour work day.
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Pink Zone game to bring in donations
Kansas women's basketball will don pink uniforms and team up with Kansas Athletics in an effort to advance breast cancer awareness with the Pink Zone Initiative, this Sunday at noon.
The Pink Zone initiative was started in 2007 by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association to raise breast cancer awareness in women's basketball - on campuses and in communities.
this year, an increase of more than 25 percent from 2008.
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"It just shows you the depth of care that Bonnie has in relation to this issue and the empathy she has for everyone that this disease has affected," Marchionny said.
Hospital. Kansas Athletics Inc. will donate $1 for each fan attending, which will be divided between Lawrence Memorial Hospital and the University of Kansas Cancer Center. In addition to the Kansas Athletics donation, Henrickson will donate $1 out of her own pocket for every KU student in attendance.
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"We were looking for a unique way to be supportive," Henrickson said. "It's a way to create awareness with young men and women on campus."
Steven Wallace, graduate assistant manager for the women's
Associate athletics director Jim Marchiony said the event was a way for Henrickson to express her dedication to the cause.
"We were looking for a unique way to be supportive."
team, will hold Sundays game close to his heart when the team sports its pink and blue jerseys.
"it's such a big deal," Wallace said "I think it's great that so many people will be supporting it."
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When the Jayhaws traveled to Omaha, Neb., in December to face Creighton. Wallace wore a pink tie in honor of his aunt, who is currently battling breast cancer. Wallace said his aunt, an Omaha resident, trekked to the game with an oxygen tank at her side and tubes running through her nose, because Wallace asked her to be there.
"First thing I think of when I
see pink is my aunt,
Wallaces said.
"It is very gratifying to see so many people wearing pink and reinforces why we do it," Marchiony said. "We know that this is an important effort that involves a lot of people whom have been affected in one way or another."
Even though his aunt can't be at Sunday's game, Wallace said he sent her one of the pink warm-ups the team would be sporting on Sunday before the game.
North Carolina State women's coach Kay Yow was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1987. Henrickson said Yow's death in January magnified the breast-cerawareness event. Yow achieved 700 career victories throughout her battle with breast cancer.
"It is more emotional for those that knew her and understood and knew wonderful of a women she was," Henrickson said. "It brings a brighter light on the event for all of those who have participated in the event."
KU'S Katie Smith, left, and Marija Zinc cheer teammates during a February 2008 game against Nebraska. The team wore pink jerseys in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
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OPEN LETTER FROM BONNIE HENRICKSON
I am writing this letter to ask for your help in fighting breast cancer. On Sunday, Feb. 22, our Kansas women's basketball team will host Iowa State in our annual Pink Zone game. Our Jayhawks will proudly sport pink uniforms as they face the nationallyranked Cyclones in an important game in the Big 12 Conference race. More importantly, they will be assisting in finding a cure for a deadly disease.
So grab a friend or family member and head over to Allen Fieldhouse at noon this Sunday, Feb. 22, and be a part of the Jayhawks' fight against breast cancer!
Kansas Athletics has generously agreed to donate $1 for every person in attendance, with the money going to both Lawrence Memorial Hospital and the University of Kansas Cancer Center. In addition, I will donate $1 out of my own pocket for every KU student in attendance.
Celebrate, Remember and Fight Back. Thank you for your help.
Bonnie Henrickson
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30 minutes won't shed the pounds
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BY LAUREN HENDRICK
It used to be that KU students could work out 30 minutes a day and stay in shape.
Recent studies say that may not be enough.
Research by Joseph Dornnelly, director of the Center of Physical Activity and Weight Management, suggests students, and people in general, may need to step up their exercise efforts if they want to maintain or lose weight.
Donnelly had research published in February's Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise Journal of the American College of Sports Medicine for his research in weight
loss.
"ACSM is the largest and most respected professional organiza-
that has its major mission as the investigation of exercise and health" Donnelly said.
Donnelly's research focused on investigating adequate exercise practices. His studies charmed
which breaks down to 30 minutes a weekday, was sufficient for improving health and losing weight.
"I if the past and present presidents of the U.S. can find time, anyone can find time."
research from 2001 regarding the amount of physical activity necessary for a person to avoid gaining weight It was believed that a minimum of 150 minutes a week.
JOSEPH DONNELLY Researcher
Donnelly and others researchers now believe 150 to 250 minutes a week, leads to successful weight loss as well as weight gain prevention. The article stated that exercising more than 250 minutes would lead to more significant weight loss.
"I'd have to agree," Hollie Swindler, Mott, N.D., graduate student, said.
Swindler is studying health education and said she knew 45 to 60
minutes of cardiovascular work was necessary to lose weight.
"If you can fit that into your schedule, you should," she said.
Swindler said 30 minutes of physical activity was an achievable goal for someone who was hesitant to work out for long periods of time.
"Anything is better than nothing," Donnelly said.
He said it was important to stay active throughout the day.
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"If the past and present presidents of the U.S. can find time, anyone can find time." Donnelly said.
Alex Miller, Bonner Springs junior, said his main goal as a personal trainer at the Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center was to get clients moving. He often recommends clients take walks when they're bored. read while doing cardio on the machines and do crunches while watching TV.
Donnelly said hundreds of KU students had participated in weight loss studies in the past.
"We are always looking for people to participate in our studies," said Lori Fowler, administrative aid for The Life Span Institute. Participants can be compensated anywhere from $1,000 to $2,000 after completion of studies ranging nine to ten months. Depending on the study, participants may also receive meals and exercise facilities.
Donnelly said he and other researchers at The Life Span Institute had about a dozen exercise-related studies under way. Researchers are also studying protein supplementation and weight training.
"If an individual does not qualify for our projects, then we put them in our database and inform them of any upcoming opportunities," Fowler said.
Fowler said applicants knew within one to two weeks if they were eligible for a study.
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Andrea Hudy, strength and conditioning coach, remembers her mother, Mary Hudy, as a source of strength and inspiration. The elder Hudy died from breast cancer. March 8. 2008. 18 months after being diagnosed.
Wearing pink jerseys Sunday symbolizes hope for survivors, victims of breast cancer
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Inside strength and conditioning coach Andrea Hudy's office hangs a framed pink Kansas jersey. Printed at the top of the Jersey is the name Hudy; below that is the number one.
The jersey is a gift — one that coach Bonnie Henrickson and her staff had specially made and delivered to Andrea's mother, Mary, before Kansas' Pink Zone game on Feb. 17 last season.
Each day, Andrea gets up from her desk and looks over the jersey, letting it serve as a constant reminder of the woman who used to
wrestle with her five children; the woman who showed Andrea the importance of overcoming life's obstacles.
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her fight with
breast cancer on March 8, 2008 - 18 months after being diagnosed. She was 69 years old.
"It shows people that they have support in their own rights."
"Oh my god, every day I think of her," Andrea said, her voice briefly fading. "It's got to be at least 50 times a day — at least. She was a big influence on me."
Growing up in a modest house
in Huntingdon, Pa., a rural town located 30 miles south of State College. Andrea and her four older siblings competed in everything
ANDREA HUDY Strength coach
- Who could make it to the fridge fastest; who could drink the milk the quickest.
And, with a mom who taught math and a dad who taught social sciences, everything had consequences. Learn the ways an
onion like an apple.
Those ideals — hardwork, competitive spirit and consequences quickly became implanted in Andrea.
"A lot of people say their parents
are their best friends." Andrea said. "Well, my mom wasn't my best friend. She was a disciplinarian. She was critical. She was my mom. But I'd say she is the most influential person in my world."
That's what made Mary's transformation from a water-skiing, sled-riding source of energy to an almost distant, helpless person so hard.
Listen to Andrea talk about her mother, even if only for a short time, and the strength, fight and confidence Mary possessed is undeniably evident. But in those 18 months, when the breast cancer began to take its toll, sapping the very confidence that Andrea so clearly remembered, Mary wasn't
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"She had one of her episodes where the breast cancer went to her brain," Andrea said. "She was
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Jayhawks approach another Big 12 title win
2014 BIGS CHAMPION
BY CASE KEEFER
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Sherron Collins can talk about it now.
Collins, a junior guard, knows that a sixth consecutive Big 12 Conference regular season championship is within reach for the Jayhawks, who are currently 10-1 and in second place in the Big 12.
For Kansas, it's relatively simple. Win its last five conference games and Kansas will hoist its 52nd conference title.
"I think we've got a good chance." Collins said.
Although the Jayhawks identified winning the Big 12 Championship as their goal at the beginning of the season, the players haven't felt comfortable discussing it until lately.
Of course, the jayhawks are not relaxing their focus on the next game — a Saturday matinee against Nebraska at 3 p.m. But they're allowing themselves to think about the conference town.
The Kansas basketball team celebrates winning the 2008 Big 12 regular season title. The Jawhaws are only one game behind first place Oklahoma, who they play Monday.
Aldrich chuckles at the whole situation. A year ago, he was the one observing how the veteran Jayhawks fought toward the Big 12 championship. Now, Aldrich says he's allowing those lessons.
"That's our main focus — to win the Big 12," freshman forward Marcus Morris said. "That's what we're trying to do, but we can never skip
The youngsters like Morris look to Collins and sophomore center Cole Aldrich — the only players who were part of the rotation on last year's national championship team — for leadership.
COMMENTARY
"We learned so much from those guys last year," Aldrich said. "We're just trying to teach these young guys everything we learned from those guys to make it a great year in Kansas basketball history again."
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**WHEN:** Saturday at 3 p.m.
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If Kansas wins another conference title, it will be one of the most improbable ones in school history. Most preseason polls picked Kansas to finish fourth in the Big 12 — behind Oklahoma. Texas and Baylor.
The layhawks have already exceeded those expectations. Collins isn't surprised. He never let the preseason hype bother him.
"We knew if we do what we do, wed be sitting at the top of the conference where we are right now," Collins said. "It wasn't a big deal to
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me"
Kansas coach Bill Self had figured the jayhawks needed to be 9.1 going into the final three weeks of the season to be in a position to win the Big 12.
Yes, though Self urged his players never to look ahead of the next game, he had formulated where his team needed to be four months later.
"I think every coach does that a little bit." Self said.
Mission accomplished, anyway. The Jayhawks are right where Self envisioned them and three days away from playing in a showdown that could decide the conference champion.'
Kansas takes on Oklahoma, the only team ahead of it in the standings at 11-0, Monday in Norman, Okla. If Kansas beats Nebraska Saturday, this game will determine who is the top team in the Big 12.
"Hopefully, we can be one game behind," Self said, "or if we get lucky, maybe be tied going into that game."
Either way, the game Monday will decide first place in the conference. Either way, Kansas controls its own destiny in playing for a Big 12 championship.
Oklahoma plays at Texas Saturday at 8 p.m. If the Longhorns upset the Sooners, the Jayhawks will be tied for first place entering Monday night's game.
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Will this game be just like football?
BY KELLY BRECKUNITCH
kbreckunitch@ansin.com
In recent years, the layhawks have had some success against Nebraska in football. After a winnless drought that went on far too long, KU has defeated Nebraska twice over the past four years. In those two victories KU piled on the pain with margins of victory of 25 and 37 points.
Those scores led right into a perfect basketball chant. "Just like football," echoed in the rafters of Allen Fieldhouse in the victorious years. Nebraska was a cakewalk game for the Jayhaws in basketball, so when the football scores mirrored the basketball scores, it became a perfect method of humiliation.
All that leads up to a bad omen for Saturday's game. Jayhawk fans better hope the game is the polar opposite of this year's football game.
There is some symmetry in Helu's speed on the football field and Nebraska's team speed on the basketball court, which almost gave Nebraska an upset victory against the Jayhawks in Lincoln, Neb., earlier this season.
That game was an eye opener for most fans and showed this team has some vulnerability. Now, Nebraska has seen Missouri's up-tempo game throw off the Jayhawks. Nebraska will take what they can from that and bring it to Allen Fieldhouse.
They play a smaller lineup that favors their speed and creates matchup problems for the Jayhawks.
Kansas has the longest home winning streak in college basketball right now. They always have an advantage playing at home, but Nebraska will pressure them.
Kansas' post players aren't the fastest at getting set on the defensive end and Nebraska will try to take advantage of that. Ade Dagunduro has the potential to pour in a lot of points for Nebraska and Steve Harley fuels the intensity of the team. Both had big games against Kansas in Nebraska and both will be a big factor in Saturday'same.
This can be looked at as a typical trap game. The Jayhawks go on the road at Oklahoma for Big Monday right after the Nebraska game. Will they get caught looking ahead? It's possible, and if they do, Nebraska will make them pay.
Nebraska is on the rise in the Big 12. They won three straight conference games before falling to Missouri last weekend. They just toiled through a brutal matchup with Colorado and won what was an ugly game. Kansas fell into a lull at times against Iowa State, and if they do that Saturday, Nebraska will take advantage with their speed.
This game will test KU's focus and, just like football, it could be a deadlock through most of the game and be decided in the final minutes.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Have you guys ever seen the movie, 'The Terminator'? That's what [Griffin] is like. That kid has no facial expressions. He just plays and it's like every kid out there on him is like Sarah Connor, and he's just going to take his time and kill 'em."
Bob Knight as quoted by The Los Angeles Timec
FACT OF THE DAY
Oklahoma forward Blake Griffin leads the Big 12 in points per game and rebounds in conference play. Griffin is averaging 23.3 points and 14.5 rebounds per game in 11 conference games. Those numbers are even more impressive considering Griffin is eighth in minutes played at just under 35 minutes per game.
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TRIVIA OF THE DAY
How many points did Blake Griffin score against Kansas last season in the Jayhawks 85-55 victory in Allen Fieldhouse?
A: Zero. Griffin was forced to leave the game after only five minutes after suffering an injury. In his absence, Kansas big men combined for 41 points and 21 rebounds.
-KU Athletics
SOFTBALL Heels down Jayhawks with one-hit pitching
North Carolina senior pitcher Lisa Norris struck out thirteen on Thursday in a 5-2, one-hit victory against Kansas to open up the Cathedral City Classic. Senior center fielder Dougie McCaulley broke up the no-hitter in the fourth "inning, reaching first on an infield hit to the shortstop.
The No. 20 Tarheels got ahead early, posting three runs in the first inning and never looking back. Both of Kansas' runs were scored in the sixth, neither of them earned. The Jayhawk offense went 1-for-21 from the batter's box, lowering its season average to .210. Sarah Vertelka (1-2) was tagged with the loss, pitching five of six innings.
The team lost 4-1 against Oregon State Thursday night, but full stats were not available at the time of publication. Kansas plays BVU today, UC Santa Barbara on Saturday two more games Sunday against No. 10 California and Cal Poly.
COMMENTARY
Clemente heats up lukewarm rivalry
Tom Powers
Don't hate Kansas State guard Denis Clemente. Sure, Clemente com.
mitted his share of misdeeds in Kansas' 85-74 victory against Kansas State last Saturday.
He elbowed sophomore guard Brady Morningstar in the back for no apparent reason. He slapped sophomore guard Tyrel Reed in the back of the head with a move he must have learned reading The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cowardice. To top it all off, Clemente cried at the end of the game more than Angelina Jolie at the end of the "Changeling" trailer.
But Kansas fans might as well celebrate Clemente. He's made sure there's going to be plenty of intrigue if the lajayhaws and Wildcats face off again next month in the Big 12 Conference tournament in Oklahoma City.
There's a good chance the two teams will meet again at the Ford
BY CASE KEEFER
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Center. In winning seven of its last eight games — including an 88-72 beat down of Missouri
— Kansas State has proven its playing better than every team in the Big 12 except Oklahoma and Kansas.
Too many regular season games remain to start breaking down the scenarios of how Sunflower Showdown part three could appear in the tournament bracket. But if both teams continue to play well, it could happen.
And because of Clemente, it would be a must-see. In other words, Clemente has somehow
breathed life into a series that was completely lopsided this season and for longer than that to be truthful.
Kansas beat Kansas State by 17 and 11 points, respectively, in its two meetings this season. Another matchup at a neutral location would result in an inevitable lashawk victory.
It would be interesting, though, to see how ugly it could get on the court. Interesting to see if Clemente could control his temper from getting in the way of his undeniable basketball talent. Interesting to see how much trash talk is exchanged on the floor.
It would feel like a rivalry, even though this one has been nearing extinction for the last two decades. Kansas has beaten Kansas State 24 of the 26 times they've faced off since the Big 12 Conference was established.
A 24-2 record? Yikes, that's as one-sided as The O'Reilly Factor.
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Kansas' 20-1 overall record at Bramlage Coliseum is even worse.
Kansas State commemorated the one triumph — an 84-75 Wildcat victory last season — with a two-disc DVD box set of the game priced at $39.95. If that doesn't speak to the state of the rivalry, then nothing else will.
But none of that will matter if Kansas and Kansas State play again a month from now.
KI
Thanks, Denis Clemente.
Redshirt sophomore pitcher Brett Bochy works through a spring training drill with other infiel players at Hoppund park on Wednesday.
Season-opener vital to evaluating talent
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As with any college sport, non-conference games are crucial to finding the identity of a team, especially one as young as the layhawks.
Kansas officially opens its season this afternoon against Air Force at USA Stadium in Millington, Tenn.
It will be hard to tell before this first game what Kansas is capable of doing. A revamped starting rotation along with a new outfield are major uncertainties before today's game. Junior starter Shaeffer Hall is expected to take the mound and lead the young staff, while fifth-year senior Nick Faunce will command leadership of the young outfielders while playing in center.
"We are going to try to use that road trip as a barometer and see what lies ahead of us for conference play," coach Ritch Price said.
"They don't have a lot of experience at the Big 12 level." Faune said. "But they all know how to play the position and I have a whole lot of faith in them."
The level of competition this weekend certainly isn't going to be at the level the jayhawks will see in the Big 12 Conference. Air Force finished 18-33 last season, its best finish since 2002. In 2006 they finished 8-44. So the young Kansas players shouldn't be too intimidated or nervous about starting the season today.
While the pitching has to improve to make up for the new lineup, Price has raved about how talented the young arms are, and the key will be the development of those pitchers if Kansas is to have any chance to repeat the
magic of the 2006 Big 12 championship season.
"The kids we brought in have the best arms of any freshman class by far." Price said. "It gives us hope for the future, it gives us something to build on, but I've been really pleased by the freshman arms."
But what lies ahead after this weekend could make some knees shake.
During a two-week stretch in March, Kansas will play host to national powerhouses Arizona State, Texas and Texas A&M. If Kansas can come out of this weekend unscathed it might be
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tainly going to have to be ready by the middle of March to be able to compete."
"That may be the toughest two weeks anyone in America is going to play." Price said. "We're cer-
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Preseason Ranking: Unranked, 9th in Big 12 Kansas State lost a lot of talent, particularly from its pitching staff, from last year's 29-29 (11-16 Big 12) team. The Wildcats' 11 conference wins and tie for sixth in the conference in
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2008 were their highest finishes in six seasons. Their effort to repeat their success must come without the aid of honorable mention All-Big 12 pitcher Brad Hutt, who graduated, and No. 2 starter Justin Murray, who was selected in the 29th round of the 2008
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Speaking to the Missouri Press Association Thursday, Nixon recalled a photo in the Jefferson City News Tribune of his son, Jeremiah Nixon, getting beaten on a pass play during a game of touch football on the mansion lawn.
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Royals claim infielder Tug Hulett for roster
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Royals have claimed infielder Tug Hulett off waivers from the Seattle Mariners.
The Royals designated lefthanded pitcher Neal Musser for assignment Thursday to make room on the 40-man roster.
Hulett hit. 224 (11-for-49) with a home run and two RBIs in 30 games in 2008. The left-handed hitter also batted. 298 with 22 doubles, five triples, 14 home runs and 47 RBIs in 91 games with Triple-A Tacoma.
The 25-year-old was selected by the Texas Rangers in the 14th round of the 2004 draft.
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KANSIN FILE PHOTO
Freshman guard Chaketha Weldon and sophomore guard LaChelsea Jacobs led the jayhawks off the court following 62-11 victory over Nebraska. Kansas improved to 15-9 overall and 4-7 in the B12. The Hawks had four players in double figures in scoring for the team.
99 pounds and I picked her off the floor and put her to bed. And she didn't know where she was.
--and lonely nights, even though they have families, it's still a terrible disease that's frightening," Henrickson said. "For us, in our
"When you have to change your parent's diaper, it hits you to the core."
Andrea still has the voice mail that Mary left, crying, after last year's pink game. She wanted to thank Henrickson and the team.
That jersey represented everything Mary believed in.
The jersey on Andrea's wall, the one Kansas wears just once a year and the one Mary kept in her hospital room, meant more to Mary than a simple gesture of kindness.
"I think that's one of the things my mom recognized: she lost her battle but she knew people were supporting it," Andrea said. "As long as she had a team to turn to, it gave her energy. It gave her a reason to keep fighting."
Essentially, that's the purpose of Kansas' Pink Zone game Sunday at noon against Iowa State and the purpose of Pink Zone games across the nation.
But the games and the pink jerseys do much more. They provide a sense of support. They honor those lost, those continuing to fight and those who defeated the disease.
Maybe most important, the Pink Zone initiative provides hope.
"For those who battled and persevered and for those lonely days
own small way,
to brighten someone's day or bring hope to people
and create awareness, that's something we're all very, very proud of."
On Sunday, Kansas will wear pink T-shirts before the game with "Remember. Celebrate and Fight Back" written across the back.
"I guess when you get sick you feel like you're alone, and it shows that a lot of people aren't alone."
The layhawks have lost four straight games and haven't won two consecutive games since early January. Yet, this game means more to Kansas than any win or loss.
"It makes you realize that life is so valuable," junior guard Sade Morris said. "Everything we're going through right now with losing and whatnot, it makes you realize there are bigger problems out there than basketball games.
ANDREA HUDY Strength coach
"This is life, this is cancer, this is an illness that is killing people. If you take a second to look at it, things aren't always as bad as they seem."
--hometown, a stranger will occasionally stop her and begin telling a story.
And the topic always seems to be the same.
Even now, when Andrea Hudy walks down the street in her
"I get stories from people that are 50 years old telling me about how my mom taught them in math and how far her influence has reached people through their lives," Andrea said. "You never know
when your education stops or how much influence you have on someone's life."
Andrea carries Mary's lessons each day. The ability to light, the appreciation of hard work and the continued pursuit of patience — those are all characteristics moved down a path.
- those are all characteristics passed down from Mary.
On Sunday, with the Pink Zone's continued fight against breast cancer, Andrea will again reflect and relive the memory of her mother just like she's done every day. And she won't be alone in doing so.
"I guess when you get sick,you feel like you're alone." Andrea said. "And it shows that a lot of people aren't alone. It gives them a support group.
"It ites people that they have support in their own fights."
- Edited by Sam Speer
TENNIS
Team plays ranked opponents
Kansas competes against DePaul and Iowa this weekend
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BY JUSTIN HILLEY jhilley@kansan.com
KANSAN FILE PHOTO
Edina Horvath, Budapest, Hungary, senior, plays in a Feb. 2008 match. Horvath says she is pumped up to play against ranked teams this weekend in Iowa. The matches could be good practice for the upcoming Bia 12 competition.
One year ago today Edina Horvath, Badapest, Hungary, senior and her teammates were preparing for another weekend of dual match play, which pitted them against No. 22 Kentucky.
"Last year I played at the No. 3 spot; this year I play at the No. 2, which is much harder. The competition is a lot harder," said Horvath, who began this season with a 3-0
Horvath was undefeated (5-0) in both singles and doubles play, and the team (2.3) was on a two-game winning streak after dropping its first three matches against ranked opponents. The two wins were against unranked opponents. Kansas lost to Kentucky (6-1) that weekend, and Horvath suffered her first losses of the season in singles and doubles matches.
The layhawks, who are currently third in the Big 12 with an overall record of 4-1. have begun this season in a similar fashion in that their only loss so far has come against a ranked team. This weekend they play No 41 DePaul (8-2) and No 75 Iowa (4-4). So this weekend's performance will be a good indicator of the teams chances of success in Big 12 competition, which begins next month.
Horvath's current singles (3-2) and doubles (2-3) records are respectable, but KU will need her to take advantage of her proven talent in order to establish that they are ready for the challenge ahead. This season she is playing at a different position, and that presents its own hurdles.
"To me personally rankings don't mean anything. Any competition that we are playing helps us get ready for the Big 12," coach Amy Hall-Holt said. "We definitely feel like we have a good shot both of these teams, and will be a big confidence booster to win both matches."
singles record, but has since cooled off.
"Of course I would be happier if I had won all my matches, but think I have given 100 percent, and I did what I could," she said.
KU narrowly lost (4-3) to Iowa last season, and three of the players who helped achieve that nearvictory are no longer on the team. The fact that KU has seven underclassmen on its 10-person roster underscores how critical it is that not only Horvath, but also her fellow upperclassmen, doubles partner Kuni Dorn and Yuliana Swistin, dominate this weekend.
Hall-Holt, however, feels it is important for everyone to win regardless of class.
"It's definitely important for our newcomers to come in and compete hard and to win. But yeah, we look upon our upperclassmen to lead us, but we still look at the rest of us to prevail and to play hard." Hall-Holt said. "We've got to have not just
THIS WEEKEND
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Iowa City, Iowa
Kansas vs. Iowa
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lowa City, lowa
the three wins, but at least four of the girls to win in order to win the match"
Although she conceals that she needs to play better if she wants to beat better players. Horvath is fired up for this weekend.
"I don't feel any pressure. I like to play against better teams. We get so pumped up against ranked teams. I feel like we are much more excited as a whole team," she said.
— Edited by Liz Schubauer
1ST.INTERNATIONAL FILM FEST AT KU
Friday February 20th
7:30 pm
Woodruff Auditorium
Free of Cost
7:30pm
Presentation and Screening
of the International Film Festival at KU
third place winner
I. BEST OF
SCHNEIDER
EXPRESION EN CORTO
2007/08
John& Karen 4''
Café Paraiso 10''
Yours Truly 7'
Milan' 23'
Premier Voyage 10'
Beyond The Mexique Bay 16'
Dreams and Desires- Family Ties 10'
Careful With that Axe 3'
THE BOOKS OF JOHN A. CALVERT
TOTAL 83 MINUTES
John and Karen
UK / 2007 / Beta SP / 03'30
English/ No Subtitles
Direction: Matthew Walker
Synopsis
John the polar bear apologizes to Karen the penguin after an argument they had and then has some tea and a biscuit.
Matthew Walker. After completing his education in Wales University, Walker's thesis "Astronauts" won over 10 prizes worldwide.
Paradise Café
Yours Truly
Mexico/2008/35mm/10' Spanish and English/English Subtitles Direction: Alonso Ruizpalacios Synopsis: Gallo and Chui are two immigrants working in the multi-racial kitchen of Paradise Cafe in LA. In the middle of the kitchen noise, Gallo rehearses his heroic resignation, as he hopes to recover his youth, his dignity and even gain the love of Susan. Alonso Ruizpalacios Graduated form the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London. He was a FONCA scholar where he directed various theater performances and as a screen writer for television programs.
Film icons burst through lost layers of yesterday's emulsion in this gripping second instalment of Parker's contemporary noir trilogy. Re-assembled into a surreal city the conflicting story of Frank and Charlie is told as a romance with unexpected plot twists.
Osbert Parker, Three time nominee for BAFTA, he is recognized for his style in mixing animation cut-out with live-action creating a unique scenery in his commercials and short films. His short "Film Noir" was nominated for BAFTA and for the Palm d'Oro in Cannes.
UK / 2007 / Super 16 mm / 06'58"
Direction: Osbert Parker.
Synopsis:
Milan
Synopsis:
Germany and Serbia / 2007 / 35mm / 22'04'
Direction: Michaela Kezele
Yugoslavia during the 1999 NATO air-raids. Two brothers are making plans to go and play "hide and seek" in the forest. As Milan gets to the meeting place on time, his brother, at the same time, is fighting for his life. Milan starts looking for him and surprisingly finds someone else. Milan tells the story of a small family during the confusing times of the war.
Biografia:
Michaela Kezele, Born in Munich and raised in Serbia, Kezele graduated from the Music Academy of Munich in 1991. This is her third short since beginning her education in the Film and Television Academy in Munich.
Primer Viaie
/ Their First Journey/ Premier Voyage
France / 2008 / 35 mm / 09'30
French/ English Subtitles
Direction: Grégoire Sivan
Synopsis:
Chloe, a 10 month old baby with an excess of energy, and her father share their first real conversation during a train trip.
Grégoire Sivan, After working in animation Siwan switched over to stop motion with "Western Stories" (2000) and "On enleve bien les claps" (2001). His short "La méthode Bourchnikov" wins the peoples choice award in Angers in 2004. "Premier Voyage" won the Canal + Award at Annecy in 2007.
Beyond The Mexique Bay
Spanish/ English Subtitles
Direction: Jean-Marc Rousseau Ruiz
Synopsis:
Synopsis:
ania, a young mestiza girl, sells necklaces in a public plaza of a Mexican city. One day, a foreigner asks her to guide him into the desert.
Two people without anything in common on a trip to the heart of the Mexican desert. Jean-Marc Rousseau Ruiz. Born in Mexico to a French Father and Mexican mother, he studied film in France. In 2005 his short film was selected in the Festival De Film and currently he is writing his first feature film.
Synopsis
DR/ 2006/ 35 mm / 10.00
Direction: Joanna Quinn
Dreams and Desires-Family Ties
UK/ 2006 / 35 mm/ 10'00"
Direction: Janna Quinn
On acquiring a new Digi Video camera, Beryl becomes obsessed with the filmmaking process, using it to articulate her dreams & desires in a video diary. As "Cinéaste par excellence" she agrees to video her friend Mandy's wedding, seizing the opportunity to imitate her filmmaking idols with disastrous & hilarious results.
Joanna Quinn Studied design in Middlesex University and has never left. He has made six films from which he has received over 60 awards including 2 Oscar nominations, 3 Emmys, 4BAFTAs
Careful with that Axe
New Zealand / 2007 / 35mm / 02'
New Zealand No Dialogues
Direction: Jason Stutter
Synopsis:
A black comedy written about a young boy who tries his hand chopping firewood with his father's heavy razor sharp axe. The short film is inspired by the song "Careful with that Axe, Eugene" by Pink Floyd.
Jason Stutter He began his career as an editor, where he decided to become a director his short film 'Fizz' was selected in various international festivals. He is currently working on various scripts.
February 20, 21 & 22/2009 FREE: Woodruff Auditorium
TOTAL 83 MINUTES
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8B
GAME DAY
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
KU
TIPOFF
AT A GLANCE
Traditionally, this is a blowout. Nebraska at Allen Fieldhouse has been as helpless as a slab of prime rib on a Las Vegas buffet lately. The Cornhuskers have only beaten the Jayhawks once in Lawrence since the Big 12 Conference was established 12 years ago. Kansas has won by an average of 43 points the last three years against Nebraska at home. Of course, this Cornhusker team is scrappier than usual and the Jayhawks haven't beaten anyone by 43 points. But the history is hard to ignore. A Cornhusker bludgeoning might be in store.
Freshman forward Marcus Morris
PLAYER TO WATCH
Nebraska is the smallest team in the Big 12, which means it will double team 6-foot-11 sophomore center Cole Aldrich nearly every time he touches the ball. Problem with that strategy is it leaves Morris available to produce offensively. And Morris is playing the best he's played all season. He's averaging more than 11 points and six rebounds in the last two games.
M.
his most noticeable improvement, however, has come on the defensive end. Morris is no longer a liability when he tries to guard. Not even close, as evidenced by his effort in holding Iowa State's Craig Brackins to 7-for-21 shooting.
Will Cole Aldrich ditch the mask?
QUESTION MARK
Kansas coach Bill Self certainly hopes so. Self thinks the mask is limiting Aldrich's peripheral vision — specifically when a defender comes from the side to double down on him or a rebound takes an awkward bounce off the glass. Self has also said Aldrich's broken nose was healed well enough that he no longer has to wear the protective mask. But at the same time, Self will not force Aldrich to play without the mask. Aldrich said he liked the mask and it didn't bother him. That's bad news for Self. The mask era might go on a little longer.
HEARYE. HEARYE
"The they are a team that is always going to play hard and it is going to be how we handle their post traps. Tonight we didn't handle it well at all as Cole had five turnovers. We are going to practice more on this and get better at it."
—Kansas coach Bill Self on Nebraska after the Iowa State victory
"They gave us everything we wanted in Lincoln and we were fortunate to win. Monday's game against Oklahoma isn't a big game unless we take care of business on Saturday."
Kansas coach Bill Self
COUNTDOWN TO TIPOFF GAME DAY
HAWKSAIMTO WIDEN GAP
After a mere 68-62 victory last time, Kansas needs to improve its play.
KANSAS VS. NEBRASKA 3 p.m., ALLEN FIELDHOUSE, Lawrence, ESPN
Collins
BRIAN BRAZILLE
KANSAS (21-5, 10-1) STARTERS
Sherron Collins, 5-foot-11 junior guard
Collins' career high in points is 26, which he's reached twice this season. If he shoots like he did in the last three minutes of the Iowa State game — when he made three point shots — that mark could be in danger Saturday.
★★★★
A. E. BURKE
Taylor
Tyshawn Taylor, 6-foot-3 freshman guard
Taylor is infected with two problems: turnovers and fouls. When one looks to be cured, the other flares up. Although he's limited his turnovers lately, Taylor had nine fouls in the last two games.
★★☆★★
Morningstar
Brady Morningstar, 6-foot-3 sophomore guard
Morningstar had made six straight three-pointers in the last two games before missing his final two attempts against Iowa State. A new streak would be desirable for the Jayhawks.
★★★☆☆
PETER LOVE
Morris
Marcus Morris, 6-foot-8 freshman forward
Marcus has emerged the last two games as the third wheel to Collins and Aldrich. Defensive intensity. Smart shots. Physical play. Marcus has done all of that.
★★☆☆☆
Cole Aldrich, 6-foot-11 sophomore center
Aldrich
Adrich
The Phantom of the Phog' might not be the best nickname, but Aldrigh has been one of the best players in the Bai 12
lately. He's averaging nearly 16 points and 13 rebounds over the last four games.
★★★★
LANSAP
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NEBRASKA (16-8,6-5)
STARTERS
SIXTH MAN
Reed is playing more minutes than ever because of his shooting ability. But he went 1-for-5 from the field against Iowa State. That's unlikely to continue against Nebraska.
★★★☆☆
D. J.
Tyrel Reed, 6-foot-3 sophomore guard
Cookie Miller, 5-foot-7 sophomore guard
By his own admission. Nebraska coach Doc Sader has no
By his own admission, Nebraska coach Doc Sadler has no
idea what his starting lineup will look like on Saturday. On Wednesday, Miller came off the bench for the first time in 2009 with mixed results. Sadler said he doesn't know what he'll do with the diminutive guard against Kansas.
JAMES MATHIS
★★★☆★
Steve Harley, 5-foot-11 senior guard
Miller
In the last three games, Nebraska's former scoring leader averaged just three points per game. Pair that with a poor defensive game and Harley hasn't been much of a factor for the Cornhuskers lately.
★★☆★★
Sek Henry, 6-foot-2 junior guard
Henry is bipolar on the court. He may score 11 points, as he did against Missouri on Feb. 14, or score zero, as he did against Colorado on Wednesday. You just never know.
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★★★☆★★
Harley
Ade Dagunduro, 6-foot-5 senior guard
Dagunduro was warming up before he played Kansas, but that 24-point performance has really secured his place as Nebraska's go-to weapon. Since that game he's averaging 14.6 points and 6.2 rebounds per game.
JACKSON
Case Keefer
Henry
★★★★
SOMETRICE JOHNSON
Ryan Anderson, 6-foot-4 junior guard
Chris Balham, Nebraska's regular starter at forward, is out with chronic knee pain. That's opened the door for Anderson in the starting rotation. "Ryan's got a lot of qualities," Sadler said, "but his greatest quality is his spirit.
Dagunduro
★★☆☆
PENGERTAINAN DENGAN LKP
Anderson
Reed
SIXTH MAN
Velander. 6-foot-2 senior guard
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Paul Velander, 6-foot-2 senior guard Velander started for the second time in his career on Wednesday. He
ay keep the spot on Saturday, but after hitting 1-of-3 three-pointers it looks like he'll move back to the bench.
CANADA'S MASTER OF SPORTS TECHNOLOGY
Velander
★★★★
Sherron Collins
Taylor Bern
NU TIPOFF AT A GLANCE
Since dropping a 68-62 decision to Kansas on Jan. 28, Nebraska 14-1. That's a little misleading considering three of the victories were against Texas Tech and a pair over Colorado. But Nebraska did nottha marque victory with a 58-53 triumph over then-No. 16 Texas on Feb. 7. Two concerns for the Cornhuskers entering this game are that it's on the road, where they are far-less proficient than in the Devaney Center. Also, Nebraska barely beat Colorado 46-41 on Wednesday. If they're flat again, the Cornhuskers won't have much chance on Saturday.
PLAYER TO WATCH
Senior guard Ade Dagunduro
M. ADELUWAN
Nebraska needed every bit of Dagunduro's performance to sneak past Colorado Wednesday night. The Inglewood, Calif., native poured in 18 points, six rebounds and two blocks. In Big 12 play
hes averaging 1.43 points, the same as Cole Aldrich, and five rebounds per game. He's also hitting 53 percent of his shots, a startling statistic considering
Dagunduro
hes not a traditional post player. Dagunduro will come in confident because he knows Kansas' defense doesn't have an answer for him. In their first meeting, Dagunduro scored 24 points in 29 minutes.
QUESTION MARK
Can Nebraska's featy defense nullify Cole Aldrich again?
The Cornhuskers handled the sophomore center better than any other defense this season. The short cornstalks pestered Aldrich every time he received an entry pass and actually held him to zero points and zero rebounds in the first half. It's unlikely that they'll be able to double that feat, but coach Doc Sadler obviously has a pretty good idea how to erase Aldrich. Now that the big man has elevated his game to another level, it's even more important for the Cornhuskers to keep him from out-sizing them.
HEARYE, HEARYE
"I'm happy with the point production, but at the same time I was a little soft out there getting my shot blocked a little more than usual."
— Nebraska guard Ade Dagunduura after Wednesday's 46-41 victory over Colorado
"You don't get more than one shot at it. We missed some open threes.Paul Velander is a guy that we count on, he had some open looks and we didn't hit them."
Nebraska coach Doc Sadler after the Corn-huskers hit 4-of-15 threes on Wednesday
BIG 12 SCHEDULE
Game Time (CT) Channel
Missouri at Colorado 11:30 a.m. Big 12 Network
Oklahoma State vs. Baylor 12:30 PM Big 12 Network
lowa State vs. Kansas State 5:00 PM FSNKC/CTN
Texas Tech vs. Texas A&M 5:00 PM TTTN
Texas vs. Oklahoma 8:00 PM ESPN
BIG 12 CONFERENCE
ALLEN FIELDHOUSE WILL ROCK IF...
Junior guard Mario Little and freshman guard Tyshawn Taylor end their slumps headed into the Big Monday game at Oklahoma. Taylor and Little, expected to be Kansas' next scorers behind Collins and Aldrich, have combined for only nine points in the last two games. Little went 0-for-5 from the field against Iowa State. The Jayhawks have performed OK without Little and Taylor at their best, but will need them against the Sooners.
PHOG ALLEN WILL ROLL OVER IN HIS GRAVE IF...
Kansas allows Nebraska guard Cookie Miller to annoy it again. A small scuffle broke out when the teams played in Lincoln, Neb. after Miller continued to fight with Mario Little for a loose ball. According to Sherron Collins, Miller's talk on the court was what really irked the Jayhawks. If Miller's mouth continues to run in Allen Fieldhouse, Kansas needs to ignore it. It's not worth potential fouls or conflicts.
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
Prediction: KANSAS 75, NEBRASKA 49
Date Opponent TV Time
Feb. 23 at Oklahoma ESPN 8 p.m.
March 1 MISSOURI CBS 1 p.m.
March 4 at Texas Tech ESPN2 8:30 p.m.
March 7 TEXAS CBS 3 p.m.
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Governor could leave for cabinet position STATE 14A
SOONERS GAME CAN’T COME SOON ENOUGH
Team looks forward to tonight’s matchup. MEN’S BASKETBALL I 1B
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PHILANTHROPY
Dance Marathon to benefit children's hospitals
BY DANNY NORDSTROM
editor@kansan.com
Last year at Indiana University's Dance Marathon, a student philanthropy event that raises money for the Children's Miracle Network, a child who was paralyzed from the neck down was having a blast.
The child looked at his mother and said, "Mont. I want to dance." One year later, after numerous doctor visits and hours of physical therapy, the child's wish came true — he was able to stand and join students for the final dance of the event.
It's stories like those that made Alex Ross, Chicago freshman and executive director of KU Dance Marathon, want to get involved with the organization. In his first year at the University, Ross has organized the University's first Dance Marathon, which will
take place April 18 at the Ambler Student Recreation and Fitness Center.
The event itself features a 12-hour fundraiser in which students, faculty and community members pay a $5 fee to dance, win prizes, eat food, listen to live music, play sports and video games, and spend time with families from local children's hospitals.
The program is 100 percent student-run and last year, more than 100 universities across the nation hosted Dance Manthons and together raised more than $5.5 million, according to Ross. Each university's proceeds benefited local Children's Miracle Network Hospitals in their respective areas.
David Littman, Chicago sophomore and KUDM finance director, said the KU Student Senate and several local businesses were covering all the events' expenses.
The money K U Dance Marathon raises will go directly to the KU Pediatric Center and Children's Mercy hospitals and clinics in the Kansas City area.
"Not a penny is taken out." Ross said. "One hundred percent of your donations stay local."
thon, took him to the event during his senior year of high school. Though apprehensive at first, Ross said his experience at Vanderbilt influenced him greatly.
"I went to her marathon and saw the kids from the hospital, and I saw what it did for them and what it meant to them," he
said. "Seeing the tears from the kids and the families completely changed my mind."
When Ross realized the University didn't have its
"You're just going through life, and it doesn't ever hit you that you could be fighting a bigger battle."
COLLEEN DRAZEN KUDM staff advisor
own Dance Marathon, he contacted Aaron Quisenberry associate director for the Student Involvement Leadership Center. about starting a KU chapter.
KUDM, which consists of more than 100 University students, is spreading the word about the upcoming event and is raising money for the Children's Miracle Network.
Students may have noticed the phrase "Ask Weston," chalked throughout campus. The slogan
is part of a KUDM ad campaign aimed at getting more students involved in the event.
According to the Children's Miracle Network, Weston Funk was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia when he was 8 years old. He was treated at the Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., where he received a bone marrow transplant and is now a healthy 11-year-old boy.
Funk is the face of KUDM. He will be in attendance at the marathon along with several other families that benefit from local children's hospitals.
"As soon as you put a face with a name, you can see a child who has received these services from this great organization, and it's kind of hard not to want to be a part of it." Colleen Drazen, KUDM staff
SEE DANCE ON PAGE 3A
STUDY ABROAD
Common myth is disproved
BY RACHEL BURCHFIELD rburchfield@kansan.com
Students who study abroad graduate in four years more frequently than students who do not, according to data from the Office of Institutional Research and Planning.
FIELDHOUSE BLUES
Samantha Danna, Hot Springs,
Ark., junior, will graduate this
December after just three and
a half years at the University.
Danna studied abroad in France
the summer after her freshman
year and will study abroad for
SEE STATS ON PAGE 3A
adidas
Eddie Miles, Olathe junior, plays the sousphone in the KU Band before the tipoff of Saturday's game against Nebraska in Allen Fieldhouse. Fans claim the change from band music to electronic music is breaking tradition and deadening the Fieldhouse atmosphere.
Ryan McGeeney/KANSAN
Electronic music'a failed adventure'
BY ADAM SAMSON asamson@kansan.com
The difference in the atmosphere for the lawjays at Allen Fieldhouse between Wednesday's Iowa State victory and Saturday's Nebraska victory was obvious.
As a season-ticket holder since 1975, alumnus Bob Moody noticed a break in tradition during Wednesday's game.
"You could tell it just in the tenor of the fieldhouse," Moody said. "Even coach Self indicated in
The chatter among message boards and those waiting at Saturday's Nebraska game was that the electronic music played over the loud speakers for Wednesday night's game took away from the college basketball atmosphere and made it seem more like an NBA matchup.
Jeff Hays, Kansas City, Kan. junior, said he felt the game didn't have the college experience, especially the Kansas experience.
his post game interview that the fieldhouse atmosphere was dead."
"The piped-in music felt maru-
Moody said he felt the same way about the electronic music. He said that he thought sprinkling it in with the videos was all right, but that he didn't like the electronic music for the sake of music during timeouts.
factured and really drowned out the band." Hays said. "It felt like going to Missouri or another school and it didn't feel like Allen Fieldhouse."
During the first half of Saturday's game, there was an evident change in the atmosphere of the crowd and Moody said he believed the band played a significant role in keeping
the crowd loud and on its feet.
"I just don't understand what they were trying to accomplish and don't think they gave it a lot of thought," Moody said. "But, if you noticed today, the crowd was pumped up every timeout when the band was playing and I think that was significant."
After receiving both positive and negative e-mails from fans, Associate Athletics Director Jim Marchiony said he would caution people about making any quick judgments on changes to the game-time experience at Allen
Fieldhouse.
"Don't make any judgments on just one game," Marchiony said. "The band is going to be a huge part of what we do at Allen Fieldhouse."
As for making the switch with only three home games left in the season, Marchiony said that there were 40 home basketball games each year and that they were trying to avoid a lackluster crowd at the end of the season.
"Things can get a little stale and we're just trying to prevent things from getting stale and complacent,"
Moody said that he saw the "night and day" difference between the Iowa State and Nebraska game and that the Athletics Department didn't give a lot of thought to the decision to drown out the band and pump in electronic music.
Marchionv said.
"I think they were just saying, 'Well let's give this a try and see what happens.'" Moody said, "Obviously it was a failed adventure."
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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's first nuclear plant will begin long-
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The long-awaited 1,000-megawatt light-water reactor, which was built in the southern Iranian port of Bushehr with the help of Russia under a $1 billion contract, was previously scheduled to become operational in fall 2008.
3. Inmates escape Greek prison for the second time
ATHENS, Greece — For the second time in their lives, two robbers escaped from a high-security Greek prison on Sunday by scaling a rope ladder to a helicopter.
Vassilii Paleokostas, 42, and Alket Rizaj, 34, were picked up by a helicopter that flew over the courtyard of Athens' Korydallos prison on Sunday afternoon. The inmates climbed a ladder thrown to them by a woman passenger
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HONOLULU — Hawaii, the state that adopted the nation's first "defense of marriage" constitutional amendment a decade ago, has now become the latest battleground in the fight for same-sex civil unions.
It would become the fifth state to legalize the alternative to gay marriage if the Democrat-dominated Legislature and Republican governor approve a civil union law.
5. Veterinarian sought by pet owners for surgeries
BOSTON — Michael Pavletic, head of surgery at Boston's Angell Animal Medical Center, has removed a butcher knife from a dog's stomach and tumors from tiny mice.
The 58-year-old surgeon is known as a pioneer in reconstructive animal surgery and is so skilled at saving severely sick and injured animals he is sought out by worried pet owners from around the world. Pavletic has cared for thousands of pets, including a dog that swallowed an engagement ring right before the wedding and a cat needing a face reattached.
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PHOENIX — A man accused of gunning down two employees outside a Wal-Mart store four years ago has been ordered to a mental hospital.
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basketball tournament in March. Chili's Grill and Bar is also helping the cause by donating 10 percent of its weekly Tuesday night profits to KUDM. The group has raised more than $5,500 and hopes to raise thousands more, but raising funds isn't its only goal.
Drazen was involved with Dance Marathon during her college years at Purdue University.
In addition to the "Ask Weston" campaign, KUDM is raising money through local and national donations and has created several community projects to benefit the cause. The group hosted a mini-marathon at Lawrence High School during the weekend and plans to hold a three-on-three
"The money doesn't even really
matter this year because we believe that if in these first three years we're able to get a strong enough base of people who continue to want to do it, we can establish a tradition, and the money will follow," Ross said.
Drazen commented on the effect she hopes KUDM will
have on the University and the Lawrence community.
"You're just going through life, and it doesn't ever hit you that you could be fighting a bigger battle," she said. "These children are so young, and some of them might not have the opportunity to go to college. If we can help just one kid
live a little bit longer so they can enjoy just half of what so many college students take for granted, I think this world would be a better place."
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eight weeks in Dublin this summer. Danna said her study abroad experiences would actually help her graduate early, not prolong her graduation.
which is better than taking classes at KU or at a community college somewhere."
"Studying abroad, if anything, helped me graduate in three and a half years," Danna said. "It helped me take summer classes, but abroad
Robert Lopez, outreach coordinator for the Office of Study Abroad, said the notion that students cannot both graduate in four years and study abroad was simply not the case.
"OIRP states that students who have participated on a study abroad program graduate in four years at a 53 percent rate," Lopez said. "This is compared to a graduate-in-four of 27 percent for students who do not study abroad."
Sue Lorenz, interim director at the Office of Study Abroad, said that to make sure students stayed on track academically through their
study abroad experiences, overall planning was essential.
"Students who are thinking they might want to study abroad, we certainly encourage them to start investigating early, even if it might not be for a few years." Lorenz said. "Even as a freshman, start investigating. Early planning is a good thing."
Danna knew she needed four semesters of a foreign language to graduate with her degree. She said she took one year of foreign language at the University and finished the rest of her foreign language requirement during her study abroad experience in France.
Danna said she came back to the United States from France a completely changed person.
"I had such an amazing time," Danna said. "It's hard in the real world to travel, when you have to work. You can't take a month off work to go travel, but you can do that now. It's the best thing I've done at KU so far."
The application deadline for Summer 2009, Fall 2009 and 2009- 2010 academic year study abroad programs is March 1.
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common myths
Robert Lopez, outreach coordinator for the KU Office of Study Abroad responds to myths he has heard about studying abroad.
Myth #1: Students can't study in certain academic disciplines or professional schools
"This is a myth believed particularly by students entering professional schools and other departments such as the sciences. Students pursue coursework abroad in all academic disciplines and professional schools. The key for these students is to start planning early in their academic careers so they can find the most suitable options for studying abroad. With help from the students' academic advisor and the expertise of the study abroad staff, every student can find a program that fits into their curriculum."
Myth #2: Studying abroad is too expensive
"Expense of a program is something students and parents always are concerned about — particularly in our current economic environment. Fortunately, financial aid and scholarships are available. When students start planning to study abroad they should also begin budgeting for the program. The Office of Study Abroad has budget worksheets that help students create a financial plan to cover expenses and there are also financial aid advisors on staff to help. The program advising staff offers each student plenty of program options so they can choose an affordable option. In fact, many programs are very comparable to the cost a student would spend
on the Lawrence campus for a semester or academic year. In addition, many out-of-state students are not aware that when they study abroad they pay the equivalent of in-state tuition rates so it may be cheaper for them to study abroad than to stay on campus."
Myth #3: Students must speak another language
"The fact is that there are a lot of programs available in English, not only in Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand, but there are also English-speaking programs in countries such as Hong Kong, the Netherlands and Sweden. The majority of summer programs have courses taught in English, such as the European Cultural Studies program that travels to Belgium, France and Spain."
Myth #4: Students don't have time or must remain on campus for all four academic years
"For students that are on a set academic plan and have to spend the majority of their time on the Lawrence campus, short-term programs ranging from summer programs to spring break and winter break programs are a great option. For example, an impressive number of architecture students, 34 total, participated on the Architecture in Asia program during winter break 2009 and experienced first-hand numerous architectural sites in Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea."
Protection of at-risk region in hands of armed villagers
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ISLAMABAD — Authorities in a Pakistani border province plan to arm villagers with 30,000 rifles and set up an elite police unit to protect a region increasingly besieged by Taliban and al-Qaida militants, an official said Sunday.
initiative in Afghanistan.
Stifter action in the North West Frontier Province could help offset American concern that a peace deal being negotiated in the Swat valley, a Taliban stronghold in the province, could create a haven for Islamist insurgents only 100 miles (160 kilometers) from the Pakistani capital.
Village militias backed by the United States have been credited with reducing violence in Iraq. Washington is paying for a similar
The United States is already spending millions of dollars to train and equip Pakistani forces in the rugged region near the Afghan border but there was no sign it was involved in the militia
involved in the militia plan.
Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said Saturday he will try to "remove the apprehensions of the world community" about the Swat deal when he meets U.S. officials in
army — or if handing out more guns in an already heavily armed society was wise.
Mahmood Shah, a former head of security for Pakistan's tribal regions, said arming civilians could
Washington next week, state-run media reported.
"The purpose of setting up this force is to combat terrorism and extremism effectively."
But it was unclear if Sunday's announcement had the backing of national leaders or the powerful
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Shah said authorities should focus on bolstering existing security forces.
"This is Pakistan, not Iraq.
or Afghanistan. There is complete anarchy in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that is not the case here," he said. "It is not going to help."
Haider Khan Hoti, chief minister
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As reports about the future of Governor Kathleen Sebelius and Kansas' government circulate, students are wondering what will happen if Gov. Sebelius becomes President Obama's nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary.
The Associated Press reported yesterday that Sebelius had not had any talks with Obama about becoming the next Health and Human Services secretary. But advisers close to the president said she was top on the list.
Alex Herman, Hays second-year law student, interns for Rep. Eber Phelps (D-Hays) and said the mood in Topeka was tense.
"It seems like everyone's on edge waiting to see what's going to happen," Herman said, adding that the loss of Gov. Sebelius
would shift the balance between the Republican and Democratic parties.
Sebelius announced in November that she would refuse any cabinet positions and would put Kansas' budget crisis first. The legislature was at a standstill on the budget, debating budget cuts on education until last Tuesday.
Jesse Vaughn, Mound City senior and president of KU College Republicans, said that although losing the Democratic governor would be positive for the Republican party, it would be a loss to Kansas overall.
"She was good at crossing party lines," Vaughn said.
Bill Walberg, El Dorado Hills, Calif., senior, said that he was confident in Sebelius' drive and passion, but that he didn't know whether she was prepared for the huge role of taking on a Cabinet position. The Department controls
Medicare and Medicaid, the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Administration on Aging. It controls a quarter of federal spending with a $737 billion budget.
Sebelius has emphasized the importance of health care in the past In her response to President George W. Bush's 2008 State of the Union address, she said, "We are stronger as a nation when our people have access to the highest-quality, most-affordable health care."
According to the Center for Disease Control, in 2007, 164 percent of U.S. citizens under the age of 65 didn't have health insurance. Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Dashle had been Obama's pick to streamline America's health care problems before his personal tax problems forced him to drop out of the running.
As Obama's Secretary of Health and Human Services, Daschle said, he would push for universal health care by expanding the federal employee health benefits program to include private employer plans together with Medicare and Medicaid.
Herman said Sebelius would have her work cut out for her, but said her focus and emphasis on health care in Kansas would help prepare her to take over where Daschle would have started. He said universal health care would be great if Obama's pick could get it off the ground.
"We live in a country where we have a lot of the best doctors in the world, but it's also one of the most expensive places in the world if you get sick." Herman said.
Check Kansan.com for updates on Sebelus' plans.
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Commission votes to wait on program to inspect rental properties
BY MIKE BONTRAGER mbontrager@kansan.com
City commissioners voted to defer the rental registration expansion program that was proposed at last Tuesday's city commission meeting.
Brian Jimenez, code enforcement manager, devised the plan, which would require all rental properties 50 years or older to be inspected once every three years. The plan would help manage areas with high amounts of housing code violations. The commissioners decided to reconsider a new plan at a later date.
David Corliss, city manager, said he didn't endorse the proposed program because of budget concerns.
"While seeing substantial community benefit to an expanded program, my recommendation is to
not pursue the program expansion at this time because of the significant economic challenges both the city and the community are facing." Corliss said in a memo for that week's agenda. "The necessary fee increase to fund the program will likely be passed on to renters at a very challenging economic time."
Jimenez said he thought the budget issue was the only major problem with the program.
"I think overall the commissioners were in support of exploring the issue further," limenez said.
Chris Conard, Dodge City junior, said he thought it was important for rental properties to
be inspected because he had had neglectful landlords in the past.
"There's a lot of stuff to cover with very little money, but I think it's pretty important that they stay on top of that because a lot of times I think that's overlooked," Conard said.
"The necessary fee increase to fund the program will likely be passed on to renters at a very challenging economic time."
Those on the city commission decided to rethink how to implement an expansion of the rental registration program.
Mayor Mike Dever suggested registering all rental properties in the city to allow inspectors access to any property without the landlord's permission or a search warrant.
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"If safety is really what we are after, inspecting everything isn't going to speed up the process," Dever said. "We need to create the mechanism by which we can inspect these facilities."
Vice Mayor Rob Chestnut supported
the mayor's idea.
"The mayor suggested a program requiring some type of registration without all the inspections," Chestnut said. "If this allows access to the property more readily, it might actually start to identify the properties that have significant issues more quickly."
Jeremy Roehr, St. Louis junior, said he thought rental inspections could take place between the time one tenant moved out and the next moved in.
"Inspections definitely need to be done." Rohr said. "It's probably not the highest concern, but safety is a concern."
Hep Warjri, Shillong, India,
senior, said he was concerned about the condition of the house he was currently renting. Warjiri said his landlord told him to call if there was a problem or anything that needed fixing, but he said sometimes they weren't responsive.
One of the problems Warrii mentioned was his front porch.
"That wood is basically just rotted off and so is the railing." Warrii said.
Warriri said he and his room-mates jimmy-rigged the porch with scrap wood as wedges to keep the porch in place.
Alex Haneberg, Chicago senior, said that he didn't think a rental inspection program was needed and that mandatory inspection was very low on his list of priorities.
"Personally, I can take care of that myself," said Haneberg. "I don't think it's really the necessary."
"You can tell who's taking care of their properties and who not," Harper said. "We all get used to certain things and don't view things as a problem, until it's a problem, until someone dies."
Haneberg said he didn't think the city should be strict on landlords who violated building codes because he thought landlords would use it to their advantage.
"Landlords in this town will suck money out of every possible thing." Haneberg said. "They will definitely use it as an excuse to raise rent."
Tom Harper, a local landlord, said he thought the problem was absentee landlords.
Jimenez said he would begin looking into developing a new program this week.
Edited by Liz Schubauer
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Obama to name overseer Earl Devaney to monitor $787 billion economic stimulus plan
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A Secret Service agent watches as President Barack Obama greets audience members Feb. 9 at a ball style meeting about the economic stimulus package.
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama plans to announce today a former Secret Service agent who helped expose lobbyists' corruption at the Interior Department as his pick to oversee the $787 billion economic stimulus plan.
Obama is set to name Earl Devaney as chairman of the new Recovery Act Transparency and Accountability Board, an administration official said Sunday. Vice President Joe Biden also will be given a role coordinating oversight of stimulus spending.
The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because the White House had not made public the announcement.
part on Devaney's investigation.
Devaney, the inspector general of the Interior Department, helped turn up disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff's dealings at the department. The department's No. 2 official, Steven Griles, pleaded guilty to charges he lied during congressional testimony based in
Obama has pledged the Recovery Act Transparency and Accountability Board to be an at large body to oversee how the government spends billions allocated to help the failing U.S. economy. But with dozens of agencies and departments involved, Obama wanted a central group to independently monitor where those funds are going.
Obama also planned to tap Biden to meet regularly with Cabinet members, governors and mayors to make sure their efforts were quick and effective. His reports to Obama are expected to be posted at the administration Web site devoted to the bill, Recovery.gov
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I found out he's been cheating on me Dr. Wilford Brimley!
There, there...
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Ya' know, as a duhbeetite, I find that partic-u-lar-ly offensive.
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I can't do this any longer. I have found a new man, Colonel!
But why? I'm still so finger liekin' good!
Yes, but he is good for me.
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uh, Betty. It's the right thing to do.
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What's a pirate doing delivering pizzas, right? Well, there ain't much demand for us pirates these days, so al' Patrick takes what work a seadog can get Yergh. $6.50 plus tips is better than naught. I tell ye, the economy, like the sea, can be a cruel mistress.
Actually, I was gonna ask if you're hiring. My job sucks barnacles.
Squawk! Accepting application! Squawk!
Actually, I was gonna ask if you're hiring. My job sucks barnacles.
Squawk! Accepting applications! Squawk!
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Todav is a 7
HOROSCOPES
You may not know exactly how you'll accomplish your goals, but don't let that stop you. Imagine you're already there, and just jot down what you did. Imagination is powerful stuff.
JASON HAFLICH
10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 6
You can advance your career,
If you want to take on a real
challenge. This test requires
that you go public about what
you've accomplished or what
you want to do. Publish.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21) Today is a 7
Push hard and get further than you ever thought possible.
This works on tests, starting new businesses and launching voyages. It's a great time for beginnings.
CANCER (June 22-July 22)
Today is a 7
As you go over your plans, you have to deal with reality. If you don't like it when you don't get your way, modify your dream. Want something you can actually have.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
Encourage your partner to be bold, dance free, and whatever else seems to work. Don't stand in this person's way. That would be quite foolish.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Today is a 7
You're certainly keeping busy,
but where is your big reward?
You won't have to wait clear till
heaven, but it may be a while longer. Build new habits and expectations.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is an 8
You folks don't always agree on
everything, but when times get
tough you pull together. Keep
working at it and you'll make it
happen, one more time.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 7
The others may not realize how much you study and practice. They probably think you were born knowing everything, Well, in your case that might be true. Keep em guessing.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21)
Today is an 8
Passions are strong, and you should know exactly what to do. You've had long enough to work on your plan. Put it into action. This is the exciting part.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.19) Today is a 7
Slow down! Don't trust those impulses! Unless, of course, they're right. You can buy if you're getting something real cheap that you know you will use. Or that is and always will be more valuable than what you pay.
You can almost get what you want out of her sherion intention. That's because you're very motivated now. You're also getting a tailwind, so you might as well go ahead. Get as far as you can.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.18) Today is a 7
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Today is a 7
Push to get the job done, whether you do it or not. You can be the supervisor instead of the laborer. That's a better idea. You know what you want to accomplish.
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21 Denim, e.g.
24 Fishing equipment
25 Bobby of hockey
26 Fresh
28 Fleet-related
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33 Legislation
35 Long skirt
36 Forbidden acts 57 Danson or Kennedy
38 Speck 58 Convinces
40 Every last bit 59 Vanna's cohort
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45 Strata-gem 1 Frequently
47 Jackie's second mate 2 Neither partner
48 Blackjack component 3 Historic time
49 Change from one language to another 4 Relay 5 Put on a jury
54 Coffee vessel 6 Hawaiian side dish
55 Greeting 7 Mistake 8 Squelch, in a way
56 Meadow 9 Pretoria's region
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11 Basin accessory
16 Pecan or almond
20 Dutch cheese
21 Old, stale jokes
22 Sandwich cookie
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27 Bankroll
29 Wheel holder
30 Easter flower
32 Sulk
34 Feminine
37 Metal workers
39 Human trunks
42 Threaded nail
44 Up to
45 Tense
46 Farm fraction
50 Carte lead-in
51 Matter-horn, for one
52 Afternoon social
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SAN JOSE, Calif. — Stephen Colberthas had a peregrine falcon-making its nest atop City Hall named after him.
The falcon is the third wild bird or mammal to be named after the host of "The Colbert Report." Breeders at the San Francisco Zoo named a bald eagle Stephen Jr. in 2006.
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Every time I go out, it reminds me why I don't date.
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Is it a bad sign when I have a dorm-wide reputation of doing calculus problems drunk at Templin?
Who cares about the Oscars?
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I found out that I wore highwater pants today and I didn't even know it.
Really, a leopard print string bikini? What were you thinking, guys? What was I thinking?
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I just took a quiz and it was just like my women — short and easy.
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Leggings are not pants and sorority people need to stop wearing them.
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Maybe you should try not doing paperwork while you're driving so you don't almost hit me. Sincerely, Biker.
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It's 2 a.m. on a Friday and I keep getting woken up by the SafeBus and all the drunk people on it.
To the girl who stole my Mardi Gras hat at Brother's: That hat looked terrible on you.
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ENTERTAINMENT
Readers should look beyond best-seller's Christian genre
An article in the Topeka Capital-Journal on Feb.7 addressed the book "The Shack" by William P. Young. The article discussed conflict surrounding the best-selling book, which some say takes too free a hand with traditional Christian theology. The scriptural inaccuracies caused controversy, especially because the book was introduced to Bible-study groups in Topeka. To some, "The Shack" is nothing more than Christian fiction. But by reducing the book to a theologically inaccurate work of Christian fiction, readers miss out on the deeper and more beneficial applications.
"The Shack" is about a father, Mack, whose four-year-old daughter is abducted by a pedophile during a family camping trip. Four years later, he receives a note from Papa, the affectionate term his family has for God, inviting him for a weekend at the very shack where his daughter was presumably murdered.
During the weekend, Mack embarks on a spiritual rollercoaster with Papa, portrayed as a large.
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black woman; Jesus, a laid-back carpenter; and Sarayu, an Asian woman. Mack confronts his loss and grief during his healing process, while at the same time posting the age-old question, "Where is God in a world so filled with pan?"
My dad recommended this book to me. He had received it from one of my aunts following the unexpected death of my 31-year-old brother. After reading it, I immediately understood why he had suggested it. Both my father and I were able to find comfort in a story that so closely resembled our own. And, unfortunately, a lot of people have been able to identify with the story of a parent losing a child. A woman who had lost a son commented on the Topeka Capitol Journal's Web site, without bringing up the
SEE THE TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL ARTICLE AT:
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book's genre or religious aspect, that she had found this to be an "excellent book."
By looking deeper than the Christian fiction label, readers are able to experience a book based on its message, not genre. In getting past the labels and scriptural inaccuracies, this book has a comforting, identifiable story."The Shack" has the potential, if readers throw out religion and politics, to be a thought-provoking work, while at the same time calling forth personal — not solely spiritual — musings about relationships with others in times of great tragedy.
McNaughton is a Topeka senior in journalism and English.
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The number, in millions of dollars, to be redistributed in the state's bank account. Gov. Sebellus requested the money at a meeting of the State Finance Council. The redistribution enabled the state to pay income tax refunds and state employees last week. The compromise ended a conflict between Sebellus and the Legislature that threatened last Friday's paychecks for state workers, including University faculty and students employed on campus.
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ENVIRONMENT
Green groups fight for more than environment
H have you noticed recently that there seems to be an abundance of
be an abundance of environmental groups on campus? Barely a week goes by without seeing tabling at the Kansas Union by Environs, the oldest organization, or Students for Bar Recycling, the newest. With all these groups trying to save the world, you've got to wonder what the world needs so much saving.
The answer can be found in the changing role of these environmental groups. Environmentalists are no longer just focused on the spotted owl or killer whales. Groups are making connections between the environment and human welfare. Indeed, they truly want to save the world, but they have begun to understand that it's not the physical world that really needs saving — it's us. As the comedian George Carlin said "Compared to the people, the planet is fine ... The planet's not going anywhere — we are."
Good examples of groups that have combined social and environmental issues are those that have made the connection between our environmental degradation and social inequality. The student group Eco-Justice and the Center for Community Outreach program EARTH are good examples. Eco-Justice is a new group on campus that focuses on how environmental degradation disproportionately affects the poor. EARTH grows food on campus — not just for sustainability, but for the poor in our community that lack proper nutrition.
It's not just environmental groups that have made the connection between social problems and the environment. Social groups, whose primary interest is in saving people, have realized the connection between saving people and saving the planet. Oxfam America, a human rights group, views global warming as integral to the problems facing the world's people. Anna Hoard, recipient of the 2008 Sustainability
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Leadership Award and former outreach coordinator for Oxfam KU, said climate justice and social justice were essentially the same issue, and the people hit hardest were often those who could do the least about it.
These groups understand that the time has passed for privileging short-term economic gains that lead to long-term environmental damage. If we fail to protect the environment, we fail to protect ourselves and those around us.
For too long we have marginalized the environment with our mandate for disposable products, which encourages copious consumption. We've allowed the interest of economic progress to outweigh our needs for a sustainable and clean environment. We've allowed a false sense of achievement to degrade our communities, which has lead to the forfeiture of long-standing social and environmental structures for temporary gains.
We have disenfranchised the weak in other nations, and have exported both our waste and our poverty. Those who have the means to do so cry, "Not in my backyard," while the poor both nationally and abroad are voiceless against the disproportional weight of our consumer economy.
Let's also give a big thanks to the student groups that are helping us work toward a better future.
It's time for students and social movements to challenge business and consumer practices that accept environmental degradation and disproportionately affect the poor.
Kenny is a Leavenworth senior in civil and environmental engineering.
Government shouldn't help make Hummers
With the current stimulus plan that passed, I think we should hold back bailout money from General Motors. In a recent statement, GM declared that it is willing to phase out
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
I just read in The Wall Street Journal that General Motors Corporation is asking the government for more bailout money. The future looks grim, and the options have come to this: bailout or bust. GM has already taken action to slash more than 45,000 jobs, but in the end, there is still not enough financial backing to continue. Now, I know it sucks that the major car companies are going through hard times, but at some point we have to ask ourselves how much more money we are willing to shell out for problems that cannot be fixed by money alone.
— Sushu Wang is a freshman from Manhattan
Hummers, Saabs and Saturns, if needed, in order to stay afloat. Though Saturns and Saabs are acceptable, I have always held a strong dislike for Hummers. The big, clunky cars are horribly inefficient and spew toxic gases into the atmosphere. Also, Hummers are originally designed for military purposes, so why the heck are civilians even driving them around? They are a hazard to pedestrians and other cars. They steal parking spots and spill over into other spaces, leaving the rest of us compact cars out in the cold. So, if we hold the bailout off the next few months, then GM will have no choice but to stop producing Hummers. This will be better in the long run for the environment and our consciousness. So, join me as I declare: Death to all Hummers!
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Insurgents attack African Union peacekeeping base
Eleven people killed and 15 injured after mortars were fired onto base in Mogadishu
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MOGADISHU, Somalia — An attack on an African Union peace- base in the Somali capital Sunday killed 11 people and injured 15, the AU said, but it denied insurgent claims of a suicide attack.
El Ghassim Wane, a spokesman for the AU in Addis Ababa, said the insurgents had fired mortars onto the base in Mogadishu. He gave no further details.
But Sheik Muktar Robow, a
The AU peace-
keeping force in
Mozambique has
spokesman for the Al Shabab insurgent group, insisted that "Our fighters have carried out two suicide attacks on the intifdes in Mogadishu, inflicting heavy losses."
had a restricted mandate to guard key government installations in the two years it has been here. It has not been involved in fighting Islamic militants in the capital, battles that have killed thousands of civilians over the past two years. But hardline groups still view the peacekeepers as an occupying force.
"Our fighters have carried out two suicide attacks on infidels in Mogadishu..."
Al-Shabab, an extremist Islamic group, has threatened to focus its attacks on AU troops now that Ethiopian troops have left Mogadisha after a two-year deployment.
Also Sunday, gunmen kidnapped a Pakistani in northern Somalia, said Muse Gelle, governor of the Bari region in Somalia's semiauto-
SHEIK MUKTAR ROBOW
Al-Shabab spokesman
nomous Puntland region. The man was traveling to a farming project where he was working. Gelle said.
Pirates also seized a Greek-
owned cargo ship Sunday with a
Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman Abdul Basit said he was unaware that any Pakistani national had been kidnapped in Somalia.
The man's name and employer were not immediately known. The area of the Horn of Africa nation is notoriously for kidnappings and piracy.
22-member crew off Somalia's coast.
Somalia has not had a functioning government since 1991.
The U.S. State Department considers al-Shabab a terrorist organization linked to al-Qaida, something the group has
denied.
Somalia's government controls virtually no territory in this unstable nation.
A moderate Islamist leader, Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, was elected by parliament and observers hope he will bring many of Somalia's Islamic factions into a more inclusive government.
Former soldier, rebel and warlord Abdullahi Yusuf resigned as president in December after failing to pacify the country.
Ahmed was chairman of the Islamic Courts Union that ran Mogadishu for six months in 2006 before Ethiopian soldiers took over.
Somali and AU forces view a destroyed vehicle, which was loaded with explosives to target an African Union peacekeepers base in the capital, Mogadishu, Somalia on Jan. 24. A suicide car-bomb attack near an African Union peacekeepers base killed 14 people in the Somali capital on Saturday, the mayor of Mogadishu said. The bombing occurred days before a planned deployment of Ugandan and Burundian soldiers to beef up the current peacekeeping continent.
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Judge turns into defendant Samuel Kent first federal judge to face trial on a sex crime charge
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HOUSTON — U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent will be making judicial history when he enters a courtroom Monday — but it won't be the kind he'll want to remember.
Kent will join the handful of federal judges who have taken part in a trial as a defendant, and he will be the first to face trial on a sex crime charge.
The 59-year-old judge is accused of fondling two female court employees as he tried to force himself on the women and have them perform sex acts.
Jury selection in his trial was set to begin Monday. If convicted, he faces up to life in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
Kent has pleaded innocent to five charges related to federal sex crimes and to one alleging obstruction of justice, in which he is accused of lying to an investigative committee.
His nearly 19 years on the bench might buy him some credibility with the jury, said Barry Pollack, an attorney not connected to the case.
"What you might see happen is the jury take the presumption of innocence a little more seriously," said Pollack, with the Washington firm of Miller & Chevalier. "But if the allegations are proven, the jury would be very offended a federal judge engaged in that conduct."
A gag order in the case has prevented prosecutors, defense attorneys and others connected to the case from commenting outside court.
Kent wants to testify, his attorney, Dick DeGuerin, said during a hearing last week in which he unsuccessfully tried to have the obstruction charge thrown out or severed.
"Judge Kent believes his conduct with both of the (women) was mutual and consensual," said DeGuerin, who has represented such high-profile clients as former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and Branch Davidian sect leader David Koresh.
an investigation. The Associated Press does not normally name alleged victims of sexual abuse, but McBroom's attorney and her family have used her name in publicly discussing the case. The other woman was identified in court last week as Kent's former secretary.
Kent's former case manager, Cathy McBroom, filed a complaint against him in May 2007 and the Judicial Council of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals began
McBroom accused Kent of harassing her over a four-year period, culminating in March 2007, when she said the judge pulled up her blouse and bra and tried to escalate contact until they were interrupted.
The judicial council suspended Kent in September 2007 for four months with pay but didn't detail the allegations against him. It also transferred him 50 miles northwest from Galveston, where he had worked since being appointed in 1990, to Houston.
A Justice Department investigation of McBroom's claims led to Kent's indictment in August on three sex charges. Last month, prosecutors added two more sex charges and the obstruction charge, accusing Kent of trying to engage his former secretary in a sex act and then lying about it.
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'Slumdog Millionaire,' Penn, Winslet take top awards
Presenters offer tributes to nominees instead of usual film clips
BY DAVID GERMAIN
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LOS ANGELES — "Slumdog Millionaire" took the best-picture
Academy Award and seven other Oscars on Sunday, director for Danny Boyle, whose ghetto-to-glory story paralleled the film's unlikely rise to Hollywood's summit.
The other top winners:
nations, its eight wins including adapted screenplay, cinematography, editing and both music Oscars (score and song).
"Just to say to Mumbai, all of you who helped us make the film and all of those who didn't, thank you very much."
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Kate Winslet, best actress for the Holocaust-themed drama "The Reader"; Sean Penn, best actor for the title role of "Milk"; Heath Ledger, supporting actor for "The Dark Knight"; and Penelope Cruz, supporting actress for "Vicky Cristina Barcelona."
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British director Danny Boyle is congratulated after winning the Oscar for best director for his work on "Slumdog Millionaire" during the 81st Academy Awards on Sunday in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles.
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ay to Mumbai, all of you who helped us make the film and all of those of you who didn't, thank you very much. You dwarf even this guy." Boyle said, holding up his directing Oscar.
A story of hope amid squailor in Mumbai, India, "Slumdog Millionaire" came in with 10 nomi-
The film follows the travails and triumphs of lamel, an orphan who artfully
dodges a criminal gang that mutilates children to make them more pitiable beggars. Jamal witnesses his mother's violent death, endures police torture and struggles with betrayal by his brother, while single-mindedly hoping to reunite with the lost love of his childhood.
answers that made him a champion on India's version of "Who wants to Be a Millionaire."
Fate rewards Jamal, whose story unfolds through flashbacks as he recalls how he came to know the
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As he took the stage to accept his prize for playing slain gay rights pioneer Harvey Milk, Penn gleefully told the crowd. "You commite, homo-living sons of guns."
He followed with condemnation of anti-gay protesters who demonstrated near the Oscar site and comments about California's recent vote to ban gay marriage.
For his demented reinvention of Batman villain the joker, Ledger became only the second actor ever to win posthumously, his triumph coming exactly 13 months after his death from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs.
His Oscar for the Warner Bros. blockbuster was accepted by Ledger's parents and sister on behalf of the actor's 3-year-old daughter, Matilda.
The epic love story "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," which led with 13 nominations, had three wins.
"The Dark Knight" had a second win, for sound editing.
"Man on Wire," James Marsh's examination of tight-rope walker Philippe Petit's dazzling stroll between the towers of the World
It was a much different style for the Oscars as each past recipient offered personal tributes to one of the nominees, without clips of the
Trade Center in 1974, was chosen as best documentary.
After last year's Oscars delivered their worst TV ratings ever, producers this time aimed to live up the show with some surprises and new ways of presenting awards.
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Army charity stockpiling millions
BY JEFF DONN Associated Press
FORT BLISS, Texas — As soldiers stream home from Iraq and Afghanistan, the biggest charity inside the U.S. military has been stockpiling tens of millions of dollars meant to help put returning fighters back on their feet, an Associated Press investigation shows.
Between 2003 and 2007 — as many military families dealt with long war deployments and increased numbers of home foreclosures — Army Emergency Relief grew into a $345 million behemoth. During those years, the charity packed away $117 million into its own reserves while spending just $64 million on direct aid, according to an AP analysis of its tax records.
Tax-exempt and legally separate from the military, AER projects a facade of independence but really operates under close Army control. The massive nonprofit — funded predominantly by troops — allows superiors to squeeze soldiers for contributions; forces struggling soldiers to repay loans — sometimes delaying transfers and promotions — and too often violates its own rules by rewarding donors, such as giving free passes from physical training, the AP found.
Founded in 1942, AER eases cash emergencies of active-duty soldiers and retirees and provides college scholarships for their families, its emergency aid covers mortgage payments and food, car repairs, medical bills, travel to family funerals, and the like.
Instead of giving money away, though, the Army charity lent out 91 percent of its
Instead of giving money away, the Army charity lent out 91 percent of its emergency aid from 2003-2007.
of their own resources into aid than reserves. The Air Force charity kept $24 million in reserves while dispensing $56 million in total
emergency aid during the period 2003-2007. For accounting purposes, the loans, dispensed interest free, are counted as expenses only when they are not paid back
During that same five-year period, the smaller Navy and Air Force charities both put far more
aid, which includes grants, scholarships and loans not repaid. The Navy charity put $32 million into reserves and gave out $49 million in total aid.
AER executives defend their operation, insisting they need to keep sizable
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Coach Bonnie Henrickson calls her team in for a huddle after a timeout during the Jayhawks' 58-47 victory over Iowa State University in Allen Fieldhouse. Henrickson is being credited with propelling her team forward, with Sunday's win breaking a four-game losing streak.
BY JAYSON JENKS
jjenks@kansan.com
Ten minutes after the fact — after Kansas had upset No. 21 Iowa State 58-47 — coach Bonnie Henrickson emerged onto James Naismith Court, greeted by applause from those still soaking in the victory.
The day before, after Kansas' practice, Henrickson and Athletics Director Lew Perkins talked on that same court about the Iowa State game and the general direction of the women's basketball program.
"He said, 'I'm just telling you, if we string consecutive wins and get going like 1 think we can get going, this will blow up here.'" Henrickson said.
"We've believed that all along." Henrickson said. "But we have to take care of business and win games."
Sunday's game provided a perfect snapshot of what could be. In front of 7,069 people — easily Kansas' largest crowd this season — the Jayhawks played with noticeably more energy than in previous games.
While there's little doubt that winning dictates attendance figures, Kansas took a step in the right direction against Iowa State.
"That's what we need: the more fans, the more success," junior forward Danielle McCray said. "We doing a good job of gathering some fans but we have to continue to win to gather more fans like our men's team."
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
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For full coverage of the women's basketball game against No. 21 Iowa State, check out page 6B.
A cynic's eye might look at Kansas' victory as a mere break from the norm during a season in which the Jayhawks have won just three conference games.
SEE WOMEN'S ON PAGE 6B
KANSAS 70, NEBRASKA 53
Focused on one game at a time
BY CASE KEEFER
ckeefer@kansan.com
Markieff Morris had one of his better games of the season, Sherron Collins barely missed any shots and Cole Aldrich dominated as usual.
Yet none of them had much to say about Kansas' 70-53 victory against Nebraska on Saturday. They kept their comments brief.
"I got the feeling a little bit," said Collins, who finished with 22 points on 8-for-12 shooting. "I got a little hot."
Collins, a junior guard, started to forget about the Nebraska victory immediately after the buzzer sounded at Allen Fieldhouse. He had another game on his mind.
Collins could finally think about tonight's Big Monday matchup at 8 against No. 2 Oklahoma (25-2, 11-1) in Norman, Okla., which pairs the Big 12 Conference's top two teams. A mention of Oklahoma after the Nebraska game elicited longer-winded responses.
"We're going to be the underdogs and that's fine with me," Collins said. "That's what even motivates us more — people think we can't win and can't go out and beat these teams. We're going to be fired up. I'm going to be ready."
The layhawks will be underdogs because the Sooners feature forward Blake Griffin, who is considered the best player in the nation and averages 22 points and 14 rebounds per game. Griffin's status after suffering an apparent concussion won't be known until he is evaluated sometime today.
Kansas has two stars of its own in Collins and Aldrich. Both stood out against the Cornhuskers on Saturday. Aldrich, a sophomore center, complemented Collins with 18 points and 12 rebounds.
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"That's too much," Kansas coach Bill Self said. "I want to get 40 points between them, don't get me wrong. But we aren't having the same production of other guys
For the second straight game, Collins and Aldrich contributed more than 55 percent of Kansas scoring.
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Sophomore center Cole Aldrich snatches the ball from Nebraska's Ryan Anderson during the second half of Saturday's 70-53 victory in Allen Fieldhouse.
Collins is key to Big Monday
BY ANDREW WIEBE
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Will Blake Griffin play tonight? That's the question swirling around Norman, Okla. right about now.
Sunday morning Oklahoma coach Jeff Capel told reporters that no one will know whether Griffin, the consensus top college basketball player in the United States, will be ready to play until he is evaluated again sometime today. According to reports, an MRI scan came back clean on Sunday, but Capel said Griffin's future would not be risked for one game, no matter how crucial it is.
His potential absence, however
unfortunate for the Sooners, could
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Will it be the unstoppable offensive force that tore apart Nebraska for 22 points on 12 shots, seemingly willing the lajyhawks forward when they most needed his presence? Or will it be the player who committed six turnovers, uncharacteristically missed key free throws and never looked comfortable against Missouri's pressure defense on Big Morrow two weeks ago?
But amid the conjecture and rumor surrounding Griffin's status, one player's influence on the game of the Big 12 season thus far is being overlooked: junior guard Sherron Collins. The question is which Collins will show up tonight on ESPN.
Judging by Collins' dominant performance against the Cornhuskers, his performance against Missouri was clearly an aberration. As Jawhaws enter the conference stretch run that will decide where they finish, their best player is hitting his stride as well.
Nobody in the Big 12 is better than Collins with open real estate ahead of them. He is as efficient a sorcer as there is in the conference — Collins is ranked in the top 10 in field goal percentage, three-point field goal percentage and free-throw percentage. And, most importantly, Collins is getting his points — 18 per game to be exact — without depriving his teammates.
Against Nebraska, Collins racked up three assists before he even took a shot. But once it became apparent Kansas needed a jolt, he took over the game, draining four jumpers in five possessions in just under two minutes.
The Cornhuskers couldn't stay in front of him, and with the lead cut to six three minutes into the second half, Collins took over one final time. An acrobatic finish with a foul and two three-pointers later, one of which narrowly beat the shot clock, and Kansas had a 17-point lead it never relinquished.
Then on cue he took a backseat again, watching as Cole Aldrich and Markief Morris made their marks in the paint. And that's the key. Collins is picking his spots, taking over when the time demands it and spreading the offensive responsibility when his dynamic abilities would be better saved.
Griffin or no Griffin, Kansas' chances depend on Collins. And that's just the way he wants it.
"We're going to be fired up," Colins said. "I'm going to have them ready, that's my job."
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MONDAY FEBRUARY 23, 2009
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2009
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"We held Beasley to 39 last year and we held Durant twice to 35 and 37, so I'm really high on those guys. But I think Blake's a more complete guy."
— Kansas coach Bill Self on Oklahoma's Blake Griffin
FACT OF THE DAY
Kansas will play in its fourth Big Monday game tonight against Oklahoma on ESPN. The Jayhawks are 2-1 so far with victories against Texas A&M and Baylor. Their only loss came two weeks ago in Columbia, Mo., to Missouri.
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TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: What is Kansas' record in the Lloyd Noble Center?
A: 14-15. The Sooners have won two of the last three in their home arena, but in 2007 the Jayhawks squeaked out a 67-65 victory in Norman.
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First Pitch: Josh Bowe and Tim Dwyer introduce the Kansan's newest sports blog covering KU baseball. Check it out for more on the team's opening weekend in Tennessee.
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Big 12 Conference has nose woes
COMMENTARY
If you have a nose and play basketball in the Big 12, please take cover immediately.
First, an elbow to Cole Aldrich's nose turned his uniform into a Halloween costume. Then on Saturday night, an open hand brushed against Blake Griffin's nose turned the Player of the Year into an incoherent mess.
Sitting in between two doctors at the end of the bench, Griffin looked like a drunken child who didn't know where he was or why he could see a purple rhinoceros riding a whale (actual hallucinations may vary).
Fortunately for Aldrich, his nose problems appear to be behind him. And that's great news, because a 6-foot-11 'aw-shucks' kid with chicken legs doesn't need another reason for his teammates to give him the business."
It seems there's a vendetta against Big 12 big men with noses, which means Kansas State's Darren Kent should be on full alert.
*Fun fact: Giving someone the business can actually draw a penalty flag in college football, just go to YouTube, type in 'Giving Him'
BY TAYLOR BERN
tbern@kansan.com
the business,'wait for the 43-second mark and enjoy.
Griffin's the more interesting case, because Texas' Dexter Pittman barely glanced Griffin's face protrusion.
I thought it was a fluke until I did some research and discovered some little known facts about the Griffin family.
Gail Griffin, Blake's mother, is actually a Greek goddess. When Blake was born, he grabbed his nose and dipped his body into a vat of Dominique Wilkins' sweat so that he could dominate opponents like The Human Highlight Film once did.
However, Pittman discovered this fatal secret. He knew one small swipe across the bridge would dismantle his opponent, because that's where Gail hung on to her son and
It's a tough break for Blake, but kudos to Pittman for giving us the phrase Griffin's nose as an alternative to Achilles' heel.
that part didn't get sweaty.
THE LUNK
According to the box score, Matt Kleinmanns bucket on Saturday was a dunk.
Those were his first points since Dec. 30, so I'm sure that Big Red didn't care how they came. But in fairness to athletes who can actually slam, we need the scorebook to include Kleinmann's hybrid layup/dunk, or lunk.
It's more embarrassing than just making a layup, especially when you play Division I basketball, because it almost always means that you tried, and failed, to dunk.
A lunk is really a layup, but the perpetrator touches the rim to create the illusion of a dunk. The common culprit is a tall but unathletic white guy (like me), most likely playing at the rec.
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Waecher signed with the Royals as a free agent in December after a season with the Florida Marlins. He had been starting pitcher but the Marlins tried him in a reliever role last season. He went 4-2 with a 3.69 ERA in 4B relief appearances.
"When Kansas City came after me I really wanted it to work out here because I heard so many good things about the organization," said Waechter, who got a one-year contract for $640,000. "It just seems like a good organization to be in, and coming."
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SURPRISE, Ariz. — Jose Guillen acknowledged Saturday that he had worked with Angel Presinal, a Dominican trainer who has been linked to steroids and banned from major league clubhouses.
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<table border="1"><tr><td>Player</td><td colspan="2">FG-FGA</td><td colspan="2">3FG-3FGARebs</td><td>A</td><td>Pts</td></tr><tr><td>Cole Aldrich</td><td>7-11</td><td>0-0</td><td>12</td><td>2</td><td>18</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Sherron Collins</td><td>8-12</td><td>2-4</td><td>2</td><td>4</td><td>22</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Brady Morningstar</td><td>3-5</td><td>2-3</td><td>4</td><td>3</td><td>8</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Tyrel Reed</td><td>0-2</td><td>0-2</td><td>3</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Mario Little</td><td>0-4</td><td>0-0</td><td>3</td><td>2</td><td>0</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Quintrell Thomas</td><td>0-2</td><td>0-0</td><td>3</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Tyshawn Taylor</td><td>2-6</td><td>1-5</td><td>3</td><td>1</td><td>6</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Markieff Morris</td><td>1-2</td><td>0-1</td><td>9</td><td>1</td><td>6</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Marcus Morris</td><td>2-2</td><td>1-1</td><td>3</td><td>0</td><td>5</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Travis Releford</td><td>1-2</td><td>0-1</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>3</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Tyrone Appleton</td><td>0-1</td><td>0-0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Team</td><td></td><td></td><td>2</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Total</td><td>27-57</td><td>6-18</td><td>46</td><td>14</td><td>70</td><td></td></tr></table>
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<table border="1"><tr><td>Player</td><td colspan="2">FG-FGA</td><td colspan="2">3FG-3FGA Rebs</td><td>A</td><td>Pts</td></tr><tr><td>Chris Balham</td><td>1-1</td><td>0-0</td><td>3</td><td>0</td><td>2</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Steve Harley</td><td>5-11</td><td>1-2</td><td>2</td><td>1</td><td>11</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Sek Henry</td><td>3-7</td><td>0-2</td><td>7</td><td>2</td><td>7</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Ade Dagunduro</td><td>5-12</td><td>0-1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>13</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Cookie Miller</td><td>1-4</td><td>0-2</td><td>2</td><td>6</td><td>2</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Nick Krenk</td><td>0-0</td><td>0-0</td><td>3</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Brandon Richardson</td><td>0-1</td><td>0-1</td><td>3</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Alonzo Edwards</td><td>0-0</td><td>0-0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Paul Velander</td><td>2-3</td><td>2-3</td><td>2</td><td>1</td><td>6</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Toney McCray</td><td>0-6</td><td>0-1</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>2</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Ben Nelson</td><td>0-0</td><td>0-0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Ryan Anderson</td><td>4-10</td><td>2-6</td><td>0</td><td>2</td><td>10</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Team</td><td></td><td></td><td>2</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Total</td><td>21-55</td><td>5-18</td><td>24</td><td>15</td><td>53</td><td></td></tr></table>
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11/16 vs. UMKC W, 71-56
11/18 vs. Florida Gulf Coast W, 85-45
11/24 vs. Washington (in Kansas City, Mo.) W, 73-54
11/25 Syracuse (in Kansas City, Mo.) L, 89-81 (OT)
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12/1 vs. Kent State W, 87-60
12/3 vs. New Mexico State W, 100-79
12/6 vs. Jackson State W, 86-62
12/13 vs. Massachusetts (in Kansas City, Mo.) L, 61-60
12/20 vs. Temple W, 71-59
12/23 at Arizona L, 84-67
12/30 vs. Albany NY W, 79-43
1/03 vs. Tennessee W, 92-85
1/6 vs. Siena W, 91-84
1/10 at Michigan State L, 75-62
1/13 vs. Kansas State W, 87-71
1/17 at Colorado W, 73-56
1/19 vs. Texas A&M W, 73-53
1/24 at Iowa State W, 82-67
1/28 at Nebraska W, 68-62
1/31 vs. Colorado W, 66-61
2/2 at Baylor W, 75-65
2/7 vs. Oklahoma State W, 78-67
2/9 at Missouri L, 62-60
2/14 at Kansas State W, 85-74
2/18 vs. Iowa State W, 72-55
2/21 vs. Nebraska W, 70-53
2/23 at Oklahoma 8 p.m.
3/1 vs. Missouri 1 p.m.
3/4 at Texas Tech 8:30 p.m.
3/7 vs. Texas 3 p.m.
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In other words, Self wants other players to be able to take some of the pressure off of Collins and Aldrich tonight at the Lloyd Noble Center. If Saturday was any indication, freshman forward Markieff Morris could help with the role.
Although Morris scored only six points, Self said he was one of the best players in the game because of his nine rebounds and three blocks. His dunk with 10 minutes remaining in the game didn't hurt, either.
Morris grabbed an offensive rebound in midair and threw down a putback dunk directly above a
cluster of Huskers and Hawks to put Kansas ahead 50-35.
"It's a good feeling to finish one and to get one like that over top of everybody." Morris said. "Hopefully, I get some more."
Less than a minute before, Collins dribbled the ball around the perimeter as the shot clock wound down. Left with no other options, Collins lofted a contested three-point shot at the buzzer. Somehow the deep haue found the basket.
Morris' highlight dunk came during a 10-3 stretch that distanced Kansas from Nebraska. It wasn't the only awe-inducing moment of the run.
For a guard to get 22 points on
The shot was symbolic of Collins' afternoon.
12 shots — it's pretty hard to do if you don't shoot any free throws," Self said. "He was great."
Aldrich, meanwhile, went 7-for-11 from the field. Nebraska's lack of size discouraged it from guarding Aldrich outside of the paint, so he knocked down three jump shots.
"A lot of people were trying to say this or that and we just said, you know what, we've got to take care of business," Aldrich said, "or else that game isn't going to mean anything to us."
But, after the game, the Jayhawks
The rest of his points came below the basket. Aldrich said he was pleased the Jayhawks resisted looking past the Cornhuskers and focusing on the Sooners.
made no attempt to hide the excitement for the showdown th could decide the Big 12 champion
Even Self said he was excited see how his team performed wi such high stakes.
"I'm not putting all the emphasis on one game, that this is for all marbles," Self said. "But our guys a smart. They understand it's a hu game and it will have confer championship implications. Ther no doubt about that."
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Before stepping into the center ring of James Naismith Court for Saturday afternoon's tipoff, Cole Aldrich smiled to the crowd. The sophomore center, who played without a mask for the first time since he absorbed Ryan Anderson's elbow on Jan. 28 at Nebraska, was showing off his new grin.
It featured a gaping hole where his left front tooth used to be.
Aldrich chipped the tooth at Kansas State and then lost it completely at practice on Friday. Aldrich said it's the third time he's lost that tooth.
It didn't seem to matter to him on the court, where he slipped in a mouth guard and recorded his 15th double-double of the season with 18 points and 12 rebounds. Aldrich also dished out two assists and blocked two
shots, the second of which was his 100th block at Kansas.
Anticipation for tonight's game against Oklahoma has been building since the game at Kansas State and Aldrich said he was impressed that Kansas stayed focused for both games in between.
"Everybody's biggest fear was just looking over the games," Aldrich said. "We didn't really do that."
Aldrich went through shoot-around without the mask before the Iowa State game Wednesday night, but decided he wasn't quite ready. On Saturday, he opted to leave it off.
Aldrich proved there was no pain by twisting his nose around for reporters. Last week doctors said the decision to wear it was up to him, and Aldrich finally
"I felt that it was just the time to try it without," Aldrich said. "It's been three and a half weeks now, and I felt fine."
felt comfortable enough without it.
In the last three games (two with the mask and one without) Aldrich averaged 20.3 points and 10 rebounds per game. Still, his sans-mask performance was the most efficient of the three as Aldrich needed just 11 shots and 26 minutes to dominate a team that held him to zero points and zero rebounds in the first half of their last meeting.
The decision pleased coach Bill Self, who has said he felt the mask hindered Aldrich's sight.
After Saturday's game, Aldrich said he was looking forward to the Oklahoma game and a matchup with Player of the Year candidate Blake Griffin.
"I've known Blake for awhile, and he's a beast," Aldrich said. "He tries to dunk everything around the rim and grab every board."
Last year against Oklahoma, Aldrich played 13 minutes off
the bench while Griffin played only five minutes because of a knee injury. Self said he doesn't mind seeing the opposing team's best player on the bench, except when it's because of an injury.
"I had somebody text me the other day, saying, 'You guys should have absolutely no problem with OU if you guys just go play . . . that's of course if Blake doesn't play.'" Self said.
That Saturday afternoon joke turned into a possible reality Saturday night, when Griffin suffered a concussion against Texas. He looked punch drunk for the entire second half and is questionable to play tonight.
The stage was set for an epic post-battle. If Griffin doesn't play then Aldrich, removable tooth and all, could be the new face of the Big 12, at least for a night.
- Edited by Sam Speer
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Sherron Collins chucked a three-point shot toward the basket at the end of the shot clock with 10:41 remaining. Somehow, it swished. The Ringling Brothers shot made the score 48-35. Better yet, it showed that Saturday wasn't Nebraska's day in case that wasn't already apparent. Other highlights immediately followed, including freshman forward Markieff Morris' putback slam and a three from sophomore guard Brady Morningstar. But by then, the game had already been decided.
IT WAS OVER WHEN ...
GAME TO REMEMBER ...
Senior center Matt Kleinmann
Kleinmann
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They aren't going to put Kleinmann's late dunk in the Allen Fieldhouse pre-game video, but Kleinmann's bumbling lunge toward the basket will be remembered. It was the fifth-year walk-on's first points in Big 12 Conference play this season. The Kansas bench erupted with cheers when Kleinmann sort of dunked with 11 seconds remaining. Kleinmann played one minute with two points and one rebound.
GAME TO FORGET ...
Junior guard Mario Little
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Kansas coach Bill Self loves to say that the law of averages usually prevails in basketball. Reference Little Mario. Earlier in the season, Little made 11 straight shots from the field and looked like the third cog in the Jayhawks' offensive machine. Now, Little hasn't made a shot in three games. He's missed nine in a row. Against Nebraska, he went 0-for-4 from the field and two of his attempts had no chance to go in.
STAT OF THE NIGHT ...
22. That's how much the Jayhawks out-rebounded the Huskers on Saturday, Kansas grabbed 46 rebounds, while Nebraska recorded only 24. Some disparity is expected because Nebraska is the smallest team in the Big 12, but 22 is a monstrous margin.
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PRIME PLAYS
FIRST HALF
7:24 — Usually a spot shooter Brady Morningstar dribbled through the lane in between all five Nebraska defenders before dumping an assist to Travis Releford.
11:29 — Markieff Morris had one of his best games of the season, which included three blocks. One of those came as Nebraska tried to force up a shot at the end of the shot clock. Morris' block forced one of the Cornhuskers' 10 turnovers.
0:02 — Cole Aldrich grabbed Tyshawn Taylor's missed shot and layed it in. Kansas has now made a shot in the final seven seconds of the first half in eight of its last nine games.
3:45 — Sherron Collins scored his eighth point in two and a half minutes with a long jump shot that bounced off the rim and dropped in. The shot put Kansas up 11, its largest lead of the first half.
SECOND HALF
9:56 — Markieff's season highlight came on Saturday with putback slam after Quintrell Thomas missed his shot. Nebraska called a timeout and twin brother Marcus Morris sprinted off the bench to help Markieff celebrate.
0:11 — Matt Kleinmann scored for the first time since Dec. 30 with a half dunk/half layup that sent the Fieldhouse into hysteresis despite its ugleness.
5:34 — Tensions were a little high because of the animosity towards Cookie Miller. After forcing a jump ball with Mario Little, Nebraska's Paul Velander tried to diffuse the situation by giving him a hug.
10:42 — Collins was unstoppable Saturday, which includes his three-pointer to beat the shot clock. Collins just heaved it towards the basket and laughed down court after it went in.
GAME NOTES
STEPHENSON MAKES OFFICIAL VISIT
Kansas fans chanted his name, raised posters with his name and asked for his autograph.
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Lance Stephenson, a 6-foot-5 guard from New York rated as the No. 9 recruit in the nation by Rivals.com, was a first-class celebrity at Allen Fieldhouse on Saturday. Stephenson, who is averaging more than 30 points and 12 rebounds per game at Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, was on his official visit to Kansas on Saturday.
Stephenson, a McDonald's All- American, will not decide where he will attend college until after his high school season ends. According to Rivals.com, Stephenson is choosing between Kansas, St. John's, Maryland, UCLA and Wake Forest.
SPOTTED IN THE CROWD
Stephenson wasn't the only notable on hand to witness Kansas' 17-point victory.
Former Kansas standouts Dave Robisch and Jeff Boschee attended the game, as did Nebraska football coach Bo Pelini.
The PA announcer recognized Robisch and Boschee during a timeout. Robisch played for the Jayhawks from 1969-1971 and averaged 21 points for his career. He still ranks eighth in school history in scoring. Boschee made 338 three-point shots in his career, the most in Kansas history.
UNPOPULAR COOKIE
Kansas fans hadn't forgotten about the skirmish between junior guard Mario Little and Nebraska guard Cookie Miller in last month's 68-62 Kansas victory in Lincoln, Neb.
Every time Miller touched the ball, boos greeted him. Miller finished the game 1-for-4 from the field with two points and six assists.
Little, however, looked to be in the middle of another fracas late in the second half when he wrestled with Nebraska guard Paul Velander for a loose ball. Little ripped the ball away from Velander and appeared to yell something at him.
But the two made up seconds later with a hug at midcourt.
— Case Keefer
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IOWA STATE 24 23 - 47
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Player FG-FGA 3FG-3FGA Rebs A Pts
Danielle McCray 8-19 2-5 16 3 24
Nicollette Smith 1-3 0-1 3 0 2
Krysten Boogaard 2-3 0-0 4 0 8
LaChelda Jacobs 2-3 0-0 1 1 4
Ivana Catic 0-1 0-1 3 6 2
Aishah Sutherland 1-3 0-0 0 0 2
Kelly Kohn 0-2 0-1 0 0 0
Sade Morris 5-10 0-2 5 1 16
Porscha Weddington 0-0 0-0 1 0 0
Team 1
Total 19-44 2-10 34 11 58
NO.21 IOWA STATE (19-7, 7-5)
<table><thead><tr><th>Player</th><th>FG-FGA</th><th>3FG-3FGA</th><th>Rebs</th><th>A</th><th>Pts</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Nicky Wieben</td><td>6-16</td><td>2-3</td><td>7</td><td>0</td><td>19</td></tr><tr><td>Amanda Nisleit</td><td>0-5</td><td>0-3</td><td>3</td><td>1</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>Alison Lacey</td><td>3-11</td><td>1-2</td><td>0</td><td>2</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>Kelsey Bolte</td><td>1-8</td><td>0-2</td><td>8</td><td>1</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>Heather Ezell</td><td>3-8</td><td>0-4</td><td>2</td><td>2</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>Whitney Williams</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Denae Stuckey</td><td>0-3</td><td>0-2</td><td>5</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Ashley Arlen</td><td>1-2</td><td>0-2</td><td>2</td><td>1</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>Toccara Ross</td><td>1-2</td><td>0-0</td><td>2</td><td>0</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>Team</td><td></td><td></td><td>4</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Total</td><td>15-55</td><td>3-16</td><td>33</td><td>7</td><td>47</td></tr></tbody></table>
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WEDDINGTON SEES INCREASED MINUTES
During practice last week, coach Bonnie Henrickson told junior forward Porscha Weddington she may be called upon against Iowa State.
What's the big deal? Weddington had played just three minutes in Kansas' last seven games, but played 17 minutes of physical defense on Sunday
"I thought she came out and played with confidence," Henrickson said.
SMITH LEAVES WITH INJURY BUT RETURNS
With just less than 11 minutes remaining in the game, sophomore forward Nicollette Smith had to be walked off the court.
Smith, who wears a brace on her right knee, didn't put any pressure on her right leg while being assisted to the bench.
She returned, however, with 3:24 left in the game despite a noticeable limp. Henrickson said the extent of the injury is unknown.
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McCray dazzles against Iowa State
Jayhawks end their four-game losing streak, largest crowd of the season boosts energy
BY CLARK GOBLE
cgoble@kansan.com
It's a surprise that Danielle McCray didn't sell popcorn at the concession stands in Allen Fieldhouse at halftime yesterday afternoon against No. 21 Iowa State.
She did about everything else.
McCray scored 24 points, a few more than her average. They came in mostly the same way they have all season: pull-up jumpers from the right and left wing in the eyes of her defender.
But it was her 16 boards and defensive effort that truly showed she dominated from the opening tip. She had three steals and three blocks and took a charge in the second half with the outcome still well up in the air.
was better, she just hasn't had much energy defensively," coach Bonnie Henrickson said.
"I thought her focus and energy
McCray said she decided to
McCray said st make a change to give more effort on the defensive end because against good teams such as Iowa State there was no room for error. One missed assignment on a screen can end up in three points.
"I think we did a great job of staying focused and talking and communicating and making them feel rushed the whole game." McCray said.
"It was kind of hard to do the
"When you need a basket, you can't just let it come to you. You gotta go get it."
on the defensive end. Against Iowa State, she focused on both sides of the ball.
McCray said that earlier in the year, she "couldn't transfer" from offense to defense. Missed shots on the offensive end would bother her
McCray also showed a lot of patience on the offensive end. Henrickson said she took two bad
"When you need a basket, you can't just let it come to you," McCray said about clutch situations. "You gotta go get it."
"I let everything come to me." McCrav said.
With just under five minutes left and the game tight, McCray went and got it. She took a charge on one end, hit a tough jumper over Iowa State's Danae Stuckey on the next possession, and rebounded an Iowa State miss back on defense. The shot was big, but the two stops on the defensive end were bigger.
However, McCray did not, and will not, shy away from attacking the hoop with the game on the line.
"Kids feed off of that," Henrickson said. "I don't think it bothers Iowa State, but I know it helps our kids. I know it does."
Both Henrickson and McGray agreed that the energy of the larger crowd helped in the defensive effort.
Edited by Realle Roth
WOMEN'S (CONTINUED FROM 1B)
But even a cynic could have found peace inside Allen Fieldhouse on Sunday afternoon, when Kansas snapped a four-game losing streak while honoring the ongoing fight against breast cancer.
Dressed in pink uniforms,
Kansas defeated its first ranked opponent since Jan. 3, 2006.
"Oh my goodness, it just feels great to win," junior guard Sade Morris said. "I don't even know what to say."
This season, taking care of business has been a nagging problem for Kansas. The Jayhawks have rarely been blown out this season, instead losing many games because of a poor stretch in the second half.
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"We had to bust our butts," Morris said. "We were like, 'It's crunch time. Let's get it done. Let's get a win today.'"
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knock down threes so you have to play with your hand high the whole time," sophomore forward Nicollette Smith said. "That's been the emphasis the whole week during practice: keep a high-hand and on ball pressure."
Yet, it was Kansas' defense — inconsistent and maligned at times this season — that truly allowed the ljayhawks to maintain a lead.
Perhaps the moment Kansas began confidently sensing victory happened with slightly more than eight minutes still remaining in the game.
Kansas held Iowa State, the Big-12 leader in made threes, to just three three-pointers, while blocking nine shots and coming away with six steals.
"They can come off screens and
With the shot clock nearing zero, senior guard Ivana Catic passed up a three-point shot and found McCray wide open for an uncontested three-pointer. McCray's three not only gave Kansas a 44-39 cushion, but it provided a spark for the Javhaws.
"I thought it was the point of the game where we were like 'there's no turning back and there's no way we can mess this up,'" Catic said. "We had to get a win."
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Kansas' Edina Horvath comes out strong against DePaul, but team can't collect victories
BY JUSTIN HILLEY jhilley@kansan.com
After a sluggish performance on Saturday that resulted in a 7-0 loss to No. 41 DePaul, the Jayhawks returned to the court with more intensity on Sunday versus No. 75 Iowa, but left without a victory.
The layhawks are now 4-3 overall and fourth in the Big 12 with a .571 win percentage.
Facing a team that just two days before had been awarded its highest ITA ranking in school history, the Jayhawk doubles teams came out against DePaul lethargic, leading to a quick dual match point (8-0, 8-2, 8-2) that was led by the Blue Demons' pair of Anna Redecsi/Selma Salkovic at the No.1 position. The single round carried the same theme with all six matches completed in two sets.
The young lajayhawk batted, but knew it wasn't their best
offering.
"We played well, but I think we can definitely do a lot better; we played a little stale today," coach Amy Hall-Holt said. "We started out slow, and we kept fighting and fighting in the second sets, but it was too late. We still have a lot of work to do."
Not everything
Not everything that day was disheartening. Senior Edina Horvath had one of her strongest outings on Saturday against DePaul's No. 1 player; Dunjo Antunovic.
Hall-Holt was very pleased.
We had Edina
"We had Edina playing at the No. 1 position today," Hall-Holt said. "She went 7-6 (5), 7-5 (2) with top-ranked player; it could have gone either way. She played one of the best
matches I've ever seen her play. I was very proud of Edina and her performance."
Heading into the weekend, the Jayhawks were 4-1 and had just been removed from the ITA rankings. Sunday morning they were 4-2 and wanted to prove something against ranked Iowa.
"We played well, but I think we can definitely do a lot better; we were a little stale today."
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"We are very, very compatible with Iowa, and I think that the girls now realize that we need to step up" Hall-Holt said after Saturday's match. "Four and one and we dropped out of the rankings. It's pretty disappointing to the girls that we did fall out, and I think they have a lot to prove tomorrow."
Sunday's dual match did not go as expected.
All three doubles matches versus Iowa were close, but the early point went to the Hawkeyes. Horvath and junior Kuni Dorn, playing at the No. 1 position, were the only Kansas pair to win, 8-6, in the doubles round. The freshman doubles combo of Erin Wilbert and Alessandra Dzuba nearly pulled out a victory, but were undone 9-8 (7-2).
The Jayhawks' freshmen were the only ones to show up in singles action as Wilbert, 7-5, 7-5, and Kate Morozova, 6-4, 3-6, (10-4), defeated Iowa's Alexis Dorr and Ally Majercik, respectively, but it was too late. The Hawkeyes had already chosen four singles victories; the match ended with a 5-2 Iowa triumph.
The Jayhawks haven't defeated a ranked opponent this season.
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Lyrics & Music by
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Originally staged by
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2:30 p.m. March 8, 2009
Crafton-Preyer Theatre
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IOWA STATE 24 23 — 47
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Player FG-FGA 3FG-3FGA Rebs A Pts
Danielle McCray 8-19 2-5 16 3 24
Nicollette Smith 1-3 0-1 3 0 2
Krysten Boogaard 2-3 0-0 4 0 8
LaChelda Jacobs 2-3 0-0 1 1 4
Ivana Catic 0-1 0-1 3 6 2
Aishah Sutherland 1-3 0-0 0 0 2
Kelly Kohn 0-2 0-1 0 0 0
Sade Morris 5-10 0-2 5 1 16
Porscha Weddington 0-0 0-0 1 0 0
Team 1
Total 19-44 2-10 34 11 58
NO.21 IOWA STATE (19-7, 7-5)
<table><thead><tr><th>Player</th><th>FG-FGA</th><th>3FG-3FGARebs</th><th>A</th><th>Pts</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Nicky Wieben</td><td>6-16</td><td>2-3</td><td>7</td><td>0</td><td>19</td></tr><tr><td>Amanda Nisleit</td><td>0-5</td><td>0-3</td><td>3</td><td>1</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>Alison Lacey</td><td>3-11</td><td>1-2</td><td>0</td><td>2</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>Kelsey Bolte</td><td>1-8</td><td>0-2</td><td>8</td><td>1</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>Heather Ezell</td><td>3-8</td><td>0-4</td><td>2</td><td>2</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>WhitneyWilliams</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Denae Stuckey</td><td>0-3</td><td>0-2</td><td>5</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Ashley Arlen</td><td>1-2</td><td>0-2</td><td>2</td><td>1</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>Toccara Ross</td><td>1-2</td><td>0-0</td><td>2</td><td>0</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>Team</td><td></td><td>4</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Total</td><td>15-55</td><td>3-16</td><td>33</td><td>7</td><td>47</td></tr></tbody></table>
notes
WEDDINGTON SEES INCREASED MINUTES
During practice last week, coach Bonnie Henrickson told junior forward Porscha Weddington she may be called upon against Iowa State.
What's the big deal? Weddington had played just three minutes in Kansas' last seven games, but played 17 minutes of physical defense on Sunday
"I thought she came out and played with confidence," Henrickson said.
SMITH LEAVES WITH INJURY BUTRETURNS
With just less than 11 minutes remaining in the game, sophomore forward Nicollette Smith had to be walked off the court.
Smith, who wears a brace on her right knee, didn't put any pressure on her right leg while being assisted to the bench.
She returned, however, with 3:24 left in the game despite a noticeable limp. Henrickson said the extent of the injury is unknown.
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It's a surprise that Danielle McCray didn't sell popcorn at the concession stands in Allen Fieldhouse at halftime yesterday afternoon against No. 21 Iowa State.
McCray dazzles against Iowa State
Junior guard Danielle McCray drives to the basket past an Iowa State defense during Sunday's 58-47 victory in Allen Fieldhouse.
But it was her 16 boards and defensive effort that truly showed she dominated from the opening tip. She had three steals and three blocks and took a charge in the second half with the outcome still well up in the air.
McCray scored 24 points, a few more than her average. They came in mostly the same way they have all season: pull-up jumpers from the right and left wing in the eyes of her defender.
Junior guard Kelly Kohn angles for a pass under the basket during the first half of Sunday's game against ISU in Allen Fieldhouse.
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With just under five minutes left and the game tight, McCray went and got it. She took a charge on one end, hit a tough jumper over Iowa State's Danae Stuckey on the next possession, and rebounded an Iowa State miss back on defense. The shot was big, but the two stops on the defensive end were bigger.
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Both Henrickson and McCray agreed that the energy of the larger crowd helped in the defensive effort.
"Kids feed off of that," Henrickson said. "I don't think it bothers Iowa State, but I know it helps our kids. I know it does."
was better, she just hasn't had much energy defensively," coach Bonnie Henrickson said.
However, McCray did not, and will not, shy away from attacking the hoop with the game on the line.
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iy said she decided to
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"I let everything come to me." McCray said.
"It was kind of hard to do the
McCray said, make a change to give more effort on the defensive end because against good teams such as Iowa State there was no room for error. One missed assignment on a screen can end up in three points.
McCray said that earlier in the year, she "couldn't transfer" from offense to defense. Missed shots on the offensive end would bother her
on the defensive end. Against Iowa State, she focused on both sides of the ball.
DANIELLE MCCRAY Junior guard
"I think we did a great job of staying focused and talking and communicating and making them feel rushed the whole game." McCray said.
"When you need a basket, you can't just let it come to you. You gotta go get it."
But even a cynic could have found peace inside Allen Fieldhouse on Sunday afternoon, when Kansas snapped a four-game losing streak while honoring the ongoing fight against breast cancer.
Dressed in pink uniforms,
Kansas defeated its first ranked opponent since Jan. 3, 2006.
"Oh my goodness, it just feels great to win," junior guard Sade Morris said. "I don't even know what to say."
This season, taking care of business has been a nagging problem for Kansas. The Jayhawks have rarely been blown out this season, instead losing many games because of a poor stretch in the second half.
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Facing an aggressive three-point firing Iowa State team, though, Kansas never trailed in the second half. Down the stretch, instead of fading, the Jayhawks actually expanded their lead.
"We had to bust our butts," Morris said. "We were like, 'It's crunch time. Let's get it done. Let's get a win today.'"
In the first half, Kansas made 52 percent of its shots and held a 26-24 lead at halftime. Kansas' two leading scorers, juniors Danielle McCray and Morris, carried the Jayhawks, scoring 24 and 16 points respectively.
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knock down threes so you have to play with your hand high the whole time." sophomore forward Nicollette Smith said. "That's been the emphasis the whole week during practice: keep a high-hand and on ball pressure."
Perhaps the moment Kansas began confidently sensing victory happened with slightly more than eight minutes still remaining in the game.
Kansas held Iowa State, the Big-12 leader in made threes, to just three three-pointers, while blocking nine shots and coming away with six steals.
With the shot clock nearing zero, senior guard Ivana Catic passed up a three-point shot and found McCray wide open for an uncontested three-pointer. McCray's three not only gave Kansas a 44-39 cushion, but it provided a spark for the Jayhawks.
"They can come off screens and
"I thought it was the point of the game where we were like 'there's no turning back and there's no way we can mess this up," Catic said. "We had to get a win."
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Kansas' Edina Horvath comes out strong against DePaul, but team can't collect victories
BY JUSTIN HILLEY jhilley@kansan.com
After a sluggish performance on Saturday that resulted in a 7-0 loss to No. 41 DePaul, the Jayhawks returned to the court with more intensity on Sunday versus No. 75 Iowa, but left without a victory.
The layhawks are now 4-3 overall and fourth in the Big 12 with a .571 win percentage.
Facing a team that just two days before had been awarded its highest ITA ranking in school history, the Jayhawk doubles teams came out against DePaul lethargic, leading to a quick dual match point (8-0, 8-2, 8-2) that was led by the Blue Demons' pair of Anna Redecis/Selma Salkovic at the No.1 position. The singles round carried the same theme with all six matches completed in two sets.
The young lajayhawk battled, but knew it wasn't their best
offering.
"We played well, but I think we can definitely do a lot better; we played a little stale today," coach Amy Hall-Holt said. "We started out slow, and we kept fighting and fighting in the second sets, but it was too late. We still have a lot of work to do."
Not everything that day was disheartening. Senior Edina Horvath had one of her strongest outings on Saturday against DePaul's No. 1 player, Dunjo Antunovic.
Hall-Holt was very pleased.
We had Edina
We had Edina playing at the No. 1 position today." Hall-Holt said. "She went 7-6 (5), 7-5 (2) with top-ranked player; it could have gone either way. She played one of the best
matches I've ever seen her play. I was very proud of Edina and her performance."
Heading into the weekend, the Jayhawks were 4-1 and had just been removed from the ITA rankings. Sunday morning they were 4-2 and wanted to prove something against ranked Iowa.
"We played well, but I think we can definitely do a lot better; we were a little stale today."
AMY HALL-HOLT Coach
"We are very, very compatible with Iowa, and I think that the girls now realize that we need to step up." Hall-Holt said after Saturday's match. "Four and one and we dropped out of the rankings. It's pretty disappointing to the girls that we did fall out, and I think they have a lot to prove tomorrow."
Sunday's dual match did not go as expected.
All three doubles matches versus Iowa were close, but the early point went to the Hawkeyes. Horvath and junior Kuni Dorn, playing at the No.1 position, were the only Kansas pair to win, 8-6, in the doubles round. The freshman doubles combo of Erin Wilbert and Alessandra Dzuba nearly pulled out a victory, but were undone 9-8 (7-2).
The Jayhawks' freshmen were the only ones to show up in singles action as Wilbert, 7-5, 7-5, and Kate Morozova, 6-4, 3-6, (10-4), defeated Iowa's Alexis Dorr and Ally Majerik, respectively, but it was too late. The Hawkeyes had already chosen four singles victories; the match ended with a 5-2 Iowa triumph.
The Jayhawks haven't defeated a ranked opponent this season.
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Senior Edina Horvath returns a shot from an opposing Drake player during a doubles match on February 1. Horvath took DePaul's No. 1 player to the brink of defeat this weekend.
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nominate pitcher Shafer Hall throws to first on a pick off attempt against Missouri State university on April 16, 2018. Hall no. hitt-air Force in Kansas opening game of 2009.
BY JOSH BOWE
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The last time Shaeffer Hall threw a no-hitter, he was just beginning to drive.
Now the junior starter from Lee Summit, Mo., will be in the driver's seat this season after throwing a no-hitter Friday afternoon against Air Force.
"That was a remarkable feat, he was absolutely outstanding," coach Ritch Price said. "He was in command of all four pitchers and ahead in the count."
Hall said the last time he threw a no-hitter was his junior year in high school. This one understandably meant a little more to Hall, but he maintained a modest and humble approach.
"This time was a little more special, going nine innings," Hall said. "I'm pretty excited about it."
The 5-0 shutout against Air Force was the lone highlight of the weekend. Among numerous delays due to weather and the length of other teams competing that weekend, Kansas dropped the next two games in close, disappointing contests.
"That's the three best games we've ever pitched to open a season," Price said. "Certainly we didn't swing the bats as good as I thought we would."
But the standout of the weekend was obviously Hall. His no-hitter only counts as one victory, and the two losses put a sour end to the weekend, but no-hitters don't happen very often in Kansas history.
In fact, it's only the seventh no-hitter in the program's history, and the fifth individual no-hitter. The last time a Kansas pitcher went the distance in a no-hitter was David Hicks vs. Northwest Missouri State
way back in 1980.
Hall will now have his named etched into the record books for all time, a place Price is proud to see his new staff ace.
"They (Kansas defense) played great behind him (Hall)," Price said. "But he was absolutely special."
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KANSAS 5. AIR FORCE 0
Besides the obvious contributions from Hall, Price was pleased with his team's hitting and defense to back its starter.
"I was pleased with the production through the lineup," Price said. "That's the only way this team can be a solid offensive club."
Sophomore third baseman Tony Thompson and sophomore designated hitter Jimmy Waters combined to go 4-7 with an RBI apiece batting in the middle of the order.
"It was good to see Tony Thompson get a clutch hit," Price said.
Price also said that the middle infield pairing of junior David Narodowski and junior Robby Price saved the no-hitter on three occasions.
"There's an old adage that when you throw a no-hitter you need two or three outstanding plays behind you," Price said. "Narodowski took two hits away, and (Price) took away a hit at second base."
MEMPHIS 5. KANSAS 4
A valiant comeback to support an impressive start was only damped by the most reliable pitcher on the roster not coming through.
Kansas senior closer Paul Smyth gave up three runs in the bottom of the ninth after Kansas had just
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Kansas — 5
Air Force — 0
WP: Hall (1-1) LP: Abrecht (0-1)
Friday
Memphis — 5
Kansas — 4
WP: Yokley (1-0) LP: Smyth (0-1)
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Sunday
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Kansas — 1
WP: Brach (1-0) LP: Selik (0-1)
SV: Hatfield (1)
HR: McClain (MEM: 1)
rallied to score four runs in the previous two innings.
"I was really pleased with the way we competed," Price said. "Unfortunately we weren't able to close the deal."
"It's a nice confidence booster, because I was having a little trouble going deep counts in the fall," Walz said. "It was nice to keep my pitch count down and go deep into a game."
This game followed a familiar tune to the previous game.
MEMPHIS 2, KANSAS 1
Sophomore T.J. Walz threw a gem as he went seven innings, giving up only one earned run while striking out seven. Price raved about his performance against a quality Memphis club.
"I was thrilled with Walz." Price said. "That's a very good baseball team (Memphis) and he pitches
seven innings holding them to two runs."
Walz was just thankful to be able to stay in the game. He said he had been struggling to keep his pitch count down in the fall
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except this time the Jayhawk hitters weren't able to rally for the lead in late innings, despite having opportunities to do so.
"Today was hard to watch," Price said. "We didn't do a very good job of putting the ball in play."
Especially with the opportunity Kansas had to pull out a victory for guitar Cameron Selik, who pitched an effective six and one third innings.
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Kansas finished with three hits.
But Price is hopeful in the performance from Selik, and believes it's a sign of things to come.
"We really like what he brings to the table and he's a very mature guy," Price said. "He got into trouble and got out of trouble (today) and that's what quality pitchers have to do."
— Edited by Sam Speer
BASEBALL
Blown save doesn't shake Smyth's confidence
BY TIM DWYER
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Paul Smyth entered the season as the anchor of the Kansas bullpen. It didn't take long for his number to get called — he appeared in the ninth inning of the second game of
the season with the Jayhawks clinging to a 4-2 lead over the Memphis Tigers.
It didn't take much longer, two-thirds of an inning, for Smyth.
Smith
Atascadero, Calif., senior, to blow his first save opportunity, giving up three runs in the bottom of the ninth and picking up a loss in the 5-4 Jayhawks defeat at the hands of the Tigers.
"One of the things we all know with baseball is that the hardest inning to pitch is the ninth
The 4-2 lead Smyth was banded was a product of seven strong innings from sophomore starter T.J. Walz. Walz went seven innings
inning," coach Ritch Price said. "Guys get paid six, seven, eight million dollars to pitch the ninth inning alone. Unfortunately, he wasn't able to close the game out."
and allowed both runs, one earned, on six hits with seven strikeouts.
"That's just baseball," Walz said. "Ithappens sometimes. Nine times out.
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of ten Paul is going to get the job done."
Walz sattitude was the prevalence one in the Kansas locker room. Though Smyth had a bad game his first time out in 2009, there's no lack of faith in the senior closer.
"I think the next time as soon as we have the lead I'm handing
the ball to him, and I'll feel good doing it," Price said. "I still have a lot of confidence in him."
Smyth said the key to rebounding from performance like his is being able to shake it off quickly.
"I've learned that in those kinds of situations you have to have a really short memory," he said.
"I woke up this morning and wanted the ball again as soon as possible."
Smyth hoped to get that opportunity in Kansas 'Sunday afternoon game, a rematch with Memphis.
The Jayhawks fell 2-1 to Memphis, and never led, despite a solid starting effort from junior juco transistor Cameron Selik, and Smyth didn't have the opportunity for a save.
"It's not a different mindset," Smyth said about his next chance to close. "I was actually happy to hear that we had Memphis again.
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Shaeffer Hall's no-hitter was the seventh in University of Kansas history. It was the first individual no-hitter in 29 years.
Larry Miller, vs. Colorado, May 4, 1957
Kenneth Hensley, Tom Holler and Jerry Waldschmidt; vs.
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Bill Maddux, vs. Texas Lutheran, March 30, 1967
Steve Corder, vs. College of Emporia, March 27, 1972
David Hicks, vs. Northwest Missouri State, April 2, 1980
Scott Sharpe, Ryan Knippschild, Jacob Jean, Sean Land and Clint Schambach; vs. Texas Southern; Feb. 1, 2004
On a personal level I was really excited about that. But I had the same mindset yesterday that I've had every time before that. I'll approach it the same way next time."
Smyth has expectations for himself, at least on Saturday,
Shaeffer Hall, vs. Air Force, Feb.20, 2009
he didn't meet.
"I just expect to get the job done," he said. "Obviously, yesterday I didn't do that."
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SURPRISE, Ariz. — Mike Aviles toiled five-plus years in the minors for the opportunity to play in majors, so he's not taking anything for granted in the Kansas City Royals spring training.
Sure, he hit .325, which led all big-league rookies last year and ranked second among American League first-year players with 39 multi-hit games and a.354 on-base percentage.
He's coming into spring training as the Royals' starting shortstop.
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BY TOM POWERS
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After an 0-2 start to the Cathedral City Classic in Palm Springs Calif., on Thursday, Kansas rebounded with victories over Brigham Young and No. 10 California, finishing the weekend with two victories and four losses.
The victory against California was especially important to Kansas' long-term goals. Alle Clark was solid at the plate, going 2-3 with 2 RBI included.
George
ing the game-winning single in the eighth inning.
But as a defense, Kansas had only four errors in six games, giving them 17 total in 15 games. The layhawks pitching staff had a combined ERA of 2.9 throughout the Cathedral City Classic.
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The Jayhawk bats remained stagnant, as the team went 22 for 142 on the weekend, adding up to a dreadful.150 average.
On the other side of the ball, Valerie George delivered a masterful pitching performance, striking out 12 and notching her fifth win of the season.
In various points during the season, Kansas has shown that they possess a potent offense, a strong defense and stellar pitching. But they need to find a way to play well in all three facets throughout the entire game.
In its only game-Friday, Kansas bounced back from two tough losses and recorded its first victory of the Cathedral City Classic in a 3-1 game against BYU. They Jayhawks won the game despite having not yet earned a single run in the tournament.
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BYU — 1
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No. 10 Cal — 2
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Kansas — 0
WP: Cobb (4-2),
LP: Blair (0-2)
Cal-Poly — 3
Kansas — 1
WP: Cahn (3-2),
LP: Clark (0-1)
HR: Cary (CP: 4), Hile (KU: 1)
The Kansas defense finally seemed to hit its stride, committing no errors as it helped George strand 10 BYU hitters. In a complete game outing, George recorded five strikeouts, three walks and only one earned run, giving up a home run in the third inning to catcher Jessica Purcell.
UC SANTA BARBARA 4,
KANSAS 0
The Jayhawks fell to 1-3 for the tournament on Saturday, getting shutout by UC Santa Barbara 4-0. Stevie Crisisto was half of Kansas' offense, going 2-2 with a walk. The Gauchos had four earned runs on 10 hits and played tight defense, committing no errors.
Clark, Kansas' designated hitter, had a home run stolen from her in the top of the seventh as UCSB center fielder Tiffany Wright scaled the wall for the second out of the inning. Sarah Vertelka started the game for Kansas, pitching two scoreless innings, but was replaced in the third by freshman Sarah Blair, who was tagged with the loss.
KANSAS 3, NO.10 CALIFORNIA 2 (8 INN.)
Clark had a monumental game against Cal, going 2-3 with two RBI and one run including a game winning RBI single in the bottom of the eighth inning. After the game Clark commented on the first game-winning at bat of her college career.
"They put me in there swinging the bat well and I got a good pitch to hit." Clark said.
George improved her record to 5-4, posting a career-high 12 strikeouts in the win Sunday. Kansas' offense recorded three earned runs on four hits, the team's first earned runs in the tournament. With the win the Jayhawks attained their third win against opponents ranked in the top 10.
CAL-POLY 3. KANSAS 1
Kansas ended the Cathedral City Classic 2-4, losing its final game to Cal-Poly on Sunday afternoon. Shortstop Stevie Cristo extended her hitting streak to five games, going 1-3 in the losing effort. Brittany Hile had the only RBI for the Jayhawks with her first home run of the season in the bottom of the fifth inning.
Reflecting on the tournament,
George focused on the positive.
"I think we've seen some good things from everybody," George said. "We just need to find some consistency. We absolutely have the talent to compete for the Big 12 conference title."
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Goran Suton had 16 points and 10 rebounds for Michigan State.
Michigan State's Kalin Lucas, left, and Wisconsin's Joe Krabbenhoft chase the ball during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Sunday, in East Lansing, Mich. Lucas led Michigan State with 17 points in a 61-50 victory.
Trevon Hughes had 12 points for Wisconsin (17-10, 8-7), while Marcus Landry added 11.
NO.12 VILLANOVA 89,
NO.24 SYRACUSE 86
SYRACUSE,N.Y.- Dwayne Anderson scored a career-high 22 points to lead Villanova to a season-series sweep.
Syracuse missed six shots in the final minute, including three 3-point attempts in the final 8 seconds before the buzzer sounded as jonny Flynn's shot from the left corner bounced off the rim.
Corey Fisher scored 16 points and Dante Cunningham had 12 rebounds for the Wildcats (22-5, 10-4 Big East), who won for the eighth time in nine games.
Eric Devendorf scored 22 points for Syracuse (19-8,7-7), which dropped to 2-6 in its last eight.
NO.13 CLEMSON 81,
GEORGIA TECH 73
ATLANTA — Trevor Booker had 21 points and 12 rebounds to lead Clemson, which overcame a 15-point deficit.
The Tigers (22-4, 8-4 Atlantic Coast Conference) have won six of eight and improved to 9-0 this season when Booker has a double-double.
Lewis Clinch had a career-high 27 points for the Yellow Jackets (10-16, 1-12), who have lost 11 of 12 to remain in the ACC cellar.
K. C. Rivers, who had 19 points for Clemson, gave his team the lead for good with a 3-pointer in the opening minute of the second half. Freshman Andre Young finished with 12 points, going 4-for-4 on 3-pointers.
Clemson swept the season
series with Georgia Tech for the first time since 2005-06 and for the second time in 12 years.
NO.16 XAVIER 71,
GEORGE WASHINGTON 53
CINCINNATI - C.J. Anderson led five players in double figures with 14 points and Xavier moved back into first place in the Atlantic 10.
The Musketeers (22-5, 10-3) steadied themselves after having lost three of four and moved a half-game ahead of No. 25 Dayton for the conference lead.
Damian Hollis scored 15 points for the Colonials (8-16, 2-10), who fell behind 26-8 and trailed by as many as 25 points.
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MONDAY FEBRUARY 23, 2000
KU
TIPOFF
AT A GLANCE
No more thinking about it. No more arguing about it. No more waiting for it. It's here. The battle for the Big 12 Conference supremacy will take place tonight. And it's going to be fun. Junior guard Sherron Collins and sophomore center Cole Aldrich are the best one-two punch in the conference bar none. By an equally large discrepancy, Oklahoma forward Blake Griffin is the best player in the conference. For Kansas, this is a chance to take a major step towards its fifth Big 12 regular season championship in a row.
Junior guard Sherron Collins
If Saturday's game against Nebraska was Super Nintendo game NBA Jam, Collins would have been on fire and shattering backboards — even though he didn't dunk. He was that good. Collins scored 22
made a number of tough shots. During one stretch in the first half, he hit four consecutive jump shots in two and a half minutes. Imagine if Collins can get that
PLAYER TO WATCH
was that good. Collins scored 22 points on 8-for-12 shooting and
Collins
PARKING
hot against Oklahoma. He might just take over the game.
How can Kansas slow Blake Griffin?
QUESTION MARK
Someone once said the best questions don't have an answer. This would be one of those questions. No one has stopped a healthy Blake Griffin, who is likely on his way to winning multiple player of the year awards, all season. Freshman forward Markieff Morris suggested the Jayhawks might double team Griffin every time he touches the ball. That's to be expected. Markieff also said the key would be making Griffin shoot jump shots. If only it were that simple, Markieff, Griffin is a beast who imposes his will on opponents.
HEARYE, HEARYE
"I had somebody text me the other day saying, 'You guys should have absolutely no problem with OU at all, you guys just go play and ... That's of course if Blake doesn't play."
-Kansas coach Bill Self
KANSAS VS. OKLAHOMA 8 p.m., LLOYD NOBLE CENTER, Norman, Okla., ESPN
"They've got good pieces coming together on that team. We're going to have to give it our all. It's going to be a man's game. We're going to have to go play. It's going to be one of those games where if you don't show up, you get blown out."
COUNTDOWN TO TIPOFF GAME DAY
Junior guard Sherron Collins
HAWKS IN SOONER COUNTRY
ALEXANDER SMITH
KANSAS (22-5,11-1) STARTERS
Collins
Sherron Collins, 5-foot-11 junior guard
Sherron Collins, 5-foot-11 junior guard Collins loves big games. He loves even more taking over in big games. As long as he doesn't try to do too much, he should be the key for Kansas.
★★★★
YOUNG SAFARI
Taylor
Tyshawn Taylor, 6-foot-3 freshman guard
Taylor has 13 turnovers in the last four games. That's disturbing. No wonder Kansas coach Bill Self is at his most animated on the sideline when Taylor makes a mistake.
M. SAKULIC
OKLAHOMA (25-2,11-1) STARTERS
★★☆☆☆
O. A. KENNEDY
Morningstar
★★★☆☆
Johnson
The Jayhawks need defensive intensity from Morningstar and a couple three-point shots, too. He's delivered those two things pretty consistently this season. No reason to believe he won't tonight.
Brady Morningstar, 6-foot-3 sophomore guard
Austin Johnson, 6-foot-3 senior guard Oklahoma's most improved player. Johnson is hitting 44 percent from the field and he boasts a 3-to-1 assist-to-turnover ratio.
DANIEL ROBINSON
Warren
Marcus took a step back in the Nebraska game with five turnovers and four fouls. But in the two games before Saturday, Marcus had taken multiple steps forward.
★★★☆★
Marcus Morris, 6-foot-8 freshman forward
Willie Warren, 6-foot-4 freshman guard
Morris
A former McDonald's High School All- American, Warren is averaging more than 15 points per game, including his 27-point outburst Saturday night. He's physical and creates some match-up problems, but without a post player to pass to he's not nearly as lethal.
Aldrich
★★★☆☆
The paint is where Aldrich dominates.The paint is where Oklahoma domi- nates.Something has to give.Aldrich needs to stand his ground.
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Cole Aldrich, 6-foot-11 sophomore center
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SIMTH MAN Mario Little, 6-foot-5 junior guard
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SIXTH MAN
While his little brother is having the best season of any player in the country, Taylor is having the best season of his career. He averages 8.9 points and 5.9 rebounds per game, both career highs.
Taylor Griffin, 6-foot-7 senior forward
Wilson
PETER S. MALKENEY
at the end of the
Missouri defeat. His mid-range game was valuable to the Jayhawks when it was clicking earlier in the season.
Crocker is a good compliment to the athleticism of Johnson and Warren. He hits 38 percent behind the three-point line and scores 10.2 points per game.
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Blake Griffin, 6-foot-10 sophomore forward
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Before his concussion, Blake was the best college basketball player in the nation. How will he play post-concussion? We may not find out tonight, but even a damaged Griffin is better than almost anyone else.
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★★★★★
SIXTH MAIN
6-foot-6 junior forward
Since pulling his redshirt, Patillo emerged as Oklahoma's top quiv
Oklahoma's top guy off the bench and a
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AT A GLANCE
SherronCollins
Oklahomams a completely different team without Blake Griffin in the lineup. Since we don't know if hell play, here are the two versions:
With Griffin: Even if he's not 100 percent, Oklahoma is the best team in the Big 12 and a top-five team. He's the best player in college basketball and he has to be double-teamed on every possession.
- Sans Griffin, Oklahoma is a decent team with one electrifying talent in freshman Willie Warren, but no inside complement. Without Griffin, Oklahoma is the second or third best team in the Big 12.
Senior forward Taylor Griffin
PLAYER TO WATCH
PETER R. HAYES
Obviously, if Blake Griffin's in the lineup, he deserves the most attention. If he sits, then Kansas could focus on shutting down Willie Warren. That's not easy, but
without inside presence, it's possible.
That's where Taylor Griffin comes in. The elder Griffin is usually lost in Blake's shadow, but he'll have to emerge on
T. Griffin
his own if Oklahoma wants to win without its best player. It's time for older brother to step into the spotlight.
QUESTION MARK
Can Willie Warren dominate like he did Saturday night?
After Blake Griffin went out of the game, the freshman sensation exploded for the Sooners. He scored 27 points and dished out six assists in 35 minutes. Kansas has athletic guards who can slow him down, but if Warren plays as well he did against Texas then Kansas will need to use a lot of double-teams and help defense. That could give guys like Taylor Griffin and Juan Pattillo more room to operate in the paint.
HEARYE, HEARYE
"I feel like with Blake playing it would have been a different game and feel like with him we would have won"
- Oklahoma guard Willie Warren to the Associated Press after Saturday's loss
"I talked to him a bit and asked him if he could stop hitting shots to help us out a bit, but he didn't listen."
— Oklahoma guard Wille Warren on Texas 'A.J. Abrams, who scored 16 straight points in the second half
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LLOYD NOBLE CENTER WILL BESILENT IF...
PHOG ALLEN WILL ROLL OVER IN HIS GRAVE IF ...
Someone emerges to help out Collins and Aldrich. The last two games, it hasn't happened. The two combined for 61 percent of Kansas' points against Iowa State and 57 percent against Nebraska. The Jayhawks will be much tough with a third prime performer. Paging Tyshawn Taylor, Marcus Morris or Mario Little for assistance.
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March 7 TEXAS CBS 3 p.m.
Kansas doesn't use its depth to its advantage. Perhaps the only knock on Oklahoma, one of the best teams in the country, is thats bench is not full of talent. The Sooners have started the same five guys all season and only two reserves are averaging more than 10 minutes per game. Kansas should have fresher legs ready to fill in.
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CAREER CENTER
Dinner serves up etiquette
BY RACHEL BURCHFIELD
rburchfield@kansan.com
Business and dining etiquette tips are on the menu at the University Career Center's Spring 2009 Etiquette Dinner. During the dinner, students will receive tips on proper behavior for professional settings.
Students planning to attend the dinner must register by March 5, UCC assistant director Erin Wolfram said. The registration fee is $15 and can be paid either at the UCC's Web site, www.KUCareerHawk.com, or at the UCC office, 110 Burge Union.
"The information taught throughout the evening is often information that students do not learn from classes, high school and society. Therefore, this event provides an inexpensive way for students to learn valuable business and dining etiquette tips," Wolfram said.
Wolfram said the skills students would learn could help make them more marketable candidates for future jobs.
Immediately before the dinner, there will be a networking session where
ETIQUETTE Dinner
When: 6:30 to 9 p.m. on March 11
Where: Malott and Kansas rooms, Kansas Union.
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Where: Malott and Kansas rooms, Kansas Union.
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Business and dining etiquette tips are on the menu at the University Career Center's Spring 2009 Etiquette Dinner. During the dinner, students will receive tips on proper behavior for professional settings.
Students planning to attend the dinner must register by March 5, UCC assistant director Erin Wolfram said. The registration fee is $15 and can be paid either at the UCC's Web site, www.KUCareerHawk.com, or at the SEE ETIQUETTE
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Saving money while going to college can be a foreign concept to students, and FAFSA forms might as well be written in a different language. But two coalitions associated with Student Senate hope to bridge the gap between students and financial literacy by creating a financial planning office in the Kansas Union.
United Students and Envision, coalitions participating in the April Student Senate elections, have begun separately planning work on a student financial advising office. Both coalitions said they would like the office to provide students with free advice about applying for loans and personal budgeting, as well as having tax forms and FAFSA applications available.
as personal finance classes and student groups such as the KU Finance Club.
The University already provides many of these resources to students through services such
"If you take the time to search it out, this University really does have the resources to help students," said May Davis, Clay Center junior and United Students vice presidential nominee.
She said the purpose of a financial planning center would be to bring all of these resources together in a central location to make it easier for students to seek out the help they needed.
"I think the whole getting information for FAFSA forms can be kind of a difficult process," Andrew Slater, Overland Park senior, said. "I think that would be the biggest help for students. Even though we have the office of financial aid it would be more beneficial for students."
Each coalition's plan varies slightly. The United Students version would attempt to work with
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Panel will address transgender rights
Event meant to 'de-mystify transgender' and raise awareness about gender identity
BY DAVID UGARTE
dugarte@kansan.com
Ryan McGeeney/KANSAN
Four transgender people will share their experiences at a panel discussion Wednesday night. "Tranny Talk," hosted by Queers and Allies, is being held in observance of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network's "Transaction Day" this Friday.
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The day and the panel are meant to encourage dialogue about gender, gender roles and gender identities to advocate safe, inclusive schools for all students.
"This panel is important to me because I am transgender and have personally felt the effects of transphobia, which I believe is the direct result of ignorance," Henson said. "I think the best way to combat this and help put an end to it is through education and giving people a face and a voice to go along with the term 'transgender.'"
**What:** "Tranny Talk," a transgender speaker panel
**Who:** Hosted by Queers and Allies
Jayne Henson, junior and panelist for the event, said the panel was meant to educate students and community members on the importance of transgender rights and issues.
Jayne Henson lives as a transgender woman who is open about her identity to all of her close friends. "I just accepted the identity when I was a freshman in college," Henson said, "But I've felt this way — transgendered — ever since I can remember." Henson said that although the University's reputation as open and accepting to people of varied sexualities was a plus, she transferred here primarily to pursue a degree in music therapy.
When: 7 p.m. Wednesday
Where: Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union
Henson said the panel would give audience members the opportunity to hear the stories of transgender people from Kansas and also to have an interactive dialogue with them.
Ryan Campbell, Olathe senior and executive director of Queers and Allies, said gender identity affected everyone and said it was important for individuals to be able to critically consider the expectations of society.
"We hope to de-mystify the word 'transgender' for the audience. Our aim is to educate people who may have had little exposure to the conversation of gender identity," Campbell said.
"There continues to be considerable inequality for the queer community, but the transgender population has it the worst. As
a gay man, I want to see the gap bridged, and opportunities such as this panel are necessary for equality to occur."
Cage Letchworth, Lenexa freshman, said he was speaking at the panel because he believed society didn't accept transgender people.
"I feel extremely fortunate to
have been born into my loving family. Not every tranny out there is being supported the way I have been, so I want to be there for them, because I can't imagine going through this without the people that came before me and sat on panels and offered me their
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In 1875, Governor Warmoth of Louisiana signed the "Mardi Gras Act" making it a legal holiday in Louisiana.
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Yesterday's article, "Students Reflect on Sebelius Future," misinterpreted Jesse Vaughn, Mound City senior and president of KU College Republicans. Vaughn said he did not think Kansas was suffering a loss with Gov. Kathieen Sebelius possible selection to the position of secretary of Health and Human Services.
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1. Middle-aged models chosen for Rio's Carnival
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil's Carnival, long a symbol of youth, beauty and sex, gave two women in their 40s a chance to dance nearly nude at the head of their samba parades.
CAIRO — A group of French teenagers on a school trip were hit by a bombing at Cairo's Khan el-Khalilii market, which killed a 17-year-old girl on the tour and wounded at least a dozen other students, the mayor of the teens' hometown said Monday.
Some of Brazil's most beautiful women battle it out each year to lead their parades.
2. Iraqi national museum reopens six years later
But two leading samba schools surprised Brazilians by choosing women aged 46 and 44 — though one is a former model and the other a Playboy cover girl.
BAGHADD — Iraq's National Museum reopened Monday, nearly six years after looters carried away many of the city's priceless antiquities as it began to fall to
Sunday night's explosion raised worries in Egypt of wider damage to the country's vital tourism industry, which is already suffering.
While having two drum queens in their 40s is unusual, it's not the first time. Brazilian actress Susana Vieira appeared as a Carnival drum queen in 2006 at the age of 63.
The blast went off in the busy main square , which was packed with tourists and Egyptians.
Iraq's prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, called the reopening another milestone in Baghdad's slow return to stability after years of bloodshed.
The museum — which holds artifacts from the Stone Age through the Babylonian, Assyrian and Islamic periods — will be open to the public starting today but only for groups who prearrange visits, at least at first officials said.
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3. French student killed, others injured in bombing
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Four more buried bodies have been uncovered from the mesa west of Albuquerque. Authorities believe the 10 bodies found there this month were buried by one person.
NATIONAL
4. Four more bodies found west of Albuquerque
Albuquerque homicide Sgt. Carlos Argueta said some of the victims were likely transient drug addicts and prostitutes.
Only one set of remains has been identified: Victoria Chavez, whose family reported her missing in 2004.
Albuquerque Police Chief Ray Schultz says the remains of two people were found Saturday. A female skeleton and fetus were found Monday.
NATIONAL
5. Man must pay damages for possessing child porn
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — A federal judge on Monday ordered a man convicted of possessing and distributing child pornography to pay about $200,000 in restitution
to a woman who was photographed being sexually abused when she was a child.
Unemployment in the state has climbed over the past three years,meaning 72,000 more people are out of work now than when the law was signed in 2006. Many who have recently lost their jobs may have to buy their own insurance.
Senior U.S. District Judge Warren W. Eginton said his ruling was the first in a criminal case in which someone convicted of possessing illegal images — but not creating them — is required to pay restitution.
6. Rising unemployment puts strain on health care
BOSTON — Massachusetts' pioneering health care system, which requires nearly everyone to carry insurance or face fines, is about to be put to its toughest test.
Officials said they are confident those who have lost their jobs will do the right thing and obtain insurance.
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What do you think?
BY ALEX ESPOSITO
I am a teacher.
ANDREA CARROLL
Overland Park freshman
"I like Mardi Gras because it's a really festive and fun holiday. I'll probably do something spontaneous and fun with my friends."
SHEILA SADEGHI Boston sophomore
"I like the historical aspect of the holiday. I'm wearing purple and beads."
PETALIA SCHWAB
"I like the fun aspect of Mardi Gras, like wearing beads and masks. It's kind of mysterious. Since I wasn't home for St. Louis' big celebration, I'm going to the Mardi Gras party at the Granada."
ELIZABETH MILLER St. Louis freshman
What do you like about Mardi Gras? How will you celebrate this year?
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ROBERT REBORI
"I like the food, like the doughnuts For Lent, I plan on running every day and praying every morning, so I'm using Tuesday to get ready for that."
CRIME
Man accused of stealing lottery winner's money
JEFFERSON CITY. Mo. — The Missouri secretary of state is seeking penalties from a Kansas City man accused of offering illegal investment advice to a lottery winner.
The secretary of state's office says Glenn Boxwell promised the winner of a $164,000 lottery prize that the money could earn a 3 percent per month return by investing in stocks and Boxwell's.
A spokesman for the secretary of state's office said Monday the investigation was ongoing and declined to name the lottery winner. A phone number registered to Boxwell has been disconnected.
Boxwell is accused of opening a bank account with the investment and writing $14,000 in checks to "cash" and more than $5,000 in checks to himself.
company. The lottery winner invested $21,000 in the company in 2006 and has not received any money.
NATIONAL
Argument with octuplets mother broadcast online
LOS ANGELES — A video posted on a gossip Web site shows the Southern California mother of octuplets bickering with her mother about having so many children.
In the RadarOnline.com video, Nadya Suleman is grilled by her mother, Angela Suleman, about why she had so many fertility treatments.
In the exchange, recorded last week, Nadya Suleman grows irritated and says she had the choice to use embryos created with her eggs or destroy them. She says she couldn't bear to destroy or donate any of the embryos.
Thirty-three-year-old Nadya Suleman, an unemployed, single mother, sparked public outrage after giving birth to octuplets Jan. 26. All 14 of her children were conceived through in vitro fertilization.
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Polar explorers report on Antarctica's ice sheets
Their work will help determine how much the continent's melting ice could raise sea levels in the future
BY CHARLES J. HANLEY
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TROLL RESEARCH STATION, Antarctica — Policymakers met polar explorers on the boundless ice of Antarctica Monday as a U.S.-Norwegian scientific expedition came in from the cold to report on the continent's ice sheets, a potential source for a catastrophic "big melt" from global warming.
"Our preliminary finding is that there's a slight warming trend in East Antarctica," American glaciologist Ted Scambos told the group of visiting environment ministers.
It was an early estimate regarding just one region of a huge continent, drawn from first analyses of ice cores drilled along the team's route. But it caught the ear of the visiting politicians, who are this year weighing a grand new global deal for cutting greenhouse-gas emissions to avert the worst of climate change.
"It's important to hear the latest science," said Hilary Benn, Britain's environment minister. "I was impressed that they're finding temperatures rising. But there is still so much not
still so much not known."
Representatives from more than a dozen nations, including the U.S., China and Russia, rendezvoused at this Norwegian research station with the scientists completing the last
leg of a 1,400-mile (2,300-kilometer) two-month trek over the ice from the South Pole.
The 12-member Norwegian American Scientific Traverse of East Antarctica is a leading project in the 2007-2009 International Polar Year (IPY).
It is a mobilization of 10,000
scientists and 40,000 others from more than 60 countries engaged in intense Arctic and Antarctic research over the past two southern summer seasons - on the ice, at sea, via icebreaker, submarine and surveillance satellite.
Learning more about historic temperature trends has been a prime concern in examining
whether global warming - already occurring elsewhere on the planet - might cause Antarctica's huge store of ice to start melting, raising sea levels, potentially to a disastrous point for coastal cities and shorelines worldwide.
Speaking to the environment ministers over breakfast, Kim Holmen, research director for the Norwegian Polar Institute, the Troll station's operator, noted that scientists had generally thought Antarctica as a whole was not warming in recent decades.
"I was impressed that they're finding temperatures rising. But there is still so much not known."
"This new analysis shows us actually the whole of Antarctica has been warming."
HILARY BENN Environment minister
But a recent study in the journal
Nature shook that view.
Such work will be combined with another IPY project, an all-out effort to map by satellite radar information about Antarctic ice sheets over the past two summers, an attempt to assess how fast ice is being pushed into the surround-
from the South Pole were also gathering important data on how much snow has fallen historically.
KIM HOLMEN Research director
"This new analysis shows us actually the whole of Antarctica has been warming," Holmen said.
The preliminary finding from the on-the ground Traverse expedition - if it is would reinforce that
confirmed - would reforce that Nature study, which extrapolated temperature trends by blending satellite information with scarce weather-station data available in and around Antarctica.
By drilling deep cores into the annual layers of ice sheet in this little explored region, the trekkers
ing sea.
Then scientists may understand better the "mass balance" — how much the snow, originating with ocean evaporation, is offsetting the ice pouring seaward. That, in turn, would help them judge fast and
high ocean levels may rise from Antarctic melt.
Since Antarctica accounts for 90 percent of the world's ice, "a small change in accumulation rate in this area could lead to significant sea-level rise." Tom Neumann, American leader of the Traverse, told the ministers.
The visitors also included the environment ministers of Algeria, the Czech Republic, Finland, Norway and Sweden.
Other countries were represented by climate policymakers and negotiators, including Xie Zhenhua of China and Dan Reifsnyder, a deputy assistant U.S. secretary of state.
During their long day here under the brilliant 17-hour sunlight of a dying southern summer, when the temperature still dropped to -20 degrees Celsius (near-zero Fahrenheit), the group traveled by snow tractor over the 500-meter-deep (1,500-foot-deep) ice sheet to stand in awe before ludussessen, a jagged wall of towering peaks in the 2,400-meter-high (8,000-foot-high) Gjielsvik Mountains.
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A member of a group of visiting environment ministers and other representatives from more than a dozen nations gazes up at the monumental rock towers rising from 1,500-foot-deep ice sheets near the Norwegian Troll Research Station in Antarctica on Monday. The group flew to the remote station to learn from international scientists about whether and how global warming may melt Antarctic ice, raising sea levels.
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TOPEKA — The state's need to cut spending to prevent a budget deficit is a good argument for abolishing the death penalty to save money, Senate leaders said Monday.
The Senate Judiciary Committee plans hearings Thursday and Friday on a bill by Sen. Carolyn McGinn (R-Sedgwick) to abolish the death penalty starting July 1. Chairman Tim Owens, an Overland Park Republican, said the committee would vote on the bill either Friday or next week.
The bill wouldn't affect the 10 inmates already under sentence of death, nor would it apply to Justin Thurber, convicted in Cowley County of killing Jodi Sanderholm, a 19-year-old community college student, in 2007. A jury recommended death, and Thurber is to be sentenced March 20.
When McGinn introduced the bill, she said death sentences were too expensive and unnecessary because a person can be sentenced to life in prison without parole. She said lawmakers needed to save money to keep the budget balanced for the fiscal year beginning July 1.
Senate President Steve Morris (R-Hugoton) said a 2003 state audit showed that death penalty cases averaged $1.2 million, compared with $740,000 for non-death penalty murder cases.
"This is a question of cost comes as one of the factors about whether we need the death penalty," said the Topeka Democrat. "It's a proven fact that it costs more to put people to death than to keep them in prison for the long term."
"It if does have a chance of being repealed, it would because of economics," the Hugoton Republican said. "That would be the best choice of getting it repealed."
Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley agreed that costs could become an issue but didn't know whether it would be a convincing argument for enough lawmakers.
Aside from costs, opponents also say there's the chance of innocent person being executed. The center says some 130 death row inmates have been exonerated since 1973.
State Budget Director Duane Goossen speaks to reporters Monday afternoon in Topeka. In an attempt to save the state some money, Sen. Carolyn McGinn (R-Sedgwick) proposed a bill that would abolish the Kansas death penalty Monday.
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students can meet employers in attendance, Wolfram said.
Students and employers will then be seated in assigned seats at the dinner, which will feature a four-course meal consisting of soup, salad, a main dish with sides, and dessert. More than 100 participants attend the dinner each semester, Wolfram said, and business attire was required.
Jonathan Eisen said he would try to attend the dinner. Eisen, St. Louis junior, said it was very important to understand what was and wasn't appropriate etiquette-wise as students transitioned into their post-college lives.
"Events like this allow students to work on skills that they might need on an everyday basis, in
a possible dinner interview, or even on a date," Eisen said. "KU students are first-class individuals, but we need to work on our etiquette to prove that we are first-class."
Mary Banwart, associate professor of communication studies, said employers paid close attention to etiquette and said good etiquette could be an advantage.
"In tight economic times it is the small details that make a big difference." Banwart said. "So I encourage students to take great advantage of this opportunity to give themselves a step up on the competition and to increase their own confidence at important gatherings where their mind needs to be focused on communicating their skills and qualifications, not on which fork to use or how to pass the broccoli."
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etiquette tips
Erin Wolfram, assistant director of the University Career Center, answers students' most oft-asked etiquette questions.
Where does my name tag go? Wear your name tag on the right side of your chest about three to four inches down from your shoulder, so your name tag is easily visible when you shake someone's hand.
When and where do I sit?
Always wait to sit down until the host is seated whether in an interview or dinner setting; the host will also indicate where he would like you to sit, and if he doesn't, ask.
When is it OK to begin eating? Once everyone has been served a meal or when someone who is still waiting on a meal signals it is okay to begin, you may begin eating once the host begins or signals to begin.
What should you order at a business dinner? It is recommended to order something in the mid-level price range — not too low or too high. Ask the host for a recommendation, and this will give you an idea on what to order and in what price range.
Who pays at a business dinner? The host of the dinner.
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support," Letchworth said.
Henson said the panel was also meant to raise awareness about Queers and Allies' efforts
to add gender iden-
to add gender identity and expression to the University's nondiscrimination policy.
Henson said adding gender identity and expression to the policy would help ensure all transgender people at the University
He said it
der was not something many people felt comfortable talking about.
could go about their lives on campus with the same rights and protection given to other minorities.
"I feel extremely fortunate to have been born into my loving family."
CAGE LETCHWORTH Lenexa freshman
as important for people to hear about the struggles of transgender people, which are similar to the struggles of racial minorities and the struggles of humanity in general.
"The more we understand each other, the better we can all work together to make this world a better place to live," he said.
— Edited by Melissa Johnson
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Frank Marshall, assistant dean of business administration, said he thought giving business students the opportunity to work at an advising center would give them a valuable opportunity.
the School of Business to give students credit for volunteering to advise their peers.
"It potentially gives them an opportunity to take what they're learning in the classrooms and in the courses they take and in some way use that knowledge to benefit others," Marshall said.
A Marine One helicopter flies over Washington, D.C. The new fleet of 28 Marine One helicopters being built by Lockheed Martin Corp. is now over budget at 511.2 billion, which is more than the cost of Air Force One. Obama said he didn't see a need for new helicopters in the current economic situation.
However, Marshall said he would want to make sure student counselors were careful with the advice they provided to their peers.
The group would start with a relatively small amount of donated money for those students to invest in the market.
"People still need to make their own decisions about their financial matters," Marshall said. "Care needs to be taken to ensure that information is disseminated to people so that they can decide what they want to do."
The returns on those investments would eventually go to pay the wages of student hourly workers hired to run the center.
The distinguishing feature of the Envision proposal is the creation of a student investment fund. Interested students would apply to work under an oversight committee that would supervise the group.
"This gives students interested in finances the opportunity to gain internship-level experience without the internship," Envision leaders said in a written summary of their proposal.
Envision said their starting goal was $50,000, which would be gathered from partnerships with the School of Business, the KU Endowment Association and other contributors.
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Alex Porte, Great Falls, Va. junior and Envision vice presidential nominee, said several other institutions implemented a similar program, including the University of Utah, Ohio State, Penn State and Abilene Christian University.
Obama set to review program costs for new helicopters
These programs invest anywhere from $25,000 to $1 million.
— Edited by Susan Melqren
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama never had a helicopter, which he said might explain why he was perfectly happy with the current White House fleet and didn't need a more costly one.
At the conclusion of a fiscal summit Monday, Obama faced questions from Republican and Democratic lawmakers, including his former presidential rival, Sen. John McCain.
McCain bemoaned cost overruns in military procurement. The new fleet of 28 Marine One helicopters being built by Lockheed Martin Corp. — now over budget at $11.2 billion — will cost more than Air Force One.
Obama said the helicopter he has now seems adequate, adding that he never had a helicopter before and "maybe I've been deprived and I didn't know it."
Obama said he has already talked to Defense Secretary Robert Gates about reviewing the pro-
"It is an example of the procurement process gone amok, and we're going to have to fix it," Obama said.
The Navy — which is in charge of overseeing the helicopter program — reported to Congress in January that its price tag had nearly doubled. That notification triggered a formal process mandating the program be recertified as a national security requirement by senior Pentagon leadership.
The Navy waited nearly a year before formally disclosing the information to lawmakers as it sought to find ways to keep the program within budget. Those efforts failed.
Gates already has warned of tough cuts in the upcoming fiscal 2010 budget as the Pentagon faces the pressure of paying for two wars during a recession.
we can deliver the required number of helicopters compliant with the specifications that emerge from the ongoing review."
The helicopter, which will be outfitted with communications equipment, anti-missile defenses
and hardened hulls, is dubbed Marine One whenever the president is on board.
The aircraft is expected to be similar to Air Force One, unlike the 30-year-old helicopters they would replace.
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TOPEKA — Kansas expects to receive $71.5 million in additional Medicaid funds from the federal stimulus package.
The Kansas Health Policy Authority said Monday that the money was the first installment of stimulus funds.
The authority expects Kansas to receive $440 million in additional Medicaid dollars in 2009 and 2010.
Authority spokesman Peter Hancock said the money was expected to arrive Wednesday and would help Kansas with its budget problems, but state officials are still trying to figure out exactly how it will be handled.
Medicaid covers health care for the needy and is funded jointly by the states and federal government. The stimulus legislation lowered the costs that states must cover.
The authority administers
most of the Medicaid program in Kansas.
Jury adds charge in case of child endangerment
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Cass County prosecutors announced Monday that the grand jury indicted the man on a charge of endangering the welfare of a child.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A grand jury has added another charge against a western Missouri man suspected of fathering four children with his teenage daughter and charged with second-degree murder in the death of one of the infants.
That means he now faces a total of two counts of child endangerment in addition to second-degree murder and other charges.
The new charge accuses the 47-year-old man of failing to seek medical assistance when helping the daughter give birth in August 2005 to a boy who is now 3 years old and in state
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The grand jury added a second count alleging she failed to seek medical help when assisting in the 2005 birth, plus a new charge of hindering prosecution
Public defenders representing the suspects did not immediately return phone calls to The Associated Press for comment Monday.
Family members and investigators have said the daughter who had the babies was 13 when her father began molest-
She has not been charged with any crime.
The Associated Press is withholding the defendants' names to protect the identity of the now 19-year-old daughter, an alleged sexual assault victim.
Woman deported for drug trafficking returns
Norma Arias-Garcia appeared Monday in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan. Court records say Magistrate Judge David Waxse signed an order jailing her pending her trial on charges that she reentered the country after her deportation.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A woman from Mexico who was deported from the U.S. after being convicted of drug trafficking in Missouri has been found again, this time in Kansas.
Prosecutors said Arias-Garcia was convicted in Jackson County in 1996 for first-degree drug trafficking and deported in May 1998.
Her attorney, Sean Pickett,
says a not guilty plea was
entered on her behalf.
He says he does not care to comment further "on the facts of the case at this time."
Arias-Garcia is being held without bond. She could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted.
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For nearly half of Americans, home is not where the heart is.
A survey released by the Pew Research Center on Jan. 29 found 46 percent of the public would rather live in a different community from where they live now. Kansas City was the fifth least popular city on the survey, but with record enrollment for the University, more students than ever are making Lawrence their home.
The University's Web site ranks Lawrence as third on its list of "10 great things to know about KU." Kolby Lanning, Jindependence, Kan., senior, said the downtown shopping, nightlife and general atmosphere of Lawrence made the city a great college town. Last fall, 1,512 undergraduate transfer students enrolled at the University, the most recorded since 1998.
Before living in Lawrence,
Lanning attended Baker University in Baldwin City. He said he thought Baldwin was too small for him, and said he frequently made trips to Lawrence to visit friends or go shopping. By sophomore year, Lanning said, he was ready to move.
"Baldwin had one stop light," Lanning said. "As a college student, I think living in Lawrence and still being able to stay in Kansas is great. I wouldn't trade it for anything."
The Pew survey found people between 18 and 29 were the least likely age group to enjoy the community they lived in. Alex Maycher, a Wichita freshman at the University of Nebraska, said he was considering transferring to Kansas largely because he preferred Lawrence to Lincoln. He said he wouldn't move just because he liked the city, though. Nebraska is cheaper for him and he said he didn't think the University would accept all of his credit hours. Still,
he said, if everything were taken care of, he would definitely make the move.
"At Nebraska, you have to be either in a fit or know someone really well to go out, so I don't do as much on the weekends," Maycher
said, in lawrence.
I feel like there's more to do, and it's closer to home. Plus there is more of a local scene."
"Lawrence was awesome freshman year, and then I guess the coolness of it wore off, and I was ready to get out by senior year," St. John said.
Although the college town atmosphere attracts incoming freshman and
"I think living in Lawrence and still being able to stay in Kansas is great. I wouldn't trade it for anything."
was exactly where he wanted to be
likely to enjoy them. community. Now living in Leneax, St. John said he liked living in a smaller town close to a big city. Although the Pew survey found only 18 percent of people in Kansas City and the surrounding area enjoyed living there. St. John said he
transfer students to Lawrence, it also plays into why others leave the city.
The lively Lawrence atmosphere helped 2008 graduate John St. John enjoy college life, but he said it didn't take long for the party scene to get old for him.
The Pew survey found that college graduates were the people most
anywhere where he wanted to. "I have my friends, family and job in Lenexa. I don't want to live in a busy area so it's perfect." St. John said. "If I wouldn't have liked anything I would have moved."
— Edited by Melissa Johnson
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Measure will raise government spending
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WASHINGTON — House Democrats unveiled a $410 billion spending bill Monday to keep the government running through the end of the fiscal year, setting up the second political struggle over federal funds in less than
republicans. The measure includes thousands of earmarks, the pet projects favored by lawmakers but often criticized by the public in opinion polls. There was
The bill totals $410 billion, including at least $3.8 billion in earmarks,and is meant to keep the government running for the fiscal year.
In a letter to top Democratic leaders, the GOP leadership called for a spending freeze, a step they said would point toward a "new standard of fiscal discipline."
Republicans countered that the spending in the bill far outpaced inflation, and amounted to much higher increases when combined with spending in the stimulus legislation President Barack Obama signed last week.
no official total of the bill's earmarks, which accounted for at least $3.8 billion.
Apart from spending, the legislation provides Democrats in Congress and Obama an opportunity to reverse Bush-era policy
Either way, the bill advanced less than one week after Obama signed the $787 billion economic stimulus bill that all Republicans in Congress opposed except for three moderate GOP senators.
The legislation, which includes an increase of roughly 8 percent over spending in the last fiscal year, is expected to clear the House later in the week.
Democrats defended the spending increases, saying they were needed to make up for cuts enacted in recent years or proposed a year ago by then-President George W. Bush in health, education, energy and other programs.
on selected issues.
It loosens restrictions on travel to Cuba, as well as the sale of food and medicine to the communist island-nation.
In another change, the legislation bans Mexican-licensed trucks
from operating outside commercial zones along the border with the United States. The Teamsters Union, which supported Obama's election last year, hailed the move.
The Bush administration backed a pilot program to permit up to 500 trucks from 100 Mexican motor carriers access to U.S. roads.
The legislation covers programs for numerous Cabinetlevel and other agencies, and takes the place of regular annual spending bills that did not pass last year as a result of a deadlock between the Bush administration and the Democratic-controlled Congress.
Congressional expenses are included. The bill provides $500,000 for what is described as a Senate "pilot program" that will defray the cost of mail postcards to households notifying them of a nearby town meeting to be attended by any senator.
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Gitmo releases first prisoner since Obama's inauguration
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LONDON — The first Guantanamo detainee released since President Barack Obama took office returned to Britain on Monday, saying his seven years of captivity and torture at an alleged CIA covert site in Morocco went beyond his "darkest nightmares."
Binyam Mohamed's allegations — including repeated beatings and having his genitals sliced by a scalpel — have sparked lawsuits that could ensnare the American and British governments in protracted court battles.
Attorney General Eric Holder, who traveled Monday to Guantanamo Bay as the Obama administration weighs what is needed to shut the facility, thanked Britain for its cooperation in the case.
"The friendship and assistance of the international community is vitally important as we work to close Guantanamo, and we greatly appreciate the efforts of the British government to work with us on the transfer of Binyam Mohamed," he said.
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Lawyers for Mohamed are seeking secret U.S. intelligence and legal documents they say will prove the Bush administration sent Mohamed to Morocco, where it knew he would be tortured. They claim the documents also prove Britain was complicit in the abuse.
But the case is also a test for Obama. While he has promised Guantanamo's closure and an end to torture, he has not yet publicly explained how his government will change the process of extraordinary renditions, which involve sending terror suspects to foreign countries * be interrogated.
Unlike in the U.S., Britain's leaders don't have a past government to blame — Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour Party has been in power for more than a decade.
Binyam Mohamed, top, who has been held at Guantanamo Bay, steps from a plane at Northolt military base in west London on Monday. Mohamed is the first Guantanamo prisoner released since President Barack Obama took office.
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THE SEARCH FOR THE AGGRO CRAG
You know I'm been an editor for three years. I'm going to get a job,
and I have nothing to do for it.
You haven't been in college for four years. I'm going to graduate soon and I have nothing to show for it.
NOTHING!! I know nothing of myself! Where is all the Character development and Self-discovery should have achieved in college? These are my prime years and I have not even met! I'm a 22 year old man child!!! WHY AM I HERE?!? WHY ARE I HERE?!?
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MUSIC
Ticketmaster adjusts sales method after N. J. flap
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Ticketmaster agreed Monday to change its online ticket sales process after butting heads with Bruce Springsteen and his fans.
Ticketmaster reached a settlement with New Jersey, where the Springsteen concert in question had been scheduled, said state Attorney General Anne Milgram.
The changes apply to all Ticket master sales nationwide, she said
Ticketmaster said in a statement Monday that the problem was caused by a software glitch. The "voluntary agreement" with the attorney general just formalizes changes the company had already implemented, the company said.
Springsteen ticket seekers were redirected from the main Ticketmaster site to a subsidiary that charged more. Gilman said
at the time that redirecting them might have violated the state's consumer fraud act.
Springsteen said on his Web site that he and the E Street Band were "furious."
Ticketmaster did not admit wrongdoing but agreed to pay the state $350,000. Milgram said
The company will also compensate customers and change how it handles secondary sales, she said.
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HUMANITIES LECTURE SERIES 2008-2009
YOUNG BORN AUGUST 14, 1925. BIRMINGHAM, MASS., AUGUST 13, 2016. Born in Birmingham, England, Younge was educated at Trinity College London and the University of Cambridge. He began his career as a stage manager before becoming a successful writer and producer. Younge is best known for his work on the musical "The Tempest" (1957), which earned him an Olivier Award. He also wrote for many popular Broadway and musical theater companies, including the musical "Bird of Prey" (1958) and the musical "Rainbow Bridge" (1960). Younge's career spanned over five decades, during which he produced and directed numerous Broadway and musical theater productions. He passed away on August 13, 2016.
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James McBride
James McBride is an award-winning writer, composer, and saxophonist. His landmark memoir, The Color of Water, is an American classic; a New York Times bestseller for two years, the book is the moving account of his mother, a white Jewish woman from Poland who raised twelve black children in New York City and sent each to college. It has been translated into more than 17 languages. His second book, Miracle at St. Anna, the story of a black American soldier who befriends an Italian boy during WWII, is being made into a major motion picture by Spike Lee.
Feb. 24, 2009 | Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union | 7:30 p.m.
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10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 6
After you have the meeting and set all your glorious goals, hide away in a quiet place and start coming up with ideas. Let your creative juices flow. What you need, you can create.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 6.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Today is 6
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 6
You certainly don't have to take a risk. You can avoid it again.
If you're willing to face your greatest fear, however, you could transform your whole life. It's all up to you.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21)
Today is a 6
Use what you we've recently learned to advance your career.
A very unusual and interesting option could work. Be bold.
Don't let this slip away.
CANCER (June 22-July 22)
Today is an 8
Once everything's in order,
it's like you've lost 50 pounds.
If you don't need to lose 50
pounds, think of another
analogy. And go get yourself
a treat.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is a 7
Today is a 7
Soon, you'll be getting into the bean-counting phase.
Face reality, which will include problems. Visualize yourself four years from now. That will give you a sense of direction.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Today is a 7
Move quickly, even if you aren't under an actual deadline. Pressure is a psychological tool you can use on yourself. Set and enforce your own deadlines. They're good to have.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 7
You're getting out into unfamiliar territory by now. It's scary, but also exciting. You basically know what to do, and you'll come up with more good ideas. Keep at it.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 7
By now you might have realized that more people will be required to carry out your wonderful plans. This is OK. You can do this. You're good at managing teams.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is a 7
Take that energy you're generating and make things happen. Take charge of the situation: don't wait for anyone else. You do have a sidekick cheering you on. That, and the facts, are all you need.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Todav is a 7
Don't talk about what you're doing, especially with the competition. The only way this plan will work is if you're fast and accurate. You'll have something the others want. Resist the temptation to go!
Use new information to make a wise financial maneuver. This could be a stock-market tip or a sale on an item you know you'll have to get anyway. There's a heck of a deal out there. Go hunting.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is a 7
Make sure the people doing the job have whatever they need. This will cost, maybe even blow the budget. You'll have to adapt the budget.
Make sure the workers are well supplied.
PISCES (Feb.19-March 20)
Today is an 8
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5 Occupation, for short
8 Stitches
12 With 13-Across, hematite
13 See 12-Across
14 Met melody
15 Breadwinner
17 Chain component
18 Whatever number
19 Vitamin G source
21 "Surprise Symphony" compose
24 Throat clearer
25 Lotion additive
26 TV crime drama
30 Put into words
31 J.C. Harris' "Uncle —"
32 "Hail, Caesar!"
33 Don King, e.g.
35 Faucet problem
36 Sleeping
37 Daily trio
38 One taking great interest in his work?
41 Cushion
42 Picard predecessor
43 Max Bialystock, for one
48 Advantage
49 Sailor's assent
50 "Arrive-derci"
51 Crystal gazer
52 Trawler gear
53 Deserve
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2 Screw up
3 Cattle call?
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6 Anger
7 Crucial time
8 Hero material
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10 Airplane part
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16 Hostel
20 Umps
21 Padlocked fastener
22 Re 10-Down
23 Vacillate
24 Ready for battle
26 Mary Martin role
27 Zhivago's love
28 Satanic
29 Agents, briefly
31 Judicial garb
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38 Guitars' kin
39 Faction
40 Incite
41 Versifier
44 "Catcher in the —"
45 KGB counter-part
46 Listening device
47 Director Howard
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Judge extends temporary restraining order for Spears
LOS ANGELES — A restraining order against Britney Spears' former manager and an ex-boyfriend has been temporarily extended to give a Los Angeles judge more time to hear arguments in the case.
Judge Aviva K. Bobb extended a temporary restraining order against Sam Lutfi and paparazzo Adnan Ghalib until Wednesday morning. The singer's father, Jamie Spears, will be allowed to testify this afternoon to accommodate his travel schedule.
Bobb cited a technicality and busy court calendar for delaying the hearing.
Jamie Spears and various attorneys are seeking a lengthy restraining order against Luff,
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Lutfi, Ghalib and Britney Spears didn't appear in court.
Wonder accepts award from Library of Congress
WASHINGTON — Stevie Wonder was in Washington to receive the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song from the Library of Congress.
He also performed a newly composed song for the first time Monday evening during a concert at the library. The library commissioned the tune that was performed with a full orchestra.
Later this week, President Barack Obama will award Wonder the Gershwin Prize in a White House ceremony.
Wonder is self-taught on piano, harmonica and other instruments and was just 12 when he first wowed national TV audiences on shows like Dick Clark's "American Bandstand."
Wonder is the se$ ^{rd}$ person to receive the Gershwin Prize. The first was Paul Simon in 2007.
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--lion federal stimulus plan — the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act" intended to help pull the nation out of the economic recession. Some of the act's provisions, such as Pell grants and tax deductions for education, will directly benefit students. Other measures, such as federal assistance to states, will help indirectly. But the act ultimately proves inadequate when it comes to providing an immediate fiscal stimulus. None of the Act's provisions for education will matter much as long as the economy remains
Are there any places still hiring?
--lion federal stimulus plan — the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act" intended to help pull the nation out of the economic recession. Some of the act's provisions, such as Pell grants and tax deductions for education, will directly benefit students. Other measures, such as federal assistance to states, will help indirectly. But the act ultimately proves inadequate when it comes to providing an immediate fiscal stimulus. None of the Act's provisions for education will matter much as long as the economy remains
--lion federal stimulus plan — the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act" intended to help pull the nation out of the economic recession. Some of the act's provisions, such as Pell grants and tax deductions for education, will directly benefit students. Other measures, such as federal assistance to states, will help indirectly. But the act ultimately proves inadequate when it comes to providing an immediate fiscal stimulus. None of the Act's provisions for education will matter much as long as the economy remains
Dear guy in front of me in the computer lab: I can see you Facebook stalking those two girls, and it's creepy. Stop.
To the girls who almost hit me going across the crosswalk by Eaton: Pedestrians have the right of way.
Um, my boyfriend and his roommate keep watching "What What in the Butt." Should I be worried?
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Hi. If anyone left a key chain with a stegosaurus on it, I returned it to the Wescoe lost and found
--lion federal stimulus plan — the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act" intended to help pull the nation out of the economic recession. Some of the act's provisions, such as Pell grants and tax deductions for education, will directly benefit students. Other measures, such as federal assistance to states, will help indirectly. But the act ultimately proves inadequate when it comes to providing an immediate fiscal stimulus. None of the Act's provisions for education will matter much as long as the economy remains
Oh, warm days, won't you hurry up and get here. I miss the revealing clothes worn by the beautiful women here.
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My roommate is a blabbering child. One and a quarter more years of this.
--lion federal stimulus plan — the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act" intended to help pull the nation out of the economic recession. Some of the act's provisions, such as Pell grants and tax deductions for education, will directly benefit students. Other measures, such as federal assistance to states, will help indirectly. But the act ultimately proves inadequate when it comes to providing an immediate fiscal stimulus. None of the Act's provisions for education will matter much as long as the economy remains
--lion federal stimulus plan — the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act" intended to help pull the nation out of the economic recession. Some of the act's provisions, such as Pell grants and tax deductions for education, will directly benefit students. Other measures, such as federal assistance to states, will help indirectly. But the act ultimately proves inadequate when it comes to providing an immediate fiscal stimulus. None of the Act's provisions for education will matter much as long as the economy remains
Completing a Sudoku makes me feel extremely intelligent and accomplished.
--lion federal stimulus plan — the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act" intended to help pull the nation out of the economic recession. Some of the act's provisions, such as Pell grants and tax deductions for education, will directly benefit students. Other measures, such as federal assistance to states, will help indirectly. But the act ultimately proves inadequate when it comes to providing an immediate fiscal stimulus. None of the Act's provisions for education will matter much as long as the economy remains
--lion federal stimulus plan — the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act" intended to help pull the nation out of the economic recession. Some of the act's provisions, such as Pell grants and tax deductions for education, will directly benefit students. Other measures, such as federal assistance to states, will help indirectly. But the act ultimately proves inadequate when it comes to providing an immediate fiscal stimulus. None of the Act's provisions for education will matter much as long as the economy remains
Who cares if girls wear leggings? Concentrate on your own image, not that of others.
Miley Cyrus: Pregnant in 2010
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To the person who mistakenly received the key for the package box in our mailbox cluster, thank you for not stealing our stuff! You restored my faith in our neighbors by 115 percent.
--lion federal stimulus plan — the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act" intended to help pull the nation out of the economic recession. Some of the act's provisions, such as Pell grants and tax deductions for education, will directly benefit students. Other measures, such as federal assistance to states, will help indirectly. But the act ultimately proves inadequate when it comes to providing an immediate fiscal stimulus. None of the Act's provisions for education will matter much as long as the economy remains
--lion federal stimulus plan — the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act" intended to help pull the nation out of the economic recession. Some of the act's provisions, such as Pell grants and tax deductions for education, will directly benefit students. Other measures, such as federal assistance to states, will help indirectly. But the act ultimately proves inadequate when it comes to providing an immediate fiscal stimulus. None of the Act's provisions for education will matter much as long as the economy remains
Sadly, my friend clicked "most played" on my iTunes, and it was "7 Things" by Miley Cyrus, with 85 plays.
Please, no more Wilford Brimley cartoons.
--lion federal stimulus plan — the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act" intended to help pull the nation out of the economic recession. Some of the act's provisions, such as Pell grants and tax deductions for education, will directly benefit students. Other measures, such as federal assistance to states, will help indirectly. But the act ultimately proves inadequate when it comes to providing an immediate fiscal stimulus. None of the Act's provisions for education will matter much as long as the economy remains
To my roommate: It's 6 a.m. Turn off your alarm clock.
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So I went snowboarding last weekend, and now I'm banned from the entire city of Keystone. It's awesome, I
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Try to write six essays in 30 minutes for a test. Yeah, no one can do it.
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I go to class just so I get a chance to see that beautiful man who drives the bus.
Governors listen in the White House in Washington on Monday as President Barack Obama addressed the National Governors Association regarding the economic stimulus package. The package should eventually benefit the University, but students will not feel its right away.
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Stimulus act won't help students immediately
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
OBAMA IN A MEMORIAL CONFERENCE
On Feb. 17, President Barack Obama signed into law the $787 bil
On paper, the stimulus provides these benefits to students;
- Increase the maximum amount of Fell grants by $500 for the more than 3,000 KU students who receive them.
- Provide students with the new "American Opportunity" tax credit for 2009 and 2010, which allows a tax deduction of up to $500.
- deduction of up to $2,500 for tuition and related expenses.
- Provide $53.6 billion for state fiscal stabilization. Kansas' share of this money will help soften the effects of the budget shortfall on funding for higher education.
- Save or create 33,000 jobs in Kansas during the next three years.
- Increase funding for research and technology.
KANSAN'S OPINION
Chancellor Robert Hemenway has said the plan "will help students
according to the President's council of economic advisors.
pay for college and boost KU's research efforts, both of which are critical to restoring economic prosperity. But the results are
imperfect because much of it won't have a tangible impact until two, three or four years in the future. In the short term, it will do little to stop the current job loss and shrinking demand. Many provisions of this stimulus — especially tax cuts, which are likelier to be saved than spent — will not provide immediate fiscal stimulus.
Additionally, assistance to
states should be larger because in tough times, most states, including Kansas, are forced to lay off state employees and slash funding for healthcare and education — including higher education.
Because of cuts in state funding next year, KU students can expect larger class sizes and fewer elective courses offered.
More assistance from the federal government would have allowed states to decrease the size of these cuts, and the states would spend this money relatively quickly.
Ultimately, the largest benefit to students will come if and when this fiscal stimulus actually works.
Dan Thompson for The Kansan Editorial Board
CAMPUS LIFE
Students should be parking priority, even on game days
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Parking on campus is always an issue,which is why I choose to ride the bus.
But there are rare occasions when I need to be on campus later than the buses run and I have to drive and park where I can pay a meter.
Usually, I have no trouble parking at the Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center and paying a meter when I need to park on campus. Except, of course, on game days.
Last semester I needed to be on campus in the evening for a study session for one of my classes. I had forgotten there was a game that day and when I attempted to park at my usual meter I was sent looking for parking elsewhere.
But because of those thousands of parking spots
The Williams Fund helps KU Athletics remain one of the best programs in the nation and attracts high-class coaches and athletes to the University.
I drove around for about half an hour and was turned away from every area where I attempted to leave my car.
The Williams Fund is comprised of more than 4,200 members and generates more than $8 million annually according to the KU Athletics Web site.
According to a Jan. 30 article in The Kansan, 2,343 parking spots are reserved for Williams Educational fund donors on basketball home game days
After becoming increasingly frustrated and angry, I simply drove off campus and back to my apartment at 31st and Iowa.
I did not attend the study session (which would have benefited me) because parking prioritizes donors over KU students.
reserved for donors on game days, KU students are forced to park miles away from their destinations.
In The Kansan article, Donna Hultine, director of the KU parking department, said the $1 million generated from basketball games enabled the parking department to keep permit prices down.
Athletics are important to a college experience. The University's athletic programs bring incredible athletes and scholars to Lawrence as well as make our University competitive with others in Kansas and across the Midwest. But academics should always be a priority
Though the revenue generated is astounding, students should not have to sacrifice on game days or any other day.
Donors to the Williams Fund greatly aid the Athletics
Department, and their donations are appreciated.
But students pay thousands of dollars in tuition, housing and campus fees.
We pay huge sums of money for a degree from the University of Kansas, and making sure all students attain and benefit from this degree should be the priority of all departments within the University.
KU students should not be forced to park miles away from campus on game days, or any other day for that matter. Ultimately, the success of students is more important than the success of a basketball team, and parking for students should be a priority for the University before parking for anyone else.
Brown is a Wichita sophomore in journalism and political science.
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TV faces grim future
If the ancient Mayans are to be believed, the world will end in 46 months. My knowledge on the matter is limited to a short trailer for the upcoming film "2012." So, as I understand it, the Himalayas will be flooded, monks will ring very large bells, and the world's governments will not be able to do anything about either.
This all seems like a very unfortunate possibility. But it may be preferable to the grim future ahead in the wide world of television. Let me explain.
Rather than retire to his 100-car garage, Jay Leno will return to NBC with a nightly talk show that will air at 9 p.m.
Last Friday night, Conan O'Brien said farewell to the "Late Night" job and New York City. He'll take over "The Tonight Show" starting June 1. This would ordinarily be great news; Conan is hilarious and will be replacing the tragically mediocre Jay Leno. In reality, however, it's bittersweet.
There are two reasons this is being inflicted upon society: One, NBC was worried Leno would take his sizable and easy-to-please fan base with him to another network, and two. it's just cheaper and easier to have five hours of Jay Leno in prime time rather than a bunch of scripted dramas and comedies.
Therein lies the dangerous trend. The conventional wisdom these days is that networks will forgo the expensive and arduous task of trying to create quality television in favor of thrifty lineups filled with nothing but intelligence-insulting reality shows, intelligence-insulting game shows and intelligence-insulting Jay Leno shows.
It's not a pleasant outlook for those of us who enjoy well-writ ten and thoughtful television. (Yes, such a thing does exist.
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That's why I'm going to pitch to you, the reader, some of my ideas for shows. They're the wave of the future!
You just have to look for it.) Mediocre is just too easy to sell. It's less threatening than the exploitative reality trash of the past and less difficult than the scripted shows of today.
"The Real Office": Get a peek into the thrilling day-to-day travails of a real-life office. Be entertained as the boss is fired and sued after an out-of-character off-color remark to a female employee!
"Howie Get By": Another hilariously punny series hosted by Howie Mandel puts our hero in a homeless person's shoes (or lack thereof) and watches as he panhandle on American street corners. Will he scrounge enough change for a pack of cigarettes? Tune in to find out!
"Extreme Makeover: Dancing with the Stars Edition". It's "Extreme Makeover" meets "Dancing With The Stars!" (Just watch it, OK.)
"The Search for America's Next Reality Star": Finally, a talent search without the annoying pretense of a search for talent!
"The Search for America's Next Reality Star Update Show": Missed this week's episodes of TSFANRS? Watch the two-hour update show every Thursday night to catch up on the latest developments!
"Cats Doing Things": It's half an hour of cats doing things.
Nichols is an Overland Park sophomore in creative writing.
FROM LOUISIANA
Web sites promote eating disorders
Our society promotes impossible standards of beauty, which are
DREW BELLE ZERBY
Louisiana State University
The Daily Reveille
National Eating Disorder Awareness Week began Sunday, so there's no better time to address this topic.
attained only through plastic surgery and, most recently, Web sites encouraging eat disorders.
Thanks to virtual eating disorder communities, anorexia and bulimia are no longer considered diseases but "lifestyles"
The number of Web sites promoting anorexia and bulimia has increased 470 percent in a single year, according to a study by Optenet, an Internet trend company.
These online communities instruct visitors how to lose weight. They also provide "thinspiration," or photos of emaciated models, malnourished celebrities or obese and overweight people to keep girls on the right track.
Pro-eating disorder Web sites
So in honor of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, do yourself a favor and scarf down that Big Mac, because I promise, it won't kill you.
But throwing it up will.
The first was "The World's Largest Pro-Anorexia Site" where users' profile pictures range from the incredible shrinking women Nicole Richie and Ellen Pompeo to photos zoomed in on girls' skeletal remains.
have been around since the advent of the Internet. However, they used to be so well-hidden it took more than just one Google search to uncover them.
Upon entering "pro-eating disorder" in my Web browser, 44 pages devoted to this topic appeared.
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Four out of 10 teenagers with eating disorders visit pro-eating disorder Web sites, according to a 2006 Stanford University study. Ten million women and one million men are battling eating disorders, according to the National Eating Disorders Association.
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NORMAN, Okla. — Two blue blurs raced across the floor at the Lloyd Noble Center as the buzzer sounded on Kansas' 87-78 victory against Oklahoma.
It was junior guard Sherron Collins running up the sideline smiling and freshman guard Tyshawn Taylor sprinting toward the middle of the court. Eventually, the two paths of celebration met.
They shared a quick exchange
talking other
"good game,
before Collins
added an extra
message.
"He was like, 'Mar, this is what we've been waiting for,' " Taylor said.
Collins, Taylor and the Iavhawks
this too often from young kids."
"This was a great win You don't see this too often from young kids."
But Self didn't want to take too much credit. Heck, he wasn't even the one calling the shots by the end of the game.
are done waiting now. Kansas (23-5, 12-1) is in sole possession of first place in the Big 12 Conference and three victories away from winning its fifth straight Big 12 regular season championship.
The Jayhawks have Collins, Taylor and sophomore center Cole Aldrich to thank for it. Aldrich might not have had the energy to sprint across Oklahoma's gym after the game, but his presence was as important as anyone's.
"This was a great win," Kansas coach Bill Self said. "You don't see
At least three times, Collins waved off the plays Self wanted from the bench with the game on the line. Self was helpless.
After all, Aldrich recorded a career-high 20 rebounds. Taylor set a career-high with 26 points. Statisticians don't keep career-highs of big shots, but Collins would have certainly passed his.
Not that Self would want it any place else. Collins reaffirmed that Monday when he tied a career high with 26 points.
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The Jayhawks appeared to be in a position where they could coast to victory with 11 minutes remaining and their lead at a game-high 20. It wasn't that easy.
Twice, the Sooners trimmed the layawk lead to three points within the final five
minutes. Both times Collins refused to run the Jayhawks' offense. He took three-point shots from the top of the key and swished them to ensure Oklahoma wouldn't get any closer.
"He feels like it's his team," Self said. "I'm really proud of him. He's been great."
Collins' biggest shot came with 2:30 remaining. The crowd had reached deafening levels after Oklahoma freshman Willie Warren
who had a team-high 23 points
— swished a three-point shot to make the score 74-71. The next possession, Collins received a pass from Taylor and made one of his own. Oklahoma never got it down to a one-possession game again.
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I took Kansas more than 11 minutes to get the ball inside to Cole Aldrich with any frequency. When they finally did, it made all the difference.
Aldrich made one of his trademark ugly-but effective hook shots and it opened up the offense for the previously struggling lavwahaws.
During the next possession, Aldrich got the ball and kicked it out for a Tyshawn Taylor three. The deficit, which stood at 14, was cut to nine. Taylor hit another three and the Jayhawks were instantly back in the game. Aldrich got a block, one of four on the night, and threw down a dunk on the ensuing possession. Four-point game. Turnover, Taylor layup. Two-point game. All of a sudden, what looked like a blow-out was a ballgame.
And Aldrich made all the difference, opening up the floor for Taylor's surprise offensive explosion.
That sequence was the start of a 28-7 run to close the half and give the Jayhawks a seven-point lead at halftime. Aldrich had 11 rebounds for the Jayhawks in the second half in what ended up being, arguably, the sophomore center's most impressive outing of the season.
Those 11 boards combined with nine in the first half meant Aldrich finally reached the 20-rebound milestone, a golden standard of post play that only
SEE DWYER ON PAGE 5B
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Smith, Henrickson overcome conflicts between personalities
Relationship once described as 'oil and water' has improved as both are on same page
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Last spring, after finishing her first season at Kansas, sophomore forward Nicolette Smith found herself in a place of discomfort, seated across from the person who she simply didn't get along with.
Smith and Henrickson had two different viewpoints and two different ideas. In other words, coach and player couldn't quite connect, creating a rift in the relationship.
"Nic and I were oil and water" coach Bonnie Hrickson said.
Yet, there were Smith and Henryrickson during Kansas' 58-47 victory against No. 21 Iowa State on Sunday, actively discussing the game: one listening and one talking before quickly switching roles.
"I guess our personalities weren't going to together right," Smith said. "I don't really have words to describe what was going on. It was just a
The two reaching this point seemed a distant possibility last year.
"I didn't want to have that uncomfortable feeling whenever I'm around my head coach, who is someone I should be able to go and talk to"
feeling I had when I was around her. I just didn't feel comfortable because I knew she wasn't happy with who I was.
"There were just some times when last year — I don't even know what was wrong with Nic," junior forward Danielle McCray said. "There are times when she's telling every post what to do. She knows basketball. She has grown up a lot — a whole lot. She's a new person."
After Kansas' game against Iowa State on Sunday, neither Smith nor Henrickson explained the specifics of the situation, only saying that Smith had needed to change.
Those talks and meetings in Henrickson's office during the spring left Smith with a choice: continue butting heads with her coach or adapt. One thing became very clear: If Smith didn't change, she wouldn't play.
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This season, Smith has gone from a three-point specialist to a hard-nosed, talkative defensive player. During Sunday's game, Smith's right knee hurt so bad she couldn't put pressure on it while being assisted to Kansas' bench.
In principle, the choice seems easy. But Smith described the process as "one of the hardest things I've had to do."
Still, with the Jayhawks clinging to a lead, Smith hobbled back into the game for the final 3:30, unable to fully bend her leg.
"Nic's whole sacrifice and commitment to our team; she just
wants to win. That's the good thing about her," McCray said. "When you have those people that want to get on the ship and help you from sinking on that boat — Nic's one of the people that does that."
The mended relationship between Smith and Henrickson is evident during games. On the court, Smith's voice often mimics the same messages spread by Henrickson.
As the season has worn on, Henrickson has continuously applauded Smith's maturity and defensive presence, even calling her Kansas' most consistent and improved player this season.
Edited by Casey Miles
Yet, more importantly, the trust that Smith eagerly sought with her coach has been established.
"Now, even after a bad loss, I feel so much more comfortable going into her office and talking with her," Smith said. "It helps so much when you have a good relationship with your coach."
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Sophomore forward Nicollette Smith drives toward the basket during the Jayhawk's 58-47 victory against Iowa State Sunday in Allen Fieldhouse. Although Smith's relationship with coach Bonnie Henrickson was strained throughout the 2007-2008 season, the two have been working in a more positive direction in 2009.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"The most important thing is him and his future. You don't want to do anything to risk further damage. So that's the most important thing. You're going to proceed with caution with this and make sure he's OK. And we'll move on whichever way we have to - with him or without him."
— Okahome coach Jeff Capel on Blake Griffin's status Monday morning, the Okahoman
FACT OF THE DAY
As of Sunday, Kansas ranked No.10 in the www.rpiratings.com RPI poll. That was second in the Big 12 behind Oklahoma, which was ranked No.2. Missouri was ranked No.15.
- www.rpiratings.com
Q: How many times per week, at a minimum, is the Big 12 televised on ESPN?
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
A: The Big 12 is guaranteed three ESPN telecasts per week by a new contract signed before this season. A Big 12 game on Big Monday — Kansas has played in four this year — is typically viewed by a little more than 1 million households.
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Power leagues find easy NCAA bids
COMMENTARY
The Big 12 might not be a good men's basketball conference this season, but it's a great time to be a member of the league.
It's as easy as ever for teams from power conferences to find NCAA Tournament bids this year. But the Big 12 bubble teams don't have themselves to thank. That credit belongs to squads from smaller conferences that haven't been able to make convincing cases for inclusion in the 65-team field.
In the past few seasons, mid-major and low-major conferences made strides in terms of competitiveness against major-conference foes. This season, larger schools strayed from scheduling low-tier schools for fear of picking up embarrassing losses.
That put a cap on mid-majors potential strength-of-schedules and damaged the tournament resumes of even the best small schools.
The Missouri Valley Conference sent four teams to the tournament in 2006 and three in 2005. The Colonial Conference earned two bids in 2006 and
BY ASHER FUSCO
afusco@kansan.com
again in 2007. The Atlantic 10 Conference has sent more than one team each the past three seasons.
The success of those conferences dented money conferences such as the Big 12, Big Ten and Pac-10, but the pendulum is back in the hands of the powerful this season. There are only a select few mid-major teams with legitimate chances at at-large bids:
Memphis — The Tigers are boys among men in Conference USA, having won 53 consecutive conference contests. No matter what happens in its conference tournament, Memphis is in the tournament as a Sweet Sixteen contender.
Butler — Butler, a perennial Horizon League powerhouse, suffered a pair of embarrassing league losses last week but hopped back into the saddle by defeating Davidson handily Saturday. The Bulldogs finished 10-1 in nonconference play, their only loss coming at Ohio State.
Gonzaga — Like Memphis, Gonzaga has turned domination of its conference into a given. Even if the 'Zags fall in the West Coast Conference tournament, victories against Oklahoma State, Maryland and Tennessee should buoov their hopes.
Xavier — Perched at 22-5 and holding the Atlantic 10 lead, Xavier is a tournament lock.
Brigham Young/Utah/San Diego State — The Mountain West Conference is the most underrated of the nonmajors
That's why these three go together.
The conference's best teams have spent all season beating each other up, and in the process have weakened their shots at NCAA bids. Onetime contender UNLV is already out of the picture, and Utah and San Diego State may soon fade.
That's it. The smallest 25 conferences only have five guaranteed at-large bids. Close calls such as Siena (MAAC), St. Mary's (WCC) and Utah State (WAC) have struggled with poor in-conference competition and injuries, leaving the power conferences plenty of at-large spots.
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Some of the most exciting teams in the nation that nobody has heard of will stay unnoticed because of scheduling glitches, bad luck and the erosion of parity.
Kansas State, Nebraska Oklahoma State and other inconsistent big name schools, it's your turn to rejoice.
College basketball fans, it's your turn to lament.
Edited by Susan Melgren
Big 12 stars try out at NFL Combine
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Kansas State quarterback Josh Freeman throws during a drill at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis on Sunday. He is projected as one of the top five quarterbacks in the draft.
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Fredrick Goings, 36, is charged with first-degree murder in the Jan. 24 slayings of 24-year-old Nova Henry and her 10-month-old daughter, Ava.
Both died of multiple gunshot wounds.
A Cook County judge denied bail at a hearing Monday.
Goings "became abusive" and Henry tried to end their relationship, prosecutors alleged.
Henry filed an order of protection against Goings in April 2007, but later dropped the case.
The couple had lived together, but Henry moved out in December last year and into a South Side town house with her two children: 3-year-old Noah, whose father is Curry, and Ava, whose paternity has been under dispute.
The Chicago Tribune has reported that records show DNA tests prove Curry, who once played for the Chicago Bulls, is Ava's father.
In court, prosecutors called the baby Ava Curry Henry and later said they believe she was Curry's daughter.
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JAYHAWK STAT LEADERS
Points
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Sherron Collins 26
Rebounds
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Cole Aldrich 20
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No.1 5 KANSAS (23-5, 12-1)
Sherron Collins 4
Player FG-FGA 3FG-3FGA Rebs A Pts
Colle Aldrich 5-10 0-0 20 1 15
Shevron Collins 6-14 5-8 2 3 26
Brady Morningstar 0-3 0-2 1 3 2
Tyrell Reed 1-3 1-3 0 1 3
Mario Little 1-1 0-0 2 0 2
Quintrell Thomas 0-0 0-0 2 0 0
Tyshawn Taylor 8-13 3-5 1 3 26
Markieff Morris 3-6 0-0 2 1 7
Marcus Morris 1-4 0-1 3 2 5
Travis Releford 0-0 0-0 2 1 1
Tyrone Appleton 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Team 3
Total 25-54 9-19 38 15 87
No.3 OKLAHOMA (25-3, 11-2)
<table><thead><tr><th>Player</th><th>FG-FGA</th><th colspan="2">3FG-3FGA Rebs</th><th>A</th><th>Pts</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Ryan Wright</td><td>0-1</td><td>0-0</td><td>7</td><td>1</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>TaylorGriffin</td><td>3-5</td><td>1-2</td><td>6</td><td>2</td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td>TonyCrocker</td><td>2-4</td><td>1-3</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>9</td></tr><tr><td>WillieWarren</td><td>8-16</td><td>3-6</td><td>3</td><td>3</td><td>23</td></tr><tr><td>Austin Johnson</td><td>1-5</td><td>0-2</td><td>3</td><td>0</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>T.J. Franklin</td><td>0-0</td><td>0-0</td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>OmarLeary</td><td>2-5</td><td>2-5</td><td>3</td><td>0</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td>JuanPattillo</td><td>4-10</td><td>0-0</td><td>6</td><td>1</td><td>15</td></tr><tr><td>OrlandoAllen</td><td>0-0</td><td>0-0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>CacleDavis</td><td>4-6</td><td>4-6</td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>12</td></tr><tr><td>BeauGerber</td><td>0-0</td><td>0-0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Team</td><td></td><td></td><td>4</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Total</td><td>24-52</td><td>11-24</td><td>33</td><td>10</td><td>78</td></tr></tbody></table>
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Date Opponent Result/Time
11/16 vs. UMKC W, 71-56
11/18 vs. Florida Gulf Coast W, 85-45
11/24 vs. Washington (in Kansas City, Mo.) W, 73-54
11/25 Syracuse (in Kansas City, Mo.) L, 89-81 (OT)
11/28 vs. Coppin State W, 85-53
12/1 vs. Kent State W, 87-60
12/3 vs. New Mexico State W, 100-79
12/6 vs. Jackson State W, 86-62
12/13 vs. Massachusetts (in Kansas City, Mo.) L, 61-60
12/20 vs. Temple W, 71-59
12/23 at Arizona L, 84-67
12/30 vs. Albany NY W, 79-43
1/03 vs. Tennessee W, 92-85
1/6 vs. Siena W, 91-84
1/10 at Michigan State L, 75-62
1/13 vs. Kansas State W, 87-71
1/17 at Colorado W, 73-56
1/19 vs. Texas A&M W, 73-53
1/24 at Iowa State W, 82-67
1/28 at Nebraska W, 68-62
1/31 vs. Colorado W, 66-61
2/2 at Baylor W, 75-65
2/7 vs. Oklahoma State W, 78-67
2/9 at Missouri L, 62-60
2/14 at Kansas State W, 85-74
2/18 vs. Iowa State W, 72-55
2/21 vs. Nebraska W, 70-53
2/23 at Oklahoma W, 87-78
3/1 vs. Missouri 1 p.m.
3/4 at Texas Tech 8:30 p.m.
3/7 vs. Texas 3 p.m.
MEN'S BASKET
Taylor plays best game yet against recruit who spurned the Jayhawks
BY TAYLOR BERN
tbern@kansan.com
Weston White/KANSAN
NORMAN, Okla. — Things could have been different in the Lloyd Noble Center Monday night.
Never mind the game. Last recruiting season, Kansas coach Bill Self was working hard to bring in Willie Warren to fill out his class.
It was a long process, and Warren kept delaying his decision.
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"Coach was recruiting him a lot and he was supposed to come here," Kansas freshman Tyshawn Taylor said. "Coach kind of hesitated on recruiting me because of him. I felt like I had something to prove."
Warren eventually spurred Kansas for Oklahoma, and Taylor, who originally committed to Marquette, was looking for a new school after Marquette coach Tom Cream left for Indiana. Taylor scheduled a visit to Lawrence but committed before taking it.
"We've been pretty fortunate." Self said of snapping Taylor.
Monday night, in the biggest game of the season, Taylor played what Self called the best game of his college career. Taylor scored a career-high 26 points, out-dueling Warren by three points and helping spur Kansas' crucial 16-0 run in the first half.
Taylor's second bucket in that stretch was a banked-in three-pointer.
Junior guard shannon Collins screams after hitting a three pointer. Freshman guard tshawn Taylor helped Collins lead the jayhawks to victory with a career-high 26 points.
During a three-minute stretch in the first half, Taylor scored 11 points to help turn a 22-8 deficit into a 23-22 lead.
Taylor averaged just 4.3 points in the Jayhawks' previous three games.
"Coach has been getting on me and I've been getting a little down on myself." Taylor said. "I just felt like today was one of the days when I needed to step up."
"I just kind of smiled because I knew Coach was probably going crazy." Taylor said. "That was the confidence booster I needed."
Self agreed that crazy shots like that tend to pump up a struggling player.
Taylor led all players with 16 points at halftime.
Taylor's steal and dunk 2.30 into the second half catapulted Kansas to its 20-point lead.
Taylor dunked so hard that he fell down after slamming it through.
Early in the season, it looked like Taylor would consistently be the third scoring option behind Collins and Cole Aldrich. That changed when he started rotating between games of 14 points and four.
"As a freshman you're going to have up and down games," Collins said. "He's on a roller coaster and right now he's just shooting back up."
It was the Collins show in the final minutes, but Taylor actually made Kansas' last field goal, a layup over 6-foot-7 forward Taylor Griffin, to put the Jayhawks up 80-71.
"He picked a good night to make shots," Self said.
Taylor was an efficient 8-of-13 from the floor and also dished out three assists.
on the court, but it had never translated into the kind of point production he had Monday night.
He had a big smile on his face for most of the game. Collins said he'd seen Taylor that happy
Long after the game, Taylor was still amazed when he reflected on the circumstances that put Warren at Oklahoma and himself atop the Big 12 standings.
"I wanted to come where I was going to be able to play," Taylor said. "I was kind of waiting on him to see what he was going to do. It just happened like this."
"Coach Self lucked out with me I guess."
- Edited by Melissa Johnson
Weston White/KANSAN
Sophomore center Cole Aldrich leaps to grab an offensive rebound over Oklahoma's Austin Johnson Monday night. Aldrich pulled down a career-high 20 rebounds, including five off the offensive glass. He also added in 15 points.
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Of course, Kansas may have never been in that position without Taylor. Oklahoma opened the game on a 22-8 tear. At that point, Collins gathered the team and told them not to let this one slip away.
Taylor must have listened. He made three three-point shots before the end of the half to finish the first 20 minutes with 16 points. Kansas went into the locker room with a 36-29 lead.
"I told him it was his game," Self said. "He was great. Tyshawn — best game he's had in college."
Self stopped right after that statement. He wondered aloud if it might have been Aldrich's best as well.
He also scored 15 points. But on a night where no other Jayhawk totaled more than three rebounds, Aldrichs 20 rebounds might have been the difference.
Aldrich crippled Oklahoma's offense by dominating the glass and getting nearly every loose ball around him.
"I knew I had a lot," Aldrich said. "I thought, Well, I'm going to
try to get every board I can.'
Of course, this might not have happened if Oklahoma forward Blake Griffin would have played. Griffin — the favorite to be named the national player of the year — averages 22 points and 14 rebounds per game and could have neutralized Aldrich inside.
Griffin sat out of the game with a concussion. Self admitted the jayhawks were at an advantage playing the "Blake-less" Sooners. But Aldrich wasn't so sure the outcome would have changed.
"With or without Blake, they're a great team," Aldrich said. "They showed that tonight."
No wonder Collins and Taylor didn't slow down once the game ended.
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With Collins, Aldrich and Taylor performing as they did Monday, Kansas can call itself a great team — one that's now at the top of the standings in the Big 12.
"We feel pretty good," Collins said.
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Edited by Casey Miles
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Sooner sophomore Blake Griffin had reached in Big 12 play in this year.
Freshman guard Tyshawn Taylor skies to samd down a dunk after grabbing his only steal against Oklahorma Monday night. Taylor helped the Jayhawks rebound from an early 14-point deficit by scoring 16 of his 26 points in the first half.
Though guards Taylor and Sherron Collins will steal hearts and headlines with their twin
26-point, three-assist performances, it was Aldrich's workhorse effort that perhaps played the biggest role in the Kansas victory.
DWYER (CONTINUED FROM 1B)
Oklahoma's rotation of posts
consisted of Taylor Griffin, Ryan Wright and Juan Pattillo. Those three combined for 19 rebounds.
That fact is staggering. Aldrich outrebounded the
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entire Oklahoma frontcourt.
Granted, Oklahoma was missing the consensus national player of the year in the younger Griffin brother, but that is nothing to take away* from Aldrich's performance.
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There is no question that Griffin would have gone out and gotten his, likely posting a double-double had he been at full health.
But Aldrich's performance was a tour de force of the abilities that have NBA scouts drooling at his potential, one that likely would have been slowed but not stopped had his counterpart come into the game.
After pulling down a then-career high 18 rebounds against Oklahoma State, Aldrich said it wore him out to grab that many boards. Imagine how tired he must be after 20.
To complement his glass- cleaning capabilities, Aldrich finished with 15 points for his third straight double-double and his 16th of the season.
Get some rest, Cole. You've earned it.
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IT WAS OVER WHEN ...
Oklahoma forward Juan Pattillo missed a dunk with 1:41 remaining. He went up from the left side and the rim rejected his one-handed attempt. That's when it became clear that the Sooners could not keep up with the blistering pace set by the Jayhawks. Markieff Morris grabbed the rebound on Pattillo's miss and pushed it up court to freshman guard Tyshawn Taylor. After a couple missed free throws, Taylor turned the gaffe into a layup. Kansas led 80-71 and it signaled the end of Oklahoma's comeback attempt.
GAME TO REMEMBER ...
Freshman guard Tyshawn Taylor
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Taylor carried the Jayhawks in the first half with his 16 points. They were down 22-8, before going on a 16-0 run that Taylor initiated and maintained. He got the run started with consecutive three-point shots — one a picturesque swish and the other an ugly bank job. He added a fast-freak layup and three free-throws before the end of the half, when Kansas led 36-29. Taylor finished with a career-high 26 points on 8-for-13 shooting and three assists.
GAME TO FORGET ...
Sophomore guard Brady Morningstar
All the things that have made Morningstar so valuable to the Jayhawks — persistent defense, timely three-point shooting and constant energy — were nowhere to be found at the Lloyd Noble Center. Morningstar started the game guarding Willie Warren and promptly let him score 10 points. Sherron Collins had to take over. Morningstar also limited his minutes in the second half by quickly picking up his fourth foul. Morningstar finished the game with two points on 0-for-3 shooting and four fouls.
Morningstar
M. GANARDI
STAT OF THE NIGHT ...
26. That's the number of points Taylor contributed. It's simple, but probably the best important figure of the night. No one expected a slumping Taylor to have that kind of impact. It drowned the Sooners.
- Case Keefer
FIRST HALF
PRIME PLAYS
11:35 — Oklahoma freshman Willie Warren put on a show in the first 10 minutes, scoring 10 points, including this three-pointer to beat the shot clock.
8:02 — Cole Aldrich hit a shot right before this, but Tyshawn Taylor's first three-pointer was the real catalyst in Kansas' 16-0 run.
0:02 — Did you really expect Tyrel Reed's off-balance three-pointer to do anything but fall through? Not if you've been following Prime Plays. Reed's three in the waning seconds of the first half made Kansas 9-1 in such situations in its last 10 games.
5:03 — Taylor banked in an other three-pointer, but his third trifecta was the most important, as it put the Jayhawks up 23-22. Taylor finished with 16 first-half points and Kansas took the lead and built it into a seven-point advantage at halftime.
SECOND HALF
7:42 — Oklahoma's Cade Davis, just a 34-percent three-point shooter, exploded in the second half. It started with a three-pointer to cut the Sooner deficit to nine.
2:29 — Sherron Collins capped his own game of "anything you can do" with Oklahoma by burying a deep three to put Kansas up 77-71. Collins finished with 22 second-half points.
3:36 Davis showed he's more than just a shooter when he blocked a shot, which led to an Omar Leary three to cut the lead to 71-68. Davis would finish with three big three-pointers, that block and one assist.
1:50 Oklahoma effectively lost the game when Juan Pattillo was stuffed by the rim on his dunk attempt. The Sooners were forced to foul the rest of the way and the Jayhawks made enough to keep the lead safe.
-Taylor Bern
GAME NOTES
POLL POSITION
After beating both Iowa State and Nebraska last week, Kansas moved only slightly in the ESPN/ USA Today Coaches Poll released Monday.
The coaches ranked the Jayhawks No.15 in the country, three spots ahead of their No. 18 ranking last week.Kansas remained the same in the Associated Press Poll at No.15.
Oklahoma moved down in both polls after a 73-68 defeat at Texas. The Sooners are ranked No.3 in the country in both polls after holding the No.2 spot last week.
COLLINS HONORED
Junior guard Sherron Collins shared Phillips 66 Big 12 Player of the Week honors for his performance last week.
Collins averaged 22 points and five assists in victories against Iowa State and Nebraska. James Anderson of Oklahoma State was the co-Player of the Week. Anderson helped the Cowboys defeat both Baylor and Texas Tech last week by averaging 22 points and 4.5 rebounds.
Oklahoma's Willie Warren took home Newcomer of the Week honors after scoring 27 points with six assists against Texas.
ESCAPING GRIFFIN AGAIN
Consider the Jayhawks lucky. For the second straight year, they played Oklahoma without Blake Griffin, who sat on the sideline in a collared shirt and jeans with a concussion.
Last year, Griffin only played five minutes against Kansas at Allen Fieldhouse. He left after injuring his knee. Kansas went on to win 85-55.
SPOTTED IN THE CROWD
Former Kansas standout Nick Collison watched the game behind the Kansas bench.
Collison played for Kansas from 2000-2003 and was an All-American his senior season.
He currently plays in the NBA for the Oklahoma City Thunder and averages eight points and seven rebounds per game this season.
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SWIMMING & DIVING
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2009
Diving deep with Jayhawks before Big 12 Championships
BY HALLIE MANN hmann@kansan.com
They use a trampoline, a tumbling mat and a harness system to practice. They aren't gymnasts, although some of them used to be; they are the divers on Kansas' swimming and diving team. Yes, they spend a lot of time jumping into the pool but that's not all there is to it.
THE GYMNAST TURNED DIVER
Junior Meghan Proehl was a gymnast for 12 years before she started diving. After spraining
some of the vertebrae in her neck when she was a freshman in high school, she turned to diving as an alternative.
Proehl said that being a gymnast made
PARKS & REHABILITATION
Proehl
the transition to diving easier than starting fresh as a diver.
"The hardest part was trying to train myself to land on my head instead of my feet." Prohl said.
The trampolines allow divers to practice doing twists and flips before trying them on the diving board, Proehl said. This type of practice creates "air awareness" of your position, which, Proehl said, is crucial to having confidence when doing a dive.
"My favorite dives are from the inward category," Proehl said. "You jump off the board backwards but you flip forward and it just looks and feels really cool."
THE THRILL-SEEKER
The divers compete at different heights and on different apparatuses at each meet; the 1-meter board,
McMacken
3-meter board and 7-meter platform. For senior Hannah McMacken the higher the platform, the better for dives and flips.
"I like the thrill of it and it
gives me an adrenaline rush to do more complex dives," McMacken said.
McMacken's favorite dive is a reverse two and a half off of the 3-meter board; it's two and half flips backwards. On the 7-meter platform it's a different story, McMacken said. The Kansas swimming and diving team practices at Robinson Natatorium, which doesn't have a 7-meter platform, making training and competing in this event more challenging.
"I don't get to practice until I actually get to a meet," McMacken said. "It's hard to do an event without getting to train for it. I just have to thrive off of adrenaline and hope for the best."
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THE REDSHIRT
The divers have been training all year for the chance to show off their moves at the Big 12 Conference Championships at the end of this week. Junior Allison Ho is just getting into the swing of practice again after redshirting last semester to study for the MCAT, but she said she felt confident going into the meet this week.
Ho said coach Eric Elliot was "not a slave driver or anything when it comes to training."
there's all that much pressure to perform perfectly for me," Ho said.
"There's not
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For Ho, the competitions are a way to practice and get back into training.
At the Iowa State meet, Ho got her only chance this season to dive in competition before the conference meet. Ho's hardest dive is a two and a half tuck off of the 3-meter board, and she plans to use it as part of her regular league at conference.
"For me it's going to be abou trying to stay calm and focused at the meet," He said. "I'm just glad to be making
something out of this season."
THE CONSISTENT ONE
Ho
Ho may have just jumped back into the pool at the end of the season, but the other divers have been striving to fine tune and practice
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their dives as much as possible before conference and NCAA championships. Sophomore Erin Mertz said that consistency can be the difference between winning and losing an event.
Mertz
"I'm trying to focus on technique and stay positive going into this meet," Mertz said.
Mertz said that the team has been focusing on repetition a lot more than it did earlier in the season. Mertz added a reverse two-and-a half twister dive to her routine during winter break and plans on using it for these last meets. This dive is two and a half twists and one and a half flips all before hitting
"Aat me I usually listen to music and just hang out with the other divers," Mertz said. "I just need to not over think things before I dive."
ter.
Mertz was named the winner of the Winter Community of Champions award, given by the Big 12 Conference and Chick-fil-A restaurants for her work with Kansas Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and the Special Olympics.
THE COACH
Coach Elliott said the team was ready to go in competition and had performed well throughout the season. During this last week before the conference championships the divers will taper their training and work on getting out any problems in their routines.
"We had some really great performances early on in the season and now we're just trying to work on fine tuning our skills." Elliott said.
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Championships at their first meet. The divers will go to Zone after Big 12 Conference Championships to try to qualify for the NCAA Championships.
Elliott
"We're in a really tough zone," Elliott said. "We just need to get mentally prepared for this level of competition."
After a season of training, the divers make their way into the "championship" part of the season. The four girls who make up the diving squad will not only be competing for points toward the team score, but also trying to beat their own scores from previous meets. At conference they will have to face tough teams like Texas and Missouri but the team and the coach said they were confident about this meet.
"We can hang with any of them." Elliott said.
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Meghan Proehl
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Woods expects to make strong comeback from injury
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Tiger Woods returns to golf this week to begin making his case for the one award he never dreamed he'd contend for: PGA Tour comeback player of the year.
Great. As if Woods wasn't intimidating before, the man who had everything — 14 majors, a Swedish bikini-model wife, a daughter, 155-foot yacht, two homes and a palace under construction on Jupiter Island — now has plenty of other things to play for.
Since limping off the 91st and final hole after winning the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines last June, Woods has gained a son, lost a sponsor, undergone reconstructive surgery on a chronically aching left knee and been reminded nearly every day how much the game is suffering without him.
"One of the great things coming back," he said last week, announcing the Accenture Match Play
Championship in Tucson would mark his 2009 debut, "is my bones aren't moving anymore.
"It's a very comforting feeling hitting a golf ball without your bones sliding all over the place," Woods added. "That's been very exciting to play that way, and I'm looking forward to the season."
Woods has been called golf's one man, economic-stimulus package, but how much he pockets, let alone the windfall he brings everybody else, was never much of a motivation. The only standard Woods measures himself against is himself, and the eight months off has made it easy to forget just how good he was.
Playing on one good leg essentially since he ruptured the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee jogging at home after the 2007 British Open. Woods was on his longest ever sustained run of excellence. From that day in August through
The four years he invested with instructor Hank Haney were just beginning to pay the huge dividends they both envisioned. Woods' understanding of his own golf swing, always a strength, had reached the point where he was confident enough to make adjustments in the middle of a round, even between shots if he desired. He'd already dialed up his short game, throttled back his swing to take pressure off the knee and still was hitting the ball more consistently than ever.
the U.S. Open, he won nine times in 12 official tournaments around the world and finished no worse than fifth in the other three.
Woods still has all that, plus a full range of motion again and a new driver to boot.
"Expectations with him are off the chart," Haney said. "You would think that people would cut him a little slack for a couple of weeks. But I'm sure it will start right in."
The story of young Tiger taping a list of Jack Nicklaus' accomplishments to his bedroom wall, and then beating him to every one, is well known. In that sense, Woods is a victim of his own success. He wouldn't have it any other way. So much so that Woods did little to dampen speculation that he would pick up right where he left off.
"I'm as curious as you. Getting out and competing again, I haven't done that in a while. Hopefully, I can get into the flow of the round very quickly," he told reporters.
Granted, coming back for a match-play event seems to provide a cushion. On the other hand, Woods could wind up playing 126 holes during the week, and as many as 72 on the weekend if he goes all the way to the finale.
"I'd like to have that problem," he laughed, then turned serious a moment later and made clear he fully expected to.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 24, 2000
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2009
SPORTS
7B
BASEBALL
Kansas to play No.21 Arkansas today
Kansas scouting report
Kansas had an up-and- down weekend to open the season, at best. After a brilliant
perform-
ance
from junior
starter
Shaefer Hall to no-hit Air
Force as the Jayhawks
blanketed the Falcons
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5-0, Kansas dropped the next two games of the weekend to Memphis.
In each game, the starters, sophomore T.J. Walz and junior Cameron Selik, pitched exceptionally well. Certainly good enough for victories, but
the Kansas offense and bullpen failed them. Senior closer Paul Smyth blew a 2 run lead in the bottom of the ninth, and
P
Smyth
the Jayhawk three and four hitters in the lineup, struck out with runners in scoring position.
Against the Razorbacks, the Jayhawks will turn to freshman phenom Lee Ridenhour. Price raved in the preseason about
the arm of
the arm of
Ridhuren,
who will
have his
work cut
out for
him with a
dangerous
Arkansas
lineup.
Ridenhour
PARKS
Junior
infelders Robby Price and David Narodowski must be able to step out of their funk and put up some numbers against a struggling Arkansas
rotation as both hitters are hitting a mediocre .200.
Luckily the bottom of the order has produced
FANGO
exceptionally for Kansas, with sophomore third baseman Tony Thompson leading the team in hitting and RBI.
Thompson
Josh Bowe
Young Jayhawks expect a difficult playing environment in Fayetteville
BY JOSHBOWE
jbowe@kansan.com
For a team full of freshmen, Kansas is either in for a rude awakening or a promising surprise today.
The Jayhawks travel to Fayetteville, Ark., to face off against the No. 21 Arkansas Razorbacks at 3 p.m today. Coach Ritch Price had very fond words to say for the Arkansas program, but he expects a difficult playing environment.
"It's an incredible environment to play in, they play in one of the nicest stadiums in America," Price said.
Price also expects his freshman and other young players to grow in one form or another, good or bad. A lot of players on the current roster haven't experienced an atmosphere that the Razorback faithful can provide.
"It's a great environment for our freshmen to go, because they are going to step into an environment they've never seen in their life," Price said. "Their fans are on you."
top pitcher in this season's freshmen class, will start tonight. Price said he expected Ridenhour to be nervous.
"We need him to do the same thing that we got from all three guys this weekend," Price said. "Hopefully he can get through the first couple of innings and let the nerves settle down and pitch well."
Freshman Lee Ridenhour, the
HALL NAMED BIG 12
PITCHER OF THE WEEK
After pitching in easily the best game of his career, junior Shaeffer Hall is now reaping the rewards of such a historic performance.
Hall was named the Big 12 Pitcher of the Week for the week of Feb. 23rd. He is the first Kansas pitcher to win the award since 2006. Hall's complete no-hit game was only the fifth individual no-hitter in Kansas history and the first in almost 30 years.
Hall is accompanied by Texas A&M third baseman Caleb Shofner in the conference's weekly awards.
— Edited by Susan Melgren
Arkansas, who swept the Washington State Cougars
Arkansas scouting report
in their
Darr
Monday.
Senior outfielder Andrew Darr led the Razorbacks in the weekend with two game-winning hits, one a 10th inning walk-off home run, the other on a squeeze play.
Even with all that, he may not have been Arkansas' top hitter of the weekend. Sopho
Darr's glove also made a difference—in the half-inning before his walk-off he climbed the wall to take away what would have been a go-ahead home run for the Cougars. On the season Darr is hitting .300 with three RBIs, a double to go along with his home run and a .700 slugging percentage.
more infelder Andy Wilkins,
who last year started 35 of the
team's 40 games as a freshman, led
the team
with a .444
average
and a .615
on-base
percentage.
His one
home run
and three
RBIs tied
Wilkins
him for the team lead with Darr.
Senior pitcher Justin Wells played a huge role for the Razor-backs in silencing
Wells
Washington State's bats. He picked up a win and a save while allowing only one hit in 2 appearances and 4.2 innings of work.
Tim Dwyer
MLB
Steroids a concern as spring training starts u
JUPITER, Fla. — Baseball union head Donald Fehr began his annual tour of spring training camps Monday with steroids back in the spotlight.
"Everybody understands that there were things which happened in the early part of the decade which we wish hadn't, that that's not the case anymore," Fehr said after meeting with Florida Marlins players.
"We fixed the problem and we need to look forward, as Bud has said many times," he said.
Fehr said he didn't think commissioner Bud Selig will take disciplinary action against Alex Rodriguez, who admitted Feb. 9 that he used a banned substance from 2001 to 2003. Rodriguez confessed two days after Sports illustrated reported he was on a list of 104 players who tested positive in the 2003 survey. Selig said Rodriguez shamed the sport
Testing in 2003 was to be confidential. Fehr rejected the
suggestion all players in 2003 are under suspicion because 104 of them tested positive.
"If that's the judgment, it seems to me that is entirely wrong." Fehr said. "We know what happened in 2003. The number of positives we had was slightly over 5 percent. That means that slightly over 94 percent was negative."
Pitchers Curt Schilling and Brad Lidge are among those who have said all 104 players should be identified, but Fehr said the union will try to ensure the list of names remains confidential.
Tulowitzki comes back, hopes to lead for Rockies
TUCSON, Ariz. — After a scorching rookie season and a sophomore slump, Troy Tulowitzi wants to emerge this year as a leader in the Colorado Rockies clubhouse.
"I want the guys to look at me in this locker room and say, 'He has that leader mentality and he is a good player because he works his butt off and takes this game seriously.' "Tulowitzki said.
Two years ago, the shortstop didn't even know he was going to
make the club until the final few days of spring training.
He went on to play a pivotal role in getting the team into the World Series, leading all National League rookies in at bats (609), plate appearances (678), games (155), hits (177), doubles (33), runs (104), total bases (292), walks (57) and RBIs (99).
He also became a vocal leader in the dugout, manger Clint Hurdle said.
"He picked some times where he became vocal and then backed it up." Hurdle said.
After getting a 6-year, $31 million contract in the offseason, Tulowitzki got off to a feeble start in 2008.
He lost another 13 games after he slammed his bat to the ground in a June game and it shattered, operating his right hand.
BIG 12 WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Texas A&M narrowly defeats Oklahoma in last six seconds
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The Sooners'loss ended a 20-game winning streak
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Texas A&M's Takia Starks hit a layup in the lane with 6 seconds left to lead No. 12 Texas A&M to a 57-5 win over second-ranked Oklahoma on Monday night, ending the Sooners' 20-game winning streak.
Texas A&M's Takia Starks shoots the go-ahead basket over Oklahoma's Danielle Robinson (left) and Nyssa Stevenson during a women's college basketball game Monday in College Station, Texas. Texas A&M womens 57-26.
The Aggies (21-5, 9-4 Big 12) trailed by one before Starks got the ball at the top of the key and drove into the lane for the winner.
She also had a long jumper with 2 minutes left to get Texas A&M within striking distance.
The Sooners, who had a season-high 29 turnovers, scored 10 straight points to take a 56-53 lead with $3\frac{1}{2}$ minutes remaining.
Oklahoma (24-3, 12-1) led by 14 points in the second half before Texas A&M went on a run that gave the Aggies a seven-point lead with eight minutes left.
It's Oklahoma's first loss since falling at No.1 Connecticut on Nov.30.
Texas A&M got 18 points from Tanisha Smith and Starks finished with 12. The Sooners were led by Danielle Robinson's 17 points.
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RALEIGH, N.C. - Italee Lucas scored 16 points to help No.9 North Carolina beat North Carolina State.
Cetera DeGraffrenreid and Jessica Breland each added 14 for the Tar Heels (24-4, 9-3 Atlantic Coast Conference), who won their third straight overall and extended their
North Carolina ran out to an early double-digit lead and never trailed to earn its 17th win in 19 meetings.
recent dominance against their nearby rival.
The Tar Heels led by as many as 19 in the second half.
Freshman Bonae Holston turned
in a second strong performance against the Tar Heels, finishing with 15 points to lead the Wolfpack (12-15, 4-8).
But leading scorer Shayla Fields struggled all night, while the Wollpack shot just 31 percent from the field and 2-for-15 from 3-point range.
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Kevin Walter, Glathe freshman, and Jeremy Denham, Reeds Spring, Mo., senior, rehearse Sunday night at Murphy Hall for KU's new Winter Drummel. The group, which is made up of 25 drummers, gives marching band members a way to practice during the spring, as well as provides an opportunity for those who are not in the band to be part of a drummel. Winter Drummel performs at athletic events, as well as private functions.
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Drumline keeps rhythm flowing
BY JENNIFERTORLINE
jtorline@kansan.com
When the Marching layhawks marched off the field after the Insight Bowl in December, some members weren't quite ready for the marching season to end. They decided to form a new group to keep the music going during the offseason.
The group is called Winter Drumline and its members practice and perform during the spring semester to stay in musical shape,
"We play for gigs and for ourselves," said Andy Jackson, Overland Park sophomore and snare drum player. "It's a cool time to do things we don't get to do in the fall."
Greg Haynes, Atlanta graduate
student and drumline instructor, said that the indoor group was working on incorporating electronic music into its performances and that the Winter Drumline's music would be different from that of the Marching Jawhaws drumline.
"Instead of playing music that accompanies the rest of the band, a lot of the music for the drummie can stand on its own," said Haynes, who writes the music for both drumlines. "We have a little more freedom to explore different performances."
Jackson said the idea for Winter Drumline came last March after the KU Drumline was invited to play at the Keith Urban concert at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo. The drummers needed a way to keep practicing as a group in
case a similar opportunity arbse.
"We thought it would be the perfect opportunity to start something at KU to sustain and recruit
ship and to do something different and separate from what we as part of the Marching Jay a w k s," Haynes said.
Although many of the 25
"We just get together and play drums for the fun of playing drums."
members of the Winter Drumline also play for the Marching Jayhawks, Haynes said the Winter Drumline was open to any drummer.
Alex Churn, Overland Park junior and bass drum player, said
ALEX CHURN
Bass drum player
the Winter Drumline gave students the opportunity to play on a drumline that didn't require the intense time commitment of
marching band. The Marching Jayhawks practice five days per week, but the Winter Drumline practices for one hour on Sundays.
"There's not really any pressure and that's pretty cool."
"We just get together and play drums for the fun of playing drums." Churn said.
The Winter Drumline recently performed at the Hawks, Cops and Kids event at Robinson Health Center, put together by local police officers and the Athletics
Department.
The drumline will also play at the end of the KU Percussion Ensemble performance on March 4 in 130 Murphy Hall and at the men's basketball game against Texas on March 7.
In the next few years, Haynes said he could see the drumline eventually moving into competing with other drummles.
Haynes said the Winter Drumline would continue to rehearse and perform until late spring or early summer, when auditions for the marching season begin.
For more information about the Winter Drumline, visit www. kansasdrumline.com.
Edited by Chris Hickerson
HEALTH
Students find ways to manage their stress
BY MICOLE ARONOWITZ maronowitz@kansan.com
Every night before Brooke Gibbs goes to sleep, she writes.
Her writings consist of reflections from her day and serve as a way for her to translate her emotions on paper.
According to a book published in 2006 titled "Stress and Mental Health of College Students," the American College Health Association reported college students had named stress as the primary factor affecting their academic lives.
Gibbs, Arkansas City senior, said daily writing was a way for her to process her thoughts. She said consistent writing helped her manage her stress.
"Every time I do it, if I'm stressed, I'll end up feeling a lot better," Gibbs said. "It's benefited me because I always try and find ways to be thankful for what I have. At the end of the day, everything is not so bad and the stress kind of melts away."
John C. Wade, outreach coordinator and licensed counseling psychologist for Counseling and Psychological Services, said the most common sources of stress for students were academics, finances and relationships. He said prolonged stress weakened people's immune systems and made them more susceptible to illness.
Wade said research showed that having a reliable social support system was a factor in handling stress effectively.
"One of the points I would emphasize is that it's not about trying to avoid stress," Wade said. "We will experience stress at times because life has stress, but it is important to be able to manage it well."
Abby Cunningham, Topeka senior, notices she is more relaxed after she spends time in the kitchen. Her specialty is cupcakes, but she
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Nursing school faces faculty shortage
Budget problems, increased admissions lead to fewer instructors and tougher enrollment
BY MICHELLE SPREHE
msprehe@kansan.com
msprehe@kansan.com
Hospitals across the nation are experiencing shortages of nurses, but the cause could lie in a shortage of nursing school instructors.
Cynthia Teel, associate dean for the graduate nursing program, said she recognized that the shortages could cause significant problems.
As the majority of teachers across the country will retire within the next 10 years, the KU School of Nursing is preparing graduate students to not only practice, but also fill the empty teaching positions.
toral degree," Teel said. "That's been difficult to enroll students in those because we don't have enough faculty members. So we're worsening our own already challenging problem."
"To be faculty, you really need to have a graduate, masters or doc-
"That's been difficult to enroll students in those because we don't have enough faculty members."
Christina Waggoner, Overland Park junior, has been in the school
CYNTHIA TEEL
Associate dean of nursing
The school is
dealing with a significant budget shortfall, which is affecting its ability to hire new faculty, Teel said.
for one semester. She said her teachers didn't emphasize the faculty shortage as much as the general shortage of nurses.
But students are interested in practicing rather than teaching. Enrollment for the school increased by 126 percent from
"An abundance would not really be as important as having a
12 percent from 2004 to 2008, Teel said.
few really good, available nursing teachers," Waggoner said.
The average salary of a nurse practitioner with a master's degree is about $81,500, and the average salary of a nursing teacher with the same degree is about $73,500. Teel said.
"When we're in a stressed economic market where people are losing their jobs, that salary difference is significant." Teel said.
Kadee Treadwell, Olathe freshman, decided she wanted to be a
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Andrea D'Achiardi, Shawnee junior, practices on a mannequin during a skills lab in the School of Nursing at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Nurses are still in high demand, but the Med Center may have to reduce enrollment if proposed budget cuts happen.
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THE INVISITORY DARRY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2009
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace."
— Victor Hugo
FACT OF THE DAY
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1. Bishop expelled from Argentina after scuffle
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — A British bishop whose denial of the Holocaust embroiled the pope in controversy was expelled from Argentina Tuesday after scuffling with a reporter at the airport.
A local television station showed Richard Williamson raising his fist and shoving a reporter into a pole as he hurried to catch a flight for London.
Argentina's government on Thursday ordered the traditionalist Catholic bishop to leave the country or face expulsion for failing to declare a job change as required by immigration law. The order also cited his denial of the Holocaust.
2. African immigrants drown off Yemen coast
GENEVA — Six African migrants drowned and 11 more are presumed dead after smugglers in the Gulf of Aden forced their passengers overboard in deep water off Yemen, the U.N. refugee agency reported Tuesday.
A smuggling boat was carrying
40 Somalis and 12 Ethiopians when it approached Yemen's coast on Friday, said Ron Redmond, spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. But smugglers noticed Yemeni police onshore and panicked, forcing the passengers overboard in deep water, he said.
3. Blast kills one, injures 24 others in Cairo bazaar
Redmond said 35 passengers were able to make it safely to shore, while authorities have recovered six bodies.
CAIRO — The French teenagers had finished a day touring Cairo's 650-year-old Khan el-Khalili bazaar, gathering in its main square to board a bus back to their hotel. Then the blast went off.
The explosion killed a 17-year-old girl with the group and wounded 24 other people, most of them fellow students. According to the government account released Monday, a bomb had been planted underneath a stone bench on which the girl was sitting.
The Sunday night blast was the first attack in three years targeting foreigners in Egypt.
NATIONAL
4. Company accused of not sterilizing syringes
RALEIGH, N.C. — A North Carolina company is accused of bypassing sterilization tests for medical syringes in a cost-cutting move prosecutors say sickened hundreds of patients and led to five deaths.
U. S. Attorney George Holding said Tuesday that federal authorities have launched an international search for the executive charged with rushing shipments of bacteria contaminated syringes from an AM2PAT Inc. plant. Two former plant workers who provided prosecutors details about the plant's operations have pleaded guilty for their roles in shipping tainted syringes.
The syringes contained Heparin, a blood thinner, and saline, and were recalled in December 2007 after an outbreak of illnesses. Health inspectors identified bacterial infections in Colorado, Texas, Illinois and Florida.
5. Mistrial declared in trial of vigilante mayor
the case of Mayor Frank Melton, accused of leading a sledgehammer attack on a duplex he suspected was a crack house.
JACKSON, Miss. — A judge declared a mistrial Tuesday in
Jurors told U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III they were hopelessly deadlocked after five days of deliberations.
They arrived at the same conclusion last Thursday, but Jordan told them to keep trying.
"The mayor has lived to fight another day," Melton attorney John Reeves told reporters.
6. German company ordered to pay restitution
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Jurors ordered the German-based pharmaceutical company Sandoz Inc. on Tuesday to pay Alabama $78.4 million for causing the state Medicaid program to pay too much for prescription drugs from 1991 to 2005.
The jury ordered Sandoz, a subsidiary of Novartis AG, to pay $28.4 million to compensate that Medicaid program for its losses and another $50 million in punitive damages. Jurors took about four hours over two days to return a verdict.
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"I feel that by listening to music, I am learning and becoming a better person, because I am looking at aspects of life and
The first 10 songs on shuffle on her iPod:
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1. "That's So You" by The Rocket Summer
2. "Cold Shot" by Stevie Ray Vaughn
3. "Australia" by The Shins
4. "When I Get Home" by The Beatles
5. "Tried" by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
6. "Loud Pipes" by Ratatat
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8. "Promise to You, Girl" by Paul McCartney
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AWARDS KU journalism students win two more Hearst awards
"It was a lot of work tracking the players down," Dodd said, "It's cool that a judge somewhere out there saw that and liked it."
The Hearst Journalism Awards Program announced top prizes for two Kansas journalism students on Monday, the fifth and sixth University Daily Kansan staff members to win awards from the national program this year.
Rustin Dodd, Overland Park se
nior, won first place in sportswriting for "For the love of the game," his April 28, 2008, article about former Kansas basketball players and their efforts to continue their professional basketball careers outside the NBA.
Mark Dent, Overland Park
senior, won fifth place in sports writing for his Jan. 23, 2008, article "Articles with children." it focused on the challenges faced by athletes who double as parents and the regulations that prevent them from receiving certain financial assistance.
Ted Frederickson, professor of journalism, said Dodd's and Dent's articles were outstanding because they covered issues
rather than events.
"This was a championship year for both KU basketball and the Kansan sportswriters who covered KU sports," Frederickson said. "And Rustin and Mark were two of our best sportswriters."
The School of Journalism is in first place in the intercollegiate competition for outstanding college journalism this year, said Yasi Haerizadeh, program assistant with the Hearst awards.
Personality/profile and spot news are the final two writing categories left to be judged in the overall competition.
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The "Geography of Kansas: What Dorothy Didn't Know About a Place Called Home" seminar will begin at 7 p.m. in the Continuing Education building.
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The "Eating Disorder Awareness Week Movie Night" student group event will begin at 7 p.m. in the Big 12 Room in the Kansas Union.
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Student will face one charge of animal cruelty as evidence is presented in April
BY RYAN MCGEENEY AND
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Cem Basoflas, Istanbul, Turkey, sophomore, appeared in Douglas County District Court on Tuesday afternoon before Division I Judge Robert Fairchild on one charge of animal cruelty.
Basoflas' lawyer, Sara Swain, requested that a preliminary hearing,
Cem Basoflas, Istanbul, Turkey, sophomore, appears in Douglas County District Court on Tuesday afternoon on one charge of animal cruelty. Although Basoflas attorney, Sarah Swain, requested that Basoflas' right to a preliminary hearing be waived, Douglas County prosecutor Michael Allen objected, and the preliminary hearing was scheduled for 1:30 p.m. on April 6.
in which evidence would be presented to the court, be waived. But Douglas County prosecutor Michael Allen insisted that the court pursue the preliminary hearing, and Judge Fairchild agreed. Basoflas' preliminary hearing is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. on April 6.
Had the preliminary hearing been waived, the case most likely would have proceeded directly to trial, according to the Douglas County District Attorney's office.
Swain also suggested that the preliminary hearing be moved to a special setting outside the Douglas County Courthouse, but Fairchild declined.
Several members of the board of the Lawrence Humane Society who attended Tuesday's hearing said they were glad the preliminary hearing had not been waived.
"I'm pleased that there will be a preliminary hearing and that this atrocious evidence will come out," said Debbie Smith, a member of the humane society's board. "He should not go unpunished."
Midge Grinstead, director of the humane society, said the importance of the preliminary hearing was the public airing of evidence.
"When we did the necropes with the vet, it was traumatical," Grinstead said. "And that's what will come out."
She added that the current charge was "nothing compared to what he did. People will not want to hear it. Two of my board members brought ear plugs today, because they were afraid they were going to tell the evidence. It's horrible."
his southwest Lawrence apartment since May 2008, after Basolas returned a cat with a broken bone and other problems. He had adopted the cat from the shelter. In August, the shelter allowed Basolas to adopt a second cat, which he later returned with nine fractured ribs and a broken sternum, Grinstead said.
Grinstead said the humane society had been observing Bassofas at
"For a cat to break a sternum — I don't see that unless a car runs them over." Grinstead said. "It's pretty severe."
The humane society is involved in all animal cruelty and neglect investigations in Douglas County, Grinstead said, and typically investigates about 500 cases each year. Grinstead said 18 cases were prosecuted out of all such investigations in 2008.
Edited by Brandy Entsminger
GOVERNMENT
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President Barack Obama addresses a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday.
Obama reassures nation in face of financial crisis
BY JENNIFER LOVEN
Associated Press
"The time to take charge of our future is here," Obama declared, delivering his first address to a joint session of Congress.
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama promised a nation shuddering in economic crisis Tuesday night that he would lead it from a dire "day of reckoning" to a brighter future, summoning politicians and public alike to shoulder responsibility for hard choices and shared sacrifice.
Offering words of reassurance to an anxious nation, he declared, "Tonight I want every American to know this: We will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before."
"We are a nation that has seen promise and peril," he said. "Now we must be that nation again."
Cheered robustly as he entered the House chamber, Obama grinned, shook hands and kissed lawmakers and stopped for a lengthy embrace with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, back on the bench only this week after surgery for pancreatic cancer.
To deal with the current crisis, deepening each day, the president said more money would be needed to rescue troubled banks beyond the $700 billion already committed last year. He said he knew that bailout billions for banks are unpopular — "I promise you, I get it," he said but he also insisted that was the only way to get credit moving again to households and businesses, the life-blood of the American economy.
Along with aid for banks, he also called on Congress to move quickly on legislation to overhaul outdated regulations on the nation's financial markets.
"I ask this Congress to join me in doing whatever proves necessary," Obama said. "Because we cannot consign our nation to an open-ended recession."
Thinking longer-term, Obama said in a speech lacking many specifics and devoid of initiatives that both political parties must give up favored programs while uniting behind his campaign promises to build better schools, expand health care coverage and move the nation to "greener" fuel use.
Just five weeks after his inauguration, Obama addressed an ebullent Democratic congressional majority and an embattled but reinvigorated GOP minority as well as millions of anxious viewers. Despite the nation's economic worries and the lack of support for his plans from all but a few Republican lawmakers. Obama enjoys strong approval ratings across the nation.
exhorted fellow Republicans to be Obama's "strongest partners" when they agree with him. But he signaled that won't happen much, calling Democrats in Congress "irresponsible" for passing the $727 billion
Louisiana's young, charismatic governor, Bobby Jindal, delivering the televised GOP response.
"The way to lead is not to raise taxes and put more money and power in hands of Washington politicians," Jindal said, according to excerpts of his remarks released by the Republican Party. "Who among us would ask our children for a loan, so we could spend money we do not have, on things we do not need?"
stimulus package that Republicans have criticized as excessive and wasteful.
Obama spoke as bad economic news continued to pile up, felt all too keenly in U.S. homes and businesses. Some 3.6 million jobs have disappeared so far in the deepening recession, which now ranks as the biggest job destroyer in the post-World War II period. Americans have lost trillions of dollars in retirement, college and savings accounts, with the stock market falling nearly half from its peak of
And new polls — some with his public support rising and others with it dropping — show that the political climate can be as precarious as the economic one. Aware that his and his party's fortunes will suffer if he cannot right the economic picture, Obama sought to blend the kind of grim honesty that has become his trademark since taking office with a greater emphasis on optimism.
16 months ago.
"The weight of this crisis will not determine the destiny of this nation," he said.
Jindal is considered a likely presidential contender in 2012.
"The weight of this crisis will not determine the destiny of this nation."
The central argument of his speech was that his still-unfolding economic revival plan has room for—and even demands—simultaneous action on a broad, expensive
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agenda including helping the millions without health insurance, improving education and switching the U.S. to greater dependence on alternative energy sources. This is the big lift of his young presidency;
His hope was to begin to persuade the country that those long-term items on his presidential agenda are as important to the nation's economic well-being as unchoking credit and turning around unemployment numbers.
bringing the public behind what are sure to be enormous outlays on contentious issues.
"The only way this century will be another American century is if we confront at last the price of our dependence on oil and the high cost of health care, the schools that aren't preparing our children and the mountain of debt they stand to inherit," Obama said. "That is our responsibility."
New in office, he wasn't charged with producing a formal State of the Union status report.
But that's what it was: a night for the president to sketch out his priorities in a setting unmatched the rest of the year.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — A British bishop whose denial of the Holocaust embroiled the pope in controversy was expelled from Argentina Tuesday after scuffling with a reporter at the airport.
A local television station showed Richard Williamson raising his fist and shoving a reporter into a pole as he hurried to catch a flight for London.
Argentina's government on Thursday ordered the traditionalist Catholic bishop to leave the country or face expulsion for failing to declare a job change as required by immigration law. The order also cited his denial of the Holocaust.
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GENEVA — Six African migrants drowned and 11 more are presumed dead after smugglers in the Gulf of Aden forced their passengers overboard in deep water off Yemen, the U.N. refugee agency reported Tuesday.
40 Somalis and 12 Ethiopians when it approached Yemen's coast on Friday, said Ron Redmond, spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. But smugglers noticed Yemeni police onshore and panicked, forcing the passengers overboard in deep water, he said.
Redmond said 35 passengers were able to make it safely to shore, while authorities have recovered six bodies.
3. Blast kills one, injures 24 others in Cairo bazaar
CAIRO — The French teenagers had finished a day touring Cairo's 650-year-old Khan el-Khaliil bazaar, gathering in its main square to board a bus back to their hotel. Then the blast went off.
The explosion killed a 17-year old girl with the group and wounded 24 other people, most of them fellow students. According to the government account released Monday, a bomb had been planted underneath a stone bench on which the girl was sitting.
The Sunday night blast was the first attack in three years targeting foreigners in Egypt.
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RALEIGH, N.C. — A North Carolina company is accused of bypassing sterilization tests for medical syringes in a cost-cutting move prosecutors say sickened hundreds of patients and led to five deaths.
U. S. Attorney George Holding said Tuesday that federal authorities have launched an international search for the executive charged with rushing shipments of bacteria contaminated syringes from an AM2PAT Inc. plant. Two former plant workers who provided prosecutors details about the plant's operations have pleaded guilty for their roles in shipping tainted syringes.
The syringes contained Heparin, a blood thinner, and saline, and were recalled in December 2007 after an outbreak of illnesses. Health inspectors identified bacterial infections in Colorado, Texas, Illinois and Florida.
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5. Mistrial declared in trial of vigilante mayor
the case of Mayor Frank Melton, accused of leading a sledgehammer attack on a duplex he suspected was a crack house.
Jurors told U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III they were hopelessly deadlocked after five days of deliberations.
They arrived at the same conclusion last Thursday, but Jordan told them to keep trying.
"The mayor has lived to fight another day," Melton attorney John Reeves told reporters.
6. German company ordered to pay restitution
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Jurors ordered the German-based pharmaceutical company Sandoz Inc. on Tuesday to pay Alabama $78.4 million for causing the state Medicaid program to pay too much for prescription drugs from 1991 to 2005.
The jury ordered Sandoz, a subsidiary of Novartis AG, to pay $28.4 million to compensate that Medicaid program for its losses and another $50 million in punitive damages. Jurors took about four hours over two days to return a verdict.
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"It was a lot of work tracking the players down," Dodd said. "It's cool that a judge somewhere out there saw that and liked it."
The Hearst Journalism Awards Program announced top prizes for two Kansas journalism students on Monday, the fifth and sixth University Daily Kansan staff members to win awards from the national program this year.
Rustin Dodd, Overland Park senior, won first place in sportswitting for "For the love of the game," his April 28, 2008, article about former Kansas basketball players and their efforts to continue their professional basketball careers outside the NBA.
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senior, won fifth place in sports writing for his Jan. 23, 2008, article "Athletes with children." It focused on the challenges faced by athletes who double as parents and the regulations that prevent them from receiving certain financial assistance
rather than events.
"This was a championship year for both KU basketball and the Kansan sportswriters who covered KU sports," Frederickson said. "And Rustin and Mark were two of our best sportswriters."
The School of Journalism is in first place in the intercollegiate competition for outstanding college journalism this year, said Yasi Haerizadeh, program assistant with the Hearst awards.
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Cem Basoflas, Istanbul, Turkey, sophomore, appeared in Douglas County District Court on Tuesday afternoon before Division I Judge Robert Fairchild on one charge of animal cruelty.
Basoflas' lawyer, Sara Swain, requested that a preliminary hearing,
Cem Basoflas, Istanbul, Turkey, sophomore, appears in Douglas County District Court on Tuesday afternoon on one charge of animal cruelty. Although Basoflas attorney, Sarah Swain, requested that Basoflas' right to a preliminary hearing be waived, Douglas County prosecutor Michael Allen objected, and the preliminary hearing was scheduled for 1:30 p.m. on April 6.
in which evidence would be presented to the court, be waived. But Douglas County prosecutor Michael Allen insisted that the court pursue the preliminary hearing, and Judge Fairchild agreed Basoflas' preliminary hearing is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. on April 6.
Had the preliminary hearing been waived, the case most likely would have proceeded directly to trial, according to the Douglas County District Attorney's office.
Swain also suggested that the preliminary hearing be moved to a special setting outside the Douglas County Courthouse, but Fairchild declined.
Several members of the board of the Lawrence Humane Society who attended Tuesday's hearing said they were glad the preliminary hearing had not been waived.
"I'm pleased that there will be a preliminary hearing and that this atrocious evidence will come out," said Debbie Smith, a member of the human society's board. "He should not go unpunished."
Midge Grinstead, director of the humane society, said the importance of the preliminary hearing was the public airing of evidence.
"When we did the necropsies with the vet, it was traumatic," Grinstead said. "And that's what will come out."
She added that the current charge was "nothing compared to what he did. People will not want to hear it. Two of my board members brought ear plugs today, because they were afraid they were going to tell the evidence it's horrible."
Grinstead said the humane society had been observing Basilas at
his southwest Lawrence apartment since May 2008, after Basofasl returned a cat with a broken bone and other problems. He had adopted the cat from the shelter. In August, the shelter allowed Basofasl to adopt a second cat, which he later returned with nine fractured ribs and a broken sternum, Grinstead said.
"For a cat to break a sternum — I don't see that unless a car runs them over," Grinstead said. "It's pretty severe."
The humane society is involved in all animal cruelty and neglect investigations in Douglas County, Grinstead said, and typically investigates about 500 cases each year. Grinstead said 18 cases were prosecuted out of all such investigations in 2008.
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President Barack Obama addresses a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday.
Obama reassures nation in face of financial crisis
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Associated Press
"The time to take charge of our future is here," Obama declared, delivering his first address to a joint session of Congress.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama promised a nation shuddering in economic crisis Tuesday night that he would lead it from a dire "day of reckoning" to a brighter future, summoning politicians and public alike to shoulder responsibility for hard choices and shared sacrifice.
Offering words of reassurance to an anxious nation, he declared, "Tonight I want every American to know this: We will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before."
"We are a nation that has seen promise and peril," he said. "Now we must be that nation again."
Cheered robustly as he entered the House chamber, Obama grinned, shook hands and kissed lawmakers and stopped for a lengthy embrace with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, back on the bench only this week after surgery for pancreatic cancer.
To deal with the current crisis, deepening each day, the president said more money would be needed to rescue troubled banks beyond the $700 billion already committed last year. He said he knew that bailout billions for banks are unpopular — "I promise you, I get it," he said but he also insisted that was the only way to get credit moving again to households and businesses, the life-blood of the American economy.
Along with aid for banks, he also called on Congress to move quickly on legislation to overhaul outdated regulations on the nation's financial markets.
"I ask this Congress to join me in doing whatever proves necessary," Obama said. "Because we cannot consign our nation to an open-ended recession."
Thinking longer-term, Obama said in a speech many spee-
cifics and devoid of initiatives that both political parties must give up favored programs while uniting behind his campaign promises to build better schools, expand health care coverage and move the nation to "greener" fuel use.
Just five weeks after his inauguration, Obama addressed an ebullent Democratic congressional majority and an embattled but reinvigorated GOP minority as well as millions of anxious viewers. Despite the nation's economic worries and the lack of support for his plans from all but a few Republican lawmakers, Obama enjoys strong approval ratings across the nation.
Louisiana's young, charismatic governor, Bobby Jindal, delivering the televised GOP response,
exhorted fellow Republicans to be Obama's "strongest partners" when they agree with him. But he signaled that won't happen much, calling Democrats in Congress "irresponsible" for passing the $787 billion
"The way to lead is not to raise taxes and put more money and power in hands of Washington politicians," Jindal said, according to excerpts of his remarks released by the Republican Party. "Who among us would ask our children for a loan, so we could spend money we do not have, on things we do not need?"
stimulus package that Republicans have criticized as excessive and wasteful.
Obama spoke as bad economic news continued to pile up, felt all too keenly in U.S. homes and businesses. Some 3.6 million jobs have disappeared so far in the deepening recession, which now ranks as the biggest job destroyer in the post-World War II period. Americans have lost trillions of dollars in retirement, college and savings accounts, with the stock market falling nearly half from its peak of
Jindal is considered a likely presidential contender in 2012.
The central argument of his speech was that his still-unfolding economic revival plan has room for — and even demands — simultaneous action on a broad, expensive
"The weight of this crisis will not determine the destiny of this nation."
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16 months ago.
"The weight of this crisis will not determine the destiny of this nation," he said.
And new polls — some with his public support rising and others with it dropping — show that the political climate can be as precarious as the economic one. Aware that his and his party's fortunes will suffer if he cannot right the economic picture, Obama sought to blend the kind of grim honesty that has become his trademark since taking office with a greater emphasis on optimism.
agenda including helping the millions without health insurance, improving education and switching the U.S. to greater dependence on alternative energy sources. This is the big lift of his young presidency:
His hope was to begin to persuade the country that those longer-term items on his presidential agenda are as important to the nation's economic well-being as unchoking credit and turning around unemployment numbers.
bringing the public behind what are sure to be enormous outlays on contentious issues.
"The only way this century will be another American century is if we confront at last the price of our dependence on oil and the high cost of health care, the schools that aren't preparing our children and the mountain of debt they stand to inherit," Obama said. "That is our responsibility."
New in office, he wasn't charged with producing a formal State of the Union status report.
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But that's what it was: a night for the president to sketch out his priorities in a setting unmatched the rest of the year.
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10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
Today is in your sanctum sanctum. Make it a safe environment so your subconscious mind can relax. There's an amazing idea in there. Coax it to come out.
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Today is a F
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 7
Join up with a creative group who share your goals. You can give them something they're going to need. You can help bring in the money, without which they won't get far.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21)
To day is a 5
This is a test. It is only a test.
Hopefully, you've done your homework. You may get the chance to sell an outrageous idea. Can you do it? Sure you can! Have the facts at hand.
CANCER (June 22-July 22)
To day is an 8
Definitely launch your magnificent idea now. Present your proposal and, of course, start your cruise or road trip as soon as possible. Finalize preparations and go.
LEO(July 23-Aug.22) Today is a7
Continue your list of what you'll be, do and have, further down the line. Give yourself a range, from basics to luxury.
After you've got the basics; you'll go on to the rest.
You can rely, more and more, on your valuable partner. The support she or he brings to your life is nurturing. Don't be too critical of little mistakes. Applaud creativity.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is a 7
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a Z
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 7
Put your shoulder into it.
Follow through on your plan.
Work's always involved in
making things right. Get into it.
Pretend like it's fun and it
might turn out to be.
SCORP10 (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is an 8
Today is an B
You may be having so much fun, you can't be distracted by chores. So get someone else to do them for you. It's called "spreading the wealth around"
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is a 9
A brilliant scheme, conceived in the privacy of your own home, propels you to success. What is this idea? That's up to you and your roommates. That's where it's coming from. Or real estate. Or both.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Today is an B
Changes are happening quickly. It's imperative to stay informed. You love this kind of excitement, and you're good at it. You get very creative under pressure.
Money will have a tendency to burn a hole in your pocket. This is especially true if you haven't been shopping for a while. If you find good deals and can stock up, OK. But be careful.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.18)
Today is a 6
Don't talk much about what you have in mind.Do take notes and photographs.Capture the idea in three dimensions if you can.Use audio,if appropriate, to fully communicate.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is an 8
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46 Borgnine autobiography
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40 Some golf tourneys
42 Floral neckwear
43 Transport for 54-Across
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45 Fight the clock
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48 "Meet Me — Louis"
49 Spuds' buds
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My microwave just went on mute. I didn't know microwaves had a mute option.
If I buy my girlfriend a dildo,
will she use it on me?
To the two girls and the guy in the library talking about the OU game; it worked! You got everyone's attention; however, they think you are stupid and don't know anything about KU basketball. Go to K-State.
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Since when does library etiquette include blaring music from your laptop and yelling to a person sitting at the same table?
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Roommate, you sleep way too much. I refuse to tipetow around your weird sleeping habits. Wake up.
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Does anyone want to lend me their shower? My water was turned off.
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Rihanna is a disgrace to feminism.
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Dear girl sitting outside my Western Civilization II classroom yelling on her cell phone: We don't want to hear about your Juicy Campus gossip. Sincerely, everyone you've probably ever met.
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I study better naked.
Why was cable not working in the dorms right before the Oklahoma game?
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Is this the KU-OU game or the Blake Griffin show?
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"inflammable" means the same as "flammable"? What a country!
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Sherrrrrron Collllins!
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Mr. Self: The team looks great but it's definitely time to stick them to the line.
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Blake Griffin was shown 26 times in the second half of the KU basketball game.
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EDITORIAL BOARD
Exchange rate just one reason to study abroad
The KU Office of Study Abroad offers a tremendous variety of programs
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dous variety of programs in every discipline, from Spanish and Western civilization to business and engineering, and students at this university should seriously consider going abroad before they graduate. Not only can students study foreign language, history, art
or architecture first hand, but they can gain the invaluable experience of living in another country. And despite the recent economic turmoil, now is the
perfect time to travel, as the dollar's rate of exchange with foreign currencies becomes increasingly favorable. The application deadline for summer and fall study abroad programs is Monday, March 2, so there is still time to apply.
"We have something for students in every discipline," he said. And there are plenty of programs are offered in English all over the world — the British Isles, Continental Europe, South Africa, Australia and Hong Kong.
Robert Lopez, outreach coordinator for the Office of Study Abroad, said the University offered more than 100 programs in more than 60 countries around the world, 50 of which take place over the summer. He said studying abroad was not just for those studying foreign language or the humanities.
The University ranks highly among public universities in terms of the percentage of students who study abroad, a testament to the enduring success of its program. According to the Open Doors Report by the Institute of International Education, nearly 242,000 students from the United States studied abroad from 2006-
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versity in number of students who study abroad, and 27.5 percent of KU undergraduates have completed some sort of study abroad program.
2007, the last available year on record, which represents an increase of 1.4 percent from the previous year. The University is the 11th-ranked research uni
Billie Brock, Dilworth, Minn. senior, studied in France as part of the Paris Summer Language Institute, which, she said, gave her insight into French History that she would never have found at home.
Indeed, at a time when much of the world's opinion of the United States has reached low ebb, it is imperative that students make the effort to understand how the rest of the world lives. In our globalized world, this should be an essential part of any college education.
Many students count their time abroad as one of their most memorable and transforming experiences in college.
"Studying abroad opens the doors to acceptance of other cultures," she said.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Visit the Office of Study Abroad in Lippincott Hall or: http://www.studyabroad.ku.edu/.
March 2 is the application deadline for summer and fall programs.
"It is exhilarating to discover that you are not the center of the world," said Mary Klayder, a professor of English who has taught study abroad courses in Great Britain and Costa Rica.
And now is the time to go. Exchange rates, especially during the past six months, have been improving for Americans. A year ago today, a U.S. dollar could buy about 50 percent of a British pound. Today, it is worth nearly 70 percent of a pounds value. Likewise, last year, the dollar was worth about two-thirds of a euro's value. Today, it is worth nearly 80 percent. This means you'll get a lot more bang for your buck.
The deadlines for summer and fall study abroad is swiftly approaching, so don't hesitate to apply.
— Dan Thompson for The Kansan Editorial Board
EDITORIAL CARTOON
GOLLY, IT SEEMS HALF FULL BUT IT'S KINDA HALF EMPTY, TOO...
I KEEP TELLING YOU,
JUST TELL PEOPLE'
WHAT THEY WANT TO HEAR
IT WORKED ON HILLARY
AND I GOT TWO TERMS!
NICHOLAS SAMBALUK
STUDENT LIFE
Getting through the season of groundhogs and growth
THIS WEEK'S
SOUNDTRACK OF A LIFE
SONG:
"DAYS GO BY"
BY KEITH URBAN
Today marks the midpoint between Groundhog Day and the Spring Equinox, and incidentally, is also Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent
Then there's April rain and May flowers; June, July and August of vacations and late evenings; September is going back to school and the extravagant colors of October (not to mention Halloween); November and December, the holidays with family and friends; January, a new beginning. But really, it's those six weeks held under the Groundhog's sway, ending in mid-March, that we experience the greatest season
Though all three rituals focus on growth and begin in February, we associate the month of March with natural renewal and development. After all, with the beginning of spring, March in Kansas marks the advent of greener grass, buds on trees and more consistently warm weather (despite the wind — but it's always breezy here).
SOUNDTRACK
OF A LIFE
TYLER HOLMES
of personal growth.
Think about it: truly testing those New Year's or Lenten resolutions against those dark, cold days, just longing for the excitement and comfort of warmer days (OK, so we've had some unseasonably warm days this month). February and March are just a fight, morning after morning, to extricate yourself from bed, shower, eat, go to class, eat some more, go to more class, do homework, fall asleep later than you should and wake up to start the whole process over again.
When looking at the four weeks of February, I simply planned to make it through, five days at a time. But, on Groundhog Day, Feb. 2, I watched the movie that bears the same name — starring Bill Murray.
Yet after months of reliving the same day, and even proclaiming himself a god, he realizes he can gain from every day. It's a slow and, at times, painful process, but everything finally comes together, culminating in the perfect day.
Watching it this year, I remembered why I loved it — not for the humor or the music ("I've Got You, Babe" by Sonny and Cher over
and over again) — but because of the feeling one gets from watching Murray. He eats everything he wants, has sex, steals money, gets drunk, runs from the cops and kills himself in a whole host of ways, including driving himself and the groundhog off a cliff.
Though none of us may have to bear a year reliving the same awful day, the stretch we're in is the closest we'll get to doing just that. It's tempting to go through the motions in anticipation of spring break and the warmer days that follow, but "Groundhog Day" offers a better solution — improve.
Find something different to busy yourself with each day that contributes, to yourself or the community — over the course of 40 days, perhaps (after all, a habit takes three to four weeks to create). "Tis the season of growth: Take advantage before it's too late.
PowerPoint in lectures overused and overrated
Holmes is an Overland Park freshman in political science.
O any given day in any given class, I sit in a classroom staring at a
As students, we face the daily dilemma of whether to focus on PowerPoint slides or listen to speakers during class. Many times, I choose just to listen because of slides that are overloaded with information and awfully designed.
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lime green or blue or red screen. Blinking restlessly, I try to decipher the black text filling the screen. As soon as I copy down one slide, the next shows up. This repeats until I eventually stop looking at the screen and try to concentrate on a professor talking.
Call me old-fashioned, but I'd rather not have a PowerPoint unless it's well-made. One of my favorite instructors, for example, never used PowerPoint in his class. He always made his point clear and I never felt bored in class. His animated expression and gestures showed his passion for his subject, which drew me to
People need more than one outlet of information, and good presentations allow them to hear, see and do, said Rick Altman, presentation consultant and the author of "Why Most PowerPoint Presentations Suck." His suggestion sounds simple, but not many people — whether professors, TAs or students — are successfully doing this. Some people seem to make slides only because they think they have to. Others rely on PowerPoint to cover up their weaknesses, such as when they become nervous and simply read out texts on slides.
FILLING
THE GAP
SACHIKO MIYAKAWA
HYA KAWA
PowerPoint is not a must, but it can be good when used appropriately. Don't just make it. Before you work on it, think about what messages you want to get across. And even before that, ask yourself if PowerPoint is really necessary at all.
- Outline important points, but use less text and fewer words that represent your idea. — Altman
- Avoid using red and green because some people are color-blind. — Altman
- Here are some tips from professionals on effective visual presentations:
- Try the "squint test". Squint at the slide, so that none of the text on the slide is legible. Make sure you're still able to understand what the main point of the slide is from the layout design alone. — Andrew Abela, founder of ExtremePresentation.com
A simple aural presentation can be powerful, but images, such as maps, graphs or photos, can make even stronger presentations. When you put graphics on PowerPoint slides, they should be relevant, rather than images to make the slides less boring. Also, always make sure to put text and images that are big and clear enough for the audience to see.
Miyakawa is a Tokyo, Japan senior in journalism.
the class.
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Porta Portese shopping
mdent@kansan.com
I choked. It was embarrassing. I haven't really shopped in a market situation since. Then a few weeks ago I heard about one in Rome. It's called Porta Portese.
This isn't a regular market. Those are all over the city, every day. This is the market. Every Roman peddler who sells anything from genuine antiques to used Genesis CDs to knock-off watches that have already stopped telling time sets up shop at this mile-long alley near the Trastevere area every Sunday morning.
BY MARK DENT
mdont@kansan.com
My most memorable bargaining moment came my junior year of high school in Juarez, Mexico. I wanted a fake Rolex, bad. It was the first thing I looked for at an indoor jumble of shops and tents called "The Mercado." The guy wanted $30. I settled for $20, knowing it couldn't be worth more than four cents.
But more than that, it's the bargaining. There's a sense of excitement that comes with arguing about a price, even though you'll still probably get ripped off.
Part of it is the shopping.
You're on vacation. You want to shop. You want to buy a native style dress or maracas or a crummy shot glass that will break in your suitcase on the plane ride home.
@
ROME - Markets in foreign countries always pull travelers in
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Here, the sellers are supposedly tougher than the Central American variety when it comes to bargaining. Of course, the city's best thieves join them. If you feel someone stick his or her hand in your jeans pocket, and there's a decent chance you might, it's not because that person is attracted to you.
Then I got sucked in. Right away. Porta Portese does that.
I went this past Sunday, with two goals in mind. One was to get some gloves, needed for a trip to Switzerland this weekend. The other one, the main one, was to get another scarf. It was a sensible plan. Gloves and a scarf, nothing else, no wasting money on some counterfeit item.
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STRESS (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
sometimes bakes cakes or breads. She said she began baking last year during finals week. Since then, she said, she has resorted to baking to relieve her stress.
"I just like being able to start a process like baking and complete it in two hours," Cunningham said. "It's something that can take my mind off things. I'm sure as it gets closer to graduation, I'll be baking a lot more."
Cunningham said she felt more stressed this year than in years past because she was a senior. She said her stress stemmed not only from school but also from graduation and finding a job.
"Sometimes it's stressful because it feels like everything can pile up at once." Cunningham said. "But if you take a minute to organize it and figure out what you can do, it becomes manageable."
The KU Art of Living Club,
a student organization, offers
a de-stressing session called
"Body, Breath and Mind." Manas
Bhatnagar, Bhopal, India, sophomore, and president of the organization, said the session consisted of learning breathing exercises and processes that relaxed the body and calmed the mind. He said the goal of the session was to show how the mind and body were connected through breath.
"The nature of the breath is always in the present moment," Bhatnagar said. "By observing our breath, our mind, which is stressed, will come back to the present moment. Once the mind is calm, you can apply it to solving whatever problems you are facing."
Bhatnagar said there was a correlation between emotions and breathing.
He said that when angry, a person's breath was heavy. When sad, people take deeper, longer breaths, and when they were happy, their breathing is more stable.
"We use the connectives between the breath and the mind to destress," Bhatnagar said.
He said the techniques were prac
tical and anyone could use them.
"If you are traveling on a bus and you have five minutes and you want to calm yourself before an interview, you can just pay attention to your breath," Bhatnagar said.
Wade said being able to put things in perspective and having balance in life was crucial to adequately managing stress.
"A good question to ask yourself is, 'Will this matter in five years?' Wade said. "Certainly, some things will be important five years from now, but much of what we can spend a lot of mental energy on, we realize this is not as important as it seems right now."
Gibbs said it was important to have an outlet for stress.
"Your emotional and mental well-being goes hand-in-hand with your physical well being" Gibbs said. "If you are not taking care of yourself, eventually everything else will suffer."
Edited by Brandy Entsminger
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If the budget continues to decrease, the number of students admitted to graduate programs will also decrease. Teel said.
Teel said students preparing to enter the school would still receive the educational benefits the school had been known for.
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"It's not the highest-paid nursing, of course, but it's what I want to do." Treadwell said.
"We have the faculty we need in order to continue to provide quality programming." Teel said.
After earning her nursing degree, Treadwell plans to practice for about eight years, and then teach nursing classes.
neonatal nurse before looking at salary figures.
then you're helping out the whole shortage on teaching?
Although Treadwell won't apply for the school until next school year, she said she was worried because enrollment was competitive.
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"Why not teach if you know the material and how to do things?" Treadwell said. "Just go ahead and take a few more years of school and
Nursing schools around the country have to be selective because they do not have enough faculty to allow everyone to be admitted. Teel said. Last year, more than 40,000 applicants were turned away.
As a truck parade drives by and revelers walk past, New Orleans police officers stand guard at a crime scene where five people were shot and two suspects were taken into custody in an incident along the Mardi Gras parade route in New Orleans on Tuesday.
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NEW ORLEANS — An infant and at least five other people were shot Tuesday along a parade route packed with Mardi Gras revelers, police said. Two suspects were in custody and the victims were recovering.
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"It sounded like a string of fireworks, so I knew it was more than one shooter," said Toni Labat, 29, a window company manager. She was with her two children, a 2-year-old
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everybody on the floats ducked,".
Labat said.
Labat said one man dragged himself on the ground screaming for help after being wounded and another man was gasping for air and bleeding from his mouth.
Police spokesman Bob Young said the victims were taken to local hospitals. The infant was grazed by a bullet and not seriously hurt, Young said.
Dr. Jim Parry, 41, a surgeon who was with a gathering of doctors near the shooting site, ran over to tend to one man who he said had been shot in the abdomen. "He kept asking me, 'Was I shot? Was I shot?'"
Paramedics arrived and took over for the Air Force reservist.
"I'm off to Afghanistan this summer. Damn, this is more dangerous than Afghanistan." Parry said.
Two male suspects, ages 18 and 20, were in custody and three weapons believed used in the shooting had been recovered. Young said.
The violence along the oaklined Uptown streetcar line marred what had been a generally peaceful day of revelry in which hundreds of thousands of people partied in the streets on the final day of Carnival.
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Women to face quick foe
OSU’s Riley will impact tonight’s game in a big way, but how big?
BY JAYSON JENKS
jjenks@kansan.com
Coach Bonnie Henrickson flipped on tape of Oklahoma State guard Andrea Riley and did a double-take.
“Oh, God, she’s so quick. I mean, she’s ridiculously fast,” Henrickson said. “Sometimes I have to look at it and go, ‘Am I on a speed-ahead or not?’ But it’s regular speed. She’s just really, really quick.”
The question for the Jayhawks — and for any team playing against an elite scorer — is this: Let Riley score and limit the Cowgirls’ other players-or focus the defensive game plan around shutting down Riley?
In discussing Riley’s ability, Henrickson seemed to provide the answer.
“No one has shut her down,” Henrickson said. “Nobody has stopped her.”
Guarding Riley, the Big 12’s leading scorer, will be an all-hands-on-deck effort tonight at 7 at Oklahoma State’s Gallagher-Iba Arena. But senior guard Ivana Catic and junior guard Sade-Morris will shoulder much of the responsibility.
The diminutive 5-foot-5 Riley will be the smallest player on the court.
What Riley lacks in size she makes up for in virtually every other aspect.
“Well, she can do everything. She can shoot it from half-court. She has a jumper and she can penetrate to the hole,” Morris said. “I’m going to have to find an area where I’m close enough where she won’t shoot it but not so close that she’ll just blow right past me.”
“In one blink, she can be past you,” said Catic.
Riley’s most outstanding traits are speed and an ability to drive toward the basket almost at will. But failing to mention the rest of Riley’s skill set would be a slight against her offensive ability.
While watching film with Kansas’ point guards, Henrickson often pressed pause, allowing her guards to admire Riley’s vision and split-second decision-making.
“We feel like she’s going to get hers,” Catic said. “Now the question is how many shots is she going to take? How many turnovers? And then, of course, the contributions of everyone else.”
Therein lies the key for Kansas.
Expecting to shut down Riley, who averages nearly 27 points per game in conference play, is foolish.
But there’s little doubt that Kansas must limit the rest of the Cowgirls’ production.
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Oklahoma State guard Andrea Riley, though diminutive at 5-foot-five, will likely be able to drive past and shoot over the Jayhawks tonight in Stillwater.
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Mizzou matchup biggest of the season
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Kansas head coach Bill Self claps his hands after a series of back-and-forth three-pointers between Kansas and Oklahoma during the Jayhawks' victory over the Sooners in Norman Monday. With the hawkays now in first place within the Big 12, the outcome of each remaining game in the regular season will affect the team's placement in postseason competition.
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Hawks look to build on Big 12 lead following OU victory
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Collins knows that as defining as Monday's 87-78 victory against Oklahoma at the Lloyd Noble Center was, it will mean little if Kansas trips up against Missouri on Sunday. That's why Collins is already talking about the showdown between the two rivals five days before the game.
It's that time or year again.
It's the point in the college basketball season when the biggest game of the year is always the next game on a team's schedule. It's the part of the season junior guard Sherron Collins lives for.
"We're trying to keep this streak go"
Collins said. "We're going
It's that time of year again.
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to play tough. We're going to be ready."
No. 15 Kansas (23-5, 12-1) is alone in first place in the Big 12 Conference after beating Oklahoma. But if No. 8 Missouri (23-4, 10-2) beats Kansas State at 8 tonight in Columbia, Mo., and follows it with a victory at Kansas, the Tigers will suddenly be at the top of the Big 12 standings.
"We control our own destiny so we feel pretty good about it," Collins said. "But we've still got to get there. We've got to go out there and make it happen."
the leader of the lajhawks, Collins said he would make sure his teammates were still focused. He promised practices would be as intense as ever. Collins said Kansas could still get better.
Collins is aware. That's why, as
Although these layhawks are in contention for a Big 12 title just like the teams from the past two years, Kansas coach Bill Self has noticed a difference. Unlike the 2007 and 2008 teams, which were eventual No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament, this year's squad
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BY ALEX BEECHER
abeecher@kansan.com
Young Jayhawks brush off predictions
Ahem. Bear with me for a second, because admissions like this don't come easy.
The thing is, sports writers have a dirty little secret: We aren't actually all that smart. At least I'm not.
Going into Monday's game against Oklahoma, I would have told you that the weight of 51 previous conference championships would sit like a ton of bricks on the young lajawhays' shoulders. I would have told you that, knowing Blake Griffin wouldn't play, Kansas might take a depleted Oklahoma a bit too lightly. I would have told you Oklahoma's fans might take advantage of Kansas' young psyches and rattle the lajawhaws into blowing another tight game.
It's a good thing I don't know what I'm talking about.
That's because the one thing I would not have told you — that Kansas would disregard all the possible sources of pressure and just play — is precisely what happened.
And it's not as if Oklahoma made things easy. Early on, the Sooners held a 22-8 advantage, and it looked as though Kansas might get run out of the Lloyd Noble Center. Frankly, it's what I would have predicted. The crowd was set firmly against Kansas, as was the omnipresent beast that is momentum.
But Kansas — led by Tyshawn Taylor, of all people — just played. And played well enough to take the lead in a matter of minutes.
Kansas held Oklahoma at arm's length until halftime, when the jayhawks led by seven points.
But halftime provided Oklahoma coach Jeff Capel with an opportunity to fire up his troops. Maybe Kansas would come out flat and the Sooners would turn the tide. Again, I half expected that to happen.
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But with more than 10 minutes to play, things could still have gone wrong. The Jayhawks could have gotten too comfortable with their lead, too complacent with Blake Griffin wearing street clothes.
For a while, it looked like that might happen. Oklahoma, powered by a barrage of threes, came roaring back. The 20-point lead shrunk to three, and the Sooner faithful came back to life.
Toni again. I was wrong.
It was Kansas that opened the second half as the best team, stretching its seven-point lead to 20 points.
And again, I was wrong.
Maybe the pressure got to them, or perhaps the Jayhawks did get complacent. Either way, it was over. Sherron Collins took the ball and drilled a guarded three from NBA range. The next possession, he did the same thing. Collins and his younger teammates made the plays necessary to close out the game.
But how did they shrug off all the factors I thought might hurt them?
In his interview on ESPN, Collins gave the answer. He didn't think about Blake Griffin. Nor did he consider adding a 52nd conference championship to Allen Fieldhouse's rafters. Neither the stage nor the crowd got to him
Collins and his teammates did what other media members and I seem unable to grasp — they just played.
Sometimes, I love being wrong.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"They probably run the fewest number of offensive sets in the league but when you have a kid that can make a lot of plays, you probably don't need to run as many plays. She can make plays."
Coach Bonnie Henrickson on Oklahoma State's explosive guard Andrea Riley
FACT OF THE DAY
Oklahoma State junior guard Andrea Riley is averaging a league-high 26.6 points per game in Big 12 play. Second in that category is Kansas 'Danielle McCray, who's scoring 19.2 points against conference fees.
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TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q:When was the last time Oklahoma State guard Andrea Riley scored fewer than 10 points in a Big 12 game?
A: Jan. 27, 2007. Riley, then a freshman, shot 2-of-12 against Baylor and scored just six points. Since then she's been on a torrid scoring pace, pacing the league in scoring the last two seasons.
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Murder suspect of Denver player charged again
DENVER — A suspect in the shooting death of Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams has pleaded not guilty to an unrelated charge of having a homemade knife in his tail cell.
Willie D. Clark was in Denver County Court Tuesday for a preliminary hearing on a charge of introducing contraband.
Clark is charged with murder in the Jan. 1, 2007, slaying of Williams. A judge entered a not-guilty plea on his behalf.
Authorities say they found a plastic spoon sharpened into a weapon in Clark's cell on Dec. 8. Clark's attorney says Clark had been in the cell only three days when the knife was found and suggested the previous occupant made it.
He also faces a murder charge in the unrelated shooting death of Denver woman in December 2006.
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A non-concussed Blake Griffin is the best college basketball player in the nation. Courtyard paris is the most dominating female post player in America Tennessee's Pat Surmitti is America's most successful coach. And finally, Alabarba State senior center Chief Kickingtallions owns the best name in college basketball
Honestly, can there be any competition? Kickingstallionsims, whose full name is Grlennrtys Chief Kickingstallionsims it. is a nightmare for public address, radio and television announcers as well as opposing Southwestern Athletic Conference post players.
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As undeniably awesome as his name is, Kickingstallions isn't a great soaker, or even a good rebounder for that matter. Case in point: he lifts his greatest athletic accomplishment as being named "Best Name in College Sports" by Sports Illustrated.
THE UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE IS BACK
After two months spent wait ingor the knockout stages to begin soccer fans are once again in looty heaven as the Champions League got back under way Tuesday afternoon.
the day's marquee matchup — Manchester United against Inter Milan — was a ho-hum 0-0 draw at the Stadio San Siro in Milan, but there is plenty to look forward to today as heavyweights Liverpool and Real Madrid clash
in Madrid. Also on the card is another English-Italian matchup between Chelsea and Turin giants Juventus.
The competition's format in this stage calls for two matches to determine which team advances — one at each team's stadium — with aggregate goals deciding the victor and away goals separating the two in case of a tie.
You can see Chelsea play Juventus on ESPN2 (Channel 34) at 1:30 p.m. and Real Madrid face Liverpool on ESPN Classic (Channel 35) at 4 p.m.
WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
I love baseball as much as the next red-blooded American.
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andIchiro are both decent choices — although I wonder if it
But A-Fraud? I know he apologized for the steroids controversy and all, but why not choose another player from what amounts to a stacked Dominican Republic roster?
Derek Jeter
Just a few who deserved consideration: David Ortiz, Albert Pujols and Jose Reyes. Of course, Rodriguez would be the obvious choice minus the current controversy, and odds are the television spots were recorded months ago, but you would think officials could scramble to find a replacement without a media cloud hanging over his head.
might be time to put Jeter in the background as his skills continue to slide — and they couldn't get anyone from 2006 runner-up Cuba for obvious reasons.
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Colts call it quits with star Harrison after 13 years
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INDIANAPOLIS — The Indianapolis Colts have released Marvin Harrison, ending the star receiver's 13-year stay with the team.
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Agent Tom Condon said a day earlier that the Colts had agreed to release Harrison after he declined a pay cut. Harrison had the highest salary-cap number of any NFL receiver at $13.4 million.
Harrison is second in NFL career receptions. He turns 37 in August and is coming off the least productive season of his career in which he was not injured. Cutting him could save the Colts about $6 million on next season's salary cap
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JUPITER, Fla. — Security was something Ryan Ludwick never felt during his first decade in professional baseball. But that has changed, thanks to a breakout 2008 season and a new $3.7 million contract.
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The Cardinals definitely have a spot for him in the outfield, but he said the deep talent there keeps him motivated. Whether he plays right or left field depends on several factors,
I work out in the offseason I'm always going in the gym or out to the field with the intention
"We're loaded here in the outfield," Ludwick said. "Whenever
"I love playing this game. I feel blessed being able to do this every day."
desire to move outfielder Skip Schrumaker to second base.
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that no one is going to outwork me in the country that day. If you take that approach you know you're at least working as hard as that other guy who's behind you or ahead of you."
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He then avoided arbitration by settling for the one-year deal, which was a victory of sorts for the 30-year-old. Ludwick was seeking $4.25 million while the Cardinals were offering $2.8 million. Teams and players typically meet halfway when they settle, but Ludwick's
base salary is $175,000 above the midpoint.
He was thrilled with how it worked out, noting he has come a long way from where he was in the past.
"Worst case scenario, if you would have told me I was going to be making $2.8 million four years ago I would have said, 'awesome.' Ludwick said.
"For me, it's not about the money; it's about being here. I've been healthy for three years. That's that main goal, staying healthy and being able to play this game. I love playing this game. I feel blessed being able to do this every day."
Ludwick was derailed by a series of injuries that limited him to fewer than 70 games per year in the minors and majors from 2002-05. "It's not an easy game to play, even if you're playing it every day," Ludwick said.
"What last year did for them is it gives them a foot in the door," La Russa said about his outfielders. "Their attitude is not any different than last year except they should have more confidence. We don't want anybody getting comfortable.
The Cardinals revamped their outfield last season, making the transition from the Jim Edmonds years, with Ludwick, Rick Ankiel and Skip Schumaker.
Chris Duncan and Colby Rasmus also are fighting for playing time. That's one reason manager Tony La Russa decided to give Schumaker first dibs on the second base job. With five talented players in the outfield, moving Schumaker to second base gives the other two more opportunity to play.
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hasn't received much national attention.
Add another opportunity that a victory against Missouri could present. Self said he thought it would force people around the nation to take notice.
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Kansas lost to Missouri 62-60 two weeks ago at Mizzou Arena. Self said Kansas "gave that one away." And it's hard to argue against it.
"We have a chance to help our ourselves playing a top-10 team Sunday," Self said. "If we're able to take care of business Sunday, I think we'll be in the discussion."
The matchup against the Tigers goes beyond all that for the Jayhawks, though. To them, it's about redemption.
The tayhawks led by 14 at half-time and by eight with seven minutes to go before Missouri came back. Missouri guard Zaire Taylor made a jumper with one second remaining to win the game, and fans rushed the court.
Not surprisingly, the layhawks remember the defeat better than any game this season.
Junior guard Sherron Collins gets pumped after hitting one of several three-pointers throughout the Jayhawk's 87-78 victory against Oklahoma on Monday in Norman. Now that Kansas is first in place on the Big 12, each remaining regular season game will be increasingly important to determining the team's finish and eventual seedings in postseason tournaments
"We made a lot of uncharacteristic plays and lost our poise there at the end," sophomore center Cole Aldrich said. "But you've got to learn from it and get better. It makes our team go."
If Kansas beats Missouri, it will be two games away from winning its fifth consecutive Big 12 regular season championship. Then, the layhawks' final two games — at
ference. Collins wouldn't have it any other way.
Texas Tech on March 4 and against Texas on March 7 - will become the biggest of the year, because if Kansas wins, it will clinch the con-
— Edited by Chris Horn
BASEBALL
Freshman pitcher helps team secure a victory
Jayhawks defeat Razorbacks 9-3 after productive third, sixth innings
BY JOSH BOWE
jbowe@kansan.com
It wasn't anywhere near perfect, but freshman pitcher Lee Riden-hour survived the first start of his
Faunce
His solid pitching, along with timely hitting, led Kansas to a 9-3 victory against the No. 21 Arkansas Razorbacks yesterday afternoon.
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"I was really excited and my adrenaline was pumping." Riden-
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just tried to get that first pitch across for a strike"
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shaky at times as he allowed three walks and six hits, including a solo home run to the Razorbacks senior
Ben Tschepikow.
But he battled through his five innings and handed the game off to the bulldon to secure the victory.
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"Lee was spec.
tacular," senior centerfielder Nick Faunce said. "I was really impressed with him, even with the umpire having a really tight strike zone."
BOX SCORE
Kansas 0 0 4 1 1 3 0 0 0 — 9
No. 21 Arkansas 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 — 3
WP: Ridenhour (1-0) LP: Eibner (0-1) SV: None
HR: Tschepikow (ARK: 1)
In addition to the contributions from Ridenhour, the Kansas offense was able to put nine runs on the board, a season high. Faunce said the team had to play within its identity.
"We can't just be going for the fences when we come up to the plate," Fauncie said. "We know we have to push runners over and drive them in."
A four-run third inning took the pressure off Ridenhour early. Sophomore third baseman Tony Thompson picked up the inning's biggest hit, driving in two runs with a single. Faune also had an RBI single in the inning.
"I wouldn't even say that we've been struggling in those other couple of games," Faune said. "I feel like we've been hitting a lot of balls hard at people. Today it was good to see those balls drop, especially in clutch situations."
Ridenhour didn't need any more run support after that third inning. He used his slider effectively against the left-handed power hitters in the Razorback lineup.
"My slider was working really well for me," Ridenhour said. "I had good command of it, especially against the left-handed hitters, the power hitters that they have in the middle of the lineup."
A victory against a ranked team can do wonders for a team's confidence, and Faunce hopes Kansas can springboard from this victory and sweep the series tomorrow afternoon.
"We got to keep tough and never be satisfied," he said. "I think it was just good for our mindsets to give us the peace of mind that we can do it."
HALL COLLECTS NATIONAL AWARDS
After receiving awards from the Big 12, Shaeffer Hall's no-hitter has been recognized nationally.
Both the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association and The College Baseball Blog named Hall National Pitcher of the Week for the week of Feb. 24. He was also named the Louisville Slugger National Player of the Week.
Hall pitched a no-hitter last weekend against Air Force in his first start of the season. It was only the fifth individual no-hitter thrown in Kansas history and the first since 1980.
Hall is the first Kansas player to be honored as a national player of the week since Gus Milner in 2006.
Chiefs release popular veteran players Edwards, Surtain, Huard
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Three often-injured veterans who hardly played last season were cut loose on Tuesday by the Kansas City Chiefs.
The Chiefs announced on their Web site they terminated the contracts of linebacker Donnie Edwards, quarterback Damon Huard and cornerback Patrick Surtain.
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None of the three played much during the 2-14 season of 2008 and
all were expected to be gone soon.
The Chiefs also said they waived tight end Michael Merritt, who played very little last year as a rookie.
The moves were made without comment by Scott Pioli, the Chiefs' new general manager, or new head coach Todd Haley.
Edwards, 35, was a fourth-round draft pick by Kansas City in 1996 and led the Chiefs in tackles for four years. He was allowed to sign a free agent contract with San Diego but rejoined the Chiefs
as an unrestricted free agent in 2007. He played in only seven games this past season and had 34 tackles.
Huard, 35, spent his career as a backup to some of the game's best quarterbacks, including Dan Marino at Miami and Tom Brady at New England. He was with the Chiefs the past five years, but injuries caused him to miss the last 11 games of 2008.
RILEY (CONTINUED FROM 1B)
“There’s some of Riley that is just not defendable,” Henrickson said. “I mean, she has that kind of speed ... You've got to be able to slow Riley down if you can, but you can't have contribution from others. You have to be able to shut everybody else down.”
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Surtain, 32, appeared in only eight games in 2008 and totaled 11 tackles.
Last season, Riley torched the Jayhawks for 49 points and made 54 percent of her attempts in two games — both Kansas losses.
Still, the depth of Riley's offensive success goes beyond any physical ability. From previous meetings, Catic noticed a certain swagger — a willingness to continue shooting and attacking.
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"The best thing about her is her confidence." Catic said. "She really believes that every shot is going to go in and if one doesn't go in, she's going to get the next one."
In doing so, the Jayhawks hope to limit, but not necessarily shut
In preparation for Riley, the Jayhawks returned to the fundamental basics of defense: Stay low, don't bounce, and keep a body between the offensive player and the basket.
Oklahoma State guard Andrea Riley, center, is a force to be reckoned with on the basketball court, and the Jayhawks seem to have accepted they will have trouble holding her down. Instead, the Jayhawks plan to focus on shutting down Riley's teammates tonight.
| P | No. | Kansas | Ht. | Yr. | PPG |
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| G | 3 | Ivana Catic | 5-8 | Sr. | 2.3 |
| G | 4 | Danielle McCray | 5-11 | Jr. | 19.0 |
| G | 20 | Sade Morris | 5-11 | Jr. | 11.9 |
| F | 24 | Nicollette Smith | 6-2 | So. | 7.3 |
| C | 14 | Krysten Boogaard | 6-5 | So. | 9.5 |
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"She's their leader in every single way," Catic said. "If she gets emotional, everyone else gets emotional — in a good or bad way."
That's why it's so important that we contain her and don't let anybody score."
down, Rilev.
When/Where...
Kansas (14-11, 3-9) vs. Oklahoma State (15-10, 4-8)
Tipoff scheduled for 7 p.m. Wednesday at Gallagher-iba Arena in Stillwater, Okla.
Who to watch for...
What to expect...
An Oklahoma State team that badly胜利. The Cowgirls took a hard loss to Texas Tech and in turn the Red Raiders supplanted them in ESPN's latest Bracketology. The Cowgirls are now on the outside looking in. A loss to Kansas would end their hopes completely.
Junior guard Andrea Riley. It all goes through the 5-foot-5 guard from Dallas. She averages nearly 20 shots per game. When she does give up the rock, she does it very well. She gets more than six assists a game, as well. She may be little, but she can get her shot off quick and she is always looking to score.
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G 10
G 13
F 1
F 32
C 33
Oklahoma State Ht. Yr. PPG
Andrea Riley 5-5 Jr. 24.0
Tary Hardman 5-10 Sr. 6.4
Tegan Cunningham 6-1 Jr. 10.9
Shaunte' Smith 6-0 Sr. 11.0
Megan Byford 6-2 Jr. 4.7
Kansas put together a complete 40 minutes in the Jayhawks victory against No. 21 Iowa State and will need to again to win in Stillwater. It will not be easy and Riley will keep it close, even by herself. But Danielle McCray and Sade Morris will split the scoring load and be too much for the Oklahoma State defense.
Why Kansas will win..
How the game is important...
27. 2 percent — Riley's shooting percentage from behind the three-point line. She sometimes settles for a deep heave, and if the Jayhawks can limit her penetration, she might be less effective.
Magic number...
Kansas is still looking at a potential bid to the WNIT. This team will get better with every game it plays, so if the Jayhawks play a few more at the end of the year, they will have more experience for next year.
Clark Goble
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SURPRISE, Ariz. — The Kansas City Royals plan to start four players acquired in the offseason — Coco Crisp, Mike Jacobs, Willie Bloomquist and Horacio Ramirez — in their exhibition opener.
Ramirez, a left-hander who made 15 relief appearances for the Royals last season before being traded to the Chicago White Sox in August, will be the starting pitcher in Kansas City's first spring training game Wednesday against the Texas Rangers.
Crisp will play center and bat leadoff, while Jacobs, who hit 32 home runs last year for the Florida Marlins, will be the designated hitter and bat cleanup.
Kansas City Royals outfielder Coco Crisp throws a ball during baseball spring training Thursday in Surprise, Ariz.
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Bloomquist has spent most of the early spring training drills taking ground balls at second base, but he will start in right field and bat ninth. Jose Guillen, Kansas City's starting right fielder, has been slowed by an ingrown toenail and a sore shoulder.
David Delesus, who mainly batted first last season while hitting .307. has moved from center to left and dropped to third in the batting order to accommodate Crisp, who hit .283 last season for Boston.
"Playing center (in Kauffman Stadium), I do think it wears you down from an energy level, especially over the course of a long season," manager Trey Hillman said. "David is always an energetic player. We anticipate and hopefully we'll see his stamina be even better than what it was last year."
Billy Butler, who started just 33 games at first base last year, will play that position and bat fifth.
"This time last year I heard,'Billy
Butler can never play first base. You don't want to put that guy there.' Those didn't come from inside the organization, but outside the organization. He did a very respectable job in the time he was there last year,' Hillman said.
"He's more agile this year. It's helping his lateral movement. It also helps his feet with his exchange once he catches the ball. He turned a nice 3-6-3 double play in our intrasquad game."
"I've just got in better shape, worked a lot on my agility this offseason," Butler said. "They told me that's what I needed to do to come in and compete for the job. I feel like a more rounded player."
Mark Teahen, who started at right, left, first and third last year, will start at second base, a position he has not played since college. Hillman said he wants to see Teahen play second in games
before he leaves next week to play for Canada in the World Baseball Classic.
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"I'll be real hesitant, even with the guys leaving for the WBC, to go four days in a row with them, just simply because it's too early." Hillman said.
Shortstop Mike Aviles, who batted .336 as a rookie, will bat second. Miguel Olivo, who has replaced John Buck as the starting catcher, will bat eighth, in front of Bloomquist.
Hillman anticipates Guilleen will be able to play before leaving Sunday to join the Dominican Republic team for the WBC. Guilleen said he won't play in the WBC if he's not healthy.
"We're going to see how Jose feels with his swinging," Hillman said. "I got another look the other day at the toe unbandaged, and I've been pretty impressed with what he's been able to do with his running."
Golfers share different opinions about match play
BY DOUG FERGUSON
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MARANA, Ariz. — Bob Rotella was a busy man on the range at Dove Mountain, which made perfect sense.
Few tournaments are so baffling that they require the services of golf's most famous psychologist. Half the players are losers after each of six rounds at the Accenture Match Play Championship, where skill isn't nearly as important as luck and timing.
Stuart Appleby had a similar analogy, different day.
Phil Mickelson refers to it as "six final rounds."
"The only uncertainty at the start of a regular tournament is if
you make the cut, and that's on a Friday," he said. "Match play has the ability to make you feel like every round is Friday afternoon. You're looking at moving forward — which you should never do — and then you're booking a flight home. It makes you constantly feel like you're trying to make the cut."
This is the fickle format to which Tiger Woods makes his return.
Oddly enough, the last hole he played essentially was match play. After going 90 holes in the U.S.Open — four rounds and an 18-hole playoff — he still was tied with Rocco Mediate.
They went to sudden death, and Woods won the next hole with a Dart.
Woods shot an even-par 71 in
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If he can manage a score like that at Dove Mountain, it might be enough to beat Brendan Jones.
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Scott Hoch once had the second-best score during the quarterfinals of Match Plav.
It can be maddening at times.
Just his luck, he happened to be playing Woods, who had the best score.
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"Match play is a funny game. Anything can happen."
Howell III and finishing birdieder-par-par — only to lose.
Robert Karlsson, the No. 7 player in the world, has a unique distinction at Dove Mountain. He is the only player in the 64-man field who has played the Accenture Match Play Championship at least three times without ever winning a match.
It's not his fault. A year ago, he shot a 65 in the opening round and ran into a 64 by Paul Casey.
That's why so many players can't stomach match play more than once a year.
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"If we had to play match play every single week, guys would retire by the age of 40," Woods said five years ago. And that was after his most dominant victory in Match Play, when he set a tournament record by playing only 112 holes, with only one match going the distance.
And that's why some players can't get enough of it.
Tiger Woods watches his drive on the sixth hole during a practice round at the World Gon Championship Accenture Match Play Championship Tuesday. Feb. 24, in Maraia.
"Maybe it's because I'm such a sports fanatic," said Masters champion Trevor Immelman, who wants more of match play. "But 99.9 percent of the time, 's man-on-
man, team-on-team. That's what sport is. In golf, you can win a tournament and not see 150 guys all week. I think match play is easier for the fans to relate to, and it's a nice change. I would love to see this two times a year."
Why not more?
Immelman thought about this for a minute.
Golf has a long history of match play, and even one of the four majors (PGA Championship) used match play until 1958. It was abandoned because it was not a good
"Three would be pushing it" he said.
fit for television, the gallery could only see two players on the course in the final match, and the format had this nasty habit of knocking the stars out early.
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Top-ranked Pitt loses to streaking Providence
BY JIMMY GOLEN Associated Press
PROVIDENCE, R.I. Weyimni Efjuku scored 16 and Providence upset No.1 Pittsburgh 81-73 on Tuesday night for its first win over a top-ranked team in 33 years.
Sharara Curry added 15 points for the Friars (17-11, 9-7 Big East), who picked up a big victory for their NCAA tournament hopes.
Deluan Blair fouled out on a moving pick with 46 seconds left as Pittsburgh (25-3, 12-3) tried to rally.
Blair, the reigning Big East player of the week, averaged 21 points and 20.5 rebounds in wins over No.1 Connecticut and DePaul that elevated the Panthers to the top spot on Monday. But he picked up two quick fouls — his third and fourth — midway through the second half.
It was the home finale — senior
He finished with 17 points and eight rebounds.
Providence led by 20 after completing a 17-1 run with the first basket of the second half, but the Panthers cut it to five points, 75-70, on Blair's putback with 51 seconds left. After Brian McKenzie hit a pair of free throws for Providence a fraction of a second later, Pitt brought the ball down and Blair was called for an offensive foul that sent the Friars back to the foul line.
night — for Providence, which was coming off a 103-84 loss to Notre Dame that might have eliminated its chances of reaching the tournament. With a signature win and a game left against 15th-place Rutgers, the Friars may have played their way in.
The fans in the sold-out Dunkin' Donuts Center sensed it, crowding around the courtside press tables for the final minutes. Twice in the final minutes, the public address announcer begged the fans to stay off the floor following the game; twice the crowd responded with a laugh.
Sure enough, after the Friars dribbed out the last 20 seconds — it was too far gone for Pitt to try fouling — the fans went over the tables and chairs circling the floor and celebrated one of the biggest wins in school history.
The Friars are just 2-10 all-time against No. 1-ranked teams, with their only other victory coming in double overtime against Michigan in 1976. This win made them 2-5 against ranked teams this season, having also beaten then-No. 15 Syracuse on Jan. 28.
Pittsburgh had won seven straight and beaten Providence eight times in a row. The Panthers won their first 16 games this season and spent two weeks in January at No.1 before losing to then-No.20 Louisville.
Providence opened with a 15-4 lead and led by 18 at the half.
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NEW YORK — Stephon Marbury was waived Tuesday by the New York Knicks, ending a turbulent five-year stint in which the former All-Star couldn't lead his hometown team to a single playoff victory.
The team released a statement
saying an agreement between the Knicks and Marbury had been reached, but did not disclose financial terms. Knicks president Donnie Walsh has said the team and Marbury have been trying to work out a buyout.
Marbury is one of the highest paid players in the NBA, set to make close to $21 million this season, but has not played a game for new coach Mike D'Antoni.
But D'Antoni never gave the temperamental guard a chance to cause the same troubles for him that he did for Larry Brown and Isiah Thomas.
Marbury would be eligible to play in the postseason for any team that signs him because he was
waived by March 1. He has been linked to the Boston Celtics, who are in need of a backup guard with Tony Allen injured.
The statement also said Marbury's grievance against the Knicks had been resolved. The sides attended an arbitration hearing earlier Tuesday regarding the neatly $400,000 in salary the team
had docked the point guard after alleging he refused to play in a game in Detroit in November.
He then publicly criticized D'Antoni and saying he could never play for the coach because he didn't trust him.
Marbury sought his departure soon after that episode, but didn't met face-to-face with Walsh since
Dec. 1, when he left a meeting after just 20 minutes because they weren't close on a buyout agreement.
Marbury had previously refused to surrender more than $1 million of the remaining $20.8 million on his contract that expires after this season. It's unclear what he gave up Tuesday to release his release.
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Kansas strives to swim to Big 12 Championship
Jayhawks face top technology, Olympians in Columbia, Mo.
BY HALLIE MANN hmann@kansan.com
Olympians and high-tech speed suits aren't what you expect to see at a college swim meet. But for the Big 12 Conference Championship, Kansas (11-3) will be competing against Texas and Texas A&M, who have their own Olympians, bringing the competition to a new level.
"With the introduction of the speed suits, fast times aren't fast anymore," coach Clark Campbell said. "But this is the level of competition we want to swim against."
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"These may lower our times
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but the suits don't swim," Campbell said. "The girls will still have to do their stuff if they want to win."
The championship runs today through Saturday in Columbia, Mo. Preliminary races begin at 10 a.m. each day, with finals starting at 6 p.m.
Campbell said that the team had trained all year for this meet and that every training session mattered now.
"It's like Christmas and New Year all wrapped into one for the
swimmers and divers," Campbell said.
"it's really awesome to think about all of the competitions we've done. It's going to be fun no matter what happens."
With senior Maria Mayrovich being the only swimmer qualified for the NCAA Championships, Kansas has one last opportunity this week to get more swimmers qualified.
HANNAH McMACKEN
Senior diver
The past two years Kansas has placed in the top three as a team at the conference championship. Campbell said the team was on the right track to do it again this year.
"If we come out of the meet with some lifetime best
performances and make our goals, the places and ranking will take care of itself", Campbell said.
After finishing as the top-scoring diving squad at the championship last year, Kansas is hoping to
finish this season on a similarly strong note.
"This year we have the same opportunity to do the same if we stay focused," coach Eric Elliott said.
The divers bring in big points for the overall team score, so the pressure is on, Elliott said.
The four divers, sophomore Erin Mertz, juniors Meghan Proehl and Allison Ho and senior Hannah McMacken have set high goals for their last meet.
"They're expecting us to score a lot for the team, but we have our own goals, too." Elliott said.
Despite the pressure, McMacken said she was confident she and her teammates would do well at the meet.
"It's really awesome to think about all of the competitions we've done." McMacken said. "It's going to be fun no matter what happens."
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Left to right: Guillermo Rodriguez de San Miguel, Lyla Beckingham, Toshita Bavre, Anna Rosenblum and Emmalyn Beckingham watch as KU students Holly Simpson and Courtney Bell elkade the show.
Left to right: Gullermo Rodriguez de San Miguel, Lyla Beckingham, Toshita Bavre, Anna Rosenblum and Emmalyn Beckingham watch as KI students Holly Simpson and Courtney Bell, playing the role of plates in "And the Plate Ran Away with the Spoon." are glued back together. The students participate in the class "Children and Drama."
Fairy tale education
Theater course offers college and elementary students opportunity to act, play, teach each other
BY JENNIFERTORLINE
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Fairy tales and nursery rhymes come to life Thursday afternoon in a basement room at Murphy Hall. Children transform into cats playing fiddles and cows jumping over moons, and KU
students become dishes running away with spoons as they act out children's books.
The classroom exercise is called story drama, and it's part of a "Children and Drama" class directed by Jeanne Klein; associate professor of theatre and film.
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Eighteen KU students are taking the spring semester course, which helps them learn how to teach drama to local children in first through sixth grade. The children in first through third grade work with children's books, while fourth through sixth
graders create their own stories, which often dealing with more serious topics.
But the students find themselves learning from the children as well.
"They are the most imaginative people you could meet," said Melissa Arnold, Mundelein, Ill., junior and education major. "Learning from their ideas and having them direct us is really fun."
"It almost feels like the kids become your peers on the Thursday classes," said Rachael Beaumont, Lawrence senior and theater major.
On Tuesdays, the students meet for discussion and on Thursdays they are joined by the children.
Beaumont has a unique perspective on the class because
she's been on both sides. As a child, she participated every semester from first to sixth grade.
Beaumont and the other KU students spend the first half of the semester working on improvisational skills with children in first through third grades by re-enacting children's books.
run away, and all the nursery rhyme characters have to find them.
"Everybody works together to make the whole thing run
SEE THEATER ON PAGE 6A
Klein has been teaching the class for 20 years and this semester is using the book "And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon" by Janet Stevens. It's the story of a nursery rhyme gone wrong — the dish and the spoon actually do
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BY KAYLA REGAN
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Students can save 2 percent on their heating costs for every degree they set their thermostat back. Using a microwave to cook food uses one-third the amount of energy a conventional oven would use. Students can learn about these, and other energy saving tips, at 7 tonight during the Oread Neighborhood Association meeting at Plymouth Congregational Church.
Laura Lutz, Westar account manager in consumer services, will provide information about ways to cut energy use, such as exposing south-facing windows to the sun to help heat a room. Lutz said she would also discuss inexpensive ways to maximize energy efficiency, such as buying power surge protectors.
"We'll be talking about ways that people can use energy more wisely, like buying compact fluorescent light bulbs and the benefits of heat pumps," Lutz said.
"Really, just any little changes people can make around their home."
Juliana Tran, Dallas senior and president of Environs, an organization dedicated to promoting environmental awareness, said every bulb in her house was a compact fluorescent bulb.
"Now it's getting more popular because people are realizing they come with economic benefits, as well as help the environment," Tran said.
Compact fluorescent light bulbs, which last an average of five to 10 years, could affect anyone's energy bill, Lutz said. Last September, Lutz said Westar gave residents of Colwich six compact fluorescent lightbulbs per household as part of a yearlong pilot project. In the first three months, the town of 1,271 people reduced its energy consumption by 6 percent, Lutz said.
"If the first three months are any indication we can really reduce energy consumption overall." Lutz said. "We did the project just to show that by
SEE WESTAR ON PAGE 6A
STUDY ABROAD
Experiences set students up for future success
BY MICOLE ARONOWITZ
maronowitz@kansan.com
Florez, Topeka senior and German major, spent the past academic year studying abroad in Germany, his second time studying in the country.
Teaching the English language to children in Germany helped Pantaleon Florez find his life's calling.
"I know that I want to go back to Germany to work later on because I had a really good working experience when I was over there," Florez said. "It put me on the path that I am on right now"
Study abroad participation totals stayed consistent in 2008-2009 as compared to last year's figures, according to Robert Lopez, outreach coordinator for the Office of Study Abroad.
The deadline to apply for study abroad programs during the summer and fall of 2009 and the full 2009-2010 academic year is March 1.
There are 50 short-term study
Sue Lorenz, interim director of the Office of Study Abroad, said the benefits of studying in another country included fostering independence, becoming familiar with another culture and making connections for future endeavors. She said studying abroad helped students
abroad programs that provide opportunities during spring, winter and summer breaks. There are also 60 programs in which students spend an entire semester or academic year abroad.
create a sense of self, and it was also advantageous when looking for a job or applying to graduate school.
"It suggests a willingness to explore new situations and take on challenges," Lorenz said.
Dorrie Young, Wichita senior and art history major, is primarily interested in Asian art. To help her knowledge become more comprehensive, she spent last summer in Japan studying, visiting art muse-
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Long-term programs:
- Australia
- San Jose, Costa Rica
- Humanities and Western Civilization program in Florence, Italy, and Paris, France
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- Summer Language and Culture Institute in Florence, Italy
- Architecture in Asia program over winter break
Source: Robert Lopez, outreach coordinator of the Office of Study Abroad
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INTERNATIONAL 1. Rebel leaders found guilty of war crimes
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — On Wednesday, an international court modeled after the Nuremberg tribunal charged three top Sierra Leone rebel leaders with crimes against humanity — the closest thing to justice in this West African nation of amputees, orphans and widows.
Revolutionary United Front leader Issa Sesay and one of his battlefield commanders Morris Kalon were found guilty on 16 of 18 counts, including mutilation, terrorism, rape, forced marriage, sexual slavery and the enlistment of child soldiers. Another commander, Augustine Gbao, was found guilty on 14 of the 18 counts.
All three had pleaded not guilty and shook their heads as the verdict was read.
2. 125 passengers survive, 9 dead after plan crash
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The Boeing 737-800 was en route from Istanbul to Amsterdam carrying 134 people when it suddenly lost speed and fell out of the sky about two miles short of the runway at Schiphol Airport, investigators said.
BUSHEHR, Iran — Iranian and Russian engineers carried out a test run of Iran's first nuclear power plant Wednesday, a major step toward starting up a facility that the U.S. once hoped to prevent because of fears over Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
Washington worried Iran would turn spent fuel from the plant's reactor into plutonium, which could then be used to build a nuclear warhead, and U.S. officials pressured Moscow for years to stop helping Iran build the electricity-generating facility.
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TULSA, Okla. — Seventeen private water wells have tested positive for E. coli bacteria near a north eastern Oklahoma town where an E. coli outbreak last summer killed one man and sickened hundreds, state officials said Wednesday.
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6. Four members of suicide group charged in Ga.
ATLANTA — Georgia authorities have charged four members of an alleged assisted suicide ring with helping a 58-year-old man there end his life. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Claire Behr, 76, and Thomas E. Goodwin, 63, were arrested Wednesday at a home in Dawson County in the northern part of the state.
GBI spokesman John Bankhead also said Dr. Lawrence D. Egbert, 81, of Baltimore was arrested. Nicholas Alec Sheridan, also of Baltimore, has been charged but is not in custody.
Bankhead said the four were members of the Final Exit Network. They were charged with assisted suicide, tampering with evidence and a violation of Georgia's anti-racketeering act. Authorities in at least eight other states are executing search warrants related to the investigation.
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Distance from Lawrence: 1 hour, 14 minutes or 54.85 miles.
Population: about 10,000 people
Destinations: Amelia Earlhart
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Location: Just east of the Missouri River in northeastern Kansas.
Forest of Friendship, Atchison Trolley, Atchison County Historical Society Museum, Lewis and Clark Pavilion and riverfront parks
Interesting Facts: Atchison is said to be the most haunted town in Kansas, because the rumored presence of ghostly settlers.
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DONATION Sen. Dole gives $150K to KU Med and hospital
The gift will benefit spinal research at the newly founded Spine Center in Kansas City, Kan.
Former Sen. Bob Dole donated $150,000 to the University of Kansas Medical Center and the University of Kansas Hospital last week.
Dennis McCulloch, director of public and government relations at KU Hospital, said the money would be spent between the hospital and the medical center.
"It brings more patients to the hospital," McCullock said. "The gift helps the University with new research that will benefit those patients."
Michael Marshall, Sen. Dole's press secretary, said the gift held special significance with Sen. Dole.
"In World War II, Senator Dole suffered a spinal cord injury and realizes how important the research at the Spine Center will be for many people," Marshall said.
"I hope my contribution advanced knowledge and innovation in this area and helps others recognize their work, which could affect litterally millions of patients who suffer from back problems, spinal injuries and illnesses," Sen. Dole said in a press release last week.
Sen. Dole has made several other gifts to the Med Center in the past through KU Endowment.
The student suffered head injuries, which Warren said were not thought to be life-threatening.
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The student, whose name has not yet been released, was crossing the street near the intersection of University and Crestline streets when he was struck, said residents of nearby Meadowbrook Apartments.
The driver of the car has been identified as 18-year-old Washburn University freshman Kendra Butler.
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Jenn Gapetz got involved with Ecumenical Christian Ministries Alternative Breaks three years ago when she saw a flier for the Border Immersion Experience, an alternative winter break that took students to El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Mexico. Gapetz, Fernandina Beach, Fla., senior, coordinated the trip the following year.
Now, as coordinator for the ECM-KU Urban Studies program, Gapetz is organizing a new Alternative Spring Break called "The New York Experience." The Urban Studies part of ECM formed last fall and became an official student group in December. Gapetz said each ECM Alternative Break was distinctive and The New York Experience utilized New York City as a classroom.
"New York City is fascinating. I like opening up new worlds and new ways of thinking to people," Gapetz said.
The program will focus on issues such as labor, economics, immigration, human rights, urban planning and cultural, social and political movements. The New York Experience will also focus on changing and endangered communities such as Manahattanville, where Columbia University's $7 billion expansion plan entails leveling much of the existing neighborhood.
The program includes a tour of the United Nations, visiting Ground
Zero, and tours and activities in the South Bronx, the Lower East Side and other famous areas of the city.
Program participants will stay at the Seafarers and International House, an Ecumenical Lutheran mission that advocates for and serves seafarers and workers on international cargo ships. Gapetz said the mission had a guest house available to anyone and that it was near Union Square.
Joshua Gapetz, Ocala, Fla., junior, Jenn Gapetz's husband, also went on the El Paso and Juarez trip. That week, they visited a local publishing company, a grassroots after-school program and community center, and a midwife center to learn about the politics of birth on the border. Josh Gapetz learned
Molly Green, Lawrence senior, said she chose to join the program because she wanted to do something different for her last spring break of college.
Instead of a week in a more popular spring break location with her friends, Green said she wanted to learn from a culture that was different from the Midwest. She said she was happy to have the opportunity to experience a side of New York that people normally would not see.
"I am very excited about this program, and I think it will be a really fun and educational experience," Green said. "It will give students the opportunity to see New York City from a different perspective than just the 'tourist' approach."
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about a variety of cultural, political, economic and social issues, from local, regional and national perspectives.
He went because he was interested in learning more about the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), unions and maquiladoras, or factories in Mexico that imports materials duty-free and then exports the assembled product to the original country. Joshua Gapetz said the New York Experience program was different from other Alternative Spring Breaks because it would focus on an American city, specifically one of the cultural capitals of the country.
"We'll be learning about New York from various levels beyond the shiny veneer," Joshua Gapetz said. "I have a personal love for New York City. The excitement, the food, the music."
Jenn Gapetz said Urban Studies was thinking of adding more Alternative Breaks next year to more cities such as Kansas City and Chicago. The program has no prerequisites.
"We want more people involved, which will affect what we talk about and do," Jenn Gapetz said.
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WASHINGTON — Federal agents have rounded up more than 750 suspects in a wide-ranging crackdown on Mexican drug cartels operating inside the United States.
More than 50 of the suspects were arrested overnight in a series of raids coordinated by the Drug Enforcement Administration aimed at capturing members of the
Sinaloa cartel, blamed for a rising tide of violence in Mexico and the United States. Another 700 suspects were arrested previously over the course of the DEA's 21-month Operation Xcellerator, officials said
Attorney General Eric Holder said the cartels "are lucrative, they are violent and they are operated with stunning planning and precision."
At a press conference announcing the arrests, Holder also suggested that reinstituting a
U. S. ban on the sale of assault weapons would help reduce the bloodshed in Mexico, where last year 6,000 people were killed in drug-related violence.
U. S. officials have a responsibility to make sure Mexican police "are not fighting substantial numbers of weapons, or fighting against AK-475 or other similar kinds of weapons that have been flowing to Mexico," Holder said.
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New band, segments to make show unique
A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J. K. L. M. N. O. P. Q. R. S. T. U. V. W. X. Y. Z.
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NEW YORK — After a bullish staff meeting (which ended with a cheer) and before a wardrobe fitting (strictly suit-and-tie), Jimmy Fallon took time to marvel at how busy he is these days.
"It's 'SNL' times three. Times five. Times 101" said the former "Saturday Night Live" cast member who, come Monday, will claim the weeknight 12.30 a.m. slot chartered in 1982 by David Letterman, then, in 1993, bequeathed to Conan O'Brien.
Now Fallon is clearly putting his stamp on the venerable "Late Night" franchise. His house band is the acclaimed hip-hop group The Roots. Running the show is veteran "SNI" producer Michael Shoemaker, who handled "Weekend Update" when Fallon was co-anchoring. And to help connect the show to a cyber-savvy public, "Late Night's" co-producer is Gavin Purcell, who ran "Attack of the Show," the daily Net-centric news hour on cable's G4 channel.
Jimmy Fallon plays a toy guitar in his new officer in Rockefeller Center in New York on Wednesday. Fallon is replacing fellow Saturday Night Live alum Conan O'Brien as the host of MBC's "Late Night" talk show, now known as "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon."
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"Late Night" writers will shoot
their comedy pieces themselves ("they can use me if they want, or not, but I'm available!" Fallon said), then edit them right in the office on Macs.
"We can be different and topical and fun," Fallon vows.
10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
HOROSCOPES
Aries (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 6
Today is a 0
Conditions now are excellent for amazing discoveries.
Some of these happen out in the world, but some are more subtle. Sit down with your paper and pencil and see what develops.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Today is an 8
Tadiris (aprin 20-May-20)
Today is an 8
Stand back and applaud as
your team wins is victorious.
The part you play is invisible,
but it's very important. They
couldn't do it without you.
Provide motivation.
Gemini (May 21-June 21)
This is where faith and reality come together. The one helps to form the other, and the outcome is amazing. Sign up for a program that, at first, seemed impossible.
Cancer (June 22- July 22)
Today is an 8
Your dreams for the future seem quite real, and quite possible. You have faith, and youre also willing to do the work required. It's a winning combination.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is a 7
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is a 7
Necessity is the mother of invention. Those are names of Greek muses, but you'll meet them more personally. Don't worry. That means you're just about to come up with a great idea.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is an 8
Today is an 8
Savor the moments of relaxation you gain by sharing your burdens. True, no one else can do the job quite like you, but you can learn to adapt. Set your ego aside and teach.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 7
Today is a 7
It's important to produce results quickly. Take all the help you can get. Even consider suggestions you wouldn't have done before. Expand your horizons and methods.
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Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is an 8
Enjoy a bit of a celebration before the real work starts, which will be pretty soon.
Don't put off your festivities. You'll be so busy the next few days you'll have to pack a lunch.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is a 9
You like to be a nice guy, of course. But you don't have to be a wimp. You're nice even when you're strong. You're incredibly cute and sexy. Nobody can turn you down.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is an 8
Today is an 8
There it is, the very thing,
that you've been looking for.
Haven't quite found it yet?
Consult your treasure map.
Haven't got a treasure map?
Figure it out for yourself.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb.18) Today is a 6
Aquarius' Jan. 20-Feb. 18 Today is a 6 Be watchting the ground for spare change and dollar bills. There's an indication you'll stumble upon some kind of treasure now. Get out your metal detector.
Today is an 8 You are absolutely brilliant. You might be a tad difficult for others to understand, however. You're deep in the creative process. Get a representative to interface between you and the general public.
Pisces (Feb.19-March 20)
Today is an 8
ACROSS
1 Send forth
5 Grier or Dawber
8 Feds
12 A-line creator
13 Mimic
14 Wash
15 Con
16 Revolver
17 Curved molding
18 Unhealthful atmosphere
20 Ascending
22 Heavy weight
23 Tasseled topper
24 Hipsters' jargon
27 Engrave
32 Oklahoma city
33 Peeples or Vardalos
34 Gist
35 Over-whelming
38 Predicate part
39 Exist
40 "Eureka!"
42 Money-back deal
45 Tidbit
49 Object of worship (Var.)
50 Bill's partner
52 Nastase of tennis lore
53 Teller's companion
54 That girl
55 Have coming
56 Vortex
57 Raw rock
58 Coloring agents
DOWN
DOWN
1 Mild
yellow
cheese
2 Revealing fashion
3 Greek vowel
4 Sad, on the Seine
5 Violin virtuoso Niccolo
6 "Simpsons" store-keeper
7 Carte
8 Brooding angry look
9 Periodica
10 Always
11 Requisite
12 Collins of "MADtv"
13 Cpl.'s subordinate
Solution time: 25 mins.
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24 Boxing tactic
25 Altar affirmative
26 Tramp
28 Diarist Anais
29 Native American leader
30 Plant sticker
31 Recede
36 "Beverly Hillbillies" role
37 Permit
38 Heterogeneous
41 Crooner Don
42 Mature
43 Supplemented, with "out"
44 Reverberate
46 Dispatch a dragon
47 Green land
48 Photog's choice
51 "— the fields we go"
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Woman sues Freeman after August car crash
LOS ANGELES — The woman who was with Morgan Freeman the night of a car crash that left both injured insists she was never romantically linked to Freeman and is suing him for negligence.
Demaris Meyer and her lawyer, Gloria Allred, held a press conference Wednesday announcing that Meyer has filed a lawsuit against the 71-year-old Freeman.
accident last August, Freeman's lawyer, Bill Luckett, told media outlets that Freeman and his wife of 24 years, Myrna Colley-Lee, had been separated since December 2007 and were getting a divorce. Several media outlets reported that the 48-year-old Meyer was Freeman's mistress.
Meyer says she met Freeman the night of the accident at a dinner party. She says Freeman agreed to let her stay at one of three houses on his property, so that she "would have an easier drive to work the next morning."
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
COLDHAM: LAWRENCE HAS UNTAPPED HIP-HOP POTENTIAL
COMING FRIDAY
United States First Amendment
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2009
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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--organize and use information, is lacking from the University's e-mail system, at least when using Firefox and Safari. Search is available using external clients, but it can search only one folder at a time.
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My mom said she's going to stop helping me pay my tuition if all I do is spend my time trying to get into the Free
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I tried staring at this girl with my sweet shades on in chemistry today. I don't think I liked it very much after she slapped me. My face hurts.
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I will catch a campus squirrel before I graduate. I swear it!
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To the random guy who let me get in his car Friday night at Corbin: Do you have any idea where my shoe is, and if so, could you please drop it off at Chi Omega house? Thanks.
--organize and use information, is lacking from the University's e-mail system, at least when using Firefox and Safari. Search is available using external clients, but it can search only one folder at a time.
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So how do I ask a for a fellow guy's number without looking gay?
My roommate wet his bed and blamed it on "falling asleep with a 40-ounce in his hand." "Fess up dude.
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I really hope I never have to say this again in my life — but PLEASE, K-State, win tonight.
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Dear Free for All, my roomie thinks I submitted the one about not tolerating his weird sleeping patterns.
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I want an underground tunnel connecting the dorms of Daisy Hill. 'K thanks
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I want a hot girlfriend who is into threesomes (two girls, one guy, that is).
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I want a boyfriend who isn't into threesomes.
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Any guys want to get together for a ill' bromance?
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Obviously I'm dating total losers who don't know what they have right in front of them!
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To the guy who hawks loogies every morning in McCollum's 5-west bathroom: Dude...
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To the girl that I biked side-by-side with on Jayhawk Boulevard: I have your pink T-Mobile flowery cell phone. It fell off your bike when you hit that hole.
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No wonder the bus drivers that go to GSP/Corbin drive like maniacs. Maybe they are praying for a crash, so they don't have to hear any more stupid conversations.
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University should make the switch from Outlook to Gmail
EDITORIAL BOARD
The current University e-mail system is not sufficient. Outlook's interface is not user-friendly, and it lacks the file space and other conveniences that some e-mail services, such as Gmail, provide.
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Technological capabilities students expect, such as nearly unlimited file space and a search function across features of a
Outlook. They are, however, features of Gmail.
The University should take advantage of students' comfort with new interfaces and ways of communication to offer a progressive e-mail system allowing increased organization. functionality and collaboration for students and faculty.
Though the basic e-mail message itself might not have changed much in the past five years, people compose, organize, store and read e-mails differently. Students are acquainted with new interfaces, such as Gmail's, that allow more interactivity and, therefore, increased ease in composing and managing mail.
Gmail's appearance remains the same whether using Internet Explorer, Firefox or Safari, which is an important capability at a University with a diverse base of computers. Outlook's interface changes on different Web browsers
Search, a key way students find,
Though usability issues can be frustrating, the true goal in any new e-mail system for the University must be to offer a proactive, progressive e-mail solution
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in drawing students back to the University's system, resulting in better collaboration. New features will also allow students to become more organized and communicate more readily, therefore, creating a better learning environment.
New features, such as instant messaging, should be added not because they are high tech, but because they are important
for students.
According to Julie Loats, director of Information Technology, fixing some of these problems, and more importantly providing students with dynamic, progressive technologies, "is definitely part of our philosophy." She pointed to the success of initiatives such as the campus-wide wireless network as an example.
Outlook provides much more than just e-mail, including calendar functions and scheduling for rooms and appointments. Loats pointed out that any new service, whether an upgrade of Outlook or
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an independent provider, would have to provide the same capabilities.
Evidenced by transitions to Gmail by universities across the world, including Vanderbilt University, George Washington University and Australia's Macquarie University, the switch cannot be that difficult.
The University and the IT department must be ready to move forward. If the current system is too inflexible to fix, we need concrete plans for the future
At the same time, students need to let the University know what is important to them in their e-mail system.
Bill Meyers, director of assessment and outreach for Information Services, was especially concerned with what students thought
"We do need to better understand students' technological needs," Meyers said.
Here is your opportunity.
Let the University know a switch to Gmail would benefit students.
Alex Doherty for The Kansan Editorial Board
So, WE WON THE RACE
TO THE MOON IN 1969,
BUT U.S. SPACE EXPLORATION
LOST FOCUS EVER SINCE.
THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN
WE VALUE A RACE
MORE THAN THE JOURNEY.
NICHOLAS SAMBALUN
America needs new space race
On July 20,1969,the first humans walked on the moon. This historical
moon. This historical event was both a literal and symbolic testament to America's innovation and dedication to exploration, as well as to the successes of what we know as NASA: the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The Apollo 11 lunar mission was hailed as a monumental success, and its astronauts were crowned as American heroes who won the space race
But the lesser known part of the story is that even as Neil Armstrong was making those historic lunar steps, public interest in moon missions was already beginning to wane. Mankind may have taken "one giant leap," but the American public was taking a step back from its support of NASA. That trend has continued to this day, as NASA drifts even more into obscurity.
After almost 40 years, perceptions of NASA have transformed from the American badge of honor into just another bureaucratic organ of an already bloated government. Most Americans were not moved by President Bush's mandate to send manned missions to Mars, nor did they notice the quiet retirement of the Space Shuttle, which set up a long-overdue upgrade of the space technologies developed in the 1970s. On the negative side, in November of last year, astronaut Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper accidentally dropped a tool bag worth $100,000 outside the International Space Station while on a spacewalk. This rather expensive bag is still orbiting the earth, but an aloof public cannot be bothered. At this critical point in American history, as technological dependence grows exponentially, America just cannot afford to dismiss NASA.
SAI THE SCIENCE GUY
SAI FOLMSBEE
NASA is not defined simply by the space program. NASA funds and organizes an astonishing array of scientific and engineering research, the kind of basic research that is absolutely critical for continuing America's impressive history of technological breakthroughs. The University of Kansas has always been deeply ingrained in research sponsored by NASA. The University has its list of notable space scientists, including Clyde Tombaugh, the alumnus credited with the discovery of Pluto. By supporting NASA, Americans are also supporting university research around the country.
What America needs today is another space race; and one might just be on its way. Foreign nations around the globe have begun to invest in similar gov-
ernmentally sponsored space programs. The Indian Space Research Organization landed its first unmanned moon probe last year and has just revealed plans to send a manned spacecraft into orbit by 2015. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has plans for a moon base by 2030, and the China National Space Administration celebrated its first spacewalk last year. NASA has the longest history and the best track record, but the scientific endeavors of these foreign nations are growing. If NASA does not receive public support and follow suit, it may become obsolete on the world stage.
The support of a grateful nation will not go unrewarded, as there is much to look forward to from NASA in the coming years. The Constellation project has replaced the Space Shuttle program and will be responsible for developing the next generation of spacecraft to deliver a new round of astronauts to the moon. The International Space Station is a testament to global cooperation and deserves our attention. And even without considering the truly astounding achievements NASA has made and should continue to make, Americans should keep a watchful eye on NASA if only to ensure that no more $100,000 tool bags go missing.
Folmsbe is a Topeka junior in neurobiology.
POLITICS
Obama's address bolstered presidency's positive image
The front pages of the New York Times, the Kansas City Star and USA Today all had the same thing to report yesterday morning: "We will recrive." President Barack Obama's words from his first "Address to Congress" represent the same American spirit, determination and optimism that every American president tries to convey. Although it may seem easy to say that everything will turn out all right in the end, Obama's speech did more than make promises.
In the past week, he vowed to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. Though this sounds completely impossible, Obama gave me at least some indication that he is doing everything in his power to accomplish this. He said his administration would go through the budget line by line to find out what spending could be cut.
I didn't plan on watching his speech Tuesday night, but I'm glad that I did. Obama's first address to Congress since he took office on Jan. 20 represents something more important than your average speech. The issues Obama talked about in his speech, most importantly the economy, are everything Obama's administration intends to fix.
I had never paid attention to presidencies and politics very closely before the presidential primary campaigns. But now that I've started keeping up with the
BY NORA SIMON
nsimon@kansan.com
news, I've started noticing even more the important traditions of our country. Many of us who just voted in our first election probably didn't realize how much the presidency revolves around image-making and public relations. The presidential address to Congress replaces the State of the Union address for a president's first year. It has been a tradition since George Washington, and each president has an opportunity early on to specifically outline how he intends to solve the pressing problems facing the United States.
With the economy dominating the forefront of Obama's administration, it was important for Obama to create a strong determined image for his administration. Obama concedes that his administration cannot do everything to solve America's problems, but at least he seems to be honest. It's nice to know that America's image is something to be proud of again.
Simon is a Manhattan sophomore in journalism and history.
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Everyone can't'B'winners
A recent study from the University of California- Irvine reported that one-third of students surveyed expected a B simply for showing up to class on a regular basis. An increasing number of college professors say students will visit them during office hours attempting to haggle a higher grade on a paper, arguing that they tried very, very hard and the professor was unfair in giving them a C or a B - for what the student thought was a really strong effort.
Just in case you've forgotten, a B is traditionally defined as "above average." This means a significant percentage of America's future leaders and entrepreneurs think they're above average simply by virtue of the fact that they know how to show up to a specified location on time with some semblance of regularity.
I've been called pompous before, but I've never assumed that my professor will give me a good grade because I made his or her class that much more awesome by coming in every day and just being me.
And professors don't "give" us grades. They look at our work and evaluate it against their standard of quality, and the grade reflects how close we came to what they were looking for. Sure, it's tough to know exactly what a
professor expects of you - thank God they print that sort of information on the syllabus. Effort does factor into the equation; it always takes effort to make something good.
It's fully possible, however, to expend a decent amount of effort and create something bad. The real trick, I suppose, is to make the effort in your classes to actually learn something, and then incorporate that effort into your endeavors. Just because you spend a few hours on something doesn't mean it's going to be any good — take this column, for instance.
I think this problem is rooted in our upbringing. We were taught that everyone is a winner and, if we try hard enough, we can do anything. As useful as these ideas may have been to our youthful psychies, they evidently persist today in our world of grade inflation and deferred responsibility.
The simple fact is that we can't all be winners, and just trying is not a one-shot formula for achieving your dreams. If it were, half the adults in this country would be astronauts and the other half would be princese:
If you want to succeed, you do have to try, but you also have to learn and compromise. That means actively participating in your classes, not just showing up, and learning to sacrifice some more of your leisure time to really go the extra mile.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2009
ENVIRONMENT
THE UNIVERSITY OF DARTY KANSAN
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2009
Group to grow,harvest fruit
Lawrence Fruit Tree Project will plant its first trees on March 21
BY AMANDA THOMPSON
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England Porter took notice one day when she saw a few women walking on campus with a ladder.
Using the ladder, the women climbed the persimmon tree on the lawn of Strong Hall, picked some of its fruit and left.
The Lawrence Fruit Tree Project wants to make that type of fruit picking more accessible to the community.
Porter, Independence senior and member of the LFTP, said the group wanted to plant and harvest more fruit trees in Lawrence for the community's use. The group began organizing its tree-planting effort in October, and on March 21 will plant its first six community fruit trees at New York Elementary.
Skyler Adamson, Lawrence gardener and group organizer, said there were three ways the group would increase growing and harvesting of local fruit in Lawrence.
Adamson said he wanted to expand the presence of food plants in the community.
"Why grow a redbud tree in a park when it could be an apple tree, and people could eat from it?" Adamson said.
The group would also concentrate on collecting fruit from trees in residents' yards or in public areas where the fruit was not being harvested and could go to waste, Adamson said. Residents with fruit trees will be able to register with the LFTP Web site to have group members harvest the fruit from their trees for them.
Adamson said fruit collected from residents' trees would be given to the residents themselves if they wanted it, to the volunteers who helped pick it and potentially to area food pantries.
Education is the third component of the group's efforts. The group plans on organizing workshops and working with schools in an effort to educate people on growing their own fruit, Adamson said.
Jason Hering, Hutchinson senior, said the group would like to bring more fruit trees to areas on campus, but there was some red tape to get through.
Kelly Kindscher, associate scientist with the Kansas Biological Survey and LFTP group member, said fruit trees on campus had been restricted because of what happened when the fruit wasn't collected.
"Good fruits have not been planted on campus because they're considered messy," Kindscher said. "But there are so many potential suitable sites in Lawrence. We want to encourage people to use local fruit."
While the group currently has no working budget, Kindscher said it was on its way to becoming a non-profit organization and would eventually accept donations from interested residents.
"There's been a ton of positive response," Adamson said. "It's an idea a lot of people have on their minds."
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Pantalone Floré, Topeka senior, traveled to Bonn, Germany, in 2008 through the KU Study Abroad program. Florez said the experience caused him to-evaluate his personal goals and he has since decided to pursue a future in marketing or teaching English.
Young has also studied abroad in Germany, France and Italy. Because
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"It was a life-changing experience," Young said. "After spending two years studying a language in an academic setting, it was really refreshing to be able to actually use it."
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making simple changes, people can actually save energy and money."
One of the biggest power wasters, Callihan said, was leaving computers on when not in use.
"It's a common misconception that screen savers save on energy, but they're just saving
the screen," Callihan said. "Just think about a giant lightbulb running continuously."
Lutz said the presentation would be geared towards property owners and tenants, especially those in older homes looking to save money on their energy bill.
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"It actually really helped our heating bill over the winter," Callihan said.
According to Westar's Web site, weather stripping, sealing cracks in windows and doors to prevent air-leakage, is one of the easiest and most cost-efficient ways to save money on heating and cooling bills.
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smoothly," eight-year-old Lyla Beckingham, one of the seven children in the younger class, said.
Brandon Williams, Leavenworth senior, said the children's imaginations showed when they re-enacted the stories.
Lyla played the cat with the fiddle during the classroom exercise and said her favorite part was watching everyone become their characters. Her sister, Emmalyn Beckingham, agreed.
"I like all of it," seven-year-old Emmalyn said. "I like cracking jokes."
As part of her role, Emmalyn was a little dog who told knock-knock jokes about the big, bad wolf, played by Sally Pirie, Olathe senior.
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Nine-year-old Toshita Barve, who played another dog, enjoyed tricking the big, bad wolf when she tried to "eat" Emmalyn and Toshita. Lyla played a lullaby on her imaginary fiddle to put the wolf to sleep.
Later in the semester, the students will develop their own story drama with the younger children and will re-enact other books.
Left to right: Toshita Bavre, Guillermo Rodriguez de San Miguel, Camila Rodriguez de San Miguel, Lyla Beckingham and Emmalin Beckingham (foreground) listen attentively to the spider in the children's book "And the Dish Ran Away With the Spoon." KU Students in TH&F 404 teach after-school drama classes at Murphy Hall for children.
"I'm hoping I can learn how to incorporate some of these activities into my own teaching." Whitney Gilliland, Leawood senior and elementary education major, said.
But it's not all fairy tales and children's books. In March, the KU students will begin working with as many as 15 children in fourth through sixth grades and focus on creating a story rather than re-enacting a book.
With the older children, Klein has previously covered story topics including women's rights, time travel and child labor. She said she did not "dumb it down" for the children, but helped them
learn about the topics by improvising stories.
When Klein covered child labor, she played a mean boss who pretended to make her child employees work long hours in a factory.
By reenacting such scenarios, Klein said concepts became more understandable for children, who had experienced the situation through their imaginations.
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"My method of learning best is by having the children lead me in the drama," Klein said. "I set up the premise, but it's up to the kids to decide where the story is going to go and what happens next."
Tina Halady, Lyla and Emmalyn's mother, said her family moved to Lawrence from Australia, and she wanted to give her homeschooled girls the chance to be involved with drama and the community. She said she liked how the classes were similar to a one-room schoolhouse with students of all ages.
"It's an extension of creative play." Haladay said. "It's fun for them to see the big kids play too."
Beaumont said she hoped the children would learn to cultivate creativity and appreciate theater the way she did when she was in the classes.
"It was these classes and working with the students and being able to get out there and express my creativity that helped me focus," Baumont said. "Later on in life, I realized how much I depended on theater as part of my life"
Klein said the class meant just as much to the college students as it did for the kids. She said it helped the students remember who they were and who they still are.
"You're incredibly imaginative. You're incredibly creative," Klein said. "You just don't use those juices everyday. But it's still there. You just have to let it out."
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The streak stops in Stillwater
Danielle McCray dominates as Kansas ends its 14-game road losing streak in Big 12
BY JAYSON JENKS jenks@kansan.com
STILLWATER, Okla. — As the final seconds ticked away, and the asies inside Gallagher-lba Arena filled with orange- and black-clad fans, Kansas' players and coaches stood, applauding in an otherwise silent gym.
The faint clapping and screams may have been Kansas' most important cheers all year. In a season characterized by losing games
late — and with a 14-game road conference losing streak clinging to their backs — the lajahys shed both trends by defeating Oklahoma State 67-52.
"When they went on a run, we
"When they went on a run, we stayed tough. We didn't separate like weak teams do."
stayed tough," sophomore forward Nicollette Smith said. "We didn't separate like weak teams do. That's what got us through the end of the game."
Kansas has often used hindsight to recount missed opportunities this season. The Jayhawks have suffered four-game losing streaks twice since starting Big 12 play.
But since the start of this
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month, coach Bonnie Henrickson has been preaching a simple message to her team: February serves as a tipping point.
For full coverage of the Kansas vs. Oklahoma State women's basketball game, check out the Rewind on page 48.
Every indication hints that the Jayhawks are getting better.
"I'm a firm believer that in February you don't stay the same." Henrickson said. "You either get worse or you get better. Teams don't stay the same. In February, you're either playing for something or you've lost the chance to play for something."
Fresh off an upset of then-No. 21 Iowa State on Sunday, Kansas used an aggressive defensive effort and timely scoring from junior forward Danielle McCray to pull away from Oklahoma State.
McCray, who
ranks second in the conference in scoring average, keyed Kansas' offense by tying a career-high with 30 points and grabbing 13 rebounds.
That McCray made 9-of-13 attempts is impressive. That she did so at crucial times in the game with defenders draped on her is even more so.
"She hit tough shots. I mean, she never got an easy look," Henrickson said. "I thought they got up in her and she hit tough shots and big shots."
In previous games, the second half has spelled doom for Kansas. At times on Wednesday, that trend appeared to take form.
Oklahoma State cut Kansas' lead to just two with slightly less than four minutes left. But the Jayhawks responded, scoring the final 13 points.
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Head coach Bonnie Henrickson and her team say thank you to the KU fans in Stillwater after the game on Wednesday. The Jayhawks won the game, 67-52. It's their first Big 12 road victory in 14 attempts. Junior forward Danielle McCray scored 30 points to lead Kansas.
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Freshman forward Marcus Morris rushes toward the basket during the Jayhawks 87-78 victory over Oklahoma on Monday. Although Morris has only taken 14 three-point this year, he has made 5-11 during conference play, helping keep double teams away from Cole Addich.
It's 30 minutes before practice starts and Marcus Morris is already on the Allen Fieldhouse floor shooting.
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This is routine for Morris, a freshman forward. He used to say he shot 200 three-point shots before every practice, but his teammates didn't believe it so he's changing that estimate.
"They said I was over-exaggerating last time," Morris said. "So maybe I will say 100 or maybe 50."
Either way, that's a lot of repetitions for a power forward who spends most of his time around the basket during games. Morris, however, has never conformed his game around being a traditional big man.
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Despite his 6-foot-8 frame, Morris played mostly on the perimeter at Prep Charter High School in Philadelphia. Many of his 1,325 career points there, a school record, came from behind the three-point line.
"Back in high school, I shot it a lot," Morris said. "I wasn't even hesitant in high school. Every time I got the ball, I basically shot it."
Morris hasn't fired three-point shots that frequently in his first
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year at Kansas, but he has attempted 14 of them. He's converted on six and has gone 5-for-11 since Big 12 Conference play began.
That Morris has shown the ability to make them is what is important to Kansas coach Bill Self, who says Morris' three-point range complicates opponents' game plans. Self said it forced defenses to "stretch" and cover more ground when a frontcourt player could make threes.
"It ites because they really can't trap Cole down there," Little said, "because they have to get out to the shooters."
Because of how often he shot in high school, Morris developed a reputation as a big man with range before ever playing a college game. Little heard about it before arriving on campus this summer.
Junior guard Mario Little has noticed a different benefit.
"I don't put it past anybody being able to shoot," Little said. "But when we first met each other, we came and shot in the gym anyway, and I figured out they could shoot."
He had no reason to be skeptical. Little soon learned the rumors were true.
By "they," Little also means Marcus' twin brother, freshman forward Markieff Morris, who doesn't shy away from taking three-point shots either. Although Markieff doesn't shoot as often as his brother, he's still 3-for-10 from
three-point range this season.
Markieff has only taken one three-pointer in Kansas' last five games, a misfire against Nebraska. Marcus missed his only attempt in Monday's victory against Oklahoma, but made his only one against Nebraska Saturday.
But what's pleased Self the most about the Morris twins lately is how they've played when their shots aren't falling. Last week, Self singled the brothers out as a reason why Kansas was playing better.
But that doesn't mean Marcus is going to stop shooting. As long as he's at Kansas, it will have a big man who is capable of stepping out and hitting a three-point shot.
COMMENTARY
"The biggest difference to me is Marklew and Marcus." Self said.
"Those are two factors we didn't consistently have earlier in the year. Now, they can impact the game even when they don't shoot the basketball well."
The lajahwies will also have a big man who is always early to practice to work on his shooting, even if his estimates aren't always accurate.
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Fans could influence next year's recruits
BY STEPHEN MONTEMAYOR
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Kansas' 70-53 victory over Nebraska last Saturday appeared to be a routine squash of an overmatched squad subsequently expelled from memory after a thrilling Big Monday in Norman, Okla.
Not so.
Last Saturday inside Allen Fieldhouse could potentially be one of the more significant days for Kansas athletics. If so, it was because of who was in the stands not on the court.
Having signed its most lauded class to date this year, Kansas foot ball hosted more than two dozen of the most high profile recruits to set foot on campus for its biannual Junior Day.
The cream of the 2010 crop arrived early for a comprehensive tour of campus, athletic facilities, academic support staff and met with the football coaching staff before they watched a game inside Allen Fieldhouse.
Be thankful the band took precedent over arena rock and that the Phog faithful responded with a more spirited showing. Allen Fieldhouse needed to be at its fabled best. After all, Wichita quarterback Blake Bell is also entertaining offers from an expansive list of schools including Georgia, LSU, Miami, Nebraska, Notre Dame and Oklahoma.
Columbia, Mo. defensive lineman Chase Rome has offers from Oklahoma and Wisconsin and finds letters from Southern Cal. Florida and Alabama in his mailbox.
Recruits choose a school for a myriad of factors - proximity, a liking taken towards a coach - but a good deal of players can be influenced by an impressive day on campus.
Before leaving Junior Day with an offer Saturday – as reported by Rivals.com – Wichita running back Joseph Randle's lengthy travel itinerary included visits to Arizona, Louisville, Kansas State, Missouri and Texas A&M. The idea that the student section could do anything to leave a mark on a blue-chipper is not merely birthed on message boards.
The next Junior Day will be April 11, Kansas' spring football game. For the current team, it is a chance for a final display in Memorial Stadium before the fall. For those in attendance, it is another opportunity to entice the next crop of possible players.
"The crowd was great, they were really funny," Rome told Rivalts.com
"Everybody's status kind of changes day-by-day, it just depends on who I am talking to that week," Rome said.
But with trips to Oklahoma State and Kansas State scheduled between now and March 7, Rome may lean more toward the flavor of the week than for the next year as his peers are likely to do.
These days the waves of wheat flow in a path opposite that of decades past for Kansas football. As they will once more in April, the most significant collection of talent to visit Lawrence sat near one another Saturday with the potential to comprise an elite team one day.
Behind and all around them sat those who could aid that process.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"This is our Christmas and New Year's all rolled into one."
— KU swim coach Clark Campbell on the Big 12 Championships
FACT OF THE DAY
Texas is the only Big 12 team Kansas swimming didn't face in a dual before this weekend's Big 12 Championships. Kansas went 2-0 against Iowa State and Nebraska, then 0-2 against Missouri and Texas A&M.
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TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: How many school records did Kansas' swimmers set at last year's Big 12 Championships?
A: Five. Senior Danielle Herrmann posted school records in the 100 and 200 breakstrokes as well as the 200 individual medley. She also helped the 200 and 400 medley relays set new Kansas superlatives. Other current swimmers on those relays include seniors Ashley Leidigh and Maria Mayrowich.
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Aldrich shows Collison-esque qualities
H is hat was pulled down so far,you could barely see his eyes.
Stubble covered his cheeks, and his skin looked aged. But you'd never forget that face. You'd never forget Nick Collison.
As you probably know by now, Nick Collison was in attendance in Norman, Okla., on Monday as the Jayhawks beat the Sooners and took control of the Big 12 standings.
It was fitting that Collison, who plays for the NBA's Oklahoma City Thunder, picked this game to attend. It's been almost six years since Collison immortalized himself on Big Monday with a game for the ages against Texas.
BY RUSTIN DODD
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You probably remember how Collison pulled down 24 rebounds and willed Kansas to a 90-87 victory. You probably remember how ESPN's Dick Vitale stood up on press row and gave Collison a standing ovation.
And now the years have passed, and Collison sat in the stands as Kansas sophomore Cole Aldrich scored 15 points and grabbed 20 rebounds in a performance that could only be described as Collision-esque.
And of course, you can't think about Nick Collison without thinking about his old teammate Kirk Hinrich. And again, it's fitting that Hinrich will be in Allen Fieldhouse on Sunday to have his jersey retired during halftime of the Missouri game.
Yep, it's a week to reminisce. So,
as we march toward March, The
Morning Brew's list mania returns.
Top 5 Months of the Year.
1. March - Winter finally ends, the NCAA tournament begins and we get hours of Masters commercials on CBS. Yes, I love March.
3. December - Who doesn't love the holidays?
4. July - More Summer.
Five Movies to see this year
5. October - The World Series, football heats up and basketball season begins.
MLB
1. Sherlock Holmes
2. Up
3. Alia
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minator Salvation
Three Movies to miss this year.
Three Movies to miss this year.
1. Star Trek
2. 2012
3. X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Top 5 basketball teams in the
1. North Carolina
2. Memphis
3. Marquette
4. Pittsburgh
5. Kansas
Final Four Prediction
Final Four Prediction
1. Pittsburgh (Champion)
2. North Carolina
3. Louisville
4. Arizona State
Five Reasons to Hate Missouri
1. Jason Sutherland's cheap shots
2. Quantrill's Raid
3. The Antlers
Five Reasons to Hate Missouri
4. Former coach Norm Stewart refused to spend money in Kansas
5. The Missouri Athletic Department's offices are located at One Champions Drive, Columbia, Mo., and Missouri has never won a national championship in any
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5. Really?
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A-Rod gets booed at training
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BY FRED GOODALL
At least for a little while.
DUNEDIN, Fla. — Back on the field, Alex Rodriguez was able to put aside the steroids scandal.
Booed and taunted by opposing fans in the Yankees' spring training opener, Rodriguez homered and drew two walks Wednesday in a 6-1 exhibition victory over Toronto that was anything but routine.
It was his first game since admitting he took performance-enhancing drugs from 2001-03 with Texas. He left after drawing a walk in the fifth inning, then signed autographs for five minutes before calling it a day.
"This is what I do. I know how to play baseball," Rodriguez said. "I just hope that's the start of something really special for this year. I
feel really good about our team."
There were lots of cheers for the three-time AL MVP, a smattering of boos and occasional catcalls from the crowd of 5,014 at mostly filled Dunedin Stadium.
The New York third baseman walked on five pitches in the first inning. Many in the crowd stood and cheered as he circled the bases after hitting a tiebreaking, two-run homer off Ricky Romero in the fourth.
"It was just a fastball I left up and he's a great hitter," Romero said. "He's going to hit mistakes and I made a mistake. I was just trying to be aggressive."
By the third time Rodriguez went to the plate, hecklers who earlier shouted "Hey, A-Rod, where's your cousin?" and "Madonna" were drowned out by applause.
"When you're playing, it's hard
The slugger had dinner Tuesday night with former Yankees star Reggie Jackson, now a special adviser with the team.
"I told him to hit the baseball. It's really an old story. It never really changes," Jackson said. "Hit the baseball, and hit it like heck. That's really about all that really matters."
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KANSAS 26 41 — 67 OKLAHOMA ST 22 30 — 52
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<table border="1"><tr><td>Player</td><td colspan="2">FG-FGA</td><td colspan="2">3FG-3FGA Rebs</td><td>A</td><td>Pts</td></tr><tr><td>Danielle McCray</td><td>9-13</td><td>3-4</td><td>13</td><td>2</td><td>30</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Nicollette Smith</td><td>4-9</td><td>2-4</td><td>2</td><td>1</td><td>13</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Krysten Boogaard</td><td>3-3</td><td>0-0</td><td>6</td><td>0</td><td>6</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Ivana Catic</td><td>0-0</td><td>0-0</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td>5</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Sade Morris</td><td>3-11</td><td>0-1</td><td>6</td><td>1</td><td>11</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>LaChelda Jacobs</td><td>0-1</td><td>0-0</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Aishah Sutherland</td><td>1-2</td><td>0-0</td><td>2</td><td>0</td><td>2</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Kelly Kohn</td><td>0-0</td><td>0-0</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Porscha Weddington</td><td>0-0</td><td>0-0</td><td>2</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Team</td><td></td><td></td><td>4</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Totals</td><td>20-39</td><td>5-9</td><td>40</td><td>8</td><td>67</td><td></td></tr></table>
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| Player | FG-FGA | 3FG-3FGA | Rebs | A | Pts |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Tegan Cunningham | 3-9 | 0-1 | 5 | 1 | 7 |
| Shaunte Smith | 5-11 | 0-0 | 7 | 0 | 13 |
| Megan Byford | 1-2 | 0-0 | 5 | 0 | 4 |
| Andrea Riley | 7-28 | 2-8 | 0 | 3 | 18 |
| Taylor Hardeman | 2-6 | 2-6 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| Kristin Hernandez | 0-4 | 0-2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Ally Clardy | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Melinda Mercado | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Shyvon Spears | 2-4 | 0-1 | 7 | 0 | 4 |
| Team | | | 2 | | |
| Totals | 20-64 | 4-18 | 30 | 10 | 52 |
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Strong defense shuts down Riley
STILWATER, Okla. — Oklahoma State guard Andrea Riley never stopped looking to score Wednesday night against Kansas. That was expected.
But the Kansas defenders never stopped getting their hands in her face and made her look pedestrian when her statistics so far this year showshe is a top-level talent. Riley scored 18 points on 7-of-28 shooting in a 67-52 Kansas victory.
Coach Bonnie Henrickson thought that her entire team did a great job making Riley take "tough twos."
"We never really let her get really, really loose and in a great rhythm," Herrickson said.
Forced to take step-back three pointers and contested shots around the paint, Riley, a candidate for the Wooden Award and a potential selection for the All-Big 12 First Team, looked frustrated the entire night. Her 18 points was her second lowest output in Big 12 play.
Junior guard Sade Morris didn't think one person could take the credit for shutting down Riley.
Henrickson agreed that it was a complete team effort. She credited senior Ivana Catic for taking on the head-to-head matchup for most of the game, but also talked
"That was just teamwork," Morris said. "She'd pass her defenders, but wed have three others sitting in the lane waiting for her."
about the post players stepping up and either forcing an extra pass or making Riley hit a tough shot.
"She couldn't get the shot, she couldn't get the layup and then she couldn't get the pass." Henrickson said.
Henrickson even decided not to put Morris, her "best defender," on Riley. She felt that they were asking "too much" of the junior guard to take a huge role on both the offensive and defensive end. Morris was responsible for guarding Riley on a made shot, but because Riley missed often, Catic took the matchup for most of the game.
Morris and Henrickson also said that another key was not to foul Riley when she drove into the paint. Riley took more than 10 free throw attempts in five conference games, and she only stepped to the line three times Wednesday night.
The defense on Riley stepped up in the later parts of the second half. Her last bucket came with 12:56 to go in the game. From that point on, the layhawks finished the game on a 29-12 run. Riley took nine shots after her last basket and none of them fell. A few even missed the rim.
Riley's poor finish spoke volumes about the effectiveness of the entire team playing solid defense.
"That's good team defense, not one-on-one," Henrickson said. "Nobody one-on-one is going to stop Riley."
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"We fought back," junior guaro Sade Morris said. "Teams are going to make runs, but we think we have more in us than they do. They made that run in the second half but we were like 'OK, we just have to find a way to score and
Senior guard Ivan Catic defends Oklahoma State's Andrea Riley. Riley scored 18 points and made just 7 of 26 attempts in a losing effort on Wednesday night.
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get a stop. That's what we did a great job of doing."
Throughout the game, Kansas consistently answered Oklahoma State's runs.
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"There were probably three of four situations in the second half
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The Jayhawks held Oklahoma State guard Andrea Riley to 18 points — the first time she's been held to under 20 points in 10
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Two weeks ago, that defensive focus and toughness was nonexistent. But, in its past two games, Kansas has placed more emphasis on playing aggressive, hard-nosed defense.
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Kansas was neck and neck with predicted winners Texas and Texas A&M going into the final moments of the 200-yard medley relay. With a time of 1.38.45, Kansas took a close third to these two teams but made the ultimate finish for the season thus far. Coach Clark Campbell said this relay time ranked Kansas 13th in the nation, qualifying them for the NCAA Championships in March.
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"We set a goal of 1.38 for the meet and we made that tonight," senior Danielle Hermann said. "All along we knew we could do it."
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Kansas A-team was ranked fourth coming into the finals heat.
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Kansas' B-team, comprised of sophomores Joy Bunting and Amanda Maez, junior Carrah Haley and senior Jessica Brozek, finished with a time of 1:44.98. Kansas' C-team finished with a time of 1:46.28, which freshmen Stephanie Payne and Sarah Hettenbach and sophomores Brittany Potter and Sarab Edwards swam. Kansas' D-team, sophomores Lisa Dugopolski and Alyssa Potter, junior Melissa Heyrman and senior Rhynn Malloy, finished in 1:48.08.
Kansas took fourth in the 800- freestyle relay later in the
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2. Texas A&M — 68 points
3. Kansas — 62 points
4. Missouri — 62 points
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6. Nebraska 1:41.55
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2. Texas A&M 7:00.67
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4. Kansas 7:13.86
5. Nebraska 7:22.10
6. Iowa State 7:26.50
evening. Kansas' A team finished fourth with a time of 7:13.86. The team of freshman Shannon Garlie, juniors Erin Goetz and Emily Lanteigne and senior Anne Liggett broke the school record of 7:17.91.
"This was the biggest surprise of the evening." Campbell said. "This is a top 25 time right now and we're just thrilled with the performance."
Campbell said the team had set a goal to beat the school record, but he said they were not expecting to beat it by four seconds. Campbell said he hoped the momentum from these two races would continue to snowball over the next few days and result in more records being broken.
— Edited by Heather Melanson
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BY JOSH BOWE
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Kansas drops game in 10th
Walk-off home run keeps Jayhawks from sweeping No. 21 Arkansas
On the bright side, things can only get better for Paul Smith.
The senior closer struggled again, giving up a walk-off home run in the bottom of the 10th inning as Kansas lost 9-8 to No. 21 Arkansas yesterday afternoon. Smyth blew his second save in as many chances and is now 0-2 with a 20.25 ERA in two appearances.
"Obviously, it's a devastating loss," coach Ritch Price said.
"Unfortunately, we couldn't close the deal."
S myth h wasn't alone in his struggles. Sophomore pitcher T.J. Walzrelieved starting pitcher Shaefe Hall in the sixth
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Hall left the game after five innings with a 4-2 lead, but the Jayhawks bullpen gave up seven runs with Smyth allowing three runs in the final two innings to the Razorbacks.
"A couple of balls got away from him." Price said. "They hurt him like good teams do."
inning and gave up two runs.
All four pitchers that appeared for Kansas gave up at least one earned run:
The offense gave Hall, who once again provided a quality start, an early lead with a four-run second inning. His performance wasn't as dazzling as last week's no-hitter, but Hall left the game in line to earn the victory, giving
BOX SCORE
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Kansas 0 4 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 — 8
No. 21 Arkansas 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 3 0 1 — 9
WP: Richards (1-0) LP: Smyth (0-2) SV: None
HR: House (ARK:1)
up two runs while striking out five and walking none. He also received another national player
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Hall
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"I thought he was better today than he was last Friday." Price said, "because of the caliber of the opponent and pitching on four days rest."
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blow coming from senior center-
fielder Nick Faunce's two-out, two-
run double. Once again, Kansas
put up runs without hitting a home
run.
we played five games without hitting a home run." Price said. "We have to play a little bit differently than we played before."
Faunce
"I can't remember the last time
That small-ball approach was put to the test in the top of the ninth inning. Down by one run, Kansas used a single, a passed ball on a strikeout and another single, all with two outs, to send the game to extra innings. Sophomore third baseman Tony Thompson, who reached first and kept the inning alive on the wild pitch, said he liked the Jayhawk's resiliency so far.
"I think it shows a lot of how our team has improved this week," Thompson said. "We're not just going to lay down and die in any games this year, and that's going to be a big plus for us."
After a week-long road trip in which Kansas has traveled from Tennessee to Arkansas, Price's team will finally be able to enjoy the comforting confines of Hogwild Ballpark next week. Price said he hopes Kansas' consistent improvement will continue in Lawrence.
"We definitely a lot better than we were last Friday," Price said. "Now we need to go out next week and get better next week."
BIG 12 BASKETBALL
- Edited by Andrew Wiebe
Tigers get payback against Wildcats in blowout
COLUMBIA, Mo. — The suspense was long gone when the horn finally sounded to end No. 11 Missouri's latest home-court romn.
both had 16 points for the Tigers who have won seven straight since
DeMarre Carroll had 21 points and a career-best 14 rebounds, helping the Tigers run their record to 17-0 at home with a 94-74 rout over Kansas State on Wednesday night.
The latest blowout came against a team that beat them by 16 points in Manhattan on Jan. 28.
"That first half was probably the best we've had since I've been here," coach Mike Anderson said. "Our guys were very aggressive, and they had a lot of energy."
J. T. Tiller added 15 points, six rebounds and six assists and Leo Lyons and reserve Lawrence Bowers
both had 16 points for the Tigers, who have won seven straight since losing 88-72 at Kansas State.
"We wanted to get the payback," Lyons said. "Coach doesn't want us to say that, but it's what it was."
Missouri (24-4, 11-2 Big 12) trailed by 13 points at halftime in the first meeting and led by 23 points at the break in the rematch, embarrassing a team that has lost only twice in its last 10 games.
"We got our rear ends kicked," Kansas State coach Frank Martin said. "We battled, but we walked into a buzsaw."
Missouri entered the game averaging 87.4 points and with a 26.5 point margin of victory at home this season.
"It's hard to do in a great conference like the Big 12," said forward Matt Lawrence, who had all but one of his 13 points in the first half.
"We're playing great right now."
Denis Clemente scored all but 14 of his 33 points in the second half for Kansas State (19-9, 7-6), which shot 37 percent with 21 turnovers and got eight points from Jacob Pullen, who had 23 points in the first meeting.
The Wildcats trailed by a season-worst 32 points in the second half and also hit program lows for points allowed in a half (55) and overall.
The Tigers matched their best victory total from the last 15 seasons, a 24-12 record by the 2001-02 team, with three regular season
Bowers was 5-for-6 from the field over the last 3:12, including an alley-oop dunk from Miguel Paul and two putbacks in the final 6 seconds.
The Wildcats, who had won seven of the last nine games in the series, got as close as 16 points in the second half before Missouri pulled away again.
The Wildcats shot 35.5 percent and were 2-for-10 from 3 point range. It was Kansas State's deepest halftime deficit by far, previously trailing Kentucky by 14 on Nov. 28 in a two-point loss.
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Jordan Scott, Watkinsville, Ga. junior, will compete in the pole vault event of the Big 12 Indoor Track and Field Championships this weekend. Scott is currently ranked fourth in the nation and is a two-time Big 12 Champion. His next goal is to jump 19 feet.
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A scrawny 5-foot, 120-pound freshman is trying out for his high school track team. He's trying to follow the footsteps of his father, who had run the 400-meter in high school and college.
Unfortunately, he has asthma and it keeps him from attaining any running success. One day, he sees a group of pole-vaulters, who are supposed to be practicing, lying out on the mats in the sun. He figures he'll give it a try.
That scrawny freshman is Jordan Scott. Today he's one of the nation's top pole-vaulters. Scott, a Watkinsville, Ga., junior, qualified for this year's NCAA Indoor Championships back in January at the Kansas vs. Missouri dual, where he cleared the nation's top mark of 18 feet.
This weekend Scott will focus on earning his third straight polevaulting crown at the Big 12 Indoor Championships.
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"Usually you're looking to get better in the Big 12 each year," Scott said. "I started out with first place and I've got to keep it up now."
Scott remember being an underdog the first time he won the title, as a freshman back in 2007. Scott jumped 17-5, a personal best, to win. The following year he took the title with a jump of 18 feet.
Scott said that
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winning the title the second time was as good as the first, but what made both titles great was that
his parents were at both of those meets.
"It's weird to think about it. I always hoped I'd jump as high as I am now."
"They fly out to as many meets as they can," Scott said. Scott said they came out to New York to see him at the New Balance Invitational earlier this month and will travel to College Station, Texas, for the Big 12 Indoor Championships.
Scoffed he was fortunate to train at the University of Georgia's facility and attend its camps. He used that training to become a two-time Georgia Field Athlete of the Year. He holds the Georgia high school record in pole vault (16-7) and was one of the most sought-
JORDAN SCOTT Junior pole vaulter
after recruits in the state.
Universities such as Georgia, South Carolina, Clemson, Texas Tech and UCLA all tried to recruit him. But it was the pole vault program at Kansas, particularly vertical jumps coach Tom
Hays, that caught Scott's attention.
"Coach Hays is one of the best
coaches in the country," Scott said. "You know they've been good and they will provide for us to be able to be good again."
On his school search, Scott noted that team success didn't matter unless he was going to get better.
"I'm looking to individually get better instead of just being on a national championship team," he said.
Scott also liked the fact that Lawrence was similar to his hometown of Watkinsville, which
is about two hours southeast of Atlanta.
Scott had the opportunity of a lifetime last summer, competing at the Olympic trials for the 2008 Beijing Games. While warming up for the final round, Scott strained his hamstring and was unable to compete.
He may not have gotten the chance to compete for a final spot, but Scott said it was a lot of fun just being there and plans on trying out for the 2012 Olympics.
Opportunities like that only come around for the top athletes in the country, and top athlete isn't a title Scott is used to, despite his success.
Scott said his next goal was to
"It's weird to think about it," Scott said. "I always hoped I'd jump as high as I am. And now that I'm actually doing it, you always want to jump higher and higher and there's not really any limit so I'll never think I'm great until I'm a world-re:cord holder."
jump 19 feet. This weekend he'll get a chance to do that and pick up a third conference championship in the process.
"Being an athlete you always think that you're going to be the best, otherwise you're not going to keep competing," Scott said. "So I hoped I'd be the best and now that I'm up there close to it, you always want more."
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KU on Wheels caters to the directional needs of anyone with either a KU Card, a transfer slip or a dollar. A KU on Wheels log tallying riders per route indicates that approximately 6,000 to 7,000 students use the Campus Express route, which runs from McCollum Hall to GSP and back, on school days.
"It's nice for getting to class on time," Blain Wells, Hutchinson junior, said. "And it's free."
Ten different bus routes run throughout the day to take riders anywhere from the Kansas Union to Allen Fieldhouse to the Reserve at 31st Street. This kind of versatility is why a sunny day in Lawrence doesn't keep students from riding the bus, said Derek Meier, KU on Wheels transportation coordinator.
"If you're going to spend 20 to 30 minutes in transit, you might as well use a bus," Meier said. "It's convenient because students can read newspapers, do homework or whatever they want because they're not stuck walking and climbing hills. They have nothing to worry about."
Of 52 recorded responses from a KU on Wheels survey, 75 percent said the frequency of the buses was a strength. Eighty-one percent noted the comfort of the buses as a strength.
For many, the bus system is a way to avoid the harsh wrath of the winter months and still get to class.
"I like to walk a lot when it's nice, but not so much when it's cold," said Katie Crabtree, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore.
"I like to walk a lot when it's nice,but not so much when it's cold."
But many feel the same way and take the bus as an alternative to walking.
KATIE CRABTREE Kansas City, Mo., sophomore
"In the winter, they can get pretty crowded," said Donny Wasinger, Winona, Minn., freshman. "This is a longer wait
here by the Union, but I don't like walking too much."
Alex Fischer, Jefferson City, Mo., junior, said he would sometimes rather walk than fight for a spot on the bus. Fischer is a resident assistant at McCollum Hall and has lived on campus since his freshman year. He said that in past years, when he bought a
bus pass, he could leave 20 minutes before class and make it on time. But now that anyone with a KU ID can ride the bus, sometimes he has to leave for class 45 minutes before it starts.
"It's just hard sometimes to get on a bus because they pack as many people on as possible," Fischer said. "There's just never enough room and probably not enough buses."
Those with a longer trek rely on buses from Park & Ride Express. This service provides a parking lot at Clinton Parkway and Crestline Road, enabling students to park their cars and then take a bus that runs to locations on campus.
"It's quicker to use Park & Ride than to drive to a parking area on campus and walk to class," Meier said. "It has many of the same characteristics as KU on Wheels
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"There's just never enough room and probably not enough buses."
for the people that aren't on that route."
Other students depend on the timeless bicycle for a good workout and a quick trip that's on their own time.
"You get to class faster," said Kaitlyn Cover, St. Louis, Mo., sophomore. "It's also good exercise instead of just riding the bus."
Although many students choose their future residence based on cost only, others deem location as a primary appeal.
"Being on campus makes it easier if you have to print something off or meet with a teacher," Cover said.
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Consider your options before diving into a housing search
O one of the most exciting and daunting things about being a freshman is being able to live on your own for the first time. My freshman year was particularly exciting because I went out of state to Eugene, Ore., to try my hand at really living outside my comfort zone.
My freshman residence hall experience went surprisingly well, considering my room was the size of a small closet. Compare my room of not even 100 usable square feet to a standard McCollum room of about 140 usable square feet.
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But on the upside, my roommate, Hannah, and I got along better than any roommates I'd ever seen.
When I decided to come to the University, I went straight for campus housing because it provided everything I needed: convenience, low cost and community.
I'm starting to look for my own place to live off-campus next year, and I know it's not always going to be easy to find just what I'm looking for. Considerations such as type of housing, roommate, proximity to campus, neighborhood, contract length, furniture, pets and cost will factor into my decision.
Knowing how to start the housing
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When we started to put together this spring's apartment guides, we thought about what students needed to know about finding a place to live next year. What matters to students about where they live? What interesting stories do students have to tell about their housing experiences? What don't students know about finding a place to live?
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What's a first priority to you when picking out a place to live?
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For first-time (or even second- and third-time) apartment hunters, whether they're out-of-town students, freshmen moving out of the residence halls or just people in need of a residence switch, the hardest part about searching for an apartment is figuring out where to begin.
1) DEFINE WHAT YOU WANT FROM A RESIDENCE
Robert Baker, director of education for Housing and Credit Counseling, Inc., said that before searching for an apartment, renters have to establish their basic needs and wants.
"You have to ask yourself—do I want a roommate, is the location near a bus route, is it close to campus, how much do I want to pay for utilities—before searching for a location," he said.
According to the Kansas Tenant Handbook, renters should ask themselves
four basic questions before searching for an apartment: where is it; does it match who I am; how much does it cost; and how long do I want to live there?
John Gibbons, Springfield, Mo., graduate student, said that for him the most important factor when searching for an apartment was proximity to campus.
"I didn't want to have to drive," he said. "I wanted to be able to walk to campus."
Kate Joseph, Chaska, Minn., sophomore, said quality was her top priority when searching for an apartment.
"I live with all girls, so we wanted it to be a nice place, too," she said.
Once tenants know what they want from an apartment, they can start looking at available resources.
2) NARROW YOUR SEARCH
Classifieds: The classified sections of newspapers are easy places to begin
"If you know anyone that goes to school here that you can ask, that's a good option."
Jamie Nishimura, Mililani, Hawaii senior, said she found her current apartment at Sunrise Terrace using the classifieds
the search for available apartments.
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"It gave me more of an idea of what kinds of apartments were available, and, like everything else in life, I wanted to get the
best deal," she said.
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specific criteria, such as price range and number of bedrooms. Then the site generates a list of apartments that match the criteria.
"Sometimes the apartment you get is a lot different than the one you look at."
JAME NISHIMURA Millani, Hawaii, senior
Colleen Boerner, Overland Park graduate student, said searching on the Internet was a good way to find apartments,
but she recommended being skeptical.
"They can distort the way the apartment looks in virtual tours," she said.
Word of mouth: Kate Baker, Wichita freshman, said she found her current apartment at Meadowbrook Apartments by talking to friends.
"If you know anyone that
goes to school here that you can ask, that's a good option," she said.
Robert Baker, from Housing and Credit Counseling. Inc. said that to be careful when getting apartment advice from friends, though.
"It's all a matter of taste and preference," he said. "One person's feelings may be different from what another person is looking for."
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3) GET A FEEL FOR LAWRENCE APARTMENTS
If a person is sick of shuffling papers or sifting through Web sites, another option is to take a driving tour of Lawrence. Driving around will help give a feel for different areas and decide which parts of town a renter likes, Robert Baker said.
"This is especially helpful if you're from out of town," he said.
4) MAKE AN APPOINTMENT
The last step when searching for an apartment should be to schedule an appointment to walk through the apartment you want to lease.
Kate Baker said looking at the apartment firsthand is important, but it might not provide as much insight as desired.
"Sometimes the apartment you get is a lot different than the one you look at," she said.
Nishimura said nobody should sign a lease without walking through the apartment first.
"It's a must-do," she said.
She recommended looking at a variety
of apartments before making a commitment.
"Don't just jump and lease the first apartment that you find," she said. "The people who are trying to get you are like used car salesman. They will do anything to get you to rent their apartment."
Gibbons also suggested comparing several apartments.
"Where I live, even if you move a block further, you could pay $100 more in rent," he said.
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Ask four basic questions before searching for an apartment:
1. Where is it?
2. Does it match who I am?
3. How much does it cost?
4. How long will I live there?
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Monthly cost of unit: How much can you afford in your budget without borrowing to rent?
Solo or roommates: Do you know your potential roommates well? Will they pay their rent on time? Can you afford to live by yourself?
Cost of utilities: How much will each cost?
Location: Do you need to be near campus or a bus route?
Internet and cable hook-up: None, basic or premium? How easy will it be to get service in your unit?
Pets or nopets: Your choice of apartment may be limited if you have a pet. Many landlords charge a pet deposit or monthly fees.
Luxury orb basics:Are you willing to pay the extra cost for amenities such as a pool or workout room?
Security: Is your apartment or house in a good neighborhood?
Washer and dryer: Does your unit have a washer and dryer provided, or just the hook-ups? Will you have to go to a laundromat?
Furnished or unfurnished: Which suits your needs better?
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When it comes to convenience and saving money, on-campus living is ideal. And an added benefit is the community spirit residents find here. The University provides its students with a variety of on-campus housing options, including residence halls, scholarship halls and the Greek system.
The sororities and fraternities on
campus are known for their sense of community. Although this option is more expensive, students can immediately bond with the other members of their houses. In-house chefs and cleaning services add extra conveniences. Often, students must abide by rules and keep a certain GPA in order to retain residency.
Jeff Davis, Wichita freshman, went greek because of the networking opportunities and encouragement from his family. He said the sense of community among a
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Some students choose to live in scholarship halls, which focus on academics. Scholarship halls are one of the main options for on-campus housing. Other options include residence halls , greek houses and Jayhawker Towers apartments.
diverse group of students was spectacular in his fraternity.
"At the house, all the guys are friends, and every one of us genuinely cares about the other" Davis said. "It's an awesome place where guys that are like you and guys that really aren't like you can coexist and have fun, as well as study and run an organization."
Davis said the sense of community spanned the entire greek system, as well.
"It's just a great big frat, the greek system—supportive and loyal to all of its members," Davis said.
The greek system is known for its numerous opportunities for student involvement.
"Here I am, a second-semester freshman, and I'm already on the executive board here at Delta Tau Delta," Davis said. "There are so many chances to advance your résumé and yourself."
Now that he's gotten involved with his fraternity, Davis will continue to live inhouse.
"As cliché as it sounds,it really is like living with family," Davis said. "I wouldn't trade it for anything."
Although sometimes compared with the greek system, the scholarship halls provide a distinctive type of community atmosphere. Because of an applicationbased selection process, the halls have a specifically academic focus.
Students accepted into the scholarship halls typically pay about $1,600 less each year than those living in the residence halls, according to the Department of Student Housing. Each of the six men's halls and six women's halls houses about 50 students.
"I found girls that are not only my best friends here, but I look at them as my sisters," said Mary Emerson, Oklahoma City freshman. "They're the girls who, when you break up with your boyfriend, will stay up with you until 3:30 in the morning. I feel like you just can't beat the community that you find here. It's not just a building to me — it's a home."
Emerson chose to live in Watkins Scholarship Hall because of the family-style dinner approach.
"I really enjoy that it's kind of like a small family." Emerson said. "I look forward every day to going down and eating dinner, and it's a great way to build new relationships."
Miller Scholarship Hall, a women's hall, shares this kitchen setup. Instead of having
separate bedrooms, Watkins and Miller halls have two sleeping porches with rows of bunk beds.
A third common on-campus living option is the residence halls. These halls also offer a sense of community.
"I love the huge number of people that you can find surrounding you at any point in the day, because I'm a social butterfly," said Nathan Hutchcraft, Lenexa sophomore. "My dorm is a close-knit community."
The residence halls are designed with lobbies on each floor, which emphasize the community feel.
"I love my floor," said Eileen Remley, Concordia freshman, who lives in McCollum Hall. "It's very doors-open. I know, like, every girl in my hallway. We do a lot of things together."
"The benefits are the closeness and camaraderie that you develop with what seem to be complete strangers," said Danny Woods, Overland Park freshman. "But as the year goes on, you become good friends."
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Looking for an apartment can be a difficult process, and bringing a house pet along is another, more expensive obstacle.
Every housing complex has a different policy on house pets. Meadowbrook Apartments, a popular housing community at the intersection of Bob Billings Parkway and Crestline Road, puts a 50-pound weight limit on pets and does not allow any in its new buildings. Another well-known set of apartments, The Reserve on 31st Street, has a no-pet policy, with the exception of fish in a tank with a capacity of 10 gallons or less.
Joe Wertzberger, Manhattan senior and current owner of an Australian shepherd mix, named Murphy, said many difficulties arose when trying to find an apartment that allowed pets.
"When you have a dog you have to get that out in the first couple questions to the landlord." Wertzberger said, "Fifty percent of the time they don't allow pets, and a lot of the time they have weight limits for them, as well as a pretty hefty deposit."
Wertzberger and his two roommates rent a house from personal owners, who Wertzberger said are easier to work with than a managing company.
"At our current house there is no weight limit (for the dog)," Wertzberger said. "Personal owners usually allow pets and can be more lenient about the situation."
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"A big obstacle was the pet deposit," Leibold said. "I had to give half of a month's rent for the dog."
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a landlord can charge for a pet deposit. Robert Baker, director of education at Housing and Credit Counseling Inc., said that although landlords were restricted in the amount of money they could charge on a pet deposit, the law did not restrict the number of pets.
"The only thing that is
clearly defined in the Kansas Tenants Handbook is the amount you can charge for the pet deposit." Baker said. "However, pet could be singular or plural."
Each landlord is able to decide if they want to allow pets in the space they are renting. They are also able to determine the standards and requirements for the pets.
"There are often odd requirements," Baker said. "I have seen one that limits a
"I have seen one that limits a pet to being no taller than six inches off the ground."
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pet to being no taller than six inches off the ground."
A pet can often be a difficult roommate for a college student. Leibold said she had to give up her canine friend because her current environment didn't work with a
dog.
"I decided to give the dog to my parents. It's hard to have a dog in college, especially in an apartment," Leibold said.
But for those who want to have a dog, finding a place that fits the pet's criteria is crucial. Wertzberger recommended looking at places with fences.
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If you are driving around looking for 'for rent' signs and you see a fence in the backyard, that is often a good sign that they allow pets," he said.
After a year in an apartment with her dog, Leibold said her best piece of advice was to make sure the pet always had enough room.
"Space. Lots of space," Leibold said. "It's less about the apartment and more about the dog."
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The next step to stress-free renting after the search has begun is a thorough move-in inspection. Landlords are legally required to provide a walk-through inspection with
The landlord and tenant must make a list of the damages and conditions of the premises before the tenant moves in, according to the Kansas Tenants Handbook.
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Students should check out the plumbing in the apartment they are considering renting. Going through the apartment thoroughly before moving in can help prevent problems later on. If students find problems while doing their inspection, they should document it and let the landlord know what they need fixed right away.
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Bill Larzalere, Legal Services for Students chief litigation attorney, suggests that students complete the inspection, before moving in.
"When you first move in, do a movein inspection with your landlord, all roommates and even parents present," Larzalere said. "More eyes will catch more things. You want to be thorough. Take time to do a good inspection and mark everything down."
Legal Services for Students provides a move-in inspection checklist, as well as advice, on its Web site, www.legalservices.ku.edu. Students should use the LSS checklist to document any existing damages and make sure they don't miss anything during the inspection, Larzalere said.
"Make sure you mark everything," Larzalere said. "If you miss something, you could get charged for something you didn't do. There's nothing stopping you from taking pictures or videotaping the inspection. The inspection also gives you a chance to write what you want to have
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fixed right away. If you move in and something's not, right tell the landlord you want to get it fixed as soon as possible. Then, get it in writing to guarantee it will get done."
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The Kansas Tenants Handbook suggests asking the landlord for the "check-out list or a list of things he or she will expect to be done and will inspect when you leave. These are things you want to look at closely when moving in. You are to return the unit in as good a condition as when received except for normal wear and tear."
Shopping around and starting her search for an apartment early helped Jessica Cassin, Overland Park freshman, find her perfect fit. She is already signed up to live in Meadowbrook Apartments next year.
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It's important to be thorough during an
1. Check the hallways and stairs.
2. Check the locks on the doors.
6. Look for signs of rodents and insects.
7. Check the heat.
12. Check for lead paint.
3. Check the plumbing, including pipes around any radiators.
8. Ask about utilities.
13. If an apartment is furnished, check the condition of the furniture.
4. Check the electrical wiring.
5. Check the floor, walls, and ceilings.
9. Check for garbage or trash containers.
14. Find out who is expected to take care of the yard, halls,and sidewalks.
10. Make sure the appliances work.
11. Check the windows and screens.
15. Ask whether parking is available or guaranteed.
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BY CLAYTON ASHLEY cashley@kansan.com
Apart from, house, or residence hall? KU students show a lot of personal preference when it comes to deciding where to live while attending the University.
Renting a house is a popular choice for students, especially those looking for something a little more quiet or private.
Lindsay Stewart, Columbia, Mo.
junior, said she liked her home because she didn't have to deal with noisy neighbors. David Kern, Lansing junior, feels the same way.
"It's a lot quieter than an apartment or dorm," Kern said.
He said he also appreciated the location.
"It's on the bus route.
which is really convenient," Kern said. "It's a good location, close to Dillons and Wal-Mart."
Diana Kaepplinger. Chicago sophomore, said she was pleased with the house she rented with her roommates.
"It was close to the stadium," Kaepplinger said. "It was big and cheap compared to all the other places we looked at."
Many students enjoy the extra freedom that comes from living in a house.
"More space, more freedom," said Matt Tingle, Cary, N.C., junior.
Travis Elder, Olathe freshman, also enjoys the freedom houses offer.
"I don't have to live in a noisy complex with a bunch of those people," Elder said.
There are some things students can get only by living in a house, such as a garage.
"I don't have to live in a noisy complex with a bunch of those people."
For students looking for a community, they can join the more than 3,500 students who live in residence halls. Some students like residence halls because they offer an affordable package, including a meal plan, cable, and telephone.
"I like having a cafeteria right beneath
me," Erica Bennett, Emporia freshman said.
"I don't have to deal with the hassle of a house, like mowing the lawn."
With breakfast, lunch and dinner prepared every day at Ekdahl Dining Commons, also known as Mrs. E's, making food becomes one less thing to worry about while living in the residence halls.
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Olathe freshman
Sarah Anderson, Blue Springs. Mo. freshman, chose to live in a residence hall, not only because it was affordable.
but because it allowed her to meet new people.
Other students, like Catherine Allan, Mooresville, N.C., freshman, agreed that the residence halls offer something different.
"I'd never lived in a dorm before, and I wanted to see what it would be like," Allan said.
The residence balls'
JAVEN KELLY Lansing junior
authentic college living situation draws students to live there.
"Residence halls are the true college housing experience, a place where all the other students living there are going through the same experiences you are," said Jennifer Wamelink, associate director for residence life.
Apartments are also very popular among KU students, who make up about 50 percent of all apartment tenants in
Lawrence.Studentsappreciate
Lawrence. Students appreciate that the rules are little more laid back in an apartment compared with the residence halls.
Others, like Marc Lyon, Leawood sophomore, value that much of the maintenance is taken care of in an
"I can have a cat, just like I wanted," said Chelsea Brooks, Canby, Ore., sophomore. "I can also find parking easily".
apartment. is taken care of in an
While living in an apartment may mean giving up a front yard, it certainly comes with its own benefits.
"I don't have to deal with the hassle of a house, like mowing the lawn," Javen Kelly, Lansing junior, said.
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Many students choose to live in houses because they can be quieter, and some are conveniently located along bus routes. Cost and proximity to things, such as the stadium and grocery stores also play a factor in whether a student chooses to rent a house.
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BY NATALIE BROWN
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These days, being economically savvy is far from overrated, especially when apartment shopping for somewhere to live for only half the year.
Setting up somewhere to live after studying abroad or finding someone who can sublease while studying abroad can be pretty frustrating, unless students know how to barter with their landlords. Some students have discovered methods that allow them to leave for their semester abroad without lease troubles.
"Finding a replacement sublease person for that person between semesters can become an issue, but thankfully there are always people just arriving or returning to Lawrence," said Peter Lyrene, Fairhope, Ala., senior.
Lyrene's roommate, Jacob Muselmann,
is currently studying abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina. When Muselmann, Tulsa senior, was mapping out his plans for housing, knowing he would be gone the spring semester, he was hesitant to sign a lease. Fortunately for him, his three-bedroom house was contracted by a landlord who could relate.
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Peter Lyrene, Fairhope, Ala. senior, had to find a replacement roommate because his roommate, Jacob Muselmann, Tulsa senior, studied abroad this semester. Lyrene said he wished there were easier options for semester leases.
"The landlord was encouraging after he explained that his daughter had studied abroad for a full year in the UK while she was in college," Lyrene said.
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The housing dilemma causes the same problem every year. According to the Institute of International Education, 27.5 percent of the University's undergraduate students study abroad.
Students who don't have an understanding landlord can plan ahead with their roommates.
Kelsey Hutchinson, Woodland Park, Colo., junior, is studying abroad in England
this semester.
"I'm not subleasing my room back in Kansas, but my roommate and I split up rent throughout this year so it works out," Hutchinson said. "I'm not paying rent there anymore because we worked it out at the beginning of the year, and she knew I would be leaving for the spring. We kind of evened out the rent for the year."
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With Kansas ranked 11th in the nation among public universities for the number of students who study abroad, students wish that making housing arrangements around study abroad trips could be more convenient.
"I wish there was a way, or a system, to connect with other students studying abroad to make housing arrangements, especially semester exchanges. I was shocked when I found none at KU," Muselmann said in an e-mail.
The KU Office of Study Abroad does not assist students with leasing options; however, the department recommends the Jayhawker Towers.
Instead of worrying about finding another roommate to take the place of the person studying abroad or paying out to a roommate, students can lease by semester at either the Jayhawker Towers, part of the Department of Student Housing, or Naismith Hall, a privately owned residence hall located at 1800 Naismith Drive.
Sam Sankoeich, Naismith Hall general manager, said the building allowed between six and 10 people to lease for only a semester.
"We don't advertise that we allow it, but if a person asks while we're talking about it, then we mention it," said Sankoeich.
Naismith does, however, charge a fee of $50 or $100 per month if a lease is only for a semester. Sankoeich said.
That cost is an addition to the semester pricing averaging $4600 depending on the
room being standard, renovated or deluxe. Naismith does not have a deadline for leasing, making it easier to find last-minute housing. However, Naismith fills a majority of its rooms for the fall semester by June with a first come,first serve basis.
Jayhawker Towers also subleases for a semester depending on the availability during a particular semester. A four-person apartment costs an average of $1600 per semester. For a two-person apartment, the average is $2800. The Jayhawker Towers, unlike Naismith, do not charge extra for only leasing a semester.
According to the housing department, only students who intend to study abroad can take advantage of these options. There is already a waiting list of at least 20 people for leasing next fall at the Jayhawker Towers.
Students living in fraternities or sorories can find housing for a single semester much easier than other students, Sarah Mahn, Overland Park senior, said.
"I lived in Sigma Delta Tau first semester last year because we have a live-in policy for two years," Mahn said. "But I got to pay a study abroad fee to remain a member and be in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, last spring semester."
Mahn said the number of greek students who study abroad seems to differ each year. She noticed that only about half of her group during her program had a greek affiliation.
Even with difficulties finding housing, students still manage to bite the bullet and find a leasing option that works best for them.
"It's a great experience and it shouldn't be given up just because of trouble with the living situation here," Mahn said.
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International students fit in at Stouffer Place
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For some international students, living in Stouffer Place apartments can help them cope with the overwhelming process of leaving home, country and family.
Around 80 percent of the estimated 2,300 residents in Stouffer Place are international students, or their family members. This gives the apartments an environment where different cultures and heritages are tolerated and shared.
Codoceo and his wife have been at Stouffer for over eight years now and as soon as this May they will return to their native Chile. "We now are so used to being here," said Codoceo, "It's going to be kind of chalky in a way... cause we have a life here already with friends. It's going to be difficult to leave our life here."
Sometimes residents will go years without seeing any friends or family from back home. One such resident is Hector Codoceo, Iquique, Chile, who came to the University of Kansas from Chile because his wife received a Fulbright Scholarship. "I knew nobody," said Codoceo. "You can find somebody from your country or the same area."
The residents of Stouffer hail from a vast array of countries including Chile, China, South Korea, Indian, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United States.
Seyool Oh, PhD Candidate, Jinhae,
South Korea, is the president of the Stouffer
Neighborhood Association. "Stouffer Place
is a unique place,"Oh said. "Off-campus apartments don't have a community". Because most of the students are international students, the established community greatly eases the transition to a new environment and culture.
The Stouffer neighborhood is self-governed by the SNA. They deal with policy rules and community building. Occasionally there will be meetings that deal with communal issues. The communal issues affect all residents whether they are students or not.
Actually, the family members outnumber the students. Most of the residents who live in the apartments are family members of students. SNA is funded by the University, but the funding is disproportionate because the school funds the group for each student, not resident.
Donald Claus, vice president of the Stouffer Neighborhood Association, has lived at Stouffer for more than seven years and has seen many of the residents' kids grow up in that time. "I was fortunate to live in Stouffer," said Claus. "You have people of all ages and people of many nationalities and so here at Stauffer there are lots of things we do that allow people to meet very quickly". Throughout each year, the neighborhood will host a various assortment of activities throwing charity slide on
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Choosing to not to fly the coop has advantages and disadvantages from on-campus living
BY CRYSTAL YAKEL editor@kansan.com
Most people see college as an opportunity to fly the coop and live away from home. But for some that decision is a lesspractical option, and they decide to live with their parents.
Each option has its own advantages and disadvantages.
McKayla Saunders, Overland Park junior, said she found it more economically efficient to live with her parents instead of on campus.
By living with her parents and riding the K-10
Connector back and forth from Overland Park, Saunders has saved money.
"Your alone time is limited and there are still chores. You are still being told to do stuff."
"It isn't until you are on your own that you realize how much money really has to be spent on conveniences, such as the Internet, that are free when
MCKAYLA SAUNDERS
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But Saunders admitted there were some downfalls to living at home.
living at home," she said.
She also said she appreciated knowing that where she lived with her parents was secure and a part of a safe neighborhood. Knowing the area you live in means no guessing on security and safety.
Privacy can become an issue when living at home with family.
"Your alone time is limited and there are still chores," she said. "You are still being told to do stuff."
But many students decide to live somewhere other than home. Robert Rebori, Shawnee sophomore and resident of Lewis Hall, decided to trade in the comforts of home for greater freedom.
"You still have a roommate to get used to. You are used to your parents..."
"I enjoy the independence of being at college because you get to set your own schedule and deal with your responsibilities without someone reminding you,"
Rebori said.
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"You still have a roommate to get used to," Rebori said. "You are used to your
Many students appreciate their increased privacy and freedom living on campus. Meg Swisshelm, Leavenworth freshman and resident of GSP-Corbin Hall, said that having the freedom to come and go without a curfew was a great advantage to living on campus.
Sovereignty from rule of parents is a nice change, but many students still face the difficulties of living with other people.
parents because you have lived with them your whole life, and now you have to deal with how your roommate is different from you and the family you were raised by."
Many students wonder about their options when it is time to head off to college.
When college approaches, and each subsequent year of
and each subsequent year of college comes there after, it's important to look at all of the housing opportunities.
There's a lot of options to think about when deciding to take that next big step in life. So consider them thoughtfully.
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ERIN FLETCHER Leawood sophomore "I joined a sorority. I was a little worried at the beginning, but my roommates are really nice."
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Cosmopolitics
The Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., $4, 21+
Smoov Confusion/
Stik Figa/Soul Servers/
Royce Diamond
The Jackpot, 10 p.m., $5 to $7, 18+
The Breakdown with Bsears DJ Cyrus D and Stackswell
The Eighth Street Taproom, 10 p.m., $3,21+
The Gloves
The Replay Lounge, 10 p.m..
$2, 21+
Season To Risk/
Restless Breed/The
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The Record Bar, 9:30 p.m., $10 p.m., 21+
sunday, mar 1
Poker Pub
The Pool Room, 7 p.m.
free, 21+
Jeff Harshbarger Presents An Alternative Jazz Series
The Record Bar; 7 p.m.,
$5,21+
Jazz on a Sunday
The Eighth Street Taproom
9 p.m., $2, 21+
The Bottleneck, 8:30 p.m.,
prices vary, 18+
Smackdown Trivial and Karaoke
Swarthout Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m., free, all ages
Peter Collins, piano
DJs Joc Max and Miles Bonny
monday, mar 2
The Phoenix jazz Club, 8 p.m., free, 21+
Modest Mouse/Mimicking Bird
The Uptown Theater; 8 p.m.
$35, all ages
Original Music Mondays
The Bottleneck, 9 p.m., free,
18+
Karaoke Idol Party
The Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., 21+
The First Monthly Chomp Womp Night!
The Eighth Street Taproom, 10 p.m., $2, 21+
The Foundry Field Recordings
Recordings
The Replay Lounge, 10 p.m.,
$2.21+
The Kansas Union, 8 p.m. free, all ages
Tuesday Night Swing
tuesday,mar 3
The Points
The Replay Lounge, 10 p.m.
$2.21+
Brighton, MA
The Record Bar, 10 p.m., $7,
21+
wednesday, mar 4
Poker Pub
The Pool Room, 7 p.m., free.
21+
Chess night at Aimee's
Aimee's Coffee House, 7 p.m. free, all ages
Brett Dennen/The Little Ones
The Bottleneck, 8 p.m., $15- $16, all ages
The Pink Floyd
Experience
The Uptown Theater; 8 p.m..
$25 to $45, all ages
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IAN PATTERSON
tickle the greater number's funny bone is just too chancy for my taste.
I don't think I could handle teetering the fine line stand-up comedians pluck at with every joke. Taking the risk of offending some to
I have always been surprised at what makes me huff in a disgruntled fashion and what makes me teary-eyed with laughter. The factor in acts that makes me smile rather than scowl is a shared characteristic that I can identify with the comedian.
Here are a couple of my favorite comedians' more memorably offensive rants:
"I was hanging out in the one gay bar in all of Scotland. They have one gay bar. It's called C.C. Bloom's. C.C. Bloom's is the name of the character that Bette Midler played in Beaches. That is the gayest thing I have heard in my entire life. That place should just be called Fuck Me In The Ass ... Bar and Grill."
Margaret Cho:
Jim Gaffigan:
"I was looking at a box of Hot Pockets.
They have a warning printed on the side. Warning: You just bought Hot Pockets. Hope you're drunk or heading home to a trailer. You hillbilly, enjoy the next NASCAR event."
"I get jealous of couples a lot. You see couples out and about and they do the PDA thing, the public displays of affection. I saw this couple the other day and this guy was giving his girlfriend a piggyback ride down the street. And it was a little over the top. But something was in me like, 'Oh, I want that. Like that is what I want.' And then he like set her back down in her wheelchair. And then I was like, 'Maybe that's not what I thought it was. That's fine. It's not for me.'"
See Madeline's Q & A on page 13 for some insight into comedian Nikki Glaser's comedic style. Here's a sample of her brand of comedy that was on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno:
I've seen Beaches like Cho and have eaten Hot Pockets like Gaffigan, giving me a common characteristic with each of them.
So if Glaser were to poke fun at Lawrence's liberal loonies—I'd be OK with that. She's a fellow Jayhawk.
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A park ranger
Imagine getting called at six in the morning to help pull someone out of a toilet.
David Rhoades, park manager at Clinton Lake, had to do just that. A man had fallen into the septic tank of one of the park's bathroom facilities. Rhoades and the fire department rescued the man, who had been trapped for several hours.
Clinton Lake gets two million visitors a year, and Rhoades, with two other full-time park rangers, acts as an "adult babysitter." Most of the time, people are civil, Rhoades says, but drunk people can be difficult to deal with and often endanger themselves. Once, a drunk man dove into six inches of water at the beach and broke his neck, he says.
Rhoades' work is not just with people; he helps with the upkeep of Clinton Lake's natural resources. Rhoades updates weather readings for the NationalWeather Service, conducts controlled grass burnings and checks on the three bald eagles' nests at the lake with the other rangers.
As the park manager, Rhoades works mainly at his computer and manages the other rangers. Because the federal government owns Clinton Lake, Rhoades must make sure all regulations are met.
"There's lots of paperwork involved with
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spending the government's money." Rhoades says.
Rhoades says that a modern park ranger must be a jack of all trades because of the influx of technology. Rangers have to know how to work in an office and outside, Rhoades says.
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DIY: Ready your bike for spring
[do it yourself]
If your bike has been out of commission—or worse,outdoors—for the past few months, it probably needs a little work before it's ready to ride.
"Leaving a bike outside is not a really great idea," says Nick Gardner, manager at Cycle Works, 2121 Kasold Drive."It's like leaving your car with the windows down all winter."
The best way to guarantee your bike is safe to ride, Gardner says, is to take it to a professional bike mechanic. However, Gardner offers this advice to students who want a quick fix before riding their bikes to class.
1. Inflate
Look at the sides of your bike's tires and add air to the maximum pressure indicated, Gardner says. Tire pressure naturally decreases by about five psi a week, Gardner says, so chances are your bike's tires are in need of some air. If you don't have a bike pump, head to a gas station or a bike shop.
2. Lubricate
Use a bike chain lubricant on the chain, cables and housings, Gardner says. He cautions against using an all-purpose lubricant like WD-40. Bike-specific lube is designed to repel dirt, Gardner says, but WD-40 can just attract it. For about $4.50, bike chain lubricant is a good investment.
Photo by Becka Cremer
Ready, set, bike. Your bike's probably been MIA for winter,
so make sure to inflate, lubricate and tighten your ride.
If these three steps don't seem to be enough, and your bike needs a little more TLC, both Cycle Works and Sunflower Outdoor and Bike.804 Massachusetts Street, offer basic tune up packages and free estimates for other repairs.
3. Tighten
If you have access to tools, Gardner recommends tightening all of the accessible nuts and bolts on your bike.
— Becka Cremer
green it! Go out eco-guilt free
Lawrence's newest bar, Wilde's Chateau 24, is making several moves toward being environmentally friendly. Will Bohne, a manager of Chateau, 2412 Iowa Street, says he makes two trips a week to Wal-Mart to recycle about 150 pounds worth of cardboard, plastic and glass. All remaining trash is thrown out in one bag. The bar conserves energy by using lowenergy lights, candles and dimmers switches for all lighting. Even the outside decorative lights are solar powered.
"We can't do everything but at least we are doing something," says Kate Giessel, Chateau public relations representative.
The incentives for bars are not only environmental but economic."I don't know why there isn't more of a rush to be doing these kinds of things because it is so practical," says Dave Boulter, Chateau owner. He is also the owner of Henry's, 11 East Eighth Street, where cardboard and plastic are recycled.
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Joe Dougherty, employee at the Sandbar. 17 East Eighth Street, agrees downtown bars face additional obstacles to recycle for these reasons. He says the bar recycles everything it can and would recycle more, such as glass, if the dumpsters were provided.
Tina Baker; manager at the Red Lyon. 944 Massachusetts Street, says most downtown
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Setting the mood-Wilde's Chateau 24 uses low-energy lights, candles and dimmers for a more eco-friendly bar.
businesses recycle cardboard because dumpsters are provided. Also, the Sandbar has an energy efficient air system that circulates outside air in to cool down the bar when it is busy in the winter instead of using air conditioning.
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Frustrating to businesses is the cost of many environmental technologies, such as solar power. Boulter says he was looking into LED solar lights for Chateau but they are not economically viable right now. "We are happy to do what we can do," he says, "but we have to keep it in perspective."
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Making the case for a cause
By Katherine Mulder
kmulder@kansan.com
Life inside a health care access clinic with a woman who sees it all
Lixel Barnhill did not cry as she listed all of the loved ones who required her care. Two of her three children have cerebral palsy: 18-year-old Daniel and 10-year-old Duke. Her daughter, an 8-year-old named Destiny, is healthy despite her 13-hour birth was Barnhill's hardest and longest. Then there were her parents. Her mother had Parkinson's disease and
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9 to 5: Likel Barnhill, clinical nurse and medication coordinator at the Health Care Access Clinic, works around the clock, sometimes 12-hour days, to help Douglas County residents who can't afford health care.
diabetes.Her father had Alzheimer's disease.She took this as a sign she belonged in health care, so she went to school to make it official.
windows but with walls lined with shelves full of medicine. This is where Barnhill starts and ends her day.
It is a Thursday. Barnhill agreed to let me shadow her. I went everywhere she went. This is her story.
Monday through Friday, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Barnhill works with other workers and volunteers at the Health Care Access Clinic in Lawrence to help provide health care for those in the Douglas County who can't afford it. These people face the hard realities of the bad economy, and their numbers are growing faster than the resources that assist them. For this reason Barnhill recently volunteered to work two jobs at the center, as a clinical nurse and as the medication coordinator. She also gave up her office so it could be used as another exam room. Her desk now sits in the middle of the medicine supply closet—room as small as it sounds, without
8:30 a.m. Barnhill finds her purse in the bottom drawer of her desk. It reminds her that she worked 12 hours yesterday. It would have been more if she hadn't accidentally locked herself out of the clinic last night. On Mondays and Tuesdays, Barnhill works mainly as a clinical nurse. Consequently her work as the medication coordinator piles up. After having dinner with her family, she returned to work.Taking a box full of paperwork to her car, Barnhill accidentally forgot her purse inside. "Yesterday was a long day," she says."One of those days I just went home and cried to my husband."
9 a.m. Barnhill is calling patients to tell them their prescriptions are ready when she is paged. A patient is here to pick up his medicine; this happens about 30 times a day. She finds a brown paper lunch bag and goes to the waiting room. A man in his 50s takes the bag and whispers he doesn't have the $2 fee. She says no problem, it happens a lot. On the way back she is handed six more medical charts.
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Jeri Safarik, nurse practitioner at the clinic, says Barnhill is managing a prescription program with more than 700 enrolled people. "It is a huge task," the nurse practitioner says. "We keep her busy."
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9:30 am After filling the prescriptions of five more patients, Barnhill's husband calls. The school says their 10-year-old son is sick. Barnhill hangs up to call the school.As she dials she says, "Anytime he even sheds a tear the school is all over it, which is great but they call a lot." The school asks her to come get him. Barnhill firmly explains that she works two jobs and her husband is in Kansas City but will come soon.
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Barnhill inspires her coworkers with her devotion to her job and family. Safarik says Barnhill takes on so much both personally and professionally outside of the clinic. Barnhill's sister and her sister's children also live with her family, and Barnhill is a Girl Scout troop leader. Barnhill also taught a night nursing class until she took on the second job at the clinic and
had to stop. "She finally gave up something." Safarik says.
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Without hanging up the phone, Barnhill dials the next patient. This time she speaks Spanish.The patient says she doesn't have the gas money to drive to the clinic.Barnhill says she will call the prescriptions in to a nearby store so she can walk to get them.The patient then says her diabetic mother needs an eye exam.Barnhill says she'll schedule it.Mewhile nurses and workers walk in and out to pick up charts and medications.
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Big ways for students to help without cash
1. List the Health Care Access Center as one of your causes on Facebook.
2. Use GoodSearch as your search engine to help raise money. Go to www.goodsearch.com and type Health Care Access in the "Who do you GoodSearch for?" box.Links are provided to add GoodSearch to your search bar. Every search gives one cent to the clinic.
3. Ask local doctors and/or businesses if they help support Heath Care Access Clinic, If not, encourage them to start.
4. Support doctors and/or businesses that do support the clinic.
5. Salley Zorgyr, development director and volunteer coordinator, says she needs 200 volunteers for the Kansas Marathon on April 19. All proceeds from the run go to the clinic. For more information, e-mail her at zogyrs@healthcareaccess.org.
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9:45 a.m. Only one chart left. A coworker updates Barnhill about a patient who was misidentified at a hospital. A hospital claimed the patient had surgery and sent the clinic the paperwork. During an exam at the clinic, it became clear that the patient could not have had the surgery documented in her chart. When they asked the patient about the surgery, the patient panicked.The hospital was contacted to correct the information.
10 a.m. Barnhill is paged into an exam room to translate. Barnhill is the only staff member who is medically certified as a Spanish translator.
10:10 a.m. A volunteer nurse asks for Barnhill's help. The nurse doesn't think her patient, a single mom in high school, can afford a $4 prescription."I've been there," Barnhill says, relating to the patient's situation. They look at the wall with the "freebie" medications, mostly donated from pharmaceutical companies. They find an antibiotic.The nurse says,"OK, let's give her our last bottle."
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Safarik describes Barnhill as constantly moving." You can interrupt her and it is not
a problem," she says. "She will still give you a smile."
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Barnhill is back to the eye exam patient. She looks at an Excel spreadsheet on the computer to find a volunteer doctor who is available.
10:15 a.m. Another page, this time to fill the role of clinical nurse. She looks for her stethoscope. "It must be in my other desk," she says laughingly. She finds it at her desk in the nurses' office, throws it around her neck, and escorts the Spanish-speaking patient into an exam room. He is a male in his 40s with bronchitis. The patient's mother-in-law is in the waiting room, wanting to pick up the family's prescriptions.
10:30 a.m. On her way back, she is handed packages full of donated medications from pharmaceutical companies. "Back to the meds," she says with a laugh. She opens and organizes them while calling the doctor to schedule the eye exam. She then calls the patient to let her know.She gets up to fax the patient's information to the doctor's office.
11 a.m. Back from the fax, eight more charts are stacked on her desk. "Wow, look at the stacks, I'm so happy," she says. "Yesterday I
had them piling up back on the shelves. At some point, I may eat breakfast." As she sits down, the nurse practitioner asks her to come translate the medication instructions for the bronchitis patient.
11:30 a.m. The school calls. "They are on a hunt for my husband," she says with a smile. She calls her husband. He says he is on his way and asks if she has eaten. "I get caught up and don't get a chance to eat," she replies.
She goes back to the charts. One patient is getting out of jail and requested refills on her medications, but because it has been so long, her paperwork has expired. Barnhill gets the proper forms and starts filling them out for her.
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Another page. this time a patient calling to ask about a doctor's referral. Barnhill answers the phone as an office worker delivers the patient's chart.
Lining the shelves: Lixel Barnhill visits the medicine cabinet a countless number of times a day to fulfill her dual role as clinical nurse and medication coordinator at the Health Care Access Clinic of Douglas County.
Noon Barnhill opens the medicine packages and starts organizing them. She explains that the amount of medications coming in isn't even half the amount that it should be. She looks up at the shelves of medications. "Right now we are really low," she says, "Believe it or not."
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No candy, no cereal, no ice cream. Deana Olsen was surprised how much she had to give up to avoid products that contain high-fructose corn syrup. Many processed foods include the sweetener, so Olsen, Lawrence senior, started to cook using a lot of fresh ingredients.
Olsen says she felt better since changing her diet, and eventually she gave up high-fructose corn syrup completely. Cooking from scratch required more time and avoiding high-fructose corn syrup limited the food she could enjoy.
U. S. consumers gorged on an average of 136 pounds each of caloric sweeteners in 2007, of which high-fructose corn syrup made up more than 40 percent, according to the Department of Agriculture. However, some consumers, such as Olsen, worry high-fructose corn syrup can cause negative health effects.
Olsen originally avoided the syrup as part of an allergy test. She found she wasn't allergic to it, but she says she's still uncomfortable consuming products containing the syrup. Olsen says the process of making high-fructose corn syrup seems "chemically" and "unnatural," compared with table sugar or honey.
Researchers don't have strong evidence that high-fructose corn syrup is more unhealthy than other forms of caloric sweeteners, says Yong-Cheng Shi, associate professor of grain science and industry at Kansas State University. High-fructose corn syrup is made from corn starch. The process involves enzymes, but Shi says the syrup can be considered natural, unlike many low-calorie sweeteners consisting of chemicals.
High-fructose corn syrup making people fat and sick is another misconception that consumers often have. Shi says that high-fructose corn syrup is as sweet as ordinary sugar derived from cane and that they both supply the same number of calories. The American Medical Association also reported last year that high-fructose corn syrup does not contribute more to obesity than other caloric
sweeteners in response to some consumers' concerns.
Richard Johnson, researcher at the University of Colorado, has studied the link between fructose consumption and the epidemic in obesity, diabetes and the metabolic syndrome. His research team found fructose contained in corn syrup and table sugar could cause the body to produce more uric acid, which induced the metabolic syndrome.
Both high-fructose corn syrup and table sugar consist of fructose and glucose."Human bodies cannot tell the difference between high-fructose corn syrup and regular sugar once it's digested," Shi says.
Johnson,coauthor of The SugarFix,compares the different health effects that high-fructose corn syrup and table sugar can create. He says the free sugar molecules in high-fructose corn syrup—glucose and fructose—can be absorbed immediately in the body, compared with table sugar, in which the two molecules are linked. Fructose absorbed from the corn syrup circulates the blood and filters through the liver. He says the research is still under peer review, but it shows the different abilities of high-fructose corn syrup and table sugar to cause fatty liver disease. His research group found that rats fed high-fructose corn syrup
had developed more fatty liver than the rats fed table sugar.
Don't let sugar control your life.Whether it's high-fructose corn syrup or other sugar, awareness and moderation are the keys to good health, says Marty Glenn, KU lecturer in nutrition and dietician at Leavenworth VA Medical Center. Some people choose honey, maple syrup and brown sugar over high-fructose corn syrup. However, Glenn says they all contain higher calories and hardly any nutritious value. Honey and maple syrup can be as unhealthy as high-fructose corn syrup, if you consume the same amount.
Excessive sugar consumption can cause many health problems, including weight gain, obesity and diabetes. Glenn says counting your sugar consumption and limiting it to 20 to 30 grams a day keeps your body healthy. For example, a can of soda contains more than 35 grams of sugar. Glenn suggests switching to sugar-free soda, if you drink a soft drink every day or with every meal. When fountain soda is available, you can fill the glass half with regular cola and the other half with sugar-free cola. This way, you can still enjoy some of regular cola flavor, he says.
Kelly Berkson, Keene, New Hampshire graduate student, grew up drinking small
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amounts of soft drinks, unlike many of her friends. She was occasionally given fruit juice, which she considered a treat. She says this attitude helps her be aware of consuming sweet products, while some people have sweets so often and casually.
"I like having ice cream and other sweets, but I still consider them like treats." Keene says. "But some people take them for granted."
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Bugs in food dye
When you eat a big spoonful of strawberry yogurt or a take a chug of pink lemonade-flavored tea, have you ever thought about what gives these tasty treats their pink hue? Well it might surprise you to find out that it is thousands of tiny crushed bugs.
Michael Jacobson, executive director of Center for the Science in the Public Interest, says though these insects do not pose a threat to humans, they might gross some people out.
The colorings come in two forms from the cochineal insect and are obtained by subjecting a mass of the crushed insects to steam or dry heat. They provide a pink, red or purple color to foods ranging from ice cream and yogurt to fruit drinks, as well as to pharmaceuticals and cosmetics.
This little bug has caused controversy with food activists because companies are required to label the ingredient only as "artificial color" or "color added." The insects are also used in
Photo illustration by Tyler Waugh
Dye job. Thought those bug-eating contestants on 'Survivor' were disgusting? Well, you are eating insects in your jam, cookies or even cheddar cheese.
coloring in jam, cookies, alcoholic drinks and varieties of cheddar cheese.
— Megan Weltner
nurture by nature Raw garlic
Using garlic is a simple way to spice up an Italian dish, but it can also tame the common cold.
Garlic is anti-bacterial,anti-viral,anti-septic, anti-parasitic, ant-fungul and has also been proven to lower the risk of heart disease. This natural remedy has been used as both food and medicine in many cultures for thousands of years, dating back to Ancient Egypt.
A common misconception is that cooked garlic also has these medicinal qualities. This is not the case. Once garlic is cooked, it loses all disease-fighting qualities. To make the raw garlic a little easier to handle, Lowen Millspaugh, assistant wellness manager at the Community Mercantile, recommends eating it with food, such as chopped up on a salad.
However, one may want to take caution when thinking about using such a remedy. "I'm not going to lie. It makes your breath stink and maybe even your pores." Millspaugh says. Millspaugh says the taste of the garlic will stay with you for days and even weeks. If
Photo Illustration by Megan Weltner
Spice of life Eating raw garlic is a natural way to fight the common cold, but be cautioned about the spice's potentially bad breath-causing qualities.
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My girlfriend and I have been dating for a while. It's gotten really serious and we're talking about the 'next step.' Logically, part of that means meeting her parents. But she's still really hesitant about the idea of me meeting her dad. Do I push? Do I lay off? What's the best way to approach this situation?
**Elliot:** Trent, I understand your anxiety. But I'd also caution you to take your time. The first impression you make on her parents is something that could have echoes for a long, long time. This is especially true if things are proceeding to the "next step." So here's what you do: Tell your girlfriend that you're really excited about whatever happens next and that you look forward to meeting her parents whenever she's comfortable.
Trent, senior
Your girlfriend's hesitation about you meeting her dad suggests her relationship with him is probably a complicated one. And plus, countless fathers are dubious about anyone who might "steal" their daughter away. Just like I'm sure your mom will size up your girlfriend when they meet for the first time. But the thing to remember here is that family is forever. They'll always be there. So proceed however she sees best. She knows her family better than anyone.
Carly: First, try to understand her reasons for not wanting to introduce you to her dad. She may feel that it's still too soon, or she may be worried that her dad won't like you. Never push. If your girlfriend is hesitant, then the last thing you want to do is push her into something, especially something big such as meeting the parents. One thing that you could do is show her that you're ready for her dad's reaction, whether it's positive or not. It might help her if she sees that you're confident and prepared for the meeting. If she still says no, then drop it. She'll bring you home when she's good and ready.
Does it really bother you that you haven't met her dad yet? This relationship is about you and her, not you, her and her dad. If she has legitimate reasons for not bringing you home, then don't worry about it and focus on her. She's the important part, anyway.
Lindsey, senior
I have a very good friend whom I love a lot, but lately she is really pissing me off. She's very successful and has had a lot internships, but that's all she can talk about. She has no interest in my life or my other roommates' lives, and the only thing to ever come out of her mouth is how great she is. I'm getting sick of it. What do I do?
**Elliot:** Wow. Your "very good" friend sounds like anything but. Clearly she's got too much of an ego. And it's not your job to keep her full of self-adoration. Take her down a few notches. Tell her that you're not that interested in what she does at her internships. Also tell her that if the only thing she can think of to discuss is her résumé, that you two don't really have that much in common anymore.
So give her that ultimatum. Not only is it not fair to you, but it's not fair to your roommates. She comes into their space and doesn't even acknowledge them? No dice. She needs to clean up her act or figure out a way to live her work life and her social life simultaneously.And you should be brave enough to tell her that.
Carly: I agree with Elliot, but I believe in being more blunt. Tell her to shut the hell up. Sometimes, people get so wrapped up in their own lives that it's hard to pull them out with hints and signs.A little brutal honesty can easily fix this problem. Part of the job description of being a "very good friend" is to be supportive and excited for her when good things come her way.
However, she has responsibilities as a friend, too. She needs to have genuine interest in what's going on in your life. If that's too hard for her, then someone needs to open her eyes. Have a house meeting and tell her that her overachieving ways are obnoxious. Mention that you're happy she's successful, but the constant bragging overshadows any excitement you have for her. If she doesn't stop now, it's only going to get worse after college.
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In your opinion, what is the most important invention ever?
It has to be the Flowbee. It's a vacuum cleaner that cuts your hair! Bringing the worlds of hair cutting and vacuuming together makes it more than just the most important invention. It's the most important thing ever.
Probably music. Music is therapy for everybody.
What is one thing you know that most people do not?
I know Tom Cruise's career was in such a bad place that his people got together and realized that he'd have to try and kill Hitler.
I know what it's like to stand in front of a crowd of 300 people at a packed venue as they chant your band's name.
Who was your childhood hero?
Björn Borg. He was Swedish, rocked a sweet ponytail and made Fila short-shorts palatable. Plus, he probably pulled a lot of tennis tail.
My mother. Just because her life pulled a complete 180 when she had three sons.
What was the worst meal you ever had?
My Great Aunt Flake used to make things with food derivatives and never put sugar in anything. Everything suffered.
Anything at Mrs. E's.
Name one trend you wish would make a comeback.
Acid washing was the best, just because it made dirty cool. That was something. Everyone wanted you to think they'd stumbled into a laboratory and acid dripped all over them.
They're already coming back, but I want to see zombies get bigger.
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By Adam Schoof
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Pink unicorns and other monsters used to chase Tony Campbell in his dreams, but today he can control them by giving himself superpowers.
Campbell, Overland Park junior, suffered from intense recurring nightmares as a child. With practice, he could tell he was in a dream and control what was going on in his dreams. He could make things appear, rewind a dream and change a dream entirely. Eventually, he learned to do this consistently.
"All my dreams are whatever I want," Campbell says.
This ability is called lucid dreaming.
"When we're dreaming, the circuits of the brain that give us consciousness, the frontal cortex, are offline, so normally we have a perception the dream is happening to us," says Steve Ilardi, associate professor of clinical
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psychology."When we transition from sleep to wakefulness, the frontal cortex comes online."
Pajama talk: Can't quite muster up the courage to talk to your crush in reality? Lucid dream what you want to happen and maybe make it possible in the real world.
Some people's front cortex comes online before they are awake, llardi says, and this allows them to be conscious in their dreams. llardi says there is a small portion of people who can lucid dream naturally and others who can lucid dream with practice. Some people, however, cannot lucid dream.
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Paul Atchley, associate professor of psychology, is a lucid dreamer.
"When I do.lucid dream, I usually choose to fly because it's cool," Atchley says.
Atchley taught himself to lucid dream by first assessing his dreams and keeping a diary of them. Then, he gained a greater sense of consciousness in his dreams and he was able to subtly change them.
Rob Waggoner, author of lucid Dreaming Gateway to the Inner Self, says there are other ways you can lucid dream.
Waggoner says you can make a suggestion to yourself before you go to sleep that you will be conscious in your dreams. Waggoner says he looks at his hands while he tells himself, "Tonight in my dreams, I will see my hands and realize that I am dreaming."
When he sees his hands in his dream, then he knows he is in a dream because he has associated seeing his hands with being in a dream.
that dream. Before you fall back to sleep,
Waggoner says another method of making yourself lucid dream is memonic induction of lucid dreams (MILD), which was developed by Stephen LaBerge, a psychophysiologist who pioneered the study of lucid dreaming. This method requires you to wake up in the night, recall your last dream and then imagine yourself becoming conscious at some point in
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e dream: Create your own outlandish fantasies by controlling your dreams through lucid dreaming.
you tell yourself, "In the next dream,
I will realize that I am dreaming
and become consciously
aware." Waggoner says
this method gave
him significantly
more dreams, but required more work and repeatedly waking up in the middle of the night.
Yet another path to lucid dreaming, Waggoner says, is developing a "lucid mind." This method requires you to have a "more aware awareness," in that you should ask yourself throughout the day. "Am I dreaming this?"
"By actively questioning the current reality, a person is more likely to bring that same questioning awareness into their dreaming," Waggoner says.
You can test if you are in a dream by doing something you can't do in reality, Waggoner says, such as putting your hand through a wall or levitating.
Hardi says having your frontal cortex online when you are dreaming allows you to do these "reality tests."
"When someone is lucid dreaming, they can say, 'This makes no sense,'" ilardi says.
One of the challenges of lucid dreaming, Waggoner says, is staying lucid. If you lose your awareness, then you will lose control of the dream. Also, if you become too emotional or stare at an object for too long, then your dream will collapse,Waggoner says.
Lucid dreaming isn't just for flying around like Superman. It can be useful for testing out things you are too afraid to do in real life.
Alicia Lopez, Topeka sophomore, wanted to have a dream about a guy she liked so she could tell him about her feelings for him.When she finally had a dream with him in it, she was able to tell him. This gave her some confidence to tell him in real life, and they are together after a year.
Ilardi says what Lopez did in her dream is like when successful athletes visualize a victory. When you put yourself through a positive narrative, then you are reinforcing the notion that you can succeed. JP
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After graduating from KU in 2006, Nikki Glaser left Lawrence for the City of Angels to pursue a comedy career. Open mic nights in Kansas City clubs gave the St. Louis native the confidence to join the competitive LA. comedy circuit and last month she performed on The Tonight Show with Joy Leno.
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What was it like to do your first open mic night?
Generally, for comedians, the first show is amazing. It's your first time and people usually cut you some slack. They say the people who stick with comedy always have a good first set. If you don't know how great it feels to hear people laugh at your first jokes, you have nothing to hold on as you go along. Comedy is like heroine; we are always chasing that first high.
What makes someone funny?
Most comedians had to develop a thick skin for whatever reason; they're fat, they're nerds, they had to persevere past something in their lives to make people accept them. Those are the people who can make the best jokes.
Where do you find your material?
Just from life. When I first started comedy, I was 18 and I hadn't really experienced life. I talked about sex a lot on stage because I knew that's what a lot of other comics did, but I hadn't even had sex. I didn't even know what was funny about it. But now that I've had more experience with relationships and being out of the college bubble, I'm able to get more material. Now I just try to go out and live life to its fullest just to get stories to tell on stage.
Laugh a minute: Nikki Glaser, comedian and 2006 graduate, was recently featured on 'The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.'
How did the Jay Leno opportunity come about?
I did Last Comic Standing when I was a senior at KU and when I initially auditioned, two of the guys I auditioned for happened to be the bookers for The Tonight Show. They liked me and told me I would perform, but that was in 2007. Then last month I got a call from a producer asking me to be on the show that night. They usually put comedians on the show when celebrities drop out because they know that we're always available. So it turns out Paula Abdul dropped out for that night and I thank god for her pill addiction because I wouldn't have been there without her. But I thought the set went really well. The crowd definitely got me.
Any embarrassing moments on the set?
I saw Rainn Wilson from The Office backstage and accidentally called him 'Dwight' to his face.
I miss having the schedule that college provides for you. There's no syllabus in the real life. There's no one telling you what to do or when to turn things in. But other than that, I miss the Jazzhaus, I miss Henry's and I miss the down-to-earth people in the Midwest. Lawrence just has nice, cool people.
What do you miss about Lawrence?
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Blu: (So)ul Amazing 1 & 2
A certified purveyor of true, roots hip hop. Los Angeles native Blu is one of the most promising MCs to come out of California. Although not technically a rookie, he released his critically acclaimed debut album Below the Heavens with producer Exile in August of '07. Blu has worked hard, dropping two mixtapes, an EP and a full length album.
Blu's father was a pastor, and gospel music influenced him just as much as MCs such as Common, Mos Def and Slum Village. If you like classic, roots hip hop, Blu is a name to get excited about.
The mixtapes, (Soul! Amazing 1 & 2, play smooth, flowing and cohesive. Blu also released an album that www.hiphodx.com rated top 25 of 2008, as the Johnson half of the group Johnson & Jones with producer Mainframe. Blu also teamed up with producer Ta'Raach for an experimental hip-hop EP The Piece Talks.
If you're more prone to liking trunk rattling. West Coast gangster rap, Nipsey Hu$$le is your man. Nipsey oozes that California, G-funk style and has been gaining a lot of attention in the hip-hop community. A product of south central Los Angeles, Slauson Avenue, Nipsey grew up a devout Rolling 60's Crip and his music is a reflection.
Nipsey Hu$$le: Bullets Ain't Got No Name
He released two mixtapes alongside DJ Felli Fel, Bullets Ain't Got No Name Volume 1 & 2, the first one being an instant, must-have classic. A few words about the music: his shit bangs. His lyrics are on point, the hooks are catchy and the beats are infectious.
Nipsey is looking for a full-time DJ and is currently running a contest online in order to find one. Expect Nipsey to drop his debut solo album sometime in the middle of the year.
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TC STUDIO product designer Tianyi Chang fused the violent with the insightful in creating the hooks, which were inspired by her collection of pocketknives.
"The hooks seemed like a practical thing to me," Chang said. "I turned it into something funny with some humor and I hope people don't read too far into it."
The knives are attached to the wall with an anchor. You attach the anchor into the wall and then screw in the knife hook. It's pretty simple, but it can't be done in stone or brick with the included anchors.
Chang isn't interested in mass-producing her designs. You won't see these in Target or Wal-Mart and she is focusing more on small batches of her products.
"There's a desire for something more unique and personal, though that is not always possible," Chang said. "But it's growing in the U.S."
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"We're going to smack team Snicklefitz." That phrase is uttered by our competitors all night. We're the new kids on the block tonight, but don't worry, we're not trading physical blows with the competition. We're playing Smackdown! Trivia, a Jeopardy-esque competition at The Bottleneck to test our trivia knowledge.
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Oprah's Foopa, Doogie Howser OBGYN and Extreme Racists are teams that could only be competing in a trivia competition.
Host Andy Bob says he came up with the idea in 2000 and the competition attracts a lot of different people. "We'll have new teams show up that leave thinking that they were in over their heads." Bob says. "I like to encourage them to give it another try. We've had many teams become regulars even after not doing so well their first few times around."
Bob says the event attracts people because of the competitive spirit, but it is different from competitive sports. "People like competition. Not everybody is into sports, but maybe into sports statistics, so it gives them a venue to spew their knowledge, no matter how useless it may be." Bob says.
So what's the best part of being in charge of Smackdown? "All the time I spend researching questions, sitting in front of the computer, carrying boxes of dry erase boards. It's quite the lifestyle," Bob says. "And, of course, being called 'Hey, trivia guy' while grocery shopping. That happens quite a bit, actually."
Take your opportunity to research before going to Smackdown! because the questions can be tricky. Do you know what cartoon character was the first to have his show nominated for an Emmy in 1961? It was actually Huckleberry Hound. That's the type of question Bob spends his time researching. If you feel up to the challenge, Smackdown! is hosted at The Bottleneck on Sundays at 8 p.m.
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MUSIC: Ben Kweller, Changing Horses
Ben Kweller takes a musical turn back to his roots in South Texas on his latest release, Changing Horses. Though Kweller's earlier work features alternative rock similar to Ben Folds, Changing Horses is strongly influenced by Kweller's country western heritage and is reminiscent of '90s Wilco.
Fans of Kweller's earlier music may be alarmed by the drastic difference in tone and genre. They can rest assured, however. The music on Changing Horses is a big change for Kweller, but is definitely not a bad one. Kweller's soft spoken voice and rhythmic piano work are still spectacular; but are mixed with the twangy sounds of slide guitar and some country western lyrics.
The album's only issue is its plethora of mellow songs. There are some great tunes on Changing Horses, but they are few in number and are accompanied by too many slow ballads.
The album's opening track, "Gypsy Rose," is excellent. The smooth acoustic guitar is layered nicely with Kweller's laid back vocals and southern rhythm.
Tracks such as "Fight" and "Wantin' Her Again" are fast-paced country jams
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MUSIC: Morrissey, Years of Refusal
After the release of Ring Leader of the Tormentors in 2006, Morrissey is back with a telltale album. Years of Refusal is livened with caustic lyrics, energetic vocals and lively beats and tempos.
Morrissey gives off energy by embedding his vocals with the edgy sound of the guitar through the album. The high-tempo tunes give fans a balance between the playful sounds in the scathing lyrics.
On the first track, "Something Is Squeezing My Skull." Morrissey sings about the different brands of anti-depressants and carries it out with an upbeat tempo. He uses the same energy on other songs such as "I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris," in which he talks about a lost love. In "All You Need is Me," he declares, "You don't like me but you love me/Either way you're wrong, you're gonna miss me when I'm gone."
There's a guitar-heavy edgy sound in songs like "Sorry Doesn't Help" and "That's How People Grow Up." In "When Last I Spoke To Carol," the sound of the Spanish guitar creates a more festive beat. The added effect of the whistling gives it a more western cinematic tune.
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"It's Not Your Birthday Anymore" doesn't come off with the faster,edgy sound that was introduced in the previous songs. It's a mellow, techno sound that picks up during the chorus.
Overall, fans won't be disappointed when they listen to Years of Refusal because of its fresh sounds and catchy, yet sinister lyrics.
★★★☆
Brieun Scott
BOOK: Tucker Max, I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell
Tucker Max, author of I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, is an asshole. He says so himself in his memoir, which is an alcohol-induced blur of the shots he takes and the women he beds during his stint at Duke Law School. Morally contradicting his prestigious education, Max scathingly narrates his beer-goggled trysts, providing jaw-dropping and revolting first-hand accounts of every pick up line and sexual position. Max's book was originally published in 2006 and has remained a New York Times best-seller for 72 weeks, and was recently re-released.
New additions include tales of book tour debauchery, a drunken dictionary of definitions to gauge Max's lack of sobriety and a five-star rating system of the women he has slept with. The book's appeal is synonymous with Max's: honest, in-your-face, and entertaining. At times his rude and degrading behavior toward women cemented my own cynical outlook, but I kept turning every page, hoping for a hint of a nice guy. It never came.
As if 300 ego-boosting pages aren't enough for Max, a second novel and a
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screenplay are in the works, replenishing the perpetual thirst for beer available in college bars, liquor stores and even Hell.
☆☆☆
— Kelci Shipley
MOVIE:Fired Up!
Following a pair of friends who opt out of football training camp for a cheer camp to broaden their sexual reach, Fired Up! has little redeeming factor other than that it is a fluid waste of time. We are spryly carried through its 90 minutes of laughs as cheap and innocuous as a sitcom rerun.
A good insight into the humor of *Fired Up!* can be gleaned from the name of the summer cheer camp at the center of the movie — *Fired Up University* — "Give me a F, give me a U, what does that spell? FU!"
Aside from its sitcomish humor, one of the film's many flaws is that it plays things too safe. Reneging on its teen-movie promise of exposed coed gallivanting on screen, Fired Up! chooses to keep its characters clothed (with the exception of one borderline offensive caricature of a gay cheerleader). This, I bet, was done to safeguard a PG-13 rating, which really doesn't mean anything with so many four-letter words flaunted in the film.
Judd Apatow's comedies have shown crude and heart can work together, something that Fired Up! seemingly tries to
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do. But the filmmakers miscalculated raunch and the false redemption of the boorish central characters point to its cheap heart.
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— Chance Dibben
MOVIE: The International
For all its timely premise and layered storytelling, The International is a surprisingly generic action thriller. Even more baffling is that it's directed by Tom Tykwer, the German director who gave us great movies such as Run Lola Run and Perfume. Given this and the star power of Clive Owen and Naomi Watts, The International seems as if it should be poised to be a pretty taut, solid film. But it's not.
The story centers on two agents, one from Interpol (Owen) and one from the New York DA's office (Watts) trying to bring down an international bank they think is a hotbed of laundering for international organized crime. Of course, the bank, the IBBC, is able to pull of all kinds of legal (and illegal) moves to keep witnesses from coming forward. If you guessed corporate loopholes and mounting body counts swept under the rug, you've got it.
Owen's Agent Salinger is a driven, interesting character with a shadowy past—the kind of character he seems born to play. And the guy does play a good action hero. Armin Mueller-Stahl (Eastern Promises) also does a solid job as a bank board member who turns informant to Owen and Watts' characters. The weak link here is Watts. Normally, she's the kind of actress who can bring necessary gravitas to any role that requires it. But not here. She remains flat and seems to phone in her performance. Her
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character, Eleanor Whitman, is a motherly character, both in her role as an actual mother (she's married and has a son) and in her relationship to Owen's Agent Salinger.
Overall, The International isn't a movie with a whole lot to say. The character relationships that might have saved it from mere mediocrity just aren't there. The action sequences are good, but they're just barely worth the wait.
★★★★
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Abby Olcese
February 26, 2009
0008, AS TERMS
---
speak
Rolling over the cold shoulder
Life is transitions—the only thing to do is deal with them in stride
And she says, "Hey," softly to me.
Moments before my alarm goes off, I wake up and roll over.
"Good morning." I say to her.
It's blissful waking up in a warm bed when it's cold outside.
The speakers on my alarm pop and National Public Radio fills the room. Israel and Palestine are at it again. Buildings have been razed in war; people are buried alive; gallons of blood are poured onto a sea of listeners who are just like me, starting their day.
"Sure," she says blary-eyed. That's the quiet answer. The morning-speak if you will—one-word answers from the groggy.
My house in the morning has this almost pre-moving-out-of-your-folks' feeling. The smell of my childhood permeates the furniture and floors. It smells like home. That scent of comfort. That aura of safety.
"Do you want some tea or toast?" lask.
Crossing cold hardwood, I put the kettle on the stove. From the kitchen I can still hear NPR. Private investors from Wall Street are funding the presidential inauguration with $150 million.
I think to myself that it's strange they need bailout money yet can pay for the inauguration. I can't even rent pay past August. I want to go to graduate school. I am soon to be out of money. I applied to be a GTA—I'll apply for loans. I applied like some governmental aid.
I wish the entire day were like this. Soft sheets,like a cloud of cool.
As I saunter back to my room I fantasize about private investors from Wall Street giving $150 million to college students for tuition and fees and thinking how it's never going to happen.
I lie back down in bed while the kettle boils and gently tease my hand along her back.
No stress. Just calm. Soft discussions.Some about worries. Do you think I'll make anything of myself? Do you think I'm pretty? Do you think we're going anywhere? Should we date?
While in bed, the world seems at a distance. I can forget about war. I can forget about the kettle on the stove. I can forget about the
future. I can forget just like I forgot what most of elementary school was like.
Then the worry sees in. The day seees in. Life seees in. And I fight it at first. But the worry takes over. Then I'm left with the day.
And I'm stuck. Absolutely stuck in this frame of mind where I don't feel like I can say anything other than I don't know what my priorities will be after this summer. I graduate from college in six months. I don't know what I'll be doing. I don't know how I'm going to afford to eat. Pay rent. Sleep. Shower. I don't
want to mooch off of my parents. I don't know what I'll be calling myself. A graduate student; a worker; a freelance writer; a musician; a bum; a soon-to-be law student.
Life is about transitions. Flow. And flowing from one phase of my life to the other is proving difficult. I crave certainty as much as every other man. And I know that I'll come to a point where this morning will be a year ago and it will seem so far away. So I shouldn't be so concerned, but I still am.
me what's wrong. And I say that it's nothing, though we both know that's a lie.
Looking at my worried expression, she asks
I lie in bed and stare at the ceiling thinking nothing for a minute with a contemplative look on my face. I'm hoping that something brilliant will creep into my brain to relieve me of my worries. I know the only thing that will relieve me of them is time, but it will just be another exchanging of time with worries.
The kettle goes off and I run into the kitchen with this strange fear that it might just blow up. I think that's absurd.
Sleepyhead: Waking up in the morning provides a time of clarity to reflect on what you appreciate, but also what you are most worried about.
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BY BRIANNE PFANNENSTIEL
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While the University of Kansas is in the midst of cutting its budget to meet state mandates, Student Senate is in a budget crunch of its own.
LET'S TALK ABOUT SEX
This time, it's not because of overspending or government requirements. It's an attempt by Senate to prevent an increase in the required campus fees paid by every student.
Some organizations such as the Watkins Memorial Health Center and the Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center will need an increased budget to maintain the same level of services they currently provide to students. Adam McGongile, Wichita junior and student body president, said in order to provide those organizations with an increased budget while keeping student fees the same, Senate must cut funding to other areas.
McGonigle said Senate was more interested in cutting fees that did not have jobs tied to them. He said there are also certain fees that cannot be cut because they are tied to different bond programs that need continued payments.
McGonigle initially issued a typed recommendation, which he said was only a draft, to the Senate executive staff. He recommended the elimination of the campus safety and campus media fees, which would cut funding to KIHK, The University Daily Kansan, Kiosk Magazine and KU Filmworks along with various campus safety projects. Those cuts would save $5.75 per student per semester.
That same memo allowed for increased funds in the Student Activity Fee, currently $17.50 per student per semester, to finance "minimal salary increases" for senators. He then amended that statement and recommended to the fee review subcommittee that the campus media fee be reduced and the campus safety fee be "retired" for three years with no increases made to the Senate Activity Fee.
However, Brian Hardouin, Broomfield, Colo., law senator and member of the finance committee that heads up the fee review subcommittee, said all fees would be under close scrutiny and warned senators against making the process political as the election process begins.
"This is very serious," Hardouin said to the Senate Finance Committee at its meeting Wednesday. "I take this process very personally. If we screw this up people get pink slips and lose their jobs."
The review subcommittee will meet several times during the next month to determine which fees will need increases and which fees will be cut.
The subcommittee has broken down all student fees into three groups: bonds, funding boards and services.
Jason Hornberger, senior budget
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Pub crawl held to gather signatures on petition for comprehensive sex education
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Corey Flanders, left, Dr. Alesha Doan, Holly Weatherford, Vanessa Sanburn and Samantha Snyder discuss issues regarding sex education Monday. The panel, sponsored by the Commission on the Status of Women, discussed the accessibility of birth control and the kind of sex education in public schools. The event was a part of CSW's sexual awareness week.
BY BETSY CUTCLIFF
bcutcliff@kansan.com
To close this year's sexual awareness week, the Commission on the Status for Women will sponsor a pub crawl to collect signatures for "Prevention First," a petition to demand Kansas to tighten its regulations for sexual education.
The petition is also aimed at forcing legislators to grant access to reproductive health care.
Elise Higgins, Topea junior and president of CSW, said awareness of Kansas procedures and sexual health in general was the goal of the activism week.
"If we can get the student body engaged in getting the best education they can, we'll know we can do it nationally," Higgins said.
The week also included a panel of experts and a booth on Wescoe beach.
During the past 30 years, women and men have had more options concerning sexual awareness, including more methods of birth control and more access to information about prevention of pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
Higgins said although the KU student body may have been up to speed on the dangers of unprotected sex, they should be more aware of the politics involved with sex education.
Kansas law requires public schools to offer comprehensive sex education, also referred to as abstinence-plus education, but fails to define what that type of
education entails. The state leaves the content of sex education up to the school districts, which Alesha Doan, assistant professor of political science, said caused an inconsistency in what Kansas children learned.
Since Congress authorized funding for abstinence only education programs in 1996, Kansas has received more than $300,000 per year for community groups and educators, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
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Students look forward to donating in spring blood drive
"It would be nice if everyone would be abstinent until they are married, but that's just not the case," Higgins said.
BY LAUREN HENDRICK
lhendrick@kansan.com
Devin serves as the KU Panhellenic Association's blood drive officer and is one of 36 volunteers on the blood drive committee, but she keeps being rejected because of a month-long vacation to China she took during her junior year of high school.
Kirsten Devin, Omaha, Neb,
sophomore, has waited four years
to donate blood for the first time.
SEE CSW ON PAGE 4A
"They concluded that it was too big of a risk to take and turned me down." Devin said. She said she still tries to stay involved in
Her committee has been working since the beginning of the semester to organize this spring's blood drive, scheduled to run March 2 through March 6.
Bev Kerbs, donor recruiter for the American Red Cross Central Plains, said she hoped to collect at least 1,000 units of blood to supply most of Kansas and Northern Oklahoma.
"There is always an ongoing need for blood." Kerbs said. She said the average human body contains 10 to 12 units of blood, and one unit collected from a donor
community blood drives by volunteer.
could save up to three lives. There are two cups, or one pint, of blood in a single unit.
Kelly Unger, Overland Park sophomore, president of the blood drive committee, said she donates blood whenever she can.
Emma Graves, Lee's Summit, Mo., freshman, said she thought donating blood was important. She said the encouragement of the medical staff and volunteers was a helpful distraction.
"I'm afraid of needles but I still donate," Graves said.
"It ites lives and it's an easy way to give back" she said.
Leann DeLong, donor recruiter
Where to donate
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Monday, March 2 to Friday, March 6
Kansas Union
Oliver Hall
Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity
Hashinger Hall
Lied Center
GSP Hall
McCollum Hall
Robinson Gymnasium
11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday
1:30 to 6:30 p.m. Monday
1:30 to 6 p.m. Monday
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1 to 6 p.m. Tuesday
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1 to 7 p.m. Thursday
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday
for the Community Blood Center, said she thought fewer students donated in the spring because
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Senate reviewing fees for next year
LET'S TALK ABOUT SEX
BY BRIANNE PFANNENSTIEL
hfppanner.wikepaes.com
bpfannenstiel@kansan.com
While the University of Kansas is in the midst of cutting its budget to meet state mandates, Student Senate is in a budget crunch of its own.
This time, it's not because of overspending or government requirements. It's an attempt by Senate to prevent an increase in the required campus fees paid by every student.
Some organizations such as the Watkins Memorial Health Center and the Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center will need an increased budget to maintain the same level of services they currently provide to students. Adam McGongile, Wichita junior and student body president, said in order to provide those organizations with an increased budget while keeping student fees the same, Senate must cut funding to other areas.
McGonigle said Senate was more interested in cutting fees that did not have jobs tied to them. He said there are also certain fees that cannot be cut because they are tied to different bond programs that need continued payments.
McGonigle initially issued a typed recommendation, which he said was only a draft, to the Senate executive staff. He recommended the elimination of the campus safety and campus media fees, which would cut funding to KJHK, The University Daily Kansan, Kiosk Magazine and KU Filmworks along with various campus safety projects. Those cuts would save $5.75 per student per semester.
That same memo allowed for increased funds in the Student Activity Fee, currently $17.50 per student per semester, to finance "minimal salary increases" for senators. He then amended that statement and recommended to the fee review subcommittee that the campus media fee be reduced and the campus safety fee be "retired" for three years with no increases made to the Senate Activity Fee.
However, Brian Hardouin, Broomfield, Colo., law senator and member of the finance committee that heads up the fee review subcommittee, said all fees would be under close scrutiny and warned senators against making the process political as the election process begins.
"This is very serious," Hardouin said to the Senate Finance Committee at its meeting Wednesday. "I take this process very personally. If we screw this up people get pink slips and lose their jobs."
The subcommittee has broken down all student fees into three groups: bonds, funding boards and services.
The review subcommittee will meet several times during the next month to determine which fees will need increases and which fees will be cut.
Jason Hornberger, senior budget
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Not stopping at abstinence
Photo illustration by Ryan McGeeney/KANSAN
Pub crawl held to gather signatures on petition for comprehensive sex education
Mary Ann McGowan
Caleb Sommerville/KANSAN
Corey Flanders, left, Dr. Alesha Doan, Holly Weatherford, Vanessa Sanbun and Samantha Snyder discuss issues regarding sex education Monday. The panel, sponsored by the Commission on the Status of Women, discussed the accessibility of birth control and the kind of sex education in public schools. The event was a part of CSW's sexual awareness week.
BY BETSY CUTCLIFF
brutcliff@lanscap.com
SEE FEES ON PAGE 5A
bcutcliff@kansan.com
To close this year's sexual awareness week, the Commission on the Status for Women will sponsor a pub crawl to collect signatures for "Prevention First," a petition to demand Kansas to tighten its regulations for sexual education.
The petition is also aimed at forcing legislators to grant access to reproductive health care.
Elise Higgins, Topeka junior and president of CSW, said awareness of Kansas procedures and sexual health in general was the goal of the activism week.
"If we can get the student body engaged in getting the best education they can, we'll know we can do it nationally," Higgins said.
The week also included a panel of experts and a booth on Wescoe beach.
During the past 30 years, women and men have had more options concerning sexual awareness, including more methods of birth control and more access to information about prevention of pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
Higgins said although the KU student body may have been up to speed on the dangers of unprotected sex, they should be more aware of the politics involved with sex education.
Kansas law requires public schools to offer comprehensive sex education, also referred to as abstinence-plus education, but fails to define what that type of
education entails. The state leaves the content of sex education up to the school districts, which Alesha Doan, assistant professor of political science, said caused an inconsistency in what Kansas children learned.
Since Congress authorized funding for abstinence-only education programs in 1996, Kansas has received more than $300,000 per year for community groups and educators, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
"It would be nice if everyone would be abstinent until they are married, but that's just not the case," Higgins said.
SEE CSW ON PAGE 4A
CAMPUS
Students look forward to donating in spring blood drive
BY LAUREN HENDRICK
lhendrick@kansan.com
Kirsten Devin, Omaha, Neb,
sophomore, has waited four years
to donate blood for the first time.
Devin serves as the KU Panhellenic Association's blood drive officer and is one of 36 volunteers on the blood drive committee, but she keeps being rejected because of a month-long vacation to China she took during her junior year of high school.
Bev Kerbs, donor recruiter for the American Red Cross Central Plains, said she hoped to collect at least 1,000 units of blood to supply most of Kansas and Northern Oklahoma.
"They concluded that it was too big of a risk to take and turned me down," Devin said. She said she still tries to stay involved in
"There is always an ongoing need for blood," kerbs said. She said the average human body contains 10 to 12 units of blood, and one unit collected from a donor
Her committee has been working since the beginning of the semester to organize this spring's blood drive, scheduled to run March 2 through March 6.
community blood drives by volunteering
could save up to three lives. There are two cups, or one pint, of blood in a single unit.
Kelly Unger, Overland Park sophomore, president of the blood drive committee, said she donates blood whenever she can.
Emma Graves, Lee's Summit, Mo., freshman, said she thought donating blood was important. She said the encouragement of the medical staff and volunteers was a helpful distraction.
"It saves lives and it's an easy way to give back," she said.
"I'm afraid of needles but I still
dorote." Graves said.
Leann DeLong, donor recruiter
Where to donate
Monday, March 2 to Friday, March 6
Kansas Union
Oliver Hall
Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity
Hashinger Hall
Lied Center
GSP Hall
McCollum Hall
Robinson Gymnasium
11 a.m. to 5 p.m.Monday-Friday
1:30 to 6:30 p.m.Monday
1:30 to 6 p.m.Monday
1:30 to 6:30 p.m.Tuesday
1 to 6 p.m.Tuesday
1 to 7 p.m.Wednesdays
1 to 7 p.m.Thursday
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.Friday
for the Community Blood Center, said she thought fewer students donated in the spring because
the weather was nicer and people
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1. Obama's Mideast envoy visits Israel a second time
JERUSALEM — Israel's next leader sat face-to-face Thursday with a man whose vision of Israeli-Palestinian relations is radically different from his own: the Obama administration's new Mideast envoy.
Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu thinks negotiations on Palestinian statehood are pointless. But envoy George Mitchell wants Israel to resume negotiations to establish a Palestinian state.
This is Mitchell's second Mid-east visit since President Barack Obama took office last month.
2. Former Serbian leader acquitted by U.N. judges
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — U.N. judges on Thursday acquitted former Serbian President Milan Milutinov of ordering a deadly campaign of terror against
Kosovo Albanians, saying he had no role in what they ruled was a criminal plot to drive ethnic Albanians out of Kosovo.
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Antarctica — Antarctica's western ice sheet is pushing ever faster into the sea, but scientists know an even greater long-term threat lies here in the vast, little-explored whiteness of east Antarctica.
The tribunal ordered Milutinovic released from custody, but it convicted five other senior Serbs and gave them prison sentences of between 15 and 22 years. It was the court's first judgment establishing widespread Serb crimes in Kosovo.
An "absolutely titanic" store of ice that sits atop the east Antarctic plateau should be more closely monitored by glaciologists, the world's thinly spread corps of ice specialist, says Ted Scambos, a leading U.S. expert.
3. Eastern Anarctic plateau should be monitored
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4. Students warned of drug violence in Mexico
PHOENIX — The U.S. State Department and universities around the country are warning college students headed for Mexico for some spring-break partying of a surge in drug-related murder and mayhem south of the border.
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"We want to make sure they are as well-informed as possible," said Patrick Day, vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. "It's important to us that they are safe, that we provide them with as much information as we can so that they can be safe."
DENVER — Landscapers were digging a hole for a fish pond in the front yard of a Boulder home last May when they heard a "chink" that didn't sound right.
5. Ancient tools found buried in front yard
Just some lost tools. Some
13,000-year-old lost tools.
They had stumbled onto a cache of more than 83 ancient tools buried by the Cliois people
— ice age hunter-gatherers who remain a puzzle to anthropologists. The home's owner, Patrick Mahaffy, thought they were only a century or two old before contacting researchers at the University of Colorado-Boulder.
EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Police say a teenager who soaked her hair in gasoline to try to kill head lice was severely burned when the gas fumes ignited and set her head ablaze.
Eighteen-year-old Jessica Brooks was in serious condition Thursday at the burn unit at University Hospital in Louisville, Ky. She was burned Sunday night at her apartment in Evansville, Ind.
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Cuisine Critique BY ANDREW ROGERS Students' view on the food arogers@kansan.com
Encore Cafe
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Bird's Nest...$9.75
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Type of restaurant: Chinese
Overall star rating: 4.5 out of 5
Location: 1007 Massachusetts
St
**Signature Dish:** Bird's Nest
$9.25, Fried Rice $6.95
Tastes like: Bo Ling's (Kansas City) fused with Zen Zero
Price range: $3-11
What I ate: Strawberry Milk Tea
$3.55, Crab Rangoon (3) $3.75,
Vegetable Spring Roll $2.95,
General Tso's Chicken (lunch)
$6.95; Pad Thai (with chicken)
$8.45
Chinese food in Lawrence. Since I moved here, I've been looking for some place that will serve me higher-grade Asian cuisine that doesn't leave me drowning in MSG and peanut oil. Well, Encore Café is that place.
Review: Let's face it, there isn't exactly an abundance of great
Upon first seeing this joint, you may be skeptical. The interior is a bit sketchy, with the weird diamond cloth patterns and the bamboo bar that doesn't quite fit. But what they lack in atmosphere they more than make up for in taste.
Encore Cafe, 1007 Massachusetts St., offers the best Chinese in Lawrence despite a lack of atmosphere.
I started with a strawberry bubble tea, kind of like a smoothie mixed with green tea, and tapaice pearls, which really soaked up the fruit flavor. Delicious. Then I ordered some spring rolls and crab rangoon, which were well done. My entree, General Tso's chicken, was a great blend of spice and tang, and was served with fresh broccoli and steamed rice. (Needless
to say. I left satisfied.)
Everything I had, and all the food around me, looked and smelled incredible.
The next time around I made sure to try the Pad Thai. It looked amazing, and it delivered. The noodles, egg, green onion and芽 sprouts were all tossed in a tasty sweet chili sauce that wasn't overpowered by the peanut flavor like other restaurants'
Encore Café is a great place for a date or a night out with friends, and I'd say it's the best Chinese in Lawrence. Try it out.
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New financial aid offerings to be announced at presentation
BY MIKE BONTRAGER mbontrager@kansan.com
The Equal Opportunity Programs at KU will be creating a new scholarship for low-income, first-generation students
There will be a presentation announcing the scholarship at 11 a.m. today in 150 JRP Hall.
EOP currently provides two programs to KU students: The McNair Scholars Program and the Supportive Educational Service program.
The scholarship will be managed through the Kansas University Endowment Association. EOP set a goal to raise $30,000 within three years and has already raised $1,000 for the scholarship. When the goal is reached, staff will select the recipients for the scholarship.
Julie Feldt, St. Louis senior, is currently involved in the SES program and will speak at the presentation.
"I think it's really good to provide more things like scholarships and grants," said Feldt. "I know a lot of people are intimidated by
University because of grants and loans.
"I'm really grateful to be in the program. It's hard enough being in the Univeristy you know."
Feldt came to the University because it offered an astronomy major. She is also majoring in physics and said she was able to attend the
loans."
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Feldt said her SES adviser suggested she sign up for the TRIO grant, which she had received for the last three years. TRIO sponsors EOP programs through government funding.
Cattie Hilton, Lawrence sophomore, has been in the SES program since her first semester at the University.
"I've found it very helpful, particularly the free tutoring," said Hilton. "It's kind of nice to have a free computer lab. I don't have to lug my laptop around with me."
Eric Martinez, Garden City senior, will be speaking at an event sponsored byEqual Opportunity Programs today in JRP Hall at 11 a.m. Martinez.a McNair Scholar,will be part of the presentation announcing a new scholarship available to low-income,first-generation University students.
Hilton said she would be interested in the scholarship.
"I'm definitely down with school arship speech" Hilton said.
Edwin Duson Jr., Kansas City, Mo. senior, has participated in SES
since 2003.
"I'm really grateful to be in the program," Duson said. "It's hard enough being in the University, you know. But when you have a program like this to help you out and to help you succeed, it's always a good thing."
Duson said he didn't know what he would do without the program.
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"It just helps out a lot because my tutor helps me focus my time adequately on my homework and my assignments," Duson said. "Instead of me just going out and drinking and stuff."
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Eric Martinez, Garden City senior, will also be speaking at the meeting and is involved in the McNair Scholars Program.
Martinez has been involved in EOP since high school, where he was involved in the Upward Bound program and Talent Search.
Martinez is majoring in psychology, focusing on social psychology with Latinos and how they are perceived in American culture.
He said he was recruited to the McNair Scholars Program because it fit in his major and he qualified to be in the program.
"I've been very involved with the McNair Scholars program," Martinez said. "I've attended every single event since I have been admitted to the program."
Martinez is one of two students who was selected to attend a Mc-
Martinez will talk about his experience with each program at the presentation.
Nair conference in Puerto Rico after this semester's finals.
EOP helps nearly 4,000 students throughout Kansas further their education with their programs.
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9 die in Turkish Airlines crash
BY TOBY STERLING Associated Press
AMSTERDAM — Engine trouble may have caused the Turkish Airlines crash that killed nine people in the Netherlands, the head of the agency investigating the accident said Thursday. Separately, officials said those killed were five Turks and four Americans.
Flight TK1951 from Istanbul crashed about one mile (1.5 kilometers) short of the runway at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport on Wednesday morning, smashing into three pieces and spraying luggage and debris across a field. It was carrying 135 passengers and crew.
Chief investigator Pieter van Vollenhoven said, in remarks quoted by Dutch state television NOS, that the Boeing 737-800 had fallen almost directly from the sky, which pointed toward the plane's engines having stopped. He said a reason for that had not yet been established. Survivors say engine noise seemed to stop, the plane shuddered and then simply fell out of the sky tail-first. Witnesses on the ground said the plane dropped from about 300 feet (90 meters).
Haarlemmermeer mayor Theo Wetersings said the names of the
victims would not be released until the bodies have been formally identified.
"The relatives have been informed" of the deaths, he told the Associated Press. "We have arranged some help for them."
He also said Thursday that investigators now say 135 passengers and crew were on the flight, not 134 as previously believed, which was one reason it had taken so long to account for the dead.
At the crash site Thursday, investigators took detailed photos of the wreckage, trying to piece together why the plane lost speed and crashed.
Boeing could not immediately be reached Thursday for a reaction or say whether any or all of its employees were among the dead.
"We were coming in at an odd angle, and I felt the pilot give the plane more gas," he said. He thought the pilot might have been trying to abort the landing, because the nose came up.
One survivor, Henk Heijoo, said the last message he heard from the captain was for flight crew to take their seats. He said it took him time to realize the landing had gone wrong.
Turkish Airlines issued a statement Thursday denying reports that the plane had had technical problems in the days before the accident.
It confirmed the plane had undergone routine maintenance on Feb. 19, and that it had to delay a flight Feb. 23 to replace a faulty caution light.
The controller cleared the plane to descend to an altitude of 4,000 feet, where it would intercept an electronic beam guiding the plane to the runway.
The controller then read out the proper radio frequency for requesting clearance to land. "Turkish 1951 contact the tower 11827, bye bwe," he said
There was no indication of trouble in his voice.
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agarry@kansan.com
Zach Kastens, the student taken by helicopter to the University of Kansas Hospital after being struck by a car Wednesday, has been released and is planning to return to classes Monday, he said.
Kastens, Atwood junior, was hit as he crossed the street near the intersection of Crestline and University drives Wednesday afternoon, Lawrence police said. The driver of the car was identified as Kendra Butler, an 18-year-old Washburn
University freshman.
Kastens said he didn't blame Butler for the accident, but rather himself for not paying attention to traffic while on his way to catch a bus to campus. He said he did not plan to press charges.
"It was pretty much my fault," he said.
Kastens said that, after the collision, he focused more on consulting Butler, who "was freaking out," than on his own injuries or pain.
"When I landed, I didn't really feel that bad," he said. "I just worried about her."
medical personnel at the scene believed he may have suffered head injuries, he said. He has two fractured ribs, cuts on his face and heavy bruising on his left side, but no head injuries. He is expected to recover on his own.
Kastens was life-flighted because
"I have cuts and bruises, but nothing too dire, I guess," Kastens said.
Kastens received a $130 jaywalking fine for the incident while sitting in the emergency room, he said.
Edited by Chris Hickerson
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Corey Flanders, Salina junior, said she thought that with abstinence-only or abstinence-plus education a lot of the effectiveness depended on young adults' relationships with their parents.
"The huge fear when you're younger is getting caught by your parents." Flanders said, "So sexually active teens will ask their peers, and if their peers get the same education that they do, well where do you go from there?"
Doan agreed and said that the ideal situation would be parents who took interest an in talking to their children about sex, but that unfortunately talking about sexuality was traditionally uncomfortable in our culture.
"In the United States, sex is an ideological or morality issue," Vanessa Sanburn, Wichita graduate student, said. "It should be a public health issue."
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Doaan said abstinence-only supporters were very politically active.
Holly Weatherford, Kansas lobbyist for Planned Parenthood, said this year's battle in Topeka regarding Kansas sex education was just heating up, and that while studies had shown most adults favored comprehensive sex education, there was still an imbalance in the state capitol.
"We tend to hear the loudest voices, and the loudest voices are not necessarily the voice of the people," she said.
Higgins said she hoped the pub crawl would be a good chance to gain signatures and let more students know about sex education and access in Kansas.
- Edited by Liz Schubauer
State Dept. warns students of increased drug violence
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BY AMANDA LEE MYERS
Associated Press
PHOENIX — The U.S. State Department and universities around the country are warning college students headed for Mexico for some spring-break partying of a surge in drug-related murder and mayhem south of the border.
"We're not necessarily telling students not to go, but we're going to certainly alert them," said Tom Dougan, vice president for student affairs at the University of Rhode Island. "There have been Americans kidnapped, and if you go you need to be very aware and very alert to this fact."
More than 100,000 high school and college-age Americans travel to Mexican resort areas during spring break each year. Much of the drug violence is happening in border towns, and tourists have generally not been targeted, though there have been killings in the big spring-break resorts of Acapulco and Cancun, well away from the border.
The University of Arizona in Tucson is urging its approximately 37,000 students not to go to Mexico. Other universities — in the Southwest and far beyond, including Penn State, Notre Dame, the University of Colorado and the university at Buffalo — said they would call students' attention
to the travel warning issued Feb. 20 by the State Department.
The State Department stopped short of warning spring breakers not to go to Mexico, but advised them to avoid areas of prostitution and drug-dealing and take other common-sense precautions.
"Sage advice," said Tom Mangan, a spokesman for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. "We have had documented violence, attacks, killings, shootouts with the drug cartels involving not only the military but law enforcement personnel. It is indiscriminate violence, and certainly innocent people have been caught up in that collateral damage."
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wanted to be outside. She said students were busy studying for midterm exams as well.
According to the blood drive committee's Web site, the University's fall 2008 blood drive collected about 850 units of blood, which was below the minimum of 1,000 units it had hoped to collect. The spring 2008 drive collected the least amount of blood in school history with 497 units, which wasn't enough blood to meet Kansas' daily needs.
All donors must wait at least eight weeks between donations. In cases like Devin's, people who travel to countries like China or Germany, or
Both the Red Cross and the Community Blood Center need 550 units of blood a day to supply their regions. They have several safety policies that may prevent students from donating blood.
"I if eat red meat the night before, I good to go," she said.
Kerbs said there is a common misconception that people with new body art are not permitted to give blood. However, Kansas policy allows people who were tattooed or pierced in Kansas- or Missouri-licensed facilities to donate.
certain parts of Mexico and Africa are not permitted to give blood for years.
Devin had traveled through remote areas in China that were considered high-risk. She was eligible to donate last fall but said she didn't have enough iron in her blood to meet donation requirements. She said that wouldn't discourage her from trying again this spring.
Emily Nachreiner, Omaha, Neb. freshman, said she had to change her diet before donating blood in order to meet the iron requirements.
Iron-rich foods include red meat, poultry, fish, beans, fibrous cereals and raisins.
TIPS FOR DONATING
— Get a full night's worth of sleep
of sleep
— Eat a good breakfast
— Avoid fatty foods
— Drink lots of liquids
— Eat iron-rich foods like red meat, poultry, fish,
beans, leafy vegetables and raisins
— Wear comfortable clothes
Kerbs said anyone interested in
Information about the blood drive and tips for donating can be found at the committee's Website: http://www.kublooddrive.com/homepage.html.
donating blood should plan on staying for 60 to 90 minutes. She said making an appointment in advance and drinking a lot of water would cut down the time commitment.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. — An FBI agent was shot and wounded Thursday morning during a roundup of suspects in an alleged cocaine distribution ring, a Buffalo-area sweep that also led to the arrest of a former NBA player in Nevada.
NATIONAL FBI agent shot in Buffalo during cocaine roundup
NATIONAL
Laurie Bennett, special agent in
Bennett says the shooting happened after a suspect was arrested at the house.
would take several weeks.
charge of Buffalo's FBI office, said the agent was in stable condition after being shot while executing a search warrant at a house in Buffalo.
Bennett did not identify the agent and did not comment on local media reports that another agent fired the shot. At a news conference, she declined to discuss details of the shooting and said an internal investigation
The agent was among law-enforcement officers who rounded up 31 people who were charged with participating in a violent, gang-run cocaine distribution ring that has been linked to at least one killing.
Associated Press
and personnel administrator for the Office of Student Success, will compile information regarding the bond fees that students pay. The review subcommittee will not receive any proposals or formal hearings about these bonds because they are payment obligations that have not been fulfilled.
FEES
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multiple groups.
Each of these boards, along with service fee units, will attend
Some Senate fees go through funding boards, which disburse that money to various student groups. For instance, the campus safety fee operates under one board but disburses money to
a hearing between March 4 and March 13 where the review subcommittee will hear festimony from each group.
The date of the hearings has not yet been set
"My biggest concern is individuals will use fees to influence the election process."
Chancellor Robert Hemenway has final approval over any recommendations Senate makes.
but will occur between March 23 and March 30.
BRIAN HARDOUIN Law senator
The subcommittee will make its final recommendations to the Senate Finance Committee on April 1 for approval before presenting them to full Senate on April 8.
sell and those that fit on a poster. This process needs to be more planned out than that."
"My biggest concern is individuals will use fees to influence the election process," Hardouin said. "It removes the decisions from being those that are well thought out and well reasoned to those that are just easy to
Edited by Liz Schubauer
Types of campus fees
Bond Fees:
Student Union Renovation Fee
Student Union Renovation Fee Child Care Facility Construction Fee Women's and Non-Revenue Intercollegiate Sports Fee (Boathouse Construction Fee) Student Recreation Fee Multicultural Resource Center Construction Fee
Wireless Implementation Fee
Student Media Fee Campus Safety Fee
Funding Boards:
Student Needs
Campus Safety Fee
Educational Opportunity Fee
Campus Environmental
Improvement — Renewable
Energy and Sustainable
Newspaper Readership Pro
gram Fee
Student Senate Activity Fee
Student Recreation Fee (Sports Club)
Multicultural Resource Center
— Multicultural Education
Fund
Services
Service Fees:
Student Union Building Fee
Student Health Fee
Counseling and Psychological
Women's and Non-Revenue Intercollegiate Sports Fee Operations
Student Recreation Fee — Operations and Maintenance Campus Transportation Fee Campus Environmental Improvement — Recycling Fee Legal Services
Counseling and Psychological
Multicultural Resource Center
- Services, Operations and Programs - Long-term Maintenance Fund Student Union Activity Fee
Student Union Activity Fee SafeRide Fee
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CHICKEN STRIP
I am ready for a break
Breakfast? I'm too far behind in classes to even think about it
So do something about it
You're right!
Studying after this game then?
No. I'm going to drop a few of my classes
THE NEXT PANEL
I left that blank incapability of invention which is the greatest misery of authorship, when dull Nothing registers to our anxious movements.
MARY SHELLY'S FIRST IDEA OF A TERRIFYING CREATURE—A PERSONIFICATION OF WRITER'S BLOCK.
... UNABLE TO COMPLETE THIS IDEA, SHE OPTED FOR THE NEXT SCARIEST THING A Writer CAN IMAGINE...
NICHOLAS SAMBALUK
SKETCHBOOK
Is this the Stearns' residence?
Yes, who is this?
click!
That was weird.
DING! DONG!
Oh.
WORKING TITLE
DREW STEARN?
Man, I think Drew and Lex- hausted Wilford Brimley comics. I don't think I have another one in me!
Sara Mac, it's not about what's in ya, but what you can push OUT TA ya!
What? No. Working Title is above poop jokes, Wilford Brimley!
Hi, I'm Wilford Brimley, and I would like to talk to you about Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
No!
WRITER'S BLOCK PARTY
He uses me, Power Start! He puts me in a bottle, uses me, and then never call! What about my needs, huh?! Fairies have feelings, too!
I hear ya
It's kinda ironic, though even though the bottle cousses you so much pain, you always end up going back to one for comfort.
I need another drink
Me, too. Hey, barkeep!
JASON HAFLICH
AKES (match 21-April 19)
Today is a 7
By now, you should have a
rough draft. If you need more
information, contact the
people who know. You're into
unfamiliar territory, but that
just makes it more exciting.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 7
10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
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HOROSCOPES
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Todav is a 7
You can push your interests from behind the scenes. You don't like the spotlight much anyway, nor should you. Stir things up while attention is diverted elsewhere.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21)
Today is **14**.
You've run the gauntlet by now, taken a lot of abuse, overcome your fears and, basically, made it through. You may not be all the way there yet, but celebrate how far you've come.
CANCER (June 22-July 22)
Today is Z
You should be able to get away for a little while. Hurry and do your chores, clean up and make sure you're ready.
Pack your bags, or at least your toothbrush.
LEO (July 23-Aug.22)
Today is an 8
Get out for a breath of fresh air with your favorite companion. By now, you should know what you can afford and how far you can go. Walking works, too, by the way.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Today is a 7
Today is a 7
Why is everybody looking at you? They're starting to suspect you're the brains behind the operation. They're all just checking in, to make sure they're on the right track.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is an 8
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 7
You may still be struggling,
but you've got a lot of support.
This makes your job a lot easier, but make sure you stay involved. You're still the brains behind the operation.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.21)
today's a to
push! Push! Push! Sound
familiar? This is how creativity
happens. The action is not a
recommendation or "a good
idea." It is mandatory, and you
know what to do. Do it.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 7
Don't run away, even if you're
starting to experience some heat.
Well, it doesn't hurt to
have an escape route in your
plans. Don't panic, though. Do
it responsibly, when the time is right.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.19)
Today is a 7
The more you learn, the easier it gets, as you have doubtless noticed. That should be especially true right now. Keep on asking questions.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.18) Today is a 7
Today is a 7
If you sell something you've had stashed away in your storage bin, you can buy something you need now. Crazy? Not really. Find the means to get a new tool that will make your life easier.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 7
Ged Lyon Tavern
Red Lyon Tavern
ACROSS
1 Spills the beans
6 English channel?
9 Shade source
12 Genuflect
13 Bruins legend
14 Ultra-modernist
15 Preamble
16 Rifle attachment
18 Drink
20 Chaste
21 Field, briefly
23 La preceder
24 Stickup
25 Mines' output
27 Grill brand
41 Legal thing
43 Recipe meas.
44 Astringent
45 Family cars
47 Group of secretaries?
49 Hugh Laurie title role
52 Greek H
53 Brewery product
54 Signed a contract
55 Lair
56 "For Me and My —"
57 Borscht necessity
Solution time: 25 mins.
E M I T P A M G M E N
D I O R A P E L A V E
A N T I G U N O G E E
M I A S M A U P W A R D
T O N F E Z
J I V E I N S C R I B E
A D A N I A N U B
B O G G L I N G V E R B
A R E A H A
R E B A T E M O R S E L
I K O N C O O I L I E
P E N N H E R E A R N
E D D Y O R E D Y E S
DOWN
1 Schuss
2 Quaint stopover
3 Chatroom frequent, e.g.
4 Bacterium
5 Unkempt ones
6 Out-fielder's slip-up
7 Highland hillside
8 Weep
9 Boredom
10 Ogler's looks
11 Sacred song
17 "Lakme" and "Lulu"
19 Hawkeye
21 Drew's daytime-TV predecessor
22 401(k) alternative
24 Yon maiden
26 Antipasto ingredient
28 Greeted the villain
30 Pinch
30 Obi toggle
33 Petrol
34 Kreskin's claim
36 Hansel's sis
38 Sped
39 Cheer up
40 Castro, e.g.
42 Master, in old India
45 Actress Ward
46 Zilch
48 Kvetch
50 Collection
51 Mag.
Red Lapen Town
A touch of Irish in downtown Lawrence 941 Mass. 822
38 Summarize
Solution time: 29 mins.
E M I T P A M G M E N
D I O R A P E L A V E
A N T I G U N O G E E
M I A S M A U P W A R D
T O N F E Z
J I V E I N S C R I B E
A D A N I A N U B
B O G G L I N G V E R
A R E A H A
R E B A T E M O R S E L
I K O N C O O I L I E
P E N N H E R E A N R
F D D Y O R E D Y E S
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CELEBRITY No headway made in Piven grievance hearing
NEW YORK — No agreement has been reached in the Jeremy Piven grievance hearing.
Piven appeared Thursday at the session requested by the producers of "Speed-the-Plow" which the performer abruptly quit in December after his doctor said he was suffering from mercury poisoning.
But after hearing from both parties, a panel composed of Actors' Equity and Broadway League representatives were unable to reach a unanimous
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decision. A joint statement issued by the union and the Broadway producers' trade association said "the producers have the right, as a next step, to proceed to arbitration."
Knee injury temporarily stops Jewel from 'Dancing'
NEW YORK — Pop singer Jewel says she injured her knees while rehearsing for "Dancing With the Stars" but plans to return to the dance floor as soon as she heals
Jewel blogged on her Web site Wednesday that she's been sideline for the season due to tendinitis in both knees, and that her physical therapist said she'd be "good to go by next week" if she takes time to recover. In a statement issued by ABC on Thursday, the singer said she's "dedicated to getting better and showing the judges and America that I can cha cha with the best of them."
Jewel is slated to compete against her husband, rodeo star Ty Murray, on the new season that begins March 9.
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--cities in hip-hop. Lawrence doesn't usually come to mind. New York, the unquestionable Mecca of hip-hop, is roughly 1,100 miles to the northwest, while Los Angeles does its thing 1,300 miles to the west. So here in Lawrence, we are almost exactly halfway between the two metropolises that have had arguably the most influence in hip-hop history to date. Despite being so far from either of these two drastically different cities, Lawrence is sometimes scheduled as a show stop for hip-hop artists from around the nation, partly because of its convenient location just off I-70. This fortunate fact makes Lawrence a potential gem for hip-hop heads across the country when a quality show comes to town. The problem is that these shows are few and far between.
--cities in hip-hop. Lawrence doesn't usually come to mind. New York, the unquestionable Mecca of hip-hop, is roughly 1,100 miles to the northwest, while Los Angeles does its thing 1,300 miles to the west. So here in Lawrence, we are almost exactly halfway between the two metropolises that have had arguably the most influence in hip-hop history to date. Despite being so far from either of these two drastically different cities, Lawrence is sometimes scheduled as a show stop for hip-hop artists from around the nation, partly because of its convenient location just off I-70. This fortunate fact makes Lawrence a potential gem for hip-hop heads across the country when a quality show comes to town. The problem is that these shows are few and far between.
The bouncer wouldn't let me in, so I got pissed and took off my shirt
Does anybody else think that sororities try to recreate an immature version of high school?
--cities in hip-hop. Lawrence doesn't usually come to mind. New York, the unquestionable Mecca of hip-hop, is roughly 1,100 miles to the northwest, while Los Angeles does its thing 1,300 miles to the west. So here in Lawrence, we are almost exactly halfway between the two metropolises that have had arguably the most influence in hip-hop history to date. Despite being so far from either of these two drastically different cities, Lawrence is sometimes scheduled as a show stop for hip-hop artists from around the nation, partly because of its convenient location just off I-70. This fortunate fact makes Lawrence a potential gem for hip-hop heads across the country when a quality show comes to town. The problem is that these shows are few and far between.
--cities in hip-hop. Lawrence doesn't usually come to mind. New York, the unquestionable Mecca of hip-hop, is roughly 1,100 miles to the northwest, while Los Angeles does its thing 1,300 miles to the west. So here in Lawrence, we are almost exactly halfway between the two metropolises that have had arguably the most influence in hip-hop history to date. Despite being so far from either of these two drastically different cities, Lawrence is sometimes scheduled as a show stop for hip-hop artists from around the nation, partly because of its convenient location just off I-70. This fortunate fact makes Lawrence a potential gem for hip-hop heads across the country when a quality show comes to town. The problem is that these shows are few and far between.
You were hot until I saw your Uggs.
--cities in hip-hop. Lawrence doesn't usually come to mind. New York, the unquestionable Mecca of hip-hop, is roughly 1,100 miles to the northwest, while Los Angeles does its thing 1,300 miles to the west. So here in Lawrence, we are almost exactly halfway between the two metropolises that have had arguably the most influence in hip-hop history to date. Despite being so far from either of these two drastically different cities, Lawrence is sometimes scheduled as a show stop for hip-hop artists from around the nation, partly because of its convenient location just off I-70. This fortunate fact makes Lawrence a potential gem for hip-hop heads across the country when a quality show comes to town. The problem is that these shows are few and far between.
I just walked by two Asian dames talking about "peepee" and "pooooo"
--cities in hip-hop. Lawrence doesn't usually come to mind. New York, the unquestionable Mecca of hip-hop, is roughly 1,100 miles to the northwest, while Los Angeles does its thing 1,300 miles to the west. So here in Lawrence, we are almost exactly halfway between the two metropolises that have had arguably the most influence in hip-hop history to date. Despite being so far from either of these two drastically different cities, Lawrence is sometimes scheduled as a show stop for hip-hop artists from around the nation, partly because of its convenient location just off I-70. This fortunate fact makes Lawrence a potential gem for hip-hop heads across the country when a quality show comes to town. The problem is that these shows are few and far between.
I just made a countdown to March Madness. I'm way too KU-obsessed.
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My roommate's getting married and already has her date set. I'm still obsessing over a guy who only calls me when he's drunk. Drunk my life.
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To whoever had the bounty out on one of those dancing Statue of Liberty: I can't get you a Statue of Liberty, but I can get you a dancing Uncle Sam if you want.
--cities in hip-hop. Lawrence doesn't usually come to mind. New York, the unquestionable Mecca of hip-hop, is roughly 1,100 miles to the northwest, while Los Angeles does its thing 1,300 miles to the west. So here in Lawrence, we are almost exactly halfway between the two metropolises that have had arguably the most influence in hip-hop history to date. Despite being so far from either of these two drastically different cities, Lawrence is sometimes scheduled as a show stop for hip-hop artists from around the nation, partly because of its convenient location just off I-70. This fortunate fact makes Lawrence a potential gem for hip-hop heads across the country when a quality show comes to town. The problem is that these shows are few and far between.
DJ Abraham Lincoln is way better than DJ Chef.
--cities in hip-hop. Lawrence doesn't usually come to mind. New York, the unquestionable Mecca of hip-hop, is roughly 1,100 miles to the northwest, while Los Angeles does its thing 1,300 miles to the west. So here in Lawrence, we are almost exactly halfway between the two metropolises that have had arguably the most influence in hip-hop history to date. Despite being so far from either of these two drastically different cities, Lawrence is sometimes scheduled as a show stop for hip-hop artists from around the nation, partly because of its convenient location just off I-70. This fortunate fact makes Lawrence a potential gem for hip-hop heads across the country when a quality show comes to town. The problem is that these shows are few and far between.
Dude, I just saw a skunk.
What the hell?
--cities in hip-hop. Lawrence doesn't usually come to mind. New York, the unquestionable Mecca of hip-hop, is roughly 1,100 miles to the northwest, while Los Angeles does its thing 1,300 miles to the west. So here in Lawrence, we are almost exactly halfway between the two metropolises that have had arguably the most influence in hip-hop history to date. Despite being so far from either of these two drastically different cities, Lawrence is sometimes scheduled as a show stop for hip-hop artists from around the nation, partly because of its convenient location just off I-70. This fortunate fact makes Lawrence a potential gem for hip-hop heads across the country when a quality show comes to town. The problem is that these shows are few and far between.
To all the workers at The Hawk:
stop acting so superior. You're only six months older than me.
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Wow. I just saw that Texas retired Kevin Durant's number after only going to the second round of the NCAA tournament and only going to college for one year. Classy,
--cities in hip-hop. Lawrence doesn't usually come to mind. New York, the unquestionable Mecca of hip-hop, is roughly 1,100 miles to the northwest, while Los Angeles does its thing 1,300 miles to the west. So here in Lawrence, we are almost exactly halfway between the two metropolises that have had arguably the most influence in hip-hop history to date. Despite being so far from either of these two drastically different cities, Lawrence is sometimes scheduled as a show stop for hip-hop artists from around the nation, partly because of its convenient location just off I-70. This fortunate fact makes Lawrence a potential gem for hip-hop heads across the country when a quality show comes to town. The problem is that these shows are few and far between.
For Lent I'm giving up Lent.
How's that for a loophole,
God?
--cities in hip-hop. Lawrence doesn't usually come to mind. New York, the unquestionable Mecca of hip-hop, is roughly 1,100 miles to the northwest, while Los Angeles does its thing 1,300 miles to the west. So here in Lawrence, we are almost exactly halfway between the two metropolises that have had arguably the most influence in hip-hop history to date. Despite being so far from either of these two drastically different cities, Lawrence is sometimes scheduled as a show stop for hip-hop artists from around the nation, partly because of its convenient location just off I-70. This fortunate fact makes Lawrence a potential gem for hip-hop heads across the country when a quality show comes to town. The problem is that these shows are few and far between.
Is it weird that one of my goals in life is to solve a Rubik's
--cities in hip-hop. Lawrence doesn't usually come to mind. New York, the unquestionable Mecca of hip-hop, is roughly 1,100 miles to the northwest, while Los Angeles does its thing 1,300 miles to the west. So here in Lawrence, we are almost exactly halfway between the two metropolises that have had arguably the most influence in hip-hop history to date. Despite being so far from either of these two drastically different cities, Lawrence is sometimes scheduled as a show stop for hip-hop artists from around the nation, partly because of its convenient location just off I-70. This fortunate fact makes Lawrence a potential gem for hip-hop heads across the country when a quality show comes to town. The problem is that these shows are few and far between.
Damn, it feels good to be a gangster.
--cities in hip-hop. Lawrence doesn't usually come to mind. New York, the unquestionable Mecca of hip-hop, is roughly 1,100 miles to the northwest, while Los Angeles does its thing 1,300 miles to the west. So here in Lawrence, we are almost exactly halfway between the two metropolises that have had arguably the most influence in hip-hop history to date. Despite being so far from either of these two drastically different cities, Lawrence is sometimes scheduled as a show stop for hip-hop artists from around the nation, partly because of its convenient location just off I-70. This fortunate fact makes Lawrence a potential gem for hip-hop heads across the country when a quality show comes to town. The problem is that these shows are few and far between.
Dude, why are you creeping on your sisters on Facebook?
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I don't care what anyone says. I love the dancing Statues of Liberty, especially when it seems like they're dancing to the music in my car.
--cities in hip-hop. Lawrence doesn't usually come to mind. New York, the unquestionable Mecca of hip-hop, is roughly 1,100 miles to the northwest, while Los Angeles does its thing 1,300 miles to the west. So here in Lawrence, we are almost exactly halfway between the two metropolises that have had arguably the most influence in hip-hop history to date. Despite being so far from either of these two drastically different cities, Lawrence is sometimes scheduled as a show stop for hip-hop artists from around the nation, partly because of its convenient location just off I-70. This fortunate fact makes Lawrence a potential gem for hip-hop heads across the country when a quality show comes to town. The problem is that these shows are few and far between.
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W when considering the most recognizable and culturally influential
Since arriving in Lawrence from the north side of Chicago, I have attended as many hip-hop shows in the area as possible. My experiences with the majority of the shows in Lawrence have been tremendous; I have never been able to get so close to a performer so effortlessly anywhere else. The first instance of this was Atmosphere and Brother Ali at the Granada — definitely a hype show — but it still took me only five minutes to shimmy through the crowd to the front and center of the stage. After that first show, a couple of Chicago acts performed at the Bottleneck (Typical Cats and
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Long Shot, among others). I was among only two dozen there, and was able to take in an awesome show by one of my favorite groups just a couple of feet away. My love for the Lawrence hip-hop scene grew from there.
Used to catching only glimpses of emcees in packed Chicago venues, I was begrudgingly accustomed to watching a show nine or 10 rows back (no matter how early I arrived). But in Lawrence, no matter whether it's a small-time act or an international performer, one can be right in front giving dap to the man on stage. Lawrence offers truly unique and incredible experiences to its residents with this kind of hip-hop scene, experiences few towns throughout the country can match. However, while the shortage of concert patrons offers a much more intimate and comfortable way for hip hop heads to see their favorite artist, it can also be a curse.
Lawrence may have a healthy hip-hop appetite, but it is usually dying of starvation. Every week I check local Web sites for upcoming quality shows in Lawrence and the Kansas City area, and I'm pleasantly surprised less and less frequently. It seems to me that
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although artists appear to enjoy performing in Lawrence, they may be forced to book other venues in more populated areas. For example, underground favorite Murs has been to Lawrence several times in the past but now plays only in the larger market of Kansas City.
What the hip-hop community in Lawrence must do is attract better acts more frequently by attending what shows do come through town in greater numbers. This will encourage acts to return to Lawrence in the future as well as attract other management groups to the city. So, fellow hip-hop heads (and non-heads), do as I do and check Lawrence.com for upcoming shows, buy yourself a ticket and get doser to the hip-hop experience than you ever thought possible. Help support Lawrence's potentially incredible yet currently dormant hip-hop scene. Peace.
Coldham is a Chicago senior in journalism and English.
From Switzerland: Into the mild
BLOGS
BY MARK DENT
mdent@kansan.com
INTERLAKEN, Switzerland — The bus circled up and around the steep roads before sunrise and into the sleepy town.
I woke up right before we entered the ski shop. The mountains still hid behind the clouds and darkness, but inside that ski shop I started to realize just how tough of a time I'd have tackling these mountains.
Two friends and I waited in line for equipment. Other skiers chatted back and forth around the store. A worker told one person that this was going to be the best day of the season.
"So, are you a good skier?" the same worker asked, a slight smirk on his face.
He could sense that the only ski mogul I knew about was Rupert Murdoch on a vacation in Aspen.
Then I got up there.
I went there on a Friday when we didn't have school. I spent the day on either the green slope or the bunny slope. I'm not sure they have a distinction at Snow Creek. It was a successful run down the slope if I didn't get tangled up with another kid on the rope pull and lose a ski and wriggle around in the snow for 30 minutes until I finally realized I had to detach the other ski before I could stand back up.
The last time I went skiing was 12 years ago, at Snow Creek. Everyone from the Kansas City area knows about Snow Creek. It's our only winter haven. It is an overpriced small hill covered in
Thing is, bad skier wasn't even accurate. Worst skier would've fit better.
artificial snow, but damn it, making artificial snow is harder than it sounds.
"No," I replied, not minding his sarcasm. "I'm a very bad skier."
I hadn't skied from then until Switzerland, and it was quite a bit different. Let's just say the Swiss Alps don't have a rope pull. They don't have bamboo slopes either.
The first turn came. Wipeout.
The first big downhill came right afterwards. Wipeout. 10-year-old kids sped past me. This went on for a good half hour as I kept thinking to myself, OK, make the pizza shape with your feet to brake. Then that made me really hungry for
I discovered this at the top of Kleine Scheideegg, after an hour-and-a-half train ride to get up there. (I suspect that would be a three-hour rope pull.) But for some reason, I was undeterred. I strapped on my ski goggles, stomped into my skis and dug my poles into the ground. I was skiing. I was actually doing it. Sort of.
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pizza, and didn't help me brake, so I decided to crash to a stop.
I pulled to the side of the trail for a moment and just stared at the mountains. The sun reflected off the white slopes, and green pines covered the rocky sides as they slid into the valley where several wooden cabins created a small town. No skiers passed by for a while. The mountain was mine, and I felt at peace. It was like something out of a Shelley poem, a Mary or Percy Byshe one.
I decided the worker at the ski shop in the morning was right. I wasit a good skier, not even close. He was right about something else, too. This was the best day of the season and even one of the worst skiers could tell that.
After the break, I successfully made it down a hill and navigated a turn without crashing. The rest of the day, the Swiss Alps didn't feel a whole lot harder than Snow Creek.
STUDENT LIFE
University should help its teachers with accent barrier
I'm spoiled. My parents have given me everything anyone could ever ask for. Now that I've (somewhat) grown up, I can see how blessed my life has been. With this has come an appreciation for what my parents do and an understanding of what their help is worth. And with that comes a desire to get the most out of one of their greatest gifts, my college education. It's that appreciation for my college experience that makes me want to change the small but crucial things that interfere with it.
Most of us have had or know someone who has had an instructor from another country. Such instructors can be especially interesting and incredibly eye-opening. But, let's face it, sometimes their accents are impossible to understand.
That's not surprising, given the disparity between the way many Americans speak and the way the English language is technically supposed to sound. Americanaccent.com, which offers help learning to speak and understand the American accent, points out many of those differences that native speakers don't think about. For example, "Let her get a better water heater" doesn't bear much resemblance to how we say it: "Ledder gedda bedder wader heeder."
This breakdown in communication is as old as the hills, but it causes problems. It's enough that the material in a class is difficult to understand — why should it be equally difficult to understand what the instructor is saying? If you said it shouldn't, were vibin right now. There isn't an isolationist bone in my body, and I believe everyone who wants to should have an opportunity to
THE BEE'S KNEES CHRISTIAN LUCERO
The University wasn't the cheapest choice for college in terms of tuition. Because my income wasn't quite up to snuff, I asked my parents to pay for my education. I offered to take out loans to shoulder some of the financial burden, but my father refused. He simply made me promise to do the same for my children. It was at this point that I realized how valuable my parents were. And armed with the knowledge of what their help should be worth, I think it's time to ask the University to start seeing our value as students.
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The University should offer alternatives for these teachers, such as American accent training. After all, we offer help for international students who have trouble following classes in English. Why can't there be better services for those who have to teach in a foreign or second language? It's not a problem that can't be solved. We just need to change along with our changing society.
Lucero is a Farmington, N.M. junior in journalism.
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make a life as a teacher. But at no point should a student's education be sacrificed for anything. And if comprehensibility is compromised, the student can't learn. If a teacher's accent is standing between receiving information and not, something should be done (and in all likelihood, instructors want to know whether they're hard to understand).
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Luckily I escaped my encounter alive and well. Not everyone might be so fortunate, however, for the internship maria is contagious. Once limited to economics and operations research and financial engineering maiors, the hysteria is sweeping across such varied departments as psychology, English and history. Remember a simpler time when we all used to work at summer camps? No, of course not, the intern zombie has crowded that out of mind with visions of a
I was a dark and stormy night. I heard a noise in the corner. I whirled around and found myself face-to-face with an unidentifiable figure. He was wearing a crumpled suit, a wrinkled tie and a look of piteous desperation.
Defeating the intern zombie
CHRISTINE BROZYNSKI
"Second round?" he croaked, his eyes fixated on me.
Oh no! I realized with a burst of horror what was standing in front of me: an internship zombie!
He leaned in and whispered,
"Do you know who got a second-
round interviews at JP. Morgan?"
high-salary future.
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For those who would rather avoid the do-or-die approach to internships, I have developed some guidelines that would make Public Safety proud: "How to Avoid Becoming an Intern Zombie."
1. Do not become an intern zombie. Think this is a silly first rule? I refer you to Public Safety's own list of ways to prevent bike theft, in which the first helpful suggestion is to prevent your bike from being stolen.
2. Do not major in economics.
In fact, do not pick a major at all.
Someone once told me that they thought the Slavic languages and literature department was safe,
but I wouldn't take any chances.
3. Fail your classes. Yes, you might be expelled but — wait. No. This isn't a good idea at all.
4. Do not buy a suit. "But it looks pretty," you might protest. "And it's on sale!" Stop, drop it and roll your mind around this thought: Suits lead to interviews, and interviews lead to the dark side.
And there you have it. So good night, sleep tight and don't let the intern zombie bite.
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A dedication ceremony for the new Kansas Rowing boathouse will take place at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Burcham Park.
Chancellor Robert Hemenay, Athletics Director Lew Perkins, rowing coach Rob Catloth and Student Body President Adam McGonigle will speak at the ceremony.
McGonigle said he would speak about the effect students had on making the boathouse a reality.
The varsity and club rowing teams recently moved into the new 16,000-square-foot boathouse, which features locker rooms, a training facility, study area, boat-repair area and bays that will hold 35 boats. Con-
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"I'm going to speak about the incredible amount of good we can do for the University when the students work with the administration," McGonigle said. "Students supported this and the Athletics Department supported this, and it showed that both can step up to get
struction on the boathouse began last March. In 2006, the student body approved a fee increase to help fund the construction of the
"There is no way it would have been built without the students."
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Although the $6 million boathouse is complete, the $15 per semester student fee will not expire until the fall of 2011. The fee is reimbursing the Athletics Department for the expense.
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"There is no way it would have been built without the students," Brosious said. "So we definitely owe them a lot and we really appreciate everything that they did."
Associate Athletics Director Jim Marchiony said generations of students and student athletes would be thankful to the current student body for securing funding to ensure the new boathouse. He said the dedication ceremony would highlight the importance of the student vote.
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Catloth said the boathouse would make day-to-day operations more enjoyable for the coaches, student athletes, and students on the club team. Catloth also said the boathouse was important to the University in general.
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Kirk reigned as king of the court
Legendary guard returns to retire jersey before Kansas-Missouri game
If you listened to Kirk Hinrich on Thursday, you realized that the young kid you remember is gone.
Hinrich, Kansas' former All-Big 12 guard, is 28 now. He's played for the Chicago Bulls for almost six years, and on Thursday afternoon he met the President of the United States.
"I don't know if there's a greater honor." Hirnich says.
And then someone asked if he specifically chose to have the jersey ceremony during the Missouri game. And, of course, he did.
But on Thursday, before his trip to the White House, Hinrich tried to explain how he'll feel on Sunday, when his jersey is lifted to the rafters of Allen Fieldhouse during halftime of the Missouri game.
"Playing in that Missouri-Kansas rivalry for four years, I definitely understood how important it is," he said.
Seems President Obama is a Bulls fan. Must be a Chicago thing.
And then you realized that Kirk Hirchh has changed a bit.
This is a story about a young kid from Sioux City, Iowa, with big ears. This is a story about a coach's son. But you must know this. It's hard for me to write about Hinrich.
BY RUSTIN DODD
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You see, sportswriters are supposed to be objective. They're supposed to supply statistically sound, fact-based arguments. And how can you be objective, when you've had a poster of Kirk Hinrich tacked on your bedroom wall since 2002?
six threes and 28 points.
And there's another story about a Kansas-Missouri game in 2002, when Kansas went undefeated in the Big 12. Dozens of NBA scouts flocked to that game. They came to watch Kansas' inside tandem of Drew Gooden and Nick Collison and Missouri's terrific scorer Kareem Rush. They left talking about Hinrich. He was the fast-
How can you be objective when, as a high schooler, you grew out your hair, pushed it all forward and wore that matted down mushroom cut? Because that's how Kirk wore it.
And how can you be objective when, as an unathletic, 5-foot-10 high school shooting guard, you patterned your game off his? You wore your socks like he did, and you copied his mannersism. You hurt on the inside when he walked off the floor against Syracuse as a lover.
There are so many Hinrich stories.
There was the time Hinrich sprained his ankle against Holy Cross in the first round of the NCAA tournament in 2002. There was a dark cloud hanging over that game. Kansas barely escaped and Hinrich violently rolled his ankle and spent the second half on the bench. He was on crutches the next day and nobody thought he'd play in the second round against Stanford — except Kirk, himself. Of course, he did play and he made three three-pointers and scored 15 points, and Kansas was on its way to the Final Four.
There was the Elite Eight game against No. 1 seed Arizona in 2003, when Hinrich willed Kansas to another Final Four with
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A Missouri player passes out of a trap from sophomore center Cole Aldrich and freshman forward Marcus Morris during the first half of the Jayhawks' Feb. 9 game in Columbia, Mo. Kansas will face the Tigers again at 1 p.m. Sunday in Allen Fieldhouse, where the Jayhawks will seek to continue their 39-name winning streak at home.
Tyshawn Taylor is starting to understand this whole rivalry thing.
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Taylor, a freshman guard, arrived at Allen Fieldhouse for practice Thursday and noticed the hallways clogged with campers waiting for Sunday's 1 p.m. tipoff against Missouri. He looked at the camping group sign-up list. Sixty groups.
Wherever Taylor goes, he's noticed how much everyone is anticipating the game.
"It's big. It's important," Taylor said. "People have been telling me on campus. 'We've got to get them, we owe them one.'"
No. 15 Kansas (23-5, 12-1) lost to No. 8 Missouri (24-4, 11-2)
62-60 three weeks ago at Mizzou Arena. For only the second time in
the last eight years, the Jayhawks have a chance to avenge a defeat to
the Tigers in the same season.
"Motivation should not be because it's payback or things like that," Self said. "It should be because you're playing a rival and it means a lot."
Of course, Kansas coach Bill Self doesn't believe revenge should be the predominant theme of the game.
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WHEN: Sunday, 1 p.m.
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He's right about it meaning a lot. The winner of the game at Allen Fieldhouse will be in first place in the Big 12 and control its destiny as far as winning the Big 12 regular season championship the rest of the way.
Check Kansan.com/videos for footage of Thursday's press conference with clips from coach Bill Self, Cole Aldrich and Sharon Coons.
When Collins looks back on the loss to Missouri, however, he says he remembers Kansas giving the game away. The Jayhawks led for most of the night, including a 14-point advantage at halftime.
"Coach will be telling us every five minutes how many turnovers we had, every time we screw up in practice," sophomore guard Brady Morningstar said. "That's just something that happens and we've got to learn to get fewer turnovers."
"You could say that," junior guard Sherron Collins said. "This is Kansas and Missouri. They beat us the first time. It's a game we've been looking forward to."
But most of Self's players also have revenge on their minds.
But an inability to deal with Missouri's full-court defense cost them in the end. Kansas committed 27 turnovers, the third most by the team in the last 20 years.
Self said the lajwhays — who lead the Big 12 in turnovers with
Self will make the Jayhawk starters practice against teams of seven and eight reserves in practice leading up to the game. Collins said that was helpful because it forced him to read three opponents at a time and concentrate on not turning the ball over.
16 per game in conference play — shouldn't commit more than 13 turnovers per game. He's got some tactics to help keep the number down against the Tigers Saturday.
But Collins thinks the most important thing to the lawhaws
"We didn't attack their pressure at all," Collins said. "We just got across the court and let them set their defense back up and tried to play from there. We've got to attack them in their soft spots, take the ball up court and attack the rim."
If the lahayws play that way, it will make for an exciting afternoon of uptempo basketball at Allen Fieldhouse. It's the kind of
basketball that will make fans like the ones who talked to Taylor excited.
COMMENTARY
Not that they weren't already, After all, this is Missouri. The whole experience might be new to Taylor, but everyone else is used to it.
"Same old Missouri team, same old rivalry it is every year," Morningstar said. "It's going to be a fun game to play in. I'm excited for it."
Edited by Sam Speer
BY KELLY BRECKUNITCH
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CLIPPERA MU
Improving Tigers make for better Showdown
The Border Showdown — it has a nice ring to it, doesn't it?
I would rather call it something else, a different epithet that all KU fans use to describe the Kansas-Missouri rivalry. Kansan style with holds my ability to print that word here, but you know what it is.
That passion makes Jayhawks-Tigers rivalry one of the most heated in the nation. Over the past few years the impact of the games has faded. Missouri toiled in mediocrity over the waning years of the Quin Snyder era and struggled in Mike Anderson's first couple years. Now, though, Missouri bears a top ten ranking and the pride of a victory over Kansas in Missouri.
That victory has layhawk fans seething. Zaire Taylor's shot may have looked ugly because he was a wearing a Missouri uniform — granted, it looked aesthetically ugly from a basketball standpoint as well — and Cole Aldrich may have been fouled at the end of the game. But the fact is Missouri defeated Kansas, something it hadn't done since the '05-'06 season.
Missouri's versatile big men DeMarre Carroll and Leo Lyons gave the Jayhawks all they could handle last time. The Morris twins need to be strong on the defensive end to help out Aldrich in shutting down Missouri's best scoring options.
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The Jayhawks need smarter play considering they turned the ball over 27 times in Columbia. This team has been steadily improving, which adds to the anticipation of a rematch with Missouri.
There's more up for battle in this grudge match than just bragging rights. The winner will be sitting in the driver's seat in terms of the Big 12 Championship. Sherron Collins has been blazing for Kansas, and the freshmen are starting to find their way.
The pop hadn't been there in the rivalry until that point. The Tigers split with the Jayhawks in the '04-'05 season and the following year, but the contests in Lawrence were blowouts, including a 33-point victory by Kansas in Lawrence in 2006. The Jayhawks added insult to injury for the Tigers in the following two seasons. The Jayhawks swept the series both seasons, which included Julian Wright's dominating 33-point, 12-rebound performance in Columbia in 2007.
The Tigers have had their tails between their legs for some time now. They've even had trouble selling out their new arena. Now, they've resharpened their claws and have a share of the conference title in their sights.
Missouri will put it all on the line in Lawrence. The Tigers haven't been this prominent in the national media's eyes for a long time. Their last trip to the NCAA Tournament was in 2003 and their last conference tide was in 1994.
Sunday's game will be more than a rivalry. When "Requiem for a Tower" plays before the KU player introductions, realize that Sunday's game could go down as one epic battle.
— Edited by Sam Speer
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"It's an unbelievable honor. Unless you've ever been in (Allen Fieldhouse) and understand the tradition, it's hard to explain. Thinking back to when we were freshmen going through orientation to this is amazing. My jersey will be in the rafters of one of the most historic basketball arenas in the world."
- Kirk Hinrich on his jersey being retired as told to the Chicago Tribune
FACT OF THE DAY
Kirk Hinrich is averaging 9.6 points and 4.6 assists this season for the Chicago Bulls. He has made only one start in 27 appearances. Hinrich's career averages are decidedly higher, and he has started 377 of 416 career games. In five-plus NBA seasons, the combo guard is averaging 14.1 points, 6.3 assists and 3.4 rebounds.
— NBA.com
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: Who was the player Sioux City, Iowa, native Kirk Hinrich split the 1999 Iowa Mr. Basket ball award with?
A: Hinrich shared the award with future Kansas teammate and current Seattle SuperSonic Nick Collison. The two went on to help lead Kansas to two Final Four appearances.
— NBA.com
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or death situation. So who do they like this time? Put a gun to The Jay Report and find out.
Kansan.com video: Go to Kansan.com/videos for footage of Thursday's press conference with coach Bill Self, Cole Aldrich and Sherron Collins. Will revenge be a factor against Missouri? How will he the rematch in Allen Fieldhouse be different? All that and more.
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Courtside: Jayson Jenks recaps Kansas' first Big 12 road
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First Pitch Baseball buffoon Josh Bowe breaks down Kansas' walk-off defeat and how the Jayhawks can hold on to a lead.
Tennessee coach stirs up trouble
COMMENTARY
Your football program is one bad season away from becoming totally
irrelevant. It's on the brink of cementing its place as the fourth best program in a six-team division.
This is new Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin. With spring football set to kick off around the nation
So what does the coach do?
He starts talking trash. He makes false allegations. He masks his lack of experience with taunts.
over the next few weeks, a lot of attention is focused on Knoxville, Tenn., where Kiffin has created more riffraff than
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Stefhon Hannah at a nightclub.
In the last few months, Kiffin — whose Tennessee team went 5-7 last season, including a defeat to Wyoming under coach Phillip Fulmer — has managed to start feuds with Southeastern Conference rivals Florida, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina.
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Kiffin accused Florida coach Urban Meyer of violating NCAA rules by phoning a recruit while he was on the Tennessee campus. Too bad that's legal and not a violation.
Kiffin said assistant coach Lance Thompson, whom he hired away from Alabama, was the reason for Alabama coach Nick Saban's recruiting success. Good idea, insult the 2008 National Coach of the Year.
Kiffin said Georgia only signed Marlon Brown, a top-rated receiver from Memphis, because his grandmother didn't want him to commit to Tennessee. Didn't mention that Brown might be interested in an SEC Championship and that Georgia has had two in the last 10 years as compared with Tennessee's zero.
He's also gotten into a public
All of this from a guy who has never served as a college football head coach and went 5-15 in two seasons as the coach of the Oakland Raiders.
argument with South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier over recruiting rules.
Sure, he spent some quality years on coach Pete Carroll's staff at USC. But Kiffin is in for a rude awakening this fall when he tries to compete in the SFC, the nation's unquestioned best football conference.
He'll quickly learn that the Volunteers don't have the talent to match up with the teams he's targeted. He's going to find out that while running his mouth was fun in the offseason, getting pounded during the season isn't as enjoyable.
Kiffin needs to make the most of Tennessee's upcoming spring practices. Ultimately, the Volunteers are going to-need a lot more than that to drown out their arrogant coach.
THE MORNING BREW
MISSING: HATED COACHES IN THE BIG 12
Between Kiffin, Spurrier and
TRACK & FIELD
Meyer, the SEC is full of coaches who are infamous for stirring up controversy with their cookiness.
The Big 12 is not. Think about it. There are no truly despised football coaches in the Big 12. Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops and Texas coach Mack Brown are envised. Texas Tech coach Mike Leach is eccentric. Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy and Colorado coach Dan Hawkins are famous because of press conference rants.
But none of the guys initiate inner-conference coaching feuds. Someday, that will charge. It only takes one guy like Kiffin to do the job.
Edited by Liz Schubauer
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Jayhawks ready to place strong in standings
The team has been training to rise to its fullest potential
BY JASON BAKER
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Freshman spinner Keith Hayes knows the importance of swagger at a track meet.
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"That's one of the key elements in track; to be successful is to know that you're going to be successful and to carry yourself like that." Haves said.
Freshman Keith Hayes clears a series of hurries during the Jayhawks' Jan. 16 meet against Missouri in Lawrence. The Big 12 Indoor Championships begin today in College Station, Texas.
The Kansas track and field team will need to carry that swagger into College Station, Texas, as it competes at the Big 12 Indoor Championships.
"Everyone's in really good shape and for those that are going, were looking forward to them competing and having the opportunity to compete against some very good competition," coach Stanley Redwine said.
This weekend's meet will take place at Texas A&M's Gilliam Indoor Track stadium, and the team is ready to take on all of its conference rivals.
It's been two weeks since the team competed in Arkansas
Bradley, seniors Charity Stowers and ShaRa Ray Butler and freshman Shayla Wilson, will be competing in the 400-meter dash and the 4x400-meter relay.
and Iowa at the Tyson Invitational and Iowa State Classic. But the lajahaws are ready to perform at their best to place strong in the Big 12 standing.
Pamela O'Reilly
Bradley said the competing
"it's very important to show that we're improving every year," sophomore sprinter Kendra Bradley said.
Bradley
teams train differently than the layhawks.
"They train to run fast early in the season. We train to run fast when it matters." Bradley said, "I'm not really worried about what they've done in the past, all that matters is what happens that day."
Last year the women placed third behind Texas A&M and Nebraska respectively, while the men placed ninth. Senior spinner Victoria Howard said there's no reason the women can't build on that impressive finish.
"This year, we're all going to have to step up on the women's side and get as many points as possible." Howard said. "It's going to be tough but that's what the Big 12 is."
itself at every meet.
Howard will be competing in the 60- and 200-meter dashes. Last year Howard placed eighth in the 200.
"It's going to be a whole other Kansas team than we showed at the Kansas-Missouri duel, than we showed at the lyson Invitational," said Hayes, who will compete in the 60-meter hurdles. "We're coming to compete, we're coming to win."
On the men's side, Hayes said Kansas shows a different side of
In the distance events, sophomore Amanda Miller will be competing in both the 3,000 and 5,000 runs. Miller said her focus was on the 5,000 because she felt confident in scoring points for the team. Running both of those events for the men is senior Colby Wissel. Wissel provisionally qualified for indoor nationals in the 5,000 in Washington at the Husky Invitational on Feb. 14.
In the field events, all eyes will be on junior Jordan Scott as he goes for his third straight Big 12 title in the pole vault. Scott said he's trying not to put too much pressure on himself, but he won't be happy unless he wins.
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"I'll be just as excited if everyone reaches their potential versus some people not doing what's expected of them," Redwine said. "We want everyone to go out and do what's expected of them and it's an opportunity for the team to step up and get the job done."
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The 11th-ranked Tigers refused to blame such daydreaming for a so-so finish that ran their home record to 17-0.
The Tigers (24-4, 11-2) are tied for second in the conference with Oklahoma, one game behind Kansas, and have won seven in a row in Big 12 play for the first time since 1999-2000. The 11 conference wins ties the school's most in the conference and they've clinched a first-round bye in the conference tournament.
Missouri likes to keep the heat on everybody else, thriving under coach Mike Anderson's all-out, full-court pressing style. The Tigers come at their opponents in waves, 11 deep in the rotation, winning by an average of 26.1 points at home and by 21 in Big 12 play.
A 2-point thriller over Kansas earlier this month is the lone exception to a string of double-digit wipeouts at home.
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"If we win today, tomorrow morning they come out and say 'OK, Kansas State is in.' Martin said. "Then we lose again next week and they say 'OK, K-State is out."
"Every game at this time of the year is important."
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COLUMBIA, Mo. — Despite a season-best time, the Kansas medley relay team wasn't completely thrilled with its performance. The team had high expectations, coach Clark Campbell said, and it was hoping to make a 3:35 time.
Senior Danielle Herrmann had her goggles come off mid-race but finished with a strong time.
"That's one of the hardest things to deal with during a race," senior
Maria Mayrovich said, "She still kept swimming and finished strong though."
Finishing with a time of 3:38.32, freshman Abigail Anderson, sophomore Iulia Kuzzhil and seniors Mayrovich and Herrmann placed third. The old season best for Kansas was 3:44.30 and the school record was 3:40.19. Kansas shattered them both.
The swimmers started the team
"We got some really big swims out of lullia and Abigail," Campbell said.
off with individual preliminary races yesterday morning, advancing two seniors to the finals, Danielle Herrmann in the 200-yard individual medley and Maria Mayrovich in the 50-yard freestyle. Kansas also had two divers, sophomore Erin Mertz and junior Meghan Proehl advance to the 1-meter dividing finals yesterday evening.
Herrmann swam the 200-yard IM in 2:01.13 in the preliminaries but swam the finals heat with a time of 2:01.23, finishing in sixth place overall. Both of these times
"Danielle [Herrmann] was a little disappointed with her performance today," Campbell said. "But there are more races to come."
break Herrmann's season best time of 2:03.70 earlier in the season at Miami.
"It was a good warm-up since we
still have two days to go." Mayrovich said. "I had a good race and I think that my time will qualify me for the NCAA [Championship]."
Despite not going to the finals, senior Anne Liggett had the chance to do a run-off race to make the top 24 finishers in the 50-yard free-style. Liggett beat out her opponent from Texas A&M by four one-hundredths of a second and finished with a time of 23.55 seconds.
"Swimming is about racing and a swim-off race is like the ultimate race," Liggett said.
In the 1-meter diving finals Mertz finished eighth with a score of 280.35 and Proehl finished seventh with a score of 281.10. The Kansas divers will have 3-meter diving today and platform diving on Saturday.
After two days of competition Kansas has 173 points and is ranked fourth. Texas leads with 301, followed by Texas A&M with 281 and Missouri with 209.
Edited by Chris Hickerson
HINRICH (CONTINUED FROM 1B)
est player on the floor that nigt. And of course, he had the Jimmy Chitwood jumpshot, a beautiful combination of legs and arms and follow-through.
Hinrich was always the fastest player on the floor.
That's the Hinrich Bill Self remembers. Self never got to coach Hinrich, but Self's old Illinois teams played Hinrich twice, both times in the NCAA tournament.
"I just haven't seen guys move the ball up and down the floor like he did." Self said, before pausing. He began to think about other fast players he's coached. He mentioned freshman Tyshawn Taylor, and then he stopped again.
"I haven't seen anybody like Hinrich-fast."
--room.
It was gray, mild and overcast on Thursday when Brady Morningstar, clothed in a gray sweatshirt, made the short walk from the Jayhawker Towers to Allen Fieldhouse for practice.
Morningstar entered the Fieldhouse and snuck quietly through the hallways, past the campers sleeping on their air mattresses, and back to the Kansas locker
Kirk Hinrich used to make this trip every day. This old cathedral of college basketball is where Hinrich transformed himself from a marginal Top 50 recruit into the seventh pick in the 2003 NBA draft. This is
careers of Hinrich and his former AAU teammate Nick Collison. I'm still pretty certain that no two KU players have ever been as beloved as Nick and Kirk. They probably deserved a title.
"I figured he was the closest thing to what I could be," Morningstar says. "just height-wise, everything. I just tried to pattern my game off of him and watch what he did."
"He had all areas of the game, he played D, he could shoot," Morningstar said. "He was a kid from Iowa that could really play."
where Hinrich inspired a generation of young Kansas kids to play just like him.
--jersey at Kansas.
You simply have to be one of the best.
Here's my Kirk Hinrich story. The 2003 National
Morningstar attended plenty of Kansas games during those years. He watched plenty more on television. The more Morningstar watched, the more he saw himself. Both were from the Midwest and both would see critics question whether they could be successful at a program like Kansas.
Instead, that game turned into a nightmare of Gerry McNamara three-pointers and Kansas' missed free throws.
Morningstar, a Lawrence native, was one of those kids. Morningstar was a seventh grader when Hinrich arrived on campus in 1999 from Sioux City West High School, where he had played for his father, Jim.
--jersey at Kansas.
You simply have to be one of the best.
In the final minutes, as Kansas furiously rallied, Kirk Hinrich jumped into the air and his ankle buckled underneath him. He played those final minutes on a bum ankle. It was pure guts and adrenaline. And then, with a few minutes remaining, Hinrich drove baseline and threw down one of the most ferocious dunks of his career.
"I feel like if the ball would have bounced a different way a couple times, we would have had a championship," Hinrich said.
"I don't know if there's a greater honor than having your jersey hanging in the most historic basketball building in the world."
KIRK HINRICH Kansas guard 1999-2003
On Thursday, a reporter mentioned those two Final Four runs. It's been six years, so much time has past, and still, you got the feeling those Final Four losses still eat away at Hinrich.
Championship was supposed to be the culmination ... at least, that's how I saw it. It was supposed to be a culmination of the
Bill Self was pretty clear at Thursday's conference. He said there no criteria for retiring a
"He deserves it," Self said. "He without question is one of the best to ever play here."
Here's one more Hinrich story. It was 2003, Hinrich was a senior and Kansas was playing at Missouri. The game was tied 74-74 with
25 seconds left.
Nick Collison's baseline jump-shot had sailed over the rim and Michael Lee had snatched the rebound. Lee spun toward the top of the key and fired a pass to Hinrich, who stood — wait, how far was he from the basket? 25 feet? 30 feet? He didn't dare chuck from 30 feet, did he? He didn't dare nail a game-winner with two seconds on the shot clock and a hand in his face? Of course, the ball rattled in, and Kirk was the hero.
And Hinrich admits that while he's excited for the jersey ceremony, he's just as excited for the game. Excited to be back in Allen Fieldhouse and excited to feel the rivalry again.
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Now on Saturday, Hinrich will be back in Allen Fieldhouse and Kansas will be back playing Missouri.
"I don't know if there's a greater honor," he said, "than having your jersey hanging in the most historic basketball building in the world."
And as he says this, you realize that Kirk Hinrich might be a few years older, a few years wiser, and the old haircut might be gone. But he's still the Kirk Hinrich you remember.
McCray steps up with timely scoring
Teammates working together to secure two big victories
BY JAYSON JENKS
jjenks@kansan.com
The turning point in Wednesday night's victory against Oklahoma State happened with 12:15 remaining, an eternity in the basketball world.
At that moment, the Cowgirls — and their fans — stormed back into the game, using a 9-0 run to take a 40-38 lead. In the past, similar punches left Kansas battered and unable to piece together an answer.
But for the second time in as many games, junior forward Danielle McCray provided stability, scoring five consecutive points to give the Jayhawks a lead they wouldn't relinquish.
Facing Nebraska inside Allen Fieldhouse Saturday at 7 p.m. Kansas will need more of the same.
"We needed somebody like that to step up and want the ball," senior guard Ivana Catic said. "And not just want the ball for the wrong reasons. She wants the ball and she knows what to do with it."
In Kansas' last two games — both victories — McCray has averaged 27 points and nearly 15 rebounds, while making 53 percent of her shots.
Still, the manner in which McCray has scored made those numbers even more staggering.
On Kansas' final first-half possession, McCray dribbed at the top of the three-point line while Kansas' other four players lined the baseline.
As the shot clock neared zero, McCray drove to the free throw line before knocking down a tightly contested jump shot to give Kansas a 26-22 lead.
("Wednesday) night was one of those nights where I just needed to get the ball to D and she was going to do something," Catic said. "With her, I just know that she's going to do something."
McCray has shouldered Kansas' offensive load throughout the season. Yet, few of her performances have featured such crucial and timely scoring.
When the score tightened and Oklahoma State began surging back into the game, McCray delivered.
There's little doubt that McCray is Kansas' go-to player — "You pretty much know that if the play breaks down, that's who you go to," Catic said — but in previous games Kansas' supporting cast hasn't always played its part.
"I'm very confident in myself," McCray said. "Any good player, in the heat of the moment and when things are tough, you want the ball in your hands."
Yet, in victories against Iowa State and Oklahoma State, McCray displayed a keen sense of timing: when to shoot and when to defer to a teammate.
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Junior guard Danielle McCray lines up a shot at past multiple Iowa State defenders during the Jayhawks' Feb. 22 victory in Allen Fieldhouse. During the last two games, McCraa has averaged 27 points and nearly 15 rebounds.
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Kansas (15-11) vs. Nebraska (13-13)
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| P | No. | Kansas | Ht. | Yr. | PPG |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| G | 3 | Ivana Catic | 5-8 | Sr. | 2.4 |
| F | 4 | Danielle McCray | 5-11 | Jr. | 19.5 |
| G | 20 | Sade Morris | 5-11 | Jr. | 11.8 |
| F | 24 | Nicollette Smith | 6-2 | So. | 7.5 |
| C | 14 | Krysten Boogaard | 6-5 | So. | 9.4 |
P No. Nebraska Ht. Yr. PPG
G 24 Dominique Kelley 5-7 So. 9.7
G 22 Yvonne Turner 5-8 Jr. 11.5
G 5 Kaitlyn Burke 5-7 So. 6.4
C 44 Catheryn Redmon 6-3 So. 5.8
F 44 Cory Montgomery 6-2 Jr. 14.3
Tipoff scheduled for 7 p.m. Saturday at Allen Fieldhouse.
When/Where..
Who to watch for.
Junior forward Cory Montgomery. Montgomery has stepped her game up in conference play, and she had her best game so far in the Cornhuskers' victory over Kansas State Wednesday night. She scored 21 points and pulled down eight boards. She's a forward, but she isn't afraid to step outside. He hit three three-pointers in the Huskers' 52-47 upset win.
What to expect...
Kansas will focus on the defensive end and keep the Huskers from scoring at will as they did in the second half in the two teams' first meeting. Kansas is fresh off dominant defensive performances against better offenses than Nebraska. It's very doubtful Nebraska will score more than the 67 points they scored in the first match.
Why Kansas will win...
Kansas is playing its best basketball of the season. As coach Bonnie Henrickson said in her postgame conference in Stillwater, Okla., no team stays the same in February. They either get better or get worse. It looks like this team is getting better.
Kansas and Nebraska are tied in the Big 12 standings. There is a good chance the Jayhawks will take on the Cornhuskers in the first round of the Big 12 tournament. The Jayhawks definitely do not want to struggle down the stretch and fall to 11th or 12th in the standings and be forced to play a top-level Big 12 team like Texas in the first round.
Magic number...
105 — The Cornhuskers have taken 105 more free throws than their opponents, mostly because the Cornhuskers foul very rarely. The Jayhawks will need to finish easy shots and not automatically expect the contact.
That trend changed in Kansas last two games.
"Your entire defense is focused on her," Catic said, "and then someone else can sneak in and score points."
- Clark Goble
Last Sunday against Iowa State,
junior guard Sade Morris stepped
up by scoring 16 points, including
eight straight at the end of
the game.
On Wednesday night, sophomore forward Nicollette Smith's outside shooting and offensive presence inside allowed her to
chip in 13 points all in the second half.
Those added contributions, combined with McCray's more efficient scoring, have been keys for Kansas' recent turnaround.
"Danielle made better decisions about shot selection and has had better rhythm into shots," coach Bonnie Henrickson said. "The possessions where she has bad footwork have reduced drastically. And she's shared the ball. Her teammates have executed around her and hit big shots."
MCCRAY FINALIST FOR AWARD
Junior forward Danielle McCray was named a Naismith Trophy Mid-Season candidate, the Atlanta Tipoff Club announced Wednesday.
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8B GAME DAY
THE UNIVERSITY OF DAILY KANSAS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2009
KU
TIPOFF
AT A GLANCE
Six days after a battle for first place in the Big 12 Conference against Oklahoma, Kansas has well, another battle for first place. The Jayhawks are on top of the Big 12 standings with a 12-1 record. Missouri is tied for second with an 11-2 record. But if the Tigers beat the Jayhawks, they will be alone in first place because of two head-to-head victories. It's going to be tougher this time around for Missouri, though. Aside from the obvious fact that the game will be held in Allen Fieldhouse, the Jayhawks still remember the feeling they got watching Missouri fans rush the floor after being defeated in Columbia, Mo. They want revenge.
PLAYER TO WATCH
Sophomore center Cole Aldrich
He's unstoppable. Heck, lately
he's even been impossible to slow
down. Drinking
back to the last Missouri game, Aldrich is averaging 13 rebounds per game. He's second in the Big 12 in the category, and Kansas leads
PRESIDENT
the conference in rebounding margin — a statistic Kansas coach Bill Self cites as his team's most impressive. Self has Aldrich to thank for it. Aldrich's dominance on the boards limits second-chance scoring opportunities for opponents and can demoralize smaller big men. Overall, Aldrich is averaging 15 points and 11 rebounds.
How will Kansas deal with Missouri's pressure defense?
QUESTION MARK
Pitiful. That's how Self said Kansas did against Missouri's pressure in the first meeting. Kansas turned the ball over 27 times in a 62-60 defeat. That's the most turn-overs this season for the Jayhawks and the third most in the last 20 years. A repeat performance will result in a loss. No question. But it's unlikely the Jayhawks will play that poorly in Allen Fieldhouse. They've had a week to prepare for it, and Self has certainly stressed the importance of ball control in every practice this week.
HEARYE, HEARYE
"It was tough to play down there — real tough to play. But now, we're at our house and the crowd will be to our favor. We've been looking toward this game. This is a game that's been circled on our calendar."
Junior guard Sherron Collins
"It's going to be one of those games that lingers for the longest time."
- Sophomore center Cole Aldrich after losing to Missouri three weeks ago
COUNTDOWN TO TIPOFF GAME DAY
BORDER REMATCH Jayhawks look for payback as the Tigers claw at the Big 12 lead KANSAS VS. MISSOURI 1 p.m., ALLEN FIELDHOUSE, Lawrence, CBS
Collins
KANSAS
(23-5, 12-1)
STARTERS
D. LEE
Sherron Collins, 5-foot-11 junior guard
Sherron Collins, 5-foot-11 junior guard Collins is one of the best point guards in the nation. Around here, everyone already knew that. His last two games have started to convince the country.
★★★★★
PETER J. BOWEN
Tavlor
Tyshawn Taylor, 6-foot-3 freshman guard
Consistency is Taylor's issue. He had the best game of his career against Oklahoma following two week's worth of frustrating performances. He needs to limit turnovers against Missouri.
★★★★
Brady Morningstar, 6-foot-3 sophomore guard
Morningstar had a disastrous performance against Oklahoma. Willie Warren made him look silly, he recorded four fouls and missed his four shots.
Morningstar
★★★☆☆
Marcus Morris, 6-foot-8 freshman forward
M. ELIZABETH RIPLEY
Morris
Marcus has improved defensively, but will face a huge test trying to guard Leo Lyons and/or DeMärre Carroll. The Jayhawks can't allow either of them to get open looks anywhere on the court.
★★★★
Cole Aldrich, 6-foot-11 sophomore center
Aldrich
Self's biggest complaint after the first Missouri game was that Kansas stopped looking for Aldrich, who only scored eight points. Missouri will do all it can to dissuade the Jayhawks from throwing it into Aldrich again.
★★★★★
SIXTH MAN
Morris
Markieki has come alive in the last two games with 13 points, 11 rebounds and four blocks. But he still
Markieff Morris, 6-foot-9 freshman forward
fouled out in 14 minutes against Oklahoma.
— Case Keefer
KAM
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★★★★
J.T. Tiller, 6-foot-3 junior guard
(24-4,11-2)
STARTERS
On Wednesday Tiller reached the century mark in assists. Tiller also leads Missouri with 53 steals and pours in 7.8 points per game.
MISSOUR
★★★★
NBA
Zaire Taylor, 6-foot-4 junior guard
Zare Taylor, 8-foot-4 junior guard
Missouri's hero on Feb. 9 has scored
a total of six points in three games since
handing Kansas its only conference defeat.
Tiller
★★★★
CLEVELAND
CLEVELAND
Taylor
Kim English, 6-foot-6 freshman guard
The freshman is stuck in a serious funk right now. He's averaging four points per game since scoring eight against Kansas. While his points have dipped, English's recent bump in turnovers has made him a liability.
☆☆☆☆
CHICAGO BOWS
B
English
TOMMY DONALDSON
DeMarre Carroll, 6-foot-8 senior forward
Carroll is an extremely talented player who can take over a game when needed, much like Sherron Collins. He will get plenty of attention from Kansas' big men, but they still couldn't stop him from scoring 22 points in the last meeting.
Carroll
★★★★★
Leo Lyons, 6-foot-9 senior forward
time the Tigers need an energy boost. Missouri will need both forwards to be on-target in order to counter Kansas' size advantage.
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Lyons is always right behind Carroll, ready to step in any
time the Distance reaches 100km.
PRESIDENT
Lyons
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★★★☆
SIXTH MAN
Matt Lawrence, 6-foot-7 senior guard
Averaging 8.9 points per game, Lawrence is Missouri's third-leading scorer. He's also its most lethal threat beyond the arc, where he hits 41 percent of his 145 three-point attempts.
Lawrence
★★★☆★
Conner Teahan
Taylor Bern
MU
TIPOFF
AT A GLANCE
No Big 12 team is playing better than the Tigers right now. Missouri has won seven in a row and 11 of its last 12. That includes a thrilling home victory over Kansas. Wednesday night Missouri routed Kansas State 94-74. That, paired with a Valentine's Day beat down of Nebraska, avenged Missouri's only conference losses. Both of those came on the road, which is the only time the Tigers are susceptible to defeat. Missouri gets Oklahoma at home on Wednesday, which means a second rivalry victory puts the Tigers in the Big 12 driver's seat.
PLAYER TO WATCH
Senior forward Leo Lyons
Frontcourt partner DeMarre Carroll gets most of the attention, which is exactly why Lyons will need to shine on Sunday. Carroll pulled down a career-high 14 rebounds against Kansas State
on Wednesday, but he won't be able to get numbers like that against Cole Aldrich. Lyons needs to grab at least his average six rebounds and try to alleviate
the defensive on Carroll by posting up whoever is playing the four spot for Kansas. If Lyons plays well, Carroll has more room to operate, which is a scary thought for Kansas.
QUESTION MARK
Lyons
Can Missouri keep up with Kansas on the glass?
PETER MCKENNON
The Jayhawks outrebounded the Tigers by 20 (48-28) but gave away most of those possessions with turnovers. That's not likely to happen at home, so Missouri must make more of an effort to hit the boards and fight Aldrich for rebounds. Since that game, the Tigers have stayed even in rebounding margin, but none of those games pitted them against a quality big man. Missouri's ability to grab rebounds and keep Kansas from getting second-chance points could be the difference in this game.
HEARYE, HEARYE
"We did a tremendous job in the first half attacking the glass. We had a lot of guys getting in there and sticking their noses in."
— Missouri coach Mike Anderson after Wednesday's 94-74 victory over Kansas State
"Yeah we were thinking about Kansas, Kansas State. With the Kansas game coming up, it's just another game, like this one."
— Missouri forward DeMarre Carroll on whether his team was looking ahead to Sunday's game.
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BIG 12 SCHEDULE
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Game
Time (CT) Channel
Iowa State at Texas A&M 12:30 p.m. Big 12 Network
Texas Tech vs. Oklahoma 2:30 p.m. PMABC
Baylor vs. Colorado 3 p.m. Big 12 Network
Oklahoma State vs. Texas 5:00 PM ESPN
Kansas State vs. Nebraska 7:00 PM Big 12 Network
BIG 12 CONFERENCE
Prediction:
KANSAS 79, MISSOURI 77
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
ALLEN FIELDHOUSE WILL ROCK IF
PHOG ALLEN WILL ROLL OVER IN HIS GRAVE IF ...
AT
It's treated to a dominating point guard performance. On a day where Kirk Hinrich's jersey will be retired at halftime, it would be appropriate. All eyes are on Sherron Collins, who scored 26 points with three assists at Oklahoma. If Collins plays anywhere near that level Sunday — and there's no reason to believe he won't — Hinrich should consider it an honor.
A
Kansas is outrebounded. This shouldn't even be an issue considering Kansas grabbed 20 more rebounds than Missouri at Mizzou Arena. But the Jayhawks are dangerously relying on Aldrich alone to do the work lately. Against Oklahoma, no one else on the roster had more than three rebounds. Missouri isn't a great rebounding team, but certainly capable. Marcus and/or Markiek Morris need to provide relief for Aldrick by scrapping alongside him down low.
Date Opponent TV Time
March 4 at Texas Tech ESPN2 8:30 p.m.
March 7 TEXAS CBS 3 p.m.
Big 12 Tournament March 11-14
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