MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2002
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"We need to have patriotism again."
After rallying outside the Carlson Federal Building, the protesters headed back to the capital and gathered for impromptu speeches about the Bush administration's war policy.
Ophra Leyser, Dekalb, III,
graduate student, said she
attended the protest because
she was worried about America's relationship with the rest of the world.
"I feel like if we go to war with Iraq, it will further erode the U.S.'s credibility with other countries and ultimately create a less safe environment for us," she said.
Andrew McNeil-Marshall, Downers Grove, Ill., sophomore, said he thought Americans weren't adequately informed about the war because of media restrictions in Iraq.
"There's a lot going on with the weapons inspectors," he said. "It seems like there's not a lot being told in the media."
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once a month.
He said it was a good way to expose students to real-world Air Force missions.
Seth Lorimer, Overland Park freshman, said the flight was his first military flight. His favorite part was being able to sit in the cockpit during the landing, he said.
Rygh Galloway, Overland Park freshman, said he thought he benefited from the experience.
"It's not something you get to do every day," he said. "Now I have a new perspective on tanker missions."
For more information on the Kansas Air National Guard or the 190th Air Refueling Wing, go to www.kansascoyotes.com.
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Delay tactic lets broadcast match TV
By Kelly McNearney
kmcnearney@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Bob Davis is not psychic. And now, because of new technology introduced into Kansas basketball radio broadcasts, the jayhawks' play-by-play announcer will no longer be calling the future.
Kansas fans who have previously listened to Davis' basketball radio broadcasts while watching games on television heard the plays called one second before they actually happened.
"I used to tell people, Bob's so good he knows when the ball's going to go in," said Bob Newton, producer and engineer of the Jayhawk Radio Network.
Newton has fixed that problem. The Jayhawk Radio Network inserted a delay into radio broadcasts of Kansas basketball games that match the pace of television broadcasts.
Newton said the delay used to be a fraction of a second, but that in recent years the delay had gotten longer and longer.
He said he received calls from fans who wanted the radio sound to match the television broadcast.
Newton began searching for a remedy last season and finally found it at the end of the season. Newton purchased the digital delay device from England for $1,400.
The device inserts a pause in the radio before it leaves the Fieldhouse. During games, Newton calls someone watching TV to make sure the sound matches.
Newton said for games on ESPN, the television broadcast
It then travels to ESPN in Bristol, Conn., then back up to the satellite another 23,000 miles into space and finally to the televisions in people's living rooms.
travels from the Fieldhouse to a satellite uplink 23,000 miles into space.
Even at the speed of light that takes about a second. It is that second that causes the TV to be slower than the radio.
The only problem with the new device is the disservice it does to fans inside the Fieldhouse watching the game and listening to the Jayhawk Radio Network on headsets.
Those fans will now see the game action and then hear it one second later on the radio.
"They'll just think Bob and Max are getting a little slow in their old age." Newton said.
"We can't make it perfect for everybody, but we're trying to make it better for most of the
people,"
Bob Newton Jayhawk Radio Network producer and engineer
Newton said he was trying to please the majority of listeners. He said most listeners were not inside the Fieldhouse but were listening to the one of the 30 stations all over the state of Kansas that carry the games.
"We can't make it perfect for everybody, but we're trying to make it better for most of the people," he said.
Newton said he was pleased
that people preferred to listen to the Jayhawk Radio Network rather than the television play-by-play announcers. The problem of timing became increasingly evident during the NCAA tournament last season when the radio was calling the plays 1.9 seconds before they appeared through CBS on the television.
Kydie Grossheusch, Batavia, Ill., senior, turns down the volume on her TV and listens to Davis and partner Max Falkenstien announce the games. She noticed the difference in this season's broadcasts.
"It's so much better now," Grossheusch said. "I just prefer to listen to Bob and Max rather than the TV guys and now the sounds match perfectly."
Dole Institute to be pictured on phone book
- Edited by Ryan Malashock
By Kyle Ramsey
kramsey@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
A December delivery will bring the Dole Institute of Politics building at the University of Kansas into thousands of Lawrence homes.
An architectural rendering of the building, which is under construction at the University of Kansas' West Campus, will be featured on the cover of the December
2002 edition of the SBC Southwestern Bell telephone directory
The drawing was created by ASAI Architecture, a Kansas City, Mo., architecture firm.
"We're proud to showcase the permanent home of the Dole Institute on the cover of the latest Lawrence directory," said Brett Sayre, external affairs director for SBC, in a statement.
He estimated area residents would use the directory collectively a total of 6 million times in
the next year.
SBC has contributed to the construction of the new center, Erik Nelson, associate director of the Dole Institute, said.
Nelson said asking SBC to print the new building's image on its Lawrence directory was a great promotional tool for the Institute.
"It's a great way to introduce ourselves," he said.
The new facility will feature a World Trade Center memorial composed of structural beams
salvaged from Ground Zero, a 120-seat auditorium and KU's first satellite uplink.
The cornerstone of the Institute is its collection of former Sen. Bob Dole's government documents, comprising 4,000 boxes and the largest congressional collection in the world.
The building's dedication is scheduled for July 22, 2003, which is former Sen. Dole's 80th birthday.
SBC will begin delivering the directories to residences, businesses and government offices this week and will continue through December.
Residents can recycle old directories through Project ReDirectory.
Collection sites will run Dec. 16 through Jan. 31 at all area McDonald's and Dillons stores and at Wal-Mart, 3300 Iowa St. and City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St.
Judge keeps hearing open to media
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The Associated Press
But Judge David Stone went along with the Canadian custom of banning news reports of the session.
PORT COQUITLAM, British Columbia — The preliminary hearing for alleged serial killer Robert Pickleton will be open to the media and public, a judge ruled Friday.
Pickton, 53, faces 15 first-degree murder charges, with police still searching a Port Coquilam pig farm he owns with his siblings for possible remains of more than 50 other
women missing from the Vancouver area.
Canadian judges routinely ban the reporting of evidence from preliminary hearings, but the closed courtroom sought by Pickton's lawyer would have been much broader.
Lawyer Peter Ritchie had sought the unusual measure of closing the court completely, even to victims' relatives, claiming sensational evidence could taint the potential jury pool.
Ritchie said the overriding concern should be selection of an impartial jury, calling a ban on attendance by journalists and
family members "an awesome decision to be made in the rarest of cases."
Ritchie said he feared U.S. media would publish details of the evidence, and the reports would reach Canada by the Internet, cable and satellite television and imported newspapers.
Stone rejected Ritchie's request, saying the normal safeguards of a publication ban were sufficient.
Pickton observed the proceedings from behind bulletproof glass in a special defendant's box and smiled when Stone announced his decision.
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room, sit on the floor or in chairs and close their eyes for 30 minutes.
John Bellassai, Olathe junior and president of the club, said he meditated at least twice a day for more than two years. He said the key to meditation was breathing because it caused the heart to slow down and make the body feel restful.
"Meditation helps to clean the mind of all thoughts," he said. "It helps relieve stress because when you're able to let everything go, your able stops worrying."
But Bellassai said medita
"Meditation helps to clean the mind of all thoughts."
John Bellassai
Olathe junior
tion was not for everyone.
"It's hard to do and you have to be motivated to do it," he said. "Most people are not able to keep their mind focused on something, which can be very frustrating. You have to do it all of the time."
For more information about this event, e-mail Bellassai at griffyn@ku.edu.
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