THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2011
MUSIC
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Band performs in favorite city
KELSEY CIPOLLA
kcipolla@kansan.com
The prospring alternative rock band, Portugal. The Man, has been thriving this year. In April, the band signed with a major record label. It embarked on a world tour, and its latest album spent two weeks on the top of the college radio charts last month. But Portugal. The Man has plenty of love for Lawrence. It performed at the Bottleneck in
front of a raucous crowd Sunday night.
cous crowd
Sunday night.
"Lawrence
has been my
favorite town
in the country
for six or seven
years," said
Zach Carothers,
bassist.
"We've had
some really
killer times here
Lawrence has been my favorite town in the country for six or seven years."
killer times here."
Carothers and Ryan Neighbors, keyboard player, said that in their seven visits to Lawrence, the band has explored the city and become particularly fond of the vintage stores and Jimmy John's sandwiches.
uted to its unique style of music, strong lyrics, and the sheer amount of music they have produced, including eight full length albums since 2006.
The love seems to be mutual.
The Only Children, a local band,
opened up the show and played
while the crowd swelled until the
and they recently moved from an independent label to Atlantic Records, the label that represents T.I., Death Cab for Cutie and Jason Mraz.
Although its performance was as satisfying as ever, a lot has changed for Portugal. The Man since it last visited Lawrence in January. The band has a tour bus for the first time, its most recent album "In the Mountain In the Cloud" marked its best debut on the U.S. charts,
ZACH CAROTHERS bassist
Bottleneck was packed with people waiting to see Portugal. The Man. Its music, which Carothers describes as a "mix of accessible pop songs and weirdo psychedelic stuff," was accompanied by a light show and praise from fans.
"I thought the show was fantasic," said Ryan House, a junior from Salina. "This was the third time I have seen them, and they never disappoint."
"Major labels have been talking to us since the beginning,
House enjoyed the mixture of old and new songs that the band played during its set. The band's increasing popularity can be attrib-
but we wanted to make sure we were ready," Carothers said. "We wanted to make sure we were good enough before getting thrown into a big label like that."
In the spirit of improvement, the band has been putting more work into its live shows.
For Portugal. The Man, improvement might be the measure of success rather than the world tour and major record deal.
"We have cool lights now. And we've started practicing, which we didn't use to do on tour," Neighbors said.
"I think we're getting way better," Carothers joked. "That's always the trick. Every time you see us live, it hopefully gets better. When it starts to stay the same, that's when we'll try to sell a song to a commercial and just peace out. But hopefully that doesn't happen for quite some time because I'm not good at anything else."
Edited by C.J. Matson
HANOVER, N.H. — Presidential candidate Mitt Romney took some less staunchily conservative stands than his rivals in their debate Tuesday night; declaring he can work with "good" Democrats and positioning himself closer to the center in line with his claim that he can draw crucial independent voters in next year's general election.
He even defended portions of the Wall Street bailout, a particular sore point with many conservative voters who will play an important role in choosing the Republican nominee next winter and spring. But the former Massachusetts governor joined the others in sharply criticizing numerous aspects of President Barack Obama's economic policies.
Romney moderates stands
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Romney said no one likes the idea of balling out big Wall Street firms. However, he said, many of the actions taken in 2008 and
POLITICS
2009 were needed to keep the dollar's value from plummeting and "to make sure that we didn't all lose our jobs." The nation was on a precipice, Romney said, "and we could have had a complete meltdown."
The bailouts are a touchy subject in the campaign, as many GOP voters fault Obama's handling of the matter. Romney said he disagreed with Obama's actions to shore up General Motors and Chrysler, although the administration says the moves were highly successful and much of the federal money has been repaid.
Romney also said he would work with "good" Democrats to lead the country out of economic crisis. He said that's what he did as Massachusetts governor and what he would do if he wins the White House.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry was not asked about the bailouts, but his campaign distributed his past statements saying "government
should not be in the business of using taxpayer dollars to bail out corporate America."
In the debate, sponsored by Bloomberg News and the Washington Post, Perry said the government must open the way for more production of domestic energy sources. The nation must "pull back those regulations that are strangling American entrepreneurship", Perry said.
Former pizza company executive Herman Cain repeated his call for replacing the U.S. tax code with a 9 percent national sales tax and a 9 percent levy on personal and corporate income.
Given a chance to assail Wall Street, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann blamed too much regulation. She also said Obama wants to let Medicare collapse, pushing everyone into "Obama-care," the health overhaul passed by congressional Democrats in 2010.
PLAGIARISM FROM 11
in its digital library, published a Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles in place of the papers. The notice states that the papers contain significant portions of text from three other scholarly works, without attribution, and recommends that researchers remove any references to the papers in their own research.
In addition to failing to stop publication on learning of the plagiarism, the University's censure faults the researchers for failing to report the misconduct to the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Studies as required by the University Senate rules.
Visvanathan declined to comment when contacted by The Kansan. Lushington, in an email, expressed regret on behalf of both researchers and wrote that their research group had implemented measures to prevent such incidents from happening again. He wrote that he had been advised not to make any further comment to the media.
ing the timing of his knowledge of the plagiarism issue."
The censures as published by KU Today represent the University's only public statement on the incident, according to Jill Jess, the director of the KU News Service.
"In addition," the censure reads in part, "Dr. Lushington was not forthcoming with the investigating committee regard
Lushington is the director of the K-INBRE Bioinformatics Core Laboratory and the Molecular Graphics and Modeling Laboratory. Visvanathan is an assistant professor at K-IMBRE,
a biomedical research laboratory with locations at University of Kansas Medical Center and Kansas State University and funded by the National Institutes of Health.
-Edited by Rachel Schultz
Motorcyclist injured on Iowa
LAWRENCE
A 20-year old Lawrence man was taken to Lawrence Memorial hospital with non-life threatening injuries Tuesday night after an accident at Iowa Street and University Drive, according to Sgt. Troy Squire, spokesman for the Lawrence Police Department. Alec VanZuiden was injured when his motorcycle slid into an SUV at about 6:45 p.m. Police are looking for the driver of a third vehicle involved in the accident, described by witnesses as a male in a green, four-door vehicle. Squire said that anyone with information about the third vehicle is encouraged to call 785-832-7509.
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