POLITICS
Bush Sr. to speak at Lied Center
Reserve tickets are available today at Murphy Hall, the Student Union Activities box office and the Lied Center box office for students and the public to see former President George H.W. Bush. The Dole Institute of Politics will award President Bush the Leadership Prize at 3 p.m. on Nov. 16 at the Lied Center. Starting today, 500 tickets will be on reserve for students only. The remainder of the tickets will be released to the public at 11 a.m. on Nov. 10.
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CONCERT
Event promotes stress-free lifestyle
Living peacefully in a stress-free environment is the theme around tonight's "One World, One Family" concert. The concert is being put on by the University's Art of Living Club, which attains a stress-free environment by practicing a type of yoga centered around breathing.
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Melanie Gorges makes fleece pillows and donates them to the pediatric wards of two hospitals. Gorges, Andale freshman, is currently raising funds to expand the project to a middle school in Kansas City, Kan.
Student's pillows aid sick children
CHARITY
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ACCOLADES
Kansan wins biq at Pacemaker awards
BY RYAN MCGEENEY
rmcgeeney@kansan.com
The Kansan received top honors on Saturday for its Web site and sports reporting, as well as additional honors for the paper's print edition and news reporting.
Kansan.com beat out four other finalists for the 2008 Associated College Press Online Pacemaker award in the four-year college daily newspaper category. The category received entries from 155 four-year schools, according to the ACP Web site. The print version of the paper placed third in the Best of Show category for its Oct. 23 issue, which also included issue nine of
Jayplay, the Kansan's weekly magazine.
Mark Dent, Kansan managing editor, won in the Sports Story of the Year category for "Nowhere to Run," a profile of former KU running back Charles "June" Henley. Henley, a 1996 graduate and one-time NFL draft pick, is serving a four-year prison sentence in Ohio for aggravated robbery and aggravated burglary.
"It's really not that big of a deal to me,"
Dent, who also placed second in the Reporter of the Year category, said that, although he was happy to have done well in the competition, the awards were not his primary motivation for seeking a career in newspapers.
Dent said. "I'm not a big fan of praise. If I get some awards, that's awesome, but I do it because it's fun, and it's what I want to do when I grow up."
Malcolm Gibson, Kansan general manager, said he was pleased by the paper's success in the annual competition.
"I think it's a testament to the hard work the students put into the paper, as well as the work of everyone in the school," Gibson said.
Matt Erickson', Kansan editor in chief, received an honorable mention in the News Story of the Year category for his reporting on illegal file sharing and KU students who were sued by the Recording Industry
Association of America. The story, titled "Facing the Music," took about a year to write, Erickson said, because the circumstances of the legal cases kept changing just before each of the story's three proposed publication dates.
"I think all these awards reflect that we have one of the best student newspapers in the country," Erickson said. "It reflects the strength of our journalism school, and especially that the Kansan is a leader in exploring the possibilities of online newspapers."
Edited by Adam Mowder
ELECTION 2008
BSU members comment on influence of race
Black Student Union holds a forum on race, Barack Obama
BY BETSY CUTCLIFF
bcutcliff@kansan.com
Members of the KU Black Student Union shared opinions and concerns about Tuesday's presidential election, and the uncertain future that surrounds it at a forum discussing the role of race in the election.
Some students expressed anger at the involvement of Barack Obama's (D-III.) ethnicity in the coverage of this year's election, and said the pressures and expectations put before the candidate should have more to do with his policies than his background.
Dorthy Pennington, professor of African-American studies, has taught classes about African-Americans' roles in society for more than 30 years and said she couldn't believe that the United States was still having discussions and arguments about race. Pennington said though Barack Obama represented change and hope, he also represented an unsure future for race relations in the United States.
"I think that race in America still has a lot of baggage. We don't quite know what to do with it," Pennington said. "We wonder, 'Is Obama's race a good thing, a bad thing or a neutral thing?'"
The possibility of electing a black president was significant for Ryan Moose, Wichita senior, who has a 2-year-old daughter.
Krista Curette, Port Arthur, Texas, senior, said she was worried about voters' education about policies and issues because of some bias in news coverage.
"My daughter will grow up not knowing a time when we thought a black person couldn't be president," Moose said. "She will grow up in a time where black people can do anything white people can."
Other BSU students agreed with
Jerry Wang/KANSAN
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The members of the Black Student Union: from front left, Koga Ndikum-Moffor, Overland Park senior, Amanda Muhammad, Overland Park sophomore, Kameron Mack, Wichita freshman, Danielle Cooper, Kansas City, Kan., freshman, Camille Clark, Kansas City, Kan., senior, Kamau Thompson, Overland Park senior, and Martin Okeearu, Kansas City, Mo., senior are discontent with the media's coverage of Barack Obama's (D-III-) race in this year's election. The students agreed that the media emphasizes Obama's Kenyan lineage more than his policies.
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Phoenix learned to sing and play the guitar for his role portraying Johnny Cash in the movie 'Walk the Line'. ENTERTAINMENT | 6A
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