4A
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY JANLY KANSAN
MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2008
ENTREPRENEURS (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
Julianne Kueffer/KANSAN
Adam Hofmann, KU senior, Overland Park, began a photography business about two years ago, specializing in senior portraits. He said that high school students with extracurricular interests, such as music or sports, tended to have more personality in front of the lens.
He said he had many competitors, with one of the largest senior portrait companies in the country located in Overland Park. However, he said his age helped him connect to and understand more about his high school customers.
"Ultimately, you have to give what the clients want, but at the same time you always give something that nobody else has given to you." Hofmann said.
Hofmann, a business marketing major, will graduate in May 2009. He said he was not sure about continuing the photography business after graduation, but always enjoyed meeting different people and taking pictures for them.
"Probably the most fun is after the shoot. Shooting is fun, but afterwards they get to see the pictures and their reactions are pretty cool," Hofmann said.
FINDING A NICHE
Wally Meyer, director of Entrepreneurship Programs who advised the three students, teaches entrepreneurship courses at the School of Business. He said that since the school started offering the courses in 2005, the number of students taking the classes had increased.
Hofmann said he had enrolled in entrepreneurship courses, which reinforced his knowledge after starting his business. He is also the president of the Entrepreneur Club on campus.
Meyer said the current economy presented challenges to entrepreneurs who needed new funds. He said businesspeople would also face sales challenges with financially pinched consumers not wanting to buy new products or services.
"The entrepreneur with a unique product or service targeted at a recession-resistant market with sufficient tenacity to weather the economic storm can still be very successful in today's economy," Meyer said.
Edited by Adam Mowder
October 2007 to October 2008 and is compiled based on points given out for several different categories. Sporting News takes into consideration win-loss records, post-season appearances, team results, the number of teams and the team's attendance all play a part in the ranking.
LAWRENCE (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
Boston tops the list thanks to the Red Sox World Series title in 2007 and the Celtics NBA title a few months ago. The Patriots went
Lawrence is the top college town on the list, finishing well ahead of the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill tandem that was grouped together because of the towns' close proximity and came in as the second-highest college city at number 24 overall.
to the Super Bowl as well, but lost to the New York Giants.
"We're definitely one of the top college towns in America," said Matt Bradbury, Olathe senior and
life-long KU sports fan. "But to rank that high within all of the cities in the country, it's pretty cool. It shows how crazy people are here for the jayhawks."
When the Jayhawks won the 2008 NCAA Championship, thousands of fans filled Massachusetts Street of Lawrence that night to celebrate the victory.
"The fans are a big part of it," Marchiony said. "The people around Lawrence are a big part of
it. It doesn't surprise me at all that we were ranked that high."
The next highest city with a Big 12 school was Austin, Texas, with the University of Texas, at number 31. Columbia, Mo., home of the University of Missouri, came in at number 60. Kansas State University in Manhattan was ranked 76th.
Edited by Ramsey Cox
TRANSPORTATION
Uncertainty colors bus merger talks
BY RYAN MCGEENEY
rmcgeeney@kansan.com
Even after Lawrence voters decide whether to fund the city bus transit system through a pair of proposed sales taxes on the Nov. 4 ballot, both the city and University will still have at least one major transportation issue to sort out.
A collection of representatives from the University, city and Student Senate has been meeting on a weekly basis since September to discuss the details of a proposed merger of Lawrence's two bus systems: KU on Wheels, which also includes the Park and Ride system, and the Lawrence
bus transit system, the T.
A merger would involve coordinating the city's fleet of twelve buses with the University's 43 buses, five of which are dedicated to the Park and
proposal in November that will provide funding for city transit after January 2009 - the individuals in the meeting are forced to react to a series of hypothetical situations.
DEREK MEIER
Student Senate transportation coordinator
Toomay said that the two systems had different, if occasionally overlapping, goals.
"Most of the student senators are sitting on the sidelines until a merger plan emerges"
"I think there's a perception in the community that there are deficiencies out there, like routes and destinations that are served by both systems," Toomay said.
Casey Toomay, the city's interim transit administrator, said one of the primary motivations for the merger was a sense of the two systems' inefficiencies resulting in wasted resources.
Ride system. If the merger were to go through, its organizers hope to have its details worked out by July 2009.
Most of the planning stems from the Dan Boyle Report.
Because the merger's very existence rests on an unknown outcome — namely, whether Lawrence citizens will pass a tax
"KU's goal is to get people from where they live to the campus," Toomay said. "That's a little different than our goal, which is to get people all throughout the community. We have routes that go through campus. Whether we would continue to do that under a consolidated system or a merged system, we don't know."
Robert Chestnut, vice-mayor of Lawrence, said that the lack of certainty about the city transit's funding required a broad spectrum of alternative merger
The report, commissioned by the city, lists possible variations of combined routes, governance and other factors of a merged bus system, including contingency plans for various levels of funding.
550392483610785564081603384
plans.
"It could be approved at two different levels," said Chestnut, referring to the two sales tax proposals. The first would provide basic funding for
the city transit system through a 0.2 percent sales tax, and the other would establish a bus replacement fund through a 0.05 percent sales tax. "It'd be one thing if it were X or nothing. Then we could start planning right away. But because it could be X, or Y, or Z, it's just wise to wait and see what we have to work with."
Meier pointed to the current ambiguity of the city system's future as cause for the University to withhold direct involvement.
Free State Auto Works
841-8358 • 2103 West 26th Street
10% DISCOUNT
on ALL parts, service
& tires with Student ID
FULL SERVICE Oil Change
$18.50
"Most of the student senators are sitting on the sidelines until a merger plan emerges," Meier said.
Derek Meier, Independence. Kan., sophomore, participates in the meetings as the Student Senate transportation coordinator.
"The details aren't known yet. I think that Student Senate forming an opinion at this point is pretty premature. There's not many details to be passing judgment on."
Edited by Adam Mowder
includes oil & filter change, lube the chassis, check & fill all fluids, check & inflate tires, up to 5 quarts of standard oil, oil filter, related fluids, & wheel weights.
Inspect belts, hoses, air filter, wiper blades, lights & a visual brake inspection.
Two Iraqi soldiers were killed by sniper in separate attacks Sunday in the capital's Yarmouk district, police said.
Also Sunday, the government announced new security measures to protect Christians
BAGHDAD — Suicide car bombers struck twice Sunday in the northern city of Mosul, killing at least six people and wounding dozens of others, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.
WORLD NEWS Car bombers kills six, wounds dozens in Mosul
A car bomb killed seven other people in Baghdad.
in Mosul after a spate of attacks against them by Sunni religious extremists.
WASHINGTON — When Bill and Hillary Clinton take the stage Sunday at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, it will be the launch of an active campaign for their
The series of attacks shows the ongoing security challenges facing Iraq as the U.S. shifts responsibility to this country's own soldiers and police following the sharp decline in violence since last year.
Clintons 'cheer' for Obama in final campaign rallies
Whatever recriminations the Clintons may still harbor from that long battle seem to have been nudged aside as they campaign in earnest for the Democratic ticket.
The nation's best known and most powerful Democrats for nearly two decades, the former first couple is getting used to a new role: cheerleaders for Obama, who vanquished Hillary Clinton last spring in a Democratic primary contest for the ages.
The New York senator and the former president will appear with Obama's running mate, Joe Biden, at a rally Sunday in
$1 Natural Light &
Keystone Light Bottles
$2 Margarittaville shots
TUESDAY
$1.75 Domestic Beers
$1.50 Well Drinks
We Are Open ALL FALL BREAK
former nemesis Barack Obama in the home stretch of the 2008 presidential race.
MONDAY
After the rally, the Clinton will follow separate itineraries through presidential battleground states. They will also campaign on behalf of Democratic House and Senate candidates across the country.
...only at THE HAWK
Both Biden and Clinton have emphasized their Scranton roots to illustrate their connection to blue-collar voters.
WEDNESDAY $1 Almost Anything
Scranton, a working class town that has assumed something of an outsize role in the presidential race.
Biden was born in Scranton and lived there for several years as a child, while Hillary Clinton's father grew up in the town and is buried there.
Associated Press
Red Lyon Tavern
A touch of Irish in downtown Lawrence
832-8228
恒定磁场实验报告三
Choose a Career Teaching Languages
Foreign Language teachers at all levels are listed as one of the specialties that many school districts have a hard time filling!
For information on how to become a Licensed Foreign Language Teacher, contact the School of Education at http://soe.ku.edu/prospective-students/teacher_education.php