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THE UNIVERSITY OF JAMES KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23TH
NEWS
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2009
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Rachel Pepper, RN, MS, nurse manager at The University of Kansas Hospital fields questions from members of the Pre-Nursing Club in Watkins Memorial Health Center conference room on Tuesday evening. The club, which features guest speakers, gives members insight into the world of nursing.
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"There's a great need for nursing right now." Chris Gordon,
senior and treasurer of the Pre-Nursing Club, said. "So I try to set myself apart and get as much experience as I can"
available to every student group. In addition to the monthly
Schreiner said the club had grown from last year to the point that they had to
begin talking about finding a bigger venue for its meetings.
"There's a great need for nursing right now, so I try to set myself apart ... "
CHRIS GORDON Leawood senior
As the one who keeps track of the funds and membership fees, Gordon said the club had between 100 and 200 members.
meeting, the club also does charity work around Lawrence. This Friday, the club will be serving breakfast at Jubilee Café to Lawrence's homeless community.
The Pre-Nursing Club is funded by money the group receives from the membership fee, which is $3 per person, and the basic $200 funding from Student Senate
The club's leaders said they hope their extracurricular activities and high grade point averages will get them into the School of Nursing.
"We're there to tell you about the opportunities available and the things we think will increase your chances if you're really interested in getting accepted," Schreiner said.
Edited by Samantha Foster
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Women, said the groups wanted to let students who are experiencing domestic violence know that they are not alone. She said the table in front of Stauffer-Flint would feature a pledge students could sign that says they would not commit, condone or stay silent about domestic violence.
Willbanks said he wanted students to realize that this issue faces them, not people in some far-off region.
"It's very important that people experiencing domestic violence know that they have allies," Higgins said. "They have allies and resources both at KU and in the Lawrence community."
"I think everyone would agree that one in four women is a problem," Willbanks said. "Until we acknowledge how big of a problem it is, we can't fix the problem."
— Aly Van Dyke contributed to the reporting of this story
POLITICS
Edited by Tim Burgess
POLITICS Gringrich to speak at two public events on campus
Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House, is visiting campus today. Gingrich is the Robert J. Dole Institute of
Politics 'first Distinguished Visiting Fellow. The visit will include two public events.
Today at
Gringrich
12 p.m. at the Adams Alumni Center, Gingrich will be at one of the Dole Institute's "Pizza and Politics" events. It is open to all students and faculty who would like to eat free pizza while listening to the former speaker
Tonight at 7:30 p.m. Gingrich will be speaking at the Dole Institute in West Campus. This event is open to anyone in the community. Bill Lacy, director of the Dole Institute, said the former speaker would be talking about the Republican party's place in America today as an "alternative party" rather than an opposition party.
of the House talk about today's political scene.
"He is clearly one of the brightest political thinkers on the Republican side today," Lacy said, "and we're really excited to be bringing him to the Dole Institute."
DICKINSON, N.D. — The bodies of three missing North Dakota college softball players were found Tuesday inside a Jeep after authorities, aided by signals from the women's last desperate phone calls, spotted the vehicle in a farm pond.
Lacy also said he anticipates space running short and recommends showing up early to guarantee a place.
Zach White
NATIONAL Missing softball players found in submerged jeep
Police Lt. Rod Banyal said officers were investigating the cause of the deaths and autopsies were planned. He said he believed the women were on a stargazing trip in the Jeep when they called for help, but he did not know whether it already was under water when the calls were made.
Associated Press
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this season made the fanfare seem particularly ravenous.
"It was still pretty wild then," Terry said. "It may have gotten even wilder."
Among the new wave of freshman joining the fray of red and blue last night was Cody Janousek, Lawrence freshman, who donned an old Sasha Kaun jersey tee and a Kansas flag he flung around his neck as a cape.
Students react to the Fort Hays State starting lineup. Tuesday was the first exhibition game of Kansas' basketball season.
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As long as the Jayhawks won, Janousek said, the flag would continue fly atop his shoulders for every game.
"I probably won't wash the cape," Janousek said. "I'll keep the cape like this all season."
Janousek said he had attended Kansas games on various occasions since he was 5 or 6 years old.
But he said being able to one day join the ranks of the roaring student section had always been a goal of his.
"They all had the newspapers, waiting for the players to come out and they ripped it up and threw it. It looked like the coolest thing ever," he said.
Grace Olson, Houston, Texas, freshman, said even though she wasn't raised in Lawrence, both of her parents attended the University and quickly turned her into an avid Jayhawks fan.
She said she too remembered feeling frustrated one game when her brother, a student at the time.
left her and her parents to join his college contemporaries.
"I was just so jealous because he looked like he was having so much fun in the student section and I couldn't be there," Olson said.
As excited as she felt anticipating the tip off she watched alongside her peers, Olson said she was preparing for an equally exciting and new experience at the next game.
Olson is a freshman member of the KU cheer squad and attended
the game with junior teammate Edneesha Bell, Lee Summit, Mo
She will return again with Bell in one week to lead her classmates during the men's basketball matchup with Pittsburg State on Nov. 10.
Bell, her teammate, said though she loved the limelight of cheering and doing stunts on the floor, some moments in the stands were irreplaceable.
"My favorite is during the free throws." Bell said. "They either do
the wave or they do the popcorn."
But Bell said no matter where she cheered from, she anticipated this year's team would provide impressive results for its fans.
"We have a lot of good players this year," Bell said. "I want us to win that National Championship so bad. This is only my second year here, but this year is going to be awesome, I have a feeling."
— Edited by Tim Burgess
POLITICS
GOP rebuilds in Tuesday elections
BY LIZ SIDOTI Associated Press
WASHINGTON—Independents who swept Barack Obama to a historic 2008 victory broke big for Republicans on Tuesday as the GOP wrested political control from Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey, a sign for the president and his party heading into an important midterm election year.
Conservative Republican Bob
Elsewhere on Tuesday, Maine voted on whether to affirm a state law that would allow same-sex couples to wed. If supporters prevail, it
McDonnell's victory in the Virginia governor's race over Democrat R. Creigh Deeds and Republican Chris Christie's ouster of unpopular New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine was a double-barreled triumph for a party looking to rebuild after being booted from power in national elections in 2006 and 2008.
would mark the first time that the electorate in any state endorsed gay marriage.
And Democrat Bill Owens captured a GOP-hold vacant 23rd Congressional District seat in New York in a race that highlighted fissures in the Republican Party and illustrated hurdles the GOP could face in capitalizing on any voter discontent with Obama and Democrats next fall.
Garamendi, also a Democrat, won a special election to a vacant congressional seat, Ohio voters approved casinos and other cities selected mayors, including New York, which gave Michael Bloomberg a third term.
California Lt. Gov. John
The outcomes of Virginia and New Jersey were sure to feed discussion about the state of the electorate, the status of the diverse coalition that sent Obama to the White House.
DOCUMENTARY Center to show film about Mexican women's plight
The Center of Latin American Studies will play host to a free screening tonight of "Senorita Extraviada,"a documentary about the kidnapping, rape and murder of hundreds of women in Juarez, Mexico, since the early '90s. The screening starts at 7 p.m. in 4012 Wescoe Hall.
Before the screening, Laura Herlihy, Latin American Studies lecturer, will talk about the film and the situation it denets.
This documentary is the second of four in the center's annual documentary series. Next Wednesday the center will show "Zapatista," about the Zapatista movement against capitalism in Mexico. The following week brings "Cowboy del Amor," a documentary comedy about a man arranging marriages between American men and Mexican women.
Harry Swartz, Lawrence graduate student, said he hoped the film series would raise awareness about diverse issues.
"We're just trying to give more exposure to Latin American issues," Swartz said. "And if we get more Latin American Studies majors out of it, that doesn't hurt either."
All of these screenings are free and open to everyone.
— Zach White
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