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THE STUDENT VOICE SINCE 1904
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VOLUME 121 ISSUE 53
GOOD TO BE BACK
Basketball season has returned
Fans off all kinds share excitement for new season
BY RAY SEGEBRECHT rsegebrecht@kansan.com
More than 40 years have passed since the screaming voices of Terry and Marty Davis, class of '66, joined those of their fellow students in the student section in Allen Fieldhouse. They have seen some change through the years, Marty said. Students never had to pay for tickets back then. They never had to camp out for seats either.
But as the couple returned to campus for the men's basketball exhibition game against Fort Hays State, Terry said it all still had a familiar feel. While they drove from their.home in Raytown, Mo., to Lawrence and re-entered Allen Fieldhouse, every ounce of old excitement they once felt as freshmen inside the arena returned in full force.
"When we were kids, we went to all the games, all the time," Terry said. "It was different then, a little, but still pretty much raved fans."
Terry said he thought the team's No.1 preseason national ranking
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Weston White/KANSAN Michael Blair, Galena junior, A.J. Sidhu, Olathe junior, and Danielle Fuller, Olathe sophomore throw torn up newspaper in the air during player introductions at Tuesday's game against Fort Hays State. Fans of all ages expressed their excitement for the start of the college basketball season.
OBITUARY
Former professor dies at age 90
BY RAY SEGEBRECHT rsegebrechtkansan.com
athe University before his age and health forced him to retire in the spring. Russ Ptack, an old friend of Shaffer who
Author, economics professor and longtime friend of the University of Kansas, Harry Shaffer, died Tuesday. Shaffer taught for 53 years
Shaffer
played poker with him on Sunday, said breathing had become more difficult in his later life and likely contributed to his collapse yesterday at his home. His wife, Betty, was with him when he died.
"He has been on oxygen over the past year," Ptack said. "It probably had something to do with a combination of old age and his ability to breathe becoming more and more difficult."
Ptack said Shaffer was probably best known among students for his passion for teaching his Introductory Economics class. Shaffer celebrated his 90th birthday in August. Ptack said, by reading warm wishes from the nearly 700 students who had joined his "Harry is the man!" online Facebook page.
"He got a lot of joy from that." Ptack said.
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Eve Kemple, prosecutor with the district attorney's office, spoke in a panel as part of Domestic Violence Awareness Week. The panel brought forth issues relevant to victims of domestic violence.
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Groups try to end domestic violence
BY JESSE RANGEL jrangel@kansan.com
When Thomas Medved walked by students passing out information in front of Stauffer-Flint Hall yesterday, he didn't expect there to be a voice advocating awareness for domestic violence - a problem that affected some of his friends.
"It's important to spread the word about domestic violence, which is actually a huge problem," Medved, Overland Park senior, said. "It's awesome that we have a visible stance on campus against it."
And there are 10 campus groups who want to keep domestic violence awareness going. The groups, which include Delta Force, GaDuGi Safe Center and the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center, are coming together this week to continue to work toward a goal state officials made in October: to raise awareness about domestic violence and how to do something about it.
Domestic Violence Awareness Week with Delta Force, said the groups wanted to hold the event in the first week of November, directly following Kansas' domestic violence awareness month in October. Willbanks said they wanted to show that domestic violence affects people 365 days a year, not just in October.
Along with the tables in front of Stauffer Flint, the groups will sponsor three evening talks and presentations on domestic violence.
Tanner Willbanks, Lawrence senior and coordinator for
He said one in four women would be exposed to domestic violence at some point in their lives. But he also said men, children and even roommates could become victims.
"The rate of domestic violence among people is astonishing," Willbanks said.
Elise Higgins, Topeka senior
and president of the University's Commission on the Status of
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Nursing students vie for places in program
BY JESSE BROWN jbrown@kansan.com
As the national economic recession continues to limit the number of nurses organizations are able to employ, the demand for them has grown significantly during the last eight to 10 years. Debbie Ford, assistant dean of student affairs in the School of Nursing, said that right now the school didn't have the space to accommodate all of the applicants.
She said for the Fall 2010 semester 120 students would be accepted out of an estimated 550 applicants.
It's a struggle Merica Schreiner, Frankfort sophomore and president of the Pre-Nursing Club.
came to understand.
In the midst of this nursing crisis, the Pre-Nursing Club seeks to educate and guide its members to
"When I hear that only 100 out of 500 applicants are getting in, it still makes my stomach drop." Schreiner said.
"When I hear that only 100 out of 500 applicants are getting in, it still makes my stomach drop."
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MERICA SCHREINER Frankfort sophomore
Because of the nursing shortage, there has been an influx of student applicants attempting to enter the field. Ford said the school doesn't have the space to accept all these
become nurses in the specific fields they want to work in.
students so the application process often becomes competitive
Some students, like Schreiner, said they joined the club to get that experience and the wealth of knowledge they can learn from the speakers.
The club meets on the first Tuesday of
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the month at Watkins Memorial Health Center. Each meeting brings one or two speakers to talk to members about the nursing fields they might want to pursue and what to expect from the position.
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