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Jake Hopkins, Albuquerque, N.M. junior, quickly eats his crunchy chicken cheddar wrap midway through the Crunchy Chicken Cheddar Challenge Sunday afternoon. The charity run was organized by KU Habitat for Humanity.
Participation in the race cost $15; and runners received a Habitat for Humanity T-shirt and their choice of a chicken or veggie wrap. The race was designed as a light-hearted way to raise money for KU Habitat for Humanity.
Nathan Klein, Overland Park freshman, attended the event but did not participate. He said he wanted to help the cause, but that his stomach couldn't handle the running, eating and running again.
"Ild lose the contents of my stomach, and then some," he said.
Meyer said the decision to have runners eat crunchy chicken cheddar wraps was especially appropriate for students.
"its kind of a cultural icon here on campus. It's delicious, its popular and we wanted it to be a part of our event," he said.
The event was inspired by a similar event at North Carolina State University called the Krispy Kreme Challenge, Meyer said. Runners there had to eat a dozen donuts
Many participants, like Brad Evans, Minnetonka, Minn., junior, and Jobie Buehler, Bonner Springs junior, showed up to the event wearing colorful costumes. The pair did not take off their female sumu suits once throughout the three-mile race.
"We're two sexy ladies ready to compete, and take home the gold," Evans said. "We're holding nothing back."
before finishing the race.
Valerie Peterson, Wichita freshman, didn't share their energy. She said she came for the free wrap and T-shirt and was going to walk.
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"Even if I ran, I think the people in the fat suits would just run past me," she said.
KU Habitat for Humanity hopes to make the Crunchy Chicken Challenge an annual event. All proceeds went to help fund the construction of a house in Lawrence.
Edited by Abbey Strusz
University begins search for provost, deans
BY JESSE RANGEL
jrangel@kansan.com
Now that the new chancellor is in place, University administrators say it's time to begin the search for a new provost.
Lynn Bretz, director of communications for the University, said it was a priority for Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little to select a new provost.
Though Gray-Little will make the final decision on a provost, she chose a search committee, which was announced on Sept. 2. The committee will hold its first meeting today. Mabel Rice, a Fred and Virginia Merrill distinguished professor of advanced studies, is the chairwoman of the committee. Bretz
said Rice was one of the University's top researchers.
"It's really a blue-ribbon group"
Bretz said.
"I'm excited to see who the candidates are, and I really have no doubt that KU will attract some top-notch candidates," Heilman said. "Hopefully it will be a tough decision for us."
Mason Heilman, Lawrence senior and student body president, will also serve on the committee. He said it was important to find a candidate who was able to work with students because the provost deals with student issues more directly than the chancellor.
The previous provost, Richard Lariviere, was hired to the president of the University of Oregon last March. Danny Anderson, vice provost for academic affairs, is serving as the interim provost.
The School of Music opened July 1. John Stephens, professor of voice and opera and chairman of the music dean search committee.
Greg Simpson is serving as the interim dean of the College. Joseph Steinmetz, his predecessor, accepted a position at Ohio State University.
"As a professional musician myself, and I am one of many professional musicians who are on this faculty, we realize how competitive the musical world is, regardless of if it's classical or Broadway," Stephens said. "To me, one of the main duties, at least in my mind, is simply to lead and inspire the faculty and students of this School of Music."
Search committees have also been named for the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the School of Music. The search for the deans will happen at the same time as the search for the new provost, but Bretz said naming the provost was still the priority.
Joyce Castle, professor of voice and opera and dean search committee member, said the committee would look for someone to bring
said the committee for the School of Music was scheduled to meet next week. He said it was important to find a candidate with a love of music and dedication to training students who were pursuing music degrees.
"We all will be thinking about who we know in the field who might be interested or we think will be really wonderful for the job," Castle said.
the school of Music "to a very high level"
Stephens said although the music program had been strong when it was in the School of Fine Arts before, the move to make a separate school would make the focus on music much more specific.
"I think it enables us to find a person who really has strengths in music and leading musical programs," Stephens said
Three soldiers killed in Afghanistan
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— Edited by Abbey Strusz
KABUL — About 50 Taliban militants died in a battle in western Afghanistan after an insurgent ambush killed three U.S. troops, an Afghan official said Sunday.
The fighting took place in a region controlled by militants that has been the site of huge battles in the past, some that have caused high numbers of civilian casualties.
In Saturday's clash, a militant-fired rocket struck a home and killed a woman and a teenage girl. Afghan police said.
The battle followed an insurgent ambush that killed three Americans and seven Afghan troops, said Afghan army spokesman Maij. Abdul Basir Ghori.
The ambush involved two roadside bombs, gunfire and rocketpropelled grenades, the U.S. military said Sunday.
She couldn't provide casualty figures and no other Afghan officials immediately confirmed the death toll.
Fighting — which included NATO airstrikes — continued for six to eight hours after the ambush, U.S. military spokeswoman Capt. Elizabeth Mathias said.
Saturday's violence came the same day that Afghan officials said 50 other civilians, security forces and militants were killed in a spate of attacks around Afghanistan, including 20 noncombatants killed in two roadside bomb explosions.
"The combined ISAF and Afghan force was receiving significant small-arms, RPG and indirect fire throughout that time frame," she said, referring to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force.
The U.S. and NATO have a record number of troops in the country, and the top commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, is likely to soon request thousands more.
Violence has risen steadily across Afghanistan in the last three years, and militants now control wide swaths of the countryside.
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A record number of U.S. and NATO troops have died in Afghanistan already this year.
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