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VOLUME 121 ISSUE 14
WHAT A RUSH
At home in the end zone
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Senior quarterback Todd Reesing rushes for his first touchdown against Northern Colorado on Saturday evening. Reesing had two rushing touchdowns Saturday, a first in his career at Kansas. Reesing also threw for 208 yards and two touchdowns in addition to 79 yards on the ground. See page 1B for more on Saturday's game.
GIRL POWER
Two alumni lead in Forbes' 100 Most Powerful Women
BY MEGAN HEACOCK mheacock@kansan.com
Two KU alumni have topped the list of Forbes Magazine's 100 Most Powerful Women in the World finding themselves among an international hedgepodge of chief executives, presidents and queens.
Sheila Bair, chair of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, placed second on the list, which was released in August. Bair grew up in Independence, Kan., and graduated from the University with a degree in philosophy in 1978 and a J.D. from the School of Law in 1982. She has served as chair of the FDIC since June 2006.
Cynthia Carroll, who placed fourth on the list, earned her Master of Science in geology in 1982 and is the Chief Executive Officer of Anglo American, based in London. The company is one of the largest independent mining corporations in the world.
Forbes, a biweekly business magazine, is famous for its lists, which have included "400 Richest Americans," "Celebrity 100" and "America's Best Colleges."
According to the Forbes Web site, the list is determined by two scoring components: a woman's press visibility and the size of the country or company she runs.
Other women on the list include German chancellor Angela Merkel, 1st, Hillary Clinton, 36th, Michelle Obama, 40th, Oprah Winfrey, 41st and Kathleen Sebelius, who is also a KU graduate, 57th.
Shannon Fisher, Lawrence first year law student, was inspired by finding herself at the school Bair graduated from 31 years ago.
Rhonda LeValdo, KU graduate from the School of Journalism, was nominated for the KU Women of Distinction Calendar in 2009 for a Pulitzer Center video she produced of her grandmother, who lives in Acoma Pueblo, N.M., one of the oldest continuously-occupied settlements in the United States. LeValdo said she recognized the potential influence a powerful woman could have on others.
"It's really enabling to know that someone who's gone through the same programs that I've been going through right now has been able to reach such a high level," she said.
"I think it's important to show female students what is possible when you put your mind to work," LeValdo said. "Also, I think it gives students an idea of what they can achieve if they are doubting themselves."
Fisher said that Forbes' list was a good example of the improving status of women, but that inequality between men and women was still a problem.
"It's not shattered yet, I don't think," she said about the notion of the glass ceiling. "I'm sure these KU alumni that have reached high heights have had to sacrifice a lot that maybe their male counterparts haven't had to."
KUIH interviewed Carroll after she placed fifth on the 2008 Forbes list. She had two pieces of advice for KU students: The first was to learn another language and the second was to study and focus while in school.
"Really follow your heart — what you want to do, what really turns you on," she said in the interview.
— Edited by Jacob Muselmann
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Sheila Bair, current FDIC chair, found herself slotted as No. 2 in Forbes Magazine's 100 Most Powerful Women in the World. She graduated from the CLAS in 1978 and the School of Law in 1982.
Cynthia Carroll, chief executive of Angle American, placed No. 4 in Forbes Magazine's 100 Most Powerful Women in the World. She graduated KU in 1982 with a B.S. in ecology.
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
SAFETY
Forum to stress personal security
BYBRANDON SAYERS
bsayers@kansan.com
Kansas Attorney General Steve Six and local police agencies will host a personal safety forum on campus tomorrow to raise awareness about sexual assaults.
The event, which will begin at 11 a.m. Wednesday in the Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union, will be co-hosted by the Lawrence Police Department and the KU Public Safety Office. A similar forum will also be held later in the day at Kansas State University in Manhattan.
The event is an effort to step up proactive safety measures after the attorney general's office found similarities between 13 rapes in the Lawrence and Manhattan areas. The first of those rapes occurred in 2001 and the most recent occurred in December 2008.
"As the semester begins, it is critical that all students understand the importance of personal safety and know how to avoid potentially dangerous situations." Six said in a press release announcing the event.
Students and members of the general public are invited to attend the forum. Six, Lawrence police and University police are scheduled to speak at the event.
Elise Higgins, Topeka senior and president of the University's Commission on the Status of Women, will also discuss student safety during the forum.
Higgins said she hoped to give a student perspective and to teach students how to access campus crime reports and how to get involved with safety issues on campus.
Sgt. Bill Cory, Lawrence police spokesman, said his department's presentation would focus on off-campus safety issues.
"A lot of these students are younger, just moved away from home, and it's good to be able to get them in a forum where we can tell them how to take care of themselves," Cory said.
The attorney general's office said it thought the five rapes in Lawrence and eight in Manhattan were related and hoped this event would help prevent future attacks. All of the attacks were committed late at night by an armed man with a covered face. Most of the attacks happened while students were on academic break and none
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