SPORTS
The Kansas club hockey team carpools to practice and games, but teammates use the tight travel as an opportunity to bond. PAGE 1B
SPORTS
Senior guard Mike Lee does extra work before each basketball practice, and that doesn't surprise coach Bill Self. PAGE 1B
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
VOL.115 ISSUE 74
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2004
HOLIDAYS Organization plans KU Hanukkah activities
BY ANDY HYLAND
ahyland@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFFWRITER
www.kansan.com
Tonight KU Hillel will mark the beginning of Hanukkah with a dinner called "Latkepalooza," with traditional latkes, which are potato pancakes fried in oil.
the dinner will be at 6 tonight at the Hillel House, 940 Mississippi.
Hillel is also holding an event on Daisy Hill tonight, running from 8 to 10 in the Ellsworth Hall lobby. It will feature a movie and a menorah lighting ceremony.
Hanukkah runs from sundown tonight until sundown next Wednesday.
The festival of lights, as the holiday is called, comes from the event the holiday commemorates.
"I it's a time to be
with your family and friends and to get together with them and have fun and be grounded in your Judaism a little bit while everything else is going on."
T he Maccabees
while leading a revolt against the Syrian Greeks in 150 B.C., only had enough oil to light a candelabra for one day, but the jar kept the menorah burning for eight days, hence the eight days of Hanukkah, Jay Lewis, program director for KU Hillel, said.
The holiday commemorates the military victory of the Maccabees over the Syrian Greeks, liberating the Jews living in Israel at the time.
Ashley Smith San Antonio freshman
Lewis said it was not historically an important holiday, because it did not come from the Torah, the holy book of Iudaism.
Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Passover are all more important, but that didn't make Hanukkah insignificant, he said.
"It's very much a family time, a lot of warmth," he said. "It's a time for people to come together as a family and as a community. It's just a beautiful holiday."
Melissa Horen, Overland Park sophomore and KU Hillel president, said it was important to remember the two miracles of Hanukkah — the military victory over the Syrians and the jar of oil lasting for eight days.
Horen said that presents weren't a large part of Hanukkah, although some families did give gifts to children on each day of Hanukkah.
Ashley Smith, San Antonio freshman, is putting together the Ellsworth program for KU Hillel.
"It's a really fun holiday for a lot of people." she said.
"It's a time to be with your family and friends and to get together with them and have fun and be grounded in your Judaism a little bit while everything else is going on," Smith said.
They will show the movie Eight Crazy Nights with Adam Sandler, eat edible menorahs and light the menorah candles. There will be a similar program from 8 to 10 in Naismith Hall tomorrow night.
Edited by Ashley Bechard
Ticket policy in works
BY KELSIE SMITH editor@kansan.com SPECIAL TO THE KANSAN
Athletics department considering penalties for scalpers
Gilbert Karuga didn't think anything of putting two tickets for the men's basketball game against Texas Christian up for sale on eBay.
The assistant professor of business
will be at a conference during the Dec. 9 game and figured this way the tickets wouldn't go to waste. Karuga wasn't looking to make money. He just wanted to get back the $64 he paid for seats. They sold for $151.
As soon as next year, however, selling tickets to University athletic events could cost fans like Karuga their ticket
privileges. Rampant ticket reselling has prompted the athletics department to consider a policy that would deny tickets to individuals caught reselling their seats, said Jim Marchiony, associate athletics director.
made getting tickets to basketball games more difficult and has left many longtime season-ticket holders upset with their new seats, creating a whole new market of buyers and sellers, much of it on eBay.
The University's new points system, which assigns seating based primarily on donations to the Williams' Fund, has
Marchiony said ticket scalping,
SEE TICKET ON PAGE 5A
Playing through Pain
By Miranda Lenning Kansan staff writer
Kansan file photo
About this time last year, Kansas basketball forward Wayne Simien began his season-long battle with pain. He played with a groin injury that didn't heal until he took five weeks off during the past summer.
Volleyball player Jana Correa wasn't as fortunate. Three months into her college career last fall, she injured her right knee and was out for the rest of the season.
Kansan file photo
Kansas basketball guard Keith Langford injured his knee, too, last year. He played the final month and a half of the season with torn cartilage in his right knee.
Most college players sustain some type of injury during their athletic careers. Sprains and bruises are just part of the game. But after a serious injury, coaches, players and trainers face a difficult decision. Sometimes, athletes can play through their pain. Other times, injuries force them to miss games and often entire seasons. Simien and Langford are just two of the countless athletes throughout the country who have played injured. Whether they do it for their teams, for themselves or for the love of the game,
At the University, the decision to play with an injury goes through three people, said Larry Magee, team physician at the University of
Senior forward Wayne Simien slips on a wet spot on the court during the first half of the Jayhawks' first round NCAA tournament game against Illinois-Chicago. "I didn't have a lot of positive thoughts while laying there on the floor after doing the ballerina splits," Simien said after the game last March.
playing while injured is common in college athletics.
Kansas. The most important two are the trainer and the player. The third decision maker is the coach.
The trainer must decide whether the athlete can continue to play without causing further injury, Magee said. Then, the trainer and the athlete meet to discuss the consequences of continuing to play.
Often, one consequence is that the injury will take longer to heal.
"You have to educate the athlete and then you tell them I think it is safe, but here is what might happen," Magee said. "It may have taken three to four weeks to heal, and now it may take four to six weeks."
If the worst-case scenario of playing injured is merely a longer healing process, trainers do everything they can to prepare the athlete to play, Magee said. However, if doctors suspect permanent damage, they will not clear the player for participation.
When there is no medical risk, and the athlete gives permission, the coach gets involved.
SEE PAIN ON PAGE 6A
Online student portal grows
BY Ross Fitch
rfitch@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
New tabs and channels Web site more versatile; Senate calls for further growth
Students browsing the online Kyou portal can now take surveys, check breaking news and check their KU Card history using tabs and channels added during fall break.
After students log in, they see a set of tabs such as "Today@KU" and "Academics and Finances." Beneath each tab are channels, such as "My Briefcase," "My Grades" and "Enroll and Pay."
The new channels include a Campus
The notifications channel, under the "Today@KU tab," is an area where current or breaking news events on campus will be highlighted, said Julie Loats, director of enterprise Web services. These highlights would include flu vaccine availability updates, inclement weather and emergency outages affecting Enroll and Pay, she said.
Notifications channel; survey, poll and announcement channels, and a KU Card history channel.
The survey, poll and announcement channels are ways for offices and departments to push out surveys to various campus groups and send out important announcements, she said.
The KU Card history channel, located under the finances tab, shows students all of their transactions and current balance on their KU Card. Students can already add money to their cards or report them lost or stolen through the portal, Loats said.
The new tabs include "Campus Life" and "My Employee Info."
The "Campus Life" tab contains the survey, poll and announcement
TECHNOLOGY ON THE HORIZON:
SEE ONLINE ON PAGE 5A
Users will be able to go to the Kyou Portal and access their Webmail accounts without having to log in a second time.
E-mail integration:
Student organizations channel:
■ Narrows down a list of student organizations that students may find useful.
Calendaring and personal
management for students:
- Tie together academic scheduling issues, basketball game dates and student organization meetings.
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SEE TECHNOLOGY ON PAGE 5A
New natural gas
A Johnson County landfill could turn into a recycling project for Kansas Geological Survey officials. Scientists hope to generate natural gas from under the landfill. PAGE 3A
Big 12 football wrap-up
Kansan sportswriters Jonathan Kealing and Ryan Colaianni evaluate the North and South Divisions for the finished Big 12 football season. PAGE 3B
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Opinion 4A
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