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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2004
Students 'Live Strong' for cancer research, fashion
BY AUSTIN CASTER
acaster@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Lance Armstrong didn't let cancer stop him from winning the Tour de France six times, and KU students are lining up to support him.
This summer, Armstrong began wearing a yellow bracelet that read "Live Strong" to draw awareness and support to cancer research.
If these were $5 people would still
Sunflower Outdoor and Bike Shop, 802 Massachusetts St., has sold 1,000 bracelets, since receiving them before the Tour de France began. It sold more than 400 in one day toward the end of the tour, Wes Oneal, store employee, said. But not all purchasers of what he called "Lance bands" knew they'd be supporting cancer research.
Nike began producing the bracelets before the Tour de France in July, selling them online and in stores. The bracelets sell for $1 and proceeds benefit the Lance Armstrong Foundation, which is raising $5 million for people around the world who are living with cancer.
"There were people that knew what they were about." Oneal said. "But others just saw people
Some people wear the bracelets to support Armstrong's cause, but others do because it's trendy. Whatever the case, Lawrence stores can't keep them on the shelves.
buy them. Everyone has one. It's definitely to be trendy."
Ryan McGuiness
St. Louis freshman
Bryan Maygers, Lawrence freshman, shows his support for cancer research by sporting a "Live Strong" bracelet. The bracelets became popular during the Tour de France. The sales of yellow bracelets go toward the Lance Armstrong Foundation which fund cancer research. Maygers bought his bracelet from Sunflower Outdoor and Bike Shop, 802 Massachusetts St., before they sold out three weeks ago.
He said Nike would produce 15 million more and stores would have them in about a month.
wearing them and knew we sold them here."
Jock's Nitch Sporting Goods, 837 Massachusetts St., sold 50 bracelets in two days, but doesn't plan to order any more.
The store wouldn't get the additional bracelets until the third week of September, Doug Dobbins, store manager, said.
"Everyone will have one by then," he said.
Nick Busy, Lenexa sophomore, wears a "Live Strong" bracelet. He said he got his from a friend and wore it to support Armstrong's cause. Busy had his own opinion on why people wear them.
"I think they want to be cool but also support the cause," he said.
Ryan McGuiness disagreed.
said. "It's definitely to be trendy."
"If these were $5 people would still buy them. Everyone has one." McGuinness, St. Louis freshman,
The bracelet has caused a philanthropic trend as well.
Omega plans to produce purple bands in October in honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, said Lindsay Woorther,
The KU chapter of Alpha Chi
Alpha Chi Omega member.
cards about domestic violence, she said.
The bracelets will read "The only purple a Jayhawk should wear" and come with statistical
— Edited by Janette Crawford
'Apprentice' returns to NBC after successful first season
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — With a new round of *The Apprentice* ready to go, Donald Trump is fired. Fired up, that is. Maybe even more fired up than usual.
His show — back for a second season at 7:30 p.m. tonight on NBC — is even better than before, crows the billionaire businessman, who can afford to
brag, especially because the first time around he saved NBC's bacon and made "You're fired!" a bankable catchphrase.
But though never one to shrink from the spotlight, Trump signed on for The Apprentice just to have a good time, he insists. The first edition's finale in April — when he hired Bill Rancic to oversee a Chicago construction project
— drew more than 28 million people. "You can have a really good time when that happens," Trump told The Associated Press last week.
Besides, it doesn't cut into his schedule as much as you might think. "Frankly, the biggest time (demand) is when I have to fly to California to do a Jay Leno or something," he said. His show "is not scripted, there's nothing
"We" includes Mark Burnett, who created Survivor for CBS and then made lightning strike again with The Apprentice.
Burnett, too, is fired up. He calls the initial three episodes of the 17-episode series, which was taped this summer, "the best work of my career."
Why so? "The 18 new players
to study; it's something that we have down to a science."
trying to get the job as The Apprentice watched the first season," he explained, "and they came out with a vengeance, and did better, and thought differently, which made it very exciting."
In the premiere of The Apprentice, teams are divided along gender lines, as in the original series, but with a notable switch: they both draft
one member of the opposite sex.
The secret of the show's appeal may not be the spectacle of someone hearing Trump say 'You're fired!' but, instead, that of everyone else getting spared.
On its surface, The Apprentice tells the story of cutthroat business. But is there a deeper meaning?
When Garmin set out to create a oneof-a-kind product, they gave Hank and Wai, engineering project leaders, a clean slate. No rigid specifications, no constraints on product design and capabilities. From this "blue sky" blueprint was born Rino, the world's first twoway radio and GPS that can send and receive locations. Thanks to its unique design and innovative features, Rino had thousands of advance orders before it even hit store shelves.
According to Hank and Wai, it's all about engineers with the freedom to dream and leaders willing to listen.
Want to work for a company where your ideas are heard instead of being part of the herd? We are looking for engineers to design software, electrical and mechanical components for exciting new products. To learn more about Garmin and see a listing of current job opportunities, go to www.garmin.com.
Gormin manufactures GPS-enabled mapping devices and innovative consumer electronics.
COOL PRODUCTS; COOL TECHNOLOGY; COOL PEOPLE;
Stop by Garmin's booth at the Engineering Career Fair 9/14/04, 12:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
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