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MEN'S BASKETBALL
Jayhawks sign center for'07,'08
BY SHAWN SHROYER
Kansas added a big man to its roster after Cole Aldrich signed a letter of intent on Wednesday to become a Jayhawk.
Unfortunately for Self and the Jayhawks, they will have to wait until next season before Aldrich will be able to suit up.
A 6-foot-10, 245-pound center from Jefferson High School in
Bloomington, Minn., Aldrich was the only player to sign a letter of intent
Aldrich
with Kansas on Wednesday, the first day of the early signing period. Aldrich, who orally committed to Kansas in November of 2005, chose such schools as
Kansas over
Minnesota and North Carolines
"We are especially happy to officially welcome Cole and his parents, Walt and Kathy, to the Kansas basketball family," Self said. "We are very appreciative of the Aldrich's loyalty to Kansas and are excited about him being a Jayhawk. Cole has been committed to Kansas for more than a year and has visited campus many times. Our fans should be very excited about a player of his
ability and love for this University"
According to Rivals.com, a site that provides player evaluation, Aldrich is a five-star recruit, ranked fifth among centers and 25th among all recruits. Scout.com, which also provides player evaluations, has Aldrich listed as a four-star recruit and 27th among all recruits. Scout com ranks Aldrich the fourth best center in his class.
As a junior, Aldrich averaged
16. 5 points and 13-rebounds per game. As an AAU player, Aldrich was a Reebok ABCD All-Star in 2005 and 2006. Last summer he played in the Schweitzer Games in Germany.
Scout.com states Aldrich is a strong center with good finishing skills - scoring around the basket - and rebounding skills. As for areas of improvement, Scout.com says Aldrich needs work on his
mid-range game, speed and quickness, and needs to become a better player in transition.
Although Kansas could use Aldrich right now, following an injury to junior center Sasha Kaun and the dismissal of junior center C.J. Giles, the Jayhawks won't get to see Aldrich in their frontcourt rotation until next season.
SEE ALDRICH ON PAGE 6A
HEALTH
Center expands program targeting Native smokers
BY DARLA SLIPKE
The Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the University of Kansas Medical Center will receive $1.2 million during the next three years to implement a smoking cessation program that will target Native Americans.
The grant money, awarded by the American Cancer Society and the
American Lung Association, will allow researchers to further develop a program created and tested on a small scale during the past year.
Won Choi, associate professor of preventive medicine and a lead researcher for the program, said researchers had seen significant results from pilot programs.
After the completion of a twelve-week program, 65 percent of participants had quit smoking. Six months later, 28 percent remained non-smokers.
Choi said Native Americans had the highest smoking rate among all ethnic groups. About 40 percent of Native Americans smoke, compared to a national average of 22 percent.
SEE SMOKING ON PAGE 6A
BY ROBERT BURNS ASSOCIATED PRESS
POLITICS
Rumsfeld resigns one day after GOP loses congressional control to Dems
WASHINGTON — After years of defending his secretary of defense, President Bush on Wednesday announced Donald H. Rumsfeld's resignation within hours of the Democrats' triumph in congressional elections. Bush reached back to his father's administration to tap a former CIA director to run the Pentagon.
The Iraq war was the central issue of Rumsfeld's nearly six-year tenure, and unhappiness with the war was a major element of voter dissatisfaction Tuesday — and the main impetus for his departure. Even some GOP lawmakers became critical of the war's management, and growing numbers of politicians were urging Bush to replace Rumsfeld.
Robert Gates, President Bush's nominee for defense secretary, right, accompanied by outgoing Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 8, where President Bush, not shown, made the transition announcement.
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Drawing on the weather
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David Harvey, Overland Park sophomore, draws a perspective drawing of the trees Wednesday afternoon in front of Watson Library during his Drawing 1 class. The class went outside to take advantage of the 80 degree weather. "This is typical Kansas November weather," Harvey said.
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SPEAKER
Author to address women's roles in hip-hop
BY COURTNEY HAGEN
Pough — author, hip-hop feminist and women's studies associate professor at Syracuse University — will speak about stereotypes and the place of women in hip-hop culture at 7:30 tonight at the Big 12 Room in the Kansas Union. The lecture; "It's My Beat: Women, Hip-Hop and a Feminist Agenda," is free to the
Gwendolyn D. Pough spends her life in a constant clash of cultures because she examines the world of hip-hop through the eyes of academia.
Pough said she wanted to help educate the KU community by exposing it to the different cultural
public.
and social elements of hip-hop.
"A lot of the sexism and misogyny that exists in the larger culture exists in hip-hop," Pough said. "It is a male heavy field. It is
hard for women to break through those barriers"
Maryemma Graham, professor of English, was Pought's former teacher at Northeastern University and belped bring her to the University.
Graham said she wanted Pough to lecture because she thought Pough would appeal to a younger generation to teach about hip-hop in an academic context.
"She represents a scholar of a new generation," Graham said. "She demonstrated a particular kind of vision of how you can combine more public and activist concerns with academic concerns. I think there is an idea that it you are an academic you have to stay away from public issues."
Graham said she thought Pough
expressed a controversial message through her work to examine the role of feminists in hip-hop culture.
Pough's visit is sponsored in part by the KU English Department, William J. Harris, professor of English, said he thought Pough's visit would engage the community.
"I think her visit will be useful and gratifying to see her in terms of the topic of hip-hop and viewing it in terms of a gender perspective," Harris said. "Secondly, as an English department, it's interesting to have someone who's talking about the effectiveness of language, and the hip-hop culture is made up of language."
Pough wrote "Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere" in 2004 about the roles of gender awareness and feminism in hip-hop culture. Pough is also the author of several fictional books, under the pen name of Gwyneth Bolton, about a hip-hop feminist heroine.
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Kansan staff writer Courtney Hagen can be contacted at chagen@ kansan.com.
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