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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAS
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2006
SPEAKER
Vanessa Pearson/KANSAN
Max Boot, author of "War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today," speaks about his book Friday at Oread Books in the Kansas Union. He is the senior fellow of National Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and spoke about how technology has changed the way the world fights war.
Security fellow evaluates history, evolution of war
BY BEN SMITH
Sixteen people gathered Friday afternoon in Oread Books at the Kansas Union to discuss war and how it has evolved during the past 500 years.
Max Boot, senior fellow for the National Security Studies of the Council of Foreign Relations, spoke to the group as part of a tour promoting his latest book, "War Made New."
After giving a brief overview of his book, Boot fielded questions from the audience. He discussed technology as a helpful tool as well as a hindrance in the current Iraqi war and talked about the necessity of educating troops not only
in warfare but also in cultural differences and sensitivities.
John White,
Leavenworth
senior, listened
to Boot as he
discussed the
current problems
in Iraq.
"I've been reading his book." White said. "And he makes many good points about the way
undercarriage of tanks in the field and detonated using small electrical devices.
technology changes everything."
"In the first Gulf War we didn't lose one tank because we were fighting our enemy from miles away," Boot said. "In this war, we've had many more disabled tanks because our enemy has become more adept at circumventing our defenses."
"We don't need smart bombs so much as we need smart people," he added.
"It's not as if the Wright brothers woke up one morning and said, 'Hey, let's figure out a way to kill thousands of people from the air."
"In many ways our adversaries are much more effective in the management of their forces than we are," Boot said. "Al-Qaida is very lean. They're not very sophisticated in their technologies."
Boot's book, looks at the evolution of warfare from the French invasion of Italy in the late 15th Century to the current conflict in Iraq.
Improvised Explosive Devices have caused most troop deaths on the ground in Iraq. Boot said. The devices are attached to the sides or
White and other audience members raised questions about current trends in warfare, about how the U.S. army is still not large enough to be an occupying army and how despite U.S. technology, troops are still dying on the ground.
Boot said that the main purpose of his book was to show how major powers throughout history
MAX BOOT
Council of Foreign Relations
senior fellow
had fallen and risen depending on their abilities to adapt to the changing methods of warfare.
Boot said that the best technology came from using new inventions and adapting them in a way that could be applied to the battle field.
The Mongols were defeated by
the Europeans because they failed to take advantage of gunpowder, he said. The invention of faster cars, the use of two way radios and the application of new tactics won World War I and World War II.
"It's not as if the Wright brothers woke up one morning and said, 'Hey, he figure out a way to kill thousands of people from the air,' Boot said. "Someone came along and saw a way to use the airplane in war."
Kansan staff writer Ben Smith can be contacted at bsmith@kansan. com.
— Edited by Catherine Odson
ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT
Perkins makes a difference
Director focuses on fundraising techniques
BY C.J. MOORE
When Lew Perkins arrived at Kansas, the Athletics Department was in debt, cutting teams and bringing in less money than any school in the Big 12 other than Baylor.
made it very clear to me that was a priority he thought the athletics department should have," Perkins said.
Now, just more than three years since Perkins joined the University as the athletics director, he has turned Kansas into the most profitable athletics department in the conference. The department generated more than $22.5 million more revenue than its expenses during the 2005-2006 school year. Kansas State is second with a difference of $8,863,492 between expenses and total revenue.
"There wasn't a lot of people out there trying to raise money and when I got the job, the Chancellor
Since Perkins took the job, he has brought in close to $100 million in donations. Kansas received more money last year than any other year during Perkins tenure at the University, receiving $31.9 million in contributions.
Perkins was brought in by Chancellor Robert Hemenway in 2003 to build a department that could raise money on its own and didn't need to depend on the University for help. It quickly became clear that Perkins was the right man for the job.
Only Oklahoma State with $211 million received more in contributions in the Big 12. The Cowboys inflated number stems from the well-publicized large donation of
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$165 million from alumnus Boone Pickens, who gave the school the largest donation anyone has ever given to a NCAA athletics program.
"I've been with Lew a long time and he's a master when it comes to raising money," said Sean Lester, associate athletics director of internal affairs.
Perkins went to work immediately with an emphasis on fundraising. He beefed up the Williams Fund, which is the group in charge of raising money for the department, from a staff of one to 10 current members. He instituted the now famous points system in men's basketball for season ticket holders. In one year, KU athletics was out of debt.
Perkins said that he estimated 90 percent of Division 1 programs operated in debt. Kansas has been able to stay out of the red with a business plan that Perkins said he was able to show donors.
The large donations have helped Kansas climb its way up from eleventh to third in the conference in total revenues, trailing only to Texas and Texas A&M. Those two
schools, however, do not have as great a disparity between their revenues and expenses as Kansas.
Perkins said his department worked hard at educating donors about the needs of the department, which has led to large donations.
"I think donors want to look at us and have confidence in us to do the right thing with money — that we have a game plan," Perkins said.
Big 12 Athletics Departments' figures
These figures are from the 2005-2006 academic year from each institution's athletics department.
| Institution: | Expenses: | Revenues: | Contributions: |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Kansas | $47,139,664 | $69,720,638 | $31,899,373 |
| Kansas State | $34,547,851 | $43,411,243 | $10,840,210 |
| Missouri | $43,122,618 | $46,342,575 | $4,694,473 |
| Colorado | $45,731,542 | $46,871,796 | $8,099,789 |
| Iowa State | $27,764,708 | $28,313,916 | ** |
| Nebraska | $62,644,547 | $62,644,547 | $14,654,430 |
| Oklahoma | $63,306,105 | $63,604,083 | $9,540,612 |
| *Oklahoma St. | $35,866,138 | $41,244,644 | $211,000,000 |
| Texas | $93,747,173 | $98,066,333 | $26,507,744 |
| Texas A&M | $71,967,526 | $71,959,656 | $22,758,415 |
| Texas Tech | $45,820,058 | $43,198,209 | $3,899,295 |
*Expenses and revenues from 2004-2005 academic year.
Perkins has used this strategy to obtain large donations from alumni, such as the donations made by Tom Kivisto and Dana Anderson to build the new football facility. Perkins said another large donation was on the way that the department expected to announce later this year.
Expenses until revenues from 2004-2005 academic year.
**Donation figures are housed through Iowa State's University foundation and not reported to the public.
Baylor's numbers were not available because it is a private university.
Source: University athletics departments
Kansas has gone from the laughing stock to the standard in the conference on how to build an athletics department. Perkins said he had received calls or visits from at least 15 athletics departments wanting to see the Kansas model.
"It doesn't happen overnight." Perkins said.
But at Kansas, in just more than three years, it nearly has.
Kansan staff writer C.J. Moore can be contacted at cjmoore@ kansan.com.
Edited by Kristen Jarboe
》 CITY OF LAWRENCE
Consultants envision sustainable future Cooperation between University, city essential for improvements
BY MARK VIERTHALER
The relationship between the University and the city was cited as one of the most important relationships in keeping Lawrence a livable community. They analyzed what steps would have to be taken to make Lawrence a sustainable community, as defined by the ability to maintain a community without wasting natural and cultural resources.
Friday night, consultants from the American Institute of Architects painted a vision of what Lawrence could look like two decades in the future.
The six-person team spent Wednesday through Friday in Lawrence, studying the city's attitudes regarding transportation, development, culture and racial relations. Friday afternoon, they presented their official recommendations to the city.
William Gilchrist, the team leader, said the largest problem facing Lawrence was the ability to grabble
The city needed to bring in more mature businesses that could form a mutually beneficial relationship with the intellectual properties of the University, he said. Gilchrist said the University needed to be made more accessible from each point of the city. This could be accomplished with sidewalks and bike paths.
understanding the full potential of historic preservation, its tangible benefits and disconnected cultural assets throughout the city.
Gilchrist also said there needed to be a strengthening of relations between the University and the city.
Caroline Lobo, sustainability team member, said another area that had been hemorrhaging is the cultural significance of downtown, the University and Haskell Indian Nations University.
"How do you transfer this culture and heritage to the next generation?" Lobo asked regarding the proper way to inform the public. "This is for students who come in from all over the country, those were
Other recommendations included not building a traffic way, but a "green way" in which development is built around the natural surroundings, and implementing a more streamlined way to apply for building codes. The team also addressed citizen's concerns about too much growth.
born and stay and those who were born and leave."
Mayor Mike Amyx said the recommendations from the consultants offered an excellent chance for the city to give some shape to future development.
Commissioner Dennis "Boog" Highberger said he felt there hadn't been any cohesive strategy within the city's development plan and was confident they would offer some sort of framework to proceed.
Kansan staff writer Mark Vierthaler can be contacted at mvierthaler@kansan.com.
— Edited by Kate Shipley
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Defiant, raging and arrogant to the end, Saddam Hussein trembled and shouted "God is great" as he was sentenced to hang, then walked steadily from the courtroom with a smirk on his face.
Saddam's sentence may lead to civil war
"Long live the people and death to their enemies. Long live the glorious nation, and death to its enemies!" Saddam cried out after the verdict, before bailiffs took his arms and walked the once all-powerful leader from the courtroom.
The hawk-faced chief judge, Raouf Abdul-Rahman, sentenced Saddam to the gallows Sunday for crimes against humanity, convicting the former dictator and slx subordinates for a nearly quarter-century-old case of violent suppression in this land of long memories, deep grudges and sectarian slaughter.
IRAQ
Shites and Kurds, who had been tormented and killed in the tens of thousands under Saddam's iron rule, erupted in celebration _ but looked ahead fearfully for a potential backlash from the Sunni insurgency that some believe could be a final show into all-out civil war.
The former Iraqi dictator and six subordinates were convicted and sentenced for the 1982 killings of 148 people in a single Shiite town after an attempt on his life there.
The nine-month trial had inflamed the nation, and three defense lawyers and a witness were murdered in the course of its 39 sessions.
A round-the-clock curfew imposed before the verdict helped avert widespread bloodshed, but police said 72 people were killed or found dead nationwide by daybreak, and worries grew about what will happen when the curfew is lifted.
Televised, the trial was watched throughout Iraq and the Middle East as much for theater as for substance. Saddam was ejected from the courtroom repeatedly for his political harangues, and his half-brother and co-defendant, Barzur. Ibrahim, once showed up in long underwear and sat with his back to the judges.
"The verdict placed on the heads of the former regime does not represent a verdict for any one person. It is a verdict on a whole dark era that was unmatched in Iraq's history." Nouri al-Maliki said.
The White House praised the Iraqi judicial system and denied the U.S. had been "scheming" to have the historic verdict announced two days before American midterm elections, widely seen as a referendum on the Bush administration's policy in Iraq.
With justice for Saddam's crimes done, the U.S.-backed Shiite prime minister called for reconciliation and delivered the most eloquent speech of his five months in office.
President Bush called the verdict "a milestone in the Iraqi people's efforts to replace the rule of a tyrant with the rule of law."
"It's a major achievement for Iraq's young democracy and its constitutional government," the president said.
"Today, the victims of this regime have received a measure of the justice which many thought would never come," he added.
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