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NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY BABY KANSAN
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2006
FULBRIGHT (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
Cohan and Suzeau both taught at the academy in 2003 and said they looked forward to working there again.
John Lynch, director of bands will also join them to direct and train musicians to play for the dance performance.
After Cohen's visit, the dancers will perform the piece they choreographed, "Dia de los Muertos." What they do beyond that will depend on what dancers they find and how much they can accomplish during rehearsals. Their dances will be performed by professional dancers as well as students of the academy, he said.
Suzeaud said the Lithuanian dancers were exciting to work with because their technique wasn't as developed when they entered the academy, unlike dancers in the United States.
Many dancers that come to the University of Kansas have been trained for competition dance, which is designed to get applause and trophies, but is not beneficial to experimentation or artistic development, Suzeau said.
The dancers he worked with in Lithuania had a purity and passion to their movement Suzeau said.
The dancers were taught differently, with a purely Russian technique, which is different from Suzeau's own rhythmic, non-conventional approach.
Cohan said much of the country's art and culture was undergoing transformations and development.
Lithuania has a violent history of oppression and broke free from Soviet rule a little more than a decade ago.
"There so many possibilities about where the culture will go, and it's exciting to be part of it," Cohan said.
Suzeau and Cohan's experience in Lithuania this spring will give the music and dance program here international recognition.
Jerel Hilding, professor of dance, said having two professors from the Midwest travel abroad would let the world know that there was a solid dance program between the two coasts.
Kansan staff writer Darla Slipke can be contacted at dslipke@kansan.com.
Edited by Erin Wiley
MANGINO (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
The old deal only paid $604,000 and had him in last place in terms of guaranteed compensation according to a 'Gansan analysis in August. His new deal runs through the 2010 season.
"I'm pleased," Mangino said following Thursday's practice. "I really appreciate that (Chancellor Robert Menway) and Lew Perkins share my visions for the football program here. They've been supportive. Lew has done his best since he got here, in small ways that people don't see, to help the football program get better."
The contract was put into effect retroactive to Jan. 1 of this year. Athletics Director Lew Perkins said how the back pay would be delivered was not yet determined.
With the new contract, Mangino now ranks fifth among Big 12 football coaches, tying him with Nebraska's Bill Callahan, who also makes $1.5 million a year.
Perkins said Mangino's new guaranteed salary was a fair amount for a coach in his position.
"It's what we think we should be paying our coach at this University
at this particular time" Perkins said. "I think this is what a lot of good coaches are making now."
Under the new contract,
Mangino's base salary increases
from $128,438
to $220,000. The coach will also be paid $1.28 million for public appearances and radio and television shows. He was previously
Perkins said the new deal also showed that he had no interest in replacing Mangino with a coach that he himself had hired.
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paid $475,000 for those services in his old contract. The new deal also includes as much as $650,000 in incentives.
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Perkins said the incentives in the new contract would be drastically different from those in Mangino's previous deal. Under his previous agreement, Mangino received bonuses for defeating rivals Missouri, Nebraska and Kansas State, victories on television and players' graduation rates, among other things. Incentives in the new contract are heavily based on winning conference and national championships, as well as receiving coach of the year honors.
to rest now," he said.
contract if the program is hit with major NCAA sanctions, said Jim Marchiony, associate athletics director. Kansas should find out within the next few weeks if the NCAA intends to order additional sanctions for misconduct throughout the department, including some misconduct in football dating back to Mangino's arrival.
Among the most serious charges leveled against Mangino and his program are academic fraud committed by former graduate assistant coaches.
Entering his fifth season at Kansas, Mangino has a 19-29
record. While his record is certainly well below 500, the program has won key games that snapped long losing streaks to Kansas State and Nebraska in the past two seasons. Mangino also guided the Jayhawks to their first winning season and bowl victory in 10 years.
The program has made steady improvement off the field, as well. Last spring, the football team set a team record with a 2.67 grade-point average. The program is also set to move into a new office complex at Memorial Stadium before the 2008 season. The $31-million Anderson Family Football Complex includes a new team locker room, coaches' offices, weight room, academic support area and training room. Earlier this week, Kansas Athletics announced that the program had broken a season ticket record by selling more than 28,000 season tickets for the upcoming season.
With all the momentum currently surrounding the program, Perkins said he felt it was right to have the deal signed before this season kicked off and give the program stability.
"I think the message is that he's
part of our family and we want him to be here for a long period of time," Perkins said. "He's done a great job."
Despite the fact that the NCAA could impose further sanctions, Perkins said that possibility didn't affect the negotiations.
"I don't think that was an issue for us," Perkins said. "We have not seen in any way that he was implicated or going to be charged. I'm very comfortable with where we're at on that."
With the new deal in place, Mangino said he wa now able to focus solely on football for the rest of the season.
"I just felt I have to focus on winning football games and the players come first, that's just the way we want it to be," Mangimo said. "It wouldn't be fair to the players to deal with an issue that has nothing to do with the players."
Kansan senior sportswriter Ryan Schneider can be contacted at rschneider@kansan.com.
UNDERGROUND (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
Edited by Erin Wiley
12:15 p.m. — Class gets out and immediately people begin to stream toward the entrance.
Getting into the Hawk Shop next to The Underground becomes a struggle as a constant stream of students exit the dining area. Inside the Hawk Shop, a line has formed from the one register, around a rack of candy, to the door.
12:35 p.m. — Inside, a dull roar of voices fills The Underground as some students eat in the dining area and some wait in line. There are no empty tables, and the lines at the seven cash registers stretch back to Chick-fil-A at the opposite end of the food court. A worker changing the trash has to wait as people go into and exit the food court.
Chicago sophomore, stand at the back of the line.
Koehn said she thought the lines were worse this year than last year, but didn't know why. She said she tried to avoid The Underground because of the long lines and because there were so many people.
Thomas said that The Underground has been busier than in previous years, with this year's current number of customers about 3,400 per day. He added that the busiest day so far had more than 4,000 customers served. Mrs. Es, the residence hall's dining facility, gets about 3,000 customers per day.
He said that from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., about 2,500 customers come through The Underground daily.
"It itucks if you have class at 1 oclock, and I do," Kohn said.
12:40 p.m. — Tess Koehn,
Hays sophomore, and Linus Coy,
12:45 p.m. — The line is at a standstill.
"It's easier to get KU basketball tickets than it is to pay for your lunch." Coy said.
12:47 p.m. — Koehn and Coy finally make it to the cashiers and are surprised to find out that it had only taken them seven minutes to get from the end of the line. But they add that the time they spent getting into The Underground and getting their food was probably about 15 minutes, not including their wait in line.
Thomas said the times when the lines were the shortest were before 11:30 a.m. and after 1:30 p.m.
Kansan staff writer Kim Lynch can be contacted at klynch@ kansan.com.
Edited by Shanxi Upsdell
University of Kansas students, staff and faculty rush through checkout lines in The Underground, the recently opened dining facility in the basement of Wesco Hall. According to Shant Thomas, marketing coordinator for KU Dining Services, The Underground an average of $3,400 in transactions every weekday. According to Thomas, the facility has not experienced any drop in sales because of the ongoing construction in Wesco.
WALMART (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
which already has two grocery stores within a mile of one another, could not support a third.
"We're years away from being able to absorb this space," McClure said. "We already have a huge inventory of empty space."
Many Lawrence residents were also concerned. Kirk McClure, associate professor of architecture and urban design, said Lawrence couldn't afford new commercial development at this point.
Some members of the West
Lawrence Neighborhood Association spoke out against the plan saying that an increase in traffic, especially when Lawrence Freestate High School was in session, would be troublesome.
But not all residents were discouraged by the plan. Greg DibVilbiss, owner of the shopping center at the southwest corner of Sixth Street and Wakarusa Drive, encouraged the planning commission to approve the plan.
"It would protect the other store owners at Sixth and Wakarusa with an anchor store." DIVibliss said.
borhood that will include homes, apartments, shops and offices — the northeast corner of Sixth Street and Wakarusa Drive had the potential to be the nicest corner in Lawrence.
Angie Stoner, a Wal-Mart spokeswoman, said the store would now have to take its chances with the city commission.
"Of course we would have liked to have gotten recommendation for approval." Stoner said. "We feel this site is appropriate for this store.
Edited by Elyse Weidner
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