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Award recognizes female leadership
Women's group honors department
BY THOR NYSTROM
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Kansas Athletics was awarded the first Corporate Champion of Women's Leadership Award on Friday by The Central Exchange, a Kansas City-based organization providing development opportunities for women.
The women's organization annually recognizes a Woman of the Year at its Salute to Leadership event. This year, Central Exchange president and CEO Ellen D'Amato said it expanded its awards to include a Corporate Champion, described as "an enterprise that recognizes and values contributions made by women, and works to advance and support them."
Associate Athletics Director Jim Marchiony said the award pointed to women's opportunities on KU's campus.
"Anytime you are recognized by an organization like that, it is further proof, from the outside, that our goals for women's athletics are something to be proud of," Marchiony said. "That reflects as well on athletics as it does on the University of Kansas."
A spokeswoman for Central Exchange's nominating committee said in a press release that Kansas Athletics received the award for
"building an environment in which young women can become successful leaders and role models in the future."
Kansas Athletics will be honored alongside five Woman of the Year award winners Nov. 6 at 5:30 p.m. at the new Block Building of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Tickets cost $50.
Athletics director Lew Perkins said the award was an honor for Kansas Athletics.
"It recognizes our constant effort to be a leader in opportunities for women in athletics, both for staff and coaches as well as our female student-athletes," Perkins said in a press release.
Perkins said the award was in line with the Athletics Department's goals for women's athletics.
"In developing our department's five-year strategic plan, we have dedicated ourselves to becoming the country's best — not just among the best, but the very best — Title IX program in the country," Perkins said in the release. "We are equally dedicated to ensuring an environment in which our female staff and coaches are respected, appreciated and given opportunities to advance in their profession."
Edited by Matt Erickson
Out of the classroom, into the capital Students can earn credit, gain experience from political science internships
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BY SASHA ROE
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Loomis said the Washington internships were a bit more intensive than Topeka internships. He said the Washington internships were full-time, requiring 40 or more hours per week. Students can earn up to twelve credit hours with the Washington internships.
Students tired of the same old classroom setting can experience an internship in Washington, D.C., or Topeka while continuing to earn credit. The political science department offers a variety of internships every spring semester.
Loomis said it was important to remember internships were open to all majors. Past students have worked for U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), the Smithsonian Institution, the U.S. Department of State and interest groups.
The department will have an informational meeting at 7 p.m. today in 114 Blake Hall.
Political science professor and program director Burdett Loomis will speak about the opportunities the internships can provide. He said that, although the internships helped students make great connections, the experience wasn't all about finding a future job. Loomis said internships provided excellent experience, class credit, friendship with other interns and, sometimes, payment.
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Students also attend a weekly intern seminar with notable speakers like former Kansas Senator Bob Dole and Washington Post reporters. Stephene Moore, wife of U.S. Rep. Dennis Moore (D-Kan.), directs the program.
Dennis Chanay, Paola senior, mentor Donald Rumsfeld, former U.S. secretary of defense, in Washington, D.C., during the spring semester. Chanay intermed at The Heritage Foundation in the spring.
Dennis Chanay, Paola senior, interned for Edwin J. Feulner, president of the Washington think tank The Heritage Foundation, last semester. Chanay said working for Feulner gave him a hectic yet exciting schedule writing speeches and reports.
Loomis said interns should also enjoy the fun, social side of the program with free activities and events in Washington. Interns have the opportunity to visit museums, receptions, lectures and historical sites like Mt. Vernon.
Chanay said he enjoyed going to receptions and cocktail parties, and hanging out with interns from all over the county.
"it's college without professors"
Chanay said.
For students who can't commit the time or money for Washington internships, the Topeka internships can be valuable as well. Loomis said. Internships can be with legislators, senators, lobbying firms, or even in the governor's office. Students are usually required to work on Tuesdays and Thursdays and can earn six credit hours. Loomis said the internship is much like a job and should be taken seriously. Kansas legislative internships pay a stipend of $600.
Jade Martin, Wichita junior, interned in the Kansas Legislature last semester for Rep. Jo Ann Pottorff (R-Wichita). Martin said the whole experience was more than anything she could have learned from a textbook, and she said it increased her desire to become a politician after college.
"It just made me not want to sit on the sidelines anymore," Martin said.
Artur Bagyants, Overland Park senior, said he learned a tremendous amount by forming a close relationship with Rep. Tom Sloan, (R-Lawrence). He said Sloan saw the value of an intern and introduced him to the legislative process. Bagyants said Sloan took the time to explain procedures and
took him to committee meetings and receptions.
"I got really lucky," Bagyans said. "He included me in everything, and I learned so much. Nothing compares to being able to see it firsthand."
Loomis said students in the program rarely had problems finding internships.
"When an intern gets out there, they see there are way more opportunities available than people," Loomis said.
Students who can't attend tonight's meeting but are interested in the internship program should contact Professor Loomis at bloomis@ku.edu.
POLITICS
New Democracy party wins Greek parliamentary elections by five percent
— Edited by Matt Erickson
BY ELENA BECATOROS ASSOCIATED PRESS
ATHENS, Greece—Greece's governing conservatives were winning parliamentary elections Sunday, overcoming anger over their handling of wildfires that devastated villages and killed 65 people last month, official results showed.
Prime Minister Costa Karamanlis emerged beaming onto the balcony of his party headquarters in central Athens and waved to cheering crowds
of supporters below, but did not make any statements.
Thousands of New Democracy supporters thronged the streets of the capital in jubilation, blaring car horns, cheering, chanting party slogans and waving the party's blue flags.
With 40 percent of the vote counted, New Democracy was ahead with 43.7 percent, while the opposition socialist PASOK party had 38.5 percent. Initial figures showed turnout at 70 percent.
Costas Skandalidis, a socialist leader, said his party had lost.
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Socialist opposition leader George Papandreou waves to supporters after voting outside a polling station in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki during general elections on Sunday. Greece's governing conservatives are seeking a second four-year term in Sunday's pool. But campaigning was disrupted by massive wildfires in late August that killed at least 65 people.
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The results indicated that New Democracy would win enough seats in the 300-member parliament to form a governing majority after the snap elections, called by Karamanis six months early.
"New Democracy has won the elections and PASOK has lost," said Skandalidis, former socialist interior minister and former party secretary. "I can say 10 reasons why we lost, but I want to see the final results."
Both parties, however, appeared to have lost some support following the fires and a financial scandal.
meted.
"We are not happy that we have lost 2.5-3 percent support, but in the next term we will govern better," said outgoing Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos.
"Mr. Karamanlis is a Teflon prime minister. He has prevailed despite all the negative events: the bond scandal and the recent fires," Alexis Papachelas, editor of the conservative daily Kathimerini, said on Skai television. "The question is whether Karamanlis will show strong leadership despite his slender majority or worry about party factions."
Karamanlis, 51, had sailed to victory in 2004, becoming the youngest prime minister in modern Greek history. The country's economy has done well under the conservatives, with robust consumer spending and strong property market. Growth was expected to continue at more than 4 percent this year — one of the fastest growth rates in Europe. Unemployment has also plum-
Before Sunday's vote, Karamanlis had ruled out forming a coalition with any other party if he did not win enough seats to govern outright. A hung parliament could lead to new elections.
The new government will be faced with implementing tough reforms, including overhauling Greece's fractured and debt-ridden pension system. Karamanlis had vowed to push through the reforms even with a weak government.
New Democracy held 165 of the 300 seats in the outgoing parliament and if it comes out with fewer seats, that would make it harder for the next government to carry out contentious economic and educational reforms.
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"The size of the majority will not affect how effective our government is," said Health Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos. "Even with 151 deputies in parliament, we will proceed with our reform program."
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When he called the early election in mid-August, Karamanlis had seemed assured of victory despite anger over a bond scandal in which state pension funds were sold bonds at inflated prices.
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But massive fires that killed more than 65 people and devastated large parts of southern Greece left his government reeling from accusations of mismanagement and incompetence in its response to the disaster. The prime minister quickly ordered aid and cash payouts to be given to the fire victims, and pledged to rebuild each burned home.
In the fire-raved villages of southern Greece, many of which remain without water or electricity, prefabricated containers were being used as temporary voting centers.
In Makistos, nearly 200 miles southwest of Athens, residents were bitter.
"We are expecting nothing from these elections. We don't even know if we are going to vote. Nobody has told us anything." Hariklia, whose home was destroyed by fire, told AP Television News.
Both New Democracy and PASOK seemed to have lost voters to smaller parties, particularly the two left-wing parties that are traditionally represented in parliament.
Exit polls projected that the communist KKE party would win between 6.4 percent and 9 percent, with the SYRIZA left-wing coalition at 4.5 percent to 6 percent. In the 2004 elections, they had won 5.9 percent and 3.3 percent, respectively.
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