THE UNIVERSITY DARY KANSAN
TUESDAY MAY 8 2007
NEWS
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that decided they wanted to play frisbee," said Joe Nickels, Elgin, III, senior and one of three team captains. "Since then it's developed into a team that's competitive on the national level. We've been able to extend it into a more serious athletic endeavor while still sticking to the reason that we're here, which is to have a good time."
The team hired a coach for the first time three years ago, which Nickels said made a huge difference. Until them, the team relied on captains to double as players and coaches.
Shawn Dubbs, coach of Horrorzontals, also helped the team manage the loss of its two best players to graduation.
"It's hard to gauge the flow of the
team when you're on the field," he of former players. Andrew Wimen said. "He can provide that third. Leavwood senior and co-captain
person perspective to make tactical decisions and call what sets we'll run."
Dan Brauch,
Lenexa junior and co-captain,
said, "Last year everything in our offense ran through two superstar players. This year
"It's a whole different atmosphere from anything you see the rest of the year. This is when teams out their A-game."
we're running flawlessly; everyone is involved so every cut has to be right"
ANDREW WIMER Co-captain of Horrorzontals
Another key element to team's consistent success is the tutelage
said many former players stayed in touch with the team.
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"When I was a freshman I was looking up to the older guys that were running it and I picked up their habits."
he said. "When my class leaves, the younger guys that we've been grooming will take over."
Jack McFarland, sophomore, left, and Joe Niokels, Elgin, Ill., senior, center, are looking forward to the nationals. This will be the Horrorzontalis' third appearance at nationals in the last five years. The team hopes to face Texas and Colorado in the tournament.
Nationals will be the team's seventh tournament this year. Winer
Nationals will be the team's seventh tournament this year. Wimer said most tournaments consisted of competition Saturday and Sunday with the host team throwing a party on Saturday night for the teams to socialize. At nationals, the competition is intensified.
"It's a whole different atmosphere from anything you see the rest of the year," Wimer said. "This is when teams pull out their A-game."
This year, the Horrorzontals have already played Texas and Colorado, two of the favorites to win the national championship. They lost to Texas at regionals but defeated Colorado at another tournament.
Seeds for the tournament haven't been released, but the three captains agreed they'd like to a chance to upset Colorado again.
"I'm ready to take it to them." Nickels said.
If the Horrorontals win their pool, they'll receive a bye in the first round of the tournament, placing them directly in the quarterfinals. A second or third place finish in their pool would still advance them, but they would have to win one additional game to get to the quarterfinals.
Kansan staff writer Kyle Carter can be contacted at kcarter@ kansan.com.
Edited by Sharla Shivers
STATE
GREENSBURG — Four Fort Riley soldiers and a reserve police officer were arrested for looting cigarettes and alcohol from a store in this tornado-ravaged town, the state adjutant general's office said.
Soldiers, officer arrested for looting after tornado
and were not part of any official detachment.
Maj. Gen. Tod Bunting, the state's adjutant general, said the soldiers and reserve police officer had come to assist on their own
"These were people who weren't supposed to be there. They said they came down to help on their own," Bunting said.
Sharon Watson, a spokeswoman for the adjutant general's office, said the five were arrested at a Dillon's supermarket and were being held at the Pratt County Jail without bond. She said all five were in uniform so police allowed them to come and go freely despite a
Watson said the officer was from a central Kansas community, but she was not sure which town.
In a separate incident, two people wearing Red Cross jackets who were not members of the Red Cross were arrested Sunday for looting, Watson said.
The Pratt County Sheriff's Office said it would release information later in the day.
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"Everyone just froze inside the fountain," Kerr said. "We thought the guy was dead for sure."
over the grass around the fountain and broke through a brick retaining wall, finally coming to a stop against the Chi Omega sorority house.
El-Tayash said the students were lucky that the driver choose to turn left instead of right at the traffic control booth. If he had swerved right he would have had a direct path to the students in the fountain.
"One girl was throwing up right where the truck went the minute
before." Kerr said. "We were just so vulnerable." Kerr said the crash was so loud that students on the fourth floor of Marvin Hall, some of whom were wearing headphones, could clearly hear the impact.
"I've replayed that scene about 200 times in my head," El-Tayash said. "What if we were crossing the street at the time?"
After their first nighttime visit to the fountain, Kerr and El-Tayash won't be heading back anytime soon.
Members of Chi Omega evacuated the house and did not return for the rest of the night. None were hurt in the accident.
again." El-Tayash said. "It was a bad ormen."
The driver was flown by helicopter to Kansas City Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries.
"I don't think I'll ever do that
Kansan staff writer Joe Hunt can be contacted at jhunt@kansan. com.
Edited by Joe Caponio
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summer and follow through with their business creation. They will be looking for about one million dollars in investments from various parties.
Spires, who is chief executive officer of Abacus, said the company was protecting to make millions from the developed software.
"We definitely want to be involved," she said. "There's no benefit for us to sell the company."
The students won $3,000 from the competition, which Spires said would be used in going forward with the business.
After Abacus approaches investors such as venture capitalists and gains financial support, the next step is getting property, computers, servers and programmers to build new financial fields for the program. Spires said.
FRAANK, which Spires said was in production for about 10 years, could benefit any publicly traded
company and would be used for audits and sold to Fortune 500 businesses.
"Everybody's going to have a need whether they use our product or our competitor's product," she said.
Thon said the program takes Microsoft Word and Excel documents with financial data, recognizes the financial terms and encodes them to a financial recording language. He said that during the competition. Abacus received several business cards from interested businessmen.
Wally Meyer, director of entrepreneurship programs, said Abacus would be the first student company to be created from the New Venture Creation course at the University.
"The plan is terrific. They've got all the components," he said. "They did a great job in presenting and defending the plan."
to about 70 investors at the business plan competition last month. Students were given about five to seven minutes to convince investors why they should be interested, Meyer said. At the final round of the competition, they presented their plan to judges, one of whom was Pizza Hut's founder.
Meyer said the students received extensive education in creating the business plans, something they could use to create bigger business plans in the future.
The plan was initially presented
"I don't think anybody goes into entrepreneurship for job security;"
Meyer said. "But does it give them an idea of what to do after graduation? Absolutely."
Kansan staff writer Brian Lewis-Jones can be contacted at bljones@kansan.com.
- Edited by Joe Caponio
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