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"The reaction was very strong, so immediately we felt there was a need to channel those feelings of pain." Tiechtel said. "The first question was, what can we do for the victims?"
dents were worried and hurt but wanted to help in some way.
Albert said she was very close to Tiechtel and his family, so going to them was her way of dealing with the shock she felt.
Laura Albert, Memphis junior was one student who felt troubled and went to the Chabad Jewish Center for comfort.
"After what happened, I got very emotional." Albert said. "You never think something like this would happen, and when it does, you seek something that feels safe to you."
Albert pledged to light a candle for Liviu Librescu, the professor who stood in the doorway to pro
"We need to teach children, when they're children, how to channel their energy," Albert said. "We can't wait until it's a big problem that they feel they have to go on a shooting spree."
tect his students during the shooting, and to make a donation to a local Lawrence shelter. Albert lit the honorary candle on Friday and wanted to make her donation after she gathered more clothing and supplies from her neighbors in Naismith Hall.
Rachel Weltman, Sugarland, Texas, sophomore, helps take care of Rabbi Tiechtel's son, Mendel, and said she pledged to continue helping them as much as she can. She also works with disabled people
As an elementary education major, Albert said the events at Virginia Tech made her more passionate about her future in education.
and pledged to continue working to make their lives better.
About 25 pledges have been posted on the Web site, and Tiechtel said many more were sent to him unpublished, because students chose to have those deeds remain private. One student pledged to volunteer at a hospital, and many more to help them around them in need. Tiechtel plans to keep the site up permanently, so people can look at it and make a pledge at any time.
Kansan staff writer Katy Blair can be contacted at kblair@kansan. com.
"The real lesson society can take from this is to reach out to lonely people," Tiechtel said. "If you embrace them, it can change many lives."
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led before in Kansas City and said he
heed to continue after graduation
"If I can get paid to wear clothes, that's awesome," Mathisen said. "There's a couple of modeling agencies out here, so we'll see what happens."
Two of the more than 100 models, have their hair styled in the basement of Liberty Hall on Saturday night. Lada Salon and Spa sponsored the Earth Day Fashion show and silent auction.
Other students, such as Natalie Collar, blonde-haired Lenexa senior, participated just for fun.
"I was working at Milton's, and this guy liked my hair and asked me to be in the show," Collar said. "I would absolutely do it again. It was a lot of fun."
The show ended with a Hollywood segment that consisted of several models in their late teens and early 20s passing balls back and forth and pretending to have a fun day on the beach in the sun as Red Hot Chili Peppers music blasted from the speakers. Women dressed as movie stars entered the stage in a mock limousine and men wearing button-down shirts and large-framed sunglasses took their pictures.
Lada owner Mark Chapman has put the show on for three years. Shani Andersen, one of 120 volunteers not modeling in the show, said that the goal was to raise $5,000 for the Clean Water Fund. The show surpassed the goal and raised about $8,000. Andersen said.
"Clean water is something you don't think about every day until you don't have it." Andersen said.
"This is East Coast — West Coast, the hair is over the top, the makeup is over the top, the fashion is over the top," Andersen said.
During the show, a silent auction was held with about 100 donated items up for sale. Items ranged from paintings and jewelry to a voucher for one free personal concert from a local emo band.
Andersen said that the show was a bigger event than most would
suspect.
Kansan staff writer Joe Hunt can be contacted at jhunt@kansan. com.
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Moody, former Kansas basketball player Brett Olson and current walkon sophomore Matt Kleinmann signed autographs for attendees.
Participants competed in six age groups, shooting 25 free throws each on Saturday. The top five shooters from each age group advanced to the finals on Sunday. Most contestants who advanced made at least 20 of
their attempts. Adam Hall, a 17-year-old Olathe North junior, won the overall title, sinking all 25 free throws. Hall heard about the event through a Facebook event invitation Moody sent to him.
Luke Henry, Lawrence junior,
advanced to the finals in the 18-25
age group, hitting 37 of his 50 shots
in the competition.
"Anything basketball, I'm there"
he said.
his personal love of the game.
Henry said he attended the event because of the worthy cause and for
Former senator receives prize
Reitz said the Leo Center would continue to hold fundraisers to raise money for the diabetes program.
Bill Lacy, director of the Dole Institute of Politics, talks with former U.S. Senator Howard Baker Sunday night at the Lied Center. Baker was presented with the 2007 Dole Leadership Prize.
Kansan staff writer Kyle Carter can be contacted at kcarter@kansan. com.
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From his involvement on the Senate Watergate Committee to his early love for photography, former Tennessee Sen. Howard Baker didn't have a shortage of stories to tell Sunday night at the Lied Center when he received the 2007 Dole Leadership Prize.
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Baker, who is now married to former Kansas Sen. Nancy Kassebaum Baker, was famously quoted as saying, "What did the President know and when did he know it?" while he was vice chairman of the Senate Watergate Committee.
"I still sort of thought it was essentially a political concern and did not have great substance to it," he said about the Watergate scandal. "Every day it went on, I found there were forces there I did not understand."
Four Dole Leadership Prizes have been awarded by the Dole Institute of Politics to such politicians as former New York City Mayor Rudi Giuliani and former U.S. Sen. George McGovern. With the prize, Baker also received $25,000, which he is giving to the Landon Center on Aging at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Baker, a native Tennessee, served as Senate majority leader and then Senate minority leader from 1977 to 1985. He was also the U.S. ambassador to Japan from 2001 to 2005, and said that a good relationship between the United States and Japan was essential to "preserve stability in the Far East."
Baker's storytelling during the award presentation included tales of
"Politicians that serve the nation best have strong principles they stick to. But don't let those principles get in the way of the civil discussion of issues," Lacy said.
Baker was named White House chief of staff in 1987 by President Reagan during the Iran-Contra Affair, a time Baker said "was not the not the high point of the Reagan presidency." Lacy told Baker's role as White House chief of staff essentially allowed Reagan to salvage his presidency.
Bill Lacy, director of the Dole Institute of Politics, said the Dole Leadership Prize was given to an individual with a long career in public service and encourage people to think positively about politics.
Baker said one of his proudest accomplishments was injecting bipartisan relations in the Senate.
"I have no recommendations for anybody else to serve 18 years," Baker said. "In my case, that's long enough."
Baker said the photographs he has taken were, "the nearest thing I have to a diary"
his first date with Kassebaum Baker, where he put on his "best blue suit" and took her out to dinner. He also noted his passion for photography, something that started in the Boy Scouts of America "as soon as I discovered I wasn't good at tying knots," he said.
Kansan staff writer Brian Lewis-Jones can be contacted at bljones@kansan.com.
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