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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2007
》 HOMELESS SHELTER
City approves permit extension
Community building will stay in current building for three more years
BY MATT ERICKSON
The Lawrence Community Shelter can stay in its current building at 10th and Kentucky streets for at least three more years after the city commission extended its permit Tuesday night.
Voting 4-1, the commission gave the shelter a three-year permit instead of a one-year one, which was favored by some neighbors of the shelter who wanted to speed up its search for a new location.
Loring Henderson,the shelter's director, said the shelter would need longer than a year to find a new location, which he hoped will be larger and more handicapped-aces.
"There's really no 'other side of the tracks' in Lawrence," Henderson said. "Every neighborhood is pretty hot in real estate terms."
"Before I went to the shelter, I was afraid of homelessness. That changed the day I walked in there two and a half years ago."
with some comfort and some safety"
Henderson said the shelter tried to cooperate with the nearby Oread Neighborhood, which lies between campus and downtown, by communicating with property owners and instituting disciplinary rules.
Other neighborhood members who spoke at the commission meeting said they'd had problems with trespassing and defection in yards and had seen people near the shelter using illegal drugs.
DUSTIN ALLEN
Topeka junior
Dustin Allen, Topeka junior, spoke at the meeting to support the shelter. He said his time volunteering at the shelter had eliminated misconceptions that most homeless people were dangerous drug
But Peter Zacharias, who owns a house at 10th and Ohio streets, said people in the neighborhood had had homeless people follow them home, accost them and cause them to worry for their safety.
"Before I went to the shelter, I was afraid of homelessness," Allen said. "That changed the day I walked in there two and a half years ago."
dangerous drug users.
Allen said the shelter provided many
"To say it's this great relationship with the neighborhood, it's not true," Zacharias said. "It's my neighborhood, and I want to be able to live in my neighborhood
valuable services for the homeless.
During 2006, Lawrence Community Shelter helped 21 people find jobs and 27 people move into housing. It served 376 people during the last six months of 2006.
Commissioner Dennis "Boog" Highberger said the shelter and the city would need to work to find a location for the shelter that would meet the needs of the shelter and the surrounding area.
"Even when we find a new location, wherever it goes there are going to be unsatisfied neighbors." Highberger said. "I think we need to make sure this doesn't unnecessarily burden any neighborhood."
Kansan staff writer Matt Erickson can be contacted at merickson@kansan.com.
Edited by Stacey Couch
TOP HONORS
BY BRIAN LEWIS-JONES
KJHK wins five Kansas broadcasting awards
long talk shows like "The Sporting Life" can take four to eight hours per week to prepare for.
When Ian Hrabe was broadcasting a comic-book-oriented radio show with two other students on KJHK last November, it never crossed his mind that it might win an award.
Habe, Olathe junior, and the two other co-hosts — Annie Harrigan, Leawood junior, and Joe Noh, Overland Park junior — of "The Panel," a radio show on the student-run radio station, won second place at a Kansas Association of Broadcasters awards ceremony earlier this month.
Hrabe said the purpose of the "The Panel," which placed in the entertainment category, was for the co-hosts to de-stigmatize comics as something for kids. In the November episode, the three co-hosts interviewed an artist who had been writing a comic per day for seven years.
"We did it because we all love comics," Hrabe said. "To get some recognition on it, it's sort of nice."
"It's good to illustrate that the station is multi-faceted and we're not just about playing independent music," Johnson said. "We do pay attention to production qualities and production values."
He said another second-place award was handed out for a documentary by Harrigan about visiting violinist and composer Daniel Bernard Roumain.
He said the show was something
he had been "passionate and proud of" Winning the award, he said, was like some verification the show was getting noticed.
Elder, Topeka freshman. Plaques were given to KJHK for "The Sporting Life" and other programs that won honors at the awards ceremony.
There were 138 entries in the competition this year. Thirty-two awards were handed out to students from schools across the state, which included the University of Kansas, Kansas State University and Butler Community College, Johnson said.
Four other honors were given to KJHK at the ceremony, including a first
stuff for a contest like this and you're able to compete against other colleges in Kansas, it makes you feel good when you're able to win something."
Dodd also received an honorable mention with Bryan Cisler a Leawood
"JKH is the small college station," he said. "When you are able to submit
place award for a 60-second station promotion,
"Hip Hop Hyp",
by Laura Watkins, Lenexa graduate student, and Jason Agron, Overland Park doctoral student, and a first-place award for an entertainment program called "The Sporting Life."
Kansan staff writer Brian Lewis-Jones can be contacted at bjones@kansan.com.
"It's good to illustrate that the station is multi-faceted and we're not just about playing independent music."
Rustin Dodd, Overland Park sophomore and Kansan sportswriter was one of three co-hosts for "The Sporting Life," an hour-long sports show with humor, analysis and spontaneity. Dodd's co-hosts were Blake Cripps, Topeka senior, and Ryan
TOM JOHNSON
KJHK general manager
junior, for "KU-K-State Men's Basketball" sports play-bv-plav.
Edited by Stacey Couch
Tom Johnson, general manager and program adviser at KJHK, said the awards showed the students' knowledge of quality programming and how to perform. He said hour-
FITNESS
Clinic offers advice on form, flexibility
BY DANAE DESHAZER
Running problems can be blamed on many factors - from posture and flexibility to the way you tighten your shoeelaces.
Students can correct their running style and prevent injury at the Watkins Runner's Clinic, held at Watkins Memorial Health Center. The clinic began Tuesday and runs today from 9 to 11 a.m at the south entrance of Watkins.
The clinic offers students a two-part free screening that analyzes the factors that go into a successful run.
Physical therapists conducted the static exam, which included flexibility, strength, and posture analysis. The clinic also offered a running exam, which videotaped participants and played the tape back to analyze their running form.
"We are helping to improve performance," Karen Loudon, physical therapist, said. "If runners have poor form and are not efficient in their movement, they may be expending too much energy and will not be able to run as fast."
This clinic is strictly a screening and tells runners what is wrong with their style, Loudon said. If they want further instruction, they can make an appointment for a one-on-one analysis and correction.
Anyone in the University community is welcome, Loudon said. If people wanting to participate don't secure a time slot, further appointments may be available through the physical therapy department. An appointment would cost around $50, Loudon said.
Other information is available to
runners to assist in choosing the correct shoes and socks, preventing blisters and callouses, and how to lace your shoes according to the type of foot you have.
A representative from Francis Sporting Goods, 729 Massachusetts St., brought many different styles and brands of shoes to show participants and offer advice to what kind of shoe would be most beneficial. Scott Bennett, Overland Park senior and Francis representative, said shoe type was based on a combination of the arch of the runner and the rotation of a runner's heel-to-toe motion.
"We have different types of shoes to correct their running styles," Bennett said. "Most running injuries do occur from the wrong pair of shoes."
Delphine F-Nurdin, Dijon France, doctoral student, admitted she wasn't a runner but had participated in other sports while living in France. But since coming to the University seven years ago, she's begun running.
F-Nurdin said last semester she experienced a muscular body weakness because of stress. After not being able to run for the past couple of months, she wanted to get back into it.
"I came here today because I care about my health," F-Nurdin said. "My goal is to be in good shape and to get out of the University with my Ph.D. in my pocket."
Kansan staff writer Danae DeShazer can be contacted at ddeshazer@kansan.com.
Edited by Ryan Schneider
Karen Loudon, Watkin's Memorial Health Center physical therapist, performs strength testing exercises on Delphine F- Kurdin, Dijon, France, doctoral student, Tuesday afternoon at the Runner's Clinic in front of Watkin's. The runner's clinic was set up to determine the runner's strength and body alignment to enhance running abilities.
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》 STAND-UP COMEDY
Chappelle sets record
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LOS ANGELES — Now that he's back on the standup circuit, Dave Chappelle has a lot to say.
The comic, who walked out on a $50 million deal to continue his TV show and briefly took a respite in South Africa, shattered the Laugh Factory's endurance record by taking to the comedy club's stage for six hours and seven minutes on Sunday.
Masada said the previous record of three hours and 50 minutes was accomplished earlier this month by Dane Cook. But until then the mark
"He was absolutely amazing, for six hours making people laugh," the club's owner, Jamie Masada, said Tuesday.
Chappelle walked out on the third season of his hit Comedy Central show last May, leaving fans and industry observers to question his motives and even his sanity.
had stood at two hours and 41 minutes since Richard Pryor set it in 1980.
He has said since that he didn't feel he could be himself on the show.
"The bottom line was, white people own everything, and where can a black person go and be himself or say something that's familiar to him and not have to explain or apologize?" he told Esquire magazine.
He has since returned to the stand-up circuit and released the documentary "Dave Chappelle's Block Party."
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