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TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 2013
Partly cloudy southeast winds at 10 to 15 mph
HI: 48
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Really? This is late March?
Thursday
HI: 52
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HI: 57
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Friday
Partly cloudy, east Southeast at 5 to 10 mph
Partly cloudy, east Southeast at 5 to 10 mph
At least it's above 50 degrees.
Weather Jay misses the sun.
Tuesday, March 26
WHAT: "Genius of Women" auditions
WHERE: St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center Social Hall
WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m.
ABOUT: All University students and the Lawrence community are welcome to try out for this annual variety show celebrating the many gifts of women.
WHAT: Empowering and Sustaining;
Malawi. Africa Windmill Project
WHERE: Dole institute of Politics
WEAK: 7:30 o.m.
ABOUT. Hear the story of the Africa Windmill Project from John Drake, who helped provide farmers with healthy drinking water to sustain agriculture in Malawi.
Wednesday, March 27
WHAT: Sandra Fluke: "Making Our Voices Heard"
WHERE: Kansas Union, Woodruff Auditorium
WHEN: 7:30 to 9 p.m.
ABOUT: Women's rights activist Sandra Fluke will discuss her experience testifying to a 2012 House panel on providing access to contraception.
**WHAT:** KU School of Music Visiting Art ist Series: Borromeo String Quartet **WHERE:** Saworthout Recital Hall, Murphy Hall **WHEN:** 7.30 to 9 p.m.
**ABOUT:** Enjoy the sweet sounds of string at this free concert featuring the Borromeo String Quartet.
Thursday, March 28
ECONOMY
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**WHAT:** Tea at Three
**WHERE:** Kansas Union, Level 4 lobby
**WHEN:** 3 to 4 p. 1
**ABOUT:** Grab your free tea and sweet treats at this weekly SUA event.
**WHAT:** Veggie Lunch
**WHERE:** Ecumenical Campus Ministries
WHEN: 11:30 a.m.
WHAT: Veggie Lunch
ABOUT: Snag a free vegetarian meal at the ECM's weekly veggie lunch. The event is open to everyone, but donations are encouraged.
Friday, March 29
**WHAT:** Final Friday
**WHERE:** Downtown Lawrence
**WHEN:** 5 to 9 p.m.
**ABOUT:** This month's Final Friday events include the Lawrence Arts Center Benefit Art Auction Exhibition, featuring more than 150 works of art.
**WHAT:** Summer and fall continuing student enrollment begins
**WHERE:** Strong Hall, 121
**WHEN:** All day
**ABOUT:** This is the first day to sign up for fall and summer semester classes
Beasley
year law student from Parkville, Mo., acknowledges a scarce job market, he already has a job waiting for him after graduating as an officer in the US Marine Corps
Law students are optimistic despite job market
MARSHALL SCHMIDT
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Law students at the University are not concerned about finding a job upon graduation, despite reports of a tight job market by The New York Times. Actively pursuing job prospects, keeping law school debt low and pursuing a practical law education are all ways prospective University law students plan to make a career in a seemingly tight job market.
While Zak Beasley, a second
off of class work, not having to compete with your classmates for jobs," Beasley said. "The job market isn't what it used to be."
For next year's incoming law school class, the School of Law plans to reduce the size to 120, compared to this year's 141 first-year students, said Steven Freedman, the School of Law's assistant dean for admissions.
"The lower class size is a reflection of the legal market." Freedman said. "That's one way we are helping our students in the job market; by graduating fewer students."
This high rate of job placement is why Aubrey Wilson, a second-
Freedman said the school is more actively pursuing possible applicants and awarding more scholarships to keep the actual cost of attendance for students low. And University law graduates are enjoying a rate of employment at 86 percent, the highest since 2008, Freedman said.
year law student from Shawnee, is not concerned about finding work after she graduates. Part of her strategy is staying in-state to reduce tuition costs while still attending a respected law school.
"I knew that if I kept my debt down, I'd have more options when
"The lower class size is a reflection of the legal market."
STEVEN FREEDMAN Assistant Dean of Admissions
This May, Wilson will begin interning at the Johnson County DA's office, which she hopes will turn into a full-time career.
it came to my career choices down the road," Wilson said.
Before taking out student debt to attend a seemingly prestigious law school, Preston Nicholson, pre-law advisor for the University, always encourages students to first consider what they plan to do with their law degree. And with low student applications, Nicholson said admission to law school is a buver's market.
"You can go to law school today easily without taking out debt," Nicholson said.
As for selecting schools based on the rankings by US News and World Report, Nicholson said students should instead consider the programs' strengths, geography and overall cost.
Tyler Childress, a junior from Coffeeville, took these factors into consideration as he applied to attend law schools next fall at Northwestern University, University of Chicago, NYU and a few others.
"If the job market in the law
sector is rather dismal, even if it improves in the next few years, I'll still be weighing whether I think my job prospects after law school
warrant high levels of debt," Childress said. Quin Ried, a junior from Bartlesville, Okla., has a positive view on the tightening job market
Wilson
as he prepares to apply to law schools.
"Because I know I still want to attend law school, it increases my admissions chances for top schools and hopefully more opportunities for top jobs as well." Ried said.
Edited by Paige Lytle
Veteran amputee participates in war training videos
ASSOCIATED PRESS
In this Monday, Dec. 10, 2012, photo, actors playing the roles of U.S. military personnel are wounded by a improvised explosive device during a training session at Strategic Operations where "reality based training" is used in working with U.S. military personnel in San Diego.
SAN DIEGO — The sailor had been back from war for just over a year when friends invited him to watch an unusually emotional training exercise for troops preparing to deploy.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The drill happened not on a military base but at a film studio, where Marine and Navy medics role-played wartime rescue missions with actors who had, in reallife, lost limbs in motorcycle or car accidents or to ailments such as cancer.
Those on hand weren't sure how Joel Booth would react. The 24-year-old had been attached to a Marine battalion in Afghanistan as a naval combat medic — until he stepped on an explosive and doctors, two years ago, amputated his right leg below the knee. Since returning home hed had to learn to adapt while also coping with the post-traumatic stress.
But Booth was transfixed as fake bombs exploded and medics practiced the type of rescue missionshed once been on,saving the amputee actors—as he, in the end,had to be saved.
Then the young veteran did something unexpected: He asked for an audition.
Perhaps, he thought, this injury that had forever altered his life could help save someone else's. What he didn't know was how
much reliving the horrors of war would help him, too.
"In society, amputees are seen by people on a large scale as having a disability, being weaker. But
"It's the same thing for me. I'm not afraid of it just because something bad happened. For people who haven't been in combat, it's hard to understand."
... even someone who doesn't have a hand can still operate a weapon to be able to defend themselves," he said.
Producer Stu Segall, best known for the TV show "Silk Stalkings," started Strategic Operations more than a decade ago to offer the military what it calls "hyper-realistic" training by using movie-making special effects and actors.
The group has since trained hundreds of thousands of troops in recreated scenes from Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and other hot spots. The creators strive to make the re-enactments as jarring as possible so troops experience war first in a controlled environment, and learn not to be rattled by it.
Marine 2nd Lt. Duane Blank, a commander who has gone through similar training, said amputee actors add a degree of realism that no one else can.
"The visual effect is invaluable because it's something you don't encounter every day," said Blank, an Iraq war veteran. "There is no
Since the inception of Strategic Operations, the group's founders had made a concerted effort not to use veterans who lost limbs in combat.
way to recreate that aspect of real combat, seeing a brother hurt in that sort of way"
"We felt it was one of those things. Why would you ask somebody who has gone through this experience to relive it? And we had plenty of amputee actors," said executive vice president Kit Lavell.
Lavell flew 243 missions in Vietnam as a naval aviator. He knows how hearing screams and explosions — even on a studio lot in San Diego — can quickly bring back the stress of battle for even the most hardened soldiers.
But Booth convinced Lavell to
He calmly told the Marine
Booth first joined the Navy, at the age of 21, because he wanted to see combat and help save lives. The job of corpsman was perfect for him; as field medics in charge of providing emergency care to battleground troops, corpsmen often are caught in the thick of the action.
let him join the group.
Almost a year after enlisting, he was deployed with the Marines to the Taliban stronghold of Sangin, Afghanistan. On July 21, 2011, while out on patrol, he and a Marine volunteered to return to base to get supplies. As they were walking, an explosion catapulted Booth onto his back.
"He was so well-prepared as a corpsman," Lavell said. "We felt: He's the perfect one to do this."
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Two days later he was back in the U.S., where he underwent surgery after surgery. But Booth didn't want to be a patient. Frustrated with each failed operation and a growing infection, he pushed his doctors to amputate.
to check behind them for more IEDs. Then he looked down at his leg. There was no blood but the pain was excruciating and Booth couldn't stand up. His ankle bones had been crushed.
As a medic, Booth knew what his life would be like without a limb, and he wasn't afraid. He had seen fellow service members adapt relatively quickly to using a prosthetic. He figured he could return quickly to an active lifestyle, doing the things he enjoyed, like riding motorcycles.
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