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Panelists support women's leadership
The changing roles of women as leaders in the military will be the topic of a panel discussion today.
The event, sponsored by the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center, will focus on the roles of women in the armed services as part of a three-part series on women's leadership this semester.
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Discussion to revolve around questionable hip-hop lyrics
As part of Women's History Month, a panel will discuss degradation in hip-hop lyrics tonight at 7 p.m.
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Rush, Arthur named to All-Big 12 First Team
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BY MARK DENT mdent@kansan.com
Junior guard Brandon Rush fights to pass the ball during the Kansas-Texas A&M game on Saturday. Rush was named All-Big 12 First Team for the third straight season, only one other player has matched that feat former Texas Tech player Andre Emmett.
Brandon Rush found out early Monday morning that he'd been selected to the coaches All-Big 12 First Team for the third straight season. Only former Texas Tech player Andre Emmett has matched the feat.
"I didn't smile at all." Rush, junior guard, said. "This is my third time getting it. It's nothing special."
Coaches also named sophomore forward Darrell Arthur to the All-Big 12 First Team. They put junior forward Mario Chalmers on the second team and senior forward Darnell Jackson on the third team. The Associated Press didn't select any Jayhawks for its All-Big 12 First Team, but Arthur, Rush and Chalmers were second team picks, while Jackson made the third team.
Exciting? Well, uh...
Despite Rush's lack of positive emotion about his selection, Kansas coach Bill Self was impressed with his players achievement. All season, Self talked about how Rush became a better player after suffering an ACL injury last May. Rush, who was also named a finalist for the Wooden Award on Monday, has played inconsistently for stretches but led the Jayhawks in scoring during conference play at 13.5 points a game.
Arthur was second on the team in scoring and led the team in rebounding. This is his first selection to an All-Big 12 First Team. The Associated Press' choice to not
include any Jayhawks on the first team disappointed Self, but he wasn't surprised because of Kansas' balanced scoring.
"If I'm a voter and somebody asked me who the best player on our team was," Self said, "I'd probably change my vote from week to week, too."
The coaches' other first team selections included Kansas State forward Michael Beasley, Texas guard D.J. Augustin, Baylor guard Curtis Jerrels and Oklahoma forward Blake Griffin. Beasley won Player of the Year honors.
He won the same distinction from the AP and was joined on the first team by Augustin, Jerrells, Griffin and Nebraska center Aleks Maric.
OTHER HONORS
The Big 12 coaches gave the Jayhawks a few other awards. Sophomore guard Sherron Collins won Sixth Man of the Year, and Chalmers and senior guard Russell Robinson were named to the Big 12 All-Defensive Team.
SCHNELLBACHER DIES
Former Kansas athlete Otto Schnellbacher passed away at 84-years-old on Monday morning. Self said Schnellbacher had cancer. Schnellbacher played football and basketball at Kansas in the late 1940s. As a wide receiver, he caught 58 receptions for 1,069 yards in his career and played in the 1947 Orange Bowl. He was a four-time all-conference selection in basketball. After college, Schnellbacher, a Sublette native, played in the NFL for the football Yankees and the Giants. He also
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Darrell Arthur, sophomore forward, shoots against Kevin Rogers, Baylor forward, Feb. 9. Arthur was voted to the All-Big 12 First Team and was a second team pick for the Associated Press.
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played one season in the NBA.
"He did so much for KU in so many ways that didn't garner recognition with the Topeka Jayhawk Club," Self said. "He was a Jayhawk through and through."
Edited by Daniel Reyes
Students protest energy-production bill
Environmental alliance proves young adults care
BY JESSICA WICKS jwicks@kansan.com
University students will lobby in Topeka today against a bill allowing controversial coal plant construction in western Kansas.
Amended House Bill 327 — a bill concerning energy production in Kansas — passed Thursday, but Governor Kathleen Sebelius is expected to veto it. The bill will fail if the House does not have enough votes to override the veto.
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James Roberts and Bridley Maidhof, Overland Park seniors, plan on traveling to teopaka today to express their concern about energy production in Kansas. The two estimated several hundred protesters from around Kansas would show up to protest the construction of a coal plant in western Kansas.
Johannes Feddema, professor of geography, said the energy produced by the coal plants will be sold to other states, and only 10 to 15 percent of the energy will be used in Kansas.
James Roberts and Bridey Maidhof, Overland Park seniors and volunteers for the Great Plains Alliance for Clean Energy, will attend the protest to show legislators that young people are concerned about this decision.
"As a young person, this is not an issue to just sit back and watch," Roberts said. "Legislators are making decisions at the expense of our future health, environment and economy."
State Representative Tom Sloan voted for the bill last week. He said he felt honor bound to vote for the revised version after adding provisions that addressed Kansas' public health, environment and energy needs.
The decision makers are influenced by financial pressures, Feddema said, and won't live to see the long-term damage of their vote.
"It is the young people, the students and their children, that will have to deal with the impact of these decisions." Feddema said.
Feddema said he was concerned with the amount carbon dioxide that will be released each year.
"Eleven million tons of carbon dioxide over the next 50 years, which is the average life-span of one of these plants," Feddema said about the amount of emissions the plant would release. "You do the math."
Sloan said that number was taken out of
context.
"They are taking an annual number and ignoring the fact that the plant plans to mitigate those emmissions," Sloan said.
Roberts said he was concerned that the bill was pushed through too fast without proper discussion of both natural and coal produced energy possibilities.
The power plant proposed for Holcolm will emit 25 percent less carbon dioxide per day than the Lawrence plant, Sloan said.
"What we want is for the government to have real talks about real solutions," Roberts said. "By pushing this bill through, they are doing the state a great disservice."
Sloan said legislators spent three days listening to people speak against the bill and then took four-and-a-half hours to discuss and amend it.
"We spent far more time on this bill than most." Sloan said.
Maidhof said that over time, the plants will drain the water supply and Kansas agriculture will suffer.
"No one is looking at the long run."
carpool to Capitol
What/Where:
Lobby Event at the Capitol Building
To carpool:
Meet GPACE volunteers
9:30 a.m. today
Holcolm Park
$5 donation for gas
For more info: www.GPACE.org
Roberts said windmil farms, not coal plants, were where the future of energy was
Maidhoff said. "The water supply is only going to last 50 years, and then no more water."
Sloan said the coal plant had to retire 40 percent of the water in the Olagalla aquifer, but that didn't mean the resources would be used up. The plant would still have to comply with the Kansas Division of Water Resources.
headed. He said investment in wind created secure jobs and a healthy future.
Sloan said he supported wind farm construction, but that it needed to be anchored by other forms of energy to meet the country's demand for power.
Students Maidhof and Roberts want students to participate in Tuesday's event and call their legislators.
"At the end of the day, the lights need to come on," Sloan said.
"A call is worth at least five petition signatures," Maidhof said, "It shows that you are a real person."
Edited by Matt Hirschfeld
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