THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2008
NEWS 3A
TRANSPORTATION (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
Cadue said.
Mel Cadue, Ken's wife, said she would accompany Ken on his trips if he wanted her to because she could not imagine what he would do all evening if she did not. She said their three daughters, ages 16, 18 and 19, thought the business was a good idea, but that she was unsure what to think about it.
"I just said, 'really, that's interesting,' Mel said. "He seems like a chauffeur-like person because he gets along with people really well. I told him if he was going to be a chauffeur or something, he needs to get a suit."
Cadue said he would advertise through business cards and through word of mouth on his bus. Cadue said that so far, students' responses to his business had been favorable.
Cadue said every student he had talked to had complained that taxicabs and Safe ride took at least an hour to pick them up. Cadue said they found that frustrating, and they said they would be interested in
using his service for transportation inside of Lawrence as well as elsewhere.
John Kuhn, Jamestown senior, said he thought establishing reliable transportation between Lawrence and Kansas City at night was important but he was not sure if a Hummer was the way to do it.
"The Hummer is ridiculous because it's not fuel efficient," Kuhn said. "It's a horrible status symbol and manifestation of materialist culture."
Jason Oruch, Plano, Texas, junior and former risk manager of Alpha Epsilon Pi's Brothers Against Drunk Driving, said he thought Cadue's business was a good idea because he did not think it was safe for students to be driving drunk for an hour. He also said the business was well priced when the costs were divided up.
"I think it's funny, but it's very unique," Orch said. "Most college students do not have Hummers."
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Computer crash leads to top scores
CAMPUS
BY MARY SORRICK msorrick@kansan.com
Jacci Chanon was studying in her bedroom Monday night when three of her sorority sisters burst through the door.
"They were saying that everyone got a 100 percent on our biology test," Chanon, Austin, Tex., sophomore, said.
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Chanon was one of the 923 students in Biology 100 to score a 100 percent on Monday's exam because the clicker system in Budig Hall crashed.
A visit to the BlackBoard page for her Principles of Biology class confirmed it - perfect scores for everyone.
Nancy Holcroft, lecturer of Biology, said she used the clicker system for the class exam to cut down on paper waste associated with ScanTron tests.
Holcroft made the decision to score everyone equally on the test after it became apparent that all of the test scores were erased.
The clickers, designed by elinstruction, crashed after the last student finished taking the test.
Instructional Development and Support, said it was still unclear what caused the system to crash. She said the clickers in Budig Hall never malfunctioned during a test before.
"Knowing that 900 exam scores have just disappeared into the ether is not a particularly nice sensation," Holcroft said.
"Any time class equipment behaves erratically it is a huge concern for us," Zvacek said.
She said Instructional Development and Support would work with elnstruction to get a sense of why the system crashed and how to prevent it from happening again.
Jessica Nadine, North Hampton,
Mass., junior, was among the students
who notched a perfect test score. She
said the clicker malfunction was a
stroke of good luck.
"I had a paper due that day so, honestly, I only studied for about an hour right before the test," Nadine said. "It's a bummer for those who studied really hard, though."
Holcroft said the clickers would still be used in class for extra credit points, but all future exams would be taken with ScanTron sheets.
Susan Zvacek, director of
"In the end, it's really a shame," she said. "I'm not a Luddite, and this really is promising technology. However, in this case, the technology failed and I'm not willing to put students' grades on the line like that again any time soon."
The Kansas City Wizards soccer team held a meet and greet in 2007 at the Voodoo Lounge in Kansas City, Mo., giving fans the opportunity to come out and get together with their favorite players. Fans will get that chance once again tonight when the Wizards come to Ake and Jake's Landing.
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Wizards meet, greet in Lawrence
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BY ANDREW WIEBE awiebe@kansan.com
Tonight at Abe and Jake's Landing, University of Kansas students will get the opportunity to mingle with Kansas City professional athletes. They won't be Chiefs or Royals, but those familiar with football of the international variety will be able to socialize with Major League Soccer's Kansas City Wizards.
Players and staff will be at Abe and Jake's to interact with fans and introduce themselves to Lawrence, said Rob Thomson, 2001 University graduate and Wizards vice president of marketing and communications. Wizards' players Ryan McMahen, Tyson Wahl, Eric Kronberg and Amir Lowery will compete in a foosball tournament. The team will also stage merchandise giveaways.
Thomson said the club wants to reach out to college students to expose them to the club and the efforts it's making to extend its reach into communities outside of Kansas City. The Wizards had
a similar event last year at Kansas City's Voodoo Lounge to introduce its players to the community.
"Our biggest asset is that our players are approachable, fun and great to be around," Thomson said. "They are tremendous athletes, but are also just like your college buddies off the field."
Jacob Shinn, Kansas City, Mo., junior, and member of the KU club soccer team, said he was a Wizards fan but wasn't aware the team would be making an appearance in Lawrence. He said there was
games and if they start knowing the players and who they are, that will probably help"
The Wizards last appearance in Lawrence was in 1999 when United States national team legends Alexi Lalas and Tony Meola played a concert for area fans. The club also has extensive ties to the University
"Our biggest asset is that our players are approachable, fun and great to be around."
ROB THOMSON Wizards vice president of marketing and communications
a good chance he would attend, but that it would be nice to have it advertised better to people who don't necessarily follow the team during the off-season.
"It's a good thing." Shinn said.
"People need to start going to
in its front office staff. Ten of the clubs employees are KU graduates and many of its best interns hail from KU, Thomson said.
KU students as well. Wahl, a third year defender for the club, said college-age fans in The Cauldron play a large role in creating the environment at games.
The club's supporters group. The Cauldron, is home to many
"I think it really helps with the excitement and just the energy
level of the stadium," Wahl said. "I think when The Cauldron is there and you hear the drums and stuff like that it makes you want to play a little harder."
Thomson said with the club moving to Community America Ballpark for this season, it was trying to provide activities college fans would enjoy. The team will provide bus rides to and from games, party decks at the stadium and postgame parties at Legends.
"We provide a great gameday experience and the atmosphere at games is perfect for college-aged fans," Thomson said.
Despite soccer's place behind more traditional sports like football and baseball, Shinn said there were enough fans to make the event worthwhile.
"Lawrence has a lot of soccer fans so it's not like they are coming out here with no hope," Shinn said.
- Edited by Jared Duncan
INTERNATIONAL
Bush finishes tour of Africa, promises increased aid to Liberia
BY JENNIFER LOVEN ASSOCIATED PRESS
MONROVIA, Liberia — President Bush offered encouragement and help Thursday to lift this shattered country from years of ruinous fighting as he concluded a tour of Africa and turned toward other global problems.
In Liberia, the final stop on Bush's five-country trip, almost nothing works and people are nervous about their future in the aftermath of a 14-year civil war that ended in 2003.
The country is overrun with weapons, malnutrition is pervasive, half of children are not in school, and many buildings are uninhabitable. There is little running water or electricity and no sewage or landline phone system.
"It's easier to tear a country down than it is to rebuild a country," Bush said. "And the people of this good country must understand the United
States will stand with you as you rebuild your country"
Though Bush's entourage was a bit jittery about his seven-hour stopover, Liberia's president, Ellen
Johnson Sirleaf,
declared at one
point, "You're
safe."
and equip African peacekeepers going to Sudan.
"It's easier to tear a country down than to rebuild a country."
everyday lives of people across the continent.
—Tanzania, a $700 million development compact and help providing an anti-malaria bed net for every
Though each nation he visited already receives huge amounts of assistance, Bush had new announcements for Africa ready to drop at each stop:
- Ghana, $350 million to battle tropical diseases across the developing world.
GEORGE W. BUSH President of the United States
-Rwanda, $100 million to train
U. S. President George W. Bush reviews Liberian troops during an arrival ceremony with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, not pictured, at Spriggs Payne Airport in Monrovia, Liberia, Thursday.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
-Benin, $6 million for textbooks, teacher training and scholarships. Liberia: 1 million textbooks and 10,000 desks
child between 1 and 5 in that country.
by the start of the next school year.
"We're working to heal the wounds of war, and strengthen democracy, and build a new armed forces that will be a source of security for the Liberian people instead of a source of terror" the president said.
Liberia, founded by freed American slaves, offered an opportunity to trumpet a success in Bush's "freedom agenda," which faces an uncertain future in Iraq and many other nations.
Liberia's civil strife brought unspeakable violence. Hundreds of thousands were massacred, boys were conscripted as soldiers to commit horrifying atrocities against countrymen, and the diamond trade was hijacked to finance fighting. At the center of the problem was one-time rebel warlord and dictator Charles Taylor.
As the crisis escalated in 2003, the United States imposed sanctions. Liberia's deterioration dominated Bush's trip to Africa that year, and on his return to Washington, the president offered logistical support for peacekeepers — mostly offshore and arriving after Taylor fled into exile in Niger.
The U.S. has since helped a transition government hold elections, supported Sireleaf's new government, and funneled millions in aid, including funding for the modernization of Liberia's security forces "from the ground up" as White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe put it.
Sirleaf responded by calling the
continues to play in helping to end our civil crisis," said Sirleaf. The U.S.-educated economist once supported Taylor against a former military dictator, but she now earns accolades as the first female head of state in Africa who is presiding over peace and a growing economy.
United States Liberia's "No. 1 partner." She seemed proud that so many thousands of her flag-waving citizens lined this capital city's pock-marked, intensely poor streets for Bush's visit.
"It is befitting that we acknowledge with thanks the key role that the United States has played and