28 THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SPORTS
FRIDAY, MAY 5, 2006
Legal prostitution causes stir in Germany
Markus Schreiber/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Markus Schierholz THE AUDIO MEDIA A man walks through the bar of the brothel 'Artemis' in Berlin on March 15. Just down the street from Berlin's Olympic Stadium, which hosts the final, stands the city's largest brothel, Artemis, established in September with an eye on capitalizing on the influx of World Cup visitors.
BY DAVID CRARY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The German government, while defending its policy of legalized prostitution, emphatically denies that it condones human trafficking and said it had intensified efforts to combat it. It also denied claims by some critics that it was subsidizing construction of new brothels.
coroner Rep. Christopher Smith, (R-New Jersey) remains skeptical. He urged Germany to recriminate prostitution and suggested that it should be reclassified as an "egrigious violator" of human trafficking unless tougher steps are taken before the World Cup starts on June 9.
NEW YORK — The expected World Cup boom for Germany's sex industry has ignited a trans-Atlantic tiff over prosititution, with a U.S. congressman and other anti-trafficking advocates contending Thursday that thousands of foreign women will be forced into sex work during the four-week tournament.
Juliette Engel of the Angel Coalition, in her written testimony, said the German government had chosen "to act as an official pimp for the 2006 World Cup — anticipating millions of dollars in revenues from the exploitation of women's bodies and souls by tens of thousands of male football fans notorious for their drunkenness and violence."
Smith, chairman of the House subcommittee on global human rights, convened a hearing in Washington titled "Germany's World Cup Brothels." Witnesses included representatives from Amnesty International, the International Organization for Migration, and the Angel Coalition, an anti-trafficking women's group in Russia.
Engel, who said Russian and Eastern European women were Germany's main trafficking victims, described the World Cup as "a human rights disaster in the making."
entrepreneurs have made no secret of their expectation of a boom as hundreds of thousands of visitors arrive for the World Cup. At the four-story, 40-bedroom Artemis brothel which opened in Berlin last fall, manager Egbert Krumeich predicted business — normally 130 clients a day — could double or triple during the 32-nation tournament.
Germany's sex-industry
Prostitution is legal in Germany, with about 400,000 registered sex workers who pay taxes and receive social benefits. However, the government said forced prostitution was not tolerated and it denies Smith's claim that it was helping build brothels.
The German Embassy in Washington said German federal officials were working closely with regional authorities and non government organizations to combat trafficking and forced prostitution, especially in the 12 World Cup host cities.
ATHLETICS CALENDAR
TODAY
TOURN
Baseball at Texas, 6:15 p.m., Austin,
Texas
SATURDAY
SATURDAY
Softball vs. Iowa State, 2 p.m., Ballpark
Arrocha Balpuk
Player to watch: Serena Settlemier, The
senior player picked Kansas to a 2-1 victory against Wichita State Wednesday in a game that was delayed by rain. Settlement and the rest of the Jayhawk seniors will play their final games at Hoglund Ballpark this weekend.
Settlemier
Baseball at Texas, 2 p.m., Austin,
Texas.
Texas
Track, Ward Haylett Invitational, all day, Manhattan
SUNDAY
SUNDAY
Softball vs. Iowa State, 1 p.m.
Arrocha Ballpark
1 a.m. 1 p.m. Austin
Arlington Dumpster Baseball at Texas, 1 p.m., Austin, Texas
TRACK AND FIELD Track throwers make Dandy Dozen list
The Kansas track and field team will travel to Manhattan on Saturday to compete in the Ward Haylett Invitational.
WEDNESDAY
WEDNESDAY Baseball vs. Missouri State, 7 p.m.
Springfield, Mo.
Softball vs. Big 12 Tournament,
Oklahoma City, Okla.
The one-day event kicks off on the field at 11 a.m. with the women's hammer throw.
The track events will take place at the RV Christian Track Complex starting at 2 p.m. and are scheduled to end with the men's 4 x 400-meter relay at 5:30 p.m.
to Waco, Texas, for the Big 12 Outdoor Championships from May 12-14.
Nebraska, Iowa State, Oklahoma State, Missouri, Missouri State and UMKC will also participate in the meet.
The Ward Haylett Invitational will serve as the final boost before the team travels
May 12 The men's team is now ranked No. 20 by trackwire. com after the Drake and Cardinal Invitations last weekend.
Senior thrower Sheldon Battle and sophomore thrower Egor Agafonov are still a part of the Web site's Dandy Dozen list.
Battle is ranked second in the shot put and 12th in the discus, as Agafonov is ranked third in the hammer throw.
Junior Abby Emsick and senior Denita Young are newcomers to the Dandy Dozen list. Emsick is ranked 10th in the discus and Young is ranked 11th in the javelin.
Evan Kafarakis
Running back not happy and never will be
BY DOUG TUCKER
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — There's one thing the young, talented, rich and famous Larry Johnson wants everybody to understand — he is not happy.
Not after going to the Pro Bowl. Not after rushing for a Kansas City Chiefs record 1,750 yards and bursting into stardom. Not after having fans approach him on the streets of New York and Las Vegas and tell him how great he is. Not even after hobbling with celebrities as a newly minted celebrity himself.
"No, I'm never happy," the muscular running back said
Thursday.
thursday.
"When I feel like I'm successful in my own right, I will never be happy with anything, period. I haven't started one full season yet. I haven't gotten this team to a Super Bowl. As far as my career, it's still starting off late, I feel. So I can't overall be happy about where I'm at right now, 'cause like I said, I feel like I'm still playing catch-up."
One thing the fourth-year Penn State product has caught up with is a job as a starter. When three-time Pro Bowler Priest Holmes went out last season with neck trauma, the sullen backup finally got the chance he'd always said he deserved.
And man, did his critics eat their words.
He started nine games and went for more than 100 yards each time, and more than 200 twice. His 1,627 yards from scrimmage in games played on or after Nov. 1 were the most in NFL history.
Even if Holmes decides to come back and resume his career, new head coach Herman Edwards has assured Johnson that he, not Holmes, will go into camp as the starter.
That much does make him happy. So does having Edwards as his head coach instead of the retired Dick Vermeil. He and Vermell clashed repeatedly dur
ing his first three years after being taken in the first round in 2003. But now he says he has a head coach who's in his corner, for the first time since he was a high school senior.
Holmes, as mysterious as always, has sent word he will not participate in the Chiefs' mandatory minicamp May 19-21 because he still does not have medical clearance. Team president Carl Peterson has said that he still expects Holmes to return. Holmes was one of the NFL's top running backs when Johnson was drafted in 2003. Nevertheless, Johnson insists he's still bitter that he did not step right in as the starter.
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