self-respect
Administration in GSP-Corbing Hall has taken measures to fight negative body images in their residents.
3A
A strong defense led the Jayhawks to a two-game sweep of the Missouri State Bears on Wednesday.
Check out The Kansan's latest opinion cartoon.
football
New players and senior leadership are improving the defensive line.The coach hopes changes will help the defense next season.
1B
weather
index
Classifieds... 5B
Crossword... 7B
Horoscopes... 7B
Opinion... 5A
Sports... 1B
Sudoku... 7B
All contents, unless stated otherwise
© 2007The University Daily Kansan
CRIME
Shooting victim released from hospital
BY ERICK R. SCHMIDT
The KU student injured during a shooting robbery in Denver has been released from the hospital.
Joseph Kuebel was one of three victims shot in what Denver police said was a related series of shootings. Kuebel was shot multiple times, including wounds to his leg and back, but was released from the hospital sometime Tuesday or Wednesday.
Denver Medical Health Center spokeswoman Dee Martinez said Kuebel's roommate Ian Dumpert, Lawrence resident, was still listed
.
in critical condition at the facility after being shot in the neck during Monday's attack.
Denver police spokesman Sonny Jackson said the police were searching for two African-American men who are suspected of a series of robberies similar to the one involving the Lawrence residents. Both men wore skis masks or dark bandanas in the attacks. Between Friday night and Monday morning, six people were shot in downtown Denver.
"We believe the cases to be related, and we're investigating them as such," Jackson said.
Kuebel and Dumpert were leav.
ing a concert along with five others, including two Kansas State University students, when two masked men reportedly approached them and taunted the group. After the men told the victims they were in a bad part of town, they allegedly took their belongs and one began shooting. Denver police spokeswoman Virginia Quinones said the other two weekend attacks had been similarly violent.
"There is nothing that these victims could have done differently," Quinones said in a press release. "They complied with the suspects' demands, and they were very brazenly shot."
The attack involving students occurred in Denver's Five Points area, which formerly boasted high-profile musical clubs. Alan Reece, FOX Denver assignment editor, said the neighborhood has a reputation for crime and a large homeless population.
"It's not a place you want to walk around at night," Reece said.
Kansan staff writer Erick R. Schmidt can be contacted at eschmidt@kansan.com.
Edited by Lisa Tilson
Author stresses need for both sides of debate to understand their rivals' arguments
BY BRIAN LEWIS-JONES
Pultzer Prize winner Edward Humes said Wednesday night in order to understand the evolution debate in public schools, both sides of the educational conflict must be understood.
Hume's argument came from his new book, "Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion and the Battle for America's Soul," which discusses the national and regional debate between evolution and intelligent design.
The book talks about the teaching of evolution and intelligent design in public schools, as well as what Americans believe about
the debate. The book handles the perspectives of both evolution proponents and intelligent design advocates.
"It's not just about the debate," he said. "It's about what has support and what doesn't."
He said evolution is widely defined by its critics, who say the theory has never actually been observed and scaffo in the idea that humans evolved from monkeys. In this form, Humes said, most Americans are right to doubt the theory of evolution.
Humes said about two-thirds of Americans doubt or reject evolution, signaling a "cultural separation of
"Isn't it preferable to think of ourselves as a design of intelligence rather than related to a mollusk?" he asked.
biblical proportions" between faith and science. He said the unwillingness for students to ask questions about the theories is one of the major problems in the debate.
Intelligent design essentially isn't a science, he said, but instead is religious in nature. He said it wasn't wrong for teachers to teach the concept, but it presents a supernatural-creation opinion.
Bill Lacy, director at the Dole
SEE EVOLUTION ON PAGE 4A
BUSINESS
Entrepreneurial students create plans, prepare for competition
BY BRIAN LEWIS-JONES
The students worked in New Venture Creation, an advanced entrepreneurship course, in which they created plans to launch businesses based on innovations developed locally and at the University, Wally Meyer, director of entrepreneurship programs, said.
Threeteens of student entrepreneurs from the University of Kansas will pitch business plans next month at the 2007 Shocker Business Plan Competition at Wichita State University.
Abacus, a student company created in the entrepreneurship course, is composed of four students who incorporated University-developed software designed for easy online access to financial data. The program processes numerous data in a matter of seconds. If done manually, it would take all day to complete and be prone to errors, Christina Spires, Augusta graduate student and chief executive officer of Abacus, said.
Spires said creating the plan required a lot of problem solving and creativity. "It's more of a work experience than anything I've had at KU." she said.
anything I've had at KU, she said.
Spires and her company competed in the big 12 New Venture Championship last month. They were eliminated from the tournament before the final rounds, but Spires said the group would be ready for the next tournament in Wichita.
Most of her group wants the company to thrive after the competition, she said. The next step for launching the business is to get funding.
Kyle Stremme, Overland Park senior, is chief financial officer of the student company University Health Systems. His team created a business plan for a sustained weight loss program developed at the University.
"Our plan just takes a great service that is currently in practice and commercializes it on a broad scale," he said.
University Health Systems, Abacus and J3E, a team that developed a plan for an Internet image searching tool, will compete in the competition next month in Wichita.
"There's no real guidelines, there's no books to follow, you just have to figure it out as you go along." Spirres said.
Kansan staff writer Brian Lewis Jones can be contacted at bljones@kansan.com.
Edited by Jyl Unruh
》 NIGHTLIFE
Owners hope to distance new nightclub from building's reputation
BY MATT ERICKSON
The building that once housed the Moon Bar, 821 Iowa St., will open its doors tonight for the first time since June 2005 — as a dance club called Club Axis with a different owner and a new look.
Richie Caldon, the club's owner, said the club would use measures such as increased security personnel and a strict dress code to ensure safety. Caldon also owns Thai House, 724 Massachusetts St.
The management said they would put an emphasis on safety.
The Moon Bar closed in 2005 shortly after a notorious fight on its premises involving former basketball player J.R. Giddens.
The fortunes of Giddens and the bar fell soon afterward.
Caldon said Club Axis would institute a dress code -- collared shirts only, and no jeans, baggy pants, sideways caps or hooded
sweatshirts — to attempt to create an upscale environment free of violence.
"It's going to be a really good dress code, so we can prevent the more undesirable customers that come in from other places and cause problems," Caldon said.
Chris Windler, Club Axis general manager, said the club would have at least eight security workers on its premises on busy nights.
But Steve Gaudreau, owner of two Lawrence bars, said he didn't think Axis would be able to escape the violent past associated with its building, even though its owners had no connection to the Moon Bar.
"I don't think he's going to be able to change the stigma that's attached to that location." Gaudreau said.
He said he didn't think any safety measures would completely keep out the crowd that had drifted to the Moon Bar in the past.
Club Axis, 821 Iowa St. opens tonight at the site of the former Moon Bar. The club will enforce a dress code and have extra security personnel on staff.
The state revenue department's Alcoholic Beverage Control said the building's past did not create any problems or delays in granting Club Axis its state liquor license.
"Good luck to those guys," Gaudreau said. "They just need to pull out the security in there and hope for the best."
Windler said that associating Axis with the Moon Bar was unfair because nobody involved with Axis had any connection to the Moon Bar.
Michiko Takei/KANSAN
"A lot of people are mocking us at other bars around Lawrence," he said.
Windler said he and Caldon selected the former Moon Bar building for Club Axis because its size allowed for a large dance floor, and it was near to the University campus.
Caldon said he wanted to attract University students who wanted a classier, more upscale environment than other bars and clubs in
1
Lawrence.
"We want to provide a place where the kids can dance and have a few drinks as well as have a controlled, safe environment," he said.
业
Kansan staff writer Matt Erickson can be contacted at merickson@ kansan.com.
— Edited by Mark Vierthaler
5
1