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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 2007
ALCOHOL AWARENESS
Student group receives NCAA grant
Student group Rock, Chalk
Responsible Choices has $10,000 at its disposal after it received a $2.75 million grant given to the NCAA by Anheuser Busch.
The University of Kansas was one of 15 schools to receive funding. The grant provides $13,000 this year, $10,000 next year and $5,000 the year after that.
Group sponsor Mike Harrity, an employee of the Athletics Department, said the group
planned to focus on working with other groups on campus, such as Student Union Activities and the Greek community, to involve as much of the student body as possible in alcohol awareness.
Students servihg on the group.
s six drinks and then participated in sobriety tests, demonstrating that even a small amount of alcohol could result in impairment.
"One girl. I think she had about four drinks. She definitely wasn't passing the test." Prvor said, adding that the crowd was laughing and joking with her.
Giving out alcoholic drinks and promoting responsibility at the same time may seem to be contradictory, and the same goes for the fact that a beer company provided the money for the group, but Prior said that
It's not 'don't drink, don't drink,
it's 'be responsible when you
do.'
CHELSEY PRYOR
Rock Chalk Responsible Choices
president
brainstormed ideas to promote responsible drinking and had them approved by Harrity Group president Chesley Pryor, Washington Penn, senior, said events so far this year included a speaker that shared his personal experience of the tragic results of drunk driving, a controlled drinking activity where students took sobriety tests and a pre-game pep rally before the mens basketball team played Texas SUA helped organize the speaker and the Greek Community co-sponsored the sobriety test activity, which was called "Check yourself before you wreck yourself."
Participants were given one to
wasn't necessarily so.
"We don't want people to think this is an alcohol prevention group. We know students are going to drink and have a good time, but there no reason to ruin a bad buildup."
that good time by making a decision," she said. "It's not don't drink, don't drink, it's 'be responsible when you do.'"
The group plans to meet with SUA in April to discuss ideas for next year's projects. Harrity said the group had only used about half the money allotted for this year and that the remainder would carry over for use next year.
Kansan staff writer Kyle Carter can be contacted at kcarter@ kansan.com.
Edited by Trevan McGee
DON'T ASK DON'T TELL Senator backs military's anti-homosexual policy
WASHINGTON. —Republican presidential candidate Sam Brownback is backing the Pentagon's top general over his remarks that homosexual acts are immoral.
The Kansas senator planned to send a letter on Thursday to President Bush supporting Marine Gen. Peter Pace, who earlier this week likened homosexuality to adultery and said the military should not condone it by allowing gay personnel to serve openly.
Lawmakers of both parties criticized the remarks, but Brownback's letter called the criticism "both unfair and unfortunate."
Associated Press
Young candidate represents students
》 LOCAL GOVERNMENT
With a cigarette in his hand, hair dangling down near his eyes, and
BY MATT ERICKSON
Face jacket, jeans and cowboy boots, jake Davis does not look like a politician.
He doesn't sound like one, either, when he speaks frankly
about how he thinks the city views University students.
Davis
But Davis, a 28-year-old Lawrence singer-songwriter, was a candidate for the city commission until he was eliminated in the primary Feb. 28. He received 2.1 percent of the vote
Davis came to Lawrence to become a University student in 1996 A National Merit Scholar, he originally majored in chemical engineering but became bored with the subject. He bounced around between different majors until he stopped taking classes in 2004.
"People hate the students more and more," Davis said. "They don't like them being around."
"I just wasn't a big homework guy" he said.
Now, he's completing prerequisites at Johnson County Community College, and he said he planned to return to the University as soon as this fall to finish a degree in economics. He also works full-time in data entry at Pearson Government Solutions, 3833 Greenway Dr.
Davis said he was concerned that Lawrence had little respect for young people and students, partly because he thought the city was trying to cater to businesses and suburban families in an attempt to emulate Johnson County.
"Johnson County's fine. I've spent a lot of time in Johnson County," Davis said. "But there's already a Johnson County, and there's no reason to give up what makes Lawrence different."
Davis pointed to a city ordinance that prohibited more than three unrelated people from living together.
er in certain areas of the city as an example of the city's preference for families rather than students.
He said his main platform was to use environmentally friendly policies to attract businesses that would offer good jobs for students after they graduate. He said the presence of large retail stores didn't help the city as much as businesses in the science and technology industries would.
"Everything I was trying to do was just trying to raise the image of Lawrence, to make it look attractive to the rest of the world." Davis said. "Downtown makes us attractive. Kohl's does not. I don't think anyone's going to move a business here because some strip mall out on Wakarusa is a really nice strip mall."
Davis said he decided to run just a few days before the application deadline, leaving him with little time to raise money. His only campaign expense: flippers he copied for $8.
Meanwhile, the top two finishers in the primary have raised more than $20,000 in campaign funds.
All six candidates who survived the primary have accumulated at least $5,000. The general election will take place April 3.
Dennis "Boog" Highberger, city commissioner, said Davis had some great ideas but he lacked the name recognition and financial support necessary to mount a successful campaign.
"I think you have to have a lot of personal connections all across the community, and you have to motivate other people to help with your campaign," Highberger said.
Davis plans to remain involved in local government. He attended last week's city commission meeting to speak against a tax abatement for a local business expansion.
"If there's something that I think matters at all, I'll be down there," he said.
Kansan staff writer Matt Erickson can be contacted at merickson@ kansan.com.
Edited by Will McCullough
PARROTT (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
The radiation machine, which looked like a large CAT scan tube, was in a large metal lined vault. Parrot lay on his back as doctors put a plastic mesh mask on his face and bolted it to the table. He closed his eyes while the machine hummed, looking at the purple radiation glow that resonated. When his treatments ended, he threw away the plastic mesh mask. He was nauseous at the sight of it.
"Weightless Wonder" He plans to graduate from KU with an aerospace engineering degree this December.
Parrot's treatment continued until his freshman year of college. Since he participated in microgravity research at Johnson Space Center in Houston, flying at zero gravity in a DC-9
He said he worked hard, lived selflessly, never took anything for granted and found happiness in everything to get where he is today, cancer free and looking to his future.
"I don't believe in miracles," Parrott said, "but maybe that qualifies."
Kansan staff writer Brian Lewis Jones can be contacted at bljones@ kansan.com.
Edited by Will McCullough
BASKETBALL (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
night, as the United Center's last tickets were sold shortly after it was announced that the layhawks would be playing in Chicago.
Because the arena isn't close to any major hotels, the players are staying downtown, at a Westin on The Magnificent Mile, a street full of shops and restaurants that is one of the town's major tourist draws.
"They probably won't give us much free time, to try to keep us focused on the game," freshman guard Brennan
Bechard said.
It wasn't much of a day for sightseeing in Chicago anyway. The afternoon temperature was 30 degrees, and a strong breeze was fitting of the "Windy City" nickname.
After going through the motions of answering questions and then taking part in the shoot around, the team resumed showing its character as the players grabbed bottles of Gatorade and headed back to their hotel. It wasn't going to be a quiet night at the Westin, as the players headed back to hang out and stay loose before today's big game. Rush said there was no danger of this year's team tightening up now.
Kansan senior sportswriter Michael Phillips can be contacted at mphillips@kansan.com.
"We haven't got tight all year," he said, "Why start now?"
CLOSING (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
— Edited by Trevan McGee
near the Edwards Campus in Overland Park.
Phil Scaglia helped the owners with obtaining necessary business licenses, but he said the owners operated the business themselves.
He said the building's tenant, Bien Wiedner, felt uncomfortable because the operating agreement required him to pay for utilities.
The Men's Room could allow smoking indoors and stay open as late as 4 a.m. because it did not sell food or alcohol, allowing it to bypass city codes affecting restaurants and bars.
a market for it when they made the smoking ban."
insurance and upkeep costs, while the owners paid the building's rent Wiedner and Phil Scaglia eventually agreed to break off the agreement
The business's revenue came from cover charges and sales of tobacco products. It also charged
"The motivation was basically just to slap Lawrence in the face"
JOE SCAGLIA
Overland Park freshmar
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and vacate the building.
patrons by the hour to use one of five hooks, which Stacy said were very popular.
Stacy said he and Joe Scaglia lost a significant amount of money with
All the parties involved said the split was amicable, and no one was planning to take legal action.
Joe Scaglia said the business tapped into a desire held by many students and young people in Lawrence: a place to go smoke indoors. Because the city doesn't allow smoking in restaurants or bars, and many living places don't permit smoking indoors, many people are forced to go outside to smoke, he said.
Jayhawk Bookstore ...at the top of Naismith Hill
The motivation was basically just to slap Lawrence in the face," Scaglia said. "They created
the closing, but that they were confident they could recoup their losses when they opened a new location. He said many property owners doubted that they could run a successful business, but he said the success of the Men's Room had already proved many people wrong.
"Everyone was like, 'Oh, you're just freshmen. You can't do this,'" Stacy said.
Kansan staff writer Matt Erickson can be contacted at merickson@kansan.com.
Edited by Kelly Laniaan
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