He's got the 'Wright' stuff Sophomore forward Julian Wright was named to the All-Big 12 first team and as the co-Big 12 Player of the Week.
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Masked intruder scares students in apartment
apartments were wired with security systems that the residents could activate for a fee. Police urged all residents to take precautions to ensure their safety, and to call the police department at 832-7509 for non-emergency situations or 911 for emergency situations.
BY ERICK R. SCHMIDT
Ryan White said word of a skimmed intruder in his apartment complex spread quickly.
"People were all saying, 'Did you hear what happened?' Did you hear what happened?" White, Dallas senior, said. "Everyone has heard what happened."
White lives at The Hawker, 1011 Missouri St., where a man entered the apartment of four female students at 3 a.m. Saturday, wearing a
ski mask and holding a handgun: Police said the man woke the victims one at a time and demanded their wallets and purses. When the victims told the man to enter a room in the apartment, they locked themselves in another room and called police.
The man left before police arrived. Investigators had not determined whether anything was stolen from the property.
Jessie Berkenfield, Chicago senior who lives at the Hawker, said everyone at the complex was talking about the burdury.
"Yeah, I'm scared now," Berkenfield said. "I'm sure to lock my door anytime I leave."
Kansan staff writer Erick R.
Schmidt can be contacted at eschmidtakansan.com.
lessica Stewart is a property manager at Thickaway Management, the firm that owns The Hawker. Stewart said no new information was available from the police department, and that she hadn't seen the police report.
"From what I've heard, the apartment was not locked," Stewart said. "It wasn't an issue of breaking the door in."
"In the back of my mind, I'm thinking of it," she said.
Berkenfield said after a day of panic, things had returned mostly to normal.
One resident who lives in the building that was burglarized and asked not to be named, said she always felt safe in the complex.
"I think it's a one-time thing," she said.
— Edited by Darla Slipke
Stewart said all of The Hawker's
Illustration by Brenna Hawlev
》 COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
University, shop to contest T-shirts Legal licensing dispute arises
BY KYLE CARTER
Associate Athletics Director Jim Marchiony said the Athletics Department especially took issue with the "Muck Fizzou" slogan and a shirt that said "KU Swim Team" and pictured a sworm cell swimming.
The Athletics Department is seeking legal action to stop downtown business job College.com from printing shirts that reference the University of Kansas.
"Many of the shirts attach themselves to the University and are in poor taste," he said.
Trademarks are words, symbols or phrases intended distinguish one company's
products from another. None of the shirts in the store use specific marks protected by the University, such as the lajwhak, but that doesn't guarantee that they don't violate trademark it," Smith said.
The University cited trademark infringement as the basis for the lawsuit.
Trade dress, which refers to identifying features that a consumer may associate with a particular company and become confused, can also be protected. In this case, that may refer to the blue color of many of the shirts in the store and their slogans that reference Kansas Athletics in some way.
Joe College.com owner Larry Sinks commented through his attorney, Bill Skepnek. Skepnek said his client's shirts do reference the University but that consumers did not confuse them with officially licensed products.
"Trademark law is not intended to protect a fool," he said. "It's intended to protect a reasonable person."
Sinks graduated from Lawrence High School in 1981 and began printing shirts soon after. He posted a disclaimer on his Web site and inside his store stating his products are unlicensed to prevent customers from being confused.
"We believe that KU is missing the trademark law in an attempt to monopolize the right to use
SEE LAWSUIT ON PAGE 3A
SAFETY
Traffic safety commission questions sign's accuracy
BY MATT ERICKSON
No parents wait to pick up their children, no crossing guards carry stop signs and few "children" cross the street who aren't old enough to purchase tobacco. But a sign at the intersection of 15th Street and Engel Road still shows a mother and daughter holding hands and crossing the road, and the speed limit sign nearby proclaims "School" across the top in yellow.
Soon, though, the school zone signs will likely change to reflect their camus location.
Robin Smith. Lawrence resident, brought the issue before the commission. He said the signs were out of place because the city's other school zones protected elementary-age children, not college students.
The city traffic safety commission recommended Monday night to change the "School" speed limit sign to say "pedestrian crossing" and to change the intersection sign to show a single person crossing the road.
"I don't think the KU students are really children needing their own special little crossing up there," he said.
Smith said he frequently drove by the signs while he took his grandchildren to school, and the "school zone" designation irritated him.
Changing the sign to a "pedestrian crossing" isn't meant to downplay the danger of the intersection. Smith said he knew the intersection was dangerous, but didn't want people to be looking for children walking across the street when there wouldn't be any.
"Don't diminish the existing school zones," David Woosley, city transportation and traffic engineer, said the school zone signs appeared in 2000. He said several cars had crashed into pedestrians and bicyclists at that corner in the past.
"If a school zone is a school zone.
Lea Baker, Merriam senior, lives in Hashinger Hall and goes through the intersection often, in her car and
on foot. She said she thought the intersection was unsafe.
"I've been walking across the street and seriously had somebody's car stop, like, six inches from me," Baker said.
She said she thought motorists' speed along 15th Street didn't matter as long as they kept control over their vehicles.
The sign changes on 15th Street will now go to the city commission for approval.
Kansan staff writer Matt Erickson can be contacted at merickson@ kansan.com.
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One Lawrence resident believes the school crossing sign at 15th Street and Engel Road needs to change to better reflect the pedestrian traffic the corner handles.
》 NON-REVENUE SPORTS
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Players on the basketball team wear Adidas shees and athletic socks.
Contract gives athletic teams better equipment
BY KYLE CARTER
Non-revenue sports have been the biggest winners in the Athletic Department's eight-year, $26.67 million sponsorship deal with Adidas.
The contract began in fall 2005 when the previous deal with Nike ran out. Nike only sponsored men's basketball and football. Other sports bought shoes and apparel for athletes using money from a budget that also had to cover travel, coaching salaries, equipment and other items.
Junior distance runner Paul Heffernon said the change benefitted the track and cross country teams.
"We used to use the shorts from last year's uniform for training" he
said
During his freshman year while the Nike contract was in effect, Hefferon said he bought his own clothes to train in. Now, he said he had everything he could need for practice.
Senior women's golfer Chelsey Pryor said her team appreciated the change, as well. She said that before, her team had enough to get by but nothing fancy. Now, they're equipped with two sets of rain gear, for both warm and cool weather, multiple golf shirts, fleece, vests, jacket's, T-shirts and socks.
They also get three pairs of golf shoes, compared with the two
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