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Hard drive failure shuts down site
BY BRIAN LEWIS-JONES
Viewers trying to access The University Daily Kansan Web site over the next couple of days will have a hard time finding the news.
Ryan Berg, Buffalo Grove, Ill.
senior and director of media convergence for www.kansan.com, said the server, which crashed on Thursday, is on but full of unnamed files. Kansan staff is mending the injured Internet page.
"We're going to do everything we can get news on ASAP." Berg
said.
Berg has to open each file on the Web site and re-enter several pieces of crucial data, such as what section the individual article belongs or whether it's a file from the new or old version of the Kansan Web site.
He said the most recent stories would be on the Web site in about two days. Archived stories will be gradually added.
Dan Cox, director of the World Company online division, said a hard drive failure corrupted data on the Kansan's server at the World Cox.
The World Co. is the parent company of The Lawrence JournalWorld, who hosts the kansan.com server.
The Kansan Web site was redesigned at the end of January. Berg said the server crash was unrelated to the redesign.
Story archives, photos and user profiles were lost in the crash
server facility.
Berg is fixing the individual tiles while Natalie Ward, Leawood sophomore and Kansan web editor, reorganizes the Web site.
Ward spent eight hours reloading staff lists and story categories to the Web site. She said all registered users will have to re-register
Kansan staff writer Brian Lewis-Jones can be contacted at bljones@kansan.com.
"We haven't addressed the archive issue yet. We're going from here and uploading current content onward," she said.
Edited by Katie Sullivan
RESEARCH FUNDING
School sustains high ranking
BY DANAE DESHAZER
The School of Pharmacy secured research funding in 2006 of more than $14.5 million from the National Institutes of Health, ranking the school third nationwide for the six consecutive year.
The school has been in the top five since 1996, largely because of the low rate of faculty turnover, said
Ken Audus,
professor and dean of pharmacy. Audus said with the potential of three new faculty hired this year, he hoped to stay in the top three for years to come.
"It's like drafting a football player", Audus said. "You draft them on the potential of being a star. We have become very fortunate that the faculty we have hired have become stars."
University of Colorado and the University of Texas Audus said that The University of California, San Francisco has remained at the No.1 spot for more than 25 years.
The funding secured last year will support 37 different research grants and contracts, including vaccine development, diabetes research and cardiovascular disease studies.
"We are looking to do better all the time. Our faculty never disappoints when it comes to succeeding."
KEN AUDUS Dean of School of Pharmacy
Only two other Big 12 universities ranked in the top 25: the
Audus said over the past years, it had been more difficult to secure funding because of a decrease in NIH budget and an increase in grant applications.
"Unless you can get in the top 12 percent
or less, you're not going to get funded," Audus said.
The government creates the NIH budget. Audus said that until the federal government decided that NIH funding was a priority again, research competition would
increase and funding would prove more difficult to secure.
Jeffrey Krise, assistant professor of pharmaceutical chemistry, said he thought that a lot of the previous NIH budget was used to fund the military, which was why the grants had been harder to secure.
Krise said another difficulty in securing funding was the caliber of professionals in research. He said he hadn't been competing with a run-of-the-mill group of people, but with the top echelon of researchers.
Despite the decrease in NIH budgets, the school has remained successful. Audus said that to secure funding, the application must be creative, innovative, and important in an area of health science as deemed by peers.
"We are looking to do better all the time," Audus said. "Our faculty never disappoints when it comes to succeeding."
Kansan staff writer Danae De-Shazer can be contacted at ddeshazer@kansan.com.
Edited by Sharla Shivers
NATION Man sentenced for stealing uncut sheets of $100 bills
NATION
WASHINGTON — A former Treasury Department employee was sentenced to nine months in federal prison Monday for stealing more than $67,000 in uncut sheets of $100 bills that he tried to launder through casino slot machines.
David C. Faison, 56, was also ordered to pay back the government $37,200 — the amount he fed to slot machines.
The rest of the money — nine sheets of partially printed S100 bills — was recovered at Faison's house in Largo, Md., hidden inside a roll of Christmas wrapping paper.
Faison was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman less than a year after he admitted to the scheme and pleaded guilty on Sept. 6 to federal charges of theft of tools and material for counterfeiting purposes. Additionally, he will be put on supervised release for three years after serving his prison term.
Faison had worked as a stock control recorder, distributing currency paper within the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, when he stole 21 sheets of partially printed $100 bills. Each sheet contained 32 bills, which were missing serial numbers and Treasury Department seals.
Associated Press
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Lately, she said the city had been better about doing intermediate level maintenance on city streets to prolong their life before more drastic repairs had to be made.
Campbell said a grey concrete layer was underneath the black asphalt on most roads. That layer was old and crumbled on many Lawrence roads, and that unstable surface for the asphalt to rest on was what caused many potholes to form.
"A lot of times that concrete layer underneath the pothole is so deteriorated it's like gravel, it not bound together by anything." Campbell said.
Merger said the city was looking toward the future when it came to
road maintenance.
"We haven't spent as much as we could in the past on maintenance, but we have been trying to pick it up the past few years."
"In terms of upkeep, there's a lot worse places than Lawrence."
Kansan staff writer Joe Hunt can be contacted at jhunt@kansan. com.
Ionny Orlansky, Jackson Miss., sophomore, said he noticed what seemed like a "metror shower" of potholes, but he thought the city did a good job of patching the holes quickly.
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the building. Employees had broken up a fight inside the bar earlier that night and had thrown out one patron.
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Gaudreau said he was glad the city was attempting to stop downtown violence, but he said a better and quicker solution would be to increase police presence at bars and clubs that have had violence problems in the past.
"I think Mike's got a good idea, but I think that it's too far down the road" he said. "I think something catastrophic could happen sooner than implementing a new law."
Kansan staff writer Matt Erickson can be contacted at merickson@ kansan.com.
Edited by Sharla Shivers
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steaks or burgers. The Athletics Department approved the design and the company eventually expanded to include the logos of other schools.
According to the Collegiate Licensing Company's Web site, www.dlc.com, the University of Kansas is the 23rd most frequently licensed school in the country, fourth overall in the Big 12.
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Miller said he hoped selling the banners in bookstores in Lawrence and Kansas City would make more people aware of his product. Last year he designed "KUnit" T shirts, a play on the rap group G-Unit, and sold them online. He said that experience made it easier for him to set up his business selling banners. Miller said he spent nearly a $1,000 on start-up costs for the business, including a $300 application fee, $400 for product liability insurance, a $100 royalties advance to the University and money spent on advertising. He said he covered the start-up costs and was now making a profit. He plans to graduate this spring with a aerospace engineering degree and will continue to run the business alongside either a job or graduate school.
Kansan staff writer Kyle Carter can be contacted at kcarter@ kansan.com.
Edited by Katie Sullivan
THIS WEEK ON CAMPUS
RELAY FOR LIFE of KU
Superhero theme!
Grab some friends and make your own team!
Informational Table:
March 1,2007
11:00am-1:00pm
Kansas Union Lobby
Relay for Life will be held on May 4,2007 For more information please call 1-800-359-1025
...
February 27th, 2007
2007 KU Jewish Film Series
February 6 - FREE ZONE
7:30P: Alderson Auditorium - Kansas Union
Natale Postman stars as a wristman who loves her Israeli
fiance and her Naval "Free Zone". Co-sponsor is
Sky. See www.navalworld.com.
If you have any questions contact Andrew Payne apayne@ku.edu
February 20 - WHEN DO WE EAT?
7:30P - Aderson Auditorium - Kansas Union
Sex, Drugs and Maze Salon. A family Passway
Soap. After the father got into a new perspective on the laghead. Professor Harry Blitz will speak after the laghead.
February 13 - NOBODY'S BUSINESS
7:30PM - Woodruff Auditorium - Kansas Union
*Filmmaker Alex Borell explore the details of his Father's life,*
*and his reisitcated to share. Mr. Borell will speak*
*after the screenplay. Co-Sponced with the Department*
*of Theater and Film.*
February 12th 1:43PM T'ALL and DELTA JEWS
7:30PM - Alderson Auditorium - Kansas Union
Double Feature! See two movies on the history and experience of Jews in the American South.
Supported by the Ronald J. and Lester A. Trends
Funded by the Jewish Community Foundation
All films are FREE
February 27 - SHALOM Y'ALL and
The Student Snate is looking to fill the following empy seats:
2 Fres./Soph. CLAS
1 Engineering
4 Graduate
2 Non-Traditional
If you are interested in filling one of these open spots, pick up an application in the Student Senate office,
Room 410, Kansas Union.
Student Senate
From the Inside Out:
Presented by:
KU
Miller
KU Jewish Studies Minor
LCK
The key message this year is "Be comfortable in your own genes."
Next week is . . .
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week
February 25 - March 3
Come visit From the Inside Out's table in the 4th Floor lobby of the Kansas Union next Tuesday and Wednesday for information, activities, and ways to get involved.
For more information email nik2105@ku.edu
Sponsored by
GET NAKED Redefining Intimacy
A four week look at dating marriage and dig leaves Tuesdays @ 8:00 p.m. February 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th www.wesleyku.org
Sexuality Education Committee Presents:
Sexuality Education Committee Presence
Register at the FCM any day from 10am to 4pm
students $5 and Non Students $5 (5$ late registration fee after
January 26th)
Human Sexuality in Everyday Life With Dr. Dennis Dailey KU Professor of Social Welfare
Thursdays 6:30-8:30pm
Beginning February 1 for 10 sessions at the ECM
this non-cruise credit is designed with the realities of the college-given person in mind, with a focus on how sexual development has occurred thar in their lives, how it is presently being experienced, and how it might occur in the continuous development of adult life.
For more information contact the ECM office at 843.4933
PRESIDENTIAL
LECTURE SERIES
"THE 2008 CAMPAIGN"
Primaries Panel "Winning the Nomination"
Tuesday,
February 28, 2007
7:30 p.m. at the
Dole Institute of Politics
Tom Rath
STUDENT SENATE
John Kani National Republican political strategist
David Vepsen
Leading authority of Iowa Caucuses
Des Moines Register's Political Columnist
Jonathan Epstein
Former national Democratic political strategist
PAID FOR BY KU
ROBERT J. DOLE
INSTITUTE OF POLITICS
www.deloestateut.org
What is JayWalk?
JAYWALK
Have you ever felt unsafe walking alone at night on campus?
Wish someone could walk with you? Jay Walk-on help!
What is Jay Walk? Jay Walk is a service available to all students who want a Jay Walk volunteer to WALK them to the residence hall or car, or to wait with them for the Night Campus Express Bus or SafeRide.
Where is Jay Walk? The Jay Walk station and volunteers are located inside
When is the service available?
Jawalk run Sunday through Thursday from 8pm to midnight
One male and one female will escort you to a specific location.
Volunteers are greatly needed and appreciated! While you are assisting KU students you can also study and do homework in the KU Student Services and Leadership Center in the Kansas Union. If you have questions about the service or about volunteering, please email Safety@ku.edu.
WANT TO VOLUNTEER FOR JAYWALK?
CALL US AT 864-322 321
KU 4 Uganda
KU for Uganda is hosting a showing of Uganda Rising. This film is a powerful documentary about the twenty-year civil war in northern Uganda.The showing will be on Tuesday, February 27th at 8pm in the Big XII Room of the KS Union. Gap credit is available. This is one film you don't want to miss!
UGANDA RISING