Excitement heats up for Showdown
FRIDAY,FEBRUARY 9,2007
Sherron Collins led Kansas with 23 points in the season's first Border War. The 'Hawks look for a repeat victory on Saturday.
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Platforms pass all midterms
BY ASHLEE KIELER
Ignite demonstrates mixed success rates
Since taking office in August, Student Senate has been busy fulfilling platforms.
It may not be visible to the naked eye but Jason Boots, student body president, and Melissa Horen, student body vice president, continue to make strides to satisfy the platforms they were elected on.
With only eight months in office, the Senate term is not nearly long enough to see many of the platforms through to completion. Boots said.
"We hope to lay the proper ground work to get things started," Boots said.
Laving this groundwork for their platforms is something that Boots, Horen and the rest of Senate began last semester.
Campaigning for Ignite last spring, Boots and Horen addressed advising, bike lanes, academic technology borrowing, affordable textbooks, financial aid accessibility, wireless campus, student organization Web sites and SafeBus.
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BOARDWALK TRIAL
Testimony focuses on victims
BY ERICK R. SCHMIDT
Maritza Pastrana pointed out defendant Jason Allen Rose on Thursday as the man she saw cursing in a walkway of the Boardwalk Apartments less than half an hour before the building went up in flames.
Pastrana's testimony concluded a dramatic second day of witness questioning in the trial of Rose, who is charged with setting the fire that killed three and injured several more on the morning of Oct. 7, 2005. Among the 11 called to the stand Thursday were a crime scene detective, two Haskell University students who helped wake Boardwalk residents, the coroner who examined the bodies of those killed in the fire, and seven of the 18 injured
Jason Rose watches as evidence is presented against him during his trial Thursday. Rose is charged with three counts of felony murder and one county of aggravated arson in connection with the October 2005 fire at a Lawrence apartment complex that killed three people.
including Pastrana.
Through a Spanish-speaking translator, Pastrana said she arrived
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home at Boardwalk Apartments at 11:50 p.m. the night of the fire. She said on her way into the building after a day of work, she saw a man on the second floor cursing and shouting downward. She said she didn't see anyone else present, and though she doesn't speak English, Pastrana was able to understand one phrase.
When asked if she could identify the man she saw, Pastrana said she could, and she pointed to Rose. Assistant district attorney Amy McKowan asked Pastrana how sure she was that Rose was the man she had seen.
"Fuck you! Fuck you!" he kept saving," Pastrana said.
Pastrana said Rose looked up at her but he didn't say anything. As she continued toward her apartment on the third floor, the man continued screaming.
"100 percent," she said.
Detective Jim Martin investigated the defendant's Boardwalk apartment, vehicle and the area surrounding the apartment complex in
the days after the fire. Martin provided the court with photographic
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KU professor nominated for Grammy
BY BETHANY BUNCH
KU professor Robert Koenig is thanking the Academy for his Grammy nomination.
Koenig's recording of Viola Transcriptions will compete with four other nominees in the Best Instrumental Solist Performance
category at the Grammy Awards on Sunday in Los Angeles. Koenig recorded the release with acclaimed violinist Roberto Diaz.
Koenig was informed of his
ninistration in early December, but he said it's still hard to believe.
Koenig
"For the first few weeks after the announcements, I continued to go back to the grammycom Web site, just to make sure that I really wasn't dreaming it all," he said.
The recording, by William Primrose, included music by Beethoven, Brahms, Schuberts and others.
Koenig and Diaz made the recording in Toronto in 2004 and
released it in the Summer 2006 on a label called Naxos. The label submitted the recording to the Recording Academy and was chosen from more than 150 submissions.
Koenig said the nomination came as a huge surprise and he was thrilled for the recognition, although a Grammy nomination was never a goal of his.
"My only goals as a pianist and accompanist have always been to prepare to the highest level, and to present the best possible musical performance that I can." Koeneng said. "To receive this nomination for this CD is like icing on the cake"
Dr. Larry Mallett, chair of the department of music and dance, came to KU the same year Koenig did in 2001. Mallett said Koenig is the perfect example of an outstanding faculty member.
Before coming to KU seven years ago, Koenig was a staff pianist at the Juilliard School and the Curtis
"Bob is a wonderful colleague and outstanding teacher," Mallett said. "I knew when he got here that he was world class."
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PHOTOGRAPHY
Top journalism award honors KU alumnus
BY BRIAN LEWIS-JONES
Rich Clarkson's medium isn't always considered a gracious art form, but in his mind, photography is a combination of an oil painting and fleeting moments.
" its every bit as much of a fine art," he said. "And harder to do."
Clarkson, a 1956 KU graduate and veteran photojournalist, will receive the 2007 William Allen White Foundation's National Citation on Friday at a public ceremony in the Woodruff Auditorium. The award is presented by the School of Journalism.
Mary Wallace, assistant to the dean of journalism, said the award goes to someone with a national reputation in journalism.
The citation is named after William Allen White, author, advisor to President Theodore Roosevelt and publisher of The Emporia Gazette, she said.
"The award is for people who, in their careers, live up to the ideals of William Allen White," Wallace said. "Nobody could be like him."
After graduation, Clarkson served as director of photography for the Topeka Capital Journal. Clarkson also photographed the trial on which Truman Corepated based his book "In Cold Blood". He has also been the director of photography for National Geographic magazine.
"I'm kind of surprised." Clarkson said.
His company, Rich Clarkson and Associates, which he founded 20 years ago, is involved in several projects, including a 192 page photographic book honoring soldiers buried at Arlington National Cemetery. They are also working on a project about Red Rocks, an outdoor concert venue that has played host to the Beatles and the Grateful Dead.
Clarkson photographed eight Olympics, including Munich in 1972, and managed 1,400 photographers
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Clarkson will be the 58th recipient of the citation, which has been awarded in past years to journalists such as Bob Woodward, Jim Lehrer and Walter Cronkite.
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gatekeepers
Joyce Bledsoe might not look familiar,but more
than likely you have seen her around
baseball
Freshman pitcher Wally Marciel had an outstanding performance in his native Hawaii as the Jayhawks swept the Vulcans 7-0.
Valentine's Day
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women's basketball
The Jayhawks rely on strong senior leadership as they prepare to take on the Texas Longhorns this Saturday.
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